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tells the boy of his arrival in a beautiful valley containing a forest of Truffula trees and a range of animals. The Once-ler, having long searched for such a tree as the Truffula, chops one down and uses its silk-like foliage to knit a Thneed, an impossibly versatile garment. The Lorax, who "speaks for the trees" as they have no tongues, emerges from the stump of the Truffula and voices his disapproval both of the sacrifice of the tree and of the Thneed itself. However, the first other person to happen by purchases the Thneed for $3.98, so the Once-ler
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Lorax. The land once thrived with Truffula trees when the Once-ler first came to the area in a horse-drawn cart. Living among the foliage are the brown Bar-ba-Loots, who eat Truffula fruit from the local trees. In the nearby pond live the Humming Fish, and overhead fly the Swanee Swans. The trees amaze the Once-ler with their texture and scent, and he soon builds a small shop in the area. After cutting down a Truffula tree, the Lorax pops out of its stump. The Lorax claims to speak for the trees, and demands to know what the Once-ler is doing.
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around him, the Once-ler at last realizes out loud what the Lorax meant: "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." He then gives the boy the last Truffula seed and urges him to grow a forest from it, saying that, if the trees can be protected from logging, then the Lorax and all of his friends may come back. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named "The Lorax" one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". In 2012 it was ranked number 33 among the
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in, and 'Thneeds, Inc' has exceeded its profit even higher due to rival markets closing down. The Once-ler then scoffs at the Lorax, claiming that he will keep on making Thneeds, regardless of the consequences. As he finishes his taunt, the sound of an ax is heard, and the two are witnesses to the leveling of the last Truffula tree. With no more trees, the factory shuts down, and the Once-ler's relatives pack up and leave. The Lorax sadly glances at the Once-ler, before he lifts himself by the seat of his pants, and disappears through a hole in the
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The Once-ler explains that he is using the Truffula tree's tufts to make something called a "Thneed... a fine something that all people need." The multi-purpose item soon attracts the attention of many customers, and the Once-ler continues to cut down more Truffula trees. When it seems that the business is growing too big for just one Once-ler, he calls his relatives to help him with his thriving business. As the Lorax protests against the Once-ler's actions, he is eventually standing under a Truffula tree that was planted in the new developments that appeared over time, when a bulldozer picks
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smog. On the spot where the Lorax last stood, sits a small pile of rocks, with a word carved into one: "Unless." The tale then switches back to the Once-ler talking to the boy, who is given the last Truffula seed by the Once-ler, encouraging the boy to help revitalize the long-dead trees by growing a brand new forest, with the possibility that the Lorax and all of his friends may then come back. The camera shows us a larger hole in the smog, which is the background image to the end credits. "The Lorax" was released on VHS in
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tells the boy of his arrival in a beautiful valley containing a forest of Truffula trees and a range of animals. The Once-ler, having long searched for such a tree as the Truffula, chops one down and uses its silk-like foliage to knit a Thneed, an impossibly versatile garment. The Lorax, who "speaks for the trees" as they have no tongues, emerges from the stump of the Truffula and voices his disapproval both of the sacrifice of the tree and of the Thneed itself. However, the first other person to happen by purchases the Thneed for $3.98, so the Once-ler
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material," he wrote. Demonstrating how the book's text was used in the movie in this excerpt from the review, Edelstein discusses Audrey describing the truffula trees to Ted: Lou Dobbs, the host of "Lou Dobbs Tonight" on the Fox Business Network, has criticized the film as being "insidious nonsense from Hollywood", and accused Hollywood of "trying to indoctrinate children". The film also garnered some positive reviews from critics such as Richard Roeper, who called it a "solid piece of family entertainment". Roger Moore of the "Pittsburgh Tribune" called the film "a feast of bright, Seuss colors, and wonderful Seuss design",
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However, Ted continues to sneak out of O'Hare's sight with his grandmother's encouragement and learns more of the trees' history. Over Ted's various visits, the Once-ler recounts the story that when he was a young man, he departed his family to find good material for his Thneed invention and make a business. The Once-ler meets the guardian of the forest, the Lorax (Danny DeVito), after cutting down a Truffula tree in a lush Truffula tree forest valley. The Lorax urges the Once-ler to leave the forest, but the Once-ler refuses. Eventually, the Once-ler promises not to chop another tree down,
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last Truffula seed in hopes that he can use it to regrow the forest and make others care about real trees once more. Ted's desire to impress Audrey therefore becomes a personal mission to remind his town of the importance of nature. O'Hare, still determined not to have trees undercut his business, takes heavy-handed steps such as covering Audrey's nature paintings, closing off the door that Ted uses to see the Once-ler, and forcibly searching Ted's room for the seed, which has begun to grow after coming into contact with some water from Ted's falling bottle. Ted enlists his family
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is encouraged and starts a business making and selling Thneeds. The Once-ler's small shop soon grows into a factory. The Once-ler's relatives all come to work for him and new vehicles and equipment are brought in to log the Truffula forest and ship out Thneeds. The Lorax appears again to report that the small bear-like Bar-ba-loots, who eat Truffula fruits, are short of food and must be sent away to find more. The Lorax later returns to complain that the factory has polluted the air and the water, forcing the Swanee-Swans and Humming-Fish to migrate as well. The Once-ler is
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up the Truffula tree and the Lorax and the Lorax is thrown into a truck with the Truffula tree and hauled to a factory, where the Lorax is put in a box. Then everybody reminisces about how Thneeds, Inc. started and how famous the Once-ler has become and popular the company has gotten, showing "Once-ler Cones", "Once-ler Burgers", a "Once-lermobile" and a blimp advertising Thneeds, then a stone with the word "Thneed" carved in it. Shortly after Thneeds, Inc. has produced its millionth product, the Lorax gets out of the box and, despite his protests, falls back into the box
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like a monster's hand to freak him out. The Once-ler finds out it is fake and sprays water on the Lorax, which makes his fur puff up. When the Lorax tells Pipsqueak that he is going to turn out like him, Pipsqueak gets scared and runs away. The short ends with the Lorax telling Pipsqueak that he has lost his Honorary Lorax title. Blockdot created a mobile puzzle game based on the film, titled "Truffula Shuffula". The game was released on February 1, 2012, for iOS and Android platforms. The film earned a rating of 54% on Rotten Tomatoes based
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to be shipped off with more finished Thneeds. Soon the once beautiful area becomes choked with pollution and as the Once-ler is trying to find out how his company is doing in the Scandinavian market (by this point Thneeds, Inc. has expanded outside the US), the Lorax comes into the Once-Ler's office to protest that the Brown Bar-ba-loots, which fed on Truffula fruits, are nearing starvation. The Lorax starts sending the fauna off to more hospitable habitats. After this, the Once-ler's conscience tells him he is doing a lot of bad things, to which the Once-ler responds, "But if I
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unrepentant and defiantly tells the Lorax that he will keep on "biggering" his business, but at that moment one of his machines fells the very last Truffula tree. Without raw materials, the factory shuts down and the Once-ler's relatives leave. The Lorax says nothing but with one sad backward glance lifts himself into the air "by the seat of his pants" and disappears behind the smoggy clouds. Where he last stood is a small monument engraved with a single word: "UNLESS". The Once-ler ponders the message for years, in solitude and self-imposed exile. In the present, his buildings falling apart
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and the two seem to begin a friendship of sorts. Then, the young businessman's Thneed invention becomes a major success and the Once-ler's family arrives to participate in the business. At first keeping his promise, the Once-ler continues Thneed production by harvesting the Truffula tree tufts in a slow, but sustainable manner. However, his greedy and lazy relatives soon convince him to resume chopping down the trees. Over time, the Once-ler's deforestation spirals into a mass overproduction. Flushed with wealth, the Once-ler rationalizes his short-sighted needs into arrogant self-righteousness, and the Lorax's helpless protests do not stop him. The Once-ler
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pollutes the sky, river, and landscape, until the very last Truffula tree falls. With no further chance of business, he is left broken and his money-broke mother disowns him. With the region uninhabitable because of the pollution and deforestation from the Once-ler's business, the Lorax sends the animals off to find a new place to live before the Once-ler sees him depart into the sky, leaving only a stone-cut word: "Unless". Distraught and ruined, the Once-ler becomes a recluse. After he finishes telling his story, the Once-ler finally understands the meaning behind the Lorax's last message, and gives Ted the
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in September 2000. An extensive sequence adapting "The Lorax" was seen in the original script, which involved Jojo meeting the Once-ler after deserting the army, and receiving the last Truffula Tree seed from him, giving him the courage to save Who-ville. Relevant characters included the Lorax himself as well as Bar-ba-loots, Swomee-Swans, and Humming-Fish, who would all appear and disappear as the Once-ler told his story. The sequence faced numerous difficulties due to the show's already lengthy running time, and was ultimately cut entirely after its Boston tryout. As of 2013, MTI has begun offering the sequence as an independent
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and how to live in a sustainable way in order to preserve what we have. The children need to learn about how to live without degrading the environment, so that future generations have a clean place to live. This is shown in "The Lorax" by the Once-ler educating the small boy about the dangers of pollution and degradation of the environment, and by giving him the last Truffula seed so that new ones can be grown. "Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!" was written in 1972. On the surface, the story is one of Marvin K. Mooney, a
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to create a story addressing economic and environmental issues without it being dull. ""The Lorax"," he once explained, "came out of me being angry. In "The Lorax" I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might." A boy living in a polluted area visits a strange isolated man called the Once-ler on the Street of the Lifted Lorax. The boy pays the Once-ler fifteen cents, a nail, and the shell of a great-great-great grandfather snail to hear the legend of how the Lorax was lifted and taken away. The Once-ler
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The Lorax The Lorax is a children's book written by Dr. Seuss and first published in 1971. It chronicles the plight of the environment and the Lorax, who speaks for the trees against the Once-ler. As in most Dr. Seuss works, most of the creatures mentioned are original to the book. The book is commonly recognized as a fable concerning the danger corporate greed poses to nature, using the literary element of personification to give life to industry as the Once-ler and the environment as the Lorax. "The Lorax" was Dr. Seuss's personal favorite of his books. He was able
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before the first anniversary of Earth Day. Dr. Seuss later called "The Lorax" straight propaganda, a polemic against pollution. The main point of the book is “The basic message of "The Lorax" deals with ecosystems and the interrelatedness of all parts - living and non-living - as a viable, functioning unit." Environmental impact is told from a simplistic yet environmentally accurate viewpoint, demonstrating the conflict between natural resources and man-made production. The story starts with what was called the Once-ler, telling the story of the local natural history and how it was once home to the Lorax, the one who
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and Audrey to help plant the seed. O'Hare and his two henchmen pursue the dissidents until they manage to elude him and reach the town center. When Ted finally attempts to plant the seed, he is interrupted by O'Hare, who rallies the population to stop them by telling the people that trees are extremely dangerous and filthy. To convince them otherwise, Ted takes an earthmover and rams down a section of the city wall to reveal the environmental destruction outside, thereby showing them what happened to the trees and what O'Hare is encouraging. Horrified at the sight and inspired by
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Ted's conviction (as though a part of the Lorax is within him), the crowd turns against O'Hare when they discover his true nature, with his own henchmen expelling him from the town with his jet pack-like helmet, and the seed is finally planted. Time passes and the land starts to recover; new trees sprout, the animals begin to return, and the redeemed, now-mustached Once-ler happily reunites with the Lorax. The film is the fourth feature film based on a book by Dr. Seuss, the second fully computer-animated adaptation (the first one being "Horton Hears a Who!"), and the first to
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1994 as part of a CBS Video four-tape package called "Dr. Seuss Sing-Along Classics". To tie-in with the 40th anniversary of the special and the release of film "The Lorax", Warner Home Video released the special on a deluxe edition DVD and Blu-ray on February 14, 2012. "The Lorax" received the Critics Award from the International Animated Cartoon Festival (Zagreb, 1972) and the Silver Media from the International Film and Television Festival (New York, 1972). The Lorax (TV special) The Lorax is a musical animated short produced by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises which first aired as a television special on CBS on
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The Lorax (film) The Lorax (also known as Dr. Seuss' The Lorax) is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated musical fantasy film produced by Illumination Entertainment and based on Dr. Seuss's children's book of the same name. The film was released by Universal Pictures on March 2, 2012, on what would have been Seuss's 108th birthday. The second adaptation of the book (following the 1972 animated television special), the film builds on the book by expanding the story of the Lorax and Ted, the previously unnamed boy who visits the Once-ler. The cast includes Danny DeVito as the Lorax, Ed Helms
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didn't do them, then someone else would." When his conscience agrees, the Once-ler says progress has to get bigger. As the Once-ler is thinking about how successful Thneeds are selling all over the country, the Lorax protests that the "smogulous smoke" fills the Swanee Swans' throats with smog, preventing them from singing. Finally, the pond that was home to the Humming Fish is filled with toxic waste called "Gluppity-Glupp" and "Schloppity-Schlopp" that clogs their gills. Confronted by the Lorax, the Once-ler appears to be ready to listen. That is, until his secretary announces that the company's stock report has come
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same place they left. Melvin appears shortly after. The Once-ler comes out of the house and is surprised to see them. He expresses surprise that they listened to instructions, but just when it seems like they fooled him, Lou sneezes and the wagon falls apart. Melvin hides beneath his hooves and Lou and Pipsqueak curl up into a ball. The Once-ler looks annoyed and makes a small, disgruntled "Grr" sound, causing Lou and Pipsqueak to run away into the trees. The Lorax makes Pipsqueak an Honorary Lorax and team up to scare the Once-ler by using two sticks that looks
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August 2011 the Beaty Biodiversity Museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, of which Maddison is the scientific director, held a contest to name the spider. 810 names were submitted, and "lorax" was ultimately chosen, submitted by Tristan Long, a professor from Wilfrid Laurier University. The name is a reference to the character of the Lorax from Dr. Seuss's book "The Lorax", due to its yellow moustache which resembles the stripes on the spider's jaws. As well, "The Lorax"'s environmental message was seen to be appropriate; Maddison commented that "not only is there a resemblance, but it really fits the museum's message."
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results. The project aims for the robot to be able to operate for one month without human intervention. The rover's power systems incorporate a combination of solar power and wind power. Several solar panels are mounted on the shell of the rover. It also has a deployable wind turbine for generating further power. A working model of the LORAX rover called "Nomad" was tested in 2005 on the frozen Mascoma Lake in New Hampshire. The rover completed a ten kilometer test run, traversed ice obstacles and conducted a successful test of its wind turbine. The rover, independent of any human
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present in fiction as well as non-fictional literature. Books such as "Antarctica" and "Blockade" have environmental protection as subjects whereas "The Lorax" has become a popular metaphor for environmental protection. "The Limits of Trooghaft" by Desmond Stewart is a short story that provides insight into human attitudes towards animals. Another book called "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury investigates issues such as bombs, wars, government control, and what effects these can have on the environment. Environmental protection Environmental protection is the practice of protecting the natural environment by individuals, organizations and governments. Its objectives are to conserve natural resources and
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and one narrated by Rik Mayall in the United Kingdom (HarperCollins, ). A musical adaptation of "The Lorax" was originally included in script for the Broadway musical "Seussical", but was cut before the show opened. From December 2, 2015, to January 16, 2016, a musical version of the book ran at the Old Vic theatre in London. With former Noah and the Whale frontman, Charlie Fink, who wrote the music for the production. The Lorax The Lorax is a children's book written by Dr. Seuss and first published in 1971. It chronicles the plight of the environment and the Lorax,
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Lapsias lorax Lapsias lorax is a species of lapsiine jumping spider from Ecuador. "L. lorax" was discovered by Wayne Maddison in November 2010 in the Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve of Ecuador, in a cloud forest at of elevation. It is the first species of the "Lapsias" genus to be discovered in western South America. The spider discovered by Maddison—an adult male—is the only known specimen of the species. It is about in length, and its body is reddish brown in colour. Its face has a big white band across it, and its jaws have diagonal yellow stripes. From May to
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Lapsias lorax Lapsias lorax is a species of lapsiine jumping spider from Ecuador. "L. lorax" was discovered by Wayne Maddison in November 2010 in the Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve of Ecuador, in a cloud forest at of elevation. It is the first species of the "Lapsias" genus to be discovered in western South America. The spider discovered by Maddison—an adult male—is the only known specimen of the species. It is about in length, and its body is reddish brown in colour. Its face has a big white band across it, and its jaws have diagonal yellow stripes. From May to
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also scored the third-best debut for a film opening in March, and the eighth-best of all time for an animated film. "The Lorax" stayed at #1 the following weekend, dropping 45% to $38.8 million and beating all new nationwide releases, including Disney's "John Carter" (second place). On April 11, 2012, it became the first animated film in nearly a year to gross more than $200 million in North America, since Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Tangled". All tracks composed by John Powell The Lorax (film) The Lorax (also known as Dr. Seuss' The Lorax) is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated musical
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agrees to tell Ted about the trees on the condition that he listens to the story over multiple visits. Ted agrees, but on his next trip, he encounters the greedy mayor of Thneedville, Aloysius O'Hare (Rob Riggle), who is also the proprietor of a company that sells bottled oxygen ("fresh air") to Thneedville residents. O'Hare explains to Ted that trees produce oxygen free of charge, and therefore, he considers them and/or people talking about them to be a threat to his business. After revealing that he has "security-camera eyes" all over the city, O'Hare pressures Ted to stay in town.
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"Top 100 Picture Books" in a survey published by "School Library Journal" – the second of five Dr. Seuss books on the list. In a retrospective critique written in the journal "Nature" in 2011 upon the 40th anniversary of the book's publication, Emma Marris described the Lorax character as a "parody of a misanthropic ecologist". She called the book "gloomy" and expressed skepticism that its message would resonate with small children in the manner intended. Nevertheless, she praised the book as effective in conveying the consequences of ecological destruction in a way that young children will understand. In 1988, a
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guidance, traveled over fourteen kilometers in all on the frozen lake and returned to its starting point. The test also yielded further calibrations to many of the rover's systems. LORAX The Life On ice: Robotic Antarctic eXplorer or LORAX is an experimental robotics project being developed by the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, supported by NASA. The intent of the project is to create an autonomous rover to survey the distribution of microbes on Antarctica's ice sheets. It is unknown whether it intentionally shares a name with The Lorax, the environmentalist Dr. Seuss character. The goal is to create
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Laurence Olivier Awards. The Lorax (play) The Lorax is a stage adaptation of the children's novel of the same name by Dr. Seuss, adapted by David Greig featuring songs by Charlie Fink. The play made its world premiere for on 4 December 2015 at The Old Vic in London. In April 2015 it was announced that a stage adaptation of Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax" would be performed for the following Christmas as part of Matthew Warchus' first season as artistic director at The Old Vic. It was announced to be adapted by David Greig and directed by Max Webster. The
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The Lorax (play) The Lorax is a stage adaptation of the children's novel of the same name by Dr. Seuss, adapted by David Greig featuring songs by Charlie Fink. The play made its world premiere for on 4 December 2015 at The Old Vic in London. In April 2015 it was announced that a stage adaptation of Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax" would be performed for the following Christmas as part of Matthew Warchus' first season as artistic director at The Old Vic. It was announced to be adapted by David Greig and directed by Max Webster. The production began on
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LORAX The Life On ice: Robotic Antarctic eXplorer or LORAX is an experimental robotics project being developed by the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, supported by NASA. The intent of the project is to create an autonomous rover to survey the distribution of microbes on Antarctica's ice sheets. It is unknown whether it intentionally shares a name with The Lorax, the environmentalist Dr. Seuss character. The goal is to create a robotic platform with full navigational autonomy and clean, sustainable power systems. This complete isolation will allow the robot to operate unattended and avoid any possible contamination of its
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The Lorax (TV special) The Lorax is a musical animated short produced by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises which first aired as a television special on CBS on February 14, 1972. It is based on the book of the same name by Dr. Seuss. One night, a young boy living in a polluted, grim world wanders down 'the street of the lifted Lorax.' Along the dark street, he comes to the residence of a creature named The Once-ler, a dark green-colored being whose face is never seen. He takes up an audience with the boy, and begins to explain the tale regarding the
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what one or what one was who." Both groups quickly run out of money and McBean leaves town. After he leaves, the Sneetches come to realize that neither the "plain-belly" or "star belly" is superior over the other. There are clear lessons of anti-discrimination and anti - racism throughout the story, with even the star implying a political message. It was inspired by the yellow Star of David that the Jews were required to wear on the clothing to identify them to the Nazis. Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax" appeared in the 1970s at the start of the environmental movement, just
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R. Morrison first described what he called "Patricia trees" in 1968; the name comes from the acronym PATRICIA, which stands for ""Practical Algorithm To Retrieve Information Coded In Alphanumeric"". Gernot Gwehenberger independently invented and described the data structure at about the same time. PATRICIA trees are radix trees with radix equals 2, which means that each bit of the key is compared individually and each node is a two-way (i.e., left versus right) branch. Unlike balanced trees, radix trees permit lookup, insertion, and deletion in O("k") time rather than O(log "n"). This does not seem like an advantage, since normally
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what has happened on Earth and Xanth. Plants may bear fruit of all descriptions (pie trees and shoe trees are common) or they may be carnivorous (such as the tangle trees), making travel in Xanth risky. Xanth has a connection with the normal world, which is referred to as "Mundania"; its people are called "Mundanes". Although any citizen of Xanth can enter Mundania at any time through an isthmus in the northwest, Mundanes enter the isthmus in Xanth from random geographic locations and time periods throughout history. In other words, Xanth does not have a fixed location or time in
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subsidence and tsunamis, altering the coast and creating a ghost forest. When there is a change in sea level, coastal regions may become inundated with sea water. This can alter coastal areas and kill large areas of trees, leaving behind what is called a “ghost forest.” This type of ghost forest may develop in a variety of environments and in many different places. In the southern US coastal marshes are expanding into dry wooded areas, killing trees and leaving behind areas of dead trees called snags. Regions of the US at or below sea level are more susceptible to tides.
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freshly dug soil or by surreptitiously spreading seeds along a new ditchbank. Guerrilla gardening continues today, as individuals secretly plant fruit trees, edible perennials, and flowers in parks, along bike trails, etc. Some guerrilla gardeners do so for the purpose of providing food. For example, the Tacamiche banana plantation workers in Honduras illegally grew vegetables on the abandoned plantation land, rather than leave with the plantation's closure in 1995. In 2009, as a collaboration between World Naked Bike Ride Seattle, Body Freedom Collaborative, and World Naked Gardening Day, permaculturists Kelda Lorax and Jacob Gabriel launched Gardens Everywhere Bike Parade, a
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question: "What can I do in case I'm raped, and I don't want to get pregnant." The parts of Mexico near the U.S. border, and the state of Chihuahua and city of Juárez in particular, are some of the most dangerous places for women in general in Mexico, according to a Reuters report on the "pandemic" of violence against women in Mexico. In some areas near the border, rapists began hanging their victims' garments from trees as trophies. These trees are sometimes called "rape trees" by members of the Minuteman Project, and the term has been taken up by anti-immigration
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Ted has a crush on local environmentalist Audrey (Taylor Swift), who wants to see a "real tree" more than anything in the world, so he decides to find one in order to impress her. His energetic Granny Norma (Betty White) secretly tells Ted the legend of the Once-ler, who will tell anyone about trees if they bring him fifteen cents, a nail, and a shell of a great-great-great grandfather snail. When Ted leaves Thneedville in search of the Once-ler (Ed Helms), he discovers that the outside world is a contaminated, empty, barren wasteland. Once the boy finds him, the Once-ler
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has given visitors a view of the trees that changes people's perspective on the importance of forest conservation. Margaret D. Lowman Margaret D. Lowman, Ph.D. a.k.a. "Canopy Meg" (born December 23, 1953) is an American biologist, educator, ecologist, writer, explorer, and public speaker. Her expertise involves canopy ecology, canopy plant-insect relationships, and constructing canopy walkways. Nicknamed the "real-life Lorax" and "Einstein of the treetops", Dr. Lowman pioneered the science of canopy ecology. She is known as the "mother of canopy research." For more than 30 years, she has designed hot-air balloons and walkways for treetop exploration to solve mysteries in
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characters are late born Toadlets who missed the great migration. Unable to figure out what to do, they are greeted by a wandering Toad sage named Mistle Toad. He tells them about the Fairy Ring and how to find it. It's not known exactly where it is because the location changes every year. It is revealed shortly after that the youngest of the eight toadlets, Panther Cap, has the ability to hear what certain "Lightning Oaks" (called Thunder Trees by the toadlets) are saying, and can also home in on these trees telepathically with the use of an acorn. Along
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much as the Once-ler is for big business, refuses to listen and lashes out. But in the end, he is convinced by the logger's arguments. However, this story was criticized for what were viewed as skewed arguments and clear self-interest, particularly a "casual attitude toward endangered species" that answered the Guardbark's concern for them. In addition, the book's approach as a more blatant argument, rather than one worked into a storyline, was also noted. The line "I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie" was removed more than fourteen years after the story was published, after two
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features of the park are: the bird snare (in Italian "roccolo") made up of lime trees recovered from Manara street, the three monumental plane trees located in the north of the park, and what is said to be the longest recycled plastic bench in Italy. The park hosts entertainment, including sports events like cyclo-cross. The sports are generally in the summer. There are rest areas, including covered areas with a stage. There is a bar located in the park called "Masnada" that hosts regular events, including live bands who provide free entertainment. Masnada provides the only hot food in the
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graph. Caterpillar trees have been used in chemical graph theory to represent the structure of benzenoid hydrocarbon molecules. In this representation, one forms a caterpillar in which each edge corresponds to a 6-carbon ring in the molecular structure, and two edges are incident at a vertex whenever the corresponding rings belong to a sequence of rings connected end-to-end in the structure. writes, "It is amazing that nearly all graphs that played an important role in what is now called "chemical graph theory" may be related to caterpillar trees." In this context, caterpillar trees are also known as benzenoid trees and
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q-ratio (q"). The q-ratio is the ratio of the number of trees in a diameter class to the number of trees in the next larger class. Typically diameter classes are either 4 centimeters or 2 inches. When the Q is plotted on semi-log paper it gives a straight slope for uneven aged stands. However, in reality this slope can be seen to vary from what is called an S-curve in old growth forests to cut off the older trees giving a reverse-J curve in a managed stand. The curve is also an ideal curve and there may be variations to
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those near London. They are, however, pleasant places of recreation for the inhabitants. The Vauxhall garden is situated in the Bowery Road about two miles (3 km) from the City Hall. It is a neat plantation, with gravel walks adorned with shrubs, trees, busts, and statues. In the centre is a large equestrian statue of General Washington. Light musical pieces, interludes, etc. are performed in a small theatre situate in one corner of the gardens: the audience sit in what are called the pit and boxes, in the open air. The orchestra is built among the trees, and a large
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to protect the trees, and they realized that Ents, too, were part of the Song of Creation. Yavanna then warned Aulë, "Now let thy children beware! For there shall walk a power in the forests whose wrath they will arouse at their peril." The Ents are called "the Shepherds of the Trees". Treebeard tells of a time when much of Eriador was forested and part of his domain, but these immense forests dwindled over time. Treebeard's statement is corroborated by Elrond: "Time was when a squirrel could go from tree to tree from what is now the Shire to Dunland
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although later removed from the book. The special also shows the Once-ler arguing with himself, and asking the Lorax whether shutting down his factory (thus putting hundreds of people out of work) is practical. An abridged version of the special is used in the 1994 TV movie "In Search of Dr. Seuss", with Kathy Najimy's reporter character hearing the Once-ler's story. On March 2, 2012, Universal Studios and Illumination Entertainment released a 3-D CGI film based upon the book. The release coincided with the 108th birthday of Seuss, who died at 87 in 1991. The cast includes Danny DeVito as
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be released in 3-D. "The Lorax" was also Illumination's first film presented in IMAX 3D (known as "IMAX Tree-D" in publicity for the film). The idea for the film was initiated by Audrey Geisel, Dr. Seuss' wife, who had an established partnership with Chris Meledandri, the producer of the film, from a collaboration on "Horton Hears a Who!". Geisel approached Meledandri when he launched Illumination Entertainment, saying "This is the one I want to do next". The film was officially announced in July 2009, with Meledandri attached as the producer and Geisel as the executive producer. Chris Renaud and Kyle
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4 December 2015 and finished on 16 January 2016. The production's creative team also consisted of "Noah and the Whale" frontman Charlie Fink writing music and lyrics, Drew McOnie as choreographer, Rob Howell as designer, John Clark as lighting designer, Tom Gibbons as sound designer, Phil Bateman as musical director/arranger and Nick Barnes and Finn Caldwell as puppetry designers. The cast included Simon Lipkin as the title role of 'The Lorax' (assisted by Laura Cubitt and Ben Thompson as puppeteers) and Simon Paisley Day as 'The Once-ler'. The production will return to The Old Vic for three weeks only from
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of these alternate ENUM-like trees. It is also possible that if an E.164 number is registered in several of these trees, there can be inconsistencies in the information that is returned. Furthermore, the subscriber "owning" a particular E.164 number may not be aware that their number has been entered into one or more of these alternate ENUM-like trees or what information these alternate trees are returning for their E.164 number. ENUM can also be viewed as a called party facility. Basically, it is an indirect dialling service designed to work seamlessly on PSTN and VoIP that builds on the great
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feature film adaptation of "The Lorax" was released by Universal on March 2, 2012 (on what would have been Seuss's 108th birthday). A third adaptation of Seuss' story, the CGI-animated feature film, "The Grinch", was released by Universal on November 9, 2018. Four television series have been adapted from Geisel's work. The first, "Gerald McBoing-Boing", was an animated television adaptation of Geisel's 1951 cartoon of the same name and lasted three months between 1956 and 1957. The second, "The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss", was a mix of live-action and puppetry by Jim Henson Television, the producers of The Muppets.
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"The three Pax torchships drop from relativistic velocities under more than six hundred gravities of deceleration – what spacefarers for centuries have called "raspberry jam delta-v" – meaning, of course, that if the internal containment fields were to fail for a microsecond, the crews would be little more than a layer of raspberry jam on the deckplates." Much of the action in the series takes place on the planet Hyperion. It is described as having one-fifth less gravity than Earth standard. Hyperion has a number of peculiar indigenous flora and fauna, notably Tesla trees, which are essentially large electricity-spewing trees.
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sleep or try to make amends?" What were once entire neighborhoods are now covered by grass and trees, part of an extensive area of parkland called the Greater Grand Forks Greenway. In East Grand Forks, this transformation is especially visible. One former neighborhood is now a large campground, the center of what is now known as the Red River State Recreation Area. The cities of today are significantly different from their pre-flood state, but many residents are pleased with this, seeing it as fulfillment of President Bill Clinton's promise that the cities would "rebuild stronger and better than ever." Population
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tell me what this is." On which the Sage answered: "According to what I have learned, it must be a goat; for I have heard that apparitions between trees and rocks are called khwei and wang-liang, while those in the water are lung or dragons, and wang-siang, and those in the ground are called fen-yang. De Groot (1910:5:495) says later scholars accepted this "division of spectres into those living in mountains and forests, in the water, and in the ground", which is evidently "a folk-conception older, perhaps much older, than the time of Confucius." For instance, Wei Zhao's (3rd century
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to be dug, when they fetched up something like an earthen pot with a goat in it. He had [Zhong Ni] (Confucius) interrogated about it, in these words: "I dug a well, and got a dog; tell me what this is." On which the Sage answered: "According to what I have learned, it must be a goat; for I have heard that apparitions between trees and rocks are called ["Kui" 夔] and ["wangliang"], while those in the water are ["long" 龍] or dragons, and ["wangxiang"], and those in the ground are called ["fenyang" 羵羊]. (魯語下, tr. de Groot 1910 5:
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variables to make available, and in what state (possibly requiring boxing). C# and Java feature a special type of in-line closures called lambdas. These are anonymous methods: they have a signature and a body, but no name. They are mainly used to specify local function-valued arguments in calls to other methods, a technique mainly associated with functional programming. C#, unlike Java, allows the use of lambda functions as a way to define special data structures called expression trees. Whether they are seen as an executable function or as a data structure depends on compiler type inference and what type of
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was gradually transported by humans throughout South and Central America. Early forms of another genotype have also been found in what is now Venezuela. The scientific name, "Theobroma", means "food of the gods". The fruit, called a cacao pod, is ovoid, long and wide, ripening yellow to orange, and weighing about when ripe. Cacao trees are small, understory trees that need rich, well-drained soils. They naturally grow within 20° of either side of the equator because they need about 2000 mm of rainfall a year, and temperatures in the range of . Cacao trees cannot tolerate a temperature lower than
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designers still rely primarily on the rarefied "niwaki" palette. The principles of "niwaki" may be applied to garden trees all over the world and are not restricted to Japanese Gardens. The plants used most commonly in Japanese gardens today include: Niwaki Most varieties of plants used in Japanese gardens are called "niwaki". These trees help to create the structure of the garden. Japanese gardens are not about using large range of plants, rather the objective is creating atmosphere or ambiance. The technique of niwaki is more about what to do with a tree than the tree itself. While Western gardeners
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trees, modeling his house after what he had seen at Mount Vernon. He also planted several apple trees in 1903 that are now listed as a Heritage Orchard. In 1928 he and his wife, Strikes the Iron, presented of his land in trust to Big Horn County, including the house, spring, and trees Chief Plenty Coups had envisioned, saying: Today, I who have been called Chief of Chiefs, among red men, present to all the children of our Great White Father this land where the snows of many winters have fallen on my tepee. This park is not to be
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fashion to mark the location: to honor this location that had been and would continue to be sacred to their people. Each of these trees takes a sharp bend away from the center of the circle at a height of eight feet and then turns up again; a dramatic and elegant designation. The first report of trail marker trees, in what is now the State of Illinois, appeared in a document called "Map of Ouilmette Reservation with its Indian Reminders dated 1828–1844." This map shows actual drawings and locations of existing trail marker trees. Even after the indigenous population was
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Niwaki Most varieties of plants used in Japanese gardens are called "niwaki". These trees help to create the structure of the garden. Japanese gardens are not about using large range of plants, rather the objective is creating atmosphere or ambiance. The technique of niwaki is more about what to do with a tree than the tree itself. While Western gardeners enjoy experimenting with a wide range of different plants, Japanese gardeners achieve variety through training and shaping a relatively limited set of plants. Trees play a key role in the gardens and landscapes of Japan as well as being of
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Planet Express staff decide to decorate for what is now called Xmas, which includes cutting down an Xmas tree (which are now palm trees, since pine trees are extinct). Fry’s moping about his first Xmas without his family unknowingly agitates Leela, who has not felt happy about Xmas since she was an orphan, and storms off in tears. When the others call him out on his mistake, Fry goes to buy a present to cheer Leela up. They warn him to be back before sundown, or else he will be killed by a murderous robotic Santa Claus. In the year
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Cover My Tracks Cover My Tracks is the first studio album by English singer-songwriter Charlie Fink. The record was released 2 June 2017. The album is paired with a stage play of the same name. Following on from the break-up of English indie rock band Noah and the Whale, of which Fink was the frontman and songwriter, Fink released a song in mid-2015 on his Soundcloud called "My Heartbeat Lost Its Rhythm". Fink then began to write for productions at the Old Vic, including "The Lorax", as well as writing the music for the film "A Street Cat Named Bob".
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the Lorax, Zac Efron as Ted (the boy in the book), and Ed Helms as the Once-ler. The film includes several new characters: Rob Riggle as villain Aloysius O'Hare, Betty White as Ted's Grammy Norma, Jenny Slate as Ted's neurotic mother Mrs. Wiggins, and Taylor Swift as Audrey, Ted's romantic interest. The film debuted in the No. 1 spot at the box office, making $70 million, though it received mixed reviews. The film eventually grossed a domestic total of $214,030,500. Two audio readings have been released on CD, one narrated by Ted Danson in the United States (Listening Library, )
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"Assassins". He appeared as Lead Man in I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change in 2015, followed by puppeteering the Lorax in The Lorax at the Old Vic. In 2016 he played Lou Lubowitz in Miss Atomic Bomb and Bill Sykes in Oliver before joining the cast of "Guys and Dolls" at the Phoenix Theatre, London as Nathan Detroit, starring opposite Rebel Wilson as Miss Adelaide. Lipkin along with comedian and composer Vikki Stone hosted the 2017 WhatsOnStage Awards at the Prince Edward Theatre in London. Later on he was part of the original cast of the new Duncan Sheik
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last "Saturday Night Live" episode before the year 2000. He earned a 2004 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for an episode of "Friends", following four Emmy nominations (including a 1981 win) for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy for "Taxi". In 2006, DeVito joined the cast of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" as Frank Reynolds. In 2011, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in television. In 2012, DeVito voiced the Lorax in "The Lorax". In 2013, along with Rashida Jones, he voiced Herb for the third time on
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studio look at each other's projects on a regular basis and give each other very candid "notes" (the industry term for constructive criticism). Instead for its creative team, Illumination often uses the same core of creators. "Despicable Me" and "Despicable Me 2" were directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud; Coffin went on to direct "Minions" and "Despicable Me 3" respectively, while Renaud directed "The Lorax" and "The Secret Life of Pets", respectively. Screenwriters Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio wrote Illumination's first four films ("Despicable Me", "Hop", "The Lorax", "Despicable Me 2") as well as "The Secret Life of Pets"
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of whose minimal clique separators are also all the same size "k". 1-trees are the same as unrooted trees. 2-trees are maximal series-parallel graphs, and include also the maximal outerplanar graphs. Planar 3-trees are also known as Apollonian networks. The graphs that have treewidth at most "k" are exactly the subgraphs of "k"-trees, and for this reason they are called partial "k"-trees. The graphs formed by the edges and vertices of "k"-dimensional stacked polytopes, polytopes formed by starting from a simplex and then repeatedly gluing simplices onto the faces of the polytope, are "k"-trees when "k" ≥ 3. This gluing
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and the Melvins. Bad communication, drugs, major label profiteering, rehab, schedule blowouts, backstabbing, and album miscrediting... it was a devil's album." Speaking to "Kerrang!" in 2008, Melvins guitarist and vocalist Buzz Osborne, who later said in 2009 that Cobain was "in no shape to produce anything," remembered: Though the album's liner notes list Lorax as the band's bassist, she does not appear to have played on the album. On the credits for bass, Osborne stated: "This album is mostly just me and Dale Crover. Either I played bass or he did on almost all of it regardless of what the
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describes as including from west to east; Commagene, Sophene, and Adiabene. In Pliny's time, Syria was administratively divided into a number of provinces with various degrees of autonomy under the Roman Empire, such as the Ityraei or Ituraei, who were a people of Coelo-Syria famous for shooting with a bow, [The wood of the trees called] "yews are bent into Ituraean bows". The Decapolis was so called from its ten cities enumerated by Pliny. And it should be noted, that what "Pliny" calls "Decapolis", "Ptolomy" makes his "Cœle-Syria"; and the "Cœle-Syria" of "Pliny", is that part of "Syria" about "Aleppo".
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are things known under the name of "tsurube-otoshi" are the Tōkai region and Kansai region, and furthermore it is also only in these regions that buckets are known to drop from trees, although in other places there are many that tell of dropping balls of fire or dropping burnt pans among other fire-related objects. For example, in Yamanobe, Yamagata Prefecture, there is what is called the nabe-oroshi (鍋下ろし, "pan drop"), and it is said that when children play all the way to sunset, a deep red pan would drop from a sugi tree, take the children into the pan, and
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electronic analysis with transmission carried out by J. C. Audran in 1985 failed in discovering an active presence of virus or of mollicutes (a class of small bacteria). Year after year, even stranger trees are found in this area; these ones look globally as dwarf beech trees but with a branch growing as it would do in a common beech tree. These stranger trees seem to be more frequent, they are called "chimera beech trees". In 1998, by comparing the DNA coming from common beech trees, dwarf beech trees from Verzy, common purple beech trees and purple dwarf beech trees
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small school district in California kept the book on a reading list for second graders, though some in the town claimed the book was unfair to the logging industry. Terri Birkett, a member of a family-owned hardwood flooring factory, authored "The Truax", offering a logging-friendly perspective to an anthropomorphic tree known as the "Guardbark". This book was published by the National Oak Flooring Manufacturers' Association (NOFMA). Just as in "The Lorax", the book consists of a disagreement between two people. The logging industry representative states that they have efficiency and re-seeding efforts. The Guardbark, a personification of the environmentalist movement
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on 151 reviews and an average rating of 5.9/10, with the critical consensus saying, ""Dr. Seuss' The Lorax" is cute and funny enough, but the moral simplicity of the book gets lost with the zany Hollywood production values." It also has a score of 46 on Metacritic based on 30 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". "New York" magazine film critic David Edelstein on NPR's "All Things Considered" strongly objected to the movie, arguing that the Hollywood animation and writing formulas washed out the spirit of the book. "This kind of studio 3-D feature animation is all wrong for the
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Russian language dub editions. Universal added an environmental message to the film's website after a fourth-grade class in Brookline, Massachusetts launched a successful petition through Change.org. The film was released on March 2, 2012 in the United States and Canada and was released on July 27, 2012 in the United Kingdom. Mazda used the likeness of "The Lorax"s setting and characters in an advertisement for their CX-5 SUV. This was seen by some as the complete opposite of the work's original meaning. In response, Stephanie Sperber, president of Universal partnerships and licensing, said Universal chose to partner with the Mazda
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the movie, Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax", and Mazda launched a co-branded national Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax"-themed commercial spot based around Mazda’s SKYACTIV TECHNOLOGY. The United States version of the CX-5 debuted at the November 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show. Initially, the only engine available was a direct-injected 2.0-liter four-cylinder Skyactiv-G gasoline engine with , which is less than the first reported. However, it is rated at 26 mpg city and 32 mpg highway with automatic transmission and 26 mpg city and 35 mpg highway with manual transmission. For the model year of 2014, an available 2.5-liter four-cylinder Skyactiv gas engine
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CX-5 because it is "a really good choice for consumers to make who may not have the luxury or the money to buy electric or buy hybrid. It's a way to take the better environmental choice to everyone." The film has also been used to sell Seventh Generation disposable diapers. In total, Illumination Entertainment struck more than 70 different product integration deals for the film. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on August 7, 2012. Three mini-movies were released on the "Lorax" Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack on August 7, 2012: "Serenade", "Wagon Ho!", and "Forces of Nature". Lou
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exotics, such as "Phellodendron" and "Sophora". Smaller natives include sassafras. Aggressively self-seeding black cherry and black locust have come to dominate the Ramble. A 1979 census of The Rambles' trees, taken by Bruce Kelly, Philip Winslow, and James Marston Fitch, found 6000 trees, including 60 specimen trees of landscape value. The Lake unified what Calvert Vaux called the "irregular disconnected featureless conglomeration of ground". It was excavated, entirely by hand, from unprepossessing swampy ground transected by drainage ditches and ramshackle stone walls. Through the low-lying site the Sawkill flowed sluggishly from sources under the present American Museum of Natural History
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of the periderm. The outer bark on trees which lies external to the last formed periderm is also called the rhytidome. Products derived from bark include: bark shingle siding and wall coverings, spices and other flavorings, tanbark for tannin, resin, latex, medicines, poisons, various hallucinogenic chemicals and cork. Bark has been used to make cloth, canoes, and ropes and used as a surface for paintings and map making. A number of plants are also grown for their attractive or interesting bark colorations and surface textures or their bark is used as landscape mulch. What is commonly called bark includes a
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life on trees, eating leaves in relative safety. "A inermis" seems to reproduce entirely asexually so while she feeds the female can fertilize and drop or deposit her own ova without having to move or compete with other members of her species for mates. From what has been observed, "A. inermis" reproduces entirely asexually through a process called parthenogenesis. Given that they haven't been seen to reproduce sexually at all they can be called obligately parthenogenic. Some other species of stick insect are facultatively parthenoginic meaning they can reproduce both sexually and asexually. The female of the species which appears
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ciders can be produced through methods of direct carbonation, addition of carbon dioxide (CO) or by Méthode Champenoise to re-create the traditional Champagne style. Apples grown for consumption are suitable for cider making, though some regional cider-makers prefer to use a mix of eating and cider apples (as in Kent, England), or exclusively cider apples (as in the West Country, England). There are many hundreds of varieties of cultivars developed specifically for cider making. Once the apples are gathered from trees in orchards they are "scratted" (ground down) into what is called "pomace" or "pommage". Historically this was done using
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Boro Din Boro Din (Big Day) is what Christmas is called in Bangladesh. Christianity was brought to Bangladesh in 16th century by Portuguese traders and missionaries. Christians in Bangladesh make up 0.03 percent of the population. Christians in Bangladesh give gifts and cards to each other. Christmas is national holiday in Bangladesh. People greet each other with "Shubho Boro Din" (Greetings of the Great Day). In rural areas Banana trees and leaves are used for decoration. Special events are held in Hotels and Christmas specials are shown on TV. Tribal celebrations are a little different from Bengali Christmas celebrations. Traditional
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Williams, Will Stone, Leslie Hall, Austin Brown, and Brett Carlisle. 2017-2018 Season: Women and War, Waylen, The Lorax, Horton Hears a Who, The Snow Show, Wait Wait Bo Bait, Once Upon A Mattress, Nameless, What I Want to Say But Never Will, The Suessification of Romeo and Juliet, The Suessification of A Midsummer Nights Dream, Nameless, I Don’t Want to Talk About It, Emperor’s New Clothes. Owensboro High School Owensboro High School is a public high school located at 1800 Frederica Street in Owensboro, Kentucky. The school's newspaper is "The Scoop" and its yearbook is the "Owensboroan". Owensboro High School
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the Spaniards in 1765, around Mission San Ignacio. A date palm cultivar, probably what used to be called Judean date palm, is renowned for its long-lived orthodox seed, which successfully sprouted after accidental storage for 2000 years. The upper survival time limit of properly stored seeds remains unknown. Date trees typically reach about in height, growing singly or forming a clump with several stems from a single root system. The leaves are long, with spines on the petiole, and pinnate, with about 150 leaflets. The leaflets are long and wide. The full span of the crown ranges from . The
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Attack of the Mutant Artificial Christmas Trees Attack of the Mutant Artificial Christmas Trees is a free online video game developed as part of a marketing campaign by the National Christmas Tree Association in 2004. The game was meant to support the natural Christmas tree industry and received criticism from artificial tree producers. It has been described as similar to "Whac-A-Mole". Players are called upon to pelt mutant artificial Christmas trees with snowballs, while avoiding the elves interspersed between the garishly colored mutant trees. Mutant trees emerge from boxes that are marked "100% Fake" or "Made in China". The trees,
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Suzanne Simard Suzanne Simard is a professor of forest ecology and teaches at the University of British Columbia. She has tested theories about how trees communicate with other trees. She used radioactive carbon to measure the flow and sharing of carbon between individual trees and species. She discovered that Birch and Douglas Fir share carbon. Birch trees receive extra carbon from Douglas Firs when the Birch trees lose their leaves, and Birch trees supply carbon to Douglas Fir trees that are in the shade. Simard helped identify something called a hub tree, or “mother tree”. Mother trees are the largest
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Propagation of Christmas trees Christmas tree propagation is the series of procedures carried out to reproduce trees that are grown for sale as Christmas trees by tree farmers. The species and varieties that are propagated are limited by the type of tree farm that purchases the seedlings or rooted cuttings, the climate/environment where the trees will be grown, the climate/environment of the tree nursery, and what species and varieties that the end-consumer desires. There are many different species of evergreen trees that are used for Christmas trees. The most common of these species are classified in one of four genera.
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Chavez Ravine Arboretum The Chavez Ravine Arboretum, in Elysian Park, just north of Dodger Stadium, at 929 Academy Road, Los Angeles, California, contains more than 100 varieties of trees from around the world, including what are believed to be the oldest and largest Cape Chestnut, Kauri, and Tipu trees in the United States. Admission to the arboretum is free. The Arboretum was founded in 1893 by the Los Angeles Horticultural Society, and planting of rare trees continued through the 1920s. Most of the original trees are still standing. The Arboretum was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1967. Trees
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Each spring at BBG, when the trees are in bloom, a month-long cherry blossom viewing festival called "Hanami" is held at the Cherry Esplanade, culminating in a weekend celebration called "Sakura Matsuri". The Esplanade features two rows of cherry trees with trails and sitting areas on the side. Visitors may also sit on the field of grass between the rows of cherry trees. Cherry trees are found on the Cherry Esplanade and Cherry Walk, in the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, and in many other locations in the Garden. Depending on weather conditions, the Asian flowering cherries bloom from late March or
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Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio are American screenwriters. They are primarily known for writing screenplays for animated films, including "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who", "Despicable Me", "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax", "Despicable Me 2", "The Secret Life of Pets" and "Despicable Me 3". Paul was named after Cinco de Mayo, a celebration held on his birthday. After graduating from Yale University, Paul served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Tokyo. Shortly after returning from his mission he married his wife whom he had met at Yale and to whom
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