#Dennis Meadows

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1 marzo … ricordiamo …

1 marzo … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2024: Iris Apfel, nota anche con lo pseudonimo di Pasto (nata Iris Barrel), è stata un’imprenditrice e interior designer statunitense riconosciuta dalle cronache specializzate come icona di stile. Poco più che bambina, inizia a fare acquisti nei negozi di antiquariato della zona, dando così il via alla sua straordinaria collezione di gioielli da tutto il mondo. Sono proprio i genitori a spingerla…

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A citizenry that is both environmentally-literate and active will be required to generate the political will for policies that limit growth. By investing in the young generation now and, at the same time effecting quicker change by allowing citizens to act on the values they already have but may not act upon, gives us one more basket for our proverbial eggs. (via Dennis Meadows: Limiting Growth to Save the World - Our World (unu.edu))

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Clima, guerra e genocidio: il maltusianesimo contemporaneo

Generalmente Thomas Malthus è conosciuto per la sua teoria secondo cui i livelli della popolazione tendono sempre a una crescita geometrica, mentre le risorse agricole tendono  a una crescita aritmetica portando a cresi sociali che si possono evitare solo con il controllo della popolazione. Sarebbe abbastanza inutile analizzare questa tesi per mostrarne l’inconsistenza perché in realtà lo scopo…

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stills from James Dean: A Portrait (1988) dir by Gary Legon

"James observed classes but did not participate, he couldn't bear to have his performance criticized by the class, he said 'if I let them dissect me like a rabbit in a laboratory, I might not be able to produce again.' At the actors' studio he studied method acting, where an actor learns to utilize every emotion from their real life in their dramatic roles, although this line between acting and life was deliberately left ambiguous, students were warned never to confuse the two, Jimmy repeatedly violated this rule, he succumbed to what the method called the existential fallacy of confusing himself with his creation, it gave a sense of urgency and risk to all his roles"

[therobinswayne]

marauders variants

i think it's so fun how differently different people can see the same charachters from the marauders era bc its basically all made up. here are how i see them, told through variants.

james potter - ferris bueller, peter parker

sirius black - jamie tartt, rachel green

remus lupin - stanley uris, chandler bing

peter pettigrew - penelope featherington, mike hanlon

lily evans - nell crane, viktor hargreeves

marlene mckinon robin buckley, darcy olsson

mary macdonald - cher horowitz, lucy gray baird

alice fortescue - robin scherbatsky, kat stradford

dorcas meadowes - nancy wheeler, rory gilmore

regulus black - paris gellar, christina yang

pandora lestrange - pheobe buffay, daisy jones

evan rosier - joey tribbiani, jason mendoza

barty crouch jr - jeff winger, dennis reynolds

frank longbottom - chidi anegonye, grover underwood

emmeline vance - annabeth chase, monica gellar

sybill trelawney - rapunzel, eleven hopper

aurora sinistra - ayda auegfort, patricia johnson

charity burbage - elle woods, silena beauregard

xenophelius lovegood - luna lovegood, alice in wonderland

benjy fenwick - nick nelson, andy dwyer

[regulusmoonbeam]

with the new list ive been given i have 51 characters! heres the updated list

James Potter

Sirius Black

Remus Lupin

Peter Pettigrew

Lily Evans

Mary MacDonald

Marlene McKinnon

Dorcas Meadowes

Pandora Rosier

Alice Fortescue

Frank Longbottom

Evan Rosier

Barty Crouch Jr

Regulus Black

Bellatrix Black

Andromeda Black

Narcissa Black

Severus Snape

Molly Prewett

Arthur Weasley

Fabian Prewett

Gideon Prewett

Xenophillius Lovegood

Rita Skeeter

Lucius Malfoy

Rodolphus Lestrange

Rabastan Lestrange

Ted Tonks

Amos Diggory

Hestia Jones

Kingsley Shacklebolt

Emmeline Vance

Gilderoy Lockhart

Edmund Avery

Bruce Mulciber

Sybill Trelawney

Alecto Carrow

Amycus Carrow

Antonin Dolohov

Dolores Umbridge

Petunia Evans

Aurora Sinistra

Charity Burbage

Amelia Bones

Dirk Cresswell

Gaspard Shingleton

Greta Catchlove

Tilden Toots

Daisy Hookum

Bertha Jorkins

Florence (No canon surname, hc: Dennis)

[the-forest-library]

January 2024 Reads

The Gentlemen's Gambit - Evie Dunmore

A Lady Guide's to Mischief and Mayhem - Manda Collins

The Ladies Rewrite the Rules - Suzanne Allain

One Night in Hartswood - Emma Denny

The Breakup Tour - Emily Wibberley

Places We've Never Been - Kasie West

Most Ardently - Gabe Cole Novoa

Okay, Cupid - Mason Deaver

Love, Me - Jessica Saunders

Dungeons and Drama - Kristy Boyce

Seven Percent of Ro Devereux - Ellen O'Clover

Eight Dates and Nights - Betsy Aldredge

Rules for Being a Girl - Candace Bushnell, Katie Cotungo

The Christmas Wish - Lindsey Kelk

After the Forest - Kell Woods

All the Hidden Paths - For Meadows

Shady Hollow - Juneau Black

Strong Poison - Dorothy L. Sayers

The Silver Chair - C.S. Lewis

The Chalice of the Gods - Rick Riordan

The Marvelous Magic of Miss Mabel - Natasha Lowe

Elf Dog and Owl Head - M.T. Anderson

Winter - Kelsey E. Gross

The Bookstore Cat - Cylin Busby

The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls

Brain on Fire - Susannah Cahalan

A Book of Days - Patti Smith

Karma - Boy George

I Hate Everyone, Except You - Clinton Kelly

The Life Brief - Bonnie Wan

The Stress Prescription - Elissa Epel

Infectious Generosity - Chris J. Anderson

Break the Cycle - Mariel Buque

Eve - Cat Bohannon

House Love - Patric Richardson

Pests - Bethany Brookshire

Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek - Thea Glassman

But Have You Read the Book? - Kristen Lopez

The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie - Tanya Lee Stone

Normal is Just a Setting on the Dryer - Adair Lara

Men to Avoid in Art and Life - Nicole Tersigni

Friends to Keep in Art and Life - Nicole Tersigni

Parenting Advice to Ignore in Art and Life - Nicole Tersigni

Bold = Highly Recommend Italics = Worth It Crossed out = Nope

Thoughts: 

Messy memoirs, healing from generational trauma, and recovery from burnout - these are a few of my favorite things.

Goodreads Goal: 43/200

2017 Reads | 2018 Reads | 2019 Reads | 2020 Reads | 2021 Reads | 

2022 Reads | 2023 Reads | 2024 Reads

[hpshipbattles]

ROUND ONE SHIPS

(keep in mind these are all randomly created from a pool of 64 characters. we are not here to debate dark ships vs light ships, we are here for fun. Feel free to suggest ship names for anything you see)

Lysander Scamander x Remus Lupin (Remsander)

Augustus Rookwood x Elphias Doge (Rookdoge)

Pavarti Patil x Blaise Zabini (Blavarti)

Lorcan Scamander x Septimus Weasley (Septorcan)

Victoire Weasley x Cassandra Vole (Vicsandra)

Neville Longbottom x Severus Snape (Sneville)

Minerva McGonagall x Horace Slughorn (Wiseslug)

Hermione Granger x Cornelius Fudge (Fudgmione)

Nearly Headless Nick x Tom Marvolo Riddle (Brainteaser)

Penny Haywood x Fleur Delacour (Penfleur)

Ron Weasley x Petunia Evans (Rontunia)

Hannah Abbott x Kingsley Shacklebolt (Shacklebbott)

Rita Skeeter x Yann Fredericks (What if we just called these two Yeet?)

Dennis Creevey x Dolores Umbridge (Creevbridge)

Rowan Khanna x Dorcas Meadowes (Rorcas)

Nymphadora Tonks x Firenze the Centaur (Centonks)

James Potter x Marcus Flint (Jarcus)

Rose Granger-Weasley x Dobby the House Elf (Robby)

Delphi Riddle x Qui LeBlanc (Augurvamp)

Molly Weasley II x Barnaby Lee (Barnolly)

Luna Lovegood x Penelope Clearwater (Lovewater)

Harry Potter x Pansy Parkinson (Hansy)

Sebastian Sallow x Chiara Lobosca (Loballow)

Barty Crouch Jr. x Albus Dumbledore (Albarty)

Sirius Black x Tulip Karasu (Prankstar)

Lily Evans x Madam Rosmerta (Lilymerta)

Cho Chang x Helena Ravenclaw (Cholena)

Fabian Prewett x Grant Chapman (Grabian)

Hestia Jones x Regulus Black (Restia)

Draco Malfoy x Albus Severus Potter (Dralbus)

Lily Luna Potter x Scorpius Malfoy (Scorlily)

Lavender Brown x Percy Weasley (Paperseer)

My bad for jinxing us guys as I was spinning this I wondered if we were actually going to get Scorbus and then the wheel decided to do something funny. some of these ships are ships I’ve seen before and I was surprised by how many of them could probably actually be enjoyed by people. but yeah suggest ship names if you have any ideas I did put down the ship names for ones I knew or ones that I could easily come up with myself.

(rules and submitted characters)

[tentacion3099]

Dennis Meadows, hopes the "necessary" depopulation of the planet, down to one billion—an 87.5% reduction from today’s population—can "occur in a civil way".

"The planet can support something like a billion people, maybe two billion, depending on how much liberty and how much material consumption you want to have."

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Wonder Common Wasps

The common wasp, Vespula vulgaris is a species of wasp that is native throughout Europe and Asia, and has been introduced in New Zealand, Australia, and South America. These wasps thrive in a variety of environments, from deciduous forests to meadows to urban parks and gardens; the primary requirements are an abundant source of food and at least several months where the temperature is above 2 °C (36 °F) which allows them to forage. Nests can be found in tree hollows, crevices, wall cavities, or any other enclosed space.

Vespula vulgaris has a highly varied diet. As larvae, they are fed pre-chewed caterpillars, flies, spiders, and bees. Adults consume more sugary foods like nectar, fruits, and honey. They find these foods through their extremely sensitive sense of smell; the common wasp is capable of detecting minute particles of food via their antennae, and once a source of food is found the individual will return to the hive to recruit others by drumming their abdomen against the side of the nest.

Like other hymenoptrids, the common wasp is a eusocial species; each nests consists of workers under the direction of a single queen. When a queen first begins her colony, she does most of the work building the nest from chewed wood fibre and laying eggs that produce sterile female workers. As the colony grows, reaching up to 5,000 individuals, the queen begins to produce both female and male workers, each of which performs a specific task for the hive; foraging, caring for the eggs and larvae, feeding the queen, or repairing the nest. These workers are directed by pheromones released by the queen, which is delivered both by air and when workers lick the queen to clean her.

The queen begins laying eggs at the start of summer, in May. Larvae emerge about 5 days later, and spend the next 20-25 days being fed by the queen until they reach full size, at which time they spin a mucus-based cover over their cell and emerge as a mature worker. This cycle continues throughout the summer and early fall, with larger individuals emerging later in the season. A larva's place in the hive also determines its size; the largest larvae, which becomes the queen, is located at the bottom of the nest closest to the entrance. Multiple queens typically hatch in a season, but most leave the nest to start their own colonies. Towards the end of the summer, the queen mates with multiple males and then enters a state of hibernation until the following spring thaw; meanwhile, the workers either starve or are killed by the cold.

Workers and queens are fairly similar in appearance; both sport yellow and black markings across their thorax and abdomen to warn away potential predators. The primary difference is that queens are larger, at 20 mm (0.8 in) long, while workers are only 12–17 mm (0.5–0.7 in). Only female workers have stingers. The species is commonly confused with the European wasp, Vespula germanica, as the two look remarkably similar; the best identifier is that V. vulgaris has only one black mark on its head, while V. germanica has three.

Conservation status: This species has a large, stable population and is considered Least Concern by the IUCN. However, in areas where it has been introduced, it is considered invasive due to predation and competition with native species.

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2022: Conrad Janis, è stato un trombonista e attore jazz americano che ha recitato in film e televisione durante l’ era dell’età dell’oro negli anni ’50 e ’60, e ha continuato a recitare fino al 2012. Conosciuto soprattutto per il ruolo interpretato nella serie televisiva Mork & Mindy, ha recitato in diversi film e realizzato diverse performance come musicista jazz. Il primo matrimonio di Janis…

[mood2you]

Well definitely this year I'm gonna have small weekends maybe I will give up on work life balance weekend ideas

Drive to Groveland

Bus to library (for example last year this was a weekday thing)

Drive to Butterfish (this is the vibe I want. One specific place)

Happy Isles

Sleep all day

Oakhurst twinkle lights

Ride shuttle all day

Lee Vining

Cool

Find beauty in the stretch of the 49 from Coulterville to Mariposa

Drive bear valley or whatever it's called

Casino

Snook's

Monterey yes

Weekend day taken up by doctors or HR

Grandma's

Sonic

Grouse creek?

Actually hike in Yosemite Valley

El cap meadows day

Readathon

Angels Camp

Library

Angels Camp library

Glasses perscreiption

Boot Barn that one shopping center on the 99

Find "backwards Old Preist off 49 with gas station at base"

Stay up all night

Lower Falls day

Actually go to Tenaya Lake hello

Merced library

Olive Garden

Happy Burger

Jackson Dennys

Drive the 8 east

It will be sad to have no friends though but it seems hard. Just

This is your list of how to enjoy Yosemite like a local: get out of there. Locals want to vacation in Mariposa

[ilsimplicissimusblog]

Clima, guerra e genocidio: il maltusianesimo contemporaneo

Generalmente Thomas Malthus è conosciuto per la sua teoria secondo cui i livelli della popolazione tendono sempre a una crescita geometrica, mentre le risorse agricole tendono  a una crescita aritmetica portando a cresi sociali che si possono evitare solo con il controllo della popolazione. Sarebbe abbastanza inutile analizzare questa tesi per mostrarne l’inconsistenza perché in realtà lo scopo…

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IV.ii.1 Le Champ De L’alouette

The Field of the Lark: Wilbour, Denny, FMA

The Lark's Field: Wraxall

The Lark’s Meadow: Hapgood

The Lark's Field: Jolivet, Rose

Alouette's Meadow: Donougher

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Article by: noel kirkpatrick (September 5 2018)

Call it Apocalypse 2040.

In the early 1970s, a computer program called World1 predicted that civilization would likely collapse by 2040. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had programmed it to consider a model of sustainability for the world.

The prediction has resurfaced because Australian broadcaster ABC recirculated a 1973 newscast about the computer program. The program's findings, however, never really went away, as its results have been re-evaluated over the nearly 50 years since they first appeared.

The bad news for us is that the model seems to be spot-on so far.

The computer model was commissioned by the Club of Rome, a group of scientists, industrialists and government officials focused on solving the world's problems. The organization wanted to know how well the world could sustain its rate of growth based on information that was available at the time. World1 was developed by Jay Forrester, the father of system dynamics, a methodology for understanding how complex systems operate.

When deciding the fate of civilization, the program considered several variables, including pollution levels, population growth, the availability of natural resources and global quality of life. These factors were considered in tandem with one another as opposed to separately, following the Club of Rome's perspective that the world's problems are interconnected.

Such an approach was novel in the 1970s, even if the forecast World1 produced wasn't intended to be "precise." The program produced graphs that demonstrated what would happen to those metrics in the future, without even accounting for things like climate change. The graphs all indicated a downward trajectory for the planet.

According to the 1973 ABC segment, World1 identified 2020 as a tipping point for civilization.

"At around 2020, the condition of the planet becomes highly critical. If we do nothing about it, the quality of life goes down to zero. Pollution becomes so seriously it will start to kill people, which in turn will cause the population to diminish, lower than it was in the 1900. At this stage, around 2040 to 2050, civilized life as we know it on this planet will cease to exist."

This was not the end of the model. In 1972, the Club of Rome published "The Limits to Growth," a book that built off the work of World1 with a program called World3, developed by scientists Donella and Dennis Meadows and a team of researchers. This time the variables were population, food production, industrialization, pollution and consumption of nonrenewable natural resources.

"The Limits to Growth" pushed the collapse of civilization to 2072, when the limits of growth would be the most readily apparent and result in population and industrial declines.

Criticism of the book was nearly immediate, and harsh. The New York Times, for instance, wrote, "Its imposing apparatus of computer technology and systems jargon ... takes arbitrary assumptions, shakes them up and comes out with arbitrary conclusions that have the ring of science," concluding that the book was "empty and misleading."

Others argued that the book's view of what constitutes a resource could change over time, leaving their data shortsighted to any possible changes in consumption habits.

The tide for the book's finds have changed over time, however. In 2014, Graham Turner, then a research fellow at the University Melbourne's Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, collected data from various agencies within the United Nations, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other outlets, plotting their data alongside the findings of the World3 model.

What Turner found that was that the World3 model and then-current statistical information tended to coincide with another, up to 2010, indicating that the World3 model was onto something. Turner cautioned that the validation of World3's model didn't indicate "agreement" with it, largely due to certain parameters within the World3 model. Still, Turner argued that we were likely on "cusp of collapse" thanks to a few different factors, in particular what Turner called the end of peak easy oil access.

Writing in The Guardian, Turner and Cathy Alexander, a Melbourne-based journalist, explained that neither the World3 model or Turner's own confirmation of it signaled that the collapse was a guarantee.

"Our research does not indicate that collapse of the world economy, environment and population is a certainty," they wrote. "Nor do we claim the future will unfold exactly as the MIT researchers predicted back in 1972. Wars could break out; so could genuine global environmental leadership. Either could dramatically affect the trajectory.

"But our findings should sound an alarm bell. It seems unlikely that the quest for ever-increasing growth can continue unchecked to 2100 without causing serious negative effects – and those effects might come sooner than we think."

[regulusmoonbeam]

ok chat FINAL LIST so far has 67(?)

here it is

most if these characters birthdates just say before (date) so i made the executive decision to make it the same as the marauders

James Potter

Sirius Black

Remus Lupin

Peter Pettigrew

Lily Evans

Mary MacDonald

Marlene McKinnon

Dorcas Meadowes

Pandora Rosier

Alice Fortescue

Frank Longbottom

Evan Rosier

Barty Crouch Jr

Regulus Black

Bellatrix Black

Andromeda Black

Narcissa Black

Severus Snape

Molly Prewett

Arthur Weasley

Fabian Prewett

Gideon Prewett

Xenophillius Lovegood

Rita Skeeter

Lucius Malfoy

Rodolphus Lestrange

Rabastan Lestrange

Ted Tonks

Amos Diggory

Hestia Jones

Kingsley Shacklebolt

Emmeline Vance

Gilderoy Lockhart

Edmund Avery

Bruce Mulciber

Sybill Trelawney

Alecto Carrow

Amycus Carrow

Antonin Dolohov

Dolores Umbridge

Petunia Evans

Aurora Sinistra

Charity Burbage

Amelia Bones

Dirk Cresswell

Gaspard Shingleton

Greta Catchlove

Tilden Toots

Daisy Hookum

Bertha Jorkins

Florence (No canon surname, hc: Dennis)

Mundungus Fletcher

Benjy Fenwick

Edgar Bones

Sturgis Podmore

Caradoc Dearborn

Dedadus Diggle

Bertram Aubrey

Tiberius Ogden

John Dawlish

Pius Thicknesse

Mafalda Hopkirk

Walden Macnair

Augustus Rookwood

Corban Yaxley

Amycus Carrow

Thorfinn Rowle

Travers

Ludovic Bagman