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Film Review: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
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Before The Last Jedi came out, I was shocked and surprised to see Disney announce they were handing Rian Johnson the keys to a brand new additional Star Wars trilogy after the conclusion of Episode IX.
After The Last Jedi has been released, I can see exactly why they've put so much faith in him. If J.J. Abrams most certainly did not understand Star Wars with his imperfect The Force Awakens, Rian Johnson has perfectly understood the mantra, mentality and nature of Star Wars.
The set pieces and battles are spectacular. Starting off right where The Force Awakens ended, the battle between the Republic and First Order rages on, with casualties aplenty. Supreme Leader Snoke, General Hux and Kylo Ren are on the war-path hunting down the Resistance. Rey is trying to persuade Luke to return to save everyone.
From deep hyperspace, to the decadent hedonism of Canto Blight and the sparse salt flats of Crait, no-one really is safe throughout and there are some absolutely shocking moments, choreographed brilliantly to ensure action and suspense.
There is a lot of thought in the film too, including a wider exploration into Star Wars lore and the legacy of the Jedi- something which die-hard fans will care about much more than more caual fans- but these moments of quieter contemplation and focus slot in neatly against the all-guns-blazing action. It's probably a 70-30 split in regards to action sequences against developmental periods of dialogue, but the pace of the film is retained throughout. In this aspect, The Last Jedi works as one giant chase sequence.
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Johnson's mastery of sound effects is demonstrated through several brief but effective cuts of silence. The cinematography is comfortingly familiar, the wipes, pans and wide shots pay homage to the original trilogy in a nostalgic, respectful way. The music has always been a strong point for the Star Wars films and The Last Jedi continues this rich tradition with a super score- pay particular attention during the Canto Blight sequence for a sneaky reworking of an absolute series classic.
The three plots- Rey and Luke, Poe and the Resistance and Finn vs. The First Order don't always totally interlink with perfection, but the cohesion between the three is strong enough for the film to work. The humour maintains a good tone throughout, although the shameless marketing materials that are the Porgs could easily be cut and nothing would be lost from the narrative. Rey and Luke certainly get top billing in regards to development, but Finn does become more prominent in the second half of the film, whilst Poe starts off central and wanes slightly- although this does allow for more well rounded and equal character development.
Johnson is helped by two especially brilliant performances. Mark Hamill is imperious as the aged, cynical Luke Skywalker, who has moved into legendary status and shows a prominent awareness for his mortal coil. The deadpan dark humour and sly comments blend perfectly with the emotive anguish that he has, holding himself responsible for the Rise of the First Order. We get a true sense of Luke's power as the film progresses and his stewardship over Rey (Daisy Ridley) is fantastic throughout.
Adam Driver equally steals the show as the conflicted Kylo Ren/Ben Solo, as he finds himself increasingly questioning his power and trying to seperate himself from his past and his mother, General Leia Organa- the formidable and regrettably late Carrie Fisher. If he could be accused as being a watered-down angsty poor imitation of Darth Vader in The Force Awakens, a new Ben Solo certainly emerges throughout The Last Jedi. He isn't a Darth Vader, but that is more than okay, the diversification is much more useful and avoids unecessary comparisons between the two.
Ridley's acting deserves plaudits too, she has improved immensely from her disjointed performance in the prequel. The evolution from arguable 'Mary-Sue' to fearless poster-girl of the revived trilogy is startling. Finn's (John Boyega) subplot is at times shoe-horned in, but Johnson has good intentions and tries to use it to effectively blur the lines between good and evil.
Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron is solid, if unspectacular and Kelly Marie Trann's Rose lurches between useful comic relief and irritating distraction. Domhnall Gleeson's General Hux also shows welcome improvement from the first film, becoming genuinely menacing and at times absolutely maniacal in his unquestionable service to Snoke and The First Order. BB-8 threatens to usurp R2-D2 as everyone's favourite droid, but at times his power is somewhat farcical.
Despite these minor gripes, Rian Johnson has created a sci-fi masterpiece with Star Wars: The Last Jedi, one that contemplates the boundaries of life and death, good and evil, the light and the dark in a way which no other Star Wars film has managed- or indeed will manage for that matter. Some doors close, other doors open and by the end, you are left in real suspense as to what will happen in the final film of the Revived Trilogy in a few years time. Here's hoping that J.J. Abrams was taking notes while he was executive-producing.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is out now, distributed by Walt Disney Studios.
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The FHA loan was created in 1934 and mandated to promote homeownership among individuals to whom lenders would not otherwise issue a mortgage approval.
Lenient credit score requirements are one way FHA is helping home buyers. Another is an optional zero-down add-on feature that further reduces buying barriers.
Most home buyers who use FHA come up with at least 3.5 percent down from their own funds.
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You may also get a downpayment gift from a government agency or public entity that provides homeownership assistance to first-time and low- or moderate-income buyers.
You may not get the gift from the seller, a real estate agent or broker, the home's builder, or an associated entity.
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How does the recommendations engine work?
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The recommendations engine is coded in Python and is packaged inside the Machine Learning Service.
The Totara recommendations engine recommends content from both Totara Engage and Totara Learn. Content includes resources, playlists, workspaces and courses.
The Totara recommendations engine uses the database to build a model. The model is then used to determine and present recommended content for the current user, all in real time.
Building the model is performed on a regular schedule and is called 'training'. Training is when your data is used to create a 'point-in-time' instance. We call this instance the model. The model is based on the data available at the time training takes place. This is important to note if you are adding content, as activity associated with the content will not be evident in the model until training occurs.
By default, training of the model is scheduled once every 24 hours. The schedule can be changed by an administrator if required. Our advice is to keep the default setting while you gain familiarity with the activity of your site and the recommendations process.
How are recommendations determined?
The recommendations engine provides two types of content recommendations:
User recommendations: Content recommended to the current user
Related content: Similar content to the specified content
Both of these recommendation types are based on one of the following:
The user's past interactions with the content. In this case, similar content to a given content item is based only on how the content is being interacted with.
The user's past interactions with the content, and metadata of the content and users.
Interactions refer to the types of user action with content items. Interactions are registered by the system when a user enrols in a course, or views, likes or comments on a resource, playlist or a workspace. The strength of the interaction is represented on a binary scale. User actions set the interaction value as shown:
A single view on a resource, playlist or workspace sets the interaction value to 0.
A subsequent view OR a single view with a like and/or comment sets the interaction value to 1. Subsequent activities do not change the interaction value after it has been set to 1.
When a user enrols in a self-enrollable course the interaction value is set to 1. Viewing a course is not recorded as interaction.
An interaction of a user with content that has a value 0 is also termed as interacting leisurely, while an interaction value of 1 is termed as interacting positively.
The recommendations model utilises one of three machine learning algorithms (or modes):
Matrix factorisation
Partial hybrid
Full hybrid (default mode in Totara 15 and above)
The features of the three modes are described in more detail below. The default mode for Totara 15 and above is full hybrid, but the mode can be changed at any time. The new mode will not be operational until training to build the new model is complete.
The fundamental logic used for all modes involves identifying content that the current user has not interacted with, but is likely to be interested in. This content is identified from other similar users' interactions with the specified content that has not been viewed by the current user.
The method used to identify similar users is different for each mode. Similarly, the data that is utilised by the engine to provide content recommendations is dependent on the mode. Each mode is described in greater detail below.
In this mode, the recommendation engine does not use content or user metadata. The recommendations engine relies solely on the interaction data of users with content. The logic of user recommendations can be summarised in two steps:
Identify similar users who, in general, share the same content interaction patterns as the current user.
Assign a recommendation score for each identified user to each available content item based on how much those were interacted with by the identified similar users.
After sorting content items by their recommendation scores, the current user is then recommended the top N content items (N is configurable by the Totara Site Administrator). Items that the user has already interacted with are not recommended.
Related content is provided using similarity scores. The similarity scores are calculated for each content item with every other content item based on the pattern of user interaction. An example will help illustrate this. In this example, content items x and y are interacted with by the same set of users. Content item z is interacted with by a different set of users. Therefore, x will have a high similarity score with y, but x will have a low similarity score with z.
All content items are then sorted by their similarity score with the current content item. The top N items are recommended to the user as similar items.
One of the disadvantages of this mode is that it is unable to recommend any content to unknown users, i.e. users who have not interacted with any content yet.
In partial hybrid mode, the machine learning engine utilises the metadata of both users and content. The table shows the metadata fields utilised for each (if they are populated).
User metadata fields Content metadata fields
Language Type (i.e. course, workspace, resource, playlist)
Country Topic (for playlists, resources)
Interests Tags (courses)
Aspiring position
Current competencies scale
Partial hybrid mode provides recommendations to known users (i.e. users who have interacted with content) in the same way as the matrix factorisation mode. Partial hybrid mode overcomes the disadvantage of dealing with unknown users (i.e. users who have not interacted with any content). Recommendations for unknown users are provided on the basis of metadata similarity with known users. Content interacted with by known users with metadata similar to an unknown user is used to surface recommendations for unknown users.
Related content is identified using a similarity score. This is a score indicating how similar two pieces of content are based on:
The interactions from users
The similarity of the content metadata
This is the default for Totara 15 and above. Full hybrid works best for a fresh install of the machine learning service.
Full hybrid mode is similar to partial hybrid mode. However, in full hybrid mode free text fields from the user profile (city and profile description) and content profile (course description, workspace description, playlist description, and resource content) are utilised. To accomplish this, the free text is converted to a numerical matrix. The additional data utilised in full hybrid mode provides a better method to determine the similarity between content and users.
Pros and cons of each mode
The matrix factorisation mode requires the least amount of computational overhead, and hence is fastest to train and provide recommendations. It is, however, unable to provide intelligible recommendations to unknown users (users who have not yet interacted with any content).
The full hybrid mode requires increased computational resources and, as a result, is relatively slower to train and provide recommendations. Since the metadata of users and content (including free text) is utilised in full hybrid mode, it provides good recommendations to unknown users. These recommendations are based solely on their metadata, which is then used to find similar known users.
The partial hybrid mode lies in the middle of the two other modes in terms of utilisation of computational resources. It uses all the metadata of users and content except free text metadata. As a result this mode is able to provide recommendations to unknown users while still being computationally efficient.
It is recommended that a new or small Totara site should be configured to run with full hybrid mode. It is only when the full hybrid algorithm is taking too long to train that the partial hybrid mode should be enabled instead. The matrix factorisation mode should only be used with very large Totara sites where a high volume of users, content and activity results in an extended training time (over one hour) for partial hybrid mode.
Recommendations engine process
The process used by the recommendations engine is outlined in the flowchart below.
Each block of this flowchart is described in detail below.
Data fetcher
The data fetcher block fetches data from Totara. The data fetched includes user-to-content interactions, user metadata, and content metadata of each tenant.
The user and content data files include metadata of the users and the content respectively, while the interactions data is a record of whether a user has interacted positively with the content or interacted leisurely with the content, and the time when the interaction happened.
The user metadata consists of:
ID in the database
City/town (free text)
Profile description (free text)
The content metadata consists of:
Content type (one of course, workspace, article, microlearning article, and playlist)
Text description (free text)
The interactions data consists of:
Interaction value (0 or 1)
Time of interaction
Data reader
This block reads the data files fetched from Totara into a Python data structure for each tenant at a time, and pipes it for further processing.
This is a decision block that is set when the service is initially started. You can read more about it in the README.md file of the Machine Learning Service. The user can choose one mode from the following:
Depending on the recommendation mode selected, one of the data processors transforms the data into the compatible form that can be consumed by the subsequent process. The output of each of the data processors is in sparse matrices form, so that the memory is used efficiently.
Collaborative data processor
This block ignores the user and content data and transforms the interactions data into a format that the subsequent modules can consume.
Partial data processor
This block uses the user and content metadata, as well as the interactions data, and transforms it for consumption in the subsequent process. This block ignores only the free text fields of user (city/town and profile description) and content (text description) data.
Full data processor
This utilises all of the data fields in the user, content, and interactions data, including the free text fields of the user and content data. The free text fields are passed through the Natural Language Processing pipeline where the text is cleaned and then converted to a matrix of TF-IDF features. The data sets are then transformed into a compatible form so that these can be consumed for subsequent processing.
Optimise hyper-parameters
Depending on the recommendation mode, hyper-parameters are optimised for best performance on a random unseen data set aside from the training. The hyper-parameters that get tuned are the lateral dimension and the number of epochs.
Collaborative hyper-parameters optimiser
These are tuned using the past interactions data of the users with the content if the selected mode is Matrix factorisation.
Content based hyper-parameters optimiser
If the Machine Learning Service is started in Partial hybrid or Full hybrid, the hyper-parameters are tuned using the past interactions of the users with the content and the provided metadata of the users and the content.
Train final model
Depending on the recommendation mode selected, either the Matrix factorisation (which is a subclass of the collaborative filtering approach) or the content-based filtering approach is used for building the machine learning model for recommendations. The class of the modelling algorithm used is implemented via the LightFM library, and is described in Maciej Kula, 2015.
Collaborative filtering model
If the service is running in the Matrix factorisation mode, the final model trained will be a collaborative filtering model using the tuned hyper-parameters and forwarded to the next stage.
Content-based filtering model
If the service is running in the Partial hybrid or the Full hybrid modes, the content-based filtering algorithm is used to build the model. The data input for this algorithm includes users' and items' metadata. The final model is built using the tuned set of these hyper-parameters from the previous stage. Note that this algorithm accepts data from either of the Partial data processor and Full data processor blocks, which means it can accept and use the processed Natural Language Processed data as well.
Cache final model in memory
The final trained model is passed to this block to be cached in memory, so that it is readily available for queries from Totara. Apart from caching the model in memory, it is also saved in the file system to be quickly loaded in case the service is restarted for any reason.
Totara communicator
This block forwards the requests from Totara to the model to recommend content to a user or find similar content to a given content item.
The returned similar content is sorted in descending order by the cosine similarity score of each content item with the given content.
The recommended content for each user is sorted in descending order by the prediction score. The prediction scores (or rankings) themselves are not interpretable; they are simply a means of ranking the items. The order of the prediction scores is important though - content with higher prediction scores is more likely to be of interest to the user than content with lower prediction scores.
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The Best Degrees to Get an NYU Transcript
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Graduating from an elite school like New York University (NYU) is an academic achievement worth getting. While you are at it, why not try and earn a stellar school record, like an NYU transcript, by taking the best degrees in the university? This will surely open a lot of opportunities that will guarantee you a more stable professional career.
You might be wondering how a school document makes your future better. Plus, does it have to be from NYU? Of course! When it comes to academic recognition, it is wiser to only earn from the leading schools. You will surely fare better career-wise when you have an NYU diploma and transcript.
Why New York University?
New York University is the most prominent private university in New York City. Plus, since its humble beginnings in 1831, it has been one of the leading research institutions in the country. In which NYU brags of extensive academic excellence with its multi-awarded faculty and facilities.
NYU focuses on innovation, professional practices, and global vision for their colleges. Hence, training in one of their academic programs will undoubtedly prepare you to become the best version of yourself. The skills you learn from school will be more than enough for whatever you might face in your career.
This renowned academic institution in the heart of New York offers more than 200 fields of study! Aside from that, they have more than 25 satellite campuses worldwide, like in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai. Meaning, getting an NYU degree is relatively accessible and convenient.
However, the most important thing to know is whether New York University has accreditation to grant their degrees. Good news for you, because the Middle States Commission on Higher Education regionally recognizes NYU as an institution. Hence, you are sure to receive a learning experience that met the right standards for quality education.
Top 5 degrees for an NYU Transcript
Looking for the right career path is already tricky. Not to mention, it is one of the toughest decisions people make in their lifetimes. What more if you have to choose from over a hundred degrees? That would be such a headache!
Having more than a hundred degrees to choose from can be overwhelming. However, do not stress yourself. Without a doubt, every NYU degree will warrant you a fulfilling career. Yet, it is still essential to know which programs stand out more from the rest, especially if you want to have an impressive NYU transcript.
Hence, below are the best degrees from New York University:
Liberal arts and humanities
New York University is mostly known for their degrees in the field of liberal arts and humanities. Many of their graduates are from Tisch, a school that offers the best training ground, especially for Cinematography and Video Production.
Not to mention, its faculty consists of renowned professional artists and scholars. These mentors emphasize the importance of hands-on training using the best facilities within the university.
That said, enrolling in an NYU degree from their liberal arts and humanities programs will surely give you outstanding school records. This is because you receive training only from the most eligible mentors.
The second most popular degree offering from NYU is from its business school, Stern. Many business graduates from Stern majored in Economics. In which, over 500 students are graduating from this academic discipline.
NYU's business school is the best in the country. Not to mention it is the leading institution when it comes to innovative business education. In which their faculty is the second-best in the world in terms of research productivity.
Enrolling in an economics program from New York University means that award-winning mentors will train you. These people will surely instill you the right value and strict coaching needed to produce an exceptional NYU transcript.
Aside from economics, Stern also offers courses in the field of business. Since this program falls under the same school that produces top-notch alumni, you will surely experience training from the same excellent faculty and mentors. Thus, also yielding better school records.
New York University is not only known for their art and business degrees. It also has a remarkable faculty focused on providing the best nursing degree in the country. In which the college prides itself on having 573 graduates. Not to mention, most of them have an 88% chance of getting a job.
With an excellent graduation rate and job placement, you should not worry about earning a good transcript. Their graduates surely received the right training to be able to possess such achievements. Hence, you can also get a remarkable NYU transcript that will surely land you a good job.
Last but not least, NYU's school of psychology also contributes to the institution's high number of quality graduates. In which there are more than 400 graduates under this specific field of study.
It is among the most popular degree offerings from New York University. Like the other programs on the list, NYU's psychology department has an award-winning set of faculty members. Therefore, you will surely experience only quality training facilities and be mentored exclusively by inspiring professors.
These NYU degrees will not only grant you a notable NYU transcript. It will also help you have a career in leading industries. In which arts, business, nursing, and psychology, offer employment opportunities with good salary rates.
How to get an NYU Transcript
Now you know the best NYU degrees, you might be thinking about applying for admission and earning an NYU diploma and transcript. The most obvious means is to enroll in any of their campuses or even through their website.
However, do note that the university is quite strict when it comes to its admission policy. Meaning, it can be hard for you to enroll and achieve your dream of becoming an alumnus of this prestigious academic institution.
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Leslie Dunning: Golf is a game for everyone
Leslie Dunning (Golf Canada)
If ever there was a right person at the right time, it must be Leslie Dunning.
Dunning, Golf Canada's new president, couldn't have constructed a more appropriate resume for the position if she had started with it in mind all her life.
Golf credentials? Check.
She was introduced to the game by a forward-thinking teacher at her high school in Mississauga, Ont., who wanted to provide her students with skills they could use throughout life. Unlike team sports, golf could be enjoyed as an individual.
"That gave me confidence," she recalled during a conversation following her ascendance to the presidency in February. "I don't think I would have ever stepped on a golf course if I hadn't had that early exposure to the game."
Based on her experience, Dunning understandably is a strong proponent of Golf Canada's Future Links and Golf in Schools program. "I would like to see a [Golf in Schools] kit in every school in the country and that every golf course is connected to at least one school."
After moving to Calgary with her husband Neill in 1991, she became involved in the junior program at Earl Grey Golf Club where they are members.
Appropriate related background? Check.
Dunning holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from Queen's University. She is a chartered professional accountant and certified management accountant. She was selected to the Governor-General's Canadian Leadership Conference, was Canada's representative on the World Health Organization's study to the Navaho Reserve, and was named an honoured alumna by the University of Waterloo.
Volunteerism? Check.
Dunning first volunteered with the Canadian Red Cross as a high-school student. That continued as she moved on to the University of Waterloo. After graduation, she joined the international humanitarian organization full-time, serving more than 36 years in various senior positions. When she retired in 2014, she was Director General, Violence and Abuse Prevention, for Canada.
Her involvement at Earl Grey led to positions on the club captain's committee and subsequently various roles as a volunteer with Alberta Golf, including serving as president in 2007 and 2008. It was during 2008 that she was asked to assist in Golf Canada's governance reform efforts. The following year, she was elected to Golf Canada's Board of Directors as the first Provincial Council Chair. Since then, she has served on and chaired many of the national association's committees.
Since achieving her national Rules of Golf certification, she has officiated at numerous local, provincial and national events.
Understanding of golf's challenges? Check.
While with the Canadian Red Cross, Dunning championed significant initiatives such as Indigenous engagement and cross-cultural training. That experience stood her in good stead as she was selected to lead a Golf Canada working group to develop the association's new Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Policy.
"There is tremendous diversity among golfers and there are numerous diverse groups that have organized themselves to play golf," she said in her speech to the Golf Canada annual general meeting in Calgary. "We want to engage with these groups, learn what they are doing, how we might support them and what we might do together. As we identify these groups, we will reach out to build relationships with them, helping us to understand their needs and interests. It is our aim to create greater relevancy to more golfers and ensure welcoming environments for all."
This outreach is not just to golfers, prospective Golf Canada members who want to play the game, Dunning said in our interview, but to welcome those who would like to get involved as volunteers, officials, on provincial and national committees and Boards, etc.
"Two of our Board's main objectives are to make sure that Golf Canada is relevant and sustainable. Inclusion will help to ensure that programs and services are relevant to all golfers and financial health will help to ensure sustainability for the future. We understand that our focus on priorities such as diversity and inclusion isn't just like flicking a light switch. It's a real cultural shift. And we are committed to that purpose."
When we spoke, Dunning was in Florida getting ready to head to a meeting. When asked if that meeting was on the first tee at a nearby golf course, she chuckled. "No, it's not."
Actually, she was heading out to tour a golf development centre and then attending the annual meeting of the United States Golf Association.
"You're the president for only one year so I am trying to make sure that every day I'm doing something to grow the game of golf in Canada. That's my mantra."
Dedicated? Driven? Absolutely.


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Excluded children more likely to develop mental health conditions
Cath Murray
Sun 17th Feb 2019, 5.00
Children who are excluded are more likely to develop a mental health condition than their peers who stay in mainstream, a leading researcher told the Mental Health in Education conference on Wednesday.
"It won't surprise anyone that children with mental health conditions, particularly the more disruptive ones – ADHD and conduct disorder – are more likely to be excluded," said Tamsin Ford (pictured).
"But if you remove those children and start with the children without a mental health condition, those who were excluded in 2004 were more likely to have a mental health condition in 2007."
The decision to move a pupil to alternative provision should be made for the good of the child and not the school, said Ford, professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Exeter Medical School.
"Schools have to function, and managing behaviour in school is really hard, but maybe moves to alternative provision should be about meeting children's needs and not because they've had ADHD and they're being put in a situation they cannot cope with and not being provided with a sufficient remediation period."
Ford was referring to official exclusions, but her words echo the definition of off-rolling used in the new draft Ofsted framework: "the practice of removing a learner from the provider's roll without a formal, permanent exclusion or by encouraging a parent to remove their child, when the removal is primarily in the interests of the provider rather than in the best interests of the learner".
Moves to alternative provision should be about meeting children's needs
The research looked at 10,000 pupils aged 5-15 over two periods of three years (1999-2002 and 2004-07) and used in-depth multi-informant surveys and interviews.
It also found that children with a mental health disorder were more likely to play truant, particularly those with ADHD, and not all of them received effective treatment, Ford said.
"ADHD responds to various drugs, to treatment, and that costs a lot less than alternative provision, yet only about a third of them are getting into clinics – and clinics have long waiting lists."
A third survey was done in 2017, and the follow-up research at the three-year mark was originally commissioned to run in 2020, but government funding has stalled. "We have lots of people saying yes, we need to do this, and nobody coming forward with the funding.
"There is some academic work suggesting the outcomes for children and mental health are worse now, and if we had three samples over two decades that were followed up with diagnosis it's almost a complete dataset and we could actually unpick that."
Ford was speaking at the Royal Foundation conference at Mercers' Hall, London, attended by the Duchess of Cambridge.
Anne Brown
Good article, but I find the idea that pupils develop mental health conditions after being excluded very strange. They may be diagnosed afterwards, but I'd suggest that the conditions were always there and contributed towards their exclusion.
Glen Thomas
The report is good, but the title in misleading. The paper referred to (but not identified – all reports on research should link to it) is called "Are children with unrecognised psychiatric disorders being excluded from school?". The title implies that exclusion causes the disorders.
The paper can be found here:
https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10871/34618


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Permeabilitet (κ, eller k) anvendes inden for naturvidenskaben, særligt indenfor hydrogeologien og reservoirgeologien, som et mål for et materiales (porøst medium) evne til at transportere et fluid (vand, gas, olie).

Permeabilitet for et porøst medie er:

hvor
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 er en ubenævnt konstant som er relateret til konfigurationen af strømningsveje
 er den gennemsnitlige eller effektive porediameter [L]

Permeabilitet måles, enten direkte (ved hjælp af Darcys lov) eller ved empirisk estimering.

Normalt er permeabiliten i grundlæggende SI-enheder i meter². I farmakokinetikken er permeabiliteten nogle gange opgivet som centimeter².

Indenfor hydrogeologien anvendes almindeligvis hydraulisk konduktivitet kf.

Indenfor reservoirgeologien måles permeabiliteten typisk i darcy (D), eller mere almindeligt millidarcy (mD) (1 darcy 10−12m²).

Litteratur
 Bear, Jacob, 1972. Dynamics of Fluids in Porous Media, Dover. —

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At home, when you turn on the switch you expect the lights to go on. When you turn on the shower you expect hot water. We do not often get surprised because our electricity and gas utility has emergency responder crews to keep things running.
At utility giant PG&E, 190 electric trucks are now used to keep things running. If a neighborhood has a power outage, a troubled truck rolls in. A technician is lifted high in the air to look at a transformer on a pole. Auxiliaries can be run for hours powered by lithium batteries.
With traditional diesel trucks, the engine runs for hours acting as a generator to keep all these auxiliaries operating. Neighbors called to complain about the noise as vehicles can idle for up to 8 hours. If the job takes longer, legal noise restrictions stop work for the day, which was frustration if a job was one hour from completion.
But with electric trucks, there are no noise restrictions. These plug-in trucks can be used twice as many hours per day. By switching from diesel to electric, PG&E pays for the electric trucks in 2.5 years according to Dave Meisel, Director Transportation for Services for PG&E.
PG&E services 5.2 million customers that span 70,000 square miles; 13,000 vehicles are required to manage the vast territory. In 2011, PG&E bought over 10 million gallons of fuel as these fleet vehicles traveled 114,000,000 miles. The utility has 156 different types of vehicles to meet its wide-ranging needs. Different vehicles used different fuels including diesel, gasoline, natural gas, hydrogen, and electricity.
PG&E is expanding its fleet of electric vehicles for several reasons: fuel savings, the future potential of the EV's, and exportable power, and vehicle maintenance savings. Instead of depending on petroleum fuel from unstable parts of the world, American utilities are increasingly making their own fuel for their own fleets. Best of all, some applications have a fast return on investment.
There are downsides for a fleet manager when buying electric vehicles: higher upfront capital expenditure, financing, charging infrastructure, range and operational challenges. For vehicles where the daily range and use is unpredictable, plug-in hybrids are prioritized over all of electric vehicles.
Some of these electric trucks have up to 100 kW of electric batteries. The trucks have exportable power that can be used to run external equipment and power tools. This power can even be put onto the grid to get a neighborhood up and running faster, or during the planned replacement of a transformer.
Electric trucks already saving utilities millions in fuel, better labor utilization, and improved network reliability. In the future, these trucks will make the utilities added millions during peak hours by putting electricity on the grid rather than firing up dirty and expensive peak or plants.
Over 20 utilities and wholesalers, including SCE, Duke Energy and PJM, have already experimented with vehicle to grid (V2G). As utility fleets grow, more reserve vehicles will be part during peak hours making V2G a reality.
In the next decade V2G will expand from utility fleets to a growing part of our nations 12 million fleet vehicles. Toyota and Nissan are already providing passenger cars with vehicle to home (V2H) for emergency situations. If automakers utilities, and regulators with their warranty requirements all work together, then V2G can be widely available in the next decade.
PG&E already has thousands of customers with electric cars. For example, my wife and I can drive the Nissan leaf and charge it on PG&E after 10 PM. We would love to charge at night at a low rate and sell electricity to PG&E at a higher rate during peak hours. 10 years from now, there may be millions of American drivers with a similar preference.
When we have millions of electric vehicles, utilities will better match electric generation with demand. Vehicles will charge off-peak when the most efficient plants can continue running and win-win power is most available. Electricity can be exported from vehicles and even recycled lithium batteries during peak hours.
Research reports and PG&E's electric fleet and other exciting electric fleet initiatives are freely available from the Electric Vehicle Coalition's FleetAnswers.


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Home » Aviation » Update: SECNAV Mabus Confirms V-22 Carrier Delivery Memo
Update: SECNAV Mabus Confirms V-22 Carrier Delivery Memo
By: Sam LaGrone
January 15, 2015 12:30 PM • Updated: January 15, 2015 2:45 PM
An MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft USS George Washington (CVN-73). US Navy Photo
The following post has been updated to include additional comments from Sean Stackley, assistant secretary of the Navy for Research, Development & Acquisition (RDA).
CRYSTAL CITY, VA. – The Secretary of the Navy confirmed the existence of an agreement between the Navy and Marine Corps to utilize the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor as the Navy's replacement for the Northrop Grumman C-2A Greyhound as the utility aircraft for the Navy's carrier.
"I know that the memorandum has become public before the budget, but I simply have to wait until the budget drops on the V-22," Mabus said during the Surface Navy Association 2015 symposium.
"One of thing I will say on the possible use of the V-22 is those are great examples of the Navy and Marine Corps team working together. It's also a great example of using a proven manufacturing process, a proven asset to get [capability out] by using a proven system."
Earlier this week, a report in Breaking Defense gave details of the Jan. 5 memorandum of understanding (MOU) — signed by Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Jonathan Greenert, Marine Commandant Gen. Joseph Dunford and Mabus — will have the Navy buy four V-22s starting in Fiscal Year 2018 to 2020.
"The Navy is responsible for modifying these V-22s into an HV-22 configuration for the [carrier onboard delivery] (COD) mission," reads the document.
"The parties agree that subsequent documents will provide details on the concept of operations and milestones. A memorandum of agreement will detail [reimbursable] Marine Corps support for the Navy's HV-22 transition, which includes training and potential deployment of Marine MV-22 aircraft and personnel to support COD requirements."
In response to the report, Navy officials told USNI News, "the Navy continues to consider acquisition strategies and options to recapitalize the carrier onboard delivery, or COD, capability by 2026."
The final decision will be included in the Fiscal Year 2016 Department of the Navy budget submission, due to Congress in early February.
The current Greyhound fleet is more than 30 and the requirement is closer to 44, Sean Stackley, assistant secretary of the Navy for Research, Development & Acquisition (RDA), told reporters on Thursday.
The Department of the Navy conducted an analysis of alternatives (AoA) for the new COD looking at, "extending the service life of the current COD aircraft, building new aircraft or using the MV-22 in the role of the COD aircraft," Stackley said.
"There were pros and cons with each."
Though Stackley would not confirm the V-22 as the future COD, he did say its selection would mean a significant change in the concept of operations (CONOPS) for the aircraft.
"When you look at the MV-22 as the COD, it's much more than a COD aircraft and then you have to take a look at that and ask yourself, 'given all the capability of the MV-22, all that other capability that you get, all the different ways you can employ that aircraft just as the COD, what that would mean in terms of the air wing, the carrier, the other ships in the carrier battle group, you have to spend a lot of time look at that in terms of CONOPS and is that a good fit or not," he said.
"[But] I didn't say that's what we're doing."
The Greyhound airframe has been in use by the service since the 1960s and is among the oldest aircraft in use by the Navy.
In addition to Bell-Boeing, Northrop had pitched an upgraded C2 platform while Lockheed Martin offered the unusual idea of rebuilding the service's old S-3 Viking aircraft as a COD and a refueling tanker branded as a C-3.
With the likely selection of the V-22 for the COD role, the largest outstanding question is how the aircraft will transport the engine F-135 engine for the F-35 Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
"The high power module in the F-135 is a beast," Vice Adm. David Buss, commander Naval Air Forces, said in early 2014.
Stackley said the Navy was still working on the engine transportation problem with the MV-22.
"We're using mockups to demonstrate whether or not we can or can't {transport the engine]. We're going through form, fit and function, mockups to see how it would integrate with an MV-22," he said.
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Since FY2011, the legislature has had to fill shortfalls totaling nearly $2 billion – money that could not be invested in other state priorities.