This campsite at Tsendze is the closest one where you'll get to wild camping in the Kruger. But it's not as wild as Mabuasehube: The campsite is still fenced so you won't wake up to a lion wandering around your tent.
The 34 stands are large and set far apart, with big tall trees in-between. Generators are not allowed and the campsite is not connected to the power network. Solar panels keep the lights on. The campsite doesn't have a swimming pool and there's no busy reception office or restaurant with milkshakes—for that, you'll have to drive 7 km to Mopani. But Tsendze is the kind of place where you open and close the entrance gate to the campsite yourself.
Despite how wild it is, you still get first-class service. Rodgers Hobyane and Elina Mona have been in charge of the camp since the campsite opened in 2007. They walk through the campsite every evening to make sure everything is running smoothly. They also know where the resident African birds nest, and point them out to guests. They are highly thought of by both the guests and their boss.
"We have guests year-round and some of them stay for 30 nights. We've had guests stay for 50 nights!" says Elina.
INSIDER TIP: Unlike other campsites in the Kruger, you can book a specific stand at Tsendze. If you want shade, ask for stand number 6. Big groups can ask for number 27 or 28. If you're after privacy, numbers 3, 4 and 26 are good. Rates from R410 per night for two people, plus R104 per extra person; max six people per stand.
In 1955, when Rosa Parks refused an order to give up her seat to a white passenger and moved to the back of the bus, her incredible act of resistance became the fuel for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Led by none other than Martin Luther King Jr., it led to the civil rights movement in America.
Known as "the Mother of the Modern Civil Rights Movement" Parks moved to Detroit in 1957 where she continued to fight for civil rights. In 1994, at the age of 81, Parks was attacked and robbed in her home.
When word of the attack got out, Judge Damon Keith contacted Mike Ilitch, a real estate (地产) developer. Upon hearing of the incident, Mike Ilitch offered to pay for safer housing for Parks until her death.
Hidden from public knowledge, and known only to a select few individuals, Ilitch's kindness towards Rosa Parks remained a secret for many years. It wasn't until an article was published in the Sports Business Daily in 2014 that the secret came out. And it didn't gain popular attention until it resurfaced after Ilitch's death in 2017.
The article contained a photograph of Keith holding a copy of a cheque.
"It's for $2,000, dated November the first, 1994," Keith said. "It's from Little Caesars Enterprises to Riverfront Apartments. It's important that people know what Mr. Mike Ilitch did for Ms. Rosa Parks because it's symbolic of what he has always done for the people of our city."
It wasn't Ilitch's only act of giving. Throughout his life, the billionaire made significant contributions to various charitable causes. In 1985, he established the Little Caesars Love Kitchen which provides food for those in need.
Mike Ilitch and Rosa Parks may have come from two completely different worlds and lived very different lives, but there is one common thread that ties them together—commitment to creating positive change.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA)is making progress on its rover(月球车)for a joint mission with India to the south pole of the moon.
JAXA and the Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO)agreed to the cooperative project back in 2019. ISRO, which recently made India the fourth country to soft-land on the moon, will build the mission's lander, while JAXA will be responsible for the launch and a lunar rover.
The mission is expected to launch no earlier than 2025 on Japan's new H3 rocket. The agency is meanwhile in the basic design phase of the rover with teams running tests in sand designed to simulate the fine dust that covers the moon's surface. The tests will check if the vehicle can perform its key science objectives on the moon.
"The project will investigate the quantity and quality of water on the moon. We hope to use this data as a basis for considering sustainable human activities on the moon in the future," Natsu Fujioka, who is part of the team developing the rover, said in a JAXA statement.
The rover will be autonomous and will drive to seek out water. It will also be able to drill into the lunar surface to collect samples which will then be analyzed by the rover's instruments. Each of these capabilities is a feat(壮举)in itself, but combining these and within weight restrictions, presents a serious task.
"If water can be found in these regions, it could be used as an energy source for future human activities on the moon. For this reason, many countries are making efforts," continued Natsu Fujioka.
India launched the successful Chandrayaan-3 lunar landing mission this year, while Russia failed with its Luna-25 landing mission. Next year, NASA is scheduled to launch Artemis 2 in November 2024 to send astronauts around the moon. China meanwhile seeks to collect the first ever samples from the far side of the moon and bring them to Earth in 2024.
Individual innovation is considered one sign of intelligence within species, and elephants are among the animals that researchers have long taken an interest in because of their approach to problem solving. A newly-published study details findings from a six-month-long study documenting the abilities of individual wild Asian elephants to access food by solving puzzles that unlocked storage boxes.
"This is the first research study to show that individual wild elephants have different willingness and abilities to solve problems in order to get food" said the study's lead author Sarah Jacobson, a psychology doctoral candidate. "This is important knowledge, because how animals think and innovate may influence their ability to survive in environments that are rapidly changing due to human presence."
Conducted at the Salakpra Wildlife Sanctuary in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, the study used motion-activated cameras to observe 77 wild Asian elephants who approached and decided whether to attempt to open puzzle boxes with three different compartments(隔层)that contained highly sweet jackfruit. Depending on the compartment with which the elephant interacted, the jackfruit could be accessed by pulling on a chain so the door opened toward the elephant, pushing the door so that it swung open into the box, or sliding the door open to the right. The elephants had to independently interact with the puzzle boxes to discover how the compartments could be opened.
Over time, 44 of the elephants who approached the puzzle boxes interacted with them, but there were individual differences in how innovative the elephants were. The researchers found that elephants who interacted with the puzzle boxes more frequently and with greater persistence were more successful in getting food from all three different compartments. Overall, 11 elephants solved one compartment type and eight solved two types. Five elephants solved all three types.
"Conflict involving humans and elephants is increasing due to loss of natural habitat," said the study's principal investigator Dr. Joshua Plotnik. "Investigating innovation and problem solving in elephants can inform our understanding of wild elephants and their potential impact on conservation management and human-elephant conflict mitigation(缓解)."
How to develop a volunteer engagement strategy
Creating an effective volunteer engagement strategy is a multi-step process. If you're not sure where to start, don't worry! We'll break it down into easy steps.
Understand your volunteers and goals. If your volunteers feel closely related with your organization's mission and goals, they will contribute. But first, you need to understand exactly what motivates them to contribute.
Determine how you'll measure volunteer engagement. Measuring success looks different for every organization — but it's something that must be defined when creating a volunteer engagement strategy. Does success mean having a large number of supporters? Does it mean having volunteers complete a certain number of volunteer shifts per month? In this way, your goals will be better reflected in your volunteer engagement strategy.
Walk through the volunteer engagement lifecycle and identify weak spots. As you start to measure the performance of your volunteer program, take a look at your current volunteer engagement lifecycle. Making even the smallest changes can have a major impact on the lifecycle of your overall engagement cycle.
Make sure you've got the right tools to support volunteer engagement. The tools you choose to support your engagement will prove to be a gamechanger for your volunteer engagement strategy! Ensure that you have the proper and enough resources to stay ahead, retain (留住) volunteers, and build a stronger community.
Creating a successful volunteer engagement strategy requires giving your volunteers the space to connect with your organization and with each other. Keeping an open line of communication with your volunteers is essential. Send text reminders about volunteer shifts and email reminders for your events to reduce no-shows.
A. Where can you make improvements?
B. Give your volunteers the space to relax.
C. Enhance the process with communication.
D. Try to lengthen the volunteer engagement lifecycle.
E. It's worth considering what success looks like to your organization.
F. As your organization grows, the number of volunteers will increase.
G. Explore their interests and skills to create appealing opportunities for them.
It's really easy to feel all alone in life, especially when going through hardship. But sometimes the 1 thing we can do is allow ourselves to ask for 2 , like Erin did.
Erin worked at a McDonald's in Michigan. But her pay wasn't enough to 3 rent and she and her twin girls ended up 4 . She wanted to sleep in her car which was 5 right outside of the girls' school. However, she wasn't sure what she was doing was 6 .
So, she asked police officer Heather Kolke if they could stay there. But the 7 didn't stop there. Heather, also a mom, knew she had to 8 . She and her fellow officers found Erin and her daughters a temporary place to stay. That wasn't all though: They even got her an 9 and went with her to offer moral 10 . Luckily, Erin got that job.
Heather also planned a birthday party for Erin's daughters, with local businesses 11 balloons, cake, and pizza.
The whole community ultimately got 12 , raising $2,300 in cash, as well as clothes for the kids, items for their new 13 , gift cards to help them make ends meet.
"It 14 warms my heart to know that there are people out there who 15 . It is a reminder that there are good people in the world," shared Erin.
The output of China's hybrid rice at a demonstration base in Dechang county of Southwest China's Sichuan Province reached a record high of 1,251 kilograms per mu the technique developed by "father of hybrid rice" Yuan Longping.
The rice in the demonstration field showed nice growth, uniform development, large grains, high grain-setting rate and no (significance)signs of diseases. Such a high yield has been a pleasant surprise, (result)from the perfect integration of rice varieties and cultivation(栽培)techniques.
The (inspect)of the hybrid rice project was held on Saturday in Dechang county, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture. The expert group (random)selected three rice fields for mechanical harvesting, followed by water measurement impurity(杂质)removal weighing. The average yield per mu of the three plots (select)in the demonstration base was 1,251.5 kilograms, setting new world record for the single-season yield of hybrid rice.
The target of yielding 1,200 kilograms per mu of hybrid rice (propose)by Yuan back in 2018 and the related research was conducted in the same year.
So far, dozens of countries around the globe (carry)out research and trial planting of hybrid rice with the overseas annual cultivated area of hybrid rice reaching nearly 8 million hectares in total.
Dmitry Bondarenko was a Toronto-based artist. One day he had an appointment with a friend for a painting session. So he put the objects including his sketchbook (速写本) in the back basket of his bike and then cycled to meet his friend. But when he arrived and turned to take his things, he was shocked to find his sketchbook was missing.
The 5×7 black sketchbook contained a decade of his works and had great emotional value to him. It included portraits of friends and family, and still life paintings of his great grandfather when he served in Red Army in Russia. The notebook became a visual account of the 40-year-old artist's life and family history. His parents are Russian and Ukrainian, and he and his family moved to Canada when he was a child.
Dmitry shared that he felt a deep sense of loss when he first discovered his sketchbook missing. He thought that the book must have fallen out of his bicycle's back basket. So he went back to look for it. First, he retraced his steps and posted dozens of flyers along the bike path through the park. He also checked with park services. Several days later, he still had no clue where his precious sketchbook was, making him extremely sad and anxious.
"I realized the weight of it when it was gone, how precious it is," Bondarenko said sadly.
In a last-ditch effort to locate his treasured sketchbook, he decided to turn to social media. He shared a post to a neighborhood Facebook group, detailing his trouble. A few other community-oriented Facebook groups reshared the post. Word quickly spread within the local community for everyone to keep an eye out for the missing sketchbook.
In the meanwhile, a man named Chris found the sketchbook in the park. As he picked it up and skimmed through the pages, he found there was no name or address. The paintings in the book were so impressive that he couldn't take his eyes off. Finally, he decided to leave the sketchbook where it was found, thinking the owner would return to look for it. He leafed through the sketchbook again before putting it down.
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Suddenly, a dishonorable idea occurred to him.
Chris Elam contacted Dmitry at once, telling him that the sketchbook was in his house.
