As the first line of defence, communities built sea walls with tsunami gates for river mouths that could be closed when waves approached, as well as offshore breakwaters and raised river dykes.
Besides creating the special zone, Ikea has also set up a notice board at the entrance to the cafeteria informing other customers of the group's existence and pleading with it to disband.
Typically these laws allowed anyone to set up a bank, provided the issue of notes was backed with securities kept on deposit with the state banking authority.
I use one teaspoon per gallon when I initially set up a tank, then about once a month make a partial water change, adding the same ratio of salt to the new water.
In Tuesday's column, I explained how an organization called Playworks is helping to address this problem by placing full-time coaches in schools to teach children how to manage their play.
There was the failed single-sex experiment in California, where six school districts used generous state grants to set up separate boys' and girls' academics in the late 1990s.
When the health insurance industry was still cooperating in reform efforts, its trade group offered to provide standardized forms for automated processing.
Prison officials then instituted an hour a day of "psycho-educational teaching" for the prisoners, who were placed in cage-like outdoor cells arranged in a semicircle and facing a counselor.