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The privatized Flood Rescue Department commissioned the development of a mobile bridge. It should be used to evacuate flood victims in the most secure and effective way. Mostly from one save point to another.
The elaborate creation process resulted in module like panels called "Bridge Panels" (BP's). These four-sided BP's could be easily plugged into each other to form a stable, reliable and flexible brigde.
The newly developed panels soon evolved into the department's flagship. Future Rescue missions couldn't be imagined without them, since the 55cm²-big tiles can be transformed into organic shapes and therefore provide access to nearly every danger zone.


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A servohydraulic fatigue testing machine is usually used to perform a fatigue test. This consists of a hydraulically operated actuator fitted into a high stiffness load frame to apply the load to the specimen. Because the system is hydraulically operated, it is possible to achieve both high loads and high cyclic frequencies.
The test system should be fitted with a control system that is capable of controlling the test and measuring data at high frequencies. It is also important that the load measurement system can accurately measure specimen load, and compensate for load errors induced by the dynamic movement of the test system.
Some typical materials that are subjected to fatigue testing:
- Structural Components
The following ASTM standards apply to fatigue testing:

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The mask who wasn't there
Does a visual mask need to be perceptually present to disrupt processing? In this research, we proposed to explore the link between perceptual and memory mechanisms by demonstrating that a typical sensory phenomenon (visual masking) can be replicated at a memory level. Experiment 1 highlighted an interference effect of a visual mask on the categorization of auditory targets and confirmed the multimodal nature of knowledge. In Experiment 2, we proposed to reactivate this mask in a categorization task on visual targets. Results showed that the sensory mask has disrupted (slower reaction times) the processing of the targets whether the mask was perceptually present or reactivated in memory. These results support a sensory-based conception of memory processing and suggest that the difference between perceptual processes and memory processes is characterized by the presence (perception) or the absence (memory) of the sensory properties involved in the activity.
Rey, A.E., Riou, B., Muller, D., Dabic, S., & Versace, R. (2015). The mask who wasn't there: Visual masking effect with the perceptual absence of the mask. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41, 567-573. (pdf)


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Your five senses to experience 3000 years of history on your smartphone as you walk!
The application allows a specific discovery of the exceptional and sometimes unusual natural landscapes of Gruissan, a playful approach to the biodiversity of the sea and the ponds, the meeting of the inhabitants and the fishermen, their culture and the sharing of their traditional know-how..
The app is a digital guide that helps you find local and interactive information.
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Metode Konsolidasi Tanah untuk Pengadaan Tanah yang Partisipasif dan Penataan Ruang yang Terpadu. Ida Nurlinda. Journal article Ius Quia Iustum Law. 1) This peer reviewed paper was presented at the FIG Working Week in Christchurch, New Zealand, May This paper takes a closer look at the. Metode Konsolidasi Tanah untuk Pengadaan Tanah yang Partisipasif dan Penataan Ruang yang Terpadu.
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This paper takes a closer look at the post-disaster re-development plan for urban areas, with a particular focus on reconsolidating historical social memory and preservation of konsolidasi tanah. This is done using two well-documented cases of urban disasters: Consequently, a post-disaster re-development plan may need to rely on different land consolidation approaches.
An associated dilemma is to re-establish the konsolidasi tanah area in its original formal shape, or to innovate the urban design partially or completely. An important consideration in the allocation of new land and konsolidasi tanah rights is whether to restitute former rights or allocate new rights.
Participation of former residents and firm owners alongside overcoming the immense social trauma are crucial elements of this process. The aim is to derive new land consolidation optimization criteria which could support urban post disaster konsolidasi tanah consolidation. The guiding hypothesis hereby is that consolidation of memory and identity are two important aspects which need to be incorporated in land consolidation design and implementation procedures in order to ensure ownership of the consolidation result and to help overcoming the social trauma.
Land consolidation theory has primarily been rooted in agricultural economics and land management. The concept of optimization during the consolidation processes can however be critically konsolidasi tanah from the perspective of social disaster mitigation experiences.
In this body of literature it is argued that the return to daily life after a disaster requires both a sufficient acknowledgement konsolidasi tanah humans tend to want to re-install historically known artefacts in order konsolidasi tanah be able to reintegrate into regular new social routines.
This is summarized by the concepts of memory consolidation and preservation of identity.
Post Disaster Consolidation of Land, Memory and Identity
These concepts provide an analytical way to question contemporary urban land consolidation konsolidasi tanah. Two relatively recent specific cases were used to assess the degree to which elements of memory consolidation and identity preservation are incorporated in post disaster land consolidation: These konsolidasi tanah were chosen because sufficient documentation has been collected, and it was still possible to acquire additional data from konsolidasi tanah who had experienced both the previous and post disaster situation.
Both cases exhibited considerable attention for the simultaneous processes of reconstruction and participation in the land consolidation processes.
Participation is often framed as a process which konsolidasi tanah to be stimulated during a technical land consolidation and reconstruction process.
In some instances it is however an endogenous social process whereby citizens claim ownership of the process prior to the technical reconstruction. Where conventional consolidation approaches in rural areas tend to emphasize the need to optimize agricultural production or environmental protection, optimization indicators in post disaster consolidation need to be adapted.
Especially procedures and tools to incorporate memory consolidation and identity preservation need to be incorporated. konsolidasi tanah
Metode Konsolidasi Tanah untuk Pengadaan Tanah yang Partisipasif dan Penataan Ruang yang Terpadu
This can be done theoretically, but still requires further research and actual implementation experiences into how to consolidate that into current institutional procedures and operational software packages.
Besides the natural disasters there is also an increase in mand-made disasters, usually due to an increase in traditional hazards such as fires konsolidasi tanah explosions, or due to human konsolidasi tanah, terrorism, war, human errors, irresponsible settlement or mismanagement in planning.
Both natural and man-made disasters manifest themselves with loss of lives and usually severe loss of buildings. Sustainable reconstruction after disasters takes place when the immediate threat of the disaster event has disappeared. In this phase there is an urgent need to rehabilitate livelihoods, reconstruct buildings and infrastructure and reallocate land and building rights.
Here, spatial planners, land managers, architects and civil engineers play a crucial role. For both types of disaster a key characteristic of urban disasters is that they - konsolidasi tanah the loss of lives and severe destruction of buildings - are accompanied a konsolidasi tanah of access to land and real estate property.
In the process of reconstruction, a post-disaster re-development plan may needs to rely on different land consolidation approaches.
Not only may previous owners and occupants of land and buildings have died as a result konsolidasi tanah the disaster or do the buildings no longer exist as a result of which reallocation of ownership konsolidasi tanah be necessaryalso the entire infrastructure may prevent the immediate reconstruction of the area in exactly the same shape.


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Research at Durham University claims to show kids are put off taking Latin GCSE because it is too hard – about a grade harder than other supposedly "hard" subjects. That is to say, if you can get a grade C at Latin, you'd be in the running for a B in Physics or German. And teachers, it's said, have too much of an eye on the league tables to persuade their pupils to take the risk.
At least this is a change from the usual story about Latin. More than a third of all takers get the top A* grade (compared with less than 4% in Business Studies and around 6% in German – or, going the other way, 55% in Greek). And 60% in Latin get A* and A combined. How easy it must be, some wonder.

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Anti-bullying Policy
St Ives Bowling Club
Anti-bullying Policy
Within bowls there is a commitment to providing a caring, friendly and safe environment for all bowlers so they can take part in a relaxed and secure atmosphere regardless of their age or background.
Quite simply, bullying of any kind is unacceptable in bowls.
If bullying does occur, all members should be able to tell and know that incidents will be dealt with promptly and effectively. This means that anyone who knows that bullying is happening is expected to tell the Club Welfare / Safeguarding Officer as soon as they have concerns.
What is Bullying?
Bullying is the use of aggression with the intention of hurting another person.
Bullying results in pain and distress to the victim.
Bullying can be:
Emotional - being unfriendly, excluding, tormenting (e.g. threatening gestures)
Racist - racial taunts, graffiti, gestures
Sexual - unwanted physical contact or sexually abusive comments
Homophobic - because of, or focussing on the issue of sexuality
Sexist – belittling someone because of their gender
Verbal - name-calling, sarcasm, spreading rumours, teasing
Cyber - Any issues relating to the internet, such as email, social media & internet chat room misuse.
Mobile threats by text messaging & calls Misuse of associated technology, i.e. camera &video facilities
Why is it Important to Respond to Bullying?
The sport has a responsibility to respond promptly and effectively to issues of bullying.
Objectives of this Policy
All members, coaches, volunteers and parents should understand what bullying is
All members, coaches and volunteers should know what the policy is on bullying, and follow it when bullying is reported
All players and parents should know what the policy is on bullying, and what they should do if bullying arises
As a sport, we take bullying seriously. Anyone involved in bowls should be assured that they will be supported when bullying is reported
Very simply - Bullying will not be tolerated.
1. Report bullying incidents to the Club Welfare / Safeguarding Officer, member of the club committee or an adult you can trust or the County Welfare Officer. 2. In cases of serious bullying, the incidents will be referred to the relevant NGB Safeguarding Officer. 3. In serious cases parents, should be informed and asked to come in to a meeting to discuss the problem. 4. If necessary and appropriate, police will be consulted. 5. The bullying behaviour, or threats of bullying, must be investigated and the bullying stopped quickly. 6. An attempt will be made to help the bully/bullies change their behaviour. 7. If mediation fails and the bullying continues further disciplinary action will be taken.
Recommended Club Action
If the club decides it is appropriate for them to deal with the situation they should follow the procedure outlined below:
1. Reconciliation by getting the parties together. It may be that a genuine apology solves the problem
2. If this fails or is not appropriate, a small panel of club officers should meet with the parent and child making the allegation to obtain more information. This panel will normally include the Welfare Officer. Minutes should be taken for clarity, which should be agreed by all as a true account
3. The same panel should meet with the alleged bully and parent/s, detail the allegation and allow them an opportunity of reply. Minutes should again be taken and agreed
4. If it is considered that bullying has taken place, the individual should be warned and put on notice of further action if the bullying continues, i.e. temporary or permanent suspension.
Consideration should be given as to whether a reconciliation meeting between parties is appropriate at this time.
The club committee should monitor the situation for a given period to ensure the bullying is not repeated.
All appropriate coaches, volunteers or team managers involved with both individuals should be made aware of the concerns and outcome of the process i.e. the warning
1. The bully/bullies may be asked to apologise
2. In serious cases, suspension or exclusion will be considered
3. If possible, the people concerned will be reconciled
4. Monitoring should be put in place to ensure repeated bullying does not take place.
1. The club will have a written constitution, which includes what is acceptable and proper behaviour for all members of which the anti-bullying policy is one part
2. All club members and parents of young bowlers should sign a code of conduct on an annual basis. The code of conduct should include reference to bullying
3. The Club Welfare Officer will raise awareness about bullying and why it matters
Further Information
See Guideline 10 Useful External Support contact List
Safeguarding Bowls – January 2017
Guidelines Page 37


About Felix Ankel, MD
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Minnesota Medical School
Regions Hospital
How We Have Kept and Will Continue to Keep Going | Summary of The Leader's Library Discussion
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Last month, 30 people from 4 different countries and 15 different states + Puerto Rico, ranging from their early twenties to mid sixties, bravely jumped into a two-and-a-half day conversation on Slack about creativity, resilience, and their careers– the fifth version of The Leader's Library. We discussed the book Keep Going: Ten Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon, and reflected together on the evolution of our creativity from childhood through middle age, and how a career in emergency medicine requires creativity in every possible form. Please see our earlier post for a more detailed summary of the book; below, we share the highlights of the group's discussion.
Day 1
The first day started out with a personalized welcome video from Austin Kleon himself and introductions of participants. People shared what drew them to The Leader's Library (connection, reflection, building community) and where they would like to incorporate more creativity (heal personal and societal wounds, bring innovative approaches to "wicked problems", appreciate the beauty and joy in connections between things.) We then discussed the influence of specific individuals on personal creativity and how some have created a personal creative network (PCN) similar to personal learning networks (PLN). This was followed by a discussion about the spaces where people felt most creative, with many describing the benefit of being outside and disconnected from the activities of daily electronic living, while others felt most creative when connected with others through electronic means. Participants then volunteered their preferred medium for expressing creativity with lots of sharing of paintings, photography, poetry, and welding projects.
Day 2
On the second day, we covered the first 8 tenets of the book.
1. Every day is groundhog day.
This is really about having a daily discipline: take one day at a time, establish a daily routine, and have reflective practice. Participants discussed morning and evening routines, journaling as an anchor, and the importance of routine in setting boundaries between "doing" and "being". Some discussed an unease with routines, as our chosen lives as emergency physicians are by nature unpredictable. However, this discomfort belied participants' flexibility and resiliency– even in pure chaos when nothing is going as planned, we'll get through, the day/shift/week will inevitably end, and we'll start again tomorrow.
2. Build a bliss station.
This is a "space" or "time" to disconnect from the outside world to connect with yourself. The concept of being on "airplane mode" even when not on an airplane resonated with many. Participants shared examples of their physical (outdoors, home office, kitchen island) and temporal bliss stations; for some, their bliss station was simply an extra in-tune state of mind. The conversation also revolved around the art of "saying no" and of intentionality when creating one's career journey. Some highlights: recognize that one's capacity is finite, and in order to say "yes" to one opportunity, one must say "no" to another; when invited to do something, ask, "What is this person really trying to achieve? Can I help them in a different way to achieve this goal?"; and journal in the days following activities and review how you felt afterward– did this project invigorate you, or were you entirely drained? Use this insight to inform future decisions.
3. Forget the noun, do the verb.
We often define our identity with who we are rather than what we do. Kleon suggests that "creative" is not a noun and that real work is play. We had a robust discussion on what "verb"-ing looks like for each of us. In looking at our careers, many of us recognized our professional "nouns" in one bucket (emails, meetings, academic rat race), and our liberating, expansive doctor "verbs" in another bucket (to help, think, read, teach). We discussed ways to contract bucket 1 (wait 24 hours to answer an email, skip meetings that aren't action-oriented) and expand bucket 2 (step out of academia, work only on passion projects [that whole "saying no" thing again!]).
4. Make gifts.
This was about the importance and joy of gifts. This was also about the trappings of "suckcess" and the tyranny of metrics. Kleon suggests that we should leave money on the table, we should forget to take things to the next level, and let low hanging fruit fall off and rot. Instead of the quantitative, focus on the qualitative. Be kind, be generous, be unique.
5. The ordinary + extra attention = the extraordinary.
This tenet resonated with many. Participants discussed ways they've cultivated over the past year to slow down and pay attention to the world around them with mindfulness techniques. With slowing down, we can finally focus attention on what we're paying attention to, then with intentionality nurture this by giving extra attention and create something extraordinary. An interesting angle discussed how Peleton pandemic buys helped people get into the mode to conserve cognitive load and emotional labor, to slow the mind through exercise.
6. Slay the art monsters.
Kleon's "art monsters" are those ubiquitous beings who somehow create beautiful work while behaving badly and contributing net negativity to the world. We reflected that we don't want to become "monsters" in the same way, prioritizing output and the final project over the craft of medicine. Kleon argues here that "art is for life, not the other way around," and this was a good reminder that we chose our careers because we wanted to make our, and others', lives better, not to drag ourselves or others down. Many discussed this juxtaposition of simultaneously loving their practice (caring for patients, educating others) with living periods of time where pursuing their craft made themselves and others miserable. We all can have monsters coming to visit; the key is keep them around for the shortest time possible.
7. You are allowed to change your mind.
This tenet challenges the obsession with being right (hello, medicine!). Our discussion revolved around history-as-educator ("history may not repeat, but it sure does rhyme") and philosophy-as-educator [Daily Stoic]. Some participants regularly revisit their own history through re-reading old journals; others learn through reading others' histories in books, applying lessons from our ancestors' missteps to our own current leadership challenges. There was also discussion of the (inverse) relationship between confidence in a position and being right. See the Dunning-Kruger prayer. In Kleon's words, "to change is to be alive."
8. When in doubt, tidy up.
We closed the day with a discussion of tidying our workspaces, both mental and physical. Sleep tidies up your brain. Tidying up your workspace is an exploration and a great way to focus energy when stuck or overwhelmed. Participants discussed their approach to tidying up offices, kitchens and gardens and the positive creative effects it had on their creativity.
9. Demons hate fresh air.
On the third and final day of discussion, we covered Kleon's final 2 tenets. This is one of the more intuitive tenets– that getting one's bootie off one's chair and going outside can stimulate creativity and launch us past writer's block. However, Kleon takes this beyond endorphins and argues that, by going outside, we better integrate ourselves into our communities and reality: "If we do not get outside, if we do not take a walk out in the fresh air, we do not see our everyday world for what it really is, and we have no vision of our own with which to combat disinformation." Participants had varied strategies for getting themselves OUT, though most agreed that getting outside had been critical to their physical and mental wellbeing over the past year. Several people cultivated a habit of photographing their surroundings while out walking, a practice which helped them stay present. One participant shared that for them, this tenet took on a metaphorical meaning– by letting their internalized shame out to "fresh air" through writing or speaking, its power over them lessened.
10. Plant your garden.
Kleon, and our participants, focused on seasonality here. We don't expect plants to flower in the winter, nor do we furiously cling to an oak tree's leaves when they tumble off in the autumn; why, then, in academic emergency medicine, in medical education, in medicine in general, do we completely disregard this natural rhythm and instead attempt to overpower it with a decades-long continuous stream of hard work? Why are we surprised that our creativity stalls periodically, when we know innately that everything in our world is cyclical? Participants brainstormed ways to integrate periods of recuperation and recharge (what Kleon calls "dormancy" in this essay) into their professional lives, not just for rest, but also to enhance creative output. One participant reflected, "I've personally struggled with having to ALWAYS be 'on' in terms of being creative, but now understand that creativity ebbs and flows and the key now is to capitalize when the time is right."
Synchronous Conversation
We closed out The Leader's Library with a live video conversation, during which participants ranging from medical student to late-career professor mused about the connections they formed during The Leader's Library, new ideas they'd be taking back to their institutions, and shocking realizations they'd had while learning from and with their co-participants. Independent of differences in prior life


What Do The Harry Potter Characters Think Of You
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you were in the Harry Potter Universe? Have you ever wondered what the people at Hogwarts would think of you? Well if so this is the quiz for you!
Find out whether Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco, Crabbe, Goyle, Pansy, Ginny, Snape, and McGonagall think of you and find out you Hogwarts house. Will you be the apple of everyone's eye, or will you be an enemy to most?
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 1. What house are you in?
 2. You turn a corner and see two of your friends about to hex a first year. Do you:
 3. What's your favourite thing to do at Hogwarts on weekends?
 4. Draco comes up to you after a Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson and shyly asks you to go to the Yule Ball with him. You:
 5. How would your friends describe you?
 6. Who is your favourite?
 7. What position do you play?
 8. What is your sense of humour like?
 9. The Hogsmeade trip everyone has been looking forward is finally around the corner. What is the first thing you do when you get there?
 10. You are on your way to breakfast and your friends left you behind because you were taking too long. As you go down a set of stairs, it starts to move and sets you down on the forbbiden, dark corridor. You:
 11. Ron asks you to go to the Yule Ball with him. You like him a bit but you know that Hermione is really into him and you are her best friend. What do you do?
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This paper first gives an explanation of the behaviour which motivates individuals to engage in the shadow economy. It will be shown that people who fear being caught by tax authorities will be less likely to work in the shadow economy and those who earn more money in the official economy will also work less in the shadow economy. The result of a logistic regression shows that if others are seen to be engaged in the shadow economy then this increases subsequent demand for such activities. It was found that on average, a shadow economy worker earned AUS$2135.31 during the year 2000, and households spent AUS$2,293.00 for these services. Using micro-data to calculate an overall aggregate figure for the estimated size of the shadow economy in Australia during the year 2000, it was found that between 4.81% and 8.8% of the gross national income (GNI) was earned in the cash economy.
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Locally Efficient Estimation with Current Status Data and Time-Dependent Covariates
In biostatistical applications interest often focuses on the estimation of the distribution of a failure time-variable T. If one only observes whether or not T exceeds an observed monitoring time C, then the data structure is called current status data, also known as interval censored data, case I. We extend the data structure by allowing the presence of a possibly time-dependent covariate process which is observed up till the monitoring time C. We follow the approach of Robins and Rotnitzky (1992) by modeling the hazard of C conditional on the failure time-variable and the covariate-process, i.e. the missingness or censoring process, under the restriction that the missingness (monitoring) process satisfies coarsening at random. Because of the curse of dimensionality no globally efficient nonparametric estimators with a good practical performance at moderate sample sizes exist. We introduce an inverse probability of censoring weighted estimator of the distribution of T and of smooth functionals of this distribution of T which are guaranteed to be consistent and asymptotically normal if we have available a correctly specified parametric or semiparametric model for the missingness process. Furthermore, given a correctly specified model for the missingness process, we propose a locally efficient one-step estimator whose asymptotic variance attains the efficiency bound, if we can correctly specify a lower-dimensional model for the conditional distribution of T given the covariates. The estimator remains consistent and asymptotically normal even if this latter submodel is misspecified. We conclude with a simulation experiment and a data analysis.
Longitudinal Data Analysis and Time Series | Statistical Methodology | Statistical Models | Statistical Theory | Survival Analysis
van der Laan, Mark J. and Robins, James M., "Locally Efficient Estimation with Current Status Data and Time-Dependent Covariates" (May 1997). U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series. Working Paper 64.
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What's In A Name? Trumeau Mirror
Our trumeau wall mirror designs have been a steady seller for us over the years. The history behind these elegant designs is interesting – A quick search on Wikipedia:
A trumeau mirror is a wall mirror originally manufactured in France in the 18th century. It takes its name from the French word trumeau, which designates the space between windows. In England it is normally known as a "pier glass."
Trumeau mirrors were originally intended to hang on a wall between windows, providing a decorative element and bringing more light to the room. Most antique trumeau mirrors are highly ornate and often gilded.
The mirror is almost always rectangular and sometimes includes a decorative portion at the top, with the mirror below it. Those designed to be placed above a mantelpiece, rather than between windows, could have candles placed in front of the mirror to increase ambient light.
Reproductions of 18th-century trumeau mirrors became popular in the Regency period in the 1950s, when French furniture was popular.


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Using Drones: Factors That Influence Decision Making
Read this article to find out the important factors that influence decision making when using drone technology.
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1 – Personality traits
Your personality traits and factors combine with your values, needs and motivation as you navigate the world of decisions every day. Your "style" will inform whether you approach decisions rationally or emotionally, impulsively or cautiously, spontaneously or deliberately. If you have daring and adventurous components to your personality, you may find that you are quick, even impulsive in making decisions versus an analytic counterpart that may need to contemplate every angle before weighing in.
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2 – Pride, peer pressure or employer pressure
Pride is often viewed in a favourable light as it conjures up positive images such as a personal satisfaction after successful performance of a task.
Pride however, can degenerate into something quite negative as witnessed when athletes cheat and injure others in order to achieve success and bolster their pride.
In business and aviation, pride may inhibit our ability to receive correctional feedback which is important for correct decision making.
Similarly, peer pressure can be detrimental to our decision-making process when a tendency to conform to what other members of the group are saying rather than following your own judgement.
Employer pressure usually stems from a business' needs to meet deadlines and be profitable. These needs can influence our decision making and in some instances compromise safety.
3 – Desire to get the task done
Sometimes a skilful aviator becomes used to "getting the job done" by acting slightly outside of the rule book when circumstances would indicate a more conservative approach. The commitment to getting the task done can be hazardous at times.
4 – Anxiety, over-confidence, boredom or complacency
Stress and anxiety can be caused by a large number of factors in our lives. Contrary to popular belief that all stress is negative, stress can either be good (Eustress) or bad (Distress).
Eustress can harness better performances and provide the incentive for aviation personnel to achieve the task, to train harder to improve their standards to become the best in their job.
Distress on the other hand, affects people by bogging them down, causing them to lose focus doing time critical tasks in their area of work leading to accidents.
These may manifest in the following manner:
Poor decision making Loss of situational awareness Making errors of judgement Becoming confused Unable to cope with increase in workload Absenteeism from work
In aviation, at all phases of flight, pilots are subjected to different amounts of stress; how they react when subjected to stress will ultimately make or break whether the outcome is a safe and successful flight. The image below depicts the different amount of workload and hence stress the pilot faces during the different phases of flight. Stress/ Workload is highest during the critical junctures of flight which are taking off and landing.
Pilot Stress During Flight
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Figure 3: Pilot Stress during a flight
Over-confidence is the human tendency to be more confident in one's behaviours, attributes and physical characteristics than one should be. In aviation, this can lead to complacency and poor decision making as the pilot can sometimes overrate his or her skills and as a result not give the situation enough respect.
5 – Long and short-term memory;
Short-term memory is the ability to remember and process a small amount of information (typically around 7 items or even less) for short period of time (typically from 10 to 15 seconds, or sometimes up to a minute), and acts as a kind of scratch-pad for temporary recall of the information which is being processed at any point in time and at the same time. Performance can be enhanced by repetition, known as rehearsal, and chunking. Performance of short-term memory has been shown to be almost error free. Chunking is the organisation of material into shorter meaningful groups to make them more manageable, for example, a hyphenated phone number, split into groups of 3 or 4 digits. Typically information is transferred from the short-term to the long-term memory within just a few seconds.
Long-term memory is intended for storage of information over a long period of time and is consolidated semantically (i.e. based on meaning and association). Despite our everyday impressions of forgetting, studies suggest that long-term memory actually decays very little over time, rather it just becomes increasingly difficult to access or retrieve certain items from memory.
6 – Memory limitations
Memory shortcomings can clearly affect decision making. Perceiving something incorrectly may mean that an incorrect decision is made, resulting in an inappropriate action.
Human memory is fallible, so that information
 - May not be stored
 - May be store incorrectly
 - May be difficult to retrieve
 - All these may be referred to as forgetting, which occurs when information is unavailable (or not stored in the first place) or inaccessible (cannot be retrieved). Information in short-term memory is particularly susceptible to interference (eg. trying to recall a telephone number while trying to remember a part number).
7 – Aides memoire and rules of thumb
It is generally better to use manuals and temporary memory aids rather than to rely upon memory, even in circumstances where the information to be remembered is relatively simple.
When operating an RPA, it is important to apply checklists and standard operating procedures rather than rely on memory to prevent and manage errors.
Regular performance of status checklists can improve situational awareness and help prioritise workload.
Emergency procedures and checklists can help manage errors when the RPAS enters an undesirable state before the problem escalates. They also help operators stay focussed on efficiently managing the task when pressure is high.
8 – Workload and overload
9 – Skill, experience and recency
Decision making is largely affected by skill and experience. Experience tends to arm us with very useful information when making decisions. Conversely, a lack of experience in certain situations can lead to stress which can negatively impact the decision-making process.
Skill, together with experience and currency is important as a pilot will be able to perform most tasks with a level of automation. This frees up capacity for the brain to perform other tasks or solve problems.
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Grit is removed from the plant influent flow to prevent abnormal wear on plant equipment due to the abrasive nature of the grit particles (such as sand, cinders, wood chips, coffee grounds, etc.). In addition, grit removal prevents the accumulation of these materials in the Primary Clarifiers which would cause a loss of usable tank volume.
Primary Sludge Pumps
Pump the settled sludge from bottom of the Primary Clarifiers to the sludge holding tank.
Septage receiving station at the facility accepts septage from private haulers and stores it until the plant conditions allow this additional waste to be added to the system. Within the tanks there are submersible mixers that prevent the solids from settling while its being pumped.


Creating an Autoresponder
Going on vacation and need to inform the people who write emails to you? You can program an automatic message to notify them.
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Task completion: 10 minutes (max)
Expertise: intermediate
How to do?
 1. Connect to cPanel
 2. Select "Autoresponders" under the Email group
 3. Select the domain under the Managing menu
 4. Click on the "Add Autoresponder" button
 5. Fill in the following fields:
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I would like to calculate the integral of $f(z)=\frac{2z}{z^2+1}$ over $|z|=2$ in the upper complex plane using $F$, the antiderivative of $f$.
Now, I know that $F$ exists because I can draw a simply-connected domain containing the curve in which the func $f$ is analytic:
$\frac{-\pi}{4} < arg(z)< \frac{5\pi}{4}$, for $r>1$
According to the explanation in the book, since there is no single-analytic branch of $\log (z)$ in this domain, one can only describe $F=\log (z)$ using multiple branches of $\log (z)$.
Now, as far as I can tell since $z=0$ is not completely surrounded by the domain, $\log (z)$ is not multi-valued and it would be sufficient to exclude for example $Im(z)<0$ to describe an analytic branch of $\log (z)$ in the domain. Which is already excluded.. Am I missing something here?
What analytic branches can describe $F$? A detailed explanation would be much appreciated. Thanks :)
 - $\begingroup$ $\int_\gamma \frac{g'(z)}{g(z)}dz = G(t)\mid_0^1$ where $G(t) = \log(g(\gamma(t)))+ 2 i \pi k(t)$ is continuous on $t \in [0,1]$ and $k(t) \in \mathbb{Z}$ $\endgroup$ – reuns Aug 3 '16 at 4:35
 - $\begingroup$ What do you mean by $F=\log(z)$? The antiderivative is $F(z)=\log(z^2+1)$, which for example can be defined in the plane with slits from $+i$ upwards, and from $-i$ downwards (just take log to be the usual principal logarithm). $\endgroup$ – Hans Lundmark Aug 3 '16 at 14:13
The antiderivative of $f$ will be $F(z)=\log(z^2+1)=\log(z+i)+\log(z-i)$ but we need to carefully choose a branch cut. Take $-\frac{\pi}{2}<\arg(z\pm i)<\frac{3\pi}{2}$ so the branch cut for $F(z)$ will be starting at $z=i$ and extending towards $-i\infty$. Notice that this branch cut does not intersect with $|z|=2$ in the upper half plane.
So now we can evaluate the integral by computing $F(-2)-F(2)$, while paying careful attention to argument. (I recommend drawing some triangles)
$$\log(2+i)=\ln|2+i|+i\cdot\arg(2+i)=\ln(\sqrt{5})+i\cdot\arg(2+i)$$ $$\log(2-i)=\ln|2-i|+i\cdot\arg(2-i)=\ln(\sqrt{5})-i\cdot\arg(2+i)$$
So we have that $F(2)=\ln(5)$.
$$\log(-2+i)=\ln|-2+i|+i\cdot\arg(-2+i)=\ln(\sqrt{5})+i(\pi/2+\pi/2-\arg(2+i))$$ $$\log(-2-i)=\ln|-2-i|+i\cdot\arg(-2-i)=\ln(\sqrt{5})+i(\pi+\arg(2+i))$$
Now we have $F(-2)=\ln(5)+2\pi i$. So $F(-2)-F(2)=2\pi i$.
An easier method to evaluate the integral is by deforming the upper half of the circle of radius 2 down to the x-axis. We will also pick up a residue at the point $z=i$. Let $\gamma(t)=2e^{it}$ for $0\leq t\leq\pi$.
$$\int_\gamma\frac{2z}{z^2+1}dz=\int_2^{-2}\frac{2x}{x^2+1}dx+2\pi i\cdot\text{Res}\left(\frac{2z}{z^2+1};z=i\right) \\ =0+2\pi i\cdot\lim_{z\to i}\frac{(z-i)2z}{z^2+1} \\ =2\pi i$$
 - $\begingroup$ Thank you for this answer. Although I am not sure about the validity of the first step The identity log(z^2+1)=log(z+i)+log(z-i) holds up to integer multiplies of 2*Pi*i, yet k is unknown.. The book states there is no analytic branch of log(z) in the given domain (I'm not sure why), yet the antiderivative can be described by more than one branch of log(z) $\endgroup$ – breeze Aug 2 '16 at 23:34
 - $\begingroup$ log(z^2+1)=log(z+i)+log(z-i) for all z not equal to i,-i $\endgroup$ – Elliot Aug 3 '16 at 3:24
 - $\begingroup$ Consider z=-2+i then (arg(z+i)=3pi/4 + arg(z-i)=pi)=7pi/4>3pi/2 $\endgroup$ – breeze Aug 3 '16 at 3:57
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Here we will discuss the most important parts of the cells-gtk GTK binding, and how cells can be used in defining cells-gtk GUIs. This minimal introduction might be sufficient to get you started. We'll see.
Cells, Cell slots, and all that...
The example from Bill Clementson's Blog is a nice starting point. Read it and come back here.
...Welcome back. Perhaps you came back with the impression that Cells is a way to manage the relationship among the values in the slots of a CLOS object. That would be good. You might also imagine that if the slots describe the state of some real world object like a motor, you could use Cells to control the object -- to orchestrate how all its parts work together toward some goal. That also would be good. Now, if that object were a GTK-based GUI... no I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's look at the basic idea of Cells, it is similar to constraint satisfaction. That is, you have values, and rules that govern the relationships among the values, and whenever the network is pushed out of a consistent state (i.e. whenever the rules no longer hold), the objective is to get it back to a consistent one by updating some values. In Bill's example, status fuelpump and temp are cells -- slots in a motor CLOS object whose values are managed by the cells constraint network. The constraint network itself might be depicted as this:
In this graph the nodes are values and edges have rules attached. The collection of edges into a node together with the rule are the cell. The green nodes are values controlled by cells and the empty nodes are regular 'unmanaged' values (such as you get by reading the value from regular CLOS slot).
Cells such as temp, which have no edges leading into them, are called 'c-input cells'. A c-input cell gives you an opportunity to push the network out of a consistent state, so that it must find another consistent state (raise the temperature, force the motor and fuel pump to stop). They are one way the network interacts with its environment. (Thinking about GUI: Part of the 'environment' of your Cells-GTK application are lisp objects, the state of which you'd like to communicate to the user.)
Another way that the cells network can interact with its environment is through c-output (or c-echo) methods. These are 'observers' of a cell that are invoked when the value of that cell is modified. They are sort of the converse of the c-input: modify a c-input value and the network reacts; when the network reacts, it can modify values outside the network with a c-output.
So what about the values inside the network -- the nodes with edges pointing into them? Observing those with c-output methods and using c-input and setf to modify them would be bad form. If you program that way, you aren't doing anything that couldn't be done without Cells. Drop Cells-GTK and go back to programming in C-based GTK or Java. The result will be that you hand back to the programmer the burden of keeping track of every change to the GUI. C-input cells are intended (small apps like Bill's aside) to be used to 'instrument' (or "put sensors on") your code. If you have a legacy code that you are building a Cells-GTK GUI for,....
Now reiterating the ideas above:
Cells provides for the declaration of several kinds of "cell slots," but for the purpose of talking about cells-gtk, we can limit the discussion to just the c-input and c-formula cells. How do you recognize what kind of cell slot is being used? Well, first we should point out that by specifying :cell nil in a defmodel slot definition, the slot defined is an ordinary CLOS slot. The rest are specified using :initform on the slot. The following defmodel defines a c-input cell, a c-formula cell and a regular CLOS slot.
(defmodel example ()
 ((control-me :initform (c-input (some-form-foo)) :accessor control-me)
 (im-computed :initform (c-formula (some-form-bar)) :accessor im-computed)
 (im-clos :cell nil :initform nil)))
 / \
 CLOS cell
 / \
 invariant variant
 / \
 input-valued formula-valued
The figure above depicts a taxonomy of cell slots. Cell slots can be categorized as invariant or variant. Variant slots can be further categorized as input-valued and formula-valued. Some definitions:
Cells and Cells-GTK
Good Cells Technique
This all may seem abstract, but it has practical value in the design of your GUI. For example, I might set the :sensitivity of a button, the :text in a label or :fraction of a progress-bar based on the presence or value of an object in another cell slot, or some relationship of cells slots described by the formula. Thus the problem of remembering "what to set when" is reduced to answering the question, "What does the state of the widget presented to the user represent about the state of the program?" The formula addresses that question directly, and is placed at the widget presenting itself.
A few notes
Cell Input, Output, and Formula-valued Cells
The above described the purpose of the input cell. There is often the complementary need to react to the change of a value. def-c-output defines a method named for a cell slot and specialied on a defmodel defining the slot (or one of its subclasses, the usual CLOS rules apply).
The def-c-output method is invoked through process of propagation of an change to an input as follows:
Each SETF gets process in order by starting from the top.
The above happens with the following guarantee: When an input changes, all dependencies (direct or indirect) are considered "stale" until they are recomputed. The guarantee ensures that no cell slot accessor will ever return a "stale" value.
Note that concerning outputs setf-ing inputs, each SETF is considered a "discrete generation" if you will. This is why all propagation to formula-valued cell dependencies has to happen before any output SETF (and why Cells has a mechanism to defer SETFs of inputs).
Family: Referencing cells throughout the defmodel hierarchy.
The defmodel macro defines a part-subpart relationship among components of the interface. The relationship is made by the :kids initarg. :kids is given a list of children. In a cells-gtk defmodel some kids might be GTKContainer (vbox, hbox, etc) -- things that in the GTK world, have kids of their own. It may be a natural coding practice in that case for the defmodel to define a fairly deep ancestory hierarchy, laying out the arrangement of widgets. (You're free to break things up wherever seem reasonable for your application). It might look like this:
(defmodel my-app (gtk-app)
 :md-name :my-app
 (list (mk-combo-box :md-name :my-combo)...))
 (list (make-instance'my-subpart))))))))
The point of the Family methods is to allow things a different places in this hierarchy (e.g. :my-combo to reference :my-app).
More will be written about this soon.
Peter Denno
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Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy
Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS, sometimes referred to as TDLS, TLS or TLAS[1]) is a technique for measuring the concentration of certain species such as methane, water vapor and many more, in a gaseous mixture using tunable diode lasers and laser absorption spectrometry.[] The advantage of TDLAS over other techniques for concentration measurement is its ability to achieve very low detection limits (of the order of ppb). Apart from concentration, it is also possible to determine the temperature, pressure, velocity and mass flux of the gas under observation.[2][3] TDLAS is by far the most common laser based absorption technique for quantitative assessments of species in gas phase.
A basic TDLAS setup consists of a tunable diode laser light source, transmitting (i.e. beam shaping) optics, optically accessible absorbing medium, receiving optics and detector/s. The emission wavelength of the tunable diode laser, viz. VCSEL, DFB, etc., is tuned over the characteristic absorption lines of a species in the gas in the path of the laser beam. This causes a reduction of the measured signal intensity due to absorption, which can be detected by a photodiode, and then used to determine the gas concentration and other properties as described later.[4]
Different diode lasers are used based on the application and the range over which tuning is to be performed. Typical examples are InGaAsP/InP (tunable over 900 nm to 1.6 ?m), InGaAsP/InAsP (tunable over 1.6 ?m to 2.2 ?m), etc. These lasers can be tuned by either adjusting their temperature or by changing injection current density into the gain medium. While temperature changes allow tuning over 100 cm-1, it is limited by slow tuning rates (a few hertz), due to the thermal inertia of the system. On the other hand, adjusting the injection current can provide tuning at rates as high as ~10 GHz, but it is restricted to a smaller range (about 1 to 2 cm-1) over which the tuning can be performed. The typical laser linewidth is of the order of 10-3 cm-1 or smaller. Additional tuning, and linewidth narrowing, methods include the use of extracavity dispersive optics.[5]
Basic principles
Concentration measurement
The basic principle behind the TDLAS technique is simple. The focus here is on a single absorption line in the absorption spectrum of a particular species of interest. To start, the wavelength of a diode laser is tuned over a particular absorption line of interest and the intensity of the transmitted radiation is measured. The transmitted intensity can be related to the concentration of the species present by the Beer-Lambert law, which states that when a radiation of wavenumber passes through an absorbing medium, the intensity variation along the path of the beam is given by,[6]
is the transmitted intensity of the radiation after it has traversed a distance through the medium,
is the initial intensity of the radiation,
is the absorbance of the medium,
is the absorption cross-section of the absorbing species,
is the number density of the absorbing species,
is the line strength (i.e. the total absorption per molecule) of the absorbing species at temperature,
is the lineshape function for the particular absorption line. Sometimes also represented by,
is the center frequency of the spectrum.
Temperature measurement
The above relation requires that the temperature of the absorbing species is known. However, it is possible to overcome this difficulty and measure the temperature simultaneously. There are number of ways to measure the temperature. A widely applied method, which can measure the temperature simultaneously, uses the fact that the line strength is a function of temperature alone. Here two different absorption lines for the same species are probed while sweeping the laser across the absorption spectrum, the ratio of the integrated absorbance, is then a function of temperature alone.
is some reference temperature at which the line strengths are known,
is the difference in the lower energy levels involved in the transitions for the lines being probed.
Another way to measure the temperature is by relating the FWHM of the probed absorption line to the Doppler line width of the species at that temperature. This is given by,
is the weight of one molecule of the species, and
is the molecular weight of the species.
Note: In the last expression, is in kelvins and is in g/mol. However, this method can be used, only when the gas pressure is low (of the order of few mbar). At higher pressures (tens of millibars or more), pressure or collisional broadening becomes important and the lineshape is no longer a function of temperature alone.
Velocity measurement
The effect of a mean flow of the gas in the path of the laser beam can be seen as a shift in the absorption spectrum, also known as Doppler shift. The shift in the frequency spectrum is related to the mean flow velocity by,
is the angle between the flow direction and the laser beam direction.
Note : is not same as the one mentioned before where it refers to the width of the spectrum. The shift is usually very small (3×10-5 cm-1 ms-1 for near-IR diode laser) and the shift-to-width ratio is of the order of 10-4.
Limitations and means of improvement
The main disadvantage of absorption spectrometry (AS) as well as laser absorption spectrometry (LAS) in general is that it relies on a measurement of a small change of a signal on top of a large background. Any noise introduced by the light source or the optical system will deteriorate the detectability of the technique. The sensitivity of direct absorption techniques is therefore often limited to an absorbance of ~10-3, far away from the shot noise level, which for single pass direct AS (DAS) is in the 10-7 - 10-8 range. Since this is insufficient for many types of applications, AS is seldom used in its simplest mode of operation.
There are basically two ways to improve on the situation; one is to reduce the noise in the signal, the other is to increase the absorption. The former can be achieved by the use of a modulation technique, whereas the latter can be obtained by placing the gas inside a cavity in which the light passes through the sample several times, thus increasing the interaction length. If the technique is applied to trace species detection, it is also possible to enhance the signal by performing detection at wavelengths where the transitions have larger line strengths, e.g. using fundamental vibrational bands or electronic transitions.
Modulation techniques
Modulation techniques make use of the fact that technical noise usually decreases with increasing frequency (which is why it is often referred to as 1/f noise) and improve the signal to noise ratio by encoding and detecting the absorption signal at a high frequency, where the noise level is low. The most common modulation techniques are wavelength modulation spectroscopy (WMS) and frequency modulation spectroscopy (FMS).
In WMS the wavelength of the light is continuously scanned across the absorption profile, and the signal is detected at a harmonic of the modulation frequency.
In FMS, the light is modulated at a much higher frequency but with a lower modulation index. As a result, a pair of sidebands separated from the carrier by the modulation frequency appears, giving rise to a so-called FM-triplet. The signal at the modulation frequency is a sum of the beat signals of the carrier with each of the two sidebands. Since these two sidebands are fully out of phase with each other, the two beat signals cancel in the absence of absorbers. However, an alteration of any of the sidebands, either by absorption or dispersion, or a phase shift of the carrier, will give rise to an unbalance between the two beat signals, and therefore a net-signal.
Although in theory baseline-free, both modulation techniques are usually limited by residual amplitude modulation (RAM), either from the laser or from multiple reflections in the optical system (etalon effects). If these noise contributions are held low, the sensitivity can be brought into the 10-5 - 10-6 range or even better.
In general the absorption imprints are generated by a straight line light propagation through a volume with the specific gas. To further enhance the signal, the pathway of the light travel can be increased with multi-pass cells. There is however a variety of the WMS-technique that utilizes the narrow line absorption from gases for sensing even when the gases are situated in closed compartments (e.g. pores) inside solid materia. The technique is referred to as gas in scattering media absorption spectroscopy (GASMAS).
Cavity-enhanced absorption spectrometry (CEAS)
External cavities can either be of multi-pass type, i.e. Herriott or White cells, of nonresonant type (off-axis alignment), or of resonant type, most often working as a Fabry-Pérot (FP) etalon. Multi-pass cells, which typically can provide an enhanced interaction length of up to ~2 orders of magnitude, are nowaday common together with TDLAS.
Resonant cavities can provide a much larger path length enhancement, in the order of the finesse of the cavity, F,


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Denver hip-hop artist Adrian Molina is using the unlikely vehicle of chess to teach a group of high school students at Venture Prep, a public charter school in Denver, the art of the emcee.
The course is called "Chess, Civics and Hip-Hop." It covers the political and socio-economic roots of hip-hop in African American history. Molina is with "Youth on Record," a non-profit group that promotes music education for young people in Colorado.
Molina, who performs under the moniker "Molina Speaks," wants his students to feel confident enough to write and perform their own songs by the end of the term. But his aspirations for the students do not end there.
He sees his class as a means to turn his students into better critical thinkers and also wants his students to learn strategy and focus. That is where the game of chess comes in.
"Chess helps the students to meditate, focus and takes things seriously," Molina says. "I want the chess and the history of hip-hop to give them a sense of boldness and possibility. I want them to challenge themselves and take risks."
The experiment appears to be working. Students in Molina's class are reporting higher levels of concentration.
"Chess helps me focus, so when I sit down to write a song, my mind is more open," Hakeem Thomas, an 18-year-old senior, says.
Students also say playing chess has taught them to be more open to the creative muse when it calls.
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Todd Bardwick, a national chess master and the founder of the Chess Academy of Denver, isn't surprised by Molina's mixture of hip-hop and chess in the classroom, because chess – like math and music – uses both sides of the brain.
Music, chess and math are all comprised of a series of rhythmic sequential patterns. François-André Danican Philidor, an 18th-century opera composer, was the unofficial chess champion of the world in his day. David Bowie and Bob Dylan are both avid chess fans. And one of Bardwick's former students is now an opera singer.
"As far as creativity and logic go, those parts of the brain overlap," Bardwick says. "Chess is the best tool out there to teach just about anything."
Some major Colorado arts institutions are taking note of Molina's approach to teaching the arts. Representatives from the Colorado Symphony and The Denver Center for the Performing Arts have sat in on his class.
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BeefTalk: An evolving beef industryThe beef industry is evolving, and so are beef cattle. This is the time of year when producers buy bulls, and every bull that is turned out to cows contributes to the evolving beef industry.
By: Kris Ringwall, NDSU Extension Service
The beef industry is evolving, and so are beef cattle. This is the time of year when producers buy bulls, and every bull that is turned out to cows contributes to the evolving beef industry.
Why do beef cattle evolve? The process is long, but continuous, just like her selection. Selection, in the short term, ends with the purchase of a bull. In reality, the newly purchased bull will add genes to the breed and ultimately make a genetic contribution within the herd and very likely within the breed as a whole.
Genes do not stay put. As replacement cattle are moved around in the industry, their genes move, too. Cattle house their genes on 60 chromosomes. These 60 chromosomes carry the genetic materials that make cattle what they are. If one might be allowed to expand one's thinking, ironically, some types of buffalo, as well as goats and some other types of four-legged, grass-eating ruminants, also have 60 chromosomes.
The chromosome number is not unique, and what makes a chromosome certainly is not unique. In fact, although very few four-legged, grass-eating ruminants interbreed, some do. That would be the reason cattle may have some genes that came from buffalo and buffalo may have some genes that came from domestic cattle.
I am not trying to make the case for crossing cattle and buffalo. I'm only trying to expand our thinking as we view the concept of genes within living things, which, in this case, are cattle. If breeding cattle are maintained in the same herd or even in proximity, genes will migrate.
In previous times, the biggest inhibitors of roaming genes were physical barriers, which primarily were water and mountains or other obstacles that simply did not allow exposure to take place within breeding populations. However, as times changed and people brought their animals out of isolation, gene migration certainly became possible.
Although behavior and anatomical barriers between various types of similar four-legged, grasseating ruminants still restricted gene migration, with newer reproductive techniques, such as artificial insemination, genes continue to migrate.
The purpose of this discussion simply is to provide a broader picture of how genes can move and perhaps extend a better understanding as to what evaluating DNA means. DNA codes are in genes and genes determine the herd. Producers select for genes. Selected genes pull with them the appropriate DNA, and cattle evolve as products of the selected DNA.
For producers, no one ever questions that if cattle and buffalo are crossed, the obvious sharing of DNA is very evident. As bull producers, those same principles make up the genetic trend within a breed. The genetic trend lines are very revealing. If one made no effort at individual selection, the genetic trends of the breed still would be evident within a producer's herd.
For example, in many breeds, the genetic trend lines indicate that growth has increased within the breed. Expected progeny differences are meant to be indicative of the genes that are present for the particular trait that is being evaluated. As producers select for what they see or measure, they slowly concentrate those genes that are responsible for those traits.
The trends are slow, but with time, the genetic trend lines become very obvious for those traits that are easy to see or measure. However, even though every trait responds to producer selection, the trend is not always evident. If the trait is hard to measure, the trait still may be evolving to what the current environment wants, regardless of what the producer is doing. Cattle evolve.
With newer DNA technology, some difficult-to-measure traits actually may become measurable. As cattle evolve, producers will be able to better guide the genes that are present to fit their production environment.
However, in reality, good production programs already guide those genes that better fit their program. Being able to identify those genes earlier will allow for quicker adaptation. But producers must never forget that cattle are evolving constantly and always will favor those genes that make life simple and responsive to the environment.
Sometimes we can outthink Mother Nature. At other times, Mother Nature will outthink us. Either way, if we measure genetic trends, we will know where we are going. Producers need to use the tools available to them, which is not a bad thing. Just be careful and don't try to fool Mother Nature.
Editor's Note: Ringwall is a North Dakota State University Extension Service livestock specialist and the Dickinson (N.D.) Research Extension Center director.


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Alberta has more inclusive post-secondary initiatives and more experience with inclusive post secondary education than any jurisdiction in the world. Inclusive post secondary education is defined as facilitating the inclusion of students with developmental disabilities in regular programs of study and campus life.
Initiated by families with the support of advocates in 1987, the University of Alberta became the first university to offer inclusive post secondary education. Since then, with the support of Alberta Association for Community Living and the provincially funded Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD),18 post-secondary institutions across the province now offer inclusive educational opportunities to students with developmental disabilities.
In the past 20 years students have taken a variety of programs at colleges and universities across the province. This has included golf operations management, personal trainer, digital arts and media, animal health technology and nursing.
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Post-secondary inclusion has proved to be a successful experience for two Lakeland students and others at the college.
Student Erin Acton began her studies in the event coordinator program in the fall of 2007. Her long term goal is to be self-employed and to own a business. Jessica Morrell, a student in the animal health technology program, also began in 2007 and wants a career working with animals.
Both Erin and Jessica receive instructional supports from Jill Applegate, post-secondary inclusion coordinator at Lakeland. Working with program chairs and faculty, Applegate supports students to identify learning objectives for labs and assignments and makes modifications so that the students' course work aligns with their career goals. She also helps facilitate volunteer opportunities for Erin and Jessica so that they develop relationships with others outside of the classroom.
"The cooperation of the program chairs and faculty have made the learning experiences for Erin and Jessica, as well as for other students and myself, very positive," says Applegate. "They've been great to work with."
Program faculty also note other dynamics that have developed as a result of having Erin and Jessica in their classes.
Dr. Terri Rowat, animal health technology program chair, says her students have been able to develop an appreciation of different learning styles and patience with each other.
Laurie Harris, an instructor in the event coordinator program, adds that her classes have also benefited from being involved with the inclusion project as it has demonstrated that experiences at the college level help to expand opportunities for all students.
In March the Alberta Association for Community Living recognized Lakeland College with an award for its support of post-secondary education and its two students. While the award is greatly appreciated, Applegate emphasizes that the real reward is seeing the students learn new skills that will help them to successfully prepare them for careers in their chosen area.
"Everyone who has been a part of this experience has learned a lot about what it takes to make post-secondary inclusion work. It takes everyone working together," says Applegate.
Photos - Above Right: Erin Acton works at the registration table at the So You Think You Can Salsa fundraising event held in February. Left: Dr. Terri Rowat instructs Jessica Morrell about how to position a cat for an x-ray during a radiology lab at the Vermilion campus.


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TOPICS IN LITERATURE: TRADES AND INDUSTRY
- Program: English
- Course: Topics in Literature: Trades and Industry
- Course #: ENGL2140
- Total Credits: 3
Course DescriptionThis course explores, through literature, the issues relevant to various professions. Topics will be varied and selected by the instructor and may change every term. Examples of topics include but are not limited to: Literature of the Working Class, Garden Literature, Literature of Health Sciences, Literature in Graphic and Visual Arts, Transportation Literature, Literature of the Culinary Arts. Students will engage in understanding multiple viewpoints; and reflect on style, voice, and other elements of critical reading.
Refer to Course Syllabus for detailed information regarding the requirements and evaluation standards for this course. The Course Syllabus will be distributed the first week of the course.
Hennepin Technical College offers reasonable accommodations to qualified students with disabilities. If you have a documented disability that may require accommodations, contact the college's Disability Services Director: Sara Laviolette at Brooklyn Park _PHONE_) or Jean Kreutter at Eden Prairie _PHONE_).
The following goals will be addressed in the course:
Analyze structure in literature
Analyze ideas of literature
Use basic vocabulary to discuss literary works
Critique writing styles
Explain different purposes of literature
Describe trade and industry themes in literature
Analyze the use of trade and industry in published works
Explain the influence of trade and industry in literature
Analyze the meaning of texts
Describe the effects of trade and industry use in literature on audiences
Research trade and industry in literature
Explain rationale for trade and industry in literature
Analyze the influence of literature on trade and industry
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DR-OSGi: Hardening Distributed Components with Network Volatility Resiliency
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- Kwon YW., Tilevich E., Apiwattanapong T. (2009) DR-OSGi: Hardening Distributed Components with Network Volatility Resiliency. In: Bacon J.M., Cooper B.F. (eds) Middleware 2009. Middleware 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5896. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Because middleware abstractions remove the need for lowlevel network programming, modern distributed component systems expose network volatility (i.e., frequent but intermittent outages) as application-level exceptions, requiring custom manual handling. Unfortunately, handling network volatility effectively is nontrivial—the programmer must consider not only the specifics of the application, but also of its target deployment environment. As a result, to make a distributed component application resilient against network volatility, programmers commonly create custom solutions that are ad-hoc, tedious, and error-prone. In addition, these solutions are difficult to customize for different networks and to reuse across different applications.
To address these challenges, this paper presents a systematic approach to hardening distributed components to become resilient against network volatility. Specifically, we present an extensible framework for enhancing a distributed component application with the ability to continue executing in the presence of network volatility. To accommodate the diverse hardening needs of various combinations of networks and applications, our framework not only provides a collection of hardening strategies, but also simplifies the creation of new strategies. Our reference implementation, built on top of the R-OSGi infrastructure, is called DR-OSGi. DR-OSGi imposes a very low overhead on the hardened applications, requires no changes to their source code, and is plug-in extensible. Applying DR-OSGi to several realistic distributed applications has hardened them with resiliency to effectively withstand network volatility.


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Salome, Yohanna (2004) Topic shifts and topic shift markers used by the male and female characters in Dawson's Creek tv series. Bachelor thesis, Petra Christian University.Full text not available from this repository.
Conversation is very important in our daily lives. It is a routine activity which occurs in formal and informal situation. In a conversation, there always a topic to be talked about. The topic of conversation usually develops from one topic to other topics. The problem comes when the participants do not realize that the topic has already changed, so that it can cause misunderstanding and miscommunication in conversation. In order to avoid misunderstanding and miscommunication, it is important to study topic shifts and topic shift markers. The writer also adds gender aspects in this study. As we know, male and female speakers have some differences in conversation, especially in applying topic shifts and topic shift markers. Male speakers tend to jump from one topic to another topic while female speakers tend to shift the topic gradually. Therefore the writer is interested in studying topic shifts and topic shift markers based on gender differences, especially in Dawson's Creek TV Series episode "All Good Things" and "?Come to an Ends". In order to study topic shifts and topic shift markers, the writer uses some theories. The first theory is Stenstrom's theory about kind of topic shift, which is classified into five kinds of topic shift. The second theory is McCarthy's theory on topic shift markers. Through these theories, the writer tries to find out the similarities and differences between male and female speakers in applying topic shifts and topic shift markers. As a result of this research, the writer finds out that topic change is mostly used by male and female speakers in male-female conversation. Another finding is that the female speakers tend to use "well" as the opening, changing, closing marker while male speakers tend to use "you know" as changing marker and "allright" and "ok" as the closing marker.
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More than 200 Organizations Push Congress to Address Western Water Infrastructure
A national coalition of over 200 agricultural organizations and urban and rural water districts including the Western Agricultural Processors Association urged President-elect Joe Biden and congressional leadership today to address aging Western water infrastructure in any potential infrastructure or economic recovery package. The coalition includes organizations from 15 states that collectively represent $120 billion in agricultural production, nearly one-third of all agricultural production in the country, and tens of millions of urban and rural water users. In separate letters to President-elect Biden and congressional leaders, the coalition said existing Western water infrastructure is in desperate need of rehabilitation and improvement. Most of the federal water projects in the West were built more than 50 years ago and were not designed with the present and future population demands and climate conditions in mind. Without immediate attention, the coalition said, the Western water system will quickly prove inadequate to meet the needs of urban and rural users and the environment. The coalition encouraged the federal government to invest in a diversified water management portfolio that enhances water supply and quality for urban and environmental uses while keeping water flowing to Western farms. Specific recommendations include funding for:
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- Watershed management, fish passage and recovery, and habitat restoration.
- Federal financing mechanisms for water projects.
- Loans for local districts operating and maintaining federally owned irrigation projects.
- Water quality improvement for rural communities.
Beyond financial support, the coalition also called on the federal government to ensure the timely construction of water projects by streamlining the regulation and permitting processes. Association President/CEO Roger A. Isom stated the time is absolutely now! We have gone too many years without upgrades to our water infrastructure."
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In a democracy, everybody has the freedom to disagree with the government
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very similar words in spell but huge differnce in meaning.
Decent : means "socially acceptable". It's also an old fashioned way to say "polite."
Descent: means the act of moving downward, either physically or socially.
Dissent:means to publicly disagree with an official opinion or decision.
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Sprayers Are Simply Complex
Jun 05, 2010
Back in the day, farmers filled a sprayer with 200 gallons of spray mix, used a simple chart that told them what speed to drive and what spray pressure to maintain when using a specific spray nozzle, and they sprayed their crops. For all the computerized complexity of modern self-propelled or pull-type sprayers, that's the same principle used today. Diagnosing problems with sprayers is theoretically simple even though modern sprayers can be mechanically complex.
Everything is related to how fast the sprayer is going, pressure or flow rate through the pump and nozzles, and the width of the spray boom. Any time something malfunctions, think of those three basic inputs and back-track the symptoms to diagnose the guilty component.
-If gallons per acre (rate) are inaccurate: what could be impeding or reducing flow? Low rate could be due to plugged strainers or filters restricting flow to the pump, or flow between the pump and nozzles. High flow rate hints of worn spray tips or inaccurate inputs from the pressure sensor or flowmeter. If you can switch the system from automatic rate control to manual rate control (where you designate a specific pressure or rate) and the rate is steady and accurate on manual control, that implies the pump, strainers, filters, etc. are okay, and that the problem is in a component in the automatic rate control system. That means either the ground speed sensor, the pressure/flowmeter sensor, or the actual computerized controller is the source of the problem.
-If spray pressure or spray rate fluctuates erratically: first step--switch the system to "manual" control and see if the problem goes away. If the sprayer operates correctly in "manual", the pump and basic system is okay. Look for problems in the flowmeter or pressure sensor or speed sensor to see if they are sending inaccurate signals that's causing the automated control system to perform erratically. Make sure you're showing ground speed--erratic ground speed, or no ground speed, indicates problems with the radar or GPS or mechanical wheel speed sensor or those sensor's wiring harnesses. Intermittent signals from flow meters or pressure sensors hint of problems with those components.
-If problems persist when the system is switched to "manual": keep diagnostics simple and easy at first. Check for closed or partially closed valves, from the main valve at the tank all the way to the last control valve on the boom. Check and clean ALL strainers and filters. If your owner's manual explains how to do a "deadhead" test of the spray pump, perform that check to see if the pump is up to specs. Spray pumps leaking water from any part of their housing hints it's time to rebuild or replace the pump.
-If boom sections refuse to turn "on" or "off", be suspicious of control valves. The old push-pull plunger control valves are notorious for sticking after exposure to chemicals. Newer "ball" valves rarely stick, but are mechanical and therefore not immune to damage from time, caustic chemicals and other villains. Use a small screwdriver or feeler guage to see if the valve's electric magnet is magnetized when its switch is activated in the cab. If magnetism is absent, be suspicious of problems with the wiring harness between the valve and the cab. If the valve's solenoid magnetizes when the switch in the cab is activated, then disassemble the valve and see if there's an internal mechanical problem.
Modern sprayers have fancy stuff like hydraulic proportional valves, compensators, swath control, automatic boom shutoffs, GPS mapping and dozens of other complicated systems that all play off each other. There are times when diagnosing problems with modern sprayers is a mechanic's nightmare.
But...85 percent of the time problems with sprayers are related to the basic concepts and components that Grandpa used on his sprayer. Don't let all the fancy bells and whistles mislead you when diagnosing sprayer problems. Keep it simple, think things through logically, and most of the time the problem is simpler than it first appears.


Installing your Raspberry Pi for your SmartSigns digital signage solution can be done in a few minutes. Gather your equipment and then follow the instructions below.
To setup your SmartSign, you will need the following equipment, which may be different depending on the kind of Raspberry Pi unit you have. Generally, you will need the following items:
 - Monitor/TV: to display your media
 - Raspberry Pi and power cord
 - Formatted MicroSD Card: MyVRSpot will ship you your first formatted MicroSD card. Here are instructions on how to format any additional cards
 - Internet connection: this might be an ethernet cord or a WiFi adapter
 - HDMI cable: this will connect your Pi to your monitor
Pi Installation
Follow these steps to connect your Pi to your monitor so it will display your videos, images and live streams:
Step 1: Insert your formatted MicroSD Card into the Pi unit.
Step 2: Using your HDMI cable, connect your Raspberry Pi to your TV or monitor.
Step 3: Connect your Pi unit to an internet connection.
Step 3: Turn on your TV/monitor and then plug the power cord into your Pi unit.
Step 4: The OS will start up in about 1 minute, and you should see this default image (below) on your screen.
Step 5: Now that you have your Pi connected, provide user access, start adding images, videos and connecting your Live Broadcasting channels to your SmartSign!
Internet Connection Error
IF you get some error message that looks like this (see below), then the Pi does NOT have internet connection. (Api link Not Functional Error)


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