ANTIQUE GOLD CURTAINS

I'm the Teacher, You're the Student: A Semester in the University Classroom

What is it really like to be a college professor in an American classroom today? An award-winning teacher with over twenty years of experience answers this question by offering an enlightening and entertaining behind-the-scenes view of a typical semester in his American history course. The unique result—part diary, part sustained reflection—recreates both the unstudied realities and intensely satisfying challenges that teachers encounter in university lecture halls.

From the initial selection of reading materials through the assignment of final grades to each student, Patrick Allitt reports with keen insight and humor on the rewards and frustrations of teaching students who often are unable to draw a distinction between the words "novel" and "book." Readers get to know members of the class, many of whom thrive while others struggle with assignments, plead for better grades, and weep over failures. Although Allitt finds much to admire in today's students, he laments their frequent lack of preparedness—students who arrive in his classroom without basic writing skills, unpracticed with reading assignments.

With sharp wit, a critical eye, and steady sympathy for both educators and students, I'm the Teacher, You're the Student examines issues both large and small, from the ethics of student-teacher relationships to how best to evaluate class participation and grade writing assignments. It offers invaluable guidance to those concerned with the state of higher education today, to young faculty facing the classroom for the first time, and to parents whose children are heading off to college.

Connecticut ( /k??n?t?k?t/ (help·info))[7] is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The state borders New York to the west and south (Long Island by sea), Massachusetts to the north, and Rhode Island to the east.

Southwestern Connecticut is considered part of the immediate New York metropolitan area and three of eight counties (including the majority of Connecticut's population) are in the New York City combined statistical area, commonly referred to as the Tri-State Area. The center of population of the state is in Cheshire, Connecticut (New Haven County), also within the New York area[8].

Connecticut is the 29th most populous state with 3.4 million residents and ranked 48th in size by area, making it the 4th most densely populated state. Called the "Constitution State," Connecticut has a long history dating from the early colonial times, and was influential in the development of early American government.

Connecticut's first European settlers were Dutch and established a small settlement in present-day Hartford at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut Rivers called Huys de Goede Hoop. Initially, Connecticut was a part of their North American colony, New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware Rivers. Today, much of the former colony lies in what is now known as the Tri-State area

The first major settlements were established in the 1630s by the English. Thomas Hooker led a band of followers overland from the Massachusetts Bay colony and founded what would become the Connecticut Colony; other settlers from Massachusetts founded the Saybrook Colony and the New Haven Colony. Both the Connecticut and New Haven Colonies established documents of Fundamental Orders, considered the first constitutions in North America. In 1662, the disparate colonies merged under a royal charter, making Connecticut a crown colony. This colony was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution.

Connecticut enjoys a temperate climate thanks to its long coastline on Long Island Sound. This has given the state a strong maritime tradition. Modern Connecticut is also known for its wealth. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Connecticut had ready access to raw materials which helped to develop a strong manufacturing industry. In the 19th and 20th centuries, financial organizations flourished: first insurance companies in Hartford, then hedge funds along the Gold Coast. This prosperity has helped give Connecticut the highest per capita income, Human Development rating, and median household income in the country.[9][10][11] - wikipedia.org

[EN] Kara-Suu and its Uzbek counterpart Qorasuv (bot meaning “black water”) are a double-city located at the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border in the Fergana Valley. In 2005, some thousand refugees fled here from Uzbekistan to Kyrgyzstan after the Andijon massacre across a formally closed border. Since then, however, the border has reopened, but only for pedestrians of the two neighbouring nations. The picture shows (invisible) exchance rates at a exchange booth directly at the border, with the “main” currencies: US Dollar, Russian Rouble, Uzbek So’m.
Now Kara-Suu has the biggest market of all Kyrgyzstan, with cheap goods imported to China sold to Uzbek and Kazakh businessmen. People travel quite far (up to one day) to get to that market.

[D] Kara-Suu und sein usbekisches Gegenuber Qorasuv (beides bedeutet “schwarzes Wasser”) sind eine Doppelstadt auf der usbekisch-kirgisischen Grenze im Ferganatal. 2005 flohen nach dem Massaker von Andijon ziemlich viele Usbeken uber diese eigentlich geschlossene Grenze nach Kirgistan. Die Grenze ist zwar wieder aufgegangen, doch nur Fussganger der angrenzenden Lander durfen sie uberqueren. Das Foto zeigt eine Tafel zum Anzeigen der Kurse der „wichtigsten“ Fremdwahrungen, unbenutzt allerdings: US-Dollars, russische Rubel, usbekische So’m.

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In the late 1800s, mills in the Washoe Lake area, Nevada, used elemental mercury to remove gold and silver from the ores of the Comstock deposit. Since that time, mercury contaminated waste has been distributed from Washoe Lake, down Steamboat Creek, and to the Truckee River. The creek has high mercury concentrations in both water and sediments, and continues to be a constant source of mercury to the Truckee River. The objective of this study was to determine concentrations of total and methyl mercury (MeHg) in surface sediments and characterize their spatial distribution in the Steamboat Creek watershed. Total mercury concentrations measured in channel and bank sediments did not decrease downstream, indicating that mercury contamination has been distributed along the creek's length. Total mercury concentrations in sediments (0.01-21.43 @mg/g) were one to two orders of magnitude higher than those in pristine systems. At 14 out of 17 sites, MeHg concentrations in streambank sediments were higher than the concentrations in the channel, suggesting that low banks with wet sediments might be important sites of mercury methylation in this system. Both pond/wetland and channel sites exhibited high potential for mercury methylation (6.4-30.0 ng g^-^1 day^-^1). Potential methylation rates were positively correlated with sulfate reduction rates, and decreased as a function of reduced sulfur and MeHg concentration in the sediments. Potential demethylation rate appeared not to be influenced by MeHg concentration, sulfur chemistry, DOC, sediment grain size or other parameters, and showed little variation across the sites (3.7-7.4 ng g^-^1 day^-^1).