Brunel University African Poetry Prize is a literary award aimed at the development, celebration and promotion of poetry from Africa. The prize is sponsored by Brunel University and partnered by Commonwealth Writers, the Africa Centre UK, and the African Poetry Book Fund USA.
The prize was initiated by British-Nigerian writer Bernardine Evaristo in part to help introduce African poets to readers outside of Africa, saying "It became clear to me that poetry from the continent could also do with a prize to draw attention to it and to encourage a new generation of poets who might one day become an international presence."
The first winner will be announced April, 2013.
The prize was initiated by British-Nigerian writer Bernardine Evaristo in part to help introduce African poets to readers outside of Africa, saying "It became clear to me that poetry from the continent could also do with a prize to draw attention to it and to encourage a new generation of poets who might one day become an international presence."
The first winner will be announced April, 2013.
Tolkienism or Nedaphadrimeru is a religious theory that uses the gods (or Valar) of Arda. The religious philosophies are mostly substituted for each person, but in whole they follow the struggle of Manwë and the other Vala, against that of the undoings of Melkor(Morgoth) and his 1st lieutenant Sauron. The age old battle of Good versus evil. The main difference between it and other religions is the stories. There are unique stories of creation and evils and golden ages, all claim to have the correct version of history. The Tolkiendil (followers of this religion) believe in the stories of J. R. R. Tolkien as the true stories, how earth (Arda) was made, how man was first born, and of the histories thence forth.
Names and classification
The Valar's names are used in the form presented by Tolkien, but are believed to also represent the gods of various mythos. For example, Ulmo could be identified with the Greek Posiedon or the Roman Neptune and Aulë could be identified with the Norse Thor.
On a larger scale, Ilúvatar could represent the collective whole of the Ainur, and stand for the Christian God, or Islamic Allah. However, due to the existence of the Ainur, it is difficult to classify Nedaphadrimeru as Monotheistic or Polytheistic, although it is sometimes considered to be Henotheistic or Pantheistic.
Names and classification
The Valar's names are used in the form presented by Tolkien, but are believed to also represent the gods of various mythos. For example, Ulmo could be identified with the Greek Posiedon or the Roman Neptune and Aulë could be identified with the Norse Thor.
On a larger scale, Ilúvatar could represent the collective whole of the Ainur, and stand for the Christian God, or Islamic Allah. However, due to the existence of the Ainur, it is difficult to classify Nedaphadrimeru as Monotheistic or Polytheistic, although it is sometimes considered to be Henotheistic or Pantheistic.
Linkury is an online B2B company that offers web tools allowing publishers to monetize web, mobile, and desktop applications utilizing the Linkury framework and SDK. Linkury is based on Microsoft Azure Cloud and promises zero down time. They are known for creating customizable tools that allow users to compare search results side by side and also share search results with all of a user's social media contacts with one click.
History
Linkury first developed tools for publishers in 2009.
Products
Linkury publisher tools are platform based as opposed to an extension. The platform allows publishers to target traffic by keeping their presence in front of the user while they are browsing the internet. Publishers can update content, push RSS feeds and social media content, and perform other updates without the need for the end user to re-install the toolbar
The publisher tools have unique features that allow users to stream different services side by side. Users can customize their searches to only search specific websites (e.g., they can search for a term from CNN, Fox News, and MarketWatch and display the results from just those sources). Linkury is a white label product which allows publishers to customize the tools and brand it as their own. They can customize features such adding their own logo, incorporate search buttons for websites such as Google and eBay, and also install widgets for games and weather.<ref name="Squidoo"/><ref name="Microsoft"/>
Users of the toolbar can also simultaneous stream a single message to all of their social media accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, and Blogger. This allows publishers to maximize their monetization as the user is sharing links on their social media networks that lead back to the publisher. Linkury also has a customized report feature to allow publishers to track revenue, usage trends, and churn rate.<ref name="Squidoo"/><ref name="LWS"/>
History
Linkury first developed tools for publishers in 2009.
Products
Linkury publisher tools are platform based as opposed to an extension. The platform allows publishers to target traffic by keeping their presence in front of the user while they are browsing the internet. Publishers can update content, push RSS feeds and social media content, and perform other updates without the need for the end user to re-install the toolbar
The publisher tools have unique features that allow users to stream different services side by side. Users can customize their searches to only search specific websites (e.g., they can search for a term from CNN, Fox News, and MarketWatch and display the results from just those sources). Linkury is a white label product which allows publishers to customize the tools and brand it as their own. They can customize features such adding their own logo, incorporate search buttons for websites such as Google and eBay, and also install widgets for games and weather.<ref name="Squidoo"/><ref name="Microsoft"/>
Users of the toolbar can also simultaneous stream a single message to all of their social media accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, and Blogger. This allows publishers to maximize their monetization as the user is sharing links on their social media networks that lead back to the publisher. Linkury also has a customized report feature to allow publishers to track revenue, usage trends, and churn rate.<ref name="Squidoo"/><ref name="LWS"/>
Environment is divided in following segments:
1. Lithosphere
2. Hydrosphere
3. Atmosphere
4. Biosphere
(i) Lithosphere: Lithosphere is related with edaphic factor. The solid component of earth is known as lithosphere. Lithosphere means the mantle of rocks constituting the earth's crust.
It includes the soil, which covers the rock crust.
Soil plays an important role as it provides food for man and animals.
Soil is usually defined as "any part of earth's crust in which plants root."
Muddy bottoms of ponds, ravines or glacial deposits, porous rock surface, bottoms of lakes peat etc., all are thus soil.
A typical productive soil contains approximately 95 per cent inorganic matter and 5 per cent organic matter. Organic matter in the soil provides food for microorganism. This matter includes amino sugars, organic sulphur, organic phosphate, and polysaccharides.
Soil contains silicate minerals, which includes nearly 74 per cent Silicon and Oxygen, common elements in the soil are 46.4 per cent Oxygen, Silicon 27.7 per cent, Aluminium 8.1 per cent, Iron 5.6 per cent, Calcium 3.6 per cent, Sodium 2.8 per cent, Potassium 2.6 per cent, Magnesium 2.1 per cent. In some soils, manganese oxide and titanium oxide are also available.
(ii) Hydrosphere: This includes all the surface and ground water resources such as oceans, seas, rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, glaciers, polar ice caps, ground water and water locked in rock and crevices and minerals laying deep below the earth's crust.
1. Earth is called blue planet because 80 per cent of its surface is covered by water (97 per cent of the earth's water resources is locked up in the oceans and seas, 2.4 per cent is trapped is giant glaciers and polar ice caps.)
2. Water is universal solvent.
3. Water is also the main medium by which chemical constituents are transported from one part of an ecosystem to others.
4. Water has high specific heat, latent heat and relatively high freezing point.
5. Surface water contains a lot of organic matter and mineral nutrients, which feed large bacteria population and algae.
(iii) Atmosphere: The gaseous envelope surrounding the earth is composed of an entire mass of air containing N2, 02, H20, C02 and inert gases is known as atmosphere.
1. Soil contains silicate minerals, which includes nearly 74 per cent Silicon.
2. The atmosphere is a reservoir of several elements essential to life and serves many purposes and functions.
3. The atmosphere is mobile, elastic, compressible and expansible.
4. Atmosphere serves many purposes and functions.
5. It absorbs most of the harmful radiations.
6. It maintains the heat balance of the earth.
7. Different cycles those are present in the atmosphere in the form of water cycle, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen cycle etc. related to the movement of matter been an organism and its environment.
8. Atmosphere can be divided into several layers on the basic of temperature variations. They are troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere.
9. (iv) Biosphere: The biosphere is the part of the earth in which life exists.
10. Biosphere is biological envelope that surrounds the globe, containing and able to support.
11. It penetrates into and is dependent on the atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere. This denotes the relating of living organism and their interactions with the environment. The biosphere is a relatively thin and incomplete envelope covering most of the world.
The basic approach to the study of man-environment relationship and the core of the environment is ecological analysis of spatial attributes of inter-relationship between technologically advanced man and natural environment of the earth in terms of ecosystem.
Thus, broadly speaking, environment may be defined as the study of spatial attributes of interrelationship between living organisms and the natural environment in general and technologically advanced 'economic man and his natural environment in particular.
The definition of environmental science may be further broadened to make it more flexible so that it may very precisely reveal the scope of the subject.
Thus, environmental science may be defined as that which studies characteristics, composition and functions of different components of the natural environment-system (including man as a biological organism - a physical man), natural dependence of different components, various processes that link the components, the interactions of different components with each other and among themselves and consequent responses in spatial and temporal contexts in terms of geoecosystem, as well as interactions of technologically advanced economic men with different components of the natural geoecosystem and resultant modifications and changes in the natural geoecosystem, leading to environmental degradation and pollution, the techniques and strategies of pollution control measures and management of ecological resources.
1. Lithosphere
2. Hydrosphere
3. Atmosphere
4. Biosphere
(i) Lithosphere: Lithosphere is related with edaphic factor. The solid component of earth is known as lithosphere. Lithosphere means the mantle of rocks constituting the earth's crust.
It includes the soil, which covers the rock crust.
Soil plays an important role as it provides food for man and animals.
Soil is usually defined as "any part of earth's crust in which plants root."
Muddy bottoms of ponds, ravines or glacial deposits, porous rock surface, bottoms of lakes peat etc., all are thus soil.
A typical productive soil contains approximately 95 per cent inorganic matter and 5 per cent organic matter. Organic matter in the soil provides food for microorganism. This matter includes amino sugars, organic sulphur, organic phosphate, and polysaccharides.
Soil contains silicate minerals, which includes nearly 74 per cent Silicon and Oxygen, common elements in the soil are 46.4 per cent Oxygen, Silicon 27.7 per cent, Aluminium 8.1 per cent, Iron 5.6 per cent, Calcium 3.6 per cent, Sodium 2.8 per cent, Potassium 2.6 per cent, Magnesium 2.1 per cent. In some soils, manganese oxide and titanium oxide are also available.
(ii) Hydrosphere: This includes all the surface and ground water resources such as oceans, seas, rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, glaciers, polar ice caps, ground water and water locked in rock and crevices and minerals laying deep below the earth's crust.
1. Earth is called blue planet because 80 per cent of its surface is covered by water (97 per cent of the earth's water resources is locked up in the oceans and seas, 2.4 per cent is trapped is giant glaciers and polar ice caps.)
2. Water is universal solvent.
3. Water is also the main medium by which chemical constituents are transported from one part of an ecosystem to others.
4. Water has high specific heat, latent heat and relatively high freezing point.
5. Surface water contains a lot of organic matter and mineral nutrients, which feed large bacteria population and algae.
(iii) Atmosphere: The gaseous envelope surrounding the earth is composed of an entire mass of air containing N2, 02, H20, C02 and inert gases is known as atmosphere.
1. Soil contains silicate minerals, which includes nearly 74 per cent Silicon.
2. The atmosphere is a reservoir of several elements essential to life and serves many purposes and functions.
3. The atmosphere is mobile, elastic, compressible and expansible.
4. Atmosphere serves many purposes and functions.
5. It absorbs most of the harmful radiations.
6. It maintains the heat balance of the earth.
7. Different cycles those are present in the atmosphere in the form of water cycle, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen cycle etc. related to the movement of matter been an organism and its environment.
8. Atmosphere can be divided into several layers on the basic of temperature variations. They are troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere.
9. (iv) Biosphere: The biosphere is the part of the earth in which life exists.
10. Biosphere is biological envelope that surrounds the globe, containing and able to support.
11. It penetrates into and is dependent on the atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere. This denotes the relating of living organism and their interactions with the environment. The biosphere is a relatively thin and incomplete envelope covering most of the world.
The basic approach to the study of man-environment relationship and the core of the environment is ecological analysis of spatial attributes of inter-relationship between technologically advanced man and natural environment of the earth in terms of ecosystem.
Thus, broadly speaking, environment may be defined as the study of spatial attributes of interrelationship between living organisms and the natural environment in general and technologically advanced 'economic man and his natural environment in particular.
The definition of environmental science may be further broadened to make it more flexible so that it may very precisely reveal the scope of the subject.
Thus, environmental science may be defined as that which studies characteristics, composition and functions of different components of the natural environment-system (including man as a biological organism - a physical man), natural dependence of different components, various processes that link the components, the interactions of different components with each other and among themselves and consequent responses in spatial and temporal contexts in terms of geoecosystem, as well as interactions of technologically advanced economic men with different components of the natural geoecosystem and resultant modifications and changes in the natural geoecosystem, leading to environmental degradation and pollution, the techniques and strategies of pollution control measures and management of ecological resources.