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'Ghost Hunters' Wraps Phenomenal 4th Season!
Sci Fi spins the numbers for Wednesday, December 10.
[via press release from Sci Fi]
SCI FI Channel is #1 Cable Network Wednesdays at 9 PM
Series Achieves Historic Channel Highs Among Women and Younger Viewers
SCIFI.COM's 'Ghost Hunters' Site Up Double Digits vs. Season 3
NEW YORK, NY�December 11, 2008�On Wednesday night, SCI FI's hit reality series Ghost Hunters wrapped its best season ever in all key demographics. Airing from 9-10pm, the season 4 finale episode delivered a 1.9 Household rating, 1.6 million Adults 18-49, 1.7 million Adults 25-54 and 2.8 million total viewers, making Ghost Hunters the #1 cable program in its timeslot for both Adults 18-49 and Adults 25-54. Compared to the season 3 finale (11/14/07), this is up +19% in Household rating, +11% in Adults 18-49, +20% in Adults 25-54 and +32% in total viewers.
Season 4 averaged a 2.0 HH rating, 2.8 million total viewers, 1.8 million Adults 25-54 and 1.7 million Adults 18-49 � all series highs. Compared to season 3 of the series, this is up +33% in Household rating, +41% in total viewers, +43% in Adults 25-54 and +33% in Adults 18-49.
This season, Ghost Hunters continued to prove its popularity among female and younger viewers, averaging highs of 938,000 Females 18-49 and 986,000 Females 25-54, both representing the best full-season performances ever for any SCI FI original series in these demographics. Among viewers 18-34, the series averaged 746,000 viewers � also the best full-season performance ever for any SCI FI original series.
Other season 4 ratings highlights include:
In Ghost Hunters' Wednesday 9pm-10pm timeslot, SCI FI is the #1 cable network in 2008 for Adults 18-49 and Adults 25-54
Nine of the network's top ten original series telecasts ever among Females 25-54 were Ghost Hunters season 4 episodes, including the #1 telecast on 10/22/08 (1.2 million Females 25-54).
Seven of SCI FI's top ten original series telecasts for Adults 18-34 viewers were Ghost Hunters season 4 episodes
�For Adults 18-49, this is the second-highest full-season delivery ever for a SCI FI original series, trailing only the first season of Battlestar Galactica.
�For Adults 25-54, this is the 3rd-highest full-season delivery ever for a SCI FI original series.
SCIFI.COM was a popular destination for Ghost Hunters fans, whose frequent visits to the site made this is the best season ever for the series online in all key metrics. In its fourth season (3/5 � 12/10), Ghost Hunters delivered 28 million page views (up +80% vs. season 3), 3 million uniques (up +16%), and 8.5 million video streams (up +125% from GH Season 3). Viewers also flocked to join the all-new Ghost Hunters social network, Join the Hunt, which has delivered 2.5 million page views since its launch on October 25.
This January, viewers can get their Ghost Hunters fix with all-new episodes of the series' successful spin-off, Ghost Hunters International, starting January 7, 2009 @ 9 PM. Ghost Hunters season 5 will premiere in March 2009.
In October 2004, SCI FI introduced Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson � plumbers by day, Ghost Hunters by night! Enjoying record-high ratings throughout its run, the series is currently celebrating its highest-rated season ever. Its spin-off series, Ghost Hunters International, has continued to cement the Ghost Hunters brand as the top paranormal franchise in cable since its January debut. The franchise just expanded further with the greenlight of a brand-new pilot, Ghost Hunters: College Edition. Ghost Hunters, Ghost Hunters International and Ghost Hunters: College Edition are produced in association with Craig Piligian's Pilgrim Films and Television (Dirty Jobs, The Ultimate Fighter, In Harm's Way). Piligian and Thomas Thayer, along with Rob Katz and Alan David, serve as executive producers.
SCI FI Channel is a television network where "what if" is what's on. SCI FI fuels the imagination of viewers with original series and events, blockbuster movies and classic science fiction and fantasy programming, as well as a dynamic Web site (www.scifi.com ) and magazine. Launched in 1992, and currently in 93 million homes, SCI FI Channel is a network of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies.
· GHOST HUNTERS INTERNATIONAL (SYFY)


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Electronic / RF Noise Measurement
RF electronic noise is a major performance limiting factor in many applications which means it needs to be measured to quantify and improve performance.
Electronic & RF Noise Includes:
Noise basics Noise measurement
RF noise topics: Avalanche noise Burst noise Flicker noise Phase noise Shot noise Thermal noise
Noise is a very important factor in most electronic circuits. In many instances the level of noise is important and its level needs to be measured to ensure that it is within acceptable limits, or it needs to be measured so that the levels can be improved.
In view of this it is necessary to have standard methods of assessing and measuring noise levels, and then specifying them.
In this way the RF noise levels can be measured and then compared with other similar circuits and items of test equipment.
Noise as seen on an oscilloscope
Noise specifications
There are many ways of specifying noise in electronic circuits. The way it is specified depends upon the application.
One of the first ways in which noise was specified was related to radio receivers. Here noise specifications relate to the receiver sensitivity and include specifications including signal to noise ratio, noise figure and the like.
Note on Receiver Sensitivity:
The main limiting factor on receiver sensitivity is noise. Accordingly receiver sensitivity specifications revolve around noise specifications. The chief receiver specifications are signal to noise ratio, SINAD and noise figure. Each looks at the receiver performance with respect to noise.
For many other applications, the noise spectral density is used. This is a measure of the noise power within a certain bandwidth. Noise power density has the dimension of power / frequency.
Typically the specification is specified in dBm and within a 1 Hz bandwidth, i.e. dBm / Hz.
Interestingly the thermal noise in a 50Ω system at room temperature is -174 dBm / Hz.
It is then easy to relate this to other bandwidths:
(Δf) Hz
Thermal Noise Power
1 -174
10 -164
1k -144
10k -134
Noise measurement techniques
There are many ways of measuring noise in an electronic of RF system. There are specialised meters for measuring noise figure, SINAD, and other figures. Apart from these, standard test equipment may also be used.
Meter method: It is possible to utilise a simple meter and other elements to measure noise levels. The concept of noise measurement system can be explained by looking at what is required.
Simple noise measurement system
The noise measurement system shows a typical measurement circuit. Noise generated by the unit under test is amplified to a suitable level - the gain of the amplifier must be known.
The meter used should have an averaging capability, because the noise level is random and will vary. While most digital meters have an averaging capability, analogue meters inherently average any changes.
Spectrum analyser: Most modern spectrum analysers have built in capabilities for measuring noise levels. The analyser settings should be selected to ensure that the optimum conditions are set. These will depend to a large degree on the analyser used.
Phase noise as seen on a spectrum analyzer
Noise measurement precautions
One of the easiest ways of measuring noise levels is to use a spectrum analyser. It is able to determine the noise power in a given bandwidth. This can then be related to another bandwidth by scaling the power level measured to the required bandwidth.
However there are other factors to take into account.
Filter shape: As the spectrum analyser filter shape is not completely square and needs a finite band to change from its pass-band to its stop-band, this shape needs to be accommodated when calculating the noise in a given bandwidth.
Filter responses for noise measurement
Fortunately this is a simple calculation for modern analysers that can give readings of noise power in a given bandwidth - this is often normalised to dBm / Hz.
Spectrum analyser noise performance: The noise performance of the spectrum analyser must be better than the noise to be measured. If this is not the case then the readings given will just reflect the performance of the spectrum analyzer and not that of the unit under test..
The noise performance of many electronic and radio frequency circuits is crucial to the operation of the whole item. Everything from radio receivers, to audio amplifiers and then on to items like cameras are all dependent upon the noise performance of various areas of the overall system and it is necessary to noise measurements to be made.
More Basic Electronics Concepts & Tutorials:
Voltage Current Power Resistance Capacitance Inductance Transformers Decibel, dB Kirchoff's Laws Q, quality factor RF noise Waveforms
Return to Basic Electronics Concepts menu . . .
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A: Look! There is a beautiful girl.
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A: I have no time to attend the single party this weekend. What a pity!
B: There will not be a single party this weekend.
A: Once upon a time, there was a clever hunter in the forest.
B: Why do fairy tales always begin with "Once upon a time"?
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess called Snow White.
There wasn't a school sport game on the playground yesterday morning.
( ) 1. There ______ a lot of people on the square every evening.
( ) 2. Oh! There isn't enough ______ for us in the lift.
It doesn't matter, let's wait for the next.
( ) 3. There ______ a good movie on TV tomorrow evening.
( ) 4. ______ there any water in the glass?
( ) 5. There are some boys ______ basketball in the park.
( ) 6. There is ______ fruit in the fridge; we need to buy some.


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Kieran is an extremely beautiful woman.
Reiner told us that we should leave right away.
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I've asked Darci to stay.
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Linda put his hand out to stop Jurevis.
Ning was always a quiet child.
Rupert was released from prison on Monday.
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Don is off work for a few days.
I didn't know you were related to Sandra.
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Jerald has published many papers on the subject.
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Jay's house burned down in 2013.
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ABCT
Professionals and Students
and Continuing
ABCT AWARDS HOME
Fellow Status
The Fellows Committee has decided to review the original criteria and their fit with our current and evolving membership. Please visit our Fellow page for a report of the current state of the Fellows program, along with a listing of ABCT Fellows.
THE ABCT AWARDS PROGRAM RECOGNIZES AND SALUTES INDIVIDUALS FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FIELD OF BEHAVIORAL AND COGNITIVE THERAPY AND THE INSTITUTIONS THAT HAVE HELPED TO TRAIN MANY OF THESE VERY PEOPLE.
Career/Lifetime Achievement
Awarded to members of ABCT in good standing who have made significant contributions over a number of years to cognitive and/or behavior therapy.
Outstanding Contribution by an Individual for Clinical Activities
Awarded to members of ABCT in good standing who have provided significant contributions to clinical work in cognitive and/or behavioral modalities. (This award alternates with the Outstanding Researcher Award and the Outstanding Education/Training Award)
Outstanding Contribution by an Individual for Educational/Training Activities
Awarded to members of ABCT in good standing who have provided significant contributions toward educating and training behavior therapists. (This award alternates with the Outstanding Clinician Award and the Outstanding Researcher Award)
Outstanding Contribution by an Individual for Research Activities
Awarded to members of ABCT in good standing who have provided significant contributions to the literature advancing our knowledge of behavior therapy. (This award alternates with the Outstanding Clinician Award and the Outstanding Education/Training Award)
Sobell Innovative Addictions Research Award
Renowned addiction researchers Drs. Mark and Linda Sobell have generously sponsored the Sobell Innovative Addictions Research Award. This award will be given in alternate years to an ABCT member who has developed a novel and innovative (1) line of research or (2) assessment or analytic tool or method that advances the understanding and/or treatment of addictions. This award emphasizes behavioral and/or cognitive research or research methods that have yielded exceptional breakthroughs in knowledge.
Mid-Career Innovator
Eligible candidates are members of ABCT in good standing who are at the associate professor level or equivalent midcareer level, and who have made significant innovative contributions to clinical practice or research on cognitive and/or behavioral modalities. (This award alternates with the Outstanding Clinician Award, the Outstanding Education/Training Award, and the Outstanding Researcher Award).
Outstanding Mentor
Awarded to members of ABCT in good standing who have encouraged the clinical and/or academic and professional excellence of psychology graduate students, interns, postphoto, and/or residents. Outstanding mentors are considered those who have provided exceptional guidance to students through leadership, advisement and activities aimed at providing opportunities for professional development, networking and future growth. Appropriate nominators are current or past students of the mentor. (This Award Rotates with Outstanding Training Program Award)
Outstanding Training Program
This award will be given to a training program that has made a significant contribution to training behavior therapists and/or promoting behavior therapy. Training programs can include graduate (doctoral or master's), predoctoral internship, postdoctoral programs, institutes, or continuing education initiatives.
Distinguished Friend to Behavior Therapy
Eligible candidates for this award should NOT be members of ABCT, but are individuals who have promoted the mission of cognitive and/or behavioral work outside of our organization.
Anne Marie Albano Early Career Award for Excellence in the Integration of Science and Practice
The purpose of this award is to recognize early career professionals who share Dr. Albano's core commitments. This award includes a cash prize to support travel to the ABCT Annual Meeting and to sponsor participation in a clinical treatment workshop. Eligibility requirements are as follows: 1) Candidates must be active members of ABCT, 2) New/Early Career Professionals within the first 10 years of receiving his or her doctoral degree (PhD, PsyD, EdD). Preference will be given to applicants with a demonstrated interest in and commitment to child and adolescent mental health care.
Michael J. Kozak Critical Inquiry and Analytical Thinking Award
"Clarity of writing reflects clarity of thinking." This statement reflects the overarching goal that Michael J. Kozak sought to achieve himself and that he vigorously encouraged others to reach as well. His penchant for critical inquiry cut across contexts: whether in providing cognitive-behavioral treatment itself, offering supervision of treatment, in scientific inquiry and writing, or in advising investigators about how to put their grant applications in the best possible position for success. Accordingly, recipients of this award should embody this same spirit in their own work. Awarded in alternate years
The Francis Cecil Sumner Excellence Award
The purpose of the award is to acknowledge and promote the excellence in research of an ABCT student or early career professional who is Black or Indigenous. This statement reflects the underrepresentation of Black and Indigenous scholars in academia along with the overarching goal of ABCT to support its student and early career professionals of color.
This award recognizes outstanding individuals who are not members of ABCT but who have shown exceptional dedication, influence, and social impact through the promotion of evidence-based interventions and who have thereby advanced the mission of ABCT.
Visit our Champions page for full details on how to nominate and for a full listing of champions
Student Dissertation Awards
Virginia A. Roswell Student Dissertation Award
Leonard Krasner Student Dissertation Award
John R. Z. Abela Student Dissertation Award
Each award will be given to one student based on his/her doctoral dissertation proposal. The research should be relevant to behavior therapy. Accompanying this honor will be a monetary award (see above) to be used in support of research (e.g., to pay participants, to purchase testing equipment) and/or to facilitate travel to the ABCT convention. Eligible candidates for this award should be student members who have already had their dissertation proposal approved and are investigating an area of direct relevance to behavior therapy, broadly defined. A student's dissertation mentor may complete the nomination. Self-nominations are also accepted. Nominations must be accompanied by a letter of recommendation from the dissertation advisor.
Student Travel Award
This award is designed to recognize excellence among our student presenters and to aid in allaying some of the significant travel costs associated with presenting at the convention. Accompanying this honor will be a monetary award ($500) to be used to facilitate travel to the ABCT convention. Nominees must be speaking at the ABCT annual convention as a symposium presenter (i.e., first author on a symposium talk); student members of ABCT in good standing; enrolled as a student at the time of the convention, including individuals on predoctoral internships but excluding postbaccalaureates. To be eligible, students must first have their symposium or panel submission for this year's ABCT convention accepted for presentation. Awards are highly competitive and preference is given to projects demonstrating student initiation and independence and innovation for the field. Additional requirements and submission instructions are available on the Student Travel Award Application.
Submissions for the Student Travel Award will be accepted until July 24, 2020
SUBMISSION APPLICATION
Outstanding Service to ABCT
This award is presented to a person who has actively demonstrated exceptional dedication, persistence, excellence, and rigor regarding the association's operation and activities.
Elsie Ramos Memorial Student Poster Awards
This award is given to student first authors whose posters have been accepted for presentation at ABCT's Annual Convention. The winners each receive an ABCT Student Membership and a complimentary general registration at ABCT's next Annual Convention. To be eligible, students must first have their poster submission for this year's ABCT convention accepted for presentation. Student first authors are then invited by email to submit for consideration for the award. Eligible applicants must be student members of ABCT in good standing and enrolled as a student at the time of the convention. Awards are highly competitive and preference is given to projects demonstrating student initiation and independence and innovation for the field. Additional requirements and submission instructions are available on the Elsie Ramos Memorial Student Poster Award Application.
Submissions for the Elsie Ramos Memorial Student Poster Awards will be accepted until July 24, 2020
President's New Researcher
Graduate Student Research Grant
2021 Call for Award Nominations
The ABCT Awards and Recognition Committee, chaired by Sara R. Elkins, Ph.D., of University of Houston Clear Lake is pleased to announce the 2021 awards program. Nominations are requested in all categories listed below. Given the number of submissions received for these awards, the committee is unable to consider additional letters of support or supplemental materials beyond those specified in the instructions below. Please note that award nominations may not be submitted by current members of the ABCT Board of Directors.
Eligible candidates for this award should be members of ABCT in good standing who have made significant contributions over a number of years to cognitive and/or behavior therapy. Recent recipients of this award include Thomas H. Ollendick, Lauren B. Alloy, Lyn Abramson, David M. Clark, Marsha Linehan, Dianne L. Chambless, Linda Carter Sobell and Mark B. Sobell, and Philip C. Kendall. Applications should include a nomination form (available at www.abct.org/awards), three letters of support, and the nominee's curriculum vitae. Please e-mail the nomination materials as one pdf document to ABCTAwards@abct.org. Include "Career/Lifetime Achievement" in the subject line.
Nomination deadline: March 1, 2021
NOMINATION APPLICATION
This award will be given to a training program that has made a significant contribution to training behavior therapists and/or promoting behavior therapy. Training programs can include graduate (doctoral or master's), predoctoral internship, postdoctoral programs, institutes, or continuing education initiatives. Recent recipients of this award include the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at SUNY Albany, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Predoctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Clinical Psychology Training Program, the Charleston Consortium Psychology Internship Training Program, Clinical Science Ph.D. Program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, and Florida State University's Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program. Please complete the on-line nomination form at www.abct.org/awards. Then e-mail the completed form and associated materials as one pdf document to ABCTAwards@abct.org. Include "Outstanding Training Program" in your subject heading.
Eligible candidates for this award should be members of ABCT in good standing who have provided significant contributions to the literature advancing our knowledge of behavior therapy. Recent recipients of this award include Alan E. Kazdin, David H. Barlow, Terence M. Keane, Thomas Borkovec, Steven D. Hollon, Michelle Craske, and Jennifer P. Read. Applications should include a nomination form (available at www.abct.org/awards), three letters of support, and the nominee's curriculum vitae. Please e-mail the nomination materials as one pdf document to ABCTAwards@abct.org. Include "Outstanding Researcher" in the subject line.
The Francis C. Sumner Excellence Award
The Francis Cecil Sumner Excellence Award is named in honor of Dr. Sumner, the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in psychology in 1920. Commonly referred to as the "Father of Black Psychology," he is recognized as an American leader in education reform. This award can be given on an annual basis, awarded in even years to a graduate student and in odd years to an early career professional within the first 10 years of terminal degree. Candidate must be a current member of ABCT at the time of the awards ceremony and priority will be given to students and professional members of ABCT at the time of the nomination. The award is intended to acknowledge and promote the excellence in research, clinical work, teaching, or service by an ABCT member who is a doctoral student or early career professional within 10 years of award of the PhD/PsyD/EdD/ScD/MD who identifies as Black or Indigenous. The award is given to recognize that Black and Indigenous practitioners and scholars are underrepresented in clinical psychology, despite making important contributions to our field. The Francis Cecil Sumner Excellence Award is meant to reflect the overarching goal of ABCT supporting its members of color. The recipient will receive $1,000 and a certificate. Please complete the online nomination materials at www.abct.org/awards. Then email the nomination materials as one PDF document to ABCTAwards@abct.org. Include "Francis C. Sumner Award" in the subject line.
Dr. Anne Marie Albano is recognized as an outstanding clinician, scientist, and teacher dedicated to ABCT's mission. She is known for her contagious enthusiasm for the advancement of cognitive and behavioral science and practice. The purpose of this award is to recognize early career professionals who share Dr. Albano's core commitments. This award includes a cash prize of $1,000 to support travel to the ABCT Annual Convention and to sponsor participation in a clinical treatment workshop. Eligibility requirements are as follows: (1) Candidates must be active members of ABCT, (2) New/Early Career Professionals within the first 10 years of receiving his or her doctoral degree (PhD, PsyD, EdD). Preference will be given to applicants with a demonstrated interest in and commitment to child and adolescent mental health care. Applicants should submit: nominating cover letter, CV, personal statement up to three pages (statements exceeding 3 pages will not be reviewed), and 2 to 3 supporting letters. Application materials should be emailed as one pdf document to ABCTAwards@abct.org. Include candidate's last name and "Albano Award" in the subject line.
"Clarity of writing reflects clarity of thinking." This statement reflects the overarching goal that Michael J. Kozak sought to achieve himself and that he vigorously encouraged others to reach as well. His penchant for critical inquiry cut across contexts: whether in providing cognitive-behavioral treatment itself, offering supervision of treatment, in scientific inquiry and writing, or in advising investigators about how to put their grant applications in the best possible position for success. Dr. Kozak was always in search of clarity. Accordingly, recipients of the Michael J. Kozak Critical Inquiry and Analytical Thinking Award from ABCT should embody this same spirit in their own work. Michael was able to achieve this high standard and promote its achievement in others with great skill and kindness, so recipients should also conduct themselves in such a way in their professional lives. This award will be given in alternate years. The recipient will receive $1,500 and a plaque. Please complete the online nomination materials at www.abct.org/awards. Then email the nomination materials as one PDF document to ABCTAwards@abct.org. Include "Michael J. Kozak Award" in the subject line.
Virginia A. Roswell Student Dissertation Award ($1,000)
Leonard Krasner Student Dissertation Award ($1,000)
John R. Z. Abela Student Dissertation Award ($500)
Each award will be given to one student based on his/her doctoral dissertation proposal. Accompanying this honor will be a monetary award (see above) to be used in support of research (e.g., to pay participants, to purchase testing equipment) and/or to facilitate travel to the ABCT convention. Eligibility requirements for these awards are as follows: 1) Candidates must be student members of ABCT, 2) Topic area of dissertation research must be of direct relevance to cognitive-behavioral therapy, broadly defined, 3) The dissertation must have been successfully proposed, and 4) The dissertation must not have been defended prior to November 2020. Proposals with preliminary results included are preferred. To be considered for the Abela Award, research should be relevant to the development, maintenance, and/or treatment of depression in children and/or adolescents (i.e., under age 18). Self-nominations are accepted, or a student's dissertation mentor may complete the nomination. The nomination must include a letter of recommendation from the dissertation advisor. Please complete the nomination form found online at www.abct.org/awards. Then e-mail the nomination materials (including letter of recommendation) as one pdf document to ABCTAwards@abct.org. Include candidate's last name and "Student Dissertation Award" in the subject line.
President's New Researcher Award
ABCT's 2020-21 President, David F. Tolin, Ph.D., invites submissions for the 43rd Annual President's New Researcher Award. The winner will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $500. The award will be based upon an early program of research that reflects factors such as: consistency with the mission of ABCT; independent work published in high-impact journals; and promise of developing theoretical or practical applications that represent clear advances to the field. Requirements: must have had terminal degree (Ph.D., M.D., etc.) for at least 1 year but no longer than 5 years (i.e., completed during or after 2015); must submit an article for which they are the first author (in press, or published during or after 2018); 2 letters of recommendation must be included; self-nominations are accepted; the author's CV, letters of support, and paper must be submitted in electronic form. Applicants from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds, or whose work advances our understanding of behavioral health disparities, are particularly encouraged to apply. E-mail the nomination materials (including letter of recommendation) as one pdf document to PNRAward@abct.org. Include candidate's last name and "President's New Researcher" in the subject line.
The ABCT Research Facilitation Committee is sponsoring a grant of up to $1000 to support graduate student research. The grant will be awarded based on a combination of merit and need. Eligible candidates are graduate student members of ABCT seeking funding for an unfunded (including internal sources of funding) thesis or dissertation project that has been approved by either the faculty advisor or the student's full committee.
Applications should include all of the materials listed in GSRG Application Guidelines and one letter of support from a faculty advisor.
Please email the application, excluding the advisor letter, in a single pdf to the chair of the Research Facilitation Committee, Shannon Sauer-Zavala, PhD, at ssz@uky.edu. Include "Graduate Student Research Grant" in your subject heading.
Please ask your faculty advisor to e-mail a letter of support separately.
Application deadline: March 1, 2021
Nominations for the following award are solicited from members of the ABCT governance:
Please complete the nomination form found online at www.abct.org/awards. Then e-mail the completed form and associated materials as one pdf document to ABCTAwards@abct.org. Include "Outstanding Service" in the subject line.
This award is solicited by the current ABCT President and is judged by the President, Past President, and incoming President of the Association. The award will be based upon an early program of research that reflects factors such as: consistency with the mission of ABCT; independent work published in high-impact journals; and promise of developing theoretical or practical applications that represent clear advances to the field While nominations consistent with the conference theme are particularly encouraged, submissions will be accepted on any topic relevant to cognitive behavior therapy, including but not limited to topics such as the development and testing of models, innovative practices, technical solutions novel venues for service delivery, and new applications of well-established psychological principles. Submissions must include one paper copy of both the paper and the author's vita and supporting letters (if the latter are included) and an email to: PNRAward@abct.org. Eligible papers must (a) be authored by an ABCT member with five years or less posttraining experience (e.g., post-Ph.D. or post-residency); and (b) have been published in the last two years or currently be in press. The winner receives a certificate and a cash prize of $500.
Submission deadline: March 2, 2020
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Here is CyanogenMod 9 for Huawei Mediapad.
- Wrong country detection in Google Play over wifi with turned off radio.
Instructions: !!!Be aware that im not responsible for any damage that can cause this rom!!!
2. Then download CM9 for Huawei Mediapad, Gapps and place them on your sdcard (not internal memory).
3. Boot in TWRP Recovery, then choose Backup and check cust partition, then Swipe to back up (you will get full backup of stock rom).
Pls notice, that this recovery can make backup only of /cust partition, not /hwcust like in international roms.
4. Press back to go to main menu and choose Wipe there, then press Factory reset, then System (thats important, 'cause update zip cant format ext4 system partition).
5. Press back again and choose Install, then find downloaded zip rom, choose it and Swipe to Confirm Flash.
6. Press back again and choose Install, then find downloaded zip with Gapps, choose it and Swipe to Confirm Flash.
- vendor tree with all needed propietary files: https://github.com/aftersilence/andr...0u_proprietary.
- CM9 for Huawei Mediapad - Alpha 2 - 13.08.2012.
- CM9 for Huawei Mediapad - Alpha 1 - 07.08.2012.
- fixed problems with gallery.
- CM9 for Huawei Mediapad - Alpha0-Preview1 - 03.08.2012.
Nice work! I hope you or someone will fix wifi soon.
does it support hi-res mode?
Cm9 doesnt support changing DPI from Settings (like in stock mediapad rom) but its can be easily adjusted on any rom from build.prop.
why does wifi driver not work ?
is he maybe complaining about "firmware_softap_path" ?
and for the radio ? what seem to be the issue ?
Need to dig further, i have not tried anything about it for now.


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Die Olympus OM-30,Olympus OM-F in Nordamerika, ist eine Kleinbild-Spiegelreflexkamera (35-mm-Film) mit Autofokus, die aber nur mit dem speziellen Objektiv Zuiko Auto-Zoom 1:4/35-70 mm Auto Focus funktioniert.

Technische Daten

 Produktion OM-30: 1983 bis 1987 von Olympus Optical Co., Japan
 Abmessungen: 134 × 85 × 50 mm
 Gewicht: (Gehäuse allein) 430 Gramm
 Sucher: Pentaprisma-Sucher mit 93 % Sichtfläche; fest eingebaute Einstellscheibe mit Schnittbildindikator und Mikroprismenring, dazu elektronische Einstellhilfen (LED)
 Belichtungszeiten: 2 - 1/1000 s und B.
 Verschlussart: Tuch-Schlitzverschluss mit Zeitensteuerung von ca. 2 bis 1/1000 s, horizontal ablaufend. Eine Spiegeldämpfung ist im Gegensatz zur OM-1 und OM-2 nicht vorhanden.
 Belichtungsmessung: Die Kamera verfügt nur über eine Zeitautomatik. Die Belichtungsmessung bei der Olympus OM-30 erfolgt durch das Objektiv (TTL) bei geöffnetem Verschluss. Es wird das durch den Sekundärspiegel, das Referenzmuster und Film reflektierte Licht gemessen ("off the film", OTF; auch "autodynamische" Steuerung genannt).
 Belichtungskorrektur ±2 Blendenstufen in 1/3-Stufen.
 Blitz: fest eingebauter Blitzschuh über dem Prisma; Synchronzeit 1/60 s, keine Blitzsteuerung von der Kamera.
 Selbstauslöser: elektronisch, 12 Sekunden Vorlauf, mit akustischem Signal.
 Filmtransport: manuell bzw. mit angeschlossenem Winder und Motorantrieb
 Stromversorgung: 5 Silberoxid-Knopfzellen (SR44)

Besonderheiten
Die OM-30 war der erste zaghafte Versuch, das OM-System in die Zeit des Autofokus zu bringen. Dafür lieferte Olympus ein spezielles Objektiv aus, das Zuiko Auto-Zoom 1:4/35-70 mm Auto Focus. Alle anderen Objektive waren auch nutzbar, allerdings ohne den Autofokus. Dafür konnten die elektronischen Einstellhilfen unter dem Sucherbild (zwei Pfeile um die Richtung anzuzeigen, in welche fokussiert werden muss und ein Rechteck für korrekten Fokus) genutzt werden. Gleichzeitig kann die richtige Schärfe durch ein (abschaltbares) Piepsignal angezeigt werden. Das Schärfeindikationssystem benötigt aber wesentlich mehr Strom als alle anderen OM-Kameras. Drei der fünf Zellen werden für die elektronischen Einstellhilfen benötigt.
Interessant war auch die Möglichkeit der Schärfefalle, wenn ein Motorantrieb angesetzt war. Kam das zu fotografierende Objekt in die Schärfeebene, löst die Kamera automatisch aus.

Zuiko Auto-Zoom 1:4/35-70 mm Auto Focus
Im Gegensatz zu modernen Autofokus-Objektiven ist in diesem Objektiv die Autofokuseinheit im Objektiv eingebaut; das Licht wird über einen Strahlenteiler teilweise auf das Autofokusmodul geleitet. Das bedingt aber, dass das Objektiv lichtschwächer ist als andere. Das System war generell nicht auf Höhe der Zeit, da es sehr langsam war und das Objektiv als unhandlich zu bezeichnen ist.
Wurde das Objektiv an eine andere OM-Kamera als an die OM-30 angeschlossen, so konnte man es im Powerfocus-Modus verwenden.

Weblinks

 http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Olympus_OM-10/20/30/40
 Olympus OM-30 in olypedia.de
 Olympus OM-System in olypedia.de

Literatur
 Benutzerhandbuch in Englisch: http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~rwesson/esif/om-sif/bodygroup/manuals/om30.pdf

OM30

en:Olympus OM system#OM-30

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
#if SILVERLIGHT
#else
using System.Reflection;
#endif

namespace Microsoft.Media.Advertising
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Wraps a MAST Condition, applying the appropriate logic
    /// </summary>
    internal class ConditionManager : IDisposable
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The condition we are managing
        /// </summary>
        public Condition Condition { get; protected set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Our MAST Interface to player/system, events and properties
        /// </summary>
        public IMastAdapter MastInterface { get; protected set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Our child conditions - these are treated as boolean 'AND'.  If we evaluate to true, we need to also check each child.
        /// </summary>
        public List<ConditionManager> Children = new List<ConditionManager>();

        public ConditionManager ParentCondition { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// The event we'll fire to our Trigger parent if the event we are monitoring from the MAST Interface fires.
        /// </summary>
#if SILVERLIGHT
        public event EventHandler EventFired;
#else
        public event EventHandler<object> EventFired;
#endif

        /// <summary>
        /// Track this so we can unwire our event
        /// </summary>
        Action eventUnhookAction;

        public bool IsEndCondition = false;

        public ConditionManager(Condition condition, IMastAdapter mastInterface)
        {
            if (condition == null)
            {
                throw new NullReferenceException("Condition must not be null");
            }
            if (mastInterface == null)
            {
                throw new NullReferenceException("IMastAdapter must not be null.");
            }

            Condition = condition;
            MastInterface = mastInterface;

            if (condition.Type == ConditionType.Event)
            {
#if SILVERLIGHT
                var eventHandler = ReflectionHelper.AttachEvent(MastInterface, condition.Name, this, "OnEventFired");
                eventUnhookAction = () => ReflectionHelper.DetachEvent(MastInterface, eventHandler);
#else

                switch (condition.Name)
                {
                    case "OnPlay":
                        MastInterface.OnPlay += OnEventFired;
                        eventUnhookAction = () => MastInterface.OnPlay -= OnEventFired;
                        break;
                    case "OnStop":
                        MastInterface.OnStop += OnEventFired;
                        eventUnhookAction = () => MastInterface.OnStop -= OnEventFired;
                        break;
                    case "OnPause":
                        MastInterface.OnPause += OnEventFired;
                        eventUnhookAction = () => MastInterface.OnPause -= OnEventFired;
                        break;
                    case "OnMute":
                        MastInterface.OnMute += OnEventFired;
                        eventUnhookAction = () => MastInterface.OnMute -= OnEventFired;
                        break;
                    case "OnVolumeChange":
                        MastInterface.OnVolumeChange += OnEventFired;
                        eventUnhookAction = () => MastInterface.OnVolumeChange -= OnEventFired;
                        break;
                    case "OnEnd":
                        MastInterface.OnEnd += OnEventFired;
                        eventUnhookAction = () => MastInterface.OnEnd -= OnEventFired;
                        break;
                    case "OnSeek":
                        MastInterface.OnSeek += OnEventFired;
                        eventUnhookAction = () => MastInterface.OnSeek -= OnEventFired;
                        break;
                    case "OnItemStart":
                        MastInterface.OnItemStart += OnEventFired;
                        eventUnhookAction = () => MastInterface.OnItemStart -= OnEventFired;
                        break;
                    case "OnItemEnd":
                        MastInterface.OnItemEnd += OnEventFired;
                        eventUnhookAction = () => MastInterface.OnItemEnd -= OnEventFired;
                        break;
                    case "OnFullScreenChange":
                        MastInterface.OnFullScreenChange += OnEventFired;
                        eventUnhookAction = () => MastInterface.OnFullScreenChange -= OnEventFired;
                        break;
                    case "OnPlayerSizeChanged":
                        MastInterface.OnPlayerSizeChanged += OnEventFired;
                        eventUnhookAction = () => MastInterface.OnPlayerSizeChanged -= OnEventFired;
                        break;
                    case "OnError":
                        MastInterface.OnError += OnEventFired;
                        eventUnhookAction = () => MastInterface.OnError -= OnEventFired;
                        break;
                    case "OnMouseOver":
                        MastInterface.OnMouseOver += OnEventFired;
                        eventUnhookAction = () => MastInterface.OnMouseOver -= OnEventFired;
                        break;
                }

                //ReflectionHelper.AttachEvent(MastInterface, condition.Name, new EventHandler(OnEventFired));
#endif
            }

            //Wire up our child conditions.  Note - only top level conditions can be based on events, or things would get weird.
            foreach (Condition c in Condition.Conditions)
            {
                if (c.Type == ConditionType.Event)
                {
                    throw new Exception("Event classed conditions can not be children");
                }
                ConditionManager cm = new ConditionManager(c, MastInterface) { ParentCondition = this };
                Children.Add(cm);
            }
        }

        public void DoOnEventFired()
        {
            OnEventFired(this, EventArgs.Empty);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Fires from the MAST Interface event, if wired up
        /// </summary>
#if SILVERLIGHT
        public void OnEventFired(object sender, EventArgs args)
#else
        public void OnEventFired(object sender, object args)
#endif
        {
            if (EventFired != null)
            {
                EventFired(this, args);
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Called by our parent to evaluate our condition
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public bool Evaluate()
        {
            if (Condition == null) return false;

            //always return true here- this way we can properly evaluate children that may be property-based when our event fires.
            if (Condition.Type == ConditionType.Event) return true;

            //otherwise we know it's a property, get the value, we'll need it.
            object val = ReflectionHelper.GetValue(MastInterface, Condition.Name);

            //do a fancy comparison
            if (CompareValue(val, Condition.Value))
            {
                //check children - implicit 'AND'
                foreach (ConditionManager cm in Children)
                {
                    if (!cm.Evaluate()) return false;
                }

                //if none of our children failed, then we're still good.
                return true;
            }

            //if were here, compare returned false
            return false;
        }

        #region Type / value Comparisons

        /// <summary>
        /// Compare two values, with the appropriate operator
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="prop"></param>
        /// <param name="val"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        private bool CompareValue(object prop, string val)
        {
            string typeName = prop.GetType().Name.ToLower();
            switch (typeName)
            {
                case "string":
                    return CompareString(prop, val);
                case "timespan":
                    return CompareTimeSpan(prop, val);
                case "datetime":
                    return CompareDateTime(prop, val);
                case "boolean":
                    return CompareBool(prop, val);
                default:
#if SILVERLIGHT
                    if (prop.GetType().IsPrimitive)
#else
                    if (prop.GetType().GetTypeInfo().IsPrimitive)
#endif
                    {
                        //it's not bool or string, must be a number, right?
                        return CompareNumber(prop, val);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        //unknown type
                        throw new Exception(string.Format("The property type '{0}' is unknown. ", prop.GetType().Name));
                    }
            }
        }

        private bool CompareNumber(object prop, string val)
        {
            double p = (Double)prop;
            double v = Convert.ToDouble(val);

            switch (Condition.Operator)
            {
                case Operator.EQ:
                    return (p == v);
                case Operator.NEQ:
                    return (p != v);
                case Operator.GTR:
                    return (p > v);
                case Operator.GEQ:
                    return (p >= v);
                case Operator.LT:
                    return (p < v);
                case Operator.LEQ:
                    return (p <= v);
                case Operator.MOD:
                    return (p % v == 0);
                default:
                    //unsupported operator
                    throw new Exception(string.Format("The operator {0} is not supported for '{1}' property types. ", Condition.Operator, prop.GetType().Name));
            }
        }

        private bool CompareString(object prop, string val)
        {
            int res = string.Compare(Condition.Value, val, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase);

            switch (Condition.Operator)
            {
                case Operator.EQ:
                    //TODO - make option for case sensitivity?  for now stick to ignoring case
                    return (res == 0);
                case Operator.NEQ:
                    return (res != 0);
                case Operator.GTR:
                    return (res > 0);
                case Operator.GEQ:
                    return (res >= 0);
                case Operator.LT:
                    return (res < 0);
                case Operator.LEQ:
                    return (res <= 0);
                default:
                    //unsupported operator
                    throw new Exception(string.Format("The operator {0} is not supported for '{1}' property types. ", Condition.Operator, prop.GetType().Name));
            }
        }

        private bool CompareTimeSpan(object prop, string val)
        {
            TimeSpan p = (TimeSpan)prop;
            TimeSpan v = TimeSpan.Parse(val);

            switch (Condition.Operator)
            {
                case Operator.EQ:
                    return (p == v);
                case Operator.NEQ:
                    return (p != v);
                case Operator.GTR:
                    return (p > v);
                case Operator.GEQ:
                    return (p >= v);
                case Operator.LT:
                    return (p < v);
                case Operator.LEQ:
                    return (p <= v);
                case Operator.MOD:
                    return ModTimeSpans(p, v);
                default:
                    //unsupported operator
                    throw new Exception(string.Format("The operator {0} is not supported for '{1}' property types. ", Condition.Operator, prop.GetType().Name));
            }
        }

        private bool CompareDateTime(object prop, string val)
        {
            DateTime p = (DateTime)prop;

            //special behavior for mod - compareing a timespan to a datetime
            if (Condition.Operator == Operator.MOD)
            {
                TimeSpan t = TimeSpan.Parse(val);
                ModTimeSpans(p.TimeOfDay, t);
            }

            DateTime v = DateTime.Parse(val);

            switch (Condition.Operator)
            {
                case Operator.EQ:
                    return (p == v);
                case Operator.NEQ:
                    return (p != v);
                case Operator.GTR:
                    return (p > v);
                case Operator.GEQ:
                    return (p >= v);
                case Operator.LT:
                    return (p < v);
                case Operator.LEQ:
                    return (p <= v);
                default:
                    //unsupported operator
                    throw new Exception(string.Format("The operator {0} is not supported for '{1}' property types. ", Condition.Operator, prop.GetType().Name));
            }
        }

        readonly List<CancellationTokenSource> cancellationTokens = new List<CancellationTokenSource>();
        private bool ModTimeSpans(TimeSpan prop, TimeSpan val)
        {
            TimeSpan remainder = prop;
            while (remainder >= val) remainder -= val;
            //exact match - but that's a slim chance, so give a little slop
            if (prop == val || prop - val <= TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100)) return true;

            if (prop > TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100))
            {
                var cancellationToken = new CancellationTokenSource();
                cancellationTokens.Add(cancellationToken);
#if SILVERLIGHT && !WINDOWS_PHONE || WINDOWS_PHONE7
                TaskEx
#else
                Task
#endif
                .Delay(prop, cancellationToken.Token).ContinueWith(t =>
                {
                    if (t.IsCompleted)
                    {
                        DoOnEventFired();
                    }
                    cancellationTokens.Remove(cancellationToken);
                    cancellationToken.Dispose();
                }, TaskScheduler.FromCurrentSynchronizationContext());
            }

            return false;
        }

        private bool CompareBool(object prop, string val)
        {
            switch (Condition.Operator)
            {
                case Operator.EQ:
                    //TODO - make option for case sensitivity?  for now stick to ignoring case
                    return ((bool)prop == ConversionHelper.ParseBool(val));
                case Operator.NEQ:
                    return ((bool)prop != ConversionHelper.ParseBool(val));
                default:
                    //unsupported operator
                    throw new Exception(string.Format("The operator {0} is not supported for '{1}' property types. ", Condition.Operator, prop.GetType().Name));
            }
        }

        #endregion

        public void Dispose()
        {
            foreach (var cancellationToken in cancellationTokens)
            {
                cancellationToken.Cancel();
                cancellationToken.Dispose();
            }
            cancellationTokens.Clear();

            if (eventUnhookAction != null)
            {
                eventUnhookAction();
                eventUnhookAction = null;
            }

            foreach (ConditionManager cm in Children)
            {
                cm.Dispose();
            }
        }
    }
}

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The ladies at Curves South Surrey recently donated $615 to the Hot Lunch Program at Sources Women's Place, bringing their total amount donated to over $3,000 since December 2014!
In addition to monetary donations, the members of Curves South Surrey, led by owner Dean Eickmeier (pictured, left), have donated clothing items for the Clothing Exchange at Women's Place.
The Hot Lunch Program offers a nutritious and tasty hot lunch to women and their children every Tuesday – Friday from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The Clothing Exchange provides quality women's clothing (casual and business attire) along with children's and infant outfits. Shoes, bags and hats are also available.
Last year, Curves' fundraising initiatives enabled us to serve over 6,500 free lunches to women and children and made it possible for over 4,000 women and children to receive free clothing. With this latest donation, we will be able to provide even more.
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I've not been out buying much at all this year because… well… look at the previous post. I hardly need to. I've got to work out all the things causing the storage problem. Got to get it all in booths. And we are making progress! Deciding to bypass Etsy has made a huge difference. I can just slap a price on something and get it out of here. But there was a moving sale in my neighborhood last weekend that I knew I couldn't miss. Prices turned out to be a bit more than I was willing to spend, but I still came home with some pretty good things. These are a few. I didn't get pictures of everything. It was a case of didn't get a lot, but what I got was good.
Then there was this little green toolbox.
So I'm estimating these letters and toolbox to be at least 35-40 years old. But the writing on the end will never do. I tried rubbing Goof Off on the writing and got the dark black off, but the writing remained, albeit faded. What did I do then? Something really stupid. Will I ever learn? I let the Goof Off sit. Whaaaaa!!!
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Now all you need to do is ask your smart phone's personal assistant and navigating system, and you, too, can be like Homer Simpson! And with everyone going around town asking WWHD?, Homer is having an identity crisis of his own. And if that wasn't enough, Marge finds a new calling as the new Springfield Courthouse sketch artist.


Recently, we watched a great documentary on Netflix called "Between The Folds." The program was an exploration of all the ways where the ancient art of paper folding meet up with the modern world of science and mathematics. Watching the show brought to mind a book we have had on our shelf since 2004, but have not really taken the time to dive into, Origami Design Secrets by Robert Lang. Inspired by the movie, we decided to spend a day with the book and see what we could do.
Origami (ori meaning folding, gami meaning paper) started in Japan around the 17th century. However, it may also have evolved independently in other parts of the world. Regardless of where and when the art originated, systematic study of it did not occur until the 1980s. In 2003, Robert Lang published the definitive work, Origami Design Secrets , on the techniques and the mathematics behind this ancient art. In order to describe how the folds are executed, Lang introduced a set of very precise terms, basic steps, and building blocks. With these fundamental units, he shows how very complexand intricate shapes can be created.
While the final creation is a thing of wonder, the crease pattern is itself a thing of beauty. I wonder if there is anyone who can look at one of these patterns and make the folds in their head. Now that would be cool!
Before we fry our brain with mind-folding, we probably should make a few simple folds with our hands (and some paper). The crane, flower, and fish are probably good ones to attempt. Hopefully, folding them will put us into the proper mindset for the more difficult efforts.
A dozen or so folds later, we are starting to get the hang of making a sharp crease, reverse folding, and most important of all…unfolding. Some folds can't be made over a previous fold, so you have to be willing to unfold it to make the next one. Yeah, that made no sense to us neither, until we went and did it. Even though our efforts were not precise enough to make a tiny crane which will fit inside a Christmas ornament, we felt confident enough from the results to attempt a more complicated fold. The hummingbird looked challenging, but not unreasonably difficult. We decided to give it a try.
Some of the folds were definitely more challenging than those we had to make for the earlier projects. Lang's directions were quite detailed, but even with the large number of diagrams and explanations, there were a couple of folds we just could not figure out how to make. Still, the final humming bird came out reasonably close to the picture.
One thing we noticed while folding was a sense of relaxation even while focusing intensely. Not sure if it was because both the hands and the brain were engaged at the same time. It was an interesting sensation and something we look forward to feeling again soon.


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In our "Dear John" series, Dr. Walker answers questions from our Chapter members. An experienced, knowledgeable, and pastoral member, he has graciously accepted the board's invitation to lead an "advice" column for our chapter newsletter. Many thanks to Dr. John Walker for taking up this challenge. If you have an organ, choral, or church music question, please use our contact form to submit your question to Dr. Walker. He will then choose one question to answer each month.
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Mass Sighting Memorial Still Draws A Crowd
Chris Capps November 29, 2010
In 1966 a group of students and teachers were involved in a game of football when suddenly an object descended from the sky and approached a field near them. As the witnesses all gasped in amazement, the object then simply waited for several minutes before eventually taking off back into the sky. The students involved in the incident were so shocked by what happened that they would eventually come back years later in order to commemorate the event which would become known as the Westall UFO Encounter.
The encounter began simply enough. A strange object first seen in the sky interrupted a game and as they all shielded their eyes against the glare of the sun it swooped down into a nearby field behind some trees and disappeared from sight. The object was approximately the size of two automobiles and was disc shaped. As the witnesses watched with excited curiosity, others quickly descended on the scene. And quite quickly the number of total witnesses had swelled from just a few dozen to well over 200 people. After a half hour of waiting in shocked amazement, the object ascended from behind the trees and proceeded to then shoot off into the distance. It's still unknown what precisely the origin of the object was, although several witnesses reported that it was exactly like the flying saucers everyone was talking about.
Theories on what the object could have been are still being tossed around even today as witnesses on April 6, 2006 descended once again on the field. Though they at first came to the field expecting an uneventful day, what they would eventually find was an incredible display of mystery that would haunt them with a sense of wonderment all the way into the next millennium. Future informal reunions have been planned, but even if they do not gather in person to commemorate the strange events, these witnesses will most certainly commemorate them in mind.
And if the story is not strange enough already, there is one additional detail. After the object ascended back into the sky, several aircraft were spotted shooting after it at a low altitude as it made its expeditious retreat away from the scene. The aircraft were reportedly terrestrial in origin, and looked like conventional commercial Cessna craft very similar in appearance to planes we would see on runways every day. The RAAF, during an unofficial investigation, checked their logs and discovered that no such aircraft were in the area. It would, however, seem fairly similar to many reports striking the popular culture of the UFO phenomenon today with mysterious planes of unknown origin following UFOs with just as much mystery as the craft they tailed.
Though it was almost fifty years ago, the mass sighting of this craft has largely fallen into the pages of antiquity and away from the public eye's scrutiny. But perhaps the witnesses will one day all see another incredible sight during one of their reunions, and learn the truth behind what they saw that morning.
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B.C. auto insurance drops some private investigators for 'cyber team' that evaluates claims by mining social media
The Crown auto agency won't be hiring as many private eyes, as the corporation shifts investigations to an internal team that does much of the investigative work online
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VICTORIA — The Insurance Corp. of B.C. says it is increasingly shifting its fraud investigations onto an internal team of cyber analysts, who can dig into a person's digital activities to see if they are lying about injury claims.
The Crown auto agency put out a tender last week to pre-qualify a new fleet of private investigation firms that can help it conduct surveillance, canvass neighbourhoods, comb through financials records, reconstruct accident scenes and use other investigative techniques to prove people are being honest when they claim compensation for injuries in vehicle accidents or try to obtain a drivers licence.
But it won't be hiring nearly as many private eyes as it did just a few years ago, as the corporation shifts investigations to an internal team that it says can do much of the same investigative work online.
"We have also seen our use of private investigators decline in recent years due to us refining our processes and increasing our in-house expertise and capacity to undergo investigations into potentially fraudulent claims," said ICBC spokesman Adam Grossman.
"We have our own cyber team within our Special Investigations Unit which looks into potentially exaggerated or fraudulent claims and carries out many of the activities previously performed by private investigators, such as social media searches."
As many as 15 per cent of the 900,000 insurance claims ICBC receives annually contain an element of fraud or exaggeration, the corporation has said. Fraud costs each of ICBC's three million customers between $100 and $150 each year.
ICBC said in the past it used more private investigators than needed, spending as much as $14 million in 2009 on more than 100 firms. ICBC now only retains 25 firms, with no guarantee of the amount of work they'll get, and spends around $5.5 million on private investigators.
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ICBC opened more than 6,300 investigations in 2014 for claims and driver licensing fraud, which resulted in 131 charges against 100 people and a conviction rate of 90 per cent, said Grossman.
The move away from private investigators — who could conduct physical surveillance on a claimant, take video and interview their neighbours, friends and family — appears in part a result of people's willingness to put more information about themselves on the Internet.
ICBC's cyber team mines that potential treasure trove of pictures and status updates from Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites.
The Professional Investigators' Association of B.C. said private, properly-licensed, firms still have a role in helping ICBC in complex cases, including those involving organized crime.
"It certainly is more cost effective to find information by going through social media and open source analysis, however there's always times where other investigative methods provide significant value," said Taras Hryb, a Vancouver investigator who chairs the association's ICBC committee.
"And those do require more time. Especially when it comes to organized crime, some of these people are very sophisticated and may not be as vulnerable in the digital world as might be someone who posts themselves on vacation water-skiing when they're apparently on disability."
ICBC's increased focus on in-house digital investigations is often used to intimidate people in court, especially those who don't have lawyers, said Chris Carta, a Vancouver lawyer from the Trial Lawyers Advocacy Group who specializes in ICBC personal injury cases.
A lot of time they are using it to try to scare people
"A lot of time they are using it to try to scare people," he said. "They often won't tell you exactly what they've got, they'll list investigative report."
It offers a "distorted view" of many people's lives, because they post mainly happy events on Facebook and social media feeds, even if they are suffering physically from an accident, said Carta.
Carta said the quality of ICBC's investigations has declined in recent years as it reduced the use of private investigative firms.
rshaw@vancouversun.com


Allegations against Rep. Ilhan Omar center around her 2009-2017 marriage to a British citizen named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who appears to be her brother. Omar is alleged to have married Elmi in the service of federal felonies: immigration fraud and student loan fraud. (While the latter may seem comparably minor, the penalties for a falsified FAFSA are severe: a $20,000 fine and up to five years in prison. Also, a falsified FAFSA implicates the accused in years of subsequent fraudulent filings with the IRS.) Additionally, there is evidence of state felonies: marriage fraud, and multiple instances of perjury during her 2009 marriage filings and her 2017 divorce proceedings.
Just months after getting married in Minnesota in 2009, Rep. Omar and Ahmed Elmi moved to Fargo, North Dakota. They both enrolled at North Dakota State University.
They both attended NDSU between 2009 and 2011. And that -- according to Rep. Omar herself -- was effectively the end of the marriage.
See the documents posted above: During her 2017 divorce proceedings, Rep. Omar swore under penalty of perjury that she never again had contact with Ahmed Elmi after June 2011. She filed for a default divorce, attesting that she could not locate Elmi to serve him the papers.
Without context, a brief marriage to a foreign national which begins and ends while both spouses attend the same university is not necessarily worth investigating.
However, Rep. Omar -- per her own statement -- had married another man, Ahmed Hirsi, by Islamic ceremony in 2002. And publicly available address records show that Ahmed Hirsi also moved to North Dakota from 2009 until 2011.
There was no "break" for Omar and Hirsi.
All three, in fact -- Omar, Hirsi, and Elmi -- are recorded to have been living together in North Dakota at the same address in 2009. All three are then recorded as living together at a second North Dakota address in 2010-2011.
Then, Rep. Omar herself -- perhaps in a moment of carelessness -- admitted to a reporter in 2013 that Hirsi and their two children were living with her as she attended NDSU.
To summarize: There is zero evidence that Omar ever separated from Ahmed Hirsi. But there is evidence in the form of: 1) publicly available records, and 2) Rep. Omar's own admission, that Omar has lived with Hirsi without interruption for 16 years.
After originally being exposed in 2016, Rep. Omar deleted evidence from her social media accounts that appeared to show her visiting a man named Ahmed N. Elmi in London in 2015. This was evidence that she had perjured herself by swearing to have never contacted him beyond June 2011. Omar also deleted evidence that showed her contacting him regularly on social media.
Ahmed Elmi, too, removed several posts from his accounts.
When reached by reporter Preya Samsundar of Minnesota outlet AlphaNewsMN, Elmi admitted to being the man in those London photos with Rep. Omar. However, he claimed to not know the woman next to him in the pictures -- despite having the same name and exact birthdate of the man she married, and having been the only Ahmed Elmi to ever attend NDSU.
In August, I published additional evidence showing that Rep. Omar attested to falsehoods by claiming zero contact with Ahmed Elmi since 2011. In October, I published new evidence that Ahmed Elmi had known Rep. Omar long before then. He had graduated from a high school in Minneapolis in 2003, and sources confirmed that he lived with Ilhan's father at the time.
Now, new evidence appears to corroborate both of those claims.
See the above Instagram post.
In her prior purge of incriminating evidence, Rep. Omar failed to delete this post, which is still live as of this article's publication. "IlhanMN" is Rep. Omar's verified campaign account. In the post, she exchanges messages with "AhmedNElmi".
Below, see a childhood picture that then-high school senior Ahmed N. Elmi had published in the 2003 yearbook.
Below that is a 2016 post from the "AhmedNElmi" Instagram account. The post is still live as of this article's publication.
Back in June 2018 -- when I first became aware of Rep. Omar's backstory -- I took several screenshots of social media that depicted Rep. Omar in regular contact with "AhmedNElmi" years after the June 2011 date she attested to under penalty of perjury.
Last week on November 1, I revisited the posts.
Immigration fraud, marriage fraud, federal student loan fraud, several instances of perjury, tax fraud on every filing for eight years, even fraud on her disclosure forms while serving as a state representative: all of this could potentially be in the mix based on the current evidence.
Add that to an open investigation into her campaign finances.
It's sad and disappointing that Representative Omar is continuing to refuse to respond to the real allegations against her. It's clear to me -- as it is to any reasonable person -- that there are multiple credible allegations against her, including this real evidence of immigration fraud that questions Representative Omar's ability to serve the people of Minnesota. I'm certain she is the wrong choice for the people of Minnesota's 5th Congressional District. I call on voters to make the right choice on Tuesday.
I hope this question of the history of Ilhan's marriages can come to a successful conclusion. I have yet to hear her answer for her many campaign finance violations, and she tends to avoid questions regarding her ethics. This creates a pattern of corruption which makes me concerned about future actions she would take in Congress and in other political leadership positions.
I have offered Rep. Omar, the Minnesota Democratic Party (DFL) chair, and the DFL CD-5 chair three full days to respond to each of my prior three articles prior to publication. Not once did I receive a response other than the below tweet -- which I did respond to, after which she went silent again. So I did not attempt to contact them prior to publishing this article.
Perhaps President Trump is seeking a case study to back his claims of a rotten, corruptible media and Democratic Party. If so, he could do no better than the Party's promotion of Ilhan Omar, and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune's subservient coverage of perhaps the most troubling candidate background the state has ever seen.


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They discussed how, among the 32 countries measured, the UK ranks 20th while the US scores lowest. Smaller countries tend to do better, but the research suggests it is not size but the institutional arrangements that matter most. There is a stark contrast between the 'social model' of northern European capitalism, and the more market-oriented Anglo-American economies. Eastern European countries tend to rank lower, with Slovenia as a higher-scoring outrider. The figures show a decline in economic democracy across the OECD nations since 2008, which seems to be associated with austerity measures – although France and Luxembourg are exceptions.


Warmly celebrate 2015 Automechanika Johannesburg was grandly held at Johannesburg Expo Centre from May 6th to 9th. FCAR latest auto diagnostic scan tools F3-G, F3S-W, F3-D, F102 and F502 were displayed on the exhibition. A lot of local visitors were attracted to FCAR's booth. This international show was a great event for FCAR to enhance brand awareness in overseas market.


For the first time ever, the Inter-Club Tournament will be held at a sports center in Singapore! Organized by the NYP Kendo Club, the tournament will be taking place over two days at Jurong East Sports and Cultural Center (address 21 Jurong East St 31, Singapore 609517 directions).
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Many Bitcoin Developers Are Choosing to Use Pseudonyms – For Good Reason
Jun 29, 2020 bitcoin
"Here lies the huge irony in this discussion. Persistent pseudonyms aren't ways to hide who you are. They provide a way to be who you are. You can finally talk about what you really believe; your real politics, your real problems, your real sexuality, your real family, your real self."
— Engineer Kee Hinckley
Fiatjaf is a pseudonymous Bitcoin developer in the Lightning community where he contributes to LNURL. He's also working on Etleneum, his "centralized Ethereum" app that uses the Lightning Network for faster and more scalable bitcoin payments. Like many other bitcoin users, Fiatjaf doesn't want to expose his real name to the whole world. He worries his bitcoin software projects could make him and his family a target for criminals.
As a resident of Brazil, where the crime rate is unusually high, Fiatjaf is particularly concerned for his safety. "I think in Brazil criminals are greater than in other places," he said.
He also worries that if the price of bitcoin skyrockets, or "goes to the moon," he could be painting a target on his back as a public figure in the Bitcoin space.
"Local criminals might want to take my bitcoin. They'd see my name and think, 'Oh this guy is a local guy, not using any special precautions. He may be very rich because he's using bitcoins.'" he said.
Though Fiatjaf doesn't want to overreact to his safety concerns, he sees the threat of criminal activity in Brazil as enough of a potential peril to adopt a pseudonym as he carries out his work as a bitcoin developer.
Fiatjaf is part of a larger trend that isn't openly talked about much. He's one of dozens of developers working in the Bitcoin sphere choosing to conceal their real names.
Cypherpunk roots and pseudonyms
This widespread pseudonymity makes sense seeing as Bitcoin's culture puts so much emphasis on privacy.
The great mystery of Bitcoin is no one knows the real identity of its creator, who went by the moniker Satoshi Nakamoto. He, she or they released the Bitcoin software in 2010, posted on the Bitcoin forums regularly until 2011 and then disappeared.
Nakamoto's pseudonym set the tone for other Bitcoin developers to use fake names.
Also, privacy is a prevalent theme in Bitcoinland. The digital currency was born out of the cypherpunk movement, in which a loose worldwide group of cryptographers have promoted digital privacy and security technologies since the 1990s in hopes of bringing about positive social change.
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"Being able to minimize what other people know about you is literally the theme of the first paragraph of the Bitcoin white paper," pseudonymous bitcoin researcher 0xB10C noted.
To try to meet that very goal, many bitcoin developers have devoted their research to improving Bitcoin's privacy.
"Privacy should be a basic human right. As I am, in fact, a basic human of indeterminate detail, I would like to exercise that right," said pseudonymous Lightning developer ZmnSCPxj, who receives funding from Square Crypto to work on Bitcoin development. On his website, ZmnSCPxj describes himself as a "randomly-generated Internet person."
ZmnSCPxj is one of the most frequent posters to the Lightning mailing list, making several proposals (often related to improving privacy) and responding to others' posts with criticism and other feedback.
Similar to Fiatjaf, many developers choose to use pseudonyms out of an abundance of caution.
Samourai Wallet, founded in 2015, allows users to make more private bitcoin transactions. The two co-founders of the wallet chose pseudonyms when they launched the wallet partly for "personal protection" reasons.
"What we're doing is going to offend *someone*," SW told CoinDesk. "That could be from competitors or angry people online who feel that we're a threat, to — whoever."
Other developers worry that governments won't like what they're up to, fearing persecution or retribution for their involvement in an independent monetary system that challenges the status quo. While many governments have welcomed Bitcoin and blockchain technology as innovations, others have taken a critical view of the new technology.
Being able to minimize what other people know about you is literally the theme of the first paragraph of the Bitcoin white paper.
"There is always a possibility of Bitcoin becoming unpopular with some government, thus it is always safer to simply avoid possible conflicts with local governments by making it unclear who exactly I am," ZmnSCPxj told CoinDesk.
"Alternately, it may become too popular, and the government might want to acquire more of it by other means," he added.
Not everyone sees the government as a threat, however.
"I'm not paranoid enough to be afraid of the government. Google and Facebook already know my name and they can easily link my name with my pseudonym. So I'm not targeting them," Fiatjaf said.
Building a standalone pseudonymous reputation
Developers gave other reasons beyond feeling threatened. For some, it's a simple matter of keeping their private lives private.
"When I started working on Bitcoin I didn't see the need for having my 'real name' attached to my work. I was working for a company totally unrelated to Bitcoin. They didn't really need to know what I do in my free time. But it wouldn't have been a problem if they knew," 0xB10C told CoinDesk.
Now a well-respected developer in the space, ZmnSCPxj was initially worried about embarrassing himself when he started submitting his ideas.
"My initial reason [for using a pseudonym] was simply that I was concerned [about] making a massive mistake; thus ZmnSCPxj was originally intended to be a disposable pseudonym that could be abandoned in such a case. However it seems to have garnered a mostly positive reputation, so I have retained it," he told CoinDesk.
Conversely, SW and TDevD wanted to use pseudonyms as they launched Samourai Wallet because the duo was already known in the Bitcoin world by their real names before they created their privacy-focused bitcoin wallet.
"We didn't want it to be about personalities or anything. A lot of us are known inside of the space, outside of the Samourai project. And we didn't want it to be about our personal reputation. We wanted the project to stand on its own merits," SW said.
Freedom to be who you are
For others, anonymity provides a sort of end run around exclusion in an industry that tends to be dominated by a typical demographic. In such cases, pseudonyms truly do provide a way to "be who you are."
"[M]inorities of all kinds (economic, racial, communal, gender, etc) may not be confident in exposing identities easily traceable to their person, especially in contributing to communities where that minority is underrepresented," ZmnSCPxj said.
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"It is important to realize that the Earth is large and conditions in various points on it can vary tremendously, even in local social, governmental, or economic states, and habits and attitudes developed as protection against prejudices of local communities may prevent participation with the real identity even in online communities. But participation in online communities may be enabled by pseudonyms."
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Nottingham Trent University will be holding an event on Enhancing Community Engagement and Tackling Anti-Social Behaviour, showcasing two research projects, Community Engagement Area Classification and Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB), with outputs which are relevant to practitioners and policymakers.
The morning session will showcase, and officially launch, the Community Engagement Area Classification. This is a policy tool developed by Dr James Hunter which is designed to help police forces and their partners shape community engagement strategy and target initiatives. During the event, police forces can sign up to a 12-month trial of the online tool which identifies community engagement 'rich' and 'poor' neighbourhoods across England at the LSOA level.
The afternoon session will showcase the findings to date from an Economic and Social Research Council funded project titled: 'who experiences anti-social behaviour (ASB) and in what context?' (led by Dr Becky Thompson). A major strand of this work has looked at the impact of ASB on quality of life and daily routine. Our findings thus far suggest different types of ASB have varying degrees of impact. We plan to use this event to present our work to date on the development of an 'ASB Harm Index'. Attendees will have the opportunity to comment upon this work (i.e. how might the Index work in practice?) as well as shape the future direction of the project.
Both sessions will include a mixture of presentations and roundtable discussions. We hope the event will be of particular interest to practitioners and policymakers in policing, government and the voluntary sector.
You are welcome to attend one or both sessions. Lunch will be provided.
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Electrochemically Synthesized Nano-photocatalysts for Photodegradation of Organic Compounds
Murodjon Abdukhakimov, Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Technologies, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Ilnur Garipov, Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Technologies, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Atabek Yuldashev, Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Technologies, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Olga Gapurova, Gapurova, Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Technologies, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Ildar Galiulin, Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Technologies, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Ilkham Sadikov, Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Technologies, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Rashid Khaydarov, Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Technologies, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Renat Khaydarov, Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Technologies, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Received: Sep. 24, 2020; Accepted: Oct. 9, 2020; Published: Oct. 30, 2020
Over the last decades, extensive studies have been carried out on nano-photocatalytic materials finding a broad range of applications mainly in solar energy conversion and environmental remediation. This article focuses on synthesizing a novel nano-photocatalyst material for purifying water from chloro-organic pollutants and microbes. It was synthesized in the electrolytic cell with titanium and graphite electrodes. TEM analysis revealed that the obtained nanocarbon-titanium composite has a spherical morphology, the average dimension of nanoparticles is 6±2 nm. The electrochemically synthesized nano-photocatalyst forms OH radicals in the presence of water vapor during daylight hours under sunlight's ultraviolet radiation. As soon as extremely reactive OH radicals are formed, they react with organic pollutants. The results of photodegradation of E. Coli, methyl orange, methyl blue, and polychlorinated biphenyls in the ultraviolet spectrum of sunlight have been discussed. The effect of pH value on the decolorization efficiency has been also observed. The obtained photodegradation time of methyl orange (MeO) and methyl blue (MeB) solutions was less than 60 minutes, and the destruction time of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) compounds was about 6-8 hours. The practical application of the developed nano-photocatalyst material promises to be an inexpensive, viable alternative or complimentary method for water and wastewater treatment at ambient temperature to degrade various chemical and microbiological pollutants in water.
Nano-Photocatalyst, Photocatalysis, Organic Substance, Sunlight
Murodjon Abdukhakimov, Ilnur Garipov, Atabek Yuldashev, Olga Gapurova, Gapurova, Ildar Galiulin, Ilkham Sadikov, Rashid Khaydarov, Renat Khaydarov, Electrochemically Synthesized Nano-photocatalysts for Photodegradation of Organic Compounds, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Vol. 5, No. 3, 2020, pp. 57-61. doi: 10.11648/j.cbe.20200503.11
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman & Naomie Harris on 'Rampage' and HBO's 'Watchmen' Series
by Haleigh Foutch April 13, 2018
Dwayne Johnson has to save the world from giant monsters in Rampage, the latest blockbuster film to team Johnson with his San Andreas and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island director Brad Peyton. Inspired by the classic arcade game, Rampage stars Johnson Davis Okoye, a loner primatologist whose best friend is a super-smart silverback gorilla, George, until a rogue genetic experiment by a careless corporation unleashes a genetic nightmare that transforms George — along with a wolf and a crocodile — into an unstoppable giant monster.
On his path to saving the day (along with his big furry buddy), Davis makes a number of friends and enemies, including Dr. Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris), a genetic scientist trying to atone for his past mistakes, Agent Harvey Russell (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a swaggering deep south agent who toes the line between friend and foe, and Claire Wyden (Malin Akerman), the villainous suit behind the genetic experiments.
With Rampage set to smash up the box office when it arrives in theaters this weekend, I recently sat down with Harris, Morgan, and Akerman to chat about the film. We talked about if there's anything fun about working on green screen, their favorite monster movies, and what makes B-movies so fun. We also talked about what it's like for Morgan and Akerman to see HBO making a new Watchmen series.
Here's the official synopsis for Rampage:
Primatologist Davis Okoye (Johnson), a man who keeps people at a distance, shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry transforms this gentle ape into a raging monster. To make matters worse, it's soon discovered there are other similarly altered alpha predators. As these newly created monsters tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.
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