Francis Fern Fernberger.

Brittle Britain

Oh, uh, Fern is here.

I ain't so brittle.

Wait. Your TrueSoulMate's name is Fern?

Survivors from the age of the giant fern forest.

It's got a brittle star hitching a ride.

Fern is a town in Florence County, Wisconsin, United States.

Uh, her real name's Francis, but everyone calls her Fern.

Hmm... she's pretty, in a... in a brittle way.

In a brittle way. Has she, uh... you know.

They are quite brittle. So you've only got a part of one there.

Cyathea is a genus of tree ferns, the type genus of the fern order Cyatheales.

I have not heard so much as a locust over the sweet fern these three hours.

In Syria, it seems inevitable that protest may soon crack the regime s brittle political immobility.

And there are brittle stars that produce bands of light that dance along their arms.

I'm about to snap like a brittle twig, when suddenly someone taps me on the shoulder.

A fern deep in the forest could, for example, one day prove helpful in the fight against HIV AIDS.

During the Permian period the plant life became dominated by fern like plants such as Glossopteris , which grew in swamps.

The other school, by contrast, worried that the existing monetary system was rigid, brittle, and prone to crisis.

9 Briefing note on the fourth session of the United Nations Forum on Forests by the IAITPTF, FERN and the Forest People's Programme.

The Association of Family Planning and Reproductive Health (known as The Flower of Fern ) offered lectures for young people on healthy lifestyles and reproductive health.

You know, he was brittle in a lot of ways. Things were a lot harder for him than for a lot of people.

On the left, this is a brittle star it's covered with lenses that the people at Lucent Technologies have found have no distortion whatsoever.

He says, The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.

The Teredo protocol includes provisions for a sunset procedure Teredo implementation should provide a way to stop using Teredo connectivity when IPv6 has matured and connectivity becomes available using a less brittle mechanism.

And it's brittle, because each of these steps has to be flawless, otherwise you lose that data, whereas in the brain, you have a system that stores data in a distributed way, and it's robust.

4 Forests and the European Union Resource Network (FERN) briefing paper for the fourth session of the United Nations Forum on Forests, on file with the International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests (IAITPTF).

The Islamic Republic will not be able to get away with the Chinese option to combine political suppression at home with economic reform and greater openness to the outside world because its structures are too weak and brittle for this.

But Abe also confronts a security environment in Asia that is every bit as brittle as Japan s economy was before his government took office last December. Indeed, he confronted many of the same issues during his first administration seven years ago.

The results of both the 2000 Flower of Fern campaign and a UNDP study had indicated that the vast majority of men did not recognize any personal responsibility in family planning, and the Government was aware that such an attitude had to be changed through education.

Or maybe it's so hot melted, it's kind of a magma or plastic solid. So this would be the most brittle stuff if it gets formed up, if rock starts to melt a little bit, then you have something like a magma or you can view it as like a deformable or plastic solid.

Where 31 of Americans today have no retirement savings and therefore the American dream of pausing when you're 65 when your bones are starting to get brittle and being able to retire, they're not going to have that as a reality, and finally and maybe even worse, money is the number one cause of fights in marriages.