The company that sought to construct a 5 million gallon lagoon east of Chillicothe to store wastewater from food processing plants has withdrawn its application for a conditional use permit. The company gave verbal notification to Livingston County Zoning Administrator Mark Shockey early Tuesday morning and followed that with written notification from Marcus Tilley, the regional environmental manager for Terra Renewal Services, Inc., early afternoon. This action followed a public hearing conducted by the Livingston County Planning and Zoning Commission that took place in the circuit courtroom of the courthouse Monday evening. An estimated 75 people attended. After about 90 minutes of discussion, the planning and zoning commission voted to support a recommendation for the Livingston County Commission to deny the conditional use permit. The county commission's public hearing was scheduled for Tuesday morning. Although the hearing took place, no vote was taken because one commissioner - Dave Mapel - was not present due to his attendance at the funeral of former state Rep. Mike Lair; and because Commissioner Alvin Thompson would be abstaining from the vote due to a family relationship with Shane Baxter, on whose property the lagoon was proposed. The discussion was tabled until Tuesday, September 12, pending written notification of the applicant's withdrawal. When asked how the commission would vote, if the matter came to a vote, Presiding Commissioner Ed Douglas pointed out the purpose of the county's planning and zoning commission. "We have the authority to not take their recommendation, but that is not why we appointed them," Douglas said. "We appointed them to study it out, make those hard decisions and make a recommendation to the county commission."
Terra Renewal Services, Inc., of Dardanelle, Ark., had applied for a conditional use permit to construct a waste storage basin for industrial food residuals for land application as a soil amendment or as an organic fertilizer. The conditional use permit was up for discussion because the land currently is zoned agriculture. Although product from the storage lagoon would have agricultural purpose, the lagoon would be a commercial storage facility and, therefore, require a conditional user permit. The lagoon was planned for privately-owned property on LIV 261, approximately four miles east of Chillicothe and one mile north of U.S. Highway 36. The basin would have measured 215 feet wide, by 315 feet long and 20 feet deep. The facility would have been the company's first lagoon system. The company's other facilities are smaller and enclosed. The lagoon system, company officials said, would provide greater storage and year-round capacity as opposed to an enclosed tank. Shockey stated that the county's zoning attorney said that because it would be a storage facility, it would need to be classified as a solid waste management area, and thus require a conditional use permit.
Monday's public hearing was to hear details about the request and offer input prior to the county commission taking a vote. The planning and zoning commission is comprised of one representative from each of the county's 13 townships. Ten of the 13 members were present Monday evening and all of those in attendance voted in favor of denying the permit. Shockey opened the hearing and outlined the format, stating that certain criteria must be met before the committee could recommend approval of the permit. Things to be taken into consideration, he said, included whether the development would produce dust, noise, odor, or vibration, whether it could reduce property value or keep people from enjoying their property in the immediate vicinity. "Those are all things that we came up with as part of the criteria," Shockey said Tuesday. "I think it was fairly evident last night by everyone's testimony that folks felt they did not meet that criteria."
David Beck, chairman of the planning and zoning commission, led Monday night's hearing and stated that the purpose of the hearing was to obtain details about the proposed project and gather public input. Company representatives, John Pipkin and Corey Bauer, were in attendance and explained their proposal and answered questions from the public. The company representatives said the material coming into the lagoon would be, on average, 90 percent water and 10 percent organic solids that come from washing down equipment in meat processing plants, largely poultry and ham processing plants. The storage basin would have a 12-inch bentonite clay liner to seal the lagoon and would be completely fenced and have evergreen trees planted around the perimeter to help block the view and odor. Additional odor control, if needed, they said, could involve covering the lagoon with a synthetic liner, blowing hay on top of the lagoon, or having a misting system to contain and deodorize the air. The lagoon would be below grade. Pipkin said that the company did not anticipate using the entire lagoon capacity. The material would be stored on site for several months at time and then hauled and used for land application. "It's the organic matter in the food residuals that gives the material value as a fertilizer... nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium," said Pipkin. The company currently does not have a lagoon system; however, it maintains lagoons for chicken processing plants.
The lagoon would be similar to lagoons that are located east of Columbia. The company constructed an enclosed storage tank in Macon about 10 years ago. During Tuesday's public hearing, Shockey said he had talked with Pipkin earlier in the morning and relayed his comments about the company wanting to withdraw the application. "He really did sound concerned that they, as a company, not place this in a location that is going to be unsuitable," Shockey said. "He indicated that they learned a lot from the meeting last night and that they appreciated the opportunity to appear and appreciated everyone's attendance and participation."
Commissioner Douglas stated that existing ordinances regulate how land is used in the county. "A lot of counties don't have that," he said. "I think the company heard enough that they thought there would be counties better suited for them. There are easier places for them to do that." Surrounding counties, such as Grundy and Linn, do not have county zoning. Shockey stated that the Livingston County has spent time carefully developing its zoning ordinances. "We have worked very hard over the last couple years to make amendments to the zoning order to try to balance the thing out so that we don't completely trample on people's private property rights while at the same time protect the community against somebody wanting to do something that is totally objectionable," he said.
Shockey confirmed that the company had received approval from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and that the specific plot of land on which the lagoon was proposed was near a floodplain area, but not actually located in a floodplain. Concerns raised Monday night by members of the public included potential contamination to drinking water, an underground river and an aquifer, as well as deterioration of the road and underground water lines due heavy truck traffic going to and from the site. Concerns of odor control and the potential of increased predators to the area were also raised as concerns.


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Christy Palmerston, adventurer, man of mystery, explorer, trail blazer.
Christy Palmerston
Palmerston represents an altogether different type of explorer and track blazer to those others whose names have become familiar to us. Mulligan, Doyle, Robson, Atherton, McLeod, Mazlin, etc. His method of exploration was different too. He was of a class apart. He was to some an enigma most of the explorers and vanguard pioneers , who opened up our northland had a defining aim, a projected purpose in view ahead of their journeys.
Palmerston�s name has been woven into the fabric of many legends which, as time goes on, become more colourful.
His contribution towards district development had been great, and his is a name that will live on. A outlaw living for a time in a cave on the banks of the Pascoe River up north � thus one supposed authority. �A man of mystery,� said others, not without reason. Coyyan made the acquaintance of Palmerston in 1881 when he met him at the Three mile near Herberton, and camped with him for several weeks. Afterwards the tracks of both men crossed on many occasions, and their final meeting was at Ross Island, Townsville, where Palmerston conducted an hotel. Coyyan refutes the statement that this man was a man of mystery. To those who knew him intimately he probably was not, to others his nature stood as such.
Going back into Palmerston�s earlier days, it is known that he worked for Mark Christian on Millanjie Station, in the Broadsound district, doing general station work. Christian had brought him as a youth from Hobart town. Palmerston then went to the newly opened Palmer goldfields. Probably it was the love of adventure, the desire to see new country rather than the thought of acquiring riches that sent him there. On the Palmer Christy came into sharp conflict with the authorities, and was for a time compelled to live almost as an outlaw. What the cause of his disagreement with the police was, does not matter at this stage. He had no real reason for the supposition that he would be connected with the happening. Perhaps false counsels prevailed; perhaps it was his independent nature. In any case Palmerston went bush for a few years, moving at will over a wide area, appearing in unexpected localities, living mostly upon the game provided in forest, scrub and stream. During the period of his isolation from civilisation as it was in those days much careful and laborious exploring of the Daintree and Bloomfield was partings was done. He rendered good service to a lonely home on Leadingham Creek when myalls attacked it with its solitary occupant a woman. It was while dispersing these blacks that he captured the boy, Pompey.
All through those days Palmerston�s home was either the wild bush itself or the homes of two friends- Frasers, of Mitchellvale, and Sam the Roman�s wayside shanty. It was at Frasers that Sergeant Crowe made a very determined attempt to arrest Palmerston, but the bushman was too quick and got into the shelter of the timber near the homestead.
Palmerston was very temperate in his habits, indulging little if any in liquor, and also was not a heavy smoker. During 1879 or 1880 his diary was published in the Queenslander, and it gave a record of his and Fraser�s exploring of the Daintree and Bloomfield areas.
About that time he suffered severely from eye troubles, and it was feared that he had contracted a disease from the handling of poisoned spear points used by some of the blacks. In consequence of this eye affliction he made a trip to Sydney to consult an eye specialist. There were, however no further serious developments of the disease.
Port Douglas, at the beginning of its brief prosperity, was taking an interest in its back country, and for the purpose of making a comprehensive prospecting survey a sum of�150 was collected by the local residents. The Government of the day subsidized this sum on a pound for pound basis. J. V. Mulligan was asked to lead the party, but he recommended Palmerston, who had considerable knowledge of the region through which prospecting was to be carried out. This was Palmerston�s first serious attempt at prospecting, and he wisely chose two experienced miners, Harry Hammond and Robert Beattie, as co-partners on the trip. Their starting point was from the Springs, where Jack Ganes kept an hotel, but during the first week and for the rest of the trip, Hammond and Beattie discarded Palmerston as leader, although for their mutual benefit and safety they travelled together. The trip gave no very profitable results, but as the years rolled on, small fields such as Mt. Armit, Mt. Windsor, Mt. Spurgeon, Mt. Alto, and Mt. Carbine, were opened up within the scope of country covered previously by Palmerston, Beattie and Hammond.
The trip as regards prospecting may have been a failure, bit its carrying out brought Palmerston�s name well before the public. There was then an agitation for a suitable port to tap the hinterland, and Palmerston was retained by the Government to inspect or discover a possible route from each port.
On the Port Douglas side, Palmerston was ably assisted by Bob McLean and Dave Gregory. The latter kept an hotel on the first section of the Port Douglas- Herberton road, quite close to the former point. The Cook Highway of today touches the site.
Two tracks were blazed, one via the Mowbray and the other by Cassowary Creek. Neither found favour in the eyes of Surveyor de Lesser, and the port itself was marked down as unsuitable.
On the Cairns side, Palmerston�s efforts were not appreciated as a track finder. For one thing, very many old timers resided there, and, as prospectors, they knew the district, and in a manner resented the calling in of an outside opinion. Still, Palmerston fared well in the Cairns district, for just at the time, Swallows were engaged at the erection of the Hambledon Mill, and, being southerners, were taken up with Palmerston�s fame as an explorer, opening their house to him as a guest.
On the Johnstone- Mourilyan side, the thick jungles gave Palmerston full opportunity for his skill as a bushman.
It has to be remembered that the belts of scrub were often as much as sixty miles in breadth, and only those who knew the jungles before they had been despoiled by man know the task that Palmerston had to face. All supplies necessary had to be carried by the individual track finder. Later, as the natives haunted the settlements, their use as carriers was obtained.
Had Palmerston�s sole purpose been the discovery of gold, the credit of the Jordan fields mild rush would have been his, for several of the tracks made b y him are cut through the auriferous belts, and one of his main camps was situated within 200 yards of where the prospectors afterwards applied for and were granted the P.C. area. These tracks were condemned as unsuitable for railway purposes, but many years after, one of them goes through the present town of Millaa Millaa was opened up to Glen Allyn as a pack track, but few were they who ever used it.
Palmerston had some rough and anxious times in the jungle land, and although he had two good boys, Pompeii and Bowenkie, he had always to be on the alert. On one occasion when the myalls attacked him in the gorges of the Beatrice, it became a question of fighting his way out through the bombardment of stones that the Aborigines threw down from the steep, scrub clad lands. On another occasion when he was resting on Badgeree Creek he was set upon but the bullets from his rifle went straight and the attack was frustrated. During the early part of 1886, Palmerston explored the Russell River, and on one of his trips, his boys found gold in Werrimbah Creek and the lower reaches of the river. He reported his find at Geraldton (now Innisfail) and at the same time, George Clarke reported and applied for a prospecting claim which he named �Coupe,� and which was situated on the high lands of the Russell stream. Clarke�s discovery was reported to the Herberton Warden.
Gold had been found on the Johnstone during the year 1884, but the miners there soon left for the new field. Palmerston erected a store at the base of Mt. Bartle Frere. He received ten shillings per head for piloting 200 Chinese on to the field, and their numbers increased until there were about a thousand of them scattered over the gold bearing area. The difficulties of transport were great. Pack teams were not to be had, and roads consisted only of blazed lines or half brushed pads. Natives or Chinese were used in the transport of supplies. Palmerston, after a time, disposed of his business to a Chinaman, and then, for a brief time, resided in Geraldton. He went thence to Townsville and got married. At Townsville he was for some time hotel keeping, but the wanderlust was too strongly ingrained within his nature, the call of the wild was too insistent, and he drifted across to the Straits Settlement as a prospector for a large mining combine. It was there that he passed away after a severe attack of malaria, ending a colourful career and leaving much of value to posterity.
The above has been taken from Coyyan�s notes. On certain aspects there may be a difference of opinion. Much else could be written of Palmerston. For instance there is a touching story told of the illness and death of Pompey, Palmerston�s ever faithful little friend who passed away at an early age in Herberton.
John Fraser of Mitchellvale, became one of Palmerston�s closest friends. His first meeting with the bushman- explorer was made under strange circumstances. Fraser was out on an isolated part of his run one day and at noon sat down under a tree to eat his dinner. He was astonished to hear a shout, and looking about saw coming towards him through the bush a man heavily armed with revolvers and a rifle. Little clothed, tattered by many weeks of bush travelling, the newcomer presented a strange spectacle. At ease when he learned who Fraser was, the man introduced himself as Christy Palmerston. Fraser took him to the homestead and fitted him out with new clothes. Palmerston remained at Mitchellvale for months, doing a little prospecting and keeping a watchful care over the movements of the blacks.
Many men have contributed to the work of exploration that went on after Leichhardt, Kennedy and others had blazed criss-crossing lines throughout the Northland. None deserved more honourable mention than does Christy Palmerston, and it was but a merited reward that naming of the great new highway linking Innisfail with the Cairns district. Track blazing through the scrubs was altogether different to that carried out in the pen bushland. These days one sees a marked contract to conditions prevailing in Palmerstons� time.
From Coyyan�s Notebook
Published 1941 Cairns Post
A NORTHERN ADVENTURER
CHRISTY PALMERSTON PIONEER
By Clem Lack
Truth 3 December 1950
No headstone marks the grave of Christy Palmerston, at Kuala Pilah, in Malay; the morose, taciturn adventurer, who blazed the pioneer trails in North Queensland would have wanted it that way. He could not have foreseen that his fame, real and legendary, would increase in the years after his death, and that his name would be perpetuated on the maps of Queensland.
Around the campfires in the lonely places of the far North and great North West, men still talk of Christy Palmerston, and his exploits, and the tales handed down from their fathers and grandfathers before them, lose nothing in the telling.
Legend persists that Christy Palmerston was an Englishman the natural son of Lord Palmerston, England�s great Prime Minister, and that his mother was the beautiful Italian Countess Carandini, whose fame as a singer won her world wide repute. Actually he was the son of a dairy farmer in the Gippsland district of Victoria.
The assertion has also been made that he was the well educated product of an English public school but the later General Reginald Spencer Browne, who knew him in the North Queensland days, said that he spoke no language but that of the blacks, and his own English tongue, the latter �rather indifferently.�
He was a man of solitude and mystery. There was nothing of the hawk-eyed swash-buckling adventurer of the romantic story book about his appearance. He was a saturnine, lean and wiry little man with a withered arm, who might have been the living embodiment, except for the flapping cabbage tree hat he wore, of Rider Haggard�s small-boned hero, Allan Quartermaine. His skin was tanned so dark by the northern sun that he looked almost as black as the aboriginals who were his constant companions.
Lonely and aloof he came and went from the Northern outposts of white settlement in the early 1870s with a silent, almost stealthy swiftness, stalking ahead of a body guard of blacks, with Pompo, his devoted black boy trotting at his heels. Pompo, on the authority of J. W. Collinson, died at Herberton in August 1882.
No man knew better than Christy Palmerston, the wild Palmer country, the impenetrable jungles, the inaccessible mountain ridges of the Cairns hinterland. During his long absences in the wilderness, he lived in the same primitive fashion as the blacks. When the white man�s ration of corned beef and damper gave out, he lived on the native diet of wallaby, succulent tree grubs, edible nuts, and yams, and, perhaps, a sleek carpet snake, prize piece d� resistance of many an aboriginal banquet. He had a thorough knowledge of the tribal customs and mentality of the black man, and could speak their language with ease.
In studying Palmerston�s remarkable life, it is difficult to tell where fact ends and legend begins. His fame has been embellished by a thousand stories illustrative of his ferocity, courage, and knight errantry, the virtues and vices of his complex personality.
There is no doubt that he lived for many of his earlier years in the northern jungles outside the law. The times were wild and lawless, and the early American West was not more untamed, than the far North of the 1870s and 1880s, when savage myall warriors roamed the jungle clad valley and mountain slopes, as blood thirsty and ferocious and as cunning in ambush as the red men of the American frontier.
Certain it is that Christy Palmerston must have been as tough, as ruthless when occasion warranted, and as fearless as those hard-bitten men in the coonskin caps, carrying the long-barrelled smooth-bore rifles in the crook of their arms, who broke the unknown trails for the conestoga wagons of the American West. He would have been at home in the company of Daniel Boone, Colonel Bowie, Davy Crockett, Wild Bill Hickock, and other semi legendary heroes of early American frontier history because he belonged to their kind, loving the lonely places and the solitude of the bush, with its lurking treachery, and menace of sudden death.
Among the legends of Palmerston which have come down through the years is that he robbed and terrorised Chinese prospectors whom he detested. He would raid them in their camp, and when they fled in panic, collect the sacks of alluvial gold they had left behind.
There is no doubt that Palmerston shared with the blacks and the whites a bitter antipathy towards the Chinese, and he is credited with having violently resisted the yellow man�s invasion of the Palmer and Upper Russell goldfields.
But J. W. Collinson, in his �Early Days of Cairns,� points out that Palmerston �for a consideration,� brought over 200 Chinese from Geraldton (now Innisfail) to the Lower Russell rush in March 1887.
He was equally the terror of the savage myalls who were among the most treacherous on the Australian mainland, and waylaid and murdered lonely white prospectors, and slaughtered the Chinese wholesale. After two prospectors had been speared to death, Palmerston picked up his rifle, and with his retinue of black retainers, loping behind him, made a terrible punitive raid against the myalls, wiping out more than a score.
Many shady deeds on the wrong side of the law doubtless could be chalked up against Palmerston, but his turbulent life in the early days of the Palmer from 1873 onward, was a reflection of the lawless conditions of the time. But the good and worthwhile deeds of Palmerston outweighed the bad.
Many a settler he saved from the blacks; he discovered and nursed sick prospectors; he tracked down and rescued men who became lost in the jungle. The police esteemed him highly, because he was in fact, worth an entire detachment of native police.
Warrants for arrest on various charges in the criminal calendar dating back to the early 1870s were never executed. Because his services in exploration and settlement, his many acts of charity and kindness to men, women and children, old charges which had hung over his head for years were tacitly cancelled.
His achievements as an explorer were considerable. No man did more to open up the Cairns and Herberton hinterlands. From the middle 1870s until well in the 1880s, he traversed enormous tracts of country where white man had never previously trodden. He explored the Mulgrave, Herbert, Beatrice, Tully, North and South Johnstone Rivers, and the Russell and Barron Rivers to their headwaters.
He discovered the Upper Russell goldfield, thus opening up the fertile jungle lands at the heads of the Johnstone and Russell Rivers. He discovered the Daintree Pass, and when tin was found at Herberton, his trail blazing through the scrub clad ranges enabled the establishment of Port Douglas. He also hacked a path from the almost inaccessible tableland to Mourilyan Harbour. The Palmerston Range, and the Palmerston lands, lying west of Innisfail and east of Millaa Millaa, and the Palmerston Highway to Ravenshoe, are geographical memorials to his fame as an explorer.
After many years of prospecting and exploring in North Queensland, Palmerston married a Miss Teresa Rooney of Townsville in December 1886, settled down in that city. His name as shown on the Marriage Register was Christofero Palmerston Caradini. Their daughter Rosina Caradini was born in 1889. Rosina later went to Melbourne to study music and became an accomplished violinist.
In the early 1890s Palmerston answered the call of adventure once more. He left Australia for Singapore and prospected for tin in Borneo and Malaya. He never saw Australia again.
In the Malayan jungle, he contracted fever, and was carried by stretcher from the Pasu Concession in Negir Sembilan to the hospital at Kuala Pilah, when he died on 15 January 1897, a lonely enigma of a man to the last.
His diary which would have been of inestimable value is believed to have been stored after his death, in a Government office in Kuala Pilah, where it was destroyed by white ants.
Early Days of Cairns
Christie Palmerston
By J. W. Collinson
Cummins and Campbell Magazine 1938
A history of Cairns would be incomplete without a reference to this most extraordinary personality, who roamed the jungle, in the years when Cairns was but an infant. So much of tradition has grown around his doing, that it is difficult to place any historical value on many statements made by pioneers. It is asserted that he assisted Bill Smith in his exploratory work at Trinity Bay in 1876.. But in all the published accounts by Sheridan, Spence, Sachs, Doyle, Geary, Smith, Douglas, Warner and others, it is significant that the name of Christie Palmerston does not occur.
In June 1877, his name first appears in history, when he explored and opened the track from Rifle Creek to Port Douglas, following the Mowbray River gorge. Subsequent references show that he was concentrating on prospecting at the head of the Daintree River, and to those who have seen the country over which Peter Botte stands sentinel, some appreciation will be accorded to the man who penetrated the dense scrub to fossick in the creeks and gullies. For us that record is preserved in his diary published in the Brisbane �Courier� in January 1881, in which he also refers to earlier events, such as the discovery of the McLeod River, in company with James Venture Mulligan, in the early days of the Palmer.
At the time that the vicinity of the Barron River was being tried for a road over the range, there is no evidence that prospectors had been attracted to that district. Palmerston himself admits in 1882, that the Barron Gorge was quite new to him. He certainly possessed general knowledge of the scrub country that was conceded by Dr. Logan Jack, W. H. Monk, and Archibald Meston in their exploring work in the ranges and dense jungle.
But a camp fire tradition had become woven into some of the historical narratives and eventually accepted as authentic. He acquired a knowledge of the blacks and their customs, that enabled him to work alone, save for the company of his native boy, Pompo, until death claimed the little fellow at Herberton, in August 1882. But it is certain that from the year 1882, he was able to enlist in his parties a number of natives as carriers, and on his journeys in the scrub was scarcely distinguishable from his native companions.
G. E. Dalrymple in 1873 had noted slightly different racial characteristics in the blacks at Trinity Bay; and as they were scrub-dwellers for the most part, their habits were determined by their environment. They were fierce and treacherous, made substantial canoes from cedar logs, were adept in making fish-traps, and unlike the dwellers of the open country, had more choice of game and fruit. Dr. Logan Jack noticed that the blacks of the Russell scrubs did not use spears. On the sand dunes of the site of Cairns were relics of camps, with heaps of shells, of a small species of black-lip, found in the mud of the foreshore. Cannibalism was common everywhere on the coast, and castaways on that coast never lived to tell their story. This cannibalism belonged to their tribal customs. Generally, a young woman was clubbed unawares to furnish an addition to some festive occasion.
Christie acquired the knowledge from the natives with regard to edible nuts, roots, yams, and fruits, and native fisheries, and he was able to supply them with game with his fire-arms; so this remarkable man roamed the scrubs, making his home with the children of the soil, independent for the time being of civilised comforts.
When he was commissioned to search for some possible route for a railway over the range, he did this single-handed, penetrating country through which he must have been the first white man to go. He certainly shared with the blacks and the whites a strong antipathy to the Chinese. Tradition credits him with resisting the Chinese on the Palmer, and being the prime mover in intimidating the Chinese who attempted to enter the Upper Russell Goldfield. Yet it was Palmerston who for a consideration brought over 200 Chinese from Geraldton to the Lower Russell rush in March 1887. His official reports of the trips he made to find a railway route were published in abridged form in the �Courier� in the beginning of 1883, the six trips being from Port Douglas, Hartley�s Creek, Barron River, Wright�s Creek, Mulgrave River, and Goldsborough.
Dr. Jack records his associations with Palmerston, and his method of working the boys. Later on Mr. Meston refers to the work of Palmerston indirectly in his account of the ascent of Bellenden-Ker and Bartle Frere, and also to the ascent of the Lamb Range up Wright�s Creek. At the latter place he was able to refute Palmerston�s statement of an area of thousands of acres of good land, a report that was the cause of great excitement in Cairns in 1882. J. V. Mulligan, in his description of Palmerston, published in 1881, pays tribute to his sterling worth as a companion, Mr. Monk found him at all times a most useful and trustworthy guide, allowing for a certain lack of conversational ability due to his restless nomadic habits and association with natives.
Two notable accounts are those of General Spencer Browne in his �Journalist�s Memories,� and Ion L. Idriess in �Men of the Jungle,� but in each of these cases no attempt has been made to particularize his exploits. The effect has been to strengthen the belief in much of the legendary rubbish that has been published from time to time. Palmerston himself does not by his own records conceal the fact that his rifle often spoke in self defence, but his was not of a degraded nature seeking after bloodshed. His turbulent life in the early days of the Palmer from 1873 was no doubt due to the conditions prevailing at the time. Mr. B. G. Howard, Protector of Aborigines, acquits Palmerston of at least one serious allegation made against him in 1875.
John Fraser, of Mitchell Vale Station (1875 to 1885), with his brother Harry Fraser, was for a number of years in close touch with Palmerston, accompanying him on some of his prospecting trips on the McLeod, Mary, and Daintree Rivers; and this association was always amicable and satisfactory. Many kindly acts are remembered when Christie gave his services to assist Fraser and Sons to conciliate the blacks. It was John Fraser who took the first mob of blacks to Port Douglas in 1878 to accustom them to the white man�s ways.
In October, 1881, Palmerston joined the party in the search for Mrs. Watson, and her child, from Cooktown along the coast to Cape Bedford. The Mitchell country claimed Palmerston, till in 1882 he was commissioned by the Hon. W. Miles to seek a possible railway route from Herberton to the coast. From that time onwards, his sphere of operations shifted to Herberton and the country of the Johnstone and Russell Rivers. His association with G. E. Clarke, Alick Munro and others at Herberton, was the beginning of a most useful term of activity and exploration. It is from this term, too, that his diaries found publication; and though his contributions to the Press were considered crude, yet his notes never lacked descriptive ability, though deficient in technical detail.
In all six trips were made to find a railway route, which formed for the most part the basis of the routes surveyed by Mr. W. H. Monk, and incorporated in Mr. Ballard�s report to Parliament in 1884, in which the Cairns route found preference. The people of Geraldton (now Innisfail) were indefatigable in their efforts to secure the railway, and retained the services of Christie Palmerston through the Johnstone Divisional Board. But in the end, as Palmerston himself relates, they failed to pay him the amounts promised. This so piqued him, that in his journal he purposely left out distances and directions.
In the meantime he had still carried out prospecting for gold; and in that mountainous country was able to locate gold in many places, though not in sensational quantity. It is fair to acquit Palmerston, so far as his own published accounts are concerned, of much of the legend that has grown in later years. Neither would the accounts of W. H. Miskin, W. H. Monk, Dr. Logan Jack or A. Meston lend much support to those legends. His paper read before the Royal Geographical Society at Sydney in 1886, has had several distortions in the Press quite recently, where all the events have become mixed up with matters of another occasion. His discovery of the Upper Russell Goldfield with Clark and Joss was his best contribution to the opening of the dense jungle country at the head of the Johnstone and Russell Rivers.
The last act of the drama of his life was played in the Federated Malay States, a full account of which appeared in the �North Queensland Register,� of 24 February 1897, and only this year (1938) recounted by Miss Heale in the �Register,� of 19 March.

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Along the way, Buzz is helped out by his Star Command friends, who provided him with mission briefs, firepower and support. Buzz must help X-R find his missing pieces and save the Little Green Men from mortal peril. With legions of deadly troops in his path and missions to master, the adventure is about to start for Buzz and you, the playstation player.
From the safety of Star Command you have the clearance to adjust various features of your adventure, including difficulty, volume control, vibration (for those with dual shock controllers) and your choice of mission. Upon commencement of the game, commander Zeb Nebula will brief you on your chosen mission and send you on your way.
For each mission, Buzz arrives on the surface of a planet and must then chase a villain through a challenging terrain course while fending off legions of Zurg's troops. Buzz must use all of his Space Ranger abilities and weapons to ensure that he catches the villain before he escapes. If Buzz makes it to the final showdown he will have to use accumulated weapons to destroy the enemy's shield and finish the mission.
To aid Buzz on his mission there are various vehicles, weapons and power-ups that can be purchased during the game for collected credits, which can be found throughout the terrain and are also rewarded for the defeat of Zurg's troops.
To be able to progress to higher levels you must earn medals. Once you defeat the enemy in a mission, two bonus levels become available and once you have enough medals you will be worthy to tackle more challenging missions. Capturing the enemy earns you the Gold Medal of Galactic Valour, saving all the Little Green Men earns you the Silver Medallion of Star Command, and if you collect enough credits you get the Silver Medallion of Ranger Efficiency.
There are a couple of choices for bonus levels. The Time Trial is a test of your Ranger abilities and you are faced with the challenge of getting through the level in the fastest time possible. If you perform within the time limit you receive the Gold Medal of Heroic Prowess.
The other bonus round involves your Space Ranger buddy X-R, who has unfortunately been blown to bits and you must find all of his parts and return them to him before the time is up. For retrieving all of X-R's parts before time runs out you receive the Gold Medal of Robotic Compassion and for collecting the parts fast enough you get the Silver Medallion of Comradeship.
The Game provides you with a variety of vehicles that, depending on the terrain, help you out more or less efficiently. The Jet Pack, when equipped, will fire up, extend it's wings and allow Buzz to travel high over terrain so long as his fuel lasts. The Hoverboard, when equipped, speeds skillfully through a level, so long as fuel is available. The Jet Bike, when equipped, is very fast and will catch Zurg's minions in no time. Other aids, like Boostpads (catapult you through the air) and Teleports (move you instantly from one point in the level to another) can prove to be considerably helpful in catching up to Zurg's troops, if you have the credits.
There are some fun and effective Space Ranger weapons that provide additional help to Buzz. You are always equipped with a standard issue Space Ranger Laser Gun and additional weaponry can be purchased using credits at various spots throughout the levels. The Plasma Gun fires effective close range bolts of plasma and can be upgraded four times, while the Homing Plasma Gun fires bolts of plasma that home in on their targets which is good for airborne foes.
There are some more hard hitting weapons though. Rockets are projectiles packed with explosives that arc through the air and are great for medium range attacks. The Arc Laser, perfect for flying enemies, fires a stream of lightening that is automatically attracted to the nearest enemy. Proximity Grenades can be launched at enemies and will detonate on impact or when the timer runs out. The Icegun shoots a freezing spray of anti-energy that disables close range enemies. The Gatling Gun fires a rapid stream of powerful energy and the Power Shield, which can prove to be incredibly useful, protects you from a limited period of harm and can be fired up to guard against close range weapons.
Each level, aside from offering weapons and shields, also allows you to pick up Health units, Ammo to provide extra shots on all weapons, and fuel for Buzz's Jet Pack, Hoverboard, or Jet Bike. Of course, don't forget that every added weapon, power up, transport, boostpad and vehicle costs you credits and the number you have collected is always shown in the lower left hand corner of the screen. Gold coins are worth 10 credits, silver coins are worth 5 credits, and Red coins are worth one credit.
Overall this riot of a game provides players with 14 amazingly fun levels that become not only more challenging but more interesting as the missions progress. The futuristic planets are colorfully designed, the graphics are simplistic yet explicit, the controls are easy to maneuver and anyone who loves the TV series will love the game. Activison and Disney/Pixar have brought their fans an extraordinary diversion that allows the average Joe to play the part of Star Commands most heroic Space Ranger, Buzz Lightyear.


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National Trends in Mental Health Care for US Adolescents
Prevention of Psychosis: Advances in Detection, Prognosis, and Intervention
This Month in Archives of General Psychiatry
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2002;59(1):9. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.59.1.9
The sequelae from head injuries can be psychological, physical, and cognitive. Rates of depression are high soon after a head injury, but little is known about the long-term prevalence of depression after injury. Holsinger et al Article report that rates of depression are also elevated decades after a head injury and that lifetime risk of depression increased with severity of head injury.
A commentary by Robinson and Jorge is included.
Suhara et al Article used positron emission tomography to examine the extrastriatal D2receptors in schizophrenic patients. Drug-naive schizophrenics showed a regional decrease in D2 receptors in the anterior cingulate cortex with negative correlation to the positive symptom score on the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale. These findings suggest that alterations in D2 receptor function in the cerebral cortex may play a role in the causation of schizophrenia.
A commentary by Wong is included.
In a magnetic resonance imaging study of schizophrenic patients, their siblings, and controls, Cannon et al Article found that a history of fetal hypoxia is associated with greater structural brain pathology among patients with schizophrenia and their nonschizophrenic siblings than among controls at low genetic risk for the disorder.
In a community-based study of a large and ethnically diverse sample of young adults, Turner and Gil Article found that more than 60% have experienced a psychiatric or substance disorder at some time in their lives. African Americans were found to have substantially lower lifetime rates of depressive and substance disorders than other groups and, among Hispanics, rates tend to be lower among the foreign-born than among their US-born counterparts. These results suggest the importance of intervention efforts during early adolescence.
By combining information from a psychiatric examination, a key informant interview, and medical records, Östling and Skoog Article found that 10% of nondemented 85-year-olds experienced hallucinations or delusions and 6% had paranoid ideation. These symptoms were associated with sensory impairments, cardiovascular disorders, development of dementia, and increased mortality. They conclude that psychotic symptoms in old age are more frequent than previously thought and that it is crucial to obtain information from multiple sources in the clinical evaluation of elderly patients.
A commentary by Breitner is included.
Tohen et al Article compared the efficacy and safety of treatment of bipolar disorder with either of 2 conventionally used drugs, lithium or valproate, vs combined therapy consisting of either drug added to the atypical antipsychotic olanzapine. The olanzapine cotherapies were found to improve patients' levels of mania significantly more than the monotherapies, and levels of depression were dramatically improved by cotherapy. These findings show that the addition of olanzapine may provide superior efficacy in the treatment of manic or mixed bipolar episodes.
Posternak and Zimmerman Article rigorously evaluated a large cohort of depressed psychiatric outpatients and tested multiple hypotheses regarding how depressed patients with atypical features would differ from those without atypical features. The results offer some support for the validity of the atypical features subtype but suggest that the diagnostic criteria set may require further modification.
Mojtabai et al Article examine factors beyond severity and comorbidity in pathways to mental health specialty care. They show that different factors affect perceived need, decisions to seek help and professional mental health utilization. They illustrate the need for more targeted educational and behavioral change strategies to close the gap between need and appropriate care.
Despite its long use in clinical settings, the infamous reputation of hypnosis has darkened its research potential to cognitive science. Current techniques open new opportunities to use hypnosis and posthypnotic suggestion as probes into neural mechanisms and reciprocally provide a means of studying hypnosis itself. Raz and Shapiro Article describe not only how hypnotism can provide a way to tap neurocognitive questions but also how cognitive assays can in turn shed new light on the neural bases of hypnosis.
This Month in Archives of General Psychiatry. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2002;59(1):9. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.59.1.9


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<?php

namespace Klever\Tutor\AccessMethod;

use PHPUnit\Framework\Assert;
use Klever\Tutor\ClassUtilitiesTrait;

trait TestTrait
{
    use ClassUtilitiesTrait;

    abstract public function getSubjectUnderTest();
    abstract public function getClassAccessMethodTestData();
    abstract public function getAccessMethodForClassStateByName($property);
    abstract public function getAccessMethodForClassPropertyByName($property);
    abstract public function getInjectionMethodForClassPropertyByName($property);

    public function injectClassPropertyViaAccessMethodForName($class, $property, $value)
    {
        $setterMethod = $this->getInjectionMethodForClassPropertyByName($property);
        return call_user_func(array($class, $setterMethod), $value);
    }

    protected function getAccessMethodByStateOrPropertyName(TestConfigurationInterface $config)
    {
        $property = $config->getAccessorName();
        if ($config->isStateAccessor()) {
            return $this->getAccessMethodForClassStateByName($property);
        }

        return $this->getAccessMethodForClassPropertyByName($property);
    }

    /**
     * @dataProvider getClassAccessMethodTestData
     * @param TestConfigurationInterface $config
     */
    public function testClassAccessorMethodsForName(TestConfigurationInterface $config)
    {
        $class = $this->getSubjectUnderTest();
        $accessorMethod = $this->getAccessMethodByStateOrPropertyName($config);
        $this->assertClassMethodReturnIsEqual(
            $class,
            $accessorMethod,
            $config->getDefaultValue(),
            0.0,
            10,
            false,
            false,
            'Access Method Default Value Assertion Failed'
        );

        if (!$config->isInjectionMethodTest()) {
            return;
        }

        $setterReturn = $this->injectClassPropertyViaAccessMethodForName(
            $class,
            $config->getInjectorName(),
            $config->getInjectableValue()
        );

        if ($config->isInjectionMethodFluent()) {
            Assert::assertSame($class, $setterReturn, 'Value Injection Method is not Fluent');
        }

        $this->assertClassMethodReturnIsIdentical(
            $class,
            $accessorMethod,
            $config->getExpectedMutatedValue(),
            'Access Method Mutated Value Assertion Failed'
        );
    }
}

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Quantum physics experiment shows Heisenberg was right about uncertainty, in a certain sense
The word uncertainty is used a lot in quantum mechanics. One school of thought is that this means there's something out there in the world that we are uncertain about. But most physicists believe nature itself is uncertain.
Tagged: quantum, quantum mechanics, quantum physics, particle physics
We did a breakthrough 'speed test' in quantum tunnelling, and here's why that's exciting
When you deal with things at the quantum scale, where things are very small, the world is quite fuzzy and bizarre in comparison to our everyday experiences.
Tagged: physics, quantum mechanics, quantum physics, hydrogen, atoms
Experiments with optical tweezers race to test the laws of quantum mechanics
One might think that the optical tweezer – a focused laser beam that can trap small particles – is old hat by now. After all, the tweezer was invented by Arthur Ashkin in 1970. And he received the Nobel Prize for it this year - presumably after its main implications had been realized during the last half-century.
Tagged: quantum mechanics, optical tweezers
How quantum mechanics can change computing
In early July, Google announced that it will expand its commercially available cloud computing services to include quantum computing. A similar service has been available from IBM since May. These aren't services most regular people will have a lot of reason to use yet. But making quantum computers more accessible will help government, academic and corporate research groups around the world continue their study of the capabilities of quantum computing.
Tagged: quantum mechanics, computing, quantum computing, physics
How we created the first ever blueprint for a real quantum computer
Quantum computers, which are based on the strange rules of quantum mechanics, will revolutionise society in a similar way to how mechanical computers have. Once built, they will help us answer many questions in science, create lifesaving medicines, provide transformative capabilities for the financial sector and in general solve certain problems that an ordinary computer would take billions of years to compute.
Tagged: quantum computer, quantum computing, quantum mechanics, mechanical computers
Physicists explore exotic states of matter inspired by Nobel-winning research
The 2016 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, three theoretical physicists whose research used the unexpected mathematical lens of topology to investigate phases of matter and the transitions between them.
Tagged: quantum mechanics, quantum physics
Particles in Love: Quantum Mechanics Explored in New Study
Here's a love story at the smallest scales imaginable: particles of light. It is possible to have particles that are so intimately linked that a change to one affects the other, even when they are separated at a distance.
Tagged: quantum mechanics
How we discovered 'impossible' material that both conducts electricity – and doesn't
Metals, which conduct electricity, and insulators, which don't, are polar opposites. At least that's what we've believed until now. But we have discovered that a well-known insulator can simultaneously act like a conductor in certain measurements. We don't yet know the reason for this mysterious behaviour but it is likely due to new and exciting quantum effects.
Tagged: electricity, Insulation, topological insulators, samarium hexaboride, fermi surface, quantum mechanics
The universe really is weird: a landmark quantum experiment has finally proved it so
Only last year the world of physics celebrated the 50th anniversary of Bell's theorem, a mathematical proof that certain predictions of quantum mechanics are incompatible with local causality. Local causality is a very natural scientific assumption and it holds in all modern scientific theories, except quantum mechanics.


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.. _citations:

References
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Cosmic-ray flux parameterizations
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The parameterizations of the flux of cosmic rays are provided via the module `crflux <https://github.com/afedynitch/crflux>`_.
The references are given in the `module's documentation <http://crfluxmodels.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html#>`_.

Atmosphere
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* `CORSIKA parametrizations <https://web.ikp.kit.edu/corsika/physics_description/corsika_phys.pdf>`_
    | *CORSIKA: A Monte Carlo Code to Simulate Extensive Air Showers*
    | D. Heck, J. Knapp, J. Capdevielle, G. Schatz, T. Thouw
    | Tech. Rep. FZKA 6019, Karsruhe (1998)

* `NRLMSISE-00 <http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/modelweb/atmos/nrlmsise00.html>`_
    | *NRLMSISE-00 empirical model of the atmosphere: Statistical comparisons and scientific issues*
    | J.M. Picone, A.E. Hedin, D.P. Drob, and A.C. Aikin
    | J. Geophys. Res., 107(A12), 1468, doi:10.1029/2002JA009430, (2002)

Hadronic interaction models
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* `SIBYLL-2.3c <http://inspirehep.net/record/1624702>`_:
    | *The hadronic interaction model Sibyll 2.3c and Feynman scaling*
    | F. Riehn, R. Engel, A. Fedynitch, T. K. Gaisser, T. Stanev
    | PoS(ICRC2017)301

* `SIBYLL-2.3 <http://inspirehep.net/record/1395980>`_:
    | *A new version of the event generator Sibyll*
    | F. Riehn, R. Engel, A. Fedynitch, T. K. Gaisser, T. Stanev
    | PoS ICRC2015 (2016) 558

* `SIBYLL-2.1 <http://inspirehep.net/record/823839>`_:
    | *Cosmic ray interaction event generator SIBYLL 2.1*
    | E.-J. Ahn, R. Engel, T. K. Gaisser, P. Lipari, T.Stanev
    | Phys.Rev. D80 (2009) 094003

* `EPOS-LHC <http://inspirehep.net/record/1236629>`_:
    | *EPOS LHC : test of collective hadronization with LHC data*
    | T. Pierog, I. Karpenko, J. M. Katzy, E. Yatsenko, and K. Werner
    | Phys. Rev. C92 (2015) 034906
    | `arXiv:1306.0121 <https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0121>`_

* `QGSJET-II-04 <http://inspirehep.net/record/872658>`_:
    | *Monte Carlo treatment of hadronic interactions in enhanced Pomeron scheme: I. QGSJET-II model*
    | Sergey Ostapchenko
    | Phys.Rev. D83 (2011) 014018,

* `DPMJET-III <http://inspirehep.net/record/538940>`_:
    | *The Monte Carlo event generator DPMJET-III*
    | S. Roesler, R. Engel, J. Ranft
    | Advanced Monte Carlo for radiation physics, particle transport simulation and applications. Proceedings, Conference, MC2000, Lisbon, Portugal, October 23-26, 2000

* `DPMJET-III-19.1 <http://inspirehep.net/record/1503512>`_:
    | *Cascade equations and hadronic interactions at very high energies*
    | A. Fedynitch
    | CERN-THESIS-2015-371


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Joshua Elikplim Agbo's STORY
As an active member of the Business Administration Students Association (BASA) and a founding member of the students' gymnasium, Joshua loved the high level of discipline and wholistic education here at Valley View University (VVU) which has helped him build the values of excellence relevant for society today.
Joshua Elikplim Agbo chose VVU because, he has always wanted Christian based tertiary education in a serene and conducive environment, which he found here at VVU.
Recollecting memories of his four-year stay at VVU, Joshua tells us he had a good time with his student life including his service as a pioneer treasurer/financial secretary for the gymnasium. Joshua loved the community service activities like the work-study programme and worship service here at VVU.
Joshua gained admission in 2000 to read Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Accounting option in Valley View University (VVU) and graduated with distinction in 2004.
After his four year degree programme, he has worked as a banker with over a decade experience spanning across Microfinance, Retail, Commercial and Corporate Banking space in Ghana. He has previously worked with the following organisations;
ü Access Bank Ghana Limited – Commercial Banking Manager
ü Intercontinental Bank Ghana Limited – SME Banking Manager
ü Ashesi University College – Assistant Finance Officer
ü Ghana Atomic Energy Commission – Assistant Accounts Officer (National Service)
He now holds two Masters of Business Administration in Banking and Finance from Valley View University and the Central University. He is also a Certified Associate of Business Administration in Project Management from the Almond Institute (Formerly, Graduate School of Governance and Leadership). And as part of his training, he has attended several local and international courses for professional guidance.
Joshua volunteers as a member of the Board of Trustees for Palm Institute of Strategic Leadership. The board provides advisory services and strategic focus for the management of this accredited tertiary educational institution situated in Accra, Ghana. This is part of a voluntary pro bono service in giving back to society towards the training of the next generation of African leaders. He mentions some of his achievements as:
ü A Recipient of year 2012 Certificate of Honour for outstanding contribution to Excellent Service Culture in Access Bank Ghana Limited.
ü Non-executive Directorship in Hedge Capital Limited and Access Solutions Ghana Limited.
ü Business Start-up Specialist and a Social Entrepreneur.
ü 14th District Quarter Master of Knights of St. John International (KSJI) and 1st Vice President of Madina Commandery (Catholic friendly organisation).
Currently Joshua Elikplim Agbo is working as a Corporate and Investment Banking Manager in the Public Sector Group of Fidelity Bank Ghana Limited.
He loves watching movies, listening to music, walking & jogging, hiking, driving and travelling.
He has developed an acronym for the guiding principles of his life which he advises his fellow colleagues to follow; TIDE: Trust in God, Integrity, Discipline, and Excellence.


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import psycopg2
import json
from geojson import loads, Feature, FeatureCollection

# Database Connection Info
db_host = "localhost"
db_user = "pluto"
db_passwd = "stars"
db_database = "py_geoan_cb"
db_port = "5432"

# connect to DB
conn = psycopg2.connect(host=db_host, user=db_user,
	port=db_port, password=db_passwd, database=db_database)

# create a cursor
cur = conn.cursor()

# the PostGIS buffer query
buffer_query = """SELECT ST_AsGeoJSON(ST_Transform(
			ST_Buffer(wkb_geometry, 100,'quad_segs=8'),4326))
			AS geom, name
            FROM geodata.schools"""

# execute the query
cur.execute(buffer_query)

# return all the rows, we expect more than one
dbRows = cur.fetchall()

# an empty list to hold each feature of our feature collection
new_geom_collection = []

# loop through each row in result query set and add to my feature collection
# assign name field to the GeoJSON properties
for each_poly in dbRows:
    geom = each_poly[0]
    name = each_poly[1]
    geoj_geom = loads(geom)
    myfeat = Feature(geometry=geoj_geom, properties={'name': name})
    new_geom_collection.append(myfeat)

# use the geojson module to create the final Feature Collection of features created from for loop above
my_geojson = FeatureCollection(new_geom_collection)

# define the output folder and GeoJSon file name
output_geojson_buf = "../geodata/out_buff_100m.geojson"

# save geojson to a file in our geodata folder
def write_geojson():
    fo = open(output_geojson_buf, "w")
    fo.write(json.dumps(my_geojson))
    fo.close()

# run the write function to actually create the GeoJSON file
write_geojson()

# close cursor
cur.close()

# close connection
conn.close()


Bring multi-dimensional clarity to your listening experience with the FXA6 in-ear monitor. Designed and assembled in the USA, these comfortable low-profile slimline-style monitors use innovative technology for powerful audio that's a pure joy to experience in any setting. Highly musical, these in-ears bring the subtlest musical nuances to life with highly dynamic clarity and provide the ideal balance of comfort, response and articulation.
The heart of the FXA6 in-ear monitor is the patented combination of a single Hybrid-Dynamic tuned Balanced Armature Array(HDBA) tweeter designed specifically to match a custom 9.25mm precision rare-earth driver and Groove-tuned™ port—all working in perfect harmony, without a crossover. This unique configuration generates transparent audio with punchy bass, rich mids and crisp high end with a frequency response from 6Hz-22kHz. Highly sensitive, these monitors generate 109dB @1mW for crystal-clear, distortion-free audio with plenty of headroom. Ideal for almost any listening situation with 16-ohm +/-10% @1kHz impedance, they can be driven by a smartphone for a premium listening experience. Eliminating up to 22dB of ambient noise, they reduce interference while simultaneously protecting your hearing from the strong transients that can occur in a live environment, ensuring a long life for your most musically valuable sense—your hearing.
The 3D-printed Digital Hybrid Technology (DHT)™ shell is derived by scanning thousands of ears to create a hybrid custom/universal fit. The DHT shell fits 95% of ears like an expensive custom-molded monitor—when combined with the cushion-like comfort of the SureSeal™ tips these are ideal for long playing sessions. The detachable MMCXi™ silver-plated low-oxygen cable offer low signal loss along with square connectors that are easy to grip, even when exposed to moisture. Includes a deluxe carrying case, 1/8" to ¼" adapter, SureSeal tips assortment for the perfect fit, a cleaning tool and cable.


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Kim Orders Military To Test Anthrax: North Korea Will 'Take Revenge' On US
Mac Slavo December 21, 2017
The leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-Un has said he will take revenge on the United States for Washington's accusal that the rogue regime was responsible for the WannaCry ransomware attack earlier this year.
In timely fashion, Kim has also ordered his military to begin the testing of the chemical agent anthrax.
North Korea has been loading anthrax into int's controversial ballistic missiles.
But the regime and military scientists have been trying to ensure that anthrax would survive the high temperatures generated when the missiles re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
Anthrax is a serious infectious disease caused by gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria known as Bacillus anthracis.
The regime today rejected the claim as "groundless" and insisted it was fulfilling its obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) which prohibits the production or stockpile of biowarfare weapons.
North Korean state television reported last month the launch of a new intercontinental ballistic missile, Hwasong 15, which is a nuclear-capable weapon which could fly as far as America.
A report in Japan's Asahi newspaper warned the regime may have "already succeeded" in its experiments.
The article, which cites an anonymous source connected to South Korean intelligence, says: "North Korea has started experiments such as heat and pressure equipment to prevent anthrax from dying even at a high temperature of over 7,000 degrees generated at the time of ICBM's re-entry into the atmosphere. In part, there is unconfirmed information that it has already succeeded in such experiments."
This comes as the regime warns the United States that they will enact revenge for the accusation that North Korea was responsible for the WannaCry ransomware attack that affected 230,000 computers.
"The [WannaCry] attack was widespread and cost billions, and North Korea is directly responsible," Thomas P. Bossert, Trump's homeland security adviser, said in an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal on Monday. "We do not make this allegation lightly. It is based on evidence. We are not alone with our findings, either."
"This was a reckless attack and it was meant to cause havoc and destruction," Bossert said at a news conference. Drawing a connection between North Korea's alleged cyber activities and its development of nuclear weapons, he added, "I think, at this point, North Korea has demonstrated that they want to hold the entire world at risk, whether it be through its nuclear program or cyberattacks."
"The DPRK, as a state party to the BWC, maintains its consistent stand to oppose development, manufacture, stockpiling and possession of biological weapons," said North Korean state-run propaganda media. "The more the US clings to the anti-DPRK stifling move, the more hardened the determination of our entire military personnel and people to take revenge will be."
Despite the North's denials, experts believe Kim may have one of the largest arsenals of bioweapons in the world.
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<?php

namespace Oro\Bundle\AttachmentBundle\Tests\Unit\Fixtures;

use Oro\Bundle\DataGridBundle\Datagrid\Common\DatagridConfiguration;

class TestGridConfiguration extends DatagridConfiguration
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        $params = [
            'source' => [
                'type' => 'orm',
                'query' => [
                    'select' => [
                        'attachment'
                    ],
                    'from' => [
                        [
                            'table' => 'OroAttachmentBundle:Attachment',
                            'alias' => 'attachment'
                        ]
                    ]
                ]
            ]
        ];

        parent::__construct($params);
    }
}


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Fidelio Trio with Sinéad Morrissey (poet)
Fauré: Piano Trio Op. 120
Hellawell / Morrissey: Up By The Roots
Schoenberg (art. Steuermann) Verklärte Nacht
Up By The Roots was commissioned as part of a PRS for Music Foundation 'Beyond Borders' award to Fidelio Trio, Sinéad Morrissey and composer Piers Hellawell.
The collaboration was initiated by Fidelio Trio, who have been shortlisted for the prestigious 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society Ensemble Award, following a long collaborative relationship with Piers Hellawell. In particular it seemed appropriate that, within the 'Beyond Borders' theme, the Irish musicians of Fidelio Trio based in London should collaborate with an English composer working in Belfast; the catalyst proved the involvement of Belfast poet, Sinéad Morrissey, whose words provide a meditation on migration itself.
For further information please see: http://www.fideliotrio.com/beyond-borders.html


The Bruno Balke Biodynamics Laboratory in the Department of Kinesiology was named in honor of Dr. Bruno Balke, Ph.D., M.D. in 2011 to honor the significant contributions Dr. Balke made to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Madison community and to the entire field of exercise physiology.
Dr. Balke Biography Bruno Balke was born September 6, 1907 in Braunschweig, Germany. He completed his medical degree at the University of Berlin and was then recruited as the team physician for a German expedition to the summit of Nanga Parbat, a Himalayan mountain cresting at 26,700 feet. This experience inspired his life-long interest in human performance under extreme environmental conditions. During WWII, Dr. Balke served in the School of Mountain Rescue in Tyrol where he studied the impact of environmental factors such as cold, heat, and altitude. He completed his Ph.D. on physical performance capacity at high-altitude in 1945. In 1950, Dr. Balke was recruited to join the staff of the United States Air Force School of Aviation Medicine in San Antonio, TX. He directed many significant human performance studies on U.S. airmen with interventions of bed rest, blood loss, altitude and hypocapnia. Also, during this time, he framed the rationale for "aerobic training." From 1960-1964, Dr. Balke headed the Human Biodynamics Section of the Civil Aeromedical Research Institute of the Federal Aviation Agency in Oklahoma City. Here, he performed pioneering research on exercise intervention and testing in coronary artery disease. As a result of his work, heart patients now follow an exercise rehabilitation program rather than bed rest. In 1964, he accepted a position as Professor of Physical Education and Physiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Balke retired from the University of Wisconsin in 1973, but continued to contribute to the profession until his death in 1999 at age 91.
Strengthened the graduate program in exercise and environmental physiology. Dr Balke attracted graduate students from all over the world. The Exercise Physiology program grew and thrived under his leadership.
His 30 graduate students serve as his legacy in that they became researchers, teachers, practitioners, and leaders in the field of exercise physiology.
Initiated a Faculty Exercise Program. The Faculty Soccer Group, still active today, began in the late 1960's when Dr. Balke set up an exercise study involving middle-aged professors.
First exercise physiologist to chart the precise relationship among oxygen consumption, exercise and cardiovascular health. He was an early advocate for exercise for heart patients at a time when bed rest was the general prescription.
In 1967, led a committee to develop the American College of Sports Medicine journal, then called Medicine and Science in Sports and served as its first editor. The journal is now called Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise and is one of the leading exercise journals.
His writings on exercise testing and prescription led the way to the development of the American of College of Sports Medicine Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Training.
He is the "father" of American College of Sports Medicine Certification in exercise testing and training. He developed training programs to prepare exercise physiologist for certification in exercise testing, exercise prescription and cardiac rehabilitation.
In summary, Dr. Balke was a visionary in terms of the application of physiology to many different problems: high-speed flight, performance at altitude, performance of elite athletes, and fitness programs for ordinary adults and cardiac patients. He published in all these areas and made lasting contributions. Probably his most important contribution was training graduate students who have become leaders in the field of exercise physiology multiplying his impact on the profession.


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Headspace's COO Was Just Promoted To CEO After Only 6 Months At the Company. Here's How She Did It
To rapidly grow your company or career, take notes on CeCe Morken's approach.
Image credit: SOPA Images | Getty Images
Nick Wolny
Founder and Consultant, Hefty Media Group
If you've ever watched an episode of HBO's Succession, you're familiar with the idea that a company's executive suite can be rife with challenges, office politics and complex transition plans. Years on the job before movement happens is the norm, and a study from the Korn Ferry Institute found that the average tenure of a C-suite executive is over five years.
This usual bureaucracy makes Headspace's recent promotion of CeCe Morken from president and chief operating officer to chief executive officer even more impressive. The former EVP and general manager at Intuit came on with Headspace in April of this year and has already been promoted to CEO effective January 1, as current CEO and co-founder Rich Pierson and co-founder Andy Puddicombe become co-executive chairmen of the board.
Related: How Spending 60 Minutes Doing This Every Morning Helps This Entrepreneur Prepare for the Day
Headspace was already collecting steam in recent years. The company has a $12.99 monthly subscription, $215 million in funding, $100 million in annual revenue and over 62 million overall users, according to a figure from earlier this year. For many, Headspace has become an essential tool for managing mental health during extended stay-at-home directives.
Not all companies experiencing meteoric growth this year have been able to keep up with demand and rise to the occasion. Headspace has – and here are three points about Morken's leadership that explain why.
Understand every department's needs
Upon arriving at Headspace earlier this year after her 13 years at Intuit, Morken conducted an all-important listening tour. Reading about her process reminded me of a book that should be on every starry-eyed employee's bookshelf: Your First 100 Days In A New Executive Job by Robert Hargrove.
Hargrove's classic lays out the keys to successful executive transition and positive leadership perception. Because a new executive or general manager is most vulnerable in their first 100 days on the job, winning the approval and allegiance of different department heads from the beginning is critical.
In addition to connecting with different departments and stakeholders, Hargrove also suggests prioritizing "catalytic breakthrough projects". These are quick wins you can execute that will win you credibility and reputation far faster than a grand vision that will become a slog to execute. Identify and deliver quick wins that actually matter.
Related: Leadership and Legacy Lessons From Former Intuit CEO Brad Smith
Stack your B2B pipeline
Headspace is closing in on 3 million paid subscriptions by the end of the year, which is no easy feat. But the bigger fish swimming around in the water are corporate partnerships, and in a recent interview with Forbes Morken signaled a strong pipeline for future B2B sales.
Morken noted that "CEOs now view their employees' mental health as being an important part of their responsibility," and recent data backs this statement up. A survey from the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions found that 53 percent of employers had invested in programs to better emotionally equip employees in 2020.
Companies are actively seeking tools and resources to better round out employees' compensation packages while also respecting privacy with regard to mental health and wellbeing. B2B market conditions for Headspace could not be more optimal right now.
Related: 10 Apps and Gadgets to Help You Find Zen
Embrace cutting-edge technology
If it feels like content algorithm recommendations are getting better and better all the time, they are, and Headspace wants to use AI to recommend you the right audio pack at the right moment. Location tracking data could, for example, identify when you're at an airport and suggest Headspace's fear of flying content to you prior to take-off.
Morken commented to Forbes that the company isn't quite at this level of precision yet, but that it's something they're striving to work toward using AI and machine learning technology.
It's an obvious next move: Customization is a hot marketing trend and will eventually become so mainstream it will feel abnormal for a company not to tailor its experience to the individual customer.
In promoting Morken, Headspace founders told her "We're really comfortable with where you're taking things." That really says something for an executive who's been on board for six months. Instill trust, bring solutions to the table and you might be met with new and unexpected opportunities sooner than you think.
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RICHMOND -- A federal judge refused Monday to dismiss a Virginia lawsuit challenging the nation's sweeping new health-care law, indicating the law represents a novel extension of Congress's constitutional authority that should be tested in court and handing the law's foes an early legal victory.
U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson rejected arguments from Obama administration lawyers that Virginia has no standing to sue over the law and would have no chance of ultimately prevailing.
Virginia's suit, filed by Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, argues that Congress overstepped its constitutional authority with a provision mandating that Americans buy health insurance by 2014 or pay a fine.
The ruling allows the suit to proceed to a full hearing on the legal arguments of the issue, to be held in the same Richmond courtroom Oct. 18. If Hudson had dismissed the suit, his ruling would have provided powerful ammunition for the law's supporters, who believe such suits are frivolous political exercises. Hudson was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002.
"This is a convergence of politics and law," said Jonathan Turley, professor of law at George Washington University. "The Obama administration had hoped they could get a quick resolution of this issue to avoid arguments before the November election. Now, you're likely to have significant litigation shortly before the election."
The Virginia suit is one of two major state-level, Republican-led efforts to kill the federal health-care law in court. A suit filed jointly by 20 states in Florida also contests the law's constitutionality and says it infringes on the sovereignty of states by requiring them to expand their Medicaid programs. A federal judge in Florida is weighing a similar motion to dismiss that suit.
The law's opponents characterized Monday's ruling as a major setback for the Obama administration.
Supporters downplayed Hudson's opinion Monday as merely a preliminary and procedural step in a case that will probably last several years and ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court.
Hudson found that Virginia's challenge is valid because Cuccinelli's suit was designed to defend a newly enacted state statute that made it illegal to require state residents to buy health insurance. He wrote that the case involves issues of national significance with little precedent, which need a full hearing. He also said there are few precedents for the case and suggested the health-insurance mandate would push the bounds of Congress's authority to regulate interstate commerce and adopt laws necessary and proper for the general welfare.
"Unquestionably, this regulation radically changes the landscape of health insurance coverage in America," Hudson wrote in the 32-page opinion. "The Commerce Clause aspect of this debate raises issues of national significance. The position of the parties are widely divergent and at times novel. The guiding precedent is information but inconclusive. Never before has the Commerce Clause and the associated Necessary and Proper clause been extended this far."
Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) called Cuccinelli's lawsuit "meritorious and constitutionally correct" and applauded the opinion. "The federal government has exceeded its powers, powers of allegedly limited government, in this matter," Cuccinelli said. "We hope the courts ultimately will rein that in and return the balance of power between states and the federal authority."
The Obama administration responded that it is confident the law will be found constitutional -- and said challenges are an attempt to settle a political dispute. The administration emphasized that the insurance mandate is critical to the law's interlocking reforms, including popular measures such as requiring insurers to cover everyone regardless of preexisting health conditions.
"That just means there will be a full hearing on the arguments," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a conference call with reporters. "We remain confident that the case is solid and there is full constitutional backing for the passing of the Affordable Care Act."
Hudson heard two hours of oral arguments in July. Cuccinelli's legal team argued that a person who has chosen not to buy insurance is not engaged in economic activity and, therefore, Congress cannot regulate his actions as interstate commerce. The administration countered that an insured person will eventually require health care. Going without health insurance is not inactivity -- it's simply choosing not to pay for health care, a decision that shifts a $43 billion-a-year burden from the uninsured to the insured, their lawyers contended.


There's just something undeniably about having homemade baked goods for breakfast. Having them already pre-made that's ready to grab and enjoy with coffee really kicks the whole day off on the right foot! Anyone else feel this way?
Fresh strawberries and coconut have had a special place in my heard since I discovered Nada Moo non-dairy coconut ice cream. If you haven't tried the Nada Moo Chocolate with fresh strawberries on top, YOU ARE NOT LIVING. PSA though, you really do need to like coconut. If you do not, then caution on proceeding with this recipe 🙂 Though I think you should really give it a try anyway.
I named these "mash muffins" because the couple main ingredients (banana + strawberry) both are mashed rather than pureed. I did this because I actually enjoy a little texture in baked goods. Also why I decided to add rolled oats. If you follow a gluten free lifestyle though, you can leave the oats out.
These muffins have such a delicate mix of flavors from the strawberries to the bananas to the coconut. If you're on the hunt for a great recipe to make for kids or just for yourself, then you can whip these up in no time!
I do have to admit that as you'll see below (or saw on the @cookithealthy Instagram account) I sure did enjoy these with a little something extra on top, but they are also great on their own if you're thinking to yourself, "I can't have ice cream for breakfast!" Although, who said you couldn't have a little ice cream for breakfast? It's summer. It's hot outside. Kinda seems right.
Seriously though, these are low-calorie and you could bump up the protein per serving by adding some Vanilla protein powder to the mix.
The texture of these is, dare I say, moist? Hope that word doesn't totally turn you off of these because they are delicious. Hope you all enjoy them!
In a medium-sized bowl mash your two ripe bananas with a fork until smooth and as little chunks as possible.
Now you can add in the oats, cashewgurt and eggs. Combine all together until smooth.
Add in your strawberry "mash" and half the shredded coconut into your bowl. Stir in thoroughly. Then add in the apple cider vinegar and the baking soda to the mix and stir together.
Now you can fill a muffin pan with liners or use silicon baking cups. I used silicon baking cups like these Silicone Baking Cups . Fill the cups 3/4 of the way full and then add a thin slice of strawberry on top.
Bake for 15 – 17 minutes. TIP: place the silicon cups on your top rack to prevent the bottoms from getting too brown.
Stick a toothpick in the middle of one of these to make sure they are done all the way through when you get them out of the oven, then set them on a cooling rack. Now you're ready to sprinkle the remaining coconut shreds over the top and enjoy!


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Q: Copy spreadsheet with google script and set permission to each sheet can u help me and is it really impossible in google script?
We got:
Spreadsheet 1

*

*sheet1 - permission to edit AAA@gmail.com

*sheet2 - permission to edit BBB@gmail.com
Then we create a copy with name "Spreadsheet 2" running script inside Spreadsheet1:

file.makeCopy(name, destination);

and I need to save permission to edit Spreadsheet2 in same way: sheet1 for AAA and sheet2 for BBB
Found this: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/drive/#permission but it works on a drive level.
Tnx for help
P.S. this thing can help, but how to implement when creating a copy to new spreadsheet? and give permission to run the script https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/spreadsheet/range#protect()

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*Share the copied file with your desired editors with addEditors(emailAddresses).

*Get the copied file ID via getId() and use that to retrieve the spreadsheet.

*Protect each sheet from everyone except the user running the script and your desired editor, using Protection.

Code sample:
var newFile = file.makeCopy(name, destination);
newFile.addEditors(["AAA@gmail.com", "BBB@gmail.com"]);
var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.openById(newFile.getId());
var sheet1 = spreadsheet.getSheetByName("Sheet1");
var sheet2 = spreadsheet.getSheetByName("Sheet2");
protectSheet(sheet1, "AAA@gmail.com");
protectSheet(sheet2, "BBB@gmail.com");

Where protectSheet is:
function protectSheet(sheet, editor) {
  var protection = sheet.protect();
  var me = Session.getEffectiveUser();
  protection.addEditor(me);
  protection.removeEditors(protection.getEditors());
  if (protection.canDomainEdit()) {
    protection.setDomainEdit(false);
  }
  protection.addEditor(editor);
}

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\section{Introduction}

Periodicity analysis of unevenly collected data is a relevant issue in
several scientific fields. Classical spectral analysis methods are
unsatisfactory to solve the problem. In this paper we present a neural
network based estimator system which performs well the frequency extraction
from unevenly sampled signals. It uses an unsupervised Hebbian nonlinear
neural algorithm to extract the principal components of the signal
auto-correlation matrix, which, in turn, are used by the MUSIC frequency
estimator algorithm to extract the frequencies \cite{Khar94}, \cite{rasile et al}, \cite{Tagliaferri 99}. We generalize this method to
avoid an interpolation preprocessing step, which generally adds high noise
to the signal, and improve the system performance by using a new stop
criterion to avoid overfitting problems. The experimental results are
obtained comparing our methodology with the others known in literature (see \cite{Kay}, \cite{Marple}, \cite{Opp}, \cite{Lomb76}, \cite{Scargle},
\cite{Ferraz-Mello}).

\section{Evenly and unevenly sampled data}

In what follows, we assume $x$ to be a physical variable measured at
discrete times $t_{i}$. ${x(t_{i})}$ can be written as the sum of the signal
$x_{s}$ and random errors $R$: $x_{i}=x(t_{i})=x_{s}(t_{i})+R(t_{i})$. The
problem we are dealing with is how to estimate fundamental frequencies which
may be present in the signal $x_{s}(t_{i})$
\cite{Deeming}, \cite{Kay}, \cite{Marple}.

If $X$ is measured at uniform time steps (even sampling)
there are a lot of tools to effectively solve
the problem which are based on Fourier analysis
\cite{Kay}, \cite{Marple}, \cite{Opp}. These methods, however, are usually
unreliable for unevenly sampled data \cite{Horne}. For instance, the typical approach of
resampling the data into an evenly sampled sequence, through interpolation,
introduces a strong amplification of the noise which affects the
effectiveness of all Fourier based techniques which are strongly dependent
on the noise level.

To solve the problem of unevenly sampled data, we consider two classes of
spectral estimators:

Spectral estimators based on Fourier Trasform (Least Squares methods);

Spectral estimators based on the eingevalues and eingevectors of the
covariance matrix (Maximum Likelihood methods).

Classic Periodogram \cite{Kay}, \cite{Marple}, \cite{Opp}, Lomb's
Periodogram \cite{Lomb76}, Scargle's Periodogram \cite{Scargle}, DCDFT
\cite{Ferraz-Mello} are the methods of the first class that we use, while
MUSIC \cite{Kay}, \cite{Marple}, and ESPRIT \cite{Roy} belong to second class.

The methods based on the covariance matrix are more recent and have great
potentiality. Starting by this consideration, we develop a method based on
the MUSIC estimator. It is compared with classic methods to highlight the
results.

\section{The Neural Estimator}

In the last years several papers dealed with learning in PCA neural nets
\cite{Oja82}, \cite{sanger}, \cite{Khar94}, \cite{rasile et al}, \cite{Tagliaferri 99} finding advantages, problems and
difficulties of such neural networks. In what follows we shall use a robust
hierarchical learning algorithm
\begin{eqnarray}
{\bf w}_{k+1}(i) &=&{\bf w}_{k}(i)+\mu _{k}g(y_{k}(i)){\bf e}_{k}(i), \\
\qquad {\bf e}_{k}(i) &=&{\bf x}_{k}-\sum_{j=1}^{i}y_{k}(j){\bf w}_{k}(j)
\label{eq34}
\end{eqnarray}

where ${\bf w}_{k}(i)$ is the weight vector of the $i-th$ output neuron at
step $k$, $y_{k}(i)$ is the corresponding output, $\mu _{k}$ is the learning
rate and $g(t) =\tanh \left( \alpha t\right) $ is learning
function because it has been experimentally shown that it is the best performing one in our problem \cite{rasile et al}, \cite{Tagliaferri 99}.

Our neural estimator (ne) can be summarized as follows:

\begin{itemize}
\item[1]  Preprocessing: calculate and subtract the average pattern to
obtain zero mean process with unity variance.

Interpolate input data if it is the case.

\item[2]  Initialize the weight matrix and the other neural network
parameters;

\item[3]  Input the $k-th$ pattern ${\bf x}_{k}=[x(k),\ldots ,x(k+N+1)]$ where
$N$ is the number of input components.

\item[4]  Calculate the output for each neuron $y(j)={\bf w}^{T}(j){\bf x}%
_{i}\qquad \forall i=1,\ldots ,p$.

\item[5]  Modify the weights ${\bf w}_{k+1}(i)={\bf w}_{k}(i)+\mu
_{k}g(y_{k}(i)){\bf e}_{k}(i)\qquad \forall i=1,\ldots ,p$.

\item[6]  If convergence test is true then goto {\bf STEP 8}.

\item[7]  $k=k+1$. Goto {\bf STEP 3}.

\item[8]  End.

\item[9]  Frequency estimator: we use the frequency estimator MUSIC. It
takes as input the weight matrix columns after the learning. The estimated
signal frequencies are obtained as the peak locations of the function of
following equation \cite{Kay}, \cite{Marple}, \cite{Tagliaferri 99}:
\[
P_{MUSIC}=\frac{1}{M-\sum_{i=1}^{M}|{\bf e}_{f}^{H}{\bf w}(i)|^{2}}
\]
\end{itemize}

where ${\bf w}(i)$ is the $i-$th neural network weight vector after learning, and ${\bf e}_{f}^{H}$ is the pure sinusoidal vector.
In the case of an interpolation preprocessing ${\bf e}_{f}^{H}=[1,e_{f}^{j2\pi f},\ldots ,e_{f}^{j2\pi f(L-1)}]^{H}$. In the generalization to non interpolated input data, ${\bf e}_{f}^{H}=[1,e_{f}^{j2\pi ft_{0}},\ldots
,e_{f}^{j2\pi ft_{(L-1)}}]^{H}$ where
$\left\{ t_{0},t_{1},...,t_{\left(L-1\right) }\right\}$ are the first $L$ components of the temporal coordinates of the uneven signal.

When $f$ is the frequency of the $i-$th sinusoidal component, $f=f_{i}$, we
have ${\bf e}={\bf e}_{i}$ and $P_{MUSIC}\rightarrow \infty $. In practice
we have a peak near and in corrispondence of the component frequency.
Estimates are related to the highest peaks

Furthermore, to optimize the performance of the PCA neural networks, we stop
the learning process when $\sum_{i=1}^{p}|{\bf e}_{f}^{H}{\bf w}%
(i)|^{2}<M$ $\forall f$, so avoiding overfitting problems. In fact
leaving the stop condition used in the ne causes to the ne to find
periodicities not present in the signal, while the new condition preserves
it from this problem. A simple example is illustrated in figure 2 where we
can see how the frequency identification varies depending on the stop
condition (see next section for signal information). In fact, without the early stopping (see figure 2.b), $\Delta f$ after $100$ epochs remains at a value between $0.20$ and $0.25$ and we cannot know when the system reaches the best performance. The new stopping criterion, instead, permits to $\Delta f$ to have a final value about $0.0$ just after $50$ epochs (see figure 2.a).

\section{Experimental Results}

Many experiments on synthetic and real signals were made, and in this paper
we present the results obtained with one specific real signal, which
highlights the main features of our problem.

The real signal is related to the Cepheid SU Cygni \cite{Fernie}.
The sequence was obtained with the photometric technique UBVRI and the
sampling made from June to December 1977. The light curve is composed by 21
samples, and has a period of $3.8^{d}$, as shown in figure 1.

The first experiment is concerning the interpolation. In this case we apply
three different methods by using the Signal Processing Mathlab $^@$ Toolbox: linear, cubic and spline, because they are quite simple and the most
used ones. In figure 3 there is a plotting of the interpolating functions and the frequency estimates obtained by the ne with the spline interpolated signal as input.

In this case, the parameters of the ne are: $N=10$, $p=2$, $\alpha =20$,
$\mu =0.001$. The estimate frequency interval is $\left[ 0(1/JD),0.5(1/JD)%
\right] $. The estimated frequency without interpolation is $0.260$ (1/JD).

A comparison is made with the other methods cited in a previous section and
the experimental results are shown in figure 4 and in table 1. Only the
Lomb's Periodogram is in agreement with the right periodicity, but showing
some spurious peaks. Furthermore, if we enlarge the frequency window for the
two best performing methods, while the ne continues to work well, the Lomb's
periodogram does not work at all as illustrated in figure 5.

\section{Concluding Remarks}

In this paper we have illustrated an improved technique based on PCA neural
Networks and MUSIC to estimate the frequency of unevenly sampled data.
It has been shown that it obtains good results on real data (here we used the SU
Cygni light curve) compared with other well-known methods.
In fact, it obtains a good estimate of the signal frequency also with few unevenly sampled inputs, it reduces the noise problems related to input data interpolation,
it optimizes the convergence by introducing an early stopping criterion, and, finally, it is more resistant to the dimension of the frequency windows.

Future research lines regard the introduction of genetic algorithms to optimize
the weight initialization of
the PCA neural networks and to use filters to extract and identify one frequency
at each time when dealing with multi-frequency signals.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics{figurewirn1.ps}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics{figurewirn2.ps}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics{figurewirn3.ps}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\newpage

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The basic premise of the Doodle Truck iPhone app is pretty easy to figure out. Essentially, you are an an incredibly busy truck driver. You've got your little doodle truck that is full of precious cargo and it is up to you to be able to take it out and deliver it to the different locations. There are a lot of obstacles to get around and also a time limit that will get in the way and make the game a bit of the challenge. Enjoy the fun graphics and the even more exciting gameplay as you roll through the Doodle Truck iPhone app!
This is just another installment in the wildly popular "doodle" games. This one is actually really fun and you will have to try and get your cargo load to the destination without crashing too much. The cargo has to get to the destination all in one piece! If you have played any of the other doodle games then you are sure to love this one. The graphics are all as if a kid has hurried and drawn them on a piece of graph paper and it makes it that much more interesting to play. You will really feel like you started doodling in class and all of a sudden everything just came to life.
This app has been given a pretty good rating after being downloaded and played by a bunch of different iPhone app users. It currently has a rating of 4 1/2 stars out of 5 stars and you can download it onto your iPhone for only $0.99.


Warda Kahlot is a first generation American and a first generation college student who's currently in the Nursing Program at UTC. While at UTC, Warda has served in a few different organizations, but found her place within the Hispanic Outreach Leadership Association and the Muslim Student Association. Warda has previously served as President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Public Relations Officer for the Hispanic Outreach Leadership Association and she is currently the President of the Muslim Students Association.


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«Транзит» — седьмой студийный альбом российского рэпера Тимати, выпущенный 13 ноября 2020 года. Это первый альбом исполнителя, выпущенный вне лейбла Black Star Inc. На нём присутствуют гостевые участия от Моргенштерна, Джигана, Дани Милохина, Егора Крида, Ханзы, Oweek, ST, Павел Мурашов и Guf.

История
27 июля 2020 Тимати покинул свой лейбл Black Star Inc. Он написал:

21 сентября 2020 было объявлено, что Тимати должен выпустить альбом в октябре 2020 года. Но позже дату выхода перенесли на 13 ноября.

10 ноября 2020 было объявлено название, обложка и список композиций, а также отрывок песни «Тет-а-тет».

Обложка
Обложка была сделана известным американским художником Харифом Гузманом.

Список композиций
По данным Genius и Tidal.

Примечания

Альбомы, спродюсированные Slava Marlow
Альбомы Тимати
Альбомы, спродюсированные Diamond Style


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