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Azolla filiculoides, Duckweed fern

Azolla filiculoides, Duckweed fern

Azollaceae/Salvinaceae

KEY

Aquatic plant with no flowers or bulbs, sporangia present

Plant body various,  leaves various, plant free-floating, emergent, or submersed

Plant raft-like, free-floating on water surface or stranded along shore or in drying bottom sediments, breaking apart into individuals or small clumps

Plant body differentiated into a short, often branched stem with small, minutely velvety-papillate, scale-like leaves

Leaves 0.5–1.5 mm, alternate [each with a thick green or ± red-tinged floating lobe and a thin, colorless submersed lobe]; upper surface of floating lobe papillate or with short, inconspicuous hairs [Azollaceae]

Stems  forming round to elongate plants to 3 cm, 2 cm wide; leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, generally 1.2–2 mm, 1 mm wide; leaf margins of upper (± green or ± red) leaf lobes with broad ± white band of cells >= 4 cells wide; male spore mass barbs lacking partitions

DESCRIPTION

Annual Fern, California Native, usually found in ponds and slow streams. Small free floating fern on mud/water roots. Green to +- red. with white margins ,round to elongate plants to 3 cm, 2 cm wide.

Roots Rhizome: roots hang in water, form dense clump

Stem: fork, pinnate thread like, generally 1--3 cm: immature prostrate, internodes < 5 mm;

Leaf: small overlapping scale like leaves cover stem, leaf has sublte papillae, green-red

Sporangium Case: clear yellowish orb, female with distinct equatorial girdle, wall tubercled and pitted. male spores mass barbs lacking partition

Fun facts: Used as green manure in rice paddies because of nitrogen-fixing algae (cyanobacterium Ananbaena Azollae) in upper leaf lobe. Made fossil fuels and can double it mass in 3 day

SOURCES AND MORE INFORMATION

Jepson eflora Azolla filiculoides

Integrated Taxonomic Information System - Report

Calscape Mosquito Fern

Wildflower Search

Youtube of Azolla filiculoides

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Your Saturday Southern Music Break - CDB!

It’s hard to beat SCV life member and native Carolinian Charlie Daniels on a Saturday Afternoon! Here he is with his 1989 hit, Simple Man. #FreeDixie #NoMoreReconciliation #DeoVindice #TheSouthWasRight Help Dixie Defeat Big-Tech Censorship! Spread the Word! Like, Share, Re-Post, and Subscribe! There’s a lot more to see at our main page, Dixie Drudge!

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Multicoin Capital: Our Investment in Seed Club Ventures, a Venture DAO

Today, we are proud to announce our investment in Seed Club Ventures (SCV), a $25M venture DAO that invests in internet-native organizations, alongside Delphi Digital, Dragonfly Capital, Collab+Currency, SV Angel, Distributed Global, and others. SCV will be exclusively focused on early stage teams building communities, infrastructure and applications that leverage Web3 primitives to accelerate…

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North Carolina discontinues license plates with Confederate battle flag

New Post has been published on https://appradab.com/north-carolina-discontinues-license-plates-with-confederate-battle-flag/

North Carolina discontinues license plates with Confederate battle flag

At the start of 2021, the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles was no longer issuing or renewing specialty license plates “bearing the Confederate battle flag or any variation of that flag,” said North Carolina DOT spokesman Steve Abbott in a statement.

“The Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has determined that license plates bearing the Confederate battle flag have the potential to offend those who view them,” the statement read. “We have therefore concluded that display of the Confederate battle flag is inappropriate for display on specialty license plates, which remain property of the state.”

The Confederate flag license plates are a specialty plate of the North Carolina Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans. The group has called the new rule “discrimination,” and claimed in a statement that the state is breaking the law.

“The NC-DMV has claimed that our civic group’s legally registered logo may be offensive and is inappropriate for display. Make no mistake about this… We are a hereditary civic organization that takes great pride in our ancestry, our deep roots, our ethnic heritage, and our ancestor’s sacrifices to the Southern States including North Carolina,” the group said in a statement.

It continued, “This blatant discrimination by our government is being driven from ignorance of our State’s true history by some and a deep hatred for native Southerners by others. We fear it is more of the latter, being driven by racist organizations and intolerant politicians that would rather condone violence and destruction against anyone or anything that doesn’t conform to their way of thinking.”

The DOT statement noted that the decision to no longer offer the Confederate flag license plates is “consistent with the ruling in North Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans v. Faulkner.” The DMV will continue to recognize the Sons of Confederate Veterans as a “civic organization entitled to the issuance of a specialty plate,” the statement said.

“However, SCV’s classification as a civic organization does not entitle it to dictate the contents of the government speech on that specialty plate,” the DOT said in the statement. “Efforts were made, and will continue to be made, to work with the SCV to develop artwork for these specialty plates that does not contain the Confederate battle flag. Since these efforts have proven unsuccessful so far, the DMV determined the agency would no longer issue or renew these specialty plates.”

The Confederate flag has become a symbol of White supremacy in the United States, and North Carolina isn’t the first to reconsider its association.

Last year, the US Marines and the US Navy banned public depictions of the flag. Mississippi, the last state to have a flag bearing obvious images of the Confederate flag, officially changed its state flag last month after voters approved it in a referendum. The new flag features the state flower, a magnolia.

Appradab’s Chandelis Duster contributed to this report.

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From rehearsing with the Santa Clara Vanguard drumline in Weed, CA with the views of Mount Shasta in the distance to now performing in a nationally acclaimed Broadway production in New York City – SCV alum Jordan Brooks is carving his path in the music industry.

A Dallas, Texas native, Jordan attended Berklee College of Music where he double majored in Percussion Performance and Contemporary Writing and Production. He later went on to receive his master’s degree in Percussion Performance at New York University. In 2012, Jordan came to the Santa Clara Vanguard as a tenor drum transfer from the Blue Knights of Denver, CO. The next year he served as tenor section leader within the drumline and went on to receive the Mike Laporta Percussion Award before aging out at the end of the summer.

Now living in New York City, Jordan is utilizing all of his training and experience with the Santa Clara Vanguard as a full-time performer in the international percussion sensation: STOMP. In the show, Jordan and seven other cast members use everyday items like brooms, buckets, pipes, matches and shopping carts to create music and rhythm while delivering a wildly entertaining theatrical experience. It’s a production he has been part of since auditioning in July of 2016.

“The show requires a lot of movement, dance, acting and drumming,” he says. “I transcribed some of the routines from the show before the audition, and luckily showed the directors enough of my personality and stage presence to make it through all three rounds of the audition … None of the show is written down, so we learned it by rote, a couple counts at a time.”

Jordan says his experience marching with Vanguard helped him understand how to separate choreography and music for STOMP – similar to the way the drum corps moves around on the field during a performance. “It is a huge skillset that prepared me for performing on stage in STOMP. They have other cast members that have had drum corps experience and they value the skills that come with it. Being part of Vanguard was definitely seen as an asset to their show.”

When not performing on Broadway, Jordan is a freelance drummer and recording engineer who makes music with his folk-rock-rap band, Robbing Johnny, and in smaller musical productions including “The SymphoNYChorus” and the upcoming musical, “The Talented Mr. Ripley”.

Apart from musicianship skills, in his two years marching with The Vanguard, Jordan says he also learned the values of time management, teamwork and how to be selfless and hardworking – noting Paul Rennick, SCV Percussion Arranger and Caption Head, as his most influential teacher.

“Some of the greatest things I learned came from his teaching,” he says. “Things like the three rules of drumming: don’t come in early, don’t overplay and don’t overthink the second rule. The main things that I learned from him are about performance psychology: how an audience judges a performance in the first 15 seconds, how to perform the way you practice, how to perform consistently under pressure. These are things that I reflect on every time I perform.”

Jordan says one of the best things about being part of Vanguard is the active alumni community and knowing there are people he can reach out to for help wherever he goes. “Vanguard is a family,” he says, “no matter what year you marched or taught or volunteered. It’s incredible to see the connections web through such a huge network.”

Jordan, who recorded and produced the last “SymphoNYChorus” album, performs in STOMP a minimum of six nights a week. Just this month, Robbing Johnny, who completed their first tour in May, has just released their debut album across all streaming platforms. Check it out here!

(Article by Melissa McKenzie)

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