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David Milligan - shopping for inspiration
It's never going to replace How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria, or Dorothy, as a TV programme idea. The more's the pity. Because there could be an entertaining series, surely, devoted to the trials and tribulations involved in writing a piece of music that conveys a message such as "If you need a painting in an emergency."
Except that Dave Milligan didn't have the luxury of time to spend thinking too much about this weighty challenge. He had another two numbers to write and four more new ones to rehearse, record and perform on a tour of the shops along Tobermory Main Street before the week was out.
Looking back on the eve of the Scottish Arts Council Tune-up tour that will take the resultant project, Shops, back to Mull as well as to venues the length and breadth of Scotland, the pianist says his initial response to the idea was that "it sounded a bit daft."
In his liner notes to the CD that Milligan's splendid trio released as part of their involvement in the An Tobar Sessions, Gordon Maclean, director of the Tobermory arts centre, conceded that it did indeed seem crazy at the time. But Maclean, whose commissions have also included fiddler Aidan O'Rourke's An Tobar, which joins Milligan's trio on the Tune-up tour, and Scots jazz mavericks Burt-MacDonald's A Day for a Reason song cycle dedicated to Tobermory's town clock, was persuasive. He really did want Milligan, bassist Tom Lyne and drummer Tom Bancroft to write music about the local shops – and to play the music concerned in each shop.
"I've known Gordon a long time," says Milligan. "As director of An Tobar he's been a great supporter of projects like Bashue [Milligan's group with his partner, harpist Corrina Hewat] and I trust his judgement - so I had to hear him out at least. But knowing his fondness for an unusual project, and then realising its context as the last of a few pieces he had commissioned to celebrate different aspects of life on Mull, it suddenly seemed like something we had to do."
On gigs since the Shops CD was released and in talking about the project generally, Milligan and his trio have made a joke about the performing-in-the-shops part of the plan being what convinced them to carry on, but this turns out to be true.
"When Gordon first talked to us about it, he was pretty low-key and matter-of-fact about the whole thing," he says. "We initially thought that we were getting involved in a bit of light-hearted quirkiness, but after we got there, we soon realised it wasn't about the shops so much but the identity and survival of a community's way of life, and that was a pretty powerful thing to be involved in."
On arriving in Tobermory, Milligan's trio got straight to work. They went round the shops that were to be their muses, meeting the owners and staff. Tom Bancroft, a man who can seemingly incorporate anything with rhythmic possibilities, including a Black & Decker power drill, into his music, sampled some sounds and snippets of conversations that found their way into tracks such as Browns and Tackle & Boots. Within two days, they had the music written, including If You Need a Painting in an Emergency, which Milligan was inspired to write after seeing a sign to this effect in local artist Ronnie Leckie's shop window.
"The plan was always that it would be a joint writing project, but I don't think any of us really knew how that would work," says Milligan. "When it came to it, we all just started writing individually without really talking about it. I think somewhere in my head I imagined we would eventually get together and try and contribute something to each other's pieces, but it just didn't really happen that way. It's hard to know where inspiration really comes from, but for some reason we each were naturally drawn to different shops, so it worked out perfectly."
Given the very local nature of the project and possible picture postcard connotations (the tracks on the CD run in the same order as the shops, left to right, along Tobermory's famously colourful waterfront), you might be forgiven for thinking the results would be a bit twee. In fact, Shops, as many a review has noted, is international class jazz and the music has grown in performance in the two years since it was conceived and recorded.
Milligan, who has been working - by email - with Aidan O'Rourke on a piece that will act as the finale on the An Tobar Sessions tour, looks back on the Shops experience with a mixture of puzzlement, pride and fondness.
"It's strange to think that we recorded the music within a day or two and in some cases, within hours of having written it," he says. "That's very unusual for any musician and I don't imagine anyone would choose to record a normal album in that way, but that was the way the project was supposed to work. When we recorded the music we did a couple of takes of each piece and then just stopped thinking about the CD, because there wasn't really time with all the workshops and songs we were working on with the local kids and musicians that were part of the project, too.
"The next time we heard the music was a good few months later when we mixed the tracks. That was interesting because even at that point the material had already developed from a live point of view. And even now, in some ways, it's moved on a bit more, so when I hear the album, those particular versions of the tunes transport me right back to that week and to Browns hardware store, or wherever. But the thing I
love about performing this material still is to try and keep it fresh without losing that connection to the people and places that inspired it."
From The Herald, April


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Often I would say I live by my own standards, so the same thing applies to my writing. I want to deliver my best all the time. At times I forget how much effort and time I'm putting into this, when the gain is intangible (or even nothing). Well, there is the joy of sharing.
My style of blogging? I would want to say that it has the Hermès spirit. Excellence. Detail-oriented. Whimsical. Different. Sometimes snooty.
Unlike most lifestyle bloggers, I avoid putting myself into the picture (literally). I prefer focus on the topic. I don't need the spotlight, so if you could look at my work… please and thank you.
This site is really a one man show, with some occasional guest writers.
I have been trying to encourage some young talents and groom them to takeover the site some day… not much success there so far.
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I am proud to say I've worked with Resorts World Sentosa, Universal Studios Singapore, Disney (Hong Kong Disneyland Resort), Gardens by the Bay, Sentosa Leisure Group, Changi Airport Group, and many more.
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That is why I felt value in writing (in great detail) about the theme park in my country. In a way, I am giving back to the web the very thing that I was passionate about, and in a way, allow the world to see what themed experiences are offered in Singapore.
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No Ifs, No Butts: New campaign raising awareness of bowel cancer
Tuesday 20 April 2021, 12:57pm
Watch a video report by Lauren Hall
The ITV daytime show Lorraine presented by Lorraine Kelly wants us to feel more comfortable about discussing our toilet habits and to overcome any embarrassment.
The No Butts campaign, which is being supported by the charity Bowel Cancer UK, urges us all to pay attention to our bodies and watch out for any unusual symptoms.
We're so squeamish about our bottoms and about poo! We don't talk about it enough and because we're not talking about it, it means we're not looking out for the symptoms.
Lorraine Kelly, TV presenter
Lorraine Kelly launches new cancer campaign Credit: ITV Yorkshire
In the UK, someone is diagnosed with bowel cancer every 15 minutes and a person dies from the disease every half hour.
Bowel cancer is our second deadliest cancer but is treatable and curable if caught early enough.
The disease is more common in the over 50s but affects people of all ages.
Deborah James was 35 when she was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer.
She is well known for talking openly about her experience on social media and on the podcast You, Me and the Big C.
Deborah wants people to understand the signs and symptoms to catch it early.
We campaign very very hard for people to not be embarrassed, to not worry about going to their GPs and not be embarrassed to say: 'I've got a change of bowel habits.
Deborah James, campaigner
Paul Fisher from Northampton is getting treatment for his advanced bowel cancer Credit: ITV News Anglia
Paul Fisher from Northampton has bowel cancer at an advanced stage, but treatment's keeping it under control.
He says he'll never forget the moment he was diagnosed, just over three years ago.
Paul said: "It was traumatic. You worry about the future and your family. It was horrendous."
Trauma is the best way I can describe how it felt. You just go into panic - full of anxiety and full of dread and fear.
Paul Fisher
Michelle Dorrian from Saffron Walden in Essex has now been given the all-clear.
She says the disease had a lasting impact and she's still trying to get back to normal.
Michelle Dorrian from Saffron Walden says having bowel cancer has had a lasting impact on her life Credit: ITV News Anglia
Michelle said: "To my children, to my family - I don't like to give all my fears and anxieties away but it has actually changed me.
"It's made be very anxious, very anxious - I'm just trying to get back on track really."
The No Butts campaign was launched this week on ITV's Lorraine to coincide with Bowel Cancer Awareness Month. For more information head to https://www.itv.com/lorraine/.
Symptoms of bowel cancer
Blood coming from your bottom or in your stools
Obvious change in bowel habit
Weight loss you can't explain
Extreme tiredness
Lump and/or pain in your tummy
More sources of information about bowel cancer
NHS website
NHS bowel cancer screening
Bowel Cancer UK
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Home Sports Golf Arsenal back on top as Villa capitulate again
Arsenal back on top as Villa capitulate again
LONDON (Reuters) – Arsenal eased to a comfortable 2-0 victory at Aston Villa on Sunday to soar to the summit of the Premier League and leave their hapless opponents rooted at rock bottom. A 50th Premier League goal from Olivier Giroud, a penalty converted four days after his Champions League hat-trick against Olympiakos Piraeus, swiftly brought more gloom to Villa Park after eight minutes. Mesut Ozil then produced his 13th assist of the season to allow Aaron Ramsey to slot home a goal in the 38th minute and enable Arsenal to move on to 33 points, one point clear of Manchester City and Leicester City. Leicester have the chance to regain the leadership when they entertain Chelsea on Monday. Villa improved in the second half as Arsenal took their foot off the gas but manager Remi Garde, who as a player was once signed by Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, could only hear the grumbles of discontent as his side went a club-record 15th league game without a win. "Overall for us, it was a great week," Wenger said on Sky Sports, referring to his side's midweek heroics when they managed, against the odds, to qualify for the knockout phase of the Champions League once again. The defeat left Villa stranded at the foot of the table on six points from 16 games, six adrift of 19th-placed Sunderland. It was not just Giroud who was able to celebrate a landmark achievement. Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech equalled David James's all-time Premier League record with his 169th clean sheet, in 349 games, prompting Wenger to hail him as "an absolute all-time great". Giroud's splendid week quickly gained a new sheen when Arsenal were awarded a penalty, which referee Kevin Friend took a while to consider before adjudging that Theo Walcott had been bundled over unfairly in the area by Alan Hutton. From the spot, Giroud converted his 14th goal of the season and 50th Premier League goal in all for Arsenal in 113 appearances, a landmark reached quicker for the Gunners only by Ian Wright and Thierry Henry. Arsenal, in effortless command, struck again thanks to the industry of Ramsey, who won the ball not far outside his own box from Idrissa Gueye to set up a dazzling counter, then sprinted up the field to get on the end of Ozil's unselfish square pass and double the lead. Ozil was also singled out for praise from Wenger. "I must say that Mesut is an absolute complete collective player. Sometimes, he's frustrated that he doesn't get the same balls back but he's a very important link in our game," he said. "We believe we have an opportunity to win the title," man of the match Ramsey told Sky Sports. "We have shown what we are capable of and have to continue now, in what is a busy part of the season. We have to maintain our focus and belief." After being booed off at halftime, Garde's men huffed and puffed a little more convincingly after the break, Scott Sinclair heading over and Leandro Bacuna curling one close as Arsenal dozed, content to let the dismal home side continue to meander in possession. Adama Traore came closest to scoring for Villa in the dying seconds but their plight is worsening after a ninth straight league game at Villa Park without a win, their worst home league sequence.
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As the weather gets warmer, it's our natural reaction to want to spend more time outside, but like so many things, spending time in the sun should be something that is done responsibly, and in moderation. Many people know that exposure to sunlight can cause skin cancer, but why and how, and how do we protect ourselves?
How does the sun damage our bodies?
Light from the sun is made up of different kinds of radiation – mostly this is the harmless visible light that allows us to see color and shade, but some of the radiation in sunlight can be harmful in large doses, particularly ultraviolet (UV) radiation.
UV radiation penetrates the tissues of our skin and can damage (mutate) the DNA of our cells. Our bodies are usually very good at repairing any DNA damage, but lengthy and regular exposure to UV can cause more damage than the body can cope with. If mutations to the DNA are left unchecked, this may change the way in which the cells behave, and they can become cancerous.
What's more, if the skin becomes sunburned, this makes it all the more difficult for the body to repair any DNA damage, and so the risk of developing cancers can be increased. To prevent skin cancers, it is very important to avoid burning.
What is the difference between tanning and sunburn?
Tanning occurs when special cells in your skin called melanocytes produce a brown pigment called melanin when exposed to sunlight. This is a good thing, because the brown pigment can help to protect your skin from some of the sun's damage. Burning on the other hand is completely unrelated to tanning – in fact, the redness and soreness caused by sunburn is a sign that the top layer or layers of your skin have been damaged beyond repair.
It's a common myth that if you get sunburn, it will 'go brown' later. Some people believe this falsehood so much so that they will actively TRY to burn, in the belief that they will develop a tan. This is very dangerous! Once the skin is burnt, it stays burnt and cannot be 'unburnt'. The only way you will 'go brown' later, is when the damaged cells in the top layer of your skin eventually peel away to reveal new skin underneath.
Some people also mistakenly believe that they cannot burn, not realizing that it is entirely possible to burn and tan at the same time. There is of course some natural variation in different peoples' tolerance to sunburn, but people who tan easily should still be aware that the brown colour of the tan may mask the redness of the burn. If your skin peels after time spent in the sun, it has been burned!
How can we avoid sunburn?
The only surefire way to avoid sunburn is to stay out of the sun. However, it is ill advised to stay out of the sun completely, since despite having the capacity to burn, sunlight also has some benefits. Sunlight stimulates the production of Vitamin D, which helps to keep our bones strong, so a little bit of sunshine is essential for good bone health.
Make sure to avoid being in the sun for long periods of time, especially between the hours of 11.00 AM and 3.00 PM, when the intensity of sunlight is at its strongest and the UV radiation is at its most harmful. Wear a hat and sunglasses to protect your scalp and eyes, and where possible, cover up your skin to avoid excessive exposure to the sun. When you cannot or do not want to avoid the sun for long periods of time, it is essential to wear sunscreen. Sunscreen contains a chemical that absorbs UV radiation rather than the radiation being absorbed by your skin, so the chance of the UV damaging your DNA, and therefore of getting skin cancer, is greatly reduced.
A common falsehood is that a high sun protection factor (SPF) sunscreen is 'stronger' than those with low SPFs and will therefore make it more difficult to get a tan. On the contrary, high SPFs do exactly the same job as low SPFs, but they last longer, so you can stay out in the sun for longer without reapplying the lotion (although it is still advisable to reapply regularly as the lotion can rub or sweat off of your skin). Contrary to popular belief, sunscreens do not prevent tanning, and in fact, they can enable you to stay browner for longer because you will avoid burning, and the damaged skin will not peel away.
I don't go outside very much, as my schedule doesn't allow it most of the time. Also, I've never really tried to suntan, but whenever I am out in the sun for an extended amount of time, I just get burned, no tan, so I am pretty pale. Any advice on what to do?
SPF means Sun Protection Factor. The factor is the amount by which the amount of UV rays that hit your skin is reduced. So wearing SPF 30 sunscreen means 30 times fewer UV rays hit your skin than would be the case if you had no protection. SPF 15 means only 15 times fewer UV rays hit your skin, so you would burn twice as quickly as someone wearing SPF 30. So high SPF sunscreens absolutely ARE 'stronger', and it has nothing to do with how long the protection lasts.
I'm afraid I remain a little unclear with respect to the following statement: "The only way you will 'go brown' later, is when the damaged cells in the top layer of your skin eventually peel away to reveal new skin underneath. "
This new underlying skin that is revealed, will it be tanned? If so, this would explain people's observation (and mine) that red, sunburnt skin, eventually "turns" brown after a few days.


Make a quilt with your child's class! This pattern includes lots of hints, subjects, and complete instructions to make a "class memory" quilt with crayon drawings. The pattern is also great for a beginning quilting primer.
Perfect for any beginner, the pattern includes instructions for drawing on the blocks (with the children), sashing, quilting hints, adding borders, and even putting on a French binding with mitered corners! An added bonus is directions for adding a sleeve for hanging.


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John McQueen
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John McQueen (February 9 1804 - August 30 1867) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina and a member of the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War. Born in Queensdale in Robeson County North Carolina near the town of Maxton North Carolina McQueen completed preparatory studies under private tutors and was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He subsequently studied law.
When is John McQueen's birthday?
John McQueen was born on the 9th of February 1804 , which was a Thursday. John McQueen's next birthday would be in 7 days (would be turning 219years old then).
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Q: Is it possible to \noexpand a TeX group instead of a macro? I often find myself in need of a \noexpand utility that works on a TeX group rather than a macro. For example, in my current project, I have subroutines:
% adds a box to the layer
\newcommand\addbox[1] {
   \edef\drawboxcode{
      {\noexpand\draw (...) node[
         draw,
         fill,
         ...] {#1};
      }
   }
   \expandafter\addcodetolayer\drawboxcode
}

% pushes object code onto layer
\newcommand\addcodetolayer[1]
    {\seq_gput_right:Nn\sq__layercmds{#1}}

% renders layer
\newcommand\renderlayer
    {\seq_use:Nnnn \sq__layercmds{}{}{}}

I require these because the code I use to draw TikZ objects is divided into subroutines that place content on multiple PGF layers (e.g. a box on one layer, a shadow on another layer) in an interleaved way and, unfortunately, every time the \begin{pgfonlayer}{foolayer} environment is used, it wipes out any content in the foolayer layer previously written.
My recourse has been to use the subroutines above in the following way:
\begin{tikzpicture}
   \addbox {Foo Box}
   \addbox {Bar Box}
   ...
   \begin{pgfonlayer}{boxlayer}
      \renderlayer
   \end{pgfonlayer}
\end{tikzpicture}

This works well but has one outstanding problem: the argument to \addbox, if it contains macros such as \ref, must have these manually \noexpand-ed to avoid errors, i.e.
\addbox {Foo Box (section~\ref{sec:foo})}  % gives horrible cryptic LaTeX errors
\addbox {Foo Box (section~\noexpand\ref{sec:foo})}  % works like a charm

Ideally I would like to avoid this, but I know of no good way to do it. The most obvious fix would be if \noexpand could work on TeX groups rather than macros, but it doesn't. Using
   \edef\drawboxcode{
      {\noexpand\draw (...) node[
         draw,
         fill,
         ...] {\noexpand{#1}};
      }
   }

does nothing, for instance. I also can't use
   \def\drawboxcontent{#1}
   \edef\drawboxcode{
      {\noexpand\draw (...) node[
         draw,
         fill,
         ...] {\noexpand\drawboxcontent};
      }
   }

because when \drawboxcontent is finally expanded in \renderlayer, the macro will only contain the content of the last added box.
This is just one example of where a utility that prevents \edef from expanding a block of code (i.e. TeX group) rather than a macro would be extremely useful.
One alternative would be a utility that allowed code such as
   \passbyvaluedef\drawboxcontent{#1}
   \edef\drawboxcode{
      {\noexpand\draw (...) node[
         draw,
         fill,
         ...] {\drawboxcontent};
      }
   }

where \passbyvaluedef would define a macro \drawboxcontent that, when expanded, would expand into some unique command sequence \drawboxcontentaaaa without expanding further, and \drawboxcontentaaaa would contain whatever was in #1. The next time \passbyvaluedef\drawboxcontent was called, \drawboxcontent would expand into \drawboxcontentaaab, and so on, returning a unique CS name in each case. This is less elegant than a group-based \noexpand, but it would also get the job done.
Are there any TeX/LaTeX macros/packages for doing either of these things (effectively \noexpand-ing groups, or the suggested alternative)? If not, is there another way to solve the problem of having to manually include \noexpands in my box contents, or am I stuck with them?

A: You can use \unexpanded{<balanced text>}. This will avoid the expansion in the <balanced text>.

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NEWPORT – The water had already started rising in the single-story apartment where Frankie Petrick was babysitting when the men knocked on door to tell her to evacuate. Right about then, the childrens' parents arrived, and loaded their kids into their car to head for "hospital hill" as directed.
That youthful curiosity might well have cost Petrick her life.
Thursday marks 50 years since a magnitude-9.2 earthquake devastated Alaska in the late afternoon of Good Friday. The earthquake, centered about 75 miles east of Anchorage, wrecked downtown Anchorage, claimed the lives of 115 people and triggered a massive tsunami.
Four hours later at about 11:35 p.m., the first surge of the tsunami reached the Oregon Coast and evacuations were under way. But despite the warning sirens, the television broadcasts, the door-to-door efforts, not everyone got the word. Four people died in Oregon and 12 in Crescent City, where much of the town was wiped out.
It was a deceptively quiet night. The sky was clear, the moon full, and the tide nearly high. Then, the ocean pulled back far into itself, and gathering force, roared forth, thundering on to shore.
In Waldport, Petrick drove downtown where the rising waters were flooding into businesses. Then, she decided to see how things were going by the seawall.
Petrick drove on. About half way between Waldport and Yachats, she crossed the Big Creek bridge and decided to pull over for a look. The bridge shoulder was narrow, so she drove on, then parked at a wide spot and walked back onto the bridge.
Since the tsunami 50 years ago, much has changed, said George Priest, tsunami specialist with the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries.
Telecommunications are better, messaging is more uniform and the ability to sense earthquakes has been greatly expanded, he said. But the most important change is the state's new tsunami maps, which now show in orange the evacuation zone for distant tsunamis, as well as a zone for local tsunamis.
That's when she realized the creek water was not running in the same direction it had been the day before. There was a gaping hole in the rip rap and the water was running north.
About 20 miles north, six members of the McKenzie family were camping at Beverly Beach in a makeshift shelter when the wave hit.
A 1998 story in The Oregonian reported that Monte McKenzie told his pastor that when the first wave hit, there was only a foot of air at the top of the lean-to. The children were screaming as they struggled to reach the pocket of air. Then a second wave hit.
"Logs were thrown at us like matchsticks,'' McKenzie was quoted as saying.
Marion Teal, a reporter with the Corvallis Gazette-Times, interviewed Rita McKenzie in a Newport hospital that Easter weekend.
All four children Ricky, 6, Louie, 8, Bobby, 7, and Tammy, 3, and the family dog were swept to sea. Only Ricky's body was recovered.
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"There was just nothing," Clark said. "We all stopped and looked at each other. My brother said, 'I can't hear anything.'" Then, they heard a different sound, a whooshing, almost like water circling down a drain.
The Oregonian published several stories about the impact of the tsunami that hit the Oregon and northern California coast after a giant earthquake in Alaska on March 27, 1964.
The Jackson family was gathered in the living room of their house on the Neawanna River in Seaside on the night of the tsunami. The siren had sounded, but the family didn't hear it. The roar of the water already too loud.
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Q: When getting rid of modulo bias how does min = -upper_bound % upper_bound; // work? In answers to this other question, the following solution is provided, curtesy of OpenBSD, rewritten for brevity,
uint32_t foo( uint32_t limit ) {
  uint32_t min = -limit % limit, r = 0;

    for(;;) {
      r = random_function();
      if ( r >= min ) break;
    }
    return r % limit;
 }

How exactly does the line uint32_t min = -limit % limit work?  What I'd like to know is, is there a mathematical proof that it does indeed calculate some lower limit for the random number and adequately removes the modulo bias?

A: In -limit % limit, consider that the value produced by -limit is 2w−limit, where w is the width in bits of the unsigned type being used, because unsigned arithmetic is defined to wrap modulo 2w. (The assumes the type of limit is not narrower than int, which would result in it being promoted to int and signed arithmetic being used, and the code could break.) Then recognize that 2w−limit is congruent to 2w modulo limit. So -limit % limit produces the remainder when 2w is divided by limit. Let this be min.
In the set of integers {0, 1, 2, 3,… 2w−1}, a number with remainder r (0 ≤ r < limit) when divided by limit appears at least floor(2w/limit) times. We can identify each of them: For 0 ≤ q < floor(2w/limit), q•limit + r has remainder r and is in the set. If 0 ≤ r < min, then there is one more such number in the set, with q = floor(2w/limit). Those account for all the numbers in the set {0, 1, 2, 3,… 2w−1}, because floor(2w/limit)•limit + min = 2w, so our counts are complete. For r different remainders, there are floor(2w/limit)+1 numbers with that remainder in the set, and for min−r other remainders, there are floor(2w/limit) with that remainder in the set.
Now suppose we randomly draw a number uniformly from this set {0, 1, 2, 3,… 2w−1}. Clearly numbers with the remainders 0 ≤ r < min might occur slightly more often, because there are more of them in the set. By rejecting one instance of each such number, we exclude them from our distribution. Effectively, we are drawing from the set { min, min+1, min+2,… 2w−1}. The result is a distribution that has exactly floor(2w/limit) occurrences of each number with a particular remainder.
Since each remainder is represented an equal number of times in the effective distribution, each remainder has an equal chance of being selected by a uniform draw.


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News | Published: Sep 18, 2019 | Last Updated: Sep 25, 2019
PLANS have been submitted to demolish a dilapidated St Brelade farmhouse in the green zone and replace it with a four-bedroom house – 14 months after a previous scheme was refused.
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According to the plans for Noirmont Farm, submitted by Portelet Hotel Ltd, developers are also hoping to remove a number of outbuildings along with some portable buildings, previously used by Jersey Mustard Seed.
A design statement, compiled by MS Planning, accompanying the application says: 'The buildings consist of a two-storey farmhouse dwelling with a single-storey addition, a range of agricultural outbuildings of various ages and a number of portacabins and other storage structures. All are in varying states of poor repair and are currently unoccupied.
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The previous application to demolish all existing structures on the site and build a five-bedroom house was refused – once by a planning officer in July 2018 and again by the Environment Minister following a recommendation by an independent UK planning inspector. At the time, the inspector, David Hainsworth, said that the harm to landscape character would be 'serious'.
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I went to your link, signed on for a Yahoo account but cannot see any pictures, either in the thread or when I click on the image link that shows up. I searched the group for "modification" wanting to see all the mods people had done. Without images, it's useless. I'm on Windows 10 and the problem is there in both Internet Explorer and Chrome. Any ideas?
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Council and community food providers come together at new Emergency Food Hub
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Feeding Birkenhead is a coalition of churches, food banks, community groups, and other organisations working together to eliminate hunger in Birkenhead. The central aim of Feeding Birkenhead's work is to provide decent meals to as many people in need as possible, while also seeking to prevent that need from arising again over the longer term. Feeding Birkenhead campaigns for its local successes to impact national policy reform as quickly as possible so that all families in need are helped.
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