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  Biodiversity of Sri Lanka - The Baobab Tree
The baobab is a favourite among elephants in Africa; they eat the leaves, fruits, twigs, trunk, etc. Elephants also pierce the bark with their tusks during drought to tap the water the tree holds inside.
The baobab is not indigenous to Sri Lanka.
The baobab has become a conspicuous component of the coastal biological diversity of Mannar and its ability to adapt to the harsh conditions prevalent in the island is in itself a justification for its conservation.
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  Operation
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 Rail terminology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A baobab tree is a very large tropical tree.
Transit operations are not generally mandated to have event recorders but have begun to add them anyway.
Push-pull : a mode of operation whereby a locomotive-hauled train may be driven with the locomotive at either the front or middle or the back of the train.
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 Probert Encyclopaedia: Computer Viruses (B)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The virus is loaded into memory by executing an infected program and then affects the computer's runtime operation by running the system clock backwards and corrupts program files.
Beagle virus is a family of polymorphic mass-mailing viruses that infect computers using the Windows operating system and use their own built in SMTP engine to spread through emails, sending emails to addresses found in files on the infected computer.
The Baobab 731 Virus is a computer virus which infects.EXE files.
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 Star Wars: Databank | Baobab, Mungo
The Baobab Merchant Fleet once had a sterling reputation as one of the most reliable shippers, and the Baobab Archives are considered extensive and authoritative.
Baobab hoped to establish a trade route between the Baobab homeworld of Manda and Roon, replenishing the Baobab coffers.
Inside its crystalline structure was encoded the earliest known text of Dha Werda Verda, an epic poem that predated the formation of the Republic and the colonization of Coruscant.
www.starwars.com /databank/character/mungobaobab/index.html   (1200 words)

  
 Delta Green - Campaign - Order of Battle - Special Air Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Operations in France consisted of two types: the first were small-scale tactical missions carried out for the 21st Army Group to cut enemy communications in rear areas or to provide intelligence.
Operation GAFF was planned to kill or capture Field Marshall Rommel at his HQ at La Roche Guyon at the end of July 1944.
Operation PISTOL was 2 SAS's last mission in France, and its aim was to disrupt rail communications from Metz and Nancy to the Rhine plain.
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 Feast, Famine and Farming - NI 108 - Nipped by the Bud
Baobab trees in the arid Senegal countryside: uprooted for vegetable exports.
This was a high-technology operation using drip-irrigation to produce melons, green beans, green peppers and tomatoes.
The long-term effects of drip-irrigation were not studied beforehand and the whole operation was essentially competing with other parts of the country for scarce fresh water.
www.newint.org /issue108/nipped.htm   (1291 words)

  
 The Baobab, a caliban of a tree
Of the eight species the African baobab is by far the best known and documented, while the available literature on the other seven species suggest they all have similar attributes, their lack of utilisation reflecting an absence of need due to the availability of other more suitable resources.
With hindsight such operation was unnecessary because after Kariba Lake filled, “all the unfelled baobabs promptly floated to the surface as dead as dodos”.
In the village there was a magnificent baobab beneath whose shade the men would sit and talk during the day and where, in the evening, the women would bring trays of sweetmeats and other delicacies for sale in the twinkling light of numerous oil lamps constructed from small condensed milk tins.
www.baobabfruitco.com /Eng/TheBaobabTree.htm   (2382 words)

  
 BAOBAB Tree
I feel that sharing Baobab with development practitioners the world over spreads the enlightenment and energy we have shared in developing it, and that this will impact positively on those who work to inspire the disadvantaged and suffering to make the most of their potentials and conquer their problems.
Baobab is a tree, it is alive, with branching that grows.
Baobab trees shed their leaves in the dry season to reduce evaporation, producing the root-like branch effect.
www.baobab-ct.org /baobab.htm   (2316 words)

  
 HOME
Baobab was established as a hedge fund because it is the cheapest formal investment structure.
Baobab makes long-term investments in companies with a proven track record that are selling at a discount to their intrinsic value.
Baobab also does not invest in countries like Argentina, Mozambique, Indonesia or other developing countries that have an unstable or depreciating currency because we hate surprises and prefer to swim with the tide rather than against it.
www.baobabglobalfund.com /Home.htm   (2309 words)

  
 Koong - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki
Only when Screed himself arrived to observe Koong's operation, did Koong realize he had been tricked and Baobab and his droids, R2-D2 and C-3PO, were arrested.
Baobab managed to escape, inflicting damage to the lighstation and causing it to crash into an asteroid.
Baobab made a deal to exchange the cure and the location of the Roonstone treasure for his ship and Koong's promise to leave Umboo alone.
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 archive_news
He pointed out the importance of using farming methods and technologies adapted to the dry coastal climate, as they are shown at Baobab Trust and he thanked the Trust for offering the Training programmes to the farmers and the good co-operation of the Trust and the Ministry of Agriculture.
Baobab Trust would like to thank the staff of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Livestock and all those who attended.
Baobab Trust's Nguuni Nature Sanctuary was featured in an article written by Neta Peal of Mombasa's Local Newspaper: Coastweek, Neta comments on the beauty of the area and its benefits for wildlife, tourists and local communities alike.
www.thebaobabtrust.com /news2archive.htm   (1323 words)

  
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Among the items were various turbines and generators with weights up to 371 mt. During the loading operation the stowage puzzle was diligently assembled in the vessel's holds; a full ship then made her way across the high seas to safely deliver her precious cargoes.
The reverse roro operation was successfully carried out in New Orleans where the living quarter was unloaded onto a barge to be taken out in to the Gulf of Mexico for offshore installation.
The loading involved a special sequence of loading operations due to the size and the shape of the pieces, the heaviest of which was a gantry of 973 mt, which dimensions measured a full 36m wide by 31m long by 37m high.
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 Special Operations.Com
Baobab - One of a series of raids conducted by 2 SAS and designed to sever strategic railway lines used to transport German supplies.
Regent - Large operation involving the entire Belgian Independent Parachute Company (5 SAS) tasked with supporting British armored units in preventing a German breakthrough in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge.
Thunderball (later renamed Operation Yonatan) - Israeli special operations personnel from Sayeret Mat'kal, Sayeret Golani and Sayeret Tzanhanim deploy by C-130 to Entebbe Airport in Uganda to effect the rescue of Jewish and Israeli hostages.
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 Operation Blessing International - Disaster Relief
The Baobab is a massive tree, sometimes 30’ in diameter, which rises majestically over the desert.
Despite scarcity of water, Baobab trees are said to survive for as long as 2,000 years.
Operation Blessing is a non-profit 501 (c) (3).
www.ob.org /programs/disaster_relief/news/2007/dr_2007_0209_darfurblog_Al_Shereif.asp   (904 words)

  
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The attached information should be included in the Register of Operations which Breed Specimens of Species Included in Appendix I in Captivity for Commercial Purposes, attached to Notification to the Parties No. 568 of 31 January 1990 and amended subsequently.
However, in order to follow the practice described in paragraph 6 of Notification to the Parties No. 568 of 31 January 1990, the Secretariat is maintaining in the Register the operations of Parties whose populations of the species concerned were in Appendix I but were transferred to Appendix II subject to export quotas.
Operations listed in this Register may be entitled to the exemption provided by Article VII, paragraph 4, of the Convention.
www.cites.org /eng/notif/1993/732.txt   (401 words)

  
 Pge S.A.S BRIGADE
Operations in France consisted of two types: the first were small-scale tactical missions carried out for the 21st Army Group to cut enemy communications in rear areas or to provide intelligence.
Operations SWAN and DEFOE were intelligence gathering operations in Normandy, but both were quickly overrun by the Allies.
Operation GAFF was planned to kill or capture Field Marshall Rommel at his HQ at La Roche Guyon at the end of July 1944.
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 IBN : Whitley Neill
Baobab seeds are also roasted and used as a coffee substitute in rural areas.
This is a complete operation like malt whisky rather than the continuous running of the stills as in the production of grain whisky or cheaper, less premium Gins.
This is a gin with a difference, smooth and smokey - the nine botanicals (including the cape gooseberry and Baobab) add a delicious fruitiness to the clear drink.
www.internationalbeveragenetwork.com /SpecialReport/WhitleyGin   (494 words)

  
 Africa Recovery/UN/13#2-3.Baobab tree
The motor is mounted on a heavy horizontal metal frame whose rigidity provides stability during operation and permits the platform to be moved around.
Because the platform relies on readily available technology, the most modern of which is from the 1930s, local artisans have no difficulty in fixing and maintaining it.
Each village is asked to select and train a group of women to operate and manage the platforms, including the sale of the services.
www.un.org /ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/vol13no2/38baobab.htm   (579 words)

  
 WFP - Southern Africa
The operation targets five districts which were badly hit by crop failure in 2001.
WFP Response: WFP is currently providing food aid to some 191,000 people under its flood 2000 recovery operation; this was recently extended to allow the Agency to keep helping a population that once again finds itself at the mercy of a natural disaster.
Others are surviving off the fruit of baobab trees or eating so-called famine foods such as wild cucumbers and a boiled root mix.
www.wfp.org /newsroom/in_depth/southern_africa_unfolding_crisis.html   (1740 words)

  
 The Probert Encyclopaedia - Computer Viruses (A-C)
The virus is loaded into memory by executing an infected program and then affects the computer's runtime operation and corrupts program or overlay files and data files.
The virus is loaded into memory by booting from an infected disk and then affects the computer's runtime operation by displaying ''This is Aircop'' in blinking white EVERY time the disk is accessed during the month of September.
The virus is loaded into memory by booting from an infected disk and then affects the computer's runtime operation and corrupts program or overlay files and data files.
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 REHABILITATION OF DISUSED LIMESTONE QUARRIES THROUGH REFORESTATION
An agronomist, hired by the company to farm some of its lands to produce a continuous supply of food for the company's employees, was given charge of restoring the quarries' wastelands.
Consequently, a food producing subsidiary, the Baobab Farm Ltd., was founded and became the driving force in the quarry rehabilitation scheme.
For instance, Casuarina propagation and husbandry technologies perfected at the Baobab Farm are now being used elsewhere to grow Casuarina as poles for the building industry.
www.worldbank.org /afr/afr_for/interim/skenya-1.htm   (732 words)

  
 Resource Investor - Base Metals - Petmin to Raise $7M, Lists on AIM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Baobab has an effective 50% interest in the Baobab Joint Venture, which holds greenfields exploration tenements over soft coking and steam coal deposits near Musina in South Africa’s Limpopo Province.
Baobab was acquired as part of the acquisition by Petmin of Springlake Holdings in November 2005.
The disposal of Baobab is in line with Petmin’s strategy to focus on cash- or near cash-producing assets.
www.resourceinvestor.com /pebble.asp?relid=27323   (560 words)

  
 Definition of operation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process -- a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"
, military operation -- activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign); "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force"
, cognitive operation -- the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"
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 baobab - OneLook Dictionary Search
baobab : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Phrases that include baobab: australian baobab, baobab college, operation baobab, orchestra baobab, orchestre baobab, more...
Words similar to baobab: adansonia digitata, monkey-bread tree, more...
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 Activities: ALIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Baobab is the forum where members exchange their experiences on development approaches as a way of learning from one another.
New ideas are discussed and draft articles for Baobab journal are commissioned to facilitate a two-way flow of information between the secretariat and the members.
An important way of helping CDWs to share their experience in a direct and practical manner is through visits that expose them to what others are doing.
cnrit.tamu.edu /aflews/alin/data/activities.html   (381 words)

  
 PROFILE: Marco Senghor / In Senegal, he was expected to live up to his famous relatives, but in the U.S., he's made a ...
In San Francisco, Senghor had started a ginger juice business, and in five years it had grown from a part-time word-of-mouth operation that he could run from his kitchen while attending Golden Gate University to an enterprise that demanded making 4,000 bottles a week and delivering them to 85 businesses around the Bay Area.
Senghor was quickly making friends in the restaurant and arts community, including singer Michael Franti, who in May of 1999 recorded an album there, "Live at the Baobab." When Franti and Senghor get together, they talk about their lives, music, activism and the Mission District community that Senghor is now deeply part of.
At his table in the front of Bissap Baobab, as he hears those words for the first time, Marco Senghor smiles and shakes his head.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/09/25/DD78721.DTL&type=printable   (2303 words)

  
 IRAQ: US terrorises civilians
Operation Iron Hammer (centred on Baghdad) and Operation Ivy Cyclone II (Tikrit to Kirkuk) were launched in response to the downing of a US Chinook transport helicopter and a Black Hawk helicopter in early November.
The latest operations are motivated by the original intentions of the “shock and awe” terror onslaught that Washington had initially planned for the invasion of Iraq.
In addition to propaganda designed to mislead Vietnamese into thinking that the national liberation forces were on the verge of defeat, the CORDS program involved the destruction of entire Vietnamese villages and the creation of a police system “to create a climate of absolute terror”.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/2003/563/563p14.htm   (1541 words)

  
 KENYA REPORT OF THE PREPARATORY ASSISTANCE MISSION
The Baobab Farm, near Mombasa, actually produces 25 t/yr of tilapia and 0.5 million fingerlings, using a highly intensive tank system.
As a result, the actual fish yield cropped from the existing large-scale farms may be estimated at 125 t/yr, of which trout contribute 75 – 100 t.
One modest large-scale fish farm is operated by the Kaimosi Tea Estate (Kakamega District), using sheep manure and vegetable feeds in 0.2 ha ponds, to produce tilapia for local labourers (Table 17).
www.fao.org /docrep/field/003/P8766E/P8766E04.htm   (2287 words)

  
 DSA - Design South Africa :: Association of Professional Designers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This toaster concept differs from conventional designs firstly in the manner of toast ejection whereby toast is released via a trap door, placing the toast onto a plate below the unit.
Secondly a rotating mounting bracket allows for wall mounted or stand alone operation and compact storage when not in use.
Baobab is saturated in textures, from the cement flooring with pebble insets, to the roughly, plastered walls of the alcove seating areas.
www.dsa.org.za   (428 words)

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