Tropical Storm Lee drifts just off Louisiana

Beachgoers run for shelter as the rain starts pouring down Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011 in Dauphin Island, Ala. As Tropical Storm Lee continues advancing toward the Louisiana coast, the storm dumps sporadic heavy rain along the coasts. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Beachgoers run for shelter as the rain starts pouring down Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011 in Dauphin Island, Ala. As Tropical Storm Lee continues advancing toward the Louisiana coast, the storm dumps sporadic heavy rain along the coasts. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Plaquemines Parish, La., President Billy Nungesser, returns to work in the Emergency Operations Center in Belle Chasse, La., after rescuing a seagull he found on the highway with a broken wing, probably caused by high winds from Tropical Storm Lee on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011. The bird was brought to Audubon Zoo where it is recovering. (AP Photo/P.J.Hahn)

A hotel is reflected in puddles from rain from approaching Tropical Storm Lee on a streetcar track, as a streetcar passes through Lee Circle in New Orleans, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011. Lee formed in the waters off Louisiana on Friday, threatening a drenching along much of the Gulf coast over the Labor Day weekend with up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) of rain in some spots. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Heavy rain clouds from approaching Tropical Storm Lee form over the skyline of New Orleans and the Crescent City Connection bridges at dusk, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011. Tropical Storm Lee formed in the waters off Louisiana on Friday, threatening a drenching along much of the Gulf coast over the Labor Day weekend with up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) of rain in some spots. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Heavy rain clouds from approaching Tropical Storm Lee form over the skyline of New Orleans and the Crescent City Connection bridges at dusk, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011. Tropical Storm Lee formed in the waters off Louisiana on Friday, threatening a drenching along much of the Gulf coast over the Labor Day weekend with up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) of rain in some spots. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

(AP) ? Bands of heavy rain and strong wind gusts from Tropical Storm Lee knocked out power to thousands in Louisiana and Mississippi on Saturday and prompted evacuations in bayou towns like Jean Lafitte, where water was lapping at the front doors of some homes.

The sluggish storm stalled just offshore for several hours before meandering to the north and west in the evening. Its center was expected to move onshore overnight

The storm threatened to dump more than a foot of rain across the Gulf Coast and into the Southeast in coming days. No injuries were reported, but there were scattered instances of water entering low-lying homes and businesses in Louisiana.

To the east, coffers were suffering at many coastal businesses that depend on a strong Labor Day weekend. Alabama beaches that would normally be packed were largely empty, and rough seas closed the Port of Mobile. Mississippi's coastal casinos, however, were open and reporting brisk business.

In Jean Laffite, water was a foot deep under Eva Alexie's house, which is raised about eight feet off the flat ground.

"I should be used to this," said Alexie, a 76-year-old storm veteran who lost a home to Hurricane Ike in 2008. "It happens pretty often. I just thank God it won't be getting in my house this time."

She clutched an umbrella and a pair of blue rubber gloves as she walked down Louisiana Highway 45, on her way to her husband's shrimp boat to clean a recent catch.

The center of the slow-moving storm was about 65 miles (105 kilometers) south-southwest of Lafayette, La., Saturday evening, spinning intermittent bands of stormy weather, alternating with light rain and occasional sunshine. It was moving north-northwest at about 2 mph (4 kph) in the late afternoon.

Its maximum sustained winds dropped in the late afternoon then stayed at 50 mph (75 kph) for several hours in the evening, and their intensity was expected to decrease further by Sunday. Tropical storm warnings stretched from the Louisiana-Texas state line to Destin, Fla.

The National Weather Service in Slidell said parts of New Orleans received between 6 and 9 inches of rain between Thursday morning and Saturday afternoon, and that some coastal Mississippi areas reported more than 6 inches. Nearly 10 inches had fallen in Pascagoula, Miss.

The Entergy utility company reported more than 37,000 customer outages at one point Saturday morning but that was down to below 18,000 by afternoon as the utility restored electricity. Cleco Corp., another major utility, reported 3,500 outages.

In New Orleans, sporadic downpours caused some street flooding in low-lying areas early Saturday, but pumps were sucking up the water and sending it into Lake Pontchartrain. Lee's surge so far had not penetrated levees along the coast, said National Weather Service forecaster Robert Ricks in Slidell, La.

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu warned residents not to let their guard down, saying: "We're not out of the woods. Don't go to sleep on this storm."

The storm was denting offshore energy production. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement said 237 oil and gas production platforms and 23 drilling rigs have been evacuated by Lee. The agency estimates that about 60 percent of the current oil production in the Gulf and almost 55 percent of the natural gas production has been shut in.

To the east, coastal Mississippi officials expected their worst from the storm late Saturday.

"We've been getting some pretty good onshore rains," said Jackson County emergency director Donald Langham.

Harrison County officials said travel on U.S. Highway 90 had become hazardous because winds from Lee have pushed sand from beach onto the eastbound lanes and the rain has created a situation where drivers cannot see the roadway.

"This layer of sand has gotten up on the highway and you can't determine if you're on the road, up on the median or the curb," said emergency director Rupert Lacy.

Flooding in Hancock County left several roadways impassable, and the rain on parts of Interstate 10 at times has been so heavy that visibility was down to only a few feet.

Casinos along the coast remained open and reported brisk business despite the storm.

At the Beau Rivage in Biloxi, which was hosting an IBF welterweight title bout Saturday night, resort spokeswoman Mary Cracchiolo-Spain said business was going on as usual.

"We're open for business and we are safe and secure," she said.

In Alabama, rough seas forced the closure of the Port of Mobile. Pockets of heavy rain pounded the beaches Saturday, and strong winds whipped up the surf and bowed palm trees. But just a couple miles inland, wind and rain dropped significantly.

Wet and windy conditions hovered over Dauphin Island, a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, but conditions weren't too threatening, Mayor Jeff Collier said. High surf caused some roads to flood, but all were still passable Saturday afternoon.

Precautions were taken to secure anything that could be swept away by wind or waves, and Labor Day concerts and other festivities were canceled.

"The weekend is literally a wash," Collier said. "It's really a shame that it happened on a holiday weekend."

Beaches that would normally be packed were nearly empty. Melinda Fondren, who moved to Gulf Shores about three months ago, visited the beach to experience her first tropical storm.

"I'm excited but a little afraid of the storm surge," she said, adding that her middle name is Lee. "I've been telling my family that I hit Gulf Shores twice."

At the Hangout, a beachside bar and restaurant, a healthy crowd gathered to watch the University of Alabama and Auburn University football season openers. Manager Matt Dagen said there should be more people on a holiday weekend.

"Obviously, it's not as good as we want because of the weather," he said, but added that rough weather sometimes gives his business a boost because people can't go to the beach.

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Associated Press writers contributing to this report were Kevin McGill and Brian Schwaner in New Orleans; Jack Elliott Jr. in Jackson, Miss.; Jim Van Anglen in Gulf Shores, Ala.; and Kate Brumback in Atlanta.

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Educational Reform Could benefit from Divergent thinking ? Breise ...

Gone are the days when students went into a classroom, learned by reading, writing, doing math and learned things off by heart. Today?s classroom has a far bigger audience than the classrooms of fifty years ago.

The audience is no longer just the students; helicopter parents, standardized test scores, school boards, school districts, technology companies, teachers? unions and potential employers are now the audience of today?s educational system. Everyone has a vested interest in education not only because we are educating the citizens of tomorrow, but education is big business here in America. The victims are good teachers and the students themselves.

In Matt Richtel?s article In Classroom of the Future, Stagnant Scores?we learn that Kyrene school district in Arizona has injected $33 million worth of technology into the classroom since 2005. According to Richtel, ?Hope and enthusiasm are soaring here. But test scores are not.? Kyrene?s test scores have remained?unchanged in reading and math since 2005.We are told that due to a ?digital push? in the Kyrene School District , technology in the classroom, ?turns the teacher into a guide instead of a lecturer.? The respect given to teachers in the past?is replaced by respect for new technology, smart boards, ipads, laptops and ebooks.

From The Cartel to Waiting for Superman to an NBC 20/20 documentary entitled ?Stupid in America?to a New York Times Magazine article Can good Teaching be Learned??and also The Teachers? Unions? Last Stand,?the consensus is that our system of Education in America is not working. Classroom size, too much?technology, lack of educational funding,? money hungry unions?and teacher training have all come under the media microscope in an attempt to explain why out of, ?30 comparable countries, the United States ranks near the bottom,? according to a 2010 CBS documentary Reading, Writing and Reform.?Here?s the real shocker, we?re spending more per student than most comparable countries.

According to the CBS documentary we?re spending, ??just over $129,000 from K through 12,? per student,???The other countries average $95,000.? The results do not match the expenditures.

What was wrong with the old way of doing things anyway? Some might argue that because children are inundated with technology they expect it in the classroom and are bored or unenthusiastic with out technological stimuli. Opponents say that this inundation of technology might be affecting children?s brain waves, although it may not be apparent now, it?might manifest itself in more serious ways in the future.

How children think and process information?has changed. There?s nothing wrong with a pencil and paper classroom. That concept still exists and good teachers know when to use it. ?Collaborative thinking is how children process and learn today. They gather ideas from the internet, books, talking to the teacher and each other. If a classroom is?effectively run there will be more discussion than silence. What happens during those discussions is vital to building a better world. Respect for other?s opinions, accepting differences, knowing the facts and formulating?sound arguments?with?real facts. A collaborative thought process connects the students and teacher and a deeper far more meaningful instruction is taught and learned.

Sir Ken Robinson in a speech for TED Talks does a better job of explaining this than I.

Robinson says, ?The problem is the current system of education was designed, conceived and structured for a different age.? He cites the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution as two driving factors that shaped how we educated and still continue to educate our children. Robinson continues on to say that intelligence used to mean an ability to use deductive reasoning and knowledge of the classics, ?Academic ability,? he calls it.? The Arts in particular according to Robinson are ?victims of this mentality.? In conjunction with the description of Amy Furman?s ?technolgy-centric? classroom in Matt Richtel?s article In Classroom of the Future, Stagnant Scores,Robinson says we are living in a period where children are ?living in the most intensively stimulating period in the history of the earth,? Robinson says and adds, ?they are besieged with information from computers, iPhones,?advertisements and?hundreds of television channels,??and when they get distracted they are medicated for ADHD because, Robinson says of ?medical fashion.? He says the ADHD epidemic is fictitious and notes that prescriptions for ADHD increases as you move toward the eastern seaboard of the US. Robinson also states that the incidence of ADHD has increased with the growth of standardised testing. ?We are getting our children through education by anaesthetizing them,? Robinson says.

?We have a system of education that is modelled on the interests of industrialism and in the image of it,? Robinson continues. The?companies who benefitted from?selling and installing all the technology in the Kyrene school?district classrooms certainly have a vested interest in?education. The standardised test scores?of students in Kyrene that have remained stagnant? since 2005 are more about conformity and standardization than acutally measuring what the students have really learned according to Robinson.

Standardised tests ignore divergent or lateral thinking, which is the ability to come up with multiple answers to a question. In reference to the book Break Point and Beyond Robinson draws on the example of testing a kindergarten classroom with divergent thinking. Five years later the same group were tested at ages 8 ? 10. As Kindergartners they scored at 98% for genious level divergent thinking, by ages 8 -?10? only 50% scored at genius level and when tested again five years later at ages 13 -?15 the group scored even lower on the scale. We are born as divergent thinkers, but education and stanardised testing force us to abandon it and conform? to industrialisation.

Education is in transition. Teachers? Unions dislike this transition because classroom technology costs money, budgets have limits and classroom populations will increase and teachers will lose their jobs. Why are unions involved? The less teachers that pay into the union the less money there is. Even the people who print, design and correct and distribute these standardised tests have a vested inetrest in the current system of education.

Technology companies love this transition in education, because until we find the new paradigm for education we?ll stock the classroom with smartboards, ipads, ebooks and computers. Until teachers find what works we?ll follow the next fad.

Parents and students are unsure of the transition. They still are the victims of these standardised test results. According to notable educational theorist Howard Gardner there are multiple intelligences,

?We are all able to know the world through language, logical-mathematical analysis, spatial representation, musical thinking, the use of the body to solve problems or to make things, an understanding of other individuals, and an understanding of ourselves.? Yet we only test students in a logical-mathematical way.

In defense of technology, I can accept a paperless classroom. I think it works and is a sound argument. However, does a computer screen work for every intelligence? As Robinson said, aesthetic is where the whole body ?is alive? and appreciating what it sees and hears. Not everyone appreciates a lesson about Shakespeare when it is broken down to blogging as one of the characters of ?As You Like It,? as the students in Kyrene?s school district did.?An actor?s portrayal of the play would appeal to some, but not all. The real issue is how do you teach to all the intelligences and transfer that learning into stanardised test results that show learning has taken place? Can technology help with that?

Maybe we should abandon the current system of testing and rethink how we measure intelligence. In the meantime Teachers? unions will be unhappy about educational reform, technology companies will be delighted with it, and parents who themselves are the products of traditional educational systems will continue to ponder whether or not their children are learning in school, some will even become combatative with teachers.?Why would anyone want to become a teacher if the profession has become less important than a smartboard, trade unions and technology companies see us a dollar signs?or a parent thinks they can do the job better than us?

There is one thing we can all agree on I think, teachers are no longer respected as professionals. That is also a?part of what needs to be reformed in education. Although tenure does protect teachers that are not at their peak, we need to?recognize the good teachers and award them that respect, they?ve earned it.

Transition is never easy, but currently we are all working for our own vested interests. Divergent thinking would not only benefit classrooms, but also educational reform and everyone connected to it.

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1. The definition of a trademark. The United States legal definition of a trademark is, ?a word, phrase, symbol or design, or a combination thereof, that identifies and distinguishes the source of the goods of one party from those of others.? A service mark is essentially the same thing but identifies the source of services from another. It is not uncommon to use the term trademark to refer to both trademarks and service marks. The main pre-requisite for a trademark is that it is distinctive.

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Lastly, a generic mark is the common name for goods or services and does not possess any distinguishing character. Salt, personal computers, and shredded wheat are all examples of generic terms that are not protected by trademark law.

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4. Trademark infringement. The standard for trademark infringement, or trademark dilution, is the ?likelihood for confusion,? meaning another trademark is either identical or so similar to yours that consumers may be confused by the source of the goods or services. In 1979, the Ninth District Court of appeals established the following criteria in order to determine likelihood for confusion:

Strength of the mark, Proximity of goods, Similarity of the marks, Evidence of actual confusions, Marketing channels used, Type of goods and the degree of care likely to be exercised by the purchaser, Defendant?s intent in selecting the mark, Likelihood of expansion of the product lines. A trademark law attorney will assess and build your case based upon these elements.

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Nominative fair use occurs when it is necessary to use a term for the purposes of identifying another?s product. A successful nominative defense proves that the product or service cannot be readily identified without using the trademark; the user uses only as much of the mark as is necessary for the identification; and nothing suggests sponsorship or endorsement by the trademark holder.

Parodies of trademarks are permissible when they are not too directly tied to commercial use. In these circumstances, the courts must balance First Amendment protections with the likelihood of confusion and commercial gain. The basic premise is that artistic or editorial parodies of trademarks serve a valuable critical function, but should not receive significant financial gain as a result. Whether you are protecting your own trademark or defending your right to use another?s, it is important to understand all aspects of trademark law, including the defenses against trademark dilution or infringement.

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Burton TWC Standard Wide Snowboard 2012 ? Gearsellers.com ...

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The White Collection ? Shaun White ? Pro Design

Nothing is standard when it?s coming from Shaun White. The Burton White Collection Standard Snowboard makes it easier than ever for newcomers to progress in a hurry. The mellow EZ-V rocker profile and slightly tapered shape make turn initiation effortless, which means you spend less time on your ass and more time learning the ropes.

  • Double Chair Package
  • ROCKER: EZ V
  • SHAPE: Directional [3-5MM Taper Depending on Size]
  • FLEX: Directional
  • CORE: Fly?
  • FIBERGLASS: Biax?
  • BASE: Extruded
  • SIDEWALLS: Slantwall
  • Shaun worked with Norman Orr, a legendary poster artist for the iconic rock venue Fillmore West. The detail is insane. Artist: Norman Orr [www.normanorr.com]
  • Length (cm): 158 (W)
  • Effective Edge (cm): 123
  • Tip/Tail Width (cm): 30.63/30.13
  • Waist Width (cm): 25.9
  • Sidecut (m): 7.91
Burton ICS channel boards will only work with Burton EST, Burton 3-hole or other ICS compatible bindings.

Burton 3-hole boards will only work with non-EST Burton bindings or other 3-hole compatible bindings.

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What is the Xbox 360 | Garkun ? Video Game World

What is the Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is the successor to Xbox video game console from Microsoft. It was referred to in the past as Xbox Next or Xbox 2 or simply Project Xenon.? Microsoft has scheduled its launch just before Christmas of 2005, the biggest shopping season although it was unveiled on 12.05.2005 on MTV. Xbox 360 is an answer to Sony?s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo?s Revolution game consoles. Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system as it is fully known as would usher a totally new era of high definition digital entertainment which is personalized and connected always.

Who designed the Xbox 360?

Xbox 360 is designed by the very innovative Astro studios, San Francisco, USA in collaboration with Hers Experimental Design Laboratory, Osaka, Japan, resulting in sleek and stylish exterior packed with powerful hardware, software and services.

The Xbox 360 comes with:

Xbox Gamer Guide: An entertainment gateway that connects to your games, movie, friends, music and available downloadable content. The Xbox Guide Button, a one touch interface gives you instant access to content you want, be it the gamer card of the player who just invited you to play, or to new downloadable content for the game you are currently running.

Personalized interface: Xbox 360 lets you create your own customised system for a unique experience. With changeable facia plates, it is very easy to change the make up of your console. Power on your system and you can customize the look and feel of the System Guide and Gamer Guide with various unique skins. The faces and skins can form a unique combination to reflect your personality.

Ring of Light: The Xbox 360 console is divided into four glowing quadrants which are also collectively called the Ring of Light. This Ring of Light, along with the Xbox Guide button controls the entire system. The guide button visually connects you to your games. The Guide button apart from connecting and controlling your experience also controls the startup and shutdown of the system. . The Xbox 360 supports both wired and wireless controllers and accessories by the virtue of which all operations can be controlled from the comfort of your couch.

Xbox Live: Xbox 360?s Xbox Live is where games and entertainment come alive. This is a unified interface where you can play with anyone, anytime anywhere. By connecting your Xbox 360 to a broadband internet connection, you can instantly access Xbox Live Silver, to announce your digital identity via your gamer tag or gamer card. You can talk to others using voice chat, and access the Xbox Live Marketplace ? all right out of the box, at no extra cost. When you upgrade to Xbox Live Gold, you get access to the ever exciting world of online multiplayer gaming. By using intelligent matchmaking, and accessing all your achievements and statistics, Xbox Live Gold brings you nearer to your competition at your terms.

Games: Xbox 360 redefines the whole gaming experience in terms of what they look like, sound like, feel like, and play like in order to engage you like never before. All Xbox 360 titles have resolutions of 1080i and 720p resolution in 16:9 widescreen formats, anti-aliasing support for movie-like graphics and of course, multi-channel surround sound.
Not to mention you can amplify your music, photos, video, and TV. You can watch DVD movies in the comfort of your couch. Xbox 360 also supports progressive-scan DVD?s. The Xbox 360 hard drive can be used to rip music and share your latest albums and pictures with friends and family.

Xbox 360 Accessories Fact Sheet

A successor of the Xbox gaming system, Microsoft?s new Xbox 360 and its unique line of Xbox 360 system accessories extend your digital entertainment experience beyond the console.

Xbox 360 Faceplates

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A never before feature ? Xbox 360 is centralized around gamers. As a fully customizable design, Xbox 360 gives you the freedom of changing the look of the console to reflect your tastes and personality. The face plates like most Nokia Cellular phones can be changed with extreme ease to express your moods or your sense of style.

* Interchangeable faceplates allow you to create a unique system.
* Find cool, swappable and changeable cutting-edge designs.
* Faceplates come in a lot of varieties and designs.
* Regardless of chosen faceplates, the system remains fully functional.

Xbox 360 Memory Unit

Xbox 360 comes with a 64MB memory unit to further enhance your gaming experience. This memory unit facilitates you to save the in-game achievements and gamer profiles. These units are portable and enable you to start off from where you left quickly and easily. You can easily carry around the Memory Unit in a carrying case which is extremely portable and can fit on a keychain. This memory unit is absolute plug?n?play. Xbox 360 can hold up to two memory units, thus making it upgradeable.

Xbox 360 Universal Media Remote

The Xbox 360 Universal Media Remote is designed in such a way that it becomes an integrated control center for the entire Xbox 360 system. The Media Remote facilitates your entry into the world of digital entertainment by the touch of a single button. Play DVD?s, music, control your TV and your PC with a single integrated controller. This option is to let you kick back, relax, and enjoy the ride.

Accessories Designed for Xbox Live

Xbox Live Camera
The Xbox Live Camera for Xbox 360 lets you video chat and message with your friends and gives up the true gaming and entertainment experience. As an integrated part of Xbox 360?s Xbox Live experience you can connect and communicate with friends while playing, listening to music or watching movies. When you play motion-detection-enabled games online the Xbox live camera inserts you into the game and helps you control the characters.

Xbox 360 Headset
The Xbox 360 Headset enlivens the online gaming experience beyond your imagination helping you to talk to friends, your team mates to finalize strategies or trash talk your opponents out of the game through Xbox Live, all this during play time. Xbox Live also comes with a message service which you can use to leave short vocal messages for your family or friends.

Xbox 360 Wireless Networking Adapter
The Xbox 360 Wireless Networking Adapter takes your Xbox 360 experience way beyond your home, synchronizing with the Xbox 360 main system seamlessly. You can transfer videos and music to your Xbox 360 system from your PC with ease, chat up your colleagues and friends, play games using Xbox Live, and more without wiring it all up.

Xbox 360 Wireless Controller
Xbox 360 through the optimized wireless technology offers the ultimate in wireless gaming within a 30 ft range for 40 hours with the help of 2 AA batteries. With warning systems in place you can plug & charge with ample notice for uninterrupted playing. The wireless controller also supports the Xbox 360 headset for voice communication. The wireless controller has all the functionality of the standard controller enabling you to use all the gaming and entertainment features from your couch. The wired controller comes with a 9 ft cable.

If this has whetted your appetite for the greatest gaming console in the world then head on over to www.xbox360heaven.com to pick one up ? they have lots of machines, software and accessories


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Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 official: dual-core 1.4GHz CPU, Android 3.2, HSPA

Here it is, official as official gets: Samsung just announced the Galaxy Tab 7.7. As the name suggests, it has a 7.7-inch (1280 x 800) display -- specifically, a Super AMOLED Plus panel. Like so many other 7-inchers hitting the market, it runs Android 3.2 and yes, that's a skinned flavor of Honeycomb, with Samsung's tablet-optimized TouchWiz UX layered on top. Inside, it runs the same Samsung-made dual-core 1.4GHz processor found in the new Galaxy Note, along with an HSPA+ radio promising theoretical download speeds as high as 21Mbps. Other specs for the 0.74-pound (335-gram) tablet include 16GB to 64GB of internal storage, a microSD card slot, a 5,100mAh battery rated for 10 hours, 802.11n WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0 and dual 3MP and 2MP cameras. In a nutshell, it's the in-between-sized do-over a lot of folks have been awaiting since the original Galaxy Tab grew stale -- a slate that promises faster speeds and some seriously improved viewing angles. We'll be the judge of that in our review, but in the meantime stay tuned for some early hands-on impressions.

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Stony Brook University&#39;s Sustainability focused BA Degrees | Green ...

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Stony Brook University now has five new sustainability-focused BA degrees. Stony Brook University?s Sustainability Program Director, Martin Schoonen, Ph.D., says, ?Our students will be exposed to many of the challenges facing today?s world, and through critical examination explore possible solutions to create and define sustainable models for future generations.?

See the program description for each of the five BA degrees: Ecosystems and Human Impact, Environmental Humanities, Sustainability Studies, Environmental Design, Policy, & Planning and Coastal Environmental Studies.

Bachelor of Arts in Coastal Environmental Studies

?The Coastal Environmental Studies major, leading to a Bachelor of Science degree, provides the skills, knowledge, and preparation for students to assess and address coastal environmental problems. The curriculum integrates principles and methodologies from physical sciences, natural sciences, and physical geography, combined with an understanding of environmental ethics, environmental policy, and environmental law.?

Bachelor of Arts in Coastal Environmental Studies

?The Coastal Environmental Studies major, leading to a Bachelor of Science degree, provides the skills, knowledge, and preparation for students to assess and address coastal environmental problems. The curriculum integrates principles and methodologies from physical sciences, natural sciences, and physical geography, combined with an understanding of environmental ethics, environmental policy, and environmental law.?

Bachelor of Arts in Ecosystems and Human Impact

?The Ecosystems and Human Impact major, leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree, provides the skills, knowledge, and preparation for students to assess and address the complex interaction of humans and natural environments. The curriculum integrates principles and methodologies from ecology, biology, genetics, anthropology, human ecology, geography, combined with an understanding of economics, ethics, and policy within a global perspective.?

Bachelor of Arts Environmental Design, Policy, and Planning

?The Environmental Design, Policy, and Planning major, leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree, provides the skills, knowledge, and preparation for students to understand and address complex issues related to development, land-use, urbanization, and suburban sprawl. The curriculum integrates principles and methodologies from social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities. The goal is to address the complex scientific, legal, ethical, political, environmental, and socio-economic issues that surround the development, management, and use of the built environment.?

Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Humanities

This program ?draws together a range of disciplines to explore human understanding and interpretation of nature. The curriculum integrates disciplines from social sciences and the humanities including: writing, literature, philosophy, history, anthropology, archaeology, and art and architectural history. The major prepares students to lead efforts to revitalize public understanding of the natural world through nature education, museum work, community organizing, literacy education, advocacy, business, writing and the arts.?

Bachelor of Arts in Sustainability Studies

?The Sustainability Studies major, leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree, provides the skills, knowledge, and preparation for students to understand and address the environmental, social, political, economic and ethical issues related to the transformation of our current societies to ones that are sustainable. The curriculum integrates principles and methodologies from social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities.?

For more information click?here.

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