An Exact Formula For Balancing Work and Happiness
Two recent studies say that people who work a lot of overtime hours are at a higher risk of developing depression than people who work regular hours. This calls for a simple mathematical formula.
LET X= The number of hours that you need to work in order to earn an amount of money that you need to pay all of your bills and meet your needs and allow you live a generally comfortable but not luxurious life.
So the satisfaction and happiness formula is:
(Hourly salary x _TAG_ hours)= X= Happiness.
The (# of hours) must not exceed 40, lest you slip into overtime, and depression. Far too easy, right? What if you are like the majority of people, whose X would work out to an obscenely large number of hours, thereby leading to depression? In the sense of:
X= (Meager hourly salary x VERY LARGE # of hours)= Depression
LET Y= a depression-mitigating activity. For some people, this might be playing with your kids. For other, more numerous people, it might be drinking. For convenience's sake, let's say one hour of Y mitigates one hour of work. Therefore, the key to finding happiness even with a strenuous work schedule is to mitigate every hour of overtime that you work with an equal, opposite, more pleasurable activity. So we calculate:
X= (Meager hourly salary x VERY LARGE # of hours)- (Y x (# of hours worked greater than 40))= Happiness.
Print this out and keep it in your empty wallet. Go in peace.
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Photo Gallery | Baby Colobus Monkey At The Saint Louis Zoo
A black and white colobus monkey was born at the Saint Louis Zoo's Primate House on June 30.
Naming will await determination of the monkey's gender. The infant is the sibling of "Mosi", now 13 months old and the first colobus to be born at the Zoo in 11 years.
Colobus infants are born with all white hair and a pink face. In contrast, adults are primarily black, with white hair encircling their face and half of their tail. They have a distinctive mantle of long white hair extending from their shoulders around the edge of their back. Infants will change color gradually until they reach adult coloration at about six months.
The 24-year-old mother "Roberta" came to the Saint Louis Zoo in 2010 after attempts to introduce her to the colobus group at Binder Park Zoo in Michigan were unsuccessful. After the move to St. Louis, Roberta was easily integrated with the Zoo's 13-year-old female "Cecelia," and both the new baby's and Mosi's father, six-year-old "Kima." The family of five is now on exhibit. Visitors can see the infant poking its head out to look at its new world.
"It was believed that Roberta, who is an experienced mother, was likely post-reproductive when she arrived here," says Ingrid Porton, curator of primates at Saint Louis Zoo. "Happily she proved this to be quite incorrect."
Colobus monkeys are found throughout the forests of central Africa. The birth is part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums' Colobus Species Survival Plan (SSP), a program to manage a genetically healthy population of black and white colobus monkeys in North American zoos.
"Roberta is an attentive and protective mother. Mosi is very curious about the new infant and mom allows him to sniff the infant, but when he tries to touch, she has pushed him away," says Porton. "We are looking forward to the time when his sibling will be old enough to be Mosi's play partner."

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Public Release: 'Clean' your memory to pick a winner
University College London
Dr Bradley Love (UCL Department of Cognition, Perception and Brain Sciences), lead author of study, said: "Providing people with idealized situations, as opposed to actual outcomes, 'cleans' their memory and provides a stock of good quality evidence for the brain to use."
In the study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers programmed computers to use all available statistics to form a decision - making them more likely to predict the correct outcome. By using all data from previous sports leagues, the computer's predictions always reflected the most likely outcome.
The scenarios consisted of games between two Major League baseball teams. Participants had to predict which team would win and were told if their prediction was correct. Those in the 'actual' group we told the true outcome of the game and those in the 'ideal' group were given fictional results.
Participants in the experiment were tested by being asked to predict the outcomes for the rest of the matches played in the league, but they were not given feedback on their performance. Even though the 'ideal' group had been given incorrect data during training, they were significantly better at predicting the winner.
Dr Love explained: "Unlike machine systems, people's decisions are messy because they rely on whatever memories are retrieved by chance. One consequence is that people perform better when the training situation is idealised - a useful fiction that fits are cognitive limitations."
Participants' prediction abilities were compared to computer models that were either optimised for prediction or modelled on human brains. After ideal outcome training, the study showed that 'ideal' subjects had greatly enhanced their skills and were comparable with the optimised model when predicting baseball game outcomes.
Notes for Editors
1. For more information or to speak to Dr Bradley Love, please contact Clare Ryan in the UCL Media Relations Office on tel: +44 (0)20 3108 3846, mobile: +44 07747 556 056, out of hours +44 (0)7917 271 364,
2. 'Limits in decision making arise from limits in memory retrieval' is published online today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. For copies of the paper please contact UCL Media Relations.
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Dynamic DNA nanotechnology often uses toehold-mediated strand displacement for controlling reaction kinetics. Although the dependence of strand displacement kinetics on toehold length has been experimentally characterized and phenomenologically modeled, detailed biophysical understanding has remained elusive. Here, we study strand displacement at multiple levels of detail, using an intuitive model of a random walk on a 1D energy landscape, a secondary structure kinetics model with single base-pair steps and a coarse-grained molecular model that incorporates 3D geometric and steric effects. Further, we experimentally investigate the thermodynamics of three-way branch migration. Two factors explain the dependence of strand displacement kinetics on toehold length: (i) the physical process by which a single step of branch migration occurs is significantly slower than the fraying of a single base pair and (ii) initiating branch migration incurs a thermodynamic penalty, not captured by state-of-the-art nearest neighbor models of DNA, due to the additional overhang it engenders at the junction. Our findings are consistent with previously measured or inferred rates for hybridization, fraying and branch migration, and they provide a biophysical explanation of strand displacement kinetics. Our work paves the way for accurate modeling of strand displacement cascades, which would facilitate the simulation and construction of more complex molecular systems.
This document was originally published by Oxford University Press in Nucleic Acids Research. This work is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 3.0. Details regarding the use of this work can be found at: _URL_ Doi: 10.1093/nar/gkt801
Yurke, Bernard. (2013). "On the Biophysics and Kinetics of Toehold-Mediated DNA Strand Displacement". Nucleic Acids Research, 41(22), 10641-10658.

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Image text transcribed for accessibility: A worker is raising a 9.2 m long ladder of mass 53kg as shown knowing that the force exerted by the ladder is perpendicular determine (a) the smallest value of A for which the vertical component of the reaction at B is zero (b) the corresponding force exerted by the worker


Information on LED lighting - Petzl United Kingdom
Information on LED lighting
As a headlamp manufacturer concerned for the safety of its customers, Petzl has chosen to present information in its product instructions about the risks to the eyes associated with LED lighting. For this, the company uses the EN 62471: 2008 standard, photobiological safety of lamps and devices using lamps, though it is not mandatory. This standard classifies lamps according to risk groups.
LED lighting and blue light
Most of today's headlamps are made with LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes). Currently, the most profitable way to make white LEDs is to combine a blue-wavelength diode with a yellow luminophore.
As seen in the diagram below, LEDs emit primarily blue light (wavelength 450-495 nm).
Emission spectrum of a Petzl headlamp
In case of direct, repeated exposure at high power, blue light can harm the eyes: retinal damage, aggravation of macular degeneration, blinding. These risks are especially significant for children because of their higher sensitivity to blue light.
This is why as a headlamp manufacturer, Petzl has a duty to inform its customers of the existence of these risks, even if they are minimal for normal use of Petzl headlamps.
Risk groups
The EN 62471: 2008 standard on the photobiological safety of lamps provides a methodology for measuring and classifying the risks due to blue light emission.
The risk groups are as follows:
 - Risk group 0: no risk.
 - Risk group 1: low risk. The product presents no risk related to exposure limits under normal usage conditions.
 - Risk group 2: moderate risk. The reflex to look away from the lamp suffices to reduce the risk.
 - Risk group 3: high risk. The product can present a risk even with a momentary or short exposure.
Depending on the risk group. the manufacturer must make a label and/or a specific informational notice.
It is important to underline that the risk level is partly related to the distance between the light source and the eye. Thus, moving away from the light source reduces the risk level. The risk level is also related to the duration of exposure.
Brightness and beam shape are other factors influencing the risk level. Note that Petzl determines the risk level of its lamps by testing the worst-case scenario: a focused beam at maximum brightness.
Moreover, the risk group is currently evaluated at 20 cm from the lamp, which is relatively close compared to a common accidental exposure.
How does Petzl communicate in its instructions?
Here is an example of an informational insert on photobiological risk given in the Instructions for Use for Petzl headlamps:
Petzl communicates about the maximum risk associated with its lamps, specifying the distances at which this risk level is reduced. For this example, the lamp is classified in risk group 2. The lamp moves to risk group 1 when it is at a distance of 1.3 m from the user's eyes.
You should know that most headlamps currently on the market are classified in a risk group greater than or equal to 1. However, few manufacturers communicate about this risk.
Regardless of a lamp's risk level, we recommend:
- never look directly at a lit headlamp
- avoid aiming a headlamp beam into another person's eyes
- do not leave a child alone with a headlamp, as children's eyes are especially sensitive to blue light
For more information, see the ANSES report: Health effects of lighting systems using light-emitting diodes (LEDs).


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Now that you guys have learned how to draw a house, you will now be taught "how to draw a log cabin", step by step". A log cabin is a house that looks like it was built with just a bunch of tree logs. Remember those canisters that had a bunch of toy brown logs with green tops for roofs and red square plastic pieces for the windows? Well that is basically what you are doing with that toy is building log cabin houses. Well anyway, log cabins are popular and commonly seen around country areas and on camp grounds. Did you ever wonder who it was that brought this ingenious idea to life? Well after some extensive research, I found out that log cabins started being built during the seventeenth and eighteenth century by the Swiss and Germans who came to America with the skills and knowledge of building houses using log construction. Even though the Swiss and Germans introduced log house living to America, the Scottish and Irish eventually went from stone houses to log homes and spread their knowledge across the frontier. Now remember, log housing units were also built for temporary housing for soldiers during the Revolutionary War and for commercial purposes as well like; schools, churches, saloons, barns, gristmills, sheriff quarters, and other structures. With this lesson you will learn "how to draw a log cabin house step by step". I shall return in a few with something new. So stay tuned for my return.


Police in Brazil Killed Record Amount of People in 2020
An average of 17 people a day, totaling at least 6,416 people, were killed by police in Brazil during the year of 2020. These staggering totals set the highest amount ever recorded since tracking police killings in the country of over 211 million people. The 2020 numbers, compiled by the Brazilian Public Security Forum, are a 190% increase from 2013. Black Brazilians were killed at the highest rate, accounting for 79% of the deaths by police while only representing 56% of the population.
Non-profit Brazilian Public Security Forum released the data in their annual Brazilian Yearbook of Public Security which analyzes information provided by state, public security, civil, military, and federal police, among other sources. Over 11,000 people were killed by police during the five-year period of 2009-2013, averaging around 2,240 killings a year by police.
The vast majority of the families of those killed by police never receive justice and the lack of accountability has led to the Human Rights Watch seeking a dedicated prosecutorial body, not directly connected to the police, to handle cases of police abuse.
Large criminal organizations controlling swaths of heavily populated Brazilian cities are deeply connected to security forces controlled by the military and state and draw their roots from the two decades of Brazilian military dictatorship that ended in 1985. Evidence shows police involvement in criminal factions, militias, and death squads, like those linked to President Jair Bolsonaro's family that killed Marielle Franco in 2018, a human rights advocate and politician. These connections have helped to fuel the rise in police killings and allow for little accountability.
Marielle Franco tribute mural in São Paulo, Brazil – photo via Elias Rovielo/Creative Commons
Related: Echoes of George Floyd in Brazil: Man Kneeled On, Killed by Security Guard
In the state of Rio de Janeiro, well known worldwide for its city with the same name, beautiful beaches and its nightlife, police killed 1,245 people in 2020. Based on the population of the state, one in every 12,851 residents are killed by police. Comparatively, police killed 1,126 people in the U.S. in 2020, which is one in every 291,296 residents. According to research collective Mapping Police Violence, of the 1,126 killed by U.S. police last year, 28% were Black, despite the Black population being only 13% of the total country.
Ultimately, the numbers from Brazil are staggering in comparison to the U.S. In the state of Rio de Janeiro, the police are 2,167 times more likely to kill you in than in the U.S.
Police operation in the communities of Cantagalo-Pavão-Pavãozinho, Rio de Janeiro – photo via Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil/Creative Commons
The state of Rio de Janeiro also recorded seven of the top ten cities with the highest rates of police violence: Japeri, Itaguaí, Angra dos Reis, São Gonçalo, Queimados, Mesquita and Belford Roxo.
Those killings have continued in 2021, despite the Federal Supreme Court (STF) prohibiting police raids in the favelas (ADFP 635) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In late March 2021, Rio de Janeiro resident, Thainã de Meideiros, told Unicorn Riot that although ordered to stop raids, the police keep "coming up with excuses" to violate the legislative ruling.
Meideiros is part of the Papo Reto Collective, an organization focused on human rights, culture, harm reduction, health, and education in Complexo do Alemão, a large group of favelas in Rio de Janeiro.
Papo Reto was among a coalition of other collectives, including Black movement groups and those ran by mothers and relatives of lost loved ones from the favelas, as the initial groups to conjure up the motions that the STF ruled upon, the ADPF 635, or 'ADPF of the Favelas'. Setting a historical precedent, with ADPF 635 enacted, these collectives are recognized as amici curiae (advisors with the court based on their special expertise).
An ADPF is a Claim of Non-Compliance with a Fundamental Precept, a lawsuit claiming a violation of the Brazilian constitution by a governmental agency. Citing excessive police violence and new security policies allowing further abuses, the lawsuit was filed by the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) in 2019.
In August 2020, the STF confirmed the claim of non-compliance and ordered the halting of violent police operations. Yet, police operations continued in certain favelas. In April 2021, Supreme Court Justice Edson Fachin ruled in favor of requests in the motions and in June 2021, the STF issued an emergency restraining order on the police.
In short, it is proposed that the State of Rio de Janeiro prepare and submit to the STF, within a maximum period of 90 (ninety) days, a plan aimed at reducing police lethality and controlling human rights violations by the security forces in Rio de Janeiro, which contains objective measures, specific timetables and forecast of the necessary resources for its implementation. In addition, ADPF 635 addresses the following topics: end of the use of helicopters in police operations, protection of schools, guarantee of the right to participation and social control in public security policies, allowing participation and access to justice, expertise, and evidence to civil society and social movements as one of the main tools in resolving investigations into cases of murder and enforced disappearances.
ADPF 635 – Public Ministry of the State of Rio de Janeiro
Enforcing the 'ADPF of the Favelas' has, however, proven difficult after the STF ruling. Civil and military police made what many deem as reprisal killings in several districts to show they don't answer to the courts. Prosecutors have also been overruling Access to Information laws and making police records inaccessible to the public. For a deeper look into ADPF 635, see RioOnWatch's two part installment: 1, 2.
Meideiros lives in Complexo do Alemão, Rio de Janeiro, which has seen its share of military and police occupations and terror. Three months before STF ordered the suspension of police operations, 13 people were killed by police in one operation in Complexo do Alemão.
Just 15 minutes away from Alemão is Jacarezinho, Rio de Janeiro. On May 6, 2021, authorities committed the deadliest massacre in Brazilian history, killing 28 people during a failed police operation targeting drug traffickers in the favela. One officer died during the operation that lasted nearly seven hours with many of the 28 deaths occurring execution style.
The police denied wrongdoing, saying there were no irregularities or excesses of abuse. The operation had the initial objective of arresting 21 people under investigation, and led to the death of 28, not all of whom had arrest warrants. Three were arrested in total. This initially led to many organizations and even governmental agencies coming out in defense of the dead and the residents before falling silent with the fear of possible retaliation looming.
Over time, the "massacre" of Jacarezinho has fallen into national oblivion. Despite the murderous raid being so recent, there are almost no media discussions or local or national conversation about the operation anymore. This can likely be attributed to the fact that many peripheral Brazilians (those living in the favelas and peripheries of inner cities) have become desensitized to this type of violence. Decades of military occupations and urban pacification by armed authorities in Brazil have caused widespread cognitive dissonance and mental trauma.
"In no country in the world would the 28 deaths in one police intervention have been accepted and forgotten. But, we are in Brazil and here everything ends up in samba and/or pizza.
Anonymous Brazilian
Beyond Rio de Janeiro, there were over 5,000 more people killed by police throughout the country last year, including 814 killed in São Paulo. In lower-income territories, police abusing their authority is common and mistrust occurs between them and the community they serve.
Police occupies the Lins de Vasconcelos favela in northern Rio de Janeiro – photo via Gustavo Oliveira/Creative Commons
Due to continuing police killings, many states are taking steps in attempts to reduce the number of deaths. A total of 18 police battalions in the state of São Paulo now have body cameras. This has resulted in a 53% reduction in the amount of police killings in the state and in June 2021 no one was killed by officers outfitted with cameras. Yet, military police not outfitted with cameras killed 22 that month.
Even with the new measures starting to be enacted to quell police terror throughout the country, already 6,160 people in Brazil have been killed as of September 7, 2021; pacing the country for another record-setting year of police killings.
Cover image by Gustavo Oliveira/Creative Commons. Translation of Portuguese to English by Jules Rey.
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Definition of: 486
The fourth generation of the Intel x86 family of CPU chips. The term may refer to the chip or to a PC that used it. Introduced in 1989, it was the successor to the 386 and the first chip in the line to include a built-in math coprocessor. Providing acceptable performance for DOS, it was bare minimum for Windows. Later versions of the chip doubled and tripled internal speeds (see DX2 and DX4). See OverDrive CPU, PC and x86.
Technical Specs
Type: 32-bit multitasking microprocessor
Transistors: 1,100,000 to 1,200,000 (1.0 micron)
Package: 168 or 169-pin PGA
Registers: 32 32-bit


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Web Data Connectors in Tableau Server
Web data connectors (WDCs) are web pages that provide a data connection that is accessible over HTTP for data sources that don't already have a connector in Tableau. WDCs allow users to connect to almost any data that is accessible over the web and to create extracts for their workbooks. Data sources for a WDC can include internal web services, JSON data, REST APIs, and other sources that are available over HTTP or HTTPS. Users can create their own WDC or use connectors that were created by others.
For information about how to use a WDC in Tableau Desktop, see Web Data Connector in the Tableau Desktop documentation.
For information about how to create a WDC, see the Web Data Connector documentation on Github.
As a security measure, Tableau Server won't run WDCs unless you approve the connector, as explained in this topic.
Note: You must be a server administrator to approve WDCs for use on Tableau Server.
WDCs require your approval because they contain executable code and typically make requests to third-party websites. Before a user can use a WDC with Tableau Server, you must add the domain and port used by the connector to a safe list (whitelist) and also include the domains that a connector can send requests to and receive requests from on a secondary safe list (secondary whitelist). Before you do this, we recommend that you vet and test the connector so that you know what the connector does and what sites it connects to. For more information, see Testing and Vetting Web Data Connectors.
When you add a connector to the safe lists (whitelists), you configure Tableau Server to allow connections to a particular URL where the connector is hosted and from a URL which the connector can query. This is the only way to allow Tableau Server to run WDCs. The connectors can then be hosted on a server inside your organization's firewall or on an external domain. Importing WDCs is not supported for Tableau Server.
To add a WDC to the safe list, use the
tsm data-access web-data-connectors add command. This command and the related commands described below let you perform the following tasks:
Add WDCs to the safe list and secondary safe list.
Allow or disallow all WDCs, or WDC refreshes.
Remove one or more connectors from the safe list.
List all WDCs on the safe list and secondary safe list.
Updating WDC safe lists requires a server restart
After running any commands that make changes to WDCs, you need to apply your pending changes using the
tsm pending-changes apply command.
If the pending changes require a server restart, the
pending-changes apply command will display a prompt to let you know a restart will occur. This prompt displays even if the server is stopped, but in that case there is no restart. You can suppress the prompt using the
--ignore-prompt option, but this does not change the restart behavior. If the changes do not require a restart, the changes are applied without a prompt. For more information, see tsm pending-changes apply.
To add a connector to the safe list and secondary safe list, use the tsm data-access web-data-connectors add command, providing the name, safe list URL, and secondary safe list URLs. You can also manage WDCs using the web-data-connector-settings Entity. After running this command, you need to apply your pending changes using the
tsm pending-changes apply command. A prompt warns you that the command will restart Tableau Server. If Tableau Server is currently running it is restarted, and if it is stopped it is left in a stopped state with no restart.
tsm data-access web-data-connectors add --name 'WTA WDC' --url _URL_ --secondary _URL_
Notes on formatting:
- Be sure to use straight quotes (" and '), not curly or "smart" quotes, around the name of the WDC.
- For many WDCs, the port specified for the
--urloption is 443 or 80, but you can check the value for your connector by looking at the data source details on Tableau Server. You must specify the port number as part of the URL if the WDC is using SSL (HTTPS). For example, to use the default port for HTTPS, the URL might look like the following:
- If a WDCs send requests to and receive data from multiple domains, use a comma-delimited list of URL for the
- To add an entire domain to the secondary safe list, end the domain URL with a wildcard expression. Use
(.*)as the wildcard to indicate the entire domain. Be sure to include the parentheses
()as part of the expression.
To allow or disallow WDCs, or WDC extract refreshes, use the following command before running
tsm pending-changes apply:
To remove one or more WDCs from the safe list, use the following command before running
tsm pending-changes apply:
To list all WDCs on the safe list, use the following command:
When a user creates a workbook that uses a WDC, Tableau Server creates an extract from the data returned by the connector. If the user then publishes the workbook, the publish process sends the workbook and the data extract to the server.
Tableau can refresh an extract that was created by a WDC, the same as it can refresh any extract. If the connector requires credentials to sign in to the web-based data source, you need to ensure that the credentials are embedded with the data source, and that the WDC is on the safe list for the server. Tableau Server cannot refresh the extract if the connector requires credentials and they are not embedded with the data source. This is because the refresh can occur on a schedule or in some other background context, and the server cannot prompt for credentials.
Currently, there is no way to re-authenticate a data source from Tableau Server directly. If the data source has credentials that expire, or was published without embedding the credentials, the workbook and data extract need to be published again with the new embedded credentials.
If the background process that performs the refresh operation fails, it creates an alert and a log entry that indicates this issue. Users will be able to see that the timestamp on the extract does not change.
To disable refresh for all WDCs, use the
tsm data-access web-data-connectors allow -r false command.
If the server experiences problems with adding connectors to the safe list, you can examine the log files. Be sure to check the log files on both the initial server node and on the other nodes that are running the gateway process. For more information about log files, Server Log File Locations in the Ziplog Archive.
If the issue is that Tableau Server will not refresh an extract that was created by a WDC, make sure that the
webdataconnector.refresh.enabled configuration setting has been set to
true. If it is set to
false, run the following command to allow extract refreshes for all WDCs on the server:
Note: The safe list is the only way of allowing Tableau Server to run web data connectors. Importing web data connectors was deprecated starting with version 10.5.

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Exposed Communities: Ambler
The project examines how communities in the Philadelphia region face unique environmental challenges and aims to address this issue as it pertains to public and environmental health assessment in selected Philadelphia neighborhoods, yielding more tailored public and health-policy interventions that coordinate with actual needs of communities. The project makes visible the life experiences of target communities and provides environmental history and public policy researchers the opportunity to work with residents to create living histories of their neighborhoods. In this particular case, we are working with researchers from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania to recreate exposure routes from occupational and incidental exposures to asbestos in the neighborhoods of West and South Ambler.
Staff: Jody Roberts, Elizabeth McDonnell, Charu Vaidya


Human Resources
Alumni Office Specialist
Primary Role
Performs essential office-wide support functions for the office of Alumni Relations.
Typical Duties and Responsibilities
 1. Maintains alumni records; monitors and tracks volunteers; works with database; and performs data entry in Datatel's Benefactor program.
 2. Organizes; creates file folders; monitors event timelines; oversees regional event registration; runs or requests reports and mailing labels.
 3. Provides clerical support to an office including services such as arranging appointments/travel, sorting and distributing mail and departmental email, composing letters, postcards and other mailings, ordering office supplies & promotional items, allocating and approving purchasing card transactions for all cardholders, making bank deposits and handling other accounting functions, typing, filing, etc.
 4. Acts as staff liaison for certain reunion classes at Alumni Weekend and Homecoming; oversees registration process for both events; tracks and helps coordinate Student Alumni Association activities; communicates with Affinity Groups; and occasionally travels to regional events. This position involves overtime (including weekends) in February, June and October each year.
 5. Writes bi-monthly articles for the employee newspaper; proofreads materials; helps with newsletters; and communicates with alumni, friends, students, Student Alumni Association members and the campus community regarding alumni events and volunteer activities.
 6. Greets and directs visitors, answers phone inquiries and provides routine information to callers and visitors. Completes and collects forms, applications, work orders, requisitions, reports, etc. Helps maintain the Alumni Web Page and sends e-communications.
 7. Performs related duties as assigned
Supervision Required/Given
Works independently within established policies and procedures. Must work cooperatively with diverse individuals and customers. Some direct supervision of student workers.
Position Qualifications
 1. Knowledge and capabilities normally acquired through completion of a high school diploma. Additional academic training preferred.
 2. Three years experience in an office setting sufficient to demonstrate proficiency in: customer service skills, volunteer management, project planning and management, PC based office software, budget planning and tracking, staff supervision, advances word processing skills, and effective handling of confidential materials.


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CA1720: Identifiers should not contain type names
The name of a parameter in an externally visible member contains a data type name.
The name of an externally visible member contains a language-specific data type name.
Names of parameters and members are better used to communicate their meaning than to describe their type, which is expected to be provided by development tools. For names of members, if a data type name must be used, use a language-independent name instead of a language-specific one. For example, instead of the C# type name 'int', use the language-independent data type name, Int32.
Each discrete token in the name of the parameter or member is checked against the following language-specific data type names, in a case-insensitive manner:
In addition, the names of a parameter are also checked against the following language-independent data type names, in a case-insensitive manner:
If fired against a parameter:
Replace the data type identifier in the name of the parameter with either a term that better describes its meaning or a more generic term, such as 'value'.
If fired against a member:
Replace the language-specific data type identifier in the name of the member with a term that better describes its meaning, a language-independent equivalent, or a more generic term, such as 'value'.
Occasional use of type-based parameter and member names might be appropriate. However, for new development, no known scenarios occur where you should suppress a warning from this rule. For libraries that have previous shipped, you might have to suppress a warning from this rule.


How to Export Content From CMS to memoQ Server
If you want to export content from your CMS to memoQ Server, please follow the steps below:
1) Open the memoQ Server plugin. To do this, click the memoQ icon next to your content channel (provided that memoQ integration is enabled and the content channel is active.
You will be forwarded to the Dashboard tab where you'll be able to overview all your projects.

2) Move to the "Request translations" tab to choose the content for translation.
3) Select a configuration, the source language, and tick the checkbox of the pieces of content you need to request for translation. Click the 'Next' button to proceed with the translation request.
You can use filters to find specific pieces of content and aggregate the selection by multiple criteria. such as a specific word in the content, a user who applied the latest changes, last modified date. This helps to request various content for translation in one go. Just click the filter icon to set the selection criteria and click 'Apply filter'.
To expand the whole content tree, click on the icon marked on the screenshot below. To collapse the content tree, click the button one more time.
To clear the server cache and retrieve the fresh data, you need to click the refresh icon like on the screenshot below.
4) After you clicked the 'Next' button to proceed with the translation request, you need to indicate the project settings and select the target languages.
Project settings to specify:
 1. Name - a name of a project to be created in memoQ.
 2. Requested delivery date - the project's deadline.
 3. Service - gives the ability to use a memoQ project template.
 4. All content in one job - if this checkbox is ticked, all the content you selected will be placed as a single memoQ job. Otherwise, each content element will be sent as a separate job. Enabling this setting usually makes sense when dealing with small content elements
 - Max items per job - you can use this option if 'All content in one job' is enabled. If the 'Max items per job' checkbox is ticked, you can specify how you want to split content across jobs and what the maximum number of content elements can be added in one job. This feature should be used when you are dealing with an excessive amount of content that needs to be grouped in jobs. If the number of content items is too large to put them in one job, you can specify the number of content items per job.
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Peripheral Milling of Thin Titanium Plates: Modelling, Analysis, and Process Planning
Maropoulos, P. G.
This paper presents research conducted to model and analyse the peripheral milling of thin titanium plates. Impact tests are performed and the vibration characteristics of a thin titanium plate modelled empirically. The force process is described by a mechanistic model and experimental data are used to determine the model parameters. The particle swarm optimization technique is used to determine the parameters of the plate vibration and force process models, which are combined to create a complete model of the thin titanium plate peripheral milling operation. The models are validated experimentally and excellent agreement is shown between the simulation and experimental results. A process planning scheme for peripheral milling of thin titanium plates is developed and applied. In this scheme integer numbers of widths-of-cut and depths-of-cut are used and the optimal helix angle and feed are computed for each combination of width-of-cut and depth-of-cut. The process planning test case revealed that the optimal material removal rate decreases as the width-of-cut decreases, the optimal helix angle is independent of the width-of-cut, and the optimal feed increases as the width-of-cut decreases. The test case also revealed that the optimal material removal rate is independent of depth-of-cut, the optimal helix angle increases as the depth-of-cut decreases, and the optimal feed increases as the depth-of-cut decreases.
R. G. Landers et al., "Peripheral Milling of Thin Titanium Plates: Modelling, Analysis, and Process Planning," Journal of Engineering Manufacture, SAGE Publications, Jan 2011.
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Keywords and Phrases
Titanium Milling; Vibration and Force Modeling; Process Planning
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Detecting potential issues in naturally captured images of water is a challenging task due to visual similarities between clean and polluted water, as well as causes posed by image acquisition with different camera angles and placements. This paper presents novel deep invariant texture features along with a deep network for detecting clean and polluted water images. The proposed method first divides an input image into H, S and V components to extract finer details. For each of the color spaces, the proposed approach generates two directional coherence images based on Eigen value analysis and gradient distribution, which results in enhanced images. Then the proposed method extracts scale invariant gradient orientations based on Gaussian first order derivative filters on different standard deviations to study texture of each smoothed image. To strengthen the above features, we explore the combination of Gabor-wavelet-binary pattern for extracting texture of the input water image. The proposed method integrates merits of aforementioned features and the features extracted by VGG16 deep learning model to obtain a single feature vector. Furthermore, the extracted feature is fed to a gradient boosting decision tree for water image detection. A variety of experimental results on a large dataset containing different types of clean and stagnant water images show that the proposed method outperforms the existing methods in terms of classification rate and accuracy.
Xue, Minglong; Shivakumara, Palaiahnakote; Wu, Xuerong; Lu, Tong; Pal, Umapada; Blumenstein, Michael; and Lopresti, Daniel, "Deep invariant texture features for water image classification" (2020). Journal Articles. 17.


When does 35 not equal 35?
… and when does 35 – 35 not equal zero?
In the first case the answer is when one "35" is on an Excel spreadsheet and the other 35 is in VBA. The question arose from the ongoing continuous beam discussion with metroxx, who had, quite reasonably, generated a series of output points by calculating the length of one step (35/30) then adding this value to the previous length in 30 stages. This mysteriously caused an error in the function for no obvious reason.
Stepping through the code I found that the error was occurring when the last output point was compared to the beam length and found to be greater. The mysterious part was that both on the worksheet (formatted to 15 decimal places), and in the VBA Locals window, both values displayed as being exactly 35. Also entering the formula = A62 – 35 returned exactly zero.
To investigate what was going on I wrote the short VBA function shown below:
Function Diff(A As Double, B As Double) As Double
Diff = A - B
End Function
The function simply subtracts B from A, but using this function with the incrementally generated "35" as A and the "exact" 35 as B returned a value of 7.11E-15, even though stepping through the routine both variables displayed as exactly 35 in the locals window.
The answer to the second question is the same as the first (as would be expected), but also in some cases this behaviour can be seen on the spreadsheet with no VBA involved. As stated above, the formula = A62 – 35 returns exactly zero, but the formula = (A62 – 35) returns 7.11E-15, the same as the UDF! The screenshots below show more detail of this behaviour.
In the spreadsheet in column B I have generated 30 increments with the formula =(B7+$C$4), where C4 is =C2/C3, i.e. 35/30.
The value in column C are generated with =$C$2*A8/$C$3, where C2 is the beam length, A8 is the increment number, and C3 is the number of increments (30). Column D contains the the formula =B8 – C8, Column E: =Diff(B8, CB), and column F: =(B8 – C8).
Floating point value check - click to view full size
Error in Column D result
It can be seen that Column D has returned a difference of zero in all cases, even though the VBA function in Column E and the formula in Column F show a difference of up to 1.42E-14.
These differences are of course caused in part by the fact that all values are stored as binary floating point values, that cannot represent all decimal or fractional values exactly. This is described in several Microsoft documents (e.g. Understanding Floating Point Precision), which all claim that Excel follows the IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic. Clearly this is not the whole story though, since the example given generates errors up to an order of magnitude greater than the maximum difference between any exact value and the nearest floating point value, and also generates different results depending on how worksheet formulas are entered.
I would be interested if anyone has any more background on exactly how these things are handled in Excel, but for practical purposes I think the lessons are:
 - When comparing non-integer values be aware that values that display as exactly equal may be stored as different values.
 - When comparing doubles in VBA either round the values to a suitable precision, or check that the difference is less than some small value, rather than exactly zero.
 - Calculations that involve the difference between two nearly equal values may give incorrect results. Consider carrying out this type of calculation entirely in VBA (or if necessary in a different language offering higher precision calculations).
Example added 27th Dec 2011:
Another example of the effect of brackets:
 - Cell B4, =B2 + B3, displays as exactly 1, because the 1.6E-15 would be the 16th and 17th significant figure, but only 15 significant figures are displayed.
 - Cell B5, =B4 – 1, displays as exactly 0, the contents of B4 being treated as the displayed value.
 - Cell B6, =(B2 + B3), displays as exactly 1, the same as B4, as would be expected.
 - But Cell B7, =B6-1, displays as 0.000000000000001554, using the decimal equivalent of the underlying value stored in B6, rather than the displayed value.
 - Cell B8, =(B6-B4), displays exactly 0, using the displayed values in both cells
 - Cell B9, = B7-B5, displays 1.554E-15 (i.e. the same as B7), so
 ((1+x))-(1+x) <> ((1+x)-1)-(1+x-1) !
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12 Responses to When does 35 not equal 35?
 1. Georg says:
 Hi all, here comes a short list of links that helped me to understand what IEEE 754 DP really means for computational arithmetics:
 here MS states where VBA (not XL!!) adheres to IEEE 754 and where not
 imho, good summary of all effects
 homepage of Prof. Kahan, many papers available for download; among them this nice "fatwah" on Java's IEEE implementation; imho, even VBA programmers can learn much from it
 Click to access JAVAhurt.pdf
 imho, a nice website on the subject
 "staircase to hell" demonstrating one of XL's dirty secrets, i.e., manipulating a wide range of numbers around the exact doubles
 According to my experience, XL cannot be used to pre-test VBA code in detail because firstly, the results of even simple arithmetic operations may differ and secondly, even the standard mathematical functions sometimes yield different results in XL and VBA, resp. This holds true for XL10/VBA6/x32 as well as for XL14/VBA7/x64. Moreover, unlike C or Fortran VBA does not seem to take full advantage of the cache registers providing extended precision for intermediate results that all modern processors are equipped with. Therefore, I recommend to use VBA only to interface to routines written in a more suitable language like C or Fortran if accuracy really matters, for example when solving ODEs or PDEs, resp.
 2. lhm says:
 Agree it's strange that parentheses around a formula can change the result?!
 The differences in column F of the screenshot are exact binary powers: 2^-50, 2^-49, etc. as one might expect from the binary representations. This ties in with the fact that Excel truncates numbers beyond the fifteenth significant figure in calculations (_URL_ whereas seventeen significant figures are needed to store numbers exactly in the xml file formats. In VBA results are displayed rounded to fifteen significant figures but are stored internally to greater precision.
 - lhm says:
 After further investigation, it's clear that formulas in column D return zeroes due to truncation but the differences in column F are generic IEEE double round-off errors. For instance this c code returns identical results:
 double sum=0;
 int i;
 (The chart could also be converted to a step chart if desired.)
 3. Georg says:
 Ihm, the key needed to understand all those "strange" effects occuring with the DP numbers is to realise that the gap between two adjacent DP numbers doubles at each exact non-zero power of two. That is why in VBA if statements, e.g., you should only compare DP numbers to 0# and not to any other DP number, because in the latter case the interval yielding true/false is no more symmetric around your DP reference number.
 Imho, the behaviour of the DP numbers can only be fully understood if we look at their binary representation and not at their (mostly) rounded decimal representation. If you know that 0.1 is internally approximated by the IEEE 754 DP binary number 3F B9 99 99 99 99 99 9A (little endian byte order), and that 0.5-0.4 is approximated by 3F B9 99 99 99 99 99 98, you will not be surprised that 2^55*(0.1-(0.5-0.4)) yields a result of 1, whereas 2^55*((0.5-0.4)-0.1) yields a result of -1, though mathematically, both should yield exactly 0. Afaik, forthcoming versions of xNumbers will provide functions that allow for conversions between the decimal and binary representation of a variable of type "Double" in VBA. That VBA lacks the support of subnormal numbers is a big difference between VBA and F, C,… Start with 2^(-1070) and successively divide by 2 in XL, VBA, C, F… and print out the results…
 4. Georg


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African American Civil War Museum
MCN Build modernized the African American Civil War Museum into a centerpiece of the U Street community. The modern historical attraction features interactive display areas, interactive video screens, and observation areas. Commemorating the more than 200,000 U.S. soldiers who served in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War, these modern, highly educational exhibitions highlight the soldiers and their stories.
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A secure and reliable potable water supply for the communities of Wandering River and Grassland
The Wandering River regional waterline is a 150-milimetre, 88-kilometre system that extends from Boyle to Wandering River via Grassland in Athabasca County.
Wandering River's existing water treatment plant was scheduled for demolition by the end of 2012, necessitating a new potable water supply source. The solution? A regional water system extension would enable a connection to the community of Grassland 55 kilometres to the south as well as the farming and acreage owners along the proposed system.
The system consists primarily of fusible polyvinyl chloride (FPVC) pipe. This represents the largest project by length of FPVC pipe directionally drilled and installed to date in North America. This was also the first regional waterline project in Alberta completed using a design-build delivery.
Directional drilling was used for the entire length as it presented several advantages including winter construction, reduced cleanup, and minimized disturbances to landowners. In fact, as the project was nearing completion, the owner shared with the design-build team the story of a local resident who was curious as to when construction was scheduled to commence!
With this project, Alberta embarked on a significant new chapter in the construction of potable water systems. Our team and the design-build team undertook this project with the understanding that success or failure here would directly impact future opportunities to carry forward the design-build methodology for municipal water systems. Through a committed team effort from the owners, operators, designers, contractors, sub-contractors, and others, this project was a huge success.
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Using the RCFile File Format with Impala Tables
Cloudera Impala supports using RCFile data files.
Table 1. RCFile Format Support in Impala
File Type Format Compression Codecs Impala Can CREATE? Impala Can INSERT?
RCFile Structured Snappy, gzip, deflate, bzip2 Yes. No. Import data by using LOAD DATA on data files already in the right format, or use INSERT in Hive followed by REFRESH table_name in Impala.
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Creating RCFile Tables and Loading Data
If you do not have an existing data file to use, begin by creating one in the appropriate format.
To create an RCFile table:
In the impala-shell interpreter, issue a command similar to:
create table rcfile_table (column_specs) stored as rcfile;
Because Impala can query some kinds of tables that it cannot currently write to, after creating tables of certain file formats, you might use the Hive shell to load the data. See How Impala Works with Hadoop File Formats for details. After loading data into a table through Hive or other mechanism outside of Impala, issue a REFRESH table_name statement the next time you connect to the Impala node, before querying the table, to make Impala recognize the new data.
 Important: See Known Issues and Workarounds in Impala for potential compatibility issues with RCFile tables created in Hive 0.12, due to a change in the default RCFile SerDe for Hive.
For example, here is how you might create some RCFile tables in Impala (by specifying the columns explicitly, or cloning the structure of another table), load data through Hive, and query them through Impala:
$ impala-shell -i localhost
[localhost:21000] > create table rcfile_table (x int) stored as rcfile;
[localhost:21000] > create table rcfile_clone like some_other_table stored as rcfile;
[localhost:21000] > quit;
$ hive
hive> insert into table rcfile_table select x from some_other_table;
3 Rows loaded to rcfile_table
Time taken: 19.015 seconds
hive> quit;
$ impala-shell -i localhost
[localhost:21000] > select * from rcfile_table;
Returned 0 row(s) in 0.23s
[localhost:21000] > -- Make Impala recognize the data loaded through Hive;
[localhost:21000] > refresh rcfile_table;
[localhost:21000] > select * from rcfile_table;
+---+
| x |
+---+
| 1 |
| 2 |
| 3 |
+---+
Returned 3 row(s) in 0.23s
Enabling Compression for RCFile Tables
You may want to enable compression on existing tables. Enabling compression provides performance gains in most cases and is supported for RCFile tables. For example, to enable Snappy compression, you would specify the following additional settings when loading data through the Hive shell:
hive> SET hive.exec.compress.output=true;
hive> SET mapred.max.split.size=256000000;
hive> SET mapred.output.compression.type=BLOCK;
hive> SET mapred.output.compression.codec=org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.SnappyCodec;
hive> INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE new_table SELECT * FROM old_table;
If you are converting partitioned tables, you must complete additional steps. In such a case, specify additional settings similar to the following:
hive> CREATE TABLE new_table (your_cols) PARTITIONED BY (partition_cols) STORED AS new_format;
hive> SET hive.exec.dynamic.partition.mode=nonstrict;
hive> SET hive.exec.dynamic.partition=true;
hive> INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE new_table PARTITION(comma_separated_partition_cols) SELECT * FROM old_table;
Remember that Hive does not require that you specify a source format for it. Consider the case of converting a table with two partition columns called year and month to a Snappy compressed RCFile. Combining the components outlined previously to complete this table conversion, you would specify settings similar to the following:
hive> CREATE TABLE tbl_rc (int_col INT, string_col STRING) STORED AS RCFILE;
hive> SET hive.exec.compress.output=true;
hive> SET mapred.max.split.size=256000000;
hive> SET mapred.output.compression.type=BLOCK;
hive> SET mapred.output.compression.codec=org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.SnappyCodec;
hive> SET hive.exec.dynamic.partition.mode=nonstrict;
hive> SET hive.exec.dynamic.partition=true;
hive> INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE tbl_rc SELECT * FROM tbl;
To complete a similar process for a table that includes partitions, you would specify settings similar to the following:
hive> CREATE TABLE tbl_rc (int_col INT, string_col STRING) PARTITIONED BY (year INT) STORED AS RCFILE;
hive> SET hive.exec.compress.output=true;
hive> SET mapred.max.split.size=256000000;
hive> SET mapred.output.compression.type=BLOCK;
hive> SET mapred.output.compression.codec=org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.SnappyCodec;
hive> SET hive.exec.dynamic.partition.mode=nonstrict;
hive> SET hive.exec.dynamic.partition=true;
hive> INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE tbl_rc PARTITION(year) SELECT * FROM tbl;
 Note:
The compression type is specified in the following command:
SET mapred.output.compression.codec=org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.SnappyCodec;
You could elect to specify alternative codecs such as GzipCodec here.
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Zebra in KenyaZebras have several predators they must fend against, including lions, tigers, cheetahs, hyenas and crocodiles. Since zebras are sociable animals, they live in packs called harems, which helps fend off would-be attackers.
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How do I transfer a ticket to someone else?
If a guest requests that a purchased ticket be transferred to someone else, just follow these simple steps below:
1. Open the RSVPs tab in the toolbar to the left of your event page.
2. Find the attendee to edit.
3. Click the pencil icon, which will appear towards the right side of the purchase information.
4. Within that pop-up, enter the Edit Attendee tab.
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By RAWLINGS OTIENO
A Sh28 billion Waste to Energy solutions initiative will see Nairobi city residents have a cleaner environment.
The Waste to Energy solutions will generate at least 70 mega Watts per hour of electricity to the national grid and address the perennial black out menace in the city.
Sustainable Energy Management (SEM), a German company will turn solid waste, organic and inorganic, recyclable and non-recyclable material into energy and at the same time make the city clean.
Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero said that the modular plant by SEM is designed to take daily input of approximately 1,000 tons of waste of all kinds generated by Nairobi residents.
This project he said will make the city clean and get rid of the waste as well as create job opportunities for the youth.
"The project shall provide employment of 1,000 inhabitants in the first project and 250 employees directly on site in the second phase of the project. "We want to make sure that the city is clean and the Dandora dump site is cleaned," said Kidero.
Memorandum of Understanding
Speaking during the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the County Government and the German business moguls yesterday, Kidero said the two waste collection and management projects are designed to interact closely together in order to streamline waste logistics and also ensure reliability of the feedback to the SEM plant.
Delegation of German Industry and Commerce in Kenya Country Director Ingo Badoreck on his part said the SEM plant would emit very minimal pollution into the environment and at the same time making the city clean of waste.
Badoreck noted that the German business community would continue investing in other areas apart from sustainable energy management.
"We are pleased to sign this Memorandum of Understanding and hope that after the final signing, we will be able to set up the plant within 24 months to make the city of Nairobi clean," said Badoreck.
He disclosed that there are over 50 German companies in the country employing over 3,500 workers and hope the figure would increase significantly once the plant is set up.
The integrated project offers opportunities and benefits to Nairobi and shall ensure a clean environment, provide clean energy and create employment opportunities for unemployed youths.
Garbage management is a major challenge in urban centres with garbage collection and handling demanding extra resources as well as community contribution.


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IVORY COAST – Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa-producing country, will officially transition from physical paper documents associated with international trade for its horticultural products to electronic phytosanitary certification (ephyto) as of May 03.
According to the official, this transition from the conventional system to the digital one will make it possible to accelerate, facilitate, and participate in improving the credibility of commercial procedures, which until now faced many challenges.
Phytosanitary certificates are official documents issued by governments to confirm that shipments of plants and plant products being traded internationally are free of pests and diseases and, therefore, safe to import.
The ePhyto Solution allows countries to electronically exchange ePhytos with each other through a central hub, quickly, accurately, and at a low cost.
The risk of loss, damage, or fraud to the certificate is greatly reduced, as is the administrative burden on border agencies and businesses.
The IPPC Secretariat developed the e-solution to support from the United Nations International Computing Centre (UN ICC to bring phytosanitary certification into the digital era). The project was initiated and co-financed by the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF).
The Minister of State in charge of Agriculture and Rural Development, Kobenan Kouassi Adjoumani, said the certificate will be obtained from the online platform of the one-stop shop for foreign trade in Côte d'Ivoire (GUCE-CI).
He underlined that phytosanitary certificates "in paper version" have long shown their limits in terms of commercial exchanges, insofar as they impose, both on the phytosanitary administration and on private operators, various constraints, even deviations.
"These consist of administrative delays causing a useless waste of time. The frauds and falsifications observed, the risks of deterioration and loss of papers, as well as the costs of sending documents, constitute constraints likely to discredit both our exports and the commercial exchange procedures vis-à-vis our external partners," Adjoumani noted.
"This is why, in the era of digitalization throughout the world, Côte d'Ivoire has chosen to set up the process of issuing phytosanitary certificates electronically to facilitate trade.
According to Kouassi Adjoumani, this digital technology will make it possible to obtain the reduction of the potential of fraudulent certificates, strengthening the competitiveness of Côte d'Ivoire in the international market.
Training sessions on the use of the new electronic process will be organized for the benefit of economic operators in the horticultural industry.
Ivory Coast follows the shift Kenya made in leading African nations in the introduction and adoption of the ePhyto certification in December.


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How to slow down a robot
There is a flipant answer here about turning it off/remove batteries etc.
But, what do you do if you are having some server troubles or a bot is hitting you really hard. There are 2 obvious options open to you.
 1. Use your verified Google/Bing webmaster tools account and press the buttons, or
 2. To use an entry in your Robots.txt file
Option 1 is straightforward, so for the rest of this short post, lets focus on option 2. You can find some more details on the Bing community site. In short all (reputable) engines have signed up to the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP). So…
How to set the crawl delay parameter
In the robots.txt file, within the generic user agent section, add the crawl-delay directive as shown in the example below:
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 1
and replace as necessary if you want to apply to any specific bot e.g. msnbot/googlebot etcetera.
User-agent: msnbot
Crawl-delay: 1
What speed should I set?
They suggest no slower than 10, or it could affect their ability to stay on your site.
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10
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Trass is a natural pozzuolana. Natural pozzuolana is the natural rock described as in TS EN 197-1 and identified reactive SiO2 content is minimum 25,0% by mass.
Natural pozzuolana is the material creating resistance by showing hydraulic characteristic by forming calcium silicate and calcium aluminate compounds with calcium hydroxide [Ca(OH)2] solved at normal ambient temperature in the presence of water and when it is ground finely and not showing hydraulic characteristics. Essentially, it is formed by reactive silicium dioxide (SiO2) and aluminum oxide (Al2O3) and remaining comprises of iron (III) oxide (Fe2O3).
Trass requirement is met from the quarries close to our plant.
After determining the hydraulic characteristic (pozzolanic activity) of natural pozzuolana in pressure created by water and slacked lime [Ca(OH)2] when it is ground finely, its suitability as the additive is determined.


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Static model tests on mechanical behavior of assembled multi-step cantilever wallsZhaoying Li, Shiguo Xiao
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Assembled multi-step cantilever retaining walls is a new type of light retaining structure, which can be quickly installed in situ and suitable for high fill earthworks. In order to investigate its mechanical behaviors fully to support practical analysis and design of the novel wall, a series of laboratory model tests are conducted for three-step cantilever walls retaining cohesionless filling under various strip surcharges on the top of the backfill. Test results indicate that lateral earth pressure on the highest-step wall member increases with the depth on the upper two-thirds segment of the wall stem, whereas it presents multi-step polyline distribution mode on the lower two steps. Except for the highest-step wall member, the earth pressure on the upper part of each member stem shows some reduction effect due to shielding action of the upper heel plate inserted in the backfill. The lateral earth pressure on the wall obtained by numerical simulation via FLAC3D is consistent with the measured one in terms of the whole variation tendency. Horizontal displacement of the whole wall takes on a unimodal profile with relatively higher values at the middle height of the wall. Increasing the bench width is helpful to reduce the lateral earth pressure on the wall stems and setting up shear key beneath the footing plate of the lowest-step member can reduce the wall displacement by up to 51%.


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Brown Inca Hummingbird (Coeligena wilsoni)
Brown Inca Hummingbird (Coeligena wilsoni) The Brown Inca Hummingbird (Coeligena wilsoni) - also known as King's Musketeer or Wilson's Inca - is a hummingbird that is found on the Pacific slope of Andes of western and southwestern Colombia to western Ecuador.
They are common at elevations from 3,300 4,300 ft (1,000 - 1,300 meters). Uncommon at higher or lower altitudes; although can occur as low as 2,300 ft (700 m) and up to 6,200 ft (1,900 m).
They inhabit wet montane forests (known as "cloud forests") or are found along the thick forest borders.
Alternate (Global) Names
Spanish: Colibrí Morado Verde, Inca Pardo ... French: Inca brun ... Italian: Colibrì inca di Wilson, Inca bruno ... German: Brauner Andenkolibri, Königsmusketier, Königs-Musketier ... Czech: Inka hnedý, inka hn?dý ... Danish: Brun Inka ... Finnish: Ruskoinkakolibri ... Japanese: chairoinkahachidori ... Dutch: Bruine Incakolibrie, Bruine Inkakolibrie ... Norwegian: Bruninka ... Polish: elfik szarawy ... Russian: ??????????? ???????-???? ... Slovak: ink hnedý ... Swedish: Brun inka
Brown Inca Hummingbird (Coeligena wilsoni) Description
The Brown Inca measures about 4.3" or 10.9 cm in length, including bill and tail. The straight and slender bill is about 1.3" or 33 mm long.
The upper plumage is reddish-bronze turning more olive on the lower back. The plumage below is mostly a dull brown with an amethyst patch on the center throat and white patch on each side of the chest. The bronze tail is slightly forked.
The Adult Female looks like male, except has a smaller throat patch.
Similar species: Resemble the Bronzy Inca and Brown Violetear.
Nesting / Breeding
Hummingbirds are solitary in all aspects of life other than breeding; and the male's only involvement in the reproductive process is the actual mating with the female. They neither live nor migrate in flocks; and there is no pair bond for this species. Males court females by flying in a u-shaped pattern in front of them. He will separate from the female immediately after copulation. One male may mate with several females. In all likelihood, the female will also mate with several males. The males do not participate in choosing the nest location, building the nest or raising the chicks.
The female is responsible for building the cup-shaped nest out of plant fibers woven together and green moss on the outside for camouflage in a protected location in a shrub, bush or tree. She lines the nest with soft plant fibers, animal hair and feather down, and strengthens the structure with spider webbing and other sticky material, giving it an elastic quality to allow it to stretch to double its size as the chicks grow and need more room. The nest is typically found on a low, skinny horizontal branch.
The average clutch consists of two white eggs, which she incubates alone, while the male defends his territory and the flowers he feeds on. The young are born blind, immobile and without any down.
The female alone protects and feeds the chicks with regurgitated food (mostly partially-digested insects since nectar is an insufficient source of protein for the growing chicks). The female pushes the food down the chicks' throats with her long bill directly into their stomachs.
As is the case with other hummingbird species, the chicks are brooded only the first week or two, and left alone even on cooler nights after about 12 days - probably due to the small nest size. The chicks leave the nest when they are about 20 days old.
Diet / Feeding
The Brown Inca Hummingbirds primarily feed on nectar taken from a variety of brightly colored, scented small flowers of trees, herbs, shrubs and epiphytes. They favor flowers with the highest sugar content (often red-colored and tubular-shaped) and seek out, and aggressively protect, those areas containing flowers with high energy nectar.They use their long, extendible, straw-like tongues to retrieve the nectar while hovering with their tails cocked upward as they are licking at the nectar up to 13 times per second. Sometimes they may be seen hanging on the flower while feeding.
Many native and cultivated plants on whose flowers these birds feed heavily rely on them for pollination. The mostly tubular-shaped flowers actually exclude most bees and butterflies from feeding on them and, subsequently, from pollinating the plants.
They may also visit local hummingbird feeders for some sugar water, or drink out of bird baths or water fountains where they will either hover and sip water as it runs over the edge; or they will perch on the edge and drink - like all the other birds; however, they only remain still for a short moment.
They also take some small spiders and insects - important sources of protein particularly needed during the breeding season to ensure the proper development of their young. Insects are often caught in flight (hawking); snatched off leaves or branches, or are taken from spider webs. A nesting female can capture up to 2,000 insects a day.
Males establish feeding territories, where they aggressively chase away other males as well as large insects - such as bumblebees and hawk moths - that want to feed in their territory. They use aerial flights and intimidating displays to defend their territories.
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Cast Resin transformers are known for the excellent and advantageous fire behavior. In no way can a dry-type cast resin transformer be considered as suitable or acceptable if it hasn't been F1 certified.
SETF went the extra mile to attain this certification and make sure that every Copper-Cast transformer supplied is F1 classified according to the HD 464 S1 standard.
One Copper-Cast coil was placed in a test chamber. The combined effect of burning and flammable material and 24 resistors radiant panels resulted in a flux of about 3 W/ towards the tested object. The heat transfer and the burning was sustained for 40 and 70 minutes respectively.
The smoke outlet maximum recorded temperature rise was 283 degrees Kelvin (way beyond the 420 K accepted by the standard)
The smoke outlet temperature rise measured after 45 minutes was 71 degrees Kelvin (which is almost half the 140 K stipulated by the standard)
The smoke outlet temperature rise measured after 60 minutes was 46 degrees Kelvin (again an outstanding 50% of the 80 K allowed by the standard)
The minimum visible light transmittance in the air outlet chimney was 40% after 21 minutes of sustained burning, and the averaged transmittance was 80%. Two figures that are way above the minimum 20% required by the standard
With those results at hand you are now sure that every Copper-Cast ordered and delivered is going to have a superior behavior even in the unfortunate event of a fire.
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It's hard to believe that 26 years before the outbreak of the American Civil War, 28 years before the Emancipation Proclamation, and 35 years before African Americans were allowed to vote, Oberlin College opened its doors to both white and black students alike to get a high quality, equal education. In 1835, It became the first University to regularly admit black students and hold a policy that it would accept any qualified student regardless of race. Oberlin was home to many ardent abolitionists and played a significant role in the Underground Railroad. Oberlin was a key stop and offered shelter to fugitive slaves on their escape to other northern states or Canadian territory. Not only was Oberlin the first college to regularly admit African-Americans but it became the first coeducational university in the country. In 1837, four female students enrolled with the rest of the male student body and 3 of them received their Bachelor of Arts degree in 1841. They are the first women ever to receive this type of degree. Oberlin College is truly a path setter in the way it laid the foundation for blacks and women to receive a higher education. It's also appropriate that the first African-American woman to receive a Bachelor's degree graduated from Oberlin in 1862.
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Loud Class provides English Language training to students of all age groups across Korea. 1300 teachers in 170 Loud Class centers, spread across the length of Korea, are addressing the need of more than 45000 students to get trained in the global language, English. The reason for the popularity of Loud Class is its unconventional method of teaching English to students. Instead of making students learn English grammar and usage, they use critical situations to help students learn the language. This is a very practical approach to learning English. The teachers at Loud Class are specially trained to provide such learning to students at Loud Class. Apart from 1 week training at the center HQ, teachers need to take additional 2 week training and additionally participate in workshops and training sessions once a quarter. The resources involved in getting the teachers trained were way too high. It's then that Loud Class decided to leverage eLearning platform for providing training.
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2015 Taylor & Francis. Spectroscopic optical characterization and identification of molecular structures and complex systems would greatly benefit from new technologies capable of analyzing molecular species in small quantities with maximum sensitivity and specificity. Integrating cavity-enhanced spectroscopy has recently been shown as a viable tool for achieving this goal. This technique could greatly benefit from methods for further enhancing the desired spectroscopic signal, allowing for lower detection limits. Here, we present a simple method to further enhance fluorescence signal generated inside an integrating cavity by introducing additional scattering to the sample of interest.
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Portugal Population 2021
Population Portugal 2021 is 10 276 697 people. Portugal ranks 90 in terms of population in the world - 0.13% of all inhabitants of the Earth. The capital of Portugal is Lisbon, the official currency is the Euro (EUR). Chislennost.com has used information from reliable sources. Find out the population of a country, city, district at Chislennost.com.
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10 276 697 people Flag of Portugal Flag of Portugal Data in July 2021
Population rank, Life expectancy, age and total area Portugal
Population rank Portugal 10 276 697 people
Male population 48.5%
Female population 51.5%
Life expectancy Portugal
Life expectancy Male 75.3
Life expectancy Female 82
Median age Portugal 43.9 age
<15 years 16.2%
15 - 65 years 65.8%
>65 years 18%
Total area
Total area Portugal 92120 km2 (#109 in world)
Population density 111.56 per km2
The site chislennost.com uses information from official sources and is updated every month. Some data may differ due to the lack of the latest census.
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The population count in Portugal was carried out in 2021.
⚡ What place does Portugal occupy in terms of population on Earth?
Portugal takes 90st place in the ranking of the population of countries on Earth.
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The capital of Portugal is the city of Lisbon with a population of 547 733 people.


Sardinia's electricity transmission network
Sadinia's main electricity transmission network consist of a main bone line at 370 kV that interconnects the main generation sites located in the industrial sites of Fiume Santo, Sulcis and Rumianca, and a ring at 220 kV. The rest of the transmission system consist of a mesh network at 150 kV.
Sardinia is connected with Corsica and with the Italian peninsula through two submarine HVDC
power lines: SACOI and SAPEI.
SAPEI: Sardegna-Penisola Italiana
SAPEI (Sardinia-Italian peninsula) connect directly Sardinia to Italian peninsula since 2010trough 420 km of submarine cable layed down up to 1600 m under the sea level. The maximum power is 1000 MW, splitted in two cables of 500 MW. SAPEI is a 420 km long submarine cable (435 if you also consider the land section) between Sardinia and Lazio, passing 1600 meters below the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the deepest submarine cable in the world. SAPEI is composed of two cables, with a total capacity of 1000 Megawatts. The laying of the cables was entrusted to "Giulio Verne", the largest cable laying ship in the world.
SACOI: Sardegna-Corsia-Italia
The direct current connection SACOI (Sardinia – Corsica – Italy) is an HVDC interconnection used for the exchange of electricity between the Italian mainland, Corsica and Sardinia since 1965.
It is unusual, having more than two conversion stations as part of a single HVDC system and (as of 2012) it is one of only two multi-terminal HVDC systems in operation in the world (the other multi-terminal scheme is the Quebec transmission system -New England which connects the northeastern United States with Quebec in Canada). The scheme is a monopole that uses a combination of overhead line and submarine cable for the 200 kV high voltage conductor and return to the sea for neutral current. Overhead lines and submarine cables are duplicated, with both circuits installed on the same towers.
Until the 1990s mercury vapour rectifier where used, which have now been replaced by thyristors. The capacity is of 200 MW at a voltage of 200 kV. In 1992 a second pole was installed with a maximum power of 300MW at 200 kV. The fist cable of 200 MW have been in service for more than 40 years and is going to be dismissed in the next years because obsolescence.


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Professor of Africana Studies and Chief Diversity Officer Donald Carter and Associate Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill participated in the conference "Race, Ethnicity, and Place" in San Juan, Puerto Rico, during the week of Oct. 22.
They presented a paper they co-authored titled "Producing African-Italian subjectivities and place identities in Turin, Italy." The paper explores the making and contestation of racialized place identities, arguing that place is both limiting and porous.
Examining the emergent cultural world of African-Italians and their encounters with established Italians in Turin neighborhoods, the authors argue that African-Italians at once disrupt taken-for-granted place identities and reshape the terrain of subjectivity as "locals" with global sensibilities.


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a racing sled for one or two people; it is raced down a chute of packed snow or ice, and the occupant(s) lie down on it with feet in the direction of motion.
move along on a luge or toboggan
an ice sculpture that has been specifically crafted so that beverages can be run through or across it and served ice cold
a sled set on two separate runners of steel metal blades with a pod seat set on a bridge in between them
French word for sled or toboggan.
A sled specially designed and built for racing. It rides on runners called steels, attached to two kufens, which are connected by the bridges. The slider rides in a pod that's suspended from the bridges. (French for "sled.")
winter sport in which athletes sled feetfirst down an icy track
A luge is small oneor two-person sled on which one sleighs supine and feet-first. Steering is done by flexing the sled's runners or pulling straps attached to the sled's runners. Luge is also the name of the sport which involves racing with such sleds.


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Learn how to say Igniting correctly in English with this tutorial pronunciation video.
Oxford dictionary definition of the word ignite:
catch fire or cause to catch fire:
furniture can give off lethal fumes when it ignites
he lit a cigarette which ignited the petrol fumes
[with object] arouse or inflame (an emotion or situation):
the words ignited new fury in him
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Nutritional Assessment & Screening Camp Organized at MTH
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Department of Clinical Dietetics of Madinah Teaching Hospital organized free Nutritional Assessment and Screening Camp. The event, which was also aimed at highlighting the importance of a healthy lifestyle and healthy dietary pattern, was inaugurated by Dr Bashir Ahmed Medical Superintendent along with Professor of Medicine Dr Mirza Akmal Shareef who have vast clinical knowledge in Nutritional Field.
Dietitian conducting a free nutritional assessment of people
Students from School of Nutritional Sciences participated in event assessed under the supervision of Clinical Dietitian Ms Noor Fatima. More than 150 patients were Screened in the Camp. The camp included measurements of body composition, body mass index, visceral fat level, blood pressure and muscle strength. Based on assessment of nutritional status, a dietary counselling session was conducted and appropriate dietary recommendations were put to each faculty member at the end. The dietary counselling was carried out by well-trained nutritionists and dietitians of the department.


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How do we calculate the effective mass of an electron in an Aluminium lattice? Is there any simple analytical way to work it out?
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I think the answer is "no", almost without qualification... – genneth Mar 17 '11 at 23:18
_USER_ please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the inverse effective mass given by an expression of the form $m^{-1} = \partial^2 E(k)/\partial k_a \partial k_b $, where $E(k)$ is the dispersion relation, $k_a, k_b$ are directions in momentum space, and for simplicity we assume that $m^{-1}_{ab} := m^{-1}$? So given the energy spectrum of Aluminum one can calculate the effective mass for any excitation of momentum $k$ in its brillouin zone? – user346 Mar 18 '11 at 0:33
The last sentence is meant as a statement, not a question. – user346 Mar 18 '11 at 1:05
That gives the band mass, but actual electron masses (the things one measures via heat capacity, for example) also get renormalisations from the Coulomb interaction. The 2nd bit is where the calculation breaks down. However, I don't remember which dominates in Aluminium --- it's a bit of an odd material electronically speaking. In any case, even a band-structure calculation is not "simple analytic" --- I have a whole group of people around me who spend their lives working out better/faster ways to do it with massive supercomputers :-) – genneth Mar 18 '11 at 11:49
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The effective mass can be determined from a exactly known band structure. As genneth already mentioned there is no simple analytical way to get a from first principles to the Aluminium band structure.
In practice there are a number of very successful numerical approaches to calculate band structures, e.g. Hartree-Fock, LDA+U, DMFT, Tight binding and the list goes on depending on the exact material and properties you are interested in.
If you use a number of material parameters as the electron density, Fermi energy or others you can express the effective mass in those terms but that is more a reformulation than a way to calculate it.
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ROCHDALE Fire Station is 70 years old this month - and to celebrate, the Greater Manchester Fire Service museum, which is based there, will be throwing open its doors on Saturday.
The museum, which, coincidentally, is celebrating its 20th anniversary, is normally only open for specially-arranged visits. But that will all change on Saturday when visitors will be able to see some of the historic exhibits, including water hoses, a mini fire engine, an engine from 1741, helmets and safety gear, as well as modern emergency vehicles.
For the first 30 years of the 20th century Rochdale Fire Brigade shared premises with the Borough Police Force in Alfred Street, near where the bus station is now. But by 1933, the brigade needed a bigger and better home and so the decision was made to build a new fire station in Maclure Road at a cost of £27,000.
Next to the station 32 houses were built to accommodate fire crews and their families. Those houses are now privately owned.
Fire Brigade museum officer Bob Bonner said: "Officers used to be based in residence and were alerted to fires at all hours by lights and alarms and they would be straight out."
The museum opened in 1983 to pay tribute to the commitment of past firefighters and to preserve historic artefacts.
Today, there are twice as many exhibits as when it first opened and the eight volunteers are pleased with what it has to offer.
Mr Bonner said: "Some of the things that we have managed to preserve are an insight into past firefighting methods.
"We have a fireman's pole. Even though this station got rid of its pole years ago, we managed to get one from another station. It is probably the biggest thing people associate with a station."
Also on show are 'fire grenades' - glass cylinders filled with water that were thrown at fires before the days of pumps and hoses. But the pride of the museum is a 125ft turntable ladder that was used to tackle mill fires. "There have been a lot of changes in the demands of a firefighter over the years in that they don't have the big old mills to attend to, and so big ladders like this aren't needed as much.
"We have had to adapt to modern buildings and, also, there is a rescue part now. Officers these days will attend to more car crashes in their career than actual fires."
Saturday's open day will start at 10am and goes on until 4pm. Call 900161 for details.


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In the case of multi-nation transport connectivity, clarity is required on governance, responsibilities between the political executive, the national legislature, permanent officials and any expert independent infrastructure commissions.
There is potential here to co-ordinate action between the National Infrastructure Commission, the outputs of the Infrastructure Commission for Scotland, the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales, and any potential Commission arising in Northern Ireland, to jointly develop a credible needs assessment grounded in the current and future performance of the assets and networks making up the transport infrastructure system.
To support this response, polling was conducted on behalf of ICE by YouGov in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to better understand how the public perceive transport connectivity between UK nations and to understand motivations for future travel patterns at a multi-nation level.
The evidence shows that most respondents do not find it difficult to travel between their nation of residence and other nations of the UK, however, improvements could be made in the transport system that would encourage more frequent travel.
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Numbering Functions
Numbering functions assign integer values to each row based on their position within the specified window.
Example of RANK(), DENSE_RANK(), and ROW_NUMBER():
SELECT x,
RANK() OVER (ORDER BY x ASC) AS rank,
DENSE_RANK() OVER (ORDER BY x ASC) AS dense_rank,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY x ORDER BY y) AS row_num
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2 2 2 2
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5 4 3 4
8 5 4 5
10 6 5 6
10 6 5 7
 - RANK():For x=5, rank returns 4, since RANK() increments by the number of peers in the previous window ordering group.
 - DENSE_RANK(): For x=5, dense_rank returns 3, since DENSE_RANK() always increments by 1, never skipping a value.
 - ROW_NUMBER():For x=5, row_num returns 4.
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I'd like to make a application, like this one. The application enables to make a tile with text.
I found that I couldn't write text in tile easily, because StandardTileData class dosen't have such a function to write text in tile. StandardTileData class just enables to set Title, BackgroundImage, Count, etc. The sample is like this.
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maybe that function will help you out:
 public static void SaveToIsolatedStorage(FrameworkElement element, string file, bool scaled=true)
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 bmp.SaveJpeg(stream, (int)width, (int)height, 0, 100);
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Beach Grade Methodology
The log mean for the past 30 days of data for each sampling station is calculated for total coliform, fecal coliform or E. coli and enterococcus bacteria. Sampling data that are influenced by rainfall are excluded.
The 30 day log mean is applied to the tables below to arrive at a grade. Since a grade is generated for each of the 3 types of bacteria tested at each station, the lowest of the three grades is used as the assigned grade.
If there are less than 4 test results in a 30 day period for any of the 3 bacteria tests, the results are considered insufficient to assign a grade. If all 3 bacteria tests fall into this category the sampling station is assigned an "ID" (insufficient data to assign a grade).
The table for E. coli is used in place of Fecal Coliform for sampling data from the Department of Health Service's due to the method of testing performed.
Total Coliform
A <=500 (org/100ml.)
B 501 - 1000
C 1001 - 2000
D 2001 - 3000
F >3000
Fecal Coliform
A <=100 (org/100ml.)
B 101 - 200
C 201 - 400
D 401 - 600
F >600
E. coli
A <=80 (org/100ml.)
B 81 - 160
C 161 - 320
D 321 - 480
F >480
Enterococcus
A <=18 (org/100ml.)
B 19 - 35
C 36 - 70
D 71 - 105
F >105

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text: Using a structural dynamic programming model, we investigate the relative importance of family background variables and individual specific abilities in explaining cross-sectional differences in schooling attainments and wages. Given scholastic ability, household background variables (especially parents' education) account for 68% of the explained crosssectional variations in schooling attainments. When the effects of household background variables on ability are also taken into account, the percentage raises to 85%. However, individual differences in wages are mostly explained by abilities. Only 27% of the explained variation in wages is accounted for by parents? background variables as opposed to 73% by unobserved abilities (orthogonal to family background variables). When scholastic ability is correlated with family background variables, ability endowments explain as much as 81% of individual wages.