One Fine Day

A military chaplain portrays her journey from combat service to invisibility. Articles, stories, and other compositions in this archive were written by participants in the Mighty Pen Project. The program, developed by author David L. Robbins, and in partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Virginia, offers veterans and their family members a customized twelve-week writing class, free of charge. The program encourages, supports, and assists participants in sharing their stories and experiences of military experience so both writer and audience may benefit

One Fine Day in the Lumber Yard

Take a trip to the lumber yard and look for wood defects, instructed Dr. McNabb. The class looked less than thrilled, and I myself was no exception. Little did I know that I would soon be conducted on a guided tour highlighting the wood defects at Schoeneman\u27s Lumber Yard

Optimizing the fine lock performance of the Hubble Space Telescope fine guidance sensors

This paper summarizes the on-orbit performance to date of the three Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS's) in Fine Lock mode, with respect to acquisition success rate, ability to maintain lock, and star brightness range. The process of optimizing Fine Lock performance, including the reasoning underlying the adjustment of uplink parameters, and the effects of optimization are described. The Fine Lock optimization process has combined theoretical and experimental approaches. Computer models of the FGS have improved understanding of the effects of uplink parameters and fine error averaging on the ability of the FGS to acquire stars and maintain lock. Empirical data have determined the variation of the interferometric error characteristics (so-called 's-curves') between FGS's and over each FGS field of view, identified binary stars, and quantified the systematic error in Coarse Track (the mode preceding Fine Lock). On the basis of these empirical data, the values of the uplink parameters can be selected more precisely. Since launch, optimization efforts have improved FGS Fine Lock performance, particularly acquisition, which now enjoys a nearly 100 percent success rate. More recent work has been directed towards improving FGS tolerance of two conditions that exceed its original design requirements. First, large amplitude spacecraft jitter is induced by solar panel vibrations following day/night transitions. This jitter is generally much greater than the FGS's were designed to track, and while the tracking ability of the FGS's has been shown to exceed design requirements, losses of Fine Lock after day/night transitions are frequent. Computer simulations have demonstrated a potential improvement in Fine Lock tracking of vehicle jitter near terminator crossings. Second, telescope spherical aberration degrades the interferometric error signal in Fine Lock, but use of the FGS two-thirds aperture stop restores the transfer function with a corresponding loss of throughput. This loss requires the minimum brightness of acquired stars to be about one magnitude brighter than originally planned

Spatial characteristics of observed precipitation fields: A catalog of summer storms in Arizona, Volume 2

The parameters of the conceptual model are evaluated from the analysis of eight years of summer rainstorm data from the dense raingage network in the Walnut Gulch catchment near Tucson, Arizona. The occurrence of measurable rain at any one of the 93 gages during a noon to noon day defined a storm. The total rainfall at each of the gages during a storm day constituted the data set for a single storm. The data are interpolated onto a fine grid and analyzed to obtain: an isohyetal plot at 2 mm intervals, the first three moments of point storm depth, the spatial correlation function, the spatial variance function, and the spatial distribution of the total storm depth. The description of the data analysis and the computer programs necessary to read the associated data tapes are presented

Elemental composition of atmospheric particulate matter during 2006 wet season at a rural background site in Tanzania

The elemental composition of PM10 was studied during 2006 wet season in a rural background site of Morogoro, Tanzania. A Gent PM10 stacked filter unit sampler with coarse and fine Nuclepore polycarbonate filters, providing fine (0.4 μm) and coarse (8 μm) size fractions, was deployed. A total of 29 collections were analysed for the PM mass by weighing. A further analysis was performed for 25 elements by particle-induced x-ray emission spectrometry. The results show  that the concentrations of the heavy metals were lower than those for the elements of crustal origin. The data from PIXE analysis and enrichment factor  (E.F.) calculation, using Fe as a reference of crustal material, showed that for the coarse size fraction, most elements have crustal EFs that are very close to one, while enriched elements (E.F. > 10) like S, Cl, Zn, As, Br, Pb and BC, predominated in fine (PM2) size fraction (an anthropogenic origin can be suggested for the later). Potassium a well-known indicator for biomass burning was mostly associated with the fine particles (as around 56% of the PM10 K was in the PM2 size fraction). This suggests that biomass burning was important in Morogoro. Five-day isentropic backward trajectories as determined by the air trajectory HYSPLIT model were computed for Morogoro and the allocated sector of oceanic origin over continental, mainly through Mozambique and Tanzania) was the most common. However, other sectors such as Oceanic, over Madagascar or continental origins were observed. @JASEMJ. Appl. Sci. Environ. Manage. December, 2010, Vol. 14 (4) 135 – 13

Aplikasi Finger Painting Terhadap Perkembangan Motorik Halus Pada An. M Usia Prasekolah Di Desa Karang Tengah Kecamatan Tanggeung Kabupaten Cianjur

Preschoolers are children aged 3 to 5 years. The problem of developmental disorders from year to year is still not resolved, especially in Indonesia, this incident is evidenced by as many as 16% of children under the age of five experiencing neurological and brain development disorders ranging from mild to severe. One of the actions that play a role in handling fine motor disorders in children is finger painting therapy. The purpose of this study was to apply finger painting to the fine motor development of An. M preschool age. This research design uses a case study method. The participant taken is one child who has delayed fine motor development in Karang Tengah Village. The data obtained from day 1-2 children still can't draw well, and on day 3 children start to be able to draw well. The results showed that there was an increase in the development of children's fine motor skills after being given the finger painting application

Kajian Proses Produksi Asphalt Concrete Binder Course Menggunakan Asphalt Mixing Plant (AMP) Pada PT. Alhas Jaya Group di Aceh Utara

Asphalt Mixing Plant (AMP) is used to produce asphalt mixtures. Type of asphalt used in this research is the Asphalt Concrete Binder Course (AC – BC). This study aims to determine the stages of the asphalt manufacturing process and material needed using the Asphalt Mixing Plant (AMP) in one day of production. The method used in this research is the interview method and the direct observation method to the location of the Asphalt Mixing Plant PT. Alhas Jaya Group. There are three stages to produce the Asphalt Concrete Binder Course (AC – BC). The first stage includes hard asphalt, heating, hot asphalt preparation, and weighing. The second stage begins with stockpiling aggregates, transporting aggregates into cold bin, drying/heating, filtering aggregates, and weighing. The third stage is the preparation of additional materials (if needed) and weighing. Producing asphalt concrete binder course for one day of production consist of 15-20 mm coarse aggregate of 90 tons/day or 70 m3/day, 0-5 mm fine aggregate of 72 tons/day or 49 m3/day, fine sand of 88 .2 tonnes/day or 60 m3/day, rock ash of 90 tonnes or 62 m3/day and asphalt of 19.8 tonnes/day or 19 m3/day