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moonlight-angel-stuff · 9 months
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Olivia Hussey on her wedding.
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reasonsforhope · 6 months
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"Around the capital beltway or Washington’s famous Rock Creek Park, you may see a group of people ripping up vines along the treeline beside the roads.
If you have then you’ve glimpsed superheroes who traded in their capes for gardening gloves and their time for the satisfaction of terminating an invasive species and saving a native tree.
Washington D.C’s “Weed Warriors” are a group of volunteers going back to 1999 that work for free to keep hundreds of species of invasive shrubs, vines, and climbers from taking over native ecosystems.
Among the 600 or so non-native invasive plant species found in and around our nation’s capital, some like Polygonum perfoliatum, also known as “mile-a-minute” vine, can be devastating. Suffocating trees by overgrowing the leaves in their canopy branches, mile-a-minute can kill thousands of trees every year.
Since 1999, Weed Warrior volunteers have logged over 135,000 hours of time weed whacking in Montgomery County alone. Anyone can become a Weed Warrior; the group works in units for two-hour spaces removing weeds or planting native species in their place.
These invasive species management events are led by specially-trained volunteer Weed Warrior Supervisors and/or staff from the Montgomery Parks Dept. Warriors can get certified to de-weed in their spare time, or lead events on their own. They can even have their own unique patch of ground in the D.C.-Metro area to control.
Why would anyone want to trade their free time or laboring hours away for free doing something our tax dollars are supposed to do for us? The answer is simple: it’s addicting.
“If I have any good mental health, it’s due to Weed Warrioring,” said 74-year-old area resident Barbara Francisco. “You have a sense of accomplishment.” ...
The Weed Warriors website states that non-native, invasive plant species (NNIs) can alter the complex webs of plant-animal associations that have evolved over thousands of years to such a degree that plants and animals once familiar to us are eliminated...
Anyone who feels this is something they want to contribute their time to can go to the Montgomery County Parks website here and look at the upcoming Weed Warrior events—the next one is October 21st."
-via Good News Network, October 12, 2023
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seymabeyzaa · 7 months
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Evet bu özel tasarım gelinliğimi kiralamaya karar verdim 🥹🤍🦢
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crabbys-stuff · 8 months
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They are back✨️
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boanerges20 · 1 year
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Motolove. The Very True Love.
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zezees-posts · 5 months
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❤️❤️
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megahorous · 8 months
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Weed girlfriend who raves about rain
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beckscribbles · 1 year
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I don't like how this feels,
you were a flower to me
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okayto · 1 year
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Inspired by a Misktanoic University Library post except they left out one crucial group
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goshyesvintageads · 9 months
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Kmart Corp, 1991
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inkcurlsandknives · 5 months
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I've been avoiding weeding and planting my fall/winter garden for months (family emergencie/travel/etc) but I waited for a warm day after a solid rain and it took me less than 30 min to weed and rake in compost and now I'm all ready to plant and mulch ☘️☘️☘️ Im very pleased and covered in dirt and let's not discuss the live lizard that fled from the last stand of grass down my cleavage and out the bottom of my shirt 🫣😱
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Keith Richards and Mick Jagger at Mick's wedding to Bianca Moreno aka Bianca Jagger in Saint Tropez in 1971
📷 © Daniel Angeli -Agence Angeli
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toofasttoocool · 11 months
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Marrying the inventor
Was this real? This surely didn't look like a reality.
The wedding was for tomorrow as Miu tried her dress, despite her promiscuous reputation, the dress was as conservative and as classic as it could be, a long white robe and a classic bridal Veil mounted by white camellias, but that wasn't a fault, far from that, in fact that made the inventor look like a princess, a fairy tail queen ready to marry her prince.
The scenery only made the spectacle gleam even more, this giant white stone castle sitting on top of a mountain, both of them travel to Germany to have their great wedding in the castle of Neuschwanstein, surrounded by the forest of old, even the ever cynical Miu had to admit it was really a paradise on earth. She couldn't help but smile at her reflection, was this really her? Was the lewd inventor ready to settle down? Maybe even have children...she blushed, as it's tradition, the groom was in another room, but she was sure that he was getting ready, after all, despite being a soft boy otherwise, he always had been adamant about marrying her, from the very begging, at first she laughed at him, then work by work, day by day, he melted her heart.
A knock could be heard as a maid in Victorian clothes step through the door and simply said, "Madame Iruma, Monsieur Shuichi is ready."Miu was so happy that she didn't even question why a Maid was speaking French in Germany, she walked as graciously as she could, ready to spend the rest of her life, with the one she truly loved.
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(Original art by the man the dream:@cowedeacumootsu)
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hippiebikergirl · 11 months
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Taking a break from weeding to soak my bones & have a cold one!!!
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soulinkpoetry · 4 months
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Finding the right soul which you can flourish with is a tedious process.
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wearelibrarian · 1 year
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Hi. I've recently acquired a used book from thriftsbooks. The hardcover comes from a library but it's in very good conditions (looks like new actually! If it weren't for the library sticker in the inside of the cover and the discarded print, you would never imagine it comes from a library at all!). The question I hope you can answer is: what are the reason why US libraries label a book "discarded"? And do libraries sell those (so they make some money back), or where do they end up? I ask because it really sounds absurd to me that a book that is in such good conditions is discarded. (I'm not sure how it works in Italian libraries, but I don't see them throwing out good books, even if they aren't picked up in years - I've picked up books that weren't read in years).
Thank you!
Libraries do not have infinite storage space, as wonderful as that would be. In order to bring in new materials, we have to remove existing materials from the shelves.
Because of this, most libraries periodically go through a process called weeding to determine which items to remove from the collection. Common reasons to weed an item include damage, outdated content, low circulation, duplicate copies, etc. - at my current library, we only consider items for weeding if they have not circulated in 5-7 years. One method I've used twice for weeding involved two of these reasons. I pulled all items from a section which had multiple circulating copies. If none of them had circulated in 5+ years, we weeded all but one, returning that single copy to its place on the shelf.
It depends on the collection how frequently weeding occurs. Many public libraries will weed their fiction collections quite regularly, since five copies of The Hunger Games take up the space which could be used for the newest Rick Riordan series. Many academic libraries will weed significantly less frequently, and the last weeding project I helped with at an academic library had every book go through 3-4 staff to determine if it needed to remain on the shelves.
Weeded items are typically labeled as "discarded" or "withdrawn", depending on the library. Some libraries sell them, some donate them, some recycle them, some throw them away - it entirely depends on the library and the item being weeded. If a book has serious mold damage, for example, we're likely to just throw it out since it is too far gone to save. If the item is in good condition and not outdated, it will likely be sold or donated. If the item is in decent condition but outdated (for example, a general encyclopedia from the 1970s), it will likely be recycled.
TL;DR: my guess is that the book you purchased either wasn't circulating or was a duplicate copy, so they discarded the book to free up space for more items that are more likely to circulate.
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