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Both male and female Stiefelgeiss goats have horns. Their coats range from a light greyish brown to a dark reddish color. The animals are not excessively shaggy, but on the animals' hind end, long beard hairs, called "Mänteli," grow much longer and often are of a different color from the rest of the coat. Some members of the breed display long, beard-like hairs on the chin.
Until the 1920s, the goat was actively bred, but by the 1980s, it was nearly extinct. Noting this, the Swiss preservation foundation Pro Specie Rara took an interest in the breed. Now mostly managed by the Booted Goat Breeders Club of Switzerland, the ongoing conservation efforts encourage farmers to keep the goats for their agricultural usefulness, for service as mother nannies, and for meat. While still an endangered population, the recent trend in their numbers has been positive. As of 2001, there were 600 members spread among 87 breeders. They are concentrated in eastern Switzerland, with scattered breeding groups also found in the central and western regions of the country.
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The coupler described in this paper is designed to separate the hot electron beam and the high-power microwave signal in a free-electron-maser amplifier. This coupler has been designed, built, and tested and is intended for operation across the 8-18 GHz frequency band. It consists of an arc of quadridged waveguide with the electron beam entering between ridges. The RF performance was found to be critically dependent on the radius and length of the arc. The measured return loss is better than -30 dB across the band with an insertion loss of less than 0.1 dB.

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The Brantingham Tyche Mosaic
The so-called 'Tyche Mosaic' was discovered in 1961at the site of a large villa near Brantingham, about 3km northwest of Brough in East Yorkshire. It measures 11 x 7.8m and dates to the middle of the 4th century, about 330-335 AD. The mosaic features a distinctive figure at the centre wearing a crown and surrounded by a nimbus or halo. Some experts believe this figure is a 'Tyche' (pronounced tie-key), a personification of a province or tribe, and this has given the mosaic its name.
Tyche or Muse?
There are actually two theories about who the figure is. Supporters of the 'Tyche' identification see the crown in the form of a city wall with towers - a feature seen in other representations of the deity. Some have speculated that it could be the Tyche of the Parisi, the local tribe of the area. A Tyche is usually seen with a cornucopia, or horn of plenty, but unfortunately this clinching piece of evidence would be on the left shoulder - the very part of the centre piece that has been lost!
An alternative theory is that the central bust represents one of the Nine Muses, the other eight being arranged in two rows of four at the top and bottom of the mosaic. If this is the case then the crown would actually be a feathered head-dress as worn by the muses after their legendary singing contest with the Sirens. What do you think?
Around the central bust are semicircular compartments, each containing a reclining water-nymph, holding a reed in her right hand and resting her elbow on an overturned vase - the symbol of spring. The spaces between the nymphs contain large canthari (wine-cups) or craters (vessels for mixing water and wine).
The Eight Ladies
Oblong friezes above and below the central panel each contained four female busts with a top-knot and a nimbus or halo. They are shown within a round-headed panel making the panel look rather like a row of niches in a wall. The busts are similar to the central bust but lack a crown. Unfortunately only three of the original eight have survived but all are slightly different.
Painting in Stone
Interestingly it seems that the design for the Tyche Mosaic was actually intended for painted ceilings or walls. The form of the central panel would have fitted perfectly into a dome, while the architectural niches with busts in the top and bottom panels would suit a wall. Painted wall plaster that had fallen onto the mosaic includes a nimbed bust in a roundel and shows that the design was carried upwards onto the walls of the room. The whole effect must have been a vast array of faces!


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Some gundrills include an outer secondary angle parallel to the front cutting edge where the primary and secondary angles meet. It's critical that this primary facet is relatively narrow, as too much width will increase heat production and, consequently, reduce tool life.
The operator next moves to grinding the inner relief facet by moving the fixture -20º horizontally in the opposite direction from the primary angle. This movement results in the formation of a point position with a length that is exactly one quarter of the drill's diameter, the so-called "D/4" position, but other lengths may be necessary depending on the drill material.
The operator then moves to the front clearance, a facet with a point close to–but not touching–the front cutting edge. With standard gundrill tip geometry, a 0º horizontal angle and rotation as well as a +26º vertical angle will provide the correct position. While cutting performance improves the closer this point gets to the cutting edge, optimal edge strength requires placing the point slightly behind the edge. If a tip's geometry requires an outer secondary angle, the front clearance facet's point should meet it. Otherwise, the point of the facet is placed between 0.020 in. (0.508 mm) and 0.030 in. (.762 mm) behind the front cutting edge.
The final step on the grinder provides the oil dub-off, a facet with an edge tangential to the flute of the gun drill. Operators position the grind fixture at -30º horizontally, +25º vertically and +65º rotationally. The gundrill tip then feeds into the grinder at a rate that prevents cutting into the front cutting edge. The optimal angle meets the inner relief angle at the corner opposite the gundrill's outside diameter.
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Posted on 09/05/2013 4:20:38 PM PDT by Kevmo
Gamma-producing fusion branches and solid state matter
Eric Walker Sun, 25 Aug 2013 12:49:47 -0700
I'm including a brief synthesis of some of the thoughts that have been discussed on this list concerning a possibly novel interaction between gamma-producing fusion branches and solid state matter. This synthesis elaborates on a thought experiment that at this time lacks the rigor of something that would be turned into in a paper. My hope is that it can nonetheless be further refined as one step towards a more rigorous presentation, should that come about at some point.
Although the discussion below focuses on PdD somewhat, hopefully it will be clear that it applies equally to NiH(D). I see more promise in NiH and simply feel a desire to try to pick up some longstanding questions that have been raised in connection with PdD, which for most investigators is a system that is more familiar and better understood. For the most part I have been focused on NiH.
Since late 2011 there has been a discussion about a new way that the gamma-producing fusion branches might interact with matter, first set out to my knowledge in a post by Ron Maimon to the physics site physics.stackexchange.com. During 2012 and into 2013 that thread has been picked up on Vortex-L and the idea extended and modified. The foundation for the speculations here is not yet rigorous, so they are only a thought experiment at this point. But, phenomenologically, they go a long way to explain persistent and quirky details of the cold fusion experiments that have been described in Ed Storms's book and review articles and by others, elsewhere. For this reason I think the thought experiment merits a restatement and consideration of some observations it might explain as well as some new predictions. I'll try to do each of these things in turn.
To recap, the original proposal was that in the context of a palladium lattice the gamma-producing dd fusion branch interacts electromagnetically with lattice site nuclei instead of producing a gamma photon. The result is that you would get a prompt 4He that, when born, pushes off of a nearby heavy palladium nucleus. The heart of the idea is that the energy is yielded in a (near-) instantaneous electromagnetic transfer with the palladium lattice site. The gamma, which takes a long time to be emitted, is competetively suppressed and the energy is translated into kinetic energy of the daughter 4He and the palladium lattice site. This happens because the electromagnetic interaction is very fast compared to gamma photon emission. The process is so fast in fact that it also competes favorably with the other dd branches, which involve the production of energetic charged particles and neutrons (a slower process). The discussion here has run with Ron's idea and modified and extended it. The extension is to all gamma-producing fusion branches, and not just d(d,ɣ)4He, and to electromagnetic interaction not only with lattice site nuclei but also with the ambient electronic structure of the metal lattice. The modification involves how the chain reaction proceeds. Whereas Ron proposes that energetic charged deuterons drive the reaction in a very specific way (see for the full discussion), the proposal here is that all electromagnetic interactions, whether directly with the electronic structure or indirectly through disruptions resulting from the motion of fast charged particles, proceed to modify the charge density in the metal lattice such that screening or possibly a mechanism similar to that of the Polywell reactor makes dd fusion and pd fusion orders of magnitude more likely.
The motivation for the approach of this thought experiment is twofold. The first reason this hypothetical mechanism is attractive is that it has a good phenomenological fit to the cold fusion experimental observations. A second reason is that to my knowledge it does not depart too far from conventional physics. While it is true that a few assumptions must be reexamined, our basic understanding of physical laws and interactions need not be set aside, in connection, for example, with the strong interaction, the weak interaction and Coulomb repulsion.
Now for the observations and predictions.
1. In PdD electrolytic experiments, 4He seems to be produced at or close to the surface of the cathode.
The main reason for this belief is that the 4He, which is thought to be the primary ash of PdD cold fusion, is found near the surface and less and less as towards the bulk of the palladium cathode. Because 4He is not mobile in palladium (except when there are fissures and cracks), it cannot migrate out of the cathode in the same way that deuterium can. This means that any 4He that is detected at or near the surface that is the result of a fusion process will have been produced at or near the surface. The requirement for surface or near-surface production of 4He in the PdD electrolytic system does not seem to be a hard and fast one, but there are several lines of evidence that point in that direction.
If the mechanism proposed here holds, the reason for this would be straightforward. Electrical current can be expected, through the mechanism of this thought experiment, to bring alter the charge density of the lattice site nuclei. The electron charge would then become more evenly distributed throughout the lattice and into the interstitial areas, rather than being concentrated around the lattice sites as it normally is. The cause for the change in charge density is not yet clear -- in this case it could be through interactions between migrating electrons with more tightly bound electrons. But because current flows primarily through the skin of a conductor and less and less towards the center, one would see less and less of the effect with increasing depth into the cathode.
2. In PdD electrolytic experiments, it can take a while for an effect to be seen. 3. In PdD electrolytic experiments, there seems to be a relationship between impurities and an effect. Excess heat may not be seen in a pure palladium cathode, for example, whereas it may be seen increasingly effectively in a cathode which has undergone prior electrolysis and has acquired impurities through the process of electrolysis.
It would seem that impurities play a role of some kind. One thought here is that in order for the charge density to be altered, the energy within the electronic structure must be allowed to increase. This process can be expected to be defeated if electrons are mobile throughout the cathode. If there are dielectric impurities that have the effect of isolating certain portions of the cathode into their own insulated islands, the average energy of the electronic structure within those islands can be expected to increase. In a fresh cathode, there may be few impurities and insulated islands of this type. After a long period of electrolysis, however, there may be more and more insulated islands that can retain energy in this way, facilitating the modification of the charge distribution and hence the shielding mentioned above.
4. In cold fusion experiments, one often sees strange transients in the current, in which the current increases for periods of time.
This detail was noted by Abd sometime back. One possible explanation here would be that the process being proposed has two branches -- one is the electrostatic dumping of the energy of a fusion directly into the electronic structure, and the other the creation of kinetic energy as the 4He daughter (in the case of PdD) pushes off of a lattice site. The former branch is relevant here, as it seems to be equivalent to a spark discharge into the electron cloud of around 24 MeV (or 5 MeV). If enough of these events occurred, one supposes there would be an increase in current at the macroscopic level and an apparent decrease in resistivity.
5. In cold fusion experiments, very little prompt radiation is seen.
This is an observation that Ed has steadfastly defended and that I have only reluctantly come around to after reading through some of the early papers. Now that there is a mechanism that makes sense to me that does not purely involve fast particles (such as the one proposed by Ron Maimon in ), I'm more open-minded to cold fusion products being born without kinetic energy. This backtracking on my part inverts the old saying that seeing is believing -- here we have something like, "having a believable explanation is seeing."
The lack of prompt radiation suggests that of the two different branches proposed -- one in which the decaying [dd]* or [pd]* intermediate state electrostatically dumps directly into the electronic structure, and the other in which the resulting 4He or 3He pushes off of a lattice site -- it would seem to be the first branch that is dominant. In that branch, one expects 4He and 3He to be born almost motionless, and the momentum of the reaction to be carried away primarily by the electronic structure. Here it may be the local region of the electron cloud as a whole that receives the momentum, or, alternatively, a single electron. In the former case there would be almost no Bremsstrahlung. In the latter case, which would result in a ~24 MeV or ~5 MeV electron, one would expect Bremsstrahlung.
6. Excess heat has been seen in zeolites impregnated with palladium.
Because the zeolite matrix is an electrical insulator, the energy of the electronic structure in the palladium particles embedded within it can be allowed to increase over time, altering thereby through some as-yet-discovered phenomenon the distribution of charge density. This is similar to the possible role played by impurities mentioned above in connection with (2) and (3).
7. In PdD electroly


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How do I change the resolution from C#? Is there a class? – Andrew J. Brehm Aug 26 '09 at 8:52
Did you follow the links that Splash provided? – EBGreen Aug 26 '09 at 11:50
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Fri 26 Apr 2019 | Iain Buchan
The health avatar will harmonise machine learning, data analytics, and cloud technologies to make healthcare more interactive, personalised, and fulfilling
Professor Iain Buchan, public health and clinical informatics researcher at the University of Liverpool, coined the term health avatar. It describes a "digital mirror" of the future, that will cultivate an accurate picture of a user's health and lifestyle over time using interoperable online services, new data streams and machine learning.
Among the many potential benefits of this digital reflection is the ability to match an individual's health fingerprint to the care optimal to it; enabling individuals to "shop around" for treatment. A community of digitised selves will also enable individuals to connect with their "avatar kin" and specialist researchers.
Techerati asked Iain to outline health avatar fundamentals and its implications for the future of healthcare, wellbeing and fulfilment.
Why health avatars are the future of healthcare provision
A person's health avatar is the interactive combination of their health and care records, programs, and preferences.
Sometimes it is a digital mirror, enabling a person to discover different potential health futures depending on lifestyle or self-care choices such as diet and physical activity alongside medication for type 2 diabetes. This digital mirror also allows a person to correct or fill in missing information through interaction, creating a more accurate picture of themselves, which in turn improves the record that guides their health professionals' decisions.
Sometimes the avatar is a personal assistant, transacting on a person's behalf, maybe ordering a repeat prescription or booking a visit for a blood test or consultation (which may be hastened or delayed, or moved between online or face-to-face, based on remote monitoring, and care pathway criteria).
Sometimes the avatar is the tutor of personal assistants, personalising interactions in ways that different assistants can learn from one another, leaving different signatures of your basic underlying "habit engine", needs and life-contexts.
There may be no initial business incentive for competing companies/clouds with different AIs to cross-fertilise in this way, so the avatar is necessarily disruptive. Indeed, in Europe, the GDPR right to personal data portability might be interpreted as covering such personal 'habit engines', meaning a person's health avatar must not be held hostage by being unreasonably binded to a single company's technologies.
"I haven't used the term "digital twin" as the data feasibly captured about a person's health & care journey are very sparse"
Collaboration doesn't naturally scale as competition does, but in a world facing increasing pressures on healthcare budgets, avatars that can 'shop around' for the best value care could be extremely valuable to society.
Why health avatar is a more appropriate term than digital twin
I haven't used the term "digital twin" as the data feasibly captured about a person's health and care journey are very sparse – future data will be more "high definition" but not conceivably close to a "twin". Measurement error and missing data will remain a challenge for machine learning and humans trying to distil the models that constitute a person's health 'programs'.
Most current models that predict disease risks and treatment outcomes have been developed for looking at one disease at a time and making decisions about improving services for the average patient with that disease.
Real patients may have multiple interacting diseases and life-contexts. Science and technology are a long way from understanding how to build the union of models that accurately reflect a person's health journey, learning more predictive accuracy with the data cumulating over a lifetime.
This kind of digital twinning is an important grand challenge, but long before it is achieved, relatively simple avatars can achieve much progress.
It may, however, be reasonable to characterise a person's avatar as a digital twin if it attends a virtual clinic appointment on their behalf – the ease with which a multi-disciplinary team could review a patients "health journey" in a timely way may have great value.
A representation of how personal health records can integrate with healthcare, commercial governance, and research entities:
Source: Big data hurdles in precision medicine and precision public health, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 18(1) · December 2018
Interactions also extend beyond care providers. A person may wish their avatar to interact with researchers or their 'avatar kin' (people with similar health journeys) to advance knowledge and personal fulfilment. As a person's avatar becomes a more "high definition" view of their health it will overlap with wider wellbeing and happiness. So, the avatar starts to broker a value chain cutting across many markets.
The ethics and governance challenges ahead
If health is top of the ethical tree then the health avatar is the acid test of ethics and governance for the personal assistant of personal assistants. I suspect pursuit of the health avatar will need something akin to W3C very soon – the economic implications of avatar communities may become profound. A long journey, but the first few practical steps are ready to take.
The UK's formation of a grid of integrated care systems is a very promising nursery for the future health avatar. We need to focus that combination of personal records, programs, and preferences on bridging the care divides that commonly cause harm (e.g. discontinuities between social, primary and secondary care).
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Techniques that allow data to be changed without affecting the applications that process it. There are two kinds of data independence. The first type is data independence for data, which is accomplished in a database management system (DBMS). It allows the database to be structurally changed without affecting most existing programs. Programs access data in a DBMS by field and are concerned with only the data fields they use, not the format of the complete record. Thus, when the record layout is updated (fields added, deleted or changed in size), the only programs that must be changed are those that use those new fields. Data Independence for Processing The second type of data independence relates to processing and refers to miscellaneous data used in programs that might change in the future, such as discount rates, product descriptions and error messages. Such data should be stored in a database and not "hard wired" into the code of the program. When values change, only the database item is altered, a much simpler task than recompiling numerous programs.


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For reasons that I no longer remember I found myself looking at the murder rate page on Wikipedia. Looking at some of the patterns in a few of the safer countries I realized that I could estimate their populations based on their homicide rates.
Is that wrong?
Here's a squished down copy of the bottom of that chart, showing homicides per 100,000 people per year. Can you see the patterns?
There are only two numbers for Monaco – 0.00 and 3.1. It seems likely that this corresponds to years with no murders and years with one. Therefore that suggests that Monaco has a population of 100,000 / 3.1 = ~32,000
Iceland's numbers generally appear to be multiples of 0.34 to 0.35, with the recent numbers being 0.31. That suggests that the years with a murder rate of 0.31 and 0.35 represent one murder, o.65 represents two, 1.02 and 1.03 represent three, and so on. The declining rate for single-murder years suggests that the population has increased over the years, and is now about 100,000 / 0.31 = ~320,000
Bahrain's numbers are a bit messier, especially the 0.94 in 2006. However the rest of them appear to be multiples of 0.11. That would give us a population of 100,000 / 0.11 = 910,000.
How'd we do? On the three countries with small enough populations and low enough murder rates to give us a plausible signal-to-noise ratio, two answers were quite good, and one was mediocre. I didn't try any others.
|Country||Estimated population||Actual Population||Error|
The common divisor for Bahrain, given its population, 'should' have been about 0.081, rather than 0.11, but I can't see that in the numbers. That could indicate dirty data, or a rapidly changing population.


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ONTD Original: Celebrities Who Are Terrible at Geography
Is Geography a struggle for you? You are (sadly) not alone. Here are some celebrities who are terrible at basic Geography.
1. Taylor Momsen
During a gig, said that "Glasgow is the craziest crowd in all of England".
Learn something from this:
Glasgow is a city in Scotland (but not the capital! That's Edinburgh). Scotland and England are both countries in the United Kingdom.
2. Lady Gaga
When playing a show in Dublin in 2012, Lady Gaga told the crowd she was "delighted to be back in the UK".
Learn something from this: Dublin is the capital of Ireland, a country which is not part of the UK (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland).
3. Britney Spears
Learn something from this: Britney is from the US. Canada is not overseas from the US; the countries share a border, in fact. Japan is in Asia. Fish is indeed pretty popular there, but people also eat many other things.
4. Paris Hilton
"I love Africa in general. South Africa and West Africa. They are both great countries."
Learn something from this: South Africa is indeed a country, but West Africa is a subregion in the continent of Africa. Here's a map.
5. Kim Kardashian
Learn something from this: Botswana is a country. South Africa is also a country. They are both in the continent of Africa.
6. Xtina
"Where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"
Learn something from this: Cannes is a city in France. That's where the Cannes Film Festival is held, every year.
7. Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber tried to list all the continents in the world to David Letterman. They are, according to him, Asia, North America, South America, Africa, Antarctica, the North Pole, Canada, Australia and Europe.
Learn something from this: Different countries/education systems teach the continents differently. In my education system, it was Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, Antarctica and America. However, there is a lot of variation, which is why some people refer to the continent of Oceania as just "Australia", for example, or divide America into 2 continents (North & South). Some systems also consider "Eurasia" as just one continent. But FYI the North Pole and Canada aren't continents in any system.
Bonus: book recs
Did your education system fail you? You can still learn, if you are willing. Doubling down on ignorance ain't cute, and pretending that "everyone else" also doesn't know basic facts might make you feel better, but won't make you more knowledgeable (also, it's just not true). Here's some book recs for people interested in learning more about geography (and some history and politics, too). See if your local library has them!
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Carrollton Leader > News
Santa Fe Days brings Native American history to Carrollton: Ninth year promises to bring culture to the forefront
Photos courtesy of Santa Fe Days organizers
Chester Nez is the last surviving Navajo Code Talker who assisted the United States during World War II.
Santa Fe Days, Carrollton's largest gathering of Native Americans, is just around the corner.
The free Native American cultural event features more than 40 Native American artists and craftsman, championship plains Native American dancers, Evelio Flores' Aztec DancersMitotiliztli Yaoyollohtli, and Southern Drum-Bear Claw Singers.
The event will be held Oct. 13 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Oct. 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the square in Historic Downtown Carrollton.
The idea came in 2003, when Carrollton businessman David Oldfield was visiting New Mexico. During his trip, he met the Santa Domingo veteran craftsmen, who are predominantly jewelers. Oldfield thought the jewelry was so beautiful that he wanted to somehow bring the crafts to the city.
Enter Annette Anderson, who has been assisting in the event for the past four years. She, along with Native American community members, has been pushing for a more cultural experience, and this year is no different.
"For the past four years we have been trying to develop a cultural aspect of it so it's not just jewelry and pottery and all of the crafts," Anderson said. "Now we have Pueblos and nations from all over the United States that are represented through their crafts."
The last surviving Navajo Code Talker, Chester Nez, will be on hand to sign his book about the role the Navajo language played in World War II.
"Most of the code talkers were sent to boarding school when they were little, where they were told not to use their language and were punished for doing so," Anderson said. "Then, the United States government said they needed them to use their language to use the code, because it was the only one that had never been broken."
Anderson said the U.S. tried several other native languages during World War II, including languages native to the Choctaw, Comanche and Cherokee tribes.
Santa Fe Days has incorporated a new cultural path where children and families can learn how Native Americans influenced the food so commonly found on their tables.
"For instance, our main thing is a seed protector bag that every child is going to get," Anderson said. "We made 1,000 handmade seed bags. When they come to the children's cultural path, they will get a sample of the three sister sees - corn, beans and squash, which is an ancient agricultural method used for centuries. Then they learn about protecting our seeds and GMO seeds versus heirloom seeds."
At least 60 percent of the world's food supply is reliant on foods that were originally grown by the indigenous people of America, who cultivated more than 300 foods including Irish potatoes, which were actually first grown by Native Americans.
"We have an indigenous grocery store with all of the items grown by indigenous people and children will see them in the grocery store but won't connect with here they where the food came from," Anderson said. "We're showing them how all of this fits together. I take a mobile store with me to powwows and children will come up to me asking about a pinto been and say they have never had one. But when I tell them that those are the beans used in bean burritos from Taco Bell, they immediately connect."
In addition to the indigenous grocery store, Santa Fe Days will feature a new exhibit called "Food is Medicine."
"We show them how everyday foods that you get in the grocery store were actually used as medicine for indigenous people," Anderson said. "For example, you can take avocado pit and cut it into fourths that can be made into tea that helps with stomach troubles. We are trying to get a typical herbal cough drop and have as many of the ingredients in its plant form so kids can see how this all fits together."
A quiz will be given to adults and teenagers to see if they can identify which herb aids which ailment. But it's not all food and herbs, Anderson said, there are many other attractions this year that she hopes will bring in more people.


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What is the cost to store your records or should you have them scanned?
A whole box of files can usually be stored for less than 50 cents per month. Suppose it costs $200 to scan a box of 100 files. However, the whole box can be stored for less than 50 cents per month paid monthly. You can store the whole box for many years for the cost of scanning one file. The cost of scanning the files is also paid up front, which is sometimes a cash flow burden.
However, the true cost of storing files is also determined by how many times a file is retrieved. If a file is retrieved often, then you might want to scan. Many record storage companies offer the ability to "scan on demand". That is a situation where you call to retrieve a file and the record storage company scans that file and emails it to you at that time. Then only one of the files of the box is scanned, rather than the whole box.
Call the record storage companies in your area for a free quote for the cost of all their services. Talk with them about how often you retrieve files and what is the best solution for you.
Other costs to consider in the scanning versus professional off-site storage.
What is Cost to Scan Medical Charts?
It has become necessary for every clinic, hospital and medical practice to maintain and preserve records of every patient in a safe and reliable manner. They should have documents related to patient's evolution, medical check-ups, and treatment, etc. These records should be preserved for at least 10 years. The best way to deal with loads of medical records, and medical charts, etc. is to employ current medical records scanning methods so that documents can be saved in the form of computer files. This will help in indexing the records resulting in quick retrieval and safety.
When it comes to the price of patient records scanning, it depends on a number of simple factors.
 - Are there documents in the file printed on both sides
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Are the electronic patients files going to be indexed. Invite the medical document scanning companies you chose to come and examine your patient medical charts in order to get an accurate cost of scanning.
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However, we realize it is sometimes impossible to let your medical records leave your office to be transported to the scanning service bureau. Now, you can hire a scanning service which will bring their scanners along with professional and experienced scanning personnel to your facility. Hiring such service provider is a practical solution to lighten your workload and increase office competence. The experts will take care of your medical scanning needs. They will work for you at your clinic or hospital to match-up your requirements within the given time frame. Since their employees work for the scanning company, there will be no temptation to pull them away from the scanning job to perform other tasks.
They utilize cutting-edge software, equipment and software to convert every record from paper to digital computer files. All kinds of papers including medication prescription, consultation reports, test reports, progress notes and discharge reports and more can be converted in electronic medical records so that you can use them in future. Once you hire a service provider to convert your charts into electronic medical records system, there is no need to buy any kind of equipment or software. It ultimately means, you can save lots on money.
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The Sonus Faber
Welcome to the revolution of sound.
Where emotion, sound, perfection come together. The essence of passion, technology, innovation, design, named after its creator. A loudspeaker which is not only a simple sound transmission medium, but a true vehicle of sensations and emotions.
The Idea
The bravest yet simplest ideas give life to the most ambitious projects. As what happens with the Sonus faber, head of a new collection of loudspeakers that changes the high end world forever, by revolutionizing it from the base. The flagship comes from the will to summarize Sonus faber's know-how, and it will give an A to the evolution of sounds and shapes as we know them. The idea comes to life from a project that has been studied down to the finest details, inspired by intuitions, real sparkles that give life to materials. Noble materials and handcrafted works following prototypes and digital data processing, that create the Sonus faber: a meeting point of craftsmanship, technology, shapes of the past and looks towards a nearer future.
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Franklin Delano Blenkinsop
Franklin - His first name, forename, or given name. This would once have been his Christian name or baptismal name, but these terms have gone out of fashion in these multi-cultural times.
Delano - His middle name.
Blenkinsop - His surname, family name or last name.
The answer to a question about your name depends on who is asking the question, for example:
When he is making a table reservation: Blenkinsop
When booking an airline ticket: Blenkinsop - Franklin Blenkinsop, or Franklin Blenkinsop
When meeting new colleagues: Franklin Blenkinsop or Franklin
At the gym: Franklin or, perhaps, Frank/Frankie.
However, these are only general ideas. People say different things.


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How to make poppies out of egg cartons.
11 poppy crafts for remembrance day. Remember the fallen with these fab kids poppy craft, which are perfect for remembrance day
Remembrance Day art project for kids. Collaboration group poster - each child colors one part of the poster to contribute to a large (approx.
Teach a lesson about peace with a dove peace foldable writing craft, which includes a FREE foldable craftivity, instructions, and book suggestion.


LEA Administrators and Data Auditors
Why did some of my employees disappear from the NCEdCloud IAM Service?
If you have staff members in your LEA or charter school who were using accounts in the IAM Service but they no longer show up, the first place to check is typically the payroll system that your LEA or charter school uses. This occasionally happens with 10 and 11 month employees when their work/job Start Dates are not present or not in the upcoming school year in the payroll system.
Why is an employee's email wrong or missing in the NCEdCloud IAM Service?
Employee email address originally came from the HRMS system when NCEdCloud was first set up. However, many PSUs complained that those records were only updated if an employee changed jobs, and frequently had an old email listed. This process was changed a few years ago to obtain employee email address in a specific order by searching 2 or 3 source systems to find staff email address. The process now starts with PowerSchool, then checks LINQ HR (if used by the LEA), and lastly HRMS.
Who can see the "My Students" tab in the IAM Service Profiles view?
The ability to see the "My Students" tab in the Rapid Identity Portal under Profiles view, is based on whether the employee who logs into the IAM Service has one of the designated "Teacher Job Codes". Job Codes are setup by the NCDPI and are assigned to an employee through their payroll system and stored in the UID system. Below are the job codes (sometimes referred to as object codes), that allow an employee to see the My Students tab.
When is the next Home Base maintenance window and how will it affect the NCEdCloud IAM service?
Home Base Maintenance Periods typically involve downtime of PowerSchool and sometimes other Home Base applications. However, during such downtime, other IAM Service integrated applications remain available.
For a complete schedule of Home Base Maintenance Periods, please see... Home Base Maintenance and Support
What are the cutoff times for updated source data to be included in the IAM service the next day?
Upstream data processes produce the user data that is provided to the NCEdCloud IAM service early in the morning on Monday through Saturday. If an updated data field value is entered into that field's source system prior to that source system's cutoff time, then the data is provided to the IAM service the following day. (Note that data is typically NOT provided to the IAM service on Sunday mornings).
What settings in the Chrome browser can affect logins?
There are a couple of Chrome settings that may improve your experience in using the NCEdCloud IAM Service:
 1. 'Continue where I left off' - attempts to re-establish all of your sessions that were open when you closed the browser. This can result in a continuation of a session -ORcan result in some very cryptic errors within the Application. Change this under Settings > On startup
How are elevated privilege roles requested?
The Tech Director/CTO for an LEA or Charter School should be the first person to claim their account and request the LEA Administrator Role. To request a privileged role for others, choose the 'Workflow' button on the left menu and then choose the 'Requests' tab along the top. Select the desired role checkbox(es) (LEA Administrator, LEA Data Auditor, LEA Help Desk, LEA Student Help Desk, School Help Desk, and School Student Help Desk) and click the Submit Requests button.
How do I see a list of employees or students in my LEA?
The My Employees tab or the My Students tab under Profiles in the IAM Service relies on a "Search" function. You need to enter some criteria to select the users you want to lookup. The easiest search is to enter an asterisk * wildcard in the search window and click the Search button. This will only return the first 1000 matching records, however, which is the limit of the query.


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- Psychology & the public
- What we do
- Member networks
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Facebook clues may affect job prospects
Clues to a person's personality provided on Facebook could hamper their chances of employment, new research has suggested. Published in the International Journal of Work Innovation, the study revealed many bosses are looking at social media sites to find out more about a would-be worker's lifestyle, attitudes and appearance.
Investigators from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Florida International University in North Miami claimed such an approach is creating a digital divide and pointed to greater encroachment of virtual identity freedoms.
The team noted: "Job seekers should be aware that their future employers are closely observing their Facebook profiles in search of a window into their personality."
They explained such practice is an emerging phenomenon likely to continue for the foreseeable future.
And while employers are turning to social network sites to screen potential candidates, they are also using the medium to monitor the activities of their current employees, the researchers added.
Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society Professor Gail Kinman CPsychol Csi of the University of Bedfordshire commented: "The findings of this study highlight the importance of managing one's online identity carefully. Under current conditions, more applicants are chasing fewer jobs.
"Employers are clearly prepared to consult a wider range of sources than the usual CV and interview in order to obtain more information about applicants' appearance, personality, lifestyle and friends in order to make predictions about their potential job performance.
"Although employers may not be very skilled at making inferences from social networking sites, the impressions they get may influence whether or not applicants are successful, or whether or not existing employees are promoted."
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For Further Information Contact:
Channel Islands Field Station
1901 Spinnaker Drive
Ventura, CA 93001-4354
Phone: _PHONE_
FAX: _PHONE_
The Southern California Bight and its offshore islands are a unique natural resource with many sensitive and endemic plants and animals. This area is also an expanding urban center for the nation. The corresponding elimination and degradation of coastal habitats have created a need for scientifically guided management.
The Channel Islands Field Station has cooperative agreements with Channel Islands National Park in Ventura, Calif., and the University of California, Santa Barbara, that facilitate collaboration between field station scientists and university and park biologists. The linkage with the university also provides opportunities to supervise graduate students in marine ecology and work in laboratories with flow-through seawater to allow housing temperate marine species. Channel Islands National Park provides access to the habitats of several rare and endemic plant species suffering from the impacts of exotic weeds and feral animals. The national park also has a wealth of marine resources in need of study and management. Field station biologists analyze data collected from the park and assist with the park's extensive resource monitoring program.
Scientists at the Channel Islands Field Station conduct research on the ecology and conservation biology of sensitive plants and animals at the Channel Islands and along California's coast. In doing so, the field station supports information needs of the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and other state and federal clients such as the Department of Defense, National Marine Sanctuary, and California Department of Fish and Game.
Some examples of ongoing research in plant ecology include rare plant demography, effects of grazing by feral animals on native plant communities, restoration ecology, and the distribution of invasive exotic weeds. Examples of research in marine ecology are restoration strategies for the nearly extirpated white abalone, patterns of disturbance for threatened western snowy plovers, marine reserve design, and kelp forest community dynamics.


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As we mentioned before, habitual smoking and learning styles go hand in hand. One of the greatest predictors of whether a person will become a smoker is their preference in the Intake and Tactile elements of the LSA Pyramid (Learning Style Analysis Pyramid).
However, Malcolm Gladwell mentions other elements in his bestselling book, "The Tipping Point". Backed by British psychology research, he identifies the following traits of quintessential hard-core smokers:
- is sociable, likes parties (and therefore probably has a Learning Style with a preference for learning within a group)
- needs to have people to talk to (probably has a Learning Style with a preference for External Auditory Input)
- takes chances and acts on the spur of the moment (a preference for Impulsive Thinking)
- prefers to keep moving (a preference for Mobility)
- and doing things (a preference for Kinesthetic Input)
- not always a reliable person (a non-preference for Reliability).


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This example shows how to construct an automated parking valet system in Simulink® with Automated Driving Toolbox™. It closely follows the Automated Parking Valet MATLAB® example.
Automatically parking a car that is left in front of a parking lot is a challenging problem. The vehicle's automated systems are expected to take over and steer the vehicle to an available parking spot. This example focuses on planning a feasible path through the environment, generating a trajectory from this path, and using a feasible controller to execute the trajectory. Map creation and dynamic obstacle avoidance are excluded from this example.
Before simulation, the
helperSLCreateCostmap function is called within the
PreLoadFcn callback function of the model. For details on using callback functions, see Model Callbacks (Simulink). The
helperSLCreateCostmap function creates a static map of the parking lot that contains information about stationary obstacles, road markings, and parked cars. The map is represented as a
To use the
object in Simulink®, the
helperSLCreateUtilityStruct function converts the
into a struct array in the block's mask initialization. For more details, see Initialize Mask (Simulink).
The global route plan is described as a sequence of lane segments to traverse to reach a parking spot. Before simulation, the
PreLoadFcn callback function of the model loads a route plan, which is stored as a table. The table specifies the start and end poses of the segment, as well as properties of the segment, such as the speed limit.
routePlan = 5×3 table StartPose EndPose Attributes ________________ ____________________ ____________ 4 12 0 56 11 0 [1×1 struct] 56 11 0 70 19 90 [1×1 struct] 70 19 90 70 32 90 [1×1 struct] 70 32 90 52 38 180 [1×1 struct] 53 38 180 36.3 44 90 [1×1 struct]
The inputs and outputs of many blocks in this example are Simulink buses (
classes). In the
PreLoadFcn callback function of the model, the
helperSLCreateUtilityBus function creates these buses.
Planning is a hierarchical process, with each successive layer responsible for a more fine-grained task. The behavior layer sits at the top of this stack. The Behavior Planner block triggers a sequence of navigation tasks based on the global route plan by providing an intermediate goal and configuration for the Motion Planning and Trajectory Generation blocks. Each path segment is navigated using these steps:
Motion Planning: Plan a feasible path through the environment map using the optimal rapidly exploring random tree (RRT*) algorithm (
Trajectory Generation: Smooth the reference path by fitting splines to it using the Path Smoother Spline block. Then convert the smoothed path into a trajectory by generating a speed profile using the Velocity Profiler block.
Vehicle Control: The
HelperPathAnalyzer provides the reference signal for the Vehicle Controller subsystem that controls the steering and the velocity of the vehicle.
Goal Checking: Check if the vehicle has reached the final pose of the segment using
The Vehicle Controller subsystem contains a Lateral Controller Stanley block and a Longitudinal Controller Stanley block to regulate the pose and the velocity of the vehicle, respectively. To handle realistic vehicle dynamics, the Vehicle model parameter in the Lateral Controller Stanley block is set to
Dynamic bicycle model. With this configuration, additional inputs, such as the path curvature, the current yaw rate of the vehicle, and the current steering angle are required to compute the steering command. The Longitudinal Controller Stanley block uses a switching Proportional-Integral controller to calculate the acceleration and the deceleration commands that actuate the brake and throttle in the vehicle.
To demonstrate the performance, the vehicle controller is applied to the Vehicle Model block, which contains a simplified steering system that is modeled as a first-order system and a Vehicle Body 3DOF (Vehicle Dynamics Blockset) block shared between Automated Driving Toolbox™ and Vehicle Dynamics Blockset™. Compared with the kinematic bicycle model used in the Automated Parking Valet MATLAB® example, this Vehicle Model block is more accurate because it considers the inertial effects, such as tire slip and steering servo actuation.
The Visualization block shows how the vehicle tracks the reference path. It also displays vehicle speed and steering command in a scope. The following images are the simulation results for this example:
Simulation stops at about 45 seconds, which is when the vehicle reaches the destination.
This example shows how to implement an automated parking valet in Simulink.
 Buehler, Martin, Karl Iagnemma, and Sanjiv Singh. The DARPA Urban Challenge: Autonomous Vehicles in City Traffic (1st ed.). Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2009.
 Lepetic, Marko, Gregor Klancar, Igor Skrjanc, Drago Matko, and Bostjan Potocnik, "Time Optimal Path Planning Considering Acceleration Limits." Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 45, Issues 3-4, 2003, pp. 199-210.
 Hoffmann, Gabriel M., Claire J. Tomlin, Michael Montemerlo, and Sebastian Thrun. "Autonomous Automobile Trajectory Tracking for Off-Road Driving: Controller Design, Experimental Validation and Racing." American Control Conference, 2007, pp. 2296-2301.


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Maybe you have used scratch foam for printmaking in the art room. I've seen a lot of beautiful art work using scratch foam and printer's ink applied with brayers. But did you know scratch foam prints can look like this?
This set of four cupcake prints were all made from the same scratch foam plate during a single 40-minute class.
3rd graders used watercolor marker and scratch foam to create multiple prints. We did an easy directed drawing of a cupcake onto scratch foam, colored the foam with watercolor markers, and then printed the cards onto damp paper.
- Scratch foam, cut to desired size
- sketch paper, cut to same size as foam
- dull pencil
- masking tape
- watercolor markers in assorted colors (I use Mr. Sketch markers)
- oil pastels or other embellishments (optional)
- shallow tub (dishpan) of water
- beach towel (several if you are teaching multiple or large classes)
- plastic sleeve protectors for printing station
- white construction paper for printing – cut larger than scratch foam
Set up a printing station. Fill tub with water depth of 2-3 inches. Set out a folded towel. Tape a sleeve protector to the table. Slide in an alignment sample (see below). Cut a stack of printing papers, enough for each student to make at least 3 prints. Think about drying space (always an issue when printing multiples). Drying rack? Clothes line?
- draw cupcake onto sketch paper. Click here for my step-by-step how to draw a cupcake instructions.
- Remind students: NO LETTERS, NO WORDS, NO NUMBERS.
- tape sketch paper on top of scratch foam.
- go over cupcake sketch with a dull pencil. The lines should transfer to the scratch foam below.
- pull up the paper. Drawing directly on the foam, go over any lines you missed with the pencil. You can also add sprinkles or other small lines at this time.
- discard the sketch paper and tape.
Tape sketch on top of scratch foam. Go over lines with dull pencil to incise foam below.
- use the watercolor markers to ink the scratch foam. Students should use multiple colors. Fill the scratch foam completely with color.
Color in the scratch foam with watercolor markers.
- take your foam to the printing station.
- write your name in small letters on white construction paper. Use pencil.
- dip white construction paper in water
- put wet paper in folded towel to blot
- align inked scratch foam on sleeve protector INK SIDE UP
- put damp white paper on scratch foam NAME SIDE UP (align using the sleeve protector)
- rub paper firmly without wiggling
- PULL THE PRINT
Printing station. Students align foam with white rectangle, damp paper with blue rectangle.
The third graders were amazed!!!! Vibrant colored cupcakes for their beautiful birthday cards.
ARE YOU READY FOR EVEN MORE FUN?????
- Students re-ink the scratch foam plates using a different color scheme. It doesn't matter if the plate still has a little color on it – go right over the plate with a different color.
Students should carefully sign their name on the back of the foam plate WITH PENCIL. Write small.
A word of caution: as always, test this project out yourself before attempting with your students.
1) The degree of dampness of the printing paper is critical. Too dry and the ink won't transfer to the paper. Too wet and the ink will bleed and blur as the paper dries. For blotting, a fresh beach towel is ideal. My towel was too damp by the third class of the day. I wish I had a couple of fresh dry ones with me. Next year!
2) Size of drawing matters. Tiny drawings the size of a thumbnail just won't look good.
Day 2: Embellish Prints with Oil Pastels
Students have the option of embellishing their dry prints. These cupcakes are decorated with oil pastel. This is a great way to rescue students less-than-perfect prints. Can you imagine these with a little clear glitter and/or a sequin?
Next we trim our cupcake prints and glue them onto colored construction paper. What fabulous birthday cards for all our family and friends.
Fun – colorful – successful – easy to clean up!
This would be a great Wayne Thiebaud lesson plan – it relates to his dessert paintings in terms of subject matter and repetition.
Wayne Thiebaud. Cakes. 1963
A huge thank you to Carol Catelano Webb, master art teacher, who taught this printing process at a San Diego Art Educators workshop back in 2005.


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This investigation tested the hypothesis that breathing oxygen-enriched air (FiO2=1.00) during recovery enhances peak (Ppeak) and mean power (Pmean) output during repeated high-intensity exercise. Twelve elite male swimmers (21 ± 3 years, 192.1 ± 5.9 cm, 79.1 ± 8.2 kg) inhaled either hyperoxic (HOX) or normoxic (NOX) air during 6-min recovery periods between five repetitions of high-intensity bench swimming, each involving 40 maximal armstrokes. Oxygen partial pressure (pO2) and saturation (SO2), [H+], pH, base excess and blood lactate concentration were measured before and after all intervals. The production of the reactive oxygen species (ROS) hydrogen peroxide was measured before, directly after and 15 min after the test. Ppeak and Pmean with HOX recovery were significantly higher than with NOX throughout the third, fourth and fifth intervals (P<0.001–0.04). With HOX, electromyography activity was lower during the third, fourth and fifth intervals than during the first (P=0.05–0.001), with no such changes in NOX (P=0.99). There were no differences in blood lactate, pH, [H+] or base excess and ROS production at any time point with either HOX or NOX recovery. These findings demonstrate that the Ppeak and Pmean of elite swimmers performing high-intensity intervals can be improved by exposure to oxygen-enriched air during recovery.


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Revit provides a general mechanism for giving each element a set of parameters that you can edit. In the Revit UI, parameters are visible in the Element Properties dialog box. This chapter describes how to get and use built-in parameters using the Revit Platform API. For more information about user-defined shared parameters, see Shared Parameters.
In the Revit Platform API, Parameters are managed in the Element class. You can access Parameters in these ways:
- By iterating through the Element.Parameters collection of all parameters for an Element (for an example, see the sample code in Walkthrough Get Selected Element Parameters).
- By accessing the parameter directly through the overloaded Element.Parameter property. If the Parameter doesn't exist, the property returns null.
- By accessing a parameter by name via the Element.ParametersMap collection.
You can retrieve the Parameter object from an Element if you know the name string, built-in ID, definition, or GUID. The Parameter[String] property overload gets a parameter based on its localized name, so your code should handle different languages if it's going to look up parameters by name and needs to run in more than one locale.
The Parameter[GUID] property overload gets a shared parameter based on its Global Unique ID (GUID), which is assigned to the shared parameter when it's created.


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It is very important to automobile manufacturers to ensure a high visual impression of quality for cars. This includes a faultless exterior as well as an impeccable interior. During production, however, it is not always possible to visually detect all discrepancies. Evaluating such discrepancies is often subjective. INB Vision AG, a company of the Micro-Epsilon group, designed the surfaceCONTROL measuring system for defect recognition of automotive interior parts.
This system uses structured light projection. With its measuring area the size of an A3 paper (approx. 300x400mm), surfaceCONTROL captures the surface and computes the 3D data within just a few seconds. Even shape deviations of a few 10µm on textured cockpit surfaces, for example near airbag seams, are recognized and evaluated. A number of evaluation procedures are available, depending on the nature of the shape deviation being investigated: these may include calculating a flawless virtual cover or using a digital whetstone, much like a whetstone in the press shop. These procedures provide alternatives to the manual defect detection customary in the trade, and they ensure reproducible and objective evaluations of discrepancies.
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ROME -- It's a new Da Vinci code, but this time it could be for real.
An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper," raising the possibility that the Renaissance genius might have left behind a somber composition to accompany the scene depicted in the 15th-century wall painting.
"It sounds like a requiem," Giovanni Maria Pala said. "It's like a soundtrack that emphasizes the passion of Jesus."
Painted from 1494 to 1498 in Milan's Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, the "Last Supper" vividly depicts a key moment in the Gospel narrative: Jesus' last meal with the 12 Apostles before his arrest and crucifixion, and the shock of Christ's followers as they learn that one of them is about to betray him.
Pala, a 45-year-old musician who lives near the southern Italian city of Lecce, began studying Leonardo's painting in 2003, after hearing on a news program that researchers believed the artist and inventor had hidden a musical composition in the work.
"Afterward, I didn't hear anything more about it," he said in an interview with The Associated Press. "As a musician, I wanted to dig deeper."
In a book released Friday in Italy, Pala explains how he took elements of the painting that have symbolic value in Christian theology and interpreted them as musical clues.
Pala first saw that by drawing the five lines of a musical staff across the painting, the loaves of bread on the table as well as the hands of Jesus and the Apostles could each represent a musical note.
This fit the relation in Christian symbolism between the bread, representing the body of Christ, and the hands, which are used to bless the food, he said. But the notes made no sense musically until Pala realized that the score had to be read from right to left, following Leonardo's particular writing style.
In his book "La Musica Celata" ("The Hidden Music") Pala also describes how he found what he says are other clues in the painting that reveal the slow rhythm of the composition and the duration of each note.
The result is a 40-second "hymn to God" that Pala said sounds best on a pipe organ, the instrument most commonly used in Leonardo's time for spiritual music. A short segment taken from a CD of the piece contained a Bach-like passage played on the organ. The tempo was almost painfully slow but musical.
Alessandro Vezzosi, a Leonardo expert and the director of a museum dedicated to the artist in his hometown of Vinci, said he had not seen Pala's research but that the musician's hypothesis "is plausible."
Vezzosi said previous research has indicated the hands of the Apostles in the painting can be substituted with the notes of a Gregorian chant, though so far no one had tried to work in the bread loaves.
"There's always a risk of seeing something that is not there, but it's certain that the spaces (in the painting) are divided harmonically," he told the AP. "Where you have harmonic proportions, you can find music."
Vezzosi also noted that though Leonardo was more noted for his paintings, sculptures and visionary inventions, he was also a musician. Da Vinci played the lyre and designed various instruments. His writings include some musical riddles, which must be read from right to left.
Reinterpretations of the "Last Supper" have popped up ever since "The Da Vinci Code" fascinated readers and movie-goers with suggestions that one of the apostles sitting on Jesus' right is Mary Magdalene, that the two had a child and that their bloodline continues.
Pala stressed that his discovery does not reveal any supposed dark secrets of the Catholic Church or of Leonardo, but instead shows the artist in a light far removed from the conspiratorial descriptions found in fiction.
"A new figure emerges he wasn't a heretic like some believe," Pala said. "What emerges is a man who believes, a man who really believes in God."
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Mount Athos is a mountain in the Greek province of Macedonia. It is also commonly used to refer to the Self-governed Monastic State of the Holy Mountain, which is an autonomous part of Greece. There are twenty Eastern Orthodox monasteries inside this state.
The peninsula is the easternmost "leg" of the larger Halkidiki peninsula. It protrudes into the Aegean Sea for some 60 kilometres (37 mi) at a width between 7 to 12 km and covers an area of 335.637 square kilometres (129.59 sq mi), with the actual Mount Athos and its steep, densely forested slopes reaching up to 2,033 metres (6,670 ft). The seas around the end of the peninsula can be dangerous.
The peninsula is only accessible by boat. There is a limit on the number of visitors. People visiting need to get a special permit. Only men are allowed to enter. Monks call Mount Athos the "Garden of the Virgin"-.[1] Orthodox Christians take precedence in the permit issuing procedure. Only males over the age of 18 who are members of an Eastern Orthodox Church are allowed to live on Athos (?). A large number of Albanian Muslims work in the Holy Mountain. There is a small number of unarmed, religious guards (Σερδάρηδες), who are not monks, for keeping order. Police and Coast Guard presence is very discreet. Any other people not monks are required to live in the peninsula's capital, Karyes (?) Most workers live at the place where they work. Small low class hotels exist at Karyes (administrative center) and Dafni (main port). The 2001 Greek national census recorded a population of 2,262 inhabitants.
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Srivaishnava Urdhva Pundra
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The Srivaishnava Urdhva Pundra (also known as Thiruman Srichurnam or the Shricharanam) is the tilaka used by followers of Sri Vaishnava. The figure drawn is representative of the feet of Narayana with Lakshmi in the middle. It is adorned by members of the Sri Vaishnava tradition (including Pancharatra, Vaikhanasa, and Bhagavada Srivaishnavas).
The full form[edit]
The two Iyengar subsects, Thenkalai and Vadakalai, wear the Thiruman Srichurnam in slightly different ways. The Thiruman in the case of the Thenkalai extends to the bridge of the nose, forming a Y shape.
Priests traditionally wear the Thiruman Srichurnam at 12 places on their body (dvadasa pundram). See: Samashrayanam.
Full forms of the Urdhva Pundara are shown in the gallery.
The abbreviated form[edit]
The abbreviated Thiruman is more commonly used by Iyengars in daily life. It consists of a single thin, vertical red or yellow line in the middle of the forehead. Although the Smriti forbid wearing the Srichurnam without the Thiruman, it has become a common practice due to convenience.
Etymology and meaning[edit]
The Parashara Smriti gives a very detailed explanation on the Thiruman: where, when, and how to wear it, as well as what should be chanted while wearing the same.
Srichurnam is the yellow/red line in the middle of the white marks. The white marks are called ThirumaN in Tamil. The word Srichurnam is often referred with the Thiruman and is called as Thiruman Srichurnam (or Oordhva Pundram). Particularly for the followers of Sri Sampradayam Srivaishnavas, Sriman Narayana (Vishnu) is always seen as being inseparable from his divine consort, Lakshmi, and hence the marks on the forehead will always represent the Lord's lotus feet (ThirumaN) and his divine consort in the middle at his service.
The etymology of Srichurnam is as follows: Sri refers to Lakshmi, while churanam literally means powder. The Srichurnam - the red/yellow line in the middle - represents Lakshmi. Thiruman (tiru = holy, maN = clay) represents the feet Vishnu.[1]
Apart from the main ingredients described below, several auspicious substances are added, such as Tulasi, rice, turmeric, camphor, flowers.
The white powder in Thiruman is derived from decayed schistose mica.[2] It is found, among other places, in Melukote.
The yellow mark is worn using turmeric, or using sandal wood paste. (Sandal is forbidden from use for bachelors in Vedic tradition).
The red mark is made of turmeric mixed with lime (churNa).
 - Entwistle, A. W. (1981). Vaishnava tilakas: Sectarian marks worn by worshippers of Vishnu (IAVRI bulletin). International Association of the Vrindaban Research Institute. ASIN B0007BNJJ6.
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Nectar and pollen sources plants and related honey bee products
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This gorgeous book presents a lifetime's study of honey bees by Masami Sasaki of Tamagawa University, Japan. Each page contains many perfect pictures of bee plants, foraging bees, flowers or fruit. There are also pictures of (a few) birds, honey, pollen grains, other insects, and of beekeeping and horticulture, with several thousand pictures in total. The main part of the book details the 647 plant species occurring in Japan that are utilised by bees for nectar, pollen, propolis or honeydew: 57% are indigenous to Japan. Also provided are floral calendars, colours of pollen, and scientific explanation of some topics such as pollination, the honey bee species present in Japan, and honey bee foraging. The text is in Japanese language, with an English summary. However all the plants are listed by their Latin names, together with common names in English, therefore this book can be of great interest for people interested in honey bee plants of any temperate zones. There is in existence no English language book that covers bee plants so extensively or as beautifully as this text.
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U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
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Current Approaches to Safety, Codes and Standards
Current approaches to hydrogen and fuel cells safety, codes and standards are based on existing practices, guidelines, and codes and standards developed as a result of hydrogen's use in the chemical and aerospace industries.
While some codes and standards for hydrogen and hydrogen-related systems are already available, in many cases they do not fully address the new issues that arise when considering the needs of a future clean energy economy. DOE is coordinating the efforts of codes and standards organizations to identify and address the gaps, clarify and consolidate regulations, validate outdated test results, and ultimately develop new, more appropriate codes and standards that will ensure the safe use of hydrogen in the future.
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Hittade 2 avhandlingar innehållade ordet volleyball.
Sammanfattning : The principal aim of the present thesis was to prospectively follow (clinical status and ultrasound + Doppler findings) the patellar tendons in the young elite volleyball players at the Swedish National Centre for high school volleyball in Falköping. In an Olympic weightlifter with chronic painful jumper's knee, the effects of treatment with sclerosing injections followed by early instituted very heavy weightlifting training, was also evaluated. LÄS MER
2. Strength training for physical performance and injury prevention in sports. Individualised and supervised training for female athletes
Sammanfattning : The overall purpose of this thesis was to obtain knowledge about individualised, supervised strength and conditioning programmes for physical performance and injury prevention in female athletes. Data are presented both on the influence of individualisation and supervision during resistance training for physical performance and injury prevention and on the athletes' experience of resistance training and the role of the physical coach. LÄS MER


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 Currently, a few guys and I are working on kind of a year book for our grade (we're Germans). In the year book each student of our grade has their own "profile". We have the data that's supposed to fill out the profiles in an XML-file. This file looks like this:
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Academic Alliance grant for development of Mohs surgery AI tool
The Academic Alliance between Maastricht MUMC+ and Radboudumc supports strong collaboration in various areas of patient care, education, and research. The Academic Alliance Fund is designed to stimulate innovation and science within the academic alliance of the two centers.
During the awarded project, Geert Litjens, Daan Geijs, Avital Amir (CPG and Radboudumc), Lisa Hillen, Veronique Winnepenninckx and Nicole Kelleners (MUMC+) aim to improve Mohs surgery with artificial intelligence (AI). Mohs surgery is a precise surgical technique used to treat skin cancer. During Mohs surgery, thin layers of cancer-containing skin are progressively removed and microscopically examined until only cancer-free tissue remains. In the proposed project, a basal cell carcinoma detection algorithm will be adapted to assist the dermatologist with determining if surgical edges are free of cancer. The algorithm will be made available through an app, and a customized smartphone holder will enable users to assess the microscopic images through the camera of their phone. The technique will be validated during a prospective clinical trial in Radboudumc and MUMC+, which will be extended to other peripheral centers.
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I recently did a CS3 SmartTalks webinar on HR Actions and it made me take a step back and think about a lot of things. Most of all: why would I use HR Actions instead of paper forms? Here are my top reasons for using HR Actions instead of a paper form:
- On a paper form the person filling it out can just skip fields that might be really important. HR Actions allows you to mark the required fields that you want the form user to populate.
- On a paper form the person that fills it out can just put anything in the boxes. HR Actions give the form user a customized drop down list of items for them to select from.
- On a paper form if the person filling it out has questions about who needs to approve it, they will probably have to call around to find out where to send it next. HR Actions shows the forms routing at the bottom of the form based on the forms requirements and any business rules you setup in the system.
- Once someone starts filling out a form, you don't know how long it is in the 'paper' shuffle before it finally makes it to the HR/PR department. It could have gotten side tracked many places along the way and stuck on a desk of someone on vacation. HR Actions allow the form initiator, anyone approving the form, and the HR/PR team to see where form is at, if it is stuck, and allows the HR/PR team to help a form along if it does get stuck somewhere.
- A paper form has to be entered into the HR/PR system. HR Actions is just a click of the 'Save' icon to save it into Sage HRMS or Abra Suite.
- The data keyed into the HR/PR system could have typos done. HR Actions is keying in by the form initiator, and the HR/PR team can 'audit' the form to make any corrections they find.
- Once the form is entered into the HR/PR system, the next step is usually filing the paper. Later when you need to find it you have to go to the paper files and find it.
- HR Actions is your 'online file cabinet.' Imagine if all of your personnel related forms went through HR Actions - you would be able to retrieve items online instead of going to the file cabinet.
That's my list. Let me know if you have other reasons you can think of that HR Actions is better than a paper form.


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PROPELLER MRI (periodically rotated overlapping parallel lines with enhanced reconstruction) provides images with significantly fewer B o-related artifacts than echo-planar imaging (EPI), as well as reduced sensitivity to motion compared to conventional multiple-shot fast spin-echo (FSE). However, the minimum imaging time in PROPELLER is markedly longer than in EPI and 50% longer than in conventional multiple-shot FSE. Often in MRI, imaging time is reduced by undersampling k-space. In the present study, the effects of undersampling on PROPELLER images were evaluated using simulated and in vivo data sets. Undersampling using PROPELLER patterns with reduced number of samples per line, number of lines per blade, or number of blades per acquisition, while maintaining the same k-space field of view (FOVk) and uniform sampling at the edges of FOVk, reduced imaging time but led to severe image artifacts. In contrast, undersampling by means of removing whole blades from a PROPELLER sampling pattern that sufficiently samples k-space produced only minimal image artifacts, mainly manifested as blurring in directions parallel to the blades removed, even when reducing imaging time by as much as 50%. Finally, undersampling using asymmetric blades and taking advantage of Hermitian symmetries to fill-in the missing data significantly reduced imaging time without causing image artifacts.
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Why Do Doctors Press on Your Stomach During a Checkup?
I was wondering, why do doctors push on your stomach during a checkup or if
you complain of abdominal pain?
Pressing on your stomach is a way to find out if the size of your internal organs is normal, to check if anything hurts, and to feel if anything unusual is going on.
Looking, listening, and feeling are all part of a physical exam. Doctors use all three to check that everything's normal or to evaluate a health condition. For example, doctors use sight to diagnose conditions like acne or pinkeye. They'll listen to a person's heartbeat to be sure it sounds normal. And they'll use touch to investigate areas that aren't visible to the naked eye, like bones or internal organs.
During a checkup, don't hesitate to ask your doctor questions if you're curious about why something's being done. Your doc is there to help, and answering questions is part of that!
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Zero Pollution Motors has big plans for a compressed air hybrid car that could get better than 100 miles per gallon.
A contender for the X Prize, Zero Pollution Motors is at least winning in the media. CNN, NBC's Today Show, Time Magazine and the Discovery Channel have all featured the concept car, which could be on the road in 2010.
How does the "world's cleanest car" -- as the company bills its product -- work?
According to the Zero Pollution Motors Web site, the compressed air portion of the engine -- described by CNN as roughly equivalent to a locomotive's steam engine, but without the steam -- could run the car at speeds under 35 mph. Above that, and the engine would burn fuel to boost power.
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Powder coating as a term refers to a method of painting which is fantastic because instead of the conventional liquid, the paint is applied in the form of free-flowing and dry powder. This helps to create a beautiful finish which is also durable and tough.
The science behind
Instrument used for spraying might be a single gun and a small oven or an automated line for painting large areas. The paint powder particles acquire an electrostatic charge which enables it to adhere to the part being coated so that on the application of heat in the oven, this coating melts forming cross-links on the surface thereby ensuring a scratch free and tough finish.
Advantages of using this
There are several advantages associated to the use of this coating like:
- Being free from solvents, they release almost no VOC or volatile organic compounds in the atmosphere thereby making them environment friendly and safe to use. This characteristic also does away with the need to but pollution control equipments which are anyways quite costly.
- It is possible to create thicker coatings than possible by the use of conventional paints which tend to run or sag when used in excess to create a thick coating.
- Irrespective of whether the coating is applied in a horizontal or vertical direction, there is seldom any difference in appearance which is a common problem when used liquid paints.
- The use of powder coating also facilitates the achievement of a wider range of special effects than possible when using conventional liquid paints.
- The use of this coating also lessens the curing time as compared to the liquid paints.
- Many different coloured powder can also be applied together on a surface before curing so as to achieve bleed effects and also enable colour blending.
- The remnants of coloured powder which stay back in the gun after use on a particular structure or thing, called overstay, can be recycled and used again.
- Since the powder used is generally a thermoset polymer or a thermoplastic, the finish obtained is also harder and tougher.
Mostly used for coating metals, this new-age technology of green paint can be effectively used to paint household utensils, bicycle parts, drum hardware etc.