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Halcyon is an unincorporated community located on the West Fork of Big Harts Creek in Logan and Lincoln counties, West Virginia, United States.

Geography
Halcyon describes the upper West Fork section of Big Harts Creek, specifically Piney Fork, Workman Fork, and Marsh Fork. The lower section of Piney is located in Lincoln County. Topographic maps for 1910 and 1912 show main West Fork originating in the head of what is today known as Workman Fork; topographic maps for 1925 and 1928 show this part of West Fork as Workman Fork. Between 1912 and 1925, then, the headwaters of main West Fork became known as Workman Fork. Workman Fork includes Long Branch. Based on the 1925 map, Marsh Fork and Workman Fork meet to form the beginning of main West Fork. However, the 1910 and 1912 maps indicate that Marsh Fork, like Long Branch, were originally considered branches of main West Fork. The primary tributaries of Marsh Fork include Thompson/Barker Hollow and Brushy Fork. The primary tributaries of Piney Fork are Rattlesnake Branch, Lick Fork, Haw Bush, and Alford Branch.

History
Early pioneer settlers who arrived between 1800 and 1840 included members of the Elkins, Vance, Dingess, Thompson, and Workman families. Later settlers included members of these families: Alford, Baisden, Belcher, Bryant, Caldwell, Davis, Farley, Farmer, Farris, Fleming, Gore, Headley, Kirk, McCann, Mullins, Riddell, and Tomblin.

During the Civil War, local families supported the Confederacy.

The area hosted one minor event of the Lincoln County feud in 1889.

Polk's West Virginia State Gazetteer and Business Directory (1923-1924) identified Halcyon as consisting of 100 residents. It was situated 15 miles northwest of Logan, the county seat and banking point, three miles west of Chapmanville, the nearest shipping point, and 50 miles from Huntington.

Economy
Timbering served as the community's primary industry. Albert Dingess, Jr. operated a store, gristmill, and sawmill. Polk's West Virginia State Gazetteer and Business Directory (1923-1924) identified Dingess as the owner of a general store and grist mill.

Post office

The Halcyon Post Office was established in 1906. Albert Dingess, Jr. served as postmaster from May 3, 1906 until April 20, 1921. Everett Dingess took possession of the office on April 20, 1921, served as acting postmaster from May 11, 1921, and became postmaster on September 21, 1921, holding that position until July 14, 1923. Polk's West Virginia State Gazetteer and Business Directory (1923-1924) identified Dingess as the postmaster and stated that mail was delivered tri-weekly. The post office was discontinued on July 14, 1923, its service transferred to Ferrellsburg in Lincoln County.

Schools

The following schools, all located in Logan County, once served the community: Bud Dingess School, Lee Dingess School (located at Barker Hollow), Piney School, and Workman Fork School. The Piney and the Workman Fork school buildings still exist and have served as residential structures in recent decades.

Churches
Workman Fork United Baptist Church was established at the mouth of Workman Fork in the early 1930s. Other churches in the area include Piney Community Church on Piney and Morning Star Church at the mouth of Brushy Hollow.

Recent history

"Punkin Center," located in the bottom between the mouth of Piney and the mouth of Workman Fork, was the location of "good time" houses.

In the early 1920s, a Bryant-Dingess feud occurred in the community. At least one person was killed in the troubles.

Electricity arrived to the community in the 1930s.

On April 19, 1956, Wilson "Doc" Workman, a World War I veteran, was murdered at his home. The case remains unsolved.

Today, Halcyon youth attend one of these schools: Chapmanville Primary School, Harts PK-8 School, Chapmanville Middle School, or Chapmanville Regional High School.

Notable residents
French Bryant (1855-1938), participant in the Lincoln County Feud
Albert Dingess, Jr. (1882-1953), postmaster, merchant, and miller
David C. "Dealer Dave" Dingess (born c.1857), a horse trader and fiddler
Leander A. "Lee" Dingess (1865-1931), a law official and attorney
John Wesley "Crockadil" Workman (1834-1912), a veteran of the Confederate States Army and mail carrier

References

Unincorporated communities in West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in Logan County, West Virginia


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Five Ways The Internet of Things (IoT) Cuts Down on Carbon Production
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is not just a new tool for production efficiency; it can help better the environment too. From smart lighting to improved agriculture techniques, IoT is poised to redefine sustainability in the 21st century.
As we continue to forge ahead into the 21st century, connected technology is becoming increasingly commonplace. The Internet of Things (IoT) is just one example of this, connecting physical objects to the digital world to collect and exchange data. But what many people don't realize is that this technology has the potential to make a positive impact on the environment by reducing carbon production. In this article, we'll explore how IoT can be used to conserve energy and cut global carbon production.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of connected physical objects, devices, vehicles, buildings and other items embedded with electronics, software and sensors. These objects can collect and exchange data over a wireless network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.
How IoT Can Help Cut the World's Carbon Production
The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to revolutionize how people interact with the world around them by connecting everyday devices and objects to the web. Let's take a look at some of the ways that IoT can help shrink global carbon emissions and make the world a greener, more sustainable place.
1. Smart City Infrastructure Reduces Emissions
The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to revolutionize the way people and cities interact. Smart city initiatives are already underway in many countries around the world, with the goal of reducing emissions and cutting carbon production. By using IoT technology to monitor traffic patterns, cities can identify congested areas and adjust traffic lights, intersections, or even public transport options to ease the burden. This could help minimize emissions from transportation sources which are a significant source of greenhouse gasses.
It's also worth noting that IoT can bolster general civic infrastructure like lighting systems. The Lighting Up Aberdeen project is a great example of this — the local authority installed a state-of-the-art IoT solution to manage and monitor more than 37,000 street lighting units remotely. It has drastically reduced the carbon output by optimizing lighting levels, leading to a reduction in electricity consumption and an overall cost savings.
2. Connected Factories Cut Waste
The Internet of Things (IoT) can help to decrease emissions and waste in industrial settings. By connecting machines, processes and other elements of the production line, factories can monitor energy usage and identify areas where efficiency can be improved. For example, advanced analytics enabled by IoT can help detect machines that are running at suboptimal settings, leading to decreased energy usage and a reduction in carbon emissions.
Connected industrial processes also help to trim waste and optimize resources. IoT sensors can detect when supplies are running low, allowing factories to order only the amount of materials they need.
3. Smart Technology Enables More Energy Efficient Households
When most people hear the term IoT, their minds jump straight to smart home products like Amazon's Alexa or Google's Nest. And that makes sense — these products are at the forefront of the technology's introduction into the mainstream and continue to play an increasingly important role in our day-to-day lives. It's estimated that as many as 57.4 million households in the United States actively use a smart home device, while 23% of those with broadband have three or more.
They're capable of doing practically anything, from adjusting thermostats to timing lights to turning off appliances.
The applications of this connected ability are endless. Homeowners can use the data they collect to adjust their lifestyle and routines in order to become more energy efficient, resulting in lower utility bills and a smaller carbon footprint. For example, a homeowner could use IoT-connected devices to automate their lights and appliances, setting them to turn off when not in use. This simple task can make a huge difference in terms of energy savings, leading to a reduction in electricity consumption and an overall cost savings.
4. Developing Countries Benefit from IoT Technology
The potential of the Internet of Things to make a positive impact on carbon production is especially applicable in developing countries. IoT technology enables communities to monitor environmental conditions and make changes to lower their carbon footprint. For instance, by using sensors to detect air pollution levels, communities can adjust their industrial practices or implement local green initiatives to reduce the impact.
In addition, IoT technology can help to monitor and improve water supplies in communities. Smart meters can be used to detect water usage and alert authorities when there is an issue. This can help to lessen water wastage and improve the quality of life for those living in these areas.
5. Automation Aids in Conservation Efforts
The Internet of Things can also be used to aid conservation efforts, especially in the field of agriculture. Automation enabled by IoT helps to reduce the need for manual labor, making it easier and more cost-efficient to implement sustainable farming practices.
For example, automated irrigation systems can use sensors to detect the soil's moisture level and adjust accordingly, allowing farmers to make the most of their water resources. This helps to reduce the amount of water needed and ensures that crops are getting the right amount.
Smart technology can also help to monitor and detect pests, reducing the need for pesticides. This helps to protect crops while also reducing the amount of chemicals released into the environment.
When it comes to the actual impacts of IoT's potential, countless studies back the technology's promise.
According to a recent report from InterDigital, the technology could bring down global energy consumption by more than 1.6 petawatt-hours (PWh) — enough to support more than 136.5 million homes for a year. It also states that a mass adoption of IoT devices will result in an annual 3.5 PWh reduction of (hydrocarbon) fuel use, which bodes well for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Data also shows that IoT devices can conserve nearly 230 billion cubic meters of water annually. 35% of this potential impact is attributed to improved smart water grid operations, with the remaining savings coming from IoT-enabled agricultural applications such as remote pest control and crop management.
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Q: MongoServerSelectionError: connection  to xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:27017 closed (whitelisting IP and opening the port didn't work) i'm learning MongoDB and i'm sorry to bother you but i'm getting this error:
MongoServerSelectionError: connection <monitor> to xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:27017 closed
at Timeout._onTimeout (C:\...\node_modules\mongodb\lib\sdam\topology.js:305:38)
at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:559:17)
at processTimers (node:internal/timers:502:7) {
reason: TopologyDescription {
type: 'ReplicaSetNoPrimary',
servers: Map(3) {
  'ac-c9obg9r-shard-00-00.onq7cwz.mongodb.net:27017' => [ServerDescription],
  'ac-c9obg9r-shard-00-02.onq7cwz.mongodb.net:27017' => [ServerDescription],
  'ac-c9obg9r-shard-00-01.onq7cwz.mongodb.net:27017' => [ServerDescription]
},

stale: false,
compatible: true,
heartbeatFrequencyMS: 10000,
localThresholdMS: 15,
setName: 'atlas-up12ch-shard-0',
logicalSessionTimeoutMinutes: undefined
},

  code: undefined,
  [Symbol(errorLabels)]: Set(0) {}
}

I have tried to enable the port 27017 and resetting the ip in the network access tab (was white listed already), but no luck, error persists. Reinstalled the modules I used, and nothing.
My code was working yesterday, but after a Windows update i can't connect (that's why i thought it was the port).
The digits I replaced xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:27017 are not my ip number, i don't know if that helps.
If u have any ideas, I apreciate your input.

A: MongoServerSelectionError: connection <monitor> to xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:27017 closed
    at Timeout._onTimeout (C:\...\node_modules\mongodb\lib\sdam\topology.js:305:38)
    at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:559:17)
    at processTimers (node:internal/timers:502:7)

I had this same error while trying to connect to MongoDB with a new Node server.
See if you have changed your network connection to a diferent network than the one you have whitelisted in MongoDB.
If so, whitelist the current IP adress in mongoDB.
(PS: I see you have already tried resetting the IP address in the Network Access tab, but check again. This was how i fixed it.)
Also, check and see if the .env file variables are correctly declared with MongoDB link and also change the password and database name.
Still if the issue is not solved, I would suggest you to delete the old cluster and create a new one in MongoDB. Also re-initialise node and the packages.
Hope this solves your problem.

A: For me this error was occurring because my connection string was wrong.To be very specific - I copied the sample connection string from a course I was learning and just replaced the username and password with my credentials. So, the credentials were right but not the rest of the connection string.
Just for the sake of understanding. Please see below :
mongodb+srv://myusername:mypassword@courseproject.h1mpg.mongodb.net/?retryWrites=true&w=majority"
myusername and mypassword are correct i.e belong to the cluster in my atlas account but the rest of the string is wrong as I copied it from somewhere instead of copying it from my own MongoDB atlas account.
So please make sure to double check if your entire connection string is correct.

A: import { MongoClient } from 'mongodb'
const uri = process.env.MONGODB_URI
const options = {
  useNewUrlParser: true,
  useUnifiedTopology: true,
}

client = new MongoClient(uri, options)
clientPromise = client.connect();

export default clientPromise

Inside your .env you could insert something like this:
MONGODB_URI=mongodb+srv://username:password@name-of-cluster.i43pl8d.mongodb.net/DatabaseName?retryWrites=true&w=majority

Code snippet for connnecting mongodb will be available at https://cloud.mongodb.com/, navigate to your cluster and click connect then click Connect your application.
Finally copy code snippet whatever you get at your time of mongodb version after choosing include full driver code example and implement it into your application:

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Leigh appears in variously ancient documents as Leah, Leyghe, Lyghe, Lega, Ley and Le ye.(Leah in Saxon English means 'a wood clearing or glade'). Three 10c charters record grants of land in Leigh. In one dated 972 A.D., King Edgar confirmed a grant of land at Leigh to Pershore Abbey and defined the parish boundaries of Leigh and Powick. (Powick parish included part of Bransford and all of Newland, Madresfield and Malvern). Leigh parish 'boundeth East on Powick, West on Alfrick, North on Cotheridge – divided thence by the river Teme – and South onNewland'.
The Domesday Book records two wood clearings at Leigh. The one held by the Abbot of Pershore would be where the Church of St Eadburga is sited, the other held by Urso the Sheriff is thought to be Braces Leigh. In the abbacy of Gervase (1224-1234) Henry III 'gave to God, our blessed Lady and St Edburg of Pershore and to the abbot and monks thereof………..free warren in Leigh'. Henry de Caldwell, abbot of Pershore, died at his Manor of Leye, March 6th, 1289. The Abbots of Pershore continued to hold Leigh until the Dissolution of the Monasteries after which it passed to the Colles family who had to sell the manorial rights to Walter Devereux.
Mr. Martin of Barton, Cambridgeshire, was resident at Leigh Court at the Visitation of 1634. A descendant, Leicester Martin, of Leigh Court in 1729, married Anne, sister of the eighth Viscount Hereford. Their only daughter and heiress married her cousin, Price Devereux, in 1721, but died without issue. In 1742 the Cocks family procured the estate and held it until 1898. The arms of several of the families quoted above can be seen on the Mothers' Union Banner in Leigh Church. The best known medieval native of Bransford is Wulstan de Bransford who became Prior of Worcester 1317-1338 and Bishop 1338-1349. He is known to have lived at Bransford Court and to have built Bransford bridge over the river Teme in 1338. Its reconstruction may have been undertaken by one of the de Bracy family at Braces Leigh the Manor of which was held of the Beauchamp's barony of Elmley Castle. It passed through several different families (including Chambers Slaughter) until it was bought back by Lady Beauchamp early in the 19c. Sir Niklaus Pevsner lists a Roman tile kiln found at Leigh Sinton.
The Domesday Book states:- The Church itself held at Leigh 3 hides which pay tax. Of these, the Abbot has 1 hide in lordship. He has 2 ploughs; 12 villagers and 32 small holders with 29 ploughs, 2 slaves, 2 mills at 10s 9d; meadow 30 acres; woodland 3 leagues long and 2 leagues wide. Value before 1066 」20; now 」16. Of the said land two riders held one and a half hides. Now Urso the Sheriff holds them. He has 2 ploughs; 2 villagers, 11 smallholders and 1Frenchman; between them they have 4 ploughs, 2 slaves, a mill at 4s. Value 50s. Urso also holds a third of this land at Bransford. He has 1 plough in lordship; 9 smallholders with 4 ploughs, a mill at 20s. Value 」4. Of this hide the County states that it was the Church of Pershore's before 1066; however, the Abbot of Evesham held it on the day of King Edward's death, but they do not know how.
Dissolution of the Monasteries (1536-1540). With Henry VIII's transfer of power from the church to the crown, the Manor of Leigh passed into the hands of the Sovereign and remained so until in 1576 Queen Elizabeth, by letters patent , granted the manor to 'Christopher Hatton, esqr., and his heirs, for ever'. They did not enjoy this gift for long, however, for the Queen, by letters patent dated July 20th, 1590, granted to Edmund Colles, esqr., 'the Manor of Leigh, tenths of corn and hay, the advowson, gift, right of patronage and free disposition of the Rectory and Rectorial Parish Church of Leigh with all their rights, members and appurtenances'.
The Colles family had been tenants of the Manor both under the Abbots of Pershore and under the Sovereign. They also held land in the parish of Suckley. Edmund Colles, who was High Sheriff of the County in the seventeenth year of Elizabeth's reign, was described as 'a grave and learned justice of the shire'. He died in 1606 and was succeeded by his son, William, who died in 1615, leaving a son and heir, Edmund, who 'being loaded with debts which like a snowball from the Malvern Hill gathered increase' thought fit to sell it to Sir Walter Devereux, Bart. (Edmund's Manor of Suckley shared the same fate.)
Sir Walter Devereux. The panelled alabaster tomb on the North wall of the Chancel in St Eadburga's indicates that Sir Walter Devereux expected to complete his life at Leigh. However, on the death of his kinsman, Robert, Earl of Essex, he succeeded to the title of Viscount Hereford and moved to Hampton Court near Leominster. Essex Devereux, his eldest son, drowned in the Teme during his father's lifetime while boating with a friend, George Freke, on 20 February 1639. His second son, Leicester, succeeded as sixth Viscount Hereford. He was one of the six peers sent to invite Charles II to return in 1660. He was a Captain in Prince Rupert's horse in 1676 and died in that year.
The Cocks family. Mr.James Cocks, M.P. for Reigate, bought the Manor of Leigh in 1742 but died in 1750. His unmarried son, James, was killed at St.Cas on the coast of France in 1758 and his estate passed to his uncle, John Cocks, the father of Charles, the first Baron Somers. His son, John, 1st Earl Somers, married Margaret the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Treadway Nash D.D., the Worcester historian who was Rector at Leigh from 1792 to his death at Bevere in 1811. They had Eastnor Castle built and the family moved there. The third Earl died without a male heir, the estate passing to daughter Isabel Caroline, by then Lady Henry Somerset. She instigated the sale by auction of many of the farms and their lands in 1898.
Bransford (Bradnesford, Brainesford, Brannefford, Braunceford) is said to have been given to the abbey of Evesham by Ethelbald, son of Alwi, King of the Mercians, in the year 716 but an alternative version attributing its acquisition by Ethelwig (abbot 1059-77) accords better with the Domesday record where it is suggested that he gave it to Urso in exchange for Bengeworth. The Beauchamp family are descendants of Urso. Bransford is also the birthplace of Wulston de Bransford who lived at Bransford Court. He became Prior of Worcester in 1317 and was Bishop from 1338 to 1349.
Leigh Sinton (Sodyngton, Lye Sinton or Syddington) dates to the second century. The Victoria County History of Worcestershire reports Leigh Sinton being held of the abbey of Pershore by the Andrews family from an early date. Richard Andrews of Leigh held it from the middle of the 13c and it remained with that family until 1542 when it is first mentioned as a Manor. Before his death in 1606, Edmund Colles had acquired the property. The Manor of Castle Leigh (Castlellegh, Castellygh) is thought to be that held of the Abbots of Pershore by the Pembridge family in the 13c. This Manor with its lands was also granted to Edmund Colles in 1605.


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Ukraine Asked For Donations Through Bitcoin, Ether And Tether | Bitcoinist.com
By CG_Arman On Feb 27, 2022
The official tweeter account of Ukraine asked for donations through cryptocurrency on Saturday, just days after Russia invaded their country. They chose Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum(ETH), and Tether (USDT).
Vice Prime Minister of the country, Mykhailo Fedorov, has confirmed that the call for donations was real and he asked people to "Stand with Ukraine."
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Yarema Duhk, who helped set up the official Ukraine Twitter account in 2016 and is now a communications strategist for government officials, said he believes this tweet was legitimate money from an exterminator's budget. He isn't sure what precisely will be spent on though – but it sounds like they have some plans.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has sparked a global crisis. The Russian troops have already entered Kyiv, which puts the democratically elected government at risk and could result in less freedom for its citizens than ever before.
Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum's founder, and a few others were initially concerned that this tweet may have been from scammers who hacked into their accounts. They received confirmation from the vice prime minister of Ukraine but still encourage caution when sending donations in cryptocurrency.
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If you are not familiar with the field of buying and selling businesses, whether it be in Tokyo, Japan, or throughout the world, then the term "business broker" might come across as new or even strange. Most salarymen and women go in and out of the office, completely unaware that many businesses are constantly being bombarded with offers to buy, or their owners themselves are making plans to sell. Many entrepreneurs and small business owners may not have realized that the act of valuing, buying, and selling businesses, is quite the business itself.
A business broker is a professional with unique experience and training that enables them to assist in the buying or selling of businesses. As a comparison, most people either have experience purchasing a home themselves or at least know someone that has. In all likelihood, a real estate broker's services were retained in the home purchase. A business broker is similar to a real estate agent, except instead of a house, the broker will help you buy or sell a business. In most cases, this a much more complex endeavor than buying or selling a home (in fact, often buying or selling a business will involve as part of the whole process the purchase or sale of real estate owned by the business). It is the business broker's responsibility to assist in valuing the business (or businesses), sourcing and cold-calling potential buyers or sellers, negotiating the terms, ensuring the smooth closure of the deal, and often assisting in the integration of the business with the new owner.
Although the term "business broker" may not be one that is used or heard on a frequent basis, most people are likely familiar with "M&A" (mergers and acquisitions). M&A is the sleeker and fancier cousin of the business broker, though they are in principle the same activity. The only difference however, being that M&A typically refers to buying or selling of businesses whose values reach the tens to hundreds of millions, or even billions of dollars; whereas the business broker typically specializes in business transactions where the enterprise value is less than 10 million USD. Due to the immense size of the deals involved in M&A, entire armies of lawyers, accountants, advisors, and deal-makers are brought in to negotiate terms and close the deal; and with them come their famously exorbitant fees. In the smaller deals for the business broker, the category which the majority of entrepreneurs and small business owners in Japan would find themselves, there are far less moving parts and the deals are much more straightforward. This allows them to be handled smoothly by a small team or even a single advisor.
Hiring a business broker in Tokyo could prove to be beneficial, as they add value throughout the entire business sales process (which can take months or even a year, start-to-finish). They typically are able to provide initial niche market advice, ongoing guidance, and valuable resources to not only ensure that you sell or purchase the right business at the right price, but that the transaction is a success. A typical business broker could come from any number of financial backgrounds, as he or she is often required to wear a number of different hats throughout the transaction. A primary factor in buying or selling a business in Japan is first and foremost a strong understanding of asset valuation. The advisor must be able to determine what a business is worth, why it is worth that amount, when is a good time to buy or sell, and who would be willing to pay that amount. Often a business broker has many years' experience in asset valuation and investment management. A supplemental prerequisite to asset valuation is a thorough understanding of accounting: the language of business. The key overarching factor however, is the ability to actually go out and sell the business. Business development and sales, negotiation experience, and strong connections with attorneys, accountants, and other financial professionals can help facilitate the entire transaction process.
Confidentiality – This is especially important when selling your business. It could be damaging for any number of reasons if your competitors, your employees, or key customers find out at the wrong time or in the wrong way that you are considering selling your business. Retaining a professional adds an extra layer of confidentiality to any and all activities involved in selling a business, enabling you to minimize impact to your business while considering your options.
Not Emotionally Involved – People attempting to sell their own business can easily find themselves emotionally caught up throughout the entire process. It is not uncommon to find oneself feeling like a parental figure to the employees and even the business itself. While this can be beneficial while starting the business and building it up over the years, it can hinder or damage the business sales process. This can lead to a sales price with which you are unhappy, or a step down in working conditions for your employees.
Facilitating the Transaction – Having someone right next to you to answer questions and provide guidance throughout the entire sales process is always reassuring. Selling a business is like a dance that has multiple stages where each counterparty must make the right move at the right time in order to move the deal forward. Without the correct momentum, a deal can easily fall through, forcing you to start over.
Experienced Negotiator – When it comes time to negotiate the deal itself, the presence of a financial professional at your side of the table adds a degree of reassurance and also ensures professionalism from the other party. This not only reduces the likelihood they try any negotiating tricks that are too aggressive, but also protects you from damage if they do; ultimately leading to you getting a better price on the deal.
While it may not be the most valuable aspect to hiring a business broker in Tokyo, the ability to save you time is certainly the most immediately recognized. Selling a business yourself, especially if you have never done it before, will be like taking on another full time job. As running a business typically already feels like having two or more full time jobs, it is not difficult to surmise that adding another job on top of all that may not be on the cards. Retaining a business broker allows you to focus on what you do best: running your business.
– West, Thomas L., and Jeffrey D. Jones, eds. Handbook of business valuation. Wiley, 1992.
– Feldman, Stanley J. Principles of private firm valuation. Vol. 251. John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
– Connolly, H. Andrew. "Positioning your company for sale." Strategic Finance Vol. 81, No. 8 (2000): 34.
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Steroid hormones in the aquatic environment (2021)
Weizel, Alexander
Thousands of chemicals from daily use are being discharged from civilization into the water cycle via different pathways. Ingredients of personal care products, detergents, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and industrial chemicals thus find their way into the aquatic ecosystems and may cause adverse impacts on the ecology. Pharmaceuticals for instance, represent a central group of anthropogenic chemicals, because of their designed potency to interfere with physiological functions in organisms. Ecotoxicological effects from pharmaceutical burden have been verified in the past. Therapeutic groups with pronounced endocrine disrupting potentials such as steroid hormones gain increasing focus in environmental research as it was reported that they cause endocrine disruption in aquatic organisms even when exposed to environmentally relevant concentrations. This thesis considers the comprehensive investigation of the occurrence of corticosteroids and progestogens in wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluents and surface waters as well as the elucidation of the fate and biodegradability of these steroid families during activated sludge treatment. For the first goal of the thesis, a robust and highly sensitive analytical method based on liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) was developed in order to simultaneously determine the occurrence of around 60 mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids and progestogens in the aquatic environment. A special focus was set to the compound selection due to the diversity of marketed synthetic steroids. Some analytical challenges have been approved by individual approaches regarding sensitivity enhancement and compound stabilities. These results may be important for further research in environmental analysis of steroid hormones. Reliable and low quantification limits are the perquisite for the determination of corticosteroids and progestogens at relevant concentrations due to low consumption volumes and simultaneously low effect-based trigger values. Achieved quantification limits for all target analytes ranged between 0.02 ng/L and 0.5 ng/L in surface water and 0.05 ng/L to 5 ng/L in WWTP effluents. This sensitivity enabled the detection of three mineralocorticoids, 23 glucocorticoids and 10 progestogens within the sampling campaign around Germany. Many of them were detected for the first time in the environment, particularly in Germany and the EU. To the best of our knowledge, this in-depth steroid screening provided a good overview of single steroid burden and allowed for the identification of predominantly steroids of each steroid type analyzed for the first time. The frequent detection of highly potent synthetic steroids (e.g. triamcinolone acetonide, clobetasol propionate, betamethasone valerate, dienogest, cyproterone acetate) highlighted insufficient removal during conventional Summary wastewater treatment and indicated the need for regulation to control their emission since the steroid concentrations were found to be above the reported effect-based trigger values for biota. Overall, the study revealed reliable environmental data of poorly or even not analyzed steroids. The results complement the existing knowledge in this field but also providednew information which can beused particularly for compound prioritization in ecotoxicological research and environmental analysis. Based on the data obtained from the monitoring campaign, incubation experiments were conducted to enable the comparison of the biodegradability and transformation processes in activated sludge treatment for structure-related steroids under aerobic and standardized experimental conditions. The compounds were accurately selected to cover manifold structural moieties of commonly used glucocorticoids, including non-halogenated and halogenated steroids, their mono- and diesters, and several acetonide-type steroids. This approach allowed for a structure-based interpretation of the results. The obtained biodegradation rate constants suggested large variations in the biodegradability (half-lifes ranged from < 0.5 h to > 14 d). An increasing stability was identified in the order from non-halogenated steroids (e.g. hydrocortisone), over 9α-halogenated steroids (e.g. betamethasone), to C17-monoesters (e.g. betamethasone 17-valerate, clobetasol propionate), and finally to acetonides (e.g. triamcinolone acetonide), thus suggesting a strong relationship of the biodegradability with the glucocorticoid structure. Some explanations for this behavior have been received by identifying the transformation products (TPs) and elucidating individual transformation pathways. The results revealed the identification of the likelihood of transformation reactions depending on the chemical steroid structure for the first time. Among the identified TPs, the carboxylates (e.g. TPs of fluticasone propionate, triamcinolone acetonide) have been shown persistency in the subsequent incubation experiments. The newly identified TPs furthermore were frequently detected in the effluents of full-scale wastewater treatment plants. These findings emphasized i) the transferability of the lab-scale degradation experiments to real world and that ii) insufficient removals may cause adverse effects in the aquatic environment due to the ability of the precursor steroids and TPs to interact with the endocrine system in biota. For the last goal, the conceptual study for glucocorticoids was applied to progestogens. Here, two sub-types of the steroid family frequently used for hormonal contraception were selected (17α-hydroxyprogesterone and 19-norstestosterone type). The progestogens showed a fast and complete degradation within six hours, and thus empathizes pronounced biodegradability. However, cyproterone acetate and dienogest Summary have been found to be more recalcitrant in activated sludge treatment. This was consistent with their ubiquitously occurrence during the previous monitoring campaign. The elucidation of TPs again revealed some crucial information regarding the observed behavior and highlighted furthermore the formation of hazardous TPs. It was shown that 19-nortestosterone type steroids are able to undergo aromatization at ring A in contact with activated sludge, leading to the formation of estrogen-like TPs with a phenolic moiety at ring A. In the case of norethisterone the formation of 17α-ethinylestradiol was confirmed, which is a well-known potent synthetic estrogen with elevated ecotoxicological potency. Thus, the results indicated for the very first time an unknown source of estrogenic compounds, particularly for 17α-ethinylestradiol. In conclusion, some steroids were found to be very stable in activated sludge treatment, others degrade well, and others which do degrade but predominantly to active TPs depending on their chemical structure. Fluorinated acetal steroids such as triamcinolone acetonide and fluocinolone acetonide are poorly biodegradable, which is reflected in high concentrations detected ubiquitously in WWTP effluents. Endogenous steroids and their most related synthetic once such as hydrocortisone, prednisolone or 17α-hydroxyprogesterone are readily biodegradable. Regardless their high influent concentrations, they are almost completely removed in conventional WWTPs. Steroids between this range have been found to form elevated quantities of TPs which are partially still active, which particularly the case for betamethasone, fluticasone propionate, cyproterone acetate or dienogest. The thesis illustrates the need for an extensive evaluation of the environmental risks and carried out that corticosteroids and progestogens merit more attention in environmental regulatory and research than it is currently the case
Analyses of engineered nanoparticles and colloids at sediment water interfaces (2018)
Fabricius, Anne-Lena
Within aquatic environments sediment water interfaces (SWIs) are the most important areas concerning exchange processes between the water body and the sediment. These spatially restricted regions are characterized by steep biogeochemical gradients that determine the speciation and fate of natural or artificial substances. Apart from biological mediated processes (e.g., burrowing organisms, photosynthesis) the determining exchange processes are diffusion or a colloid-mediated transport. Hence, methods are required enabling to capture the fine scale structures at the boundary layer and to distinguish between the different transport pathways. Regarding emerging substances that will probably reach the aquatic environment engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) are of great concern due to their increased use in many products and applications. Since they are determined based on their size (<100 nm) they include a variety of different materials behaving differently in the environment. Once released, they will inevitable mix with naturally present colloids (< 1 μm) including natural nanomaterials. With regard to existing methodological gaps concerning the characterization of ENMs (as emerging substances) and the investigation of SWIs (as receiving environmental compartments), the aim of this thesis was to develop, validate and apply suitable analytical tools. The challenges were to i) develop methods that enable a high resolution and low-invasive sampling of sediment pore water. To ii) develop routine-suitable methods for the characterization of metal-based engineered nanoparticles and iii) to adopt and optimize size-fractionation approaches for pore water samples of sediment depth profiles to obtain size-related information on element distributions at SWIs. Within the first part, an available microprofiling system was combined with a novel micro sampling system equipped with newly developed sample filtration-probes. The system was thoroughly validated and applied to a freshwater sediment proving the applicability for an automatic sampling of sediment pore waters in parallel to microsensor measurements. Thereby, for the first time multi-element information for sediment depth profiles were obtained at a millimeter scale that could directly be related to simultaneously measured sediment parameters. Due to the expected release of ENMs to the environment the aim was to develop methods that enable the investigation of fate and transport of ENMs at sediment water interfaces. Since standardized approaches are still lacking, methods were developed for the determination of the total mass concentration and the determination of the dissolved fraction of (nano)particle suspensions. Thereby, validated, routine suitable methods were provided enabling for the first time a routine-suitable determination of these two, among the most important properties regarding the analyses of colloidal systems, also urgently needed as a basis for the development of appropriate (future) risk assessments and regulatory frameworks. Based on this methodological basis, approaches were developed enabling to distinguish between dissolved and colloidal fractions of sediment pore waters. This made it possible for the first time to obtain fraction related element information for sediment depth profiles at a millimeter scale, capturing the fine scale structures and distinguishing between diffusion and colloid-mediated transport. In addition to the research oriented parts of this thesis, questions concerning the regulation of ENPs in the case of a release into aquatic systems were addressed in a separate publication (included in the Appendix) discussing the topic against the background of the currently valid German water legislation and the actual state of the research.


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Der Zweipunkt-Eulenspinner (Ochropacha duplaris) ist ein Schmetterling aus der Familie der Eulenspinner und Sichelflügler (Drepanidae).

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Die Flügel sind grau und weisen auf dem Vorderflügel einen schwarzen namensgebenden Doppelpunkt auf. Ansonsten sieht der Falter bis auf seine kleine Größe dem Birken-Eulenspinner (Tetheella fluctuosa) recht ähnlich. Die gewellten Querbinden auf den Vorderflügeln sind stark verwaschen und nur schlecht zu erkennen.

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 Birken-Eulenspinner (Tetheella fluctuosa)

Vorkommen
Die Tiere sind in Mittel- und Nordeuropa und in Asien, östlich bis nach Japan anzutreffen. Neben feuchten Heidegebieten, Auwäldern sowie Feldgehölzen bevorzugen sie auch Waldlandschaften mit hoher Luftfeuchtigkeit und die Ufer von Fließgewässern.

Lebensweise

Flug- und Raupenzeiten
Die Falter fliegen in zwei Generationen von Mitte Mai bis Mitte Juli und von Ende Juli bis Mitte September. Die zweite Generation ist in einigen Gegenden unvollständig, oder fehlt gänzlich. Die Raupen aus den Eiern der ersten Generation findet man von August bis Oktober, die der zweiten von Juni bis Juli des darauffolgenden Jahres.

Nahrung der Raupen
Die Raupen ernähren sich von Birken (Betula), Erlen (Alnus) und Pappeln (Populus).

Entwicklung
Die Raupen leben zwischen miteinander versponnenen Blättern. Sie überwintern als Puppe.

Quellen

Einzelnachweise

Literatur
 Hans-Josef Weidemann, Jochen Köhler: Nachtfalter. Spinner und Schwärmer. Naturbuch-Verlag, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-89440-128-1.

Weblinks

 Lepiforum e. V. Taxonomie und Fotos
 Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (englisch)
 Guide to the moths of Great Britain and Ireland (englisch)

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Canadian Wonder Tales by Cyrus MacMillan
The Baker's Magic Wand
Star-Boy and the Sun Dance
Jack and His Magic Aids
The Bad Indian's Ashes
The Mermaid of the Magdalenes
The Boy and the Dancing Fairy
The Mouse and the Sun
Glooskap's Country
How Rabbit Lost His Tail
The Partridge and His Drum
How Summer Came to Canada
How Turtle Came
The First Mosquito
The Moon and His Frog-Wife
Glooskap and the Fairy
The Passing of Glooskap
The Indian Cinderella
The Boy and His Three Helpers
The Duck with Red Feet
The Northern Lights
The Boy and the Robbers' Magical Booty
The Coming of the Corn
The First Pig and Porcupine
The Shrove Tuesday Visitor
The Boy of Great Strength and the Giants
The Strange Tale of Caribou and Moose
Jack and His Wonderful Hen
The Sad Tale of Woodpecker and Bluejay
The Stupid Boy and the Wand
The Blackfoot and the Bear
The Boys and the Giant
W HEN Glooskap first created the animals in Canada, he took good care that they should all be friendly to himself and to his people. They could all talk like men, and like them they had one common speech. Each had a special duty to do for Glooskap, and each did his best to help him in his work. Of all the animals, the gentlest and most faithful was Bunny the Rabbit. Now, in those first days of his life, Rabbit was a very beautiful animal, more beautiful than he is to-day. He had a very long bushy tail like a fox; he always wore a thick brown coat; his body was large and round and sleek; his legs were straight and strong; he walked and ran like other animals and did not hop and jump about as he does now. He was always very polite and kind of heart. Because of his beauty and his good qualities, Glooskap chose him as his forest guide, his Scout of the Woods. He gave him power that enabled him to know well all the land, so that he could lead people and all the other animals wherever they wished to go without losing their way.
One day in the springtime it chanced that Bunny sat alone on a log in the forest, his long bushy tail trailing far behind him. He had just come back from a long scouting tour and he was very tired. As he sat resting in the sun, an Indian came along. The Indian was weary and stained with much travel, and he looked like a wayfarer who had come far. He threw himself on the ground close to the log on which Rabbit sat and began to weep bitterly. Bunny with his usual kindness asked, "Why do you weep?" And the man answered, "I have lost my way in the forest. I am on my way to marry this afternoon a beautiful girl whom her father pledged to me long ago. She is loved by a wicked forest Fairy and I have heard that perhaps she loves him. And I know that if I am late she will refuse to wait for me and that she will marry him instead." But Rabbit said: "Have no fear. I am Bunny, Glooskap's forest guide. I will show you the way and bring you to the wedding in good time." The man was comforted and his spirits rose, and they talked some time together and became good friends.
When the man had somewhat got back his strength, they began their journey to the wedding. But Rabbit, being nimble-footed, ran fast and was soon so far in advance of his companion that he was lost to view. The man followed slowly, catching here and there through the green trees a glimpse of his guide's brown coat. As he stumbled along, thinking of his troubles, he fell into a deep pit that lay close to the forest path. He was too weak to climb out, and he called loudly for help. Bunny soon missed his follower, but he heard the man's yells, and turning about, he ran back to the pit. "Have no fear," said Rabbit as he looked over the edge, "I will get you out without mishap." Then, turning his back to the pit, he let his long bushy tail hang to the bottom. "Catch hold of my tail," he ordered, "hold on tight and I will pull you out." The man did as he was told. Rabbit sprang forward, but as he jumped, the weight of the man, who was very heavy, was more than he could bear, and poor Bunny's tail broke off within an inch of the root. The man fell back into the pit with a thud, holding in his hand poor Rabbit's tail. But Bunny in all his work as a guide had never known defeat, and he determined not to know it now. Holding to a strong tree with his front feet, he put his hind legs into the pit and said to the man, "Take hold of my legs and hang on tight." The man did as he was told. Then Rabbit pulled and pulled until his hind legs stretched and he feared that they too would break off; but although the weight on them was great, he finally pulled the man out after great difficulty. He found to his dismay that his hind legs had lengthened greatly because of their heavy load. He was no longer able to walk straight, but he now had to hop along with a strange jumping gait. Even his body was much stretched, and his waist had become very slender because of his long heavy pull. The two travellers then went on their way, Bunny hopping along, and the man moving more cautiously.
Finally, they reached the end of their journey. The people were all gathered for the wedding, and eagerly awaiting the coming of the bridegroom. Sure enough, the forest Fairy was there, trying by his tricks to win the girl for himself. But the man was in good time, and he married the maiden as he had hoped. As he was very thankful to Bunny, he asked him to the marriage dance and told him he might dance with the bride. So Rabbit put rings on his heels and a bangle around his neck, after his usual custom at weddings, and joined the merry-makers. Through the forest green where they danced many tiny streams were flowing, and to the soft music of these the dance went on. As the bride jumped across one of these streams during her dance with Bunny, she accidentally let the end of her dress drop into the water so that it got very wet. When she moved again into the sun, her dress, because of its wetting, shrank and shrank until it reached her knees and made her much ashamed. But Rabbit's heart was touched as usual by her plight; he ran quickly and got a deer skin that he knew to be hidden in the trees not far away, and he wrapped the pretty skin around the bride. Then he twisted a cord with which to tie it on. He held one end of the cord in his teeth and twisted the other end with his front paws. But in his haste, he held it so tight and twisted it so hard that when a couple waltzing past carelessly bumped into him the cord split his upper lip right up to the nose. But Rabbit was not dismayed by his split lip. He fastened on the bride's new deer-skin gown, and then he danced all the evening until the moon was far up in the sky. Before he went away, the man and his bride wanted to pay him for his work, but he would not take payment. Then the bride gave him a new white fur coat and said, "In winter wear this white coat; it is the colour of snow; your enemies cannot then see you so plainly against the white ground, and they cannot so easily do you harm; but in summer wear your old brown coat, the colour of the leaves and grass." And Bunny gratefully took the coat and went his way.
the people were all gathered for the wedding.
He lingered many days in the new country, for he was ashamed to go back to his own people with his changed appearance. His lip was split; his tail was gone, and his hind legs were stretched and crooked. Finally, he mustered up his courage and returned home. His old friends wondered much at his changed looks, and some of them were cruel enough to laugh at him. But Bunny deceived them all. When they asked him where he had been so long, he answered, "I guided a man to a far-off land which you have never seen and of which you have never heard." Then he told them many strange tales of its beauty and its good people.
"How did you lose your fine tail?" they asked. And he answered, "In the land to which I have been, the animals wear no tails. It is an aristocratic country, and wishing to be in the fashion, I cut mine off."
"And why is your waist so slender?" they asked. "Oh," replied Bunny, "in that country it is not the fashion to be fat, and I took great trouble to make my waist slight and willowy." "Why do you hop about," they asked, "when you once walked so straight?" "In that land," answered Bunny, "it is not genteel to walk straight; only the vulgar and untrained do that. The best people have a walk of their own, and it took me many days under a good walking-teacher to learn it."
"But how did you split your upper lip?" they asked finally. "In the land to which I have been," said Bunny, "the people do not eat as we do. There they eat with knives and forks and not with their paws. I found it hard to get used to their new ways. One day I put food into my mouth with my knife—a very vulgar act in that land—and my knife slipped and cut my lip, and the wound has never healed."
And being deceived and envying Bunny because of the wonders he had seen, they asked him no more questions. But the descendants of Rabbit to this day wear a white coat in winter and a brown one in summer. They have also a split upper lip; their waist is still very slender; they have no tail; their hind legs are longer than their front ones; they hop and jump nimbly about, but they are unable to walk straight. And all these strange things are a result of old Bunny's accident at the man's wedding long ago.
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