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The vehicles were seen going into Crest View Drive at around 2pm.
A police spokesman said: "Officers attended the scene and spoke with two youths.
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Georgia athletic director Damon Evans has reached a settlement with the school after his resigning his position.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Evans will receive three months of severance pay - about $137,500 - in addition to a $100,000 longevity bonus that he already earned.
The resignation by Evans comes less than a week after he was charged with DUI and a female companion Courtney Furhmann was charged with disorderly conduct following a traffic stop.
Georgia president Michael Adams told the Georgia Athletic Association board of directors' executive committee about the decision Monday.
"As I said on Thursday morning, when I first learned of the situation, this is not an example of the kind of leadership that I expect our senior administrators to set," Adams said.
"We acknowledge the many positive accomplishments of [Evans'] tenure, including an increased focus on the academic success of student-athletes, the overall financial strength of the athletic department and the hiring of many very good people as head coaches and senior leaders in the athletic department."
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> I'm using an ISP that only allows 2 hours of idle time - after that you're
> logged of the gateway.
I presume you don't have a simple static IP bridging setup. Is this
DHCP? PPP via a tunneling protocol such as PPPoE or PPTP?
> My old setup:
> I started out by pinging my old firewall every 1 hour from an external
> machine but this approach didn't help against maintenance on the ISP servers
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I take it this isn't because pings don't work, but just because doing it
from "outside" is fundamentally unstable (it stops when the route is
> To get arround this I made a small perl script (see below) on the FW that
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I know this is a dumb question, but I do wonder why we care so much about not losing any lean body mass when trying to lose weight. I sometimes think that if I had less muscle mass I might not be quite so chunky. Plus, wouldn't a person need much less lean body mass to support their body once they've lost a lot of weight?
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What TorMag said - more lean mass meas more steak, bacon, eggs and butter shoveled down my pie-hole(that no-longer has pies shoveled into it :P)
Also I quite like the amount of muscle I carry, I'd like a bit more so I'm even more butch, certainly not less, but that's my preferance.You know all those pictures of Adam and Eve where they have belly button? Think about it..................... take as long as you need........................
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Two major reasons I can think of:
For Today: Lean body mass burns calories so it lets you eat more without getting fat. It also allows you to perform better at physical activities which is really fun.
For Tomorrow: Studies show that building/preserving muscle mass has a direct correlation to quality of life as you age. If you get old and weak, you can't do much physically. If you remain strong as you age you can extend your physically active years considerably.
Depends on how much muscle you have and how heavy you are, I suppose. I'm 280... I've lost 70 pounds! And I've gained some muscle from my training. But I bet as I finally get to goal I'll lose some of it. If the trainer's scale is remotely accurate... that's a big if... I have 140-150 pounds of lean muscle. That seems like a lot at 5'4.Out of context quote for the day:
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I'd say I have about the same muscle definition in my legs as that attractive lady in the picture has in her legs. I can also see all kinds of lines and creases on me when I walk that are not visible in her picture. However, my legs are enormous. I would like both the padding AND the amount of muscle to just be less.
If my legs are any indication of the rest of me, my underlying muscular size seems large and the fat on top of it just adds to the largeness.
You know how you sometimes see these really big guys who have massive calves? That's me. Wouldn't people like us not need to care very much about losing muscle mass? You hear so much about preserving it, making sure you don't lose one bit of it, but don't some of us have too much lower body muscle from carrying around big huge bodies?Female, 5'3", 50, Max squat: 202.5lbs. Max deadlift: 225 x 3.
Sbhikes - just enjoy the journey, don't ask too many questions. You look great and that muscle has to be doing you huge favours. I was a competitive swimmer in my youth, have been a farmers wife all my married life, and I have a huge amount of muscle in my shoulders, arms, back. I am also carrying around a heap of fat still, but am working on it. I hate how big my shoulders and arms are. I am determined to dumb it down - and I'm sure it will as the weight drops off.
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Talk about juggling work and home life.
Erica Anderson, 37, went into an Umpqua Bank branch in Grants Pass, Ore., on the afternoon of Sept. 20, and handed the teller a note demanding cash – with one special request, according to police.
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Dougie Hamilton can't even remember where he was sitting.
"Across from the bench," he says after a moment. "In the corner somewhere. … I don't really know exactly."
But he does remember everything else about that Game 3 of the 2011 Stanley Cup final: the Boston Bruins vs. the Vancouver Canucks. He can still see and hear the TD Garden crowd on its feet for the opening 10 minutes of play as the Bruins stormed back after losing the first two games in Vancouver to defeat the Canucks 8-1, the win the first of four victories that would bring them the Stanley Cup.
On this day, Game 3 of the 2013 Stanley Cup final, Dougie Hamilton turned 20 years of age. He is now a rookie defenceman with the team he sat watching two years ago as one of several top prospects brought to the final by the NHL in advance of the upcoming amateur draft.
This Cup final, for the 20th year in a row, the NHL has brought the most promising young draft picks to see what it's like at the very top. Four of them – Seth Jones of the Portland Winterhawks, Darnell Nurse of the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds and Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin of the Halifax Mooseheads – were marched into the dressing rooms to meet players who had previously gone through the same heady experience: Hamilton, Tyler Seguin and Nathan Horton from the Bruins, Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews from the Chicago Blackhawks.
"Game 3 of the Stanley Cup final," Jones gushed. "It doesn't get much bigger."
On June 30 in New Jersey, of course, it will get much bigger for one of them, as someone will be drafted first overall and be pegged for life with the honour, either to be held against him or the team that selects him, or to be held as proof that pure talent rises to the top.
At the moment, it is presumed Jones, an 18-year-old defenceman from Plano, Tex., and son of basketball star Ronald (Popeye) Jones, would go to the Colorado Avalanche, which holds the first pick. Or it could be MacKinnon, the 17-year-old scoring sensation from Cole Harbour, N.S., Sidney Crosby's hometown. Or it could be a turn of events – draft swaps, hunches – that no one can foresee.
"I don't really worry about it," Jones says.
"It's all people talk about," MacKinnon says. "First or second, it's all good. I don't know what's going to happen."
Hamilton knows exactly what they are going through. Two years ago he was in these stands, somewhere, watching. Watching perhaps the team he would go to: "I knew there was a possibility." But he wasn't really thinking at all; he was dreaming.
"I was dreaming about winning the Stanley Cup," he says.
For some, the dream comes true – and may yet for Hamilton, with his Bruins even with Chicago at one win apiece entering Game 3.
That fantasy, however, is an exceptional rarity, as any reader will quickly discover in picking up Selling the Dream: How Hockey Parents and Their Kids Are Paying the Price for Our National Obsession, by The Hockey News writer Ken Campbell with Jim Parcels.
Their superb book talks about parents paying to put name plates on the backs of their eight-year-old's jerseys in case a scout might be watching, of parents who can ill afford to spending the price of a good college education each year on minor hockey, of one parent admitting to forking out $1,000 a week in ice time and special training to get his boy prepped for the junior draft, let alone the NHL.
All this, despite the fact that the mathematical probability of your child making it rounds off easily to zero.
"Perhaps we've allowed the game to become too important to us," Campbell and Parcels write.
Hockey children, they say, are too often regarded as "investments" by parents – and only rarely does that investment return as it will for the four prospects standing, gobsmacked, in their new dark suits in the middle of the Bruins dressing room.
MacKinnon and Jones both talk about how they will have their families there with them. MacKinnon talks at length about the debt he owes to his father, who never coached him but never missed a game.
He talks about how, when he was much younger, he "hated" the early comparison to the other star of Cole Harbour. One article even tagged him "The Next Sid."
"I knew I wouldn't be compared to him if I'd grown up in Moncton or Toronto," the young man says, but he also says he eventually learned to shrug off the comparisons and, instead, take inspiration from Crosby, whom he idolized.
"I kind of looked at him," he says, "if he can do it, I can do it as well."
And now he is doing it, but at a cost that goes beyond any dollars or time spent by his parents.
"I'm not going to the prom or grad," MacKinnon says. "This is the thing that I've always dreamed about at the end of high school."
The prom is this coming Monday.
"I couldn't find a date," he jokes.
Besides, he already has a date – June 30 in New Jersey.
A dream date.
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Work to clean up BP oil spill ending in 3 states
BP PLC says cleanup work is ending in three of the states affected by the company's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The London-based oil giant on Monday said that the Coast Guard is concluding "active cleanup operations" in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, but the work is ongoing along 84 miles of Louisiana's shoreline.
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Paulina Porizkova Says Aging Is The Revenge Of The Ugly
"Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego… Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does NOT keep on giving. It usually blossoms at an age where you're least equipped to handle its benefits and rewards and instead take it all for granted, and by the time you start understanding the value of it, it slowly trickles away. How's that for revenge of the ugly ones?
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Palestinian militants confined at Yasser Arafat's West Bank compound after refusing a request to leave would be allowed out of custody, a leader of the detained militants said yesterday.
Kamal Ghanam, a leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, said they would be allowed to remain at the compound and would agree to uphold a truce halting attacks on Israelis.
The 17 militants have been held at gunpoint in a room of the compound since early on Saturday, when they refused a request from Mr Arafat to move to the quiet West Bank town of Jericho, Mr Ghanam said.
He said that under a deal negotiated between the Palestinian leadership and Israel with US mediation, the militants would be allowed to remain at the compound provided they had contact only with their families and refrained from violence.
According to Mr Ghanam, Mr Arafat asked the militants to leave to ease political pressure on the Palestinian leader. Another detainee in the compound said removing militants from the headquarters was an Israeli condition for allowing Mr Arafat to travel.
Mr Arafat has been confined to his office building for the past year and a half, watching as Israeli forces knocked down almost all the buildings in the block-sized compound. Israel's position is that he can leave, but may not be allowed to return.
Israeli sources have suggested sending the militants to Jericho would ease the way for Israel to withdraw from Ramallah.
Under the US-backed "road map" peace plan, Israel has withdrawn from parts of the Gaza Strip and from the West Bank town of Bethlehem. But it is reluctant to pull out of more towns until the Palestinians dismantle militant groups, as required by the road map.
In the past, militants wanted by Israel have taken shelter at Mr Arafat's compound.
Meir Shetrit, Israel's junior Finance Minister, said the militants' presence "has not allowed Israel to relieve the siege".
He said the militants should be sent to a Palestinian supervised jail in Jericho.
"If that will happen, in my opinion, the attitude of Israel towards . . . Ramallah will change upside down and we will make another step towards the peace process," he said.
A senior Palestinian official said Israeli and Palestinian officials were due to meet overnight to discuss the wanted men.
He said the Palestinians were seeking US and Israeli assurances that militants would not be harmed if moved to Jericho.
The detained men are from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a violent group affiliated with Mr Arafat's Fatah movement.
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MUNICH (Jun. 16)
The Bavarian Restitution Office cannot legally pay out 8,000,000 deutschemarks of some 19,000,000 allocated by the Bavarian Government for satisfaction of the claims of victims of Nazism, Dr. Franz Zdralek, head of the Restitution Office, has told the government. Dr. Zdralek reported that because of an inadequate legal staff only a small percentage of the indemnification claims have been officially approved, and until they are funds may not be paid out.
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Mapping and monitoring forest extent is a common requirement of regional forest inventories and public land natural resource management, including in Australia. The state of Victoria, Australia, has approximately 7.2 million hectares of mostly forested public land, comprising ecosystems that present a diverse range of forest structures, composition and condition. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of the Random Forest (RF) classifier, an ensemble learning algorithm that has recently shown promise using multi-spectral satellite sensor imagery for large area feature classification. The RF algorithm was applied using selected Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery metrics and auxiliary terrain and climatic variables, while the reference data was manually extracted from systematically distributed plots of sample aerial photography and used for training (75%) and accuracy (25%) assessment. The RF algorithm yielded an overall accuracy of 96% and a Kappa statistic of 0.91 (confidence interval (CI) 0.909–0.919) for the forest/non-forest classification model, given a Kappa maximised binary threshold value of 0.5. The area under the receiver operating characteristic plot produced a score of 0.91, also indicating high model performance. The framework described in this study contributes to the operational deployment of a robust, but affordable, program, able to collate and process large volumes of multi-sourced data using open-source software for the production of consistent and accurate forest cover maps across the full spectrum of Victorian sclerophyll forest types.
Forest extent is a measure commonly assessed in national forest inventories (NFI) [
In Australia, under the Australian National Forest Inventory, forest is defined as "A land area, incorporating all living and non-living components, dominated by trees having usually a single stem and a mature or potentially mature stand height exceeding two metres and with existing or potential crown cover of overstory strata about equal to or greater than 20 percent. This definition includes native forests and plantations and areas of trees that are sometimes described as woodlands" [
In Australia (and the state of Victoria, in particular), dry, damp and wet sclerophyll forests and woodlands comprise many of the forested ecosystems. The canopies in these ecosystems are dominated by eucalypt species and are characteristically open with irregular (asymmetrical) crown configurations and low foliage density [
These characteristics pose a number of challenges to the use of remote sensing in these environments for classifying and mapping forests. The mid- and under-story components, shadows and background soils all exhibit a strong influence on spectral reflectance characteristics. From a synoptic perspective, forest cover in Victoria can appear indistinguishable from shrub and other low and sparse woody vegetation species. Complexity and background noise in remote sensing signatures from open sclerophyll eucalypt forests is further intensified by the influence of dynamic understory elements and variation in forest structures [
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RF can be used to learn complex non-linear relationships, such as those present in variable vertical forest structure and the association of overstory to understorey forest vegetation. RF has been demonstrated to be very effective for accurate land cover mapping across complex and heterogeneous landscapes [
As only a random subset of variable data is used to construct each decision tree in a random forest classifier ensemble, correlation between decision trees is reduced, thereby improving predictive power and classification accuracy, whilst decreasing the computational complexity of the algorithm. As has been demonstrated in recent studies [
Moderate resolution multi-spectral imagery, such as Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM)/Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM+) has been commonly applied for estimating forest cover [
In the context of open-canopy forest extent classification, textural information (spatial variation data derived from optical imagery) can provide additional information to a RF classifier, by differentiating vegetation that appears spectrally similar when integrated into a remote sensing image pixel, but whose spatial patterns differ [
The conditional relationships between forest vegetation and biophysical factors can also be used to further improve forest/non-forest discrimination. Species-environment relationships are central to predictive geographical modelling [
While studies on the production of forest and land cover maps derived from RF (or similar) classification techniques using multi-source remote sensing and ancillary data are published routinely in the academic literature, a secondary objective of this paper is to describe a framework for operational implementation of the RF algorithm using open-source software. The framework includes each phase of the RF classification process (from predictor variable pre-processing, through model development and implementation), to support transfer of this technology in an operational land management agency context and make use of the freely available and growing archives of remote sensing and geographic data.
Random Forests uses bootstrap aggregated sampling (bagging) to construct many individual decision trees from which a final class assignment is determined [
By adopting an open-source framework for spatial data management, processing and analysis, users, such as land management agencies, can benefit from freely available software products and access to source code through which new algorithms can be integrated and manipulated. Stallman [
GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) [
The study area comprises approximately 7.2 million hectares of public land forests and parks tenure (hereafter, referred to as public land forests) in the state of Victoria, in southeast Australia. This area includes 4 million ha of national parks and conservation reserves, managed primarily for ecosystem and biodiversity protection, tourism and recreation. The remaining 3.2 million ha are multiple-use state forest tenure, which include the provision of timber and non-timber forest products. Bounding extents of Victoria are north 141°47′36″ E 33°58′54″S, east 149°58′36″E 37°30′20″S, south 146°17′13″E 39°9′33″S and west 140°57′29″E 34°28′23″S.
Public land forests extend to all parts of the state and range from low multi-stemmed Mallee woodland across flat and gently undulating topography in the Northwest and Box-Ironbark forests, characterised by sparse to dense canopies of box, ironbark and gum-barked eucalypts up to 25 m tall, on flat to undulating landscapes on rocky, auriferous soils across central Victoria. Highly variable medium and tall canopy damp sclerophyll forests are widespread across the study area, found on a range of loamy, clay-loam and sandy-loam soils. Tall (up to and above 75 m) wet sclerophyll forests are found mostly in the eastern part of the study area on deep loamy soils at higher elevations. Dry sclerophyll forests are prevalent throughout the east, central and southwest parts of the study area on clay-loam, sandy-loam and shallow rocky soils of exposed hillsides, with canopies typically less than 25m tall, with crooked, spreading trees [
The study area is characterised by a range of different climate zones and diverse topography. The northwest region experiences semi-arid conditions, with low median annual rainfall (less than 250 mm in parts), with coastal areas experiencing a cooler temperate climate. Dry inland plains dominate much of the central and western parts of the state. The Victorian Alps—part of the Australian Great Dividing Range mountain system—extend east-west from the centre of the study area, with elevation up to 2,000 m. The Victorian Alps experience the lowest average temperatures and highest precipitation (greater than 1,400 mm/yr) in the study area. This variety of climate and topography is reflected in the variation in forest types and structure across the study area.
Classification training data were derived from seven hundred and sixty-six 2 × 2 km land cover maps, systematically distributed across the Victorian Forest Monitoring Program (VFMP) [
API data were aggregated into forest and non-forest training data classes. Mapping on pre- and post-2008 photography was adjusted to a baseline date of December 31, 2008, using ancillary GIS data to re-attribute and update API polygons, based on major known land cover changes associated with wildfire and clear fell logging. Training data API maps are further stratified by IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia) Bioregions—relatively large, geographically distinct areas of land that share common characteristics, including geology, landform patterns, climate, ecological features and plant and animal communities. Eleven Bioregions are located within the study area.
Nineteen cloud-free Landsat TM scenes were used to build a study area mosaic; selected and downloaded from USGS Earth Explorer [
Textural indices were derived from an NDVI layer produced using the Landsat TM surface reflectance bands 3 and 4, rescaled to a 6-bit raster (64 grey levels). Three first order (occurrence) texture measures were calculated using 3 × 3, 5 × 5 and 7 × 7 cell neighbourhood moving windows across the grey-scaled [
Phenological temporal-variance in the study area was derived from state-wide multi-temporal MODIS NDVI data (MOD13Q1). A multi-temporal raster stack of twenty-three 250 m spatial resolution MODIS (16-day) NDVI images were extracted for Victoria, over the calendar year January 2008 to January 2009, from Australian mosaics (produced using the methodology described in [
Elevation (metres), slope (degrees) and aspect (degrees) were derived from a one second (∼30 m) smoothed digital elevation model [
Training and predictor variable data were collated in a GIS database—open-source GRASS Geographic Resources Analysis Support System [
In addition to the RF model OOB test data, for performance evaluation, a 25% subset of training data was randomly sampled, left out of the training dataset (stratified evenly by forest and non-forest classes). The R package
The RF model was implemented to predict and map forest probability across the study area. As R holds objects in virtual memory, there are limitations on the resources available for data processing. Therefore, the
Probability values (calculated from the proportion of decision tree votes among all base classifiers in the ensemble) were converted into binary forest and non-forest classes using the probability threshold calculated to maximise the Kappa statistic. To apply the forest definition 0.5 ha minimum mapping unit (MMU) and remove noise from the map, the forest/non-forest classification raster was first re-sampled from 30 m to 28.86 m, so that a 0.5 ha MMU area comprised six whole raster pixels. Horizontally, vertically and diagonally contiguous forest and non-forest cells were grouped together and attributed a count of the cells within each group. Raster cells within forest cell groups comprising less than six cells (
Overall accuracy (percent correctly classified) and Kappa results were high for forest and non-forest prediction using the RF model. Overall accuracy of 96% was achieved, with a Kappa coefficient of 0.91. The threshold value for converting continuous forest probability scores into forest/non-forest classes, optimized to maximize overall Kappa, was 0.5. User's accuracy was marginally higher for the forest class than the non-forest class, indicating a greater tendency for the model to misclassify non-forest land cover as forest, leading to a slight overestimation of forest extent. A comparison of model performance (user's and producer's accuracy) between the test data and the RF OOB accuracy assessment shows marginally lower producer's and user's accuracy for non-forest classification, and user's accuracy in the forest class was returned by the OOB; however, differences between the two accuracy assessment data sources are minor.
The high Kappa coefficient (0.91) for the forest/non-forest classification model is encouraging, and the model accuracy performance is consistent with studies that have successfully discriminated forest from non-forest land cover categories in other natural environments using RF [
Landsat TM band 5 (shortwave infrared) was shown to be the most important variable in predicting forest (
Landsat TM band 2 was the most important predictor variable, followed closely by band 5, based on the mean decrease Gini (MDG) measure (calculated for each predictor variable as the cumulative increase in data purity associated with each decision tree node split). Bands 3 and 4 were the next most important variables, followed by NDVI variance and band 7. In comparing the variable importance ranks between the two measures, MODIS NDVI variance was ranked 7 places higher in the MDG measure compared to MDA and band 4 (near-infrared), six places higher. These bands can be considered more important with respect to increasing the purity of training data samples after splitting at decision tree nodes, but less important based on the mean decrease accuracy.
The MODIS NDVI variance was included in the model as a means of discriminating seasonally dynamic grasses and understory vegetation from more phenologically 'stable' forest canopy reflectance. While results rank this variable as having a reasonably high degree of importance in decision tree node splitting (Gini purity), the low spatial resolution of this layer (250 m) and high spectral heterogeneity within MODIS pixels is likely to be a factor in its lower MDA importance ranking for forest prediction.
Results of this study on application of RF for large area forest classification are encouraging and demonstrate the classifier's utility in an operational land management agency context. Our results confirm the findings of other studies using RF, that this ensemble classifier can be used to learn complex non-linear relationships. Variable importance measures demonstrate the successful integration of multiple sources of data in predicting forest—remote sensing spectral data and contextual topographic-climate variables.
This study demonstrates the feasibility of using an open-source framework for constructing and evaluating an RF model and its implementation to produce an accurate operational land management agency forest cover map. The framework established successfully integrates freely available spatial data—pre-processed and collated in GRASS—into the R statistical analysis environment. After construction and validation of an RF classifier, the resulting model was implemented in GRASS using an R-GRASS interface package,
In this study, we evaluated the operational performance and utility of the ensemble decision tree classifier, Random Forests (RF), for producing an accurate large area (about 220,000 km2) land management agency forest map. This study is unique in demonstrating the operational implementation of RF at the regional-scale within an open-source software framework, using GRASS GIS [
We incorporated Landsat TM and MODIS satellite imagery, textural indices, modelled climate surfaces and topographic layers into an RF model, to accurately predict and map forest across an area comprising millions of hectares of complex and highly diverse forest ecosystems over varying topography, dominated by open canopy sclerophyll forests and woodland. Sample aerial photography land cover maps were used to derive training and test (validation) data. The overall accuracy and Kappa statistics for forest/non-forest classification were 96% and 0.91, respectively. Forest classification achieved a producer's accuracy of 96% and a user's accuracy of 94%. Estimated predictor variable importance measures derived from the Gini Index and out-of-bag (OOB) training data, showed Landsat TM bands 5 and 2 to have the strongest influence in forest/non-forest class-separability.
Results show how the RF algorithm can be effectively used to learn the conditional, complex and non-linear relationships between forest vegetation and biophysical factors, to build an accurate forest classifier across highly diverse and dynamic ecosystems. In a land management agency context, the study demonstrates how the RF can be used to address the challenges and operational constraints of land cover classification, including the use of non-parametric and noisy data, its implementation using open-source software, and the integration of multi-source regional scale ancillary spatial data.
While these results are encouraging for the application of RF in an applied natural resource management context, there are several important areas of further research that warrant further investigation. Based on the "Strong Law of Large Numbers", Breiman [
The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the Joint Remote Sensing Research Program (notably Neil Flood) for the provision of standardised surface reflectance Landsat TM imagery and support in the implementation of the random forest classifier. We would also like to thank Phil Wilkes for his role in this study.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Australian forest structural definitions [
Victorian Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA Bioregions) and aerial photographic interpretation (API) land cover maps.
Implemented Random Forests model forest probability map (
Random Forests predictor variable importance measures. (
Random Forests (RF) predictor variables.
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|Landsat TM band 2
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|Landsat TM band 3
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|Landsat TM band 4
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FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- Taylor Braun poured in 33 points on 9-of-14 shooting and Marshall Bjorklund added 16 with nine rebounds as North Dakota State defeated Delaware 85-66 Monday night.
The Bison (8-4) broke a 28-all tie as Braun hit a 3-pointer to ignite a 15-5 run and close out the first half for a 43-33 advantage at the break. They opened the second half with a 12-2 run to extend their lead to 20. Delaware (5-5) couldn't pull closer than 11 the rest of the way.
North Dakota State shot 52.9 percent from the field and outrebounded Delaware 38-29. Braun was 13 of 15 from the free throw line and Lawrence Alexander chipped in 11 points with four assists for the Bison.
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Chelsea defender David Luiz last night urged Roman Abramovich to act on the speculation linking Atletico Madrid striker Falcao with a move to West London.
The Brazil man was speaking in New York after their 1-1 draw with Colombia at the MetLife Stadium, where Falcao caused the Blues centre-back trouble all evening in a game that the Cafeteros arguably should have won.
Colombia's vibrant 4-2-2-2 under new boss Jose Pekerman proved a real test for the Brazilians, as Manchester United target James Rodriguez ran riot in a playmaking role and their rampant full-backs exposed Brazil's narrowness.
The game ended in a draw after Neymar cancelled out Juan Cuadrado's goal, but the selecão could have won it ten minutes from time when the Santos starlet was handed the chance to double his tally from the spot. Unfortunately, he took arguably the worst penalty ever and the game ended up level, but despite him not getting on the scoresheet David Luiz was once more impressed with Falcao.
Speaking after the match, the centre-back told reporters: "I'm happy when there are great names linked to Chelsea. He's a great player.
"It would be a good choice for Falcao to come to Chelsea. All of the players would be happy because he would be a great player."
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Falcao has netted 121 goals in 147 games since moving to Europe from River Plate, and is considered to be arguably the best centre-forward on the planet.
He is understood to have a release clause in his contract of around £54million, and Chelsea are believed to be frontrunners in the chase due to the club's ties with Gestifute founder Jorge Mendes who still owns a large part of Falcao's registration.
The Colombia forward also provoked more rumours of a move when he revealed on local radio in Bogotá recently that he wants to test himself in the Premier League: "The chance of playing in another league and for another club will come. I keep dreaming. I know that in time I would like to go to a different team. But I have three more years left on my contract with Atletico.
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[PODCAST] An Emmy Nomination for the Kosher Porky Pig: 'Looney Tunes' ' Bob Bergen [UPDATE]
Listen to the podcast below.
The kosher Porky Pig was up for an Emmy Award on Sept. 18. Bob Bergen, a nice Jewish boy from Woodland Hills, was nominated in the voice-over category for his performance as America's favorite traife hero on "The Looney Tunes Show" on Cartoon Network. And while he lost to "Futurama's" Maurice LaMarche, he said, "I'm thrilled just to have been nominated." He was, after all, the underdog—er—pig.
Bergen, 47, received the nomination for the episode titled, "Jailbird and Jailbunny," in which Porky must testify before a judge after Daffy Duck gets arrested for littering at the Grand Canyon. (Naturally, Daffy tries to blame the infraction on Porky and Bugs Bunny.) The judge asks the stuttering character why he isn't wearing pants, an issue Bergen joked he has brought up with animators.
Besides LaMarche of "Futurama," which also won the best animated series Emmy, Bergen competed against Christopher Plummer, who narrated TCM's "Moguls & Movie Stars" series, Brenda Strong for her voice over work as Mary Alice Young on "Desperate Housewives," and the animation performers Seth Green ("Robot Chicken") and Dan Castellaneta – the guy who voices Homer Simpson – D'oh!
The Jewish Porky Pig
Duration: 7:28
This podcast was taped and edited by Jay Firestone, the Journal's web and multimedia editor.
When the hilarious, affable performer came to the Journal offices for an interview on Sept. 16 (listen to the podcast on the right), he regaled us with the sounds of Porky, Marvin the Martian, Sylvester, Tweety and other Looney Tunes characters he has voiced. He also demonstrated the range of background voices he has done for films such as "Tangled" and "Up" – crying babies, buzzing flies and barking dogs that sounded uncannily real (and delightfully surreal) coming out of a person's mouth.
Bergen (in his own voice) pointed out that he is not the first kosher Porky. The first, of course, was the late, great Mel Blanc, who voiced all the Looney Tunes characters and who was Bergen's childhood idol. "I wanted to be Porky Pig when I was 5 years old, and my mom said you can't be Porky Pig, you're Jewish," he recalled. Even so, Bob spent countless hours practicing the pig's voice—even figuring out the pattern of Porky's stutter—to his mother's chagrin.
In grammar school, he got in trouble for saying the "Pledge of Allegiance" in Porky-speak. More discipline ensued when he answered teachers' questions as the porcine character while attending Portola Junior High (now middle school) in Tarzana, Stephen S. Wise's religious school and Taft High in Woodland Hills. "I got in so much trouble," he said. Even the Passover seder wasn't immune: "Why is this night different from other n-n-n-neh-n-n-evenings," he demonstrated.
But Bergen wasn't without ambition. By his early teens, he was spending hours thumbing through the yellow pages, calling every animation studio in town, figuring out how to break into the voice over field. Eventually, he studied with legends such as Daws Butler (the voice of Yogi Bear, Snagglepuss and Huckleberry Hound), and took classes in comedy improv and acting. Bergen even finagled a way to watch his idol, Blanc, record in the studio.
His Jewish mother was initially heartbroken when he chose not to attend college. But Bergen's chutzpah again paid off after a friend sent him an autographed photo of Casey Kasem for his Taft graduation. Bob promptly mailed Casey a thank you note with his phone number, stating that he hoped to work in cartoons; to his shock Kasem phoned with offers to help. A homemade demo tape of 85 voices that the teenager sent Kasem led Bob to snag his first agent when he was 18.
Within five years, Bergen was working full-time as an actor; in between commercials for McDonalds and such, he landed his dream job – voicing Porky as well as other Looney Tunes characters – in 1990, the year after Blanc's death. He's done Porky in everything from the film "Spacejam" to Cartoon Network's "The Looney Tunes Show," which premiered this summer.
Among other endeavors, he has also written and performed a one-man show, "Bob Bergen: So, Here's the Deal!" which he describes as "the story of a nice Jewish boy who wanted to be Porky Pig."
These days, Bergen remains a staunch Porky fan. During the holiday season, he dresses a figure of his traife hero in a Santa Claus suit, which graces his front yard. And now he has an Emmy Award nomination under his belt—Mazel Tov, Bob!
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:29:46 +0100 From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de> To: OSS Security List <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com> Subject: CVE request: kernel information leak via userspace USB interface Hi, While programming a USB device using libusb I found that a usb read from the device returned data it should not. Looking into the code showed that in USB commands that fail during device communication (with e.g. USB timeouts) return the transfer buffer unmodified back to userspace. This transfer buffer is allocated with kmalloc before and not initialized, so userspace gets to see recently freed data of the kernel. Greg, Linus and Alan produced a fix that was commited to mainline tonight: commit d4a4683ca054ed9917dfc9e3ff0f7ecf74ad90d6 (full commit attached to the mail) The issue seems to have been in the kernel for the whole 2.6 series (oldest kernel I looked at was 2.6.5, I tested down to 2.6.25). Access to USB userspace devices either requires root access or desktop user access via udev/hal ACLs on non-mass-storage Digital Cameras or Media Players. (So the desktop user needs to plugin such a ACL getting device before being able to read the memory). Ciao, Marcus commit d4a4683ca054ed9917dfc9e3ff0f7ecf74ad90d6 Author: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> Date: Mon Feb 15 09:37:46 2010 -0800 USB: usbfs: only copy the actual data received We need to only copy the data received by the device to userspace, not the whole kernel buffer, which can contain "stale" data. Thanks to Marcus Meissner for pointing this out and testing the fix. Reported-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de> Tested-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: stable <stable@...nel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de> diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c index 6e8bcdf..ca948bb 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c +++ b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c @@ -1312,9 +1312,9 @@ static int processcompl(struct async *as, void __user * __user *arg) void __user *addr = as->userurb; unsigned int i; - if (as->userbuffer) + if (as->userbuffer && urb->actual_length) if (copy_to_user(as->userbuffer, urb->transfer_buffer, - urb->transfer_buffer_length)) + urb->actual_length)) goto err_out; if (put_user(as->status, &userurb->status)) goto err_out; @@ -1475,9 +1475,9 @@ static int processcompl_compat(struct async *as, void __user * __user *arg) void __user *addr = as->userurb; unsigned int i; - if (as->userbuffer) + if (as->userbuffer && urb->actual_length) if (copy_to_user(as->userbuffer, urb->transfer_buffer, - urb->transfer_buffer_length)) + urb->actual_length)) return -EFAULT; if (put_user(as->status, &userurb->status)) return -EFAULT;
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MTSU chemistry professor Judith Iriarte-Gross found herself "totally surprised" when her name was announced as the inaugural recipient of the ATHENA International Leadership Award.
"There were 13 other wonderful, amazing nominees, and all of them deserved it," said Iriarte-Gross, who was handed the "prestigious award" by Martha Mayhood Mertz, the ATHENA International Awards founder and event guest speaker.
The award, presented by RutherfordCABLE, a women-in-business networking organization, was the highlight of the event, which was held May 15 at Stones River Country Club.
Dr. Jean Anne Rogers, 2014 Rutherford ATHENA chair, called Iriarte-Gross "such a deserving recipient of our inaugural Rutherford ATHENA Award, and we salute her."
MTSU's June Anderson Center and National Women's History Month Committee nominated Iriarte-Gross. She and the other nominees were recognized for their exceptional professional and personal leadership, accomplishments and contributions.
"I feel truly honored to receive this award," said Iriarte-Gross, who has led the charge to make young women aware of careers in STEM, which stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. "My passion is to inspire girls to explore STEM, provide girls with role models and see these young women graduate as STEM professionals."
Iriarte-Gross said women comprise less than 25 percent of the STEM workforce, and mentors can make a huge impact and difference.
"Without my mentors, I would not be a Ph.D. chemist," she said.
Rogers said the honoree "has used her life story to give back" and "has been a strong advocate for girls, not only encouraging them to go to college, but also to major in nontraditional STEM fields."
Mertz read the inscription on the back of the statuette, a signed and numbered piece of art. It stated: "What is honored in a country will be cultivated here."
Iriarte-Gross helped plant another Expanding Your Horizons seed in Tennessee May 17. She and her husband, Charles Gross, traveled to Morristown for the first East Tennessee EYH Conference at Walters State Community College. The 18th annual EYH at MTSU will be held Saturday, Sept. 20.
Iriarte-Gross was a February 2013 recipient of the President's Silver Column Award, presented by MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee. She had earned numerous other honors in her career.
Other nominees with MTSU connections included:
• Faye Johnson, assistant for special initiatives to the MTSU provost and alumna, nominated by the League of Women Voters of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County;
• Ayne Cantrell, an alumna and professor emerita in English and teacher in women's studies, who was nominated by the American Association of University Women of Murfreesboro, whom she now works with to bring attention to women's rights;
• Jacqueline Wade, retired associate professor of social work and lecturer in the African-American studies program and founder and president of Wade Educational Programming and Consultation Services, nominated by Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, Pi Nu Omega Chapter;
• Melanie Clifford Cavender, alumna and older adult coordinator with the Rutherford Community Family YMCA, which nominated her;
• Tara MacDougall, CEO of Discovery Center at Murfree Spring, former marketing and development director for the Division of Continuing Studies and an alumna married to chemistry professor Preston MacDougall, nominated by RutherfordCABLE;
• Meagan Flippin, alumna and president and CEO of the United Way of Rutherford and Cannon Counties, nominated by the Junior League of Murfreesboro;
• Lori Williams, 28-year employee and controller for Murfreesboro Electric Department and alumna, nominated by Chi Omega fraternity; and
• Felicia Shirley, alumna and Nissan North America Smyrna plant finance team member, nominated by Nissan Smyrna Women's Business Synergy Team.
"We at the June Anderson Center and NWHM Committee are so proud of your well-deserved accomplishment," Barbara Scales, director of the June Anderson Center for Women and Nontraditional Students, wrote in an email circulated across campus.
Scales also sent "best wishes" to Iriarte-Gross, an MTSU faculty member since 1996 and director of the MTSU WISTEM (Women in STEM) Center, for being nominated by Provost Brad Bartel for the 2014 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and National Science Foundation Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. The award will be announced later this year.


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1. What is the Better Market Street Project?
The Better Market Street project offers a special opportunity to envision a new Market Street that is more beautiful and green; has enlivened public plazas and sidewalks full of cafes; showcases public art and performances; provides dedicated bicycle facilities; and delivers efficient and reliable transit. The goal of the project is to revitalize Market Street and reestablish the street as the premier cultural, civic and economic center of San Francisco and the Bay Area.
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- 2011 - 2015: Public visioning, existing conditions studies and conceptual planning.
- 2015 - 2019: Environmental review.
- 2017 2021: Design and engineering.
- 2022: Begin construction.
5. How is the public involved?
Phase I of the Better Market Street project included a visioning process that collected broad input from the local communities through a series of coordinated workshops, online comments, social media venues, and other outreach venues. A Community Advisory Committee (CAC) was also formed as part of Phase I to provide feedback to the project team.
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6. How much will the project cost?
Better Market Street's final design and construction cost will depend both on the alternative selected as well as on the further refinement of the design. Our preliminary estimate shows that proposed project will cost approximately $400 million. Funding will come from the voter approved 2014 San Francisco Transportation and Road Improvement Bond and other state, local and federal sources. The importance of Market Street as a local, regional, national, and international transportation corridor and destination warrants significant investment.
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This strategy is one of many under consideration as a potential component to meet the goals of the project, including improvements to transit reliability, bicycling and pedestrian safety, economic development and placemaking. The potential impacts will be studied carefully and we will weigh the impacts of each of the strategies along with their potential benefits to arrive at the preferred strategy.
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The current phase of work is studying three options for improving Market Street, and our goal is to start construction by in 2018. Once a preferred design is chosen, the city will work with the community members and businesses to ensure the least impact possible during construction.
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Dwayne Bell has created editorial illustrations for a decade, producing art for the likes of the FT, GQ and a whole host of cycling magazines. Here he reveals how he efficiently produces wonderful work to very tight deadlines that combines hand-drawn linework with digital colour and found textures.
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Flames and black smoke billowed into the sky as workers searched through blackened rubble for survivors and bodies.
The cause of the blast at the BP plant at Texas City was not immediately known, although it was thought to have been an accident.
BP spokeswoman Annie Smith said terrorism was "not a primary focus of our investigation".
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Wateringbury Remembered
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A book from the blog 'Wateringbury Remembered' about a a small village in the heart of Kent in the Garden of England.
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Small Square, 7×7 in, 18×18 cm
200 Pages
- Publish Date Mar 24, 2011
- Language English
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John P. Kennedy Interesting..like the Inn signs being painted...bet those spent barley and hops smelled good...the whole town must have had a nice aroma with the brewery there.
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Sony Santa Monica has released a hearty list of additions and fixes for the near-future 1.04 update for God of War: Ascension.
A major addition, especially for avid players of the Ascension multiplayer, is the increased level cap from 30 to 40. With this higher cap, players have access to two new relics, a new item, and an ultimate magic that's bound to each allegiance. Coined "Elite Levels," these next ten levels will bring more challenges and motivations to play, and Sony Santa Monica has assured that it will release more information on these Elite Levels as the patch release date draws closer.
With more levels come more statistics, and Santa Monica will bring to the table the ability for players to access personal accomplishments from their respective main menu: In addition to displaying your prowess in competitive combat, from death/kill ratios to win percentages, we want to see how you are faring in Trial of the Gods."
The audio fix about which we've reported is also to be included in update 1.04, and Santa Monica has put this issue as a priority to have alleviated in said update; we at PSU thank Santa Monica Studios again for reaching out to us yesterday for their correction.
As user feedback comes in on Ascension's multiplayer bugs, Santa Monica seeks to eliminate them as soon as possible, and the developer wishes for all who experience issues to direct their feedback to the official Ascension Multiplayer forums.
The ability for players to obtain and utilize shards is to be tweaked, especially in regards to shards that influence rarer weapons and shards required to unlock some armor, weapon stats, and magics.
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The Browns are on the rise. Well, at least in terms of their net worth.
The Browns are ranked 35th on Forbes' list of the world's 50 most valuable sports teams of 2014 with an estimated value of $1.005 billion. Last year, they were 34th on the list at $987 million.
Browns owner Jimmy Haslam bought the team for $1.05 billion in 2012. Considering the celebrity of rookie quarterback Johnny Manziel, the Browns will likely ascend Forbes' list next year.
With 30 of 50 entries, the NFL dominates the most recent list, which published online today.
The Browns are ranked 22nd among the NFL teams on the list. They were 21st last year.
The Browns are also third among AFC North teams for the second year in a row. They're behind the Baltimore Ravens (19th overall, ninth in NFL, $1.227 billion) and Pittsburgh Steelers (27th overall, 14th in NFL, $1.118 billion) but ahead of the Cincinnati Bengals (43rd overall, 27th in NFL, $924 million).
The Dallas Cowboys ($2.3 billion) are ranked fifth overall and first among NFL teams. The New England Patriots (eighth overall, second in NFL, $1.8 billion), Washington Redskins (ninth overall, third in NFL, $1.7 billion) and New York Giants (10th overall, fourth in NFL, $1.55 billion) also cracked the top 10.
The Jacksonville Jaguars and Oakland Raiders are the only NFL teams that didn't make the cut.
European soccer powers account for the top-three richest teams. Real Madrid tops the entire list for the second consecutive year at $3.44 billion. Barcelona ($3.2 billion) is second, and Manchester United ($2.81 billion) is third.


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