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The carte-de-visite vignettes and negative prints of Tasmanian prisoners taken as police identification photographs, many of which survive as originals, duplicates and copies in public collections bearing numbers from 1 to more than 300, and correctly attributed in the modern era to photographer Thomas J. Nevin in 1977, were registered at the Municipal Police Office, Town Hall and at the Supreme Court, Hobart Town Gaol where Nevin (with brother Constable John Nevin's assistance) was contracted on commission as police photographer from the early 1870s to the early 1880s.
An examination of the criminal history of the individual prisoners whose photographs survive indicates that each photograph was selected, even salvaged by archivists because each man had been committed and sentenced at the Tasmanian Supreme Court for a lengthy term. If sentenced at the Supreme Court in Launceston, he was transferred to the Hobart Gaol where he was bathed, shaved, photographed and isolated for one month in silence after being received, along with those already sentenced in criminal sittings of the Hobart Supreme Court . The Mercury July 8, 1882 described these past practices in detail:
The "Supreme Court men":
The Mercury July 8, 1882
All such men were termed "Supreme Court men". Their photographs survive because an archivist or historian compiled the collection on the basis of the notoreity of the offense years later, ca. 1900, writing the date "1874" and "Taken at Port Arthur" on the versos, when clearly this was not the case. The prisoner's Supreme Court photograph was used again if the offender committed further crimes, often reprinted and attached to warrants. The prisoner's photograph was taken at least once, therefore, on three significant occasions:
(1) if for a Supreme Court conviction, after his transfer from a rural regional lock-up such as Oatlands, or Launceston, to the central city prison in Hobart and prior to transfer to Port Arthur if sent there AFTER trial and incarceration at the central Hobart Gaol;
(2) prior to discharge with a ticket-of-leave, issued at the Hobart Town Hall Municipal Police Office.
(3) immediately prior to execution.
This was the practice in the State of Victoria by 1873, and it was adopted in the State of Tasmania in the same year.
THE VICTORIAN EXAMPLE: Charles Nettleton's vignettes of Ned Kelly
Below are the two photographs taken of Ned Kelly by Charles Nettleton which were pasted to his criminal record between 1873 and 1874. As the caption states, the photograph on the left was taken five months after Kelly was transferred to Pentridge in Melbourne from a country jail, dated to June 1873, and the second was taken a week before his release on 11th March, 1874. The photographs, attached to the prisoner's record, were forwarded to the police for future reference. This was their intended purpose. Note that the Victorian prison photographer Charles Nettleton framed his final copy as an oval vignette for the official record.
From the Public Records Office, Victoria:
This vignette of Kelly was taken prior to his execution:
Series VPRS 515/P0 Central Register of Male Prisoners
Description Edward (Ned) Kelly, age 25: detail from VPRS 515/P0 Central Register of Male Prisoners, prisoner no. 10926 Format photograph: 50 x 60 mm.
This photograph held at the Public Record Office, Victoria, and is now nominated by the Australian Memory of the World Register:
Register no. 19
Year of registration 2006
Name of the documentary heritage The Edward (Ned) Kelly and Related Papers as found in the Public Record Office Victoria
Location Public Record Office Victoria
Citation http://www.amw.org.au/citation/19
Full nomination Coming soon
Image caption Ned Kelly aged 15, after being tried in Benalla for horse theft. This copy of the photograph, taken for Kelly's prison record c. 1870, is attached to a brief description of Kelly that was prepared for a noted phrenologist in 1898. PROV, VPRS 8369/P Correspondence, Photographs and History Sheets of Certain Male Criminals
Edward Kelly's Prison Records
VPRS 4966 Consignment P0 Unit 1 Item 1 Document: Police history, circa. 1873
Victorian prisons were quick to use the still-new technology of photography to create records of those who passed through their doors. The prison record featured here carries copies of two photographs of Ned Kelly, both probably taken by Charles Nettleton who worked on contract to Pentridge prison until the early 1880s. The first was taken in June 1873, five months after Kelly's transfer to Pentridge from Beechworth prison, and half-way through his sentence for receiving a stolen horse. The second photograph was taken a week before Kelly's release on 2 February 1874.
Documents like this were created by prisons to be forwarded to the police at the time of the prisoner's release. The police referred to these pages for the person's criminal history. This particular record was forwarded to the Penal and Gaols Branch of the Chief Secretary's Department on 11 March 1874.
In 1880 the record was forwarded to the Prosecution for Kelly's trial, with instructions that the photographs were to be returned to Chief Commissioner Nicolson.
SOME TASMANIAN EXAMPLES: Thomas Nevin at the Hobart Gaol
Thomas Nevin's Supreme Court prisoner photographs:
Geary, James, arraigned and photographed at Supreme Court Hobart 1-3 December 1874
Fisher, George, arraigned and photographed at the Supreme Court Hobart by Nevin, 1-3 December 1874
Geary, Fisher: Supreme Court Hobart 1-3 December 1874
See these articles:
- The Supreme Court Mugshots taken by T.J Nevin from 1871 onwards
- From Thomas Bock to Thomas Nevin: Supreme Court prisoner portraits
- "Securing a Proper Likeness": NSW, Victoria and Tasmania from 1871
Margaret Greenwood, 1875, photographed at the Darlinghurst Gaol NSW
NSW State Records Archives
NSW State Records Archives Investigator - Series Detail
Series number: 2138
Title: Photographic Description Books [Darlinghurst Gaol]
Start date: by 12 Aug 1871
End date: by 13 Jul 1914
Contents start date: 12 Aug 1871
Contents end date: 13 Jul 1914
Descriptive note:
The taking of prisoner 'portraits' was formally authorised to be carried out at Darlinghurst Gaol by a memo from Harold Maclean (Inspector of Prisons) to the Principal Gaoler on 5 August 1871 (1). This document noted:
Authority to introduce Photography
Portraits will be taken of all prisoners convicted at the Superior Courts, except those convicted of trifling misdemeanours and who do not belong to the Criminal Class.
Portraits will also be taken of prisoners summarily convicted where the Police require it, or the Principal Gaoler thinks it desirable to secure a perfect description.
These portraits will be photographed after conviction and fourteen (or more) days prior to discharge, in private clothing where practicable.
Any prisoner refusing or by his or her behaviour putting obstacles in the way of securing a proper likeness will be brought before the Visiting Justice for disobedience and the case reported to the Inspector of Prisons with a view to the stoppage of remission indulgences and gratuities. .
The figures are to be taken ¾ size unless in exceptional cases where there may be reason for taking them in full. The negatives will be numbered to correspond with the Photographic Register, and carefully packed away under lock and key.
Twenty five copies of each portrait are to be printed and furnished to the Inspector General of Police through this Office.
Harold Maclean
Inspector of Prisons
The Principal Gaoler
A slightly earlier general order from the Acting Inspector of Prisons on 27 July 1871 (2) dealt with some of the practical aspects of implementing photography of prisoners:
Prisoners to be photographed
Prisoners convicted at the Superior Courts and being forwarded to serve their Sentences in Darlinghurst Gaol, or to Darlinghurst Gaol en route to Berrima or other prisons, will not be shaved and their private clothing will be sent with them in order that they might be photographed as nearly as practicable in their ordinary appearance.
Harold Maclean
Actg Inspr of Prisons
The Gaolers
The photographing of prisoners appears to have been confined to Darlinghurst Gaol (the principal prison in the Colony) until the mid-1870s, after which it began to be introduced at the major country gaols. On 15 February 1877, a general order was sent to Berrima and Goulburn Gaols advising that when a prisoner who had been photographed was transferred to another gaol, a copy of his photograph, mounted on the usual form, was to be attached to his papers. (3)
In addition to at least one photograph of each prisoner, this series contains the following information: number, prisoners' name, aliases, date when portrait was taken, native place, year of birth, details of arrival in the colony – ship and year of arrival, trade or occupation, religion, degree of education, height, weight (on committal, on discharge), colour of hair, colour of eyes, marks or special features, number of previous portrait, where and when tried, offence, sentence, remarks, and details of previous convictions (where and when, offence and sentence).
There appears to have been one face-on photograph per individual until about June 1894 when there was both a face-on and a side-on photograph per individual.
While the information recorded varied little over time, there was some variation in the format of the records, particularly in the first eight years (August 1871 to April/May 1879). For this period, the primary and more complete sequence of records was kept in a double-page format, with the descriptive information recorded (with photographs) on the left hand page, and criminal history/previous convictions on the right-hand side. The original intention appears to have been to have two photographs of each prisoner, on arrival and discharge. This seems to have been done only occasionally (mainly in the first few years of the system).
An incomplete sequence of records in a single-page format has also survived as part of this series, covering the period August 1871 to March 1875. This is particularly important, as it includes some records for periods where there are gaps in the surviving primary sequence of records (particularly for the period August 1871 to February 1872, and November 1872 to October 1873).
From April/May 1879 onwards, the single page format became the standard for these records.
For the period July 1904 to July 1914, there is a parallel set of records for Darlinghurst at NRS 1942 (this series also contains records for the other NSW gaols).
Custody History
[11/2205] was an archival estray received from Mr F. Rogers of the Hastings District Historical Society.
1. NRS 1824, 4/6478, p.496, no.71/2676.
2. NRS 1834, 5/1826, p.144, no.71/31.
3. NRS 2179, 5/1823, p.334.
Home location: These records are held at Western Sydney Records Centre
These examples give a clear picture of the purpose which prison photography served in the colonies of NSW, Victoria and Tasmania in the 1870s. They show a generically consistent approach which commercial photographers Charles Nettleton and Thomas J. Nevin (snr) and those in NSW deployed in the 1870s at the request of their respective governments, specifically the use of an oval vignette small enough to be pasted to the criminal record sheet, showing the subject posed in a half body shot with eyelines to left or right of frame. The later photographs, taken after 1880 show the influence of the Bertillon method of posing the prisoner in two separate shots: one full frontal, and one in full profile.


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Lewis & Clark offers merit-based music scholarships to students who demonstrate outstanding skill and potential in their instrument, voice part, and/or in music composition. Incoming students, transfer students, and current students are eligible to audition once per academic year, in February.
Fast Facts
Some scholarships are available to all Lewis & Clark students, regardless of major, and others are available only to declared music majors. The amount of funds given out each year varies. Awards range from $550 per semester (covering the fee to participate in private lessons) to $10,000 per year. Scholarships are automatically renewed each academic year, provided the recipient continues to fulfill the obligations of his/her award – participating in private lessons and performing in the relevant Lewis & Clark music ensemble, i.e. orchestra, choir, wind ensemble, or jazz band. Students may audition on more than one instrument if they possess outstanding skill on both.
Music majors who receive scholarships will have their primary instrument lessons paid for as a Tholen Lesson Scholarship. The department will also waive the cost of up to 4 semesters of piano lessons. Music majors receiving scholarships, who wish to take a third set of lessons for a third instrument that they study seriously, can petition the department for an additional waiver, as limited funds are available for additional lessons.
How To Apply
1. Fill out the online application form by January 30, 2015, for consideration for 2015-16.
2. Audition on or by February 14, 2015.
a. Performance scholarship applicants may audition in person at Lewis & Clark College at our Scholarship Audition Day on February 14, 2015. Email firstname.lastname@example.com to sign up for a time, no later than January 30, 2015, and note whether you will require a piano accompanist. If you require an accompanist, please attach PDF copies of your scores to your email and bring the hard copies with you in person. Applicants will be scheduled as soon as they contact us, so we recommend contacting us as soon as possible. See below for audition requirements.
b. Although live auditions are strongly encouraged, performance scholarship applicants who are unable to attend the live audition on campus may electronically submit a video recorded audition by February 14, 2015. Applicants should upload the video recording (with good audio and video quality) to YouTube and email the link to firstname.lastname@example.com by the deadline. Please provide the titles and composers of your selections in either the email or the video. See below for audition requirements.
c. Music composition scholarship applicants should submit a representative portfolio of at least three of your scores, preferably with recordings, via email to Visiting Professor of Composition Renée Favand-See at email@example.com, by February 14, 2015.
Audition Requirements
All performance scholarship auditions, whether live or recorded, should demonstrate your abilities to date. If instrumental, please perform 10-15 minutes of music, either one or two short movements or a longer work, demonstrating contrasting styles. Vocalists should perform at least two separate pieces representing different styles you have studied (for example, aria, art song, and musical theater selections); we wish to hear at least one piece in a foreign language and at least one piece using classical vocal technique.
Music composition scholarship applicants should note the portfolio requirements, above.
Auditions will be heard by members of the Lewis & Clark College music faculty.
For more information on available scholarships and how to apply, contact Jessica Sweeney at 503-768-7460, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Lewis & Clark College music department offers an array of named music scholarships, designed by our donors to foster excellence in a variety of musical areas. Below is a sampling of several of the prestigious named scholarships available to Lewis & Clark students. There are many additional scholarships not listed here that recognize achievement in all areas of the department.
Betsy Russell '81 Music Composition Scholarship
The Betsy Russell '81 Music Composition Scholarship was established in 2011 by music alumna Betsy Russell to attract music composition talent to Lewis & Clark and to celebrate emerging composers in the greater Portland area. Ms. Russell has a long-standing relationship with the College and a special interest in supporting new music. Her commitment to the arts will allow Lewis & Clark's music program to attract and retain fresh talent and promote and reward new composition from young musicians.
The renewable scholarship will provide a $5,000/year award to a student who majors in music composition. The award will be merit-based and the selection committee will be comprised of faculty of the department and perhaps a music alumnus/a with experience in composition. The recipient of the award must remain in good standing and as a music composition major throughout his or her academic career at Lewis & Clark. As a student, the award recipient will submit a composition to be played by a professional music ensemble.
- Competitive, merit-based; students will compete for award by submitting a portfolio of their work to music faculty
- Current music major with a focus on composition OR incoming student intending to declare a music major with a focus on composition
- During Lewis & Clark tenure, recipient presents best work to professional group to perform the composition
Dr. Paul Bellam Memorial Scholarship
The Dr. Paul Bellam Memorial Scholarship was funded in 2011 by Bruce Bailey and Mariel Bailey '72 to celebrate classical music and provide an incentive and a reward for the concert master or mistress of the Lewis & Clark orchestra.
Dr. Bellam lived in Portland, Oregon, from 1966 to 1987 where he taught in Lewis & Clark's music program, conducted the Portland Chamber Orchestra, and played with the Oregon Symphony. Called a "perfectionist and taskmaster," Dr. Bellam played the violin and viola. He died in 2003.
Mariel studied with Dr. Bellam as an undergraduate at Lewis & Clark. Mariel went on to play for the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and currently holds the position of Section First Violinist. Her husband, Bruce, plays for the same orchestra. Mariel and Bruce enjoy the outdoors, collecting musical scores, and spending time with their dog.
The Reinhard and Constance Pauly Orchestral Strings Scholarship
The Reinhard and Constance Pauly Orchestral Strings Scholarship was established in 2013 to enhance the Lewis & Clark strings program by providing merit-based tuition scholarships as well as lesson scholarships to students of the violin, viola, cello, and double bass.
Dr. Reinhard Pauly was a long-time member of the music faculty where he taught music history and chaired the department. He also played viola with the Portland Opera Orchestra for many years and continues to be involved in chamber music. Students may be awarded a Pauly scholarship regardless of financial need or academic major. Recipients must enroll for lessons in their instrument and play in the orchestra or a chamber music ensemble each term they are on campus . They may renew their scholarship by demonstrating satisfactory progress as determined by their principal teacher.
Cynthia Lois Brown Organ Scholarship
Cynthia Lois Brown Organ Scholarships were established to support students interested in studying the organ as a part of a liberal arts education. The late Cynthia Lois Brown, a student of Lewis & Clark organist and Professor of Music Emeritus, Dr. Lee Garrett, provided the endowment for these scholarships.
Recipients do not need to major in music, but they must have prior keyboard experience in order to take full advantage of the College's rich program of learning about the organ and its music (there are three fine pipe organs at Lewis & Clark). Scholarships are awarded on the basis of both merit and need and may be renewed, pending students' satisfactory progress.
Photo below: the Casavant Organ located in the Agnes Flanagan Chapel


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IAEA SafeguardsAn Overview
Nuclear safeguards are a key element in international action against the spread of nuclear weapons. Safeguards are directed at the verification of peaceful use commitments, given by States through international agreements to use nuclear materials and facilities for exclusively peaceful purposes. Broadly, safeguards may be described as a complex system of declarations by States, verified by inspections and evaluations, undertaken principally by the IAEA.
It should be emphasised that the task of safeguards is not prevention, except in so far as risk of discovery may act as a deterrent to a would-be proliferator. Nor is the IAEA an international policeman. Rather, the political objective of safeguards, in simple terms, is to exercise a positive influence on the behaviour of States by:
- providing assurance to reinforce non-proliferation commitments; and
- deterring non-compliance through the risk of timely detection.
Importantly, safeguards serve to assist States who recognise it is in their own interest to demonstrate their compliance to others. Thus safeguards are an important confidence-building measure in their own right, as well as being a major complement to the broader range of international confidence-building measures.
Safeguards are complemented by other important elements in the non-proliferation regime such as: export controls on nuclear items; political incentives and sanctions; and national intelligence activities. Some institutional and technical aspects of non-proliferation are discussed at page 65.
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)
The NPT is the centrepiece of the international nuclear non-proliferation regime. The Treaty was concluded in 1968 and entered into force in 1970. It is now almost universal, with 187 Parties. Only four States remain outside the NPT. Three (Israel, India and Pakistan) have unsafeguarded nuclear activitiesthe fourth, Cuba, has safeguards on all existing nuclear activities.
The overwhelming majority of States have renounced nuclear weapons, recognising that the possession of these weapons would threaten, rather than enhance, their national security.
The NPT has been essential to establishing the conditions under which the renunciation of nuclear weapons has been possible. It has done this by providing:
- a legal framework within which States can express their commitment to use nuclear energy for exclusively peaceful purposes; and
- a credible verification mechanism, IAEA safeguards, to assist States demonstrate that they are honouring their Treaty commitments and to give them confidence that others are doing the same.
The key provisions of the NPT can be outlined as follows:
- Nuclear-weapon States (NWS)[5] agree not to assist any non-nuclear-weapon State (NNWS) to acquire nuclear weapons.
- NNWS agree not to acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, and to accept IAEA safeguards on all their current and future holdings of nuclear material (full scope or comprehensive safeguards).
- All Parties agree to cooperate in the peaceful uses of nuclear energybut not to supply nuclear items to a NNWS except under safeguards.
- All Parties agree to pursue nuclear disarmament, and complete and general disarmament.
IAEA Safeguardsthe Classical System
The system of safeguards developed to give effect to the full scope safeguards commitment under the NPT is commonly described as the classical system. The classical system is characterised by:
- an emphasis on the verification of nuclear materials accountancy, using containment and surveillance as complementary measures; and
- a focus, inherited from pre-NPT safeguards, on the concept of diversion as comprising the removal of nuclear material from declared facilities or locations.
The legal basis for classical safeguards is an agreement concluded by each State with the IAEA. In the case of the full scope (now more commonly called comprehensive) safeguards applied to NNWS NPT Parties, these agreements are based on an IAEA document referred to as INFCIRC/153 (Information Circular number 153).
The central feature of IAEA safeguards is inspectionsthe verification of nuclear material in declared facilities by safeguards inspectors. Nuclear facility operators are required to maintain, under the supervision of each countrys national safeguards authority, detailed accounting records of all movements and other physical transactions involving nuclear material. IAEA inspectors regularly visit nuclear facilities to verify the completeness and accuracy of this documentation through activities such as checking inventories, sampling and other analytical procedures.
Nuclear material accountancy is complemented by other technical measures such as containment (e.g. the placement of special seals on nuclear items), and surveillance (e.g. the operation of automatic cameras), to maintain continuity of knowledge between inspections. With the increasing complexity of modern nuclear facilities, especially large-scale bulk-handling facilities such as reprocessing plants, use of containment and surveillance is assuming greater importance. Containment and surveillance, in the form of remote monitoring systems, are also becoming increasingly important as a way of improving both the cost-efficiency and the effectiveness of safeguards.
The classical safeguards system has provided the international community with a high level of assurance that all the nuclear material declared to the IAEA by NPT Parties remains in the civil nuclear fuel cycle. However, events in Iraq showed the limitations of the classical system and prompted a program to strengthen safeguards, in order to address the possibility of undeclared nuclear activities.
Strengthened Safeguards
From the early 1990s, the IAEA, with the assistance of Member States, has been engaged in a major undertaking to strengthen and streamline the safeguards system. The principal directions of the strengthened safeguards system currently under development are to:
- shift the focus from declared inventories and flows of nuclear material at individual facilities, towards safeguards approaches based on evaluation of the State as a whole;
- provide credible assurance of the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in the State; and
- diversify the methods of detection, introducing methods based upon quite different principles (such as environmental analysis), resulting in a more robust system.
Early in the strengthening process two broad groups of safeguards strengthening measures were identified: Part 1 measures which the IAEA could implement under current safeguards agreements, and Part 2 measures which required additional or complementary legal authority. Part 1 measures include enhanced information collection and analysis, environmental sampling at nuclear sites, and use of unannounced inspections. To provide the necessary legal authority for Part 2 measures, it was decided to establish an Additional Protocol, a legal instrument that would complement existing safeguards agreements.
The Additional Protocol
The text of the Additional Protocol (published by the IAEA as INFCIRC/540), to be used as a model for each State to conclude a Protocol with the IAEA, was negotiated in a Special Committee of the IAEA Board of Governors, and was agreed in May 1997. Australia played a major role in the negotiation of the Additional Protocol and, as outlined in the following article in this Report, was the first State to bring an Additional Protocol into effect.
Key elements of the strengthened safeguards regime, of which the Additional Protocol is a central element, are:
- The IAEA receives considerably more information on nuclear and nuclear-related activities, including through an Expanded Declaration by each State and widened reporting requirements. This includes, inter alia, information on nuclear-related R&D activities, production of uranium and thorium, production of heavy water and graphite, and nuclear-related imports and exports.
- IAEA inspectors have substantially
increased access rights, termed complementary access to:
- anywhere on a nuclear site;
- various locations included in the Expanded Declaration; and
- locations elsewhere in the State to carry out environmental sampling and other verification measures.
At nuclear sites and certain locations listed in the Expanded Declaration the Agency has right of access to confirm that there is no undeclared nuclear material or activities at those places. Access on nuclear sites can be short-notice, two hours or less, if carried out with a routine or other inspection. Elsewhere access is given to enable the Agency to resolve any question or inconsistency arising from its information review. The State may require that access be on a managed basis to protect certain categories of information.
- Environmental sampling is initially to be location-specific, but the Protocol recognises the possibility of using wide-area environmental sampling, looking for nuclear indications over extensive areas, once the efficacy of this technique has been established.
- Information analysis and the conduct of complementary access are to be used to establish a State Evaluation, that is, the IAEA applies its safeguards approaches and draws its conclusions on the basis of the State as a whole.
Progress with strengthened safeguards
As mentioned above, a range of strengthened safeguards measures (Part 1 measures) were introduced under existing safeguards agreements, and have now been in operation for some five years. Part 2 measures require the conclusion of Additional Protocolsthese have proceeded more slowly than Australia would wish, though it is recognised that many States have had to introduce complex legislation and administrative arrangements. At 30 June 2000 only 11 Protocols were in force[6]a further 44 had been signed or approved by the IAEA Board of Governors. It is of concern however that there were 23 NNWS NPT Parties with nuclear activities that had yet to commit to concluding Protocols.
Substantial work has been undertaken, and is ongoing, developing the approaches and procedures, technologies, quality systems, evaluation methodologies and reporting required to ensure that the strengthened safeguards system will be effective in practice. As outlined elsewhere in this Report, Australia is actively involved in this process.
Information analysis is an essential component of strengthened safeguards. An important aspect of this is acquisition path analysis, that is, assessment of the feasible opportunities available to the particular State to produce or acquire nuclear material to manufacture nuclear weaponsseparated plutonium or HEU (high enriched uranium) of suitable quality. A would-be proliferator needs either access to such materials directly or the technologies required to upgrade nuclear materialsi.e. enrichment capability to produce HEU or reprocessing capability to separate plutonium. Diversion of materials requiring further processing, such as natural or low enriched uranium or spent fuel, would be useful only if the diverter has these technologies. Acquisition path analysis is a key part of designing safeguards implementation strategies.
Some of the technical approaches under development include:
- environmental analysisthis is a very powerful safeguards tool, the value of which was first demonstrated in Iraq. Nuclear activities leave indicatorsminute traceson building surfaces, in plants and soil, in water, and in the air. Detection of such traces can indicate the existence of undeclared nuclear activities;
- remote surveillancethe use of video cameras and instruments to monitor nuclear facilities, transmitting safeguards data to IAEA headquarters by telephone, satellite, and potentially the internet;
- use of satellite imagerythough too expensive for covering wide areas, this can be valuable for specific applications, such as investigating suspect sites, confirming the operating status of facilities, and possibly assessing production levels of uranium mines.
Integrated Safeguards
While the implementation of strengthened safeguards is progressing, the focus has already turned to integration, that is, how to merge classical safeguards and strengthened safeguards to give the most effective and cost-efficient outcome.
Integration is prompted by the degree of overlap between the old and the new safeguards measures. Certain acquisition paths have components detectable by both classical and strengthened safeguards (e.g. diversion of spent fuel followed by reprocessing in a clandestine reprocessing plant). There are also acquisition paths that can be detected only by classical safeguards (e.g. diversion of separated plutonium), and others that can be detected only by strengthened safeguards (e.g. totally clandestine fuel cycles). Where there is redundancy there is room for rationalisation, so that the cost-effectiveness of safeguards can be enhanced. Integration therefore is central to efficiency: it is about how to prioritise safeguards resources to achieve the best results.
Integration would involve a reduction in the classical safeguards effort in appropriate areas. The IAEA is developing criteria for integration, which will include achieving and maintaining positive results from the Agencys various safeguards activities. For example, if strengthened safeguards led to confidence of the absence of a reprocessing plant in a particular State, the intensity of classical safeguards on power reactors and spent fuel could be reduced accordingly.
The greatest single challengeof critical importance to the credibility of the safeguards systemis to effectively address the issue of undeclared nuclear activities. This is a much less tangible goal than the verification of declared material, and the level of assurance which can be provided will be less certain. Obviously it is essential to avoid the dangers of over-expectation. Nor however should we be pessimistic about what can be achieved over time.
How realistic is it to expect the IAEA to be able to detect undeclared nuclear activities? The difficulties encountered in Iraq in the 1990s, where there was a very intrusive verification regime following the Gulf War, show this is not an easy task. On the other hand, compared with individual States, the IAEA has considerable advantages to build on in pursuing this task. In addition to its expertise, the Agency will have comprehensive information bases, extensive access rights, and increasingly sophisticated verification methods. It is most important for the Agencys work to be complemented through States making available information obtained by intelligence activities and other national means. Other essential elements in the success of this work will be the transparency of States and their willingness to cooperate with the Agency. It can be expected that refusal to cooperate, especially obstructing the exercise of access rights, will be viewed very seriously by the international community.
Therefore, as the strengthened safeguards system develops and experience is gained, it can be expected to make a major contribution to international confidence-building. Australia will continue to be a strong supporter of this process.
[5]. The NPT formally recognises as NWS the States that had nuclear weapons when the Treaty was concluded in 1968, i.e. US, Russia, UK, France and China.
[6]. In addition the IAEA is implementing Additional Protocol measures in Taiwan, China.
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text: | Dáil Éireann - Volume 678 - 12 March, 2009 Adjournment Debate. - Social Welfare Services. Deputy Ulick Burke Deputy Ulick Burke Deputy Ulick Burke: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this matter and for allowing me to discuss it with the Minister of State. I call on the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Mary Hanafin, to alleviate the serious difficulties within the Department which delay the provision of services to applicants who have lost their jobs in the Gort area. The mission statement of the Department of Social and Family Affairs states,"Our mission is to promote a caring society through ensuring access to income support and other services, enabling active participation, promoting social inclusion and supporting families". 74 The difficulty is that the Department has failed miserably to provide and deliver on its mission statement in Gort. As of 5 March, the average waiting time in Gort for the processing of various social welfare applications is ten and a half weeks. I was approached for support by a carer in desperation who applied to the Department in September 2008. Last week, I asked [74] the Department when it was likely the person, who has cared for an elderly person since last September, will receive the carer's allowance. I was told the file is with the inspector. Everybody realises that all people delivering services at the coalface are overwhelmed with volumes of applications. Many areas throughout the country received additional permanent or temporary staff to alleviate the backlog in these instances. In the case of Gort, this has not happened and is not likely to happen unless the Minister intervenes. It is unfair that any person would have to wait since September 2008 until now to be told the file is still with the inspector. It is outrageous and it shows a lack of care that the Department or Minister will not intervene in this instance. As we speak, more than 1,200 people are on the live register in Gort. The conditions under which officials of the Department of Social and Family Affairs must work are poor. We have no back up services where this happens, particularly with regard to applications for means tested allowances such as carer's allowance and non-contributory old age pensions. These people receive the blunt end of the wedge. It is an uncaring society that allows this to happen and to continue. We have an urgent need for follow-up support. The social welfare office in Gort is not accessible to the public. It is closed because the inspector cannot deal with the volume of applications and provide a service. The telephone there cannot even be answered. While this is so we will have an increasing backlog and difficulties for many people which is unfair to them. It is putting pressure on the supplementary welfare system, where other agencies must intervene and provide assistance to those people. 5 o'clock I know that the situation is similar across the country, but it is worse in Gort than anywhere else. If anybody has had to wait since September 2008 until now only to be told that the inspector has the file but has not dealt with it, then how can we say that we are caring for elderly people? If not for the goodwill of the carer who has worked in the intervening period without having received the carer's allowance, that person would have had to be hospitalised at a greater cost. There is a need for the Minister to provide additional backup services on a temporary or permanent basis to alleviate the problems and to provide access for the applicants to receive their entitlements. Deputy Seán Haughey Deputy Seán Haughey Deputy Seán Haughey: I am taking this matter on the Adjournment on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Social and Family Affairs. There has been a very significant increase in the number of people applying for a jobseeker's payment during the past year. From February 2008 to February 2009, the live register increased by about 165,000 people, or over 87%. Staff in social welfare local offices are working extremely hard and productivity increased by 74% between the last quarter of 2007 and the final quarter of 2008. The Department delivers a front line service through a network of 62 local offices and 62 branch offices, and the service in Gort is delivered from a branch office. Branch offices are operated by private individuals on a contract for service basis. Under the terms of their contract, branch managers are required to ensure that staffing levels are adequate to allow for the efficient performance of the work of the office. The main services provided from Gort branch office include jobseeker's payment, one parent family payment and an information service. All decisions on branch office claims are made in the parent local office, which in the case of Gort is the Ennis local office. There was a staffing issue in Gort recently which impacted on the processing times for jobseeker allowance claims. The issue is now resolved and additional inspector resources have been assigned to the area to deal with any backlog in means claim processing. 75 [75] Following a number of staffing reviews, the Department has assigned extra staff to local offices to deal with the increase in the live register. More than 240 extra posts have been allocated to local offices in recent months, including an additional four staff assigned to the Ennis local office. A range of process improvement initiatives is also being introduced. The current average processing times in the Gort office are 2.6 weeks for jobseeker's benefit claims and 10.6 weeks for jobseeker's allowance claims. This compares with the February national average of three weeks for jobseeker's benefit and six weeks for jobseeker's allowance claims. The additional resources assigned to the Ennis office and the inspectorate area dealing with Gort will reduce the processing times over the coming months. It is fully appreciated that people need to get access to financial and other supports as quickly as possible. While every effort is made to ensure that applications are processed as quickly as possible, anyone under financial pressure awaiting a decision on his or her claim for a jobseeker's payment can apply for the supplementary welfare allowance, which is subject to a means test and other qualifying conditions. Deputy Ulick Burke Deputy Ulick Burke Deputy Ulick Burke: The issue is not resolved. Dáil Éireann 678 Adjournment Debate. 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The Associated Press has always maintained that its first Stylebook - the essential reference bible for professional journalists - was published in 1953. "Sixty pages," they say, "stapled together."
But this isn't exactly true.
Actually, there were hundreds of pocket-sized "circulars" distributed to correspondents for at least a half a century before that. Some focused on writing style, others on "rules and regulations." There was even one about how to file telephone reports. It's unclear how many of these pamphlets were actually seen by reporters in the field, however, or how closely their scattered guidelines were followed.
So an enterprising correspondent named John Palmer Gavit, who covered the state capitol at Albany from 1902 to 1909, decided to take matters into his own hands. His richly detailed publication, The Reporter's Manual: A Handbook for Newspaper Men, was begun in the early 1890s and took 12 years to complete. It was finished in 1903, one year before Gavit was named Albany bureau chief, and is now the earliest known and most complete guidebook for reporters; a book so forgotten that even the AP's own archivists hadn't heard of it.
Gavit's work is a forgotten bit of history that reveals much about early "newspapermen" and how they saw their place in the world. Like the modern Stylebook, it offers dictionary-style entries on what topics journalists should and should not cover, why, and how. His advice is for the "all-round, general utility chap," he says. The lone reporter freshly "flung out into deep water to sink or swim as best he may, with little comfort or counsel from his elders." His aim is to offer guidance to the overwrought correspondent who must, "for 365 days in the year find news in the passing crowd, scoops on the street corners, copy in everything."
The manual's introduction is written by fellow AP reporter George Edward Graham, who was best known for documenting the Spanish-American war from aboard the USS Brooklyn.
"Mr. Gavit has filled a long-felt want in issuing this little book of instruction," Graham writes. "In the last ten years there have been written less than five books on newspaper work," and all of these "of a voluminous character and rather bewildering."
"Could I have had such a book at hand in my 'cub' newspaper days," Graham continues, giving Gavit's work undeniable credibility, "my progress would have been far more rapid [than] struggling alone day by day with many blunders and bitter experiences."
In reading the manual, one is struck by how little the basics of good journalism have changed.
There are but two Golden Rules: "Never betray a confidence" and "never deliberately pervert or misrepresent facts."
Accuracy is more important being "brilliant and elegant," and there is even an entry for "Mare's Nest," which begins with the simple words, "Keep cool." For even the most "thrilling rumor" will usually dissolve under investigation, writes Gavit, and the reporter who keeps his head at such times will avoid "eating crow" tomorrow.
He advises reporters to have a telephone, "in your house if you can," and "at least one friend in every neighborhood, and among each class and nationality of people (e.g. miners, railroad men, college students)." Correspondents also need a blank book, he says, with the names of "local officers, justice of the peace, coroner, postmaster, station agent, ministers, lawyers, undertakers, doctors, teachers and others upon whom you may call in a pinch." This list is like a "mine of diamonds . The man or woman whom you met two years ago and forgot, but whose name is in your book, may be the very one who will save the day. Not one, but twenty, first class scoops were the fruit of this absurdly obvious device."
And what may have been a striking precursor to the indispensible AP Daybook, Gavit advises reporters to keep a "Date-Book" of important events. "Every fellow has his own ideas as to the system of preserving and classifying material," he writes. "Suit yourself on this point, but have some system." In the absence of a paper, the enterprising reporter will use "his cuffs, shirt bosom, the fly-leaf from a book, a box cover, piece of board or shingle."
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Among the many accolades Lanesboro and Bluff Country have garnered over the years is the beauty and charm and peace of our campgrounds. This past Memorial Day weekend, I was out at Eagle Cliff Campground visiting some friends and while I was there, I was struck by the sight of people staying at the campground, hanging out at their campsites and some of them simply sitting in captain's chairs just hanging out and shooting the breeze. Some by a fire, some with a game of cards going, some with a drink in their hand. But what was mind-boggling to me was that they weren't really "doing" anything other than relaxing and enjoying themselves. It reminded me of a quote from one of my favorite comic movies "Office Space": "I did absolutely nothing all day and it was everything I thought it could be".
I don't mean to get all philosophical or anything but this really struck me. I fall into that category that so many of us do. Ask me "so how have you been lately?", and my answer is often "busy". How many of us often say that? Too many. But I have been trying to rethink my answer to that question and not be so "busy". This is hard! And I've started to realize that many of the visitors to Lanesboro have the right idea….to relax. To let go. To just be.
Now of course relaxing means something different to everyone. I love to sit and watch TV and knit and that's how I find my "moment of zen". My husband loves to write stories, and that's what relaxes him. I have a friend who loves to bicycle for long distances and that calms his mind and gives him release from the day to day grind. What's so awesome is that in Lanesboro we all can find our own unique way to relax and reconnect with ourselves, our family and with the world around us. Maybe it's poking through the shops downtown, or taking the time to absorb the artistry all around you at the Lanesboro Art Center. Maybe it's dinner and a play at the Commonweal Theatre, or the Over The Back Fence show at the St Mane. Perhaps it's sitting around the campfire with friends and family, maybe roasting hot dogs or s'mores. Whatever you prefer, sometimes we feel guilty about taking quality time for ourselves, and it takes someone else to suggest the idea before we seriously consider it.
So here's my invitation to you. Come to Lanesboro and relax. You deserve it!
Until next time,
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[951] Immunohistochemical (IHC) Study of Wilms' Tumor Gene 1 (WT1) in Angiomyolipoma (AML) of the Kidney: Dual Role in Tumorigenesis?
R Rawson, DE Westfall, MB Amin, RS Parakh, BL Balzer. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Background: AML has a unique immunophenotype with co-expression of melanocytic markers such as HMB-45 and Melan-A as well as muscle-specific actin. To fully understand the scope of WT1 expression, which has been recently reported in melanocytic tumors as well as in uterine smooth muscle neoplasms, we studied its expression in AML, which has not been evaluated to date. The role of WT1 in tumorigenesis is controversial, as it may act as either a transcriptional activator at the carboxyl (C) terminus or a repressor at the amino (N) terminus based on splices in its transcript. It is hypothesized that WT1 may influence the mesenchymal-epithelial state of cells, thus it may prove helpful in understanding the histogensis and phenotypic characteristics of this triphasic tumor. Monophasic variants of AML, such as epithelioid and leiomyomatous types, may compound the diagnostic dilemma and WT1 may prove useful in this scenario.
Design: We tested 58 renal AMLs (52 classic histology, 2 epithelioid variants and 4 leiomyomatous variants) with WT1 (N-terminal amino acids, Mouse Monoclonal Clone: 6F-H2, Dako) and WT1 carboxyl (C-terminal amino acids, Rabbit Polyclonal Clone: C-19, Santa Cruz Biotechnology) immunohistochemistry.
Results: WT1 was positive in five of 58 cases (4 leiomyomatous AML, 1 epithelioid AML). WT1 carboxyl was positive in six of 58 cases (3 leiomyomatous AML, 1 epithelioid AML, 2 classic AML). Three cases, all leiomyomatous AML, were positive for both WT1 and WT1 carboxyl. When WT1 and WT1 carboxyl positivity was observed, it was seen most frequently in spindled areas, rarely in epithelioid areas and never in adipocytic areas.
Conclusions: 1) The expression of WT1 in the leiomyomatous variant of AML is intriguing, as melanoma-associated markers are more commonly associated with the epithelioid morphology of AML and pure epithelioid AML. 2) WT1 may have utility in diagnosing rare monomorphic variants of AML. 3) WT1 positivity in AML expands the list of tumors that express this marker. 4) WT1 expression was positive for both WT1 N terminus and C terminus antibodies in AML, which highlights the pro- and anti-differentiation functions of this gene as reported in the literature. This further supports that WT1 may be involved in maintaining the mesenchymal-epithelial balance in cells and its activation or suppression may aid in understanding the triphasic morphology unique to this tumor.
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013
UFS 2.0 Standard Quadruples Performance, Adds Security Tech and Reduces Power Consumption.
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JEDEC Publishes Universal Flash Storage Standard 2.0
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Toshiba Samples Industry's First Embedded NAND Flash Memory with 2.9Gb/s UFS Interface.
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
JEDEC Develops New Ultra-Fast Performance Interface for Flash Memory.
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Latrisha Jordan
Latrisha Jordan, a freshman from Ceres, Calif. (Central Valley HS), set the all-time Fresno State record in the 400-meter hurdles at the USC Trojan Invitational last weekend. Jordan ran to a first-place finish with a time of 58.88, a mark that is currently the best in the WAC by more than 1.5 seconds. Her performance garnered an NCAA Regional Qualifying mark in just the second meet of the season. For her performance, Jordan was also named WAC athlete of the week.
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LaShay Fears (womens basketball) Peter Krumeich (Track) Gavin Hedstrom (baseball) Melanie Gloria (Womens Tennis) Remi Boutillier (Mens Tennis) Haley Perkins (Softball)
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"Best of Hawaii" 2009: Our favorite Hawaii restaurants
by: Derek Paiva and John Heckathornposted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 at 01:29 PM
Editorial Staff Pick:
Lahaina Grill
Not only have we always had great meals at Lahaina Grill, everyone we've ever sent there raves about the experience. Just steps off the main drag of Lahaina, in the historic Lahaina Inn, this sparkling bistro is run with Swiss precision, but the menu's all new American: Kona lobster cakes, seared ahi foie gras, kalua duck, steak Jolene with a potato-wrapped prawn, triple berry pie a la mode.
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September 1, 2010
Jefferson City, Mo. - Attorney General Chris Koster today announced he has created a task force on domestic violence and will hold a series of meetings to examine current laws and identify recommendations for the legislature to best protect victims of domestic violence.
"Missouri's overall legal framework addressing domestic violence was created 30 years ago, and I believe it is time for us to examine how the laws are working today and identify any improvements needed to the system," Koster said. "Victims of domestic violence are among our state's most vulnerable, and we owe it to them to make sure that we are working as seamlessly as possible through all aspects of our law enforcement and legal systems to protect them."
Koster is inviting representatives of groups involved in the domestic violence-protection system, including law enforcement, prosecutors, victims' advocates, and probation and parole and court officials, to review the laws and their practices, and to suggest changes needed to improve the system.
The first meeting of the task force will be held in St. Louis September 7, from 9:00 - 11:30 a.m., at the Eric P. Newman Education Center, 320 S. Euclid Avenue (behind Children's Hospital). Additional meetings will be held September 20 in Columbia and September 27 in Kansas City.
Koster has invited legislators to participate as members of the task force. In St. Louis, the panel will include Senators Joan Bray and Robin Wright-Jones, and Representatives Tishaura Jones, Chris Kelly, Margo McNeil, Stacey Newman, Jeff Roorda, and Jill Schupp.
Since Missouri first enacted its laws related to domestic violence in 1980, the legislature has periodically addressed the issue by amending the criminal code, creating civil orders of protection, and expanding victims' services, according to the Koster. The Attorney General said he believes that this new, comprehensive review of the laws will identify problems or areas where the laws fall short in protecting victims and preventing domestic violence.
"Advocates and domestic violence survivors throughout our state appreciate Attorney General Koster's leadership in establishing the Domestic Violence Task Force," said Colleen Coble, Chief Executive Officer of the Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. "We are very pleased to have this opportunity for the state to review its domestic violence laws, with the goal of legislative changes that better protect victims of domestic violence."
Koster plans to issue a report this fall, in advance of the next legislative session.


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IT SHOULD ALSO BE NOTED that inclusion of these rules as part of the BEAM Wiki does not mean that the event has been part of every BEAM Robotics Competitions nor does it mean that the event will be a part of any current or future BEAM Robotics Competitions
A list of General Rules for the BEAM Robot Game, also from the original LANL BEAM site, can be found > HERE <.
Remember that the listed rules date back to the original LANL BEAM site, and may have been changed considerably for current competitions.
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A smaller form of micromouse racing, the idea is to build a minimal, self-contained mini-mouse which solves a route through a simple, connected maze using only one or two silicon chips in the shortest possible time.
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Same as class A, except cheating is required.
[edit] Competitor Design Parameters (Both A and B Classes)
- A nanomouse shall not be larger, either in length or in width, than 10 centimeters. The dimensions of a nanomouse which changes its geometry during a run shall not be greater than 10cm x 10cm. There are no restrictions on the height of a nanomouse. The base of the mouse must travel on the floor, not on the tops or sides of the walls.
- Robot Competitors must not deliberately damage the maze platform, judges, or spectators in any way. The judges will disqualify any competitor they feel represents a danger. Self deprecating robots are, however, permissible.
- A nanomouse must not jump, fly, climb, tunnel, or physically move walls to solve the maze.
- A nanomouse shall be self-contained in both power source and control system. Nanomouse competitors are not allowed to drop, throw, separate, or leave behind any part of their chassis. Competitors must finish with everything they started with.
- Competing devices cannot have parts removed or added to them between runs with the exception of replacing broken components necessary to the operation of the vehicle, at a 10 second penalty per time. Battery replacement between runs also constitutes a 10 second penalty.
- The device must use only mechanical power, or mechanical power converted from a source of electrical energy. Chemical, compressed gas, nuclear, or combustion power methods are not allowed.
[edit] The Maze Platform
The maze is composed of multiples of an 6.2cm x 6.2cm unit square. The maze comprises 12 x 12 unit squares. The walls of the maze are 2cm high and 1.7 mm thick (with a plus-or-minus 10% tolerance). An outside wall encloses the entire maze. The interior paths of the maze may consist of any combination of "L", "T", "J", "+", and straight ("I") sections. There may be unit squares NOT bounded by walls, allowing crossing paths with the "+" combination, as well as square sections of the maze which are not accessible by any competing robot.
The sides and tops of the maze walls are flat canary-yellow, and the floor is matte black. The maze is made out of one piece of laminated particle board. The tops of the moveable plastic walls are rounded considerably, and fit into 1cm deep floor slots which run throughout the entire maze. No lattice posts (as in full-sized micromouse mazes) are used or necessary.
The start of the maze is located at one of the four corners. The start square is bounded on three sides by walls, with the exit facing clockwise. At the center of the maze, there is a central square which is composed of four empty unit squares (this is the only area on the maze where there is an unused lattice cross). This central square (coordinates [6, 7; 6, 7]) is the destination. At the center of this square is an optional red dowel, 10cm high and 1.5mm diameter, which may be removed if requested. The destination square may have more than one entrance.
Multiple paths to the destination square are allowed and are to be expected. The cracks in the floors between squares are considered a natural hazard of the platform and shall not be covered or filled for any competitor.
[edit] Race Procedure
Nanomouse racing is exactly as for micromouse racing, with the exception that, until more capable competitors appear, the maze shall connected, so that simple right-hand-wall-following strategies will allow competitors to eventually solve the maze.
Each contesting nanomouse is subject to a time limit of 15 minutes. Within this time limit, the mouse may try to make up to 10 runs. Scoring is designed to reward efficiency, self-reliance, and mouse intelligence. To the time of each mouse run is added one-thirtieth of the total run time elapsed. Thus a sixty second run achieved after five minutes on stage will score seventy seconds. If the mouse remains untouched by human hands, a ten-second bonus will be removed from each run. Thus, a mouse achieving a sixty second run after five minutes will score 60 + 2 x 5 - 10 = 60 seconds. Once touched by human hands, however, the subsequent runs are timed without bonus.
Each run shall be made from the start. The operator may abort a run at any time. If an operator touches the mouse during a run, it is deemed aborted. When an operator aborts a run, the mouse must be removed from the maze immediately. (If a mouse has already crossed the finish line, it may be removed at any time without affecting the time of that run.)
After the maze is disclosed, the operator shall not feed information on the maze into the mouse. Each mouse must begin the 15 minute time trial "cold".
The timer will start when the mouse crosses the start line and finish when the mouse completely enters the finish square. The start line is at the boundary between the starting unit square and the next unit square clockwise. The finish line is at the threshold entrance to the destination square.
Every time the mouse leaves the start square, a new run begins (up to 10 runs). If the mouse has not entered the destination square, the previous run is aborted, as if the mouse were touched. For example, if a mouse re-enters the start square (before entering the destination square) on its first run, that run is aborted, and it will be on run #2 after exiting the start square again. (An obvious malfunction resulting in the mouse moving into and out of the start square does not count against the maximum 10 runs.)
The mouse may, after reaching the destination square, continue to navigate the maze, though if a mouse continues to navigate the maze after reaching the destination square, the time taken will not count toward any run. It will however, count toward the total allowed time of 15 minutes. When the mouse next leaves the start square, a new run will start. (if a mouse can make several complete runs without being touched by the operator, it must make its own way back to the beginning to do so.) The 15 minute timer will stop only when the mouse is touched and continue when the mouse starts its next run.
The judge reserves the right to ask the operator for an explanation of the nanomouse. The judge also reserves the right to stop a run, declare disqualification, or give instructions as appropriate (i.e. if the structure of the maze is jeopardized by continuing operation of the mouse).
The mouse entry may be the effort of an individual or a team. In the case of a team, it should be possible to demonstrate that each individual made a significant contribution. A single design team may enter more than one mouse, and each mouse is eligible for a prize. Mass-produced mice of nearly identical design will not be allowed.
As mentioned, a contestant may not feed information on the maze to the nanomouse in any way. The following do NOT violate this rule: Changing batteries between runs; Setting switches to alter algorithms (i.e. Stop/Search/Run); Adjusting sensors; Changing Speeds; Repairing. The following DO violate this rule: Changing ROM; Loading new programs: Changing sensors. The judges shall arbitrate. However, a contestant may not tamper with the mouse in a manner which alters its weight. (i.e. removal of a bulky sensor array to get better speeds after mapping the maze is not allowed.)
In each contest, a maximum of one (1) break will be provided for each contesting mouse. The 15 minute time clock will stop. When the mouse is re-entered, the time will continue from the stopping point. The mouse must again begin at the start for a new run (up to 10, including the previous runs.) The mice shall re-enter the competition only after all other competitors have attempted the maze. They will be re-entered in the order in which the breaks were taken.
If no successful run has been made, the judges will make a qualitative assessment of the mouse's performance, based on distance achieved, intelligence of behavior (verses random behavior), and quality of control.
[edit] Nanomouse: Class B Division
The rules are exactly the same as for the normal nanomouse competition, however, during their runs, competitors are now allowed to cheat in any way that does not harm the maze, participants, audience, or local time-space continuum. This division is included to hopefully spark a variety of devices with interesting solutions. Special awards will, of course, be presented, with a point bonus for strictly solar powered designs.
[edit] Also See:
- The BEAM Challenges page, which list a few of the challenges that have been made to by BEAMers on the various Beam email lists
- The Robotics Competitions page, which acts as an index to information about miscellaneous other competitions.


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Ancestor and patronymic of a family of Nethinim who came back from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:52; Nehemiah 7:54).
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Covenant Hearts: Why Marriage Matters and How to Make It Last (Paperback)
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Filled with practical insights and richly illustrated with true stories, Covenant Hearts shows that by living the Christlike life of the Good Shepherd (who will not flee when the wolf comes), husbands and wives will find—and give to each other—the abundant life of authentic joy.
Other books may offer marital counseling tips, but no other book delves as deeply into the big picture of why marriage is so central to both personal growth and the health of society.
Another Bruce C. Hafen, an eritus member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, explains that we are witnessing the biggest cultural shift of attitudes about family life in five centuries. This remarkable collapse of marriage is inflicting toxic damage on children, parents, and society. And "when a confused culture confuses us about what marriage means," writes Elder Hafen, "we may give up on ourselves and each other much too soon." Yet an eternal perspective "can help us transcend the modern chaos, until our marriage becomes the most satisfying and sanctifying—and the most demanding—experience of our lives."
We may begin by marrying mostly for comfort, but uncomfortable opposition always follows. Covenant Hearts teaches ways to learn from working through our natural problems rather than fleeing from them. Then our marriage will bring us joy—a much higher form of comfort. At that level, marriage mysteriously empowers personal growth and fulness, now and forever.
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- Pages: 320
- Year Published: 2013
About the Author
Bruce C. Hafen was called to the First Quorum of the Seventy in 1996 and received emeritus status in 2010. An internationally recognized family law scholar, he has served as dean of the Brigham Young University Law School and as president of BYU-Idaho (formerly Ricks College). He is also well known for his best-selling trilogy on the Atonement. Elder Hafen currently serves as president of the St. George Utah Temple. He and his wife, Marie, are the parents of seven children and the grandparents of forty-four.
Chapter 1
Wedding Pictures
I recently attended a temple wedding in which the bride's gentle grandfather performed the marriage. After the sealing, he invited the couple to kiss over the altar. Then they stood before him to exchange wedding rings, and they kissed again. All of us in the room felt their joy. The grandfather leaned toward them and whispered, "Well, how do you like married life so far?"
There is some pristine, unalloyed happiness in a wedding. I once occupied an office with a window that sometimes let me glimpse bridal parties who gathered for wedding pictures near the Salt Lake Temple. I have seen other scenes like that on the grounds of other temples, and it's always the same—the very sight of the couple's radiant faces transforms time into eternity, as the universe itself holds briefly still for just this bride and this groom.
A reception in our neighborhood once featured a display of mannequins adorned with the actual wedding dresses of mothers and grandmothers of the current couple. Some of the dresses were more than fifty years old. Near the dresses were old framed photos from the weddings of the couple's parents and grandparents. The dresses and the photographs connected both the generations and the guests, gracing the reception with the timeless, joyful spirit of weddings.
A few years ago an international news magazine shared the story of Wal Richards of Maryborough, a small town in southeastern Australia. Wal had just died—alone, in his modest home. He had never married. He had a terrible speech impediment and other limitations that made him unable to communicate with people. Yet he was cheerful. He rode a bike everywhere. Some people in Maryborough thought of him as a kind of amiable village misfit.
For more than forty years, Wal came to local weddings to photograph the people. He just showed up carrying his camera, smiling and snapping candid, cheery shots of brides, grooms, their families and friends. He did it so often, people hardly felt married in Maryborough unless Wal came, though he was seldom actually invited. If the wedding were to be in Melbourne, three hours away, Wal would take the 5 a.m. train so he could be there with his camera as the bride and groom came out of the church.
Because no one ever saw his pictures, people assumed Wal had no film or that his pictures never turned out. When he died in his mid-sixties, his family and friends were astonished to find in rows of carefully packed trays and boxes about twenty thousand wedding photographs dating back almost half a century. The city fathers published a notice to all the people who had been married in Maryborough during those years, inviting them to come and identify their own wedding pictures among the fruits of Wal's lifelong quest.
Not long after reading about Wal Richards, Marie and I found ourselves on a road trip that took us just south of Maryborough. We had been so taken by his story that we drove there and saw some of the photos for ourselves. We saw file after file—some of them out of focus, some at odd angles, but most offering warm glimpses of fresh love. A number of them portrayed their subjects and their mood so memorably that the Central Goldfields Regional Art Gallery placed them on exhibit—in tribute to Maryborough, to Wal, and to the promise of married love.
What does it say about weddings, and human nature, that this man in his utter loneliness would create and keep, as a sort of life's work, these artistic impressions of the way love gives birth to commitment? Time after time he came to weddings in all seasons, wanting somehow to "hold still" what he couldn't have and hold for himself. He found vicariously—in weddings— a sense of purpose and promise in his own life. For Wal Richards, as for all the rest of us, a wedding can be the sweetest of times—a day for dreams to come true. And wedding pictures do seem to capture glimpses of the dream.
Yet not all marriages turn out as well as the wedding pictures do. More and more, it seems, our neighborhoods and our extended families are full of people whose own dreams of family love fall short of their promise. Some of those dreams—too many, these days—end up torn and even battered, as in Fantine's mournful song from Les Misérables:
I dreamed a dream in days gone by when hope was high and life worth living.
I dreamed that love would never die.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
But the tigers come at night with their voices soft as thunder,
As they tear your hope apart, as they turn your dream to shame.
When the tigers do come at night, threatening our dream that love will never die, we instinctively reach for the gospel's perspective and teachings about marriage. Without that perspective, our frustration can lead us into the dark abyss of cynicism, not only about marriage but about life.
The gospel of Jesus Christ teaches us that our existence is like a three-act play and that mortality all occurs in the second act. Act one was the premortal life, where we lived as the spirit children of our Heavenly Father, preparing for our act two adventure. In act three, we may return to our Father's presence, depending on what happens in act two.
We marry, raise our children, and live our lives in act two. If we don't know about, or we lose contact with, act one and act three, our act two experiences can sometimes seem hopelessly hard. When we can't see with eternity's perspective on time, we are vulnerable to the pessimist's assumption that "life is no more than a night in a second-class hotel"—and it can be a sleepless night.
Yet in the gospel's good news, those wedding photos really do contain a taste of eternity, because they somehow "capture" and keep alive the joy and vision of the wedding day. Making sure that this joy both endures and expands is a cause worth fighting for, as the complete vision of three full acts gives us power to hold on, to keep giving and growing in married love. That big picture helps us make sense of those mortal days when few things seem to make sense. It pours meaning from both yesterday and tomorrow into the hardest possible parts of today.
We can learn about the power of such a vision by looking at other images that hold in place our moments most worth remembering, the way Wal Richards's wedding photographs do. Glimpses like these can crop up in many places in the lives of Latter-day Saints. In a typical cross-section of such lifespans, I came across these spiritually photogenic images as I listened to conversations among the members of an LDS ward I visited one weekend.
A faithful and exhausted sister missionary travels twenty-four hours from Eastern Europe to arrive home, having learned a language she once thought impossible, having fallen fully in love with and having taught an oppressed people she at first couldn't understand. Imagine seeing her parents, her little sisters, and her brother welcome her at the airport.
After four years of patient and childless waiting, two young parents hold their newborn child. Imagine seeing them, their parents, and their brothers and sisters, all together in the hospital room, beaming as the new baby cries.
After wandering for six years, the last of five children comes to himself (see Luke 15:17) and is finally married in the temple. Imagine seeing him and his wife in the temple with his parents and all of his married brothers and sisters.
An older man who years before made some mistakes that cost him his family, his priesthood, his temple blessings, and his self-confidence now remarries. His new wife, who has always longed for but never experienced having a priesthood holder living in her home, encourages him along each step toward rebaptism. Imagine being in their home the night his priesthood and temple blessings are restored, and his first official priesthood act is to give his wife a blessing. Weeping, his wife exclaims, "The priesthood is in my home! The priesthood is in my home!"
I listened as the ward members shared and discussed such joyful moments from their own lives, moments in which wedding days hold an honored place. One of them asked, "What is it about these experiences that makes them such treasures?" Some of them are full of exuberance, as when King David was so happy about reclaiming the ark of the covenant that he "danced before the Lord" (2 Samuel 6:14). Others are thoughtful, reverent times, such as crying quietly alone from the sheer comfort of being wrapped in the peace of the temple after a long absence.
How is it that these moments have the power to "make your heart swell so much it runs out your eyes and down your cheeks," as one sister said. These are celebrations of meaning—meaning found in the joy of human love. The joy we feel is from tapping into the deep roots of spiritual promise in our doctrine about that love.
One sister said, "These moments give us a taste of eternity, showing us what we can have—what waits for us." These are moments of power—staying power. Said another, "No matter what is coming (and often in these scenes we don't know what will happen next), this moment will always go with us and reassure us." Therefore, "cast not away … your confidence" (Hebrews 10:35).
Some of the joy is just from being together with the people we love most, as in a temple wedding party. Elder John Taylor called such times "a union of good feelings, good desires and aspirations" in a sense "of power, of faith, and of the Spirit of the Lord" in which the combination of many individual lights creates "a time of union, of light, of life, of intelligence, of the Spirit of the living God; our feelings are one, our faith is one, and … this oneness forms an array of power that no power on this side of earth or hell is able to … overcome."
We must save these images, the group agreed, and write down our thoughts so we can preserve our clearest personal insights into our eternal nature and possibilities. As soon as they are over, these moments become the yesterdays that enfold our todays with purpose and give hope to our tomorrows—just like wedding pictures, which somehow do feel as if we've been granted a glimpse into a place of permanent light, where time will be no more and peace will never leave us.
How do the wedding pictures anchor our sometimes dreary act two lives in the larger perspective of act one and act three? They can touch eternal things, affirming them with the Spirit's own witness. Brigham Young said that when we "keep the Spirit of the Lord," we will feel "just as [if we] were again by our Father in Heaven before [we] came into the world."
These are moments of such strong spiritual reality that they awaken within us the sure feeling of once more being at home, "with Him." They feel familiar and true because they stir our deepest longings and our oldest subliminal memories of our premortal life. In that core region of our hearts, no desire is greater than our longing one day to "be with" our Father and our eternal companions, families, and friends.
Brigham Young gave us this word picture about eternity's perspective on time: "He is the Father of our spirits; and if we could know, understand, and do His will, every soul would be prepared to return back into His presence. And when they get there, they would see that they had formerly lived there for ages, that they had previously been acquainted with every nook and corner, with the palaces, walks, and gardens; and they would embrace their Father, and He would embrace them and say, 'My son, my daughter, I have you again'; and the child would say, 'O my Father, my Father, I am here again.'"< p>Mel and Helen left their Utah home for eighteen months to serve as temple missionaries in the Washington D.C. Temple. Their three-year-old granddaughter Ashley missed them terribly, having been very close to them in every sense before they left. For Christmas, they sent Ashley's family a picture showing Mel and Helen standing in front of the temple. When Ashley saw the picture, she pressed it against her cheek. Laughing, she called out, "Gamma! Gamma! I have you! I have you!"
Whether etched on paper or in our hearts, a wedding picture is a type and shadow of being able to say always, "I have you again. I am here again." Sensing that, Ashley could manage today because the picture showed her she would have Gamma tomorrow. That same assurance breathes life into the familiar and ancient male-female Love Story, the universal pattern that calls out to our very nature.
Best book on the doctrinal basis for marriage I have ever read
by Jeffrey - reviewed on September 05, 2013
As Satan continues to mount a clever war against marriage and family, many including some of those sealed under covenant have lost sight of the doctrinal and practical underpinnings for covenant marriage and family. Elder Hafen's book is the best book on this subject I have ever read. It is well written, well researched and doctrinally based. We have six married children. I have asked all of them and their spouses to read it. This book is a clear voice in a world of muddled thinking about marriage and family and the essential role that covenant marriage and family plays in the Plan of Happiness.


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