Swamp current climbing Bigleaf Maple
Swamp current is the prefered popular name on the Olympic Peninsula of maritime west-coast North America. More-widely, it is typically called skunk current. Ribes glandulosum. But it grows especially well on slurpy-wet ground; usually on slopes, and maybe not ‘in’ swampiness, but conspicuously on elevated stumps & hummocks, in swamp-habitat. … cont’d >
QGIS is a GIS Geographical Information System that offers much easier front end than the also Open Source GRASS GIS, and avoids the high cost of the dominant Esri ArcGIS commercial product.
Slow scan TV is an Amateur Radio operating mode that transmitts a non-video picture in TV-format, using a relatively narrow bandwidth.
Slow-scan television https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-scan_television
SSTV – Slow scan television http://www.arrl.org/sstv-slow-scan-television
Lake Yahoo is a backcountry camp adrift in time. Once, the large pond-like lake nestled on an outlying ridge of the Olympic Mountains was a working stage-camp for the first Forest Service crews in the early 20th C., then CCC gangs during the Great Depression, and then explorers & workers in nearby Olympic National Park, after it was formed in 1938. This place is in the southwestern quadrant of the Olympic Peninsula, and just outside the SW corner of the Park. It’s in deep timber-country, in the Clearwater River watershed, at a headwater of major tributary Stequaleho Creek.
Major logging roads lead into the general vicinity of Yahoo, and minor roads come within a short hike.
Modelling of nature-questions with computer-code has been developed using the Life program by Conway. This simple code produces stricking results, even though the code itself is fully define and unchanging.
There is the alternative technique of self-modifying code, which may offer further modelling opportunities.
Conservative attitudes, positions and behavior emphasize and prioritize stability and safety. If it’s not really broken, it’s not really urgent to fix it. Look before you leap. While changes may recommend themselves, there are always transient implemention costs, and not infrequently there are losses & losers, and even permanent drawbacks & downsides.
Liberal is not a strong or accurate antonym of Conservative. The Progressive associate of Liberalism (typically seen as a one hypenated word) makes more of a specialty of Change (sometimes verging to ‘change for the sake of change’). Liberal politics, with its emphasis on the Person and Individual, is allied with Conservatives in prioritizing generalized ‘Bill of Rights’ factors … while some Progressive threads are less so.
(and ultimately, Politics) are reflections of caution and safety.
Political Conservatism as we know it emerged as a concept from the French Revolution, and somewhat coincidentally but ultimately very significantly, from the American Revolution and the founding of the United States.