�The way a student is spoken to and respected affects life at home. School is home away from home. But at times a student feels like it is not worth it to keep on in the circumstances because they feel like they’ve been living up to the standards. And despite the efforts they are underestimated and lost in midst of the herd. There is a need for structure in our schools because it gives the foundation for things one needs to know about. When students are troubled in a subject, it takes the teacher to ask themselves, “What can I do to help and make things understandable?” Teachers aren’t the superior. Teachers are students too. We will be forever students. Teachers are like mechanics, they’re there to apply the parts with the necessary tools and help the car function right. But it is up to the students to keep the engine running for as long as it can go.�

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Two New Moons Found Orbiting Jupiter

by Jason Major

Two new moons have been found orbiting Jupiter, bringing the Jovian family count up to 66 natural satellites, astronomers revealed this week.  Currently known as S/2011 J1 and S/2011 J2, the new moons were first identified in images acquired with the Magellan-Baade Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile on September 27, 2011.

The objects are among the smallest moons yet discovered in the solar system, each measuring only about a kilometer (0.62 mile) wide. Unlike Jupiter’s four large Galilean moons, which are visible from Earth with even small backyard telescopes, both new moons are dim and very distant from the planet, taking about 580 and 726 days to complete their orbits.

Scientists had previously discovered new Jovian satellites in 2010, and astronomers think there may be more—lots more…

(read more: National Geo)     (image: NASA)

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Lovers? (by Masashi Mochida)

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para sa mga Long distance relationship..ha..ha..

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Terrestrial gastropod enjoys a snack :3

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sonorensis: Euglossine bee in Mexico :3

For Rhamphotheca and Labellum my lovely boys.  A Euglossa I personally attracted with some scent and flowers.  It is the third record for the state of Sonora and 165 kilometers from the closest known specimens in the state, and from that state the closest populations are over 300 kilometers south in that magical phantasmagoric land known as Méjico…..  MUAH!

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Hold on to the center.

Man was made to sit quietly and find

the truth within.

~ from the Tao Te Ching, 5th verse

(Photo by Marcia Schulman Martin)

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Beach Break (by Phil Gibbs)

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The Dark Lord of the Milky Way

by Tom Chao

Lynds’ Dark Nebula (LDN) 1622 demonstrates the evolution of stars. Star formation results from the collapse of giant clouds of molecular gas and dust. The stars eventually emerge into visibility with their blue light scattering and reflecting off dust particles present in the gas. LDN 1622 lies near the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, close on the sky to Barnard’s Loop. LDN 1622 is situated perhaps only 500 light-years away.

(via: Space.com)   (photo: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope/Coelum)