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CA. SEA OTTERS: MONTEREY BAY
The Southern or California Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) has been listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act since 1977.
•Sea otters are highly specialized marine mammals capable of living their entire lives without ever having to leave the ocean, have the densest fur of any mammal and are one of the few marine species to use tools.
•Sea otters are an apex predator of the near shore ecosystem. The species is considered a keystone species because of their critical importance to the health and stability of the near shore marine ecosystem.
•They are also considered a sentinel species because their health reflects that of California’s coastal oceans.
•The southern sea otter population has exhibited high levels of mortality in recent years. Scientists attribute up to 40 percent of southern sea otter mortality to infectious diseases alone, many of which are known to have anthropogenic causes and land-sea linkages.
•The single greatest threat to the sea otter is an oil spill. One large oil spill in central California could be catastrophic, with the potential of driving the entire southern sea otter population into extinction.
Description
•The sea otter is one of the smallest marine mammals, but one of the largest members of the family Mustelidae, a group that includes skunks and weasels among others.
•Adult males reach an average length of 4.5 feet (1.4 m) with a typical weight between 50 and 100 lbs. (23 to 45 kg), while adult females reach an average length of 4 feet (1.2 m) and typically weigh 45 lbs. (20 kg).
•It has a highly buoyant, elongated body, blunt snout and small, wide head.
•Sea otters have an acute sense of smell and taste and have good vision both above and below the water surface. They also rely heavily on their sense of touch.
•Sea otters exhibit numerous adaptations, which help them survive in their challenging marine environment. Long whiskers help them to detect vibrations in murky waters and sensitive forepaws, with retractable claws, help them to groom, locate and capture prey underwater, and use tools.
•When underwater, they can close their nostrils and small ears.
•Hearing is one sense that is not yet fully understood, although studies suggest they are particularly sensitive to high-frequency sounds.
•Their teeth are unique for a mammal in that they are blunt and designed for crushing, rather than being sharp for tearing like most marine mammals are equipped with.
•With the exception of its nose and pads of its paws, the sea otter’s body is covered in dense fur. The fur consists of two layers. The short, brown under fur can be as dense as 1 million hairs per square inch, making its fur the densest of any mammal. By comparison, we only have about 100,000 hairs in total on our heads.
10-18-2022 Secretary of Health & Human Services Xavier Becerra SAMSHA Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Press Conference
After a long day of running errands and a late lunch, my husband and I were looking forward to some relaxation. I had gone to one of the rooms on the opposite end of the house, when I heard my husband banging on the door and shouting, “What are you doing, get out of here, shoo, go away!” I ran to see what was going on with thoughts racing through my head of a would-be home invader! At first glance, I didn’t see anyone. Worriedly, I asked, “What happened, who was out here?” My husband replied emphatically and with a worried tone in his voice, “It’s a squirrel and look what it did!” It was then that I saw one of my favorite, clay flowerpots, smashed in pieces, the soil from inside it, and the flowers strewn all over the porch! Next, I noticed the “guilty looking” culprit, a young, Eastern Gray Squirrel, clinging to a Halloween-themed blanket that was covering of an old, small chest-of-drawers used for storing various garden tools that is located on the far side of the porch. The young squirrel was hiding on the backside of the chest-of-drawers, much like squirrels do when they are trying to blend into a tree trunk that they scoot up when frightened. It would move down near the base of its new-found hideout, using the decorative blanket to hold onto. Alternately, it would hide in a wound-up electrical cord that had been placed behind the chest, to which my Halloween lights were plugged into. In addition, you could hear the squirrel rustling around and chewing on an old umbrella that it had also knocked down behind the chest in the commotion. Every now and again it would climb to the top of the chest-of-drawers, to peek out, then dive back down, out of sight. My husband and I tried several times more, to bang on the door, use various long objects including a yardstick, a mop handle, and a painter’s pole to gently nudge it out of it’s hiding place and off the porch, but to no avail! It would squeak, run around the porch in an erratic manner, climb the brick wall, or briefly run off the porch as if to finally leave, then run right back behind the chest-of-drawers. By this time, I was getting concerned that this was not normal squirrel behavior and considering that it could be sick and therefore potentially could bite us if we continued our efforts to drive it away. Our local police department has an Animal Control Unit, so I gave a call to the non-emergency number and had to repeat my story twice to the incredulous dispatcher, who asked, “You have a what and where is it?” She said that she would send an officer over to check it out. No doubt, she was probably thinking I was senile or medicated or both and perhaps taking bets in jest, with the other dispatchers that #1. There was no squirrel and that I was hallucinating or #2. If there was a squirrel, it would be long gone by the time an officer arrived.
Meanwhile, I returned to the door to wait and watch for the officer and take photos of the squirrel as “evidence” of its existence. It actually further “incriminated” itself once, by creeping out to sniff the soil and broken flowerpot, then ran right back to its “hideout! The “Animal Control Officer” arrived within five minutes, wearing his mask, and stepped right up to look for the furry, little marauder, who popped its head up for a brief face-to-face appearance, then promptly hid again. My husband, being concerned for the officer’s safety and not wanting to see him get bit, if indeed the squirrel went on the offensive, suggested he get something that would afford him protection. The officer agreed and returned to his vehicle for a large net on a long pole. Officer B (not his full name, to protect his identity) set to work, moving all obstructions or potential other hiding spots for the squirrel and next moved the chest-of-drawers! The crouched squirrel ran right between the officer’s legs and ran circles around the porch. He gently prodded the squirrel off the porch for a moment, but it ran back up again and crouched momentarily under the bench. He prodded it once more and finally, it fled, but only a few feet away into the flower garden nearby. The officer followed the squirrel, who finally took to a full run, down the street and out of sight! We gave profuse thanks to Officer B, asking him if this was “the nuttiest call he’s ever had.” He replied that it ranked among the more unusual, but that actually he had a call earlier in the day from a lady who had a bat in her attic! He was able to capture it with the very same net-on-a-pole approach that he used to coax the squirrel away. He told us that he kept the bat in the net and drove it out of town to a safer location! All’s well that ends well and no harm was done to the animal or humans! *This is a completely true story!
Held Thursday 09/14/2017, the Center on Finance, Law, and Policy hosted a symposium discussing behavioral finance. This event included keynote speakers, interdisciplinary panel discussions, and an interactive audience experiment, exploring topics of technological progress in our overall economy.
Details: fordschool.umich.edu/events/2017/behavioral-finance-sympo...
Available for free download under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. Mandatory attribution can be listed as: Peter Smith / Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Climate Action Day observed
Drawing attention on the need to reduce carbon in the atmosphere to a scientifically determined safe level of 350 ppm, the International Day of Climate Action was observed in the country yesterday.
Different social and environmental organisations held different programmes in the city and across the country to mark the day.
With the slogan of "Change Behavior, Not Climate," Work for a Better Bangladesh (WBB Trust) organised a colourful rally from National Museum to TSC of Dhaka University with participation of a large number of children from different parts of the city.
Prottyasa Madok Birodhi Sangathan, Nirapad Development Foundation, Nature Loving People (NLP), Green Voice, Swabhumi, Safe Bangladesh, and other environmental organisations, participated the rally with banners and festoons inscribed different slogans including 'Save the balance of climate and save the environment' and 'Save the coastal people'.
The rally was addressed, among others, by Ibnul Syed Rana, chairman of Nirapad Development Foundation, Syed Saiful Alam Suvan, programme officer of WBB Trust, Humaoun Kabir Somuon, Syeda Ananya Rahman, Mohammad Alamgir and Maruf Ahmed.
The speakers said that the temperatures are rising and storms are worsening due to the whimsical behaviour of human beings. Ice is melting and sea levels are rising day by day and due to the reason Bangladesh is likely to go underwater within a short peroiod, As a result, a large number of coastal people of the country will be homeless, they added.
They also said that the climate changes are going to worsen because people are burning fossil fuels - diesel, petrol, natural gas and coal - at rapid rates. So the future generations are now under threat.
They stressed on the importance of changing behaviour to balance the climate to raise attention to the 350 ppm target for reducing climate change.
Syed Saiful Alam
shovan1209@yahoo.com
Graduating students in the College Of Behavioral And Social Science (BSS) were honored during their Commencement Ceremony on Friday, May 17, 2019 in Chico, Calif.
(Jessica Bartlett, University Photographer)
Olive-sided Flycatcher (Contopus cooperi)
Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna)
Mount Tolmie Park, Saanich, BC
The flycatcher was just minding its own business high on a dead branch, occasionally flying out to catch a bug. Then an Anna's Hummingbird showed up and started pestering the flycatcher, which stoically put up with nuisance while tracking the hummingbird's flight. The hummingbird got more aggressive, diving at the flycatcher with its rapier beak. I didn't see any collisions, though the drama continued for a few minutes before the flycatcher left.
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"Good Behavior"- Plumb
I was frozen in a fragile world
Of make believe and empty lies
Dressed in the rules of a virtuos game
Captured by the thought of fear and loneliness
Afraid to cry suffocated for trying to scream
And I want out now to find myself
Cause perfect only makes you crazy
There is no way that it can save me
I'm sick of feelin like a traitor
Is this the price for good behavior
Oh my naked skin feels the warmth of the sun
And my eyes are opened to the brightness of light
Driven by a force so free to live this life
Noy paralyzed but with reckless abandon
So now I can breathe I wanted out to find myself
I don't do this don't do that and you'll be
Oh so perfect I
perfect,
perfect
Graduating student Diana Castellanos in the College Of Behavioral And Social Science (BSS) was honored during their Commencement Ceremony on Friday, May 17, 2019 in Chico, Calif.
(Jessica Bartlett, University Photographer)
Colombia highlands
These hummers inhabit shrubby páramo, stunted woodlands, and rocky slopes below the actual páramo.
I took this picture while on a photo tour led by Jeff Munoz of Rainforest Photo Tours (rainforestphototours.com).
I took this picture today, 11/8/15. This Robin is perched on an old Robin nest from this summer. Is it exhibiting odd behavior or is this perhaps just a coincidence? Comments welcome.
Fernando Morales adjusts his cap as graduating students of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSS) are honored during their commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 21, 2022 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/Chico State)
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.
tweetpsych.com/?name=seeminglee
TweetPsych uses two linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets. The service analyzes your last 1000 tweets and works best on users who have posted more than 1000 updates. It also works best on accounts that are operated by a single user and use Twitter in a conversational manner, rather than simply a content distribution platform.
TweetPysch is created by Dan Zarella.
For more information, check out the webapp's blog post.
SML TweetPysch Profile
The features displayed below are those for which you score higher than the average. The score indicates how much more often you tweeted something that matched each feature than the baseline.
Cognitive Content
+ Time: 38.16
+ Cognitive proceeses: 35.99
+ Occupation & work: 21.81
+ Insight: 21.41
+ Similes: 17.88
+ Motion: 5.6
Primordial, Conceptual and Emotional Content
+ Abstract thought: 82.93
+ Temporal References: 44.96
+ Social behavior: 26.62
+ Visual sensations: 22.58
+ Glory: 18.1
+ Moral imperative: 12.51
+ Affection: 11.44
+ Positive affect: 9.01
Related SML
This advanced segment, created using Google Analytics, shows how to create a Persona with the tool for Behavioral Targeting purposes.
A prostitute walked in front of my car while I was stopped, second in line, at a light, the other evening. I guess that's why they call them 'streetwalkers'. At first, I thought-- I shouldn't judge her like that. Maybe she was just a drunk jaywalking dancer who had just got off work. But she looked directly at me with a huge exaggerated smile, too much makeup, and those 'come hither', or 'just let me into your front seat' eyes. Plus, the top of her dress was unbuttoned and half falling off. She had just come out of a strip club on the other side of the street, so maybe that was her professional way of saying: "Hi. How are you? Do you have some money for me?" Maybe she was just an undertipped pole dancer. I returned her smile with a half-assed one of my own. Just a brief flexing of those smile muscles, returning quickly to a 'not interested' or 'I can't afford you', or 'I've already had gonorrhea four times. Thanks, anyway.' expression.
Finally, the light turned green.
The one on the stoplight, I mean.
Or maybe, I'm just a prude.
B. Kite -- 4/23/2023
The hit American boy band Mindless Behavior finished off their first tour of this country with their final concert before returning to America at Enfield Grammar School, as a guest of the Student Council. The band, a massive success in America, with over a million followers on twitter and a huge fan base on You Tube, were in England on a promotional tour.
As part of our links with the local community we invited both students from St Anne’s and Enfield County to attend. The band performed four hits off their debut album that is presently at number seven in the American Album chart, followed by a question and answer session and autograph signing. Over 400 boys and girls from the schools were chosen by their Heads of Year to see the band as a reward to recognise their excellent efforts and behaviour in the last few months.
Well done to everyone who helped organise this event particularly all Grammar Sixth Form prefects who gave up their time to help stage the event.
(Phototgraphy by Gajeenth Thayalan)
For both of me and my bike, from my house (1300mts) to Irazu volcano hills (3000 meters) and then the hardcore dowhill ... lots of fun but the bike is on the hospital.
Next Sunday, Jan 23th, up and down hill on Chirripo / Uran peaks, some of 2000 meters of vertical gain, I guess.
This Pic is made with my celphone, I will start using it when biking around ...