![]() The water cycle is dynamic it describes the continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth and the transitions from one state to another. Nearly two-thirds of this fresh water is stored in the polar ice caps, snow packs, and glaciers, making it inaccessible for long periods of time. How much fresh water exists and where it is stored affects us all. However, only a small portion of Earth's water is accessible for our needs. Looking at our Earth from space, with its vast and deep ocean, it appears as though there is an abundance of water for our use. Water is the fundamental ingredient for life on Earth. These measurements are important to understanding the availability and distribution of Earth’s water – vital to life and vulnerable to the impacts of climate change on a growing world population. Sensors on a suite of NASA satellites observe and measure water on land, in the ocean and in the atmosphere. This animation uses Earth science data from a variety of sensors on NASA Earth observing satellites as well as cartoons to describe Earth’s water cycle and the continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth. However, only a small portion of Earth’s water is accessible for our needs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() “Either way, I now faced a seven-hour surgery, which at least gave all my loved ones ample time to race to the hospital. Was I unlucky that my colon exploded? Or was I lucky that it happened in the one room in Southern California where they could do something about it?” the former Go On star wrote of the scary experience. “It was almost certain at that point that I was going to die. He later became addicted to Ox圜ontin after surgery for a colon explosion, which almost cost him his life. In 1997, Perry got hooked on Vicodin after a jet skiing accident during a film shoot. “What drug may you ask? You guessed it: phenobarbital!” “When these mishaps occur, if you want to be sober, which I always did, you’d be given drugs to help you along,” he explained. In fact, he was given phenobarbital when he was a baby to stop his colicky cries, a barbiturate he would later turn to during his lower points. The Odd Couple alum revealed that he has been battling drugs and alcohol addiction for decades. “Save for about sixty or seventy little mishaps over the years.” ![]() “People would be surprised to know that I have mostly been sober since 2001,” he wrote in the book, which hits shelves on Tuesday, November 1. ![]() Matthew Perry didn’t hold back in his Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing memoir - recalling his high-profile romances, addiction woes and Friends highs and lows. ![]() ![]() ![]() Virginia creeper often growing right beside poison ivy. Look at a mature section of vine for a positive identification. Young leaves at the growing tip of the vine may have only three leaflets. ![]() If leaflets of three are to be let be, then let leaflets of five thrive! Virginia creeper ( Parthenocissus quinquefolia), a member of the grape family, has five leaflets palmately arranged on a single leaf. So, avoid a close encounter of the worst kind by learning to distinguish it from non-toxic look-alikes. The bare vine is just as caustic in winter as the leaves are in spring and summer. During winter months, when leaves are long gone, adventitious roots give the poison ivy vine a hairy appearance. Three leaflets make up one leaf, and the leaves are alternately arranged along the vine. We’ve all heard the mantra “leaves of three, let it be.” Those leaves are actually leaflets. Tiny white flowers are visible now and will give way to white berries. It’s a woody vine that either sprawls over the ground or winds up a tree trunk. Poison ivy ( Toxicodendron radicans) is a member of the cashew family. Make sure that itch isn’t coming from poison ivy. While the weather is nice, we all have the itch to get out in our gardens. ![]() ![]() Resolve straightened my spine, overcoming the fear, at least until he pushed off the gate and crossed his arms. Something flashed through those silver eyes, and I was willing to bet my Tesla it was knowledge. Someone said Derrick Rockins might know where she is.” I would face down the devil in hell to find Trinity I just hoped I hadn’t found him. Instinctively, I knew that would only make things worse. I gritted my teeth, willing myself not to show fear. Woman like you? It won’t take long before someone decides not to let you leave.” “This ain’t the kind of neighborhood you come to and start asking questions. My heart hammered and my palms sweat where I held on to the leather of my purse.Īfter a long silence, he finally responded. Was his going to be the last face I saw before I ended up in the trunk of a car and my parents had to file a missing person’s report for me? The man’s carved features gave nothing away. Swallowing, I got to my purpose for being here. I dragged my gaze back to his face, finding his piercing silver eyes assessing me as carefully as I did him. ![]() ![]() ![]() Intricate designs in black ink wrapped around thick biceps and forearms. I took in his light caramel-colored skin, hair buzzed to a dark shadow, his T-shirt stretching across a broad, well-muscled chest. ![]() ![]() I like to think that there is a lovely distinction between aloneness and loneliness, and the real reader will rejoice in the one and never know the other.Īnyway, I read. There is, after all, something to be said for aloneness, at least in my case, because it led to books. It's no wonder that that library and attic keep turning up in the things I write. Nothing to do, that is, until I discovered the library that had been a church (open three afternoons a week, and with the fiction section two steps up, where the altar used to be), and for the off-days, my grandmother's attic (and all the books my mother and aunt had read as children). I spent a part of every summer visiting my grandmother on the eastern shore of Virginia, where the days were long and hot and there was absolutely nothing to do. It has, in part, to do with being an only child, often alone. ![]() ![]() Whenever I try to piece together anything even slightly resembling an autobiographical sketch, I find that a lot of my remembering has to do with books: what I read (almost anything) where I read (almost anywhere) and why. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mary Ann starts working at Mona's firm, Halcyon Communications. Mary Ann rapidly gets to know her new neighbors, including apprehensive advertising official Mona Ramsey. She discovers fleeting hotel with her previous high school companion Connie Bradshaw, a free soul associated with the era's sexual upheaval, before moving into her very own place at 28 Barbary Lane, an apartment building run by unconventional, kind, and liberal Anna Madrigal. The story starts as guileless, Midwestern secretary Mary Ann chooses to change her vacation in San Francisco to an enduring move and subsequently re-try her exhausting life. By investigating the culture of 1970s San Francisco, especially the developing gay culture as well as underground developments, the book researches topics of sexual and enthusiastic freedom, homophobia, counterculture movements, and being a family. There, she ends up interweaved with her neighbors and their perplexing lives. The story happens in San Francisco in 1976, as a young woman named Mary Ann Singleton, looking for a modification in her life, moves to the city and lives at 28 Barbary Lane. ![]() Written by people who wish to remain anonymousĪt first published in 1978 by American writer Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City is the main partition in a nine-book series of a similar name appropriated somewhere in the scope of 19. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The work goes along nicely, but as the story develops, Ruben and Dhimas slowly start to have their doubts as to how their project is progressing are they really writing the story, or is it actually writing them? The story is to look at the people of Jakarta and is based on the folktale ‘The Knight, the Princess and the Falling Star’, showing the pressures of modern society and how we are all interconnected yet unique. They decide to write a story together, one blending Dhimas’ writing skills with Ruben’s vast knowledge of the brain and the world of science (he has since become a ‘quantum psychologist’…). Ruben, a medical student, and Dhimas, a writer, share a drug-fuelled experience at a party, and back in Indonesia ten years later, the men are still in love. In honour of the event, then, I’ve decided to devote the week to Indonesian fiction, with three reviews of books by Indonesian writers for your pleasure – and here’s the second of my reviews □ĭewi Lestari’s Supernova (translated by Harry Aveling, review copy courtesy of the Lontar Foundation) begins with a meeting between two Indonesian expats in the US. ![]() ![]() This week sees the latest staging of the Frankfurt Book Fair, and 2015’s guest of honour is Indonesia, a country which is currently a blank on my literary explorers map. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when her children visit their Aunt Isabelle, in the small Massachusetts town where the Owens family has been blamed for everything that has ever gone wrong, they uncover family secrets and begin to understand the truth of who they are. And most importantly, never, ever, fall in love. ![]() Difficult Franny, with skin as pale as milk and blood red hair, shy and beautiful Jet, who can read other people’s thoughts, and charismatic Vincent, who began looking for trouble on the day he could walk.įrom the start Susanna sets down rules for her children: No walking in the moonlight, no red shoes, no wearing black, no cats, no crows, no candles, no books about magic. Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children are dangerously unique. For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. ![]() ![]() ![]() Don’t forget to collect the entire Berserk Deluxe set to fully experience Guts’ journey in the fantasy world of Berserk. Although this is not the main plot, it contains many great battle scenes that will keep you glued to the manga. In 2002, Kentaro Miura received the second place in the Tezuka Osamu (Astro Boy) Cultural Prize of Excellence for Berserk. Berserk Deluxe Volume 1 is an excellent story to begin your exploration of Berserk. The series has also spawned a whole host of merchandise, both official and fan made, ranging from statues and action figures, to key rings, video games, and a trading card game. ![]() In 1997, Miura supervised the production of 25 anime episodes of Berserk that aired in the same year on NTV. Miura's fame grew after Berserk began "The Golden Age" story arc and the huge success of this masterpiece made of him one of the most prominent contemporary manga artists. Author: Miura, KentaroBrand: Dark Horse MangaColor: BlackEdition: Deluxe,TranslationFeatures: Easy to read text It can be a gift. Miura again collaborated with Buronson on manga entitled Japan. ![]() In 1990, the first volume Berserk was released with a relatively limited success. In 1989, after receiving a doctorate degree, Kentarou started a project titled King of Wolves based on a script by Buronson, writer of Hokuto no Ken ( Fist Of The North Star). manga is presented in an oversized 7 x 10 deluxe hardcover edition, nearly 700 pages amassing the first three Berserk volumes, with following volumes. It went on to win Miura a prize from the Comi Manga School. While attending college at Nihon University, in 1988, Kentaro Miura debuted a 48-page manga known as Berserk Prototype, an introduction to the current Berserk fantasy world. ![]() ![]() Science author Orville Prescott praised him as a scientist who “can write with poetic sensibility and with a fine sense of wonder and of reverence before the mysteries of life and nature.“ Naturalist author Mary Ellen Pitts saw his combination of literary and nature writings as his "quest, not simply for bringing together science and literature. Publishers Weekly referred to him as "the modern Thoreau." The broad scope of his many writings considered such diverse topics as the mind of Sir Francis Bacon, the prehistoric origins of man, and the contributions of Charles Darwin.Įiseley’s national reputation was established mainly through his books, including The Immense Journey (1957), Darwin's Century (1958), The Unexpected Universe (1969), The Night Country (1971), and his memoir, All the Strange Hours (1975). ![]() He was noted as a “scholar and writer of imagination and grace,” which gained him a reputation and record of accomplishment far beyond the campus where he taught for 30 years. ![]() At his death, he was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. During this period he received more than 36 honorary degrees and was a fellow of many distinguished professional societies. X (1979)Įisley taught and published books from the 1950s through the 1970s. ![]() |