There is a creature that is destroying your home and you don’t even know it. The Burmese python, this is a deadly python.This python is taking over the Florida Everglades. The Burmese Python is taking over Florida and the people in it. The people of Florida are being too risky and they could have their lives taken from them.According to Florida's Python Hunt “ To address the problem, the state’s Fish and Wildlife Commission are sponsoring its very first-ever Python challenge. Open to the public
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This is a story for people who follow their dreams and make their own rules; a story that has inspired people for decades. For most seagulls, life consists simply of eating and surviving. Flying is just a means of finding food. However, Jonathan Livingston Seagull is no ordinary bird. For him, flying is life itself. Against the conventions of seagull society, he seeks to find a higher purpose and become the best at doing what he loves. This is a fable about the importance of making the most of our
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Plesiosaurs or just a big fish? Over time, we have been provided with mysteries that we just can’t solve. We have the most advanced technologies and the smartest individuals working with them, but there isn’t any way to come up with the solid factual evidence needed to give an answer. The particular mystery I have chosen has a museum dedicated to it. I am talking about the Lock Ness Monster. With all of the evidence available to me, I make the point that this may not be a dinosaur like creature
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beating down on my back as my feet clawed at the blistering, red turf. With every step I took, my toes sunk into the squishy, foul smelling surface, as my lungs grasped for air. Everything felt the way it should as I plunged toward my destination. I clutched the baton in my sweaty palms, promising myself not to let go. My long legs moved me as fast as I could go as I hugged the corner of the line like a toddler hugging their favorite teddy bear. The steps were just like I had practiced. As I came
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the questions objectively because I couldn’t imagine a tree that is taller than either 1200 feet or even 400 feet. Thus, while people would have normally provided their responses based on “anchoring”, and chose that the tallest redwood tree would be more than 400 feet (because they were given the value of 1200 feet in the previous question), I went about it objectively to choose the value of less than 400 feet. For question 9 though, I chose “Kristen is a bank teller and a liberal Democrat” as I was
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With the offshore drilling and production industry just beginning it was unclear of just how successful it would be. In fact, many issues such as natural disasters destroying rigs, lack of reliable transportation to rigs, and nonexistent technology made profits very difficult to achieve. With the Japanese surrendering in the Pacific War, the United States lifted gasoline and oil rations making car sales jump from 14 million to 40 million in just 5 years. With such a large boom in automobiles, more
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MACARONS Makes 24 completed sandwich cookies INGREDIENTS 3 Egg Whites ¼ cup white sugar (50 g) 2 cups confectioners sugar (200 g) 1 cup almond flour (120 g) (SEE NOTE BELOW) pinch of salt ¼ tsp cream of tartar (2 ml) * You can omit if needed, just may take a bit longer to reach stiff peaks but the recipe will still work) NOTE: If you cannot find almond flour where you live, check out this great video from my new friend Dzung at Honeysuckle Catering and she'll show you a great easy way to
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other. In the book The Outsiders it says “shut him up, for pete's sake shut him up! Then there were shouts and pounding of feet, and the socs jumped up and left me lying there. I lay there and wondered what in the world was happening people were jumping over me and running by me, and I was too dazed to figure it out. Then someone had me under my armpits and was hauling me by my feet, it was darry.”are you alright, ponyboy?” this shows that the greasers stick up for each other when the socs are bothering
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My Escape It is just after 9:00 am on a sunny September morning. My feet have just hit the dirt of the parking lot where just a few other cars are parked. There are always the same few people who like to come here early in the morning to walk their dogs, walk themselves, or, if they're like me, they are here to run. I step from the dew soaked grass onto the clay and dirt mixture that now cover what used to be train tracks. Thoughts from my week about family, work, school, and friends along with
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How much weight did I just lift? You might ask yourself after a good set of pushups. Was it 90% of my body weight? No, maybe it was 50%? I will calculate the percentage of your body weight that you would expect to "push up" during both regular and inclined pushups. Before I begin with the math, lets define what a pushup is. More specifically, lets discuss proper form and technique. First, get onto the ground. Elevate your body using your arms and keep you back straight as a board. Don't let your
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