We believe God has established a Oneness that Christians should endeavor "to keep...in the bond of peace" (Ephesians 4:3).
"There is One Body, and One Spirit, even as you are called in the One Hope of your calling; One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all" (Ephesians 4:4-6 ).
We believe this is God's doctrinal program for this age.
Our Statement of Faith, an 11-part sermon series addresses in detail much of what we believe.
The entire Bible, in its original writings, is verbally inspired of God and is our absolute authority (2 Timothy 3:16-17 ; 2 Peter 1:21). As believers, we are instructed to study the Bible, rightly dividing God's Word (2 Timothy 2:15).
There is One God, manifested in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Genesis 1:26 ; Deuteronomy 6:4 ; Isaiah 48:16 ; Mark 1:10-11 ; John 1:1 , John 1:14 ; Colossians 1:15-19 , Colossians 2:9).
The Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin and regenerates, seals, indwells, enlightens, and empowers the saved and baptizes believers into the Body of Christ (John 16:8 ; Titus 3:5 ; 1 Corinthians 12:13 ; Ephesians 1:17 , Ephesians 3:16).
All men, due to Adam's disobedience, are in a fallen state. All men are dead in trespasses and sins and are, therefore, totally unable to do anything pleasing to God apart from Jesus Christ (Ephesians 2:1-3 ; 1 Corinthians 15:21-22 ; Romans 8:7-8).
God justifies ungodly sinners by His Grace, upon the basis of the shed blood of Jesus Christ, through the means of faith. This complete salvation is bestowed as the gift of God apart from man's works (Romans 5:1 , Romans 5:9; Ephesians 2:8-9).
All of the saved are eternally secure in Christ (Colossians 2:9 , Colossians 3:1-4 ; Philippians 1:6 ; Romans 8:33-39).
In the present dispensation there is only one Church, which is called the Body of Christ. It is composed of all the saved of this dispensation (1 Corinthians 12:13 ; Ephesians 1:22-23).
The only gifts necessary for the ministry of the Body of Christ are those enumerated in (Ephesians 4:7-16).
By reason of Christ's victory over sin and of His indwelling Spirit, all of the saved may and should experience deliverance from the power of sin and should consider ourselves dead to sin (Romans 6:14 , Romans 12:1-2). We recognize that sin is never eradicated during this life.
The communion of the Lord's Supper, as revealed through the Apostle Paul in (1 Corinthians 11:20-26), is for members of the Body of Christ to observe "until He comes." There is no place in scripture where the Lord's Supper and water baptism are linked together, either as ordinances or as sacraments for the Church.
All saved persons of God's present program have been made members of the Body of Christ by one divine baptism. By that one baptism every member of the Body of Christ is identified with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection. Based on the statement concerning the one baptism in (Ephesians 4:5) , the statement concerning baptism in (Colossians 2:12) , and Paul's statement, "Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the gospel" (1 Corinthians 1:17), we affirm that water baptism has no place in God's spiritual program for the Body of Christ in this day of grace.
God created the Heavens, the Earth, and everything in them. The six days of (Genesis 1) are literal days, consisting of approximately twenty-four hours each as represented by evening and morning (Genesis 1:31 ; Exodus 20:11).
These six days of (Genesis 1) occurred no more than ten thousand years ago.
The Rapture of the Church — when all of the saved of this age will be caught up into the air to meet the Lord. This resurrection is part of the Mystery as revealed to the Apostle Paul (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:3 ; 1 Corinthians 15:51).


The Federation of Small Businesses has warned that ongoing high profile disruption to services on the Borders Railway risks putting off visitors to the area as we approach the holiday season.
"The Borders has big tourism ambitions but poor service on the Borders Railway is putting these at risk. Rarely a day goes by now when we are not seeing reports of serious overcrowding and disruption affecting the line.
"These problems are bad enough for commuters using the line on a daily basis but the negative stories also risk putting off potential visitors to the Borders, hoping to use the railway to access local businesses and attractions. Indeed it is to be hoped that this weekend's Melrose Sevens will not be adversely affected by service failures.
"Bringing Galashiels and Tweedbank to within an hour's rail journey from the centre of Edinburgh is devalued if visitors can't get on a crowded train or if the service is cancelled altogether.
"Longer term, the hope held out by the Borderlands Inclusive Growth Deal of extending the Borders Railway via Hawick to Carlisle will be strengthened by the delivery of a popular and reliable service on the existing line.
As the problems with the Borders Railway continue local politicians have escalated the issue.
Last week local MSP, Christine Grahame, once more raised the performance of the Borders Railway with First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, at First Minister's Questions, MSP invites ScotRail CEO to take the train with her.
Last month Conservative Councillor Pauline Winchester, also raised the issue after she was again caught up in the disruption, ScotRail cannot give date for ending overcrowding.
As experts in business, FSB offers members a wide range of vital business services, including advice, financial expertise, support and a powerful voice in Government. Its aim is to help smaller businesses achieve their ambitions. For more information see here, www.fsb.org.uk.


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Michele Bachmann's Victory at Iowa Straw Poll Pretty Much Guarantees She Won't Be President
Erin Gloria Ryan
Filed to: PoliticsFiled to: Politics
2012 Gop primary
Field of screams
iowa straw poll
Minnesota Republican and general wolf-in-Holly Golightly's clothing Michele Bachmann won yesterday's famed Iowa Straw Poll, narrowly defeating challenger Ron Paul and leaving the rest of the competition in the dust. While her campaign's celebrating what it claims is a decisive victory on Bachmann's quest to be the first woman to serve as President, results of the Iowa Straw Poll rarely indicate that a candidate will be successful on election day, or even emerge from primary season with the party's nomination.
The Straw Poll itself is one of America's silliest traditions, combining carnivals, politics, wordplay, standing around inside of tents, funnel cakes and giant inflatable slides. Candidates bid on booth space within the Straw Poll grounds and fill their designated area with entertainment, fried things, and talking points. This year, Michele Bachmann included country singer Randy Travis in her booth (because nothing says "Christian theocracy" like twangy vocals), and kooky sitcom neighbor Ron Paul allowed children who attended to slide down an inflatable contraption called "The Sliding Dollar," which sounds like a bouncy castle, but with more whackadoo economics. Attendees pay a fee to attend the Straw Poll and are allowed to vote for one of the candidates that's exhibiting, or write in a candidate. Voters are required to be legal residents of Iowa and at least 16 1/2 years old and can be any political affiliation.
And yesterday, through all of the barbecuing and hee hawing and g droppin', Bachmann emerged with 28.55% of the vote, besting the second place finisher (Nutty Uncle Ron, future Ralph Nader of the right!) by less than a percentage point.
After the victory, Bachmann crowed,
I want to thank Ron Paul and the people of Iowa. What we saw happen today is the very first step in taking the White House in 2012, and saying to Barack Obama 'You'll be a one-term president.
She added that this was "a down payment on taking our country back."
With Our Country solidly on layaway, Bachmann will continue to kick her campaign into high gear. But before you find yourself having nightmares about her delivering the State of the Union, take heart in the fact that the Ames Straw Poll often means approximately shit.
Since the Ames Straw Poll started in 1979 as a way to take Iowans' pulse on potential Republican Presidential nominees, only once has its winner gone on to win the presidency (George W Bush in 1999), and only twice has it predicted who would get the Republican nomination. Only three times has it predicted who would win the Iowa Caucus.
Nonetheless, Bachmann is proud of voters from her home state. The Iowa State Daily reports that she remarked,
In Iowa, we are social conservatives, and we will never be ashamed of being social conservative."
Which is kind of funny considering the fact that Iowa legalized the decidedly un-socially conservative gay marriage over a year before the liberal pinko commie elite America-hating sodomy endorsing New York did the same.
Regardless of the Straw Poll's poor track record, Bachmann's victory improves her campaign's ability to raise money and further raises her profile as primary season approaches. She's going to be everywhere, at least for the next several months, and we can choose to get used to it or pull a Pawlenty and drop out.
Is this hell? No, it's Iowa.
Bachmann: Win 'A Down Payment in Taking Our Country Back' [LAT]
Straw Woman [Slate]
Recapping the 2011 Iowa Straw Poll [Iowa State Daily]
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Washington Post Goes After 2 .News Domain Names via UDRP (Updated)
Typically, when a well-known company goes after an exact match domain name in alternative extensions, it is not all that newsworthy. More often than not, the domain names are awarded to the complainant without much fanfare. It looks like the Washington Post filed two UDRPs that will be interesting to follow given the usage of the domain name.
A UDRP was filed against WashingtonPost.news and a UDRP was filed against WAPO.news. Both filings were at the National Arbitration Forum (NAF), so the complainant is not published yet. One can assume the Washington Post is the complainant in case #1775737 and case #1775738.
While these may look somewhat cut and dry given the pretty much exact match of a well known news publication brand, the way they are being used could make these UDRP filings more notable. It looks like there is a website on each of these domain names, and it is pretty clear that neither is associated with the Washington Post.
One look at the header / logo on these two websites, and visitors should be able to tell there is no association. "Real news about the fake news failures of the Washington Post" is the tagline under a logo with the domain name. In addition to this, on the top right section of the websites, it says "This website is NOT associated with or endorsed by the Washington Post newspaper."
The complainant in a UDRP will need to prove that a domain name was registered and is being used in bad faith. The complainant also needs to prove that the domain name is confusingly similar. With active lampoon-esque parody websites in place, it will be interesting to see if the UDRP panels rule in favor of the complainant and award the domain name to them. I will be keeping an eye on these two UDRP filings.
Update: The Washington Post won its WAPO.news UDRP. The WashingtonPost.news UDRP has not yet been published.
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SNN .com UDRP Denied: Complainant Alleged Domain Name Theft
R P April 3, 2018 At 11:08 pm
Interesting. How does a newspaper fail to register the only new Gs that could potentially injure their business. Especially Bezos so tech savvy.
The parody site is very well done. Domain owner should win but Bezos very powerful. Think owner made a mistake registering WAPO news as well and putting up same content. Think this could potentially be spun as bad faith. One site ok but two sites kind of pushing it imo.
Joseph Peterson April 13, 2018 At 6:28 pm
Agree. Not so clear-cut. Trademark rights versus free speech.
Not that I have any say in the matter – but I'm inclined to side with the domain owner's right to use the domains to criticize the Washington Post. He's not really impersonating them. So unless he's holding the domain ransom, he's using the domain in a legitimate way.
Clearly he's targeting the Washington Post and exploiting their brand name to their detriment. But that's what many gripe sites do with domain names. Negative articles use headlines and books use titles that cite the name of the person or organization they're criticizing. So why not allow the same with the "titles" of websites – i.e. domain names?
The Washington Post missed the boat by not registering these domains. And they should accept the consequences.
Of course, the content this person is publishing is garbage. But he has the right to write nonsense. Realistically, is the Washington Post going to suffer any damage from the rabid, conspiracy-theory-driven dreck this guy is publishing? Nobody who reads what he writes will change their opinion about real journalism.
John Colascione April 14, 2018 At 4:56 am
This should be on every page and it should be bold, and potentially larger. "This website is NOT associated with or endorsed by the Washington Post newspaper" and not just on the home page. However, the domain owner will probably loose this case. Not creative, clever or properly done parody; ads all over the place, too many reasons to loose. http://lottfischer.com/general.php?category=Resources&headline=Trademark+Parody&subhead=Articles


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Here at Cheyenne Regional, we are fortunate to have a team of 7 certified forensic nurses that are part of our 'SANE' (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) program.
Chere Bohr, MA, BSN, RN, Forensic Nursing Program Manager and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner, explained the type of population that Cheyenne Regional's SANE program serves.
"We take care of people who have gone through different types of trauma and violence. A big focus of that is sexual violence, but we also help people who have gone through domestic violence, strangulation, elder abuse, child abuse—pretty much anything that has the direct impact of a traumatizing event on someone," said Chere.
Forensic nursing is a field that's relatively new to the healthcare landscape. Only within the last couple of decades has it gained traction as an imperative aspect of caring for a vulnerable population of trauma patients.
In the early 80's, professionals in areas of both nursing and law enforcement began to realize that healthcare professionals were inadvertently obstructing justice. During healthcare interventions following traumas, assault and violence, much of the evidence was being unintentionally discarded and destroyed.
As experts started realizing the implications of the gap between health care and law enforcement in these situations, a greater focus was put on preserving the evidence during initial examinations, while specifically looking for crime-related details and injuries that may have been commonly missed in previous cases. Accurately capturing these details would assist law enforcement in effectively investigating these crimes.
In 2012, forensic nursing finally earned an official national certification and became an approved specialty, recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
"Our job is really to be that support system to stand next to people when they're going through these situations, so they've got an extra level of care—so that outside of this one incidence, they know how to get healthy thereafter," said Chere.
The support doesn't stop at the medical examination, either. Chere's team makes the point to ensure that patients who come to see them for these trauma-related incidents have access to a primary care provider, and that they're connected to other community resources that can help them to bridge the gap between the situation they're currently in, and where they want to be. Sometimes that involves directing the individual to the support of a counselor, to the resources that Safe House provides, or putting him or her in touch with advocacy groups, victims' assistance programs, or law enforcement officials.
The positive impact of forensic nursing programs is being seen across the state and nation. Cheyenne Regional's SANE team is working diligently to expand this unique offering to communities across Wyoming, as at this time, not all communities are fortunate enough to have nurses specifically dedicated to these efforts.
"We've been connecting well with a lot of other communities and helping them to establish and beef-up their skills and knowledge around these types of traumatic and/or violent situations," said Chere.
Nichol Zimmerman, RN, another Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner on the team, stresses that this program is one that their entire team is passionate about.
"Our team really works well together. Everyone is approachable and each one of us has a passion for this type of work. Nobody is here just because it's a job. Everyone does it because they have a passion for it—they have a love for helping these kinds of patients. It's a specialty of its own. We're all very giving and generous of our time. We all want to be available so that we can take care of this population of people," said Nichol.


For obvious reasons, this shouldn't come as a surprise. Disney is one of the biggest companies in the world and its streaming service is going to be an absolute juggernaut in the market. For the service to really take off, though, it also needs to support as many platforms as possible.
That includes Google's most popular streaming platform, the Chromecast. The affordable streaming dongle is still one of the most popular devices out there for the TV, with millions of users around the globe.
During its presentation, one slide explicitly confirmed that Disney+ would support Google's Chromecast streaming dongle.
Further, it seems support for Android TV is also on the table. While the name wasn't mentioned, one slide shows off what definitely looks like one of Sony's Android TV models. The Verge also confirmed that Disney has marked a deal with Sony for a Disney+ app, all but confirming Android TV. Given the fact that Disney+ is also going to be available as an add-on to Hulu, it seems highly unlikely that Android TV support will end up a Sony exclusive.
Disney+ arrives this November for $6.99.


Nishith will lead the strategy domain for Indigo Consulting's existing and new client mandates.
Indigo Consulting, Publicis Communications' specialised digital transformation consulting and communications agency, has beefed up its strategy team with a key hire. The agency has appointed Nishith Srivastava as its National Head of Strategy. He will be based in Mumbai and will report to Rajesh Ghatge, Chief Executive Officer at Indigo Consulting.
In his new mandate, Nishith will lead the strategy domain for Indigo Consulting's existing and new client mandates. He will be supported with a robust data analytics and media COE team. He will work closely with the group's management team and will look to achieve business success for his clients with technology and communication-led solutions.
Nishith loves solving business problems for his clients and their consumers with ROI and tech-driven integrated marketing communication campaigns, strategic brand positioning and data-driven consumer experience journeys. He has been a brand custodian of some of the biggest B2B and B2C brands in India and SEA region such as Unilever, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Wyeth Nutrition, Philips, Indosat, Disney, Philip Morris, British American Tobacco, Pfizer, Pizza Hut, Fujifilm, Aviva, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Bacardi, Makemytrip.com, and Tata.


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News | Governance, Responsible AI | September 14, 2020
AI ethics groups are repeating one of society's classic mistakes
News article by by Abhishek Gupta and Victoria Heath. Published in MIT Technology Review.
Too many councils and advisory boards still consist mostly of people based in Europe or the United States.
International organizations and corporations are racing to develop global guidelines for the ethical use of artificial intelligence. Declarations, manifestos, and recommendations are flooding the internet. But these efforts will be futile if they fail to account for the cultural and regional contexts in which AI operates.
AI systems have repeatedly been shown to cause problems that disproportionately affect marginalized groups while benefiting a privileged few. The global AI ethics efforts under way today—of which there are dozens—aim to help everyone benefit from this technology, and to prevent it from causing harm. Generally speaking, they do this by creating guidelines and principles for developers, funders, and regulators to follow. They might, for example, recommend routine internal audits or require protections for users' personally identifiable information.
We believe these groups are well-intentioned and are doing worthwhile work. The AI community should, indeed, agree on a set of international definitions and concepts for ethical AI. But without more geographic representation, they'll produce a global vision for AI ethics that reflects the perspectives of people in only a few regions of the world, particularly North America and northwestern Europe.
This work is not easy or straightforward. "Fairness," "privacy," and "bias" mean different things (pdf) in different places. [ . . . ]
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\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}
Neutron sources are important calibration sources with a wide
range of applications.
In modern reactor neutrino experiments such as Daya Bay \cite{tdr},
Double Chooze \cite{DCTDR} and RENO \cite{RENOTDR},
the electron anti-neutrinos are detected by liquid scintillator
detectors via the inverse beta decay (IBD) reaction
$\bar{\nu_e} + p \rightarrow e^+ + n$ with the time-correlated
prompt positron signal ranging from 1 to 10 MeV, and the delayed neutron capture signal
of $\sim$8 MeV on the gadolinium dopant or 2.2 MeV on hydrogen.
In the Daya Bay experiment, which is located in South China,
the regular deployment of neutron sources
allows a thorough characterization of the detector response
to IBD neutrons, which contributes to the recent discovery of the
neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$~\cite{DYB12}.

The automated calibration units (ACUs) of the Daya Bay anti-neutrino
detectors (ADs) are detailed in~\cite{ref:ACU}.
Each AD is submerged in a water pool and is equipped with three ACUs
on top. Neutrino interactions are rare, so minimizing potential
background created by the neutron
sources is a top consideration. In this article, we discuss the
design and construction of low rate ($\sim<$ 1 Hz)
neutron sources that are free of correlated gamma emission.
Although used in a specific experiment, such a source
could also be potentially useful in other occasions
where ultra low background is desired, or where one seeks a
neutron source with no associated gamma rays.

\section{Physical requirements to the neutron sources}
\label{sec:requirements}
As discussed in \cite{DYB12}, the Daya Bay ADs
are arranged in a 4-near and 4-far configuration to the nuclear reactor
cores, with
the near detectors sampling the reactor neutrino flux and far detectors
detecting the $\bar{\nu_e}$ disappearance due to $\theta_{13}$. The rates
of the IBD in
the near (far) detectors are approximately 700 (70)/day/AD~\cite{DYB12}.
For each AD module,
three ACUs are instrumented, each of which is capable of deploying radioactive
sources vertically
into the detector. There is one neutron
source in each ACU~\cite{tdr}\cite{ref:ACU}.
During normal neutrino data taking, the neutron sources are ``parked'' inside
the ACUs right above the AD. Although these neutrons rarely leak directly
into the neutrino target (gadolinium loaded liquid scintillator),
they can get captured on surrounding materials, in particular, stainless steel,
i.e. Fe, Mn, Cr, Ni, etc, and emit gamma rays
ranging from 6 to 10 MeV. These high energy gamma rays,
later referred to as SS-capture gammas, are difficult
to shield, leading to two kinds of background due to accidental
and correlated coincidences: a) the SS-capture gammas
can be in random delayed coincidence with ambient gamma
background, mimicking the IBD signals, and b) if multiple neutrons
are emitted per decay, or a neutron is emitted with a correlated gamma ray,
or a neutron is producing gammas via inelastic scattering, they
can form real correlated background to the IBDs. The
signal to background ratio at the far site
drives the requirements to the neutron sources:
\begin{itemize}
\item the accidental background to be less than
5\% of the IBD signal at the far site. Such
a background can be statistically subtracted;
\item the correlated background to be less than 0.5\% of the
IBD signal at the far site, i.e. $<0.35$ per day. Such a background can
be estimated via
Monte Carlo (MC) simulation and benchmarked by special control data.
\end{itemize}

For a typical neutron source inside the ACU, a GEANT4 \cite{G4} simulation with
realistic detector geometry predicts that the SS-capture gamma ray leaking
into the detector satisfying the IBD delay energy cut is approximately
$2\times10^{-3}$ per neutron. Taking into account the
$\sim$70 Hz singles rate~\cite{DYB12} and 200 $\mu$s coincidence window,
the first requirement translates into a limit of the neutron rate per source
$<$1 Hz.

\section{Design of the neutron source}
\label{sec:design}

\subsection{Selection of neutron source}
There are several types of commonly used compact neutron
calibration sources, e.g. fission sources
such as $^{252}$Cf, ($\alpha$,n) sources such as $^{241}$Am-Be,
and photo-neutron sources such as $^{124}$Sb-Be
. For the third type, photo-neutron cross section is of the order millibarns,
implying the need for a rather strong driving gamma source. Due to
low background considerations, this option was rejected early on.

A $^{252}$Cf source emits multiple neutrons per fission together with gammas.
Typical ($\alpha$,n) sources have correlated gamma neutron emission
when the final state nucleus is in an
excited state. As mentioned earlier,
such sources would inevitably lead to correlated background in the AD,
in addition to the accidental
background. Just to set the scale, the predicted correlated
background for $^{252}$Cf and $^{241}$Am-Be sources are 2.6/day and 1.3/day,
respectively, assuming a 0.5 Hz neutron rate.

The alphas from $^{241}$Am are $\sim$5.5 MeV.
To eliminate correlated gamma rays emission,
$^{7}$Li would be a good candidate target since such alpha energy
can only produce ground state $^{10}$B.
However, the most common and chemically inert Li compound is LiF, and
($\alpha$,n) on $^{19}$F creates a significant amount of high energy gamma rays.

$^{13}$C is the final candidate. We note that $^{241}$Am-$^{13}$C can produce
neutrons with the final state $^{16}$O either in the ground state, and
the first or second excited state. The first excited state of $^{16}$O decays
into a e$^+$e$^-$
pair, which will be stopped by the source enclosure and surrounding materials
\footnote{The stopped e$^+$ would annihilate into two back-to-back 0.511 MeV gammas,
which can hardly deposit enough energy in the AD to cross the trigger threshold.}.
The second excited state of $^{16}$O will emit a 6.13 MeV gamma ray,
producing correlated background together with the neutron. However if the energy of $\alpha$ is
attenuated
to below 5.11 MeV, this correlated $\gamma$-neutron process can be eliminated
entirely. Based on all considerations above, we selected
$^{241}$Am-$^{13}$C as the neutron source, further requiring that
$E_{\alpha} < 5.11$ MeV.

\section{Physical Design}
\subsection{$^{241}$Am Sources}
\label{sec:alpha}
$^{241}$Am discs from NRD Inc., 5-mm in diameter, were procured with 4.5 MeV
alpha energy as
a key specification (custom energy was achieved by varying the thickness
of the electrodeposited gold
coating).  The activity of
$^{241}$Am is approximately 28 $\mu$Ci, and is deposited on
one side of the disc only.
Measurements of the emitting alpha energy were performed at Caltech
in a vacuum
chamber with
a Si detector. The raw energy spectrum
from the $^{241}$Am source is shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:nrd_attenuated}.
Also overlaid is the energy spectrum from a standard $^{241}$Am
source~\footnote{A typical
alpha calibration source has a thin front window of 100$\mu$g/cm$^2$, which
attenuates the 5.5 MeV alpha energy only by about 22 keV.}.
It was discovered that although the alpha energy for the NRD sources is
peaked around 4.6 MeV, the distribution is rather broad,
all the way up to 5.5 MeV.
The same measurements were performed
on multiple discs and the results were consistent.
In order to further reduce the alpha energy, 1~$\mu$m thick gold
foil was purchased from Alfa Aesar and attached to the front surface
of a NRD source. The attenuated energy spectrum is overlaid in Fig.~\ref{fig:nrd_attenuated}.
\begin{figure}[!htbp]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=4in]{NRD_attenuated.pdf}
  \caption{\it Measured alpha spectra with (blue) and without (red)
    the 1 $\mu$m gold foil. The spectrum from a standard $^{241}$Am
    $\alpha$ source (5.5MeV)
    (black) is overlaid for reference.}
  \label{fig:nrd_attenuated}
\end{figure}
Compared to that without the gold foil, the entire energy spectrum
was shifted by about 0.5 MeV, as expected.
Out of about 20000 total alphas, no events were
observed beyond 5.11 MeV threshold.
\subsection{Expected neutron rate and energy spectrum}
A GEANT4 program was developed to calculate the neutron rate from the source.
To simulate the one-sided NRD source, the alphas were generated
in random directions in the active hemisphere with
energy sampled from the spectrum in Fig.~\ref{fig:nrd_attenuated} (the red histogram).
The energy loss of the alphas in 1~$\mu$m gold and $^{13}$C was simulated by
GEANT4.
GEANT4 tracks alphas until they are stopped.
When an alpha enters $^{13}$C, for each step $i$
along the track, one computes a step weight (which gets summed at
the end of the event)
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:weight0}
\mathrm{weight_{i}} = \sigma(E_{\alpha,i})\times d_i\,,
\end{equation}
where $E_{\alpha,i}$ is the mean alpha energy in this step, $d_i$ is the
step length and $\sigma(E_{\alpha,i})$ is the $^{13}$C($\alpha$,n)
reaction cross section. The total neutron rate can then be calculated as
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:rate}
  R_n = R_{\alpha} \times \displaystyle\sum_{i} \mathrm{weight_i}
  \times \displaystyle\frac{\rho_{^{13}C} \cal{N}_A}{13}\,
\end{equation}
where $R_{\alpha}$ is the alpha emission rate, $\rho_{^{13}C}$ is the density
of $^{13}$C, and $\cal{N}_A$
is the Avogadro's number.
The outgoing neutron energy spectrum was obtained by generating a
neutron in random direction (but not tracked) with respect to the alpha momentum
in each tracking step in $^{13}$C, with its energy calculated
based on 2-body elastic scattering kinematics. Each neutron was assigned
a step weight as in Eqn.~\ref{eq:weight0}.
The resulting neutron energy spectrum is shown in
Fig.~\ref{fig:neutronEnergy}.
One sees that on average the neutron energy is 4 MeV, with a
tail extending to 6.5
MeV or so. The neutron energy-angle (where $\theta$ is the angle
relative to the normal of the active alpha surface) correlated distribution is shown
in Fig.~\ref{fig:energy_angle}. Clearly, neutrons heading
opposite to the ``active'' side of the alpha source have significantly
lower energy.

\begin{figure}[!htbp]
\centering
\subfigure[\it Energy spectrum]
{    \label{fig:neutronEnergy}
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{AmC_neutron_energy_spectrum.pdf}
}
\subfigure[\it Energy-angle correlation]
{
  \label{fig:energy_angle}
  \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{neutron_energy_angle.pdf}
}
\caption{\it
  a) Simulated neutron energy spectrum from the $^{241}$Am-$^{13}$C source: black=total,
  red=heading out from the active side of $^{241}$Am (``up''), blue=heading
  opposite to the active side of $^{241}$Am (``down''). The fraction of neutrons
  with energy $>$4.4 MeV is 33\%, 50\%, and 16\% for ``total'', ``up'',
  and ``down'' distributions, respectively.
  b) Simulated neutron energy vs. angle distribution. See text for details.
}
\label{fig:neutron_energy_energy}
\end{figure}

High energy neutrons could inelastically scatter with materials surrounding
and inside the detector, e.g. stainless steel, $^{12}$C, etc, and produce
gamma rays along the way, introducing correlated background
when being detected in delayed coincidence with the
final SS-capture gammas. To reduce such a residual background, we
chose to use the source with the active side of the $^{241}$Am facing up to
reduce the energy of the downward going neutrons.

\section{Mechanical Design and Fabrication}
\label{sec:fab}
Pure $^{13}$C is immediately available in powder form. To get a good neutron flux,
it is important to have the $^{241}$Am in close and uniform contact with $^{13}$C.
Alpha leakage is a serious contamination,
so such a source should also be very safely sealed.

The mechanical design
\footnote{A switchable source design \cite{switchable_source} was considered to further
reduce background, but it was given up due to the complexity in automating the switch.}
of the $^{241}$Am-$^{13}$C source is shown in
Fig.~\ref{fig:enclosure}.
\begin{figure}[!htbp]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=3.5in]{AmC_design_zoom.pdf}
  \caption{\it Mechanical drawing of the $^{241}$Am-$^{13}$C source assembly. See text for
  more details.}
  \label{fig:enclosure}
\end{figure}
A stainless cup with 5 mm inner diameter is the holder for $^{13}$C, which is
pressed into a solid form. $^{241}$Am source, Au foil, and $^{13}$C
are sandwiched tightly. The stainless cup will be enclosed in an acrylic
enclosure made out of three pieces: the bottom cup which houses the stainless
cup; a plunger that presses $^{241}$Am, the Au foil, and $^{13}$C together,
and the top flange that seals the entire assembly. The seals between
the acrylic pieces are made using the Weld-on 3 (volatile, water thin)
acrylic cement \cite{weld_on}. Such a design went through a standard test procedure
and obtained the State of California Certificate of
Sealed Sources, which was a key requirement to transport these
sources to Daya Bay.

\section{Quality controls}
\label{sec:meas}
Twenty-eight $^{241}$Am-$^{13}$C sources were fabricated at Caltech,
twenty-four of which were transported to
Daya Bay after a quality control (QC) process. During QC,
we set up a neutron detector in a
low background environment, and measured the neutron rates
from these sources.
The detector assembly consists of an array of 4
NaI detectors (15$\times$15$\times$30 cm), and neutrons are detected via
\begin{equation}
  {}^{127}I + n \rightarrow {}^{128}I + \gamma \rm (\sim 6 MeV)\,.
\end{equation}
Schematic views of the setup are shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:ndet_schematic}.
\begin{figure}[!htbp]
\centering
\subfigure[\it Top view]
{
    \label{fig:topview}
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{topview.pdf}
}
\subfigure[\it Side view]
{
  \label{fig:sideview}
  \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{sideview.pdf}
}
\caption{\it
  Schematic views of the neutron detector setup.
}
\label{fig:ndet_schematic}
\end{figure}
Due to the relatively low neutron emission rate in our $^{241}$Am-$^{13}$C sources,
external background had to be significantly reduced
to achieve a tolerable signal to background ratio.
We placed a detector into a subbasement lab on Caltech campus, with
an overburden of about 6 meters consisting of 1 meter of
concrete and 5 meters of dirt to shield against cosmogenic neutron
background. The assembly was shielded against ambient
gamma rays by lead bricks of about 2 inch (5.08 cm) thick.
Two scintillator paddles
($\sim$ 60 cm $\times$ 60 cm $\times$ 2.5 cm)
were placed on the top and one on the bottom of the assembly to
serve as a muon veto with an efficiency measured to be $\sim$ 95\%.
The $^{241}$Am-$^{13}$C neutron source to be assayed was placed at
the center of the detector assembly to maximize the acceptance.
The threshold of each NaI was set at $\sim$3 MeV. Any over-threshold
hit in a NaI generated a first level trigger which, in combination with
the veto signals from the muon paddles (30$\mu$s window), formed the main
trigger to read out the ADCs/TDCs.
The residual background neutron-like rate,
summed over all four NaI detectors, is about 1.4 (0.25) Hz without (with)
the muon veto enforced.

The neutron detection efficiency was calibrated with a
standard 2.7 kHz $^{252}$Cf neutron source.
The energy spectrum of the capture gammas
is shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:n_det_demo}.
\begin{figure}[!htbp]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=4in]{ncap_NaI.pdf}
  \caption{\it Detected energy spectra for neutron sources
    with background subtracted.
    Black: spectrum from standard $^{252}$Cf,
    Red: a typical $^{241}$Am-$^{13}$C source, scaled
    for visual clarity.}
  \label{fig:n_det_demo}
\end{figure}
One clearly observes the iodine capture gamma ``bump''.
When setting an energy cut between 4.5 and 8 MeV,
the neutron detection efficiency is calibrated to be $5\pm1\%$, where the uncertainty
is dominated by the absolute neutron rate.
For our weak $^{241}$Am-$^{13}$C sources, a measurement cycle consists of a
24-hour overnight background counting run, followed by a 24-hour overnight ``signal''
run. Statistical subtraction was made to extract the neutron source
signals.
The shape of the extracted neutron signals is roughly consistent with
that from the calibrated sources in Fig.~\ref{fig:n_det_demo}.
The measured neutron rates of all 24 neutron sources are summarized
in Fig.~\ref{fig:nrate}.
\begin{figure}[!htbp]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=4in]{nrate.pdf}
  \caption{\it Summary of the rate of the neutron sources measured on the bench.
  Only statistical errors are shown.
  The larger error bars of the last two points were due to an increase of background.}
  \label{fig:nrate}
\end{figure}
The average neutron rate per source is 0.56 Hz, with a maximum variation of $\pm$15\%
from source to source and an overall systematic
uncertainty of 20\% due to detection efficiency. This clearly satisfies our low rate
requirement highlighted in Sec.~\ref{sec:requirements}.

\section{Performance of the neutron sources at Daya Bay}
\label{sec:dayaanalysis}
Neutron sources were shipped to Daya Bay and installed in the ACUs during the
detector assembly (detailed in \cite{ref:ACU}).
To achieve a minimum background, at the parking location inside the
ACU the neutron source is surrounded by a borated polyethylene cylinder (BPE)
with 5 inch height and 2.25 inch wall thickness. Below the cylinder,
there is another BPE disk with 3.25 inch in diameter and 2.5 inch in
thickness acting as further shield.

Neutron sources are used extensively in calibrating the detector
response, which has been reported in \cite{DYBNIM12,DYBCPC}.
We limit the discussions
here to some basic performance of these sources.
When the sources are deployed into the detector,
the proton recoil and the
following capture
gammas form time-correlated pairs, similar to IBD signals.
The average neutron rate
as measured in the detector is 0.7 Hz, consistent with the QC measurements at Caltech.
In Fig.~\ref{fig:AmC_on-site}, the prompt-delayed energy spectrum, as well as
the time separation in between for an $^{241}$Am-$^{13}$C source deployed in an AD is shown, overlaid
with the expected distribution from MC. All distributions
agree well with MC expectations. We observe no evidence
of the 6.1 MeV gamma emission, confirming that the key design specification is
met. The residual background introduced by these neutrons is quite
small~\cite{DYB12}. The details of the evaluation will be discussed in
a separate article~\cite{ref:AmC}.
\begin{figure}[!htbp]
\centering
\subfigure[\it Prompt energy spectrum]
{
    \label{fig:Ep}
    \includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{ep.pdf}
}
\subfigure[\it Delayed energy spectrum]
{
  \label{fig:Ed}
  \includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{ed.pdf}
}
\subfigure[\it Prompt-delay time separation]
{
  \label{fig:dt}
  \includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{dt.pdf}
}
\caption{\it
  Reconstructed prompt (a) and delayed (b) energy spectra, as well as the time separation
  between the two (c). The data and MC simulation are normalized to equal area and overlaid.
}
\label{fig:AmC_on-site}
\end{figure}

\section{Summary}
We have discussed the design and construction of the special compact
and low rate neutron sources in the Daya Bay experiment.
The performance of the low background neutron sources has been proven
to satisfy the design specifications at Daya Bay. Such sources could be
used in other experiments requiring low backgrounds.

\label{sec:summary}

\section{Acknowledgments}
This work was done with support from the US DoE,
Office of Science, High Energy Physics, the US National Science Foundation,
the Natural Science Foundation of China Grants 11175116, the Chinese
MOST grant 2013CB834306, and Shanghai Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology at
the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
This work is supported in part by the CAS Center for
Excellence in Particle Physics (CCEPP).

We gratefully thank Dick Hahn from BNL
for his critical guidance in making these
sources. We also thank David Jaffe from BNL
for his intellectual input. The technical support from
the Kellogg technical team Ray Cortez and Jim Pendlay,
particularly Ray's design work, is truly indispensable. We also appreciate
the safety guidance from the Caltech radiation safety officers Haick
Issaian and Andre Jefferson, and on-site logistical support
from Xiaonan Li of IHEP.

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Q: Question about inversion images
"Let $W$ be a circle with center $O$ and radius $r$. Let $S$ be a point outside
  the circle. Let $l_1$ and $l_2$ be two tangent lines to the circle $W$ passing through the point $S$ . Let $T_1$ and $T_2$  be the points of tangency of these lines with the circle. Show that
  the point of intersection of the segments $OS$ and $T_1$$T_2$ is the image of $S$ under inversion in $W$"

I really do not know how to get started with this question, apart from knowing that $OS$*$OS' = R^2$ where $R$ is the radius of the new circle. Help?

A: Let $X$ be an intersection point of $T_1T_2$ and $OS$. Since circle around $XT_1S$ touches $OT_1$ we have, by the PoP of $O$ with respect to that new circle:$$ r^2 =OT_1^2 = OC \cdot OS$$
and we are done.

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Q: Why directly changing a migrate file does not change the schema file? My current migrate file is
class CreateMovies < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def up
    create_table :movies, :force => true do |t|
      t.string :title
      t.string :rating
      t.text :description
      t.datetime :release_date
      # Add fields that let Rails automatically keep track
      # of when movies are added or modified:
      t.timestamps
    end
  end

  def down
    drop_table :movies
  end
end

I try to change release_date type to integer. So I directly change the file to
class CreateMovies < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def up
    create_table :movies, :force => true do |t|
      t.string :title
      t.string :rating
      t.text :description
      t.integer :release_date
      # Add fields that let Rails automatically keep track
      # of when movies are added or modified:
      t.timestamps
    end
  end

  def down
    drop_table :movies
  end
end

Please pay attention, the release_date type has been changed. But after I run

bundle exec rake db:migrate

It still produce the same schema file as before. I am so confused.

A: It's probably because you've already run your migration. So before you want to change it, you should rollback it first:
bundle exec rake db:rollback

then you should modify it and run again:
bundle exec rake db:migrate

A: As an alternative to dropping and upping the migration, you could make a new migration to change the column type.
class ChangeMoviesReleaseTypeToInteger < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def up
    change_column :movies, :release_date, :integer
  end

  def down
    change_column :movies, :release_date, :datetime
  end
end

Just as a side note, release_date is a confusing name for an integer field - most people would expect it to be a datetime as you had originally.

A: down will remove the table

rake db:migrate:down VERSION=file_name(exclude extension)

up will create with new changes
rake db:migrate:up VERSION=file_name(exclude extension)


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My labor eventually progressed and Mikaela was there again when I needed her the most. Again, she was supposed to be off work but she asked to come in to work to take care of me. I'm so grateful she did. She proposed different techniques/positions I could take to help progress labor. She was so encouraging to keep my spirits up during my laboring. I had read a lot about laboring and the birth process but she knew of advanced techniques and assessments skills to help me during my most difficult part of laboring. I can only imagine she knew about these because of continued education she participates in to keep her as up-to-date as possible.
During my prenatal visits, my obstetrician commented regularly about my placenta giving out. Mikaela suggested to the doctor that laboratory testing be performed on my placenta so that we would have the information for future pregnancies. I am so grateful she initiated this as it never crossed my mind to have it tested.
Obviously Mikaela couldn't be my nurse continuously for the whole four days I was in Labor and Delivery. She thoroughly briefed the other nurses of the decisions which had been made, my induction situation, and my birth preferences so the transitions without her would be seamless. She played a very difficult role between advocating for me, her patient, as well as working as part of the medical establishment where certain norms and traditions are expected. It's obvious her colleagues, nurses and medical doctors, think the highest professionally of her. She balanced that role she played with precision.
Mikaela gave her all to me when she was and wasn't scheduled to be on shift and also when she wasn't actually working. I knew that she had other patients and duties to be taking care of but she never once gave me the impression that, that was so. I was always made to feel that I was at the center of her attention. From my patient perspective, she performed her duties well-beyond what could have been expected. But there is so much more behind the scenes that she did for me, I'm sure of, that I am not aware of. The day after I gave birth, she finally had a day off. That day, she still cared for us by shopping for my new baby and writing us words of encouragement.
I would never have expected, in a hospital setting, to have had this continuity of nursing care and at the skill level and compassion with which I received it. I hear the term "above and beyond" exhaustively used all the time for people performing their normal job duties. Mikaela, on the other hand, truly defines and sets the gold standard for this term. Being taken care of by Mikaela was for me the manifestation of God taking care of me.


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Nicki Lentz Nielsen Squats 396 Kg To Snag New Equipped IPF World Record
Nielsen set the new squat world record in the -93kg weight class at the IPF's European Open.
Last updated on May 3rd, 2019
Nicki Lentz Nielsen set a new squat world record in the -93kg weight class at the IPF's European Open, Sub-Junior & Junior Equipped Powerlifting Championships in Pilsen, Czech Republic on Thursday.
Nielsen squatted 396 kg, or 873 pounds to snag the new equipped IPF world record. The world standard was 395 kg/870.8 pounds, however no one to date had that beat until Nielsen's record-setting lift this week. For a little context, Nielsen has competed at two previous European Championships, 2017 and 2016. In 2017, he finished in fourth place in the raw -93kg weight class with a 289.9 kg squat, 172.5 kg bench press, and 282.49 kg deadlift for a total of 744.98 kg.
It couldn't be more clear what two years has done for Nielsen, since he massively improved his squat performance by 106.1 kg.
Nielsen jumped for joy immediately after completing the squat, perhaps knowing right away he had not only met the world standard, but surpassed it.
The IPF's European Open showcased an equipped event, which is very different than a raw event. At the Open we also covered powerlifter Kjell Bakkelund who took home gold with a total of 900 kg/1984 pounds in the -74 kg weight class.
Like Bakkelund, Nielsen has been focusing more on equipped lifting recently and his training certainly seems to be paying off, given his last raw competition squat was over 100 kilograms less than the world record he just set.
[To find out more about the differences between raw and equipped powerlifting, Blaine Sumner breaks it down]
At the Open there were other impressive squat performances. A World Sub-Junior record squat was set by Russia's Ilia Marichev in the -59 kg weight class. He squatted 242.5 kg, or 534.6 pounds.
It seems to only be the beginning for Nielsen who not only set a new world record, but looked steady, strong, and confident the whole way through. Whether he decides to compete raw or equipped, one thing is for certain he has plenty of big lifts ahead.
Feature image via European Powerlifting Federation on Youtube.


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Stock futures tread water after Fed turns more accommodative
Amy Caren Daniel ,
Traders work on the floor at the NYSE in New York
By Amy Caren Daniel
(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures were subdued on Thursday, a day after the Federal Reserve abandoned projections for any interest rate hikes this year amid signs of an economic slowdown.
At the conclusion of its two-day monetary policy meeting on Wednesday, the central bank brought its three-year drive to tighten monetary policy to an abrupt end, and released details of a plan to end the monthly reduction of its balance sheet.
Shares of U.S. lenders, which are sensitive to interest rates, took a hit after the statement.
Citigroup Inc, Bank of America Corp and JPMorgan Chase & Co fell between 0.10 and 0.47 percent in light premarket trading on Thursday.
"The decision by the Fed to go all in on the dovish pivot caught markets off guard, with investors expecting a more cautious and gradual approach from a central bank that typically errs on the more hawkish side," Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda in London, wrote in a note.
"Whether this is a sign that policy makers are genuinely concerned about the economy in 2019 or that they've finally bowed to external pressure, it's certainly a bold move."
A dovish Fed and hopes of a resolution to the ongoing trade war between United States and China have spurred a rally in stocks this year, with the S&P 500 now about 4 percent away from its record closing high in September.
Investors will now keep a close watch on trade talks between the United States and China as U.S. trade delegates travel to Beijing to resume negotiations.
President Donald Trump warned on Wednesday that Washington may leave tariffs on Chinese goods for a "substantial period" to ensure that Beijing complies with any trade agreement.
At 6:37 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis were down 18 points, or 0.07 percent. S&P 500 e-minis were down 0.5 points, or 0.02 percent and Nasdaq 100 e-minis were up 10.5 points, or 0.14 percent.
Among stocks, Micron Technology Inc rose 3.6 percent after the chipmaker said it sees a recovery in the memory chip market coming and reported a quarterly profit that beat estimates.
Boeing Co slipped 0.4 percent after pressure mounted on the world's largest planemaker in Washington as U.S. lawmakers called for executives to testify about two crashed 737 MAX jets.
Economic data on tap includes initial claims for state unemployment benefits, which are expected to have fallen to 225,000 in the week ended March 16 from 229,000 in the previous week. The data is due at 8:30 a.m. ET.
(Reporting by Amy Caren Daniel and Medha Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva)