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Xerophytic plants which live in the desert have special adaptations.
They may survive by growing roots that are very near the surface to absorb the rain that may fall before it evaporates.
Plants such as the cactus have thick, fleshy stems that help them store water.
Small animals such as lizards and small rodents often escape the hot rays by digging underground burrows where they live.
They only come out at night to search for food.
Like the plants, desert animals must live on as little water as possible.
Most of the water used by these animals comes from seeds and stems that absorb and hold water.
Camels survive in hot deserts by storing water in body fat in their humps.
Like other desert animals, the camel loses little water in its wastes (urine and feces).
For the area of dry land see desert.
A dessert is a type of food that is eaten after lunch or dinner, and sometimes after a light meal or snack.
It is usually a sweet food, like ice cream, cookies, and cakes.
In some countries, cheeses such as Brie cheese and fruit are served as dessert.
Some desserts are made from natural resources like fruit juice used in sherbet.
Others are simple, like pudding and birthday cake.
Many desserts are baked (cooked in an oven).
Some desserts are served with whipped cream as a topping.
The term dessert can apply to many confections, such as biscuits, cakes, cookies, custards, gelatin's, ice creams, pastries, pies, puddings, sweet soups, and tarts.
Fruit is also commonly found in dessert courses because of its naturally occurring sweetness.
Some cultures sweeten foods that are more commonly savoury to create desserts.
Types of desserts
Baked desserts
Baked desserts are made by putting the ingredients in a hot oven.
Baked desserts include cakes and muffins (a mixture of flour, eggs, sugar, oil, baking powder, and flavorings); sweet breads such as banana bread and raisin bread (a mixture of flour, sugar, oil, baking powder, and flavorings); cookies such as chocolate chip cookies (a mixture of flour, eggs, sugar, oil, and flavorings).
Puddings and custards (a mixture of milk, eggs, sugar, and flavorings) can be made in the oven.
Fried desserts
Fried desserts are made using a cooking process called deep frying.
To deep-fry food, a large pot filled with oil is heated, and then the food is placed into the pot.
Deep-fried desserts include doughnuts.
Frozen desserts
Frozen desserts are made by blending the ingredients in a freezer.
Frozen desserts include ice cream (a mixture of cream, milk, sugar, and flavorings), milk shakes (a mixture of ice cream, milk, and flavorings), and sherbet (also spelled "sorbet") (a mixture of water, sugar, and flavorings).
Chilled desserts
Some desserts are made without using the oven or the freezer.
Trifle is an English dessert made by soaking ladyfinger biscuits in sherry, covering them with whipped cream, and then letting it chill in the refrigerator.
Some types of instant pudding and instant mousse desserts can be made without cooking; a person simply mixes the instant pudding powder with milk and chills it in the refrigerator.
Popular desserts from around the world
France: Crème Brûlée
America: Apple Pie
United Kingdom: Sticky toffee pudding
Middle East: Baklava
Greece: Galaktoboureko
Italy: Tiramisu
Peru: Picarones
Russia/Australia: Pavlova
Spain: Tarta de Santiago
Turkey: Turkish delight/Lokum
Japan: Mochi
Belgium: Belgian waffle
India: Gulab Jamun
Bangladesh: Kheer
William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was the 9th president of the United States.
His nickname was "Old Tippecanoe " and he was a well-respected war veteran.
Harrison served the shortest term of any United States president.
His term lasted for exactly one month.
He was elected president in 1840, and took the oath of office on March 4, 1841.
His inauguration speech lasted an hour and forty minutes.
William Henry Harrison caught a serious case of pneumonia, and on April 4 that same year he died.
He was the first president to die in office.
Harrison was the oldest president to take office at , until it was outdone in 2021 by Joe Biden who assumed the presidency at the age of 78.
He was the last president to be born before the United States Declaration of Independence.
His grandson was the 23rd president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison.
Harrison was born on February 9, 1773.
He is the youngest of Benjamin Harrison V and Elizabeth Bassett's seven children.
They lived in Berkeley Plantation at Charles City County, Virginia.
He was the last president to be born as a British citizen before the American Independence.
His father was a planter and a delegate to the Continental Congress (1774–1777) who signed the Declaration of Independence.
He was Governor of Virginia between 1781 and 1784.
His older brother Carter Bassett Harrison was elected a representative of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives.
In 1787, he attended the Presbyterian Hampden-Sydney College.
He attended the school until 1790.
Harrison was fluent in Latin and French.
In 1795, he met Anna Symmes.
They had 10 children.
As President
He took the oath of office in March 4, 1841 which was a cold and wet day.
His inaugural address was the longest in American history.
On March 26, 1841, Harrison became ill with a cold.
His illness was believed to have been caused by the bad weather in the inauguration.
The cold was worsened, quickly turning to pneumonia and pleurisy.
He tried to rest in the White House, but could not find a quiet room because of the crowd of office seekers.
His very busy social schedule made it harder for time to rest.
Harrison's doctors tried cures of applying opium, castor oil, leeches, and Virginia snakeweed.
But the treatments only made Harrison worse, and he became restless.
Harrison died on his 32nd day as president on April 4, 1841 at 12:30 am of pneumonia, jaundice, and septicima.
He served the shortest term of any president from March 4, 1841 to April 4, 1841, 30 days, 12 hours, and 30 minutes.
He was the first president of the United States to die in office.
Harrison's funeral took place in Wesley Chapel in Cincinnati, Ohio on April 7, 1841.
His original interment was in Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.. He was later buried in North Bend, Ohio.
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Viacom (short for Video & Audio Communications) was an American entertainment company.
It started in 1970 as Viacom International, the syndication division of CBS TV (which they once owned).
In 2005, Viacom split into two companies: the original company was renamed CBS Corporation, and a new company keeping the Viacom name was created.
They own Paramount Pictures, MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., and others.
They formerly owned the movie rental giant Blockbuster Entertainment.
In 2019, Viacom and CBS were merged together.
This created ViacomCBS, a combination of the two companies.
The merger was finished on December 4, 2019.
They have also launched a streaming service called CBS All Access, which includes their library of movies and TV shows, along with original content.
Entertainment companies
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is another name for a web address.
URLs are made of letters, numbers and other symbols in a standard form.
People use them on computers, to make the computer fetch and show some specific resource (usually a web page) from another computer (web server) on the Internet.
They do this by typing the URL into a web browser, or more often clicking a link, for example one on a web page that they are already seeing.
A protocol.
Very often, this is the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Some separation characters: ://
The other computer's name or address.
It is very common for names to start with www. (
which stands for World Wide Web), but the entire name is up to that computer's administrator.
The path to a document or script.
In the case of a script, additional parameters after a question mark (?)
Username and password needed to access a certain page
Some text after a pound sign (#), naming a spot to skip ahead to.
The URL of this page is https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uniform_Resource_Locator
https is the protocol
simple.wikipedia.org is the web site
/w/index.php is a script.
That script gets parameters, title=Uniform_Resource_Locator
A shorter form, called a ("relative") URL, is used when a computer could correctly fill in the full ("absolute") URL from context.
For example, of /wiki/URL only works for a link on Wikipedia to this page on Wikipedia.
Absolute URLs can be shared outside of computers, even with little or no explanation.
URLs is URI.
URI is Uniform Resource Identifier.
URL vs URI  is basically same.
So, you don't need to confuse in it.
These are at the end of the domain name which has a period mark before it.
At first there were six main extensions:
.com - Commercial use
.net - network / Internet service provider use
.org - Organizational use
.edu - Educational use (Schools and universities)
.mil - Military use
.gov - Governmental use
Today, there are many other URL extensions.
These are usually either a top level domain or interest grouping.
Each country has its own top level domain, for example, .ca for Canada, .us for the United States of America or .co.uk for the United Kingdom.
Many countries have a government-only extension, for example the United States uses .gov or .fed.us, .gc.ca for Canada and .gov.uk for the United Kingdom.
Interest group domains would include .tv (television), .pro (professionals) and .xxx (pornography).
These are not used as often as the original extensions.
A cuckoo clock is a kind of clock.
Cuckoo clocks have a case made of wood that looks like a small house.
It gets its name because at the start of every hour, a small door on the clock open up and a little wooden bird comes out.
The clock then makes a noise which sounds like a bird call ( "Koo-Koo" or "cuckoo").
The clock makes the sound one time for each hour it is, and there may also be a bell that rings when the sound is made.
Whether it is morning or night does not change the number of times this happens.
1 o'clock in the afternoon = 1 "cuckoo"
8 o'clock in the morning = 8 "cuckoos"
8 o'clock at night = 8 "cuckoos"
Like many other clocks, cuckoo clocks can work using weights, springs, or electricity.
Every clock is different, both in how it looks, how it works, and what it does.
The sound of the "cuckoo" usually comes from bellows in mechanical clocks, or from a speaker in electric clocks.
The clock may do more than just make this sound; some clocks also have figures that move around as music is played.
The Labrador Retriever (or Lab and Labrador for short) is a breed of dog.
It is a kind of gun dog.
Labrador Retrievers are very gentle dogs with family-friendly personalities.
They are the most popular breed of dogs for pets in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
They enjoy attention and exercise with their owner.
They love to run around in big, open spaces, have a natural love of bringing things back, and learn to retrieve easily.
They love to be active.
They like the water no matter what temperature outside as their coat protects them.
They are strong swimmers as they have webbing between the toes on their paws.
They have coats that can be in any of three colors: black, yellow, and brown.
This tough, hardy breed of retriever is a great choice as a family pet.
They are playful, easy to train, and naturally obedient.
Labrador Retrievers do require regular amounts of daily exercise and are prone to obesity.
As a pet, they can be demanding of attention and are best suited in a home where they can have a daily workout.
They like water and have a unique otter-like tail, which they use like a rudder when they swim.
Labradors are descended from dogs bred on the island of Newfoundland, in Canada.
Its ancestor is the St. John's water dog, a breed that developed through breedings by early settlers of the island in the 16th century.
These dogs were trained to bring in the fishing nets from the icy waters for the fishermen.
In the early 19th century, they were brought to Poole in Great Britain.
These dogs had short strong legs and were good swimmers.
Their coats were thick and they had a broad tail.
Englishmen had many offers to buy them from fishermen because they were so attractive.
The breed was instantly successful as a gun dog.
The Earl of Malmesbury was interested and amazed by these dogs, and he started breeding them.
He bred them for duck shooting on his estate.
He established the new breed of retrievers, which he named Labrador.
In 1903, the Labrador Retriever was recognized by the English Kennel Club (EKC).
Then, a year later, was listed as a dog in the Gundog group.
At this point, retrievers were not divided by breed (until 1905, when it was listed separately).
Countess Howe is believed to be the first person to bring Labradors to the  United States, shortly before World War One.
To say, however, that the Labrador was popular immediately would be wrong.
It was only recognized in 1917 by the AKC, and strangely, ten years later, there were only roughly 24 Labradors in the United States.
They were still classed as "Retrievers" until the late 1920s.
The first Labrador registered, was a black female.
At this point, only upper class people owned them.
However, lots of the upper class enjoyed these dogs, and they would try to import them from the finest English kennels.
It's important to see, that they were only imported for one reason, though.
Unfortunately, during the Second World War, as with most dog breeds, numbers decreased.
But, after 1945, they gained a strong popularity boost.
Imports from the British kennel clubs, as earlier said, increased, and then after a while, their numbers began rising again.
That is why, most of the British Labrador population, has roots in the United States.
Labrador retrievers are gentle and loving.
They make great family dogs.
They are intelligent, agile, and kind dogs.
They also are very energetic, and need exercise every day.
Labradors are very social, and therefore, are easy to train.
They are happy to play in any activity you want to do with them, but the outgoing side of the Labrador does have a flip side.
They crave attention, and, if not given it, can resort to destructive behaviour.
Fortunately, they are not only social but very versatile.
The breed's generally sunny temperament, love of people, and willingness to learn make them star performers in many disciplines, e.g. therapy, guide dogs.
Labrador retrievers come in black, yellow, and chocolate.
Labradors have a short, dense coat, powerful jaws, a broad, steady back and friendly brown eyes.
Labradors usually live from 10-12 years.
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher  (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman.
She served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (UK) from 1979 until her resignation in 1990, longer than any other British prime minister in the 20th century.
She led the UK's Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.
Thatcher was the first female British prime minister and was often known by the nickname "The Iron Lady", given to her by a journalist from the Soviet Union.
Her birth name was Margaret Hilda Roberts.
Thatcher studied chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, and worked briefly as a research chemist, before becoming a barrister.
She was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Finchley in 1959.
Edward Heath made her a Secretary of State in his government of 1970 to 1974.
In 1975, she beat Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election to become Leader of the Opposition and the first woman to lead a major British political party.
In 1979, she was elected Prime Minister, and won a landslide re-election in 1983 after victory in the 1982 Falklands War and the recovering economy brought a revival of support.
Thatcher was re-elected for a third term with another landslide in 1987, but her following support for the Community Charge ("poll tax") was very unpopular, and her more Eurosceptic views on the European Community were not shared by others in her Cabinet.
She resigned as Prime Minister and party leader in November 1990, after a challenge was made by Michael Heseltine to her leadership.
After retiring from the House of Commons in 1992, she was given a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher, which gave her the right to sit in the House of Lords.
In 2013, she died of a stroke in London, at the age of 87.
Thatcher is a controversial figure in British political culture, but is still viewed positively in most opinion polls of British prime ministers.
The debate over her neoliberal policies and legacy continues in the UK into the 21st century.
Margaret Roberts was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, on 13 October 1925.
Her father was Alfred Roberts, a tobacconist originally from Northamptonshire.
Her mother was Beatrice Ethel Stephenson, from Lincolnshire.
Thatcher studied chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford.
In her final year, she studied X-ray crystallography under Dorothy Hodgkin, who later won the Nobel Prize.
She was already interested in politics, and became President of the Oxford University Conservative Association in 1946.
Roberts read political works such as Friedrich von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom (1944), which said  economic intervention by government was wrong, because it gave too much power to the state.
After graduating, Roberts moved to Colchester in Essex to work as a research chemist for BX Plastics.
She was elected an MP in 1959.
She became Education Secretary in 1970.
Thatcher directed British troops in 1982 to get back the Falkland Islands from Argentina.
Argentina had taken the Falklands for a short time during the Falklands War.
She had the second longest single prime ministerial term in history.
She married Denis Thatcher; they had twins: son Mark  and daughter Carol.
She suffered from strong opposition during a coal miner's strike in 1984 and 1985.
The strike took away political power from the miners' union.
There was also controversy when she introduced a poll tax to Britain.
This caused rioting across the country.
She was forced to resign by her own party in 1990.
She was replaced by John Major.
In 1992, she stood down as PM.
She then joined the House of Lords.
From then on, she was known as "Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven".
During Thatcher's years as prime minister, unemployment rose a lot.
It doubled during her first term.
In 1982, 3 million people were unemployed.
Unemployment started to decline again only in the mid- to late-1980s.
Since the mid-1990s, Britain has consistently had lower unemployment than most of continental Europe.
Thatcher's supporters claim this is the result of her reform of the labour market.
This is disputed by her opponents.
She was the subject of an assassination attempt when the Grand Brighton Hotel was bombed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in October 1984.
She is remembered in the UK for reducing the trade union movement's power.
Trade unions were much more powerful in the 1970s.
Thatcher did much to reduce their influence on British industry.
Thatcher was the first woman to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
She was also the first woman to be Conservative Party leader.
In February 1949, she met Denis Thatcher.
They met at a Paint Trades Federation event in Dartford.
They married on 13 December 1951, at a chapel in City Road, London; the Robertses, Margaret's parents, were Methodists.
Margaret and Denis had twin children, Carol and Mark, who were born on 15 August 1953, six weeks prematurely by Caesarean section.
Her husband Denis died in 2003 from pancreatic cancer.
She attended Ronald Reagan's funeral service in 2004.
In the later years of her life, she suffered from dementia and withdrew from public engagements in 2002.
In 2006, Thatcher attended the official Washington memorial service to mark the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States (US).
She was a guest of Vice President Dick Cheney, and met Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her visit.
She would also visit several times for ceremonies that honoured Reagan.
Thatcher died from a stroke on 8 April 2013 at her hotel room in London, aged 87.
She had bladder cancer and dementia at the time of her death.
In line with her wishes she received a ceremonial funeral, with full military honours, and a church service at St Paul's Cathedral on 17 April.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip attended the funeral, only the second time in the Queen's reign that she had attended the funeral of a former prime minister.
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Firefighters are people whose job is to extinguish fires and rescue people.
Besides fighting fires, firefighters rescue people and animals from vehicle accidents, collapsed buildings, hazardous atmospheres, entrapment, disabled elevators and many other types of emergencies.
Firefighters also typically respond to HazMat incidents as well.
Firefighting is a job which requires bravery, strength, quick thinking, level-headediness, and a wide range of skills.
Firefighters are based at and respond from a building called a fire station (also known as a firehouse or fire hall).
When a call comes in and their help is needed, they drive a vehicle called a fire engine or fire truck, which is also referred to as a fire apparatus, to the incident scene.
These vehicles are appropriately equipped for the emergencies they respond to and typically can pump water and foam to put out fires.
Fire engines also carry ladders, cutting tools and lots of different types of rescue equipment.
Most carry first aid kits to help people who are injured or hurt.
Another type of common fire apparatus, known as a “ladder truck”, is fitted with some variation of an articulating and telescoping ladder assembly which can be strategically positioned to give firefighters another means of access to an incident scene, as well as another means of egress for distressed victims or firefighters.
Firefighters wear heavy clothing to protect them from the heat when they are fighting a fire.
This is called bunker gear or turnout gear.
They wear a self-contained breathing apparatus and mask to protect themselves from breathing in smoke and super hot air and gasses.
Depending on the country, the agency firefighters work for is called a fire department, fire service, fire and rescue service or fire brigade.
Fire departments are usually government agencies that are funded by taxes and look after a local area.
Some sites employ their own firefighters, such as airports and some factories.
Some fire departments employ firefighters who work full-time and wait at the fire station to be called out.
They have to work both in the daytime and at night, though they can usually have a rest if they have nothing to do at night.
Villages and small towns usually have part-time firefighters who have other jobs outside of the fire service.
These firefighters will drive from their home or workplace to the fire station when their help is needed.
They may be volunteers, or they may be paid for doing this (known as retained firefighters in the UK).
In some places such as large US cities, it is common for the fire department to run the emergency medical services.
In those departments, such as the New York City Fire Department, most of the fire department's calls are medical emergencies rather than fires.
Although these are usually dealt with by full-time paramedics, many firefighters are trained in first aid and they may assist in medical emergencies, even bringing the fire engine to the scene.
Random is a term used in mathematics (and less formally) to mean that there is no way to reliably predict an outcome (to know what will happen before it happens) or sense a pattern.
Something that is chosen at random is not chosen for any conscious reason, and therefore thought to be purely by chance.
An example of a random event is winning a lottery.
A computer can make lists of apparently random numbers.
Humans are unable to do this, because the brain works in patterns.
If someone is asked to keep saying "heads" or "tails" at random, a smart human observer or properly programmed computer might eventually be able to tell which one the person is likely to say next because the computer notices the patterns.
On a website such as English Wikipedia the user can click on "Random page" to get a random article.
The chances of any one page appearing are exactly the same as for any other page.
Sometimes the word "random" is used more loosely.
There are websites of random jokes, which just means: a variety of jokes about all sorts of things.
In recent years young people have started to use the word "random" even more loosely to describe anything which is rather strange or has no logic.
Sentences such as "the mouldy cheese is escaping" or "I like pie and spam" might be described as "random", although this is not the proper dictionary or mathematical meaning of the word.
Making random numbers
There are several ways in which a process or system can be seen as random:
Randomness coming from the environment (for example, Brownian motion, but also hardware random number generators).
Randomness coming from the starting conditions.
This aspect is studied by chaos theory.
It can be observed in systems that depend very much on differences in the conditions at the start.
Examples of such systems are pachinko or dice.
Randomness generated by the system itself.
This is also called pseudo-randomness, and is the kind used in pseudo-random number generators.
There are many algorithms (based on arithmetics or cellular automata) to generate pseudo-random numbers.
The behavior of such a system can be predicted, if the random seed and the algorithm are known.
These methods are quicker than getting "true" randomness from the environment.
There are many uses for  random numbers.
The need has led to methods for generating data which is more or less random (pseudorandom).
These methods vary as to how unpredictable (statistically random) they are, and how quickly they can generate random numbers.
There are computational random number generators, generating large amounts of sufficiently random numbers.
Before then, tables were published as pseudo-random number tables.
There are different algorithms to make random numbers.
This makes it possible to model certain aspects of randomness, for example the distribution of the generated numbers.
Numbers generated in such a fashion will however always follow a pattern.
Given one, or a few of them, a computer can calculate the next random number.
Therefore, such numbers are called pseudorandom.
True random numbers are generated by observing a non-deterministic experiment.
The number is then calculated based on the result of the experiment.
An example might be to hook up a Geiger counter to a computer, to generate the number.
In cryptography
Keys for encryption must be random in order to be secure.
Key generation by a faulty random number generator has sometimes led to successful cryptanalysis.
Random access memory
The political status of Taiwan is a difficult situation that many people disagree about.
There are two countries in the world that call themselves China.
The People's Republic of China (PRC) is the country most people think of when they hear the name China.
The Republic of China (ROC) also calls itself China.
It is better known in most of the world as Taiwan.
Taiwan was a part of China from the late 1600s.
After the First Sino-Japanese War, Taiwan and Penghu were given to Japan by China.
After World War II, the Japanese on Taiwan surrendered to the Chinese.
This gave Taiwan back to the Chinese.
After losing a civil war in 1949, the ROC government fled to the island of Taiwan.
It took control of Taiwan and several nearby islands.
The PRC controlled mainland China.
It also said it owns the island of Taiwan (which is also known as Taiwan province) and the other islands.
The ROC said that it was the rightful government of China and it included all of China, including Taiwan and Mongolia.
In 1971, the ROC lost its United Nations seat as China.
The seat was given to the PRC instead.
This made the PRC the rightful government of China internationally.
Most countries have accepted the PRC as the leaders of China.
Several countries, including the United States, have been careful to not say officially which parts of the original China are part of the PRC.
23 countries have official diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
Nearly all of the other countries still have some diplomatic relations with them.
The major problems are about whether Taiwan is a part of the PRC or should be an independent country.
People who live in Taiwan have different ideas, and it is difficult to find out what most people believe because small changes in how polls are worded can change the results a lot.
Taiwan has not been ruled by mainland China since 1895.
Today, Taiwan is a democracy.
China is ruled by a communist government.
The idea of freedom in communism  is different than how people in a democracy  think freedom should be.
Few people in Taiwan want to become part of Communist China.
Almost none want to give up their idea of freedom.
Some people in Taiwan want Taiwan to formally become the Republic of Taiwan, an independent country.
Most of the people in Taiwan want to keep everything like it is now.
They want to wait for the best time to become the Republic of Taiwan.
Views by other countries
Today, most countries of the world see the PRC as China.
Most countries however still have a very close economic and cultural relationship with Taiwan, even if they have major tensions with the PRC.
The relations between the PRC and Taiwan are tense.
The PRC believes that Taiwan is a part of the PRC.
The government of the PRC has said that if the people of Taiwan vote to become the Republic of Taiwan, that they will invade Taiwan and stop this from happening.
In March of 2004, they passed a law that will allow China to invade Taiwan if Taiwan tries to leave the PRC and become an independent country.
This law has caused problems with the people in Taiwan.
It has caused even more people in Taiwan not to want to be a part of PRC China.
Politics of Taiwan
Cellular respiration is what cells do to break up sugars to get energy they can use.
Cellular respiration takes in food and uses it to create ATP, a chemical which the cell uses for energy.
Usually, this process uses oxygen, and is called aerobic respiration.
It has four stages known as glycolysis, Link reaction, the Krebs cycle, and the electron transport chain.
This produces ATP which supplies the energy that cells need to do work.
When they do not get enough oxygen, the cells use anaerobic respiration, which does not use oxygen.
However, this process produces lactic acid, and is not as efficient as when oxygen is used.
Aerobic respiration, the process that does use oxygen, produces much more energy and does not produce lactic acid.
It also produces carbon dioxide as a waste product, which then enters the circulatory system.
The carbon dioxide is taken to the lungs, where it is exchanged for oxygen.
C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O + Energy (as ATP)
Aerobic cellular respiration has four stages.
Each is important, and could not happen without the one before it.
The steps of aerobic cellular respiration are:
Glycolysis (the break down of glucose)
Electron transport chain, or ETC
In glycolysis, glucose in the cytoplasm is broken into two molecules of pyruvate.
Ten enzymes are needed for the ten intermediate compounds in this process.
Two energy-rich ATP kick-start the process.
At the end are two pyruvate molecules, plus
Substrate level - Four molecules of ATP are made in reaction number 7 & 10
In cells which use oxygen, the pyruvate is used in a second process, the Krebs cycle, which produces more ATP molecules.
Productivity of the cycle
Biology textbooks often state that 38 ATP molecules can be made per oxidised glucose molecule during cellular respiration (two from glycolysis, two from the Krebs cycle, and about 34 from the electron transport chain).
However, the process actually makes less energy (ATP) because of losses through leaky membranes.
Estimates are 29 to 30 ATP per glucose.
Aerobic metabolism is about (see sentence above) 15 times more efficient than anaerobic metabolism.
Anaerobic metabolism yields 2 mol ATP per 1 mol glucose.
They share the initial pathway of glycolysis but aerobic metabolism continues with the Krebs cycle and oxidative phosphorylation.
The post glycolytic reactions take place in the mitochondria in eukaryotic cells, and in the cytoplasm in prokaryotic cells.
Pyruvate from glycolysis is actively pumped  into mitochondria.
One carbon dioxide molecule and one hydrogen molecule are removed from the pyruvate (called oxidative decarboxylation) to produce an acetyl group, which joins to an enzyme called CoA to form acetyl CoA. This is essential for the Krebs cycle.
Acetyl CoA joins with oxaloacetate to form a compound with six carbon atoms.
This is the first step in the ever-repeating Krebs cycle.
Because two acetyl-CoA molecules are produced from each glucose molecule, two cycles are required per glucose molecule.
Therefore, at the end of two cycles, the products are: two ATP, six NADH, two FADH, and four CO2.
The ATP is a molecule which carries energy in chemical form to be used in other cell processes.
This process is also known as the TCA cycle (Tricarboxylic (try-car-box-ILL-ick) acid cycle), the citric acid cycle, or the Krebs cycle after the biochemist who elucidated its reactions.
Electron transport chain (ETC)
This is where most of the ATP is made.
All of the hydrogen molecules which have been removed in the  steps before (Krebs cycle, Link reaction) are pumped inside the mitochondria using energy that electrons release.
Eventually, the electrons powering the pumping of hydrogen into the mitochondria mix with some hydrogen and oxygen to form water and the hydrogen molecules stop being pumped.
Eventually, the hydrogen flows back into the cytoplasm of the mitochondria through protein channels.
As the hydrogen flows, ATP is made from ADP and phosphate ions.
Lesotho is a small country in southern Africa, it is an enclave of South Africa.
Its population is about 1,800,000.
Lesotho has no coast on the sea nor on a lake.
This type of country is called landlocked, meaning it is surrounded by land.
All of Lesotho's trade must either be flown in by aeroplane, or brought in by land.
Lesotho's position is unusual: it is completely surrounded by South Africa and has no borders with any other country.
This type of country is called an enclave.
Lesotho is one of the only three enclaved countries in the world (the other two are San Marino and the Vatican City).
This makes Lesotho's relationship with South Africa very important to them both.
Lesotho has many mountains and is one of the most mountainous countries in the world.
All of Lesotho is at least 1,400 m above sea level.
People sometimes travel there to ski in winter.
The many mountains in Lesotho mean that it rains there a lot.
Lesotho uses some of its water to generate electricity and sells some of the water to South Africa.
Lesotho became a country in 1818, but it was then called Basutoland.
A man called Moshoeshoe brought several of the groups of people in the area together and formed a new country with him as its king.
This new country came under attack from its enemies and in 1868 Moshoeshoe asked Queen Victoria of Great Britain for help.
Great Britain said it would help if Lesotho became part of the British Empire.
Lesotho eventually gained its independence on 4 October 1966.
Now it is a member of the British Commonwealth.
King Letsie III is the ruler of Lesotho.
1966 establishments
1960s establishments in Africa
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 – July 12, 1804) was a statesman, a political theorist and an economist.
He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Hamilton was the United States' first Secretary of the Treasury.
He was known for the creation of a national bank.
Born on the island of Nevis in the Caribbean, Hamilton moved to New York City.
When the American Revolutionary War started, Hamilton served in the Continental Army.
He was a close aide to General George Washington.
After leaving the military he started a bank.
He was one of the framers of the United States Constitution.
Along with James Madison and John Jay, he wrote the Federalist Papers, which supported the new Constitution.
Hamilton became the Secretary of the Treasury under George Washington.
He helped set up the United States' financial system.
Hamilton supported a national bank as well as the funding of the national debt.
A leader of the Federalist Party, he was a long time rival of Thomas Jefferson.
He was killed in a duel with political rival Aaron Burr ,who was one of his first friends, in 1804.
Today, Hamilton is usually thought of as one of the most important of the early leaders.
Hamilton's portrait appears on the United States ten-dollar bill.
Hamilton was not born in the United States.
He was from the Caribbean island of Nevis.
His father was James Hamilton and his mother was Rachel Fawcett Lavien.
Hamilton's mother had a child from a previous marriage that she left behind when she moved to Nevis.
At the time, she was still married to another man.
This meant that Hamilton was illegitimate.
He was very sensitive about this fact.
His father had left him as a child.
Two years after this tragedy both Hamilton and his mother became sick.
Hamilton recovered, but unfortunately his mother died.
He was grief-stricken and moved in with his cousin.
His cousin committed suicide.
In 1772 Hamilton went to New York to continue his education.
He attended Kings College, now called Columbia University, until 1776.
Early in the American Revolution Hamilton was an artillery officer.
Later he served on George Washington's staff.
Hamilton believed by the late 1780s that the Articles of Confederation made a government that was too weak to work well, and he supported drafting a new document.
He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and he was a signer of the Constitution.
In 1789 he was co-author of the Federalist Papers, a series of letters written by Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison under the name "Publius."
Hamilton wrote about two-thirds of the essays.
They were published in newspapers in New York and supported the new Constitution.
These writings are usually thought of as being one of the most important American works on politics and government.
They are still widely read today.
George Washington, who became President in 1789, chose Hamilton to be the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
While in this job, he supported a national bank and invented a way to pay the debt that the country owed for the Revolutionary War.
He helped start the Federalist Party.
John Adams was a member, and Washington supported the party though he was not a member.
After being Secretary of the Treasury he worked as a lawyer and continued to lead the Federalist Party.
Hamilton said he was very anti-slavery.
Along with John Jay he was a leader of the New York Manumission Society.
The society worked to end slavery in New York by getting slave owners to choose to free their slaves.
However, he bought and sold slaves for himself, his family, and his friends.
In 1800 Hamilton's political rival Thomas Jefferson beat the Federalist John Adams.
Jefferson and Hamilton had very different ideas about the direction the new country should take, although both were important founding fathers.
Gunning and death
Hamilton had a long-time rivalry with Jefferson's vice president Aaron Burr.
This resulted in the Burr–Hamilton duel of 1804 in which Burr killed Hamilton.
Hamilton kept Burr from being re-nominated for Vice President.
He also kept him from becoming Governor of New York.
Burr responded by challenging Hamilton to a duel.
They agreed to meet July 11, 1804 at Weehawken, New Jersey.
Dueling was illegal in New York which is why they chose Weehawken.
It was also the site where Philip Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton's son, had been killed in a duel three years earlier.
The night before the duel, Hamilton wrote his will, letters to friends, and finally a letter to his wife.
At dawn the next morning the two met at Weehawken.
Without any discussion, the two men took their positions.
Unusual for a duel of this kind, the two fired about 4–5 seconds apart.
Who fired first is not known today.
Burr's bullet struck Hamilton and knocked him down.
Then Burr promptly turned and left.
The bullet went through Hamilton's ribs, and damaged his lungs and liver.
Hamilton was taken to a friend's house in Manhattan where his wife and children joined him.
He asked two ministers to give him Communion but was refused.
Finally the Episcopal Bishop Benjamin Moore gave him the sacrament.
Hamilton died the next morning.
Hamilton is shown on the face of the U.S. 10-dollar bill.
Hamilton is one of only two non-presidents honored on commonly used notes.
Some of Hamilton's words are still quoted.
"I never expect a perfect work from imperfect man."
-The Federalist #25
Hamilton was the founder of the United States Revenue Cutter Service, which in 1915 became the United States Coast Guard.
For that reason, he is considered the father of the United States Coast Guard.
He was a staunch constitutionalist who, unlike several of the founding fathers, believed in a strong central government.
During his life he was involved in nearly every major political event from the Revolution to the election of 1800.
His writings fill a staggering 27 volumes.
Yet he is probably the least well understood of any of the founding fathers.
By the time of Hamilton's death, the Federalist Party he had helped start was in decline.
Hamilton and the Federalists had convinced Washington to create a central bank, assume the debts of the states and pass tax laws.
There is little doubt these moves helped save the new democracy.
Hamilton is the subject of the 2015 Broadway Musical, Hamilton.
It was written by and stars Lin-Manuel Miranda in the title role.
Alexander Hamilton Citizendium
What if Alexander Hamilton had lived?;
Hamilton for Dummies; YouTube
Thomas Jefferson vs Alexander Hamilton (AP US History - APUSH Review):YouTube
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United States Secretaries of the Treasury
A Köbes wears a blue apron and blue jacket and has a big leather belt with a leather purse.
He serves beer and food to guests and replaces empty beer glasses with full ones until the customer either places a beermat on his glass to signal that he doesn't want any more, or until the customer asks to pay.
The word Köbes comes from the name Jakob in a local dialect.
Michael Scuffil: Drink doch ene mit!
Der kölsche Köbes, published by Verlag Emons in Cologne, Edition 1, April 2007, 47 pages, in five languages, hardbound,
Stop motion is a way of animation which makes it look like still objects are moving.
Clay animation is a good example of how stop motion is used.
Stop-motion requires any camera that can make single frames (or photos).
It works by shooting a single frame, moving the object a little bit, and capturing a frame again.
Cartoons use a similar way; one of the main differences is that stop motion uses real objects instead of drawn.
D.C. United is a Major League Soccer league soccer (or football) team that plays in Washington, D.C. in the United States.
Its nickname is "the Black-and-Red".
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American soccer teams
Major League Soccer teams
1990s establishments in Washington, D.C.
Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) is an American composer and musician.
She was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
She is known as one of the first people to use electric instruments to make music.
In 1968, she released her music album "Switched on Bach".
This album used many new electric instruments including the Moog Synthesizer.
It won three Grammy Awards.
She also did the music for movies.
These include A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Tron.
In 1972, Carlos had a medical operation to change her body from male to female.
Electronic musicians
Transgender and transsexual people
Musicians from Rhode Island
Women composers
People from Pawtucket, Rhode Island
In mathematics, Boolean algebra is an algebra for binary digits (where 0 means false and 1 means true).
It is equipped with three operators: conjunction (AND), disjunction (OR) and negation (NOT).
It uses normal math symbols, but it does not work in the same way.
It is named for George Boole, who invented it in the middle 19th century.
Boolean algebra did not get much attention except from mathematicians until the 20th century when engineers began using it for logic gates.
It means that the output is not the input.
The AND operator is written as  like this:
The OR operator is written as  like this:
XOR basically means "exclusive or", meaning one input or the other must be true, but not both.
It is also sometimes called NOR, which means the same thing.
The XOR operator is written as  like this:
is the same as an AND then a NOT.
This is called a NAND gate.
It is not the same as a NOT then an AND:
which is called XOR identity table
or if =TRUE, TRUE.,
Augustus De Morgan discovered that it is possible to preserve the truth values of Boolean expressions by changing a  sign to a  sign, while making or breaking a bar.
Boolean algebra on All About Circuits
Boolean algebra Citizendium
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone  (published in the US under the title  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) is the first book in the Harry Potter series, written by J.K. Rowling.
It was published in 1997 and a movie version was shown in theaters in 2001.
Plot Summarization
At the start, Rowling describes how in an ordinary suburb, somewhere in an English town, people are suddenly surprised to see witches and wizards in odd clothing riding on public buses and appearing at places where people would not expect to suddenly meet a wizard.
It is clear that something unusual has happened in the world of witches and wizards, and those people, who are normally quite secret, are out and about, enjoying themselves.
In this way, Rowling introduces the two worlds of her story, the world of ordinary people, called "Muggles", and the secret world of the magic folk who usually keep to themselves.
Rowling then introduces the main character, Harry Potter, a little baby boy who is left on the doorstep of his aunt and uncle by an old wizard with a long white beard.
When the reader next meets Harry, he has grown to be a boy of eleven, living unhappily with his spiteful aunt, cruel uncle and bullying cousin Dudley.
He is rescued from his misery by a huge bearded man upon his eleventh birthday.
Harry Potter is a wizard without knowing it, and the giant man, Rubeus Hagrid, has come to help him buy his books and get ready to go to school.
The school sounds most exciting.
It is "Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry".
On the long train journey north, Harry Potter meets the two people who are to become his best friends, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger.
Ron and Hermione have very different characters.
Hermione, who comes from "Muggle" (nonwizard) parents, is very intelligent and talented.
She is such a know-it-all and so bossy that the boys do not like her at first.
Ron, on the other hand, comes from an old family of wizards.
He is number six in a family of seven children.
He wears hand-me-down clothes and even his pet rat used to belong to his brother Percy.
Ron knows all about Harry Potter.
The reason that Ron, and all the other people in the wizarding world, know all about Harry Potter is that Harry is famous, without even knowing it himself.
The reason why he was left on the doorstep of his aunt and uncle is that both his parents are dead.
They were murdered by an evil wizard who calls himself "Lord Voldemort".
He is so evil that people are even afraid to say his name.
Harry is famous because he survived the magical attack of the "He who must not be named", and since that day, Voldemort has gone into hiding.
Joanne Rowling then gives the reader a picture of the school that is to be Harry's home through seven books of the series, each one of which deals with a year in his life.
The book describes the teachers, the lessons, the customs and the school sport so that it seems to be part of a real world.