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25 Jun – The next breaking news regarding film postponements is Universal Pictures' delay of the release date of "The Bourne Legacy" for a week, from 3 August to 10 August, moving it further away from Warner Bros. Pictures' highly anticipated "The Dark Knight Rises" and "Legacy"'s shared release date with Sony's remake of "Total Recall".
According to Deadline, a statement from Universal Pictures reported that the studio was looking to "maximise its opening box office potential" by staying away from big time competitors such as "The Dark Knight Rises", which is expected to perform just as well as or better than, Walt Disney Pictures' "Marvel's The Avengers" earlier this year.
The studio is also planning to give the fourth instalment of the Bourne franchise another week of strong promotions during the London Olympics season, which is being televised by Universal's subsidiaries, so as not to put into risk as their latest has swapped veteran star Matt Damon as its protagonist for up-and-rising star Jeremy Renner.
Meanwhile, "The Bourne Legacy" underwent a minor re-shoot from 8 June to 14 June but the studio denied that that was the cause of the delay.
Tony Gilroy, who was the screenwriter of the original trilogy, directed "The Bourne Legacy", which also stars Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton, with reappearances by Joan Allen, David Strathairn, Albert Finney and Scott Glenn.
The films depicts the public and political aftermath of the events of "The Bourne Ultimatum". The CIA has decided to shut down successor "Operation Outcome", and Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), an agent of Operation Outcome, and Stephanie Snyder (Rachel Weisz), a doctor who helped create the Outcome agents, must find a way to escape before CIA agent Byer (Edward Norton) can have them assassinated.

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Lord Huron is a musical and visual project created by Ben Schneider. Originally a solo project, collaborators now include Mark Barry (percussion, vocals), Miguel Briseno (bass, percussion) and Tom Renaud (guitar, vocals).

Ben Schneider was born in Michigan and started playing music as a child, on his father's acoustic guitar. The senior Schneider wasn't a musician by trade, but he had learned a bit during his downtime on ships in the Navy. Schneider's father would bring the instrument out from time to time — most often on summer nights around the campfire up on Lake Huron — to strum and hum the songs he knew. After learning the basics, Schneider began his formal training in the school orchestra. He played upright bass and fiddled with many other instruments, both acoustic and electric, and began recording original music on a four-track cassette machine.
Schneider studied art in college and lived in France and New York before moving to Los Angeles in 2005 to pursue a career in the visual arts. Music was an ever-present pastime, whether through bands or personal projects. Passions often intertwined, and Schneider composed music for various visual art projects over the years. His work was continually inspired by his outdoor explorations, landscape, and water in particular.

In May 2010, Schneider traveled home to Michigan and spent a week on the shores of Lake Huron. For several months he had been writing songs and designing artwork in Los Angeles, though he wasn't sure exactly where his ideas were headed. There at the lake, where many of his formative experiences had come to pass, Schneider recorded the three songs that would comprise the Into the Sun EP. Like most of his work up to that point, the Into the Sun tracks were heavily influenced by places. Schneider had recently taken trips to Indonesia and Mexico, and the sights and sounds of those places had lingered with him. His return to Lake Huron helped these influences to coalesce. He released the EP online in June and dispersed a small number of CDs complete with the artwork he had been working on. With help from a post by San Francisco bloggers, Yours Truly, the songs quickly gained traction online and Schneider set to work recruiting musicians to help him translate the recordings into a performance. Lord Huron's first live show was in August 2010.

On November 4th, 2010, Schneider released his second EP, Mighty. The four-song recording received immediate attention from critics and fans, bolstered by an 8.0 rating from Pitchfork. Lord Huron's first official music video, for the single "The Stranger," was released in January 2011. The wintery video was conceived by the band and shot by Jacob Mendel in the same location where Schneider recorded Into the Sun.
The band toured heavily in 2011, continuing to develop the live show. They played across the country, including performances at South by Southwest, Outside Lands and Lollapalooza. Mark Barry and Tom Renaud, childhood friends of Schneider, moved to Los Angeles to join Lord Huron, while Miguel Briseno also originally hails from Michigan. The band has worked hard to recreate the densely layered recordings in the live setting. Barry was principal in this effort, particularly early on as the band was still forming. He plays several instruments during the course of a performance (often at the same time) and is a guiding force in the arrangement of the show.
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Originally a Middle English Anglicized form of French Marie, from Latin Maria. This is a New Testament form of Miriam, which St Jerome derives from elements meaning 'drop of the sea' (Latin stilla maris, later altered by folk etymology to stella maris 'star of the sea'). Mary was the name of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, who has been the subject of a cult from earliest times. Consequently, the name was extremely common among early Christians, several saints among them, and by the Middle Ages was well established in every country in Europe at every level of society. It has been in use ever since, its popularity in England having been relatively undisturbed by vagaries of fashion until the 1960s, when it began to decline sharply. In the New Testament, Mary is also the name of several other women: Mary Magdalene (see Madeleine); Mary the sister of Martha, who sat at Jesus's feet while Martha served (Luke 10:38–42; John 11:1–46; 12:1–9) and who came to be taken in Christian tradition as symbolizing the value of a contemplative life; the mother of St Mark (Colossians 4:10); and a Roman matron mentioned by St Paul (Romans 16:6).
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Coastal Expeditions in Mount Pleasant is developing a series of day camps that will be offered on teacher workdays, holidays and spring break.
The camps are for youth ages 8-15 and will be 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The first camps are Jan. 17, 18 and 21.
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A high frequency, high voltage is capacitively applied to a process gas through a quartz tube to ignite a glow discharge within the tube. The quartz tube runs through a microwave cavity and the ignitor is positioned upstream of the cavity. The cavity is tuned for a steady state glow discharge and is not changed during initiation of the plasma. The ignitor excites the process gas into active species and the gas flow takes the species through the cavity where the microwave energy brings the gas to an ionized state and the plasma is sustained.
1. A method for providing a plasma glow discharge in a plasma reactor containing one or more process gases for treating a semiconductor wafer comprising the steps of:
applying high frequency RF energy to said gas to initiate said plasma; and
applying microwave energy to said gas to sustain said plasma.
2. The method as set forth in claim 1 and further comprising the step of:
terminating said high frequency RF energy after said microwave energy is applied.
3. The method as set forth in claim 2 wherein said high frequency RF energy is applied by capacitive coupling through a non-conductive container for said gas.
4. In apparatus for treating a semiconductor wafer using gases activated by microwave energy, said apparatus having a source of one or more gases, a non-conductive conduit for said gases; a first chamber enclosing a portion of said conduit and through which microwave energy is coupled to form a plasma in said gases, a second chamber into which said gases flow and which contains said semiconductor wafer, ignitor means located upstream of said first chamber for establishing a plasma in said first chamber, and microwave means coupled to said first chamber for sustaining said plasma, wherein the improvement comprises:
said ignitor means comprises means for coupling RF energy to said gases for causing a plasma therein.
5. The apparatus as set forth in claim 4 wherein said ignitor means comprises:
means for generating a high voltage, RF signal; and
means for coupling said signal to said conduit.
6. The apparatus as set forth in claim 5 wherein said means for coupling comprises:
capacitor plates conforming approximately to the outside shape of said conduit for coupling said RF signal to within said conduit.
7. The apparatus as set forth in claim 6 wherein said RF signal has a frequency of approximately 1 Mhz or greater.
8. The apparatus as set forth in claim 5 wherein said conduit comprises quartz.
9. The apparatus as set forth in claim 5 wherein said conduit comprises ceramic.
10. The apparatus as set forth in claim 6 wherein said means for generating comprises:
a source of RF signal;
a step-up transformer having the secondary winding thereof connected to said plates; and
an amplifier having the input thereof connected to said source of RF signal and the output thereof connected to the primary winding of said step-up transformer.
11. The apparatus as set forth in claim 10 and further comprising:
tuning means connected to said primary winding for minimizing the reactance of said winding.
This invention relates to plasma glow discharges and, in particular, to glow discharges sustained by microwave radiation.
The use of plasma glow discharges for processing semiconductor wafers, either for etching or deposition, has greatly increased in the last several years. However, several broad trends have caused a need for a new method for generating the plasma. In the past, the plasma has typically been generated by coupling relatively high power (five hundred watts or more) of RF energy into a chamber containing one or more gases. The coupling is by way of parallel electrodes forming a capacitor, one electrode of which is adapted to hold the semiconductor wafer.
As wafer diameters have increased, the amount of power has increased to maintain a given power density. As the geometry of devices has decreased in size, the devices become ever more delicate. The point has been reached, or will very soon be reached, where the devices simply cannot withstand the applied power passing through the wafer.
An early solution to this problem has been the use of screen grids within the chamber to isolate the wafer being processed. Another solution is the so-called downstream etcher, a name covering several types of devices wherein one hopes that the lifetime of the reactive, non-charged species exceeds the time it takes for the species to drift to the surface of the wafer. One type of downstream device uses microwaves to sustain the discharge.
With microwaves, or any other type of discharge, there are two modes of operation. The first is the starting mode. The second is the sustained running mode. Just as with an automobile engine or a fluorescent lamp or any of a host of other common devices, the two modes are very different. Just as with these other devices, the starting mode is the hardest on the equipment. There is relatively little said in the prior art on how to initiate a plasma discharge in a reliable, repeatable, commercially feasible manner.
The chamber in which the discharge takes place has an electrical impedance. Considering the case of parallel plate electrodes, it should seem intuitively true that the impedance when there is no discharge is very different from the impedance when there is a discharge. Thus, one is faced with the problem of applying power to a nonresonant, reactive load. As is well known, such a load causes a great deal of power to be reflected back to the source. As is also well known, reflected power tends to destroy the final stage in the RF amplifier. The same is true whether the signal is at a microwave frequency or a lower frequency.
One solution to this problem has been to use relatively low Q tuned circuits in the final stages of the amplifier. This provides a broadly tuned circuit but tends to consume a lot of power.
Another solution has been to use an automatic tuning mechanism of some sort. This works reasonably well at high frequencies, but becomes more difficult at microwave frequencies. The mechanical plungers and the like tend to require frequent adjustment and are undesirable for the customer and the equipment manufacturer.
Yet another solution, typified by U.S. Pat. No. 4,175,235 - Niwa et al., uses internal electrodes and an electric spark generator for initiating the glow discharge. Depending upon the gases utilized, the electrodes can be corroded or deposited upon or, worse, can provide contaminating ions into the reaction chamber even when the electrodes are not carrying a spark.
Another solution is to use a UV light source within the plasma chamber to initiate the glow discharge. A problem with this approach is the time it takes for the UV to provide a sufficient electron density for the glow to stabilize. During this time, the impedance of the glow varies considerably. Some manufacturers leave the UV source turned on continuously to minimize this problem. This raises problems of the reliability of the UV source and assuring that the UV is off before the unit is opened for service.
In view of the foregoing, it is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an ignitor for a microwave sustained plasma.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an improved equipment using a microwave sustained plasma for treating semiconductor wafers by enabling the microwave power source to have a fixed tune with relatively high Q components.
A further object of the present invention is to provide an ignitor located outside the discharge chamber to avoid any deterioration of the ignitor by the gases used for the plasma.
The foregoing objects are achieved in the present invention wherein a high frequency, high voltage is capacitively applied to a process gas through a quartz tube which contains the gas. The plasma is initiated with the high frequency RF discharge. Microwave energy then brings the gas to an ionized state and the plasma is sustained. As used herein, "high" frequency refers to a frequency on the order of 1-10 Mhz. ("Low" frequency is on the order of 100 khz. and "very high" frequency is on the order of 100 Mhz., etc.).
A more complete understanding of the present invention can be obtained by considering the following detailed description in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 illustrates a microwave sustained plasma system in accordance with the present invention.
FIG. 2 illustrates a preferred embodiment of an ignitor in accordance with the present invention.
FIG. 1 illustrates a downstream plasma system for treating semiconductor wafers in which the process gas is excited by means of microwave energy. Specifically, microwave cavity 10 encloses a portion of tube 11 which contains one or more gases from a suitable source, indicated by arrow 12. Tube 11 is transparent to microwave radiation and conveys gases from source 12 to reactor chamber 13. Reactor chamber 13 contains wafer 14 resting on electrode 15. Chamber 13 and electrode 15 may comprise any suitable configuration for the processing of semiconductor wafers. For example, electrode 15 can be grounded or biased as deemed necessary and typically comprises wafer temperature control means, such as water or gas cooling or heating.
The gas flowing through tube 11 is excited by means of microwave energy from a microwave generator 17 which is coupled to cavity 10 by way of tuning wave guide 18. The impedance of wave guide 18 is varied by adjustment of tuning plungers 19, as well known per se in the art.
As previously noted, cavity 10 presents a significantly different impedance to wave guide 18 and generator 17, depending upon whether or not a plasma exists inside tube 11, within cavity 10. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, tuning wave guide 18 is adjusted so that cavity 10 provides a proper, i.e. resistive, load for generator 17 when cavity 10 contains a plasma discharge. Ordinarily, this would make it extremely difficult to ignite the plasma and would likely cause damage to generator 17. However, in accordance with the present invention, electrodes 21 and 22 are positioned adjacent tube 11. A high frequency RF signal is applied to electrodes 21 and 22 causing the gas at that location to ionize. As the gas flows into chamber 10, and microwave energy is applied from generator 17, generator 17 "sees" a plasma discharge within cavity 10 and a resistive or very nearly resistive load. Since electrodes 21 and 22 are positioned outside of tube 11, they neither deteriorate from the process gas nor contribute contaminants to the process gas.
FIG. 2 illustrates in greater detail an ignitor in accordance with the present invention. Electrodes 21 and 22 conform approximately the outside shape of tube 11, illustrated in cross-section and form the plates of a capacitor. Electrodes 21 and 22 are connected to secondary winding 24 of a step-up transformer. Primary winding 25 of the step-up transformer has capacitor 26 connected in parallel therewith forming a tank circuit and load for amplifier 31. Amplifier 31, which preferably comprises a high power FET transistor, such as type MTM5N100 available from Motorola, Inc., has the source thereof connected to ground and the drain thereof connected through the tank circuit and load resistor 32 to power supply 33. The gate of amplifier 31 is connected to source 34 of RF signal.
In operation, source 34 drives amplifier 31 at a frequency sufficient for good coupling through the wall of tube 11, e.g. one MHz. Capacitor 26 minimizes the reactance of primary winding 25 of the step-up transformer. The step-up transformer preferably has a turns ratio on the order of 5:1. Load resistor 32 provides sufficient resistance to limit current through amplifier 31 to within its operating range.
For example, using a MTM5N100 transistor for amplifier 31, load resistor 32 has a resistance of ten ohms. Power supply 33 comprises suitable rectifying and doubling circuitry, known per se in the art, to provide an output voltage of approximately 500 volts DC. In an actual embodiment of the present invention, the step-up transformer had a turns ratio of 5:1, providing a voltage across electrodes 21 and 22 of approximately 3000 volts.
As recognized by those of skill in the art, the voltage and frequency depend upon a number of factors, such as the diameter of tube 11, the material from which tube 11 is made, the area of electrodes 21 and 22, and the pressure and composition of the gas within tube 11. Generally speaking, a frequency of 1 MHz or so provides sufficient coupling through tube 11 to produce sufficient ion density for successfully initiating a plasma within cavity 10. Tube 11 can comprise any non-conductive material such as quartz or ceramic, where "ceramic" includes such materials as sapphire (aluminum oxide).
There is thus provided by the present invention of a simple ignitor for a microwave sustained, downstream plasma discharge. One obtains a stable and less expensive microwave system by enabling one to avoid having to retune the microwave system during the start and run modes of operation.
Having thus described the invention it will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that various modifications can be made within the scope of the present invention. For example, transistors other than the FET illustrated can be used for driving electrodes 21 and 22. In general, the particular components used in the circuit illustrated in FIG. 2 are chosen primarily on the basis of reliability and cost. The actual starting cycle takes but a few seconds although one may continue the ignitor for thirty seconds or so to assure a start has taken place. Further, one can add various control mechanisms for sensing a successful start and terminating the start cycle if a sustained plasma is not detected, e.g. by photodiodes. Such control systems are well known to those of skill in the art and do not affect the present invention.
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EAST STROUDSBURG — Two boys in the Poconos got to see their dad for the first time in months.
Their father also returned home Tuesday and went to their school to surprise them.
For Xavier and Leland Urbaez, it was like any other day at Monroe County Head Start in East Stroudsburg. Well, that's what they think. But little do they know, their dad, Andrew Urbaez is finally home after serving our country for eight months.
While his kids are outside on the playground, being entertained by our cameras, their father is inside the school waiting to surprise them.
Soon, the door opened, Urbaez standing nervously, and his kids running right at him, screaming "Daddy, Daddy!"
At that moment, Urbaez started to cry.
Urbaez was one of hundreds of other troops who arrived home hours before at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport in Avoca.
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Urbaez's wife, Sarah, thought it would be perfect to welcome Daddy home by surprising Xavier and Leland. They were both pretty excited and surprised to say the least.
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Doll's houses have long been a source of intrigue and inspiration to some of our best-loved writers and artists. From Gulliver towering over the tiny homes of the Lilliputians to Alice dwarfing the home of the White Rabbit in Wonderland, doll-sized houses are a recurring motif in surreal narratives, a shrunken world for curious readers to explore and get lost in. Fashion's love-affair with dolls and their accoutrements ranges from photographer Tim Walker pitting Lindsey Wixson against a terrifying outsize doll in a stately home for a 2011 Vogue Italia shoot, seen recently in an exhibition dedicated to the photographer's work at Somerset House; Viktor & Rolf staging part of their 2008 Barbican exhibition in a 6-metre high doll's house; and a variety of designers creating bespoke clothing and accessories for Barbie when she recently turned the grand old age of 50. Doll's houses appear in the work of artists such as Laurie Simmons, Andreas Slominski and Pipilotti Rist, and in animator Suzan Pitt's weird and wonderful 1979 film "Asparagus," while filmmaker Wes Anderson's stylised sets, usually family homes, are often compared to doll's houses.
The vogue for miniature houses began in the 17th century, when aristocrats would build lavish models of their own homes as display cases for their wealth and taste; by the 19th century they began to be manufactured as children's toys and as aids for teaching girls how to run a house, and by the 1950s were being mass-produced for baby boomers. Later, the market would be flooded with pink palaces for the likes of Barbie and Sindy, while the bizarre Sylvanian Families would take residence in a variety of twee abodes, including a windmill, a gypsy caravan and even a tree house. No longer a symbol for out-dated social mores (Ibsen titled his play about domestic entrapment in late-19th century Norway "A Doll's House," after all), progressive parents can now furnish their children's rooms with "gender-neutral" doll's houses.
"No longer a symbol for out-dated social mores...progressive parents can now furnish their children's rooms with "gender-neutral" doll's houses."
For Document in this season's issue of AnOther Magazine, we reprinted art critic John Richardson's essay on eccentric Manhattan hostess Carrie Stettheimer's doll's house – a treasure trove of mini-masterpieces by the likes of her artist friends Marcel Duchamp, Gaston Lachaise and William Zorach, and painstakingly hand-crafted furniture by Carrie herself. In his essay, entitled The Stettheimer Dollhouse, taken from the book Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters, Richardson suggests that the house was something of a substitute for the spinster Carrie, who for years lived with her ailing mother and yearned for a place all her own. Once she moved out, she never touched the doll's house again, and it was donated to the Museum of the City of New York after her death. It now houses a collection of figures modelled on the Stettheimers's illustrious circle, a mini-snapshot of an exciting and bygone time. Meanwhile, the doll's houses at the V&A Museum of Childhood in London provide a diminutive timeline for changing architectural tastes, moving from the rambling mansions of the 19th century to a Bauhaus-inspired modernist house. And the early 20th-century doll's house at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, decorated every Christmas with miniature wreaths and baubles, is one of the museum's most cherished exhibits.
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WOOSTER DISTRICT -- The board approved salary increases for administrators at its July meeting.
Salaries were approved for Madalyn Bauer, Wooster High School assistant principal, 231 contract days, $75,492 ($74,011); Eric Bornstine, Wooster High School assistant principal, 208, $68,882 ($67,531); Peg Butler, Kean Elementary School principal, 203, $77,063 ($75,000); Jim Carpenter, Wayne Elementary School principal, 208, $70,221 ($68,844); Dean Frank, Melrose Elementary School principal, 213, $69,513 ($67,000); Julie Frankl, Parkview Elementary School principal, 213, $69,513 ($67,000); Rodney Hopton, Edgewood Middle School assistant principal, 213, $70,380 ($69,000); Anita Jorney-Gifford, Edgewood Middle School principal, 231, $76,755 ($75,250); Michael Mann, Lincoln Way Elementary School principal, 203, $77,063 ($75,000); and Jerry Parsons, high school principal, 260, $82,620 ($81,000).
The administrator and supervisor compensation plan and benefit provisions policy expired July 31, 2006.
At that time, Superintendent Dan Good said the board directed him to prepare ranges of compensation for each classification of administrative employees -- directors, supervisors, managers and coordinators.
Titles vary, "depending on the number of people they supervise, the length of their contract -- 180-260 days -- and level of responsibility," Good said.
The range of compensation was calculated to be similar to like districts, he said, defined as "close to or the same demographics and close to or same cost of living index and competitive with local districts."
"It's going to take up to three years to finally accommodate those parameters," he said.
"I'm pleased our ranges now reflect a fair wage for the level and responsibility and length of the contractual year," Good said.
Salaries were increased between 2 percent, the threshold negotiated by the bargaining unit, Good said, and 3.75 percent.
Salary ranges for each category have caps, Good said. "Administrators will be compensated somewhere in that range based on their performance."
"The board is excited about this new system that is in its second year," board President Mike Baus said, adding the salary ranges have been well-researched in comparison to other districts the size of Wooster City Schools.
"The board feels the need to pay our administrators a competitive salary to attract the top-notch administrators in the state," Baus said.
Good has developed a comprehensive list of performance standards in making evaluations.
For instance, at the high school, targets include increasing student participation in higher level and dual enrollment courses, the number of National Merit Scholar finalists, and development and implementation of academic and behavioral intervention, while reducing drop-out rates, absences, tardiness and disciplinary incidents, Good said.
Another performance standard measures the amount of decrease in the failure rate of students by semester, course and grade level.
Standards also have been established for administration of guidance, counseling and secretarial services; cross-training of duties; and raising proficient, advanced and accelerated levels of performance by students taking the Ohio Graduation Test.
Reporter Linda Hall can be reached at (330) 264-1125, Ext. 2230, or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Estimated total program funding is $925,000, with one award expected. There is a cost sharing or matching requirement.
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By now, most of you have met our new Public Services Librarian, Shane Roopnarine. He is available to assist you with a variety of Rosen Library matters, including library instruction, reference, web design, and collection development. He can be reached at 407-903-8003 or at firstname.lastname@example.com – or, of course, in person at the Rosen Library!
We are also in the midst of hiring a new Sr. Library Technical Assistant (to replace the vacancy created when Amanda Richards left). As soon as the hiring process is complete, we'll be sure to bring the new person around for tours and introductions!
The UCF Libraries website will be undergoing a major update and facelift soon. Head Librarian Tim Bottorff has been leading the effort within the Libraries to create a brand new library website, based on current website principles and user-centered design models. The new site will also be easier to use and completely inclusive, incorporating information for all UCF Libraries (including Rosen!) throughout the site. Stay tuned, as the new site is expected to roll out later in the summer. In the meantime, of course our current website http://library.ucf.edu/rosen/ remains your go-to place for library research and assistance!
Speaking of new websites, later this year you'll start hearing a lot about "STARS." As UCF's digital repository this will become a prominent collection of materials for, by, and about UCF. In Spring of 2015 the UCF Libraries received technology fee funding to start an institution-wide digital repository. It has been named STARS: Showcase of Text, Archives, Research, & Scholarship. By sharing intellectual and creative outputs in a central site in the cloud, STARS will allow faculty and students to showcase their work and make outputs available to expand and enhance research, teaching, and learning. Stay tuned for more information!
If you are teaching a course in the summer that includes a research-assignment, we encourage you to think about including a library instruction component. Topics could include how to perform basic library and online research, how to find company information, how to cite sources, and more. Delivery options include:
If you're not sure which delivery method to choose, we can help you pick the option that works best with your course and with your work style.
We request that you please contact us as soon as possible — before the start of classes, if possible — with all library instruction requests.
To schedule a library instruction component with one or more of your summer courses, simply contact Shane or Tim at email@example.com, at 407-903-8100, or in person in the library.
For those who have used our Canvas library research modules in the past: please do not reuse older modules, as some of the content and functionality will be undergoing a major change due to the library's upcoming website change! Please contact Shane or Tim (firstname.lastname@example.com or 407-903-8100) in order to receive an updated module.
The University Writing Center (UWC) will not be offering consultations at the Rosen campus over the summer. However, they plan to be back in the fall.
Over the summer, writing center consultations will still be available at the main campus or online. Students can visit http://uwc.cah.ucf.edu or call the UWC at 407-823-2197 to set up an online or main campus appointment.
The accounting & finance lab in the library was very popular again this semester. Kudos to Dr. Kevin Murphy for organizing it, and thanks to all of the instructors who participated and made it successful!
The accounting & finance lab will not be offered in the summer, but we expect it to return in the fall!
Looking for the perfect video to show in your classroom? Shane has updated and improved our guides to Rosen videos! For all of your hospitality video needs, check out our comprehensive guide:
Rosen Video Collection
Check out some of our key recent acquisitions, organized by subject matter:
New Items Guide
Please contact us if you would like to put any additional materials on (print or electronic) reserve for your summer course(s), or if you just want to double-check to see if we have a copy of your required and/or recommended text on reserve.
As always, you can visit our Rosen Library website at http://library.ucf.edu/rosen/ for access to search tools such as the databases and catalog, online journals, research guides, interlibrary loan, hours, and much more.
Have a question, comment, or suggestion? Please don't hesitate to email us at firstname.lastname@example.com, to call us at 407-903-8100, or to stop by and share your thoughts in person!


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District Champs
Forest Hills Northern Boys Basketball
Boys Basketball Try Out Information Coming Soon! Student-Athletes must have a current school year Physical on file (2014-2015) Open Gyms are Wednesday Nights from 6:30-8:00pm
FHN boys basketball team outmatches West Catholic 53-34
FHN pulls away from Kenowa Hills in 62-53 win in boys basketball
FHN Boys Basketball Team reigns over Greenville in Purple game
Purple out games tonight – February 7 at 6PM (girls) and 7:30PM (boys)
Join the FHN Varsity basketball teams at the Purple out games tonight! The athletes play in honor of survivors and in memory of those who lost their battle with cancer. Wear purple and come support your school! The girls game is at 6PM, boys play at 7:30PM.
FHN Boys Basketball defeats West Catholic 52-30
FHN holds on in 57-54 boys basketball win over northview (Jon Rzepecki MLIVE)
Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern led by no more than four points in its 57-54 victory over the visiting Grand Rapids Northview boys basketball team on Wednesday. Tommy Dozeman made two free throws in the final seconds to seal the win for Northern, and senior forward Jayvon Bennett led the Huskies with 17 points. "We […]
District Champs
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Mens varsity basketball wins the title after defeating Sparta
Girl's Basketball Back in the Conference Title Hunt
The Varsity girl's basketball team held on long enough in a wild 4th quarter for a 49-47 win against the 1st palce West Catholic Falcons on Friday night. After a strong performance through three quarters and holding a 40-25 lead the Huskies battled for their O-K Blue lives in the 4th. They managed to hold on for […]


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PNG LNG costs rise due to Aust dollar
Santos and Oil Search will have to increase their spending on the Papua New Guinea liquified natural gas (LNG) project.
Santos has a 13.5 per cent share in the project and Oil Search a 29 per cent stake.
It is operated by energy giant ExxonMobil, which holds a 33.2 per cent stake.
Exxon Mobil has upgraded its estimated capital cost for the project by about $700 million ($A682.66 million) to $15.7 billion, due to the stronger Australian dollar.
Santos said that will increase its cost by $100 million.
Oil Search said its remaining costs were approximately $750 million, which are fully covered by its current cash position of over $1 billion.
PNG LNG remains on schedule for first production in 2014.
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By Linda D. KozarynAmerican Forces Press Service
MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 11, 2007 Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today urged NATO allies to back up their commitments to the mission in Afghanistan with money and forces.
"NATO is not a paper membership or a social club or a talk shop. It is a military alliance, one with very serious real-world obligations," Gates told nearly 300 security experts from 45 countries gathered here for the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy.
In his first major address as the 22nd U.S. defense secretary, Gates told the security policy experts: that NATO members are divided into two groups: those "who do all they can to fulfill collective commitments and those who do not."
The secretary arrived here Feb. 9 after attending two days of informal NATO meetings in Seville, Spain. There, he said, the allies focused on the need to prepare now to counter a spring offensive in Afghanistan by Taliban insurgents.
"Going forward, it is vitally important that the success Afghanistan has achieved not be allowed to slip away through neglect or lack of political will or resolve," the secretary said.
The overall success of the alliance and, in particular, the success of the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan is dependent upon alliance members honoring their commitments, Gates said.
"An alliance consisting of the world's most prosperous industrialized nations, with over 2 million people in uniform -- not even counting the American military -- should be able to generate the manpower and materiel needed to get the job done in Afghanistan, a mission in which there is virtually no dispute over its justness, necessity, or international legitimacy," Gates said. "Our failure to do so would be a mark of shame."
All NATO allies have agreed upon a comprehensive strategy "combining a muscular military effort with effective support for governance, economic development and counternarcotics," Gates said. However, only six of NATO's 26 members have met the benchmark of spending 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense, a commitment agreed to by each member of the alliance.
"Such an investment by all is necessary to meet our collective obligations to ensure that when we stand together in battle -- whether in Afghanistan or elsewhere -- the quality, quantity and sophistication of our equipment and our capabilities are at an appropriate level," he said.
Afghanistan, he noted, is only one of several potential challenges NATO allies must be capable of facing in today's strategic environment.
Gates said other potential conflicts include "sectarian conflict and jihadist movements radiating outward from the Middle East and Central Asia; an Iran with hegemonic ambitions seeking nuclear weapons; and the struggle over the future of Iraq, with enormous implications for our common interests in the Middle East and beyond."
Future relations with China and Russia are also cause for concern, he added. "All of us seek a constructive relationship with China, but we also wonder about strategic choices China may make. We note with concern their recent test of an anti-satellite weapon," Gates said.
"Russia is a partner in endeavors," he continued. "But we wonder, too, about some Russian policies that seem to work against international stability, such as its arms transfers and its temptation to use energy resources for political coercion."
Gates told the security experts he has been deeply impressed by the progress NATO has made in the 15 years since he last worked in government. He cited NATO's new expeditionary capabilities and institutional reforms; plans for deploying missile defense in Poland, the Czech Republic, the U.K, and Denmark; and NATO's recent agreement to partner with such like-minded nations such as Australia, Japan and South Korea.
NATO is "the most potent alliance in the history of the world," Gates said. "The political and military power of NATO's 26 democracies is the shield behind which the ideas and values we share are spreading around the globe.
"In short," he concluded, "meeting our commitment to one another and to those we strive to help, from the Balkans to Afghanistan, is critical to our success and theirs."
Related Sites:Munich Conference on Security PolicyNATO in Afghanistan
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Blue Line: Daily rainfall (09:00 to 09:00) and Accumulated daily rainfall ; * Red Line: accumulated daily rainfall, 30 year mean (1981 to 2010 previously 1971-2000); Grey Line : +/- one standard deviation representing the variability of the data used to calculate the thirty year mean.
Measuring and recording precipitation that falls as snow
At the times at which precipitation falls as snow an automated rain gauge is prone to getting blocked. Here at Rothamsted, if such an event occurs during a work day, any snow remaining in our standard 5" cylindrical MK2 Met Office manual rain gauge funnel (MK2) at 09:00 is melted and precipitation measured. If snow has exceeded the height of the MK2 then using a spare 5" funnel a core of snow is taken, melted and measured. If any precipitation falls as snow after 09:00 on a Friday and over the weekend then it is not measured until 09:00 on the following Monday. All snow and ice present in any of the automated rain gauge funnels is removed.
When correcting data files for automated rain gauges, including the ECN automated rain gauge, with daily values of precipitation due to snow. We use the measurement from the MK2 taking into account that which has melted and been recorded previously. The corrected value is entered against the 09:00 timestamp for the day on which the measurement of precipitation that fell as snow was made. e.g. snow that fell during the period between 09:00 on a Friday to 09:00 on a Monday and is measured at 09:00 on that Monday. This corrected value is recorded against 09:00 for that Monday.
* The thirty year mean (1981 to 2010) for rainfall should be used only for guidance. This is due to the fact that rainfall measured at the Rothamsted Met Station is by an aerodynamic tipping bucket rain gauge (ARG100) situated within a turf wall. The ECN AWS uses a cylindrical style tipping bucket rain gauge (Didcot) and it is has been found that the ARG100 captures up to 10% more rain water than the Didcot.
Conversions: Use the converter to convert from millimetres to inches


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Energy Efficiency: the Elegant Alternative
By Kent W. Peterson, PE
Everybody is affected in one way or another by buildings - we are born in them, we live in them, we work in them, and in many cases we are healed in them. Collectively, buildings professionals provide comfortable, healthy, safe buildings that improve the quality of life. On the flip side, the energy consumed by these buildings is helping fuel a new crisis - a crisis of global energy availability and increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
The U.S. Energy Information Agency recently reported that world energy consumption is projected to grow by 71 percent from 2003 to 2030. Residential and commercial buildings already account for roughly 40 percent of total primary energy use in the United States and the European Union. With HVAC&R and water heating responsible for a significant percentage (75 percent of residential and 64 percent of commercial building site energy use), design teams must think of the mechanical systems as not only comfort and health solutions but also as potential solutions for the world's energy problem.
It is time for the building industry to move beyond simply selecting right-sized HVAC systems. Today, design engineers must improve their knowledge in building envelope performance, thermal mass effects in buildings, passive solar, daylighting, and human comfort and must become experts in delivering high-performance buildings.
The knowledge, materials, and processes exist today to make substantial improvements in both the energy and environmental impacts from buildings. Integrated building design (IBD) is a collaborative process that can help achieve high-performance, low-energy, sustainable buildings by considering all design variables together. IBD looks beyond the immediate building to how the building and its systems can be integrated with supporting systems on its site and in its community and at how materials, systems, and products of a building connect, interact, and affect one another.
IBD recognizes that interaction among all building disciplines is required to achieve overarching building design goals such as sustainable buildings, superior IEQ, building security, and critical operations. Commitment and participation of these parties, starting as early as possible and at all stages of the design process, is necessary to optimize the building as a whole.
Employing high-performance HVAC equipment in conjunction with IBD can result in significant energy savings. Typically, a 30-percent reduction in annual energy costs can be achieved with a simple payback period of about 3 to 5 years. These figures apply to buildings that offer conventional comfort (e.g. 70 degrees Fahrenheit in winter, 76 degrees Fahrenheit in summer).
If the thermal comfort zone is extended through natural ventilation and air movement in summer and lower air temperatures in winter (made possible by highly insulated and, therefore, warmer wall and window surfaces), even higher savings can be achieved. It is important to note that highly energy-efficient design using high-performance HVAC equipment typically requires more effort and more collaboration from the design team than a conventional, sequential approach.
Passive solar heating makes use of building components to collect, store, and distribute solar heat gains to reduce the demand for space heating. It does not require the use of mechanical equipment because the heat flow is by natural means (radiation, convection, and conductance) and the thermal storage is in the structure itself.
When selecting HVAC systems, designers can reduce annual energy consumption by considering part-load performance, a critical consideration for HVAC sizing. Most heating and cooling equipment only operate at their rated, peak efficiency when fully loaded (that is, working near their maximum output). HVAC systems, however, are typically only required to meet peak design heating and cooling conditions about 1 to 2.5 percent of the time. HVAC systems must be selected to minimize annual energy consumption and not just peak energy demand.
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A Guide To Mental Health Terminology
This guide aims to provide a quick reference for anybody seeking to understand terms commonly used by mental health services.
Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
A permanent brain injury that results in impairment to an individual's physical, cognitive (ability to think and reason), behavioural or emotional functioning. The injury may be caused by accident, infection, disease, overuse of alcohol, stroke, brain tumour or other medical illnesses.
Acquired brain injury is not a mental illness and requires very different specialist skills from those offered by mental health services. However, people with acquired brain injury can also suffer from a mental illness.
Acute Mental Illness
Acute mental illness is characterised by significant and distressing symptoms of a mental illness requiring immediate treatment. This may be the person's first experience of mental illness, a repeat episode or the worsening of symptoms of an often continuing mental illness. The onset is sudden or rapid and the symptoms usually respond to treatment.
Acute Treatment
The intensive treatment provided to the person who is experiencing acute mental illness. Depending on the person's needs, acute treatment can be offered in the person's own environment or in a psychiatric inpatient service. Depending on the severity of symptoms, the distress involved for the person and the risk of harm to self or others, acute treatment may be provided in the community by a Crisis Assessment and Treatment (CAT) service, by a community mental health centre or in a psychiatric inpatient service.
Adolescent Mental Health Services
See Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
Adult Mental Health Services
The network of public mental health services providing assessment, treatment and support for people with severe mental illness or other severely disabling psychiatric disorders, aged 16-65 years of age. Services include community mental health centres, crisis assessment and treatment services, mobile support and treatment services, psychiatric inpatient services and non-government psychiatric disability support services.
Affective Disorder
See bi-polar affective/mood disorder.
Aged Persons' Mental Health Services
Specialist public mental health services for people with severe mental illness who are 65 years of age and over. Services include psychogeriatric assessment and treatment services and psychiatric inpatient services.
Restless, repeated activity arising from a person's anxiety or frustration. For example the person may be unable to stand or sit still and may be noticeably upset. It is important to note that a side effect of antipsychotic medication is physical restlessness, usually first noticed as shaking in the arms and legs, which can mimic agitated behaviour.
Alzheimer's Disease
A form of dementia characterised by the gradual deterioration of brain tissues and brain function. The effects progress from mild forgetfulness and confusion to a permanent inability to perform routine life tasks, for example making a cup of coffee or putting on one's clothes.
Antidepressant Medication
Main form of medication used for the treatment of depression.
Antipsychotic Medication
Main form of medication for the treatment of psychoses such as schizophrenia. These drugs tend to reduce delusions and hallucinations and have a calming effect.
A mental disorder characterised by feelings of unease, tension and distress with an exaggerated fear of possible danger or misfortune and often associated with significant disruption to a person's life, such as inability to hold down a job or use public transport. Examples of such disorders may include phobias, panic attacks and obsessive compulsive disorder.
See psychiatric assessment.
The authorised psychiatrist has specific powers and duties under the Mental Health Act 2014. Consultant psychiatrists in a designated area mental health service may carry out the responsibilities of the authorised psychiatrist under delegation.
Bi-Polar Affective/Mood Disorder
A mental illness in which the significant symptoms involve fluctuating states of mood characterised by marked depressive and/or manic episodes.
Borderline Personality Disorder
A specific type of personality disorder which is characterised by a lifelong pattern of behaviour which may include unclear and disturbed selfimage, brief psychotic episodes, involvement in intense unstable relationships, repeated emotional crises, fear of abandonment and a series of suicidal threats or acts of selfharm without apparent cause. See also personality disorder.
A person who has a caring role with the client and whose life is affected by the client's welfare.
Case Management
Case management is a process which aims to ensure the client receives the best possible treatment and support through the identification of needs, planning individual goals and strategies and linking to appropriate services to meet these needs.
See individual service plan, case manager, continuity of care.
A mental health professional employed by a mental health service who has the primary responsibility for case management of a particular client. The client's case manager may be a social worker, psychiatric nurse, consultant psychiatrist, occupational therapist, medical officer or psychologist.
CAT Service
See crisis assessment and treatment (CAT) service.
The Chief Psychiatrist is a psychiatrist appointed by the Secretary, Department of Health under the Mental Health Act 2014 to provide clinical leadership and expert clinical advice to mental health service providers. The Chief Psychiatrist is responsible for the improvement in the quality and safety of mental health services and to promote the rights of the person receiving those mental health services.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Specialist public mental health assessment end treatment services provided for children and adolescents up to 18 years of age. They are provided by community-based, multi-disciplinary services and psychiatric inpatient services.
A person who is currently using public mental health services.
Community Mental Health Centre (CMHC)
The first point of contact during business hours for access to area mental health services. Mental health professionals employed by the CMHC provide initial screening, and consultancy for people requesting public mental health services to guide the person to the appropriate service. They also provide assessment, treatment, continuing care and support for clients with severe mental illness. Community mental health centres employ a range of mental health professionals to provide clinical services, including social workers, psychiatric nurses, consultant psychiatrists, occupational therapists, medical officers and psychologists.
Comprehensive Mental Health Service
People with a severe mental illness often have complex medical, psychological and social needs. A comprehensive mental health service is one which provides a range of services that meets the client's treatment needs, including community based services and inpatient care.
See continuity of care, individual service plan.
Consultant Psychiatrist
A medical practitioner who has undertaken specialised training and registration that qualifies them to diagnose and treat mental illnesses. Some have further specialist training in areas such as child and adolescent psychiatry, the psychiatry of old age or forensic psychiatry. Psychiatrists work in psychiatric inpatient services, community mental health services or in private practice.
A person who uses public mental health services.
Continuity of Care
Provision of mental health services to a client in a way that ensures care is continued when there is a change of service or case manager. An example is when a person leaves a psychiatric inpatient service and his/her care is transferred to the community mental health centre or where the client moves to a new area.
See psychiatric crisis.
Crisis Assessment and Treatment Services (CATS)
These services provide urgent assessment and short term intensive treatment throughout the community to people in crisis due to a mental illness. This includes assessing the most effective and least restrictive client service options and screening all inpatient bed admissions.CATS provide treatment and support for people whose acute mental illness can be managed in the community with intensive outreach support as as alternative to hospitalisation. They also respond to people presenting at immediate risk of suicide. CATS operate 24 hours, 7 days a week.
Delusions are psychotic symptoms of particular types of mental illness, such as schizophrenia. They are firmly held beliefs which are not held by other members of the person's social group. Persons who experience delusions may offer bizarre explanations for experiences or circumstances. For example, they may believe they are being spied upon, followed, poisoned or that they possess great unrecognised talent.
A group of brain disorders that most commonly occur in old age, although sometimes could develop earlier. They are the result of brain tissue deterioration. Common features include decline in the ability to recall recent and past events, decline in mental functioning (for example, may not be able to make simple calculations or organise a routine task) and the person behaving in ways considered out of character for him/her.
A lowering of mood which includes feelings of sadness, despair and discouragement, which range from mild to severe and is sustained over a period of time. Mild depression is an emotional state that many people experience during their life. Severe depression is a severe mental illness producing symptoms such as slowness of movement, loss of interest or pleasure in most activities, sleep and appetite changes, and agitation. People experiencing severe depression will have intense feelings of worthlessness and may experience delusions; for example, a person may believe they are the cause of the world's problems. Severe depression can lead to suicidal ideas and actual suicidal actions.
See psychiatric disability.
A medical term meaning the identification of symptoms which are consistent with a particular illness or disorder. Specific tests and a medical examination can sometimes prove that physical illness is present. Diagnosis of a mental illness, however, is based on interviewing the client and others who know them and on clinical observations.
A symptom of some illnesses which affects the person's ability to know where he/she is, have some idea of time of day, date and year, and remember familiar people.
Drug Induced Psychosis
A mental illness involving distorted or imaginary sensations caused by the one off or repeated use of a drug (such as marijuana or amphetamines) or the use of a drug over a long period of time. The symptoms of a drug induced psychosis will usually appear quickly and can last for up to four weeks until the effects of the drug wear off.
Duty Worker
A mental health professional at a community mental health centre who is the first contact for a client requesting mental health services. The duty worker undertakes an initial screening and may then arrange an intake assessment of the client's current problem(s) and guide the client to the appropriate public mental health service or other community service.
A disorder of the brain characterised by periodic and temporary loss of consciousness with or without fitting (seizures).
Epilepsy is not a mental illness and requires very different specialist skills from those offered by mental health services. However, people with epilepsy can also suffer from a mental illness.
A psychotic symptom characterised by distorted or imaginary sensations of sight, hearing, smell, taste or touch that are experienced by the person as if real. For example, a person may see something that is not there or hear the voice of somebody who is not present.
Individual Service Plan (ISP)
A plan, based on a comprehensive assessment, outlining the client's goals and strategies for the client's recovery, including the mental health services and general community services the client needs. The ISP is developed and regularly reviewed by the case manager, the client and, with the client's permission, their family or carer and other workers involved.
Informed Consent
In the context of mental health, this means that the client provides permission for a specific treatment to occur based on their understanding of the nature of the procedure, the risks involved, the consequences of withholding permission and their knowledge of available alternative treatments.
Inpatient Admission
See psychiatric inpatient admission.
Inpatient Service
See psychiatric inpatient service.
Refers to the level of understanding which a person suffering from a mental illness has into the nature of their illness, its causation and the possible treatments that are available.
Intake Assessment
The process which occurs when a person first becomes a client of a mental health service. The person will have an initial psychiatric assessment in order to determine the nature of their psychiatric problem, their treatment needs and the most appropriate service required.
Integration of Services
Coordination and linkage between services to ensure client's receive continuity of care.
Intellectual Disability
People with intellectual disabilities have learning difficulties and develop at a slower rate than normal. The condition is usually identified at birth or in early childhood.
Intellectual disability is not a mental illness and requires very different specialist skills from those offered by mental health services. However, people with intellectual disabilities can also suffer from a mental illness.
A planned action taken by a mental health worker which occurs in the context of treatment. Examples are counselling, intensive support, referral or prescribing medication.
Management of public mental health services by the general health system, for example, by public hospitals.
Major Psychiatric Illness
See severe mental illness.
Major Tranquilisers
See anti-psychotic drugs.
Manic Depressive Psychosis
See bi-polar affective/mood disorder.
A state of elevated mood which is out of keeping with a person's normal behaviour and may vary from cheerfulness to almost uncontrollable excitement or irritation. It typically results in over activity, rapid speech, decreased need for sleep, being easily distracted and a loss of social inhibitions. A person may embark on extravagant schemes, spend money recklessly, become aggressive or flirtatious, or believe they possess extraordinary powers.
Medical Sedation
The prescribing and administration of medication that has a tranquilising, calming effect.
Mental Health
Describes the capacity of an individual to interact with other people and with the person's environment in ways that promote the person's sense of well being, enhance their personal development and allow the person to achieve their life goals.
Mental Health Act 2014
Legislation providing for the assessment and treatment of persons with mental illness.
Mental Health Complaints Commissioner
The MHCC is an independent complaints body that deals with concerns or complaints about mental health service providers.
Mental Health Professional
Staff of mental health services with professional training and qualifications, and experience in working with clients who have a mental illness. Mental health professionals include social workers, psychiatric nurses, psychiatrist medical officers, occupational therapists and psychologists.
Mental Health Services
See public mental health services.
Mental Health Tribunal
The Tribunal is an independent tribunal established under the Mental Health Act 2014. The Tribunal makes Treatment Orders and hears applications for the revocation of Temporary Treatment Orders and Treatment Orders, applications for electroconvulsive treatment and neurosurgery for mental illness. It also hears applications against transfers to another mental health service and reviews the orders of security patients.
Mental Illness
A person is described as having a mental illness when their thoughts, feelings and behaviour cause them or others distress, and are not in keeping with their cultural background. Examples are schizophrenia, depression and anxiety disorders.
Mental State Examination (MSE)
An interview using a standardised set of questions with the primary purpose of identifying a person's current mental state.
See psychiatric assessment.
Mobile Support and Treatment Service (MSTS)
A multidisciplinary, community based mental health service which supports and treats clients who have experienced many psychiatric crises, have associated psychiatric disability and are at risk of readmission to hospital without this support.
Multidisciplinary Team
Mental health professionals employed by a public mental health service who work together to provide treatment and care for people with mental illness. They include social workers, psychiatric nurses, psychiatrists, medical officers, occupational therapists and psychologists.
A lay term commonly used to describe an emotional disturbance or mental illness. This term is not used by mental health professionals.
This term is frequently used to refer to antipsychotic medication.
Mental disorders commonly associated with distressing symptoms of anxiety and depression. Neurotic disorders are different from psychotic disorders in that the person does not experience a loss of reality. Neuroses/Neurotic disorders has been largely replaced by more specific terms such as anxiety disorders and affective disorders.
See depression.
Non-Government Psychiatric Disability Support Services
Psychosocial rehabilitation and support services provided by non-government community agencies to people with psychiatric disability. Such services include housing support, day programs, prevocational training, residential services and respite care.
A disorder in which the person may experience strong impulses to perform certain acts over and over again, even though they realise this is illogical. They are the result of recurrent and persistent thoughts and urges. The urges can not be easily controlled or ignored. This can cause great distress to the individual and interfere with their ability to perform life activities. For example, a person may continually wash their hands or check to see if the door is locked.
Occupational Therapists (OTB)
Health professionals who work in community mental health services and psychiatric inpatient services. They are part of the multidisciplinary team and their role is to help people to develop confidence and skills in daily living, using a variety of techniques, such as creative therapies and training in practical tasks.
Paranoia/Paranoid State
In common use, this term means suspicion or mistrust of others. Mental health professionals use the term paranoia to describe persecutory ideas held by a person which are not quite as intense as delusions. For example, a person may believe someone close to them is poisoning their food.
Personality Disorder
A group of disorders characterised by patterns of disruptive and dysfunctional behaviour well established by early adulthood, and continuing through out a person's life. The person with a personality disorder typically has marked problems and frequent crises in personal and social relationships including threatened or actual selfinjury. People with this disorder often have a history of inadequate or abusive parenting.
See also borderline personality disorder; severe personality disorder.
See psychogeriatric assessment and treatment services.
A persistent and unreasonable fear of specific places, events or objects which leads to avoidance of that situation and significantly impacts upon a person's life. For example, fear of crowds, public places, public speaking, insects or blood.
Primary mental health and early intervention teams (PMHEI)
These teams support and enhance the capacity of primary care providers, especially general practitioners and community health services, to recognise and respond to mental disorders more effectively. They provide consultation, liaison, education and training services to primary care providers for both low and high prevalence disorders. The teams have a particular focus on disorders such as depression and anxiety, and also provide some short-term direct care treatment and assessment for these high prevalence disorders.
The predicted course of a person's mental illness or their interpersonal, emotional or social functioning, based on specialised psychiatric knowledge, assessment of the client's current mental state and an understanding of his her personal circumstances and environment.
Psychiatric Assessment
A thorough assessment of a client by a mental health professional which includes identifying a person's current mental state, personal and social history, social situation and any relevant past psychiatric history. The psychiatric assessment enables selection of the most appropriate form of treatment for the client.
See also mental state examination, intake assessment.
Psychiatric Crisis
Psychiatric crisis describes the situation where a person with a mental
illness or severe mental disorder experiences thoughts, feelings or behaviours
which cause severe distress to him/her and those around him/her requiring
immediate psychiatric treatment to assess and manage risk and alleviate
distress. The acute stage of a mental illness is characterised by infrequent
yet severely distressing symptoms that require immediate treatment. This
may be the persons first experience of mental illness, a repeat
episode or the worsening of symptoms of an often continuing mental illness.
Psychiatric Disability
The effects of mental illness that severely impair functioning in different aspects of a person's life such as the ability to live independently, maintain friendships or maintain employment.
Psychiatric Disorder
See mental illness, severe mental illness.
Psychiatric Inpatient Admission
A voluntary or involuntary hospital admission for the treatment end management of a person who has a severe mental illness.
Psychiatric Inpatient Service
Publicly funded psychiatric hospitals and psychiatric units of general hospitals able to admit involuntary and security patients as well as voluntary patients.
Psychiatric Nurses
Registered nurses who specialise in the nursing care and treatment of people with mental illness. Psychiatric nurses work in community mental health services and psychiatric inpatient services. Their role includes administration of medication, counselling and long term support, and may include psychological therapies.
Psychiatric Services Division
The section of the Department of Human Services which develops and establishes the policy and program framework for the delivery of client focused mental health services.
Psychiatrically Disturbed
See severe mental illness.
See consultant psychiatrists.
Psychogeriatric Assessment and Treatment Services
Specialist community mental health services that provide assessment, treatment and support for people aged sixty-five and over, who have a mental illness
Clinical psychologists have specialist training in the assessment of behaviour and mental functioning, and in a range of interventions aimed at changing how people think, feel and act towards themselves and others.
Psychosocial Assessment
An assessment procedure that is used to identify a person's abilities and difficulties in his/her personal, domestic and social functioning, and that assists in the development of his/her individual service plan.
Psychosocial Rehabilitation
A range of interventions aimed at improving a client's personal, domestic and social functioning, so that they can live independently in the community.
A term used to describe a condition in which a person is unable to tell what is real from what is imagined, as occurs with the experience of hallucinations or delusions. The condition may also include features of thought disorder, disorientation or confusion.
The range of mental health services providing local and statewide specialist treatment and support for people with mental illness and associated psychiatric disability. These services are provided free of charge by the Government. They include child and adolescent mental health services, adult mental health services and aged persons' mental health services and specialist statewide services.
Restricted Involuntary Treatment Order (RITO)
Restricted involuntary treatment orders are made by a court under the
Sentencing Act 1991. If a person with a mental illness is found guilty
of an offence (other than a serious offence), the court may make a RITO
instead of giving the person a sentence. The person is then taken to a
mental health service and must be given treatment for their mental illness.
Schizophrenia/Schizophrenic Disorder
A group of mental illnesses where the essential and most obvious features are the presence of psychotic symptoms during the active phase of the illness. There may also be a loss in the person's ability to perform some life tasks, such as relating to others, maintaining employment and domestic duties.
A process that enables a duty worker to obtain enough information from the person requesting service so that the duty worker can guide them to an appropriate service within or outside public mental health services. The duty worker will take responsibility for referring a person to an outside agency or arrange an intake assessment with the appropriate local mental health service.
Security Patient
Patients detained and treated in a designated mental health service under
a Court Secure Treatment Order or patients who are transferred from prison
under a Secure Treatment Order for treatment in a designated mental health service.
See medical sedation.
Severe Mental Illness
A mental illness in which a person's ability to think, communicate and behave appropriately is so impaired that it interferes with the person's ability to deal with ordinary demands of life. Without effective treatment end support, the outcome for the person may be significant impairment, disability and/or disadvantage.
Severe Personality Disorder
A term frequently used to describe a serious form of personality disorder.
See borderline personality disorder.
Social Workers
Health professionals who have a qualification in social work and have special ised in mental health. They form part of the multidisciplinary team and typical functions include counselling, advocacy, family work, and social and community development.
Substance Related Disorders
Changes to a person's physical health and behaviour associated with the overuse of alcohol or drugs. For example, there may be an inability to perform their job or household duties, problems in personal and social relationships, and faulty memory. There may also be frequent legal problems such as drink driving or disorderly conduct.
Substance related disorder is not a mental illness and requires very different specialist skills from those offered by mental health services. However, people with a substance related disorder can also suffer from a mental illness and others with long standing substance abuse can develop symptoms of a mental illness.
A person is regarded as suicidal when they have given strong indications or have intentions of taking their own life.
Changes in a person's mind or body that indicate they may be suffering from a particular illness.
A symptom most often seen in schizophrenia and other psychoses. It describes a disturbance in a person's thought patterns and is usually shown in abnormal speech. For example, a person may jump from topic to topic in conversation, their answers may be quite unrelated to a question or they may use strikingly unusual words or phrases.
The use of professional knowledge and skill to bring about an improvement in a person's mental illness or to lessen the ill effects of a mental illness, and the distress end suffering that may accompany it.
Treatment Resistant Mental Illness
A severe mental illness experienced by an individual where the symptoms have not responded satisfactorily to current forms of treatment.
Voluntary Admission
A voluntary patient who consents to treatment from a psychiatric inpatient service and is accepted for treatment with the approval of the authorised psychiatrist.
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ERWIN — Whenever officials with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have publicly conveyed the cancer risks associated with residing near nuclear facilities such as Nuclear Fuel Services, they have relied upon information contained in a more than 20-year-old study.
Now, the NRC is seeking more current information on these risks, and the Erwin facility is to be included in what could be the first step of a full update of the two-decade-old study.
The NRC announced Tuesday that it is sponsoring a pilot cancer risk study to be carried out by the National Academy of Sciences at seven NRC-licensed facilities in order to determine the feasibility of extending the study to include additional reactor and fuel cycle sites across the U.S.
"It's a pilot study that they're going to do to help the agency determine if it's going to do the study nationwide," NRC spokesman Joey Ledford said.
The National Academy of Sciences will conduct two types of epidemiological studies at the recommended sites. The first study type will examine multiple cancer types in populations living near the facilities. The second will be a case-control study of cancers in children born near the facilities.
Aside from NFS, the only non-reactor facility to be included in the pilot study, the study will also assess the areas around six reactor sites — the Dresden Nuclear Power Station in Morris, Ill.; the Millstone Power Station in Waterford, Conn.; the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Forked River, N.J.; the decommissioned Haddam Neck facility in Haddam Neck, Conn.; the decommissioned Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant in Charlevoix, Mich.; and the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Clemente, Calif.
"The Academy recommended these sites because they provide a good sampling of facilities with different operating histories, population sizes, and levels of complexity in data retrieval from the relevant state cancer registries," an NRC release issued Tuesday states.
Ledford said the ultimate goal of the study is to update a 1990 study completed by the National Institute of Health's National Cancer Institute that examined cancer risks for populations in counties with nuclear facilities. That study, which found no increased risk of death from cancer for people living near nuclear facilities, has served as the NRC's primary source of information when discussing cancer mortality risks in areas containing nuclear power facilities with the public.
The NRC plans to begin working with the National Academy of Sciences to initiate the pilot study process within the next three months. Ledford said the pilot study is expected to take two to three years to complete.
"The NRC staff expects the effort will continue at least into 2014 and cost approximately $2 million," the NRC release states. "The Academy will work with interested parties near the sites prior to gathering information and beginning the necessary analyses."
In 2010, the NRC approached and commissioned the National Academy of Sciences to update the 1990 study. Last fall, representatives with the Academy visited Erwin to discuss the two-phase study, the first phase of which was to identify approaches for carrying out the cancer risk assessment, with the second phase being the assessment itself.
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The National Academy of Sciences committee that completed the first-phase report recommended that a pilot study be completed to examine the feasibility of carrying out a large-scale cancer risk study. NFS was among the seven facilities recommended by the committee for the pilot study.
"NFS supports the decision of the NRC to sponsor the NAS study," NFS officials said in a brief statement issued Tuesday.


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