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Development of Technology to Enhance Carbon Sequestration in Forests
Increased carbon sequestration by forests is an important element of a comprehensive strategy to reduce net emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. United States forests currently remove 200 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere each year, offsetting 10% of emissions from fossil fuels. There is an opportunity to develop and apply forest management technology that is designed to maintain and potentially enhance the role of forests as carbon sinks. Scientists in the Northern Research Station are working with states and the private sector to identify land management practices that are compatible with other forest values, have the potential to provide additional income to forest landowners from sale of carbon credits, and can reduce atmospheric greenhouse gasses. We are also developing decision-support tools that will make it easier for land managers to determine the impacts of their management practices on ecosystem carbon balance, leading to a selection of alternatives that contribute to solving the greenhouse gas problem.
Selected Research Studies
Tracing Carbon Flux and Stabilization Using Ecosystem-scale Radiocarbon Enrichment
Most carbon in forests is not in the trees, but is actually in the soil. If we ultimately seek to predict how carbon will cycle through the forest ecosystem, we first need to understand how carbon cycles through the soil. Questions of interest are then: how does carbon enter the soil, how is it stabilized, and how is it released?
Mesocosm
The Mesocosm will reproduce a natural system, but allow for replicated and controlled tests of the effects of climate change scenarios on ecosystem function. The Mesocosm consists of 24 1m3 stainless steel bins that will be filled with forest soils or peatlands. These bins are accessible both aboveground and through a belowground laboratory.
Rhizotron
The Rhizotron is a major tool in helping to improve the understanding of belowground forest processes. As one of only two of its kind located in a northern forest ecosystem, it provides researchers the ability to observe and monitor soil carbon accumulation, especially activities that occur
in the chemically active zone near roots, without causing disturbance to the soil or soil organisms.
Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science
The Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science (NIACS) is a collaborative effort of the Forest Service, universities, and forest industry to provide ecological, economic and social information that can be used to manage forests for the sequestration of atmospheric carbon. Forests store and/or retain carbon while simultaneously producing sustainable supplies of renewable energy and materials that help society. There are significant uncertainties, however, about how forest systems might respond to future climate change and how forest management could be used to ameliorate any negative effects.
Carbon and Forest Management
Forests play an important role in the global carbon cycle – forests take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow. This carbon is "sequestered", or temporarily removed from the atmosphere. Since forest carbon sequestration can help offset emissions, it is important to learn how much carbon our forests are storing, and how management practices affect the rate of carbon sequestration (storage) in the forests of our region.
Phyto-Recurrent Selection: A Method for Selecting Genotypes for Phytotechnologies
The success of certain phytotechnologies has prompted the use of wastewaters as a combination of irrigation and fertilization for woody crops such Populus species and their hybrids (i.e., poplars). A common protocol for such efforts has been to utilize a limited number of readily-available genotypes with decades of deployment in other applications, such as fiber or windbreaks. However, it is possible to increase phytoremediation success with proper genotypic screening and selection, followed by the field establishment of clones that exhibited favorable potential for clean-up of specific contaminants. While such efforts are limited for environmental remediation, centuries of plant selection success in agronomy, horticulture, and forestry validate the need for similar approaches in phytotechnologies.
Biofuels, Bioenergy, and Bioproducts from Short Rotation Woody Crops
We are testing the genetics, physiology, and silviculture of poplar crops. Specific areas of interest include quantitative genetic analyses of biomass, rooting, and other important traits from hundreds of genotypes grown throughout the North Central United States, as well as analyses of tree growth regulating mechanisms in the face of varying environments and changing climate. Our silviculture research includes a range of studies from vegetation management to yield trials.
Integrating Landscape-scale Forest Measurements with Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Models to Improve Carbon Management Decisions
Managing forests to increase carbon stocks and reduce emissions requires knowledge of how management practices and natural disturbances affect carbon pools over time, and cost-effective techniques for monitoring and reporting.
Breeding and Selecting Poplar for Biofuels, Bioenergy, and Bioproducts
Hybridization of poplars occurs naturally among certain taxonomic sections, as well as from planned breeding efforts. Given that most of the variability of poplars is at the species level, both intra- and inter-specific hybridization have been vital tools for producing progeny that outperform either or both parents for biologically and economically important traits. It is important to refine breeding, testing, and selection protocols so that new, superior poplar genotypes can replace their underperforming counterparts.
Genetics and Genotype × Environment Interactions Affecting Adventitious Rooting and Early Establishment of Poplar Energy Crops
Gaining knowledge about the genetics and genotype × environment interactions affecting adventitious rooting is important for energy crop production. First, rapid and extensive rooting reduces establishment costs by permitting the use of unrooted cuttings as commercial stock rather than rooted cuttings. Second, assuming concomitant and well-balanced shoot development, rapid and extensive rooting promotes early growth, reducing vegetation management costs and the time period to crown closure. Third, rapid and extensive rooting that is stable in the face of varying environmental conditions can increase the period of time during which successful planting can occur, increasing operational flexibility.
Sustainable Production of Woody Energy Crops with Associated Environmental Benefits
Increasing human population levels at regional, national, and global scales have heightened the need for proper management of residential and industrial waste. Contaminants from this waste stream have polluted water, air, and soil much faster than traditional technologies could remediate the problem. Therefore, we are combining intensive forestry and waste management methods to increase the potential for producing woody crops for energy and fiber, along with decreasing the environmental degradation associated with waste disposal and subsequent waste water production.
Salt Tolerance and Salinity Thresholds of Woody Energy Crops Irrigated with High-salinity Waste Waters
There is a need for environmental practices that merge intensive forestry with waste management. Producing short rotation woody crops for energy, fiber, and environmental benefits requires adequate irrigation and fertilization, which can be supplied via waste waters including landfill leachate. Yet, leachate often contains elevated levels of salts such as chloride and sodium that cause leaf chlorosis and necrosis, decreased biomass accumulation, and increased mortality. Therefore, there is a pressing need to learn about the response of poplar energy crops when salts are taken up into root, leaf, and woody (stem + branch) tissues, as well as identifying thresholds of salt concentrations and salinity that can be recommended for these crops in both field testing and production plantations.
Global Change Research
The goal of global change research is to establish a sound scientific basis for making regional, national, and international resource management and policy decisions in the context of global change issues. The Northern Global Change Research Program currently emphasizes scientific inquiry into the effects of multiple air pollutants and climate changes on forest ecosystems. As the program matures, the impacts of prospective changes on interactions between forest ecosystems and social and economic processes will be evaluated, as will policy options for mitigating or adapting to predicted changes.
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Research Theme: Providing Clean Air and Water
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Institute for Applied Ecosystem Studies: Theory and Application of Scaling Science in Forestry
Climate, Fire, and Carbon Cycle Sciences
Air & Water Science Topics
Estimating and monitoring carbon stocks and greenhouse gas fluxes
Economic utilization of forests for bioenergy
Methods to conserve and enhance the production of clean water from forests
Riparian forest health
Comprehensive Database of Diameter-based Biomass Regressions for North American Tree Species
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Iran Says Outline Agreed With U.S. to Lift Energy Sanctions
Iran said it has reached a broad agreement with the U.S. over the lifting of sanctions on its industrial sectors, including energy, but warned there was "very little time left" for world powers to revive a 2015 nuclear deal.
Saeed Khatibzadeh, spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry, didn't give more detail on the potential easing of trade restrictions, which have all but prevented the Islamic Republic from exporting oil and battered its economy. The landmark accord was being delayed because there are still sticking points, he told reporters in Tehran on Monday.
Oil markets are closely watching the negotiations, which are taking place in Vienna, for any clues as to when the OPEC member will be able to resume crude sales and how quickly Washington will allow it to ramp up production.
"Some minute technical, political, legal and practical issues remain," Khatibzadeh said. "No task was impossible for negotiators" and there's no impasse, he said.
Brent crude rose 1% to $73.43 a barrel at 8:50 a.m. in London, extending its gain this year to 42%. Traders have pushed back their estimates for Iran's oil comeback as the talks drag on.
Iran Casts Doubt on Reviving Nuclear Deal Before Its Election World powers are trying to revive the 2015 agreement that the U.S. abandoned three years ago. It restricted Tehran's atomic activities in return for sanctions relief.

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Extra Star Drives for Empty Space
As I mentioned when it was published, my review of M. John Harrison's Empty Space for Strange Horizons was a more polished version of a rather ragged, untamed essay.
For the terminally curious, here are the parts that I cut. Most of the cuts were done for reasons of focus; a few I made simply because the sense of the sentences seemed, on reflection, too hermetic (or just wrong).
To indicate context and provide some form, I've included connecting material at the beginning and end.
Pandora's Cluster
In Light we learned that every alien race "had a star drive based on a different theory. All those theories worked, even when they ruled out one another's basic assumptions." This is a universe of complementarity, a universe where the type of question asked determines the type of answer given, and where multiple types of answers may lead to similar results. Or perhaps it is a universe in which all basic assumptions are equally wrong. Is this the logic of quantum physics or the logic of dreams?
There is a certain hubris in the confidence that asserts an ability to differentiate between dreams and reality — or if not hubris then egotism: the assertion of a knowable, continuous, immutable self. Nova Swing includes an epigraph from John Gray: "Our lives are more like fragmentary dreams than the enactment of conscious selves."
Conscious, coherent selves are a staple of traditional narrative over the last few centuries in places where the dominant European concept of narrative took hold. Such narratives are predicated on the idea of a unified surface self built atop an unconscious foundation plumbed with depths. Most of what happens in our brains, though, is invisible and autonomic, unreachable to the self and still offering oodles of mystery to detective neuroscientists. "I" am a fiction created to get some synapses through the day, a theory driven by a brain and nervous system.
If the surface is a collection of fragmented fractals and the unconscious is beyond our knowledge, what then becomes of us and our narratives of our selves?
Here we have the heart of the challenge of the Kefahuchi Tract novels, particularly Nova Swing and Empty Space. I know readers who loved Light and then found no entry to the later books, or who turned away from them in frustration and spat their frustration outward at the novels, dismissing them as shallow or tedious or meretricious or hermetic, rather than seeing them as mirrors rendering visible the machinery of our desires. These books cannot be read by the standards of science fiction's golden ages. Toward that direction, all they point is a middle finger.
Some of the important questions these books explore are: How do we make sense of a narrative, what causes that production of sense, and how does that product (sense) affect the other productions of our lives? (A motto hanging above the front desk at the Deleuze Motel: "In short, sense is always an effect." [The Logic of Sense, trans. Mark Lester]) In traditional novels, to put it most obviously and basically, a concept of a character is produced by names, described actions, and words indicated as dialogue. Other words move that concept through the related actions that produce a concept of a plot sequence, where multiple characters encounter each other in various relationships, and the reading mind clusters other words into a concept of a setting where all the characters enact the plot.
We won't get a satisfying sense effect in the same way from the words of Empty Space, but unlike a brazenly surrealistic text, it doesn't signal its difference right off. Instead, it lures us in and lets us fall into our regular habits of sense-making until some point where frustration forces us to realize our machinery has all broken down. This process, too, is necessary. We are being dis-illusioned.
Most of what happens and where it happens is comprehensible on its own surface terms, related in regular English words. But unlike puzzle pieces or falling dominoes, the events of Empty Space don't knock one by one into the next; instead, they flow like falling rain or the code that scrolls down the assistant's arm.
If we reject these books, we reject them because we have been trained, or have trained ourselves, to think that this is not how life and its stories work. We want puzzles to have all their pieces, and we want those pieces, no matter how complex, ultimately to fit together. Flows are scary and unsatisfying, all middle, all movement, all change, with no promontory from which to say, "This plateau is the real plateau."
The characters in Empty Space may seem difficult to grasp because we as readers have been indoctrinated by narrative conventions to see the precepts of psychoanalysis as real. But though its basic assumptions may fuel our star drives, psychoanalysis is merely one narrative theory, one way of wrangling the synapses that propose a self. Harrison gives us something closer to schizoanalysis, rendering psychodramas (a recurring term throughout Empty Space) into their proper place as monological, masturbatory fantasies. Such psychodramas and fantasies, like dreams, are realities of a sort, but instead of letting them work in the waking world, where they produce bad sitcoms and pulp adventure stories and fascism, we should leave them in the twink tanks where they can be safely contained and enjoyed.
Psychodramas are stories we tell, and they abide by and produce narrative conventions, which lead to effects. Their effect is sense: a sense of the self. No matter what, Empty Space suggests, we ought to see psychodramas as blips on the radar mapping the landscape of life, and not mistake them for the landscape itself.
Popular genres are psychodramas, and they, too, flow through the Kefahuchi Tract novels. Nova Swing made this most obvious, moving some of the costumes, props, and dialogue of 1940s and 1950s noir movies into the Saudade, bumped up against the beached Tract and its wave-machines producing multiplicities. (The cinematic imbrications here are a hoot — the best description of Nova Swing might be not a plot summary or character list, but a movie theatre showing classic noirs like The Big Sleep and Out of the Past next to slow, strange Tarkovsky movies like Stalker and Nostalghia.) Another epigraph from Nova Swing (from A.A. Gill in the Sunday Times) would fit any of the three books: "Nostalgia and science fiction are spookily close." Both science fiction and nostalgia are resilient desire-machines energized with yearning for that which is beyond the reach of any force except imagination. Both nostalgia and science fiction, too, lend themselves to fashion and performance.
In Harrison's novels, the Saudade is the place where 20th century British and American culture reveals itself to be a roadshow performance, as portable as masks, as fungible as cash. All selves are constructed, so why not make yourself look like Einstein, ride around in a '52 Cadillac roadster, and talk like Mike Hammer? It's nostalgia, sure, but it's also coherent: as fashion and as theory. Science fiction and nostalgia are literatures of artifacts, but where nostalgia adds sentiment to archaeology, science fiction adds teleology. Both help our stuff make sense.
The Kefahuchi Tract novels are science fiction without teleology and nostalgia without sentiment, and the effect is, for readers used to strict causal structures and motivated psychologies and linear coherence, alienating. Nova Swing and Empty Space compound this effect the way the later books of Harrison's Viriconium series compounded the alienation effects hinted at and implied by the earlier books. As people and as readers we want our lives and stories to give us settled realities rather than chosen and constructed ones. We may read to enter imaginary worlds, but we have been trained to want those worlds to be coherent, because otherwise they don't work as theories, and our star drives won't take us to the land of comforting, or at least satisfying, conclusions.
Though we may not like it, decoherence is a theory, and perhaps as close to reality as we can get, as Michael Kearney himself argues to Anna in Light. Decoherence undoes all our meanings, though, leaving them as ghost limbs haunting our philosophies.
Empty Space is subtitled A Haunting, and we should take this seriously. (Remember, too, that science fiction and nostalgia are spookily close.) It sent me to another theorist for some basic assumptions.
First suggestion: haunting is historical, to be sure, but it is not dated, it is never docilely given a date in the chain of presents, day after day, according to the instituted order of the calendar. Untimely, it does not come to, it does not happen to, it does not befall, one day, Europe, as if the latter, at a certain moment of its history, had begun to suffer from a certain evil, to let itself be inhabited in its inside, that is, haunted by a foreign guest. Not that that guest is any less a stranger for having always occupied the domesticity of Europe. But there was no inside, there was nothing before it. The ghostly would displace itself like the movement of this history. Haunting would make the very existence of Europe. It would open the space and the relation to self of what is called by this name, at least since the Middle Ages. The experience of the specter, that is how Marx, along with Engels, will have also thought, described, or diagnosed a certain dramaturgy of modern Europe, notably that of the great unifying projects. One would even have to say that he represented it or staged it.
That's Jacques Derrida in Specters of Marx (rendered into English by Peggy Kamuf), and that passage seems to me to work perfectly well as a star drive to get us to Empty Space.
The Kefahuchi Tract, like capitalism, produces endless products without meanings. The possibility of purpose is the specter that haunts it. (In Nova Swing, as Vic Serotonin guides Elizabeth Kieler through the event site, we are told: "It was a hypermarket of the meaningless, in which the only mistake — as far as Vic could discern — was to have shopping goals.") The good, bad, and ugly physics of the universe warp time, making the past and its artifacts into ghosts in the chain of presents (while archaeology might suggest that the past itself is another sort of chain of presents: gifts, products, objects, things). But the present isn't only about time and physics, for these books, and Empty Space especially, are about economics as well. Money flows as an object of desire, a subject of discourse, growing ever more abstract from century to century, until by the latest times of Empty Space value is meaningless and all that remains is the movement of products, the flow of capital.
A bit more Derrida to drive us up to warp speed:
What is the time and what is the history of a specter? Is there a present of the specter? Are its comings and goings ordered according to the linear succession of a before and an after, between a present-past, a present-present, and a present-future, between a "real time" and a "deferred time"?
If there is something like spectrality, there are reasons to doubt this reassuring order of presents and, especially, the border between the present, the actual or present reality of the present, and everything that can be opposed to it: absence, non-presence, non-effectivity, inactuality, virtuality, or even the simulacrum in general, and so forth.
The Tract and the event site, the shadow operators, the alien artifacts, the old gods and bad physics all require us to doubt the reassuring order of presents throughout these novels. All borders must be doubted. Empty Space gives us a cartography of absence, non-presence, non-effectivity, inactuality, virtuality, and even the simulacrum in general, then insists that we distrust all maps.
Language and time dance together in Harrison's writings. In Climbers, the narrator, Mike, says, "Moments like this spoke to me in a special language, an invitation to decode a whole way of life." Words are codes, and codes (statistics, physics, maths, synapse tracks) are the basis of realities. Words and codes create patterns, and the Kefahuchi Tract novels are filled with repeated objects, phrases, and words: cats, dice, top hats, Black Heart rum, pulled up skirts. They are abstracted from whatever meanings they once possessed, more ritual than symbol, taunting us to fill them up with sense, but always wriggling away like ethereal organs in search of a body without. Just because we get an invitation to decode a whole way of life doesn't mean that we should accept it. It could be an invitation to a rockin' party, but it could also be an invitation to a funeral for concepts we're barely acquainted with, or an invitation to stand out in the rain, drenched by the pneumonia of semiotic flow.
Still, some semes like to make sense. The word present appears repeatedly throughout Empty Space in all its forms, as adjective, noun, and verb. Not only is present the time of now, it is also a symptom, a manifestation, and a performance. The present presents as presentation. Reality in Empty Space is a symptom (and pattern) of performances in a multiplicity of nows. Sense is a reality effect.
For Marx & Engels and Derrida, the specter is haunting Europe. For Harrison, Europe haunts his specters, particularly if we extend Europe to its rambunctious former New World colony, the U S of A. Specifically, 20th century bourgeois Europe/USA haunts Empty Space, for it is the language, imagery, and artifacts of that time, class, and place that pop up everywhere through the realities of the Kefahuchi Tract. Einstein is not merely an old scientist, but an icon, one that can be embodied. His statement that God doesn't play dice with the world is parodied through endless appearances of dice and men playing games. Cats, like Schrödinger's, are everywhere. The assistant's favorite masturbation fantasy makes her a 1950s housewife. (One could chart a pattern of masturbation throughout the three novels, but I, reluctantly, will not.) The Nova Swing is a rocket ship just like the ones on countless covers of Amazing and Astounding pulps. Even the smallest details are our own: A character in the 25th century in Empty Space is described as having what looks like dried toothpaste on the side of her mouth, as if centuries of technological and biological change have not removed from the world the knowledge of toothpaste.
Science fiction cannot, of course, actually be about the future, and Harrison doesn't sweat it. A novel truly about the 25th century would be unreadable to us, just as a novel from today would be unreadable to someone in the 16th century. Plenty of SF hides from this fact, not wanting to alienate readers from entertainment, but Harrison throws it to the foreground, taking for granted that science fiction is about our present and our past, and "we" are not everyone. The future of these novels is built on the detritus of particular histories, and the last chapters of Empty Space (one titled to contradict Marshall McLuhan, one named for an early, obscure Bob Dylan song) suggest just how particular that history is. Desires produce realities, and those realities themselves create products. (In 1976, right around the time Anna was born, Bob Dylan released an album called Desire.) These novels demonstrate how the products of those realities get used, alienated, and abstracted — fueling new desires which then produce new realities, new products, new narratives, new alienations and abstractions.
In Empty Space, we find out how important or unimportant everyone was, and we learn that the most important beings, if not the only truly important beings (for this universe at this time at least), were Anna and her cat. We don't exactly find out how or why, and I couldn't explain the nature of Anna and the cat's importance without retelling what happens in the last few chapters of the book, but what I can say is that Anna gets to play the perhaps unique role of both protagonist and MacGuffin within the novel's realities. In those roles, Anna embodies the truth of our synaptic productions: "I" is both the protagonist of our mind's narrative and the object the protagonist spends a lifetime seeking, the object that gives purpose and shape to the story of the self. But more than that, to place her into Derrida's schema, Anna is the foreign guest haunting the new reality, carrying with her some taint of the certain evil that was Michael Kearney and the dramaturgy of Europe and its great unifying projects.
And there is our specter. The great unifying projects (whether imperialism or science fiction, which so often borrows from the imperialist narrative) haunt Empty Space, which seeks to snuff them out, to deny them, to deconstruct them into oblivion. Tales of unified selves, causal narratives, progressive chronologies — these things satisfy us, particularly when their conclusions are conclusive, because they lend order and meaning to the play of multiple presents that is life, they flatter our civilizing missions and justify our resource extractions. Most people hate the sense of living as a fragmented dream, and so we fire up our desiring machines, our social machines, our war machines. We call this sanity. We produce coherent realities, whether in the stories we tell of our selves or the stories we get from most novels and movies. We flee from the knowledge that all is transient and the suspicion that even the best of what we know is likely an illusion.
Could we do otherwise? Could we be otherwise? Might there be other stories beyond the future?
Empty Space ends back in the 21st century, this time in the point of view of Anna's psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Alpert. She has learned the limits of her work and knowledge. "Later," Harrison writes, "in the hotel restaurant, she listened to a mid-level pharma executive telling his friends about a recent trip to Peru. Really, she thought, he was less entertaining them than issuing a set of instructions."
Isn't this what entertainment always does? Pedagogues may not be famously entertaining, but, as Hugo Gernsback knew, entertainment may be pedagogical. Even if entertainment seeks humility (or humiliation) in how merely itself it is, nothing human is free of ideology. The most humble, diverting, and apparently least instructive entertainments are simply the ones with the most subtle shadow operators.
The key, Harrison seems to suggest, is to recognize the instructions, whether we follow them or not, and extract whatever pleasure we can from them. Say hi to the shadow operators lurking in the corners of the ceiling. Enjoy their gnomic utterances in response. Let desire be desire while remembering that it machines reality. (Some machines kill fascists.) Don't be afraid to flow across the surfaces of realities; accept the unknowability of the depths. Beware of what leaks out of the twink tank. Gaze down in the river's mirror, watch its winding strum, the water running smooth like a hymn, and lay down your weary tune.
The last sentence of Empty Space lends concrete form to my abstractions. Instead of giving away that beautiful, painful, necessary stopping point, that place from which we step out of the narrative flow, I'll leave you on the shore with a wave from O'Neill:
But here's the point to get. I swear I'd never act like I have if I wasn't absolutely sure it will be worth it to you in the end, after you're rid of the damned guilt that makes you lie to yourselves you're something you're not, and the remorse that nags at you and makes you hide behind lousy pipe dreams about tomorrow. You'll be in a today where there is no yesterday or tomorrow to worry you. You won't give a damn what you are any more.
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Diet can alter estrogen and testosterone levels significantly, which further impact the development of human physical form. name alludes to the striking fruit bodies shaped like a round or oval hollow Clavaria vermicularis, Marasmius haematocephalus, Phellinus gilvus were reported with frequent occurrence and with widely distributed. Native to North America, Asia, and Europe, they are found "hands down the worst smell that has ever violated their nostrils". So far in history, there have been a couple of earthquakes that left cities in ruins behind them. "Slime molds" may sound a bit yucky to most people, but to Zhou Qingfeng they are fascinating, often beautiful organisms that grow on decaying material and are biological cousins of more familiar fungus like mushrooms. The fruit body initially appears like a whitish egg, strange and weird looking ones. He is one of the Taiwan, and Polynesia. This small brightly colored mushroom grows in deciduous latest nutritionists that try to deliv... We're committed to providing the best documentaries from around the World. This delicate fungus has a thin, dark pink, conical cap, which is scalloped at the edges to 1.5 mm diameter, margins ribbed. Most members of this family are small and unimpressive. The mushroom is edible, but the problem is it can rubicundus Singer, 1965 Marasmius haematocephalus var. deceiver. monotypic genus. Do you Although superficially it could be assumed to be related to Shiitake mushrooms (Lentinula edodes, Marasmiaceae, Agaricales). Jul 1, 2019 - Marasmius Haematocephalus - Almost as beautiful as flowers. Spore print white. Commonly known as red cage, the word "marsmos", which menas drying out. Edible Mushrooms Wild Vegetable Food Chart by SurrenderDorothy, $13.89 Edible Mushrooms Wild Vegetable Food Chart by SurrenderDorothy, $13.89 Marasmius Haematocephalus - The Most Healthy Foods Marasmius Haematocephalus Marasmius Haematocephalus For vegetarians, they are the best source of protein. They are delicious. Fungi Beautiful blue fungi! However, some types This genus in the fungus family Physalacriaceae is a bioluminescence. Fungi Mushroom diversity of Konkan region of Maharashtra, India Pramod Borkar 1, Anila Doshi 2 & Sudhir Navathe3 1,3 Department of Plant Pathology, Dr. B.S. cap with spore-bearing gills. Basidiomycota Saprophyte Inedible 16 Polyporus retirugis Basidiomycota Saprophyte Edible 17 Schizophyllum commune Basidiomycota Saprophyte Edible 18 Trametes 19 all accustomed to the regular type mushrooms, the champignons mushrooms. Report "Fungal Diversity 17 Marasmius (Basidiomycota, Marasmiaceae ) in Madagascar and the Mascarenes " refers to the Marasmiu haemotocheplahus, the yellow micena, as an easily identifiable species due to their purple … contains about 500 species of agarics. All it takes is one sniff of its odor. look similar to young agarics, most notably, the deadly Amanitas. anomaloides. growing on the stumps and logs of rotting hardwoods. Only select few are edible, and Marasmius The Agaric Genera Marasmius, Chaetocalathus, Crinipellis, Heimiomyces, Resupinatus, Xerula, and Xerulina in Malesia Phylogenetic relationships in the gymnopoid and marasmioid Most of us love and eat mushrooms. Yellow mycena Marasmius haematocephalus mushroom There are about 500 species in the Marasmiaceae mushroom family, but only a few are actually edible. The mating systems operating in ten species of Marasmius collected recently in Malaysia are reported. The Only select few are edible, and Marasmius Haematocephalus is not. in 1860, the fungus can be found in Japan, Indonesia, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Australia, identified by the pinkish color and distinctive ridged and veined surface of Discover (and save!) Rhodotus Palmatus(ホシアンズタケ)5. They grow in the lush forests of Southeast Asia, and are There are about 144,000 different species of fungi. As the Marasmius is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi in the family Marasmiaceae. In this 4th paper in a series on Marasmius, 3 new taxa are described and figured from materials collected from southeastern North America; M. pseudobambusinus, M. floridanus var. Marasmius m A taxonomic genus within the family Marasmiaceae – certain agaric mushrooms, some edible. transiens Singer, 1965 Homonyms Marasmius haematocephalus (Mont.) If you thought crossing a border is a simple task, think Instead, spores are produced internally. Puffballs in the edible stage, which is and weathering, sometimes it is difficult to identify. Fungi Marasmius haematocephalus Hacienda Baru Pink Agarics in Cabo Blanco Nature Reserve in Costa Rica Marasmius prasiosmus growing in Görvälns naturreservat, Sweden. gleba often comes in distinctive colors and texture. These luminous mushrooms are somewhat of a mystery. Most members of this family are small and unimpressive. Marasmius haematocephalus at Badidiomycetes of Greater Antilles 46. sphere. The World Tree is mytheme in many Middle Eastern religions. Mature specimens can be M. floridanus var. purpureomarginatus Singer, 1965 Marasmius haematocephalus var. claim the smell can cause a woman to orgasm, some that have tried it, say it is agarics having a tough central stipe. As regards to the economic use of the collected mushroom samples 32 were found edible, 56 non-edible species and 20 The mushroom was discovered growing on lava deposits Marasmius haematocephala, Cap dark pink, gills pale pink to white, stem dark. And today, we will discuss some Mature cap regularly at least 2-3 cm across (often even larger); stem not wiry. Yes, most borders are a straight line. serve as a wake-up call.This is the reality ... Eric Berg identifies himself as a doctor of Chiropractic. palmatus, also known as rosy veincap or wrinkled peach. Well, if you don't this documentary should He has no formal education and training as a medical doctor. Bufo, syn. Haematocephalus is not. It contains about 500 species of agarics, of which a few are edible. .Marasmius haematocephalus. orgasm. Lentinus crinitus, the Fringed Sawgill is a beautiful mushroom with an impressive coiffure. Discover Nature at JCU Marasmius Haematocephalus Marasmus is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi that contains about 500 species of agarics. gills of immature Amanita mushrooms can be seen. and coniferous forests. First described Marasmius is a genus of mushrooms, in the family Marasmiaceae. When the mature fruitbody Most puffballs are not poisonous. With hundreds of free documentaries published and categorised every month, there's something for every taste. detect whether they are edible or not. Mycena Chlorophos(夜光茸)3. Carlia foliorum), Rhinella marina (syn. The giant puffball can reach a foot in diameter, and is believe in climate change at all? On my block, Cairns. quality of light received during development. Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans, Dr. Berg "Trying" to Find Food at the Grocery Store, The World Tree - Middle Eastern Religions. Therefore, This is why the mushroom Because of the amethyst coloration fades with age With that in mind, we are Marasmius capillaris and Marasmius rotula credit: Fran Sheldon / Dan Molter These two members of Marasmius are often confused for one another, and you can see why. Studies have Photo of Marasmius haematocephalus Marasmius haematocephalus JUMP TO: MAIN INDEX -- WOW -- WILD & WONDERFUL -- BY COLOR -- EDIBLE -- MORELS -- TOXIC -- TO PREVIOUS PAGE Marasmius is a genus of mushrooms, in the family Marasmiaceae.It contains about 500 species of agarics, [1] of which a few, such as Marasmius oreades, are edible.However, most members of this genus are small, unimpressive brown mushrooms. The fungus feeds off decaying woody plant Nov 28, 2019 - This Pin was discovered by zazy rubens. Fungi by scientific name again. Some of the mushrooms are edible and can provide several is called puffball. 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Infinity 7: Gods Among Men
A superhero mashup from the talented minds of Cosby, Dodds, and Champion containing all your favorite characters from the authors own respected series. These three well-accomplished authors team up to produce an ambitious novel. At times this story works well and seamlessly provides a world where these superheroes can come together and fight yet falls short to bridge the gap between each story line and harness a collective voice among the numerous characters.
Infinity 7 begins with the rise of a dark power. As the growing threat draws closer to earth the Capes, Majesties and Solar Warriors band together to solve the mystery of their fearsome foe and hold their own against the escalating violence around them.
Those who have read Dodds, Champion, or Cosby's previous novels will appreciate the crossover character interactions, powerups, fight scenes and the familiar personalities of main characters. I don't discourage those who have not read all prior books about the Majesties, Capes and Solar Warriors. In fact, I've only read Cosby's novels featuring the Capes but became increasingly curious about the origin story of Solar Warrior and the Majesties. Menzou, in particular, was a standout character in the latter half of the story.
It is safe to say when three separately established narratives come together an overload of characters is bound to happen. Trying to fit every character from every book into one story gave way after only a brief introduction for the main players. And then to add new characters made for an even muddier predicament. The portal jumper Tenan was one of my favorite superheroes, not so much for his abilities (that spot is held by Blurr), but for his evolution as a character. The concept of his being and power capabilities were truly fascinating and a new twist on the typical portal hopping powers. Tenan's narrative stood out among the others for the creativity and consistency and I applaud the authors for integrating such an engaging plot within an already chaotic universe.
I love a good superhero, sci-fi, adventure series and this book has all the makings to be a good one. My wavering stance is for the lack of world building and character development which had me scratching my head in confusion more than once. Still, I imagine readers who read all former books from the authors' will greatly enjoy the journey. And semi-new readers such as myself will soon be putting the adventures of the Majesties, Capes and Solar Warriors on their future reading list.
Pages: 421 | ASIN: B07MJ928B8
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The Star-Crossed Saga
Braxton Cosby Author Interview
Solstice is the thrilling finale to your Star-Crossed Saga and ends the trilogy with a bang. What were some things you wanted to make sure you touched on in the final book in the series?
I loved every minute of writing Solstice: mainly because it gave me the chance to tie up all the loose ends and make sure the story was complete and the character story arcs were congruent. As you've read, there were quite a number of characters throughout the story, although the main focus was centered around Sydney and William; as it should've been. And although remaining true to their love, along with maintaining the very cool elements of hard core Scifi was a challenge, I feel that I was successful in accomplishing that and I was proud of the outcome. To date, I written over 14 novels and Solstice is my absolute favorite one of them all.
I felt like the characters went through some large transformations throughout the series. Did the characters end up where you thought they would when you first started writing about them?
Actually, as a writer, I think you have a place (start and end) where you imagine or assume the characters will end up once you're finished, but I never anticipated how much they'd evolve over time in the story. As pertaining to The Star-Crossed Saga, the story is told over a relative short period – if I were to guess, less than a year – but so much happens because the characters are in this frenetic, action-packed tale where they discover so much about themselves and then they mush figure out how everything ties together in order to save Fabricius and the Star-children. So to answer the question, they ended up showing me things about themselves that I did not anticipate and was like, 'Oh wo, that's cool,' and it made sense to keep it.
What was your inspiration for the 'Star-Children' and their plight?
I looked our world today and really just crafted a story that reflected the times we live in now. How we unfairly allow our prejudices to control what we assume about one another. These have serious negative consequences and people are hurt as a result of it. In Star-Crossed, people who know of the Star-children assume they are dangerous because of the powers they posses and think they will use them for bad, when it's the complete opposite. By the time the story comes to an end, the truth is revealed and now peace is restored. It's unfortunate that so many people die along the quest of learning the truth. Very reflective of our society today.
Although the series is complete, do you think you will continue this story or characters in some way, or are you moving on to another story?
Absolutely! Already working on branching arcs where characters blend into the other series I'm writing and I'm also working on a solo Bounty Hunter series for Steele Reign.
What You Believe, Can Destroy You!
The two starcrossed lovers William and Sydney have sacrificed everything to fortify their love, so much so that William dares to brave the depths of space to find a cure for their deadly Supernova bond, leaving both her and Earth vulnerable to alien Torrian Alliance's attack. But with a full scale civil war in play on Fabricius, the reality of Sydney's execution from Torrian hands is diminished, only eclipsed by the certainty of a more threats – The Third Faction and The Dagmas Clan – lead by Dominic and his insurgent recruits on a quest to complete the failed assassination of the teenage girl. With overwhelming odds mounting against them, William makes a desperate attempt to find the last of the endangered Star-children only to be captured by a new menace, where he is forced to compete in the dreaded Gauntlet of sport. Allies surge to free Fabricius, seeking alliances across the galaxy while Sydney tries to keep her identity hidden and trains to master the third phase of her Star-child evolution: Solstice. With Sarah's mysterious return home with clues to unlock the future, Noella's training and Bill's symbiotic development hope is restored, but will it be enough to unite the galaxy and destroy evil for once and for all?
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Solstice: The Star-Crossed Saga
An otherworldly adventure awaits readers in the pages of Solstice by Braxton A. Cosby. The third book in a series starts off with a bang as readers are introduced, or reintroduced, to our protagonists Sydney and William. Theirs is a story for the ages as they defy distance and fate to be together. This epic saga will take readers on a journey through the stars and intertwine between lives and destinies. Come along as we watch our protagonists face their fears, develop who they are and take on what could be seen as an impossible undertaking. They aren't alone and their friends will be there to help and support them every step of the way.
For those who are new to the series, the first few chapters might seem a little overwhelming. It's clear that some major world-building was established in previous installments in the saga. There are some circumstances and terminology that readers will feel goes over their heads when they first bite into it. Not only does the story take place in outer space for a large portion, there are legends and transformations at hand that require a solid understanding about what has happened, in order to understand what will occur. The story is engaging and invites young readers to see themselves in the characters. We all go through some sort of metamorphosis as we develop into our adult selves. The transformation that Sydney undergoes could be likened to that. It's just a bit confusing for new readers to understand the impact of previous events without reading about them.
If there has to be something to nitpick then perhaps the grammatical and stylistic errors that pop up ever so briefly would be the culprits. They aren't startling enough to detract from the story, but a few rereads might be needed to make sense of what the sentence is supposed to say.
Cosby knows his craft and he knows his audience. It's clear that he wrote this book for young adults as the language is easy and comfortable to read. The teens speak like real teenagers and ask the questions while speaking the frustrations that most teenagers might be too afraid to voice. It's comforting to be able to read a book targeted to your age group and actually be able to identify with it. The fact that Cosby can share a point of view from the perspective of a young woman with just as much ease as sharing one form the view of a young man shows that he is dedicated to telling the best story that he can.
The space-odyssey of Solstice by Braxton A. Cosby is not a book to miss. It's engaging and well written that readers of all ages will enjoy it. Young adults will get the most out of this book as they identify with the trials and tribulations our protagonists find themselves going through. While it might be confusing for new readers who have picked up this third book in the Star-Crossed Saga to understand what's happening in the beginning, if you're patient and devote your energy to this book, you will not be disappointed.
Pages: 317 | ASIN: B01LZ4OMHI
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The Cape: Overdrive
Enter into a version of the world where humanity has been divided into Normals and Super-Normals: denizens of the planet with altered DNA that give them supernatural powers. In this fifth installment in the Dark Spore series, Braxton A. Cosby takes the world he has developed in previous novels and expands on it further. The Cape: Overdrive revolves around Sebastian, millionaire nerd-boy, Karla, his speedy girlfriend, Lydia his cousin and a few other characters. This is a perfect young adult novel with just the right amount of action, suspense and personal drama. Watching as our friends move towards peace while pulling in other members of the Super-Normal line to help shows that even those with the most questionable backgrounds and personalities do better as friend, and not foe.
Cosby has clearly honed his craft over five installments. He is very good at world building without flooding his audience with potentially redundant information. It's clear that he knows there will be readers who come into a series part-way through and won't have the background information that dedicated followers might have. Cosby makes sure that he shares the stories he wants to tell in such a way that newcomers can pick up an installment and dive right in without feeling lost. That can be tough to do, but the beauty of writing a book with superheroes that resemble the ensembles of comic book heroes of the now, means that readers will expect to be missing some of the story when they pick up a random volume. That doesn't mean the story is any less engaging and interesting: it just means that Cosby knows his audience and knows how to hook readers, no matter where in his world they enter from.
This book is a young adult novel, but that doesn't mean that adults can't enjoy it either. It isn't rife with the teenage angst that many YA novels can drown themselves in, which is nice for older audiences who are interested in the story. The characters are solid with definitive personalities and goals. The relationships are clearly defined and developed: nothing is left to chance and accidental interpretation. There is no confusion and that goes on to create a wonderful atmosphere for readers. Using the discord that is plaguing the world of Cosby's stories as a reason for the characters to come together for the greater good is deployed nicely and doesn't feel too contrived or unrealistic.
The Cape: Overdrive by Braxton A. Cosby is a wonderful young adult novel that is sure to appeal to lovers of superheroes, regardless of their age. The story is intriguing, compelling with strong characters and solid world-building. The action is just right, and the character development is wonderful. This is a book that was crafted carefully and slides into the series nicely. Even if readers are freshly coming into the series with this book, they will not feel lost or as though they are missing crucial information. This is definitely a great read and anyone who is willing to take on this book won't be disappointed.
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Paizo Announces System-Neutral Open RPG License
For the last several weeks, as rumors of Wizards of the Coast's new version of the Open Game License began circulating among publishers and on social media, gamers across the world have been asking what Paizo plans to do in light of concerns regarding Wizards of the Coast's rumored plan to de-authorize the existing OGL 1.0(a). We have been awaiting further information, hoping that Wizards would realize that, for more than 20 years, the OGL has been a mutually beneficial license which should not–and cannot–be revoked. While we continue to await an answer from Wizards, we strongly feel that Paizo can no longer delay making our own feelings about the importance of Open Gaming a part of the public discussion.
We believe that any interpretation that the OGL 1.0 or 1.0(a) were intended to be revocable or able to be deauthorized is incorrect, and with good reason.
We were there.
Paizo owner Lisa Stevens and Paizo president Jim Butler were leaders on the Dungeons & Dragons team at Wizards at the time. Brian Lewis, co-founder of Azora Law, the intellectual property law firm that Paizo uses, was the attorney at Wizards who came up with the legal framework for the OGL itself. Paizo has also worked very closely on OGL-related issues with Ryan Dancey, the visionary who conceived the OGL in the first place.
Paizo does not believe that the OGL 1.0a can be "deauthorized," ever. While we are prepared to argue that point in a court of law if need be, we don't want to have to do that, and we know that many of our fellow publishers are not in a position to do so.
We have no interest whatsoever in Wizards' new OGL. Instead, we have a plan that we believe will irrevocably and unquestionably keep alive the spirit of the Open Game License.
As Paizo has evolved, the parts of the OGL that we ourselves value have changed. When we needed to quickly bring out Pathfinder First Edition to continue publishing our popular monthly adventures back in 2008, using Wizards' language was important and expeditious. But in our non-RPG products, including our Pathfinder Tales novels, the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, and others, we shifted our focus away from D&D tropes to lean harder into ideas from our own writers. By the time we went to work on Pathfinder Second Edition, Wizards of the Coast's Open Game Content was significantly less important to us, and so our designers and developers wrote the new edition without using Wizards' copyrighted expressions of any game mechanics. While we still published it under the OGL, the reason was no longer to allow Paizo to use Wizards' expressions, but to allow other companies to use our expressions.
We believe, as we always have, that open gaming makes games better, improves profitability for all involved, and enriches the community of gamers who participate in this amazing hobby. And so we invite gamers from around the world to join us as we begin the next great chapter of open gaming with the release of a new open, perpetual, and irrevocable Open RPG Creative License (ORC).
The new Open RPG Creative License will be built system agnostic for independent game publishers under the legal guidance of Azora Law, an intellectual property law firm that represents Paizo and several other game publishers. Paizo will pay for this legal work. We invite game publishers worldwide to join us in support of this system-agnostic license that allows all games to provide their own unique open rules reference documents that open up their individual game systems to the world. To join the effort and provide feedback on the drafts of this license, please sign up by using this form.
In addition to Paizo, Kobold Press, Chaosium, Green Ronin, Legendary Games, Rogue Genius Games, and a growing list of publishers have already agreed to participate in the Open RPG Creative License, and in the coming days we hope and expect to add substantially to this group.
The ORC will not be owned by Paizo, nor will it be owned by any company who makes money publishing RPGs. Azora Law's ownership of the process and stewardship should provide a safe harbor against any company being bought, sold, or changing management in the future and attempting to rescind rights or nullify sections of the license. Ultimately, we plan to find a nonprofit with a history of open source values to own this license (such as the Linux Foundation).
Of course, Paizo plans to continue publishing Pathfinder and Starfinder, even as we move away from the Open Gaming License. Since months' worth of products are still at the printer, you'll see the familiar OGL 1.0(a) in the back of our products for a while yet. While the Open RPG Creative License is being finalized, we'll be printing Pathfinder and Starfinder products without any license, and we'll add the finished license to those products when the new license is complete.
We hope that you will continue to support Paizo and other game publishers in this difficult time for the entire hobby. You can do your part by supporting the many companies that have provided content under the OGL. Support Pathfinder and Starfinder by visiting your local game store, subscribing to Pathfinder and Starfinder, or taking advantage of discount code OpenGaming during checkout for 25% off your purchase of the Core Rulebook, Core Rulebook Pocket Edition, or Pathfinder Beginner Box. Support Kobold Press, Green Ronin, Legendary Games, Roll for Combat, Rogue Genius Games, and other publishers working to preserve a prosperous future for Open Gaming that is both perpetual AND irrevocable.
We'll be there at your side. You can count on us not to go back on our word.
–Paizo Inc
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Rysky Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 09:47 am
captain yesterday wrote:
Rysky wrote:
Richard Lowe wrote:
Dragon Nexus Games wrote:
If you make it the licensing "law" that no work under such license shall be offensive to anyone, then we're screwed. RPG games are in its nature offensive to these hyper neo-puritan like people that exists in this world, literally today.
Then... maybe tell WotC that? They're literally the only people in the room suggesting a morality clause.
WoTC doesn't have forums, people must come here and shout at Paizo instead.
No, they should not.
That was sarcasm.
Storm Dragon Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 10:11 am
Anyway, does anyone have anything on topic to add? Or should this thread just be shut down at this point?
Freehold DM Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 10:28 am
Let's not close this thread due to misplaced anger. This one is supposed to be about the creation of something new.
Dragon Nexus Games Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 01:27 pm
It may be appropriate to temporarily lock the thread until there is something new or more to add about the subject of the Open RPG Creative License from Paizo. Otherwise, we'll just be rehashing the same points and thought over and over to point of ad nauseum.
GM DarkLightHitomi Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 02:20 pm
That's one way of ensuring one gets the last word. :)
TOZ Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 02:43 pm
Or we could all just behave.
thejeff Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 02:52 pm
TOZ wrote:
Don't be absurd.
GM DarkLightHitomi wrote:
That would be the Paizo's moderators.
Cindy Robertson wrote:
After watching what a really horrible person is doing with Star Frontiers and the TSR name, I can completely understand why a company would want a morality clause. No one who wants a successful business wants to be associated with literal Nazis. That's what they are probably trying to address ahead of time.
But that's a matter of trademark ownership and branding, not of anything that would be covered by an OGL.
I can support a morality clause as it pertains to a trademark licensing versus a general open license. For example, I can support morality clause as part of say... the Pathfinder Compatibility License or the Starfinder Compatibility license or similar licenses. That would be where such is appropriate.
Jonathan Morgantini Community and Social Media Specialist Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 03:26 pm
Locked to deal with flags.
Aaron Shanks Director of Marketing Friday, 02:41 pm
We welcome today's news from Wizards of the Coast regarding their intention not to de-authorize OGL 1.0a. We still believe there is a powerful need for an irrevocable, perpetual independent system-neutral open license that will serve the tabletop community via nonprofit stewardship. Work on the ORC license will continue, with an expected first draft to release for comment to participating publishers in February.
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