How To Find Duplicate Values in MySQL
March 4, 2020
MySQL is a database application that stores data in rows and columns of different tables to avoid duplication. Duplicate values can occur, which can impact MySQL performance.
This guide will show you how to find duplicate values in a MySQL database.
tutorial on how to check duplicates in MySQL Database
 - An existing installation of MySQL
 - Root user account credentials for MySQL
 - A command line / terminal window
Setting up a Sample Table (Optional)
This step will help you create a sample table to work with. If you already have a database to work on, skip to the next section.
Open a terminal window, and switch to the MySQL shell:
mysql –u root –p
Note: If you get 'ERROR 1698', try opening MySQL using sudo mysql instead. This error occurs on some Ubuntu installations and is caused by authentication settings.
List existing databases:
SHOW databases;
The list of MySQL databases when using the show databases command
Create a new database that doesn't already exist:
CREATE database sampledb;
Select the table you just created:
USE sampledb;
Create a new table with the following fields:
CREATE TABLE dbtable (
 date_x VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL,
 system_x VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
Insert rows into the table:
INSERT INTO dbtable (date_x,system_x,test)
VALUES ('01/03/2020','system1','hard_drive'),
 ('01/14/2020','system3','hard drive'),
 ('01/20/2020','system4','hard drive'),
 ('01/29/2020','system6','hard drive'),
 ('02/04/2020','system8','graphics card'),
 ('02/08/2020','system9','hard drive');
Run the following SQL query:
SELECT * FROM dbtable
ORDER BY date_x;
MySQL output for the select from table command
Finding Duplicates in MySQL
Find Duplicate Values in a Single Column
Use the GROUP BY function to identify all identical entries in one column. Follow up with a COUNT() HAVING function to list all groups with more than one entry.
HAVING COUNT(test) > 1;
Find Duplicate Values in Multiple Columns
You may want to list exact duplicates, with the same information in all three columns.
 date_x, COUNT(date_x),
 system_x, COUNT(system_x),
 test, COUNT(test)
HAVING COUNT(date_x)>1
 AND COUNT(system_x)>1
 AND COUNT(test)>1;
Select multiple columns and find exact duplicates in MySQL database
This query works by selecting and testing for the >1 condition on all three columns. The result is that only rows with duplicate values are returned in the output.
Check for Duplicates in Multiple Tables With INNER JOIN
Use the INNER JOIN function to find duplicates that exist in multiple tables.
Sample syntax for an INNER JOIN function looks like this:
SELECT column_name
 FROM table1
 INNER JOIN table2
 ON table1.column_name = table2.column name;
To test this example, you need a second table that contains some information duplicated from the sampledb table we created above.
SELECT dbtable.date_x
 FROM dbtable
 INNER JOIN new_table
 ON dbtable.date_x = new_table.date_x;
This will display any duplicate dates that exist between the existing data and the new_table.
output of the MySQL inner join command to check for duplicate values
Note: The DISTINCT command can be used to return results while ignoring duplicates. Also, newer versions of MySQL use a strict mode, which can affect operations that attempt to select all columns. If you get an error, make sure that you're selecting specific individual columns.
Now you can check for duplicates in MySQL data in one or multiple tables and understand the INNER JOIN function. Make sure you created the tables correctly and that you select the right columns.
Now that you have found duplicate values, learn how to remove MySQL duplicate rows.
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 std::string result;
 virtual void write(const void* data, size_t size)
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Difference between Pteridophyta and Phanerogams
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Background: Autologous fat grafting is currently undergoing a renaissance. However, fat grafts are limited by unpredictable survival. Poloxamers can act as tissue surfactants. These nonionic surfactants have been shown to stabilize the membranes of damaged cells and to protect against injury and apoptosis in numerous models. This study was designed to investigate the ability of poloxamers to protect harvested adipocytes and to increase fat graft survival.
Methods: Lipoaspirate was obtained from surgical patients. Samples were washed in normal saline, centrifuged at 200 g, treated with various poloxamers or poloxamer components for 30 minutes, centrifuged at 200 g, and implanted into the flanks of nude mice in 1.0-cc, 1.0-g lobules. The grafts were explanted serially for 10 days and at 6 weeks. Endpoints were weight, apoptosis, cell viability, DNA content, and histology.
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The family plays an important role in uniting people into cooperative groups. Communication is crucial in family relations and knowledge of appropriate discourse norms starts in the family domaiin. This book focusses on talk in families: talk between mothers and children, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law; grandchildren and elderly grandparents, and talk among adolescents within families. Based on detailed micro-analysis of home-based interactions in Malaysia, Language Choices and Discourse of Malaysian Families: Case Studies of Families in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia provides a qualitative analysis of authentic talk between members of families and reveals how through conversations, relationships are maintained and strengthened.
This book is for anyone interested in the discourse of Malaysian families and is aimed especially at students working on discourse analysis. It uses multiple frameworks of analysis which include the Theory of Accommodation, Second Language Acquisition, Speech Acts, Communicative Strategies and Critical Discourse Analysis.
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UK Spaceport Alliance and SSLC Hold Workstreams as the UK Inches Closer to a Launch
19th Nov 2020
UK Rocket Launch
The SSLC (Scottish Space Leadership Council) led an initiative that lasted several weeks and included all UK launching site developers. The talks were conducted to bring together all key players after the conclusion of a consultation.
The UK government had initially published the consultation on 29th July 2020. It entailed lively talks and conducting further research. The debate also went on about how all the regulations on the proposal were to be implemented successfully.
There's a need for a more collaborative space industry in the UK as per the highlights of this workstream. All UK stakeholders were notified of the need to address specific areas of space advancements.
UK Spaceport a Part of Workstreams Addressing UK Launch Missions
On top of other aspects, the workstreams spearheaded talks on how launches may impact the environment as well as the safety matters entailed. All main participants were required to grasp the role each plays in terms of risks, liabilities and issues of insurance. This will create useful methods in terms of all operations.
Out of the mainstream, the UK spaceport and the SSCL concluded on the need for a regulator. Accomplishing this won't just be by filling out the questionnaire but also coming up with proposals that will impact the UK space industry. They identified that questions on these questionnaires can be interpreted differently and that more input is required.
With that, the UK can position itself to come up with regulations that affect the industry in the UK and across the globe. All this is for smallsat launching services. It will immensely benefit the UK space industry's commercial efforts to grow to its potential and contribute to the UK economy.
The UK accomplishments through this approach were highlighted in recent events held by the council. It highlighted how beneficial this collaborative move by the UK spaceport sector in understanding issues facing the industry.
Additionally, these events' output included actions and recommendations that led to an agreement for further advancement. The UK Spaceports Alliance chair, John Innes, expressed gratitude for all the dedication members showed during the workstreams.
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The Synaxis of the Martyrs of Butovo honors Orthodox faithful who were martyred at the Butovo Shooting Range during Stalin's purges of the mid 1930s.
Seventeen miles south of Moscow, there is a place that is known as the Butovo Shooting Range, which was an execution ground and mass burial site near the village of Butovo, used by the Soviets during Stalin's purges. This site is often referred to as the "Russian Golgotha". Executions took place there on an industrial scale during the Great Terror. On some days they executed 500 people or more. Records show that 20,765 people were executed and buried at Butovo between August 1937 and October 1938, during the peak of Stalin's repressions, of that number, about 1,000 people were known to have been executed because of their Orthodox faith. There is now a church dedicated to the New Martyrs on the site. In 2004, Patriarch Alexei II, and Metropolitan Laurus jointly laid the cornerstone of this Church, which was the first joint liturgical action of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad since the 1920's, and on May 19th, 2007, they consecrated the Church together, two days after the signing of the Act of Canonical Communion, which formally reconciled the two parts of the Russian Church. The Synaxis of the Martyrs of Butovo is celebrated on the 4th Saturday after Pascha.
- ↑ New York Times: Former Killing Ground Becomes Shrine to Stalin's Victims, Sophia Kishkovsky, June 8, 2007
- ↑ The New Martyrs of Russia, Mother Sarah, March 2007
- ↑ Dmitry Solovyov, Reuters: Unified Russian church honours Soviet era martyrs, May 19, 2007; see also this account of the consecration of the Church at Butovo, which includes video of the service:Fr. John Whiteford: Moscow Trip, Part 4.


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The Sports Program ensures that nonresident professional athletes file California returns and the correct California source income is reported by those who file returns voluntarily.
For questions or comments e-mail : WSCS.GEN
Subject Line: Sports Team
Frequently Asked Questions
- Why does the state need a Sports Program?
- How do team sport nonresident professional athletes determine their California source income?
- What is the "duty day" method?
- What about the various bonuses the athletes get such as performance and signing bonuses?
- What about the taxes I have to pay to other states or countries?
1. Why does the state need a Sports Program?
The Sports Program exists to help nonresident professional athlete taxpayers determine their California source income.
2. How do team sport nonresident professional athletes determine their California source income?
In order to determine the California source income of a nonresident team sport athlete, the "duty day" method should be used.
3. What is the duty day method?
A "duty day" is defined as "any day services are performed under the contract from the beginning of an official preseason activity until the last game played". The "duty days" in California are then divided by the total "duty days" to create a ratio. This ratio is then multiplied by the total compensation. This then is deemed to be the California source income.
4. What about the various bonuses the athletes get such as performance and signing bonuses?
Performance bonuses should be included in the income to be allocated within and without California if any of the conditions to receive the bonus were met or partially met while performing services in California. The signing bonus issue is dealt with on a case by case basis with an examination of the wording of the contract. If services must be performed to receive or keep the signing bonuses and if any of those services are performed or partially performed in California, then the signing bonus should be included in the compensation to be allocated within and without California.
5. What about the taxes I have to pay to other states or countries?
California does have reciprocal agreements with the other states to allow credit against the tax liability. The availability of these credits depends upon your state of residence. You should see your tax professional regarding this issue. California does not allow credit for taxes paid to foreign countries.


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The Canadian Centre of Agri-food Research in Health and Medicine (CCARM) is working to make Canadians healthier through research into agri-food.
Return to Agriculture in the City Videos
There was a time when most Canadians lived on farms. Today, it's three per cent.
The rest of us live in urban areas such as Winnipeg.
As you might have guessed, the agriculture industry has become more sophisticated, allowing high-quality Canadian food to be produced more efficiently.
The industry is also using agriculture materials for medical and industrial purposes.
Let's take a brief look inside some of the innovative work that's being done in agriculture, one of Manitoba's most important and vibrant industries.
The Canadian Centre for Agri-food Research in Health and Medicine (CCARM) is dedicated to understanding the health-related benefits of nutraceuticals, functional foods and natural health products, or health foods.
Dr. Peter Zahradka is the centre's Team Leader.
Here are some pulses, or legumes.
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Here are some pulses. You might recognize them as beans, peas, and lentils, but in the agriculture industry they're better known as pulses; and they're grown right here in Manitoba.
Here at CCARM we've conducted clinical trials which scientifically prove that pulses like these can play an instrumental role in fighting diseases like atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries.
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When food has a health-promoting or disease-preventing property, we say it's functional. And discovering the functional properties in food is a big part of what we do.
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Snail dispersal by cars - Part 2
Published evidence for the passive dispersal of land snails, especially of alien species, on cars was the subject of this post. The process is simple: if a car is parked at a spot where there are active snails, some of them may climb on the car and later go wherever the car happens to go.
Here is a piece of evidence that this indeed happens. These pictures of a snail was taken by my friend Selim Dorak on his car in the city of Antalya in southern Turkey. The car was in the parking lot of a store when Selim first saw the snail. He then drove with the snail on the car to his house and thereby demonstrated that dispersal of snails by car, at least over short distances, is possible.
The snail seems to have been a species in the family Hygromiidae. Another possibility is that it was a juvenile Helix, sp. but they usually don't have such pointed spires.
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Snails are routinely intercepted on shipping containers coming into the United States. They have also been found on used cars and excavators.


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I am having an array of images. I need to display 3 images in a row and then the next in another row. How to do this using nested for loops. can anyone help me over this? thanks.
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Speaking out about charities 19-10-06
Published in Real Issues No. 227, 19 October 2006
Charities expressed concern this week that under the Charities Act they could lose their charitable status if they become too vocal. The law has always allowed charities to engage in advocacy, as long as it is secondary to their main charitable purposes. The Charities Act preserves this position, and rightly so. As Green MP, Sue Bradford, points out, "Caring for the victims is essential work. But so is speaking out on their behalf...".
So what has changed, and why are charities concerned? From February 2007, the Act will require charities to register with the Charities Commission to claim certain benefits, such as tax privileges, and charities will face regular monitoring. If a charity does more than an incidental amount of advocacy, the Commission will not register it, or, if it is registered, will remove it from the register. But deciding when a charity passionately advancing a cause crosses the line will be an extremely difficult judgement for the Commission to make. This will mean that charities are likely to think twice before speaking out.
The government is attempting to encourage charitable giving through increased tax privileges announced this week. While this is a praiseworthy initiative, it would also mean that charities would have even more to lose from de-registration.
While de-registration could be more of a fear than a reality, it is likely the fear itself will have a dampening effect, and the public square needs an involved and vocal charitable sector. The Commission must be scrupulous in ensuring that the legitimate advocacy of charities is not at risk. Charities advocate in accord with their purpose, and on all sides of the debate. In doing so, they add immeasurably to the richness of public discourse.
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Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Research in Business, Management and Finance
Development of Effective Management Theories
Muhammad Asadullah and Syed Irfan Hyder
This paper examines how Ghoshal's views (2005) of bad management theories are destroying good management practices. The authors propose a solution through which we may identify the bad management theory at an early stage. The authors posit that the theorist should have intuitive ability which is a pre-requisite to develop an effective theory. As far as intuition is concerned, we cannot test the intuitive ability of any individual, therefore a "think tank" may evaluate a management theory according to ethical and cultural perspective. If a management theory is culturally rich and ethical then it will be universally acceptable. On other hand, if management theory lacks characteristics of being culturally rich or poor ethical values then it should be modified or excluded from the literature. All ethical management theories which may not be culturally rich should be addressed with double hermeneutics according to region.
Keywords: ethics, cultural richness, intuitive mindset, management theory and moral values.


Home Jobs & Education What Is the Average Mortician Salary?
According to official government statistics provided by the BLS (the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S), the average mortician salary for the fiscal year of 2014 was $52,550 per year or $25.25 per hour. The profession, also known as that of a funeral service worker, requires an Associate's degree and has an average job outlook.
The mortician job is, therefore, higher paid than many US occupations featured in the BLS occupational handbook. However, some morticians and funeral workers receive a significantly lower pay for their job. The lowest paid 10% in this line of work receive just $25,910 per year, equaling to a mere $12.46 per hour. On the other end of the spectrum of reference for this occupation, the highest paid 10 points percentile get an average mortician salary of $83,520 or $40,16 per hour.
There isn't enough data to adequately say much about wage equality within this profession. As of 2014, there were only 60,400 people employed in the general area of funeral managing and death care. Of these 60,400, just 23,000 were morticians. Of the 23 thousand, 17 thousand were men, while 7,000 were women. Funeral workers and morticians are generally employed in the following two areas. As you can see, the salary of a mortician does vary a lot between them:
Industry Hourly mean wage Annual mean wage
Federal Executive Branch (OES Designation) $34.77 $72,320
Death Care Services $24.94 $51,870
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A mortician makes arrangements for the funeral and takes care of the deceased.
What Is the Average Mortician Salary by Location
Depending on the location where he or she is employed, the salary of a mortician may vary very much. Furthermore, the levels of employment for this job tend to vary greatly depending on each State. While salary varies depending on how many people employ the services of morticians in the respective area, the general price-tag for a specific area also comes into play.
Here's a list of the States which pay their mortician salaries the most in terms of the annual mean wage:
State Hourly mean wage Annual mean wage
Delaware $34.12 $70,970
Illinois $33.91 $70,530
New Jersey $33.80 $70,310
Rhode Island $33.74 $70,190
Nebraska $29.57 $61,510
Still, wage can be equally important as the specific level of employment. A mortician practicing his skills in Delaware might have a very hard time finding a job, even though the mortician salary is the highest out of all the US. That's because the whole state has just 80 mortician jobs available. Here's a table to indicate the best states in terms of employment:
State Employment Hourly mean wage Annual mean wage
Texas 1,940 $24.11 $50,140
Ohio 1,500 $24.83 $51,650
California 1,490 $22.71 $47,230
New York 1,460 $25.26 $52,540
Florida 1,250 $25.74 $53,540
Average Mortician Salary Change over Time
Given that the mortician job is seen as a hereditary line of work, parents usually pass on their trade to their kids once they reach an appropriate age. This means that most employees who begin work in this job line so early already know the skills they need to earn a decent wage. Here are the factors that influence the average mortician salary over time, according to PayScale:
 - Entry-level employees can earn up to 17% lower than the national average while mid-career employees earn just 5% more.
 - Experienced mortician will earn a mortician salary up to 23% bigger than the national average.
 - Late-career morticians may earn less than experienced morticians, but still 20% more than the average.
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Prayer: Does it Make Any Difference?
Multi-award winning spirituality writer Philip Yancey is loved throughout the world for his honest, insightful and inspirational writing. PRAYER: DOES IT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE? carries all the hallmarks of classic Yancey, a journalist by training. His quest to unravel the mysteries of prayer reads as the journal of a fellow traveller: questioning, challenging, lamenting the unexplainable and rejoicing in the discovery of awesome insights. His journey is beautifully illustrated with moving true stories drawn from around the world.
PRAYER: DOES IT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE? tackles the following questions: What is prayer? What difference does it make? Why and how should we pray? What about unanswered prayer? How should we understand prayer for physical healing?
Focusing on such a universal theme, this is potentially Yancey's biggest book yet. To date, his books have sold over 14 million copies, and have been translated into 25 languages. His first book with Hodder, SOUL SURVIVOR, sold over 90,000 copies in just five years.


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I would be interested to learn if the following generalization of the classical Looman-Menchoff theorem is true.
Assume that the function $f=u+iv$, defined on a domain $D\subset\mathbb{C}$, is such that
 1. $u_x$, $u_y$, $v_x$, $v_y$ exist almost everywhere in $D$.
 2. $u$, $v$ satisfy the Cauchy-Riemann equations almost everywhere in $D$.
 3. $f=f(x,y)$ is separately continuous (in $x$ and $y$) in $D$.
 4. $f$ is locally integrable.
Question: Does it follow that $f$ is analytic everywhere in $D$?
Remark 1. Condition 3 is essential (take $f=1/z$).
Remark 2. G. Sindalovskiĭ proved analyticity of $f$ under conditions 2-4 when the partial derivatives exist everywhere in $D$, except on a countable union of closed sets of finite linear Hausdorff measure (link).
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just a doubt about assumption 2: what further assumption on $u_x$ $u_y$ $v_x$ $v_y$ are implicitly taken, in order that the CR equations make sense? – Pietro Majer Oct 6 '10 at 8:07
@ Pietro Majer: I'm not sure I follow. The derivatives are assumed to exist a.e. in $D$. I'm interested in locally integrable and separately continuous functions $u$, $v$ which satisfy the CR equations a.e. Am I missing something? – Andrey Rekalo Oct 6 '10 at 11:33
Just this: in order to have $u_{xx}$ classically defined at $(x_0,y_0)$ we need $u_x(x,y_0)$ to exist for all $x$ in a nbd of $x_0,$ and analogous condition for the other second order prtial derivatives. So I was wondering if these were implicitly assumed in 2 or there was a weaker sense. Also, a doubt about whether $u_{xy}=u_{yx},$ was assumed too, since that should not be ensured by Schwarz theorem, in this generality. Anyway, no matter, thanks to Nate's answer! – Pietro Majer Oct 6 '10 at 14:09
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Let $c$ be the Cantor function on $[0,1]$, so that $c$ is continuous, $c' = 0$ a.e., but $c$ is not constant. Then take $u(x+iy) = v(x+iy)=c(x)c(y)$. We have $u_x=u_y=v_x=v_y=0$ a.e. so the Cauchy-Riemann equations are trivially satisfied, and $f(z)=u(z)+iv(z)$ is bounded and continuous on the unit square, but certainly not analytic.
Almost everywhere differentiability is almost never the right condition for solutions to a PDE. A better condition would be to have $u,v$ in some Sobolev space.
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It's actually sufficient to require that $u,v$ solve the equation in distribution sense – Piero D'Ancona Oct 6 '10 at 13:21
Nice example! Thanks. – Andrey Rekalo Oct 6 '10 at 13:25
Your second comment is absolutely spot on, Nate. – Peter Luthy Oct 6 '10 at 18:55
See this related question. Denjoy proved that there exist a continuous function $f$ on the unit square and a continuous curve $\gamma$, which is the graph of a continuous function, such that $f$ is holomorphic on the square minus $\gamma$ but not on the whole square. Thus $f$ satisfies the CR equations almost everywhere, and actually on the whole square minus the support of $\gamma$, but not on the whole square.
Thus the general answer to your question seems to be a solid no. Using the postive parts of Denjoy's result, one can imagine to answer in the affirmative if the set where CR fails is a countable union of curves with sufficiently nice behaviour, but it seems difficult to do better than Sindalovskii. See also here for a different proof of his result.
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Many thanks for the answer and links. – Andrey Rekalo Oct 6 '10 at 11:35
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Abstract: Light is a primary energy source. Its use efficiency reflects the capacity of ecosystem in converting light energy and producing organic matter. Revealing the values of light and its use efficiency in typical ecosystems provides reference for assessing regional light resources and their use efficiency, which is also helpful in assessing the regional capacity of organic matter production and carbon sequestration. Based on ChinaFLUX observations and published literature, we built the radiation and light-use efficiency dataset of typical ecosystems in China from 2002 to 2010. This dataset contains 126 site-year light resource, light-use efficiency, and absorbed light use efficiency observed from 51 ecosystems. In addition, the dataset also contains the biotic and abiotic information such as ecosystem code, observation year, longitude, latitude, altitude, ecosystem type, annual air temperature, annual precipitation, annual CO2 mass concentration, annual mean leaf area index, annual maximum leaf area index. The dataset could provide data base for research on carbon cycle and climate change.
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Objectives: Motor vehicle-pedestrian crash is a significant public health concern. The urban campus of Georgia State University poses unique challenges due to a large number of students and university employees. The objectives of this study are twofold: (1) to examine the correlation between specific features of the built environment on and around the University campus and pedestrian crashes; and (2) to identify crash clusters in the study area using network-based geospatial techniques.
Methods: We obtained pedestrian crash data (n=119) from 2003 to 2007 from Georgia Department of Transportation and evaluated environmental features pertaining to the road infrastructure, pedestrian infrastructure and streetscape for each road segment and intersection. Prevalence rate of each feature with pedestrian crashes present was calculated. We used network-based Kernel Density Estimation to identify the high density road segments and intersections, then used network-based K-function to examine the clustering of pedestrian crashes.
Results: Over 50% of the crosswalk signs, pedestrian signals, public transit, and location branding signs (more than three) at intersections involved pedestrian crashes. More than half of wider streets (greater than 29 feet), two-way streets, and streets in good condition had pedestrian crashes present. Crashes occurred more frequently in road segments with strong street compactness and mixed land use present and were significantly (p<0.05) clustered in these high-density zones.
Conclusions: Findings can be used to understand the correlation between built environment and pedestrian safety, to prioritize the high-density zones for intervention efforts, and to formulate research hypotheses for investigating pedestrian crashes. [West J Emerg Med. 2010; 11(3): 295-302.]


Protected horticulture in Africa is concentrated in Northern Africa (e.g., Morocco, Algeria, Egypt), Eastern Africa (Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda), South Africa, and Western Africa (Ghana). The greenhouse sector in Northern Africa mainly produces (fruit) vegetables for the European market. Export flowers form the majority of greenhouse production in Eastern Africa.
Greenhouses in South Africa produce both flowers and (fruit) vegetables, and greenhouses in Ghana mainly produce tomatoes and some other vegetables for the local market. Africa is a very large continent has a wide diversity of climates which requires different approaches throughout the continent.
The business unit Greenhouse Horticulture is involved in many initiatives through capacity building, research and advise on the development of greenhouses, cultivation systems, sustainable cultivation methods and quality control and certification.


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Improvement plan for private hospital
The Problem: Weak profitability of a key asset within a private hospital portfolio
Our client, a leading UK Private Hospital Operator, had identified an underperforming asset within its network, and approached Credo for support in determining why the hospital was operating at below its target revenue and target margin, and for support in identifying measures to improve the financial performance.
Our Approach: Review of utilisation and profitability, development and impact modelling of potential improvement scenarios
The hospital was believed to be underutilised, with a mixture of procedures and specialties – some of which were believed to be far more profitable than others. Our approach therefore involved supporting the development of a cost allocation model that calculated the profitability of individual procedures, and undertaking a review of hospital utilisation by key department and specialty.
This allowed us to identify procedures or groups of procedures that were low margin and / or resource intensive. We worked closely with hospital management to understand the interdependencies between procedures, specialties, funder groups and individual surgeons and the risks associated with realigning the activity-mix of the hospital. We worked with the client to develop a number of potential scenarios for the hospital going forwards, and we modelled the financial impact of each, allowing the creation of a performance improvement plan.
The Result: Strong understanding of current performance, improvement plan created
The findings of the profitability review were embraced by Clinical and Non-clinical Hospital Management, and a process to realign the activity-mix of the hospital and review options for the development of adjacent services was undertaken.


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Adobe Illustrator: Adding a White Border for Window Clings
by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Illustrator
Window clings and stickers often have a white border added around the outside of the artwork. I encountered this question for the first time in class yesterday and here's how we solved it.
- To make this more visual (because it is hard to see white on white), I changed the artboard to a color to a light blue. In File > Document Setup > Transparency and Overprint Options, I selected a light blue in the top color swatch box and checked Simulate Colored Paper.
- Start by selecting the final artwork by clicking on the selection box on the far right of the artwork layer.
- Copy the artwork, and paste it onto a new layer (I named mine White border). Select the copied artwork on the White border by clicking the selection box.
- Fill the artwork with white. Remove stroke, if necessary.
- In Window > Pathfinder, click on Unite to combine all of the individual shapes into one shape.
- Extend the path out on all sides by selecting Effect > Path > Offset Path. Turn Preview on so that you can gauge the distance of the offset and how the corners are joined (I picked Round).
- Select Object > Expand Appearance to convert the Offset Path appearance into vectors.
- Reverse the order of the two layers, so that the White border is under the artwork.


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Background: Flavonoids such as naringenin and naringin are suggested to affect lipid metabolism by modulating the activity of ∆6 and ∆5 fatty acid desaturases and other key genes and enzymes. Consequently, the biosynthesis of n-3 LC-PUFA from ALA is likely to be modulated in the presence of flavonoids.
Aim: To investigate the effect of naringenin and naringin on n-3 LC-PUFA biosynthesis from ALA in hepatocytes.
Methods: FaO hepatocytes were seeded in 30 small flasks then incubated for 5 days with or without 100 µM ALA (3 flasks each) with no added flavonoids. Other flasks received 100 µM ALA in addition to either naringenin (6 flasks, 50 µg/mL of culture medium) or naringin (6 flasks, 20 µg/mL of culture medium). Also, 6 flasks received naringenin and 6 other flasks received naringin but without adding ALA. Two-way ANOVA tested the differences and interaction between groups.
Results: EPA content was marginally but significantly enhanced in hepatocytes incubated with naringenin and ALA (1.0±0.1µg/mg of cells) and naringin with ALA (0.9±0.1µg/mg of cells). Flavonoids without ALA did not change EPA content in the cells. Also, the flavonoids did not significantly improve DPA or DHA content in the cells regardless of ALA supplementation.
Conclusions: Naringin and naringenin, flavonoids from citrus peel, have a potential in improving n-3 LC-PUFA biosynthesis from ALA in hepatocytes in vitro. Further studies can confirm this effect in vivo and provide an insight into functional foods interaction with fatty acid metabolism.
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Plan for Microsoft 365 Groups when creating teams in Microsoft Teams
When considering the use of Microsoft 365 Groups or when creating teams, consider what the team will be used for, who should have access, and what outcome the team will expect to achieve. Pay special attention to the number of channels you create as people can quickly become overrun by content spread too thin (across too many channels).
There are two scenarios that warrant some discussion around planning of Microsoft 365 Groups and their impact on (or by) Microsoft Teams:
 - First, since customers could have existing investments in Groups, we currently support both Public and Private groups, for the number of members currently supported, please see Limits and specifications for Microsoft Teams. As mentioned previously, you want to manage the membership of people to a team using the Teams client rather than the Microsoft 365 admin center. Given this scenario, if people are used to threaded conversations in Microsoft 365 Groups, it is worthwhile noting that a Groups conversation is essentially email and not the same as a chat message in a Teams channel. Educate your people about this difference and suggest they adopt the more flexible chat message format in Teams versus emailing the Group using Outlook or OWA.
 - Second, for customers who don't have existing Groups defined in Microsoft 365, you can either create them using the Microsoft 365 admin center, the Teams web, or desktop clients. As mentioned previously, manage all future membership to the Microsoft 365 group using the Teams client. Since membership to a team is also defining membership to Microsoft 365 Groups, you should prepare people for this change.
Teams respects Microsoft 365 Groups naming policy (in private preview)
Any Microsoft 365 Groups naming policy that has been set by your admin will be applied in Teams when users create or edit team names. This includes things like mandatory prefixes or suffixes and excluding banned words.
This feature is in private preview, which means that if you're not part of this preview, Teams doesn't yet adhere to this Microsoft 365 Groups naming policy.
To learn more, read Microsoft 365 Groups naming policy in Teams.
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Your municipality withdraws 10,000 gallons per day from an aquifer that originally held 1,000,000 gallons. The recharge rate to the aquifer is 2,000 gallons per day. How long will it take before the aquifer is depleted?
You have to make an equation that relates the amount of water (w) in the aquafier to time (t).
Start with the original amount:
Now, we know that every day ten thousand gallons are taken out so we have:
And we also know that every day two thousand gallons are added so we have:
To find when the water runs out, set the equation equal to 0 and solve for t:
So, the water will run out after 125 days.


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I'm trying to use IPC::System::Simple to run a command and capture the output, via either capture() or capturex() (they should both behave exactly the same under Windows). The Perl script is running as a web page under IIS, which has CGI handler mappings configured for Strawberry Perl. The problem is that the command runs and returns an exit value of 0, yet no output is captured. However, if I run the exact same code from a command prompt, it works fine. If I use IPC::System::Simple's system() replacement, output is printed, but not captured---it works fine. If I use backticks, it works fine.
Here are some examples to illustrate what's happening:
Exit value is 0, but no results are printed. If I change capture() to system(), the results are printed to the browser, and the exit value is still 0:
If I modify the script to this:
And then I run it from the shell, I see all the glorious output of svn info.
If I instead use backticks or qx//, and then run the script through IIS and hit the page in a browser, the output is captured and printed just fine.
So, it looks like capture() is not capturing, but only when running through IIS. It's not a permissions problem, because backticks work. In fact, the command itself is working (exit value of 0, output seen via system()). It's just that the output is escaping / being redirected somewhere / not being captured.


text: The mathematical relationship (breakage equation) between the inlet and outlet particle-size distributions of a roller milling operation is described, and the breakage function linking the two is defined. The forms of the breakage equation and the breakage function are different for roller milling than for other comminution operations, such as hammer milling or ball milling. The breakage equation is discretised to give a matrix form, from which it is demonstrated that during roller milling of wheat, particles break independently of one another. This is an important assumption of breakage equations for many comminution operations and experimental results are presented, which confirm its applicability to the roller milling of wheat grains. Breakage matrices are successfully used to predict the outlet particle-size distributions from First Break milling of wheat. Later papers in this series consider the form of the breakage function.


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After the New Jersey Legislature was relocated to Trenton from Perth Amboy during 1790, a new state house was constructed during 1792 by Philadelphia-based architect Jonathan Doane. Subsequent additions were made to the building during the 19th century. Architects who contributed to the New Jersey State House during the 19th century include John Notman (1845 created office wing on North side) who was a Philadelphia architect and Samuel Sloan (1871 designed new wings) who was also a Philadelphia architect. On March 21, 1885, a large fire caused the destruction of the State Street wing. Lewis Broome, from Jersey City helped to redesign the building.
The New Jersey State House attained its present size during 1911 and has not been changed significantly other than by modernization of the main corridor during 1950. A 1960 plan, calling for the replacement of the oldest sections of the State House with modern... Read More


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8 Ways a Background Remover Can Improve Your Creativity
Good photos are essential to everything you want to do, whether it's showing off what your business can do, branding a client, or simply keeping your family and friends looking their best. Sometimes, however, mistakes happen or clutter in a photo's background can distract from what you really want viewers to see. This is when you need a background remover.
Unlike using a clipping path to remove an image from a background, which uses a vector to highlight and cut an image from its scene, a background remover completely removes the background -map of a highlighted object. For example, an application such as VistaCreate (opens in a new tab) uses an algorithm to analyze a photo and judge the primary and secondary objects in the image, then it will remove the background.
Even when a vector cutout does a good job, it can be tedious and time-consuming, particularly if you have a complex image – we've got a guide on how to cut hair in Photoshop to help, for example, but a good background remover, like VistaCreate, can speed up the process and make it error-free.
Using a bespoke background remover isn't just about cutting an image out of its scene, for example VistaCreate offers an ecosystem of tools to do everything from adding animation and music to offering a suite of branded models. If you want to get started creating your own marketing materials or just improving social media, a top background removal tool can help.
Below, we explore some of the uses of a background remover, and there are some surprising benefits, like helping clicks from your website to new income for freelance photographers.
01. Create better product images
It's obvious, but removing the clutter of a background or completely removing the background puts more emphasis on the product itself. Maybe it's because you've made or spotted mistakes in the background that you want to build a consistent brand around your product. Consistency in this way suggests quality and reliability.
Creating a nice, clean product image can also entice buyers and users to click on your item, which is great for selling on sites like eBay or Etsy as well as your own website or marketing materials. Using a background remover can eliminate blemishes and unnecessary distractions and let the focus of the image shine through.
02. Image setup for edits
Removing the background from an image also sets it up for adding additional visual effects or even using the image in a VFX shot. A person or product on a simple white background, for example, is much easier to reuse than one on a complex background.
Once the background is removed, the product can be edited, such as adding highlights, shadows, or other effects in Photoshop and After Effects. The image can even be transformed into a VFX shot. With all the flaws and details removed, the image is easier to handle.
03. Improve your social media content
If it is nice to see your product or yourself in the background with a context, often breaking through on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram it can be a good idea to offer simple and powerful images. Removing a background to provide a clean image or placing your product on a colored or animated background can be beneficial.
By using a tool like VistaCreate, you can easily modify an image to create something more dynamic and personal. Again, removing a cluttered background and placing an item on a bespoke or colored background can provide a personalized, branded visual. You can even get social media banner templates, perfect for promoting your business on sites like Facebook.
04. Create easy collages
Often you will want to create product graphics that showcase your line of items in a single image. By removing the background and saving your images as PNG files, you can easily make special edits and cuts, and place these images on top of each other to easily create group photos. It's easy to paste multiple images onto a chart this way, and you've done it with a click or two in one piece of software.
05. Improve your marketing materials
If you want to create your own advertisements, posters, or any other type of marketing material that requires a clean, crisp design, with consistent branding, this can be achieved much more easily if the product is removed from the background. It is not always necessary to show the game controller in game if it is better to show the same controller in detail.
Using a background remover also allows you to reuse or make better use of logos. You can have a dated logo on a clunky background that can easily be refreshed by dropping it on a transparent background and laying it on a new pre-designed template. Change the dimensions of the template to suit different uses and you have now created a set of new logos.
06. Create unique personal photos
We've already covered some marketing, branding, and e-commerce uses, but you can also use a background remover to rejuvenate your personal photos. You can easily remove the background in VistaCreate, then resize your photos, cut, edit and add special effects – all more easily on a clean photo. Your new photos are now ideal for creating bespoke cards and calendars – perfect gifts for grandma!
07. Create smaller file sizes
It may seem obvious, but the less image there is – the less "data" there is – the smaller the file size. While this might seem unnecessary since most of the images you use might be small anyway, it does make websites load faster – so it's great for Etsy, for example, or your blog or business site.
A smaller image size means a better SERP (Search Engine Ranking Position) rating, which ultimately ensures that your website will rank higher in Google and you will get more views. All because you removed a background, impressive.
08. Earn money with your photos
As we pointed out above, there are many reasons why you might do good background removal and how a cleaner image can be used. But just like you can use a clean new image, so can other people.
Once you remove a background and have a photo of a product, item, or person on a transparent background, you can earn royalties from other people who want to use your photos in their marketing. You can sell them through your own website or register with a platform such as Depositphotos (opens in a new tab) and start earning.


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2 Essential Features of Genuine Fractals
Genuine Fractals, also referred to as Perfect Resize, is an application used to enlarge and resize images. It has become very appreciated by professionals because it can enlarge an image without losing sharpness or detail in the process. Here are some essential features of this program.
1. General Features
Using interpolation as main technique, Genuine Fractals can perform the following tasks:
- Enlarge an image to the desired size and resolution
- Discard edge halos and preserve refined image detail
- Easily crop and redimension images
Genuine Fractals renders lines sharper than Photoshop, but does not promise any improvement in the resolution. It does not replace missing detail, but it is far better than any other editing software used for resizing images.
2. Essential New Features
The developers of Genuine Fractals have improved some of the existing features and added the following new ones:
- Control of smoothness to decrease artifacts in the resizing process and a loupe tool for previews
- New presets
- Two brand new sharpening methods
The Gallery Wrap has some updates as well so that it can provide quick previews while processing the image. Genuine Fractals is compatible with Lightroom, Photoshop and Aperture, but it can also work as an individual application.


Why do egyptians believe in afterlife?
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Why do egyptians believe in afterlife?
Egyptians are strong believers in afterlife. This belief can be traced back to the myth of the existence of gods and goddesses, who were believed to control the life of humans on Earth. Because Egyptians believed in the rule of divine kingship, the concept a king's death is attributed to the god of the underworld, Osiris and the concept of proclaiming a new king is attributed to Osiris' offspring, Horus. Their belief system of a soul was that each individual possessed two. One soul, known as ka, accompanied the body throughout life. After death, ka departed from the body and entered into the realm of the dead. The ka could not exist without the body and every effort was made to preserve the corpse through mummification.
However, life after death is not guaranteed, considering the beliefs and myths that Egyptians strongly believe in. Gaining immortality after one's death does not simply go by being judged whether one belongs to heaven or hell. In ancient Egypt, immortality entails proving oneself to be worthy of the life immortal in the land of Osiris. If proven otherwise, one is placed in non existence. Afterlife is one belief that Egyptians strongly and divinely believed in because they were given facts of its ancient history how critical it is to live on Earth in order to live a life after death. Since this belief has been handed down from Egypt's ancient beginnings, it still firmly exists until today.
Because of this concept, Egyptians live their life with the ultimate goal of having an excellent afterlife more than how one's life has been lived on Earth. During their life on Earth until the time of their death, Egyptians engage into practices and behaviors that only praise the god of life.
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 I am an Egyptian, i've lived in Egypt my Whole life and i have never met anyone who believes in the Ancient Afterlife concepts, yes they do believe in afterlife but just like anyone else knows that they'll go to either Heaven or Hell. please correct this because it is very clear that the writer is confused and does not know a thing about Egypt in the 21 first century..
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Introducing the Performance of Political Feeling
- Date: Wednesday 27 February 2019, 14:00 – 16:00
- Location: University House
- Type: Seminars and lectures
- Cost: Free
covering Interdisciplinary Approaches and Perspectives
Part of the 2018-19 Sadler Seminar Series, 'The Performance of Political Feeling'
Across the disciplines of arts, humanities and social sciences, contemporary academic research has increasingly sought to devote attention toward the topic of emotion. Paired with an emerging focus in the political arena on the performance of emotion - and indeed political feeling more broadly, – this seminar aims to bring together academics from different disciplines to explore when, how and through what methods and means political feeling is constructed, mediated, understood and theorised. The event will use a film/television montage of events from political and cultural life that speak to the themes of politics/emotion/performance to stimulate conversation. Key questions include:
- What is political feeling? And how do political feelings emerge?
- What political feelings matter – to whom? And how, when and where are they mediated?
- What tenets of performance emerge from political feeling?
- What do the arts, humanities and social sciences do with the study of political feeling?
Key information and speakers:
The event will be introduced by Dr Beth Johnson and facilitated by Professor Stephen Coleman. The second half of the seminar will feature a short talk from writer, broadcaster and performer, Dr Kate Fox
Places are limited for this event, so if you would like to come along please send your rsvp to the seminar convener Beth Johnson
Location: St George Room, University House.


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dictionary -- determine the dictionary to which a symbol belongs
If x is the value of a symbol recorded in the internal table used to recover global symbol from the values assigned to them, then that symbol is used.
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Witnesses provide expert nuclear overview
Posted 29 October 2016
The nuclear Citizens' Jury has today heard from 32 expert witnesses on four key topics – trust, safety, economics and consent – as they discuss the state's potential future involvement in the nuclear fuel cycle.
The jury took part in panel discussions during the day, having the opportunity to listen to witnesses and then engage in question and answer sessions.
Evidence was heard from stakeholders representing a broad range of interests and sectors, including the Australian Conservation Foundation, Australia Institute, Friends of the Earth, Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office (ASNO), World Nuclear Association, Australia Youth Climate Coalition and French national radioactive waste management agency ANDRA.
The discussions during the day highlighted the key issues being considered by the jury, including liability, the economic modelling assumptions, how consent is measured and concerns about transporting radioactive waste through regional South Australia.
The afternoon session was dedicated to hearing indigenous community perspectives, with around 20 Aboriginal people - many travelling to Adelaide from rural SA - attending to share their experiences with the jury.
The group heard from Aboriginal representatives, including Karina Lester, Vivienne McKenzie, Vince Coulthard and Enice Marsh who discussed the effects of the Maralinga testing in 1950s and past campaigns to protect Aboriginal land from radioactive material. They spoke of their cultural concerns about the safety, health impacts and damage to traditional lands from past nuclear activities, as well as their worries about any potential future storage and disposal plans.
The jury is spending a total of six days answering the question: 'Under what circumstances, if any, could South Australia pursue the opportunity to store and dispose of nuclear waste from other countries?'
Around 350 jurors, representing a broad cross section of the South Australian population, are considering all the facts and feedback from the three-month community consultation program, and deciding on their own perspectives, on the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission Report.
The jury sat today, and will reconvene tomorrow to start gathering together their insights. They reconvene next weekend to finalise a report, which will be presented to the Premier Jay Weatherill on Sunday, November 6.


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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Dike
DIKE, or Dyke (Old Eng. dic, a word which appears in various forms in many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch dijk, German Teich, Danish dige, and in French, derived from Teutonic, digue; it is the same word as "ditch" and is ultimately connected with the root of "dig"), properly a trench dug out of the earth for defensive and other purposes. Water naturally collects in such trenches, and hence the word is applied to natural and artificial channels filled with water, as appears in the proverbial expression "February fill-dyke," and in the names of many narrow waterways in East Anglia. "Dike" also is naturally used of the bank of earth thrown up out of the ditch, and so of any embankment, dam or causeway, particularly the defensive works in Holland, the Fen district of England, and other low-lying districts which are liable to flooding by the sea or rivers (see Holland and Fens). In Scotland any wall, fence or even hedge, used as a boundary is called a dyke. In geology the term is applied to wall-like masses of rock (sometimes projecting beyond the surrounding surface) which fill up vertical or highly inclined fissures in the strata.


Expressions used in Everyday Spoken English in Social and Professional contexts
sandbag (somebody)
sandbagsandbag somebody
1) conceal or misrepresent something in order to gain an advantage
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 This expression is mostly used in a professional context and is a strategy with the aim of lowering the expectations around something or someone in order to produce better-than-expected results. To do so, it is not always necessary to lie, you can instead withhold information, or be as conservative with your estimate as possible. In other words, only provide the worst-case scenario. In a social respect, it tends to be used in relation to betting or sport. As a verb to'sandbag' someone is to deceive someone in order to get what you want or deliberately underperform in order to gain an advantage.
 - Social Examples (Advance)
 1. The poker player sandbagged his opponents by losing his first few hands. He hoped they would raise the stakes if they saw him as less of a threat.
 2. sandbagged my opponents in the first part of the race and then shot into the lead when they were running out of stamina.
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 1. The deal is very close to being completed, but to make myself look better, I decided to sandbag my boss by telling her that it could take weeks to get it over the line
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Abraham and Coprius of Gryazovets
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They were born in Russia, and built the monastery of Gryazovets, near Vologda, around 1492, on the banks of Petshenga River. Their feast day is celebrated on February 4 in the Russian Orthodox Church.
- Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924.
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'Kwanzo' is a Daylily variety in the Hemerocallis genus with a scientific name of Hemerocallis. Kwanzo grows as a Perennial and is a Flower. Being a Perennial, it tends to grow best over several years (approx 3 years and greater). Kwanzo is known for growing to a height of approximately 1.00 metres (that's 3.25 feet in imperial).
Kwanzo Daylily is normally quite a low maintenance plant and is normally very easy to grow - great for beginner gardeners!
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Posted on Thursday 26th May 2011
A University of Birmingham scientist is set to join weather experts from across the country to help the local community learn more about weather and the climate with hands-on activities and demonstrations at a week-long roadshow coming to the city this half-term.
Organised by the Big Lottery funded Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) project, the OPAL Weather Roadshow is taking place between Wednesday 1 June and Sunday 5 June at Canon Hill Park and will feature an exciting range of activities providing all ages with the chance to investigate their local weather.
One of the highlights will be the opportunity to become a weather presenter for the day using the latest green-screen technology where University of Birmingham geographer, and OPAL Community Scientist, Dr Adam Bates, will be on hand to discuss climate forecasts for the local area.
Dr Bates, from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences said:
"Changes to our climate strongly impact both people and wildlife; whether through small changes in long-term amounts of rainfall and temperature, or extreme events like large floods and tornadoes, the weather affects us all.
"The OPAL Weather Roadshow gives people the opportunity to find out more about how changes to their local climate might affect them, and to gain first-hand experience of how weather is measured, predicted and reported. It will also be really fun."
Other activities taking place during the roadshow include the chance to create a tornado, although this will be on a much smaller scale than the 2005 Birmingham tornado which caused £40million worth of damage. Infra-red temperature guns will allow people to measure the temperature of clouds in the sky and a lightning ball will provide a glimpse of lightning up close.
As well as hands-on activities, a professional weather station will display measurements of temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed and solar radiation. Weather experts from the Royal Meteorological Society and Imperial College, London will be on hand to explain their significance, enabling people to learn more about weather and climate in an interactive way.
The OPAL Weather Roadshow will be held at Canon Hill Park, Birmingham between Tuesday 31 May and Sunday 5 June and is free and open to everyone. For more information see _URL_ Further information about the OPAL project can be found at: _URL_.
For further information, please contact Amy Cory, University of Birmingham Press Office via 0121 _PHONE_ or _EMAIL_.
Notes to Editors
- Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) is a nationwide partnership initiative, led by Imperial College London, that inspires communities to discover, enjoy and protect their local environments. It aims to create a new generation of nature-lovers by stimulating interest through local and national projects which are accessible, fun and relevant to anyone who wants to take part. OPAL provides the skills and materials needed for the first national community-led study of the world around us. For more information, please visit _URL_.
- The Big Lottery Fund, the largest of the National Lottery good cause distributors, has been providing grants to health, education, environment and charitable causes across the UK since its inception in June 2004. It was established by Parliament on 1 December 2006. Full details of the work of the Big Lottery Fund, its programmes and awards are available on the website: _URL_.
- The Big Lottery Fund's Changing Spaces programme was launched in November 2005 to help communities enjoy and improve their local environments. The programme funds a range of activities from local food schemes and farmers markets, to education projects teaching people about the environment. A £11,760,783 Changing Spaces grant was awarded to the leading OPAL partner, Imperial College London, in August 2007.


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Quimby - what does Quimby surname mean?
Recorded in the various spellings of Quimby, Quinby, Quenby, and Quemby, this is a locational English surname which originates from a village called Quenby in the county of Leicestershire. The village name and hence the surname is of 7th century Olde English origins, but with a later Danish-Viking overlap. The translation is from the words 'Cwene-berg' and means 'The Queen's Manor', although the 'berg' was later transmuted to the Danish 'bi' meaning farm. The first known official recording is that in the 1086 Domesday Book when it appears as 'Queneberie' becoming Quenby in the records of the year 1242. Who the original Queen was who held this manor is unknown, but no doubt it was associated with the kingdom of Mercia. The recordings of the surname are much later and like most locational surnames refer initially to the lord of the manor. Whether the later nameholders are decended from him or whether they assumed their name when they moved elsewhere from the village, can only be decided by a full genealogical survey. Early examples of the surname recording include Jane Quenby, who married William Beech at St George's chapel, Hanover Square, London, in 1791, but the first known all recordings is that of Ralph de Quenebi, in the Hundred Rolls of the county of Huntingdon, in the year 1272. This was during the reign of King Edward 1st, 1272 - 1307.
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Birnbaum, while a noted biographer of Japanese women and their works, reminds us that she is "not writing the woman's story this time around." Her duty to Foujita, she believes, makes it necessary for her to take his point of view in everything. Still, Birnbaum does an outstanding job of presenting her main thesis, exploring in intriguing detail the artist's dilemma as a man between two countries and two cultures, and in the process she gives a vivid picture of the international art scene during the World Wars, background vital for understanding many of today's cultural clashes, misunderstandings, and surprising fusions. Written by: Kittye Delle Robbins-Herring, February 20th 2007 Tags: cats, Foujita, France, Japan, painter, painting, propaganda, women, World War II Books Phyllis Birnbaum Faber and Faber Inc. Kittye Delle Robbins-Herring cats Foujita France Japan painter painting propaganda women World War II Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:07:00 +0000 admin 433 at


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seed germination and fertilizer
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In article <3gm9hv$777 at newsbf02.news.aol.com> cheesenips at aol.com (CheeseNips) writes:
>hello! I am trying to help a student determine if there is any
>difference in seed germination when fertilizer is used. If anyone can
>help, it would be greatly appreciated. It is science project time.
Pepper (capsicum) seeds are alleged to have faster and better germination
if soaked briefly in a potassium nitrate solution. One idea is that wild
peppers are often eaten by birds and the seeds deposited in a bit of guano,
and the plants are adapted to that.
Your student might want to compare several unrelated species to see which
benefit from a KNO3 soak, and whether this correlates with whether the seed
is borne in a bird-attracting fruit.
Toronto, Ontario Canada
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Author Topic: A way to connect 1 output to a large numbers of (function) nodes inputs (Read 425 times)
I regularly work on filters that take a large number of samples or iterations and it can be a real headache when you expose a new variable for one of your iterations and to connect it in your main graph to, say, 64 iterations of that subgraph.
I just added a new input to this function
And now I have to reconnect it, indeed, 64 times.
For me, this situation comes up on the regular.
Functionality wise, I imagine something like this:
First you select the node with the output you want to connect. Through a button load this selection as "source node". Then either by output number or by identifier select which output will be connected to the group of receiving nodes.
Now select the group of nodes that will receive the new input. Press a button to load in this selection as "receiving nodes". Then select which input all of these nodes will connect, by number or identifier.
Finally press a button to connect the selected output to all of the selected inputs.
I imagine this might be possible through Python, but I personally have little programming experience, so don't really know where to even start.


Researchers aim to uncover the secrets to happiness with new app
Anyone worldwide can now help Yale researchers uncover the secrets to happiness from their smartphones, without ever stepping foot into a lab.
The Happiness Project is a new mobile app developed by the lab of Robb Rutledge, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology, in which users can play games to test their decision making and learn about the science of happiness.
Happiness is not usually studied with mathematical equations, Rutledge said. The goal of The Happiness Project is to advance research to understand what determines how someone feels from minute to minute.
"We think that how people feel minute to minute is really important for understanding their mental health," Rutledge said. "Very little is known about what determines this and it's such an important part of our everyday experience. My lab is trying to figure out the mathematical equations for what determines happiness."
The app's development was made more complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Lab members dispersed to locations all around the world, and the Rutledge Lab relocated from University College London to Yale over the summer.
The team designed the tasks themselves, paying extra attention to creating engaging games that people find fun and would want to play.
"We're taking a fairly dry lab experiment where we control everything and turning it into something a bit more fun," Rutledge said.
"At the same time, we're not trying to make a video game," Rutledge explained. "We don't want a game that a few people love and most people don't really want to play. What we really need is something that if you had 100 people, 99 of them would say, "I'll play these games for 10 minutes." We're trying to build something for everyone because that's what we need if we want to understand how happiness works."
When a user downloads the game, they'll learn about the team's mission to understand happiness and figure out the equations for happiness. Users are presented with a variety of game options to choose from. Users might be asked to make risky decisions or make some kind of effort to earn more points. As a user completes games, they unlock more games.
"Every time people play the games and answer the surveys, they're helping our research," Rutledge said.
"The games are looking at different aspects of human behavior and emotions. The data from their play is sent to our servers anonymously, and then we look at it to see what that person does and what makes them feel different things."
For Rutledge, the pandemic underlined the importance of better understanding mental health. And while it's been difficult for research in a more traditional laboratory setting to continue with physical distancing recommendations in place, The Happiness Project app allows people to participate in research from the safety and comfort of their own home, creating a large pool of diverse participants of all ages and backgrounds.
"We want to provide an option for people who want to contribute to mental health research. They can participate at home in just a few minutes, and ultimately it will help us understand happiness better," Rutledge said.


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In order to keep your board healthy and increase the useful life of any wooden cutting board you must follow these three steps.
- Never submerge your board in water or place it in a dish-washing machine
- Oil it regularly with mineral oil, butcher block oil or organic flax seed oil. The general rule of thumb is about once a month if possible.
- Clean immediately after use with hot water and a small amount of soap, then wipe dry and lean against a wall or other object to air dry


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Acoustic design for education
Good acoustic design is required for environments where communication is critical for teaching and learning activities. Various types of spaces have different acoustic design requirements, including classrooms, music departments, performance spaces, theatres, multi-purpose halls and sports halls. Schools have regulatory acoustic performance requirements; further education facilities and university departments also require specialist acoustic design.
Sound Solution Consultants can deliver a complete service of design stage consultancy and pre-completion testing for developments within the education sector, including:
- Acoustic design for schools to Building Bulletin 93 (BB93) performance criteria (including
classrooms, music departments, multi-purpose halls, theatres and sports halls)
- Acoustic design advice for music departments and performance spaces
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- Enhanced acoustic design for special educational needs
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In descriptions of grinding and the Harlem Shake, twerk occurs with great regularity. The verb means "to move one's buttocks in a suggestive way." It has not yet made its way into OED and perhaps never will (let us hope so), but its origin hardly poses a problem: twerk must be a blend of twist (or twitch) and work (or jerk), a close relative of such verbs as squirm (possibly a blend of dialectal squir "to throw with a jerk" and worm) and twirl (? twist + whirl). When blends are coined "in plain sight" — as happened to brunch, motel, and Eurasia — no one has questions about their descent. Nowadays, blending has become a tiresome custom, and the stodgy products of grafting one word on another are usually as transparent as Texaco or Amtrak and equally inspiring. But no one can prove that twirl is indeed a sum of twist and whirl. Its origin will forever remain "unknown." Be that as it may, twerk does look like a blend, even though we don't know who, where, and when launched it into the linguistic space of North America.
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If you encounter an Asian walking down a dark alleyway in Virginia, you probably don't have anything to fear. If you bump into an Hispanic in a dark alleyway, you still don't have much to fear. Both racial/ethnic groups are significantly less likely to wind up in Virginia prisons than other groups, according to the Virginia Department of Corrections latest demographic report about the state's 30,000 prison population. Some highlight factoids:
- More than three-fifths of the population is black, nearly two fifths white.
- Asians or native Americans in Virginia prisons account for one-half percent of prison inmates. That compares to a state population of 6.5%.
- For all the overblown fears of illegal immigrants breeding crime, only 2.1% of Virginia's prison population is Hispanic. That compares to 8.2% of the population in the state.
- Roughly 18% of prison inmates are "confirmed gang members."
- More than nine out of ten (92%) inmates are male, raising the question, does our society systematically stigmatize and discriminate against males in our society? (Don't worry, that's not a serious question. Just a tweeker.)
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Performance Task – Correlations & Data Analysis – Voter Turnout
In the Voter Turnout Performance Task, students use data from voter turnout by states to practice constructing scatterplots, finding measures of central tendency, and standard deviations. As political analysts, they are attempting to predict the demographics of the next presidential voting population.
What's included in this Performance Task:
* Teacher Guide – Get an overview of the Performance Task, including helpful suggestions for use and the Common Core alignment for each activity.
* Level 1 Activity – Laying the foundation. Students start by practicing a core skill matched to a Common Core State standard.
* Level 2 Activity – Adding some complexity. Students integrate a different skill or set of skills from the Level 1 activity.
* Challenge Activity – Bring on the critical thinking! Stretch students to reason with math and data to come to conclusions.
* Finale Activities – Extend the learning. Each activity also includes a finale to extend the math lesson into another subject (usually ELA).
* Complete Answer Key – All Performance Tasks come with a complete answer key for all activities.
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