DOCSLIB.ORG

Railroad Siding Project Begun

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Railroad Siding Project Begun $ 00 Inclu1des Tax Vol. 112 | No. 47 Philip, South Dakota 57567 Thursday, July 12, 2018 www. pioneer-review.com Railroad siding project begun by Del Bartels ing near Philip, and replacing The Philip leg of a South approximately 10 miles of rail Dakota freight capacity expan - near Huron. The total funds of sion project has begun. $12.4 million includes the Rapid City Pierre Eastern TIGER VII grant, RCP&E Railroad (RCP&E) is putting in funds, and a South Dakota a new 7,000-foot railroad sid - grant. ing. It is approximately eight Dokken added that the loca - miles west from Philip on tion and construction stresses Highway 14, about a mile into positive drainage. Dokken said Jackson County from Haakon the Philip part is to be com - County, and approximately a pleted by Nov. 1. quarter of a mile south of the According to Matt Ko - highway. nenkamp, policy advisory to Jack Dokken is a program the governor, in theory the sid - manager with the South ing would allow 100 extra Dakota Department of Trans - trains per year to go through portation. According to him, the area. More than one train the Federal Railroad Adminis - could be on the track at one tration was supported by the time, because when they would SDDOT in the application meet, one would take the pass - process for the Transportation ing siding until the other train Investment Generating Eco - was past. Konenkamp said Posing by the new CT scanner are, from left, Physician’s Assistant Terry Henrie, radiology director Jackalyn Spry, and radiology nomic Recovery (TIGER) that, of the $12.4 million proj - department team members Terrie Cerny and Samantha Huston. Other team members are Kayla Eymer, Marla Guptill and Rebecca grant. ect total, an estimated $3.5 Bryan. The TIGER grant aims to in - million is for the siding near crease the railroad’s capacity by constructing a passing sid - Hospital’s state-of-the-art CT continued on page 2 scanner fully operational The Philip Health Serv - make it happen. We thank Fireworks at Lake ices, Inc. radiology depart - the Helmsley Trust for in - ment has completed vesting in our community installation of a new G.E. healthcare, and DME Elec - bWy Del aBargtels gtoheyn left,e too,r giving as they were Revolution EVO 64-slice CT tric and Matt Arthur as the The Philip Volunteer Fire Depart - coming in and as they were going scanner, courtesy of a lead contractors.” ment’s annual presentation of its out,” said Arthur. It is estimated $400,000 grant from the “We appreciate the PHSI Independence Day fireworks was that hundreds of more people held the evening of July 4 over from miles around could view the Leona M. and Harry B. Board of Directors for their the waters of Lake Waggoner. PVFD fireworks display. “We are Helmsley Charitable Trust. support of this project. It Vehicles began arriving far ear - still accepting donations in order The new scanner replaces could not have happened lier in the day, with many to pay for next year’s fireworks equipment that was in - without their leadership,” campers and boats being used by display,” said Arthur. stalled in 2008. CT, which stated Spry. “I also thank families, friends and other revel - Before and during the display, stands for Computed Tomog - Brad Burns at Chamberlin ers to take advantage of the holi - the national anthem and other raphy, and commonly re - Architects in Rapid City for day. Kids and adults shot off patriotic music, provided by Mike ferred to as “CAT-scan,” is a designing the most efficient, personal fireworks – from Seager, was broadcast over the type of imaging that allows patient-friendly and user- sparklers to gigantic boomers. radio frequency 96.7 FM. Also, for detailed viewing of inter - friendly space for the new Grills and games were every - live streaming of the display was where. At dusk, the PVFD began provided, which can still be seen nal tissues and organs in CT system. The entire team its display. on the Philip Volunteer Fire De - three dimensions. CT imag - was a pleasure to work “We have a man on our side, a partment’s Facebook page. ing is used to view and eval - with.” Premier Pyrotechnics salesman On the previous evening, nine uate hundreds, if not The public is invited to an and part owner, who gets us the PVFD volunteers assisted the Del Bartels thousands, of diseases, func - open house at PHSI, Thurs - The control console room gives operators (Terrie Cerny in back and di - biggest bang for our buck,” said Wall Volunteer Fire Department tions, and injuries quickly day, July 19, from 11:00 a.m. rector Jackalyn Spry) complete viewing access through lead shielded PVFD fireman Greg Arthur. This with their Independence Day fire - and without invasive proce - to 1:00 p.m. Learn more glass to the patient in the CAT-scan. The computerized views can be year, 24 “cakes” were used, which works display. “We will help Wall dures. about the new CT system, seen from any angle and to an extremely detailed zoom. included 50-shot to 480-shot again next year,” said Arthur. “We At PHSI, the grant appli - view demonstrations, and rounds with 1.5-inch to 2.5-inch share equipment, mostly the cation began in late 2016, meet the radiology team. Re - rounds in each cake. The 186 tubes, so both department’s tubes led by Kayla Eymer, then freshments will be served. larger, individual shots included can be set up and we have no re - three, four, five and six-inch loading during the displays. It manager of the radiology de - Public access to the CT area rounds. Plus, this year, the PVFD helps both departments that way. partment. Eymer and other is subject to availability per shot three 10-inch rounds. By During the Fourth, and all year PHSI team members wrote patient confidentiality. using three firemen “spotters” to long, we work together; it makes the grant application, which While the former CT assist with timing the multitude our departments better.” detailed the benefits of up - equipment at PHSI was ad - of shots, the display stayed fairly Local firemen volunteer to take graded technology and the equate, CT technology has constant and un-congested, and and pass special, required train - potential for improved continued to improve over lasted a full 25 minutes. “Three ing in order to set up and fire off healthcare outcomes. the years, leading to the pur - spotters made shooting that the display. Discounts are utilized The main advantages in - suing of the Helmsley grant. whole show a lot easier,” said to save costs and maximize pur - clude quicker processing “CT is an imaging modality Arthur. chases. These include before “Approximately 250 vehicles year’s-end payments, taking re - speed, reduced radiation ex - with advanced computerized left the Lake Waggoner area soon quired training, This display has posure to the patient, and technology,” said Spry. after the display, with many vehi - been held over Lake Waggoner better image resolution. “It Schultes agreed. “Think of cles and campers still near the since well before 1974. was a team effort,” Eymer the cell phone or digital cam - lake. Some people donated as said. “Our radiology staff, era you were using 10 years business office, administra - ago. The technology got the tion and marketing worked job done, but better technol - together to write a grant ogy is now available. The CT Courtesy Photo that won a competitive ap - is the same way.” The former Jackalyn Spry, the head of the radiology division at Philip Health Serv - plication process.” equipment at PHSI will be ices, Inc., is a Star Trek movies fan. She jokingly described the tremen - PHSI received the grant traded in, refurbished and dously intricate appearance of the inside of the new CT-scanner as funding in 2017. After con - passed along to another fa - “Borg” technology. This technology is used by PHSI to diagnose pa - struction, installation, and cility. It was not removed tients. training, the new CT equip - until the new system was up ment came online in June of and running, so PHSI was useful images with the least image that can be viewed on 2018. “We really gave it a never without CT scanning amount of radiation expo - a computer screen. workout in the first week - services during the transi - sure. Protocols are adjusted The images are sent elec - end,” said Jackalyn Spry, tion. for each patient’s unique tronically to a radiologist –a PHSI Radiology Manager. A CT exam is conducted by needs and physical charac - medical doctor who has addi - “At one point we had five ur - a trained radiologic technol - teristics. tional training in diagnostic gent exams scanned within ogist, who uses the CT’s The patient then lies on a imaging exams and interpre - 45 minutes. Our former computer to designate the table, which is moved tation. The radiologist’s re - scanner would have taken area of the body that will be through the gantry – a large port is transmitted back to twice as long.” In a typical scanned. The patient may circular structure reminis - PHSI, where the local med - month, PHSI performs an also be given a contrast sub - cent of a donut – which ical provider uses the infor - average of 50 to 60 CT scans. stance, either orally or by in - houses an x-ray tube that mation to develop the Including the CT equip - jection, which allows the spins around the patient and patient’s treatment plan. ment, the total investment scan to record images in releases the minimum The radiologist, radiology in the project was about sharper black and white, amount of radiation needed technologist, and medical $482,000.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Watershed Stewardship Program
    Watershed Stewardship Program Summary of Programs and Research, 2004 Adirondack Watershed Institute Paul Smith's College Watershed Stewardship Program: Summary of Programs and Research, 2004 2 Adirondack Watershed Institute of Paul Smith’s College Table of Contents Section Author Page Introduction Eric Holmlund 3 Staff Biographies Staff 8 Program Assessment Study Eric Holmlund 10 Recreation Studies Upper St. Regis Lake Matthew Boss, Holmlund 16 Lake Placid Daniel DeSorcy, Holmlund 21 Upper Saranac Lake Matthew Boss 26 St. Regis Mountain Matthew Boss, Holmlund 29 Project and Program Reviews Purple Loosestrife Control DeSorcy, Holmlund 33 Invasive Plant Monitoring- St. Regis Lakes Kara Kushmerek 36 Invasive Plant Monitoring- Lake Placid Kara Kushmerek 37 Loon Monitoring- St. Regis Lakes Kara Kushmerek 38 Lake Placid Boat Wash Proposal Daniel DeSorcy 42 Coarse Woody Structure Assessment Matthew Boss 46 St. Regis Lakes Campsite Maintenance Matthew Boss 52 Trail Maintenance- St. Regis Mt. Daniel DeSorcy 54 Educational Outreach Programs Erin Peterson 56 Watershed Stewardship Program: Summary of Programs and Research, 2004 3 Adirondack Watershed Institute of Paul Smith’s College Introduction and Key Findings – 2004 Prepared by Eric Holmlund, Director and Associate Professor Watershed Stewardship Program Introduction plant purple loosestrife, monitor loon pairs on the St. Regis Lakes, assess invasive plant The Watershed Stewardship Program presence on Lake Placid and St. Regis Lakes, is a cooperative, community-based effort to and provide educational outreach programs for conserve natural resources, including water area children. This year brought a resumption quality, wildlife and soil, through targeted of trail maintenance duties on the St. Regis educational efforts at specific locations near Mountain trail (last done in 2000), educational Paul Smith's College.
    [Show full text]
  • Convocation Celebrates UTC's 25Th Anniversary
    Th University fiME wr Vc4ume£9/1ksueNo^ A Student Newspaper Since 1906 October 13,1994 Convocation celebrates Lelyveld UTC's 25th anniversary speaks on By Mary Rehyansky purpose," he said. media Echo Asst. News Editor Mayor Gene Roberts By Mary Rehyansky said The New York Times is Echo Asst. News Editor The convocation cel­ widely regarded as the pre­ ebrating the 25th anniver­ miere newspaper in the The executive editor of The New York sary of the birth of UTC world and gave Lelyveld a Times described the chance to speak at and the 200th anniversary key to the city where "the UTC's convocation Tuesday as "more than of the UT system inspired vision for the modem New a chance to babble." For Joseph Lelyveld, system President Joe John­ York Times began." the trip to Chattanooga was a "pilgrim­ son to speak of UT's The convocation was age," he said. humble beginnings. not without its problems, Chattanooga is the place where the "Knoxville had seven however. Many who at­ "modern New York Times got its energy taverns, one church and one tended left before or during and sense of purpose," said Lelyveld. In college," he said. "We're the speaker's remarks, and 1896, a bankrupt and "enfeebled" New trying to return to that sta­ Dr. Peter Pringle, a mem­ York Times was revitalized by tus," he quipped. ber of the planning com­ Chattanoogan Adolph Ochs, who had taken mittee, called this behavior He called the merger of over The Chattanooga Times by the age of the University of Chatta­ "rude in the extreme." Faculty, administrators and gussts join voices for UTC's alma mater 21, then went on to invest $75,000 in an He said he understood nooga and UT in 1969 a ailing New York Times.
    [Show full text]
  • Victorian Climbing Management Guidelines
    Victorian Climbing Management Guidelines Compiled for the Victorian Climbing Community Revision: V04 Published: 15 Sept 2020 1 Contributing Authors: Matthew Brooks - content manager and writer Ashlee Hendy Leigh Hopkinson Kevin Lindorff Aaron Lowndes Phil Neville Matthew Tait Glenn Tempest Mike Tomkins Steven Wilson Endorsed by: Crag Stewards Victoria VICTORIAN CLIMBING MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES V04 15 SEPTEMBER 2020 2 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Foreword - Consultation Process for The Victorian Climbing Management Guidelines ​ The need for a process for the Victorian climbing community to discuss widely about best rock-climbing practices and how these can maximise safety and minimise impacts of crag environments has long been recognised. Discussions on these themes have been on-going in the local Victorian and wider Australian climbing communities for many decades. These discussions highlighted a need to broaden the ways for climbers to build collaborative relationships with Traditional Owners and land managers. Over the years, a number of endeavours to build and strengthen such relationships have been undertaken; Victorian climbers have been involved, for example, in a variety of collaborative environmental stewardship projects with Land Managers and Traditional Owners over the last two decades in particular, albeit in an ad hoc manner, as need for such projects have become apparent. The recent widespread climbing bans in the Grampians / Gariwerd have re-energised such discussions and provided a catalyst for reflection on the impacts of climbing, whether inadvertent or intentional, negative or positive. This has focussed considerations of how negative impacts on the environment or cultural heritage can be avoided or minimised and on those climbing practices that are most appropriate, respectful and environmentally sustainable.
    [Show full text]
  • Springerbriefs in Environmental Science
    SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science present concise summaries of cutting-edge research and practical applications across a wide spectrum of environmental fields, with fast turnaround time to publication. Featuring compact volumes of 50 to 125 pages, the series covers a range of content from professional to academic. Monographs of new material are considered for the SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science series. Typical topics might include: a timely report of state-of-the-art analytical tech- niques, a bridge between new research results, as published in journal articles and a contextual literature review, a snapshot of a hot or emerging topic, an in-depth case study or technical example, a presentation of core concepts that students must understand in order to make independent contributions, best practices or protocols to be followed, a series of short case studies/debates highlighting a specific angle. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science allow authors to present their ideas and readers to absorb them with minimal time investment. Both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts are considered for publication. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8868 Michal Apollo Environmental Impacts of Mountaineering A Conceptual Framework Michal Apollo Department of Tourism and Regional Studies Pedagogical University of Kraków Kraków, Poland ISSN 2191-5547 ISSN 2191-5555 (electronic) SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science ISBN 978-3-030-72666-9 ISBN 978-3-030-72667-6 (eBook)
    [Show full text]
  • Ecology Textbook for the Sudan
    I Ecology textbook for the Sudan Ómeine van noordwijk, 1984 distributed by: Khartoum University Press, P.O.Box 321, Khartoum, Sudan Ecologische Uitgeverij, Gerard Doustraat 18, Amsterdam, the Netherlands ISBN 90 6224114 X produced on recycled paper by: Grafische Kring Groningen typeset: Zetterij de Boom, Siska printing: Drukkerij Papyrus, Brord, Henk, Oskar, Margreeth, Ronald binding: Binderij Steen/Witlox, Henrik, Nanneke illustrations: Kast Olema Daniel (page 33,36,37, 139, 182, 183) Marja de Vries (page 28,30,31,39,41,44,53,56,59,61,62,65,67, SO, 83, 84,88,89,90,91,94,98,99,103,108,109,118,125,131,149, 151, 158, 172, 176, 181, 187, 179,200,263,273,274, back cover) Joan Looyen (page 8, 47, 48, 96, 137) the author (others) II Foreword This book gives an introduction to basic principles of ecology in a Sudanese context, using local examples. Ecology is presented as a way of thinking about and interpreting one's own environment, which can only be learned by practising, by applying these ideas to one's specific situation. Some people are 'ecologists with their heads', considering ecology to be a purely academic, scientific subject; some are 'ecologists with their hearts', being concerned about the future conditions for life on our planet Earth; others are 'ecologists with their hands', having learned some basic principles of ecology by trial and error in traditional agriculture, fisheries etcetera. Education of 'ecologists in their mind', combining the positive sides of the three approaches mentioned, can be seen as essential for the future of a country such as the Democratic Republic 'of the Sudan, with its large environmental potential for positive development, along with great risks of mis-managing the natural resources.
    [Show full text]
  • Countryside Sheep Guide
    SHEEP Guide Co u n t r y s i d e Sheep Guide 1 Index A Basic Guide To Raising Sheep ............................................................3 A Monthly Schedule For Shepherds .....................................................7 Diseases Of Feedlot Lambs ..................................................................12 Raising Sheep — Naturally ..................................................................13 Lamb Kabobs Recipe ...........................................................................14 Sheep Cotes — Ancient, But Still Useful .............................................16 How To Shear A Sheep .........................................................................18 Co u n t r y s i d e Bookstore Resources ..........................................................29 Which Sheep Breeding Schedule Is Right For You? ..........................28 2 Co u n t r y s i d e Sheep Guide A Basic Guide to Raising Sheep If You Enjoy Eating Lamb, Are Interested In Working With Wool, Or Just Want An Easy-To-Raise Meat Animal, Here’s How To Get Started heep fill an important niche on many homesteads. If you want wool for fiber arts, or if you like spring lamb but can’t find (or afford) it in local markets, you don’t have to be convinced. But if you Shave a little extra pasture land that’s not enough for a beef cow, or if you’d rather raise and butcher several smaller meat animals than one large one, sheep certainly deserve consideration. BUYING A common way to get started with sheep is to buy grade ewes and a purebred ram. But whatever you buy, there are certain things to look for. In the ram, be especially conscious of the condition of the animal’s feet and legs. A ram without good legs and feet will not do his job. Avoid buying rams with ques- tionable semen quality.
    [Show full text]
  • 1976 Bicentennial Mckinley South Buttress Expedition
    THE MOUNTAINEER • Cover:Mowich Glacier Art Wolfe The Mountaineer EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Verna Ness, Editor; Herb Belanger, Don Brooks, Garth Ferber. Trudi Ferber, Bill French, Jr., Christa Lewis, Mariann Schmitt, Paul Seeman, Loretta Slater, Roseanne Stukel, Mary Jane Ware. Writing, graphics and photographs should be submitted to the Annual Editor, The Mountaineer, at the address below, before January 15, 1978 for consideration. Photographs should be black and white prints, at least 5 x 7 inches, with caption and photo­ grapher's name on back. Manuscripts should be typed double· spaced, with at least 1 Y:z inch margins, and include writer's name, address and phone number. Graphics should have caption and artist's name on back. Manuscripts cannot be returned. Properly identified photographs and graphics will be returnedabout June. Copyright © 1977, The Mountaineers. Entered as second·class matter April8, 1922, at Post Office, Seattle, Washington, under the act of March 3, 1879. Published monthly, except July, when semi-monthly, by The Mountaineers, 719 Pike Street,Seattle, Washington 98101. Subscription price, monthly bulletin and annual, $6.00 per year. ISBN 0-916890-52-X 2 THE MOUNTAINEERS PURPOSES To explore and study the mountains, forests, and watercourses of the Northwest; To gather into permanentform the history and tra­ ditions of thisregion; To preserve by the encouragement of protective legislation or otherwise the natural beauty of NorthwestAmerica; To make expeditions into these regions in fulfill­ ment of the above purposes; To encourage a spirit of good fellowship among all loversof outdoor life. 0 � . �·' ' :···_I·:_ Red Heather ' J BJ. Packard 3 The Mountaineer At FerryBasin B.
    [Show full text]
  • Rise of the Rock Clones • These Days You Don't Have to Stalk the Wilds to Climb Some of the Sport's Most Popular Rocks, Reports Shermakaye Bass
    Rise of the rock clones • These days you don't have to stalk the wilds to climb some of the sport's most popular rocks, reports Shermakaye Bass. It's a whole new wall game. Shermakaye Bass - February 1, 2005 As fielding posson approaches the Feather, a notoriously hard bouldering route at Hueco Tanks State Park in Texas, he visualizes the sequence of moves, imagining each foothold, hand pocket and ridiculous undercling. Then he mounts, climbing quickly and fluidly, powering out from the deep hollow at the boulder's base, to the massive bulge with its slopey pockets, and up to the head wall, with its fossil-like feather pattern. Finally, he tops out 12 feet above the crash pads at Austin Rock Gym in Austin, Texas. Five hundred miles from the real thing, Posson has this faux Feather wired. The simulated rock route, which debuted four years ago, gives him and other Austin climbers a taste of a natural rock icon without a plane ticket or a leg- numbing all-night drive. "The movement is definitely the same as the Feather," says Clayton Reagan, an Austin-based climber who has done the real Hueco problem climb many times. The rock gym version, he adds, "is easier, but it's still difficult." A climbing gym in Boulder, Colo., has taken rock simulation further afield. The Spot replicates the geology of famed climbing areas from Hueco to Yosemite to France's Fontainebleau. The gym lets climbers come out of the cold or finger- searing heat and enjoy ideal climbing conditions year-round.
    [Show full text]
  • Mountaineering: the Heroic Expression of Our Age
    Mountaineering: The Heroic Expression of Our Age Mikel Vause Abstract—The thesis of this paper focuses on Walter Bonatti’s For most mountaineers, the pure physical enjoyment and philosophy on the role of mountaineering as a means of experiencing spiritual uplift that accompanies a body tired from adven- wilderness in a modern techno/industrial society. Problems of going ture in wild nature is reason enough to climb mountains. into wilderness settings with too much baggage are discussed. One Materialism is, for most, at the bottom of the list. As John example is that of the climbing disasters on Mount Everest in 1996. Henry Newman argues, “knowledge [has] its end in itself,” Several years before the actual accidents, Sir Edmund Hillary, a so, also, climbing mountains has “its end in itself.” One partner in the first ascent with Tenzing Norgay, in 1953, expressed ventures out for the riches of building both a strong body and concern that people using the mountain as a business were “engen- mind, and in some cases, to become rich in the spiritual dering disrespect for the mountain.” Bonatti’s point is that moun- sense. This argument could be fairly made until recently, but tains are places to escape the commercialism of a collective, indus- in the past decade or so there has developed an ever growing trial society. This thesis is supported with arguments by notable sense of commercialism in the world of mountaineering. thinkers and wilderness philosophers such as William Wordsworth, The guiding business is nothing new to mountaineering. Edgar Allan Poe, John Muir, Doug Scott, Woodrow Wilson Sayre, In fact, climbing may never have evolved as it has were it not Geoffrey Winthrop Young, Chris Bonington, and Phil Bartlett.
    [Show full text]
  • 081D 12/04 • Courses and Events • National Representation
    Climbing Outside Contents 1 Risks . 2 2 Clubs . 3 3 Young Climbers . 3 4 The Environment . 4 5 History and Ethics . 6 6 Grades . 7 7 Bouldering . 9 8 Leading Indoors . 11 9 Sport Climbing . 11 10 Traditional Climbing . 12 11 Abseiling . 25 Cover photo: Clipping a camming device, Stanage Photo – Alex Messenger • Working for climbers, Acknowledgements hill walkers and Produced by Jon Garside BMC/MLTE Training Officer with support from members of the Training mountaineers Advisory Group. Funded by Sport England A number of people were very generous in • Keeping crags open contributing to this booklet: British Mountain Guide • Travel and Steve Long gave us free access to the text in his First Moves series, the Bouldering section was liability insurance adapted from Simon Panton’s North Wales Bouldering guide (Northern Soul, 2004), and • Competitions, safety Barbara Jones contributed to the conservation and training issues in that section. A number of diagrams • Discounts on gear, have been taken from MLTUK’s book Rock magazines and travel Climbing – Essential Skills & Techniques • Worldwide by British Mountain ‘information service’ Guide Libby Peter. To purchase a copy now please contact Join today the BMC on www.thebmc.co.uk 0870 010 4878. Many wall users wanting to climb on real rock would like to develop their inside to outside existing skills. If that sounds like you, then read on! Britain is often referred to as the home Remote adventurous climbing, Scafell of adventure climbing, and renowned Photo – Jon Garside for the incredible variety of rock types available on such a small island. Our cliffs may not be the tallest, but they present many new challenges not experienced indoors, forcing the climber to adopt very different climbing styles.
    [Show full text]
  • Abyssal Larva Adherer Aerial Servant Aberrant Abomination
    Lairs Web Enhancement The lairs present here were written by names of traders to use the tunnel are set every so often hold the ceiling Jeff Harkness, Gary Schotter and John Stater. in place. Lanterns hang every 100 yards to light the path. A group of travelers entered the tunnel a week ago but never came out. Three people later found an abandoned cart at the tunnel’s halfway point, but no people. Rumors are flying that the Root Run is haunted. Fear has halted the trade route, and the trade group that maintains the tunnel is Aberrant offering a 500 gp reward for the safe return of the missing travelers. Cyst Fist’s Pass The reward won’t ever be collected. The missing traders met a gruesome fate when an abyssal harvester broke through a hole in reality as they A small troop of 16 aberrants from the Cyst Fist Tribe have set up a camp passed. The grasping tentacles dragged the victims into the Abyss where at the crest of the mountain pass. Their leader is the biggest of the tribe, a they were devoured. The abyssal harvester currently has four of its thick mountain of a creature named Furgristle. This group has journeyed down tentacles stretched across the tunnel’s passage to snare new victims. The from their caves higher up in the mountains to raid and pillage, hoping tentacles appear to be tree roots in the semi-darkness until they rise to to bring back items to help the tribe get through the coming winter. attack.
    [Show full text]
  • 1. Ecological Zones of the Sudan 1.1 What Is Ecology
    i ii i ii Ecology textbook for the Sudan meine van noordwijk, 1984 distributed by: Khartoum University Press, P.O.Box 321, Khartoum, Sudan Ecologische Uitgeverij, Gerard Doustraat 18, Amsterdam, the Netherlands ISBN 90 6224114 X produced on recycled paper by: Grafische Kring Groningen typeset: Zetterij de Boom, Siska printing: Drukkerij Papyrus, Brord, Henk, Oskar, Margreeth, Ronald binding: Binderij Steen/Witlox, Henrik, Nanneke illustrations: Kast Olema Daniel (page 33,36,37, 139, 182, 183) Marja de Vries (page 28,30,31,39,41,44,53,56,59,61,62,65,67, SO, 83, 84,88,89,90,91,94,98,99,103,108,109,118,125,131,149, 151, 158, 172, 176, 181, 187, 179,200,263,273,274, back cover) Joan Looyen (page 8, 47, 48, 96, 137) the author (others) i Foreword This book gives an introduction to basic principles of ecology in a Sudanese context, using local examples. Ecology is presented as a way of thinking about and interpreting one's own environment, which can only be learned by practising, by applying these ideas to one's specific situation. Some people are 'ecologists with their heads', considering ecology to be a purely academic, scientific subject; some are 'ecologists with their hearts', being concerned about the future conditions for life on our planet Earth; others are 'ecologists with their hands', having learned some basic principles of ecology by trial and error in traditional agriculture, fisheries etcetera. Education of 'ecologists in their mind', combining the positive sides of the three approaches mentioned, can be seen as essential for the future of a country such as the Democratic Republic of the Sudan, with its large environmental potential for positive development, along with great risks of mis-managing the natural resources.
    [Show full text]