partial H}{\partial p_j} = y_{j+1} \\ \dot p_j = -\frac{\partial H}{\partial y_j} = -p_{j-1}-p_{n} \partial_j G(y_0,y_1,\cdots,y_{n-1}) \\ \dot y_n = \ \ \,\frac{\partial H}{\partial p_n} = G(y_0, y_1, y_{n-1}) \\ \dot p_n = -\frac{\partial H}{\partial y_n} = -p_{n-1} \end{array} \right.
 then there is possible to write the Hamiltonian for each differential equation, that can describe a dissipative system.
 The interesting thing is that the Hamiltonian-Jacobi equation and the Schrodinger equation are equal for this differential equation (classical system=quantum system):
 $ 0 = \partial_t \Psi + H(t,y_j,\partial_j \Psi) $
 7. John Baez says:
 Over on G+, Alex Golden wrote:
 This reminds me of the study of Dirac structures, a sort of generalization of Hamiltonian systems that allow I/O relationships.
 I replied:
 Yes, that's a topic I plan to talk about! I found this book pretty helpful:
 - Vincent Duindam, Alessandro Macchelli, Stefano Stramigioli and Herman Bruyninckx, eds., Modeling and Control of Complex Physical Systems: The Port-Hamiltonian Approach, Springer, Berlin, 2009.
 If you know other good sources, I'd be happy to hear about them.
 I turned up this free paper:
 - Arjan van der Schaft and J. Cervera, Composition of Dirac structures and control of port-Hamiltonian systems, _URL_
 and Jess Robertson turned up an easier paper by one of the same authors:
 - Arjan van der Schaft, Port-Hamiltonian systems: an introductory survey.
 - Eugene says:
 I would treat the claim that port-Hamiltonian systems have Dirac geometry under the hood with caution. Until last summer I more or less accepted this claim at face value it and spent some time and effort to understand it. For conservative systems with non-holonomic constraints Dirac structures look like a right framework, but may be an overkill. But for nonlinear systems with external forces and phase spaces with nontrivial topology I don't think it works. For a bit I hoped that Courant algebroids, would be enough, but again, I don't see how to fit in external forces/dissipation nicely.
 Way back in the 1980s Brocket suggested that there should be something called a Hamiltonian control system. But in practice these systems are of the form H + \mu_1 G_1 + \ldots \mu_n G_n, where H is your Hamiltonian, the G_i's are other functions on your phase space, and \mu_i's are the control variables. A more general geometric definition doesn't seem to exist.
 - John Baez says:
 Eugene wrote:
 I would treat the claim that port-Hamiltonian systems have Dirac geometry under the hood with caution. Until last summer I more or less accepted this claim at face value it and spent some time and effort to understand it.
 Thanks for the warning! Much as it may seem I've forgotten, I have your work in mind and I'm slowly creeping toward the point of studying it more carefully and discussing it here. I am going to start by doing some things with 1) electrical networks built from only linear resistors and 2) electrical networks built from only linear 'passive' elements, e.g. resistors, inductors and capacitors. I get the impression that Dirac structures are able to handle these cases, even though the resistors introduce dissipation. Do you agree?
 I think there's lots of fun left in linear systems, but I eventually want to do nonlinear ones, and then I'll really need your help.
 - Eugene says:
 I should add that what confused me were differences in terminology. Dirac structures were defined by Ted Courant and Alan Weinstein in the early 1990s as a simultaneous generalization of Poisson and symplectic geometry. But in engineering/applied math literature "Dirac structure" is used more loosely. In particular it seems to include Riemannian metrics and combinations of metrics and Poisson tensors. In particular whenever you see dissipation there is a symmetric tensor involved (or, more precisely a sum of a(n almost) Poisson tensor and a metric) and this is not a Dirac structure in the sense of Courant-Weinstein. The terms metriplectic and Leibnitz also gets thrown around and seem to roughly mean the same thing, as far as I can tell.
 - John Baez says:
 Thanks. In the review article I cited, in Section 2.3.3, van der Schaft uses Dirac structures to describe a class of port-Hamiltonian systems with dissipation. I'm hoping this formalism is appropriate for describing linear systems with dissipation, like circuits made of linear capacitors, inductors and resistors. Do you know if it is?
 - Eugene says:
 I used to be very confused by this paper. I still am. The paper does prominently feature Dirac structures (as defined by Courant and Weinstein and as commonly understood in Poisson geometry) but then there is equation (29) on p. 1349 which has this funny R(x) term. And it is not something you would/should see in a Hamiltonian system defined by a Dirac structure. Another confusing thing about the survey is that flows and efforts are not generalized velocities and momenta; they don't live in the so called Pontriagin bundle. They live as sections of a certain vector bundle and its dual (trivial vector bundle in van der Schaft's set up). So what is really being talked about, or so it seems to me, is a generalization of a Courant algebroid-like structure with a metric term. The closest description I have seen in literature is that of a Leibnitz-Dirac structure (cf arziv:_PHONE_ [math.DG]). But the geometry seems to be is that of a Leibnitz-Courant algebroid, yet undefined in literature. Looks like you'll have to invent it!
 8. Uncle Al says:
 I suspect it's because the laws of physics are symmetrical under translations and rotations. When the assumptions of Noether's theorem hold, this guarantees that the total momentum and angular momentum of a closed system are conserved. Symmetry under rotation, vacuum isotropy, is rigorously true for massless boson photons. They detect no vacuum anisotropy, refraction, dispersion, dichroism, gyrotropy (arxiv:_PHONE_, 0912.5057, 0905.1929, 0706.2031, _PHONE_, _PHONE_). Observation suggests the vacuum is trace chiral anisotropic toward fermionic matter:
 Baryogenesis Sakharov conditions obtain if cosmic inflation was pseudoscalar false vacuum decay, resolving the Weak interaction. Inflated spacetime is trace chiral anisotropic toward fermionic matter. 1) Parity "violations" are intrinsic. 2) Noetherian connection between vacuum isotropy and angular momentum conservation leaks, hence MOND's 1.2×10^(-10) m/s^2 Milgrom acceleration, ending dark matter. 3) SUSY and quantum gravitation, despite rigorous persuasive mathematics, empirically fail as written. Strop Occam's razor with observation.
 Opposite shoes fit into trace chiral vacuum with different energies. They locally vacuum free fall along trace non-identical minimum action trajectories, violating the Equivalence Principle. Crystallography's opposite shoes are chemically and macroscopically identical, single crystal test masses in enantiomorphic space groups: P3(1)21 versus P3(2)21 alpha-quartz or P3(1) versus P3(2) gamma-glycine. Run geometric Eötvös experiments.
 Microwave spectrometers are more accessible. Racemic chiral molecular rotors launched at identical spin temperatures diverge spin temperatures when moving through a vacuum chiral background. Vacuum supersonic expand helium-entrained vapor of racemic D_3-trishomocuban-4-one, an intensely geometrically chiral rigid rotor, to initial <5 kelvin rotation temperature in a chirped pulse FT microwave spectrometer. If enantiomers' rotation temperature spectra diverge, Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble gravitation's chiral spacetime torsion is validated. Somebody should look. The worst they can do is succeed, explaining everything.
 DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-_PHONE_
 9. dcorfield says:
 "Preece…disliked Heaviside's fancy math". Which just goes to show how relative such judgements are


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The class definition shown above declares Ameth. The C++ source below defines Ameth:
 int
 baseA::Ameth(int in, char other)
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 };
This method definition yields three stabs following the code of the method. One stab describes the method itself and following two describe its parameters. Although there is only one formal argument all methods have an implicit argument which is the this pointer. The this pointer is a pointer to the object on which the method was called. Note that the method name is mangled to encode the class name and argument types. Name mangling is described in the arm (The Annotated C++ Reference Manual, by Ellis and Stroustrup, isbn 0-201-51459-1); gpcompare.texi in Cygnus GCC distributions describes the differences between GNU mangling and arm mangling.
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Here is the stab for the this pointer implicit argument. The name of the this pointer is always this. Type 19, the this pointer is defined as a pointer to type 20, baseA, but a stab defining baseA has not yet been emitted. Since the compiler knows it will be emitted shortly, here it just outputs a cross reference to the undefined symbol, by prefixing the symbol name with 'xs'.
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 type_desc(ptr to)type_ref(baseA)=
 type_desc(cross-reference to)baseA:",N_RSYM,NIL,NIL,register_number

 .stabs "this:P19=*20=xsbaseA:",64,0,0,8
The stab for the explicit integer argument looks just like a parameter to a C function. The last field of the stab is the offset from the argument pointer, which in most systems is the same as the frame pointer.
 .stabs "name:sym_desc(value parameter)type_ref(int)",
 N_PSYM,NIL,NIL,offset_from_arg_ptr

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Eastern Collared Lizard
eastern collared lizardSo named because of the dark lines around its neck, the Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris collaris) is probably better known by Oklahomans as the "mountain boomer."
A brightly colored specimen, the Eastern Collared Lizard may be identified by its tan, yellow or green shades, and the small light spots scattered over its upper body. Females are yellowish-tan with only faint spots covering the body. Both possess the dark brown, irregularly shaped "collar," and adults of both sexes typically measure 8 - 14 inches in length.
A diurnal species, the Eastern Collared Lizard is especially active in warm, sunny weather. These lizards prefer an air temperature of 73° - 93° F, and as such, are active from April through September, though young lizards may remain active through October.
Mountain boomers are often observed sunning on rocks and boulders, yet quickly retreat to the security of a crevice if approached. If threatened in an open area, it is capable of running very fast to escape. In such a situation, the lizard may run on its hind legs with the forward part of the body held upright. Each lizard defends a home territory by chasing away other collard lizards when that territory is violated.
As they are cold-blooded reptiles, the Eastern Collared Lizard must find a burrow to spend the winter months in. Such burrows are usually found under large rocks, 8 - 12 inches deep. During their active months, mountain boomers live among limestone, sandstone or granite glades, and prefer those facing south or southwest for maximum exposure to sunlight.
A brief courtship and mating season extends from mid-May to early June. The males court by displaying their brightly colored throat and body, while prancing around the female. Twenty days after breeding, the female will lay from 2 - 21 creamy-white leathery eggs in a burrow beneath a large rock. Hatching 2 - 3 months later, the young will have dark bands with yellowish crossbars, and average 3 - 4 inches in length.
Eastern Collard Lizards eat a variety of insects including grasshoppers and beetles, but also eat spiders, small snakes and lizards. While their diet renders them beneficial to humans, they are subsequently preyed upon by large snakes, hawks and roadrunners.
Common throughout the southwestern United States, the mountain boomer probably received its nickname from settlers who saw the lizards sunning on rocks, while hearing the barking of a frog. In reality, the Eastern Collared Lizard is voiceless.


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Mryia, full Mryia Jackalope, alos known as Atomhirsch, is a German furry writer and photographer.
Mryia is a fine-art photographer of abandoned places. Mryia is an active part of the German Urban Exploration (Urbex) scene under the pseudonym Atomhirsch (The name could be translated into nuclear deer).
Equipped with a Pentax K20D DSLR camera he sneaks, creeps and climbs into all kinds of abandoned buildings and places to make his artistic shots of a world after mankind. Sometimes he carries a life-sized inflatable reindeer with him as a kind of mascot, or use a deer mask to hide his face when making self-portraits while trespassing.
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Mryia was known as a plushophile with a large collection of big plushies in his earlier furry life. One of his hobbies was sewing and making SPHs to make plushies anatomically correct.
He was also took commissions from all over the world and had a good reputation with his work.[citation needed] Notably, he sold two plush toys to the New York Museum of Sex - one rabbit (in a FurBid auction) and one Meeko.[1]
Mryia's furry persona is a special form of the Jackalope, the German Rasselbock, named mryia, taken from the Ukrainian language to mean dream (The English pronunciation being mreea). He normally appears as an anthropomorphic hare with deer antlers, as well as tusks like a predator. The..
Mryia has written a lot of furry stories, many of which are erotic, although most of them are in German. Some of his most popular stories are Tales of the Jackalope and Kleiner Tiger Mikhal. Most of his literary works can be found at SoFurry.
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What's the difference between x:Key and x:Name in WPF?
Not sure what the true difference is.
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_USER_, the question you listed as a possible dupe is unrelated to this. – Josh Dec 13 '10 at 3:39
how is it a duplicate? The other question talks about Name vs Type. This question is about Key vs Name. – jalf Dec 13 '10 at 3:40
My mistake, I misread the "possible dupe" question. Apologies. – Alastair Pitts Dec 13 '10 at 3:51
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Although they are used for similar purposes, they are not interchangeable. x:Key is used for items that are being added as values to a dictionary, most often for styles and other resources that are being added to a ResourceDictionary. When setting the x:Key attribute, there is actually no corresponding property on the object or even an attached dependency property being set. It is simply used by the XAML processor to know what key to use when calling Dictionary.Add.
x:Name is a bit more complicated. It's used to apply an associated name to an object (typically an object derived from FrameworkElement) within the scope of some parent element. This scope is called a "namescope" and the easiest way to think of it is to imagine a UserControl that contains a .
You could then put multiple instances of the UserControl onto a Window without the name "foo" colliding because each UserControl has its own namescope.
It's worth noting too that FrameworkElement defines a dependency property called Name that is equivalent to setting x:Name.
The other difference is that the XAML designer creates members in the code-behind for elements that have an x:Name. This is not true of objects added to a dictionary using x:Key.
You can find more information about these in the remarks section of the MSDN documentation for the x:Name directive.
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x:Key is only valid in the scope of a ResourceDictionary element. x:Key is used as the primary identifier for elements in the ResourceDictionary.
On the other hand, x:Name is valid in the scope of everything but a ResourceDictionary. x:Key is not valid outside the ResourceDictionary scope.
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Operations and Maintenance for Major Equipment Types
Equipment lies at the heart of all operations and maintenance (O&M) activities. This equipment varies greatly across the Federal sector in age, size, type, model, condition, etc.
No single resource covers all equipment in use by Federal agencies, and listing major equipment types is beyond the scope of this Web site. Instead, FEMP outlines major equipment types within chapter 9 of the FEMP O&M Best Practices Guide.
The FEMP O&M Best Practices Guide focuses on:
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The guide provides the following information for each equipment type:
- General equipment descriptions and operating principles.
- Key maintenance components.
- Important safety issues.
- Cost and energy efficiency issues.
- Water related efficiency issues.
- Recommended maintenance checklists.
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Sessile marine mussels must "dry" underwater surfaces before adhering to them. Synthetic adhesives have yet to overcome this fundamental challenge. Previous studies of bioinspired adhesion have largely been performed under applied compressive forces, but such studies are poor predictors of the ability of an adhesive to spontaneously penetrate surface hydration layers. In a force-free approach to measuring molecular-level interaction through surface-water diffusivity, different mussel foot proteins were found to have different abilities to evict hydration layers from surfaces - a necessary step for adsorption and adhesion. It was anticipated that DOPA would mediate dehydration owing to its efficacy in bioinspired wet adhesion. Instead, hydrophobic side chains were found to be a critical component for protein-surface intimacy. This direct measurement of interfacial water dynamics during force-free adsorptive interactions at solid surfaces offers guidance for the engineering of wet adhesives and coatings. Home and dry underwater: Repulsive hydration forces hinder wet adhesion in the absence of applied external forces. The direct measurement of hydration-water dynamics by NMR relaxometry at 10 GHz revealed that the most hydrophobic mussel adhesive protein, and not the most enriched with 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine, effectively dries the surface and overcomes repulsive hydration forces to adsorb spontaneously to surfaces in preparation for adhesion.

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1. Introduction to Camtasia Studio on Windows.: Welcome to Camp Tasia Studio. This is an introduction to the most productive software I have ever used. Camped Asia Studio helps me quickly make screen capture videos on my Windows computer. Now, technically, I'm recording this with wire cast, which I'll show you later in the course on You know me because it's easier to record this instead of trying to record it while I'm doing it. So this is Camped Asia Studio, and this is what I've used to fill most of my videos on using May I've also used Camped Asia to which is the Mac version of the same thing. You can find out more about camped Asia if you don't know much already, or if you don't have it on the Tech Smith website at tech smith dot com slash kemp. Tasia. This is why I originally bought Camped Asia, and I actually bought it in a bundle with the snag It software also, so you can go do that and you can get 1/2 off coupon also if use the free trial version and email them for it. So thank you very much for being here. These are the basic features of camp Tasia studio that are most helpful to know right here is your clip bin and right here is the timeline, so I can show you that quickly. By recording something very fast, I'll go into more detail on each feature. I'll get you off of the fast start now. So you click record screen and you see this little green bar around here. That's what How I know I'm according I've got the Web cam off in the audio on, and you can select your audio sources here. It's important to recording a good resolution 10 80 p or 7 20 p. I'll go into that more so once you hit record, this is what happens. You get to record and it records the screen. Now it's very easy to make a good course if you just show what you're doing on your screen. Because people all over the world can relate to a screen capture tutorial, you can show things like Here's how you browse the Camp Tasia features. Here's how you go get the free trial for Camp Tasia, etcetera. So this is how you do screen capture tutorials. This is how they work. And then once you're done. You just bring up the record window. And now, if you don't like that clip, you just recorded it all. You can just delete it. If you do like it, you get stop. And then I hit saving exit because that allows you to go in and edit, or you can it produce. If you're sure it's absolutely perfect from the go, which usually it's not. So then you have a place. You save the raw recording file the raw recording file, and that's where you can work with it from now. This is then your clip, Ben. So where the actual videos are that you're working with? So this the Camp Tasia recording file and automatically when you record it puts it down here on the timeline. Now I've recorded the system audio and the screen with the microphone audio together, so there's two tracks here. The track that's on top is the one shown, So if you want to get rid of something, you select it. Hit, delete. And then I deleted the system audio right there. So this is where the work gets done, so to speak. This is your Whatever you've recorded is right here. and blue. And when you zoom in, the easiest way to edit is to go pull out the part before you started talking. Now the microphone I used is a little far away because I'm not technically recording on this computer. So your audio should be higher up here, and usually, once you go down and trim based on the audio, you can shrink here, trim out, say the audio ends there you can tell based on just watching it. So if you get play, then the video that was shown right up here. So when you get playing, you can skip to the end, you can fast forward, or you can grab the little play point here to move around than this allows you to zoom in or zoom out so you can see different parts. For example, I'm zoomed out here. This is 20 minutes of video. I zoom in here. This is now down to 10 seconds of video. In the timeline, you have the different options. You can go to your library to pull other clips. In here, you can make call out so little symbols and arrows and things on the video. You can zoom in on the video itself. I always leave it just the way it is because I don't want things to be pixelated. I figure if I'm screen capturing, it's better to just leave it the way it is to start. You can do your audio here, your transitions here, and I'll go into most of this more in detail. If you want to record the camera that's in the MAWR option, it took me a while of fine, so if you want to record the camera, it's right here. So between all of these, you have a powerful studio set up that you can use, and once you're done, you hit produce and share, and I'll show much more on this. I usually select my screen cast custom that I've set up that way. Make sure it's an editing dimensions. Next, put the title in and finishing it renders it. If your computer render slow, you probably need another computer or to change the video format. These are the basics of Camp Tasia going to much more in detail with you. The main thing you can get out of this is just the motivation to do it and learn it yourself. You can watch these videos. I can show you some things that will help you learn it faster than learning it yourself or trying to figure these things out yourself. Like for me. It took a while to find the record camera option in Camp Tasia because it's not up here so you can learn a little faster. Ultimately, if you really want to be able to do this, it just takes practice. It just takes your own time and energy in the interface itself. I went bought the full version right away. So if you just go commit to it, go by and I think that's easier and messing with the free trial I love Camped Asia. 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From a Notification to a Movement: Exploring a MENA Activism Toolbox [Bread&Net 2020 Session]
The session demystifies online transformation leadership in the civil society by introducing online tools and modules that can be used to understand a given context, organize activist and volunteer groups and bring new mediums to the advancement of civil rights causes in critical contexts; especially where access to the internet may be limited due to political, economic or cultural conditions.
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Despite its growing importance, women are highly underrepresented in Sri Lanka's tourism sector, with females accounting for less than 10% of the workforce. Moreover, female enrollment in hotel schools in Sri Lanka is disturbingly low. These figures do not bode well in the context of a growing sector and the country's already low female labour force participation rate. Within Sri Lanka's hospitality sector, men are found to outnumber women in all occupational categories, except for Guest Relations and Front Office staff and Marketing functions. Thus, attracting more women into the sector will help to address the growing labour shortage, a crucial deterrent to the industry's growth.
Tourism is the third largest revenue earner for Sri Lanka, accounting for US$ 3.5 billion in 2016. With the rise of informal accommodation, there have been both challenges and opportunities in the industry. This blog argues that registering and regulating the informal sector is necessary to create a level playing field in the industry, to maintain standards, and to encourage small service providers.
This article explores the environmental, community and sustainability aspects of the new star rating system of registered hotels in Sri Lanka and how the hotels can benefit from this system.
Good Environmental Management Practices in the Hotel Industry in Sri Lanka: Determinants and Barriers
With the tourism sector in Sri Lanka recording remarkable growth, it is imperative to ensure that this growth is environmentally sustainable. Are hotels in Sri Lanka adopting good environmental management practices?


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text: We describe and illustrate the application of a geographical information system (GIS) approach to map ice gouge locations and depths from high-resolution multibeam echo sounder (MBES) bathymetric surfaces by calculating residuals relative to spatially variable moving trend surfaces. The workflow can be used to rapidly characterize gouges over large areas and, because minimal human intervention is required, is especially attractive in heavily gouged areas where traditional manual measurement techniques would be tedious and produce highly uncertain results. The method produces maps showing gouge depth as a continuous field rather than point measurements or cross-gouge profiles, so that variations in depth along gouges can be easily visualized and analyzed. Once gouges have been delineated, gouge depth distribution statistics can be further used to estimate exceedance probabilities for gouge depths within local neighborhoods. Seafloor roughness maps can also be generated to highlight the spatial variability of seafloor disturbance and, in a relative sense, visualize the ages of different gouges if certain assumptions are satisfied. We illustrate application of the method using a sample MBES data set depicting a heavily gouged portion of seafloor.


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Fill in the Missing Race Car Numbers
What is the fastest way to count cars? This worksheet will give your child practice counting by filling in the blanks of the race cars. To complete this worksheet your child will need to look at the different numbers and determine which ones are missing in the counting sequence. What number comes between 47 and 49? After completing this worksheet your child will have improved his counting skills.
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John Jeffrey (14 November 1826 – 1854) was a Scottish botanist and plant-hunter active in the United States.
Jeffrey was born in Forneth, Parish of Clunie, west of Blairgowrie and Rattray in east Perthshire. While working as a gardener for Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden, he was appointed by a Scottish group known as the Oregon Association (established 1849) to travel to North America. There he would collect seeds and continue the efforts of botanist David Douglas (1799–1834).
Jeffrey arrived at Hudson Bay in August 1850 and travelled more than 1,200 miles (1,900 km) overland to reach the Columbia River. He then spent the next four years exploring Washington, Oregon, and California, sending his specimens back to Scotland. In 1854 he disappeared while travelling from San Diego across the Colorado Desert. Despite attempts to find him, he was never seen again.
At the time, Jeffrey was criticised for poor results but his discoveries, particularly of conifers, were significant. The Jeffrey Pine (Pinus jeffreyi), which he discovered near California's Mount Shasta in 1852, and the flowering plant Dodecatheon jeffreyi were named in his honour.
- Coville, Frederick V., "The Itinerary of John Jeffrey, An Early Botanical Explorer of Western North America", in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 23 March 1897. Vol. 11, pp. 57–60.
- Harvey, A. G., "John Jeffrey: Botanical Explorer", in The Siskiyou Pioneer in Folklore, Fact and Fiction and Yearbook, Siskiyou County Historical Society. 1947. pp. 17–19, 39.
- Woods, P. and J., "The Oregon Expedition 1850–1854: John Jeffrey and his Conifers", Acta Horticulturae 615: IV International Conifer Conference.


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Given the significant size and complexity of the organisation, responsibility for areas of speciality are distributed across the team. The areas of speciality are identified through a combination of portfolio(s) and strategic foci.
A portfolio is an area of interest relevant to a common industry speciality or domain. At CSU, these portfolios include areas such as Application Architecture and Information Architecture. Identifying an individual team member for each of these areas allows a deep understanding of these domains and provides continuity in service provision over time. Responsibilities for portfolios are typically ongoing and seldom change.
Strategic Foci are specific areas of interest that require dedicated attention but are not specific to a single portfolio area or domain. For example: the Identity Management strategic foci requires consideration of infrastructure, information, security and more.
Additionally, strategic foci can sometimes have shorter periods of relevance and as such allocations of foci to individual Architects can change over time. For example: the transition from four to three faculties is a significant change requiring dedicated attention for a period of time, however, once complete, the foci will withdraw from primacy.
The Senior Enterprise Architect (Digital) is responsible for coordinating Enterprise Architecture activities across the team.
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|Information||Learning and Teaching|
|Infrastructure||Three Faculty Transition|
|Business Intelligence and Analytics|
|Initiatives and Projects|
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Fox School of Business at Temple University researchers outline why brands would be wise to include micro-influencers as part of their marketing strategy this holiday season
PHILADELPHIA — It's the holiday shopping season and by all accounts, it's going to be a big one. According to a recent OpenX Technologies report, consumers are expected to spend more than last year, and this is especially true for millennials. The report found that millennials plan to spend 15% more than the average shopper and 25% more than baby boomers.
So how are companies and brands supposed to break through the noise to reach these potential customers? Two Temple University Fox School of Business professors believe the answer could be micro-influencers.
"Micro-influencers bring credibility and authenticity," says Jay Sinha, associate professor of marketing and supply chain management. "The best ones bring in their own personal narratives that mesh well with the brands they endorse."
Together with Thomas Fung, assistant professor of marketing and supply chain management, Sinha recently authored the "Right Way to Market to Millennials," published in MIT Sloan's Management Review.
A micro-influencer is not Cardi B or Rihanna. Rather, they are defined as those that have a follower base numbering between 1,000 and 100,000. They're someone that a millennial can relate to, and that's what's been missing with traditional influencer marketing.
A recent study by Bazaarvoice noted that traditional influencer marketing is falling out of favor; 63% of online audiences noted that influencer content is materialistic and misrepresents real life. In comparison, micro-influencer marketing is just the opposite.
"They provide opportunities for companies, big and small, to reach out to narrow and often difficult-to-access subpopulations," Sinha says. "Micro-influencers have finessed the subtle 'nudge' into an art form."
According to Sinha and Fung, some of the more prominent brands using micro-influencers include Nike, Sephora, Levi, Microsoft and many others. That will remain the case this holiday season.
For instance, Zales Jewelers recently partnered with YouTube star Jaci Marie Smith and her husband, Leif Carlson, to create a "Holiday Love Story" across a number of social platforms. Similarly, clothing retailer H&M recently created the H&M League, a group of 22 influencers who have been promoting the brand for the year. Much of the content specifically revolved around key holiday dates like Black Friday and New Year's Eve.
"As department stores fight for relevance ahead of the start of the holiday shopping season, micro-influencers command a significant role in framing a new marketing narrative," Fung says. "Boomers might be okay with 'sea of sameness' product offerings, however, millennials thrive on an 'experience playground,' where micro-influencers become their lifestyle coaches."
This micro-influencing trend likely is not going anywhere anytime soon, either.
"Even though there are indications recently that 'influencer fatigue' has set in among millennials, they still remain open to those micro-influencers that have suasive power over them from their charisma and expertise in some niche market category," Sinha says.
About the Fox School of Business
The vision of Temple University's Fox School of Business is to transform student lives, develop leaders, and impact our local and global communities through excellence and innovation in education and research.
The Fox School's research institutes and centers as well as 200+ full-time faculty provide access to market-leading technologies and foster a collaborative and creative learning environment that offers more than curriculum—it offers an experience. Coupled with its leading student services, the Fox School ensures that its graduates are fully prepared to enter the job market.
The flexibility and responsiveness of our knowledge-creating research faculty allow the school to address the needs of industry and generate courses and programs in emerging fields. As a leader in business research, the Fox School values interdisciplinary approaches and translational research that influence and impact real-world problems. Our research informs an adaptive curriculum, supports innovation in teaching and prepares students for the ever-changing business environment.


When a Resource has proposed an alternate date for a task and you want to reject this date and assign the task to a different Resource.
Step-by-step guide
 1. Go to the Task Details page
 2. Click on the drop down arrow next to the 'Accept Date' button
 3. Click 'Reject Date'
 4. In the popup window click 'Reject' button
 The task will now be split into 2 tasks.
 1. The Resource that was originally allocated the task will be sent an email notification that the proposed alternate date was rejected and the task will be at status 'Rejected' in the rejected task list for the Resource.
 2. The original task will be set back to status 'Unplanned' and move to the Future task list with the Resource field now blank.
 To assign this task to another resource use Reassign a Task after rejecting the alternate date proposed.


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Annual freshwater withdrawals, total (billion cubic meters)
Annual freshwater withdrawals refer to total water withdrawals, not counting evaporation losses from storage basins. Withdrawals also include water from desalination plants in countries where they are a significant source. Withdrawals can exceed 100 percent of total renewable resources where extraction from nonrenewable aquifers or desalination plants is considerable or where there is significant water reuse. Withdrawals for agriculture and industry are total withdrawals for irrigation and livestock production and for direct industrial use (including withdrawals for cooling thermoelectric plants). Withdrawals for domestic uses include drinking water, municipal use or supply, and use for public services, commercial establishments, and homes. Data are for the most recent year available for _PHONE_.


A beginner's guide to dowsing lotto numbers
It's no doubt that when people approach dowsing, they often express high interest in dowsing for lottery. Who wouldn't want to guess the lotto numbers after all?
There are many ways one can go about dowsing the lottery. We will outline the 2 most popular ones below:
1) Dowsing chart for lottery
We covered a lot of topics related to dowsing charts on this site. Charts can also be used for dowsing lottery numbers. The principle is very simple: you need to either build or buy a dowsing chart, which can be of three types: list charts, fan-like charts or diagram charts. You then start asking the right questions. From broader questions such as 'am I going to get winning numbers today?', to more specific ones such as 'is 23 a winning number for the next time I play?' etc. If you are not familiar with dowsing charts for the lottery or dowsing charts in general, we highly recommend reading this post first.
2) Pendulum dowsing for lottery numbers
Pendulum dowsing is a big topic by itself. So much so that we have a full category dedicated to it. When dowsing for lottery (or lotto) numbers using a pendulum, it is important to follow the basics of pendulum chart dowsing first. In simple terms, dowsing for lottery winning numbers is not different from pendulum dowsing in general. What changes is the types of questions asked. Example of questions that can be asked when pendulum dowsing the lottery: 'are you going to indicate at least one winning number today? [If using dowsing chart]', if yes, then you can ask 'are you going to indicate at least two winning numbers today?' etc etc.
Dowsing the lottery skills
Most people who start dowsing for lottery, also want to get some sort of guidance at first. This is very understandable, especially because dowsing the lottery is more complex than water dowsing for example. Water dowsing can leverage the knowledge someone has about a particular soil or geographic and geological area, where dowsing the lottery can mostly rely on your dowsing skills and intuition.
Where to start: dowsing lottery numbers PDF
If you are going to dowse the lottery, you may want to have a starting point that is relatively easy to get to. PDFs can be very useful in this case. For example, if you are going to search dowsing the lottery pdf, or dowsing lottery numbers pdf in the search engines, you will likely be redirected to this dowsing lottery PDF. The document has 31 pages, it is free to download and contains plenty of insights on lottery dowsing. Definitely recommended as a starting point, especially for beginners.
Final thoughts
As seen above, dowsing the lottery is one of the most requested dowsing applications, especially amongst beginners. However, it requires a certain level of experience and may not be for everyone. Dowsing the lottery numbers can be done with charts, pendulums or even rods, which can be combined with dowsing PDFs. At the end of the day, one must believe in dowsing first of all, and then always be aware of the potential risks associated with dowsing.


text: La3+-doped BaSnO3 microtubes (La3+–BaSnO3) have been synthesized by electrospinning method, and the influence of La3+ content on the sensing properties of BaSnO3 for detection of formaldehyde vapor has been investigated. The as-prepared materials have been characterized using XRD, SEM, DSC, XPS, and UV-Vis. The La3+–BaSnO3 sample doped with 4 wt% La exhibited a response as high as 220 to formaldehyde vapor (1000 ppm concentration) along with a very low detection limit of 0.1 ppm at 270 °C, whereas at 140 °C, it exhibited a response of 80 and detection limit of 1 ppm. In addition, the sensor showed excellent selectivity of 57 to formaldehyde at 140 °C when compared with other vapors. Further, the sensor also showed good repeatability and stability over a long period of time suggesting its strong potential as a commercial formaldehyde sensor.


NSArray enumeration performance examined
One day, I was thinking about NSArray enumeration (also called iteration): since Mac OS X 10.6 and iOS 4, there's the wonderful new world of blocks, and with it came enumerateObjectsUsingBlock:. I assumed it must be slower than fast enumeration (for (object in array) {... }) due to overhead, but I didn't know for sure and thus decided to actually measure the performance.
Which kinds of enumeration do exist?
Basically, we have four kinds of enumeration available (see also Mike Ash's Friday Q&A 2010-04-09: Comparison of Objective-C Enumeration Techniques).
 1. objectAtIndex: enumeration
 NSUInteger count = [myArray count];
 [self doSomethingWith:[myArray objectAtIndex:index]];
 2. NSEnumerator
 NSEnumerator *enumerator = [myArray objectEnumerator];
 id object;
 while (object = [enumerator nextObject]) {
 [self doSomethingWith:object];
 3. NSFastEnumerator
 id object;
 for (object in myArray) {
 [self doSomethingWith:object];
 4. Block enumeration
 [self doSomethingWith:object];
 [self doSomethingWith:object];
Linear enumeration
First, let's discuss linear enumeration: one item after the other.
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Somewhat surprisingly, NSEnumerator is even slower than using objectAtIndex:. This is true for both Mac OS X and iOS. I suspect this is due to the enumerator checking whether the array was modified with each iteration. Somewhat unsurprisingly, fast enumeration holds up to its name and is the fastest solution.
For small arrays, block enumeration is a bit slower than objectAtIndex:, but with more elements in the array the performance becomes almost as fast as fast enumeration.
The difference between fast enumeration and NSEnumeration is already quite big with a million entries: on the iPhone 4S, the former took about 0.037 seconds while the later took about 0.140 seconds. That's already a factor of 3.7.
An oddity
The very first time an NSArray is allocated in a program and the very first time an enumerator is requested with objectEnumerator it takes an unusual long time to complete. For example, to allocate an array with one element the median was 415 nanoseconds on my 2007 MacBook Pro 17". But the very first time an array was allocated it take more than 500,000 nanoseconds, sometimes even up to 1,000,000 nanoseconds! The same with querying the enumerator: instead of the median of 673 nanoseconds it took also took more than 500,000 nanoseconds.
I can only guess about the reason, but I suspect lazy loading is to blame. You probably won't notice this in a real application because by the time your code is running Cocoa or Cocoa Touch probably already has created an array.
Concurrent enumeration
Block enumeration offers the option to enumerate the objects concurrently, if possible. This means the work load is potentially spread over several CPU cores. Not every operation to be done while enumerating can be parallelized, so concurrent enumeration only makes sense if no locking is required within the block: either because each operation really is absolutely independent or because atomic operations can be used (like OSAtomicAdd32 and friends).
So, how well does it perform compared to the other enumeration methods?
The graphs
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For small number of elements, the concurrent enumeration is by far the slowest method. This probably has to do with the additional work that needs to be done preparing the array for concurrent access and starting the threads (I don't know whether GCD or "traditional" threading is used and it doesn't matter; it's an implementation detail we shouldn't need to care about).
However, if the array is large enough all of a sudden concurrent enumeration becomes the fastest method, just as expected. On the iPhone 4S and a million entries, it took about 0.024 seconds to enumerate with concurrent enumeration, but 0.036 seconds with fast enumeration. By contrast, NSEnumeration took 0.139 seconds for the same array! That's already a pretty big difference, a factor of 5.7.
On my office 2011 iMac 24" with a Core i7 quad-core CPU, the million entries where enumerated concurrently in 0.0016 seconds. Fast enumeration of the same array took 0.0044 seconds and NSEnumeration 0.0093 seconds. That's a factor of 5.8 which is pretty close to the iPhone 4S results. I was expecting a bigger difference here, though. On my 2007 MacBook Pro with Core2 Duo dual-core CPU, the factor was "just" 3.7 here.
The threshold when concurrent enumeration became useful was somewhere between 10,000 and 50,000 elements in my tests. With less elements, just go with normal block iteration.
I also wanted to know whether the performance is any different depending on how the array was created. I tested two different methods:
 1. Create a C array which references the object instances and create the array using initWithObjects:count:.
 2. Create a NSMutableArray and subsequently add objects using addObject:.
There's no difference when iterating, but there is a difference when allocating: the initWithObjects:count: method is faster. With a very large number of objects, this difference can become significant. Here's an example on how to create an array with NSNumbers:
NSArray *generateArrayMalloc(NSUInteger numEntries) {
 id *entries;
 NSArray *result;
 entries = malloc(sizeof(id) * numEntries);
 for (NSUInteger i = 0; i < numEntries; i++) {
 entries[i] = [NSNumber numberWithUnsignedInt:i];
 result = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:entries count:numEntries];
 return result;
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How did I measure?
You can download the test application to see how I've measured. Basically I'm measuring how long it takes to iterate an array without actually doing anything else, and repeat that 1000 times. For the graph, the median for each array size was taken. Compilation was done with optimization turned off (-O0). For iOS, testing was done with an iPhone 4S. For Mac OS X, I used my 2007 MacBook Pro 17" and my office 2011 iMac 24". The graphs for Mac OS X show the results of the iMac, but on the MacBook Pro the graphs looked similar, it just was slower.


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Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Time: Light buffet supper at 5:30 PM; lecture begins at 6:00 PM
Location: Biddle Rare Book Room
Contact Information: Rachel Ingold, _PHONE_ or rachel.ingold(at)duke.edu
Please join the Trent History of Medicine Society/Bullitt History of Medicine Club for its next speaker series event on Tuesday, February 14, 2012. P. Preston Reynolds, MD, PhD, FACP, will be discussing "The Federal Government's Efforts to Racially Integrate Hospitals Under Medicare, _PHONE_." Dr. Reynolds is Professor of Medicine in the General Medicine, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care Division and a faculty member for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
For more than 30 years, Dr. Reynolds' research has focused on the history of race discrimination in healthcare and medical education. She has published and lectured on the subject, received major funding from the NIH and national foundations, and won awards for her scholarship. She currently is writing a book on the history of Durham's black hospital, Lincoln Hospital, and healthcare for blacks in the Carolinas, and revising a comprehensive guide to resources on the history and contributions of African Americans to the health professions.


When designing for a digital brand, you or your designer has to find a balance between creating something visually novel and exciting whilst communicating all the important stuff. Icons and images come hand-in-hand to set the tone for your user's experience and invite them to soak up your brand's identity and ethos.
Here we put together a "how to" guide, focusing firstly on using icons and images in design. Covering all the basics, it's a great springboard for you to jump off and into your digitally creative pursuits.
Let's dive in.
simple line art icon designs
Icon designs by Clicky
How to feature icons successfully
Icons add visual accents to digital designs. If you have a lot of info to present, they are a brilliant tool for breaking up text-heavy content into a more digestible and exciting format. In order to do this effectively, you need to be strategic.
Read on to discover five great ways for implementing icons into your visual content.
1. Signify key points
Our favourite spring cleaners, bullet points or numbered lists, work to declutter text. Separating bits of info from the rest of the text body, they highlight key points and takeaways. A more creative approach to the classic list format involves iconography.
COVID measures icons
via Alex Solorzano
Designing unique symbols to further purvey your brand identity and relay your message in a visual way keeps the rhythm light and bouncy for your reader. For instance, take a look at this set of infographics, illustrating the steps that this brand is taking to handle the Covid-19 pandemic. Not only does it explain this important information in a light-hearted, easy-to-read way but it's full of character and represents the brand's values.
2. Label charts or graphs
Some designs suit being text heavy (think written articles or the blurb section of a book cover) but other informational content, such as infographics, requires a more visual approach. One of the benefits of iconography is that it allows readers to visualise the text, which can be especially valuable when you're trying to communicate data or stats.
Six components of human beings with and without icons
via Visme
Take a look at the above example, first without icons and then with icons. Doesn't the option that includes icons look so much less cluttered and easy to read? It's because there are visual supporting elements for each label, helping to explain each point.
One thing to be sure of is that you're always incorporating icons that are hyper-relevant to the point, or else they won't make sense. You're not adding icons for the sake of adding icons—you're doing it to ensure your designs are easy-to-understand and visually appealing.
Let's look at another type of infographic in the below images, noting the differences between these two data visualizations. Swapping written statistics and names for a chart labelled with visual logos creates a clearer, more accessible and, therefore, more efficient design.
Teen social media usage with and without icons
via Visme
3. Show consistency
There are so many different styles of icons, from flat, to outline, to isometric and more, that it can feel a little overwhelming to know where to start. We've rounded up three things for you to keep in mind when choosing or designing iconography for your project. Finding the right stylecolor and size is crucial for consistency and reflecting your brand identity.
Icon style
As there are so many different styles of icons to choose from, it's important to stick to a single icon style throughout your design, regardless of which one you choose.
Here's an example to help showcase why this consistency is so important:
Britain attitude to meat icon differences
via Visme
See how in the first instance, the icons have a similar look and feel? It makes the design as a whole feel cohesive and put together. But in the second example, the carrot is a black outline icon while the lettuce remains a colorful icon, throwing the viewer off and disrupting the design.
Icon color
Another important aspect of icon consistency is color. While certain contexts demand that icons retain "logical" colors (see the carrots and lettuce in our previous example), sometimes it's more fun to get creative. One way to do so is to match the icon's colour with the data widget they appear in (or the overall color scheme), like the following set of coordinating colors between the statistic and their corresponding icon.
Webinar viewers data
via Visme
Icon size
Large icons in Portuguese
Via Beatriz Ayres
A final major thing to consider when implementing icons into your design work is their size. Whatever message they are denoting, consider whether that message is just as significant as the other points. If so, and you want your reader to consider each one equally, the size of your icons should reflect this as each element in a design project should be streamlined together. What's more, using the same sized circles helps create a uniform look around some of the more oddly shaped icons, which leads us to our next point…
4. Add a background
Graph information
via Visme
As you may have noticed in the previous examples, an icon as a line shape is often dramatic enough. Sometimes, however, you may wish to add an extra contrasting layer to your design to really make the iconography dazzle and this means adding a background. Apart from the usual spherical shapes to back your icons, there are a couple of other creative avenues you can explore, including sizing, shape, placement and transparency… whatever takes your fancy, really.
infographics step by step
Via Visme
5. Adding animation
What is Design Thinking?
via Visme
If you weren't excited enough, why not contemplate animating your icons? Adding ticking, twitching or trembling adds drama and communicates the symbol's message more effectively. Allow an excess of creativity (and motion) to run through your iconic ideas and see what happens… until then, let's talk about images.
How to maximise your image potential
Got some fab graphics and not quite sure how to fit it into your webpage? Perhaps you're in the midst of designing a digital space or platform and need some inspiration on jazzing it up. Imagery grabs attention; they entice users towards your call-to-action and provide an enriched experience. Not only this, but they tell your brand's story and ethos; visually speaking.
Contrasting and complimenting white space and brand colors, featured images are so significant in design that you need to get it pretty perfect to distinguish yourself from competitors. So, we thought it'd be cool to put together five alternative techniques for presenting imagery in your designs.
1. Crack a crop
crop image pattern
Via Visme
crop image pattern
One unusual way to incorporate images into your designs is to crop them into abstract shapes and create unique patterns. You could start with something simple like a square, circle, or triangle (or something asymmetrical if you're feeling adventurous) and then play around with the dimensions to find the right fit. If it's a geometric design you have in mind, you could also try tiling, with some shapes exposing the image and some filled with complimentary/contrasting block colors.
2. Use images as a background
Community Share online marketing image
via Visme
Filling a background with an image creates atmosphere and welcomes the reader to make a deeper connection with your brand. You can try different techniques, like using a transparent box out to display text over the image but make sure you choose contrasting colours and placement to keep things easy to read.
3. Cutouts
food photography cut outs
Via Visme
food photography cut outs
Love the main element in an image but not its background? Slice away the bits you don't need into an image cutout (see donut). This technique gives you a lot more freedom as you're able to slot it's main feature into your design without having to worry about the edges of a square/rectangular photo feeling awkward. It also opens up your site to embrace white space. Get creative with it, and see how many similar image cutouts you can use. You might even place your image cutout over part of your text to give more depth to your design.
4. Collages
Surreal graphic
via Matt Pamer
Since around 1910, the practice of collaging has evolved alongside several art and culture movements. These days, it flirts with white space to create digital designs that are dynamic, packed with character and brand identity and enthralling to look at. A brilliant way to tease or playfully manipulate content, it is the ultimate alternative mode to present imagery through.
You can use a slick grid system as a base or perhaps you want to go "old school", scan and rip up photos before putting them together into a digital collage oozing a grungy D-I-Y aesthetic. Be explorative with compositions but ensure it all ties in nicely with your overall brand identity and color palette.
5. Add a simple transition
Artist magazine image
via Zhenya Rynzhuk
A big entrance never hurt anyone and images are no exception. Static websites can be incredibly powerful, but they can also be unapproachable. A simple motion transition increases interactivity between site and user, offering a memorable experience for the user while creating another chance to express individual brand identity.
Time to take the plunge
Icons and imagery may be small additions to your designs, but they can have a huge impact. With these 10 tips you can start integrating them into your designs to take them to the next level. Not sure what type of icon or image will work for you? The best approach to perfecting digital design is through experimentation. Choosing the right icons and imagery and learning how to manipulate them to fit the


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The Contact Database is a database of Contact Items. The main API to the Contact Database is provided by the CContactDatabase class. The CContactDatabase class allows clients to create (CContactDatabase::CreateL()) a new Contact Database, or open (CContactDatabase::OpenL()) an existing one.
Once opened, the database can be searched and sorted, and items within it can be edited or read, new items can be added and existing ones can be deleted (CContactDatabase::doDeleteContactL()). To edit an item, it must first be opened. Changes to the item can then be committed to storage using CContactDatabase::CommitContactL(). Only open items can be committed.
Client applications that need to be updated dynamically, as the database is altered by other clients, should derive from class MContactDbObserver. The observer's MContactDbObserver::HandleDatabaseEventL() function will be called in response to each change to the database.
When contacts are modified the database can become fragmented, limiting the amount of space available. This leads to less efficient storage. To determine whether defragmentation is required for the database use CContactDatabase::CompressRequired().This function provides an easy way of testing whether the database is being used efficiently. ETrue is returned if a compression of the database is recommended. To compress the database to its minimum size use CContactDatabase::CompactL().
CContactDatabase::IsDamaged() tests to see whether the database is corrupted and needs to be recovered. If the database is corrupted it can be recovered through a rollback. CContactDatabase::RecoverL() first closes all tables in the database and then reopens them after the database is repaired. CContactDatabase::DatabaseRollback() will force a rollback of the database.
Copyright ©2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
All rights reserved. Unless otherwise stated, these materials are provided under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0.


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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A sequence of positions on a chess board, which sequence includes each square precisely once, and where successive positions are a knight's move away from one another.
- n. A similar sequence on a board of any size or shape.
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Quebec produces more than 70 percent of the world's maple syrup and the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers is a cartel every bit as rapacious as OPEC or De Beers. The Federation is government backed and all producers must sell to them.He cites one passage from this story:
To keep prices high, the federation enforces strict quotas for the province's 7,400 producers. Instead of flooding the market during years with bumper crops, all syrup produced beyond that amount is stored in the federation's warehouse, which helps prop up prices by limiting supply. When seasons are lean, it releases the syrup, to maintain stable supply and pricing.This passage alone is not that convincing as one can see that as simply stabilizing prices as opposed to driving them systematically higher. The entire article is worth the read and the Federation does seem to brag about keeping prices high. I do have to make one small protest to its actual pricing evidence:
The federation changed the calculus. In 2003, a majority of federation members voted to make production quotas mandatory, meaning farmers could sell only a certain amount each year. Farmers are required to sell all their syrup through the federation or its designated agents. Under the system, prices have risen to 2.92 Canadian dollars a pound for the highest grades of syrup, from 2.14 Canadian dollars in 2004.This represents a 36% nominal price increase. With Canada's consumer price index have increased by about 20% over the same period, we are talking about a real increase closer to 14%. Then again, I would argue there are close substitutes for Quebec maple syrup but then I may be biased as I love my honey.


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Creating Salary Advance Deduction Pay Head (Payroll)
In Tally.ERP 9, you can create pay heads to account for deduct loans given to an employee from their salary.
To create the Salary Advance Deduction pay head
2. Enter pay head name in the Name field.
3. Select Loans and Advances as the Pay head type from the list of Pay head type.
4. Select Loans and Advances (Assets) from the List of Groups, in the Under field.
By default, Affect Net Salary is set to Yes. Type No, if you want to exclude this component from the pay slip.
By default, the Pay Head component name entered in the Name field appears in the Pay Slip. If you want to change this, enter the appropriate name in the Name to appear in Payslip field.
5. Set As User Defined Value as the Calculation type, from the List of Calculation.
6. Press Enter to accept.
Note: You may need to recover from the employee's salary, the interest towards the loan/advance given. In such cases, you can use the interest calculation feature to calculate the EMI for each month, and set the Calculation Type as Flat Rate to recover the amount.


Paint Format tool in Google documents
Google documents lets you copy the formatting you've applied to a specific section of text to another section using the paint format tool. If you're familiar with the paint format tool in Google spreadsheets, this works in a similar manner.
To use this tool, select the text that's formatted in the way that you want to copy. Then, click the paint roller icon in your toolbar, and select the text to which you want to apply the formatting. The formatting from the original text will be copied to the selected text.
To change the formatting in multiple places within your document, double-click the paint roller icon. You'll enter a mode that lets you highlight multiple text selections, and apply the same formatting to each selection. When you're done applying formatting to these selections, click the paint roller icon again.
You can also use the paint format tool with keyboard shortcuts. To copy the formatting of selected text, press Ctrl + Alt + C (Windows or Chrome OS) or ⌘ + Option + C (Mac). To apply the formatting you copied to a different text selection, press Ctrl + Alt + V (Windows or Chrome OS) or ⌘ + Option + V (Mac).
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text: Tic-Tac-Toe is a Design Studies tutorial that explores strategies and methods of approaching and revealing design thinking. Over one semester we explore 9 propositions that form alternatives to the status quo and offer ways to challenge design strategy. These tactics are a random selection of 9 – yet they offer a discourse on how we might interrogate the ideas we assume are critical to the essence of design action: The 9 tactics explored Generosity, Empathy, ReUse, Repair, Culturing, Play, Futuring, Co-working, and finally Making. At the end of 12 weeks each participant proposed a tactic that offered an alternative to an already understood design thinking practice. This reveals how this might be demonstrated in a project.This a a compilation of propositional design tactics proposed by the participants of the Tic-Tac-Toe, design Studies Tutorial.


Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection
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Spanning the decades between the late 1890s and early 1960s, Central to Their Lives brings together for the first time the paintings and sculptures of forty-two diverse women artists who made significant contributions to the art of the South. This exhibition examines the challenges female artists faced during a period in which women's social, cultural, and political roles were being redefined and reinterpreted. Whether working from dedicated studio spaces, in spare rooms at home, or on the world stage, the artists showcased made remarkable impacts by fostering future generations of artists through instruction, incorporating new aesthetics into the fine arts, and challenging the status quo. Organized by the Johnson Collection in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the exhibition includes works by leading figures in the Charleston Renaissance such as Alice Ravenel Huger Smith and Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, as well as Corrie McCallum, Minnie Evans, Anne Goldthwaite, Clementine Hunter, and Augusta Savage.
This exhibition is sponsored by the Gibbes Museum Women's Council, Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Charleston Magazine, the Jane Smith Turner Foundation, and Kenneth and Martha Severens.


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The Billhead evolved from what was known as a "Trade Card," and in the twentieth Century, became known as letterhead. It was created by printing a heading at the top of a sheet of paper, usually from an engraved copper plate. The lower part of the sheet was used for writing a list, a note, or a bill. The standard billhead measured seven to eight inches wide, and four inches or more in length, depending on the need for space for writing the bill. The printed heading usually included an illustration, and sometimes a street address or location of the business. They also included space to write the date and town where the business transaction took place. They were printed on durable rag paper up until the 1860's and 1870's, after which they were printed on thinner woodpulp paper. In general, billheads of this style were in use and remained relatively the same for approximately a 150 year time frame, over three centuries. As historical artifacts, billheads are useful for providing information about tradesmen's products and prices. They help document the types of goods and services that consumers were purchasing.
The American Antiquarian Society has a collection of over 500 billheads representative of what was printed between the 1780's and 1900. They are housed in two boxes. The first box is devoted entirely to billheads from Boston merchants. The other box includes billheads from traders and hotels located in several states, including Massachusetts. They are organized alphabetically by city and state.
-Terri Tremblay, Assistant Curator of Graphic Arts
Source: Rickards, Maurice, The Encyclopedia of Ephemera. New York: Routledge, 2000.


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The short films were launched by Union Minister Anurag Singh Thakur
- The Investor Education & Protection Fund Authority (IEPFA) has come up with six modules of short films to highlight the importance of budget, saving, importance of Insurance schemes, various social security schemes of the government.
- The modules — of 5 minutes duration each —also portray the consequences of a common man falling prey to the ponzu schemes and how they should protect themselves from such schemes
- Hisaab ki kitab is a series of six short films, developed by CSC eGov as a part of their training tool. These short films will be used by IEPFA and its partnering organisation for Investor Awareness Programs across the country,
- In financial inclusion, a number of steps have been taken by the Government. As a result a large sections of the population have been brought into the formal financial fold. In this context, promoting and deepening financial education would play a "very important part in our endeavour to realise our collective potential,
- Senior representatives of various partnering organisations of IEPF Authority like the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan, India Post Payment Bank, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, ICSI and ICAI attended the virtual event.


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Part of #Synoptical Analysis of Instability Index and Determination Precipitable Water Which Effect on Torrential Rain in Kermanshah# :
Publishing year : 2005
Conference : The first Iranian-Korean joint workshop on climate modeling
Number of pages : 8
Abstract: One of the most important disaster in the west of Iran, Particularly in cold season is flood. The precipitation in the west regions is longer when tropical systems are dominant. In this study, we studied this percidence, which is accompanied by convective instability. One long precipitation period (1994) in the cold season of ltermanshah (47 "04" N-34 "18" 44 B) was selected to study.Maps: surface 500 and 300 hectopascal levels, upper atmosphere of the kermanshah zone & skew -T diagrams at (1200UTC) hour were used for synoptical analysis. The thermodynamic indexes of the mixing ratio, Potential temperature and instability of the Atmosphere (Show Tell Index, K index, Convective Available Potential Energy) and perticiable water were studied and As a result of the west systems, In these periods, accompany with a medium-low pressure system on the earth's surface and upper atmosphere, Trouph and provided enough moisture have a suitable pattern for precipitation. In this region the wind
speed is at maximum which can be identified from maps 30 hectopascal 1evels.With the above calculation factors we can opine about torrential rain in the west of Iran.


What is the success rate of IVF on the first try?
success rate of IVF
With the advent of Assisted reproduction technologies and In Vitro Fertilization techniques, having babies through artificial methods has helped many aspiring couples realize their dreams of parenthood.
For couples, trying to have a child through extensive procedures like IVF; can be physically, emotionally, and financially draining. And so, it becomes crucial to understand the chances of a successful IVF prone to differ individually.
While there are chances of having a successful IVF pregnancy on the first go itself, what if the IVF fails, can be a question clogging your mind. IVF success rate varies individually depending on the maternal age, the techniques and procedures used, experience and expertise of the doctor, and the cause of infertility a couple is experiencing.
Although the success rate is well above 40% for the first IVF cycle, and many have had successful IVFs in the first attempt, some may require more than one IVF cycle to accomplish their parenthood dreams.
This article helps understand the IVF success rates, factors influencing the IVF success, and how you can go about after an unsuccessful IVF.
Table of Contents
Feel free to skip ahead if one topic catches your eye:
 1. What is the success rate of IVF on the first try?
 2. Factors Impacting IVF Success Rates
 3. Tip for successful IVF cycle
 4. If it Fails, When Should I Try Again?
Takeaway
1. What is the success rate of IVF on the first try?
Are you planning for an IVF treatment for the first time and worrying about the success rate? With the high rise in infertility rates, IVF has been a silver lining for couples aspiring to have babies. The best part of IVF treatment is that it can get successful even on the first attempt. And if opting for a second attempt after a failed IVF, your chances of success are likely to increase provided you have a proper analysis of the reasons for a failed IVF.
The IVF success rate is the rate of conducting an IVF procedure successfully subject to change between clinics. The rate of IVF success is the percentage of the number of successful IVF cycle embryo transfers (ET) to the total number of IVF performed in a clinic.
ivf success rate
Every clinic in India gives a different success rate that depends on variable factors. However, considering all the factors influencing IVF success rate, including maternal age, the IVF success rate in India is around 40%.
2. Factors Impacting IVF Success Rates
Previously, speculations were running around, about IVF procedures and success rates. But, now, things seem changed, and with wide acceptance, millions have embraced parenthood through IVF. The success of the whole process of IVF is influenced by factors such as:
 - Age of the mother: One of the most influencing factors of IVF success rate is maternal age. Generally, women under 40 have higher IVF success rates than women above 40. And women between the age of 24 to 34 are more likely to have a higher IVF success rate. The reason is that advancing age can impact the quality and quantity of eggs produced.
 - Reasons for infertility: Infertility in men and women can be due to various causes. Some of them can be addressed through the IVF infertility treatment like:
 1. Sperm fertility factors- low sperm count, poor sperm quantity, abnormal sperm morphology
 2. Ovulatory disorders- irregular menstruations or delayed menstrual periods
 3. Unexplained fertility
 4. Fertilization issues
 5. Egg quality problems
 6. Genetic conditions of the couples
 7. The blocked uterus or fallopian tubes in women
 8. Blocked ducts or vas deferens in men
 9. Retrograde ejaculation and erectile dysfunction in men
 - The clinic and doctor's experience: The clinics' embryological lab set-up, technologies used, and the doctor's expertise to handle complications associated with infertility also adds to IVF success rate.
 - IVF advanced procedures: Preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) of embryos, Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), laser-assisted hatching, blastocyst culture, and many more can help improve IVF success rates.
3. Tips for successful IVF cycle
Lifestyle and environmental factors like smoking, exposure to harmful chemicals, pesticides, and stress can influence IVF success rates. If you are planning for an IVF treatment, taking precautions and following tips can help optimize your chances of a successful IVF attempt.
 - Maintain a healthy body weight by eating healthy, maintaining proper eating habits, moderately exercising, and shedding the extra kilos for a healthy pregnancy and IVF.
 - Make changes in your lifestyle. These include avoiding smoking and alcohol intake. Avoid exposure to cigarette smoke, harmful chemicals, and pesticides before and during the IVF treatment, as these can impact your IVF success rates.
 - The Clinic's experience, expertise of IVF specialists, and the technology and techniques used also determines the IVF success rates. Choosing the right clinic is an important step towards IVF success.
 - Advanced IVF techniques, like PGT, ICSI, Laser-assisted hatching, embryo implantation enhancement protocols, can make a difference and enhance your chances of IVF success.
 - Intended parents experience a lot of stress and anxiety during IVF. And this can negatively impact IVF success. Try to destress, relax, continue with hobbies and activities of interest, exercise, maintain a healthy fertility diet and routine while undergoing the IVF procedure.
what to avoid for successful ivf, Tip for successful IVF cycle
4. If it Fails, When should I try again?
IVF journey can be arduous, and IVF failure can be distressing, painful, and heart-wrenching. IVF can drain your finances as well. Although coping with an IVF failure is not easy, having a stable mind and the courage to overcome the emotional toll is the key.
Sometimes a natural pregnancy can also be possible after a failed IVF attempt. You can speak with your doctor and look for options to consider a natural pregnancy or analyze the reasons for failure with IVF failure evaluations such as:
 - Uterine evaluation test or Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)- Done to assess the uterus and fallopian tubes.
 - Sperm DNA fragmentation test- To check the integrity of the sperm DNA
 - Endometrial receptivity assay (ERA)- To determine if the uterine lining is receptive for implantation.
 - Preimplantation genetic testing for Aneuploidy (PGT-A)- Screening of embryos for aneuploidies
 - And other immunological tests- To detect immunological abnormalities
Once the reason for IVF failure is analyzed, you will need to be strong from within before you decide to proceed with another IVF cycle. Statistically proven, the possibility of IVF success increases with the second IVF cycle which is almost 51%.
If considering a second IVF cycle, you can choose to use the embryos preserved during the first cycle or even go with donor options. Medically, you can have the second IVF embryo transfer even after a month of IVF failure.
However, healing yourself physically and emotionally must be the priority and trying after a few months of complete healing would be ideal.
Takeaway
IVF is a very laborious and stressful process of hormonal interventions, regular clinic visits, and extensive procedures. With progressive technologies in ART, IVF success rates have drastically improved. And there are better chances of having a successful IVF even on the first attempt.
Dr. Preeti Singh is a renowned Obstetrician-Gynecologist in Noida. Her experience in handling complicated infertility cases and IVF is immense. She ensures your fertility-related issues are dealt with great care and expertise.
Also Read: Is It Possible To Have Normal Delivery in IVF?


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What is SMART?SMART (Standardized Monitoring and Assessment of Relief and Transitions) is an inter-agency initiative launched in 2002 by a network of organizations and humanitarian practitioners.
SMART Methodology is an improved survey method for the assessment of severity of a humanitarian crisis based on the two most vital public health indicators:
- Nutritional status of children under-five.
- Mortality rate of the population.
SMART NewsUPCOMING SMART TRAINING: An inter-agency training will take place in Madrid on June 17th-21st, 2013, intended for European-based headquarter staff involved in nutrition and mortality surveys. Please make sure you have filled out the pre-questionnaire no later than Friday, May 24th, 2013: _URL_
Preparing survey teams in SMART
The SMART standardized survey methodology incorporates elements of nutrition, mortality, and food security for emergencies or surveillance purposes. It was developed to be used with the user-friendly ENA software.
The SMART manual provides agencies & field workers with basic tools to collect data necessary for planning direct interventions in emergency settings, as well as for surveillance.
Standardized Training Package (STP)
The STP harmonizes the procedures and tools used throughout the survey process and is broken down into 9 modules.
Emergency Nutrition Assessment (ENA) Software
ENA software is the user-friendly analytical program recommended by SMART. It saves time and effort by simplifying both survey planning and data collection via integrated calculators.


How to Tell If a Ceiling Fan Is Broken
John Smith
Like any appliance, ceiling fans wear out and eventually have to be replaced. When a ceiling fan is broken, it means it does not operate correctly. Some ceiling fans become broken beyond repair and need to be replaced. This particularly applies to fans with burned-out motors. Other ceiling fans can be fixed if only part of the fan is broken. A broken fan can be a safety (or fire) hazard. Look (or listen) for some obvious signs that a fan is broken.
 1. Check for electrical problems if the ceiling fan does not turn or does not make any noise at all. If it's not an electrical problem, the fan almost certainly has to be replaced,
 2. Notice if the fan produces a burning smell. A fan that smells may very well have a motor and ball bearings that are permanently damaged.
 3. Look to see if the blades turn normally. Blades that turn very slowly, or take longer than usual to begin to spin, are signs the motor and the fan are probably broken beyond repair.
 4. Listen for clicking or scraping noises. The source of the noises can be the result of many things, including a broken (or bent) blade. A blade that is warped can also create a noise and cause the fan to shake badly.
 5. Look to see if the fan has a severe wobble or shake. Some of these problems can be corrected by balancing the blades, but they can also indicate part of the fan is broken.
 6. Listen for a humming noise. A humming noise will often go away on its own, or could indicate a problem with the fan's motor.
 7. Know that some ceiling fans are "lemons'' like any other appliances. Fans can be broken in transit and simply need to be replaced.


text: © 2022 Elsevier B.V.The UV-absorbing and non-fogging glass coatings containing carbazole-based conjugated backbone with different lengths of hydrophilic PEG subunit (KP-PEG) were produced. The characterizations of the polymers were carried out by using different techniques such as FT-IR, 1H NMR, GPC, TGA and DSC. Transmittance and thin-film morphology analyses, which are essential for UV protection and wettability, were investigated by UV–Vis absorption, AFM and TEM techniques, respectively. Transparent thin films prepared by the polymer solutions in chloroform were obtained by spin coating method at a scan rate of 2000 rpm. The wettability performance and antifogging properties of these surfaces were investigated depending on the PEG length in the polymer subunit. The water contact angle of the surfaces was improved to the range between 60° and 29° depending on the amount of PEG group. KP-PEG750 is the best polymer thin film in terms of having the highest roughness, optimum UV absorption and the low contact angle value.


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As early as possible, the superintendent makes a decision to take one of the following actions: open schools on schedule, delay the opening of schools or cancel school for the day. Information about school closings or delays is shared with the public in several ways:
- Notification calls – parents/guardians receive a mass notification call from the superintendent (for a districtwide schedule change) or principal (for an individual school schedule change);
- Website – notice will be posted in the banner of the district website at District196.org;
- District Twitter (_USER_) and Facebook (_USER_) accounts, and
- TV and Radio – Twin Cities television stations and WCCO-AM Radio (830) are notified about a schedule change for District 196 schools.
If school is canceled
If school is canceled for the entire day, the following activities are also canceled:
- All daytime and after-school Community Education activities (Early Childhood Family Education [ECFE], Early Childhood Special Education [ECSE] and Adult Basic Education [ABE] programs);
- Elementary school after-school and evening activities, and
- Middle school after-school and evening activities.
- School-age Care (SAC) will be canceled when there is a snow-related school cancellation; SAC will be held at predetermined locations if there is a temperature-related school cancellation.
- Decisions about whether to hold evening high school and evening Community Education activities are made by mid-afternoon and communicated on the district website and information line by 3 p.m.
If the start of school is delayed
If the start of school is delayed, all school buses, except Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) buses, operate on a normal but delayed schedule and the following activities are canceled:
- Morning and afternoon early childhood special education classes (ECSE);
- Morning Adult Basic Education (ABE) classes;
- Morning and afternoon Connections Preschool classes;
- Morning and afternoon Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) classes; and
- Morning Community Education activities, including SAC.
Other school schedule changes
If severe weather develops or is predicted during the school day, schedules may change in one or more of the following ways:
- Afternoon Connections Preschool, after-school Community Education activities, ABE, ECSE, ECFE and SAC may be canceled;
- School may be dismissed early, and/or
- Middle school and high school activity bus routes may be canceled.
Early dismissal will only take place in the event of an emergency. We encourage all parents to have a plan in place should their child need to come home early from school due to weather or an emergency. In developing your plan, keep in mind that in certain emergency situations students may be immediately evacuated and may not be able to go back into the school to get keys or other belongings from their lockers.
How decisions are made to cancel or delay school
Decisions to cancel or shorten the regular school day and after-school activities are made by the superintendent in consultation with other staff. Although severe weather conditions are the most common reason for a change of school schedule, other events such as a utility outage or malfunction could necessitate the delay, cancellation or early dismissal of school.
The over-riding concern in making the decision to cancel or delay the start of school is the safety of our students, staff and others in the community. Beyond that, the process becomes more complicated. The fundamental decision is whether students and staff will be safer with school in session or canceled for the day. Several factors are considered, including the following:
- Road conditions are extremely important and must be considered throughout the 110 square miles that make up our district, including rural areas where blowing snow can severely limit visibility for drivers;
- School buses can drive through very deep snow, but they can't make it through to school if intersections are clogged with stuck vehicles;
- Wind chill is also important, especially if there is the possibility of buses running late and students having to wait a longer time at their bus stop;
- The weather forecast for the remainder of the day is also considered, as well as reports from our cities as to when key roads will be plowed, and
- Finally, the actions of other districts in the area are considered.
When severe winter weather occurs, the following steps are taken to examine weather conditions and decide whether to delay or cancel the opening of school:
- By 3:45 a.m., district Transportation Department employees are driving on key roads throughout the district and contacting city and county highway departments to determine if the roads are safe for travel.
- By 5 a.m., the Transportation Department coordinator contacts the superintendent with information on weather and road conditions and to discuss whether there may be a need to change the school schedule.


Level: ECE/Toddler
Grades: Pre-K | Age: 2-5 | Written by: Jessica
[Jessica is a teacher at the Quinsigamond Child Study Center, in Worcester, MA]
Preschoolers will create a collaborative painting together using coffee cans, paint and golf balls.
What You Need:
-Empty Large Coffee Can With Lid
-Thin Paint
-One Golf Ball For Each Color of Paint
-Plastic Spoons
-Paper Cut To Fit Inside Of Can
-Two Children
What You Do:
 1. Place golf balls in a small bowl of paint.
 2. Each child uses a spoon to take out a golf ball from their color choice of paint (two colors work best, one for each child) and transfer them into a coffee can lined with art paper.
 3. Place lid on the can.
 4. Have children sit on the floor and roll the can back and forth for as long as they wish.
 5. When they are done, open the lid, pour the balls back into the paint and pull out the painting that they created together.
 6. To label the paper, do so on the back side before children start.
 7. To ensure that each child has a 'copy' to take home, have each pair make two.
 8. This is a wonderful photo opportunity, and if displaying the photos, have each pair make three creations!
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