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2021 Morgan Horse Judging School Handbook
2021 Morgan Horse Judging School Handbook Provided by: American Morgan Horse Association, Inc. | 4037 Iron Works Parkway, Suite 130, Lexington, KY 40511-8508 T (802) 985-4944 | F (859) 287-3555 | [email protected] | www.morganhorse.com Revised 3/2021 American Morgan Horse Association Judging School Handbook Table of Contents Organizations/Recommended Reading ............................................................................................................................................................3 Purposes and Objectives of Morgan Judging Seminar .................................................................................................................................. 4 Ethics ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Ethics as They Relate to Judges, an Exhibitor’s View ....................................................................................................................................... 7 Ethics for Horse Show Judges ........................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Suggested Code of Ethics for Judges .............................................................................................................................................................. 13 USEF Guidelines for Licensed Officials ....................................................................................................................................................... -
Ask the Judge Questions About Dressage with Amy Mcelroy
Ask the Judge Questions about Dressage With Amy McElroy Amy McElroy is a USEF R judge, qualified to officiate at any USEF recognized show at all national dressage levels. She rides, trains and teaches at Fairlane Farm in Aiken and judges about a dozen dressage shows and events each year. In her popular Ask the Judge column, she answers readers’ questions about dressage. Dear Amy, in recent years. They come in many styles, are comfortable, cool and lightweight. Some even come with “bling.” I am getting ready to start this year’s show season at the Fourth There are also a few other recent changes in the rules for proper Level. I just got a gorgeous top hat for Christmas. My trainer has attire. The rules state that in Fourth Level and below “A short riding always told me that when I can come down the centerline in the coat of conservative color . is mandatory.” Proper conservative canter, it would be time for me to wear my top hat. When my colors are: black, grey, navy or brown. A newer rule says that coats husband learned that I would be showing Fourth level, he surprised may have contrast coloring, and/or piping. For example a black coat me with this gift. with light pink collars would be acceptable, or a grey coat with black So, now that I am ready and I have the hat, I have heard that I can collars. A cutaway coat is also permitted – this is like a modified no longer wear it in Fourth level. -
Does the Family Cap Influence Birthrates? Two New Studies Say 'No'
Issues & Implications Cash Increase No ‘Incentive’ The New Jersey and the Arkansas Does the Family Cap studies raise serious questions about the validity of family cap propo- Influence Birthrates? nents’ primary rationale for the policy—the notion that an increase Two New Studies Say ‘No’ in monthly benefits upon the birth of a new baby acts as an incentive By Patricia Donovan for welfare recipients to have more children. When the Arkansas Contrary to early claims that a cap on when the researchers controlled for researchers asked a subsample of benefits would reduce birthrates the age and race of the nearly 8,500 the women studied whether they among welfare recipients, recent stud- women studied. would have another child in order to ies in New Jersey and Arkansas con- receive higher benefits, fully 100% of clude that denying an increase in The researchers also examined state those subject to the cap and more cash assistance to women who have Medicaid data to assess whether the than 95% of those in the control another child while on welfare has family cap had any impact on abor- group said they would not. Many did had no effect on births in these states. tion rates among women on welfare. not know how much more money Some antiabortion advocates have they would receive if they had In response to the findings, New feared that a cap could result in more another child. Jersey officials now insist that the abortions among welfare recipients, family cap was never intended to but the analysis indicates otherwise. “It appears that women do not make reduce births, but simply to encour- Like birthrates, abortion rates in New decisions about the birth of their age welfare recipients to make Jersey declined both among women children based on the addition of responsible decisions about child- subject to the cap and among the $42 per month in…benefits,” the bearing. -
Richard C. Brower, Boston University with Many Slides from Kate Clark, NVIDIA
Past and Future of QCD on GPUs Richard C. Brower, Boston University with many slides from Kate Clark, NVIDIA High Performance Computing in High Energy Physics CCNU Wahan China, Sept 19, 2018 Optimize the Intersection Application: QCD Algorithms: Architecture: AMG GPU Question to address • How do we put Quantum Field on the computer? • How to Maximize Flops/$, bandwidth/$ at Min Energy? • How to implement fastest algorithms: Dirac Sovlers, Sympletic Integrators, etc ? Standard Lattice QCD Formulation i d3xdt[ F 2 + (@ iA + m) ] Path Integral = 2A(x) (x) e− g2 µ⌫ µ µ − µ D Z R 1.Complex time for probability it x ! 4 iaAµ 2. Lattice Finite Differences (@µ iAµ) (x) ( x+ˆµ e x)/a − ! − d d e xDxy(A) y Det[D] 3. Fermionic integral − ! Z Det[D] dφdφ e φx[1/D]xyφy 4.Bosonic (pseudo- Fermions) ! − Z ij 1 γµ Lattice Dirac (x) − U ab(x) (x +ˆµ) ia 2 µ jb Color Dimension: a = 1,2,3 μ=1,2,…,d Spin i = 1,2,3,4 x x+ ➔ µ axis 2 x SU(3) Gauge Links ab ab iAµ (x) Uµ (x)=e x1 axis ➔ Quarks Propagation on Hypercubic Lattice* • Dominate Linear Algebra : Matrix solver for Dirac operator. • Gauge Evolution: In the semi-implicit quark Hamiltonian evolution in Monte vacuum Carlo time. u,d,s, proto u, • Analysis: proto d * Others: SUSY(Catteral et al), Random Lattices(Christ et al), Smiplicial Sphere (Brower et al) Byte/flop in Dirac Solver is main bottleneck • Bandwidth to memory rather than raw floating point throughput. • Wilson Dirac/DW operator (single prec) : 1440 bytes per 1320 flops. -
American Leadership in Quantum Technology Joint Hearing
AMERICAN LEADERSHIP IN QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY JOINT HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY & SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION OCTOBER 24, 2017 Serial No. 115–32 Printed for the use of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology ( Available via the World Wide Web: http://science.house.gov U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 27–671PDF WASHINGTON : 2018 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY HON. LAMAR S. SMITH, Texas, Chair FRANK D. LUCAS, Oklahoma EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON, Texas DANA ROHRABACHER, California ZOE LOFGREN, California MO BROOKS, Alabama DANIEL LIPINSKI, Illinois RANDY HULTGREN, Illinois SUZANNE BONAMICI, Oregon BILL POSEY, Florida ALAN GRAYSON, Florida THOMAS MASSIE, Kentucky AMI BERA, California JIM BRIDENSTINE, Oklahoma ELIZABETH H. ESTY, Connecticut RANDY K. WEBER, Texas MARC A. VEASEY, Texas STEPHEN KNIGHT, California DONALD S. BEYER, JR., Virginia BRIAN BABIN, Texas JACKY ROSEN, Nevada BARBARA COMSTOCK, Virginia JERRY MCNERNEY, California BARRY LOUDERMILK, Georgia ED PERLMUTTER, Colorado RALPH LEE ABRAHAM, Louisiana PAUL TONKO, New York DRAIN LAHOOD, Illinois BILL FOSTER, Illinois DANIEL WEBSTER, Florida MARK TAKANO, California JIM BANKS, Indiana COLLEEN HANABUSA, Hawaii ANDY BIGGS, Arizona CHARLIE CRIST, Florida ROGER W. MARSHALL, Kansas NEAL P. DUNN, Florida CLAY HIGGINS, Louisiana RALPH NORMAN, South Carolina SUBCOMMITTEE ON RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HON. BARBARA COMSTOCK, Virginia, Chair FRANK D. LUCAS, Oklahoma DANIEL LIPINSKI, Illinois RANDY HULTGREN, Illinois ELIZABETH H. -
Jane Alexandria Smith
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Leading in a Complex World
LEADING IN A COMPLEX WORLD CHANCELLOR WILLIAM H. MCRAVEN’S VISION AND FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM PRESENTED TO THE BOARD OF REGENTS, NOVEMBER 2015 BOARD OF REGENTS Paul L. Foster, Chairman R. Steven Hicks, Vice Chairman Jeffery D. Hildebrand, Vice Chairman Regent Ernest Aliseda Regent David J. Beck Regent Alex M. Cranberg Regent Wallace L. Hall, Jr. Regent Brenda Pejovich Regent Sara Martinez Tucker Student Regent Justin A. Drake GENERAL COUNSEL TO THE BOARD OF REGENTS Francie A. Frederick As of November 2015 Chancellor’s Vision TABLE OF CONTENTS 02 Letter from Chairman Paul L. Foster 04 Letter from Chancellor William H. McRaven 05 Introduction 07 UT System’s Mission Statement 09 Operating Concept 11 Agile Decision Process 13 Strategic Assessment 17 Framework for Advancing Excellence 19 Team of Teams 23 Quantum Leap: The Texas Prospect Initiative 25 Quantum Leap: The American Leadership Program 27 Quantum Leap: Win the Talent War 29 Quantum Leap: Enhancing Fairness & Opportunity 31 Quantum Leap: The UT Health Care Enterprise 33 Quantum Leap: Leading the Brain Health Revolution 35 Quantum Leap: The UT Network for National Security 37 Quantum Leap: UT System Expansion in Houston 39 Conclusion & Ethos Office of the BOARD OF REGENTS During my time as a UT System Regent, and most recently as chairman of the board, I have witnessed many great moments in the history of our individual institutions and significant, game-changing events for our system as a whole. No single event has left me more optimistic about the future of The University of Texas System than Chancellor William H. -
Quantum Information Science Activities at NSF
Quantum Information Science Activities at NSF Some History, Current Programs, and Future Directions Presentation for HEPAP 11/29/2018 Alex Cronin, Program Director National Science Foundation Physics Division QIS @ NSF goes back a long time Wootters & Zurek (1982) “A single quantum cannot be cloned”. Nature, 299, 802 acknowledged NSF Award 7826592 [PI: John A. Wheeler, UT Austin] C. Caves (1981) “Quantum Mechanical noise in an interferometer” PRD, 23,1693 acknowledged NSF Award 7922012 [PI: Kip Thorne, Caltech] “Information Mechanics (Computer and Information Science)” NSF Award 8618002; PI: Tommaso Toffoli, MIT; Start: 1987 led to one of the “basic building blocks for quantum computation” - Blatt, PRL, 102, 040501 (2009), “Realization of the Quantum Toffoli Gate with Trapped Ions” “Research on Randomized Algorithms, Complexity Theory, and Quantum Computers” NSF Award 9310214; PI: Umesh Vazirani, UC-Berkeley; Start: 1993 led to a quantum Fourier transform algorithm, later used by Shor QIS @ NSF goes back a long time Quantum Statistics of Nonclassical, Pulsed Light Fields Award: 9224779; PI: Michael Raymer, U. Oregon - Eugene; NSF Org:PHY Complexity Studies in Communications and Quantum Computations Award: 9627819; PI: Andrew Yao, Princeton; NSF Org:CCF Quantum Logic, Quantum Information and Quantum Computation Award: 9601997; PI: David MacCallum, Carleton College; NSF Org:SES Physics of Quantum Computing Award: 9802413; PI:Julio Gea-Banacloche, U Arkansas; NSF Org:PHY Quantum Foundations and Information Theory Using Consistent Histories Award: 9900755; PI: Robert Griffiths, Carnegie-Mellon U; NSF Org:PHY QIS @ NSF goes back a long time ITR: Institute for Quantum Information Award: 0086038; PI: John Preskill; Co-PI:John Doyle, Leonard Schulman, Axel Scherer, Alexei Kitaev, CalTech; NSF Org: CCF Start: 09/01/2000; Award Amount:$5,012,000. -
Science Fiction on American Television
TV Sci-Fi 16 + GUIDE This and other bfi National Library 16 + Guides are available from http://www.bfi.org.uk/16+ TV Sci-Fi CONTENTS Page IMPORTANT NOTE................................................................................................................. 1 ACCESSING RESEARCH MATERIALS.................................................................................. 2 APPROACHES TO RESEARCH, by Samantha Bakhurst ....................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION by Sean Delaney ......................................................................................... 6 AMERICAN TELEVISION........................................................................................................ 8 SCIENCE FICTION ON AMERICAN TELEVISION ................................................................. 9 AUDIENCES AND FANS......................................................................................................... 11 ANDROMEDA ......................................................................................................................... 12 BABYLON 5 ............................................................................................................................ 14 BATTLESTAR GALACTICA................................................................................................... 17 FARSCAPE ............................................................................................................................. 19 THE IRWIN ALLEN QUARTET • VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA..................................................................... -
A Quantum Leap for AI
TRENDS & CONTROVERSIES A quantum leap for AI By Haym Hirsh Rutgers University [email protected] November 1994 saw the near-simultaneous publication of two papers that threw the notion of computing on its head. On November 11, 1994, a paper by Leonard Adleman appeared in Science demonstrating that a vial of DNA fragments can serve as a computer for solving instances of the Hamiltonian path problem. Less than two weeks later, Peter Shor Quantum computing and AI presented a paper in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 35th Annual Symposium on Foundations Subhash Kak, Louisiana State University of Computer Science, demonstrating how a quantum computer could be used to factor large Every few years, we hear of a new tech- numbers in a tractable fashion. Both these publications showed how nontraditional models nology that will revolutionize AI. After of computation had the potential to effectively solve problems previously believed to be careful reflection, we find that the advance intractable under traditional models of computation. However, the latter work, using a quan- is within the framework of the Turing tum model of computation proposed by Richard Feynmann and others in the early 1980s, machine model and equivalent, in many resonated well with AI researchers who had been coming to terms with Roger Penrose’s cases, to existing statistical techniques. But 1989 book The Emperor’s New Mind. In this book (and its sequel, Shadows of the Mind: A this time, in quantum computing, we seem Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness, which appeared in paperback form only a to be on the threshold of a real revolution— month before these papers), Penrose challenges the possibility of achieving AI via traditional a “quantum” leap—because it is a true “Turing-equivalent” computation devices, conjecturing that the roots of intelligence can be frontier beyond classical computing. -
The Morgan Horse Judging Standards
The Morgan Horse Judging Standards Adopted by The American Morgan Horse Association, Inc. 4066 Shelburne Road, Suite 5 Shelburne, Vermont 05482 (802) 985-4944 FAX (802) 985-8897 E-mail: [email protected] www.morganhorse.com 2014 Edition This Book Supersedes All Previous Editions Effective February 2014 All updates will appear on the AMHA website at www.morganhorse.com Designed as a handy reference book for Morgan judges and exhibitors, a guideline for Morgan breeders, and a measuring stick with which show com- mittees may evaluate the performance of the judges and officials they hire. ©2014, The American Morgan Horse Association, Inc. Sections of this book have been reprinted from the United States Equestrian Federation Rule Book, with permission. All rights reserved. Reproduction without permission is strictly prohibited. The American Morgan Horse Association recommends and expects that all persons will conduct themselves in an honest, forthright, ethical, and sportsmanlike manner in their relationship with each other at any time they are involved in Morgan competition and endorses the principles as stated in the USEF sportsmanship charter. ORIGINAL JUDGING STANDARDS STATEMENT ADOPTED 1972 “Report of the Judging Standards Committee Dr. C. D. Parks, Chairman, Noxen, PA; Robert Brooks, East Lyme, CT; Harold Childs, Tun- bridge, VT; John Lydon, Dalton, PA, Dr. S. Robert Orcutt, Rowley, MA; Mrs. Edward Ryan, Delavan, IL; W. Dayton Sumner, New York, NY; Prof. L.V. Tirrell, Durham, NH; Mrs. Archibald Cox, Wayland, MA, member of the committee during a preparation of the judging standards. The members of this committee agreed unanimously on the material presented here. -
Quantum Leap” Truancy and Dropout Prevention Programs Mount Anthony Union High School, Bennington Vermont
Final Evaluation Report “Quantum Leap” Truancy and Dropout Prevention Programs Mount Anthony Union High School, Bennington Vermont Monika Baege, EdD Susan Hasazi, EdD H. Bud Meyers, PhD March 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction..........................................................................................................................1 Purpose of the Study............................................................................................................1 Methodology........................................................................................................................3 Qualitative Findings.............................................................................................................5 Program Descriptions......................................................................................................5 Views and Experiences of Stakeholders.........................................................................6 Fostering Self-Determination.....................................................................................6 Variety of Supportive Programs ................................................................................9 Utilizing Experiential Learning ...............................................................................14 Vital Connection with Bennington College and the Larger Community ................21 Inspired and Collaborative Leadership Focused on Individual Relationships.........25 Stakeholders’ Additional Advice for Replication, Sustainability, Improvements........27