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Thursday, March 01, 2007
It is with deep sense of pride and honor, we are extending our sincerest and warmest congratulations to each and everyone.
Time flew so fast. Last year, we came to Maitum Sarangani Province to experience the many outdoor activities, project proposals and the many opportunities to hone our skills and attitude envisioned by Department of Education. This last February 9-11 again we are here at General Santos City High School as a venue for another exciting camp—the YES-O. We know that the organizers of this camp are preparing the campers for the world of work in the future. We were given that holistic kind of education and YES-O is just one; it was opened to us for the taking.
We are therefore commissioned to use it. Extend to others the assistance they need as they come to our way.
May the Lord guide us always as we make Mother Earth a better place to live with peace, love and unity for humanity towards catastrophes.
This years theme: ''Unity through Catastrophe'' speaks and conveys for a vision of tomorrow!
Rationale:
YES-O Camp is an outdoor activity designed to motivate members and advisers to carry our scientific activities. It features actual learning through observations, assessment and preparation of research proposals on scientific problems encountered by the environment.
Objectives:
GENERAL
To develop among participants a sense of unity through catastrophes.
SPECIFIC
1. To provide opportunities for learning, doing and self-discovery through environmental encounter.
2. To provide opportunities for development of positive leadership, social-consciousness and involvement in environmental management.
3. To promote camaraderie among members and advisers.
4. Provides awareness of the environment.
5. Elicit values for environmental protection.
6. provides group interaction.
7. recognizes individual worth and contribution.
THE CAMP. . .
We are very lucky for we able to join this last camp nevertheless there are many factors which keep on discouraging us but we changed our minds and it is a great opportunity for each one to pool our ideas and desires to reach that goals stated above. Our camp is really great and a big, big fun for us! It's enjoyable. . especially in the field trip. . though the sun's rays burnt our skin, parched our throat and blinded our innocent eyes but anyway it’s a blaze of glory in fact! We enjoyed yes, the game. It develops camaraderie and teamwork for everybody. We have also that plenary session but honestly, it's boring. We felt sleepy but the great thing is we realized how humans became the great factor towards catastrophes facing us now.
It's exciting really! Thank God for his goodness and guidance for He made that memorable camp so great and successful.
The Nature's Wild Subcamps
TORNADO
Tornado (Latin, tonare, “to thunder”), in meteorology, violent whirling wind, characteristically accompanied by a funnel-shaped cloud extending down from a cumulonimbus cloud. Commonly known as a cyclone or twister, a tornado can be a few metres to about a kilometre wide where it touches the ground, with an average width of a few hundred metres. It can move over land for distances ranging from short hops to many kilometres, causing great damage wherever it descends. The funnel is made visible by the dust that is sucked up and by condensation of water droplets in the centre of the funnel. The same condensation process makes visible the generally weaker sea-going tornadoes, called waterspouts, which occur most frequently in tropical waters. Most tornadoes spin anticlockwise in the Northern hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern, but occasionally that pattern is reversed.
CYCLONE
Cyclone, in meteorology, an area of low atmospheric pressure surrounded by a wind system blowing (in the northern hemisphere) in an anticlockwise direction. A wind system blowing round a corresponding high-pressure area with clockwise winds is known as an anticyclone. In the southern hemisphere these wind directions are reversed. Cyclones are commonly called lows and anticyclones highs. The term cyclone has often been more loosely applied to a storm and disturbance attending such pressure systems, particularly violent tropical hurricanes and typhoons, which centre on areas of unusually low pressure.
EARTHQUAKE
Earthquake, vibrations produced in the Earth's crust when rocks in which elastic strain has been building up suddenly rupture, and then rebound. The vibrations can range from barely noticeable to catastrophically destructive. Earthquakes can release energy thousands of times greater than the world's first atomic bomb.
HURRICANE
Hurricane, name applied to migratory tropical cyclones that originate over oceans in certain regions near the equator, and particularly to those arising in the West Indian region, including the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane-type cyclones in the western Pacific are known as typhoons.
AVALANCHE
Avalanche, sudden flow of a large mass of snow or ice down a slope or cliff, sometimes at speeds exceeding 160 km/hr (100 mph). Such flows can be destructive of life and property. Avalanches are most common on slopes exceeding 30°, frequently when a deep snow falls suddenly and does not have a chance to cohere, or when a thaw undercuts a blanket of older snow.
TSUNAMI
Tsunami, Japanese word meaning “harbour wave” and used as the scientific term for a seismic sea wave, a large ocean wave generated by an undersea earthquake. A tsunami is thought to be triggered when the ocean floor is tilted or offset during the quake, creating a set of waves similar to the concentric waves generated by an object dropped into water. Another possible cause is an undersea landslide or volcanic eruption. Most tsunamis originate along the so-called Ring of Fire, a zone of volcanoes and seismic activity, 32,500 km (24,000 mi) long, that encircles the Pacific Ocean.
Inspirational Message
''There is a time for everything and a reason for every activity under heaven; a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot; a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to tear down and a time to build; a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them; a time to embrace and a time to refrain; a time to search and a time to give up; a time to keep and a time to throw away; a time to tear and a time to mend; a time to be silent and a time to speak; a time to lave and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace!''
Mabuhay tayong Lahat!
Monday, January 15, 2007
Did you ever wonder how a basketball bounces? I never think about how a basketball bounces. I just play basketball. People have actually thought about it.
How does a basketball bounce anyway?
As far as I know, basketball bounces because of the air and gravity .The air makes the ball bounce. When you bounce the ball the air does not want to stay up, it goes down. This is called Gravity. If you bounce the ball hard, it will go high. If you make a small bounce, it won’t really bounce at all. “A basketball is elastic. Elasticity is an objects property of changing shape when the deforming force is removed.When an elastic basketball hits a hard surface, it’s shape is deformed and kinetic energy is converted to and stored as potential energy. When the basketball returns to it’s original shape, potential energy is reconverted to kinetic energy making the bounce.
When a basketball doesn’t have a lot of air in it, it doesn’t bounce well. When it has a lot of air it bounces well.If we didn’t have air you wouldn’t be able to play basketball. You wouldn’t be able to dribble or shoot. The ball would just mush up in a big blob. So it is good that we have all the air we need.
Well now you don’t have to wonder about how a basketball bounces. If you ever have a project on basketball or just want to answer some of your questions you could read this. This is just the information you will need to learn how basketballs bounce. Remember to keep your basketball full of air. Well, see ya around the basketball court.('',)
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Why the Sky Is Blue
by John Ciardi
I don't suppose you happen to knowWhy the sky is blue? It's because the snowTakes out the white. That leaves it cleanFor the trees and grass to take out the green.Then pears and bananas start to mellow,And bit by bit they take out the yellow.The sunsets, of course, take out the redAnd pour it into the ocean bedOr behind the mountains in the west.You take all that out and the restCouldn't be anything else but blue.Look for yourself. You can see it's true.
Why is the Sky Blue: A simple Explanation
The sky is blue for the same reason that everything that is blue looks blue, like blue ink or a blue shirt. You may think that air, the main sky / atmosphere component, is transparent but thick layers of air - a few kilometers or miles, like the atmosphere's width, are bluish due to small dust perticles. So the sunlight that passes the atmosphere air reaches your eyes blue like a beam of bright like passing some blue glass or filter.
But why are sunsets and sunrises red? Because at sunset times the atmosphere air is red? To understand this you may need some more advanced explanation described in the following chapter.
Science:Why is the Sky Blue
Spectrum of blue sky clearly showing solar Fraunhofer lines and atmospheric water absorption band.
Diffuse sky radiation is solar radiation reaching the earth's surface after having been scattered from the direct solar beam by molecules or suspensoids in the atmosphere. Also called skylight, diffuse skylight, or sky radiation. Of the total light removed from the direct solar beam by scattering in the atmosphere (approximately 25 percent of the incident radiation), about two-thirds ultimately reaches the earth as diffuse sky radiation.
Scattering is the process by which small particles suspended in a medium of a different index of refraction redirect a portion of the incident radiation in all directions. In elastic scattering, no energy transformation results, only a change in the spatial distribution of the radiation. The science of optics usually uses the term to refer to the deflection of photons that occurs when they are absorbed and re-emitted by atoms or molecules.
Aristotle: It is the nature of chickens to cross roads.
Isaac Newton: Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest, chickens in motion tend to cross roads.
Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends on your frame of reference.
Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.
Wolfgang Pauli: There already was a chicken on this side of the road.
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Recently, 600+ files on two LRDC file servers were found to be infected with the LoveLetter VBS virus, which spreads rapidly, infecting and renaming many graphic and audio files. Often, these files cannot be cleaned and must be deleted. Anyone who opens one of these files can continue to spread the virus through e-mail and shared files. Most times when an outbreak occurs, it is because a newly discovered virus cannot be detected using current definitions. However, the recent outbreak at LRDC is most unfortunate because the LoveLetter VBS virus has been detectable for several months. This virus would not have spread at LRDC if all computers were kept up-to-date.
It is not possible for our group to regularly update each computer as new definitions are released frequently. Last year, we developed an anti-virus plan that includes posting updates on LRDC's web site and file servers. We also asked projects to appoint a representative to oversee their updates. The recent outbreak illustrates how critical it is to check your anti-virus software regularly and apply program patches when available.
To check your definition date, Mac users must open the Virex program from the launcher or hard drive; the definition date appears at the bottom left of the screen. Win 9x/NT users must right-click on the Vshield icon at the bottom right of the screen and select About. The version, virus definitions, and scan engine should be equal to or later than those shown on the right. If your definitions are not current, call your project representative or Shari.
vocabulary: LRDC -Learning Research and Development Center
Shari- Shari Kubitz, project representative
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces are enough to kill a small dog.
World's Tallest Tower
Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers hold the title of the tallest buildings in the world. Both the towers reach a total height of 1,483 feet (452 meters) measured from the ground to the tip of the masts. Is has 29 double-deck passenger elevators in each tower and a total of 76 lifts serve the towers. Each tower has 2 million square feet of office area equal to 48 football fields.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
More Amazing Facts!!
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Starfishes haven't got brains.
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
Every year some 50million cars are added to the world’s roads. Car making is now the largest manufacturing industry in the world.
Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York. -- In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found in a tin box with four pieces of soap.Queen Elizabeth of Britain and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands count under the 10 wealthiest women in the world.
A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.
Did you know that the average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil? Amazing fact! Now imagine an eraser that could match it !!!
Weird Information
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Thursday, November 23, 2006
What is it?Father/son riddle
A man while looking at a photograph said, "Brothers and sisters have I none. That man's father is my father's son." Who was the person in the photograph?
|answer| man's son
Date riddle
What happened in 1961 that will not happen again for over 4000 years?
|answer| The year's date reads the same when turned upside down. That will not happen again until 6009.
Numbers riddle
A man wanted to enter an exclusive club but did not know the password that was required. He waited by the door and listened. A club member knocked on the door and the doorman said, "twelve." The member replied, "six " and was let in. A second member came to the door and the doorman said, "six." The member replied, "three" and was let in. The man thought he had heard enough and walked up to the door. The doorman said ,"ten" and the man replied, "five." But he was not let in.
What should have he said?
|answer| Three. The doorman lets in those who answer with the number of letters in the word the doorman says.
The loser wins riddle
A sheik announced that a race would decide which of his two sons would inherit all his wealth. The sons were to ride their camels to a certain distant city. The son whose camel reached the city last would be given all the sheik's wealth.
The two sons set out on the journey. After severals days of aimless wandering, they met and agreed to seek the advice of a wiseman. After listening to the wiseman's advice, the two sons rode the camels as quickly as possible to the designated city.
What was it that the wiseman told the two sons? They did not agree to split the wealth, and their father's decree would be followed.
|answer| The wiseman told the sons to switch camels.
Which first riddle
You are in a cold house in the winter. It is dark. You have one match. There is a candle and there is a wood burning stove. Which do you light first?
|answer| The match.
Drying riddle
What is it that gets wetter when it dries?
|answer| a towel.
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Check out these amazing science facts!
Turtles can live for more than 100 years.
An elephant trunk has no bone but 40,000 muscles.
The cicada, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping; and only two weeks is awake during which mates and then dies.
The ant can lift things 10 times its own weight.
If your skin is laid flat it will cover an area of 18 square feet.
A Giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.
Ocean waves can travel as fast as a JET Plane.
The first drawings of a helicopter are nearly 500 years old.
A butterfly warms up its body up to 81 degrees Fahrenheit before flying.
A whale can swim for 3 months without eating.
A human being drinks 16,000 tons of water in a lifetime.
We blink 25 times a minute.
To melt away 1 pound of fat you will need to walk 34 miles.
The star fish is actually not a fish, its an animal. ( phylum : Echinodermate )
Male mosquitoes do not bite, so blame the females next time.
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet.
Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.
The small intestine is 7-8 meters long, making it the largest organ inside the human body. The large intestine is only 1-1.5 meters long!
The largest lizard in the world is the Komodo dragon which reaches up to 3 meters and sometimes longer was named because of it's fiery tongue. It is often longer than a car.
