DAWSON CREEK – The Fort St. John Flyers have had a successful start to the North Peace Hockey League season but prior to last night the team had yet to beat the Dawson Creek Canucks in two tries. That came to an end last night as the Flyers came away with a 9-5 win.The Flyers wasted no time getting the scoring started as they potted their first of the game just 24 seconds in. Dawson Creek responded with two quick ones of their own to temporarily take the lead, but Fort St. John came back with three unanswered goals to lead 4-2 after 20 minutes.As play resumed the high scoring action continued with three goals in the first 2:32 of the second with Dawson Creek netting two of them. At the end of the frame the Flyers were still out in front however 7-5.- Advertisement -The Flyers would allow the Canucks to get no closer as scored their final two tallies of the evening in the third to round out the scoring.Scoring for Fort St. John were Joey Massingham (2), Ryan Carter (2), Adam Horst (2), Rick Cleaver, Jeff Shipton, and John Apsassin.The Flyers next game will be after the New Year on January 2 in Spirit River.Advertisement read more

AD Quality Auto 360p 720p 1080p Top articles1/5READ MORERose Parade grand marshal Rita Moreno talks New Year’s Day outfit and ‘West Side Story’ remake The district also beefed up counseling and monitoring student performances, reducing the dropout rate from 33.1 percent in 2003-04 to 24.6 percent, officials said. 160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set! Elementary schools in Los Angeles Unified again led the pack in overall performance on the year’s Academic Performance Index – the benchmark measure of accountability in California public schools – with 90 percent of them meeting their goals. Middle and high schools showed the most dramatic progress, with the majority of them reaching their targets. But while minority and low-income students met or exceeded state progress goals, they failed to narrow the achievement gap with white and Asian students. District officials attributed the gains to ongoing reforms, including a core focus on reading and math, an aggressive literacy program for sixth- through ninth-graders, and hiring literacy and math coaches. read more

Brand South Africa congratulates all the Class of 2018 for successfully concluding their formal school careers. We wish the matriculants well as they pursue opportunities beyond schools, and urge them to play their part to positively contribute towards building our country.South Africa has produced sterling examples of how dynamic, tenacious and inspiring young people can play their part to fly our national flag beyond our shores including, amongst others, Phiwayinkosi Mhlongo from Bona Comprehensive School in Gauteng obtained the highest marks nationwide in Technical Mathematics, followed by Lungiswa Sibisi from Tetelo Comprehensive School, also in Gauteng. Mihlali Fipaza, from Bashee Senior Secondary School in the Western Cape, came in third.These young South Africans show us why it is critical that the National Development Plan (NDP) be implemented with haste, since all young people in our country must be empowered to achieve their full potential which will contribute to our country’s global competitiveness and reputation. The NDP has adopted a “youth lens” in preparing its proposals to ensure young people become active, contributing citizens and will see young people receiving quality education – particularly around maths and science programmes, skills transfer and training.South Africa’s matric class of 2018 achieved a total of 156,885 distinctions – a slight decline compared to the 161,081 distinctions obtained in 2017. The main provinces which contributed towards the distinctions obtained were KwaZulu-Natal with 41,734, Gauteng with 36,113, Western Cape with 24,822, Eastern Cape with 16,109 and Limpopo with 15,748. The three “rural” provinces – the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo – produced a combined total of 75,591 distinctions, equivalent to 46.9% of the total distinctions for the country.The number of distinctions attained specifically in the gateway subjects were:5,169 distinctions in Accounting, compared to 5,040 in 2017;5,828 distinctions in Mathematics, compared to 6 726 in 2017; and8,135 distinctions in Physical Science, compared to 7,861 in 2017.To the class of 2019, Brand South Africa encourages you to take up the challenge to improve upon the 2018 matric results and to grow our national skills base. We wish you luck in the year ahead and urge to seize all the opportunities this county has to offer. read more

Share Facebook Twitter Google + LinkedIn Pinterest Including plants’ acclimation to changes in temperature could significantly improve the accuracy of climate models, a Purdue University study shows.Plants are the largest drivers of carbon fluxes between land and the atmosphere, taking up and releasing carbon dioxide through the processes of photosynthesis and respiration. The rates at which these processes occur are sensitive to temperature and gradually adjust over time in response to long-term temperature shifts, a phenomenon known as acclimation.Jeffrey Dukes, professor of forestry and natural resourcesand biological sciences, and a team of researchers found that adding formulas for acclimation into climate change models more closely aligns their simulations of carbon exchange with those observed in nature. The accuracy of model projections of carbon flux in tropical forests improved by 36% when acclimation was included.“We want climate models to be as accurate as possible and represent the world in the way we know it to work,” Dukes said. “We found that incorporating acclimation into a model helped it represent the tropics much more accurately. This won’t dramatically reshape our big-picture understanding of climate change, but it gives us a better idea of how certain regions of the world will respond.”Because carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere, it’s important to accurately capture plant carbon exchange rates, said Dukes, who is also director of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center housed in Discovery Park. Less carbon stored in plants and soil means more carbon is in the atmosphere, leading to a warmer planet.The Earth System Models used to make climate projections simulate how the world’s climate works by combining multiple sub-models of the atmosphere, oceans, land and ice. These models include many equations that describe Earth processes too complex to represent exactly as they occur in nature. The equations for plant photosynthesis and respiration have been sources of uncertainty in the models because they represent plants’ short-term responses to temperature changes but do not adjust these responses during longer-term temperature shifts.Omitting acclimation could cause projections of how much carbon land takes up to be inaccurate, said Nicholas Smith, a doctoral student in biology and the study’s first author.“It’s not just humans that will have to adjust to a changing climate,” he said. “A big question in plant science is how well plant species will be able to adjust. Plants are the only things that can take up carbon dioxide on land, so it’s important to understand whether they can acclimate to warmer temperatures in the future.”Plants use atmospheric carbon dioxide, sunlight and water to make their own food via photosynthesis. In respiration, plants convert the sugars they have made into energy, much the same way our metabolism does when we breathe. Carbon dioxide is a byproduct of this process. The total amount of carbon plants can store is the difference between the amount of the carbon they have used in photosynthesis and the carbon they respire back into the atmosphere.Dukes, Smith and the team added formulas describing these dynamic processes in plants to a land model and ran simulations of carbon exchange from 15 temperate and tropical forest sites across the globe. They then compared the model’s carbon exchange simulations with historically observed rates for those sites to see how well the data matched.For temperate forests, the model that included acclimation was not significantly more accurate than a model that did not. But for tropical forests, the model was 36 percent more accurate when acclimation was incorporated.In projections of future global carbon exchange, the researchers found including acclimation in the model predicted an increase in land carbon assimilation and storage. Carbon stored in plants at the end of the century was 6.5% higher than in the simulation that did not include acclimation.The researchers cautioned this increase is somewhat dwarfed by projections of future carbon dioxide increase and will affect regions differently.“This doesn’t mean all our problems are solved,” Dukes said. “Incorporating acclimation could change the nature of global carbon projections a little but not dramatically. Climate models will never be perfect, but they have hugely improved over the past 20 years, and they continue to get better. We’re confident in the general direction of current projections and their approximate magnitude.”Dukes said that other important processes, such as the Earth’s nutrient cycles, have yet to be included in many climate models, and several of these will likely decrease carbon uptake when they are incorporated.The next step is further refining acclimation equations as the process affects plants in a species-specific way, Smith said.“Including the acclimation formulas in the models is significantly better than not,” he said. “If we don’t include the acclimation process in climate models, our projections of carbon uptake on land are not going to be as accurate. Adding these formulas is not a huge change in model complexity, but they can have a great effect on the accuracy of projections.” read more

A bill narrowly approved by a North Carolina legislative committee would repeal renewable energy requirements established in 2007.The state became a regional leader when it passed legislation requiring electric utilities to generate 12.5 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2021, according to a post at Climate Progress and now ranks fifth in the nation in solar energy development. North Carolina has 1,100 clean-energy companies collectively generating $3.7 billion in revenues a year.The renewable energy requirement also has helped create more than 21,000 jobs, while lowering residential power bills, the report said. But the program has been a target of conservative critics.The repeal measure, HB298, won committee approval on a 11-10 vote April 3. Its sponsor, state Rep. Mike Hager, a Republican, said its goal is to stop underwriting private industry with government funds. Despite the committee vote, no quick resolution is in sight. read more

Glimpse of the Universe’s First Split Second Boosts Inflation TheoryJust after our universe was born, it doubled its size 60 times before it was even a second old. Now, 13.7 billion years later, cosmologists have detected the first direct evidence of this inflation and spotted traces of gravitational waves—echoes of the big bang. 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Since January, scientists around the world have unsuccessfully attempted to reproduce their finding. Now, ScienceInsider has learned that some of the labs involved in producing the two papers describing the work had not attempted to reproduce the technique before the papers were published. Famous Breast Cancer Gene Could Affect Brain GrowthBRCA1 is best known as the “breast cancer gene”—it keeps tumors in the breast and ovaries at bay. But scientists are just starting to unravel the gene’s many functions, and it turns out that BRCA1 may also regulate brain size. The findings could shed light on the gene’s role in brain evolution. read more

Private companies step in to help SEA Games hosting Suerte and hardworking big man Bassieru Sacko, who added 16 points and 12 rebounds for the Green Lancers, were the other two members of the mythical selection. ABL: Alab Pilipinas stays unbeaten at home, rips Hong Kong Photo by Mark Giongco/INQUIRER.netAteneo proved too much for University of the Visayas in a 95-71 win to capture its fourth Philippine Collegiate Champions League (PCCL) championship Monday night at Filoil Flying V Centre in San Juan.The Blue Eagles zoomed to a 7-0 start before extending their lead to as high as 33 points. They never trailed and were never threatened.ADVERTISEMENT MOST READ Grace Poe files bill to protect govt teachers from malicious accusations For the complete collegiate sports coverage including scores, schedules and stories, visit Inquirer Varsity. Lacson backs proposal to elect president and vice president in tandem US judge bars Trump’s health insurance rule for immigrants ‘We are too hospitable,’ says Sotto amid SEA Games woes Five Ateneo scored in double figures led by Isaac Go’s 15 points on 4-of-5 shooting from downtown. BJ Andrade had 13 points while Thirdy Ravena and Victor Berjay added 12 apiece.The sweet-shooting Go was named Finals MVP. Go was also joined by Ravena and Andrade in the Mythical Team.FEATURED STORIESSPORTSPrivate companies step in to help SEA Games hostingSPORTSUrgent reply from Philippine ‍football chiefSPORTSWin or don’t eat: the Philippines’ poverty-driven, world-beating pool starsThe Eagles, who shot 51 percent from the field and limited the Green Lancers to just three field goals in the third quarter, claimed their fourth PCCL title overall.Guard Rey Suerte fired a game-high 26 points for UV, which hit only 32 percent of its field goal attempts and turned the ball over 24 times. Oil plant explodes in Pampanga town Don’t miss out on the latest news and information. Sports Related Videospowered by AdSparcRead Next Trending Articles PLAY LIST 00:50Trending Articles00:50Trending Articles00:50Trending Articles02:42PH underwater hockey team aims to make waves in SEA Games01:44Philippines marks anniversary of massacre with calls for justice01:19Fire erupts in Barangay Tatalon in Quezon City01:07Trump talks impeachment while meeting NCAA athletes02:49World-class track facilities installed at NCC for SEA Games02:11Trump awards medals to Jon Voight, Alison Krauss SEA Games hosting troubles anger Duterte Oil plant explodes in Pampanga town LATEST STORIES View comments read more

Dubai, Sep 19 (PTI) The legend has it that Sunil Gavaskar during his days as a young cricketer of Dadar Union Club was given a piece of advice by club’ mentor Vithal ‘Marshal’ Patil — “If you can’t be a cricketer, at least dress like one”. The legendary opener has always been very touchy about how players treat their jerseys and caps as he learnt a lesson from his maternal uncle Madhav Mantri, when as a kid, he had demanded to wear former’s India pullovers. “You need to earn that pullopver to wear it,” little Sunny was told by his uncle. No wonder, he wasn’t exactly amused when he saw Fakhar Zaman trying to resemble a rapper wearing his national cap backside while bowling the 18th over of the Indian innings. “Somebody, may be the captain should tell him that that it’s the national cap. He should wear it properly. You can do this in PSL (pakistan Super League) may be but this is the national team,” Gavaskar said on air for the host broadcasters Star Sports. In the next over, Zaman was seen handing the cap to the umpires. However the former India captain then turned his attention towards Dinesh Karthik, whose jersey name carries his initials ‘DK’, which is also his nickname in the cricketing circuit. “May be that’s his nickname but since the jersey carries his number, people should identify with the name. May be with the name he can have his initials,” Gavaskar said. PTI KHS KHSKHSadvertisement read more

Sophomore wide receiver James Washington has earned a ton of praise for making impressive plays that resemble Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr.With a first and goal for the Cowboys, Washington was able to display those comparisons with an impressive one-handed snag he reels in for a touchdown. Check out the highlight below:If you’re looking for the comments section, it has moved to our forum, The Chamber. You can go there to comment and holler about these articles, specifically in these threads. You can register for a free account right here and will need one to comment.If you’re wondering why we decided to do this, we wrote about that here. Thank you and cheers! read more