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Did you know the saying “God willing and the Creek don’t rise” was in reference to the Creek Indians and not a body of water? We didn’t.

It turns out that the phrase was written by Benjamin Hawkins in the late 18th century. He was a politician and Indian agent. While in the south, Hawkins was requested by the President of the U.S. to return to Washington. In his response, he was said to write, “God willing and the Creek don’t rise.” Because he capitalized the word “Creek” it is deduced that he was referring to the Creek Indian tribe and not a body of water.

I remember reading that once. But around here the phrase pops up every year during storms that bring a threat of flooding, so I've gotten used to thinking of it as referring to water -- though generally it's "the good Lord willing" and some people say "... and the stream don't rise".

Now my brain is going to have an image of Creek Indians rising up out of our flood waters.....
 
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OMG I had never realized JEJ's voice was the English version of Constantino Romero :eek: :lol:

 
Traffic accident analysis in the U.S. isn't focused on safety, it's focused on who to blame: if flaws in road design get noted as a cause, the insurance companies don't have anyone to go after for money, so although in at least four out of ten cases something besides driver error is the actual important factor, in 94% of accidents it's blamed on "human error".
 
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The first take of the shot where Hot Lips is revealed in the shower didn't work because Sally Kellerman anticipated the reveal, and was already lying on the floor when the tent flap went up. To distract her, Robert Altman and Gary Burghoff entered the shower tent and dropped their trousers while the shot was rolling outside. While Kellerman was staring at them, the tent flap was raised, resulting in her genuine surprise and shock when she realized what had happened. In the Special Edition double disc DVD, they say that Radar (portrayed by Gary Burghoff) had been standing naked beside the camera, and that's the reason why Sally Kellerman looks so surprised when the flap was raised.

source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066026/trivia

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Granting that Jacqueline Susann's characters are a mishmash of traits and influences of several people, the biscuit of Helen Lawson's Ethel Merman character was wigged by Blanche Thebom.
 
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Statistics from surveys of defensive gun use in the United States, show that the percentage of times that a gun does not need to be fired to deter a crime has fallen from over nine out of ten times in the early 2000s to a bit more than eight out of ten times.

Are criminals becoming more fatalistic?
 
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That reminds me of when I visited a friend in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and there was a college dorm with a larger population than my home town.

Obviously.

I mean both the dorm thing and the home town in the wilderness.
 
According to National Geographic, Canada's 2016 Fort McMurray fire -- it burned 1.5 million acres and caused $7.4 billion USD of damage. It was the costliest disaster in Canada’s history.

Oh, so you did not mean like when, say, they would plant Eucalyptus in soil that is not precisely abundant in water resources.
 
^ Those crazy, laborious Chinese.

It puzzles me that they did that because they've also done some amazing re-greening, especially of areas that got desertified in the last hundred years; one project was actually done with leadership from a Western not-for-profit organization in charge and restored hundreds of square miles to native cover using a mix of ancient and modern techniques. Apparently they chose the trees for that monoculture for their quick growth and usefulness as lumber (and they're regarding utilizing lumber as a form of carbon sequestration), but a couple of thousand square miles of monoculture is a big risk with a potential for huge disaster. One critique I found said they should have gone for native cover along streams and in narrow zones between streams to break up the monoculture, another said they should have mixed native species with the monoculture -- though when it comes to harvesting, a monoculture means you don't need as skilled a workforce because you just cut it all down... and that reminds me of another critique which said once the trees mature and are harvested, chipping the branches and leaves will give good biolitter cover for shifting to native forest.

Thinking of crazy, China and India seem to be competing for who can plant the most trees in a day -- India held the record at 50 million trees in one day, then when word came that China was planning to bear this they went ahead (in 2017) and planted 66 million tress in a day! Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any analysis of what species were planted or what strategies were used to decide where to plant; from reports, a lot of it was just planting anyplace available -- lots got planted along roads and railway lines. I did find that they expected to lose 40% of the seedlings in the first year, a number that would be devastating if it weren't for the fact that dead seedlings still provide some ecological benefit (something I keep telling myself when I think of the fact that we planted 258 new trees in my conservation work last year and less than sixty made it through the exceedingly dry summer).

Thinking of laborious... my older brother got to see the Three Gorges Dam construction project and was amazed to see that while heavy equipment was being used to remove earth materials, the actual movement of that rock and dirt to where it was wanted was being done by many thousands of laborers carrying it in big baskets!
 
Now that I think about it, there might be a good example of that in my own state of Florida. The logging industry favors replanting with slash pine (Pinus elliottii), which is predominant in the southern part of the state, over longleaf pine (Pinus palustris), which is more common in the northern parts of Florida, when they log out northern Florida forests. They do this because slash pine grows much faster than longleaf pine, and thus can be harvested more quickly. The problem is that slash pine has a higher resin content, so it burns faster. Logging operations like to do monoculture planting as well. This was a factor in the 1998 fires at Palm Coast, where many homes were lost. Of course the other factor was developing into forested areas, which naturally burn periodically. Developers are notorious about building in inappropriate places.

BTW, I've always wondered about all the "carbon neutral" plantings that were all the rage about ten-fifteen years ago, but you don't hear that much now. For example, you would hear that the Super Bowl was carbon neutral, meaning that an amount of trees that would remove carbon from the air in the same amount that would be generated by the fossil fuels burned to put on the event. Was anybody checking up on these, to see if 1. the trees were actually planted 2. the appropriate trees were chosen, and planted in appropriate locations, and 3. did the trees survive and grow into healthy specimens? I guess I'm a bit skeptical, given the human tendency to fudge on jobs, or lie outright about doing what was promised.
 
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Now that I think about it, there might be a good example of that in my own state of Florida. The logging industry favors replanting with slash pine (Pinus elliottii), which is predominant in the southern part of the state, over longleaf pine (Pinus palustris), which is more common in the northern parts of Florida, when they log out northern Florida forests. They do this because slash pine grows much faster than longleaf pine, and thus can be harvested more quickly. The problem is that slash pine has a higher resin content, so it burns faster. Logging operations like to do monoculture planting as well. This was a factor in the 1998 fires at Palm Coast, where many homes were lost. Of course the other factor was developing into forested areas, which naturally burn periodically. Developers are notorious about building in inappropriate places.

BTW, I've always wondered about all the "carbon neutral" plantings that were all the rage about ten-fifteen years ago, but you don't hear that much now. For example, you would hear that the Super Bowl was carbon neutral, meaning that an amount of trees that would remove carbon from the air in the same amount that would be generated by the fossil fuels burned to put on the event. Was anybody checking up on these, to see if 1. the trees were actually planted 2. the appropriate trees were chosen, and planted in appropriate locations, and 3. did the trees survive and grow into healthy specimens? I guess I'm a bit skeptical, given the human tendency to fudge on jobs, or lie outright about doing what was promised.

The "carbon neutral" thing with trees has a problem: as long as we keep pumping excess carbon into the atmosphere, using trees to take up carbon is just putting bad-aids on symptoms. We could change the way forestry and agriculture are done and soak up half the carbon in the atmosphere, but that wouldn't change much of anything unless we reduced carbon going into the atmosphere to balanced levels.

My suspicion is that someone recognized this and the realization made "carbon neutral" tree planting die of being pointless.
 
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