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The Centre for Rapid Online Analysis of Reactions (ROAR) provides clients with the hardware, software and expertise needed to support data-rich experimentation in synthetic chemistry. It aims to pave the way for Synthesis 4.0, develop the next generation of (automated) synthesis and analytical technologies – and help the UK take the lead in Molecular Sciences.
The Centre supports fundamental and translational research with the protocols and tools required for rapid execution and analysis of reactions – and provides solutions to optimise reaction efficiency, selectivity, and robustness.
ROAR also works with vendors to develop the next generation of technologies in chemical synthesis, reaction analysis, laboratory automation and optimisation.
Training in chemical synthesis, analytical science, automation/robotics, reaction engineering and mathematical/data analysis can also be provided to future-proof your work-force.
Capabilities of the Centre include…
Robotic reactor platforms for high-throughput parallel experimentation
- Handles plates, vials and bottles up to 125 mL
- Automated dispensing of solids and liquids
- Automated sampling during reactions
- High temperature and pressure capabilities
- Heated filtration for solubility and recrystallisation studies
Data-rich kinetic experimentation platforms for reaction progress and kinetic analysis across scales from 2 mL to 1 L.
- In-situ infra-red spectroscopy
- UV-vis spectroscopy
- Automated sampling
- Collects temperature, pH and other PAT data
Continuous flow reactors for investigative research and scale up.
- Homogeneous and multiphase systems
- High temperature (< 450 °C) and pressure (< 200 bar)
- In-line IR spectroscopy
Analytical instrumentation dedicated for rapid orthogonal analysis of reactions.
- uPLC-MS with rapid sampling capability
- SFC and uPLC hybrid system for rapid chiral analysis
- Further analytical capabilities available within the Department of Chemistry Measurement Suite
Partners also provide additional capabilities and resources.
Our consultants are world-leading experts in their field, committed to on-going research.


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Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) aim to detect the actions that attempt to compromise the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of a resource by monitoring the events occurring in computer systems and/or networks. Stream data processing is a database technology applied to flows of data. Temporal Logic is a formalism for representing change over time. This paper proposes the development of a network intrusion detection system by combining temporal formalisms for representing attack patterns with stream processing for intruder detection. The experimental results show that this combination successfully was able to detect all the attacks of that type in the test data. Additionally, the solution provides a concise and unambiguous way to formally represent attack signatures and it is extensible and scalable.

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- Can someone read your text messages from another phone?
- Can someone read my text messages from their iPhone?
- How can you tell if someone is reading your text messages?
- Is someone spying on my phone?
- Can I track my wife's phone without her knowing?
- How can I track my husbands cell phone without him knowing and for free?
- How can I see my boyfriends text messages without him knowing for free?
- How do you tell if your phone is being monitored?
- Why am I getting my wifes text messages on my iPhone?
- How do I stop someone from getting my text messages?
- Can someone access my text messages?
- How can I read someones text messages without them knowing?
Can someone read your text messages from another phone?
No one is allowed to trace, track or monitor someone else's text messages.
One of the hacking spyware built and used for the text messages spying purposes mentioned above is mSpy.
Using cell phone tracking apps is the most well-known method of hacking someone's smartphone.
Can someone read my text messages from their iPhone?
Yes. If he has an iPad, Mac, or iPhone hooked up to the same iCloud account as you use on your iPhone, then all of the texts you receive will notify him too, and he can see your sent texts and send some of his own too.
How can you tell if someone is reading your text messages?
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Is someone spying on my phone?
If you are the owner of an Android device, you can check whether there is spy software installed on your phone by looking at your phone's files. Go to Settings. Find "Additional settings."
Can I track my wife's phone without her knowing?
You can send your spouse an email with an image in it – once he or she clicks on it, the app is installed without their knowledge. This app can monitor their texts, emails, calls, and location as well. mSpy is the preferred tracker when it comes to Android phones and tablets.
How can I track my husbands cell phone without him knowing and for free?
mSpy can help you track your husband's cell phone. You can also monitor all calls dialed and received, contacts, calendar, text messages (SMS) and other important data to tell if your husband is cheating. With the help of mSpy you can track and locate your husband's cell phone without hime knowing.
How can I see my boyfriends text messages without him knowing for free?
The quickest, most hassle-free way to read your boyfriend's text messages without touching his phone is via Spyic for iOS. The app allows you to remotely read your boyfriend's texts without physically accessing the iPhone or even going near it.
How do you tell if your phone is being monitored?
Here are 10 ways to tell whether or not your phone is being monitored.
- Abnormally High Data Usage.
- Cell Phone Shows Signs of Activity in Standby Mode.
- Unexpected Reboot.
- Odd Sounds During Calls.
- Unexpected Text Messages.
- Deteriorating Battery Life.
- Increasing Battery Temperature in Idle Mode.
- Increased Shut Down Duration.
Why am I getting my wifes text messages on my iPhone?
If you're getting messages meant to go to another device or person in your family, it might be because your Apple ID is tied to their particular devices. To see which accounts are associated with your Apple ID, go to Settings>iCloud>select your account at the top>Devices. Head to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive.
How do I stop someone from getting my text messages?
To do this, open the conversation thread from them in the Messages app. Tap the three dots in the upper right corner, then choose "People and Options." Tap on "Block ." A popup window will ask you to confirm you want to block the number, noting that you will no longer receive calls or texts from this person.
Can someone access my text messages?
Reading Text Messages Secretly
You can read text messages on any phone, be it Android or iOS, without the knowledge of the target user. All you need is a phone spy service for it. Such services are not rare nowadays. There are so many apps that advertise phone spying solutions with top-notch services.
How can I read someones text messages without them knowing?
So you can read text messages from another phone without them knowing. While for Android phone you require a one-time app installation, the app always runs in stealth mode. Once the app is installed, the app icon vanishes from the menu list.


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Arguments and Values:
byte---an integer of the stream element type of stream.
stream---a binary output stream.
write-byte writes one byte, byte, to stream.
(with-open-file (s "temp-bytes" :direction :output :element-type 'unsigned-byte) (write-byte 101 s)) => 101
stream is modified.
The element type of the stream.
Should signal an error of type type-error if stream is not a stream. Should signal an error of type error if stream is not a binary output stream.
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An 18mp sensor produces the same size file if it is a full frame sensor or if it is an APS-C sensor. Smaller pixels do not make smaller bits
Write time to your card is based on lots of factors, but the two main ones are processing delay and the slower of card speed and camera write speed.
Processing delay is not as simple as faster processor beats slower processor.... What is the algorithm? Does it take the same time for an iso100 image as an iso 51200 image with lots of processing to correct noise.... Does a 60D run a simple algorithm on a clean picture faster than a 1D X on a noisy picture??? This is why there is no answer to how fast can a digic 5+ process pixels.... The answer varies based on the algorithm used.
Write time is the slower of camera write speed and card speed. I don't know how fast the 1D X write speed is to the card, but you can bet that the published specs were with the fastest card available. Nice and simple...... And wrong! After the image is processed it is stored in high speed memory, which is then dumped to the card. The bottleneck occurs when the read/process/dump to high speed memory occurs faster than you can write to the card.
A 1D X has something like 34 times the processing power of a 60D and we all know how the mighty compact flash beats the tar out of the lowly SDXC cards, yet the 1D X is only able to take 12 frames per second compared to the 5.3 of the 60D....... There are no easy answers here.


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How much power managers perceive they have plays a role in how fairly they treat those who work for them, according to new research.
The study, recently published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, found that managers who have a heightened sense of their power treat others less fairly compared with bosses who see themselves as less powerful.
"Although power and status are often thought of as two sides of the same coin, they, in fact, have opposite effects on the fairness of people's behavior," said Steven Blader, NYU Stern associate professor of management and organizations. "Unfortunately, there is much less emphasis in organizations on highlighting issues of respect and prestige — factors that drive a person's sense of their own status and would, therefore, encourage fairer treatment towards others."
As part of the study, researchers placed participants in a wide range of roles, providing them with information about the power and status associated with their characters. The research found that participants who had an elevated sense of their power behaved less fairly toward others and made decisions that reflected a weakened concern for fairness, while those who had an elevated sense of their status — and were thus concerned about maintaining their high status — behaved more fairly toward others and made decisions that reflected a far greater concern for fairness.
Blader said the results have important implications for managers, and for businesses in general, since they help make sense of the factors that determine how fairly or unfairly managers treat their subordinates.
The researchers conclude that a push by organizations to exclusively emphasize things that focus managers on power, such as head count, budget control, bonuses and other economic factors, actually leads those supervisors to treat their subordinates less fairly. In contrast, the study's authors expect that if companies emphasized focusing managers on status, and how peers, subordinates and superiors think of them, it would result in a far more positive impact on fairness and workplace relations.
The study, "Differentiating the Effects of Status and Power: A Justice Perspective," was co-authored by Ya-Ru Chen of Cornell University's Johnson School of Management.


Disabling ARR's Instance Affinity in Windows Azure Web Sites
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Program Manager, Azure Web Sites
Setting up multiple instances of a website in Windows Azure Websites is a terrific way to scale out your website, and Azure makes great use of the Application Request Routing IIS Extension to distribute your connecting users between your active instances. ARR cleverly keeps track of connecting users by giving them a special cookie (known as an affinity cookie), which allows it to know, upon subsequent requests, to which server instance they were talking to. This way, we can be sure that once a client establishes a session with a specific server instance, it will keep talking to the same server as long as his session is active. This is of particular importance for session-sensitive application (a.k.a. stateless applications), because the session-specific data won't move from one server to another on its own. Applications can be designed to do this (typically by storing that data in some kind of shared storage like SQL), but most are not and so normally, we want to keep every user attached to his designated server. If the user moves to another server, a new session is started, and whatever session data the application was using is gone (for example, the content of a shopping cart). Here's a brief description of this process:
 1. Client connects to an Azure Web Sites website
 2. ARR runs on the front-end Azure server and receives the request
 3. ARR decides to which of the available instances the request should go
 4. ARR forwards the request to the selected server, crafts and attaches an ARRAffinity cookie to the request
 5. The response comes back to the client, holding the ARRAffinity cookie.
 6. When the client receives the request, it stores the cookie for later use (browsers are designed to do this for cookies they receive from servers)
 7. When the client submits a subsequent request, it includes the cookie in it
 8. When ARR receives the request, it sees the cookie, and decodes it.
 9. The decoded cookie holds the name of the instance that was used earlier, and so ARR forwards the request to the same instance, rather than choosing one from the pool
 10. The same thing (steps 7-9) repeat upon every subsequent request for the same site, until the user closes the browser, at which point the cookie is cleared
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However, there are situations where keeping affinity is not desired. For example, some users don't close their browser, and remain connected for extended periods of time. When this happens, the affinity cookie remains in the browser, and this keeps the user attached to his server for a period that could last hours, days or even more (in theory, indefinitely!). Keeping your computer on and browser open is not unusual, and many people (especially on their work-place computers) do it all the time. In the real world, this leads to the distribution of users per instance falling out of balance (that's a little like how the line behind some registers in the supermarket can get hogged by a single customer, leading to others waiting in line more than they normally should). Depending on your applications and what they do, you may care more or less about users being tied to to their servers. In case this is of little or no importance and you'd rather disable this affinity and opt for better load balancing, we have introduced the ability for you to control it. Because the affinity is controlled by an affinity cookie, all you have to do to disable affinity is make sure that Azure doesn't give the cookies out. If it doesn't, subsequent requests by the user will be treated as "new", and instead of trying to route them to "their" server, ARR will use its normal load-balancing behavior to route the request to the best server. This is how the affinity cookie looks:
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Disabling the affinity can be done in two ways:
 1. In your application
 2. In a site configuration
To control this behavior in an application, you need to write code to send out a special HTTP header, which will tell the Application Request Router to remove the affinity cookie. This header is Arr-Disable-Session-Affinity, and if you set it to true, ARR will strip out the cookie. For example, you could add a line similar to this to your applications' code:
headers.Add("Arr-Disable-Session-Affinity", "True");
* This example is for C#, but this could just as easily be done in any other language or platform. Setting this in the application's code would be suitable for situations you DO want affinity to be kept for the most part, and only reset on specific application pages. If, however, you prefer to have it completely disabled, you could have ARR remove the cookie always by having IIS itself inject that header directly. This is done with a customHeaders configuration section in web.config. Simply add the following into your web.config, and upload it to the root of the site: 6765.bp3.JPG-550x0 Keep in mind, though, that the configuration in web.config is sensitive, and a badly formatted file can stop the site from working properly. If you haven't had a chance to work with web.config files before, read this getting-started guide. Troubleshooting If you intend on implementing this, you might wonder how to confirm its working and troubleshoot it. The ARR Affinity cookie is normally included with the 1st response from any Azure Web Sites web site, and subsequently included with any request sent from the client and response received from the server. To see it in action, you could use any of multiple HTTP troubleshooting and diagnostic tools. Here is a list of some of the more popular options:
 1. Fiddler
 2. HTTPWatc
 3. Network Monitor
 4. WireShark
 5. Firebug
You can find info about several other tools here. The 1st one on the list, Fiddler, is one of the most popular, because it can interact with any browser, and is available for free. Once Fiddler is installed, it will record any URL you browse to, and you can then click on the Inspector tab for either the request or response to see the details. For example, below you can see the HTTP Headers tab, which show the affinity cookie sent by the server using the Set-Cookie header: 5140.bp4.png-550x0 If you add the Arr-Disable-Session-Affinity header to disable the affinity cookie, ARR will not set the cookie, but it will also remove the Arr-Disable-Session-Affinity header itself, so if your process is working correctly, you will see neither. If you see both the cookie AND the header, this means that something is wrong with the way you set the header. Possibly an error in the text of the header name or its value. If you see the cookie and not the header, this probably means your changes to Web.config are invalid, or your header-injection code is not working, and you could try to confirm it by adding another, unrelated header. Generally speaking, it's easier to set the headers with web.config than with code, so in case of doubt, you should start by simplifying it to reduce the surface area of your investigation. In closing, we should mention that disabling the affinity is not something that should be taken lightly. For static content, it would rarely be an issue, but if you're running applications, and they are not designed for dealing with users jumping from one server to another, it might not end well. For scenarios where the affinity has led to imbalance, this new ability will come as great news.
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Dairy Farm Manager Resume
Here is the Dairy Farm Manager Resume example:
804 Smithfield Avenue
Amarillo, TX 79101
Job Objective Qualified Dairy Farm Manager seeking situation that allows me to use my knowledge to gain business for the company and to bring about positive change.
Highlights of Qualifications:
- Experience in managing machinery and automotive on food industry
- Thorough knowledge of large scale businesses
- Operational knowledge of fertilizers and seeds
- Ability to provide efficient feedback
- Ability to prepare continuous improvement strategies
- Remarkable organization skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Proficient to maintain technical knowledge on dairy
- Familiarity to supervise facility
Dairy Farm Manager
Landcorp, Amarillo, TX
October 2008 – Present
- Planned appropriate budget techniques to achieve targets.
- Developed and executed nutrient management plan.
- Administered milking process and maintained hygiene in plant.
- Maintained and update all management records.
- Evaluated various animal health programs to achieve goals.
- Monitored mating program for all animals and ensured good health.
- Ensured compliance to all animal welfare codes.
- Prepared business plans and budget for 5 year.
Dairy Farm Supervisor
Braum's Ice Cream & Dairy Stores, Amarillo, TX
August 2003 – September 2008
- Administered everyday activities for all milking process.
- Assisted in breeding of cows and performed various duties.
- Performed regular inspection of barns and maintained cleanliness.
- Monitored all injuries and illness in animals and provide assistance.
- Developed strategies to ensure optimal milk yield.
- Prepared schedule of vaccination and breeding.
Dairy Farm Worker
Dairy Farmers of America, Amarillo, TX
May 1998 – July 2003
- Assisted to wash cows and provide insecticides on farm.
- Prepared and administered efficient treatment.
- Coordinated with supervisor and examined all cows.
- Maintained all breeding data and provided update.
- Ensured clean milk containers and equipments.
- Maintained various farm fences in facilities.
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Ways Parents, Students Can Research Campus Safety
Prospective students should explore campus safety and crime statistics as they consider colleges….
Georgia (Jun 16, 2014)By
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Prospective students should explore campus safety and crime statistics as they consider colleges.
Sexual assaults, school shootings and other forms of on-campus violence are a major part of the national discussion of campus safety. The threat of a stolen laptop isn't as frightening, but there are many types of crime that can affect college students.
As prospective college students and their families try to choose the right school, researching campus safety can seem daunting, uncomfortable or even impossible.
To thoroughly evaluate a school's safety, prospective students need to research crime statistics, ask current students and campus staff the right questions and explore the programs universities have to protect and assist students, experts say.
[Learn how to stay safe on a college campus.]
Under the law, schools must submit an annual security report, maintain a crime log, share statistics for a variety of crimes that happen on campus and in some off-campus facilities, issue timely campus alerts, maintain a fire log and create policies to handle reports of missing students.
Families should first check the annual security report, which schools must submit by Oct. 1 each year, says Abigail Boyer, assistant executive director of programs at the Clery Center for Security On Campus.
The Department of Education has a site that allows users to research statistics by institution. Families should also be able to find the information through a university's website.
The Clery Act provides basic rules, but colleges have flexibility in how they implement certain sections, including how they handle campus alerts about safety issues such as a shooter.
For example, the length of time it takes for a student to receive a notification from the campus in an emergency is important but varies by school, says Robert Lang, who heads up security efforts at Kennesaw State University. Lang says that families should also ask about the variety of alerts a school uses beyond text messages and emails. Kennesaw's alert system includes computer pop-ups that can override classroom lectures, messages that display on digital signs around campus and a siren system.
Lang encourages families to ask schools who handles campus safety measures and how those measures are divided up. Some schools may have departments and programs dedicated to campus security and safety or have university police, while others may work with local police.
Families should also think about where students will spend time when they're not on campus.
"You need to do some homework too, about not just the campus itself, but the city surrounding it," Lang says.Under a federal law known as the Jeanne Clery Act, brick-and-mortar schools that receive federal student aid are required to share information about crime on and around their campuses. …


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 I created a comments page. When you click on any of the comments, it will load the page as an item and display the comments for that item. This will work on anything you click, or if you want to read through one of the ask questions, everything should work as expected.
 Rather than live code, I'm going to walk you through this, since I'm reusing so many of the things we've already used. For example, a next link to item plus item.ID is the same as the user page we just set up. We created underscore ID, again the same as the user page.
 In this item page, you can see that we are loading the item data from the routeparams ID, again just like the user page. Where this gets interesting is in the use of the comments. Everything up here is just displaying item information, item time, item buy, item URL, everything we've already looked at with just some different CSS classes.
 This comment component, when we look at it, because we're passing in this ID from the item.kids, it checks to see if there are any replies to that comment. It needs recursion in there. In the comment component, which is created here inside the components folder, you'll actually see this component reference itself.
 I'm inside the comment component and I'm using a comment component inside of itself. That sets up the recursion for us. You can do this by setting a name on your component and just referring to it by that name. You can see that each time we are using a margin left class, so you can see it indent, indent, indent every time we use that comment, and it recurses into it.
 To help you understand what's going on, I left what you'll see on here as kids. This kids is an array of the replies or the sub-comments, whatever you want to call them. That's item.kids. The behavior here is that, once this item loads, you'll see this is a component, so use beforemount. Async data is not available in components. You have to use before mount.
 We'll go ahead and fetch that item. Once it has mounted, we'll see if that has kids. If it does, we'll use the exact same process we use to load all the items, where we mapped to a bunch of promises. We await a promise. All of all the promises get the responses and map to the response.data. Then, just assign that to kids.
 If you look at all these IDs, you can see that the replies, here's the first one, 401. The one that ends in 378 should be mixed. There's 378. You'll see that 401 had a kid of 440. There's 440. I just let that kids array display to help you navigate through the recursion of these comments. Everything else in here should be fairly familiar.
 These classes are like border bottom, margin bottom four, margin bottom one just to keep things separated a bit. The item has an ID and buy. These items, instead of titles, they have text for the comments. Those are HTML, so we use the HTML directive to display them. Other than that, it's the same workflow where the comments link to an item page.
 That item page is in underscore ID, so we can load that ID. Once that ID is loaded, we'll have data to populate the comments, so item.kids comes off that item. That comment component loads the item and checks to see if it has any kids. If it has kids, it just tosses those kids back into a comment, which is recursed inside of itself.


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Skoddie is an experimental musician whose style spans multiple genres, but always focuses on atmosphere and mood. After a 6 year hiatus, they rediscovered their creative voice and released two albums and one EP in 2015. Today, Skoddie continues to produce music, and is also a founding member of the Unredacted online art collective.
In this episode, Skoddie discusses:
-Details about the new Unredacted online art collective, including why they started it.
-How there isn't anything on DeviantArt with a specific female and queer vibe, and how that is one of the goals for Unredacted.
-The importance of getting things started and letting them grow organically.
-Their history and first experiences with music.
-The scientific audio analysis techniques that they used to begin creating experimental music.
-How, like Jackson Pollock, Skoddie has intention behind what might seem to be unintentional music.
-Creating all of the music, and then the review process where they listen to the music and determine whether or not it moves them.
-How many artists and creative people feel as if their artwork is scarce, and how it doesn't have to be that way.
-How artists make their best work when nobody has heard of them, and the power that can come from tricking your brain into thinking that nobody will ever see what you are making.
-The importance of being able to ride the rollercoaster that is being a creative person.
-One of their hardest times when attempting to start a Kickstarter campaign that fell short of the goal.
-The importance of learning from your failures.
-One of the main goals of Unredacted to be able to showcase queer artists and focus on their artistic talent and voice instead of their queerness (like traditional media does).
-Their plans to potentially take over late-night television advertisements and fill it with art!
Skoddie's Final Push will inspire you to FINISH YOUR WORK (so it can be around for the rest of time).
"If you do all this planning but you don't actually get anything off the ground, you've got nothing."
"I got back into it in the least musical way possible."
"As long as I have some type of artistic vision behind it, I remain passionate about it."
"Just make stuff. Make a ton of stuff and let it be bad. In that sea of bad, you'll find some wonderful gems."
"I just feel like every time I fail, it makes me more savvy."
"Creating content is a much higher priority than building an audience."
"We all want to say we're going to quit our day jobs and be cool art people. And that's fantastic. But we don't make the art to feed ourselves. We like to eat and we like to make art."
"There are a good amount of female artists out there but there are very few queer artists. And the few that there are are upheld for their queerness but not as much for their artistic talents."
"We all have a stack of unfinished work but it's really special to be able to say, 'Hey, I made this. This is going to be here for the rest of time.'"
Theory of Obscurity: A Film about The Residents


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Use of aerial photographs in the study of watershed characteristics
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Watershed characteristics are studied using aerial photographs for two streams (choes) in the KANDI area of Punjab. Characteristic mapped include, soil erosion, landuse, drainage, topography. The photointerpretation was supplemented with field checks of the interpreted data. The interpreted data shows large areas of soil eroded and the development of bad land due to large scale cutting of the vegetation both in the Siwalik Hills and KANDI area.
KeywordsSoil Erosion Aerial Photograph Fallow Land Cropland Area Flood Plain Area
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- Proceeding of Agricultural Resources, organised by NRSA, India, 1978.Google Scholar
- Rao, B.N. "Watershed Management Problems", Lecture delivered in Summer Institute Remote Sensing (Dept. of Soil & Water Engg. PAU Ludhiana, June, 1985.)Google Scholar
- Sharma, J.K. "Use of Remotely Sensed data for studies of land and water resources management" Agricultural Engineering Today, Vol.4, No. 3, May-June, 1980.Google Scholar

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What Is the Material PEVA? Why the peva lining of cooler bag is eco-friendly.
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What Is the Material PEVA?
PEVA is a biodegradable, non-chlorinated vinyl which is commonly used in shower curtains, plastic wrap for food and sports padding. It is also called polyethylene vinyl acetate, or ethylene vinyl acetate.
PEVA is a safe alternative to using PVC shower curtains that can give off many volatile organic compounds which can be toxic, for the first month after removing it from its packaging. PEVA can also be used as a drug delivery device, when it is mixed with a drug and implanted, in order to slowly release the drug compound into the body in time. Top-of-the-line soccer cleats, boxing gloves, ski boots and bicycle saddles are also common uses of PEVA, too.


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Major Section: HISTORY
Example: :pe fn ; sketches the command that introduced fn and ; prints in full the event within it that created fn.See logical-name.
Pe takes one argument, a logical name, and prints in full the event
corresponding to the name.
Pe also sketches the command responsible
for that event if the command is different from the event itself.
See pc for a description of the format used to display a command. To
remind you that the event is inferior to the command, i.e., you can only
undo the entire command, not just the event, the event is indented
slightly from the command and a slash (meant to suggest a tree branch)
If the given logical name corresponds to more than one event, then
will print the above information for every such event. Here is an
example. of such behavior.
ACL2!>:pe nth -4270 (ENCAPSULATE NIL...) \ >V (VERIFY-TERMINATION NTH)
Additional events for the logical name NTH: PV -4949 (DEFUN NTH (N L) "Documentation available via :doc" (DECLARE (XARGS :GUARD (AND (INTEGERP N) (>= N 0) (TRUE-LISTP L)))) (IF (ENDP L) NIL (IF (ZP N) (CAR L) (NTH (- N 1) (CDR L))))) ACL2!>


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Category: Pond Plants
The Red Scarf lotus is a tea cup lotus plant that is very smaller in size compared to the typical hardy lotus plant. This plant has hardy zones of four or higher or less than four with winter protections. The plant has crimson blooms that are reddish pink in color with white centers. Its petals are narrow and located next to the pod giving it a unique look. The flowers open in the mid morning and close in the mid afternoon. Individual flowers can last for three days before their petals can fall.
Newly planted Red Scarf lotus do not always flower during their first year. Full flowering can occur during the early summer season with sunny and warm conditions. The plant can grow up to six inches across, with its leaves growing to ten to twelve inches wide. The Red Scarf lotus plant as a free flowering plant, also produces blooms during its first seasons. It has round bluish green leaves that float on waters. It can grow up to three to four feet tall. This plant can establish well in medium to large ponds.
The unique Red Scarf lotus can performs well when planted in a small to medium sized pond..It can do well in a container since it can be well establish with or without a pond. The plant can be planted in a huge container with a capacity of at least two gallons container. It can do well when planted in a no-hole container. It is considered a true bowl lotus as it can do so well in containers.
The Red Scarf lotus plant can look great in garden beds due to its cupped shaped blossoms in addition to the uniqueness in the flower colors. It is a hardy plant which can tolerate sunny and warm conditions. However, for the plant to establish well, it requires full sun. This type of plant, when planted in a container, can fail to establish if the soil in the container is not well drained. It is important to note that this plant can fail to re-grow if it is placed in cold water as it can return into dormant state.


What is the kb of NaOH?
Asked By: Kouider Conze | Last Updated: 18th April, 2020
Category: science chemistry
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What Is the Kb of NaOH? The base dissociation constant, or Kb, of sodium hydroxide, or NaOH, is approximately 1020. NaOH is classified as a strong base, which completely ionizes or dissociates in a solution into Na+ and OHions.
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Also, what is the formula for KB?
Solve the equation for Kb by dividing the Kw by the Ka. You then obtain the equation Kb = Kw / Ka. Put the values from the problem into the equation. For example, for the chloride ion, Kb = 1.0 x 10^-14 / 1.0 x 10^6.
Additionally, is Ca Oh 2 stronger than NaOH? Look at charge Na has +1 charge and Ca has +2 charge after dissociation. Greater charge Stronger lattice. And as we need weak Lattice, so NaoH is stronger base than Ca(OH)2..
People also ask, what is the kb of a strong base?
Kb is the base dissociation constant. The base dissociation constant is a measure of how completely a base dissociates into its component ions in water. A large Kb value indicates the high level of dissociation of a strong base. A lower pKb value indicates a stronger base.
What is the Ka of Koh?
Solution. Potassium Hydroxide or KOH, is a strong base and will dissociate completely in water to K+ and OH-. For every mole of KOH, there will be 1 mole of OH-, so the concentration of OHwill be the same as the concentration of KOH. Therefore, [OH-] = 0.05 M.
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What does pKa stand for?
Key Takeaways: pKa Definition
What are the units of Ka?
An acid dissociation constant (Ka) is a quantitative measure of the strength of an acid in solution. The dissociation constant is usually written as a quotient of the equilibrium concentrations (in mol/L): [latex]K_a = frac{[A-][H+]}{[HA]}[/latex].
What is the difference between KB and Ka?
Ka is the "acid dissociation constant." It deals with the concentration of H + ions. Kb is the "base dissociation constant." It deals with the concentration of OH - ions.
What is the kb value?
Kb value refers to a standardized ASTM test that measures the relative strength of a non-aqueous cleaning fluid. Mild solvents with lower Kb values will may not be strong enough to dissolve ionics and fluxes.
What is the difference between pKa and Ka?
Ka is acid dissociation constant and represents the strength of the acid. pKa is the -log of Ka, having a smaller comparable values for analysis. They have an inverse relationship. Larger the Ka, smaller the pKa and stronger the acid.
Can pKa be negative?
Is pKa the same as pH?
The pH is a measure of the concentration of hydrogen ions in an aqueous solution. pKa (acid dissociation constant) and pH are related, but pKa is more specific in that it helps you predict what a molecule will do at a specific pH.
Is h3po4 an acid or base?
Salts: AgNO3(Salt), NaCl(Salt), NaNO3(salt), KNO3(salt), Acids: H3PO4(acid), HCl(acid), H2SO4(acid), HC2H3O2(acid), HNO3(acid), H2SO3(acid) Bases: Mg(OH)2(base), NaOH(base), KOHbase), NH4OH(base).
What makes a strong or weak base?
Strong and Weak Bases
The issue is similar with bases: a strong base is a base that is 100% ionized in solution. If it is less than 100% ionized in solution, it is a weak base. So a base based on some other mechanism, such as NH 3 (which does not contain OH ions as part of its formula), will be a weak base.
What are strong bases?
Strong bases are able to completely dissociate in water
 - LiOH - lithium hydroxide.
 - NaOH - sodium hydroxide.
 - KOH - potassium hydroxide.
 - RbOH - rubidium hydroxide.
 - CsOH - cesium hydroxide.
 - *Ca(OH)2 - calcium hydroxide.
 - *Sr(OH)2 - strontium hydroxide.
 - *Ba(OH)2 - barium hydroxide.
Does higher pKa mean stronger acid?
A lower pKa means the Ka value is higher and a higher Ka value means the acid dissociates more readily because it has a larger concentration of Hydronium ions (H3O+).
Is a base a strong?
A strong base is a base that is completely dissociated in an aqueous solution. These compounds ionize in water to yield one or more hydroxide ion (OH-) per molecule of base. In contrast, a weak base only partially dissociates into its ions in water.
Is NaOH a strong base?
Sodium hydroxide (NaOH) is strong base because it fully dissociates in water to produce hydroxide ions. While ammonia (NH3) is weak base because it accepts protons from water to produce fewer hydroxide ions in solution. While weak bases produce fewer hydroxide ions, making the solution less basic.
What is the kb of water?
List of boiling and freezing information of solvents
Solvent Boiling point (°C) Kb (°C/mol/kg)
Naphthalene 217.9
Nitrobenzene 210.8 5.24
Phenol 181.75 3.60
Water 100.00 0.512
What is Ka KB and KW?
pKa and pKb are the -logs of Ka and Kb; Ka and Kb, when multiplied, are equal to Kw (1.0x10^-14). Kw is also equal to the hydronium and hydroxide concentrations when multiplied.
What is the full form of pKb?
pKb is the negative base-10 logarithm of the base dissociation constant (Kb) of a solution. It is used to determine the strength of a base or alkaline solution. pKb = -log10Kb.
Is Ca Oh 2 a strong base?
Ca(OH)2 is a strong base. Some strong bases like calcium hydroxide aren't very soluble in water. That doesn't matter - what does dissolve is still 100% ionised into calcium ions and hydroxide ions. Calcium hydroxide still counts as a strong base because of that 100% ionisation.


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3D Facet Joint Kinematics In-vivo and Spinal Degeneration and Its Correlation to the Lower Back Pain
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The facet joints play a major role in lumbar segmental motion that is susceptible to morphological changes, eventually leading to segmental instability. Recent advancements in medical imaging enabled the development of innovative methods to study in-vivo three-dimensional kinematics and morphology of the facet joint. The aim of this study was to describe facet motion in-vivo using image-based methods. This study demonstrates coupled motion for the facets during axial torsion. Eigenvector analysis allowed identification of each vertebra's principal orientation. This reference datum determined a local coordinate system for the individual facet joint surfaces. This work contributes to the field with high-accuracy in vivo baseline data.


Why is freedom important essay
Freedom is a very important thing to every human being because as we had encounter in the past decades a lot of debates have started debating about this topic. For example, I would like to talk about the freedom of speech. I think freedom of speech is the most important part when we try to see what the meaning behind freedom is.
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The fandango is an exuberant Spanish courtship dance and a genre of Spanish folk song. The dance, probably of Moorish origin, was popular in Europe in the 18th century and survives in the 20th century as a folk dance in Spain, Portugal, southern France, and Latin America. It has become the national dance of Spain.
Usually danced by couples, it begins slowly, with the rhythm marked by castanets, clapping of hands, snapping of fingers, and the stamping of feet; the speed gradually increases. The music is in 3/4 or 6/8 time. Occasionally there is a sudden pause in the music, and the dancers stand rigid until the music resumes. The dance is an expression of passion, and the partners tease, challenge, and pursue each other with steps and gestures. In another version, the fandango is danced by two men as a contest of skill. The first dancer sets the rhythm and steps, the second picks up the step and elaborates.
As song, the fandango consists of coplas, improvised satirical, religious, or romantic verses, sung to melodies improvised according to set rules. Fandangos can be sung to accompany the dance or as solos. As a dance and as a genre of song, the fandango exists both within and outside of the flamenco, or Andalusian Roma (Gypsy), tradition.


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Can Boat Airdopes Be Connected to an iPhone
Boat airdopes are often used for water sports and other activities on the water. They can be connected to an iPhone using Bluetooth.
The first step is to turn on the Bluetooth function on your phone. You then need to search for nearby devices, and select the one that is labeledboat airdope". Once you have found it, tap on it and you will be able to connect your phone with the boat airdope.
Connecting a Boat Airdope to iPhone or Android
Steps to connect a boat dope to an iPhone or Android.
1) Find the correct connection port on your boat
2) Connect the device with the correct connection port
3) Turn off the sound for notifications and alerts on your phone or tablet
The most common way to connect a boat air horn to an iPhone or Android is by using an auxiliary cable.
An auxiliary cable is a type of audio cable that connects an external device to the speaker system on your phone. It's usually used for connecting headphones or speakers, but when you need to connect your boat air horn, this is the best option.
The other way to connect a boat air horn to an iPhone or Android is through Bluetooth.
Bluetooth allows you to wirelessly stream music and other audio files from your phone without having any cables plugged in.
How to Connect Your Boat Airdopes to your iPhone
If you want to connect your boat air system to your iPhone, then here are the steps you need to take.
 1. Connect the iPhone to the boat's stereo via an auxiliary cable or Bluetooth.
 2. Turn on your iPhone's Bluetooth and select the Boat Airdopes device from the list of available devices that appear on your phone screen.
 3. You will be asked for a four-digit code which is set by default as 0000, but you can change this if you want.
 4. Once connected, open up Siri and say "play music" or "play Spotify " and it will start playing music through Boat Airdopes!
Boat Air Dope Setup Options for Your Smartphone
Boat air dope setups are a great way to get your smartphone ready for use on the water.
One of the best iPhone boat airdop setups is to get a waterproof case and an armband. The waterproof case will protect your phone from water damage and the armband will keep it secure while you are on the water.
The best android boat airdop setup is to get an external battery and a waterproof case. The external battery will give you more power than your phone's internal battery, so it won't run out as quickly, and the waterproof case will protect your phone from water damage.
Conclusion
With the help of AirPods and airdop, boat owners can now listen to music and make phone calls without using their hands.
Airdop is a wearable device that lets people stream music and make phone calls from their boat. This device can be connected to an iPhone through Bluetooth.
FAQ
Can boat Airdopes 441 connect to an iPhone?
Boat Airdopes 441 is a wireless earbud that can be connected to an iPhone.
Does boat Airdopes 131 work with an iPhone?
Boat Airdopes 131 is compatible with most smartphones.
Why can't I pair my boat Airdopes?
The Airdopes earbud is a Bluetooth device that needs to be paired with your phone. Pairing your boat Airdopes earbud is simple, just follow these steps:
1. Open the Airdopes app on your phone
2. Select "Settings" and then "Bluetooth"
3. Turn on Bluetooth on your phone
4. Press the power button on the left side of the earbuds to activate pairing mode
5. Tap to pair it with your phone


uvloop: Blazing fast Python networking
by Yury Selivanov _USER_
May 03, 2016
asyncio is an asynchronous I/O framework shipping with the Python Standard Library. In this blog post, we introduce uvloop: a full, drop-in replacement for the asyncio event loop. uvloop is written in Cython and built on top of libuv.
uvloop makes asyncio fast. In fact, it is at least 2x faster than nodejs, gevent, as well as any other Python asynchronous framework. The performance of uvloop-based asyncio is close to that of Go programs.
asyncio & uvloop
The asyncio module, introduced by PEP 3156, is a collection of network transports, protocols, and streams abstractions, with a pluggable event loop. The event loop is the heart of asyncio. It provides APIs for:
 - scheduling calls,
 - transmitting data over the network,
 - performing DNS queries,
 - handling OS signals,
 - convenient abstractions to create servers and connections,
 - working with subprocesses asynchronously.
As of this moment, uvloop is only available on *nix platforms and Python 3.5.
uvloop is a drop-in replacement of the built-in asyncio event loop. You can install uvloop with pip:
$ pip install uvloop
Using uvloop in your asyncio code is as easy as:
import asyncio
import uvloop
The above snippet makes any asyncio.get_event_loop() call return an instance of uvloop.
You can also create a uvloop instance explicitly, by calling uvloop.new_event_loop()
uvloop is written in Cython and is built on top of libuv.
libuv is a high performance, multiplatform asynchronous I/O library used by nodejs. Because of how wide-spread and popular nodejs is, libuv is fast and stable.
uvloop implements all asyncio event loop APIs. High-level Python objects wrap low-level libuv structs and functions. Inheritance is used to keep the code DRY and ensure that any manual memory management is in sync with libuv primitives' lifespans.
To check how the performance of uvloop stacks up against other implementations, we have created a toolbench to benchmark TCP and UNIX sockets I/O, and the performance of HTTP protocol.
Benchmarked servers run inside a Docker container with an outside load-generating tool (wrk for HTTP benchmarks) that measures request throughput and latency.
All benchmarks in this blog post were run on an Intel Xeon CPU E5-1620 v2 @ 3.70GHz, and Ubuntu Linux. We use Python 3.5, and all servers are single-threaded. Additionally, we use GOMAXPROCS=1 for Go code, nodejs does not use cluster, and all Python servers are single-process. Every benchmark sets the TCP_NODELAY flag.
Benchmarks on Mac OS X exhibit very similar results.
This benchmark tests the performance of a simple echo server with different message sizes. We use 1, 10, and 100 KiB packages. The concurrency level is 10. Each benchmark was run for 30 seconds.
See also the full TCP benchmarks report.
Some comments on each position:
 1. asyncio-streams. asyncio with its built-in, pure-Python event loop. In this benchmark, we test the performance of the high-level streams abstraction. We use asyncio.create_server() to create a server that passes a pair of (reader, writer) to the client coroutine.
 2. tornado. This server implements a very simple Tornado protocol, which immediately sends back any data it receives.
 3. curio-streams. Curio is the new kid on the Python aio lib block. Similarly to asyncio-streams, in this benchmark we test curio streams, using curio.make_streams() to create a pair of (reader, writer) that provide a high-level APIs such as readline().
 4. twisted. Similarly to Tornado, here we test a minimal echo protocol.
 5. curio. This benchmark tests the performance of curio sockets: a tight loop of sock.recv() and sock.sendall() coroutines.
 6. uvloop-streams. As in #2, here we test the performance of asyncio high-level streams, but this time on top of uvloop.
 7. gevent. We use gevent.StreamServer and a gevent socket to send/receive data in a tight loop.
 8. asyncio. It appears that vanilla asyncio is quite fast! Similarly to #2 and #4, here we test the performance of a minimal echo protocol implemented in pure-Python asyncio.
 9. nodejs. We use the net.createServer API to test the streams performance in nodejs v4.2.6.
 10. uvloop. This benchmark tests a minimal echo protocol (as in #2, #4, #8) implemented in asyncio, on top of uvloop. With 1 KiB messages, uvloop is the fastest implementation with whopping 105,000 requests per second! For 100 KiB messages, uvloop manages to pump through about 2.3 GiB/s.
 11. Go. A tight loop of _URL_ calls. Golang performance is very similar to uvloop, slightly better for 10 and 100 KiB messages.
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Code for all benchmarks can be found here.
See also UNIX sockets benchmark results.
Initially, we wanted to test aiohttp on asyncio and uvloop against nodejs and Go. aiohttp is the most popular framework for writing asynchronous HTTP servers and clients with asyncio.
See also the full HTTP benchmarks report.
However, the performance bottleneck in aiohttp turned out to be its HTTP parser, which is so slow, that it matters very little how fast the underlying I/O library is. To make things more interesting, we created a Python binding for http-parser (nodejs HTTP parser C library, originally developed for Nginx). The library is called httptools, and is available on Github and PyPI.
For HTTP, all benchmarks use wrk to generate the load. The concurrency level is set to 300. The duration of each benchmark is 30 seconds.
Quite surprisingly, pure-Python asyncio, with the help of high-performance HTTP parser is faster than nodejs, which uses the same HTTP parser!
Go is faster for 1 KiB responses, but uvloop+asyncio is measurably better for 10/100 KiB responses. The quality of service is excellent for asyncio and uvloop with httptools, as wells as for Go.
Admittedly, httptools-based server is very minimal and does not include any routing logic, unlike other implementations. Nonetheless, the benchmark demonstrates how fast uvloop can be with an efficiently implemented protocol.
It is safe to conclude that, with uvloop, it is possible to write Python networking code that can push tens of thousands of requests per second per CPU core. On multicore systems a process pool can be used to scale the performance even further.
uvloop and asyncio, combined with the power of async/await in Python 3.5, makes it easier than ever to write high-performance networking code in Python.
Please try uvloop (github) and share your results with us!


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Maryland's 42.2% Waste Diversion Rate
The recycling rate plus the source reduction (SR) credit make up the waste diversion rate. Through the efforts of its citizens, businesses and government agencies, Maryland achieved a statewide waste diversion rate of 42.2% in calendar year (CY) 2020. The 42.2% waste diversion rate was composed of a 38.2% Maryland Recycling Act (MRA) recycling rate and a 4.0% SR credit. This exceeds the requirements of the MRA and the 40% waste diversion goal targeted for 2005. Figure 1 provides a historical breakdown of Maryland's waste diversion rate.
Maryland's 38.2% Recycling Rate
In CY 2020, Maryland residents and businesses recycled 38.2 percent ((MRA recycling tonnage + resource recovery facility credit) ÷
(MRA recycling tonnage + MRA waste disposed)) of the municipal solid waste generated. The resource recovery facility (RRF) credit is provided under the MRA in Environment Article, §9-1703(d),
Annotated Code of Maryland. The provision specifies that a 5% recycling credit applies to each county that "achieves a reduction of at least 5 percent in the volume of its waste through the utilization of one or more resource recovery facilities in operation as of January 1, 1988." To encourage more recycling, states across the country are seeking new ways (e.g., Single Stream Recycling, Pay-As-You-Throw Programs, etc.) to ensure that recycling continues to gain in popularity as a waste management option. Many states, including Maryland, are investigating new commodities to bring into the recycling stream, while continuing to promote the benefits of recycling.
summarizes the recycling tonnages since 1992 and Figure 3 categorizes the total MRA tons recycled by material in CY 2020. Compostables, and paper materials constituted the largest portion of materials recycled (miscellaneous materials are comprised of multiple materials, the largest being municipal incinerator ash at over 62% of the total miscellaneous materials).
MDE encourages the recycling of all materials because of the environmental and economic benefits that recycling provides. The 2020 County Commodity Chart details recycling and waste diversion rates for each of Maryland's
jurisdictions. Business and local governments continue to seek recycling opportunities above and beyond those that apply toward the MRA rate. In fact, nearly 2.9 million tons of other Non-MRA materials were reported as being recycled in 2020. The Recycling of Non-MRA Materials in Tons table offers a breakdown by category of the amount of Non-MRA materials reported recycled in 2020. For a complete overview on how solid waste is managed in Maryland, please refer to the annual Solid Waste Management and Diversion report.
Maryland's 4.0% Source Reduction Credit
In 2020, eleven Counties were able to add from 1% to 5% to their waste diversion rate by emphasizing SR activities as a waste reduction strategy, see Source Reduction Credit Summary 2020. They accomplished this utilizing Internet resources, demonstration sites (i.e., backyard food waste and yard waste composting), and publications on reuse practices and yard waste reduction. A complete list of SR activities and a breakdown of Maryland SR activities is available in the "Source Reduction" section.
Non-profit groups are partnering with government to increase awareness of source reduction and reuse opportunities for materials such as linens, pet supplies, medical equipment, clothing and computers. The partnering provides businesses information on how to improve their bottom line through recycling and SR. As counties learn from their successful colleagues, even more SR programs are expected.
Maryland Department of the Environment
Land Management Administration
Waste Diversion and Utilization Program
1800 Washington Blvd., Suite 610
Baltimore, MD 21230-1719
Email - Request for Information


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What rhymes with e region?
This page is about the various possible words that rhymes or sounds like e region. Use it for writing poetry, composing lyrics for your song or coming up with rap verses.
- (noun) a region of the ionosphere (from 50 to 90 miles up) that reflects radio waves of medium length
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and the fastest in the last heat. This does not mean that the 9-year olds are actually competing against 16-year olds or older as once all the heats are swum the swimmer's times are sorted into the individual age groups and medals awarded accordingly. Where an event is Heat Declared Winner there are no Finals.
Q. Why does the official time on the results sheet differ from that recorded by the timekeeper?
At a Meet where there is no electronic timing (AOE) such as the Club Championships the only official times are those decided on by the referee having first considered the time recorded by the timekeepers. The placing recorded by the finish judges and the referee and approved by the referee take precedence over the manual times of the timekeepers and as a result it may be necessary to adjust the times to fit in with the placings.
Often one will see two or more swimmers with official times which are identical, but this does not (unless the result sheet specifically states) mean that the swimmers finished tied with the same time. It merely means that the manual times recorded by the timekeeper showed the swimmer who finished ahead of the other as having a slower time - so in order to make sense of the placing the difference between the times is averaged so that the faster swimmer will be placed ahead of the slower swimmer albeit with same time.


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noun. ['ˈskuːtɝ'] large black diving duck of northern parts of the northern hemisphere.
- genus Melanitta
- common scoter
- Melanitta nigra
- sea duck
Words that Rhyme with Scooter
Example sentences of the word scooter
1. Noun, singular or mass
Pulling it will allow you to remove the kickstart from the side of your scooter.
noun. ['ˈskuːtɝ'] a sailing vessel with runners and a cross-shaped frame; suitable for traveling over ice.
noun. ['ˈskuːtɝ'] a motorboat resembling a motor scooter.
- sea scooter
noun. ['ˈskuːtɝ'] a wheeled vehicle with small wheels and a low-powered gasoline engine geared to the rear wheel.
- wheeled vehicle
noun. ['ˈskuːtɝ'] child's two-wheeled vehicle operated by foot.


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Project Sprout is a unique strategy for urban revitalization based on the premise that failure reveals opportunity. Shifts in New Orleans' demographics and economic prospects, coupled with catastrophic flooding from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, left many of the city's neighborhoods devastated by blight and environmental contamination. Through a productive stabilization strategy that unlocks the potential of blighted land, Sprout will transform marginal properties from public health threats into nodes of community redevelopment.
Through the planting of bio-energy gardens that include plants like sunflowers, Project Sprout will:
1. Remediate soil
2. Yield a crop for bio-fuel production
3. Provide green-collar job training
4. Create hope in communities that suffer from the companion problems of blight and illegal dumping.
As a deliberately transitional strategy, Sprout helps to reposition underutilized land for redevelopment, urban farming, or community recreation space. A phased pilot project will roll out beginning in Spring 2009.
New Orleans Food and Farm Network
New Orleans Redevelopment Authority
Limitless Vistas Inc.
Early Stage Funders
Tulane City Center
Green Coast Enterprises


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How do I restore the colors in faded photos?
Do the following:
Restoring Photo Colors as You ScanYou can restore the colors in faded photos as you scan them using Epson Scan's Color Restoration setting. You can select this setting in any of the available scan modes.
Note: Color restoration is not available in Office Mode, if Epson Scan offers that mode.
- Place your original on your product for scanning.
- Start Epson Scan.
- Select the scan mode you want to use.
- Select the scan settings for your scan.
- Preview your image.
- Locate or access the image adjustment settings.
- Select the Color Restoration checkbox.
- When you finish selecting all your settings, click Scan.
- Click Close to exit the Epson Scan window, if necessary.
Epson Scan scans your original, and saves the color-restored file in the selected folder or opens it in your scanning program. If the file was saved directly to your computer, you see the file in the Windows Explorer or Mac OS X Finder, where you can view and print the image, if desired.Related information
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store cannot be directly connected to another data store A data store cannot be directly connected to an external entity A data store can pass data to, or receive data from a process A process can pass data to and receive data from another process Data must flow from external entity to a process and then be passed onto anther process or a data store
A matrix for the above rules is show in Fig 5 below
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Fig 5 ERD Rules
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There are different levels of DFDs depending on the level of detail shown Level 0 or context diagram The context diagram shows the top-level process, the whole system, as a single process rectangle. It shows all external entities and all data flows to and from the system. Analysts draw the context diagram first to show the high-level processing in a system. An example of a Context Diagram is shown in Fig 6 below:
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invoice details
monthly report details
staff details updated customer details Management
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Fig 6 Context Diagram for a Car Sales System Level 1 DFD This level of DFD shows all external entities that are on the context diagram, all the highlevel processes and all data stores used in the system. Each high-level process may contain sub-processes. These are shown on lower level DFDs.
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A Level 1 DFD for the Car Sales scenario is shown in Fig 7 below:
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Level 2 DFDs Each Level 1 DFD process may contain further internal processes. These are shown on the Level 2 DFD. The numbering system used in the Level 1 DFD is continued and each process in the Level 2 DFD is prefixed by the Level 1 DFD number followed by a unique number for each process i.e. for process 1, sub processes 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc see fig 8 below
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Fig 8 Level 2 DFD for Level 1 Process Add New Sale Each of the Level 2 DFDs could also have sub-processes and could be decomposed further into lower level DFDs i.e. 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3 etc More than 3 levels for a DFD would become unmanageable. Lowest Level DFDs and Process Specification Once the DFD has been decomposed into its lowest level, each of the lower level DFDs can be described using pseudo-code (structured English), flow chart or similar process specification method that can be used by a programmer to code each process or function. For example, the Level 2 DFD for the Add New Sale process could be described as being a process that contains 3 sub-processes, Validate Order, Add Staff to Order and Generate New Sale. The structured English could be written thus: Open Customer File If existing customer Check Customer Details Else Add customer details
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End If Open Car File If car available then Open Sale File Add customer to sale Set car to unavailable Add car to sale Add staff details Calculate price Generate Invoice Close Sale File Close Customer File Close Car File Inform User of successful sale exit process Else Inform User of problem exit process Close Customer File Close Car File End If The above example is not carved in stone as the analyst may decide to write separate functions to validate customer and car details and that the Generate New Sale process could include other sub-processes. All that matters is that the underlying processing logic solves the problem. For example, if you look at Figure 8 there is a process named Validate Order, which has a duel purpose of checking both the customer details (is customer a current customer, if not add to customer file) and the car details (is car available, if not stop the sale process). A separate process called Validate Order could be created, but I have written the structured English to show a logical sequence that shows that, only if the car is available do we begin the transaction of creating the sale. I have also assumed that the staff dealing with the sale will know their own details so there would not be a need for the process named Add Staff to Order. Like all analysis and design processes, the process of producing DFDs and writing structured English is an iterative process 31
7. Explain coding techniques and types of codes? It is required that information must be encoded into signals before it can be transported across communication media. In more precise words we may say that the waveform pattern of voltage or current used to represent the 1s and 0s of a digital signal on a transmission link is called digital to digital line encoding. There are different encoding schemes available: Digltal-to-Digltal Encoding It is the representation of digital information by a digital signal.
There are basically following types of digital to-digital encoding available like: Unipolar Polar Bipolar. Unipolar Unipolar encoding uses only one level of value 1 as a positive value and 0 remains Idle. Since unipolar line encoding has one of its states at 0 Volts, its also called Return to Zero (RTZ) as shown in Figure. A common example of unipolar line encoding is the 11'L logic levels used in computers and digital logic.
Unipolar encoding represents DC (Direct Current) component and therefore, ca.'1nottravel through media such as microwaves or transformers. It has low noise margin and needs extra hardware for synchronization purposes. It is well suited where the signal path is short. For long distances, it produces stray capacitance in the transmission medium and therefore, it never returns to zero as shown in Figure.
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Polar Polar encoding uses two levels of voltages say positive and negative. For example, the RS:232D interface uses Polar line encoding. The signal does not return to zero; it is either a positive voltage or a negative voltage. Polar encoding may be classified as nonreturn to zero (NRZ), return to zero (RZ) and biphase. NRZ may be further divided into NRZL and NRZI. Biphase has also two different categories as Manchester and Differential Manchester encoding. Polar line encoding is the simplest pattern that eliminates most of the residua! DC problem. Figure shows the Polar line encoding. It has the same problem of synchronization as that of unipolar encoding. The added benefit of polar encoding is that it reduces the power required to transmit the signal by one-half.
Non-Return to Zero (NRZ) In NRZL, the level of the signal is 1 if the amplitude is positive and 0 in case of negative amplitude. In NRZI, whenever a positive amplitude or bit I appears in the signal, the signal gets inverted, Figure explains the concepts of NRZ-L and NRZI more precisely.
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Return to Zero (RZ) RZ uses three values to represent the signal. These are positive, negative, and zero. Bit 1is represented when signal changes from positive to zero. Bit 0 is represented when signal changes from negative to zero. Figure explains the RZ concept.
Biphase Biphase is implemented in two different ways as Manchester and Differential Manchester encoding. In Manchester encoding, transition happens at the middle of each bit period. A low to high transition represents a 1 and a high to low transition represents a 0.In case of Differential Manchester encoding, transition occurs at the beginning of a bit time, which represents a zero. These encoding can detect errors during transmission because of the transition during every bit period. Therefore, the absence of a transition would indicate an error condition.
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They have no DC component and there is always a transition available for synchronizing receives and transmits clocks. Bipolar Bipolar uses three voltage levels. These are positive, negative, and zero. Bit 0 occurs at zero level of amplitude. Bit 1 occurs alternatively when the voltage level is either positive or negative and therefore, also called as Alternate Mark Inversion (AMI). There is no DC component because of the alternate polarity of the pulses for Is. Figure describes bipolar encoding.
Analog to Digital Analog to digital encoding is the representation of analog information by a digital signal. These include PAM (Pulse Amplitude Modulation), and PCM (Pulse Code Modulation). Digital to Analog These include ASK (Amplitude Shift Keying), FSK (Frequency Shift Keying), PSK (Phase Shift Keying), QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying), are QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation). Analog to Analog These are Amplitude modulation, Frequency modulation and Phase modulation techniques, Codecs (Coders and Decoders) Codec stands for coders/decompression in data communication. The reverse conversion of analog to digital is necessary in situations where it is advantageous to send analog information across a digital circuit. Certainly, this is often the case


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Q: I recently noticed a couple of leafless limbs on my sawtooth oak. They also have a scaly orange fungus and one had a gelatinous, drippy mass of some sort.
A: It looks like both limbs were shaded out by limbs above. Since their leaves produced nothing the tree aborted them. This is a normal phenomenon: lower limbs get shaded by upper ones as a tree grows taller.
Your next job is to remove the dead limbs correctly. Do not cut limbs flush to the trunk, but make the cut at the collar. The collar is the slightly swollen transition area at the base of the branch where it joins the trunk. Cutting flush with the trunk will leave a much larger wound than cutting at the collar and it may never heal, leading to a hollow tree.
Wound dressings applied to the wound don't help reduce decay and are not recommended.
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This page will show you how to construct your own vacuum forming table. A Vacuum Forming Table is used to form sheets of polystyrene into desired shapes determined by the molds used with the table. This table will be comprised of two main parts, The Holding Frame, and the Forming Surface. Some designs for Vacuum Forming Tables also include an oven. For this forming table we will use an ordinary kitchen oven to heat our plastic.
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Arizona Watershed Stewardship Guide: Arizona Weather & ClimateArizona Watershed Stewardship Guide was created to help individuals and groups build a mutual foundation of basic knowledge about watersheds in Arizona. It is intended to help Arizonans understand and be good stewards of their watersheds. This guide was designed to compliment the mission of the Arizona Master Watershed Steward Program to educate and train citizens across the state to serve as volunteers in the monitoring, restoration, conservation, and protection of their water and watersheds. This guide consists of 10 self-contained modules which teach one or more important aspects of watershed science or management to a public adult audience.


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A space is $F_\sigma$-discrete space if it is the countable union of closed discrete subspaces. Is it true that every subset of an $F_\sigma$-discrete space is of the type $G_\delta$?
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The answer is yes. Suppose that $X$ is an $F_\sigma$ space as you have defined it, so that $X=\bigcup_n X_n$, where each $X_n$ is a closed discrete space. Suppose that $Y\subset X$ is any subset. For each $n$, note that $X_n-Y$ is closed in the discrete space $X_n$ and hence also closed in $X$, and so the complement $U_n=X-(X_n-Y)$ is open in $X$. Furthermore, $\bigcap_n U_n=Y$, since $Y\subset U_n$ and anything not in $Y$ is in some $X_n$ and hence thrown out of that $U_n$. So $Y$ is a countable intersection of open sets and hence $G_\delta$.
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Yes, since closed discrete sets are hereditarily closed. Let $X$ be the space and $E_n$ the closed discrete sets, so $X = \bigcup\limits_{n=1}^\infty E_n$. Then given $S \subseteq X$, each $E_n \setminus S$ is still closed, so $S = \bigcap\limits_{n=1}^\infty (E_n \setminus S)^\complement$ shows that $S$ is a $G_\delta$.
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Dog Walking Club Walk Leader
To become a Dog Walking Club Walk Leader, you will be given free training, described as follows:
The one day training course is delivered locally by local trainers, and split into two sections.
Section 1 - Theory
This section of the day explores the concept and issues around health walks. The outcomes for this part of the training are:
· Understanding the partnership that delivers the national programme and supports all the schemes
· Understanding the benefits of activity and the positive impact on physical and mental health
· Understanding what a health walk is and how to run one
· Explore the paperwork, understand why it is required and how the data will be used
· Understand the insurance cover provided by Walking for Health through the Ramblers
· Learn how to create a safe effective route and carry out a risk assessment
· Explore difficult scenarios such as dogs on walks and how to deal with them
· Understand about inclusivity and what this means
Section 2 - Practical
Everyone take part in a demonstration walk led by the trainer focussing on best practise, risk assessments and how to adjust walks to suit people with a variety of needs. Participants are given the opportunity to put the theory into practise and explore any issues they may have.
At the end of the training all trainees are given a progress card which they have to complete to become a fully trained walk leader. To become a recognised Walking for Health walk leader they need to:
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· Lead a walk whilst being observed by a trainer walk leader


Why Do the Ears of a Fox Point Forward?
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Why Do the Ears of a Fox Point Forward?
(Red fox on the scent. will_hybrid/Flickr.com)
Foxes are small, primarily carnivorous mammals of the dog family. They range in size from the tiny African fennec to the European red fox. Diet includes birds, rabbits, mice, grasshoppers and other insects, earthworms, eggs and carrion. Foxes also forage on fruit, berries, nuts and grasses. They are solitary animals that hunt alone. Most species have pointed faces with erect, triangular ears, short legs, thick fur and a long bushy tail.
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Ears of a Predator
Most members of the canine and feline families have ears that point forward. The forward-pointing ear is an evolutionary adaptation that is linked to the animal's methods of hunting. Foxes quietly stalk their prey, attempting to get as close as possible before pouncing. If they do not succeed in catching it, they will give chase. A fox can run up to 25 miles per hour to catch rabbits and other small mammals. Forward-pointing ears allow the predator to hear its prey even while moving forward to stalk or chase.
Why Do the Ears of a Fox Point Forward?
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Foxes have an acute sense of hearing that they use to detect prey. Unlike most mammals, they can detect the low-frequency sounds of small animals digging beneath snow or under the ground. The fox tilts its head to focus its ears, locates the source of the sound and digs up its prey.
Why Do the Ears of a Fox Point Forward?
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Ears of Prey Animals
Grazing animals, including rabbits, are vulnerable to predators, like the fox, that sneak up close to them while they eat. The ears of such prey animals have evolved to be large, exceptionally mobile and capable of moving independently, allowing them to hear sounds from both sides and from behind. As they graze, their highly mobile ears swivel constantly to catch any hint of potential predators.
Fox Ears and Climate
Fox species that live in extreme environments of hot or cold have evolved variations in the shape and size of their ears. The fennec of the African desert and the kit fox of the American Southwest have enormous ears that dissipate heat and help to regulate their body temperature. The arctic fox has evolved small rounded ears that conserve heat and are less subject to freezing.
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Eyes Facing Forward
Not only do predators have ears that point forward, they also have eyes on the front of their faces, giving them binocular vision to better focus on the prey in front of them. Their prey, by contrast, have ears and eyes on the sides of their head. They can see and hear potentially dangerous movement from behind and on either side.
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Green Diary highlights artist Luke Jerram's new project "Aeolus," which seeks to capture the sound of wind passing through a landscape. According to Green Diary, Jerram received an £225K grant from the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPRSC) to create and tour Aeolus, an exploration of acoustics, wind, and architecture, which was inspired by a tour of desert wells in Iran that one local well-digger said sung in the wind. The artist has created a range of sculptures, installations, and live art projects, including the Plant Orchestra.
Aeolian wind harps were seen by Jerram as the best tools for capturing the sound of wind. "Long tensioned strings will resonate with the wind and will be heard by visitors inside the space. The ambition is to sonify the three dimensional landscape of wind. The public will be able to visualise this shifting wind map from within the space by interpreting the sound around them."
The piece will consist of components that explore light, including "hundreds of light pipes which both draw the landscape of light into the building and hum at a series of low frequencies. The tubes act to frame and magnify the landscape so that from inside the structure, at its centre, visitors can see through one hundred of these pipes simultaneously, contemplating an ever changing landscape of light."
The installation features a specially designed architectural space that will resonate and sing with the wind. EPRSC and the engineering groups of University of Southampton (ISVR) and University of Salford are involved and funding the project because they hope to learn more about how to make audible wind noises without electrical power or amplification.
The temporary installation will tour sites in the UK and elsewhere, and each location's unique wind and landscape sound will be recorded.
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The history of mazes and labyrinths goes back to ancient times and the Minotaur and Labyrinth from Greek mythology. From there, mazes were built in pebbles, earth and more, and in 1690 the oldest surviving hedge maze was created – the Hampton Court Maze in Greater London
Who invented the corn maze?
The history of mazes in corn fields goes back to 1993. Don Frantz and Adrian Fisher worked together to design and build the first corn maze in the United States, at Lebanon Valley College, in east-central Pennsylvania. The first corn maze was only on 3 acres and had 1.92 miles of pathway, and was officially certified by Guinness as the world's largest corn maze (though others have long since surpassed that record)
One difference of corn mazes in the US as compared to traditional hedge mazes is the addition of puzzles or other brainteasers that are often needed to be solved in order to complete the maze. Typically a corn maze will also be cut in a particular shape, whereas traditional hedge mazes were generally in geometric patterns
The first corn maze was titled "The Amazing Maize Maze" (see what I mean about those puns?!) and was shaped in the form of "Cornelius, the Cobasaurus"


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Feedback Systems, Bode diagrams, Asymptotic analysis.
In his classic book, Network Analysis and Feedback
Amplifier Design, Bode describes how to obtain using
asymptotic analysis, for a specified amount of bandwidth,
gain margin and phase margin, the 'maximum obtainable
feedback'. This means, how to get the largest possible low
frequency loop gain for a single loop amplifier. One
problem with the method is that, particularly when
specifying too high a bandwidth, it is not possible to
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that the system step response can be too oscillatory. This
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The jetty head is the largest structure of its kind in Britain and stands over a mile from the shore in about 36 meters (118 feet) of water. It is 443 meters (1,453 feet) long. The outer berth can accommodate ships of upto 350,000 tonnes dead weight and the inner berth has a 70,000 tonnes dead weight limitation but with limited dredging of the approach this could when required be increased to 150,000 tonnes dead weight.
Iron Ore was taken from the holds of ships by the two ship uploaders each with a capacity of 3,000 tonnes per hour. These uploaders with a height of 72 meters (236 feet) and each weighing 2,500 tonnes are among the largest in the world.
Ore and coal are moved between ship and shore along an enclosed system of conveyor belts rated at 6,000 tonnes per hour for ore. Between the jetty and the stockyard is a sampling station where the ore is tested in accordance to the International Standards Organization who checks on ferrous content, moisture and size.
Since British Steel Ravenscraig closed down in 1992 only coal has been unloaded at Hunterston
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The fastest speed that a bobsleigh can reach is roughly 135 kilometers, or 84 miles per hour. This speed depends on how many people are in a team, but in most situations four-man bobsledding teams can travel faster than two-man teams.
Apart from the number of people on a bobsledding team, the greatest factor that determines speed is the momentum gained at the start. A fast start can result in seconds saved over the length of the course. Four-man bobsledding teams have the ability to go faster because they have two additional sledders to provide extra weight and thrust. Apart from this, steering also plays a major role in the speed of a bobsleigh because any drifting can slow down the bobsleigh considerably.


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The New Zealand Seafood Standards Council (NZSSC), the seafood industry and the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) have joined forces to develop a more robust and consistent approach to monitoring and dealing with Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat seafood.
The seafood industry had identified that the Listeria Circular 1995 (IAIS 003.9), which ready-to-eat seafood producers have been using to manage the pathogen, needed updating following international advances in how listeria Listeria was managed. A technical working group led by the NZSSC with representatives from industry, NZFSA and other experts undertook the review.
"Listeria monocytogenes is a bacteria that can cause a serious illness called listeriosis," NZFSA specialist advisor Marion Castle says. "Although sickness is rare it can have serious consequences, especially for pregnant women who risk miscarrying or giving birth prematurely."
The Listeria Monitoring Programme for Ready-to-Eat Seafood was developed with two facets; one for long shelf-life products and one for short shelf-life products. "There are inherently different risks associated with products that have a longer shelf-life, and these have been addressed through developing two different monitoring programmes," Marion says.
The new monitoring programmes provide operators with clear direction on sampling frequency, number of samples needed and the steps to take if Listeria is detected in the processing environment or product.
"It is important to understand that finding this organism in the processing environment should not necessarily be seen as a bad thing. In fact, a detection can be a helpful indicator, as it means an operator's looking in the right places and is able to take appropriate steps before the product is contaminated," Marion says.
The revised Listeria Circular was published on May 20, 2010. All ready-to-eat seafood producers who operate under a Risk Management Programme are required to follow the Listeria Monitoring Programme for Ready-to-Eat Seafood by August 20, 2010. The exception is for those who have registered by then an alternative Listeria Monitoring Programme that provides an equivalent outcome as part of their Risk Management Programme.
NZFSA and NZSSC conducted workshops during June in Nelson and Auckland to assist affected producers with the implementation of the new programme and to explain the ideas and practical realities behind the monitoring regimes. Marion says the workshops provided a great opportunity to receive feedback from processors on any difficulties they had encountered so far in implementing the new monitoring programme.
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Hendrick Avercamp (January 27, 1585 (bapt.) - May 15, 1634 (buried)) was a Dutch painter.
Avercamp was born in Amsterdam, where he studied with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks (1569–1625), and perhaps also with David Vinckboons. In 1608 he moved from Amsterdam to Kampen in the province of Overijssel. Avercamp was mute and was known as "de Stomme van Kampen" (the mute of Kampen).
As one of the first landscape painters of the 17th-century Dutch school, he specialized in painting the Netherlands in winter. Avercamp's paintings are colorful and lively, with carefully crafted images of the people in the landscape. Many of Avercamp's paintings feature people ice skating on frozen lakes.
Avercamp's work enjoyed great popularity and he sold his drawings, many of which were tinted with water-color, as finished pictures to be pasted into the albums of collectors. The Royal Collection has an outstanding collection of his works.
Avercamp died in Kampen and was interred there in the Sint Nicolaaskerk.
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Under IFRS 16 'Leases', determining the correct 'lease term' is significant for a number of reasons. Firstly, the longer the lease term, the larger the lessee's right-of-use asset and lease liability will be. Secondly, the length of the lease term determines whether a lease qualifies for the short-term lease exemption. Finally, IFRS 16 contains additional application guidance on how to deal with periods covered by options to extend or terminate a lease. While this detailed guidance can be helpful, it also means there is more to consider when determining the lease term.
In our view, ascertaining the correct lease term is one of the most challenging issues in applying IFRS 16 as it is likely to require a significant level of judgement. 'Lease term' is defined as the non-cancellable period for which a lessee has the right to use an underlying asset (including any periods covered by a lessor's termination option), plus:
- periods covered by a lessee's extension option if extension is reasonably certain; and
- periods covered by a lessee's termination option if the lessee is reasonably certain not to terminate.