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The ethnobotany class studies the plants people use and how those plants are used. The unit on material cultural uses of plant products includes economic botany, economically valuable plants and their uses. The coconut tree is literally the tree of life and a tremendous natural resource. Federated States of Micronesia Public Law 18-68, the Coconut Tree Act of 2014, placed the former national Coconut Development Authority with Vital. Vital has been executing a mandate from the President of the FSM and the FM Congress with an eye toward rapidly developing the coconut sector in the FSM into a long-term sustainable economic activity. Source:  Vital Transition of CDA: Phase I Bus pulls in at 3:59 Under this mandate  Vital has set a number of goals . Vital plans to develop and upgrade domestic processing capacity of coconut.Vital will be able to process copra produced in the FSM into crude coconut oil for fuel, and coconut meal for animal feed. In a separate process Vital also...

When you want to have a drawing assessed, the best assessors are those who draw every day. The ideal assessor is a crayon jockey who has few social reservations about being critical. Two first grade students with six combined years of experience in coloring five days a week for 180 days a year were deployed as assessors. First graders have almost no social throttle back. Pictures are cool or not. There are no points for trying hard. Time out for a photo opportunity. Working on sorting out the quality, higher quality slides up, lower quality slides down. The first graders get this, adults have a harder time, sliding down into unanswerable questions posed by Pirsig in Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. First graders know quality without requiring a prior explanation. Their definitions are sure and automatic, unvoiced and unvoiceable. The judges pick their favorites. I realize that the main subject of the image on the left is a mermaid, but the mermaid is contempla...

The backside of El Niño has brought strong gusty winds across Pohnpei. With the wind both a headwind and crosswind, coming in from the east-northest, the aircraft severely underperformed the expected population mean. In both classes the pre-class point estimate for the population mean of 581 cm was not within the 95% confidence interval. As a statistics class experiment, the results are more "useful" if the population mean is captured by the sample, but the reality is that the population mean is based on more typical becalmed weather. Clarisa Marie and Casan-Jenae, 8:00 section As I have done in the past, the planes were thrown from the balcony. Distances were measured perpendicular to the building using a fiberglass 30 meter tape measure. This replaced an 8 meter tape measure used in the past. The longer tape measure did speed up the distance measurements. Upstairs with the SMART board running Paper aircraft flight distance data was added to a Google Docs Sh...

Leaves are used to treat fungal skin infections such as ringworm and tinea versicolor. Young leaves are either rubbed into the affected skin or the leaves are infused into coconut oil and then the coconut oil is used daily until the fungal infection clears. Works also for fungal rashes due to persistently wet skin. Senna Alata Rank Scientific Name and Common Name Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants Class Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons Subclass Rosidae Order Fabales Family Fabaceae ⁄ Leguminosae – Pea family Genus Senna Mill. – senna Species Senna alata (L.) Roxb. – emperor's candlesticks Synonyms Cassia alata L. Cassia alata L. var. perennis Pamp. Cassia alata L. var. rumphiana DC. Cassia bracteata L.f. Cassia herpetica Jacq. Cassia rumphiana (DC.) Bojer Herpetica alata (L.) Raf.

Random photos from a walk and talk on campus looking at leaf morphology in ethnobotany class Philippine ground orchid Spathoglottis plicata with characteristic monocot linear venation Premna obtusifolia variant locally known as oahr Terminalia catappa sprouts with two cotyledons: a dicot by definition! Kerat and Stewart trying to make heads or tails of Ravenala madagascariensis Jason, Sweena, and Ravelyn Goofing off under the ravenala madagascariensis Headed back up to campus after the walkabout