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The Genuine Cosmic Rosetta
Reexamination of general relativistic experimental results shows the universe
is governed by Einstein's static-spacetime general relativity instead of
Friedmann-Lemaitre expanding-spacetime general relativity. The absence of
expansion redshifts in a static-spacetime universe suggests a reevaluation of
the present cosmology is needed.Comment: 9 pages LaTeX, no figure
The augmented marking complex of a surface
We build an augmentation of the Masur-Minsky marking complex by
Groves-Manning combinatorial horoballs to obtain a graph we call the augmented
marking complex, . Adapting work of Masur-Minsky, we prove
that is quasiisometric to Teichm\"uller space with the
Teichm\"uller metric. A similar construction was independently discovered by
Eskin-Masur-Rafi. We also completely integrate the Masur-Minsky hierarchy
machinery to to build flexible families of uniform
quasigeodesics in Teichm\"uller space. As an application, we give a new proof
of Rafi's distance formula for the Teichm\"uller metric.Comment: 30 pages; significantly rewritten to strengthen main construction
Applying the Private Benefit Doctrine to Farmland Conservation Easements
Farmland or working-land conservation easements serve two purposes. One is charitable, to protect open space from development; the other is practical, to preserve the land in productive agricultural use. These purposes, however, create a tension in the easement itself that can force the land trust that holds the easement to choose between the two purposes when the easement, meant in part to protect the farm, threatens the farm\u27s continued viability.
Neutral-impact amendments are amendments to working-land easements that allow farmers to improve farm production or viability without harming the conservation value of the easements. Such amendments seem beneficial: a land trust can advance one of its goals of keeping agricultural land productive–without sacrificing the other goal of preserving the conservation value of the land. By approving such an amendment, however, a land trust likely violates the private benefit doctrine and risks losing its tax-exempt status. This Note argues that the IRS should explicitly decide not to apply the private benefit doctrine to neutral-impact amendments of farmland and working-land conservation easements
Increasing turnover through time in tropical forests
Tree turnover rates were assessed at 40 tropical forest sites. Averaged across inventoried forests, turnover, as measured by tree mortality and recruitment, has increased since the 1950's, with an apparent pantropical acceleration since 1980. Among 22 mature forest sites with two or more inventory periods, forest turnover also increased. The trend in forest dynamics may have profound effects on biological diversity
Search for and analysis of radioactive halos in lunar material
The lunar halo search was conducted because halos in terrestrial minerals serve as pointers to localized radioactivity, and make possible analytical studies on the problems of isotopic dating and mode of crystallization of the host mineral. Ancillary studies were conducted on terrestrial halos and on certain samples of special origin such as tektites and meteorites
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