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It's Good to be Different
Fishtree's award winning platform makes every learning environment adaptive, allows lessons to be created easily from millions of resources, aligned to competencies or standards and personalized for every learner.
Fishtree is the ideal solution for educators working in blended, flipped or project-based learning environments. With Fishtree you can easily find interactive teaching resources including textbooks, open education resources (OER), and real-time content, align them all to a competency or a standard such as the Common Core, and adapt to each learner's needs with one click! The platform saves educators time, while ensuring every learner is provided with a personalized learning experience.
Fishtree combines adaptive learning with powerful analytics to create the ultimate in digital instruction. We do this by providing a digital lesson planner, the most engaging resources, automatically aligning content to state standards, personalizing resources for every learner, and providing the most incredible insight into student learning through its powerful performance analytics. The system is user-friendly, and integrates easily with current infrastructures, leading the industry in user-interface design.
Discover each student's specific learning needs, styles and abilities through our Learning DNA concept.
Adapt Resources to Student Needs.
Find Resources at your Grade Level.
Easily build a dynamic, adaptive curriculum that integrates the most engaging resources.
Personalized learning.
Auto-Generate Teaching Resources.
Easily Align Lessons to CCSS and State Standards.
Add Your Own Resources.
Incorporate Multimedia with Lesson Editor.
Preview your Lessons before Publishing
Build a Course and be the Credited Author.
Share Lessons with Global Teacher Community.
Share Instructions with your Students.
Automatically Generate Assessments.
Use Engaging Quizzes for Assessments.
Assess with Multiple Choice, Drag&Drop and Open Ended Questions.
Create Multiple Classes.
Store all your Lessons in One Place.
Organize your Lessons by Class.
Assign Lessons with a Few Clicks.
Access an extensive range of resources including real-time media and resources from the web.
Add the Latest News to your Lessons.
Create Interactive Video-Based Lessons.
Find Safe Resources from the Web.
Re-use Teacher Lessons.
Access content at grade and reading level
Search for interactive resources, students or your notes from one window.
Easily Find Resources in One Place.
Search for People, Notes and Resources.
Find Multiple Types of Content.
Access Standard-Aligned Resources.
Create a dynamic curriculum with interactive content and reuse resources you already have.
Add your Own Resources to Improve your Lessons.
Incorporate Media to your Lessons.
Add the most engaging content to your lessons by generating standard-aligned resources, tailored to your needs.
Smart Content Search.
Resources and Standard Alignment.
Adapt to reading level.
Adapt to grade level.
Save time with Fishtree auto-generated assessments.
Create Assessments with One Click.
Generate Assessments even from Real-Time Media.
View student progress and performance through clear, powerful analytics.
Track Student Progress with Fishtree Performance Response.
Get Instant Access to Graphic Analytics.
Assess Students on Standards.
Gain Insights to Student Learning.
Support One or All Students with Personalized Resources, Wherever They Need Help, With One Click.
Get insights into each student's learning and remediate in one click.
Instant View of Your Class Performance.
Remediate at the Touch of a Button.
Create your own student and teacher notes to share and exchange with Fishtree users.
Take Private Teacher Notes.
Create Private Student Notes.
Share Notes with Peers.
Build Student ePortfolios.
Help students reach learning objectives by remediating with one click.
Intervene to help one or many students with the click of a button and track their ongoing progress.
Intervene with One Click.
Make the transition to a digital learning environment easily and effectively.
Integrate with your current LMS.
Integrate with Student Information System (SIS), Gradebook or Assessment Tools.
Browser Support.
Language Support and Localization.
LTI Integrations.
Open API.
Multimedia Integrations.
Get comfortable using tech in the classroom with Fishtree's user-friendly interface.
Teacher-Student Messaging.
Easy Access to all Resources and Reports.
Build Personalized Profile.
Incredible ease of use.
We personalize the learning experience to suit every student's individual needs, we provide teachers and schools with clear views on progress and performance, and we save time creating lessons, finding engaging resources, and generating assessments. We make it easy for teachers and schools to integrate technology and to create a personalized learning environment that boosts student achievement, and empowers teachers in a whole new way.
Differentiate and personalize your teaching at the click of a button.
Differentiated and personalized learning lie at the heart of what we do. While we believe in the power of personalized instruction and adapting to every learner, we also understand the difficulty of ensuring every student is challenged appropriately, and no learner gets left behind. Our system aims to make the personalization process as easy as possible. Through our recommendation and personalization engines, each student using our system is offered resources adapted to suit his/her individual needs. This means every lesson and every assignment can be tailored to the needs of every single student. A teacher can then simply view student progress, and intervene at will. Personalized instruction has never been so easy!
Create engaging, standard-aligned lessons in minutes, and adapt them to every learner.
As we understand the difficulty teachers face every day in planning and preparing classes, Fishtree's next generation system allows you to create lessons easily and quickly, from any location, at any time. Using the system's built-in lesson planner, you can create a lesson using the most relevant and interactive resources, all located in one place. You can then pick and choose the content to be included, add your own instruction, include automatically-generated assessments, sit back and relax!
All of this can be done in minutes, without the hassle of trawling through other sites and textbooks. Not only this, but all lessons created using Fishtree are automatically aligned to standards such as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), meaning less time is spent struggling to find the right content that integrates the right standards, Fishtree works for you.
An easy solution to integrate technology in your classroom.
While we acknowledge the benefits of integrating technology in education, we also understand the obstacles that teachers and administrators face in implementing a safe and simple digital learning environment. Fishtree provides teachers with an easy-to-use system that brings technology into the classroom in a whole new way. Using our time-saving platform, you can create and deliver dynamic, personalized lessons, collaborate and interact with students safely and easily, monitor student progress consistently, and access all of this using any device, anywhere, at any time.
We make the transition process as easy as possible for teachers, eliminating safety concerns and providing everything you need to create a digital learning environment in one place. Fishtree connects easily to your LMS, SIS, and interactive gradebook, even offering single sign-on capability. It really does bring it all together.
Access the best resources, tailored to your lesson.
Fishtree offers teachers the most relevant, interactive, and engaging resources from the best possible sources. While creating a lesson with our system, we recommend resources for you from our dynamic content library, according to the learning objectives outlined. These resources include the best articles, videos, podcasts, and even real-time media specifically tailored to your lesson. You can also search the web manually using our search engine which provides you with every online resource necessary to make your lesson as engaging as possible. And if that doesn't do it, we even provide you with access to shared lessons, already created by teachers for teachers, that you can use and reuse in any learning environment.
Resources in Fishtree are automatically levelled for grade, reading level and relevance and are personalized using our powerful, patent pending software.
Engage every single student easily and effectively.
Fishtree's platform is aimed at empowering every teacher and engaging every learner. We do this by providing teachers with the necessary resources to make lessons as dynamic, interactive, collaborative, and engaging as possible. We provide you with the best content available on the web, including video and real-time resources, while allowing you to add your own. Not only this, in our attempts to personalize every lesson for each student, all learners are provided with the specific resources they need to succeed through our highly intelligent software.
This ensures all students are challenged to the best of their ability and every single student is engaged. Even if you want to indulge in flipped, blended or mobile learning to ensure student engagement, Fishtree provides you with the necessary tools to implement the most effective digital learning environments. Through the independence of reaching targets by themselves and the novelty of collaborating through social media, student engagement and retention is quickly achieved, and easily maintained.
Manage your students and lessons easily.
Effectively managing your students and lessons is a challenging and time-consuming task for any teacher. At Fishtree, we believe in significantly decreasing the teacher workload so that more time and attention can be focused on student productivity. For this reason, we created a management platform that requires little maintenance and encourages high performance. Using the system, a teacher can manage multiple classes at once, store every lesson and activity specific to each class, and track and save all student activity, without the necessity for constant updates. A class is easily accessible and performance clearly mapped out for you to view, provide feedback, and also intervene at will.
While providing you with all of the basic student information, we go a step further, offering you insight into a student's learning profile through our Learning DNA concept, which places you a step above the rest in terms of understanding and evaluating every single student.
Keep track of student progress and performance without the paperwork.
Fishtree's multitasking learning platform allows teachers to keep track of student progress easily and effectively, without the necessity of creating and saving numerous activities and assessments. Using our system, a teacher can simply assign activities at the click of a button, assess without having to intervene in any way, and track progress easily by viewing student performance through clear, informative graphs and charts.
Our analytics views display progress and performance through clear visual aids, outlining where exactly a student is in terms of reaching the desired learning objectives. The system then allows you to intervene at the click of a button, automatically saves student portfolios, and even provides you with a tool to contact a students directly concerning their progress. We have taken the gradebook and student reports to a new level of interactivity.
Make the reassessment process simple and easy.
Ensuring no student gets left behind is no easy feat. Providing the most effective reassessment that suits every single student is even more challenging. Fishtree recognizes the necessity of reassessment and feedback as a means of ensuring all students are challenged to the best of their ability. For this reason, if a student is not reaching the specified learning objectives, a teacher can intervene and reassess at will, with one click.
A student is then re-assessed according to his/her specific learning needs and new, personalized resources are generated. This ensures all students reach their learning objectives at their own pace, while giving the teacher more control and making the reassessment process as simple as possible.
Integrate effective collaboration in your teaching.
We all know the benefits of effective collaboration and peer feedback. Working as part of a focused, collaborative team teaches students the benefits of teamwork and the power of collaboration as a whole. Through Fishtree's social stream feature, students are encouraged to cooperate and collaborate outside the classroom using a social media-based application. Teachers, students and peers can collaborate with one another in real-time, easily and productively, using Fishtree to share resources, exchange ideas, and discuss the concepts central to each lesson.
Our collaboration feature also encourages positive and safe social media interaction for education purposes, promoting mutual respect and responsibility as central to online activity of all kinds, as teachers have the ability to monitor all student activity simply by accessing the system.
Further your professional development with Fishtree.
As teachers are continuously looking to engage in further training and development, our system was created specifically to meet these needs. Our easy-to-use interface provides teachers with the ideal digital platform for professional development, offering a perfect learning environment for flipped, blended or mobile learning.
Teachers can indulge in digital learning and integrate social media in their teaching easily using the Fishtree platform, with a skilled team of experts ready to meet the needs of any teacher using the system.
Building an adaptive, digital learning environment for your school has never been easier. We help schools to unlock their full potential bringing personalized instruction to every classroom.
Make your school an adaptive learning environment.
Adaptive and personalized instruction are moving swiftly to the forefront of our education system. Schools and colleges around the world are being urged to engage in the personalization process as its significance and effectiveness in the education process gains global recognition. Fishtree's system was created in an effort to make every learning environment adaptive, making the personalization a process as simple as possible.
Our platform personalizes every lesson according to each student's specific learning criteria using the most intelligent recommendation and personalization engines. Lessons and assignments are personalized at the click of a button ensuring all students are challenged to the best of their ability, without adding to the workload of the teacher. Building an adaptive, digital learning environment for your school has never been easier.
Successfully integrate technology in your school using our next generation platform.
Schools around the world are continuously struggling to successfully integrate technology. Yet, with our education systems placing further emphasis on the importance of education technology and digital literacy, schools cannot afford to get left behind.
Through our user-friendly and cost-effective system, teachers can integrate technology in their classrooms easily and effectively, encouraging a whole-school collaborative movement to 21st century education. Fishtree allows you to create a controlled, digital learning environment using a safe and reliable system that even works with your current infrastructure such as Learning Management Systems in an attempt to make the transition as simple as possible. We help schools to build and maintain a collaborative and adaptive digital workspace that works for administrators, teachers and students.
Save money and go digital!
Fishtree's system provides schools and colleges with the best open education resources (OER), real-time and publisher content. In order to make finding resources as easy as possible, we offer content that is adapted to suit a particular age group, personalized to suit every learner, and accessible by faculty and students on any device at any time, all of which is delivered through a user-friendly interface.
Not only does our system provide the best content all from one place, we also offer the most relevant resources, specifically tailored to each lesson in an effort to personalize all content and deliver the most engaging and dynamic lessons that a school can offer. Fishtree can save time and money in relation to content by providing dynamic resources instantly, from one location, personalized to suit every learner.
Engage in easy, affordable and effective curriculum planning and management.
Fishtree's learning platform allows schools to engage in effective curriculum planning and management easily. Using our system, a school community can collaborate and create content easily in a combined effort to build an engaging, dynamic, technology-integrated curriculum that is easily managed.
Fishtree allows you to create content and courses using extensive resources including publisher content, real-time media and open education resources, automatically aligned to standards such as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), and to manage this content easily through powerful analytics. Our system provides you with a digital learning environment that meets the needs of every single student, while decreasing the workload for teachers.
Save your school time and money by providing standard-aligned content at the click of a button.
Many schools are struggling to find the best and most relevant resources that are aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Providing the most adaptive and interactive content that aligns to each standard is both time-consuming and costly. What if your school could provide personalized content from a range of sources available in various modes that is automatically standard-aligned? This would eliminate the added concern that standards are not being met according to state regulations, while ensuring each student receives the best possible education to suit his/her needs.
This is exactly what Fishtree offers in a joint effort to ensure that schools work collaboratively to meet state standards, buying time for educators to focus further on the needs of individual students.
Encourage safe and positive collaboration among teachers and students.
Fishtree delivers the power of effective collaboration. Safe and easy collaboration engines were built into our system in order to provide students and teachers with an interactive, open collaborative platform. Using Fishtree's social stream feature, students can exchange and share ideas and resources in real-time, discuss concepts delivered in class, and create shareable notes based on lessons.
All activity is then easily monitored by the teacher or instructor, who can then get involved in the conversations and message students directly concerning assignments. This ensures that students collaborate safely in a digital environment while giving teachers an insight into student activity and providing instant feedback.
Make project-based learning more efficient and easily monitored.
As our education system moves further towards project-based learning, the task of monitoring student activity and tracking performance effectively is proving a challenge. The Fishtree platform was designed with project-based learning in mind, providing collaboration engines, instant feedback and powerful analytics as a means of ensuring all student activity is monitored easily.
Teachers can view student progress instantly, intervene at the click of a button, and observe student interaction through social stream as projects are being completed. The grading process is also made easy as teachers are notified once a project is completed, allowing them to grade and provide feedback instantly. Fishtree also provides an ideal platform for flipped, blended or mobile learning.
Create a competency-based learning environment for your students.
With more schools and colleges moving towards competency-based education, the pressure is on for schools to make the transition. Schools are witnessing rapid change and increased student engagement through this flexible approach to instruction. Fishtree allows schools to indulge in competency-based education as students are encouraged to work at their own pace, outside the classroom, mastering skills through their own personalized resources and assessments.
Teachers can then intervene at will, easily awarding students credit once mastery of skills has been adequately demonstrated. With competency-based education we can enable students to master skills at their own pace, and Fishtree can make your school's transition both simple and effective.
View student progress and performance through powerful analytics.
Fishtree's next generation learning platform gives you access to powerful analytics that track student progress and performance clearly and effectively. Through the display of beautiful visual aids such as graphs and diagrams, educators can view a student's progress, and remediate, grade and offer feedback instantly. Each student's performance is continuously tracked through the system, collecting clear, precise data for administration purposes.
Student learning is carried out on a personalized basis, allowing all students to work at their own pace, yet ensuring teachers are continuously updated and informed regarding performance. Fishtree then brings together all resources and data and presents a single clear view for teacher, student and administrator. Our in-depth graphs and charts provide you with clear information surrounding the progress and performance of every single class.
Boost student learning and achievement using the next generation platform.
Student learning and achievement is central to Fishtree's aim. Through our next generation learning platform, learning and achievement is boosted through increased student engagement, collaboration, personalization, and analytics as school communities build a digital learning environment that provides for every student. By integrating technology, a school can significantly improve student achievement with adaptive learning and digital literacy.
With a clearer and simplified view of student progress, access to the best possible resources and an easy and efficient lesson planner, teachers are empowered and enabled to focus on individual student achievement, ensuring the process is consistent and continuous. Fishtree allows schools and colleges to unlock their full potential as the needs of every single student are easily recognized, and realized.
Build an adaptive infrastructure for your school.
Fishtree believes in empowering schools and making every learning environment adaptive. For this reason, we are working with local partners in a combined effort to help schools move towards 21st century education in a comfortable and simplified environment. As a next generation cloud-based platform, we make the transition to digital instruction as easy and affordable as possible, working in conjunction with current infrastructures such as Learning Management Systems (LMS's) or Student Information Systems (SIS's). Our system is available on any device or platform, making it easy for schools to integrate concepts such as Mobile Learning and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).
Fishtree combines powerful analytics with engaging collaboration and personalization engines. These are specifically aimed at tailoring the learning experience to suit every individual and preparing them for success, no matter what their next step in life might be.
With increasing focus on the cost of instructional materials for higher education, wouldn't it be nice to know which of your subscription resources are being used effectively? Fishtree's powerful analytics engines can provide at-a-glance data for instructors and administrators around content usage and engagement, instantly clarifying the value of any content expenditure, as well as providing insight into whether it's effective at meeting learning objectives. Fishtree gives access to millions of open education resources (OER) and even real-time media to keep the learning dynamic.
Today's workforce demands highly skilled workers. Training requires time and resources, making employers and prospective employees eager to find rapid, effective training solutions that prepare today's workforce for the demands of the 21st century economy. Fishtree provides engaging, outcome-focused instructional tools for workforce and professional training programs to help ensure students get the focused instruction they need, in a personalized and timely manner.
Many students end up dropping out of their postsecondary program prior to completion, often for lack of the foundational academic skills necessary to succeed. Fishtree provides students with the data to take control of their own education, while also providing instructors and administrators early visibility into students who may be at risk of dropping out because of academic or other challenges. Through its adaptive learning engines, Fishtree provides students and instructors the opportunity to quickly address shortcomings before they become greater risks to completion, providing early warning around learning outcomes that could signal that a student is at risk.
Progress toward a degree or certificate is among the powerful indicators of postsecondary success, so when a student begins to falter, for any reason, the likelihood of them completing their program of study can erode quickly unless addressed in a meaningful way. Fishtree provides the data, analytics, instructional and collaborative tools to reach students at any point in their instruction, and can provide early warning signals to instructors and administrators focused on driving stronger retention and outcomes.
One of the challenges facing any college or university is the hassle of operating multiple systems. Fishtree provides simple, REST-based integrations with existing systems to ensure as painless an implementation as possible - in some cases users can be up and running in minutes (or seconds, if you're really quick!). Our approach to systems integration is collaborative, open, and flexible, to deliver the solution you need, in a way that fits your organization objective.
Today's technology-driven instructional environment requires more than digital text to engage students. Fishtree provides instructors, course designers, and administrators with the tools to create richly engaging instructional experiences in a dynamic and adaptive framework. Fishtree also provides students access to adaptive resources suited to their unique individual needs without requiring an instructor to spend multiple hours defining the adaptive experience.
In resource-constrained times like these, institutions increasingly rely on data to drive better decision-making. To be effective, data need to be clear, informative, and actionable. Fishtree supports this demand for better information by providing extensive reporting capabilities on all aspects of use and engagement within the platform, from course and learning resource-level detail, to enterprise-wide reports to identify key trends, obstacles, or opportunities for organizational efficiencies.
Whether you want to know how a student is doing, or how much time was spent with a particular publisher's content, Fishtree can provide the detailed data you need to take action.
Higher education is changing rapidly, from prior learning assessments to competency-based education and the rapid growth of online programs, today's higher education student expects a 21st-century learning experience. Fishtree provides the next-generation of learning experience, combining powerful adaptive learning solutions with robust collaboration and social engagement tools to provide a competency-based learning solution.
Fishtree links content directly to selected learning outcomes and objectives and provides students with real-time content recommendations powered by their own unique Learning DNA. This gives our students a personalized learning experience based on their own unique needs as learners. Our adaptive engines can work within any set of learning objectives, taxonomies, or content structures, directing students to the material that will be most useful for them to demonstrate the required competencies to be awarded credit, while also providing the transparency higher education institutions need to work with accreditors and regulatory bodies when awarding competency-based credit.
The company is continuously expanding its global network with partners in the United States, China, Southern Africa, the Middle East, Ireland, Chile, Puerto Rico, and Korea, having most recently signed a strategic alliance with South Korea Telecom, Korea's leading telecommunications company. Our standard-aligned system has been translated into a number of languages including Mandarin Chinese, Latin American Spanish, and Korean amongst others. We help our partners deliver personalized experiences for their users, with an easy to deploy API we plug into LMS, SIS, assessment and reporting engines.
Considering the growing emphasis being placed on adaptive and personalized learning, our goal is to make every infrastructure adaptive, which has been made possible through our recent launch of an Application Programming Interface (API). Through this API, our system integrates easily with any infrastructure, including Learning Management Systems and other software to allow for personalized instruction from any domain, without the necessity for educators to invest in a new system.
By working together, we believe that learning environments can be taken to the next level, and provide a focal point for technology integration within educational institutions around the world. As a result of this API function, we have partnered up with some of the world's leading LMS's to further our mission of making every learning platform adaptive.
Fishtree believes in delivering the most trusted content to educators. For this reason, we work with some of the world's leading publishers that educators know and trust to enhance the learning experience, and maintain a sense of security. Our system has a number of benefits for publishers as it ensures that all content is automatically aligned to state standards such as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), it provides unlimited access to content through its mobile capabilities, all content delivered through the platform is automatically adapted to reading level, it personalizes content to suit every single student, it is available in multiple modes, and it offers the most incredible user experience.
By working together with the most intuitive software on the market, publishers can extensively expand their reach, and provide consumers with the tools to succeed in facilitating 21st century learning.
Fishtree's mobile capability means it works with almost every portable device. With this function, key trends in education such as Mobile Learning and BYOD are facilitated, further encouraging technology integration in education. By enabling educators to engage in the most incredible personalized and adaptive instruction experience, the use of mobile devices for learning is further encouraged. Lack of a sense of security is often what contributes to the reluctance for educators to invest in mobile learning.
The award-winning mobile platform provides a sense of security that educators are teaching in accordance to state standards, while saving them a significant amount of time carrying out administrative duties. Fishtree is working together with some of the world's leading PC and tablet companies to further the movement of technology integration in education, with the aim of making every learning environment digital, and adaptive.
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Fishtree's award-winning, adaptive learning platform is focused around empowering educators, engaging students and creating a collaborative community of learning. Through the use of powerful analytics, personalization engines, and collaboration features, we help deliver the most effective education solutions.
At Fishtree, we believe in the power of personalized learning as the most effective tool for unlocking student potential. Our adaptive learning environment works in conjunction with other learning management systems to create beautiful, standard-aligned, personalized lessons easily using the best publisher open-education and real-time resources.
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Fishtree's award winning platform makes every learning environment adaptive, allows lessons to be created easily from millions of resources, aligned to competencies or standards and personalized for every learner.
Fishtree is the 21st century learning platform that solves the problem of scaling one-to-one instruction. As an adaptive system, we believe it's good to be different. For this reason, we created the most innovative personalization platform that combines standard-aligned resources and social media-based tools with world-class analytics to save teachers time, and help students learn. It's simple, mobile, secure, and fun! We work with leading education technology providers to make every learning environment adaptive, and every learning experience personal.Learn More
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"If a district is looking to create more of a blended learning environment, this is an easy go-to solution because it automatically feeds in all the resources a teacher would need to share with his/her students."
"Overall, Fishtree is a great way to help students learn as well as a quick and easy tool for teachers. The amount of time I spend planning and student achievement are always two things I'm looking to improve. Fishtree has allowed both."
"I see Fishtree being a big help in the transformation of flipping a classroom and helping a school be able to reach their students in a way that relates to the students and gives them what they want and need for education."
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Shawnee National Forest
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Where is this Forest?
Throughout the year, the Shawnee National Forest works to educate the public on our natural resources and their management. Through a variety of programs the Forest's goal is to connect people with their natural surroundings in order to build a sense of stewardship for the land.
Educational topics include non-native invasive species, wilderness, trails, forestry, protection of heritage resources, wetland restoration, aquatic ecosystems, wildlife, outdoor safety and the mission of the Forest Service. National education programs are also promoted such as Smokey Bear and Wildfire Prevention, Woodsy Owl and Land Stewardship and the Leave No Trace curriculum in classroom visits, school field trips, and public interpretive programs throughout the year at fairs, recreation sites and other large events. For more information or to request a program, contact Sue Hirsch or Linda Hauser.
Getting into the great outdoors and enjoying your national forest is a lot of fun. Before venturing outdoors be sure to visit the Outdoor Safety & Ethics Page for tips on how to prepare for a safety and enjoyable visit.
Smokey Bear
Discover the Forest
Bat Conservation
The importance of Pollinators
Youth in the Great Outdoors - Get Out, Get Smart, Get a Job !
Fall Calendar of Events
Nature Fest
Crab Orchard Wildlife Refuge
Illinois State Parks
Rend Lake (Corps. of Engineers)
Cache River Wetland Visitor Center
If you are a formal/non-formal educator, student, volunteer, or parent interested in gaining environmental education tips and tools, check out the programs, workshops and resources below.
School Programs - There are a variety of topics that we offer surrounding natural and cultural resources; everything from wildlife, forestry and habitats to cultural heritage, wilderness and careers with the Forest Service. Please contact one of the coordinators listed below at least 4 to 6 weeks prior to when you'd like to schedule a school program.
Smokey Bear or Woodsy Owl Program - These beloved characters are a great way to bring across the message of outdoor safety, wildfire prevention and environmental ethics. To arrange a Smokey Bear or Woodsy Owl program please contact the Shawnee National Forest or call 618-253-7114 (Headquarters office); 618-658-2111 (Hidden Springs Ranger District); or 618-833-8576 (Mississippi Bluffs Ranger District).
Fieldtrips to Shawnee National Forest- Enhance your groups visit to the Shawnee National Forest with a guided fieldtrip. Please contact one of the coordinators listed below at least 6 weeks ahead of your trip to discuss potential dates and locations that are suitable for group visits. (Guided fieldtrips are contigent upon availability of personnel).
Service Learning- Learn something new and gain skills through a service-learning experience with your local national forest. Contact the Shawnee Volunteer Corps coordinator for more information about service-learning opportunitites with the Shawnee National Forest.
Educational Workshops - The Shawnee National Forest offers several workshops throughout the year for both formal and non-formal educators, volunteers or general public. For a current list of workshops being offered refer to the Programs & Events section above.
Educational Resource Trunks available for Loan.
*NEW* Project EduBat - This trunk includes curricula that meet national educational requirements for students in elementary grades through high school. It includes bat skeletons and skulls, books, videos, brochures and materials to create a bat mural and other fun craft activities. A Project Edubat trunk is available at the Mississippi Bluffs Ranger District office located at 521 N Main Street, Jonesboro, Illinois. Contact Linda Hauser at 618-833-8576, Extension 104 or firstname.lastname@example.com for more information or to reserve a trunk. The trunk is free and can be checked out for 2 weeks.
Naturalist in the Classroom- or NITC is a combination of classroom programs followed by a fieldtrip to the Shawnee National Forest; all guided by natural resource professionals. NITC will be offered to 3rd , 4th , and 5th grade students in the fall of 2016, and teachers have the choice of choosing between a few specified program themes (for instance, Forest Ecology and Wetland Ecology). To learn more about NITC and how it can enhance your classroom curriculum contact one of the program coordinators listed below.
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Jason Wander has been fighting an interstellar war against the Slugs for 40 years. In those years, he's made friends, lost loved ones, and helped to unite humanity across the vast reaches of space. In Orphan's Triumph, Robert Buettner brings his story to a close.
Buettner picks up the action straight away. Jason is not only contending with the Slugs and a way to stop them, but the various political borders between the inhabited worlds of the Human Alliance. One of Wander's closest friends, and one might even say his sidekick throughout the entire series, may have come up with a solution to the Slug problem. One of the moon's surrounding a human-inhabited planet is basically kryptonite to the Slugs and Hibble plans a gambit that will launch pieces of it to the recently discovered Slug homeworld.
Of course, this plan does not go off without a hitch and a secondary plan must be followed, and I was reminded a bit of Contact wherein a second wormhole machine appears fully created to move along the plot. Buettner's handling of this back up plan was logical and not something that came out of the blue. Rather, he sets up the back-up plan early on allowing for a smooth and believable plot transition.
I was also reminded of Ender's Game as the novel (and series) drew to conclusion. The outcome of humanity and the Slugs was a logical build-up from what had occurred in the previous volumes and the evolution of Jason as a character. Of course Jason is the one to visit the Slug homeworld. Although this might be bordering on the lines of plausibility a bit, the five book series has been Jason's all the way and for him not to be the one visiting the Slug homeworld would have been both a disappointment and an imbalance to his character, the series, and the novel as a whole.
Over the course of the series, Buettner has painted the picture of a career military man, from his earliest days to his final days here in Orphan's Triumph. In this last volume, Jason's retirement is an oft-brought up subject. He's of the age and many people feel he's had enough of the military life – some want him out of their way others just want him to relax. Jason; however, wants to see the Slug war to its end, he was there at the beginning when they decimated the Earth and he wants to do the same to them.
As I've said in previous reviews, very often, the overall quality of a series rests on the shoulders of its concluding volume. The same can be said of Buettner's Jason Wander saga, but with the caveat that he'd been doing pretty well since the previous volumes were balanced, entertaining and good examples of Science Fiction. The journey Jason is put on by Buettner is enjoyable, emotional and genuine. He's a very likeable character, and in many ways this is due to his outside the box thinking. Part of this comes from the first person narrative technique Buettner employs through the majority of the novel. We, as the reader, are told this story directly from Jason which helps to make him a sympathetic and believable character.
It can be said that Buettner, a man who served in the military, is making a comment on the military in general. Though the rules are in place to be followed, great things can be done if the rules are side-stepped for the greater good.
With Orphan's Triumph, Buettner has put a fitting close to what has been a top-notch series. Time will tell how it ranks against the predecessors in its genre subset like the aforementioned Ender books, Starship Troopers, or the connected series of novels Joe Haldeman began in Forever War. If anything, Buettner's story is more upbeat and positive despite the bird's eye view of humanity possibly on the brink of extinction.
On its own merits I would recommend this novel; as a closing novel, I don't know that you could ask for more; and as a series, I would recommend all five of the Jason Wander novels.
Bravo Mr. Buettner!
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Why would you change it to the passive? Change only where it has a purpose. You could say 'a rainbow was not seen', which makes it less personal and more objective, but I don't see the point of trying to change it all into the passive.
hello there everyone.I am at my wits end trying to convert my essay to passive voice.Some sentence are too long and hard for me to convert.I really need help here.
I began with an explanation of a natural phenomenon.For example,I choose something to do with the dispersion of white light into seven components as it passes water droplets in the atmosphere,resulting in the formation of a rainbow.Hence,the wuestion that arose was what factor determine the visibility of a rainbow.So,in order to find the answer to this question,a working model or an experiment was designed to find an answer to that question.I worked on certain accepted principles,such as the fact that sunlight travels straight through raindrops and is dispersed into colours and then,the light travels straight into our eyes.So,a hypothesis was formulated around which my experimental model was going to be designed.For example,my working plan was while it was raining in the morning,I would face the rising sun in the east to view the rainbow in the sky.However,I found that the actual result did not match my predicted results .I did not see a rainbow,so my working model required a revision and I needed to manipulate a variable factor,that is my position in relation to the sun and raindrops.I discovered that to see the rainbow,I needed to see light refracted from many drops of rain in addition to light being dispersed into colours in the raindrops.So,in order for the light to get redirected into my eyes,I had to redefine my working model and change the relative position of the sun,the rain and my eyes.I experimented on it several times before I settled on an acceptable model.In this case,I discovered that I would be able to see the rainbow if I returned away from the source of light with the sun at the back of me.I was able to see the rainbow.Hence,in a scientific enquiry method,a hypnosis is formulated,tested by experiment and observation and proven accepted or unaccepted following certain procedures.
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Why would you change it to the passive? Change only where it has a purpose. You could say 'a rainbow was not seen', which makes it less personal and more objective, but I don't see the point of trying to change it all into the passive.
Well,my teacher asked me to do this.I have no idea how to do it.I only know how to convert short sentence and not long ones such as in the essay


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illegal attempts to intimidate us. The Department of Homeland Security
cannot take away our homes and neighborhoods for border
militarization," declared Eloisa Tamez.
"To deport an Iraqi refugee is to issue a death warrant," Ali Jassim, an Iraqi journalist recently deported from Lebanon told IPS in Baghdad. "The Lebanese authorities are applying regular migration rules to Iraqis, meaning that most Iraqis in Lebanon will be deported."
"This new application, while relevant to climate change, is all
about holding the Government of Canada accountable under Canadian
law," says lawyer Chris Paliare. "Despite a clear
requirement to publish draft regulations, no action whatsoever has been
taken. Once again, we are simply asking the court to require the
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"Missing this deadline demonstrates that Canada continues to be
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"Hundreds of our men were detained and accused of being militiamen supported by Iran," Mahmood Allawi, a 50-year-old lawyer from Diwaniyah, 160-kilomtres south of Baghdad, told IPS.
"We are Arab Shiite and Iran is as much an enemy to us as America! It is Iran that we fear most after our leaders were killed by the so-called 'Iranian supported' militias," Allawi said.
"You, people of the media, say things in Fallujah are good," Mohammad Sammy, an aid worker for the Iraqi Red Crescent in Fallujah told IPS, "Then why don't you come and live in this paradise with us? It is so easy to say things for you, isn't it?"
"Fallujah is probably the city that had the most of media coverage in the history of the occupation," Hatam Jawad, a school headmaster in Fallujah told IPS. "People are tired of shouting and appearing on TV to complain, without feeling any change in their sorrowful living situation. Some of them are afraid of police revenge for telling the truth."
"I am not going to tell you whether it is good or bad to be a Fallujah resident," 55-year-old lawyer, Shakir Naji, told IPS. "Why don't you just ask what the prices of essential materials are and judge for yourself? Kerosene for heating is almost one U.S. dollar per liter, a jar of propane gas is 15 dollars, and it is not winter yet when the prices will definitely be doubled."
"We depend upon the private sector for electricity," Fatima Saed, a woman whose husband was detained in 2005 and has not been released yet told IPS. "In my situation, to pay 50 dollars a month [for electricity] is a disaster because I have to cut it from the quantity and quality of food that I buy for myself and my kids."
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"The manager of this hospital is a good man and he is trying hard to improve the services, but the Ministry of Health in Baghdad still treats us here as a bunch of terrorists. We are suffering both corruption from the ministry and ignorance about Al-Anbar Province from this (Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki) administration," he explained. "We do not have enough medicines, and the equipment brought to us by contractors is still in boxes and seems to be part of the corrupt contracts of the province. It is impossible to work under such conditions."
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(*Ali, a correspondent in Baghdad, works in close collaboration with Dahr Jamail, our U.S.-based specialist writer on Iraq who travels extensively in the region)
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BRODEC - Last month a leader of an Albanian nationalist unit in Kosovo threatened his group would begin attacks if there were no signs of international recognition of Kosovo's independence by November 1. The nationalists may have decided to go into action with the firefight Wednesday in Macedonia near Tetovo in which eight Albanian gunmen were killed by Macedonian police. B92 reports the engagement took place in the villages of Brodec, Vesala and Vejce in the Sara mountains along the border with Serbia's Kosovo province. It is believed the Albanians were led by two wanted criminals Ramadan Siti and Lirim Jakupi aka Nazi. According to security services both men were allowed to escape from Kosovo's Dubrava prison by "certain structures" in order to destablize the region "should the negotiations go in a direction these structures do not favor."
Macedonian police are searching the area for more fighters and hundreds of soldiers serving in NATO's Kosovo Force (KFOR) are right now guarding the border area between Kosovo and Macedonia. All year there have been news reports of both Albanian and Serbian para-military units forming, heavily armed and ready to go into action on both sides of the issue, no longer believing in any negotiated settlement. Regular readers of this site know Teheran has excellent strategic relations with both Albanians and Serbs knowing when war resumes it will not only occupy the West's attention away from Iran, but war in this regional theatre can also be used to silence Vienna and the UN agency based there investigating Iran's nuclear weapons program. I also suspect Southeast Europe is Teheran's avenue of invasion into Europe and will be conducted with the assistance of every nationality in the region since every government once again hates Vienna and Brussels even more than Teheran does. I have often maintained the division of Yugoslavia divided more than Yugoslavia, but also NATO and well as the European Union (EU) both of them based in Brussels.
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Naomi Campbell rose to fame in the 1990s - back in a time when models were actually on magazine covers and the tight-knit world of runway models seemed like most elite club in the world.
Of course, she's come a long way since then, but she still has fond memories of the glory days.
During an interview with CBS' This Morning, the host of The Face explained why the '90s was such a special time for supermodels.
'I think you'll never get a group of ladies... I came up with great ladies, and I don't think you'll ever get that group of us together like that again,' she said. 'You'll get one here, one there. But as a whole, you'll never get it.'
Of course, we all know the 'group of ladies' Naomi's referring to - but she went ahead and name-dropped them all just to be sure: Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Stephanie Seymour, Claudia Schiffer and Kate Moss.
Naomi then revealed, perhaps by accident, the most exciting bit of news we've heard all week.
'We're working with each other in a few weeks together, which is a big reunion when it happens,' said the 43-year-old model.
But when her interviewers pushed for details, she clammed up.
'I can't tell you. It's in a very nice, sunny warm place on the water.'
Because we have so few details on this legendary super reunion, our imaginatin is running wild. Is it for a private runway show in the Maldives? An epic magazine shoot? A new Survivor-style reality show?
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got my coloscopy today urgh. the thing is weve been ttc, im due on on saturday will they make me take a test there? i havent got any in the house :/ i know u can have it done while being pregnant im just paranoid it may cause problems ? i feel like im gonna come on today aswell arghhhhh hope i dont cant be havinng that done while on its embarrassing enough ! haha roll on 2pm when its all over and i can breathe ....
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I'm sure the hospital can answer all your questions , I wouldn't have thought the coloscopy itself would be a problem at this point in your cycle, or even a smalll biopsy, if you needed further treatment though then thats different, but if you've got a number for the clinic it might be worth giving them a ring to ask ?
I really wouldn't worry about if you do start your period , they will deal with women who are having this done because of bleeding anyway, when I had my first one I always bleed after sex and having this done set it off as well and it was no big deal, they had pads there so it must happen a lot , Good luck with the appointment xx


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Trusts Gain Hong Kong Traction
Hong Kong is poised to take a big step forward as a destination for business-trust listings in the region, with an electricity company and a hotel operator aiming to raise up to US$6 billion before the year is out.
So far, Hong Kong is home to just two business trusts, a fraction of the 15 in Singapore, the dominant regional market for such listings. But tycoon Li Ka-shing's plan to carve out and list the Hong Kong electricity assets from Power Assets Holdings in the city, if successful, could be the biggest initial public offering in Asia this year, according to Dealogic data.
The IPO could raise up to US$5 billion, people familiar with the matter said earlier, eclipsing the 1.6 billion Singapore dollars (US$1.3 billion) raised via business-trust listings in Singapore so far this year.
Companies that establish trusts get a chunk of capital as they sell units in certain businesses, usually those that offer steady streams of income. They generally compensate investors by offering a guaranteed yield for a set period, funded by those cash flows.
"In Asia, there is a large number of family-controlled listed companies, and the founders value the ability to retain control but still want to monetize their assets," said Vivian Lam, partner at law firm Paul Hastings. "Spinning off part of their operations as business trusts effectively achieves that."
Billionaire Cheng Yu-Tung plans to raise up to US$1 billion in Hong Kong from a business-trust listing of hotel assets. In June, Mr. Cheng had scrapped a plan to list NW Hotel Investments because of market weakness. But now the company is again gauging investors' interest, and the listing time frame hinges on market conditions, people familiar with the situation said
"Businesses in utilities, ports, infrastructure as well as commercial and industrial properties and telecom assets with steady income are suited to list through business trusts," said Johnson Ngie, Deutsche Bank AG's head of execution for Greater China.
Singapore has had special regulations for business trusts for almost 10 years, but Hong Kong doesn't have a separate legal framework for business-trust listings. Instead, the territory introduced what is known as a share-stapled unit structure in 2011 following demand for nonreal-estate trust listings.
These stapled securities, which comprise units in the trust as well as shares in the company that holds the trusts' underlying assets, are subject to Hong Kong's regulations for securities, giving investors the same level of protection as shareholders of a listed company.
"There are no obstacles for listing business trusts in Hong Kong and we currently have no plans to introduce new listing rules governing the listing of business trusts," said Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing, the operator of the city's stock exchange. The Securities and Futures Commission declined to comment.
Trusts are attractive to yield-hungry investors in a low-interest-rate environment such as now because they tend to pay steady and high dividends. But with the U.S. Federal Reserve potentially moving toward tapering its bond-buying program, which has held down interest rates, trusts could lose some allure.
Poor track records for some business trusts listed in Singapore and Hong Kong could also weigh on investors' appetite. Of the three that have listed in Singapore this year, two are down from their IPO prices, while one is flat. Only two of the other 12 business trusts listed in the city have climbed so far this year. Hong Kong's first business trust, HKT Trust, is down 5.6% this year, compared with the benchmark Hang Seng Index's 2.5% rise.
Still, bankers say there are always investors who look for long-term yield. HKT, which raised US$1.2 billion in its 2011 IPO and is backed by telecommunications operator PCCW, is up 58% from its listing price in 2011. PCCW, Hong Kong's dominant fixed-line operator, is controlled by Richard Li, son of Li Ka-shing.
Hong Kong gained its second business-trust listing earlier this year, when Langham Hospitality Investments listed in April. The trust, which is backed by real-estate conglomerate Great Eagle Holdings, raised US$550 million. Although Langham Hospitality comprises Great Eagle's three hotels in Hong Kong, the company chose to list the assets in the form of a business trust rather than a real-estate investment trust.
Under Hong Kong's laws, REITs must distribute at least 90% of their net income to investors as dividends, but there is no such requirement for business trusts. Similarly, a REIT can only borrow up to 45% of its total gross asset value, but there are no restrictions for business trusts.
Even so, there are 10 REITs listed in the city, five times the number of business trusts. Business-trust listings might be gathering pace in Hong Kong, but they have a ways to go in catching up.
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Finchers Ness May Not Be Untouchable
Matt Damon-starrer waits for green light
It's been rumoured for a while that Matt Damon would be starring as Eliot Ness, the Treasury agent most famous for leading the legendary Untouchables, in David Fincher's Ness, a thriller which would tell the tale of the great detective's investigation of the brutal Torso murders in the late 1930s.
And now EW.com is reporting that Damon has indeed signed on to star in the movie, along with Casey Affleck and Rachel McAdams – but despite that serious star wattage, the movie may not go ahead.
Paramount, the studio which holds the rights to the project (which may or may not be adapted from Brian Michael Bendis' graphic novel, Torso), has until December 15 to decide whether or not to make the film, and is taking its time making up its mind. A studio spokesperson told EW that they had only just received the final script, by Ehren Kruger, and would be making a decision before the deadline.
However, the plot thickens. Jeff Wells, over at Hollywood Elsewhere, says that the word on the street is that Paramount is holding off on the greenlight for Ness in the hopes that Fincher will instead commit to the chef-based comedy with Keanu Reeves that was first mooted last week. It is believed that this might be a resurrection of Seared, the dark comedy that Fincher was going to make with Brad Pitt a number of years ago, but at the moment, concrete details aren't forthcoming.
Although it might seem unusual that Paramount might be holding off on giving Ness the green light, especially with Fincher likely to be Oscar-nominated for The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, bear in mind that they might be nervous about comparisons to Zodiac, Fincher's last movie about an obsessive hunt for a serial killer. Although that was critically acclaimed, it failed at the box office and, despite the presence of Damon, McAdams and the growing appeal of Affleck The Younger, they might be scared about the same thing happening to Ness.
The Torso murders, by the way, were a series of brutal murders that took place in the Cleveland area between 1935 and 1938, and were investigated by Ness, who was by then the Public Safety Director of Cleveland. To read more about them and the outcome of the investigation, click here to go to Wikipedia.
As for Fincher's film, more as we get it. But what would you rather see, readers – chef comedy or period crime thriller? Or, in an ideal world, both?


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I haven't seen the full journal article yet, I'll keep you posted. I'm curious to learn the percentages of enhanced performance and decreased lactate accumulation. Also, I'm curious to see if the authors indicate a translation to human application.
From the International Journal of Sports Medicine
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1104574
"Caffeine and Taurine Enhance Endurance Performance"
T. F. Imagawa, et al.
Caffeine enhances endurance performance; however, its effect on accumulated lactate remains unclear. Conversely, taurine, which also enhances endurance performance, decreases accumulated lactate. In this study, the effect of combination of caffeine and taurine on endurance performance was assessed. Mice ran on a treadmill, and the accumulated lactate was measured. In addition, muscle fibers from the gastrocnemius muscle of the mice were stained with ATPase and analyzed. The use of caffeine and taurine over a 2 week period enhanced endurance performance. Moreover, taurine significantly decreased the accumulated concentration of lactate over long running distances. However, the diameter of the cross-sections and ratios of Types I, IIA, and IIB muscle fibers were not affected.
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Home to the last "living fort" in India, Jaisalmer is an excellent jumping off point for desert safaris heading out into the Thar Desert and other camel-based excursions.
Jaisalmer Fort remains the greatest tourist draw in the area. Constructed in the mid-12th century by the Rajput leader Rawal Jaisal, this striking structure continues to house a considerable civilian population. In fact, more than a quarter of local residents live and work within its walls, making it a vibrant, bustling destination with roots stretching back nearly a millennium. Along with being unique in its active duty status, the fort is also one of the world's largest ancient defensive structures.
Be sure to schedule plenty of time to wander through, atop and around its beautiful yellow sandstone walls (it is commonly referred to as the "Golden Fort"). The view from the top of the fort's ramparts of the surrounding city and the desert beyond is truly remarkable; particularly at sunset and at night, when the lack of pollution and the typically clear skies make it a great place to indulge in a little stargazing.
Civilian aircraft is restricted in the area, but Jaisalmer is accessible by a direct train route from Old Delhi via the Delhi-Jaisalmer Express twice daily (note: this train does not leave from the city's main station, but rather from the smaller Station Delhi Jn located a short distance away). Daily buses also run from Jodhpur, Bikaner and Jaipur. If you're willing to endure a taxing 14-day desert journey, it is also possibly to make the journey from Bikaner by camel.
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12 May 11
A collaborative project bringing together three of Europe's
leading utilities and wave energy technologies provided by
Aquamarine Power and Pelamis has been selected by the UK Government
for a major European funding bid.
The Pentland Orkney Wave Energy Resource (POWER) Ltd project is
the only wave energy bid being put forward by the UK Government to
the European Investment Bank (EIB) for consideration in the first
round of the EU's New Entrant Reserve (NER300) scheme - a fund
worth around EUR4.5 billion to support carbon capture and storage
(CCS) and innovative renewable projects across the European
The POWER project aims to deliver the world's first large-scale
grid-connected demonstration of a wave energy farm with a total
generation capacity of 28 MW.
If successful, the project will comprise ten near shore
Aquamarine Power Oyster 3 devices and 24 offshore Pelamis machines
within the Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters leasing area, operating
in multi-device array configurations. Both of these technologies
are leaders in their field, having been successfully demonstrated
at small scale. The project will have a single point of connection
to the onshore grid.
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A 40-year-old Castleton man is wanted on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after a stabbing in Benson, police said.
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we believe in achieving a balance across every aspect of our
lives. We actively promote health at work (mind and body -
and a little bit of soul) through a range of activities designed to
suit everyone. After all, without our team we wouldn't be here.
We work hard at Aquamarine Power but we don't think life should
be about sitting at a desk all day. We regularly organise
events and activities which get us out of the office and keep our
minds and bodies active. We have a running club, a knitting
club and a walking lunch club. Many of our team are surfers
and can often be found down at Pease Bay.
We're also keen to do our bit and are regulars at the Cramond
beach cleanup in Edinburgh and Bag the Bruck in Orkney. We're
naturally an active bunch and up for a sporting challenge so it
makes sense for us to do what we can for charity at the same
We also do a host of small things to make our daily lives a
little bit easier like having a big kitchen, providing showers and
toiletries for those of us who run at lunchtime, having a
dry-cleaning service and a lunch service. We also run health
promotion weeks and have regular visits from a massage therapist
who turns one of our meeting rooms into a health spa for the
They're only small things but we like to think it's the little
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For the end of this year the team got us a day in Mercedes Benz World at Brooklands. Morning meetings to know about the performance and next year plans. But in the afternoon, we got two driving experiences. First the AMG and SLS driving experience and after that the off-road as well.
F1 Piece of Art
Nothing can get better than a V8 6.4 litres AMG in a race circuit, I definetely felt like I was one of the guests in Top Gear, you have to prove yourself first in a wet skid circle, doing 360s or just skidding and controlling the car, then going to try the ABS brake system in the wet straight, and finally feeling like the Stig and do your best in a circuit.
Mercedes AMG Fast and Furious
Also good is the Mercedes 4x4 off road circuit, where you put the 4x4 to test in their trail, simulating extreme conditions.
F1 on Display
The place is in Weybridge, Surrey, in the terrains of Brooklands, the first world motorsport track ever built and one of
first airfields. Nowadays, an aviation and motoring museum, where you can see historic cars, aircrafts, and even the concorde. Britain
The Circuits (Copyright Mercedez-Benz UK LTD)
Excellent option for a day of speed just a couple hours far from
, 170 quids for an hour driving a Mercedes AMG is not bad at all, but if you're like Depeche Mode and "Just Can't Get Enough", for only 395 you can get 3 hours. London
A Piece of History
Racing and speed reminds me the Seinfeld episode "The Race" where Jerry has to face his archienemy from school Duncan Myers.
George: I can't believe you're really going out with a woman named Lois.
Jerry: I know, finally. But George, guess who her boss is. Duncan Meyers.
George: Duncan Meyers?
Elaine: Who's he?
Jerry: Elaine, only one other person in the world knows what I am about to tell you and that's George. When we were in the ninth grade they had us all line up at one end of the school yard for this big race to see who was going to represent the school in this track meet.
Elaine: Uh uh
Jerry: I was the last one on the end. George was next to me. And Mr. Bevilacqua, the gym . . .
Elaine: What's that?
Jerry: Mr. Bevilacqua, the gym teacher.
Elaine: Oh, of course.
Jerry: He was down at the other end. So he yells out, "Ready, On your mark, Get set," and I was so keyed up I just took off. By the time he said go I was ten yards ahead of everybody.
Elaine: No.
George: I looked up. I couldn't believe it.
Jerry: By the time the race was over I had won. I was shocked nobody had noticed the head start.
Elaine: Really?
Jerry: And I had won by so much a myth began to grow about my speed. Only
suspected something was a miss. He's hated me ever since. Now he's back. Duncan
Elaine: Well what happened when you raced him again?
Jerry: I never did. In four years of high school I would never race anyone again. Not even to the end of the block to catch a bus. And so the legend grew. Everyone wanted me to race. They begged me. The track coach called my parents. Pleading. Telling them it was a sin to waste my god given talent. But I answered him in the same way I answered everyone. I chose not to run.
Elaine: So now
is back? Duncan
Jerry: He's back. And I knew he would be someday. Man that's some tart cider!