text: Numerous studies have explored the effects of morphine on cognitive function, while knowledge concerning methadone is scarce. This study is the first in line, being part of a newly started project. The aim of this study was to examine whether long-term administration of methadone results in deficits in performance in the Novelty-test and changes in phosphorylation of calcium/calmodulin kinase II (CaMKII) and extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) in the hippocampus. Rats were administrated (sc) methadone, morphine or saline once per day for three weeks (2.5-10 mg/kg), and novelty-tested one hour and one week after the last injection. Western blotting was performed on homogenate from hippocampus, taken out directly after the novelty-testing, to detect levels of phosphorylated CaMKII (p-CaMKII) and ERK (p-ERK). p-CaMKII was significantly down-regulated one week after the last injection of methadone, while no significant difference in p-ERK was observed. There were no significant differences between the groups in the novelty-test one week after the last injection, while one hour after the last injection the animals were to affected by the methadone to perform the test. Our findings indicate that long-term methadone exposure may specifically affect protein phosphorylation, but don't seem to have a persistent effect on novelty-exploration. This may also be due to the Novelty-test not being sensitive enough to pick up small differences between the exposed groups and the control group.


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Short answer: if your neighbor acts as PIC, then he can pay all the costs and you can both log PIC time for however long you were sole manipulator of the controls. But you have to avoid becoming his personal pilot, because then you're getting into commercial territory.
As background, remember that acting as PIC and logging PIC time are different things. And I'm assuming that you're going to fly VFR only, i.e. there are no IFR and/or safety pilot issues (we have a few questions on that already), and that you're both fully qualified to act as PIC (medical, currency etc.).
First, logging PIC time. 14 CFR 61.51 has the rules, and the key one for your scenario is:
(e) Logging pilot-in-command flight time. (1) A sport, recreational,
private, commercial, or airline transport pilot may log pilot in
command flight time for flights-
(i) When the pilot is the sole manipulator of the controls of an
aircraft for which the pilot is rated, or has sport pilot privileges
for that category and class of aircraft, if the aircraft class rating
That means, when you're actually controlling the aircraft then you can log PIC time, regardless of who's acting as PIC. For example, if your neighbor has the controls for 0.5 and then you take them for 0.5, you can each log 0.5 PIC time. But in a single-pilot operation, only one person can log PIC at a time.
Second, sharing costs. Because a C172 is a single-pilot aircraft, if your neighbor is acting as PIC then you're a passenger. Note the wording in 61.113 (emphasis mine):
(a) Except as provided in paragraphs (b) through (h) of this section,
no person who holds a private pilot certificate may act as pilot in
command of an aircraft that is carrying passengers or property for
compensation or hire
(c) A private pilot may not pay less than the pro rata share of
the operating expenses of a flight with passengers, provided the
expenses involve only fuel, oil, airport expenditures, or rental fees.
As you can see, if your neighbor is acting as PIC he must pay at least 50% of those specific costs so he can always pay 100% if he wants; that just comes down to what you agree with him. If you act as PIC then the reverse applies: you must pay at least 50%.
Third, whatever arrangement you have with your neighbor, make sure you don't become a de facto personal pilot. If he starts asking you to fly him places he needs to get to, or even to just accompany him on flights because he isn't comfortable alone, then you should be very cautious. In theory, if he always acts as PIC then it's OK because you're just a passenger. But if there's an accident and the FAA has a reason to believe that he wasn't genuinely acting as PIC then you'll both be in trouble. To take an 'extreme' example, let's say he breaks his leg and asks you to fly him somewhere, with him paying all the costs. He couldn't be acting PIC because of his injury (61.53) therefore you would be acting PIC without paying any costs. That's receiving compensation for carrying a passenger and it requires a commercial certificate.
Finally, a couple of practical points to think about:
- Two pilots in a single-pilot aircraft can lead to confusion and even accidents. Make sure you have a good pre-flight briefing that includes who is acting as PIC, and in flight always do a clear exchange of controls. And decide up front what happens in case of an emergency, like engine failure: does the person flying keep flying, or does your neighbor always take the controls?
- You should have appropriate insurance. Even if he puts you on his policy as a named pilot you might still have to pay thousands of dollars as a deductible in case of an accident. If you don't already have it, it might be worth getting your own non-owned insurance to cover that, but it all depends on the details of the policies. If you're an AOPA member they can probably help you out with that.

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Tolkien Gateway
This article is about the animals. For the music band, see Camel (band).
War Camel portrayed by Angus McBride for MERP
Camels are animals native to the Southern lands. These animals are only mentioned in linguistic writings dating from the early versions of the legendarium.[1][2]
[edit] Etymology
The Qenya name of "a camel" is ulun(t).[1][2]
[edit] Portrayal in adaptations
1982-97: Middle-earth Role Playing:
Camels, level 4 animals, are called devevi (sing. deve) in Apysaic (a language of south-western Endor). There are both oneand twohumped variants of the beast.[3] Staibir is the name of a War Camel appearing in an adventure set in Southwestern Middle-earth.[4]
[edit] References
 3. Ruth Sochard Pitt, Jeff O'Hare, Peter C. Fenlon, Jr. (1994), Creatures of Middle-earth (2nd edition) (#2012), "Riding and Draft Animals"
 4. Jessica Ney (ed.; 1990), Angus McBride's Characters of Middle-earth (#8007), pp. 26-7


Bell Labs celebrates net speed record over copper lines
Telephone cable Bell Labs hit speeds using copper cables previously only available to fibre optic links
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A team of researchers has announced it has transmitted data over traditional copper telephone lines at a record speed of 10 gigabits per second (Gbps).
Bell Labs said it used two pairs of 30m (98.4ft)-long standard phone cables to achieve the speed in its laboratory.
It suggested the tech could eventually be adapted to offer 1 Gbps in real-world uses.
That could reduce the amount of expensive fibre optic cable needed to boost internet speeds in cities.
"It will enable operators to provide internet connection speeds that are indistinguishable from fibre-to-the-home services, a major business benefit in locations where it is not physically, economically or aesthetically viable to lay new fibre cables all the way into residences," said Bell Labs' owner, Alcatel-Lucent.
"Instead, fibre can be brought to the curbside, wall or basement of a building and the existing copper network used for the final few metres."
However, one analyst noted that the tech would not solve the problem of slow net speeds for many other users.
"The problem that rural properties have is that they are usually very far away from the nearest telephone exchange - you can usually measure it in miles," said Chris Green, principal technology analyst at the Davies Murphy Group consultancy.
Telephone cable Bell Labs achieved the high data speeds over normal pairs of copper telephone cable
"The speed jumps that Bell Labs have managed to achieve drop away at much shorter distances.
"In order to get any of these speeds you would need to be close enough to your exchange - or fibre optic cable connected to it - that you could pretty much throw a stone at it from your door."
Mr Green added that even in many parts of major cities, BT often only provides "fibre to the cabinet", rather than "fibre to the home" - and many properties would be too far away from a phone cabinet to benefit.
Even so, he acknowledged the tech could significantly cut the cost of offering ultrafast broadband to those who would qualify.
Faster, shorter
Bell Labs said a team of engineers at its Antwerp, Belgium offices developed a technology called XG-Fast to achieve the speed record, building on the existing specification.
To do this it developed kit that uses a wider frequency range of up to 500 MHz to transmit data, rather than the 106 MHz range used by
The trade-off, however, is that XG-Fast only works over shorter distances than its predecessor.
So, while offers 700 megabits per second over 100m, XG-Fast can offer either a one-way data transfer of 10 Gbps over 30m or the prospect of a simultaneous 1 Gbps upload and 1 Gbps download over 70m.
While Alcatel-Lucent can claim this is a new record for copper cables, it is still a fraction of 1.4 terabits per second speed it achieved last November in a test carried out with BT over a fibre optic cable link running between London's BT Tower and a research campus in Suffolk.
Quick conversions
Data graphic
Data speeds are usually described in terms of bits:
1,000 bits = 1 Kilobit
1,000Kb = 1 Megabit
1,000Mb = 1 Gigabit
1,000Gb = 1 Terabit
Data storage is usually described in terms of bytes:
8 bits = 1 byte
1,024 bytes = 1 Kilobyte
1,024KB = 1 Megabyte
1,024MB = 1 Gigabyte
1,024GB = 1 Terabyte
So, a 10 Gbps connection would allow you to transfer 75GB of data over the course of a minute, or the equivalent of about 110 full CDs worth of music.
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Microsoft Teams compliance – everything you need to know
Microsoft Teams Compliance can be complicated! This article has everything you need to know. Teams covers so many services you need to understand both Office 365 compliance features and the feature of each app.
Microsoft Teams Compliance is the processes around meeting legal, regulatory, or organizational policies. For example, regulatory compliance is:
 - Regulations imposed through laws or regulatory frameworks, typically dependent on jurisdiction.
 - Document example includes contracts, invoices, tax documents, employee files, and customer data.
 - Other examples include data residency and meeting specific certification requirements.
Microsoft Teams compliance covers many topics across the Office 365 feature set. This approach is because Microsoft Teams brings together many Office 365 apps and services into a single user interface. To understand compliance, we need to look at overall Office 365 features. These features cover most applications available in Office 365 that are accessible through Teams. We also need to look at the compliance functionality available in each application. It sometimes differs from the features available in Office 365 overall.
In this article, we are going to supply an overview of all the compliance features used by Microsoft Teams. Security and managing access to data is undoubtedly a vital compliance topic. Because we have so much to cover, we are going to focus on the non-security components of compliance in this post.
Here is what we will cover:
 1. Firstly, we need to understand where Microsoft locates Microsoft Teams data. Where we find the information is where the compliance magic happens.
 2. Next, we are going to talk about how Microsoft licenses compliance features and the overall certifications. This cover both Microsoft Teams and Office 365 have.
 3. Then, another hot topic, which is data residency and how to meet those requirements.
 4. Then the newest kid on the block. Microsoft Teams Information Barriers.
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There are two other essential Microsoft Teams compliance topics that we will not cover today. The reason is that they are so vital that they have dedicated posts. These are:
 1. Office 365 Retention and Records Management: How to ensure content is kept for a proper amount of time and not prematurely deleted. Also, how to delete content permanently when appropriate.
Where is Microsoft Teams Data Located?
As you may know by now, there is no data that sits in Microsoft Teams. What happens is Teams stores the data in other services and then surfaced visually in the Microsoft Teams user interface. This architecture is why it is imperative to understand the data location for Microsoft Teams compliance.
As an example, you cannot put a retention policy on an entire Microsoft Team and have it cover all the files, conversations, and other data. You must think about each component that's in the Team and apply the compliance policy there.
As another example, if you want to apply retention to files in one-to-one chats, Teams stores them in OneDrive for Business. You would need to set a retention policy or a retention label to the user's OneDrive.
Microsoft Teams - Where is the DataWhere is Teams Chat Data Located?
A copy of Teams Chats are stored in user mailboxes for compliance and eDiscovery purposes. If you have a one-on-one chat with somebody, Teams stores a copy of the conversation in each user's Exchange mailbox. This information is in a hidden folder that can only be accessed by administrators and Office 365 search services.
A chat with a bot is technically the same as a chat with a human. Teams also stores a copy of these conversations in the hidden chat folder in each user's Exchange mailbox.
Where is Teams Channel Data Located?
When you create a Microsoft Team, a few services are also provisioned to support it. Firstly, it creates an Office 365 Group. This Group manages the permissions for the Team, and it also has an Exchange Group Mailbox. Additionally, it creates a SharePoint site for the Team. This location is where files will be stored.
Teams stores a copy of all channel conversations in the Exchange group mailbox. See the section below on the Chat Substrate for additional information related to the chats and conversation service. Teams treats posts in the channel conversation created by a connector or bot the same as any other conversation.
When a user shares a file or image in a channel conversation, then Team stores the file SharePoint. This location is where we manage Microsoft Teams compliance. The SharePoint site has a library called Documents, with a folder for each Teams channel. The files tab in each channel shows documents that are in the corresponding channel folder. Because of this, when we upload a document via Teams or the SharePoint user interface will always appear in both places.
Teams also stores emails sent to a Microsoft Teams channel in the Documents library, in the channel folder. When you submit the first email, Teams will create a new folder called Email Messages, within the channel folder.
In addition to files, there is a Wiki tab in each Microsoft Team. TTeams stores the wiki data in a SharePoint document library called Teams Wiki Data. Again, each channel has a folder inside this library, and then each wiki page is stored as a.mht file inside the channel folder.
If you create a OneNote for the Team, then it will be stored in the SharePoint site in the Site Assets document library.
Where is Teams Meeting and Call Information Located?
Calendar invites are a particular case because there is a copy of it that's in both the group calendar and exchange mailbox. There is also a copy in the user mailbox when they accept the meeting.
The Skype (or Teams) call itself is launched from the individual's Exchange mailbox, which includes both voice and video calls. After the meeting, Teams stores a summary in the user's mailbox. This location is where meeting and call information is managed for Microsoft teams compliance.
If you are using Microsoft Teams for VOIP calls, then all the information is driven from the user's Exchange mailbox. Firstly, contacts are stored, and the company directory is stored or accessed through Exchange. Secondly, Teams stores any voicemails or transcripts in the user's mailbox. Finally, the call history and summaries are also stored there.
Where is Other Microsoft Teams Data Stored?
Let us look at where Microsoft Teams stores other related data. We do this by breaking down this functionality into a list of features. We look at where the data is stored, and how you would apply Microsoft Teams compliance in the chart below.
If you are using Microsoft Teams with Exchange on-premises, please see this article. It details where Teams stores the data in these cases.
Other Teams Locations
Here are a few more details about the areas we have not yet discussed.
 - Third-Party File Integration: Teams can show files from a location outside of Office 365, such as Box or Dropbox. Compliance for the files would occur in the service for the location of the data, such as Box.
 - Planner: Microsoft Planner can help you manage tasks and projects. There currently is no compliance functionality for Planner. However, in the Microsoft documentation for Office 365 Retention, there is a note. It says, "[retention policy] Support for content in Planner…is coming soon".
 - Power BI: Power BI is a data dashboard tool. Given that, the data location is not Power BI, but in the database, Excel document, or another place where the data resides.
 - Stream: Microsoft Stream is where video from Microsoft Teams recordings is stored. There is no compliance or retention functionality available.
 - Yammer: There is no current Yammer functionality. But the note in the Retention documentation linked in the Planner bullet says it is coming soon.
 - Tabs: A tab simply provides a view into content located in an app or service. That service would govern the data displayed in the tab.
The Microsoft Teams Chat Substrate
For compliance purposes, it is essential to understand how Microsoft Teams processes chat data. Teams uses an Azure-powered chat service that technically stores chat and channel messages. Only a copy of chats and conversations are kept in the user mailbox for compliance purposes. By default, this service stores the information forever.
Because of this, you will need to use Office 365 retention policies to remove Teams chats and conversations data. Otherwise, if you only delete them from the UI they will still exist in the chat service and possibly the mailbox if the data is retained, where we can find it through Content Search for eDiscovery. Using an Exchange policy will not remove Teams chats and conversations data. For Microsoft Teams compliance purposes you will want to completely remove the data.
The diagram below is from the Microsoft article "Overview of security and compliance in Microsoft Teams."
Teams SubstrateHow Office 365 Compliance Features are Licensed
Next, let us look at how Microsoft Teams compliance is licensed. Office 365 licensing is essential to understand. This is because some of the features we refer to in this article aren't going to be available unless you have the right license. Some need either an E5 license or the Office 365 Advanced Compliance SKU.
The Advanced Compliance SKU is an add on that you can buy if you have Office or Microsoft 365 E3 license and you do not want to buy the entire E5 license. The Advanced Compliance SKU includes the compliance features we are discussing today. It does not include other E5 functionality.
Office 365 Compliance LicensingThe diagram above shows you what I consider to be compliance features. I got the image from Aaron Dinnage's GitHub project and modified it for this purpose.
Microsoft and Office 365 E3 Compliance Functionality:
 - Retention Policy includes basic retention functionality, such as creating retention labels and policies.
 - Data Loss Prevention protects sensitive data in SharePoint, Office 365 Groups, and OneDrive.
 - We cover Audit Logging in the linked article (coming soon).
 - We cover eDiscovery in the linked article (coming


What is the opening on the NAOS side for?
We have designed a large opening on the side of NAOS, to allow you the following uses:
- drop off and pick up your child from the side in an ergonomic position (straight back and knees bent) and thus avoid back pain caused by repeated poor postures
- allow you to go to bed near your children and reassure them while they fall asleep. No need to hold her hand from the top of the bed. And you also avoid waking him up when you put him down when he is asleep...
- If you wish, you can secure the room where NAOS is located, and let your child get out of his bed according to his will, guiding him towards autonomy (Montessori). This is possible thanks to its mattress structure placed on the floor


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Setting the position of the legend at a particular position.
set(hleg1, 'Position', [.1,.2,.1,.2]);
Use besselj to plot Bessel functions for orders 1, 2, and 3. Add a legend for the lines at the upper right, outside the axes.
x = 0:.2:12;
hleg = legend('First','Second','Third',...
% Make the text of the legend italic and color it brown
Create a bar graph and overlay a line plot on it by setting hold on. Create a legend that reflects both graphs and locate it to the lower right, outside the axes:
stream = RandStream('mrg32k3a','Seed',4);
y1 = rand(stream,10,5);
hb = bar(y1,'stacked');
hold on
y2 = rand(stream,10,1);
hp = plot(1:10,y2,...
hold off
legend([hb,hp],'Carrots','Peas','Peppers','Green Beans',...
Add a legend to a selected axes on a graph with the Insert Legend tool on the figure toolbar, or use Insert > Legend from the figure menu. Use the Property Editor to modify the position, font, and other properties of a legend.
Moving the Legend
Move the legend by pressing the left mouse button while the cursor is over the legend and dragging the legend to a new location. Double-clicking a label allows you to edit the label.
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Active Appearance Models
By Abhijeet Kislay (GitHub ID: kislayabhi)
Here we have developed a parameterized face needed by the Active Appearance Model (AAM), where the variability of shape and texture is captured from a representative training set. PCA on shape and texture is applied to produce the face model which describes the trained faces with a photorealistic quality.
AAM is an object model containing statistical information of its shape and texture. It is a powerful way of capturing shape and texture variation from objects. It comes along with an efficient search algorithm that can tell exactly where and how a model is located in a picture frame.
The two models needed to make an AAM are:
 - Shape Models
 - Texture Models
In [1]:
_TAG_ libraries will be used here
_TAG_ Opencv library
 import cv2
except ImportError:
 print "You must have OpenCV installed"
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from modshogun import *
%matplotlib inline
_TAG_ the following function when reading an image through OpenCV and displaying through plt.
def showfig(image, ucmap):
 _TAG_ is a difference in pixel ordering in OpenCV and Matplotlib.
 _TAG_ follows BGR order, while matplotlib follows RGB order.
 if len(image.shape)==3 :
 b,g,r = cv2.split(image) # get b,g,r
 image = cv2.merge([r,g,b]) # switch it to rgb
 imgplot=plt.imshow(image, ucmap)
Shape Model
As mentioned previously, AAMs require a shape model, and this role is played by Active Shape Models (ASMs). In the following section, we have described the method to build it.
The shape model is generated through the combination of shape variations and for that a training set of annotated images is required. That is we need to have several images marked with points on key positions of a face which outlines the main features.
Few of the training images with the landmark points are shown below. There are 68 landmarks on a face. These are usually marked up by hand and they outline several face features, such as mouth contour, nose, eyes, eyebrows, and face shape since they are easier to track:
In [2]:
plt.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = 17, 7
for i in xrange(1,4):
 data=np.loadtxt('../../../data/AAM/points/%d.pts'%i, usecols=range(2))
 showfig(tim_cootes, None)
The procedures to build an ASM are as follows:
 1. Aligning shapes to a common frame using Generalized Procrustes Analysis
 2. Modeling the dataset shape variation using PCA
Generalized Procrustes Analysis
The alignment of two shapes consists on finding the Similarity parameters (scale, rotation and translation) that best match one shape to another by minimizing a given metric. The classical solution of align two shapes is the Procrustes Analysis method. It align shapes with the same number of landmarks with one-to-one point correspondences, which is sufficient for the AAM standard formulation.
The landmark points that we are provided right now are not aligned in a way that helps us to build an ASM. This can be seen in the following figure:
In [3]:
plt.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = 7, 7
figure, axis=plt.subplots(1,1)
plt.xlim(0, 480)
plt.ylim(0, 480)
plt.title("The landmark points for all the face images in the training set")
for i in xrange(1,26):
 axis.plot(640-Y[:,0], 480-Y[:,1],'+', color='blue', markersize=5)
A Generalized Procrustes Analysis(GPA) consists of sequentially aligning pairs of shapes with Procrustes using the reference shape (the mean shape) and align others to it.
To facilitate this iterative process, we define a procrustes function below:
In [4]:
def procrustes(X, Y):
 X, Y
 matrices of target and input coordinates. they must have equal
 numbers of points (rows)
 the matrix of transformed Y-values
 n,m = X.shape
 ny,my = Y.shape
 muX = X.mean(0)
 muY = Y.mean(0)
 X0 = X - muX
 Y0 = Y - muY
 ssX = (X0**2.).sum()
 ssY = (Y0**2.).sum()
 # centred Frobenius norm
 normX = np.sqrt(ssX)
 normY = np.sqrt(ssY)
 # scale to equal (unit) norm
 X0 /= normX
 Y0 /= normY
 # optimum rotation matrix of Y
 A =, Y0)
 U,s,Vt = np.linalg.svd(A,full_matrices=False)
 V = Vt.T
 T =, U.T)
 traceTA = s.sum()
 # transformed coords
 Z = normX*traceTA*, T) + muX
 return Z
At the beginning any shape can be chosen to be the initial mean. After the alignment a new estimate for the mean is recomputed and again the shapes are aligned to this mean. The procedure is performed repeatedly until the mean shape don't change significantly within iterations. Normally this procedure converges in two iterations.
In [5]:
# ****GPA*****
# choose any shape as the intial mean
X=np.loadtxt('1.pts', usecols=range(2))
# two iterations are enough
for j in xrange(2):
 _TAG_ training set has 25 images numbered 1,2,..,24,25
 for i in xrange(1,26):
 Y=np.loadtxt('%d.pts'%i, usecols=range(2))
 z=procrustes(X, Y)
 _TAG_ the mean
Lets check the output after applying the GPA over the landmark points that we had:
In [6]:
plt.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = 7, 7
figure, axis=plt.subplots(1,1)
plt.title("The GPA processed landmark points")
plt.xlim(0, 480)
plt.ylim(0, 480)
for i in xrange(25):
 axis.plot(640-Y_new[i][:,0], 480-Y_new[i][:,1],'+', color='blue', markersize=5)
After aligning these landmarks using GPA, we will arrange them in the following format where the $k$ aligned landmarks in the two dimensions are given as:
$X = (x_1,y_1,...,x_k,y_k)$
It is important to note that each landmark is consistently labelled across all the training images. So, for instance, if the left part of the mouth is landmark number 3 in the first image, it will need to be number 3 in all the other images.
Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
The PCA is a statistical technique that allows data dimension reduction. This process searches for directions in the data that has largest variance and subsequently project the data onto it. For more details checkout this notebook on PCA.
Applying PCA on the previously aligned data, the statistical shape variation can be modeled with:
where new shapes $\mathbf{x}$, are synthesised by deforming the mean shape, $\mathbf{\bar{x}}$, using a weighted linear combination of eigenvectors of the covariance matrix, $\mathbf{E_s}$. $\mathbf{y_s}$ is a vector of shape parameters which represent the weights. $\mathbf{E_s}$ holds $t_s$ most important eigenvectors that explain a user defined variance. It is possible to recover the shape parameters associated with each shape by
where $\mathbf{y_s}$ vector defines a set of deformable model parameters.
In [7]:
_TAG_ the data in the format (x1,y1,...,xk,yk)
for i in xrange(25):
_TAG_ the observation matrix for PCA
_TAG_ it into Shogun RealFeatures format
_TAG_ the PCA mode to AUTO
_TAG_ the number of eigenvectors to hold onto, here three
_TAG_ set. Run it
_TAG_ the eigenvectors of the covariance marix
_TAG_ the eigenvalues of the covariance matrix
_TAG_ the data to their principal components
The variance of the parameter $y_{si}: i = 1,..., ts$ over the training set is given by $λ_i$. Limiting $y_{si}$ between $±3 \sqrt{λ_i} = ±3σ_i$ is safe that the shape generated is similar to the ones in the training set.
The following images shows the first three shape parameters varied between $[-3\sigma_i, +3\sigma_i]$. The first variation mode, as expected displays more information associated, causing a bigger movement between the landmark position. The lower significatives modes cause a more local variation.
In [8]:
plt.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = 17,5
for parameter_no in xrange(3):[parameter_no]**0.5)
 deviation_data=np.array([-3*std_dev, -1.5*std_dev, 0, 1.5*std_dev, 3*std_dev])
 for deviation in deviation_data:
 _TAG_ one of the parameter
 # reconstruct the shape landmarks,but with the distorted ys
 axis.plot(600-image[:,


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Simile in The Old Nurse's Story
Simile Examples in The Old Nurse's Story:
The Old Nurse's Story
"The hard, sad Miss Furnivall, and the cold Mrs. Stark, looked pleased when she came fluttering in like a bird, playing and pranking hither and thither, with a continual murmur, and pretty prattle of gladness...." See in text (The Old Nurse's Story)
Hester's description of toddler Rosamond recalls a chattering bird, bringing cheerfulness and conversation to previously silent and darkened places. Rosamond's good humor serves as a contrast to Mrs. Stark and Miss Furnivall, who are both quiet and unfriendly. Note also that birds are notoriously fragile creatures; Hester's protectiveness of Rosamond is shown in her word choice to describe the child.
"a face as full of fine wrinkles as if they had been drawn all over it with a needle's point...." See in text (The Old Nurse's Story)
Notice the simile here: Miss Furnivall's wrinkles are so precise that it looks as if someone has carefully drawn them on with a pinpoint. This highlights both her advanced age and suggests she is someone who is as precise as her appearance.
"who was like a sunbeam in any family, be it never so grand..." See in text (The Old Nurse's Story)
Notice the simile used to characterize Rosamond: she is like a "sunbeam," a bright flash of warm, comforting light in an otherwise dreary landscape. Hester calls Rosamond her "pet" out of affection, not out of condescending ownership, showing the true bond that exists between the two.


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Use of engineered nanoparticles (NPs) in consumer products is resulting in NPs entering drinking water sources. Subsequent NP breakthrough into treated drinking water is a potential exposure route and human health threat.
Objectives:This study investigated the breakthrough of common NPs, silver, titanium dioxide (TiO2), and zinc oxide (ZnO), into finished drinking water following conventional and advanced treatment.
Methods:NPs were spiked into five experimental waters: groundwater, surface water, synthetic freshwater, synthetic freshwater with natural organic matter, and tertiary wastewater effluent. Bench scale coagulation/flocculation/sedimentation simulated conventional treatment, and microfiltration (MF) and ultrafiltration (UF) simulated advanced treatment.
Breakthrough of NPs into treated water was monitored by turbidity removal and inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry (ICP-MS).
Results:Conventional treatment resulted in 2-20%, 3-8%, and 48-99% of silver, TiO2, and ZnO NPs or their dissolved ions remaining in finished water, respectively. Breakthrough following MF was 1-45% for silver, 0-44% for TiO2, and 36-83% for ZnO. With UF, NP breakthrough was 0-2%, 0-4%, and 2-96% for silver, TiO2, and ZnO, respectively. Variability was dependent on NP stability with less breakthrough of aggregated NPs compared to stable NPs and dissolved NP ions.
Conclusions:Although a majority of aggregated or stable NPs were removed by simulated conventional and advanced treatment, NP metals were detectable in finished water. As environmental NP concentrations increase, we need to consider NPs as emerging drinking water contaminants, and determine appropriate drinking water treatment processes to fully remove NPs in an effort to reduce their potential harmful health outcomes.
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A radical substitution reaction is a reaction which occurs by a free radical system and results in the substitution of one or more of the atoms or teams existing in the substrate by various atoms or teams.
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The Burning of Sugarcane Plantation in the Tropics Modifies the Microbial and Enzymatic Processes in Soil and Rhizosphere
Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
Bacteria; Nitrogen; Phosphatase; Phosphorus; Respiration; Urease
© 2019, Sociedad Chilena de la Ciencia del Suelo. In this study were examined chemical, microbiological, and enzymatic changes at different depths of the soil and rhizosphere, produced by the burning of a commercial sugarcane crop in tropical areas of México. Samples of silty loamy soil and rhizosphere were collected at three times in the sugarcane production cycle: before burning (BB), after first burning (AFB), and after second burnings (ASB), with a general interval of 15 days between the first and the third collection date. Soil organic matter (SOM), soil organic carbon (SOC), total nitrogen (Nt), phosphorus available (Pav), pH, and the C/N ratio were determined in soil and rhizosphere, as well as the enzymatic activities of phosphatase and urease. Furthermore, microbial respiration, microbial biomass, and nitrogen-fixing bacteria (NFB) and phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) densities were monitored during 84 days. The Pav and the pH increased significantly in soil samples affected by the second burning of the stubbles, but SOM, SOC, Nt, the C/N ratio, phosphatase, and urease activities decreased as a result of the first and second burnings. This decrease was more pronounced in non-rhizospheric soil. The densities of NFB and PSB increased with the burning, as well as microbial respiration. All the variables evaluated recorded higher values in the soil surface layer.
Trujillo-Narcía, A., Rivera-Cruz, M., Magaña-Aquino, M., & Trujillo-Rivera, E. (2019). The Burning of Sugarcane Plantation in the Tropics Modifies the Microbial and Enzymatic Processes in Soil and Rhizosphere. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 19 (4). _URL_


text: Respiratory motion in cardiovascular MRI presents a challenging problem with many solutions. Current approaches require breath-holds, neglect through-plane motion or significantly increase scan time. Our patient-specific prospective motion correction strategy addresses these issues and corrects for respiratory motion in real time. Numerous cardiac imaging applications stand to benefit from our approach, including perfusion imaging, parameter mapping, and late gadolinium enhancement. By modeling on a patient-specific basis, and prospectively correcting for respiratory motion, we expect to significantly improve the reliability and efficiency of CMR. For demonstration, the proposed strategy was applied to improve the accuracy of free-breathing T1 and T2 mapping.


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A wind chime is a decoration which is made up of hollow metal tubes arranged in a circular or cubical pattern with a slightly longer stick at the center of the arrangement which strikes the tubes to make a low pitch sound. The ornament has been used since Roman times and was placed outside houses to ward off evil spirits. In South East Asia, wind chimes have been used for centuries and are hung in gardens, verandas and courtyards normally and as their name suggest, are operated by gusts of wind.
Wind Chimes are made in hundreds of different materials, shapes, arrangements, colors and sizes. These properties depend on where they are hung and other factors which include the pattern and color of the articles in their whereabouts. Most commonly, metallic wind chimes are made these days which are preferably of Aluminum because of the metal being hollow, light and making faint, low pitched sounds. The tubes of the chimes are colored depending on their material of construction with wood normally being colored brown and metal being shaded silvery.
Like mentioned above, wind chimes are made in a variety of sizes. The dimensions of the decoration depend on where it is going to be hung and on some other factors like the material of construction. Larger wind chimes are affordable as long as the material of construction is Aluminum because of it being light weight but smaller chimes are made in case of wood and steel. If they are to be hung in a wide open place, wind chimes are made bigger so as to benefit from a bigger amount of wind and create more sound. On the contrary, smaller ones are used in tight porches and terraces so that they look good and not out of place.
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In his book, The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, Mark Dever gives 12 practical steps that Christians should take towards becoming evangelists (paraphrased):
- Pray. Ask God for opportunities and the power to take advantage of them.
- Plan to evangelize.
- Accept that evangelism is our job as Christians.
- Understand that God requires faithfulness even if we don't feel gifted.
- Be faithful even when you have a cultural excuse not to evangelize.
- Take risks even if it may jeopardize a relationship.
- Prepare to evangelize, whether it be practicing on friends or thinking about answering potential objections to the gospel.
- Look for opportunities, expecting God to answer #1.
- Love others. This love will overcome our fear and help us to value their soul more than our pride.
- Fear God. "When we don't share the gospel, we are essentially refusing to live in the fear of the Lord."
- Stop blaming God for being sovereign. "We should not conclude from his omnipotence that our obedience is therefore pointless."
- Consider Jesus (Hebrews 12:3).


How to Encrypt an Unencrypted RDS DB Instance
Lab Details
 1. This lab walks you through the steps to create an unencrypted instance with the Encrypt option.
 2. You will practice this lab by not enabling the encryption of DB Instance while creating.
 3. Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes
 1. Amazon RDS can encrypt your Amazon RDS DB Instances.
 2. When the encrypt option is enabled for the AWS RDS Resources, we are able to encrypt DB Instances, Automated Backups, Read replicas, Snapshots and Logs.
 3. Amazon RDS encrypted DB instances use the AES-256 encryption algorithm to encrypt your data on the server that hosts your Amazon RDS DB instances.
 4. The Encrypt option can be enabled only when you are launching the DB instance, it cannot be enabled after launch. However, copies of unencrypted snapshots can be encrypted.
Task Details
 1. Log into AWS Management Console.
 2. Create an Amazon RDS DB Instance (without enabling encrypt option).
 3. Take a snapshot from an existing DB Instance.
 4. Make a copy of the snapshot and encrypt it.
 5. Restore DB Instance from the encrypted snapshot.
 6. Change the name of the original DB Instance.
 7. Change the name of the Restored DB Instance to the original DB Instance name.
 8. Delete the original RDS Instance and snapshot.
 9. Validation of the lab.
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Case Study
 1. Suppose we have created an RDS DB Instance without enabling the encryption. As days passed by the project became bigger and began to store more sensitive data.
 2. As you are quite aware of security issues, you wanted to check on the AWS console that your database was well encrypted.
 3. Your database was totally Unencrypted. And when you check to encrypt the database, you have no option to encrypt the database.
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Vienna Philharmonic asks historians to look into alleged Nazi past
Historian says orchestra demonstrated sympathy for Austria's Nazi leadership during Holocaust.
The Vienna Philharmonic has asked three historians to research the orchestra's alleged Nazi past.
The announcement on January 22 came after Harald Walser, a historian and Parliament member for the Austrian Greens, said in an interview that the orchestra demonstrated sympathy for the country's Nazi leadership during World War Two.
Historians Fritz Truempi, Oliver Rathkolb and Bernadette Mayrhofer will look into the "politicization" of the Vienna Philharmonic from 1938 to 1945, the fate of its Jewish musicians during that time and its relations with Nazis afterward, according to an orchestra statement, the French news agency AFP reported.
Their report is due in March.
Walser has called for forming a committee of inquiry into the role of the philharmonic during those years and said the orchestra has not released all its documents from the Nazi era or has destroyed some of them.
He cited a listing on the philharmonic's official website that describes a concert delivered on New Year's Day of 1939 as a "sublime homage to Austria," when it actually was a celebration of the country's unification with Nazi Germany in 1938.
The New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic takes place each year on the morning of January 1 in Vienna and is broadcast to an estimated audience of 50 million in 73 countries.
Walser claims that after the war, an emissary of the Vienna Philharmonic gave a new copy of its honor ring in 1966 to Nazi war criminal Baldur von Schirach, who was responsible for the deportation of tens of thousands of Austrian Jews to death camps, following his release from Berlin's Spandau Prison for war criminals. Von Schirach had received the original ring in 1942.
Six Jewish musicians from the philharmonic were murdered by the Nazis in Austria and 11 were deported to death camps, according to reports.

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Hydrography Maps and Data Links to the Atlas of Texas Surface Waters, data for Level 4 ecoregions, GIS data for classified segments, and other hydrology data layers for use in ArcGIS. Statewide hydrography maps and map-based viewers for surface water information.
Map of Water Systems under Water Use Restriction From the weekly report to the Texas Drought Preparedness Council. Map of Texas displaying the location of public water systems that were enforcing restrictions on water use due to drought or other water shortage as of the first of the current week.
Priority Groundwater Management Areas Program to identify areas of Texas experiencing, or expected to experience, critical groundwater problems and encourage the creation of groundwater conservation districts for those areas. Relevant reports, studies, maps, and rules.
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Teachers can help
Identify children with Irlen Syndrome because they know which students struggle with reading. If you are a teacher or parent, you may notice the following behaviours when a child is reading
- The child squirms as they read, often changing the direction of their head or the book.
- The child seems to overlook words as they read, skipping them either partially or entirely.
- Child may squint or move closer to the book in an effort to see the words.
- The child adds words to their reading, or changes the words to others that mean the same, but are completely different.
- The child looks away from the words frequently as they read. This is an effort to refocus and stop the movement of words.
- Reading becomes more difficult for the child the longer they are reading.
- They will seem tired and unable to concentrate fairly early on when reading.
If you are a teacher and you suspect a child may have Irlen Syndrome, contact Brainy Picture People to arrange for Irlen screening.


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Speech and Hearing Science
Karla K. McGregor
Word learning implies learning of both a phonological form and its referent. For nouns, the referent is typically a category of objects, with variability between objects within the category but an overlying similarity that allows them to be categorized together, to function similarly, and to be called by the same label. We hypothesized that by strengthening knowledge of the category of referents a word refers to, we could strengthen learning and use of the word.
Three-year old children were provided with elaborated referent category information in the form of multiple exemplars of the referent category. In the first manipulation, children were trained on identical exemplars or variable exemplars. A second manipulation provided children with variable exemplars that had been distributed to support a prototype. Children in the third condition, who were provided with a prototype plus variants, learned words best in expressive and receptive tasks, when tested on trained and untrained items, and at two time points. In a second manipulation, we asked if simultaneous presentation of multiple exemplars leads to better learning of the object label than sequential presentation. Results indicated little difference. We conclude that 3-year-olds learn words best in the presence of variability distributed to highlight both invariant elements of the referent category and those elements that are allowed to vary.
Copyright 2011 Gwyneth Campbell Rost
Rost, Gwyneth Campbell. "Object categories provide semantic representation for 3-year-olds' word learning." dissertation, University of Iowa, 2011.


Medically young, older athletes
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You don't have to be a Radiologist to see that there are some differences between the two X-rays above. Both are from adults of the same age 51 years. Female on left as you look at screen and male on right. In both cases, these adults would be described as "medically young". Always physically active and reasonably accomplished as athletes in their respective sport disciplines. Never smoked, never overweight, good nutrition.
As discussed at the recent conference at the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) on "Sports Injuries and Sports Orthopaedics" in the session on the "Ageing Athlete", there are challenges for athletes in Masters' age groups, including mechanical joint issues associated with increasing age.
Looking at the male X-ray on right there is small gap between femoral head (ball-like structure) and acetabulum (socket in which femoral head lies). This gap is where the articular cartilage reduces friction between articulating surfaces of this ball and socket joint. In contrast in female X-ray on left of screen, this gap is reduced as cartilage has been worn away so that on right hip (left as you look at screen) bone is grinding on bone. Ouch!
Look again at the femoral heads (ball like structures). In the male these have smooth contours and are symmetrical on both sides. In contrast, in the female there is marked asymmetry with squashed appearance on right side (left of screen) of the femoral head with honeycomb appearance suggesting that there is cyst formation and impaction into socket of joint. This results in shorter leg and weakness of the bone architecture so more likely to compress further. Strangely the blood supply to femoral head is retrograde, meaning it flows backwards from origin of supplying blood vessel to provide vital nutrients to bone, which is a living tissue. If this blood supply is disrupted then the bone dies (avascular necrosis) and become more fragile. The femoral neck (slim area below femoral head) where blood supply courses, has been telescoped down and looks stubby compared to opposite side in female.
Although in the female, the right hip aches and is stiff, it is actually the left hip (right as you look at screen) that hurts more, both at rest and when trying to exercise. Why? If you look carefully on the upper boarder of acetabulum (socket) you will see small cysts. I imagine that pain is caused when the synovial fluid (lubricating fluid) in joint is forced into exposed bone, in hydraulic action especially when moving the hip joint.
So what to do? Total hip replacement (THR) is the only feasible option for the female above, due to extensive damage to the hip joints. Why are some people more prone to this type of joint damage? Apart from underlying medical pathologies that damage joints, the nature of some types of exercise can contribute. For example Ballet is demanding on the hip joint in terms of range of movement and load bearing. The individual can also be predisposed in biomechanical terms to joint issues: in the female X-ray above the femoral head is more exposed than the male.
Although the perception is that THR is more for the elderly wishing to be able to walk to the shops, with improvements in materials and technology used in hip protheses, there are examples of young athletes successfully returning to previous pre-operative levels of exercise training without pain. Recently a 28 year old male soloist dancer of the Paris Opera Ballet had a THR and returned to professional dancing. The medically young athlete will probably have the required motivation and physical ability to rehab effectively. A house in the south of France with private pool and climate for rehab outside would certainly add to motivation. Nevertheless, return to dancing at a professional level in a top level Ballet company after THR is remarkable as classical dance requires a unique combination of outstanding strength, control, proprioception and flexibility. At the conference at the RSM, during the lecture on "Can I run after my hip replacement?" hip replacements in the medically young, active population were reported to have good success rate with athletes able to return to previous level of sport with predicted lifespan of replacement of up to 25 years. Of course every individual athlete should weigh up the pros and cons. Taking up a new impact sport would probably not be sensible. Delaying surgery too long, apart from increasing pain, can compromise biomechanics and therefore replacement outcome. On the other hand, any operation carries a risk, however small and THR requires extensive rehabilitation in order to return to sport.
Deciding on the timing of THR in medically young, older athlete is not straight forward, especially if considering your own hips. Ultimately in such a person, the decision to go for surgery is based on quality of life and limitation to current sport activity, combined with the desire to return to previous level of activity, without the pain. What would you do?
Successful Ageing Dr N. Keay, British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine 2017
Conference: Sports Injuries and Sports Orthopaedics, Royal Society of Medicine, 18/1/17, Session "The Ageing athlete". Including lectures on: "Can I run after my hip replacement? Current recommendations for impact exercise following joint replacement" Mr Konan and "Managing acute injuries in worn joints" Mr Oussedik


Why is Pomp and Circumstance Always Played at Graduations?
Nathan K. asks: How did Pomp and Circumstance get to be the tune always played at graduations?
Every year, hundreds of thousands of students march across a stage in a gown and a squared hat to receive a piece of paper that says they've completed a particular phase in their education. This school graduation will undoubtedly be marked by cheering, proud adults, and, particularly in North America, the playing of the seminal marching tune "Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1." So, why is Pomp and Circumstance played at seemingly every graduation?
We should probably kick things off by discussing the name itself- "pomp and circumstance" simply is a phrase for a ceremony or display of splendor or stateliness. It comes from the Latin "pompa," meaning "procession," and "circumstantia," meaning "standing around." A procession of standing around doesn't make much sense until one follows the evolution of the meaning "circumstantia." In the 13th century, the word was used in reference to "a particular detail, matter of small consequence." But a century later, in the 1300s, somehow it literally reversed its meaning to be defined as "something of great importance or accomplishment."
Like so many other phrases, the credit for the first to coin this one is generally given to William Shakespeare, though in many cases it is thought he was just using existing phrases that we simply don't have earlier surviving examples of today. Whatever the case, in Act 3, Scene 3 of his 1604 play "Othello," the title character notes
Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
The spirit-stirring drum, th'ear-piercing fife,
The royal banner, and all quality,
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
From there, the phrase seemed to take on an almost sarcastic quality, often used as a way to make fun or point to the belief that someone or something thinks of themselves as overly important.
Flash forward three centuries later, in 1901, one Edward Elgar had already made a name for himself as one of the premier English musical composers of his day. Despite this, as so many musicians and artists before him, Elgar was struggling financially, unable to translate critically-acclaimed works into money-making successes.
Knowing that people love a good military march, he composed two (of what would end up being five) marches that he called "Pomp and Circumstance," pulling the title from the line in Othello.
As for the most famous of these, March No. 1, legend has it that Elgar told a friend, Dora Penny, that "I've got a tune that will knock 'em – knock 'em flat! … a tune like that comes once in a lifetime." Whether he actually said this or not, "Pomp and Circumstance" March No. 1 in D was first performed on October 19, 1901 by the Liverpool Orchestral Society. This debut performance was reportedly met with a standing ovation, which was nothing compared to when it was played three days later in London.
After the first go-around, the ecstatic audience would not let the rest of the concert go on until the tune was played two more times. (And, note, this sort of non-passive audience used to be the norm, even during symphonies, contrary to what generally happens at such events today, see: Has There Ever Been an Actual Case of Someone Being Pelted With Tomatoes During a Performance?)
This event was, according to the London performance's conductor, Henry J. Wood, the first time in that particular theater's history that a double encore was ever done.
In November of that year, Elgar was approached by famed English contralto Clara Butt who asked him to compose a finale for her performance with a full chorus at the crowning of King Edward VII later that summer.
Sparing himself extra work, Elgar used the very same march he'd composed that was such a hit. He did add lyrics to it, thanks to poet Arthur Christopher Benson. Called "Land of Hope and Glory," Benson's lyrics extol the virtues of the British crown and empire. The march, coupled with lyrics and Butt singing, was all set to premiere on June 30th at King Edward VII's coronation, but the king fell ill and the ceremony was delayed until August 9th.
In meantime, Elgar put together four more marches and produced sellable versions of them. By August, he was already making good money off this. When it was finally played at the coronation of the new King and Queen, Elgar was on his way to finally making his fortune.
Thanks to the music's prominence in the coronation, Elgar became internationally famous. Fairly quickly, in part because of its use at the coronation of the King and Queen, the march became immensely popular with American orchestras, particularly played with great frequency in Chicago.
Coming back around to why Pomp and Circumstance is played during graduation ceremonies, in 1905, Elgar was invited to the United States by a friend, Professor of Music Samuel Sanford, to receive an honorary degree from Yale University. Hailed as "England's foremost musician," he outshone the 12 others who were also receiving honorary degrees from the revered American university that day.
Upon completion of the ceremony, the entire group left the stage to the tune of "Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1" in honor of Elgar. This is the first known time that the tune was played at a school graduation.
The uplifting song was noted by other colleges and played at graduations, including at Princeton in 1907 and University of Chicago in 1908.
According to the Elgar Research Center, it was the 1920s when "Pomp and Circumstance" became the norm at college graduations across the United States, though it's unclear when it shifted from being a recessional to a processional (entering) song.
Today, the lyrical version of the march (Land of Hope and Glory) is one of England's most famous songs, even considered by some to be something of a second national anthem. In the United States, the march – sans lyrics – is also played thousands of times a year while students march down the aisles in anticipation of receiving their diplomas.
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A sub-optimal cooperative beam forming design method of the amplify-and-forward (AF) MIMO two-way relay channels is proposed in this work based on the optimal beam forming design which minimize the sum mean square errors (MSMSE). Suppose the channel state information (CSI) is perfectly known by the receiver and transmitter as well as the relay, global optimal beam forming can be achieved. By analyzing the MSMSE-based optimal method, the results show that effect of the transmit and receive beam forming pairs is to maximize the receive SNR at two communication nodes, and rank of the optimal relay beam forming matrix is no larger than 2 when there is only one data stream at both communication nodes. Based on the analysis, a simplified algorithm is proposed to design the beam forming vectors (matrices). Simulation results show that the system performance of bit error rates (BER) of the simplified method is very close to the optimal one with fast iteration speed and much lower computational complexity.


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Fossil Fuel Fired Industrial Boilers--Background Information, Volume 1: Chapters 1-9, Draft EIS. (See U.S. EPA Headquarters Library Copy _TAG_-202573).
This document provides background information for the fossil fuel-fired industrial boiler source category. Fossil fuels considered include coal, oil and natural gas. Background information for industrial boilers includes a survey of boiler types, sizes, operating characteristics, and existing State and Federal regulations. Uncontrolled emissions of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are quantified and factors affecting these emissions are discussed. Control technologies for particulate matter, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are identified and discussed with respect to the technologies' applicability to industrial boilers, developmental status, and factors affecting performance. Emissions data for each technology are also presented. Finally, environmental, energy and cost impacts of applying these technologies to fossil fuel-fired industrial boilers are presented and discussed. This information was developed in support of potential new source performance standards for industrial boilers.
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Should I Use Beneficial Bacteria Pond Products In The Winter?
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Most people assume bacteria are a bad thing since they've spent most of their lives learning to avoid it. However, bacteria can be extremely beneficial to outdoor ponds, and are even recommended for a healthy and stable pond environment. But what exactly are we referring to when we say "bacteria?"
These helpful bacteria are called aerobic bacteria, and are used to consume organic waste, turning it into an odorless gas which escapes from the pond unnoticed. They are found in both PondClear™ and MuckAway™, which aid in keeping pond water healthy, clear of debris, and fresh smelling.
Products that contain aerobic bacteria work best at temperatures above 50 degrees, which is why you would want to stop adding bacteria during the winter months. In temperatures below 50 degrees, bacteria are not as efficient and therefore are not recommended for use. So save that bacteria for warmer days, and you'll have a healthy pond clear of unsightly muck and debris.
Pond Talk: Have you seen a reduction in muck using natural bacteria over the summer months?


10 Top Reasons Why Customers Choose Cloudian
On-premises, S3-compatible object storage provides cloud flexibility and multiple data protection options
Are you weighing the benefits of cloud vs on-premises storage?
If so, the right answer might be to use both — a mix of on-premises and public cloud services with data mobility between the two platforms. Here are the top 10 reasons why customers choose Cloudian HyperStore:
1. S3 Enabled
s3 iconSimple Storage Service (S3), pioneered by Amazon, has become the "de facto" standard for object storage in the cloud. Companies and developers implementing S3 apps that may run on-premises, or in hybrid/private cloud should consider Cloudian HyperStore® as it is fully native S3. Unlike other S3 compatible solutions, there is no gateway or access layer. It even reports the same error codes as AWS. Customers' existing HTTP S3 applications are guaranteed to work and can even use the same AWS S3 SDK for building S3 apps.
2. Multi-Tenancy & Self Service
multi-tenancy iconCloudian HyperStore allows multiple users on a single, shared infrastructure without compromising security. Data for each user is logically separated from other users' data and cannot be accessed by any other user unless access permission is explicitly granted. Cloudian HyperStore gives role-based access to system and group administrators and to users. Users can select and provision storage services on-demand from a service catalog, all done via a self-service portal.
3. QoS & Quotas
quality of service iconCloudian HyperStore administrators can set usage rate limits and storage quotas on a per-group and peruser basis. Group administrators can set rate controls and quotas for individual members of the group, allowing prioritization and ensuring preferred access to resources for select users within a group. This level of granular control also ensures that resource consumption (BW, capacity) does not go beyond the limits of the Cloudian HyperStore storage system.
4. Protect & Distribute Data with Storage Policies
storage policies iconCloudian HyperStore provides storage policies (administrator selectable) for implementing data protection based on the value of the data. Users can choose which preconfigured storage policy to effect in order to protect the data. Customers can protect and distribute data using Replication or Erasure Coding.
 - With Replication, a configurable number of copies of each data object are maintained in the system, and each copy is stored on a different node. Copies can exist at various sites if desired.
 - With Erasure Coding, each object is encoded into a configurable number of data fragments plus a configurable number of redundant parity fragments. Each fragment is stored on a different node, and the object can be decoded from any number of fragments.
Storage policies also provide fine grain control of data placement across data centers, taking into consideration factors such as cost efficiency, security levels, and proximity.
5. Scale Out with Low-Cost Commodity Hardware
scale out iconRunning on off-the-shelf commodity hardware, a Cloudian HyperStore system can scale up to thousands of nodes across multiple data centers, supporting millions of users and hundreds of petabytes of data. New nodes — heterogeneous if desired — can be added without service interruption. Performance, capacity, and resiliency also increase in the process. Each node is an S3 server and can provide data access across the cluster, resulting in a true peer-to-peer platform with no single point of failure or bottleneck.
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Hybrid cloud storage lets organizations manage storage resources on-prem and an in the public cloud within a single namespace. Integrated tools let you manage, replicate, and migrate data, so you have information where you need it.
6. Hybrid Cloud Tiering
Tier to Other S3 Platforms
With Cloudian HyperStore, you can define a tiering policy per bucket. Objects in that bucket can be tiered to Amazon S3 or Glacier, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, a different HyperStore cluster, or an S3-compatible off-line storage system such as tape. Warm data can be stored on Cloudian, cold data can be stored on tape, etc.
7. Charge Back & Accounting
Cloudian HyperStore provides system-wide, detailed reporting for a group or individual rate of consumption, such as storage size, data transfer (in and out), number of object get and put operations, and number of metadata get and put operations. The first step is to define a rating plan, where a price is associated with a particular metric. For example, consumption of storage up to 100GB would be $.1/GB per mo. Automatically, statistics are recorded about the users' and groups' consumption. At the end of the billing cycle, a report can be generated calculating the bill for each of group or user based on usage rates.
8. Tunable Consistency Levels
HyperStore also provides the ability to configure the level of data consistency when using replication or EC to protect objects across sites. For example, the default consistency requirement for read and write operations can be defined as "quorum," meaning that a read or write operation must succeed on a quorum (or majority) before a success response is returned to the client application. For mission-critical data objects, the system can wait until an acknowledgment is received from ALL nodes across a single or multiple data center locations.
9. One Platform for Objects & Files
Cloudian HyperStore Connect for Files (CHCF) allows file services on top of Cloudian HyperStore object storage using industry standard protocols like NFS, CIFS, and FTP. File-based environments can gain tremendous benefits from the rich feature set intrinsic to Cloudian HyperStore object storage, such as high durability and availability, geo dispersal, multi-tenancy, and low cost.
10. Object Lifecycle Management
With Cloudian HyperStore, you can configure expiration for objects through Object Lifecycle Management. For example, you can impose a policy on an object so that after a year the object will be deleted (expired) automatically. Through object publishing, you can make an object available and accessible via the Web. You can publish it through a URL, allow a number of downloads against the object, and place an expiration. URL access will vanish accordingly.


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Poughkeepsie (pəkĭpˈsē) [key], city (1990 pop. 28,844), seat of Dutchess co., SE N.Y., on the Hudson River; settled 1687 by the Dutch, inc. as a city 1854. It is a trade center and was once a major manufacturing center, but suffered severe economic decline in the early 1990s. It now has computer hardware and software research and development firms, and light manufacturing. It became the temporary state capital in 1777, and the U.S. Constitution was ratified (1788) there. Poughkeepsie is the seat of Vassar College and Marist College. An annual intercollegiate regatta is held on the river in June. Several historic 18th-century buildings still stand. The Mid-Hudson Bridge crosses the river at Poughkeepsie, as does a former rail bridge (1888) that was the first Hudson crossing to be built south of Albany. Hyde Park lies just north of the city.
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Is it bigger than a breadbox?
This standard question was coined by Steve Allen on the old game show, What's My Line?
Younger readers are now asking, "Who is Steve Allen", "What is What's my Line?" and, "What is a bread box?"
Before we had plastic bags to keep bread fresh, boxes rested on everyone's kitchen counter to preserve a loaf of bread. Typically the boxes were made from wood or metal. The limited airflow in the box prevented mold yet protected the bread from mice and insects. Rarely do you see these boxes today, although they are available online.
It's hard to remember a day before the use of plastic bags to store bread and other items. But the sandwich bag wasn't invented until 1957 and bread wasn't sold in bags until 1969. Prior to that, homemakers stored loaves in the boxes, wrapped sandwiches in waxed paper or cloth, and covered leftovers with a plate over a bowl.
A famous line in the 1967 movie, The Graduate, was a piece of advice given to the young Benjamin Broddock (Dustin Hoffman) to invest in plastics, a cutting edge idea at that time. Now we are re-assessing the convenience of plastics, especially when used in bags. The sturdy product takes decades to break down.
Which leaves us with one more question: "Is the impact of plastics on our landfills and oceans bigger than a bread box?
©2013, Mary K. Doyle


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Elkridge, Maryland (PRWEB) May 23, 2016
In order to bring greater attention to problems caused by climate change, nonprofit organization Planet Aid held public screenings of a climate change documentary at its Baltimore and Milford locations on May 11th.
Entitled Disobedience, the documentary highlights the efforts of the growing "Break Free from Fossil Fuels" movement comprised of climate change activists from around the world. The film focuses on how the extraction of fossil fuels negatively affects the environment and accelerates the processes behind global warming.
As the climate change activists mobilize to increase awareness about the negative environmental impact of fossil fuels, Planet Aid attempts to combat climate change through recycling and increasing the efficient use of vital resources.
"The causes of environmental preservation and sustainability have always been central to Planet Aid's mission," said Ester Neltrup, President of Planet Aid. "Each year, Planet Aid collects and recycles 100 million pounds of unwanted clothing and shoes, which helps reduce CO2 and other gasses contributing to global warming. We hope that this documentary will inform and inspire more people to work together to address the environmental and social issues we face as a society."
With more than 20,000 of its iconic yellow bins nationwide, Planet Aid provides a convenient and environmentally friendly way for people to dispose of their unwanted clothing, shoes, and other textiles. By collecting and recycling these materials, Planet Aid saves valuable resources and significantly reduces landfills, while also funding numerous sustainable development projects around the world.
About Planet Aid
Planet Aid is a U.S. 501 (c)(3) nonprofit and is registered with USAID as a private voluntary organization. Accredited by the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance, Planet Aid collects and recycles used clothing and shoes as part of its environmental mission. The net proceeds from its 21-state recycling operation help to support projects aimed at eliminating poverty. Since its inception in 1997, Planet Aid has provided more than $100 million to support projects on three continents. Planet Aid supports programs in education, teacher training, nutrition and agricultural and economic development.


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Feb. 15, 2013
Display of old books and maps show the inaccurate roots of old stereotypes.Wanda Laukkanen | Writer
Stereotypical views of Africa and its inhabitants as mysterious, dangerous and conquerable are currently on display at the Pacific University Library in Forest Grove as part of Black History Month.
Titled The Dark Continent: Western Images and Maps of Africa, the display is on the main floor of the library and is open to the public.
Books in the exhibit date from 1542 to 1909 and display images — shocking to those of us in the 21st century — that portray Africans, in the words of the books, as "devilish, bloodthirsty natives" who are considered "idolaters or pagans and show little signs of intelligence."
"I hope it might prompt people to think about how their ideas of Africa and Africans are connected to very old stereotypes that we may not even be consciously aware of," said Eva Guggemos, university archivist.
Included in the exhibit is an original 1542 map of Africa. Though the coastlines are fairly accurate, the interior is not. The map draws from noted ancient Greek-Roman mapmaker and geographer Ptolemy's 2nd century Geographia Universalis, noted Guggemos. The mapmaker showed "Man-eaters" and "Cave-Dwellers" living in central Africa, leaving everything south of the Sahara blank.
A later map from 1802 in the exhibit shows that knowledge of Sub-Saharan Africa was not much better by then — as a note explains: "Westerners were scarcely more familiar with the center of the content than Ptolemy had been in 150 A.D."
Famous explorer Henry M. Stanley also has a part in the exhibit. His two-volume book of 1890, "In Darkest Africa: or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria"is displayed with two maps that were originally hidden in the back of the books. Both maps have been mounted and displayed with the other items.
All of the display is of items from the library. Guggemos said she is happy to answer questions or give a mini-tour of the display. She can be reached at the University Archives, _EMAIL_.


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STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald
The Durango Discovery Museum, which is housed in a 120-year-old power plant, intends to make its landmark smokestack the centerpiece of a science park powered by clean energy.
A capital campaign – called Back the Stack – that started the day after Christmas has a minimum goal of $133,000 to develop a series of demonstration projects showcasing leading-edge applications of age-old power sources: sun, wind and water.
"We'd like to have five to 10 interactive projects for visitors of all ages," said Haz Said, who handles marketing and communications for the museum.
"We'll have energy of all kinds in keeping with the theme of the museum – energy past, present and future."
Production of marketable amounts of electricity isn't the goal. But together, museum directors hope, the sources will generate enough power to make the museum and science park a net-zero energy site.
The museum already is into alternative, clean energy. It has solar panels tied to the grid and three geothermal wells that help heat the museum in the winter and cool it in the summer.
The former power plant's grey, weather-scarred smokestack will be the center of attention in the next round of projects.
One proposal involves the application of thermal convection which, put simply, demonstrates that heat rises. One or a pair of turbines will be installed inside the stack, and the exterior surface of the 100-foot tunnel will be painted a dark color.
As sun rays pound the smokestack, its somber color enhances the absorption of solar rays. Heat builds inside the stack and the updraft of hot air will turn the turbines.
Flexible leaf-shaped photovoltaic solar panels, called Solar Ivy after the company that manufactures them and which are evocative of the ivy-covered walls of academia, will be affixed to the exterior of the smokestack.
The Solar Ivy panels do double duty when the sun shines and the wind blows because each has attached a piezoelectric (electromechanical) generator that produces power through the motion of the movable leaves.
An old standby, water, also could contribute to power production. Because the museum is situated on the banks of the Animas River at Camino del Rio and east 14th Street, a 30-foot waterwheel just downstream of the U.S. Geological Survey gauging station would be installed.
This project requires approval from government agencies.
The power plant started operating in 1893 as Durango Light & Power Co. It was acquired by the Western Colorado Power Co., which owned six other generating stations, including one at Tacoma on the Animas River near Rockwood, and in Ouray and Montrose.
A dispatcher in Silverton controlled the operations of the generating plants.
The Durango plant closed in the early 1970s and the site sat abandoned. In 1999, the Colorado Historical Society gave the city of Durango a $310,000 grant to rehabilitate the structure, which eventually resulted in the city awarding the Durango Children's Museum a free 25-year lease contingent on it raising $5 million.
The museum opened in February 2011.
It features interactive exhibits, some long-term, others that rotate every few months; programs for all ages that focus on science themes, particularly energy; and events, including a weekly trivia night.
The Solar Roller is a mobile science laboratory that covers the Four Corners, serving populations that can't visit Durango.
Middle school and high school students interested in science train to become museum docents.
The Back the Stack financing campaign has started well, Said said.
"We know that several big contributions are coming," he said. "We've received a donation from New Zealand as the result of the social networking of our supporters."


Kimochi Book: Cat's Not-So-Perfect Sandcastle
Product Number : KI-11
Irresistible Toys With Feelings Inside
Kimochi means "feeling" in Japanese, and that's what these adorable characters and related teaching materials are all about. Each plush character (Cloud, Cat, Bug, Lovey Dove, and Huggtopus) helps children recognize and communicate feelings and comes with three little "pillows" that can be tucked inside a belly pouch. Each pillow has a feeling named on one side and a drawing expressing that feeling on the other side. Extra pillows representing different emotions are also available (in packs of 6 or 33). Constructed of soft polar fleece, these cuddly critters help little ones identify and understand their feelings.
The Kimochis Teacher's Tool Kit includes five plush characters, 29 feelings pillows, a Parent Guide, and a beautifully designed, unbelievably useful Teacher's Manual, brimming with lessons, activities, teachable moments, games, and reproducibles—everything you need to teach emotional intelligence.
In addition, three Kimochis books, Cloud's Best Worst Day Ever, Bug Makes a Splash!, and Cat's Not-So-Perfect Sandcastle offer captivating illustrations and charming stories that reinforce feelings awareness.


I know that the power of a discrete signal is given by:
$$P(x) = \lim_{N \rightarrow \infty}\frac{1}{2N + 1}\sum ^N _{n = -N} | x[n]|^2$$
However, I would like to know whether the power of a discrite time finite length signal is defined as:
$$P(x) = \frac{1}{N - 1}\sum ^N _{n = 1} | x[n]|^2$$
Or as,
$$P(x) = \frac{1}{N}\sum ^{N - 1} _{n = 0} | x[n]|^2$$
Being $N$ the length of the signal, the number of samples of it.
A finite length signal has a power of zero. This becomes obvious if you just use the first formula in your question and apply it to a signal of finite length. Finite length signals are so-called energy signals, and their energy is given by
where $N$ is the length of the signal (and we assume that the signal is defined in the index range $n\in[0,N-1]$).
The expression
is the power of an $N$-periodic signal, as explained in this answer.
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- the large, hard-shelled seed of the coconut palm, lined with a white edible meat, and containing a milky liquid.
- the meat of the coconut, often shredded and used in cooking, as a flavoring, and as a dessert topping.
- coconut palm.
- Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a person of color, especially a person of Latin-American or South Asian origin or descent, who is regarded as having adopted the attitudes, values, and behavior thought to be characteristic of middle-class white society, at the expense of his or her ethnic heritage.Compare Oreo.
Origin of coconut
Examples from the Web for cocoanut
Historical Examples of cocoanut
He thought that, at last, he had reached the milk in the cocoanut.Cap'n Dan's Daughter
Joseph C. Lincoln
It is lined with cocoanut matting and had taken no impression of any kind.The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Each one of the cocoanut trees in our garden had for me a distinct personality.My Reminiscences
If there is a Deshmukh3 of the village, a cocoanut and betel-leaf are also given to him.
The cocoanut is largely used for culinary purposes in the Islands.The Philippine Islands
- the fruit of the coconut palm, consisting of a thick fibrous oval husk inside which is a thin hard shell enclosing edible white meat. The hollow centre is filled with a milky fluid (coconut milk)
- the meat of the coconut, often shredded and used in cakes, curries, etc
- (as modifier)coconut cake
- slang, derogatory a black or Asian person who conforms to white culture at the expense of his or her ancestral culture, the idea being that, like a coconut, he or she is dark on the outside and white on the inside


Can You Add To A Notarized Document?
How do you add a notary to a document?
Once the type of notarization is decided (either by the document recipient or by the signer), you can add a notary certificate by attaching a loose one, writing it by hand on the document, or, if your state allows it, using a rubber stamp..
How do I write a notarized statement?
Personal notarized letterYour full names and address.Dates of signing the letter.A section for the notary to sign the letter.Details of the _URL_ of the letter.
Agreements do not have to be written to be legally binding. However, it is a good idea to have a written record of what you have agreed to.
Can I notarize the same document twice?
You may notarize the signature of one person appearing before you and then the second person can appear before a Notary in their city/state and have their signature notarized.
Can you void a notarized document?
Since 1933, the Supreme Court has ruled that these documents are considered illegal, immoral and void. … If ever judges, lawyers and notaries-public have prepared and signed this kind of document, they will be reprimanded by the Court. Penalties such as suspension or disbarment will be imposed.
What is required on a notarized document?
The notary must know and follow state notary laws. The notary must write his/her official signature and stamp or seal the document according to state law. The notary fills out a notary certificate that includes the date and the type of notarial act, an acknowledgement or a jurat.
Does a notarized title expire?
What Happens When The Seal Date Has Expired? … Just because the commission seal date has expired, however, doesn't mean the notarized document is invalid. As long as the notary notarized the document before the commission expiration date, the document is valid.
What makes a notarized document invalid?
Illegible/ Expired Notary Seal: Stamp impressions that are too dark, too light, incomplete, smudged, or in any way unreadable may cause an otherwise acceptable document to be rejected for its intended use.
Is it illegal to change a notarized document?
Any changes to a notarial certificate must always be made by the Notary who performed the original notarization. A certificate with more than one person's handwriting on it may cause suspicions of tampering.
Will a notarized will hold up in court?
How long is a notarized letter good for?
A notarized document is just any document where a notary witnesses the signers signature. There is no expiration on the fact that it was witnesses by a notary.
What happens when something is notarized incorrectly?
How do you correct a mistake on a notarized document?
The only way to fix a mistake is for the Notary and signer to meet again to complete a new certificate.
A document that's notarized is a secure way to sign the contract, but the document will still be legally binding without being notarized. … If you forget to include an item in the document, it doesn't exist in the agreement. The wording clarifies what each party is legally bound to do.


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category: musical instrument
1. ethno-linguistic group: Iraya
2. General Physical Description: tune on flute
3. General Playing technique: not mentioned
4. Musical Function: not mentioned
5. Playing circumstance: not mentioned
source of term: Iraya dictionary by Hazel Page collected by Jonas Baes 1984


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The Weath-A-Stic is a new product for controling mist in plant propagation using mist. It automatically keeps the correct amount of mist on cuttings producing optimal plant growth and reducing rot. The device uses 5 different sensors to predict when mist is needed and calls for a 5 second mist. No timers are needed and the surrounding humidity, temperature, light and wind speed determines the moisture evaporation from the plants and when to call for more mist.
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Collaborative Knowledge Building (CKB) is a process involved in groups of participant to collect knowledge, communicate knowledge, share knowledge, and create knowledge together. While Web2.0 is characterized by being user-centered, two-ways communication and creating knowledge together in social network formation, thus Web2.0 concepts seems to be an ideal fit with CKB. However, how to integrate the undoubted significant factors into the CKB process is a question in Web2.0 era. According to analyzing the outline of CKB and characters of Web2.0, this paper integrates Web2.0 into CKB, and presents a new CKB model. Finally, the paper takes application example of Personal Knowledge Building platform and Collaborative Knowledge Building platform to show Web2.0 is beneficial to realize a more feasible CKB model, which is illustrated how to use Web2.0 tools in the CKB process.


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Reading Grid References
X and Y Axis
Teacher Activity: Learning how to create your own grid.
- Measure your X and Y axis with a ruler.
- Divide the length of your X axis evenly, e.g. if the length is 10 cm you will repeat a grid line every 1 cm.
- With your ruler mark every increment on the top of your paper.
- Do the same with the other side of your grid.
- Repeat steps 2,3 and 4 with the Y axis.
- Join the lines up neatly. This needs to be done with a ruler!
- Add your grid reference numbers for both axes.
Identify the co-ordinates
Identifying co-ordinates of maps.
Using a key
Creating a key
- Look at the map of the forrest below.
- Find the grid references for items listed on the right of the map.
- On the map there are a number of symbols. Create a key that identifies the symbols.
A Compass Rose
Directions with a compass rose.
Activity: In you maths books follow the instructions.


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Mark Hart helps high school teens understand HOW and WHY the words of the Mass are changing. Mark compares the "dynamic equivalent" and the "formal equivalent" of how we translate words from Latin to English, and then explains the elaborate process used to create the new Roman Missal. Finally, Mark challenges teenagers to rediscover the meaning behind the words we pray at Mass each week.
For more information go to IsMassChanging.org. For an overview all the videos you can download go here on CatholicYouthMinistry.com


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Asset protection associate
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Position Summary...
To create and maintain a secure and effective work environment for all customers, associates, visitors and vendors while demonstrating positive and professional behavior at all times. Increase profitability and mitigate shrink caused by financial and Physical loss.
What you'll do...
1. Ensure store security by making daily patrols of the facility, validating doors and showcases are secure and functioning properly.
2. Make external arrests when necessary.
3. Investigate instances of financial and physical shrink and communicate findings to Store Leadership and in cases of an internal case matter communication to the Market Loss Prevention Manager first.
4. Support store evacuation procedures in case of fire or other emergency.
5. Participate in store task team responsibilities as required.
6. Conduct/Support investigations as assigned including, but not limited to, instances of internal theft and/or dishonesty, matters relating to external organized retail crime, and cases as assigned through Walmart Canada Global Ethics, in a timely and thorough manner and in accordance with Walmart Canada policies.
7. Required to communicate information from different sources and effectively clarify issues for others, often presenting different perspectives.
8. Other responsibilities may be added to this position as the needs and requirements of the Company increase.
Minimum Qualifications...
Age - 16 or older License - Security Guard License
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Novice riders use of Powered-Two-Wheelers for commuting: insight using the theory of planned behaviour
thesisposted on 02.03.2017, 02:59 authored by Amani Jordehi, Babak
Globally the rapid growth of motorisation is creating increasing concerns that affect urban mobility and amenity. Increased motor vehicle ownership and use in urban areas, particularly in developed countries including Australia, has led to the increase of vehicle congestion, elongating travel times and the need to provide more parking facilities in already crowded urban areas. While considerable research attention has been focussing on the challenges associated with increasing private car travel in urban areas, relatively little research has been conducted on the use of alternative motorised forms of private personal transport, specifically motorcycles and motor scooters collectively referred to as Powered-Two-Wheel (PTW) vehicles. The aim of this research was to develop understanding of the parameters contributing enormously to the use of PTW for commuting, particularly by novice riders who have recently taken up riding. In this context, many studies, which have sought to engage PTW riders in travel related research, as opposed to road safety research, have struggled to recruit participants. An explicit dimension of this research was to examine the effectiveness of strategies designed to maximise the recruitment and retention of study participants. The empirical results highlight the value of using reminders along with a prize draw with one high value prize rather than a number of lower value prizes. Higher recruitment of younger riders was achieved using a professionally designed postcard with a Quick Response Code (QR code), which provided direct access to the survey web site for respondents using a Smartphone. Results of this research provide valuable insight into the range of techniques, which can be used to increase response rate in the researches aiming to recruit PTW riders. In this research, the extent to, which novice riders commute using a PTW has been analysed through the lens of the Theory of Planned Behaviour. Data collected in a panel survey of novice riders in Victoria, Australia was used to develop a model of commuting by the use of PTW. Attitudinal parameters along with the advantages associated with the use of PTW for commuting were found to explain 55 percent of the variation in the travel behaviour of respondents. Social norms were not found to have a significant effect on the extent to, which novice riders used a PTW for commuting. Results of this research provide new and valuable insights into the researches aiming to develop travel mode choice models, travel assignment models and PTW safety models.