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Winter or summer, the mountain ranges known as the Victorian Alps offer Aussies and visitors a unique opportunity to experience mountain life in all its splendor. The Australian Alps, being Australia's highest mountain range, borders eastern Vic, southeastern New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory as well. As part of the Great Dividing Range, the Victorian or Australian Alps are also sometimes known as the High Country with highest peaked Mount Bogon rising at an elevation of…

Wild steelhead (O. mykiss) populations are in decline across much of their native range. Nevertheless, steelhead remain an important sport fishery and a key management species for state and federal agencies. Steelhead managers are faced with a number of challenges associated with regulations and recovery goals imposed by the Endangered Species Act (ESA), while simultaneously attempting to maintain recreational angling opportunities. Factors affecting recruitment and survival of wild steelhead…

Have you ever wanted to go to Oregon? There are many sights and experiences to see, feel, and try, along with a rich history. It’s the year 1803. President Thomas Jefferson bought a huge swatch of land for the US, including what is now Oregon. He sent explorers to map the territory. Later, in 1840, settlers traveled up the Oregon Trail. On February 14, 1854, Oregon became the 33rd official state. Oregon may have gotten its name from the French word “Ouragan”, which means hurricane and was a…

A lawsuit has been filed against 2 biological supply companies, claiming that they sold fetal tissues acquired between the time-frame of 2009-2015 from planned parenthood at extremely expensive prices around the world which is against the law. The biological companies claim that the allegations of overpricing dead fetal tissues extracted from aborted babies held against them are just “accounting issues”. The 2 companies has charged as much as $700 a vial for fetal tissue that only costed them…

Nancy Salzman grew up in Canada where she was born. He is a citizen of France, Canada, and the United States. She attended the University of Ottowa Medical School in Canada and graduated from there. She attended McGill University where she completed her post-graduate education in the medical field. Dr. Salzman worked at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Bermuda and at Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace and Monaco. Nancy Salzman is an expert in her medical field of travel medicine. She…

With flyer postings only being allotted two weeks for posting, the campus police department will have to print every two weeks. With campus police available year-around, printing flyers will have to be done 26 times a year. This can become costly for the department; instead of saving by printing a year’s supply and storing them, and a waiver of some or all posting requirements being provided proving the postings to be a university led initiative supported by the University of Houston-Downtown…

Indigenous Tribe Report: Haida People The Haida people are an indigenous tribe that spans the international boundary between British Columbia, Canada, and Alaska, United States. They also live on two large and many smaller islands, known as Haida Gwaii (which means island of the people). They also live in southeast Alaska. They conduct regular trade with Russia, Spain, Britain, and the U.S., as well as fur and whale traders. On the islands they have many fortifications to defend themselves if…

born in 1962. He spent his childhood living out of a mobile home in Burbank, Washington. As his parents were separated when he was only fourteen, he grew up with his siblings in their maternal grandparents' cattle ranch. In 1980, he graduated from Columbia High School in Burbank, winning the award for "Most Wittiest" in the process. Some regard this award as the catalyst for his nascent interest in writing. In 1986, he graduated from the University of Oregon then got a BA in Journalism and…

Johnson received powerful knowledge on how to become a well balanced black man and a civil rights lawyer. Johnson is another perfect example of a black man that didn’t accept the stereotypes and received a higher education. After graduating from Columbia Law Johnson became a defense department attorney, Air Force attorney, assistant U.S. attorney, and is now the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. Jeh Johnson is at the forefront of black excellence, he personifies an educated black…

Upon their arrival to Canada, immigrants must have or acquire certain credentials in order to gain residency in our country. Although those credentials are very much needed in order to immigrate, Esses et al. (2007) stated that one of the most common problems in finding employment reported by immigrants was the lack of recognition of foreign qualifications. Apparently, the skills that are so valued when immigrants are assessed for admission into Canada are devalued once they arrive and attempt…