...It's a lovely place, lush with willow and mule fat, busy with butterflies and, over the course of the year, 250 species of birds. Moving through a series of rectangular ponds, river water filters slowly through thickets of cattails and bulrushes meant to extract excess nitrate from upstream dairy farms and sewage-treatment plants. Returned to the main channel, the water wends around T- and L-shaped berms that slow the water and maximize ...

...> useful.  It depends upon what clerk is handling the request and how you word the request. Gaspar, I was away for a week during the 19th, and didn't see the post you made about me not posting anymore. Just wanted to say thanks for your unassuming kindness... I'm fine. Was off to see my sister and their little ones, who sound like chickadees in the thickets. You're exactly right about the military records, but you already know that.

...>> in to cut out the diseased trees. That reduces the fuel should a fire get going. A healthy forest is about 30 - 50%% dead wood and needs to be burned every now and then anyway, i. e., Big Thicket in deep E Texas. Taking out the "fuel" screws up the balance. But its not a healthy forest. Black Oak death is epidemic. There has been a fungus killing the Dogwood. There is also the pine bark beetle killing the larger pines....

...to come in to cut out the diseased trees. That reduces the fuel should a fire get going. A healthy forest is about 30 - 50%% dead wood and needs to be burned every now and then anyway, i. e., Big Thicket in deep E Texas. Taking out the "fuel" screws up the balance. Mexico has the exact same "fuel" situation as California yet the Mexicans never have any problems because they don't build houses in fuel. How dumb do...

... to come in to cut out the diseased trees. That reduces the fuel should a fire get going. A healthy forest is about 30 - 50%% dead wood and needs to be burned every now and then anyway, i. e., Big Thicket in deep E Texas. Taking out the "fuel" screws up the balance. Mexico has the exact same "fuel" situation as California yet the Mexicans never have any problems because they don't build houses in fuel. How dumb do you have to...

...This postulate is more fundamental to his logical structure than the cogito because without it, he cannot escape the skepticism of his foundationalist structure. Unpacking the significance of this postulate is somewhat of a metaphysical thicket, but the effort is well rewarded. There is no question that by thinking "I think, therefore I am", Descartes is thinking. Beyond the statement of his existence, however, Descartes cannot form any ...

... mysteriously evolved cognition, trained by eons of natural selection to survive by focussing on the few (and hopefully the most vital) features in a scene, e.g., the glimpse of tawny fur of the preying tiger behind the nearby thicket near the watering hole, not the water itself or the flora and fauna, out of the thousands if not millions of actual details in that scene, will cause you not to notice that the other cards, still in the Jacks-...

...This postulate is more fundamental to his logical structure than the cogito because without it, he cannot escape the skepticism of his foundationalist structure. Unpacking the significance of this postulate is somewhat of a metaphysical thicket, but the effort is well rewarded. There is no question that by thinking "I think, therefore I am", Descartes is thinking. Beyond the statement of his existence, however, Descartes cannot form any ...

... file that holds the virtual file system then everything from there ought to just work. At least you get to decide how it works, and it can be independent of OS etc. Would that help clear up this thicket? LF" library-anchor.fs" REQUIRED and LF" library-file.fs" INCLUDED are pre-adapted to that. That is, if an implementation has its libraries organized into OS-portable virtual file systems, then the LF" word would put in a ...

...file system, you could arrange them in some consistent way that could be independent of operating systems etc, and if you can access the file that holds the virtual file system then everything from there ought to just work. At least you get to decide how it works, and it can be independent of OS etc. Would that help clear up this thicket? Or is it important to use libraries to set a precedent that helps solve the problem more generally?