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Sisiku Julius Ayuk Tabe is an Ambazonian separatist leader from Ewelle village in Manyu division, and is the disputed first president of the unrecognized Federal Republic of Ambazonia. In January 2018 he was extradited from Nigeria to Cameroon, where he has been incarcerated ever since.

Life before the Anglophone Crisis
Ayuk Tabe was born in 1965 in Kembong, Manyu Division, Southwest Region. For a while, he worked for an electric company named SONEL in the Adamawa Region of Cameroon, and as Academy Manager for Cisco Systems. Eventually he started working for the American University of Nigeria, where he became Assistant Vice President in the field of Digital Services, Marketing and Recruitment. Ayuk Tabe also worked as a motivational speaker at several conferences worldwide. His involvement in charity includes the establishment of the Ayuk Tabe Foundation in the town of Eyumodjock, where he and his wife Lilian lived, and his involvement with the Adamawa Peacemakers Initiative. Ayuk Tabe and his wife owned a farm in Eyumodjock that employed 28 people, but they were forced to shut down in September 2017 after Cameroonian soldiers drove away the workers.

Presidency
His presidency started with Ambazonia's unilateral declaration of independence on October 1, 2017, with Southern Cameroons Ambazonia Consortium United Front (SCACUF) forming the Interim Government of Ambazonia, and Tabe - chairperson of SCACUF - as president by acclamation. By the time of this declaration, a separatist war between Ambazonian militias and Cameroonian security forces had been raging for three weeks. At first, Tabe and the Interim Government rejected the idea of an armed struggle, preferring instead to focus on civil disobedience and a diplomatic campaign to gain international recognition.  President Ayuk Tabe's stand was at odds with the declaration of war by President Paul Biya of Cameroon in November 2017 and the deployment of troops in the Anglophone regions.

President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and other Ambazonian leaders were arrested in Nigeria and extradited to Cameroon in January 2018. Samuel Ikome Sako won a subsequent election to serve as acting interim president a month later.

Detention, trial and life sentence
Following the arrest, Ayuk Tabe and the other separatist leaders spent 10 months at a gendarmerie headquarter, before being transferred to a maximum security prison in Yaoundé. Their case started on December 6, 2018 at the Yaoundé military tribunal. When his name and nationality was read out, he rejected his Cameroonian nationality, and other separatist leaders followed suit. The rejection of Cameroonian nationality led the case to be postponed.

In January 2019, Tabe's lawyer said that his client was ready to negotiate directly with Cameroonian president Paul Biya, on the condition that the negotiations would take place outside Cameroon. Three preconditions were made: A ceasefire, the release of everyone who had been arrested, and a general amnesty. These conditions were repeated in May.

In March 2019, a Nigerian court found his arrest and deportation illegal, and ordered that him and 68 others be returned to Nigeria and compensated. Following this ruling, Tabe and fellow Ambazonian leaders issued a joint statement titled the "Ambazonia Freedom Protocol", in which they made nine commitments, including equality between tribes, equality for women, equal share of the riches of the land, respecting human rights, standing in solidarity with other peoples in a similar situation, and fighting for however long it takes to achieve independence. On April 27,  Tabe and the other nine accused Ambazonian leaders announced that they would start boycotting court sessions, insisting to wait until the Appeal Court of the Centre Region decided on whether or not they should be returned to Nigeria.

On May 2, a controversial document signed by Ayuk Tabe declared that the Sako-led interim cabinet had been dissolved, and that his own pre-arrest cabinet had been restored. The document expressed appreciation of the job the Sako-led cabinet had done since February 2018, but stressed that infighting had rendered it unfit to continue; the caretaker cabinet has lost the ability to reconcile our people and, in doing so, has imperiled  the identity  and mission of the interim government to complete the decolonization of Southern Cameroons through advancing  our collective  national interests. However, the Sako-led cabinet refused to abide by the declaration, resulting in what became known as the Ambazonian leadership crisis. In June, the Ambazonia Restoration Council (a separatist movement dating back to the 1980s) impeached Ayuk Tabe for "treasonous misconduct", and declared that he no longer had a mandate to speak on behalf of the Interim Government. The Ambazonia Governing Council, traditionally a rival of the Interim Government, condemned the impeachment and threw its support behind Ayuk Tabe.

At some point after his arrest, Tabe reached out to former SDF parliamentarian Wirba Joseph, asking him to assume leadership of the revolution. Wirba declined the request.

On July 30, 2019, Ayuk Tabe and the nine other detained members of the Interim Government declared that they would go on a hunger strike over the disappearance of convicts at Kondenguin Central Prison and the Buea Central Prison. The hunger strike would last until their lawyers could verify the whereabouts of each disappeared convict. The strike started at midnight the same day.

On August 20, Ayuk Tabe and the other nine leaders were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Yaoundé Military Tribunal. Having expected this outcome, the separatists were singing in court while the sentence was pronounced. A week later, a letter signed by Ayuk Tabe stated that the life sentences was not a setback for the separatist cause, but rather a "validation of (their) self-determination and claim to a sovereign and free Southern Cameroons". In September 2020, the Court of Appeals upheld the sentence.

Ayuk Tabe dismissed the Major National Dialogue outright, stating that "[President] Paul Biya does not have the power to determine the fate of Ambazonia". He did, however, welcome the release of Maurice Kamto.

In November 2019, pro-separatist sources reported that Sako and his supporters had changed Sako's title from Acting Interim President to President, aiming to permanently replace Ayuk Tabe even if the latter would ever be released.

In January 2020, newly-arrived prisoners broke into the cells of Ayuk Tabe and the nine other Ambazonian leaders, stealing food and money. Ayuk Tabe and the others accused the prison administration of complicity through inaction, and claimed there was a conspiracy to threaten their lives.

In July 2020, Cameroonian officials met with Ayuk Tabe to discuss a ceasefire. Ayuk Tabe listed three conditions; a general amnesty, that the military pull out of the Anglophone regions, and that President Paul Biya himself announce the ceasefire. Ayuk Tabe also demanded that if prisoners were released in phases, he would be among the last to be released.

Private life
Sisiku Julius is married to Lilian Ayuk Tabe, and together they have four children.

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AWSS3LambdaFunctionConfiguration Class Reference

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AWSS3Model.m

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Container for specifying the AWS Lambda notification configuration.
Required parameters: [LambdaFunctionArn, Events]

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@property (nonatomic, strong) NSArray<NSString*> *events

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Container for object key name filtering rules. For information about key name filtering, go to Configuring Event Notifications in the Amazon Simple Storage Service Developer Guide.

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Optional unique identifier for configurations in a notification configuration. If you don’t provide one, Amazon S3 will assign an ID.

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Lambda cloud function ARN that Amazon S3 can invoke when it detects events of the specified type.

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This is how many people have had their say on vital Local Plan draft
Councillor Daniel Sutherland
The deadline is looming for residents to have their say of Calderdale Council's draft local Plan and the authority has revealed how many people have had their say.
More than 140 responses to Calderdale's draft Local Plan have now been registered with the Council as the representation period enters its final days.
The ambitious draft Local Plan identifies development areas for economic growth, and sites for around 9,500 new homes, over the next 15 years.
READ: Calderdale's Tories vow fight against Local Plan will go on
Calderdale Council's Cabinet Member for Planning, Housing and Environment, Councillor Daniel Sutherland said: "The representation period is a technical and legal consultation, so it's different to the previous public consultations on the draft Local Plan because people are only able to comment on three very specific aspects.
"They need to tell us if they think the draft Local Plan is compliant with current legislation; if the plans are 'sound' and if they comply with the Duty to Co-operate.
"To help people make a representation we've created a short film which provides full instructions and guidance. You can find this on the Local Plan page of our website."
READ: 'People need homes', Calderdale Local Plan counter-demonstrators argue
The final draft of the Local Plan was published on the Council's website on August 10 2018, marking the start of a six week period during which members of the public, businesses and other organisations may make formal representations on the proposals.
The representation period will close at 5pm on September 24 2018.
Once the representation period closes, the Council will not be able to amend the draft Local Plan after reviewing the representations made, but they will be included with the draft Local Plan when it is submitted to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government for Examination by an independent Planning Inspector.
READ: Tories urge public to have their say on final draft of Calderdale Council's Local Plan
The draft Local Plan has already been through two full public consultations, in 2015/16 and again in 2017, which has influenced the proposals as they have developed.
The most recent consultation resulted in over 8,000 individual comments from local people across the borough. These have all been carefully analysed and considered by the Council before the final draft of the Local Plan was prepared.
The Council is following a timetable for publication which was agreed with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, which will see the draft Local Plan, including the representations from the public, submitted in December 2018.
Calderdale's Local Plan will then be examined in detail by an independent Planning Inspector appointed by the Secretary of State. The examination could last around nine months.
Adoption of the plan by Calderdale Council, following receipt of the Inspector's Report, is expected to be confirmed by the end of 2019.

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Q: Set visited link color to whatever the color of un-visited link is (P.S. not the usual question) I need to set the a:visited CSS to whatever color the normal a is set to.
What I want to be able to tell the browser is, for the visited links, use the same color as the unvisited links, whatever color it is.
I need to do this without specifying a particular color.
Like, if some weird browser comes along that uses "green" as the color for normal unvisited links, this CSS should instruct the browser to use that same green for visited links. Exactly what color is used by the browser should be transparent to my code.. hence the phrase "whatever color".
P.S. I know how to set a:visited and a to a particular color. That is not what I am asking.
P.P.S. I am willing to use JavaScript if I have to. But I am really hellbent on making the browser do this.
Why would I want to do something like that you ask?
The blue color that IE8 uses for links is kind of cool. It is not #0000FF. It is a nice shade of blue. So I want to set it for both visited and unvisited links. But I shouldnt take a screenshot or use some add-on to pick the exact hex value each time. If IE later changes the color to some other awesome shade, this code should just work. I don't want to again find the hex and change it all over my code.
This is just one reason. Don't give me the hex for that blue. Finding that out is easy but that wouldn't be the answer!

A: a:link{color:inherit}
a:active{color:inherit}
a:visited{color:inherit}
a:hover{color:inherit}

Hell yes.
I needed this because some text links (as opposed to image links) were a major part of my project's main menu, so I want them MY colours, not browser colours!
Each link was enclosed in a p tag group whose class had a particular colour (MY colour) set in CSS.

A: Danny Robers script works for me in Firefox and Chrome (not sure about IE).
FWIW, the special value HyperlinkText would have been the "standard" way to do what you want, but it was dropped from CSS3 sometime in spring 2003.
It looks like Firefox is the only browser that started implementing it, because the following works for Firefox:
a:visited { color: -moz-hyperlinktext; }

A: I don't think there's a pure CSS solution. Usually you would pick a color, and set both a:link and a:visited that same color.
I tried {color: inherit} but that was useless.
This jQuery solution works great though.
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A: There is no way to do this using CSS. The browser indicates that a link has been visited based upon a database entry only it knows about, and then uses default colours specified in the specific browsers configuration.
CSS physically just cannot obtain the colour of something on the page. That is just the way it is. The only way is to use javascript like Danny Roberts' answer.

The reason I think that his answer is not working correctly is that $('a:visited') just selects all the visited links at that point in time and then the colour is changed for them.
What you need to do is watch for click events and re run the code each time:
var normalColor = $('a:link').css('color');
$('a').click(function() {
    $('a:visited').css('color', normalColor);
});

A: I don't think there is a pure CSS way of achieving this. I think you would need to use JavaScript to get the color of the a and then set a:visited to that color and this probably wouldn't work in all browsers unless there was an a{color:#dea} specified.

A: Nevermind this. See my other answer for something more specifically relevant to the asker's question.
I do this:
a, a:visited { color:#4CA1F6; }
a:hover      { color:#4CB6E1; } a:active  { color:#0055AA; }

Now that this thread has me thinking though, and I've made the following improvements to my method:
a:link, a:visited { color:#4CA1F6; }
a:hover, a:focus  { color:#4CB6E1; }
a:active          { color:#0055AA; }

A: Presto:
$(function(){
  var sheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
  sheet.insertRule(
    'a:visited { color:'+$('a:link').css('color')+'; }',
    sheet.length
   );
});

I've tested and can confirm this works in Chrome. Keep in mind however, which sheet you're adding the rules to -- make sure its media attribute applies to the media that you care about. Additionally, if you have any rules that override the a coloring, this likely won't work properly -- so make sure your stylesheets are clear of that.
I'm not so sure this is a very wise practice anyways. Personally, I always explicitly define my link colors for every site.
PS:
Apparently IE (don't know which versions) insists on their own syntax:
sheet.addRule('a:visited', $('a:link').css('color'), -1);

A: I required a solution to do as the title of this question suggests "Set visited link color to whatever the color of un-visited link is".  For me I needed a way to perform an image comparison of browser page content screen grabs that I use for regression testing (pdiff - perceptual diff).  Here is the code that worked for me.
(function(){
  var links = document.querySelectorAll('a');
  for (var i=0; i<links.length; i++) {
    var link = links[i];
    if (link.href) { //must be visitable
      var rules = window.getMatchedCSSRules(link) || [];
      var color = '#0000EE' //most browsers default a:link color;
      for (var j=0; j<rules.length; j++) {
        var rule = rules[j];
        var selector = rule.selectorText;
        color = rule.style['color'] || color;
      }
      link.setAttribute('style','color:' + color + ' !important');
      //this was enough for me but you could add a 'a:visited' style rule to the rule set
    }
  }
})();

A: a.one:link {
    color:#996600;
    background-color:transparent;
    text-decoration:underline;
}

a.one:hover {
    color: red;
    background-color: transparent;
    text-decoration: underline;
}

a.one:visited {
    color: #996600;
    background-color: transparent;
    text-decoration: underline
}

a.one:hover {
    color: red;
    background-color: transparent;
    text-decoration: underline;
}

A:  a:link, a:visited {color: inherit;}
 a:hover, a:focus {color:inherit;}

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Endoscopic strip craniectomy with molding helmet therapy versus spring-assisted cranioplasty for nonsyndromic single-suture sagittal craniosynostosis: a systematic review
Alexandra Valetopoulou, Maria Constantinides, Simon Eccles, Juling Ong, Richard Hayward, David Dunaway, Noor ul Owase Jeelani, Greg James, and Adikarige Haritha Dulanka Silva
Endoscopic strip craniectomy with postoperative molding helmet therapy (ESC-H) and spring-assisted cranioplasty (SAC) are commonly used minimally invasive techniques for correction of nonsyndromic sagittal craniosynostosis, but it is unclear which, if either, is superior. Therefore, the authors undertook a systematic review to compare ESC-H with SAC for the surgical management of nonsyndromic single-suture sagittal craniosynostosis.
Studies were identified through a systematic and comprehensive search of four databases (Embase, MEDLINE, and two databases in the Cochrane Library). Databases were searched from inception until February 19, 2021. Pediatric patients undergoing either ESC-H or SAC for the management of nonsyndromic single-suture sagittal craniosynostosis were included. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses, single-patient case reports, mixed cohorts of nonsyndromic and syndromic patients, mixed cohorts of different craniosynostosis types, and studies in which no outcomes of interest were reported were excluded. Outcomes of interest included reoperations, blood transfusion, complications, postoperative intensive care unit (ICU) admission, operative time, estimated blood loss, length of hospital stay, and cephalic index. Pooled summary cohort characteristics were calculated for each outcome of interest. Methodological quality was assessed using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. The study was reported in accordance with the 2020 PRISMA statement.
Twenty-two studies were eligible for inclusion in the review, including 1094 patients, of whom 605 (55.3%) underwent ESC-H and 489 (44.7%) underwent SAC for nonsyndromic sagittal craniosynostosis. There was no difference between the pooled estimates of the ESC-H and SAC groups for operative time, length of stay, estimated blood loss, and cephalic index. There was no difference between the groups for reoperation rate and complication rate. However, ESC-H was associated with a higher blood transfusion rate and higher postoperative ICU admission.
The available literature does not demonstrate superiority of either ESC-H or SAC, and outcomes are broadly similar for the treatment of nonsyndromic sagittal craniosynostosis. However, the evidence is limited by single-center retrospective studies with low methodological quality. There is a need for international multicenter randomized controlled trials comparing both techniques to gain definitive and generalizable data.
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We have the current requirement of using existing handling units (unassigned) created using HU02 in LH01 tcode.
The business scenario is - handling units to be generated at packing sloc for generating labels to stick to cartons. then transfer stock from packing sloc (non WM) to finished goods sloc (WM) using 311. The TO gets confirmed in high rack storage type without SU management. then stock transfer from high rack to fixed storage type (SU managed). Create sales order and then outbound delivery and then create TO. Use LH01 to assign HU already created in HU02 in LH01 for the TO created after delivery. When I am using pick HU function in LH01, system is creating new HU but if I am assigning existing HU in LH01, system is giving error - pick HU assignment only allowed with empty HU.
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Q: sending a file using ajax and receiving using java Basically I have a form which inside it I have File input, now I want to know how to send the choosen file to server using jquery ajax and how to receive the sent file in java EE

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A: what you are trying to achieve is not clear, but i am assuming that you want to select the file and then send it servlet for further processing.
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Q: Approximation error of confidence interval for the mean when $n \geq 30$ Let $\{X_i\}_{i=1}^n$ be a family of i.i.d. random variables taking values in $[0,1]$, having a mean $\mu$ and variance $\sigma^2$. A simple confidence interval for the mean, using $\sigma$ whenever it is known, is given by
$$
P( | \bar X - \mu| > \varepsilon) \le \frac{\sigma^2}{n\varepsilon^2} \le\frac{1}{n \varepsilon^2} \qquad (1).
$$
Also, because $\frac{\bar X- \mu}{\sigma/\sqrt{n}}$ is asymptotically distributed as a standard normal random variable, the normal distribution is sometimes used to "construct" an approximate confidence interval.

In multiple-choice answer statistics exams, I've had to use this approximation instead of $(1)$ whenever $n \geq 30$. I've always felt very uncomfortable with this (more than you can imagine), as the approximation error is not quantified.

*

*Why use the normal approximation rather than $(1)$?

*I don't want, ever again, to blindly apply the rule $n \geq 30$. Are there good references that can support me in a refusal to do so and provide appropriate alternatives? ($(1)$ is an example of what I consider an appropriate alternative.)
Here, while $\sigma$ and $E[ |X|^3]$ are unknown, they are easily bounded.
Please note that my question is a reference request particularly about confidence intervals and therefore is distinct from the  differs from the questions that were suggested as partial duplicates here and here. It is not answered there.

A: The issue with using the Chebyshev inequality to obtain an interval for the true value, is that it only gives you a lower bound for the probability, which moreover is sometimes trivial, or, in order not to be trivial, it may give a very wide confidence interval. We have
$$P( | \bar X - \mu| > \varepsilon) = 1 - P(\bar X-\varepsilon \leq \mu \leq \bar X+\varepsilon)$$
$$\implies P(\bar X-\varepsilon \leq \mu \leq \bar X+\varepsilon) \geq 1- \frac{1}{n \varepsilon^2}$$
We see that, depending also on sample size, if we decrease $\varepsilon$ "too much" we will get the trivial answer "the probability is greater than zero".
Apart from that, what we get from this approach is a conclusion of the form ""the probability of $\mu$ falling in $[\bar X \pm \varepsilon]$ is equal or greater than..."
But let's assume that we're good with this, and denote $p_{min}$ the minimum probability with which we are comfortable. So we want
$$ 1- \frac{1}{n \varepsilon^2} = p_{min} \implies \varepsilon = \sqrt {\frac {1}{(1-p_{min})n}}$$
With small sample sizes and high desired minimum probability, this may give an unsatisfactorily wide confidence interval. E.g. for $p_{min} =0.9$ and $n=100$ we will get $\varepsilon \approx .316$, which, for example for the variable treated by the OP that is bounded in $[0,1]$ appears to be too big to be useful.
But the approach is valid, and distribution-free, and so there may be instances where it can be useful.
One may want to check also the Vysochanskij–Petunin inequality  mentioned in another answer, which holds for continuous unimodal distributions and refines Chebyshev's inequality.

A: The short answer is that it can go pretty badly, but only if one or both tails of the sampling distribution is really fat.
This R code generate a million sets of 30 gamma-distributed variables and take their mean; it can be used to get a sense of what the sampling distribution of the mean looks like.  If the normal approximation works as intended, the results should be approximately normal with mean 1 and variance 1/(30 * shape).
f = function(shape){replicate(1E6, mean(rgamma(30, shape, shape)))}

When shape is 1.0, the gamma distribution becomes an exponential distribution, which is pretty non-normal.  Nevertheless, the non-Gaussian parts mostly average out and so Gaussian approximation isn't so bad:

There's clearly some bias, and it would be good to avoid that when possible. But honestly, that level of bias probably won't be the biggest problem facing a typical study.
That said, things can get much worse.  With f(0.01), the histogram looks like this:

Log-transforming the 30 sampled data points before averaging helps a lot, though:

In general, distributions with long tails (on one or both sides of the distribution) will require the most samples before the Gaussian approximation starts to become reliable.  There are even pathological cases where there will literally never be enough data for the Gaussian approximation to work, but you'll probably have more serious problems in that case (because the sampling distribution doesn't have a well-defined mean or variance to begin with).

A: Problem with the Chebyshev confidence interval
As mentioned by Carlo, we have $\sigma^2 \le \frac{1}{4}$. This follows from $\text{Var}(X) \le \mu(1-\mu)$. Therefore a confidence interval for $\mu$ is given by
$$
P(|\bar{X}-\mu| \geq \varepsilon) \le \frac{1}{4n\varepsilon^2}.
$$
The problem is that the inequality is, in a certain sense, quite loose when $n$ gets large. An improvement is given by Hoeffding's bound and shown below. However, we can also demonstrate how bad it can get using the Berry-Esseen theorem, pointed out by Yves. Let $X_i$ have a variance $\tfrac{1}{4}$, the worst possible case. The theorem implies that
$
P(|\bar X - \mu| \geq \tfrac{\varepsilon}{2\sqrt{n}}) \le 2\, \text{SF}(\varepsilon) + \tfrac{8}{\sqrt{n}},
$
where $\text{SF}$ is the survival function of the standard normal distribution. In particular, with $\varepsilon = 16$, we get $\text{SF}(16) \approx e^{-58}$ (according to Scipy), so that essentially
$$
P(|\bar X - \mu| \geq \tfrac{8}{\sqrt{n}}) \le \tfrac{8}{\sqrt{n}} + 0, \qquad (*)
$$
whereas the Chebyshev inequality implies
$$
P(|\bar X - \mu| \geq \tfrac{8}{\sqrt{n}}) \le \tfrac{1}{256}.
$$
Note that I did not try to optimize the bound given in $(*)$, the result here is only of conceptual interest.

Comparing the lengths of the confidence intervals
Consider the $(1-\alpha)$-level confidence interval lengths $\ell_Z(\alpha, n)$ and $\ell_C(\alpha, n)$ obtained using the normal approximation ($\sigma = \tfrac{1}{2}$) and the Chebyshev inequality, repectively. It turns out that $\ell_C(\alpha, n)$ is a constant times bigger than $\ell_Z(\alpha, n)$, independently of $n$. Precisely, for all $n$,
$$
\ell_C(\alpha, n) = \kappa(\alpha) \ell_Z(\alpha, n), \quad \kappa(\alpha) = \left(\text{ISF}\left(\tfrac{\alpha}{2}\right) \sqrt{\alpha}\right)^{-1},
$$
where $\text{ISF}$ is the inverse survival function of the standard normal distribution. I plot below the multiplicative constant.
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In particular, the $95\%$ level confidence interval obtained using the Chebyshev inequality is about $2.3$ times bigger than the same level confidence interval obtained using the normal approximation.

Using Hoeffding's bound
Hoeffding's bound gives
$$
P(|\bar X - \mu| \geq \varepsilon) \leq 2e^{-2n \varepsilon^2}.
$$
Thus an $(1-\alpha)$-level confidence interval for $\mu$ is
$$
(\bar X - \varepsilon, \bar X + \varepsilon), \quad \varepsilon = \sqrt{\frac{-\ln \tfrac{\alpha}{2}}{2n}},
$$
of length $\ell_H (\alpha, n) = 2\varepsilon$. I plot below the lengths of the different confidence intervals (Chebyshev inequality: $\ell_C$; normal approximation ($\sigma = 1/2$): $\ell_Z$; Hoeffding's inequality: $\ell_H$) for $\alpha = 0.05$.
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A: Why use normal approximation?
It's as simple as saying that it's always better to use more information than less. The equation (1) uses Chebyshev's theorem. Note, how it doesn't use any information about your distribution's shape, i.e. it works for any distribution with a given variance. Hence, if you use some information about your distribution's shape you must get a better approximation. If you knew that your distribution is Gaussian, then by using this knowledge you get a better estimate.
Since, you're already applying the central limit theorem, why not use the Gaussian approximation of the bounds? They're going to be better, actually, tighter (or sharper) because these estimates are based on the knowledge of the shape which is an additional piece of information.
The rule of thumb 30 is a myth, which benefits from the confirmation bias. It just keeps being copied from one book to another. Once I found a reference suggesting this rule in a paper in 1950s. It wasn't any kind of solid proof, as I recall. It was some sort of empirical study. Basically, the only reason it's used is because it sort of works. You don't see it violated badly often.
UPDATE
Look up the paper by Zachary R. Smith and Craig S. Wells "Central Limit Theorem and Sample Size". They present an empirical study of the convergence to CLT for different kinds of distributions. The magic number 30 doesn't work in many cases, of course.

A: let's start with the number 30: it's, as anyone will say, a rule of thumb. but how can we find a number that fits better to our data? It's actually mostly a matter of skewness: even the strangest distribution will fast converge to normal if they are simmetric and continuous, skewed data will be much slower. I remember learning that a binomial distribution can be properly approximated to normal when its variance is greater than 9;  for this example it's to be considered that discrete distribution also have the problem that they need great numbers to simulate continuity, but think to this: a simmetric binomial distribution will reach that variance with n = 36, if p = 0.1 instead, n must go up to 100 (variabile trasformation, however, would help a lot)!
If you only want to use variance instead, dropping gaussian approximation, consider Vysochanskij–Petunin inequality over Chebichev's, it needs the assumption of unimodal distribution of the mean, but this is a very safe one with any sample size, I'd say, greater than 2.


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Les Miles was a carefree 13-year-old growing up in Ohio when his dad came home with frightening news.
Hope Miles worked his way from blue-collar jobs up into the leadership of a transportation company's operations team. He'd been passed up for a promotion to vice president and, shortly after, the company decided to let him go entirely. He delivered the news to his family in the kitchen, and Les Miles was scared. The questions swirled through his mind.
What's going to happen? Who's going to help us? Are we going to have to move?
Les Miles certainly didn't have the answers, and neither did his dad. But Hope Miles was calm. He laid his hand on his young son's shoulder, sighed and smiled.
"This is the best time," Hope Miles told Les. "This is when you have the most to gain. Life will always deliver you challenges. You have to be able to put your hands on them, make great decisions and change the course."
Hope Miles opened his son's eyes to two truths that haven't left him in the half century since that conversation: A man is more than a job, and when that job is in jeopardy, it's a lot rougher on families than the man inside fighting to stay employed.
That time and those lessons came to mind when Miles spent most of his final two-plus seasons at LSU coaching amid voices telling him he shouldn't be allowed to do it anymore. It's a reality every head coach encounters eventually.
It's an old adage of the profession: There are two types of coaches: Those who have been fired and those who will be.
In the center of that sentence, in coaching purgatory, lies the hot seat. It can make life hard, but the profession demands a coach prepare himself for it. This year, names like Kevin Sumlin at Texas A&M, Butch Jones at Tennessee and Mike Riley at Nebraska occupy that space.
Publicly, they have little choice but to put on a brave face, keep their head down and focus on their job. But they're still human beings. Going to work every day while much of the outside world argues you shouldn't be allowed to do so weighs heavily in a hurry.
"It's not easy," said former coach Dan McCarney, who resigned from Iowa State in 2006, was fired from North Texas in 2015 and won a national title as an assistant to Urban Meyer in between, "or anything I'd wish someone to go through."
Coaches can ignore the calls for their job, but they can't ignore the far-reaching ramifications losing it would have, like a stone thrown in a placid lake.
"I can't possibly turn my back on my team, my room, the people I care most about to squander moments on some jackass," Miles said.
They know they'll be taken care of via buyout checks, and their services will be sought after for a variety of new jobs if they want them. But there are not always buyouts for the assistant coaches they spend every day with, position coaches with young kids who might not have the same job prospects.
For most head coaches, that's the heaviest weight on their shoulders when pressure mounts.
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Losing games means subjecting those closest to a coach -- family -- to unavoidable criticism.
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Even when the criticism hasn't heated up, it's part of life for coaches families. Les Miles' daughter, Smacker Miles, had been in Baton Rouge only a couple seasons when a boy in her class tapped her on the shoulder and told her his dad could call plays better than hers. She didn't bother to argue the point.
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Miles dramatically survived being fired at the end of the 2015 season, but after losing to Wisconsin in the 2016 opener, he brought his family together to explain what might happen soon, just like his dad did to him decades earlier.
"There's going to be people that would like to judge your dad poorly," Miles told them, "but understand this: 'They're allowed to have their opinion. They just uniformly don't know. They've never been in the building. 'We're going to be the Miles family, stick together and lock elbows and we're going to be fine."
Miles was fired a few weeks later -- a year ago Monday -- after losing to Auburn.
While they wait to learn their fate, coaches like Miles, Tuberville and McCarney do the only thing they can do -- keep working -- and say the only things they can say: "We're working on it."
"You know when you get off the radio, they'll bad talk you or say, 'He's not going to make it,'" Tuberville said. "It's all entertainment. I was on [Paul Finebaum's show] many times. I knew what he'd say. You still have to go sell your program."
On the hot seat, recruiting gets more difficult but loses zero importance. Prospects hear what's being said about the man sitting in their living room, and if they don't pay enough attention, other coaches are more than willing to remind them. It's part of the game.
"That's your lifeblood," Tuberville said. "You can't let a bad year affect recruiting for the next year. You just say, 'This is what's happening. This is what we're trying. This is why you need you.'"
But coaches can't make them listen, and even a so-called "vote of confidence" from an athletic director only underscores the fact that one was needed.
There is more impatience than ever with coaches, and more willingness than ever to try a new route when the new coach doesn't win right away or hits a downturn in a successful tenure.
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"They're bean counters. They don't know and don't know how to build a program and what it takes," Tuberville said. "Most ADs aren't coaches. That's why I think two of the best hires in the last couple years were Steve Spurrier [at Florida] and [Phil] Fulmer [at Tennessee] to be consultants. Those coaches are struggling, and if [the ADs] don't lean on those guys, that's their fault."
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"Barry Alvarez, you think he uses a search firm?" Tuberville said.
Alvarez, the former head coach and current athletic director at Wisconsin, notably said in 2012 that the reverse is, in fact true. Most search firms use him.
"He knows who to hire, how to interview, the right questions to ask and what's going to make a coach successful there," Tuberville said. "Some ADs just want to win the press conference. They hire the flavor of the year. Fans say, 'Look, he hired that guy!' and then he has to fire him because it didn't work. There's a lot of money being spent and wasted on search firms and buyouts these days."
Coaches might not be affected by the hot seat chatter, but athletic directors deal with the outside noise in a more direct manner. They have to answer to boosters and fans, and almost all can do little to affect wins on the field after a coach has been hired.
"There's going to be administrators who are swayed by national or local/regional media or people who have never set foot on your practice field or inside your building," Miles said. "They wouldn't know an unbalanced formation from a no-back formation, what we were trying to accomplish and did or did not accomplish."
Nobody takes a coaching job without also understanding it's a results-based business, and no one cares about the difficulties along the path to getting the results a coach was hired to produce. The less a coach produces, the harder it gets to turn it around. Forgiveness in an already unforgiving business is never in shorter supply than when losses begin piling up.
Life on the hot seat? It's as uncomfortable as it sounds, but for coaches, it's inevitable.


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Police investigating armed robbery at Jackson gas station
Gas station clerk robbed at gunpoint
Updated: 7:03 AM CDT Apr 16, 2018
WEBVTT IT HOUSES THE LONGEST-SERVING OFFENDERS. NEW OVERNIGHT, A GAS STATION ROBBED IN THE CAPITAL CITY. 16 WAPT'S EARL ARMS IS LIVE FROM JPD HEADQUARTERS. HE TALKED TO A CLERK WHO WAS THERE WHEN IT HAPPENED. EARL? EARL: THAT IS RIGHT, ERIN. JACKSON POLICE INVESTIGATING THAT ROBBERY THAT HAPPEN ON THE BOULEVARD. THAT CLEVER SHOWED US VIDEO. JACKSON POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING THAT ARMED ROBBERY ON MEDGAR EVERS DRIVE. WE SPOKE WITH THE CLERK OF THAT GAS STATION WHO SAYS HE'S STILL A BIT SHAKEN UP AFTER BEING ROBBED AT GUNPOINT. HE SHOWED US VIDEO OF THE ROBBERY THAT HAPPENED LATE LAST NIGHT. SURVEILLANCE SHOWS US AN ARMED MAN WEARING A MASK AND A GRAY HOODIE WALKING UP TO THE COUNTER AND DEMANDING MONEY. THE STORE CLERK SAYS THE ROBBER GOT AWAY AROUND $2,000 IN CASH THE CLERK SAYS NO ONE WAS PHYSICALLY HURT IN THE ROBBERY. IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION, CALL CRIMESTOPPERS. LIVE IN JACKSON, EARL ARMS, 16 WAPT
Jackson police are investigating an armed robbery at the Texaco Food Mart on Medgar Evers Boulevard.It happened just after 1 a.m. Monday, authorities say.A clerk at the gas station, Moni Chowdhuroi, told 16 WAPT he's still shaken up after the robber robbed him at gunpoint."I never thought this may happen. Even after 12. I was nervous at the time, like, what do I do," he said.Surveillance video shows an armed man wearing a mask and a gray hoodie walking up to the counter and demanding money.Chowdhuroi says the robber got away with about $2,000 in cash.He also says he was armed at the time of the robbery but he had no time to use his gun.Veonzal Graves says this isn't the first time the gas station has been robbed.He says he was robbed at the Texaco a few years ago.The store does not have security on site.There were no injuries reported in Monday night's robbery.Police say those with information should call Crime Stoppers at 601-355-TIPS.
Jackson police are investigating an armed robbery at the Texaco Food Mart on Medgar Evers Boulevard.
It happened just after 1 a.m. Monday, authorities say.
A clerk at the gas station, Moni Chowdhuroi, told 16 WAPT he's still shaken up after the robber robbed him at gunpoint.
"I never thought this may happen. Even after 12. I was nervous at the time, like, what do I do," he said.
Surveillance video shows an armed man wearing a mask and a gray hoodie walking up to the counter and demanding money.
Chowdhuroi says the robber got away with about $2,000 in cash.
He also says he was armed at the time of the robbery but he had no time to use his gun.
Veonzal Graves says this isn't the first time the gas station has been robbed.
He says he was robbed at the Texaco a few years ago.
The store does not have security on site.
There were no injuries reported in Monday night's robbery.
Police say those with information should call Crime Stoppers at 601-355-TIPS.


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Q: How can I append a header row into by output of my Dataflow? I am producing an output CSV file with a Dataflow and I'd like to write a header row and then append all of my output to that. How can I go about doing that?
My flow roughly looks like this:
    PCollection<String> output = data.apply(ParDo.of(new DoFn<String, String>() {
        private static final long serialVersionUID = 0;

        @Override
        public void processElement(ProcessContext c) {
            // Produce CSV output
        }
    })).apply(TextIO.Write.named("WriteData").to(options.getOutput()));

Thanks!

A: The proper way to do this is to use the Custom Sink API. You can derive from FileBasedSink, FileBasedWriteOperation and FileBasedWriter (for example, you can name your classes respectively CSVSink, CSVWriteOperation and CSVWriter).
The only non-trivial logic will be in CSVWriter. Write the header in its writeHeader() and write the CSV entries in write().
Then you can use the sink in the pipeline using the Write.to() transform, in place of TextIO you're currently using.
A good example built into the SDK is the XML sink.

A: You can output the header from DoFn#startBundle().


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The Chinese zodiac is quite unique in its construction. Based on a cyclical perception of time, the twelve animal signs are structured around a 12 year cycle. Starting with the Rat, they each represent various characteristics of people that are born during the Chinese year.  In China it is currently the Year of the Rat, a year symbolizing hard work, shrewdness, and ruthlessness. 2008 is also considered a lucky year as the number 8 is very auspicious and in Chinese, sounds similar to the word for prosperity or wealth.
Simply put, a Central Bank that reduces the interest rate at which commercial banks can borrow at is said to be Dovish and vice versa. In general, interest rates lower debt cost. For example, in Kuwait, loans are usually quoted as a percentage over the CBK rate and most of the loan terms are actually pre-determined by the Central Bank of Kuwait. That means that if you took out an Al-Afdal loan from Gulf Bank today [4% + CBK rate] your interest would be 8.5%.
As we all have come to know, 2008 has been terrorized by the banking and financial crisis and according to the latest SMS circling Kuwait, a year where only two banks are expected to remain – the Blood Bank and the Sperm Bank. However, the Central Banks have many tools at their disposal to deter such an event from becoming a reality. Increasing or decreasing interest rates are one of the many gadgets used to promote financial and economic stability. During these moments of crisis the Central Bank policy makers have joined together in a coordinated effort to reduce interest rates hence making this year a Dovish one.
The graph below highlights the year to date interest rate for the US Federal Reserve, Bank of England, and the European Central Bank. The US has been more aggressive than its peers in reducing interest rates as it struggles to keep its economy afloat.
Merely noting the net change in the interest rates does not give a clear picture as to whether the policy was effective in achieving its objective. One measure of credit and liquidity risk in the banking system is the TED spread. It is calculated by taking the 3 month London Interbank Offer Rate [LIBOR] and subtracting the 3 month T-Bill yield.
LIBOR: It is a measure of how much banks are willing to lend US dollars to each other. The reported rate is an average of participating banks.
T-Bills: The interest rate at which you can borrow, essentially risk free, from the US government.
In this particular case, policy makers reacted to a nosedive in global equities during September and scrambled to take action. From September until about mid October, the TED spread continued to rise as banks simply stopped lending to each other. However, after interest rates were reduced globally the TED spread started to come off its high.
Source: US Federal Reserve. Bloomberg. Al-Hamour.
I will be posting a follow up to this topic later this week and will discuss the various Central Bank actions year to date.
Please do not hesitate to leave a comment or send me an email if you have any inquiries or would like to discuss the post.
 Dove of Peace. Pablo Picasso.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on November 2, 2008 by MAR.
I would like to start by saying that this is in no means a research piece on the markets, but a commentary that will hopefully shed light on the current frenzied global situation.
Deciding to spend more time with my family this weekend is the main reason I was inspired to write this piece. In fact, it was my father's birthday and I got to spend a few hours discussing various topics, among which was the 'Dead Cat Bouncing Theory' – a theory he introduced me to. So before I begin, I just wanted to say 'Thanks Dad'.
Trying to make sense of current capital markets is like trying to understand someone speak during a rave: the music is deafening and you are being shoved around to the point at which you feel that you are in a pinball machine. There is so much 'noise' that you lose track of the conversation's crux and end up feeling very confused. Therefore, it is important that you remove yourself from the situation and quietly assess the events taking place. As I mentioned before, I am not here to predict the outcome of the global marketplace; I simply want to block out some of the noise and share my two sense.
For those of you who have not been following the financial news and have been living under a rock, the global markets have experienced a downturn over the past few months with an estimated $7.9 trillion of wealth just vanishing into thin air. To put this into perspective, imagine the site of destroying 26 Airbus A380's! The US Federal Reserve Bank Chairman, Mr. Ben Bernake, is taking drastic measures to try and quell the markets by slashing interest rates and rescuing financial institutions, and in the process coining the term the Bernanke Helicopter. The reason why so much attention is being given to the US market is simply because it represents roughly a quarter of the world's GDP output equating to the largest share amongst all the other countries. The phobia has always been related to the notion that if the American economy sneezes then the rest of the world will catch a cold. Now although I believe in that statement, I am not sure it is completely true.
Today's financial and economic markets are facing paradigm changes in the underlying fundamentals they were based on for the past half a century. China, currently the world's third largest contributor to the global GPD, is estimated to overtake the United States' 23% contribution to global GDP by the year 2020. In addition, the Middle East economies, benefiting from an insane $100 per barrel oil price have a combined reserve account relative to that of China's currency reserve of $1.5 trillion. Both regions are facing continuous inflation, which pressures the respective Central Banks to behave in a more hawkish manner, cubing their double digit GDP growth. The contagious effect from the US sneeze will also have a lagged effect on the rest of the world's economies but nothing that a shot of fresh lemon juice and spoon full of honey won't fix. So although the Asian and Middle East economies are slowing down, the strength of corporate balance sheets aided by strong government surpluses and spending will lessen the extent of the overall cold and will aid in a swift recovery, relatively speaking.
In other parts of the world – in places where there are more burger joints and hot dog carts than shawarma stands and noodle bars – the situation is quite different. In an economy driven by consumption, any hiccup to the average American's ability to spend has a material effect on the overall growth of the economy. Just try to imagine a scene in which a woman who is out on a mission to find that perfect dress finally succeeds, only to realize that her husband's VISA card was declined. Trust me, it is not a pretty sight. To give more color to the magnitude of the situation I should remind you that the 213 million middle class (those with annual income of $18,000 – $55,000) Americans, representing approximately 70% of the population, are already witnessing their savings plans – and, more importantly, their home values – dwindle away like the strong scent of a beautiful woman in a cool summer breeze. Additionally, in a flat to negative savings rate environment where the average American is no longer able to borrow in order to quench the never ending thirst of the US economy, the canvas is starting to look more like Edvard Munch's The Scream rather than an exquisite Monet. I am not implying in any way that the sky is falling but simply want to prepare myself for the strong gales ahead.
From an economic standpoint, the current situation is being compared to the Great Depression in the 1930s, a tragic event that left the US economy crippled for many years. The reason for the resemblance is highlighted in the anticipated similarities to the extent of the damage. Although the current situation has also been compared to the late 1980's market crash and Dot-com bubble crash in the earlier part of the 21st century, I do not agree that they are comparable.
During the mid 1980s, the scene on Wall Street was filled with high powered investment bankers driving around in exotic sports cars, buying up anything that tickled their fancy. The introduction of junk bonds enabled corporate to issue large amounts of debt at high interest rates which gave birth to the leveraged buyouts, merger and acquisition mania, and an era of hostile takeovers. I highly recommend watching Barbarians at the Gate and Wall Street to get a sense of what was going on during that time. On October 19, 1929 a day later know as Black Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index (DJIA) tumbled 22.6% translating into $500 billion of value evaporating like a puddle of water on a hot summer's day in Kuwait. The Fed intervened and scrambled frantically to stabilize the situation and the market retraced back to post new historical highs.
As for the bursting of the Dot-com bubble, this is another example of an industry specific situation in which the actions of the Fed had managed to mitigate and contain the spillover effects that would affect the rest of the economy.
I will follow up with an article explaining how the Dead Cat Bouncing Theory conveys the resemblance between the current crisis and part of the Depression.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on August 11, 2008 by MAR.


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<?php

declare (strict_types=1);
namespace RectorPrefix20210615\Symplify\EasyTesting\Command;

use RectorPrefix20210615\Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputArgument;
use RectorPrefix20210615\Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
use RectorPrefix20210615\Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;
use RectorPrefix20210615\Symplify\EasyTesting\Finder\FixtureFinder;
use RectorPrefix20210615\Symplify\EasyTesting\MissplacedSkipPrefixResolver;
use RectorPrefix20210615\Symplify\EasyTesting\ValueObject\Option;
use RectorPrefix20210615\Symplify\PackageBuilder\Console\Command\AbstractSymplifyCommand;
use RectorPrefix20210615\Symplify\PackageBuilder\Console\ShellCode;
final class ValidateFixtureSkipNamingCommand extends \RectorPrefix20210615\Symplify\PackageBuilder\Console\Command\AbstractSymplifyCommand
{
    /**
     * @var MissplacedSkipPrefixResolver
     */
    private $missplacedSkipPrefixResolver;
    /**
     * @var FixtureFinder
     */
    private $fixtureFinder;
    public function __construct(\RectorPrefix20210615\Symplify\EasyTesting\MissplacedSkipPrefixResolver $missplacedSkipPrefixResolver, \RectorPrefix20210615\Symplify\EasyTesting\Finder\FixtureFinder $fixtureFinder)
    {
        $this->missplacedSkipPrefixResolver = $missplacedSkipPrefixResolver;
        $this->fixtureFinder = $fixtureFinder;
        parent::__construct();
    }
    protected function configure() : void
    {
        $this->addArgument(\RectorPrefix20210615\Symplify\EasyTesting\ValueObject\Option::SOURCE, \RectorPrefix20210615\Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputArgument::REQUIRED | \RectorPrefix20210615\Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputArgument::IS_ARRAY, 'Paths to analyse');
        $this->setDescription('Check that skipped fixture files (without `-----` separator) have a "skip" prefix');
    }
    protected function execute(\RectorPrefix20210615\Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface $input, \RectorPrefix20210615\Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface $output) : int
    {
        $source = (array) $input->getArgument(\RectorPrefix20210615\Symplify\EasyTesting\ValueObject\Option::SOURCE);
        $fixtureFileInfos = $this->fixtureFinder->find($source);
        $missplacedFixtureFileInfos = $this->missplacedSkipPrefixResolver->resolve($fixtureFileInfos);
        if ($missplacedFixtureFileInfos === []) {
            $message = \sprintf('All %d fixture files have valid names', \count($fixtureFileInfos));
            $this->symfonyStyle->success($message);
            return \RectorPrefix20210615\Symplify\PackageBuilder\Console\ShellCode::SUCCESS;
        }
        foreach ($missplacedFixtureFileInfos['incorrect_skips'] as $missplacedFixtureFileInfo) {
            $errorMessage = \sprintf('The file "%s" should drop the "skip/keep" prefix', $missplacedFixtureFileInfo->getRelativeFilePathFromCwd());
            $this->symfonyStyle->note($errorMessage);
        }
        foreach ($missplacedFixtureFileInfos['missing_skips'] as $missplacedFixtureFileInfo) {
            $errorMessage = \sprintf('The file "%s" should start with "skip/keep" prefix', $missplacedFixtureFileInfo->getRelativeFilePathFromCwd());
            $this->symfonyStyle->note($errorMessage);
        }
        $countError = \count($missplacedFixtureFileInfos['incorrect_skips']) + \count($missplacedFixtureFileInfos['missing_skips']);
        if ($countError === 0) {
            $message = \sprintf('All %d fixture files have valid names', \count($fixtureFileInfos));
            $this->symfonyStyle->success($message);
            return \RectorPrefix20210615\Symplify\PackageBuilder\Console\ShellCode::SUCCESS;
        }
        $errorMessage = \sprintf('Found %d test file fixtures with wrong prefix', $countError);
        $this->symfonyStyle->error($errorMessage);
        return \RectorPrefix20210615\Symplify\PackageBuilder\Console\ShellCode::ERROR;
    }
}


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Vohimanga is een plaats en commune in het zuiden van Madagaskar, behorend tot het district Bekily, dat gelegen is in de regio Androy. Tijdens een volkstelling in 2001 telde de plaats 9.254 inwoners.

De plaats biedt alleen lager onderwijs aan. De volledige bevolking werkt er als landbouwer. De belangrijkste landbouwproducten zijn maniok en rijst, een ander belangrijk product is de pinda.

Gemeente in Androy

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia