### important physical elasticity:

Resiliency
* can emerge at any time in one's life.
* character quality every missionary child needs.
* grows through healthy resonses to stressors.
* includes the ability to effectively negotiate with a negative environment.
* is also about teaching youth how to stretch their comfort zones
  - critical to spiritual fitness
  - one kind of protective factor
  - part of the human condition
  - related to a person's overall growth and development
  - seen as the innate capacity that everyone has to bounce back from adversity
  - the ability to adapt to a stressful environment despite risk or adversity
* is the ability to bounce back from adversity
  - from stress and crisis
  - from the ups and downs of everyday life
  - from the ups and downs of life
  - cultivate strengths to positively meet challenges
  - recover original shape and size
  - cornerstone of the Model of Care
  - result of purpose, courage and skill working together
* learned response to life's challenging situations.

### important prognostic factor:

Cancer stage
* is an important prognostic factor.
* measure of how far the disease has progressed.

Important sport horse race
* Horse race is an important sport event.
* Horse races are located in fairgrounds

### important sport horse race:

Harness racing
* is also popular in Kentucky
  - one of three codes of racing in Australia
  - traditionally the smallest event in the Aiken Triple Crown
* race involving many horses at the same time.

### important timber species:

American beech
* Most american beeches flower in early springs
  - grow in conditions
  - live for years
* are beechs.
* have appearances
  - clean appearances
* is an important timber species
  - tree in forestry
  - difficult to season and requires careful drying
  - intolerant of city conditions, difficult to transplant but does tolerate shearing

Crime statistic
* are important.
* depend heavily upon the willingness of victims to report crimes.
* inform public policy.
* provide an official picture of crime in society.
* show that a large fraction of ex-cons return to criminal behavior
  - firearms are, without a doubt, the most effective self-defense tools
  - the murder rate is higher in states with the death penalty
  - the ratio of abused men as being low
* take a variety of forms to tell the story of how crime occurs in a community.

Small organism
* Many small organisms are important
  - have a greater effect than a few large ones
* have an appeal of their own, but they are by no means uncommon
  - eye spots that mimic the eyes of larger organisms
  - eyespots that mimic the eyes of larger organisms

### imported commodity:

Soil fertility
* affects forage yield much more than it does quality.
* can be very complex.
* is also important
  - an imported commodity
  - greatly dependent on the very complex interplay of soil microorganims
  - improved by adding organic matter and by natural nitrogen fixation
* is maintained by compost, green manures and mulch
  - or improved by natural methods
  - reduced due to prolonged intensive cultivation
  - the key to every successful planting season
* needs for legumes, especially for pH are higher than for grasses.
* stands out as an environmental factor in expression of the phenotype.

Impotency
* can be due to diabetes or testosterone deficiency.
* includes an aversion to sexual intercourse.
* is quality
* is suffered by thirty million American men
  - to some extent by thirty million American men
* is the inability to perform the sexual act
  - main culprit of infertility
* occurs when diabetes damages the nerves that are required for producing an erection.