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Netzke Core
Netzke Core is the bare bones of the Netzke framework. For pre-built full-featured components (like grids, forms, tab/accordion panels, etc), see netzke-basepack and netzke-communitypack.
Some knowledge of Sencha Ext JS will be needed in order to fully understand this overview.
Sencha Ext JS is a powerful front-end framework, which is used for crafting web-apps that give the end user experience similar to that of a desktop application. It has an extensive set of widgets ('components'), and leverages a modular approach to its fullest: a developer can extend components (using Ext JS's own class system), nest components using many powerful layouts, dynamically create and destroy them. The architecture of Ext JS is well-thought and very complete.
However, with Ext JS being server-agnostic, it is not always a trivial task for a developer to bind Ext JS components to the server-side data and application business logic, especially in complex applications. Netzke as the solution that allows you to extend the modular approach to the server side.
Netzke Core takes the burden of implementing the following key aspects of the framework:
- Client-side (JavaScript) class generation
- Client-server communication
- Convenient declaration of Ext actions
- Extendibility of components (class inheritance and mixins)
- Unlimited nesting (composition)
- Dynamic component loading
- Client-side class caching
- Inclusion of extra JavaScript and CSS files
...and more.
All this extremely facilitates building fast, low-traffic, robust, and highly maintainable applications. As a result, your code scales much better in the sense of complexity, compared to using conventional MVC, where developers are pretty much limited with programming techniques they can apply.
HelloWorld component
This component is distributed as a part of the test application, see
class HelloWorld < Netzke::Base
# Configure client class
js_configure do |c|
c.title = "Hello World component"
c.mixin # mix in methods from hello_world/javascripts/hello_world.js
# Actions are used by Ext JS to share functionality and state b/w buttons and menu items
# The handler for this action should be called onPingServer by default
action :ping_server
# Self-configure with a bottom toolbar
def configure(c)
c.bbar = [:ping_server] # embed the action into bottom toolbar as a button
# Endpoint callable from client class
endpoint :greet_the_world do |params,this|
# call client class' method showGreeting
this.show_greeting("Hello World!")
YOUR_APP/components/hello_world/javascripts/hello_world.js put the client class (JavaScript) methods:
// handler for the ping_server action
onPingServer: function(){
// calling greet_the_world endpoint
// called by the server as the result of executing the endpoint
showGreeting: function(greeting){
this.update("Server says: " + greeting);
To embed the component in Rails view:
netzke routes:
# in routes.rb
RailsApp::Application.routes.draw do
load_netzke in the layout to include Ext JS and Netzke scripts and stylesheets:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<%= csrf_meta_tag %>
<%= load_netzke %>
<%= yield %>
Embed the component in the Rails view:
<%= netzke :hello_world %>
What is a Netzke component
A Netzke component is a Ruby class (further referred to as "server class"), which is being represented by an Ext JS Component on the server-side (further referred to as "client class"). The responsibility of the server class is to "assemble" the client class and provide the configuration for its instance (further referred as "client class instance"). Even if it may sound a bit complicated, Netzke provides a simple API for defining and configuring the client class. See Client class for details.
Further, each Netzke component inherits convenient API for enabling the communication between the client and server class. See Client-server interaction for details.
With Netzke components being a Ruby class, and the client class being incapsulated in it, it is possible to use a Netzke component in your application by simply writing Ruby code. However, while creating a component, developers can fully use their Ext JS skills - Netzke puts no obstacles here.
A typical Netzke component's code is structured like this (on example of MyComponent):
my_component.rb <-- the Ruby class
some_module.rb <-- optional extra Ruby code
some_dependency.js <-- optional external JS library
init_component.js <-- optional mixins to the client class
extra_functionality.js <-- more mixins (mixin-in may depend on component class configuration)
my_special_button.css <-- optional custom CSS
Client class
The generated client class is inherited (as defined by the Ext JS class system) from an Ext JS class, which by default is Ext.panel.Panel. For example, a component defined like this:
class HelloWorld < Netzke::Base
will have the following client class generated by Netzke (simplified):
Ext.define('Netzke.classes.HelloWorld', {"extend":"Ext.panel.Panel", "mixins":["Netzke.classes.Core.Mixin"]});
Netzke.classes.Core.Mixin contains a set of client class methods and properties common to every Netzke component.
HelloWorld will be automatically reflected on the client-class level:
class HelloNewWorld < HelloWorld
will have the following client class generated (simplified):
Ext.define('Netzke.classes.HelloNewWorld', {"extend":"Netzke.classes.HelloWorld"});
The configuration of a client-class is done by using the
Netzke::Base.js_configure. For example, in order to inherit from a different Ext JS component, and to mix in the methods defined in an external JavaScript class:
class MyTabPanel < Netzke::Base
js_configure do |c|
c.extend = "Ext.tab.Panel"
c.mixin :extra_functionality
For more details on defining the client class, refer to Netzke::Core::ClientClass.
Any Netzke component can define child components, which can either be statically nested in the compound layout (e.g. as different regions of the 'border' layout), or dynamically loaded at a request (as in the case of the edit form window in
Netzke::Basepack::GridPanel, for example).
Defining child components
You can define a child component by calling the
component class method which normally requires a block:
component :users do |c|
c.klass = GridPanel
c.model = "User"
c.title = "Users"
Nesting components
Declared components can be referred to in the component layout:
def configure(c)
c.items = [
{ xtype: :panel, title: "Simple Ext panel" },
Dynamic loading of components
Next to being statically nested in the layout, a child component can also be dynamically loaded by using client class'
netzkeLoadComponent method:
this will load the "users" component and add it to the current container.
For more details on dynamic component loading refer to inline docs of javascript/ext.js.
For more details on composition refer to Netzke::Core::Composition.
Actions, toolbars, and menus
Actions are used by Ext JS to share functionality and state among multiple buttons and menu items. Define actions with the
action class method:
action :show_report do |c|
c.text = "Show report"
c.icon = :report
The icon for this button will be
images/icons/report.png (see Icons support).
Refer to actions in toolbars:
def configure(c)
c.bbar = [:show_report]
Actions can also be referred to is submenus:
c.tbar = [{text: 'Menu', menu: {items: [:show_report]}}]
For more details on composition refer to Netzke::Core::Action.
Client-server interaction
Communication between the client class and the corresponding server class is done by means of defining endpoints. By defining an endpoint on the server, the client class automatically gets a method that is used to call the server.
Calling an endpoint from client class
By defining an endpoint like this:
class SimpleComponent < Netzke::Base
endpoint :whats_up_server do |params, this|
# ...
...the client class will obtain a method called
this.whatsUpServer(params, callback, scope);
paramswill be passed to the endpoint block as the first parameter
callback(optional) receives a function to be called after the server successfully processes the endpoint call
scope(optional) is the scope in which the callback function will be called
Calling client class methods from endpoint
An endpoint can instruct the client class to execute a set of methods after its execution, passing those methods arbitrary parameters. For example:
class SimpleComponent < Netzke::Base
endpoint :whats_up_server do |params, this|
this.set_title("All quiet here on the server")
Here the client class will call its
setTitle method (defined in
Ext.panel.Panel) with parameter passed from the endpoint. Then a custom method
myMethod will be called with no parameters.
For more details on client-server communication see Netzke::Core::Services.
Icons support
Netzke can optionally make use of icons for making clickable elements like buttons and menu items more visual. The icons should be (by default) located in
An example of specifying an icon for an action:
action :logout do |c|
c.icon = :door
The logout action will be configured with
public/images/icons/door.png as icon.
For more details on using icons refer to Netzke::Core::Actions.
Netzke Core will automatically include Ext JS localization files based on current
Also, Netzke Core uses some conventions for localizing actions. Refer to Netzke::Core::Actions.
- Ruby ~> 1.9.2
- Rails ~> 3.2.0
- Ext JS ~> 4.1.0
$ gem install netzke-core
For the latest ("edge") stuff, instruct the bundler to get the gem straight from github:
gem 'netzke-core', git: "git://github.com/netzke/netzke-core.git"
By default, Netzke assumes that your Ext JS library is located in public/extjs. It can be a symbolic link, e.g.:
$ ln -s ~/code/sencha/ext-4.1.1 public/extjs
(Make sure that the location of the license.txt distributed with Ext JS is exactly
Running tests
The bundled
test/core_test_app application used for automated testing can be easily run as a stand-alone Rails app. It's a good source of concise, focused examples. After starting the application, access any of the test components (located in
app/components) by using the following url:
http://localhost:3000/components/{name of the component's class}
For example http://localhost:3000/components/ServerCaller
Before being able run the test app and the tests themselves, you must link your Ext JS library to
test/core_test_app/public, e.g. (from the gems's root):
$ ln -s ~/code/sencha/ext-4.1.1 test/core_test_app/public/extjs
For cucumber tests (from
$ cucumber features
For RSpec tests (from
$ rspec spec
Useful links
- Project website
- Live demo (features Netzke Basepack, with sample code)
- Twitter - latest news about the framework
Copyright (c) 2008-2012 netzke, released under the MIT license (see LICENSE).
Note that Ext JS is licensed differently, and you may need to purchase a commercial license in order to use it in your projects!


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|Recent trends in ultra-fast HPLC: New generation superficially porous silica columns.
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|New generation columns, i.e. packed with superficially porous silica particles are available as trade names with following manufacturers: Halo, Ascentis Express, Proshell 120, Kinetex, Accucore, Sunshell, and Nucleoshell. These provide ultra-fast HPLC separations for a variety of compounds with moderate sample loading capacity and low back pressure. Chemistries of these columns are C(8) , C(18) , RP-Amide, hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography, penta fluorophenyl (PFP), F5, and RP-aqua. Normally, the silica gel particles are of 2.7 and 1.7 μm as total and inner solid core diameters, respectively, with 0.5-μm-thick of outer porous layer having 90 Å pore sizes and 150 m(2) /g surface area. This article describes these new generation columns with special emphasis on their textures and chemistries, separations, optimization, and comparison (inter and intra stationary phases). Besides, future perspectives have also been discussed.
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Utilizing important films and the resources of the Schomburg Center as a base we will discuss and study the artistic and cultural history of Harlem and visit many of the iconic venues that include the Apollo Theatre, Morgan and Marvin Smith Photo Studios, The Savoy and the Cotton Club. We will interact with special guest artists and scholars currently contributing to the still vibrant artistic and cultural scene and visit contemporary venues to take in live performances at the Nuyorican Cafť, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Dance Theatre of Harlem, African Burial Ground Museum, Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Entertainment Studios, Oprah Winfrey's production of The Color Purple as well as walking tours of Harlem (current offices of former president Bill Clinton), Brooklyn (the backdrop and headquarters of Spike Lee's 40Acres & a Mule Productions), Greenwich Village (the home of many Harlem Renaissance era legends), and the Bronx (the mythological home of Hip Hop).
|Sun May 6
Depart May 6, 2007 from Lexington, Delta Airlines 6:00am
Depart by train for Newark, NJ and catch bus to New Jersey Performing Arts Center
6:00 PM, Return by train for Dinner in NYC
|Mon May 7
Take Walking Tour of Harlem and the Bronx
|Tue May 8
Begin day at Schomberg Center
|Wed May 9
Apollo Theatre tour at 11:30
|Thu May 10
Schomberg Center, special guest artist
|Fri May 11
|Tour of Ailey School
Jazz Concert at Lincoln Center
|Sat May 12
|Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
|MonMay 13
Tour of Statue of Liberty
|Tue May 14
Schomberg, special guest artist
|Wed May 15
Schomberg, special guest artist
|Thu May 16
|Schomberg, Special guest artist
Jazz Lecture and Panel Discussion at Lincoln Center
Nuyorican Poets Café
|Fri May 17
Return to Lexington


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Proof that historical objects, artifacts and sites still hold interest for many people could be witnessed Saturday at the Ingomar Mounds sites, six miles west of New Albany.
According to Union County Heritage Museum representative Betsey Hamilton, approximately 70 people came out to the site during the hours of 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. to see a part of history.
The yearly event was part of Archeology Month and arcaeologists from the Cobb Institute with the Mississippi State University Department of Archaeology were on hand to share their knowledge of the sites history.
"The mound site is a Middle Woodland Period site, said Professor Janet Rafferty, a representative of the Cobb Institute. Were not exactly sure what the mound is for, but we think it may have been the equivalent of a country church.
According to Rafferty, Native American Indians indigenous to the area did not live around the site, but probably traveled to the mound at least once a week for a gathering.
We know it wasnt used as a burial mound, because there were no bodies found there, said Rafferty.
There are approximately four mounds, however, that immediately surround the larger mound that were used for laying the dead to rest.
Workers with the Cobb Institute began examinig the site in 1986 in an effort to map the area and compare it to a map done almost 100 years earlier.
The Ingomar Mounds were entered on the National Registery of Historical Places in 1978.
Visitors could also see exhibitors of collections and individuals demonstrating flint-knapping, fire starting with sticks, atlatl throwing and the development of the bow and arrow during the event.


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|'News' Lessons
|| Back |
I keep six honest
serving men (they taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
|Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship - is about:
|The logo is:
|Non-fiction texts can be divided into six main types called 'text purposes':
The logo is:
The benefits of using speaking
|Lesson 63
|What is special about June 20th 2013?
|UNHCR - if you had one minute to get ready what would you take?
|Syria - living with civil war for 2 years in Damascus
|Top of the G8 agenda
|Syria crisis - one and a half million video clip
|Multiple Choice Quiz
|Lesson 62
|Has a crime been committed? The strange case of 'Slave Labour'
|Slave labour What is the work 'slave labour' like?
Do the
'right thing'
"You have deprived a community of an asset that was given to us for free and greatly enhanced an area that needed it. "I call on you, and your consciences, to pull the piece from both potential sales and return it to its rightful place." Who owns the work? - explain why this is a difficult matter to resolve.
|Ask and answer 6 questions about the artwork called 'Slave labour'. What do you think should happen to the artwork? What do you think about 'street art'?
|'Exit through the gift shop' What is 'geographical' about this artwork?
|Lesson 61
|Manor Farm f/or Solar Farm?
|Wymeswold airfield, Leicestershire
|Anglesey - once was Wales' largest
|Llanvapley proposal (3rd in Monmouthshire) Who has proposed it? How big is it? What will it produce? Who decides?
|Llanvapley location Where is it?
|Byth Who is against it?
|Right Royal Row Who is against it?
|Those in favour? Who is in favour?
|What is proposed at Manor Farm? Where is Manor Farm? Who is involved in the argument? What are the arguments in favour? What are the arguments against?
|Symbolic Level (400)
|Lesson 60
|Why a £2 T shirt is not a bargain?
|Are shoppers concerned where their clothes from?
|Owner Mohammed Sohel Rana arrested
|'Clean Clothes Campaign'
|Bangladesh trade
|Exercise 60
|Task: Explain what happened in Bangladesh. Draw a graph to show the main exports of Bangladesh and explain why the textile trade is so important to the country. What should we as 'consumers' do - Buy from Bangladesh or Boycott clothes from Bangladesh or do something else??
|Plenary You've got 90 seconds to think of a one sentence slogan to end the advert - it could be about why we shouldn't buy £2 T shirts.
|Lesson 59
|Where does the hunt for gold lead?
|Who is to blame?
|What are the symptoms?
|How can it be solved?
|Exercise 59
|Task: Describe the who, what, where, when and why of this news story (in about 100 words) - include an accurate sketch map.
Image Look closely at the image for 60
Jot down an observation question to test the class with.
Try to guess the specialist term the teacher has written down.
|Lesson 58
|Can the 'black smokers' yield copper, zinc, nickel and lead?
Natural Environment
|Deep sea Vents explored by UK Team How are they exploring the sea bed?
|The Cayman Trench - location Where are they exploring? How does it link to Plate Tectonic Theory?
|What creatures are they discovering? What creatures are they discovering?
|The narrow ecosystem the second clip on this webpage. ... and what is the habitat like?
|A 'black smoker' / hydrothermal vent / deep sea vent. How is it formed?
|Ore factories of the deep Why spend the money on this research?
|Should we exploit this potential resource - or not?
|Comic Relief classic
|Lesson 57
|Who spilled the glue?
|Dorset coast video
|Close up of the 'gooey glue' clip 2
|Task: Describe the location of the incident. Describe the distribution of sites where the affected birds were found. Use percentage figures to identify the worst affected area.
|Task exercise
|Recount text extension
|Peer marking scheme. Recount exercise is an extension - concentrate on numeracy.
|Lesson 56
|"Weird Weather" - Peer Marking exercise
|SE Wales
|Jakarta 1 Jakarta 2
|Sydney 1 Sydney 2
For Jakarta and Sydney write paragraphs based on the news clips making sure that you include answers the following questions ...
Where are they?
What weather event occurred?
When did it happen?
Who was affected?
What are the indirect impacts of this weather?
|Marking Fruit Machine
|Lesson 55
|Would you Bundanoon it?
Natural Environment
|Where/What am I? 5 clues
|Report from Bundanoon. with video clip.
|Concord Follows On Concord video clip here with figures in article
|The Battle of Midway
|"a product that is perhaps the ultimate manifestation of the consumer age. Selling people what they already can have almost for free - in bottles produced from oil, 70% of which are never recycled." The story of 'stuff'
|banthebottle - facts - school campaign
Either ...
a) write at least words about this news story - answering at least 4 questions or
b) Design a poster to support a 'ban the bottle' campaign or
c) Write a presentation for the school council suggesting three things this school could do to support this general campaign or
d) Fully explain the quote above or
e) suggest another relevant/appropriate task that you could do to the teacher - get it approved and do it.
|Lesson 54
|Christmas Tree Cluedo
Natural Environment
|Andy Dearing
|The Scots Pine Tree - victim
|The Murder Site
|Inverclyde Road Situation
|The View from Inverclyde Road, Poole
|The decking and hot tub with sunloungers on Inverclyde Road
|The Mystery notes
|Prepare your (Planning Officer) detective report explaining the Where?, When?, Who?, How?, Why? and So what? of this mystery!
|Record fine over a tree
|Rhino follow up
|Lesson 53
|"Rain, rain go away" What happened in Kempsey?
|River Severn Drainage Basin
|How Kempsey's defences will work
|Kempsey village
|One house in Kempsey, Worcestershire
|Climate Change
|Government and Insurance companies
|Sketch Map - Where is Kempsey?
|Diagram - What went wrong?
|Where is it? What was the problem? How did the EA* solve the problem? When did it fail? Why did it fail? Who is affected? Who is to blame? So what? *EA - Environment Agency
|Bring back OddBox 1 This is wrong in so many ways!
|Lesson 52
|"40 years in jail - for stealing a bit of bone?"
Natural Environment
|Jail not Bail Campaign
|White and Black
|Chumlong Lemtongthai
|South Africa 2010
|Record Year 2011
|Record Year 2012
|London connection
|Task: Working with a partner produce a radio advert (in English) of about 30secs to 60 secs length aiming to persuade a target audience that rhino horn is best left on rhinos. Tell us who your target audience is.
|Rhino Song
|Lesson 51
|"Is there a brighter future for girls?"
Tahmina Kohistani Afghanistan
|Tahmina Kohistani
|Brighter future for girls?
|Identity and Culture
|Malala Yousafzai Pakistan - Swat Valley
|Location Map
|Population Statistics
|Importance of Education for Girls
|Homework Task: Produce a magazine poster with the title "Is there a brighter future for Afghan girls?". Sub-divide your poster / article into at least 4 side-headings which ask and then answer your own questions. Include a map and at least one diagram. Try to explain why education for girls would be good for the country as whole.
|Tractor Driver
|Lesson 50
|"What has this got to do with climate change?"
|Video clip Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv9qLpZ_kBw
|BBC news article
|Distribution Source: http://www.fabentech.com/emerging_diseases/emerging-diseases/crimean-congo-hemorrhagic-fever-virus
|Climate Change
|BBC science article 2006
|Task: Write an account of the Congo fever incident in the UK - mention the UK case, the symptoms of the disease, how the disease is passed to humans, where the disease is found. Or design a leaflet to make the public more aware of CCHF but aiming to avoid a 'mass panic' response.
|OddBox Historic August 2012
|Lesson 49
|"What is the problem with tradition?"
|Location Anhui Province
|Son preference
|China facing one child policy dilemma BBC report September 2012
|Identity and Culture
|Dustbin Game
|Task: Write a letter / or design a poster aimed at the new Chinese Government either persuading them to keep or to abolish the One Child Policy. Son preference - what would your slogan be?
|Odd Ending 2 min
|Factual Ending 3 min
|Lesson 48
|"Nobody wanted this ... but no European country would accept them"
|Turkish coast 6th September
News Article -
|Wealth & Poverty
|Task: [Text Purpose Recount] Tell the story in no more than 10 sentences. It must be in the correct sequence of time and places from beginning to end.
|Peer Marking
|Extra Challenge: Suggest (other than the people smugglers) who you would blame for partly causing this tragedy
|Lesson 47
|"... and all for want of a nail" - Anon
|Image With a partner think of 4 Kipling questions that you'd like to ask.
|Shropshire Star 13th June
|Llandough Hospital
|Consumption & waste
|Libanus School, Brecon Beacons
|Soaring Costs to Local Councils
|Dyfed Powys Police
|Awareness Campaign
: Working in a group sized between 2 and 4 people - write a 30-60
second dialogue about metal theft and its consequences. It should be
suitable for broadcasting on a local radio station as an advert / public
service announcement. You can't show pictures so your words will have to
describe the scene and what has happened.
Be prepared to perform this to the class - everyone must say something.
|Extra Challenge - think of a slogan for your campaign and be ready to explain the ideas behind it.
|Peer Marking Fruit Machine - it's more skill than luck!
|Made with: http://classtools.net/widgets/fruit_machine_7/LZqx2.htm
|Lesson 46
|"All things must pass". The sad demise of Lonesome George.
Natural Environment
|Meet the world's rarest animal http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7881562.stm
|Post Office Bay http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7881175.stm
View Fullscreen | Create your own
|Draw a sketch map to locate the Galapagos Islands and add 6 annotations to explain this story and why it is important. (Think about how we might mark it!)
|Peer Marking Fruit Machine - it's more skill than luck!
|Made with: http://classtools.net/widgets/fruit_machine_6/QuBU7.htm
Challenge - How many of the world's Top Ten Most
Endangered Species can you name?
Choose one species - suggest what you would do to improve it chances of survival.
|Lesson 45
|Where is the toughest place to be a Binman?
|Full video here http://watchdocumentary.com/watch/toughest-place-to-be-a-bin-man-video_10664966c.html
|Text summary of the programme
|Wealth & Poverty
|Try to write 100 words of text to answer who these people were, where they were working, what was different between the jobs in the two places, why the job was so tough in Jakarta. You should include a simple sketch map to locate the two places.
|The One Armed Bandit of peer assessment (for literacy).
|Lesson 44
|They were seeking a new life. What happened?
|It's happened before Ask 6 questions about this image.
|Tragedy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18546064
|Wealth & Poverty
|Report from Jakarta on asylum seeker tragedy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LEQlIqNeWM
|The story http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18545299
|Key Terms
|How would you like it? - the story in reverse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHjVTCRKLFU
|Try to write 100 words of explanation text to answer who these people were, where they were coming from and to, why they were there, what happened to them. You should include a simple sketch map.
|The One Armed Bandit of peer assessment (for literacy).
|Lesson 43
|Biofool or Biofuel? Let's discuss this issue.
|Homework: Try to write a discussion text explaining at least 4 good points and 4 bad points connected with the increasing growth of biofuels. Remember to end with your conclusion.
|Fascinator Ask 4 questions about this cartoon. Try to find out what it means?
|Zero Meals per Gallon Campaign
|Text Purpose: Discussion / Argument
|Climate Change
|What are Biofuels?
|Biofuel: The answer or the problem?
|Kenya biofuel (Jatropha)
|Dustbin Game Made with Classtools.net
|Action Aid
|The tide turns
|Lesson 42
|"The Night Train from Miyagi to Haida Gwaii". Recount the story behind this headline.
|Homework: Summarise the story behind the lesson title in under 20 words. Then: using exercise 2 tell the story in chronological order in no more than ten short paragraphs.
|Fascinator As a class ask the teacher up to 6 questions about this image. They will try to answer honestly and openly.
|Text Purpose: Recount
|Peter Mark and Ikuo Yokoyama
|Harley Davidson and Graham Island
|Peter Mark tells the story
|Where is it now?
|Exercise 1: People, Places, Objects and Numbers.
|Exercise 2: The story jumbled - 2004 Night Train Pupil copy sheet
|Lesson 41
|Where will the people go after the garden is gone?*
|*Source: Lyric 'After the Garden' from the album Living with War by Neil Young.
|What is Jardim Gramacho? Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17849139
|Who are the Catadores? Who is Vik Muniz?
|Consumption & Waste
|Where is it located? Landscape view of Rio - looking westwards from the sea
|Where is it located? Satellite view
|Where is it located? Source: Google Maps
How else are they using it?
Source: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xj5owr_rethinking-latin-america-s-largest-landfill_news#
|Why is it closing? Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWS-ysukhUs&feature=relmfu
|Why is it closing 2? Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gApE93g0vAo&feature=relmfu
|Text Purpose: Information
|Text Purpose: Information - PowerPoint
|Homework: Answer the lesson title question. Then: using Kipling's 6 questions - either produce Information Text, Text and Diagrams or just Diagrams to inform us about Jardim Gramacho -
|Lesson 40
|SelGo?? What's she got to do with Geography?
|After each clip ask your partner one relevant question and also answer your partner's question. Be ready to share you question and answer with the class.
Establishing who SelGo is
|Identity and Culture
|SelGo - Unicef Ambassador Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGeoANUjVQ8
|Teacher: What is a Unicef ambassador?
|Unicef Campaign Director Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17765214
|Teacher: What is Unicef? What are 'different types of social media'
|Unicef Internet Advert Source: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/sahel_62153.html
|Teacher: Why start with the phrase 'sound the alarm'?
|Unicef Appeal Advert
|Teacher: What do the symbols in the 'Text DONATE' section mean? [Yes - I text donated £5]
|Therapeutic Food This peanut-based paste is specially formulated to provide key micronutrients, vitamins and minerals to severely malnourished children.
|What Text Purpose is this?
|Homework: Answer the lesson title question. Then: Try to write an advert for the Unicef Sahel campaign emphasising what the money being donated will be used for.
|Lesson 39
|What's the recipe for diguettes (stonelines)?
Task /
Homework: Answer the lesson title question.
Firstly list the 'ingredients' (equipment)
and Secondly ...
Either give step by step instructions in English of how to make stonelines - use specialist language .
Or produce up to eight diagrams with captions giving step by step instructions of how to make stonelines - aimed at an international market who may not speak much English.
|What's the Recipe today? http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/shortbread_1290
|Threatened Environment
|Text Purpose http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/text_types/revise5.shtml
|Stonelines video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO16g4LgBjI
But the instructions are in French!
If the hyperlink does not work cut and paste the full address in the
|Diagrams Speaking - choose 3 specialist terms to use with each image. Sum what is happening in each image - 2 sentences.
Bilingual text and diagrams - but not our question
|Classtools http://classtools.net/widgets/priority_chart_0/UeWdt.htm
|Print-out of Priority Chart
|OddBox Time Again
|Lesson 38
|Why is 'Life on the Edge' - again - right now? March 2012
|The Sahel What is it?
|Location Where is it?
|Drought Catastrophe Who is affected?
|Climate Change
|News Report How are people affected?
|Sahel climate Why does it happen again and again?
|Oxfam campaign (What 'text purpose' is this?) How can we help?
|Speaking Frame
|Text Purpose
|Homework: Answer the lesson title question. Try to explain why people in the Sahel are facing famine again. Cover questions like.... Where is it? What's happening? What caused it? How are people affected? What can we do? You can of course replace writing with labelled diagrams.
|Lesson 37
|What's the Story? Sierra Leone On Friday 24th February 2012 the school held a non-uniform day for Sierra Leone. Why?
|Get ICT room if available
|Cartoon "Africa isn't poor, it's being looted"
Wealth & Poverty
|Cartoon "The burden from the past"
|Flash cards of the Sierra Leone data
|Lifting Sierra Leone out of poverty?
|Craig Bellamy too?
|Exercise - timeline of Sierra Leone
|BBC website links - Sierra Leone profile, Sierra Leone Timeline
|FakeBook Answers to exercise are posted here http://www.classtools.net/fb/12/RE66Ab View fullscreen
|Lesson 36
|What are Jakarta Surfers and who are the Jakarta Jockeys?
|Starter image - Hard work but does someone have to do it?
|Jakarta location
|Jakarta Surfers
|Why Surfers try to be Dodgers
|Choices & Decisions
|Jakarta Jockeys
|Jakarta transport issues - questions and answers
|Jakarta transport issues article by Michael Bachelard (Sydney Morning Herald 4.2.12)
|Lesson 35
|Why is the Keystone XL no laughing matter?
|Find Fort McMurray in
the atlas. Athabasca River, Edmonton and Alberta. [map
adapted from source: Wikipedia]
"Together, these oil sand deposits lie under 141,000 square kilometres of sparsely populated boreal forest and muskeg (peat bogs) and contain about 1.7 trillion barrels of bitumen in-place, comparable in magnitude to the world's total proven reserves of conventional petroleum."
|Keystone Cops
|Climate Change
|Keystone XL
|NOXL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOHkfoEj6Hs
|Map http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16621398
|Against http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNpQ2nTUYkU&feature=related
In favour http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJjnaYCt1mk&feature=related
President Obama http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16624963
Oddbox http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7875000/7875393.stm
|Lesson 34
|Is the case for HS2 is completely off the rails?
|Update on a previous story
|Your starter clue
|What is HS2?
|The 'big picture' of the route
|Choices & Decisions
|The proposed route
|HS2 decision near
|HS2 opposition
|Lesson 33
|Are you paying too much for your chocolate?
Where cocoa is produced Nestle site
(You need to look at this source: http://www.thecocoaplan.com/about-cocoa/where-cocoa-is-produced.aspx )
|Where does chocolate come from?
|From cocoa pod to Belgian chocolate
|Nestle - Global Food Giant
|Image 1 Issues?
|Wealth & Poverty
|Image 2 Issues?
|Lesson 32
|Why have the army stormed the 'little farm'?
|Rio's biggest 'slum invaded
|Life returns to normal
|Life in the Favela - BBC clip
|What is Rocinha? - let's ask Wikipedia?
|Choices & Decisions
|Where is Rocinha?
|What are the problems of living in Rocinha?
|The view
|Exercise Sort out the labels into categories, with the figures what do they refer to?
|Homework: Research child labour in the cocoa industry using the Nestle website. Produce a poster with words and images to explain why child labour is such a problem in the Ivory Coast.
|Lesson 31
|What's that noise? Is it more 'Trick or Treaters' or is it fireworks?
|Image - what 2 news stories are shown in this cartoon?
|News Report - lucky escape
|News Report - causes
|Exercise Sort out the labels into categories, with the figures what do they refer to?
Made with: http://classtools.net/widgets/dustbin_6/1lw6a.htm
|OddBox can you link any 'odd story' to this week's topic?
|Lesson 30
|Less Hui and More Do-ey? Explain please!
|Image Why would anyone do this to a penguin?
|News report Watch the two video clips - the first one has no sound but the second one is a report.
|Image Does this explain the title?
|Map Where and when did it happen?
|Natural Environment
|Diagram What happened?
|Interactive Diagram Get ideas then write up the story of the Rena running aground in 100 words covering - what happened, where and when, how wildlife is affected and who is to blame. Finally explain why some New Zealanders are saying 'less hui and more do-ey'
|OddBox does any items remind you of our News Story? (Yarn bombing?)
|Lesson 29
|Should the Belo Monte Be Banned?
|Belo Monte permit
|Judge halts work
|Belo Monte Interactive Diagram
|Choices & Decisions
|Before / After interactive map
|Map for Pupils
|Lesson 28
|Why did Pakistan PM Gilani cancel his trip to US?
|Pakistan Floods http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14943643
|Hyderabad at a standstill http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14936945
|Cause of the Flooding 2010
|Natural Environment
|Monsoon diagram
|Monsoon animation
|Dustbin Game
|OddBox http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7875000/7875393.stm
|Lesson 27
|Do U Hate Tan 8? "A Fowl Wind is Blowing"
|Powys protests
|Match - Up Quiz
|Western Mail News Report
|"The Scream"
|Our villages in 2012
|Source: http://classtools.net/widgets/quiz_2/fC8qa.htm
|Lesson 26
|Will the last person to leave La Paz please remember to turn off the tap?
|Bolivia detailed
|Glacier Melt
|La Paz Water Supply BBC News Clip
|Sorting exercise
|Dustbin Game http://classtools.net/widgets/dustbin_1/7GQ1q.htm
|Odd One Out
|Lesson 25
|Why did someone murder Eduardo Sierra?
|Smuggle Truck Starter
|Van Flips
|San Diego - The Wall!
|US Border Violence - Myth or Reality? Is San Diego a safe city?
|Spiny Cactus Bar Murder
|Lesson 24
|Tsunami disaster in Japan
|BBC News Interactive Map
|BBC News Live
WHAT? Japan's most powerful earthquake since records began - measured at 9.0 by the US Geological Survey - has struck the north-east coast, triggering a massive tsunami.
|WHY? Plate movements and animation
|WHEN? It struck at 1446 local time (0546 GMT) at a depth of about 24km. 11/3/2011
|HOW? How is a tsunami formed? Animation
|WHERE? Map Epicentre 130kms east of Sendai.
Hiromitsu Shinkawa
|WHO? Michihoto Sato
|Lesson 23
|Floods in Queensland? We've already done it. Must be Groundhog Day!
|Cyclone Yasi, Queensland
|Snowstorm USA BBC
|Snowstorm USA
|Snowstorm USA - Sky News
|Snowstorm image - Reuters
|Groundhog Day - The Movie
|Groundhog Day http://www.groundhog.org/ Will it make the OddBox?
Write 100 words explaining the events of Groundhog Day. Try to include
these words:
Pennsylvania, Punxsutawney, Phil, Groundhog, Predict, Spring, 125 years, 2nd February.
|Lesson 22
|How can you milk fog? (View 'Human Planet' - Deserts)
|Reading the script: http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.com/pdf/elt/products/of1_ts09.pdf
|Image 1 from http://wanderinggaia.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/fogcatchers.jpg
|Image 2 from http://wanderinggaia.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/aloes.jpg
|Note - where have we mentioned these places before?
|Task: Draw two labelled diagrams to show how the nets work and also how plants like aloe vera can be irrigated with the water. Extra: Add a paragraph of text to develop the story to say why they grow aloe vera.
|Lesson 21
|Did 'the little girl' leave the tap running (with the plug still in the sink)?
|http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12158608 January 11th - No comment needed
|http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12158353 January 11th
|Where is it and what happened? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12109717
|Why did it happen? http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/hi/news/newsid_9340000/9340513.stm
|Task: either draw a fully labelled sketch map or a fully labelled diagram to explain where the key places are, what has happened, and why it has happened.
|Worksheet Map Map2 Diagram
|ODDBOX http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7875000/7875393.stm
|Homework - answer/explain the lesson title question in no more than 50 words. (What does La Nina mean?)
|Lesson 20
|Can Cancun assist Aosis?
|What is Aosis? http://www.sidsnet.org/aosis/
|Here's the answer but what is the question?
194 nations: Aosis: Cancun: 260000 people: by sea level rise: by 2099 (2m)
|> Watch Tuvalu video Clip (Tape162)
|Cancun image What's the message (in the bottle?)
|Here's another one!
Task: What is your idea for grabbing the world attention for this issue?
What issue? What idea? How would you present it? What is the 'hidden message'?
|Lesson 19
|Why is Amanda Shields waiting and praying at Pike River?
|Data collection frame
|Overview http://news.sky.com/skynews/Article/201011115818244
|Map / side view
|Pike River
|The explosion http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11805496 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11817990
|Who is Malcom Campbell? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1331113/New-Zealand-Mine-Explosion-Families-trapped-Britons-pray-miracle.html
|Odd Box http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/11792460
|Lesson 18
|When is a 'Dream' and a 'Blessing' more of a nightmare?
|Before http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8103585.stm video
|Interactive Map Report available below 'Ar' of Arabian Seat
|The Start http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8603796.stm video
|BBC News Story http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11704306 news article
|Task: Dominoes Here
|Odd Box http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/11698290
|Lesson 17
|What connects Mr. Jones and 'the purple pinkie'?
|The purple pinkie pic
|World Distribution Map
|Focus on the Crocus
|The Final Push 1 Konnie Huq - Thanks for Life - End Polio Now
|The Final Push 2 Konnie Huq - Thanks for Life - End Polio Now
|Polio Match Up Quiz
|Key Answers -
|What is the question?
4 countries: Bill Gates and Rotary International: Mainly in Nigeria: February 23rd 2011:
To Eradicate Polio: Planting crocus bulbs:
|Task: Write a Press Release for the Abergavenny Chronicle to explain our part in the 'Focus on the Crocus campaign?
|OddBox: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/11547959
|Lesson 16
|Is it a positive impact of Global Warming?
|PictureBoard Starter
|What is the position Now? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11387175
|Match Up Quiz about Now
|Map Image
|The North East Passage
|http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11381773 Two news video clips about the future
|Key Answers -
|What is the question?
5 countries: in the Arctic: 25%: 2012: Global Warming: a titanium flag.
|Task: How should we develop the Arctic area?
|Odd Box: http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7875000/7875393.stm
|or http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/11497455
|Lesson 15
|Will they surface for Christmas?
|Odd Box http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/11171944 Sept 2nd 2010 Which item is from the Southern Hemisphere?
|News on 23rd August - Discovery the men were alive but trapped http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11056607
|Contact / Pictures http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11117940
|Rescue? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11120267
|Drill Plan: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11133018
|Update: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11225047
|Key answers -
|33; 700 metres deep; 750 Kms north of Santiago; 05.08.10; copper and gold; main access tunnel collapsed.
|Task: Draw a map to locate the key places. Add annotations to ask and answer some of the key questions. Your newspaper editor wants this ready for the next edition.
|Lesson 14
|Who is the Guardian of Six Bells?
|Odd Box http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/front_page/newsid_10480000/newsid_10483900/10483958.stm
|Image The proper 'starter' questions
|The Story http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/southeastwales/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8754000/8754198.stm
|Multiple Choice Quiz - pairs
|Task - Write in 'best' - 6 sentences / 60 words about the topic (answering the 6 questions).
|Plenary (or summarise today's lesson in 5 words ... and then just one word)
|Which Odd Box story links to our Lesson Content?
|Lesson 13
|Why is there a heatwave* in Hogsmeade? ... and at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
Odd Box Name the 10 places mentioned.
|http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10359859.stm Watch the news clip
|Research Questions
|Lesson 12
|World Cup 2010
|http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7439012.stm Odd Box Name the 10 places mentioned.
|http://classtools.net/widgets/dustbin_7/q1LDv.htm Target Score = 30 or less!
Capital, population. famous landmark, historical fact, strange interesting fact, flag, team colours, one player, image
|Lesson 11
|Louisiana Oil Spill
|OddBox http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7875000/7875393.stm
|The cause of the disaster
|The scale of the disaster
|The effects of the disaster Source: http://www.vizworld.com/2010/05/oil-spill-map-hard-hit-waiting-blow/
|Fighting Back Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8668753.stm
|news clip
|Lesson 10
|Why did referee Bennett miss the Manchester derby game?
|Task Sheet
code the labels into the four categories or put the correct label
numbers under each heading.
your own 100 word / two minute news report to accompany the raw footage
Mention -
1) What happened / where
2) Why flights were grounded across Europe
3) How else the UK was affected - remembering Steve Bennett the referee.
Ref Bennett stranded in Romania by volcanic ash, misses Man City-Man Utd game
LONDON — Premier League referee Steve Bennett has been replaced for Saturday's Manchester derby between City and United after getting stranded in Romania by the effects of a volcanic eruption in Iceland.
A referee's teaching coach, Bennett has been in Romania taking a course for budding young match officials.
He was due to fly back Friday but the ash blowing across northern Europe is a danger to aircraft and a ban is in force on flights entering and leaving Britain.
The Premier League said he was due to referee the derby at Eastlands but has been replaced by Martin Atkinson.
|Lesson 9
|Why is Inspector Kurt Wallander not at his desk this morning?
|March 2010
|Starter: OddBox http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7875000/7875393.stm
|How many places can you list? Which are in the UK? Which geographical topics/issues are mentioned?
|Main part
|http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Baltic_Sea Map
|http://reference.findtarget.com/search/Gulf%20of%20Bothnia/ Map
|http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8550845.stm During
|http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=43042 Satellite Image
|http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8550687.stm After
|Write your own report to accompany the second news images. One minute - 100 words.
|Where is it?
|What happened and when?
|Why did it happen?
|How were people affected?
|Who solved the problem?
|Plenary: So what happened to Wallander?
|Lesson 8
|Why is Cristiano Ronaldo wearing a special T shirt?
|Feb 2010
|Why is Cristiano wearing a special T shirt? Picture
|Mystery activity
|Where are we talking about? Task - Say where it is in words. What is good/bad about this map?
|BBC news clip no commentary http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8526288.stm
|BBC news clip with commentary http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8527480.stm?ls
|Tourist report on BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8527084.stm
|Report in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Madeira_floods_and_mudslides
|Lesson 7
|"Earthquakes don't kill people buildings do"
|Jan 2010
|Haiti Earthquake - as a journalist write an A4 one side newspaper report about the Haitian earthquake - perhaps using the headline above'
|Draw up a plan for an investigation into this topic. Think of 5 Key Questions.
Half of Caribbean island of Hispaniola
History of violence, instability and dictatorship
Population of 10 million people
Most live on less than $2 a day
Democratic rule restored in 2006
Economy in ruins and unemployment is chronic
UN peacekeepers deployed - foreign aid seen as vital
Massive deforestation has left just 2% forest
Storms and hurricanes in 2008 left almost 800 dead
|http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8455629.stm short term effects
|Lesson 6
|Why does Rachel want her sister to ring her?
|Lesson 5
|Why does Rachel want her sister to ring her?
|Mystery - Geography in the News!
|The Story Sheet Print out page
|Lesson 4
|New Europe - video
|Lesson 3
|Europe - Places
|Lesson 2
|Europe - The E. U.
|Lesson 1
|Know Your World http://primary.naace.co.uk/startower/world/index.htm
This Traveler IQ challenge compares your geographical knowledge against the Web's Original Travel Blog's other 4,487,759 travelers who have taken this challenge as of Friday, September 04, 2009 at 09:12AM GMT. (TravelPod is a TripAdvisor Media Network partner)
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By Norm Alster, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY02/08/2011 07:30 PM ET
In April 2008, the U.S. Geologic Survey raised its estimates of recoverable oil reserves in the Bakken Formation of North Dakota and Montana. The figures, as high as 4.3 billion barrels of oil, represented about a 2,400% increase over earlier estimates.
Less than three years later, production in the Bakken is booming and the estimates of recoverable reserves are soaring anew as new technology opens up shale plays in the region and across the country.
Jeff Hume is president and chief operating officer of Continental Resources (CLR), the top pro ducer in the Bakken. He contends that the Bakken holds as much as 24 billion barrels of oil that can be recovered with current technology. That's at the high end of current estimates. If true, it would be about a 500% increase over USGS's 2008 estimate.
"Drilling has de-risked a large portion of the area. We have established economical production in a wide area," said Hume.
Today, North Dakota produces over 400,000 barrels of oil per day. That's still far less than Alaska. It's also less than the workhorse fields of the Permian Basin in Texas and New Mexico, which produce roughly a million barrels a day. But as forecasts for the Bakken's recoverable reserves rise, so do estimates of its potential daily well output.
Bakken Is Booming
One factor limiting production expansion is pipeline capacity, says Mark Williams, senior vice president of exploration and development at Whiting Petroleum (WLL). But even if no improvements are made to current infrastructure, Bakken output could still rise to 600,000-800,000 barrels a day, he estimates.
However, there are designs for bolstering pipeline and rail infrastructure. "All current and planned projects could take us up to 1.1 million barrels a day," said Williams.
This, along with revived production from the Permian and newer fields like the Niobrara in Colorado and Wyoming, should help reverse declining U.S. oil output. Indeed, the EIA last year predicted a 14% rise in domestic oil production by 2020.
With progress in the oil patch rapidly dating government estimates, could the outlook for U.S. output be brighter than that?
New optimism on the Bakken's productivity derives from several sources. For one thing, drillers keep finding oil in a growing Bakken acreage. "Operators find they keep expanding and still get good results," Marty Beskow, an analyst with Northland Capital Markets, noted.
Deep underground, drillers have found that two oil reservoirs, once thought to be linked, are completely independent. The Three Forks reservoir — which sits below the established Middle Bakken reservoir — is believed to be "a separate and distinct reservoir," said Hume.
Advances in drilling technology — some of them controversial — have also helped. Drillers in the Bakken go down as far as two miles vertically, then turn laterally. The horizontal drilling can also extend to two miles. To crack the shale that traps all that oil, drillers train a torrent of pressurized water, sand and chemicals on the rock. This is called hydraulic fracturing, and drillers have learned to apply more stages in the process.
In a 9,000-foot-long lateral, drillers might fracture 30 times — or every 300 feet, notes Hume.
All's Wells
One sign of progress in the Bakken is the higher productivity of newer wells. They are producing significantly more than those drilled just two years ago, Beskow says. Shale wells come on strong to start, but can taper off quickly.
Michael Lou, who is senior vice president of finance at Oasis Petroleum (OAS), cites the importance of longer-reach horizontal drilling and more frequent rock fracturing. Wells drilled "a few years ago," he noted, might produce 100,000-200,000 barrels over their lifetime. "Now in the same area, with longer laterals and higher fracking stages, we're in the 400,000-700,000 barrel range."
Oasis planned on capital expenditures of around $220 million in mid-2010. Its capital budget in 2011 (which should include about $20 million in acquisitions) could run to $490 million. A recent $400 million bond offering will help finance the drilling program.
Across the Bakken, drillers are bringing new rigs into operation. A year ago, Whiting Petroleum had nine rigs at work in the Bakken. Today it has 15, notes Williams. By September, Whiting will have 20 rigs drilling for Bakken oil. "We're ramping up as quickly as we can," said Williams.
Continental had just 10 rigs operating in the Bakken a year ago. It now has 23. "We're drilling 22 wells a month," said Hume. And there are few dry holes. He describes the drilling success rate as "100%."
What could dim the Bakken's bright outlook? "A significant drop in oil prices would likely slow development in the Bakken," reasoned Michael Reger, CEO of Northern Oil & Gas (NOG), which holds Bakken drilling acreage.
Reger adds that the Bakken would be "the last" oil drilling area to see cutbacks because of its profitable economics.
A sharp rise in natural gas prices could also curb drilling in the Bakken if producers choose to pour their capital into gas fields in other areas. The Bakken, by most estimates, has 90% or more oil, so drillers have flocked there as gas prices have tumbled.
And in the wake of the BP (BP) offshore oil disaster, drillers cannot afford any sort of accident that raises questions about the safety of hydraulic fracturing. Critics have questioned whether the mix of fracking chemicals — suspected to contain toxic materials, but typically not disclosed by drillers — represents a threat to local water supplies. New York state has temporarily prohibited hydraulic fracturing pending further review.
In the Bakken, hydrocarbons are farther from water sources than they are in New York's Marcellus Shale. Still, there have been accidents involving leakage at ground level. Mark Trechock, director of the Dakota Resource Council, a nonprofit with a mandate to protect rural communities in the state, notes that many drilling sites are close to public drinking water sources.
One recent spill bordered on Lake Sakakawea, a huge reservoir in central North Dakota and a source of public drinking water.
"We've got a lot of wells close to Lake Sakakawea," said Trechock.
His group wants full public disclosure of fracking materials. It also wants monitoring of ground and surface water at sites where fracking fluids have been used.
Gushing Promise
For now, drillers are having their way — and ramping up to exploit the highly favorable economics of Bakken drilling.
At $80 a barrel, drilling in some areas can yield a return on investment "as high as 7.3 to 1," said Williams.
"This is the most economic play in the country," he enthused.
Crude oil futures fell 54 cents to $86.94 barrel on Tuesday.
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Bad news on the fitness front. Nearly 70 million Americans are classified as "inactive," according to the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association's (SGMA) 2012 Sports, Fitness & Recreational Activities report.
While 220 million American are "active," the number of inactive couch potatoes has risen every year since 2007, warns SGMA.
The good news? Despite parents worrying about their kids playing too many video games, this year's study indicates "inactivity" rates among children ages 6-12 years old fell to 16 percent from 16.6 in 2010. ...


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Twin sisters featured in a movie and a book about their lifelong struggle with cystic fibrosis are in Sioux Falls this weekend.
The California women are providing hope to people dealing with the life-threatening disease.
The twins are now 40 years old. That's older than people with cystic fibrosis are expected to live.
Anabel Stenzel and Isabel Stenzel-Byrnes laugh a lot and love life. The twins say most people don't get excited about being over the hill, but they are.
"I'm proud to be 40. I'm proud to be this old," Isabel said.
"I was very sick starting from early life," Anabel said.
"When we were born, my parents were told that we were lucky if we reached the age of ten," Isabel said.
That's because the twins were born with cystic fibrosis. Friday in Sioux Falls they met health professionals at Sanford to raise awareness about the disease that almost took both of their lives. A movie about them, called the "The Power Of Two," will be shown Friday night in Sioux Falls.
"By 24, I was on oxygen all the time. I had a lung capacity of about 30 percent of normal, so life was always a struggle to breathe," Anabel said.
"In my late 20s, early 30s, I was on oxygen. I couldn't work anymore. I was very debilitated, short of breath, and coughing all the time," Isabel said.
But the two women survived thanks to lung transplants. Because of their experience, they say now it's their mission not only to raise awareness about cystic fibrosis, but also about being an organ donor.
"I was very close to the end of my life, so thankfully I was saved, but my whole family was saved too because they expected me to die," Isabel said.
Dr. Gene Hoyme, the President of Sanford Research, is also surprised at how well the twins are doing. He now lives in Sioux Falls but worked with the women 15 years ago.
"I think what it shows that with even severe genetic conditions like cystic fibrosis, there's tremendous hope," Hoyme said.
Hope is exactly what the twins convey through their movie and not just for people with cystic fibrosis.
"Everybody at some point in their lifetime will be touched by illness, and I hope this film conveys that even with illness, we were able to thrive, appreciate life, make the most of it and become advocates, so we could do something with our lives," Isabel said.
The twins' movie will be shown in the Belbas Theater of the Washington Pavilion at 7 p.m. Friday. Find more information on the KELOLAND.com Events Calendar.


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Ecological Economics sets a price to the ecological services of the planet. Environmental economics, works out to being the same thing, or, depending on who you've asked, is a broader concept which encompasses effects on human health and productivity.
The Economist has come out with a pair of articles on the subject: Are you being served?, which begins by exploring the problems deforestation along the Panema Canal are causing, and a novel approach to reforestation which is, ahem, taking root there:
[A]ny scheme to reforest the canal's watershed is, in fact, an investment in infrastructure. Normally, this would be provided by the owner. But in this case the owner is the Panamanian government, and Panama is in debt, has a poor credit rating and finds it expensive to borrow money. And yet investing in the canal's watershed clearly makes economic sense. Who will pay?
In the case of the Panama Canal, the answer may turn out to be John Forgach, an entrepreneur, banker and chairman of ForestRe, a forestry insurance company based in London. Mr Forgach's plan is to use the financial markets to arrange for companies dependent on the canal to pay for the reforestation. Working in collaboration with several as-yet-unnamed insurance and reinsurance companies, Mr Forgach is trying to put together a deal in which these companies would underwrite a 25-year bond that would pay for the forest to be replanted.
Which is a pretty great example of restoration for profit.
The second article, an opinion leader, Rescuing environmentalism, contends that "market forces could prove the environment's best friendif only greens could learn to love them." I disagree, personally, with some of the conclusions, but it's as readable a summary of "free-market environmentalism" as you're likely to see:
One example lies in the assignment of property rights over commons, such as fisheries, that are abused because they belong at once to everyone and no one. Where tradable fishing quotas have been issued, the result has been a drop in over-fishing. Emissions trading is also taking off. America led the way with its sulphur-dioxide trading scheme, and today the EU is pioneering carbon-dioxide trading with the (albeit still controversial) goal of slowing down climate change.
These, however, are obvious targets. What is really intriguing are efforts to value previously ignored ecological services, both basic ones such as water filtration and flood prevention, and luxuries such as preserving wildlife. At the same time, advances in environmental science are making those valuation studies more accurate. Market mechanisms can then be employed to achieve these goals at the lowest cost.
...The world may yet leapfrog from the dark ages of clumsy, costly, command-and-control regulations to an enlightened age of informed, innovative, incentive-based greenery.
I particularly find the use of leapfrogging in the last paragraph to be a cynical and content-free use of the term. That said, this is an important debate, and learning to attach value to ecosystem services is, I believe, absolutely critical.
The Panama plan is amazingly right-thinking: imagine that, having the people who benefit the most be the ones to ante up the most! And they'll benefit both by retaining their future transportation channel and making an extra profit.
It saddens me how rare it is that biodiversity is seen as intrinsically valuable. Where you saw cynicism in the "leapfrog," I saw it in the phrase "luxuries such as preserving wildlife." Perhaps cynicism isn't the right word... maybe clueless?
This portrayal of ecological economics is quite off the mark. See www.steadystate.org for more information. Briefly, however, ecological economics is distinguished from "environmental" economics (a subset of neoclassical economics) on a number of fronts. Ill mention two: 1) Ecological economics begins from a different starting point; i.e., natural sciences including especially laws of thermodynamics and principles of ecology. 2) Ecological economics deals with far more than "pricing" natural resources. Its primary emphasis is SCALE, the size of the human economy relative to the ecosystem that sustains it. Thusly recognizing a limit to economic growth, it goes on to address the issue of DISTRIBUTION (of wealth), which must be equitable enough for social stability and a sustainable outcome. Finally, like neoclassical (including environmental) economics, it deals with the ALLOCATION of resources (this is the "pricing" issue) for the sake of efficiency.
Brian Czech, President
Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy


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The 2010 floods nearly destroyed the Riverview Restaurant and Marina in Ashland City. / SAMUEL M. SIMPKINS / THE TENNESSEAN
110 Old River Road, Ashland City
615-792-7358, www.riverviewrestaurantandmarina. com
Hours: 11a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday-Thursday; 11a.m.-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday
Reservations: Accepted
Payment: Major credit cards acepted
Alcohol: Beer (you may bring your own wine, with no corkage fee)
Food: American
Cost: Appetizers: $4-$8; sandwiches and burgers: $5-$9; entrees: $9-$16; desserts: $1-$4.25
Parking: on-site lot (or, tie up at the boat dock!)
On a quest for catfish? For decades, enthusiasts have known that Ashland City was the place to go. A 30-minute drive northwest of Nashville (including a crossing, back in the day, at Hydes Ferry) could land them at one of several preferred catfish joints.
The most enduring is the Riverview Restaurant and Marina, a one-time bait shop along the Cumberland that evolved, in hodge-podge fashion, into a dining landmark. Accessible not only by car boaters could tie up at its dock it was famous for its fried catfish, friendly service and spectacular waterfront vista.
Bouncing back
The historic floods of May 2010 all but obliterated the Riverview. The Cumberland crested at the restaurants roofline, and 50-plus years of operation washed away. It left owners Walt and Lori Randolph with the decision: to move on or rebuild?
It took time more than a year but the Riverview Restaurant and Marina came back. Built now at a higher level to fend off any flooding, its structure is stronger and grander. Youll notice fine woodwork, cathedral-style ceilings, with ample windows bringing the scenery into the interior.
Most notable is the capacious covered deck. Sheltered and breezy, it affords the best spot paraphrasing Bob Dylan to sit so contentedly and watch the river flow.
Catfish rules. The menu offers it whole, or in fillets, in entrée portions, or all you care to eat. You can have crisp pieces wrapped into Redneck Fish Tacos with tangy house slaw, and chow-chow to dress em up. Or, simply broiled with a touch of Cajun spice, for a more heart-healthy approach.
Fillets of tilapia and flounder are also available, should you want an ocean catch. But for a traditional Southern-style catfish dinner, Riverviews fry lends a nice cornmeal crunch to moist, flaky planks. With a squeeze of lemon, a dunk of tartar sauce, this makes for good riverside eating.
Many guilty pleasures
If it swims in the water, the menu states, your dinner comes with hushpuppies and a choice of two sides. Those hushpuppies have a tinge of sweetness in their cornbread mix, and, like the rest of the foods that take a plunge into Riverviews deep-fryer, they emerge golden crisp, not greasy.
There are a number of guilty pleasures from the battered-and-fried department: Onion rings are meaty cuffs, served with remoulade sauce; Shrimp Jammers are stuffed with cheese and fiery bits of jalapenos; Bobbers are balls of garlic-cheddar grits flecked with bacon.
Sharing baskets of these indulgences over some icy brews is indeed a fun way to kick back on a Saturday afternoon. From the deck, you can take in river traffic motorboats, tugs and long, flat barges. Its also a fine spot to watch the weather.
Sides of green beans, white beans and black-eyed peas are a bit lackluster, cooked in a manner that errs on the timid side of seasoning. Turnip greens, though, have some pizzazz.
Vegetarians should be aware that country ham is used in most preparations. For them, best bets include the baked potatoes both Idahos and Sweets come loaded to order. (A caveat: the brown sugar butter is heavy-handed.) There is a modest salad bar, with iceberg and spinach as the base, and many of the usual suspects broccoli, tomatoes, carrots, peppers, diced eggs, cheeses, sunflower seeds to mound on top.
Landlubbers in your group wont be overlooked.
For them, the Riverview offers hand-cut rib-eye steaks, boneless pork chops, marinated chicken breast and burgers grilled to order. Theres a selection of sandwiches, too. Seniors enjoy a smaller portioned menu, set at a lower price. In conceiving their casual, family-oriented place, the Randolphs have designed their menu to have something for everyone.
Which brings us to dessert: Kids can have a scoop of ice cream for a buck, while adults indulge in the Blackberry Wine Cake. Its a moist bundt-style cake, purplish-pink in color, jammy in taste. Or theres the Goo Goo Hot Fudge Sundae Pie, a rich and saucy confection made with the famed candy cluster that everyone loves.
It is a treat to dine by the Cumberland; see the barges and the boaters, vital work and play on the river. It is beautiful.
While the flood was devastating, the Randolphs acknowledge that without it, they would not have been able to make needed changes. Now the Riverview is poised to serve catfish and fixins for another 50 years.
Nancy Vienneau is a chef and retired caterer with 25 years of experience. She cooks and teaches at Second Harvest and blogs about her adventures with food at http://nancyvienneau.com. Reviews are written from anonymous visits to restaurants. Negative reviews are based on two or more visits. The Tennessean pays for all meals.


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Presentation/Packaging 5/5
At first sight, The Green Smoke's layout and presentation and box screams "nature" to us. Putting off the fact of being organic is a really precise depiction for this product. The Green Smoke is a really good and organic tasting product.
It comes in a green kit with magnetic drop pinnacle box, which has the Green Smoke name and a leaf, making for a exceptionally large use of branding. The Green Smoke kit comes with two batteries, a wall charger and USB charger, as well as chorded charger which allows you to smoke ecigs while your battery is charging. This specific charger made this product original from any other ecig that we've tried so far.
The guideline manual is also very well made for first time users, and the cigs package comes with a Green Smoke Membership Card, to prove that you are their fan and consumer of the product. We were more than impressed with the presentation and packaging of the Green Smoke cigs, which has led us to provide the product a excellent 5 out of 5 rating in this category. Battery/Responsiveness 4. 5/5
The Green Smoke had an outstanding battery life. Not only the battery has light weight, but it lasted for an exceedingly long time. I rarely needed to fee the battery more than one time a day. either of the batteries regarded to remain charged on average for almost an whole day. The chorded charger was also very useful while charging, allowing you to smoke whilst you're in reality charging the battery. The responsiveness was also very impressive. A small drag produced a huge amount of vapor, which was very realistic and lingered in the air like whilst you smoke real cigarette. We couldn't in reality complain about the battery and responsiveness of the Green Smoke, so we've got given this product a 4. 5 out of 5 in this category. Vapor/Flavor(s) 5/5
As we have previously mentioned, the Green Smoke cigs are a very "natural" product. We felt like we were actually smoking tobacco instead of vapor with this certain ecig. The vapor produced was very realistic, and the taste was even more realistic. We haven't been enthusiasts of tobacco flavors in the past, but the Green Cig has the best tasting tobacco flavors that we have ever tried. The Red Label Tobacco truly might be compared to Marlboro Reds. The Chocolate and Mocha Flavors were our two flavors, as they tasted how they really should: just like a Hersheys Bar, and a Mocha Coffee.
Eluminate Electronic Cigarette
Presentation/Packaging 5/5


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Bid History for 1985 Chevrolet D10 Military Blazer 4WD
Auction Start Date: 04/22/11 10:00 AM ET
Auction End Date: 05/02/11 2:00 PM ET
Asset ID: 5 Number of Bids: 12
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1985 Chevrolet D10 Military Blazer 4WD SPORT UTILITY 2-DR, 6.2L V8 OHV.
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Medical Problems
The detrimental effect of bad lighting is now so serious that the American Medical Association has called for a national effort on light pollution, stating that "many species (including humans) need darkness to survive and thrive" [PDF]. The AMA also states:
"Light trespass has been implicated in disruption of the human and animal circadian rhythm, and strongly suspected as an etiology of suppressed melatonin production, depressed immune systems, and increase in cancer rates such as breast cancers."
Increased Cancer Risks
There is now significant evidence showing that exposure to light at night can disrupt the body's production of melatonin, a brain hormone best known for its daily role in resetting the body's biological clock. Secreted primarily in the brain, and at night, melatonin triggers a host of biochemical activities, including a nocturnal reduction in the body's production of oestrogen. Research has shown that decreasing nocturnal melatonin production increases an individual's risk of developing oestrogen-related malignancies, such as breast cancer.
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Psychological Stresses
Living within the arctic circles can exhibit psychological stresses on inhabitants, due to the 24-hour daylight in summer, and 24-hour darkness in winter. Suicide rates in Finland are one of the highest in the world. Many would guess that the 24 hours of darkness would be the most stressful time, but apparently not. The thesis of Dr Helina Hakko states: "A significant excess of total suicides was found during spring/summer (May-July) and a significant trough during winter/spring (December-March) months.". The 24-hour daylight appears to cause more stress and suicides than at any other time of the year. For more information, please look at Dr Helina Hakko's PhD thesis.
Medical Problems in Children...
Other health problems can occur in children. Scientists have warned that children who sleep with a light on during the night could be ruining their eyesight (see this BBC News story). US scientists found that children who sleep with a light on are significantly more likely to grow up short-sighted and having to wear glasses, when compared to children who sleep in the dark.
Research sponsored by a power company found that exposure to constant artificial light may reduce levels of melatonin, which regulates the body's internal clock, and the Circadian cycle (see the BBC News article). Dr Chris Idzikowski, director of the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service, said that leaving lights on at night "...could lead to a disruption of sleeping patterns, hyper-activity and may have a negative impact on a child's health."
Other medical problems...
It is well documented that excessive light can lead to a chronic lack of sleep, diminishing the effectiveness of the body's immune system; indeed, shining light is a common method of torture: "Ill-treatment also reported to Amnesty International include prolonged sleep deprivation, inadequate exercise provision, prolonged restraint in painful positions, sometimes combined with exposure to loud music, and exposure to 24-hour lighting." (click here for the full press release).
For more information...
There are many hundreds of references dealing with biological clocks, circadian rhythms, melatonin, and the effects of light at night on animals and plants - see the IDA's "Photobiology & Pathology" page. More information about the deterious effects of lighting on human health can be found on the lowbluelights.com webpage.
Additional related items
January, 2010
BBC News: Harvard tests reveal why light can worsen migraines
"The visual pathway that underlies a migraine sufferer's sensitivity to light has been uncovered by Harvard scientists. "
April, 2005
BBC News: EU pollution deaths cost billions
"The European Union could save up to 161 billion euros a year by reducing deaths caused by air pollution, the World Health Organization has said. Transport and the use of fossil fuels in homes [used to generate needless light pollution] are the major contributors to air pollution."
March, 2005
The Guardian: The power of darkness
"Artificial light illuminates our lives, allowing us to work or play through the night. But, as Hugh Wilson discovers, we toy with our body clocks at severe risk to our wellbeing."
December, 2004
Reuters/Yahoo News: Night Shift Linked to Late Pregnancy Loss
"Pregnant women who regularly work the night shift may have an increased risk of a miscarriage late in pregnancy or a stillbirth, a new study suggests. According to [University of Aarhu's Jin Liang] Zhu's team, the link between pregnancy loss and steady overnight work may have to do with estrogen levels. Exposure to light at night suppresses the normal nighttime release of the sleep-related hormone melatonin, which in turn is believed to spur an increase in other hormones, including estrogen."
May, 8th, 2003
BBC News: Darkness never falls for children
October 17th, 1998
Science News Online: Does light have a dark side
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