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I’ve owned 3 parakeets. Each one resembles one of these parakeets! Sonny, Birdie, and Sky!
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For those that don’t believe in climate change, here is a document that is signed by academies of sciences from 11 nations, including Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, that explicitly states that climate change is very real! It’s easy to understand and short. Take a minute to read it!
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Just made this realization: Jared Leto & Zac Efron look like brothers, if not twins!!!
I noticed when I saw this picture on Jared Leto’s blog: http://jaredleto.com/thisiswhoireallyam/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/the-three-hats-copy.jpg
Freaky!
This is a Tufte diagram. Edward Tufte used unique ways to visually represent data (for more information about Tufte, go to www.edwardtufte.com) The data represents the amount of aluminum cans, in tons, that each county in the state of Pennsylvania recycled in 2008. The data was taken from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, and it was the most recent information provided, or else I’d like to have had information from 2010. Currently, I’m studying civil engineering, and I’m pursuing the environmental engineering focus. I am very passionate about energy conservation, sustainability, and recycling. Not to mention, the recycling of cans is a very profitable business. Aluminum can recycling is the most profitable item of all items recycled because creating the metal for the cans requires so much energy. It is much more efficient to re-melt and remold the post-consumer cans. In addition, the turnaround time for aluminum can recycling is less than 90 days, which is very quick and allows for more profit.
The graphical display is a map of Pennsylvania, with only each county labeled. Allegheny County recycled the most cans of all the counties, so I placed as many Coca Cola cans as possible in the county of Allegheny. Overall, there were 40 cans in Allegheny County and the proportion of tons to cans was 254.44. Based on this information, I calculated the number of cans in all the other counties based on the data listed in the report from the PA Department of Environmental Protection. I found that some counties had percentages of cans, so I measured the cans using pixels and made them proportionate to their percentage. The point of the map is to show the visual comparison of the recycling of aluminum cans in each county to the physical size of that county. I could have used a pie graph quite easily to show this information, but the pictures of cans in each county gives more information. Philadelphia county and Blair county both had ~6 cans, but Philadelphia county is physically much smaller than Blair county, so from the map, we can see that Philadelphia county actually recycles a larger amount of cans in relation to its physical size.
Data retrieved from: http://files.dep.state.pa.us/Waste/Recycling/RecyclingPortalFiles/Documents/2008_Recycling_Report.pdf
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I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?
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Today I was talking with a friend and it reminded me one particularly offensive time when the ex was trying everything he could to get me to invite him over without actually saying, “I’d like to come over”. Here’s basically how it went.
The onslaught started even before I had left work for the…
I’ve had guys do this to me before. I used to fall for it, thinking they just wanted to hang out because they liked me, but I caught on quick! When I finally stopped responding to advances like this, I realized I felt a bit lonely because I didn’t have these guys always talking to me. It made me feel strong though.
