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Communication between the school, your child's classroom and the home is essential. All teachers at Labrador strive to maintain this level of communication and parents are encouraged to be involved and aware of their child's educational progress and needs.
In order to achieve this we provide:
- Parent Teacher Conversations in week 3/4 of Term 1
- Formal parent / teacher interviews at the end of Term 3
- Formal report cards at the end of term 2 and Term 4
As well as this we maintain an 'open door' policy to the school. If you would like to discuss your child's education, please make time to contact your child's teacher by emailing, phoning or coming into the school and organising a meeting.


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Visualize Azure DevOps projects, teams, and users, and monitor changes through queries and alerts.
- Installation guide
- Azure DevOps data model
To install this integration, you will need to configure settings both within Azure DevOps and on JupiterOne. Before enabling in JupiterOne, ensure that you have completed the setup within Azure DevOps.
Configuration on Azure DevOps
The Azure DevOps integration uses a read-only, personal access token to ingest data from the Azure DevOps platform.
You must have the necessary permissions to generate a personal access token in Azure DevOps.
You will need to generate your Personal Access Token (PAT), and grant the following permissions for the PAT:
- Project and Team :
- Work Items:
With your PAT created, and the credentials at hand, proceed to JupiterOne for the remaining setup.
Finalize in JupiterOne
To install the Azure DevOps integration in JupiterOne, navigate to the Integrations tab in JupiterOne and select Azure DevOps. Click New Instance to begin configuring the integration.
Creating an Azure DevOps instance requires the following:
The Account Name used to identify the AirWatch account in JupiterOne. Ingested entities will have this value stored in
AccountNametoggle is enabled.
Description to assist in identifying the integration instance, if desired.
Polling Interval that you feel is sufficient for your monitoring needs. You may leave this as
DISABLEDand manually execute the integration.
Your Azure DevOps URL (example: "_URL_ and your Personal Access Token generated for use with JupiterOne.
Click Create once all values are provided to finalize the integration.
Now that your integration instance has been configured, it will begin running on the polling interval you provided, populating data within JupiterOne. Continue on to our Instance management guide to learn more about working with and editing integration instances.
The following entities are created:
|Resources||Entity ||Entity |
|Azure Devops Account|
The following relationships are created:
|Source Entity ||Relationship ||Target Entity |
The following mapped relationships are created:
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Planning Begins for Experiment to Study Influence of Aerosols on California Water Supply
September 10, 2008
Researchers from NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory will participate in the CalWater: Energy, Water, and Regional Climate Planning Meeting on September 15-17, 2008 at Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA. Participants are planning a joint experiment between NOAA, the California Energy Commission, and Scripps Institute of Oceanography to study the interactions between air quality and the hydrologic cycle in a changing climate. Expected outcomes of this meeting include a science plan and an implementation strategy describing testable hypotheses addressing how aerosols from regional and trans-Pacific pollution influence water supply and snowpack in California.
The interaction of increased regional and transported pollution and global warming trends will have an unknown affect on California's water supplies. On one hand, air pollution may partially offset the warming trend by increasing the sunlight scattering off of aerosols which will cool the surface. But on the other hand, increasing pollution deposited within snowpacks will darken the snow which will absorb more radiation and melt the snowpack quicker reducing California's natural snowpack reservoirs. These non-linear and off-setting interactions are dependent on the type and amount of aerosols as well as the state of the regional climate. California is interested in finding the most effective way to simultaneously reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, aerosols, other air pollutants and their precursors while maximizing the benefits for air quality, water resources, and climate change.
This experiment will leverage heavily the NOAA HMT-West effort, as well as NOAA's UAS Program and will address anthropogenic effects of aerosols on precipitation, and climate change impacts on the amplitude and frequency of extreme precipitation events involving atmospheric rivers.

source: HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu


line group poem
lg l
The TEI thinks of poetry, very basically, as a set of verse lines which may be grouped together in various ways. It is possible to encode a great deal more information about them (for instance, describing their rhyme and metrical schemes), but it is not necessary to do so. The basic elements and attributes necessary for a simple encoding of verse are provided in the TEI's core tag set, which is included in all TEI DTDs, so without taking any special trouble you can capture most poetry adequately. The elements are:
l: a verse line
lg: a group of verse lines (containing one or more l elements)
head: a heading of any sort (including poem titles and stanza headings)
In addition, the part attribute is available on l and lg to indicate that a line or line group has been fragmented into multiple parts for some reason: for instance, because a single line is divided between two speakers or verse paragraphs.
To encode more detailed information about meter or rhyme, you will need to use the TEI base tag set for verse.
This section covers the following aspects of encoding verse:


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Requirements for proficiency in Norwegian
The Norwegian language is the primary language of instruction at Norwegian institutions of higher education. Some foreign students learn Norwegian before they continue with further studies in Norway. Below is an overview of the language requirements for foreign students applying for courses where the language of instruction is Norwegian.
If applying for a course taught in Norwegian, or for general acceptance into an institution, applicants outside of the Nordic countries must meet one of the following requirements:
- Successfully passed 'Norwegian as a second language' from upper secondary school.
- Sucessfully passed Level 3 in Norwegian at a university.
- Successfully passed one-year study in Norwegian language and society for foreign students from a university college.
- Successfully passed test in Norwegian at higher level, 'Bergenstesten', with a minimum score of 450.
In certain cases, institutions may accept other types of documentation. Please contact the institutions directly for details.


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Direct Reader limitations
You must understand the limitations of Direct Reader mode and what functionality is not supported.
- You cannot write data using HWC Direct Reader.
- Transaction semantics of Spark RDDs are not ensured when using Spark Direct Reader to read ACID tables.
- Supports only single-table transaction consistency. The direct reader does not guarantee that multiple tables referenced in a query read the same snapshot of data.
- This mode does not require a Hive Server (HS2) connection, therefore, the audit event is generated by HMS, which captures just the type of access (for example, SELECT) and does not capture all the details (about columns). Also, the audit event does not log the actual query (SQL).
- Does not auto-commit transactions submitted by dataframe or rdd APIs.
Explicitly close transactions to release locks.Some of the operations, such as
df.rddopen transactions but do not close them. This is expected and the transactions are closed automatically after the end of the spark application. If such transactions have to be closed immediately, then it is recommended to execute the following in Spark:
- Does not support Ranger authorization.
You must configure read access to the HDFS, or other, location for managed tables. You must have Read and Execute permissions on hive warehouse location (hive.metastore.warehouse.dir).
- Blocks compaction on open read transactions.
- Does not support stoarge-handlers.
- Streaming inserts
- CTAS statements


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You might get the following error when there is any issue related to a SPN in the environment:
1) Login failed for user 'null'
2) Login failed for user ''
3) Login failed for user 'NT Authority\Anonymous Logon'
4) Cannot generate SSPI context
We get these errors when we use windows authentication and there is more than one hop involved in the scenario before passing the authentication to the final destination. For example while browsing a web site which use windows authentication or in case of a linked server.
Let's take the most common example, when you are browsing a website that is hosted in IIS server and stores information in SQL database. In this case the data is stored in SQL, The web application which is hosted in a separate IIS server talks to this SQL server through windows authentication. Now when a user logs in to the web site on a third box which is also in the same domain as the IIS and SQL server and tries to browse the website, his user account is passed to SQL server via the IIS box in between.
This kind of scenario is called a double hop where the authentication is passed from the originating box (where the user actually opens the website in IE) to the final box (SQL server) in two hops (1. originating box to IIS 2. IIS box to SQL box). In these types of scenarios, Kerberos is a must. Because NTLM cannot delegate authentication in multiple hops.
For Kerberos to work we need proper SPN. If Proper SPNs are not found in active directory, we will encounter the above errors. When we say proper SPN, it means that the SPN should be in proper format, should contain the right information and should not be duplicate.
Prerequisites for Kerberos delegation to work.
1. All computers must be running Windows 2000 or later.
2. All computers must be in the same domain, or domains that trust one another.
3. The domain(s) must be using Active Directory.
4. Kerberos depends on synchronized timing between computers. Out-of-sync computer clocks may cause Kerberos authentication to fail. So all the machines involved in this scenario should have their time synchronised time.
Active Directory Settings
1. Domain users who will be connecting through IIS to SQL Server must not have their domain user accounts marked as "Account is sensitive and cannot be delegated" or should have their "Account is trusted for delegation" checked in the Active Directory Users and Computers tool.
2. The IIS server (the computer that will be delegating) must have "trust computer for delegation" Checked in the Active Directory Users and Computers tool.
3. The IWAM account in case of IIS 5 and in case of IIS 6 and higher, the Log on account for the application pool under which the web application is running must also have "Trust this user for delegation" Checked in the Active Directory Users and Computers tool.
4. It is necessary to register a "Service Principal Name" (SPN) for SQL Server if SQL Server is not running under the LocalSystem account or a domain admin account. If you are running the SQL service under LocalSystem it will automatically create a SPN for the machine account in active directory and if you are running the SQL service in a domain admin account even in that case it will create its own SPN. But if you are running the SQL account in a different domain account you need to manually create the SPN.
To Create SPN you need to have the domain admin privileges. You can use the SETSPN tools to create or delete SPNs. The SETSPN tool comes with the Windows 2000 Resource Kit Tool.
First run the command "SETSPN –L " to find out if there is any improper or duplicate SPN(this command does not require domain admin privilages). A valid SQL SPN should be in the format "MSSQLSvc/:" ex: MSSQLSvc/SQLServer.MyDomain.Com:1433. If you find any improper or duplicate SQL SPN then delete them using the command "SETSPN –D < domain\SQLService account >"
(You can also use a tool called Delegconfig to find out if there is a duplicate SPN. You can download this tool from the link _URL_
Then add the appropriate SPN with the command "SETSPN –A MSSQLSvc/: < domain\SQLService account >"
If you are trying to connect to a SQL cluster you need to have two SPNs. One with the port and one without. With thefollowing format:
MSSQLSvc/.:
MSSQLSvc/.
5. For Active Directory to work correctly, DNS must also function correctly. If you are having DNS problems, Kerberos will fail, due to name lookup problems. You can do a ping –a to find out if the IP address and FQDN is being resolved properly.
1. Client computers must be running Internet Explorer 5.0 or later
2. In IE, it may be necessary to turn on "Enable Windows Integrated Authentication" in the browser's Advanced Options.
3. Browsers can't be going through a proxy server. If using a proxy must select option in IE to "bypass proxy for local addresses"
1. Only Windows Authentication, or Windows and Basic, if necessary (see below), should be enabled on the web site or virtual folder. Digest authentication does not support delegation
2. Specify a trusted connection to SQL Server with "Integrated Security=SSPI" in the connection string.
Author : Snehadeep, SQL Developer Engineer, Microsoft
Reviewed by : SMAT, SQL Escalation Services, Microsoft


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See more from this Session: Spatial Predictions In Soils, Crops and Agro/Forest/Urban/Wetland Ecosystems: III (Includes Graduate Student Competition)
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Henry Gonzalez Convention Center, Hall C, Street Level
Digital soil mapping relies on the use of topographic covariates to predict soil types and attributes. Where topographic variation is high, as it is the mountainous areas of British Columbia, Canada, the analysis of digital elevation models can explain large amounts of variation in soil properties. We describe an approach using topographic indices derived from a 100m DEM to predict parent materials and soil properties over large areas of southern British Columbia. Predictions were carried out on case study areas using ArcSIE software, and validated by field sampling. We derived maps of soil properties, and evaluated the results in an area of varied topography, geology, climate and vegetation.


Six-year project could make internet 100 times faster
Ian Grant
The internet could be 100 times faster than it is today if a new £7.2m six-year research project, the Photonics HyperHighway, is successful.
University and science minister David Willetts said the investment will see scientists from the universities of Southampton and Essex working with industry partners BBC Research and Development, Fianium and Oclaro to develop new materials and devices for optical fibre networks. The project will look at the way fibre optics are used, and develop new materials and devices to increase internet bandwidth to ensure that the web can cope with rising demand.
The future internet would have to be based on optical fibre to meet an annual 80% growth in traffic driven by applications such as internet television and cloud computing, said project leader Southampton professor David Payne.
Willetts said the internet was "fundamental to our lives" and that Britain had to ensure that the web infrastructure could continue to meet demand for it.
Payne added, "Our ambition is nothing less than to rebuild the internet hardware to suit it to the needs of 21st-century Britain. This project proposes a radical transformation of the physical infrastructure that underpins these networks."
The UK internet industry was worth an estimated £100bn, so it was in the country's interest to make it even better for businesses and help boost economic growth, Willetts said.
Listen to David Payne talk about the Photonics HyperHighway:
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Onda is a decorative textile piece that purifies the air.
It is constructed of fabric with a thin coating based on copper-doped titanium dioxide. When combined with this chemical coating, the textile uses daylight to create a reaction with pollution such as soot and odor, transforming them into harmless water molecules. Users can track the air quality by lightly pressing on Onda's fabric. This activates a light that will remain slow and calm while the air is clean, but become quick and frenzied when sensing pollution. Users can also momentarily boost air purification by pressing and holding the piece, lighting the frame to emit ultraviolet light, the most efficient method of rapid air purification. With interchangeable textiles and designs, Onda unites life-enhancing technology with personal expression.


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Treasure in the Center of the World
-Fr. Eamon Kelly, LC, Vice-Chargé of the Pontifical Institute Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Read jweekly's article about Fr. Kelly, his lecture at DSPT and the findings in Magdala.
Fr. Kelly provided a first-hand account of a unique discovery in Magdala, Israel of a synagogue from the time of Jesus: one of only seven Second Temple period synagogues ever discovered. One of the most important artifacts found that Fr. Kelly discussed is a stone with legs and beautifully engravings that features the menorah. The oldest menorah ever recorded was on the Titus Arch in Rome. The one found at Magdala dates back to before AD67, making it the oldest menorah engraved in stone.
Click the image below to view or download the video of Fr. Kelly's presentation at DSPT.
Use these links to find more information about the excavations, Fr. Kelly, and the unusual findings:


Other Phone Options
Playing Your Message
Personal Distribution List
Tagging a Message
Calling a Sender
Replying to a Message
Recording Your Personal Greeting
Recording Your External Greeting
Recording Your Internal Greeting
Recording Your Temporary Greeting
Changing Your Password
Assigning a Custom Operator
Logging In
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Recording Your Internal Greeting
Callers from Inside your organization hear your internal greeting.
To record your internal greeting:
 1. While logged in to Voice Messaging, press 8 - 2.
 2. Press 2 for internal greeting.
 - If you want to hear the current greeting, press 2.
 3. Press 5 to record. Wait for the tone before you start speaking.
 4. Press pound to end the recording.
 5. When you have finished recording, you can play the greeting, rerecord it, delete it, or exit.
 - To play the greeting you recorded, press 2.
 - To rerecord the greeting, press 5 while at the beginning of the greeting. Record the new greeting and press pound to end the rerecording.
 - To delete the greeting, press 7 - 6 at the greeting.
 - To exit press 4.


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Children's Residential Care
Birmingham City Council has 20 Children's Homes that work with children and young people.In addition, there are six Children's Homes for children with disabilities and one home known that is a Community Home with Education (CH(E)).
A Children's Home is a large house where children and young people live together as a group, with professional staff to look after them.
Children's Homes aim to ensure that the needs of children are met when they cannot live with their own family. They are a place for children to develop and grow, as well as providing food, shelter, and space for play and leisure in a caring environment. Children's Homes look after children with many different needs.
When children and young people come to live in a Children's Home they will have a Care Plan. Their Care Plan says why a child is living in residential care, what is supposed to happen while they are living there and what is supposed to happen at the end of their stay. Most children return home, but a few go to live with other families and a few go to live in other homes. Older children who are not planning to return home are given help to prepare them for living on their own - this is called the Careleavers Service.
Education is important. Children go to their own school if they have a school place, or we help to get them back into school. The exception to this is the CH(E) and in the two specialist Children's Homes where education is available on site. Some young people may still attend resources in the community, for example school, college, etc.
It is very important that children and young people stay in touch with their family and friends. It is only when they might be hurt, or a Court Order says that contact is forbidden, that some children are unable to have visits from their family or are unable to visit them.
Children and young people are respected as individuals. By providing for their religious and cultural needs children are encouraged to keep their sense of personal identity and community.
Eligibility for the serviceChildren and young people have to live away from their own families for all sorts of reasons. These may include:
- their parents are unwell;
- they have problems with their family and need to spend some time away from home; eg: behaviour problems or educational difficulties;
- they may have a disability and need a break from living with their families;
- they are in the care of local authority, subject to a Court Order or an Interim Care Order.
Generally, when children and young people need to live away from their families, they will stay with foster carers. It is only when Foster Care is either not possible or not desirable accommodation or may not be what the young person would choose that children will live in a children's home.
In all cases, we make sure that all the alternatives are fully considered before recommending residential care.


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Vial and Ampoule Counting
Count individual vials or ampoules in trays before packing
Filled vials and ampoules have to be accurately counted to ensure full accountability before they move on to secondary packaging. Human error risks a recall event, and an automated solution reduces such errors. Accurate mechanical vial counting processes exist, but visual counting can offer many benefits including detecting fallen or misplaced vials and identifying vials with wrong colored or shaped caps indicating the wrong product. Inspecting the vials and ampoules while counting confirms that the right number of the right product is present.
But finding problems in a filled tray can be difficult, due to the fisheye effect (or image distortion) of the necessary wide field of view. Parts on the outer edge of the field of view will appear differently than parts directly under the camera. Ampoules in particular can generate reflections and internal refractions, making it difficult to confirm correct positioning.
A standard machine vision system can successfully count vials and ampoules, however, Cognex Deep Learning is more flexible and better able to identify non-counting errors in the vials or ampoules, such as fallen, upside down, or product mix issues from containers with the wrong cap color, increasing overall operating efficiency (OEE). The part location tool is trained on containers in every orientation and then successfully identifies them from all possible angles, resulting in a more repeatable and reliable counting method. It also considers the distortion at the far edges of the visual field when performing identification.
A deep learning-enabled camera equipped with Cognex High Dynamic Range Plus (HDR+) technology creates a uniform image in a single acquisition, even over a wide field of view, reducing confusion caused by reflections from vials and particularly halation around ampoules. HDR+ differs from standard HDR as it can be done with a single acquisition at high-speed on moving parts, whereas standard HDR would need to be stationary and capture multiple images to obtain the same results.
Deep learning-based counting eliminates count-related deviations, even with large numbers of vials or ampoules simultaneously, preventing the time-consuming and expensive reworks that can result from miscounts.


PIM Data Synchronization: Why is it so hard?
This article was originally published by LWN.net. Here is a slightly updated version with information about the sync UI and a longer section on data modeling and handling.
Recently, a SyncEvolution user described SyncML and some of its challenges in a LWN.net article. In this article, the author of that software adds more information for developers who want to synchronize data. Particular attention is given to Personal Information Management (PIM) data (such as contacts, events, tasks, notes) and how SyncEvolution and the underlying Synthesis SyncML Engine deal with the problems inherent in synchronizing that kind of data. It is worth pointing out that SyncML as protocol is data format agnostic and not limited to PIM. PIM is just the most common usage today - and particularly difficult. Synthesis just made their core technology available under the LGPL v2.1 and 3.0. SyncEvolution 0.9 beta 1 is the first open source program using this libsynthesis. Together, these two projects are the core building blocks for data synchronization in the Moblin project.
PIM Synchronization: Challenges
Whenever your author hears the song 1974 song "Rikki don't lose that number", he wonders whether the advice to "send it off in a letter to yourself" is still valid today, or whether we can trust our software to keep important phone numbers safe and sound. Why is synchronization software for PIM data still not 100% reliable?
Database replication is a well understood problem. But PIM data is special in many ways. First, there is no globally unique identifier (GUID) for items. When comparing two databases for the first time, there is often no additional meta information, beyond the data itself. Without a GUID in the item data, it is hard to determine whether two items from different databases refer to the same entity. In particular, because the content and/or representation of the same logical entity is often different in different databases (second problem).
For PIM data, the storage and exchange formats are typically vCard 2.1/3.0, vCalendar 1.0 and iCalendar 2.0. At first glance it seems that items in these formats have a GUID. But the UID property in a vCard is not mandatory, neither in version 2.1 nor 3.0 of the standard. Even if it is used by a particular software, it is not guaranteed to be globally unique and therefore cannot be relied upon when comparing two different databases. Same problem exists with vCalendar 1.0, which is still the most common format used by consumer devices for events and tasks. Only iCalendar 2.0 specifies a mandatory, global UID property because it is required for exchanging meeting invitations.
Without a GUID, one has to compare the content of items to identify matching items. But the PIM data formats allow many different, often more or less complete implementations and representations of the same information. One side of an implementation might support just the bare minimum of information for a contact (for example, name and phone number), while the other side may support everything defined in the standard (photo, arbitrary number of email addresses, and phone numbers), plus non-standard extensions (spouse, instant messaging handles). A simple byte comparison, without any understanding of the semantic of the data, is, therefore, not good enough.
After identifying matching items, there is a third problem: if the items differ in some properties, which item is more up-to-date? There are REV and LAST-MODIFIED properties, but again support for them is not guaranteed. Worse, both items might been created or updated independently, so that each has valid information the other does not have (new phone number added on my cell phone, address changed on my desktop, based on an email with that information).
Fourth, it is necessary to support these data formats to be interoperable with existing devices. One cannot simply choose a custom data format that avoids the previous three issues. Neither is it possible to make assumptions about the implementation of a peer and what it may or may not support.
Fifth, not knowing enough about a peer is particularly problematic when receiving an item back from a peer. If a property is missing, that was sent to the peer earlier, does that mean that the user has removed this piece of information or that the peer was unable to store it? In the former case, the property must also be removed locally. In the latter, it needs to be preserved while updating the other properties. Only allowing one-way synchronization avoids this problem, but is also considerably less useful.
The SyncML protocol (aka Open Mobile Alliance Data Synchronization, OMA-DS) itself is fairly simple, at least up to and including version 1.2.1, the latest version supported by Synthesis and most other implementations. SyncML defines a general message format with encodings, both as XML and as more compact WAP Binary XML (WBXML). Exchanging these messages over HTTP (as POST and reply) and Bluetooth is also standardized. A typical session requires three message exchanges. When sending many small data items (~2KB) with WBXML as encoding, the measured data overhead for the SyncML protocol was 8%, 2.5 times less than XML.
During a sync session, a client talks to a server. The protocol is intentionally not symmetric. A client is fairly simple to implement and usually only talks to one server. The server implements all of the advanced logic, like tracking the state of multiple clients, matching items, and merging data.
A client has to keep track of local changes (added/removed/updated) between sync sessions, using its own locally unique identifier (LUID) to refer to items. It has to be able to export, import, update, and delete items. The server has to maintain a mapping between GUIDs and the corresponding LUIDs that are used by each client.
At the start of a sync session, client and server authenticate each other and negotiate which databases they want to synchronize (identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)) and which data formats are acceptable (MIME types). In theory, this information could be used to configure clients automatically. In practice, it is often necessary to configure manually because the information is only sent for URIs that are listed explicitly, leading to a chicken-and-egg problem.
The information about supported data types can be detailed enough to describe which properties of the different PIM formats are supported by a client or server. The Synthesis engine generates this information for its peer automatically from the configuration (more on that below) and uses the information received from its peer to merge updates intelligently. Other servers check this information only to determine whether specific properties, like PHOTO, are supported and then they hard-code the rest of the data handling.
As part of getting client and server ready for a synchronization, both agree on the sync modes for active databases. The standard specifies one-way and two-way synchronization, both incrementally (the only changes sent are those made since the last synchronization) and complete (all currently existing items have to be sent). For the initial session or after a failure, this "slow" mode is used to get client and server in sync (again), that is,the client sends all of its items, then the server compares those items against its own data and sends back changes to the client. As explained above, this matching is problematic, therefore the standard also supports complete sync modes, where one side is told to wipe out all data before receiving items ("refresh from client" and "refresh from server").
A session concludes when both sides have sent their changes and some meta information (for example, new LUIDs assigned by the client). The standard defines a mechanism for suspending a session earlier than that and resuming it later. The same resume mechanism can also be used to recover from an unexpected loss of connection. This is an optional feature of the standard, supported by the Synthesis implementation but not all servers. Without this feature, a slow sync is necessary to keep client and server reliably in sync.
Synthesis SyncML Engine + SyncEvolution
Both the Synthesis SyncML Engine and SyncEvolution are implemented in C++. Synthesis paid particular attention to portability of their code to platforms with less capable compilers. Therefore, the choice of C++ features used is intentionally limited (no hard dependency on exception support, moderate use of templates, and the standard template library). SyncEvolution is less restricted and uses both exceptions for error reporting and the "resource acquisition is initialization" (RAII) design pattern to track resources, plus Boost templates (but no Boost libraries at this point).
SyncEvolution and Synthesis Component Overview
The diagram shows how the two projects interact and fit into the Moblin infrastructure. Solid boxes represent executables and dotted boxes represent libraries. The GUI communicates with the core engine via D-Bus. Long term this will allow the engine to run completely independently from a particular front-end. The command line tool currently still calls libsyncevolution directly and thus does not depend on D-Bus. When D-Bus is available, it should instead act like another front-end for the D-Bus server. The engine itself is compiled into a library with two stable, plain C APIs:
 - an API for a SyncML client user interface, like SyncEvolution
 - a database API for plug-ins, which connect the engine with local data
The BSD-licensed SDK provides a glue mechanism that can be linked statically to access these APIs in C++, without tying clients closely to the implementation. Bindings for Java are available from Synthesis under a commercial license. The official documentation for this is the Synthesis "SDK and Plug-in Interface" reference manual, which is included in the


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Using Barley in Horse FeedsBy Kentucky Equine Research Staff · August 21, 2012
In the United States, barley ranks behind only corn and sorghum in terms of feed grain production. Barley must be differentiated in terms of the desired end use, as various cultivars are developed for specific purposes. For example, malting and feed barley are distinctly different, as high protein content is desirable in feed grain but not for malting.
In general, barley has a feeding value that is about 95% that of corn. It is relatively high in crude protein for a feed grain, ranging from 8 to 13%, but like oats, barley is relatively low in lysine and methionine. Because most feed barley contains the hull, fiber content is relatively high at around 5 to 7%. Starch makes up nearly 65% of the kernel. Additionally, the kernel has approximately 1% simple sugars and 2% sucrose.
Barley to be used for feed has a test weight of 40 lb (18 kg) per bushel and a maximum of 4% foreign material, and a maximum of 1% heat damaged kernels. Color can range from yellow to golden yellow and the grain should be free of excessive dustiness with no evidence of seed treatment. There should be no moldy or musty smell.
Barley tends to be quite hard and requires some type of processing to make the nutrients more available. The most common types of processing include rolling and steam flaking. Concerns for barley quality surround storage issues. Improper storage will allow fungus, molds, and insects to enter the grain and alter the nutrient profile.


Myth: Deadly Throwing Knives
The hero is cornered by the bad guys! Thinking quickly, she pulls out a brace of throwing knives. She flips the knives at two of her attackers. They go down, one clutching the knife embedded in his chest, the other lying still with a knife in his eye.
Stop doing this. Writers, moviemakers, everyone — just stop. Unless your hero is also wielding a magical get-out-of-physics free card, thrown knives don't work that way.
One of the most important aspects of a weapon is its stopping power. That is, its ability to stop your attacker in his tracks and render him incapable of hurting you any more. Some weapons, such as pepper spray, do this by inflicting severe pain and blindness. Others, like a sword, inflict enough physical damage to make further attacks impossible. Thrown knives are usually shown to be the latter sort of weapon. In reality, thrown knives have negligible stopping power because they lack three crucial elements: Mass, velocity, and accuracy.
It takes quite a lot of force to push a knife through skin and muscle and bone. The force with which a weapon hits its target is determined by its mass and its velocity. Knives are relatively light — an alleged throwing knife that I borrowed from a friend weighs only 50 grams (~1.8 oz). The heaviest knife in my collection still only weighs 310 grams (~11 oz). Throwing spears are far heavier. This modern example weighs in at 1134 grams (2 lbs 8 oz). A person who uses a knife in hand-to-hand combat benefits from the ability to put their body weight behind each thrust. A thrown knife, on the other hand, has only its own weight to work with. When you see a thrown knife in a movie that has buried itself up to its hilt in the bad guy's chest, what you are seeing a cliché with no basis in reality.
Light projectiles, such as bullets, have to rely on the other side of the equation: Velocity. The muzzle velocity of the popular 9 mm cartridge is usually around 400 m/s* (and this round is still not considered powerful enough for self-defense by many experts**). Compare this to a fastball, which travels at around 40 m/s — a speed that is still far above what can be achieved with a thrown knife. In fact, the fastest speed I could find for a thrown knife was only 16 m/s! The essential difference between the thrown knife and other ranged weapons is its lack of mechanical advantage. Bows use the energy stored in the curve of the limbs. Guns use chemical energy stored in gunpowder. Atlatls and slings are essentially big levers, multiplying the reach of the thrower's arm and thus the speed with which the dart or stone is thrown. A throwing knife, in contrast, relies solely on the velocity that a human arm can give it.
Finally, there's the question of accuracy. Even a light, slow projectile can be deadly if it hits its target in just the right way. Pointy projectiles — bullets, arrows, darts, and spears — travel pointy-end-first, making them aerodynamic. They often spin on their long axis for stability, like an American football. Knives, on the other hand, spin end-over-end. This creates comparatively large amounts of wind resistance. Thus, a thrown knife will lose what little velocity it has very quickly, making it next to useless at long range. The end-over-end spin also means that a knife spends very little time with its pointy end towards its target. Even a talented knife thrower is more likely to hit her target with the side or the butt of the knife rather than its point when the target is moving, as in a melee. Combine that with the knife's limited range, and your hero would probably be better off walking up to the bad guy and stabbing him in the face.
My favorite depiction of how thrown knives could be used in hand-to-hand combat is in Steven Brust's Taltos series. Our hero, Vlad, frequently gets himself into scrapes where he's outnumbered by people who are bigger than he is. One of his tricks for winning these fights is to throw a knife. The flying piece of pointy steel makes his opponent flinch, giving him an opening. He does not expect the knife to hit the person point-first, and he certainly doesn't count on the knife to kill anyone. Killing someone with a thrown knife is not impossible. It just isn't something that a character can rely on in a life-or-death situation.***
Even with years of training, throwing a knife is still slightly less effective for self-defense than throwing a large rock (rocks are cheaper, heavier, and sometimes more aerodynamic). Please, the next time you're arming your hero or her sidekicks for combat? Leave the throwing knives at home. They're silly, they're clichéd, and physics doesn't work like that.
* This number is a rough approximation. Actual speeds will vary by load and barrel length. However, it's still way faster than a knife.
** I will not indulge in the fast & light bullet vs. heavy & slow bullet debate here —.45 ACP still goes way faster than a knife.
*** Hunters who use throwing knives are usually after small game, like rabbits and squirrels. They also use very heavy knives.
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 1. Joanne says:
 I am now so sad that I have never questioned this! I just watched Prince of Persia this morning and a lot of people die from thrown knives… but the hero does also appear to have a "get-out-of-physics-free" card. I will now be watching for this in stories (but I will probably still be ok with it if the writing is otherwise good!). (the writing in the movie was not good… not good at all.)
 2. Dirk Bruere says:
 And while we are on the subject…
 Time bombs that have flashing lights, a nice countdown, and colour coded wires – terrorists (or just sensible bombers) do not do things so conveniently. Add in one more cliché here – the above bomb connected to large slabs of plastic explosives, with the hero sweating about which wire to cut. He never thinks of just cutting away the explosive from around the detonator, or even removing the detonator from the mass.
 Then we have the hero escaping in a car, with the baddies shooting at it from less than 50m distance using (say) AK47s. In reality, he and everyone in that car are Swiss Cheese in about 3 seconds.
 3. Adam says:
 Good points, but sour grapes.
 If we were all perfectly concerned about the laws of physics, would we be fans of sci fi and fantasy? Don't think so. (Read: Warp drives, Dyson Spheres, etc., etc.)
 We can make the distinction. Reality is great, but you dismiss "fun factor" for cold reality. If we were that concerned about it, we'd all be reading non-fiction, now wouldn't we…?
 4. What you said goes double for shuriken. Watching a villain drop dead of a throwing star embedded a half inch in a chest or forehead is definitely a "naaah" moment.
 5. cs says:
 Sorry to disagree, Sarah but I do. I feel that there is room enough in literature, cinema etc for different mechanics.
 What you suggest is
 6. cs says:
 *please delete me last unfinished comment. My keyboard has crossed wires and now seems to send things without my intention.
 What you suggest is just one style, one is which the laws governing velocity in the story resemble the ones in our own world. But, as I often do, we turn to stories for escape.
 Sometimes I want to see Dragons who breath fire, spaceships the break light-speed, and (yes) ninjas with deadly throwing stars.
 Maybe say replace, "Stop doing this" and more "be clear what kind of story your writing". Because I think there is room enough on my shelves for both types of story.
 7. julian says:
 You should check out this youtube channel because real serious knife throwing is no-spin knife throwing, where the knife tip is ALWAYS pointed at the target.
 I'm sure this guy's videos don't show his worst throws, but when you are no-spinning the knives they are always pointed at the target, and probably don't have the wind resistance of spinning it either.
 8. Janet says:
 Sara's physics are spot on. (In round-numbers terms, anyway.) and the fact that a guy can stick a steel dart into celotex (soft wood-fiber insulating board) at the range of a few yards still does not make it a deadly weapon.
 Have you ever wondered why surgeons prefer to close large wounds with surgical staples instead of traditional stitches? Simple! It's amazingly hard to jam a needle big enough to drag a thread through skin, so Staples? Yes, Surgical glue? Yes, traditional stitching? Not so much, unless it's a place where self-dissolving sutures are really needed.
 9. Black Mage says:
 "Stopping power" as you imply is represented by kinetic transfer is generally a poor indicator of projectile efficacy. Bullets are lethal because of their mode of injury, specifically: deep tissue damage, CNS damage and rapid exsanguination.
 10. The main advantage of throwing knives in a fight is as suppressing fire. Unless you get lucky and poke someone's eye


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Google Drive Solution: 1:1 and Shared - This solution works well in both scenarios because students can quickly and easily login / logout of their Drive account on shared devices.
In a previous post I outlined how Google Drive and the Drive iPad app can be used to create student portfolios. The setup process I suggest is described below.
- Student creates a Portfolio folder.
- Student creates sub-folders for each course or topic within their Portfolio.
- Student shared either the entire Portfolio or specific sub-folders with the appropriate teacher. Folders can be shared with either editing or view-only access within Google Drive.
Documents: Students can create, edit and share Google Documents directly within the Drive app. Documents can then be organized and placed within specific folders in a student portfolio.
Images: Pictures can be taken directly in the Drive app and uploaded to a specific folder or images can be pulled from the camera roll. Use this feature in conjunction with image editing apps (Skitch), mindmapping apps or any app that exports to the camera roll.
Video: Video that is located in the camera roll can be uploaded within the Google Drive app. Use this feature in conjunction with ExplainEverything or iMovie to have students share video without having to publish their content to the web.
Evernote Solution: 1:1 and Shared - This solution works well in both scenarios because students can quickly and easily login / logout of their Evernote account on shared devices.
In a previous post, I outlined nearly every solution that Evernote provides with iPad use. Teachers and students can also use Evernote as a portfolio creation platform. The setup process I suggest is outlined below.
- Student creates a Portfolio Notebook (for a grade level or for individual courses)
- Student uses Evernote as a digital notebook platform and takes notes directly in their portfolio.
- Hand written notes can be taken with Penultimate or students can snap pictures of their hand written notes.
- Student writing or papers can be emailed to the student portfolio using the Evernote email address associated with the account. Further, documents can be emailed to a specific notebook using this trick.
- Screencasting Solutions:
- Explain Everything will export directly to Evernote.
- EduCreations will not export to Evernote, but a link to an EduCreations screencast can be placed in an Evernote note.
- Students can snap images of their work directly into a Evernote note, or images can be edited using Skitch and then sent to their Evernote Portfolio
Sharing an Evernote Portfolio: Once the portfolio is created, students can share the notebook with their teacher. An Evernote notebook can be shared directly to another Evernote user, and the shared notebook becomes viewable on any device.
Drawbacks to Evernote Portfolios:
- Student Age: While there is an Evernote for Schools program, many schools I have worked with have expressed concerns regarding the TOS for Evernote and having younger students make accounts.
- No Collaboration: With a free Evernote account, when a student creates and shared a Portfolio notebook, the collaborator has view only access.
Book Creator Solution: 1:1 - Because books are created and stored locally within the app on a particular iPad, I suggest using this solution for a strictly 1:1 setting or possibly with younger students who are using shared iPads.
Books created with Book Creator can include a combination of:
- Images - from the camera roll
- Recorded Audio
- Video - from the camera roll
Students can use Book Creator through the course of an entire year or throughout a course to slowly compile evidence of their learning and understanding. By using a combination of video (potentially from Explain Everything or iMovie), text, audio and images, students can create a dynamic and unique representation of their learning.
Advantages to Book Creator
- No login required to create
- Books can be exported as PDF (audio & video is lost)
- Books can be exported as iBooks
- Exporting options include any app that has an "open in feature", including:
- Google Drive
I'll be talking more about using iPads in the classroom this summer at the EdTechTeacher Summer Workshops in Boston, Chicago & Atlanta. Join us there!


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Rotary kiln belongs to constructing material equipment. and it can be divided into cement kiln. metallurgy chemical kiln and calcium hydroxide kiln harmonizing to different stuffs. Cement kiln is used for doing of cement cinder and there are dry and wet methods to do cement. Metallurgy chemical kiln is used in metallurgy industry and ironworks for thin Fe ore. Cr ore and ferronickel ore calcimine. The application of rotary kiln originated from the cement production.
British cementer J. Asp invented dirt shaft kiln of intermittent operation in 1824 ; A German invented multilayer shaft kiln of uninterrupted operation in1883 ; British E Ransome invented the rotary kiln in 1885 which was put into production after obtaining the patent in England and America and gained considerable economic benefits. The innovation of rotary kiln makes the cement industry develop quickly and promotes the survey on application of rotary kiln. The rotary kiln is used in many industrial Fieldss and takes a more of import function in these productions. The rotary kiln becomes the nucleus equipment in endeavor production.
The proficient feature and service behaviour of rotary kiln are indispensable to the quality. end product and cost of the merchandise. "As long as the large kiln is running. the money is coming. " This lay is a graphic description on the importance of rotary kiln in production. The rotary kiln is most frequently used in cement industry. The whole production engineering of cement is summarized as "two grinding and one burning". "One burning" means the technological procedure of firing the land and prepared natural stuff into cinder by the high temperature of rotary kiln.
So the rotary kiln is the chief engine in cement production. and is normally referred to as "heart" of cement mill. In constructing stuff industry. besides roasting cement cinder. the rotary kiln is besides used for roasting clay. limestone and drying scoria. etc. Rotary kiln is used for calcimine of high aluminium vandal oche in stubborn stuff industry ; for calcimine of calotte and aluminium hydrated oxide in aluminium maker ; for claiming of chrome sand ore and chrome pulverization ore in chemical works. Lime kiln is used for baking active calcium hydroxide and dolomite in the steel mill and ferroalloy mill.


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Up next is a new approach on making a polar bear simple enough for everyone to create on your own. This tutorial is going to be just what you need when you want to have fun with your friends as you think of what you can do for an activity. Since a lot of the members that come to Dragoart are novice artist, I'm trying to make tutorials that can accommodate both new and intermediate skills. The best thing about learning from a simple lesson, is the fact that you can get a general idea on how to draw a specific animal, person, object, or even deigns like tattoos and such. With this submission you will learn the basics when it comes to teaching yourself "how to draw a polar bear for kids", step by step. With my new technique of making animals for kids, I'm actually cutting down on the amount of steps involved when it comes to turning drawings into tutorials. The polar bear is a popular attraction when visiting an aquarium or zoo. This was one of my favorite animals to watch through the big, thick looking glass at Roger Williams Park Zoo. Of course that was some time ago and to tell you the truth I don't even know if the polar bear is still there. Anyways, have fun drawing a polar bear for kids, I will come back soon because I do still have more lessons on the way.


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Set of 6 coins of the Seychelles _PHONE_ (in the booklet with the brand)
Obverse: In the center – the emblem of the country: Seychelles palm tree, turtle, sailboat on the shield, top hat and bird white-tailed Phaeton, two siderately – fish-sailing. Under the arms – the year of issue. At the top a semicircular inscription: REPUBLIC OF SEYCHELLES.
In the set:
- 5 rupees
Reverse: In the centre of the Seychelles tree with fruit. On the left, the figure "5" on the right the inscription: RUPEES.
- 1 rupee
Reverse: In the center of the ocean basin, at the bottom left of the figure "1". In the upper part of the coin – the value of semi-circle: ONE RUPEE.
- 25 cents
Reverse: Left – black parrot on a branch. To the right is the denomination in two lines: 25 /CENTS.
- 10 cents
Reverse: In the left part of the coin – an image of a tuna. To the right is the number "10" in the lower part of the coin – the value of semi-circle: TEN CENTS.
- 5 cents
Reverse: In the center – of manioc Palma. On the left, the figure "5" in the lower part of the coin – the value of semi-circle: FIVE CENTS.
- 1 cent
Reverse: In the center – the image of a crab. In the upper part of the coin the number "1" in the bottom – the face value semi-circle: ONE CENT.


text: What the "95" in Windows 95 realy stands for 15. The 95 stands for average CPH : Crash Per Hour. 14. Bill Gates' age when it ships. 13. The number of days until Gates tries to sell you a newer OS. 12. The required number of megabytes of RAM to run at useable speed. 11. The percentage that will be complete on the shipping date. 10. The number of floppies it will ship in. 9. The percentage of people who will have to upgrade their hardware. 8. The number of megabytes of hard disk space required. 7. The number of pages in the EASY-INSTALL version of the manual. 6. The percentage of existing windoze programs that won't run in the new OS. 5. The number of minutes to install. 4. The number of calls to tech support before you can get it to run. 3. The number of people who will actually PAY for the upgrade. 2. The number of MHz required for the OS to run. 1. The year it WAS DUE to ship.


Where Can CVS Expand New Stores?
Stephen Kita
Posted on Aug 3, 2020
For this project, CVS location and US population data were analyzed to suggest where CVS should consider opening new stores.
CVS pharmacy is the largest pharmacies in the United Sates, with almost 10,000 locations as of August, 2020. Last year they reported $256B in revenue, and were listed as #5 on the Fortune 500 list.
According to CVS's SEC filing, their major sources of income are pharmacy and in-store sales. In addition, the majority of the pharmacy sales are within network, as opposed to online or mail-order. Therefore, the vast majority of revenue for CVS comes from people physically walking into the store.
If CVS wants to continue growing, the easiest way seems to be opening new stores. However, CVS is challenged to open new stores, because they already operate in so many locations. Therefore, CVS should target areas with higher demand when opening stores.
Data Collection
In this project, the location and count of every CVS store in the United States were scraped from the CVS website1. Store location data was collect and processed with the Python BeautifulSoup package.
Population data was downloaded from the US Census website, and population estimates for 2019 we used for all states (including District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) and for all cities > 50,000 residents.
These two datasets were combined using Python Pandas to generate a data frame of CVS location by state and city population:
Data Analysis
This data was graphed using Python Matplotlib to show the number of stores per capita. A linear trendline was calculated, and the slope was approximately 1 CVS store per 33,000 people. This trend was the same for both cities and states.
These states/cities can be grouped by whether they fall above or below the trendline (average number of stores per capita). The regions in green are where there are more than 33,000 stores per person, and the regions in red are where there are less.
Using this framework, we can assume that locations with below average CVS counts have a higher demand for new CVS stores. We can also rank the highest and lowest locations based on demand by population:
We can see that states like Washington and Colorado have a higher demand while states like Florida and Massachusetts have a lower demand. This could be do to the difference in ages between the states. Florida and Massachusetts have older populations, who would need more prescriptions than younger populations.
Looking at the cities, New York City and Los Angeles have a higher demand while Miami and Washington DC have a lower demand. This could be due to the high cost of real estate in NYC and LA, where the operating costs might hurt the profitability of a store.
We can cross-reference the city and state information to form a strategy about where CVS should expand.
If a state has a high demand for CVS and also has cities with a high demand, then CVS should make a larger presence in those cities. However, if a state has a high demand for CVS, but low demand in cities, then CVS should try expanding to new cities in that state.
In conclusion, if CVS wants to continue adding new stores, they could focus on expanding their presence in these cities where demand is high:
 - Seattle, WA
 - Denver, CO
 - Portland, OR
 - San Juan, PR
Alternatively, they could add stores in these states where demand is high by expanding to new towns:
 - Wisconsin
 - Arkansas
 - Utah
 - Iowa
Future Work
This analysis could be expanded by adding more demographic data, such as age and income levels, to better predict where a store would be profitable. In addition, competitor data from walgreens, walmart, rite aid, etc. could be scraped from the web to look for areas with less competition.
1 Data was scraped from the CVS Store Locator online. The CVS robots.txt file was reviewed beforehand and the store locator pages were allowed.
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Zaza is also a name that appears in the Bible meaning "belonging to all" or "plenty"
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Benefits Of Ranging Sensors
Perimeter intrusion detection sensors are highly effective solutions for securing a site. When buried, they provide a covert sensor that is virtually impossible for an intruder to bypass without being detected. When fence-mounted, they turn the existing fence into a smart fence, detecting any attempt to cut, climb, or break through its fabric. Detection at the perimeter enables the security system to respond while the intruder is still outside the protected area by calling up cameras and engaging deterrence devices like security lights and sirens.
Based on the granularity of alarm information presented to the security system, fence-mounted sensors can be divided into two categories: block and ranging.
This article looks at the differences between block and ranging perimeter intrusion detection sensors, and examines the key benefits of ranging sensors, including reduced nuisance alarms, software-based zones, and simplified troubleshooting.


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When viewing an event in which an object moves behind an occluder on part of its trajectory, 4-month-old infants perceive the trajectory as continuous only when time or distance out of sight is short. Little is known, however, about the conditions under which young infants perceive trajectories to be discontinuous. In the present studies we focus first on infants' perception of trajectories that change during a period of occlusion. Four-month-olds perceive discontinuity in trajectories that change in height or orientation while behind an occluder, and this is true even when a change in direction could be due to an invisible bouncing collision with a surface. Further experiments reveal that infants do not perceive diagonal linear trajectories as continuous across an occlusion unless the occluding and revealing edges are orthogonal to the path of movement. Implications for theories of perceptual and cognitive development are discussed.
Bremner was lead author. Research arising from ESRC Grant R000238340 to Bremner held at Lancaster, with Slater (Exeter) as co-applicant and Johnson (NYU) as international collaborator. RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Psychology


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Make a bold statement in your garden with kangaroo paw. This unusual perennial comes from Australia and bears strappy green leaves and upright spikes of fuzzy flowers in radioactively brilliant colors. The blooms last a long time and make great cut flowers.
From 1 to 20 feet
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Daylilies are so easy to grow you'll often find them growing in ditches and fields, escapees from gardens. And yet they look so delicate, producing glorious trumpet-shape blooms in myriad colors. In fact, there are some 50,000 named hybrid cultivars in a range of flower sizes (the minis are very popular), forms, and plant heights. Some are fragrant.The flowers are borne on leafless stems. Although each bloom lasts but a single day, superior cultivars carry numerous buds on each scape so bloom time is long, especially if you deadhead daily. The strappy foliage may be evergreen or deciduous.Shown above: 'Little Grapette' daylily


Bert Heaney McKinnell
Bert McKinell's artistic practice combines skills drawn from life drawing classes and anatomical animation studies. His primary subject matter is the human form. He perfects his figures and often develops them into characters within his own fantasy worlds, using a range of mediums from graphite, watercolour and ink to oil pastels.
Bert's draughtsmanship skills are also applied to animals and inanimate objects, but in all cases accuracy of subject is of the upmost importance. He will create studies of his subject and meticulously rework them until they are absolutely perfect.
He has also combined his love of Manga drawings styles with written text. Inspired by Japanese, Chinese and Korean script he has created his own characters blending several ideas together.
Bert's most recent work takes his love of anatomical drawing further by creating clay sculptures based on the female form. He is a natural with the sculpting tools and uses Youtube videos to develop new techniques
Bert McKinnell is a resident artist at ActionSpace's Cockpit Arts studio.
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Techniques for Image Compression: A Comparative Analysis
Patricia R. OliveiraRoseli F. RomeroLuis G. NonatoJosmar Mazucheli
Nowadays image compression is a task that has been more necessary than ever. Some techniques for image compression are investigated in this article. The first one is the well-known JPEG that is the most widely used technique for image compression. The second is Principal Component Analysis (PCA), also called Karhunen-Loeve transform, that is a statistical method applied for multivariate data analysis and feature extraction. In the latter, two approaches are being considered. The first approach uses the classical statistical method and the other one, artificial neural networks. In a comparative study, the results obtained by PCA neural network for compressing medical images are analyzed together with those obtained by using the classical statistical method and the JPEG compression standard technique.
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Definition of haute bourgeoisie in English:
noun(the haute bourgeoisie) [treated as singular or plural]
The upper middle class.
- Today, Occultists are routinely disparaged by the superior classes, the haute bourgeoisie, to which I belong, and which also includes most of the widely read art critics and influential art historians.
- These forms of unearned income linked to exploitation led to the emergence of the haute bourgeoisie as a new ruling class, which molded the state and church into instruments of domination over the petit bourgeoisie and the working class.
- Not all Dresden was bombed, of course; on the banks of the Elbe there are still the magnificent villas of the haute bourgeoisie.
French, literally 'high bourgeoisie'.
Definition of haute bourgeoisie in:
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Robot Motion Planning Integrating Planning Strategies and Learning Methods
Luca Maria Gambardella and Cristina Versino
Robot motion planning in a dynamic cluttered workspace requires the capability of dealing with obstacles and deadlock situations. The paper analyzes situations where the robot is considered with its shape and size and it can only perceive the space through its local sensors. The robot explores the space using a planner based on an artificial potential field and incrementally learns a fast way to escape or prevent deadlock situations using a combination of sensor perceptions, field information and planner experience. The knowledge acquired is a high-level network useful for avoiding deadlock areas consisting of local minimum nodes, backtracking nodes and sub-goal nodes.


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"A Donsy of Gnomes, 7 gentle gnome stories" has stories about 8 charming gnomes who teach gnome-sized lessons in generosity, selflessness, courage, resourcefulness and friendship. Here are practical ideas for you to create your own Gnome World with your children through plays, puppetry, costumes, nature tables, and more.
Gnomes bridge the worlds of nature and magic. They are elusive, reclusive, creative, patient, very small, and tend to avoid humans, particularly adults. Gnomes are all, in one way or the other, in service to the world.
"I predict that this will be one of the books that still be alive in your children's hearts long after they have grown and have children of their own." Nancy Parsons of _URL_
Sieglinde De Francesca, a Waldorf Teacher for over 30 years, is the author of "Coloring with Block Crayons", and "Teaching with the Fables". She is now a homeschool teacher and consultant, bringing holistic education, storytelling, puppetry and the arts to families in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The Usable Past: The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
The Usable Past presents a comparative discussion of American literary modes of historical imagining. Taking America in it's hemispheric sense, Lois Parkinson Zamora presents a broad-ranging discussion of essential American voices - among them Borges, Hawthorne, Emerson, Williams, Paz, Carpentier, Cather, Fuentes, Cortazar, Rulfo, Cisneros, Puig, Vargas Llosa, Morrison. These writers dramatize the convergences and divergences of history and fiction as they question the nature of both. Zamora argues that they are impelled by a peculiarly American energy - what she calls an "anxiety of origins" - to search for precursors and connect to (or invent) usable traditions and histories. They conceive of orginality not as novelty by as a complicated and enriched relation to their cultural traditions. How American wrtiers thematize usable American pasts, and how their work itself becomes part of the usable past, is Zamora's overarching concern.
The Usable Past is an elegant examination of the historical attitudes and literary practices of writers located in American time and space - locations that yield insight into American literary visions and versions of history.


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The following diagram summarizes how events are processed in a CEP event flow.
 1. WSO2 CEP receives events from external event sources and data agents. These events have different formats such as XML, JSON, Map, Text, etc.
 2. WSO2 CEP supports a range of event receiver types to receive events in different formats. Each event receiver receives the events in a specific format based on its type, and converts them to tuples which enable WSO2 CEP to process them.
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How to Type Em Dash (or Long Dash) in Word
Em Dash or Em Rule is also sometimes referred to as Long Dash. It is a type of dash that is three times as long as a hyphen or minus sign (-). This dash is called em dash because it is one em wide.
In today's article, you'll learn about all the available methods you can use to type the Em Dash Symbol in Word using Windows or Mac.
Without any further ado, let's get started.
Em Dash [—] Quick Help
The table below contains all the information you need to type the Em Dash symbol in Word using either your Mac or Windows PC. If you are lazy to use the keyboard, you can as well copy and paste the symbol into your document.
|Symbol Name||Em Dash|
|Shortcut for Windows||Alt+0151|
|Shortcut for Mac||[Option] + [Shift] + [-]|
|Shortcut in Word (Win)||[Alt] + [Ctrl] + [Num -]|
To type the Em Dash symbol in Word for Mac, press [Option] + [Shift] + [-] on your keyboard. If you are on Windows, press and hold the Alt key and type the Em Dash alt code which is 0151 on the numeric keypad, then release the alt key.
The above quick guide provides some useful information about the Em Dash symbol including shortcuts and alt codes you can use on both Windows and Mac. However, below are some other methods you can also employ to insert this symbol into your Word document.
5 ways to type an Em Dash [—] symbol in Word
Microsoft Word provides several methods for typing or inserting symbols that do not have dedicated keys on the keyboard.
In this section, I will make available for you five different methods you can use to type or insert the Em Dash symbol in Word for both Mac and Windows users.
Without any further ado, let's get started.
Using the Em Dash [—] Alt Code (Windows Only)
The Em Dash Symbol alt code is 0151.
Even though the Em dash symbol does not have a dedicated key on the keyboard, it can still be typed using the Alt Numpad Input Method which is also known as the Alt code method. This can be done by pressing and holding the Alt key whilst pressing the Em dash symbol Alt code (0151) using the numeric keypad. This method is for Windows only. And your keyboard must also have a numeric keypad.
Obey the following instructions to type the em dash symbol using the alt code method:
- Place your insertion pointer where you need the symbol.
- Press and hold the Alt key on your keyboard.
- Whilst holding on to the Alt key, press the symbol's alt code (0151). You must use the numeric keypad to type the alt code. If you are using a laptop without the numeric keypad, this method may not work for you. On some laptops, there's a hidden numeric keypad which you can enable by pressing Fn+NmLk keystrokes on the keyboard.
- Release the Alt key after typing the Alt code to insert the Symbol into your document.
This is how you may type this symbol in Word using the Alt Code method.
Using the Em Dash Shortcut (Mac and Windows)
The keyboard shortcut for the Em Dash Symbol is [Option] + [Shift] + [-] for Mac. For Windows users, use the Alt Code method or press [Alt] + [Ctrl] + [Num -]. The [Num -] key means the minus key on the numeric keypad on the Windows Keyboard. This shortcut won't work if you use the minus key that's in line with the Backspace key.
To type the em dash symbol on Mac, obey the instructions below:
- First of all, place the insertion pointer where you need to type the Em Dash symbol.
- Press and hold the Option and the Shift key and hit once on the [-] (Minus or Hyphen) key.
With this keyboard shortcut, you can type the Em Dash symbol anywhere on your Mac computer.
- For windows users, press [Alt] + [Ctrl] + [Num -]. The [Num -] means the minus key on the numeric keypad.
- Alternatively, press and hold the alt key and type 0151 on the number pad.
These are the steps you may use to type this symbol in Microsoft Word.
Copy and Paste Em Dash
Another easy way to get the Em Dash symbol on any PC is to use my favorite method: copy and paste.
All you have to do is to copy the symbol from somewhere like a web page or the character map for windows users, and head over to where you need the symbol (say in Word), then hit Ctrl+V to paste.
Below is the symbol for you to copy and paste into your Word document. Just select it and press Ctrl+C to copy, switch over to Microsoft Word, place your insertion pointer at the desired location and press Ctrl+V to paste.
For windows users, obey the following instructions to copy and paste the em dash symbol using the character map dialog box.
- Click on the Start button and search for Character Map. The Character Map app will appear in the search results, click on it to open.
- The Character Map dialog will appear. Click on the Advanced view check box to expand the dialog box for more options.
- On the advanced view, type Em Dash in the Search box.
- You should now see only the Em Dash on the character map dialog. Double click on the symbol to select it. Alternatively, click on the Select button.
- After you select the symbol by double-clicking on it, it should appear in the Character to copy: field, then click on the Copy button to copy the symbol.
- Switch to your Microsoft Word document, place the insertion pointer at the desired location and press Ctrl+V to paste.
This is how you may use the Character Map dialog to copy and paste any symbol on Windows PC.
Using insert Symbol dialog box
The insert symbol dialog box is a library of symbols from where you can insert any symbol into your Word document with just a couple of mouse clicks.
Obey the following steps to insert the Em Dash Symbol in Word using the insert symbol dialog box.
- Open your Word document.
- Click to place the insertion pointer where you wish to insert the symbol.
- Go to the Insert tab.
- In the Symbols category, click on the Symbol drop-down and select the More Symbols button.
- The Symbol dialog box will appear. In the Subset drop-down list, select General Punctuation to display symbols in this category which includes the Em Dash symbol.
- Select the symbol and click on the Insert button. Alternatively, double click on the symbol to insert it into your Word document.
- Close the dialog.
The symbol will then be inserted exactly where you place the insertion pointer in the beginning.
These are the steps you may use to insert the Em Dash symbol in Word.
Using AutoCorrect to Type Em dash in Word
Another approach you may use to obtain this symbol is through the AutoCorrect feature in Word.
AutoCorrect in MS Word is a facility designed for correcting spelling mistakes like thsi to this.
With this feature, you can assign your own short code to the em dash symbol. This way, you can easily type the em dash symbol using the short code. For instance, if you happen to frequently type the Em Dash symbol, you can assign a short code like EMDASH to this symbol. This way, whenever you type the text EMDASH, Word will think that you actually wanted to type — and will convert it into the Em Dash Symbol automatically.
Without any further ado, below are the steps.
- Go to the insert tab.
- In the Symbols category, click on the Symbol drop-down and select More Symbols.
- The Symbol dialog box will appear. In the Subset drop-down list, select General Punctuation from the list to display the General Punctuation symbols which include the Em Dash symbol.
- Select the em dash symbol and click on the AutoCorrect button.
- The AutoCorrect dialog box will appear. Select the 'Replace text as you type' checkbox.
- In the Replace: box, type EMDASH.
- By default, the With: box will contain the em dash sign. Just in case it is not there, please paste it there.
- Now click on the Add button and hit on OK.
At this point, whenever you type the text EMDASH in Word, it'll convert to the Em Dash symbol.
However, below are some things you should note when you are using the AutoCorrect Method to type this symbol in Word.
- AutoCorrect is case sensitive. Meaning if you type emdash (in lowercase), Word will not autocorrect it for you unless you type EMDASH (in uppercase). Whatever case you used to assign the AutoCorrect text is what Word will recognize.
- If there is any text before or after the AutoCorrect text, Word will consider the AutoCorrect text as part of the text and hence will not do any autocorrection. For example, XEMDASH will not get converted since the EMDASH is joining with another character X. However, X EMDASH will convert to X — since the X is separated from the EMDASH.
As you can see, there are several different methods you can use to type the Em Dash Symbol in Microsoft Word.
Using the shortcuts for both Windows and Mac makes the fastest option for this task. Shortcuts are always fast.
Thank you very much for stepping on this blog.
If you have anything thing to say or questions to ask about the em dash symbol, please drop it in the comments below.


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Can English Muffins Be Frozen?
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Can you freeze English muffins if you can't eat them right away? Yes, but the way you store them will affect how they taste after you reheat them.
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How To Freeze English Muffins
While you can throw an entire unopened package of English muffins straight into the freezer, this isn't as effective as storing them properly.
Here's how to do that:
The first step is pre-slicing the English muffins. Use a fork for this instead of a knife. Pulling them apart with a fork helps retain their internal structure, where the air bubbles are good for cupping honey, jam, or other fillings. This works similarly to waffles. Separating English muffins this way makes it easier to reheat them later and will not lower their quality.
Next, wrap each set of halves separately. Many people use aluminum foil for bread, but you can also use plastic wrap or similar storage material. The goal here is to minimize the air that flows over the product, which will ultimately lead to damage and freezer burn.
Pick a Proper Container
After that, find a proper freezer bag. If you bought the muffins from a store, the plastic wrapping them is usually too thin to work correctly in a freezer. It's better to use a resealable plastic bag designed for freezers because it's thicker and much less likely to get damaged over time.
If you're using a bag, squeeze out as much air as you can before sealing the bag. This will reduce the amount of freezer burn your food experiences.
Alternatively, you can store your English muffins in a large, sealed container. Some people use a large plastic container to rotate bread through as needed, which provides even more protection. However, it also wastes some space in the freezer, so it's not a good choice for every family.
Finally, decide where you want to store your muffins. The best place is in the coldest part of the freezer, which is always somewhere in the back and usually lower in the freezer. The temperature is closest to constant there, which helps prevent freezer burn. Things near the front are more likely to experience changes.
You can put your English muffins closer to the front if you're using a thick plastic container. These containers don't change their temperature quickly enough when you open the door to hurt your food, so they provide added flexibility in storing food while maintaining quality.
Finally, regardless of where you store your English muffins, try to keep them away from anything with a strong odor. They might adopt those smells as part of their flavor, which can ruin the experience of eating them.
How Long Do English Muffins Last In The Freezer?
English muffins maintain most of their quality for three months. However, this is only true if you're storing them unheated and by themselves. If you're assembling meals out of them, such as freezing breakfast sandwiches, their lifespan is determined by the other ingredients in that meal and could range from a few days to a few weeks.
Can you freeze English muffins any longer than three months, you ask? Yes, you can.
While you should eat them within three months for the best quality, they'll last for up to six months if you need to keep them any longer. Past this point, they're likely to start suffering damage even if you stored them well.
Everything eventually dehydrates and experiences freezer burn, so make sure you have a plan to use the muffins and try to eat the oldest ones first.
What Is The Best Way To Store English Muffins?
As bread products, English muffins thaw considerably better than some other foods. You can use a toaster, an oven, or even your countertop (for a slower thaw) if needed
Storing them this way means you don't have to half-defrost them to separate them later, which makes them considerably easier to use.
For more information on storing English muffins and other types of food, make sure you familiarize yourself with the USDA guidelines.
How To Thaw English Muffins
For faster results, start by heating them for 20-30 seconds in your microwave. The time you'll need depends on the power of your microwave, so experiment a little and figure out what works best for you.
Optionally, you can put a paper towel around the muffins while you're microwaving them. This will help keep their remaining moisture in and stop them from drying out too much while you're reheating them.
You don't need to completely thaw them here. In fact, it's okay even if part of the muffin still feels cold and frozen. The goal of using a microwave this way is softening the muffins up a little and turning them from frozen solid to a more room-temperature setting.
Once they're partially thawed this way, you can put them in a toaster or toaster oven and finish heating them. They should end up near their normal toasting temperature and taste just fine. Bread is one of the more durable products you can put in the freezer, so you may not even notice the difference as long as you eat them within a few months of freezing.
English Muffin From Microwave
Advanced Toasting
Suppose you're going to heat English muffins in a toaster oven after thawing them. In that case, you can add ingredients after microwaving them (as described above) but before putting them into the toaster.
This is a great opportunity to add wetter toppings like pesto, meats, cheeses, or anything else you want to add that can be warmed up. However, the density of your toppings makes a large difference here. If you pile things on too thickly, the heat won't get all the way to the muffin and some parts will still be cold.
To mitigate this, try to avoid having the toppings be any thicker than the muffin itself. Similarly, experiment a little with your specific toppings and with different settings on your toaster oven to see what heats the best.
In many cases, toasting a little above the halfway point works out well for English muffins. While that might be too much for them normally, the extra ingredients will absorb most of the heat and help provide a consistent temperature for the final result.
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by Gretchen Marshall
WAEE conference participants who chose to attend the field
trip to the Southern Door School Forest were treated to a beautiful fall
afternoon. We were guided on a tour through the forest by elementary principal Laurie
Connell and school forest coordinator Mike Toneys. The 50 acre property
contains a diversity of habitats including a mixed hardwood forest, field,
pond, spruce plantation, and cave. This forest has some of the largest beech
trees I have ever seen! Trails run throughout the entire property and are
clearly marked on the sign located at the entrance to the forest.
What are students learning about at the forest? Here is a
snippet of a few of the things we discovered: Students and teachers gravitate
toward the pond to study the living organisms that inhabit it. There are a
handful of crudely constructed wildlife observation blinds that high school
students use to collect data. Beginning in elementary school, each student
receives a plot of land to study and collect data about each year. By the time
the students reach high school, they have ten to twelve years' worth of
research data. What a great longitudinal study!
Facilities on the property include a nature center and sugar
shack for maple syrup production. The nature center is a beautifully
refurbished farm building. This enclosed shelter is a place for classes to
gather and provides storage for supplies.
One of the most unique features of the school forest site is
the cave. While it is not accessible to students or staff, the Southern Door School
proudly boasts of its future environmental benefits. The cave entrance is
sealed, but has the potential to help rejuvenate the Wisconsin bat population currently
under threat from disease.
The Southern Door forest is a diverse property that hosts
excellent learning opportunities for the students and teachers who are fortunate
to be a part of this community. If you would like further information about the
Southern Door School Forest or its educational programming, please contact Mike
Toneys at _EMAIL_.


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overviewCryptocoryne crispatula, also known as the Balansae plant, has very long, thin leaves with ruffled edges and relatively short stems. This plant is amphibious, and when grown out of the water, the leaves will shorten, lose the ruffle, and take on a rounded appearance.
The Balansae plant requires a moderate amount of attention to maintain, but is rather flexible in the location of the aquarium where it can be incorporated. Plant the Balansae plant in the background, or sides of the aquarium, or use it as a focal point in the larger aquarium. It can also be used as a mid-ground plant in the smaller aquarium, by removing the mature leaves, in order to keep the plant short. It requires a moderate level of light of 2 to 3 watts per gallon provided by full spectrum (5000-7000K) bulbs.
Reproduction within this species is by adventitious plants, or by seed. Allow the new plant to form its own leaves prior to separating it from the mother plant, and relocating it in the aquarium.
The Balansae plant benefits from regular additions of CO2, iron rich fertilizers, and trace elements.
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I am thinking about an invasive species that was introduced into North America just a few (<20) generations ago. Using microsatellite genotypes (105 loci), I have identified almost no significant linkage across the genome. I'm tempted to speculate that this has something to do with rapid population expansion that has caused LD to decay that quickly, but I'm not sure whether this is a reasonable train of thought. Can anybody think of why this might or might not be the case?
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It is certainly possible as yes, rapid population growth will reduce LD. From Slatkin, 1994:
In a rapidly growing population, however, there will be little chance of finding significant nonrandom associations even between completely linked loci if the growth has been sufficiently rapid.
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Przeworski... showed that population growth tends to decrease the extent of LD, especially for longer periods of growth. By contrast, population subdivision tends to increase the extent of LD, especially when a sample contains individuals from several strongly differentiated subpopulations.
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Rapid population growth decreases LD by reducing genetic drift.
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Carbon sequestration rights on private and crown land
Parts 4 and 5 of the Climate Change Act 2010 create new, secure arrangements for the ownership, registration and transfer of forestry and carbon sequestration rights. These provisions ensure Victoria's natural resource and agricultural sectors can access the economic opportunities provided for under the Commonwealth Government's Carbon Farming Initiative.
Part 4 – Private land forestry rights, carbon sequestration rights and soil carbon rights
Part 4 of the Climate Change Act 2010 replaces the Forestry Rights Act 1996 with a new, comprehensive rights-based framework for carbon sequestered by forests and soil on private land.
The key features of the new legal framework are:
- the property rights of landowners, forest property owners and carbon investors are defined
- all parties must agree on management arrangements as part of the process of creating a Forest and Carbon Management Agreement (FCMA), which is then placed on land title
- Carbon rights are an interest that "runs with the land" – i.e. carbon rights remain attached to the land even if there is a change in land ownership.
The main benefits for private landowners, forest property owners and carbon investors are:
- landowners can directly sell carbon sequestered on their land. The reforms make it easier and simpler for private landholders to separately buy and sell forestry and carbon sequestration rights, without requiring a new management agreement every time a right is sold.
- all parties have greater legal certainty about management arrangements under the new FCMAs. These changes should minimise disputes about carbon claims under private agreements because the interests are now recorded on the title to land.
- improved investor confidence by positioning Victoria to take full advantage of national carbon markets or government-funded programs to establish carbon sinks.
While the Climate Change Act 2010 repeals the Forestry Rights Act 1996, these changes do not affect any existing forest property / carbon rights agreements made under the previous Act. People with arrangements under the Forestry Rights Act 1996 can choose to continue with those agreements or negotiate a new FCMA.
For further information about the customer information bulletin or forms published by Land Victoria, contact Land Victoria Customer Service on (03) 8636 2010.
Part 5 – Carbon sequestration on Crown land
Part 5 of the Climate Change Act 2010 recognises the value of sequestered carbon on Victoria's public land and establishes clear rules under which Crown land can be managed and used for carbon sequestration purposes. The Victorian Government may manage its own land or by arrangements with third parties, based on a new instrument known as carbon sequestration agreements (CSAs).
The Government will maintain its stewardship role on all public land and forests by sustainably managing forests to maximise value for the Victorian public.
For carbon sequestration projects on Crown land, the Department of Environment and Primary Industries Secretary:
- declares specified Crown land to be available for carbon sequestration
- holds carbon rights over Crown land subject to existing licences, leases and agreements, except in certain specified instances
- can enter into CSAs with other parties for carbon reforestation on Crown Land and grant carbon sequestration rights and soil carbon rights to third parties.
A Carbon Sequestration Agreement may authorise a person to access Crown land, plant and maintain vegetation on Crown land for the purposes of carbon sequestration, control carbon sequestered within vegetation or soil, and manage the land for the purpose of carbon sequestration.


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Tangang, Fredolin (2010) Climate change: is Southeast Asia up to the challenge?: the roles of climate variability and climate change on smoke haze occurrences in Southeast Asia region. IDEAS reports - special reports, Kitchen, Nicholas (ed.) SR004. LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
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This paper discusses the smoke-haze episodes in the Southeast Asia region and how their occurrence can be related to climate variability and future climate change in the region. The haze episode over this region has been an almost yearly occurrence but becomes severe during the prolonged dry period associated with the El Niño phenomenon. The longest and most severe case was the episode of September to November 1997 that occurred in conjunction with the extreme 1997/98 El Niño. This event resulted in more than US$4 billion in economic losses to the region and a colossal 93% of the cost was incurred in Indonesia.
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 You could remove it but part of the meaning would be lost. "ci" shows some kind of proximity (in space and/or in time) in regard to the person speaking.
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