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What is Green Burial?
Green burials and natural burials are a relatively "new" practice based on techniques used by some cultures for thousands of years.
Green burial generally means that the body, which is not embalmed, is buried in an eco-friendly casket or shroud at a green cemetery or burial ground. This allows the deceased's body to return to the earth as quickly as possible through the most natural process.
Green Burial Is Available in Every State
Do you need to know the laws regarding green burial in your state? We have compiled the state laws for funerals as a resource for you. Click here to view.
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Find the Best Green Burial Professionals
Our Providers & Cemeteries page is an excellent tool to find funeral professionals near you. Cemeteries on this map are all green cemeteries, preservation cemeteries, or have a section dedicated to green/natural burials. Funeral homes on this map are certified AGF Providers and offer biodegradable urns and eco-friendly caskets.
A green burial may take place in a conventional modern cemetery or in a green cemetery or natural burial ground that uses eco-friendly methods. In a green burial, graves are dug by hand and concrete vaults or grave liners are not used. Learn more about green cemeteries or find one near you.
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Grave Marking
The practice of marking graves is an important part of remembering the dead and dealing with loss. The way in which you mark a grave can be a greener choice as well. Natural cemeteries often plant trees or shrubs in place of headstones, tablets and other common markers. Planting local flora on or near the grave creates a living memorial and helps create habitat for wildlife. Some cemeteries now offer geocoding to help find your or your loved one's final resting place.
In a conventional cemetery, choose the minimum size of headstone allowed. Try to find a local monument builder who uses indigenous rather than imported stone, thereby reducing the carbon footprint of production and transportation.
Full Body Sea Burial
For centuries the burial of the deceased at sea has been common in many cultures. This method of final disposition is popular among those that have spent much of their lives at sea. Depending on how this is carried out, it can be a greener form of burial.
There are several companies that will conduct a full-body burial at sea. Some of them have their own proprietary shrouds in which the un-embalmed body is placed before being laid to rest at sea.
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Greener Choices in a Conventional Cemetery
Even in a conventional cemetery you can still choose a greener burial. Use a green casket or a shroud. If possible, decline the use of a concrete vault or liner. Vaults and liners are designed to prevent the ground from sinking in when the casket and body decompose. This makes it easier to maintain the manicured, level lawns we associate with modern memorial parks, but it wastes a lot of resources.
Many conventional cemeteries require either a vault or grave liner, but this practice may change if more people reject it. A greener option is a liner with no bottom, which allows the body or casket to rest in the earth. There are also conventional cemeteries that are beginning to allow vault-less burial anywhere in the cemetery.
If this option is available, there are often additional charges to prepare the grave prior to burial and to maintain it after burial. These charges can equal or exceed the costs of a vault or liner.
What About Embalming?
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Can Embalming be Green?
For those who choose embalming, there are now several formaldehyde-free, biodegradable embalming fluids, usually made from essential oils, that will adequately preserve the body for up to several weeks. Dry ice is another option, often used when transporting a body. Green embalming is not only healthier for the Earth, but also for the funeral home employees preparing the body. Most green funeral providers will have green embalming options. The sanitation and preservation of a body can almost always take place without the use of chemicals, as is done in most nations in the world.
Should You Embalm?
Choosing not to embalm is a significant way to have a greener funeral.
Embalming is not known to have any environmental or health benefits and is only rarely required by law, such as in some instances of interstate transport of the remains or following death by infectious disease.
Contrary to popular belief, an unembalmed body will not spread disease in the surrounding environment, according to the Center for Disease Control. Also, embalming fluids are generally formaldehyde-based. Formaldehyde is a chemical commonly used in many preservative materials and construction materials such as particleboard, and while it is a naturally occurring chemical, which readily biodegrades in the ground and in the air, it is also recognized as a carcinogen by the EPA, and is known to cause adverse health effects over long periods of exposure.
A study by the National Cancer Institute released in late 2009 revealed that funeral directors have a much higher incidence of myeloid leukemia.
Alternative, more eco-friendly methods of preserving a body are available, read the next tab to learn more.
History of Embalming
Embalming, a relatively new practice in America, became common during the Civil War when it was used to preserve the bodies of dead soldiers so that they could be buried at homes far from the battlefield. The practice became well-known when President Abraham Lincoln's body was embalmed for its formal trip from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, Illinois for burial.
Embalming has become such a common part of American funerals that many people assume that it is required by law. However, no state or province in North America automatically demands the embalming of bodies. When preservation of the body is specified by state ordinance, refrigeration, chilling or dry ice can often be substituted for embalming. Special circumstances such as an extended time between death and burial, and transportation of remains on commercial airline flights may necessitate embalming. Some religions, notably Judaism and Islam, do not allow embalming.
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When Tim first came to Refuge of Hope, he was homeless, hungry, and depressed. He was struggling with drug and alcohol addiction and looking for someone to blame for his problems.
A family member encouraged Tim to come to Refuge of Hope, and though he was familiar with it, he had no idea what the Mission could offer.
"I thought it was just going to be a bunch of drunks," he smiles. "I didn't want to be in that situation, but that was far from the truth!" While Tim was here, he committed his life to Christ and volunteered as a Resident Assistant in our men's shelter. He got his life back on track, and the training and preparation he received helped prepare him for the future.
Will you help more of our guests get their lives back on track this month?
home, and rely on Jesus as they move from homelessness to independence.
And as more and more people turn to us for help. I'm reaching out to you with a challenge. This spring, a group of faithful ministry partners offered a $36,450 Leadership Challenge Gift to Refuge of Hope! Their goal was to challenge the rest of our partners –- including you! -– to meet or exceed their $36,450 gift. This gift will be used to provide meals, offer shelter, and give hurting people in Stark County the care they need to find strength, hope, and healing.
Today, Tim is doing well. He used his experience as a Resident Assistant to land a position at a half-way house in the area, and he sent many of his clients to Refuge of Hope to volunteer during the day.
"[These men] can be part of the ministry that showed me how to change my life," Tim smiles. "They hear the gospel and are treated with love and respect.
"As a former resident, I want everyone to know how much the donors did to provide for me at a time when I felt hopeless and forgotten.
Tim is indeed a changed man. In fact, he recently joined our staff, and now he's helping men transform their lives just like he did.


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The founder of Overton's, the world's largest distributor of water sports products and boating accessories. He also has been a tournament organizer and private ski site builder. His site in Greenville N.C., has hosted the Southern Region Water Ski Championship, the U.S. Open Water Ski Championship and a pro tour stop. He has been a major sponsor of the Masters, U.S. Open, Junior Development programs and the USA Water Ski. He has served as a trustee with the American Water Ski Educational Foundation since 1982.
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THE Hall Family once again proved one of the toughest on the martial arts circuit when they came away with a host of medals from a recent tournament.
Chief Instructors Mr & Mrs Hall competed along with their children Lachlan and Bella, and their assistant instructor Dan Sneddon recently took part in the ITC Open.
Sneddon had a particularly tough category but earned himself a gold medal.
For Lachlan and Bella this was their first open tournament. Both showed great spirit in their categories.
Lachlan unfortunately just missed out on a medal, while Bella earned a silver in her category.
Mr Hall fought his was to a gold in his sparring category whilst also achieving a gold in patterns.
Mrs Hall entered as her first attempt in destruction (board breaking) and took the gold place, whilst also earning a gold and silver in her sparring categories.
The Hall family said: "People do not always think of martial arts as a family activity, however it couldn't be more so.
"The tenets in the foundations of taekwondo (courtesy, integrity, perseverance, self control, and indomitable spirit) fully support a true family ethos.
"Martial arts can start children on a good grounded spirit and can increase their confidence and independence along with it.
"Family classes are available with Hall Family at Hereford Academy (Tuesday 6pm) and the Point4 (Friday 6.30pm).
For further information please contact Mr and Mrs Hall by emailing: info@halltkd.co.uk.


Summary: General information about the use of fish oil supplements as a treatment for arthritis. It includes information about who may benefit from taking fish oils, how much to take and where to find more information.
Summary: This sheet provides general information about glucosamine and chondroitin for people with arthritis, including information about the effectiveness of these supplements, current research and the possible risks.
Summary: Methotrexate is a medicine used to treat certain childhood rheumatic conditions, including juvenile arthritis (JIA), lupus (also known as SLE), uveitis, dermatomyositis and scleroderma. Methotrexate is a disease modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) that reduces damage from inflammation.
Summary: General information on osteoarthritis, its affects, how it can be managed, and where to find further information and advice. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a condition that affects the whole joint including bone, cartilage, ligaments and muscles.
Summary: Paracetamol is a common pain killer (analgesic). This information sheet has been produced by the Australian Rheumatology Association to help you understand what Paracetamol is and how it is used for relief of arthritis pain.
Summary: General information about rheumatoid arthritis (RA) which is an autoimmune disease that causes pain and swelling of the joints. It includes information on symptoms, diagnosis and why early treatment with a rheumatologist is important. This sheet also covers what can be done to manage rheumatoid arthritis and where to go for further information.
Summary: This brochure provides easily understandable information for patients undergoing total Knee replacement surgery. It contains an explanation of what will happen before, during and after their hospital admission and explains the various roles of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals, involved in their care. By providing this information to patients undergoing this surgery, as well as to their families, we hope to optimise post operative outcomes and facilitate a safe and timely discharge.
Summary: Bilingual resource explaining what Parkinson's Disease is and how it affects people as their brain levels of Dopamine decrease. Information on support services that are available for people with Parkinson's, their families, friends and carers.


NNSA and partners launch project to reduce use of radioactive source-based devices in New York City, October 12, 2017 or PDF.
Recovering Radioactive Nuclear Sources, Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News, Federation of American Scientists, December 21, 2017 or PDF.
LANL makes first shipment to WIPP, Wednesday November 22, 2017, Los Alamos Monitor, or PDF.
Environment Ministry Holds Seminar on Strengthening Nuclear Energy and Radiation Regulations; Gibbs, Gina; October 31, 2017; Bahamas Information Services or PDF.
Cradle-to-Grave Control in New Caribbean IAEA Member States, Tuesday 25 April 2017, Kirsten Virginia Glenn, IAEA Department of Technical Cooperation or PDF.


Press Release | BARCELONA | SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) announced an expansion of SAP Leonardo Machine Learning capabilities based on its upgraded SAP Conversational AI service that will enable major companies to build increasingly sophisticated corporate chat bots easily. SAP also announced an investment in intelligent robotic process automation (RPA) that is intended to help SAP automate repetitive processes across its portfolio. Further, SAP plans to release smart application design capabilities in the SAP Analytics Cloud solution and has added new partner content in the business content library.
This announcement was made at the SAP TechEd conference taking place October 23–25, 2018, in Barcelona.
With the kickoff its enterprise-grade offer, SAP Conversational AI becomes a fast and high-performing bot building service. Corporations can now roll out powerful customer support bots to drastically boost their productivity in days. The release, available at the end of October, is supported by the launch of five features. For more information, click here.
To increase business efficiency and reduce costly, manual, repetitive work, SAP will expand its ML portfolio with intelligent robotic process automation — the combination of robotic process automation, machine learning and conversational AI in one end-to-end automation stack. Planned availability for the first product is in early 2019, starting with a robot infrastructure for SAP S/4HANA designed to automatically click through a workflow with multiple steps and applications while learning from and dealing with exceptions.
Building on recent machine learning innovations for business users in SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP aims to enable developers and professional designers to build analytic applications that integrate a rich set of capabilities to meet sophisticated business requirements, with a planned availability for the fourth quarter of 2018. With a dedicated development environment, application design capabilities in SAP Analytics Cloud are intended to offer advanced scripting, standardization of analytics content, and analytic extensions through software development kits and application programming interfaces. Professional design of centrally governable analytic content is planned to range from dashboards using guided analytics to sophisticated planning and smart applications using machine learning. In addition, new partner content is available in the business content library of SAP Analytics Cloud.


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Q: SAS aggregate rows computation I'm a beginner user of SAS especially when it comes to aggregate rows computation.
Here is a question which I believe some of you may have encountered before.
The data I have is related to insurance policies, here is an example dataset: columns from left to right are customer number, policy number, policy status, policy start date and policy cancel date (if the policy is not active, otherwise is a missing value).
data have;
    informat cust_id 8. pol_num $10. status $10. start_date can_date DDMMYY10.;
    input cust_id pol_num status start_date can_date;
    format start_date can_date date9.;
    datalines;
    110 P110001 Cancelled 04/12/2004 10/10/2013
    110 P110002 Active 01/03/2005 .
    123 P123001 Cancelled 21/07/1998 23/04/2013
    123 P123003 Cancelled 22/10/1987 01/11/2011
    133 P133001 Active 19/02/2001 .
    133 P133001 Active 20/02/2002 .
    ;
run;

Basically I want to roll these policy level information to customer level, if a customer holds at least one active policy, then his status would be 'Active', otherwise if all his policies are Cancelled, then his status becomes 'Inactive'. I also need a customer "start date" which picks up the earliest policy start date under that customer. If the customer is 'Inactive', then I need the customer's latest policy cancel date as the customer's exit date.
Below is the what I needed:
data want;
    informat cust_id 8. status $10. start_date exit_date DDMMYY10.;
    input cust_id status start_date exit_date;
    format start_date exit_date date9.;
    datalines;
    110 Active 01/03/2005 .
    123 Inactive 22/10/1987 23/04/2013
    133 Active 19/02/2001 .
    ;
run;

Solution in any form would be much appreciated! Either DATA step or PROC SQL is fine.
Thank you so much.

A: You can do something like that:
proc sql;
create table want as
select cust_id,
       case when count(case when status='Active' then 1 end) > 0
            then 'Active'
            else 'Inactive'
            end as status,
       min(start_date) as start_date,
       case when count(case when status='Active' then 1 end) = 0
            then max(can_date)
            end as exit_date
from have
group by cust_id;
quit;

A: You could attack the question in a DATA step. Here's one simple way, assuming your data are sorted by cust_id and start_date...
data want;
set have (keep=cust_id status start_date exit_date);

where upcase(status) contains 'ACTIVE';
by cust_id start_date;

  if first.start_date then output;
else delete;

run;

/*BEGINNER NOTES*/

*1] WHERE tells SAS to compile only records that fit a certain
    condition - the DS 'want' will never have any observations with
    'CANCELLED' in the status variable;

*2] I use UPCASE() to standardize the contents of status, as CONTAINS
    is a case-sensitive operator;

*3] FIRST.variable = 1 if the value is the first encountered in
    the compile phase;

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Dumplings: just the word alone is enough to make your mouth suddenly fill with saliva. These bouncy little soup-filled balloons of mouth joy are the stuff of full-frontal food addiction – once you go bao, you don't go back.
Newtown is now privy to a constant stream of freshly-handmade dumplings, thanks to the arrival of Dumpling Hut – a new kid on the block, but a dab hand at crafting those meat-and-broth-pillows, boasting more than 20 years of dumpling-making experience in the authentic Shanghai style.
Filled with succulent pork, every single xiao long bao is handmade, and the meat inside is weighed to ensure consistency in taste and size. The crew here knows that to have decent xiao long bao, the skin-broth-meat ratio has to be on point – something they take seriously.
Check out their full range of juicy dumplings for yourself.


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Orange City Council to Consider Chapman University's $6.5 Million Bid for Vacant Parcel Next to 5 Freeway
OC Indy / December 12, 2016
Courtesy of Google Maps
Chapman University wants to buy about two acres (shaded yellow) adjacent to the 5 Freeway and its Panther Village (shaded blue).
The Orange City Council on Tuesday will consider selling Chapman University about two acres adjacent to the 5 Freeway at Chapman Avenue for $6.5 million, a deal that would pave the way for a high-rise student dormitory building that could alleviate the University's housing shortage.
The property is landlocked by Chapman's Panther Village, Park Royale Mobile Home Park and the Irvine Co.'s Gateway Apartment Homes.
Harold Hewitt, Chapman's executive vice president and chief operating officer, discussed potential uses for the property at the October meeting of the Neighborhood Advisory Committee (NAC). The University created the NAC last year to solicit advice from a hand-picked group of community leaders on its plan to grow over the next decade.
"It's possible that the University would build a high-density structure on that property and then replace the former low-rise hotel that now houses Panther Village with a similar structure," Hewitt said, according to the NAC's minutes.
During a recent interview with The Foothills Sentry, Chapman President Emeritus Jim Doti recently said the University's architects for this project would not be bound by the height restrictions of Old Towne Orange.
"If we were able to acquire that land and get the go ahead we could finish that in two years," Doti said.
Chapman's goal is to house 50 percent of its undergraduate population in on-campus in five to six years, according to NAC minutes. The Old Towne Preservation Association is pushing for university officials to increase that percentage to at least 65 percent if not more.
The 2.58-acre parcel was obtained by the CalTrans for a freeway expansion project. When the project was completed in the late 1990s, CalTrans designated the property as surplus and the Orange Redevelopment Agency purchased it for a future water well site.
City officials determined that only .44 acres will be needed for the well, leaving the remaining 2.14 acres available for sale and development. The property's base appraisal was for $6 million but noted that its value could be reduced to $2.4 million because the project has no direct access from a public roadway, according to a staff report.
Orange plans to use about $3.5 million from the property's sale to build the proposed water well.
December 12, 2016 in Orange.
Orange Accepts $6.5 Million Bid From Chapman for Land Next to 5 Freeway, University Plans For Additional Dorms
Orange City Council Candidates Stake Their Positions on Chapman Specific Plan
Chapman Wants to Add 1,800 Students at Orange Campus Over Next Decade
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Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East. David Kirkpatrick, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
From 2011 to 2015, David Kirkpatrick was the New York Times Cairo bureau chief. His book, Into the Hands of the Soldiers, gives a first-hand account of the failure of democracy to take root in Egypt and the region. Kirkpatrick meticulously chronicles Mubarak's downfall and the coup that ousted Mohamed Morsi – Egypt's first freely elected leader and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood – barely a year after he took office in 2012.
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria. Rania Abouzeid, WW Norton, London, 2018.
Early massacres and regime-condoned sexual attacks against women have been cited as reasons that changed a people's nonviolent movement into a proxy sectarian war. Murkier still are the mechanics of violence – the nuts and bolts of gunrunning, militia financing and the rise and fall of armed groups. In No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria, reporter Rania Abouzeid draws on long-term relationships she cultivated with opposition sources from in Northern Syria, from 2011 to 2016, to show how rapidly a co-opted revolution militarised.
Read full review by Malu Halasa on London School of Economics.
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom. Norman Finkelstein, University of California Press, 2018.
The smugly racist [Lord] Curzon blamed it on the "fanaticism and turbulence" that "ferment in the blood" of the Pashtun. The neocolonialists of today cannot explain things away so easily. As Steve Coll documents in Directorate S, the current war has for ever altered the fates of all three countries involved – the US, Afghanistan and Pakistan – and, after 15 years, there is no end to the "trouble" in sight.
The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran. Masih Alinejad and Kambiz Foroohar, Virago, 2018.


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<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Bezier Curve/Spline Testing</title>

Play around with control points and see what the minimum curve radius is.

Inspired partly by this video by Freya Holmér. If you want to know the
mathematics behind all this, watch that video; even if you don't, do yourself a favour and watch the opening minute - it is incredibly
beautiful, and an amazing showcase of what Bézier curves can do.

See Rail-Ways for the updated version of this project.

TODO

Spline building with multiple Bézier curves. Does putting [last ctrl, endpoint, first ctrl] on a straight line
ensure that the transition is smooth, or do they also have to be equidistant?

Importing of points, esp the endpoints

Exporting of results

<canvas width=800 height=600>
I guess you can't see my canvas?
</canvas>

<button type=button id=toggle_animation>Animate</button>

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Jörg Jarnut é um historiador alemão, autor de diversas pesquisas sobre a Idade Média, em particular sobre os lombardos.  É um estudioso das instituições e da sociedade das invasões bárbaras e da Alta Idade Média. É docente de História Medieval na Universidade de Paderborn.

Publicações

Na Itália
Bergamo 568-1098.
Bergamo 568-1098. Storia istituzionale, sociale ed economica di una città lombarda nell'Alto Medioevo, Bergamo, Archivio Bergamasco, 1980. ISBN   MIL0010412
L'evoluzione delle città italiane nell'XI secolo (con R. Bordone; Bologna 1988)
Storia dei Longobardi, Torino, Einaudi, 2002. ISBN 8846440854

Na Alemanha
 Prosopographische und sozialgeschichtliche Studien zum Langobardenreich in Italien (568–774), Bonn 1972, ISBN 3-7928-0312-7.
 Agilolfingerstudien: Untersuchung zur Geschichte einer adligen Familie im 6. und 7. Jh. Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-7772-8613-3.

Bibliografia

Professores da Universidade de Paderborn
Medievalistas
Historiadores da Alemanha

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Jessica Nicholson • January 22, 2013
BB Gun Press has signed The Band Perry for independent publicity representation, working with Splash! PR on the trio's upcoming project. Brian Bumbery heads the Los Angeles based company which reps Green Day, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers and more.
Nashville art gallery The Rymer Gallery will present "Beyond Words," a collection by legendary songwriter and lyricist Bernie Taupin beginning March 30. Taupin will make special appearances April 6 and 7. Details at www.therymergallery.com.
Vector Management's Jon Romero is among those selected for the Nashville Emerging Leaders 2013 class. The 11-week program begins in February.
South By Southwest will welcome Clive Davis as a speaker this year on Thursday, March 14 from 2 p.m.–3 p.m. Davis is currently Chief Creative Officer for Sony Music Entertainment. He has been closely involved with a large list of notable artists through his tenures at Columbia, Arista and J Records. From early signings Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, Billy Joel and Earth, Wind & Fire, to Patti Smith, The Grateful Dead, and Santana, to Whitney Houston, Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson among many others, Davis has made a profound impact on popular culture.
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It's only been a few days since we first laid eyes on that newly introduced ASUS ViVoPC, but the Taiwanese company kept details short back at Computex, leaving us with the desire to learn a little more about the device. The good news is ASUS has just posted a spec sheet on its website, which lets us (and you) know that its mini PCwill have a number of customizable options. Aside from being 802.11ac- and Windows 8-ready, the diminutive ViVoPC can be loaded with an Intel processor (presumably a shiny new Haswell), a maximum of 16GB RAM and your preference of either a HDD or SSD. There are also two USB 3.0 and four USB 2.0 ports, HDMI, VGA, Ethernet and integrated speakers, which ASUS is dubbing SonicMaster. Mum's the word on pricing and availability, but we'll let you know as soon as we come across those specifics.


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I would love to see this one as our next free design..... or back on special again. I love it and missed it the first time it was on special pricing.
Thank you for fixng the purple heart font. love it!!!!!!!!!
I down loaded the Purple Heart fonts, thanks for the fix to the 404 message. I am excited to use them, they are beautiful.
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You are a group of urban explorers, always looking for somewhere new to explore. Your friends have invited you to scout out a hotel that is scheduled for demolition within the week - the Hotel Haligonian. What treasures could remain inside?
"Awesome escape rooms! We escaped from The Elevator with only a few minutes to spare! The room was well thought out and there were no clues that seemed unfair. Staff was extremely friendly and happy to have us there. Will definitely return for another escape during the winter holidays."
"It was an amazingly good time! The Elevator challenge was difficult and we almost finished."


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Intelligent Whale is an experimental hand-cranked submarine developed for potential use by the United States Navy in the 1860s.

History
Intelligent Whale was built on the design of Scovel Sturgis Merriam in 1863 by Augustus Price and Cornelius Scranton Bushnell. In 1864 the American Submarine Company was formed, taking over the interests of Bushnell and Price and there followed years of litigation over the ownership of the craft. Intelligent Whale was completed and launched in 1866.  When title was established by a court the submarine was sold on 29 October 1869 through a contract made by owner Oliver Halstead and Secretary of the Navy George M. Robeson to the United States Navy Department, with most of the price to be paid after successful trials. In September 1872 the first trial was held and was unsuccessful, whereupon the Department refused further payments and abandoned the project.

Intelligent Whale submerged by filling water compartments, and expelled the water by pumps and compressed air. It was estimated that it could stay submerged for about ten hours. Thirteen crewmen could be accommodated, but only six were needed to make her operational. The only known trial, reported by submarine pioneer John Philip Holland, was made by a certain General Sweeney and two others. They submerged the boat in 16 feet of water and Sweeney, clad in a diver's suit, emerged through a hole in the bottom, placed a charge under a scow, and reentered the submarine. The charge was exploded by a lanyard and a friction primer attached to the charge, sinking the scow.

Following the failed trial in 1872, Intelligent Whale was put on display at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and remained there until 1968 when she was moved to the Washington Navy Yard where she remained until being relocated to the National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey in Sea Girt, New Jersey, where she is currently on display.

The U.S. Navy did not accept a submarine for service until the USS Holland was commissioned in 1900.

See also
Turtle (submersible)
Nautilus (1800 submarine)
CSS H.L. Hunley
CSS David
USS Alligator (1862)
Plunger (1897)
USS Holland (SS-1)
Fenian Ram

Sources
 HNSA Web Page: USS Intelligent Whale

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William A. Burwell to Thomas Jefferson, 6 January 1820
From William A. Burwell
Washington January 6 1820
I have obtaind a Copy from the Treasury of the prices paid in London for Instruments and enclose it for your examination—Mr Crawford informs me that Mr Jackson procured in Paris Instruments of the best construction for the University of Georgia at prices far below the Cost paid by Hassler; he has written to Georgia for a Copy of prices—as soon as I can obtain an answer I will enclose it—I have applied to know, whether the Government is disposed to Sell their Instruments, without receiving a definitive reply. I hope to obtain one, in time to accompany the Copy furnishd by Mr Jackson—
Accept for yourself & family my best wishes.
W. A Burwell
RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received 9 Jan. 1820 and so recorded in SJL.
The enclosed list of prices paid in london for instruments was printed in Message from the President of the United States transmitting a Report of Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the Measures which have been Taken to Complete an Accurate Survey of the Coast of the United States (Washington, 1816).
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As most of us know, Disney's Moana was the new hit movie. I myself maybe watched the film 10 or more times. When I found out that the viewing and panel discussion of Disney's Moana in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi was going to be at the Hawaii International Film Festival, I knew I had to go. I loved the original film of Moana so I was extremely interested when they announced they were remaking the film in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.
I was so excited to attend the panel discussion about Disney's Moana in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi at the Hawaii International Film Festival. The panel featured many people such as, Dr. Puakea Nogelmeier, the voice of character Gramma Tala, Kalehua Kawa'a and the script translator, Kamuela Yim. The panel consisted of Q&A sections and some brief clips of the movie. The brief showings of the film was featured completely in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.
I thought the discussion provided a lot of information to the audience. They spoke about all of their encounters and how they went about transitioning the film. They also discussed many challenges that they faced during the transition of English to ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi. Many English phrases are different in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi so they had to use similar phrases in Hawaiian with the same meanings. Throughout the screening of clips, they also provided English subtitles.
This is the first time Disney has recreated a film in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi and it makes Moana the 46th language it has been translated into.
The translators were very proud with their work. I think it is amazing that Disney recognized Hawaii and gave the people a movie in their native language. They plan on distributing the film for educational reasons and hope it can expand from there. I commend the translators and everyone who worked on making this possible.


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Q: The product $\prod_{m=1}^{11} (x^m - m)$ What would be the co-efficient of  $x^{60}$  in the expansion of $\space$  $\prod_{m=1}^{11} (x^m - m)$ ?

A: HINT: Imagine multiplying out that product without collecting like terms. Each uncollected term has the form $$u_1u_2u_3\dots u_{11}\;,\tag{1}$$
where $u_k$ is either $x^k$ or $-k$. Let $S=\{k:u_k=x^k\}$; then the term $(1)$ is an $x^{60}$ term iff $\sum S=60$, and its coefficient is the product of the $-k$ for $k\notin S$.
Now $\sum_{k=1}^{11}k=\frac{11\cdot12}2=66$, so there aren't really very many subsets of $\{1,\dots,11\}$ whose sum is $60$; just find all of them, calculate the corresponding terms of type $(1)$, and add them.

A: The product $\space$  $\prod_{m=1}^{11} (x^m - m)$  is
$$x^{66}-x^{65}-2x^{64}-x^{63}-x^{62}+5x^{61}+x^{60}+13x^{59}+4x^{58}+...$$
so the coefficient of $x^{60}$ is $1$. There may be a clever way to arrive at this, but since the coefficients seem to be a bit erratic, it seems perhaps it's just a coincidence that it comes out 1, due to some cancellations.

A: Note that $(a + b)(c + d) = ac + ad + bc + bd$. Each term in the expansion is the product of one of the two summands in the first bracket and one of the two summands in the second bracket (and every such product appears in the expansion). This is also true when more factors are included i.e. $(a + b)(c + d)(e + f)$, etc.
In the expansion of $\prod_{m=1}^{11}(x^m - m)$, before collecting like terms, each term in the expansion is the product of one of the two summands from each bracket. Which means we need to determine what possible choices could be made to come up with an $x^{60}$ term. As $x^a.x^b = x^{a+b}$ we are looking for all possible products $x^{a_1}\dots x^{a_n}$ with $a_1, \dots, a_n \in \{1, \dots, 11\}$, $a_i \neq a_j$ for $i\neq j$ and $a_1 + \dots + a_n = 60$. That is, we need to determine the ways to obtain $60$ as a sum using each of the numbers $1, \dots, 11$ at most once. As $1 + \dots + 11 = 66$, it isn't too hard to write out all the possible ways to obtain $60$ in this way.
One example is $1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 +11 = 60$. Then in the expansion of the product, this decomposition of $60$ corresponds to the term which is obtained as the product of $x^1$ (from the first bracket), $x^2$ (from the second bracket), $\dots$, $x^5$ (from the fifth bracket), $-6$ (from the sixth bracket), $x^7$ (from the seventh bracket), $\dots$, $x^{10}$ (from the tenth bracket), and $x^{11}$ (from the eleventh bracket). This is the term
$$x^1.x^2.x^3.x^4.x^5.(-6).x^7.x^8.x^9.x^{10}.x^{11} = -6x^{60}.$$
If you can figure out all the decompositions of $60$ as outlined above, and then calculate the corresponding element of the expansion of $\prod_{m=1}^{11}(x^m - m)$, you will obtain (not many) $x^{60}$ terms. Adding them up will give you the $x^{60}$ term in the final expansion at which point you will be able to read off the desired coefficient.

You can actually take a short cut. It is equivalent (convince yourself why) to find all possible ways to write $6$ as a sum using the numbers $1, \dots, 6$ at most once, and then for each sum $a_1 + \dots + a_k$, calculate $(-1)^ka_1\dots a_k$. Adding up the resulting numbers for each decomposition gives you the desired coefficient.

A: The degree of the given polynomial is , $1+2+...+11=66$ . $66-60=6$ . We have to consider polynomials of degree $6$ ; $x^6-6$ , $(x^2-2)(x^4-4)$ , $(x-1)(x^5-5)$ , $(x-1)(x^2-2)(x^3-3)$ .
The coefficient of $x^{60}$ is the sum of the constant terms  i.e., without  $x$ , terms in these $4$ polynomials, that is $\space$ $-6+8+5-6=1$
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Termecsü – vagy Tarmacsu, Termacsu, Tormás – (középgörög nyelven Termadzusz, Tερματζους) Teveli fia, Tarkacsu unokája, Árpád fejedelem dédunokája volt. 948 körül ő képviselte a fejedelmi dinasztiát a Bulcsú harka vezetésével Bizáncba látogató küldöttségben. Valószínűleg az ő információi alapján írta VII. Konstantin császár A birodalom kormányzásáról írt művének magyarokról szóló részét.
Valószínűleg ekkor Konstantinápolyban megkeresztelkedett, és a császártól megkapta a "barát" címet, ami az idegen fejedelmeknek adható harmadik legmagasabb cím volt.

Györffy György szerint a 955-ös augsburgi vereséget Árpád utódainak négy ága közül csak kettő élte túl sértetlenül, Zolta fia Taksonyé és Tarhacsi unokája Termacsué. Jutocsa fia Falicsié és Jelek unokája Lélé – amely ágak ott voltak a Lech-mezőn – katonailag meggyengülve kiszorultak a hatalomból.
Hóman és Györffy szerint ezért valószínű, hogy Koppány Tarhacsi ágához tartozott és apja – Tar Zerind – Termacsu öccse volt.

Szállásai – Tormás néven azonosíthatók – Baranyában és Tolnában voltak.
A Tarkacsu–Teveli–Termecsü ág szállásai – Tarhos–Tevel–Tormás és hasonló helynevek – különösen sűrűsödtek a későbbi Tolna vármegye területén, annak mintegy nemzetségi előzményét alkották a vármegyerendszer megszervezésekor.

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Q: Limits and Inequalities My book claims the following: Let $f$ be a continuous function. $\lim s_n = x_0$ and since $f(s_n) < y$ for all $n$, we have $f(x_0) = \lim f(s_n) \leq y$. Can someone explain why the last inequality is $\leq$ and not just $<$?
I feel like I am missing something very obvious.

A: You have $f(s_n) \in \{x \mid f(x)<y \}$, so $f(x_0)= \lim f(s_n)$ is in the closure of $\{x \mid f(x)<y \}$ which is precisely $\{x \mid f(x) \leq y\}$ (I assumed $f$ continuous).

A: Simple example: If $s_n=-\frac1n$ and $f(x)=x$ then $f(s_n)<0$ for all $n$ but $f(x_0)=0$ (as of course $\lim s_n=0$)

A: If $f(x) = -\dfrac1x$, then $f(x) < 0$ for all (positive) $x$, but $\lim_{x\to\infty} f(x) = 0$.


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Amid recent questions over the safety of Inferior Vena Cava blood clot filters, two new reports warn of their immanent dangers and a federal judicial panel has disclosed a surge in lawsuits filed by injured patients.
Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) filters are tiny, metal vein implants that catch blood clots before they reach the heart or lungs. They are generally used in emergencies or for those who can't take blood thinners. Each year, they are used in around 250,000 patients.
In 2010 and 2015, the FDA warned of higher-than-normal side effects from IVC filters, as well as reports that top manufacturers were misrepresenting the dangers. Studies have also suggested that as many as 43% of these IVC filters may fail.
If the metal arms of an IVC filter fail, they can tear through the wall of the vein, they can move through the vein, or, most dangerous, they can break off and be swept into the heart or lungs.
Last month, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study conducted over nearly ten years at the Boston University School of Medicine that found the use of IVC filters may not be worth the risk to patients.
The study, which noted the use of IVC filters in hospital ERs has been on the rise, tracked their use at the level 1 trauma center at Boston Medical Center from August 2003 through December of 2012.
Among nearly 1,800 trauma patients, the findings showed there was no difference in the rate of death among those who had received IVC filters to prevent blood clots versus those who had been given blood-thinning drugs.
Although IVC filters are designed for short-term use in place of blood thinner medications, studies show many patients leave them in place for longer periods of time, increasing the risk of failure.
Last month, the Illinois Herald-News also published a report from radiologists who feared many patients had IVC implants in place for up to a decade, and urging them to have them removed.
Dr. Noah Schwind at Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center noted that, as time passed, the risk that the metal legs of the IVC filters would fail increased. This would heighten the chances of vein wall tearing, filter movement, or device breakage and heart/lung damage.
In the midst of the recent warnings, more and more patients who received IVC filters have suffered serious injury without proper warning from the companies that make the devices. In fact, the FDA warned Bard in 2015 of misrepresenting the safety of IVC filters.
In 2014, a federal judicial panel consolidated a growing number of IVC filter lawsuits against Cook Medical into a special multidistrict court in Indiana. Likewise, as cases grew against the other largest IVC maker C.R. Bard, they were combined into a special court in Arizona.
At that time, there were only about 200 total cases. Now, however, the number of IVC filter lawsuits against Cook Medical or Bard has grown to nearly 1,800. And, experts believe this only represents about one-third of those injured.
With the first trial over IVC injuries approaching, lawyers believe the manufacturers may try to reach an IVC filter settlement instead of face negative publicity.
Lawyers are still helping those who have received IVC filters or suffered injury investigate their cases and file claims. For more information or to speak with a lawyer today at no cost, contact DrugNews.


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What do EU elections and a new Prime Minister mean for fintech and alternative finance?
By Daniel Lanyon on 27th May 2019
Theresa May is stepping down and the Brexit Party has topped the EU elections prompting the spectre of further political disruption.
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In just two weeks Theresa May will step down as leader of the Conservative party prompting a new UK Prime Minister and, most likely, political direction. The Brexit party and Liberal Democrat surge in the European election results, announced last night, makes this event super-charged and fraught with uncertainty.
These two developments could have huge and wide-ranging consequences for the UK's star industry: fintech and alternative finance.
A new Prime Minister means a reshuffle of the senior cabinet positions, most notably for fintech and alternative finance: in the position of Chancellor Phillip Hammond.
Hammond took over from George Osborne, a big advocate for disruptive financial firms, and while a little cautious at first has over the past two years increasingly backed the sector. Speaking at the Innovate Finance Global Summit last month he gave a strongly worded message of support for the UK's lead in fintech and unveiled the Fintech Alliance a new body bringing "together the UK's fintech network in one easily accessible 'digital marketplace".
The newly(ish) appointed Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Jeremy Wright, who took over from Matt Hancock, another tech and digital enthusiast, in July 2018, has only recently started to vocalise the importance of the fintech sector. A new minister in DCMS may well also be cautious to quickly get behind the fintech industry, if at all.
Governmental support is hugely important but the health of the economy is critical. A weakening economy could hit venture capital-hungry firms hard.
Azad Zangana, Senior European Economist and Strategist at Schroders, says May's resignation raises UK recession risk as it increases the likelihood of Boris Johnson becoming the new PM, the odds-on favourite to replace May.
"The hard-line Brexiteer may look to take the UK out of the European Union (EU) without a deal, despite Parliament voting in favour of essentially removing the option. He could do this by failing to comply with the EU's demands that the UK should continue to follow the rules. This presumably would lead to the EU agreeing to terminate the relationship in October," he said.
"If this were to happen, we would anticipate the economy to slow and fall into recession around the turn of the year. While the Bank of England would probably cut interest rates eventually, the expected depreciation in the pound would cause inflation to spike. The household sector has already run down its safety buffer in the form of its savings rate, therefore a contraction in demand is very likely," he said.
This, of course, has huge implications for fintech lenders particularly those focusing on the SME and consumer lending markets where volumes are key to growth and long term profitability of scaling up platforms.
Niels Turfboer, Managing Director of fintech lender Spotcap says a swiftly elected leader, and new prime minister is important to mitigate risk.
"Fintechs and financial services companies are eager to know what's going to happen with the Brexit negotiations – one way or the other. Uncertainty can hinder collaboration as well as partnerships, and a clear direction for the UK fintech community is crucial now to continue the momentum."
He says one other reason for this is the all-important access to top tech talent.
"There has been a lot of talk about the impact Brexit might have on talent. Many companies are already struggling to fill roles and it's up to the new prime minister and government to create an environment that welcomes the most competitive and diverse talent pool possible. If healthy regulation remains and investment in the best ideas continues, there's no reason why the UK can't maintain its position as a world fintech leader."
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Q: Python TypeError: Mapping the values of two lists into key-value pairs in a new one container list I've two lists/arrays titles and descriptions as below:
 titles = ['title1', 'title2', 'title3']
 descriptions = ['description1', 'description2', 'description3']

I need to make one list/array topic containing both of them as dictionaries/objects key-value pairs as below:
topics [
   {
     'title': 'title1',
     'description': 'description1'
   },
   {
     'title': 'title2',
     'description': 'description2'
   },
   {
     'title': 'title3',
     'description': 'description3'
   }
]

I've tried to do that like in PHP or JS:

    titles = ['title1', 'title2', 'title3']
    descriptions = ['description1', 'description2', 'description3']

    topics = []

    for i in range(len(titles)):
        topics[i]['title'] = titles[i]
        topics[i]['description'] = descriptions[i]

But I got that error:
topics[i]['title'] = titles[i]
TypeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'getitem'
So how shoud I do that stuff in python?

A: You can do a list-comprehension using zip:
[{'title': x, 'description': y} for x, y in zip(titles, descriptions)]

Example:
titles = ['title1', 'title2', 'title3']
descriptions = ['description1', 'description2', 'description3']

print([{'title': x, 'description': y} for x, y in zip(titles, descriptions)])
# [{'title': 'title1', 'description': 'description1'},
#  {'title': 'title2', 'description': 'description2'},
#  {'title': 'title3', 'description': 'description3'}]


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The world's wild species provide ________ services that support our health and economic activities.
A country with a large percentage of its people younger than age 15 has high ________ .
demographic momentum
Which country cut its birth rate in half through a strict one-child policy?
As countries become industrialized and economically developed, the population growth rate ________ .
increases temporarily before slowing down
Temperate deserts can be ________ .
hot during the day but cold at night
A community is debating about whether to allow drilling for oil in a nearby wildlife refuge. What principle should they apply to prevent and reduce harm?
The greatest threat to wild species is ________ .
habitat destruction, degradation, and fragmentation
What river feature is found in the source zone?
headwaters
Crown fires usually occur in forests that ________ .
have not experienced surface fires for several decades
As moist air blowing inland from an ocean reaches a mountain range, ________ .
it rises, expands, and cools, losing moisture as rain and snow
The period of high birth rates in the United States between 1946 and 1964 is called the ________ .
Two-thirds of all fish extinctions in the United States since 1990 can be attributed to ________ .
bioinvaders
The circulation of the atmosphere is powered by ________ .
At least 95% of the 2.6 billion people projected to be added to the world's population between 2013 and 2050 will live in ________ .
less-developed countries
One important trend related to human population is that people are moving in large numbers from ________ to ________ .
rural areas; urban areas
For the past 200 years, human population growth has resembled a(n) ________ .
J-curve
Today, forests in the United States ________ .
cover more area than they did in 1920
The greatest species diversity in a biome tends to be found ________ .
the transition zone between biomes
The world's 1,600 botanical gardens and arboreta contain about ________ of the world's rare and threatened plant species.
One strategy for reducing fire-related harm to forests and people who use or live in the forests is to ________ .
use prescribed burns to remove flammable small trees and underbrush in the highest-risk forest areas
Which portion of the open ocean is defined as the brightly lit upper zone?
euphotic zone
What is an additional complication of extinction where new species are no longer evolving?
speciation crisis
Studies attempting to estimate the monetary value of the ecosystem services provided by the world's forests have found that it is ________ .
hundreds of times more than their economic value in terms of lumber and other wood products
Debt-for-nature swaps can have a positive impact by ________ .
making it financially attractive for countries to protect their tropical forests
One advantage of mass transit rail for a city is that it ________ .
uses less land than roads and parking lots
What is the most accurate description of climate?
Averaged over the last 30 years, the average daily high temperature for June in an area is 82 °F.
Which method of logging is the least sustainable?
clear-cutting
Smuggling wild animals around the world would most likely lead to ________ .
a decline in ecotourism
The reintroduction of ________ to Yellowstone National Park has contributed to a decline in the elk population and provided food for bald eagles and ravens.
gray wolves
After a forest has been cleared for logging, a(n) ________ may naturally develop.
second-growth forest
A quarter to one half of all land animals and plants could go extinct by the end of this century because of ________ .
International treaties designed to protect endangered and threatened species can be difficult to enforce. What is the primary reason for this?
The lack of needed resources for enforcement
A lake with a large supply of nutrients is called ________ .
eutrophic
A population with a large percentage of people over age 65 will ________ .
soon decline
A species is considered endangered if it ________ .
has so few individual survivors that the species could soon become extinct
What is the most important factor that directly affects death rates?
Life raft ecosystems are ________ .
areas where poverty levels are high and a large part of the economy depends on degraded ecosystem services
In Indonesia, Malaysia, and other areas of Southeast Asia, tropical forests are ________ .
being replaced by large plantations of oil palm
An age-structure diagram shows ________ .
the percentages of males and females categorized as prereproductive, reproductive, and postreproductive
Overgrazing can destroy riparian zones, which are ________ .
strips of vegetation along stream or rivers
Over time, many inland wetlands in the United States have ________ .
been drained or filled to grow crops
When using ________ , loggers cut intermediate-aged or mature trees in a forest singly or in small groups.
selective cutting
Estimated and predicted extinction rates are likely lower than in reality because of ________ .
the identification of only about 2 million of the worlds' 7-10 million species
When women have access to education and paid employment outside the home, ________ .
total fertility rates tend to be low
As commercially valuable large species are overfished, the fishing industry has ________ .
begun working its way down marine food webs by shifting to smaller marine species
The local climate in cities tends to be ________ than nearby rural areas.
Grasslands occur primarily in areas that are ________ .
too moist for deserts but too dry for forests
To halt population growth, total fertility rate has to drop to ________ .
Which of the following is a greenhouse gas?
The Coriolis effect is the result of the ________ .
rotation of the earth
Which species are especially vulnerable to extinction when their habitats are destroyed?
island species
Curitiba, Brazil is an example of an eco-city because it banned cars in the downtown area and ________ .
planned construction with mass transit spokes connecting outlying districts to the center
What is the wooly opossum's niche in the tropical rain forest?
under story
The equator is warmer than the poles because ________ .
sunlight hits the equator directly, but hits the poles at a low angle
Which characteristic most places the blue whale at risk of extinction?
specialized niche
What is the best method of reducing threats from invasive species?
Focus all efforts on preventive measures.
Returning a degraded habitat or ecosystem to a condition as similar as possible to its natural state is called ________ .
Mangrove forests grow ________ .
in coastal wetlands
________ is the most efficient and sometimes least-costly way to cut trees, but it can harm an ecosystem by causing increased erosion, sediment pollution in nearby waterways, and losses in biodiversity.
The ultimate goal for captive breeding programs at zoos is to ________ .
reintroduce species back into the wild
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With over one third of Internet users researching products, and following their favourite brands and products on social media, the importance of engaging audiences on this platform is critical to the marketing plan of a start-up company. Start-up companies have the disadvantage of having to break into pre-existing markets, and need to set themselves apart from the competition. To engage loyalty and a following requires strategic and researched social media planning, to take advantage of this channel of communication with potential clients.
Exploiting Social Media to create a buzz amongst a large audience of potential customers is one of the best ways to stretch your budget as a start-up company. Marketing via social media if you do it as a business owner is an easy way to get a following, and to start to gain brand recognition. It is also incredibly cost effective to outsource it to a digital marketing agency.
As a start-up company, understanding the needs of your customer are paramount. When you have a client focus, and you go directly to where the customers are talking, you are able to gather a lot of information about what the client's problems are, and what they wish was better about a particular product or service. When you provide a solution for a group of clients, and understand their wants, needs and desires and what is important to them, you give them a better experience.
Startup companies have to compete with businesses that already have an established reputation. Customers might be wary of new companies promising excessively good deals. When clients can engage directly with the supplier or business owner, they feel more secure in being able to make a purchase and have confidence in it. Trust and loyalty, and building customer transparency are important for Start-up companies. To build repeat customers, engaging and informing audiences via social media is a perfect way to build brand exposure.
Often the difference between making more sales than your rival company is found in doing one or two things slighter better. You can exploit your differences to your competitors when you are examining and analysing what they are doing on social media, and set your mind to creating a better experience for the consumer. Look at what comments your potential clients are making, and see how they are being responded to.
By using social media, engaging with potential consumers, understanding their needs, and by doing it better than your competition, you are bound to have better returns. You will make more sales and have a lot more leads for your sales team to follow up on. Conversions from social media pages are often because the business manager has taken the time to personally discuss any solutions with a potential customer, and the customer has had a good experience from dealing with the business. Social media is a way for an audience to speak to one another and give reviews about a business, and make suggestions for improvements.
For companies that are just beginning, ensuring that you have a solid social media plan is imperative. A consultation with a social media manager will provide a good foundation to help you determine what type of content and branding you want to push through on to different social media platforms. Building an audience leads to sales conversions and repeat business. Talking directly to your customers helps you to be more confident about your product offering, and get your start-up enterprise a healthy foundation that will help your business grow.


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SEIKO Railroad Approved Pocket Watches / Seiko 6110-0010 Railroad Pocket Watch
Harry Denmark
[font=verdana][b]SEIKO Railroad Approved Pocket Watches / Seiko 6110-0010 Second Setting Railroad Pocket Watch[/b][/font][font=verdana]
A Railroad grade Pocket Watch or Wrist Watch is a timepiece used by Rail employees, and typically must have an accuracy +/- 30 Seconds over 24 hours, have a hacking function, and have an easily read dial, typically with Arabic numerals. While a number of websites provide details of e.g. American Railroad watches, there is a paucity of information regarding Japanese Railroad watches. I attempt in the following to compile some of the information I have been able to find, and invite other contributions in the hope that we can collect all available knowledge in this field - please also feel free to correct or berate me! If you would like to learn more, an excellent review is available at:[url=http://www.gmtplusnine.com/2007/05/20/all-aboard-japan-railways-the-seiko-connection/]http://www.gmtplusnine.com/2007/05/20/all-aboard-japan-railways-the-seiko-connection/[/url] ... a review which served as inspiration for this post.
Authorised Railroad Watches are used to coordinate train departures and movements, and are used by both train drivers as well as conductors. Typically, the train driver and the conductor would set their watches with a central time source at the start of a trip - coordination of watches would help ensure that two trains would not be on the same track at the same time. Clearly, it is vitally important for a train driver and the conductor to keep their schedule, with fixed times alloted to specific points along the journey, allowing the driver to speed up or slow down as required to remain, uhm, on track (sorry...). In the following pictures from 2006, the train drivers Seiko pocket watch can clearly be seen nestling in an illuminated cut-out on the console:
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[font=verdana][b]Seiko Railroad Pocket Watch in use, 2006.[/b] Picture credit: [url=http://japan.mattanderson.net/]http://japan.mattanderson.net/[/url][/font][font=verdana]
(This has got to be a typical Seiko WIS thing - I got all flushed and excited when, after a long search I finally found this, the only picture I have seen of a Seiko railroad-approved pocket watch "in action". I gave a whoop of glee (I'm easily pleased) and she-who-must-be obeyed came to take a look and shot me a withering glance when she saw what I had found).
On Ikuo Tokunagas website: [url=http://www.tokunaga.ne.jp/]http://www.tokunaga.ne.jp/[/url] a series of Seiko Railroad Pocket Watches can be seen. It is immediately clear that the basic design has remained unchanged, with changes primarily being restricted to the movements used, as well as the positioning of the seconds hand:
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To the best of my knowledge, the five calibres presented here were used exclusively in pocket watches. From the dial symbols it appears that the first three movements were produced by the Suwa factory, established in 1943. It would appear in all cases (sorry) that the cases are chromium plated.
From left to right we see a hand wind caliber 91RW (Railroad Watch) 15 jewel movement with a 41.3mm diameter, running at 5 beats per second. The second piece is a 6110A hand wind calibre 61 Railroad Watch (61RW) with 21 jewels, issued in 1971 and running at a higher rate of 6 beats per second (21.600 bph). Interestingly, this calibre was introduced in 1968, suggesting it was required to prove itself in the field before being introduced as a replacement for the venerable 91RW. In 1977 the quartz-driven 75 series calibre was introduced, and a year later the quartz revolution reached Japanese railway-approved watches in the from of the 7550 Quartz Railroad Watch, which boasted a quoted accuracy of 15 seconds per month, a clear step up from the 30s / day accuracy of its mechanical predecessors. As an aside, a close relative and forum favourite, the 7549 300m Tuna was introduced at the same time. The 7550 calibre was followed in 1986 by the 7C11 quartz and the 7C21 quartz, which boasted a long-life lithium cell.
A glance at the dials of all five watches show that the same font was used for all pieces. This font has had a particularly long life, and using the numbers 4 and 7 as a reference, we can see in Seikos "A Journey in Time" that the same font has been used since at least 1913!
[b]Seiko 6110-0010 Second Setting Railroad Pocketwatch[/b]
I was fortunate enough to recently acquire a Seiko 6110-0010 Second Setting Railroad Pocketwatch from Seiko dealer "secondhandseikos" (Paul is apparently a SCWF lurker) which lead to a pleasant exchange of emails and permission to use his photos:
[font=verdana][b]Seiko 6110-0010 Second Setting Railroad Pocket Watch, Front[/b][/font]
[font=verdana][b]Seiko 6110-0010 Second Setting Railroad Pocket Watch, Rear[/b][/font][font=verdana]
The 6110 is part of the vast and immensely popular 61xx line designed and manufactured by Suwa, ranging from simple, robust hand-wind models over the "Seiko 5" range to chronographs and the Grand Seiko 61GS. A characteristic of the 61xx line is their use of a large diameter balance wheel, which apparently imparts an improved rate stability. A further characteristic of the 61xx line is the use of the Diafix shock absorbtion/lubrication jewel system for the escape wheel.
The calibre 6110 is one of only three hand wind 61xx models (and is used only in pocket watches), the rest of the 61xx line being automatic. Introduced in 1967 the 61xx line appears to phase out in the mid 1970s, with the exception of a few movements well known to SCWF members: the Seiko Divers 150m calibre 6105 which remained in production until 1977 and the 6138/6138 chronograph calibres which remained in production until as late as 1979. With its wristwatch-like diameter of 27.4mm, the 6110 caliber is significantly smaller than the predecessor Railroad Pocket Watch 91RW calibre with a diameter of 41.3 mm, and I can't help wondering if Seiko had planned to use this calibre in a wristwatch series.
My impressions of this watch are very favourable. It is large enough to be a true pocket watch, and sits comfortably in the hand. Winding is exceptionally smooth and quiet, and the sweep of the second hand across the large dial is particularly satisfying. The dial is exceptionally easy to read, even under low light conditions. It fits nicely into a watch pocket:
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Although it will be fun to wear on special occasions, I probably will not carry it very much. In my book, a watch which is rarely worn usually gets flipped. However, as you can see from the picture below, A Seiko Railroad Approved Pocket Watch makes a perfect focal point for a collection of Seiko watches, and even my non-WIS friends have commented it, allowing me the perfect opportunity to show-and-tell (until their eyes glaze) and as such it is justified as a definite keeper.
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Prices for these pieces lie around the 200USD mark, the 91RW slightly higher, making these an affordable, interesting conversation piece for any Seiko collector. [/font]
"That a wristwatch is a small celestial theater. It is a small sky. A device for the measure of shadows." -Gabriel Gudding
Timegentlemenplease
This article is great. Thank you, Harry.
Any chance the photos could be brought back to life?
Tempus edax rerum. Time devours all things.
But not before we neck all the ale.
Timegentlemenplease Nov 20, 2016


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Who invented Vercingétorix?
Julian Jackson: French national identity, 27 June 2002
Rethinking France: Les Lieux de mémoire. Volume I: The State
by Pierre Nora, translated by Mary Trouille.
Chicago, 475 pp., £25, October 2001, 0 226 59132 8Show More
"... kind of positivist and exclusively political history. Almost a century later, the seven volumes of Pierre Nora's Lieux de mémoire, of which this is the latest to be translated, stand comparison with Lavisse at least in ambition and scope. Sumptuously produced and copiously illustrated, they contain 130 articles by the most distinguished contemporary ..."
Le Journal and Le Club
Tariq Ali: Mediapart, 23 October 2014
"... 1936, 1968 – misrepresented or forgotten? The new liberals, the historians François Furet and Pierre Nora, the politicians Jospin and Hollande, prepared the ground well for the French right. Manuel Valls, currently the Socialist prime minister, declares his admiration for Tony Blair while competing with the Front National's Marine Le Pen to ..."
Dolorism
Robert Tombs: Biography, 28 October 1999
Le Monde retrouvó de Louis-François Pinagot: Sur let Traces d'un Inconnu, 1798-1876
by Alain Corbin.
Flammarion, 344 pp., frs 135, November 1998, 2 08 212520 3Show More
"... something extraordinary which made them noticed at the time, and makes them fascinating to us. Pierre Rivière, Martin Guerre and Menocchio seem to inhabit a Grimms' fairy-tale world of Grand-Guignol violence, changelings and magic. What about all those who lived ordinary lives and hence are unknown, but who made up everyday reality? How can they be ..."
Looking back at the rubble
David Simpson: War and the Built Environment, 25 May 2006
The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War
by Robert Bevan.
Reaktion, 240 pp., £19.95, January 2006, 1 86189 205 5Show More
"... objects (the heritage industry) might be a sign of our loss of authentic memory, as it was for Pierre Nora in his monumental survey of the French construction of a national past, Les Lieux de mémoire. If we accept that there is no architecturally embodied identity of a nation or people, that our current historical existence is not vitally wrapped up ..."
Union Sucrée
Perry Anderson: The Normalising of France, 23 September 2004
Le Rappel à l'ordre: Enquête sur les nouveaux réactionnaires
by Daniel Lindenberg.
Seuil, 94 pp., €10.50, November 2002, 2 02 055816 5Show More
Esquisse pour une auto-analyse
by Pierre Bourdieu.
Raisons d'Agir, 142 pp., €12, February 2004, 2 912107 19 9Show More
La République mondiale des lettres
by Pascale Casanova.
Seuil, 492 pp., €27.50, March 1999, 2 02 035853 0Show More
"... of the past had yet to be thoroughly purged of its ambiguities: the Nation. This task fell to Pierre Nora. In his editorial on the tenth anniversary of Le Débat in 1990, Nora had hailed the 'new cultural landscape' of the country, and within another couple of years, he completed his own monumental ..."
Not in the Mood
Adam Shatz: Derrida's Secrets, 22 November 2012
Derrida: A Biography
by Benoît Peeters, translated by Andrew Brown.
Polity, 629 pp., £25, November 2012, 978 0 7456 5615 1Show More
"... thoughts never far from his family in Algeria. In 1961, a year before independence, the historian Pierre Nora, a lycée classmate, published a scathing little book, Les Français d'Algérie, pillorying the colons as genocidal in their hatred of Arabs. Derrida sent Nora a 19-page single-spaced letter. He agreed ..."
Dégringolade
Perry Anderson: The Fall of France, 2 September 2004
La France qui tombe
by Nicolas Baverez.
Perrin, 134 pp., €5.50, January 2004, 2 262 02163 5Show More
La Face cachée du 'Monde': Du contre-pouvoir aux abus de pouvoir
by Pierre Péan and Philippe Cohen.
Mille et Une Nuits, 631 pp., €24, February 2003, 2 84205 756 2Show More
"... and soon outpaced, by a partner in the liberal centre. Le Débat, launched in a sleeker format by Pierre Nora under the auspices of Gallimard, had a more ambitious agenda. Nora opened the journal with a programme for intellectual reform. In the past, French culture, steeped in humanist traditions, had been dominated by ..."
Violets in Their Lapels
David A. Bell: Bonapartism, 23 June 2005
The Legend of Napoleon
by Sudhir Hazareesingh.
Granta, 336 pp., £20, August 2004, 1 86207 667 7Show More
by Patrick Rambaud, translated by William Hobson.
Picador, 320 pp., £7.99, June 2005, 0 330 48901 1Show More
Napoleon: The Eternal Man of St Helena
by Max Gallo, translated by William Hobson.
Macmillan, 320 pp., £10.99, April 2005, 0 333 90798 1Show More
The Saint-Napoleon: Celebrations of Sovereignty in 19th-Century France
Harvard, 307 pp., £32.95, May 2004, 0 674 01341 7Show More
Napoleon and the British
by Stuart Semmel.
Yale, 354 pp., £25, September 2004, 0 300 09001 3Show More
"... him, only the relatively minor rue Bonaparte. In the great monument to French memory edited by Pierre Nora, Les Lieux de mémoire, the only essay on him concerns the pathos-laden return of his body to France in 1840. Which is to say that he receives roughly the same space as the abbey of Port-Royal, the Larousse dictionary or the theme of 'visits to ..."
Made in Algiers
Jeremy Harding: De Gaulle, 4 November 2010
Le mythe gaullien
Gallimard, 280 pp., €21, May 2010, 978 2 07 012851 8Show More
by Jonathan Fenby.
Simon and Schuster, 707 pp., £30, June 2010, 978 1 84737 392 2Show More
"... de mémoire') – and his book is a model of recent French historiography, in the tradition of Pierre Nora and Maurice Agulhon. He is also a political scientist, intrigued by the general's stake in his own myth-making as a means of empowerment and self-justification. In his new biography, Jonathan Fenby delivers the infant Charles into an era of ..."
Butcher, Baker, Wafer-Maker
Miri Rubin: A Medieval Mrs Beeton, 8 April 2010
The Good Wife's Guide: A Medieval Household Book
translated by Gina Greco and Christine Rose.
Cornell, 366 pp., £16.95, March 2009, 978 0 8014 7474 3Show More
"... spice merchant; it also involved a visit to Les Halles for eggs and fruit, to the dairy market of Pierre-au-Lait for good, rich milk, and to the Place de Grève for firewood and coal. And then there was the management of the servants hired for the day: a cook and assistants, waiters, water servers and bouncers ('big, strong ushers to guard the door'). The ..."
Gaby Wood, 9 February 1995
Jean Renoir: Letters
edited by Lorraine LoBianco and David Thompson, translated by Craig Carlson, Natasha Arnoldi and Michael Wells.
Faber, 605 pp., £25, October 1994, 0 571 17298 9Show More
"... This last film, though, is the subject of a 1951 letter in which be reminds his wife Dido 'how Nora Grégor's blunders nearly killed that film'. In 1959 he explains to a theatre director how the story of his play, Orvet, was inspired by his survival in a car crash which killed his best friend; and in 1963 he tells a New York Times journalist that the ..."
Into the Alley
Daniel Soar: Dashiell Hammett, 3 January 2002
Nightmare Town: Stories
by Dashiell Hammett, edited by Kirby McCauley and Martin Greenberg et al.
Picador, 396 pp., £16.99, March 2001, 0 330 48109 6Show More
Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett 1921-60
edited by Richard Layman and Julie Rivett.
Counterpoint, 650 pp., £28.99, June 2001, 1 58243 081 0Show More
"... from a prison cell; he also played with the idea of reconstructing what was already there: his Pierre Menard begins rewriting Don Quixote word for word, and his version turns out to be better than the original. Paul Auster, in the New York Trilogy, follows the logic of detection into dizzy madness. But these clevernesses aren't just sparked by the ..."


Rare CMA/TWITTER/SCREENSHOT Just as they did in November 2016, Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood opened the annual Country Music Awards with a few good-natured jokes about politics. The country singers turned yearly CMA hosts poked fun at President Donald Trump during a brief musical parody of Underwood's own "Before He Cheats." .
CMA/TWITTER/SCREENSHOT Just as they did in November 2016, Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood opened the annual Country Music Awards with a few good-natured jokes about politics. The country singers turned yearly CMA hosts poked fun at President Donald Trump during a brief musical parody of Underwood's own "Before He Cheats." .


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Avalanche add Haydar, re-sign five others
The Colorado Avalanche, parent club of the AHL's Lake Erie Monsters, announced Monday that they have signed former AHL MVP and two-time Calder Cup champion Darren Haydar.
The Avalanche have also re-signed forwards David Jones, Chris Durno, Matt Hendricks and Brian Willsie, along with goaltender Tyler Weiman.
Haydar, 29, spent the 2008-09 campaign with the Grand Rapids Griffins of the American Hockey League, where he led the club in goals (31), assists (49) and points (80) to finish sixth in the AHL in scoring.
A 1999 draft pick by Nashville, Haydar is one of the most decorated players in AHL history, winning two Calder Cups (2004, 2008), one MVP award (2007), one scoring title (2007) and league rookie of the year honors (2003). In 496 career games Haydar has compiled 201 goals and 335 assists for 536 points. He is also the league's all-time playoff leader in goals (59), assists (76) and points (135).
Haydar has played in two AHL All-Star Games (2003, 2007) and posted a league-record 39-game scoring streak in 2006-07.
A native of Milton, Ont., Haydar has appeared in 22 career NHL games with Atlanta and Nashville, recording one goal and seven assists.
Jones, 24, played in 40 games for the Avalanche during the 2008-09 campaign, totaling 13 points (8g, 5a). The Guelph, Ont., native scored seven goals in his last 22 contests before suffering a season-ending shoulder injury on Jan. 27.
The 6-foot-2, 210-pound right wing was Colorado's eighth selection (ninth round, 288th overall) in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft.
Durno, 28, played two games with the Avalanche last season after being recalled on Jan. 17. The 6-foot-4, 205-pound center skated in a team-high 76 games for Lake Erie and led the club with 18 goals.
A native of Scarborough, Ont., Durno finished second on the Monsters in both assists (27) and points (45).
Hendricks, 28, was recalled from Lake Erie twice during the 2008-09 campaign. The Blaine, Minn., native appeared in four games with the Avalanche, making his NHL debut on Mar. 10 vs. Atlanta.
Hendricks finished third on the Monsters in both goals (14) and points (29) despite missing 12 weeks of action after suffering a broken foot while blocking a shot on Oct. 25.
Willsie, 31, recorded four points (1g, 3a) in 42 games for the Avalanche after being recalled from Lake Erie on Nov. 22. He was leading the Monsters in scoring at the time of his recall with 14 points (8g, 6a) in 12 games.
Willsie, who signed with the Avalanche as a free agent on July 15, 2008, was originally Colorado's seventh selection (sixth round, 146th overall) in the 1996 Entry Draft. The Belmont, Ont., native has tallied 108 points (52g, 56a) in 376 career games in the NHL, including 19 points (8g, 11a) in 111 games with Colorado.
Weiman, 25, led the American Hockey League with eight shutouts in 2008-09, posting a 21-20-2 record with a 2.46 GAA in 44 appearances for the Lake Erie Monsters. The Saskatoon, Sask., native was selected to the Canadian All-Star Team for the 2009 AHL All-Star Classic.
Colorado's sixth choice (fifth round, 164th overall) in the 2002 Entry Draft, Weiman has appeared in one game for the Avalanche, Oct. 4, 2007, at Nashville (16 minutes, 0 goals).
Five players agree to terms with Maple Leafs
Blue Jackets add scoring punch with Pelletier


Before you begin adding your first configuration objects, note that in order to develop a configuration that automates a company's economic activity, a developer can use only a limited set of configuration objects that is built into the platform. A developer cannot create custom configuration objects. They only can add standard objects available in the system to a configuration.
Before you begin, you have to learn how to perform some basic actions in Designer.
On the Configuration menu, click Close configuration.
Respective toolbar buttons are available as well.
Once the configuration is open, its content is displayed in the configuration object tree window (see fig. 1.11). You can close this window just like any other window, but if you do so, the configuration itself remains open (in other words, it can still be edited).
On the Configuration menu, click Configuration window.
There are several methods of adding configuration objects. You can use any method that you like.
Click the required configuration object tree branch, click the Actions button in the configuration window command bar, and then click Add (fig. 1.12).
Right-click the required configuration object tree branch, then click Add (fig. 1.13).
Click the required configuration object tree branch, and then click the Add button in the configuration window command bar (fig. 1.14).
We prefer the last method so we will mainly use it in the future.


Paris is known for being romantic, it's timeless architecture and its incredible cuisine. But there is so much more to Paris. Where there is the classical art ,there are modern unconventional creations. Where there is high fashion , there is unique flea markets and where there is Michelin star cuisine, there are street bakeries to compete with it.
It's not called the "Big Apple" for no reason , the epicenter of the American dream, New York is the desired place to be if you are ready to grind and hassle for what you want. Either if you are trying to make it in the arts or the finance world. That also goes for tourists, if you are looking for a chilled out holiday, you are in the wrong place. Be ready to be wowed by the arts, the shopping, dining and the unstoppable intense experience that is New York. It is the world's greatest playground and you have to be ready to play.
Moscow is a very unique city for countless reasons, from being the northernmost and coldest city on earth to one that boasts the of the largest number of billionaires in the world (84 in Moscow alone). No wonder is a key political, economic, cultural and scientific centre of not only Russia but eastern Europe.


The night was an angry drunk, unpredictable and lightning, it was moving strange, the train windows were frozen. With a shaking hand, pouring cream into her steaming coffee, she took a deep breathe as he began humming the song, the song he always hummed to rest his heart. She knew it well, it was a lighthouse.
Salamander Cabin. Mariposa, CA. A Mid-Winter Month.
Outside the Gold Coin, Uncle Jonas negotiated with the Tavern's owner.
From across the street we could feel the waves of Jonas' big charm and carnival magic; holdin' up numbers, gesturing wildly, pointing to us, jigging, signaling and slapping the some-what shocked, unprepared Proprietor on the shoulder like old friends do . Next came the handshake, the deal sealer and the "come on in" wave.
The evening took off its training wheels.
The Mayor of Mariposa bought us whiskey and almost gave us a key to the Post Office.
The dark, dank Saloon bar kindly served us the coldest beer in the Universe.
An old Trapper wrapped in a raccoon cap and blue skin sat smoking a pipe with ancient eyes.
Some local kids showed up with banjos and Cowboy hats.
A stranger wanted to show us his new truck.
An old man with a wizard beard kept whispering something none of us could translate.
A woman wearing a Metallica T-shirt with cut off sleeves kept petting Crutchfield's boots.
We played and sang and stomped and bobbed, swung and drank.
We snowballed electric, gaining momentum and good-timey joy with each stop. Epiphanies were becoming common, our hearts were aflame and our cheeks sore with laughter. We raged until it all became impossible. We finally returned to the cabin and the Moon rolled its eyes. We all found pillows. The windmill spun and creaked.
The morning mountains found the Sun and threw Her over their shoulders.
The a.m. offered a chilled dew and a deer family.
The trees were February bare and the clouds mayonnaise white.
Supposedly, the neighbors donkey, Eddie Murphy, survived some Summer fire by hiding in a miner's cavern.
The Sun pored into the Valley like syrup.
The black, dirt coffee, a defibrillator in a cup, cranked our tails back to wagging.
We sat in a circle and played music for us and for them: for the Ballad-makers, for the all-Aloners, for our families and future wombs, for the gentle drunkards & the forgotten outlaws, for the Nancy & Court, for the can't-help-it Poets and the humble No-Grumblers, for all those who wrestle and sit at the table of Awe .
Evening and morning, Salamander seeps a magic wonder, a crisp mystery, a barter, a trade and a bargain.


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The decision to use Lake Ontario sea lampreys in the St. Marys River sterile male release program (SMR-SMRP) carries uncertainty and potentially irreversible consequences of risk. Managers are particularly concerned about the risk associated with inadvertent pathogen translocation, and wish to use precautionary decision-making approach. The presence of risk, however, should not necessarily prevent the program as the program also generates benefits. Fishery managers continue to face the challenge of appropriately incorporating risk and uncertainty into management and would benefit from tools that allow them to evaluate benefits, costs and risks in a structured way, rather than relying on subjective criteria. Real options analysis (ROA) is an approach adapted from business and capital investment that has the ability to address the issue of how much precaution is needed in light of the risks inherent in the program. There are three possible outcomes to a ROA: i) the benefits exceed the costs after adjustment for risk and the project proceeds; ii) the benefits exceed the costs if not adjusted for risk, but fail to exceed the costs when adjusted for risk - in this case the project is delayed until uncertainty can be reduced; or iii) the benefits fail to exceed the cost even when not adjusted for risk, so that a loss is expected from the project and the project is not undertaken. Traditional precautionary approaches require arbitrary judgment to differentiate type i from type ii outcomes. In contrast, ROA determines the amount of precaution needed based on the risk characteristics of the project. Here we propose to use ROA to determine if the risks associated with sea lamprey transfers are small relative to the benefits (in which case transfers should proceed), or if the risk is too great (so that transfers should be delayed until uncertainty is reduced). We will focus particularly on risk related to accidental introduction of a pathogen into the upper Great Lakes. This analysis is relevant to SMR-SMRP decision-making and continued use of Lake Ontario sea lampreys in the SMR-SMRP. The project will demonstrate the application of ROA to fish movement problems, thereby allowing managers and the GLFC to assess ROA's applicability to other issues.
Molecular characterization of microbial populations associated with zebra mussels in the Great Lakes.