Strenuous efforts are being made to create vertebrate pest-free areas on islands and in predator-fenced sanctuaries.

Among those relics is Dragon’s Blood, reputed in antiquity and in the Middle Ages to have got its vividness from the wounds of dragons and elephants locked in mortal combat. The pigment actually owed its intense redness to the resin secreted from trees growing on the islands of Socotra and Sumatra, especially the rattan palm and the Dracaena draco. The Forbes’s sample is now a dusty rose—not so unlike the nineteenth-century pigment called la cuisse de nymphe emue (“the blushing thigh of an aroused nymph”)—having faded, most likely, from exposure to high light levels. Even in the early fifteenth century, the Italian painter Cennino Cennini warned in his practical manual, “Il Libro dell’Arte,” that artists beguiled by the pigment’s reputation should “leave it alone, and do not have too much respect for it; for it is not of a constitution to do you much credit.” Better to stick to madder root, red ochre, or the red-lead minium that had been in use since classical antiquity.

Abstract: An electronic device including a universal serial bus power delivery (USB-PD) port for at least the delivery of power, and a USB-PD controller to control a state of power delivery by the USB-PD port out of a plurality of states, wherein the USB-PD controller transitions the USB-PD port from an unpowered state to a check internal power state when the USB-PD port is ready to power the USB cable.

Inventor(s): Carrie Lee Childress (Dallas, TX) Assignee(s): Smith Nephew, Inc. (Memphis, TN) Law Firm: Knobbe, Martens, Olson Bear, LLP (9 non-local offices) Application No., Date, Speed: 29582426 on 10/27/2016 (775 days app to issue)

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For Edward Waldo Forbes, pigment hunting and gathering was not just a matter of creating an archive of lost or languishing color. It was about the union of art and science. His pedigree embodied the paradox: one of his grandfathers was the railway magnate John Murray Forbes; the other, the transcendentalist philosopher-poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. With a Massachusetts schooling, culminating, inevitably, at Harvard, Forbes was a typical product of the generation who believed that Gilded Age materialism could be redeemed by the “Western civilization” that the social critic and art professor Charles Eliot Norton eulogized in the art-history lectures that Forbes attended as an undergraduate. The moral purpose of that civilization was the conversion of raw wealth into beauty and humanism. Guided by this principle, Forbes read English at Oxford for two years, and travelled through Europe, spending time in Italy. Still, he resented the condescending European assumption that the New World would never really rise above breathless cultural tourism. Serious art history was supposed to change that, and in 1900 Wellesley College became the first in America to offer a degree in the subject. But teachers at Wellesley and Harvard had to make do, for the most part, with plaster-cast reproductions and lantern slides.

The following gentlemen served as pallbearers: James “Cooter” Carter, Eric Fennell, Josh Elrod, Chris Draudt, David Pittman and Cheyenne Williams. Honorary pallbearers were: Junior Carter, Jackie Brock, Jason Tolly and Josh Edwards.

“Farmers are losing money,” Mr. Singh said. “We just survive. We are earning less and spending more.”

”If New Zealand got too expensive we would see a decline in visitor numbers and a demand drop off. You would assume that pricing has not reached a point of no return yet but it is something we are very mindful of,” England-Hall said.

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Inventor(s): Richard James Reister (Plano, TX) Assignee(s): The Modern Gentleman, Inc. (Plano, TX) Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros) Application No., Date, Speed: 29610470 on 07/12/2017 (517 days app to issue)

When creating the Spirit Stone, the required materials differ slightly between the Spirit Stone of Protection or the Stone of Destruction, but the materials needed for each grade are the same. This means that the same materials are needed for crafting Sharp Spirit Stone of Destruction and Shining Spirit Stone of Destruction. What grade your Spirit Stone will become depends on rates, although there is a higher chance of getting higher grades if your Alchemy Mastery is high.