Ticket the speeders; cite the folks who ignore traffic signs. It never ceases to amaze me how many of the drivers in my area think those eight-sided red signs with the four white letters don’t apply to them. Beryl Arbit, Encino .. To the editor:Speed humps are the ultimate ...
The year began with two fantastic finds on 1st – a female WHITE-THROATED REDSTART Phoenicurus schisticeps 白喉红尾鸲 Bái hóu hóng wěi qú at Lingshan (Lou Fangzhou), only the fourth record of this species for Beijing, and a female SCALY-SIDED MERGANSER Mergus squamatus 中华秋沙鸭 Zhōng...
The first drops of rain are huge; they split into the dust on the ground, and plunk on the roof. The rain now becomes a torrent, flung by a rising wind. Together they batter the trees and level the grasses. Water streams off roofs. There is only water. 开始雨点很大,溅起地上的...
The Tibetans cut the lunation cycle differently, with thirty Moon days of 12 degrees each, instead of our eight phases. The two Moon days that carry the sesqui-square and the quincunx are both auspicious. On the day of the sesqui-square, writes Philippe Cornu, "This is a day for ...
TRAVIS: Laura, are you-- Are you crying? LAURA: I'm fine, Travis. It's not like he was the only man I ever loved. LIAM: That spirit cube contained 10,000 zetabytes of BlackWillow's computer knowledge. All the Super Meat Boy ciphers, all the No Man's Sky cheat codes, every...
Balance, leg strength, walking self-efficacy, walking speed, and walking endurance are associated with not only outdoor walking activity [30], but also physical activity, participation, and perceived health status [74, 75] which underpinned secondary study outcomes of health-promoting behavior and ...
which included all specimens strictly from Illinois. This second batch includes specimens from the not only the rest of North America (sensu lato), but South America and the West Indies as well. Out of ~450 total specimens, in this batch, I identified 167 species, with eight new state and...
it’s impossible. I can only assume that those precariously balanced baseball caps grant these ‘teenagers’ the magical ability to defy the laws of physics. Or perhaps it explains the lopsided walk, as they’re actually clenching their butt-cheeks tighter than a doorman clutching a ponytail in...
阅读理解 Driving a car at high speed along a highway seems to be fun.You need only to follow the bright traffic signs beside the highways and it will take you to where you wish. But to a London taxi driver, driving is not an easy job.A taxi driver h
Button presses (in response to a positive change detection) are counted as successful detections if conditions (C1–C2) are met: (C1) the participant pressed theright-sidedbutton after a behaviour change, or theleft-sidedbutton after a property change; and (C2) either of the button presses...