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Cutting Christmas Trees in a National Forest - be sure you get a permit first!
What could be better than cutting your own fresh Christmas tree in a National Forest? Why does the government allow this? There are actually good forest management reasons to thin trees in some circumstances, so cutting a tree actually helps the Forest Service manage the forests. Be aware that to cut a tree in a National Forest requires a permit, and the NFS encourages safe practices.
"Trees from your national forests brighten homes across the country every year," said U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell. "We encourage people to be aware of changing weather conditions, dress accordingly and always follow safe cutting practices when looking for that perfect tree this holiday season."
Each year, local Forest Service offices sell permits that allow individuals to cut one fresh tree on national forest lands. Fees for the permits vary dependent on location. The permit program helps the agency thin stands that have a concentration of small diameter trees.
Reminders and tips for cutting your tree:
- Travel with a companion, and always tell another person when and where you plan to take a trip into a forest.
- Remember to take your tree-cutting permit and a map of the location.
- Think safety. Dress warmly and in layers. Check your weather forecast and be aware of changing weather conditions. Keep your gas tank full. Have tire chains, if necessary, and don't forget to bring a rope and tarp to transport your tree home. Also do not forget emergency supplies, including water and food.
- Select a tree with a trunk that is six inches or less in diameter, and prepare to cut the tree no more than six inches above ground level.
- Put on eye protection and heavy duty work gloves.
- Decide in which direction you want the tree to fall. Make sure the direction you choose is clear of all obstacles, including power lines and vehicles.
- Use handsaws and shears; chainsaws are prohibited in national forests.
- Make the back cut by standing to the side and away from the trunk. Step away as soon as the tree begins to fall.
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Contact your local Forest Service office to learn how to obtain your permit and for additional tree-cutting guidelines.


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- pretend (v.)
- late 14c., "to profess, assert, maintain" (a claim, etc.), "to direct (one's) efforts," from Old French pretendre "to lay claim," from Latin praetendere "stretch in front, put forward, allege," from prae "before" (see pre-) + tendere "to stretch," from PIE root *ten- "to stretch" (see tend).
Main modern sense of "feign, put forward a false claim" is recorded from c.1400; the older sense of simply "to claim" is behind the string of royal pretenders (1690s) in English history. Meaning "to play, make believe" is recorded from 1865. In 17c. pretend also could mean "make a suit of marriage for," from a sense in French. Related: Pretended; pretending.
- pretend (n.)
- "fact of pretending," 1888, from children's talk, from pretend (v.). Earlier in same sense was verbal noun pretending (1640s).

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A Correct, Precise and Efficient Integration of Set-Sharing, Freeness and Linearity for the Analysis of Finite and Rational Tree Languages (TR)
Patricia M. Hill
Abstract:It is well-known that freeness and linearity information positively interact with aliasing information, therefore allowing both the precision and the efficiency of the sharing analysis of logic programs to be improved. In this paper we present a novel combination of set-sharing with freeness and linearity information, which is characterized by an improved abstract unification operator. We provide a new abstraction function and prove the correctness of the analysis for both the finite tree and the rational tree cases. Moreover, we show that the same notion of redundant information as identified in also applies to this abstract domain combination: this allows for the implementation of an abstract unification operator running in polynomial time and achieving the same precision on all the considered observable properties.
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The UDI revival effort maintains an IRC channel on Freenode (irc.freenode.net), called _TAG_. Feel free to join and ask questions.
UDI stands for "Uniform Driver Interface". It is the specification of a framework and driver API / ABI that enables different operating systems (implementing the UDI framework) to use the same drivers. Conceived by several large industry corporations, it has fallen dormant, despite being functional and delivering on its promise.
UDI drivers are binary compatible across all UDI-compliant operating systems running on the same CPU family. They are also source compatible across all UDI-implementing operating systems. This means, a driver only has to be developed once.
While Microsoft Windows gets all the hardware drivers they want, and GNU discourages UDI for philosophical reasons, its advantages for hobbyist OS developers are obvious.
Why UDI?
The Uniform Driver Interface would, should it be widely adopted, provide a common driver framework for implementation across kernels and platforms, enabling drivers to be provided without respect to the target kernel, and to a large extent, the target hardware platform. UDI has several projected advantages over existing driver interfaces which may motivate the reader to adopt it:
 - Portability (both cross-OS and cross-platform), which was mentioned in the above section, is perhaps the primary concern for which UDI was developed in the first place. All we can hope for is that enough operating systems will embrace the model so we can actually take advantage of it.
 - Performance is comparable or better than that of custom, native API drivers for a native UDI implementation. For environments where performance is critical, UDI does not inhibit service quality. UDI is explicitly designed to be non-blocking and lockless, featuring a synchronization model for increased MP scalability without locking and many other high-scalability focused features.
 - UDI can integrate seamlessly into existing kernel environments regardless of the OS architecture (monolithic kernel vs. microkernel, POSIX vs. non-POSIX, etc.) with little or no extra performance overhead.
 - Reliability and stability have been explicitly provided for by the design. UDI tries to eliminate some categories of potential bugs, such as (but not limited to) resource leaks and deadlocks (all interfaces can potentially be implemented without any locking at all).
 - Flexibility is another thing UDI has been designed mind with: not only in the way the specification was conceived (i.e., to be extensible), but also in the sense that it permits system programmers to apply techniques such as driver isolation, shadow drivers, etc. if they see fit to do so.
 - The interface is fully asynchronous, in every respect; high scaling systems are becoming increasingly predominant and asynchronicity is slowly becoming an "expected" feature for modern kernels. UDI moves ahead of the herd to enable a compliant kernel to slowly adopt asynchronous interfaces without having to do major redesign later on.
 - Moderately complex, and it will generally take a while to understand the specification.
 - It cannot simply be ported to immature kernels. A kernel must have a certain minimum level of maturity to reasonably attempt to become UDI compliant.
 - Not at all viable for "casual" projects: requires a significant amount of foreknowledge and prior work.
Core components of UDI Drivers
High level view of UDI environments
An implementation of the Uniform Driver Interface specification is known as a UDI Environment. There is a reference implementation available (see link below) which provides usable code for several existing kernels (Linux, BSD, Solaris), and it can be used the basis for a fresh implementation. Kernel environment implementations are responsible for providing the Service Call interfaces specified by the UDI Standard; a kernel may choose to implement these as native system calls, or via library extensions -- the decision is up to the implementer. There are two types of service calls recognized by the UDI paradigm: synchronous (which will return immediately to the caller - i.e., to the driver) and asynchronous (which work through a callback mechanism).
UDI drivers also actively take part in identifying their child devices and helping to build the host kernel's device tree. Bus drivers enumerate children, and so on. Each of these buses may have several controllers attached. UDI drivers for these devices will interact in a tree-like fashion just as the hardware does. Let's take a closer look at drivers themselves!
Drivers are split into one or more modules, and each module has at least once region. A driver that has been instantiated (executed, so to speak) uses IPC calls ("Channel operations") to communicate between modules and regions. If a driver is used to instantiate more than one device (say, a disk driver used to instantiate two separate disk devices), the choice of whether the actual driver code is mapped using Copy-on-Write, or duplicated in memory, etc is up to the environment.
A module is essentially a single executable code object. Specifically, drivers can be broken into multiple executables. A large driver that may only need to load certain components and may not need all of its code in memory all the time may be implemented as a multi-module driver. This partitioning of the driver code into modules is up to the driver vendor of course. Most UDI drivers are expected to be single-module drivers, but complex drivers such as graphics card drivers, etc may be best implemented as multi-module drivers. For example, if a graphics driver exports an OpenGL 3D API along with a Direct3D API, it is very likely that both front-ends have a lot of code behind them that would occupy a lot of memory should both be loaded. Most kernels will use either OpenGL or Direct3D, so if such a graphics driver was to split its OpenGL and Direct3D implementations into separate modules, this would enable kernels loading that driver to avoid allocating memory for the code and data for the API it isn't using.
Main article: UDI Regions
Regions are nothing more than blocks of related data. For example, a network card may have a set of register states that are specific to its send() function, and a different set of stats and variables specific to its receive() function. Data is explicitly separated into functionality regions in UDI. A region is nothing more than driver-allocated data for its state variables. The most intuitive way to split driver data is into functionality sub-components of the device in question. So a network card driver may choose to have a send region and a receive region. A graphics driver write may choose to partition the driver into a framebuffer writing region, a transformation region, etc, etc. Then IPC request messages can be sent over UDI IPC channels to each region based on the purpose of that region.
Regions also form the unit of concurrent execution in UDI. Since Regions are nothing more than data, they are also the units which must be synchronized against concurrent writes. Generally, this means making sure that no two threads can modify region data at once. The design of the UDI interfaces is perfectly capable of working without the use of locking, and it is left up to the host OS Environment to choose whether it will use lockless algorithms, spinlocks, waitqueues, or some other method to ensure that no two threads modify region data at the same time. See the main article for a detailed explanation of several practically usable UDI synchronization models.
Another attribute of UDI regions is that they are locationand instance-independent, meaning that they can be moved from one place to another without affecting any of the other regions because they share no common state. That is, a driver can be marshaled and moved from one NUMA node to another, or one physical machine to another over a network, or any other similar type of migration. This is particularly interesting in multiprocessor systems (esp. NUMA), and high-scaling compute clusters because an environment may separate regions due to performance and resource constraints. It's worth mentioning that, because of the separate states, the tasks performed by regions are mutually-exclusive (for instance a network driver might have one region that handles sending packets and another receiving). This is a potential area where host OSs can make huge optimizations to remove performance bottlenecks.
Main article: UDI Channels
The only way for regions to communicate is through channels. Channels are an IPC-agnostic abstraction of a bi-directional communication mechanism. Each of the two channel endpoints provide an ops vector, which is a set of entry points. They are referenced via handles of type udi_channel_t (check the definition of handles below). The channel operations along with the associated functionality is defined by metalanguages. Metalanguages are separately defined for each class of drivers, but we'll get to that soon.
Main article: Metalanguages
Metalanguages define extensions to the core specification for various purposes, and can also be used to define custom IPC protocol APIs between modules/regions. An example of a case where a custom protocol API may be needed is where, for example, a network card driver has a "Control" region which takes commands from the kernel for power management ("Go to sleep", "prepare to shutdown", etc), and then it has a Send() region and Receive() region, which handle its send() and receive() functions respectively.
It follows naturally that if the driver receives a "Go to sleep" command from the kernel on its Control region, it would need to send messages to its Send and Receive regions to cause them to cease operation. There is no generic IPC_Send() function defined for IPC across UDI channels -- all IPC must be done according to the protocols APIs defined by a Metalanguage, whether standardized by the UDI spec, or custom-defined. Thankfully, driver writers do not need to define custom protocols for every such case where they want to


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The Open University and the University of Southampton are currently exploring a potential partnership, to create a nutrition programme for health workers, based on open educational resources that can be delivered as face to face, distance learning or e-learning in Africa. The proposal builds on the expertise and experience in both organisations in the field of nutrition education and training and delivering international programmes with partners in Africa.
There is a clear and urgent need for basic education and capacity building to address the critical nutrition issues in Africa to help meet the Millennium Development Goals in the next four years and to improve the health of populations beyond 2015. Critical areas to focus on include effective management of severe acute malnutrition, proactive nutrition data collection and analysis, and the planning and management of effective supplementary and targeted feeding programmes.
The University of Southampton has significant experience in terms of its international experience in the field of nutrition in developing countries and in delivering programmes with practical application on the ground, including at postgraduate level. The Open University's HEAT team has been working with nutrition experts in Ethiopia to create a distance learning Nutrition Module of around 35 hours of learning, which is published under a creative commons licence – so it is free for anyone to access, use, and adapt to meet local needs. Both organisations have extensive networks with academics, practitioners and organisations working in the field of nutrition education in developing regions.
Although discussions are still at a fairly early stage, both institutions are keen to secure funding for the development of a nutrition programme aimed at up-skilling nurse practitioners in key aspects of nutrition education, planning and management. Working with African nutrition experts and educators, the University of Southampton and the OU will support the development of up-to-date, relevant and urgently needed learning resources. The programme team will draw on and adapt existing resources developed by the OU's HEAT team and the University of Southampton to create a set of open educational learning resources which can be integrated within existing programmes in Africa as well as contribute to new pathways for continuing professional development. All of the resources will be developed as distance learning materials, which can also be delivered as part of face-to face teaching programmes.


Keeping OSHA 300 log can be a challenge
What happens when an injury is disclosed two months later?
Keeping the OSHA 300 Injury and Illness log for your company can be challenging, as in the following example.
A former employee tells you that he or she had just come from their personal physician about a possible work-related injury. The physician recommended physical therapy and provided a prescription muscle relaxer to your former employee.
However, the event that caused the injury actually occurred almost two months prior. At the time the injury occurred, the employee still worked for you but did not require medical attention beyond first aid, nor did the employee seek additional medical treatment.
Now what are you supposed to do? Is this recordable?
If the physician believes that the injury or illness was a result of the work environment, then it is recordable. If the injury resulted from a known, single event, use that date, even if the injury did not meet the recording criteria until a later time. If the injury or illness develops over time, such as carpal-tunnel syndrome, then the injury is recorded on the date it becomes recordable, or on the date it is diagnosed by a physician or other licensed health care professional.
If you have a "contemporaneous" medical opinion, the employer can choose the opinion which is most authoritative.
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Chan, R.H. ; Dept. of Math., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China ; Chan, T.H. ; Hau Man Yeung ; Wang, R.W.
The composition vector (CV) method is an alignment-free method for sequence comparison. Because of its simplicity when compared with multiple sequence alignment methods, the method has been widely discussed lately; and some formulas based on probabilistic models, like Hao's and Yu's formulas, have been proposed. In this paper, we improve these formulas by using the entropy principle which can quantify the nonrandomness occurrence of patterns in the sequences. More precisely, existing formulas are used to generate a set of possible formulas from which we choose the one that maximizes the entropy. We give the closed-form solution to the resulting optimization problem. Hence, from any given CV formula, we can find the corresponding one that maximizes the entropy. In particular, we show that Hao's formula is itself maximizing the entropy and we derive a new entropy-maximizing formula from Yu's formula. We illustrate the accuracy of our new formula by using both simulated and experimental data sets. For the simulated data sets, our new formula gives the best consensus and significant values for three different kinds of evolution models. For the data set of tetrapod 18S rRNA sequences, our new formula groups the clades of bird and reptile together correctly, where Hao's and Yu's formulas failed. Using real data sets with different sizes, we show that our formula is more accurate than Hao's and Yu's formulas even for small data sets.
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I was solving a question from the Regional Math Olympiad (RMO) 2014.
Find all positive real numbers $x,y,z$ such that
Here's my solution:
These expressions are cyclic. Therefore all solution sets must be unordered. This implies that $x=y=z$.
Thus, $x=2014$ and the solution is
$$x=2014\quad y=2014\quad z=2014$$
Here's the official solution:
Adding the three equations, we get $$\frac1x+\frac1y+\frac1z=\frac3{2014}$$
We can also write them as $$2xz-2yz+1=\frac z{2014},\quad2xy-2xz+1=\frac x{2014},\quad2yz-2xy+1=\frac y{2014}$$
Adding these, we get $$x+y+z=3\times2014$$
Therefore, $$\left(\frac1x+\frac1y+\frac1z\right)(x+y+z)=9$$
Using $\text{AM-GM}$ inequality, we therefore obtain $$9=\left(\frac1x+\frac1y+\frac1z\right)(x+y+z)\ge9\times(xyz)^{\frac13}\left({1\over xyz}\right)^{\frac13}=9$$
Hence equality holds and we conclude that $x=y=z$.
Thus we conclude $$x=2014\quad y=2014\quad z=2014$$
What I wonder is if there is something wrong with my approach. If yes, what is it? If no, then why is the official solution so long winded?
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 $\begingroup$ What exactly is a "solution set" and what does it mean for a solution set to be unordered? If a "solution set" is a set, then of course it is "unordered" because all sets are. Why would this imply that $x=y=z$? $\endgroup$ – littleO May 14 '18 at 10:48
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 $\begingroup$ Any solution of $(x-2y)(y-2x)=0$, if permuted, results in another solution. That doesn't mean we can conclude that $x=y$. It just means our solution set is symmetric across the line $x=y$. $\endgroup$ – G Tony Jacobs May 14 '18 at 10:57
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 $\begingroup$ That's still a claim that would require proof. $\endgroup$ – G Tony Jacobs May 14 '18 at 11:05
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 $\begingroup$ Would $x+y+z=4$ be a counterexample to your logic? $\endgroup$ – Bram28 May 14 '18 at 11:21
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 $\begingroup$ see jstor.org/stable/_PHONE_ entitled "Do symmetric problems have symmetric solutions?" $\endgroup$ – Matthew Towers May 14 '18 at 11:48
Consider the system of equations
$xy + z = 1, \quad yz + x = 1, \quad zx + y = 1$
These equations are related by cyclic permutations of $(x,y,z)$, but they are satisified by $(1,1,0)$ (and its cyclic permutations) when $x$, $y$ and $z$ are not all equal.
There are also solutions where $x=y=z=\frac{\pm \sqrt{5}-1}{2}$, but these are not the only solutions.
 - $\begingroup$ Ah. Of course. I didn't realize that. However, the question asks for positive reals. Could you provide an example where the solution set is wholly positive and unordered, but where the unknowns aren't equal? $\endgroup$ – DynamoBlaze May 14 '18 at 11:04
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 $\begingroup$ How about the same left-hand sides, but they're all equal to $3$? Then every permutation of $(1,1,2)$ works. $\endgroup$ – G Tony Jacobs May 14 '18 at 11:07
As Mohammad Riazi-Kermani and gandalf61 show, you cannot conclude $x=y=z$ simply from the cyclic invariance of the system of equations. However, in this case you can make a simple argument that starts with an observation based on cyclic invariance, namely that you may as well assume $x\ge y,z$ (i.e., cycle through $(x,y,z)$, $(y,z,x)$ and $(z,x,y)$ and pick the one that starts with the largest of the three numbers).
If $x\ge y,z$, then $2x-2y\ge0$ while $2z-2x\le0$, so that
$${1\over2014}=2x-2y+{1\over z}\ge{1\over z}\implies z\ge2014$$
$${1\over2014}=2z-2x+{1\over y}\le{1\over y}\implies 2014\ge y$$
so we now have $x\ge z\ge 2014\ge y$. But this now tells us $2y-2z\le0$, so that
$${1\over2014}=2y-2z+{1\over x}\le{1\over x}\implies2014\ge x$$
so we now have $2014\ge x\ge z\ge 2014\ge y$, from which we see $x=z=2014\ge y$. The final equality, $2014=y$, comes by sustituting $x=z=2014$ into any of the three equations.
Note, the implication ${1\over2014}\ge{1\over z}\implies z\ge2014$ requires the assumption $z\gt0$.
The equations being cyclic does not necessarily mean the variables are equal.
For example $$ x+y+z=6\\x^2+y^2+z^2=14\\x^3+y^3+z^3=36$$ Solutions are not equal. $$x=1, y=2,z=3$$ is one solutions set.
 - $\begingroup$ This isn't cyclic. Cyclic would be $3x^3+2y^2+z=11,3y^3+2z^2+x=11,3z^3+2x^2+y=11$. What I mean by cyclic is that you can just shift the places of the variables one to the left or one to the right to get another one of the given equations. $\endgroup$ – DynamoBlaze May 14 '18 at 13:46
 - $\begingroup$ _USER_ Thanks for the comment. That is quite different from what I was thinking. $\endgroup$ – Mohammad Riazi-Kermani May 14 '18 at 14:09
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 $\begingroup$ _USER_ That's not the standard definition of "cyclic". $\endgroup$ – Acccumulation May 14 '18 at 17:40
The general cyclic system is $$ f(x,y,z)=f(y,z,x)=f(z,x,y)=0$$ with some function $f$. There is not the slightest reason to assume that $f(42,\pi,e)\ne 0$.
First, your use of the word "cyclic" isn't quite consistent with its usual meaning.
Second, a counterexample:
yz+x = 0
zx+y = 0
(1,1,-1) satisfies these equations.
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ABSTRACT: The study was designed to find out factors that influence use/non-use of pedestrian bridges. The use rate of five pedestrian bridges was observed in the central business district (CBD) of Ankara. After the observations, a survey was conducted among pedestrians using those bridges and crossing contrary to safe practice under them at street level (n=408). In the present data, the use rate of pedestrian bridges varied from 6 to 63%. The frequent use of the bridge when crossing the road concerned, and seeing bridge use as time saving and safe in general were positively related to respondents' bridge use. Frequent visits to CBD decreased the likelihood of using the bridge. Other factors accounted only for a small proportion of variance in bridge use. The study suggests that bridge use or non-use is a habit and not coincidental behaviour. For increasing the pedestrians' bridge use, escalators seem to be a good solution, but traffic signals under a bridge may deteriorate the use rate. In addition, increasing the number of legs leading to the bridge may not increase the use rate. The use rate is likely to improve, if the safety benefits and convenience of using the bridge without considerable time loss are clearly visible to pedestrians.
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Identification of decoration and origin
Can you possibly discern the origin of this architectural figure. It is confounding me since I cannot find anything in the books that I have for reference.
It seems to me that this is a warrior figure and in his lap appears to be a bird. Can you dicere anything from these photos?
Ming "roof tile"
You call it an architectural figure and that is about as close as we can get. They are usually called "tiles" and were used on the roofs to ward evil sprits off the houses.
In the trade they are usually called "Ming dynasty" and everybody seems pretty happy with that provided they are not still warm from the kiln. You could look at the clothing of the figure, the general style, the crazing of the glaze and the general condition - since something that old ought to be at least a bit battered - but regarding the age there is really no telling by just looking at a picture.
Regarding the man and the bird I think that could be connected to an old story about a local king that - losing a war - got tied to the roof of his house until a bird took him away. Unfortunately I don't remember the details. The setting of the story was probably the Zhou dynasty. This specific figure is usually depicted *sitting* on the bird, though.
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A trailing drawdown is a drawdown that is pegged to your positive account performance. That means that if you increase your profit by $1.00, then your trailing drawdown will also rise by $1.00. All rules, including trailing, use closed and open equity intraday.
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On your first trade as you make $100.00 in profit bringing your account balance to $25,100.00. This correspondingly raises your trailing drawdown to $23,600.00.
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Feature Scaling or Standardization: It is a step of Data Pre Processing which is applied to independent variables or features of data. It basically helps to normalise the data within a particular range. Sometimes, it also helps in speeding up the calculations in an algorithm.
Package Used:
 from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
Formula used in Backend
Standardisation replaces the values by their Z scores.
Mostly the Fit method is used for Feature scaling
fit(X, y = None)
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# Read Data from CSV
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# Initialise the Scaler
scaler = StandardScaler()
# To scale data
Why and Where to Apply Feature Scaling?
Real world dataset contains features that highly vary in magnitudes, units, and range. Normalisation should be performed when the scale of a feature is irrelevant or misleading and not should Normalise when the scale is meaningful.
The algorithms which use Euclidean Distance measure are sensitive to Magnitudes. Here feature scaling helps to weigh all the features equally.
Formally, If a feature in the dataset is big in scale compared to others then in algorithms where Euclidean distance is measured this big scaled feature becomes dominating and needs to be normalized.
Examples of Algorithms where Feature Scaling matters
1. K-Means uses the Euclidean distance measure here feature scaling matters.
2. K-Nearest-Neighbours also require feature scaling.
3. Principal Component Analysis (PCA): Tries to get the feature with maximum variance, here too feature scaling is required.
4. Gradient Descent: Calculation speed increase as Theta calculation becomes faster after feature scaling.
Note: Naive Bayes, Linear Discriminant Analysis, and Tree-Based models are not affected by feature scaling.
In Short, any Algorithm which is Not Distance based is Not affected by Feature Scaling.
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text: This study aims to investigate the factors regulating population size and colony distribution of Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) at Cape Hallett. Data was collected on Adelie penguin reproductive effort and chick condition including total number of adults, number of breeding pairs, number of active nests, number of territories, number of unknown, nests with 1 or 2 eggs, nests with 1 or 2... chicks and the number of creche chicks. Satellite transmitters and time depth recorders were used to track individual penguins at sea to determine their foraging areas and strategies during the breeding season. Regurgitated food samples were collected for analysis. Chicks were selected randomly and were weighed and had their flipper length measured to calculate a chick condition index which is comparable between years and between the rookeries. Feeding frequency and reproductive effort was determined from chick feeding observations.


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Is Lobster Cholesterol Content Good or Bad for Health?
Does Lobster have Cholesterol?
Cholesterol is a fatty, wax-like substance found in all animals. Even humans produce a significant amount of cholesterol as a product of metabolism. These substances are used for the repair of damaged cells. Thus, all animal-based meat and products contain some amounts of cholesterol. Lobster contains a relatively high amount of cholesterol.
- High in nutrition. A single serving of cooked lobster, about 3 ounces, has no saturated fat, 1 gram of carbohydrate, 17 grams of protein, less than 1 gram of fat, and 85 calories. There's no argument in saying that lobster is both healthy and nutritious. A serving of lobster packs a good punch of high-protein, lean meat.
- Cholesterol content. Each serving of cooked lobster has about 60 mg of cholesterol. In a day, healthy individuals should consume a maximum of 300 mg, while those with high cholesterol levels should only have a maximum of 200 mg per day. A single serving of lobster in the diet completes at least 20 percent of the recommended daily count.
Is Lobster Cholesterol Good or Bad for Health
The cholesterol content present in servings of cooked lobster is recommended for healthy individuals. However, those who have high cholesterol levels, or have pre-existing cardiovascular diseases should consume the shellfish in moderation.
- Shellfish has the lowest caloric content among all forms of meat. Lobster has less than half the caloric content of hamburger made of ground beef. It also has less than half of chicken's cholesterol content, while prime ribs have three times more.
- Lobster becomes packed with bad cholesterol when accompanied by butter. Each tablespoon of butter contains around 35 mg of cholesterol. Instead of using butter or margarine, a squeeze of fresh lemon can improve any lobster dish.
- A single serving of cooked lobster has the lowest cholesterol count and saturated fat levels among all types of shellfish. Shrimp has a whopping 166 mg of cholesterol, while crab has around 80 mg.
- The monounsaturated fats found in lobsters help raise the levels of both low-density lipoproteins (bad cholesterol) and high-density lipoproteins (good cholesterol). However, lobsters contain no trans-fats.
- Lobsters should only be grilled or steamed. Frying lobsters can significantly increase the levels of trans-fats. It can also be consumed chilled, boiled, or broiled. Instead of using animal-based oils, an equally delectable alternative is extra virgin oil. Instead of using whole-fat milk for lobster bisques, individuals can prepare the shellfish using low-fat milk.


text: An unpolished (mill) finish, and a precision tolerance, and meets American Society for Testing and Materials International ASTM A313 specifications. It is corrosion resistance. The material may be slightly magnetic and can be cold worked for increased strength and rigidity. The spring temper is stiff and spring like, resisting bends and kinks until a large amount of force is applied. Wire will not stretch, so care must be taken to measure accurately. There are a couple of ways to join the ends of your wire. My favorite method is wrapping the ends with thread. Allow 2 inches overlap for this method. Using strong millinery thread, begin at one end of the overlapped wires and wrap tightly towards the other end of overlap. Add a dab of clear glue to each open end of wire at the overlaps. The most common stitches for securing wire to the edge of a brim are a buttonhole stitch for hand sewing and a wide zig-zag stitch when using a sewing machine. It is important to sew the wire to the edge, not on top or under the brim edge. The stitch width should be only the depth of the wire. If the stitch is too deep, the wire will slip away from the edge and can cause an uneven looking finish to the brim. See our FAQ section for more in depth instruction.


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Rolled hinges is the collective name for all hinges with a bead. Rolled hinges refers to the hinge shape having been formed by 'rolling' the metal. Rolling is a pressing process; a special beading tool creates a 'roll' in both parts of the hinge. The hinge halves are then calibrated to receive the correct pin diameter. The parts are connected with a pin to create the hinge.
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Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide
To Create a Personal Address Card
 1. Choose New from the Card menu.
 Address Manager displays a template for a new card in the scrolling pane. Each line in the template card represents a field specified in the vCard specification. All fields are optional, although you should fill in at least the Name field.
 2. Type the relevant information for the new address card in the scrolling pane.
 If you are unsure as to the appropriate format of information such as phone numbers, and the like, print out an existing card and use it as a guide.
 3. When you are satisfied with the details you have entered, choose Save As from the Card menu.
 Address Manager displays the Save As dialog box.
 4. Type a name for the new card file and click Save.
 The file name should contain the name of the person to which the card relates. Address Manager saves the file under the file name that you specified in the Addresses folder.
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 For address cards (which conform to the vCard standard), some operating environments such as Windows recognize the.vcf file extension. If you intend mailing your address cards to users of such systems, you may want to use this file-naming convention.
 5. (Optional) Verify your new personal address card by searching for it with Personal Cards selected in the Search menu.
 Address Manager finds and displays the personal address card you created.


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|Nailing and Screwing - Course: Making of Wood Joints. Instruction Examples for Practical Vocational Training|
The present documentation contains six selected instruction examples which serve to apply and consolidate the knowledge and skills of nailing and screwing techniques.
The basic idea of this technique is the making of wood joints, as well as the fastening of mountings on wood by means of nails or screws.
Each of the six selected instruction examples offers different possibilities to make wood joints or fasten mountings by means of nails or screws for holding or securing the parts to be joined.
The following criteria are to be considered:
- kind and extent of load the joint is exposed to
- optical-esthetical appearance
- risk of injury.
The kinds of joints offered in the instruction examples can be practised on other workpieces as well depending on the requirements of the trainee's working range and/or factory.
This could be for example:
- fastening of floor boarding, rear walls of furniture
- assembly of picket fences, batten doors and plank doors, transport boxes
- mounting on furniture and structural wood members, makeshift furniture.
To facilitate the preparation and implementation of the works, the materials, tools, measuring, testing and auxiliary means required for each instruction example are stated.
The work routine mentioned for the individual instruction examples contains the sequence of operations which are necessary for making the nail and/or screw joint.
A work drawing is attached to each example which shows the type and arrangement of the nails or screws as well as the shapes and/or dimensions of the workpiece.


Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP11 Administrator's Guide
Renaming Users
For LDAP databases, the rename feature changes only the user's name, all other fields are left intact. In addition, the user's old name is still preserved so searches against the old name will still find the new entry.
When you rename a user entry, you can only change the user's name. You cannot use the rename feature to move the entry from one organizational unit to another. For example, suppose you have organizational units for Marketing and Accounting and an entry named "Billie Holiday" under the Marketing organizational unit. You can rename the entry from Billie Holiday to Doc Holiday, but you cannot rename the entry such that Billie Holiday under the Marketing organizational unit becomes Billie Holiday under the Accounting organizational unit.
ProcedureTo rename a user entry
 If you are using common name-based DNs, specify the user's full name. If you are using uid-based distinguished names, enter the new uid value that you want to use for the entry.
 3. Click Rename User.
 4. Change the Given Name, Surname, Full Name, or UID fields appropriately to match the new distinguished name for the entry.
 5. You can specify that the Administration Server no longer retains the old full name or uid values when you rename the entry by setting the keepOldValueWhenRenaming parameter to false. You can find this parameter in the following file:


In the US, Hibistat (chlorhexidine topical) is a member of the following drug classes: antiseptic and germicides, mouth and throat products and is used to treat Skin Disinfection, Preoperative.
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On the joint eigenvalue distribution for the matrix ensembles with non zero mean
Exact distributions are given for the two-dimensional case when the mean of the off-diagonal element is non-zero. The joint eigenvalue distribution for theN dimensional case, derived using the volume element in the space ofN ×N orthogonal matrices, is checked by rederiving the exact results forN=2. The smooth nature of theN-dimensional joint distribution supports the claim of the method of moments that the single eigenvalue distribution is a smooth function of the ratio of mean-to-mean square deviation.
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Covelo fire burned 617 acres
Full containment of the Pass Fire located east of Covelo, stubbornly eluded CalFire and the US Forest Service firefighters over the weekend.
Monday afternoon, the 617-acre fire was 97 percent contained. Cost as of 10:30 a.m. Monday was $2.6 million, but fire personnel had been reduced to 277 persons from a peak of 921.
When the fire began August 3at noon, it was attacked heavily from the air, as ground resources surged to the location. Initially, the fire threatened several structures near the Eel River Work Center, but then burned north and east, leaving the structures unharmed. Steep hills in the fire zone were covered with a combination of dry grass and oaks on the western slopes and grass and heavy manzanita on the eastern sides.
Containment was particularly challenging in the area located in the steep canyon slopes above the Eel River.
Fire engines from Little Lake, Ukiah Valley, Redwood Valley, Brooktrails and Laytonville fire departments responded to the mutual-aid call just after the fire started, and remained on the fire lines until Friday afternoon. Local firefighters slept on the ground and ate field rations for much of their time out.
In the early stage, the fire size was estimated at 800 acres, but as overflights mapped the fire boundaries more accurately, the official size was scaled back to 644 acres and finally to 617 acres.
Although the fire began in the state responsibility area, it quickly crossed into lands managed by the US Bureau of Land Management and Mendocino National Forest. The fire response was co-managed by CalFire and the U.S. Forest Service.
One firefighter suffered a wrist injury during the fire.


How To Photograph Cigarette Smoke (Step By Step)
Although we really shouldn't condone smoking due to its health implications, as artists, we have to admit that there is something really beautiful about the smoke itself. From the patterns it creates to how smoke dances in the light, there is a lot of opportunity for stunning images at the butt of a cigarette. Here is our step-by-step guide on how to take advantage of this phenomena!
Step 1: Choose the Right Lens
Everything comes down to how the final image looks! Although the camera plays a much more minor role in this specific type of photography, the lens plays a tremendous one. The optics you are using will affect perspective, field of view, and the depth of field.
First thing's first, determine how close or far away from the smoke you will be. For the most part, photographers choose standard lenses or telephoto lenses for this type of work, rather than wide angle lenses.
Wide angle lenses have a wide field of view, not really useful for something like cigarette smoke which can be fairly small!
Standard lenses range from 35mm all the way to 70mm and are amongst the easiest lenses to use because they feature no distortion (the glass is flat). Standard lenses are the closest to the human eye and what you see, which makes these millimeters popular choices for easier photography compositions. These lenses are also commonly seen with wide apertures, which is great for smoke photography because you can just focus on the smoke and blur the rest of the background away.
You may not initially consider telephoto lenses for smoke photography, but they can actually work out really great! Telephoto lenses are long lenses that can remind you a bit of a telescope. These lenses can zoom you very close to your subject! They range in millimeters from 70mm all the way to 300mm. Although commonly used by sport and animal photographers, there is something magical that happens when you use a telephoto lens for non-sporting subjects: the zoom range actually creates an optical compression when used, which creates more flattering proportions and perspective on whatever subject you capture! Plus the bonus of not needing to be near the smoke.
So needless to say, step one is determining the lens you want to use.
Step 2: Find a Good Light Source
Next, you need to find a good light source. Even when looking at smoke with the naked eye, you may have noticed that it tends to disappear in direct light and really shows its shape prominently in backlighting. As such, you need to apply these principles to your smoke photography.
Look for a light source that positions behind your subject rather than in front. As well, it's a good idea to have the light source be behind but from below so it doesn't overtake the smoke and cause it to be lost as well!
You can do this with natural, ambient light that is available at your shooting location or with an artificial light. Video lights that are continuous and don't flash work very nicely.
Step 3: Adjust Camera Settings
Now, the trickier part… camera settings. Camera settings are very dependent upon your location, the type of lighting, and the type of look you're wanting to capture. Set the camera to M (Manual) mode and focus on the exposure equation:
The ISO controls how the sensor responds to the light that hits it, whether it's sensitive to the light (because there is less of it) or not very sensitive to the light (because there is more of it).
The shutter speed is how fast your camera takes the photograph.
The aperture controls how much light does (or doesn't) hit your sensor.
For cigarette smoke photography, you'll likely want to freeze the smoke so you can capture it dancing in the air, so the priority will be your shutter speed first. The higher the shutter speed number, the more frozen the action will be (but the photograph will be darker). The lower the shutter speed number, the more motion blur your photograph will have (but the photograph will be lighter). For smoke, a minimum shutter speed of 1/300 can suffice.
Next, you'll probably want to make sure that the smoke is nicely isolated from the background and foreground. The lower the aperture number, the more light the camera lets in. The higher the aperture number, the less light the camera lets in. The lower the aperture number, the shallower the depth of field. The larger the aperture number, the deeper the depth of field. An F/2.8 is pretty excellent. Now, to go back to lens choice, the widest aperture is determined by the lensnot the camera. If you have an F/4 lens, for example, it cannot widen to F/2.8.
Then, you'll need to find an ISO that balances out the shutter speed and aperture setting. The lower the ISO number, the less sensitive the camera is to light (but the less noise the photograph has). The higher the ISO number, the more sensitive the camera is to light (but the more noise the photograph has). Noise are the obnoxious little specks you see in photographs.
As well as this, cameras can sometimes have a hard time focusing on cigarette smoke because it can be so pale and fleeting. To help with focus, set your camera to the proper autofocus mode. By default, your camera is set to One-Shot right out of the box. One-Shot achieves automatic focus on your subject for only one image, not applicable for moving smoke. As such, switch the camera over to Continuous Focus. For this, the camera's focus keeps refocusing on the subject as it moves.
Then, utilize your Autofocus Points. These points tell you (and the camera) where to focus. Each point refers to an area the camera is able to focus on. By switching to a mode such as AF Selection, you can tell the camera exactly what points you need it to use to focus on your subject!
Step 4: Compose the Shot
Composition is everything! Composition is the arrangement of everything in a shotfrom the subject, to the background, and even the foreground.
For smoke, because it is something that moves, the primary compositional rule you'll want to focus on is the sense of implied movement. Implied sense of movement means the direction that you think the movement will go in a still image. How this factors into composition is that you always want to leave more negative space in the direction of implied movement. This keeps your photograph from feeling claustrophobic or too abruptly cropped.
So if the smoke is blowing to the left, you want more negative space to the left of the frame, to give the smoke some room to go!
Step 5: Direct Your Subject and Click!
You don't want to run out of smoke before you're ready to take the shot! Direct your subject to light the cigarette and start puffing after you've done the aforementioned four steps. Then aim your camera, get the focus, and take the shot!
In closing, these five simple steps should aid you in capturing some dramatic and fun smoke shots.
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Global In-Memory Computing Market Size and Growth Forecast 2026
Global In-Memory Computing Market
Mar 2019| VMF144A| Verified Market Research
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Global In-Memory Computing Market By Component, By Organization Size, By Vertical, By Geography And Forecast
According to Verified Market Research, the market for In-Memory Computing Market was valued at USD 8.99 Billion in 2018 and is projected to reach USD 31.06 Billion by 2026 over the forecast period at a CAGR of 16.68%.
In-Memory Computing (IMC) can be defined as the storage of data in the main RAM (Random Access Memory) of the server, in contrast to complicated relational databases that are operating on slow disk drives. In-Memory Computing facilitates users to analyze massive data volumes at quicker and overall reduce the latency of storage. In-Memory Computing affects several processes such as integration, enabling faster decision making, and cost reduction. Thereby allowing for leveraging big data possible. In-Memory Computing essentially refers to moving data which has traditionally been stored on hard discs into main memory. By storing the data in the main memory, the latency of processing is reduced dramatically.
It can be seen that the market for In-Memory Computing is growing with various verticals adopting its use. Specifically, verticals such as BFSI, retail, and healthcare contribute a large percentage of the overall In-Memory Computing market. The incorporation of in-memory computing in these verticals allows for the overall decrease in the dormancy of the individual sectors. In-memory computing helps business customers, including retailers, banks and utilities, to quickly detect patterns, analyze massive data volumes on the fly, and perform their operations quickly. The "In-Memory Computing Market" study report will provide a valuable insight with an emphasis on global market including some of the major players such as Altibase, SAP SE, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, etc.
There are various factors that are benefitting the growth of the In-Memory Computing Market. These factors include the exponential growth of big data and the improved performance of the analysis. Another factor that is positively affecting the In-Memory Computing market is the reduction in the cost of RAM in the market. Restraining factors to the growth of the overall In-Memory Computing Market is the volatility of data and the concerns regarding the security of the data.
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Once again on the shock impact topic. In her new nice manuscript in Scientific Reports Mara Murri presents some of the recent considerations about structural disorder in the form of complex combinations of cubic and hexagonal stacking motifs commonly occurring on impact diamonds which structural characterization remains an extremely challenging task.
In this study impact diamonds from the Popigai crater have been characterized with a range of techniques. With MCDIFFaX on the X-ray diffraction data, we found hexagonality indices up to 40%. Furthermore, electron microscopy revealed nanoscale twinning within the cubic diamond structure. These results lead us to propose a systematic protocol for assigning specifc hexagonality attributes to the mineral under investigation


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Simulation of isothermal processes in uranium dioxide through molecular dynamics method using a parametrically temperature-dependent potentialAuthor(s): Yuri Sergeevich Nagornov, Andrey Valerievich Katz
The present paper justifies the application of the temperature-dependent potential to themolecular dynamicsmethod through the example of uranium dioxide. Substantiation of the temperature dependence of interatomic potential is carried out based on the Newton quantum equation.Mean force can be represented as a sum of derivative of potential at the average atomic coordinate and the summand that depends on square dispersion of the coordinate depending on the temperature of the crystal. The selection of parameters of potential was done at three temperature values: the initial temperature and temperatures of phase transitions Â 2670 and 3120K, parameters of potentials for all other temperatures were found by approximation. The paper calculated temperature dependencies for the lattice constant, enthalpy, heat capacity. Our data are good agreement with experimental data.


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The theorem says:
"Suppose $z_0$ is an essential isolated singularity of $f(z)$. Then for every complex number $w_0$, there is a sequence $z_n\rightarrow z_0$ such that $f(z_n)\rightarrow w_0$."
The function $f(z)=e^{1/z}$ has an essential singularity at $z=0$. Can someone demonstrate the theorem up above by providing a sequence of complex numbers $z_n$ so that:
$$z_n\rightarrow 0 \qquad\text{and}\qquad f(z_n)\rightarrow 10$$
And perhaps a second example where:
$$z_n\rightarrow 0 \qquad\text{and}\qquad f(z_n)\rightarrow 1+i$$
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Let $\ln(10)$ be the real natural logarithm of 10. Then for $$z_n = \frac{1}{\ln(10) + 2\pi n i}$$ we have $z_n \to 0$ and $f(z_n) = 10$. You can do the same thing for $1 + i$ by replacing $\log(10)$ with any number such that $e^z = 1 + i$.
As a comment, by the Picard theorem, there is at most one complex number $w_0$ with the property that we cannot choose $z_n \to z_0$ with $f(z_n) = w_0$. In this case it is $0$.
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Volume 8, Issue 1 (2022)
The Spring 2022 issue of the Journal of Educational Leadership in Action (ELA) is now available. This focused issue of ELA centers on leadership during a pandemic and the allocation of resources. The issue provides research and perspectives on supporting the mental health needs of Latina/o students during the COVID pandemic, the pandemic's impact on principal self-efficacy, and the role of school principals' practices with resource allocation. We welcome and value your readership and encourage you to submit for future publication(s).
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Leadership Matters: Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Black and Latina/o Students in a Post COVID-19 World
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From Eindhoven to Alghero (Sardinia)
Alghero (Sardinia)
Local delicacies in Catalan Italy
The sea is turquoise and the beach is pearly white. Rugged cliffs and small sandy bays change into the green hillside of the inlands. Rosemary, myrtle and wild thyme grow abundantly and spread a wonderful smell. Sardinia has much to offer…
Foreign powers
Because of its strategic location, Sardinia was frequently visited by foreign powers in the course of centuries. Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals and Byzantines made their homes there, followed by settlers from Valencia and Barcelona in the 12th century. They were the ones who founded the city of Alghero. Their influence can still be felt in many ways such as in the language: in this Italian city people speak Catalan.
Narrow alleys
Due to the city's military past, Alghero possesses impressive city walls that nowadays invite you to take a stroll and enjoy the city. In the city centre you can wander through narrow alleys that are connected by picturesque squares. A visit to the Duomo – the cathedral of Santa Maria – is a must: the outside appears 'Pisan' whereas the interior is beautifully baroque. Also take note of the street names, as these reveal the origin of Alghero. Each street carries both an Italian and a Catalan name. Surprisingly, these names often have no connection.
Sheep cheese
Those who enjoy fresh fish will be fully satisfied here. Crayfish is a local delicacy, but the cucina pastorale (shepherd's cuisine) offers something for everyone. In many dishes local ingredients are used, such as salami, pecorino (sheep cheese) and gattò (honey). Accompanied by a strong Sardinian wine, these make for pleasant dining.
Individual character
Alghero has an entirely individual character: you can hear it in the language, you can see it in the monuments and you can taste it in the kitchen. All the more reason to experience this city yourself.
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Teacher strike over academy row
Teachers at a school in Haringey are going on strike today, in protest against plans to turn it into an academy.
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Anti-academy protest outside school
Teachers, who have gone on strike in protest against plans to turn their school into an academy, were joined by parents as they demonstrated outside the school today.
Up to 40 parents attended the protest at Downhills Primary in Haringey.
Sarah Williams, 40, who has two sons at the school, said:
"There is absolutely no evidence that a change in structure improves children's educational outcomes.
"When the process first started I thought it was about improving the school, but as we've got further along I've realised it's all about [Education Secretary] Micheal Gove's ideologies that the only way to improve is to introduce profit.
"If you look at the figures, this school was already improving, and there's absolutely no reason why the school can't continue to improve if left the way it is."
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The Gold Medal Schools Awards Program (GMS) recognizes Utah's schools that create opportunities for students to eat healthy, be active, and stay tobacco-free.
How to Apply:
See the "Award" information and application page at the Gold Medal Schools Web site.
After completion of award requirements, submit completed application with the handling fee (if applicable).
- Review the award requirements and choose the level you will be working toward. Award levels are:
- Identify which criteria you will be working on.
- Bronze: A school must complete the following six criteria:
- 90 minutes of structured physical activity each week
- Teach the State Office of Education Nutrition Curriculum
- Walk the Gold Medal Mile
- Write and enforce the Safe and Active Routes to School policy
- Write and enforce the Tobacco policy
- Complete the Heart Health Survey
- Silver: Must complete the Bronze and the three following Silver criteria:
- PTA/PTO coordinate one health related event per year
- Implement staff and wellness activities
- Offer a variety of competitive and non-competitive physical activity programs
- Gold: Must complete the Bronze, Silver and the following three Gold criteria:
- All Pre K-12 physical education courses be overseen by a PE specialist
- No food rewards
- Complete four of the nine options from the Changing the Scene Program.
- Platinum: Must complete the Bronze, Silver, Gold and the five following Platinum criteria:
- Strengthen school community council
- Healthy choices @ school events vending machines school stores, fundraisers, and other venues
- Staff/faculty wellness program
- Involve families communities
- Recess before lunch or adequate eating time


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Animal Species:Soldier Crab
The Soldier Crab lives in sandy estuaries and mangroves, and occurs in massive groups that seem to emerge from nowhere all at the same time.
The Soldier Crab is quite distinctive with its small, round, blue body on long jointed legs with purple stripes. As it marches around feeding, it moulds the sand into numerous pellets, sorting through it for organic matter. There is only one other species of soldier crab common in Sydney. This is the smaller Mictyris platycheles.
Soldier Crabs are found from Northern Queensland, New South Wales, to Wilsons Promontory in Victoria. Also, western Indian Ocean to French Polynesia.
Soldier Crabs live on intertidal mangroves, beaches and estuaries.
Other behaviours and adaptations
It is thought that the spontaneous arrival of Soldier Crabs is triggered by the falling tide. If disturbed, they burrow into the sand with a corkscrew motion, disappearing as quickly as they arrived.


Cure Terms Glossary
Gelation is process of gel formation. In the process of cure, the onset of gelation is the point when the mix is no longer capable of flow (the no-flow condition). At this point, viscous and elastic character are in balance (storage & loss moduli equal in value) and the gel point can therefore be regarded as the half-way house between purely viscous and purely elastic states. In molecular terms, gelation occurs when an infinite network first forms.
Gelation is critically dependent on the functionality of the starting mix - i.e., the higher the initial functionality, then the earlier in the cure will gelation occur. The competition between intermolecular (crosslinking) and intramolecular (cyclisation) complicates matters and current theories focus on predicting a critical conversion, pc, below which gelation is not possible. One such expression estimates the critical conversion for gelation in stoichiometic cure effected by the stepwise reaction of two types of mutually reacting groups (i.e. A + B → C) as:
pc2 = 1 / (φ1 - 1) (φ2 - 1)
where pc is a fractional conversion (i.e. 0 - 1), and φ1 & φ2 are the average functionalities of the starting molecules
Unlike vitrification, there is no change in change in reactivity of the system on gelation.


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Corn Flakes - History of Corn Flakes
Have you ever eaten corn flakes? Corn flakes are flakes of cereal made out of corn. Sometimes they come with sugar added to them. There are many brands of corn flakes sold at the grocery store. There is one, though, that is called Corn Flakes. This cereal is made by the Kellogg company.
Corn Flakes were created by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg in 1894. At the time, Dr. Kellogg was the superintendent at Battle Creek Sanitarium. Superintendent means that he was in charge. A sanitarium is a hospital for people who have a sickness that cannot be cured. People who could not be cured went to live out the rest of their lives in the sanitarium.
Dr. Kellogg was interested in healthy eating. The Battle Creek Sanitarium was a "health spa" that encouraged a vegetarian diet. This means that the patients could not eat meat. They were also not allowed to drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes.
Dr. Kellogg invented several healthy foods, such as granola and peanut butter. Dr. Kellogg believed that tooth decay was caused by people not using their teeth to chew enough. But, people had to be able to chew something that wouldn't hurt their teeth. So, he experimented with toasting dry, crisp cereals that could be mixed with milk. This is how Corn Flakes were invented.
The Kellogg company still makes many types of cereals. Today, toasted "flakes" are used in many types of cereals-corn flakes, rice flakes, and wheat flakes. These dry cereals are a popular breakfast food. They are usually eaten in a bowl with milk poured over them. But, some people will use these flakes to make "treats" or desserts by adding sugar, peanut butter, honey, or marshmallows.


the test is shown below. Note that since the plans are all delivered to the same portion of the panel (unlike the original Ling test) no open beam is required to remove beam profile effects. RAT3_updated.PNG
Since these tests have been delivered to the EPID the output factor tool can be used to analyse the dose deviations. In the table below the measured values have been normalised to the average. It can be seen that the maximum dose deviation from unity is 0.4% inidcating the accuracy of the MLC speed during RapidArc. It is noted that this test is only analysing the central few leaves for speed. However other tools can be used to analyse the dose along the entire length of the MLC bank. This method is most convenient for routine QA.
Leaf Speed (cm/s) Value (cGy/MU) Normalised Deviation (%)
1 0.476121 1.001 0.1
2 0.473771 0.996 -0.4
3 0.475437 0.999 0.0
4 0.475901 1.001 0.1
5 0.475555 1.002 0.2
The Halcyon is able to deliver varying leaf speeds during RapidArc. The RapidArc Leaf Speed Test has been adapted and incorporated in routine QA.


Spend Tanabata with your Japanese girlfriend in summer! | Guidable
Spend Tanabata with your Japanese girlfriend in summer!
By Guidable Writers Jul 7, 2017
Tanabata is a special day all over Japan. Tanabata, the star Festival, celebrates to commemorate the romantic story of two lovers represented by the stars Vega and Altair who are only allowed to meet once a year. Japanese people celebrate Tanabata on August 7th.
What people do on Tanabata?
People write wishes on small pieces of colored paper called tanzaku and hang them on bamboo trees. When the Tanabata festival is near, you will see many supermarket or department store will have a space where people can hang their wishes on a tree. People generally writing wishes on the tanzaku, sometimes in the form of poetry, but most of the people will just write it in casual way.
Large-scale Tanabata festivals are held in many places in japan, mainly along shopping malls and streets, which are decorated with large, colorgul streamers. The most popular Tanabata festival is in Sendai from 6 to 9 August. In the Kanto region, two of the largest festivals are held in Hiratsuka (Kanagawa) and Asagaya (Tokyo).
Most of the Asian festival has its own legend or folk tale behind it. Tanabata also has a story that is originated from a Chinese legend called Qixi, and it was brought to Japan in the 8th century. So lets see what is the festival about.
What is the tanabata story?
Tennno Osama, the king of the sky, had a beautiful daughter named Orihime who an incredibly gifted seamstress. She kept working at her room, to weave the fabric that her father loved so much. The Sky King felt sympathy for her, and he found a boy friend for Orihime. The Sky King chose Hikoboshi, a good hearted man from all the way.
The two instantly fell in love, and they loved each other so much in fact tthat even work no matter to them. Orihime began to neglect her job to weave the fabric, and Hikoboshi began to neglect his work. Eventually, the Sky King became angry!
The Sky King used his incredible power to create a mighty river that would permanently separate the two lovers. This river is called Amanogawa in Japanese, which is called Milky Way in English!
Time went on, and Orihime and Hikoboshi went back to work. However, they never forgot about each other. They went back to work, but their hearts were never the same. Hikoboshi often looked across the river wondering, 'Is she still thinking about me?'
Orihime also went back to work, but she could not forget about Hikoboshi. She could do nothing but cry. Her tear touched the Sky Father and he finally allowed them to see each other once a year.
So on the eve of July 7th, Japanese people look up into the summer sky and you can see Vega and Altair. For Japanese people, they will think of Orihime and Hikoboshi, two lovers were once again reunited.
As Tanabata is a day to celebrate the reunion of Orihime and Hikoboshi, why not celebrate this day with your lover? One thing you can definitely do in Tanabata is to wear Yukata and go to summer festivalnatsumatsuri with your girl friend!
Wear a Yukata
A yukata is a Japanese garment, a casual summer kimono usually made of cotton or synthetic fabric and unlined. Yukata is a bit expensive, but you can buy sets with everything you need at reasonable prices. Don't forget to buy your sandals! Wearing a yukata to a summer festival will definitely ut you in the natumatsuri mode. You also have to know that putting a yuatais very hard; even Japanese people need some help when they wear Yukata, so the best way is to find someone who is familiar with Yukata, and help you to put it on!
Eat from the food stalls (yatai)
Yatai in the food stalls are set up in the festival area selling food for people to eat while they wander around or to eat while sitting.
There are many foods available in Yatai such as takoyaki, yakitori, taiyaki, and yakisoba. You can also drink Ramune in the food stalls. Ramune is a carbonated soft drink originally sold in Japan, which was introduced in Kobe by Alexander Cameron Sim. Ramune is one of the modern symbols of summer in Japan and is widely consumed during warm festival days and nights.
Playing the festival games!
In the Yatai, there are many fame stall that are made for us to play! You must try Kingyo-skui, goldfish scooping if you have not tried it yet. It is a game that you need to scoop a goldfish with a hoop that only has a thin piece of paper stretched across it. It is harder than you think to get a goldfish, because usually in these kinds of games, they make it extremely difficult so that the players would not get the price so easily. Therefore, the most important thing is to have fun, and do not care if you could get the price or not.
Watch firework with your girlfriend!
At the end of the day, you will be able to watch Firework! You have to sit as fast as you can otherwise all the seats would be taken. If you go to a summer festival, people will stick a blue sheet on the ground in order to show that they have taken the place. Therefore, if you want to see Firework in a good spot, make sure you can find your place as soon as possible.
I have gathered the information about the Tanabata day, and it will be great if you can spend your time with your beloved one!


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Can You Escape Tower is a new room-escape puzzle game from MobiGrow, creators of Can You Escape and Can You Escape 2. Like their other games, the purpose of this is to solve the puzzles and find all of the hidden objects that you have to use in order to break out of the room and advance to the next floor. Currently, Can You Escape Tower is available for Android devices, but will likely be heading to iOS soon.
Can You Escape Tower Room/Level 6 Walkthrough:
1. Tap the barrel on the left and take the shovel that's behind it.
2. Tap the sword rack and take a sword of the rack. Also take the mallet head next to the rack.
3. Take a spear off the rack against the back wall.
4. Use the spear tip to get the bow off the wall.
5. Use the shovel to remove the bricks. Take the wooden pole underneath.
6. Combine the wooden pole with the mallet head.
7. On the right wall, notice the off-colored spot. Use the mallet on that spot to break it open, revealing a clue (squares, triangles, and a bunch of circle targets).
8. Use the sword on the barrel to break it open and take the arrow tip. Combine the bow with the arrow tip.
9. Notice the shields on the wall. They show you clues for which targets to hit. The "X" indicates which target to shoot, while the shapes on the left and right show you the position of X.
10. Shoot the following targets:
- Row 2: 1st target (triangle)
- Row 1: 3rd target (triangle)
- Row 1: 4th target (circle)
11. Go back and the door will be open.
Congratulations! You've completed level 6 of Can You Escape Tower. Continue to level 7.


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Time recording terminals
From the attendance recorder directly into the project
Data from time recording terminals can be automatically transmitted to Projektron BCS using an import processor.
The import processor for time recording terminals offers the following options:
- Export of personnel numbers and corresponding time stamps from the time recording terminals to a CSV file that can be imported to Projektron BCS
- Calculation of breaks and attendance times based on come-and-go pairs from the time recording terminal
- Optional: Automatic extension of break times if the statutory break times are not used in full
- Automated import of the previously created CSV file and mapping of breaks and attendance times with Projektron BCS time recording


id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 6804,QuerySets should allow for ordering by intermediary tables,floguy,nobody,"Right now if one model is related to another model through a third model, ordering as one would expect is not possible to achieve. Here is an illustration (both using patch #6095 and not): {{{ class Group(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=20) def __unicode__(self): return self.name class Person(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=20) groups = models.ManyToManyField(Group, through='Membership') def __unicode__(self): return self.name class Membership(models.Model): person = models.ForeignKey(Person) group = models.ForeignKey(Group) priority = models.IntegerField() }}} This would be the output: {{{ >>> from myapp.models import Group, Person, Membership >>> g1 = Group.objects.create(name='beatles') >>> g2 = Group.objects.create(name='abc') >>> p1 = Person.objects.create(name='John') >>> p2 = Person.objects.create(name='Jane') >>> m1 = Membership.objects.create(person = p1, group = g1, priority=1) >>> m2 = Membership.objects.create(person = p2, group = g2, priority=2) >>> p1.groups.order_by('membership__priority') Traceback (most recent call last):... FieldError: Cannot order by many-valued field:'membership__priority' }}} Without an intermediary model (through=""Membership""), it could happen like this: {{{ >>> Person.objects.filter(id=1).order_by('membership__priority') }}} The idea is that there are some cases where you're absolutely certain that one side of the many-to-many relationship will resolve to a single record (in this case, p1). In those cases, ordering should be possible on the property in the intermediary table. It will become more of a common use case if/when #6095's functionality is added.",,closed,Uncategorized,queryset-refactor,,fixed,,floguy@…,Accepted,0,0,0,0,,


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When you create a Microsoft SQL Server database, you must configure it correctly to support vSphere Replication.
About this task
You use SQL Server Management Studio to create and configure an SQL Server database for vSphere Replication.
This information provides the general steps that you must perform to configure an SQL Server database for vSphere Replication. For instructions about how to perform the relevant steps, see the SQL Server documentation.
Verify that the SQL Server Browser service is running.
- Select Mixed Mode Authentication when you create the database instance.
The vSphere Replication appliance and the database server run on different hosts, so you must use mixed mode authentication and not Windows Authentication.
- Use either a named instance or the default instance of SQL Server.
If you intend to use dynamic TCP ports, you must use a named instance of SQL Server.
- Enable TCP on the database instance.
- Set a TCP port.
Static TCP port
Set the TCP port to the default of 1433.
Dynamic TCP port
Use a named instance of SQL Server. You can only use dynamic ports with a named instance of SQL Server.
Select the Show DB URL check box in the virtual appliance management interface (VAMI) of the vSphere Replication appliance.
Modify the DB URL value. Replace port=port_number with instanceName=instance_name in the URL.
Use the PortQuery command from a remote machine to check that the port on which the SQL Server Browser service runs is not blocked by a firewall. The SQL Server Browser runs on port 1434. Type the PortQuery command in a terminal window.
PortQry.exe -n Machine_Name -p UDP -e 1434
- Verify that the firewall on the database server permits inbound connections on the TCP port.
- Create the vSphere Replication security login.
- Create the vSphere Replication database and set the vSphere Replication security login as the database owner.
- Keep the dbo user and dbo schema settings.
Because the vSphere Replication security login is the database owner, it maps to the database user dbo and uses the dbo schema.