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The SpinParser software for pseudofermion functional renormalization group calculations on quantum magnets
Finn Lasse Buessen
SciPost Phys. Codebases 5 (2022) · published 24 August 2022
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We present the SpinParser open-source software [ _URL_ ]. The software is designed to perform pseudofermion functional renormalization group (pf-FRG) calculations for frustrated quantum magnets in two and three spatial dimensions. It aims to make such calculations readily accessible without the need to write specialized program code; instead, custom lattice graphs and microscopic spin models can be defined as plain-text input files. Underlying symmetries of the model are automatically analyzed and exploited by the numerical core written in C++ in order to optimize the performance across large-scale shared memory and/or distributed memory computing platforms.
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Find out about space careers! The Young Space Explorers webinar is a companion event for the New Space Workforce initiative.
During the Young Space Explorers face to face event on the 2nd December a NSW Department of Education film crew will capture different aspects of the event. There will be vox pops and interviews with space industry professionals, students, teachers and will have highlights from the activities that occur on the day. The webinar will be hosted by Careers with STEM and will involve students from the Hunter School of the Performing Arts.
This video will be used as part of the Young Space Explorers webinar, but will also include a space industry panel, a space quiz, Q and A session and much more. Students will be able to interact online with members of the space industry as part of this exciting event.
We will keep you up to date with the expert panel which will include some surprises.
Presented by NSW Department of Education, Refraction Media (Careers with STEM), Fizzics Education, Magnitude.io, UNSW, Australian Space Agency, Lockheed Martin and SRN
IS THIS A FREE EVENT? Yes
BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Fizzics Education, STEM Industry School Partnerships (SISP) Program
Deputy Program Scientist, Mars 2020 Mission
Adrian is currently working as a planetary science researcher at the NASA Headquarters in Washington D.C. After receiving his electrical engineering degree, Adrian served with the Royal Australian Navy as a weapons engineer and fire control officer on Her Majesty's Australian Ships CANBERRA and ARUNTA, in addition to numerous shore postings around Australia.
Adrian is a qualified single-engine pilot and has flown aircraft over the 3.5-billion-year-old rocks in the Pilbara region of Western Australia during his PhD to simulate the actions of a drone on Mars, in much the same way the Mars helicopter Ingenuity will. Adrian is a certified Java programmer and has worked as a software engineer for a variety of commercial projects.
Heather Catchpole, Head of Content & Co-founder, Refraction Media
Heather co-founded STEM-specialist media company Refraction Media in 2013 with a view to creating a smarter future – one in which everyone has access to the skills they need to make a better planet. Telstra shortlisted business Refraction Media have distributed over 2 million magazines to students across the USA, Australia and New Zealand through the Careers with STEM brand. Heather also sits on the Board of Science and Technology Australia, Australia's peak body representing over 90,000 scientists.
Plus a special guest from the Australian Space Agency

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Strong and consistent communication between key players of the Buyer and Seller is ideal to create an environment conducive to a business sale. Both buyer and seller have resources tied up to make the deal happen. So when miscommunication or lack of communication jeopardizes a deal, it can hurt both sides. Let me break down why communication is key when buying a company.
When negotiating the purchase of a company, keep communication on point by designating one person or team to coordinate and communicate. Otherwise you end up with Thanksgiving at my house: too many cooks in the kitchen, pandemonium, and an overcooked bird. Instead designate point people to keep the line of communication consistent. There are countless recipes to cook a turkey and you can get countless responses when you are cooking with too many people.
Identify and empower the folks who can orchestrate the sale. Their job will be to keep egos in check, coordinate financing requirements, apply for third party/governmental approval, and take steps to integrate the transition. Keeping communication open will give you something to be thankful for at the end of the sale.

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Mystical Creatures are non-human life forms with a strong magical nature. Many of them can interbreed with humans and produce variable fractals. They can be devided in to three camps: true-mystical, non-sentient, and pseudo-mundane.
Types
True-Mystical Creatures
True-mystical creatures are defined by their magical nature, and their inability to exist without magic. All possess innate magical ability and many can shape-shift. Dragons are the most infamous, though unicorns come as a close second. While a dragon will not outright die if all magic is removed from an area, they will be severely weakened.
The truly mystical creatures include:
Pseudo-Mundane
The Pseudo-Mundanes are called this because, while they are magical in nature and mystical in origin (as opposed to artificially-created or "metal" creatures), they have a lifecycle and ways that are not governed by magic. Aten, for example, build spacecraft, while centaurs have been known to hold office and dwell in otherwise human cities. These beings do not shape-shift or benefit from innate magical abilities. They may have Magic of their own, but it must be learned like human magic.
Pseudo-Mundane:
Non-Sentient
Non-sentient creatures lack intelligence. They may possess innate magic but act primarily on instinct rather than thought. What seperates them from regular animals is their life-cycle. Basilisk, for example, "feed" by turning living creatures into stone. Galgan are effectively very large arachnids, and lack even a fully-developed brain. Kraken are in fact simply giant squid, with all of the same intelligence; but use innate magic to support their large size and gain a significant fraction of their energy requirements through magic (as opposed to eating).
Non-sentient:
History
Little is known about mystical creatures during Antiquity, though Dragons are presumed to have been teachers to humans during that time. There is also evidence that all the major species fought on one side or another, or sometimes both, of the Mythical Age.
Becuase no human records persist before the Age of Darkness, knowledge of Mystical Creatures began during that time. This is when the term was coined and most interactions began. The legends and myths about the different mystical creatures probably evolved during this time.
By the Mage Wars, many types of Mystical Creatures were actively hunted for different pieces of their anatomy, used as ritual components in spellcasting. In addition to causing most species of mystical creatures to fear and avoid humans, this had a significant impact on their numbers.
By the end of the Mage Wars, most populations of mystical creatures had withdrawn to less human-populated portions of the verse, with some species becoming so rare they faded into myth.
The exception, of course, was the dragons, who remained visible and protective of their lands.
Typographic Disagreement
The standard mystical creature types were established by the Gudersnipe Foundation and first published in the early Golden Age, but were based on extant manuals in regular use by the old Gudersnipe Army during the Second Chaotic Period of the Mage Wars. The underlying research to typify them has never been released for general review, and has caused numerous disagreements.
Dragons, for example, have a Centaur-form they can take, yet centaurs are not considered in the same class as the rest of the dragon forms. However, mystical creature typography is not based on dragonology.
Metal
A fourth category bears note, named in the Mage Wars as "Metal". These are beings, sometimes made of literal metals, that have a magical nature but of artificial creation. These are not true "mystical" creatures in a sense, as they are not natural.


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Warm compresses can hasten the resolution of inflammation and infection in the eyelids.
Types of warm compresses
The best way to warm the eyelids is to use a wheat bag eye mask. These provide both heat and moisture as wheat bags must be wet before heating. Wheat also holds its heat for longer than other methods. Dampen the outer covering of the wheat bag and place it in your microve. How long to heat your bag in your microwave will require a little experimentation. You want the wheat warm, not scalding.
There are three other common techniques:
- The simplest method is to fill a bowl with very hot water from the kitchen tap, wet a flannel in this water, wring it out, and place it over the inflamed area. Unfortunately flannels cool quickly. Once again, be careful not to make the flannel too hot
- A thermos can be filled with boiling water. The thermos mouth is placed underneath the eyelid, allowing steam to warm the affected skin. You must be careful not to place your eyelid too close to the thermos mouth
- Finally, you can use a hot wooden spoon. The wooden spoon is heated by placing it in a boiling kettle or pot of water. After a minute or two the spoon is withdrawn and dried carefully on a towel to remove all boiling water. The warm wood is then placed over the eyelid
How long and how often?
Hot compresses should be applied for about 10 minutes, four to six times a day to begin with. After a few day, just one treatment is usually enough.
What to expect
Please note that due to the application of heat the skin around the area will look pink or reddened after treatment. It is important that you don't confuse this with progression of infection or inflammation. An assessment of whether the changes in the lid are getting worse should be made an hour or two after treatment, not immediately following treatment.


What is Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA)?
ProtectionSubstantial Gainful Activity (SGA) is work that earns a claimant over a certain amount of money.
When applying for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI), your Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA) is one of the factors that will be used to determine your eligibility for disability benefits. Basically, if you are earning income from employment that exceeds a certain amount, then you may not qualify for disability benefits.
Danger jobsIn 2009, the amount of monthly earnings needed to be considered as SGA is $980 for non-blind people and $1,640 for statutorily blind individuals. For example, if you are not blind and you are making over $980 per month, then you are considered to be engaging in Substantial Gainful Activity. This amount changes every year.
According to the Social Security Administration, if you are able to engage in SGA, then you are not eligible for disability benefits.
RepresentativeIf you are currently receiving disability benefits and you want to continue to receive those benefits, your income from employment cannot exceed the amount that would classify you as engaging in SGA.
If you are collecting disability benefits and you want to try and return to work, the Social Security Administration has a "trial work period" program. While doing a trial work period, you are allowed to work and earn money that exceeds the SGA amount and still collect benefits.


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On March 19, OIRA Administrator Cass Sunstein issued the office's first Review Letter of the Obama Administration, telling the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to redo their studies on how to design the labels for the agency's new "Tire Fuel Efficiency Consumer Information Program." (For background on Review Letters and the other types of OIRA letters, see here.) Those new studies will delay implementation of the tire efficiency regulation by at least half a year, and likely longer.
Under the tire efficiency program, NHTSA must develop a system for setting tire fuel efficiency ratings and design a label for tire manufacturers to affix to their products that convey these ratings to consumers, so that consumers can consider the fuel-efficiency effects of different tires when deciding which to buy.
When NHTSA sent its draft final rule to OIRA in December, it appeared that the rule was nearly ready to go. The agency had devised a system for rating tire fuel efficiency, and a label for conveying that information to consumers. The agency used extensive survey and focus group research as it designed the label, and it found through that research that it had created labels that were comprehensible and effective in conveying information about a tire's fuel efficiency rating, and the significance of this rating.
By the time the draft final rule emerged from OIRA three months later, it had been blown apart. The rule was now divided into two components: one focusing on the system for setting tire fuel efficiency ratings and one on the labels. On March 30, NHTSA published a final rule putting the tire fuel efficiency ratings system into effect, but the agency postponed finalizing any provisions that established the label design criteria until it has completed a comprehensive new set of studies on how best to design the label. According to NHTSA's research plan, this study will not be completed until September 30, 2010—a full six months later. After that, NHTSA must propose a new label design requirement and go through the whole notice-and-comment process again. It could be well over a year before NHTSA is able to issue a final rule for its label. Until then, the agency's recently adopted tire fuel efficiency ratings system must languish without providing any benefit to consumers.
So, why the new tests? With the Toyota unintended acceleration scandal laying bare NHTSA's severe resource constraints, one might expect the agency to avoid such unnecessary and duplicative undertakings.
It's not entirely clear what Sunstein's problem with the original studies is. The documents and emails exchanged between OIRA and NHTSA while the rule was under regulatory review would normally provide the best evidence. These documents and emails have not been made public yet, even though Executive Order 12866—the presidential order that governs the regulatory process—requires their disclosure (see Section 6(b)(4)(D)). OIRA's failure to publish such documents—in clear violation of Executive Order 12866—has been commonplace throughout the Obama Administration, just as it was during the Bush Administration.
The vague language in Sunstein's
ReturnReview Letter provides some insight, though. Sunstein states that the tests "should aim to measure consumers' understanding of the label, and their likely behavior given that understanding, instead of merely identifying their preferences among labels.... NHTSA should give greater weight to scientifically valid experiments than to focus testing." This suggests that NHTSA's original tests may have fallen short because they did not attempt to put a precise quantitative value on how the different labels under consideration affected hypothetical consumer choices. For example, these tests were not designed to identify whether the comprehensibility of Label Design Scheme A is 10 "units" greater than that of Label Design Scheme B, and 20 "units" greater than that of Label Design Scheme C—or to determine a quantified difference in consumer's decisionmaking between such choices.
In the context of a classroom or a research laboratory, it might be interesting to try to put a numerical value on concepts like "comprehensibility" or "ability to influence" so that they can be precisely measured and compared. To those of us who have to live, and work, and consume in the real world, the whole enterprise is quixotic. This kind of behavioral economics experiment has only one certain effect: Delaying an important regulation. Executive Order 12866 requires no such experiments, but since the White House has not (yet) issued a new order on regulatory review, OIRA is going ahead with these initiatives even under the old (but standing) order.
NHTSA has serious work to do, including reducing traffic fatalities and injuries and curbing greenhouse gas emissions from cars. The public interest is not being served if this crucial protector agency is forced to dedicate its scarce resources toward this experiment.


A1 Institutions of Societal Integration: Market Economies, Organisations, and Welfare States
Modern market economies and advanced welfare states are under global and socio-economic pressures to change. Although these challenges seem relatively similar for all modern societies, historically evolved welfare regimes and market systems vary considerably across European and other OECD countries.
The nexus between market and non-market institutions, between production and protection systems, is at the centre of the research area's analytical and substantial focus. The theoretical starting point is the view that social action is embedded in specific social and institutional contexts that structure opportunities and constraints. Institutional change in market economies and welfare state reforms are partially dependent on societal support by collective actors and individuals, while also affecting the social relations and conditions on which they are based.
 The research area A1 combines projects that investigate market processes and organizations or public social policy interventions in a comparative perspective, often using both macro-institutional and micro-level data. A major fundamental question is the social and civic support for market economic activities and for welfare state policies. A connected second major topic is the analysis of the conditions for and process of welfare state reform and marketization. Finally, the research agenda also includes a concern for the consequences of changing production and protection systems for the life chances and social relations in Europe and other advanced economies.


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At Mozilla we use Mercurial for Firefox development. We have several repositories/trees that are used depending on where the code should be. If a developer wishes to test the code they have been developing, they can submit it to a Mercurial repository called 'try', since running our entire test suite is not feasible on developer machines.
We have quite a bit of infrastructure around this including Tinderbox Pushlog (TBPL) and more. This post deals with the infrastructure and problem we face while trying to scale the 'try' repository.
A few statistics:
- The try repository currently has 17943 heads. These heads are never removed.
- The try repository is about 3.6 GB in size.
- Due to Mercurial's on-wire HTTP protocol, this number of heads causes HTTP cloning to fail
- There are roughly 81000 HTTP requests to try per day
- To fix problems (mentioned below), the try repository is deleted and re-cloned from mozilla-central every few months
There are a number of problems associated with such a repository. One particularly nasty one has been present through several years of Mercurial development, and has been tricky in that it is seemingly unreproducible. The scenario is something like:
- User 'hg push'es some changes to a new head onto try
- The push process takes a long time (sometimes between 10 minutes and hours)
- A developer could issue an interrupt signal (ctrl+C) which causes the client to gracefully hang up and exit (his typically has no effect on the server
- Subsequent pushes will hang with something similar to 'remote: waiting for lock on repository /repo/hg/mozilla/try/ held by 'hgssh1.dmz.scl3.mozilla.com:23974′
- When this happens a hg process is running on the server has the following characteristics:
- A 'hg serve' process runs single-threaded using 100% CPU
- strace-ing and ltrace-ing reveal that the process is not making any system calls or external library calls
- perf reveals that the process is spending all of its time inside some ambiguous python function
- pdb yields that the process is spending all of its time in a function that (along some point in the stack trace) is going through ancestor calculations
- The process will eventually exit cleanly
- As operators there is nothing we can do that to alleviate the situation once the repository gets in this state. We simply inform developers and monitor the situation.
There have been several ideas on ways to alleviate the problem:
- Periodically reset 'try'. This is considered bad because 1) it loses history, and 2) it is disruptive to developers, who might have to re-submit try jobs again
- Reset try on the SSH servers, but keep old try repositories on the HTTP servers. This has the potential to create unforeseen problems of growing these repositories even further on the HTTP servers. If reset (staggered from SSH server resets) this will remove unforeseen problem potential, but still lose history.
- Creating bundle files out of pushes to 'try', then hosting these in an accessible location (S3, http webroot, etc). I will detail this method in a future blog post.
As of now though, try will periodically need to be reset as a countermeasure to the hangs mentioned in this post. Getting a reproducible test case might allow us to track down a bug or inefficiency in Mercurial to fix this problem after all. If you'd like to help us with this, please ping fubar or me (bkero) on irc.mozilla.org.


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This month's Iowa Learning Farms webinar will be on Wednesday, July 16 at 11:30 a.m. The webinar is part of a free series, hosted by ILF, through Adobe Connect. The webinars are held on the third Wednesday of each month. They are free and all that is needed to participate is a computer with Internet access.
This month's presenter is Jesse Randall with Iowa State University Forestry Extension. He will talk about planning for buffer strips as well as windbreaks to aid in soil erosion reduction, water retention and quality.
The ILF June webinar featured Dan Jaynes, who discussed saturated buffers along waterways and how they function. This month Randall will talk about planting these buffer strips, what kind of vegetation should be planted and other factors to consider. He will also talk about planting windbreaks for farmstead protection.
July webinar will explore buffer strips and windbreaks
Jesse Randall is a professor in the ISU Natural Resource Ecology and Management Department and also with ISU Forestry Extension. He holds a Ph.D. in forestry from Michigan State University. His research includes studies in forest invasive plants, oak savannah restoration, sugar maple tree sap sweetness, and Christmas tree production.
To connect to the webinar, go to _URL_ at 11:30 a.m. on the morning of the webinar and log on using the "guest" option.
ILF has hosted a monthly webinar since January 2011. ILF site has links for archived webinars from all previous sessions. There are 40 webinars available to view on a variety of topics including soil erosion, cover crops and farmer perspectives. These can be viewed at any time. The webinar archives are also available in podcast through iTunes.
ILF now has 40 webinars archived on its website
Established in 2004, Iowa Learning Farms is building a Culture of Conservation, encouraging adoption of conservation practices. Farmers, researchers and ILF team members are working together to identify and implement the best management practices that improve water quality and soil health while remaining profitable. Partners of Iowa Learning Farms are the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, ISU Extension, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa Natural Resources Conservation Service and Iowa Department of Natural Resources (USEPA section 319), Conservation Districts of Iowa, Iowa Farm Bureau, Iowa Water Center and Practical Farmers of Iowa. For information about Iowa Learning Farms visit the ILF website.


Photo of three chimpanzees sitting on a log and eating leaves
Chimpanzees self-medicate by eating rough leaves to get rid of parasites. Nigel Swales/wikimedia, CC BY-SA
How other primates self-medicate – and what they could teach us
By Sophia Daoudi
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Despite our advances in technology and medicine, we seem to be fighting a never-ending battle against a number of diseases and ailments. As viruses become more complex and bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, it seems that the lab-made drugs we have become so dependent on may no longer provide the cures we need. Perhaps this is why we are now turning to nature in the hope that there may be a remedy tucked away somewhere in a remote tropical rain forest.
This behavior, known as zoopharmacognosy, typically involves ingestion or topical application of plants, soils, insects or even psychoactive drugs in order to treat and prevent diseases.
It could be that our closest living relatives, non-human primates, hold some of the answers we seek. Many species including chimpanzees make use of the natural resources in their habitats to self-medicate and improve their own health. This behavior, known as zoopharmacognosy, typically involves ingestion or topical application of plants, soils, insects or even psychoactive drugs in order to treat and prevent diseases.
One of the most well-known examples are domestic dogs and cats eating grass in order to induce vomiting if they have an upset stomach or internal parasite. However, most studies of animal self-medication are in non-human primates. One of the first documented cases was in 1983, when researchers observed chimpanzees in Tanzania folding and swallowing Aspilia spp leaves without chewing them. Other scientists noted the same behavior in chimp colonies in Uganda and Nigeria. This is quite unusual, not only because there is no nutritional benefit in swallowing these leaves whole, but also because the leaves themselves have a rough and bristly surface. So, what is the purpose of doing this?
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Male wool-carder bee. Photo cTamarin monkeys eat large seeds to get rid of parasites. Kevin Barrett/FlickrCC BY-SA
It was only as recently as 1996 that scientists suggested it was a form of self-medication, as research began to link it with feces full of undigested leaves and expelled parasitic worms. It seemed the chimpanzees were swallowing the leaves to take advantage of their rough and bristly surface to hook onto the worms as they passed through their digestive system, purging their intestines of parasitic worms. The tamarin monkeys of South America, however, have found a different method to remove internal parasites. They are able to swallow large seeds of up to 1.5cm, which then pass through their digestive tract dislodging or expelling internal parasites.
Clay, charcoal and fur-rubbing
Another odd behavior that is also thought of as a kind of self-medication is soil and clay consumption, which has been observed in a number of colobine monkeys. It was generally believed that soil is eaten as an additional source of minerals or to absorb and neutralize certain plant compounds, which might be toxic or interfere with digestion. Although there is no compelling evidence that soil consumption detoxifies chemicals, recent studies have found that some clays have antibacterial properties.
Anointing behavior, or fur-rubbing, is where animals rub strong smelling substances into their fur.
Charcoal consumption on the other hand is known to relieve indigestion and, more importantly, can be used as an antidote to detoxify poisons. This method of self-medication is still widely used among humans, but has only been reported in one species of primate, the Zanzibar red colobus monkey. The diet of these monkeys mainly consists of young leaves that are fairly toxic – and by ingesting charcoal they are able to neutralize the effects.
Anointing behavior, or fur-rubbing, is where animals rub strong smelling substances into their fur. There are a few explanations for the function of this behavior, including social signaling and sexual selection but it can also be a form of self-medication against skin parasites. Fur-rubbing has been recorded in a wide range of primate species. Black lemurs, for instance, use toxic millipedes to rub their fur whereas black-handed spider monkeys use aromatic leaves including those of celery, orangutans use Commelina herbs and owl monkeys plants and millipedes.
Photo of two tufted capuchin monkeys grooming each other
Can't wait to find a good onion to rub on you. Adrian Soldati/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA
Tufted capuchin monkeys anoint with a surprisingly wide range of materials – including plants, aromatic leaves, onion, citrus fruits and invertebrates such as ants and millipedes. All of these items have some form of insect repelling properties. Monkeys typically apply them more frequently during the rainy season when there are more flying insects around.
One of the founders of zoopharmacognosy, Eloy Rodriguez, a professor at Cornell University, has argued that some of the compounds animals use to kill parasitic worms may be useful against tumors.
The different forms of self-medicating by our cousins provide simple and natural solutions to combat parasites and other ailments. The research could also provide useful insights for the future of pharmacology. One of the founders of zoopharmacognosy, Eloy Rodriguez, a professor at Cornell University, has argued that some of the compounds animals use to kill parasitic worms may be useful against tumors.
Many plant species have been found to be rich in a substance which have antimicrobial properties. Despite this, a study suggests less the 5% of tropical forest plants have been screened for their medicinal properties. However, pharmaceutical firms and medical institutes have been screening rainforest plant species for anti-cancer and anti-HIV compounds with some success.
This research holds the promise of endless possibilities and by looking at the specific items used by primates and other organisms for self-medication we can then identify whether their chemical compositions would be suitable for curing or aiding the treatment of human diseases and illnesses.
Sophia Daoudi, PhD, MSc Primate Conservation, BSc Psychology, is focused on animal behavior, animal welfare, conservation, primatology & human-animal interactions.
This article was first published in The Conversation
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Developed by the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, The Hope Trunk: An Offering of Positive Education provides educators a unique and meaningful classroom learning resource.
The Hope Trunk is a traveling exhibit that contains educational materials and memorial items from the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The trunk, which a school may use for two weeks, contains artifacts, visual materials, and classroom exercises that may be used as a stand alone unit or incorporated into core curriculum. Shipping is provided courtesy of FedEx.
The Hope Trunk was developed to educate students about the impact of violence, the senselessness of using violence to effect change, and the importance of personal responsibility. The trunk has been on exhibit at schools nationwide. Many students viewing its artifacts were not alive when the Oklahoma City bombing occurred. The traveling exhibit helps to ensure the messages of that event continue to have impact.
The Mid-Atlantic Center for Emergency Management (MACEM) at Frederick Community College (FCC) had the pleasure of featuring the Hope Trunk, as part of Dr. Brenda Phillips' presentation on Human Response to Disaster at the 2016 Summer Institute. The exhibit included a range of items such as children's books; The Daily Oklahoman Newspaper – April 20, 1995; public safety patches from across the Nation as a show of unity; and rubble from the site. Each trunk also includes a 'hope bear' that was placed at the memorial. Mr. Anthony Thomas, a Summer Institute participant and educator at Dorchester Career and Technology Center (DCTC), also utilized the Hope Trunk during a lesson on how memorials can help people recover from disaster. DCTC and FCC are proud to be added to the growing list of "Hope Bear Schools."
Let's keep the trunk moving!
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On site calibrations for emissions trading
According to the Monitoring Regulation (EU No. 601/2012) and the EU Allocation Regulation Art. 7 para. 1, data sources with the highest achievable accuracy must be used for measurements to quantify emissions. Especially for heat meters in older installations and the use of non-MID compliant heat meters (i.e. without existing conformity assessment and declaration), you can achieve hierarchy level 1 data sources with an on-site calibration of the flow sensors by our DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025 accredited testing laboratory. Thus, the actual uncertainties of the measuring devices under operating conditions are determined and it is not necessary to consider the usually larger traffic error limits.
Provide evidence of the measurement uncertainties through regular calibrations.
This is a significant accounting advantage. Use it.


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University of Utah seismologists will be on duty around-the-clock during the Olympics, armed with a new $1.2 million system so they can quickly supply public safety information if any disruptive earthquakes shake the 2002 Winter Games.
"A basic, real-time earthquake information system has just been completed in Utah's densely populated Wasatch Front region in time for seismologists to rapidly deliver key information to emergency managers and the public if an 'Olympics earthquake' visits Utah," said Walter Arabasz, director of the University of Utah Seismograph Stations.
The improved earthquake-monitoring system of sensors, computers and telecommunications equipment was made possible with $965,000 in funds and equipment provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and another $235,000 in funds and personnel support from the state of Utah.
The new, real-time earthquake system's key information product is a ShakeMap ? a rapidly generated computer map, available within about 5 minutes of an earthquake, that gives an overview of the location, severity, and extent of actual ground shaking, just like a Doppler radar image for a weather disturbance.


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Why Is My Pothos Not Vining? What Should I Do?
If there is to be named the best flowering plant to decorate walls with its vines, it has to be pothos.
These vining plants are straightforward to grow and require little attention to thrive. When they are well pruned, their bright green color is a delight to have hanging in the office or home.
Moreover, they are one of the few plants that blossom without direct sunlight.
Why is my pothos not vining
Unfortunately, it becomes unexpected and disappointing when the pothos is not vining. On these rare occasions, they don't have climbers as expected.
Have you ever wondered why other people's pothos plants have vines, and yours doesn't? Maybe you got your plant the same time with friends and propagated the cuttings at the same time too.
On the other hand, their pothos is vining while yours isn't. What could be the problem? Why is your pothos not vining?
If you have pothos planted in your home or office and you are wondering why they are not vining, these four reasons will make you know better.
4 Reasons Your Pothos Is Not Vining
1. Pests
Pest invasion of your houseplant can prevent your pothos from vining. Mealybugs are common pests that invade the plants even they are planted indoors. Unfortunately, these insects don't only feed on the plants but also damage them.
Besides, if uncontrolled, they can increase in number and damage your houseplants. Check the foliage to see if there are mealy bugs on your plant.
If you find any, the mealybugs are the ones preventing the plant from vining, and you need to control them.
2. Direct Sunlight
Pothos make good houseplants because they thrive in bright light but not under direct sunlight. Therefore, when they receive too much direct sunlight, the foliage will start to burn before it has an opportunity to grow its vines.
However, they don't also thrive in low light. When they are placed in a low-light room, they lose their variegation, which is one of the distinctive characteristics of the plant.
Hence, you have to be careful not to deprive the plant of too much light.
3. Too Much Watering
Before you get confused on why your pothos is not vining, ask yourself this question: am I overwatering? Here is one fact you may not know: Pothos like their soil dry from time to time.
Don't get it wrong. For them to remain healthy, you need to water them occasionally too.
Yet, overwatering can cause their roots to decay. Once they have decaying roots, it will be difficult for the plant to grow vines. Of course, the reason is simple.
Every plant gains its nutrients from the soil, and the root is the part that helps to absorb the nutrients from the soil. Therefore, decaying roots are a sign that the pothos is dying.
4. Late Transfer Into The Soil
Most plant owners love this flowering plant because they are easy to grow.
Photos can be propagated in water as much as in soil. On the other hand, if you propagated them in water for a long time before transferring them to the soil after, your pothos may find a hard time vining.
That is because the cuttings have gotten used to water as their habitat after being rooted in there. Subsequently, when planted in soil, they begin to have a hard time adjusting to their environment. Hence, they may not vine as early as expected.
What You Should Do
1. Protect From Mealybugs
Mealybug can be destroyed with neem oil, horticultural oil, and insecticidal sprays. Apart from spraying the insects, you can also spray the plants so the insects will die when they come in contact with the plant. Also, you can apply soap on mealybugs to destroy them immediately.
2. Keep Away From Direct Sunlight
The best thing to do is to place the plant in a room with bright light. Additionally, it is preferable to place them near a shut window without blinded curtains so that bright enough, but not direct daylight can penetrate through the room.
3. Plant In A Well-drained Soil
If your plant is planted in a flowering pot, ensure that there are drainage holes under the pot.
However, if you already have drainage holes under the pot, confirm that the holes are not too small. If they are, you need to water them less often so your soil will not get drenched. Moreover, doing so will make the soil dry out quickly before the next watering.
4. Avoid Waterlogging The Soil
For plants formerly rooted in water and later transferred into the soil, always keep the soil damp but not drenched. How can you achieve that?
After watering the soil, allow the top three inches to dry before watering again. A change in the color of leaves from a green shade to a brown shade is a sign that the foliage is not getting enough water.
5. Add Fertilizers
Adding fertilizers is not necessary for the pothos plant. However, adding some to the soil when the vines have refused to grow isn't a bad idea. Generally,
Nitrogen enhances the healthy growth of the plant.
You can add nitrogen-based fertilizer to the soil once in two months while the vines are still struggling to sprout. Also, adding phosphorus to the soil can help the roots become healthy.
6. Keep Away From Cold Temperature
Keep the plant at a room temperature of 65oF to 75oF. Also, they like high humidity, so until your pothos starts to vine properly, keep the humidity rate high.
Most times, pothos do not climb on their own. The reason is; naturally, pothos grows towards the light.
Hence, when they are planted in their natural habitat, they climb on trees providing sufficient bright light.
Therefore, when planted indoors, they may refuse to climb the way you want them to. Hence, you may need to provide supports like fishing lines or totems to make them climb the way you want.


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Documentum Virtual Documents
by Michael Trafton
Virtual Documents allow your documents to be represented in a hirerarchy (like chapters in a book). This article introduces Virtual Document concepts and also goes into advanced features such as Early and Late Binding.
What is a virtual Document?
A virtual document is a document that contains components or children documents. A virtual document is similar to a folder. When you open a folder, you see the objects inside that folder. When you open a virtual document, you see the objects inside that virtual document. The main differences between a folder and a virtual document are that a virtual document can have content (a folder cannot), and a virtual document can be versioned-version 1.0 can have three children while version 1.1 can have five children and version 2.0 has no children at all (in which case it is just a normal document).
A virtual document is not a special object type-any dm-document or subtype of dm-document can become a virtual document, including custom object types you have created.
What is a component?
A component is simply a child object of another virtual document. A document can be a component of many different virtual documents. A component can itself be a virtual document (in the same way that a folder can contain other folders). A component can have content, can be versioned, and can be linked to multiple folders. It behaves like a normal virtual document, because it is a normal virtual document.
Why do I need Virtual Documents?
Virtual documents are used primarily in three ways: when a document is authored by multiple individuals, when a document is made up of multiple file formats, and when the order of the children matters.
When a document is large and has multiple authors, it's a good idea to make the document a virtual document. This way, each section of the document can be a component of the virtual document. Since each component is a Documentum object, it can have its own owner, security, approval workflow, and other characteristics.
For example, imagine a report with three sections: an overview, written by Bob; and findings section, written by Susan; and a conclusion, written by Paul. Each of these authors must report to Sally, manager of the group, who has ultimate responsibility for the report.
With all three authors working on the report simultaneously, it would be impractical for all three sections of the report to be contained in a single file. When Susan needs to work on the findings, Bob might already have the document checked out as he works on the overview. The solution is to make the document a virtual document. In this case the virtual document would be comprised of four separate objects:
 - Head or Parent Virtual Document – This is a contentless object owned by Sally. It doesn't need to have content because it exists solely to organize the components
 - Overview – Microsoft Word document owned by Bob
 - Findings – Microsoft Word document owned by Susan
 - Conclusion – Microsoft Word document owned by Paul
Since each component is its own document, it can be checked in, checked out, and routed for approval indendently from the other components. Authors can view one another's components to synchronize their, but components remain under the control of their owners. This aspect of virtual documents makes them ideal for collaborative authoring environments.
Virtual documents are also useful for managing the integration of multiple file formats. For Example, imagine that you are writing a report in Microsoft Word. It is a short report and you are the sole author, but you want to include some tables (e.g. an Excel Spreadsheet) in the report and a Power Point presentation as an appendix. The report is really a single logical document, but it comprises three heterogenous file formats. Virtual documents allow the file structure to mirror the logical of the document, regardless of the file formats involved.
Virtual documents are also useful because of their ability to manage the ordering of component files. This is different from the ordering of files in folders, which typically is a sorting by name, size, modification date or other feature. Virtual documents support component ordering as a separate, author-definable characteristic of component documents. The component files of a virtual document cannot be sorted-they always appear in the order defined by the creator of the virtual document. This feature is particularly useful for the management of component files in a large project, such as the chapters of a book. With a conventional folder-based grouping, the sorting that orders the files does not follow the logical structure of the document. With a virtual document, the author retains control over the logical ordering of component files, and changes in the placement of existing or new components is reflected in a re-ordering of the entire virtual document.
What is the difference between a virtual document and a compound document?
A compound document is a specialized type of virtual document. It is created by Documentum's client applications (WorkSpace and SmartSpace) when you import a document that is liked to other documents.
One of the powerful features of Documentum is its ability to identify and utilize OLE links in Microsoft Office Files as you import them. For example, if you import a Word file that contains a embedded link to an Excel file, WorkSpace will detect this compound document structure and will resolve the OLE link. WorkSpace will then automatically import the files that are linked to original file.
When WorkSpace detects that a file has OLE links to other files, it creates that file as a virtual document and imports the referenced files as components of the virtual document. When this happens, the document is known as a compound document, a special type of virtual document.
Because the order and structured of the links is set inside the file being imported, you cannot change the remove or change the order of the components of a compound document. If you wish to do this, you must edit the parent document and reorder or delete the references inside the file. When you check it back in, WorkSpace will remove or reorder the children of the compound document. You can, however, edit the content of the children of a compound document independently of the parent.
How do I create a virtual document?
Creating a virtual document inside WorkSpace is easy. Just select the parent document and choose the VDM/Edit VDM menu item. The selected object will appear in its own special virtual Document Manager window. To add components to this document, simply drag them from any Workspace window and drop them onto the parent document. They will be added as children. Be sure that you have checked out the parent virtual document before trying to add any components. Also note that you can add the same component several times.
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Figure 1:
Creating a Virtual Document within Documentum Workspace
To change the order of a component, drag it from its current location and drop it onto its new location. A line will appear indicating the target location of the component that you are moving.
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Reordering Virtual Document Components within Documentum Workspace
To remove a component from a virtual document, select it and choose VDM/Remove from VDM menu item (also located on right-mouse-click pop-up menu).
What is an assembly?
An assembly is a snapshot of a virtual document and all its components. Because a virtual document's components can be checked out and modified independently of the parent document, the overall content of a virtual document can change without that change being reflected in the parent object's version tree. Creating an assembly takes a picture of how the virtual document looks today.
You may also freeze an assembly, which sets a flag on all the components of the assembly, preventing them from being modified.
What are APIs, Objects and Attributes used to manage virtual documents?
When you create a virtual document, many tasks that are managed behind the scenes by the tools available in the docbase. These tools include number of APIs, attributes, and special objects that are used to create and maintain a virtual document.
APIs
To create a virtual document, you use the appendpart API. This API has two main arguments: the object ID of the parent and the object ID of the child. Here is the syntax:

appendpart,c,document_id,component_id,{,version_label}

You issue this command once for each component you are adding to the virtual document. When you are finished adding components, you must issue the save API against the parent object (or check in the parent if it is checked out). The changes to the virtual document are not committed until the parent object is saved.
Other APIs used to manipulate virtual documents are described below:
 - removepart: Removes a component from a virtual document
 - insertpart: Inserts a component into a virtual document
 - asssemble: Created an assembly of a virtual document
 - disassemble: Destroys an assembly
 - freeze: Marks the virtual document and its components immutable
 - thaw: Makes a frozen virtual document changeable again
Attributes
The main attribute of a document that has to do with virtual documents is r_link_cnt. This attribute contains the number of children that are linked to a virtual document. If r_link_cnt=0, the object is not a virtual document. If r_link_cnt is > 0 the object is a virtual document. Note that r_link_cnt will never have a value of 1, because the parent of the virtual document is also considered a child. So if you add one component, r_link_cnt=2. If you add a second component, r_link_cnt=3, and so on.
Also note that this same attribute applies


HOW TO: Knit an infinity scarf
It's getting to be that time of year where everyone is bundled up in their hats, gloves and scarves just trying to keep warm. Better make sure your accessories are cute.
Infinity scarves have become a trend on campus, and it's no wonder why. They keep you warm and have a unique design. That is just what you need for those cold winter days.
If you know how to knit, this will be easy. If not you will learn how to knit today. Lucky you!
You will need a pair of knitting needles and yarn for the scarf. You will probably need about two balls of yarn, since an infinity scarf is longer than usual. Also realize that the thicker the needles you use, the bigger the holes will be. Choose a medium-sized needle, such as size 13, for a scarf that has small enough holes to still keep you warm.
There are basically two steps to this: knit a scarf and then tie it together. Simple, right? But only if you know how to knit. For you beginners, here are the steps:
First, make a loop around the knitting needle. From there you will make more loops around the needles. You will probably need about 10 to 15 loops total depending on how thick your yarn is.
Now onto the actual knitting. This may be confusing at first, so a few practice stitches may be in order before you start your scarf. Take the other knitting needle that hasn't been used and stick it through the first loop of the other needle.
Wrap the extra yarn in between the two needles, then take the needle and place it over the yarn that is between the two needles but through the yarn that is wrapped around the first needle. (Need more help? Check YouTube for a tutorial)
Keep doing this until the scarf is halfway down your thigh (or however long you wish it to be). To end the scarf, you will be doing similar steps as before.
Knit two stitches like you normally would, but before you add on a third, slide the first loop over the second loop, making there be only one stitch on the needle. Continue to do this until you have one stitch left. Take the last loop off and take the extra yarn and tie a small knot on it to finish it off.
There, you have your scarf! Now to make it an infinity scarf is quite simple, just sew the two ends together.
This is a perfect way to keep warm during cold Michigan winters. Get a cup of tea, turn on a movie and knit what is soon to be your favorite accessory.


Unstructured Exception Handling in VB.net
By: Steven Holzner Printer Friendly Format
The old error-handling mechanism in VB6 and before is now called unstructured exception handling, and it revolves around the On Error Goto statement. You use this statement to tell VB .NET where to transfer control to in case there's been an exception, as in this case, where I'm telling Visual Basic to jump to the label "Handler" if there's been an exception. You create labels in your code with the label name followed by a colon, and the exception-handling code will follow that label (note that I've added an Exit Sub statement to make sure the code in the exception handler is not executed by mistake as part of normal program execution):
Module Module1
 Sub Main()
 On Error Goto Handler

 Exit Sub
Handler:

 End Sub
End Module
Now I can execute some code that may cause an exception, as here, where the code performs a division by zero, which causes an exception. When the exception occurs, control will jump to the exception handler, where I'll display a message and then use the Resume Next statement to transfer control back to the statement immediately after the statement that caused the exception:
Module Module1
 Sub Main()
 Dim int1 = 0, int2 = 1, int3 As Integer
 On Error Goto Handler
 int3 = int2 / int1
 System.Console.WriteLine("The answer is {0}", int3)
Handler:
 System.Console.WriteLine("Divide by zero error")
 Resume Next
 End Sub
End Module
When you run this code, you see this message:
Divide by zero error
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Talking about Alzheimer's disease using the words of Latinos and non-LatinosMay 21, 2011
(Published in LINKS: Minority Research & Training - Spring 2011)
Effective health communications is not just about clearly expressing your health message. You must deliver the message using language that literally and figuratively speaks to your audience. To improve communications about Alzheimer's disease and research, NIAsupported scientists asked participants—60 Latino Puerto Rican and 60 non-Latino White—living in the Philadelphia area how they would characterize Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's-related clinical trials using their own words.
Data collection and analysis
Participants, depending on their ethnicity, met individually with a Latina or non-Latina research assistant, in a location of their choice. Along with a brief interview, research assistants collected data through a series of free-listing exercises—the research assistant introduced a concept and the participant wrote down all the words he/she associated with that concept.
"For example, the interviewer would ask about 'the words that come to mind with you think of Alzheimer's disease' and participants would make a list," explains Jason Karlawish, M.D., 1997 Summer Institute on Aging Research attendee and lead author on the paper in Alzheimer's & Dementia.
Additional interviewing exercises were about symptoms of Alzheimer's and causes of the disease. Participants listened to a vignette about a wife who cares for her husband with Alzheimer's disease and then were asked to describe the wife. Participants who were caregivers were also asked to list words about Alzheimer's clinical trials, including risks/benefits of research and reasons to participate or not in research studies. Responses were grouped according to the participants' ethnicity and caregiver status.
The Puerto Rican Latino participants were mostly female. Non-Latinos were typically male with more years of education than the Latino cohort.
"We found certain words to describe Alzheimer's were common among all the participants suggesting they are pervasive in messages about the disease," says Karlawish. "For instance 'memory loss' was a universal expression to describe Alzheimer's disease as well as symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. 'Sadness' was also a common word used to describe Alzheimer's among all groups except Latinos who weren't caregivers."
Ethnicity played a role in the responses, as well. Latinos, especially those who were caregivers, used words related to behavioral and emotional problems to describe symptoms of Alzheimer's more frequently than people who were not Latino. Also, only Latino participants identified psychological and psychosocial stressors (specifically "loneliness" and "stress") as causes of Alzheimer's. On the other hand, caregivers who were not Latino listed biomedical causes of Alzheimer's such as "buildup of plaque" and "lack of brain activity," indicating they might have a understanding of the disease pathology.
During data analysis, investigators determined that gender, age, and years of education were not as salient as ethnicity and caregiver status.
Overall, Latinos who were not caregivers had the least knowledge about Alzheimer's disease. In fact, some could not come up with any words to describe Alzheimer's. Researchers suggest that providing general information about Alzheimer's disease could be an important health education message for the Latino community.
Findings about caregiving
In the study, researchers defined a caregiver as someone who had a friend or family member with Alzheimer's disease and who either assisted the patient with activities of daily living or decision-making or provided information to health care professionals. They found that the Puerto Rican Latino caregivers were mostly adult children and non-Latino caregivers were generally the spouse of the patient.
While Latino and non-Latino caregivers shared some common views of Alzheimer's, the researchers also found ethnicity did shape the caregiving experience. For example, Latinos never used the term "caregiver" to describe the wife of the Alzheimer's patient in the vignette.
"Interestingly, no participants used the word 'burden' to describe the caregiver's role, so this word might be best avoided in materials targeted to caregivers," says Karlawish.
Findings about clinical research
Researchers identified differences between how Latino and non-Latino caregivers characterized the risks and benefits of clinical trials for the Alzheimer's patient and caregiver. Most caregivers listed "time" or "side effects" as reasons to not participate in a clinical trial. But non-Latino participants also mentioned travel, concerns about receiving a placebo, and creating false hopes as deterrents, while some of the Latino caregivers did not list any downside.
In listing the benefits of participating in a clinical trial, both Latino and non-Latinos included patient improvement and improved memory. But, there were also differences. Some Latino caregivers said that learning more about the disease would be a benefit. Only non-Latinos identified helping others and helping research as benefits to participation.
Implications of the research
Findings from this study support the notion that when it comes to Alzheimer's messaging, one size does not fit all. "To be most effective, communications materials should account for differences in how Latinos and non-Latinos view the disease, the caregiver's role, and clinical trials," recommends Karlawish.
For example, the research suggests that the difference in how Latino and non-Latino respondents viewed clinical trials could be important to developing culturally appropriate recruitment materials. Materials aimed at recruiting Latinos, for instance, might be more effective if they describe the clinical trial as an educational opportunity for the caregiver, and materials for non-Latinos could portray participation as an altruistic opportunity. The researchers encourage additional research to determine if their findings apply to other Latino and non-Latino groups and have a wider application to Alzheimer's communications.
Reference: Karlawish J, Barg FK, Augsburger D, et al. What Latino Puerto Ricans and non-Latinos say when they talk about Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's & Dementia. 2011. 7(2):161-170.
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ETV before EMR
With the launch of electronic medical records (EMR/WakeOne) on September 22, it might be interesting to see how patient records were stored and transported in the past at the Medical Center.
The Electric Track Vehicle (ETV), dubbed "record runner" and described as an "oversized Lionel train," was the tunnel in which records were transported through the Medical Center. When installed in 1992, it saved about 10 to 15 minutes off each round trip.
Records were loaded into a "car", as shown by Dean Bates, a Medical Records file librarian, then transported. Initially, 12 cars rode the rails each day with 425 records.
Prior to the ETV, vans ferried clerks and their carts to Medical Records storage which looked like this in 1948.
Mr. Bates was featured in Around the Medical Center in 1992. Come visit Dorothy Carpenter Medical Archives to explore the history of the Medical Center in publications and artifacts.


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Coursework GCSE Maths – Building a Foundation for a Career in Math
Students who are doing their GCSE coursework will find that math is one of the subjects for which coursework assignments are hardest. But, this task cannot be avoided as math is a compulsory subject. Coursework GCSE maths is entitled for 40% of the final grade and hence needs to be attended to with same dedication as attending to the GCSE exam paper. Both scores together will form the final grade for the GCSE Math subject.
Receiving a good grade and learning how to do math coursework for GCSE is vital for students who wish for careers such as engineering and teaching and many other areas. Furthermore, as perfornace in math is used as a yardstick of a person's intelligence, getting a good grade in Math is important to any student. Doing your math coursework to perfection will cover half the task associated with this challange.
Reasons for Doing GCSE Math Coursework
There are many reasons why doing GCSE math coursework is beneficial for students. Those who feel that it is takes too much out of them should know that doing GCSE math coursework will develop and refine their problem solving strategies and build the confidence and skills necessary to handle any type of challenge. It also enables students to improve their thinking skills and be able to work independently on a variety of subjects. The main reason you should be doing GCSE math coursework is because if you are concentrating on furthering your career in the field of math doing GCSE math coursework will provide a thorough grounding for this type of work.
Modules for Math GCSE Coursework
There are different modules when doing Coursework GCSE maths. These include, number modules, data handling, algebra and shape and spaces. It is important that students have good understanding of these modules and on which module the coursework will face. With an idea as to which module the coursework will consist of, you will be able to study the relevant syllabus and review the topic areas which fall under this category. This will make doing math coursework for GCSE easier.
Writing Aspect of Math Coursework
Coursework writing for math GCSE forms a partial component of the assignment. Students will be assigned to do reports on math, the history of math and its importance to everyday life. This type of writing assignment provides students doing GCSE math coursework the knowledge to understand math and it will make the solving of math problems more interesting to students.
As with writing English coursework or any other coursework, math GCSE coursework too should be written conforming to the basic writing requirements. Therefore, students need to ensure that what they write is legible, clear and does not have any spelling, grammar or punctuation mistakes. They also need to select and use a form of writing which is suitable to the type of subject matter. Information should be clear and coherent and correct and accurate mathematical notations should be used.
If writing your coursework GCSE mathsis hard and you are wondering whether to buy coursework, the, Coursework-writing.co.uk is a company which you can place your trust upon. We are experts when it comes to coursework writing assignments and any type of assignment you have for us will be completed accurately and will be delivered on time.


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According to a new report from the Oregon Health Authority, some manufacturing and construction jobs still have an increased risk for high blood-lead levels – especially jobs involving battery manufacturing, painting, and wall covering.
The report, Adult Blood Lead Reporting in Oregon, 2006-2010, summarizes the results of 33,400 adult blood-lead tests from Oregon's Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance program (ABLES).
Adult exposure to lead typically occurs when dust and fumes are inhaled or the dust ends up on hands, food, or cigarettes, for example, then swallowed.
Work-related exposures accounted for the majority of elevated blood-lead levels reported, especially at levels of 25 micrograms/deciliter or higher. According the report, there were 548 work-related cases involving workers who had elevated blood-lead levels. ABLES defines an elevated blood level as "greater than or equal to 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood." The majority of cases were in the storage battery manufacturing category (42.4 percent). Painting and wall covering contractors had the next highest percentage (8.0 percent), followed by iron and steel mills (7.3 percent). There were 33,400 tests for blood lead in Oregon from 2006 to 2010.
Often, individuals with elevated blood lead levels do not appear sick. However, recent evidence suggests that lead exposure at levels previously believed to be of little concern can result in chronic health effects if the exposure continues for many years.
The Oregon ABLES program also provides Oregon OSHA with information on firms whose employees have tested blood lead levels that are 25 micrograms per deciliter or higher. This allows Oregon OSHA to target workplaces where workers are at the highest risk for lead exposure.


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We have a wide range of learning opportunities in the exhibition hall and in dedicated sessions delivered by healthcare companies and charities keen to interact with the primary care audience and help develop their products and services for the benefit of patients.
Find out more about the many exhibitors and sponsors who will be available to meet in the exhibition hall in Glasgow.
Please note: All sponsored sessions at the Annual Conference are the views of the responsible organisation, not the RCGP, and have not been accredited for CPD by the RCGP. See full sponsorship guidelines here: The RCGP guidelines for sponsorship and funding
Combination treatments in COPD: clinical evidence and best practice
Thursday 4 October, 13:00 – 13:45, Aish
Professor Dave Singh, Professor of clinical pharmacology and respiratory medicine, University of Manchester
Listen, Suspect, Refer: A guide to detecting heart valve disease
Thursday 4 October, 13:00 – 13:45, Lomond Auditorium
Symptoms of valve disease are often missed or ignored, and usually very gradual in onset. The role of a GP is vital to ensure early diagnosis and referral and optimise the pathway to treatment for patients. This session will focus on aortic stenosis, the most common form of heart valve disease in the elderly, and offer guidance on how to detect it, including a refresher on auscultation skills covering all the major heart sounds and murmurs. A not-to-be-missed, interactive, and practical session to learn about the latest treatment guidelines so you can 'listen, suspect, refer' to support better patient outcomes.
Dr Yassir Javiad, Primary Care Cardiovascular Lead, East Midlands
A practical guide on the National Shingles Immunisation Programme
Friday 5 October, 08:30 – 09:15, Lomond Auditorium
This session will:
Pauline MacDonald, Independent Nurse Consultant
Exploring the role of technology-based fertility awareness in contraception and family planning
Friday 5 October, 12:45 – 13:30, Lomond Auditorium
This session will present some of the evidence on user attitudes to modern contraceptive methods, in particular, the concerns expressed by some users about hormonal side effects, and about intrauterine contraception. In this context, it will consider traditional fertility awareness methods, their method of action and their failure rates, and introduce the NaturalCycles app, which makes use of fertility awareness to aid contraception. It will explain the method of action of the app, present data from published studies on the efficacy of the app, and consider its place in the choice of contraceptive methods in the 21st Century.
Dr Susan Walker, Senior Lecturer in Sexual Health, Angela Ruskin University
Are you fit to tackle multimorbidity?
Friday 5 October, 12:45 – 13:30, Room 2
Chair Dr Rachel Pryke, RCGP Multimorbidity Champion
Talking the Talk
Professor Paul Aveyard
Can effective health and behavior change advice fit into a 10-minute consultation? The BWel study suggests YES! Paul will outline acceptable and effective brief interventions for weight control.
Walking the walk – Physical activity interactive session
Engaging people with complex health or mobility issues in increasing physical activities is a challenge. The greatest benefits arise from helping inactive people to start moving. Finding activities that people can do and enjoy is key. Social prescribing of activities such as Tai Chi may encourage physical activity in those who struggle with more vigorous activity. Come and try it in this interactive session.
Reaching the hardest to reach
Dr Carly Hughes
How can you improve diabetes control, reduce osteoarthritis pain, treat liver disease and improve quality of life? Carly – a GP who also runs a specialist weight management service, managing complex patients with multimorbidity and severe obesity, will update us on treatments and clinical pathways for complex patients


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Growing Pains: Coming of Age in The Catcher in the Rye
By Amanda Wang, IV Form
Growing Pains: Coming of Age in The Catcher in the Rye
Growth is a beautiful pain. In American classic, The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger vividly depicts a teenage protagonist who is overwhelmed by the rapid changes around him and his impending adulthood. Holden lives in a metropolis but does not belong to it. All he wants is to "catch [children] if they start to go over the cliff [of sophistication]" (Salinger 191). But in reality, he is the child who runs astray. When he is on the verge of falling, Mr. Antolini lends him a helping hand and provides him a satisfactory answer to his dilemma. At last, Holden accepts his philosophy and procures a new understanding of his situation, surroundings, and society.
Mr. Antolini wakes Holden up from his dream of escaping the city. Mr. Antolini speaks bluntly that Holden is "riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall" (Salinger 206). Since Holden wastes all his time deceiving others and himself and trying to delay his inevitable adulthood, Mr. Antolini has to ruthlessly tear off his mask and force him to face reality. Yet he takes an atypical approach to help Holden. While old Spencer reinforces that "life is a game that one plays according to its rules" (Salinger 11), Mr. Antolini advises Holden to know his "true measurement and dress [his] mind accordingly" (Salinger 210). Contrary to other adults in the book, Mr. Antolini sees hope in Holden. His firm belief inspires Holden to become the captain of his life instead of drifting along the mainstream or dropping anchor in place. Holden's struggles now motivate him to continue his ordinary life instead of alienating him from it. Then Mr. Antolini asks Holden to think twice about attending school, describing education as history and poetry. Holden takes his proposal into consideration because he feels cared for and understood by him. Moreover, Mr. Antolini consoles Holden by stating that he is "not the first person who [is] ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior" (Salinger 208). His words narrow the feeling of disparity between the depressed and lonesome Holden and other youths. Mr. Antolini gives Holden a carrot after the stick, bringing him back to the real world and arousing his passion for life.
Following that exchange, Holden acknowledges his false assumptions about others and moves forward in his life's journey. After Holden spends a night at the rail terminal, he reflects on his actions. He wonders if maybe he is "wrong about thinking [Mr. Antolini] is making a flitty pass on" him (Salinger 214). This is a qualitative leap for Holden because he used to comment on everything. For the first time, he evaluates himself and questions his judgmental mode of life. He even starts "wondering maybe he should [get his] bags and [go] back to [Mr. Antolini's] house, the way he [says] he would" (Salinger 214). This forms a stark contrast to his reaction to old Spencer. Holden feels sorry for leaving him but quickly shifts his attention to something else. This time, he chooses to confront the case instead of fleeing from it. He considers taking responsibilities and actions to remedy his mistakes, which marks his march to maturity. Before, Holden is not only hesitant but horrible at expressing himself and interacting with other people. He never amasses enough courage to call up his childhood friend, and he "sort of gives [his sister] a kiss" (Salinger 179). Holden thinks isolating himself can prevent changes, but it only causes more misconceptions and anxiety. After his incident with Mr. Antolini, Holden lets down his guard and starts to grasp different kinds of love. He brings his true self to light and learns how to love and to be loved. In this way, he receives more goodwill from others.
Holden's conversation with Mr. Antolini changes his perspective on the adult world. Previously, Holden denies all good sides of adulthood. He perceives adults "never notice anything" (Salinger 12) and "never believe [him]" (Salinger 42). Above all, he thinks the world is full of phonies. While Holden detests his surroundings, Mr. Antolini encourages him to embrace it and explore it more, to not "give it up before [he starts looking for what his own environment could supply him with]" (Salinger 207). He attempts to dispel Holden's prejudice against the world. Subsequently, Holden begins to recognize his superficial and limited view. He learns more about the intriguing, empathetic, and infinitely possible side of the world. From Mr. Antolini, he discovers a reason worth living for. From himself, Holden also learns the importance of compromises. He keeps the paper Mr. Antolini gives him, which reads: "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one" (Salinger 207-208). Holden accepts the recommendation because it reminds him of James Castle, who sacrifices his life for his stubbornness and an unworthy cause. James Castle resembles Holden to a subtle but substantial extent, and Mr. Antolini is "the only guy that [even goes] near" James Castle when he is dead (Salinger 215). This leads Holden to respect, admire, and trust Mr. Antolini fully.
Holden's illusion of running away reveals his intense nostalgia for childhood and deep attachment to simple and easily attainable happiness. As Holden wrestles with his impossible desire of becoming a catcher in the rye to preserve his past and reject his future, Mr. Antolini teaches him how to apply dreams to reality. He guides Holden to concede some parts of his longing to avoid repeating the same tragedy as James Castle. Mr. Antolini's instructions make Holden more fitted for social expectations but help him to retain his wish to protect the true, the good, and the beautiful. After all, Holden realizes that growing up is not a complete disaster. The Catcher in the Rye is a true portrayal of adolescence and an introspection on life attitude. As Nietzsche says, "he who has a why to live can bear almost any how," but at the same time, he says, "we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once" (Nietzsche) Salinger suggests the readers celebrate and fulfill their lives with meanings. Holden possesses the soberest understanding of hypocrisy and the deepest obsession with innocence. His three days in the city are the curtain call of his childhood. In this book, Holden grows and learns how to get along with society, but the reality is not always so optimistic. Over the past decade, the youth suicide rate has increased by 56% (Abbott). Similar to Holden, these teenagers pretend to be okay when the flourishing world frustrates them. Present-day adults not only frequently fail to understand them, but also blame and label them as "troublesome millennials," which results in their deserted spiritual world. Through Mr. Antolini, Salinger implies both the possibility and necessity of building a tender relationship with a trustful adult. This person directs the new generation to the right path. Nonetheless, social adaptation means neither growth nor surrender, but camouflage in the crowd. These teenagers eventually have to choose for themselves between a catcher in the rye or an elite in the suit.
Amanda Wang is a IV form boarding student from Needham, Massachusetts. Her favorite subjects are science and history. She enjoys hanging out with her friends, traveling, and coxing as a member of the crew team.
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On 31 May 2019, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) published a circular in relation to third-party deposits and payments of licensed corporations (LCs) (Circular) together with an appendix on key control measures and examples of effective practices (Appendix).
The SFC has become increasingly concerned about the risks associated with third-party deposits and payments to or from accounts maintained by clients with LCs. When a client uses a third-party to pay for or receive proceeds of investment transactions, there are risks that the arrangement might have been used to disguise the true beneficial owner or the source of funds for evading regulatory requirements and/or conducting unlawful activities such as misappropriation of client assets, money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) and other misconduct or crime. These may undermine market integrity and prejudice the interest of investors.
In a number of recent enforcement cases, the SFC found that the internal systems and controls put in place by LCs for handling or scrutinising third-party deposits and payments did not meet the expected standards or were not properly enforced by the responsible officers.
In this article, we summarise the Circular by setting out the key standard of conduct expected from LCs in implementing policies, procedures and controls to mitigate the risk involved in third-party deposits or payments and reminding LCs of their existing obligations under the AML Guideline[1], AMLO[2] and Code of Conduct[3].
Expected standards and control measures
In view of the risks associated with these arrangements, the SFC has made it very clear that firms should discourage these arrangements and should only accept them under exceptional and legitimate circumstances having regard to the client's profile and normal commercial practices.
LCs are highly encouraged to implement robust systems and procedures that can be reasonably expected to protect client assets as well as to detect and prevent risks associated with third-part payment arrangements. Here are a few suggestions by the SFC.
 1. LCs must clearly define in their policies and procedures the exceptional and legitimate circumstances under which third-party deposits and payments may be permitted and provide examples of acceptable third-party payors and payees. These policies and procedures should be approved by senior management and effectively communicated to all relevant staff members.
 1. LCs must only accept any third-party payment arrangements when effective monitoring systems and control measures are implemented to mitigate the associated risks and the applicable legal and regulatory requirements are adhered to.
 1. LCs must designate the Manager-In-Charge (MIC) of Anti-money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (AML/CFT) to oversee the design, implementation and ongoing monitoring of the policies and procedures for handling third-party deposits and payments. All these transactions should be subject to approval by the MIC of AML/CFT or Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO). LCs should also appoint staff members responsible for carrying out the control measures and clearly delineate their duties.
 1. In 2017, an LC was reprimanded and fined HK$2.6 million for its senior management and Compliance Department's failure to implement appropriate internal procedures and controls to detect, assess, enquire and monitor red flag third-party deposits. The SFC also found evidence showing a lack of mutual understanding of respective roles and responsibilities in the handling of third party deposits among the senior management and staff.
 1. LCs must conduct due diligence on ANY third-party deposit or payment requests to determine:
 1. the identity of the third-party payor or payee. LCs should adopt a risk-sensitive approach. Relatively low-risk third-party payors or payees include immediate family members, beneficial owners and affiliated companies of corporate clients and regulated custodians and lending institutions. Others posing higher risks should be subject to a dual approval process by the MIC of AML/CFT or MLRO and a member of senior management.
 2. the relationship between the client and the third-party payor or payee. LCs should exercise increased caution when the relationship is difficult to verify, insufficient details of the identity of the third-party is provided for verification or the third-party payor or payee makes or receives payments for several seemingly unrelated clients, which may suggest nominees or warehousing arrangements to facilitate market and corporate misconduct.
 3. the reason and the need for receiving the deposit from or making the payment to the third-party. LCs should take all appropriate measures (e.g. making prompt follow-up inquiries and obtaining evidence) to ensure that a third-party deposit or payment will only be accepted when it is reasonably in line with the client's profile and normal commercial practices, including the frequency and pattern of previous transactions.
 1. In 2017, the SFC reprimanded and fined an LC HK$3 million over multiple AML/CFT internal controls failures, including, amongst other things, failure to enquire third-party deposits and to ensure effective approval process of third-party deposits. The RO (also being the former managing director) was also suspended for 6 months as a result.
 1. LCs must vigilantly monitor client accounts involving third-party deposits and payments, and stay alert to red flags, especially potentially suspicious transactions where the true beneficial ownership is concealed. A suspicious transaction report should be made to the Joint Financial Intelligence Unit (JFIU) and other authorities (such as the SFC and the Police) when there may be a suspicion of ML or TF.
 1. In 2017, an LC was found to have breached the AML Guidance, AMLO and Code of Conduct for failing to conduct ongoing due diligence and scrutiny on clients' transactions and to identify a large number of frequent and complex, unusual large transactions and unusual patterns of transactions which have no apparent economic or lawful purpose. The LC was reprimanded and fined HK$4.5 million. Similarly, another LC was reprimanded and fined HK$3 million for failing to identify suspicious third-party transactions and perform appropriate customer due diligence. The RO (also being the former managing director) was prohibited from re-entering the industry for 9 months.
 1. In late 2018, an authorised institution (AI) was found to have contravened the AMLO by failing to identify and handle non-compliant wire transfers and implement effective customer due diligence procedures in identifying and verifying the beneficial owners of certain customers before entering into any business relationship with them. The AI was reprimanded and fined HK$12.5 million by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.
 1. In early 2019, the SFC reprimanded and fined another LC HK$15.2 million, which is by far the highest fine imposed for similar failure, for turning a blind eye to more than 2,200 suspicious third-party deposits totalling over HK$2.3 billion in 14 months. The LC was criticised for not making a timely report to the JFIU despite the suspicious circumstances and failing to put in place any systems or controls regarding customer due diligence of third-party depositors. The RO (also being the former head of retail brokerage) was banned from re-entering the industry for 10 months as a result.
 1. LCs must require clients to designate bank accounts held in their own names or the names of acceptable third parties for the making of all deposits and withdrawals. This facilitates LCs in performing due diligence on the third-party payor or payee and ascertain sources and destinations of the transaction proceeds.
 1. LCs must inform clients in writing of their policies for handling third-party payment arrangements, including policies for rejecting or accepting them under exceptional and legitimate circumstances, requirements to provide supporting documents to ascertain sources of deposits, verification procedures for third-party payor or payee, and the return policy on rejected third-party deposits.
Our observations
The SFC's discouragement on third-party deposits and payments is in no ambiguous terms. LCs are reminded to assess compliance risks with much caution when formulating its policy on third-party deposits and payments. It is clear that the SFC and other regulators are actively investigating into control failures regarding third-party deposit and payment arrangements and will continue to monitor compliance following the Circular.
It should also be noted that the Appendix is not an exhaustive list of the control measures and practices which the SFC expects of LCs. LCs should review their business models and client profiles in order to come up with the most suitable policy.
Individual accountability has been the SFC's focus in recent years. The approach of the SFC in pursuing follow-up actions against the ROs sends a clear message to the market that senior management is to bear responsibility for the firm's compliance with applicable standards and requirements. Whilst recent enforcement decisions against management were all targeted at the relevant ROs, all LCs should have already appointed a MIC for their AML/CTF function since late 2017 and thus the relevant MICs are also reminded of their obligations and the regulator's expectation of them.


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BANGOR – Beginning today, motorists traveling on Broadway will see changes to the traffic signal system, city officials announced Tuesday.
Computer models suggest changes to the timing of traffic signals from Grandview Avenue to the Interstate 95 northbound ramps could noticeably improve the flow of traffic on Broadway.
Testing scheduled to begin this morning, after the morning rush, will confirm whether these changes work under actual traffic conditions, City Manager Edward Barrett said Tuesday. If the test is successful, the new system will become permanent.
During the test period, motorists must be alert, recognize that sequences and patterns can change and wait for the signal to clearly allow them to proceed, Barrett said.
As it stands, the signals operate on a single timing plan that is the most efficient when it comes to handling average traffic conditions throughout the day.
New detectors have been installed, however, that continually monitor the volume and direction of traffic in the Broadway corridor.
These data are sent to a master controller that has numerous signal timing plans available, allowing the system to respond to actual traffic volume and direction, according to a press release from the city. Using these data, the appropriate timing plan is selected and sent to signals along the entire corridor.
Depending on the time of day and traffic conditions, some of the timing plans may change the traffic signal sequence at an intersection.
For example, on one day an intersection's left-turn arrow may turn green before the through signals turn green, according to the release. The next day, the left-turn arrow may turn green at the same time as the through signals.
Drivers used to a certain sequence at an intersection may automatically react to the signal sequence they are used to without watching the actual signals, potentially creating traffic hazards.
The changes are the result of work that the city of Bangor, Bangor Area Comprehensive Transportation System and consultant J.W. Sewall Co. are undertaking to optimize traffic signal operation along the Broadway corridor to help traffic move more efficiently throughout the day.
The Broadway project is part of a larger study analyzing several traffic corridors in Bangor, Orono and Old Town with funding from BACTS, the Maine Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration.


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The success of many advanced technologies increasingly depends on the precision of the optical
lenses used. Therefore the demand for high precision optical elements in more common devices and
instruments is increasing as well. Concurrently the need to make devices smaller and lighter weight
is also driving the demand for precision optical elements. Therefore, the use of aspherical glass
lenses is growing tremendously and has become the standard for many applications.
So far most methods for manufacturing aspherical glass surfaces use grinding and polishing. Very
sophisticated methods such as Ion Beam Figuring have not been used for common precision optics.
The reasons for this might be perceptions of high costs, doubt about the ablation rate and limited
knowledge about the technique within the optical industry.
Now Asphericon has set up its first ion beam correction system for precision aspherical optics (asphericon
ION-Finish). This presentation will show how the ion beam technology has matured and
become affordable enough for common precision applications. In some examples we will show how
ion beam systems are used to correct aspheres to precisions of better than lambda/60 rms (10nm).
Together with a flexible measurement technique, the manufacturing of aspherical glass lenses becomes
very fast and cost-efficient. Furthermore, advantages and disadvantages will be discussed. In
connection with that the required quality of the pre-polishing will be addressed too. Finally it will be
shown how fast the correction process can be and how flexibly the size of the tool can be changed.
Recently and upcoming optical applications depend more and more on the precision of the optical elements used. The
last is especially driven by shorter wavelength, higher flux densities and imaging close to the diffraction limit. Therefore
a dramatically increasing demand on high precision and high quality optical components in leading edge equipment as
well as common devices and instruments is observed.
So far a few methods have been introduced to provide an adequate manufacturing performance using mechanical grinding
and polishing techniques. Up to now the very sophisticated ion beam figuring (IBF) has not been used for common
optics. The reasons for this might be the perception of higher costs and less knowledge about the technique in the industry.
Now an affordable ion beam figuring technique has been developed to address precision aspherical optics applications.
This paper introduces ion beam figuring technology based on equipment which is widely used in semiconductor mass
production for ultra precise film thickness trimming.
Ion beam figuring works by raster-scanning a focused broad ion beam across an optical surface with variable velocity
and dwell time in order to precisely and locally trim away surface contour errors.
As a new and cost effective approach the ion beam figuring system used in this presentation applies a 3 axis movement
system only (compared to expensive 5-axis movements in other applications). X-and y-axes are used for the areal scan,
and the z-axis is used for focus adjustment due to the surface contour of the optical element. The system was intentionally
designed without the 2 additional tilt axes for incident angle adjustment and cleverly reduces the complexity and size
of the system.
It is shown that curved spherical or aspherical surfaces can be corrected down to λ/50 or better by using the state of the
art 3-axes trimming system. Even with high spatial frequency parts final processing qualities better than λ/10 are