Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Samsung S6 & Samsung S6 Edge - Navo


  • The Samsung Galaxy S6 & Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge are know for its stunning features and design. Both of the phones were in 20 countries on April 10, 2015. The S6 Edge is a bigger verison of the Samsung Edge. One of the best features are that both phones have a 1440p display!
  • Many people say that the Samsung S6 is a Iphone 6 Plus and Iphone 4 because the S6 has aluminium which the Iphone 6 and 6 Plus have and it has a the same glass back as the Iphone 4.
  • When both phones were released with Android 5.0.2 Lollipop, Android 6.0 Marshmallow was released too. However the disapointing thing about both phones are it's battery life but the good thing is that Samsung improved their finger-print scanner. 
  • A month later Samsung releases the Samsung S6 active, Shock proof, Water proof and Scratch Proof. Most people consider this phone as the Ugly Phone! Most people use this phone as an underwater camera. The rear camera uses a Canon ESI while the other 2 phones use a Sony Exmor RS.
  • Another dissapointing thing that people found the that the back isn't removable due to the glass back! 

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Sunday, August 16, 2015

7 Things you didn't know about dust.


  • Dust is universal: It’s dry, powdery soil or any other material made up of tiny particles, whether that’s in a pile under your bed or the plume of a volcano.
  • Many mammals and birds take dust baths as part of their grooming routines or social rituals.
  • Chickens dust-bathe so devotedly that caged hens sometimes act out “sham” baths on the floors of their cages, without any dust.
  • Humans, on the other hand, go to great lengths to keep dust away. One of the first motorized vacuum cleaners, patented by English engineer Hubert Cecil Booth in 1901, was nicknamed “Puffing Billy” after a famous steam locomotive. Huge, horse-drawn and powered by gasoline, it had to be parked outside, and its hoses were deployed through doors and windows to clean establishments such as Westminster Abbey.
  • And no wonder we try so hard. When Dutch naturalist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek peered at items from his household through the microscope lens he invented, he found tiny spider-like animals - mites - living everywhere.
  • Allergies and asthma are only the start of how dust can harm humans. Miners are at risk of silicosis, pneumoconiosis (black lung) and other diseases from coal dust. Breathing asbestos dust can lead to the cancer mesothelioma.
  • Dust pneumonia killed thousands during the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. A recent study found that 1934 brought the most severe North American drought in a millennium. An unlucky atmospheric circulation pattern may have been made worse by poor farming practices.







Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Discipline - Navo


  • Children do not always do what parents want. When a child misbehaves, the parent must decide how to respond. All children need rules and expectations to help them learn appropriate behavior.
  • Once rules have been established, parents should explain to the child that broken rules carry consequences. For example, a parent could say, "Here are the rules. When you follow the rules, this will happen and if you break a rule, this is what will happen." Parents and the child should decide together what the rewards and consequences will be. Parents should always try to acknowledge and offer positive reinforcement and support when their child follows the rules.
  • For many parents, the word discipline refers to punishment intended to decrease child misbehavior. In truth, the word is derived from disciplinare,referring to a system of teaching or instruction (Howard 1996). Although few would dispute the value of teaching children, the topic of parental discipline has long been controversial, even among experts. In the leading parenting book of the 1930s, Psychological Care of Infant and Child (1928), John B. 
  • Discipline — it’s a word that once had a pretty good reputation. Parents instinctively knew that discipline was something kids needed. It was good for them. It taught them the basics of living: character, morals, responsibility, respect. 
  • But in the last generation or two, discipline has received a spanking. Some experts proclaim that really savvy parents shouldn’t have to discipline much. They can talk and reason children into cooperating instead. The media bombard parents with all the latest theories on psychological correctness. And the culture relentlessly echoes the attitude that words such as “authority,” “limits” and “control” are old-fashioned concepts we need to throw off.


Sunday, August 2, 2015

Lake Natron - Navo


  • Lake Natron covers an area of 85,000ha, the lake basin is approximately 65 km long although on average only 20% of this is ever covered by water. The water is highly saline (ph 10) and most of the Lake an extremely inhospitable environment. Whilst Lake Natron is not aquatically diverse, is has some very ecologically dependant species. 
  • For example, the fish species Oreochromis alcalicus appears to be endemic to (only occurs within) Lake Natron and Kenya’s Lake Magadi.O.alcalicus, like the majority of the lakes resident and migratory biological diversity, is concentrated on the margins of the lake where spring water or seasonal river inflow creates a unique but fragile environment. 
  • It is upon this fragile ecotone along the edges of the lake that the human population as well as the biological diversity depends. Any development projects would require well-designed management and mitigation techniques, especially with the use and management of the limited fresh water resources.
  • What do we know about Lake Natron? Evidence suggests that approximately 10,000 years ago, the lake was 60 metres higher than it is now and contiguous with Lake Magadi in Kenya, at this time the water was less saline. There are 16 wetland sites that are important for migratory and resident birdlife that I group into three general areas, most easily defined by the water sources that sustain them. The southern two areas, ‘east south’ and ‘west south’, show variation in their water compositions, and have many different aquatic plant and animal species.
  • There is then a gap of approximately 60 km between the southern lagoon and Shompole, which is at the northern end of the lake. The Shompole area is a complex of wetland systems, which vary considerably during the year. The Ewaso Ngiro river which feeds these northern wetlands is the largest freshwater inflow into the lake. The northern and southern areas are known to join in extreme rainfall events, otherwise they are isolated from one another.
  • These complex wetlands on the edge of the lake form extensive areas of regularly burnt edaphic grassland, such as that characterised by Sporobolus spicatus are found in the basin (you cross these driving from Ngare Sero to Pinyinyi) and on areas at the base of Gelai.