This document summarizes the results of an online survey about eBook usage conducted by OverDrive and the American Library Association (ALA) from June 13th to July 31st, 2012. The survey was taken by 75,384 respondents from U.S. public library websites. It found that the majority of respondents were female, between the ages of 50-64, and earned $75,000-$99,999 annually. Most learned about downloading eBooks from their library website and value the convenience and free access. Over half had been downloading eBooks for more than 6 months and use an eReader device.
This document provides demographic data for the total population and racial breakdowns for various geographic areas in the United States. It shows that nationally, 74.5% of the population is white alone, 12.4% is black alone, and other groups like Native American and Pacific Islander each make up less than 2% of the total population. The data is broken down by state, county and some specific locales within counties, showing the racial composition varies significantly across different parts of the country.
This document provides data on language abilities in the United States, including percentages of the population that speak English only, speak English very well, and other languages very well, for each state and several counties in Hawaii. It shows that over 80% of the US population speaks only English, with percentages varying from 44.7% to 97.7% across different states and Hawaiian counties. English proficiency is highest nationwide and in many states, while other languages like Spanish, Chinese, and Tagalog have higher percentages of fluent speakers in some states and regions compared to nationwide averages.
This short document contains greetings for the new year, expressions of love between two people named Ashotpapik and ArevikTatintsyan, and an introduction from someone named Sunny who is 6 years old and has a mother named Tatev.
The document discusses how to channelize one's potential. It states that we all have inherent abilities and capacities that can be directed towards achieving goals. It provides examples of famous people who channeled their potential towards great accomplishments. The document then outlines steps to channelize potential, such as being aware of one's abilities, having clarity of goals, focusing energy in one direction, controlling the senses, working hard, being harmonious, learning from mentors, and engaging in sincere prayer and meditation.
This document provides an overview of the human sensory and motor systems. It describes the main sensory systems including taste, smell, hearing, balance, vision, cutaneous receptors, and proprioceptors. It explains how each system detects stimuli and transmits signals to the brain. It also outlines the motor system including bones, skeletal muscles, joints, and how muscles contract to enable movement. Sensory input allows the brain to perceive the environment, while motor output allows the body to respond through movement.
La Unión Europea ha acordado un embargo petrolero contra Rusia en respuesta a la invasión de Ucrania. El embargo prohibirá la mayoría de las importaciones de petróleo ruso a la UE a partir de finales de año. Algunos países como Hungría aún dependen en gran medida del petróleo ruso y podrían obtener una exención temporal al embargo.
This document provides demographic data for the total population and racial breakdowns for various geographic areas in the United States. It shows that nationally, 74.5% of the population is white alone, 12.4% is black alone, and other groups like Native American and Pacific Islander each make up less than 2% of the total population. The data is broken down by state, county and some specific locales within counties, showing the racial composition varies significantly across different parts of the country.
This document provides data on language abilities in the United States, including percentages of the population that speak English only, speak English very well, and other languages very well, for each state and several counties in Hawaii. It shows that over 80% of the US population speaks only English, with percentages varying from 44.7% to 97.7% across different states and Hawaiian counties. English proficiency is highest nationwide and in many states, while other languages like Spanish, Chinese, and Tagalog have higher percentages of fluent speakers in some states and regions compared to nationwide averages.
This short document contains greetings for the new year, expressions of love between two people named Ashotpapik and ArevikTatintsyan, and an introduction from someone named Sunny who is 6 years old and has a mother named Tatev.
The document discusses how to channelize one's potential. It states that we all have inherent abilities and capacities that can be directed towards achieving goals. It provides examples of famous people who channeled their potential towards great accomplishments. The document then outlines steps to channelize potential, such as being aware of one's abilities, having clarity of goals, focusing energy in one direction, controlling the senses, working hard, being harmonious, learning from mentors, and engaging in sincere prayer and meditation.
This document provides an overview of the human sensory and motor systems. It describes the main sensory systems including taste, smell, hearing, balance, vision, cutaneous receptors, and proprioceptors. It explains how each system detects stimuli and transmits signals to the brain. It also outlines the motor system including bones, skeletal muscles, joints, and how muscles contract to enable movement. Sensory input allows the brain to perceive the environment, while motor output allows the body to respond through movement.
La Unión Europea ha acordado un embargo petrolero contra Rusia en respuesta a la invasión de Ucrania. El embargo prohibirá la mayoría de las importaciones de petróleo ruso a la UE a partir de finales de año. Algunos países como Hungría aún dependen en gran medida del petróleo ruso y podrían obtener una exención temporal al embargo.
COMAC is an Italian company that has been developing extrusion technology for plastics since 1978. They produce twin screw extruders and specialized equipment for processing polymers and plastic compounds. COMAC works with customers to design efficient and profitable extrusion lines tailored to their needs and applications. Their goal is to offer advanced technological solutions and expertise in extrusion processing.
LTi news inc. is a high technology business that specializes in research, development, production and commercializing of divers raw materials and related products.
www.LTinews.com
This document discusses building a RESTful web app with Angular.js and Bear.Sunday. It describes using Bear.Sunday as a RESTful CMS backend and Angular.js for the frontend admin. Everything is treated as a resource in Bear.Sunday which uses REST, dependency injection and aspect oriented programming. The frontend uses Angular components like routes, directives and dependency injection. It advocates building reusable libraries and discusses testing both the backend and frontend.
Snapshots of a wildflower meadow, summer 2013. The Kerr Center's Native Pollinator Project is establishing and preserving habitat for native pollinators and educating farmers, ranchers and the public about ways to help native pollinators.
The document provides an overview of the nervous and endocrine systems that control and regulate functions in the human body. It describes the central and peripheral nervous systems, including neurons, nerve impulses, and neurotransmitters. It also explains the roles of the brain structures like the cerebrum, cerebellum, and brain stem. Additionally, it outlines the endocrine glands like the pituitary, thyroid, adrenals, pancreas and the hormones they secrete to regulate processes in the body.
The document discusses the sustainability of online learning and proposes balancing the priorities of key stakeholders to make online learning more sustainable. It identifies the stakeholders as faculty, students, and administrators. It suggests engaging faculty by making online learning attractive and less time-intensive, making it accessible and affordable for students, and reducing costs for administrators through lower initial design requirements and delivery technologies. Balancing the priorities of these groups could help address current issues that make online learning non-sustainable.
Ed Legaspi, from Southeast Asian Press Alliances, gave a talk about freedom of speech/expression on November 4th, at BlogFestAsia 2012: http://2012.blogfest.asia
El resumen describe una lección sobre cuerpos geométricos impartida a un grupo de 35 estudiantes de quinto grado. La lección involucró el uso de material didáctico como cajas, latas y dados para que los estudiantes identificaran cuerpos geométricos. Luego, los estudiantes trabajaron en parejas para resolver problemas y dibujar planos que mostraban cómo formar los cuerpos. Finalmente, los estudiantes clasificaron los cuerpos geométricos por su forma en el aula de matemáticas, donde pudieron manipular más material.
El documento presenta un glosario ecológico trilingüe (español, italiano e inglés) con definiciones de términos relacionados con el medio ambiente y la sostenibilidad. El glosario fue creado por estudiantes españoles e italianos como parte de un proyecto de colaboración entre dos escuelas para construir una Europa más sostenible. Contiene más de 100 entradas con traducciones de palabras clave sobre temas como contaminación, cambio climático, energías renovables y conservación ambiental.
This document discusses self-publishing through blogging. It introduces Rachna IM, a 20-year-old editor-in-chief of a magazine who has been blogging since 2007. It also discusses the Liberty Association, founded in 2011 with 15 Cambodian authors, which aims to publish books in the Cambodian language and encourage Cambodian writers. Finally, it promotes the benefits of using WordPress for blogging, such as it being simple, easy to use, free, and allowing for a fast development cycle and potential monetization through advertising.
This document provides an overview of dependency injection (DI) and aspect-oriented programming (AOP). It discusses some of the basic problems that DI and AOP aim to address, such as tight coupling between classes and cross-cutting concerns. It provides examples of implementing DI using a service container in Symfony and Google Guice-style annotations. It also demonstrates how AOP can be used for logging and caching through interceptors and pointcuts. Overall, the document introduces key concepts and patterns in DI and AOP through code examples.
The document discusses how the internet and social media have empowered individuals and changed communication globally. It has led to a shift from a few similar media controlled by experts to a multitude of different media where everyone can communicate. Social media makes the world more unpredictable and has given more power to disseminate information and change attitudes to individuals rather than experts alone. However, it also raises issues around freedom versus control of information online.
The document shows demographic data for the total population and racial groups of the United States, each state, Hawaii counties, and selected Hawaii census-designated places. It provides percentages for the white population, black population, Native American/Alaskan Native population, Pacific Islander population, and other racial groups for each geographic area.
The document shows percentages of people using different transportation methods like carpooling, public transportation, and driving alone for each US state. Hawaii has the highest percentage of people carpooling at 15.6% while ranking 1st, while New York has the highest percentage using public transportation at 26.5% and ranks 1st. Most states have between 70-80% of people driving to work alone, with Hawaii having the lowest rate at 66.8% and Alabama having the highest at 83.5%.
COMAC is an Italian company that has been developing extrusion technology for plastics since 1978. They produce twin screw extruders and specialized equipment for processing polymers and plastic compounds. COMAC works with customers to design efficient and profitable extrusion lines tailored to their needs and applications. Their goal is to offer advanced technological solutions and expertise in extrusion processing.
LTi news inc. is a high technology business that specializes in research, development, production and commercializing of divers raw materials and related products.
www.LTinews.com
This document discusses building a RESTful web app with Angular.js and Bear.Sunday. It describes using Bear.Sunday as a RESTful CMS backend and Angular.js for the frontend admin. Everything is treated as a resource in Bear.Sunday which uses REST, dependency injection and aspect oriented programming. The frontend uses Angular components like routes, directives and dependency injection. It advocates building reusable libraries and discusses testing both the backend and frontend.
Snapshots of a wildflower meadow, summer 2013. The Kerr Center's Native Pollinator Project is establishing and preserving habitat for native pollinators and educating farmers, ranchers and the public about ways to help native pollinators.
The document provides an overview of the nervous and endocrine systems that control and regulate functions in the human body. It describes the central and peripheral nervous systems, including neurons, nerve impulses, and neurotransmitters. It also explains the roles of the brain structures like the cerebrum, cerebellum, and brain stem. Additionally, it outlines the endocrine glands like the pituitary, thyroid, adrenals, pancreas and the hormones they secrete to regulate processes in the body.
The document discusses the sustainability of online learning and proposes balancing the priorities of key stakeholders to make online learning more sustainable. It identifies the stakeholders as faculty, students, and administrators. It suggests engaging faculty by making online learning attractive and less time-intensive, making it accessible and affordable for students, and reducing costs for administrators through lower initial design requirements and delivery technologies. Balancing the priorities of these groups could help address current issues that make online learning non-sustainable.
Ed Legaspi, from Southeast Asian Press Alliances, gave a talk about freedom of speech/expression on November 4th, at BlogFestAsia 2012: http://2012.blogfest.asia
El resumen describe una lección sobre cuerpos geométricos impartida a un grupo de 35 estudiantes de quinto grado. La lección involucró el uso de material didáctico como cajas, latas y dados para que los estudiantes identificaran cuerpos geométricos. Luego, los estudiantes trabajaron en parejas para resolver problemas y dibujar planos que mostraban cómo formar los cuerpos. Finalmente, los estudiantes clasificaron los cuerpos geométricos por su forma en el aula de matemáticas, donde pudieron manipular más material.
El documento presenta un glosario ecológico trilingüe (español, italiano e inglés) con definiciones de términos relacionados con el medio ambiente y la sostenibilidad. El glosario fue creado por estudiantes españoles e italianos como parte de un proyecto de colaboración entre dos escuelas para construir una Europa más sostenible. Contiene más de 100 entradas con traducciones de palabras clave sobre temas como contaminación, cambio climático, energías renovables y conservación ambiental.
This document discusses self-publishing through blogging. It introduces Rachna IM, a 20-year-old editor-in-chief of a magazine who has been blogging since 2007. It also discusses the Liberty Association, founded in 2011 with 15 Cambodian authors, which aims to publish books in the Cambodian language and encourage Cambodian writers. Finally, it promotes the benefits of using WordPress for blogging, such as it being simple, easy to use, free, and allowing for a fast development cycle and potential monetization through advertising.
This document provides an overview of dependency injection (DI) and aspect-oriented programming (AOP). It discusses some of the basic problems that DI and AOP aim to address, such as tight coupling between classes and cross-cutting concerns. It provides examples of implementing DI using a service container in Symfony and Google Guice-style annotations. It also demonstrates how AOP can be used for logging and caching through interceptors and pointcuts. Overall, the document introduces key concepts and patterns in DI and AOP through code examples.
The document discusses how the internet and social media have empowered individuals and changed communication globally. It has led to a shift from a few similar media controlled by experts to a multitude of different media where everyone can communicate. Social media makes the world more unpredictable and has given more power to disseminate information and change attitudes to individuals rather than experts alone. However, it also raises issues around freedom versus control of information online.
The document shows demographic data for the total population and racial groups of the United States, each state, Hawaii counties, and selected Hawaii census-designated places. It provides percentages for the white population, black population, Native American/Alaskan Native population, Pacific Islander population, and other racial groups for each geographic area.
The document shows percentages of people using different transportation methods like carpooling, public transportation, and driving alone for each US state. Hawaii has the highest percentage of people carpooling at 15.6% while ranking 1st, while New York has the highest percentage using public transportation at 26.5% and ranks 1st. Most states have between 70-80% of people driving to work alone, with Hawaii having the lowest rate at 66.8% and Alabama having the highest at 83.5%.
The document shows average household size data from the 2009 American Community Survey compared to the 2000 Census for each US state. Most states saw little change in average household size between 2000 and 2009, with changes generally between -2% to 2%. A few states had larger decreases, such as North Dakota which saw a 7.1% decrease in average household size.
The document shows percentages and rankings of people born in their state of residence for each US state in 2009 and 2000, as well as the percentage change between those years. Louisiana had the highest percentage in both 2009 (79.2%) and 2000 (79.4%), while Nevada had the lowest in both 2009 (23.2%) and 2000 (21.3%). Nevada also had the largest increase (+9.1%) between 2000-2009, while Maine had the largest decrease (-4.9%).
This document presents data on the number and percentage of uninsured low-income non-elderly adults (ages 19-64) in each U.S. state and the District of Columbia in 2010. It shows that across the U.S., there were over 22 million uninsured low-income non-elderly adults, representing 41% of the total low-income non-elderly adult population. States with the highest percentages of uninsured low-income adults included Texas at 55%, Florida at 50.3%, and Georgia at 50.5%. States with the lowest percentages included Massachusetts at 12.2% and Vermont at 17.6%. The data is from the American Community Survey and refers to the noninstitutional
This document shows percentages and changes in percentages from 2000 to 2009 of populations identifying as white only, at least part Asian, and at least part Pacific Islander for each US state. For white only populations, percentages decreased in most states but increased in a few like California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Percentages identifying as at least part Asian increased across all states. Percentages identifying as at least part Pacific Islander decreased in most states. Hawaii had the largest non-white populations and highest percentages identifying as part Asian and Pacific Islander.
The document compares median home values and percentages of homes valued over $500k for owner-occupied housing units in each US state between 2009 and 2000. It shows that median home values increased nationwide between 65.8-140.9% depending on the state, with Hawaii, California and Massachusetts seeing the largest growth. The percentage of homes valued over $500k also increased dramatically nationwide, between 171.1-661.2% depending on the state.