Unprecidented Arctic Melting (test)

[BMAONE23]

The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway.
Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm.
Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.

[bystander]

So what's this supposed to be a test of? To see if people know how to use the tools at their disposal to research an article written 90 years ago?

[Chris Peterson]

So what's this supposed to be a test of? To see if people know how to use the tools at their disposal to research an article written 90 years ago?

I figured it's a test to see if people know the difference between "unusual" and "unprecedented".

[neufer]

So what's this supposed to be a test of?

To see if people know how to use the tools at their disposal to research an article written 90 years ago?

I figured it's a test to see if people know the difference between "unusual" and "unprecedented".

Or, perhaps, the difference between "unprecidented" and "unprecedented".

[Beyond]

The sharp-eyed neufer strikes again. Good thing he doesn't have talons

[BMAONE23]

As the title implies, this was supposed to be a "test" of the process to create a poll thread. My intention was not to submit it but to preview it, although my life (and phone) had other plans for me. My sister called to give me the news that our mom had suffered a series of strokes so I had to travel and didn't discover, until today, that the Poll had posted. My mom passed the next day but left no written instructions. No Will as there was nothing to inherit. Everything of value had been mostly divided already. No Final Preparations had been planned prior to her passing so it fell to her children to make and pay for the final arrangements.
Words of advice
---Set up a living will or at least have a Will in place
---Consider having a Durable Power of Attorney ready Health Care and Financial
---Consider a Living Trust
---and above all, Try to prepay for final preparations which can be done.
----------If your wishes are to be buried, Buy a plot and prepay for a casket or set aside $12-15,000 for this
----------If your wishes are to be cremated you can prepay with the Neptune Society or set aside about $3-4,000
-----------------When My daughter passed away in 1988 cremation was $600 Today it is $1,500-2,400. 20 years from now it could double again

Make prior plans and write down instructions. Don't leave it to your children to try to handle during their distracted time of grief

[BMAONE23]

And By the By, Bystander is correct at 1922 though why the Apathetic Retiree didn't make use of the "Spoiler" button is beyond me

[owlice]

BMAONE23, I'm so sorry for your loss and that you had to go through what you went through. May memories of your mom be a blessing to you.

[Ann]

I'm so sorry too, BMAONE23.

Ann