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World's largest bee spotted for first time in nearly four decades – and it's as big as your thumb!
Johannes 3:36 Hy wat in die Seun glo, het die ewige lewe; maar hy wat die Seun ongehoorsaam is, sal die lewe nie sien nie, maar die toorn van God bly op hom.
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World's largest bee spotted for first time in nearly four decades – and it's as big as your thumb! By Adam Millward
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/rPuhg58PXcs The world's largest species of bee – not seen alive in the wild since 1981 – has once again been sighted. Feared by many to be extinct, the rediscovery was made in January by a team of US and Australian scientists who were searching for the elusive insect on the remote North Moluccas archipelago in north-east Indonesia.
Including their formidable mandibles, female Wallace’s giant bees can grow to 4.5 cm long – about the same length as a human thumb. Their wings can span as much as 6 cm. Males are much smaller – roughly half as big as the females. To put their dimensions in context, a female Wallace’s giant bee is approximately four times the size of a European honey bee (see front page). The behemoth bug was first scientifically documented in 1858 on the Moluccan island of Bacan. It was described by British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace – after whom the species took its common name – as a "large, black, wasp-like insect, with immense jaws like a stag beetle". It wasn’t recorded again until February 1981, when two females were noted by American entomologist Adam Messer on the island of Halmahera, Indonesia. Nature photographer Clay Bolt – a member of the 2019 expedition team and the first person ever to capture this insect on film alive – described how it felt to make this "holy grail" find. "It was absolutely breath-taking to see this 'flying bulldog' of an insect that we weren't sure existed any more," he said. "To actually see how beautiful and big the species is in life, to hear the sound of its giant wings thrumming as it flew past my head, was just incredible." The long-lost bee was found at the end of a five-day trek through the Indonesian rainforest, when all hope of a sighting was waning. Local guide, Iswan (surname withheld to protect his privacy and also the bee's precise location), noticed an arboreal termite's nest a couple of metres off the ground on a broken tree trunk. It had a tell-tale large hole on its surface...Knowing that these mounds are the preferred home of Wallace's giant bees, the scientists decided to take a closer look. When Bolt peered into a burrow in the structure, he was delighted to find it was occupied.
After waiting a couple of hours – without success – for the female bee to emerge – they decided to gently entice her out with a blade of grass into a clear tube. This technique worked and this enabled them to capture and place her in a "fly box" so they could examine and document her more closely. It is hoped that confirmation of this species' survival will spur conservation efforts to help preserve it. At this time, no legislation safeguards this rare insect from being taken from the wild and traded. Beyond the threat from collectors, its habitat is also under great threat from deforestation. The species is currently listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN, though a dearth of data on the species could mean it's even more endangered than we realize. Robin Moore of Global Wildlife Conservation – which funded the research trip – said: "We know that putting the news out about this rediscovery could seem like a big risk given the demand. But the reality is that the unscrupulous collectors already know that the bee is out there. "By making the bee a world-famous flagship for conservation, we’re confident that the species has a brighter future than if we just let it quietly be collected into oblivion."
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Skrywer Onbekend Vandag voel ek skaam... Ek dink aan gister by die kassiere toe ek my bank kaart in my motor vergeet het nadat ek die tolpad gebruik het. So halfpad deur my inkopies besef ek my kaart is nog in die kar, loer in die beursie en tel die kontant, ek tel min of meer op wat die waarde van die items in die trollie is. Ek is reg en sal dit maak. Staan in 'n lang tou en wag om te betaal. Soos my gewoonte is gesêls ek met die mense in die tou. Hierdie keer is die slagoffer 'n man, duidelik 'n konstruksie werker en in sy hand is 'n "half loaf" met sy pint melk en blikkie pilchards (ek skuif my duur blikkie tuna onder die groente in...ek voel skuldig). Hy werk net langsaan die parkeer area, besig met die nuwe ingang wat na die mall lei vanaf die hoofpad. Dit word my beurt om te betaal en soos die noodlot toe my mos gesind is kort ek 'n volle N$10! Ek vra die kassiere of ek na my voertuig kan gaan om my kaart te kry. Die man agter my tik my op die skouer en bied my 'n gefrommelde N$10 noot aan. My hart krimp want ek sien sy karige maal teenoor my trollie met "gesonde en luukse" kos. Ek wys dit eers van die hand en hy sê vir my: "Moenie worrie, die Here seën ons elke dag." Heel verleë neem ek sy geld en bedank hom uit die diepte van my hart. Ek wag vir hom om sy goedjies te betaal en vra hom om saam met my te stap. Ons kom by my motor en wil munte uit haal en vir hom gee, wat vir parkeergeld bedoel is. Trek die sigarethouer se laaitjie oop en daar is geen munte maar 'n N$200 noot! "Die Here sal jou altyd in veelvoud seën as jy gee sonder om iets terug te verwag". Die man was verslae oor die geld en sy woorde was vervul. Ek weet nou nog nie hoe die N$200 daar gekom het nie! Sy woorde: "Ek kan vir my fiets "patch en solution" kry. Môre spaar ek taxi geld!" Dan dink ek by myself...ek is vandag net dankbaar...daar is nog goeie mense wat regtig omgee
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Lauren Cahn You won’t believe how many ways you can put that bottle of hand sanitizer gel to use. Here’s what the experts recommend. This gel can come in handy during cold and flu season and in extremely germy situations like hospitals, medical clinics, and doctors offices. And while dermatologists recommend you don’t overuse it on your hands— it can really dry them out—there are plenty of other uses that you may never have thought of: Keeping hand sanitizer around the house is a great idea, germs or no germs. Remove permanent marker from a whiteboard….If your kids—or you—accidentally wrote on your whiteboard with a Sharpie or other permanent marker, here’s an easy remedy: First write over the permanent marker with a dry erase pen, and then wipe it all off using hand sanitizer. You may need to do this a few times to remove all traces.
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Alzheimers is an illness, in which memory is gradually lost. At one time he or she completely lost his /her memories. Please read it carefully. Yourself or someone in your family may be suffering this illness. After the age of 50 one may experience many types of illnesses. But the one I am most worried about is Alzheimer's. Not only would I not be able to look after myself, but it would cause a lot of inconvenience to family members. One day, my son came home and told me that a doctor friend has taught him an exercise using the tongue. The tongue exercise is effective to reduce the onset of Alzheimer's and is also useful to reduce / improve:
Body weight Hypertension Blood-Clot in Brain Asthma Far-sightedness Ear buzzing Throat infection Shoulder / Neck infection Insomnia The moves are very simple and easy to learn. Each morning, when you wash your face, in front of a mirror, do the exercise as below: Stretch out your tongue and move it to the right then to the left for 10 times. Since I started exercising my tongue daily, there was improvement in my Brain Retention. My mind was clear and fresh and there were other improvements too: Far sightedness lesser No giddiness Improved wellness Better digestion Lesser flu / cold I am stronger and more agile. Notes: The tongue exercise helps to control and prevent Alzheimer's. Medical research has found that the tongue has connection with the BIG Brain. When our body becomes old and weak, the first sign to appear is that our tongue becomes stiff and often we tend to bite ourselves. Frequently exercising your tongue will stimulate the brain, help to reduce our thoughts from shrinking and thus achieve a healthier body. 6
Charlotte Hilton Andersen They may not be able to speak but that doesn’t mean they can’t tell you how much they care about you! From dogs and cats to birds and guinea pigs, we’ve got so much pet love happening. Your bird shakes her tail feathers…. It’s not just dogs that wag their bottoms when they’re happy! “A bird’s tail feathers, like other pets’ tails, are also used as a method to communicate in the wild,” Dr. Miller says. “Like a dog, a bird may fan out their feathers or wag their tail to tell you that they are glad to see you.” And of course, you love your little birdie back!
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INLIGTING BENODIG Bekende skrywer, PAUL ELS, woonagtig in Valhalla, Pretoria, in samewerking met Generaal Gert van Niekerk en Kolonel Pieter van der Walt wat beide diens gedoen het in Walvisbaai, is tans besig met ’n boek oor die Militêre Basis in Walvisbaai. Na baie ure, nader die boek sy voltooiing en is hul besig met die finale uitleg, maar ongelukkig is daar egter steeds inligting uitstaande. Die boek bestaan uit ongeveer 500 plus bladsye wat wonderlike stories en foto’s insluit. DIE VOLGENDE INLIGTING SAL VAN GROOT WAARDE WEES INDIEN ENIGE IEMAND DAARMEE KAN HELP: Gesigfotos van die volgende bevelvoerders en RSM’s word asseblief dringend benodig: • Kmdt Johnny Coetzer 01/01-31/12/1982 • Kol Piet de Jager • Kol Buks Koen; 1991 - 1992 • Kol FA van Solms 1993 • Kol Gerhard Louw 1991 (61 Meg) • Kmdt I. Leibbrandt (62 Meg) • AO 1 A.M. Blignaut • AO1 J.P. Steyn 01/01/1983 • AO1 W.M. de Jager 1986-12/1988 Indien enige iemand beskik oor enige van bogenoemde inligting, of enige ander inligting van daardie tyd, kan Paul Els gekontak word by die volgende epos adres: paul@who-els.co.za Byvoorbaat baie dankie aan almal vir jul bydraes hierin. Paul het reeds 16 boeke publiseer, maar meer daaroor in volgende week se uitgawe.
Meghan Jones Alice Coachman….. Alice Coachman was the first African-American woman to win Olympic gold. She was born in 1923 and grew up in Georgia, where segregation prevented her from joining sports teams. So she trained on her own. She eventually competed— and broke records—in the Amateur Athlete Union (AAU) national championship and received a scholarship to the Tuskegee Institute. She was winning national championships in the 1940s but was unable to compete in the Olympics—the Games were canceled in 1940 and 1944. Finally, Coachman competed in the 1948 Games in London, where she not only won a gold medal but set a record in the high jump. And she still wasn’t done breaking barriers—in 1952, Coca-Cola reached out to her to be their spokesperson, making her the first African-American (male or female) to get an endorsement deal.
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Butterflies We might think of butterflies as majestic and beautiful creatures, however the majority of butterflies actually drink blood.
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Juliana LaBianca
Peggy Lewis lost her house in a brutal tornado, but the tornado couldn't take the one thing that meant the most.
One minute, Peggy Lewis and her husband, Harris Lee, were watching the trees blow in the wind outside their home in Eureka, Kansas. The next, they were surrounded by swirling shards of glass from the house’s broken windows. The roof tore off. The walls caved in. After the 152-mph tornado had passed, it took a team of neighbours to pull the couple from the rubble and take them to the hospital. “I thought we were going to die,” says Lewis, 58. When the pair returned to their property three days after that awful night last June, it was clear that what remained of the house would need to be torn down. But before Lewis would let that happen, she wanted one thing—her family Bible. Lewis had bought the Bible 35 years earlier, at the start of her marriage. Like many folks, she’d used it to hold and preserve her family’s history: -decades-old photos, newspaper obituaries of loved ones, a handkerchief from her great-grandmother, a lock of her daughter’s hair, even a piece of a scarf her uncle had brought back from the -Korean War. The Bible was the first thing Lewis looked for when she returned to the house. It wasn’t where she’d last seen it, on top of an antique dresser in her bedroom. In fact, the dresser wasn’t there at all. The only thing that was left was the solid slab of marble that had been the top of the piece of furniture. When two volunteers showed up to help the couple dig out, Lewis had one mission for them: “If you can find anything,” she said, “please find my Bible.” After an hour of searching, one of the volunteers ran up to her. She had tears streaming down her cheeks and a book in her hands. The young woman had found the Bible while sifting through rubble. It had flown approximately ten feet from that ill-fated dresser. Stunningly, while many books inside the home had been destroyed beyond recognition, the Bible was still intact, even though it had sat in the rain for days. “I completely broke down,” says Lewis. “I thought it was gone forever. It was a miracle.” A few of the Bible’s treasures did go missing. But ever so slowly, they, too, began reappearing in Lewis’s life. Days after the Bible was found, volunteers discovered one of the news-paper obituaries outside the home. Two weeks later, a neighbour found another newspaper clipping by her house. “It was such a shock,” says Lewis. Find out the one thing that natural disaster survivors wish they had done differently. Lewis and her family are living at a friend’s house until they get back on their feet. But the Bible already has its welldeserved place of honor, on -Lewis’s borrowed dresser. She knows that while every good book tells stories of catastrophic weather and unlikely survival, this one actually lived it.
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Burnt Corn, Alabama Funny town names that have to do with food, like this Alabama town, are the coolest. There are a few legends about how Burnt Corn got its name. Some say settlers burned the Indians’ corn fields; others say Indians burned the settlers’ corn. Either way, conflict between the two groups climaxed at the Battle of Burnt Corn in 1813, which the Native Americans won.
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The bookmarks' yellow hue came about as the team working on the project could only get hold of yellow scrap paper, and decided to stick with the color. The product was launched by 3M in 1977 as the Press 'n Peel bookmark but, following lackluster sales, 3M opted to remarket it as a stickable, reusable note. Relaunched as Post-its in 1979, the tacky notes were an overnight success in the U.S. Post-its debuted in Canada and Europe in 1981 and have since conquered the world. Every year, 3M, which holds the trademark for the name and distinctive yellow color, sells 50 billion of them. 19
4 Ou tannies ry op die hoofweg teen 22km/h. Die spietkop keer hulle voor. “Tannie, hoekom ry jy so stadig?” Man die padteken sê dan R22. Spietkop verduidelik dat dit die padnommers is. Die ander 3 tannies sit tjoepstil, windverwaaid en spierwit. Spietkop vra: “Tannie, wat gaan aan met hulle?” Antie: “Moet nie worry nie, hul sal nou regkom… Ons kom nounet van die R365 af! 20
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