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- Drug possession, distribution, and trafficking charges
- LSD (acid)
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- Prescription painkillers (OxyContin, Percocet, Vicodin, Xanax)
- Prescriptions for Attention Deficit Disorders (Ritalin, Adderall)
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- First Degree with a possible term of life in prison and a fine of up to $10,000
- Second Degree with a potential five years to life in prison and a maximum fine of $10,000
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- Misdemeanors are offenses punished with a combination of jail time and fines.
- Class A carries a possible sentence of a maximum one year in jail and fine of $2,500
- Class B carries a potential penalty of six months in prison and fine of $1,000 and compensatory service
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Do not walk on the dunes sign
WSJF can't go everywhere!
On March 10, 2015, I wrote an entry on Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF), in a nutshell, WSJF allows you to prioritize units of work using the lean concept of cost of delay and duration/time to complete. The approach provides a consistent framework for prioritization. This is my favorite of the advanced quantitative approaches. Instead of rehashing an old article (go back and read it before continuing), we will examine a few of the pros and cons of this approach.
 1. Cost of Delay (COD) is difficult to determine. The COD is defined as User-Business Value plus TIme Criticality plus Risk Reduction and/or Opportunity Enablement. All sorts of customer and financial research can be done to generate these numbers. In practice, values are often defined in group sessions that generate consensus on the values to be assigned to COD.
 Solution — Assign research prereading to participants, establish an anchor feature for comparison, to avoid the potential for the process to be unduly influenced use facilitation, and finally consider using relative measures for the components (this makes COD less difficult to determine).
 2. Early-stage innovations will tend to be undervalued, therefore underprioritized. New ideas that require exploration to formulate COD will generate a lower priority than well understood and studied initiatives.
 Solution — Set aside a budget within the portfolio to explore early-stage innovations.
 3. WSJF is often applied at too high a level. This is a criticism leveled by Al Shalloway (see SPaMCAST 559 and 560. Al suggests that when WSJF is applied at the Epic level, some (perhaps much) of the functionality encompassed in the piece of work is not as high value and is not really required.
 Solution — Review the value each piece of work delivers with the Product Owner before the WSJF session to make sure the work packages include only the most important components or are at least separated so they can be discussed individually.
 1. COD and WSJF provide a consistent repeatable approach to prioritization that helps eliminate some forms of bias and System 1 Thinking (based on bias and personal experience).
 2. Using a consensus approach fosters conversations. While the conversations needed to get to a consensus among a group of product owners and stakeholders can be difficult, the information exposed in these sessions is often enlightening and useful to understand what the business problem is and how to solve it (conversation is good).
 3. Fluff gets removed as requests get broken down. Bloated requests and features tend to be pared down or they risk never getting to the top of the list where they will be addressed. Note – this is the mirror image of Shalloway's criticism and is more often seen when using this technique in a facilitated consensus environment.
The idea that organizations and programs should prioritize work based on a set of criteria is not controversial. Small not very risky portfolios with a single product owner or stakeholder should understand the concept but probably will use simpler techniques. As risk and complexity increase so do the need for structure and discipline when making decisions. Daniel Kahneman in Thinking Fast and Slow discusses the need for risk policies so that real people can resist the urge to make biased knee-jerk reactions. Weighted Shortest Job First, an advanced quantitative approach to prioritization is an important, albeit imperfect tool to address prioritization.


Experimental test for subdominant superconducting phases with complex order parameters in cuprate grain boundary junctions
W. K. Neils, D. J. Van Harlingen
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
Abstract
An experiment to test the formation of subdominant superconducting phases with broken time-reversal symmetry in d-wave superconductors was presented. The variation of the critical current of grain boundary junctions with temperature and magnetic fields was measured to study the formation of a complex order parameter along the surface of YBa2Cu3O7-x films. The onset of a superconducting order parameter was found to affect the magnitude and magnetic field diffraction patterns of the supercurrents.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number047001
Pages (from-to)470011-470014
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume88
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 28 2002
ASJC Scopus subject areas
 - General Physics and Astronomy
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text: In this paper, we introduce a generative model for image enhancement specifically for improving diver detection in the underwater domain. In particular, we present a model that integrates generative adversarial network (GAN)-based image enhancement with the diver detection task. Our proposed approach restructures the GAN objective function to include information from a pre-trained diver detector with the goal to generate images which would enhance the accuracy of the detector in adverse visual conditions. By incorporating the detector output into both the generator and discriminator networks, our model is able to focus on enhancing images beyond aesthetic qualities and specifically to improve robotic detection of scuba divers. We train our network on a large dataset of scuba divers, using a state-of-the-art diver detector, and demonstrate its utility on images collected from oceanic explorations of human-robot teams. Experimental evaluations demonstrate that our approach significantly improves diver detection performance over raw, unenhanced images, and even outperforms detection performance on the output of state-of-the-art underwater image enhancement algorithms. Finally, we demonstrate the inference performance of our network on embedded devices to highlight the feasibility of operating on board mobile robotic platforms.

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a script.
 - Execute a command or batch file.
 - Update state variable.
 - Transfer a file.
 - Call a method on a managed code assembly.
Notice that we can invoke managed .NET code for an event response. This is extremely powerful, because our managed code could perform almost any advanced action, such as calling a Web service, clearing an application's data cache, or updating a configuration file in response to an event. For our Northwind management pack, we'll keep the event rule simple and not include any responses.
Figure 15. Event Rule Properties - Responses dialog box
The next step in the wizard allows us to enter any company knowledge for the event rule. As you can see in Figure 16, this is similar to the company knowledge field we saw earlier when creating our Northwind rule group. However, in this case we capture company knowledge for this specific event rule instead of at the group level. Again, this information is typically captured by a systems administrator to supplement the knowledge the rule included with company-specific information. We'll just leave the contents blank for our event rule.
Figure 16. Event Rule Properties - Knowledge Base
The product knowledge associated with the event rule can be captured in the next step (Figure 17). Product knowledge for an event rule is captured in eight separate fields:
 - Summary
 - Causes
 - Resolutions
 - External Knowledge Sources
 - Sample Event
 - Related Events
 - Other Information
 - Internal Comment
The ability to attach knowledge to rules can eliminate the need to provide separate documentation for the rules, which would easily become out of sync with the management pack. Instead, systems administrators can view this detailed, contextual information within the Operator Console while they view events and alerts generated by the rule.
At a minimum all rules should at least include a summary that describes the purpose and behavior of the rule. As you start building more complex management packs and the number of rules increase, it is extremely beneficial to have at least summary-level documentation for event rules. By taking a little extra to include information about the causes, resolutions, and external knowledge sources for a rule, we can save valuable time later when trying to identify and resolve problems with an application. This information can also enable systems administrator to be more self-sufficient.
For our exceptions event rule in the Northwind management pack, we'll enter brief information in the knowledge fields. Like event group knowledge, an HTML view for rule knowledge must be generated before the knowledge information will be visible in the consoles. After we complete the event rule wizard, we need to regenerate the HTML views of the knowledge information for the Northwind rule group.
Figure 17. Event Rule Properties - Knowledge Authoring
Since Authoring Mode is enabled, the next step (Figure 18) allows us to set advanced authoring properties for our management pack. More specifically, we can specify if and how the new rule will be exported when the management pack is exported. We can also mark the rule as deleted. Rules that are marked for deletion are essentially disabled and hidden. They are not processed and not displayed in the Administrator Console, except in authoring mode. In authoring mode, the deleted status for rules can be viewed and changed and rules can be permanently removed from the MOM configuration database.
Figure 18. Event Rule Properties - Advanced
The last step, shown in Figure 19, involves entering a rule name and selecting the enabled status for the rule. The value specified for the Rule Name field will also be used to name any alerts generated by the rule. In this case we'll enter a descriptive name, "Northwind - Receive All Error Events and Generate Alerts", and enable our rule.
Figure 19. Event Rule Properties - General
Our event rule has now been created and our simple Northwind management pack is complete. However, before we run the Northwind Application and test our management pack, we need to make sure that the configuration changes we've made have been applied and deployed to the management agents. By default, the MOM management servers will check the MOM database for configuration changes every five minutes. We can notify the management server of the configuration changes more quickly by right-clicking the Management Packs folder in the Administrator Console and selecting Commit Configuration Change from the context menu. However, it may still take another minute for the management agents to receive with the changes.
Testing the Northwind Management Pack
After our configuration changes are applied, MOM will begin monitoring our server group and processing our event rule. Before we package our configuration changes into a Management Pack file for deployment, we need to test our event rule and make sure it configured correctly.
We can test our event rule by simply creating a new error event in the Windows Application Log with an event source of "Northwind". The MOM 2005 Resource Kit includes a utility called Event Creator that can be used to generate events in the Windows Event Log. Alternatively, we could create a custom script or unit test(s) that could be driven by a tool such as NUnit to log a new event and exercise our event rule. However, in this case we'll test our MOM configuration through the Northwind Application interface. We can trigger an exception and cause an error event to be logged from our Northwind application by attempting to update a customer record and omitting the CustomerID or entering one longer than five characters. As you can see in Figure 20, we'll edit a customer record and enter an eight character CustomerID of "jamescon", which will cause an exception to be raised (Figure 21).
Figure 20. Northwind application - Edit Customer Account
Click the image to see a larger version.
Figure 21. Northwind-application-generated exception
As we discussed earlier, the MOM Operator or MOM Web Consoles can be used to view and act on MOM operational data. Let's launch the MOM Operator Console to view the alert generated by MOM as a result of our event rule. After opening the Operator Console, navigate to the Alerts view by clicking the Alerts section on the lower left-hand side of the screen. This view of the Operator Console is shown in Figure 22. The Alert Details section displays detailed information for the selected alert including the alert's properties that were mapped form the event log entry, product and company knowledge, and a history log for the alert.
Click the image to see a larger version.
Figure 22. MOM Operator Console: MOM alert generated by the Northwind event rule
On the Events tab in the Alert Details section, you can see a list of the events that caused this alert to occur. Double-click on an individual event record and view more detailed information about event, including its properties and parameters. Figure 23 shows the event view in the MOM Operator Console.
Click the image to see a larger version.
Figure 23. MOM Operator Console: Event received by Northwind event rule
When testing a management pack it might be beneficial to clear the list of alerts or remove individual alerts from the list in the Operator Console. By default, the initial resolution state for an alert is New. Alerts that have been resolved will be not be displayed in the default Alerts view. To resolve an alert using the Operator Console, right-click on the alert(s), navigate to the Set Alert Resolution State context menu and select Resolved. Provide any optional comments to be captured with the alert's history.
Exporting the Northwind Management Pack
The rule group, rules, and provider instances we have created, and additional MOM artifacts such as computer groups, scripts, tasks, and Operator Console views, can be exported to a single management pack file using the Administrator Console. The management pack file can be packaged with our Northwind application and imported in another environment to automatically re-create these artifacts. The default file format for MOM management packs is a binary format with the extension AKM. Management packs can also be converted to an XML format using a conversion tool included with the MOM 2005 Resource Kit. By converting management packs to XML, the contents of the management pack can be viewed using any text editor. Unlike AKM-formatted management packs, XML formatted management packs can also be compared using a utility named MPDiff included with the MOM 2005 Resource Kit. However, the Administrator Console can only export and import management packs in the AKM file format.
To export the Northwind management pack, we can simply right-click the Management Packs folder in the Administrator Console and select Import/Export Management Pack from the context menu to start the Management Pack Import/Export Wizard, as shown in Figure 24.
Figure 24. Management Pack Import/Export Wizard
In the second step (Figure 25), we will export a management pack.
Figure 25. Exporting management packs
In the third step (Figure 26) we need to select the top-level rule group, Northwind, that we wish to export. In addition to the selected Rule Group and its contained rules, the exported Management Pack will also include any associated computer groups, notification groups, data providers, and scripts.
Figure 26. Selecting a rule group
Next in the Management Pack Import/Export wizard (Figure 27 & 28), we will select any Management Tasks and/or Operator Console views that should be included in the management pack. Since we have not created any custom management tasks or views for the Northwind application, we'll skip these steps.
Figure 27. Selecting views
Figure 28. Selecting tasks
We must provide a path and file name for the management pack. Since we're in Authoring mode, we can choose whether we export a full management pack or a retail management pack. With a full management pack, rules marked for deletion are included and the knowledge entries the MOM artifacts such as rules and rule groups can be edited. A retail management pack will not include rules that are currently marked for deletion and the knowledge entries will be read-only. As shown in Figure 29, we accept the default


Hello All,
I am writing an image processing application in C# that needs to be speed optimized for faster performance.
I have been told that using Unsafe Code together with Pointers can speed my algorithm up significantly. Unfortunately, I have no experience with Pointers at all.
How can I make the following example code work with Pointers? (The example multiplies a 640 x 480 pixel images' pixel values by 2, and copies those new values into another 640 x 480 image)
Example:
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 double[,] Redmap = new double[640, 480];
 double[,] Greenmap = new double[640, 480];
 double[,] Bluemap = new double[640, 480];
 double[,] Redmap2 = new double[640, 480];
 double[,] Greenmap2 = new double[640, 480];
 double[,] Bluemap2 = new double[640, 480];
 for (int y = 0; y < 480; y++)
 {
 for (int x = 0; x < 640; x++)
 {
 Redmap2[x, y] = Redmap[x, y] * 2;
 Greenmap2[x, y] = Greenmap[x, y] * 2;
 Bluemap2[x, y] = Bluemap[x, y] * 2;
 }
 }
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Thanks in advance for any help provided!
One thing you can do is parallelize this method. Since no values depend on any other values I'd parallelize at the 'y' index level. You can also use shifting (which is generally faster than multiplication) since you are multiplying by two.
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Yes! Binary, I forgot.
You may want to review this article.
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I also remebered reading somewhere that the outermost dimension should be iterated before the inner ones. If I recall correctly, it has something to do with the layout in memory, but don't quote me on that.
I ran a test case of your original versus flipping the iteration sequence and it made a big improvement. I also tried using jagged arrays as mentioned in the article.
On my test system Vista32, VS2008, the jagged array (modified iterator sequnce) had the best performance. Approx 35% of original time.
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
 public partial class Form1 : Form
 {
 System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch sw = new System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch();
 public Form1()
 {
 InitializeComponent();
 if (System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.IsHighResolution)
 {
 Console.WriteLine("Operations timed using the system's high-resolution performance counter.");
 }
 else
 {
 Console.WriteLine("Operations timed using the DateTime class.");
 }
 }
 int iterations = 100;
 private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
 { // original
 button1.Enabled = false;
 GC.Collect(); // just for performance testing
 sw.Reset();
 sw.Start();
 double[,] Redmap = new double[640, 480];
 double[,] Greenmap = new double[640, 480];
 double[,] Bluemap = new double[640, 480];
 double[,] Redmap2 = new double[640, 480];
 double[,] Greenmap2 = new double[640, 480];
 double[,] Bluemap2 = new double[640, 480];
 for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++)
 {
 for (int y = 0; y < 480; y++)
 {
 for (int x = 0; x < 640; x++)
 {
 Redmap2[x, y] = Redmap[x, y] * 2;
 Greenmap2[x, y] = Greenmap[x, y] * 2;
 Bluemap2[x, y] = Bluemap[x, y] * 2;
 }
 }
 }
 sw.Stop();
 Console.WriteLine(sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);
 button1.Enabled = true;
 }
 private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
 { //Original, but Modified iterator sequence
 button2.Enabled = false;
 GC.Collect(); // just for performance testing
 sw.Reset();
 sw.Start();
 double[,] Redmap = new double[640, 480];
 double[,] Greenmap = new double[640, 480];
 double[,] Bluemap = new double[640, 480];
 double[,] Redmap2 = new double[640, 480];
 double[,] Greenmap2 = new double[640, 480];
 double[,] Bluemap2 = new double[640, 480];
 for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++)
 {
 for (int x = 0; x < 640; x++)
 {
 for (int y = 0; y < 480; y++)
 {
 Redmap2[x, y] = Redmap[x, y] * 2;
 Greenmap2[x, y] = Greenmap[x, y] * 2;
 Bluemap2[x, y] = Bluemap[x, y] * 2;
 }
 }
 }
 sw.Stop();
 Console.WriteLine(sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);
 button2.Enabled = true;
 }
 private void button3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
 { // jagged array
 button3.Enabled = false;
 GC.Collect(); // just for performance testing
 sw.Reset();
 sw.Start();
 double[][] Redmap = new double[640][];
 double[][] Greenmap = new double[640][];
 double[][] Bluemap = new double[640][];
 double[][] Redmap2 = new double[640][];
 double[][] Greenmap2 = new double[640][];
 double[][] Bluemap2 = new double[640][];
 for (int i = 0; i < 640; i++)
 {
 Redmap[i] = new double[480];
 Redmap2[i] = new double[480];
 Greenmap[i] = new double[480];
 Greenmap2[i] = new double[480];
 Bluemap[i] = new double[480];
 Bluemap2[i] = new double[480];
 }
 // note: changed iteration sequence
 for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++)
 {
 for (int x = 0; x < 640; x++)
 {
 for (int y = 0; y < 480; y++)
 {
 Redmap2[x][y] = Redmap[x][y] * 2;
 Greenmap2[x][y] = Greenmap[x][y] * 2;
 Bluemap2[x][y] = Bluemap[x][y] * 2;
 }
 }
 }
 sw.Stop();
 Console.WriteLine(sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);
 button3.Enabled = true;
 }
 }
}
Edited 4 Years Ago by TnTinMN: typo
Yep, jaggad arrays work better do to the way they are layed out in memory. I wrote something a while back about matrix multiplication and using jagged arrays ...
This article has been dead for over six months. Start a new discussion instead.


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Suppose a toddler becomes distressed after hearing a loud noise or when getting messy; are these indicators of sensory over-responsiveness or indicators of anxiety? There is little evidence regarding the distinction between sensory over-responsivity and anxiety disorders in toddlers. This construct validity study examined differences between occupational therapists' and psychologists' judgments of behaviors as representing sensory processing disorders (SPD) versus anxiety disorders, Twenty-four occupational therapists and 25 psychologists completed a mailed survey, rating items from sensory and anxiety scales as representing sensory and/or anxiety disorders in toddlers, and analyzing cases of toddlers with these disorders. Occupational therapists were more likely to rate items as representing SPD than psychologists, and occupational therapists were more certain of the distinction of the sensory scales from anxiety. For the case designed to present a general anxiety disorder and the one designed to present sensory over-responsivity, more occupational therapists diagnosed as sensory over-responsive, while more psychologists diagnosed with a general anxiety disorder. The overlap in judgments of sensory over-responsivity and anxiety supports the notion that these constructs in part reflect different professionals' perspectives upon behaviors as well as the difficulty in distinguishing these constructs in toddlers.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health

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Grey teal
Anas gracilis tas.jpg
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Subfamily: Anatinae
Genus: Anas
Species: A. gracilis
Binomial name
Anas gracilis
Buller, 1869
Anas gibberifrons gracilis
This is a mottled brown duck with white and green flashes on its wings. The male and female grey teal share the same colouration, in contrast to the related chestnut teal, whose male and female are strikingly different. The grey teal has almost identical colouration to the female chestnut teal and the Grey can only be distinguished by its lighter coloured neck and paler face. Juveniles are paler than adults, especially on the head.
It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Sunda teal, as Anas gibberifrons gracilis.
Widespread throughout its large range, the grey teal is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[1]
It is often mistaken for a female chestnut teal, due to similar colouring.
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I want to know what exactly is different in the verbs "mischen" and "vermischen". Both of them mean to mix.
Is there any example where they can mean a specific thing? Are they interchangeable?
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Depends on context. A generic answer might be that vermischen is rather "to mix up, muddle, and/or confuse" while mischen is more deliberate. However, there certainly quite a many contexts that proves me wrong on that. – Em1 Apr 22 '14 at 12:58
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An example where only one of the options is appropriate: Shuffling a deck of cards is always "mischen", never "vermischen". As a rule of thumb use "mischen" on countable sets and "vermischen" when the result is homogenous.
Beware: "mixing a drink" is neither: the correct translation is "einen Drink mixen".
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well "einen Drink mischen" is not unheard of... – Vogel612 Apr 28 '14 at 16:50
Maybe its helpful that "vermischen" indicates that there are at least 2 components while "mischen" can be of one substance. Also look for the Noun " das Gemisch" there is no noun of "vermischen".
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I upvoted because the 2-component-point is very pertinent, but I have to contest the last sentence: "Vermischung" and "Vermischtes" exists. – Phira Apr 24 '14 at 23:52
According to the german wiktionary the preposition "ver-" has several meanings (well it's an old complicated language) amongst these is the notion of a "prcess that is hard to reverse" like in to fall in love sich ver-lieben. I guess that might be a good explanation. So it wants to emphasize a process of mixing that is irreversible. So if you mix water you sill end up with water. but if you mix water and sugar (so two or more components) and you "vermisch" them then they are really mixed without an easy way to separate them. this is opposed to the deck of cards that would be easy to demix if you shuffled it.
From my feeling as a native these two words can be interchanged quite frequently without a drastic change. So if someone told me "ich vermische die Karten" I would not feel compelled to correct him ;-)
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Very good points about the irreversibility, but "ich vermische die Karten" for a professional act of shuffling feels very wrong. – Phira Apr 24 '14 at 23:58
I agree it is not the really right thing, however if someone would say that I would not feel compelled to correct him in the same way as if he said "ich vermenge die Karten" for example. Also if you say "ich vermische die roten mit den grünen Karten" it would feel right again, wouldn't you say? – Magellan88 Apr 25 '14 at 8:56
"Kannst du die Karten noch einmal mischen, damit Herz und Treff besser vermischt werden?" would sound alright. – Phira Apr 25 '14 at 23:42
Yes that's sounds exactly right to me. Just note that treff is usually Kreuz in German (I know people playing bridge usually use the French words) – Magellan88 Apr 26 '14 at 11:31
Karten vermischen? Nope! Da VERwechselst du wohl etwas. – DisplayName Apr 28 '14 at 15:14
mischen - shuffle (bring chaos into some order) vermischen - mix together (mix more than one substance together) Gemisch - Mixture - mixture of more than one component (fertig) gemischt - done mixing something (fertig) vermischt - done mixing two or more components
Yes! Der Mischvorgang ist beendet. No! Der Vermischvorgang ist beendet.
mischen --> generally increasing the entropy somewhere
vermischen --> mixing two or more things of different character together
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Using Tracer Response Curves to Quantify Hydraulic and Channel Complexity of Prairie Creek, Northwestern California: Implications for Over Wintering Habitat for Juvenile Coho Salmonby Montgomery Schmitt,
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Part of: Watershed Management and Operations Management 2000
This study measured and compared aspects of channel structural complexity with hydraulic complexity at a range of flows including winter storm flows. Five 200-meter reaches containing varying degrees of LWD loading were selected on Prairie Creek, a pristine old growth stream located in Redwood National Park. A fluorescent dye tracer (Rhodamine WT) and fluorometer were used to measure hydraulic retention as an indicator of hydraulic complexity and dead zone fraction over a range of flows. Dead zone fraction, mean velocity and the exchange coefficient were determined by nonlinear least squares fit to a physical nonequilibrium transport model. The statistical moments of the tracer response curves were also used to quantify the reach hydraulic characteristics. Channel complexity was quantified for each study reach using LWD loading surveys and channel and longitudinal profile surveys.
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C010D Austin Metro Diagnostic Trouble Code
C010D Austin Metro code definition:
C010D is a kind of OBD-II Diagnostic C-Chassis Diagnostic Trouble Code for Austin Metro.
C010D Austin Metro is defined as Cylinder 3 Injector Circuit Malfunction. This code means the PCM (powertrain control module, also known as ECM or engine control) has detected a problem in the injector or its wiring, or in injector circuit for cylinder 3. Any code that causes the vehicle's engine to die while running should be fixed as soon as possible, as it can be dangerous for both the vehicle and the passengers of the vehicle.
Symptoms
Symptoms of a C010D Austin Metro diagnostic trouble code may include:
 - The light may stay on or light intermittently as the DPF regenerates. The engine will be sluggish on acceleration.
 - Faulty PCM
 - If the DPF is not cleared the ECU will revert to the "Limp Home Mode" until the situation is corrected
 - The engine oil will exhibit dilution from the ECUs attempts to increase engine temperature. Some vehicles advance the fuel injection timing slightly after top center to afterburn a small amount of fuel to increase exhaust temperatures. Some of this fuel enters the crankcase. When the ECU determines the necessity to regenerate the DPF, the service life of the oil be shortened significantly
Place of C010D in engine
Possible Causes :
 - A large vacuum leak would cause a massive amount of un-metered air to enter the intake manifold resulting in an overly lean mixture.
 - Faulty IMRC actuator/sensor
 - An air leak forward of the DPF will change the sensor readings resulting in the code
Common Misdiagnoses
 1. IC Circuit High Voltage Problem
 2. Control Module Throttle Actuator Position Performance Problem
 3. Air Conditioning (A/C) Clutch Feedback Circuit High Voltage Problem
 4. Cruise Vehicle Speed/Set Speed Difference Too High Problem
 5. PCM Stack Overrun Problem
Repair Processes :
Replace the oxygen sensor that is downstream from the catalytic converter on the side of the engine that does not contain cylinder #1. Also, if a oxygen sensor code stating "heater circuit malfunction" the sensor has most probably failed. If all testing has passed so far yet you still have the same code, check your scan tool and see if it can open and close the IMRC valve. Look for damage to the tank indicating impact that may have damaged the fuel pump or sender.
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Diagnostic trouble code C010D Austin Metro is not difficult to diagnose and repair. Thus, it always pays to have a qualified technician to look after your vehicle should this error code arise.
Diagnosing this code requires the engine to be in good running shape, without unmetered air entering the engine. If other codes that relates to misfiring condition, lean running or air entering the engine is present, then you must first fix those error codes before C010D Austin Metro.
Fortunately, C010D Austin Metro is a fairly common OBD code, meaning that it applies to all makes and models of vehicles made after 1996.
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Ogden's Pondweed is an annual, fully submerged aquatic plant species that has very thin, branch-like stems. It has very narrow leaves that are a greenish-brown in colour and are 5-7 cm long. They can occasionally produce fruit in the shape of a spike that is 5-11 mm long. This species can be very hard to distinguish between other Pondweed species and generally grows near these other species.
Habitat and Biology:
This species is considered to be rare globally. It only occurs in the United States at 2 sites in western Connecticut, 3 sites in central New York, 2 sites in central Vermont, and 2 sites in western Massachusetts. In Canada, this species is only found at 2 sites in southeastern Ontario. These sites are located south of Perth at Murphy's Point Provincial Park and Davis Lock 38 on the Rideau Canal. These sites can be found in the very southeastern part of The Land Between.
Ogden's Pondweed prefers the clear waters of lakes, ponds, and slow-moving streams. It can also commonly be found with many other Pondweed species, which makes it very hard to distinguish and identify. This species is also thought to prefer hard alkaline water, since both Ontario sites are found by marble bedrock. More research is needed to identify other possible populations, but also other habitat requirements since not much is currently known.
Ogden's Pondweed reproduces by seeds and the production of winter buds, which are called turions. Fruit can be found in the mid-summer months and turions replace them in the fall. Seeds and winter buds are dispersed by either water or waterfowl.
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Not much is known about Ogden's Pondweed so it is very important to continue vital research on the location, biology, and habitat requirements of this species. The Government of Ontario has plans to continue to locate other areas where this species may be growing- since it grows underwater with other Pondweed species it can be very hard to identify. Where known locations are, further research will be put into place to determine size, habitat, population dynamics, and threats. Habitat is automatically protected where Ogden's Pondweed is found, and there are plans in place to rehabilitate current and future habitats.
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Surveillance systems currently deploy a variety of devices that can capture visual content (such as CCTV, body-worn cameras, and smartphone cameras), thus rendering the monitoring of the video footage obtained from multiple such devices a complex task. This becomes especially challenging when monitoring social events that involve large crowds, particularly when there is a risk of crowd violence. This paper presents and demonstrates a crowd violence detection system that can process, analyze, and alert the potential stakeholders when violence-related content is identified in crowd-based video footage. Based on deep neural networks, the proposed end-to-end framework utilizes a 3D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to deal with the (near) real-time analysis of video streams and video files for crowd violence detection. The framework is trained, evaluated, and demonstrated using the most recent dataset related to crowd-violence, namely the Violent Flows dataset. The presented framework is provided as a standalone application for desktop environments and can analyze video streams and video files.


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Stratford Harbour subdivision's engineers of the 1960's may have overlooked the hazards associated with the waterfront subdivision's sheer cliffs that rise as high as 150-feet above the waters of the Potomac River and the Nomini. Storms have toppled pre-Bay Act homes over the edge of the tall cliffs and some homeowners have actually moved their houses to the landward side of streets where erosion has been most extreme.
During a work session on April 23, the Westmoreland Planning Commission reviewed applications for remedial action brought by a group of Stratford Harbour waterfront home owners. The Monument Drive properties are but a short distance upstream of the yard from which a woman in September 2010 sustained severe injuries when the land at the
top of that Potomac River cliff gave way.
Pre-Bay Act homes were routinely built dangerously close to the edges of those eroding cliffs. During this Monday's Planning Commission discussion, county officials and engineers acknowledged the original subdivision architects' failure to take erosion into appropriate account when laying out the lots.
County Planner Charlie Wrightson explained the Chesapeake Bay Act exception applicants need to improve the grading of those cliff top homes. The six dwellings are described as being 60, 65, 80 feet from cliff tops that are in immediate danger of giving way.
"The bank is deteriorated from upland erosion and sliding," Wrightson told the Commissioners.
Commission Chair John Felt is himself a Stratford Harbour resident. He explained that free-flowing springs in those Stratford cliffs contribute greatly to the ongoing erosion hazards. Grading remediation would begin near the rear of existing structures and would extend to a short distance above the base of the eroding cliff. Vegetation would be installed to stabilize the grade.
Public hearings on those requests are scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on Monday, May 7 in A.T. Johnson auditorium.
The agenda will include a request from New Jerusalem Baptist Church and Jerome Johnson for a zoning code special exception that would allow the cemetery to expand onto an adjacent agriculturally zoned property, where a pavilion would also be installed.
Coles Point Enterprises and engineer Jeff Howeth will seek approval of a Bay Act exception that would allow a timber retaining wall to be constructed on the Coles Point waterfront. The 1,122 foot bulkhead would be 32.5 inches high and would be installed immediately behind previously existing rip-rap revetment. Bio-retention filter utilizing vegetative materials would also be installed to stabilize the shoreline area that is situated upstream of the old Salisbury Park subdivision near the mouth of Lower Machodoc Creek.


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Interdisciplinary Working Groups
With the founding of the first Interdisciplinary Working Group in 1986, the Johannes Gutenberg University created a new funding instrument for interdisciplinary collaboration in individual fields of research. The centres are established by the Senate, with a reservation of appraisal, for a certain period, and provided with €2,500 per year.
Interdisciplinary working groups serve, among other things, as nuclei for the formation of larger structures and for the creation of a critical mass, in order to find an increased echo among external funding sources.
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New Asbestos Removal Method Discovered
Researchers in the United Kingdom are currently working on removing all of the left over asbestos in mines across the world. Not only would the method rapidly reduce the amount of asbestos, it would also reduce the amount of carbon in the air.
 Jenine McCutcheon, a geomicrobiologist at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, has been working alongside colleagues to create a method of turning the left over mined asbestos into carbonate rock. Using bacterial mats, McCutcheon is hoping that she can speed up the natural process of asbestos turning into carbonate rock.
 As this process is completely natural, McCutcheon states, "we are looking to accelerate this process and transition it from a pile of asbestos waste to a deposit of carbonate mineral which is completely harmless."
 As of now, these piles of mined asbestos fibers can absorb the carbon from carbon dioxide containing water and turn into harmless carbonate rock piles in around a year or so. However, without the help from humans, not all of the asbestos have a chance to completely become carbonate. In these asbestos piles, water must reach the asbestos for them to become carbonate. Large amounts of asbestos stay at the bottom of the piles, never coming into contact with rainwater and not becoming carbonate.
 McCutcheon has devised a system of using cyanobacteria to concentrate more carbon into these asbestos piles and ensuring all of them can become carbonate. According to McCutcheon, cyanobacteria "are really good at concentrating carbon from the atmosphere because unlike most bacteria, they photosynthesize and absorb carbon dioxide during that process. They collect it, they concentrate it, and when they die, they are decomposed by other bacteria, and that replenishes the supply of dissolved carbon in solution."
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Remarkable effect of π-skeleton conformation in finitely conjugated polymer semiconductors†
The structure–property relationship of finitely conjugated polymer semiconductors is underdeveloped to date. Herein, we report three novel tetrafluoroethylene-containing finitely conjugated polymers, PNBDO-T, PNBDO-BiT and PNBDO-TriT, containing electron-donating units of thiophene (T), 2,2′-bithiophene (BiT), or 2,2′:5′,2′′-terthiophene (TriT), respectively. All three polymers showed ambipolar charge transport characteristics under ambient conditions. PNBDO-BiT with a centrosymmetric BiT unit exhibited a maximum electron mobility of 4.15 cm2 V−1 s−1, much higher than the mobilities of 1.01 × 10−2 and 0.052 cm2 V−1 s−1 of PNBDO-T and PNBDO-TriT, respectively, with axisymmetric T or TriT units. Meanwhile, PNBDO-BiT formed more ordered and crystalline molecular aggregation than the other two polymers. We attributed the differences to their π-skeleton conformations induced by the centrosymmetric or axisymmetric electron-donating units in these polymers. The results show that the construction of linear π-skeletons is of great importance in the development of high-performance finitely conjugated polymer semiconductors.


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Join Ontario Nature Youth Council members Derek and Luke and the Town of Whitby's park staff for a pollinator planting at a naturalized portion of a dry storm water pond in Vanier Park (Whitby). 🌱
Learn about the importance of pollinators and wetlands while making a difference in your community. High school students can also earn volunteer hours!
What are Our Special Spaces events? Each year, Ontario Nature's Youth Council organizes conservation volunteering events across Ontario. These events, called Our Special Spaces (OSS) are youth-led nature restoration projects. For more information on OSS events, check out our OSS webpage.
Plants, trowels, gloves, and light snacks will be provided. This event is generously supported by TD Friends of the Environment Foundation.


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I've been working on Java applications that need to call OS commands
nircmd), and communicate with the Windows registry,
various shell scripts, and DLLs. I decided to implement the OS connections with Java's
class, and found some good advice and code online (see below for details). However, current
solutions didn't quite match my needs, and so I wrote SaferExec.
Create an instance of the SaferExec class, then call its exec() method with an OS command as a string argument. For example:
SaferExec se = new SaferExec(); String result = se.exec("dir /W *.java"); // get a list of java files using dir se.exec("notepad readme.txt"); // call notepad.exe with a text file // don't bother looking at the return result of notepad
Note that the above call to
dir does not need
"cmd /c" in
front of it. SaferExec automatically calls shell commands via a shell, which
partly fixes one of the most common headaches with Java's Process class. However, it's
not a perfect solution since the command might still fail due to incorrect privileges, missing
environment settings, differing shell versions, and probably many other reasons :) I've
included a few tips in the next section on how to avoid such problems.
By the way, SaferExec should work across multiple OSes, but I've only tested it on Windows XP, Windows 7, and Linux.
exec() tokenizes its input argument, which helps the Java Process understand what needs to be invoked. You can bypass the tokenization step by passing tokens directly to exec() as multiple input arguments:
String result = se.exec("ping", "-n", "1000", "localhost"); // exec() accepts any number of string arguments
SaferExec assumes that time-consuming commands, like the above
have become blocked. It'll automatically interrupt them after a
5 second wait, and any data will be returned. SaferExec's
wait time can be changed in the constructor:
SaferExec se = new SaferExec(60); // 60 seconds wait String result = se.exec("ping", "-n", "1000", "localhost");
There's also an execV() method, which works just like exec(), except that it appends the Java Process' exit value to the end of the result string. If the command worked correctly, then the exit value will be 0.
SaferExec doesn't utilize a Java Process stream to send data to the OS command, since it almost never works. Instead any data must be supplied as command arguments. However, if you really do need to pass a lot of information to the command, then the most reliable way is to have the Java application write into a temporary file, and then call the command, supplying the filename as an input argument. For example:
File tempFile = File.createTempFile("info", ".txt"); tempFile.deleteOnExit(); // Write to temp file... se.exec("foo info.txt"); // call the foo command
If you need to combine a series of OS commands, do not try to do it using a clever mix of pipes and/or redirection in the command string. It might work, but probably won't. A better strategy is to combine the commands inside a shell script (e.g. inside a Windows batch file), and call that script from the Java side. One advantage is that you can test the script separately from Java. Another is that the script file acts as an interface, hiding the scripting implementation, making it easier to change in the future. A script also allows you to use variables and control flow operations (e.g. if, for) which are trickier from the command line.
There are all sorts of problems involved with creating OS processes inside Java. Prior to J2SE 1.5, a programmer had to grapple with Runtime.exec(), as described by Michael Daconta in "When Runtime.exec() won't". Since v1.5., some of the issues have been fixed with the introduction of ProcessBuilder, but plenty remain, as detailed by Kyle Cartmell in "Five Common java.lang.Process Pitfalls" and Alvin Alexander in "Java exec - execute system processes with Java ProcessBuilder and Process" (Parts 1-3).
I 'borrowed' some of their ideas, and added a few of my own to come up with the SaferExec class. SaferExec tokenizes the OS command string before trying to execute it, merges its output and error streams to simplify IO concerns, and interrupts blocked commands using two techniques. The output from the process is read byte-by-byte, again to make IO easier, and care is taken to free up resources at the end of the command's execution.
Probably the most comprehensive solution for executing external processes from Java is Jakarta Commons Exec. The website includes a tutorial, FAQ, and source and binary downloads. Commons Exec exposes a lot more of the underlying Java Process to the user, including the IO streams and a timer interface. This allows greater flexibility in how it can be used, at the expense of more complex coding.
If some kind soul makes improvements to SaferExec, please contact me. I'll make changes to this version of SaferExec, and mention your contribution on this page, and in the code.


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Data from the Meteosat satellite 36,000 km from Earth, has been used to measure the temperature of lava at the Nyiragongo lava lake in the Democratic Republic of Congo. An international team compared data from the Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager (SEVIRI) on board Meteosat with data collected at the lava lake with thermal cameras. Researchers say the technique could be used to help monitor volcanoes in remote places all over the world, and may help with the difficult task of anticipating eruptions.
Data from the Meteosat satellite has been used to measure the temperature of lava at a remote volcano in Africa.
The scientists compared data from the Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager (SEVIRI) on board Meteosat with ground data from a thermal camera, to show the temperature of the lava lake at Nyiragongo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The technique was pioneered in Europe, and the researchers say it could be used to help monitor volcanoes in remote places all over the world.
"I first used the technique during a lava fountain at Mt Etna in August 2011," says Dr. Gaetana Ganci, who worked on the study with colleagues Letizia Spampinato, Sonia Calvari and Ciro Del Negro from the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) in Italy.
"The first time I saw both signals I was really surprised. We found a very similar radiant heat flux curve — that's the measurement of heat energy being given out — from the ground-based thermal camera placed a few kilometres from Etna and from SEVIRI at 36,000km above the Earth."
Transferring the technique to Nyiragongo was important — partly because the exposed lava lake can yield data important for modelling shallow volcanic systems in general, but more importantly because advance warning of eruptions is necessary for the rapidly expanding city of Goma nearby.
The research, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth is the first time in which Nyiragongo's lake has been studied using ground-based thermal images in addition to satellite data to monitor the volcano's radiative power record.
Dr. Ganci and her colleagues developed an algorithm they call HOTSAT to detect thermal anomalies in the Earth's surface temperature linked to volcanoes. They calculate the amount of heat energy being given out in a target area based on analysis of SEVIRI images.
Combining the frequent SEVIRI images with the more detailed but less frequent images from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), they showed that temperature anomalies could be observed from space before an eruption is underway. They believe that space-based observations can be a significant help in the difficult task of predicting volcanic eruptions, but that providing advance warning will never be easy.
"Satellite data are a precious means to improve the understanding of volcanic processes. There are cases of thermal anomalies being observed in volcanic areas just before an eruption," says Ganci. "Combining different kinds of data from the ground and from space would be the optimal condition — including infra-red, radar interferometry, seismic measurements etc. But even in well-monitored volcanoes like Mt. Etna, predicting eruptions is not a trivial thing."
The team developed HOTSAT with a view to making an automatic system for monitoring volcanic activity. They are now developing a new version of HOTSAT. This should allow the processing of all the volcanic areas that can be monitored by SEVIRI in near-real time.Continuing ground-based observations will be needed for validation.
"For remote volcanoes, such as Nyiragongo, providing reliability to satellite data analysis is even more important than in Europe. Thanks to ground-based measurements made by Pedro Hernández, David Calvo, Nemesio Pérez (ITER, INVOLCAN Spain), Dario Tedesco (University of Naples, Italy) and Mathieu Yalire (Goma Volcanological Observatory), we could make a step in this direction," says Ganci.
"This study shows the range of science that can be done with Meteosat," says Dr. Marianne Koenig, EUMETSAT's atmospheric and imagery applications manager for the Meteosat Second Generation satellites, "And opens up the possibility of monitoring isolated volcanoes."
Note : The above story is based on materials provided by European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT).


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Workplace stress can be identified and addressed through a Stress Risk Management Audit, sometimes referred to as a Stress Risk Management Assessment. In a number of Australian States, and in the UK through the Safety Executive (UK), workplace stress risk factors have been identified and considered in a risk assessment process. This powerpoint is intended to fit into recommended practices rather be considered as an alternative. It also aligns with other Organisational Health methodologies, such as the Organisational Health Audit and Complaints Management, by using an underlying Human Activity System model. This allows for the identification stress risk factors to be identified when addressing other workplace issues.


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Most of the covered bridges in New England are known for their picturesque qualities, but Emily's Bridge in Stowe, VT, has a more infamous reputation. Built in 1844 to carry what came to be known as Covered Bridge Road over Gold Brook, "Emily's Bridge" is a single-lane, 50-foot-long bridge. Its wooden frame is dark and weathered, and it was here, if legend is to be believed, that a girl with a broken heart committed suicide.
In the mid-1800s, Emily was supposed to meet her paramour at what was then called Gold Brook Bridge to elope. When he never showed, Emily killed herself in a savage fit of desperation, hanging herself from the rafters of the covered bridge. In the ghost story that followed, Emily is apparently an angry specter. Tales of claw-like gouges down the sides of cars passing through the bridge and bloody scratches down the backs of pedestrian crossers are bandied about just as much as the sound of loosely dragging feet on the roofs of cars or the noise of a strange voice emanating from inside the short tunnel.
Interestingly enough, it's not just called Emily's Bridge by supernatural enthusiasts. The name has carried over into the tourist products of Stowe, whose shops sell quaint little postcards and souvenirs featuring the bridge against the cozy backdrops of fall and winter and labeled in pretty script, "Emily's Bridge."
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A Summary of Using the JSVGCanvas Class to Display a SVG Document
First of all it's important to note the class inheritance hierarchy being used here since several methods called from the JSVGCanvas class are actually implemented by some of the classes it inherits from.
JSVGCanvas : JSVGComponent : JGVTComponent : JComponent
After creating a JSVGCanvas instance the setURI() method is called with a URI of the SVG document to load. If the URI is valid the loadSVGDocument() method of the JSVGComponent class is called with the URI.
In the loadSVGDocument() method all document processing for the current document is stopped, and then a DocumentLoader and SVGDocumentLoader are created. The SVGDocumentLoader handles the firing of document loading events and the DocumentLoader uses a SAXSVGDocumentFactory to create a SVGDocument instance. The SAXSVGDocumentFactory in turn relies on a SAXDocumentFactory to parse the SVG data referenced by the given URI.
The JSVGCanvas relies on the SVGDocumentLoaderListener, GVTTreeBuilderListener, and SVGLoadEventDispatcherListener listeners that are added in the JSVGComponent constructor in order to know what is going on with the loading, building, and rendering of the SVGDocument. The listeners are implemented in the JGVTComponent.Listener and JSVGComponent.SVGListener classes.
When the document has finished being loaded and parsed the setSVGDocument() method of the JSVGComponent class is called, which then calls the installSVGDocument() method in the same class.
The installSVGDocument() method:
1. Gets rid of any resources from the previous document (if any)
2. Create a new BridgeContext to associate the SVG DOM and the GVT tree
3. Configures the component and BridgeContext instance based on the document state (ALWAYS_STATIC, ALWAYS_DYNAMIC, ALWAYS_INTERACTIVE, AUTODETECT)
4. Creates a GVTTreeBuilder with the SVGDocument and BridgeContext
5. Initializes event handling for mouse and keyboard events
When the GVTTreeBuilder is done building the GVT tree the JSVGComponent performs some additional configuration so that dynamic documents work correctly, and then calls the scheduleGVTRendering() method of the JGVTComponent class.
The scheduleGVTRendering() method calls the renderGVTTree() method of the same class and:
1. Sets the size of the visible rect to be the size of the component
2. Creates either a static or dynamic image rendered based on the document state (StaticRenderer or DynamicRenderer)
3. Finds the inverse of the rendering transform, which is set to the identity matrix
4. Creates a shape by transforming the rectangle found in step 1 with the matrix from step 3
5. Creates a GVTTreeRenderer and starts the rendering thread
The GVTTreeRenderer fires GVT tree rendering events and calls the repaint() method of the renderer. Once repainting is complete, the JGVTComponent is notified of the fact by a GVT tree rendering event, and in response repaints the component using the updated image that was rendered offscreen by the renderer.
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Table of contents:
- First, What Is Order Picking?
- So What Are Robotic Picking Systems?
- Types of Robotic Picking Systems
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- Making picking and navigating easier and more intuitive
- Types of Order-Picking Robots
> Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RS)
> Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs)
> Pick and Place Robots
Warehouse order fulfillment involves many repetitive tasks. The most important and foundational one is order picking. It's usually one of the biggest expenses in a distribution center, often making up more than half of operational costs.
That's why it's critical to understand the different robotic picking systems and assess which can improve the operational efficiency of your distribution center. The right fulfillment technology can realize significant gains in productivity, minimize idle time, lower costs, and speed up order delivery times. Quick and accurate robotic solutions and innovative picking algorithms can lead to optimal operational efficiency, happy consumers and higher loyalty and retention rates.
First, What Is Order Picking?
Order picking is the process of selecting items from warehouse inventory to fulfill orders placed by customers, often through e-commerce purchases. It is the basis of warehouse workflows and the most labor-intensive and expensive order fulfillment tasks. Traditionally, it is done manually by people walking through long warehouse aisles to retrieve ordered items and bring them back to the packing station to ship out to consumers.
Consumers are now expecting faster delivery times with multi-SKU orders shipped directly to their homes. Given the impact of order-picking on costs, operational efficiency, and accuracy, businesses are looking toward new robotic technologies and processes to improve productivity. Robotic picking algorithms increase pick time, while minimizing idle time to ensure SLA commitments are always met.
So What Are Robotic Picking Systems?
In the simplest of terms, a robotic picking system is an order fulfillment system that uses robots and warehouse execution system software to automate all or part of the picking process in an e-commerce warehouse.
These robotic systems work alongside your warehouse staff. They take on the dull, repetitive tasks that can lead to burnout, freeing up your people so they can focus on more meaningful work.
Types of Robotic Picking Systems
1. Person-to-Goods (PTG) Automation
As the name suggests, Person-to-Goods order-picking technology involves people going out into the aisles of a warehouse or retail facility to pick items. Various forms of automation can help make the PTG process less tiring, time-consuming, and more efficient. A popular automation solution is a smart cart-type AMR robot. The warehouse associate meets up with the robot at the pick site, removes the items from the inventory rack, puts them into the robot, and then each goes their separate way to another pick location. People walk less because they stay in a zone – often an aisle or two.
Person-to-goods warehouse picking
2. Goods-to-Person (GTP) Automation
The Goods-To-Person picking system involves robotic systems that bring the goods to the order picker. The picker is stationary or at least is not walking through the aisles of the warehouse. GTP automation results in higher order-picking productivity than PTG, because it minimizes walking. Examples of Goods-To-Person automation include AS/RS and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) solutions, such as Racks-to-Person or Totes-to-Person picking robots. We discuss these types of robotic systems in more detail later in the article.
Goods-to-Person Automation – inVia Picker Robots
3. Goods-to-Robot (GTR) Automation
This involves a more complex robotic manipulation, where one robotic system brings the inventory from the shelves to a robot that picks the items for the order. This solution uses pick-and-place robots in place of human pickers.
Types of Order-Picking Robots
The term "warehouse automation" brings to mind images of large, vertical industrial robots such as carousels and conveyors, but there is a variety of picking robots that can be deployed in the eCommerce distribution centers. Many of the newer robotic picking systems are designed to work within your existing infrastructure, so you can avoid costly construction projects or warehouse redesigns. In general, the picking robots fall under the following categories:
1. Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RS)
AS/RS are large, fixed systems that use robotic cranes or conveyors to move products to and from storage. These Goods-to-Person (GTP) robotic order-picking systems deliver high productivity rates, reduce the amount of foot traffic for warehouse workers, and provide high storage density. However, they are expensive and require considerable investment in infrastructure.
2. Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs)
AMRs are smaller, more scalable and flexible. They navigate the warehouse autonomously using onboard sensors to detect obstacles and automatically navigate around them. There is a wide range of mobile robotic picking systems on the market today:
– Cobot/Smart Cart AMRs are collaborative self-driving carts that travel to the aisle and shelf where the inventory container is located. They are met by an associate, who takes the item off the shelf and places it into the mobile robot, scanning it to verify the right item was chosen. This solution is based on Person-to-Goods (PTG) fulfillment method.
– Racks-to-Person AMRs are low-profile robots that go underneath an entire shelf of goods, lift up the shelving unit and carry it to an order-picking station. While an improvement from the order-picking cobots, this Goods-to-Person automation solution does not eliminate the dependencies between people and robots, which may result in bottlenecks. It's important to keep in mind that in addition to the potential bottlenecks, implementing racks-to-person AMRs can also be associated with high infrastructure costs, as it may require modifications to the existing shelving units and other warehouse infrastructure.
– Totes-to-Person AMRs further refine Goods-to-Person automation by enabling mobile robots to remove inventory containers from the storage shelves containing items to be picked. The robot then travels independently, bringing the tote from the warehouse shelves to an associate.
inVia Robotics uses a patented "Totes-to-Person" approach, where inVia Picker robots navigate the warehouse and autonomously remove inventory containers from the racks and deliver them to the inVia PickerWall, a dynamic high-density pick/put wall that inVia's AMR robots build with each day's orders. The system decouples dependencies between people and robots, allowing people to work in bursts, while robots operate tirelessly 24/7. This highly efficient system delivers 5x+ increase in picking productivity.
inVia PickerWall, a Totes-to-Person system, that decouples dependencies between people and robots.
3. Pick and Place Robots
Pick and place robots are used in eCommerce fulfillment distribution centers to automate the process of picking individual items from storage locations and placing them into shipping cartons or totes. These robots are typically equipped with a robotic arm and a gripper or suction cup to pick up and manipulate items with precision and accuracy.
There is a wide selection of robotic picking systems that can help you realize significant gains in productivity, minimize idle time, lower costs, and increase customer satisfaction. Systems that minimize warehouse walking and decouple the dependencies between people and robots can have the biggest impact on a fulfillment operation.
Goods-to-Person automation offers more favorable results in the areas that matter most to 3PLs warehouse operators and online retailers: speeding orders, sharply boosting pick rates, reducing idle time, and increasing productivity. Choose a mobile robotic system to minimize CapEx and costly infrastructure changes.
Curious to Learn More?
It's easy to get overwhelmed by acronyms and new fulfillment technologies. Our The New Way to Warehouse white paper will explain best practices when choosing warehouse automation amid labor shortages and a multi-SKU environment.
Request a demo to learn more about inVia's unique Totes-to-Person automation system.


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Simple online ballet exercises for Beyond 50s and Beginners
We have provided full sequences of beginners ballet exercises for you to follow along to in your own home. Choose which exercises you would like to do, grab a chair and go!
Brand New to Ballet?
If you are brand new to ballet, we recommend you begin at our very first Series, Ballet 1. Do it a few times over a couple of weeks. Once you feel familiar with the moves and the music, move on to Ballet 2 and apply the same approach. You can move sequentially through each Ballet Series or pick and choose the one you like the most and practice practice practice. The most important thing is to enjoy it!
If you need more instruction on each exercise, you will find instructional videos below each Ballet Sequence.
The format of our instructional videos are as follows:
1. Susan demonstrates the exercise.
2. Susan corrects the technique with Elizabeth.
3. Elizabeth and Susan do the full exercise to the music.
What to wear?
Anything that is comfortable and helps to move.
Socks, bare feet, or sticky socks. Or you can purchase our Ballet Shoes HERE. The most import thing is to feel comfortable and stable.
When to do the exercises?
Anytime. Whenever you have a spare 20 minutes and feel like moving your body.
The more you do, the more you gain. Do what works for you – you can do the exercises once a week or once a day. Elizabeth has built up from doing them twice a week to daily, and she finds she gets the most benefit out of a daily routine.
Basic Ballet Positions
Please consult your doctor before beginning this or any other fitness programme. Exercise is not without it's risks, and this or any other exercise program may result in injury. By engaging in these exercises, you agree that you do so at your own risk, and assume all associated risk of injury.


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10 May 2006
More than 12,000 school children participated this morning in the Caring for Others School Project, a volunteer awareness event organized by the 18 Centraides of Quebec
, a volunteer-led organization, in Canada.
Thanks to the participation of the schools and local community agencies, the children, ages nine and 10 from 280 schools, were made aware of the values of volunteering and community service.
They were visited by hundreds of volunteers and community workers from Centraide supported agencies who explained to them why it is so important to give something back to the community, and told them about their personal experience of "Caring for Others", a Centraide project.
The Caring for Others School Project has two components. First, a preparatory phase during which students complete a workbook in class with their teacher. This workbook contains exercises and games designed to introduce the students to the concepts of caring and volunteering, to encourage them to help others, and to show them how to identify and meet the needs of people in their own community.
Second, the Caring for Others event per se, during which volunteers and staffers from local community agencies come and speak to the students in order to put a face on the concepts which they learned in class.
"The Caring for Others School Project is a wonderful tool for teaching children about the role played by volunteers and the community agencies," said Louis Champoux, president of the Assembly of Quebec Centraides. "By means of exercises, games and personal testimony, we awaken kids to the fact that volunteering meets real needs in their own neighbourhood, and that you're never too young to get involved and show you care."
The Caring for Others School Project is an initiative of the Centraides of Quebec. Since its inception in 2000, this awareness activity has reached more than 93,000 grade four students in every region of the province.

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A simple utility for generating moment.js date format codes. By Ross Hill.
Get format
Enter the following date in your preferred format:
Moment format code:
What is it?
Ever find yourself asking, what moment.js date format is this?
WTFormat provides an easy way to generate the code to pass into moment().format that results in your desired date-time format.
Note: at this time, only English day & month names are supported.
How do I use it?
 1. Look at the date-time given
 2. Write that date-time in the format you want moment to output
 3. Click "generate"
It's that easy!
Format Code
Thu. September 6, 2012 at 8:45 AM ddd. MMMM D, YYYY [at] h:mm A
2012-09-06, 8 h 45 YYYY-MM-DD, H [h] mm
Sep. 6th '12 MMM. Do 'YY
The 6th of September, 2012 [The] Do [of] MMMM, YYYY


What are the objectives of Primary Nursing and Team Nursing?
Primary Care Nursing: to promote autonomy and competency on a single nurse as all duties and responsibilities in taking care of a patient for his or her duration of stay is delegated entirely on a single nurse. It also aims to produce a nurse that is specialized in an area or a given setting to further improve the nursing practice and patient care.
Team Nursing: to provide the best patient-centered care. Since other minor duties are delegated to UAP's, LPN's and Nurse Aids, the nurse gets to spend more time by the patient's bedside doing delicate nursing care that cannot be given to any other members of the team. Another goal is to train the nurse to be flexible. As the nurse is not confined in the care of a single patient, he or she will be able to learn to adjust accordingly to different needs of different patients. Team nursing is also a training ground for nurses to become nurse leaders and nurse managers of a team; this can be useful as a preparation for professional advancement.


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Scientists have for the first time estimated the physical footprint of human activities on the deep seafloor of the North East Atlantic. The findings published in the journal PLoS ONE reveal that the area disturbed by bottom trawling commercial fishing fleets exceeds the combined physical footprint of other major human activities considered.
The deep seafloor covers approximately 60% of Earth's surface, but only a tiny fraction of it has been studied to date. Yet as technology advances and resources from relatively shallow marine environments are depleted, human impacts on the deep seafloor are likely to increase.
"Information on the location and spatial extent of human activities affecting the deep-sea environment is crucial for conservation of seafloor ecosystems and for governance and sustainable management of the world's oceans," said Angela Benn of the National Oceanography Centre, who led the new study.
The researchers focused on the OSPAR maritime area of the North East Atlantic, where human activities are particularly intense. The area covers over eleven million square kilometres, about 75 percent of which is deeper than 200 metres, and includes important fishing grounds such as those of Hatton and Rockall.
Using available data for the year 2005, they mapped and estimated the spatial extent of intentional human activities occurring directly on the seafloor as well as structures and artefacts present on the seafloor resulting from past activities.
They looked exclusively at the physical footprint rather than the consequential ecological effects of disturbance, contamination and pollution, which are harder to ascertain. One difficulty that they faced was that of accessing data on human activities that was accurate, up to date and comprehensive, and in a suitable format for analysis.
"Some governments, public organisations and private companies were far more forthcoming with information than others," explained Benn. "Significant improvements are needed in data collection and availability, and this requirement needs to be built into international conventions and treaties with a legal framework in place to ensure informed environmental management."
Despite difficulties and various uncertainties, the researchers' assessment suggests that, although now banned, previously dumped radioactive waste, munitions and chemical weapons together have the lowest physical footprint of the human activities considered, although they do not consider potential dispersal after leakage.
Non-fisheries marine scientific research also has a relatively small footprint, whereas those of fisheries marine scientific research, telecommunication cables and the oil and gas industry are moderate. However, even on the lowest estimates, the spatial extent of bottom trawling is at least ten times that for the other activities assessed, with a physical footprint greater than that of all the others combined.
The study estimated the total area of physical imprint in 2005 to be around 28,000 km2. However many human activities in the deep sea are concentrated in certain areas, particularly in shallower depths between 200 m and 1500 m, and in particular habitats which become disproportionally impacted. The OSPAR area comprises many different habitats each with different and diverse ecosystems. The percentage impact in each of these habitats would provide important information but unfortunately there is virtually no detailed seabed mapping to provide this information.
As demands drive human activities ever deeper the imprint will become more widespread. "Consequently," argues Benn, "there needs to be a much greater understanding of the relative impacts of human activities on the deep seafloor, and in particular how these activities affect seafloor ecosystems and biodiversity."


Lookup Library - The Solution to Comunication Between Components
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This is the home page of the lookup library implementation, which is intended to solve a general problem that every component-based system has had to face: how different components register to the system and how other parts of the system can look them up.
There already are libraries trying to solve this problem, usually by querying for an interface and finding its appropriate implementaion. The most famous is Jini, the platform for development of distributed network services. Our library does something similar, but tries to stay small and easy to use. The NetBeans Lookup Library's main focus is a modular application consisting of independent modules that want to communicate with each other. It does not try to solve networking or legacy application integration. It is simple but powerful.
Why would you want to use it?
A well-written modular program separates development and deployment. There are many situations where a component needs some functionality but does not actually care about the implementation. It is up to the system adminstrator that deploys (installs) the application to decide which implementation to use.
The most simple and most often used method for allowing other implementations to be plugged in is the system property pattern:

public Toolkit getDefaultToolkit () { java.awt.Toolkit t = null; String classname = System.getProperty ("java.awt.Toolkit"); if (classname != null) { try { Class c = Class.forName (classname); t = (java.awt.Toolkit)c.newInstance (); } catch (Exception ex) { System.out.println ("Cannot initialize toolkit: " + classname); ex.printStackTrace (); } } // fallback if (t == null) { t = new GenericAWTToolkit (); } } The idea is simple. The deployer can start the Java VM with the flag -Djava.awt.Toolkit=org.myorg.MyToolkit where the MyToolkit is his class with default constructor and the code in the getDefaultToolkit method will instantiate the class and use it.
In principle this is general enough of a solution and works well, except that writing the code above is error prone and it also requires passing the arguments to the virtual machine. It would be much nicer if the registation could be done just by putting a JAR file with the MyToolkit class into the application classpath.
Actually this has been realized also by the JDK development team and addressed in JDK 1.3 as part of the provider extension mechanism. The MyToolkit could be registered by adding a file /META-INF/services/java.awt.Toolkit with one line org.myorg.MyToolkit into the JAR file that contains the MyToolkit implementation. The code in getDefaultToolkit will scan all JAR files in classpath and search for that file, create an instance of MyToolkit and use it. The deployer can influence which toolkit will be created by adding the right JAR files into the classpath.
Of course the code to access the META-INF/services/ files is even more error prone than the property pattern. And this is exactly the place where the lookup library can help. It provides an implementation of the search algorithm with an easy interface. Just write:

import java.awt.Toolkit; import org.openide.util.Lookup;; Toolkit t = (Toolkit)Lookup.getDefault().lookup(Toolkit.class); and if the JAR with MyToolkit is in the class path, the simple call above will do the rest.
So whenever one writes an application divided into several independent modules (jar files) that are being developed and deployed independently, there is a need for registering and discovering components. First of all, a set of interfaces can be defined to enable inter-module communication (like the abstract class java.awt.Toolkit). After that a set of modules providing implementation can written (MyToolkit and other concurent implementations) and after that, whenever a module trying to utilitize the functionality wants to access the Toolkit via lookup, the real implementation is returned.
It is the responsibility of lookup to find a suitable implementation of the requested service and return an object implementing the service. This is the the basic functionality and while the library provides you with a little bit more, even this simple usage might be extremaly useful: the client code knows nothing about the implementation and the implementation can be switched in deployment time by simply replacing one implementation jar with other. There is no code change required.
Local lookup usage
The example in previous paragraph demostrated the usage of lookup as a global registry (by using the Lookup.getDefault() call). One can also consider another scenario where the lookup can help.
Let's switch hats to be an API designer for a while. The goal is to introduce a new object into the system. But you either are not sure yet what all the roles of the new object will be or you (more importantly) want to be able to add (or change) roles of the object dynamically. So why not to introduce following method to the object's interface:
public class MorphingObject {
 public Lookup getLookup() {
 return myLookup;
 }
 ...
}
By exposing the method getLookup you can attach different functionality to the
MorphingObject at runtime and whoever gets a reference to your object can ask it
whether the object supports a given interface like this:
MorphingObject morph = ...
AnInterface impl = (AnInterface)morph.getLookup().lookup(AnInterface.class);
if (impl == null) {
 return;/* AnInterface not supported now! */
}
impl.useIt();
Additional functionality
The NetBeans lookup library also provides:
 - Support for dynamically changing the lookup content.
 - The ability to return multiple results.
 - Notification of changes. After retrieving the result, the client can attach a listener and be notified when the result of the lookup is changed.
 - Lazy initialization of the implementation. The implementation objects are initialized only after someone asks for them. Even the implementation classes are not loaded if they are not going to be used!
Further information
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Deleting SVMs
You can use System Manager to delete storage virtual machines (SVMs) that you no longer require from the storage system configuration.
Before you begin
You must have completed the following tasks:
 1. Disabled the Snapshot copies, data protection (DP) mirrors, and load-sharing (LS) mirrors for all the volumes
 Note: You must use the command-line interface (CLI) to disable LS mirrors.
 2. Deleted all the igroups that belong to the SVM manually if you are deleting SVMs
 3. Deleted all the portsets
 4. Deleted all the volumes in the SVM, including the root volume
 5. Unmapped the LUNs, taken them offline, and deleted them
 6. Deleted the CIFS server if you are deleting SVMs
 7. Deleted any customized user accounts and roles that are associated with the SVM
 8. Deleted any NVMe subsystems associated with the SVM using the CLI.
 9. Stopped the SVM
About this task
When you delete SVMs, the following objects associated with the SVM are also deleted:
 - LIFs, LIF failover groups, and LIF routing groups
 - Export policies
 - Efficiency policies
If you delete SVMs that are configured to use Kerberos, or modify SVMs to use a different Service Principal Name (SPN), the original service principal of the SVM is not automatically deleted or disabled from the Kerberos realm. You must manually delete or disable the principal. You must have the Kerberos realm administrator's user name and password to delete or disable the principal.
If you want to move data from an SVM to another SVM before you delete the first SVM, you can use the SnapMirror technology to do so.
 1. Click Storage > SVMs.
 2. Select the SVM that you want to delete, and then click Delete.


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How to Qualify for E-2 Investor Immigration Visa
E2 Treaty Investor Visa
How to Qualify for E-2 Investor Immigration Visa
E-2 investor visa allows entry to the United States (from another country that the United States maintains a treat y with) in order to work based on a substantial amount of investment and control he or she will hold while in the United States.
In Order to Qualify For an E-2 Nonimmigrant Visa, You Must Satisfy the Following:
 1. Nationals must be from a country that has an existing treaty with the United States;
 2. Substantial investment, ownership, or control must be held by the nationals; and
 3. A citizenship of that country must be held by those seeking E status under the treaty.
Active Investment
The investment must be active. An active investment refers to its operation and services. In other words, the investment must allow the investor to undertake procedures in an effort to produce goods for profit. The investor must be engaged in the business enterprise; passive activities within the business enterprise will not qualify. For example, purchasing a property may not be sufficient. Instead, the investor must hire employees in order to manage, develop, improve, and maintain that property. Throughout this process, the investor must remain active by controlling and directing the investment in order to begin or continue providing services.
Substantial Investment
The investment must be substantial. While there is no set minimum amount to consider the investment "substantial," it must nonetheless be substantial in its connection to the total expenses of purchasing an existing or already established business enterprise. Also, a substantial amount of capital must be sufficient to secure the successful operation of the business enterprise.
One of two tests must be met in order to be considered a "substantial" investment:
 1. If an investment is made towards an existing business, then it must be proportional to the full value of that enterprise;
 2. If an investment is made towards a new business, then it must be an amount generally deemed necessary to establish a practical enterprise of that type.
Not Marginal Investment
Investment must not be marginal. That is to say, the investment must have the potential or power to produce enough income in order to support a decent living for the treaty investor and his family. Additionally, in most instances, such investment should provide individuals living in the U.S. with job opportunities. While creating employment opportunities for U.S. workers is not a requirement, it can be used to show that the investment is not marginal. When an investment is not considered to be marginal, it will require individuals beyond the investor to operate the business or enterprise. Further, it will generate enough income to fulfill the investors living expenses, along with payment of its U.S. workers.
Therefore, the issue is whether there is a projected and reliable return on the investment in order to meet the requirements of an E-2 treaty investor visa.
Essential Role in Enterprise
An essential role in an enterprise can be held by both the principal investor and certain employees of the investing enterprise. Both can obtain a treaty-investor status.
An individual, applying to enter the U.S. as a treaty investor, is considered a principal investor when he has a majority—at least 50%—ownership in the business, along with the responsibly of controlling and developing that enterprise. This generally occurs when the investor owns a majority and controlling interest in the business.
Another way an individual can enter the U.S. is as an employee of a company.
In order to qualify for an E-2 nonimmigrant visa as an employee of a treaty investor, the following must be satisfied:
 1. Nationals from a treaty country must serve in a managerial capacity; or
 2. Nationals from a treaty country who serve in technological capacity, such that
 - special skills, expertise, training, and qualifications are required in order to start-up the business;
 - national is needed to train or supervise others within that capacity; or
 - monitor and expand product improvement and quality.
Therefore, the employee must play an essential role for the operation of the company.
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Students in a marching band collected money for new uniforms. This table shows the amount of money they collected last week.
What is the mean amount of money the students collected?
The amounts for Saturday and Sunday were recorded incorrectly. Saturday should have been $34.24, and Sunday should have been $75.18. Use what you know about determining the mean to explain how these changes will affect your answer in Step A. Use words, data, and/or symbols in your explanation.