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Richard 3 (Bell Shakespeare)
Kate Mulvany juggles charming wit and cunning ruthlessness in a visceral performance as the "bunch-back'd" king.
Playhouse Theatre, Sydney Opera House
Reviewed on March 1, 2017
by Angus McPherson on March 2, 2017
The mantels are lined with bottles and wine glasses, the stage strewn with velvet lounges and gilded with dark wood panelling, a pair of ornamental Samurai swords on display. In front of shelves stacked with black marble busts hunches Richard, Duke of Gloucester – played by Kate Mulvany – in a black suit. She looks up at the audience and smiles.
Kate Mulvany and the cast of Bell Shakespeare's Richard 3. Photos © Prudence Upton
Peter Evans sets his production of Shakespeare's Richard III in a single room. Anna Cordingley's sets and costumes create an abstract space with nods to 1920s décor belied by a contemporary cordless phone and a television screen set in the wall. A refrain of dream-like party scenes weaves through the production, guests dance convulsively or shake cocktails while others move in slow motion in a surreal, choreographed debauch, characters moving through time at different speeds to an over-saturated soundtrack of Handel's Zadok the Priest. The cast sings English hymns during scene changes – usually little more than a rearranging of chairs – culminating in an ironic Jerusalem at the play's climax.
The stage is always well populated – guests rarely leave the party, even when they're dead. Players 'enter' and 'exit' through a meeting of eyes across the room or a subtle shift in Benjamin Cisterne's lighting design. The characters that litter the stage at times form a statuesque backdrop to the main drama, but at other times they are aware of the action, watching and listening. While the social dynamics are fascinating, the staging doesn't always gel, the background actors moving in slow motion or sped up in the party scenes creating a sense of dreamlike unreality without really contributing much to the narrative momentum.
In this setting, the arrest and imprisonment of Richard's brother Clarence (Gareth Reeves) has all the gravity of a party tiff, but the rising tensions and violence soon give rise to brutal consequences in the shifting social strata.
Rose Riley as Lady Anne
Meredith Penman is a haughty Queen Elizabeth, her condescension gradually transformed into sarcastic grief and horrified disbelief. Rose Riley is a powerfully grief-stricken Lady Anne (and a smugly arrogant teenage Prince smoking insouciantly as she torments Richard). Sandy Gore's beturbaned Queen Margaret quickly shifts from vague doddering to something more menacing as she rains curses upon the party guests, to a keening soundtrack, while Ivan Donato is both a laid-back Hastings and a jocularly threatening Tyrell. Kevin MacIsaac is a drunken King Edward and a stoic Richmond. Reeves deftly handles the Bishop and Catesby in addition to Clarence while James Lugton juggles Rivers, the Mayor and Ratcliffe. It is a tribute to the flexibility of the actors that their multiple characters are so clearly delineated with so little in the way of costume changes – or even chances to leave the stage.
But it is Mulvany who drives the action. She is cunning and sly as Richard – with a gentle Southern accent – but also incredibly charming, funny and human, inviting the audience to relish in her victories, however macabre, and celebrate her conquests.
While casting Mulvany as the misogynistic Richard draws attention to many relevant ideas about gender in Shakespeare's play – the audience twitters at the irony of lines like "when men are ruled by women" and "men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes" – Mulvany is deliberately not playing the role as Queen Richard. The real power and thrust of her performance is in the exploration of physical difference.
Radiotherapy treatment for childhood cancer left Mulvany with severe spinal malformation, which she embraces – or simply no longer needs to fight or conceal – in her visceral depiction of the "bunch-back'd" king.
A fraternal hair-mussing from Clarence almost overbalances her – a reminder of Richard's physical vulnerability – but it is the accumulation of derision that is most fatiguing, from Anne's spitting "lump of foul deformity" to the withering curses of Richard's mother, the Duchess of York (Sarah Woods), which elicit some of the most sincere expressions from the king – a slight slipping of the smile. Yet Richard still exudes incredible power, with a rapier-like sarcastic wit and a dissembling that swings from cunning lies to bulldozer denials. Her wooing of the shell-shocked, raging Lady Anne is captivating – Mulvany's depiction of a character 'acting' is masterful – and one of the dramatic climaxes of the show.
Mulvany's performance is potent enough that Richard's lies, scheming and murderous impulses are understandable – if not wholly forgivable – and his slipping into the paranoid, self-destructive rages of the later acts elicits pity rather than revulsion.
Shakespeare's text is judiciously trimmed and streamlined to give the play a sleek, fast-paced momentum and it has plenty of resonance given the contemporary political climate: Richard's raging disbelief that the citizenry hasn't embraced him, his gathering of props – such as bishop and Bible – to give his image credulity, and the brazen lies whose audacity leave characters stunned and speechless are all too familiar.
Swinging wildly from entertaining to brutal at the drop of a hat, Bell Shakespeare's Richard 3 is powerfully visceral. Mulvany's Richard comes across so human and vulnerable that you can't help wonder if, had he been spared the systematic abuse and rejection, the horror and bloodshed might have been avoided – but perhaps that's just what Richard wants you to think. Mulvany borrows lines from the penultimate scene in Henry VI, Part 3 for a heart-rending final monologue, which the audience greeted with a well-deserved standing ovation.
Richard 3 plays the Sydney Opera House until April 1, the Canberra Theatre Centre from April 6-15 and Arts Centre Melbourne from April 20 to May 7
Bell Shakespeare announces its 2020 season
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2019 AWGIE Awards announced
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Kate Mulvany's adaptation places both queens centre stage, providing an excavation of their shared humanity and grave shortcomings.
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The Next Big Media Battle: Publishers vs. Ad Agencies
DAM News Staff
The Next Big Media Battle: Publishers vs. Ad Agencies | Post Advertising.
The media business has been in chaos for a decade, and there's more coming. The next big media revolution will be an escalating and increasingly bitter competition between the content creators–especially newspaper and magazine publishers–and their former friends, the traditional ad agencies, which still create and buy most print ads for their clients.
The traditional ad agencies are going to lose becausecreating great, engaging content is emerging as the key skill in marketing. And they don't have it.
(This article has also beenpublished on the Huffington Post)
This is great news for the news business, which badly needs new revenue sources to replace dwindling traditional ad dollars. But it is threatening to the big ad holding companies–WPP, Omnicom, Interpublic, Publicis and their ilk–which have been dinosaur-like in adapting to a media environment that has been suddenly and radically changed by technology.
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Bernie Sanders: Obama and Biden Need to Get Specific About Social Security
Do vague statements on Social Security now set the stage for "grand compromises" in the future?
By John NicholsTwitter
Trays of printed Social Security checks wait to be mailed. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower)
The first of three presidential debates is done. But the debate over the future of Social Security is far from settled.
Mitt Romney did his best in the first debate to distance himself from his running mate's privatization schemes. And President Obama let Romney get away with it, by saying: "I suspect that on Social Security, we've got a somewhat similar position." The Obama camp has since distanced itself from that line, which is good, since tens of millions of Americans would have a hard time voting for Obama if they thought he actually shared Romney's stance.
Hopefully, Vice President Biden will be blunter in calling out Paul Ryan in Thursday's vice presidential debate. The House Budget Committee, whose allegiance to Wall Street speculators threatens the retirement security of Americans over age 65 and, especially, of Americans who are headed toward retirement, has outlined a strategy for the eventual privatization of Social Security. Biden could simply quote the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, which says that for " the GOP Romney/Ryan Presidential ticket, Social Security is seen as little more than a budget target. They intend to use it to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and allow Wall Street to access American workers' Social Security funds."
But this has do go deeper than debating points. Americans need real assurances.
Poll after poll confirms the popularity of Social Security, as well as the strong preference on the part of voters of all regions, parties and ideological trendencies that the program should be protected from cuts when politicians address debts and deficits.
Romney and Ryan can't be allowed to spin their way around this issue. Romney, with his selection of Ryan as his running-mate, identified the GOP ticket with proposals to shred the safety net. He'll have to renounce Ryan if he wants voters to imagine that Social Security would survive on his watch.
But Americans also need to hear more and better from President Obama.
Even before his bumbling debate performance, Obama sent conflicting signals about Social Security. That's troubling to Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who has emerged as perhaps the most determined defender of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Sanders supports Obama. He makes no bones about the fact that he thinks a Romney-Ryan administration would be a disaster for working Americans.
Yet, says Sanders, it is naïve to think that beating Romney and Ryan will settle things. After last week's debate, the senator said of the president's mixed signals on Social Security: "It was very distressing. It was very distressing not only because it is extremely bad public policy and will cause serious damage to a whole lot of vulnerable Americans. It was also bad because he's going against what the vast majority of the American people want and it's going to be very bad for his re-election effort."
Sanders is concerned about the politics of the moment. He is also concerned about what happens after the election.
"I fear very much that there is a possibility that in a lame-duck session (after the election), President Obama and Democratic leaders will be pressured to make cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid in exchange for some modest revenue increases — much of which will end up coming not from the wealthy but from the middle class," Sanders told The Nation. "That's not the way to go, but I'm convinced there are Democrats who are prepared to make that compromise."
Sanders and twenty-eight other senators have signed a letter declaring that they will "oppose including Social Security cuts for future or current beneficiaries in any deficit reduction package."
Sanders wants to hear Obama and Biden make that commitment, in coming debates— and on the campaign trail. The senator's right to demand clarity from the president after Obama confused the issue with his unsettling and (hopefully) inaccurate line about sharing a "somewhat similar position" with Romney
Americans believe that no one who proposes to weaken Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid should be given the authority to do so.
Voters will make the right choices in November.
But they need specifics, not vague promises from Republicans or Democrats.
John NicholsTwitterJohn Nichols is The Nation's national-affairs correspondent. He is the author of Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America, from Nation Books, and co-author, with Robert W. McChesney, of People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy.


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European Social Fund project No. 2013/0044/1DP/1.1.1.2/13/APIA/VIAA/022 "Innovative complex technology of fiber residue processing in products with high added value" (2013 - 2015).
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Tupciauskas, R., Irbe, I., Janberga, A., Buksans, E. 2017. Moisture and decay resistance and reaction to fire properties of self-binding fibreboard made from steam-exploded grey alder wood. Wood Material Science and Engineering, 12 (2), 63-71.
Stapulionienė, R., Tupčiauskas, R. Vaitkus, S., Vėjelis, S. 2016 Development and investigation of thermal insulation from hemp-polylactide fibres. Engineering Structures and Technologies, 8 (1), 23 – 30.
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Andzs, M., Tupciauskas, R., Veveris, A., Gravitis, J. 2015. Impact of wood fraction, moisture and steam explosion on the development of an innovative insulation material. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Scientific and Practical Conference "Environment. Technology. Resources", Rezekne, Latvija I: 11 – 15.
Brazdausks, P., Tupciauskas, R., Andzs, M., Rizhikovs, J, Puke, M., Paze, A., Meile, K., Vedernikovs, N. 2015. Preliminary Study of the Biorefinery Concept to Obtain Furfural and Binder-less Panels from Hemp (Cannabis Sativa L.) Shives. Energy Procedia 72, 34 – 41.
Gravitis J., Ozols-Kalnins V., Kokorevics A., Abolins J., Kukle S., Putnina A., Andzs M., Tupciauskas R., Veveris A. 2015. Zero Emissions and Bio-refineries for Natural Fibers, Biomaterials and Energy: Genesis of Concepts. Review. In: W.L. Filho, D. Bērziņa, A. Ūbelis (eds.) Sustainable Development, Knowledge Society and Smart Future Manufacturing Technologies, World Sustainability Series, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 125 – 147.


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China denies links to alleged cyber attacks in United States targeting exiled tycoon Guo
By Philip Wen
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has denied responsibility for alleged cyber attacks in the United States appearing to target exiled tycoon Guo Wengui, who has levelled corruption allegations against senior Communist Party officials and applied for political asylum.
FILE PHOTO: Billionaire businessman Guo Wengui speaks during an interview in New York City, U.S., April 30, 2017. Picture taken April 30, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
The Ministry of Public Security said in a statement provided to Reuters on Sunday an investigation had found "no evidence" of Chinese government involvement in the alleged cyber attacks.
The law enforcement agency said China had also provided the U.S. government with evidence that Guo, who has applied for political asylum in the United States, fabricated documents used to support his claims. It said China would make an official request for U.S. authorities to investigate the matter.
"The falsified official documents and the false information he fabricated are sensational and outrageous," the ministry said in a rare English-language statement.
Guo denied the documents were forged and said the Ministry of Public Security's statement should not be believed.
The Washington-based Hudson Institute think tank was scheduled to host Guo last Wednesday in a rare public appearance, but canceled the event the day before without explanation.
The event would have coincided with the visit of an official Chinese delegation to the U.S. capital for a high-level law enforcement and cyber security dialogue between the two countries.
The Hudson Institute said it had detected a Shanghai-based attack aimed at shutting down access to its website several days earlier.
The suspected attack was raised by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions during a meeting with China's Public Security Minister Guo Shengkun on Wednesday, a Department of Justice spokesman told Reuters on Sunday.
China had "pledged to cooperate", the spokesman said.
However, the New York-based Guo Wengui said: "Just because the Ministry of Public Security said China didn't do it doesn't make it true."
"Why did the U.S. raise it in their meeting?" he told Reuters.
Guo Wengui applied for U.S. political asylum in September, but said this week the law firm representing him, Clark Hill PLC, had backed out after being targeted by Chinese hackers.
Clark Hill lawyer Thomas Ragland, who lodged the asylum claim, confirmed he was no longer representing Guo Wengui, without elaborating.
Guo Wengui held a news conference at the National Press Club on Thursday, after his Hudson event was called off, where he produced what he claimed were "top secret" official documents showing China had sent secret agents into the United States.
China's Ministry of Public Security said the documents shown by him were "clumsily forged" and "full of obvious mistakes".
Guo Wengui has made wide-ranging corruption allegations against senior Communist Party leaders through a daily stream of Twitter and YouTube posts since the start of the year, which he says are aimed at disrupting a key five-yearly Communist Party congress that begins next week.
The Chinese government has been seeking to discredit Guo Wengui, who is the subject of an Interpol red notice issued at Beijing's request, as a criminal suspect who should not be trusted.
Reporting by Philip Wen in BEIJING; Additional reporting by Makini Brice and Sarah Lynch in WASHINGTON and Gui Qing Koh in NEW YORK; Editing by Michael Perry and Paul Tait


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Zing is a combination of pineapple, lettuce and celery as a sleep aid and to revive the entire body. High in Vitamin C and Bromelain enzymes, Zing promotes healthy blood sugar levels.
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(SPOT.ph) Living in a country surrounded by oceans means being familiar with pretty much every kind of seafood there is—but admittedly, crayfish still manages to elude common knowledge. What the heck is it exactly? Crayfish is actually also known as freshwater lobster, which clues you in on where it lives—it's also mostly found in the Northern Hemisphere. It's not native to Philippine waters, which explains why you might not be familiar with it, but having its tender, intensely briny meat is a new experience you can try out for yourself at Sofitel's Crayfish Party 2018 happening on Saturday, September 8 from 6 p.m. onwards for P3,900.
A variety of cheeses and smoked meat are also available to try.
Pair your seafood with your wine of choice.
Have dainty blueberry and strawberry cupcakes topped with different Nordic flags to end your feast on a sweet note.
Now on its sixth year, Sofitel's Crayfish Party is the hotel's annual take on the Nordic tradition of feasting on all the crayfish you can get your hands on. Just like in Sweden and Finland where the celebration is practiced, this crayfish party also features bountiful servings of the shellfish at the center of each table, where you can munch on seafood all night long. The crayfish are complemented by a buffet of Nordic specialties that include smoked tuna with capers and smoked salmon with capers, quiche, pickled herring, Swedish meatballs, and a whole crispy roast pork. End your feast with cookies and cupcakes emblazoned with the flags of the Nordic countries and a wide array of alcoholic drinks that includes local craft beer Engkanto. Guests are encouraged to come in Viking ensembles or the football jersey of their favorite Nordic country to really get into party mode.


Discussion in 'Tutorials and Guides' started by Francisco, Feb 18, 2014.
Normally I'm not one to share stallion code, but after a discussion with a couple staffers we came to the conclusion that the following work must be made public for the 'greater good' and all that righteous crap.
The following blocks NTP monlist packets at the node (or router level if you're using a linux based setup), before they ever get to your customers. This means that it provides preemptive filtering, instead of after-the-fact-oh-god-my-bandwidth-bills. Stopping NTP amplification floods before the user gets them was the only way for us morally address users from being used in NTP floods be it now or later on.
This does not patch the users configuration files by any means. This is entirely node side done with iptables. You should still make it an effort to inform your customers about the dangers of using a bad version of NTP.
First, you must add the following entry to your /etc/sysctl.conf. This makes it so all packets sent over a bridge (for XEN & KVM based VM's) are also filtered.
The following rule is what does all the magic. You'll want to put this in /etc/rc.local above the exit 0 so it gets applied on reboot. You should also look at using iptables-save as well.
You can change the chain from FORWARD to INPUT in the off chance that you want to use this inside a VPS or something like that. It'd be smarter to simply ACL monlist or upgrade your version, but to each their own.
You should feel no performance impact from this rule being in place. Your node will still be smacked with the packets, but nothing will be sent out.
For obvious reasons, I won't be talking to Phill about including this in his node side SolusVM code, but if someone wishes to point him this way, they have my permission to include this.
No HTTPS for it; my server in SEA doesn't have a cert. You could download over HTTPS I suppose, it'd just complain it's invalid.
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Very nice, appreciate the help.
When doing this for the sake of your customers flexibility (and sanity when debugging) either ensure your conntrack size is suitably large or disable connection tracking for these packets when enabling iptables for a KVM emulated network interface. Most people assume that a KVM virtual nic is the same as a bare metal one and not limited in terms of connections.
Disabling conntrack can be done with a rule in the PREROUTING chain -j NOTRACK or by not having the module loaded / compiled in.
I think I wrote up a bash script that should automate the process. Here is the source!
I am also looking for suggestions on how to improve the code.
Please note, that unless you run this as a rc.local task the IPtables will be flushed on reboot! I suggest you save the file to a local directory, chmod +x it, and then make a rc.local task.
Please note I have tested it on my dedicated server, but not on a VPS node, can someone please confirm it works?
If you want the inverse of this (to filter the crap out that you're receiving), simply block UDP packets to port 123 which are 468 octets long. You can do this with a route-map on most routers or a policer.
Should I add this to the script, or it that bad? If so, then what would the iptables command look like?
Snipped just so now one does anything stupid.
This is most likely incorrect.
I'll poke around with tcpdump later and see what it actually is.
With this iptables rule, though, it allows users that are renting all their gear and don't have switch ACL access to defend from it as well.
We've had no performance issues to date with it. We actually had a few users get banned by autonull because people were sending so many packets at them to reflect.
When I was reading this, I was thinking about it in a whole different way.... oppps.
@Francisco, do you see anything I should add to my script?
KK, think I will make another one without the bridge adapter for people whom wont be using it on a VPS setup.


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Do you always know what you're doing? Neither do I. In fact, there are times when I look back and think 'how on earth did I manage to do that?'. There are also those other times when I think the same, but for slightly different reasons. In effect, it's when I'm not so good at something.
I passed my driving test on the first attempt, which was an achievement and a half amongst my family and some of my peers. Everything else on the other hand, was something that was (and is) worked upon. It's either 'in situ', so all the work is done live, including the editing, so there's no noticeable break in the process.Or it's a case of starting, letting it sit for a while and then coming back to it later to finish it off.
Alexis Ohanian is the guy who is responsible for Reddit, and also Breadpig. To his credit, he has made it clear here that the '99% perspiration & 1% inspiration' equation isn't just a myth. Furthermore, admitting to being crap at something takes real courage in this hyperconnected age . Especially as we're all now geared to promoting ourselves and our skillset using all the social media tools available, all the time; everyone can now see and hear about your failiure much faster.
But courage is everything when starting something new. Wether it's a job, a new business, even a new relationship, getting out of your comfort zone is part of the process. I'm not sure that this ethos carries over too well as you get older and become encumbered with more responsibilities. Especially when it comes to relationships, which can be taking the venture mindset a bit too far; you're dealing with emotional ties and connections, which aren't something you can just suddenly walk away from without repercussions. Still, the essence of bravery and courage cannot be dismissed when it comes to doing something new and even standing out from the crowd.
In effect, you have to be willing to honour and yield to a level of productive restlessness to move forward in life. I can imagine that even a lottery winner has that sense of slight discomfort when they collect the winnings, and then have to decide what to do with the money.
It sounds odd, but consider how your life would change if you won a massive amount of money overnight, which you'd never been accustomed to. The internet is filled with examples of large cash prize winners and how their lives have unfolded ( or unfurled) in the years that followed, and it requires a similar skillset and mindset to manage such an event.
Bradley's career graph is exceptional. Going from flash animation to Tron's complex works has been quite a journey and an achievement. But he took exceptional risks and allowed himself to feel out of his depth. He also allowed himself to fail AND to keep doing his own 'personal stuff' as well. I understand the latter rationale completely.
See, even if what you do is something you love, when it starts to feel like work you need some sort of safety valve to decompress with. So the irony is that you can end up doing a 'for the love of it' concept on the side which is the same type of work as what you do for a living. The beauty there, is that it can be subject to what I call the 3R'S; repurpose, recycle and repeat.
In effect, you can take things from one concept and re-engineer them for something else. Getting those ideas down onto a recallable medium is the most important factor. Then you can always edit and re-jig later.
I agree with all of them. Brainstorming in particular, reminds me of many a funny scenario, both intentional and unintentional.When people with a wide variety of experiences and work backgrounds come together to formulate something new, the results can be both devastating and illuminating. It takes a robust sense of self to not take things too personally when strong opinions, ideas and then emotions are bandied about like semi-compatible currencies, in order to create something different.
As the article suggests, letting people work on their ideas and concepts to a level of personal satsifaction in terms of completeness before they come in to the fray for a 'yay or nay' session, helps get past a large part of the process. Because that is the potentially difficult part; getting a bunch of individual personalities with strong levels of self to collaborate, can be a hit and miss affair. Especially where robust egos and heightened emotions can result in all sorts of wheel-spinning jollies and mirth-inducing ( sometimes in hindsight) debates and arguements.
All art is created by external influences. And I mean art in the broader sense, which encompasses everything to do with creating something out of nothing. Wether it's a song, a poem, a painting or even a new business, you're influenced by your history and your present connections, both on a conscious and subconscious level.
Ultimately we are also works of art in ourselves. Remembering to metaphorically refresh and renew our inner brushes, as well as keeping our palettes spacious enough for newer (as well as fresher takes on the familar) paint colourways, is part of our process.
Whatever we do is all a part of our life's craftsmanship and it's a piece of work that carries on both with us, and without us. In the end, it becomes our legacy and takes on another life of it's own, to be shared and cherished with others.
Think about that for a moment, when you're feeling unsure wether you can take the next step in your journey. It makes the difference between leaving behind a mess, or a picturesque mosaic.


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7 Tips To Recover From A Cold Quickly + What Not To Do, From Experts
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Wintertime can be a cozy, festive season, but it's also the time of year for runny noses, sniffles, and sneezes (aka cold and flu season). It's no secret that colds are unpleasant, so if you're looking to speed up the recovery process, these expert-approved tips and tricks may help.
How to get over a cold, fast:
1. Get more zinc.
There are plenty of vitamins and minerals that can help support immune functioning. Zinc is one of them. The mineral has been shown to support proper immune functioning by activating T-lymphocytes, which attack infected cells.
There are plenty of common foods that contain high levels of zinc, including chicken, chickpeas, and cashews, to name a few. If it's still missing from your diet, zinc can also be taken as a supplement.
2. Get more vitamin C.
This probably comes as no surprise, but vitamin C is important for immune health. The antioxidant neutralizes pathogens and helps immune cells do their job properly, Joanna Foley, R.D., CLT, previously told mbg. Vitamin C can be found in citrus foods and some cruciferous veggies, and it can also be taken in supplement form.
3. Get plenty of rest.
Resting when we're not feeling well goes beyond giving our minds and bodies a break. The process actually helps us to recover from a cold. "In order to clear a rhinovirus from our system, we need boatloads of sleep to support our immune system," integrative immunologist Heather Moday, M.D., says. "One of the reasons is that excess cortisol secretion (our big stress hormone) weakens our immunity and makes it hard to heal."
4. Take elderberry.
Elderberry may have conflicting reviews in terms of effectiveness, but studies have indicated it may limit activity against pathogenic bacteria, influenza, and the common cold, integrative medicine doctor Alejandra Carrasco, M.D., previously told mbg.
What's more, "elderberries are an excellent source of antioxidants, which help to maintain a strong immune system," functional medicine doctor Tiffany Lester, M.D., previously told mbg. "Especially against viruses."
It can be taken in gummy or syrup form, but look out for added sugars when purchasing elderberry. If you're eating the berries themselves, Carrasco recommends cooking them to kill any toxic substances that may reside in an unripe berry.
5. Eat and drink for your immune system.
Along with all the zinc and vitamin-C-rich foods, there are plenty of other foods and drinks that can support healthy immune functioning, promote rest, and ease the symptoms of a cold. Think nutrient-rich veggies like spinach, red peppers, and mushrooms; fruits like kiwi, watermelon, and acai; spices like turmeric and ginger; plus fermented foods. (Read: 23 of the best immune-supporting foods and nine of the best drinks to sip on when you're sick for more great options. )
6. Clear out your sinuses.
There are a few ways to clear out your sinuses at home. One commonly recommended tool is the neti pot with water, sea salt, and a pinch of baking soda. "By irrigating the nasal passages and sinuses, you can wash out bacteria and viruses, hydrate swollen and irritated membranes, and also deliver soothing and natural remedies to the mucus membranes," Moday says.
Another helpful way to clear out the sinuses is with steam. Integrative doctor Erika Schwartz, M.D., suggests using a humidifier in the bedroom while sleeping and taking a steamy shower once or twice a day.
7. Stay hydrated.
Adequate hydration supports immune functioning by keeping the mucous membranes lubricated. This keeps viruses and bacteria from latching onto the tissue, Roxanna Namavar, D.O., and Catherine Waldrop, M.D., explain.
Want extra support? Consider adding honey to your water. Studies have shown that honey is an effective cough suppressant and may promote better sleep in children over the age of 2. Plus, honey contains antioxidants that help lower oxidative stress and inflammation. "Through this mechanism, honey can contribute to reinforcing our immune system and could potentially shorten the length of a cold," registered dietitian Titilayo Ayanwola, MPH, R.D., L.D., said.
1. Don't take antibiotics.
Unless a doctor prescribes antibiotics for a specific bacterial infection (unrelated to the cold), there's no reason to be taking antibiotics. "Colds are caused by viruses, and antibiotics do not treat viruses but lower your resistance to bacterial infections," Schwartz explains. "Best to let your body treat itself," she adds.
2. Intense workouts.
While exercising is one way to support overall health, overdoing it at the gym while you're sick won't help with recovery. And, unfortunately, the idea that we can sweat out a cold is actually a myth.
If light movement feels good to you, walking or taking a gentle yoga practice may be OK, but family medicine physician David Cutler, M.D., says anything more strenuous "can cause you to sweat more, become more dehydrated, and expend energy on exercise instead of on fighting off the illness." Overall, prioritizing rest and hydration is more beneficial when you're sick than getting in a quick workout.
How to stop a cold when you feel it coming on.
Keeping the immune system supported every day, not just during cold and flu season, can help protect the body against future colds. To do that, Schwartz suggests sleeping eight hours each night, staying hydrated, moving your body regularly, and eating a diet high in lean proteins, healthy fats, and veggies. "I also recommend immune-boosting supplements such as vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc, lactoferrin, and probiotics," she adds.
Stress management is another helpful tool for supporting both the gut and the immune system, so engaging in meditation, yoga, or other stress-relieving techniques may keep a cold at bay.
Avoiding unnecessary inflammatory foods or drinks is an essential component to offsetting a cold. Things like refined sugars, processed foods, alcohol, and tobacco lower the immune response and will only lengthen the duration of the cold, Schwartz tells mbg.
The bottom line.
Anytime you feel unwell and become concerned, it's a good idea to consult with a doctor. If your cold symptoms seem manageable, however, some of these at-home remedies may be beneficial. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle with proper hydration and a nutrient-rich diet can help support immune functioning and may make you more prepared when the season of sniffles comes around.
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Ted Cruz Wraps up NH Bus Tour as Establishment Escalates Attacks
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Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz on Thursday ended his five-day, 17-stop cross-state swing bus tour throughout the Granite State as he continues to focus on building solidify support amongst voters with just less than three weeks left until the New Hampshire primary.
Cruz's first stop on Thursday involved a youth professional town hall in Saint Anselm College where candidates were asked questions on a personal level. Talking about Obamacare, Cruz said he lost his health coverage all, in part because of Obamacare. "You know who one of those millions of Americans who lost their health care because of Obamacare? That would be me," Cruz told a small group of audience in Saint Anselm College town hall in Manchester, New Hampshire. "I had purchased an individual policy and Blue Cross Blue Shield canceled all their individual policies in the state of Texas effective December 31st [2015]."
Cruz discussed how premiums across the country are going up with families scrambling to find another policy for their families. "We are in the process of finding another policy," he said. "But our premiums are going up 50 percent and that is happening all over the country. That is happening in New Hampshire."
Throughout the campaign trail, Cruz has talked about the issue of Obamacare, regularly stating his promise "to rescind and repeal every word of Obamacare."
One attendee randomly gave Ted Cruz a light saber, the Jedi weapon from the "Star Wars" movie, while asking Cruz to join the Jedi force against Citizens United. Cruz would turn down the offer to fight against the court decision. "I believe in the American people and Democracy and the more you silence citizens, the more the power of government gets stronger," Cruz said in defending the controversial court decision.
During a press gaggle following the town hall, Cruz was asked about the recent attack comments made by former presidential candidate Bob Dole saying if Cruz got the nomination, the GOP would suffer "cataclysmic and wholesale losses". "What Dole is effectively saying and the establishment as well is the one guy that scares the heck out of us is Cruz because I am actually willing to stand with the American people against career politicians," Cruz told reporters after the town hall.
Other attacks from prominent Republican Senators spoke out after Dole's remarks against Cruz's bid for the GOP nomination. Senator Orrin Hatch, a senior Republican senator told CNN if Cruz becomes the nominee, we would lose. "I think we will lose if [Cruz] is our nominee," Hatch said. "There is a lot of people who don't feel he can appeal to people across the board." Both Dole and Hatch both prefer Trump for the GOP nomination believing the GOP might not "lose if [Trump] is the nominee because he is appealing to people who Republican candidates have not appealed to in the past."
Former presidential candidate and South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who recently endorsed Jeb Bush for president, said picking either Cruz or Trump is "like being shot or poisoned."
The criticism from establishment Republicans helps Cruz reinforce his anti-establishment message during the campaign trail. He also suggested from the recent remarks from establishments concluding that "Marco Rubio can't win this race, therefore the Washington establishment is now rushing over to support Donald Trump."
"Conservatives are uniting behind our campaign," Cruz said. "What we are seeing now is that the Washington establishment is abandoning Marco and now unifying behind Donald Trump."
If voters in New Hampshire want a Republican president who will cut yet more details with Democrats, who will give in even more to Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer, then they should vote for Donald Trump."
Cruz continued the weeklong attacks against Donald Trump that began during the GOP Debate in South Carolina. The one-time bromance between both have seen harsh attacks amongst both as the two top front-runners are vying to come out first in the entire first in the nation primaries that will play an outcome for Super Tuesday nations in March.
New Hampshire plays a key role for Cruz to whether or not his campaign strategy speaks to a broader appeal than just conservatives and evangelicals. Capitalizing the Granite state in a crowded field with votes spilt amongst the conservative and the establishment lane remains the questions for the next three weeks. A recent CNN poll released Wednesday night shows Cruz with 14 percent of New Hampshire support and in second place with Trump leading with 34 percent.
Following the town hall, Cruz made a stop for a meet and greet in the famous Theo's on Elm Pizza in Manchester. The last stop on "Cruzin' with Cruz" bus tour brought over 200 New Hampshire supporters assembled to hear Cruz speak
Cruz spoke for about twenty minutes making the case for why he is capable of being Commander-in-Chief. Laying out his stump speech agenda platform, Cruz detailed five policies he would implement on his first day in the Oval Office. Each policies Cruz said won him loud applause and cheers.
"The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal, unconstitutional executive action taken by this president," Cruz said. "This president likes to say he has a phone and he has a pen. Well, if you live by the pen, you die by the pen. Well, my pen has an eraser."
Other plans Cruz laid out include ending the Obama administration's nuclear arms deal with Iran, instructs the Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute Planned Parenthood if criminal conduct was uncovered. Finally, Cruz added to "rescind every illegal executive action taken by President Obama."
"And that is just day one," Cruz said.
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Mona Salama is a PolitiChicks political reporter based in New York City covering politics and NYPD. She reports broadly on the 2016 campaign trail from the road and at home. Prior to joining PolitiChicks, Mona started with Wayne Dupree's WAAR where she covered NY politics, 2014 mid-term elections, and the NYPD. In 2015, DC Gazette considers Mona as one of the 20 rising Conservative stars. She was cited as "generally one of the most stunning women in political commentary with a huge future ahead of her, we're pretty sure Mona Salama will soon easily be the next Andrea Tantaros and a common conservative household name." Currently she is finishing her Masters, all while at the same time covering the 2016 Presidential race, in Public Policy at John Jay College in New York City. Mona can be followed on twitter at @MonaSalama_ and email: [email protected]
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Hello Mobile DTV. Goodbye HDTV.
Regardless of what some liberal arts students or free-love hippies may tell you, you don't get something for nothing. Or, better yet, as the redoubtable Robert Heinlein coined, "TANSTAAFL" (There ain't no such thing as a free lunch). This simple truth frames the cold, hard realities about to face broadcasters after the current mobile DTV trials wrap up. It will weigh even heavier when the mobile standard is finalized and equipment is available for purchase in Q2 (tentatively) of 2009.
When cable companies take a broadcaster's primary digital signal, either from an over-the-air broadcast or a direct fiber feed, they tend to re-sample it (unless they under an agreement expressly forbidding it), put it on one of their available 38.8Mb capacity QAM channels and share that QAM channel with another digital channel (or two or more!) shaving the channel's data rate in the process. Some cable companies are more aggressive than others in their re-compressing.
The upshot is that you can usually obtain a better HD picture when using an antenna and capturing the local broadcaster's transmission. However, that will soon change.
Every DTV broadcaster has maximum throughput of 19.39 megabits per second under the ATSC broadcast standard. If they are using their DTV data pipe to send only one program, typically a simulcast version of their NTSC programming, that means most of those available bits can and will be used for the primary program. Typically for just one program it is broken down thusly: 19.39Mb – 200Kb for PSIP = about 19Mb for the combined primary MPEG-2 program video and AC-3 audio stream (typically some headroom padding for the multiplexer is also provided via null packets which takes a small bit away from the program stream). This doesn't mean they do it exactly this way, this is just a mathematical example.
If the broadcaster is a CBS or NBC affiliate then they are stuck in the 1080i HD format because that is what the parent network provides and the local station will up-convert or match their studio signal in order to maintain signal format integrity through to the viewer's set-top box. Changing format resolutions on the fly (e.g. 720p to 1080i to 720p) is a surefire way to crash a DTV receiver/TV/set-top box very quickly.
An encoder set at 1080i really likes to use every bit it can get it's quantizer on, so if the broadcaster were to squeeze their primary signal down and provide the 4.5Mb to 5Mb needed to accommodate a single mobile DTV stream the encoder quickly becomes "starved for bits". During scenes of moderate to intense motion, say during Olympic sporting events or an action movie or some weekly sports game, etc. it all goes to hell fast. TANSTAAFL. Something has to give and it will be the quality of the picture.
Here is a graphical example using KGO-DT's broadcasted datastream that I captured and visualized using TSReader Lite. KGO actually provides quite a bit of data for its primary channel running at 720p and the first chart shows their broadcast illustrating how they have their bitrate pie sliced. The second image is what would likely be leftover for HD (and everything else) if they were to provide a mobile DTV datastream.
Broadcasters in the 720p format, like ABC (above) and FOX affiliates have a bit more leeway. 720p isn't as bit-hungry as 1080i and is more forgiving when additional streams are muxed in, however they are still not immune to picture degradation when the bit bucket runs dry. Those that really have a license to cram are those DTV stations that are broadcasting digital, but not broadcasting HD (i.e. 720p or 1080i).
This is a capture of the local station in San Francisco currently performing on the air testing with a mobile DTV stream. This station doesn't broadcast any HD programming so the diminished visual quality isn't as severe as it would be if this were another station like a major network affiliate.
The bottom line here is that the days of great-looking HD over the air are numbered. The days began counting down when many stations realized they could monetize some of their DTV signal with ancillary channels providing weather information (e.g. NBC's WeatherPlus and ABC's AccuWeather NOW) or looped news.
When mobile DTV takes flight the broadcasters will be fighting hard to ensure that any direct feed they have from the studio into the large market cable or FiOS or U-Verse headend (before being squeezed at the transmitter for the mobile stream) is unmolested by the MSO. It is then, in our very near future, the best HD anyone can get will be on the one (maybe two) large MSOs in the market being fed directly by the station's studio and not over the air or on the smaller, outlying cable companies picking up the station's OTA DTV signal.
Although I haven't heard any discussions about it yet, it may not be unrealistic for CBS and NBC to switch from 1080i to 720p HD in order to mitigate the reduced bitrate future they will find themselves in since there is no financial reason or obligation for them to be in one HD format over another.
Because the current broadcast revenue model is broken and the compelling reasons for a broadcaster to provide a mobile digital signal which is reinforced by the sheer number of interested parties in the Open Mobile Video coalition, we can rest assured that mobile DTV is as inevitable as the coming analog shutoff.
Enjoy the gorgeous HD where you can get it and while it lasts.
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Out the back of our house, the veneer of the genteel look disappears, and there is a riotous little Good Life going on! Chickens, vegetables and abundant fruit, all a bit messy but very productive.
These days you'll always find carrots and parsnips growing. We never used to bother with them, because it seemed too hard to get them to sprout reliably where we wanted them. They seem to sprout well if you let a plant go to seed and drop where it will, but with the root veg I like to control where they grow. And I dislike thinning.
Then I discovered the fail-proof seed tape! It's like a strip of tissue with seeds impregnated in it at just the right distance apart. The seeds all sprout, and they are generally the right distance apart, although I do thin the carrots lightly, as I'd rather have 30 good sized carrots than 50 small ones. The parsnips don't seem to need it.
In poor soil, nothing's going to grow well. So firstly, I put some compost on the soil and mix it up a bit. Then I make a 1 cm or so deep trench with my finger. I lay out the seed tape in the trench, then cover it lightly with soil. Finally - and crucially - firm the soil down well over the tape. Those little seeds do not like to meet air pockets.
Then - also crucial - keep it moist, watering lightly every day if it's hot and dry. Once the seeds have started to sprout, they need moisture or they'll die.
Huge, but not at all woody.
I used to think that carrots were cheap enough that there was no point growing them. But the taste...eating a raw shop-bought carrot is a chore. A homegrown one is a pleasure - sweet, crisp and light.
Parsnip? I used to detest the very word. I'd only had watery mashed ones, long ago in university halls of residence. Then one day somebody gave us some from their garden, and my sister in law roasted them (or did she make parsnip chips?). I have loved them ever since, especially as part of a roast dinner, with gravy.
Our potatoes failed utterly this year due to trying a new and unsuccessful space-saving method, so when roast time comes around, instead of spuds I have our home grown starchy veg. These are parsnips and some butternuts I grew next to a compost bin and over a fence. Our fussy children still have potatoes though (bought ones).
butternuts on the goodness of a fine compost bin.
I planted the current lot of parsnips in mid summer, and they are ready now, but will sit happily in the ground all winter waiting to be dug up when needed. Indeed, they will become even sweeter when (or if) we get a frost. If I leave them until spring, they'll go to seed. They will still look all right when I dig them up, but be inedibly woody. I'll plant some more parsnip seed tape in spring, and they should be ready about mid summer.
Carrots grow faster than parsnips, but both grow very slowly or pause completely in winter. Our current lot (planted in about February or March) will have to do us over winter, and I'll start planting more in September. Or if this crazy warm weather lasts, I might try sowing more in winter. Because the season is madly warm. Look what I got out of our garden last week, in the last month of autumn!
A late autumn harvest. Beans and tomatoes in May: what the heck?
We live in Hamilton, New Zealand: I have no idea how these things work where it's hotter or colder.
Also, we have had a lot of grapes. So, so many grapes. Sadly they are now mostly feeding hundreds of wasps.
Ah, vegetable gardening. Still loving it, after all these years (23 years, minus 4 when I was overseas, from student to worker to mother).


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Who Dunnit?
Grade: 1 to 3
Duration: 45min - 1 hour
Setting: Indoor/outdoor
Physical Activity: No
By playing a fun game of quiet observation and deduction, students learn how invasive "secret stowaways", like Japanese beetles or insects hidden away in firewood, can be accidentally spread by people and cause damage to plants and trees in the places we love. Your students' interest in invasive species will be sparked with brief videos of children asking their wonder questions about invasive species. This will provoke inquiry related to invasive species and how we can all play our part to be a "Healthy Habitat Hero".
This activity is part of the Lesson "Be a Healthy Habitat Hero!" where students engage in discussion, analysis and play interactive indoor and outdoor games to spark their curiosity, learn about the issue of invasive species and how they impact us all. This lesson includes the following activities:
The Cute and Fuzzy Invader Takeover
Be a Plant Detective
Healthy Habitat Hero Bingo
Inquiry Questions
What's an invasive species and why should I care about them?
How do invasive species harm other plants and animals?
How can I make sure I don't accidentally spread invasive species to special places?
BC Curriculum Links
Science Big Ideas
Living things have features and behaviours that help them survive in their environment (Grade 1)
Living things have life cycles adapted to their environment (Grade 2)
Living things are diverse, can be grouped, and interact in their ecosystems (Grade 3)
Science Curricular Competencies (Grades 1-3)
Demonstrate curiosity and a sense of wonder about the world
Observe objects and events in familiar contexts
Ask questions about familiar objects and events
Make predictions
Consider some environmental consequences of their actions
Experience and interpret the local environment
Express and reflect on personal experiences of place
What's Wrong with this Picture? Invasive Species Impacts Images
For a general background on invasive species read Background on Invasive Species for Educators and see sample images of invasive species impacts in What's Wrong with this Picture.
Invasive species are organisms that are not native to a region whose introduction and spread– whether intentional or not—harms native species, the economy and human health. Without their natural diseases and predators, they are capable of moving aggressively into an area, and monopolizing resources, such as food, water, and space, negatively impacting other species.
Native species are organisms that evolved over eons in a habitat and are found in their region without assistance from people. In British Columbia, native species are those that already existed here at the time of European colonization.
Non-native species, sometimes called exotic or alien species, are those that have been introduced to a new location, intentionally or unintentionally, to which they did not evolve and are not typically found. Not all non-native species are invasive; some don't spread or survive without being cared for by people.
Preventing Secret Stowaways
Some invasive species are spread accidentally by people who unknowingly bring them from one location to another. Invasive plants often have seeds, stems or other parts that are accomplished hitchhikers, clinging to our clothing and gear to further their spread. Some invasive insects may hitch a ride in firewood, in soil, on plants, or on people and our vehicles in order to move and spread to a new location. Some invasive insects that are not yet established in BC that could be inadvertently spread by moving firewood, plants, or soil, include the Japanese beetle, Gypsy moth, and Asian longhorned beetle. See the Additional Resources section to learn more about these insects.
One way that we can do our part to help protect habitats from invasive species is to make sure that we don't accidentally transport them from one location to another, by practicing "Play Clean Go" and by only burning local firewood, "Buy Local, Burn Local".
Read over the Background section and associated links for information on invasive species and how to prevent their spread, including PlayCleanGo and Buy Local Burn Local.
Review and download the What's Wrong with this Picture Copy Page.
Watch the Kid's Questions videos and decide which ones to show to students.
Note: Part 1 is the introduction to all activities in the lesson "Be a Healthy Habitat Hero!". If you have already done this part with your students, then skip to Part 2.
Part 1: "What's the big fuss about invasive species?"
Introduce the terms "invasive species", "non-native species" and "native species". Ask if anyone has heard of these terms and what they think they mean. See if they know of any examples of each. Name or show pictures of some animals and plants that are common and known to the children, such as black bear, Western redcedar, and salmon for native species; giraffe, banana, and parrot for non-native species. Explain that most non-native species aren't invasive, but if an organism that is introduced to a new place can survive, spread, and cause harm to habitats or wildlife, then it is considered invasive.
Make a Know/Wonder/Learn chart with students to see what they already know about invasive species and what they are curious to learn more about.
Share the What's Wrong with this Picture? images of some invasive species and their impacts. Some ways to use these images include sharing as a slideshow to the whole class, by giving one or two images to a small group of students to discuss, or by playing a matching game using the images and the descriptions provided for students in the table. Tell the students that the photos are of invasive species that can cause problems for people and nature. Ask the students what they notice about the photograph and what they wonder about it. Ask if, based on the picture, they have some ideas of what kinds of problems the invasive species might cause, and other questions that they wonder about while looking at the photograph. If working in small groups, have students show their photographs and share their wonder questions. Write the wonder questions on the K/W/L chart and ask how they think they could find out the answers to their wonder questions.
Tell the students that there are many kids like them who are also curious about invasive species! Show the students some of the Kids Questions video clips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxx-_2yRtjje56-v2TBZcG7Ezql8qXL9t
Let the students know that even though invasive species can cause problems for people and nature, the great thing is that we can all help be part of the solution and prevent them from spreading by being a "Healthy Habitat Hero". (Learn and do more by participating in other related activities that are part of this lesson!)
Part 2. Who Dunnit?
Introduce the game. Tell students that everyone is a plant. But one person will be a plant that is infested with Japanese beetles. Japanese beetles are an invasive insect that can harm over 300 types of plants by eating their roots, fruits, and leaves. Japanese beetles can't fly very far, but sometimes people spread them to new places without even knowing it! People move Japanese beetles that are in plants, soil, or in/on our vehicles. In this game you will try to find out which of you is the plant with Japanese beetles. But watch out! If the Japanese beetle finds you first, your plant will die!
Wink or blink? Determine how the Japanese beetle will attack: by winking, double blinking, clenching eyes shut, or some other method. Practice it and ensure everyone knows the gesture and how to do it.
Game description. This is an adaptation of a game the students may be familiar with, called "Wink Murder". All students sit in a large circle facing each other. All students lower their heads and close their eyes. The teacher walks around the circle and taps one student lightly on the shoulder. That person is secretly a plant with a Japanese beetle infestation. Once you're ready, have everyone open their eyes. Everyone sits in silence and looks around at everyone else in the circle, trying to figure out which person is the Japanese beetle. The Japanese beetle tries to wink at other students without being seen by anyone else. If a student is winked at, they wait about 10 seconds (silently counting to 10 in their head) and then fall over and pretend to die. This represents that the Japanese beetle was transported as a secret stowaway (such as in soil or on a vehicle). If someone thinks they know who the Japanese beetle is, they can call out the students' name. If they're wrong, they "die". If they're right, they have stopped the spread and become the Healthy Habitat Hero.
Play it again!
Discuss what happened and how invasive species like the Japanese beetle can be "secret stowaways". Show images of Japanese beetles and other invasive species, such as Gypsy moth and Asian longhorned beetle, that can be transported accidentally by people. How else could this game represent the spread of invasive species that students have learned about? For example, maybe the person winking is the sticky seeds of Hound's tongue or Burdock that hitch a ride onto a dog or deer, or a bird that spreads the seeds of an English Holly or Himalayan blackberry into the forest. In these cases, the invasive species doesn't kill other plants directly, but takes over their habitat so that native plants are crowded out.
Discuss the importance of the role of the person who found the Japanese beetle in the game. Ask if they think it would be important to report if an invasive species is found and why. What would happen if no one finds or reports the Japanese beetle? Let students know that identifying and reporting invasive species is a really important way that we can prevent their spread! There are some Japanese beetle "look-alikes" so it's important to be able to properly identify insects.
We'd love to have your feedback and see photos of your students' learning and participation in this activity. Send to education.lead@bcinvasives.ca for the opportunity to win resources and have your class have a virtual visit with an invasive species expert!
Be a Healthy Habitat Hero! Have students learn about ways they can make sure they aren't carrying any "secret stowaways" on themselves, their bikes, or other outdoor gear when they move from one location to another, and by making sure to not transport firewood when they go camping.(See Additional Resources section on PlayCleanGo and Buy Local, Burn Local). Create a pledge to be a Healthy Habitat Hero and make certificates!
Go outdoors and be nature detectives in the schoolyard or nearby natural areas. Look closely at plants to see if you can find any insects or other invertebrates hidden on the plants or in soil. Look at seeds and how they disperse in the wind or by sticking to fur or fabric. Use magnifiers if you have them. Learn how to identify Japanese beetles and other invasive species found in your region.
Have students wear big wool socks over their shoes and pant cuffs and walk in an unmowed field. Look closely at all the plant parts and seeds that have hitched a ride. Practice PlayCleanGo by brushing off and removing everything before you leave the location!
Invasive Insects
Asian longhorned beetle
Japanese beetle
Prevent the Spread of Invasive Species
Children's Books and Activity Guides
Invader Crusaders Activity Guide to Discover BC's Native and Invasive Species. Invasive Species Council of BC
Invasive Species on Our Landscapes Activity & Colouring Book, (Ages 6-12), Canada Council on Invasive Species and the Invasive Species Council of BC.
Invasive Species in Our Waters Activity & Colouring Book, (Ages 6-12), Canada Council on Invasive Species and the Invasive Species Council of BC.
Von Tol, Alex. Aliens Among Us: Invasive Animals and Plants in British Columbia. 2015. Royal BC Museum, Victoria, BC.
Wilcox, Merrie-Ellen. Nature Out of Balance: How Invasive Species are Changing the Planet. 2021. Orca Book Publishers, Victoria, BC.