GEO Bowl 2012

Top Ten U.S. Exports1. Civilian Aircraft2. Semiconductors3. Passenger Cars4. Pharmaceutical Preparations5. Automotive Accessories6. Other Industrial Machines7. Fuel oil8. Organic Chemicals9. Telecommunication10.Plastic Materials

Top Ten U.S. Imports1. Crude oil2. Passenger Cars3. Medicinal Preparations4. Automotive Accessories5. Other Household Goods6. Computer Accessories7. Petroleum Products8. Cotton Apparel9. Telecommunications Equipment10.Video Equipment

Top Import From..• Japan- Passenger Cars

• China- Sporting Goods & Toys

• Germany- Passenger Cars

• France, UK, & Italy- Medicinal Preparations

• Russia- Fuel Oil• Brazil, Canada, & Mexico- Crude Oil

• India- Diamonds

Top U.S. Export to…• Japan, France, UK, & Brazil- Civilian

Aircraft• China- Soybeans• Germany- Passenger Cars• Russia- Meat & Poultry• India- Chemical Fertilizers• South Korea- Semiconductors• Mexico & Canada- Automotive

Accessories• Switzerland- Gold

Major Export Partners• U.S.: Canada 21.4 %, Mexico 11.7 %, China 5.6 %, Japan

5.4 %, UK 4.3 %, Germany 4.3 %

• Japan: US 20.4 %, China 15.3 %, South Korea 7.6 %

• China: US 19.1 %, Hong Kong 15.1 %, Japan 8.4 %

• Brazil: US 16.1 %, Argentina 9.2 %, China 6.8 %

• Germany: France 9.7 %, US 7.5 %, UK 7.3 %

Top Exporting Countries

1. China2. Germany3. US4. Japan5. France6. South Korea7. Netherlands8. Italy9. Russia10.UK

Top Ports- Foreign• China- Shanghai, Ningbo-Zhoushan, Tianjin,

Guangzhou, Hong Kong• South Korea- Busan• The Netherlands- Rotterdam• Singapore• Japan- Tokyo• UAE- Dubai• Germany- Hamburg• India- Mumbai

Top Ports- US1. Los Angeles2. Long Beach3. New York-NJ4. Georgia5. Virginia6. Houston7. Oakland8. South Carolina9. Tacoma10.Seattle

Keystone XL Pipeline

• by Transcanada Corp.• a pipeline system to transport

synthetic crude oil and diluted bitumen ("dilbit") from the Athabasca oil sands region in northeastern Alberta, Canada to multiple destinations in the United States

• refineries in Illinois• Cushing oil distribution hub in

Oklahoma• proposed connections to refineries

along the Gulf Coast of Texas.

The Ogallala Aquiferpart of the High Plains Aquifer

System• a vast yet shallow underground water

table aquifer located beneath the Great Plains in the United States

• One of the world's largest aquifers, it covers an area of approximately 174,000 mi² (450,000 km²)

• About 27 percent of the irrigated land in the United States overlies this aquifer system

• about 30 percent of the nation's ground water used for irrigation

• provides drinking water to 82 percent of the people who live within the aquifer boundary

ISS• The International Space Station (ISS) is a habitable

artificial satellite in low Earth orbit• The station has been continuously occupied since

1998• The ISS program is a joint project between five

participating space agencies: o NASAo the Russian Federal Space Agencyo JAXA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency o ESA-European Space Agencyo CSA-Canadian Space Agency

• The station is serviced by Russian Soyuz spacecraft• On 25 May 2012, Space Exploration Technologies

Corporation (or Space X) became the world's first privately held company to send a cargo load, via the Dragon spacecraft, to the International Space Station

ISS• Current Mission & Crew• Expedition 33• Soyuz TMA-05M

o Launch: July 14, 2012o Docking: July 17, 2012o Landing: November 18, 2012

• Soyuz TMA-06Mo Launch: October 23, 2012o Docking: October 25, 2012o Landing: March 2013

from the left are NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, commander; along with Russian cosmonaut Yuri

Malenchenko, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide,

Russian cosmonaut Evgeny Tarelkin, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and NASA astronaut

Kevin Ford

ISS

Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson

Space Center in Houston

Moscow Mission Control Center is the primary Russian facility for the control of Russian human spaceflight activities and operates the station’s Russian segment

The Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is the chief launch center for both piloted and unpiloted space vehicles. The landing site is in a 25 mile wide zone in a wheat field in central Kazakhstan

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, is an American space transport company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.

Summit of the Americas

• The sixth Summit of the Americas was held at Cartagena, Colombia, on 14 and 15 April 2012

• The central theme of the summit was "Connecting the Americas: Partners for Prosperity.“

• The main issues at the summit's agenda was: o the exclusion of Cubao the legalisation of drugs to fight the War on Drugs o Argentina's sovereignty claims over the Falklands Islands.o Cuba's inclusion in the next summit was supported by all states except the United States and Canada

Where’s Obama?

2012 Olympics

• 2012 Summer Games- London, England

• 2014 Winter Games- Sochi, Russia

• 2016 Summer Games- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• 2012 Euro Cup- Poland & Ukraine

Benghazi Attack

• On September 11, 2012 in Libya, a heavily armed group executed an attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, also referred to as the Battle of Benghazi

• The attack began at night in a U.S. diplomatic compound for the consulate, and ended early the next day at another diplomatic compound nearby where the U.S. intelligence was posted

• Those killed included:o U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens o U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith o U.S. embassy security personnel Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.

• Two other Americans and seven Libyans were also injured

Eurozone Crisis• The European sovereign debt crisis (often referred to as the

Eurozone crisis) is an ongoing financial crisis that has made it difficult or impossible for some countries in the euro area to repay or re-finance their government debt without the assistance of third parties

• June 9, 2012- Responding to increasingly urgent calls from across Europe and the United States, Spain agreed to accept a bailout for its cash-starved banks as European finance ministers offered an aid package of up to $125 billion.