Restaurants from Starbucks to Krispy Kreme are offering up free food and coffee to the North American workers fighting the coronavirus outbreaks.

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Lowe’s is delivering $1 million worth of flower baskets to isolating moms and grandmothers in senior homes around the US for Mother’s Day.

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Visibility in parts of southern Ontario, Canada, was severely affected as a snow squall blanketed areas of the province — including the town of Barrie — on May 9, reports said . A frost advisory notice was issued for the area by the Canadian government, warning that “near or below freezing temperatures” were expected through Wednesday, May 13. Reports said that the unseasonable snowfall can be attributed to a polar vortex sweeping over the region. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield posted a video of snow falling outside his Ontario home, saying, “It’s May 9. Cut it out.” This video, filmed by local resident Tom Eves, shows a snow squall in Barrie, north of Toronto. “Well what can you do but laugh,” wrote Eves on Twitter. Credit: Tom Eves via Storyful

Australians are being warned to take care when visiting their mums on Mother's Day, particularly if they are elderly.

The British government has told airlines it will introduce a 14-day quarantine period for most people arriving from abroad to try to avoid a second peak of the coronavirus pandemic, an association representing the airlines said on Saturday.

Much has been written and discussed over the last few months around our present social environment.

Despite these Indiana neighbors being forced to stay isolated during the COVID-19 crisis, they have come up with a clever way of staying connected.

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Tanner Howe, a singer-songwriter from Huntington Beach, hoped that his performances would brighten up isolating neighborhoods—and he was 100% correct.

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President Donald Trump has joined World War Two veterans at a wreath laying ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Europe. President Trump and First Lady Melania paid their respects at a memorial in Washington.

Australians are being warned to take care when visiting their mums today, particularly if they are elderly.

Everyone in the community feels isolated at the moment, but that's the way AFL coaches feel most of the time.

The Labor Department’s survey taken in April is expected to show record job losses for the U.S. WSJ explains the context behind the numbers. Photo: Justine Lane/EPA/SHUTTERSTOCK

What a difference a pandemic makes. A few months ago, the only thing standing between you and your career goals was how hard you were willing to hustle. But as you adapt to indefinite lockdown life, the hustle may now be feeling all too real.

Roads are important ecological features of forest landscapes, but their cause-andeffect relationships with other ecosystem components are only recently becoming included in integrated landscape analyses. Simulation models can help us to understand how forested landscapes respond over time to disturbance and socioeconomic factors, and potentially to address the important role roads play in these processes.

Fungi are key players in the health, diversity, and productivity of forest ecosystems in Pacific Northwest forests, as mycorrhizal associations, pathogens, decomposers, nontimber resources, and food resources for wildlife. A number of invertebrate species are associated with wood decay fungi, serve as vectors for fungal pathogens, or are fungivorous (consume fungi) and influence rates of wood decay and nutrient mineralization. In Washington and Oregon, 31 wildlife species among 8 families are fungivores, and at least 14 wildlife species disperse fungi. Down wood can provide nurse substrates for seedlings and beneficial mycorrhizal fungi, refuges from pathogenic soil fungi, sources of nutrients for decay fungi, and substrates supporting overall fungal diversity. Presence, density, distribution, and diversity of fungi are influenced by forest stand management practices, forest age class, and effects of fire. Old forests provide for a suite of rare fungi species. Old legacy trees retained during forest harvest can provide some degree of conservation of beneficial and rare fungi. Fungi can be difficult to detect and monitor; surveying for fungi at various times of the year, for multiple (at least 5) years, and by including hypogeous (belowground) samples, can improve detection rates. Studies are needed in the Pacific Northwest to quantify the amount of down wood—number of pieces, sizes, total biomass, percentage of forest floor cover, and other attributes—necessary for maintaining or restoring fungal biodiversity and viable levels of individual fungi species, especially rare species.

Wood decay elements include snags, down wood, root wads, tree stumps, litter, duff, broomed or diseased branches, and partially dead trees, all of which contribute to ecological processes and biodiversity of the forest ecosystem. Down wood can serve as reservoirs for moisture and mycorrhizal fungi beneficial to the health and growth of commercial tree species. Decaying wood, leaf litter, small twigs, and roots contribute nutrients and structure to humus and soil organic matter, and host microbes that play beneficial roles in nitrogen cycles and other processes. Snags and down wood provide nurse functions for tree and shrub species, and can aid in restoration of degraded forest environments. Various elements of wood decay provide habitat for many species of wildlife including invertebrates, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Fire can influence the amounts and distributions of wood decay elements and enhance or detract desired ecosystem processes, depending on severity, charring, soil temperature, and other factors. Managing wood decay elements for ecosystem processes entails better understanding decay dynamics, the role of coarse wood in soil, the role of wood decay in carbon cycling and sequestration, and other considerations.

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The Malheur model for fire-caused delayed mortality is presented as an easily interpreted graph (mortality-probability calculator) as part of a one-page field guide that allows the user to determine postfire probability of mortality for ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex Laws.).

A fluid layout with max/min width, header/footer and multiple percentage columns ALL reaching the footer using NO images.

A set of 7 variations on the 3 column equal height theme. All full width with header and footer, a mixture of fixed and percentage column widths and no images.

CSS play's 'Clickbox' version of Lightbox that now works in Safari(PC) and Google Chrome.

A practical use of CSS play's 'Clickbox'. A CSS only version of Lightbox that now works in Safari(PC) and Google Chrome.

A revised and simplified 'Slideshow' that now eorks in Safari(PC) and Chrome.

How to fit images of unknown size into boxes of known size using just CSS.

CSS playBOX - The Ultimate CSS Lightbox.

CSS playBOX v2 - The Ultimate CSS Lightbox - with additional features.

A droplist menu with delay action aimed at the Safari Mobile browser (iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch).

Using an image to close any open sub menus on the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

Using CSS3 to produce a playing card animated menu.

Using CSS3 to rotate a set of images.

Using CSS3 to rotate a set of thumbnail images and display a large images, all with a cick of a button.

Using CSS3 to produce a set of thumbnail images that enlarge on hover.

Using CSS3 :target with general sibling selector to produce a 'non-jumping' drill-down menu.

Using CSS3 to produce a set of thumbnail images that enlarge on click. Using :target with the general sibling selector and the 'no jump' technique.

Using CSS3 to produce click gallery with permanent images to rival jQuery/javascript.

Using CSS3 to produce a gallery for any size images.

A CSS only lightbox with PREVIOUS/NEXT/CLOSE buttons and captions with links.

A :target gallery with no browser window jump and no cycling through the images when using the browser 'back' button.

A permanent image slideshow using switchable sets of thumbnail images and large images with captions.

Using CSS3 to animate a stretch/droplist menu.

Using :before and :after pseudo-elements to produce a rollover menu.

Using :target to produce a click open/close dropline menu.

Using :target to produce a click maze puzzle. Get to the end without turnng left.

Using css3 transitions to animate a slide/fly menu with image 'bounce'.

Using css3 transitons to animate a dropline/dropdown menu with 'current' page options.

A gallery of images on a grid with hover to zoom the images and partially zoom adjacent images.

Using :target to create a permanent changing horizontal accordian menu with click action.

Using :target to create a permanent changing horizontal multi-media accordian menu with click action.

A rotary gallery of images with click to view and permanent image changes.

A spinning box with rotating faces using CSS3 3D transforms.