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All About Me
All About Me is a mini-unit that I integrate with other Back to School activities at the beginning of the school year. My unit covers body parts, feelings, manners and behavior, alike and different, and self-esteem. Many of the books, songs and poems, and activities on this page are used at different times of the year, when they seem most appropriate. I like to pick and choose from my materials, using what is best suited to the children at any given time.
Books are linked directly to Amazon.com -- click on the cover or title to get more information, then use the back button on your browser to return to where you left off. I hope you'll find lots of ideas to use on this page. If you have any song or poems to share, please send them to me at email@example.com.
I begin this unit during the first week
of school,
when my students make a simple fill-in-the-blanks book about
their first day at school. Pages include:
My name is ______.
I am ______ years old.
I go to _______ school.
My teacher's name is _______.
I am in ________ grade.
I like to _____________ at school.
They illustrate each page.
I'm Glad I'm Me
No one looks
The way I do.
I have noticed
That it's true.
No one walks the way I walk.
No one talks the way I talk.
No one plays the way I play.
No one says the things I say.
I am special.
I am me.
There's no one else
I'd rather be!
I use the following story by my friend Vicki Witcher. I have it as a blackline book, and I've made sentence strips for the pocket chart, using the illustrations from the book. I also have a cute child (about 3 feet tall) on my bulletin board, with the text written on sentence strips and placed adjacent to the correct part of the body. This is one of our first stories for tracking print and learning one-to-one correspondance:
See Me
By Vicki Witcher
I see my head.
I see my shoulder.
I see my arm.
I see my elbow.
I see my wrist.
I see my knee.
I see my ankle.
I see all of me!
Part of our end-of-year assessment in
kindergarten requires the children to name body parts as the teacher points
to them. I discovered many of my students didn't know the words wrist
and ankle, so we now learn them at the beginning of the year.
This is me, from my head to my toes.
I have two eyes and one little nose.
I can wiggle my ears and stamp my feet.
From my head, to my toes, I'm really neat!
Learning About Our Hands
There are two little eyes to open and
There are two little lips and one little nose.
There are two little cheeks and a tongue shut in.
There are two little ears and one little chin.
There are two little arms and elbows neat.
There are two little shoes on two little feet.
There are two little shoulders stout and strong.
There are two little hands busy all day long.
This is my hand,
My hand will do
A 1000 loving things for you.
And you will remember
When I am tall
That once my hand
Was just this small.
hands are our learning tools,
and I like to explore the many ways we can use them.
Hands, Hands, Hands
by Marcia Vaughan
A rhyming story about the many things hands can do,
including hugging and helping.
Follow Up Activities
Make a chart of all the good things
and bad things that hands can do.
This fits in nicely with teaching school rules.
Make a Language Experience Big Book of children's drawings of their hands (or of handprints made with paint), adding a sentence from each child about something special they do with their hands.
Make a book based on The Wright Group's
I Can Jump,
using the following writing frame:
Hands can ______ and ______, but hands shouldn't ______.
Make fingerprints
and examine them with a magnifying glass.
You can also make finger-and-thumb-print flowers and bugs,
and have the children make a picture of their family
using fingerprints for heads.
Make a strip with each child's
handprints in a single row, made in an A-B-C pattern of 3 colors of light
paint. When the handprints are dry, number the fingers from 1 to
100 (for a class of 20 students) and number the palms with multiples of
5. Post this numberline where they can use it all year long.
Mine is attached to the calendar wall.
My hands upon my head I place,
On my shoulders, on my face.
On my hips I place them so,
Now behind my back they go.
Now I raise them up so high,
Let my fingers fairy fly.
Now I clap them, one - two - three!
Then I fold them silently.
by Lois Ehlert
Detailed collages and unique, die-cut pages, give this hand-shaped book the look and feel of a personal scrapbook.
Here are My Hands
by John Archambault
A rhyming board book that teaches body parts.
Under $5
Clap Your Hands
Take off your shoes and jump right into this bright, energetic, read-aloud rhyme filled with sing-along and act-along verse.
Under $5
Hands Off! They're Mine!
A unique magnetic book about sharing
Under $3
Children demonstrate things hands can do.
Under $2
The Berenstain Bears
Lend a Helping Hand
Under $3
Handsigns: A Sign Language Alphabet
One of our favorite ABC books.
Under $6
Falwell's collage and paint illustrations show a multi-ethnic, multi-generational cast.
Under $6
Simple Signs
28 simple signs in American Sign Language.
My students love learning simple signs to use at school!
Under $4
Handprint Quilt Blocks
We make a class quilt each month, and each child makes two squares. One is a cut-and-paste patchwork design, and the other is a painted handprint project. Here are some of the monthly handprints:
Apple print - paint palm red and use a green thumbprint leaf and stem.
Spider print - two black handprints with the palms on top of each other and four fingers (no thumbs) facing outwards.
Turkey - paint palm brown for the body, thumb red for the head, and fingers different colors for feathers.
Santa - with fingers pointing downwards, paint top of palm and entire thumb red (Santa's cap), paint middle of palm pink (face - add features with a marker), and paint fingers white (Santa's beard). Make a white thumbprint at the end of Santa's cap, or glue on a cotton ball.
Handprint Poems
Parents enjoy
receiving their child's handprints as a gift.
Here are some poems to go with them.
Sometimes you get discouraged
Because I am so small,
And always leave my fingerprints
On furniture and walls.
But everyday I'm growing,
I'll be all grown up someday,
And all these tiny handprints
Will simply fade away.
So here's a final handprint
Just so you can recall,
Exactly how my fingers looked
When I was very small.
This is to remind you
When I have grown so tall,
That once I was quite little
And my hands were very small.
My dirty little fingerprints
I've left on every wall,
And on the drawers and table tops,
I've really marked them all.
But here is one that won't rub off,
I'm giving it to you,
Because I'm thankful for a loving
Mom and Dad just like you!
This is the hand
You used to hold
When I was only
Six years old.
by Meredith Harris
Tiny handprints grow so fast
Their awkward groping soon will clasp
A ball, a book, a sweetheart's hand
A diploma, briefcase, wedding band.
Tiny handprints grow so strong
It doesn't take them very long
To snap a shirt, to paint, to draw
To labor hard, to drive a car.
Tiny handprints grow to be
A person that is quite unique
A wonderful mix of so many things
With his own feelings, thoughts and dreams.
If you're feeling especially brave,
have the kids take off their
shoes and socks and paint the bottoms of their feet
to make colored footprints. Brainstorm endings to the sentence
"My feet can _____" and make the footprints into a Big Book.
White footprints on black paper make
very cute ghosts
for Halloween.
Other Parts of Our Bodies
In my mirror
I can see
Two little eyes
That look at me.
Two little ears,
One little nose
Ten little fingers
Ten little toes.
One little mouth
I open wide
Two little rows
of teeth, inside.
A tongue that
both in and out,
Lots of joints
That bend about.
Muscles and bones
That do most things.
All held together
With my skin.
Here are my fingers
and here is my nose.
Here are my ears, and here are my toes.
Here are my eyes that open wide.
Here is my mouth with my white teeth inside.
Here is my pink tongue that helps me speak.
Here are my shoulders and here is my cheek.
Here are my hands that help me play.
Here are my feet that go walking each day.
To help your students
learn the names of their body parts,
do the Hokey Pokey and sing
Head and Shoulders, Knees & Toes
Crackers and crumbs.
Crackers and crumbs.
These are my fingers.
These are my thumbs.
These are my eyes.
These are my ears.
They'll all grow big.
In the next few years.
The Listening Walk
Help your students learn to use their ears
with this delightful story.
Under $5.
The Important Book
by Margaret Wise Brown
Children love the patterned language in this classic book, which leads
naturally into a discussion of what's important about each child.
Under $5
Follow Up Activities
Discuss how everyone
is unique and has their own skills and talents.
Make a Language Experience chart of ways people are important
because of who they are.
Make individual books telling 3 or 4
important things about each child.
Students illustrate the cover and first pages,
and the final page has a photo of the child.
Discuss why our body parts are important,
using the following writing frame:
Hands can _____, _____, and _____.
But the most important thing about hands is _____.
Substitute different body parts, using hands, feet, mouths, ears, eyes, etc. Make an interactive pocket chart using the sentences the kids generate.
Leo the Late Bloomer
Leo couldn't do anything right.
He couldn't read. He couldn't write. He couldn't draw.
When Leo's father asks what's the matter with Leo,
Leo's mother explains that he's simply a late bloomer.
Follow Up Activities
Many children worry about not being
able to do what other children
can do, especially at the beginning of a new school year. Leo reminds them that everyone is different and unique. Children need to understand and respect differences in readiness and abilities, to build a strong and supportive learning community. Discuss ways your students can recognize and celebrate each other's abilities and achievements on a daily basis.
Art & Writing - Blooming Self Confidence
Cut a 4" circle from construction paper on the Elison machine, one per student. Have each student trim five 3x5 inch rectangles into the shape of a flower petal, and glue them to the back of their circle to make a flower. Students write their names in the center of their circles -- be sure to make one for Leo, too.
Discuss the ways that Leo "bloomed"
in the story, and the things he could do after he bloomed. Make a
list of these things, then choose five to write on the flower petals.
Help students brainstorm a list of things they can do, and write them on
a chart or on the overhead. Include academic things as well as fun
things like play Nintendo and ride a bike. Children (or the teacher)
will write 5 things each child can do on their flower petal. Attach
a 1x18 inch stem to each flower, then display them on a bulletin board,
with Leo's flower in the middle.
I Like Me!
Sometimes I wish I was someone else,
but mostly Im glad Im ME!
We all have our likes and differences as everyone can see.
Some of us like to hurry.
Some like to take our time.
Some spend all their money.
Some save every dime.
Some are good at English.
Some are good at math.
Some of us like showers.
Some prefer the bath.
Some of us are quiet.
Some of us are loud.
Some of us like to be alone.
Some of us like a crowd.
Some of us are tall.
Some of us are short.
Some like to play an instrument.
Some like to play a sport.
Some of us are black or brown,
And some of us are white.
Some of us leave the light on
when we go to bed at night.
All of us are special
As everyone can see.
You like you, and I like you,
but also I like ME!
I Like Me!
Under $5
I Like Being Me
Poems for Children, About Feeling Special, Appreciating Others, and Getting Along
Written by a classroom teacher - under $8
I Like Me!
When I Get Bigger
Little Critter is anxious to get bigger
so he can do things like go to First Grade.
Under $3
Follow Up Activities
Make a Language Experience chart of
the things Little Critter
wants to do when he gets bigger. Ask your students how old
you have to be to get bigger.
Compare and contrast When
I Get Bigger with Leo the Late Bloomer.
What things do the main characters have in common? How are they different? Make a Venn diagram to organize and display your findings.
Make individual or class books on any of the following topics:
What I want to do when I get bigger.
What I can do now that I couldn't do before.
I can ______ and ______, but I can't ______.
I still can't _____ or ______, but I can ______.
I wish I was ____, because then I could _____.
I am big enough to _____, but not big enough to _____.
Sometimes I Feel Like a Mouse
A Book About Feelings
A child imagines becoming a variety of animals while experiencing twelve different feelings, including a howling wolf for sad, a soaring eagle for proud, and a stomping elephant for bold. A great book for discussing feelings, and that it's ok to feel them all.
Follow Up Activities
Let children act out the animal parts. You cold make simple masks or paper bag puppets to help them dramatize the different animals and their feelings.
During your opening time each morning, ask the children how they feel and acknowledge their feelings. Set aside a special Quiet Area for when children feel the need to sit quietly or be alone.
Sing "If You're
Happy and You Know It"
Vary the verses by substituting "touch your nose, touch your knees,"
etc., for "clap your hands."
Make a chart contrasting
things that make you happy
with things that make you sad.
Talk about things
that make you angry, and what you can do to deal with anger in an appropriate
Read Audrey Woods'
As a Cricket.
Make a Venn Diagram contrasting it with Sometimes I feel Like a Mouse.
Do they have any animals in common? Any shared feelings? What animal does each of your students like best, feel like right now, or want to be? Do they think the characters in the books had a favorite animal? If so, which one?
Quick as a Cricket
An old favorite story that we read all year long,
with beautiful, evocative language and illustrations.
Under $6
Feelings by Aliki
A Reading Rainbow Book
Under $4
Charlie the Caterpillar
Under $5
The Very Lonely Firefly
By Eric Carle
I Feel Orange Today
Under $5
I Was So Mad
Little Critter learns to deal with anger.
Under $3
I'll Fix Anthony
A favorite first grade story about how
Anthony's brother will get even when he's bigger. Under $4.
More All About Me Activities
Read Chrysanthemum
by Kevin Henkes.
Graph your students names by number of letters.
Measure and weigh the children, then graph the results.
Graph eye color, hair color, number of boys and girls.
Make a real objects graph on the floor with the children's shoes, seeing how many ways they can be sorted.
Trace around their bodies on bulletin board paper, and let them paint themselves. Cut them out and decorate your room with these paintings, or make a Super Large classbook by laminating the people shapes to poster board and attaching them together with "O" rings.
Put all the students names on sentence
strips, so they can sort them by
initial consonant, number of letters, boys names and girls names, alphabetical order. This works well on a table top, the floor,
or in a pocket chart.
A Thematic Unit
A literature based integrated curriculum unit 80 pages
A Whole Language Approach
Published by Good Apple
A literature based integrated curriculum unit 80 pages
Under $10
5 Senses: Ready-To-Go Activities, Games, Literature Selections,
Poetry, and Everything You Need for a Complete Theme Unit
A K-1 unit with games, poetry, read alouds, reproducibles, and more
(Thematic Units Series)
A literature based integrated curriculum unit 80 pages
Published by
Under $8
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My bookstore pages have lots of information on how I use various materials in my classroom, and on activities you can do with your students. The thematic pages are complete unit resources, with lots of poems, songs, and links on each page. Make yourself comfortable and take a look around!
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About Me
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Cancer Care Coordinator Susan Gersch, RN (left), chats with Patty Rosenhammer, a patient with Virginia Piper Cancer Institute® – New Ulm, during a recent chemo treatment. A Cancer Care Coordinator provides one-on-one support for patients from the point of diagnosis until they become cancer survivors.
For more information about the Virginia Piper Cancer Institute® – New Ulm, call 507-217-5562.
The road from cancer patient to cancer survivor is long and fraught with challenges. But at New Ulm Medical Center, patients have a companion to support them throughout their journey.
Susan Gersch, RN, is the Cancer Care Coordinator at the Virginia Piper Cancer Institute® – New Ulm. She started in the role in October of 2012 because of an Allina Health system-wide initiative that promised a Cancer Care Coordinator (formerly called a nurse navigator) for every cancer patient in the Allina Health system by the end of 2013. Cancer Care Coordinators provide one-on-one support for patients from the point of diagnosis until they become cancer survivors.
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DENVER (Feb. 1, 2006) – Consumer demand for beef dipped slightly in 2005 but the Beef Demand Index remains up more than 20 percent since reversing its 20-year decline in 1998, Cattlemen's Beef Board Chairman Al Svajgr announced at the Cattle Industry Annual Convention here today.
"We had such a stellar growth year for demand in 2004 that we didn't top that mark in 2005 even though we continued to enjoy terrific strength in the market, including strong prices for cattle throughout the year," said Svajgr, a cattleman from Cozad, Neb. The index decreased 3.6 percent in 2005 compared to that record growth in 2004, according to preliminary year-end results.
The Beef Demand Index is calculated based on a series of formulas developed by Dr. Wayne Purcell, director of the Research Institute on Livestock Pricing through Virginia Tech University's department of Agricultural and Applied Economics. The Index now is monitored by Dr. James Mintert, a professor of agricultural economics at Kansas State University. The index reflects several specific factors, including per capita consumption and consumer retail spending for beef, but does not take wholesale beef prices into account.
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Oklahoma cops rake ashes of 'spontaneous combustion' victim
Re: I thought this kind of thing had been explained as a 'wick effect'?
Yep, the wick effect is so well documented I'm surprised SHC is still treated as a big mystery.
Satanic Renault takes hapless French bloke on 200km/h joyride
"Stop the car, Hal."
"I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that."
White House rejects Death Star petition: '$850qn too pricey'
Re: This @ dssf
"The Death Star on the other hand has already been built and is hidden in orbit behind the moon"
That's no moon...
Re: Chinese Death Star
But half an hour later you get the urge to build another one...
Frack me! UK shale gas bonanza 'bigger than North Sea oil'
Re: Just heard the embargo on fracking has been lifted.
I hear the crew of Battlestar Galactica are celebrating.
Ludicrously low safety threshold
0.5 is equivalent to the energy released by a large hand grenade
If the 0.5 rule were to be applied to the mining industry per se there would be no more blasting and therefore not a lot of mining going on.
Spanish airport cops seize cocaine-packed Bulgarian airbags
Re: Open wounds!?
Agreed, how desperate do you have to be to agree to this kind of butchery?
Australian State launches IBM probe
Of course, it's no significance whatsoever that a Microsoft Dynamics ad appears slap in the middle of an article about SAP.
Iran draws veil over lolcats, launches local YouTube knock-off
Site now up
The site is now up, although it's loading very, very slooooowly. Guess it must be hosted on a desktop in someone's office at the Ministry of Whatever.
2020AD: Space tourists will be FOUND ON MOON
Re: Needs a rethink
Oh, and the 1.5 second (each way) time lag on that tech support call will seem more like 1.5 years when it's panic stations.
Needs a rethink
Great, if they can make it work commercially. However, I think the plan to have the nearest available technical expertise 240,000 miles away needs a bit of a rethink. As Lee mentioned above, things can, and will, go wrong, and when they do the end result will be an untrained passenger fumbling around trying to make sense of the instructions radio'd to him/her from Mother Earth. Suddenly people's lives hang on the end of a tech support call.
I predict the potential market for this idea will demand on-board technical skill.
'Build us a Death Star, President Obama' demand thousands
Re: Just one question...
No, their design is rectangular with round corners.
Moon riven by colossal cracks
Re: "thin crust, no cheese"
On the contrary, the Wallace and Gromit mission of 1989 proved conclusively that the crust is indeed made of cheese.
US and UK spooks alerted over massive Swiss data leak
Re: 15 years in the pen should sort his head out
...and when he finally gets out he will doubtless immediately be extradited to the States to face an even longer sentence.
Voyager 1 arrives on 'magnetic highway for charged particles'
Re: Awesome
As you say, Tom, it will be the first man made object to venture beyond the Heliopause. Will that qualify it as our first starship?
Just pause a moment to consider...
Launched 35 years ago. Still functioning. 17 light hours from Earth. I mean, 17 light hours!!
Bloody well done, the Voyager team!
Re: Vogons?
With a handle like Zaphod Beeblebrox you should worry not. Just fire up the Infinite Improbability Drive...
European Space Agency clears SABRE orbital engines
Re: Newquay as a spaceport?
As a Kentish lad, can I suggest Boris Island? If Mr Johnson's backers can provide the £40 billion (or whatever the current estimate is) for an airport in the Thames Estuary I'm sure they could be persuaded to spend a little more on the required upgrade for Skylon. And they might even bung a bit of cash at the Skylon project itself.
Oh, and it would get the naysayers even more upset, which would be a bonus.
Boffin claims Bigfoot DNA reveals BESTIAL BONKING
This would explain ZZ Top
BOFH: Tenacious B and the Printer of Destiny
Thumbs up for that, Lee.
I totally agree - bring back the LaserJet 4. Wish I'd never got rid of ours. Seems hardly a day goes by that I don't get squawked at by our MD's PA because her desktop Brother has just chewed up another envelope.
USAF declassifies 'flying saucer' design
Reverse engineered from Roswell
In a secret hangar in Area 51, of course.
The truth is out there.
NASA funds sexy, stealthy, sideways supersonic flying wing
...note to the designers - make sure the undercarriage is aligned with the subsonic flight configuration, not the supersonic, yeah?
Just making sure...
BIG BOOBS banished from Linux kernel
OK, hands up who just fished that dusty old calculator out of their drawer and typed in 58008618 for old time's sake. (I did!)
Oracle staffer accused of sex-for-favours in Singapore
Re: Pun alert
Actually, she got the wrong end of the stick (or the right end, depending which way you look at it) when the client said "Let's 'get down' to business."
Olympic Wenlock plod cops condemnation from Amazon wags
Don't turn your back, don't look away, and DON'T BLINK!
</dr who>
iPad subsidies axed for Microsoft S&M fanbois
S&M fanbois
D'oh - sales and marketing! And there was I, thinking of a rather different S&M.
Must be just me...
Russia and NASA plan to COLONISE the Moon
"All the plans will be put on display at your local planning office in Alpha Centauri"
...in a locked filing cabinet in a dark cellar with a sign on the door saying "beware of the leopard"
Ten... mono laser printers
Thanks AC
Yeah, we tried various different types of envelope to no avail. I guess a printer with a straight-through paper path is probably the way to go.
Envelope printing
Ah, but will any of them print on DL (220mm x 110mm) self-seal envelopes without rucking them? The MD's PA is forever complaining about this, and I have tried many makes and models but without success, despite the specs saying acceptable media types include envelopes.
And yes, I have suggested she use window envelopes, but apparently these do not look "professional" enough.
Google report reveals YouTube takedown requests... by country
Oh no! Government criticism! Silence the filthy seditionist!
Yep, welcome to the United Soviet States of America.
Microsoft trousers yet more royalties from Android gear
Oh dear, Fog Alert. You forgot to click on "post anonymously".
Reebok used 'very fit woman' in buttock-related deception
Reebok have made an ass of themselves, and will shoe-ly be the butt of a few jokes.
French officials: 'Don't worry about fatal nuclear explosion'
Hmm...looks like the whole article has been amended since I cut & pasted that quote. The last paragraph (where the quote originally was) has definitely changed.
Er...no, actually.
See my earlier post below.
'"It shows once again that France has not learnt any lessons from Fukushima," said a spokesman at Greenpeace.' - from The Wall Street Journal
Probably the first of many...
You beat me to it!
Yes, you can rest assured that even as I type this the journos and the green lobby are busy attaching the word "nuclear" to the word "disaster", as per usual.
Penguin, in the absence of a Chicken Little icon.
Hey Commentards! [This title is optional]
Wot, no title?
What is the world coming to?!
This would *NEVER* have been allowed under the reign of Sarah Bee!
Dawn creeps closer to Clanger homeworld Vesta
Iron Chicken
If Dawn discovers a moon orbiting Vesta, who do we have to petition to have it named "Iron Chicken"?
News leech loses appeal on High Court copyright case
News International
"...pitched against all the UK's major newspaper groups except News International"
Guess they've got other, more pressing, issues to deal with currently!
Mega-colossal space raincloud found at moist black hole
Am I the only one...
...or did anyone else get Soundgarden lyrics running through their head on reading the title?
"Black hole sun, won't you come,
and wash away the rain..."
Phone-hack backlash BBC in embarrassing headline gaffes
Tut-tut, Auntie
Well, who'd of thought it?
Python orgy menaces Yorkeys Knob canoes
Re: Nagini
No wonder the "snake removal" specialist failed twice - obviously one would need the Sword of Gryffindor to vanquish such a beast.
Coat? Yes please, and the hat. The Sorting Hat, of course...
El Reg to unleash rocket-powered spaceplane
Why not continue in the tradition of PARIS and use first names? I'll have a stab...
L.I.N.D.S.A.Y. - Launched Ionospheric Nerd-Dream Sub-orbital Air Yacht (although I'm not convinced about "air yacht" - can anyone think of something better?)
3D printer produces working house keys
I sincerely hope you don't let your victims drink the resulting brew. Lead and cadmium? Yummy!
Daleks given a well-earned break
Bring back the Fendahl (and the fendahleen, of course). I remember having nightmares for ages after watching that particular story - something even the daleks never succeeded in doing!
Swiss jetwing backpack-birdman flies the Grand Canyon
Thank you, Lewis
"Strap-on thrust equipment conquers mighty cleft"
Made my day.
NASA restores Pluto to league of planets
New Horizons
It's worth noting that NASA's New Horizons Pluto spacecraft was launched in 2006 - same year that Pluto was demoted. Perhaps a bit of chagrin at NASA that a mission costing $700 million is now going to a mere 'minor planet'?
New tech lets you drink exhaust fumes
Re: missed opportunity
Unfortunately, only the water content is collected. All the CO2 and other trace gases will still be belched out into the atmosphere.
Chemistry fail
Um, the equation doesn't add back, and also you have to double up on the amount of dodecane to prevent having to split an O2 molecule. I think you'll find it's...
Menorcan politician flashes substantial chesticles
Don't see a problem...
...just a bit of harmless titillation, nothing uncons-tit-utional.
OK, I'm going!
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Make any candy buffet stand out when you add a few mini candy bouquets front and center or proudly display one at each individual table for a fun centerpiece. Each mini candy bouquet offers 8 delicious swirl pops for a truly tasteful display your guests will love.
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UPDATE 6/12/13 @ 6:50 p.m.
KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Nine months after deputies say a puppy was tossed from a moving pickup truck, a man is charged with and accused of abusing the dog.
Timothy Loudermilk of Charleston was charged with animal cruelty. He was already in jail for meth-related charges in North Charleston.
Deputies in Boone County have been on the hunt for Loudermilk and say he and another man threw the puppy out of a window on a busy highway.
"You know, my brother's innocent on that charge. You know, we're animal lovers," the suspect's brother Danny Loudermilk said. "We've raised pit bulls our entire lives -- we would never throw no dog out of no truck."
Danny Loudermilk didn't want to discuss his brother's recent meth charges, although he says his brother would never hurt any pet.
However, deputies say last October that's exactly what happened. They were on patrol along U.S. Route 94 following a pickup truck and traveling at about 55 miles per hour. That's when they describe seeing a small puppy thrown from the right passenger's window.
Deputies say the black-and-white puppy could barely stand and was bleeding, so deputies rushed it to the animal hospital in South Charleston.
The puppy has since made a full recovery, and deputies say it was adopted to a good home. But now two men have to answer to what happened. Both Timothy Loudermilk and Scotty Thompson were charged with animal cruelty.
"It was an accident, and people are throwing it out of proportion -- you know if I had a dog, I'd give it to him right now," Danny Loudermilk said. "The dog jumped out of the back of the truck, that's all that happened."
His family says the puppy jumped out on its own. They claim Loudermilk was driving with a friend to Boone County to pick up an ATV.
Timothy Loudermilk was directly indicted on the charges.
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Deputies tell WSAZ.com Timothy Loudermilk threw a puppy out of the window of his moving truck.
It happened in October 2012 along Route 94 in Boone County.
The puppy was taken to an animal hospital for injuries and recovered.
Loudermilk was arrested Tuesday night at his home in North Charleston.
He is charged with cruelty to animals and is in jail.
Keep clicking on WSAZ.com for the latest information.
Now deputies are searching for who tossed the dog out the window.
Deputies tell WSAZ.com they saw someone throw the puppy out of an older model Dodge or Ford truck.
It happened Wednesday along Route 94 near Lens Creek Mountain.
The deputies stopped and got the puppy, which was badly injured.
It was rushed to an animal emergency room in South Charleston.
Neighbors in the area say they truck travels the area often and has thrown dogs out before.
If you know anything you are asked to call Boone County Sherriff's Department at 304-369-7346.


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Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra, Rao and Govindaraj, A. (2005) Nanotubes and Nanowires. In: Nanotubes and Nanowires. The Royal Society of Chemistry, pp. 1-100. ISBN 0-85404-832-4
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Research and literature on nanomaterials has exploded in volume in recent years. Nanotubes (both of carbon and inorganic materials) can be made in a variety of ways, and they demonstrate a wide range of interesting properties. Many of these properties, such as high mechanical strength and interesting electronic properties relate directly to potential applications. Nanowires have been made from a vast array of inorganic materials and provide great scope for further research into their properties and possible applications. This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the research areas of carbon nanotubes, inorganic nanotubes and nanowires including: synthesis; characterisation; properties; applications Nanotubes and Nanowires includes an extensive list of references and is ideal both for graduates needing an introduction to the field of nanomaterials as well as for professionals and researchers in academia and industry.
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Song, Jinhui and Zhou, Jun and Wang, Zhong Lin (2006) Piezoelectric and semiconducting coupled power generating process of a single ZnO belt/wire. A technology for harvesting electricity from the environment. NANO LETTERS, 6 (8). pp. 1656-1662.
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This paper presents the experimental observation of piezoelectric generation from a single ZnO wire/belt for illustrating a fundamental process of converting mechanical energy into electricity at nanoscale. By deflecting a wire/belt using a conductive atomic force microscope tip in contact mode, the energy is first created by the deflection force and stored by piezoelectric potential, and later converts into piezoelectric energy. The mechanism of the generator is a result of coupled semiconducting and piezoelectric properties of ZnO. A piezoelectric effect is required to create electric potential of ionic charges from elastic deformation; semiconducting property is necessary to separate and maintain the charges and then release the potential via the rectifying behavior of the Schottky barrier at the metal-ZnO interface, which serves as a switch in the entire process. The good conductivity of ZnO is rather unique because it makes the current flow possible. This paper demonstrates a principle for harvesting energy from the environment. The technology has the potential of converting mechanical movement energy ( such as body movement, muscle stretching, blood pressure), vibration energy (such as acoustic/ultrasonic wave), and hydraulic energy (such as flow of body fluid, blood flow, contraction of blood vessels) into electric energy that may be sufficient for self-powering nanodevices and nanosystems in applications such as in situ, real-time, and implantable biosensing, biomedical monitoring, and biodetection.
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The Ohio State University at Marion invites the community to the Infinity Restaurant in the historic Harding Hotel, 267 West Center Street, downtown Marion, Tuesday, April 6, 7 p.m., for a free monthly community dialogue on science entitled, Science Café.
In this edition of Science Café, John Hageman, education and outreach manager at Stone Laboratory, will present an open discussion entitled, Stone Laboratory, Ohio State University's Lake Erie campus in Put-in-Bay. Hageman will discuss some of the research being conducted at Stone Lab and some of the opportunities for college classes, workshops, and tours.
Stone Laboratory is the oldest freshwater biological field station in the country, founded in 1895. The lab serves as a base for more than 65 researchers from 12 agencies and academic institutions, all working year-round to solve the most pressing problems facing the Great Lakes. Every year hundreds of college classes, aquatic science workshop groups, conferences and tours are conducted during the open season of April through October.
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Local residents were able to learn more about the plan to twin part of Highway 39 east of Estevan during an open house on May 22 at the Souris Valley Aquatic and Leisure Centre's multi-purpose room.
The Saskatchewan Ministry of Highways brought placards that detailed the scope of the project, the steps that are needed for twinning to occur, and the reasons to have double lanes. Ministry representatives were on hand to answer questions from the public.
Spokesperson Doug Wakabayashi said the open house is part of a location study, which is an important first step in the twinning process.
"Basically, what we're doing with the location study is determining which side of the existing highway we'll be twinning on," said Wakabayashi.
The ministry doesn't enter the consultation process with a preference of where the second set of lanes should be built, he said. But they will consider topography, safety, geotechnical considerations and other factors, along with public opinion, before they make a decision.
"We do look at the impact on existing land uses and existing land owners, and certainly when you're adjacent to a developed urban centre like Estevan, you'll never find a route where there's no impact on anybody, but we do try to mitigate negative impacts to the extent that we can," said Wakabayashi.
People who attended the open house had questions about connections between a twinned Highway 39 and the east access point for Estevan's new truck route. The junction was planned out during the pre-construction phase for the bypass, he said.
They also want to know how twinning will impact traffic flow, particularly at the junction of Highways 39 and 18.
The overpass for a coal transport road between Estevan and Bienfait will also pose challenges, he said. It's an issue that the ministry is discussing with Westmoreland Coal.
Wakabayashi said Highways shouldn't have to relocate Highway 39 east of Estevan to make the double lanes possible. If they do, that would add a significant cost to the project.
The ministry typically does have to acquire land for double lanes to be constructed, he said, as the second set of lanes will fall outside of their existing right of way.
The double lanes will end somewhere between the junction of Highways 39 and 18, and the Roche Percee access road. Wakabayashi said the exact location hasn't been determined.
Traffic numbers at the open house showed that there were more than 9,000 vehicles per day on Highway 39 between Estevan and the Shand Access Road. The traffic count remained above 7,000 vehicles daily at check points between the access road and the junction with Highway 18.
It dipped to over 2,000 a day south of the Highway 18 junction.
The pre-construction process can take up to two or three years, Wakabayashi said. The length of time needed for the planning phase, and the availability of funds in future budgets, will also determine when the second set of lanes will be constructed.
"Generally, our planning studies of this nature go fairly smoothly, but, for example, we did run into some issues with the Estevan truck route," said Wakabayashi.
Once the location study is finished, Wakabayashi said the next phase would be a functional planning study that looks closer at operational issues. Highways would have another open house in Estevan for that phase.
The open house did not, however, have any further details on the plans to twin Highways 39 and 6 from Estevan to Regina. Premier Brad Wall revealed last summer that the government plans to move forward with double lanes for the 200-kilometre stretch of highways, thanks to rising number of vehicles, in particular heavy trucks.
The provincial government announced in the spring budget that pre-construction work for twinning Highways 39 and 6 would begin this year.


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WASHINGTON - A major employer in the Washington area tops the list of "Best Employers for Workers over 50."
The Bethesda-based National Institutes of Health landed the No. 1 spot on the list. Part of the reason the government agency ranks so highly is due to its effort to recruit and maintain mature workers, reports MarketWatch.com.
Forty-seven percent of NIH's workforce is over the age of 50.
The annual list is compiled by the American Association of Retired Persons and the Society for Human Resource Management using a specific selection process.
To make the list, winning employers provided their workers extras like telecommuting and flexible work schedules, phased retirement programs, free healthcare benefits and eldercare services.
NIH offers employees emergency day care for their children, grandchildren and parents. It also offers workers financial planning seminars, and the ability to work compressed schedules and other flexible work options.
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Let Space into Your LifeBy
Many people feel suffocated by their lives. They have too much stuff, too many commitments and no room to really live. What they long for, and maybe you too, is space. Space seems so luxurious. But, really you can have space in a small house as well as a big house. Or a tent for that matter.
You don't have to fill every spot in your planner. You can add space for meandering and wondering.
One of the visualizations I love to use when stressed, is to picture myself in a prairie field with nothing as far as I can see but sky and nature. My face turns towards the sun, eyes closed and arms outstretched. I feel freedom and space. And bring that feeling back to home and work when I open my eyes.
If you are longing for space, what is one small action you can take to create more space? Declutter the dining room table? Replace something in your calendar with a meandering walk or nothing at all? Have a 5 min silent centering time in the morning?
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Thanks Beth, I love the concept of space in my life but tend to forget about it. I will go out in the bush on the weekend and embrace some space.
My favorite location to see in my "mind's eye", is the sand and ocean at the beach. Calming sand as far as you can see and ocean and sky undulating with teal, green, and white foam. Very relaxing. I visualize this everytime I have my blood pressure taken. It brings the number down about 10 points.
Your visualization is much like the land that surrounds my home. You are quite right. When I feel overwhelmed at all the "stuff" packed into my life and underwhelmed about doing anything, all I need do is keep one daily commitment -
walk. Afterwards I am always in a better frame of mind and ready to meet my goals.
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This week, your baby has fully developed sex organs, although they will be difficult to see on your pregnancy ultrasound. In boys, the prostate gland is developing. In girls, the ovaries have formed and have moved down into the pelvis.
Your baby is 3 ½ inches long, crown to rump (head to butt) and weighs about 1 ½ ounces. Her skin is very translucent, although she is beginning to develop a downy, very fine hair called lanugo over her body for insulation. She will have this hair until she develops enough fat deposits to regulate her temperature, usually shortly before she's born.
This week, your baby is strengthening her muscles by moving and kicking a little more. She is becoming more flexible and stronger every day. She is even practicing moving her facial muscles, as she frowns, grimaces, and squints.
The fourteen-week mark brings good things - the end, or at least a marked decrease, in morning sickness and a renewed energy as you begin your second trimester. Your uterus is now about the size of a small melon and can be felt about an inch and a half below your belly button. You may be forced into maternity clothes this week, if you haven't made the move already. Not to worry. There are so many cute maternity clothes out there now; you don't have to sacrifice your personal style because you're pregnant.
Another good thing is that the need to urinate every hour or so will decrease, as your uterus begins to expand up into your belly. You may still be constipated, as the progesterone continues to wreak havoc on your digestive system. You may also continue to feel bloated and gassy. You can thank your hormones for this.
If you never had big breasts before, you will probably notice a difference now. This could be a good thing or bad. Now you need a new bra, right?
The best thing about the second trimester is that it is time to chow down. Now that the morning sickness begins to subside, you can begin to eat again. Reward yourself for going through that miserable first trimester sickness with a big ole' banana split! You deserve it. Although you will probably have food aversions throughout the whole pregnancy, your stomach probably won't rebel as much as it did during the last few weeks.
One mom says that she always loved to eat red meat. "Give me a big, juicy cut of filet mignon. I was in heaven." But, when she got pregnant, she didn't want a thing to do with red meat, whatsoever. Your body has a way of balancing the vitamins and minerals it needs, by making you crave certain foods, and staying away from others. Many moms say that in pregnancy, they are grossed out by foods they normally loved pre-pregnancy.
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Selections from Warp and Weft symposium: cross-disciplinary approaches to weave
The warp and weft symposium explored how woven structure informs far more than the textiles that surround us.
Introduction - Jessica Hemmings, Head of Context, Edinburgh College of Art.
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How do you rate your personal freedom?Posted Thursday, October 4, 2007, at 9:50 PM
How do you rate your personal freedoms today as compared to 10 years ago?
We're monitored in so many ways, both by our government and as we go about our daily lives. How many times a week do you imagine a camera is there somewhere to monitor your actions?
I have no problem with cameras scanning stores and parking areas or even in some cases as we drive about Shelbyville.
Do you feel truly secure talking on your telephone or using your computer?
At what point does necessary become elevated to too much?
How much will we be spied upon in 10 years if this present trend continues?
Actually I had an extreme dose of this in the 1950s while serving in the Navy. Would you believe I spent some time in the Mojave Desert? China Lake was the name of it and there certainly was no lake there. Many maps show it and it is listed China Lake (dry).
That was the site of what was then known as Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS). You can look it up today and find all kinds of information, some true, some false and some falling into the maybe department.
The main station was very nice with many conveniences necessary to keep the big civilian population happy and relatively comfortable for military personnel. Good housing for all, many big secret laboratories, a very nice post exchange, first run movies, a bowling alley and a nice restaurant were located there.
The big thing taking place in all of that really large area was development of heat seeking missiles. We were encouraged to wear civilian clothes when we left the base and constantly reminded to talk to no one and report anyone asking questions.
I had very high clearance after being assigned to the test range, located off the main base about 22 miles or so as I recall. That high clearance was not because of what I knew about missiles, but probably because I was expendable.
When I was cleared for that job by the FBI and maybe Naval Intelligence there had been an extensive background check. They told me things I had forgotten, such as the time I was fined 50 cents in city court for parking my car in front of a no parking sign…that had been placed there by city workers after I had parked and walked up to the square. I can't speak for everyone there but I was often asked about something I had done, such as dating a Canadian girl who lived in a nearby town. A couple of times a new guy suddenly appeared in the military barracks on the main base and would ask questions about what went on out where I was assigned. My usual reply was that I had no idea since I was only a corpsman.
Part of this time I was stationed there I was assigned to a place called Randsburg Wash. My job there looked important since I had a Jeep and four-wheel drive field ambulance at my disposal but the Jeep was to go off the main base onto public roads and then turn onto a very nice concrete highway marked Restricted Use Only and Strictly Enforced leading to the test area.
This was where the actual test firings took place. It consisted of a few buildings with high fences running all around and in between them, a barracks building for military personnel with mess hall for military and civilians, a small medical area and many smaller roads leading out to the firing ranges. We shared this area with occasional sandstorms, coyotes and sidewinders.
Security was extremely heavy. Cameras from the mountain ranges around the area were trained on us 24/7 as they should have been.
At least 99 percent of the time I had no idea what was going on and thank goodness I knew enough not to ask questions. I generally knew whether solid or liquid propellants were being tested that day, either on large missiles and very small test missiles to test propellants before being used on a larger scale.
Some days old unmanned World War II planes (often B-17s) were flown over the ranges and missiles with smoke puff warheads were fired at them. When hit this almost always resulted in an immediate crash or else the mother plane would guide out into a remote area of the desert and crash them.
Believe me when I say those missiles didn't always go where they were supposed to go.
Sometimes planes from China Lake's own small military field known as Armitage Field, Edwards Air Force Base or other bases conducted tests and firings over our ranges. I saw some unusual aircraft flying over those ranges.
A Marine guard I may have been drinking coffee with five minutes earlier and had known for months would stop me, check my security badge and look me over completely before I was allowed to walk from one building to another.
The drive from the main base to Randsburg Wash, as I recall, was about 22 miles or so and you were watched every mile of the way on that restricted highway.
Those experiences at China Lake should have made me more tolerant of Big Brother. It was totally necessary then. I believe I'd like to see the American people at least have rights to complain and BE HEARD if we have any additional and unnecessary loss of our personal freedoms as we know our freedoms today.
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Well I wasn't around during the 50's, but I feel that personal freedoms have been disappearing since at least the Nixon years and have certainly stepped up since 9/11.
I personally think instead of violating the rights of every American, by wiretaps, extreme searches or any other means allowed by the so called Patriot Act, that our government SHOULD use profiling. Profiling the gender, age group and religious beliefs of 99.9% of those responsible for known terrorists acts against the U.S. and other countries.
-- Posted by HorseGentler on Thu, Oct 11, 2007, at 1:36 PM
Carl,you may want to check out the Illuminati Formula accusations made about China Lake. I was in and knew all of the places, including those located just off the main base, mentioned in the accusations and never saw any signs of such bizarre things taking place there
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