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Dates are ... displayed beneath the Author's name when one performs a Canon Search. Arabic numerals in cardinal form indicate the century of an author's floruit. Information regarding dates is drawn from a variety of sources, including the standard lexica, biographical dictionaries, encyclopedias, and literary histories, as well as modern publications that address specific chronological problems.
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Some high-quality dates are picked individually by hand, but most are harvested by cutting off the entire cluster. In North Africa, the harvesters climb the palms, use forked sticks or ropes to lower the fruit clusters, or they may pass the clusters carefully down from hand to hand. Growers in California and Saudi Arabia use various mechanized means to expedite harvesting—saddles, extension ladders, or mobile steel towers with catwalks for pickers. All fruits in a cluster and all clusters on a palm do not ripen at the same time. A number of pickings may have to be made over a period of several weeks. In the Coachella Valley, dates ripen from late September through December and there are 6 to 8 pickings per palm.
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Sears Gift Cards Are Good for Life HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Just in time for last-minute holiday shoppers, Sears (NYSE: S) today announced it is eliminating expiration dates from all Sears gift cards issued beginning tomorrow. "Sears customers have told us they want gift cards without fees or expiration dates," said Kris Crow, vice president of customer relationship management for Sears, Roebuck and Co. "While other retailers charge fees and enforce expiration dates, Sears has never attached maintenance fees to its gift cards and now our gift cards never expire." Previously, Sears gift cards generally expired two years from the date of purchase. "Gift cards have been very popular this holiday season, and now there is another reason for Sears shoppers to purchase a gift card for family and friends," Crow said. Sears gift cards can be purchased in increments of $5-$500 and can be redeemed at all Sears store locations. About Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co. is a leading broadline retailer providing merchandise and related services.
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The economy around dates is often diversified, as the ground between the palms trees is used for many other plants. However, dates are the main produce and serve as the principal basis for a barter economy, as well as for sales to cities or to export markets.
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Soft dates may be picked early while they are still light colored. Semi dry dates may be picked as soon as they are soft and then ripened artificially at temperatures of 80° to 95°F (26.67°-35°C), depending on the cultivar. Dry dates may be left on the palm until they are fully ripe. Dry dates that have become too dehydrated and hardened on the palm are rehydrated by soaking in cold, tepid or hot water, or by exposure to steam or a humid atmosphere. Extremely dry weather will cause dates to shrivel on the palm. In the Sudan, the fruits are picked when just mature and then are ripened in jars to prevent so much loss of moisture.
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Julian dates (abbreviated JD) are simply a continuous count of days and fractions since noon Universal Time on January 1, 4713 BCE (on the Julian calendar). Almost 2.5 million days have transpired since this date. Julian dates are widely used as time variables within astronomical software. Typically, a 64-bit floating point (double precision) variable can represent an epoch expressed as a Julian date to about 1 millisecond precision. Note that the time scale that is the basis for Julian dates is Universal Time, and that 0h UT corresponds to a Julian date fraction of 0.5.
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