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Many people worry about going to the dentist. You may be very nervous and may actually feel sick to your stomach. Some people become so nervous that they just don't go to the dentist. However, this can lead to serious problems, including infected gums and teeth, difficulty chewing, and lack of self-confidence because of bad teeth or bad breath.
To help get over being nervous about the dentist, it is helpful to first understand why you may be nervous. Reasons include:
- Having had a painful or bad experience at the dentist, including insensitive comments made during your visit. The smell of the office or seeing or hearing the dental tools (such as the sound of a drill) may bring this back.
- Feeling helpless or out of control. Being confined to the chair and not being able to speak and communicate may cause this. The precautions your dentist takes, such as wearing a mask and gloves, may add to this feeling.
- Being embarrassed about the condition of your teeth.
- Hearing about others' bad experiences at the dentist or being influenced by how TV, newspapers, or magazines portray them.
- A fear of the unknown, including the procedures your dentist uses.
To help feel less nervous about a dental visit, try the following:
- Talk about your fears. Tell your dentist that you are nervous, and try to explain why. This way your dentist can do everything possible to put you at ease.
- Ask your dentist about what is going to happen and why. If you understand the steps of getting a filling, for example, you may feel less nervous about it. Ask your dentist to tell you when he or she is moving from one step in a procedure to another step.
- Make your dental visit at a time when you are not rushed or under pressure. An early morning, late afternoon, or Saturday may be the best time, as you may not have to worry about missing school or work.
- If the sound of a drill bothers you, ask your dentist if he or she has music and headphones. If not, bring your own audio player and headphones.
- Agree on hand signals to communicate pain, discomfort, or that you need a break.
- Use relaxation techniques. As you sit in the chair, try deep breathing or thinking about a favorite activity or place.
- Don't be afraid to switch dentists. If you talk to your dentist and feel that he or she is not listening or not making an effort to help you feel at ease, try another dentist. Tell your friends about your fears, and ask them about their dentists.
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Toyota will suspend sales of eight models in the US because of a problem with a sticking gas pedal. The Tuesday announcement follows a Toyota recall list that will affect 2.3 million vehicles.
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The timing couldn't be worse. After reporting its first ever annual loss last year, Toyota announced Tuesday that it will suspend US sales and manufacturing of eight Toyota models to fix faulty gas pedals. The unprecedented move comes days after the unveiling of a Toyota recall list of 2.3 million vehicles.
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If you step on the crack
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Petersen was born in East Los Angeles, California and served in the Army Air Corps in World War II. Starting with Hot Rod Magazine in 1948, he built his publishing empire on automotive-themed publications, including Car Craft, Sports Car Graphic and Motor Trend.[2] He also published CARtoons, Guns & Ammo, Sport, Motorcyclist, Motor Life, Hunting, Mountain Biker, Photographic, Teen, Tiger Beat, and Sassy Magazine.
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Sure you can, Dead Eye.
Are you just so bored that you feel the need to talk down to someone?
No- I just think its lame when people attempt to brag online.
Are you so bored you feel the need to respond to someone whom you think is talking down to you?
Because it's haughty and frankly it's rude to sound like you're some kind of superior person because weed isn't your particular hobby when perfectly sound-minded people partake.
You've been doing it the -entire- thread. Calling names should be beneath you, I would think. Calling someone Shaggy or Scooby or in any reference to half the population in the 60's is also an implication that because we smoke weed or advocate for the legality, we must be lazy or slow-minded.
Hey, I can't help it if I can push a poster's buttons while still making a point. Name calling is never beneath me when someone refuses to show me the same courtesy.
Look back to the beginning of this thread. I made one thing clear from the outset- I ultimately couldn't care less with what people do regarding pot. I know my view is contrary to alot of people, especially young people in my age group, my brother being one such person. I, like any person, dislike and condemn a number of things; weed smoking, saying 'axe' instead of 'ask', using text talk in regular conversation (cray, wtf, lol), wearing a dark tie, dark suit, and dark dress shirt. The list goes on and on.
So, what your saying is,"i concede". Good.
I'd say from the shifting of goal posts and actually having your moral code put into question for the public with jail and use statistics, and your blatant ignoring of relevant posts your actually the one with pushed buttons.
Leave the trolling of drug threads too the curse and anarchy they can actually make relevant arguments when challenged.
So what you are saying here is "I can't read because I was dropped on the head as a child.". No need though- you have demonstrated that enough, I promise you.
My position has been the same- I will argue my views, and school people like you any time (not that its particularly hard, just annoying. Like working with Helen Keller.), but, at the end of the day, if there is a ballot initiative in my state to legalize weed in all forms, I won't campaign against it. I won't attend rallies opposing it. I just won't vote for it. See, its called being an adult. At your developmental pace though, you won't get that til your late forties.


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I know everything looks better when you score 22 runs in two games, but I think I like BP hitting #2.
Here's my logic: he's clearly not a patience-at-the-plate, walks kinda guy. Seems to do better hitting early in the count. Now, with Jr. and Aurilia back and hitting 3-4, Phillips should get pitches to hit in the 2 hole.
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Liverpool will be without captain Steven Gerrard for the Barclays Premier League match at home to West Ham as the midfielder has been sidelined for a month by a hamstring injury.The 30-year-old sustained a grade two tear in England's friendly defeat to France in midweek and will be out for at least three to four weeks. With Lucas Leiva serving a one-match suspension for his sending-off in last weekend's defeat at Stoke manager Roy Hodgson will have to reshuffle central midfield.Defenders Glen Johnson, back after three games out, and Fabio Aurelio, who has made one substitute appearance since the end of August, are both in the squad. Joe Cole (hamstring) is still a week away from fitness.
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There seems to be no lag compensation; game is unplayable.
When I play there is a delay comparable to my ping for every server-related input. Movement, attacking, even damage being registered is ever so slightly delayed according to my ping. I get 100~ ping, and it's too weird to play the game properly. I play many other games just fine with no internet problems.
It can be a number of factors, some days there are network problems that'll result in bad ping, some games just have a bad connection, could actually be your internet having a problem. Those are just a couple I could think of.
having the same problem, but i spike up to 1000+ ping making the game almost unplayable and hard to win.
Can you guys post your system specs and logs?
Is this issue every game, or just some games? Wired or wireless? Have you restarted your router/modem/computer? Are you guys 100% positive there's nothing else on your network going on? Hulu, steam, youtube, bittorrent, there's all sorts of things someone in your household can do that tanks your lol ping. |
Hey Dataslave, how can I go about finding my system specs/logs? I have some issues I'd like to report, but I don't know where to find all of that information. Thanks.
Click on the link in my previous post :)
It's every game, and it doesn't seem to be because of my connection. I play every other game 100% smoothly. It just seems like league isn't compensating for my ping when it comes to server related actions like movement. When I click to move the icon comes up immediately, but the movement seems delayed bit a slight bit, but enough to mess up gameplay.
Ah I'm sorry! I didn't notice that there was a link there.
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Goals from Paul McShane and Diomansy Kamara gave the Baggies the points and inflicted a first home defeat in 15 games on the U's.
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Absolutely beautiful...looks like millions of tiny diamonds/jewels on the lips...my HG lusterglass...
I just bought this over the weekend & couldn't be happier! Lustrewhite is such a magical fairy type of icy glossy look. It is so much prettier then Snow Girl & can be worn alone or layered over pale lipsticks for an ethereal type of look. LustreWhite is a pale, whiteish shimmery pearl type of color w/ tiny diamond color glitter in it. It is GORGEOUS over pale pink or peachy color lipsticks. I put this over Sandy B peach frost lipstick & it looked fantastic. It also looked great over Poetic License peachy-pink lipglass. This is honestly a must have in MAC!
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At least in this case, you get what you pay for. 5+++++++++++++++
SAD NOTE: As of late spring/early summer 2006, my beloved "Lustrewhite" seems to have gotten the dreaded MAC axe.
HOWEVER, I tried "Snowgirl" Lipglass, and it's fairly similar, especially if you switch its sponge applicator with your last "Lustrewhite's" brush. The Lipglass caps and the Lustreglass caps are interchangeable!
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I am so impressed with Lustreglass! Less tacky than lipglass with the same awesome shine! I ordered Lustrewhite online and expected it to be a milky white color. Instead, it is clear with shimmer. It's a definite replacement for clear lipglass. Looks great alone or over just about anything!!!
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My new everyday mom at the playground lipgloss. I am a MMM (NC35) w/brown eyes and hair. This gives my lips a beautiful sheen that looks polished, but not garish. I was afraid of the shimmer at first, but it is very subtle, and the texture is not goopy or glittery. Great by itself or on top of any lipstick.
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This is a sheer gloss with hints of shimmer. Very pretty to coat over other colors or wear alone. This doesn't have any pigmentation on my lips other than a shiny wet shimmer look. A nice staple to have in your set.
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Lichen simplex chronicus (LSC). This occurs on skin regions accessible to chronic rubbing and scratching. Pruritus provokes rubbing that produces clinical lesions but the underlying pathophysiology is unknown. Some skin types are more prone to lichenification. One example is skin that is more susceptible to eczematous conditions (i.e., atopic dermatitis, atopic diathesis). The possible interplay among primary lesions, psychic factors and the intensity of pruritus additively influences the extent and severity of LSC.
Key Insights On Preventing And Treating Bowen's Disease
Preventative measures include protection of the solar exposed areas of the body with proper clothing and headgear as well as the use of a broad spectrum sunscreen at all times when outside. Early detection of skin lesions with regular evaluations by a physician is highly recommended.
The treatment for Bowen's disease depends upon the size and location of lesions, the number of lesions to be treated, and the preference of the physician.
Topical therapy with administration of 5-fluorouracil under occlusion reportedly is effective for the treatment of Bowen's disease. Patients would apply this cytotoxic cream once or twice daily as a 5% cream for one to eight weeks. Patients may also use imiquimod 5% cream, a topical immune response modifier, which they would apply three to five days per week for six to 16 weeks.
Surgical care can include cryotherapy or curettage. In both of these cases, an accurate diagnosis following biopsy is required before treatment begins. Simple excision with conventional margins of 4 mm is the most common and preferred treatment for smaller lesions and those that are not in challenging areas of the body.
Mohs micrographic surgery is an excellent method for larger lesions, recurrent lesions or those in areas where tissue sparing is vital. This technique uses the systematic surgical removal of skin cancer with very small margins of normal tissue and subsequent frozen section pathology examination. This offers the highest cure rate of all treatment modalities. Since one is removing relatively small borders around the lesion, this is considered a tissue sparing procedure.
Whatever the chosen treatment, one can often cure Bowen's disease. Occasionally, the lesions come back at the same site but physicians can usually treat these again effectively. Following the successful treatment of Bowen's disease, one should reevaluate the patient every three to six months.
A failure to recognize Bowen's disease or to perform a lesion biopsy can lead to delayed treatment. A high degree of suspicion is needed in both sun-exposed and non-sun-exposed areas of the skin. One should send all biopsy specimens of suspected skin lesions to a board certified dermatopathologist for further diagnostic evaluation.


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Debt Ceiling Deal a Prelude to Ultimate Default
Already, foreign companies, unlike U.S. companies, are not taxed by their home governments on oil they produce outside their home country. If the U.S. follows Mr. Obama's prescription, even more exploration and development abroad will move to competitors like BP and Royal Dutch Shell. U.S. imports from non-U.S. owned corporations will rise, and future U.S. tax revenues will be smaller and budget problems worse.
Similarly, all U.S. businesses can receive some tax credit for domestically based production and employment. The president wants that taken from oil companies -- who are also refiners and manufacturers and undertake considerable R&D. Follow that Rx, and future domestic production, employment and tax revenues will be smaller and budget problems worse.
Health Care
On health care, many items Republicans are pushing merely shift costs to state governments and private insurers, who must raise taxes or premiums -- encouraging more offshore production, fewer jobs and less tax revenues, and worsening future budget woes.
The pricing system -- and signals prices give to consumers about health care choices -- along with bureaucratic costs, the patent system and torts burdens are widely out of control. Germany, Holland and the U.S. have private insurance systems, though government reimbursements are about 80% in Germany and Holland and only 55% here. Those competitors spend 12% of GDP on health care -- the U.S. about 19%.
Germany's per capita drug costs are $400 per year, while in the U.S. those are $800. That filters through to the cost of doing business -- whether through taxes or insurance premiums. No small wonder why Germany doesn't have nearly the problem competing in global markets the U.S. does. Little being bandied by Republican budget cutters will fix that. Habitually Republicans say, "Who will pay for the R&D?" More accurate to ask, "Who will pay for unproductive tweaks in drug formulas to extend patents and big TV ad budgets to discourage use of generics?"Social Security
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1 Songgwangsa
Religious buildings
12 Sinpyeong-Ri ROK - Suncheon
Songgwangsa is one of the Three Jewel Temples of Buddhism symbolising the Sangha, or community of followers of Buddha. No less than 16 national masters were trained here - their portraits grace the Guksa-Jeon - and the temple remains an important cen..
2 Jeonju Hanok Village
Architecture, castles and historic districts
ROK - Jeonju
Visitors flock to Jeonju Hanok Village to see the traditional buildings that are beautifully preserved and conform to strict architectural conventions. Pass through Pungnammun Gate then wander about the little streets lined with buildings reminiscent..
3 Maisan Provincial Park
Religious buildings
ROK - Jinan
Several Buddhist temples built out of stone nestle between two peaks reminiscent of a pair of horse's ears. Two of these are Unsu-sa Temple and Tap-sa Temple, which are linked by a magnificent footpath. Don't miss out on a trip here, an hour away fro..
4 National Palace Museum of Korea
Museums and art
34 Sajikno ROK - Séoul
For a complete picture of the Joseon Dynasty, that reigned from the late 14C to the early 20C, admire the rich collections of the National Palace Museum of Korea: artefacts, furniture, paintings, etc. An ideal way to complement a tour of Gyeongbokgun..
5 Jongmyo Shrine
Religious buildings
155 Jongno ROK - Séoul
Like many buildings dating from the Joseon Dynasty, the Jongmyo sanctuary was rebuilt in the early 17C on the ashes of the original edifice destroyed by Japanese invasions. This Confucian sanctuary, an architectural masterpiece, remains the scene of ..
6 Changgyeonggung (Changgyeong Palace)
Architecture, castles and historic districts
2-1 Waryongdong ROK - Séoul
The palace's royal origins date back to the 12C, and despite successive reconstructions following Japanese invasions and fires, the edifice's handsome proportions and superb ornamentation continue to impress. Not to be missed, particularly when the g..
7 Insadong
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Insadong-gil ROK - Séoul
Don't be put off by the hordes of tourists that throng here; Insadong is full of hidden treasures. Former haunt of artists, its narrow lanes are lined with innumerable art and craft shops, galleries and traditional hanoks. Well worth a stroll.
8 Cheonggyecheon
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Jeong-dong ROK - Séoul
Cheonggyecheon now boasts yet another asset as the banks of the River Cheonggye have been landscaped into a long and pleasant riverside walk. However don't miss the late 19C Western buildings, the Deoksugung or a glimpse at the frenzied bustle that d..
9 Deoksugung (Deoksu Palace)
Architecture, castles and historic districts
5-1 Jeong-dong ROK - Séoul
Deoksugung, a palace built in the 15C, served as sanctuary for the royal family on several occasions. Among the various edifices, most of which were rebuilt in the early 20C, look out for the amazing Seogodang. The brightly coloured changing of the g..
10 Jung-gu
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Namchang-dong ROK - Séoul
Start exploring the Jung-gu district by Namsangol Hanok Village and its traditional hanoks, then go for a stroll along the streets of Namdaemun and Chungmuro to admire the buildings dating from the Japanese occupation. You may also be tempted by the ..
11 Leeum Samsung Museum of Art
Museums and art
747-18 Hannam-dong ROK - Séoul
Three architects, three halls and three exhibition areas. Jean Nouvel, Mario Botta and Rem Koolhaas combined their skill and talent to work on Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, creating a series of complementary and attractive volumes where traditional Ko..
12 Korean Folk Village
Museums and art
107 Bora-dong ROK - Yong-in
Although there is no substitute for discovering rural South Korea for yourself, the Korean Folk Village is worth visiting for its vast reconstruction of traditional buildings (14C-19C) and their interiors. You can also see craftsmen at work and atten..
13 DMZ (Demilitarized Zone)
Archaeological and historical sites
ROK - Daesung-dong
The tangible trace of the Korean War, which tore the country apart between 1950 and 1953, is summarised in three letters: DMZ stands for Demilitarized Zone, a 240km-long divide between the two worlds of the North and the South. If you are interested ..
14 Gangjin Celadon Museum
Museums and art
ROK - Gangjin
The Gangjin Celadon Museum celebrates the beauty of celadon, pottery that is characterised by its finesse and blue-green colour. The collection takes visitors on a journey of discovery of this thousand-year-old art, which is entwined with the Korea's..
15 Dolsan Do
Nature and gardens
ROK - Yeosu
Dolsan Do, one of the islands of Yeosu, is remarkable for the 7C Hyangiram Hermitage, and for the bridge that links it to the mainland: Dolsandaegyo. This 450m-long work of art is a sight to behold by night. In the daytime the bridge also affords lov..
16 Unhyeongung (Unhyeon Palace)
Architecture, castles and historic districts
114-10 Unnidong ROK - Séoul
Built in the second half of the 19C for Prince Regent Daeweongun, Unhyeongung provides a chance to see an interior typical of aristocratic homes at the end of the Joseon era. The edifice, entirely built out of wood, was beautifully restored in 1996.
17 Itaewon
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Itaewon-dong ROK - Séoul
While the cultural highlights of the Itaewon district are undoubtedly the National Museum of Korea and the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, it is also home to a rich and varied nightlife, a throwback to the former American military presence. Caution reco..
18 Namsan Park
Nature and gardens
ROK - Séoul
A cable car leads up to the highest point of Namsan Park, which is dominated by N Seoul Tower and stands in the heart of the Korean capital. Admire the breathtaking panorama at your feet, after enjoying a walk down refreshingly lush green paths.
19 Samneung Park
Religious buildings
47 Gil 5 Seonneungro-dong ROK - Séoul
Samneung Park, a haven of greenery in the sprawling business district of Seoul, is home to three Seonjeong tombs, which are Unesco world heritage sites, as are the other Joseon Dynasty royal tombs. Not to be missed.
20 Seodaemun
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Muak-dong ROK - Séoul
An unusual ambience reigns in Seodaemun at the heart of urban Seoul. Climb to the top of the sacred mountain of Inwang and enjoy the view over this lush green district, home to the Seoul Museum of History and Seodaemun Prison History Hall, both of wh..


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POSTED: Friday, June 8, 2012 - 3:00pm
UPDATED: Sunday, June 10, 2012 - 7:33pm
BATON ROUGE,LA (NBC33) — "Horrible, horrible," says Kendall Workman.
Workman has lived on Magazine Drive for more than five years. The only sounds she normally hears are the ducks at the nearby lake. That all changed around four Friday morning.
"We heard a few shots," says Workman.
Authorities believe Rauche Coleman shot his estranged wife and her son before turning the gun on himself. She's shocked that this could have happened less than a block from her home.
"This is the calmest, peaceful neighborhood that you could know of. Nothing. Nothing happens here. No loud noises. No parties, No, nothing. It's an excellent neighborhood.
It's a neighborhood where Workman says people look out for each other. According to Workman, Keisa Coleman had just moved the last of her stuff into her house on Thursday.
"I still can't believe that it would happen on my street," says Workman.
She's even more shocked that the alleged gunman would turn the gun on a juvenile.
"Shot a child, then shoot yourself. You've accomplished nothing. Who knows what was going through his head?" says Workman.
But she's most thankful that her 14-year old son wasn't one of the victims.
"Thank God they didn't meet because what if he was down there, having sleepovers. It does scare me," sasy Workman.


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Make the Most Out of Your Memorial Holiday!
Memorial Day is more than a three day escape from the usual grind of daily life. It is a chance for us to spend some time to celebrate and memorialize the lives of all those who died while in military service. Regardless of whether you have activities planned out for the three-day vacation, but it's important to pause to remember the sacrifices made for the stars and the blue, red, and white. And since Memorial Day also marks the beginning of summer in New York, why not combine the two activities by checking out and joining the parades happening in each of New York's five boroughs? There are a lot of activities lined up for those looking for a great time, and opportunities waiting for creative businesses.
But before all that, let's take a look at the real reason why this holiday exists.
Memorial Day—the History
Memorial Day began as Decoration Day—a day to commemorate the Union and Confederate soldiers who lost their lives in the Civil War. Since the 20th century, Decoration Day had been extended to honor all American soldiers who have died in service. To mark the day, most people visit cemeteries and memorials and place an American flag on graves of those who died in service of the country. The celebration of this particular holiday varies from cemetery to cemetery, and sometimes, from family to family. Some American families take this opportunity to gather on a designated day and put flowers on graves and renew contacts with relatives and kinsfolk. Some people might confuse Memorial Day with Veterans day, but to clear that out: Memorial Day is a day dedicated to remembering all the men and women who died while serving, while Veteran's day is to honor the service of all U.S. military veterans.
Some people opt to celebrate Memorial Day by decorating soldiers' graves with flowers. The earliest reported instance of honouring those who died on the battlefield is on June 3, 1861, implying the first Memorial Day occurred then; but in terms of proof, the first widely-publicized observance of the Memorial Day is in Charleston, South Carolina on May 1, 1865. American history professor David W. Blight, in his book Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, stated that the first Memorial Day happened in the midst of the war itself. During the war, Union soldiers who were prisoners of war had been held at the Charleston Race Course, wherein 257 Union soldiers died and were hastily placed in unmarked graves. Together with teachers and missionaries, black residents of Charleston organized a May Day ceremony in 1865, brought flowers to lay on the burial field, and built an enclosure and an arch labelled "Martyrs of the Race Course". This was covered by the New York Tribune and other national papers.
Traditionally, Memorial Day is observed by raising the national flag to the top of the staff and solemnly lowering it to the half position, where it remains until noon. It is raised to full-staff for the remainder of the day. The half-staff position remembers the more than one million men and women who gave their lives in service of their country. At noon, their memory is symbolically raised by the living, who resolve not to let their sacrifice be in vain, but to rise up in their stead and continue to fight for liberty and justice for all.
Aside from being a very important national holiday, Memorial Day also marks the unofficial start of the summer vacation season, and marks the end of Labor Day.
What to Do
Aside from visiting and honouring graves of our fallen heroes, there are a lot of parades and rallies you could join to commemorate the holiday. You could attend concerts, parades, rallies, memorials, and festivals. Regardless of where you happen to be in the United States, you're in for an awesome time. In Washington DC, for example, you could attend the National Memorial Day concert, or join the National Memorial Day Parade. Arlington National Cemetery and Antietam National Cemetery would be holding wreath-laying ceremonies that you could attend if you're planning to celebrate the holiday the more traditional way.
You could also opt to spend the holiday outside: organize a picnic or a get together on a national park and spend the day with your friends and loved ones! You could head out to a shore and have a picnic by the beach (Coney Island Beach, anyone?), or ride a boat and watch the urban skyline! If you're one to enjoy urban landscapes, you could opt to go to parks that offer shows (such as Flushing Meadows in Corona Park, or The High Line in Washington St.). If you want a quiet commune with nature, check out the Riverside Park in Manhattan. There is no lack of things to do, or venues to visit if you're planning to just spend the day in the company of those you love most.
If you're a foodie looking for a gastronomical adventure, you're in for a treat! Want a BBQ party and cookout? Grill to your heart's content at the Bone Lick BBQ restaurant at 1133 Huff Road in Atlanta! A tea aficionado? Head to the Chestertown Tea Party Festival on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay and get ready for a tea toss re-enactment, colonial parade, cocktail party, raft race, street performances, and lots and lots of tea!
Looking to party? Have a cocktail high above the city and take in spectacular views at one of the many elevated bars in NYC! Or join in on some of the lively music festivals (such as the Atlanta Jazz Festival in Piedmont Park, or the Simi Valley Cajun and Blues Music Festival in California, or Denver Day of Rock in 16th Street). Art festivals abound during this holiday as well! Regardless of the kind of activity you're into, there's sure to be something for you!
Remembering Memorial Day
Planning on launching your very own Memorial Day event, or being a sponsor in one? It's important to keep in mind the real highlight of the day, and that is to thank all of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives to keep all of us safe. What better way to show your support for the troops than by issuing Memorial Day themed giveaway items such as pins and ribbons that people could wear while they're enjoying the day? This is a simple way to keep everyone reminded of the reason why everyone is gathered at wherever they might be at the moment. Businesses could opt to hand out Memorial Day pins and ribbons to their employees before the day itself, as a simple giveaway and souvenir item.
The spirit of the event could also be expressed in the items that could be bought in Memorial Day event venues. Promotional umbrellas and picnic blankets are in-demand items for families in picnic areas. Fans and bottled water are practical items to have in your arsenal too, as the summer season is fast approaching. Keychains, shirts, and refrigerator magnets are excellent souvenir items to commemorate this special day; it's something that would last long, and would remind everyone of this memorable day, and of your business too, in the process.
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The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) unveiled several new features to its CTA Train Tracker for smartphones and the Web that now make it simpler than ever for customers to get where they are going, including acquiring train arrival information at any station to help time-pressed customers to get around more efficiently.
"Increasing Chicago's use of technology to improve quality of life for all residents is a key priority of my administration, and that goal extends to Chicago's transportation system," said Mayor Rahm Emanuel. "Creating a world-class transit system includes making it easy for Chicagoans to access information about their daily commutes, and CTA Train Tracker's newest features are leading the way among transit agencies in offering the latest technology to riders in Chicago."
There are many exciting features in the new train tracker. For example, customers can in three easy steps figure out what train to take and when they'll arrive: first, click on or tap the new "Stops near me" function to find the closest station; secondly, on the desired station for upcoming train arrivals; and then click on the desired train and look up the destination station and what time their train will get there.
If the customer plans to transfer to another train at their destination station, they can now click on a train of the new rail line and get the same arrival and destination information — providing customers with a seamless, multi-line real-time train trip planning tool with just a few simple clicks or taps.
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New train location map lets you see where trains are, in near-real-time, on an interactive desktop map. Click on a station and get train arrival information; or, click on a train and find out the estimated number of minutes it will take to get to the next several rail stations. CTA also currently offers this feature on CTA Bus Tracker to allow customers to see where buses are.
Updated stop selector on both the desktop and mobile versions — a streamlined interface that makes it easier to get the train information you need how you want it — by rail line; by your favorite or recent stops; or through the new "Stops near me" function.
The CTA Train Tracker was launched in 2011 to provide estimated train arrival times for all 145 rail stations across CTA's eight lines. Estimated times are generated through a combination of scheduling information and data generated by software that monitors the signal system to indicate when a portion of track is occupied by a train. Last year, CTA Train Tracker was expanded to enable customers to get estimated train arrival times via text messaging.
Rich Davey said plans for a $2.2 billion commuter rail extension and fixing the system without raising new taxes will be difficult.
As part of the agreement, MasterPass, MasterCard's secure digital payment service, will be integrated with Cubic's NextWave ticketing and journey planning app.
Some members said they want to shift the emphasis of the search to focus on a fresh batch of candidates whose skills are more suited to fixing problems that have come to light in the transit system in recent months.
The reduced ORCA LIFT fare will be available to riders earning at or below 200% of the federal poverty level, about $23,340 annually for an individual or $47,700 for a family of four.
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Lord Jesus Christ, thou highest good
Lord Jesus Christ, thou highest good (Cantata for the 11th Sunday after Trinity). Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Edited by Reinhold Kubik. Arranged by Paul Horn. For SATB vocal soli, SATB choir, flute, 2 oboe d'amore, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo. This edition: Paperbound. H-Moll (B minor). German title: Herr Jesu Christ, du hochstes Gut. Cantatas. Level 3. Vocal score. Language: German/English. Composed 1724. BWV 113. 44 pages. Duration 30 minutes. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3111303).
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Main menu... it really can't get any simpler than that.
Main title... that's me running in the distance, not a cinematic.
Something wicked is attacking the village and everybody sought shelter in the higher area.
Shu has decided to stand up to the land shark that's been plaguing the village and took many lives over the years.
All the monsters are visible and how the battle starts will depend on who initiates it and from which side.
Reuniting with your friends, Kluke and Jiro.
Press A repeatedly to close the door before the army of robots reach you.
Until you acquire shadows, use various items to aid you during combat.
Escaping Nene's fortress in a stolen mechat.
You can have any of the party members represent you during gameplay. When others are required, they will automatically all appear.
There are various chests scattered around the world, but those carrying more valuable items are either guarded or harder to locate.
Magic and special moves require you to charge the strength bar which may seriously increase your attack, but also postpone your turn.
Passing through one of the several sheep tribes. Each location usually comes with a place to buy spells, items and accessories.
Activating warp devices will allow you to, well, warp from one location to another in an instant.
Taking the shortcut by riding the rope... apparently there are breaks in there somewhere.
The Devee have the dance for pretty much anything. This one is a dance of joy for finding a cure.
Caravan from your village ambushed by the horde of vicious tigers.
Marumaro dashing through the streets of Jibral.
When you buy accessories, you can immediately see increase and decrease in your abilities if you were to equip them.
King Jibral is launching a preemptive strike.
Avoid being spotted by the scout drones or they will call for backup units.
Depending on who gives the final blow, that character will take a victorious pose.
Dogfight with the enemy mechat.
There's a feast at the king's palace.
Pause screen covers with plethora of options.
Toripo is a mysterious explorer wearing jersey that will sell you upgrades for your shadows.
Nene, the game's villain, searching for power, power, and more power.
Shu using the mow down ability to strike at the entire first row.
Exploring the snowscape.
This tree looks ominous and is holding the entire village population captive.
During your travels, you will run into many barriers that won't be passable until much later in the game. You will have to acquire a device that negates each of the barrier type.
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Shu lives by a simple motto... never give up!
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Kluke has mastered the black magic abilities.
After acquiring a mechat, you'll be able to cover great distances quickly and visit otherwise inaccessible locations by land travel.
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A food web (or food cycle) depicts feeding connections (what-eats-what) in an ecological community and hence is also referred to as a consumer-resource system. Ecologists can broadly lump all life forms into one of two categories called trophic levels: 1) the autotrophs, and 2) the heterotrophs. To maintain their bodies, grow, develop, and to reproduce, autotrophs produce organic matter from inorganic substances, including both minerals and gases such as carbon dioxide. These chemical reactions require energy, which mainly comes from the sun and largely by photosynthesis, although a very small amount comes from hydrothermal vents and hot springs. A gradient exists between trophic levels running from complete autotrophs that obtain their sole source of carbon from the atmosphere, to mixotrophs (such as carnivorous plants) that are autotrophic organisms that partially obtain organic matter from sources other than the atmosphere, and complete heterotrophs that must feed to obtain organic matter. The linkages in a food web illustrate the feeding pathways, such as where heterotrophs obtain organic matter by feeding on autotrophs and other heterotrophs. The food web is a simplified illustration of the various methods of feeding that links an ecosystem into a unified system of exchange. There are different kinds of feeding relations that can be roughly divided into herbivory, carnivory, scavenging and parasitism. Some of the organic matter eaten by heterotrophs, such as sugars, provides energy. Autotrophs and heterotrophs come in all sizes, from microscopic to many tonnes - from cyanobacteria to giant redwoods, and from viruses and bdellovibrio to blue whales.
Charles Elton pioneered the concept of food cycles, food chains, and food size in his classical 1927 book "Animal Ecology"; Elton's 'food cycle' was replaced by 'food web' in a subsequent ecological text. Elton organized species into functional groups, which was the basis for Raymond Lindeman's classic and landmark paper in 1942 on trophic dynamics. Lindeman emphasized the important role of decomposer organisms in a trophic system of classification. The notion of a food web has a historical foothold in the writings of Charles Darwin and his terminology, including an "entangled bank", "web of life", "web of complex relations", and in reference to the decomposition actions of earthworms he talked about "the continued movement of the particles of earth". Even earlier, in 1768 John Bruckner described nature as "one continued web of life".
Food webs are limited representations of real ecosystems as they necessarily aggregate many species into trophic species, which are functional groups of species that have the same predators and prey in a food web. Ecologists use these simplifications in quantitative (or mathematical) models of trophic or consumer-resource systems dynamics. Using these models they can measure and test for generalized patterns in the structure of real food web networks. Ecologists have identified non-random properties in the topographic structure of food webs. Published examples that are used in meta analysis are of variable quality with omissions. However, the number of empirical studies on community webs is on the rise and the mathematical treatment of food webs using network theory had identified patterns that are common to all. Scaling laws, for example, predict a relationship between the topology of food web predator-prey linkages and levels of species richness.
Food webs are the road-maps through Darwin's famous 'entangled bank' and have a long history in ecology. Like maps of unfamiliar ground, food webs appear bewilderingly complex. They were often published to make just that point. Yet recent studies have shown that food webs from a wide range of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine communities share a remarkable list of patterns.[3]:669
Links in food webs map the feeding connections (who eats whom) in an ecological community. Food cycle is the antiquated term that is synonymous with food web. Ecologists can broadly lump all life forms into one of two trophic layers, the autotrophs and the heterotrophs. Autotrophs produce more biomass energy, either chemically without the suns energy or by capturing the suns energy in photosynthesis, than they use during metabolic respiration. Heterotrophs consume rather than produce biomass energy as they metabolize, grow, and add to levels of secondary production. A food web depicts a collection of polyphagous heterotrophic consumers that network and cycle the flow of energy and nutrients from a productive base of self-feeding autotrophs.[3][4][5]
The base or basal species in a food web are those species without prey and can include autotrophs or saprophytic detritivores (i.e., the community of decomposers in soil, biofilms, and periphyton). Feeding connections in the web are called trophic links. The number of trophic links per consumer is a measure of food web connectance. Food chains are nested within the trophic links of food webs. Food chains are linear (noncyclic) feeding pathways that trace monophagous consumers from a base species up to the top consumer, which is usually a larger predatory carnivore.[6][7][8]
Linkages connect to nodes in a food web, which are aggregates of biological taxa called trophic species. Trophic species are functional groups that have the same predators and prey in a food web. Common examples of an aggregated node in a food web might include parasites, microbes, decomposers, saprotrophs, consumers, or predators, each containing many species in a web that can otherwise be connected to other trophic species.[9][10]
Food webs have trophic levels and positions. Basal species, such as plants, form the first level and are the resource limited species that feed on no other living creature in the web. Basal species can be autotrophs or detritivores, including "decomposing organic material and its associated microorganisms which we defined as detritus, micro-inorganic material and associated microorganisms (MIP), and vascular plant material."[11]:94 Most autotrophs capture the sun's energy in chlorophyll, but some autotrophs (the chemolithotrophs) obtain energy by the chemical oxidation of inorganic compounds and can grow in dark environments, such as the sulfur bacterium Thiobacillus, which lives in hot sulfur springs. The top level has top (or apex) predators which no other species kills directly for its food resource needs. The intermediate levels are filled with omnivores that feed on more than one trophic level and cause energy to flow through a number of food pathways starting from a basal species.[12]
In the simplest scheme, the first trophic level (level 1) is plants, then herbivores (level 2), and then carnivores (level 3). The trophic level is equal to one more than the chain length, which is the number of links connecting to the base. The base of the food chain (primary producers or detritivores) is set at zero.[3][13] Ecologists identify feeding relations and organize species into trophic species through extensive gut content analysis of different species. The technique has been improved through the use of stable isotopes to better trace energy flow through the web.[14] It was once thought that omnivory was rare, but recent evidence suggests otherwise. This realization has made trophic classifications more complex.[15]
The trophic level concept was introduced in a historical landmark paper on trophic dynamics in 1942 by Raymond L. Lindeman. The basis of trophic dynamics is the transfer of energy from one part of the ecosystem to another.[13][16] The trophic dynamic concept has served as a useful quantitative heuristic, but it has several major limitations including the precision by which an organism can be allocated to a specific trophic level. Omnivores, for example, are not restricted to any single level. Nonetheless, recent research has found that discrete trophic levels do exist, but "above the herbivore trophic level, food webs are better characterized as a tangled web of omnivores."[15]:612
A central question in the trophic dynamic literature is the nature of control and regulation over resources and production. Ecologists use simplified one trophic position food chain models (producer, carnivore, decomposer). Using these models, ecologists have tested various types of ecological control mechanisms. For example, herbivores generally have an abundance of vegetative resources, which meant that their populations were largely controlled or regulated by predators. This is known as the top-down hypothesis or 'green-world' hypothesis. Alternatively to the top-down hypothesis, not all plant material is edible and the nutritional quality or antiherbivore defenses of plants (structural and chemical) suggests a bottom-up form of regulation or control.[17][18][19] Recent studies have concluded that both "top-down" and "bottom-up" forces can influence community structure and the strength of the influence is environmentally context dependent.[20][21] These complex multitrophic interactions involve more than two trophic levels in a food web.[22]
Another example of a multi-trophic interaction is a trophic cascade, in which predators help to increase plant growth and prevent overgrazing by suppressing herbivores. Links in a food-web illustrate direct trophic relations among species, but there are also indirect effects that can alter the abundance, distribution, or biomass in the trophic levels. For example, predators eating herbivores indirectly influence the control and regulation of primary production in plants. Although the predators do not eat the plants directly, they regulate the population of herbivores that are directly linked to plant trophism. The net effect of direct and indirect relations is called trophic cascades. Trophic cascades are separated into species-level cascades, where only a subset of the food-web dynamic is impacted by a change in population numbers, and community-level cascades, where a change in population numbers has a dramatic effect on the entire food-web, such as the distribution of plant biomass.[23]
The Law of Conservation of Mass dates from Antoine Lavoisier's 1789 discovery that mass is neither created nor destroyed in chemical reactions. In other words, the mass of any one element at the beginning of a reaction will equal the mass of that element at the end of the reaction.[24]:11
Food webs depict energy flow via trophic linkages. Energy flow is directional, which contrasts against the cyclic flows of material through the food web systems.[26] Energy flow "typically includes production, consumption, assimilation, non-assimilation losses (feces), and respiration (maintenance costs)."[5]:5 In a very general sense, energy flow (E) can be defined as the sum of metabolic production (P) and respiration (R), such that E=P+R.
The mass (or biomass) of something is equal to its energy content. Mass and energy are closely intertwined. However, concentration and quality of nutrients and energy is variable. Many plant fibers, for example, are indigestible to many herbivores leaving grazer community food webs more nutrient limited than detrital food webs where bacteria are able to access and release the nutrient and energy stores.[27][28] "Organisms usually extract energy in the form of carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins. These polymers have a dual role as supplies of energy as well as building blocks; the part that functions as energy supply results in the production of nutrients (and carbon dioxide, water, and heat). Excretion of nutrients is, therefore, basic to metabolism."[28]:1230–1231 The units in energy flow webs are typically a measure mass or energy per m2 per unit time. Different consumers are going to have different metabolic assimilation efficiencies in their diets. Each trophic level transforms energy into biomass. Energy flow diagrams illustrate the rates and efficiency of transfer from one trophic level into another and up through the hierarchy.[29][30]
It is the case that the biomass of each trophic level decreases from the base of the chain to the top. This is because energy is lost to the environment with each transfer as entropy increases. About eighty to ninety percent of the energy is expended for the organism's life processes or is lost as heat or waste. Only about ten to twenty percent of the organism's energy is generally passed to the next organism.[31] The amount can be less than one percent in animals consuming less digestible plants, and it can be as high as forty percent in zooplankton consuming phytoplankton.[32] Graphic representations of the biomass or productivity at each tropic level are called ecological pyramids or trophic pyramids. The transfer of energy from primary producers to top consumers can also be characterized by energy flow diagrams.[33]
A common metric used to quantify food web trophic structure is food chain length. Food chain length is another way of describing food webs as a measure of the number of species encountered as energy or nutrients move from the plants to top predators.[34]:269 There are different ways of calculating food chain length depending on what parameters of the food web dynamic are being considered: connectance, energy, or interaction.[34] In its simplest form, the length of a chain is the number of links between a trophic consumer and the base of the web. The mean chain length of an entire web is the arithmetic average of the lengths of all chains in a food web.[4][12]
In a simple predator-prey example, a deer is one step removed from the plants it eats (chain length = 1) and a wolf that eats the deer is two steps removed (chain length = 2). The relative amount or strength of influence that these parameters have on the food web address questions about:
In a pyramid of numbers, the number of consumers at each level decreases significantly, so that a single top consumer, (e.g., a polar bear or a human), will be supported by a much larger number of separate producers. There is usually a maximum of four or five links in a food chain, although food chains in aquatic ecosystems are more often longer than those on land. Eventually, all the energy in a food chain is dispersed as heat.[4]
Ecological pyramids place the primary producers at the base. They can depict different numerical properties of ecosystems, including numbers of individuals per unit of area, biomass (g/m2), and energy (k cal m−2 yr−1). The emergent pyramidal arrangement of trophic levels with amounts of energy transfer decreasing as species become further removed from the source of production is one of several patterns that is repeated amongst the planets ecosystems.[2][3][37] The size of each level in the pyramid generally represents biomass, which can be measured as the dry weight of an organism.[38] Autotrophs may have the highest global proportion of biomass, but they are closely rivaled or surpassed by microbes.[39][40]
Pyramid structure can vary across ecosystems and across time. In some instances biomass pyramids can be inverted. This pattern is often identified in aquatic and coral reef ecosystems. The pattern of biomass inversion is attributed to different sizes of producers. Aquatic communities are often dominated by producers that are smaller than the consumers that have high growth rates. Aquatic producers, such as planktonic algae or aquatic plants, lack the large accumulation of secondary growth as exists in the woody trees of terrestrial ecosystems. However, they are able to reproduce quickly enough to support a larger biomass of grazers. This inverts the pyramid. Primary consumers have longer lifespans and slower growth rates that accumulates more biomass than the producers they consume. Phytoplankton live just a few days, whereas the zooplankton eating the phytoplankton live for several weeks and the fish eating the zooplankton live for several consecutive years.[41] Aquatic predators also tend to have a lower death rate than the smaller consumers, which contributes to the inverted pyramidal pattern. Population structure, migration rates, and environmental refuge for prey are other possible causes for pyramids with biomass inverted. Energy pyramids, however, will always have an upright pyramid shape if all sources of food energy are included and this is dictated by the second law of thermodynamics.[4][42]
Many of the Earth's elements and minerals (or mineral nutrients) are contained within the tissues and diets of organisms. Hence, mineral and nutrient cycles trace food web energy pathways. Ecologists employ stoichiometry to analyze the ratios of the main elements found in all organisms: carbon (C), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P). There is a large transitional difference between many terrestrial and aquatic systems as C:P and C:N ratios are much higher in terrestrial systems while N:P ratios are equal between the two systems.[43][44][45] Mineral nutrients are the material resources that organisms need for growth, development, and vitality. Food webs depict the pathways of mineral nutrient cycling as they flow through organisms.[4][16] Most of the primary production in an ecosystem is not consumed, but is recycled by detritus back into useful nutrients.[46] Many of the Earth's microorganisms are involved in the formation of minerals in a process called biomineralization.[47][48][49] Bacteria that live in detrital sediments create and cycle nutrients and biominerals.[50] Food web models and nutrient cycles have traditionally been treated separately, but there is a strong functional connection between the two in terms of stability, flux, sources, sinks, and recycling of mineral nutrients.[51][52]
Food webs are necessarily aggregated and only illustrate a tiny portion of the complexity of real ecosystems. For example, the number of species on the planet are likely in the general order of 107, over 95% of these species consist of microbes and invertebrates, and relatively few have been named or classified by taxonomists.[53][54][55] It is explicitly understood that natural systems are 'sloppy' and that food web trophic positions simplify the complexity of real systems that sometimes overemphasize many rare interactions. Most studies focus on the larger influences where the bulk of energy transfer occurs.[17] "These omissions and problems are causes for concern, but on present evidence do not present insurmountable difficulties."[3]:669
There are different kinds or categories of food webs:
Within these categories, food webs can be further organized according to the different kinds of ecosystems being investigated. For example, human food webs, agricultural food webs, detrital food webs, marine food webs, aquatic food webs, soil food webs, Arctic (or polar) food webs, terrestrial food webs, and microbial food webs. These characterizations stem from the ecosystem concept, which assumes that the phenomena under investigation (interactions and feedback loops) are sufficient to explain patterns within boundaries, such as the edge of a forest, an island, a shoreline, or some other pronounced physical characteristic.[58][59][60]
In a detrital web, plant and animal matter is broken down by decomposers, e.g., bacteria and fungi, and moves to detritivores and then carnivores.[61] There are often relationships between the detrital web and the grazing web. Mushrooms produced by decomposers in the detrital web become a food source for deer, squirrels, and mice in the grazing web. Earthworms eaten by robins are detritivores consuming decaying leaves.[62]
"Detritus can be broadly defined as any form of non-living organic matter, including different types of plant tissue (e.g. leaf litter, dead wood, aquatic macrophytes, algae), animal tissue (carrion), dead microbes, faeces (manure, dung, faecal pellets, guano, frass), as well as products secreted, excreted or exuded from organisms (e.g. extra-cellular polymers, nectar, root exudates and leachates, dissolved organic matter, extra-cellular matrix, mucilage). The relative importance of these forms of detritus, in terms of origin, size and chemical composition, varies across ecosystems."[46]:585
Ecologists collect data on trophic levels and food webs to statistically model and mathematically calculate parameters, such as those used in other kinds of network analysis (e.g., graph theory), to study emergent patterns and properties shared among ecosystems. There are different ecological dimensions that can be mapped to create more complicated food webs, including: species composition (type of species), richness (number of species), biomass (the dry weight of plants and animals), productivity (rates of conversion of energy and nutrients into growth), and stability (food webs over time). A food web diagram illustrating species composition shows how change in a single species can directly and indirectly influence many others. Microcosm studies are used to simplify food web research into semi-isolated units such as small springs, decaying logs, and laboratory experiments using organisms that reproduce quickly, such as daphnia feeding on algae grown under controlled environments in jars of water.[35][63]
While the complexity of real food webs connections are difficult to decipher, ecologists have found mathematical models on networks an invaluable tool for gaining insight into the structure, stability, and laws of food web behaviours relative to observable outcomes. "Food web theory centers around the idea of connectance."[64]:1648 Quantitative formulas simplify the complexity of food web structure. The number of trophic links (tL), for example, is converted into a connectance value:
where, S(S-1)/2 is the maximum number of binary connections among S species.[64] "Connectance (C) is the fraction of all possible links that are realized (L/S2) and represents a standard measure of food web complexity..."[65]:12913 The distance (d) between every species pair in a web is averaged to compute the mean distance between all nodes in a web (D)[65] and multiplied by the total number of links (L) to obtain link-density (LD), which is influenced by scale dependent variables such as species richness. These formulas are the basis for comparing and investigating the nature of non-random patterns in the structure of food web networks among many different types of ecosystems.[65][66]
Scaling laws, complexity, choas, and patterned correlates are common features attributed to food web structure.[67][68]
Food webs are complex. Complexity is a measure of an increasing number of permutations and it is also a metaphorical term that conveys the mental intractability or limits concerning unlimited algorithmic possibilities. In food web terminology, complexity is a product of the number of species and connectance.[69][70][71] Connectance is "the fraction of all possible links that are realized in a network".[72]:12917 These concepts were derived and stimulated through the suggestion that complexity leads to stability in food webs, such as increasing the number of trophic levels in more species rich ecosystems. This hypothesis was challenged through mathematical models suggesting otherwise, but subsequent studies have shown that the premise holds in real systems.[69][73]
At different levels in the hierarchy of life, such as the stability of a food web, "the same overall structure is maintained in spite of an ongoing flow and change of components."[74]:476 The farther a living system (e.g., ecosystem) sways from equilibrium, the greater its complexity.[74] Complexity has multiple meanings in the life sciences and in the public sphere that confuse its application as a precise term for analytical purposes in science.[71][75] Complexity in the life sciences (or biocomplexity) is defined by the "properties emerging from the interplay of behavioral, biological, physical, and social interactions that affect, sustain, or are modified by living organisms, including humans".[76]:1018
Several concepts have emerged from the study of complexity in food webs. Complexity explains many principals pertaining to self-organization, non-linearity, interaction, cybernetic feedback, discontinuity, emergence, and stability in food webs. Nestedness, for example, is defined as "a pattern of interaction in which specialists interact with species that form perfect subsets of the species with which generalists interact"[77]:575, "—that is, the diet of the most specialized species is a subset of the diet of the next more generalized species, and its diet a subset of the next more generalized, and so on."[78] Until recently, it was thought that food webs had little nested structure, but empirical evidence shows that many published webs have nested subwebs in their assembly.[79]
Food webs are complex networks. As networks, they exhibit similar structural properties and mathematical laws that have been used to describe other complex systems, such as small world and scale free properties. The small world attribute refers to the many loosely connected nodes, non-random dense clustering of a few nodes (i.e., trophic or keystone species in ecology), and small path length compared to a regular lattice.[72][80] "Ecological networks, especially mutualistic networks, are generally very heterogeneous, consisting of areas with sparse links among species and distinct areas of tightly linked species. These regions of high link density are often referred to as cliques, hubs, compartments, cohesive sub-groups, or modules...Within food webs, especially in aquatic systems, nestedness appears to be related to body size because the diets of smaller predators tend to be nested subsets of those of larger predators (Woodward & Warren 2007; YvonDurocher et al. 2008), and phylogenetic constraints, whereby related taxa are nested based on their common evolutionary history, are also evident (Cattin et al. 2004)."[81]:257 "Compartments in food webs are subgroups of taxa in which many strong interactions occur within the subgroups and few weak interactions occur between the subgroups. Theoretically, compartments increase the stability in networks, such as food webs."[57]
Food webs are also complex in the way that they change in scale, seasonally, and geographically. The components of food webs, including organisms and mineral nutrients, cross the thresholds of ecosystem boundaries. This has led to the concept or area of study known as cross-boundary subsidy.[58][59] "This leads to anomalies, such as food web calculations determining that an ecosystem can support one half of a top carnivore, without specifying which end."[60] Nonetheless, real differences in structure and function have been identified when comparing different kinds of ecological food webs, such as terrestrial vs. aquatic food webs.[82]
Food webs serve as a framework to help ecologists organize the complex network of interactions among species observed in nature and around the world. One of the earliest descriptions of a food chain was described by a medieval Afro-Arab scholar named Al-Jahiz: "All animals, in short, cannot exist without food, neither can the hunting animal escape being hunted in his turn."[83]:143 The earliest graphical depiction of a food web was by Lorenzo Camerano in 1880, followed independently by those of Pierce and colleagues in 1912 and Victor Shelford in 1913.[84][85] Two food webs about herring were produced by Victor Summerhayes and Charles Elton[86] and Alister Hardy[87] in 1923 and 1924. Charles Elton subsequently pioneered the concept of food cycles, food chains, and food size in his classical 1927 book "Animal Ecology"; Elton's 'food cycle' was replaced by 'food web' in a subsequent ecological text.[88] After Charles Elton's use of food webs in his 1927 synthesis,[89] they became a central concept in the field of ecology. Elton[88] organized species into functional groups, which formed the basis for the trophic system of classification in Raymond Lindeman's classic and landmark paper in 1942 on trophic dynamics.[16][36][90] The notion of a food web has a historical foothold in the writings of Charles Darwin and his terminology, including an "entangled bank", "web of life", "web of complex relations", and in reference to the decomposition actions of earthworms he talked about "the continued movement of the particles of earth". Even earlier, in 1768 John Bruckner described nature as "one continued web of life".[3][91][92][93]
Interest in food webs increased after Robert Paine's experimental and descriptive study of intertidal shores[94] suggesting that food web complexity was key to maintaining species diversity and ecological stability. Many theoretical ecologists, including Sir Robert May[95] and Stuart Pimm,[96] were prompted by this discovery and others to examine the mathematical properties of food webs.


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"Tea party backed lawmakers" also voted in favor of the most recent "Patriot Act" extension.
Nuff said?
Also, why is this pic showing rebel fighters?
Is this a subliminal stab at those who still believe the US should follow and abide by US Constitutional Law as terrorists?
Finally, these some of these same "Tea Party backed lawmakers" (aka representatives) still support sending 3 BILLION dollars (with a B) per year to Israel, while our nation continues to suffer economically.
Add Egypt to that, and a host of other countries which receive foreign aid and one wonders where the priorities lie in regards to the US citizen?
Would we not be better if we told every country which receives US Foreign Aid "sorry, but it's our turn, since it is OUR money."
The Federal Reserve sent untold amounts of money to foreign countries to bail out their banks, Wall St. tycoons made record bonuses and the US workers watched their jobs be sent over seas.
They continue to do so, and Eric Cantor (Rep-Virginia) still seeks to obtain i higher amount of foreign aid from the US to Israel?
Ron Paul is (out of the choices we have) the most pro-American choice we have I suppose.
Our foreign policy should be to secure our borders and protect the legal citizens withing, while deporting those who are here illegally (regardless of nation origin).
What we really need is a policy which puts American citizens first economically and socially, while ensuring freedom and prosperity are the goals we seek as a nation.
I look forward to hearing from everyone here on CHB regarding our "foreign policy."