I can't believe she took the time to write this, fold it, put it in a

plastic bag to protect it from the rain, and then taped the bag so it

was the same size as the note. This from the lady who parked in the

same spot a few weeks ago, preventing us from using our paid parking

spot.

PS. Morgan's car wasn't even blocking her "walkway." A 400lb man with

a fanny pack could've squeezed through without a problem.

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A 50 pound note being cut in half

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Promote your brand with this handy promotional Flags & Custom Sticky Notes. Your recipients will find this gift a worthy addition to their homes and offices. These Custom Sticky Notes allow them to quickly jot their personal thoughts or important notes from a meeting.

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The pages of my Field Notes notebook are coming loose at the staples. Time to switch to a new one, I guess. I think I have some new blank notebooks around here somewhere.

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The Zebra F-701 fine-point pen isn't my favorite to write with, but I've never had one leak in my pocket, which has been an issue with gel and roller ball pens.

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I needed some working-on-stuff trousers. Several of the belt loops on my inexpensive denim jeans are broken and the knees are worn through. I thought I'd try a pair of Wrangler "carpenter pants."

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After nearly a month of daily wear, the Seestern DOX01 wristwatch is proving to be an adequate "tool watch."

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Amusing comment I read online today, specifically about pocket notebooks but applicable to pretty much any "boutique" product:

"'You haven't heard of it and they're impossible to get' died out with the hipsters in 2019."

Notes and readings from the research for '198 Ways To Keep The Internet Open'

Notes & Words 2018

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Note: This is also known as the Chosin Reservoir, where LTC Donald C. Faith was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor with the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment.

The display reads:

D Battery, 15th AAA (AW) Battalion, Changjin Reservoir, Nov – Dec 1950

By late Fall 1950, UN forces had retaken nearly the entire Korean Peninsula, pushing the North Korean Army northwards, almost to the Yalu River separating the peninsula from China.

Diplomatic relations with China had been severed in 1949 after the Chinese takeover, and therefore Chinese warnings to the US through third party channels went mostly unheeded.

The first Chinese attack on US forces occurred on 1 November when the 1st Cavalry Division’s 8th Cavalry Regiment was largely overwhelmed by massed Chinese infantry assaults. Intense combat resulted in nearly 800 US and an untold amount of Chinese losses. However, by 6 November, the line was quiet again and the Chinese attack was written off as an anomaly.

To the 1st Cavalry’s right, the US X Corps (1st Marine Division and US 7th Infantry Division) pressed its advance northwards later in the month with the Yalu River as its ultimate objective. However, on the night of the 27th, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army struck X Corps on both sides of the Changjin Reservoir, cutting off the two US Divisions and forcing a fighting withdrawal that has become one of the epic battles in US military history.

D Battery, 15th AAA Battalion, under Captain James McClymont was a key part of the 31st Regimental Combat Team, the 7th Infantry Division’s lead element. Tasked with providing air defense support for the 57th Artillery, D / 15 AAA brought heavy firepower that could be used in the direct-fire role as well. Aware of the 8th Cavalry’s fight earlier in the month and expecting enemy contact, Captain McClymont ordered his crews to draw double their standard ammunition load prior to moving out with the 31st RCT.

From 27 November through 2 December 1950, D Battery’s M16 Halftracks and M19 Gun Motor Carriages repulsed numerous attacks on friendly positions with .50 caliber and 40mm fire. The Battery was instrumental in affecting the withdrawal of the remnants of the 31st RCT back to friendly lines. For their valorous actions during the Battle of the Changjin Reservoir, D Battery personnel were awarded two posthumous Distinguished Service Crosses and more than a dozen Silver Stars, making D Battery the most highly decorated AAA unit of the Korean War.

M19 40mm Gun Motor Carriage

Manufacturer: Cadillac Motor Car Division of GM

Number Produced: 300

Armament: Two M2A1 40mm automatic AA guns, one .30 caliber machine gun

Crew: 6 (Commander, Driver, two Gunners and two Loaders)

Speed: 35mph on roads

Unrefueled Range: 100 miles

Length: 19 feet

Width: 9.6 feet

Height: 10 feet

Weight: 39,000lbs

Ammunition: 353 rounds 40mm, 352 additional 40mm rounds in M23 ammunition trailer and 1,000 rounds .30 cal

Powerplant: Two 110hp Cadillac 44T4 V8 gasoline engines

Citation:

The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Captain (Coast Artillery Corps) James R. McClymont (ASN: 0-1059196), United States Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy while Serving as Commanding Officer, Battery A, 15th Anti-Aircraft Artillery (Automatic Weapons) Battalion (Self Propelled), 7th Infantry Division, in action near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea, on 28 November 1950. On this date, the Battery Captain McClymont commanded was providing close support fires for infantry and field artillery units in positions east of the reservoir. From his location at the Battery Command Post, Captain McClymont learned that the Command Post of his first platoon was under exceedingly heavy enemy fire and was in grave danger. Captain McClymont called for volunteers to form a patrol to go to the rescue of the platoon headquarters and then led the patrol to the vicinity of the action. He saw that his patrol was far outnumbered by the enemy attacking force, which was firing automatic weapons, small arms, and mortars and was throwing hand grenades. With complete disregard for his personal safety, Captain McClymont exposed himself to almost certain injury or death by leading his patrol of one officer and six enlisted men quickly into close combat with the enemy. Under his cool and aggressive leadership, the patrol killed or dispersed all of the enemy in the vicinity. Captain McClymont himself killed a number of the enemy. As a result of Captain McClymont's personal daring and resourceful leadership, the patrol rescued one officer and six enlisted men who were still alive, and recovered the bodies of one officer and four enlisted men who had been killed. Captain McClymont's display of gallantry on this occasion was in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflects great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.

Citation:

The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Sergeant First Class Robert M. Slater (ASN: RA-34929995), United States Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy while serving with Battery D, 15th Anti-Aircraft Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) Battalion (Self Propelled), 7th Infantry Division, in action at the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea, on 28 November 1950. On this date the gun section of which Sergeant Slater was the leader was in close support of two field artillery units at a point on a defense perimeter. Sergeant Slater emplaced his two self-propelled weapons so as best to cover the routes of approach being used by the enemy to attack the perimeter at that point. Between the hours of 0030 to 0730 on this date the enemy attempted to pierce the perimeter by repeated rushes with small arms, hand grenades and Bangalore torpedoes, in an effort to knock our Sergeant Slater's weapons. Although he could have exercised command of his section from the comparative safety of a foxhole or inside one of the armored vehicles, Sergeant Slater, with undaunted courage, voluntarily exposed himself to intense enemy fire by going constantly back and forth between the weapons, directing the fire, passing ammunition, encouraging the gun crews, assigning and instructing replacements for casualties, until he himself was wounded in the face by shell fragments, although this did not stop him. As a result of his high devotion to duty and his extreme personal bravery, his section killed at least one hundred enemy and the integrity of the defense in that vicinity was maintained. Sergeant Slater's heroism, without regard for his own life, were in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.

Citation:

The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Sergeant Grantford R. Brown (ASN: RA-16249353), United States Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy while serving with the Battery D, 15th Anti-Aircraft Artillery (Automatic Weapons) Battalion (Self Propelled), 7th Infantry Division, in action near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea, on 29 November 1950. On this date, the M-19 gun carriage which Sergeant Brown commanded was defending a sector of the defense perimeter established to protect elements of the 37th Field Artillery Battalion. Between the hours of 0030 and 0730 the enemy made repeated attacks against Sergeant Brown's position. In spite of very heavy enemy mortar, automatic weapons, and small-arms fire, Sergeant Brown exposed himself without regard for his own personal safety in order to direct the fire of his weapons more accurately. By courageously moving on the ground to various positions of vantage he was able to direct the fire to enemy targets which were most dangerous. After being hit in the leg by a mortar shell fragment, Sergeant Brown valiantly stayed at his post until the attacks by the enemy ceased. His outstanding and devoted leadership caused the enemy to be killed in large numbers and forced them to abandon the attack. Sergeant Brown's display of gallantry on this occasion was in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflects great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.

Taken December 13th, 2013.

A posted note left by my fiancee on my window before she left for her parent's home 3500 miles away.

Samsung galaxy note unboxed.

So yesterday when it was time to go to school, Jessie was busy doing something and I told her to stop or we would be late. In a nutshell, I upset her.

This morning while having breakfast, she handed me this note and said she was sorry. She then proceeded to bury her face in her hands, ran to her room and cried her eyes out. From what I gather from reading her note, she went to school yesterday and thought to herself that I was stupid (that's the s word) and that she hated me. I guess the guilt overwhelmed her. Jane said she came home from school last night and told her about it while she cried her eyes out to her. She really has a guilty conscience.

So I went up stairs and spent the next 10 minutes trying to calm her down. I asked why she was crying. She said because she didn't want me to be sad. I told her I wasn't sad, but I just wanted to understand why she felt this way about me. She said she didn't want to tell me. I'm pretty sure it had to do with me not letting her do whatever it was she was doing before we left for school.

Man, I'm in serious trouble. I dunno how I am going to handle the teenage years. :D lmao.

The post-dark age mad purchase rush has finally settled down. I spent the first half of the year panic-buying LEGO sets, and now I'm experiencing a bad, bad case of buyer's remorse.

I never really expected to go back to collecting and playing with LEGO. I don't know, it's like a brick (ha. ha.) hit me out of nowhere and the next thing I know, I'm picking up boxes and boxes of LEGO at the toy store as if they were cheap candy. I strayed away from my core interest themes and bought a lot of sets out of curiosity and just for the heck of it (6193 Castle Building Set, anyone?).

While updating my inventory last week, I realized that by recklessly buying lots of small- and mid-sized sets over the past six months, I've missed out on the big ones (e.g. Cafe Corner) that I really wanted but have always dismissed as too expensive.

So now I trimmed down my to-acquire list for the rest of the year to a semi-manageable three big sets. I'm planning to sell some of my other old and new sets as well. Not an easy thing to do, really. I'm still having a hard time stopping myself from going to the LEGO section every time I pass by a toy store.

i know it's slightly silly and cheesy, but we like to leave little notes for the other to stumble upon.

those little reminders are nice.

2001; Notes from Tyler Max Bauer (1987 - ) to his grandmother Nana, Nellie Joyce Morgan Bauer (1933 - ) concerning moving from Grand Prairie to Colleyville, Texas in 1999 and a trip to Colorado in 2002. Also discusses events while visiting Nana.

Jesus was the Architekt...maybe...i dont know

Notes are not mine. :)

: "it's not dark yet, but it's getting there."

10th October 2024

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The Sewing Time Machine: A blouse named 'Secretary001'

The Sewing Time MachineWednesday, January 27, 2010A blouse named 'Secretary001'Here is my next project, or the inspiration for my next project. I'm no expert on the matter but this reminds me of a 40's pencil pushing office blouse, which is why I named it Secretary001.It looks to me like all the control has been shifted into side darts which were then gathered into the side seams. The sleeve looks like a very short kimono or dolman. Anyways, I got to work on the PatternMaster and this is my first muslin.

I'm not happy because I look like a bag lady!

So I learned that when zero waist darts are selected, the slack is not picked up anywhere else - not in the side seam and not in other darts. I'll have to manually shift all the control into the side dart. And that will be my second muslin....Posted by Marie-Anne at 6:28 PMLabels: blouse, fitting, PatternMaster Boutique0 comments:Post a CommentNewer Post Older Post HomeSubscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)PagesHomeAbout MeMarie-AnneWhen I'm not cleaning, cooking, or working, I'm going back in time....with my sewing machine!View my complete profileThis WeekChris' jacket is lined and it looks great. He has a motorcycle ride this coming weekend and he is so excited to show it off.

The surprise will be revealed next week. We'll see....I'm super busy with work. But not for long....

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Found this note on a lamp post on my way to work. I hope she calls him.

2011.09.15

I had a relatively rough afternoon at work, so doing a brain dump and having a beer was a great way to de-stress and wind down.

For those who care, the beer is a Pyramid Juggernaut Red Ale, I'm using Notes on my iPad for my brain dump, and the iPad is nestled perfectly in a handmade case from DODOCase.

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Kisses

Notes from talks with @nialltweet, @samgilb and @thedigitalboy

back log - photos to post SOON:

1) february trips to:

- baguio --- canon av1, lca, diana mini

- batangas -- mini holga, canon av1, lca

- nick's last few days for Manila 2010 trip -- lca

2) march trips

- batangas again! -- canon av1, lca, diana f+

3) april

- la union (still going to have rolls processed)

4) film swaps

- 25ThC

- Jikay

5) Photos of Anika! From our recent shoooot!

and check hard drive for unposted photos! :p

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I love taking photos <3 teeheee hi everyone!

16.09.2015 _ Paris, France _ Pentax K-x, SMC Pentax-DAL 1:3.5-5.6 18-55mm AL

A bunch of quirkyness for this Friday. A Post-it Note found on the car next to mine at the Starbucks in Stafford, VA.

I'm not writing it down to remember it later, I'm writing it down to remember it now.

Field Notes Brand

A hot spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater that rises from the Earth's crust. There are geothermal hot springs in many locations all over the crust of the earth. While some of these springs contain water that is a safe temperature for bathing, others are so hot that immersion can result in injury or death.

DEFINITIONS

There is no universally accepted definition of a hot spring. For example, one can find the phrase hot spring defined as any geothermal spring

- a spring with water temperatures above its surroundings

- a natural spring with water temperature above body temperature – normally between 36.5 and 37.5 °C

- a natural spring with warm water above body temperature

- a thermal spring with water warmer than 36.7 °C

- a natural spring of water greater than 21.1 °C (synonymous with thermal spring)

- a natural discharge of groundwater with elevated temperatures

- a type of thermal spring in which hot water is brought to the surface. The water temperature of a hot spring is usually 6.5 °C or more above mean air temperature. Note that by this definition, "thermal spring" is not synonymous with the term "hot spring"

- a spring whose hot water is brought to the surface (synonymous with a thermal spring). The water temperature of the spring is usually 8.3 °C or more above the mean air temperature.

- a spring with water above the core human body temperature – 36.7 °C.

- a spring with water above average ambient ground temperature

- a spring with water temperatures above 50 °C

The related term "warm spring" is defined as a spring with water temperature less than a hot spring by many sources, although Pentecost et al. (2003) suggest that the phrase "warm spring" is not useful and should be avoided. The US NOAA Geophysical Data Center defines a "warm spring" as a spring with water between 20 and 50 °C

SOURCES OF HEAT

Water issuing from a hot spring is heated geothermally, that is, with heat produced from the Earth's mantle. In general, the temperature of rocks within the earth increases with depth. The rate of temperature increase with depth is known as the geothermal gradient. If water percolates deeply enough into the crust, it will be heated as it comes into contact with hot rocks. The water from hot springs in non-volcanic areas is heated in this manner.

In active volcanic zones such as Yellowstone National Park, water may be heated by coming into contact with magma (molten rock). The high temperature gradient near magma may cause water to be heated enough that it boils or becomes superheated. If the water becomes so hot that it builds steam pressure and erupts in a jet above the surface of the Earth, it is called a geyser. If the water only reaches the surface in the form of steam, it is called a fumarole. If the water is mixed with mud and clay, it is called a mud pot.

Note that hot springs in volcanic areas are often at or near the boiling point. People have been seriously scalded and even killed by accidentally or intentionally entering these springs.

Warm springs are sometimes the result of hot and cold springs mixing. They may occur within a volcanic area or outside of one. One example of a non-volcanic warm spring is Warm Springs, Georgia (frequented for its therapeutic effects by paraplegic U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who built the Little White House there).

FLOW RATES

Hot springs range in flow rate from the tiniest "seeps" to veritable rivers of hot water. Sometimes there is enough pressure that the water shoots upward in a geyser, or fountain.

HIGH FLOW HOT SPRINGS

There are many claims in the literature about the flow rates of hot springs. It should be noted that there are many more high flow non-thermal springs than geothermal springs. For example, there are 33 recognized "magnitude one springs" (having a flow in excess of 2,800 L/s in Florida alone. Silver Springs, Florida has a flow of more than 21,000 L/s. Springs with high flow rates include:

- The Excelsior Geyser Crater in Yellowstone National Park yields about 0.25 m3/s.

- Evans Plunge in Hot Springs, South Dakota has a flow rate of 0.32 m3/s31 °C spring water. The Plunge, built in 1890, is the world's largest natural warm water indoor swimming pool.

- The combined flow of the 47 hot springs in Hot Springs, Arkansas is 35 L/s.

- The hot spring of Saturnia, Italy with around 500 liters a second

- The combined flow of the hot springs complex in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico is estimated at 99 liters/second.

- Lava Hot Springs in Idaho has a flow of 130 liters/second.

- Glenwood Springs in Colorado has a flow of 143 liters/second.

- Elizabeth Springs in western Queensland, Australia might have had a flow of 158 liters/second in the late 19th century, but now has a flow of about 5 liters/second.

- Deildartunguhver in Iceland has a flow of 180 liters/second.

- The hot springs of Brazil's Caldas Novas ("New Hot Springs" in Portuguese) are tapped by 86 wells, from which 333 liters/second are pumped for 14 hours per day. This corresponds to a peak average flow rate of 3.89 liters/second per well.

- The 2,850 hot springs of Beppu in Japan are the highest flow hot spring complex in Japan. Together the Beppu hot springs produce about 1,592 liters/second, or corresponding to an average hot spring flow of 0.56 liters/second.

- The 303 hot springs of Kokonoe in Japan produce 1,028 liters/second, which gives the average hot spring a flow of 3.39 liters/second.

- The Oita Prefecture has 4,762 hot springs, with a total flow of 4,437 liters/second, so the average hot spring flow is 0.93 liters/second.

- The highest flow rate hot spring in Japan is the Tamagawa Hot Spring in Akita Prefecture, which has a flow rate of 150 liters/second. The Tamagawa Hot Spring feeds a 3 m wide stream with a temperature of 98 °C.

- There are at least three hot springs in the Nage region 8 km south west of Bajawa in Indonesia that collectively produce more than 453.6 liters/second.

- There are another three large hot springs (Mengeruda, Wae Bana and Piga) 18 km north east of Bajawa, Indonesia that together produce more than 450 liters/second of hot water.

- The Dalhousie Springs complex in Australia had a peak total flow of more than 23,000 liters/second in 1915, giving the average spring in the complex an output of more than 325 liters/second. This has been reduced now to a peak total flow of 17,370 liters/second so the average spring has a peak output of about 250 liters/second.

- In Yukon’s Boreal Forest, 25 minutes north-west of Whitehorse in northern Canada, Takhini Hot Springs flows out of the Earth’s interior at 385 L/min and 47 °C year-round.

THERAPEUTIC USES

Because heated water can hold more dissolved solids than cold water, warm and especially hot springs often have very high mineral content, containing everything from simple calcium to lithium, and even radium. Because of both the folklore and the claimed medical value some of these springs have, they are often popular tourist destinations, and locations for rehabilitation clinics for those with disabilities.

BIOTA IN HOT SPRINGS

A thermophile is an organism — a type of extremophile — that thrives at relatively high temperatures, between 45 and 80 °C. Thermophiles are found in hot springs, as well as deep sea hydrothermal vents and decaying plant matter such as peat bogs and compost.

Some hot springs biota are infectious to humans. For example:

- Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba, live in warm waters and soils worldwide and may cause meningitis. Several deaths have been attributed to this amoeba, which enters the brain through the nasal passages.

- Acanthamoeba also can spread through hot springs, according to the US Centers for Disease Control.

- Legionella bacteria have been spread through hot springs.

- Viruses have been collected from very extreme environments, for example, a hot spring with a temperature of 87 to 93 °C and an incredibly acidic pH of 1.5 in Pozzuoli, Italy. These viruses were observed to infect cells in the laboratory.

NOTABLE HOT SPRINGS

There are hot springs in many countries and on all continents of the world. Countries that are renowned for their hot springs include China, Costa Rica, Iceland, Iran, Japan, New Zealand, Peru, Taiwan, Turkey, and United States, but there are hot springs in many other places as well:

- Many little ancient villages exist in Spain with thermal tradition like Caldes de Malavella, Caldes de Montbui, Caldes d'Estrac, and Caldes de Boí.

- The Frying Pan Lake in Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley, New Zealand, the world's largest hot spring.

- The Boiling Lake hot spring in Dominica. It is the second largest hot spring in the world.

- The Geysir hot springs in Iceland are the source of the word "geyser".

- The town of Spa, Belgium is the origin of the word "spa" and features springs with water temperatures of 32 °C. Casanova visited Spa in 1783 looking for business opportunities but was disappointed.

- The Jordan spring in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, was drilled in 1926. With a depth of 725 m and 3000 l/min it is the largest carbonated brine water source in the world 36 °C.

- Aachen, Germany has one of the hottest springs of continental Europe with water temperatures of 74 °C.

- The hottest spring of continental Europe is in Sapareva Banya, Bulgaria).

- The Yangbajing hot springs field about 87 km. north of Lhasa in Tibet is several square kilometers in size, and used to supply a large fraction of the electricity of Lhasa. At an altitude between 4,290 and 4,500 m, this is a strong candidate for the set of highest altitude hot springs on earth.

- Icaria, Greece features a radioactive hot water spring that has been used since the 4th century BC.

- There are numerous hot springs in Greenland, such as on Uunartoq island near Alluitsup Paa. There are over 2000 hot springs just on Disko Island, which has an area only 0.4% of that of Greenland.

- Widely renowned since a chemistry professor's report in 1918 classified them as one of the world's most electrolytic mineral waters, the Rio Hondo Hot Springs in northern Argentina have become among the most visited on earth. The Cacheuta Spa is another famous hot springs in Argentina.

- Iceland has many famous hot springs, including the one feeding the Blue Lagoon spa in Grindavík, Iceland, and Europe's highest flow rate hot spring Deildartunguhver. Deildartunguhver's water emerges at 97 °C and is piped many miles to heat neighboring towns.

- One of the highly potential geothermal energy reservoirs in India is the Tattapani thermal springs of Madhya Pradesh.

- Shiretoko National Park in Hokkaidō, Japan has a hot springs waterfall called Kamuiwakkayu-no-taki, which translates as "river of the gods" in the Ainu language.

- Northwest Spitsbergen National Park, Spitsbergen at 80 degrees north, contains two of earth's most northerly hot springs.

- There are many geothermal springs in the UK, but the thermal springs found in the city of Bath produce the highest temperature geothermal water in the UK.

- Oymyakon in eastern Siberia is a candidate for the coldest permanently inhabited location in the Northern Hemisphere and another hot springs site. The Yakut language word "oymyakon" means "river doesn't freeze" after the local tributary of the Indigirka River fed by the hot springs which continues to flow year round in this permafrost region.

- Bela-Bela (formerly Warmbaths) in Limpopo Province, South Africa.

- Sirch (Kerman), Sar'eyn (Ardabil), Geno (Bandar Abbas) and gheinarjeh (Ardabil) with 86 °C are notable hot springs in Iran.

- Hot Springs National Park has 47 hot springs at Hot Springs Mountain in the town of Hot Springs, Arkansas United States.

- Lake Hévíz is close to the city of Hévíz, Hungary. Is the second largest thermal lake in the world. The lake water temperatures range between 23-25 °C in winter and 33-36 °C in summer.

- Takhini Hot Springs is the only developed hot spring in the Yukon, Canada. Its water flows from deep within the earth with a temperature of around 47 °C.

- El Pandeño in Julimes, Chihuahua, Mexico, harbors the entire known population of Julimes pupfish (Cyprinodon julimes) which shares its habitat with other rare micro-endemic species. The Julimes pupfish is considered to be the freshwater teleost that lives at the highest temperatures on the planet, and possibly also the vertebrate with the smallest known distribution range.

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The customs and practices observed differ depending on the hot spring. It is common practice that bathers should wash before entering the water so as not to contaminate the water (with/without soap). In many countries, like Japan, it is required to enter the hot spring with no clothes on, including swimwear. Typically in these circumstances, there are different facilities or times for men and women. In some countries, if it is a public hot spring, swimwear is required.

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