Pichola Sok's List: ACE Supporting Details Activity

• International English is the concept of the English language as a global means of communication in numerous dialects, and also the movement towards an international standard for the language. It is also referred to as Global English, World English, Common English, or General English. Sometimes these terms refer simply to the array of varieties of English spoken throughout the world.

• Historic Crude Oil Prices

   

  From 1949 through 1980, crude oil prices were relatively low, averaging $4.06 per barrel (see Figure 1). In the 1980s, crude oil prices increased, reaching a high of $31.77 per barrel in 1981. From the 1981 level, crude oil prices declined to $12.51 per barrel in 1986. From 1986 through 1999, crude oil prices exhibited variability but did not trend up or down. During this period, the average crude oil price was $15.22 per barrel. In 2000, crude oil prices increased. Crude oil prices reached $26.72 per barrel in 2000 and then declined to the low $20 range in 2001 and 2002. Since 2002, crude oil prices have increased each year, reaching a high of $59.69 per barrel in 2006.

• Update: the warming trend for the last 50 years is 0.13^oC per decade, nearly twice that for the previous 100 years. The total global average temperature increase from 1850-2005 is now 0.76^oC.

    

• Life and Death on Mt. Everes
•    It is difficult to get precise statistics on death rates in Himalayan mountaineering; a variety of numbers are bandied about. "One out of ten Himalayan climbers does not return." "The death rate on expeditions to the Everest area runs about one in eight." "For every ten climbers who enter the ice fall [on Everest], one does not emerge." "For every two climbers to reach the summit [of Everest], another has died in the attempt." Elizabeth Hawley, an extremely knowledgeable journalist who has lived in Kathmandu for many years, told a reporter in 1996, "Some 4,000 people have tried to climb Everest, 660 have succeeded, and 142 have died." This puts the ratio at about one death for every five successes. Concerning Sherpas alone, "from 1950 through the middle of 1989, 84 Sherpas died on mountaineering expeditions." Specifically with reference to Everest, "of the 115 climbers who have died on Everest, 43 have been Sherpas."
•   It is difficult to get precise statistics on death rates in Himalayan mountaineering; a variety of numbers are bandied about. "One out of ten Himalayan climbers does not return." "The death rate on expeditions to the Everest area runs about one in eight." "For every ten climbers who enter the ice fall [on Everest], one does not emerge." "For every two climbers to reach the summit [of Everest], another has died in the attempt." Elizabeth Hawley, an extremely knowledgeable journalist who has lived in Kathmandu for many years, told a reporter in 1996, "Some 4,000 people have tried to climb Everest, 660 have succeeded, and 142 have died." This puts the ratio at about one death for every five successes. Concerning Sherpas alone, "from 1950 through the middle of 1989, 84 Sherpas died on mountaineering expeditions." Specifically with reference to Everest, "of the 115 climbers who have died on Everest, 43 have been Sherpas."

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