Law of Similarity: Overview & Examples
Instructor: Orin Davis
Psychologists use the Law of Similarity to understand behavior. Learn the Law of Similarity, which is the tendency to link similar items into a distinct group, and see examples of how it affects you every day.
Definition of the Law of Similarity
Have you ever walked down a busy street on a summer day and heard the music coming out of the cars with open windows? You are probably hearing multiple songs at once, and yet you are able to identify each of them and not get lost in the ocean of sound. Within each song, the series of notes is connected more closely than it is to the notes of any of the other songs, and it is this similarity that allows you to pick out the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, and Barbara Streisand all at the same time. The fact that we link things that are similar and treat them like a distinct group is the Law of Similarity. Psychologists use the Law of Similarity to understand behavior.
Examples of the Law of Similarity
To really understand how the Law of Similarity works, let's look at a few examples.
Example 1
Take a look at the letters below:
h h h h h h h h h h
q q q q q q q q q q
n n n n n n n n n n
p p p p p p p p p p
You would probably describe what you see as four rows of letters instead of ten columns of letters, because we tend to group similar things into whole sets - that's the Law of Similarity.
Example 2
What shape do you see in this picture?
ASCII Smiley
If you look closely, you will see that the smiley face is made of individual characters. We are able to see each of the eyes and the mouth because they are made of similar characters that we combine in our minds using the Law of the Similarity. While the light and dark contrasts help, we would be able to see the smiley face as long as the characters that make up the eyes are all the same but also distinct from the characters that make up the background. That way, we can group the characters using the Law of Similarity and distinguish them as eyes that are separate from the background of the face.
The Law of Similarity is a Gestalt Rule
The Law of Similarity is one of the rules that comes from Gestalt Psychology ('gesh-TAHLT'; German for 'whole'), which is about how human beings perceive wholes. Gestalt Psychology describes how a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Take a look at Example 3 to see for yourself.
Example 3
Here are four lines:
Four Lines
Here are four more lines:
Four lines in a square
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The design principle of hotel bathroom
Regardless of which hotel or level, toilets are indispensable, but what size of toilet is appropriate? What are the main points of device placement? The editor below summarizes a few little knowledge about hotel bathrooms based on what I know. I hope I can help you much.
1. The bathroom has good waterproof, drainage, and slip resistance, and needs to be neat and beautiful;
2, 3 square meters is the minimum area of the bathroom, just now you can organize the sink, toilet and bathing equipment;
3. Nowadays, most of the floor of the hotel bathroom is paved with moisture-proof floor tiles. Its operation is relatively convenient. First, the cement floor is chiseled and washed, the floating ash is swept away, and a layer of 1:2 cement mortar is spread with some construction glue., The cement mortar should be smoothed as much as possible, and then the floor tiles can be attached;
4. When choosing sanitary ware for a bathroom with a size of 3 square meters, it is necessary to consider leaving a certain amount of space for activities. Washing tables and toilets are recommended to be delicate; the shower should be set close to the corner, and the shower can use a straight shower board or Simple shower. In addition, the bathroom mirror can be used to achieve the visual effect of expanding a small space;
5. Minimal objects should be placed in the bathroom as little as possible. A variety of small layouts will make the small bathroom more congested and messy. The shower method is more convenient than the bathtub. Generally, glass or shower curtains can be used to partition the corner of the bathroom as a shower room, but the shower room is not recommended. Less than 0.8m×0.8m, otherwise it is inconvenient to turn around. Bathrooms often have one or two walls without sanitary ware or other items. For this, you can choose a piece of furniture that can reasonably use the corner space according to the width of the wall, such as storage Cabinet, can store all the loose bathroom supplies in it. The mirror surface of the bathroom cabinet can be set on the storage cabinet, and the space under the basin can be used to make storage space;
6. When installing mirror headlights, pay attention to prevent glare. It is recommended to install lampshades, or choose lamps with frosted glass exterior. Mirror height: Generally, it is better to keep the center of the mirror 160-165 cm above the ground. The mirror in the bathroom is recommended to be framed. If it is not framed, it needs to be sealed and waterproof. When installing, be careful not to damage the wall, especially hang a mirror on the tiled wall, and try to choose to punch holes at the joints of the materials. In addition to installing ordinary mirrors, it is recommended to install a stretchable magnifying glass above the washbasin. When taking a bath, the mirror in the bathroom is vaguely smoked by the steam. You can apply soap to the mirror surface, and then wipe it with a dry cloth to prevent the mirror surface from being vague. The dirt on the mirror can be scrubbed with a soft cloth or gauze dipped in some kerosene or wax, but do not scrub with a wet cloth, otherwise the mirror surface will be blurred and the glass will be easily corroded.


Wonnangatta Station
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All that remains today of the Wonnangatta Station homestead. The stones outline the original floorplan.
Wonnangatta Station is located in Victoria
Wonnangatta Station
Wonnangatta Station
Wonnangatta Station location
The Wonnangatta Station was a cattle station located in a remote valley of the Victorian Alps, Australia. According to writer Harry Stephenson the station, while it operated, was "the most isolated homestead in Victoria." [1][2]
The nearest population centres were the goldfield towns of Talbotville, about 20 miles (32 km) away, Grant and Dargo to the south-east, and the larger town of Mansfield, about 80 miles (130 km) away over the Great Dividing Range.
The Wonnangatta Station homestead was accidentally burnt down by bushwalkers in 1957. Some stockyards and the old cemetery, which has been restored to something resembling its original form, survive. Today the area is part of the Alpine National Park, and is only accessible by Four-wheel drive, dirt bike, horse or on foot. The station remains a popular offroad destination and has numerous facilities for campers, including septic toilets and concrete fire pits.
The station had been established in the 1860s by Oliver Smith, a North American who came across the valley while prospecting for gold. Smith's common law wife Ellen or "Nancy"[3] and her son Harry joined him and a homestead was built near the junction of the Wonnangatta River and Conglomerate Creek.[4]
Some time later Ellen died in childbirth,[5] and soon after Smith sold out to William Bryce before eventually returning to the United States.
The Bryce family then occupied the station while Ellen's son Harry Smith moved down the valley and established himself at Eaglevale. The Bryce family remained a presence at Wonnangatta until Mrs Bryce died in 1914 at the age of 78. Ten Bryce children were brought up at Wonnangatta. As the children grew up they moved away and after Mrs Bryce's death the property was sold to Mansfield owners in 1916, who installed a manager to run the station.
The Wonnangatta Murders[edit]
The station and surrounding area are the site of the still-unsolved Wonnangatta murders which occurred in late 1917 and 1918.
See also[edit]
 1. ^ Stephenson, Harry (1980) Cattlemen and Huts of the High Plains. p. 69. Graphic Books, Armidale, Victoria, Australia ISBN 0-949847-00-3
 2. ^ Homestead location 37°12′29″S 146°49′50″E / 37.207950°S 146.830665°E / -37.207950; 146.830665.
 3. ^ Mortimer, Wallace. (1980) The History of Wonnangatta Station. p.10-11, Spectrum Publications, Richmond, Australia ISBN 0-909837-90-2.
 4. ^ Stephenson, Harry (1980) p.57
 5. ^ Stephenson dates this event as 1866, Mortimer as 1873. Her headstone at the station cemetery is apparently indecipherable
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Coordinates: 37°12′30″S 146°49′52″E / 37.20833°S 146.83111°E / -37.20833; 146.83111


Aquarius Temporary Tattoo
Aquarius temporary tattoos represent the zodiac eleventh sign symbolized by water bearer. Mostly, Aquarius is depicted as a pot that is spilling water or water alone. The water is usually presented with two horizontal zigzag lines piled on each other. Sometimes, the two lines feature the stars around them to denote an Aquarius constellation design. Furthermore, the water bearer is usually presented as a woman or a man carrying a pot of water.


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Study shows yoga is effective at reducing anger, decreasing violence and producing strong, self-confident students.
Bullying and violence are a major problem in schools and among youth. This interview focuses on how yoga-based techniques are proving effective in bully proofing our children and classrooms.
Dee Marie, of Calming Kids Yoga, will share her ground-breaking program that teaches yoga and conflict management skills to youth giving them the skills needed to be calm and compassionate, strong and resilient. We'll also discuss the Harvard study results of the program. Also joining us is Cheryl Crawford (Grounded), with the program Quest for Elevation which is used in schools to teach yoga based techniques to combat bullying.
Find out how yoga can empower your children and stop bullying.
Enjoy this Shanti Generation video of teens talking about how yoga helps counter bullying.
Thanks to all who work to bring yoga based techniques into schools. As Dee mentions the number one anti-bullying skill yoga teaches youth is awareness. As children/teens become more aware of their body, their emotions, their words and their environment, they can make decisions and take action based on the yoga principle of Ahimsa: kindness to self and others.
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Debugging Server Starts
If a server isn't starting, the first thing to run is the server log command. It will show you the console log for that server. Note, this dumps the entire log file to the console, which may be very large. We recommend using the tail or --follow tricks below.
server log
server log serverName
Tailing and Following logs
If the log is very large, use the tail command to just see the last few lines of it.
server log | tail
server log | tail lines=100
To get a live stream of the console log from a running server, use the --follow flag and the command will continue streaming new lines to the console until you press Ctrl-C to stop.
server log --follow
You can also look at your server's access log (if enabled) and rewrite log (if enabled).
server log --follow -access
server log --follow --rewrite
Start server in console mode
You can use the --console flag to the server start command to start a server in the foreground. The console log will be live-streamed to the CLI and the log will continue streaming as long as the server is running. Press Ctrl-C to stop the server and stop streaming the log file.
server start --console
Debug Logging
You can get additional information about a server start with the --debug flag. When debug is set, the start command will not exit immediately, but wait for the server to come up and live stream the debugging information and server logs to the console while the server is coming up.
server start --debug
server start --debug --console
Maximum logging! (trace)
You may still really be having issues getting your server to start up correctly due to a setting not getting picked up, rewrites not working, or maybe a jar not loading. You can "drink from the firehose" so to speak by turning on trace level logging. This works best when starting the server via the console so you can watch the logging as it streams past.
server start --trace --console


text: The radiation and propagation of sound energy is represented by time-dependent instantaneous intensity. The concept of sound energy particles and their trajectories is discussed. The time-averaged flux of acoustic energy is represented by acoustic intensity. When measuring sound power radiation the knowledge of intensity fields is important for the selection of measurement points to achieve the desired precision of sound power determination. The near-field intensity of typical sound radiators is shown and the issues of sound power measurements are discussed.

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Finite solvable-extensible implies class-preserving
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This article gives the statement and possibly, proof, of an implication relation between two subgroup properties. That is, it states that every subgroup satisfying the first subgroup property (i.e., Hall-extensible automorphism) must also satisfy the second subgroup property (i.e., class-preserving automorphism)
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Any finite solvable-extensible automorphism of a finite solvable group is a class-preserving automorphism.
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Finite solvable-extensible automorphism
Further information: Finite solvable-extensible automorphism
An automorphism \sigma of a finite solvable group G is termed finite solvable-extensible if, for any finite solvable group H containing G, there is an automorphism \sigma' of H whose restriction to G equals \sigma.
Class-preserving automorphism
Further information: Class-preserving automorphism
An automorphism \sigma of a finite group G is termed class-preserving if it sends every element to a conjugate element.
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Stronger facts
Other facts proved using the same method
Facts used
 1. Finite solvable-extensible implies semidirectly extensible for representation over finite field of coprime characteristic
 2. Semidirectly extensible implies linearly pushforwardable for representation over prime field
 3. Linearly pushforwardable implies class-preesrving for class-separating field
 4. Every finite group admits a sufficiently large finite prime field
 5. Sufficiently large implies splitting, Splitting implies character-separating, Character-separating implies class-separating
Facts (1) and (2) combine to yield that any finite solvable-extensible automorphism is linearly pushforwardable over a finite prime field where the prime does not divide the order of the group, and fact (3) yields that if the field chosen is a class-separating field for the group, then the automorphism is class-preserving. Thus, we need to show that for every finite group, there exists a prime field with the prime not dividing the order of the group, such that the field is a class-separating field for the group. This is achieved by facts (4) and (5).


Preparing to hot-add SAS disk shelves
Preparing to hot-add a SAS disk shelf involves downloading documents as well as the disk drive and disk shelf firmware.
Before you begin
Note: A mix of IOM12 modules and IOM6 modules is supported within the same stack if your system is running a supported version of ONTAP. To establish whether your version of ONTAP supports shelf mixing, refer to the Interoperability Matrix Tool (IMT).NetApp Interoperability If your version of ONTAP is not supported and you cannot upgrade or downgrade the IOM modules on the existing stack or the new shelf that is to be added to a supported combination of IOM modules, you need to do one of the following:
 - Start a new stack on a new SAS port (if supported by the bridge-pair).
 - Start a new stack on an additional bridge-pair.
 1. Download or view the following documents from the NetApp Support Site:
 2. Verify that the disk shelf you are hot-adding is supported.
 3. Download the latest disk and disk shelf firmware:
 Note: In this step, you are only completing the download portion of the instructions provided in the links. You need to follow the steps found in the Hot-adding a disk shelf section for installing the disk shelf.
 1. Download the disk firmware and make a copy of the disk firmware instructions for reference later.
 2. Download the disk shelf firmware and make a copy of the disk shelf firmware instructions for reference later.


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Luomala, Harri (2004) Exploring origin of food as a source of meanings for Finnish consumers: A qualitative comparison of meanings in Swedish, German and French food. In: Report from NJF seminar 366, Nordic Association of Agricultural Scientists, pp. 53-55.
The findings show that Finnish consumers attach partly overlapping partly distinct cognitive, affective, and normative meanings to Swedish, German, and French food. Swedish and French foods are perceived healthier than German food. Finnish consumers also think that Swedish and French food is of high quality, safe and pure while in the case of German food consumers were more doubtful.
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This paper will give a view on the present situation (Autumn 2005) of the Identity Management (IM) of the Hungarian Minorities' Cultural Societies in the Croatian Slovenija/Baranya and the Lendava area in Slovenia at the border between Slovenia and Hungary.
The Hungarian ethnic group is not an enclave in Croatia and Slovenia, but a group of mixed culture. There is mutuality between the autochthonous Hungarian minority and the majority population in these countries. There are even mixed marriages. People are bilinguals.
The main focus will be on the present mechanism(s) of self organisation (IM from the inside) on the one hand, and how organisations link to the Slovenian, Croatian und Hungarian governments (IM from the outside) on the other hand. It further will be shown how these associations express and trully represent the identity as well as the cultural needs of the minority.
This paper will compare these two above named areas, show differences and similarities from an ethnological point of view.


text: Independence diagrams are a graphical way of expressing the conditional independence relationships among a set of random variables. They cannot encode every possible form of conditional independence but they go a long way toward this end. They are also called ''Bayesian networks,'' which unfortunately suggests inappropriate comparisons to neural networks. This paper discusses how to read and write independence diagrams. The presentation is based on Pearl (1988).


System Administration Guide: Network Services
ProcedureHow to Create Messages to Be Sent to Users
After the user is logged in, system-related or application-related messages are displayed on screen. The ftpaccess file lists the events that trigger associated message statements.
 1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.
 2. Add the following entries to the ftpaccess file:
 message message-file [when [class...]]
 Keyword that is used to specify the message file to be displayed when a user logs in or executes the command to change the working directory.
 Name of the message file to be displayed.
Example 28–10 Creating Messages to Be Sent to Users
message /etc/ftpd/Welcome login anon guest
message .message cwd=*
The preceding example states that the file /etc/ftpd/Welcome is displayed at login for users of the class anon or guest. The second line states that the.message file in the current working directory is displayed for all users.
Message files are created relative to the chroot directory for guest and anonymous users.


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|The Victoria & Albert Museum|
This delicate jewel of marine coral and African gold depicts intricately carved flowers emerging from a woven basket. This sort of naturalistic jewelry became especially popular in the mid-Nineteenth Century, especially in Italy where this bracelet was made. Coral's softness allowed for easy carving, but it could also be used in its natural form, taking advantage of the appeal of its natural branches in styles reminiscent of those from Asia and Africa.
Most of the coral used in Europe came from the sea near Naples, Italy, and the medium quickly became a favorite symbol of world travel around 1815.


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OpenCV SURF implementation returns a sequence of 64/128 32 bit float values (descriptor) for each feature point found in the image. Is there a way to normalize this float values and take them to an integer scale (for example, [0, 255])?. That would save important space (1 or 2 bytes per value, instead of 4). Besides, the conversion should ensure that the descriptors remain meaningful for other uses, such as clustering.
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There are other feature extractors than SURF. The BRIEF extractor uses only 32 bytes per descriptor. It uses 32 unsigned bytes [0-255] as its elements. You can create one like this:
Ptr ptrExtractor = DescriptorExtractor::create("BRIEF");
Be aware that a lot of image processing routines in OpenCV need or assume that the data is stored as floating-point numbers.
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You can treat the float features as an ordinary image (Mat or cvmat) and then use cv::normalize(). Another option is using cv::norm() to find the range of descriptor values and then cv::convertTo() to convert to CV_8U. Look up the OpenCV documentation for these functions.
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Roads to the Unconscious: A Manual For Understanding Road Drawings
Roads to the Unconscious is a book not only for art therapists, psychologists, social workers, counselors and mental health professionals but for all individuals eager to use the image-making process for self-discovery and personal growth.
The author explains how road drawings are capable of eliciting impromptu imagery that represents the person's origins, the history of his or her life process, experiences to date and intent for the future - even from a single drawing. In addition, the periodic upgrade and reparation of the road can serve as a metaphor for the person's capacity for change and reparation.
Based on psychodynamic principles, the focus is on insight gained through the image-making process. The road drawing technique permits access to inner alleys of the unconscious whereupon the person can familiarize and reintegrate these severed and unfamiliar pathways. This book provides an overview of the theoretical principles and rationale for the road drawing technique, as well as simple directions for administering the task. The author includes illustrations that demonstrate how the technique can be used to elicit graphic representation of the person's "road of life" and serve as a metaphor for the person's capacity for change and restoration.


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Bentonite, commonly used for liner constructions in waste containment systems, possesses many limitations. Illite or illite containing bentonite has been proposed as an alternative material for liner construction. Their properties in different types of pore fluids are important to assess the long-term performance of the liner. Further, the illite-bentonite interaction occurs and changes their properties. The effect of these interactions is known when the pore fluid is only water. How their properties are modified in electrolyte solutions has been brought out in this paper. The index properties have been studied since they give an indication of their engineering properties. Due to reduction in the thickness of the diffused double layer and consequent particle aggregation in bentonite, the effect of clay-clay interaction reduces in electrolyte solutions. In electrolyte solutions, the liquid limit, the plasticity index, and free swell index of bentonite are lower than illite. The plasticity index of bentonite is further reduced in KCl solution. Clays with a higher plasticity index perform better to retain pollutants and reduce permeability. Hence, the presence of both illite and bentonite ensures better performance of the liner in different fluids.


Ordering Browser Tabs Chronologically to Support Task Continuity
Product teams working on Firefox at Mozilla have long been interested in helping people get things done, whether that's completing homework for school, shopping for a pair of shoes, or doing one's taxes. We are deeply invested in how we can support task continuity, the various steps that people take in getting things done, in our browser products. And we know that in our browsers, tabs play an important role for people carrying out tasks.
Task continuity model
In 2015, Firefox researchers Gemma Petrie and Bill Selman developed a model to explain different types of task continuity strategies, which are represented in the middle of the diagram below.
Task continuity model diagram
Passive strategies include behaviors like leaving a tab open, such as a page for a product that one is considering purchasing. Active strategies include actions like emailing a link, for example a link to a recipe to cook at a later time, to oneself. Share strategies might involve using social media to share content, such as a news article, with other people.
Fast forward to this year and the team working on Firefox for iOS was interested in how we might support task continuity involving leaving tabs open. We continued to see in user research the important role that tabs play in task continuity, and we wanted to explore how to make tab retrieval and overall tab management easier.
In most web browsers on smartphones, tabs are ordered based on when a person first opened them, with the oldest tabs on one end of the interface (top, bottom, left, or right) and the newest tabs stacking to the opposite end of the interface. This ordering logic gets more complex if a new tab is prompted to open when someone taps on a link in an existing tab. A site may be designed to launch links in new tabs or a person may choose to open new tabs for links. The new tab, in that case, typically will open immediately next to the tab where the link was tapped, pushing all other later tabs toward the other end of the interface. All of this gets even trickier when managing more than just a few tabs. This brief demonstration illustrates tab ordering logic in Firefox for iOS before chronological tabs using the example of someone shopping for a food processor.
Based on a trove of user research, the iOS team raised the following question:
Would ordering tabs chronologically in Firefox for iOS make it easier for people to stay organized and feel more in control of their tabs?
The team conducted user research, led by Elisabeth Klann, in April of this year to understand current tab behaviors and to evaluate a basic prototype of the concept of chronological tabs.
A screenshot of the prototype used for the concept evaluation in April 2020, showing a fictional set of open tabs in Firefox for iOS
We recruited 10 adult participants in the US, half of whom were already using Firefox for iOS and half of whom used either Safari or Chrome as their main browser on their iPhone.
What we learned from the first round of user research
From asking participants about their existing behaviors with browser tabs on their phones, the Firefox for iOS team was pleasantly surprised to hear participants describe the order of their tabs in terms of time. Participants fell into three categories in terms of their tab habits:
 - "I keep it clean" when the participant generally tried to avoid clutter and closed individual tabs often
 - "I keep forgetting" when the participant was not conscious of accumulating tabs and typically closed tabs in batches when the experience became cumbersome
 - "I keep tabs open for reference…short term" when the participant was more strategic in leaving tabs open for a few sessions until a task was complete
All participants were able to discern the chronological ordering of tabs in the prototype and reported that the ordering was helpful, particularly the chronological ordering of the most recent tabs. It was important to participants that they be able to delete single tabs and batches of tabs, and we identified an opportunity for making batch deletion more discoverable in the UI. Following this round of user research, the team made numerous changes to the tab design, led by Nicole Weber, which were incorporated into a beta build of Firefox for iOS.
Tab date stamps before and after the concept evaluation
One change made after the concept evaluation was to attach dates to the "Today" and "Yesterday" categories of open tabs and to change the "Older" label to the more specific "Last Week."
Delete tab functionality before and after the concept evaluation
Another change made after the concept evaluation was to make the functionality for deleting a tab easier to access.
Continuing to learn with a beta build in a diary study
With the beta build, an early version of Firefox for iOS with chronological tabs and only available to research participants, the Mozilla team wanted to do another round of user research to understand the perceptions and utility of chronological tabs, this time in the real-world context with participants using their own devices rather than the pre-designed tabs of a prototype. We recruited 10 new participants, adults in Canada and the US and again a mix of people already using Firefox on their iPhones and people using other browsers.
Participants used the beta build of Firefox for iOS with chronological tabs as their primary iPhone browser for three days and answered a brief survey at the end of each of those days about their experience moving between web pages and of Firefox overall. Survey questions included:
 - Did you use Firefox Beta to visit more than one web page today?
 - Thinking about when you moved between tabs you were using today, was there anything particularly easy, difficult, and/or confusing about that?
 - Did you revisit any tabs from yesterday or before yesterday? If so, can you please describe what you were doing and what it was like to revisit that older tab?
After three days, we interviewed participants to discuss their survey responses and overall experience with chronological tabs.
From the second round of user research, we learned that while the chronological order of tabs did not seem to break any workflows, it was the overall design of the tabs themselves — the thumbnail image, page title and/or URL, and date stamp in a list-like format — that made tabs more helpful than existing designs such as the undated, untitled, deck-like tabs in Safari on iPhone. One participant explained that the formatting of the tabs reminded her of tasks she wanted to complete. She said:
"So is it was this layout that kind of nudged me because I was going back to a page. And I was like, oh yeah, I went to that one, too. That's right. And then I went back and did that task."
Another participant also said, in going back to the view of all of his open tabs with the small images, he remembered the shoes he was shopping for the day before and his desire to return to that shopping. He returned to the tab with the shoes during our interview.
Participant C1's open tabs in Firefox Beta, including a tab with a thumbnail of a shoe
There were instances, however, when the proposed design broke. A bug rendered some tabs unintelligible due to thumbnail images not populating. Also, several participants used enlarged text on their devices, a setting we did not anticipate that resulted in truncated tab titles and URLs. Participants for whom thumbnails were not populating and tab titles were truncated had a particularly difficult time discerning tabs. We also identified an opportunity, which we know is also an opportunity in the desktop browser, to make tabs more discernible in situations when a person has multiple tabs that look similar, particularly at thumbnail scale, like several Amazon pages or pages from different retailers all for the same product.
Participant C3's open tabs in Firefox Beta with blank thumbnail images and truncated tab titles and URLs
While we are actively working on fixing the bug related to the thumbnail images, it was nevertheless helpful to learn about situations where the design fell short — the key takeaway being that the different parts of the design, the date stamps, the thumbnail image, the page title, and the URL work in concert to help people remember pages they have visited and the context for those visits.
Next: Setting out to understand if iOS findings carry over to other platforms
The team, led by Ashley Thomas, plans to continue work on chronological tabs, such as investigating how we can make tab meta data populate more reliably and planning user research to evaluate the proposed design on Android, tablets, and desktop. Some of the questions the team is excited to pursue in coming weeks include:
 - Are there ways to improve further the accessibility of the proposed design?
 - Will complex workflows common to larger form factors help us uncover new insights about chronological tabs?
 - Is tab functionality most helpful when it is the same across platforms or might platform-specific designs better support task continuity?
 - Are there other ways of sorting tabs that would support people's workflows?
Thank you to the Firefox for iOS team and the many Mozillians, including people outside of the iOS team, who reviewed and provided valuable feedback on an early draft of this post.
Originally published on medium.com


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Who Lives Here? Polar Animals
The polar regions are home to amazing animals whose bodies are built for living in the extreme cold. Emperor penguins, snowy owls and beluga whales all have special ways of staying warm, finding food and raising their young in a polar habitat of thick ice and snow. The Who Lives Here? series looks at animals in their natural habitats - rain forests, polar regions, deserts and wetlands - and explains how the body and habits of each animal are suited to the place it lives. Charming, realistic illustrations, playful language and intriguing facts make these books a perfect read for young children.


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Identity Vault
Identity Vault is an all-in-one frontend identity management system that combines security best practices and the latest in biometric authentication options for Ionic apps running on iOS and Android.
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The Vault manages secure user identity and session tokens, ensuring sensitive data is encrypted at rest, stored only in secure locations on the device, and unlocked only with biometric identity (TouchID/FaceID). Always-on Session Management safeguards data even when not using your app, with background screen protection for sensitive data and apps, and automatic logout based on inactivity time.
Identity Vault is built and supported by the Ionic's native mobile experts and includes ongoing updates and maintenance, including new API features, patches, updates, and compatibility upgrades for new iOS & Android releases.
Why Identity Vault?#
Many frontend authentication workflows use unsecure practices like storing tokens unencrypted or using weak authentication logic that is easily compromised. In the past, Ionic developers have resorted to combining third party Cordova plugins, often resulting in insecure setups due to the lack of correct implementation of biometric and at-rest encryption strategies.
Common security mistakes include:
 - Not implementing Apple and Google's mobile security best practices. Guidelines often change with each major operating system release.
 - Combining disparate Cordova plugins together. While the code is open source, it's challenging to know if the latest security best practices are in place, and whether the plugin developer will keep them up to date.
 - Leaking data. Storing tokens unencrypted in localstorage is common but data is easily accessible.
 - Not clearing tokens after user inactivity or when new fingerprints are added. Removing tokens protects users in the event of a lost or stolen device.
 - Displaying data when app is in the background. Highly sensitive data should be protected from shoulder surfing, especially if the mobile app is commonly used in public places.
Identity Vault handles all of the above and more, reducing your team's development time from weeks to minutes while eliminating the need to learn complex native APIs. Instead, they can focus on delivering business critical app features.
How It Works#
Among Identity Vault's many features is the secure management of user identity and session tokens. The Vault ensures sensitive data is encrypted at rest, stored only in secure locations on the device, and unlocked only with biometric identity (TouchID/FaceID). Here's how it works in practice, in a typical authentication workflow.
An app user logs into your mobile app and the backend authentication system verifies their credentials. If valid, the system sends back a session token representing the user's identity and permissions. Since this token represents the ability to make changes on behalf of the user, it's crucial to secure it so that malicious persons or apps cannot access it.
Identity Vault workflow
Your app must store the token somewhere so the user can continue to use it over time, as the token will be sent back to your server to retrieve and modify data at any time. This is where Identity Vault comes in. The token is encrypted and stored at-rest securely on a physical hardware chip - the Secure Enclave on iOS devices. The enclave is isolated from all other system components in order to ensure sensitive user data remains secure.
Later, when an attempt is made to retrieve the user token, the app prompts the user to authenticate using Touch ID or Face ID. After verification, it's permitted to get the token from the Secure Enclave and use it for subsequent data requests.
In addition to secure identity management, Identity Vault fully configurable session management. While in use, the auth tokens will be in-memory of your app, so for an additional layer of protection, the Vault will automatically lock based on the specified inactivity time. It also comes with screen protection, hiding your app's data when put into the background. On iOS, it uses your app's splash screen and the native hide system on Android. Finally, you can use Identity Vault's user service to add the auth token to every backend system request using a HTTP interceptor.
Reference Apps#
While implementing Idenitity Vault, refer to these reference apps for examples showcasing all available security features.
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Top 5 Advantages of Owning a Bottle Packing Machine
A bottle packing machine is generally used to pack up a group of bottles within a larger container, like a cardboard packaging, case packers, or wrappers. For different kinds of packaging, different equipment within the machines are used. Generally, these machines provide the manufacturing companies with a lot of benefits which include (but are not limited to):
 - High Efficiency
 - A reduced labor intensity
 - Significantly lower costs
 - Meticulous quality
 - High energy conservation
 - Environmental Protection
These benefits of owning a bottle packing machine are discussed in detail below.
bottle packing machine
High Efficiency
The process of manual packing is really slow. Moreover, it is very common that the packings would be inaccurate, loose, or damaged when done manually. On the other hand, if a bottle packing machine is used it will ensure that the packings are done speedily and with astonishing perfection and accuracy.
Not only are the packing's accurate though an automatic bottle packing machine, less damage is caused to the bottles and packages. This all makes the production highly fast and efficient.
Reduce Labor Intensity
Manual packing requires a lot more effort as workers will have to spend more time and work longer hours packing. However, with the bottle packing machine the labor required is reduced to significant levels, and the laborers get more free time to develop their skills in other areas.
Manual labor may also not be safe enough for the workers. On the contrary, automatic bottle packing machines may provide more safety and security to the employees.
Lower Costs
Labor intensive packaging may cost more, since it requires much more effort (and time). On the other hand, through a bottle packing machine these costs would be reduced significantly since there are standardized settings which would not cause fluctuation in costs, and the labor intensity would also be significantly reduced.
While less money would not be spent on packing, more of it can be used in employee skill development schemes that the workers can benefit from.
Meticulous Quality
It is well understood that human approximation can be a little off. Each packing requires the same amount care, adjustment, method and quality. With manual packing there would be no standardized system of packing due to the existing potential of human error. Although some packings would be flawless, others may have problems in them.
The thing about an automatic bottle packaging machine is that, given its automatic nature, it has a predefined standard that will be followed while packing all bottles. This means that each packing would be entirely the same, with a little room or probability of changes. This ensures a meticulous quality.
Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection
In a bottle packing machine like the automatic shrink wrap machine, it is ensured that just the right amount of material is used. Also, as mentioned before, there is almost no probability of the packing material to get damaged during the packing process. This ensures two things.
Energy Conservation
As the packaging is flawless and requires the least amount of material to do the job, very less energy is used as compared to the manual packing method.
Environmental Protection
As less material is wasted in the automatic packing process, there will be even a lesser waste. This is more sustainable for the environment since most of the packing is not biodegradable.
Although the headquarters of Tech-long is in China, it has various other branches in Indonesia, India, Ethiopia and even UAE. Moreover, Tech-Long's sales network encompasses many parts of the world including Korea, Japan, Oceania, the Americas, Middle East, Russia and South Asia. This shows that the automatic bottle packing machine and other products are widely celebrated around the world.
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Thoughts on native mobile development on Microsoft platforms
Monday, October 26, 2009
HOWTO: Implement a text ticker
Here's the answer to yet another question asked on the Windows Mobile Developer Center Forums: How to implement a text ticker. The request implied for a flicker-free implementation, so a memory bitmap is required. This bitmap is generated whenever the screen changes size (CTextTickerView::OnSize) or when the text itself changes (CTextTickerView::SetTickerText). To calculate the text size when printed with the given font, a call is made to CDC::GetTextExtent which returns both the height and the width of the text in pixels. The off-screen is then created using the screen width and the text height plus a few padding pixels (CTextTickerView::ResizeBitmap).
Scrolling of the ticker is achieved through a timer that shifts the ticker printing position every 100 ms. The ticker is painted by invalidating its own rectangle and the whole painting process is performed on CTextTickerView::OnPaint. Note how the ticker text gets painted a second time tailing the first instance in order to give a continuous feel. Also note how the x offset is incremented by the timer handler. Go and have a look at the code!


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The Mental Health Association of Portland provides speakers to schools, civic groups, colleges and universities, fraternal organizations, and other groups interested in learning about mental illness, addiction and related issues.
Available presentations include:
- History of Mental Illness in Oregon
- Police Use of Force Against People with Mental Illness
- Helping People with Mental Illness: How to Be an Ally
- Presentation of documentary films about mental illness and addiction
- Mental Health Advocacy 101
- Recovery as Crime Prevention: Turning the Law Upside Down
- The History of Portland's Drunk Tank
Speakers from allied agencies are also available for information on legislation in Oregon affecting the mental illness system and various health and social service topics such as low income housing, services for people with mental illness and addiction, homelessness, inclusion of peer workers in clinics and agencies.
To request a speaker for your school or group, please e-mail: _EMAIL_.


Equity Carve-Outs
In an equity carve-out, also known as an IPO carve-out or a subsidiary IPO, the parent company (ParentCo) sells a portion or all of its interest in a subsidiary (SubCo) to the public in an initial public offering. The carve-out creates a new legal entity with its own management team and board of directors, and provides a cash infusion with proceeds distributed to the parent, subsidiary, or both.
Strategic Rationale
In addition to the strategic rationale for corporate restructuring outlined in our lesson on spin-offs and split-offs, equity carve-outs can be used to achieve the following additional strategic objectives:
 - Cash infusion – Cash proceeds can be distributed to ParentCo, SubCo, or both
 - Preparation for complete separation – Establish a public market valuation for SubCo in preparation for a subsequent spin-off or split-off of ParentCo's remaining interest
Transaction Structure
ParentCo's stake in SubCo sold in a carve-out may consist of primary and/or secondary shares. Primary shares are issued by SubCo, and secondary shares are sold by ParentCo. Although secondary shares are sometimes sold alongside primary shares in a carve-out, they usually represent a small portion of the total shares sold in the transaction.
Similar to monetization techniques employed in spin-offs and split-offs, ParentCo may push down debt to SubCo prior to the IPO, and/or extract a special tax-free dividend from SubCo up to ParentCo's outside basis in SubCo's stock. Cash proceeds from the stock sale might be distributed to ParentCo to pay down debt, to SubCo for growth capital, and/or used by SubCo to repay an intercompany loan from ParentCo, for example.
Equity carve-outs are commonly followed by a tax-free spin-off or split-off of ParentCo's remaining interest in SubCo.
Tax Implications
Whether primary or secondary shares are sold in the carve-out has tax implications. If ParentCo sells secondary shares of SubCo, it recognizes a capital gain or loss equal to the cash proceeds less its outside tax basis in SubCo's stock. However, if primary shares are issued, the transaction is considered a non-taxable event to raise capital. Therefore, selling primary shares is generally preferable to selling secondary shares.
Carve-out do not usually exceed 20% of ParentCo's equity interest in SubCo for several reasons:
 - If ParentCo divests more than 20% of its voting interest in the subsidiary, ParentCo would lose tax control of SubCo and any subsequent spin-off would fail to qualify for tax-free treatment under IRC Section 355.
 - So long as ParentCo retains at least 80% of SubCo, dividends from SubCo to ParentCo are tax-free under the Dividends Received Deduction.
 - If more than 20% of ParentCo's voting interest in SubCo is sold, ParentCo may no longer consolidate SubCo for tax purposes. Tax deconsolidation may result in a tax liability to ParentCo to the extent of any negative basis in SubCo.
By using a dual-class stock structure, however, ParentCo may be able to divest greater than 20% of the value of SubCo, while still retaining at least 80% of its voting interest in the subsidiary.
Accounting for Equity Carve-Outs
The accounting treatment of a carve-out depends on whether or not ParentCo maintains legal control of SubCo following the carve-out, where legal control is generally defined as ownership of at least 50% of SubCo's voting common stock. If ParentCo does not lose legal control, as is most often the case, the accounting gain or loss from the carve-out is recorded either on the consolidated income statement or as additional paid-in capital (APIC) on the balance sheet, depending on whether primary or secondary shares are issued. If secondary shares are sold for an amount exceeding ParentCo's book basis in the shares and ParentCo maintains legal control, ParentCo makes the following journal entry to record the carve-out:
ParentCo Sells Secondary Shares
dr. Cash
cr. Minority interest
cr. Gain on carve-out
If primary shares are sold for an amount exceeding ParentCo's book basis in the shares, ParentCo makes the following journal entry:
SubCo Sells Primary Shares
dr. Cash
cr. Minority interest
cr. Additional paid-in capital (APIC)
If ParentCo does lose legal control of SubCo, it recognizes a gain or loss on its consolidated income statement regardless of whether primary or secondary shares are issued. Also, ParentCo will be required to account for its investment in SubCo using the equity method of accounting rather than the consolidation method:
ParentCo Loses Legal Control of SubCo
dr. Equity investment in SubCo
dr. Minority interest
cr. Net assets of SubCo
cr. Gain on carve-out
Note that when primary shares are sold, regardless of whether or not ParentCo loses legal control, ParentCo recognizes a gain or loss for accounting purposes, but not for tax purposes. This temporary difference gives rise to a deferred tax liability (DTL) that reverses when ParentCo ultimately sells its secondary shares. On the other hand, if ParentCo sells the shares, a gain or loss is recognized for both accounting and tax purposes and no DTL is created. ParentCo makes additional journal entries when SubCo sells primary shares as follows:
Accounting for Tax Effects
dr. Income tax expense
cr. DTL
Timing Considerations
Like a regular IPO, the equity carve-out must be prepared, filed with the SEC, marketed to investors, and priced. The entire process typically takes approximately 4 to 6 months to complete.
Equity Carve-Out vs. Spin-Off
An equity carve-out achieves separation of a subsidiary without losing complete control, and is especially useful when a capital infusion is desired. When SubCo operates in a thriving industry, such as the Internet sector in the late 1990s, it may be preferable to monetize a portion of SubCo in a carve-out transaction to take advantage of high market valuations. However, equity carve-outs are mechanically complex suffer from a lower degree of execution certainty relative to a spin-offs.
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Execute XML
Execute XML
The executeXPath Deluge task executes an XPath in the context of the specified XML and returns the value as a string. Here, XPath refers to the XML Path Language for finding information in an XML document. XML documents can be represented as a tree and XPath provides the ability to navigate this tree by selecting nodes by a variety of criteria. For example, in the following XML document,
- the XPath bookstore/book/title, selects all the title elements that are children of bookstore
- the XPath bookstore/book/title/text(), selects the text from all the title nodes
- the XPath bookstore/book[1]/title, selects only the title of the first book node under the bookstore element
- the XPath bookstore/book[price>35]/price, selects all the price nodes with a price higher than 35
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Survival Is Not Enough
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 = .executeXPath()
 - the variable to hold the string value returned by the execute task.
 - variable of type XML/string that holds the XML/JSON document
 - the xpath expression to select the specific nodes in an XML document.
Using Script Builder
To add the Execute XML task using Script Builder,
 1. Drag-n-drop the XML Manipulation - ExecuteXPath task from the left-side task tree.
 2. Define the variable to hold the string response from the Execute XPath task.
 3. Specify the string/xml variable that holds the xml/json document.
 4. Specify the xpath expression for finding the required information from the xml/json document. Use the XPath Learner to find the right xpath expression to be executed.
 5. Click Done to add the value to the script editor, as shown in the screen-shot given below:
XPath Builder
The XPath Builder provides an intuitive user interface to find the required XPath expression from a given XML/ JSON File. The builder automatically converts JSON to XML so that XPath can be applied to it to filter nodes. To find XPath expressions,
 1. Click on the XPath Builder link. The Load dialog provides the option to specify the url of the XML/JSON file or upload the file from your PC or just copy-paste the file to the text-area of the builder. In the screen-shot given below, the URL of the XML file from the site is specified. If the request method is GET, the HTTP GET request is used to get data from the url. If the request method is POST, the HTTP POST request is used to get data from the url. The parameter name and value must be passed as arguments, if any, to the POST method.
 2. On specifying the URL(as shown in the screenshot) or uploading the file, click Done to display the XML in tree format.
 3. The tree format of the XML gets loaded on the left-side of the XPath builder, as shown in the screen-shot below. The tab named XML Node Tree displays the XML in tree format. The tab named XML Content displays the content of the XML document. You can select any node in the tree and see the XPath expression getting generated for it in the Write XPath text area. For example, in the screen-shot given below, we have selected statuses/status/location/text(), which displays the text of all the location nodes in the xml document.
 4. The XPath of the selected node is displayed as shown below:
 5. You can also filter the nodes according to some criteria. (i.e. specify predicates)
 6. Click on the Execute button to apply the XPath expression on the XML file and view the results, as shown in the screen-shot below. Click on Apply to add the xpath expression to the Execute XMLdialog.
 - In Xpath builder, external entity in xml content cannot be processed.


Christopher Ross is a New York sculptor whose work synthesizes sculpture techniques with contemporary influences. Commanding and curvaceous, his sculptures frequently reference the heroic female form and are informed by his interest in European art, historical research, and the relationship between male and female.
A horse head with its mouth agape and eyes wide open as if in full stride is the latest example of wearable works of art by the accomplished and prominent sculptor Christopher Ross. Available in exquisitely crafted sterling or gold, it is an Objet d'art or 'body armor', sculpted to be worn on an artisan made belt of walnut brown calfskin.
Christopher Ross envisioned sculpture to wear; works that exist between sculpture and bodily adornment. Each limited edition object is sculpted and finished from A-Z by Mr. Ross himself; numbered, signed and stamped with his signature thumbprint, date and copyright.
Notable collectors include The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City and The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
His sculptures to wear are eye-catching and unmistakable expressions of individuality and discerning taste.


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Pegasystems CPBA Certification: A Comprehensive Guide to Success
Are you looking to enhance your career in the field of Information Technology? Pegasystems CPBA certification can open doors to a world of opportunities. In this article, we will explore the benefits of Pegasystems CPBA certification, the importance of practice tests, exam ques-tions, and study guides, and how _URL_ can help you achieve success in your certification journey. So, let's dive in!
In today's rapidly evolving IT industry, staying updated with the latest technologies is crucial. Pegasystems CPBA, has gained immense popularity due to its scalability, reliability, and flexibil-ity. To validate your expertise and stand out in the competitive job market, obtaining a Pegasystems CPBA certification is a wise choice.
Why Choose Pegasystems CPBA Certification?
1. Advantages of Pegasystems CPBA Certification
Pegasystems CPBA certification offers a multitude of benefits:
Pegasystems CPBA is a widely recognized and trusted cloud platform used by numerous organ-izations worldwide. By earning a Pegasystems CPBA certification, you gain industry recognition for your expertise in utilizing this powerful cloud solution.
Employers seek professionals with Pegasystems CPBA skills to manage within organization efficiently. With a certification, you increase your chances of career growth and better job prospects.
Preparing for Pegasystems CPBA certification equips you with in-depth knowledge of all objectives of this CPBA. It broadens your understanding of how to architect, implement, and manage CPBA solutions effectively.
2. The Importance of Practice Tests
Role of Practice Tests in Pegasystems CPBA Preparation
CPBA Practice tests play a crucial role in your certification journey. They simulate the actual exam environment and help you assess your knowledge and readiness. Here's why practice tests are essential:
Familiarity with Exam Format
CPBA Practice tests familiarize you with the structure and format of the Pegasystems CPBA certification exams. This familiarity reduces exam anxiety and boosts your confidence.
Identifying Knowledge Gaps
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An abecedarian is a person learning the alphabet, a beginner; a person teaching the alphabet or the basic elements of a subject. [Webster's New World Dictionary] An abecedary is their practice medium.
The oldest known abecedary is the Tel Zayit abecedary. It is confidently dated to the 10th century BC. This practice writing is carved into a 38 pound chunk of limestone - the back of which could be a bowl. The practice nature of this writing is reinforced as the letters are not in the conventional order.
Next time someone is carping about the rigors of keyboarding (oh the carpal tunnel syndrome), remind them that once people had to learn their alphabets by carving the letters in limestone (oh my thumb). Maybe the carving in stone was a final exam.


Prof. Powershell
Comparison and Contrast
Which of these things is not like the other? Use the Compare-Object cmdlet to find out.
There may be times when need to compare objects to see what is different. This if often the case when you want to capture state information and see what has changed between "snapshots." For example, you might want to troubleshoot a problem by capturing process information in the middle of the night and compare it to a known good state. Let me show you how to use the Compare-Object cmdlet, which has an alias of Diff.
First capture the current running processes:
PS C:\> $before=get-process
Then start Notepad and Calculator. Now grab an after snapshot:
PS C:\> $after=get-process
The Compare-Object cmdlet compares a source object to a reference object. In our example we want to compare before and after:
PS C:\> diff $before $after
What you'll likely see is a long list with a side indicator that tells you which item doesn't belong in the other. Remember we're dealing with a collection of process objects and even though a process like PowerShell is still running, some properties like memory utilization will have changed between snapshots. That's normal. What we want is to narrow the comparison. We can do that by selecting a property:
PS C:\> diff $before $after -property Name
Now you should see that the Notepad and Calculator properties are only found in $after. Here's one more quick example. Get all the current running services:
PS C:\> $now=get-service
Stop or start some services and take another snapshot:
PS C>\> $later=get-service
You can use Compare-Object to return more than one property:
PS C:\> diff $now $later -property Status,Name
This will show the differences based on status as well as showing the service name.
Remember, you can use the Export cmdlets to save state information and then re-create the objects using the corresponding Import cmdlet. Save a current snapshot to a variable and compare the two.
Note that this is just an intro; be sure to look at the help file for Compare-Object to find out more.
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The (RTRS) is a multi-stakeholder initiative which aims to facilitate a global dialogue on soy production that is economically viable, socially equitable and environmentally sound. It provides stakeholders and interested parties – producers, social organizations, business, and industry - with the opportunity to jointly develop global solutions leading to responsible soy production.
This feature enables you to search for the tools, mechanisms and guidance available globally. These documents and websites can help your company in its efforts to integrate biodiversity and ecosystem management into daily business practice. The content can be browsed or searched by keyword, country, sector or category.
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The Educational Employees Credit Union (EECU) routing number is 311981614. Some banks or credit unions have more than one branch, which can make it difficult to know which routing number to use. Luckily, EECU has only one all-purpose routing number.
EECU was first known as the Fort Worth Teachers Credit Union. It's based in Fort Worth, Texas, and provides banking services for teachers and administrators.
What Is a Routing Number?
You could say that a bank account number identifies you. In the same vein, a routing number identifies your financial institution. Routing numbers are nine digits long and are needed for a variety of reasons, including:
- Transferring funds between banks;
- Sending or receiving a wire transfer;
- Setting up an electronic funds transfer (EFT);
- Requesting a direct deposit of your paychecks or government benefits.
- Outgoing domestic wire transfers: $20;
- Incoming domestic or international wire transfers: $15;
- International wire transfers: Varies.
Where Can You Find Your EECU Routing Number?
If you're familiar with writing a check, you can easily find the EECU routing number. Look at the first nine digits at the lower left-hand corner of your check, just below the memo field. Chances are you'll also need your bank account number, which is the next grouping of 10 numbers following the routing number. Once you have these two identifying numbers, you're ready to go.
If you don't have access to personal checks, you can always refer back here or visit the credit union's website. If you need your bank account number as well, contact EECU's customer service line at _PHONE_.
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We study the efficient allocation of a divisible asset when reallocation is costly. Two players initially divide an asset between them. At the time of this initial division the players' valuations for the asset are uncertain. After the uncertainty resolves, costly reallocation may take place. We first establish that the surplus associated with efficient reallocation monotonically increases or decreases in the concentration of the initial division for a wide range of cost specifications. We then characterize how the budget necessary to implement the efficient reallocation changes with the initial division. (JEL D11, D63, D81)
"Reallocation Costs and Efficiency."
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics,
Consumer Economics: Theory
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty


Swagger Codegen for Eiffel
by javier (modified: 2018 Jun 14)
Swagger Codegen for Eiffel
What's Swagger RESTful API Documentation Specification?
The Swagger specification (lately renamed as OpenAPI Specification) offers a language-agnostic approach for describing RESTful APIs.
In a few words it provides:
 - API Design: A simple and powerful representation for your APIs.
 - API Consumer: An automated way to generate API clients for third-party RESTful APIs using Swagger specification.
 - API Producer: An automated way to generate server stubs from an API specification.
What's Swagger code generator?
It's an Open-source project which allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs and documentation automatically given an OpenAPI Spec.At the moment we only have support for API client code generator.
Getting Started with Swagger code generator
First, check the following document to get started with Swagger code generator.
Generating Client Side Code
One of the main advantages of Swagger code generator to wrap API clients is that it reduces the time to write glue code and API documentation. Swagger code generator enables us to automate this process using a language agnostic approach.
Generating Eiffel API clients
To generate a client API in Eiffel, the command line tool swagger-codegen is used as follows: Here we will describe the options we are using to run the command.
-i | --input-spec -l | --lang -o | --output


nextRun will be set to 0.
This is useful for jobs which have to be fired from time to time.
To fire such an asynchronous job, just set nextRun=NOW() and wait for the next system cron run.
If such a job is running and a new nextRun=NOW() is applied, the 'AutoCron' job will be fired again during the next system cron run.
Type: Mail
Currently QFQ uses a special sendmail notation - this will change in the future.
 - Mail:
 {{!SELECT '' AS sendMailTo, 'Custom subject' AS sendMailSubject, '' AS sendMailFrom, 123 AS sendMailGrId, 456 AS sendMailXId}}
AutoCron will send as many mails as records are selected by the SQL query in field Mail. Field Mail body provides the mail text.
All columns of the SQL are available in STORE_PARENT.
Type: Website
The page specified in URL will be opened.
Optional the output of that page can be logged to a file (take care to have write permissions on that file).
 - Log output to file'='output.log - creates a file in the Typo3 host directory.
 - Log output to file'=/var/log/output.log' - creates a file in /var/log/ directory.
Also overwrite or append can be selected for the output file. In case of append a file rotation should be setup on
OS level.
To check for a successful DB connection, it's a good practice to report a custom token on the T3 page / QFQ record like 'DB Connect: ok'. Such a string can be checked via Pattern to look for on output=/DB Connect: ok/. The pattern needs to be written in PHP PCRE syntax. For a simple search string, just surround them with '/'. If the pattern is found on the page, the job get's 'Ok' - else 'Error - …'.
Access restriction
To protect AutoCron pages not to be triggered accidental or by unprivileged access, access to those page tree might be limited to localhost. Some example Typoscript:
# Access allowed for any logged in user or via 'localhost'
[usergroup = *] || [IP =]
 page.10 < styles.content.get
 # Error Message
 page.10 = TEXT
 page.10.value = Access deniedPlease log in or access this page from an authorized host. Your current IP address:
 page.20 = TEXT = getenv : REMOTE_ADDR
AutoCron / website: HTTPS protocol
 - For https the PHP extension php_openssl has to be installed.
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palomino horse, American light horse that, contrary to popular opinion, is not a breed but a color type. The palomino is a characteristic golden, creamy tan, with an almost white mane and tail. White stripes on the face and white stockings are common. This coloring occurs in several breeds of light horse. Palominos were probably first selected for their beautiful color in Spain. They accompanied the conquistadors to the New World, where they were perpetuated by early Mexican horse breeders. They were discovered by Americans in California during the Mexican-American War, and are now popular parade and show horses; fanciers in the United States are trying to establish the palomino as a breed. Palominos have Arabian or Thoroughbred features, stand about 15 hands (60 in./150 cm) high, and weigh about 1,100 lb (500 kg).
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Extended Air Defense Task Force
Definition/Scope: The Headquarters Extended Air Defense Task Force (EADTF) was developed in order to strengthen common security and air defense goals and to promote standardization within the respective ground-based air defense forces. Therefore, it was determined that a tri-national (United States/ Netherlands/Germany) Extended Air Defense Task Force organization would be established. The initial headquarters was activated at Siegerland - Kaserne, Burbach, Germany on 2 August 1999. The official inauguration ceremony took place on 3 December 1999. The HQ EADTF relocated to Campbell Barracks, Heidelberg, Germany, in July 2004, due to the restructuring of the German ground-based air defense forces and the subsequent closure of the facilities in Burbach. The mission of the EADTF is to Plan, coordinate and provide liaison for US/NL/GE combined air defense activities, training, exercises, and interoperability tests. On order, assume mission related command and control functions or augment an Extended Air Defense organization. The Uited States terminated its membership in July of 2008.
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Emotional Drivers Challenge
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Three Research Natural Areas (RNAs) that lie in the Snake River ACEC on the South Fork of the Snake River are managed to protect natural riparian vegetation from encroachment and from any direct of indirect modification of ecological processes. Use of RNAs is limited to non-destructive, non-manipulative research, study and observation.
The shapes and sizes of the islands (6 in all) change periodically as a result of the River's dynamic forces.
The Pine Creek RNA is actually 2 islands that lie about one mile downstream of the mouth of Pine Creek, in bald eagle nesting territory. Narrowleaf cottonwood and red osier dogwood cover the islands' 54 acres.
The most pristine of the three sets of islands, the Reid Canal RNA, consists of 3 islands (29 acres) in the South Fork, about two-and-a-quarter miles down river from the Sunnydell rookery. Red osier dogwood and reed canarygrass mix with narrowleaf cottonwood vegetation. Yellow-billed cuckoos have been spotted on the islands.
The Squaw Creek RNA is a single island (38 acres) at the mouth of the creek of the same name. It is drier than the other 2 RNAs, which can make its vegetation more susceptible to encroachment. Water birch complements narrowleaf cottonwood.


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Let $G$ be any countable discrete group, and $H_1, H_2$ be two subgroups of $G$ with some fixed finite index $m>1$.
My question is:
Is it always possible to find some automorphism $\phi$ of $G$, i.e., $\phi\in Aut(G)$, such that $\phi(H_1)=H_2$?
If not, could any one give some counterexample to illustrate this? Thanks in advance!
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Nope: let $G=C_4\times V_4\times\mathbb Z$, where $C_4$ is the cyclic group of order $4$ and $V_4$ is the Klein $4$-group. Let $H_1=C_4\times\{e\}\times\mathbb Z$ and $H_2=\{e\}\times V_4\times\mathbb Z$. Both subgroups have index $4$, but they aren't isomorphic.
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So we can take two non-isomorphic finite groups $G_1, G_2$, of the same order $n$S and a take an infinite group $H$, and consider $G=H\times G_1\times G_2$. Then $H_1=G\times G_1, H_2=G\times G_2$ may work generalizing your idea. – P Vanchinathan Mar 21 at 1:15
_USER_ It depends. Using your notation, if $H$ is a direct sum of countably many copies of $G_1\times G_2$, then $G_1\times H$ is isomorphic to $G_2\times H$ after all. In my example, there is no such accidental isomorphism, since $C_4\times\{e\}\times\mathbb Z$ has an element of order $4$, and $\{e\}\times V_4\times\mathbb Z$ doesn't. – Chris Culter Mar 21 at 1:25
The dihedral group of order 8 has a subgroup isomorphic to the cyclic group of order 4, and has a subroup isomorphic to the Klein group. Both subgroups have index 2 but are non-isomorphic since the first has an element of order 4 but the second does not. No smaller order group G can be found as a counterexample since a nontrivial subgroup of such a G would have order 2 or order 3.
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Dihedral group G of order 8 also has two subgroups of order 2 with no automorphism of G taking one to the other (take one central, and one not). – Jack Schmidt Mar 21 at 1:57
Take $m\mathbf{Z}, n\mathbf{Z}\subset \mathbf{Z}$. As isomorphisms have to send generator to generator we get conflicting requirement $\phi(1)=\pm1, \phi(m)= \pm n $. So your question has a negative answer.
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They don't have the same index though – Bruno Joyal Mar 21 at 1:05
OOps, I looked at the title and was misled. My answer is incorrect. – P Vanchinathan Mar 21 at 1:11
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In a stern address at the 2023 Conference of Judges of the Federal High Court, Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, emphasized the critical need for judges to maintain the integrity of the judiciary and avoid actions that could tarnish its image.
Speaking at the event held at the Court's headquarters in Abuja, Justice Ariwoola urged judges to be cautious and mindful of their responsibility to uphold the highest standards of professionalism.
He specifically cautioned against actions that could bring disrepute to the judiciary, emphasizing the importance of adhering to laws and rules in the execution of their duties.
The Chief Justice stressed the significance of impartiality in delivering judgments and rulings, emphasizing that judges should refrain from attempting to influence any party, regardless of their status or influence.
He said, "Go the extra mile to justify your appointments and do not create loopholes that could tarnish the image and reputation of the Court.
"Do not attempt to convince anybody, no matter how highly placed, but always consult laws and rules before writing your judgments and rulings.
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Connect your wireless Call Connect device to the antenna
Do you have a wireless Yealink phone? Then it must be connected to its antenna in order to work properly.
Stand close to the antenna with your Yealink wireless phone. Usually it's near your b-box modem. There are 2 different types of antennas (W52P or W60B):
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- Press and hold the button on the front of the antenna for 4 seconds until the 1st LED starts flashing.
- If this works, your phone will find the antenna and display the name of the antenna on the screen. If not, restart from 1.
- Press Valider. This is the key above the envelope on the dial.
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Definition of Flowers of zinc
1. Noun. Oxide of zinc; a white powder used as a pigment or in cosmetics or glass or inks and in zinc ointment.
Generic synonyms: Oxide
Substance meronyms: Chinese White, Zinc White
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1. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips (1799)
"Though tlie flowers of zinc may contain fome oxygen, I have not been... But I did not find this to be the reluit of an attempt to revive flowers of zinc in..."
2. The Commercial Hand-book of Chemical Analysis; Or, Practical Instructions by Alphonse Normandy (1850)
"flowers of zinc.—See Oxyde of Zinc. FRANKINCENSE.—See Benzoin. FUMING SULPHURIC ACID.—See Sulphuric Acid of Nordhausen...."
3. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"... by Dr Hart at Leyden, the medical virtues of the flowers of zinc are... had continued fix days, fhe began to take the flowers of zinc,..."
4. A Treatise on Metallurgy: Comprising Mining, and General and Particular by Frederick Overman (1855)
"Pure oxide of zinc— flowers of zinc—consists of 81 parts of the metal, and 19 parts of oxygen, which in the native oxide is more or less mixed with other..."


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Master of Education (M.Ed.) – Teaching and Learning Early Childhood Education
Liberty University's Master of Education in Teaching and Learning with a specialization in Early Childhood Education is designed to train individuals in planning and implementing appropriate curriculum for younger children.
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The 1524mm diameter cylinder mould has largercircumference resulting in lower RPM compared to 1250mm diameter at the samespeed of paper/board machine. Advantages of 1524 diameter are as follow:
- Increase in longer forming zone because ofincreased diameter of cylinder mould, which allows increased drainage,resulting in more machine speed.
- Better formation at higher machine speeddue to reduced Mould RPM and stock pressure.
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This study empirically examines the relationship between knowledge capital and performance heterogeneity at the firm level. The model is based on a knowledge production function comprising of four interdependent equations linking innovativeness to innovation input, innovation output and productivity. The empirical part is based on Korean firm level innovation data. The model is estimated using advanced econometric methods. We investigate whether innovation is a significant and contributing determinant of performance heterogeneity among firms. In examining the relationship between innovation and productivity we correct for selectivity and simultaneity biases. The results show that there is a two-way causal relationship between knowledge capital and labor productivity. Firm-specific effects positively contribute to innovation output but they are negatively related to productivity. Industry heterogeneity does not affect innovation output or productivity.
Heshmati, A., Kim, Y-K. & Kim, H. (2006) The Effects of Innovation on Performance of Korean Firms. Ratio Working Paper No. 90.


Starlight Foundation
In the I International Starlight Conference (April 2007) promoted by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, born the principles and recommendations contained in the "Declaration in Defense of the Night Sky and the Right to Starlight" (Declaration of La Palma or Starlight Declaration). After this conference, the Starlight Foundation is created as the entity responsible for the development and promotion of the Declaration of La Palma.
Its main goals are the protection of the night sky, the cultural diffusion of the astronomy and the local sustainable economic development through astrotourism. To achieve these objectives, the international Starlight Certification system is created, aimed at promoting, worldwide, a different way of caring for and defending the sky, valuing it as a necessary resource for life and as an intangible heritage of humanity, guaranteeing the ability to enjoy the light of the stars and the development of activities based on this resource. Starlight Certification brings science and tourism together for the first time and is supported by the UNWTO and IAU. READ ON
Starlight Reserve
A Starlight Reserve is a protected natural area where a commitment to protecting the quality of the night sky and access to starlight is established.
Starlight Tourist Destination
Starlight Tourist Destinations are locations with ideal conditions for observing the stars and where light pollution is controlled. This makes them logical destinations for tourism based on the appreciation of the sky as part of the natural world.
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You may have heard the expression 'until the cows come home', meaning 'for a very long time': If the manager wants perfection, she'll be waiting till the cows come home. But it is till or until the cows come home? And what's the difference?
Macmillan Dictionary's entry for the phrase shows that either word is fine – in this context they are perfectly interchangeable. Both till and until can be used as a preposition or as a conjunction. As a preposition, they're followed by a noun: I'll be around till Sunday; We can live here until 2025. As a conjunction, they connect two clauses: She kept painting till she was happy with it; He ran until he could run no more.
In these examples, till and until can be swopped around. This is not always possible or appropriate. As Liz Potter wrote in a Language Tip post, till is less formal; until is more formal. So if you're writing a business report or other serious text, until is probably the better choice. If you want to convey a more casual tone, till will do this. Until is also more common at the start of a sentence – though till is found here too.
The difference in register is not huge, and in many contexts, as we've seen, you can use whichever word you prefer or whichever one sounds better to you. Sometimes metre is a factor: if you're writing poetry – even something playful, like a limerick – then the difference between one syllable and two is significant.
Till and until are both very old words. People often assume that till is simply an abbreviation of until, but in fact till is a few centuries older. It shows up in the runic inscription on the ancient Ruthwell Cross in Scotland, where its original sense was the same as 'to'.
There is an abbreviation of until: 'til. Some critics reject it, because we already have till. They may even call it incorrect. 'Till is still more disparaged, because the apostrophe is superfluous, and although this form was used by George Washington, of all people, I can't recommend it. Apostrophe-less til is occasionally used, but spelling-wise it falls between the two stools of till and 'til.
TIL, which appears in the title of this post, is short for today I learned, and is in popular use online. Finally, till has another use in Irish English, where it means something like 'in order that': 'Come here till I tell you a story' means 'Come here so that I can tell you a story.' Maybe it's a story about till.Email this Post


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Ofcom has published a consultation document detailing various approaches to the enforcement of TV advertising schedules. The consultation is designed to explore the options available to the UK regulator in securing "effective and consistent enforcement of rules on the extent to which television programmes can be interrupted by advertising."
The consultation also proposes changes to the current scheduling rules to make them clearer and easier to follow, as the document states. "Although European law specifies the number of advertising breaks permitted during certain programmes, it does not specify the approach that national regulators like Ofcom should take in enforcing these rules. Broadcasters have argued strongly in favour of different approaches. In this document, we set out our view of the advantages and disadvantages of each possible approach."
Patrick Mitchell, Legal Director at DLA Piper, explained to TVBEurope that while both Ofcom's own Code on the Scheduling of Television Advertising (COSTA) and the Audiovisual Media Services Directive place restrictions on the insertion of internal advertising breaks within programmes, based on factors including the "scheduled duration" of the programmes in question, neither actually define the term.
"The consultation primarily focuses on a choice between four different methods of calculating a programme's 'scheduled duration'," he writes. "Under the Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) Approach method, a programme's scheduled duration is based on the EPG listing – i.e. from the scheduled start time of that programme until the scheduled start time of the next. This means that both the programme's editorial content and any material broadcast during the breaks (e.g. advertising, programme trails, etc) are included in the scheduled duration. This is the traditional method for calculating a programme's scheduled duration.
"With the Broadcasters' Transmission (TX) Logs Approacha programme's scheduled duration is calculated on information obtained from the TX logs, which provide detailed records of the start and end times of each programme, along with the timings of internal breaks. This in turn provides three possible ways to calculate the scheduled duration:
"a) the programme slot – i.e. from the start of one programme until the start of the next, including all programme, advertising and promotional material transmitted in-between;
b) editorial content plus internal breaks – i.e. from the start to the end of the programme including editorial content and all material shown during internal breaks; or
c) editorial content alone – i.e. from the start of the programme to the end of the programme excluding advertising and promotional material broadcast in internal breaks."
The consultation is open until 10 October with Ofcom expected to issue a statement in early 2015. You can access the full consultation from Ofcom's website. To read more from Patrick Mitchell and the rest of the team at DLA Piper, you can visit DLA Piper's Media Sport and Entertainment blog.


text: The kinetics of the isomerization of butenes over the Bi2O3-MoO3 (koechlinite) catalyst were investigated in recirculation and in pulse expts. At 150-250 Deg, isomerization prevails over the oxidn. to butadiene. In the recirculation expts., isomerization proved strongly inhibited by butadiene, and the apparent activation energies for isomerization were high (17-19 kcal mole-1). In the pulse expts. where diene inhibition is nonoperative, low activation energies (2-4 kcal mole-1) for isomerization were obsd. Isomerization and oxidn. occur on similar combination of the B and A centers as postulated by Matsuura. This was confirmed by the action of NH3 in a temp. range where isomerization and oxidn. are of comparable rate. Both reactions proved to be strongly inhibited.


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Old English Herefordscir, from Hereford (958), literally "ford suitable for the passage of an army" (see harry (v.) + ford (n.). Probably so-called in reference to the Roman road passing over the Wye River. Herford in Germany has the same etymology. As the name for a type of cattle, first bred there, it is attested from 1789.


Shoe Sizes: EU vs US vs UK, How To Know What Fits?
Hello Shoe Lady,
My shoe size in The Netherlands is 43. My search for really nice shoes has taken me far beyond the borders, to the US. I found different size conversion charts, resulting in conversion of my european shoe size to US size somewhere between 10.5 and 12.5. What is the right US shoe size for me?
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Dear Elis,
I am so glad you found me! I am continually MORTIFIED by the bad information given out to women "who leave a larger footprint" by people in the shoe industry who should know better!
The short answer: US size 11.
Here's a little more information:
Take a look at the international size chart here:
Some of the confusion might be that Great Britain uses a women's shoe measuring system similar to that of the USA. Except different. A Euro size 43, US size 11 women's shoe in Great Britain is a UK 9.
Another source of confusion is that one of the most common sizes in the US is size 8. It is close to (actually a bit smaller than, but wider than a US medium so feels about the same) an EU size 8. So shoe people, who should know better, assume if US 8 equals EU 38, then US 9 equals EU 39 and US 11 equals UK 41. On the surface this sounds logical. But it is so wrong. Here's the mathematical back story. In 1374 the King of England decided to base shoe sizes on the length of a barleycorn. Each barleycorn represents a jump from one size to the next. This was refined in 1880 in the USA when Edwin Simpson got all scientific with the inch (I know everyone on the metric system will laugh at this, as silly as barleycorns) and set the standard for US sizing, In his system, still used, 1/3 of an inch equals one full (not half) size difference. But wait, there's more! Unlike EU sizes which have a standard, proportional width that runs comparable to a US wide, US shoe sizes also come in width measurements, narrow, medium, wide, extra wide.
Your best size may be size 11M ( M equals Medium), but I think you need to know more! I strongly suggest you read up on Measuring Your Feet and Understanding Shoe Sizes ( so you will be able to pick the right length, width and shoe shape for your feet. You want to get the right size the first time when you are ordering from another country!
Thanks for asking!
The Shoe Lady


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Platinum Rummy Nose Tetra
The Platinum colour variation have a much more intense silverish/blue shine to the scales compared to normal rummy nose. The normal rummy nose tetras have their usual whitish/silver body color, but are much less shiny than the platinum ones.
The rummy-nose tetra is a schooling fish, which exhibits tight schooling behaviour both in the wild and in the aquarium. Consequently, these fishes should be maintained in groups of no fewer than six individuals, with larger numbers being preferable where space permits-these tetras preferring about a 25 gallon/80 litre aquarium. All three species are lovers of warm aquarium water, the temperature range for maintenance being 24 °C to 31 °C, with the fishes sometimes requiring temperatures as high as 33 °C for breeding


OpenUnison is a new approach to identity management. OpenUnison combines web access management and provisioning services into a single system. Utilizing an internal virtual directory, powered by MyVirtualDirectory, OpenUnison can combine identity data from several sources such as Active Directory, LDAP directories and relational databases. OpenUnison combines most of the features of the commercial version of Unison, with the main difference being that OpenUnison is packaged as a J2EE application that is deployed into any J2EE container such as Tomcat or JBoss where as Unison is packaged as a stand alone service with a UI and management system.
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