Hello, I'm looking to see if anyone is or knows someone who helps walk people through the process of obtaining a special use permit and ensuring there are no glaring issues with a parcel's zoning/flood map/wetlands/plans for development vs. what is actually allowed/foreseeing issues/whatever else. I can provide more details if need be. Thanks!
I'll try to keep this story to the bare bones. If you have questions, feel free to ask.
Electrical issues, needed to remove the meters from their sockets, took longer than expected, just got word that a family of birds moved in. Of course, electricity can't be restored until the situation is resolved. If it were just affecting me, I would consider just leaving the electrical off for a couple more weeks and get a hotel, but unfortunately I'm not in the position to do that in this situation. There's a very high chance the meters will have to go back on within the next couple of weeks. What are my options? Thanks!
ETA: I will call https://www.nc-claws.org/ tomorrow morning.
Hello, I am working on creating this puzzle and I wanted some extra eyes on it. I figured I'd ask my fellow genetics folks to take a crack at it.
The goal is to figure out which of the 6 numbered diamonds correspond to which of the 14 lettered... things... at the bottom. Y'know what, I'm just gonna call them Shapies. This is the pedigree of the royal Shapie family and it needs to be put back together or Queen Shapie will have your head.
Please note: This is NOT Mendelian or even really "realistic" genetics. There are no dominant and recessive traits and the like. Each child displays traits inherited directly from one parent or the other, i.e. no recessive phenotypes "skipping" generations or reduced penetrance of dominant traits, etc. No multifactorial or complex traits. Colors don't mix to produce an intermediate result, e.g. if one parent has a magenta triangle and the other has a white triangle, their children cannot have a light pink triangle, only magenta or white. Pretty much the only realistic thing about this is that the genetic parents are different sexes. So turn your genetics brain off, haha. This is just a logic puzzle in the shape of a pedigree.
My goals:
Only one possible answer.
Solving it is challenging enough to make you feel somewhat smart for solving it, but not so difficult that it is burdensome to solve.
I would love it if I could come up with some Shapies that "work" individually but not in combination with the correct answer.
If you find that there are multiple correct answers, it's too easy or too hard (suggestions for how to fix that are very welcome), or have suggestions for how I can change the Shapies or the pedigree to make it better, that would be wonderful! My only constraints are that I would ideally like no more than 24 total Shapies, with only 5 or 6 being "in question."
For the answers, I recommend replying to this post with a >!spoiler cover!<
If I need to clarify what the traits are, please let me know and I will.
Thank you for giving it a shot!