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Include a variety of maps, atlases, globes, books, and magazines. Also include science or social studies concepts—such as the water cycle, plate tectonics, and migration patterns—presented through the lens of a geographic perspective.
Have students create a class collage on top of a wall-sized World MapMaker Kit. Ask them to collect postcards, and arrange the postcards according to continent and country. Have students add illustrations and photos of political leaders, historical events, and native wildlife from postage stamps. They can also add objects by location; for example, a spice from the main area where it grows, or a feather from the main location of a type of bird.
Have students publish or present student-created maps whenever possible. Ask students to explain their mapmaking process and give them positive feedback.
Have students begin an email correspondence with pen pals from around the country or world. Make sure they share information about the landscape, habitats, and ecosystems around their homes and school as well as details about daily life and culture.
Have students read the map and make a list of all the parks they can find in the immediate community. Then have students work independently or in groups to research each park and present their research to the class. Students should include their ideas on what is unique about the park. If possible, students should visit the park with adult supervision.
A map usually includes a scale bar to show the relationship between distance on the map and true distance on the ground. Have students use rulers to measure the distance between two cities or other places and calculate the true distance using the scale bar. Students can use MapMaker Kits or 1-page maps. To do the activity online, they can use the MapMaker Interactive.
Have students test their geography smarts online by answering geography questions. They can take National Geographic's GeoBee Challenge.
First, have students color an outline map of a continent, using different colors for each country. Next, have students glue the map to a piece of cardboard and cut along the country borders. Time students as they put the puzzle back together.
Bournda Nature Reserve was created in July 1972. It covers an area of 5862ha. For detailed park and fire management documents, visit the OEH website.
With the ever-changing complexity of state data breach notification laws, companies facing a data breach need resources that will help them understand the issues. This summary provides an overview of the similarities and differences in data breach laws adopted in the 50 United States and the District of Columbia. Alabama and South Dakota became the last states to adopt breach notification laws, which took effect on May 1, 2018 and July 1, 2018, respectively. As a practical matter, most companies that experience a breach will be required to comply with all or several state laws depending on where the data subjects reside, and international data breach notification laws may also apply.
– Account number, credit or debit card number, in combination w/ any PIN, security code, access code, or password that would permit access to an individual’s financial account
(AK, AL, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY)
SD – account number or credit/debit card number plus required security code, access code, or password that permits access to a financial account is reportable, even in the absence of a name
Account passwords, PIN or other access codes (alone) – if information compromised would be sufficient to perform or attempt to perform identity theft against the person whose information was compromised GA, ME, NC
Unique electronic identifier or routing code, in combination with any required security code, access code, or password that would permit access to an individual’s financial account when used with a first name/initial and last name IA, MO, NE
Biometric data (defined as a record generated by automatic measurements of an identified individual’s fingerprints, voice print, iris or retina patterns, facial characteristics or hand geometry that is used to uniquely authenticate an individual’s identity when the individual accesses a physical location, device, system or account), when used with a first name/initial and last name DE, MD, NM
User name or e-mail address plus a password or security question and answer that would permit access to an online account CA, FL, IL, MD, NE, NV, SD, WY
AL (user name or e-mail address plus password or security Q&A that would permit access to an online account associated with covered entity)
Medical Information AL, AR, CA, DE, FL, IL, MD, MO, MT, ND, SD, WY (if used in combination with first name/initial and last name)
OR, RI (if used in combination with first name/initial and last name; specifically, information about an individual’s medical history, mental or physical condition or medical diagnosis or treatment)
VA (If used in combination with the first name/initial and last name andmaintained by a state government entity)
Health Insurance Information AL, CA, DE, FL, IL, MD, MO, ND, WY, RI (if used in combination with first name/initial and last name)
GA (if information compromised would alone be sufficient to perform or attempt to perform identity theft against the person whose information was compromised)
Dissociated data that, if linked, would constitute personal information, if the means to link the dissociated data is accessed with access to the dissociated data. NJ
(AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, D.C., DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NM, NV, NH, NJ, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY)
Any Form (electronic, paper, etc.) AK, HI, IA (if transferred to other medium from computerized form), MA, NC, SC, WA, WI
(AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, D.C., FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NM, NV, NH, NJ, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY)
AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, D.C., FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NM, NV, NH, NJ, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WY
Newspaper of general circulation UT (but notice must be in accordance with Utah Code Section 45-1-101)
Substitute notice (consisting of email; conspicuous posting on website; AND notice to major statewide media) where cost > $250K, > 500,000 affected, or insufficient contact information AR, CA, CT, FL, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, MI, MN, MT, NV, NJ, NY, NC, ND, OH, SC, SD, TN, TX, WA
Substitute notice (consisting of email; conspicuous posting on website; AND notice to major statewide media) with other cost/affected individual thresholds – AK (cost > $150K, >300,000 affected)
Substitute notice (conspicuous posting on website AND notice to major statewide media; OR alternative form with AG approval) with other cost/affected individual thresholds AL (cost > $500K, >100,000 affected)
3. Description of actions taken to restore the security and confidentiality of the personal information involved in the breach.
5. Information that the individual can use to contact the covered entity to inquire about the breach.
The toll-free telephone numbers and addresses of the major credit reporting agencies if the breach exposed a social security number or a driver’s license or California identification card number.
Notification must be at least 10-point type, must be titled Notice of Data Breach, and must present the information described above under the following headings: What Happened; What Information Was Involved; What We Are Doing; What You Can Do; and For More Information.
Companies that report a breach must provide free identity theft protection for 12 months if the breach involves SSNs, driver’s license numbers, or California identification card numbers.
For a breach that involves PI for an online account and no other PI, companies can comply with the notification requirement by providing notice in electronic or other form that directs affected person to change his/her password and security question or answer, or take other steps appropriate to protect the account and all other online accounts for which the person uses the same user name or email address and password or security question or answer.
Connecticut The statute does not list required content, but the state Attorney General website specifies that any breach notification should include:
If the breach involves SSNs or driver’s license numbers, the covered entity must provide identify protection services to residents for a period of not less than 12 months.
Instruction to promptly change user name or password and security Q&A and take other appropriate steps to protect all online accounts for which the resident uses the same credentials (if user name/email address plus a password or security Q&A that would permit access to an online account is accessed).
In the event of a breach that compromises an email account and no other personal information, the business may provide notice in electronic form that directs the individual to change his/her password and security question and answer, as applicable, and take other appropriate steps to protect the email account and any other accounts for which the individual uses the same username/email and password/security Q&A.
Montana If a business discloses a breach and gives notice to the individual that suggests, indicates, or implies that the individual may obtain a copy of the file on the individual from a CRA, then the business must coordinate with the CRA as to the timing, content, and distribution of the notice to the individual.
Rhode Island 1. The incident in general terms, including how the breach occurred and number of affected individuals.
Wisconsin Indicate that the entity knows of the unauthorized acquisition of PI pertaining to the individual.
· Any services related to the breach being offered or scheduled to be offered, without charge, by the covered entity to individuals, and instructions on how to use the services.
· The name, address, telephone number, and email address of the employee or agent of the covered entity from whom additional information may be obtained about the breach
In addition, if a business, after an investigation and consultation with relevant law enforcement agencies, determines that the breach has not and will not likely result in ID theft or other financial harm to individuals, notification to individuals is not required, but the business must provide the Dept. with its written determination within 30 days after such determination.
Illinois Attorney General Threshold: Covered entities and business associates that are subject to HIPAA and HITECH Act and are required to notify Secretary of Health and Human Services of a breach.
Timing: Within 14 days of discovering the breach. However, 14-day preliminary notice need not be submitted if, prior to the date of the breach, owner has sworn in the form provided by the AG that it maintains written policies and procedures to maintain the security of PI and to respond to a breach in a manner consistent with VT law.
If notice is provided to more than 1,000 individuals at one time, the notice to the attorney general must include the timing, distribution, and content of the notice to individuals.
Texas Requires disclosure of a breach to all individuals (regardless of the state of residency) whose personal information is breached. If the individual is a resident of another state that requires breach notification, then the breach notification to that individual may be provided under that state’s law or under Texas’ law.
AL, AK, CO, D.C., FL, HI, IN, KS, KY, MD, ME, MI, MO, NC, NV, NJ, OH, OR, PA, SC, SD, TN, VA, VT, WV, WI Without unreasonable delay. If notification of breach provided to > 1,000 state residents.
RI Without unreasonable delay and no later than 45 days after confirmation of breach. If notification of breach provided to > 500 RI residents.
NY Without unreasonable delay. If notification of breach provided to > 5,000 NY residents. Must notify as to timing, content and distribution of notices and approximate number of affected persons.
[1] This definition of “personal information” and some of the other types of personal information described in this chart that trigger the breach notification requirement is similar to the definition of “sensitive customer information” under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB) Act. That term is defined in the GLB Act as a customer’s name, address, or telephone number, plus a SSN, driver’s license number, account number, credit or debit card number, or a personal identification number or password that would permit access to the customer’s account. It also includes any combination of components of customer information that would allow someone to log onto or access the customer’s account, such as user name and password or password and account number.
[2] Obligation to notify applies generally to businesses that own or license personal information of resident of the state except GA, where law applies to information brokers or a person or business who maintains such data on behalf of an information broker.
[3] AG or other approval prior to or simultaneously with notifying affected individuals is required in some states. See Section 6.
Alberta leaders are voicing hope that the province will become the world leader in synthetic gas production to prevent massive waste of the natural commodity by its oilsands development rush.
"It is said that using natural gas to make bitumen is akin to turning gold into lead," Eddy Isaacs, executive director of the provincial government's Alberta Energy Research Institute (AERI), told a Calgary oil conference. "We lose value every time we use it."
Isaacs drew no quarrels from executives and analysts who attended the crowded conference, an annual event staged by the provincial- and federal government backed Canadian Energy Research Institute. At the same time as he spoke, officers of oilsands developers, such as Suncor Inc., were making vows to stockholders at corporate annual meetings that action will be taken to control costs with new technology and conservation measures.
The view voiced by Isaacs is expected to become official later this year in an "integrated energy strategy" now under development by the Alberta Department of Energy. He ranks among architects of the policy. His AERI, now an advisory agency, was formerly the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority, a Crown or government corporation that ran more than C$1 billion (US$850 million) in innovation partnerships with industry during the 1970s and 1980s.
Although newer oilsands complexes have reduced gas use, Isaacs pointed out consumption is still high by heat and hydrogen-addition processes used to separate bitumen from sand then run "upgraders" that finish the job of making refinery-ready synthetic oil.
Bitumen strip-mining and upgrading complexes, which date back to the 1960s, use gas at an average rate of 1.1 Bcf for every million barrels of their end product.
Newer oilsands technology -- SAGD or steam-assisted gravity drainage, developed in the 1990s for deposits too deep to mine -- is an even heavier gas user to date. For every one million barrels of upgraded synthetic oil from SAGD-based oilsands complexes using current technology, 1.7 Bcf of gas is consumed.
Total oilsands production is forecast by various industry and government authorities to triple or quadruple into a range of three to four million barrels daily in the next 10 to 15 years. Output is widely projected to hit 5 MMb/d by 2030.
At current consumption rates, gas use by a 5 MMb/d oilsands sector is forecast to hit 6 Bcf/d. That would be about 60% of the gas production capacity Alberta is expected to have left in 2030 unless the province's fledgling coalbed methane sector more than replaces forecast declines in output from aging conventional wells.
Oilsands developers, pointing to Canadian gas prices that remain more than triple their 1990s average despite recent market declines, are not waiting for government policy to tell them to improve. Virtually all current projects include "gasification" schemes that involve extracting methane from heavy hydrocarbons that represent about 20% of oilsands bitumen by volume.
Suncor, owner of the oldest oilsands complex near Fort McMurray in northeastern Alberta, has proposed Canada's first free-standing gasification plant as part of planned expansions that would about double production to 500,000 b/d.
A gasification scheme is under engineering study for future stages of the newest strip-mining and upgrading complex, the Horizon Project now under construction by Canadian Natural Resources.
The biggest current SAGD project, C$3.5-billion (US$3-billion) Long Lake nearing completion by Nexen Energy and OPTI Canada, pioneers a new gas-manufacturing system as part of its upgrader complex. A lineup of four free-standing bitumen upgraders now in regulatory and early construction phases in the Edmonton and Peace River regions also incorporates variations on the synthetic gas theme.
Besides gas prices, there is an incentive built into oil markets for oilsands projects to devise efficient methods of producing upgraded synthetic crude. At annual average oil prices of US$50/bbl, industry analysts forecast discounts commanded by refiners buying heavy bitumen will stay at about 35% or US$17.50/bbl. That opens up a wide economic field for upgrader projects if they can control costs. One of the biggest is gas, with plants using about 0.85 Mcf per barrel of upgraded synthetic oil production. The differential has periodically jumped into the range of 40-50% during spells of crowding on oil markets caused by refinery and upgrader maintenance.