Present day examples of polyploidy are particularly widespread in the plant kingdom (Bowers et al. 2003; Jiao et al. 2011).
Of the many hundreds of cultivars named and sold in the 19th and early 20th centuries, few have survived to the present day; examples of some that are still available are 'Emperor Fredrick', 'Emperor William' (aka 'Kaiser Wilhelm'), 'Defiance' and 'Blanche de Meru'.
The most familiar present-day example is a reading or magnifying glass.
A present-day example of unregulated U mining/milling is the Atlas Corporation Moab Uranium Mill Tailing (Moab, UT).
These present-day examples are just a hint as to what the future of commerce will look like.
In contrast, thorough studies of present-day examples of transient slope fans, i.e. those fans that are connected to a deeper depositional area, are not available.
The creepy clown thus embodies wider cultural faultlines of the present day – consider, for example, the polemics (especially in France) about women who wear the burqa and thereby keep their faces covered in public.
Yet many of Mendieta's pieces removed themselves from the spiritual realm to address present day events, for example "Rape Scene," a 1973 performance based off the rape and murder of a close friend.
This fundamental belief that black life is expendable can be traced from enslavement to the present day, in, for example, policies of policing, surveillance and imprisonment, redistricting and voter ID laws, neoliberal privatization and the widely regurgitated rhetoric that refashions black suffering into black pathology.
The residue is not converted by the FCC catalyst in this particular example, although present day FCC catalyst materials can certainly convert resid, and resid FCC has now become an important process and, consequently, a vast amount of research is directed to focus on resid conversion.
Such marginal survivals are of particular importance because many have continued to the present day, thus giving extremely rare examples of music traditions long gone from the land of their origin.
