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Numismatics is history and few collecting genres embrace this more than shipwreck coins. Canada far exceeds any other nation in the world with over 200,000 kms of coastline, so it stands to reason that we'd be front and centre when it comes to wreck discoveries, especially ones transporting quantities of coins. At the Geoffrey Bell Auctions Ltd. Toronto Coin Expo 2018 Spring Sale two important ships sunk of the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia will be represented.
The HMS Feversham was a 32 gun British warship launched in 1696. The ship's design was ideal for colonial coastlines, but in 1711 it joined three supply ships off Cape Breton to ready for an attack on Quebec, encountered a gale and went too close to Scatarie Island where the ships sank. 100 of the Feversham's crew perished and 49 survived.
The coins recovered from the Feversham in 1986 make up a rare and historically important snapshot as to what circulating coinage of the time looked like because they were intended pay for supplies and wages.
Being auctioned in the Spring Sale is a Potosi, assayer V, waves/pillar type 8 real cob, 1683, double date weighing 22.9 grams. It possesses a nice, fine obverse and is ex: Nadin Davis International.
In 1761, the Auguste, a former French privateer ship, sank off the coast of Nova Scotia after fighting a losing battle with a winter storm. The ship was transporting French aristocrats and officers exiled from their Canadian homes after the Seven Years War between France and Britain. Only 7 of the 121 aboard L'Auguste made it to shore alive.
The coins recovered from this wreck were the life savings of the exiles being transported to France and were diverse, high quality coins saved over many years. The lot available in Toronto consists of a nice 1735A French ecu, also ex: Nadin Davis International.
The Toronto Coin Expo 2018 Spring Sale, which takes place May 3rd and 4th, 2018, is shaping up to be a memorable auction, featuring exceptional quality material for every collecting field.


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There is an important distinction: lo mismo means that the two things are actually the same object (or idea, or person, or whatever), while igual means that they have many characteristics in common. For example, say you are walking down the street and see a random person. The next day, you happen to see that person again. You'd probably think "Debe de ser la misma persona", that is, it probably was the same person you see both days. However, if you somehow found out it was actually a pair of twins you saw, you'd think something like "Con razón; eran iguales", meaning "No wonder; they looked the same".
In short, lo mismo is about identity, igual is about appearance or characteristics. Let's say your grandma says "Estás igual a tu padre" (You look just like your father). It makes sense, because igual doesn't mean you are the same person, it just means you look alike.
As a further example, say a couple is getting divorced. The man asks why, and his wife says "No eres la misma persona que cuando te conocí" (You are not the same person as when I met you). Physically, the man may look just like the time they met, but he may have changed in other ways, and therefore is not considered the same person.

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code for how to call an event of a form into another form in c# window forms
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 - 12 years ago
 isn't that a bit much? he can just subscribe to the events from with the other form
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Text;
 using System.Windows.Forms;
 namespace Demo
 {
 class Program
 {
 static void Main(string[] args)
 {
 Form form1, form2;
 form1 = new Form();
 form2 = new Form();
 form1.Text = "Main form, close this to exit";
 form2.Text = "Second form, closing this does nothing";
 form2.Load += new EventHandler(form2_Load);
 form1.FormClosing += new FormClosingEventHandler(form1_FormClosing);
 form2.Show();
 Application.Run(form1);
 }
 static void form1_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
 {
 MessageBox.Show("Closing Application");
 }
 static void form2_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
 MessageBox.Show("Form 2 loaded");
 }
 }
 }
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Ministry of Public Health today announced the registration of 623 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and the recovery of 61 cases, bringing the total number of recovered cases in Qatar to 750.
Most of the new cases are for expatriate workers most of who have been subject to quarantine after it was found that they were in contact with confirmed cases.
All newly infected cases have been put into isolation and are receiving the necessary medical care.
With the registration of 61 new recovered cases, the total number of people to have recovered from COVID-19 is 750.
The Ministry of Public Health stated that the recent increase in the number of confirmed new cases of coronavirus is due to several reasons, including that the spread of the virus has begun to enter the peak stage (i.e. the highest wave that affects the country), which may continue to increase for a period of time before it begins to decline.
It is also due to the increase in the efforts of the Ministry and its medical teams to track the transmission chains of coronavirus and expand the surveillance process, including of groups of contacts with people who were previously diagnosed with the disease. All of this has contributed to the early detection of many cases of infection and reduced the spread of the virus.

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In 2011, one HSC student made headlines because an intruder into her family hope had strapped a device she was told was a bomb strapped to her neck in an attempt to blackmail her wealthy parents for money.
The man was eventually caught, charged and sent to prison.
Incidents of blackmail are historically prevalent and continue to be so today.
The offence of blackmail in NSW
Section 249K of the Crimes Act sets down a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison for the crime of blackmail, which is where a person makes any unwarranted demand with menaces with the intention of:
- obtaining a gain or causing a loss, or
- influencing the exercise of a public duty.
The maximum increases to 14 years where the person threatens to commit a serious indictable offence, which is any offence that carries a maximum penalty of at least five years' imprisonment.
Examples of serious indictable offences include larceny (stealing), assault occasioning actual bodily harm, robbery etc.
Section 249L explains that a demand with menaces is 'unwarranted' unless the person believes that he or she has reasonable grounds for making the demand and reasonably believes that the use of the menace is a proper means of reinforcing the demand.
'Menaces' is defined by section 249M to include:
- an express or implied threat of any action detrimental or unpleasant to another person, and
- a general threat of detrimental or unpleasant action that is implied because the person making the unwarranted demand holds a public office.
The section makes clear that a threat against an individual does not constitute a menace unless it would cause:
- an individual of normal stability and courage to act unwillingly in response to the threat, or
- the particular individual to act unwillingly in response to the threat and the person who makes the threat is aware of the vulnerability of the particular individual to the threat.
Further, a threat against a Government or body corporate does not constitute a menace unless it would:
- ordinarily cause an unwilling response, or
- cause an unwilling response because of a particular vulnerability of which the person making the threat is aware.
In any event, it is immaterial whether the menaces relate to action to be taken by the person making the demand.
Section 249N defines the terms 'gain', 'obtaining a gain', 'loss' and 'causing a loss'.
A 'gain' is defined as any gain in money or other property, whether temporary or permanent, and includes keeping what one has.
'obtaining a gain' includes obtaining a gain for oneself or for another person.
A loss is a loss in money or other property, whether temporary or permanent, and includes not getting what one might get.
'causing a loss' includes causing a loss to another person.
And finally, section 249O defines 'public duty' as a power, authority, duty or function:
- that is conferred on a person as the holder of a public office, or
- that a person holds himself or herself out as having as the holder of a public office.
Going to court for blackmail?
If you are going to court for blackmail, impersonating a police officer or another criminal offence, call Sydney Criminal Lawyers® anytime on (02) 9261 8881 to arrange a free first conference with an experienced criminal defence lawyer, who will take the time to advise you of your options, the best path forward and the costs involved.


I'm having a strange experience trying to reproduce a token of ɛ / æ from a native speaker of Thai. When I play my attempt back it sounds like a reasonable copy, but looking at it in Praat, the formants are quite a bit off. With some experimentation I can produce a vowel with similar formants, but it doesn't sound like the original token. This would seem to indicate that I'm latching onto something other than the formants in the original, that that quality is present in my initial attempt to copy the sound but not my later attempt to reproduce the formants, and that it's throwing my perception of the formants off... but what could it be?
Is there any research into the perception of foreign language sounds that might cast light on how the perception of vowels can be distorted by factors like (say) nasalisation or voice quality?
There is a lot of research on how some acoustic factor can influence perception of a sound: the challenge would be narrowing the choices down to something more specific. The situation that you face involves some specific limitations / complications such as the fact that you are perceiving a foreign language, and you are perceiving your productions of a foreign language. This paper may be a useful hook into research on perception issues in foreign language acquisition
The other challenge would be correctly characterizing the difference between the target vowel and what you (or any subject) is producing. For example, there was a study by Blodgett, Rytting and possibly others on Americans attempting to produce Vietnamese tones, where Americans or at lease the subjects sampled are bad enough that Vietnamese speakers have problems understanding productions. The reason turns out to be that Vietnamese tones are not just pitch profiles, they involve phonatory properties which American speakers were not getting. A sub-problem regarding the difference between target and speaker production is that the formant information from Praat may be wrong (the settings may be inappropriate).
 - Thanks. I'm reading the formants off the spectrogram so assuming F1 is going to be stronger than the 5th and 6th harmonics there shouldn't be a problem there. I think it must be something to do with voice quality because if I synthesize a vowel based on the formants from the original token and copy that, the formants match. The original is quite nasalized and there's hardly anything above F2 (1950), so maybe that's what's throwing me off. OTOH it could be that if you turn something into a non-linguistic sound by synthesizing it, there's less interference from L1 when you come to imitate it. – rchivers Jun 27 '20 at 21:01
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Terabit and Bit are units of digital information used to measure storage capacity and data transfer rate. Terabit is a decimal unit where as Bit is one of the very basic digital unit. One Terabit is equal to 1000^4 bits. There are 0.000000000001 Terabits in one Bit.
Tbit to Bits Converter | Data Unit Converter
Source Data UnitTarget Data Unit
Terabit (Tbit)
Equal to 1000^4 bits
(Decimal Unit)
Bit (b)
Equal to 0 or 1
(Basic Unit)
Below conversion diagram will help you to visualize the Terabit to Bit calculation steps in a simplified manner.
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The formula of converting the Terabit to Bit is represented as follows :
Bits = Tbit x 10004
Now let us apply the above formula and see how to manually convert Terabit (Tbit) to Bit (b). We can further simplify the formula to ease the calculation.
FORMULA
Bit = Terabit x 10004
STEP 1
Bit = Terabit x (1000x1000x1000x1000)
STEP 2
Bit = Terabit x 1000000000000
If we apply the above Formula and steps, conversion from 67 Tbit to Bits, will be processed as below.
 1. = 67 x 10004
 2. = 67 x (1000x1000x1000x1000)
 3. = 67 x 1000000000000
 4. = 67000000000000
 5. i.e. 67 Tbit is equal to 67,000,000,000,000 Bits.
(Result rounded off to 40 decimal positions.)
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A Terabit (Tb or Tbit) is a decimal unit of measurement for digital information transfer rate. It is equal to 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) bits. It is commonly used to measure the speed of data transfer over computer networks, such as internet connection speeds.
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Definition : Bit
A Bit (short for "binary digit") is the basic unit of information in computing and digital communications. It is a binary value, meaning it can have one of two values=> 0 or 1. Bits are used to represent data in computers and other electronic devices. They are the building blocks of digital information, and are used to store, transmit, and process data.
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Excel Formula to convert from Tbit to Bits
Apply the formula as shown below to convert from 67 Terabit to Bit.
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267=A2 * 1000000000000
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Python Code for Tbit to Bits Conversion
You can use below code to convert any value in Terabit to Bit in Python.
terabit = int(input("Enter Terabit: "))
bit = terabit * (1000*1000*1000*1000)
print("{} Terabit = {} Bit".format(terabit,bit))
The first line of code will prompt the user to enter the Terabit as an input. The value of Bit is calculated on the next line, and the code in third line will display the result.
67 Tbit to Bits to Nibble to Bytes Conversion Table
Terabit to Bit (b)Terabit to NibbleTerabit to Byte (B)
67 Tbit = 67,000,000,000,000 Bits 67 Tbit = 16,750,000,000,000 Nibble 67 Tbit = 8,375,000,000,000 Bytes
68 Tbit = 68,000,000,000,000 Bits 68 Tbit = 17,000,000,000,000 Nibble 68 Tbit = 8,500,000,000,000 Bytes
69 Tbit = 69,000,000,000,000 Bits 69 Tbit = 17,250,000,000,000 Nibble 69 Tbit = 8,625,000,000,000 Bytes
70 Tbit = 70,000,000,000,000 Bits 70 Tbit = 17,500,000,000,000 Nibble 70 Tbit = 8,750,000,000,000 Bytes
71 Tbit = 71,000,000,000,000 Bits 71 Tbit = 17,750,000,000,000 Nibble 71 Tbit = 8,875,000,000,000 Bytes
72 Tbit = 72,000,000,000,000 Bits 72 Tbit = 18,000,000,000,000 Nibble 72 Tbit = 9,000,000,000,000 Bytes
73 Tbit = 73,000,000,000,000 Bits 73 Tbit = 18,250,000,000,000 Nibble 73 Tbit = 9,125,000,000,000 Bytes
74 Tbit = 74,000,000,000,000 Bits 74 Tbit = 18,500,000,000,000 Nibble 74 Tbit = 9,250,000,000,000 Bytes
75 Tbit = 75,000,000,000,000 Bits 75 Tbit = 18,750,000,000,000 Nibble 75 Tbit = 9,375,000,000,000 Bytes
76 Tbit = 76,000,000,000,000 Bits 76 Tbit = 19,000,000,000,000 Nibble 76 Tbit = 9,500,000,000,000 Bytes
77 Tbit = 77,000,000,000,000 Bits 77 Tbit = 19,250,000,000,000 Nibble 77 Tbit = 9,625,000,000,000 Bytes
78 Tbit = 78,000,000,000,000 Bits 78 Tbit = 19,500,000,000,000 Nibble 78 Tbit = 9,750,000,000,000 Bytes
79 Tbit = 79,000,000,000,000 Bits 79 Tbit = 19,750,000,000,000 Nibble 79 Tbit = 9,875,000,000,000 Bytes
80 Tbit = 80,000,000,000,000 Bits 80 Tbit = 20,000,000,000,000 Nibble 80 Tbit = 10,000,000,000,000 Bytes
81 Tbit = 81,000,000,000,000 Bits 81 Tbit = 20,250,000,000,000 Nibble 81 Tbit = 10,125,000,000,000 Bytes
82 Tbit = 82,000,000,000,000 Bits 82 Tbit = 20,500,000,000,000 Nibble 82 Tbit = 10,250,000,000,000 Bytes
83 Tbit = 83,000,000,000,000 Bits 83 Tbit = 20,750,000,000,000 Nibble 83 Tbit = 10,375,000,000,000 Bytes
84 Tbit = 84,000,000,000,000 Bits 84 Tbit = 21,000,000,000,000 Nibble 84 Tbit = 10,500,000,000,000 Bytes
85 Tbit = 85,000,000,000,000 Bits 85 Tbit = 21,250,000,000,000 Nibble 85 Tbit = 10,625,000,000,000 Bytes
86 Tbit = 86,000,000,000,000 Bits 86 Tbit = 21,500,000,000,000 Nibble 86 Tbit = 10,750,000,000,000 Bytes


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opens the specified file, URL, or other target with the associated program on your computer system.
- SystemOpen sends its target to the operating system, which then opens it using its default application for the target type given.
- URLs and URIs must include explicit http:, mailto:, ftp:, etc. prefixes.
- SystemOpen["file"] is essentially equivalent to double-clicking the file icon in your operating system.
- SystemOpen["file"] searches for the specified file in the directories given in $Path.
- SystemOpen["file"] returns $Failed if the specified file does not exist.
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conversion per call, but every two calls are followed by cr, so I must be misunderstanding the context.

 - or drop if: unlike Forth, if uses the processor zero flag, not the top stack item. or sets the flag for if, drop clears the unneeded numeric result. Since or is an exclusive-or (don't ask), the clause is equivalent to <> if in standard Forth.
 - dump falls through into r and u falls through into +xy to avoid a function call (a common AssemblyLanguage idiom)
 - dump, r, and cmp set the background task (straight dump or diff of two regions). The displayed dump is active and displays changes to memory in real time.
 - dump, byte, u, d, and +xy update the address to show.
 - The dumps don't show ASCII because ColorForth uses a Huffman encoding for text. The format per line for dump is "<hex word> <hex address>" and for cmp it is "<hex x> <hex y> <[red] offset>" with the x and y base addresses listed at the top. The offset is printed red if the contents differ.

{block 32}

 (dump) var x (200000) var y (201200)
 one dup @ h. space dup h. cr ;
 lines for one -1 + next drop ;
 dump x !
 r show black screen x @ 15 + 16 text lines keyboard ;
 it @ + @ dup h. space ;
 lines for white i [x] it i [y] it or drop if red then i . cr -next ;
 cmp show blue screen text 19 lines red [x] @ h. space [y] @ h. keyboard ;
 u 16
 +xy dup [x] +! [y] +! ;
 d -16 +xy ;
 ati F4100000 (ff7fc000) or
 byte 4 / dump ;
 fix for 0 over ! 1 + next ; [dump]

{block 33} this is the shadow block, commentary on the previous block. An editor command flips between a block and its shadow.

 (does not say empty, compiles on top of application)
 x -a (current address)
 one a-a (line of display)
 lines an
 dump a (background task continually displays memory)
 u (increment address)
 d (decrement)
 ati (address of AGP graphic registers)
 byte (a byte address dump)
 fix an-a (test word)

I just looked (for way too long) and couldn't find a list of the standard (well - common) colorforth words anywhere at all (Moore has an annoying page purporting to help programmers that basically says "try it! I'll add documentation some year. Maybe"). Where can I find one?

ColorForth is primarily ChuckMoore's personal programming system. As a working engineer, he hasn't had much time or inclination to document his evolving experiment. He admits communication is one of his weaknesses. Others have written better documented variants that keep the flavor of ColorForth; I'll try to add more references to the ColorForth page. This particular snippet came from some webified source on _URL_

You've already largely translated it out of colorforth; may as well continue until it's 100% one of the regular forths. After all, there seem to be, what, 20 regular colorforth users, and 1 colorforth expert, in the world? :-)

Actually, I haven't changed it a whit; it's a direct mapping from color to markup. ColorForth has very different semantics from standard Forth. They're even further apart than SchemeLanguage is from CommonLisp.

Magenta variables are interesting, since they're basically a bizarre way of doing persistence.

JavaLanguage:

 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

public class HexDump {

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { String inputFileName = args[0]; int start = Integer.parseInt(args[1]); int end = Integer.parseInt(args[2]); int width = Integer.parseInt(args[3]); byte[] bytes = read(inputFileName, start, end); for (int index = 0; index < bytes.length; index += width) { printHex(bytes, index, width); printAscii(bytes, index, width); } }

private static byte[] read(String inputFileName, int start, int end) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException { File theFile = new File(inputFileName); FileInputStream input = new FileInputStream(theFile); int skipped = 0; while (skipped < start) { skipped += input.skip(start - skipped); } int length = (int) (Math.min(end, theFile.length()) - start); byte[] bytes = new byte[length]; int bytesRead = 0; while (bytesRead < bytes.length) { bytesRead = input.read(bytes, bytesRead, bytes.length - bytesRead); if (bytesRead == -1) { break; } } return bytes; }

private static void printHex(byte[] bytes, int offset, int width) { for (int index = 0; index < width; index++) { if (index + offset < bytes.length) { System.out.printf("%02x ", bytes[index + offset]); } else { System.out.print(" "); } } }

private static void printAscii(byte[] bytes, int index, int width) throws UnsupportedEncodingException? { if (index < bytes.length) { width = Math.min(width, bytes.length - index); System.out.println( ":" + new String(bytes, index, width, "UTF-8").replaceAll("\r\n", " ").replaceAll( "\n", " ")); } else { System.out.println(); } } }

 Arguments: HexDump.java 0 100 16

69 6d 70 6f 72 74 20 6a 61 76 61 2e 69 6f 2e 46 :import java.io.F 69 6c 65 3b 0d 0a 69 6d 70 6f 72 74 20 6a 61 76 :ile; import jav 61 2e 69 6f 2e 46 69 6c 65 49 6e 70 75 74 53 74 :a.io.FileInputSt 72 65 61 6d 3b 0d 0a 69 6d 70 6f 72 74 20 6a 61 :ream; import ja 76 61 2e 69 6f 2e 46 69 6c 65 4e 6f 74 46 6f 75 :va.io.FileNotFou 6e 64 45 78 63 65 70 74 69 6f 6e 3b 0d 0a 69 6d :ndException; im 70 6f 72 74 :port
And another JavaLanguage example factored differently:

 package main;
 import java.io.*;
 import java.util.*;

public class Dump {

public static void main(String[] args) { byte[] bytes = new ContentFile?(args[0]).content().getBytes(); int start = integer(args[1]); bytes = slice(bytes, start, integer(args[2])); int perLine = integer(args[3]); List<Line> chunks = chunks(start, bytes ,perLine); for(Line x : chunks) x.writeLn(perLine); }

private static String leftPadded(String s, int num) {while (s.length() < num) s = " " + s; return s; } private static int integer(String s) { return Integer.parseInt(s); }

private static List<Line> chunks(int start, byte[] bytes, int perLine) { List<Line> result = new ArrayList<Line>(); while (bytes.length > 0) { result.add(new Line(start, slice(bytes, 0, perLine))); bytes = slice(bytes, perLine, bytes.length); start += perLine; } return result; }

private static byte[] slice(byte[] bytes, int start, int end) { if (end > bytes.length) end = bytes.length; if (end - start <= 0) return new byte[0]; byte[] result = new byte[end - start]; System.arraycopy(bytes, start, result, 0, end - start); return result; }

static class ContentFile? { File file_;


Students - Room 11 Year 4
Welcome to Room 11! My name is Marnie Smith and I have been given the privilege of teaching Year 4 in 2020! I absolutely love teaching and have been teaching since 2012. This will be my fifth year at Hannans Primary School. I have previously taught Years 3, 4 and 5.
I believe in creating a safe, supportive and fair classroom environment where everyone feels like they belong. I understand that progress may happen at different times and in different ways for each individual student. I want to ensure each student strives to achieve their personal best and therefore have high expectations for all students regarding behaviour, work and participation.
I am very excited to be part of 1:1 iPads in 2020. Students today need the knowledge, skills and confidence to make ICT work for them in school and beyond. I am looking forward to assisting them in doing this.
Room 11's library day is on FRIDAY.
The current timetable for Room 11's specialist classes is as follows:
I'm using Class Dojo to keep parents in the loop this year! I'll share photos from class, important updates and wonderful moments. If you have not already signed up, I encourage you to do so.
I have an 'open door' policy. So, if you have any worries, concerns or you just want to talk about how your child is progressing, please pop in and see me so we can discuss or arrange a more suitable time.
Mrs Marnie Smith


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At Ringling College of Art and Design, we prepare our students for a lifetime of amazing possibilities. In fact, we are shattering the myth of the starving artist. Curious about how important of a role that art and design plays in our everyday lives?
Did you know that:
- 3.34 million Americans work in the arts.
- One in 111 jobs is in art and design.
- Creative jobs have grown from 10% to over 30% of the economy.
- 97% of employers say that creativity is of increasing importance, but 85% say they are unable to find the applicants they seek.
- The economic impact of art and design exceeds that of sports worldwide.
- The creative industries are an estimated $30 billion export annually.
- Jobs in design have increased 43% in the past ten years.
- The global art market was worth $60.8 billion in 2011; 70% of all art sales were for contemporary and modern art.
- There are over 532,000 designers working in the U.S.
- More people are employed in the visual arts than in all of the performing arts and sports industries combined.
- 200,000 people are employed in the film industry.
- People spend approximately $55 billion annually on video games.
- The computer animation industry generates $33 billion annually.
- Jobs and employment in many creative industries are growing faster than the labor force as a whole and make up 30% of the work force by some estimates.
- America's nonprofit arts industry generates $134 billion in economic activity every year.
- By 2016, jobs for artists and designers are predicted to increase by 42%.
- Arts-related businesses in the country's largest cities represent 4.3% of all businesses and 2.2% of all jobs in the United States.
- There are 3.34 million people working for over 904,000 arts-centric businesses in the United States.
- Employment growth by arts-centric businesses since 2007 was 12%, more than four times the rise in the total number of U.S. employees.
- Designers are the single largest group of artists, followed by performing artists such as actors, dancers, musicians, and announcers.
- Employment of interior designers is expected to grow 19% from 2006 to 2016.
- Median salaries of: Creative Directors–$90,000, Art Directors–$86,505, Fine Artists–$48,870, Multi-media Artists and Animators–$61,555, Graphic Designers–$46,925, Set and Exhibit Designers–$49,330, Producers and Directors–$86,790, Broadcast Technicians–$40,270, Photographers–$36,090, and Film and Video Editors–$66,715.
- Wage and salary employment in the motion picture and video industries is projected to grow 11% by 2016.
- Animators, film and video editors, and others skilled in digital filming and computer-generated imaging have the best job prospects in future of the motion picture and video industries.
- There are about 94,000 computer artists and animators working in the United States.
- Jobs for photographers have increased 38% in the past four years.
Sources: Americans for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Entertainment Software Association


In Photo-MILF-PIP Chair Mohagher Iqbal delivering his message to media personalities during the Media Forum on BOL at Em Manaor, Cotabato City
"Media is the Source of Information and Truth"-Iqbal
Cotabato City - "Media is the source of information and truth," Mohagher Iqbal, Chair of the MILF Peace Implementing Panel said during the Media Forum on the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) held December 6 at Cyrstal Hall of Em-Manor Hotel, this city.
Iqbal said that the media being the source of information and truth plays a relevant role in educating people in the community.
He told the media personalities who attended the forum, "Without hurting anyone and discriminating other inhabitants, the importance of knowing and educating the media on the historical background of the Bangsamoro will lead them to disseminate correct information in relation to the Bangsamoro Peace Process."
Known media personalities such as visual, radio commentators, writers both local to national including newly organized multimedia group of the Bangsamoro that focuses on social media coverage.
For the media groups to be able to disseminate accurate information and true stories that are happening in the community specifically in the Bangsamoro, Iqbal mentioned the history of the Moro homeland where the people were oppressed and marginalized for the long decades.
According to him, "the word Moro is defined as pure religious term throughout the globe but it was transformed into a political term that refers to a "Nation."
And to make it clear, the term was not called during the creation of the Moro Fronts." A basic information that they must understand and spread out to this medium of communication to the public.
The Joint Communication Committee (JCC) was created by the peace implementing panels for the purpose of helping the panels to establish proper communications in delivering relevant information about the peace process.
The said event is part of the implementation of the JCC mandate where they see the significant role of media groups in helping them educate the tri-people living in the homeland.
The media personalities were also briefed about R.A. 11054 as Organic Law for the Bangsamoro for Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) that comprehensively recognizes the people's rights for self-governance, addresses historical injustices and marginalization against them, discrimination, land dispossession issues, their identity who have been denied to them for many years, and corrupted their minds by colonizers.
Atty. Jose Lorena, Commissioner Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC) emphasized that the BOL resolves the Bangsamoro questions that will put an end to the injustices and marginalization committed to its people, will provide mechanism that will strengthen its sustainability to justice, and will provide an effective governance for in the region."
Iqbal ended his presentation by saying, "BOL is a political solution that establish political rights of its people in which the formula is to resolve the issue on peace and security, progress and development of the Bangsamoro. And in relation to the Cotabato City, the future of this City lies on the journey of this organic law."


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OpenCV HOG Detector: Result Clustering
The final step of the HOG detection process is to cluster the search results.
Here is the result of running the OpenCV HOG detector on a frame with and without result clustering. I've colored the results blue or red based on whether they represent a true positive or a false positive, respectively.
The above searches were performed with a scaling factor of 1.05 (increase the detection window size by 1.05 for each search scale). For the clustering, I used a minimum cluster size of 3 and used the default window overlap method for clustering.
Result clustering has two purposes. The first is to deal with multiple detections of the same person at different scales or at slightly shifted detection windows. Ideally we'd like to have just one detection per person.
The second purpose of result clustering is to reduce false positives. If we perform a dense search of the image, we expect to detect each person multiple times at different scales and possibly with slightly shifted detection windows. If a window is only recognized once, it's more likely to be a false positive that we want to reject.
In the above images, note the false positives towards the bottom right and top left of the image which are effectively eliminated by clustering.
There are also a large number of "body part" recognitions towards the center of the image which end up folded into the true positive recognitions because of the clustering step.
The OpenCV HOG detector supports two different methods of result clustering. The default mode isn't given a name in the OpenCV documentation that I can find, so I'll just call it the "Window Overlap" method. The second mode is called "Mean Shift Grouping".
If you look in objdetect.hpp in the OpenCV source, you'll see that the final argument to HOGDescriptor::detectMultiScale is a parameter 'bool useMeanshiftGrouping = false'. So the HOG detector uses the Window Overlap method by default.
The Window Overlap method simply uses the rule that if two detection windows overlap sufficiently, then they belong to the same cluster. The Mean Shift Grouping method takes a more complex approach which incorporates the detection confidences from the SVM classifier.
I haven't had much luck finding documentation or articles describing how the two clustering methods are implemented in detail, so I've had to resort to inspecting the code to gain some understanding. I'll be referencing the OpenCV source files in my explanations below.
For now, this post just covers the window overlap method, but I hope to dig into the mean shift approach as well.
Window Overlap Method
The following OpenCV files and functions are relevant to the result clustering task.
|**Function / Class**||**Definition**||**Declaration**|
The last step of 'detectMultiScale' is to pass all of the detected windows to the 'groupRectangles' function to perform the clustering.
The last parameter to groupRectangles is epsilon 'eps', which controls how much overlap is required. The default value of 'eps' is set to 0.2 in its declaration (in objdetect.hpp). The OpenCV HOG detector does not modify this 'eps' value.
The 'groupRectangles' function essentially calls down to the 'partition' function to do the clustering. The 'SimilarRects' class defines the metric for determining whether two rectangles belong to the same cluster.
To determine if two rectangular detection windows belong in the same cluster, first a value 'delta' is computed using the following equation, (where epsilon is 0.2):
The rectangles correspond to a single detection if each of these four labeled distances is less than or equal to delta:
Note that if epsilon is smaller, then delta is smaller, and we are requiring more overlap in order to place both rectangles in the same cluster.
In the above illustration, the rectangles are 1 in. x 2in., and are offset by 0.25in. This gives a delta of 0.3in., so these two rectangles are close to the limit of what is considered a match (using the default epsilon).
Note that if the two rectangles are very different sizes, they may not be put in the same cluster, even if they overlap entirely. This situation is handled later in the 'groupRectangles' function.
After calling partition to cluster the rectangles, the 'groupRectangles' function goes through the results and rejects any clusters with <= 'groupThreshold' results. It also computes the average position and dimensions of the rectangle to use as the final results.
Finally, it looks for small rectangles that are encompassed by larger ones and removes the smaller rectangles from the results. Consider the below two rectangles:
To test if rectangle 1 should be removed because it's encompassed by rectangle 2, the 'groupRectangles' function uses the following logic.
First, it defines two deltas:
Then, it filters out rectangle 2 if all of the following hold:
The fifth condition ensures that we don't remove rectangle 1 if it has more cluster members than rectangle 2, or if rectangle 2 has only 3 or fewer cluster members. The number of members in each cluster is a measure of our confidence in the result, so we don't want to filter out a high-confidence result just because it's encompassed by a larger rectangle. Going back to the two images at the top of the post, the woman's leg is preserved as a result (even though it's encompassed by another rectangle) because of the high number of results in that cluster.


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and InterfaceBuilder under MacOS X we will do the same. Obviously, there is a lot to do to improve this editor and we will leave this as an exercise for the reader. Again, this article is not a tutorial!
Here we go.
Open ProjectCenter.app and create a new project called Editor. Choose a Gorm
Application project at the bottom of the window before saving its name.
This will provide you with an Interfaces item in the left column of
Clicking Interfaces displays Editor.gorm. Double-click Editor.gorm and Gorm.app opens. Select the default window (MyWindow) and using the tool inspector change the name to Editor in Attributes.
From the palette, drag a TextView to the Editor window. The TextView is the biggest object found in the selected palette using the rightmost icon at the top of the Palettes window. Resize this object to make it fill the window, and you are done.
Again, using the GormInternalViewEditor inspector (while the TextView is selected), choose Size and change the values to make them match the Editor window size values. These last are obtained in the same way, that is, selecting the window and checking the size in GormNSWindow inspector. If you do not change the X and Y values, for instance, you will not be able to use the full width of the editor, whether you resize the window or not.
Save all in the Gorm Document menu and quit to go back to ProjectCenter. Select the Build icon and click in the new build icon in the second horizontal half of the window. Everything should go well if you defined the right preferences for your compiler, debugger, etc. For example, using FreeBSD, you must change make to gmake (including the path) clicking in the Settings icon of ProjectCenter. Check also the paths from the Preferences menu in ProjectCenter.
If the built succeeded (it should have!), just do the same with Run and you will see the Editor application. Just play with it, writing, cutting, pasting, etc. Obviously, you can restart it later using the openapp command.
How long did it take? Well, I should say a few minutes.
Nothing much to say since you will have to do the same as above. Here is what
it looks like while designing the GUI:
Now we choose another example from Mike Beam. This time is a full working
application, able to manage data: an address book. Mike's tutorial about the
address book (like every other) is recommended reading to understand how the "thing" works.
Also check the tutorial list since Mike provides different steps of the
developing process for one and the same application allowing to improve it.
Again we create and run the application on both GNUstep and MacOS X.
Like you did for the Editor example, start ProjectCenter.app. Select a Gorm
application and call it AddressBook. From ProjectCenter launch Gorm
by double-clicking in Interfaces -> AddressBook.gorm. Drag a
TableView from the palette to the default window. In other words, follow Mike's
tutorial like you would under MacOS X. You will have to adapt a few things since
they work differently in Gorm and in InterfaceBuilder.
For example, the number of columns in the TableView cannot be defined from the attributes inspector in Gorm. To keep things simple, just copy a column and paste it next to it to get the required number (4 in our case). You should end with something like this:
Mike Beam did the whole job: what else could I add?
Obviously, GNUstep development tools cannot be as ahead as Apple's.
Apple and NeXT represent a 15 years old experience with hundreds of developers.
GNUstep is the work (for free) of a few individuals having to do something else
for a living. Accordingly, do not be surprised to find, for instance, much more
available classes in InterfaceBuilder than in Gorm. Remember, Gorm is at version
0.1.9 (or 0.2.0).
Furthermore, we did the tests the "hard" way. That is, we "ported" from OS X to GNUstep. The other way round would have been easier because of the above mentioned differences between the tools.
For example, porting applications developed under MacOS X 10.2 would be much more difficult since the new Apple development tools have much improved. As already said, there are many new available classes or more elaborated ones.
However, the tools rely on the same philosophy whether they work under GNUstep or MacOS X... and GNUstep improves every day. One thing looks very nice to me: GNUstep people really work together. They do help each other when individual projects are concerned and they also contribute in improving GNUstep core. This is the Free Software way of working I like. Congratulations for such a behavior Mr.Fedor and friends.
The goal of this article was to show the power of the GNUstep "RAD" tools,
Gorm.app and ProjectCenter.app. Despite their "youth" they can help you develop
nice applications in a very easy way.
Futhermore, these tools provide a very pleasant way of working while being very efficient. Objective C is a very compact language and, in my opinion, much easier to learn than C++ for someone with C knowledge (I know, I already said so!). This allows to design nice looking applications (well, it is a matter of taste, but I do love this look and feel) while keeping them rather small in size.
I must admit that I never recovered from the shock I received when I first met the NeXT machine. The fact Apple released a modern version of NeXTstep delights me. This is also why I am very fond of projects such as GNUstep or Window Maker. However, if I love free software I am not a "fundamentalist" and accordingly, I am not against proprietary software (well, maybe a bit against a specific editor... but, just a bit!).
GNUstep can benefit from Apple... but Apple can benefit from GNUstep too. GNUstep is not an Apple competitor, it is free software. As far as I know, free software is widely used in OS X. This to say that bringing even more free software to Apple cannot be a bad thing. What Ludovic and friends did with GNUMail.app is a very good example of what could happen.
"I had a dream"... Apple was providing most of its development tools source code to GNUstep. GNUstep and Apple developers were working together to bring great applications to Unix users. And slowly, people were realizing they could live without Windos...
Unfortunately, it was a dream ;-)
Anyway, if you do not know GNUstep and its applications, feel free to give them a try. Remember, GNUstep is a framework and tools such as Gorm and ProjectCenter provide you with everything to create, to invent. In other words, with a bit of imagination, you can develop "products" much different from what we can see nowadays: Windos applications clones!
We are living in a great time!
To the GNUstep people: A.Fedor, N.Pero, G.Casamento, P.Y.Rivaille, N.Roard, L.Marcotte,
R.Frith-Macdonald, P. C.D.Robert, E.Sersale, A.Froloff, F.Kiefer, M.Viviani,
M.Guesdon and all those I forgot
for the very great job either for the framework or for the applications.
To Window Maker people: A.Kojima, D.Pascu and friends for bringing us a free NeXTstep interface for X.
To J.M.Hullot and B.Serlet for inventing InterfaceBuilder.
To "Steve Jobs INC." for bringing us NeXT, NeXTstep and MacOS X.
To all the people not mentioned here having contributed in making our professional life much less sad.
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Yes. If you have columns in your course's Grade Center that you no longer need, it's simple to delete them.
- Click the down arrow to the right of the grade column's title to display its options menu.
- Click Delete Column. A confirmation pop-up window will open.
- Click the OK button. The window will close, and the grade column will no longer be in your course's Grade Center.
If you don't see the Delete Column option in a grade column's menu, then it's still associated with an activity in your course (i.e., a quiz, discussion, assignment folder, etc.). You'll need to delete the activity before you can delete the grade column.


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(1926–87). U.S. experimental composer Morton Feldman was associated with the New York group of composers led by John Cage. Highly influenced by the painting style known as abstract expressionism, Feldman's music was typically minimalist in its simplicity, austerity, and meditative quality.
Feldman was born on Jan. 12, 1926, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He started playing the piano as a small boy, and he was composing songs by the time he was eight. After graduating public high school, he studied composition privately with the composers Wallingford Riegger and Stefan Wolpe. In the 1950s, much more influenced by abstract expressionist painters than by other composers, Feldman began using a method of graphic notation that included such devices as indicating the length of a note by a horizontal line drawn in the score, or specifying the number of notes to be played in a segment by a number. His first major work, Projections (1950–51), was composed using this graphic notation. Pitch and rhythm were indicated in general terms.
After further experiments in the 1960s, Feldman returned to conventional notation in his compositions. He explored original timbres by means of slowly paced repetitions of unrelated, soft sounds, creating a hushed and ethereal mood with them. Some of his other works include an opera, Neither (1977), based on a text by the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett; Three Voices (1982), in which a soprano soloist is accompanied by two tapes of her own voice with text by the poet Frank O'Hara; and First String Quartet (1979) and Second String Quartet (1983), lengthy instrumental pieces. From 1973 Feldman taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and he continued there until his death on Sept. 3, 1987, in Buffalo.


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Definition
Definition
Let CC be a triangulated category. A t-structure on CC is a pair 𝔱=(C 0,C 0)\mathfrak{t}=(C_{\ge 0}, C_{\le 0}) of strictly full subcategories
C 0,C 0C C_{\geq 0}, C_{\leq 0} \hookrightarrow C
such that
 1. for all XC 0X \in C_{\geq 0} and YC 0Y \in C_{\leq 0} the hom object is the zero object: Hom C(X,Y[1])=0Hom_{C}(X, Y[-1]) = 0;
 2. the subcategories are closed under suspension/desuspension: C 0[1]C 0C_{\geq 0}[1] \subset C_{\geq 0} and C 0[1]C 0C_{\leq 0}[-1] \subset C_{\leq 0}.
 3. For all objects XCX \in C there is a fiber sequence YXZY \to X \to Z with YC 0Y \in C_{\geq 0} and ZC 0[1]Z \in C_{\leq 0}[-1].
Definition
Given a t-structure, its heart is the intersection
C 0C 0C. C_{\geq 0} \cap C_{\leq 0} \hookrightarrow C \,.
In stable \infty-categories
In the infinity-categorical setting tt-structures arise as torsion/torsionfree classes associated to suitable factorization systems on a stable infinity-category CC.
 - In a stable setting, the subcategories are closed under de/suspension simply because they are co/reflective and reflective and these operations are co/limits. Co/reflective subcategories of CC arise from co/reflective factorization systems on CC;
 - A bireflective factorization system on a \infty-category CC consists of a factorization system 𝔽=(E,M)\mathbb{F}=(E,M) where both classes satisfy the two-out-of-three property.
 - A bireflective factorization system (E,M)(E,M) on a stable \infty-category CC is called normal if the diagram SxxRxS x\to x\to R x obtained from the reflection R:CM/0R\colon C\to M/0 and the coreflection S:C*/ES\colon C\to *\!/E (where the category M/*={A(0A)M}M/\!* =\{A\mid (0\to A)\in M\} is obtained as Ψ(E,M)\Psi(E,M) under the adjunction ΦΨ\Phi\dashv \Psi described at reflective factorization system and in CHK; see also FL0, §1.1) is exact, meaning that the square in
 0 SX X 0 RX 0 \begin{array}{cccccc} 0 &\to& S X &\to& X\\ && \downarrow&&\downarrow\\ && 0 &\to& R X\\ && && \downarrow\\ && && 0 \end{array}
 is a fiber sequence for any object XX; see FL0, Def 3.5 and Prop. 3.10 for equivalent conditions for normality.
Remark. CHK established a hierarchy between the three notions of simple, semi-exact and normal factorization system: in the setting of stable \infty-category the three notions turn out to be equivalent: see FL0, Thm 3.11.
Theorem. There is a bijective correspondence between the class TS(C)TS( C ) of tt-structures and the class of normal torsion theories on a stable \infty-category CC, induced by the following correspondence:
 - On the one side, given a normal, bireflective factorization system (E,M)(E,M) on CC we define the two classes (C 0(𝔽),C <0(𝔽))(C_{\ge0}(\mathbb{F}), C_{\lt 0}(\mathbb{F})) of a tt-structure 𝔱(𝔽)\mathfrak{t}(\mathbb{F}) to be the torsion and torsionfree classes (*/E,M/*)(*\!/E, M/\!*) associated to the factorization (E,M)(E,M).
 - On the other side, given a tt-structure on CC we set
 E(t)={fC Δ[1]τ <0(f) is an equivalence};E(t)=\{f\in C^{\Delta[1]} \mid \tau_{\lt 0}(f) \;\text{ is an equivalence}\};
 M(t)={fC Δ[1]τ 0(f) is an equivalence}.M(t)=\{f\in C^{\Delta[1]} \mid \tau_{\geq0}(f) \;\text{ is an equivalence}\}.
Proof. This is FL0, Theorem 3.13
Theorem. There is a natural monotone action of the group \mathbb{Z} of integers on the class TS(C)TS( C ) (now confused with the class FS ν(C)FS_\nu( C ) of normal torsion theories on CC) given by the suspension functor: 𝔽=(E,M)\mathbb{F}=(E,M) goes to 𝔽[1]=(E[1],M[1])\mathbb{F}[1] = (E[1], M[1]).
This correspondence leads to study families of tt-structures {𝔽 i} iI\{\mathbb{F}_i\}_{i\in I}; more precisely, we are led to study \mathbb{Z}-equivariant multiple factorization systems JTS(C)J\to TS( C ).
Theorem. Let 𝔱TS(C)\mathfrak{t} \in TS(C) and 𝔽=(E,M)\mathbb{F}=(E,M) correspond each other under the above bijection; then the following conditions are equivalent:
 1. 𝔱[1]=𝔱\mathfrak{t}[1]=\mathfrak{t}, i.e. C 1=C 0C_{\geq 1}= C_{\geq 0};
 2. C 0=*/EC_{\geq 0}=*\!/E is a stable \infty-category;
 3. the class EE is closed under pullback.
In each of these cases, we say that 𝔱\mathfrak{t} or (E,M)(E,M) is stable.
Proof. This is FL1, Theorem 2.16
This results allows us to recognize tt-structures with stable classes precisely as those which are fixed in the natural \mathbb{Z}-action on TS(C)TS( C ).
Two "extremal" choices of \mathbb{Z}-chains of tt-structures draw a connection between two apparently separated constructions in the theory of derived categories: Harder-Narashiman filtrations and semiorthogonal decompositions on triangulated categories: we adopt the shorthand 𝔱 1,,n\mathfrak{t}_{1,\dots, n} to denote the tuple 𝔱 1𝔱 2𝔱 n\mathfrak{t}_1\preceq \mathfrak{t}_2\preceq\cdots\preceq \mathfrak{t}_n, each of the 𝔱 i\mathfrak{t}_i being a tt-structure ((C i) 0,(C i) <0)((C_i)_{\ge 0}, (C_i)_{\lt 0}) on CC, and we denote similarly 𝔱 ω\mathfrak{t}_\omega. Then
 - In the stable case the tuple t 1,,nt_{1,\dots, n} is endowed with a (monotone) \mathbb{Z}-action, and the map {0<1<n}TS(C)\{0\lt 1\cdots\lt n\}\to TS( C ) is equivariant with respect to this action; the absence of nontrivial \mathbb{Z}-actions on {0<1<n}\{0\lt 1\cdots\lt n\} forces each t it_i to be stable.
 - In the orbit case we consider an infinite family t ωt_\omega


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- NIWA Latent And Sensible Heat Fluxes From Lake Water Surfaces the latent heat flux and evaporation from lakes are predicted to increase in a warming climate.
- This model script (written in Matlab) estimates latent and sensible heat fluxes from lake water surfaces.
- It uses air temperature, water surface temperature, air pressure, relative humidity, wind speed and sensor height for wind speed as input data.
- The model accounts for atmospheric stability of the surface boundary layer through the stability functions and includes the effects of changes in the roughness length of vapor and the roughness length of temperature.
- The roughness length of momentum accounts for smooth flow, and air density is adjusted for air temperature and air pressure.
- The model can be used to track changes in surface heat fluxes at any time scale.

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text: Monte-Carlo simulations calculate the photon collection of fluorescent collectors in photovoltaic systems. We focus on two collector geometries: solar cells mounted at the collector sides, and solar cells covering the back of the collector. A mirror covers the bare back sides of both systems. On top lies optionally a photonic structure, which acts as an energy selective filter. Ideal systems in their radiative limits are compared to systems where loss mechanisms in the dye, at the mirror, or the filter are included. The examination of loss mechanisms in photovoltaic systems with fluorescent collectors enables us to estimate quality limitations of the used materials and components.


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Post build updating with SQL triggers
Warning Please note this is an experimental facility and is subject to a number of caveats (see below). Please always take a backup of your database before trying.
We very much welcome feedback, discussion and additional patches for this. Many thanks to Joe Carlson of the DOE Joint Genome Institute for the idea and implementation!
 1. InterMine release > 1.7.3
 2. plpgsql must be installed in your postgres (select * from pg_language where lanname='plpgsql';). Check the postgreSQL manuals for instructions on installing languages if needed.
 3. Backup the database prior to making changes, especially if there are changes that affect foreign keys.
Traditionally, once the data for a mine has been built, it can only be updated by a complete rebuild. However, sometimes, after a long loading process, you see that something is not right: perhaps a minor issue such as a typo in a name, or perhaps something more major such as errors in an entire dataset. Rather than rebuilding the entire mine from scratch, a process that can take many hours or even many days, you'd like to make changes to your existing data build.
Making such updates requires coordinated changes to a number of InterMine tables. For instance, to update a value, one needs to at least:
 1. Update the value in InterMine's table for that object (e.g. the length column in the Gene table).
 2. Update the value in InterMine's tables for all the ancestor classes of that object (e.g. the length column in the SequenceFeature table).
 3. Update the serialized object in the object column of the intermineobject table.
One way to do this is by installing triggers into the PostgreSQL database that will co-ordinate these updates. InterMine can now generate such triggers if you invoke the ant generate-update-triggers in your mine's dbmodel/ directory like so:
cd $MINE
./gradlew generateUpdateTriggers
This will generate two SQL files in the dbmodel/build/resources/main/ subdirectory
add-update-triggers.sql contains the SQL triggers necessary to co-ordinate table updates. remove-update-triggers.sql contains the removal code. All the triggers have a prefix of im_.
Adding triggers#
To add the triggers just execute add-update-triggers.sql using psql like so
psql -f add-update-triggers.sql MINE-NAME
You can now do basic create/update/delete operations such as:
 - UPDATE organism set genus='Homo' where genus='Homer';
 - DELETE FROM organism where commonname='yeti';
The triggers propagate the operations to the superclasses and InterMineObjec tables.
Tables have default values supplied for id and class, so you can create new records
 - INSERT INTO organism (genus,species) values ('Hello','world');
The id is supplied from a sequence im_post_build_insert_serial which is initially set to the maximum id of InterMineObject.
Once you've completed update operations, you must remove the triggers. Failure to do so may cause interference with InterMine's run time serial use, though this point needs to be clarified.
Removing triggers#
You can remove triggers by executing the remove-update-triggers.sql SQL:
psql -f remove-update-triggers.sql MINE-NAME
What can't be done (yet)#
Please note that there are a number of database changes that the triggers CANNOT handle as of yet:
 1. Foreign key constraints are not enforced. If you delete a gene, there may still be entries in the genesproteins table or a reference to this from the geneid field in the mrna table. Foreign keys are enforced at the application layer. This means whoever is doing the update needs to keep things straight. (This is possible to implement. It may be done in the future.)
 2. The tracker table is not updated. If you do an integration step after manual operations and the integrator is trying to update a column value that you inserted manually, the integration step will fail.
 3. The clob table cannot be manipulated. Again, this may also be changed in the future.
 4. If the id field in InterMineObject has exceeded 2^31 and gone negative, the sequence im_post_build_insert_serial cannot be used in INSERT operations without (probably) colliding with another object. The value of the serial must be set manually in this case.


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The decision version of the discrete log problem in $\mathbb{Z} /q \mathbb{Z}$ is to determine whether there exists a k so that $x^k$=y mod q.
Let gcd(x,y)=1. I am interested in an upper bound for the smallest odd prime q not dividing x or y so that $x^k=y$ mod q has a solution for some k.
Let w=max(x,y). Based on calculations I would guess the bound to be O$(log^i w)$ for some i>1.
i=1 is too small: x or y can be a product of consecutive primes starting from 2 and it is known that the product over the primes < ln(w) is O(w) so q must be larger than O(ln(w)).
Note that if q|y-1 then a solution is guaranteed, so a trivial bound is for q to be the smallest odd factor of y-1.
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I wonder if there exist $x$ and $y$ such that $x-y,x^2-y,x^3-y,\dots$ are all prime. It seems unlikely, but I don't see how to prove it can't happen. If there are infinitely many such $x$ and $y$, then the kind of bound you want won't exist.
EDIT: If $\gcd(x,y)=1$, $|x|\ge2$, and $x-y=p$ is prime, then $x^p-y$ is a multiple of $p$, so not a prime. But that doesn't give the kind of bound you're after.
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I guess you're not interested in cases where $x=0$, $1$ or $-1$... – Robert Israel Jun 1 '11 at 1:45
_USER_, not really, but of course I should have dotted those "i"s and crossed those "t"s. – Gerry Myerson Jun 1 '11 at 1:48
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Ugu vegetable, botanically known as Telfaria occidentalis is an indigenous vegetable crop in Africa; it is also called fluted pumpkin. Ugu plant is cultivated for its leaves; it is a major part of African delicacies. The commercial cultivation of Ugu is so lucrative as Ugu vegetable is a short term cash flow crop that requires little or no capital to cultivate.
Prior to the establishment of ugu farm, I do encourage intending farmers to seek adequate knowledge to avoid any unfortunate experiences. Aside from authoring the ebook on ugu farming, I found it crucial to share these practical guides and insights to enable successful cultivation. In this article, you would learn the production practices for fluted pumpkin, cost analysis of ugu farming, how to make ugu farm bed, fertilizer requirements and best fertilizer for Ugu, marketing strategies, and storage of Ugu in raw and dried form.
How To Establish Ugu Farm
Every farm establishment has preplanting and postplanting operations; the establishement of ugu farm is also made up of preplanting and postplanting operations that must be carried out adequately to ensure a profitable operation. There are basically 7 steps in establishing a successful commercial ugu farm, namely;
- Site selection.
- Land preparation.
- Pre-planting operation.
- Planting operation.
- Seed germination.
- Post planting operations.
#1. Site selection: Type Of Soil Ugu Grow Better On
Crops have different preferences for the type and nature of soil they grow on; the type of soil to grow ugu for good performance is a well-drained loamy soil that is rich in organic matter with a neutral pH. A waterlogged soil does not support the growth of ugu.
#2. Land preparation for ugu farming
Prior to planting ugu vegetable, the land has to be prepared using various land preparation methods. For commercial cultivation, I would recommend a conventional land preparation method where the land is ploughed twice and later harrowed to aid better rooting medium and allows the free flow of growth parameters such as air, water, nutrients and dissolved gases. Organic manure can be added into the soil during the second ploughing to facilitate the mineralization of the manure prior to sowing of the ugu seeds. Land preparation for ugu farming makes the making of beds very easy to achieve.
#3. Making of beds for Ugu planting
One of the purposes of land preparation in ugu farming is to ease the operation of the planting medium, the ugu vegetable beds. Crops are planted in different planting medium, some are planted on flat, ridges and beds. As for ugu, it is best planted on beds. In this guide, you would learn how to make ugu farm bed to facilitate good growth.
Ugu are best planted on raised beds of either 5 by 5 meters or 1wide by 10 meters long. The soil is raised to prevent the washing away by erosion and also provide a better feeding area of the emerging seeds. The bed must be spaced enough to allow the carrying out of various agronomic practices on the ugu farm such as weeding, watering, fertilizer application and harvesting. The inter-spacing between the ugu beds must be as wide as 0.5 meters.
#4. Seed treatment for Ugu seeds
It is not proper to plant fresh ugu seeds immediately after extraction from the pods. The ugu seeds have to go through series of treatment to make them assume germination as soon as they are planted. Firstly, after extracting the seeds from the pods, the seeds are air-dried. Do not sundry ugu seeds. Airdry the seed to reduce its moisture content before planting.
After air-dyring for about 24 hours, scarification must be done for the seeds to germinate rapidly. Usually ugu seeds germinate in about 10-15days but scarified ugu seeds germinate in less than 10 days. Scarification of the ugu seeds means bruising of the seed coat; this can be done with sands. Simply place a handful of seeds in your hand with sand in between and rub gently to bruise the seed coats. After extracting the seeds, the seed can be treated with insecticide-fungicide mixture such as Apron plus or Seedrex to prevent the seeds from insects and fungi attack.
#5. How to plant Ugu seeds
Planting ugu seeds is a technical operation as one must be careful to ensure the right side is inserted into the soil. When the seeds are successfully dried up, a pointed edge is noticed at the top of the seeds. This pointed edge is the portion that must be inserted into the soil at a depth of 3-5cm. Any mistake in the mode of planting could adversely affect the emergence of the seedlings. The pointed edge should be identified and ensure it points downward during planting. The seeds can be planted using different planting methods, namely:
- Dibbling method: In this method, the soil is just scooped and the seeds are inserted into the soil. The soil is not pulverized or tilled.
- Planting on beds: In this method, nursery beds are constructed, the land is tilled and pulverized . Raised beds are constructed across the slope of the land to reduce the risk of erosion.
Well-treated Ugu seeds would germinate at about 10 days to 12 days after planting.
#6. Spacing for planting ugu
The spacing for Ugu is not the same as other vegetable crops. The best spacing for ugu is 1 meter by 1 meter if planted directly into the soil. However, if the seeds are planted on beds, the spacing between the beds should be 0.5meter and the spacing between the ugu seeds on the beds should be 1m by 0.75m
Agronomic Practices Carried Out On Ugu Farm
After the planting and emergence of the seedlings, there are certain post-planting operations that must be done to salvage the seedlings to harvesting period, they include;
#1. Watering of Ugu vegetable
The seedlings have to be watered daily for the first two weeks of emergence to enable them to grow well.
#2. Weeding of ugu farm
Weeds have to be managed to guide against the competition on water, nutrients etc. with the seedlings. Weeding should be done every two weeks.
#3. Fertilizer application on Ugu
A nitrogenous fertilizer such as urea is the best fertilizer for ugu; because ugu is a leafy plant and such fertilizer enhances the growth of the vegetative parts or leaves of the plant. However, NPK 15:15:15 could be applied.
#4. Staking of Ugu plant:
Staking is not encouraged in commercial ugu farm as it distorts the growth habit and could reduce the potential yield on the farm.
#5. Control of pest in ugu farm
Pests such as leaf defoliators and some pathogenic infections are often noticed. This can be controlled biologically by boiling neem leaves (Dongoyaro) and spraying the extracts in the leaves for a period of two weeks.
#6. Harvesting of ugu
Ugu can be harvested after about 30 days of planting. The more the harvest the better the yield of the leaves in terms of size. Ugu can be harvested repeatedly for about eight months at an interval of 15 days. You need to know how to harvest ugu so that you do not trample on the fruits (pods) as they emerge. The safest way of harvesting Ugu is to pick up a long vine and inspect for the fruits (pods); the spot of the emerging seed should be the spot to stop the harvest.
#7. Storage of Ugu
Ugu vegetable is a perishable vegetable that can be stored fresh for a little period. After harvesting, Ugu can be stored in a cool room preferably a shelf or rack. Water must be sprinkled on the vegetable intermittently on the shelf. Placing ugu on bare floor can lead to rotting and rapid spoilage of the vegetable. Alternatively, ugu can be dried at room temperature to for longer storage. All you need to do is to clean the vegetable and air-dry till it becomes crispy. This does not reduce its nutritional value in any way.
Ugu farming is a very lucrative agribusiness that is capable of giving immediate returns on investment within a short period. I would recommend you purchase this Ugu farming PDF for better guide towards your cultivation. It goes for just #2000. Place your order


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Researchers say three of Switzerland's most iconic animal species spend more time at higher elevations each autumn than they did in the past due to climate warming.This content was published on July 1, 2017 - 15:00
An international research team led by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) studied data for the Swiss ibex, goat-like chamois, and red deer from 1991 to 2013.
They found the animals lived an average of 135, 90 and 80 metres higher, respectively, than previously recorded.
The data published in the journal Ecosphere in April came from the canton of Graubünden's Hunting and Fishing Authority, which kept records for 230,000 locations where the species were hunted.
The researchers concluded the animals took to higher elevations because of rising temperatures. In the past two decades, average temperatures in the prime hunting months of September and October rose 1.3°C in Graubünden.
It's normal for animal behaviour to vary from year to year, because of hunters, weather or climate. Dry, warmer winters make it easier on the animals, even at higher elevations.
Until now, scientists found mostly reptiles and insects shifting to higher, cooler habitats in response to climate change.
"This data set is unique and shows that even large, warm-blooded species react to rising ambient temperatures", said study co-author Kurt Bollmann of WSL's Conservation Biology research group in a statement on Thursday.
While these data suggest that the ibex, chamois and red deer are responding behaviourally in reaction to climate change in Switzerland, it's not yet known what the long-term consequences of such a trend might be in terms of populations.
However, as study co-author Hannes Jenny of Graubünden's Hunting and Fishing Authority pointed out in a statement: "Consistent, precise and continuous documentation of kill sites is an important and valuable basis for future research on the impact of climate change on large game species".
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The graphite crucible is resistant to acid and alkali corrosion, high oxidation resistance and fast heat transfer; however, when it melts, impurities in the metal solution and additives form slag and adhere to the crucible wall. Since the slag contains additives, it corrodes the crucible wall. Therefore, we need to remove the slag once a day.
The method of removing slag from graphite crucible is as follows.
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When the slag has not solidified, we should use special tools to remove it in time. This is because the slag will be harder to remove after it has solidified. We should be careful when cleaning so as not to scratch the crucible wall.
II. Hydrochloric acid
When we encounter many layers of slag solidified on the crucible wall, it will erode the graphite nest and also affect its thermal conductivity, and even cause the graphite crucible to crack when heated and expanded, shortening the service life of the crucible.
For the above mentioned problems, we can use hydrochloric acid for cleaning. Most of them can be dissolved. If some residues containing carbon cannot be dissolved by hydrochloric acid. We can use nitric acid for cleaning. Since nitric acid is a strong oxidizing agent, it can also be heated appropriately during cleaning.
Third, dilute hydrochloric acid or dilute nitric acid
If those substances that are still difficult to clean, we can boil in dilute nitric acid or dilute hydrochloric acid. But we need to pay attention to: the use of hydrochloric acid is not allowed to contain halogens, nitrates, nitric acid and other oxidizing agents. If dilute nitric acid cannot be cleaned, it can be melted and cleaned with sodium carbonate, potassium metabisulfate or borax.
The graphite crucible should be kept clean and shiny inside and out. The outside of the crucible may become dull after a long period of combustion, and over time, unclean material may enter the interior and cause the graphite nest to break fragile, so we need to remove unclean material. If the surface is still opaque or stained, we need to use a sifted fine sand without sharp edges and rub it gently with water to restore the surface luster.


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A New Zealand seabird, which was thought to be extinct for over 150 years, has been found breeding on Little Barrier Island.
The sparrow-sized New Zealand storm petrel is critically endangered and was thought extinct until a sighting in 2003.
But a team of Auckland University researchers has found the species breeding on Little Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park.
Chris Gaskin and Doctor Matt Rayner, who have been leading the research, have been camping on the Poor Knights Islands, Mokohinau Islands and Little Barrier Island to track the breeding sites with radio receivers.
"It's like looking for a needle in the haystack," said Gaskin.
Twenty-four birds have been caught this year so far, when they've been fitted with 1g radio transmitters. Team members based at a remote camp on Little Barrier Island were able to track the birds' movements, following the signals until they came to a stop.
"The site being monitored is very fragile and with birds at a delicate stage in their breeding cycle.
We are using automated equipment for the most part and maintaining a hands-off approach, although team members visiting the vicinity have also been keeping watch," Rayner said.
"On Friday morning a bird was discovered on the ground, possibly having just left its burrow. At the same time team members detected another bird, this one most probably on a nest," said Gaskin.
Researchers will stay on the island for several weeks where aerial surveys are also being used to establish population size and distribution.
"It's an amazing result for our enthusiastic and dedicated team," said Rayner.
There has been a lot of speculation about where the sea petrel breeds since it was rediscovered in 2003.
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Algonquin Indians hunted animals for food and ate many kinds of meat, including moose and deer. Other foods included fish and vegetables, such as corn, beans and squash. Algonquin people also gathered berries and made maple syrup.Continue Reading
Historically, the Algonquin Indians were mostly hunters and moved around often. They used light materials that were easy to transport. They made canoes out of birch bark and applied bear grease and spruce resin to make them waterproof. In the winter, they built toboggans to carry materials.
There are still some Algonquin communities. As of 2015, there are about 11,000 Algonquin people. They live mostly in the Canadian province of Quebec.Learn more about US History


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SOME SAY the custom of bobbing for apples dates all the way back to pre-Christian Ireland and the pagan festival of Samhain, though there's little documentary evidence to support this. Apple bobbing also been popularly associated with Pomona, the ancient Roman goddess of fruits, trees, and gardens in whose honor a festival was supposedly held each year on November first. But that, too, stands on shaky historical ground, apparently, as some question whether such a festival ever actually existed.
We can say with more certainty that the game of apple bobbing goes back at least a few hundred years, that it originated in the British Isles (Ireland and Scotland in particular), and that it originally had something to do with fortune telling. British author W. H. Davenport Adams, who attributed belief in the prognosticative power of apples to "old Celtic fairy lore," described the game as follows in his 1902 book, Curiosities of Superstition:
[The apples] are thrown into a tub of water, and you endeavour to catch one in your mouth as they bob round and round in provoking fashion. When you have caught one, you peel it carefully, and pass the long strip of peel thrice, sunwise, round your head; after which you throw it over your shoulder, and it falls to the ground in the shape of the initial letter of your true love's name.
Other Halloween divination games traditionally played in various parts of Great Britain included "snap apple" similar to bobbing for apples except the fruit is hung from the ceiling on strings and naming nutshells after prospective love interests and placing them near a fire to see which would burn steadily indicating true love and which would crack or pop and fly off the hearth revealing a passing fancy. Accordingly, Halloween used to be known as "Snap-Apple Night" or "Nutcrack Night" in places where these customs were observed.
- Traditional Halloween Divination Games from Ireland - StartPage.ie
- Halloween: An American Holiday, An American History - by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne


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 string largestNumber(vector<int> &num) {
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According to the release, children are susceptible to the irritation — which can cause painful and itchy skin eruptions — after repeated use of wooden toilet seats or those with harsh cleaning chemical residue.
Johns Hopkins Children''s Center investigator Bernard Cohen, M.D. said: "Toilet seat dermatitis is one of those legendary conditions described in medical textbooks and seen in underdeveloped countries, but one that younger pediatricians have not come across in their daily practice. If our small analysis is any indication of what''s happening, we need to make sure the condition is on every pediatrician''s radar."
Cohen says that toilet seats and cleaners — both at home and school — may be the culprit for irritation.
To prevent toilet seat dermatitis, Cohen recommends: Using paper toilet seat covers in public restrooms; replacing wooden toilet seats with plastic ones; cleaning toilet seats and bowls daily; and avoiding harsh cleaners containing skin irritants like phenol and formaldehyde, the story noted.
Lead Researcher Ivan Litvinov, Ph.D. said: "Some of the children in our study suffered for years before the correct diagnosis was made."
Researchers also noted that persistently irritated skin is vulnerable to bacteria and may lead to more serious infections, the story added.
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Micro-moments are the smallest units of interaction in an online experience; like when Kayak.com automatically activates the return-date calendar after you've entered your departure date. It's so smart!
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You'll see real examples of why micro-moments make people very happy or very frustrated.
- Think of interactions as conversations as a way to focus on the content first
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"It's like herding cats," Lower Gwynedd Township Manager Larry Comunale said, speaking of just one example of municipal cooperation, the Welsh Road Task Force.
The workshop, moderated by Partnership TMA executive director Peggy Schmidt, focused on the benefits of municipalities teaming up to tackle shared problems.
The Welsh Road Task Force, for example, brought planners from Montgomery Township, Lansdale, Upper Dublin, Horsham and Lower Gwynedd together to devise a plan to minimize traffic congestion in the face of future development.
Comunale said the plan arms participating municipalities with a blueprint they can ask developers to conform to when they apply to build on Welsh Road.
The task force has also applied for a $1.5 million grant for traffic signal synchronization that will ensure traffic flows more smoothly.
Schmidt noted favor is being given to such partnerships by county, state and federal agencies administering grant programs.
Other projects Schmidt highlighted included a Community Coaster, a municipal shuttle program shared by Lower Salford, Franconia, Souderton and Telford. The shuttle serves senior centers, businesses and housing.
The camaraderie among municipalities also ensures construction projects are coordinated and public works crews are aware of common problems and issues like preparing for the winter season.
A final benefit was illustrated by Montgomery Township Planning Commission Chairman Roy Hyman.
Hyman advised the municipal planners about three upcoming developments that will begin construction in the next few months, including a 256-unit apartment complex, a 100-room motel, and a housing complex to include 160 single-family homes.
Hyman advised the municipal planners to "stay away from Upper Sate Road for the next six to nine months."


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- What should you not do after giving blood?
- What happens if I fast longer than 12 hours before blood test?
- What is the best vitamin for blood circulation?
- What should you eat after getting blood drawn?
- Should we go empty stomach for blood test?
- Are you supposed to eat before you get your blood drawn?
- How will I feel after giving blood?
- Is 10 hours long enough to fast for blood work?
- Are Bananas high in iron?
- How long do you feel weak after giving blood?
- What happens if you don't fast before a blood test?
- Which fruit is good for the heart?
- Which is the best fruit for blood?
- Do blood donors live longer?
What should you not do after giving blood?
After your blood donation:Drink extra fluids for the next day or two.Avoid strenuous physical activity or heavy lifting for the next five hours.If you feel lightheaded, lie down with your feet up until the feeling passes.Keep the bandage on your arm and dry for five hours.More items…•.
What happens if I fast longer than 12 hours before blood test?
MEDICAL ADVICE. Many other fasting patients attend early, so you may experience some delays. Unfortunately it's not possible to make appointments. IF YOU FAST LONGER THAN 16 HOURS – YOUR RESULTS MAY NOT BE ACCURATE, OR WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO PERFORM SOME OF THE TESTS.
What is the best vitamin for blood circulation?
The B vitamin group is made up of 8 nutrients. These vitamins are essential for forming red blood cells, fighting infections, and even neurological health. One of these, in particular, vitamin B3, can help people improve blood circulation. Also called niacin, B3 reduces inflammation and bad cholesterol.
What should you eat after getting blood drawn?
Have iron-rich foods, such as red meat, fish, poultry, beans, spinach, iron-fortified cereals or raisins.
Should we go empty stomach for blood test?
Some blood tests will require you to fast beforehand. In these cases, your doctor will instruct you not to eat or drink anything, except water, in the hours leading up to the test. Fasting before certain blood tests is important to help make sure that your test results are accurate.
Are you supposed to eat before you get your blood drawn?
What to know about fasting before your lab test. With certain blood tests, you may be instructed to fast for up to eight hours before your appointment. Fasting before a blood draw means you don't eat or drink anything except water. Don't wait until the day of your blood draw to ask if you should fast.
How will I feel after giving blood?
Some people may feel nauseous, lightheaded, or dizzy after donating blood. If this happens, it should only last a few minutes. You can lie down with your feet up at the until you feel better. You may also experience some bleeding at the site of the needle.
Is 10 hours long enough to fast for blood work?
It is important that a person has not had anything to eat or drink other than water for 8 to 10 hours before a fasting blood glucose test. Fasting helps ensure that the blood test records an accurate measure of fasting blood sugar levels. The results help a doctor to diagnose or rule out diabetes.
Are Bananas high in iron?
Iron content in bananas is low, approximately 0.4 mg/100 g of fresh weight. There is a strategy of developing modified lines of bananas to increase their iron content; the target is a 3- to 6-fold increase.
How long do you feel weak after giving blood?
These symptoms usually disappear within 24 hours. Some ways of minimizing these effects after donation include drinking plenty of fluids and eating well-balanced meals over the next 24–48 hours.
What happens if you don't fast before a blood test?
What happens if I don't fast before a blood test? If you don't fast before a test that requires it, the results may not be accurate. If you forget and eat or drink something, call your doctor or lab and ask if the test can still be done. They can then tell you if you need to reschedule your test.
Which fruit is good for the heart?
Strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries are jam-packed with important nutrients that play a central role in heart health. Berries are also rich in antioxidants like anthocyanins, which protect against the oxidative stress and inflammation that contribute to the development of heart disease ( 12 ).
Which is the best fruit for blood?
Citrus Fruits Citrus fruits like oranges, lemons and grapefruit are packed with antioxidants, including flavonoids. Consuming flavonoid-rich citrus fruits may decrease inflammation in your body, which can reduce blood pressure and stiffness in your arteries while improving blood flow and nitric oxide production ( 26 ).
Do blood donors live longer?
A new study concludes that regular blood donors are not at a greater risk of a premature death than those who rarely donate blood. The results even suggest that the most frequent donors may live longer than those who have only given blood a few times.


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AASHTO Guidelines for Value Engineering 3rd Edition, This AASHTO Guidelines for Value Engineering provides guidelines for establishing and administering VE programs. It is the intent of these guidelines to assist state DOTs in developing successful VE programs, to promote the acceptance and use of VE, and assure compliance with federal VE requirements, while allowing maximum flexibility to each state.
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The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Offcials (AASHTO) recognizes the need for the prudent use of resources and revenues while providing a quality transportation program.
Value engineering (VE) is a function-oriented technique that has proven to be an effective management tool for achieving improved design, construction, and cost-effectiveness in various transportation program elements. Data collected by the Federal Highway Administration indicates that the return on investment can exceed 100:1.
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Suppose I pick $k$ integers without replacement from $\{1, \ldots, n\}$. Let $I$ be the value of the highest integer. A calculation with binomials reveals $$E[I] = \frac{k}{k+1}(n+1)$$ This is a very simple formula - does it have a simple calculation-free proof?
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Do you know some instance of calculation-free proof for the expected value of some non-constant random variable? I would like to see it. – Matemáticos Chibchas Feb 7 '13 at 8:22
In many cases, you can use symmetry or some clever conditioning to avoid heavy calculations. – pierre Feb 7 '13 at 8:33
You just said it: "heavy" calculations. This is OK, but no calculations at all? Besides, I agree that conditioning is clever, but it is based on the nontrivial subject of conditional expectation. – Matemáticos Chibchas Feb 7 '13 at 9:04
_USER_ - the answer by Henry below is what I would call calculation-free. – pierre Feb 8 '13 at 23:42
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Picking $k$ integers without replacement from $\{1, \ldots,n\}$ involves breaking the interval $[0,n+1]$ into $k+1$ pieces where the length of each piece has the same distribution.
So the expected length of each piece (including the piece from the highest sampled integer to $n+1$) is $\dfrac{n+1}{k+1}$ and so the expected value of the highest sampled integer is $n+1 - \dfrac{n+1}{k+1}$.
Simple calculation will give your result.
So in general, the expected value of the $j$th sampled integer (counting from the bottom) is $j \dfrac{n+1}{k+1} $.
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Sorry by my ignorance, but I don't get it: what is the "same distribution" of each piece? (I don't understand the expected length stuff either, but hopefully this will be cleared when I get illuminated about the "same distribution" issue) Thanks. – Matemáticos Chibchas Feb 7 '13 at 20:08
Very nice! But how do you show that are no "edge effects," i.e., that the length of the first piece has the same as the length of the second? – pierre Feb 7 '13 at 22:04
_USER_ Chibchas: Each length is a random variable with a distribution. Each of these distributions is the same and has the same mean. – Henry Feb 8 '13 at 7:35
_USER_: Imagine seating $k+1$ people round a table with $n+1$ seats: there are no edge effects in the gaps between people. Then cut the table where the first person sits and straighten it into a bench of length $n+1$. – Henry Feb 8 '13 at 7:39
Lovely. Thank you for this fantastic answer. – pierre Feb 8 '13 at 23:41
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