Development of a Centralized Database System for Embracing Horses and the Urban Farm

Embracing Horses and The Urban Farm at Stapleton, is a nonprofit organization whose mission statement is to connect children from inner city neighborhoods to their natural environment, instilling a sense of respect, appreciation, and, ultimately responsibility for the plants and animals which share that space and a working knowledge of responsible stewardship of those plants and animals. To achieve this mission a paper based and generic database system have been utilized to record information pertaining to volunteers, financial donors, program offerings, and mailing distributions. These current systems no longer meet the needs of the organization, as the number of children involved has grown considerably over the past five years. This project proposes to research, analyze, design, and implement a centralized database system. This system will provide productivity tools, such as queries and reports for users to efficiently and effectively access necessary information about volunteers, financial donors, program offerings, and mailing distributions. Since the organization\u27s primary form of financial assistance comes from government and private grant programs, these tools will also be utilized to provide statistical data in multiple reporting formats to accommodate various grant programs

Unaccommodated man: the pastoral care of the mentally handicapped

This thesis attempts to look at the issue of pastoral care of the mentally handicapped from various angles raising question like the following: “Is it necessary to care pastorally for mentally handicapped people?” ”Can they be regarded as persons?” “If so, what are their special needs and how can we meet them?” “Is it possible for them to develop their potential?” “Are they educable so that they can be helped to do this?” “What methods can best be used to help them achieve this potential?” “How will an understanding of such methods affect the pastoral care of such people?” “Have they any contribution to make to the church and their community?”.The method used to raise these questions and to arrive at some of the answers is one of personal reflection upon actual experience coupled with current thinking on the issues involved in philosophy, psychology, education, theology and spirituality. From this approach it is hoped to demonstrate that he answer to the questions above can be positive, and that a key factor in developing the potential of the mentally handicapped, as for anyone, is the relationship which an individual has with other people and with God. If we do justice to what we discover by examination we will see that the potential contribution of the mentally handicapped to the church is vitally important at three levels, namely, theological, spiritual and practical (i.e. in terms of actual workship). We will see that a church which has no place for such people is deficient and unbalanced. We will also discover that the community is similarly deficient if it cannot provide the opportunities for these people to develop their potential and if it cannot accept the vital contribution they have to offer

Components of lay-mobilizating cultures and systems

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Feline Infectious Peritonitis

Feline infectious peritonitis was diagnosed in a two-year-old Ragdoll cat at Bay Cities Pet Hospital, Torrance, California in August of 1974. The article describes the specific case and discusses the current knowledge of the disease

A GIT interpretration of the Harder-Narasimhan filtration

An unstable torsion free sheaf on a smooth projective variety gives a GIT unstable point in certain Quot scheme. To a GIT unstable point, Kempf associates a "maximally destabilizing" 1-parameter subgroup, and this induces a filtration of the torsion free sheaf. We show that this filtration coincides with the Harder-Narasimhan filtration.Comment: 19 pages; Comments of the referees and references added. The construction for holomorphic pairs (Sections 6 and 7 from previous version) will appear in a further publication. To appear in Rev. Mat Complutens

Production of Highly Polarized Positrons Using Polarized Electrons at MeV Energies

The Polarized Electrons for Polarized Positrons experiment at the injector of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility has demonstrated for the first time the efficient transfer of polarization from electrons to positrons produced by the polarized bremsstrahlung radiation induced by a polarized electron beam in a high-Z target. Positron polarization up to 82% have been measured for an initial electron beam momentum of 8.19 MeV/c, limited only by the electron beam polarization. This technique extends polarized positron capabilities from GeV to MeV electron beams, and opens access to polarized positron beam physics to a wide community

Portable propellant cutting assembly, and method of cutting propellant with assembly

A propellant cutting assembly and method of using the assembly to cut samples of solid propellant in a repeatable and consistent manner is disclosed. The cutting assembly utilizes two parallel extension beams which are shorter than the diameter of a central bore of an annular solid propellant grain and can be loaded into the central bore. The assembly is equipped with retaining heads at its respective ends and an adjustment mechanism to position and wedge the assembly within the central bore. One end of the assembly is equipped with a cutting blade apparatus which can be extended beyond the end of the extension beams to cut into the solid propellant