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We rode South to one of my favorite places on the trip called Salento. It is in the Coffee region and absolutely beautiful. We stayed at a Hostel, La Serrana in a private room with private bathroom for $45. a night. It was one of three rooms in a house with a living room with fireplace and a kitchen. We felt like we had the whole house to ourselves. The view was incredible and we hated to leave!
We took a four hour horseback ride to a beautiful waterfall. Our guide was the sweetest man who loved and cared for his horses. We did a very tough ride through mud and rocks and several rivers that had big boulders to get through. We scaled the steepest trail I have ever been on that had huge rocks, concrete on the super tight switchbacks and lots of mud. Those horses were incredible. Didn't even break a sweat.
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We met a nice couple in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico way back in the beginning of our trip, Maria and Henry. They live in Colombia and go to San Miguel every year for three months. So when we got to their town, Popayan we met them again. They had us over for a wonderful dinner and the next day a tour of the city.
The Hostel we stayed at was right in Parque de Caldas, in the main square of the town. We had the best room that had big windows that looked out into the park. The Cathedral was right next to us and on Sunday morning we were blessed with beautiful singing wafting through our open windows.
We left Popayan for one more overnight stop before crossing the border to Ecuador. I would not even mention the place, however, like everywhere we have been there are so many really nice people and in this town called Pasto, we again, met an awesome couple.
As we were packing our bikes to leave a nice man stopped to talk to us. His name is Jaime and he rides a V Strom. As we were getting ready to leave we noticed that I had a flat back tire with two nails in it. Jaime says; "I have a gas station 300 meters from here", so off we went. We arrived and were greeted by his lovely wife, Angela. We had a great visit while the guys fixed my tire and upon leaving they surprised us by buying our gas! Amazing, kind people.
One more stop we had to make before crossing the border was to visit an incredible Cathedral called Santuario de Las Lajas in Ipiales.
GOOD BYE COLOMBIA. Thank you for showing us the flavor of your amazing country, the people and the food!


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A tribute to Brian Doyle, Sherman Alexie's new memoir, and more
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"If we didn't write poetry after the Holocaust it would be as if Hitler had won, or that the Nazis were right." Neustadt laureate Adam Zagajewski discussed the art and trauma of the Holocaust and the idea of blurred homelands during a conversation on European culture held at the BBVA Foundation.
Award-winning Oregon author Brian Doyle passed away this week from complications related to a brain tumor. Doyle was editor of the University of Portland's Portland Magazine for 25 years, and WLT nominated his essay "Crew Cuts" for a Pushcart Prize in 2015.
In this BookPage interview, Sherman Alexie discusses his memoir and how his deeply troubled relationship with his mother, Lillian, has been cathartic.
The National Review examines a new biography of Czesław Miłosz (Miłosz: A Biography, by Andrzej Franaszek) and explores his opposition to Stalinism and disgust with a nationalistic European Right.
Recent WLT contributor Oddný Eir will be participating in a panel titled "Collecting the Pieces: Fiction and Trauma" at the Bay Area Book Festival this weekend.
In this KGOU radio interview, WLT executive director RC Davis-Undiano discusses his new book, Mestizos Come Home!, and the Mexican-American "reawakening" since the 1960s.
Recent NSK Neustadt Prize finalist Lynda Barry has won a lifetime achievement award, and Jeff Keane paid tribute to her in one of his Family Circus cartoons this week.
In this PEN interview, Basma Abdel Aziz—who recently contributed a work of dystopian fiction for WLT's March issue—discusses her early political writing while in medical school, getting arrested in Cairo, and more.
Words Without Borders has launched a new online education program called WWB Campus.
The Center for Fiction has announced its 2017 NYC Emerging Writers Fellows.
The Bosphorus Review of Books, a new English-language publication aimed at providing literary works and commentary for Turkey and the world, is open for submissions.
Literary Hub takes a look at the queer literary origins of Wonder Woman.
For National Spelling Bee week, NPR featured a Google map that features, state by state, the words that people most often Google "how to spell."
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Notophyllia Dennant, 1899
Anthozoa (Class)
Hexacorallia (Subclass)
Scleractinia (Order)
Dendrophylliidae (Family)
Notophyllia (Genus)
Typetaxon
Notophyllia semivestita Dennant, 1899 † (type by original designation)
Dendrophylliidae Gray, 1847
Species Notophyllia etheridgi Hoffmeister, 1933
Species Notophyllia hecki Cairns, 2004
Species Notophyllia piscacauda Cairns, 1998
Species Notophyllia recta Dennant, 1906
Dennant, J. (1899). Descriptions of new species of corals from the Australian Tertiaries, Part II. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 23: 281-287, pls. 9-10. [details]
Depth range 22-458 m
Depth range 22-458 m [details]
Fossil range Middle Miocene to Recent
Fossil range Middle Miocene to Recent [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2020). World List of Scleractinia. Notophyllia Dennant, 1899. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267637 on 2020-01-18
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Hoeksema, Bert
original description Dennant, J. (1899). Descriptions of new species of corals from the Australian Tertiaries, Part II. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 23: 281-287, pls. 9-10. [details]
basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
additional source Veron, J. E. N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers. [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., Baron-Szabo, R., A. F. Budd, B. Lathuiliere, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski, and K. G. Johnson, 2010. Corallosphere, available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
additional source Dennant, J. (1906). Madreporaria from the Australian and New Zealand coasts. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 30: 151-165, pls. 5-6. [details]
redescription Cairns, S. D. (2001). A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Dendrophylliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. (615): 1-75., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.615 [details]
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Jiroemon Kimura put fictional hobbit Bilbo Baggins' 111th birthday to shame when he turned 115 on April. Very much alive, the Kyotango City, Japanese citizen is one of 68 supercentenarians – individuals over the age of 110 – and now also claims the title of the world's oldest livng man, according to the Gerontology Research Group.
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Q: Number of arrangements with no consecutive letter the same This question is related to my question here. I am trying to get the following count programmatically to verify whether my mathematics is right.

How many arrangements of the letters in the word PQRDDDEEEEFFFFF have
  no consecutive letter the same?

How to determine this count using a php program?
My approach

*

*generated all possible permutations using heap's algorithm and stored in an array (used heap's algorithm as it is found faster)

*removed all duplicates using array_unique function

*Iterated through the array, identified the strings where adjacent letters are same using regexp /(.)\1/ and copied the strings where no adjacent letters are same to a new array.

*The new array has the list of elements which is required.

My approach is working fine. But, for large strings (strings above 10 characters), memory issues are coming due to the large number of permutations and so the program does not work.
Is there any alternative approach to determine this programmatically?
Note:
I am looking for the count only and not the list of strings

A: You could redefine as a graph problem. The graph would have nodes for each letter in your set "PQRDDDEEEEFFFFF" and do not allow self-loop paths back to the same letter or between nodes that represent the same letter. You would then enumerate all non-cyclic paths of length 15 through your graph. This should significantly reduce the memory footprint of your code and you would not generate any "words" with consecutive letters that need to be discarded. With a quick google search I found a few different graph traversal algorithms in php available online. You could tweak one to your purposes fairly quickly.
For a significant performance enhancement you could employ memoization strategies. i.e. starting from one 'F' the permutations from the other 'F' nodes are identical and the same is true of sub-paths. There are some knight's tour algorithms with memoization  that can also be adapted to this problem well.

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A: Here's some Python that's much more efficient than your method, though still exponential (sorry, don't know PHP):
from collections import Counter

def instancekey(letters):
    return tuple(sorted(Counter(letters).values()))

memo = {}

def permcount(letters):
    if not letters:
        return 1
    key = instancekey(letters)
    count = memo.get(key)
    if count is None:
        count = 0
        for letter, lettercount in Counter(letters).items():
            rest = letters
            for i in range(lettercount):
                j = rest.find(letter)
                rest = rest[:j] + rest[j + 1:]
                if i % 2 == 0:
                    count += permcount(rest)
                else:
                    count -= permcount(rest)
        memo[key] = count
    return count

There are two ideas here. The first is to perform the count recursively via inclusion-exclusion. For each letter in the input, we accumulate the number of possibilities that begin with that letter. Naively, it's enough to count the possibilities for the remaining letters, but this doesn't enforce the constraint that the first two letters are equal. Thus we apply a correction -- subtract the number of possibilities where two letters are deleted. This correction itself requires a correction, whereupon we arrive at the inclusion-exclusion formula.
The second idea is to use memoization to cut down significantly on the number of function evaluations. Given a word like PQRDDDEEEEFFFFF, we count
P: 1
Q: 1
R: 1
D: 3
E: 4
F: 5

and then drop the letters (because they don't matter) and sort the values:
1,1,1,3,4,5.

A: The pure method is to brute force it. Just count in base N, where N is the number of distinct letters. The number of places needed in the base N number, is just the total number of letters. Then apply the constraints for the number of each letter allowed and not having two consecutive the same.
It's not pretty and not fast, but it will give correct answers.
Here it is in PHP:
$letters = 'PQRDDDEEEEFFFFF';

$letter_counts = CountLetters($letters);

echo CountCombinations($letter_counts);

function CountLetters($letters) {
    $letter_counts = array();
    foreach (str_split($letters) as $letter) {
        if (isset($letter_counts[$letter])) {
            $letter_counts[$letter]++;
        } else {
            $letter_counts[$letter] = 1;
        }
    }
    return array_values($letter_counts);
}

function CountCombinations($allowable) {
    $max = count($allowable) - 1;
    $total_places = 0;
    for ($index = 0; $index <= $max; $index++) {
        $total_places += $allowable[$index];
    }

    $counter = array_fill(0, $total_places, 0);

    $combinations = 0;
    do {
        $ok = true;

        // count the number of each character in this combination
        $bins = array_fill(0, $max + 1, 0);
        for ($index = 0; $index < $total_places; $index++) {
            $bins[$counter[$index]]++;
        }

        // ensure the counts match the number allowable for each
        for ($index = 0; $index <= $max; $index++) {
            if ($bins[$index] != $allowable[$index]) {
                $ok = false;
                break;
            }

        }

        // ensure that no two consecutive are the same
        if ($ok) {
            for ($index = 0; $index <= ($total_places - 2); $index++) {
                if ($counter[$index] == $counter[$index + 1]) {
                    $ok = false;
                    break;
                }
            }
        }

        if ($ok) {
            $combinations++;
        }

        // find the next combination (i.e. count in base N)
        for ($index = 0; $index <= ($total_places - 1); $index++) {
            $counter[$index] = $counter[$index] + 1;
            if ($counter[$index] <= $max) {
                break;
            } else {
                $counter[$index] = 0;
            }
        }
    } while ($index < $total_places);

    return $combinations;
}

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JAPAN: Hollywood blockbuster "Spider-Man 3" receives its world premiere in Tokyo
Title: JAPAN: Hollywood blockbuster "Spider-Man 3" receives its world premiere in Tokyo
Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (English) TOBY MAGUIRE SAYING: "Yes, I really like Spider-Man 3 and it's very different than Spider-Man 2. It's a whole different movie. I think we did a good job in continuing the stories that we set up in 1 and 2, but moving further beyond that, and using our experience to try to make a better film." FANS KIRSTEN DUNST SPEAKING TO REPORTERS FAN HOLDING UP POSTER READING "KIKI" JAMES FRANCO (LEFT) AND THOMAS HADEN CHURCH TALKING TO REPORTER
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Timothy Snyder is a historian and professor at Yale University, specializing in Eastern and Central Europe, totalitarianism, and the Holocaust. His books have received widespread acclaim nationally and internationally from both academic and general audiences. His most recent book, "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century," explores the small, everyday ways a citizenry can resist the encroachment of government tyranny. He is also the author of "Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning" and, forthcoming in April, "The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America."
Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep. 2: America Defeats America
In the 2016 presidential elections, America defeated itself. The Russian intervention, intelligent as it was, could only work because of our own failures: in media, in democracy, and in social justice. In the second episode of "Timothy Snyder Speaks," historian and author Timothy Snyder shows what the Russian attack can teach us about ourselves.
Timothy Snyder is a historian at Yale University, specializing in eastern Europe, totalitarianism, and the Holocaust. His books have received widespread acclaim. His most recent book, "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century," explores the everyday ways a citizen can resist the authoritarianism of today. He is also the author of "Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning" and, forthcoming in April, "The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America."
Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep. 3: What is Oligarchy?
What does oligarchy mean? In the third episode of "Timothy Snyder Speaks," historian and author Timothy Snyder explores the meaning of oligarchy, where it came from, how it endangers us — and how it connects the United States and Russia.
Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep. 4: Sadopopulism
Sadopopulism: how America can be governed without policy and with pain. A guide to the logic of the Senate tax plan.
Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep. 5: Christianity and Christmas
Too often these days invoking the name of Jesus or claiming Christian religion has become an escape from responsibility for plainly un-Christian behavior. Are Christians forgiven for everything because they find ways to blame others for their own actions? Perhaps the meaning of Christmas is something else, extending an idea of the good rather than defending what is plainly bad, and perhaps a Christmas greeting is a way to affirm others rather than claiming all righteousness for ourselves. Merry Christmas.
Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep. 6: The Con of America First
America First is not a foreign policy and it's not a domestic policy. It creates a vacuum of power filled by China, and a vacuum of values filled by Europe. It breaks the rules without proposing new ones. And so in the end puts Americans last.
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Mallinckrodt spending $90M on new campus and more manufacturing
by Eric Palmer |
Aug 23, 2016 9:37am
Mallinckrodt made a series of multibillion dollar deals over 18 months as it moved to become a specialty pharma player but ended up with hundreds of new employees spread over a dozen sites. Now the Dublin-based company has decided it needs a U.S. campus to consolidate all of those workers, as well as more manufacturing, so will invest about $90 million more on what it is calling its specialty brands business.
Mallinckrodt ($MNK) will spend $80 million to build out facilities in Bedminster, NJ, where it expects to have 400 employees working by Q1 of next year. On top of that, it is spending $8 million on its St. Louis manufacturing operations, which is part of $140 million it has invested in the area on manufacturing and operations. Last year, it opened a $12 million expansion of the plant.
"As we began to transform Mallinckrodt into a specialty pharmaceutical organization, we acquired a base of established operations on the East Coast," CEO Mark Trudeau said in a statement. "Bedminster is an excellent setting for Mallinckrodt, allowing us to design a workspace that will meet the needs of our dynamic, fast-growing business, while providing an exceptional working environment to support collaboration among our employees."
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The drugmaker made four deals in quick order to build out its specialty pharma biz. Those included last year's $1.33 billion spend for immunotherapy maker Therakos and $2.3 billion purchase of Ikaria that brought it access to a respiratory med for babies in neonatal ICUs. Those came after a 2014 spree in which it laid out $1.6 billion for Cadence Pharmaceuticals, following that up a couple of months later with the biggest buy of the four, $5.8 billion for Questcor Pharmaceuticals.
With Questcor, it got not only controversial multiple sclerosis med H.P. Acthar Gel, but a host of potential problems. Before the buyout, Questcor had already been probed and criticized for steadily raising the price of Acthar Gel to more than $28,000 a vial from just $40 a vial a decade earlier.
Last year, Mallinckrodt acknowledged that the Federal Trade Commission had demanded documents and info about Questcor's 2013 deal for the rights to Synacthen Depot, a Novartis ($NVS) drug that might have been a head-to-head competitor to Acthar. It said at the time the FTC inquiry was just one of several new investigations including by states looking into whether the deal violated their antitrust laws.
On top of that, some of the short sellers that were constant critics of Questcor are now hassling Mallinckrodt. In May, short seller Andrew Left taunted the company on a segment of CNBC, offering to give a $1 million check to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society if Mallinckrodt would conduct clinical trials to prove Acthar's efficacy for treating the disease, something that has been questioned before.
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Mallinckrodt amps up hospital business with $1.3B Therakos buy
Questcor's Acthar maneuvers land Mallinckrodt in hot water with FTC, state AGs
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For just the second time, the DOJ indicted an opioid distributor for its role in illegally pushing pills at the height of the addiction epidemic.
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Home SCIENCE & HI-TECH Army eyes pearls in innovative project to bolster body armor
Army eyes pearls in innovative project to bolster body armor
Could pearls help save a soldier's life?
Scientists are looking at pearls in an innovative U.S. Army research project to bolster body armor.
Researchers at the University of Buffalo have simulated mother of pearl, or the outer coating of pearls, to create a lightweight plastic described as 14 times stronger and eight times lighter than steel. In a statement, the Army says that the material is "ideal for absorbing the impact of bullets and other projectiles."
ARMY BUILDING NEW 'AMBIDEXTROUS' MULTI-PURPOSE GRENADE
The research, which is funded by the Army Research Office (ARO), is published in the journal ACS Applied Polymer Materials.
The new lightweight plastic is 14 times stronger and eight times lighter (less dense) than steel, researchers say. (University of Buffalo)
"The material is stiff, strong and tough," said Shenqiang Ren, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Buffalo University and the paper's lead author, in the statement. "It could be applicable to vests, helmets and other types of body armor, as well as protective armor for ships, helicopters and other vehicles."
Ren is also a member of the University at Buffalo's RENEW (Research and Education in eNergy, Environment and Water) Institute.
MARINES 3D-PRINT CONCRETE BRIDGE IN 14 HOURS
Most of the material used is a "souped-up version of polyethylene," according to the Army. This ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene, or UHMWPE, is used for the likes of artificial hips and guitar picks.
File photo – A 10th Mountain Division Soldier fires an M4 rifle during a platoon Situational Training Exercise at a range in Arta, Djibouti, Aug. 25, 2018.
(U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Haley D. Phillips)
Researchers have studied the structure of mother of pearl, which is created by mollusks who arrange a form of calcium carbonate into something that "resembles interlocking bricks."
"Like mother of pearl, the researchers designed the material to have an extremely tough outer shell with a more flexible inner backing that's capable of deforming and absorbing projectiles," the Army said in its statement.
AIR FORCE BASE PRODUCES FIRST CERTIFIED 3D-PRINTED AIRCRAFT PARTS
File photo – Sets of U.S. body armor rest on the ground near Nasiriyah, Iraq Dec. 17, 2011.
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"In contrast to steel or ceramic armor, UHMWPE could also be easier to cast or mold into complex shapes, providing versatile protection for soldiers, vehicles, and other Army assets," said Evan Runnerstrom, Ph.D., program manager, materials design at ARO, in the statement.
Silica nanoparticles have also been used to potentially create even stronger armor.
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First published Sunday 23 September 2007
I think this one speaks for itself. It's the first of several episodes from around 2007 / 2008 which pick at the distinction between 'The Church' (i.e. the people) and the 'church' as in the building where The Church meets.
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Bee Gees, Saturday Night Fever to get Grammy concert
Saturday, 11 Feb 2017
The Saturday Night Fever album spent 24 weeks atop the Billboard sales chart from 1977 to 1978.
John Legend, Ed Sheeran, Andra Day, Celine Dion and other pop, R&B, rock and country stars will pay homage to the Bee Gees and the Australian group's blockbuster 1977 soundtrack album Saturday Night Fever in an all-star Grammy Awards-related salute from the Recording Academy, CBS and AEG Ehrlich Ventures.
Stayin' Alive: A Grammy Salute To The Music Of The Bee Gees, marking the 40th anniversary of the album that spent 24 weeks atop the Billboard sales chart from 1977 to 1978, will also feature Keith Urban, Tori Kelly, Pentatonix, DNCE, Little Big Town, Demi Lovato and others.
The modern-day stars will be joined by Bee Gees founding member Barry Gibb during a Feb 14 concert at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles and recorded for broadcast later this year. Maurice Gibb died in 2003 and Robin Gibb in 2012.
Describing the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack as "an emblem of 1970s pop culture", Recording Academy president Neil Portnow also said in a statement, "With expert harmonies, undeniable groove and a personal charisma matching their on-stage persona, the iconic band of brothers defined not just a genre, but a generation."
Longtime Grammy Awards telecast executive producer Ken Ehrlich told The Times: "They had a remarkable impact on several generations of music. Their harmonies certainly influenced generations to follow. I have always been a huge fan, and I'm really glad we're going to be doing this."
He said that while the music from Saturday Night Fever, album, which spawned hits including Stayin' Alive, How Deep Is Your Love and Night Fever, will form one anchor of the show, performers will also delve into other facets of the group's musical legacy, which dates to 1967 with the Bee Gees' first US hit, New York Mining Disaster 1941.
Saturday Night Fever collected an album of the year Grammy Award. The Recording Industry Association of America has certified sales of 15 million copies in the United States alone.
The salute follows in the recent tradition of spin-off specials featuring many of the artistes who attend the Grammy Awards ceremony itself, as performers, presenters, nominees or audience members.
The first such special was The Beatles: The Night That Changed America in 2014 on the 50th anniversary of the group's watershed performance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
That was followed early in 2015 by Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key Of Life and then Sinatra 100: An All-Star Grammy Concert in December of that year. Unlike the Beatles and Wonder specials, which tied in with Grammy ceremonies both years, the Sinatra tribute was shot separately in Las Vegas. – Los Angeles Times/Tribune News Service/Randy Lewis
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Fruit of the Spirit: About the Authors
With Lent only days away (March 1st to be exact), let's introduce the writers for our upcoming devotionals. We should thank each and every writer for taking the time to share their talent.
Rev Paul Appleby: Raised in the Church, the teachings of Jesus came alive to Paul in a new and exciting way after studying the Sermon on the Mount, and rediscovering the brilliant, simple, and profound way Jesus encourages his followers to live and love. Along with his amazing wife Sage, he serves a loving Christ-centered congregation in Killeen, Texas.
Rev Jamie Brame is the Program Director at Christmount Conference and Retreat Center, located in Black Mountain, NC. He has served there for over 27 years, working with both youth and adults. His interests include the study of spirituality and prayer, with an emphasis on eastern spirituality and its application in a Christian context. In addition to his ministerial vocation, he is also a musician who performs with his wife, Renae. He holds an M. Div. from Duke Divinity School and B.A. from Atlantic Christian College (now Barton College.)
Kristy Burmeister writes about stalkers, church-related trauma, feminism, and pie (pretty much in that order) at kristyburmeister.com. She's currently working on a memoir about a church that almost got her murdered when she was a teenager. (Spoiler: She's still alive.)
Rev Evan M. Dolive is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He currently serves as the Associate Minister for Family Life at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Longview, Texas. He is the author of "Seeking Imperfection: Body Image, Marketing and God," a theological examination of marketing and body images propagated in the world today and the Christian response. He also writes for various online publications and at evandolive.com
He is currently working on his Doctorate at Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX. He is married to his high school sweetheart and has three children ages 6,4 and 2.
Rev Melissa Fain is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ.) She currently serves as the Senior Minister at Fig Tree Christian. Her passion is new church planting and revitalization. Fig Tree is the second big church plant she has been part of. Melissa enjoys all forms of the arts, having a degree in vocal music from Kennesaw State University. She also graduated from Candler School of Theology in the Fall of 2010, and has worked in Christian settings since 1999. Melissa is a mother of two wonderful children, and the wife to a very talented illustrator.
Joanne Walker Flowers is ordained clergy in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) with a ministry of health and healing.
Mike Miles is the student and family minister at the Livonia Church of Christ in the western suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. He attended Abilene Christian University, where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Christian Ministry in 2009. Mike is currently working on his Master of Religious Education in Missional Leadership at Rochester College in Rochester, Michigan.
Mike has a love for community and for bringing people together, especially across society's dividing lines. Born in the Philippines, he has since lived in over twenty different places but happily calls Michigan "home." He is unashamedly nerdy. He has tried to maintain a blog for years, but has decided that he is just too lazy. He is married to Blythe and has a son, with a baby girl on her way in early 2017!
Rev Barbara Minton, ordained April 1, 2001, now semi-retired, gladly serves a small rural congregation in Henry County KY, Berea Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). She also volunteers in local interdenominational outreach ministries. Barbara describes herself as wife of one, mother of three, and Mamaw to eight. She enjoys journaling, which she began while living in Switzerland and Germany for 16 years. Now she will occasionally write on her blog, which she fondly entitled Muesli. http://bjm-muesli.blogspot.com/ Her hobbies include bird-watching and word-botching. She claims to get her exercise by jumping to conclusions, running at the mouth, and climbing the walls. Her partner in these adventures is Thomas, her husband of 53 years, and presently pastor of Eminence Christian Church in Eminence, KY. (When she grows up she wants to become a retreat speaker!)
Brandon William Peach is, first and foremost, the husband of Kathleen O'Neill and the father of William Sean O'Neill. He is a writer with a degree in literature from Penn State University, and a frequent contributor to various blogs, magazines, and podcasts.
While his career is in marketing, Brandon's primary interests include historical Christianity, literature, art, and pacifism in practice. He lives in the heart of Amish Country in Central Pennsylvania, where "getting stuck in traffic" often means being stuck behind a horse and buggy on a windy backroad. His hobbies include reading, writing, watching good movies, cooking, and most importantly, spending time with his wife and son.
He is owned by his cat Tiger and his dog Millie.
Rev Sarah Renfro is the Pastor of Family Ministries at Geist Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Fishers, Indiana. Born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, Sarah formerly modeled internationally, was ordained into ministry in 2010, is married to Rev. Kyle Brown, mother to Miriam, March Madness fanatic (Go Big Blue!), and writer at m-bodied.com. Her ministry includes leading body image workshops and preaching on embodiment and faith.
Rev Myra Torrance is the pastor of Chelan Christian Church, where she has led the congregation for four years. She has been a pastor in the Disciples of Christ Christian Church for over 35 years. Prior to being called to the pulpit, she was the Executive Director for Hospice in Vincennes, Indiana. Myra is originally from Vincennes, Indiana, where she raised her four children with her husband, Bud, before his passing in 2011. Myra loves to write and enjoys time with her two Chihuahuas.
Rev Rebecca Ann Yowler is an ordained Disciples minister and an academic librarian. She is currently adjunct faculty at Valparaiso University. She is passionate about pugs, knitting, and figure skating. You can read her occasional sermons and devotions at www.beccassermons.livejournal.com
The Purpose of Lent
Lent is a season within the Christian Calendar. There are special days Christians observe, like Easter or Christmas. Those days usually fall within seasons. Easter is actually it's own season. (More on that later.) Lent too is it's own season. It begins Ash Wednesday, and lasts 40 days, excluding Sundays, leading up to Easter. Lent is wilderness time. It is 40 days to help us recall the Israelites 40 years and Jesus' 40 days in the Wilderness. It is a time where we get back to basics and let go of the things that are not needed. For many Christian traditions it's a time of fasting. For others, it's a time to take up a Christian practice, or let go of a bad habit.
On March 1st Lent will begin. Here at Fig Tree, we will have our own devotional, Fruit of the Spirit. If you are still looking for a devotional, you can click the link and choose the format that bests suits you.-OR- visit our meditation tab every day starting March 1st, and we will post the devotional along with the biography for the daily writer.
Either way, I hope your preparations for Easter are fruitful. May God walk with you on your journey this Lenten season.
The Spirit of a Leader
1 Brothers and sisters, I couldn't talk to you like spiritual people but like unspiritual people, like babies in Christ. 2 I gave you milk to drink instead of solid food, because you weren't up to it yet. 3 Now you are still not up to it because you are still unspiritual. When jealousy and fighting exist between you, aren't you unspiritual and living by human standards? 4 When someone says, "I belong to Paul," and someone else says, "I belong to Apollos," aren't you acting like people without the Spirit? 5 After all, what is Apollos? What is Paul? They are servants who helped you to believe. Each one had a role given to them by the Lord: 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God made it grow. 7 Because of this, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but the only one who is anything is God who makes it grow. 8 The one who plants and the one who waters work together, but each one will receive their own reward for their own labor. 9 We are God's coworkers, and you are God's field, God's building.
1 Cor 3:1-9 CEB
In this brief scripture, we have a great example of knowledge as it pertains to leadership and taking in knowledge.
That's a mouthful of words. Let me simplify it. The scripture for today shows us what we should expect from our leaders, and how our leaders should educate us.
I'm going to do this by focusing on three points The person helping Paul in Corinth: Apollos, the analogy of milk, and God the Grower:
Apollos: If you clicked on the tab "about the pastor" you would see I linked a meditation I wrote over a year ago about female ministry. When I first wrote it, I was trying to understand Paul's thoughts in 1 Cor 14. My work was met with mixed reaction. Basically anyone who already agreed women should be ministers praised it. To everyone else it was a mixed bag. "Isn't this explaining away?" "You are putting what you want into the text." "But TIMOTHY!!!" What I didn't know then that I do know is Apollos.
Apollos was zealous in just the right ways. He was called, and really understood the limited information he had regarding Christ. Only he didn't have much of it. That's when Priscilla and Aquila stepped in and expanded his education. The first less important point is that Apollos was taught, in part, by a female. The more important point is this: The call was not enough. Being correctly educated was an important component to the call.
What does that mean? I'm glad you asked! It means the call needs tools! Called to build a house? You need lumber, nails, saws and other basic building equipment. If you are called to be a minister you need a good education. Some like to believe that the call gives some secret wisdom, like tapping into a well. There may be truth in that, but without education there is no way to refine that Spirit.
This is where I reiterate the point I made in the female ministry meditation. We are called to be educated leaders, not exactly a gender-specific leadership. I suggest you read it if you haven't already.
Milk: The first year of seminary shapes the future two years for a seminarian. For some they completely lose it and drop out. Some decide they are going to remain unmoved and learn nothing. I was livid. I mean it. I was seeing red. Why? I'm glad you asked. The ministers who raised me up in the church hid the truth. I was asking some pretty tough questions leading up to seminary and those questions were not being answered. I assumed it was because those questions didn't have answers. Nope. In seminary I learned my questions had answers, and new questions had answers, and completely different questions had no real answer, or no answer yet. I was ready to eat the Word up! Yet, it was so difficult to be excited when I knew I could have had my answers years before if the various ministers just trusted me with the truth.
That's what makes the milk so difficult. One doesn't give a baby milk it's entire life. At some point you begin to introduce new food. I've had two babies, a know a thing or two about this subject. As Paul wrote, the Corinthians were not ready for anything but milk, but that didn't mean they wouldn't some day be ready for a thicker food, something they could begin to chew on. Also, easy to digest doesn't mean watered down.
We also need to realize everyone should start out on milk. I've seen the look on the face of someone who wasn't ready for meat and potatoes theology. Their eyes grew wide, they fought back, and then dropped out. Wanna kill a baby Christian? Give them meat and potatoes theology instead of milk. A good leader realizes what the congregants need and gives them that need. A good leader also knows when to begin adding new food options.
The Grower: I pulled a valuable lesson from The Hope Partnership's leadership training. We should see faith and the Spirit from a mindset of abundance over and beyond scarcity. When we think of scarcity we see limited resources. It brings the idea that there are limited positions and tools at our disposal, Scarcity pits us against one another when we should be the Body of Christ. (Dying institutions live through scarcity economics.) Coming at faith and the Spirit from a mindset of abundance means there is more than enough for everyone. We are not frightened when someone succeeds. We are more willing to give credit where it is due.
In the case of our scripture, Paul and Apollos were beginning to gain separate fan bases. Some were Paul fans, and some were Apollos fans. Now if Paul shut it down and told everyone his opinion trumped all others, it might have crushed Apollos and it would have been a lie.
Paul knew the abundance of the Spirit and was not afraid to give credit where credit was due. Paul was the planter, Apollos watered the seed, and most importantly God grew the seed. All the power and glory went to God, as it should.
What does this mean? Well, I'm glad you asked! We are at the age of the "Self-Help Minister." This makes perfect sense because the church is always 20 years behind society. Twenty years ago we were seeking books and DVD sets from Self-Help Gurus. People wanted to know how to live a happier life in 5 easy steps! The guru had the answer. Society mocked the self-help guru as being fake and moved on, but kept the desire for quick answers with no work involved. Now twenty years later Christians are working through their own Self-Help fad.
A guru could claim the answer to a specific problem he/she overcame. He or she did it all by themselves. What sounds amazing from a Self-Help Guru sounds fishy from a minister. The minister became the answer and God became the product being sold. Paul tells the truth: A planter delivers the truth, that truth is watered, and God is the one who decides whether it grows. God is the answer. There is no product.
What do you think? What are you drawn to in the scripture? We want to know!
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This Lent, join us for the Fruit of the Spirit: Lenten Devotional. Twelve great writers, each digging into the scripture. More information can be found on our Upcoming Events page.
The View From a Faultless Mirror
1Look, I am sending my messenger who will clear the path before me;
suddenly the Lord whom you are seeking will come to his temple.
The messenger of the covenant in whom you take delight is coming,
says the Lord of heavenly forces.
2 Who can endure the day of his coming?
Who can withstand his appearance?
He is like the refiner's fire or the cleaner's soap.
3 He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver.
He will purify the Levites
and refine them like gold and silver.
They will belong to the Lord,
presenting a righteous offering.
4 The offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord
as in ancient days and in former years
-Malachi 3:1-4 CEB
-Rev Melissa-
It's a well known trope within movies, TV, and books. The mirror knows all. Frank L. Baum incorporated it twice. Once with the Gnome King's mirror, that can see where ever he asks for it to see. The second time with Zixi the Queen of Ixi. This queen, who was over 600 years old, used magic to make herself look 16. Her mirror, conversely showed her real age.
The one that immediately came to my mind was The Mirror Gate from The Neverending Story. It was one of the tests in order to get to the Southern Oracle. When the traveler came to the gate, they had to look in the mirror to pass. The reflection would show the honest view of the person:
Engywook: Next is the Magic Mirror Gate. Atreyu has to face his true self.
Falcor: So what? That won't be too hard for him.
Engywook: Oh, that's what everyone thinks! But kind people find out that they are cruel. Brave men discover that they are really cowards! Confronted by their true selves, most men run away screaming!
Atreyu discovered Bastian because Atreyu was only an avatar for Bastian's adventure. (Atreyu doesn't realize that when he sees it, and simply passes through.)
When I read Malachi 3:2-3 I imagine God much like one of those magic mirrors. The reason we wouldn't be able to endure the day of his coming, is because we would be left with only the truth of who and what we were. It's that "refiners fire and cleaner's soap" referred to in scripture. That would be enough to make "kind people find out that they are cruel. Brave men discover that they are really cowards!" Basically, enough to help us all see we are fallen creatures, all of us. None of us are perfect. All of us fall short of the glory of God.
Just something to think about. On a side note, there are times I feel like I've been put before God, and I have felt that boiled down truth. It helps me find humility towards others, even if sometimes I'm not humble. It helps me find kindness, even if sometimes I'm not kind. God's truth always makes us better, even if seeing the truth isn't something we are drawn to do.


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I'm traveling again. This time over to the UK. I will be there from July 3rd to July 15th. I will be landing in London, and I think the majority of the time I'll be spending there, but honestly, I just don't know where to go. I really don't have a plan.
I need help, and I know there are some Brits here on A2K. Where should I go? A friend has suggested I use hostels and couch surfing so I can meet more people on my trip. Has anyone here ever done that? I'll probably stay in a hotel or too as well, but what the hell do I know about England?
Oh and if it wasn't obvious in the dates I'm there, I'll be celebrating the US's independence from the British, in England. A good pub on the night of the 4th is a must!
[+3] - Barry The Mod - 07/21/2009Hey TKO,wotcha' mate,are you gonna' post any pics/vids?
[+3] - McTag - 07/24/2009 Spendy, it just won't do old chap, insulting people and then accusing them of having no sense of humour. Dashed bad show.
Barry the mod lives in London, and is a decent sort of sot.
You'll be there for the final days of Wimbledon, and can take the tube down there.
The Metropolitan Pub, 8-9 Windsor St, Uxbridge, UK.
It would have been funny if you said something like "Do us a favor and stay there."
If you really want to do a service for the posters on these threads, Diest TKO, you should investigate and report on the state of Medical Care in England.
Let Izzie know you are coming.
She lives in England and can probably answer your questions best.
I have ideas, but I have no idea what sort of stuff you are interested in.
I just have the idea that it is very different from what I am interested in.
Can you give us a trail of crumbs?
Herod was a king with bad press...but that isn't important right now.
I don't think he has a swanky store in London though.
I think I cannot help.
I love British literary culture....and ancient cultures generally....I wept at Chaucer's tomb, and that of Elizabeth I and the ghost of Mary Tudor....the British Museum was a sacred pilgrimage...Canterbury Cathedral a shrine...Bloomsbury a delight.....sigh.
Go to the Tate. And other museums too.
Wander. That was my favorite thing to do in London. I never felt unsafe though I bet there were places I could've gone that would've been dicey.
Do you like scenery? Train journeys let you take in lots of it. There are some lovely Scottish train journeys.
If you see the Royal Shakespeare Company perform, do it in London...their Stratford on Avon performances tend to be more middle of the road.
Lots of music stuff happening.
I found folk much friendlier than they are rumoured to be...especially in pubs.
I found it depended on nationality + number. They were very friendly to me, singly or with non-Americans. When I was with a pack of Americans, though, we got a lot of attitude.
Aah! Indeed....like French Canadians are really nice once they discover you are neither from the USA, nor an Anglophone Canadian.
I'm not going to pretend I'm from Canada. I can't have the Brits thinking all Canadians are THIS cool.
You haven't lived until you've passed as Canadian, eh.
Well, I'm not bad at doing a fake accent. None of that poser "eh" and "hoser" BS either. My impersonation is legit.
How exactly are we supposed to be at my wedding in Maui, and in England, on July 3rd, at the same time? Have we really put any thought into this?
Oh hey.......... loadsa places in London........ Covent Garden - people watching, street actors, all the markets, markets are incredible, so many galleries and museums, river cruises, BigBen, HOP, West End, Shows, SOHO - you must visit SOHO - London Tombs (scary), Crown Jewels, Tower of London - concerts - there is so much to see and do there. Fabulous place to people watch.
There's a couple folk up there and around the M25 - Pentacle Queen is there - she's on her hols soon too - why don't you PM her - you guys would have a whole world of stuff to talk about!!!!!!!!!!!!
if you wanna real piece of quiet... Devon's 200 miles away - HA - not really the place for a 26yr old who wants to live the high life and wants to experience a great big dollop of fun - but you're most very welcome to come stay ANYTIME.... you'd have to like greenery and babbling brooks.
Gosh - there is just heaps to keep you busy in London - it's not cheap tho - in fact - it's really expensive over here - if you can find somewhere to bunk down on the sofa - you'd save yerfself a fortune. You won't need a car in London - loadsa transport. The UK is verra beautiful, outstanding scenery. All depends what you like really.


The veterinarian's answer that their blood chemistry is different is correct but oversimplified. You would be amazed at how different their blood cell counts and blood biochemistry really is -- and not just the red and white blood cell count! If your vet sends the blood work out for testing at a national laboratory like IDEXX or Antech the report they get back will indicate some of the range differences for greyhounds, but not all. If they do in-house testing their scale probably won't be adjusted for greyhounds. Instead of us listing the many differences in greyhound blood, we have linked to two very reliable articles that list all of the differences.
greyhound blood work differences an older article on from Dr. Suzanne Stack from her website titled Greythealth. The Greythealth website is actually a treasure trove of other articles on greyhound health topics.


0.1 It is important for counselors and also psychological health and wellness specialists to stay current with info affecting their occupation.
0.4 Conversely, family members could come to be far-off, angry, and also resentful.
0.5 Outside of the domestic substance abuse treatment facility, people' family and friends are extremely motivated to participate in Al Anon or Nar Anon conferences.
It is important for counselors and also psychological health and wellness specialists to stay current with info affecting their occupation.
For family and friends of medication- or alcohol-addicted people, resolving the dependency is among the most tough elements helpful the addicted person look for treatment. Commonly, over time, everyday household participation has actually only handled to make it possible for the addict. Relative often do unknown ways to bring up the concern of addiction treatment, and also decide to overlook the problem for anxiety of pressing their liked one away throughout a fight or intervention.
These are legit concerns, as well as while family members ought to recognize that approaching their enjoyed one should be a mild as well as encouraging procedure, they likewise should comprehend that many clients look for chemical abuse treatment due to positive household participation as well as intervention.
Each family is various, and also the very best method to technique family participation with dependency treatment will certainly differ with every person. There are counselors in your location that are trained to work with medication- as well as alcohol-addicted clients as well as their households, and also while they could be beneficial to mediate the intervention procedure, your family members may decide to have an exclusive, non-confrontational and straightforward talk with the addict to urge them to seek therapy.
Whichever approach you take, it is very important to comprehend that the household dynamic in drug and alcohol addiction is extremely effective, which dealing with an undesirable inequality in communication is your very first step in removaling your enjoyed one towards addiction treatment. This type of favorable family members participation can also aid lead the rest of your family members towards a journey of recuperation and also self-discovery.
After a treatment, the best-case situation is that the addicted individual will certainly be urged to go into either an inpatient or outpatient substance abuse therapy program. Each patient's requirements as well as methods are various, and also outpatient and also inpatient programs have differing advantages for individuals and family members.
Participation in an outpatient dependency therapy program suggests that clients are not separated from their families, they are able to attend courses in a facility near their house, and also patients could proceed chemical abuse therapy for an extended quantity of time. In an inpatient (domestic) program, individuals take a trip to a center where they go through an intensive 28- to 30-day detoxing and also recuperation program. They are immersed in the recuperation process and also do not have the capability to leave the drug abuse treatment university. Family members participation is vital, and inpatient addiction treatment programs frequently motivate regular communication with going to household and also pals.
As previously mentioned, clients' demands vary, however inpatient chemical abuse treatment has the evident advantage of getting rid of the medication- or alcohol -addicted individual from the toxic ambience that was allowing their dependency, and also helping them via dependency therapy without distraction. This same benefit is transferred to the client's family and friends, that are typically able to gain a brand-new viewpoint concerning their liked one's addiction and their own actions.
Household involvement, when the person is in an off-site chemical abuse treatment center, is routine as well as aids family members go back and also recognize adverse actions patterns. As an example, well-meaning family and friends frequently come to be trapped in a cycle of allowing and also codependency with the client prior to addiction treatment. They make believe like absolutely nothing is incorrect and inadvertently aid the patient's dependency by ignoring the trouble.
Conversely, family members could come to be far-off, angry, and also resentful.
They might believe that they could not attend to the issue without angering the person or exacerbating their enjoyed one's addiction. When the family members have the ability to pause and also analyze their habits as well as setting while their enjoyed one is undertaking dependency treatment, they frequently determine actions as well as qualities that they can get used to break the cycle.
Addiction treatment is supported greatly by positive and constant household participation. The assistance that a household supplies to an individual recouping from addiction is necessary to that individual's success, as well as domestic centers will often have not only visitation throughout the week or on weekends, however will additionally provide educational programs for family participants, such as supportive as well as dynamic recovery workshops and sessions for household participation.
Outside of the domestic substance abuse treatment facility, people' family and friends are extremely motivated to participate in Al Anon or Nar Anon conferences.
These programs support family and friends throughout as well as after the chemical abuse treatment program. They are essential for family members involvement.
There really is no specific "end" to the addiction therapy procedure. Families fighting with the effects of their loved one's alcohol and drug addiction ought to continuously go to Al Anon or Nar Anon meetings (perhaps both) often to proceed an useful program of support and also continuous education and learning.
Alcohol and also medicine dependency are both considered "family members conditions," as well as household participation with individuals combating alcohol and drug dependency needs continual presence at these meetings throughout as well as after the official inpatient or outpatient dependency therapy session. Additionally, while these meetings aid people to understand the disease and ways to sustain a person they appreciate, they additionally help loved ones with their very own emotional assistance throughout what is usually an extremely trying and also difficult time. By remaining to attend Al Anon as well as Nar Anon meetings, friends and family of an addicted person could continuously avoid of the destructive cycle of enabling as well as codependency and also totally recognize the benefits of addiction treatment.


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Se considera patrimonio arbóreo monumental el conjunto de árboles cuyas características botánicas de monumentalidad o circunstancias extraordinarias de edad, porte u otros tipos de acontecimientos históricos, culturales, paisajísticos, científicos, de recreo o ambientales ligados a ellos y a su legado, los haga merecedores de protección y conservación. Abarca tanto a los ejemplares aislados como a las arboledas o conjuntos que contengan varios especímenes arbóreos.

Los árboles singulares destacan por ciertas características (edad, tamaño, historia, significación cultural o rareza) que les hacen merecedores de un especial cuidado y protección, por lo que constituyen parte del patrimonio natural. Una arboleda singular es un grupo de árboles singulares, o un conjunto armonioso de árboles que por separado no alcanzarían suficiente valor.

Normativa
A los árboles reconocidos como monumentales o declarados singulares no se les puede talar ni dañar total ni parcialmente. Se establecen zonas de protección a su alrededor, cuya extensión varía según el paisaje, las especies asociadas, los peligros potenciales y otros factores. Para cualquier clase de protección debe pedirse un permiso a la administración competente. Para los casos en que alguien daña los árboles catalogados de singulares, las leyes estipulan sanciones.

Cuentan con leyes y catálogos Cantabria (1984), Baleares (1991), Comunidad de Madrid (1992), País Vasco (1995), Extremadura (1998), La Rioja (1999), Castilla y León (2003), Aragón (2004), Comunidad Valenciana (2006), Galicia (2007) y Región de Murcia (2016).

Los inventarios de árboles monumentales y singulares son abiertos, ya que se pueden incorporar continuamente nuevos ejemplares o eliminar los muertos.

Listado por comunidades autónomas

Véase también
 Anexo:Árboles centenarios en España
 Anexo:Árboles milenarios en España
Árboles singulares de La Rioja (España)
 Árboles singulares de Cantabria
 Árboles singulares de la Comunidad de Madrid
 Árboles singulares de Extremadura
 Árboles y arboledas singulares de Aragón
 Anexo:Árboles singulares de Galicia

Referencias

Bibliografía
  Sesé JA (supervisión). Árboles de Aragón: guía de árboles monumentales y singulares de Aragón. Dirección General del Medio Natural. Zaragoza: PRAMES DL; 2000.
 Moya Sánchez B, Plumed Sancho J, Moya Sánchez J. Árboles Monumentales de España. Madrid: Compañía Logística de Hidrocarburos; 2003.
 Árboles singulares de España. Madrid: Mundi-Prensa; 2004. ISBN 9788484762164
 Árboles Monumentales de España. Comunidades Autónomas. Madrid: Compañía Logística de Hidrocarburos; 2005.
 Árboles Monumentales de España. Ecosistemas y ambientes. Madrid: Compañía Logística de Hidrocarburos; 2006.
 Conde Campos O (dirección). Árboles singulares de Zaragoza. Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza. 2006. ISBN 84-8069-409-2
 Patón Ponce J. Árboles y arboledas singulares de La Mancha. Diputación Provincial de Ciudad Real. 2014.
  Árboles Singulares. Madrid: Fundación Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente. 4 cuadernos técnicos (diciembre de 2014 a octubre de 2015):
 Abella I, et al. Árboles singulares de la España atlántica y pirenaica. Madrid: Fundación Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente. 12/2014.
 Esteve Comes E, et al. Árboles singulares de la España mediterránea. Madrid: Fundación Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente. 03/2015.
 De Tapia R, et al. Árboles singulares de la España interior. Madrid: Fundación Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente. 06/2015.
 Alcañiz JM, et al. Árboles singulares de Canarias y jardines botánicos. Fundación Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente. 09/2015.
  Árbores con historia. Ruta de árbores senlleiras. Junta de Galicia. 2015.
  Gil Chamorro A. Árboles singulares de Extremadura. Dirección General de Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Extremadura. 2015.
 Árboles Singulares de Galicia. Guía de viaje. Junta de Galicia. 2017.
 Árboles singulares de la ciudad de Burgos. Ayuntamiento de Burgos.

Enlaces externos
 Árboles monumentales de España. Bibliografía. A Monteira.
  Diez árboles singulares de España
 Árboles singulares de la ciudad de Valladolid
  Libros sobre árboles singulares y monumentales de España
  Árboles y bosques singulares. Guía de recursos informativos.

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Q: Duda sobre bucle for llevo dos semanas,hay un ejercicio donde el programa tiene que decir la temperatura mas baja y la mas alta de todas las que les hayas puesto, como se haria? . Muchas gracias.
#include<iostream>

using namespace std;
 float t1,temperatura_media,t2,t3,t4;
int main(){
    for(int x=0;x<1;x++){
        cout<<"Pon la temperatura 00:00: ";cin>>t1;
        cout<<"Pon la temperatura 06:00: ";cin>>t2;
        cout<<"Pon la temperatura 12:00: ";cin>>t3;
        cout<<"Pon la temperatura 18:00: ";cin>>t4;

    }
    temperatura_media= (t1+t2+t3+t4)/4;
    cout<<"la temperatura media es: "<<temperatura_media<<endl;
    return 0;
}

A: No se exactamente por que metes los count dentro de un for que solo se ejecuta una vez. Es ilogico. Pero en fín, para lo que necesitas hacer existen muchas formas, algunas incluyen uso de estructuras, arrays, vectores o simples condiciones. La más sencilla es hacerlo por condiciones, tipo: if(t1>t2), pero también es la mas tediosa ya que tienes que considerar todos los casos sin mencionar que es poco eficiente.
La forma más simple y a la vez la que yo considero mas efectiva es la siguiente:
#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
int main()
{
   float temperaturas[4] = {25.35, 18.40, 21.29, 25.14};
   sort(temperaturas, temperaturas+4);

}

Fuente: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sort_%28C%2B%2B%29
Ahora una vez ordenados para obtener la temperatura minima puedes hacerlo con temperaturas[0]y la temperatura maxima con temperaturas[3].
Saludos!


...that the true name of the "Brute" species is Jiralhanae, and the Latin name Servus ferox or "wild slave"?
...that Halo Wars concept art depicts an Arctic Beast?
Were you looking for the Control Room of Installation 04 or the Control Room of Installation 05?
The Ur-Didact's remains in the Control Room's central chamber.
Installation 03's Control Room was the site that controlled all of the Installation's operations. The facility was similar in design and layout to the control room of Installation 08, featuring a hologram of the ring and nearby astronomical objects; after the ring's relocation at the behest of the Ur-Didact, this hologram showed the Halo above a Forerunner planet that harbored the Composer manufacturing installation known as the Composer's Forge.
Following the New Phoenix Incident, the Ur-Didact plotted to fire Halo Installation Gamma at Earth. Spartan Blue Team, aided by the betrayed monitor 859 Static Carillon, attempted to stop the Didact. During their battle, Static Carillon teleported the Didact to the Installation's control room in order to aid Blue Team. Determined to confront and kill the Promethean warrior, John-117 arrived in the control room and after a brief exchange of words, inserted the ring's Activation Index into the installation's Core. The Didact was puzzled and asked why the Spartan would activate the ring just to eliminate him. John informed the Didact that he did consider it, but was reminded by the monitor that firing the ring would also kill every living creature within 25,000 light years of the installation. So instead, John did not activate the ring's weapon, but instead disabled its safety protocols; this allowed the monitor to eject a large section of the ring containing the Control Room toward the Composer's Forge below. The monitor rescued the Spartan, while the Didact was disintegrated by the over-lapping pulses released by the Composers, which were presumably destroyed upon impact with the control room. The explosion left behind the Didact's smoldering remains on the control center's floor; the chamber itself remained seemingly intact.
John-117 connects Gamma Halo's Index to the control room's core.
The Ur-Didact is seemingly vanquished inside the control room.


Grooming is about more than just what your dog looks like on the outside.
Regular (daily/ weekly) brushing helps to remove any shedding hair, dirt, dandruff or tangles and prevents fur from matting. As a side to preventing mats, regular brushing also becomes an enjoyable experience for most pets, can help maintain a healthy coat through increased circulation and by encouraging the production of natural oils. This helps to maintain appearance while also giving us and yourselves a chance to get our hands on your pet and find any abnormalities (lumps, bugs and injuries) that may cause problems if otherwise undiscovered.
Stop any compacting of dirt & debris that can lead to sore or sensitive paws.
Nail trimming stops ingrown nails, and if done regularly will reduce the chances of bleeding when the quick (pink) gets too long.
When fur becomes matted we will not pull and tug, imagine the sore head you'd get, this usually leads to us shaving the mats out to prevent injury trying to cut them or sores from pulling at them too much.


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Nebo gori modro je slovenski srednjemetražni romantično dramski TV film iz leta 1997.

Film ni bil sprejet na 6. Slovenski filmski maraton v Portorožu, ker je bil posnet na elektronskem mediju, čeprav takih filmov prejšnja leta niso zavračali.

Zgodba
Bivša zakonca, scenaristka Klavdija in režiser Marjan, v morski idili samotnega otoka pišeta scenarij za nov film in obračunavata med sabo. Njuna zgodba govori o fotografu Damjanu, ki z jadrnico pripelje Nano in Petra, mladi parček in plezalca, na pusti otok, kjer ima svoj vikend. Nana ima Petra rada, vendar se med foto seansami zaplete s starejšim Damjanom.

Produkcija
Scenarij je nosil naslov 8000 K. Vedrana Grisogono Nemeš ga je napisala na pobudo Pervanja, ki je hotel zgodbo na morju ali v puščavi. Za morje se je odločila, ker ji je bližje. Za lik fotografa najprej niso vedeli, ali bo moški ali ženska. Del scenarija je bil predelan v novelo Burning Blue. Pervanje in Grisogonova sta za uresničitev filma zaradi zavrnitev potrebovala več let.

Za Pevca je vrnitev k igranju pomenilo prijetno izkušnjo in filmsko delo z manj odgovornosti. Za tonskega mojstra Marjana Cimpermana je največjo težavo predstavljala burja. Lokacija snemanja so bili kornatski otoki.

Kritiki
Ženja Leiler je film označila za kombinacijo adolescentne scenaristike in aseptične spotovske režije, ki se izteče v prazno in je videti kot turistična promocija z lepim dekletom. Žal ji je bilo za Hočevarja in Lapajnetovo, ki sta se morala ubadati s srednješolskimi dialogi. Zgodba se ji je zdela preživeta in polna obrabljenih klišejev, med katerimi je tudi ideja o filmu v filmu. Iz filma je več izvedela o mentaliteti avtorjev, kot o likih. Užalil jo je stereotipni žgečljivi lik iz moških fantazij, malce prenapeta in na silo skrivnostna mladenka, ki ni več otrok, ženska pa tudi ne, vendar je dovolj zvita, da zapelje fotografa. Za neslane je imela izjave tipa »obraz je pokrajina podzavesti« in »ali bom jaz tudi umrla v goreči modrini«. Opazila je, da so hoteli ustvarjalci zgodbi povezati in doseči, da bi vplivali druga na drugo, vendar jim je spodletelo, ker so ju namesto z dobrim suspenzom zaključili s fetiši, kot so fotoaparati, pištolami in obrobnimi travmami posameznikov.

Zasedba

 Maša Derganc: Nana
 Miha Arh: Peter
 Metod Pevec: fotograf Damjan
 Barbara Lapajne Predin: scenaristka Klavdija
 Janez Hočevar: režiser Marjan

Ekipa

 glasba: Vlatko Stefanovski
 montaža: Milan Milošević
 scenografija: Mirjana Koren
 kostumografija: Tanja Pervanje in Tanja Škrbić Birgmajer
 maska: Sonja Murgelj
 zvok: Marjan Cimperman
 dramaturginja: Diana Martinc

Sklici in viri

 Nebo gori modro: Za kamero. (novinarski prispevek na SLO 1 1997). nal. Jure Nemec. 3. dec. 2016. YouTube
 Nebo Gori Modro predstavitev. (Za tv kamero. novinarski prispevek na SLO 1 1997). nal. Jure Nemec. 2. dec. 2016. YouTube

Zunanje povezave

Filmi leta 1997
Slovenski dramski filmi
Slovenski romantični filmi
Filmi o filmskem procesu
Filmi, postavljeni na otok
Filmi RTV Slovenija
Filmi v režiji Jureta Pervanja
Slovenski srednjemetražni filmi
Slovenski televizijski filmi


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Юшкова — деревня в Тугулымском городском округе Свердловской области России.

Географическое положение
Деревня Юшкова муниципального образования «Тугулымского городского округа» расположено в 8 километрах к север-северо-востоку от посёлка Тугулым (по автотрассе в 11 километрах), в долине реки Айба  (левого притока реки Пышма). Через деревню проходит Сибирский тракт, а само село является крайним восточным населенным пунктом Свердловской области.

История
Деревня Юшкова была основана ямским охотником Юшко Володиным в 1600 году.
В 1976 году местным жителем А.С. Марандиным был найден клад монет весом более 37 пуд. Клад состоял из 12 395 монет достоинством 5 копеек, отчеканенных в 1758–1796 годах. Найден на месте, где в старину располагалась баня владельца постоялого двора.

Население

Примечания

Населённые пункты Тугулымского городского округа


What Is The 'Dark Cloud Cover' Candlestick Pattern?
The Dark Cloud Cover candlestick pattern is a bearish reversal candlestick pattern. The pattern got this name because of its resemblance to a cloud covering an hillock. Dark reflects pessimism here.
Dark cloud cover pattern is very similar to the bearish engulfing pattern with a minor variation, and is also the counter part of the 'Piercing' candlestick pattern.
It is formed by the combination of two candlesticks. The first candle is a trending white candle and the second is the reversal black candlestick.
In a bearish engulfing pattern, the red/bearish candle engulfs the green/bullish candle completely. However, in the dark cloud cover pattern, the red/bearish candle engulfs about 50% to 100% of the green/bullish candle's real body. Example, if the green candle's range (Open – Close) is 10, the red candle's range should be at least 5 or higher.
During an up trend, the market keeps making new highs. On the first day (or specified time period) of the dark cloud cover pattern formation, the market as expected moves higher, forming a green bullish candle. Next day, the price opens above the previous day's closing price and attempting to make a new high. At the high point of the day, there is sudden selling interest from the bears, which drives the prices lower. But the buyers are still happy to buy on the decline.
However, the bears keep selling and also force those who bought at the high price to cover their long position to limit the loss. At the end of the day, the price closes below its opening price covering about 50% to 100% length of the previous day's green candle. This indicates that the bears are taking control of the market. One should look to sell after such movement as the bearishness is expected to continue over the next few successive trading sessions.
As shown in the above image, the 'dark cloud cover' candlestick pattern is effective in an up trending market and signals bearish trend reversal on the charts.
Significance of the dark cloud cover pattern increases if second day's opening price is above a resistance area and close is below the resistance area. If the second candle is a bearish marubozu or with no upper or lower shadow, it implies more bearishness in the market. Its importance is even more if it is accompanied by increased volume.