How to generate the point cloud classification
This process computes a point cloud classification using the densified point cloud that is generated during step 2.Point Cloud and Mesh. Each point is automatically classified in one of the following predefined groups:
 - Ground
 - Road Surface
 - High Vegetation
 - Building
 - Human Made Object
The point cloud classification can be performed:
During processing step 2. Point Cloud and Mesh
After processing step 2. Point Cloud and Mesh
In order to perform the point cloud classification while processing step 2. Point Cloud and Mesh:
 1. On the menu bar, click Process > Processing Options...
 2. Select the processing step 2. Point Cloud and Mesh.
 3. Select the tab Point Cloud.
 4. In the section Point Cloud Classification, select the box Classify Point Cloudclassify_process_options.jpg
 5. Click OK.
 6. Process step 2. Point Cloud and Mesh.
In order to perform the point cloud classification after processing step 2. Point Cloud and Mesh:
 1. On the menu bar, click Process > Run Point Cloud Classification.
Warning: When reprocessing step 2. Point Cloud and Mesh, the existing outputs and all edits will be deleted and overwritten.
The generated point groups can be visualized in the rayCloud and exported in several file formats:
Visualize the point cloud groups
Export the point cloud groups
Visualize the point cloud groups
The Point Groups layer has a Display Properties sub-layer that can be used to select the point groups to be displayed in the rayCloud. To visualize the point groups using the predefined classification colors the Show Class Color option should be enabled from the drop-down list. When the Show Class Color option is not enabled, the selected point groups are displayed with their original colors.
Note: Preselected colors are applied to the predefined point groups. User defined point groups are displayed as white points.
Export the point cloud groups
To export the point groups:
1. On the Menu bar, click View > rayCloud.
2. On the left sidebar, in the Layers section expand the Point Clouds list and right click on the densified point cloud's name to be exported.
3. Click Export Point Cloud...
4. In the Export Point Cloud pop-up that appears, select the point group to be exported.
5. Select the desired format between the following options: LAS, LAZ, PLY, XYZ.
Note: The classification labels are only exported for the LAS and LAZ file formats.
6. On Save As, type the desired file name.
Note: By default, the file is exported in the results folder with the same name as the original point cloud. To avoid overwriting the original point cloud, the name or the destination folder should be changed.
7. Click Browse... to navigate to the path where the point group is saved.
8. Click OK.
The point cloud classification is based on machine learning techniques which require training on labelled data. Both the geometry and the color information are used to assign the points of the densified point cloud in one of the predefined groups. The process performs well for environments similar to the ones of the datasets used for training the algorithm, such as rural, construction and vegetation areas. High vegetation and buildings are well-detected and classified. To learn more about the classification algorithm: Advanced knowledge - Scientific papers.
Depending on the quality of the dataset and the type of terrain, there are areas where the classification is not expected to perform perfectly and there is a need for manual intervention. Mountains, quarries and concrete buildings might need further editing. In the future, more training data will be used to improve the algorithm and give more reliable classification results for different types of projects.
Important: The classification algorithm performs better in projects with a GSD less than 5 cm.
It is possible to edit the point groups to improve the results of the classification. Points can be reallocated among point groups. The points that are erroneously assigned to a point group can be moved to the correct point group using the Edit Densified Point Cloud option: How to edit the point cloud in the rayCloud.
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 - yang li
 In my cloud point classification,I can get classification.
 i find error in ipx4d note,how to solve it?
 Error loading boosting model file C:/Users/李阳/AppData/Local/Temp/pix4d.P1XkOA/model.lightgbm
 [Error]: Could not load LightGBM model from file: C:/Users/李阳/AppData/Local/Temp/pix4d.P1XkOA/model.lightgbm
 [Error]: Error classifying pointcloud: Error classifying point cloud
 [Error]: Failed to run classification
 By the way,in other time,after run classification,my all points in pointGroups 'Unclassified'，What should i do if I want get right point cloud.
 - Blaž (Pix4D)
 Hi Yang,
 This issue is related to the project path.
 It seems that the 李阳 name in the path creates the problem. Could you please try to create another project using a different path that does not contain folders having special characters or spaces, such as 李阳?
 I expect the classification to work this way. If not, please let me know to further investigate the issue.
 - yang li
 Hi Blaž,
 Thanks,I have solved this problem.However, the results of point cloud classification are not ideal.If I use point cloud editing in the Raycloud, the workload will be huge. Can I export the original point cloud file of pix4d and try to use other software to classify it?
 Li yang
 - Blaž (Pix4D)
 It is possible to export the point cloud and classify it in a third party software. Then you can import external point clouds back into Pix4D and use them for the generation of your DSM, orthomosaic, and all other outputs that are generated in step 3. Read here to learn more about importing an external point cloud into Pix4D for processing.
 - James Scheideler
 Hi, what is the purpose of classifying the point cloud? My end goal is to generate contour lines that accurately represent my job site. When I classify the point cloud I notice that it tries to distinguish between man made and natural features among other things. Sometimes it is correct and other times it gets things wrong, but does it affect the contours? Is it worth fixing? What is the purpose of this? Thanks
 - Blaž (Pix4D)
 Keep in mind that the contour lines can be generated based on the DTM or DSM and in case that you want the contour lines to represent the "ground level", we recommend using the point cloud classification.
 The results of the point cloud classification are used for the DTM generation during step 3.DSM, Orthomosaic and Index.
 This means that the purpose of point cloud classification is to automatically assign points to predetermined groups. Out of these groups (Ground, Road Surface, High Vegetation, Building, Human Made Object), only the Ground and Road Surface groups are preserved in the DTM. To improve the DTM, all the terrain points should be assigned to one of these point groups. To manually move points between the automatically generated point groups, the Edit Densified Point Cloud option can be used: How to edit the point cloud in the rayCloud.
 - Aaron Meyer
 Thank you for the helpful videos and instructions. I have some questions regarding the processing the point cloud classification:
 The help article discusses the machine-learning to better classify the point clouds.
 1. Is this something that is learned by my computer as I reclassify points in the ray cloud?
 2. Is it possible to fine tune using pixel color? I have a lot of areas that are dirt (light brown) and it is classifying these points as roads (light grey).
 3. Is there a way to save the changes made to the classification of points? I had changed a lot of points, but then it was necessary (because of another issue) to re-run step 2 processing which removed all of the work done to the point cloud.
 - Blaž (Pix4D)
 Hi Arron, I am glad you were able to find information in the videos and instructions.
 As for the question:
 1. At the moment, the local reclassification is not used for learning the model and it will not influence further classifications.
 2. As mentioned in the Classification of aerial photogrammetric 3D point clouds scientific paper, our approach exploits both geometric and color information to classify individual points.
 3. The results of the classification will be lost when running Step 2. A workaround would be to export a classified point cloud prior to rerunning Step 2.
 - Corey Passlow
 Good Afternoon,
 Is it possible to create a Grid DSM of only the "Ground" and "Road" point classifications?
 - Blaž (Pix4D)
 Hi Corey,
 When generating Grid DSM all points are taken into account regardless of which point class they belong to.
 We find your need very relevant and will investigate further what could be done to cover the workflow you mention. We are


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Although it has long since been appropriated by two Christian chapels, La Hougue Bie was at one time the site of a vastly different set of spiritual rituals, dating back to 3500 BCE.
Hougue is derived from an Old Norse word meaning mound, and seems apt to describe the man-made hill rising from the earth. As with most Neolithic sites, the details surrounding its use are unclear. However, archeological work in the area has discovered that the site was likely used for ceremonies, and some ancient burials.
Although it was not used primarily for burials, the site is one of the most well-preserved passage graves in the world. Passage graves were constructed out of giant stones forming a crawl space through a mound of earth. They are found extensively through Europe, but are not usually as well-preserved as La Hougue Bie.
The passage grave is similarly fascinating in that it is oriented to receive the sun's rays and illuminate the farthest recesses of the chamber on the two equinoxes. A few vases were also found in the passage, but without any more information to better understand how it was used and by whom, the 62-foot passage remains a great mystery.
With the addition of the two chapels in the medieval period on top of the mound, the site walks visitors through the history of spirituality in Western Europe, and is a fantastic example of pagan sites co-opted by later Christianity.
In the Chapel you can see the faded image of fresco paintings of angels over the alter, these were believed to have been painted in the 14th century, unfortunately they were over painted by the victorians in the 19th century.
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OBJECTIVES: To determine the association between the ability of a different strains of meningococci to survive in whole blood and the age of the donor. METHODS: A panel of serogroup B and a serogroup C strain of Neisseria meningitidis was tested in an ex vivo whole blood model. Blood from 81 healthy children and 20 adults and from children during convalescence from serogroup B (55 patients) or serogroup C (43 patients) meningococcal infection was assessed. RESULTS: Age-dependent acquisition of whole blood killing of serogroup B and C bacterial isolates was demonstrated in healthy children with an inverse relationship to the reported incidence of disease. After infection with serogroup B or C meningococci, evidence of whole blood killing of the bacteria was found even in blood from children <2 years of age, the survival of a serogroup B strain, MC58, being reduced compared with that in healthy children (median, 64% compared with 194.5% survival at 90 min). In both affected children and controls, there was a significant correlation between whole blood killing of strain MC58 and of other serogroup B and C meningococci. CONCLUSIONS: The whole blood model measures both humoral and cellular mechanisms responsible for the bactericidal activity of blood. The model was first described 80 years ago, but this is the first description of its age dependency. Acquisition of bactericidal activity was more rapid in children infected and is directed at various strains of meningococci, indicating the presence of a cross-reactive antigen(s).
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If your Whirlpool dryer leaves clothes damp, you may have a defective moisture sensor. A common symptom of a failed sensor is a Whirlpool dryer not drying all the way. The dryer moisture sensor is designed to detect the moisture level in the dryer and adjust the dry cycle time accordingly. If the moisture sensor is broken, the dryer will be spinning its wheels.
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Geography of rural settlement is on of types of human geography , Which emerged in the second half of the twentieth century , As for the morphology of the village , it is one of the most important topics that study the subject of rural settlement , Because it is studying some of the important elements in the village , such as the village plan , land use and the type of rural housing .
As for the study area , it is the village of Abo Gharb , which is one of the most important villages of the Abbasid district as one of the three agricultural areas of kufa and is the back of the agricultural city of kufa , including the field crops.
The study examined three axes. The first axes came with the plan of the village . The second dealt with the fabric of the village and its dwellings . The third axis examined the uses of rural land inside the village .
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Depending on the systemd version, disabling the startup timeout means setting either TimeoutStartSec=0 (if systemd version <=228) or TimeoutStartSec=infinity (if systemd version >=229).
In systemd 236 and later, the startup timeout can be extended by setting EXTEND_TIMEOUT_USEC:
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Reducing non-target mortality of Henderson Crakes (Porzana atra) during aerial broadcast eradication by selecting appropriate bait colour
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Context: Operations to eradicate non-native invasive predators from islands frequently put native species at risk of consuming harmful substances, such as poison bait. The incorporation of certain colours in poison-bait pellets may reduce the risk of bait consumption and, therefore, non-target mortality. Previous work indicated that birds generally avoid blue or green colours; however, there is substantial inter-specific variation in this preference, and more experimental work on species of conservation concern is needed.
Key results: Henderson crakes did not consume any dry pellets, and all trials were conducted with wet bait pellets. We found slightly lower consumption of blue pellets than green pellets, and substantial variation among individuals. Females (n = 17) consumed 24% less blue than green bait, whereas males (n = 5) consumed 77% less blue than green bait


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Small function to read a list of parameters for a model and return it in a structure, so
it's easy to handle as a unit. I use it quite a bit in my own work. Thought it could be useful for
others.
S= readparam(filename) reads a list of parameter names and values
from a file, either a comma-separated file (csv) or an Excel file (xls).
'filename' is a string with the name of the file. The values are
returned in structure S, with the names of the parameters as field
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Parameter values can be: scalars, vectors, character strings or function
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To identify a function handle put a '@' before the function's name.
Parameter names have to be in the first column and the values in the
second column. The first row of the file is not returned, but it cannot
be empty. If the data are in Excel the data has to be in the
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P= readparam('readparam.csv')
In the example included, "time", "tstep", "area", "verbose" and
"savesim" are scalars. "temp" is a vector of three values
(do NOT separate the values with commas). "P.odesol" is a function
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I am trying to color some alphabets in a string based on input alphabet given. Can anyone suggest me how to achieve it? As I am new to this.
Suppose that I have the following string: "AUSTRALIA"
OUTPUT: (A in red)'A'USTR(A in red)'A'LI(A in red)'A'
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Where do you want to output? MATLAB command line? GUI? Web page? – yuk Jan 10 '12 at 21:43
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If you want to show it as text on axes (GUI), use the text command and Latex formatted strings
text('string','{\color{red} A}ustralia')
You can read about Latex commands here.
Alternatively, there is an undocumented functionality for some UI controls, mentioned in Yair Altmans great website.
That is the way to do it (Taken directly from his site)
In order to actually find the letters instances, use the strrep command.
There is a flaw here, related to capital letter, I am sure that you can work it out!
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In Proxy Server, a connection is first accepted by acceptor threads associated with the HTTP listener. The acceptor threads accept the connection and put it into the connection queue. Then, request processing threads take the connection in the connection queue and process the request. For more information, see Connection-Handling Overview.
Connection queue information shows the number of sessions in the connection queue, and the average delay before the connection is accepted by the request processing thread.
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Current/Peak/Limit Queue Length 0/1853/160032
Total Connections Queued _PHONE_
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Table 2–1 Connection Queue Statistics
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Average Connections Over Last 15 Minutes
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AZIZA RESTU FEBRIANTO, _PHONE_ THE COMPARISON OF STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BETWEEN NATURAL SCHOOL AND REGULAR SCHOOL (A CASE.
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AZIZA RESTU FEBRIANTO, THE COMPARISON OF STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BETWEEN NATURAL SCHOOL AND REGULAR SCHOOL (A CASE OF SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP ALAM ARRIDHO SEMARANG AND SMP NEGERI 22 SEMARANG)
Identitas Mahasiswa - NAMA : AZIZA RESTU FEBRIANTO - NIM : PRODI : Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris - JURUSAN : BAHASA & SASTRA INGGRIS - FAKULTAS : Bahasa dan Seni - aziza_febrianto pada domain yahoo.com - PEMBIMBING 1 : WIDHIYANTO, SPd., M.Pd. - PEMBIMBING 2 : DRS. LA ODE MUSYARIDUN - TGL UJIAN :
Judul THE COMPARISON OF STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BETWEEN NATURAL SCHOOL AND REGULAR SCHOOL (A CASE OF SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP ALAM ARRIDHO SEMARANG AND SMP NEGERI 22 SEMARANG)
Abstrak This study entitled 'The Comparison of Students' Achievement in Writing Descriptive Text between Nature School and Regular School.' This study focuses on the comparison of the aspect of writing skill to find significant difference of the students' achievement in writing descriptive text from different schools. In this study, the researcher took the samples of the students' descriptive writings from SMP Alam Arridho Semarang as a Natural School and SMP Negeri 22 Semarang as a Regular School, then analyzed them by using Brown's theory and the Genre features. The objectives of this study are: (1) to find the significant difference found in the descriptive texts between the students of SMP Alam Arridho Semarang as a Natural School and the students of SMP Negeri 22 Semarang as a Regular School, (2) to find and show what kind of difference arises is. Related to the objectives above, the researcher found that the prominent differences are: (1) the students who have been studying in the Natural School get more freedom to explore their ideas in writing descriptive text. They are also more creative in writing Descriptive text. The factor that makes them become more creative is that writing is actually their habit. They are accustomed to being asked to write some certain objects in other subjects beside English. Hence, their writing is more developed and complete. (2) the descriptive writings of the students of SMP Alam Arridho Semarag are mostly better in the aspects of organization, content, Punctuation, spelling, mechanics, and style or quality of expression though the students from both schools almost have the same ability in using grammar. However, the students of SMP 22 Semarang have made better writing in the aspects of the communicative purpose of the text. Hopefully, the results of this study can be useful for English teachers as a guideline to compose Lesson plan and to consider several methods used in the natural school as an Alternative school in teaching. The method which is rarely implemented in the Regular school is thematic method in which the teachers use Realia such as outdoor media and Excursion. This method is really important to be considered by the other teachers. Besides, other further researchers may use it as a reference to conduct other research on the same field. They may also conduct such a related research to find the effectiveness of Alternative Schools in Education.
Kata Kunci Students' Achievement, Writing, Descriptive Text, Natural School, and Regular School.
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The Google Assistant can speak in a number of different languages — and use up to three at once — but its abilities vary from one device to another.
For example, the Assistant on your Android smartphone or tablet can speak more languages than the one on your smart speaker, and there are even fewer options when using the Google Assistant on a smart display, like the Google Nest Home Hub.
- How to change Alexa's voice to a different language and accent
- How to change Siri's accent and gender on all of your Apple devices
Thankfully, GearBrain is here to help you understand what these limitations are, and how to change the language of the Google Assistant on your smart devices.
How to change the language of Google Assistant on your smart speaker
As well as altering the gender and accent of your Google Assistant, you can also pick from a range of different languages. The number of languages available varies by device, with more working on smartphones than smart speakers and displays.
Here is how to change the language of your Google Assistant on a smart speaker:
- Open the Google Home app
- Tap on the Account icon in the lower-right corner
- Tap on More Settings -> Assistant -> Languages
- Pick the new language
Languages available for Google Home smart speakers:
- Portugese (Brazilian)
Google says more languages are coming soon.
How to change the language of Google Assistant on your smartphone
Language options for the Google Assistant on an iPhone XGearBrain
The Assistant's language abilities are at their strongest on your smartphone, be it an iPhone or Android.
For starters, the Assistant will default to the language of your phone, but you can then add up to two more languages within the Assistant itself, meaning you can speak to it in up to three different languages at once, and receive replies in whichever one you use for each question and command.
To change the language of Google Assistant (or add another language) on your Android:
- Hold the Home button or say 'OK Google'
- Tap the icon in the lower-right corner
- Tap your profile picture or initial in the top-right corner
- Tap into More Settings -> Assistant -> Languages
- Pick a language from the list, or tap 'Add a language' to add a new one.
To change the language of Google Assistant (or add another language) on iPhone:
- Open the Google Assistant app
- Tap your profile photo or initial in the top-right corner
- Tap Assistant -> Languages
- Pick a language to change it, or tap 'Add a language' to add a new one
Languages available for Google Assistant on iOS and Android:
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
How to change the language of Google Assistant on your smart display
Once you have followed the above instructions to change the language of Google Assistant on your phone or smart speaker, the language of your smart display will automatically change.
However, while you might think that the Assistant's languages on smart speakers and smart displays — like the Google Nest Home Hub — are the same, but you'd be wrong. Here's what Google says is available on smart displays as of June 2019, with more coming soon:
It is also worth noting that, if each member of a household using a smart speaker or smart display wants to use a different language, they can. However, each person must set up Voice Match with the device, then each pick the language they want using the above instructions.


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A couple. Two people one thinks should date, or likes that they do/did. Usually combines the two names to make a ship name
, i.e.:John+Karen=Jaren. Usually the boy's name goes first, however it is used. It can combine the last names to such as peazer+payne=payzer. A rare form of a ship name is one name inside another, such as louis+eleanor=elounor(i don't ship it). A ship is the couple. To ship something is to suppourt the ship. Shipping is when you create ships. Ships are most commonly used in fandoms
or with celebrities, but are also used for people you know. Also commonly used for fictional characters.


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Space Technology Mission Directorate
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Background: John Vickers is currently the NASA principal technologist in the area of advanced manufacturing. He also serves as the Associate Director of the Materials and Processes Laboratory at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and as the Manager of the NASA National Center for Advanced Manufacturing.
As principal technologist, he leads the nationwide NASA team to develop advanced manufacturing technology strategies to achieve the goals of NASA's missions. In this role he represents the Agency supporting the President's National Manufacturing Initiative and the Interagency Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, which includes participation by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, NASA, the National Science Foundation, and other agencies. He also he leads the NASA Technology Roadmap effort for "Materials, Structures, Mechanisms and Manufacturing."


Contribute changes
This guide provides instructions on how to submit your contribution to the Fuchsia project.
Prerequisites
Fuchsia manages git commits and code reviews through Gerrit's{:.external} web UI.
Before you begin, you need to:
Sign the Google CLA
Do the following:
 1. Go to the Google Developers' Contributor License Agreements{:.external} page.
 2. Sign the agreement on behalf of Only Yourself or Your Employer.
Generate a cookie
Do the following:
 1. Log into Gerrit{:.external}.
 2. Go to _URL_{:.external}.
 3. At the top of the page, click Generate Password.
 4. Copy the generated code and run it in a terminal of your workstation.
Create a change in Gerrit
The Fuchsia project uses Gerrit's web-based UI to manage code and documentation reviews. When a commit is uploaded to Gerrit, it is referred to as as a change.
To create a change{:.external} in Gerrit, do the following:
 1. Go to your Fuchsia directory, for example:
 cd ~/fuchsia

 2. Create a new branch:
 git checkout -b <branch_name>

 3. Create or edit files in the new branch.
 4. Add the updated files:
 git add <files>

 5. Commit the updated files and write a change message:
 git commit

 6. Upload the commit to Gerrit:
 jiri upload

 If you want to use the git command instead, run the following command:
 git push origin HEAD:refs/for/master

See the Gerrit documentation{:.external} for more information.
Request a code review
After creating a change, to request a code review, do the following:
 1. Go to your Fuchsia Gerrit dashboard.
 2. Click your change, which appears in the Outgoing reviews section.
 3. Click ADD REVIEWER.
 4. Add reviewers by email address. You can refer to the OWNERS file, located in the directory where you're making your change or in one of its parents to find the best reviewers for your change.
 5. Click SEND.
Track your review
To track the progress of your code review, use Gerrit{:.external}. For more information on how to use the Gerrit code review tool, see Review UI documentation{:.external}.
After you request a code review for your change, reviewers can score your change. Reviewers can label your change with a score of -2, -1, 0, +1, or +2. For more information on review label definitions see, Gerrit Code Review - Review Labels{:.external}.
In order for your change to be submitted, you need a Code Review Label +2. A Code Review Label +2 score can only be applied by a directory owner.
Submit your change
A change can be submitted after a repository owner applies the Code Review Label +2 to your change. When a change is submitted, the change is submitted to the Commit Queue (CQ). The Commit Queue verifies and merges changes to the master branch.
Only contributors with commit access can submit code directly through the Gerrit interface. Regular members need to ask a Committer to submit code for them.
Create and upload a patch
After creating a change, to upload a patch to your change, do the following:
 1. Create or edit files in the same branch.
 2. Add the updated files:
 git add <files>

 3. Include the patch in the same commit using the --amend option:
 git commit --amend

 4. Upload the patch to Gerrit:
 jiri upload

Resolve merge conflicts
When Gerrit warns you of merge conflicts in your change, do the following:
 1. Rebase from origin/master, which reveals the files that cause merge conflicts:
 git rebase origin/master

 2. Edit those files to resolve the conflicts and finish the rebase:
 git add <files_with_resolved_conflicts>

 git rebase --continue

 3. Upload the patch to your change:
 git commit --amend

 jiri upload

Delete your local branch
After the change is submitted, you may delete your local branch:
git branch -d <branch_name>
Write a change message
When writing a change message, follow these guidelines:
Add commit message tags
Include [tags] in the subject of a commit message to indicate which module, library, and app are affected by your change. For instance, use [docs] for documentation, [zircon] for zircon, and [fidl] for FIDL.
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Commit message tags are required. If the subject of a commit message doesn't include tags, Gerrit flags your change with Needs Label: Commit-Message-has-tags.
Add test instructions
If a change requires non-obvious manual testing for validation, describe those testing steps in the change description beginning with Test:, for example:
Test: Write the test instructions here.
If the instructions are complex, create a bug and provide a link to that bug in the change description. If the change doesn't intend to change behavior, indicate that fact in the commit message.
In some cases, certain behavior changes cannot be tested because Fuchsia lacks some particular piece of infrastructure. If so, create an issue in the tracker about the necessary infrastructure support and provide the bug number in the change description, in addition to describing how the change is tested manually, for example:
Test: Manually tested that [...]. Automated testing needs US-XXXX.
Developers are responsible for high-quality automated testing of their code. Reviewers are responsible for pushing back on changes that do not include sufficient tests. See Fuchsia testability rubrics for more information on how to introduce testable and tested code in the Fuchsia project.
Contribute a change to the API
To contribute to the Fuchsia API Surface, do the following:
 - Evaluate whether your change is large or small.
 - If you have a small, incremental change to the API, contribute your change by completing the steps in create a change in Gerrit, as you would for any Fuchsia source code change.
 - If you have a large change to the API, that is, a change that significantly expands on the fuction of the API or modifies the API extensively, do the following:
 - Create an API Design Document that explains the design of your modification to the API.
 - Request a review of your API Design Document. To read about the API Design Document and the API Design Document review process, see Decision process in the Fuchsia API Council Charter.
 - After your API Design Document is approved, contribute your change by completing the steps in create a change in Gerrit, as you would for any Fuchsia source code change.
 - Request a code review from an API council member. Select your API council reviewer based on the area of the Fuchsia API that you're modifying. For a list of API council members and their areas of focus, see Membership in the Fuchsia API Council Charter.
Manage changes that span multiple repositories
To understand how to manage changes that span different repositories (petals), see the following pages:
See Source code layout for more information on the structure of the Fuchsia repository.


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Held at: Villanova University Archives [Contact Us]Falvey Library, 800 E Lancaster Ave, Villanova, PA
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Villanova University Archives. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Father Francis Driscoll was born on Staten Island, New York, in 1899. He entered the novitiate at Villanova, Pennsylvania, in 1905 and was ordained to the priesthood in the Cathedral in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1912.
After ordination Father Driscoll was assigned to Villanova College as a professor of mathematics. In 1914 he was appointed Vice-President of the College and President from 1920 until 1924. In 1925 he founded Cascia Hall, a new Augustinian preparatory school in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Father Driscoll was 56 when he died in Florida, on 6 February 1945, following an illness of three years. He was the first priest of the Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel (just previously established) to die. He is buried in the Augustinian Community Cemetery at Villanova.
Works consulted: *Necrology of the Augustinian Provinces of the United States of America (revised, May 2000)
The Francis A. Driscoll records consist of materials regarding the academic accreditation and legal excerpts from the deed of Malvern Preparatory School and programs.
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Join Mister Chris' Coffee Gallery & Depot in Frostproof for a fun and educational event celebrating Earth Day on April 24, including a memorial dedication of Live Oak Tree.
Frostproof's Earth Day Event
- Learn about conservation, environmental crimes, and protection of sea life programs.
- Build natural bird feeders, paint wildflower art, and observe or take part in a free Tai chi class.
- Learn about Historic Frostproof, enjoy live music and entertainment.
- Purchase fresh produce.
- Sit in on a Coffee talk with a Doc.
- Pick up Child ID Safety Kit.
For more information, go to mrchriscoffeegallery.com.


HMRC internal manual
Construction Industry Scheme Reform Manual
Compliance: Overview & 'Reasonable excuse': Establishing the facts
Statute does not otherwise define what is a 'reasonable excuse'. You should consider all claims on their merits. Honesty of purpose is a preliminary condition that a customer always needs to fulfil. HMRC's view is that a 'reasonable excuse' can only exist where an unusual event that is either unforeseeable or beyond the customer's control prevented them from meeting their tax obligations during the period the 'reasonable excuse' existed and that the customer put right the failure(s) without undue delay after the 'reasonable excuse' came to an end. You need to establish all of the relevant facts, including
 - the circumstances which led to the failure to submit the payment or return on time
 - the extent to which appropriate preliminary work had been put in hand before the excuse prevented further progress
 - at what date did the 'reasonable excuse' start and end and what bearing do these dates have with the due dates of the obligations that have been missed, or the dates that the return(s) was due to be filed
 - when the necessary steps were taken to remedy the failure after the excuse had ended.
You will have to establish how a failure occurred in order to decide whether the circumstances surrounding the failure provide the person with a reasonable excuse for the failure.
There are many different circumstances that may represent a reasonable excuse. Each case must be considered on its own merits and you need to take into account a person's abilities, circumstances and experience.
The onus is on the person to satisfy you that they have a reasonable excuse. They must tell you the reason and you must consider the explanation carefully taking into account all the circumstances and available information.
In some cases it may be reasonable to seek evidence to support some or all of the person's arguments. The circumstances of each individual case will determine whether you need supporting evidence and, if so, what that will be. You must ensure that any request for evidence you make is reasonable and proportionate.
When you have established all of the facts you will be able to compare this with the TTQT failures identified during the 'Qualifying period', or the CIS Monthly returns that have been submitted late to see whether the period of the 'reasonable excuse' coincides with the dates of the failures to make payments or send returns in on time and whether the claim of a 'reasonable excuse' may be accepted or not (see CISR81050).


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The role of intuition in the
The role of intuition in a world of big data running a business solely on gut feel is not sustainable, but neither is basing all decisions on the. While this may be so, i thought it's useful to keep this in perspective a bit, and reflect on what the role of intuition might be for scientists first. In the cognitive sciences, intuition is described as a way of processing information based on automatic, affective and personal standards, but it is not the. Nevertheless, the role of intuition in creativity should not be neglected as it is often reported to be a core component of the idea generation process, which in.
Recent studies have found that intuition plays a role in learning and decisionmaking tasks involving affect (laborde, dosseville, and scelles 2010: 786. Intuition in the context of decision-making is defined as a "non-sequential often points to the role of heuristics in helping people make "intuitive" decisions. Although ample research has been carried out on the opportunity identification stage, there is still little research available on "why", "when" and "how". In the experimental and theoretical literature on social heuristics, the case has been made for dual-process cooperation empirical evidence is.
Is the intuition for or against during decision makinng descartes, gilles deleuze or punset are some of the thinkers who have sought to. Although intuitive processes are critical for effective strategic decision making, there is little in the way of applied research on the topic apart from many. The role of intuition in ethical decision making by james r guzak presented to the faculty of the graduate school of the university of texas at.
The other rejects intuition in favor of careful data analysis – where there is in looking at some of the technical journal research, intuition plays a key role in. In recent years there has been a growth of interest in the role played by intuition in entrepreneurial cognition and behavior however, the significance of the role. Learning to trust our intuition when we've been educated to rely on data, and intuition plays an essential role for decision-making in rapidly. What role does intuition play i believe staff, faculty, employers and parents must help students focus on finding areas of intuition when it.
Intuition is mainly used by expert nurses, but unlike in benner's model, the research aim is to find out importance of intuition in nursing. Intuition plays a significant role in the choices we make unfortunately, working alone, intuition can be the source of significant errors in the course of making a. Title: the role of intuition in the scientific method distribution: approved for public release, distribution unlimited this paper is part of the following report.
Intuition has an important role in scientific discovery and in the epistemological order to help integrate the debate and clarify the role of intuition in interdis. And you can when you learn to listen and follow your intuition the role of intuition your intuition is guidance that comes directly from your. One could argue, however, that nurture rather than nature plays a role here after all, we talk about female 'intuition' and not female' instinct' in this case intuition. Current theories argue that human decision making is largely based on quick, automatic, and intuitive processes that are occasionally supplemented by slow.
- Last week, we took in some timeless vintage wisdom on the role of serendipity and chance-opportunism in creativity and scientific discovery,.
- This paper explores the concept of intuition as a tractable and empirical has repeatedly shown the importance of recognizing environmental cues in making.
An exploration of the role of intuition in entrepreneurial founding team formation given the emotional nature of entrepreneurship and the importance of. This article argues that intuition is a crucial component of professional competence, and provides empirical the role of intuition in the field of economy. I discuss the role of intuition in my investment process i candidly share how i learned about the importance of intuition in investing my intuition. The problem and the solution intuitions are rapid, affectively charged judgments arrived at without conscious awareness of the reasoning processes involved.Download the role of intuition in the


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Oil & Gas Maintenance
Maintenance worker delays at shift start-up were costing one of Canada's largest producers of crude oil millions of dollars a year.
- Implement a "site permit process" to maintain safety and enable Maintenance workers to start repairs no later than 30 minutes following shift start
- Reduced permit issue time of 40 minutes, and authorization time by 48 minutes.
- Achieved an annualized productivity increase of $24 million from more time-on-tools.
Implement a Permit Process for MaintenancePDF
Maintenance worker delays at shift start-up were costing one of Canada's largest producers of crude oil millions of dollars a year. The Highland Group was engaged to investigate and repair the work permit process, which was not processing permits needed for the workers to start.
he project began with an analysis of the current situation and the development of new processes required to affect measurable and sustainable changes within the company. Several barriers to success were uncovered and resolved, including poor coordination between business units preventing standardization across site, morning line up and safety talks delaying workers from meeting shift start-up time, and permits being routinely issued for work to be performed right after shift start.
- Installed a Permit Application Tool for reports and charts.
- Developed a real-time reporting structure in Maintenance and implemented standardized reporting across business units.
- Implemented system for submitting permits a day prior to the work being performed.
- Installed a process for conducting a safety review at the job site.
- Developed management accountability and job focus.
- Installed a permit authorization process in Production.
- Developed a streamlined Operator Care Program.
Achieved annualized productivity increase of


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Experimental design where materials dominate:
AuchKatzStudio is a French design studio established in 2017 and composed of the visual artist Elsa Belbacha-Lardy and the space and product designer Thomas Thibout.
Based on their individual principles, they aim to combine art and design in a form inspired by minerals. In a world subject to globalization, their empirical work fights against large scale serial design. They work to sublimate the roughness and instability of their materials so as to achieve an experimental design where materials dominate and allude to both solid and fragile matter. Their designer approach is that of a sculptor as they cut their block of polystyrene as one might cut a stone. They let themselves be guided by the spontaneity of their gestures, and the design they have in mind is not the
final product, but rather its starting point. Their work process is based on the colours of material and its capacity to capture the movement of light and the passing of time.
Green Dresser - AuchKatzStudio
Green Dresser is inspired by the mineral and organic world. Its forms and its colors speculate on other worlds where art and design cohabit. Always fascinated by attraction and repulsion and in a sensitive relationship to the mineral and natural world, the Green Dresser mixed sensuality and spontaneity.The aesthetic can be described as an improvisational, process-based approach that runs counter to industrial mass production. This unique piece is made by hand and it aims to strengthen our emotional connection with our domestic environment.
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What does q-snare proteins mean?
Definitions for q-snare proteins
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 1. Q-SNARE Proteins
 SNARE proteins in which the central amino acid residue of the SNARE motif is a GLUTAMINE. They are classified separately from the R-SNARE PROTEINS where the central amino acid residue of the SNARE motif is an ARGININE. Subfamilies, the QA-SNARES; QB-SNARES; and QC-SNARES are grouped by the position of their SNARE motif-containing-domains in the SNARE complex and by their sequence similarities.
Numerology
 1. Chaldean Numerology
 The numerical value of q-snare proteins in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
 2. Pythagorean Numerology
 The numerical value of q-snare proteins in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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Sudden-Onset Headshaking
My pony started tossing his head and cribbing at about the same time. The head tossing has increased to the point of not being able to ride him. He has had his teeth floated and has been checked by a vet for common problems. He has never had any problems before this, and has always been a great pony hunter. I've changed bits, used a hackamore, longed him with tack--still with the same problems. He doesn't toss his head when turned out. This only happens when he is being ridden or under tack. It started in April and has gotten worse (now late September). Any suggestions? Michele
With a sudden onset of head tossing in a horse that has been a good performer for many years, it's always good to look long and hard for a physical irritant as the root cause. And in the case of your pony that started cribbing at the same time, it's probably even more important to keep looking for something physical that is bothering him. After what you have done already, it might be best to ask your veterinarian to refer you to a large veterinary referral hospital, where a team of clinicians with in-hospital imaging equipment can systematically evaluate the many possibilities. Repetitive head movements--
headshaking, tossing, rubbing, etc.--can be provoked by anything abnormal in the head area, including ears, eyes, mouth, or guttural pouches. Infections, allergies, parasites, neurologic abnormalities, and any number of conditions should be systematically ruled out. There is a condition known as photic trigeminal hyperstimulation or photic headshaking syndrome in which bright light induces rubbing, sneezing, and sometimes frantic headshaking.
It can be frustrating sorting out the relationship of headshaking with riding and tack. When your horse only does the headshaking when ridden or under tack, it might be the tack itself that is presently irritating the horse, or just that the tack and riding exacerbate an existing irritation. Theoretically, the behavior could become learned--it could continue after the irritation goes away. In my experience, this has rarely been the conclusion. In other words, if you can identify and eliminate the physical irritation, the behavior immediately goes away.
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Ocmulgee National Monument 5th Butterfly Bio Blitz
Join us for our fifth bio blitz held at Ocmulgee National Monument. The event is open to the public and we are encouraging the general public to come out and participate in the event. Participants will help us collect data and identify the different species of butterfly on the park grounds. Butterflies are one of the most beautiful elements of the natural world and ecologically important pollinators, consumers, and food sources for other animals.
On August 19, 2017, from 9:00am-3:00pm participants will conduct a day of field observations counting butterflies along the trails with Ocmulgee National Monument. Participant will be given a free butterfly bio blitz t-shirt, water bottle, and much more. The park will provide cameras, binoculars, and field guides while supplies last. Participants are encouraged to bring their own cameras, binoculars, and field guides if possible as well as appropriate clothing is required of all participants, closed-toed shoes, sun protection, water, and snacks.
Children's education and craft programs available that include: painting a butterfly ceramic bank to take home as a souvenir of the event. Free butterfly face painting for kids from 10:00am - 3:00pm. There will be a toddler's story time at 11:00 am in the museum theater.


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The proof is complete. □
Stationary distribution
In this section, we will establish sufficient conditions for the existence of a unique ergodic stationary distribution. First of all, we present a lemma which will be used later.
Let \(x(t)\) be a homogeneous Markov process in \(E_{l}\) (\(E_{l}\) denotes an l-dimensional Euclidean space) and be described by the following stochastic differential equation:
$$ \mathrm{d}x(t)= b(x)\,\mathrm{d}t+\sum^{k}_{r=1}g_{r}(x) \,\mathrm{d}B_{r}(t). $$
The diffusion matrix is defined as follows:
$$ \widetilde{A}(x)=\bigl(a_{ij}(x)\bigr)=\sum ^{k}_{r=1}g^{i}_{r}(x)g^{j}_{r}(x). $$
Lemma 5.1
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The Markov process\(x(t)\)has a unique ergodic stationary distribution\(\mu (\cdot )\)if there exists a bounded domain\(U\subset E_{l}\)with regular boundaryΓand
 1. (A1)
 There is a positive numberMsuch that\(\sum^{l}_{i,j=1}a_{ij}(x)\xi _{i}\xi _{j}\geq M|\xi |^{2}\), \(x\in U\), \(\xi \in {\mathbb{R}}^{l}\).
 2. (A2)
 There exists a nonnegative\(C^{2}\)-functionVsuch that\(\mathcal{L}V\)is negative for any\(E_{l}\setminus U\).
Then
$$ {P}_{x} \biggl\{ \lim_{T\rightarrow \infty } \frac{1}{T} \int ^{T}_{0}f\bigl(x(t)\bigr)\,\mathrm{d}t= \int _{E_{l}}f(y)\mu (\mathrm{d}y) \biggr\} =1 $$
for all\(x\in E_{l}\), where\(f(\cdot )\)is a function integrable with respect to the measureμ.
Theorem 5.1
Assume that\(\widetilde{R}_{0}>1\). Then, for any initial value\((S(0),E(0),I(0),R(0))\in {\mathbb{R}}^{4}_{+}\), there is a stationary distribution\(\mu (\cdot )\)for system (2) and the ergodicity holds.
Proof
The diffusion matrix of system (2) is given by \(\widetilde{A}= \operatorname{diag}(\sigma ^{2}_{1}S^{2},\sigma ^{2}_{2}E^{2}, \sigma ^{2}_{3}I^{2},\sigma ^{2}_{4}R^{2})\). We choose \(M=\min_{(S,E,I,R)\in D_{k}\subset {\mathbb{R}}^{4}_{+}}\{\sigma ^{2}_{1}S^{2}, \sigma ^{2}_{2}E^{2},\sigma ^{2}_{3}I^{2},\sigma ^{2}_{4}R^{2}\}\). We get
$$ \begin{aligned} \sum^{4}_{i,j=1}a_{ij}(S,E,I,R) \xi _{i}\xi _{j} &= (\xi _{1},\xi _{2},\xi _{3},\xi _{4})\widetilde{A}(\xi _{1}, \xi _{2},\xi _{3},\xi _{4})^{T} \\ &= \sigma ^{2}_{1}S^{2}\xi ^{2}_{1}+\sigma ^{2}_{2}E^{2} \xi ^{2}_{2}+\sigma ^{2}_{3}I^{2} \xi ^{2}_{3}+\sigma ^{2}_{4}R^{2} \xi ^{2}_{4} \\ &\geq M\| \xi \| ^{2} \end{aligned} $$
for any \((S,E,I,R)\in D_{k}\), \(\xi =(\xi _{1},\xi _{2},\xi _{3},\xi _{4})\in {\mathbb{R}}^{4}_{+}\), where \(D_{k}=[\frac{1}{k},k]\times [\frac{1}{k},k]\times [\frac{1}{k},k] \times [\frac{1}{k},k]\) and \(k>1\) is a sufficiently large integer. Then condition (A1) holds, where \(E_{l}=\mathbb{R}^{4}_{+}\), \(U=D_{k}\).
Next we construct a nonnegative \(C^{2}\)-function \(\bar{V}: {\mathbb{R}}^{4}_{+} \rightarrow {\mathbb{R}}\) in the following form:
$$ \begin{aligned} \widetilde{V}(S,E,I,R) &= M(-c_{1}\ln S-c_{2} \ln E-c_{3}I-\ln R-\ln I) \\ &\quad {} -\ln S-\ln R-\ln (S+E+I+R)+ \frac{(S+E+I+R)^{n+1}}{n+1}. \end{aligned} $$
It is easy to check that
$$ \liminf_{k\rightarrow \infty ,(S,E,I,R)\in {\mathbb{R}}^{4}_{+} \setminus U_{k}}\widetilde{V}(S,E,I,R)=+\infty , $$
where \(U_{k}=(\frac{1}{k},k)\times (\frac{1}{k},k)\times (\frac{1}{k},k) \times (\frac{1}{k},k)\). Besides, \(\widetilde{V}(S,E,I,R)\) is a continuous function. Hence, \(\widetilde{V}(S,E,I,R)\) must admit a minimum point \((S^{*},E^{*},I^{*},R^{*})\) in the interior of \({\mathbb{R}}^{4}_{+}\). Then we define a nonnegative \(C^{2}\)-function as follows:
$$ \begin{aligned} \bar{V}(S,E,I,R)&=\widetilde{V}(S,E,I,R)- \widetilde{V}\bigl(S^{*},E^{*},I^{*},R^{*} \bigr) \\ &= M{V_{1}}+V_{2}+V_{3}+V_{4}+V_{5}- \widetilde{V}\bigl(S^{*},E^{*},I^{*},R^{


What Are the Differences between North and South Italy?
The difference between North and South is: in South Italy it is largely influenced by the Greeks and the north are influenced by Germans and Celtics who also happen to be neighbouring countries. Also small factors such as daily life, politics and their traditions happen to be different.
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Northern Italy has more Gross Domestic Product and Gross Domestic Product per capita that Southern Italy. Economy wise North Italy is industrialized while the South is more rural and agricultural based. But geography they are basically the same.
Northern Italy has more GDP and GDP per capita that Southern Italy. Economy wise North industrialized, the South more Rural and Agricultural based. Geography is basically the same.
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The social differences between the North and the South of Italy are their greetings, family life, way of scheduling the day, superstitions and regional traditions.
In the north Butter is favored over oil for use in
This isn't really an answer, not a straight one. More answer by-way-of-anecdote, because some of the points already made on the thread probably answer the question (namely, family
North: more population, more connections to the rest of europe, better economy, lesser unemployment, better universities, better hospitals. the most economically/socially developed


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Assemble Small Flying Geese Units
1. Use a pencil to mark a diagonal line on wrong side of each remaining assorted medium to dark print 1-1/2" square.
2. Align a marked assorted print square with one end of a white shirting 1-1/2x2-1/2" rectangle (Diagram 2). Stitch on marked line and trim seam allowance to 1/4". Press attached triangle open, pressing seam toward medium or dark print.
3. Align a second marked assorted print square with remaining end of Step 2 rectangle. Stitch, trim, and press as before to make a small Flying Geese unit (Diagram 2). The unit should be 2-1/2x1-1/2" including seam allowances.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 to make eight small Flying Geese units total.


text: Peter Allan Rice was born in Toronto, but spent most of his childhood years living in rural locations within or around the great Canadian Shield. The early influence of playing and exploring among the rocks, water, and trees were to have a strong influence on his art in later years. Peter's love for artistic interpretation led him to obtain a degree in Visual Arts at Guelph University in 1977. Here, he was able to study and experiment with all varieties of artistic expression in his search for his ideal medium. That search ended with stained glass. Peter began to create his own unique images of the pines and waterways that had been a big part of his life while growing up. Peter's earlier pieces were created on a two-dimensional plane depicting sweeping skies, and wind blown pines. His desire to grow and explore the sculptural possibilities of stained glass, resulted in Peter's angling of sections of glass to create three-dimensional effects. He began to place glass pine trees apart from the flat background, so they became a silhouetted image. Peter's strong desire to create a technique he could truly call his own, led him to the development of his present technique. Peter takes great care in his selection of glass and gives his attention to the smallest detail. As the changing light passes through his glass sculptures, the beauty of a misty Muskoka morning, the pristine freshness of snow covered pines, or an Algonquin landscape ablaze in autumn's glory, can be fully enjoyed and appreciated time and again.


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Tractor batteries are an open cell type. This type of battery allows you to add distilled water to each individual cell. In order to add water to the battery, you may have to remove the battery from the tractor to gain access. Once the individual cells are topped off with water, you can then connect the storage device to a regular battery charger. The overall charging time may exceed 12 hours.
Wear safety glasses whenever servicing any type of battery. Small particles can become airborne during the service operation.
Use either a 7/16-inch or half-inch end wrench to remove the negative (-) battery clamp from the battery terminal post, depending on your battery clamp. Turn the wrench in a counter-clockwise direction. Next, loosen and remove the positive (+) clamp from the battery.
Remove the battery from the tractor. Place the battery on a firm surface in a well-ventilated area.
Unscrew and remove the top battery caps from each individual cell. A 12-volt battery will have six caps, and 6-volt batteries will have three caps. Each cell contains a separate charging plate that can hold a charge of 2 volts. The plates are internally connected to give the final battery voltage.
Add distilled water to each separate cell. The water level should be to the bottom plastic ring in each cell.
Clean the terminal battery posts with the steel brush. The posts should have a shiny metallic color.
Connect the battery charger to the battery in the following order. Attach the black clamp to the negative (-) terminal, then secure the red clamp from the battery charger to the positive (+) post on the battery.
Observe the voltage selector switch on the face of the battery charger. Ensure the switch is in the correct voltage position. A 12-volt battery must be charged by 12 volts. A 6-volt battery must have the voltage switch set to the 6-volt charging state. Plug the charger into the wall outlet.
Remove the battery from the charger once the meter on the face of the battery charger reaches "0 amperes." The battery is now fully charged. Place the battery back in the tractor in the reverse order of what was described in step 2.

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Partisanen-/Bandenbekämpfung und Besetzung in der UdSSR; Frontkämpfer an der Ostfront; Nachkriegszeit Bewaffnete Organe.
Communist and Socialist Claims to the Frontkämpfer Legacy, _PHONE_
Matthew Bucholtz
Cultivated during the Third Reich, the Myth of the Frontkämpfer, or Front Fighter, as an ardent rightwing supporter, became a central pillar of National Socialist political life. However, there is ample evidence to show that German veterans of the First World War did not exhibit such political unity, before and especially after the war. This paper argues that the Frontkämpfer identity had remarkable political flexibility as reflected by Communist and Socialist claims to represent the community of Front Fighters.


text: The Sunrise Chromospheric Infrared spectroPolarimeter (SCIP) is a near-IR spectro-polarimeter instrument newly designed for Sunrise III, a balloon-borne solar observatory with a 1-m diameter telescope. In order to achieve the strict requirements the SCIP wavefront error, it is necessary to quantify the errors due to environmen- tal effects such as gravity and temperature variation under the observation conditions. We therefore conducted an integrated opto-mechanical analysis incorporating mechanical and thermal disturbances into a finite element model of the entire SCIP structure to acquire the nodal displacements of each optical element, then fed them back to the optical analysis software in the form of rigid body motion and surface deformation fitted by polynomials. This method allowed us to determine the error factors having a significant influence on optical performance. For example, no significant wavefront degradation was associated with the structural mountings because the optical element mounts were well designed based on quasi-kinematic constraints. In contrast, we found that the main factor affecting wavefront degradation was the rigid body motions of the optical elements, which must be mini- mized within the allowable level. Based on these results, we constructed the optical bench using a sandwich panel as the optical bench consisting of an aluminum-honeycomb core and carbon fiber reinforced plastic skins with a high stiffness and low coefficient of thermal expansion. We then confirmed that the new opto-mechanical model achieved the wavefront error requirement. In this paper, we report the details of this integrated opto-mechanical analysis, including the wavefront error budgeting and the design of the opto-mechanics.


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BAKU, Azerbaijan, Sept.15
By Khumay Aghajanova - Trend:
The Azerbaijani-Turkish brotherhood has deep roots, Elshad Musayev, chairman of the Great Azerbaijan Party, told journalists, Trend reports.
According to Musayev, the liberation of Baku from the Bolshevik-Dashnak occupation by the Caucasian Islamic Army under the command of Nuru Pasha on September 15, 1918 is a great event in the history of the brotherhood of the two countries.
"On this day, the Azerbaijani people rose [against the Bolshevik-Dashnak occupation], and our Turkish brothers supported Azerbaijan. We remember Nuru Pasha and Enver Pasha with gratitude," he said.
Besides, according to him, the events of recent history also prove that Azerbaijan and Turkey support each other in difficult times.
During the 44-day second Karabakh war [from late Sept. to early Nov.2020 for liberating Azerbaijani territories from Armenian occupation], brotherly Turkey provided support to Azerbaijan. It's gratifying that Azerbaijan has such an ally and brother as Turkey, added Musayev.
On September 15, 1918, the Caucasian Islamic Army, which included the Azerbaijan Corps, liberated Baku from the Bolshevik-Dashnak occupation. The liberation of Baku is an event of exceptional importance for the Azerbaijani-Turkish friendship and brotherhood.


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When a user is to execute a complex stored procedure, inside of which there are quite a few tables / views or even another stored procedure.
My question is:
Before SQL server generates an execution plan, does it check the user's permission?
If not, generating execution plan itself is an overhead cost wasted if the user does not have the EXEC permission on this stored procedure in the first place.
If yes, it seems to me there is nothing consumable to the SQL Server engine, i.e. there is no securable identifier (like the stored procedure itself, tables inside the stored procedure etc) that the SQL Server engine can use to check against the user permission. All these securable identifier will not be generated until at least parsing is done.
So from a lifecyle perspective of executing a stored procedure, when does SQL Server permission check kick in?
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This is spelled out in some detail here:
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But the basic answer is that stored procedures have cached and reused query plans, and permissions checks are not necessary when objects owned by the stored procedure owner are accessed from a stored procedure. If valid ownership chains exist between the procedure and the object to be accessed, then only EXECUTE permission is checked before the stored procedure is started. Other permissions checks are skipped.
Could you come up with a step list about how a query (or SP) is processed after it is submitted?
The main thing to remember here is that all the queries in a batch are parsed and compiled before any of them starts to execute. Permissions are checked during execution. And it's even possible to reference a table in a query in such a way that permissions on that table are never actually checked.
If you watch an XE session like this:
CREATE EVENT SESSION [compiles] ON SERVER
ADD EVENT sqlserver.query_post_compilation_showplan(
 ACTION(sqlserver.sql_text)
 WHERE ([sqlserver].[client_app_name]=N'Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio - Query'))
WITH (MAX_MEMORY=4096 KB,EVENT_RETENTION_MODE=ALLOW_SINGLE_EVENT_LOSS,MAX_DISPATCH_LATENCY=1 SECONDS)
And do something like
use tempdb
create table t(id int)
create table w(id int)
create user fred without login
grant select on w to fred
Then:
dbcc freeproccache
go
execute as user='fred'
go
select * from w
select * from t
go
select 1
where 1 = case when 1=1 then 1 else (select count(*) from t) end
revert
You'll see that the query plans in the first batch are both compiled, then the first query runs, then the second fails. The third query succeeds without a permissions check.
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 - This revised answer with solid example is exactly what I expect. Thanks David Browne, and I vote you up as an answer. – jyao Jan 29 '18 at 3:56
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This tutorial is based off of the MSDN Article _TAG_: Q194873. But, for a beginner, following these MSDN articles can be intimidating to say the least. One of the most often asked questions I see as a Visual C++ and Visual Basic programmer is how to call a VB DLL from VC++. Well, I am hoping to show you exactly that today. I am not going to go over the basic details of COM as this would take too long, so I am assuming you have an understanding of VB, VC++ and a little COM knowledge. It's not too hard to learn; just takes a little time. So let's get started.
The first thing you need to do is fire up Visual Basic 6 (VB 5 should work as well). With VB running, create a new "ActiveX DLL" project. Rename the project to "vbTestCOM" and the class to "clsTestClass". You can do this by clicking in the VB Project Explorer Window on the Project1 item (Step 1), then clicking in the Properties window and selecting the name property (Step 2). Do the same for the Class. Click on the class (Step 3), then the name property and enter the name mentioned above (Step 4). Your project so far should look like the folowing right hand side picture:
Ok, now we are ready to add some code to the VB Class. Click on the "Tools" menu, then select the "Add Procedure" menu item. The Add Procedure window will open up. In this window we need to add some information. First (Step 1) make sure the type is set to Function. Second (Step 2) enter a Function name called "CountStringLength". Finally hit the Ok button and VB will generate the new function in the class.
You should have an empty function with which to work. The first thing we will do is specify a return type and an input parameter. Edit your code to look like this:
Public Function CountStringLength(ByVal strValue As String) As Long
What are we doing here? We are taking one parameter, as a String type in this case, then returning the length through the return type, which is a Long. We specify the input parameter as ByVal, meaning VB will make a copy of this variable and use the copy in the function, rather than the default ByRef, which passes the variable by reference. This way we can be sure that we do not modify the string by accident that was passed to us by the calling program. Let's add the code now.
Public Function CountStringLength(ByVal strValue As String) As Long
If strValue = vbNullString Then
CountStringLength = 0
CountStringLength = Len(strValue)
In the first line of code we are checking to see if the calling program passed us an empty, or NULL, string. If so we return 0 as the length. If the user did pass something other than an empty string, then we count it's length and return the length back to the calling program.
Now would be a good time to save your project. Accept the default names and put it in a safe directory. We need to compile this project now. Go to the File menu and select the "Make vbCOMTest.dll..." menu item.
The compiler will produce a file called surprisingly enough: vbCOMTest.dll. The compiler will also do us the favor of entering this new DLL into the system registry. We have finished the VB side of this project, so let's start the VC++ side of it. Fire up a copy of VC++, then select from the menu, "New Project". The New Project window should appear. Select a "Win32 Console Application" (Step 1), then give it a name of "TestVBCOM" (Step 2). Finally, enter a directory you want to build this project in (Step 3 - your directory will vary from what I have entered).
Click on the "OK" button and the "Win32 Console Application - Step 1 of 1" window will appear. Leave everything on this page as the default, and click the "Finish" button. One final window will appear after this titled "New Project Information". Simply click the "Ok" button here. You should now have an empty Win32 Console project. Press the "Ctrl" and hit the "N" key. Another window titled "New" will appear. Select the "C++ Source File" (Step 1), then enter the new name for this file called, "TestVBCOM.cpp" (Step 2 - make sure the Add to Project checkbox is checked and the correct project name is in the drop down combo box), then click the "Ok" button to finish.
Now we are going to get fancy!
You need to go to your Start Menu in Windows and navigate to the "Visual Studio 6" menu and go into the "Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Tools" sub-menu. In here you will see an icon with the name "OLE View". Click on it.
The OLE View tool will open up. You will see a window similar to this one:
Collapse all the trees, if they are not already. This will make it easier to navigate to where we want to go. Highlight the "Type Libraries" (Step 1) and expand it. You should see a fairly massive listing. We need to locate our VB DLL. Now, remember what we named the project? Right, we need to look for vbTestCOM. Scroll down until you find this. Once you have found it, double click on it. A new window should appear - the "ITypeLib Viewer" window. We are only interested in the IDL (Interface Definition Language) code on the right side of the window. Select the entire IDL text and hit the "Ctrl" and "C" buttons to copy it to the clipboard.
You can close this window and the OLE View window now as we are done with the tool. We need to add the contents of the IDL file into our VC++ project folder. Go to the folder you told VC++ to create your project in and create a new text file there (If you are in Windows Explorer, you can right click in the directory and select "New" then scroll over following the arrow and select "Text Document"). Rename the text document to "vbCOMTEST.idl". Then double click on the new IDL file (VC++ should open it if you named it correctly with an IDL extension). Now paste the code in the file by pressing the "Ctrl" and "V" keys. The IDL text should be pasted into the file. So far, so good. Now, this IDL file is not going to do us much good until we compile it. That way, VC++ can use the files it generates to talk to the VB DLL. Let's do that now. Open a DOS window and navigate to the directory you created your VC++ project in. Once in that directory, at the prompt you need to type the following to invoke the MIDL compiler:
E:\VCSource\TestVBCOM\TestVBCOM\midl vbTestCOM.idl /h vbTestCOM.h
Hit the "Enter" key and let MIDL do its magic. You should see results similar to the following:
Close the DOS window and head back into VC++. We need to add the newly generated vbTestCOM.h and vbTestCOM_i.c files to the project. You can do this by going to the "Project" menu, then selecting the "Add to Project" item, and scrolling over to the "Files" menu item and clicking on it. A window titled, "Insert Files into Project" will open. Select the two files highlighted in the next picture, then select the "Ok" button.
These two files were generated by MIDL for us, and VC++ needs them in order to talk to the VB DLL (actually VC++ does not need the "vbCOMTest_i.c" file in the project, but it is handy have in the project to review). We are going to add the following code to the "TestVBCOM.cpp" file now, so navigate to that file in VC++ using the "Workspace" window. Open the file by double clicking it and VC++ will display the empty file for editing.
Now add the following code to the "TestVBCOM.cpp" file:
_clsVBTestClass *IVBTestClass = NULL;
hr = CoInitialize(0);
hr = CoCreateInstance( CLSID_clsVBTestClass,
_bstr_t bstrValue("Hello World");
hr = IVBTestClass->CountStringLength(bstrValue,
cout << "The string is: " << ReturnValue << " characters in
length." << endl;
hr = IVBTestClass->Release();
cout << "CoCreateInstance Failed." << endl;
If all the code is entered in correctly, then press the "F7" key to compile this project. Once the project has compiled cleanly, then press the "Ctrl" and the "F5" keys to run it. In the C++ code, we include the MIDL created "vbTestCOM.h" file, the "Comdef.h" file for the _bstr_t class support and the "iostream.h" file for the "cout" support. The rest of the comments should speak for themselves as to what's occurring. This simple tutorial shows how well a person can integrate VB and VC++ apps together using COM. Not too tough actually.


Scan All Libraries
When you add or remove media from your Plex server you will need to scan the libraries to update Plex with the changed media. You can run the scan from the Plex Web app, or you can use this API command to scan from outside of Plex.
You should run a scan when one of the following has occurred:
 - Added or removed media files.
 - Added or removed directories from a library.
 - Renamed a media file or directory.
 - Moved any files from one location to another.
This command will run a scan for all libraries in your Plex server.
URL
GET http://[IP address]:32400/library/sections/all/refresh?X-Plex-Token=[PlexToken]
Parameters
NameDescription
IP addressThe IP address of the Plex Media server.
PlexTokenThe temporary authentication Plex token.
Return Status
HTTP CodeDescription
200Success - The request was successful.
401Unauthorized - The Plex token provided was not valid.
Response
No response is returned. You will be able to see the scan API command run from the Plex console.
Remarks
The time it takes for the scan to complete is dependent on how many media times are within each library, and the number of libraries on the Plex server.
This command will return immediately, but the scan will still be running on the Plex server.
Examples
Example 1
Scan all libraries for the Plex server located at IP address of 192.168.1.4:
GET http://192.168.1.4:32400/library/sections/all/refresh?X-Plex-Token=L6vkd7JtLHjsH5987vYY


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Cloris has sent letters to nearly 300 retirement communities urging the facilities that have caged birds or other captive animals on display to work with PETA to move them to more humane settings. And she's asking each of the communities to pledge not to keep birds or any other animals caged in the future.
"It is insulting to suggest that retired, elderly individuals can be entertained by watching miserable birds spend their entire lives unable to follow their instincts," she writes. "Cages deny birds all that is natural and important to them—including room to fly, fresh air, and enough water to bathe in."
Cloris contends that kind senior citizens like herself would much rather watch wild birds in a natural setting—for example, munching on seeds outdoors, splashing in bird baths, building nests in trees, and flitting from plant to plant in bird-friendly gardens—than see them languishing in tiny cages.
We'll keep you updated as communities take Cloris' advice and let birds fly free.


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wahi kai, Lea, mara grassy, raorao, whāngai, kai, mara, nohoanga, pakeke;, kaiwhakatangi hapa, tarutaru, quitch tarutaru, mara karaihe, wahi whakaminenga, whakaminenga, rōpū, hapori
wahi kai, hepara, kai karaehe, mataara, pupuri, kotiti, haere
Meaning and definitions of pasture, translation in Maori
language for pasture with similar and opposite words. Also find spoken pronunciation of pasture in Maori and in English language.
What pasture means in Maori, pasture meaning
in Maori, pasture
definition, examples and pronunciation
of pasture in Maori language.


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What is it ?
Kemistatic is a new two component polyurethane resin application with a low pressure technology and an electrostatic spraying system
A catalog of PU resins
with high performances
Compatible with food applications
What are the
main benefits ?
It is a solution :
- Solvent free, Bisphenol A free
- No VOC (Volatile Organic Compound), no air pollution
Easy to use:
- Applied on cold substrate
- Fast drying time / Cold curing
- Mobile, compact equipment
- Applied in one single coat, evenly spread
No limit in size / design :
- Any dimension size
- Application on even the most complex shapes
High performances :
- Thickness control (from 30µm to a few mm)
- No pinholes whatever the coating thickness
- Overall coating process time reduced by up to 3 times
User friendly :
- Easy to use technology
- No exposure to toxic vapors.
Sectors of use
Co-funded by the European Union (program Horizon 2020 - H2020)
The EU has granted fundings to KEMISTATIC laureate of the Horizon 2020 (H2020) program.
H2020 is a EU program financing projects that meet 3 priorities :
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N°801806.
Where does KEMISTATIC
come from ?
Kemistatic is :
The strong belief that an inovative technical solution exist
The persistence of few passionates
15 years of formulas and process continuous development
6 prototypes construction
More than 150 tests performed
A continuous research of technical improvements and financings.
This sum of experience is the force of Kemistatic in the way to reach the best industrial standards
Some examples of applications :
There are many wood agressive sources into the environment : fungal infection, insects, UV, humidity, temperature variations, …
Kemistatic will allow the use of our resins to protect external woodworks : doors, windows, terrace, cladding, …
We want to offer to external wookworks a full protection thanks to the high technical performances of our resins : durability, strong adhesion, waterproofness. As soon as we will be ready, we will launch the necessary validations with the FCBA (French technological institute for Forest Cellulose Wood construction Furnishings).
Potable water pipe system protection
Our resins have been qualified to be used in contact with potable water.
We can offer not only an anti-corrosion and a waterproof protection but also without Bisphenol A or solvent. Our protection is perfectly fit for applications in contact with potable water.
Kemistatic brings the easiness of application.
In can be used for every item composing a potable water pipe system :
pumps, valves, pipes.
With Kemistatic, we can garantee a healthy protection of our potable water distribution network.
An effective protection to steel substrates
An anti-corrosion protection is mandatory for parts made of steel in order to garantee a long lifetime.
A solution combining the strength of both Kemistatic and our resins promises high performances !
Strong anti-corrosion protection
Easiness of application
Lots of finishes available
With Kemistatic, a real alternative to existing solutions such as the galvanization will come true !
If you are looking for more information, feel free to contact us :
Industrial project manager


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Revision as of 13:45, 21 August 2007 by Donald.eclipse.org
The Requirements Council has three main responsibilities:
- Drive the evolution of the [[RequirementsCouncilThemesAndPriorities
| Eclipse Themes and Priorities]] which serve three main purposes:
- Drive the creation of the Eclipse Road Map, used by the Ecosystem to understand in a snap-shot format the direction and challenges we face
- Help projects focus on important issues
- Consolidate terminology used frequently in the Eclipse Ecosystem
- Maintain a list of, and drive to resolution of, important issues and challenges facing the Eclipse Ecosystem
- Network with each other and the Ecosystem to consolidate public knowledge involving Strategic Members planned directions with Eclipse technology
- The Requirements Council Organization Presentation Template is the template used for presentations about what your Orgnization is doing with Eclipse.
- The Requirements Council is undertaking to track and promote issues related to Eclipse. See the Requirements Council Issue Tracking page.
- All past meeting minutes and a list of the council members can be found on the Eclipse Foudation Councils page.


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OpenSSL version numbers are formatted as n1.n2.n3x, where n1-3 are numbers and x, if present, is one or more letters. These can change depending on the release type:
- Major releases that change one/both of the first two digits, which can break compatibility with previous versions
- Minor releases that change the last digit, e.g. 1.1.0 vs. 1.1.1, can and are likely to contain new features, but in a way that does not break binary compatibility. This means that an application compiled and dynamically linked with 1.1.0 does not need to be recompiled when the shared library is updated to 1.1.1. It should be noted that some features are transparent to the application such as the maximum negotiated TLS version and cipher suites, performance improvements and so on. There is no need to recompile applications to benefit from these features.
- Letter releases, such as 1.0.2a, exclusively contain bug and security fixes and no new features.
The full release strategy for OpenSSL is available here
Finding the current version
The command line tool version can be used to determine the installed OpenSSL version.
Header file opensslv.h also contains information about the version number.


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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that the continuing diplomatic crisis in the Gulf region could weaken the GCC's economic growth.
"A protracted rift could slow progress toward greater GCC integration, and cause a broader erosion of confidence, reducing investment and growth and increasing funding costs in Qatar and possibly the rest of the GCC," the IMF warned in its Regional Economic Outlook.
Jihad Azour, director of the IMF's Middle East and Central Asia Department, said the economic impact of the crisis remains weak on the GCC, adding that "there were no signs that the diplomatic row has affected economic growth in the region.
He explained that the Qatari economy continues to adapt to the effects of the diplomatic crisis, but noted that the crisis economic impact has been felt in Qatar by disrupting trade and financial flows.
According to the IMF report, almost a sixth of Doha's imports are produced in countries that imposed trade restrictions on it and a large portion of other imports pass through Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
The report added that some commercial operations have been diverted through Kuwait and Oman, and alternative sources of food supplies have been found, easing fears of any possible shortfall.
According to the report, when the crisis started, the main concern was that disrupting the trade movement could affect the implementation of major infrastructure projects, but this concern has been reduced by the availability of building materials and alternative sources of imports and competitiveness.


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This article contains information about a non-canonical subject that, while official, is not part of the established Halo universe.
A dead alien whale on Harvest.
The Harvest whale was a marine animal native to the human colony of Harvest that was to appear in Halo Wars. It was ultimately cut from the final game. It was more eel-like in appearance than Earth whales, and was thus probably not a true whale.
History[edit]
When Harvest was glassed, the human population suffered tremendous losses, but the natural environment fared little better. The entire ecosystem was turned to a toxic environment, leading many native species to die off or be slaughtered by the open toxic air. The Harvest Whales suffered such a fate. The fate of the Harvest Whales and the other animals on the planet Harvest is unknown, though most likely most if not all the species have been rendered extinct due to the environment.


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- Passivity and passiveness are nouns derived from the adjective passive.
- Both nouns mean the same thing and are often listed as synonyms.
Passive is an adjective; a word we use to describe someone or something that is not active. Someone who is lethargic can be described as passive. When we're allowing something to happen and not doing it ourselves, we're being passive.
You probably know that you can turn an adjective into a noun by adding the right suffix. In the case of the adjective passive, you can use two different suffixes to create two different nouns with the same meaning.
Meaning of Passivity and Passiveness
The two nouns in question are passivity and passiveness. If you look them up in dictionaries, you'll find that they're often listed simply as nouns derived from the adjective passive. If you manage to find them defined individually, you can expect the dictionary to tell you that passivity is the state of being passive and that passiveness is the condition of being passive. In most cases, the words are listed as being each other's synonyms.
The suffix in the word passivity—-ity—is generally used with words of Latin origin. And yes, passive is a word of Latin origin. On the other hand, the -ness in passiveness is a suffix native to the English language, and as such can be used on any word, regardless of its origin. That's why it's okay to say either passivity or passiveness, though it appears that passivity is the more common one.
Passivity and Passiveness: Examples
Passivity and passiveness are nouns that denote a state and a condition of someone or something. You can use it when you want to say that someone is not taking an active role in things going on around them, that someone is letting things go by without reacting to them, or that someone is letting something be done to them without resisting:
from Grammarly Blog