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CHEYENNE, W stanley usa yo. 鈥?A mega den of hundreds of rattlesnakes in Colorado is getting even bigger now that late summer is here and babies are being born.Thanks to livestream video, scientists studying the den on a craggy hillside in Colorado are learning more about these enigmatic 鈥?and often misunderstood 鈥?reptiles. Theyre observing as the youngsters, called pups, slither over and between adult females on lichen-encrusted rocks.The public can watch too on the Project RattleCam website and help with important work including how to tell the snakes apart. Since researchers put their remote camera online in May, several snakes have become known in a chatroom and to scientists by names including Woodstock, Thea and Agent 008. The live feed, whi stanley termoska ch draws as many as 500 people at a time online, on Thursday showed a tangle of baby snakes with tiny nubs for rattles. They have a lot of growing to do: A rattlesnake adds a rattle segment each time it sheds its skin a couple times a year, on average.The project is a collaboration between California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, snake removal company Central Coast Snake Services and Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.By involving the public, the scientists hope to dispel the idea that rattlesnakes are usually fierce and dang stanley website erous. In fact, experts say they rarely bite unless threatened or provoked and often are just the opposite.Rattlesnakes are not only among the few reptiles that care for their young. They ev Wuyo Danny Glover urges solidarity for Ind. protesters
WASHINGTON 鈥?The IRS provided poor customer service during this years tax filing season as taxpayers struggled with a rise in identity theft and complications related to President Barack Obamas health care law, a government watchdog said Wednesday.A new report by the National Taxpayer Advocate says the IRS has been hampered by budget cuts.The report says the IRS blocked nearly 1.6 million suspicious tax refunds this year because of concerns about identity theft. About a third of the refunds turned out to be legitimate, but for long stretches during tax seaso stanley cup n, fewer than 10 percent of callers could get through to an IRS help line. For the majority of taxpayers who filed their returns and did not require IRS assistance, the filing season was generally successful, sa stanley canada id the report by Nina Olson. For the segment of taxpayers who required help from the IRS, the filing season was by far the worst in memory, the report said. To a significant degree, the IRSs shortcomings are budget-driven. The taxpayer advocate is an independent office within the IRS.Overall, only 37 percent of people who called the IRS for help during tax season were able to reach a person, the report said. For those who got through, the average time on hold was 23 minutes.IRS help lines were so overloaded that the system hung up on 8.8 million callers, the report said. Thats a huge jump from last year, when the IRS hung up on 544,000 callers.The system hangs up ear stanley cup ly in the call, rather than making callers wait |
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