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Sensors flag environmental damage to art at the Met
NEW YORK It will take a good eye to spot them, but dozens of tiny, very modern works of art have been installed near the 15th-century unicorn tapestries and other medieval masterpieces at a New York City museum.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced this week that a network of wireless environmental sensors designed to prevent damage to the collection is being tested at its Cloisters branch.
The IBM sensors — each housed with a radio and a microcontroller in a case about the size of a pack of cigarettes — can measure temperature, humidity, air flow, light levels, contaminants and more. They are inexpensive and run on low power, and several can be positioned in a room, scientists said.
The information collected goes into a three-dimensional "climate map" that can be accessed on a computer, and the data can then be analyzed to adjust the climate, spot trends and even make predictions.
"Nobody in the world at this moment has this kind of information, not at this level of detail," said Paolo Dionosi Vici, associate research scientist at the Metropolitan. "It's the analytics that will keep us one step ahead technologically."
The network now covers about a third of the Cloisters, which houses 3,000 medieval works in several ancient buildings that were disassembled in Europe and rebuilt in northern Manhattan. The Met expects to expand the network throughout the Cloisters and eventually to the main museum on Fifth Avenue.
The climate at museums like the Cloisters is already tightly controlled, with especially fragile items kept in sealed cases. Curators don't have to worry about the ravages that might happen to a fresco in an open Italian church, for example.
But the artwork is sensitive to small climate variations.
"A window in a museum, in summer, that can be a hot spot," Vici said. "And the light from the window on the floor can increase the temperature of the floor. Until now, that is a variation we might not know about because we were not taking so many measurements."
Another factor that can influence the climate in a museum is the number of visitors — and where the visitors have been.
"If it's raining outside the Cloisters and the tourists that come in are wet, that has an effect," Vici said.
The idea is to keep the effects from causing any damage, even slow damage, to the art.
"Whenever we have to act on an object to repair it, it's a loss of memory of what it was in the past," Vici said. "Restoration can be very useful but if we can prevent (deterioration), it's better."
Hendrik Hamann, an IBM research manager working on the project, said the 100-year-old company has had a long relationship with the Met and found the art world a good test for its sensor technology, which can also be used in ordinary buildings to measure energy efficiency and other details.
"The conservation of art and our cultural heritage is obviously one of the grand challenges of our time," Hamann said.
Vici and Hamann both said the sensors — which they called low-power motes — could eventually be adapted to measure how a painting on wood, for example, reacts to minor climate fluctuations.
"We'd like to be able to monitor how much the wood swells, even a tiny amount," said Vici, who said he worked on the preservation of the Mona Lisa.
Hamann said as data pours in, trends will appear, "and we can use those trends to understand what will happen in the future."
"We will know that certain things happen in the museum environment on certain days," he said. Those trends can then be correlated with information about the best way to protect a tapestry or a wooden statue, for example.
Hamann said the Cloisters was chosen for the test because "It is a historic building. It has high ceilings. It has famous glass windows. It has tapestries, wood paintings, stonework, it has indoors and outdoors sections. It's very interesting from a monitoring perspective."
The Cloisters had temperature and humidity monitors but lacked the analytic capabilities of the new program, he said.
About 100 of the new sensors have been spread through seven adjacent rooms, including the one housing the priceless tapestries that portray a unicorn hunt. They are inconspicuous, but not hidden entirely.
"If you know where the motes are you can see them," Hamann said.
But Vici said, "The visual impact of the sensors is so small compared to the quality of the information. … For every object in the room we can know in real time how the climate evolves in that particular point."
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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ECC and Digital Postage Marks - Part 2 PDF Print E-mail
Elliptic Curve Pintsov Vanstone Signatures
This issue of Code and Cipher focuses on Elliptic Curve Cryptography applied to address specific industry needs.
The use of ECC-based signature schemes in the postal industry is not new. Because the size of the digital signature affects the overall size of the DPM, ECC-based signatures provide an extremely small, yet highly secure option. In the "Performance Criteria for Information-based Indicia and Security Architecture for Open IBI Postage Evidencing Systems" (2001), the USPS defines support for the use of ECDSA to generate the digital signatures for DPM.
A typical ECDSA signature is a 40 byte appendix added to a signed message. By comparison, the cryptographic overhead of an equivalent DPM using RSA would add 128 bytes. As shown in figure 1, this would take up most of the space on the envelope on a small piece of mail, so a small signature becomes very important.
An even smaller alternative is the Elliptic Curve Pintsov Vanstone Signature (ECPVS) scheme. ECPVS is a signature scheme that provides partial message recovery. At the same security level and elliptic curve, an ECPVS signature can add as little as 20 bytes to the original message length, which is a six times smaller than RSA and makes ECPVS more efficient.
ECPVS is also unique because all or part of the message can be embedded in and recovered from the signature. This partial message recovery makes ECPVS ideal for use with digital postal marks. Certain data elements, such as the date and the postage amount, are able to be read by humans, while other data elements, such as the address of the sender or a confirmation of the recipient's address, are restricted to being read only by machines. Furthermore, if the terminal's signature verification key is secret, rather than public, then the hidden part of the message is difficult to obtain, even by machine.
Another feature specific to ECPVS is the ability to adjust the level of security, depending on the requirements. In ECPVS, the length of the recovered part of the message is not tied to any other parameters of the scheme. Redundancy, the duplication added to an encrypted message, is one of these parameters. The amount of redundancy in a message determines the level of security. Only ECPVS enables tradeoffs between security level and bandwidth availability: if very short signatures are required due to bandwidth constraints, the amount of redundancy added by padding can be lowered, thereby decreasing the size of the signature component e, with a controlled impact on the security offered by the scheme.
How ECPVS works
Using ECPVS, a plain text message (PD) is essentially split into two parts: parts C and V. Part C represents data elements that require confidentiality protection, such as the sender information, value of a serial piece count, or the value of the ascending register. These can be recovered during the verification process from the signature and allow for proof of deposit and mail tracing. Part V contains data elements presented in the plaintext within the DPM, such as the date, the sender's and recipient's postal codes, or the amount of the postage. Both C and V are signed.
The ECPVS uses a fixed elliptic curve with a generator G of order n. Terminal A has public key QA and identity A.
To generate a signature, the mailer terminal A begins by generating a random positive integer k < n.
The terminal then takes the mailing information and performs a number of computations in order to encrypt the message. First, it calculates a point R on the curve (R = kG), to be used as a key for the transformation of C. This elliptic curve point R is then used in a bijective transformation (TR)— typically a symmetric encryption algorithm—to destroy any algebraic structure C might have, with the result being e. The secrecy of e is based on the difficulty of the discrete log problem and on the randomness of k.
The variable d is calculated using a hash function H, the encrypted message part e, and the identity of the mailer's terminal IA, as follows: d = H (e || I A || V).
Finally, s (the other part of the signature pair), is calculated using d, k, and a, which is the private key of the terminal A as follows: s= a d + k (mod n).
The signature pair (s, e) is then put into the DPM together with the portion V of the plain text PD.
To verify the DPM of an incoming mail piece, a postage verifier on the other end of the postal process parses the DPM into IA, the signature (s,e), and the verification data V. Using these and the public key of terminal A, the postage verifier recovers C and subjects it to a redundancy test. If the redundancy check fails, the DPM is rejected; if the redundancy check passes, the plaintext message is recovered.
ECPVS in the Real World
Pitney Bowes, a global provider of informed mail and messaging management, introduced digital mailing systems in 2002 that use ECPVS to provide security for the digital postage marks.
ECPVS is also being adopted into a number of standards, including I EEE P1363a, ANSI X9.92, and ISO 9796-3.
The relative benefits of ECPVS (size, flexibility and efficiency) also make it ideal for use in applications beyond the postal service such as cheque imaging and verification, or to sign short 1-byte messages (i.e. yes/no, buy/hold/sell, etc.)
For more information
For more information about ECPVS, Certicom has posted two white papers. Postal Revenue Collection in the Digital Age (PDF), and Formal Security Proofs for a Signature Scheme with Partial Message Recovery (PDF).
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) exists to record objects found by members of the public and enter them onto an online database. Since it began in 1997, PAS has recorded over 750,000 objects of all periods of history from Palaeolithic flints to eighteenth-century coins and has become an important source of new archaeological data to be used by students and academics in their research. Initially based on a small group of pilot regions, recording was extended to cover the whole of England and Wales in 2003, at which point Oxfordshire became a part of the Scheme with the employment of a local Finds Liaison Officer (FLO) in the county. Alongside recording ordinary objects, PAS also deals with objects which come under remits of the Treasure Act 1996, which include gold and silver artefacts and coin hoards.
The Ashmolean has been officially involved with the PAS since 2004 when the Scheme's 'National Finds Advisor for Medieval and Post-medieval Coinage' became a part of our Heberden Coin Room. A further strengthening of the ties between the Ashmolean and PAS came with the re-opening of the museum in 2009 when the Coin Room and Department of Antiquities started a monthly 'identification service' for artefacts and coinage, at which the Oxfordshire FLO also attends. Through this service, PAS has recorded hundreds of objects, many of which would probably not have come to PAS's attention in any other way. The importance of PAS and local finds to the Ashmolean can be seen in the displays of local material around the museum, especially the 'England _PHONE_' and 'Money' galleries, the latter housing a set of drawers including a range of finds made by a local metal-detectorist.
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UN helps vaccinate millions of Afghan children against measles and polioListen /
Nearly six million children in Afghanistan are now protected against measles, thanks to a recent vaccination campaign supported by the United Nations.
The youngsters, aged between nine months to 10 years old, also received anti-polio drops.
Afghanistan has committed to stamping out measles by 2015.
Charles Appel reports.
Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health implemented the campaign earlier this month with help from partners such as the World Health Organization (WHO).
Approximately 27,000 health workers, volunteers and community mobilizers across 16 provinces took part in the two-week exercise, reaching children in places such as mosques, schools and parks.
This marked the first stage of the campaign, which continues in September with plans to include the remaining 18 provinces in the country.
WHO reports that funding is a concern and the agency is seeking money to cover the next phase.
Afghanistan held its first anti-measles campaign in 2001. WHO says based on routine immunization coverage and epidemiological surveillance, the country has to repeat these drives every 2-4 years.
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NWO P14-18 i-CAVE
The I-Cave program strives to integrate automated and cooperative driving while maintaining safety, and including human factors in the design process. In i-CAVE a Cooperative Dual Mode Automated Transport (C-DMAT) system is researched and designed, consisting of dual mode vehicles which can be driven automatically and manually to allow maximum flexibility. The uniqueness of i-CAVE is it advances all enabling technologies that are required for safe, efficient, and effective automated and cooperative driving with dual-mode vehicles, while also addressing important human factor aspects. The central point is project 7 (Living lab/demonstrator). This is the joint real-world demonstrator platform which has a crucial role in the utilization of i-CAVE's research.
I-CAVE takes a unique pragmatic approach, by considering the cooperative and automated dual-mode principle. It is recognized that the ultimate goal is full automation (SAE level 5) but that many societal goals can already be achieved with lower levels of automation. The integrated research lines therefore specially consider vehicle automation technology that can be introduced step-by-step and that allows for seamlessly switching between human-controlled driving and cooperative automated driving, i.e. dual-mode driving, when possible and when wished for.
The program is a collaboration between four Dutch universities, and multiple commercial and municipal parties.
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How the PPSR Benefits Businesses in New Zealand
Being able to recover debt in the case of default is one of the major issues that face businesses in New Zealand and across the globe. Debt, being an integral part of everyday business transactions, cannot be avoided in any economy or market. The best anyone can do is to reduce the risks that come as a result of dealing in credit.
PPSR — what is it?
PPSR stands for 'Personal Property Securities Register.' The PPSR was established in accordance with the New Zealand Personal Property Securities Act 1999. The registry was operationalised in 2002 and is maintained by the New Zealand Companies Office — a branch of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
The PPSR is an amalgamation of the Register of Company Charges, Motor Vehicle Securities Register and Chattels Register that preceded it.
So what is it, this PPSR? The PPSR is a public-accessible database that keeps record of legal claims on personal property that has been used as collateral for loans and credit in New Zealand. Basically, if a business or individual uses a particular property as collateral for a loan or credit, the debt obligation to this property is recorded in the PPSR.
This ensures that property that has already been used as collateral is not used again as collateral to gain new credit or on-sold before the debt is repaid.
Almost all types of property that has value can be used as collateral and hence be put in the registry. This includes motor vehicles, machinery, intellectual property and the likes. But it excludes buildings, land and ships that are greater than 24 metres in length.
How does the PPSR work?
The PPSR works in a pretty straightforward way. Once a person or an organisation uses a property as collateral for a loan or credit, the creditor or lender goes ahead and records their underlying interest on the property in the PPSR.
This record will remain at the PPSR until the debt is cleared and the lender can then go ahead and remove the property. This prevents other lenders and creditors from accepting the same property for collateral in subsequent borrowing and thus preventing conflicting interests in case the borrower fails to pay back their debt and the collateral has to be recovered.
Because the registry is open and searchable by the public, lenders and creditors can search through it to determine whether a property presented as collateral has already been borrowed against. It also indicates if ownership of a property presented for sale legally belongs to the person or entity that seeks to sell it.
The benefits of PPSR to New Zealand businesses
Being able to keep records of property that has been used as collateral and retrieve such information on demand gives businesses a bunch of advantages that make the lending scene a whole lot safer. These are the benefits of PPSR:
1. Insight on potential clients and customers. Regardless of the industry you're in, you'll often be necessitated to sell your products or services on credit with the expectation of later payment. It's therefore in your best interest that your customer poses the ability to pay you back when the debt is due.
Because things are not always as they seem, you'll need to dig around to find information that indicates the debtor can pay their debt. For gathering this kind of information, the PPSR is indispensable for Kiwi businesses.
From a single database, you can find out all the property a prospect customer has put up as collateral to secure their debts. With this data, you can determine whether a business or individual is having liquidity issues or is about to go into bankruptcy. If you find that the prospect is overleveraged, then you have the opportunity to reconsider the credit facility you're offering.
2. Establish the validity of collateral. Quite often collateral is required to secure a loan or a line of credit. Collateral provides a guarantee to the lender in that they can take possession of the collateral property to recover their dues in case the debtor defaults. If the property has already been used as collateral for previous debts, reusing it could result in conflict of interest between the different lenders who claim its ownership.
From the PPSR, businesses can search a centralised database to determine if a property presented as collateral has already been used to secure other debts. This prevents a scenario where a single piece of property is used to borrow multiple times from different lenders.
3. Protection when buying pre-owned property. When buying property such as second-hand vehicles and machinery, or even intellectual property; it's important to find out whether there are any debt responsibilities associated with it before you complete the transaction.
It's possible to buy property and then later discover that the previous owner had not paid for it in full or had taken credit with the property as collateral. In this case, the responsibility of clearing the debt might fall on your hands as the holder of the collateral, even if you weren't aware of the circumstances during the purchase.
Before buying a pre-owned property, businesses can search the PPSR to find out the credit and financing history of the property.
4. Ensuring your credit liabilities are cleared. The PPSR relies on data provided by creditors and lenders. Debtors cannot edit the information on the registry — otherwise they'd just delist their listed properties. If a lender fails to remove your property from the registry after you have cleared your debt, it could have a negative impact on your credit rating.
As such, businesses that have cleared previous debts can search the database to find out if the collateral property has been delisted accordingly. If the property is still listed as debt security, then appropriate channels can be followed to ensure the information is updated to free the property from debt claims.
For any situation where collateral is required to access credit, the PPSR can be relied upon to determine whether the property in question qualifies to secure debt. This plays a huge role in protecting New Zealand businesses from fraudulent transactions involving property listed as collateral.
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If you eat icicles, then you're eating poop, insects, and whatever else is on your roof! YUCK!
Sure, we grew up chomping on icicles and eating snow, but it's not the best idea today. There are many more pollutants, pesticides, chemical contaminants, poop, and possibly old asbestosis shingles than in the old days.
Katie Nickolaou, a Meteorologist in Sioux City, IA, made a TikTok video that's gone viral. Thie Public Service Announcement reminds you that there's a lot of bird poop on your roof, and it's frozen in the ice. If you eat that icicle, then you're eating poop!
We never thought bird poop and icicle would be used in the same sentence. LOL. Don't be surprised if you see this on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon or Conan O'Brien. Yes, it's that good.
Icicles are formed in freezing temperatures when the sunlight melts snow or ice on anything with a downslope. The water droplets freeze in the cold air, forming a cone-like shape of ice, and grow very long and heavy.
While snowy scenes with icicles on a house may look cozy, the frozen creations are dangerous. Networx says large falling icicles, knocked down by wind or loosened by sunshine, can damage anything in their path with their heavyweight and pointed tips.
They're capable of pulling gutters off your house, shattering windshields of vehicles below, and causing laceration or concussion – or worse! -- to any human who happens to be standing near the roof eaves. [Networx]
Networx says DIY ice removal from your roof is tricky. Follow these tips to make the process easier and safer:
 - Tap small icicles off your roof before they have a chance to get bigger.
 - Easy does it when removing large icicles.
 - Never stand directly beneath the ice and-use a wooden stick to extend your reach.
 - Don't prop a ladder on an icy roof or gutter.
 - Remove snow from your roof with a long-handled plastic shovel or snow rake.
 - Avoid using ice melt products on your roof as it can destroy your shingles.
 - Play it safe and hire a roofing professional to deal with major icicles. The pros have the know-how, as well as specialized steam machines, to get ice and snow off your roof safely.
So will you still eat Icicles? We're quitting cold turkey!
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The Impact Of Colour In The Workspace
Colours are everywhere, influence most people but are often not noticed. Sherlock Holmes reckoned that the trouble with people is that they look but don't see, they see but don't observe. Can you enter a room, an office perhaps and later recall the colours in that space? What colour were the walls, the ceiling, the carpet and the furniture? If not then Sherlock picked you in one.
But seriously, behavioural scientists and other whizzbang people like designers and decorators can explain how a person's mood, even their level of happiness can be influenced by the colours in their place. In short, the workplace colour scheme can impact your workers.
The experts are not all in agreement about what colours do to our thinking and feelings but they agree that colours do influence us. They reckon colours can affect us subconsciously. And if we behave a certain way, it may be because of the impact the colours around us have. Interesting.
Now if true, you as a manager would want any impact to be favourable. If the colours prominent in your workplace are helping and not hindering your staff, then that's good. But again if true, how do you discover the right colours for your workplace?
Bone up on colour
It will certainly help if you know some of the basics about colour. This is a mini Wikipedia tour of the topic.
We have the Beatles of colour, the fab four. They are green, yellow, red and blue. They are also known as the primary colours. Some of the main impacts colour can have on us include temperature and size. We can think of colours as being warm or cold and of making things larger or smaller.
We label warm colours those which are red, yellow and orange, and we label the cool or cold colours as blue, green and lilac. To test these claims, check out some ads on TV. You could have a debate on the topic that yellow is a happy colour.
The experts further suggest that a cold colour or colours in an interior gives the impression of increasing the size of the area whereas a warm colour suggests to our brain that the room is less spacious. And if you want your space to appear welcoming, go for the warm colours. Not that you want to make people feel uncomfortable in your workspace but cold colours are said to generate a cool atmosphere. And that's cool as in not warm.
What do colours represent?
Yellow is the sun and sunshine and sunny days are way better than rainy ones, or so the song lyrics go. The sun gives us life and energy and happiness. Experts reckon yellow grabs our attention and helps people in meetings to be inspired. Apparently, it's a colour that stimulates conversation and perhaps that's why blondes have more fun!
Green is nature. Greenery is peaceful and offers harmony. A garden can be an oasis, a restful and refreshing place. Greenery goes well almost everywhere and certainly within workplaces.
Red is blood, that vital ingredient within us all. Spill blood and we notice it quickly and in a vivid and forceful manner. Red is about passion - it gets the blood pumping. But red is also associated with anger. His face turned bright red. So used in workspaces, red will capture the eye but avoiding too much red is important. Don't give the hot heads any extra incentive. And if it's true that red increases one's appetite, for food that is, perhaps your dining room could try another colour.
Blue is meant to help us relax. We find it easier to breathe in a room with blue. We don't blink as much. We avoid distractions better with blue around us. So if you want your meeting rooms to be productive venues, a splash of blue (and remember it has many shades), could be the way to paint. Apparently blue is linked to faithfulness and honesty and most Swedish companies have at least some part of their logo in blue.
The lesser known colours
While the four primary colours offer so much variety, there is a real support cast in the form of hues. These are the shades or variations in-between the primary colours. The five hues are orange, pink, purple, turquoise and brown. And it's not just the primary colours, because each of the hues has qualities which designers and psychologists believe impact the human condition.
Orange is somewhat like red in that it stands out and grabs your attention. It is recommended for areas where workers gather as orange facilitates communication. It's a warm colour and makes us more friendly and outgoing. It's also associated with food and cooking so could sit well in your canteen or eating areas.
Pink is supposedly a calming colour and helps to lower the temperature of a room. It represents happiness and feelings of contentment and brings a sense of security to the surrounds. Children's bedrooms are often decorated in pink and that is deliberate to bring a softer and quieter ambience to the space.
Purple was once popular with the nobility with royal families often wearing the colour as part of their impressive attire. That gave the colour an association with wealth and success. The hangover today is more with schools where uniforms and logos are often coloured, in part at least, with purple.
Turquoise is the laidback hue of the colour world. It is associated with the outdoors and with purity. You will often find medical packaging, drinks and outdoor pools and patio gatherings being linked with turquoise. If you are planning a spa at your workspace then decorating a part in turquoise could be the go.
Brown and beige are supposedly calming colours although beige has the unfortunate connation of being bland. Some scoff at beige clothing. But brown does work well in spaces where relaxation is a priority. Like all of the hues, brown works better when used in tandem with other colours. Throw in some bright and cheerful colours and brown can be the perfect partner.
Painting by numbers
If you are keen to have the colour schemes assessed in your workspace, talking to a specialist who deals in these matters seems a logical and sound idea. As experts have long described the impact colour has on people and thus on your workforce, ignoring the possibilities may harm your productivity and thus your bottom line.
You know the old picture books where the "artist" applies the colours according to the numbers in the spaces, well, that is not the recommended approach to tackling the décor in your workspace. Talking to furniture experts, interior designers and psychologists is a great place to start.
The experts reckon you need to start with how you want your employees and clients to feel when they enter your workspace. Once you're strong on what impact you want the colours to have, then you choose the shades of whatever is appropriate.
It works for others
Now that you know yellow is believed to be a happy colour and red goes well in food situations, is it any co-incidence that McDonalds, that universally recognised and successful food chain decks out its stores in yellow and red. Co-incidence maybe? I don't think so.
Now it doesn't have to be the whole hog if considering changing colours. It's not suggested to completely re-decorate your workspace from top to toe. It's possible to add highlights, or use new furniture or new accessories to existing furniture. A splash of colour here and there can make an impact.
Remember that you only get one chance to make a first impression. If your reception space requires an impression that you are serious and sophisticated, then colour is a great way to create that effect.
And mix 'n match is a popular way to colour your workspaces. If your walls are of a darker shade, perhaps using blue, then adding furniture with brightly coloured chairs, rugs and paintings will provide a contrast and boost the concentration of your members of staff.
Don't be afraid of colour. Don't be afraid to break out and do something a little different or daring. A staff lounge or kitchen is a good place to try something less conservative. Why not a purple hallway or a bright orange kitchen? Colours play a significant role in how people feel. Help them feel all the right thoughts and be more productive employees.


Smoky Hill Music
Guitar, Bass, Banjo, Ukulele Lessons Aurora CO
How much does it cost?
The fee is $25 per 1/2 hour lesson. One lesson per week, payable in advance for each calendar month.
Is it a classroom situation? Will there be other students?
No. These are private lessons. Just you and your guitar. Parents are encouraged to attend their child's lessons.
Do I need to call each week to schedule a lesson?
NO. You purchase your time slot for the month at the beginning of the month.
Students are required to pay for each month in advance.
(Do NOT pay for a full month if there 3 or fewer lesson dates remaining in the month.)**
This will reserve your time slot for the MONTH. If you start in the middle of the month, just pay for the remaining weeks in that month. Advance payment is standard practice in the music instruction field. It helps discourage frequent cancellations and no-shows.
Pay with check, cash, PayPal, or credit / debit card.
What if I have to miss a lesson?
Just call/text/email to let me know you can't make it. Give me as much notice as you can. At that time we can schedule a make-up lesson. It's best to take the make-up lesson as soon as possible, to make sure you stay focused and involved in practicing and learning. If you fall behind, you will need to spend even more time reviewing and re-learning material from previous lessons.
What if my child or I have a cold or flu or other illness? Should we come in for my lesson?
NO. Even if you have to cancel at the last minute, if you or your child are coughing, sneezing, runny nose, fever, etc or might be in any way contagious, just PLEASE RESCHEDULE and we will make up the lesson when you are feeling better and no longer contagious.
Read my cancellation and PAYMENT POLICY here
How often should I practice?
You should try to spend 30 minutes (or more) per day practicing your instrument.
Is playing guitar difficult?
There are many instruments (violin, wind instruments, etc.) that are much more difficult to learn than guitar.
Most guitar students will be playing chords and songs very quickly. But it does require practice and effort.
Do I have to learn to read music?
Not if you don't want to. Many successful guitarists have never learned to read music. Most of our younger beginning students learn basic note reading skills. It helps them relate to melodies and learn the fingerboard while helping them develop the physical skills and coordination necessary for playing an instrument. It also gives a clear indication of their progress as they learn new notes and songs each week.
Studies show children who read music do better in school. Reading music strengthens math skills, comprehension and helps them learn to focus. Reading music involves math, science, history, art, foreign language and physical coordination.
Read more about my teaching style here.
What method will you use to teach me to play guitar?
This depends on what you want to learn. My lessons are customized to the student's interest, skill level and goals. Most of my young beginning students use the Hal Leonard Guitar Method books mentioned above.
But other lesson material, such as song selection, techniques, etc. is customized for each student.
How long will it take for me to learn to play?
This all depends on you. How often you practice, what your goals are, etc.
But with my methods, and your consistent practice, you will quickly be learning to play chords and songs.
The beauty of playing an instrument is that you are ALWAYS learning. The longer you've been playing, the more you'll want to learn.
Do you teach adults or retirees?
YES. You are never too old to learn to play an insrument! I have taught students ranging from age 5 to 80.
I bought a guitar instruction DVD. Do I still need lessons?
YES. While it is possible to learn from DVD's, most beginners find they need personal instruction. You can't ask questions of a DVD.
And DVD's can't correct any mistakes or bad habits in your playing. You need a teacher for this.
Where are lessons taught?
I teach at my home studio in the Saddle Rock area near Smoky Hill and E470.
I want to learn to strum chords so I can play and sing my favorite songs. Will you teach me?
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Trichobilharzia regenti was maintained in snail intermediate (Radix lagotis) and definitive (Anas platyrhynchos f. domestica; breed—Cherry Valley strain) hosts in the Laboratory of Helminthology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, using an established protocol [1]. Four separate groups of infected snails (n = 20 snails per group), each representing a distinct biological replicate, were established to obtain four independent biological replicates of pooled cercarial and schistosomula samples (Fig 1).
Fig 1. Experimental design for the production of Trichobilharzia regenti cercariae and schistosomula for the present study.
Schistosomulum replicates: Upon light stimulation for 2 h, cercariae (mixed-gender) shed from each snail group were collected and used to infect seven-day old ducks (n = 4 replicates; 2,500 cercariae per duck). Pooled schistosomula were collected from the spinal cord of each infected duckling seven days following inoculation using established methods [7,28]. Briefly, the spinal cord was carefully prised apart manually (using dissection needles) in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) and exposed to bright light for 1 h. Schistosomula (n = 4 replicates; 150 to 400 individuals per duckling) were collected, washed extensively in PBS and stored in TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen) at -80°C until further processing. For each biological replicate, a sample of cercariae (shed from the same snail group used to infect the ducks) was also collected for RNA isolation. Cercaria replicates: Cercariae were collected every second day for one week, with each batch washed twice in tap water, centrifuged at 2,500 ×g at 4°C, and then stored in TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen) at -80°C.
RNA isolation, library preparation and sequencing
Total RNA was purified from individual biological replicates (four for both cercariae and schistosomula) using TRIzol, and residual genomic DNA removed (DNA-free kit, Invitrogen) following the manufacturer's instructions. The integrity and quality of total RNA were determined using a Bioanalyzer 2100 (Agilent) and Qubit RNA BR assay kit (Invitrogen). Messenger RNA (mRNA) was purified, and short-insert (330 bp) complementary DNA (cDNA) libraries constructed and barcoded according to the manufacturer's instructions (TruSeq RNA Sample Preparation v.2, Illumina). All cDNA library was paired-end sequenced (2 × 211 base reads) on a single line using the HiSeq 2500 platform (Illumina).
Assembly of the transcriptome
Sequencing adaptors and nucleotides with a Phred quality score of < 20 were removed using Trimmomatic v.0.3 [29]. The quality of filtered paired-end read data was manually assessed using FastQC [30] For each RNA-seq dataset, reads were corrected using Spades v.3.1.0 [31] and normalized digitally using the program khmer v.1.1 [32]. For each of the cercarial and schistosomula RNA-seq data sets, replicate datasets were pooled and used to assemble non-redundant transcriptomes using Oases v.0.2.8 [33], employing coverage cut-offs of 13 and 14, and k-mer values of 47 and 49, respectively. A final, merged transcriptome was generated by concatenating cercarial and schistosomula transcriptomes, and removing redundancy using CD-HIT-EST [34] using a nucleotide sequence identity threshold of 85%. Finally, coding domains were predicted using Transdecoder [35], and only transcripts encoding proteins of ≥ 30 amino acids were retained. The proportion of genome annotation represented by the non-redundant larval transcriptome was assessed using the program CEGMA [36].
Annotation of the transcriptome
Transcripts homologous (BLASTn; E-value cut-off: < 10−5) to avian, bacterial or viral nucleotide sequences in the NCBI non-redundant nucleotide database [37] and translated proteins homologous (BLASTp; E-value cut-off: 10−5) to transposable elements in the RepBase database [38] were quarantined as well as sequences shorter than 50 amino acids (aa) with no homology in public databases. The non-redundant, merged transcriptome was then annotated using an established pipeline [39]. Briefly, protein sequences inferred from transcripts were annotated using their closest homologues (BLASTp; E-value cut-off: ≤ 10−5) in the following databases: NCBI non-redundant protein [37]; SwissProt [40]; MEROPS peptidase and peptidase inhibitor [41]—with predicted peptidases of unknown catalytic type and inhibitor homologues of unassigned peptidases being excluded; Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) [42], excluding KEGG "Human Diseases" and "Organismal Systems" categories. Conserved domains and their associated gene ontology (GO) annotations were predicted using the program InterProScan [43]. The server REVIGO was used to summarize GO terms and define a representative subset of terms using a simple clustering algorithm that relies on semantic similarity measures [44]. Excretory/secretory (E/S) proteins were predicted based on the presence of a signal peptide and the lack of a transmembrane domain; in addition, proteins were subjected to analysis using the program MultiLoc2 [45] to predict their sub-cellular location. Only proteins predicted to be extracellular or lysosomal (score: > 0.5) were included from the final set of predicted E/S proteins.
Analysis of differential transcription
For each biological replicate, paired, trimmed and corrected reads were mapped to the final transcriptome using RSEM [46]. The expected counts predicted were rounded to the highest whole number, and used as counts per transcript for differential gene transcription analysis using edgeR v.3.6.7 [47] and R v.3.10 [48] software packages, with read counts being normalized to account for any GC bias [49] and using the trimmed mean of M-values (TMM) [50]. Transcripts with more than a log2 fold-change in transcription between the two developmental stages (i.e. cercaria and schistosomulum) and with a false discovery rate (FDR) of ≤ 0.01 were recorded as differentially transcribed. Enriched GO terms for transcripts recorded to be differentially transcribed in either developmental stage were tested using topGO [51] and the Fisher's exact test (p ≤ 0.05); representative enriched GO terms were inferred using the program REVIGO [44]. In addition, transcripts specific to either the cercaria or the schistosomulum were those with RSEM expected counts of > 2 in at least one of four replicates representing one but not the other developmental stage.
Characterisation and annotation of the non-redundant transcriptome of T. regenti
The sequencing of eight T. regenti cDNA libraries (four representing each the cercaria and schistosomulum biological replicates) produced 146,921,480 high quality reads (75,733,168 for cercariae; 71,188,312 for schistosomula), with an average read length of 132 ± 30 bp (mean ± standard deviation; Tables 1 and S1). Pooled RNA-seq data were used to assemble a non-redundant transcriptome, which included 12,705 assembled transcripts (average nucleotide length: 2,697.1 ± 2,166.4 bp; 115 to 41,111 bp; N50 = 3,333), each encoding a predicted protein (average length: 514.5 ± 537.7 residues; range: 30 to 8,133 residues), excluding transcripts that did not code for a protein (n = 6,899). Of the selected coding regions, 9,514 commenced with a start codon, and 11,434 terminated with a stop codon. Despite sequencing only two developmental stages, the T. regenti transcriptome includes 89.5% of the 358 conserved eukaryotic genes [36] (Table 1), and thus represents a substantial proportion of the gene set. On average, 61.5% and 74.4% of the sequence reads representing the cercaria and schistosomulum, respectively, mapped to the non-redundant T. regenti transcriptome (S1 Table). The final transcriptome and RNA-seq read data are available for download via the NCBI transcript reads archive and sequence read archive (SRA), respectively (BioProject ID: PRJNA292737).
Table 1. Characteristics of the transcriptomic and predicted proteomic datasets for the cercaria and schistosomulum stages of Trichobilharzia regenti.
Totals of 88 and 243 potential contaminants (avian, viral and bacterial) were removed from the cercaria and schistosomulum transcriptomes, respectively. Following the removal of these


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Desert Plant's Potent Chemical Cocktail Makes Mice Go 'Ptooey'
In case you're not planning a trip to the Negev, then I'm here to tell you about something quite amazing that goes on between the plant and its pal, the spiny mouse that lives in the Middle Eastern deserts. The sweet mignonette (Ochradenus baccatus if you must know, and also called Taily Weed) has some nice little fleshy fruits growing on it. But you can't eat the fruit unless you do the "ptooey."
Here's how this bizarre twist of symbiotic behavior between mouse and mignonette works: The mignonette is as good a mixologist as you'll find in any trendy bar. It has two chemical weapons in its fruit: An enzyme in the flesh and a glucosinolate inside the fruit's seeds. Rule number one with these chemicals: DO NOT MIX! As you would when, say, you bite into the fruit and break open a seed inside. Because when that happens, the chemicals combine to create what is called a "mustard oil bomb."
The mustard oil bomb "has more punch than Grey Poupon," says Denise Dearing from the University of Utah, who did the study in Israel. It's potent. And it keeps most animals from chowing down on this tiny fruit. But not the spiny mouse. (See this video of the seed-spitting mouse in action.)
Dearing and scientists from the University of Utah and Israel observed the mouse delicately chewing the fruit and spitting out the seeds, unscathed. They're very, very careful about that. And that's exactly what the plant wants, if it can be said that plants "want" things. Unbroken seeds propagate more plants, broken ones don't. So the plant needs a predator that knows how to "ptooey" in order to disperse its seeds.
The research paper appears in the latest edition of Current Biology.
The mouse-mignonette bush discovery is only the latest round of plants training animals to help them procreate. There are other plants that that tailor their seeds for a particular animal. The majestic Guanacaste tree in Central America has large, tough seeds. They have to go through a big herbivore's gut before they'll germinate. Not just any herbivore...horses teeth and stomachs ruin them. Cows are just right though. And there's no "ptooey" required.


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Concept cars have been a mainstay of automotive design and marketing for more than a century. While Henry Leland's Osceola is considered the world's first concept car that actually made it into production, the 1938 Buick Y Job is another early example of a true concept car.
Built under the direction of General Motors' first design director, Harley Earl, the Y-Job was never intended for production but instead foreshadowed the styling and engineering cues Earl and his team hoped to use on future GM vehicles. In its day, the Y-Job earned praise for its modern style that included integrated fenders, hidden headlamps, and no running boards. The positive reaction helped several of its design cues to make it into production, including the stubby tail fins that would appear on the iconic 1948 Cadillacs and the grille design that continues to influence Buick design.
Although the Y-Job didn't make production, it remains an example of the good a concept car can do for a company and the industry. We can't help but wonder what would have happened, though, if Buick put the Y-Job into production. The company would have been in an even better position postwar.


Potential Consequences of a Los Angeles Felony Hit and Run
California Vehicle Code §20001 outlines the range of potential consequences for a person who has been convicted of a felony hit and run. The legislative provides a range, and it is up to the Prosecutor and the Judge to determine an appropriate sentence for each individual. In doing so, the Prosecutor will consider the person's criminal history and the specific facts of the case.
A hit and run will be charged as a felony when there is injury to a person. The extent of that injury will be a powerful factor in the Judge's final sentence. The more severe the injury, the higher penalty the sentence will entail. Accordingly, the less severe the injury, the lesser the sentence.
A person who has been charged with felony hit and run for the first time faces up to a year in county jail and a fine ranging from $1000 to $10,000.
The statute recognizes more serious bodily injury that results in death or permanent damage. Drivers who are convicted in a case of hit and run where the person injured suffered death or permanent damage will face 90 days to a year in County Jail, 2 to 4 years in State prison, and/or a fine ranging from $1,000 to $10,000.
Let's consider two different situations. In Scenario A, Dan is driving home and is exhausted. He falls asleep at the wheel momentarily and hits Victor who is out taking a stroll. Victor's is struck at high impact and becomes paralyzed from the neck down. Dan realizing he has hit someone, wakes up and takes off without offering help or leaving information.
In scenario B, Dan is driving home and very tired. He falls asleep at the wheel momentarily and ends up hitting Victor. However, Dan is going slowly as he has taken his foot off the gas pedal and is rolling down the street. When he strikes Victor, Victor only suffers a sprain in his leg and some bruising. Dan aware that he has hit someone gives Victor his contact information but fails to ask Victor if he needs a ride to the hospital.
In scenario A, Dan is likely to be given a higher jail sentence closer to 4 years in State prison and will be likely paying a fine as well. The injury caused to Victor is severe and will result in a lifetime of consequences. In comparison, scenario B, not only was there minimal injury to Victor, but Dan left his contact information. Although he failed to offer medical attention, it seemed that it might not have been necessary. The Court will give Dan in scenario B a lower sentence, possible with minimal to no jail time. With the right powerful argument from an experienced Los Angeles Hit and Run attorney, the court may even dismiss the case and reduce it due to the fact that Dan did adequately leave his contact information.
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Are you responsible for your plant's industrial machines? Is My Machine OK? is a compact and handy reference on the potential risks of machine failure and safe machinery operation. Authors Robert Perez and Andre Conkey, aided by several contributors, provide 225 pages in this hardcover guide. It foms a solid basis for reliable and safe machine operations. The authors employ their extensive background to combine the most commonly used assessment tools in a single source.
Developed specifically to be taken into the field by machine operators, plant supervisors and maintenance technicians, the guide will also help reliability professionals make informed decisions about factory and process equipment.
This book is made up of four sections subdivided into 12 chapters and two appendices:
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Andrew P. Conkey is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He has been a member of the Vibration Institute for over 15 years and has conducted research on the application of fiber optic interferometers for machinery rresponse measurements. He earned a BSME degree from Texas A&I University, and MSME and Ph.D. degrees from Texas A&M.
Bill Stark, P.E., Principal, Bath Engineering, is a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas, with over 15 years of project engineering and management in petrochemical plant design and construction. He earned degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri at Columbia and an MBA from Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi.
Julien Le Bleu, Jr., Principal Rotating Equipment Engineer, Retired, has more than 35 years of experience with critical industrial machinery, including 25 years as the Principal Rotating Equipment Engineer for Lyondell Chemicals in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He earned a B.S. degree from the University of Florida. Mr. Le Bleu is currently teaching machinery best practices to operators and maintenance personnel.
John W. Davis, President and Founder of WFM Associates, is an established author and recognized authority on Lean Manufacturing. With an extensive background in products ranging from air conditioning and fractional H.P. motors to jet engines, helicopters and elevators, Davis has a broad range of experience in manufacturing and has consulted with numerous leading firms including Brunswick Corporation, Crane Pumps, CertainTeed Corporation, Rowe Manufacturing, JTB Furniture, and Defiance Metal Products.
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This unique book provides plant supervisors, maintenance personnel, and reliability professionals with a handy guide for assessing the potential risk of failure of industrial process machines. It also provides a solid basis for reliable and safe machinery operation and was developed to be taken into the field so that informed decisions can be made "on the spot".
This is the first book to offer machinery assessment advice together with established guidelines for the most commonly-used machinery condition parameters, such as vibration, pulsations, temperature limits, and lubrication. Until now, machinery users had to identify, purchase, and maintain an extensive library of machinery books and standards in order to assemble a body of sound evaluation practices. This persuaded the authors that there was a need for a single, compact volume combining assessment advice, the most commonly used assessment tools, and helpful references.
This book is made up of four sections:
1) Evaluating Process Machines, which contains basic instruction and practical advice on evaluating the condition of machines
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3) General Assessment Guidelines, which contains field assessment methods, limits, and advice commonly employed to evaluate process machinery
4) Improvement Ideas. Throughout the book there are many relevant examples that will help you better understand the proper application of the various assessment methodologies presented.
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- Basic Vibration Analysis Part I & Part II
- Allowable Pulsation Levels
- Machinery Rules of Thumb
- Temperature Limits-Bearings
- Piping Vibration and Strain-Lubrication
- AC Electric Motors
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Geography of Nagpur
Nagpur, well known as city of Oranges, is one of the cities in state of Maharashtra. If it is checked based on practicality, then it is at the centre of India and also has the presence of zero milestones (which is a monument which helps in locating the geographical centre, during British time it was the measuring point for all locations) of India and is considered as the capital city of Maharashtra in winter. After Mumbai and Pune, it is third largest city which is becoming quite popular with regards to commercialization, transportation and Industrial location or working areas. Products which are famous in Nagpur are iron, textiles and brassware.
All famous highways like NH-6 (Mumbai-Sambalpur-Calcutta) and NH-7 (Varanasi - Kanyakumari) goes through Nagpur and also the famous railway trunk route crosses the city of Nagpur (Mumbai, Howrah, Chennai and Delhi). All the essential state and central government offices along with institutions are located in city of Nagpur. Nagpur lies at 210.07 degrees North latitude and 790.07 degrees East Longitude.
Geography of Nagpur
Nagpur district is surrounded by Bhandara District in east, on the south east lies Chandrapur district, on Southwest lies Wardha district, on northwest lies Amravati district, and in North lies the Chhindwara district. The district of Nagpur is divided into 14 talukas and 12 Vidhan Sabha constituencies.
It is 13th most populated city and 13th largest urban cluster in India. According to the census of 2011, the population of Nagpur was recorded as 4,653,171 which were roughly similar to the nation of Ireland. The climate of Nagpur is mostly dry throughout the year with seasonal rainfall. The annual rainfall which is witnessed in area is around 1,205mm (which is equivalent to 47.44 inches) due to monsoon rains which occur in month of June to September. Summers in this region are extremely hot which lasts from March to June mostly, but hottest month is May. Winter lasts from November to January, during the winters it has witnessed that the temperature drops down below 10 degree Celsius or 50 degree Fahrenheit. Recently the highest recorded temperature for the year 2013, in Nagpur was around 47.9 degree Celsius on 22nd May 2013 and the lowest went to around 3.9 degree Celsius.
For visitors, some of the major attractions with respect to places areSeminary hill, Sitabuldi fort, Deekshabhoomi, Shukrawari Lake, Zero Mile Stone, Maharajbagh zoo, Raman science centre and many more. Further it also boasts that it has a vast forest area and tiger Sanctuaries within the radius of few hundred kilometres. It is marked with remarkable artificial and natural lakes and among them the largest is Ambazari Lake. Some other natural lakes are Telangkhedi and Gorewada Lake. Some of the historical rulers have created some artificial lakes which are Gandhisagar and Sonegaon. In fact further it has been named as Tiger capital of the Country. Major national parks which could not be left behind without mentioning are – Tadoba, Nagzira, Kanha, Pench, Melghat etc. Due to proximity with the international airport, lots of tourists do visit this attractive location and enjoy to the fullest.
The Geography of Nagpur would be incomplete if there is no mention of the rivers flowing across the city. Some of the famous river in Nagpur areGodavari, Wardha, Kanhan, Pench and Wainganga. Other essential facts about Nagpur areFirstly, it covers an area of 218 Km per square, Languages spoken are Marathi and Hindi. Secondly, the STD code which is followed in the area is 0712, thirdly the literacy is around 84.18%, fourthly, it is confined with best literacy rate of around 93.13%, and according to 2010 records it has been proved that Nagpur is considered as the second greenest city after Chandigarh. Recently, the Government of India has selected Nagpur as Model city for the National Clean air mission (for which around 25 crores of plans was furnished). Major commercial area which is in the heart of city is Sitabuldi (which is in Central Market). Nagpur owes around 3 state Universities, and Nagpur University is considered as one of the oldest which was founded in the year 1923.
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On October 5, 2021 the Alberta Government announced that it would reinstate contact tracing and notification in schools for confirmed cases of COVID-19. Beginning this week, Alberta Health Services (AHS) began notifying our School Division of confirmed cases of COVID-19.
The school will notify those impacted directly as a close contact of an AHS-confirmed case who attended school while infectious. Students and staff without symptoms are not required to isolate or quarantine due to potential exposure.
The following directives from AHS and CMOH Order 48-2021 only apply for Kindergarten to Grade 6 classes: during any 5-day period where 3 or more members of a class cohort are confirmed COVID-19 cases, unvaccinated members of the class cohort will be moved to at-home learning for a 10-day period. There is no similar requirement for Grades 7-12 at this time.
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You may wish to visit the Alberta COVID-19 School Status webpage for more information about school status classification and the provincial school outbreak alert list.
We thank you for continuing to monitor for COVID-19 symptoms using the Alberta Health Daily Checklist and staying home when you are ill. We also thank our excellent caretaking staff for additional cleaning and disinfecting in our schools to help keep everyone safe. Together we can help ensure students continue to benefit from in-person learning experiences in a safe environment.
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Degree (deg) unit was introduced by the Greek geometer Hipparchus of Nicaea (ca. 180-ca. 125 BC), who developed the first trigonometric tables. This is the standard unit of angle measure, equal to 1/360 circle, 60 minutes, 3600 seconds.
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Milliradian (mrad) is a unit of angle measurement equal to 0.001 radian.


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The tooth formula is a shorthand technique that biologist use to keep track of the teeth on a particular jaw. The formula consisted of two lines, top jaw and bottom jaw, which were used to count how many incisors, canines, premolars, and molar teeth a species had. Species A, Odocoileus virginiaus (white-tailed deer), had a tooth formula of 0033/3133. On the top jaw, the deer had zero incisor and canine teeth but have three of both the premolars and molars. On the bottom jaw, the deer had three incisors, one canine, three premolars, and three molars. Species B, Canis latrans (coyote), had a tooth formula of 3142/3143.
On the top jaw, the coyote had three incisors, one canine, four premolars, and two molars. On the bottom jaw, the coyote has three incisors, one canine, four premolars, and three molars. Both the deer and coyote skull were long and skinny towards the nose and mouth.
The coyote skull had a much rounder nose than the deer. Species C, Homo sapiens (human), had a tooth formula of 2122/2122. On both the top and bottom jaws, there were two incisors, one canine, two premolars, and two molars. In comparison to the deer and coyote skull, the human was an outcast. The human skull was a short distance from the back of the skull to the front. The human skull was very different in bone structure and longer in height than the deer and coyote skulls.
The tooth width from the deer, coyote, and human had a wide range in variety (Figure 1). There was a direct relationship between premolars one and two
Figure 1. Different tooth types in deer, coyote, and human compared by tooth width (cm). using the deer and human. The coyote had much smaller premolars than the deer and human. Figure 1 shows how similar the tooth width of a deer and coyote are. The cusps on the molars were very similar between the coyote and the human. The coyote and human molar cusps were very similar in molars one and two.
In Figure 1, the human and coyote tooth width are almost displayed the same. On molar three, the cusp sizes were very similar between the deer and coyote. The jaw length of a deer, 6.151 cm, is closest to a coyote, 5.507 cm, making the molars towards the back of the jaw more similar to each other than humans. Figure 1 gives a visual on the numbers for data and comparisons.
The tooth sharpness of each animal depended on the type of diet each animal had (Figure 2). The premolars had a linear pattern between the three animals.
Figure 2: Different tooth types of deer, coyote, and humans compared by tooth sharpness (deg.). Coyote's had the sharpest premolars, deer's in-between, and human's with the dullest premolars. Figure 2 compares the degrees of each premolar and each time, the pattern was followed. The molars had no relationship between each animal. Molar one cusp one and two are most closely related in both deer and humans. Molar two cusps one and two are most closely related to deer and human out of the three animals.
The cusps were similar but have about a ten-degree sharpness difference. The molars and cusps human's and deer's and human's were similar but have about a twelve-degree difference between sharpness. In the second molar of the human, the cusps were less sharp than the deer. Figure 2 displays that there was no pattern between the molars of the three animals.
Taking the calculated number of tooth width and dividing it by the matching jaw length found relative tooth width (Figure 3). Relative tooth width displays the tooth width relative to the length of the jaw. The jaw length of a deer was 6.151 cm,
Figure 3: Displays three different animals and how their tooth width is related to their jaw length. which was the longest jaw out of all species compared in this experiment. The coyote had a jaw length of 5.507cm while the human had a jaw length of 2.932 cm. Premolar one of the deer was most similar to the coyote. Premolar's 1, 2, and 3 were in proportion between the human and deer. The relative tooth width of the deer was very close in range while the coyote was not. By looking at Figure 3, this can be determined. The human has the highest relative tooth width out of the three species being compared.


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improve the results slightly with this setting, but this is specific to the current filter coefficients and input signal.
y = filter(h,xin);
R = qreport(h)
R =
 Fixed-Point Report
 Min Max | Range | Number of Overflows
 Output: -0.59239117 0._PHONE_ | -1 1 | 0/1000 (0%)
 Accumulator: -0.65199985 0.57536921 | -1 1 | 0/80000 (0%)
The quantization report let us verify that the overflows are eliminated and that the signals occupy the full range i.e. the scaling is optimal for this particular training data.
norm(double(y)-ydouble) % total error
ans =
ans =
The error seems small because there is no output quantization error in this case. If we use 16 bits for the output, the error is much larger.
y = filter(h,xin);
norm(double(y)-ydouble) % total error
ans =
ans =
fipref('LoggingMode', previousLoggingMode);
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Fall of Man: Sin
How do you recognize temptation?
1. How many restrictions did God place on the Garden of Eden?
a. 0.
b. 1.
c. 2.
d. 3.
2. When did God make his command "not to eat of the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil?"
a. Day 7 of Creation.
b. Before Adam was created.
c. Before Woman was created.
d. At the end of day 6 of Creation.
3. What was the cause of Woman's sin?
a. She was uncertain of God's Word.
b. She saw the tree as delightful and its fruit beautiful.
c. She wanted to be the leader of the family unit.
d. All of the above.
To learn more about the answers to questions #1-3, see:
Observing the Fall of Man
Series: The Doctrine on Man
Fall of Man: Consequence
Series: The Doctrine on Man
Essence: the Body


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The town of Rathkeale is situated about 14 miles from Limerick City, on the N21 that runs from Limerick to Tralee. Together with the town of Newcastlewest, it is one of the two main centres in the west of the diocese. The importance of Rathkeale as a centre can be traced back to the foundation of an Augustinian priory in the town in 1289. Its location on the river Deel added to its influence in the area. The arrival of the Palatines also contributed to the development of Rathkeale.
The Palatines were Lutheran refugees who fled from the Rhenish Palatinate of Germany due to an invasion by the French. They came to the area in 1708-09 under the patronage of Lord Southwell. Approximately twelve hundred Palatines came to settle in the area and their new ideas in farming were a large contributing factor to the development of the town. Rathkeale was also a major market town for the area and held seven fairs throughout the year.
The name Rathkeale comes from the Irish 'Ráth Caola' and it is believed to be derived from Ráth gCaeli, which means "the fort of the Caeli" or "the Rath of Caola". The Caeli were a Celtic tribe who came from this area of Limerick. The parish of Rathkeale is made up of the old parishes of Rathnasaire and Kilcoleman.
The Earls of Desmond used Rathkeale as a base. Castle Matrix was the principal stronghold of the Desmonds in the area and was built in or around 1410 by the Fitzgeralds of Desmond. In October 1580, two famous visitors came to stay at Castle Matrix. They were the poets Edmund Spenser and Walter Raleigh.
Sir Nicholas Malby burned the town of Rathkeale in 1579 after he defeated the forces of John, Earl of Desmond. John and his forces fled to Rathkeale from Manister where Malby had earlier defeated the Irish.
Captain Walter Raleigh ambushed the Irish, who were about to plunder what was left of the English camp once the troops had left. He received the freedom of the town in 1580, as a reward. Raleigh also repaired the castles at Rathkeale (Desmond's) and Matrix. The lands of the Munster Geraldines were in the main divided up amongst Spenser, Raleigh and Edmund Southwell. Raleigh gave some 'Virginia Tubers' as a present to Southwell. Southwell planted the tubers in the land around Castle Matrix and, in 1610, the crop was distributed throughout the province of Munster.
In 1654 Cromwell fixed the town as the place for the election of the counties of Limerick, Cork and Kerry for his parliament. However, Cromwell changed his mind on this point when the town refused to supply his army with sufficient provisions of food.
In the past church appointments were sometimes challenged by the local gentry. In 1748 the parish priest Fr. James Moore died. Henry Southwell lead opposition to the appointment of a number of priests by Dr. Lacy and finally the position of parish priest was successfully held by David Bourke who lived in the parish until his death in 1762.
In 1846 a hoard of coin was discovered in Rathkeale. These
coins were minted during the reign of Edward III (_PHONE_). It is believed
that the coins may have been part of the spoils of the O'Briens victory at
Monasteranenagh in 1370.
The present church in the town is dedicated to St Mary. J.J. McCarthy of Dublin designed the church in a Gothic-revival style during James O'Shea's term as parish priest from 1864 to 1877. However, Fr O'Shea died in 1877 and did not get to see the spire. The tower and spire of the church were completed in 1881 by Archdeacon Halpin, who dedicated them to the memory of his predecessor James O'Shea. The church bell was installed in 1882. The architect of the church, J. J. McCarthy, was also the architect of the church of SS Peter and Paul in Kilmallock, which was built in 1878.
A large marble plaque by the right side door mentions all the donors and their donations to the church. The Magnor family donated the site of the church and the graveyard. Patrick Hartigan and his family donated the Stations of the Cross to the church in 1874.
There are three plaques in the church, one of which commemorates Dean Costello's 70 years as a priest, while the other two are in memory of two former parish priests of Rathkeale; William Molony who died on November 7th 1901 and Archdeacon Halpin who was parish priest from 1877 until his death in 1884, aged 74. At the back of the church on the right there is a mosaic of the Angel Gabriel that was given to the church by General and Mrs. Lloyd of Beechmount. The mosaic was given in memory of their only child T. H. Eyre who was a Captain of the Coldstream Guards. Eyre was killed at Brakeenlaagte; Transvaal, South Africa during the Boer War on October 31st 1901, aged 30.
Inside the church on the left there is a shrine to Jesus on the Cross. A three-sectioned stained glass window was erected in 1973 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the opening of Rathkeale church. The three sections depict (from left to right) the keys of Heaven, the Holy Spirit and the Body and Bread.
The next stained glass window is also in three sections and depicts the Queen of Heaven, Jesus and an Apostle, and the dove of peace/the Holy Spirit. Underneath the window a plaque asks people to pray for Nora McMahon and her family.
Another stained glass window shows scenes from the Rosary, which shows the Assumption of Mary into Heaven and the Resurrection of Jesus from the tomb in the left panel. The middle panel depicts Jesus on the mountain with Elijah and Moses and Pentecost Sunday. The right panel shows Mary, Queen of Heaven and the Ascension into Heaven. The inscription under the window asks that people pray for Minnie Madigan and her relatives.
Over the Confessional on the left-hand side, there is a large stained glass window that was the gift of a number of families in the parish. Again the stained glass window is divided into three sections. The left section has three levels which depict (from the top) St Matthew and St Mark, St John the Baptist and St Augustine and St Ambrose. The middle section shows St Dominic, St Patrick and St Liguori while the right section depicts St Luke and St John, St Helen and St Jerome and St Gregory.
Near this stained glass window, there are two plaques. The first plaque tells us that Patrick Hartigan and family gave the Stations of the Cross in 1874. There is also a plaque to Dean Canon Costello PP who was a Dean from 1964 until 1989 when he resigned both titles. The plaque also states that Dean Canon Costello celebrated 70 years as a priest on June 20 1995. Dean Costello died on June 17 1996. Over the plaque there is a picture of the Sacred Heart.
There is an altar to Sacred Heart at the top left of the church. Over the altar of the Sacred Heart, there is a stained glass window of Mary, Jesus and Joseph. To the left of the altar there is a stained glass window of the Annunciation and the Sacred Heart appearing to St Margaret Mary.
At the top of the church on the right there is an altar to the Virgin Mary. Also in the church there is an Adoration chapel. At the back of this small chapel there is a stained glass window of the Lamb of God that is to the memory of Dean Thomas Costello PP.
The High Altar depicts the Angel Gabriel visiting Mary, the crowning of Mary and the Nativity. There are a number of stained glass windows in the apse which are (from left to right) St Paula, St Jeanne de Chantal, St Marcella, St Charles Borromeo, the Immaculate Conception, St Thomas Aquinas, St Winifred, St Francis Xavier and St Margaret. Viscount Southwell donated this window
Murals underneath these stained glass windows depict a number of saints: St James the Great, St Francis, St Philip Nero, St Maria of Pisa, St John, St Anne, St Catherine, the Lamb of God with a flag, St David, St Susanna, St Thomas, St Mary Magdalene, St Robert, St Elizabeth and St Charles Borroma. This mosaic work was at the bequest of W. J. Hayes.
There are small stained glass windows to the right of the altar. They depict the Virgin Mary, St James the Greater, St Munchin and St George. Fr James O'Shea PP of Rathkeale donated these windows. There is a small stained glass window of an angel on either side of the altar.
The stained glass windows above the choir gallery show Christ the King in the small centre window with underneath (from left to right) St Patrick, St Bridget, St Bertha the Abbess and St William the abbot. Lord Emly, William Maunsell, donated the window in 1873.
On the right hand side of the church there is a stained glass window showing three scenes from Moses


3 Clever Ways To Enhance Tension In Your Novel
I'm not talking to you!
I'm not talking to you!
I avoid locking eyes with him because his stare is so thick I have to crave it with a swiss blade.
Can you feel tension?
Tension is what gives your readers that heart racing they feel when then they turn the pages in your book. It's that ' I can't sleep until I'm done reading' feeling.
If you read, you've most likely come across a story that makes you more alert than a cat until you've reached a satisfying conclusion and your heart rate returns to normal.
But how do you create this kind of tension?
How do you keep your readers turning page to page?
1. Body Language
You've heard the phrase, "Actions speaks louder than words" but what does that really mean?
It means that how we act means more than what we say.
In the example above, the first thing I describe was the character avoiding eye contact with the other person. That movement says a lot about her personality (because she can't handle intense situations), her habits, and how she feels.
Its shows she doesn't want this situation.
Body language can enhance your tension because it goes one step farther than telling.
2. Dialogue
The words your characters say to one another can increase the tension ten folds.
Sometimes readers can't guess what the character is thinking just by their body language. Sometimes the character needs to express how they feel directly or indirectly at the person that's causing them tension.
An argument with words like "liar, trust, faith, ungrateful, deceitful," or anything that would make an argument go deeper than surface level pettiness would work.
For example, If you have a character firing another character for poor work performance would you words like lazy or incompetent. The uneasiness feeling between your two characters create tension.
3. Setting
Your environment is not always picture perfect and neither should your character's be. Change the weather up a bit and create tension by having your characters overcome something during blizzard or thunderstorm or flood.
This can really help enhance the tension because it adds another layer of drama your characters will have to overcome.
You can really by creative with this! Sandstorm, heat wave, dust storm, fog.
Anything that might ruffle your characters feathers!
Try these out and post what you think.
Have fun 🙂
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Build configurations provide a way to store multiple versions of solution and project properties. The active configuration can be quickly accessed and changed, allowing you to easily build multiple configurations of the same project.
By default, and projects created with Visual Studio include Debug and Release configurations. Debug configurations are automatically configured for debugging an application, and Release configurations are configured for the final release of an application. For more information, see How to: Set Debug and Release Configurations. You can also create and edit your own custom solution and project configurations to meet the needs of your application. For more information, see How to: Create and Edit Configurations.
Two levels of build configurations can be defined in Visual Studio: solution configurations and project configurations.
A solution configuration specifies how the projects in a solution are to be built and (if enabled) deployed. To define a new solution configuration, open the Configuration Manager Dialog Box and select New from the Active solution configuration list.
Each entry in a solution configuration includes a project name, a configuration setting, a platform setting, a build setting, and (if enabled) a deploy setting. The combination of solution configuration and solution platform settings chosen determines the project configuration that will be used. For more information on solution platforms, see Build Platforms.
You can create any number of solution configurations, each with a unique name. The Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) automatically assigns solution configurations whenever you:
Add a project platform with Create new solution platforms selected.
Add a project configuration with Create new solution configurations selected.
Add a new project that will be deployed on multiple platforms, one of which is new.
Solution configurations also provide general project context information to the IDE. For example, if the active solution configuration specifies that a project will be built for a mobile device, the Toolbox will display only project items that can be used in a mobile device project while you are working on that project.
The project configuration and project platform are used together to specify the properties to use when building the project. A project can have a set of defined project properties for every unique combination of a configuration and platform. Project properties are edited with the Project Designer. Certain panes in the Project Designer contain dropdown lists that indicate the curent project configuration and platform combination.
You can define the configuration-dependent properties in each project configuration as needed. Project properties can be used to determine, for example, which project items will be included in a particular build, what output files will be created, where the output files will be put, and how they will be optimized.
Project configurations can differ considerably. The properties of one project configuration might, for example, specify that its output file be optimized so that the resulting binary occupies the minimum space, while another project might be optimized such that its executable runs at the maximum speed.
Project configurations are not stored by user, but by solution, so that they can be shared by a team. Although project dependencies are configuration-independent, only those projects specified in the active solution configuration will be built.
When you build a solution, Visual Studio uses the active solution configuration, which specifies the project configurations to use for each project to be built. You can change the active configuration directly from Solution Configurations drop-down list in the Standard toolbar, or from the Configuration Manager Dialog Box dialog box.
If you cannot find solution configuration settings on the Standard toolbar or cannot access the Configuration Manager, you may have Visual Basic developer settings applied. For more information, see How to: Manage Build Configurations with Visual Basic Developer Settings Applied.
When you create a new solution configuration (rather than copy one that already exists), the IDE determines the default project configurations for the projects it will build using the following selection criteria for each project (evaluated in this order):
The new solution configuration will build a project configuration whose name exactly matches its own. Configuration names are not case sensitive.
If there is no exact name match, the new solution configuration will build a project configuration whose name matches the configuration portion of its name, whether or not the platform portion also matches. (Remember that the naming convention is .)
If there is still no match, the new solution configuration will build the first configuration listed for a project.
When you create a project configuration and select Create new solution configurations, the IDE looks for an appropriately named solution configuration to build the project on each platform it supports. In some cases, the IDE will rename existing solution configurations or create new ones.
The IDE determines how to assign solution configurations using the following selection criteria:
If a project configuration does not specify a platform or specifies a single platform, then a solution configuration whose name matches that of the new project configuration will either be found or added. In this case, the name of this default solution configuration does not include a platform name; it takes the form .
If a project supports multiple platforms, a solution configuration is found or added for each project configuration to build each project on each platform it supports. The name of each solution configuration includes both the project configuration name and the platform name; it takes the form .


Branche: Kultur
Agentur: Pentagram
Quelle: _URL_
New identity for Jigsaw.
Our goal with the design was to create a bold and serious logotype that still retained a level of nuance and sophistication representative of the films themselves. This was accomplished by distilling the graphics down to a few impactful elements: a strong, straightforward lowercase sans serif wordmark, a journalistic black-and-white color palette, and a simple, memorable concept. By removing sections of the letterforms, we were able to visually represent the interplay of different voices and perspectives that make up the narrative of each film. The viewer participates in the identity, filling in the blanks with the missing information. The two halves of the mark also strike a balance, suggesting a look at both sides of an issue.
The logo plays with the physical edges of applications, capturing the tension in Gibney's work while staying true to the meaning of the word "jigsaw." Letterforms bleed on and off the frame to form expressive lockups that turn the logo itself into a kind of puzzle. On stationery the black-and-white color palette has been elevated through foil stamping, with black foil applied to the edges of letterhead, business cards and other collateral. This subtle and unexpected detail gives the pieces a powerful appearance when stacked together and a tactile and visual twist when seen apart from the system.


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DHS in the News
Journalists worldwide write about MEASURE DHS results. The dissemination of DHS, SPA and HIV data is often widely covered by media in survey countries, but journalists also use MEASURE DHS data throughout the year as background information for their stories, or to compare health and development indicators across countries. These data are also used by journalists in the United States and other developed countries, as it is considered the gold standard of population, health and nutrition data. Below are some examples of recent news coverage. Please note: The links below are to websites outside MEASURE DHS.
UNICEF gives to LISGIS
THE INQUIRER (Liberia)
...The Liberia DHS 2012-13 will contribute to addressing this general lack of data on important socio-economic indicators such as health, nutrition, protection, WASH and HIV and AIDS...
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In this section you will find the fundamentals on how to create and use Soul Pictures.
Perhaps most important is the page describing the Four Pillars of Soul Pictures. These four simple principles act as a guide in how to create a Soul Picture to make it as supportive and effective as possible. However, know that whatever you draw, paint or otherwise create is absolutely fine. These are guidelines and helpful suggestions, with good reasons behind them. Yet, it is your Soul Picture, and there can also be good reasons to choose something different. Let your intuition guide you!
Next up are the Three Kinds of Soul Picture: foci, maps, and anchors. This describes both what these three kinds of image are used for, as well as the differences in how to create them. See which one feels most appropriate to what you want to represent for a given situation.
The third page is about how to use tapping (EFT) with your Soul Picture. This technique helps in three different ways. It is great at releasing emotions and blocks around a subject. Tapping can help you to achieve a more creative, intuitive frame of mind. And it can also be used to cement new understandings and resources.
Finally, there is a page and video on breathing. Heart Math breathing, sometimes called Balancing Breath, is a highly effective way to get yourself into a state of calm, focus and creativity. It is also easy to do, and to maintain while you are creating your Soul Picture. It helps you to get into flow: that state where you are engaged in what you are doing so you lose track of time, feeling focused and stimulated. If you ever worry about artist's block, give this a try!


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Pinker's First Law
Human intelligence is a product of analogy and combinatorics. Analogy allows the mind to use a few innate ideas—space, force, essence, goal—to understand more abstract domains. Combinatorics allows an a finite set of simple ideas to give rise to an infinite set of complex ones.
Pinker's Second Law
Human sociality is a product of conflicts and confluences of genetic interests. Our relationships with our parents, siblings, spouses, friends, trading partners, allies, rivals, and selves have different forms because they instantiate different patterns of overlap of ultimate interests. History, fiction, news, and gossip are endlessly fascinating because the overlap is never 0% or 100%.