A Proper Cup of Tea: The Making of a British Beverage

Tea is a drink the Western world associates with Britain. Yet at one time tea was new and exotic. After tea was introduced to Britain, tea went through a series of social transformations. The British gradually accepted tea consumption as a sign of gentility and all social classes enjoyed the drink. After 1834, when the East India Company lost their monopoly on the trade with China, a new tea industry began in India and control passed to British entrepreneurs. Faced with difficulty in their efforts to make their industry into a facsimile of Chinese methods, the British reconstituted their tea industry from the ground up. British ingenuity flourished under the guidance of innovators with machines reshaping the industry. As tea became part of British society and industry, an image of tea formed. Advertising brought that image to the public, who accepted the concept of a proper cup of tea

Decomposition Rates of Organic Material across Herbivore Treatments in a Nutrient-Rich Semi-Arid Sodic Savanna

Decomposition is a major determinant of terrestrial nutrient cycling and therefore an important regulator of ecosystem structure and function. It has been widely documented that large mammalian herbivores (LMH) act as a significant driver of changes to aboveground structure and modifications to edaphic properties. Little is known about the role of herbivory, and particularly the loss thereof, in mediating essential ecological processes in a herbivore-adapted system. The Nkuhlu exclosures, a large-scale, long-term exclusion experiment in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, provided an opportunity to explore the effects of herbivory and/or its long-term exclusion on decomposition and stabilisation of detrital plant material. An extended, site-specific version of the Tea Bag Index approach was used to quantify decomposition rate (k) and stabilisation factor (S) of standardised litter substrate. Two hundred and fifty tea bags (125 green and 125 rooibos tea bags) applied in a paired tea bag design were exposed to three herbivore treatments along the sodic zone of the Nkuhlu exclosures and removed after three months of incubation. Decomposition rates (k) were highest in the presence of LMH and lowest in their absence. Conversely, stabilisation factor (S) was significantly higher in treatments from which herbivores have been excluded for ~18 years. Our study provides evidence that LMH can influence essential ecological processes such as decomposition and stabilisation of detrital plant material. Moreover, results confirmed that ecosystems that evolved with herbivores, are sensitive to herbivore loss as it reduces decomposition rates of plant detritus and hence, decelerates ecosystem nutrient cycling

Spartan Daily, December 6, 1940

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The Aveiro charter of rights for human beings: a milestone for the second decade of the 21st century

BEING HUMAN is an extraordinary privilege. Every woman and every man that is born has something to learn and a project to build throughout their lives. Designing futures in the present and affirming what makes them BE HUMAN requires work, study and fun. Since the first decade of the 21st century, the Human Rights in Action project, by Civitas Aveiro, has helped, through its work with children, young people and teachers, to construct answers to the question: what makes us truly human? What are the effects of technologies’ in our life? The Aveiro charter of rights of the Human Being is one of the results of the 10th edition of the project developed in partnership with the University of Aveiro, with the backing of the Municipality and local Businesses. Twenty-five education and teaching institutions, from Nursery School to University, and a total of eight hundred Children and Young People, joined by around fifty teachers, from various subject areas, were involved in the development of the one hundred and twenty six rights inscribed in the Charter of Rights of the Human Being, which has been turned into an agenda for 2010. The dissemination of the charter by Civitas Aveiro aims to make a contribution in order that the citizens of the city of Aveiro, upon hearing the voices that speak out in this charter, may take steps toward making Aveiro a city blessed + dreamed with the Rights of the Human Being. The purpose of this presentation is to lay out and encourage discussion on the process of collective participation in the construction of the Charter of Rights of the Human Being, in various contexts, the methodology used and the analysis of the rights inscribed in it

Spartan Daily, February 9, 1954

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Spartan Daily, February 9, 1954

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State College Times, May 25, 1933

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Spartan Daily, March 2, 1948

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