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The little Screech owls remain a fav among the many photographers who come out to see them nightly. You just can't get enough of this cuteness
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (FS) Adaptive Management Services Enterprise Team (AMSET) Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) Fire Ecologist Alicia Reiner performs a site check during Cedar Fire operations in and near the Sequoia National Forest, Posey, CA, on Wednesday, August 24, 2016. Some of the checks include the stainless steel fire box with layers of thermal protection, main test unit, timelapse camera, battery life, ground sensors, anemometer, trigger wire and condition of the general area. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
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The spiketail dragonflies (cordulegastridae) are named for the prominent ovipositor of the females which they use to deposit eggs in streambanks with what has been described as a sewing-machine like motion. In this video, just to the left of the red flag is a female spiketail— most likely an arrowhead spiketail based on the fact that I know them to be in this general area— ovipositing in the stream bank. This was something I wanted to see and video and was blessed to have this impromptu opportunity while volunteering for a Riverwatch Macroinvertebrate Survey.
Josef Noldin (born November 25, 1888 in Salurn, † December 14, 1929 in Bolzano) was a lawyer and organizer of private schools in South Tyrol during the time of fascism.
Noldin passed at the Franciscan Gymnasium Bolzano in 1906 with distinction his school leaving examination and then studied after completion of his military service from 1907 in Innsbruck law. He became an active member of the AKV Tirolia in the cartel association of Catholic non-colour-bearing academic associations in Austria (ÖKV). In 1912 he graduated with distinction with the doctorate and became a lawyer. At the outbreak of the First World War Noldin was drafted immediately and wounded shortly afterwards. In 1915 he came into Russian captivity, which he had to spend in Siberia - most recently in Vladivostok - and lasted until 1920. In the winter of 1920, he was finally released and was able to return to his homeland, where he arrived in April 1921. He then settled down as a lawyer in Salurn.
When he was released from Vladivostok, Italian officers demanded a written declaration that he felt like an Italian citizen. This explanation denied Noldin.
As an opponent of Italianization, he was still close to its prohibition, a representative of the German Association.
When the German language was banned at the South Tyrolean schools in 1923, he organized private schools with canon Michael Gamper, who was also a member of the Innsbruck fraternity Tirolia, to enable German-language instruction in private homes. These schools were called "Catacomb Schools". When the teachers were arrested by the Italian police, Noldin defended them in court. Because of his support of these schools, he was sentenced in 1925 to prison and fines. In 1926, when a law was passed in Italy, according to which people could be arrested and exiled without a court order, Noldin was arrested in 1927 under this law and banished to the island of Lipari for five years.
In February 1928, the South Tyrol question and the banishment of Noldin was treated in Parliament in Vienna. Mussolini suggested that the exile of Noldin was justified because his behavior was "anti-fascist, that means, counterrevolutionary". The KV demanded several times, most recently at its representative meeting in July 1928 in Fulda, the release. Noldin, however, was released only on December 12, 1928 from exile and returned to Salurn, but had a professional and exit ban.
In the summer of 1928 Noldin had become infected with a malaria-like fever in the hot climate of Lipari, the Italian authorities forbade the departure for a cure. Noldin died as a result of this disease at just 41 years old. He was buried in Salurn, on his grave cross were allowed only his initials.
At the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of Noldin's death, Canon Gamper described him as the "martyred figure" of the Bozener Unterland.
Tomb of Josef Noldin in Salurn
In Tramin, Laives, Innsbruck and Vienna streets are named after Noldin. The Municipal Council of Salurn decided in 1988 to rename the street where Noldin's birthplace is located, from "Romstraße" to "Dr. Josef Noldinstraße ". The birthplace is now a youth hostel and serves to meet German and Italian youth.
The daughter Traudl Noldin († 1994) was married to the South Tyrolean politician Alfons Benedikter. His grandson Thomas Benedikter wrote in 2000 a book about Noldin ("I do not want grace, but right"). The book was filmed in 2012 by director Luis Walter, while Noldin was played by his grandson Rudi Benedikter.
Josef Noldin (* 25. November 1888 in Salurn; † 14. Dezember 1929 in Bozen) war Rechtsanwalt und Organisator der Privatschulen in Südtirol während der Zeit des Faschismus.
Noldin legte 1906 am Franziskanergymnasium Bozen mit Auszeichnung die Reifeprüfung ab und studierte dann nach Ableistung seines Wehrdienstes ab 1907 in Innsbruck Jura. Er wurde dort aktives Mitglied der AKV Tirolia im Kartellverband katholischer nichtfarbentragender akademischer Vereinigungen Österreichs (ÖKV). 1912 beendete er mit Auszeichnung sein Studium mit der Promotion und wurde Rechtsanwalt. Bei Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs wurde Noldin sofort eingezogen und kurz darauf schwer verwundet. 1915 kam er in russische Kriegsgefangenschaft, die er in Sibirien - zuletzt in Wladiwostok - verbringen musste und die bis 1920 dauerte. Im Winter 1920 wurde er endlich entlassen und konnte in seine Heimat zurückkehren, wo er im April 1921 ankam. Anschließend ließ er sich als Anwalt in Salurn nieder.
Bei seiner Entlassung in Wladiwostok hatten italienische Offiziere eine schriftliche Erklärung verlangt, dass er sich als italienischer Staatsbürger fühle. Diese Erklärung verweigerte Noldin.
Als Gegner der Italianisierung wurde er noch kurz vor dessen Verbot ein Vertreter des Deutschen Verbandes.[1]
Als die deutsche Sprache an den Südtiroler Schulen 1923 verboten wurde, organisierte er mit Kanonikus Michael Gamper, der ebenfalls Mitglied der Innsbrucker Studentenverbindung Tirolia war, Privatschulen, um den deutschsprachigen Unterricht in Privathäusern zu ermöglichen. Diese Schulen wurden „Katakombenschulen“ genannt. Wenn die Lehrkräfte von der italienischen Polizei verhaftet wurden, verteidigte Noldin sie vor Gericht. Wegen seiner Unterstützung dieser Schulen wurde er 1925 zu Haft- und Geldstrafen verurteilt. Als 1926 in Italien ein Gesetz erlassen wurde, wonach Personen auch ohne richterlichen Beschluss verhaftet und in die Verbannung geschickt werden konnten, wurde Noldin aufgrund dieses Gesetzes 1927 verhaftet und für fünf Jahre auf die Insel Lipari verbannt.
Im Februar 1928 wurde die Südtirolfrage und auch die Verbannung Noldins im Parlament in Wien behandelt. Mussolini ließ dazu erklären, die Verbannung Noldins sei gerechtfertigt, weil sein Verhalten „antifaschistisch, d.h. gegenrevolutionär“ sei. Der KV forderte mehrfach, zuletzt auf seiner Vertreterversammlung im Juli 1928 in Fulda, die Freilassung. Noldin wurde jedoch erst am 12. Dezember 1928 aus der Verbannung entlassen und kehrte nach Salurn zurück, hatte jedoch Berufs- und Ausreiseverbot.
Im Sommer 1928 hatte sich Noldin in dem heißen Klima Liparis mit einem malaria-ähnlichen Fieber infiziert, die italienischen Behörden untersagten die Ausreise zu einer Heilbehandlung. An den Folgen dieser Krankheit starb Noldin dann mit nur 41 Jahren. Er wurde in Salurn begraben, auf seinem Grabkreuz durften nur seine Initialen stehen.
Bei der Feier aus Anlass des zwanzigsten Todestages von Noldin bezeichnete Kanonikus Gamper ihn als „Märtyrergestalt“ des Bozener Unterlandes.
Grabstätte von Josef Noldin in Salurn
In Tramin, Leifers, Innsbruck und Wien sind Straßen nach Noldin benannt. Der Gemeinderat von Salurn beschloss 1988 die Umbenennung der Straße, an der Noldins Geburtshaus liegt, von „Romstraße“ in „Dr. Josef Noldinstraße“. Das Geburtshaus ist jetzt Jugendherberge und dient der Begegnung der deutschen und italienischen Jugend.
Die Tochter Traudl Noldin († 1994) war mit dem Südtiroler Politiker Alfons Benedikter verheiratet. Sein Enkel Thomas Benedikter verfasste 2000 ein Buch über Noldin ("Ich will nicht Gnade, sondern Recht"). Das Buch wurde 2012 vom Regisseur Luis Walter verfilmt, dabei wurde Noldin von seinem Enkel Rudi Benedikter gespielt.
Vintage Salt & Pepper Shakers. I find these hilarious... sorry to anyone who is easily offended! I think these men might be related, due to their ridiculous sense of appropriate behavior with their girlfriends. The man on the left has his hand up her skirt - and the man on the right has completely removed her boob! It's okay, though... she got even and socked him with her rolling pin!
So, I rarely experience Mean Mom Syndrome- I think because we were lucky enough to have Josie at home for the first two years of her life, and her motor delays caused a self-imposed limit on mingling. And, I suspect other moms don't snark at me as much because I am a physician so "know" what I am doing (not that I do, mind you- they just think I do because of my profession.)
Anyway, Josie is now in daycare two days a week- for her socialization and because Tim's schedule has become more and more hectic. This Halloween I had a terrible awful Mom Moment when Josie came home from school with several bags of treats from other kids. What??? I had no idea that this was expected. Worse, the bags were all thoughtful and healthy treats. I felt very VERY bad that I had not sent in anything with Josie, even though she received about 4 bags from a class of 12 kids. I was still threatened by the thougthful, healthy "good" moms who (in my mind) made me look like a sub-par mom. So you better believe this week, Josie is bringing in small gift bags for her class and her teachers, as well as the teachers from her Toddler Room who were so sweet they literally cried when Josie graduated to the Two Room (which was just in the past few weeks because of her motor delays).
I may or may not have been muttering "suck it, Robert's mom" as I assembled these bags of organic snacks and matchbox cars. I'm sure Robert's mom is just a nice, thoughtful person and wasn't judging Josie's mom for not giving her son play-doh for Halloween, but I don't care. When did I turn into THAT mom? Next thing you know they'll be making Lifetime movies about me.
A prescribed fire burns in a wire grass pine mix at Mississippi Sandhill Crane NWR in January of 2004
Conducta (2014) Just two weeks after its premier, the cuban film Conducta, has filled cuban movie theatres. Written and Directed by Ernesto Daranas (“Los Dioses Rotos”, 2009), the movie tells the story of “Chala”, a 12 year old social outcast from La Habana, and his relationship with Carmela, his veteran sixth grade teacher.
Having a promiscuous, drogadict mom, not knowing who his dad was, and living in a ramshackle house, Chala spent his days at school and his afternoons training fight dogs (an illegal activity in Cuba) in order to make a living for him and his mother. The movie that is attracting thousands of viewers to the theatres is already considered the biggest audiovisual event of the year.
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CALIFORNIA SEA OTTERS
Animal Classification
Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris)
Description
Sea otters are members of the weasel or mustelid family. Like other members of this family, they have very thick fur. In fact, at 850,000 to one million hairs per square inch, they have the thickest fur of any mammal. Their fur actually consists of two layers, an undercoat and longer guard hairs. This system traps a layer of air next to their skin so their skin does not get wet. Sea otters are usually dark brown, often with lighter guard hairs. Alaskan sea otters tend to have lighter fur on their heads. Sea otters are the smallest marine mammals. In California adult females weigh 35-60 pounds (16-27 kg); males reach up to 90 pounds (40 kg). Alaskan sea otters are bigger with males weighing up to 100 pounds (45 kg).
Range/Habitat
Sea otters once ranged from Mexico to Alaska and even to Japan. Currently, the California population numbers around 2,800 and is found from Half Moon Bay to Morro Bay. There is a much larger population in Alaska, and sea otters are still found in Russia. Sea otters inhabit shallow coastal areas and prefer places with kelp. The kelp acts as an anchor that the sea otters use to wrap themselves in when they are resting.
Mating/Breeding
Females give birth to one pup and usually have their first pup at the age of four or five. Their pregnancies last four to five months. Pups can be born any time of year, but in California most are born between January and March, and in Alaska most are born in the summer. When born, the pups weigh from three to five pounds.
Behavior
Sea otters are social animals, with females and pups spending time together in one group and males in another. Pups stay with their mothers for the first eight months of their life. The pups' fur traps so much air that they actually cannot dive under water. When mothers leave the pups wrapped in kelp to hunt, pups bob on the surface of the ocean like a cork. Mothers spend much time grooming pups and often carry them on their chests. Pups begin to learn to swim at around four weeks of age. Sea otters are one of the few animals to use tools. They eat animals with shells, like clams and abalone, and use a stone to break open the shells. When sea otters are under water searching for food, they store what they have found in the loose skin folds at their armpits. Adult sea otters can eat 25%-30% of their body weight in one day!
Status
Sea otters in California are a threatened species due to past over hunting for their beautiful fur. Although sea otters are protected now, they remain vulnerable, especially to oil spills. Unlike other marine mammals, sea otters do not have a blubber layer. Therefore, they rely on their fur to keep warm. If their fur is oiled, it loses its insulating qualities and the sea otters soon chill. Otters are also affected by the oil fumes or poisoned by eating food exposed to oil. Most sea otters quickly die in an oil spill. Several thousand sea otters died in the 1989 Exxon oil spill in Valdez, Alaska. Other threats to sea otters include infectious diseases, parasites, boat strikes, entanglements, and toxins.
At The Marine Mammal Center
The Marine Mammal Center began rehabilitating sea otters in 1995. Since that time, we have rescued up to 207 sea otters.
Want to learn more about marine mammals?
SOURCE: www.marinemammalcenter.org/