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BETHESDA, Md. -- Our utmost efforts to encourage and develop younger generations in science, engineering and mathematics are vital to our nation. In helping with this goal, the U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command Commanding General Maj. Gen. Nick Justice hosted the 48th National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium award ceremony May 1 here.
Justice and many other RDECOM leaders came into the Army research and development community after starting out in the Signal Corps.
Justice spoke to bright high school students -- the future of our nation's science and technology force -- while he helped award $144,000 in scholarships. He told them how important their research will be for the nation and encouraged the students to look beyond high school towards a post secondary education and a future career in science, engineering and mathematics at one of our research laboratories.
"Think about what you're going to do with your education and talent," he said to the packed ballroom at the awards banquet. "Choose an exciting life - one that is meaningful to you and valuable to other people. The future of this country is sitting with you."
The higher-order thought processes and learning skills developed among the students during their research exposure are impeccable. Students need to see and hear from the Soldiers that will benefit from their research; this interaction will play an important role in the future success of our Army. Students, their parents and teachers alike harnessed the opportunity to talk to each of the Soldiers present during the symposium.
More than 10,000 high school students throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and Department of Defense Schools in Europe and the Pacific Rim competed, and only 240 students (96 student research presenters) were selected to attend the JSHS symposium hosted by the Army Research Laboratory.
The students qualified for attendance by submitting and presenting their own original science research papers. In addition to any scholarships received at the qualifying regional competitions, national finalists came to Bethesda to compete for a second college scholarship worth up to $16,000, a chance to attend the London International Youth Science Forum and to present their research at the Army Science Conference.
The U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force recognized the accomplishments of these talented students and their teachers by also affording them an opportunity to interact with scientists and engineers representing military and federal research and development laboratories. The tour included RDECOM laboratories such as the Army Research Laboratory and Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (Adelphi and Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md.
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On Tuesday, new Coronado Head Football coach, Seth Parr, said he has no problem throwing the ball 70 times if that's what the game calls for. Not unlike former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach, who was known to air it out, even if the game didn't call for it.
Leach was in town Tuesday promoting his new book, Geronimo, as he prepares to start his 3rd season as the head coach of the Washington State Cougars. With his former quarterback now leading the Red Raiders, along with four other former Tech players, We spoke with leach about what he's seen so far from coach Kliff Kingsbury and the rest of his former players.
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Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland, author of the newly updated book "Recarving Rushmore," appears on the nationally syndicated Lars Larson radio show to discuss how he ranks the U.S. Presidents in terms of peace, prosperity and liberty. The updated version of the book includes President Barack Obama.
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How to commission a pupil premium review for your school.
A pupil premium review looks at how your school is spending its pupil premium funding. The purpose of the review is to improve your school's pupil premium strategy, so that you spend the funding on approaches shown to be effective in improving the achievement of disadvantaged pupils.
The reviewer will be an independent, experienced leader with a track record of making these improvements for disadvantaged pupils.
A guide for effective pupil premium reviews has been developed by the Teaching Schools Council with Sir John Dunford, Pupil Premium Champion.
When you should commission a review
You can commission a review at any time if you want to improve your school's pupil premium strategy. All schools should consider whether they could benefit from the fresh perspective of an experienced school leader to help them try new approaches or improve current provision to help raise the attainment of their disadvantaged pupils.
Ofsted will recommend that you commission a review if, as a result of a section 5 inspection, it identifies specific issues regarding the provision for disadvantaged pupils.
In some cases, the Department for Education, your local authority, your regional schools commissioner, or the organisation involved in running your school, academy or free school (for example, the trust or diocese) may recommend that you commission a review if there are concerns about the results of your disadvantaged pupils.
You should start the process of commissioning a review within 2 weeks of it being recommended and should aim to have the review completed within 8 weeks. If an Ofsted inspection report recommends the review, the monitoring inspector will expect it to be undertaken in a timely way.
In cases where you also need to commission an external review of governance, you should commission this separately from a different reviewer.
Find a reviewer
You should commission the review from an independent expert, especially if the review has been recommended by Ofsted or the Department for Education. This means identifying a reviewer:
- who is independent of:
- your local authority, if you are a maintained school
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- your diocesan board, foundation or trust, if you are also a voluntary or foundation school
- with a recent track record as a school leader in raising the achievement of disadvantaged pupils
- who can offer a fresh perspective on your school's use of the pupil premium and the impact it has had
If you cannot identify a reviewer who meets your requirements, you will need to satisfy yourself that any reviewer offered by the local authority, trust, diocese or foundation has the necessary expertise and can provide a truly fresh perspective.
Using a leader with a track record in raising the achievement of disadvantaged pupils will assure you that their advice is based on an understanding of what works. To support you, we offer an online directory where you can find independent experts who are system leaders designated by the National College for Teaching and Leadership as having a track record in raising the achievement of disadvantaged pupils.
If you are unable to find a suitable reviewer in the online directory, you can seek help by:
- identifying and contacting an experienced leader from a school in your region, such as a school:
- within your teaching school alliance, if you are a member of an alliance, or by approaching a teaching school alliance near to you
- within another local network of schools
- that has won a pupil premium award
- contacting organisations that provide school improvement support, such as Achievement for All or Challenge Partners
- seeking advice from school improvement consultants in your region
In all cases, you may wish to make sure that the reviewer can provide evidence of having improved the achievement of disadvantaged pupils, in schools that they have either led or supported closely. Specifically, you may wish to seek a reviewer who can demonstrate they have had a leadership role at a school with, using the 3-year rolling average figures published by the Department for Education:
- above average progress for disadvantaged pupils:
- 87% in reading, 90% in writing and 85% in maths making expected levels of progress at key stage 2 (2015 3-year rolling average)
- 58.1% in English and 50.8% in maths making expected levels of progress at key stage 4 (2015 3-year rolling average)
- above average attainment for disadvantaged pupils:
- 67% achieving level 4+ in reading, writing and maths at key stage 2 (2015 3-year rolling average)
- 38.1% achieving A*–C in English and maths at GCSE at key stage 4 (2015 3-year rolling average)
- at least 6 disadvantaged pupils in the relevant cohorts being tested
The review process
It's up to you to make the arrangements with the reviewer. The guide for effective pupil premium reviews can support this process.
Both you and the reviewer need to be clear about what is expected of all parties. So you may wish to put together a short document outlining the roles, responsibilities and output of the review. If your school is maintained by a local authority, you will need to follow any procedures that the authority usually requires when you contract for services.
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After the review, your school should have an improved strategy for raising the achievement of disadvantaged pupils and spending your pupil premium funding, informed by the recommendations in the review. You should write the strategy with the system leader and they should have an opportunity to comment on a draft of the strategy. The strategy should be agreed by your governing body or trustees. If your school would like the system leader to provide any further support, you can arrange this with them directly.
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Both state law and federal law impose numerous restrictions on what you can test and how. These restrictions are often vague and open to contradictory interpretations. As a result, you should only use tests that are absolutely necessary and, unless the test is as basic as a typing test, you should consider consulting with a lawyer before administering the test to make sure that it will pass legal muster in your state.
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Skills tests range from something as simple as a typing test to something as complicated as an architectural drafting test. Generally speaking, these tests are legal, as long as they genuinely test a skill necessary for the performance of a job.
Aptitude, Psychological, and Personality Tests
Some employers use written tests -- usually in a multiple choice format -- to gain insight into applicant's general abilities, personality, and/or psyche. These tests are only rarely appropriate, and requiring applicants to take them leaves you vulnerable to various types of lawsuits. For example:
- A multiple choice aptitude test may discriminate against minority applicants or female applicants because it really reflects test-taking ability rather than actual job skills.
- A personality test can be even riskier. Besides its potential for illegal discrimination, such a test may invade a person's privacy by inquiring into topics that are personal in nature, such as religious beliefs or sexual practices.
- In addition to issues of discrimination and privacy, psychological tests are treated like medical tests when they elicit answers that suggest a mental disorder or impairment (see below). This fact puts the test clearly within the purview of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) and all of its restrictions. (For more on hiring and the ADA, see Nolo's article Avoid Disability Discrimination When Hiring New Employees.)
If you do decide to use one of these types of tests, proceed with extreme caution. Make sure that the test has been screened scientifically for validity and that it genuinely correlates to necessary job skills. Review the test carefully for any questions that may intrude into an applicant's privacy.
Lie Detector and Honesty Tests
The federal Employee polygraph Protection Act generally prohibits employers from requiring applicants to take a lie detector test or asking applicants about previous lie detector tests. The law includes a narrow list of exceptions that apply to, for example, businesses that provide armored car services, alarm or guard services, or manufacture, distribute, or dispense pharmaceuticals.
Even though there is no federal law specifically prohibiting you from requiring applicants to take a written honesty test, these tests frequently violate federal and state laws that protect against discrimination and violations of privacy. And the tests are rarely reliable. Prudent employers stay away from them.
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To avoid violating the Americans With Disabilities Act, don't ask an applicant about his or her medical history and don't conduct any medical exam before you make a job offer.
Once you decide to offer the applicant a job, you can make the offer conditional on the applicant passing a medical exam. Just be sure you require the exam for all entering employees who are doing the same job. If you only require people whom you believe or know to have disabilities to take the exam, you will be violating the Americans With Disabilities Act.
Drug Tests
The laws on drug testing vary widely from state to state. Some states allow them only for jobs involving public safety; some states allow them only for drivers; some states allow them for any occupation. Before requiring an applicant to take a drug test, consult with your state department of labor to learn the rules in your state.
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For all tests, you must take care to avoid discriminating against applicants who are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act. To ensure that people with disabilities are not unfairly screened out by your test, the test must accurately measure people's skills, not their disabilities. Ways to do this include the following:
- Avoid tests that reflect impaired mental, sensory, manual, or speaking skills unless those are job-related skills that the test is trying to measure. For example, even though a typing test is a manual test that will screen out people who cannot use their hands, it is acceptable in cases where the job you are filling is for a typist.
- Accommodate people with disabilities by giving them tests that are neutral to their disabilities whenever possible. For example, if you are giving a written test to applicants for a sales position to test their knowledge of sales techniques, you can offer to read the test to a blind applicant. This is a reasonable accommodation because sight is not required for the job, but it is required to take the test.
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Perl uses a multimeter to report power consumption
Today's digital multimeters can do more than measure current and voltage. Multimeters also measure capacity and temperature. An inexpensive multimeter can talk to your PC via the serial port, and simple Perl scripts let you read and visualize data in neat charts.
I was browsing a mail order catalog for electronics the other day when I noticed a couple of low-budget, digital multimeters with RS 232 interface. I discovered the MAS-345 model by Mastech on eBay for US$ 35 and quickly pressed the "buy-it-now" button.
When the device arrived, it came with just a Windows CD. After a quick search on the web, I discovered the Marsh project, which uses a bit of C code to address the Mastech MAS-345 among other multimeters.
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With a threat of rain and damp conditions in the forecast, the first pitch of Friday afternoon's series opener between Villanova (15-25, 3-6 BIG EAST) and Creighton (27-9, 5-1 BIG EAST) has been moved up to a 2:15 p.m. start at the Villanova Ballpark at Plymouth. The remainder of the series is currently set for 2:15 p.m. on Saturday and 1:15 p.m. on Sunday. Any further schedule changes, if necessary, will be announced at a later time.
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I don't exactly hate any of the characters since I haven't watched the anime in a long time, but Cynthia just straight up pissed me off. I watched that one episode where Paul challenges her to a battle and the stupid spectators are like, "Oh you can't talk to the Champion that way!" or "She's the Champion!" The way they groveled at her feet made me want to run to the nearest trash can and throw up.
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The third season of AMC's The Walking Dead is off to a damn good start -- after a solid first episode, the series delivered the goods with the stellar outing "Sick," which provided zombies, human threats, and character development in a balanced, well-paced mix. It was, very probably, the show's best episode yet. And while the ratings didn't necessarily reflect that, they were still pretty darn good high.
"Sick" scored 9.55 million viewers, the second-highest performance of an episode of the zombie survival series yet. It was a drop of about 1.3 million viewers from the season premiere, "Seed," which nabbed 10.87 million. Still, despite the drop, these ratings are incredibly strong.
To put it in context, the highest-rated show of the week, CBS's heavy-hitting Person of Interest, only nabbed 14 million.
It is interesting to note, though, that these ratings included the recently reinstated DISH customers, who regained access to AMC shortly before the episode aired. It's unknown how the recently reinstated viewers affected the figures -- a clearer view of their impact will be available in the viewership figures for the next episode, "Walk with Me."
"Walk with Me," by the way, airs Sunday, October 28 at 9/8c on AMC. It will see the introduction of new character the Governor (David Morrissey), and the long-awaited return of Merle Dixon (Michael Rooker). You can bet it will be exciting.


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John Manley, CFA, Chief Equity Strategist
Risk is a slippery thing. It is always anticipatory, and it is always inchoate. Once risk becomes manifest, it is then damage, and we all know what damage is.
The odd thing to me is that the perception of risk is not always accurate. The perception of risk can induce caution, and that caution may actually decrease risk. Ignorance of risk may encourage behavior that a wiser, better-informed individual would be unlikely to undertake.
I will give you an example: Two people are walking separately along a narrow winding path. It is a dark and stormy night (I've always wanted to write that) with no moon and little illumination. On both sides of the path are 200-foot cliffs that plunge to the rocks below. Now, for the difference: Our first walker (whom we will call Wary Walker) knows that the cliffs are at the path's edges; our second walker (Happy Walker) has absolutely no idea of any danger.
If you were to ask the Walker brothers about their perceptions of risk, Wary would almost certainly say that he was being very cautious given the risk he perceives. Happy, on the other hand, might be a little nervous being out on such a foul night and might take normal precautions but no more than usual.
So, Wary is wary and Happy, if not exactly happy, is blissfully unconcerned. Wary would tell you that his actions are risky; Happy would say that he feels reasonably safe. Yet we, third-party observers who know both the lay of the land and the mindsets of the individuals, know that it is poor Happy who is truly at greater risk. Wary is probably moving slowly, checking his every footfall. He knows it is dangerous out there. With no pun intended, he is taking steps to protect himself. His risk is probably much less than he perceives. Poor Happy is doing no such thing. He is at the edge and doesn't know it. I would say that his risk of falling is much greater than Wary's.
The point of the story is obvious. Like Wary, equity investors have been keenly aware of the risk of falling off the edge for more than four years. They had fallen, and when they finally got up, they proceeded with the caution of those who intimately and viscerally know how much a fall could hurt. What a contrast to the psychology of the late 1990s, the Age of Happy! Back then, the perceived risk was not that of falling but, rather, of missing all of the wonderful things you could encounter on the path.
I continue to believe that we investors are all still acting and thinking like Wary. We are easily reminded of the risks that always surround us. We are ready to pull back sharply at the slightest provocation and then move forward slowly as we heave another shallow sigh of relief. The nasty little corrections that corresponded to worries about Syria, tapering, and now the budget ceiling may have numbed some of our risk sensors, but the fear is still there, under the surface.
As I see it, that fear should keep us and the equity market on the right path for some time. I would use any weakness in stocks occasioned by earnings worries to add to positions. And, whatever you do, don't get too (much like) Happy.
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South Africa has the second-largest reserves of titanium ores (ilmenite and rutile) in the world, but currently only does very limited processing of the metal locally. The country mainly exports titanium dioxide (TiO2) and titanium slag (produced from ilmenite in a smelter and containing a large percentage of TiO2; it is used to produce pigment). A small amount of pigment is also produced locally.
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In metal form, when exposed to the atmosphere, titanium spontaneously forms a protective oxide film. At temperatures in excess of about 600 ˚C, it forms a brittle oxygen-rich surface layer, or alpha case. Thus, thermal processes with titanium require a very good vacuum (if done at higher temperatures) or a protective gas (if done at lower temperatures).
Because of its combination of strength, lightness and high melting point, titanium is especially useful for the aerospace industry. Titanium metal was first made around 1920 but its production has been commercially viable for only some 60 years and since then the titanium market has grown at an average rate of 8% a year.
The market value of titanium increases dramatically as it is beneficiated. Ilmenite ore fetches about $0.29/kg, while TiO2 is worth some $0.80/kg. Next up the scale is titanium tetrachloride (TiCl4), which can be bought for around $3.00/kg. Once titanium is in metal form, its price rockets – titanium sponge fetches about $10.00/g and titanium ingots some $20.00/kg. South Africa currently does not produce TiCl4 or titanium sponge or ingots. The high price of titanium metal also constrains its use, even in the aerospace sector.
Titanium metal is currently produced commercially using the Kroll process, named after its inventor, William J Kroll (1889–1973), of Luxembourg, (who lived and worked in the US from 1940 to 1961). Many attempts have been made to improve this process, which uses high temperatures and produces titanium metal in batches, and many have failed.
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At the opening of the pilot plant, Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom enthused, in impromptu remarks: "This is actually quite a great moment. . . . Without a dream, nothing happens. . . . [Y]ou can make that dream a reality. Hard work, passion, commitment – all those are very important. What we are doing today [June 7, 2013] is moving from a resources-based economy to a knowledge economy, creating high-quality jobs in the process."
At the same function, CSIR CEO Dr Sibusiso Sibisi said: "We at the CSIR are unequivocally committed to the bene- ficiation of our natural resources. . . . What we are seeing is not just the CSIR, but the whole system – the national system of innovation – with industry, . . . [cooperating in] the birth of a new industry. This event today . . . marks a fundamental milestone, not just for the CSIR but also for the country."
The CSIR aims to produce titanium metal in powder form, and to do so at lower temperatures than the Kroll process and continuously, not in batches. "There are other people trying to do similar things – to make titanium powder continuously," reports CSIR Materials Science and Manufacturing unit research group leader Dr Dawie van Vuuren. "The main difference between our method and those of our competitors is that we use the molten salt that's formed as a by-product of the reaction making titanium as the medium in which the reaction takes place. Other people have tried it before, but they haven't succeeded. We think we can do it because the understanding of how the reaction happens in molten salt has advanced and we are capitalising on this."
The CSIR process, which has been patented, starts by reacting TiCl4 with a metal. Because of the intense competition in this field – it is a bit like a hunt for a metallurgical Holy Grail – Van Vuuren cannot identify the metal used. He did reveal, however, that it is an alkali metal. It reacts with the chlorine in the TiCl4 and the chloride salt of the metal is formed.
"We use this as the reaction medium," he explains. "Chloride salts are very soluble in water, so we leach them out. We then get the titanium [powder] and the salt solution. We concentrate the salt solution and crystallise the salt and then recycle the salt crystals to an electrolysis unit, where we recover the alkali metal and make chlorine. The chlorine is then reused to make TiCl4 and the alkali metal is then used to reduce [the TiCl4]. It's almost a closed loop! Some materials are, of course, lost in the process, but our aim is to minimise this loss." Using lower temperatures, the CSIR team believe that they can manage the morphology of the titanium powder they will produce – which is difficult to do, as the reaction processes are very fast – and ensure that the result is a high- quality product.
This process was developed using a laboratory test rig, although the laboratory output was done in batches. With the pilot plant, "we're now moving to truly continuous [production] – that's really the main issue". Continuous production will help reduce costs. However, titanium powder can react violently to oxygen and cause explosions, so care is needed in producing and handling it. If successful, the result could be a new, $3-billion to $5-billion a year industry for South Africa.
"For us, this project demonstrates our commitment to moving from simply digging things out of the ground and making basic things," affirms Sibisi. "We are doing what our mandate tells us to do – use technology to create industries. Here, we could create a whole new industry and not [just] new com- panies. Hundreds of millions of rands have gone into this over the years, since the launch of the advanced metals initiative some eight to ten years ago – investments by the DST (Department of Science and Technology), ourselves and [minerals beneficiation research agency] Mintek. We are always thinking about how we can stimulate industry: not just supporting existing industry but stimulating new industries."
Time and Money
But, first, the pilot plant has to run smoothly. "Operationalising the pilot plant, optimising it, will take about a year," reports CSIR Materials Science and Manufacturing executive director Dr Liesbeth Botha. "Then there will have to be feasibility studies – that's when the techno- economics really kick in. And then there will be the semicommercial plant and thereafter the commercial plant. Each of these phases will take two to three years." The semi- commercial and commercial plants will require an industrial partner.
Up to now, the titanium project has been funded by the DST. "[The DST] supports early- stage technological development and early-stage innovations. The most logical entity to take it to the next level is the IDC (Industrial Development Corporation), which reports to the Department of Economic Development," points out Hanekom. "Getting to the industrial scale – that would be IDC-funded develop- ment. But we might, before then, find a venture capital partner. Each stage [of the project] has to pass the [technoeconomic] test. This [current] stage is not only about the testing process, but also about making titanium powder available to possible customers for them to test. These are not proven or mature technologies."
"Once the decision to build the commercial plant is made, it would take about two years to construct it," elucidates Van Vuuren. "But, before that, there would have to be economic evaluations, site selection, environmental- impact assessments. And we would need customers. Part of our work is to provide product that can be qualified by prospective partners."
This is done by laying down successive layers of material, in the shape desired, which are then melted by computer-controlled robots using lasers. As each layer is added, the object builds up, the laser melting ensuring that it comes out as a single, solid entity. There is no need for any machining (although a little trimming may be required). Consequently, there is very little waste of material. It thus has the potential to massively cut the costs of manufacturing parts from expensive raw materials – like titanium. It also has the potential to significantly reduce production time and increase quality.
The potential combination of more affordable titanium powder and 3D printing has attracted strong interest from giant aerospace groups Airbus and Boeing. To cite just one example – 15% of Boeing's latest, and current flagship, airliner design, the 787 Dreamliner, is made from titanium. Both companies have memorandums in Understanding (MoUs) with the CSIR.
The collaboration agreement with Airbus was signed at the Africa Aerospace and Defence exhibition in September last year, while the MoU with Boeing was formalised in June this year. The MoU with Airbus is directed more at the development of additive manufacturing, while that with Boeing is focused more on the use of titanium powder in industrial manufacturing.
"With both Airbus and Boeing, we are engaging with them to help us develop appropriate manufacturing technologies for titanium parts that would be suitable for aerospace applications," explains Botha. "We're also collaborating with both of them to produce titanium powder suitable for additive manufacturing, because they both need the same quality titanium powder and the same quality titanium products. We are collaborating with them and they are not in competition. They both want titanium parts that are bigger and cheaper."
A key part of this collaboration is that both aerospace groups will help the CSIR qualify its titanium powder and titanium products. "They have slightly different specifications because they have different designs for their aircraft and components," she points out. "If we want to be in the mainstream aerospace supply chain, we need to meet these specifications. Only they can tell us their specifications – they're not in the public domain. The current big problem with additive manufacturing is ensuring a consistent quality of final product."
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