What I can remember is there was some sort of grotesque man killing monster that evolved(mutated) in the toxic sludge of a sawmill pond or the polluted area adjacent to the pond. The mill was closed down because of high levels of (mercury?) something used in the sawmill. It was causing animal mutations and infant mortality. A man was sent to the area to identify the cause of these problems and has to battle an organism bent on his destruction.   I probably read this novel in the late 70's or early 80's.
Sometime in the 1970s (I think) I saw a really awful film set in a small town by a lake. The film opened with some people camping out in the woods. One of them was zipped up in a sleeping bag. Something (as yet unidentified) moved in between the sleeping camper and the camera, and we heard a "crunch." When the creature moved off, we saw that it had bitten the head off the camper, causing a fountain of blood to spout of of the neck. Far from being shocking or gory, it was so badly done as to be laughable.  The main story was that these huge and nasty mutated creatures were coming out of the lake and eating people. A local industrial company was under suspicion for poisoning the lake, but repeated water tests showed it to be clean.  In the end, someone had the idea of testing the water at the bottom of the lake, which revealed it to be heavily poisoned with mercury. As mercury is much heavier than water, it had sunk, so the previous tests (done from a small row boat) had missed it as they only sampled the water at the surface.  They got it all sorted out eventually, and the bad guys ended up in prison.  After the credits had rolled, and you thought it was all over, another monster reared up in front of the camera and roared. I think we were supposed to go "Oh no, it's not all over!" However, the few people stupid enough not to have left by now laughed at the ridiculous sight and left, shaking their heads wondering why they had bothered!  I have a morbid fascination to see it again. Anyone have any idea what it was called?
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I couldn't find any function in the ArcPy library that would create a new Layout Element ... and then I also don't know how to add the contents of the table to the Layout Element. How can we find premade adventures for a virtual tabletop? Me and a couple of friends are just getting into P&amp;P rpgs and are really excited to try something new. However, we have a problem that we live quite far apart from each other. Therefore we'd like to use one of excellent virtual tabletops that are available. But none of us have any real experience with creating an adventure and would thus like to use a premade and beginner friendly adventure. But we're having a hard time finding one with premade story, maps etc in an online format. Most seem to be printed books and the Roll20 marketplace hasn't really gotten started yet. So what we're looking for a is online way to play a premade adventure to get us started in the RPG world.  How can we find these adventures for a VTT? Show that there is a positive integer $n$ such that $G \cong \ker(\phi^{n}) \times \phi^{n}(G)$ Let $G$ be a finite abelian group and let $\phi: G \rightarrow G$ be a group homomorphism. I am trying to show that there is a positive integer $n$ such that $G \cong \ker(\phi^{n}) \times \phi^{n}(G)$.  I know that since $G$ is abelian we have that $\ker(\phi^{k})$ and $\phi^{k}(G)$ are normal subgroups of $G$ for any $k$  I also suspect we have the following towers which stabilize at $m$ and $m'$  $$\phi(G) \unrhd \phi^{2}(G) \unrhd \cdots \unrhd \phi^{m}(G)=\phi^{m+1}(G)=\cdots$$  $$\ker(\phi) \unlhd \ker^{2}(\phi) \unlhd \cdots \unlhd \ker^{m'}(\phi)=\ker^{m'+1}(\phi)=\cdots$$  I know that if given a group of the form $HK$ where $H$ and $K$ are normal subgroups of $HK$ and $H\cap K=1$ then $H \times K \cong HK$. I want to apply this to this situation but I am unable to show how write $G$ as a product $HK$  Resolution One of the comments directed me to the following article:  The last part of which answers the question. Below is what is says:  Choose $n=\max(m,m')$, then we have for $x \in \ker^{n}(\phi) \cap \phi^{n}(x)$, this means that $x=\phi^{n}(y)$ for some $y \in G$. This gives:  $0=\phi^{n}(x)=\phi^{2n}(y)$ which means that $y \in \ker^{2n}\phi=\ker^{n}{\phi}$. and then we have that $0=x=\phi^{n}(y)$.  The answer below kindly points out that every element $x$ is contained in one of the cosets of $G/\ker^{n}(\phi)$, this means that $x=k+g$ for some $k \in \ker^{n}(\phi)$ and $g \in G$. We also have that $g=\phi^{n}(h)$ for some $h \in G$. Writing $x=k+\phi^{n}(h)$ essentially shows that $G=\ker(\phi^{n}) + \phi^{n}(G)$. Using the fact above, the claim follows. A bunch of CSS files were pulled in and now I'm trying to clean things up a bit. How can I efficiently identify unused CSS definitions in a whole project? Counting the Lotto number draws which contain consecutive numbers windows command prompt change directory is now changing directory What is the fastest way to create a 90° joint? I often want to create joints like this:    Since I end up making these more than a little, I'd like a fast way to do it (i.e. on the order of &lt; 10 seconds)  I've found a couple tools which come close to being the ideal solution, but I've had some problems with them as listed below:   When using the spin tool I usually end up having to fiddle with the location for a while in order to to get a natural curve:    Are there any techniques to expedite this process of fiddling? The bridge tool is nice because I can precisely specify where both ends of the joint will be, however I often end up with subtly uneven joints, probably due to my initial mesh being not quite square.    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The new gym update , including a limit of 50 coins earned per day. How does this limit work? Is each pokemon limited to accruing 50 coins per day? Are all my pokemon limited to a collective 50 per day? My teammates keep feeding my Dragonite and she has been at the gym for almost a week; will she return with 50 coins for each day she was there? Fewer than 50 for the days I had other pokemon in the gym? Or will she accumulate vast sums of coins over the week, but only deliver me 50 (or fewer) when she comes back based on what I have collected from returning pokemon that day? Using equations to draw out complex objects How do people come up with equations of curves to draw out complex objects?  Some popular examples would include:  &amp;  .  This  explains the rationale for the batman curve nicely.  But other than trial and error, I can't see a reasonable way of drawing the much more complicated PSY curve.