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Telephones - main lines in use 110 180,000 2014 est.
Budget expenditures 71 $21,210,000,000 2016 est.
Budget revenues 81 $11,400,000,000 2016 est.
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-) 47 -2.40 2016 est.
Commercial bank prime lending rate (%) 23 18.00 31 Dec 2016 est.
Current account balance 157 -$2,856,000,000 2016 est.
Debt - external 71 $39,100,000,000 31 Dec 2016 est.
Exports 57 $33,270,000,000 2016 est.
GDP - composition, by end use - exports of goods and services (%) 166 9.00 2016 est.
GDP - composition, by end use - government consumption (%) 128 7.20 2016 est.
GDP - composition, by end use - household consumption (%) 42 79.00 2016 est.
GDP - composition, by end use - imports of goods and services (%) 3 -10.10 2016 est.
GDP - composition, by end use - investment in fixed capital (%) 117 14.20 2016 est.
GDP - composition, by sector of origin - agriculture (%) 41 21.10 2016 est.
GDP - composition, by sector of origin – services(%) 108 59.50 2016 est.
GDP - official exchange rate 26 $502,000,000,000 2013 est.
GDP - per capita (PPP) 142 $5,900 2016 est.
GDP - purchasing power parity 24 $1,089,000,000,000 2016 est.
GDP - real growth rate (%) 75 -1.70 2016 est.
Gross national saving (% of GPD) 106 13.10 2016 est.
Household income or consumption by percentage share - highest 10% (%) 20 38.20 2010 est.
Household income or consumption by percentage share - lowest 10% (%) 32 1.80 2010 est.
Imports 58 $36,400,000,000 2016 est.
Industrial production growth rate (%) 81 -4.70 2016 est.
Inflation rate(consumer prices) (%) 11 15.30 2016 est.
Labor force 11 58,800,000 2016 est.
Labor force - by occupation – agriculture (%) 15 70.00 1999 est.
Labor force - by occupation – industry (%) 99 10.00 1999 est.
Labor force - by occupation – services (%) 131 20.00 1999 est.
Market value of publicly traded shares 53 $49,970,000,000 31 Dec 2015 est.
Population below poverty line (%) 4 70.00 2010 est.
Public debt (% of GPD) 149 13.20 2016 est.
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold 54 $23,470,000,000 31 Dec 2016 est.
Stock of broad money 61 $71,380,000,000 31 Dec 2016 est.
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad 58 $13,710,000,000 31 Dec 2016 est.
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home 47 $98,730,000,000 31 Dec 2016 est.
Stock of domestic credit 56 $80,770,000,000 31 Dec 2016 est.
Stock of narrow money 59 $33,510,000,000 31 Dec 2016 est.
Taxes and other revenues 163 2.7 2016 est.
Unemployment rate (%) 27 23.90 2011 est.
Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy 41 97,000,000 2013 est.
Crude Oil - exports 6 2,231,000 2013 est.
Crude Oil - production 12 2,317,000 2015 est.
Crude Oil - proved reserves 10 37,000,000,000 1 Jan 2016 est.
Electricity – consumption (kWh) 59 24,000,000,000 2014 est.
Electricity - from fossil fuels 72 65.0 2012 est.
Electricity - from hydroelectric plants 64 33.5 2012 est.
Electricity - from other renewable sources 68 1.5 2012 est.
Electricity - installed generating capacity 44 10,000,000 2014 est.
Electricity – production (kWh) 58 29,000,000,000 2014 est.
Natural gas – consumption (cu m) 38 18,840,000,000 2014 est.
Natural gas – exports (cu m) 13 25,000,000,000 2014 est.
Natural gas – production (cu m) 20 43,840,000,000 2014 est.
Natural gas - proved reserves (cu m) 9 5,111,000,000,000 1 Jan 2016 est.
Refined petroleum products - consumption 46 277,000 2014 est.
Refined petroleum products - exports 71 22,480 2013 est.
Refined petroleum products - imports 32 187,400 2013 est.
Refined petroleum products - production 69 110,200 2013 est.
Land use - agricultural land (%) 7 78.00 2011 est.
Land use - arable land (%) 19 37.30 2011 est.
Land use - forest (%) 149 9.50 2011 est.
Land use – other (%) 150 12.50 2011 est.
Land use - permanent crops (%) 38 7.40 2011 est.
Land use - permanent pasture (%) 41 33.30 2011 est.
Population density - Persons per sq km 66 204.28 Jul 2016 est.
Age structure 0-14 years - female 4 38,870,303 2016 est.
Age structure 0-14 years - male 5 40,744,956 2016 est.
Age structure 0-14 years (%) 16 42.79 2016 est.
Age structure 15-24 years - female (%) 8 17,729,351 2016 est.
Age structure 15-24 years - male (%) 8 18,514,466 2016 est.
Age structure 15-24 years(%) 57 19.48 2016 est.
Age structure 25-54 years - female (%) 11 27,768,368 2016 est.
Age structure 25-54 years - male (%) 11 29,259,621 2016 est.
Age structure 25-54 years(%) 199 30.65 2016 est.
Age structure 55-64 years - female (%) 19 3,769,986 2016 est.
Age structure 55-64 years - male (%) 19 3,595,293 2016 est.
Age structure 55-64 years(%) 184 3.96 2016 est.
Age structure 65 years and over - female (%) 25 3,047,002 2016 est.
Age structure 65 years and over - male (%) 21 2,754,040 2016 est.
Age structure 65 years and over (%) 188 3.12 2016 est.
Birth Rate (births/1,000 population) 11 37.30 2016 est.
Death Rate (deaths/1,000 population) 13 12.70 2016 est.
Dependency ratios - elderly dependency ratio (%) 118 5.10 2015 est.
Dependency ratios - potential support ratio 21 19.50 2015 est.
Dependency ratios - total dependency ratio (%) 16 87.70 2015 est.
Dependency ratios - youth dependency ratio (%) 13 82.60 2015 est.
Drinking water source - Improved – rural 101 57.3 2015 est.
Drinking water source - Improved – total 95 68.5 2015 est.
Drinking water source - Improved – urban 75 80.8 2015 est.
Drinking water source - UnImproved – rural 28 42.7 2015 est.
Drinking water source - UnImproved - total 27 31.5 2015 est.
Drinking water source - UnImproved - urban 17 19.2 2015 est.
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate (%) 20 3.17 2014 est.
HIV/AIDS - deaths 1 174,300 2014 est.
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS 2 3,228,600 2013 est.
Infant mortality rate – female (deaths/1,000 live births) 10 66.20 2016 est.
Infant mortality rate – male (deaths/1,000 live births) 11 76.00 2016 est.
Infant mortality rate – total (deaths/1,000 live births) 10 71.20 2016 est.
Life expectancy at birth – female (years) 144 54.50 2016 est.
Life expectancy at birth – male (years) 147 52.40 2016 est.
Life expectancy at birth – total (years) 141 53.40 2016 est.
Literacy – female (%) 95 49.70 2015 est.
Literacy – male (%) 94 69.20 2015 est.
Literacy – total (%) 105 61.30 2010 est.
Median age – male (years) 145 18.20 2016 est.
Median age – total (years) 154 18.30 2016 est.
Mother's mean age at first birth (years) 63 20.30 2013 est.
Population 8 186,053,386 Jul 2016 est.
Population growth rate (%) 24 2.44 2016 est.
Sanitation facility access - Rural Improved (% of population) 135 25.4 2015 est.
Sanitation facility access - Total Improved (% of population) 134 29 2015 est.
Sanitation facility access - Urban Improved (% of population) 135 32.8 2015 est.
Total fertility rate (children born/woman) 13 5.13 2016 est.
Urbanization - urban population (%) 123 47.8 2010-15 est.
NOTE: The information regarding the international rankings of Nigeria on this page is derived from the CIA World Factbook 2017. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of international rankings of Nigeria contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about international rankings of Nigeria should be addressed to the CIA.


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Federal Judge could oversee a solution to Cincinnati's pension mess
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Jay Hanselman
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Cincinnati Council could vote next week on an ordinance that would essentially let a federal court mediate a permanent solution to fix the city's currently under-funded pension system.
Mayor John Cranley introduced the idea Tuesday during a city hall press conference.
One item up for negotiation could be the compound cost of living adjustments some city retirees now enjoy. Changing that has been a thorny issue.
"It doesn't do city council a lot of good to vote to do something difficult like retroactively changing someone's cost of living increase if that vote is overturned by legal appeal," Cranley said. "So then you've got the worst of all worlds, we're you've made a tough vote politically but then you don't even get the savings."
Cranley compares such a negotiation regarding the retirement issue to the collaborative agreement from 2002 that settled a number of pending racial profiling lawsuits filed against the city and its police department.
Other negotiating points will likely include retiree health care and the city's yearly contribution to the pension system. The latest proposal could also transfer $100 million from the health care trust of the retirement plan to the pension side to help with the current shortfall.
Cranley wants action on the pension issue before bond rating agencies come to town next week to essentially give the city its credit rating for the coming year. The city is expecting a downgrade, which means it will cost the city more to borrow money. The ratings agencies have said they're looking for a permanent fix for the pension problem.
"They're big question is 'do you have the political stomach to make the cuts necessary to get the system funded?'" Cranley said. "This vote of City Council would show that we've got more political courage than most cities in this country. That will be a very powerful message and will have ended the political challenges."
Council's Budget and Finance Committee will discuss the issue Monday and could vote on the ordinance calling for federal mediation.
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Emil Witting (n. 4 aprilie 1880, Brașov – d. 16 aprilie 1952, Sibiu) a fost un silvicultor și scriitor de limbă germană, sas transilvănean.

A urmat studii de silvicultură la Banská Štiavnica. A ocupat mai multe funcții în domeniul silviculturii la Brașov și Sibiu. A scris mai multe romane inspirate de lumea Carpaților transilvăneni.

În 1903 a fost angajat ca pădurar la Brașov, în perioada 1911-1928 a fost pădurar-șef al pădurilor celor șapte juzi (Sieben-Richter-Waldungen), ulterior maistru forestier șef.

A înființat prima revistă în limba germană din sfera cinegetică a Transilvaniei, numită "Karpathen Waidwerk" ("Vânatul din Carpați"). A colaborat la revistele de vânătoare "Carpații" (1933-1947) și  "Revista Vânătorilor".

Fratele său, Otto Erich Witting (1889, 04.02. Brașov -1955, 09.09. Brașov) a fost și el silvicultor și autor a 92 de lucrări științifice, între care 15 cărți, privind silvicultura, vânatul și piscicultura.

În revista Carpații Nr. 2 / 1933, la rubrica "Cărți - Reviste" a apărut următoarea recezie:

Dl Inspector silvic Emil Witting, ocupă un loc de frunte, am putea spune, ocupă locul cel dintâi între scriitorii, mai noui, care au tratat în scrierile lor Carpații noștri, viețuitoarele — oameni și animale — care îi stăpânesc, tainica frumuseță a codrilor noștri seculari, arta nobilă și grea a vânătoarei de munte. În scurte intervale au fost date publicului iubitor de vânătoare și de natură trei scrieri ale dlui Witting, scrise în limba germană: "Auf der Hochwildbahn im Karpathenwalde", (Pe urmă de vânat mare în codrii carpatini), apoi "Frate Nicolae" și acum în urmă "Hirtenfeuer" (Foc ciobănesc). Trei voluminoase cărți, adevărate perle ale literaturii mondiale cinegetice.În primul volum se cuprinde, redată cu o mare dragoste pentru Carpați și pentru codrii seculari, și cu o neîntrecută cunoștință nemijlocită, monografia completă a faunei vânătorești a munților noștri. Se descrie cu o uimitoare bogăție de cunoștințe și precise observațiuni condițiunile de traiu, viața instinctual-sufletească, caracterul sălbătăciunilor și alăturea de aceasta vânarea lor, cu scene și întâmplări întrețesute.  "Frate Nicolae" — cu acest titlu și în original — e o minunată și completă bio- și monografie a ursului carpatin. Tragedia dârzei lui lupte de apărare față de valurile, atât de des pustiitoare, ale civilizației, care atacă nemiloasă și barbar cetatea verde a codrilor de brazi.  "Hirtenfeuer" cuprinde cea mai intuitivă descriere a vieții ciobanilor (desigur români) din stânele Carpaților sudici (Sibiu—Sebeș—Jiu). O descriere, poate lipsită total de adesea involuntara tendință de înfrumusețare a lucrurilor, dar cu marele merit al realității și ea atât de frumoasă. Tablourile maestre de peisagii și oameni sunt înviorate de nevinovate aventuri de dragoste feciorelnică. întreaga carte e străbătută de dragostea față de făpturile și cuprinsurile Carpaților românești și e învăluită în tonul pesimist al amintirilor trecutei vremi patriarchale. In eroul principal al acestui roman, întrezărim zbuciumul sufletului autorului, care asemenea "Fratelui Nicolae" nu vrea și nici nu poate să se acomodeze lumii noui de azi. Acest zbucium e cuprins alocurea în pagini de o nesfârșită tristeță. Recomandăm cu multă căldură tuturor celor ce iubesc munții, vietățile și oamenii din ei, tuturor îndrăgostiților de natură și de largul priveliștilor carpatine, să citească aceste minunate scrieri ale compatriotului nostru. Vor avea ceasuri de neîntrecută plăcere. Și am ruga pe dl Witting, să găsească mijlocul să fie traduse și bine traduse în românește aceste cărți, ca să poată fi împărtășite și celor ce nu le pot citi în original. Cărțile se pot comanda la autor, în Sibiu.

Între 1933 și 1936, nici un articol publicat în revista Klingsor nu a pus în discuție puterea nazistă din Germania. Singurul care a sugerat că literatura sașilor din Transilvania ar trebui să se aplece mai cu seamă pe problemele de acasă a fost Emil Witting cu articolul "Aufgaben des siebenbürgisch-sächsischen Schrifttums" (Sarcini ale literaturii sașilor transilvăneni), Klingsor, 1934: 119-22.

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Auf der Hochwildbahn im Karpathenurwalde (Prin înălțimile sălbatice ale pădurii seculare din Carpați) 25x19 cm; 374 pagini, 90 imagini, Neudamm, editura J. Neumann, 1928;
Frate Nicolae. Der siebenbürgische Karpathenbär (Frate Nicolae. Ursul carpatin din Transilvania) (roman, 1931)
Hirtenfeuer. Lebensbild eines Karpathenhirsches (1938)
Der Fechter "Lebensbild eines Karpatenhirschs", Editura Rütten & Loening, Potsdam, 1941, reeditare Editura Leykam (1951)
Karpatenhirsche  ISBN 3-923270-00-3
"Frate Nicolae - Ursul din Caprpati - Povestea unei vieti" (traducere in limba română de Ionel Pop), Editura Honterus - Sibiu, 2021.

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Nașteri în 1880
Decese în 1952
Scriitori români din secolul al XX-lea
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How old are the hamsters?
Your grandsom must have given them great care!
You would have to call the airline and ask their specific regulations for flying hamsters. Dogs and cats require health certificates but it may be different for rodents.
The stress of flight may be too much for them as well but if your Grandson really wants his little pets, I would try my best to get them there.
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Daily Readings For April 18
Psalms 93; 150 ›
Daniel 4:1-18 ›
1 Peter 4:7-11 ›
John 21:15-25 ›
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Daily Readings for Sunday, April 18, 2021
First Reading Daniel 4:1-18
Second Reading 1 Peter 4:7-11
Gospel Reading John 21:15-25
Evening Psalms 136; 117
Morning Psalm 93
1 The LORD is king, he is robed in majesty;
the LORD is robed, he is girded with strength.
He has established the world; it shall never be moved;
2 your throne is established from of old;
you are from everlasting.
3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD,
the floods have lifted up their voice;
the floods lift up their roaring.
4 More majestic than the thunders of mighty waters,
more majestic than the waves of the sea,
majestic on high is the LORD!
5 Your decrees are very sure;
holiness befits your house,
O LORD, forevermore.
1King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages that live throughout the earth: May you have abundant prosperity! 2The signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked for me I am pleased to recount.
3 How great are his signs,
how mighty his wonders!
His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and his sovereignty is from generation to generation.
4I, Nebuchadnezzar, was living at ease in my home and prospering in my palace. 5I saw a dream that frightened me; my fantasies in bed and the visions of my head terrified me. 6So I made a decree that all the wise men of Babylon should be brought before me, in order that they might tell me the interpretation of the dream. 7Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the diviners came in, and I told them the dream, but they could not tell me its interpretation. 8At last Daniel came in before me — he who was named Belteshazzar after the name of my god, and who is endowed with a spirit of the holy gods — and I told him the dream: 9"O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, I know that you are endowed with a spirit of the holy gods and that no mystery is too difficult for you. Hear the dream that I saw; tell me its interpretation.
10 Upon my bed this is what I saw;
there was a tree at the center of the earth,
and its height was great.
11 The tree grew great and strong,
its top reached to heaven,
and it was visible to the ends of the whole earth.
12 Its foliage was beautiful,
its fruit abundant,
and it provided food for all.
The animals of the field found shade under it,
the birds of the air nested in its branches,
and from it all living beings were fed.
13"I continued looking, in the visions of my head as I lay in bed, and there was a holy watcher, coming down from heaven. 14He cried aloud and said:
'Cut down the tree and chop off its branches,
strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit.
Let the animals flee from beneath it
and the birds from its branches.
15 But leave its stump and roots in the ground,
with a band of iron and bronze,
in the tender grass of the field.
Let him be bathed with the dew of heaven,
and let his lot be with the animals of the field
in the grass of the earth.
16 Let his mind be changed from that of a human,
and let the mind of an animal be given to him.
And let seven times pass over him.
17 The sentence is rendered by decree of the watchers,
the decision is given by order of the holy ones,
in order that all who live may know
that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdom of mortals;
he gives it to whom he will
and sets over it the lowliest of human beings.'
18"This is the dream that I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw. Now you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, since all the wise men of my kingdom are unable to tell me the interpretation. You are able, however, for you are endowed with a spirit of the holy gods."
7The end of all things is near; therefore be serious and discipline yourselves for the sake of your prayers. 8Above all, maintain constant love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins. 9Be hospitable to one another without complaining. 10Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received. 11Whoever speaks must do so as one speaking the very words of God; whoever serves must do so with the strength that God supplies, so that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
15When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my lambs." 16A second time he said to him, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Tend my sheep." 17He said to him the third time, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter felt hurt because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" And he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep. 18Very truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to go." 19(He said this to indicate the kind of death by which he would glorify God.) After this he said to him, "Follow me."
20Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them; he was the one who had reclined next to Jesus at the supper and had said, "Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?" 21When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, "Lord, what about him?" 22Jesus said to him, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? Follow me!" 23So the rumor spread in the community that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?"
24This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and has written them, and we know that his testimony is true. 25But there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
Evening Psalm 136
1 O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever.
2 O give thanks to the God of gods,
3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords,
for his steadfast love endures forever;
4 who alone does great wonders,
5 who by understanding made the heavens,
6 who spread out the earth on the waters,
7 who made the great lights,
8 the sun to rule over the day,
9 the moon and stars to rule over the night,
10 who struck Egypt through their firstborn,
11 and brought Israel out from among them,
12 with a strong hand and an outstretched arm,
13 who divided the Red Sea in two,
14 and made Israel pass through the midst of it,
15 but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea,
16 who led his people through the wilderness,
17 who struck down great kings,
18 and killed famous kings,
19 Sihon, king of the Amorites,
20 and Og, king of Bashan,
21 and gave their land as a heritage,
22 a heritage to his servant Israel,
23 It is he who remembered us in our low estate,
24 and rescued us from our foes,
25 who gives food to all flesh,
26 O give thanks to the God of heaven,
1 Praise the LORD, all you nations!
Extol him, all you peoples!
2 For great is his steadfast love toward us,
and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever.


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Never say weight lifting is good for adrenal health as that's not at all true. Weight lifting is actually the cause of adrenal fatigue in many cases. I got mine from overexertion. Also, many people with severe severe fatigue like myself are no longer able to exercise as we are basically bed-ridden.
Hi Kelly. I am deferring to Jedha, but I did run weight lifting by my practitioner and she was fine w/ a moderate amount of it. How much were you doing?


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Can Natural Antibiotics be Found in Plants?
The bacteria found in the intestines of insects can exhibit antibiotic resistance, potentially pointing to the natural antibiotics from the plants consumed by insects. In a recent study, researchers explore antibiotic resistance in natural insect and plant pairs.
There are several medicines derived from plants that are extremely effective such as the antimalarial drug quinine and many common chemotherapy drugs such as vinblastine. Nevertheless, there are currently no natural antibiotics that have been discovered.
There are examples in nature of certain insects harbouring bacteria in their intestines that are resistant to antibiotics. Since insects eat plants primarily, researchers have wondered whether this phenomenon is widespread enough to lead to potentially new natural antibiotics derived from plants.
Researchers from the Norwich Research Park's Department of Biological Chemistry in England hypothesized that the intestinal bacteria of insects were becoming resistant to the antibiotics found in the plants they eat. In their study published in the BMC Microbiology, they aimed to explore the idea of a widespread phenomenon of antibiotic resistance in six natural insect/plant pairs. They selected six plants with anecdotally known antibacterial activity and paired them to the insects that consume them as a major food source. As a supplement to their primary objective, the researchers also aimed to extract the component of the plants exhibiting antibiotic activity, which could open the door to discovering natural antibiotics from plants.
What Did the Bacteria Show?
In most cases, the bacteria found in the guts of the selected insects were not more resistant to antibiotics than their strain type. Surprisingly, some of the strain types that were used as control bacteria were shown to be more resistant to certain antibiotics. This contradicts the original hypothesis that intestinal bacteria from insects feasting on the selected plants would either show no differences or have a higher resistance to antibiotics than the control bacteria. One explanation for this phenomenon is the possible inadvertent exposure to antibiotics in clinical isolates grown in hospital settings. The data, therefore, suggest that the comparison of antibiotic resistance in gut bacteria compared with type strains is not a reliable indication of antibacterial activity in food.
Of the plant extracts that were included in the study due to their already known antibacterial activity, Madagascar periwinkle showed the most potential for antibacterial properties. In fact, the researchers were able to extract compounds with antibacterial activity from both the leaf and the root and further investigation allowed for the quantification of their antibiotic activity. These compounds are potentially interesting candidates for further testing. Additionally, despite a low level of antibiotic resistance in the insects feasting on ragwort, this plant showed high levels of antibiotic activity and also warrants further investigation.
The results of this study showed that the interplay between the bacterial strains in the insect gut is quite complex. The study also showed antibacterial activity in almost all plant extracts investigated, but had difficulty in identifying which would have clinical medicinal properties. Two plant extracts have been identified for further investigation for the development of natural antibiotics. Unfortunately, using gut bacteria from insects may not be the most reliable approach to discovering antibacterial activity in plants and a new method must be implemented in future studies. This study has suggested that natural antibiotics found in plants may be a realistic possibility in the future.
Reference: Ignasiak K, Maxwell A. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the guts of insects feeding on plants: prospects for discovering plant-derived antibiotics. BMC Microbiol. 2017.
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In the 1950's smoking used to be seen to be "cool". By the 1970's there was indisputable evidence it was linked to cancer. The Tobacco companies hired PhD scientists and government lobbyists to refute these allegations. But now there are class action law suits against these tobacco companies.
Pic. James Dean smoking (top) and oral cancer (bottom).
Alcohol is the cheapest and most legal drug available in shops. There are rarely if any health warnings on the bottles/cans/containers. It ruins many lives and yet in supermarkets its cheaper than water. Another potential for class action law suits against manufacturers and retailers? Not to mention the cost to NHS, industry and family life.
Pic Range of alcoholic drinks (top), normal and cirrhosis (below).
When it comes to food we were always told fat was bad and in excess of course it is, but now public enemy no 1 is sugar. Sugar is the major cause of tooth decay, obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Our bodies require a certain amount of glucose as fuel, this is a single block, disaccharides are two blocks and polysaccharides are long chains of glucose found in starchy foods like potatoes, rice and pasta. These are broken down to monosaccharides (glucose). Any excess is converted to fat and if there are problems with this mechanism diabetes can occur.
Pic sugar causing tooth decay and obesity and fat causing obesity.
Farmers globally are growing corn to make high fructose corn syrup, which a leading US manufacturer uses in over 1000 products-from sauces to mayo to soup to breads-read the labels, I won't mention the name of the company, but it is in the UK. Once again the sugar companies have hired their PhD scientists and lobbyists to say sugar is not that bad. Again evidence is out there and is being swept under the carpet. My advice is if there is any added sugar in any form e.g. Glucose, dextrose, galactose, lactose, fructose, corn syrup etc think twice about buying it. Again class action law suits against sugar manufacturers and retailers is inevitable. Not to mention the cost to the NHS of treating tooth decay, obesity, diabetes, heart disease and their associated problems, which I hasten to add we are in a global pandemic and a lot of this is preventable.
As an avid food lover it's nice to go out for meals and treat oneself, but lots of restaurants and takeaways make food which is either too rich/fatty, use excess sugar and food colouring/ additives. Again as everything above one needs to exercise caution and moderation.
Finally and of real global concern is the use of non biodegradable packaging such as plastic bags, plastic packaging, polystyrene fast food containers and coffee cups. These take 100's of years to breakdown into nurdles and then become micro beads and make their way into the water and seas/oceans. They then are eaten by marine livestock and either kill them or WE end up eating them. Now in this day and age of evidence based research it's early days. Not enough data is available on this, or if it is it is being covered up. We don't know what long term damage, if any, this is doing to our bodies, but I know the mess it makes on the sea shores!! I was asked by M&S to help in a local beach clean in the past and it's astounding what we found.
Next time you ask for a fish and chips, or have your prawn sandwich or crab or lobster, just think are you eating plastic as well???? I remember the good old days when a good fish and chip was served in yesterday's newspapers-bring those days back because the taste was much better. Also if you do order hot food in polystyrene containers the heat of the food can melt the polystyrene and you can actually taste the plastic, same with coffee. Again if it is shown to be detrimental to health then class action law suits galore.
I have been asking manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers to take this on board. What we should be doing as a society is really boycotting these products, bringing our own coffee cups/containers and caring more for our society, health, planet and future for our kids and the flora and fauna of the land and sea. I would urge you to share this message with your friends and families asap. Please follow my blog and twitter feeds and any comments are welcome.
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Irony! The ad. that WP placed below this piece on my PC was for Paris Dessert Heaven ice cream!
Fun fact: Sugar is 8X as addictive than cocaine!
Correct, why are we all being lied to and cheated?
So true! In the end, it's ALL about $$$ forv them!
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Bristol research and partner highlights in 2017-18
From reporting the findings of the largest ever prostate cancer trial to causing a media stir with a review of research on the effects of low alcohol consumption during pregnancy, Bristol-based research has made a big impression again this year.
Two homegrown initiatives, the emergency department safety checklist and a project to prevent cerebral palsy in pre-term babies, were selected to be rolled out nationally. And there was good news for pedestrians and cyclists when an evaluation found 20mph speed limits in Bristol have prevented more than four fatal casualties a year, as well as 11 serious and 159 slight injuries, saving the NHS an estimated £15 million each year.
Largest ever prostate cancer trial finds one-off PSA screening does not save lives
In March CAP, the largest ever prostate cancer trial, reported its findings. Cancer Research UK-funded scientists based at the University of Bristol found that inviting men with no symptoms to a one-off PSA test for prostate cancer does not save lives.
Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), researchers at the Universities of Bristol and Oxford found that testing asymptomatic men with PSA detects some disease that would be unlikely to cause any harm but also misses some aggressive and lethal prostate cancers.
Alcohol in pregnancy review causes media stir
A review published in BMJ Open in September, led by researchers at NIHR CLAHRC West and the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, found a lack of evidence on the effects that drinking small amounts of alcohol during pregnancy has on unborn babies.
The researchers advised that, in the light of this lack of evidence, abstention is the safest course of action, in keeping with the government's guidelines.
The findings were widely reported in the media, nationally and internationally. However, some media outlets confused a lack of evidence with a lack of effect, so the researchers had to set the record straight on national television and social media.
Emergency department (ED) safety checklist successes
The ED safety checklist first developed at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (UH Bristol), has gone from strength to strength in the past year. The checklist, which was rolled out across the region by the West of England Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) and evaluated by NIHR CLAHRC West, came into the national spotlight in October, when NHS Improvement recommended all emergency departments in England adopt such a checklist.
It also won HSJ's prestigious Best Patient Safety Initiative in an A&E award in July, as well as being praised by inspectors during UH Bristol's CQC inspection.
Project to prevent cerebral palsy in premature babies wins £3.5 million funding
Developed in maternity units across the West of England, the 'PReCePT' project was selected by the Health Foundation to be part of an ambitious £3.5 million improvement programme in October.
The Scaling Up Improvement programme supported seven projects in the UK to take their proven health care interventions and approaches and make them work at larger scale to have a positive impact on patient outcomes.
PReCePT, which stands for the Prevention of Cerebral Palsy in PreTerm Labour, helps reduce cerebral palsy in babies by administering magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) to mothers during preterm labour, at a cost of around £1 per individual dose. The intervention was rolled out across the region by the West of England AHSN, with evaluation from NIHR CLAHRC West.
20mph speed limits in Bristol save lives, reduce injuries and save the NHS £15 million a year
There was good news for pedestrians and cyclists in Bristol in February, when an evaluation by the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol)found 20mph speed limits in residential areas in Bristol have prevented more than four fatal casualties a year, as well as 11 serious and 159 slight injuries. The researchers estimated this has saved the NHS £15 million a year, using the Department for Transport's value for prevention of casualties formula.
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NHS policy encourages general practices to introduce alternatives to face-to-face consultations as a way of increasing access to healthcare and reducing GP workload. But, until recently, the evidence on their use and effectiveness was limited.
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The team has developed guidance for GPs to help them overcome key barriers to implementation.
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They are also investigating the factors that cause people to move from having thoughts about suicide to acting on them, whether mindfulness-based cognitive therapy can treat women survivors of domestic violence, and whether nutritional interventions help control blood sugar levels in children with cystic fibrosis-related diabetes. They're also recruiting 2,000 couples undergoing IVF to understand which factors might be significant in predicting success.
Improving the response of health professionals to women experiencing domestic violence
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During the year, NIHR CLAHRC West worked with the IRISi team on feasibility projects to apply the IRIS approach in sexual health and pharmacy settings.
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Professor Alastair Hay and colleagues won the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) prestigious Research Paper of the Year award for an innovative study on diagnosing and treating urinary tract infections in children. The team developed a technique to help GPs and nurses distinguish between those who need antibiotic treatment and those who don't, using a clinical rule. The NIHR-funded DUTY (Diagnosis of Urinary Tract infections in Young children) study was published in the Annals of Family Medicine.
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The 2021 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol Serie A, known as the LigaPro Betcris 2021 for sponsorship purposes, was the 63rd season of the Serie A, Ecuador's top tier football league, and the third under the management of the Liga Profesional de Fútbol del Ecuador (or LigaPro). The season began on 19 February and ended on 12 December 2021.

Independiente del Valle were the champions, winning their first league title by defeating Emelec in the finals by a 4–2 aggregate score. Barcelona were the defending champions, having won the previous season.

Format
On 1 January 2021, LigaPro president Miguel Ángel Loor confirmed that the 2021 season would be contested by 16 teams and the competition would be played under the same format as the previous season. Three stages were played, with the first and second ones to be played as single round-robin tournaments with all teams playing each other once for a total of 15 matches per stage. The first stage fixture was reversed for the second stage, and the top teams at the end of each stage qualified for the final stage as well as the Copa Libertadores group stage. The finals were a double-legged series between the winners of both stages with a penalty shoot-out deciding the champion in case of a tie in points and goals scored. In case a team won both stages of the season, the finals would not be played and that team would win the championship.

An aggregate table including the matches of both the first and second stages was used to decide international qualification and relegation, with the best two teams (other than the stage winners) qualifying for the Copa Libertadores, the next best three teams qualifying for the Copa Sudamericana, while the remaining Copa Sudamericana berth would be awarded to the champions of the 2021 Copa Ecuador, which was eventually cancelled. The bottom two teams of the aggregate table at the end of the season will be relegated to Serie B.

Teams
16 teams competed in the season. LDU Portoviejo and El Nacional were relegated after finishing in the bottom two places of the aggregate table of the previous season, being replaced by 2020 Serie B champions 9 de Octubre and runners-up Manta.

Stadia and locations

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

Notes

First stage
The first stage began on 19 February and ended on 19 July 2021.

Standings

Results

Second stage

Standings

Results

Finals
The finals (Third stage) were played by Emelec (first stage winners) and Independiente del Valle (second stage winners). The winners of the double-legged series were the Serie A champions and earned the Ecuador 1 berth in the 2022 Copa Libertadores, and the losers were the Serie A runners-up and earned the Ecuador 2 berth in the 2022 Copa Libertadores. By having the greater number of points in the aggregate table, Emelec played the second leg at home.

Independiente del Valle won 4–2 on aggregate.

Aggregate table

Top scorers
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Rank
! Name
! Club
! Goals
|-
| align=center | 1
| Jonathan Bauman
|Mushuc Runa / Independiente del Valle
| align=center | 26
|-
| align=center | 2
| Jhon Cifuente
|Delfín
| align=center | 17
|-
| align=center | 3
| Lisandro Alzugaray
|Universidad Católica
| align=center | 15
|-
| align=center | 4
| Diego Dorregaray
|Deportivo Cuenca
| align=center | 14
|-
| rowspan=2 align=center | 5
| José Fajardo
|9 de Octubre
| rowspan=2 align=center | 12
|-
| Francisco Fydriszewski
|Aucas
|-
| rowspan=4 align=center | 7
| Facundo Barceló
|Emelec
| rowspan=4 align=center | 10
|-
| Jhonny Quiñónez
|Aucas
|-
| Sebastián Rodríguez
|Emelec
|-
| Joao Rojas
|Emelec
|}

Source: FEF

References

External links
 LigaPro's official website
 Ecuadorian Football Federation

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Dori: Durkan's failures, political correctness caused downtown Seattle shooting
Jan 23, 2020, 3:05 PM | Updated: 3:11 pm
The scene from a shooting in downtown Seattle at the end of January. (Getty Images)
BY DORI MONSON
KIRO Newsradio Host
Political correctness and liberalism are literally killing people. This downtown Seattle shooting is an extension of all of that.
It's about squishy prosecutors and judges who let repeat offenders walk free. It is about a city council that has designed this because anarchy will allow them to rebuild the city in a socialist image.
Today, a woman is dead and seven others are injured. A 9-year-old remains in the hospital. It is shameful but unfortunately predictable, given who we have running things around here.
As soon as I heard about the downtown Seattle shooting, I wrote this tweet.
Witnesses describe scene of 'chaotic' downtown shooting
Tonight's downtown shooting is the inevitable outcome after years of not letting cops do their job… of encouraging drug use – and the gang warfare that comes with it… and politics putting criminals above law-abiding citizens.
Durkan should resign. Our city has gone to hell
— Dori Monson (@dorimonson) January 23, 2020
People right away criticized me for blaming gangs when we did not know for sure who was responsible. Of course we knew it was gangs. I'm sick and tired of a squishy media that won't speak the truth because it is so consumed with political correctness. Everybody knew exactly what happened last night.
We do not let the cops do their jobs. The cops know who the gang members and drug dealers are. They also know that if they see a drug transaction and write it up for the prosecutor's office, it's going to get kicked because it's not a serious enough crime. And when prosecutors pursue criminals, judges let them walk free.
The two suspects in this downtown shooting have been arrested 44 times with 20 convictions and 21 times with 15 convictions. Marquise Tolbert, the one with 20 convictions, had three felonies last year alone. You tell me how someone with three felonies in 2019 is walking around free and able to engage in a shootout that kills a woman and injures a bunch of other people, including a 9-year-old kid. Both Tolbert and William Tolliver, the other suspect, are just 24 years old. They both have previously been arrested and charged with drive-by shootings and unlawful possession of a firearm in 2018. So the courts knew full well that these were gun-toting gang members. Why did our justice system let them walk free? Why do we place criminals above law-abiding citizens?
When you legalize drugs as we effectively have done by not prosecuting personal possession of drugs, then drug dealers of course will provide those drugs. And drug dealers tend to be backed by gangs. There is a known connection between the most violent gangs around here and the slinging of drugs, because they get in turf wars.
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Jenny Durkan is an ineffective mayor. Look at what has happened with the issues people are most worried about — traffic, homelessness, and crime. The media is complicit with this. Just a few days ago, a column in the Seattle Times reported that crime is down. People on the streets know that crime isn't down. They know that their homes are getting broken into and their car windows are getting smashed. Yet some in the media will say crime is down in Seattle. Yes, and how many shootings have we had since Tuesday? Police were near last night's shooting because they were a few blocks away at a police-involved shooting in the middle of the afternoon. And so with the help of their compliant media, politicians are able to push out false stories that crime is down and everything is great.
Look at it like a math problem. The effective legalization of drugs + prosecutors and judges who let people walk free + politicians with no clue what they are doing = an inevitable surge in crime.
Jay Inslee sent out a nauseating tweet after the downtown Seattle shooting.
I am sick for those impacted by the gun violence in Seattle tonight.
If you have information about this incident, please call the @SeattlePD tip line at (206) 233-5000
— Governor Jay Inslee (@GovInslee) January 23, 2020
Jay Inslee knew it was gangs, every bit as much as I did. But will he call it gang warfare? Of course not. (As I said, Political correctness and liberalism are killing people.) Instead, he will use this to grandstand about how we need to crack down on guns. Guess what? No matter what laws we pass, those two gang-bangers would have still had guns. Judging by their rap sheets, clearly they don't care about breaking laws. They don't fill out the proper paperwork and buy guns at stores — they get them on the streets. Criminals will always get guns this way. If political correctness means you won't even identify the problem, then we have no hope. Our leaders are spinning in circles. And that is how politicians are a huge part of the problem.
Jenny Durkan has no business running the City of Seattle. We have to stop electing people based on identity politics. A listener named Joe, who is gay, wrote this message:
I moved to Seattle in 1996. For almost two decades I would tell friends and family, 'The worst part of Seattle is better and safer than the nicest parts of any other major city in the country.' That all changed about six to seven years ago. Sadly, my community, Seattle's gay community, is partially responsible. At all cost and with no common sense they have spent hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars to give us Jenny Durkan, Ed Murray, Mitzi Johankneckt, and others. There is no regard for their qualifications, only the fact they are gay.
Here's the thing. Jenny Durkan lives in a waterfront mansion on Lake Washington. She has a Seattle police security detail protecting her at all times. She has no clue what it is like to be a working person in Seattle — completely out of touch. King County Executive Dow Constantine has a similar escort, which he reportedly uses to get taxi service to bars. King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg bought a gated home where the riffraff cannot get in. He is insulated from the consequences of his office letting gang members with felonies go.
Durkan's press conference on downtown Seattle shooting
In a press conference Thursday afternoon, Durkan and Seattle Police Department Chief Carmen Best both said that the downtown Seattle shooting started as "a dispute between two individuals" outside the McDonald's. What was the dispute? "I didn't order the chicken sandwich, you stole my Big Mac!" Or could it have been a "dispute" about gang warfare?
Here's some free advice — maybe hold onto people who have 20 convictions including three recent felonies before they kill anyone.
Durkan said that we will not allow gun violence to "be the new normal" because it is preventable. Yes, gun violence is preventable. But if you want to get guns out of the hands of criminals, you have to do things you would never allow. Stop-and-frisk is the one thing that was proven to work against gang violence in New York City, but you are far too P.C. to ever try that. So don't say that you will do everything possible to prevent gun violence. You won't do the things that will actually work. You will just enact more legislation to take guns away from law-abiding gun owners.
We need a call to action on gun violence, across America and in Seattle. Gun violence anywhere is unacceptable, and it is especially jarring when it occurs in our city … We know that gun violence is preventable, and in the City of Seattle, we are taking urgent action to stop the cycle of violence.
She acknowledged that these guns were in the hands of people who should not have them (duh), but did not place any blame on the criminal justice system that she is part of that allowed these longtime criminals to walk free. Then she went on to tout Seattle's strict gun laws, which are "some of the strictest gun laws in the state." Well, we also have some of the worst gun violence in the state. So, Jenny, there doesn't seem to be a correlation between the laws you pass and actually doing something on the streets to improve things for innocent people trying to get home after a day of work. Your gun laws were clearly a big, fat failure because we just had a mass shooting.
Carmen Best repeated the lie they've been trying to feed all of us, that Seattle is a safe city. Seattle is heading toward the other leftist cities plagued with gun violence — Baltimore, Chicago, L.A. There is a common theme between the cities that have gun violence, and that is the parties that are in charge. Best said we would "stop these shootings far upstream." No, we're not going to. Your system had these guys, with multiple felony convictions, including gun felonies; you let them go.
Neither Durkan nor Best mentioned that drugs were a major contributor to what happened on Wednesday. We have a major open-air drug market, and the cartels know it.
My initial instinct has been proven 100-percent accurate. We must let cops do their jobs, not tie their hands. We have to stop allowing personal amounts of drugs and letting gangs fill the marketplace. And finally, we have to stop electing people who have no business running cities and government departments. Instead, we must elect people based on their ability to do the job.
If politicians don't have the guts to address the real problems or the political will to talk about real solutions, we are going to continue on this steep slide down. We have to be near a tipping point. We have to start wrestling our city back from the madness of lack of leadership. It has affected all of us, and it certainly has had a devastating effect on our city.
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\section*{Introduction}

A finite non-increasing sequence of positive integers
$d_1\geq \cdots\geq d_n$ is called a \emph{degree sequence} if there
is a graph $(V,E)$ with $V = \{v_1,\ldots,v_n\}$ and $\deg(v_i)=d_i$
for $i=1,\ldots,n$. In that case, we say that the graph $G$
\emph{realizes the degree sequence} $d$.  In this article, in
Theorem~\ref{thm:main} we give a remarkably simple recurrence relation
for the exact number of labeled graphs that realize a fixed degree
sequence $(d_1,\ldots,d_n)$.  We also give an algorithm and a concrete
implementation to explicitly count three classes of labeled graphs for
a moderate number of vertices.

There is an extensive volume of research on the asymptotics of the
number of graphs that realize a fixed degree sequence. We refer the
reader to Wormald's excellent ICM lecture~\cite{Wormald18} for an
comprehensive survey, and references therein.  As for the exact number
of graphs that realize a fixed degree sequence, Read obtains
enumeration formulas in~\cite{Read59} and \cite{Read60} as
applications of Polya's
\emph{Hauptsatz}~\cite{Polya39,PolyaRead87}. However, Read himself
admits
\begin{quote}
  ``It may readily be seen that to evaluate the above expressions in
  particular cases may involve an inordinate amount of
  computation.''~\cite[Sect.7]{Read60}
\end{quote}
But we encountered no explicit complexity analysis of Read's formulas
in our search in the literature.  On the other hand, in~\cite{McKay83}
McKay writes explicit generating polynomials whose complexities can
readily be calculated, and in which coefficients of certain monomials
yield the exact number of different classes of labeled graphs. In
particular, he writes a generating polynomial (see
Equation~\eqref{eq:McKay}), whose computation complexity is
$\C{O}(2^{n^2/2})$, in which the coefficient of the monomial
$x_1^m\cdots x_n^m$ gives the exact count of labeled $m$-regular
graphs on $n$-vertices.

Our recurrence relation works for all degree sequences, but for those
degree sequences where there is a uniform upper limit $m$ for the
degrees, our algorithm has the worst-case complexity of
$\C{O}(n^{mn})$.  This means, in the specific case of $m$-regular
graphs we achieve a better complexity than generating polynomials.

While factorial-like worst-case complexity of the
enumeration~\eqref{eq:enumeration} may render practical calculations
difficult, the fact that it is recursive allows us to employ
computational tactics such as \emph{dynamic
  programming}~\cite{Bellman57,LewMauch07} or
\emph{memoization}~\cite{Michie68} to achieve better average
complexity.  We explore this avenue in our implementation given in the
Appendix.  To demonstrate of the versatility of our recurrence
relation and the resulting implementation, we tabulate the number of
$m$-regular labeled graphs, the number of labeled graphs that realize
the same degree sequence with binary trees, and the number of labeled
graphs that realize the same degree sequence with complete bipartite
graphs.

One can also read a given degree sequence $(d_1,\ldots,d_n)$ as a
partition of $N = \sum_i d_i$.  The Erdős-Gallai
Theorem~\cite{ErdosGallai, Chodum:ErdosGallai} tells us when such a
partition is realizable as a degree sequence, or one can also use
Havel-Hakimi algorithm to decide whether the given partition is
realizable~\cite{Havel55,Hakimi62}.  Now, one can also use our
enumeration to decide whether given a degree sequence is realizable,
but admittedly, the Havel-Hakimi algorithm has a much better
complexity.

\subsection*{Plan of the article} We prove our recurrence relation,
analyze its complexity and compare it with generating functions for
regular graphs in Section~\ref{Sect:Enumeration}.  We present explicit
calculations we made in Section~\ref{Sect:Calculations}, and the code
we used performing the calculations in the Appendix.

\subsection*{Notations and conventions}

We assume all graphs are simple, labeled, and undirected throughout
the article.

\subsection*{Acknowledgments}

This article was written while the author was on academic leave at
Queen's University in Canada from Istanbul Technical University. The
author would like to thank both universities for their support.

\section{Enumerating Graphs That Realize a Fixed Degree Sequence}
\label{Sect:Enumeration}

\subsection{The recurrence relation}

Assume $d=(d_1,\ldots,d_n)$ is a non-increasing sequence of strictly
positive integers $d_i>0$.  Let us consider the trivial cases first:
It is clear that there is a single graph on the empty sequence
$\epsilon$: the empty graph.  Also, in case $n=1$, the only case for
which the sequence $(d_1)$ is realized by a graph is when $d_1=0$
which is excluded by our assumption. So, the count is 0 for all
$(d_1)$ for $d_1>0$.  We also exclude the case where the sum
$\sum_i d_i$ is odd since such sequences cannot be realized as degree
sequences because of the Hand-Shake Lemma.

We assume $n>1$ and the sum $\sum_i d_i$ is even.  If we consider the
vertex $x_n$ we see that it needs to be connected to exactly $d_n$
vertices in the set $\{x_1,\ldots,x_{n-1}\}$.  We need to consider the
set of all subsets of $\{x_1,\ldots,x_{n-1}\}$ of size $d_n$ to
enumerate all possibilities.  So, let $S$ be an arbitrary subset of
$\{1,\ldots,n-1\}$ of size $d_n$, and let $\chi_S$ be the
characteristic function of the set $S$.  Every graph in which $x_n$ is
connected to each vertex in $\{x_i\mid i\in S\}$ realizes the same
degree sequence
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:1}
  (d_1 - \chi_S(1),\ldots, d_{n-1} - \chi_S(n-1))
\end{equation}
if we remove $x_n$ and all the edges connected to $x_n$.  Let us write
$(d_1,\ldots,d_{n-1})\slash S$ for the sequence~\eqref{eq:1} after we
reorder the sequence in descending order and remove all 0's.  Let
$C((d_1,\ldots,d_n))$ be the number of graphs that realize the same
degree sequence $(d_1,\ldots,d_n)$.  Thus we obtain:
\begin{theorem}\label{thm:main}
  The total number of labeled graphs that realize the degree sequence
  $(d_1,\ldots,d_n)$ satisfies the recurrence relation
  \begin{equation}
    \label{eq:enumeration}
    C((d_1,\ldots,d_n)) = \sum_{S\in\binom{\{1,\ldots,n-1\}}{d_n}} C((d_1,\ldots,d_{n-1})\slash S)
  \end{equation}
  where we write $\binom{X}{k}$ for the set of all subsets of size $k$
  of a set $X$.
\end{theorem}

\subsection{The complexity analysis}

In~\cite{McKay83} McKay writes a generating polynomial
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:McKay}
  f(x) = \prod_{1\leq i<j\leq n} (1 + x_i x_j).
\end{equation}
in which the coefficient of the monomial $x_1^{m}\cdots x_n^{m}$
yields the number of $m$-regular graphs on $n$-vertices.  If we assume
the complexity of the calculation is given by the number of
multiplications in the product, then the computational complexity of
the generating polynomial is $\C{O}(2^{n^2/2})$.

Let $d=(d_1,\ldots,d_n)$ be a degree sequence, and let us use
$\# C(d)$ for the total number of summands (which is the number of
leaves in the recursion tree) in $C(d)$ in
Equation~\eqref{eq:enumeration} which will be the complexity measure
for our enumeration.

\begin{proposition}\label{prop:complexity}
  Assume there is a fixed upper bound $m$ for the degrees in $d$.
  Then the complexity of the enumeration given in~\eqref{thm:main} is
  $\C{O}(n^{mn})$.  In particular, the enumeration complexity for
  $m$-regular graphs is also $\C{O}(n^{mn})$.
\end{proposition}

\begin{proof}
  As long as $2m\leq n$, the function $\binom{n}{m}$ is increasing in
  $m$.  Then
  \begin{align}
    \label{eq:10}
    \# C((d_1,\ldots,d_n))
    = & \sum_{S\in\binom{\{1,\ldots,n-1\}}{d_n}}\# C((d_1,\ldots,d_{n-1})\slash S)\\
    \leq & \binom{n}{m} \max_{S\in 2^{\{1,\ldots,n-1\}}}\# C((d_1,\ldots,d_{n-1})\slash S)\\
    \leq & \cdots \leq \binom{n}{m}\cdots \binom{2m}{m} \max_{S\in 2^{\{1,\ldots,2m-1\}}} \# C((d_1,\dots,d_{2m-1})\slash S) \\
    \leq & \binom{n}{m}^{n-2m} C_m
  \end{align}
  for some constant $C_m$.  Since $m$ is fixed and $\binom{n}{m}$ is
  of order $n^m$ we get that the number of summands in
  $C((d_1,\ldots,d_n))$ is $\C{O}(n^{m(n-2m)}) = \C{O}(n^{mn})$.
\end{proof}

One can easily see that the enumeration complexity
of~\eqref{eq:enumeration} we obtained in
Proposition~\ref{prop:complexity} is better that the complexity of
generating polynomial for regular graphs.  However, we still have to
work around the fact that the worst-case complexity is factorial-like
with a constant exponent.  Fortunately, one can employ powerful
computational tactics such as dynamic programming or memoization to
improve average complexity of the enumeration since it is
recursive. See the Appendix for how we used memoization to improve
average complexity of our calculations.

\section{Explicit Calculations}
\label{Sect:Calculations}

Let us start with calculating an explicit example by hand. The degree
sequence of the complete graph $K_n$ on $n$-vertices is the constant
sequence $n-1$ of length $n$.  Since one has only one subset of
$\{1,\ldots,n-1\}$ of size $n-1$ we get that
\begin{align}\label{eq:13}
  C((\underbrace{n-1,\ldots,n-1}_\text{$n$-times}))
  = C((\underbrace{n-2,\ldots,n-2}_\text{$n-1$-times}))
  = \cdots = C((1,1)) = C(\epsilon) = 1.
\end{align}
In other words, the labeled complete graph $K_n$ is the only graph
with that specific degree sequence.

\subsection{Enumerating regular graphs}

An $m$-regular graph on $n$-vertices is similar to $K_{m+1}$ in that
it is a graph on $n$-vertices where every vertex has the same constant
degree $m$
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:3}
   (\underbrace{m,\ldots,m}_{\text{$n$-times}}).
\end{equation}
Now, let us write
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:4}
  R(n,m) = C((\underbrace{m,\ldots,m}_{\text{$m$-times}})).
\end{equation}
We need to note that $R(n,m)=0$ when $m\geq n$, or when both $n$ and
$m$ are odd since in these cases there are no graphs that can realize
the sequences given in~\eqref{eq:3}.

We calculated $R(n,m)$ for $1\leq n\leq 30$ and $2\leq m\leq 8$.  The
results for $1\leq m\leq 5$ took about 2 minutes while the cases for
$6\leq m\leq 8$ took about 10 minutes on a moderate
computer\footnote{On an Intel i5-8250U CPU working at 1.60GHz with 8Gb
  of RAM on a Linux operating system.}.  These calculations strongly
indicate the average complexity of the enumeration algorithm with
memoization is much better than the worst-case complexity.

We tabulated the results for $2\leq n\leq 15$ in Table~\ref{table:1}.
A smaller version of the tables can be found
at~\cite[pg. 279]{Comtet:AdvancedCombinatorics}, and as the sequence
A295193 at OEIS~\cite{OEIS}.  The individual sequences for
$m=1,\ldots,6$ in Table~\ref{table:1} are respectively the sequences
A001147, A001205, A002829, A005815, A338978 and A339847 at OEIS.

\begin{table}[t]
  \footnotesize
  \begin{tabular}{|r|l|l|l|l|l|}\hline
    $n$ & $m=1$ & $m=2$ & $m=3$ & $m=4$ & $m=5$\\\hline\hline
      2 & 1       &0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ \hline
      3 & 0       &1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ \hline
      4 & 3       &3 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ \hline
      5 & 0       &12 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ \hline
      6 & 15      &70 & 70 & 15 & 1 \\ \hline
      7 & 0       &465 & 0 & 465 & 0 \\ \hline
      8 & 105     &3507 & 19355 & 19355 & 3507 \\ \hline
      9 & 0       &30016 & 0 & 1024380 & 0 \\ \hline
     10 & 945     &286884 & 11180820 & 66462606 & 66462606 \\ \hline
     11 & 0       &3026655 & 0 & 5188453830 & 0 \\ \hline
     12 & 10395   &34944085 & 11555272575 & 480413921130 & 2977635137862 \\ \hline
     13 & 0       &438263364 & 0 & 52113376310985 & 0 \\ \hline
     14 & 135135  &5933502822 & 19506631814670 & 6551246596501035 & 283097260184159421 \\ \hline
     15 & 0       &86248951243 & 0 & 945313907253606891 & 0 \\ \hline

  \end{tabular}

  \begin{tabular}{|r|l|l|l|l|}\hline
    $n$ & $m=6$ & $m=7$ & $m=8$ \\\hline\hline
    2 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ \hline
    3 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ \hline
    4 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ \hline
    5 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ \hline
    6 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ \hline
    7 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ \hline
    8 & 105 & 1 & 0 \\ \hline
    9 & 30016 & 0 & 1 \\ \hline
    10 & 11180820 & 286884 & 945 \\ \hline
    11 & 5188453830 & 0 & 3026655 \\ \hline
    12 & 2977635137862 & 480413921130 & 11555272575 \\ \hline
    13 & 2099132870973600 & 0 & 52113376310985 \\ \hline
    14 & 1803595358964773088 & 1803595358964773088 & 283097260184159421 \\ \hline
    15 & 1872726690127181663775 & 0 & 1872726690127181663775 \\ \hline

  \end{tabular}
  \normalsize
  \vspace{2mm}
  \caption{The number of labeled $m$-regular graphs on $n$-vertices
    for $m=1,\ldots,8$.}\label{table:1}
\end{table}

\subsection{Enumerating graphs that realize the same degree sequences as
  binary trees}

Any binary tree with $k+1$-leaves will have $k-1$ internal vertices of
degree 3.  Thus any such tree has the degree sequence
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:5}
  (\underbrace{3,\ldots,3}_{\text{$k-1$-times}},\underbrace{1,\ldots,1}_{\text{$k+1$-times}}).
\end{equation}
Now, let
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:6}
  T(k) = \binom{2k}{k-1} C((\underbrace{3,\ldots,3}_{\text{$k-1$-times}},\underbrace{1,\ldots,1}_{\text{$k+1$-times}})).
\end{equation}
be the number of labeled graphs that has the same degree sequence
given in~\eqref{eq:5}.  Notice that we put a correction factor
$\binom{2k}{k-1}$ since in the original enumeration $C(d)$ vertices
are not allowed to change degree.  In the case of regular graphs, one
does not need a correction factor since every vertex has the same
degree.

Using our implementation of the enumeration algorithm we calculated
these numbers on the same setup we described above.  The results are
calculated almost immediately and they are given in
Table~\ref{table:3}.

\begin{table}[h]
  \footnotesize
  \begin{tabular}{{|r|l|}}\hline
    $k$ & $R(k)$ \\\hline\hline
1 & 1 \\\hline
2 & 4 \\\hline
3 & 90 \\\hline
4 & 8400 \\\hline
5 & 1426950 \\\hline
6 & 366153480 \\\hline
7 & 134292027870 \\\hline
8 & 67095690261600 \\\hline
9 & 43893900947947050 \\\hline
10 & 36441011093916429000 \\\hline
11 & 37446160423265535041100 \\\hline
12 & 46669357647008722700474400 \\\hline
13 & 69367722399061403579194432500 \\\hline
14 & 121238024532751529573125745790000 \\\hline
15 & 246171692450596203263023527657431250 \\\hline
  \end{tabular}
  \normalsize
  \vspace{2mm}
  \caption{The number of labeled graphs that realize the same degree
    sequence as any binary tree on $2k$ vertices.}\label{table:3}
\end{table}

In~\cite[pg.6]{Moon70} the number of labeled trees on $n$ vertices
that realize a fixed degree sequence $(d_1,\ldots,d_n)$ is calculated
as
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:11}
  \binom{n-2}{d_1-1,\ldots,d_n-1}
\end{equation}
which is different than our calculations for the case
$(d_1,\ldots,d_n)$ given as~\eqref{eq:5}.  But note that Moon's
formula enumerates only trees that realize a particular degree
sequence while we count all graphs.

\subsection{Enumerating graphs that realize the same degree sequences as
  complete bipartite graphs}

We fix two positive integers $n\leq m$.  A complete bipartite graph
$K_{n,m}$ contains $n+m$ vertices which is split into two disjoint
sets, say black and white.  Black vertices are connected to every
white vertex and vice versa, but vertices of the same color are not
connected.  Any such graph would have the degree sequence
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:7}
  (\underbrace{m,\ldots,m}_{\text{$n$-times}},\underbrace{n,\ldots,n}_{\text{$m$-times}})
\end{equation}
Let us write
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:8}
  K(n,m) =
  \begin{cases}
    \binom{n+m}{n} C((\underbrace{m,\ldots,m}_{\text{$n$-times}},\underbrace{n,\ldots,n}_{\text{$m$-times}})) & \text{ if } n\neq m\\
    C((\underbrace{n,\ldots,n}_{\text{$2n$-times}})) & \text{ if } n=m
  \end{cases}
\end{equation}
for the number of labeled graphs that realize the degree sequence
given in~\eqref{eq:7} for every $m\geq 2$ and $1\leq n\leq m$.  We
tabulated the results for $2\leq m\leq 10$ and $2\leq n\leq 6$ in
Table~\ref{table:4}.  The first column of Table~\ref{table:4} is
A002061 at OEIS.

\begin{table}
  \centering
  \footnotesize
  \begin{tabular}{{|r|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|}}\hline
    $m$ & $n=2$ & $n=3$ & $n=4$ & $n=5$ & $n=6$ \\\hline
    2 & 3 & & & & \\ \hline
    3 & 7 & 70 & & & \\ \hline
    4 & 13 & 553 & 19355 & & \\ \hline
    5 & 21 & 3211 & 527481 & 66462606 & \\ \hline
    6 & 31 & 13621 & 10649191 & 6445097701 & 2977635137862 \\ \hline
    7 & 43 & 44962 & 153984573 & 466128461506 & 1051046246482968 \\ \hline
    8 & 57 & 123145 & 1601363093 & 24363074013321 & 277358348828368109 \\ \hline
    9 & 73 & 293293 & 12389057785 & 905113150135831 & 53355534127828683775 \\ \hline
    10 & 91 & 627571 & 74598011761 & 23985623638038361 & 7334781492338569314961 \\ \hline
  \end{tabular}
  \normalsize
  \vspace{2mm}
  \caption{The number of labeled graphs that realize the same degree
    sequence as the complete bipartite graph
    $K_{n,m}$.}\label{table:4}
\end{table}

\section*{Appendix: The Code}

Since or implementation is simple and short, we opted to list the code
we used to make our calculations here in an Appendix in
Figure~\ref{fig:1}.  This way, our results can be reproduced and
verified.

We implemented our enumeration using Common Lisp~\cite{Steel:CLTL} and
a suitable memoization to control the depth of the recursive
calls. However, due to efficiency issues of the data structures we
use, our degree sequences are non-decreasing instead of being
non-increasing.  We used SBCL version 2.0.11 to run the lisp
code~\cite{SBCL}.

Our enumeration calculation requires us to calculate a finite number
of shorter degree sequences in each call. When we employ memoization,
we use a global table of already calculated results. If an enumeration
on a shorter degree sequence is needed, and if the result is already
calculated for another branch of the recursive call we recall the
result instead of calculating it from scratch.

\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{lstlisting}
(defun subsets (k xs)
   (cond ((null xs) 'nil)
         ((= 1 k) (loop for x in xs collect (list x)))
         (t (union (subsets k (cdr xs))
                   (mapcar (lambda (x) (cons (car xs) x))
                           (subsets (1- k) (cdr xs)))))))
\end{lstlisting}
\begin{lstlisting}
(defun new-degree-sequence (ds is)
  (let ((ys (copy-list (cdr ds))))
    (dolist (i is) (decf (nth i ys)))
    (delete 0 (sort ys #'<))))
\end{lstlisting}
\begin{lstlisting}
(let ((table (make-hash-table :test #'equal)))
  (defun graph-count (ds)
    (cond
       ((null ds) 1)
       ((oddp (reduce #'+ ds)) 0)
       (t (or (gethash ds table)
              (setf (gethash ds table)
                    (let* ((index-set (loop for i from 0 below (1- (length ds))
                                           collect i))
                           (all-subsets (subsets (car ds) index-set)))
                       (loop for xs in all-subsets sum
                            (graph-count (new-degree-sequence ds xs))))))))))
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  \caption{Common Lisp implementation of the enumeration algorithm
    given in Theorem~\ref{thm:main}.}\label{fig:1}
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MEGAHERZ is one of the founders of Neue Deutche Harte. For over 20 years the band rocking the stages of the world and it has lost none of its impact. Best proof of this is the success of the last two albums "Götterdämmerung" and "Zombieland", both entered the Top 20 of the German album charts Megaherz (English "Mega-heart", a pun on the homophone "megahertz") is an industrial metal group formed in Munich, Germany in 1993. One of the band's most famous songs is "Gott sein" ("To be God") on their first full album Wer Bist Du? ("Who Are You?"). Megaherz has gone through many changes in musical style since their founding. Their early works are a fairly dark alternative metal, comparable to 1990s American bands such as Faith No More, whereas recent works are comparable to bands such as Oomph! and Rammstein. Their early albums all include at least one song based on a classic German fairy tale, including "Rapunzel" on Kopfschuss, "Windkind" ("Wind child") on Himmelfahrt and "I.M Rumpelstilzchen" on Herzwerk II. The band has changed line-ups since its formation in 1995, usually changing guitarists and drummers. Guitarist Christian Bystron and bassist Wenz Weninger have been the band's only consistent members since 1997.


When was the last time you sought out an Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS) store?
If the report is true, it would come as no surprise. In the past year, City Sports and Sports Authority both filed for bankruptcy; the former closed all its stores, the latter closed 140. Of course, EMS is a little different from Sports Authority or City Sports; it is more broadly oriented towards the outdoors and not strictly sports. But all of these chains carry apparel and equipment from many different brands, so they all face a similar fate. And single-brand stores aren't safe, either: Quiksilver filed for bankruptcy this past fall.
Brick-and-mortar sporting goods retailers are in a death march, but not all of them, and not only for the reason you'd think. Here are three reasons big-box sports retail chains are flailing.
This is the reason you'd think of first, and it isn't a new challenge, but it's still hurting existing giants. Chains like EMS failed to adequately adapt early enough to the web by prioritizing their online stores, and if any of these chains has any chance of surviving after the culling that is about to come, they need to wake up. "They've got to migrate their audience, their loyal customers, online, and build that e-commerce capability up," financial strategist Mark Martiak of Premier Wealth First Allied Securities said in an interview on Yahoo Finance Midday Movers (see video above). For a long time in the footwear industry, for example, the narrative was that Zappos was the big scary disruptor, offering such good service and shipping policies that people were buying online instead of from a shoe store. But now the premier sports brands themselves have also optimized their online experience, and are also cutting into shoe sales from chains. Nike and Adidas both have flashy options for customizing your own sneakers online. They saw the brick-and-mortar decline coming, and adapted. Big box chains didn't. If you ask Patrick Connolly, an analyst at ABI Research, the battle is already over, and brick-and-mortar lost. Now, for some stores to survive, Connolly said in a note last month, "All retailers must become omnichannel and harness the power of the smartphone by developing next-generation, personalized experiences."
When City Sports, a chain much loved on the East Coast, announced last fall that it would close all 26 of its locations, its CEO specifically blamed the chain's move into the suburbs. He cited stores in Manhasset, N.Y., and Rockville, M.D., as examples, and in hindsight, it's easy to see why those were foolish investments. At a time when even stores in urban areas are seeing declining foot traffic, stores in suburban areas may be doomed. City Sports' suburban stores "really fell short of their anticipated volume," CEO Marty Hanaka told The Boston Globe. In the '90s, as chains were growing, many of them opened too many new stores, and got bloated; now they're slimming back down, but for many, it's too late to stay alive.
Not all brick-and-mortar sports stores are dying. Nike (NKE), Adidas (ADDYY), and Under Armour (UA) have had some success with their official brand stores, suggesting that even amid a migration of shoppers to the web, there's increasing faith in a few elite sports brands. Those three have smart, advanced online shopping hubs, but they've also rolled out small ways to keep incentivizing customers to go into a brand store. For example, Nike's flashy new Nike+ app, launching in June, gives customers their own designated QR code that lets them cut the line in-store and check out more quickly. These brand stores also have the advantage of focus. If you walk into a Nike store, you know what will be inside: Nike gear. EMS and, to name one of its peers, REI, are like broad buckets that carry a wide range of different products, from kayaks to hiking boots to fishing rods. In brick-and-mortar retail's future, it may turn out that broad is bad, and only official brand stores and smaller, niche chains can thrive.
Bankruptcy doesn't have to mean the end for EMS; it's one strategy. City Sports closed all its stores, but Sports Authority closed 140, and just this week settled a dispute with angry vendors over $85 million worth of winter merchandise. The settlement puts a stop to 160 different lawsuits.
The pressure turns now to Versa Capital, the private equity firm, which has a reputation for success with turning around ailing businesses. It acquired EMS, Bob's Stores and Sport Chalet, in separate deals, all within the last five years. It clearly wasn't able to stop the bleeding. Now, in the short run, it will likely close a ton of stores (EMS has 61) and initiate layoffs. In the longer term, if it wants to keep any of these chains in business, it will need to invest in digital marketing and e-commerce. It will need to get hip to today's sports merchandise buyer-- fast.


Australia's Fortescue Metals Group Ltd said on Thursday it was too early to determine the full effect of a Brazilian mine disaster on iron ore supply, as its shares rose to a 16-month high.
"We are not 100 percent clear yet on the net impact on supply of iron ore, but certainly there will be some impact," Chief Executive Elizabeth Gaines said, adding that the miner had offered its condolences.
Shares in iron ore miners have surged after Brazil's Vale SA said it would take up to 10 percent of its output offline in the wake of a catastropic tailings dam collapse that killed at least 85 people.
Fortescue, the world's fourth largest iron ore miner, on Thursday reported a 5 percent rise in its second-quarter iron ore shipments and said it was experiencing strong demand for its new mid-grade ore product.
"We do believe that Fortescue to be a key beneficiary of elevated iron ore pricing resulting from the Feijão dam disaster," Clarksons Platou analyst Jeremy Sussman in a report.
Fortescue, formerly a supplier of less popular low-grade ore, has started shipping a mid-grade product to improve its margins, just as lower steel prices have turned some Chinese steel makers away from the most expensive highest grade products.
"We have got now a 60.1 percent product and we are seeing very strong demand," Gaines told Reuters.
Fortescue received 67 percent of the benchmark Platts 62 CFR index for a second consecutive quarter in December, when it began shipments of its West Pilbara Fines product to customers in China in a bid to improve its margins.
The miner said it expected to deliver 8-10 mt of the new product in fiscal 2019, and once its Eliwana mine and rail project is completed by December 2020, it expected to supply about 40 million tonnes of the product a year.
Overall, the world's fourth-largest iron ore producer said it shipped 42.5 million tonnes (MT) in the three months ended Dec. 31, up from 40.5 mt a year ago. That was inline with an average consensus of three analysts (Macquarie, RBC, and Clarksons) at 43 million tonnes.
The miner maintained its fiscal 2019 shipment guidance at 165 million to 173 million tonnes, although Gaines said the miner remained "agile" around responding to market conditions.
It incurred slightly higher costs in mining ore during the quarter, as compared to the same period last year.
Fortescue shares closed up 4.2 percent at A$5.65 and have risen about 18 percent so far this week.