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||ECOLOGY OF THE CALICIALES
On the basis of our field knowledge, we have made a list of
ecological factors we find significant for the distribution of
the Caliciales species in Norway:
- Microclimatic humidity. This is perhaps the
most important ecological factor for explaining the
distribution of the Caliciales species. The microclimatic
humidity is primarily a product of topography and
vegetation, not of precipitation.
- Substrate. There are great differences
between the species in their ability to grow on various
substrates. Some species are very specific regarding
substrate, while species with a wider ecological
amplitude with regard to substrate, may grow on both
organic and inorganic substrates. The most common
substrates are lignum, bark, bryophytes and siliceous
- Light. Some species grow on lignum exposed
to high light intensity, some may grow in root caves with
a very low light intensity, and others may grow
intermediate. Several species seem to tolerate low light
intensity because of the correlation with high humidity.
- Degree of decomposition of lignum. Whether
the lignum is deciduous or coniferous seems to be of less
importance. More important is probably the degree of
decomposition of the substrate. Slightly decomposed
lignum is hard, acid and dry, while well decomposed
lignum is softer, more acid and has a higher water
capacity tBarkman 1969).
- Dispersal. Most of the species, especially
the endosubstratic ones, depend on spore dispersal. The
spores are not actively dispersed, but stay in the
mazaedium. Short distance dispersal may happen by means
of tiny animals like mites. Dispersal of thallus
fragments occurs in the sorediose/granular species e.g. Chaenotheca
furfuracea, G. stemonea and G. subroscida.
- Continuity of the environment. Perhaps a
combination of stable humidity and small temperature
amplitude is of importance in climax forests with a high
ecological continuity. It is probable that e.g. Chaenotheca
subroscida and Cyphelium karelicum demand old
spruce forests, while Chaenotheca chysocephala also
thrives in younger forests. National parks usually have a
high frequency of Caliciales species.
- Pollution or influence of urban areas.
Several species avoid urban areas. This may be due to air
pollution or other environmental factors produced by
towns. Many Caliciales species probably do not tolerate
the dryness and the short continuity of the environment
in the urban areas. However, according to Barkman (1969),
Chaenotheca ferruginea has extended in urban areas
in Europe. We have not found this species to be very
frequent in the surroundings of Oslo.
- Competition. Bryophytes and lichens
(especially Cladonia spp.) are competitors for the
Caliciales species. On the Norwegian west coast, with
oceanic conditions, bryophytes are abundant on stems and
stumps. In the central and eastern parts of Fennoscandia,
with more continental conditions, Cladonia spp.
overgrow stumps and leave little room for the Caliciales


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Promoting Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: Are Coupons More Effective than Pure Price Discounts?
by Diansheng Dong
and Ephraim Leibtag
Economic Research Report No. (ERR-96) 31 pp, June 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture administers food and nutrition assistance programs that promote fruit and vegetable consumption. But consumption remains relatively low, with price cited as the main deterrent.
What Is the Issue?
A price-discount strategy in conjunction with existing programs might encourage participants in food and nutrition assistance programs to consume more fruits and vegetables. This study looks at coupons and price discounts, two methods of lowering the cost of fruits and vegetables, and uses household purchase data and a consumer demand model to determine which method may be more successful in encouraging produce consumption.
What Did the Study Find?
Coupons influence consumer behavior through a dual effect-a price-discount effect and an informational advertising effect. Because of this dual effect, the use of a coupon to increase fruit and vegetable purchases may be more effective than a pure price-discount policy or other noncoupon promotion.
- For a 10-percent coupon usage rate, lowering prices by 10 percent with a coupon would increase average weekly quantity purchases by 2 percent for fruits and 2.1 percent for vegetables. (A"coupon usage" rate is defined as the percentage of purchases in which households use the coupon when buying fruits and vegetables in a given time period.) A 30-percent usage rate simulation shows a larger effect-over 6 percent for fruits and over 6.5 percent for vegetables-while a 50-percent usage rate shows just over a 10-percent effect for both fruits and vegetables.
- By comparison, a pure price discount of 10 percent would likely have about a 6-percent effect for both fruits and vegetables.
- If coupon usage turned out to be less than 30 percent, then the overall effect of coupons would be lower than a pure price discount policy because the price discount applies to everybody (it has a 100-percent usage rate).
- The informational effect of coupons might decline as coupon use became more common or if coupons were distributed electronically instead of in paper form.
- Even a 10-percent increase in purchases of fruits and vegetables-the result assuming the highest coupon usage rate-would still leave consumption at about 65 percent of the recommended level of 5 or more servings a day.
The success of attempts to use coupons to increase consumption of fruits and vegetable by low-income households would depend on the distribution method (paper or electronic), on the number of households that actually use the coupons, on the size of the discount offered by the coupon, and on the coupon's ease of use.
How Was the Study Conducted?
This analysis relies on data from the 2004 Nielsen Homescan panel. The data include household purchase information for fruits and vegetables, coupon usage information, and households' demographic characteristics. The 2004 panel was made up of 8,482 households that reported purchases of products marked with bar codes as well as other purchases.
To estimate the dual effect of coupons on fruit and vegetable demand, the marked purchase renewal model was used, including three variables that may affect purchase quantity and/or frequency: (1) the gross price paid, (2) an indicator variable that tracks whether a coupon was used, and (3) the value of a redeemed coupon used during a given shopping trip. Elasticity estimates from the analysis then were used to conduct a simulation to compare the effect of coupons as compared with a pure price discount on fruit and vegetable purchase behavior.

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In this exercise, students will learn how to:
|Figure 5.4.1 - Enhancing a viewpoint to better communicate a conflict requiring resolution|
- Create a viewpoint that highlights the conflicts between the concrete beams and the exposed oval duct HVAC system in the ceiling space of Level 1. Try making the lighting fixtures transparent to reduce clutter in the view.
- Duplicate a viewpoint from that same camera angle and fine-tune the appearance to highlight the clearance problems that existing between the lighting fixtures and the exposed oval duct HVAC system. Try making the beams transparent and hiding any elements that obstruct the view.
- Create an exterior rendering of the composite model testing different material finishes on the architectural shell of the building. Use a natural sky as the background for the image.
Figure 5.4.2 - Rendered preview of the interior of retail space on Level 1


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The Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital School took part in a cross curriculum learning session today.
A multi-stimulating morning where our focus was to practise our french language skills..
The children had help with their french from a surprise visit from Claude Monet the artist himself (authentically portrayed by Bespoken's Greg.) Greg taught us all about Impressionism and what inspired Monet's wonderful paintings.
The children practised their french skills by welcoming Monet to the school and learning about the different colors in French.
We celebrated french culture by tasting french delicacies at snack time and then created some still life impressions inspired by the work of Monet.

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Manual changeover switch valves
Your gas supply will stop when a gas bottle is empty.
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In actual use it would be set to the left or right.
How can I tell how much gas is left in my cylinder?
How to Check How Much Gas is Left in Your Gas Bottle
This test works with either 45kg home gas bottles or BBQ gas bottles:
Checking Gas Level
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More water is better, as it will make it easier to feel the difference in temperature.
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Flights, meat and video streaming: What people in the EU, the US and China are willing to give up to fight climate change
The second release of the 2020-2021 EIB Climate Survey explores people's attitudes and views on climate change in a rapidly changing world. The results from this release focus on how people intend to fight climate change in 2021, what they are willing to give up to tackle the climate crisis, and how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their travel habits and intentions to fight climate change.
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Are You Curious About The Secrets Of The Iguana?
Are You Curious About The Secrets Of The Iguana? 1
Bali Safari Park is a conservation place for various species of animals. For these animals Bali Safari Park has become a "home" for them. There are more than one hundred species of animals that live in Bali Safari Park. You can see animals that have begun to scarce, even animals that are almost extinct.
Animals in the Bali Safari Park include Orangutans, Naga Komodo, Bali Mynah or Jalak Bali birds, and many other species. Bali Safari Park is indeed actively carrying out conservation programs to ensure the welfare and survival of various rare species of animals.
You who want to get a pleasant holiday, full of experience, and also get valuable lessons about animals, then Bali Safari and Marine Park is the right holiday destination.
Bali Safari Park is a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Zoos and is a member of the Conservation Breeding Specialist Group. Bali Safari Park is also on the list of Indonesian Zoological Park Associations. The place used for conservation of various animal species is in Gianyar, Bali.
You can see various species of wild animals and iguanas. You will feel the atmosphere that is very similar to wild African savanna when visiting Bali Safari Park. You who really want to see Iguana can visit Bali Safari Park.
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Iguanas are one of the popular reptiles and are sometimes used as pets. These iguanas come from the forests of the Caribbean, Central America and South America. Iguanas have a tendency to be aggressive and they can feel quickly comfortable in a new place. Many interesting facts related to Iguanas.
"Secret" Facts About Iguanas
Iguanas have many "secret" things, namely various facts that are rarely known to people. Here are the various secrets of Iguana:
 1. Iguanas have body lengths of 1.5 meters to 1.8 meters or 5 to 6 feet. This length includes the length of the tail;
 2. Lizard species included in the genus Iguana have a long line of scales, starting from the middle line of the Iguana neck to the tail. Meanwhile, Iguanas have scales in different areas of the body. Iguanas have several scales scattered around the lateral area of the neck. In addition, there are also smaller scales. The dorsal scales of the Iguana's body also have conditions that are thicker and denser than those on the side of the abdomen;
 3. Iguanas have very sharp vision, so they can see shadows, colors, shapes, and movements from a distance. The visual acuity possessed by Iguana makes them capable of navigating crowded forests. The ability is also beneficial for bafi Iguana to find food. Iguanas use visual signals to communicate with each other Iguana species;
 4. Iguanas have extraordinary eye vision to detect and target prey in very long distances;
 5. Tympanum or Iguana eardrum is above the sub-tympanic shield, also known as the ear shield behind the eye;
 6. Iguanas are often difficult to recognize because they can blend with their environment with colors that can adjust the surrounding conditions. This allows Iguanas to hide from predators;
 7. Iguanas have a heart with three chambers, namely with one ventricle, two atria, and also two aorta with systemic circulation;
 8. Iguanas have very bright muscles due to the high proportion of glycolytic muscle fibers. These fibers have a low myoglobin content, making the appearance of the Iguana look pale;
 9. Iguanas can move very quickly in a fast duration, but are not efficient for long duration movements. This is because cellular respiration in Iguana glycolytic muscle fibers is anaerobic;
 10. Iguanas "talk" to each other through a series of eye movements;
 11. Iguanas can adapt easily in open areas;
 12. Iguanas can adapt to the water environment, so they can swim. Therefore, Iguanas tend to like the water environment.
 13. Iguanas can easily change from one tree to another when they feel threatened by predators.
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Are You Curious About The Secrets Of The Iguana? 2
Iguanas do have an aggressive nature, they can bite people when they feel threatened. The condition was only carried out by Iguana to defend himself. Iguanas have sharp teeth that can tear food and opponents quickly.
When going to attack or bite, the Iguana will usually stand up, then lean to the front, and lower his head. This condition is a signal that the Iguana is under threat. You can learn more specifically by seeing Iguana directly at Bali Safari Park.
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Every year a new set of 20 practice questions are published here on the website. These have grown into a question bank which you can use to test yourself and practise for the heats or finals. Please choose a year from those listed below.
During the KLQ Heats, the quizmaster reads ten rounds of ten questions, and the teams write down their answers, which are collected and marked. Each round is themed. Previous categories have included: poetry, authors, titles, settings, characters, and nursery rhymes. Quizmaster Wayne Mills writes original questions for each quiz (that's several thousand each year).
In the National and World Finals a buzzer system is used. Each team starts with 10 points. They lose a point if they answer a question incorrectly. The quizmaster starts reading a question and teams buzz when they have an answer. If they answer incorrectly the quizmaster continues to read that question, but the team that buzzed cannot try that question again.
As well as the practice questions above, why not test yourself with a set of twenty questions from a previous final?

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Electric drive systems are seen to be the key to environmentally-aware, individual mobility in the future for commercial goods transport as well. Battery-powered vans offer a very promising solution, in particular for urban and short-radius distribution: they do not produce carbon dioxide or pollutant emissions, and cause significantly lower noise levels than vehicles with conventional drive systems.
As they are emission-free locally – i.e. they emit no pollutants whatsoever at their application location – in many cases electrified vans can also be used where conventionally driven vehicles are denied access: in city centres with entry restrictions, in environmentally sensitive areas such as pedestrian zones, in health resorts and parks or in closed exhibition halls.
With the Vito E-CELL, Mercedes-Benz is heralding a new era of electric mobility. Its drive concept is designed purely for electric operation and does without the drive system designed for internal combustion engines, so it is aimed at commercial customers who mainly use their vans in urban areas and for short distances. First and foremost these include fleet operators, public institutions, delivery companies and courier, express and parcel services. As part of the research initiative "Stuttgart as a model region for electric mobility", which is being sponsored by the German Transport Ministry, a small series of the Vito E-CELL has been undergoing trials under realistic conditions with selected test customers since mid-2010.


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Six Life Stages in the Life of a Cat
The Feline Advisory Bureau has identified six stages in a cat's life. Whilst each cat is unique, at certain stages of their lives, cats can be prone to certain health problems. Find out below what life stage your cat is in, what to be aware of and what you can do to ensure your cat lives a long and healthy life.
KITTEN – Birth to 6 months
- Check for conditions which may have been present since birth eg cleft palate.
- Agree diet, identification (eg microchipping) and discuss any behavioural issues.
- Kittens can be neutered from 4 months old.
JUNIOR – 7 months to 2 years
- Common health problems at this stage:
- Infectious diseases
- Problems related to hunting, fighting and trauma
- Can develop certain life-threatening conditions such as heart disease
- Priority is your cat's first vaccination booster and this should continue annually to maintain immunity
- After neutering, cats can put on weight – ask your veterinary team for advice on the correct weight for your cat and how to maintain that weight
PRIME – 3 years to 6 years
- Conditions that can arise include obesity, dental disease, cystitis, intestinal diseases, heart disease and behavioural problems. Regular healthchecks at the vets are very important.
- Parasite control very important especially as most cats this age are still keen hunters.
MATURE – 7 years to 10 years
- Increased risk of "older cat" conditions such as diabetes, kidney disease, high blood pressure, hyperthyroidism and cancer. Close monitoring by you and regular checkups at the vets are important. Signs to look out for include change in thirst, weight loss, vomiting, poor coat condition, diarrhoea.
- Obesity can also be a major problem in cats between 6 and 8 years old.
- Obesity can lead to many of the more serious conditions such as diabetes.
SENIOR – 11 years to 14 years
- More likely to suffer from the conditions described under the Mature stage.
- All these conditions are treatable so don't put it down to "old age" and let your cat suffer in silence.
- More likely to suffer from arthritis – for which treatment is available - and can also suffer from the equivalent of senile dementia.
GERIATRIC – 15 years +
- It is an achievement for a cat to reach this life stage!
- Cats of this age need to be monitored and check more regularly for all of the conditions referred to in the Mature and Senior life stages. Even at this age, your cat is still eligible for the treatment now available for all the conditions referred to.
For more information about the life stages of cats and plenty more "cat" information, visit _URL_.


What's the difference between these 'falses' (שקר and שוא?), how does one distinguish them from one another?
Or are these kind of testimonies and utterings the same?
Short answer
שֶׁקֶר and שָׁוְא are partially synonymous. שֶׁקֶר is a lie. שָׁוְא carries multiple related meanings - lie, false, null, nothing, for nothing, vain etc.
 - עֵד שָׁקֶר - Loosely "Liar witness", synonymous to עֵד שָׁוְא.
 - שֵׁמַע שָׁוְא - Seems to mean either "Liar witness" or "False witness".
Long answer
Pronounced "Shav". Can be translated to:
I found the word 204 times in the Bible, and the meaning varies according to the context.
Pronounced "Sheker".
שֶׁקֶר is a lie, שקרן is a liar, שבועת שקר is perjury (literally - "lie oath").
There word appears 391 times in the bible. It seems that most of the times it carries the meaning of a plain lie.
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 - thank you, P.s. I thought there might be a little nuance between the form of the lie or falsehood presented by each word. First I was thinking of something like Falsity vs Lie. But it seems to be more subtle. One שקר seems to be about twisting the truth, leaving out parts of truth, or just telling parts of truth etc. which simply sum up means lying. But the other seem to be more a kind of lie made out of thin air, without a base or proper arguments; they are vain, null, made up and false. What do you think? – Levi Dec 31 '16 at 21:15
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 Welcome to the site Adam. Thanks for the answer. Note that questions about the Hebrew language are of-topic here. This question is only on topic inasmuch as it asks about the definition of Biblical phrases and laws. To answer such a question, authoritative sources should be cited; not just modern Hebrew equivalents. Consider learning more about the site from this short Beginners' Guide: meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/a/3887/8775. – mevaqesh Jan 1 '17 at 0:44
 - _USER_ - Thanks for the clarification, will certainly do. – Adam Matan Jan 1 '17 at 6:22
 - _USER_ I think you got it right. – Adam Matan Jan 1 '17 at 6:23
The Gemara in Shavuos 21a says
מיתיבי אי זו היא שבועת שוא נשבע לשנות את הידוע לאדם שבועת שקר נשבע להחליף אימא נשבע ומחליף
What is a שבועת שוא? That is to change what is known to man. [What is a] שבועת שקר? Someone who makes an oath to change. Rather say, he makes an oath and changed.
Rashi says:
נשבע להחליף - לשנות את האמת בשבועתו היינו לשעבר כגון אכלתי ולא אכל לא אכלתי ואכל:
אימא נשבע ומחליף - נשבע לעשות ואחר כך החליף את דברו ולא עשה או שלא לעשות ועשה:
Makes and oath to change - to change the truth with his oath about the past. For example, [he says] 'I ate', but he didn't eat. 'I didn't eat' [but] he did.
Rather say makes an oath and changes - He makes an oath to do something and then changes his words and doesn't do. Or [he makes an oath] not to do [something] and he does.
The Malbim explains שוא
שגדר השוא בדיוק הוא דבר שאין בו ממש שנדע לכל שאין ממש בדבריו
The parameter of שוא exactly is something that has no substance, that it is known to all there is no substance to his words.
And he explains שקר
ששקר הוא היפך המציאות
That שקר is the opposite of the reality.
שקר would be something that has some benefit or substance to it in some facet, whether the speaker gains something by the lie, or the lie could possibly be true or is true in some facet. שוא lacks any sort of benefit or substance to it.
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According to the Etymological Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew based on the commentaries of Samson Raphael Hirsch by Mattityahu Clark, the root שוא means to lack value and content (e.g. vanity; taking G-d's Name in vain), whilst the root שקר means to lie deliberately or to express falsehood.
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This paper describes PSEUDEC, a dedicated co-processor and the rationale behind its design. The final goal of our work is to present a single chip solution with low power consumption for an advanced digital hearing aid based on a parameterized transformation of speech (PARTRAN). Characterization of the constituent parts of the PARTRAN algorithm shows that it is well suited for implementation on a heterogeneous architecture. The design strategy used identifies a subset for implementation on dedicated hardware, with a computational complexity roughly equivalent to the performance of a standard 10 MIPS DSP. The subset of PARTRAN implemented by PSEUDEC performs pseudo-decomposition of a 12th order LPC polynomial. An adapted algorithm displays improved dynamic range compared to the conventional solution for DSPs, calculating the amplitude spectrum rather than the power spectrum. Highly pipelined CORDIC-units optimized for the application replaces complex multiplication, trigonometric operations (for e) and square root (for |a|=√(ar2+ai2)), exploiting the power of CORDIC operations in advanced DSP algorithms. PSEUDEC uses redundant data representation and bit-serial arithmetic, most significant digit first (on-line arithmetic) for efficient implementation of operators and for efficient (inter-operator) communication. The inherent nature of on-line arithmetic and the operators used allows for fast and efficient implementation even when using ordinary standard cells
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 4. Make sure the Living Quarter's wings are ungrouped. Align the cylinder to the wing on the right of the door. Choose Adjust>Align and select the wing to have the cylinder move toward the wing. Center the cylinder on the X and Y axis.
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Myanmar or Burma: Can the West Help?
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Does God Believe in Human Rights?
How to Complain to the UN Human Rights Treaty System
For the Sake of Humanity
The Changing Face of Religion and Human Rights
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Human rights treaties are at the core of the international system for the promotion and protection of human rights. The aim of this book is to empower individuals with the knowledge of how to use the UN Human Rights Treaty System to complain to an impartial international body about violations of their rights by states. Although this right is limited to claims against states that voluntarily permit complaints to be made against them, the UN human rights treaty system now applies to one-quarter of the world's population.
It is of vital importance for individuals to understand the procedures of putting the mechanics of the human rights treaty system into practice if the potential of the system is to be realized. Dissemination by human rights advocacy groups and by the UN itself of clearly defined actions and steps that can be taken by individuals to initiate a complaint is a challenging task. This book provides a clear explanation of the complexities of the UN human rights treaty system and the methodology to employ its procedures to successfully navigate a claim through its proper course.
Key beneficiaries of the information presented in this book are the individual victims of human rights abuses for whose protection the UN human rights treaty system was created. Human rights organizations, advocacy groups, government agencies, and all practitioners working to confront the widespread incidents of human rights violations around the world will find this volume a useful ally in providing the practical knowledge and tools needed in their common struggle.
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Two tarantulas may be on the loose in a village after three of their babies were found abandoned in a car park.
The RSPCA said it had rescued the baby Brazilian bird-eating spiders after they were found discarded in pots in Derbyshire.
Inspectors said the containers were run over by a vehicle in the village of Somercotes but the driver believes he saw two "larger spiders" possibly the parents – scuttling away.
The tarantula is thought to be the Brazilian salmon pink bird-eater, one of the world's largest of the species with a leg span of up to 25cm.
The spiders are partially pink and usually live on the forest floor in Brazil and eat insects, lizards, mice and the occasional small bird.
Experts said the missing tarantulas may not survive long in English weather. Yet the unseasonably warm climate has led to concerns they may roam for longer than expected.
Kristy Ludlam, an RSPCA inspector, said an "understandably shaken" woman had found the baby spiders in Bateman's Yard livery stable's car park in Somercotes last Thursday and contacted the RSPCA as she is terrified of them.
"It appears someone ran over two of the pots and the driver told the woman who called us he thought he saw two larger spiders. No bodies were found, so it is assumed they may have escaped," she said.
"We collected all the pots and took them to a specialist who found three baby arachnids in them, which he believes are bird-eating spiders – when he opened one pot a spider ran up his arm.
"He is keeping all the pots warm and secure as there is a possibility more eggs may hatch."
It is an offence under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act to release or allow any non-native species to escape into the wild.
The owner of a nearby kennels and cattery said she was very worried. "Two of the workers ran around the kennels screaming when they heard the news," said Sarah Towndrow from Birchwood boarding kennels and cattery in Birchwood Lane, near where the pots were found.
"We are getting a vet out so they can take a good look and advise us on what we need to do. We're also all going to be searching the area to make sure they're not here and then report it if they're here.
"They could cause real harm to the animals here, so we will be keeping a very close eye on them. There's a lot of places they could hide and keep out of the way so the search will be very thorough. People feel frightened and it makes the animals vulnerable."
The rescued spiders have been taken to Arnold and Carlton veterinary centre in Nottingham where they will be cared for until they are ready to be rehomed, the RSPCA said.


Temple of Confucius in Beijing, Kong Miao
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Temple of Confucius in Beijing
Located on Guozijian Street inside Anding Gate, the Temple of Confucius in Beijing is the place where people paid homage to Confucius during the Yuan Dynasty (_PHONE_), Ming Dynasty (_PHONE_) and Qing Dynasty (_PHONE_). Its neighbor in the west is Beijing Imperial Academy (Guozijian), which was the institute of the highest education well preserved in China.
It was initially built in 1302 and additions were made during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It has a total area of 22,000 square meters (5.4 acres). It is the second largest temple constructed for Confucius, the greatest thinker and educationalist in ancient China, ranking only behind the Temple of Confucius in Qufu, Shandong Province.
This temple consists of four courtyards. The main structures include Xianshi Gate (Gate of the First Teacher), Dacheng Gate (Gate of Great Accomplishment), Dacheng Hall (Hall of Great Accomplishment) and Chongshengci (Worship Hall). Dacheng Hall is the main building in the temple, where the memorial ceremony for the sage was often held. Inside the temple one can see that 198 stone tablets are positioned on either side of the front courtyard, containing 51,624 names of Jinshi (the advanced scholars) of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Also 14 stone stele pavilions of the Ming and Qing dynasties hold the precious historical information of ancient China.
Dacheng Hall, Beijing Confucius Temple
Dacheng Hall
Statue of Confucius
Statue of Confucius
One item of note is the 700-year-old Chujian Bai (Touch Evil Cypress) in the temple. Its name is associated with an ancient legend. During the Ming Dynasty, one day the superior official-Yan Song came to worship the sage on behalf of the emperor. When he was passing by the cypress, one of the branches of the tree took his hat off. Since Yan Song was a treacherous official, people have thought the old tree could distinguish between good and evil people. Hence its name.
In the temple, you can also find remarkable pictures like two flying dragons playing a pearl among clouds, which are believed to be used only in the imperial palaces because dragon stands for emperor in ancient China. From those, it is easy to imagine the importance of this temple in the feudal society of China.
Beijing Confucius Temple Temple of Confucius
By Bus:
Take bus 13 or 684, and get off at Guozijian Station.
Take bus 13, 116, 117 or 684, and get off at Yonghegong Station.
Take bus 13, 18, 44, 62, 684, 75, 116, 909 or 特2 and get off at Yonghegong Qiao Dong Station.
Take bus 125 and get off at Yonghegong Qiao Bei Station.
By Subway:
Subway Line 2: get off at Yonghegong Station, get out of the station from Exit C (Southwest Exit), and walk south about 600 meters, then you'll find Guozijian Street where this temple and Imperial Academy located.
Subway Line 5: get off at Yonghegong Station, and get out of the station from Exit D (Southwest Exit).
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Admission Fee: CNY 30 (including Guo Zi Jian - The Imperial College)
Opening Hours: May 1 to October 31: 08:30 to 18:00 (ticket sales ends at 17:30)
November 1 to next April 30: 08:30 to 17:00 (ticket salesends at 16:30)
Recommended Time for a Visit: One hour
 Recommended Tour including the visit to this temple:
One Day Beijing Tour: Panda House - Lama Temple - Confucius Temple - Imperial Academy - Skewed Tobacco Pouch Street
More Beijing Tours
 Nearby Attractions:
 Yonghe Lamasery
 Guijie Street
 Further Reading:
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Andrographolide Sodium Bisulfate Prevents UV-Induced Skin Photoaging through Inhibiting Oxidative Stress and Inflammation.Abstract:
Andrographolide sodium bisulfate (ASB), a water-soluble form made from andrographolide through sulfonating reaction, is an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory drug; however, the antiphotoaging effect of ASB has still not been revealed. Oxidative stress and inflammation are known to be responsible for ultraviolet (UV) irradiation induced skin damage and consequently premature aging. In this study, we aimed at examining the effect of ASB on UV-induced skin photoaging of mice by physiological and histological analysis of skin and examination of skin antioxidant enzymes and immunity analyses. Results showed that topical administration of ASB suppressed the UV-induced skin thickness, elasticity, wrinkles, and water content, while ASB, especially at dose of 3.6 mg/mouse, increased the skin collagen content by about 53.17%, decreased the epidermal thickness by about 41.38%, and prevented the UV-induced disruption of collagen fibers and elastic fibers. Furthermore, ASB decreased MDA level by about 40.21% and upregulated the activities of SOD and CAT and downregulated the production of IL-1β, IL-6, IL-10, and TNF-α in UV-irradiated mice. Our study confirmed the protective effect of ASB against UV-induced photoaging and initially indicated that this effect can be attributed to its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities in vivo, suggesting that ASB may be a potential antiphotoaging agent.
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Many economists have long criticized government "economic development" programs—including selective business subsidies and tax incentives—as being wasteful and ineffective at "creating" new jobs.
But there is another reason to be skeptical of these programs: They are fundamentally unfair. By taking taxes paid by all businesses and using them to subsidize only some businesses or industries at the expense of the others, government unbalances the economic playing field.
The poor economics and unjust nature of these programs highlights an aspect of privatization known as shedding, whereby government eliminates certain of its functions entirely and leaves things to the more efficient resource allocation of competitive markets. One candidate for shedding is the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC),
A Case Study in Unfairness
A particularly egregious example of government "economic development" unfairness involves Boar's Head Provision Company, a meat products company headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. In exchange for Boar's Head's promise to invest $14 million and create 450 new jobs over the next three years, the Michigan Jobs Commission (predecessor to the MEDC) arranged in 1998 to give Boar's Head an "economic development package" worth up to $5.1 million in federal, state, and local resources. The package includes up to $3 million for equipment leasing, an abatement of the 6-mill state education tax of up to $212,590, and as much as $1,000 per worker for training. Armed with these "incentives," the company opened a processing plant near Holland, Michigan, on December 13, 1999.
In press releases, statements, and reports, the MEDC will count its deal with Boar's Head as adding 450 "new jobs" to Michigan's economy. What its press releases will not reveal is the impact of the deal on other Michigan businesses, such as Koegel Meats, Inc., in Flint.
Like Boar's Head, Koegel makes meat products. A Michigan-based family business for three generations, Koegel produces an extensive line of cold cuts and the popular "Koegel's Vienna Frankfurters" that are grilled by the millions in Michigan backyards every summer. Its products use recipes devised by Albert Koegel when he emigrated from Germany to Michigan and started the company in 1916. The firm sells 99 percent of its product in Michigan and employs 110 people at its Flint facility.
Al Koegel, son of the founder, is not one to make a big fuss about unfair competition. Like his dad before him and his son John who will carry on after him, Koegel would rather run the business than spend time lobbying politicians for special favors. He cannot help but point out when asked, however, that for all of its 85 years, Koegel Meats always paid its taxes and never took a dime of taxpayer money: no abatements, no subsidies. The company always trained its own employees with its own funds. Koegel once even turned down federal money for job training because he did not want the hassle of red tape and paperwork.
The Koegel story is the classic American free enterprise, Horatio Alger story. A German immigrant comes to America seeking opportunity, settles in Michigan, starts a company, works hard, and succeeds. His family keeps the business here through thick and thin in one of the most high-tax, economically distressed areas of the state. The business focuses on its customers and it grows—taking no public money and paying full freight in taxes year in and year out.
Now taxpayers, including the Koegel family, are being forced to help subsidize a New York firm that will compete directly with Koegel Meats.
Leveling the Economic Playing Field
The claims of MEDC to "create" jobs with its subsidies and tax packages for companies like Boar's Head are not borne out under scrutiny for several reasons. One reason is that any jobs Boar's Head does create come only at the expense of potential opportunities at other firms whose resources have been taxed away to make Boar's Head's jobs possible. Those resources are no longer available to those firms to build or expand facilities and train or hire new workers for themselves.
Another reason is that with Michigan's low unemployment rate, Boar's Head will find it difficult to find jobless workers to fill whatever jobs it does create. Boar's Head workers will most likely only be drawn from other Michigan businesses, most of which used their own funds to train and hire the workers in the first place. In this way MEDC job "creation" is really only job shifting.
A level playing field, where all businesses are treated fairly and equitably under the law, is the cornerstone of true economic development. Government cannot "create" jobs, but it can remove barriers to entrepreneurship so that everyone can compete equally in the marketplace of opportunity. Lansing policy makers should re-consider the MEDC's role in Michigan's economy and whether or not state government should be involved in "economic development" at all.
Michael LaFaive is managing editor of Michigan Privatization Report.


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Poetry of emily dickinson
What is Emily Dickinson's style of poetry?
Emily Dickinson's writing style is most certainly unique. She used extensive dashes, dots, and unconventional capitalization, in addition to vivid imagery and idiosyncratic vocabulary. Instead of using pentameter, she was more inclined to use trimester, tetrameter, and even dimeter at times.
What are the main themes in Emily Dickinson poetry?
What type of poetic meter Did Emily Dickinson frequently employ?
Emily Dickinson wrote in what is known as "common meter". Common meter includes alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. Dickinson probably chose this meter because it was commonly used in… (The entire section contains 112 words.)
Why is Emily Dickinson a great poet?
Emily Dickinson, regarded as one of America's greatest poets, is also well known for her unusual life of self-imposed social seclusion. Living a life of simplicity and seclusion, she yet wrote poetry of great power; questioning the nature of immortality and death, with at times an almost mantric quality.
What is unique about Emily Dickinson's poems?
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Is Emily Dickinson a feminist?
Her honest and uninhibited writing made her an early feminist voice, even as she maintained an outward appearance of submissiveness. Nearly two centuries after Dickinson's birth, her witty and frequently subversive poems are widely read, taught, and studied.
Why does Emily Dickinson use capitalization?
Emily Dickinson capitalized certain words to highlight and intensify the meaning. The capitalization is used to set apart the words so she can present them in a symbolic way. Some critics say that Dickinson wrote her poetry to celebrate the exact and perfection of a word.
What made Emily Dickinson different from other poets?
Emily Dickinson has a very unique style of writing that many people do not understand. Two characteristics of her writing that set her apart from other writers are the use of capitalization, and the use of dashes throughout her poems.
How happy is the little stone by Emily Dickinson analysis?
Summary of How Happy Is The Little Stone
'How Happy Is The Little Stone' by Emily Dickinson is a short, charming poem that depicts happiness through the image of a rambling stone. The poem dives into the simple life and nature of a single stone that rambles along the road by itself.
Which type of meter is used most often?
iambic pentameter
Does Emily Dickinson use free verse?
Emily Dickinson is famous as the mother of American English free verse. This poem does not have consistent metrical patterns, musical patterns, or rhyme. Rather, following the rhythm of natural speech, it gives an artistic expression to the ideas it contains.
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What do you call a poem with 8 syllables per line?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Trochaic octameter is a poetic meter that has eight trochaic metrical feet per line. Each foot has one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. Trochaic octameter is a rarely used meter.
Is Emily Dickinson blind?
James Jackson, until her symptoms apparently subsided. The key medical concern of Dickinson's adult life was an eye affliction suffered in her mid-thirties, during her most prolific period of writing poems. … For Dickinson, who feared blindness, prolongation of this illness was agonizing in ways beyond the physical.
Did Emily Dickinson kill herself?
May 15, 1886
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Eosin Y is an important tracer in groundwater studies for determining water migration paths and identifying the distribution of environmental pollutants.
Susanne Fabel and Holger Franz, Dionex Corporation
Eosin Y is an important tracer in groundwater studies for determining water migration paths and identifying the distribution of environmental pollutants. Spectrofluorimetry, capillary LC/fluorescence, and HPLC-fluorescence are approaches to sensitively detect Eosin Y (1, 2). HPLC provides a convenient way to separate eosin from humic substances and interfering tracers. Figure 1 shows the separation of an Eosin standard from impurities obtained with a binary gradient. A gradient is used to reduce peak broadening and improve signal-to-noise ratio. Zero carry-over is assured by wash cycles before and after the injection.
The variable emission filter of the UltiMate® 3000 RSLC fluorescence detector is a unique method development tool for real-time compound related sensitivity optimization. To find the best filter, the excitation wavelength at 511 nm and the emissions wavelength at 537 nm were kept constant. An Eosin Y standard was repeatedly injected with filter positions alternating between a cut-off at 280 nm, 370 nm, 435 nm, 530 nm, and no filter. The best signal-to-noise ratio was achieved with the filter wheel position at 435 nm.
The following LODs and LOQs are obtained injecting a 9.5 fg/ ?L Eosin Y standard (three replicates):
LOQ (S/N=10)=2.9 ng/L
LOD (S/N=3)=0.87 ng/L
Binary UltiMate 3000 RSLC system with FLD-3400RS fluorescence detector. Filter water samples through 0.2 μm filter frit.
Mobile Phase: Eluent A: 10 mM sodium acetate buffer, pH 5.5
Eluent B: Acetonitrile
Wash solvent: Acetonitrile/Water (5/95 % v/v)
Column: Acclaim RSLC 120 C18, 2.2 μm, 50 × 2.1 mm
Column Temp.: 30 °C
Flow rate: 0.7 mL/min
Gradient: 0–1.1 min 24–50% B, 1.1–1.3 min 50–100% B, 1.2–1.8 100% B, 1.8–2.017 100–24% B, 2.0–4.0 24% B.
Detection: Emission wavelength 511 nm; Excitation wavelength 537 nm, Filter Wheel 435 nm, Response Time: 2 s, Data collection rate: 100 Hz, Lamp Mode: High Power
Flow cell: analytical (8 μL)
(1) W. C. Brumley and J. W. Farley, Electrophoresis, 24, 2335–2339 (2003).
(2) R. E .J. Van Soest, J. P. Chervet, M. Ursem, J. M. Suijlen, LCGC International, 1996, September, 586–593.
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Qikun Xue has made groundbreaking discoveries to novel quantum phenomena by using molecule beam epitaxy, an advanced thin film growth method that allows thin film to grow layer by layer and in a crystalline form on a substrate.
Charles Campbell receives this award "For seminal contributions to determining accurate adsorption energetics and for developing key concepts for the analysis of important catalytic reactions". Our congratulations from the publishing team at Elsevier Physics, Dr. Campbell!
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How to Humanize Delorean Datetime Objects
Introduction
Working with datetime can be a bit daunting and challenging, and handling datetime in Python is no exception. Python's built-in datetime module introduced us to several classes - date, datetime, time, timezone and timedelta, and several external libraries have spawned to address the issues present in the official module, such as Arrow.
In this guide, we'll take a look at how to humanize datetime objects in Delorean - a library built upon pytz which is the standard library for solving problems relating to time zones, and dateutil which is used to calculate deltas between any 2 given datetime objects.
Installing Delorean Setting Up a Virtual Environment
Delorean is available for installation via pip. It is generally advisable to work in a virtual environment because it enables you to organize dependencies required by different projects isolated.
On Linux, or MacOS to create a virtual environment, we'd run:
$ python3 -m venv env
$ source env/bin/activate
$ python3 -m pip install delorean
Alternatively, on Windows we can run:
$ virtualenv env
$ .\env\Scripts\activate
$ python3 -m pip install delorean
Humanizing Delorean Datetime Objects with humanize()
While Epoch timestamps are extremely precise and great for digital devices - they're not too understandable by humans. We don't have a cognitive awareness of such scales. Additionally, we don't naturally comprehend dates the way computers do, except for some more rare occasions. Most people might not have known what date it is, were it not for the constant clock and calendar built into most digital devices - from stationary to mobile.
For most of the time, we've been dealing with time in reference to where we are now. When did you see your friend? On the 12th of July, 2021, or yesterday? The humanize() function takes a factual date, and turns it into what people would use while conveying the time of an event:
import delorean
datetime_strings = ["Thu July 12 2021", "June 5th, 2021", "April 28th, 2052"]
for date in datetime_strings:
 delorean_object = delorean.parse(date)
 human_date = delorean_object.humanize()
 print(human_date)
These date strings are parsed into Delorean objects and then humanized:
4 hours from now
a month ago
30 years from now
This is a great feature for annotating the time before or until events on applications. For example, you might tell a user that they've received a notification a day ago, or that a concert is coming up in a month. This can also be switched between if the event is, say, older than N days.
To do this, we'd measure if a date has occurred more than N days before the current date, using timedelta and adjust the message appropriately:
import delorean
# Dates denote events, such as notifications.
# First event occurred recently before writing this guide.
# The second event occurred a bit over a month before that.
datetime_strings = ["Thu July 12 2021", "June 5th, 2021"]
for index, date in enumerate(datetime_strings):
 delorean_object = delorean.parse(date)
 current_time = delorean.Delorean()
 if (current_time-delorean_object) < datetime.timedelta(5):
 human_date = delorean_object.humanize()
 print(f'Event {index} happened', human_date)
 else:
 print(f'Event {index} happened on', delorean_object.date)
This results in:
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Event 0 happened 14 hours ago
Event 1 happened on 2021-06-05
This makes a lot of sense, because if you tell someone that something happened yesterday, there's not much thought required to make that out. But if you say that something happened a month ago, they'll likely look at the calendar to get a feel of when that was.
Humanize Relative Dates with Delorean
Delorean also makes it easy to reference dates in relation to another date in a very intuitive and human-like way.
See you this time next Friday.
This is well understood by people, but tedious to code by hand using timedelta. Using a combination of next_ and last_ with days of the week, months or even years, we can calculate and create Delorean objects based on already existing datetimes:
from delorean import Delorean
dt_tm = Delorean()
nxt_fri = dt_tm.next_friday()
print("Friday next week: ", nxt_fri)
# Date for Two Fridays ago
two_fridays_ago = dt_tm.last_friday(2)
print("Friday two weeks ago: ", two_fridays_ago)
# Get Two Fridays from now at midnight
two_fridays_from_now_at_midnight = dt_tm.next_friday(2).midnight
print("Two Fridays from now at midnight: ", two_fridays_from_now_at_midnight)
# Get this time next month
next_month = dt_tm.next_month()
print("This time next month: ", next_month)
# Get this time next year, at midnight
next_month = dt_tm.next_year().midnight
print("This time next month: ", next_month)
To get the date of a day of the week more than just last or next week - we pass in a number denoting the number of weeks we're traversing. The same goes for days, months or years:
Friday next week: Delorean(datetime=datetime.datetime(2021, 7, 16, 19, 25, 34, 427028), timezone='UTC')
Friday two weeks ago: Delorean(datetime=datetime.datetime(2021, 7, 2, 19, 25, 34, 427028), timezone='UTC')
Two Fridays from now at midnight: 2021-07-23 00:00:00+00:00
This time next month: Delorean(datetime=datetime.datetime(2021, 8, 11, 19, 25, 34, 427028), timezone='UTC')
This time next month: 2022-07-11 00:00:00+00:00
Conclusion
In this guide, we've taken a look at how to humanize Delorean datetime objects in Python. Humanization is the process of converting datetime instances to a more human format - using words and relative time frames. Given the relativity of these time frames, it makes sense to humanize dates in some cases, while not in others.
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Artists, architects and designers are rated amongst the worldwide frontrunners in applying new lighting technology such as LED and OLED. The exhibition "Liberation of Light" showed that LEDs are much more than small, sustainable 'lamps'. Light has literally been freed from the casing of that familiar bulb. A light revolution has manifested itself - as big as or perhaps even greater than the invention of the light bulb 150 years ago.
'Liberation of Light' was first presented in the fall of 2010 at the Designhuis Eindhoven, where it attracted national and international praise. In 2011 the exhibition travelled to Beijing and Guangzhou in China. From March 9th till May 18th it was exhibited in Eindhoven again at Yksi Expo.
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John Fleming (_PHONE_) was a Scottish landscape painter who lived and worked in Greenock. He is best known for the series of views he painted for Swan's Lakes of Scotland, published at Glasgow in 1834.
Fleming was born in about 1792 and apprenticed to a house painter at the age of fourteen. He is thought to have had some contact with the portrait painter James Saxon before spending some time in London, where he worked as a housepainter and took the opportunity to the study paintings in galleries there.
As a landscapist, Fleming specialised in small paintings of Scottish scenery, which became widely known through a series of collaborations with the Glasgow engraver and publisher Joseph Swan. He first worked with Swan in 1828 on a publication entitled Select Views of Glasgow and its environs, to which the Glasgow artist John Knox also contributed. Fleming and Swan followed this with Select Views on the Clyde (1830) and Select Views of the Lakes of Scotland (1834).The last of these, consisting of a total of 48 plates, issued in 16 parts, proved popular enough to justify the publication of further editions in 1836 and 1839.
Fleming also worked as a portrait painter and is listed as such in his first appearance in a local Greenock directory of 1831–2. From 1834 onwards he was listed as both a portrait and landscape painter. His portrait work seems to have been almost entirely commissioned by clients from within the town.
Fleming was a regular contributor to the Glasgow Exhibition of the Fine Arts series of the works of living British Artists, held under the patronage of the Glasgow Dilettanti Society between 1828 and 1838. He became an extraordinary member of the Glasgow Dilettanti Society and was elected a member of the West of Scotland Academy when he showed at its first exhibition in 1841. He also exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy exhibitions of 1828, 1830 and 1837, showing two landscapes at each.
He died on 16 February 1845.
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What to do when an earthquake strikes?
Since there were recently about 2 earthquakes in the Caribbean, let me help spread the word about some reliable information on earthquakes. If you didn't know anything or much on earthquakes, I hope this news post gave you some form of help. First of all let me give you a brief definition of an earthquake.
What is an earthquake?
Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity.
What to do during an earthquake?
1. If you are indoors, duck or drop (crouch) down to the floor. Take cover under a sturdy desk, table or other form of furniture. Hold on to it and be prepared to move with it once it is easily to move. Hold the position until the ground stops shaking and it is safe to move. Stay clear of windows, fireplaces, woodstoves, and heavy furniture or appliances that may fall over. Stay inside to avoid being injured by falling glass or building parts. If you are in a crowded area, take cover where you are. Stay calm and encourage others to do likewise so you or they will not have to panic.
2. If you are outside, try get into the open (bare land, pastures, fields etc,) away from buildings and power lines.
3. If you are driving(car, bus, truck, van, motor cycle, etc), stop if it is safe, but stay inside or on your car. Stay away from bridges, overpasses and tunnels. Move your car as far out of the normal traffic pattern as possible. If possible, avoid stopping under trees, light posts, power lines, or signs.
4. If you are in mountainous area/hills, or near unstable slopes or cliffs, be alert for falling rock and other debris that could be loosened by the earthquake. Look aware of what is happening around you all time.
5. If you are at the beach, move quickly (run) to higher ground or several hundred yards inland.
Effects/Impacts of earthquakes
There are many effects of an earthquake so keep an eye out if you experience one, some of those are as follow;
Shaking and ground rupture
Shaking and ground rupture are the main effects created by earthquakes, principally resulting in more or less severe damage to buildings or other rigid structures. The severity of the local effects depends on the complex combination of the earthquake magnitude the distance from epicenter.
Landslides / Avalanches
Earthquakes can cause landslides and avalanches, which may cause damage in hilly and mountainous areas.
Fires
Following an earthquake, fires can be generated by break of the electrical power or gas lines. In the event of water mains rupturing and a loss of pressure, it may also become difficult to stop the spread of a fire once it has started.

Tsunamis
Undersea earthquakes and earthquake-triggered landslides into the sea, can cause Tsunamis.
Human impacts
Earthquakes may result in disease, lack of basic necessities, loss of life, higher insurance premiums, general property damage, road and bridge damage, and collapse of buildings or destabilization of the base of buildings which may lead to collapse in future earthquakes
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There are six types of meetings - regular, committee, special, joint, annual, and public input meetings. The following describes the purposes of each of these meeting types.
The Board of Education schedules a regular meeting on the third Thursday of each month, and further special meetings may be called as necessary. The regular place of meeting is the boardroom of the Administration Building. Any change in the date or place requires the unanimous approval of the board.
Every so often the School Board will appoint persons to function as a committee to discuss or investigate specific issues. These committees do not necessarily contain board members. Often times, the School Board will appoint interested community members to participate on these committess. An example of a committee is one regarding board policies or to investigate alternatives for staff insurance policies. These committee meetings occur only when needed and are usually posted in the newspaper or on this website.
In a special meeting, the board would discuss special issues not pertaining to regular business. An example of a special meeting would be one where redistricting or referendum issues would be discussed. The public may or may not be invited to attend certain special meetings due to the nature of the proceedings. The meetings where the public is not invited could be called closed sessions. Examples of closed sesssions would be ones where salary negotiations, student or staff disciplinary actions are discussed.
The School Board meets with the Chippewa Area Catholic Schools (CACS) to discuss issues such as bus transportation, calendar, distance learning, special classes, or any other type of shared services. These joint meetings occur only once per school year.
Typically during an annual meeting, new board members will be seated and officers elected. Annual meetings generally occur on the fourth Monday in April unless otherwise noted.
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A public input meeting is one that focuses on specific issues whereby the School Board wants input from the public. An example of a public input meeting would be one where the issue of funding is discussed.


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Putting a brace under something in LaTeX
Here's a useful LaTeX command that I learned about recently: \underbrace.
It does what it sounds like it does. It puts a brace under its argument.
I used this a few days ago in the post on the new prime record when I wanted to show that the record prime is written in hexadecimal as a 1 followed by a long string of Fs.
1\underbrace{\mbox{FFF \ldots FFF}}_\mbox{{\normalsize 9,308.229 F's}}
The code that produced is
1\underbrace{\mbox{FFF \ldots FFF}}_\mbox{{\normalsize 9,308.229 F's}}
The sizing is a little confusing. Without \normalsize the text under the brace would be as large as the text above.
Why don't you simply use XeTeX?
From an FAQ post I wrote a few years ago:
This may seem like an odd question, but it's actually one I get very often. On my TeXtip twitter account, I include tips on how to create non-English characters such as using \AA to produce Å. Every time someone will ask "Why not use XeTeX and just enter these characters?"
If you can "just enter" non-English characters, then you don't need a tip. But a lot of people either don't know how to do this or don't have a convenient way to do so. Most English speakers only need to type foreign characters occasionally, and will find it easier, for example, to type \AA or \ss than to learn how to produce Å or ß from a keyboard. If you frequently need to enter Unicode characters, and know how to do so, then XeTeX is great.
One does not simply type Unicode characters.
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Mirages F1CR belonging to the 2/33 Savoie Reconnaissance Squadron.
Seventy French airmen along with fourteen other nations took part in an electronic warfare field test in Sardinia from September 27th to October 17th.
This NATO exercise called « Trial Imperial Hammer » aimed at training the armed forces to fuse information gathered from various inteligence sources – aircraft, radars, satellites. An AWACS from the 702 French Air Force Base at Avord; 2 Mirages F1CR from 2/33 « Savoie » Reconnaissance Squadron at Reims, and a C160 Gabriel from Metz took part in the implementation of this field trial together with the French Navy and the French Army.
The development of the information management and communication capabilities is critical to ensure support for the operations.
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Hogervorst, Petra A. M. and Wäckers, Felix L. and Carette, A.-C. and Romeis, Jörg (2008) The importance of honeydew as food for larvae of Chrysoperla carnea in the presence of aphids. Journal of Applied Entomology, 132 (1). pp. 18-25. ISSN 0931-2048Full text not available from this repository.
Larvae of the common green lacewing Chrysoperla carnea are predacious and feed on a wide range of small, soft-bodied arthropods. In addition to their feeding on prey arthropods to cover their nutritional requirements for growth and development, the consumption of non-prey foods such as honeydew has been reported. It is commonly believed that these food supplements are primarily exploited by the larvae when prey is scarce or of low nutritional quality. Here, we assess whether C. carnea larvae also use honeydew when high-quality aphid prey are readily available. In a choice experiment, the feeding behaviour of C. carnea larvae was observed in the presence of both aphids and honeydew. The larvae were starved, aphid-fed, or honeydew-fed prior to the experiment. The time spent feeding on honeydew compared with feeding on aphids was highest for starved larvae and lowest for honeydew-fed larvae. Among the three treatments, the aphid-fed larvae spent the most time resting and the least time searching. In an additional experiment food intake was assessed in terms of weight change when larvae were provided with an ad libitum supply of either aphids or honeydew. Larvae yielded a significant lower relative weight increase on honeydew compared with aphids. The reduced weight increase on honeydew was compensated when larvae were subsequently provided with aphids, but not when honeydew was provided again. This study showed that (i) prior honeydew feeding reduces overall aphid consumption, and (ii) larvae do consume honeydew even after they have been given ad libitum access to aphids. The fact that larvae of C. carnea still use honeydew as a food source in the presence of suitable prey underlines the importance of carbohydrates as foods.
|Journal or Publication Title:||Journal of Applied Entomology|
|Uncontrolled Keywords:||Rhopalosiphum padi • alternative food • aphid predator • feeding behaviour • food ecology|
|Subjects:||G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences|
|Departments:||Faculty of Science and Technology > Lancaster Environment Centre|
|Deposited By:||Mr Richard Ingham|
|Deposited On:||30 Nov 2009 14:20|
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Whole cell fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH) with 16S rRNA targeted oligonucleotides was applied to reveal the microbial ecological structure of UASB-grown granular sludge. The FISH analysis indicated that the members of the domain Archaea accounted for 28 to 53% of the total cells in various granular sludge sources, while Methanosaeta and Methanobacteriaceae cells accounted for 13 to 38%, and 4 to 27%, respectively. Methanosaeta cell density and Methanobacteriaceae cell density were strongly correlated, respectively, with acetate-utilizing methane production activity and with hydrogen-utilizing methane production activity.
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Here is a question which probably has a negative answer, but I couldn't find any literature directly on it.
Let $(A_n)$ be a sequence of rectangular 0-1 matrices (that is, the entries are restricted to zero or one), such that for all $n$, the matrix product $A_n A_{n-1}$ makes sense. Suppose in addition that the following hold:
(i) there is a bound on the dimensions (sizes) of all the $A_n$;
(ii) for all $k$, there exists $N(k)$ such that the product $$ A_{N(k)+k}\cdot A_{N(k) + k-1} \cdot \dots \cdot A_{k+1} $$ is strictly positive (meaning, every entry is nonzero);
(iii) every $A_n$ has at least one nonzero entry in each of its columns and in each of its rows.
Then is it true that the sequence $(A_n)$ is weakly ergodic?
That is, for every $k$, given any two states at time $k$, call them $i$ and $j$ (corresponding to the transition by $A_{k+1}$), and given $\epsilon > 0$, there exists $K > k$ such that for every state $m$ at time $K$, the number of paths from $i $ to $m$ divided by the number of paths from $j$ to $m$ is within $\epsilon$ of a real number depending only on $i$ and $j$.
[This is the translation to weak ergodicity in the non-stochastic case. It is really a statistical criterion about numbers of paths joining states $\dots$. It is also necessary and sufficient for a dimension group with Bratteli diagram implemented by the sequence of matrices to be simple and have unique trace.]
It $is$ true if $N(k)$ is bounded above (use Birkhoff metric and the corresponding contraction theorem) or if the matrices are all square of size two (since then, the matrices satisfying (iii) have determinant plus or minus one or are all ones). The theorem is also true if infinitely many $A_n$ have rank one (trivial), or a bit less trivially, if there is a telescoping so that infinitely many of the telescoped products have rank one. Also sufficient is a condition like $N(k) = o(\ln k)$, but this is far from what I want.
There is almost certainly a reduction to the case that the $A_n$ are all square, so (i) is probably a red herring, that is, we just assume they are all square of the same size. The 0-1 condition can be replaced by having uniform upper and lower bounds on the nonzero entries of the nonnegative matrices $A_n$.
There is a considerable amount of literature on similar-sounding problems (e.g., variations on Wolkowitz' theorem, where it is assumed that the $A_n$ and their products are at least primitive or similar, or the $A_n$ are columnor row-stochastic or at least have a strictly positive column,...), but this one seems far harder, and thus more likely to fail. If there is a counter-example, I would like to see minimal strengthening hypotheses so that there is a positive (!) answer.
I think there's a counterexample to the statement in the generality given here (with 6*6 matrices).
There are 2 matrix types in the counterexample:
$$ C=\begin{pmatrix} 1&1&0&0&0&0\\ 1&1&0&0&0&0\\ 0&0&1&1&0&0\\ 0&0&1&1&0&0\\ 0&0&0&0&1&0\\ 0&0&0&0&0&1\end{pmatrix} \text{ and } D=\begin{pmatrix} 1&1&0&0&1&0\\ 1&1&0&0&1&0\\ 0&0&1&1&0&1\\ 0&0&1&1&0&1\\ 0&0&1&1&0&0\\ 1&1&0&0&0&0 \end{pmatrix}. $$
I'm thinking of 1 and 2 as a communicating class; 3 and 4 as another communicating class; and 5's as being a wormhole from 1's and 2's to 3's and 4's; and 6's as being a wormhole from 3's and 4's to 1's and 2's.
The sequence I have in mind is something like $\ldots A_nA_{n-1}\ldots A_1=\ldots DC^{1600}DC^{800}DC^{400}DC^{200}DC^{100}$. It has the mixing property because for any $k$, choosing $N(k)$ large enough that $A_{k+N(k)}\ldots A_{k+1}$ contains two $D$'s satisfies the property.
Next, I claim that it doesn't satisfy weak ergodicity. In particular, I want to say that the large majority of paths starting in the $\{1,2\}$ class stay in that class forever.
Let $t_1,t_2,t_3,\ldots$ be the times with the $D$'s. Label the equivalence classes as $1=\{1,2\}$; $2=\{3,4\}$; $3=\{5\}$ and $4=\{6\}$ [ apologies for the notation ].Let $Z^{(m,n)}_{ij}$ be the 4*4 matrix giving the number of paths from an element of type $i$ at time $m$ to an element of type $j$ at time $n$.
Then $Z^{(t_j,t_{j+1})}$ looks like $$ \begin{pmatrix} 2^{2^j}&1&2^{2^j}&0\\ 1&2^{2^j}&0&2^{2^j}\\ 0&1&0&0\\ 1&0&0&0 \end{pmatrix} $$ When you take products of these, you never get a substantial flow from the 1 class to the 2 class.
 - $\begingroup$ What a neat example! (Minor correction: five, not two, $D$s are required to make the product strictly positive.) I had been flailing around with powers of upper triangular, followed by lower triangular matrices. It does suggest other questions, e.g., if the matrices are restricted to full rank, or even if they are unimodular, then perhaps weak ergodicity holds? $\endgroup$ – David Handelman Jan 9 '14 at 15:12
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The do's and don'ts of swim training with a watch.
How can you tell the difference between swimmers and triathletes at the pool?
Look at their wrists. Recent technological advances have made it possible to track your swim data via GPS watch—which means a lot of gear-loving triathletes have started tracking yardage on their wrists. These mini computers can calculate almost everything during your daily activities and training sessions. But can using a data watch make you a better swimmer?
Popular reasons for using a data watch:
- Record laps
- Count strokes
- Keep track of intervals
- Calculate yardage
- Determine pace
- Calculate strokes per lap
- Provide a remote coach with your data
- Compare past performances
Although the reasons for using a data watch are compelling, success in the water is driven by technique and an indefinable "feel for the water." An increase in speed comes from either a reduction in resistance or an increase in forward propulsion. Every swim practice should be as much about improving technique as it is about completing the total yardage or holding a specific pace.
If the watch is responsible for counting the yardage and computing pace, then it has provided an opportunity for improvement by allowing the user to focus on technique and improve their feel of the water. However, if that freedom is spent pushing buttons and looking at data screens, then the opportunity is lost. Don't let the watch distract your attention from body position, stroke technique, breathing, kick and effort level. These are the fundamentals that create faster swimming, none of which are being measured on a watch.
It is not uncommon for an athlete and a coach to live and train on opposite sides of the country. In this scenario, the coach relies heavily on data from the athlete's training sessions to generate future workouts. A data watch will provide the numbers that are important to track and report progress in the pool, especially during time trials or test sets where intervals and paces are created. For the lucky athletes that get to train under the watchful eye of a swim coach at practice, skip the watch and work on applying the stroke improvements provided from the deck.
Open water is primarily where I'm sold on the benefits of a data watch. It can record distance and other helpful data to be reviewed post-swim. A GPS-enabled watch can provide invaluable information regarding how straight you swam between buoys. Other benefits include providing intervals when there is no pace clock and calculating average pace over a long-distance swim.
Just like any other training tool, there are good and bad times to use it in training. Usage must be regulated so you utilize it enough to receive a benefit from the recorded data but not too much that it becomes a crutch or impedes smart training. Here are some examples of when to wear and when not to wear a data watch around water:
When to wear it:
During test sets or time trials
When you are swimming solo
In the open water
During your race
When NOT to wear it:
When a coach is on deck
For easy or recovery swim sessions
During a clinic or technique session


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Figure 1: Tecumseh 5hp Small Engine
Project Overview
Project Summary
 The project began with the selection of a mechanical system for each group to dissect and learn about. Group names were posted on the website and the students were given the responsibility of getting the product proposal together. During this stage of the project our group all met in Capen Hall for the first time to discuss the roles of each member and the assignment at hand. Our group was assigned with a small Tecumseh TVS120 5hp internal combustion engine. Our group used the lack of knowledge with engines and little Wikipedia formatting experience as motivation to take this opportunity to learn about something we were all interested in. At this point in the project the group decided splitting up work and collaborating at the due date would be the most efficient way to get our assignments done.
 During the initial assessment and dissection of our product our group learned a lot about the functionality as well as the parts of the engine. The group was able to split the parts into two separate categories (external and internal parts) to create a plan for dissection. Each part was researched for its function and orientation inside the engine as this would make it easier to keep track during the disassembly process. The group also researched the types of energy transfers that occur during the operation of the engine, from the initial human and chemical energy to the final rotational mechanical energy. Throughout this stage of the project the group began to notice the members of the group that are dedicated to each step of the project and the members that might be problematic in the future. Meetings took place and Capen Hall and were on a regular basis as communication was going to be the most important factor for the success of our group.
 After the initial assessment was complete the group was able to move on to the dissection process. During this part of the project the group began taking apart the engine while documenting the whole process. This is where the group began having problems with two of the members as they began to contribute less and less to the group. The majority of the group however was able to complete the dissection of the engine. The dissection of the engine gave the group physical experience to apply their research to. Also the group began to improve their wiki formatting, as only one of the members had previous experience. Proper documentation included pictures and descriptions of each part as it was disassembled in the lab.
 As the semester went on each of the group members began to realize the technical communication issues that were extremely apparent within the group. Both group members were confronted about their lack of effort at the next group meeting and were given another chance to complete future assignments with more focus. With this in mind the group began to analyze each component that was taken from the engine. This was the most part of the project as the group not only needed to understand each component's functionality and individual component interactions but the group also was asked to find ways of improving the system. Improvements included a direct overhead valve system, automotive style piston rings, improved filters and a reduction of weight. The group also learned about the manufacturing of one of the most important parts of the engine; the piston. The group was able to apply both the manufacturing knowledge learned in class about each of the four major processes as well as the influence of the four factors on product design.
 The semester came to a close and as the project began to wind down the group experienced slight hostility to some of the members. The group manager tried extremely hard to gather the whole group for each meeting but was not able to fit everyone's schedule. Two of the members continued to contribute nothing beneficial for submission and the other three began to realize how little time was left and decided to take charge. Each assignment was then distributed to each member based on the effort of previous assignments. This meant that the three members that were still dedicated to the project would get most of the work done in a mannerly fashion. This new style of work distribution was reflected when it came to gate four. The reassembly process was extremely simple as the group's knowledge of each component and the accessibility of necessary tools allowed for a quick and efficient procedure. The documenting process was similar to that of gate two (the disassembly process) as the group used necessary pictures and information to illustrate the proper techniques for reassembly of the engine.
 Overall the group found it extremely hard to work as a team and tried their best to motivate others to complete each assignment as detailed as possible. The most significant factor that led to our group's downfall during assignments was the lack of communication. Poor group meeting attendance led to late submissions and insufficient work. This was resolved by assigning work earlier and enforcing a cross reference of each members work before submission. Although the group faced many disadvantages (lack of knowledge about engines, lack of wiki formatting experience, lack of group availability/cooperation, etc.) they pulled together to complete each assignment and overcome each challenge to submit and complete each assignment received.
Product Specs
The Tecumseh 5hp Engine (See Figure 1)
 - Internal Combustion
 - One Cylinder
 - Four Stroke (Two Valves)
 - Gasoline Powered
Group Members
Ryan Sans:
Project Manager
Matthew Whitman, Darroch Moorhead:
Co-Technical Experts
Kevin Perez:
Communication Liason
Sangjoon Bark:
Research Expert
Gate 1: Project Planning
The purpose of this initial gate was to lay the ground work for the rest of the project. We analyzed our group's initial strengths and weaknesses, developed a tentative meeting schedule, and planned out the dissection of our product. Our preliminary dissection plan was completed by researching the manufacturer of our product and products of a similar size and function.
Gate 2: Product Dissection
As our group began to become a team, we set off to reverse engineer our product. Most of the group members gathered in lab to finally see the inner workings of our product. This gate shows the results of our dissection along with review of the group's cohesiveness.
Figure 2: The Disassembly Process
Gate 3: Product Analysis
With the engine completely dissected, the group set off to gain a better understanding of our product. Through research of engines in general, we were able to see the subsystems and overall flow of the engine. The results of our work are shown in Gate 3.
Gate 4: Product Explanation
The main purpose of Gate 4 was to reassemble the product. The group learned a lot more from assembling the product than from disassembling it as we gained a better understanding of engines. Smaller systems and components were investigated and parts were researched and replaced. Individual group members took charge at this point as will be discussed in the Cause for Corrective Action section.
Figure 4: The Reassembly Process


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Baker Hughes has converted a fleet of its Rhino hydraulic fracturing units to bifuel pumps as a way to improve operational efficiency, lower costs and reduce health, safety and environmental impacts.
The new pumps use a mixture of natural gas and diesel, reducing diesel use by up to 65% with no loss of hydraulic horsepower. The converted fleet, which meets all US Environmental Protection Agency emissions standards, can also reduce a number of emissions, including nitrogen oxides, carbon dioxide and particulate matter.
Baker Hughes first converted a small fleet of its units in Canada. When results there were successful, the company decided to convert an entire fleet in the US. The company is in the process of converting several more fleets of Rhino trucks to Rhino Bifuel equipment. Additionally, Baker Hughes has a test program in Oklahoma, where a number of light-duty vehicles have been converted to natural gas.
"Baker Hughes has seen excellent results with this initiative," Mike Davis, Baker Hughes' president of pressure pumping for US land. "The environmental benefits are significant. We're reducing emissions from the engines driving the stimulation pumps and less fuel is needed to keep our pumps going. In addition, this has the added value of improving job site safety by eliminating re-fueling demands during operations."
Using the converted Rhino Bifuel units, Baker Hughes recently completed a hydraulic fracturing job in the Eagle Ford Shale for Cheyenne Petroleum Co. Cheyenne was interested in using some of the converted units given the potential savings by cutting diesel consumption, as well as the long-term reduction in emissions. Baker Hughes was able to pump 35 stages using three of the converted Rhinos during each stage. Throughout the job, Baker Hughes saw a 65% substitution (diesel fuel was replaced with liquefied natural gas) rate with no loss of horsepower. By substituting natural gas into the converted diesel engine, the bifuel alternative can operate twice as long as engines running solely with the on-board diesel.
"The use of the converted Rhino Bifuel units was transparent during the job," Greg Presley, senior operations engineer for Cheyenne Petroleum, said. "The job pumped the same as a 100% diesel job with many environmental benefits."
Rhino is a trademark of Baker Hughes.


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Multi-Wall PP Paper Bag Making Machine
The complete machine consists 6 sections i.e. clothes stand, 3 color printing unit, pasting unit, forming unit, cutting unit, and delivery unit to integrate the production to produce all kinds of multiply PP tube bags for packing cement, fertilizer, sugar, flour, chemical, grain, etc.
- It is available to make 6-ply flat or gusset tubes.
- Pure paper bag, sandwich bag, single PP laminated cloth + paper bag are available.
- Cloth stand is equipped with auto. alignment tracer controller to detect the edge of the material precisely ensuring flat and neatly winding for finished product.
- The extruder performs durable sticky quality by the melting of plastic material (PP or PE)
- The printing unit uses water-based ink, the color registration is adjusted by front/back, left/right during the operation. To make different bag length needs to change gears and printing roller based on 0.5 inch.
- The conveyor stacker with auto. counting helps to stack the bags automatically on requested quantity for the convenience of transportation.


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MDR management data repository
CMDBf CMDB Federated is a specification for a CMDB that federates between multiple MDRs
federating CMDB the CMDB that federates between MDRs, offering a common access point to clients and correlating identifying record data
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A Little Book of Latin for Gardeners
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Gardening: plants
How did the delphinium get its name? Which parts of the body lend their names to auriculas and orchids? Who are the gentian, lobelia and heuchera named after? Why are nasturtiums and antirrhinums connected? What does an everlasting pea have to do with Indian miniature paintings?
These are some of the questions answered in Peter Parker's adventurous exploration of the mysteries of Botanical Latin.
Evolved over many centuries and often thought to belong to the rarefied world of scholars and scientists, this invented language is in fact a very useful tool for everyday gardening. It allows us to find our way around nurseries; it sorts out confusions when two plants have the same English name; and it gives us all kinds of information about how big or small a plant will grow, what shape or colour it will develop, and what habitat it prefers.
In his lively survey, Parker agues that Botanical Latin is not merely useful, but fun. The naming of plants draws upon geography, social and medical history, folklore, mythology, language, literature, the human body, the animal kingdom and all manner of ancient beliefs and superstitions.
The book, beautifully illustrated with old woodcuts, explains how and why plants have been named, includes handy lists of identifying adjectives, and takes the reader down some of the stranger byways of human endeavour and eccentricity.
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Peter Parker was born in Herefordshire and now lives and gardens in London's East End. He is the author of two books about the First World War, The Old Lie and The Last Veteran, biographies of J. R. Ackerley and Christopher Isherwood, and Housman Country: Into the Heart of England. He has written about plants and gardens for HORTUS and the Daily Telegraph, and is a former Chair of the Royal Horticultural Society's Lindley Library Advisory Committee.
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Faspex supports the use of alternate addresses to its web interface, such as when you need one address for your network's internal users and another address for external users. Public URLs allow users without a Faspex account to submit to a Faspex dropbox or send a Faspex user a package.
When you have multiple addresses configured, you may find that public URLs are using the wrong address, such as the internal address instead of the external address.
This is not a bug because the way public URLs are displayed on the Faspex interface depends on which server address you are currently using. If you are logged onto Faspex's internal address, your public URLs will use the internal address. If you are logged onto Faspex's external address, your public URLs will use the external address. Both addresses work in the public URLs.
If your external address is
faspex.myCompany.com and your internal address is 10.0.45.103, you can simply replace the internal address with the external address in the public URL.
For example, both this public URL:
and the following work:
Alternatively, you can log into the Faspex external address and copy the correct public URLs from there.


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Who said that school and business meetings have to be boring? Drawings are quick and easy ways to display information without the buttoned-up feel of graphs and tables. Here, we'll learn how to add and use Microsoft PowerPoint's dedicated Draw tab. You will also learn how to add your own drawings.
Studies over the years have proven that visual data aids in retention when delivering a message. For this reason, everyone from teachers to professional speakers tend to make use of images, drawings, or short videos to drive points home when giving a presentation. A drawing in PowerPoint is a great way to grab attention.
Using the Draw feature allows you to add these visual elements once you know how to find the correct tab in PowerPoint. While it's not immediately obvious how to use the feature, you're only a few clicks away from first adding the tab, and then drawing in PowerPoint.
How to add the draw tab to PowerPoint
1. To activate the Draw Tab, right-click anywhere on your PowerPoint ribbon. Then, select Customize the Ribbon from the context menu that appears. This step will open the PowerPoint options window in the Customize Ribbon tab.
2. Next, tick the checkbox beside Draw under the Customize Ribbon section. Finally, click OK. You should notice that a new tab with the name Draw has been added to your PowerPoint Ribbon.
How to draw in PowerPoint
1. To start drawing on PowerPoint, go to the Draw tab at the top of the application.
2. Select your preferred drawing medium under the Drawing Tools section. By default, you can choose between a black pen, a red pen, and a yellow highlighter.
3. To modify your drawing tools, right-click any of them and select either Modify Tool or Add Another Tool.


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Final NHT report
Department of the Environment and Water Resources, 27 August 2007
ISBN 978 0 642 553 750
About the report
Several key components led to the development of sea turtle conservation work and the development of this Natural Heritage Trust project on the Tiwi Islands:
- a large population of endangered olive ridley turtles in an accessible location;
- a successful marine ranger program already established on the Tiwi Islands;
- a successful satellite tracking study conducted in 2004;
- a desire and interest of Tiwi Traditional Owners to manage their own sea turtle stocks; and
- a lack of sea turtle educational material and resources on the Tiwi Islands.
There are few sea turtle educational resources available that are specific to Australia and much fewer that are developed specifically for Aboriginal Communities. The Tiwi Land Council, Pularumpi School, Munipi Art Centre and Coastcare NT saw a need for this to be developed specifically for the Tiwi Islands with a variety of educational activities.