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Guenther's Marsupial Frog (Gastrotheca guentheri) is a species of frog in the Hemiphractidae family. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.
It is the only frog with true teeth in its lower jaw. Recent studies have proposed its teeth have re-evolved after being absent for over 200 million years, challenging Dollo's law.
- ^ Wiens, J. J. (2011). "Re-Evolution of Lost Mandibular Teeth in Frogs After More Than 200 Million Years, and Re-Evaluating Dollo's Law". Evolution: no. doi:10.1111/j._PHONE_.2011.01221.x.


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Over time, the phrase has found its way into the financial world, where it now means to always be ready for opportunities.
Basic meaning
The Cambridge Dictionary says that 'keep your powder dry' means 'remain cautious and ready for a possible emergency'. This refers more to always being prepared so you can take action if necessary rather than a warning about danger. It's a suggestion to avoid missing out on a great opportunity because you didn't consider all possibilities.
Origin of the expression
English general and statesman Oliver Cromwell is credited with creating the expression. The story goes that Cromwell was talking to his army during his campaign in Ireland. He warned them about keeping their gunpowder dry as they were about to cross a river before a battle. So, as a mix of warning and inspiration, he told his soldiers to 'Trust in God and keep your powder dry'.
About two hundred years later, British Army officer William Blacker used the entire phrase in his poem Oliver's Advice and made it famous. Over the years, the second half of the sentence has become commonplace on its own. It was even used as a movie title for a 1945 American drama film starring Lana Turner.
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The concept of dry powder has made it into the financial world in the past few decades. It is mostly used to mean 'hold cash or liquid securities' in case a big opportunity opens up. When a company has cash reserves, it becomes easier to invest in a sudden opportunity, buy stocks or participate in a now-or-never deal.
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I'm comparing Entity Framework with NHibernate, and I'd like to know if when using SQL Server, what effect (if any) would enabling or disabling MARS support have on NHibernate?
MARS = Multiple Active Result Sets
The Entity Framwork documentation states the following:
When you call the Load method during a foreach (C#) or For Each (Visual Basic) enumeration, the Entity Framework tries to open a new data reader. This operation will fail unless you have enabled multiple active results sets by specifying multipleactiveresultsets=true in the connection string. For more information, see Using Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS) on MSDN. You can also load the result of the query into a List collection, which closes the data reader and enables you to enumerate over the collection to load referenced entities.
Does NHibernate has the same issue?
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Same as MOON (Multiple Object Oriented Network :) -- sorry, couldn't resist. – iDevlop Oct 5 '11 at 15:50
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The issue you're referring to is linked to "server side cursors", and as far as I know of nHibernate this shouldn't be an issue, simply because it don't use them.
If you're using LINQ to load objects in nHibernate, on the first access to the foreach enumeration, nHibernate load in memory the whole resultset of the query, and this way it can use the session's connection to load everything else. When using HQL query or Criteria, it will load the resultset when you call "List()" then it close the connection.
Entity framework on the flip side, try to be smart and make use of server side cursors when scrolling a collection via a foreach enumeration, so the objectContext's connection is "busy" with the server side cursor until the foreach enumeration is ended. If MARS is not enabled, EF can't use the connection to load another resultset (you can still issue other statements such update, insert and delete) and thus it will give you an error like "There is already an open DataReader associated with this Command which must be closed first" or something similar.
Hope this helps,
After some research I've found that nHibernate could use MARS, but still in ver there's no driver for SqlServer that supports it. Of course in the SqlClientDriver is not supported (as it is inteded for Sql2000 that has no support for MARS) but even in the Sql2008ClientDriver the relevant property is set to false. Anyway this is something I'll post to the nHibernate team as soon as possible
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So then does NH not care about MARS at all? What if you try to lazy-load another entity while enumerating an IQueryable result set? Wouldn't that require MARS? Perhaps NH has some way around this, or just doesn't support it? – Matt Johnson Nov 7 '11 at 17:33
Well, I'm tempted to but I can't say that. I've taken a look at nHibernate source and found out that the nHibernate could potentially use MARS. The SqlClientBatchingBatcher is derived from AbstractBatcher which in turn check if "_factory.ConnectionProvider.Driver.SupportsMultipleOpenReaders" then it use an implementaion of IDataReader that make use of MARS (as far as I know just for SQLServer and Oracle). So nHibernate is aware of MARS and looking at the cose seems able to use it for batching, if it is available, however I haven't tried it so far. If you 'll do some test on it, let us know – mCasamento Nov 8 '11 at 13:48
Thanks for looking. I'll do some testing at some point. The concern came up because we are going to (eventually) be using SQL Azure with Federations, and it doesn't support MARS. We chose NHibernate for other reasons, but I'm working on the assumption that it does not require MARS and will still work when not enabled. I'll award you the bounty since yours was the only answer and was at least detailed enough to point me in the right direction. Thanks. – Matt Johnson Nov 8 '11 at 14:54
Glad to be helpful, glad for the points and... Glad you choose nHibernate! I've done the same comparison about 1 year and an half ago, and now I lead a big project with nHibernate. I also help on two other smaller projects developed with EF so I'm up to date with both, and day by day I see that are no other reason that a gentler learning curve to use EF with a real world business application (more than 50 entities) – mCasamento Nov 8 '11 at 20:51
The distinguishing factor for me was that NH can be extended through event listeners. EF had something that could achieve the same effect in CTP5 called "Custom Pluggable Conventions", but they dropped it for the 4.1 release and it hasn't come back yet in 4.2. So NH it is. – Matt Johnson Nov 9 '11 at 14:19
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Dasht-e Kavir also known as Kavir-e Namak or Great Salt Desert is a large desert laying in the
middle of the Iranian Plateau.
It is about 800 km long and 320 km wide.
The desert is partitioned between the Iranian provinces of Khorasan, Semnan, Tehran, Esfahan and
The Dasht-e Kavir's climate is almost rainless and the area is very arid.Temperatures can reach 50 °C in summer, and the average temperature in January is 22 °C. Day and night temperatures during a year can differ
up to 70 °C. Rain usually falls in winter.
The desert soil is covered with sand and pebbles; there are marshes,lakes and wadis. The hot temperatures cause extreme vaporization, which
leaves the marshes and mud grounds with large crusts of salt.
Heavy storms frequently occur and they can cause sand hills reaching up to 40 m in altitude.Some parts of Dasht- e Kavir have a more steppe-like appearance.
NASA : Like swirls of paint on an enormous canvas, shallow lakes, mudflats, and salt marshes share the sinuous valleys on Iran's largely uninhabited Dasht-e Kavir, or Great Salt Desert.
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ancevski (3358) 2006-04-08 13:48
Excellent photo, the colors are great and the moment that you have captured is excellent.
persis (128) 2006-04-08 13:58
WOW! Wonderful shot
Didi (60590) 2006-04-08 13:58
Very nice landscape with this dramatic stormy sky.
I note a very good luminosity in the foreground.
Framing is very appreciable.
blue-velvet30 (6524) 2006-04-08 14:01
Excellent composition and fantastic colors. Great work!
ChristianS (2997) 2006-04-08 14:09
This is my favourite kind of landscape, sandy, arid and desolate. The sky and the threatning clouds announcing an approaching storm are awesome and dramatic. The colours and the light are very nice. Well done!
carper (96) 2006-04-08 14:11
very nice one my friend,
the shot is very nice the balance is very nice , the light is good and the colours fantastic,I like the good scene, good job,
Fixfocus (9385) 2006-04-08 14:22
Beautiful contrast between the desert and the dark grey sky.I like the special lightmood here a lot,the green bushes are good focussing points for the eyes to rest on.
alvaraalto (20668) 2006-04-08 14:29
Imposing landscape. So little variation to see but so much to feel. You feel really deserted and abandoned if you look to this great picture.
babri (422) 2006-04-08 15:04
Beautiful shot of a desert under clouds!
Well composed! Nice low POV! beautiful color for the ground. But I prefer more-grey less- blue clouds.
Thanks for sharing,
Lukasso (645) 2006-04-08 15:14
Awesome shot. The composition is rather minimalistic and extremely simple. Thanks to that one can concentrate attention on a beautifuel contrast between gloomy sky and golden(well maybe not so goldem:)sand. Due to this little bush photo gains some additional ambiance. Well done!
HNIK (1104) 2006-04-08 16:19
It makes me calm with two different layers that they are opposite each other,very nice color and nice mood,the little tree likes both of these elements,dust and cloud,great work with great mean.
jrleborgne (1554) 2006-04-08 18:16
Very beautiful and coloured composition.
PixelTerror (0) 2006-04-08 18:23
Hi Mohammad, a simple composition but very effective in the opposition between the warm ground and the dark menacing clouds, the bush breaks well the monotony and catches the eye, very nice. Greetings from faraway Japan JY
thor68 (5586) 2006-04-08 19:09
and you're an artist, mohammad! :-)
beautiful landscape shot.
a desert, single bushes and a superb dramatic
sky - wonderful composition!
well seen & captured, thor.
Gerrit (52283) 2006-04-08 21:41
beatiful composition with these horizontal layers and the sparse greenery and terrific colours and sky.
Thanks and regards, Gerrit
Janice (4403) 2006-04-08 22:05
Mohammad, awesome desert-scape. The heavy clouds are quite dramatic, and it is good you caught the rain in the distance. Colours and details are great, Thank you...
HOBO (5282) 2006-04-09 0:47
Good morning Mohammad,
your picture has really something lonely, desperate; the gound colors look a bit faint against the threatening clouds. Looks like rain at the horizon.
Thanks for the link; great art of mother earth...
bibiweb (8) 2006-04-09 3:41
The thick, grey clouds make for a very dramatic sky. And there's a beautiful contrast with the luminous ground and sunlit bush in the foreground. A great shot.
Galmeida (12559) 2006-04-09 3:55
This is also a decisive moment picture shot that you took so nicely in a special light atmosphere moment of the day with a great eye catch and composition in a earth/water scenery with the sky as the God Teacher. Your note guidelines are a must and your post is a SUPBERB simple frame with the main most important elements in life. First the water next earth for creating bodies, feeding and mutation on the next cycle.
Good perspective and enquadrement scenery view. The title fits well with this beautiful clear post. The light, shadows and colors are a must here, also the sharpness quality.
Very well seen, clear picture and a true surprinsing post in a complementary both approach from us of nature, with manny Kilometers of distance. IT'S humain feeling whithin the global diversity, but for others they must put glasses in their Eyes.
Congratulations to you and allways the Best to you my World Friend and Cultural and Insight Person.
Have a nice Sunday.
jafadabret (56501) 2006-04-09 5:31
Un ciel d'orage sur un désert, je ne sais pas si c'est fréquent mais l'image est magnifique. Ces deux buissons sont bien seuls sur cette immensité. Les couleurs sont extra.
ChrisJ (119013) 2006-04-09 5:32
A like the simple horizontal layering here into 3 parts. Marvellous color, & fantastic lighting & tonal range. Congratulations!
xavshot (69835) 2006-04-09 5:32
Superbe cette photo avec une lumière qui permet de faire ressortir ce paysage grandiose. J'aime ton cadrage et la place laissée à ce ciel
isabela_sor (47748) 2006-04-09 6:22
What a very special and wonderful dramatic atmosphere in a simple picture with great cloudy sky,of course.Amazing colors ..perfect title and note,too
A nice week end
nwoehnl (122) 2006-04-09 10:06
Hi Mohammad. A beautiful elementary landscape, presented in good contrast and with a nice use of the few available elements such as the two bushes in the foreground. Good contrast and moody light setting creating an impressive total. Greetings from Osaka.
gebala (0) 2006-04-09 10:35
hello, I agree with a title:) exellent compo Mohammad, great colours and great frame:) nice lighting too:)
well taken my friend:)
john_c (24666) 2006-04-09 11:42
A dramatic and well composed shot of this interesting region. There is great drama in your textured sky and the desert soil is of a pleasant contrasting hue. A most interesting note on the soil especially. A superb capture.
cherryripe (21033) 2006-04-09 11:51
What a magnificent desolate landscape. I like the inclusion of the bushes to give a focal point. Those dark clouds and the rain are so dramatic.
RGatward (20086) 2006-04-09 15:54
Really in the minimalst spirit at the moment, I see. The lone bush in the featureless desert a really great subject for the genre. Well desreved praise for this one.
arnabchat (7233) 2006-04-10 1:13
ah! that is simple, yet stunningly natural.
dkeus31 (27735) 2006-04-10 5:50
Very nice simple composition with a very good subjet under the dark sky.
Gregtom (7169) 2006-04-11 4:34
Hello, My Friend!
Very beautiful weather situation! Dramatic, but rather calm... I like contrast between the deep blue sky and yellow sand on the beach on the foreground. Congratulations!
bazal (7900) 2006-04-13 8:14
Hi friend Mohammad.
I really like the simplicity of this composition and the pureness of the landscape you present. The two lonly trees at the foreground make a superb detail. Great light and colors.
Thanks for sharing.
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Since childhood we are taught that God helps those who help themselves, that means ultimately you have to paddle your own canoe for making the things work as only then you should seek for God' help. That's very true, but just for the sake of fun pose this question to your friends and ask if it is so then why it is said help others, why others can't help themselves?
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 1. Why a Waiter is called a 'waiter'? It's we who has to wait for a meal to serve?
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 1. If driving is not allowed while being drunk then how all the drunk persons come back to home from bars?
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 1. Say something really serious in a funny way
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Address 1: 829 Grayson Highland Lane
City: Mouth of Wilson
Open all Year: Yes
Number of Sites: 96
Electric Water: 60
Full Hook: Yes
This mountain park is next to the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area in the Jefferson National Forest. Grayson Highlands State Park was originally named Mount Rogers State Park and was established in 1965. Pets are allowed in the park but not allowed inside public facilities including the bathhouses, visitor center and office.
Grayson Highlands provides access to the Appalachian Trail (AT), hence backpacking is a popular activity. In fact, the park averages 4,000 backpackers a year. The park, however, also can have unusual and harsh weather, so it's important for those planning to access the AT's trailhead here to be familiar with Grayson Highland's severe weather policy and associated procedures. Here are a few links that will help.
Nearly 10 miles of wild trout stream lie within Grayson Highlands State Park. The cool mountain streams offer those fishing breathtaking scenery while angling for native brook and wild rainbow trout. Several park streams are designated "Special Regulation Wildlife Trout Streams" thus require the use of a single hook and artificial lures, and all trout less than nine inches long must be released unharmed. All required state fishing licenses and creel limits apply to fishing within the park. A National Forest Permit is required when fishing on national forest property.
Guided canoe trips are offered from Memorial Day through Labor Day, depending on the water level of the river. The trips can accommodate groups of from a minimum of six to a maximum of 14. The trip takes placeon the New River through "a land that time forgot." Take in cliffs, shaded pastures, lush woodlands and crisp, clear water. It's a six-mile trek and takes about six hours. Participants should bring lunch, drinking water and closed-toe shoes.


Balanced circulants
Given interer $k \geq 1$ and $m \geq 1$, let us introduce a graph $G(k,m) = (V,E)$ with circular symmetry as follows: $V = {\bf Z}_n = \{0,1,...,n-1\}$, where $n = 4km$, and $(i,j) \in E$ iff
\begin{displaymath}i-j + 4mt = +1 \;\; or \, -1 \;\; (mod \; n)\end{displaymath}
for some integer $t$. E.g. if $k=5, m=2$ then $n = 40$ and $(i,j) \in E$ iff $i - j (mod \; 40) \in \{7,9; 15,17; 23,25; 31,33; 39,1\}.$
It is not difficult to check that $G(k,m)$ is balanced, i.e. it has no odd cycles, nor $(4i+2)$-holes. In fact, it may only contain holes of length 4 and $4m$. Moreover, every $(4i+2)$-cycle has at least two chords. Hence, $G(k,m) - e$ is still balanced for any edge $e$, in agreement with Conjecture 2 from the section "Balanced Graphs". Conjecture 1 of the same section also holds for $G(k,m)$. Indeed, if $k > 1$ then $S = \{0; 4mi+1, 4mi-1 \; \vert \; i = 1, \ldots,k\}$ is a star cutset: 0 is an isolated vertex in $\bar{G}[S]$, while $4mj$ is an isolated vertex in $G[V \setminus S]$ for every $j = 1, \ldots, k;$ and if $k=1$ then $G(k,m)$ is $4m$-cycle, that is a basic graph
CONJECTURE. Every non-empty balanced circulant is isomorphic to a $G(k,m)$.
Contributed by Diogo Andrade, Endre Boros, and Vladimir Gurvich
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The industrial probe preliminary filter is used for measurements involving flue gas with a high dust load. The preliminary filter ensures that the probe shaft and the sampling hose do not become clogged with dust or particles.
You can use the preliminary filter as an accessory to the industrial probe set 1 200 °C and the heated industrial probe set.
The industrial probe preliminary filter – in combination with the appropriate industrial probe and measuring instrument – can be used for the following applications among others:
- Measuring the furnace atmosphere
- Emissions measurement for efficiency monitoring / commissioning industrial plants
- Emissions measurements for the prior checking of limit values
- Emissions measurements for checking flue gas cleaning systems
- Emissions measurement to monitor prescribed limit values


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The representations of San Francisco (California): a portable harbor in the fragile geography of the North Pacific
San Francisco bay first appeared in chronicles and navigation charts two centuries before being officially discovered. The news of the existence of a great shelter to the north of New Spain encouraged diverse expeditions and brought back mythical images in literature and cartography. This mysterious enclave that maps glided stealthily was looked for unsuccessfully by a number of seafarers. Systematic advances to take control of the Pacific during the period known as the Enlightenment dispelled the obscurity to which the territory had been submitted and did shed light on the harbor that had been hidden for so long. The expeditions of the 18th century finally banished the last frontier of the New Spanish Great North and from that period onward an image of San Francisco that exceeded its own legend was created.
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WHITEHALL – The White Lake area is turning a corner in its environmental history as work moves from cleaning up hazardous materials to restoring the area's wetlands to their natural condition.
Excavation of the wetlands at the former Occidental Chemical site will start in June, Muskegon Conservation District Executive Director Jeff Auch said. Most of the work will be to remove earth and concrete placed into the wetlands to push the usable shoreline further into the lake for docking during the area's industrial period.
Once the foreign material is removed, the seeds of native plants will begin to regenerate the wetland, Auch said.
"That site is actually very clean," he said.
Other work will include removing black locust trees, which are not native to Michigan and were likely planted when the property was a religious retreat, Auch said.
The worst of White Lake's contamination from the days of tanning leather and manufacturing chemicals is cleaned up, Auch said, though groundwater remediation continues at some sites. Since there are no immediate plans to redevelop the sites, the companies that owned them have mostly decided to return them to prairies or wetlands, he said.
"It either stands as a wasteland or they choose to do something beneficial with it," he said. "And they've decided to do something beneficial with it."
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As you are asking on a Judaism site, I assume you want the Jewish belief on the subject...
There are many Jews today who are descended paternally from Aharon the High Priest. How they have that knowledge and whether they can prove it genealogically is another question.
Do they still serve in Jerusalem? Well, the Holy Temple is no more, and it will not be rebuilt until the coming of Moshiach, so they don't serve there.
But there are still many priestly functions that they fulfill, both in Jerusalem, and around the world. The Priestly Blessing and the Redemption of the Firstborn are two examples.
You may wish to read this Wikipedia article's section dealing with the modern day applications of priesthood.
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You may want to add that Kohanic lineage(even for those who can prove an unbroken patrilineal line) is still in question because of the possibility of disqualifiers having mixed in and so no Kohanim could serve in the Temple today. – Rabbi Michael Tzadok Apr 3 '13 at 7:34
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A sherwan or union council in Pakistan is an elected local government body consisting of 21 councillors, and headed by a nazim (which is equivalent to a mayor) and a naib nazim (deputy). Union councils are the fifth tier of government in Pakistan and are often known as village councils in rural areas, the territory represented by a village council usually comprises a large village and surrounding areas, often including nearby small villages. The term "union council" may be used for localities that are part of cities.


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The Magere Brug ("Skinny Bridge") is a bridge over the river Amstel in the city centre of Amsterdam. It connects the banks of the river at Kerkstraat street, between the Keizersgracht and Prinsengracht canals.
The Magere Brug is a bascule bridge made of white-painted wood. The present bridge was built in 1934. The first bridge at this site was built in 1691 as Kerkstraatbrug and had 13 arches. Because this bridge was very small, the locals called it Magere brug, which means small or skinny bridge. In 1871 the state of the bridge was so bad that it was demolished and replaced by a nine-arched wooden bridge. Fifty years later this bridge also needed to be replaced. Architect Piet Kramer made several designs for a steel and stone bridge, but the city decided to replace it with a new bridge that looked the same as the previous, only slightly bigger. In 1934 the bridge was demolished and replaced. The last major renovation was in 1969. Until 1994 the bridge was opened by hand, but now is opened automatically.
Use of the bridge has been limited to pedestrians and cyclists since 2003. It is however opened many times a day in order to let through river traffic. The boats used for sightseeing tours are low enough to pass underneath the bridge when closed. The bridge is decorated with 1200 light bulbs that are illuminated in the evening.
Every year on V-E Day (Dutch: bevrijdingsdag) there is a concert next to the bridge, which Queen Beatrix usually attends.
The bridge can be seen in a number of films, such as the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever from 1971.


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The current guidelines adopted at the general meeting of the MVUB can be summarized as follows:
- The main concern of the MVUB is to support intermediate staff at the University of Bern. The MVUB promotes this concern emphatically at all levels of the university. It develops innovative support tools.
- The MVUB promotes personnel structures that establish optimum framework conditions and specific prospects for intermediate staff.
- The MVUB creates proposals for intermediate staff to support and fund careers within and outside the university.
- The MVUB aims to have a broad membership base to support its activities.
- The MVUB looks after the interests of the intermediate staff of the University of Bern in the national context.


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Jean Shin: The Last Straw
Commissioned by Arts Brookfield
Jean Shin's The Last Straw presents three macro and micro views of plastic waste, featuring different configurations and perspectives of colorful straws and reflective material. A poignant part of the installation includes scattered piles of straws in the distance, which map the flow of plastic debris from our coastlines into the gigantic concentration of garbage floating in the ocean. The artwork encourages viewers to contemplate their own plastic consumption and question the ecological impact of consumer behavior in contributing to plastic pollution.
While acknowledging the Straw Ban represents only a tiny fragment of the problem in slowing down the flood of plastics into our marine environment, Jean Shin's artwork aims to prompt us to better understand the magnitude and urgency of the environmental dilemma facing our planet.
"The straw that broke the camel's back" is the familiar phrase said when a small and seemingly insignificant addition to an existing burden renders it too much to bear. What is "the last straw" in our ecological crisis? What would our future look like when we individually and collectively decide that we will no longer accept the status quo? How do we stop the first straw from being produced and get to the source of the problem?
Floating MAiZE and The Last Straw are curated by Kendal Henry for Brookfield Place. Henry is an artist and curator who has specialized in the field of public art for nearly thirty years, and the Director of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program.
Click here to learn more about Jean Shin's FLOATING MAiZE, also at Brookfield Place.
Co-presented with Arts Brookfield and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) as part of River To River 2020: Four Voices.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Jean Shin is recognized for her monumental installations that transform everyday objects into elegant expressions of identity and community engagement. Her work has been widely exhibited in over 150 major museums and cultural institutions including at The Museum of Modern Art in New York and Storm King Art Center. Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in the United States, Shin lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
A public program of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), River To River is Downtown New York City's completely free summer arts festival. River To River celebrates artistic and creative diversity across disciplines, presenting live art and installation in public spaces and in partnership with leading institutions in Lower Manhattan. All events are free and all are welcome.


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Become a Volunteer for Our Rabbits
- Set up hopping areas and pens to provide exercise and socialization for rabbits.
- Using safe rabbit handling techniques and designated training protocols, transport rabbits to hopping areas and pens.
- Interact with potential adopters to screen for suitability and to identify those rabbits that provide the best match for that adopter and their home.
- Monitor interactions between potential adopters and rabbits.
- Greet visitors to rabbit area and provide information about our facility and adoptable rabbits in a friendly, professional manner.
- Maintain clean rabbit cages during shift.
- Monitor rabbit health and behavior and report any issues or changes to staff.
- Provide fresh water as needed.
Special Capabilities and Requirements
- Must be able to learn and use safe rabbit handling techniques and practices when interacting with the animals.
- Must be able to learn and retain various protocols and follow direction of staff.
- Must be able to provide friendly, knowledgeable customer service and to answer questions in a professional manner, deferring to staff if guidance if needed.
- Must be able to pick up and carry rabbits to and from hopping area.
- Attend General Orientation Session.
- Attend training session with experienced rabbit volunteer.
Please bring your completed volunteer application to the animal shelter and turn it in to front desk personnel or email it to _EMAIL_.


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The training curriculum of OTS includes:
- General Service Training.
- Presentation by Student Officers.
- Computer Training.
- Training in Language Laboratory.
- Mechanical Transport Driving Practice.
The training curriculum of OTS (branch wise) includes:
- Aerospace Technology Course.
- Avionics Technology Course.
- Armament & Photo Technology Course.
- Logistic Course.
- Forecasting Course.
- Admin Officers Course.
- Education Officers Course.
- Legal Officers course.
- Air Traffic Control Course.
- Finance Management Course.
OTS has the facilities of a Library, a standard Language Lab and different training labs such as, Aero Engineering Training Laboratory, Mechanical Transport Training Laboratory, Armament & Photo Training Laboratory, Communication and Electronics Training Laboratory and Air Traffic Control Simulator Laboratory.
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Example 3: Action that Follows the Deletion of a User
This procedure shows how to include an action that will run after the deletion of a user on the Active Directory resource.
ProcedureIncluding an Action that Follows the Deletion of a User
 1. Enter delete after action in the Identity Manager User Attribute column of the resource's schema map.
 2. In the Attribute Type column, select string.
 3. In the Resource User Attribute column, enter IGNORE_ATTR. Leave the Required, Audit, Read Only, and Write Only columns unchecked.
 4. Add this to the Deprovision Form user form after the tag:

 5. Create the following XML file and import into Identity Manager. (Change file paths according to your environment.)

 echo delete >> C:\Temp\%WSUSER_accountId%.txt
 6. Edit the XML for the Active Directory resource and add information to the "delete after action" schema mapping. Here is an example of a complete schema mapping for this resource with the new additions. (You will be adding the views-related information.)


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We abide by the strictest Canadian laws in terms of privacy. We only request access to data that is needed to use the tools on Ocean School.
This privacy and security policy is specific to the Google integration of our web application.
The following additional terms also apply to users to the Ocean School experience.
What information does Ocean School collect?
Ocean School does not store personal information about students. A student joins a class using an email address and a password they create. Their profile does not include a biography or location. A student's progress on the platform is only visible to their teacher.
If I link my Google account, what can Ocean School access?
When you use Google to sign in to your account, Ocean School requests permission to change files in your Google Drive. This allows us to create shared documents for you.
Please find below the specific details of the data that Ocean School may access depending on the type of account that you created and linked to Google.
Here is what we may access:
1. If you are signed in as a learner (not an educator), we do not access any of your personal data.
Ocean School creates a folder called "Ocean School" at the root of your Google Drive. When you click "Go to activity" on the Ocean School platform, the activity document is saved in your Ocean School folder. You can delete these files whenever you want.
If you don't do anything on Ocean School after you link your account, we will not access anything. We only access your Drive when you open an activity from the Ocean School platform.
2. If you create an account as an educator, we do not access anything as long as you don't create a class on the platform.
When you create a class, we will collect and store the following information on our servers:
The unique code of the class
The class identifier
The name of the class
The list of student emails in that class
Your students' work will be stored inside your Classroom folder in Google Drive. Their work is never stored on an NFB server.
For information about Google Classroom's privacy and security policies, please visit the Google for Education Privacy & Security Center.
How can I remove Ocean School's access to my Google account?
To completely remove Ocean School's access to your Google account, go to _URL_
Click "Remove access" for Ocean School.
This will block any access to your Drive or your Google Classroom.
Can the information that the NFB collects about students be linked to a specific teacher, school and location?
When a teacher creates a class, we create a class roster using the list of students' email addresses. We do not collect any other identifying information about students, and cannot link a student to a particular school or location. The only exception would be if a teacher decides to name the class with those information it would be "collected" but treated as any other class name.
Do students need to provide an email address?
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The email address enables us to:
share a teacher's unique class url with students
create groups of students (Crews) to explore Ocean School together
create students' accounts for accessing Ocean School
access Google Classroom (if requested)


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About Tensile Fabric Structures
Designing of interesting roof forms have become possible with the use of tensile fabric structures in UAE. These structures have been used in buildings since 1970s. Today they are used to give dramatic forms to architectural works. They offer variety to roofing forms in terms of translucency, colour, clear span and softness. Tensile fabric structures are lightweight and can be created into three dimensional forms by applying tension. Tensile structures are usually supported by as masts, rings or beams which work as compression or bending elements. These structures are resistant to fire, rain, sun and wind. They are also resistant to damage caused by blunt objects, but not to sharp ones.


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I've seen this flower in bloom for some time now, but only after the arrival of my now favorite field guide, [see references at the end of this post] did I even try to identify it.
It is Lantana camara, a plant known to and named by Linneaus himself. He gave it the genus name Lantana, which is an ancient Latin name for a Verbena species (L. camara is in the Verbena family). The species name camara is a South American common name for the plant, so Linneaus must also have known where the plant came from.
Two questions about this plant: 1) why are there both yellow and red flowers in the flowerhead, and 2) is it a weed or a wildflower?
First, more description:
The flowerheads are dome-shaped, made up of many individual flowers, which are tubular and have 4 petals. The buds are in the center of the flowerhead, the young open flowers are yellow, and the old flowers are red. I'll come back to these colors later.
The plant is a shrub with hairy square stems that may or may not have thorns. This one does:
The leaves are toothed and opposite, a lighter green color below.
What does this plant smell like? My field guide describes the odor as pungent, but I've seen many, many descriptions of the aroma. I first saw the smell described on the web as cat pee. I didn't think it smelled like that, so I began looking for other descriptions. At one site I found different individuals describing the odor as, respectively, "citrus-sage, spicy, [an objectionable] mixture of mint and camphor with a touch of onion, horrible, chicken droppings, none."
This is an amazing list – it makes me wonder whether the soil where it grows doesn't have something to do with the smell. Personally, I found the smell fairly strong but not unpleasant, falling somewhere between the citrus-sage description and spicy. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden recommends including L. camara in a "fragrance garden!"
Now, is it a wildflower or a weed? The eternal question. Here in Central (and northern South) America, where L. camara is native, it can be enjoyed for its own sake. It has been cultivated for more than 300 years so obviously has an esthetic appeal. But L. camara is listed in the Global Invasive Species Database because it can be invasive outside Central and northern South American. In Australia, it is listed as a "Weed of National Significance."
The Global Invasive Species Database does list many uses for L. camara including as a herbal medicine (research in India shows that leaf extracts have antimicrobial, fungicidal, insecticidal, and nematicidal activity.) The shrubs benefit bird species and the flower is a "…major nectar source for many species of butterflies and moths."
L. camara has been described as an excellent hummingbird shrub that seems even more attractive to butterflies. Which brings me back to the red and yellow colors. My field guide says that the "…old, deep-orange flowers, which persist for some time, provide landing surfaces for butterflies, deter nectar-robbing Trigona bees from accessing the bases of the newer, inner flowers…" This sentence is tantalizing. Nectar-robbing bees?
Further searching on the web turned up an article called "Nectar Robbing and Pollination of Lantana camara (Verbenaceae)" [see references at the end of this post]. It turns out that 1) several flowers in the inflorescence open each day, usually about dawn, 2) newly opened flowers are yellow and start to change color after about 9 hours and the color continues to deepen as the flowers age, 3) yellow flowers contain pollen and nectar but by the time they are red-orange, they have "negligible pollen and no nectar," and 4) the stingless bee Trigona fulviventris bites holes in the bases of the stamens of L. camara and robs nectar without performing pollination.
The authors learned that with orange and reddish-orange flowers present, the yellow flowers are not robbed as often as they are in the absence of those flowers. Butterflies are the pollinators of L. camara, and the authors suggest that the flower has evolved to feed both its robber and its pollinators.
I haven't found any studies yet about hummingbirds and L. camara. Here in Panama, birds (flycatchers, honey-creepers, and tanagers) have been seen eating the berries (this according to my field guide), but no word on hummingbirds and nectar or pollination. Many sites that sell garden plants list L. camara as a plant that attracts hummingbirds, but I notice that the Kemper Center for Home Gardening at the Missouri Botanical Garden has not checked the "attracts hummingbirds" box but has checked the "attracts butterflies" box.
Now, at least, I know to keep a close watch on this attractive wildflower/weed. I've seen a moth on it, but no bees, butterflies, or hummingbirds. Time to go take a deeper look.
Favorite field guide: Zuchowski, Willow. 2005. A Guide to Tropical Plants of Costa Rica. Zona Tropical, Miami, 529 pp.
Article in Biotropica: Barrows, E.M. 1976. Nectar Robbing and Pollination of Lantana camara (Verbenaceae). Biotropica, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 132-135. doi:10.2307/_PHONE_.
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ClientEncryption.decrypt(encryptedValue)
ClientEncryption.decrypt() decrypts the encryptionValue if the current database connection was configured with access to the Key Management Service (KMS) and key vault used to encrypt encryptionValue.
decrypt() has the following syntax:
clientEncryption = db.getMongo().getClientEncryption()
clientEncryption.decrypt(encryptedValue)
The encryptedValue must be a binary data object with subtype 6 created using client-side field level encryption.
Returns:The decrypted value.
Read operations issued from a database connection configured with access to the correct Key Management Service (KMS) and Key Vault can automatically decrypt field values encrypted using ClientEncryption.encrypt(). Clients only need to use decrypt() to decrypt Binary subtype 6 values not stored within a document field.
The mongosh client-side field level encryption methods require a database connection with client-side field level encryption enabled. If the current database connection was not initiated with client-side field level encryption enabled, either:
The following example uses a locally managed KMS for the client-side field level encryption configuration.
To configure client-side field level encryption for a locally managed key:
 - generate a base64-encoded 96-byte string with no line breaks
 - use mongosh to load the key
export TEST_LOCAL_KEY=$(echo "$(head -c 96 /dev/urandom | base64 | tr -d '\n')")
mongosh --nodb
Create the client-side field level encryption object using the generated local key string:
var autoEncryptionOpts = {
"keyVaultNamespace" : "encryption.__dataKeys",
"kmsProviders" : {
"local" : {
"key" : BinData(0, process.env["TEST_LOCAL_KEY"])
}
}
}
Use the Mongo() constructor with the client-side field level encryption options configured to create a database connection. Replace the mongodb://myMongo.example.net URI with the connection string URI of the target cluster.
encryptedClient = Mongo(
"mongodb://myMongo.example.net:27017/?replSetName=myMongo",
autoEncryptionOpts
)
Retrieve the ClientEncryption object and use the ClientEncryption.decrypt() method to decrypt a value encrypted by ClientEncryption.encrypt().
clientEncryption = encryptedClient.getClientEncryption();
clientEncryption.decrypt(BinData(6,"AmTi2H3xaEk8u9+jlFNaLLkC3Q/+kmwDbbWrq+h9nuv9W+u7A5a0UnpULBNZH+Q21fAztPpU09wpKPrju9dKfpN1Afpj1/ZhFcH6LYZOWSBBOAuUNjPLxMNSYOOuITuuYWo="))
If successful, decrypt() returns the decrypted value:
"123-45-6789"
For complete documentation on initiating MongoDB connections with client-side field level encryption enabled, see Mongo().
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Natural Infrastructure for Water in the Guandu System, Rio de Janeiro
Forests and trees are essential to water security. They can filter sediments, nutrients and solid waste, preventing waterways pollution. The incorporation of natural infrastructure — sometimes referred to as "green infrastructure" — in water management plans can enhance the efficiency, performance and resilience of conventional structure and can rehabilitate the landscape to offer better quality water.
The Natural Infrastructure for Water in the Guandu System, Rio de Janeiro report showcases how the forest restoration can benefit the Guandu System, the main source of water supply for the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The report offers analyses that can inform the integration of natural infrastructure into the region's water and sanitation resource management strategies.
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text: The Laboratory of Electrical Machines of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne) has developed a software (TLSim) for the simulation of electrical urban transportation systems. This program can simulate the behaviour of the power supply network (current and voltage level at any point of the topology) comprising uniand bidirectionnal sub-stations. In the network the vehicules (trolleybus) may run along any defined path through different electrical supply sectors. Several models of trolleybus are available, one of these allowing for the injection of current back in the supply network. The operating schedule of the buses as well as the geographical data of the network are provided by the user. This program is a perfect tool for system planning as ascertained by its use by a Swiss transportation operator. A comparison of simulation and measurements on a real network has been performed with satisfactory results. This software evolved from a specific study to a flexible program still being extended with new developments. The latest of such developments being the study of the influence of capacitors in helping the system to keep voltages over a specified level mainly by supplying the surge current during the acceleration of the trolleybuses.


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Salad Rap – Part 1
Students create a rap song/chant and dance promoting the components of their favorite salad, and use chant as a device to remember that plants do not eat and only plants produce food.
- Learn a rap song as a device to remember that plants do not eat, they produce food.
- Identify rhyming words to complete rap template.
- Identify sensory words by experiencing the garden and use those words to complete a rap.
- Share rap songs with other students.
Introduction: 15 minutes
Activity One: 1 hour
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On our cell phones, we frequently get messages about various bank transactions. These letters can occasionally be genuine, but many bank customers are also the victims of fraud these days. We will attempt to clarify the DOPBNK SMS message that you often receive on your registered cellphone number following bank transactions in this article.
DOPBNK denotes that this message was sent by the Post Bank Department. In these kinds of messages, the sender is displayed as ID-DOPBNK, VK-DOPBNK, IM-DOPBNK, TD-DOPBNK, VD-DOPBNK, etc. Therefore, if you ever received a DOPBNK message, it was likely delivered by the Post Bank Department.
Therefore, if you received this warning, you shouldn't be alarmed. The message's primary goal is to inform you of your current bank balance following the transaction. The Post Bank Department will send a DOPBNK Message to your registered mobile number if you just have a Post Office account.
POST Bank Department – What Is DOPBNK SMS Meaning
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What Is Dopbnk Message?
In India, the DOPBNK is a well-liked SMS on many people's mobile phones. It's frequent but perplexing if the recipient doesn't understand what you're saying. A legal message from the Department of Post Bank is known as DOPBNK. Residents are assured of the message by the Ministry of Communication's verification of the details. The following SMSs could be sent to the user:
DOPBNK Link To The Mobile Number
The user must enter a working mobile number and other contact information throughout the bank registration process. In order to rapidly reach the customer, the data is added to the system. Additionally, Post Bank India gathers and stores the contact information of its clients on its computer network.
Any transaction that occurs on the account will result in SMS messages being sent to registered members by the bank. The notifications are expected to be delivered to residents who have both an IPPB account and a Post office account.
Different banking options are available at the Indian Post Office. A number of advantages are available to registered users, including
- Account for National Savings Recurring Deposits.
- Postal Savings Account
- Time deposit account for National Savings
- Account for Public Provident Funds
- Account for Senior Citizens Savings Plans.
Aapka Bank, Aapke Dwar is the catchphrase used by the Department of Post Bank. This manages the PAN India facility and provides a variety of services.
- Government-sponsored scholarships
- Government incentives and social welfare advantages.
- Postal savings programs
- Both loans and investments.
To enable greater services to be made available to registered members, the central government has heavily invested in DOPBNK. The legitimate person listed under the Department of India is the recipient of the DOPBNK SMS. The department has a number of programs that are helpful to users.
Is The Dopbnk SMS Legal Or Fake?
The SMS is allowed as long as we acknowledge that it was provided by the Department of Post Office (also known as the India Post Payments Bank, or IPPB), a government agency.
The DOPBNK is a government organization that offers the general people a wide range of helpful initiatives and services.
We will get a confirmation message from the bank after we make a transaction at any bank, indicating that it was successful. Similarly to this, anytime a transaction occurs in our Post Office Savings account or India Post Payments, the Post Office texts our registered phone number.
In summary, you will receive the DOPBNK SMS once you have created an IPPB (Department of Post Office account), and you may trust them because they are real.
It's possible that you or a member of your family registered your phone number at a Post Office location if you don't have a Post Office account but are still getting texts from DOPBNK.
You can choose to ignore messages from The Post Office or visit your neighborhood branch and ask questions if you haven't followed any of the aforementioned guidelines but are still receiving them.
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Q 1: What's The Full Form Of Dopbnk?
A 1: DOPBNK's full name is the Department of Post Office. The Indian Postal Service is referenced here. The Post Office Department Bank may send you an SMS if you have a Post Office account. The communication will be transmitted by the Department of Postal Banking and Networks (DOPBNK).
Q 2: What Is The Dopbnk Message?
A 2: Any bank with which we do business will email or SMS us to let us know the transaction has been successfully completed. Similarly to that, the Post Office will text the phone number we gave them if there is action in either our Post Office Savings account or our India Post Payments account.
After opening an account with the Department of Post Office, you will be eligible to receive the DOPBNK SMS (IPPB). You can have full confidence in the SMS sender, DOPBNK, as they have supplied accurate information.
Q 3: How Do I Find Out How Many DoPs I Have?
A 3: Enter your User ID and Password to log in to the DoP e-banking system. An OTP will now be sent to the registered mobile number you provided. Your account has successfully been logged into. To view your account's available balance on your smartphone, simply pick the Accounts tab.
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text: OBJECTIVE: To estimate the effects of increasing gas prices on mortality. METHOD: We developed a simulation-based partial equilibrium model that estimated the public health effects of a 20% rise in gas prices. Estimates on price elasticity for gasoline, price elasticity of motor vehicle crashes, relations among gasoline use, air pollution, and mortality were drawn from literature in economics, epidemiology, and medicine. RESULTS: For sustained 20% increases in gasoline prices over 1 year, and assuming other prices and factors were constant, we estimated: 1994 (range, 997 to 4984) fewer deaths from vehicle crashes and 600 (range, 300 to 1500) fewer deaths from air pollution. Combining both, we estimated 2594 fewer deaths. A Monte Carlo simulation involving varying assumptions on elasticities and relations indicated that 95% of the combined reduction in deaths was between 1747 and 3714. CONCLUSION: Results suggest that high gas prices have public health implications.


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%p is replaced with the current process ID. This is very useful for program that invoke multiple processes. WARNING: If you use --trace-children=yes and your program invokes multiple processes OR your program forks without calling exec afterwards, and you don't use this specifier (or the %q specifier below), the Valgrind output from all those processes will go into one file, possibly jumbled up, and possibly incomplete. Note: If the program forks and calls exec afterwards, Valgrind output of the child from the period between fork and exec will be lost. Fortunately this gap is really tiny for most programs; and modern programs use posix_spawn anyway.
%n is replaced with a file sequence number unique for this process. This is useful for processes that produces several files from the same filename template.
%q{FOO} is replaced with the contents of the environment variable FOO. If the {FOO} part is malformed, it causes an abort. This specifier is rarely needed, but very useful in certain circumstances (eg. when running MPI programs). The idea is that you specify a variable which will be set differently for each process in the job, for example BPROC_RANK or whatever is applicable in your MPI setup. If the named environment variable is not set, it causes an abort. Note that in some shells, the { and } characters may need to be escaped with a backslash.
%% is replaced with %.
If an % is followed by any other character, it causes an abort.
If the file name specifies a relative file name, it is put in the program's initial working directory: this is the current directory when the program started its execution after the fork or after the exec. If it specifies an absolute file name (ie. starts with '/') then it is put there.
--log-socket=<ip-address:port-number>
Specifies that Valgrind should send all of its messages to the specified port at the specified IP address. The port may be omitted, in which case port 1500 is used. If a connection cannot be made to the specified socket, Valgrind falls back to writing output to the standard error (stderr). This option is intended to be used in conjunction with the valgrind-listener program. For further details, see the commentary in the manual.
--enable-debuginfod=<no|yes> [default: yes]
When enabled Valgrind will attempt to download missing debuginfo from debuginfod servers if space-separated server URLs are present in the $DEBUGINFOD_URLS environment variable. This option is supported on Linux only.
ERROR-RELATED OPTIONS
These options are used by all tools that can report errors, e.g. Memcheck, but not Cachegrind.
--xml=<yes|no> [default: no]
When enabled, the important parts of the output (e.g. tool error messages) will be in XML format rather than plain text. Furthermore, the XML output will be sent to a different output channel than the plain text output. Therefore, you also must use one of --xml-fd, --xml-file or --xml-socket to specify where the XML is to be sent.
Less important messages will still be printed in plain text, but because the XML output and plain text output are sent to different output channels (the destination of the plain text output is still controlled by --log-fd, --log-file and --log-socket) this should not cause problems.
This option is aimed at making life easier for tools that consume Valgrind's output as input, such as GUI front ends. Currently this option works with Memcheck, Helgrind and DRD. The output format is specified in the file docs/internals/xml-output-protocol4.txt in the source tree for Valgrind 3.5.0 or later.
The recommended options for a GUI to pass, when requesting XML output, are: --xml=yes to enable XML output, --xml-file to send the XML output to a (presumably GUI-selected) file, --log-file to send the plain text output to a second GUI-selected file, --child-silent-after-fork=yes, and -q to restrict the plain text output to critical error messages created by Valgrind itself. For example, failure to read a specified suppressions file counts as a critical error message. In this way, for a successful run the text output file will be empty. But if it isn't empty, then it will contain important information which the GUI user should be made aware of.
--xml-fd=<number> [default: -1, disabled]
Specifies that Valgrind should send its XML output to the specified file descriptor. It must be used in conjunction with --xml=yes.
--xml-file=<filename>
Specifies that Valgrind should send its XML output to the specified file. It must be used in conjunction with --xml=yes. Any %p or %q sequences appearing in the filename are expanded in exactly the same way as they are for --log-file. See the description of --log-file for details.
--xml-socket=<ip-address:port-number>
Specifies that Valgrind should send its XML output the specified port at the specified IP address. It must be used in conjunction with --xml=yes. The form of the argument is the same as that used by --log-socket. See the description of --log-socket for further details.
--xml-user-comment=<string>
Embeds an extra user comment string at the start of the XML output. Only works when --xml=yes is specified; ignored otherwise.
--demangle=<yes|no> [default: yes]
Enable/disable automatic demangling (decoding) of C++ names. Enabled by default. When enabled, Valgrind will attempt to translate encoded C++ names back to something approaching the original. The demangler handles symbols mangled by g++ versions 2.X, 3.X and 4.X.
An important fact about demangling is that function names mentioned in suppressions files should be in their mangled form. Valgrind does not demangle function names when searching for applicable suppressions, because to do otherwise would make suppression file contents dependent on the state of Valgrind's demangling machinery, and also slow down suppression matching.
--num-callers=<number> [default: 12]
Specifies the maximum number of entries shown in stack traces that identify program locations. Note that errors are commoned up using only the top four function locations (the place in the current function, and that of its three immediate callers). So this doesn't affect the total number of errors reported.
The maximum value for this is 500. Note that higher settings will make Valgrind run a bit more slowly and take a bit more memory, but can be useful when working with programs with deeply-nested call chains.
--unw-stack-scan-thresh=<number> [default: 0] , --unw-stack-scan-frames=<number> [default: 5]
Stack-scanning support is available only on ARM targets.
These flags enable and control stack unwinding by stack scanning. When the normal stack unwinding mechanisms -- usage of Dwarf CFI records, and frame-pointer following -- fail, stack scanning may be able to recover a stack trace.
Note that stack scanning is an imprecise, heuristic mechanism that may give very misleading results, or none at all. It should be used only in emergencies, when normal unwinding fails, and it is important to nevertheless have stack traces.
Stack scanning is a simple technique: the unwinder reads words from the stack, and tries to guess which of them might be return addresses, by checking to see if they point just after ARM or Thumb call instructions. If so, the word is added to the backtrace.
The main danger occurs when a function call returns, leaving its return address exposed, and a new function is called, but the new function does not overwrite the old address. The result of this is that the backtrace may contain entries for functions which have already returned, and so be very confusing.
A second limitation of this implementation is that it will scan only the page (4KB, normally) containing the starting stack pointer. If the stack frames are large, this may result in only a few (or not even any) being present in the trace. Also, if you are unlucky and have an initial stack pointer near the end of its containing page, the scan may miss all interesting frames.
By default stack scanning is disabled. The normal use case is to ask for it when a stack trace would otherwise be very short. So, to enable it, use --unw-stack-scan-thresh=number. This requests Valgrind to try using stack scanning to "extend" stack traces which contain fewer than number frames.
If stack scanning does take place, it will only generate at most the number of frames specified by --unw-stack-scan-frames. Typically, stack scanning generates so many garbage entries that this value is set to a


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In the weak interaction limit, behaviors of electrons can still be described by a 1-partitcle equation with a modified mass, where the change in mass can be understood as effects of other neighboring electrons as a single electron drags along. Since the cluster of electrons couples to gravity as usual, then the effective mass of a quasi-particle couples to gravity in the same way as that of a genuine electron. Moreover, the effective mass can be negative which is the case of holes which are "bubbles" in the electron liquid.
In graphene, there are massless Dirac electrons. Do they couple to the gravity?
I think what I intended to ask should be "How to incorporate effects of gravity in a many-electron system?"
(Originally I asked "do effective masses couple to gravity?")


Develop > Tailoring > Form creation > Forms Designer > Creating and editing forms > Referencing images in the XML for the graph control
Referencing images in the XML for the graph control
When you are building an application that includes a graph diagram, you can reference an image that is attached to a record in Service Manager. The graph uses the attached image to display the icon for that node. You can also display portrait icons that are attached to contact records in the graph diagram.
This is an example of a schema definition for an icon.
XML Icon
The syntax to reference an image from the database and display it in the graph is:
scattach://{type}:{uid}:{attachmentname}:{table}:{record}, where type equals 'img' or 'file'.
The unique identifier for each image is located on the corresponding SYSATTACHMENTS record.
The following is an example of how to reference an image that is an attachment to a record.
scattach://file:45c0dfd600245044034b76c8:max_manager_small.gif:contacts:MANAGER, MAX
The following is an example of how to reference a portrait image on a contacts record.
scattach://img:45afb84a002d42c403030d48:MANAGER, MAX:contacts:MANAGER, MAX
Here is an example of a complete and valid XML statement that references an image. This particular statement references an image that is attached to Max Manager's contacts record. This displays as an icon for the node in the graph diagram.
Icon XML
Icons with larger position values appear on top of smaller position values unless the images specify the same value for the position attribute. In that case, the icons are rendered in document order so that icons later in the document for the same node overlay those preceding them. The origin for all icons is the center. When you specify a group attribute for an icon, it includes items that contain duplicate group attributes.
Related concepts
Building a graph diagram
Components of the graph
Defining actions on nodes and edges in the XML for the graph control
Defining the graph in XML format
W3C schema for graph diagram XML
Valid values for graph elements and attributes
Graph toolbar icons
Related tasks
Activate an action on a node or edge in a graph
Set the focus on the graph
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Graph control


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A BIRD WITH A THERMOMETER?
Youíve had your temperature taken, right? But, have you ever heard of a bird with a built-in thermometer? There is a bird living in Australia that has oneóand its thermometer is far more accurate than the one used to measure your temperature! It is called the mallee fowl and it is yet another example of Godís wisdom.
When the time arrives for the female to lay her eggs, she doesnít fly to the top of a tree. Instead, the male bird digs a pit in the ground and piles a large mound of sticks and leaves in the pit. He covers the leaves and sticks with sand. When heís finished, the mound may be as high as four feet! With the sand on top, the leaves begin to rot, which produces heat. The male makes a hole in the top of the mound into which the female lays an egg. The male covers the egg. About a week later, the male will make another hole and the female will lay another egg. They will do this until there are about 18 eggs in the nest.
The female stays away from the nest except to lay eggs. The male does most of the work. Several times a day, he pokes his beak into the mixture of leaves and sand. He sticks out his tongue, which is such a good thermometer that it can measure temperature changes of as little as 1/10th of a degree! If the temperature is too low, he adds more sand. If the temperature is too high (which would kill the baby birds growing in the eggs), he scratches away some of the leaves and sand with his feet.
Finally, after about seven weeks, the young birds begin to hatch and dig their way out of the sand and leaves. The parents donít help, or care for, their baby birds. The newborn babies are designed to care for themselves!
How does the mallee fowl know to prepare the right mixture of sand and leaves? And how does the male know exactly the right temperature for the eggs? And who gave him the "thermometer" tongue that measures temperatures so accurately? Some people want you to believe that these things happened by accident through the process called evolution. But this is not a good answer. Instead, we should give God the credit for such wonderful things. After all, the Bible says that He even takes care of the small sparrows on the Earth (Matthew 10:29). The mallee fowl of Australia is just one more example of Godís wonderful creation!


winding on to the drum for right and left hand laid steel wire rope respectively.
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Cutting and Seizing of Steel Wire Rope
Randers Reb recommends that, as long as the steel wire rope does not have welded ends, it has to be seized before being cut. The following seizing method must be used (See Fig. 44):
Please note that low-rotation and rotation-resistant steel wire ropes must have at least four seizings on each side of the cutting point.
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Running in Steel Wire Rope
After the steel wire rope has been installed, Randers Reb recommends that it is run through the system several times at low speed and moderate loading (e.g. 5% of tensile strength). In this way the steel wire rope will gradually become accustomed to the new conditions. The strands will settle, the steel wire rope will lengthen and the diameter will decrease a little due to the fact that the strands and the core are compressed. The steel wire rope will thus be less susceptible to damage when maximum load is applied. The time spent "running-in" the steel wire rope will be earned many time over, as the steel wire rope will thus have a longer life expectancy.
Maintenance of Guidance Equipment
Thorough maintenance of the equipment that the steel wire rope will come into contact with is of great significance for the steel wire rope's life expectancy. Worn sheaf grooves, guide rolls, etc., crooked sheaves and jammed bearings all result in such effects as shock load and vibrations in the steel wire rope, which have a destructive effect on the steel wire rope, resulting in exaggerated wear and tear and fatigue.
Equipment that the steel wire rope comes into contact with must be inspected regularly. If there is a problem with the equipment, it must be replaced or repaired immediately. If the guidance equipment is repaired by welding, care should be taken to ensure that hardness of the welding material is approx. 300 Brinel, so that it is the sheaf that is worn, and not the steel wire rope (see also "Inspection of Guidance Equipment", page 8-19).


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Barry Conservation District
VERTICES, LLC. has partnered with the Barry Conservation District (Barry CD) to create a Thornapple interactive map (below), which displays various layers of information of the Thornapple River Watershed, including the Watershed Management Areas (WMA), land use and hydrography of the watershed. This visual representation of information allows for a detailed analysis of the site to determine the pollution levels of the water.
For more information about the project, visit _URL_
The full map can be viewed here


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Jumper Offset
A jumper offset in a plumbing system uses a combination of fittings to go around an obstacle, such as a cylindrical tank. If your planning on writing a plumbing exam, rest assured that a jumper offset will be on the exam.
Using simple math and various constants, it's possible to find the required center-to-center lengths for each pipe in the offset, which are outlined below.
To find the missing values in a jumper offset you will need to remember the constants for right angle triangles used in a 45 degree offset; which are:
 1. To find the hypotenuse (the long side) multiple a short
 side by 1.414
 2. To find a short side when the hypotenuse is known, multiply it by 0.707
Jumper offset using 45-90-45 fittings
plumbing jumper offset
Use the image above to sketch out the jumper offset using the variables on the right. After a couple practice runs, try changing the numbers.
R - 4"
A = 3"
E = 2"
C - 20"
Step 1 - The first thing you need to find is the side of the secondary square (G). So add (R) + (A) = (G)
4 + 3 = 7" This number is known as the secondary square (G).
Step 2 - Multiplying the secondary square by 2 will give you the length of pipe (B), and the length of pipe (F) to the centerline of the tank.
(G) x 2 = (B) so to find the end to end length of pipe (B) which ends on the center line it would be 7" x 2 = 14".
Step 3 - To find the length of pipe (F) will require two steps, first you have to multiply dimension (E) by 1.414 to find the length of pipe (F) below the centerline of the tank, then add that number to result you got in step two above.
2" x 1.414 = 2.828 then 2.828" + 14" = 16.828" or roughly 16 7/8"
Step 4 - To find (H) also known as the offset, multiply the diagonal (B) by the constant 0.707
(H) = 14 x 0.707 = 9.898"
Step 5 - Find dimension (J) by adding the offset (H) with (E)
(H) +(E) = (J) / 9.898 + 2 = 11.898"
Step 6 - Finding the length of pipe (D) is simple subtraction.
(C) - (j) = (D)
20 - 11.898 = 8.102"


How to calculate drug dosages & solutions for nursing school
Calculating drug dosages and solutions for nursing school may seem like a daunting task, mostly because many nursing students report a discomfort with math. But learning how to calculate drug dosages is a moderately easy process if you learn a few simple formulas and practice working with math. There are three basic methods to calculate drug dosages and a simple formula to use to calculate intravenous flow rate. Resources are available in print and online to help nursing students practice calculating drug dosages. (See References.)
Use the basic formula method of calculating drug dosages. Divide dose ordered by the dose listed on the container label (or the dose on hand). Multiply the result by the form and amount of the drug to get the amount to give.
Use the ratio and proportion method of calculating doses -- the formula H:V::D:X is the easiest way to remember this method. The left-hand ratio represents known quantities (dose listed on the container label or dose on hand, and the form and amount of the drug) while the right-hand ratio represents one known quantity (dose ordered) and one unknown quantity (amount to give). Multiply dose ordered (D) times form and amount (V) and divide the result by the dose on the container (H). The result is the amount to give.
Use the fractional equation method of calculating drug doses. Multiply dose ordered by the form and amount of the drug; divide this result by the dose listed on the container label. The result is the amount to give.
Calculate intravenous flow rate by multiplying the amount of fluid by the drops per millilitre in the IV set and then divide that result by the number of hours to administer multiplied by the number of minutes per hour (60).
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Internal vs External Fragmentation
Difference between internal and external fragmentation is a topic of interest to many who like to improve their computer knowledge. Before knowing this difference, we have to see what fragmentation is. Fragmentation is a phenomenon that occurs in computer memory such as Random Access Memory (RAM) or hard disks, which causes wastage and inefficient usage of free space. While the efficient usage of available space is hindered, this causes performance issues, as well. Internal fragmentation occurs when memory allocation is based on fixed-size partitions where after a small size application is assigned to a slot the remaining free space of that slot is wasted. External fragmentation occurs when memory is dynamically allocated where after loading and unloading of several slots here and there the free space is being distributed rather than being contiguous.
What is Internal Fragmentation?
Consider the figure above where a fixed sized memory allocation mechanism is being followed. Initially, the memory is empty and the allocator has divided the memory into fixed size partitions. Then later three programs named A, B, C have been loaded to the first three partitions while the 4th partition is still free. Program A matches the size of the partition, so there is no wastage in that partition, but Program B and Program C are smaller than the partition size. So in part ition 2 and partition 3 there is remaining free space. However, this free space is unusable as the memory allocator only assigns full partitions to programs but no t parts of it. This wastage of free space is called internal fragmentation.
In the above example, it is equal sized fixed partitions but this can even happen in a situation where partitions of various fixed sizes are available. Usually the memory or hardest space is divided into blocks that are usually the size of powers of 2 such as 2, 4, 8, 16 bytes. So a program or a file of 3 bytes will be assigned to a 4 byte block but one byte of that block will become unusable causing internal fragmentation.
What is External Fragmentation?
Consider the figure above where memory allocation is done dynamically. In dynamic memory allocation, the allocator allocates only the exact needed size for that program. First memory is completely free. Then the Programs A, B, C, D and E of different sizes are loaded one after the other and they are placed in memory contiguously in that order. Then later, Program A and Program C closes and they are unloaded from memory. Now there are three free space areas in the memory, but they are not adjacent. Now a large program called Program F is going to be loaded but neither of the free space block is not enough for Program F. The addition of all the free spaces is definitely enough for Program F, but due to the lack of adjacency that space is unusable for Program F. This is called External Fragmentation.
What is the difference between Internal and External Fragmentation?
- Internal Fragmentation occurs when a fixed size memory allocation technique is used. External fragmentation occurs when a dynamic memory allocation technique is used.
- Internal fragmentation occurs when a fixed size partition is assigned to a program/file with less size than the partition making the rest of the space in that partition unusable. External fragmentation is due to the lack of enough adjacent space after loading and unloading of programs or files for some time because then all free space is distributed here and there.
- External fragmentation can be mined by compaction where the assigned blocks are moved to one side, so that contiguous space is gained. However, this operation takes time and also certain critical assigned areas for example system services cannot be moved safely. We can observe this compaction step done on hard disks when running the disk defragmenter in Windows.
- External fragmentation can be prevented by mechanisms such as segmentation and paging. Here a logical contiguous virtual memory space is given while in reality the files/programs are splitted into parts and placed here and there.
- Internal fragmentation can be maimed by having partitions of several sizes and assigning a program based on the best fit. However, still internal fragmentation is not fully eliminated.
Internal vs External Fragmentation
Both internal fragmentation and external fragmentation are phenomena where memory is wasted. Internal fragmentation occurs in fixed size memory allocation while external fragmentation occurs in dynamic memory allocation. When an allocated partition is occupied by a program that is lesser than the partition, remaining space goes wasted causing internal fragmentation. When enough adjacent space cannot be found after loading and unloading of programs, due to the fact that free space is distributed here and there, this causes external fragmentation. Fragmentation can occur in any memory device such as RAM, Hard disk and Flash drives.


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Water conservation for landscape and irrigation design
We must create the landscape of the future. In response to severe drought, the City reduced water consumption in municipal operations by over 40 percent between 2013 and 2015, saving approximately 35 million gallons of water and $200,000 in utility costs per year. The City achieved these results mainly by reducing irrigation and fixing leaks and continuing these trends requires a long-term transition to new and evolving approaches to landscape and irrigation design that not only contribute to Berkeley's beauty and livability, but also minimize water consumption.
Part of Solution
- Berkeley's Resilience Strategy
Berkeley's Resilience Strategy – the first in the Bay Area – is designed to advance community preparedness for some of Berkeley's most pressing physical, social, and economic challenges.


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1 Gray = _PHONE_ Microsievert
1 Gray = _PHONE_ Microsievert
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Grays to Microsieverts Conversion
Gy stands for grays and μSv stands for microsieverts. The formula used in grays to microsieverts conversion is 1 Gray = _PHONE_ Microsievert. In other words, 1 gray is _PHONE_ times bigger than a microsievert. To convert all types of measurement units, you can used this tool which is able to provide you conversions on a scale.
Convert Gray to Microsievert
How to convert gray to microsievert? In the absorbed dose measurement, first choose gray from the left dropdown and microsievert from the right dropdown, enter the value you want to convert and click on 'convert'. Want a reverse calculation from microsievert to gray? You can check our microsievert to gray converter.
FAQ about converter
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1 Gray is equal to 1 Joule per Kilogram. 1 Gray is 1 times Smaller than 1 Joule per Kilogram.
Grays to Microsieverts Converter
Units of measurement use the International System of Units, better known as SI units, which provide a standard for measuring the physical properties of matter. Measurement like absorbed dose finds its use in a number of places right from education to industrial usage. Be it buying grocery or cooking, units play a vital role in our daily life; and hence their conversions. helps in the conversion of different units of measurement like Gy to μSv through multiplicative conversion factors. When you are converting absorbed dose, you need a Grays to Microsieverts converter that is elaborate and still easy to use. Converting Gray to Microsievert is easy, for you only have to select the units first and the value you want to convert. If you encounter any issues to convert, this tool is the answer that gives you the exact conversion of units. You can also get the formula used in Gray to Microsievert conversion along with a table representing the entire conversion.
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Around the Block: Dark Forest
Taking the tourist root
Most of Minecraft's overworld is pretty safe during the daytime. Hostile mobs like zombies, skeletons, and spiders need darkness to spawn – and the sun is bright enough to keep them away. But there's one biome that still poses a danger, even in the middle of the day. It's the dark forest.
Dark forests were added to Minecraft in The Update That Changed the World, alongside stained glass, podzol, and pufferfish. Originally they were called "roofed forests", referring to the way that the canopy forms a roof, but then we decided that Dark Forest was a better name.
There are two kinds of dark forest – the first is the normal one, which is the most dangerous. But it's also possible to find a more hilly variant, where steep hills and cliffs break the canopy. These are safer in some ways – the hills allow more sunlight to get in, and more dangerous in others – you don't want to fall off a cliff.
Dark forests are much denser than other forests. The trees grow closer together, and their leaf canopy blocks sunlight from reaching the forest floor. In some places, the foliage is so dense that it gets dark enough for zombies, spiders, and skeletons to crawl out of their lairs and prowl in the daytime.
So why bother venturing inside? Well, there are plenty of resources to collect. A lot of wood, for starters – oak, dark oak, and birch trees will all generate in dark forest biomes, as well as huge red and brown mushrooms, dandelions, poppies, lily of the valley, rose bushes, peonies and lilacs. You'll also find sheep, pigs, chickens, and cows wandering around, drinking from the occasional lake.
But the most compelling reason to visit a dark forest is to find a woodland mansion – huge structures, built by illagers, full of valuable loot. Assaulting a woodland mansion is no joke, they're much more dangerous than their name suggests. But the rewards can be worth it.
If you do choose to invade one, then it might be worth setting up a small base outside a mansion before you venture inside. That way you don't have to run for miles if you succumb to its inhabitants' attacks. But longer stays in a dark forest are not advised – the danger of mobs spawning in the daytime, and the ease of getting lost amongst the trees, make it a poor place to set up home more permanently.
In the real world, a forest that shows no signs of disturbance by humans is called "primary forest" and there isn't very much of it – only about 20 percent of the original forests that existed on Earth before humans remain.
This is a problem because primary forests are extremely valuable – they purify water, generate the oxygen we breathe, store carbon, control flooding, and provide a home for millions of species.
More than half of what's left lies within just three countries – Brazil, Russia, and Canada, and in some parts of the world - like Europe, only about 3% remains. The ones that are left we do have left are increasingly becoming tourist attractions, which brings its own issues.
Minecraft's overworld contains as much forest as you want – and you can always generate a new world if you need to. But unfortunately, we can't do the same for our Earth. So let's try and keep our real-world dark forests safe by leaving them alone.
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