tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26257750769370494882024-03-13T01:10:40.171-04:00Ijams JournalUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger566125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2625775076937049488.post-33631883155561117402018-04-30T14:07:00.002-04:002018-04-30T16:14:58.992-04:00This year's Ijams River Rescue collected record amount of debris<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">•</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The 29th annual <b>Ijams River Rescue</b> was held Saturday, April 7. And as it turned out, it was a chilly, damp and even rainy day. But folks still came out to help.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Thank you to the 625 volunteers who met at 42 public sites along the river and tributary streams to make our East Tennessee home more beautiful. Folks came in boats, canoes and trucks. They brought wheelbarrows, rakes and a steely-eyed resolve to "do the right thing." And despite the weather, 39.7 tons of trash were collected from our local waterways.</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>The last time the numbers were this high was during the first three years Ijams tracked the event’s results. Then the amounts totaled 36 tons in 1995, 48 tons in 1996 and 35 tons in 1997.</i></span><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>What makes this year’s total even more interesting is that most of the trash—an estimated 30 tons—came from one location: An illegal dumping ground on <b>Loves Creek</b>. The City of Knoxville hauled away eight truckloads full of debris from that site alone, making it the dirtiest location in the annual cleanup’s history.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Even with this record-breaking site, the news is more good than bad: The remaining 41 sites together only yielded 9.7 tons of trash, which is on the low end of what has been collected since the mid ‘90s.</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We tip our hats to presenting sponsors <b>TVA</b> and <b>DOW Chemical Company</b>.</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>And special thanks to everyone who participated in the cleanup, and to the event’s other sponsors: City of Knoxville Stormwater Management, First Tennessee Foundation, Knoxville Open Water Swimmers, Grayson Subaru, Keurig Green Mountain, Lowe’s, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, American Rivers, Knoxville TVA Employees Credit Union, Thompson Engineering, Wood Realtors, AmeriCorps and Water Quality Forum.</i></span><br />
<i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br />All who volunteered got a free <b>Ijams River Rescue </b>t-shirt with a whooping crane on it. This endangered species is sometimes seen spending the night on Looney Island opposite Marine Park. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br />One person can make a difference. Hundreds of people make a movement. Scruffy little city? Not any longer!<br /><br />If one photo is worth a thousand words, here's over 37,000 more words.</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">At the nature center, new Emily began to learn what to be afraid of and what not to be afraid of in the natural world around us...in this case, a harmless corn snake. (Can you guess, it was the first time Emily#2 had ever held a snake not made out of rubber.) <br /> </span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Find your inner peace.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yesterday was a <b>Serenity Saturday</b> at Ijams. Our group met at the Miller
Education Building at the Homesite. It is the location where our
educational classes began at the nature center many, many years ago. And
for three hours we cut ourselves off from the outside world.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After herbal tea and organic cocoa, we went on a quiet, no talking, no cell phone mindfulness walk along the Serendipity Trail.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">First we walked as a group in single file, then individually. Each
serenity seeker collected bits of autumn to create their own assemblage
of ephemeral art, a homage to British en plein air sculptor <b>Andy
Goldsworthy</b>. It is ephemeral in that it will only last a short time.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The meditative walk allows you to let go of your modern day concerns
and find your inner child, your creative self. You regress. Then sitting
on the ground arranging sticks and leaves as we all did as children
feels totally natural. </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> And trust us, it is so liberating to be a six-year-old again, even for only a short while.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ijams naturalists Christie and Stephen Lyn hosted the gathering and
everyone left peacefully with a sachet of essential oils, leaving their
artwork behind to return to nature.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our next Sererity Saturday will be December 16.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>Yesterday, <b>Ijams Homeschool Academy</b> met for the second time for the 2017-18 school year.<br /><br />Our topic was invertebrates, namely the arthropods, i.e. insects, spiders, centipedes, millipedes and isopodes...well, you know...roly-polies. Our field work was taught at three separate locations around the nature center with Ashlind, Christie and Stephen Lyn hosting different age groups.<br /><br />Ijams have been connecting kids to nature since the summer of 1923. And it was a perfect day to think about bugs whether they had 6 legs, 8 legs or 734 legs.<br /><br />Have you ever let a millipede (they are vegetarians, you know) crawl across your hand? It tickles!<br /><br />For information about Ijams Homeschool Academy call Lauren at 577-4717, ext. 135. It is not too late to join in on the fun.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Often overlooked because they are too weird or complex to know, fungi have an important role in the environment. They are decomposers. Wherever you find them, you find something dead being broken down into its constituent nutrients to be recycled by the living. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Ijams volunteer naturalist <b>Nick Stahlman</b> led the field trip and raised our M.A.Q.
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Visible mushrooms are the above ground fruiting bodies of the much larger fungi that lives below the surface in a network of root-like filaments called </i></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span class="st"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span class="st">hyphae that make up the m</span></i></span></span>ycelium that can be enormous</i><i></i></span>. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>If you are into nature, you are into Ijams. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The statewide <b>TN Naturalist@Ijams </b>program we teach is 40 hours
of classes, 40 hours of volunteering. Interested in next year?
Call Lauren about the 2018 class at 577-4717, ext. 135.</i></span></span></span><br />
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note were discovered on our <b>Big Bug Safari</b> with kids and their parents:
the finger-size hairy brown caterpillar of an imperial moth, a velvet
ant---actually a wingless wasp that farmers call cow killers---and
several soldier beetles on all the blooming white frostweed.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>The <b>TN Naturalists@Ijams </b>class of 2017 held five hours of outdoor workshops in late August. The first focused on invertebrates, primarily arthropods: insects, spiders and their ilk. </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>The class managed to catch examples from all eight of the common insect orders, plus ones from the biological classes of Arachnids (spiders and harvestmen), Diplopoda (millipedes), Chilopoda (centipedes) and land-based Crustacean, i.e. Isopods or roly-polies.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Ijams gives adults permission to be 10-year-olds playing in the creek again. Ijams naturalists Christie and Stephen Lyn hosted the workshops.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>TN Naturalists@Ijams</b> is a series of 12 classes taught from March to November. Next up for the group will be fungi in September.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>For information about the class of 2018 call Lauren, 577-4717, ext. 135.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i>- All photos by class member and commercial photographer Kristy Keel-Blackmon</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>The <b>Ijams Wonder of Hummingbirds Festival </b>was held last week. The perfect weather conditions helped the attendance but the draw is always the chance to see ruby-throated hummingbirds banded and released.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Mark Armstrong</b> is a Master Bird Bander and licensed to catch and attach the tiny numbered leg bands to the hummers. They are then promptly released to continue their migration to Central America. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>This is the 7th year of the festival originally created by Billie Cantwell. At the time she was the President of the Knoxville Chapter of the Tennessee Ornithology Society (KTOS). The local chapter was formed by H.P. Ijams in January 1924 and he served as its first president. For years the club met here at the Ijams family home. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Additionally, the festival features speakers on a range of nature topics, kids activities and venders selling plants, crafts and food.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Ijams: Connecting people to nature since 1923.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>- Photos by Ijams volunteer Kristy Keel-Blackmon </i></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Ijams Homeschool Academy </b>kicked off its 2017-18 school year last Friday. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In all it is eight classes, each on a natural science topic including ornithology (birds), herpitology (amphibians and reptiles), entomology (insects and other invertebrates), dendrenology (trees), mammalogy (mammals) and in the case of our first class, aquatic life.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The junior naturalists are divided into three age groups. Ashlind hosts the 5-year-olds and younger, Christie hosts the 9-year-olds and older and Stephen Lyn hosts what he calls the "middles"—the 6, 7 and 8-year-olds.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The older kids got to wade Toll Creek searching for crawdads, fish and aquatic insects. Exploring the depths of a stream can be a little scary but it is also empowering to conquer your fears.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Ijams had been connecting children to nature since the summer of 1923.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Next month, we will search for insects.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>The <b>TN Naturalists@Ijams </b>class of 2017 held five hours of outdoor workshops yesterday. The first focused on invertebrates, primarily arthropods: insects, spiders and their ilk. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>After a break for lunch, we turned to aquatic life. First dip-netting at a pond on the original Ijams Homesite then wading a length of Toll Creek looking for, well, anything alive.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Some of the interesting finds of the day were a leech, crane fly larvae, caddisfly larva, soldier fly larva, dragonfly larvae, crawdads, newt nymphs, tadpoles and everyone's favorite damselfly--the ebony jewelwing. The most common fish on Toll Creek seemed to be blacknose dace.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Ijams gives adults permission to be 10-year-olds playing in the creek again. Ijams naturalists Christie and Stephen Lyn hosted the workshops.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>TN Naturalists@Ijams</b> is a series of 12 classes taught from March to November. Next up for the group will be fungi in September.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Using swept nets, plastic cups and raw enthusiasm the junior naturalists caught a table full of grasshoppers, cicadas, stinkbugs, butterflies, moths, crickets, katydids, leaf hoppers, beetles, roly-polies, dragonflies, damselflies, spiders and three pretty scary parasitic wasps. (The bug catchers were taught beforehand to avoid anything in the stinging Hymenoptera order but these, we guess, were just too tempting. Creepy is creepy, after all.)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The adventurous kids found the hillbilly creek pirate <b>Crawdad Willy</b> guarding his lonely outpost on the eastern edge of the nature center. <br /> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When they came upon him, he was passing his time reading the "poyotree" of Miss Emily Dickinson. "The past is such a curious creature, To look her in the face, A transport may reward us, or a disgrace."</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After they helped him decipher her cryptic words, he taught them a bit about the critters that share his "crick." Did he say, "sally-amander"? And notice the pickerel frog in a jar around his neck. That's his buddy. <br /> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To pass through the gate, the campers were each marked on the cheek with creek mud after giving Crawdad a gold coin...it is called <b>Toll Creek</b>, after all! <br /> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And Willy be the toll-taker.<br /><br /> Ijams is the home of imaginative learning. </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />- Jennifer Roder, education director </span></i></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Thank you to all who attended our <b>Sunrise & Sunflowers</b> meandering and mute mindfulness walk early one July morning.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #274e13;">We slowly serpentined in and around and through the sunflower and corn fields silently at <b>Forks of the River WMA</b> near the nature center, contemplating the moment—no talking, no cell phones, no hassle, no Facebook—each stroller lost in their own thoughts in the early morning sun.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13;"></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13;"><br />Based on the Japanese stress reducing, blood pressure lowering therapy called <b>shinrin-yoku</b>, or "forest bathing," <b>mindfulness walks</b> are short, slow, leisurely visits in nature that produce positive health benefits. NPR recently did a story about forest bathing, although since we were strolling through planted fields we should call it Sōgen-yoku, or meadow bathing.</span><span style="color: #274e13;"></span></i></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: large;">Our next one will be Saturday morning, August 25 along <b>Ten Mile Creek</b> Greenway starting at Walker Springs Park. Wear old shoes because we may/will wade through calf deep water. To sign up, click: <b><a href="http://ijams.org/events/ijams-sanctuary-series-mindfulness-walk-with-ijams/">mindfulness</a>.</b></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Vlad is harmless to humans, he only drinks the blood of trees, a.k.a. sap, and the blood of fruit, a.k.a. juice. At night Vlad turns into a vampire fruit bat. This makes Vlad a frugivore not a carnivore.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Sad Vlad showed the young campers his leaf collection and gave them a copy of his nightly menu that has his favorite sipping trees: sugar maple, sweet gum, sassafras, tuliptree, wild cherry and red maple to name<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>a few entrées. Or as <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">he</span> says, "Vlad eat ontrees.")</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Ijams summer Adventure Camp specializes in outdoor adventure and imaginative learning<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">;</span> well, and it's fun too. (And, yes, Vlad knows Count von Count from Sesame Street.) </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>What a great way to start the weekend! </i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Thank you to everyone who joined
us for Sunrise Stretches and Smoothies hosted by Smoothie Queen Christie.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>If you missed it today, we'll
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2625775076937049488.post-29022066488308556422017-06-11T16:13:00.000-04:002017-06-11T16:25:15.154-04:00Ijams Hiking Club takes to the High Ground<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Ignoring the heat—or maybe escaping from it—the <b>Ijams Hiking Club</b> ventured to higher ground, namely the Civil War site of Ft. Higley at High Ground Park and River Bluff Wildlife Area for the best view of downtown Knoxville and the river.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Ijams volunteer leaders were <b>Amy Oakey</b> and <b>Eric Johnson</b>. </i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>For Amy, it was a bit of a celebration/anniversary. She started hiking three years ago, tagging along with the Ijams Hiking Club to the same location. After that, she caught the hiking bug and has notched off all of the trails in the <b>Knoxville Urban Wilderness</b> twice and many of the trails in the Great Smokies.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Great hike. Thank you, Amy and Eric!</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2625775076937049488.post-52268276330501168932017-06-03T13:38:00.000-04:002017-06-03T13:58:20.736-04:00TN Naturalists@Ijams spend a day for/with the birds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This c<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lass was devoted to </span></span></span></i></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="_Tgc"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ornithology</span></span>, the study of <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bird</span>s</span>.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ijams<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">'<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">senior naturalist</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Stephen Lyn</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hosted</span> the class</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Because of the sultry forecast, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">t</span>he <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">class started outdoors then moved inside to escape the heat. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Under the shade of a sycamore, we</span> talked basic bird-ology <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">using a live red-tailed hawk as a teaching aid. What better way to learn about the different types of feathers<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">—flight, cont<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">our, semiplu<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">me, down<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and </span>mo<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dified—a<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">vian </span>anatomy and field markings than looking a<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">t a gorgeous bird of prey close-up?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></i></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A</span>nd with titmice and Carolina wrens singing in the background</span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></i></span>, we learned about the different types of <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bird vocalizations. Not all bird calls <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">are</span> melodic. Warning calls are harsh and usually mean there is danger about</span>, watch yourself. </span> </span></i></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">This is the fifth year the statewide program has
been taught at Ijams.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> In
all, it's 12 classes held once or twice a month until November. </span></i></span>After
students finish the 40 hours of classes and the required 40 hours of
volunteer work, they become certified Tennessee Naturalists.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">The next class <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">focus</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">es</span> on <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">herpetology</span>: the study of reptiles and amphibians</span></span>.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">For a look back at our previous four classes, click:</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <a href="http://ijamsnature.blogspot.com/2017/05/2017-tn-naturalistsijams-visit-world-of.html">Mammals</a></span></span></b></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><a href="http://ijamsnature.blogspot.com/2017/04/third-tn-naturalistsijams-class-looks.html">Trees</a></b> </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>And indeed that is what happened last Monday, May 22. And all of the smiling-faced Live@5@4 gang were here. We talked about things happening at <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the nature center</span> this summer and rooted for fellow Knoxvillian <b>Chris Blue</b> to win TV's <b>The Voice</b>. The finals were announced just a few hours later and Blue did indeed w<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">i</span>n.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Ijams new executive director <b>Amber Parker</b> welcomed the WBIRians. Newsman <b>John Becker</b> interviewed summer camp director <b>Christie Collins </b>in kayak<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">s</span> </span>on the river, news anchor <b>Robin Wilho<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">i</span>t</b> and reporter <b>Emily Stroud</b> explored the treetops with <b>Navitat</b>. Stroud also chatted with Stephen Lyn about snakes. </i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Co-hosts <b>Russell Biven </b>and <b>Beth Haynes </b>interviewed<b> Dr. Bob Overholt</b> about common summer health concerns and <b>Todd Howell</b> spoke to chef <b>Miss Olivia</b> about summer picnics. </i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> The 2017 edition of </span><b style="font-size: x-large;">TN Naturalists@Ijams</b><span style="font-size: large;"> held <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">its <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">fourth</span> class</span> last Saturday. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This c<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lass was devoted to </span></span></span></i></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="_Tgc"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">m</span>ammalogy</span>, the study of <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">mammals</span>. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ijams<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">'<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> own part-time veterinar<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ian</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dr. Louise Con<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rad</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, taught the class</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dr. Louise oversees the care and well being of all <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the</span> Ijams adopted and injured education an<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">imals. She has been connected to the nature center for over 20 years; first as a volunteer<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, then as <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">part of the staff.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The class began indoors with <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a mammal class and a visit from our lame opossum</span></span></span> then <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">proceeded outdoors for a <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">reconnaissance of places</span> where mammals are generally seen especially along the river and wetland and a look for tracks. </span>The group also had a one-on-one visit with our new adopted <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">i</span>nqui<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">siti<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">v</span>e </span>gray squirrel<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span> </span></i></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">This is the fifth year the statewide program has
been taught at Ijams.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> In
all, it's 12 classes held once or twice a month until November. </span></i></span>After
students finish the 40 hours of classes and the required 40 hours of
volunteer work, they become certified Tennessee Naturalists.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">The next May class <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">focus</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">es</span> on <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bird</span>s</span></span>.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">For a look back at our previous classes, click:</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://ijamsnature.blogspot.com/2017/04/third-tn-naturalistsijams-class-looks.html">Trees</a></b> </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://ijamsnature.blogspot.com/2017/04/tn-natuarulaistijams-second-class.html"><b>Wildflowers </b></a></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>Kristy Keel-Blackmon</b>. Thank you, Kr<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">isty!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Last Wednesday, <b>Jen Roder, Lauren Bird</b> and <b>Ben Nanny</b> noticed curious gold-winged cicadas on and around a sycamore just outside the staff entrance at the Visitor Center. Ben recognized them. He had seen lots of them in May 2004. They were <b>Brood X</b> (10) of 17-year cicadas but the math wasn't right. They shouldn't reappear at Ijams until 2021.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Jen located a small plastic box of dead cicadas collected by Stephen Lyn in 2004 and made a second discovery. Unbeknownst to our kindly senior naturalist, thirteen years ago, Ijams actually had <b>two species</b> of 17-year cicadas emerge at the same time: </i></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Magicicada septendecium. and probably Magicicada cassini.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Ijams quickly cobbled together a pop-up program last Sunday about cicadas in general and 17-year cicadas in specific. Thanks to all who attended our<b> Cicad-Academy </b>and to the Goodalls for bringing cicada-cake.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>The workshop began indoors with basic cicada information and adjourned outdoors for the fun part: looking for the red-eyed, gold-winged hemipterans.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Early in an emergence, it's almost exclusively males. Later the females join them. Saturday we were finding them low to the ground on shrubs and forbs, by sunny Sunday they had moved to the treetops and were starting to call.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Our search turned up several shed exoskeletons and multipl<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">e</span> adults. Jud even climbed high into a sycamore by the Plaza Pavilion and shook a branch to dislodge more to inspect.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Sofia Tomov</b>, one of our junior naturalists who is all grown up now, got some excellent photos.</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Our Big Bug news just got bigger. It got national. But the mystery deepens.<br /><br />You do not want to miss this program. We are scrambling to pull it together. Because it's late, call me to register. The national cicada people are going to fly here next week to help us figure out what's going on at Ijams. <br /><br />The <b>17-year cicadas</b> that are climbing out of the ground are <b>four years early</b>. They are not due until 2021. Jen located the handful I collected in May 2004 and discovered that 13 years ago we had two different species emerging at the same time. News to me. <br /><br />"In 2004, there was definitely Magicicada septendecium. It's the big one. The little one is either Magicicada cassini or Magicicada septendecula. I'm leaning toward cassini, but it's hard to tell. The two species are significantly smaller," writes Jen. Their call is the defining identifier and the 2004 specimens are mute. <br /><br />So what is happening at Ijams now, four years early? Is it one species or two like in 2004? So far it is mostly males emerging. Jen has heard one calling, by Sunday there should be a lot more out and calling.<br /><br />Sign up for our Cicada-ology Pop-up Program and learn all about our annual cicadas and these 17 year ones in particular. After a short indoor program we will go on a great cicada hunt.<br /><br /><b>(865) 577-4717, ext. 119</b><br /><br />Call Stephen Lyn and leave a voicemail. Leave your name and the number of people with you. You can pay (Members $5, non-members $8) at the Ijams front desk on Sunday afternoon. Be a part of the cicada fun! <br /><br />Help us solve the mystery. This is nature nerd cool stuff.</span></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0