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The Act of 1704 encouraged the import of naval stores form New England, offering £4 per ton of tar or pitch, £3 per ton of resin of turpentine, and £1 per ton of masts and bowsprits (40 cubic feet). The Act of 1705 forbade the cutting of unfenced or small pitch pine and tar trees with a diameter less than twelve inches.
On November 8, 2015, it was announced that Weyerhaeuser would buy Plum Creek Timber for $8.4 billion, forming the largest private owner of timberland in the United States. [18] The transaction closed on February 19, 2016. [19] At the time of the merger the combined companies own about 13,000,000 acres (20,000 sq mi; 53,000 km 2) of timberlands.
Many models of communication include the idea that a sender encodes a message and uses a channel to transmit it to a receiver. Noise may distort the message along the way. The receiver then decodes the message and gives some form of feedback. [1] Models of communication simplify or represent the process of communication.
The Inter-Control Center Communications Protocol (ICCP or IEC 60870-6/TASE.2) [3] is being specified by utility organizations throughout the world to provide data exchange over wide area networks (WANs) between utility control centers, utilities, power pools, regional control centers, and Non-Utility Generators.
The current average interest rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage is 6.79% for purchase and 6.76% for refinance, down 1 basis point from 6.80% for purchase and 1 basis point from 6.77% for refinance ...
Rule 5, as advocated by James E. Krier, Earl Warren DeLano Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and Stewart Schwab, Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, in Property Rules and Liability Rules: the Cathedral in another Light provides for a solution for the shortfalls of Rule 4. Under Rule 5, the court would use a best ...
Bitcoin surpassed $98,800 to touch a new record on Thursday after the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Chair Gary Gensler will step down effective Jan. 20, the day Donald Trump is ...
The specification was based on an earlier proposal for an OWL rules language. [2] [3] SWRL has the full power of OWL DL, but at the price of decidability and practical implementations. [4] However, decidability can be regained by restricting the form of admissible rules, typically by imposing a suitable safety condition. [5]