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Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children about Their Art. Illustrations by Eric Carle, Tomie dePaola, Jane Dyer, Steven Kellogg, and many more. Philomel Books, New York, 2007 ISBN13- 9780399246005
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Artist to Artist is a great blend of background information of some of the renowned illustrators, and the pictures that they loved to draw. Not only did they write letter to the reader, they invited them in to the place that inspire them. With each letter, the artists drew a self-portrait that symbolizes who they are.
For a student who loves art, this is the perfect inspiration for them. Each illustrator has a different experience for students to draw from, as well as different techniques. Looking through the different illustrations, I could not believe all the creativity flowing through the pages.
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School Library Journal "...a gorgeous, browsable gallery of international treasures. "
In Art class, I would have students look through this book and see which artists they connect the most with. I would also have them write their own bios and inspirations, for future students. Then we could make a class "Artists to Artists book.
In order for them to connect the artists they favor the most, I would have them choose that author and read as many of their books as they can get their hands on. Then makes connections between the different books and the illustrations.


Calculate the client's target heart rate using the Karvonen formula
Calculate the client's target heart rate using the Karvonen formula
Instructions:This section of your final exam provides you with an opportunity to apply all of the information you have learned throughout the course to the work that you will be doing as a certified professional.You will be presented with two client profiles, and will be asked to design a 12-week periodized program for each client. In addition to describing the logistics of the program, you will also be asked to explain why you have designed the program the way that you have.Approach these clients as you would approach a real-life situation. Your client should be able to take your program and put it into practice without having to contact you for explanation of what to do or why to do it.Before you finalize your submission, make sure your program passes the following tests:1. Is the training program that you are designing appropriate, safe, and effective for the client, given the client's physical abilities and primary goals?2. Could you defend your program from a legal standpoint? Who would be held liable if your client was injured during training because of either lifting too much weight or exceeding a certain heart rate?3. Is your program justifiable from a business standpoint? Are you professional with your current clients? Would they refer their friends, family, or colleagues to you based on the guidance that you provide in your program design?4. Imagine that YOU are the paying client. Would you feel that your money was well spent if you were handed the training program/dietary recommendations?Case Study 1Calculations: Calculate the client's target heart rate using the Karvonen formula.Training Program: Design full a 12-week periodized training program for the client described in the Client Profile. Be very specific as you design the training program. This is an opportunity for you to demonstrate your full comprehension of the information and concepts discussed throughout the course. List the types of exercise, duration, sets, reps, rest intervals, and so on.Include the following in your case study submission:A description of your professional responsibilities as discussed in the stages of the drawing-in process (Unit 12)Discussion of any fitness tests, methods of evaluation, and data collection used to assess and evaluate the client's needsSpecific conditions that you have identified in the client profileA fully detailed 12-week comprehensive and periodized training program including specific exercises, sets, repetitions, suggested rest times, etc. Use an integrated approach in your program recommendations.Specific and detailed nutritional strategies and an explanation as to how the strategies will assist the client in meeting energy needsExplanation for your chosen assessment, programming, and nutritional recommendations. (Be sure to reference course concepts when discussing rationale for your recommendations.Keep in mind that a client should be able to take your program and put it into practice without having to contact you to clarify what you intended by your recommendations or to explain parts of your program.Don't forget your explanation for WHY you listed and recommended what you did. Reference the concepts and theories covered in the course. Be sure to address why the program and exercises recommended are appropriate for the specific client given the clientÕs history, current abilities, and intended goal(s). For example: if you are developing a program for a beginner client without any resistance training experience, explain how your program addresses the lack of experience, initial need for foundational development, process by which you would safely progress the client, etc. Tying your program to course concepts is a critical component of your case study.Review the Client Profile below.Client Profile: Steve RogersAge: 27Gender: MaleResting Heart Rate: 60 bpmHeight: 6'0″Weight: 178 lbBody Fat Percentage: 11%Background and Goals: Steve is an avid runner and has been quite slim his whole life. He runs moderateto long-distances three or four days per week. Running is his only physical activity. Steve has never been interested in resistance training because it is not his strong suit. Steve recently decided that he is tired of being skinny. He would like to put on some size and muscle before he travels back to his hometown for a good friend's wedding in 12 weeks.
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In the main part of the house, place four large windows that contain the four different math operations of the fact family. These would be two for addition and two for subtraction: Best use for social anxiety disorder: Choose this book if you are motivated by uplifting quotes or if you want to display your artwork (or use it for note cards to send to new friends). You can help your child even more by including muscle-strengthening, flexibility and bone-strengthening exercises in their fitness habits. Your child should do this 2 to 3 times a week.
Active and Passive Voice Worksheets. Examples of activities for children. Families play an important role in: Keeping Track of All Family Members. Sports such as gymnastics or dance.
Examples of strengthening and flexibility exercises for older children: Aim for a moderate to vigorous level, for at least 60 minutes every day. Eating: Encourage children to use their silverware properly when eating.

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What is An OP, Sunny Side Up, Posterior Birth?
What is an OP birth?
An OP birth is when the baby's back is spine-to-spine with the mother.
Why Should I Avoid This:
If your baby is in the posterior position, you may be in for a longer labor and more intense pushing.
5 Ways To Prevent an OP Birth:
- Avoid all reclining positions. You should always sit with your pelvis tilted forward. Try sitting on a birth ball or sitting backwards on a kitchen chair.
- Do pelvic rocks 10 times in a row 2-5 times a day. Go on your hands and knees and rock your pelvis up and down
- Sleep on your left side, with your left leg straight and your right leg at a 90-degree angle supported by a pillow or two.
- Babies like to have their backs warm. If you are pregnant in the winter and are not wearing a jackets that goes over your tummy, your baby may decide to turn his/her back towards yours to stay warm and cozy. So try to keep your tummy covered in the winter.
- If your water hasn't broken, Don't artificially rupture the water bag. Most babies, who are in an OP position before labor, tend to rotate to the occiput anterior (OA) position after the labor sets in. Having the extra cushion of the amniotic fluid will help your baby rotate.
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Fear of Doctors
Fear of Doctors
There are many types of fear a some people are facing every day. Most interestingly all of this
fear is different than others. Some are very realistic and some are very unrealistic. Some people have the fear for
the reason of own experience some people have the fear for the reason of hearing bad words about something. Some of
this fear is very funny and some are not. But the common thing is these entire fears make a mental and physical
problem in human mind. Unfortunately but it is true that many people have great fear about doctors.
Lets find out at first what the reasons behind this fear are. The main reason is when a person
goes to a doctor then what the doctor does most of them is so painful. Some people are not able to see or have a
great fear on blood; they are totally unable to see cutting the body. But the doctors are doing that very expertly.
That is why those people are not like to go to doctors.
Another most important reason is some people heard from others a very painful works of doctors
from others which words are attached with the mind of people. That is why people don't like to go to a
Now, lets find out why a person can remove this problem from head. First the person should need
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Remittances to Drought/Famine-Affected Households in Northern Kenya
Women and children are the ones most susceptible to the effects of drought and famine which is why it is important to consider ways to make remittances more accessible to them. Kenya already has the infrastructure and services to lower the cost of sending money to relatives who need monetary assistance. Of course, money is not the answer to poverty just like food is not the answer to hunger.
Poverty is more than the lack of money. Poverty is not merely the antithesis of prosperity, it's the result of systemic and structural inequalities as well as inequality on an individual, relational level. Africa, a continent rich in mineral wealth and human capital, is impoverished insofar as inequality persists. It is beset by structural problems like the lack of supportive infrastructures that would enable the success of small businesses, administration, roads, buildings, schools and accessible, affordable healthcare. With this in mind, money is not the answer to poverty, food insecurity and socioeconomic inequality.
In Kenya, mobile technology has changed the way that remittances are sent to relatives. Kenyans were using airtime to send money to relatives before the launch of M-PESA. Before Safaricom and the British Department of International Development collaborated to launch M-PESA in March 2007, Kenyans would take their money to a cellphone shop, buy scratchcards for airtime, and send the code numbers to their relatives via text messages. Recipients of the code would then either use the airtime or give the code to the shopkeeper at the cellphone store who would give them cash. This ingenuous method was a direct challenge to banks and the wire transfer companies.
M-PESA is an SMS-based money transfer system that allows users to deposit, transfer and withdraw money on their cell phones. The M stands for Mobile, and "PESA" is Swahili for "money." The service was used by up to 38 percent of Kenya's adult population within two years of its launch. According to an MIT (Massachusetts Institution of Technology) study, M-PESA is one of Kenya's largest banks, with approximately 75 percent of its 9.5 million account holders using it to store money.
The study conducted at MIT by William Jack and Tavneet Suri focused on 3000 randomly selected households, comprising of rural and urban households as well as non-users and users of M-PESA. It is important to note, however, that this study excluded the more rural northern and eastern regions of Kenya. The study showed that most (61 percent) M-PESA users who send money live and work in urban areas whereas the recipients can be rural (42 percent) or urban residents (45 percent.) Another interesting point is that in terms of overall figures, senders outnumber recipients.
When looking at the macroeconomic impact of remittances, we need to look no further than the female-headed households that receive remittances. Gender affects how money is spent and saved. In a 2004 paper on Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay and Esther Duflo suggested that women could have both micro-economic and macroeconomic impacts based on the way they allocated resources in their own households, and from their political participation. Now this was specific to India, but gendered divisions of household labor are global. Women tend to be responsible for food production and keeping the household running. This means that they tend to purchase items that have relatively high price/demand elasticitylike food, water, clothing, and shoes.
With the prolonged drought in northwestern and northeastern Kenya, remittances to rural areas are becoming increasingly important. The majority of displaced refugees are women and children. In the rural, northern regions of Kenya, we see that women comprise the majority of small farmers who face a greater risk of food insecurity and poverty due to water shortages and desertification. In early August, the BBC reported that 14 people starved to death in the Turkana region in the northwest. According to the United Nations, 4 million Kenyans (about 10 percent of the population) are affected by this drought, the worst in over 60 years.
Food shortages and the influx of food aid further impact on the market, driving up prices and contributing to currency inflation. Currently, the Kenyan shilling is at its weakest point in 17 years, due to a combination of factors including the economic crisis in the European Union, the debt crisis in the United States and, increased demand for the US dollar. This increased demand for the dollar can be attributed to the flow of incoming shipments of food aid and medical supplies to northern Kenya and southern Somalia. Consequently, food and fuel prices have gone up as the shilling's buying power has decreased.
That said, remittances are not a solution, but a temporary salve. In the light of food shortages and price hikes due to drought and famine, remitted monies are a necessary remedy. Survival is the first priority. What can be done to make monetary aid more accessible to those who need it most? How can we further lower the cost of sending money?

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If you own property on a lake, one of the issues you're going to have to consider is the safety of your electricity down at the dock and next to the water. As outdoor electricians in Forsyth County, GA, we frequently work with people who have waterfront property, and just about every time we analyze people's property, we find some stray voltage in the water, meaning the water has at least some level of electrical charge. There are very few docks you'll find without any stray voltage.
Why is this important to know, and what is involved with checking the voltage? Here's some information you should be aware of as a person who owns or enjoys visiting waterfront property.
Searching for stray voltage
Checking the voltage of the water is as simple as checking the voltage of any other item or material. Simply place a voltage detector in the water and check the readings.
Many times, the readings will only be in the millivolts range. This is a negligible amount of electricity that will be unlikely to have any sort of effect. However, any higher than that and you need to start being concerned about safety. Electrical shock drowning can occur with as little as two volts in the water. This happens when an electrical current found in the water passes through an individual in that area's water. The person could become paralyzed as a result of the current, unable to swim away or keep floating.
Ideally, then, there should be no voltage at all in the water when you perform the inspection. If there is stray voltage, it's important to determine what is causing it and how you can remedy the issue.
Even if the dock is wired to code, there is still a chance it will give off stray voltage. In some cases, there may be ground wires for motors on boat lifts that are too thin, in which case there is more resistance for the electricity. It becomes easier for the electricity to pass through the water rather than the ground wire.
There may also be an issue with electrical panels being wired the same as they would be in homes, rather than wired with neutral wires isolated. Outdoor electricians will understand the differences in wiring indoor versus outdoor panels and the safety issues associated with that.
In cases of higher levels of stray voltage, the electrical problems may be more obvious or severe.
In any case, a professional electrician can analyze your dock electricity in Forsyth County, GA to determine if it is at safe levels. If you're interested in learning more about stray voltage in water and how it occurs, we encourage you to contact Duke Electric Co. today about our services and about the methods we use to analyze stray voltage. Our team would be happy to answer any questions you have, and we look forward to coming out to analyze your dock and property to ensure your risk of electrocution in the water is eliminated.
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The Conflicted Economics of 'Star Trek'
In honor of today's long-awaited (by The Ticker) premiere of "Star Trek," the 11th film in the canon and a prequel to the original series, it seemed a good time to examine the economics of Star Trek.
As envisioned by creator Gene Roddenberry and first aired in 1966, "Star Trek" depicted a humanistic utopia set in the 23rd century, a time when technology had eradicated poverty and hunger and, largely, crime.
Because of this, Roddenberry's universe had little need for ownership of private property or even money, and accumulation of wealth was depicted as anti-social. Those who attempted it were portrayed as vulgar at best and dangerous at worst. (Think Harry Mudd.)
This sentiment carried forward through the following four live-action television series and the so-far 10 films.
Just in case Roddenberry was unsure that fans were getting his point, he gave avarice its own non-human species in the second TV series, "Star Trek: The Next Generation," which aired during Wall Street's (first) "greed is good" era of the late '80s and early '90s.
The Ferengi were savvy, snarling, sharp-toothed, big-eared short aliens who coveted nothing more than profit. (It has been observed, and not without some justification, that the Ferengi embodied disturbingly stereotypical Semitic traits.)
The Ferengi currency was based on something called "gold-pressed latinum" and their Bible was the Rules of Acquisition, an ever-growing list of merciless rules of business, such as: "Never place friendship above profit."
And even though Star Trek's enlightened characters competed for currency in various games -- including five-card stud -- it remains unclear, in Roddenberry's universe, where the money came from to build those fleets of glorious star ships.
As with many visionaries, from Rosseau to Hemingway to Mailer, Roddenberry was unable or unwilling to live by his principles.
Though he used his creation to denigrate the accumulation of personal wealth -- lecturing that the religion of technology would unshackle enlightened future humans from greed -- Roddenberry was not above using a Ferengi-like tactic to line his own pockets.
Many people know the instrumental theme song to the original Star Trek, the music that underlies William Shatner's monologue that begins, "Space: the final frontier..."
What most people don't know is that the song has lyrics written by Roddenberry -- purely as a device to secure performance royalties into perpetuity.
The lyrics, which you can see here, are dreadful and were never meant to be recorded or performed. Worse, they are unnecessary. And Roddenberry wrote them and laid claim to the royalties after the show's first season.
So outraged by Roddenberry's tactic that Alexander Courage, the composer of the memorable theme, scored some first-season episodes of Star Trek and then refused to pen another note for the franchise.
So even though the father of Star Trek created a hopeful future largely devoid of suffering and war, as a man, he turned out to be more Gorden Gekko than Jean-Luc Picard.
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Over the years I've heard of many musicians who are afraid of checking their instruments when flying. Musicians are afraid of rough treatment by airport baggage handlers, and rightly so. But many people also fear that the environmental conditions in the aircraft's baggage compartment can damage their instruments. I asked some airline captains about the conditions inside aircraft that instruments with be subjected to. Their answers are very reassuring!
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A recent forum post asked the following question: My guitar goes out of tune when I put on a capo. Is this normal? What can I do about it? Is this problem worse on the lower frets? Does string diameter matter? The answer to all these questions is "yes". Let's look at why.


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Historically, the local spoken language in Jersey was Jèrriais. This is best understood as the Jersey branch (or branches) of the wider Norman language; the branches spoken in Guernsey, Sark and Alderney are recognisably of similar origin but differ considerably in detail.
The Norman language is a curious fusion: the structure is that of a Romance language (derived from Latin), but to this was added considerable Nordic vocabulary - bear in mind that the Normans were so called because they were by origin Norse-men - Vikings who had come south.
Jèrriais has two broad dialects, western and eastern. It may come as a surprise to find that an island just nine miles across would have two recognisably different dialects, but travel across the island was for centuries a difficult exercise - it was said that in 1800 the island had the worst roads in Europe. Consequently, not only were there the two major dialect grops, but also small isolated pockets (such as La Moye, at the southwest corner of the island) where distinctive forms of pronunciation and vocabulary developed.
There is a considerable corpus of written Jèrriais, including over 900 articles written for the Jersey Evening Post by George Le Feuvre (who wrote as George d'La Forge), and proceedings of L'Assembliée d'Jèrriais, a group founded in 1952 which gathered speakers of the language from across the island.
Jèrriais was never the language of the Royal Court; documentation from there (and subsequently from the States) was always written in what might be called "proper French". Equally the business of the church (and later the chapels) was done in French. But for most of the latter part of the 19th and early 20th century, most people in rural Jersey were trilingual - English was the language of commerce, French the language of church and law, and Jèrriais the language that did for everything else.
The rise of the school certificate and broadcast media changed this, and Jèrriais was largely squeezed out (although it had a brief renaissance during the Occupation, as the German forces could not understand what was being said!). Thanks to the efforts first of L'Assembliée d'Jèrriais and subsequently of L'Office du Jèrriais, the language has not yet become extinct, and it is thought that several thousand local inhabitants can speak at least a minumum amount of Jèrriais, with thousands more able to recognise it and gist its meaning. However, the number of people who are first-language speakers continues to decline, and is now believed to be barely above one hundred.
The rise of English
English only became a significant language in Jersey after the beginning of the 19th Century.
As has already been mentioned, the roads in Jersey were very poor in 1800, but shortly thereafter General George Don was appointed as the Island's Lieutenant-Governor. General Don set in motion a substantial programme of infrastructure works designed to make defending Jersey from French invasion easier; this included various fortification works and a network of new roads. The island could not supply sufficient manpower; consequently a massive immigration of English people began. Between 1821 and 1851 the population doubled from about 28600 to just over 57000.
Until this point the English Parliament in Westminster had been largely content to let Jersey run its own affairs, not least because the practicalities of maintaining links across a stretch of water patrolled by the hostile French Navy were difficult, to say the least. However, as the threat of war with France receded, and communications became easier, Parliament rapidly discovered that the English community in Jersey were deeply unhappy, and with good reasons.
Their most vocal representative was Abraham Jones Le Cras - a man of Jersey descent, but born and raised in England. Le Cras wrote a book in 1839, entitled The Laws Customs and Privileges and their Administration in the Island of Jersey, which contained a 52-clause petition to Parliament. Royal Commissions were appointed in 1840, 1846 and 1853 to investigate matters and step by step the States yielded to some of Le Cras' demands. Court proceedings were translated into English; elected Deputies came to the States, some of whom spoke neither French nor Jèrriais. Gradually the influence of English increased.
But old habits died very hard. Property transactions continued to be recorded in French in the Public Registry right through the 19th Century and nearly all the way through the 20th - only in about 1990 did contracts finally come to be written in English. Similarly a large corpus of Jersey legislation still exists only in French.
The use of French was not entirely limited to law and the church. There were a series of migrations to Jersey from France: the last and largest of these began in about 1850.
The vast majority of immigrants were agicultural labourers who had left Brittany and western Normandy in search of better wages and working conditions. By working hard they began to acquire property and became farmers employing labourers rather than hired men and women, and naturally some of these were French also (it was noted many years ago - by a Jerseyman - that the French were prepared to work for each other, but the Jerseyman was only prepared to work for himself). At its peak, between 1890 and 1914, the French-born population numbered about one in ten.
The population was significantly reduced in 1914 - many men were called up to the French Army and never returned - and in 1920 the States clamped down hard on further immigration, allowing only a strictly-controlled flow of seasonal labour. Gradually the remaining population integrated into the existing population of Jersey.
French is no longer the island's second language. When Britain joined the EEC (as it then was) in 1973 the traditional benefits in employing French contract labour disappeared. The gap was filled largely by Portuguese nationals escaping the last years of the Salazar dictatorship. Most came from Madeira, at that time an impoverished province neglected by the authorities. It is now thought that about one tenth of the population of Jersey is of Portuguese origin.
More recently, in line with the rest of the UK there has been a significant influx of "new Europeans", most of them originating in Poland and Romania.
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Making the Pottery
It is still common to see ox carts carrying clay in burlap sacks from the fields into the town of San Juan de Oriente. Once the clay arrives at a workshop the bags are emptied into a hole and water added to soften it. Usually the clay is workable after a day of "soaking" and at this point sand is added. Then, to soften and blend clay, it is placed on top of the empty sacks and stomped on. This can take hours. Once sufficiently pliable, the clay is "wedged" into handful size chunks so that rocks and roots can be cleaned out. Following this stage, the clay is once more stomped by foot, which can take one person up to two days before the clay is ready to place on the potter's wheel.
After the pieces have been molded or "thrown" on the wheel the outer surface is burnished to detect any small stones or roots that are still in the clay. The burnishing process calls for a hard, flat instrument, so usually stones found at the beach are used for this purpose. Once such imperfections are removed, the surface of the pot is burnished again.
The pots are then smoothed by hand and black, liquid clay (called slip, which comes from El Sauce near Leon in Northern Nicaragua) is painted onto the pot. Known locally as engove (engobe), it is mixed with water and strained repeatedly over a period of days, resulting in very fine and soft black clay. Some artisans say that the clay softens hands and makes an excellent facemask. Various layers of black clay are applied to each piece. The pieces are then put into bags to dry for up to seven days (depending on the season) and burnished yet again. The ensuing layer is a bone white oxide of zinc called oxido. The white tint provides a base for further application of color. Each piece is again placed in a bag to dry, which can take anywhere from an hour or two in dry season to half a day in the rainy season. Once dry, the pots are burnished a final time.
The designs are made using colored oxides and applied with paintbrushes made from wood or, commonly, the recycled plastic shell of a ballpoint pen and hair left over from a child's haircut. Depending on the intricacy of the design, the painting can take hours, each applied color undergoing still another hand polishing process. When all the painting is complete, the pot is set out in the open air and can take anywhere from two days to a week to dry.
The outlines of the design are often carved, defined in a relief style by using a sharp instrument to delicately pick off only the top-most layer of clay, intentionally leaving the rough surface exposed. This tool can be made from the spokes of a bicycle wheel or the spines of a broken umbrella that have been sharpened by a stone.
Finishing the pot requires baking it and, many artists have constructed their own kilns out of adobe bricks and other local materials to create a basic, wood-burning oven in the traditional bee hive configuration. The process of "firing" the pots begins with two hours of low heat, followed by three hours of gradual increases in temperature. Once the maximum temperature is reached, it is maintained for an additional three to four hours, for a total firing time of about nine hours. After the kiln has cooled - usually a whole day later - the pots are removed and shined with a soft cloth.


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dihedral_style table spline 400 dihedral_style table linear 1000 dihedral_coeff 1 file.table DIH_TABLE1 dihedral_coeff 2 file.table DIH_TABLE2
The table dihedral style creates interpolation tables of length Ntable from dihedral potential and derivative values listed in a file(s) as a function of the dihedral angle "phi". The files are read by the dihedral_coeff command.
The interpolation tables are created by fitting cubic splines to the file values and interpolating energy and derivative values at each of Ntable dihedral angles. During a simulation, these tables are used to interpolate energy and force values on individual atoms as needed. The interpolation is done in one of 2 styles: linear or spline.
For the linear style, the dihedral angle (phi) is used to find 2 surrounding table values from which an energy or its derivative is computed by linear interpolation.
For the spline style, cubic spline coefficients are computed and stored at each of the Ntable evenly-spaced values in the interpolated table. For a given dihedral angle (phi), the appropriate coefficients are chosen from this list, and a cubic polynomial is used to compute the energy and the derivative at this angle.
The following coefficients must be defined for each dihedral type via the dihedral_coeff command as in the example above.
The filename specifies a file containing tabulated energy and derivative values. The keyword specifies a section of the file. The format of this file is described below.
The format of a tabulated file is as follows (without the parenthesized comments). It can begin with one or more comment or blank lines.
# Table of the potential and its negative derivative
DIH_TABLE1 (keyword is the first text on line) N 30 DEGREES (N, NOF, DEGREES, RADIANS, CHECKU/F) (blank line) 1 -168.0 -1.40351172223 -0.0423346818422 2 -156.0 -1.70447981034 -0.00811786522531 3 -144.0 -1.62956100432 0.0184129719987... 30 180.0 -0.707106781187 -0.0719306095245
# Example 2: table of the potential. Forces omitted
DIH_TABLE2 N 30 NOF CHECKU testU.dat CHECKF testF.dat
1 -168.0 -1.40351172223 2 -156.0 -1.70447981034 3 -144.0 -1.62956100432... 30 180.0 -0.707106781187
A section begins with a non-blank line whose 1st character is not a "#"; blank lines or lines starting with "#" can be used as comments between sections. The first line begins with a keyword which identifies the section. The line can contain additional text, but the initial text must match the argument specified in the dihedral_coeff command. The next line lists (in any order) one or more parameters for the table. Each parameter is a keyword followed by one or more numeric values.
Following a blank line, the next N lines list the tabulated values. On each line, the 1st value is the index from 1 to N, the 2nd value is the angle value, the 3rd value is the energy (in energy units), and the 4th is -dE/d(phi) also in energy units). The 3rd term is the energy of the 4-atom configuration for the specified angle. The 4th term (when present) is the negative derivative of the energy with respect to the angle (in degrees, or radians depending on whether the user selected DEGREES or RADIANS). Thus the units of the last term are still energy, not force. The dihedral angle values must increase from one line to the next.
Dihedral table splines are cyclic. There is no discontinuity at 180 degrees (or at any other angle). Although in the examples above, the angles range from -180 to 180 degrees, in general, the first angle in the list can have any value (positive, zero, or negative). However the range of angles represented in the table must be strictly less than 360 degrees (2pi radians) to avoid angle overlap. (You may not supply entries in the table for both 180 and -180, for example.) If the user's table covers only a narrow range of dihedral angles, strange numerical behavior can occur in the large remaining gap.
The parameter "N" is required and its value is the number of table entries that follow. Note that this may be different than the N specified in the dihedral_style table command. Let Ntable is the number of table entries requested dihedral_style command, and let Nfile be the parameter following "N" in the tabulated file ("30" in the sparse example above). What LAMMPS does is a preliminary interpolation by creating splines using the Nfile tabulated values as nodal points. It uses these to interpolate as needed to generate energy and derivative values at Ntable different points (which are evenly spaced over a 360 degree range, even if the angles in the file are not). The resulting tables of length Ntable are then used as described above, when computing energy and force for individual dihedral angles and their atoms. This means that if you want the interpolation tables of length Ntable to match exactly what is in the tabulated file (with effectively nopreliminary interpolation), you should set Ntable = Nfile. To insure the nodal points in the user's file are aligned with the interpolated table entries, the angles in the table should be integer multiples of 360/Ntable degrees, or 2*PI/Ntable radians (depending on your choice of angle units).
The optional "NOF" keyword allows the user to omit the forces (negative energy derivatives) from the table file (normally located in the 4th column). In their place, forces will be calculated automatically by differentiating the potential energy function indicated by the 3rd column of the table (using either linear or spline interpolation).
The optional "DEGREES" keyword allows the user to specify angles in degrees instead of radians (default).
The optional "RADIANS" keyword allows the user to specify angles in radians instead of degrees. (Note: This changes the way the forces are scaled in the 4th column of the data file.)
The optional "CHECKU" keyword is followed by a filename. This allows the user to save all of the the Ntable different entries in the interpolated energy table to a file to make sure that the interpolated function agrees with the user's expectations. (Note: You can temporarily increase the Ntable parameter to a high value for this purpose. "Ntable" is explained above.)
The optional "CHECKF" keyword is analogous to the "CHECKU" keyword. It is followed by a filename, and it allows the user to check the interpolated force table. This option is available even if the user selected the "NOF" option.
Note that one file can contain many sections, each with a tabulated potential. LAMMPS reads the file section by section until it finds one that matches the specified keyword.
Styles with a cuda, gpu, omp, or opt suffix are functionally the same as the corresponding style without the suffix. They have been optimized to run faster, depending on your available hardware, as discussed in Section_accelerate of the manual. The accelerated styles take the same arguments and should produce the same results, except for round-off and precision issues.
These accelerated styles are part of the USER-CUDA, GPU, USER-OMP and OPT packages, respectively. They are only enabled if LAMMPS was built with those packages. See the Making LAMMPS section for more info.
You can specify the accelerated styles explicitly in your input script by including their suffix, or you can use the -suffix command-line switch when you invoke LAMMPS, or you can use the suffix command in your input script.
See Section_accelerate of the manual for more instructions on how to use the accelerated styles effectively.
This dihedral style can only be used if LAMMPS was built with the USER-MISC package. See the Making LAMMPS section for more info on packages.


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Meta-Regression Analysis of Recreation Valuation and Demand Elasticities: Identifying and Correcting Publication Selection Bias to Improve Benefit Transfer
In order to improve the accuracy of meta-analysis for benefit transfer, this research develops meta-regression analysis models to identify, measure and correct for publication selection bias in the recreation valuation literature, in particular, estimates of economic value and demand elasticities. These models are used to test several hypotheses across a variety of publication bias sources and to correct for publication bias. Monte Carlo simulations are used to evaluate how alternative corrective methods perform under realistic research conditions.
The three project objectives are to:
1. test for publication bias by publication type (e.g., journal vs. report, or publications that make methodological contributions vs. those that provide new estimates of values);
2. test for publication bias of recreation demand elasticities, including
i. on the distribution of estimated elasticities,
ii. on the generalizability of elasticity estimates,
iii. to measure the effect of moderator variables,
iv. and provide publication bias corrected elasticity estimates;
3. and evaluate and improve methods for publication bias detection and correction.
This research will expand an existing recreation valuation database through an extensive search of the literature and will update it with current studies and by extracting additional data from all studies. A variety of multivariate meta-regression analysis models will be developed to test the hypotheses associated with the defined research objectives, including equality of mean effect sizes across publication types, activities, regions, estimation methods, etc.; symmetry of effect size distributions; presence of a 'true' effect size; and moderator effects (study characteristics including activity type, region, estimation methods, etc.). Monte Carlo simulations will be used to test the efficiency, robustness, and power of existing publication bias correction methods and suggest improvements.
This research will provide a means for deriving valid and reliable estimates of recreation values from the literature using meta-regression analysis benefit transfers. Indirectly, this research will affect the entire domain of environmental valuation by providing improved methods of publication bias detection and correction that are transferable to all areas of resource valuation and empirical research.
methodological improvements, extent of the market, data collection methods, efficient bid designs, demand function, benefit function, empirical evidence, applied research, research synthesis, public policy, decision making, non-market valuation, contingent valuation, travel cost method, preferences, public good, socio-economic, willingness-to-pay, environmental assets, social science, modeling, measurement methods, econometric analysis,, Economic, Social, & Behavioral Science Research Program, Scientific Discipline, RFA, Social Science, decision-making, Economics & Decision Making, Ecology and Ecosystems, econometric analysis, demand elasticities, ecosystem valuation, public policy, decision analysis, decision making, bias, recreational value, benefits transfer, meta-regression analysis models, Monte Carlo study, public values, valuation
|Rosenberger, Randall S.|
Stanley, Tom D.
|Oregon State University|
|October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2008|
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Thailand key long term reconciliation factor ignored
Bringing an end to the political divide in Thailand requires both long and short term planning. Unfortunately the key underlying factor is still being ignored, and that will simply repeat the process that could once again lead to violence.
Connecting the Dots does not like to take sides, but others may have a different opinion about that. But simply because one side has been acting in such a self serving way, it becomes difficult to appear balanced. But now there seems to be emerging evidence that supports the main complaints the poor have, and that is the huge and growing divide between the people who have, and the people who have little or nothing.
Fixing the education system is key to long term reconciliation in Thailand. Without a good education there will always be imbalance in society, and that is universally true in any country. That fact is common knowledge and even a modestly educated person could figure that out.
In very general terms, When Thaksin Shinawatra was elected Prime Minister, the elite were pushed from power and the poor seemed in control. During that time the Thai education system continued to produce sub par graduates because many had documents that did not match their actual abilities. When the democrats and in general the elite came back into power when Abhisit Vejjajiva was legally voted into the Prime Minister's seat, nothing much changed.
From that time in December 2008 when Abhisit came to power there has been plenty of time to fix the education system. However the only fix seems to be a new coat of paint and all the tools really needed to fix it never left the tool box. Granted the democrats were under significant attack during that time, but a simple procedural change like not passing failing students would be a good first step that only requires a signature to implement.
With those simple facts, any casual observer of events in Thailand must conclude that keeping the majority of Thais under educated is a tool to stay in power. Both the educated people in the pro and anti Thaksin groups seem to be wanting to keep things that way.
So if that is indeed the case, then keeping the lesser educated Thais as cattle that can be lead with minimal effort and convinced to vote in whatever way is the desired state. Bringing an end to vote buying is dealing with the effect of low education. It seems it is one of the few ways the poor lesser educated Thais can get some extra income. If they were more educated the temptation of vote selling would be reduced or eliminated and they could decide their countries path with better clarity.
Unfortunately when education is in abundance, the elite may if not certainly find it more difficult to remain the elite. Challenges from elected politicians looking to work for their constituency and not the elite would most certainly be the outcome.
Even the progressive blocking of the Internet is fueled by the desire to stay in power. Many of the sites being blocked have little or nothing to do with the reasons they claim they are being blocked for. The reality is it is all about staying in power. If you can control the information, then even the educated people can be controlled just as easy as the uneducated people.
Suggesting that there are several thousand websites that have content that offends the King or members of the royal family is very hard to believe. The King of Thailand is one of the most respected people on the planet by Thais and non-Thais alike. If it was someone like some out of control politician who is threatening the world with nuclear weapons, that huge number of blocked sites could be expected, but not so with the Thai King.
The fact is the Internet is a tool for education as well as entertainment and sexual content. Opinions and views can spark thinking that could lead to not believing those who look to control others with false and misleading information.
So without education the chances reconciliation will succeed on the long term are near or at zero. What is going on appears to be a shallow effort with just enough spit and shine to make it look sincere.
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ERM LLC recently tested the Parrot Bebop 2 small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) for photogrammetry and had mixed results. The Bebop 2 is supported by the Pix4D Capture app and sports a very wide angle, or fisheye, lens. A wide angle lens provides more surface coverage in the image compared to an unaltered lens at the same distance to the subject.
This translates into a sUAS's ability to cover a larger area at a certain altitude or to fly lower and still cover the same area compared to a 94° field-of-view camera. Indeed, the Pix4D Capture app shows that the Bebop 2 can cover almost 4x the area of DJI quadcopters at the same altitude. Another benefit can be faster photogrammetry processing because less images with the requisite overlap are needed to cover a particular area. A wide-field of view camera can also potentially create a better Z-estimate because cameras further away from each other can see the same point.
The downside of a wide-angle lens is that the pixels are spread over a larger area, so pixel resolution is reduced, or in other words, the ground sampling distance (GSD) becomes larger. ERM wanted to see if the lower pixel resolution expected from the Bobop 2 could be offset by flying at lower altitude.
ERMs tests revealed that the Bebop 2 could not provide the detail necessary for ERM's NADIR photogrammetry surveys. A NADIR survey at 100 feet (ft) AGL provided a GSD of 23 cm. The Bebop 's fixed camera angle captured too much sky and far-off imaging in the NADIR survey. Approximately 1/2 of the pixels in the image below are unusable for photogrammetry. This issue could be compensated for by flying lower, but ERM seldom finds situations where flying a grid at under 100 feet is safe.
The Bebop 2 provided much better results in a 50 ft AGL circular survey with a GSD 1.58 cm. ERM believes that careful flights close to and around a 3D object could lead to a good model.
Since the majority of ERM's work is with NADIR surveys, we decided to pass on the Bebop 2. Tests with ERM's newest sUAS, a DJI Phantom 4 will be posted soon.


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Frank Raynor (1922- ), scientific instrument technician, spent most of his career working on instrumentation to support British nuclear research. He initially worked as an electrician before joining the nuclear instrument group at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston. In the 1950s he worked on instrumentation at the British nuclear weapons tests in Australia and the Pacific, including thefirst, Operation Hurricane, and the later Grapple series of H-bomb tests. In 1958 he moved to the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell to design equipment for research scientists. He was later transferred to the Culham nuclear laboratories where he headed the Electronics Service Group which built prototype equipment for manufacture by contractors and provided support services for nuclear scientists. After his retirement in 1986 he continued a lifetimes' interest in electronics and enjoyed exploring the British countryside.
- Birth name: Frank Raynor
- Born: 1922 Lincolnshire, UK
- Occupation: Technician
- Disciplines: Scientific Instruments
- Education: Apprentice at Electrical Installations Ltd
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Extended Air Defense Task Force
Definition/Scope: The Headquarters Extended Air Defense Task Force (EADTF) was developed in order to strengthen common security and air defense goals and to promote standardization within the respective ground-based air defense forces. Therefore, it was determined that a tri-national (United States/ Netherlands/Germany) Extended Air Defense Task Force organization would be established. The initial headquarters was activated at Siegerland - Kaserne, Burbach, Germany on 2 August 1999. The official inauguration ceremony took place on 3 December 1999. The HQ EADTF relocated to Campbell Barracks, Heidelberg, Germany, in July 2004, due to the restructuring of the German ground-based air defense forces and the subsequent closure of the facilities in Burbach. The mission of the EADTF is to Plan, coordinate and provide liaison for US/NL/GE combined air defense activities, training, exercises, and interoperability tests. On order, assume mission related command and control functions or augment an Extended Air Defense organization. The Uited States terminated its membership in July of 2008.
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Extreme monthly rainfall
Extreme monthly rainfall in a changing climate
The new CSIRO and BOM (2015) climate projections for Australia are largely based on simulations of the coming century from an ensemble of some 40 CMIP5 global climate models. By 2080-2099, with strong global warming under the RCP8.5 forcing scenario, the median projection for mean annual rainfall is a decrease of around 10%, aside from little change in northern Australia, however the 10 to 90 percentile range is typically 30% about the median. Projections for extreme daily rainfall within a year, based on the models, are mostly positive, indicating a broadening of the distribution of daily rainfall amounts. We focus on the distribution of monthly mean amounts, a time scale with important implications for agricultural and pastoral activity and for large-scale flood events. Averages of the top 10 percent of observational (ERA-Interim) monthly amounts, partitioned by season, at most locations over Australia are typically two to three times the mean monthly rainfall for the season. The extremes are relatively smaller in the south in winter months.
Initial CMIP5 results, from the ACCESS1.3 and CESM1-CAM5 models, show good agreement with this. Composite maps, for the extreme rainfall months for selected locations, show that rainfall anomalies extend over much of Australia, and are associated with cooler daily maximum temperatures. There are circulation anomalies consistent with regional moisture flux convergence, often associated with a large-scale La Niña pattern. Regional rainfall and temperature anomalies show some persistence, over following months. Under strong global warming, there is a similar character to the anomalies of both rainfall and associated circulations. However, there is some indication of a broadening of the rainfall distributions. Using multiple models, projections of the high monthly rainfall amounts can be made, with changes attributed to a combination of changes in atmospheric saturation humidity and in large-scale circulation patterns.


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A Closer Look at Thermal Radical Cure Adhesives for the Electronics Industry
Thermal radical cure (TRC) adhesives are 100% solid formulations based on UV curable resins. This type of adhesive is commonly as hot melt and semi-structural adhesives. These adhesives were created to harness some of the best features of traditional silicone adhesives while eliminating or reducing many of the drawbacks.
This blog post will discuss why thermal radical curing technology is beneficial, discuss the properties of these adhesives, and offer examples of common applications.
WHY USE TRC TECHNOLOGY?
There are many benefits offered by thermal radial curing technology. Some of the primary benefits include:
- Enhanced adhesive performance. The adhesion strength of TRC adhesives is retained across a broad temperature range and throughout a variety of adverse conditions, such as water immersion, salt water exposure, and other corrosive environments.
- Design flexibility. TRC adhesives provide adhesion to a wide range of surfaces. They adhere to plastics, metals, cured silicones, wet substrates, and more. These adhesives will bond with most traditional and alternative materials, enabling improved performance and many new design opportunities.
- Cost control. TRC adhesives facilitate cost savings in the form of reduced energy expenditures and streamlined production processes. They cure much faster than standard silicone adhesives by reducing the heat-up time and cutting the cure down to as little as three minutes.
HOW EXACTLY DO TRC ADHESIVES WORK?
TRC adhesives provide reliable adhesion with a comprehensive array of metals, ceramics, and plastics—even those that haven't experienced good adhesion with more traditional silicone-based adhesives. Once the adhesive is fully cured, the substrate materials benefit from strong but flexible bonds. With thermal curing processes, these adhesives significantly reduce curing time without sacrificing adhesion strength.
Cationically curable resins and free-radical curable unsaturated esters are the two most common resins used for creating UV-curable adhesives. Cation resins are typically more expensive, but offer better overall performance, higher heat resistance, less shrinkage, and superior strength. Free-radical type adhesives feature reduced properties in comparison, but cure much faster.
There are many use cases for TRC adhesives within the electronics industry. Examples may include:
- Housing assembly
- Attaching connectors to substrates
- Adhering sensors and electronic control units to substrates
- Facilitating power supply and energy conversion
More advanced assembly applications for TRC adhesives may include:
- Engine or transmission control units
- Power control units
- Lighting modules
- Printed circuit boards
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TRC adhesives are cost-effective, offer strong and reliable adhesion, and work with a comprehensive range of surface types and materials. The application potential for these adhesives is nearly limitless, especially in sectors such as automotive, electronics, and general manufacturing.
At Robert McKeown, we partner with Dow, a global leader in adhesives and sealants, to provide thermal radical cure adhesive solutions. We're happy to offer a sample of EA-7100 TRC adhesive from Dow so you can test it in your application. Please contact us today to obtain a sample or with any questions about any of our products and services.


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Nourishing Nature to Secure Our Future
|Our mission is to foster conservation of biodiversity in Northeast India through research, environmental education, capacity building and advocacy for legal and policy reform to usher a new era of ecological security.|
Water Climate and Hazard (WATCH) Programme
The Northeast India, consisting of the eight states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura, presents a distinctive geophysical unit set in the pristine Eastern Himalayan Region with a unique physiographic framework, a vigorous monsoon dominated climatic regime and a dynamic hydro-geomorphic regime. Endowed with a sub (extra) tropical type of monsoonal climate, the region shows remarkable variability of weather and climate on a regional scale and forms a distinct climatic zone within the Indian landmass. Comprising mainly of the basins if three of the large river systems of the world viz. the Brahmaputra, the Barak (Meghna) and the Irrawady, the NER possesses the richest treasure-trove of water resources in India. It possesses about 30% of the total water resources potential and about 41 % of the total hydropower potential of India. The per capita and per hectare availability of water in this region is the highest in the country. The NE India is one of the wettest as well as most acutely flood prone zones of the world.
The Water Climate and Hazard Programme (WATCH) of AARANYAK was launched in the year 2001 and till now its activities have been carried out by the Water Resources and EIA Division of AARANYAK. The WATCH programme has been conceived to carry out intensive scientific study of the key issues related to water and climate of the region including the human and societal dimensions of these issues. Designed initially for a period of five years (2001-2005) the WATCH programme covers the following activities: -
Under the WATCH Programme of AARANYAK several important programmes were undertaken during this period 2005-2007.
Two workshops were organised at Guwahati and Itanagar on Hydropower and Biodiversity with support from the Bombay Natural History Society (Mumbai). The Guwahati workshop was held on May 28-29, 2005 at the Indian Institute of Bank Management, Guwahati while the Itanagar consultative workshop was Organised at the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh on May 13, 2006. Both these successful events were attended by a host of researchers, academicians, policy makers and civil society leaders. Mr. Newlai Tingkhatra, Honourable Minister of Environment and Forest, Arunachal Pradesh and the Chief Guest of the Itanagar workshop appreciated AARANYAK's efforts to sensitize people about the natural resources of the region and the impact of development projects on the environment and the people of the region.New Project on Climate Change Adaptation
The northeastern region is a hotbed of the southwest monsoons which make it one of the wettest areas in South Asia as well as a hotspot of water induced disasters. Several studies have predicted significant changes in the weather-climate and water regimes of the Himalayan region in the coming decades because of impacts of global climate change. The consequent social, economic, livelihood and environmental implications in the eastern Himalayan region are also of immediate concern to scientists and policy makers. The north-eastern region of India has already been experiencing rainfall extremes, more frequent and intense floods, moderate to intense drought like situations, flash flooding due to GOLF (Glacial Lake Outburst Flood) and LDOF (Landslide Dam Outburst Flood) in the Bhutan and Tibet Himalayas and increasing river bank erosion and sand casting because of changing geomorphological behaviour of the rivers. The region suffers paradoxically both from water excess as well as water crises. Riparian people of a downstream state like Assam are always at the receiving end from fluctuating and changing character of rainfall and rivers.
Scores of communities living on the banks of hundreds of the rivers of the state have traditionally been adapting to different water induced events and hazards making use of their indigenous knowledge and wisdom. Changes brought into the hydrological realms of the rivers and the weather and climate because of climate change, which is primarily of anthropogenic origin, has thrown the basic premise of the indigenous knowledge based practices out of gear making it necessary for the coping mechanisms to cope with the changed geo-ecological and social realities. It makes an interesting learning of how lives and practices of ecosystem communities have very slowly but surely been undergoing changes under the clout of these new environmental situations in a river and water dominated landscape of Assam. Equally engaging is the fact that amidst the seeming abundance of water everywhere, there exist many small arid islands where water is never enough. The Water Climate and Hazard Programme of AARANYAK has decided to explore deep into this dichotomy and study how the concerned communities of the state have responded then and now to such extremes to survive and sustain their lives and livelihoods.
AARANYAK has recently launched a study on Study of changing flood and drought patterns and documentation of community coping practices in Assam. The three main objectives of this study are:
Dr. Partha J. Das, Programme Head, WATCH is the Principal Investigator of the project.
Started as an in-house project, the study will be carried out in some of the most flood-ravaged and flood prone areas of the state (such in Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Morigaon, Kamrup, Barpeta and Dhubri districts) as well as those that have experienced severe drought conditions in the last twenty years (Southern part of Nagaon district, Darrang, Golaghat, Karbi-Anglong and North Cachar districts).Research/Study completed
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UK Spaceport Alliance and SSLC Hold Workstreams as the UK Inches Closer to a Launch
19th Nov 2020
UK Rocket Launch
The SSLC (Scottish Space Leadership Council) led an initiative that lasted several weeks and included all UK launching site developers. The talks were conducted to bring together all key players after the conclusion of a consultation.
The UK government had initially published the consultation on 29th July 2020. It entailed lively talks and conducting further research. The debate also went on about how all the regulations on the proposal were to be implemented successfully.
There's a need for a more collaborative space industry in the UK as per the highlights of this workstream. All UK stakeholders were notified of the need to address specific areas of space advancements.
UK Spaceport a Part of Workstreams Addressing UK Launch Missions
On top of other aspects, the workstreams spearheaded talks on how launches may impact the environment as well as the safety matters entailed. All main participants were required to grasp the role each plays in terms of risks, liabilities and issues of insurance. This will create useful methods in terms of all operations.
Out of the mainstream, the UK spaceport and the SSCL concluded on the need for a regulator. Accomplishing this won't just be by filling out the questionnaire but also coming up with proposals that will impact the UK space industry. They identified that questions on these questionnaires can be interpreted differently and that more input is required.
With that, the UK can position itself to come up with regulations that affect the industry in the UK and across the globe. All this is for smallsat launching services. It will immensely benefit the UK space industry's commercial efforts to grow to its potential and contribute to the UK economy.
The UK accomplishments through this approach were highlighted in recent events held by the council. It highlighted how beneficial this collaborative move by the UK spaceport sector in understanding issues facing the industry.
Additionally, these events' output included actions and recommendations that led to an agreement for further advancement. The UK Spaceports Alliance chair, John Innes, expressed gratitude for all the dedication members showed during the workstreams.
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How is pectus excavatum diagnosed?
Pectus excavatum is usually diagnosed with a physical examination. X-rays of the chest can be helpful, as well.
Other tests your child's doctor might recommend include:
Electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) — a test that records the electrical activity of your child's heart, shows abnormal rhythms and detects heart muscle stress
Echocardiogram (echo) — a test that evaluates the structure and function of your child's heart by using sound waves recorded on an electronic sensor that produces a moving picture of the heart and heart valves
- Pulmonary function test (PFT) — a test that gives your child's doctor information about how well his lungs are working
After we complete all necessary tests, Boston Children's experts will meet to review and discuss what they have learned. Then we will meet with you and your family to discuss the results and outline the best treatment options for your child.


Ambiguous types
Ashley Yakeley
Mon, 21 Jan 2002 02:19:01 -0800
At 2002-01-21 02:04, Koen Claessen wrote:
>But from the type you give the function 'emptyList':
> emptyList :: Ord a => [a]
>we cannot derive that the type of the function 'emptyList'
>does not matter for its result. So, the type checker will
That's it! Consider:
class C a where
 emptyList :: [a]
instance C Int where
 emptyList = []
instance C Char where
 emptyList = "Hello"
Clearly emptyList has type "(C a) => [a]"...
So in the original example, (validActions actor) cannot be compared to
the empty list because its value may depend on the type of u. This would
not be possible if there were no (Action u) context.
Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA


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Pasco and Pinellas County Health Departments Are Working Together to Vaccinate Residents Against Hepatitis A
August 12, 2019
The Florida Departments of Health (DOH) in Pasco and Pinellas Counties are teaming up to offer free hepatitis A vaccine to adults on Saturday, August 17 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church. The address is 4843 Mile Stretch Dr. in Holiday. The Departments will also be offering free HIV and hepatitis C rapid testing at this outreach event. Results will be available in 20 minutes.
On August 1, 2019, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Scott Rivkees declared a Public Health Emergency to address the increase in hepatitis A cases in Florida due to the current national outbreak. DOH has been diligently working with community partners to educate and vaccinate as many residents as possible to prevent further spread of hepatitis A.
The outreach event planned for August 17 has been a collaborative effort, with many participants, including:
- Coalition for the Homeless of Pasco County
- Joining Hands Mission
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- All children at age 1 year
- People who are experiencing homelessness
- Users of recreational drugs, whether injected or not
- Men who have sexual encounters with other men
- People with direct contact with others who have hepatitis A
- Travelers to countries where hepatitis A is common
- People with chronic or long-term liver disease, including hepatitis B or hepatitis C
- People with clotting-factor disorders
- Family and caregivers of adoptees from countries where hepatitis A is common
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Hepatitis A is a highly contagious disease that attacks the liver. People infected with hepatitis A are most contagious from two weeks before onset of symptoms to one week afterwards. Not everyone who is infected will have all the symptoms. Symptoms usually start within 28 days of exposure to the virus with a range of 15-50 days. Symptoms can include:
- Jaundice (yellowing skin and whites of eyes)
- Loss of appetite
- Nausea and vomiting
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- Dark-colored urine
- Pale or clay colored stool
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- Practicing good hand hygiene – including thoroughly washing hands with soap and water after using the bathroom, changing diapers, and before preparing or eating food – plays an important role in preventing the spread of hepatitis A.
- Hepatitis A vaccine is the best method of preventing infection.
- No medicines can cure the disease once symptoms appear.
- People with hepatitis A symptoms should seek medical care immediately.
- Most people get better over time but may need to be hospitalized.
- Previous infection with hepatitis A provides immunity for the rest of a person's life.
- People that are exposed to hepatitis A may be given vaccine or immune globulin within 14 days of exposure to prevent infection.
DOH has established a hotline for people who may have questions about hepatitis A. The number to call for Pasco County is _PHONE_, and the number to call for Pinellas County is _PHONE_.


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Entrepreneurship Helps to Engage the Youth of Nebraska through the Building of a Straw Bale Business Incubator/Grocery Store
In Nebraska, keeping small rural communities alive and vital is a hard road. Part of the puzzle is keeping the rural youth local and involved. Who would think straw built construction could create the buy in needed to interest the youth?
The Village of Cody, home to 150 residents, is mostly farmers and ranchers. Residents know that entrepreneurship is important in creating more businesses and gain jobs but how do you inspire the youth towards this concept?
Building a grocery store in Cody originated from a combination of village leaders trying to attract more residents to the town, a teacher's brainstorm, and a high school sophomore's Future Farmers of America project. The nearest grocery store was nearly 80 miles round trip. Not surprising to the residents of Cody, the entire town rallied around the idea of finally having a grocery store (the Circle C Market) after a decade without one. The town board secured two Rural Development Rural Business Enterprise Grants to help build the facility, purchase necessary equipment for the project and fund entrepreneurship education in the Cody-Kilgore Unified School District. The rest was up to the community.
Students of the Cody-Kilgore schools and residents are working to complete the straw-bale building, an environmentally-friendly design that uses straw as insulation. The building's design includes a classroom so students can learn on the job and at their desks. The initial incubator occupant will be a grocery store with other possible businesses to be located within the facility. Youth entrepreneurs are coached and encouraged via the school district's educators and local adult entrepreneurs to consider a future with unlimited possibilities beginning with a grocery store. Youth will manage every aspect of the store; from stocking shelves to placing orders from vendors. This model gives students a sense of ownership of their town and community, and teaches important leadership and employment principles, like coming to work on time, customer relations and basic business management skills. Social and work skill opportunities will be provided to special education students. Job training and personal pride cannot be under estimated when building a personal or community's future.
The youth have more than proven themselves through the sweat equity and strong work ethic building the store takes. Plans include a Grand Opening in 2013. They take pride and ownership in it and are excited to be their own entrepreneurs. The Village of Cody is a perfect example of what a community accomplishes when they build an alliance. Cody clearly lives their motto, as a "Town Too Tough To Die".
Through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (Recovery Act), the Village of Cody received support initiate entrepreneurship education, to write a business plan for the proposed grocery store and to purchase store equipment. When the original location for the business incubator/grocery store fell through, a second RBEG was used entirely for building construction. This RBEG was initially leveraged with $99,950 in matching funds but this amount has been exceeded through fund raising, donations of building supplies, local contractors expertise and community involvement.
A partnership of training and technical assistance providers for these young entrepreneurs includes the Nebraska Department of Education, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Nebraska-Kearney and the Center for Rural Affairs.
When complete this endeavor will be a big win for a small rural community with benefits almost too numerous to list; local education creating local entrepreneurs, access to local foods in a food desert, elimination of long distance travel will save time and conserve fuel, local dollars spent local keeps dollars at home and increases the tax base. It is anticipated that the project will provide 10-15 employment opportunities in the grocery store and any additional small businesses within the facility.
The Village of Cody located in Cherry County, a 2008 presidential declared disaster county, is part of the Nebraska Sandhills.


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type in : kidney & human.
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is typed in, since the two terms are in the PROTEIN category, the resulting list includes all protein entries matching either serotransferrin OR APOH
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cosmic rays n.
Notionally, the cause of bit rot.
However, this is a semi-independent usage that may be invoked as a
humorous way to handwave away any minor randomness that
doesn't seem worth the bother of investigating. "Hey, Eric -- I
just got a burst of garbage on my tube, where did that come
from?" "Cosmic rays, I guess." Compare sunspots,
phase of the moon. The British seem to prefer the usage
'cosmic showers'; 'alpha particles' is also heard, because
stray alpha particles passing through a memory chip can cause
single-bit errors (this becomes increasingly more likely as memory
sizes and densities increase).
Factual note: Alpha particles cause bit rot, cosmic rays do not
(except occasionally in spaceborne computers). Intel could not
explain random bit drops in their early chips, and one hypothesis
was cosmic rays. So they created the World's Largest Lead Safe,
using 25 tons of the stuff, and used two identical boards for
testing. One was placed in the safe, one outside. The hypothesis
was that if cosmic rays were causing the bit drops, they should see
a statistically significant difference between the error rates on
the two boards. They did not observe such a difference. Further
investigation demonstrated conclusively that the bit drops were due
to alpha particle emissions from thorium (and to a much lesser
degree uranium) in the encapsulation material. Since it is
impossible to eliminate these radioactives (they are uniformly
distributed through the earth's crust, with the statistically
insignificant exception of uranium lodes) it became obvious that
one has to design memories to withstand these hits.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.


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We would like to acknowledge that the Antora project is primarily developed on land that occupies the traditional and unceded territories (Treaty of Fort Laramie: 1851 & 1868, Cession 426) of the Cheyenne, Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, and Ute Peoples, who have stewarded the land and its water for generations.
In offering this Land Acknowledgment, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty, history, and experiences. May this acknowledgment express our commitment to listen to and honor the teachings of past and present Indigenous Peoples and to uphold their sacred relation to this land and water by helping to protect it.
A Land Acknowledgment is a formal statement that gives thanks and gratitude to the Indigenous Peoples who worked and lived on the land in which we reside both presently and historically. These statements honor Indigenous culture, their ancestral homelands, and the sacredness of land while recognizing the complex, ongoing history of colonialism, and the privilege we have to live where we do.
You can learn more about the history of the Indigenous lands in the United States and Canada, and why acknowledging that history matters, at Native Land Digital.


Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery
008c -Emotion Regulation Part 3
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Techniques
Emotion Regulation
Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Executive Director, AllCEUs
Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox & Happiness isn't Brain Surgery
Author: Journey to Recovery (2015) & Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery (2017)
~ Define emotion regulation
~ Identify why emotion regulation is important and how it can help
What is Emotion Regulation
~ Emotional vulnerability refers to [situations] in which you are more emotionally sensitive or reactive than others
~ What makes people more reactive
~ Current vulnerabilities (including stress)
~ Differences in the central nervous system and HPA Axis
~ Different learning experiences
~ Degree to which something conflicts with your beliefs about how the world "should" be
The HPA-Axis
~ Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal (HPA) axis is our central Threat Response System
~ When it is activated it causes cortisol to be released
~ Cortisol causes
~ Blood glucose to increase
~ Wake-up/Excitatory chemicals and hormones to be released
~ Stimulation  exhaustion
~ Sex hormones to be SUPPRESSED
~ Anxiety
~ Poor sleep
~ Depression
Basic Threats
~ Loss of control/The unknown
~ Rejection/Failure
~ Death
The Brain and Stress
~ When there is a chronic threat to safety and a constant underlay of anxiety
~ You brain makes connections from your experiences and prunes away connections that are not utilized.
~ If 5 out of 6 of your last friendships ended poorly, and one is still going, what is your expectation of that relationship?
~ People who feel a lack of control over their environment are particularly vulnerable chronic stress
~ Abused and neglected children or adults
~ Adults with anxiety or depressive disorders
The Brain and Stress
~ The hypervigilant state activated by stress:
~ Disrupts the ability to focus and learn
~ Impairs the ability to form new memories and recall information (Do you really learn much when you are highly stressed or feeling threatened?)
~ Is associated with emotional and behavioral dysregulation.
~ You remember the unpleasant things
~ Have difficulty recalling the pleasant ones
~ Have difficulty exploring alternate possibilities
Chronic Stress and Hypocortisolism
~ When people are under chronic stress, the brain
~ May stop getting as stressed about each individual thing to prevent overload
~ Conserves excitatory brain chemicals for the fight or flight response
~ When it perceives a threat/stressor worth responding to, it responds extremely strongly. (dysregulation)
Chronic Stress and Hypocortisolism
~ By reducing chronic stress, over time your brain will
~ Recover and rebalance and quit staying in survival mode.
~ Become more able to access positive memories
~ You will be more able to tolerate distress and explore stressors from the wise-mind.
~ Form new, positive memories
Section Summary
~ Emotional dysregulation results from high emotional vulnerability due to
~ long-term stress
~ Invalidating environments
~ If you grew up in an invalidating environment, you may have never developed the tools to deal effectively with your emotions
~ This created a source of constant stress for you which only intensified your emotional reactions.
Section Summary
~ Under stress your brain does not learn or retrieve memories as effectively
~ When you are feeling unpleasant emotions, you notice and remember things that support those feelings.
~ Emotional dysregulation activates the Threat Response System which:
~ Disrupts the ability to focus and learn
~ Impairs the ability to form new memories and recall new, contradictory, positive information
Section Summary
~ Emotion Regulation involves eliminating or mitigating vulnerabilities in order to allow the brain to rebalance and get out of survival mode.


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Dr. Shmeuss and his trusty companion, Bella, have decided to start a new hobby, spelunking. Not only are they looking for adventure, they are looking for treasure. Dr. Shmeuss is a huge fan of The Hobbit, and he has hopes of becoming as lucky as Bilbo. They gather their ropes, don their headlamps, and head into the cave. They don't go far when they run into a drove of convicts who are, of course, also spelunking for treasure. They've walked into a con-cave. The cave starts spinning. Which way is (concave) up or (concave) down? They hightail it out of there, changing their velocity with respect to time until they reach safety.
What does a con-cave need to do with second derivatives? Nothing. However, the term concave actually does. Not to mention acceleration is the second derivative of distance with respect to time.
This unit deals with derivatives beyond the first one. For some functions we can take second derivatives, third derivatives, fourth derivatives, etc.
The second derivative is tied to the shape of a function. The first derivative tells whether the slope of the original function is increasing or decreasing. The second derivative describes how the original function curves.
We can also use the first and second derivatives to find maximum and minimum points of a function.
For the grand finale, we'll draw graphs of wild functions without calculators. Once we know where a function turns around and where it changes shape, we can draw a good picture of what it looks like overall. Keep the calculator close, but mostly for finding approximate values and for checking answers.