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Andrew Dickson White Library
Andrew Dickson White, Cornell University’s co-founder and first president, built a great library. Although seldom identified today as one of the foremost collectors of the 19th century, his achievements have left a remarkable legacy. Unlike other famous book collectors of his time—J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry Edwards Huntington, John Jacob Astor, and James Lenox—he did not establish a separate institution to house his personal collections of books and manuscripts. Instead, White donated his entire collection of 30,000 books to the Cornell University Library—at a time when the Library possessed a collection of just 90,000 volumes. White’s great generosity reveals his utilitarian approach to collecting and, in his words, a “strong belief in the didactic value of books.” As an educator and historian he believed that one could not have a great university without a great library, and he wanted his books to be read and used by Cornell’s faculty and students.
White’s collections of materials on architecture, witchcraft, the Reformation, the French Revolution, Abolitionism and the Civil War were among the finest in the world during his lifetime. Originally shelved in the large, three-story room within Uris Library that bears his name, White’s collections are no longer kept together in one place. Many of his books were moved to the stacks in Olin Library when it opened in 1961. In recent years, most of White’s books have been transferred to the Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections for their continued protection and preservation. Today, the Andrew Dickson White Library holds a portion of the humanities and social science collections found in the combined Olin and Uris Libraries.
It is perhaps more fitting and accurate to say that Andrew Dickson White built two great libraries. The first was his large and significant personal book collection. The second was the Cornell University Library. White hired Willard Fiske to be Cornell’s first University Librarian, and he worked closely with him to develop innovative and progressive policies for their library. White purchased its first books, and played an active role throughout his life in developing the library’s collections.
Even in his student days, White had considered the merits of the most prestigious European libraries, imagining what it would be like to build an important new research library. White conceived and developed his vision for an upstate New York university during a miserable first year at college. White’s visions of a beautiful university were honed during his first year at a college whose architecture he called “sordid,” and later at Yale, where he urged classmates to “adorn and beautify the place.” While his classmates occupied themselves with shenanigans, the sixteen-year-old consoled himself in the library, where he found a book on the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. As a University of Michigan professor in the late 1850s, he planted elms and evergreens with the help of his students and was appointed superintendent of grounds. Two decades later he would preside over an institution that embodied the vision of his youth. The faculty included professors of modern history and literature, as well as classics and mathematics. They were free of control by religious sects and political parties. And learning was accomplished not by rote memorization and recitation, but through analysis, discussion, and experience. The Victorian beauty of the A. D. White Reading Room in Uris Library would probably have satisfied White’s exacting standards.
A trace of this inspiration can be found in the stained-glass windows that line the room. They portray the crests of several Oxford and Cambridge colleges. In the north windows, for instance, the blue escutcheon contains the motto for Oxford University, “Dominus Illuminatio Mea.” Translated from Psalm 27, it means, “The Lord is my Light.” Visitors from a new generation find the room’s ambiance comes from another source, calling it the “Harry Potter” library.
When White offered his personal library to the university, he set two conditions. He asked that the university provide a suitable space to house his collection—he stipulated a fire-proof room—and he requested that proper provision be made for the ongoing maintenance of his collections. That “suitable space” is the Andrew Dickson White Library. White played an active role in helping the building’s architect, William Henry Miller, design and ornament this space.
The maintenance and cataloging of the collection became the responsibility of George Lincoln Burr, a member of the Cornell class of 1871. Burr was White’s secretary and personal librarian as well as the first curator of the White Historical Library. Originally hired by White when he was a Cornell sophomore, Burr worked closely with White to develop and care for his library. We can safely posit that after 1879, the White collection must be seen as a collaborative effort between the two scholars. Each traveled to Europe on extended book-buying tours. Burr, also a renowned professor in the Cornell History department, is given special credit for building and enriching the Library’s collections on the Reformation and witchcraft.
Burr’s portrait by Cornell art professor Christian Midjo is prominently displayed on the north wall of the room, and a small drawing by R. H. Bainton on the first tier shows Burr as Cornell historian Carl Becker once described him: an “indefatigable scholar and bibliophile . . . browsing and brooding in the stacks.”
The Andrew Dickson White Library is filled with art work, furniture, and artifacts from White’s academic and diplomatic careers. He served as U.S. minister to Germany while still president of Cornell, and later also served as minister to Russia. Several pictures and photographs in the room depict Russian scenes. The artwork and the case of plaster casts of European coins and medallions were all collected by Mr. White.
Originally, this space had skylights and an open archway into the adjacent Dean Room (where the Burr portrait now hangs). Those features were lost to renovations, but the original three tiers of wrought-iron stacks still offer an open and dramatic display of their books. Upon first seeing these shelves filled with White’s books in September of 1891, George Lincoln Burr wrote that it “gave one such an idea of a multitude of books. You see and feel them all. They quite overawe one.” Setting the objective for the collection, he promised to make the White Library, in his words, “the great living, growing historical workshop of the University.
Carved Wooden Manuscript Case
•Creator: unknown (unknown nationality, artist)
•Title: Carved wooden manuscript case
•Work Type: desks
•Location: Uris Library, Andrew D. White Library, Cornell University
•Description: Carved folding top, supported by two dogs. Possible attribution: Luigi Frullini.
•Repository: Cornell University
•Collection: Cornell: Campus Art and Artifacts
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Jewish Museum in Prague - Old Jewish Cemetery (Židovské muzeum - Starý židovský hřbitov)
This one was created in the first half of the 15th century. On this cemetery was buried until 1787. The most famous figure in the Old Jewish Cemetery is undoubtedly the great religious scholar and educator Rabbi Yehuda Liwa ben Becalel, known under the name of Rabbi Löw (he died in 1609), whose character is also connected with the legend about the artificially created figure of Golem .
Old Jewish Cemetery - Jewish Museum
It is the third known Jewish burial site on the area of Prague. The oldest Jewish cemetery on the territory of the city of Prague probably lay on the site of today's Míšeňská street (some authors are of the opinion that it was in the Újezd area.) The second medieval Jewish cemetery (called Jewish Garden) was in the area of later New Town at Wyschehrad-way. Probably, buried here was from the 13th century until the year 1478, when Wladislaus II, who was put under pressure by the citizens of the New Town, the cemetery had abolished. Gravestone fragments with chronologies from the second half of the 14th century were found in the year 1866 during the construction of the House for National Education (Měšťanská beseda) in Wladislaus Street (Vladislavova) and moved to the Old Jewish Cemetery.
This one was apparently founded at the turn of the 14th to the 15th century. The oldest preserved tombstone dates back to 1439. The cemetery was extended several times by the acquisition of the surrounding grounds. It has not been buried here since 1787, when it was forbidden by Joseph II to use burial grounds in the middle of the inhabited districts. The Jewish main burial-site then was transferred to the former Plague pit at Žižkov. At the reconstruction of the district of Josefov in 1903, the Jewish community was forced to abandon a part of the cemetery to the extension of a new road (today's 17th listopadu road). Exhumated remains were placed in another part of the cemetery on the elevation of Nefel in front of the Klaus synagogue, where small children under one month were buried at the beginning of the 18th century. During the refurbishment, the funeral brotherhood had built a new ceremonial hall in the Romanesque style based on the project by architect J. Gerstel which was only used until the beginning of the twenties of the twentieth century for its purpose.
The Old Jewish Cemetery contains 12,000 gravestones, but mortal remains here were buried much more. Many tombstones sank deeply into the sublayer and further especially wooden graves over time broke down. Because religious traditions forbade the Jews of handling old graves and the property could no longer meet their needs, over and over again new layers of ground were driven to the cemetery and the old tombstones were raised into higher layers, possibly stacking up to 12 layers one above the other and in many places arose the characteristic accumulation of tombstones from different centuries side by side. For the cemetery took car for several centuries the Burial Brotherhood of Prague which also began with the systematic elaboration of the tomb inscriptions.
At the turn of the 16th to the 17th century, on the original simple tombstones plastic symbols and signs of families, names, estates and professions appear. In the baroque period there emerges often a so-called quadruple umbe (small house). Prague is the only place in Europe where some of them have been preserved. One of the Renaissance baroque sarcophagi covers the tomb of the most important thinker of the Prague ghetto and the primate of the Talmun school, Rabbi Jehuda Löw. The patron of the Prague ghetto and the primate of the Jewish community, Mordechei Meiselhere, here has a Renaissance tomb. On many tombstones there are symbols emanating from the Jewish tradition, e.g., a grape (symbol of fertility and wisdom), a money box (charity symbol), or the six-pointed david star. To the origin and family of the deceased belong, for example, blessing hands (descendents of the church priests, a pot with a bowl or musical instruments (descendents of the helpers from the tribe of the Levites, further, animal symbols as well as personal and family names (lion, wolf, goose, cock, etc.) and tool-reliefs as a professional emblem (mortar - pharmacists, violin - musician, etc.). Apart from the basic information, the texts also contain various eulogies and other interesting information about the dead person. The date of death and burial is sometimes expressed by the so-called chronostichon (Hebrew expresses numbers by letters according to their ranking in the alphabet) according to the Jewish chronology, which is around 3760 older than the bourgeois chronology.
In the cemetery there grow maples, chestnut trees, acacias and elderberry bushes.
The Old Jewish Cemetery has been a folk cultural monument since 1995.
Jüdisches Museum in Prag – Alter jüdischer Friedhof (Židovské muzeum – Starý židovský hřbitov)
Dieser wurde in der ersten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts angelegt. Auf diesem Freidhof wurde bis zum Jahre 1787 bestattet. Die bekannteste Persönlichkeit auf dem Alten Jüdischen Friedhof ist ohne Zweifel der große Religionsgelehrte und Pädagoge Rabbi Jehuda Liwa ben Becalel, bekannt unter dem Namen Rabbi Löw (er starb im Jahre 1609), mit dessen Gestalt auch die Legende um die künstlich erschaffene Gestalt Golem verbunden ist.
Alter Jüdischer Friedhof – Jüdisches Museum
Er ist die dritte bekannte Judenbegräbnisstätte auf dem Gebiet Prags. Der älteste Jüdische Friedhof auf dem Gebiet der Stadt Prag lag wahrscheinlich an der Stelle der heutigen Míšeňská-Straße (einige Autoren sind der Meinung, dass er sich im Újezd-Raum befand. Der zweite mittelalterliche Jüdische Friedhof (Jüdischer Garten genannt) war auf dem Gebiet der späteren Neustadt am Wyschehrad-Weg. Es wurde hier wahrscheinlich vom 13. Jahrhundert bis zum Jahr 1478 begraben, als der von den Neustädtern unter Druck gesetzte Wladislaus II. den Friedhof auflösen ließ. Grabsteinfragmente mit Zeitrechnungen aus der 2. Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts wurden im Jahre 1866 beim Aufbau des Bürgerlichen Volksbildungshauses (Měšťanská beseda) in der Wladislaus-Straße (Vladislavova) gefunden und in den Alten Jüdischen Friedhof verlagert.
Dieser wurde offenbar an der Wende vom 14. zum 15 Jahrhundert gegründet. Der älteste erhaltene Grabstein stammt aus dem Jahr 1439. Der Friedhof wurde durch den Zukauf der herumliegenden Grundstücke mehrere Male erweitert. Es wurde hier seit 1787 nicht mehr beerdigt, als durch den Erlass von Joseph II. verboten wurde, Begräbnisstätten inmitten der bewohnten Stadtteile zu nutzen. Die jüdische Hauptbegräbnisstädte wurde dann in den einstigen Pestfriedhof auf Žižkov verlagert. Bei der Sanierung des Viertels Josefov wurde 1903 die jüdische Gemeinde gezwungen, einen Friedhofteil an den Ausbau eines neuen Verkehrswegs abzutreten (die heutige 17. listopadu-Straße). Exhumierte Überreste wurden in einem anderen Friedhofteil auf der Erhöhung Nefel vor der Klaus-Synagoge platziert, wo Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts kleine Kinder unter 1 Monat beigesetzt wurden. Während der Sanierung ließ die Bestattungsbruderschaft anhand des Projekts vom Architekten J. Gerstel eine neue Zeremonienhalle im neuromanischen Stil bauen, die nur bis zum Beginn der 20er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts zu ihrem Zweck genutzt wurde.
Der Alte Jüdische Friedhof enthält 12000 Grabsteine, Überreste wurden hier aber deutlich mehr beigesetzt. Viele Grabsteine sanken tief in die Unterschichten ein und weitere vor allem Holzgrabmale gingen im Laufe der Zeit kaputt. Weil religiöse Traditionen den Juden untersagen, alte Gräber zu handhaben und das Grundstück den Bedürfnissen nicht mehr genügen konnte, wurden auf den Friedhof immer wieder neue Schichten Erdboden gefahren und die alten Grabsteine in höhere Schichten gehoben, wodurch sich vielleicht bis zu 12 Schichten übereinander anhäuften und an vielen Stellen entstand die charakteristische Ansammlung von Grabsteinen aus verschiedenen Jahrhunderten nebeneinander. Um den Friedhof kümmerte sich über ganze Jahrhunderte lang die Prager Bestattungsbruderschaft, die auch mit der systematischen Aufarbeitung der Grabaufschriften begann.
An der Wende vom 16. zum 17. Jahrhundert lassen sich auf den ursprünglich einfachen Grabsteinen plastische Symbole und Zeichen von Geschlechtern, Namen, Ständen und Berufen sehen. In der Barockzeit kommt öfters eine gewisse Vierflachtumbe (Häuslein). Prag ist der einzige Ort in Europa, wo sich einige erhielten. Einer der Renaissancebarocksarkophage deckt das Grab des bedeutendsten Denkers des Prager Ghettos und des Rektors der Talmundschule Rabbi Jehuda Löw. Eine Renaissancetumbe hat hier der Mäzen des Prager Ghettos und der Primas der Prager Judengemeinde Mordechei Meisel. Auf vielen Grabsteinen stehen aus der jüdischen Tradition hervorgehende Symbole, z.B. eine Weintraube (Fruchtbarkeits- und Weisheitssymbol), eine Sparbüchse (Wohltätigkeitssymbol) oder der sechszackige Davidstern. Zur Herkunft und zum Geschlecht des Gestorbenen gehören z.B. segnende Hände (Nachkommen der Kirchenpriester), eine Kanne mit einer Schüssel oder Musikinstrumente (Nachkommen der Helfer aus dem Stamm der Leviten), weiter Tiersymbole wie Personen- oder Familiennamen (Löwe, Wolf, Gans, Hahn, usw.) und Werkzeugreliefe als Berufsymbol (Mörser - Apotheker, Geige - Musiker, usw.). Die Texte tragen außer den Grundangaben auch vielfältige Lobreden und andere interessante Angaben über den Toten. Das Todes- oder Beisetzungsdatum wird manchmal durch den sog. Chronostich (Hebräisch äußert Zahlen durch Buchstaben nach deren Rangfolge im Alphabet) je nach Judenzeitrechnung geäußert, die um 3760 älter ist als die bürgerliche Zeitrechnung.
Auf dem Friedhof wachsen Ahorne, Kastanienbäume, Akazien und Holunderbeerensträucher.
Der Alte Jüdische Friedhof ist seit 1995 ein Volkskulturdenkmal.
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Creativity & Innovation in Managing Teaching & Learning
Prof. Asha Singh Kanwar
Innovations in Higher Education: Re-imagining Learning
Teachers and Counselors from around the state witness aerial refueling aboard a KC-135R from the 128th Air Refueling Wing, Milwaukee WI
Woodcut from The Popular Educator 1868.
A complete illustrated Encyclopaedia for Elementary, Advanced and Technical Education.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London. Six volumes in three books, half leather and gilt binding with marbled covers and marbled endplates. Total 2500 pages 26cm x 19.5cm .
Image for the group Get Pushed, where members sign up for a push, get paired with another willing partner (victim?), and after reviewing their partner's photostream, comes up with a challenge for an image that is outside their comfort zone.
R26: This image is inspired by a challenge (or PUSH) from Krista Mills (www.flickr.com/people/kristakmills/), teacher extraordinaire currently in China and my push partner from the previous round R23. She and I agreed to do a mutual push for R26. The push was to provide an image representing a popular quote from literature, as we both like to read. (Her push response for this round can be found at www.flickr.com/photos/kristakmills/7998778347/in/photostream).
The quote: "The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities."
DAVID COPPERFIELD, CHARLES DICKENS
Ever since eighth grade, I have know I have a knack for teaching math and science. My senior year in college, I tutored over 150 students in classes varying from Algebra to Calculus 2, physics, chemistry, computer programming and Spanish... My dream (wish) has been since then to teach at community college or University, probably after I retire from my current job, which is in the paint and coatings industry, so the image behind me fits well for what I currently do. . Here, this image shows me giving a presentation (which I DID do) at a technical conference on Friday, somewhat of a joining of what I do and wish to do. And, taking that wish further, I have made the first step to go back to grad school to make it happen.
The way this relates to the quote is that I am now DOING the teaching and mentoring, instead of just wishing I will someday. Needless to say, I respect the teaching profession and give teachers in general a lot of credit for the stress and lack of respect they get.
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Educators are invited to the Legoengineering Educators Conference on The 4th Floor of the Downtown Chattanooga Public Library on Saturday, June 7 2014 from 8:30am until 4:00pm.
42 educators attended from throughout the Hamilton County Education system.
LEGOengineering is developed by the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), with the support of LEGO Education and innovative teachers from around the globe, including the Engineering Design Group Educators (EDGE).
The mission of LEGOengineering is to inspire and support teachers in bringing LEGO-based engineering to all students.
Here is Teen Librarian Justin Hoenke talking to the group about the 4th Floor maker space.
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We are pleased to welcome Jeanette Ashe as the BC NDP candidate in the Vancouver-Quilchena by-election.
Jeanette Ashe is an educator and an advocate who has dedicated her professional career to increasing diversity in government by helping women get elected to public office.
A visiting Senior Research Fellow at King's College London, and the Chair of the Political Science department at Douglas College, Jeanette is a champion for equality, justice, and a better, more inclusive British Columbia.
Khristian Flowers and Sarah Dill were among Clinton educators visiting Mississippi College for Friday's district convocation. Both women are counselors with the Clinton public schools.
A steady stream of more than 500 applicants flowed through the Community Choice Convention Center, from 8 to noon Saturday morning for the the annual Educator Career Fair. Interviews for high demand positions took place throughout the event, and more than 100 educators will be hired for the 2017-18 school year.
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The Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus americanus) of Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York – This unique sea-dwelling rabbit, which is actually a close relative of the sea lion, was officially discovered and investigated by Henry Hudson when he first visited this land to colonize the area by order of the Dutch government. It was named New Amsterdam -- today’s New York City. This island was named after he saw the beach covered with strange swimming wild rabbits. The word “Coney Island” means “wild rabbit island” in Dutch (originally Conyne Eylandt, or Konijneneiland in modern Dutch spelling). Sea rabbits were also referred mermaid rabbit, merrabbit, rabbit fish or seal rabbit in the natural history documents in the 17th century. The current conservation status, or risk of extinction, of the sea rabbit is Extinct in the Wild.
This website features two species of sea rabbits, which have been taken care of by Dr. Takeshi Yamada (山田武司) at the Coney Island Sea Rabbit Repopulation Center, which is a part of the Marine biology department of the Coney Island University in Brooklyn, New York. They are – Coney Island Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus americanus) called “Seara” and Coney Island Tiger-striped Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus konjinicus) called “Stripes”.
The photographs and videos featured in this website chronicle adventures of the Coney Island sea rabbits and the world as seen by them. This article also documented efforts of Dr. Takeshi Yamada for bringing back the nearly extinct sea rabbits to Coney Island in the City of New York and beyond. Dr. Yamada produced a series of public lectures, workshops, original public live interactive fine art performances and fine art exhibitions about sea rabbits at a variety of occasions and institutions in the City of New York and beyond. Dr. Yamada is an internationally active educator, book author, wildlife conservationist and high profile artist, who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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Sea Rabbit
Other Common Names: Coney Island Sea Rabbit, Beach Rabbit, Seal Rabbit, mer-rabbit, merrabbit, Atlantic Sea Rabbit.
Latin Name: Monafluffchus americanus
Origin: Atlantic coast of the United States
Description of the specimen: In the early 17th century’s European fur craze drove the fleet of Dutch ships to the eastern costal area of America. Then Holland was the center of the world just like the Italy was in the previous century. New York City was once called New Amsterdam when Dutch merchants landed and established colonies. Among them, Henry Hudson is probably the most recognized individual in the history of New York City today. “This small island is inhabited by two major creatures which we do not have in our homeland. The one creature is a large arthropod made of three body segments: the frontal segment resembles a horseshoe, the middle segment resembles a spiny crab and its tail resembles a sharp sword. Although they gather beaches here in great numbers, they are not edible due to their extremely offensive odor. Another creature which is abundant here, has the head of wild rabbit. This animal of great swimming ability has frontal legs resemble the webbed feet of a duck. The bottom half of the body resembles that of a seal. This docile rabbit of the sea is easy to catch as it does not fear people. The larger male sea rabbits control harems of 20 to 25 females. The meat of the sea rabbit is very tender and tasty.” This is what Hadson wrote in his personal journal in 1609 about the horseshoe crab and the sea rabbit in today’s Coney Island area of Brooklyn, New York. Sadly, just like the Dodo bird and the Thylacine, the sea rabbit was driven to extinction by the European settlers’ greed. When Dutch merchants and traders arrived here, sea rabbits were one of the first animals they hunted down to bring their furs to homeland to satisfy the fur craze of the time. To increase the shipment volume of furs of sea rabbit and beavers from New Amsterdam, Dutch merchants also started using wampum (beads made of special clam shells) as the first official currency of this country.
At the North Eastern shores of the United States, two species of sea rabbits were commonly found. They are Coney Island Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus americanus) and Coney Island Tiger-striped Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus konjinicus). Sadly, due to their over harvesting in the previous centuries, their conservation status became “Extinct in the Wild” (ET) in the Red List Endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Currently, these sea rabbits are only found at breeding centers at selected zoos and universities such as Coney Island Aquarium and Coney Island University in Brooklyn, New York. The one shown in this photograph was named "Seara" and has been cared by Dr. Takeshi Yamada at Coney Island University.
The sea rabbit is one of the families of the Pinniped order. Pinnipeds (from Latin penna = flat and pes/pedis = foot) are sea-mammals: they are homeothermic (i.e having high and regulated inner temperature), lung-breathing (i.e dependant on atmospheric oxygen) animals having come back to semi aquatic life. As soon as they arrive ashore, females are caught by the nearest adult male. Males can maintain harems of about 20 females on average. Several hours to several days after arriving ashore, pregnant females give birth to eight to ten pups with a dark brown fur. As soon as birth occurs, the mother’s special smell and calls help her pups bond specifically to her. The mother stays ashore with her pup for about one week during which the pup gains weight. During the first week spent with her newborn, the mother becomes receptive. She will be impregnated by the bull, which control the harem. Implantation of the embryo will occur 3 months later, in March-April. During the reproductive period, the best males copulate with several tens females. To do so, males have to stay ashore without feeding in order to keep their territory and their harem. In mid-January, when the last females have been fecundated, males leave at sea to feed. Some of them will come back later in March-April for the moult. The other ones will stay at sea and will come back on Coney Island only in next November. After fecundation, the mother goes at sea for her first meal. At sea, mothers feed on clams, crabs, shrimps, fish (herring, anchovy, Pollock, capelin etc.) and squids. When she is back, the mother recovers her pups at the beach she left them. Suckling occurs after auditive and olfactory recognition had occured. In March-April, the dark brown fur is totally replaced by an adult-like light brownish grey fur during the moult that lasts 1-2 months. This new fur is composed by 2 layers. Externally, the guard fur is composed by flat hairs that recover themselves when wet. By doing so, they make a water-proof barrier for the under fur. The underfur retains air when the seal is dry. Because of isolating properties of the air, the underfur is the insulating system of the fur. In March-April, the fur of adults is partially replaced. First reproduction occurs at 1-yr old in females. Males are physiologically matures at 1 year old but socially matures at +2 years old.
NOTE: The name of Coney Island is commonly thought to be derived from the Dutch Konijn Eylandt or Rabbit Island as apparently the 17th century European settlers noted many rabbits running amuck on the island.
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For any questions, please contact Dr. Takeshi Yamada. His email address is posted in the chapter page (the last page or the first page).
(Updated April 7B, 2015)
Randy came to California in 1984 when he started an outdoor education company with his brother. 27 years later he's still sharing his energy and knowledge with everyone. This is another shot from our night shoot.
Strobist Info:
580exII in Wescott Apollo camera right and high
580ex on ground at half power and feathered across trees behind subject.
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Dr. Mary Crowley McDonald was the keynote speaker for the "Back to School" kickoff on Aug. 26. She has received national acclaim as an innovative educator, author and public speaker. She has served in education for 35 years as a teacher, principal, and most recently, as superintendent of Catholic schools for the Diocese of Memphis for 14 years. She now works in the field of education as a consultant and public speaker.
Dozens of educators, energy managers and facility directors from across the U.S. recently visited the HVACR lab at College of DuPage for a tour of the College’s state-of-the-art HVACR training labs.
June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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Bornschein,
Here are some illustrations from the American Educator. They aren't anything special, but I love their friendly "oldness".
June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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