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A periodic term in the expansion of the disturbing function for a typical asteroid orbit becomes more important in influencing the motion of the asteroid if the frequency with which it changes sign is very small and its coefficient is relatively large. For asteroids orbiting near a mean motion commensurability with Jupiter, there are generally several terms in the disturbing function with large coefficients and small frequencies that are close but not identical. These "resonant" terms often dominate the perturbations of the asteroid motion so much that all the higher-frequency terms can be neglected in determining a first approximation to the perturbed motion. This neglect is equivalent to averaging the higher-frequency terms to zero; the low-frequency terms change only slightly during the averaging. If one of the frequencies vanishes on the average, the periodic term becomes nearly constant, or secular, and the asteroid is locked into an exact orbital resonance near the particular mean motion commensurability. The mean motions are not exactly commensurate in such a resonance, however, since the motion of the asteroid orbital node or perihelion is always involved (except for the 1:1 Trojan resonances).
For example, for the 3:1 commensurability, the angle θ = λA - 3λJ + ϖA is the argument of one of the important periodic terms whose variation can vanish (zero frequency). Here λ = Ω + ω + l is the mean longitude, the subscripts A and J refer to the asteroid and Jupiter, respectively, and ϖ = Ω + ω is the longitude of perihelion (see Figure 2). Within resonance, the angle θ librates, or oscillates, around a constant value as would a pendulum around its equilibrium position at the bottom of its swing. The larger the amplitude of the equivalent pendulum, the larger its velocity at the bottom of its swing. If the velocity of the pendulum at the bottom of its swing, or, equivalently, the maximum rate of change of the angle θ, is sufficiently high, the pendulum will swing over the top of its support and be in a state of rotation instead of libration. The maximum value of the rate of change of θ for which θ remains an angle of libration (periodically reversing its variation) instead of one of rotation (increasing or decreasing monotonically) is defined as the half-width of the resonance.
Another term with nearly zero frequency when the asteroid is near the 3:1 commensurability has the argument θ′ = λA - λJ + 2ϖJ. The substitution of the longitude of Jupiter's perihelion for that of the asteroid means that the rates of change of θ and θ′ will be slightly different. As the resonances are not separated much in frequency, there may exist values of the mean motion of the asteroid where both θ and θ′ would be angles of libration if either resonance existed in the absence of the other. The resonances are said to overlap in this case, and the attempt by the system to librate simultaneously about both resonances for some initial conditions leads to chaotic orbital behaviour. The important characteristic of the chaotic zone for asteroid motion near a mean motion commensurability with Jupiter is that it includes a region where the asteroid's orbital eccentricity is large. During the variation of the elements over the entire chaotic zone as time increases, large eccentricities must occasionally be reached. For asteroids near the 3:1 commensurability with Jupiter, the orbit then crosses that of Mars, whose gravitational interaction in a close encounter can remove the asteroid from the 3:1 zone.
By numerically integrating many orbits whose initial conditions spanned the 3:1 Kirkwood gap region in the asteroid belt, Jack Wisdom, an American dynamicist who developed a powerful means of analyzing chaotic motions, found that the chaotic zone around this gap precisely matched the physical extent of the gap. There are no observable asteroids with orbits within the chaotic zone, but there are many just outside extremes of the zone. Other Kirkwood gaps can be similarly accounted for. The realization that orbits governed by Newton's laws of motion and gravitation could have chaotic properties and that such properties could solve a long-standing problem in the celestial mechanics of the solar system is a major breakthrough in the subject.


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We encourage those new to Accordance to watch our training videos in this sequence. About Us will introduce our company and its philosophy. The episodes under Accordance offer basic training for our computer software, while Accordance iOS offers the same for our mobile app.
Lighting the Lamp, our podcast series, first aired in May 2009 with Accordance 8. In the 80 plus podcasts since then, we've covered methods of Bible study, reviews of the new resources ["modules"] available for purchase, and Accordance's successive improvements and additional features. While the current user interface is more modern, the underlying principles and techniques in these podcasts remain the same. We'll be updating the earliest of these podcasts beginning September 2012.
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#16) The Accordance Philosophy
[Basic: Accordance 8] Explains the Accordance Philosophy: who we are, what we do, and why we do it.
[Basic: Accordance 9] Lists the benefits of using software to study the Bible, a growing trend among serious students of the Bible. Shows demos of both Accordance 9.3 for computers and Accordance 1.2 for iOS (iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch). Explains how to get trial copies and starter packages.
[Basic: Accordance 10] Want to know what Bible software can do for you? Accordance Bible Software is not just a search engine, nor a simple library of books. It is a complete software suite for studying the Bible. Join Dr. J in a whirlwind tour of Accordance 10's twenty-five major features. This podcast is an excellent overview for those brand new to Accordance—or those considering purchasing it.
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[Resources: Accordance 10] Accordance 10 introduces six new collections of Bible study resources, representing the very best values we've ever offered. Each collection is designed with a particular kind of user in mind. Join Dr. J as he takes us on a tour of all six collections. This podcast concludes with an explanation of Accordance's new Update Calculator, available financing, and sales contact information.
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[Basic: Accordance 10] Introduces the most recent version of Accordance, with its sleek, modern interface, unified workspace, customizable toolbar, detachable Instant Details, and improved Library Window.
[Basic: Accordance 10] Accordance 10 's new "flex search" makes searching English Bibles easier and more natural. Just enter the search term(s) and hit [Enter]. Accordance does the rest, finding every form of the word and (if there is more than one word) any order in the verse. Accordance now also switches automatically between searching for "Words" and "Verses."
#82) Sharpen Your Search Skills
[Intermediate: Accordance 10] Search options and Search commands are two additional ways to sharpen your searches. In this podcast Dr. J explains both and gives specific examples of their usefulness.
[Intermediate: Accordance 10] Search Symbols add precision in verse and word searches, helping Accordance outperform those old printed Bible concordances. This podcast explains each of the fourteen different symbols and demonstrates their use in practical situations.
[Intermediate: Accordance 10] [FUZZY] searches and flex searches are both more flexible than exact searches, allowing users to include similar words and phrases in their search results. This podcast compares the the two, demonstrating how to use both. It also explains how to "tune" the ambiguity of a [FUZZY] search for the best search results.
[Bible Studies: Accordance 9] This study of the word "light" uses the Accordance 9.4 free trial version and modules. A great podcast for first time users, it shows how to search the Bible, compare Bibles, discover the original word and its meaning, and access Bible study tools.
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[Resources: Accordance 10] The revised edition of the Expositor's Bible Commentary is a major improvement upon the original. Dr. J reviews this new resource, highlights some of its additional improvements as an Accordance module, and walks viewers through setting up a Book Study Workspace. This episode also features tips on setting and using a default commentary—and showcases Accordance 10's new"reading mode.
[Basic: Accordance 9] Demonstrates the use of Accordance 9.5's new Dynamic Interlinear, including designing and saving custom interlinears.
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[Basic: Accordance 10] Text and images in Accordance can be printed directly, copied and pasted, and dragged and dropped into other programs. In this episode, Dr. J designs a Christmas Keynote presentation for children, highlighting key words in a passage, then using Search All to find relevant photos and illustrations. He also shows how to make a movie of an animated route in the Bible Atlas and import it into a slide. The podcast concludes with the completed slide show.
[Bible Studies: Accordance 9] Showcases the important contributions Accordance's Parallels can make to the study of a passage, using Mark 1:29-31 as a case study.
[Methods: Accordance 9] Explains how to use the Bible, Bible dictionaries, atlases and photos to research biblical places.
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[Intermediate: Accordance 10] Search options and Search commands are two additional ways to sharpen your searches. In this podcast Dr. J explains both and gives specific examples of their usefulness.
[Basic: Accordance 9 and iOS 1.2] How to use the Accordance Help quickly and efficiently. Covers Help on both OSX and iOS.
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[Basic: Accordance iOS 1.6] Version 1.6 of our mobile Accordance app combines a more polished interface with a host of new features: flex search, auto words/verses switching, bookmarks, Remember My Place, and syncing User Content between iDevices.
[Basic: Accordance 9 and iOS 1.1] How to download Bible Study with Accordance, our free iOS app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Includes setting up your online account and syncing Accordance iOS with your computer.
[Basic: Accordance iOS 1.1] How to install, navigate, and customize Accordance iOS. Lists the free resources included in the app download. Briefly mentions some of the most popular add-on modules available for purchase.
[Basic: Accordance iOS 1.1] How to search the Bible for word, phrase, or verse. Offers users a glimpse inside our multi-layered texts, explaining why our searches are so fast and precise. Includes some tips for becoming an Accordance "Search Master."
[Bible Studies: Accordance iOS 1.2] 1 Kings 18 & 19 records Elijah's confrontation with the prophets of Baal on top of Mt. Carmel, then his journey to Jezreel, Beersheba, the wilderness of the Negev, and finally Mt. Horeb (Sinai). How can understanding these places better help us discern the meaning of this story? Join Dr. J as he investigates this passage using Accordance mobile and its bundled free modules.
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Casey Anthony Flushed Out of Hiding
Originally posted 05/21/2012 06:20PM
Ten months after she went into hiding, Casey Anthony has been found and now may have to face tough questions under oath in a courtroom.
Investigators have been waiting outside Anthony's residence in Florida for several days to serve her with a subpoena in a defamation action filed by a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez.
"Our investigation team had her whereabouts pinned down," says Gonzalez's attorney, Matt Morgan. "Their backs were against the wall, so her attorneys said that they would accept service on her behalf."
Casey Anthony Won't Profit from Her Lawyer's Book, Says Jose Baez
Originally posted 05/10/2012 01:35PM
Jose Baez, the attorney who represented Casey Anthony, has written a tell-all book about the trial – and says his controversial client won't make any money off of it.
The 352-page book, titled Presumed Guilty: Casey Anthony: The Inside Story, will hit bookstores in July – a year after Anthony was acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
"Casey will not financially benefit from this book in any way, shape or form," Baez tells PEOPLE. "This is my story, not hers."
Rob Lowe to Play Casey Anthony Lawyer in Lifetime Movie
Originally posted 05/04/2012 12:10PM
Rob Lowe is returning to Lifetime – this time to portray a lawyer in an upcoming TV movie about last summer's Casey Anthony trial.
The Parks and Recreation star, 48, who previously played Drew Peterson in the Lifetime movie Drew Peterson: Untouchable has been cast as prosecutor Jeff Ashton. The movie, tentatively titled Prosecuting Casey Anthony, will be based on Ashton's book about the case, Improper Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony.
Casey Anthony Is Not Mentally Ill, Say Experts
Originally posted 01/11/2012 04:00PM
Two psychiatrists who spoke with Casey Anthony before her murder trial reported that she displayed no evidence of having a mental illness, according to deposition transcripts that were unsealed Wednesday.
During her psychological evaluations with Dr. Jeffrey Danziger and Dr. William Weitz, Anthony revealed that her daughter Caylee may have been conceived as the result of a date rape in October or November 2004, reports the Orlando Sentinel, the paper that requested to make the deposition public.
Casey Anthony Says Her Life Has Become 'Surreal'
Originally posted 01/05/2012 07:25AM
Casey Anthony says it's weird being on camera, but that's not the weirdest thing about her just-surfaced video diary.
For the first time since her July acquittal of murdering her daughter Caylee, Anthony is speaking out and showing her face – in a personal video diary she says she recorded in October.
Sporting a new look, with a blonde bob and wearing black-framed glasses and a white tank top, Anthony, 25, talks about her life in probation – how happy she is to have a computer, phone and camera she can call her own. She also mentions that she has adopted a dog.
"It's just a little surreal how much things have changed since July, and how many things haven't changed," she says. "But the good thing is that things are starting to look up and things are starting to change in a good way. I just hope that things stay good and that they only get better."
Casey Anthony TV Movie in the Works
Originally posted 11/15/2011 04:30PM
Casey Anthony was acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, but a new movie is set to examine the case through the eyes of a man who believes she escaped justice.
Lifetime is gearing up for a possible TV movie based on the new book
Imperfect Justice, Prosecuting Casey Anthony by retired Florida prosecutor Jeff Ashton, Variety is reporting.
The film would tell the story of the three years Ashton and his team spent preparing and prosecuting the Florida woman in a high-profile case that left Ashton feeling Anthony got away with murder.
Casey Anthony Prosecutor's New Book Attacks Defense
Originally posted 11/15/2011 07:30AM
Retired Florida prosecutor Jeff Ashton calls the trial arguments of Casey Anthony's defense team, which resulted in an acquittal for the accused murderer, "a complete crock of crap" in a new book published Tuesday.
"I've written a book to let people know the truth about the case from my perspective," Ashton tells the Orlando Sentinel of Imperfect Justice, Prosecuting Casey Anthony.
In the 322-page book, the paper reports, the lawyer writes that once her trial was underway Casey told two mental health professionals that her 2-year-old daughter Caylee had drowned in the family swimming pool – deliberately killed by Casey's father, George.
She also told the experts that her father molested her and she feared a similar fate awaited Caylee.
Casey Anthony Jurors' Names Released
Originally posted 10/25/2011 02:15PM
The heat may have been turned up on the jurors who found Casey Anthony not guilty of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.
The names of all 12 jurors – and the five alternates – were released Tuesday, which marked the end of a cooling-off period imposed by the court in the hopes of protecting the panelists' safety.
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Casey Anthony's E! True Hollywood Story: Will You Watch?
Originally posted 10/13/2011 05:00PM
Casey Anthony may be hiding out in fear, but her story is still playing out quite publicly.
After her parents opened up to Dr. Phil McGraw about their daughter's controversial murder trial and a new jailhouse video of Anthony was released, the infamous Florida woman will now be featured on E! True Hollywood Story.
The new episode will feature interviews with Zenaida Gonzalez ("Zanny the Nanny"), Anthony's former friends and boyfriends as well as her defense attorneys, according to the network.
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Originally posted 10/09/2011 07:00AM
Wearing dark sunglasses, a long wig and a baseball cap, Casey Anthony repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment Saturday morning as she answered questions in a deposition for a civil case against her.
Anthony, 25, is being sued by Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez, a Florida woman who claims she suffered damages when Anthony told police a nanny by the same name had kidnapped her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
During her murder trial, Anthony's lawyer, Jose Baez, acknowledged that she had made up the story and that such a nanny never existed.
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Mike Diehl is a freelance Computer Nerd specializing in Linux administration, programing, and VoIP. Mike lives in Albuquerque, NM. with his wife and 3 sons. He can be reached at email@example.com
Mike, thanks for the
Mike, thanks for the article, especially ATAoE :) By the way, have you heard about the PlutoHome?- this is Linux-based home automation system. It combines many of gadgets you named under a single hood.
Yes, I have
Thank you for the kind words. I also think ATAoE is a pretty cool trick. Someday I'd like to write an article about the Coraid hardware...
Anyway, yes, I am aware of the PlutoHome project. Sounds really neat, but looks like it needs a lot of special hardware that I just can't afford just yet.
...but talk about living the Jetsons liftstyle!
ATAoE hardware
"But what happens when the day comes when I want to replace an aging 200GB drive with a new 400GB drive, but I don't" ...
Sounds cool but doesn't ATAoE requires some special hardware from Coraid?
Ups, forgot about the userspace tool virtuale blade.
I've tested ATAoE and the
I've tested ATAoE and the userspace client works quite well. I exported a loopback "device" as a regular ATA drive and it worked like a champ. Really neat.
Which Voip service do you use?
I'm wondering which wholesale voip service you use, as referred to in your article.
I use Terravon.com. Easy
I use Terravon.com. Easy people to work with and they support Asterisk, and know it well. Tell them I sent you... (need to build karma points.)
Great Article
Great Article! It was the first thing I read when my copy came in the mail yesterday.
I've been building my "digital home" too, as time and money permit.
Would you be able to post your some of your asterisk config files?
I've been running asterisk off and on for a few years now, mostly as a digital answering machine (kind of a waste of a good TDM400 card!), but want to take it to the level you have.
Thank you for the kind
Thank you for the kind words. Unfortunately, my asterisk system calls a PostgreSQL database for configuration parameters and would probably not make much sense outside of that context. I also use a LOT of macros. This helps with maintainability.
BTW, I've started to resell my service to my friends. I don't make much money, but it's a lot of fun and we all save a buck or two.
If you have specific questions, please feel free to email me directly as I don't monitor this forum as often as I should.
Suggestion to help fighting spam
You had mentioned in your article (great article, btw) that you're suffering from a deluge of spam.
One thing that I have done to greatly reduce the amount of spam I receive, is the use of Real-time Spam Black Lists (RBL) within my exim config file.
To reduce the collateral damage of legitimate emails, I have a daily cron send me an email of all RBL activity.
Combined with SpamAssassin, RBLs work very well for me.
I've considered using an RBL
I've considered using an RBL to fight spam but the control freak in me gets in the way. I just can't seem to get around the fact that someone else is determining who can sent me mail and who can't. I know many people use these tools, so I'm sure it's just me....
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I figure since 5th edition books are off the shelves and it is fairly obvious 6th edition is just around the corner, it would only be fair if we paid our respects to 5th edition. Please post your own thoughts as we remember everything 5th edition gave us (and in some cases, didn't give us).
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to remember warhammer 40k 5th edition who so generously entertained us for many years with its beautiful artwork and new minis. Fifth edition, like any edition, was one of change. We saw the rise of "healthy models" as our models lost considerable weight as they shed a few pounds of metal pewter to finecast, for better or for worse. Luckily gamesworkshop reminded us that inhaling resin shavings was very bad for our health. Only problem is 90% of the finecast models come already bent/damaged, making the transition for us a little bit more than difficult. Most of us have learned to stomach this.
The Fifth edition rules brought us rending sniper rifles, for once making those cool sniper models worth purchasing. Our friend also brought us cover saves for skimmers making land speeders worth while. Outflanking was a nice touch, enabling players to spring deadly traps on our enemies, making genestealers that much cooler and proving once and for all that Boss Snigrot is, and will always be, one BAMF. Our shooting from vehicles also changed, as once more we couldn't justify taking those big expensive tanks but instead take as many little vehicles as we could. The random mission rolling was always entertaining as we, perplexed, looked at each other with doubt as we tried to remember what mission we had just rolled.
But 5th Edition was not without its faults as Fearless units, no matter how brave, seemed to fall in droves as combat resolution randomly killed them off from cardiac arrest as we cried to the Dice Gods for mercy as our armour save failed in an attempt to stop the bleeding. Or how one model could somehow overrun a unit of 40 guardsmen.
The Ork, Guard, Necron, Space Wolf, and Dark Eldar codexes dazzled us with new weapons and brilliant models. Codex Space Marine wasn't too awful except for the ludicrous amount of ultra smurfs. 5th Edition captured our imagination with three new expansions (planet strike, battle missions, and of course, apocalypse). Let us take a moment to say our goodbyes to these friends.
Thank you.
Fifth edition also so the rise of orbital bombardments and special character hammer which had its ups and downs. Who didn't love being able to use marbo to blow stuff up that an opponent thought was safe only to watch his expensive unit explode in ash as marbo's handler cackles historically? And who can forget all the times we had to face a blood angels player with Mephiston chewing through half of our armies? Then of course, you have the thousand Dark Eldar characters who seem to appear in the codex but only 2-3 ever get used in real life. Course, the grey knights can now field an army of ALL characters basically (more on that later).
But 5th edition also hampered our ability to be unique as many special wargear and tactics that our armies became accustomed to in 4th edition were tragically lost. Individuality became a thing of the past for our tabletop heros as uniform wargear, armour, weapons, became the name of the game. The days of creating your own heroes gave way to the temptation to buy a shiny, much better character who was a fraction more and was a thousand times better then the generic HQ choice you could buy, regardless of how much wargear he or she had.
The HQ units were not the only ones to receive this treatment.
The days of tyranid biomorphs , space marine chapter traits and guard doctrines were lost to the simplified static feel of the new codexes. This, more than anything else, simplified the game but also made it less enjoyable as a whole as those awesome stories and wargear options you had for your units in 4th edition quickly became illegal or thrown out in 5th when your new codex came out. While I doubt this will change, I would really like to see more unique options in next edition.
Fifth edition also spammed the world of 40k with transports as people realized that having units in metal boxes with wheels actually helped their survivabilty. Imagine that.
Leaf blowers, parking lots, to name a few, became the cream of the crop as you couldn't face a space marine army without at least two rhinos. We hope that in the next edition we see less of this tactic as blowing up transports gets old after a while. Especially when their smoke launchers continue to fool your heavy weapons. Yet all this is but a minor irritation compared to the evil that arose in this edition as one Matt Ward asscended to demon princehood (sitting on the golden throne of cheese) after overpowering the grey knights and brutally destroying years of well documented fluff that made 40k, 40k. Ward, we hope, will be banished to the depths of mount doom along with his creations.
As we turn to the future I foresee great things for our beloved game. Fliers, new units, and more are all promised. Hopefully we will see significant changes to some of the game mechanics as I, for one, am tired of feeling like I am facing down traffic coming out of a busy city with the amount of transports I have had to face. All the rumored chances seem appealing (well except for that rumor that the space marines are somehow buddy buddy with the Tau because the tau are now the chosen people of the emperor or something like that ) especially snap fire, heroic challenges, and of course, consolidation in combat.
One thing is for sure: change is coming. Ready or not.
I encourage you to post some of your own thoughts in this tread, perhaps write a eulogy of your own. If you enjoyed this post, please don't be afraid to say so.


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Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Ecclesiastical Action (Ich wandte mich und sah an alles Unrecht das geschah unter der Sonne) - oratorio for 2 narrators, bass & orchestra
Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
An evening of choral contrasts as Zimmermann's oratorio, a hard-hitting prophecy of loss and emptiness, stands in total contrast to the hopeful humanity of Brahms' German Requiem.
Five days after completing his 'ecclesiastical action' And Turning Then, I Saw There Great Injustice That is Done Under the Heavens, Bernd Alois Zimmermann took his own life. His oratorio on passages from Ecclesiastes and Dostoevsky is a stark piece of performance art inextricably connected to the Fluxus school of late 1960s Germany.
It stands in utter contrast to the hopeful humanity of Brahms' German Requiem, and Brahms' glowing messages of brotherhood and consolation will feel renewed by Zimmermann's urgent challenge.
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Razorbacks Soccer Opens Season this Weekend
By: University of Arkansas Athletics
Updated: August 14, 2012
The Razorbacks entertain Austin Peay on Friday at 7 p.m. and Texas on Sunday at 1 p.m.
Friday is UA Faculty and Staff Day. University faculty and staff will receive a voucher for free admission for two for the APSU game. Sunday is Welcome Back Students day and the first 200 fans will receive Razorback notebooks and pens.
The Jason's Deli Kid Zone will open one hour prior to game time and at halftime of each game, any winners in the halftime Kick for Cash contest receive $50, the team will meet with fans and sign autographs after the games and goal t-shirts will be thrown out to fans after each Razorback score. In addition, Fan of the Game winners receive a Razorback prize pack and signed program winners receive a meal from Chick-Fil-A.
Following the two games this weekend, the Razorbacks are back home on Aug. 22 for a third straight game in Fayetteville to open the season, hosting Missouri State at 7 p.m.
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This letter from Integra CEO Kevin Welch is in response to the article written by Kapali Eswaran in the September/October 2009 issue of ComputerTalk regarding "What to Look for in a Paperless System." September 23, 2009 To the editors: By way of introduction, my company Integra has unique insight into this subject based on our experience with installation of our systems in over 300 LTC/Specialty pharmacies alone over the last several years. Based on our experience with the installation of these systems in some of the largest pharmacies in the country, the first and foremost questions you need to ask about the vendor and their track record in this industry:
The reason these and other similar related questions are important is that in the end your success or failure with such systems will come down to your ability to work with a vendor that has done this before in your industry, who can amortize their development, testing & support costs over a large number of customers in your industry, and who has successfully retained their customers over a long period of time. If the vendor you are dealing with does not have an established track record serving this industry, despite the fact of having some success in other related industries (such as acute care or retail pharmacy), then you should think again. Systems designed for other industry segments do not for the most part handle the various operational and workflow details necessary for their successful use in LTC/Specialty pharmacy - and unfortunately you may not find this out until after you install the system. One last comment of Eswaran's article - he advocates using the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) within a paperless pharmacy system. Unfortunately in this area he is clearly incorrect -both TIFF and PDF (the successor to TIFF) are IEEE standards not controlled by any one vendor; plus TIFF is not HIPAA compliant and cannot be easily made so. The use of annotations, digital signatures or other such enhancements by a paperless system also renders the TIFF images proprietary. It was based on these reasons and the fact that many state regulatory agencies will not approve TIFF that several years ago Integra switched to PDF as its primary file format. In closing, I agree with Eswaran where he states that "moving into the paperless world...is a step you should take only after careful planning and research into which system will provide you with the full set of features that will make your pharmacy truly paperless." Integra would recommend the same. Kevin P. Welch
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Alice in Blackpool Illuminations
Driving into Blackpool I noticed some very interesting illuminations towards the Cleveleys end of the promenade, so after an abandoned attempt to walk back there, I got in the car and drove up. Obviously the above photograph was taken with my camera on a tripod, but I found the use of long exposures impractical, as the cat's head was moving from side to side. This meant that a long exposure rendered the head really blurred, so I had to up the ISO (camera sensitivity) and the shutter speed to compensate.
Blackpool Illuminations 2009
Long exposure light trail, south promenade, Blackpool illuminations. f22, 38 seconds. Shot from the passenger seat of the car moving at about 10 mph.
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Weather Update: 2.25.2013
7:44 a.m. Our Dodge City Outpatient and Dodge City Community Support Services offices are both closed today, 2.25.2013, due to inclement weather.
Our other offices are operating as normal.
Weather Update: 2.21.2013
Update @ 9:48 a.m.
AMHC offices in Garden City, Dodge City, and Ulysses will be closed on 2.21.2013.
Our Scott City office will open at 12 p.m. CST today and remain open for the remainder of normal business hours.
If you are having a mental health crisis, please call 1.800.259.9576, as this line is answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Due to the inclement weather, Area Mental Health Center will not open until 12 p.m. CST at all of our locations. This includes: Garden City, Dodge City, Ulysses and Scott City.
Please continue to check back here for updates as they are available. Updates will also be posted on our Facebook page and Twitter.
If you are having a mental health crisis, please call 1.800.259.9576, as this line is answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Celebrating 50 Years of the Community Mental Health Act
A Message from Patrick Kennedy:
Fifty years ago today marks President Kennedy's historic message to Congress on mental illness. It was in this message that JFK began laying the ground work for what would be the first mental health bill to be introduced and passed into legislation. My uncle had the profound realization that as a country, we could no longer continue the inhumane institutionalization of those with mental illness. This message led to the signing of the Community Mental Health Act on October 24, 1963.
I ask you all to join with me in celebration of this remarkable legislation and all it did to advance community mental health on October 23 – 24, 2013. It will be a time to reflect on all the progress we have made in the past fifty years and to identify the initiatives we need to continue to work on in order to have another fifty years of progress for those with mental illness.
There will be many opportunities to participate in the celebration. On October 23, 2013 I will be hosting the Kennedy Forum on Community Mental Health Gala at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, MA. This private gala will be coordinated with mental health organizations from around the country that will be able to participate via webcast of the gala keynote speaker program live at each of their celebrations.
On October 24, 2013 the Kennedy Forum on Community Mental Health Conference will take place in Boston, MA. Advocates, academics, researchers, practitioners and politicians will be invited to come and reflect on current topics in the field of mental health through expert panel discussions and a keynote luncheon program.
I hope you'll all join me in honoring the work of President Kennedy in the field of community mental health and work with me to create ideas for the next 50 years of mental health policy. In the words of JFK,
"The mentally ill and thementally retarded need no longer be alien to our affections or beyond the help of our communities."
It is with this thought in mind that I urge us all to come together in order to progress the research, care, science and policy in the field of mental health.
I look forward to celebrating with people all across the country on October 23 – 24, 2013.
Area Mental Health Center Receives Rental Housing Grant Award
Area Mental Health Center has received a $64,000 rental housing grant award. Funding is available for housing and rental deposit assistance for individuals with severe mental illness residing in Ford and Finney Counties. Funding for the award is provided through the Kansas Housing Resources Corporation Tenant Based Rental Assistance Program.
"We are excited to have this opportunity through our agency to help individuals in Finney and Ford counties," reports Khristy Guebara, Director of Community Support Services for Area Mental Health Center. "Our hope is to have an impact on as many individuals as we can. Our organization strives to offer comprehensive services in order to encourage these individuals to lead the best life possible."
The purpose of the TBRA grant is to provide rental assistance to residents in the two counties. Under the terms of the HUD HOME Program, tenants must be at or below 60% of the area median income and must have documentation that they have a severe mental illness. Rental assistance is up to 24 months. Tenants must select units of their choice throughout the two counties in independent living units.
Applicants must complete an application with Area Mental Health Center and be approved for assistance prior to move in. Documentation including a birth certificate/social security card, verification(s) relating to severe mental illness and third party income verification are required for completed applications. Rental units selected must pass U.S. Housing and Urban Development Housing Quality Standard inspections prior to move-in.
Applicants will be processed on a first come first served basis. Area Mental Health Center Community Support Services is located at 3000 N. 14th Street in Dodge City and at 531 Campus View Street in Garden City. Application hours are from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm- Monday through Friday.
For additional information contact Khristy Guebara at 620.275.9434 in Garden City or Nichole Vontress at 620.227.5040 in Dodge City.
Happy Holidays from Area Mental Health Center
Changing the World: Inspiring Hope, Health and Recovery
Area Mental Health Center is hosting a workshop presented by Dr. Ken Minkoff on August 29th, 2012! If you are interested in attending or for more information, please contact Christina McFarlane at 620.227.8566.
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Welcome to Area Mental Health Center's new website! It is our goal to provide up to date information regarding our services and our agency as a whole through this website. There are still many ways in which you may find out about our organization such as this website, calling our offices, stopping by our offices, or through our use of social media.
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I have been thinking of making these for a while and by reading the discussion forums there seem to be a couple of options outlined here
There seem to be 4 options
a)A rotary vane connected to a Hall effect sensor/low friction pot
b)A diode laser(not a clue about this)
c)A 5 hole probe(Seems interesting and doable)
d)Mark Drela's idea of having pressure taps on the top and bottom of the wing to figure out AOA
Has anyone tried these options? I am starting a new topic because the above link is about a year old.
a)How would a rotary vanes position be affected by aircraft attitude or rotation. I would think that these effects need to be removed before measuring AOA/ sideslip
b)Seems most elegant,
c)How would this be calibrated?
d)If i don't know the exact airfoil shape, this is a bit complicated.
Have any of the RC folks had success with these methods?
I found this article on how a laser doppler system could be used to determine everything we need.
If anyone knows more about laser velocimetry, please feel free to respond. Could we do this with a diode laser?
AOA is not affected by the aircraft attitude... (I may get flamed for that).... Remember that the aerofoil performance is usually defined in terms of C_L and C_D versus AOA.. not airspeed or attitude
AOA (alpha) is the angle of the wind with reference to either; 1. the aircraft axes (longitudinal axis, xz plane), or 2. the Chord line of the wing (this is the definition of AOA), it is often easier to reference AOA to the primary aircraft axes, as the wing is at a known angle of incidence to the aircraft's longitudinal axis in the xz plane..... and usually an Aircraft body fixed coordinate system (Centred on the nominal CG) is used as a reference.
Sideslip (Wind) angle(Beta), similarly is not related to attitude..... but it is the side angle of the wind frame to the aircraft lateral plane (xy plane) ...
Alpha and beta angles can be measured directly, using a wind vane, or indirectly using pressure measurements.
I am currently looking at the best way to measure it on a small UAV... using a wind vane connected to Either; 1. a voltage divider, make sure you use a linear pot, not a log pot, or 2. an optical rotary disk sensor..... (Using and old (computer) mouse optical trackball sensor, .. though their angle resolution is not very good, it can be made better by using a belt or gear drive to increase the angular rotation relative to the wind vanes...... The angle output needs to be integrated to allow tracking of the current wind frame data....
The only problem with aircraft rotation, is that the physical angle sensors may be damped and have a slower response than the actual aircraft.... (if you are performing sedate (regular UAV style) manoeuvres, this won't be a problem...) meaning that the measured angle of attack etc, may need to catch up with the aircraft.... this is why low friction instruments must be used.
Airfoil shape isn't too important in this instance (as long as the plane flies) as you will have to log the data, to work out the AOA which suits your conditions of operation. The good thing about using a physical sensor is that it can easily be calibrated, a pressure sensor must be modelled and tested under known conditions... (wind tunnel, aircraft on the roof of the car at fixed AOA, etc..)
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NASHVILLE (BP) -- Southern Baptist leader Frank Page took part in a conference call Monday (Jan. 28) with Boy Scout leaders and urged the organization not to change its policy on homosexuality, days ahead of a vote on the proposal that has led to significant pushback from the Scouts' base of support.
Page, president of the SBC Executive Committee, took part in the conference call which included Wayne Brock, chief executive of the Boy Scouts of America (B.S.A.); Wayne Perry, president of the B.S.A.; and Tiko Perez, national commissioner of the B.S.A. Roger S. "Sing" Oldham, vice president for convention communications and relations with the SBC Executive Committee, also took part in the call and gave Baptist Press a summary of the conversation.
The Boy Scout leaders said during the conference call they are facing pressure -- both internally and externally -- to change the policy, which prohibits open homosexuals from leadership positions. Page, though, told them that pressure should never trump principle, and he added that he could no longer laud the Scouts for standing on principle.
Just six months ago, the Boy Scouts released a statement standing by the ban, saying a "majority of our membership" agrees with the policy and that the "vast majority of the parents of youth we serve value their rights to address issues of same-sex orientation within their family, with spiritual advisers, and at the appropriate time and in the right setting."
The Boy Scouts released a new statement Monday describing the proposal, saying that the national policy would be rescinded in favor of a policy allowing local councils to determine their own policy. That means that in each city, one council might allow gay leaders and another might not. The Boy Scouts board is expected to vote on the proposal next week.
Page told the Scout leaders that although the new policy might allow the sponsoring organization to set local policy, such autonomy would disappear when there is a national or even regional meeting.
"National policy will always trump local autonomy" in such situations, Page said. "I believe this will be a death blow to Scouting. ... I think this is a self-inflicted wound."
Perry told Page that the Scouts are facing a "civil war" on the issue and that the proposal is the best solution. Page responded that the leaders did not allow time for the millions who support the current policy to speak out. About 70 percent of all Scouting units are owned and operated by faith-based organizations. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints leads all faith-based organizations with 38,000 units (and 420,000 participating youth), followed by the United Methodists (11,000 units; 371,000 youth) and the Catholic Church (8,570; 283,000). Baptists are sixth (4,100; 109,000).
Meanwhile, the president of Association of Baptists for Scouting -- A.J. Smith -- says passage of the proposed policy "will likely be viewed as an affront by most Baptist church leaders." He also is urging people to voice their position to the national Boy Scouts office (see below).
"Such a move may result in a loss of units chartered through Baptist churches as well as a loss of Baptist youth currently registered through other charter organizations," Smith said. "It will, no doubt, be argued that under the proposed new guidelines the charter organization will have greater liberty in determining membership standards, and that would be true. Some Baptists will be more agreeable to that, certainly. Still, the move opens the door for hiring practices at council and national camps that would allow homosexuals in those settings. The BSA will have no legal recourse to prevent such applicants from filing discrimination suits if their applications are denied. In light of that, many Baptist charter organizations and Baptist parents will decide not to send their youth to such camps for fear of them being exposed to persons advocating a homosexual lifestyle. In short, from a Baptist perspective, such a move is fraught with danger and is an affront to their core convictions on human sexuality."
Many people, Smith said, will wonder if current Boy Scouts leaders "are truly committed to the principles and values of Scouting as envisioned" by Scouting founder Lord Baden-Powell.
"The goal or aim of Scouting is to instill in youth the ability to make moral and ethical decisions over a lifetime by a careful application of the Scout Oath and Law. However, this move appears to fly in the face of both the Scout Oath and Law."
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"Baptists will not respond favorably to this shift in membership standards by the national council, if approved," Smith concluded. "The Association of Baptists for Scouting will have to give very careful consideration to the matter before coming to a definitive decision on how to respond to the matter."
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I wish that were true but we don't, we really don't.
In markets like this we just slash the odds at the first sign of smart money and try not to get stung too badly.
Its purely a PR exercise - journalists are lazy sods and are happy to quote odds rather than do any real work themselves.
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Really hope he hasn't turned us down, mainly for the fact that Taylor will have been completely wrong again. But I'm starting to fear the worst. Not necessarily because I think that MM is an amazing manager more through the lack of quality of all the others that are in the running.
daily Fail reporting it too
In markets like this you have to assume there is someone out there who knows the winner before you do.
As such you try not the lay anything for large stakes, which means prices get chopped for very little money.
You often see selections moving in very quickly and I wouldn't assume that its because of heavy support, just that us bookies don't want to get fleeced.
Of course the eventual winner will move in sharply as well but so far we've had Fergin-mini and MM trading at odds on then drift like a barge so the price cut in itself is interesting, but I wouldn't read too much into it.
If we are to give credibility to stories based on internet betting sites we are all doomed.
Internet betting is probably the most corrupt market sector after UK main stream banking...
So Mick has said himself now or just papers copying off sky sports?
The fact is it's all guessing games. None of us really know, the journalists do not really know but rumours sell much more than unanswered questions! As has been said the bookies odds chop and change on the basis of where the moneys put. Probably why Hoddle was all of a sudden a favourite because there was nothing to suggest he was in the running and the chairman said they had not spoken to him.
I still think Warnock. Although there is nothing to suggest it's him the media all told us the Al-Hasawis were likely to take over Leeds and that Steve Cotterill was going to keep his job. Twitter has been a more reliable source for a forest fan this summer so far!
All the speculation of a new manager coming .....Pmsl .....Nothing new really..... The hasawis said there would be a suprise well the suprise will be mr william mcintosh davies coming back....Watch this space.....They have studied nottingham forest for years...They know that if the mcintosh had the money he would have got nottingham forest up so now is the time....
McCarthy out
Hoddle out now too according to talksport
Talksport are saying Mick didn't want to work with a DoF and that's what Forest were talking about. Well I'm confused.
I must admit this one (of many) things that is confusing me. I am sure on Saturday it was clearly stated that there would be no DOF and the manager would have full control. I suppose we will know if this was true very soon after today's/tomorrow's announcements
is there meant to be announcements today bro? too many conflicting reports on twitter
Still no quotes, or mention of where they have got their information from
I always thought that if it's on BBC, it's definitely true? Surely BBC don't make articles on speculation do they?
I'm a bit worried tbh. It doesn't look very good that MM has turned us down.
BBC now says MM out of the running...
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