Dancing With the Stars has seen multiple injuries this season, but at least one fallen dancer is hoping for a big comeback.
"I'm doing everything I can to get back as soon as I can," DWTS pro Sharna Burgess told ET during a recent rehearsal.
Burgess injured her knee during rehearsal for last week's group dance, leaving partner James Hinchcliffe with pro Jenna Johnson on Monday.
Fortunately, Hinchcliffe didn't let the setback affect his Halloween-themed performance, as he earned a perfect 30 for 30 score from the judges for his Suicide Squad routine.
While she might be sidelined, Burgess isn't completely out of the game, as she coached Hinchcliffe and Johnson during our rehearsal visit. The trio has become so close that a quick return from Burgess would actually be bittersweet for the ballroom warriors.
"It will be very sad to lose Jen being a part of our team," Burgess admitted to ET. "We got a great little chemistry going on. We have fun."
"I'll still be their number one cheerleader," Johnson said. "I'll be pushing for them the whole way."
Like Burgess, Gleb Savchenko also suffered a knee injury, taking him away from partner Jana Kramer. DWTS troupe member Alan Bersten will be filling in temporarily in Savchenko's absence.
"I don't know if Gleb's going to be OK, but it's not looking good," Kramer said in a recent SnapChat.
Doctors are keeping a close eye on Savchenko's injury, but show producers tell ET it's too soon to know if he'll be able to dance on Monday, so for now, he's helping Kramer as she continues to rehearse.
On Thursday, Kramer shared a photo on Instagram, showing Savchenko in the dance studio with his knee wrapped in a brace.
"This. Is. Not. A. Happy. Photo," the 32-year-old country singer wrote in the caption.
For more on Burgess' knee injury and the impact it had on Hinchcliffe's chances at the coveted mirror ball, check out the video below.


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Reiki Dome By Alex Akselrod NW Fitness Magazine Research over the years has led to the discovery that the universe is made of pure energy. Most of the things we see smell, touch, hear and taste appear, to the naked eye, as either gaseous, liquid or solid. However, quantum physics has proven that if you observe any object minutely, its atomic and subatomic levels, to the infinitesimal level, all that'll be left energy, pure energy….


Is Too Much Screen Time Really Bad for My Kid's Eyes?
Is Too Much Screen Time Really Bad for My Kid's Eyes?
According to a 2017 study from Common Sense Media, the average child eight years old or younger now spends two hours and 19 minutes every day looking at a screen. That number has more than tripled since the last time Common Sense Media conducted the study, just four years prior. Between smartphones, tablets, TVs, and computer screens—and between online video games, YouTube, and video streaming services—kids today are growing up in front of screens. There have been studies about what all this screen time means for mental development, social development, test scores, and more. Another important question to ask, though, is what staring at a screen for two-plus hours a day means for your child's eye health and vision.
What Screen Time Means for Our Eyes?
Digital devices that include screens produce their images in the form of something called "blue light"—rays of very high-energy visible light. Now, blue light isn't necessarily "toxic" to a child's eyes any more than it is harmful to the rest of us. Many, many people spend all day staring at screens for at work. These people aren't losing vision because of their screens.
While we still don't know the long-term impacts of blue light on retinal health, something that screen exposure does contribute to is digital eye strain, also sometimes referred to as computer vision syndrome. Have your eyes ever felt tired or slightly sore after spending a long time staring at a computer screen or reading on a phone? If so, you have experienced digital eye strain. Kids that are spending hours looking at screens every day are suffering this condition as well. Sometimes, digital eye strain can even lead to headaches, dry eyes, or, rarely, nausea.
By itself, digital eye strain is a good reason for parents to limit screen time for their kids. What experts can't entirely agree on, though, is whether blue light will cause damage to a child's eyes. Certainly, myopia (nearsightedness) has become a bigger problem in the United States and around the world since the birth of computers. Today, almost 50 percent of the United States population suffers from myopia. It is entirely possible that blue light and screen time have contributed to this rate. However, the American Academy of Ophthalmology has suggested that the rise of myopia has involved a more general increase in near work activities and a general decrease in time spent outside.
Why Limiting Screen Time for Your Kids Is a Good Idea?
So, is screen time going to cause myopia or other eye problems for your child? Not necessarily, but that doesn't mean blue light is good for your child's eyes, either. As with everything, you should exercise moderation in allowing your children to watch TV or play cellphone games. A little screen time isn't the end of the world. In fact, with how prevalent digital devices are becoming in the world of education, screen time is probably unavoidable. However, limiting the amount of time your children spend on screens—especially playing games or watching TV and movies—is definitely a good idea. Limiting your child to an hour of screen time a day, encouraging more frequent breaks, and stressing the importance of outdoor play are all things that will reduce your child's risk of becoming myopic.
Finally, take the time to bring your child in for an eye exam. You can't know if screen time (or anything else, for that matter) is impacting your child's ocular health if you don't have a baseline. An eye doctor can assess your child's eye health and recommend strategies for maintaining it. At Miami Contact Lens Institute, we are happy to work with children. Call today to schedule an appointment for your son or daughter.


In order to avoid the complex preprocessing, this paper proposes a recognition method based on stacked denoising autoencoder (SDAE), in which the structure and the strategies including the number of hidden units, the number of hidden layers, the level of noise and the regularization are carefully considered and analyzed for American Sign Language Dataset (ASL). Specifically, with the increasing number of hidden units and hidden layers, the optimal structure of SDAE is gradually determined, whose performance is simply measured by the recognition accuracy on testing samples. And then, the influences of the noisy strength and the regularization methods on the performance of the designed SDAE are analyzed and compared. Finally, an effective SDAE network is suggested for ASL Dataset. Experiment results show that, compared with stacked autoencoder (AE), deep belief network (DBN) and convolutional neural network (CNN) etc., the designed SDAE shows a better performance, the accuracy in ASL Dataset is up to 98.07% while the training time is reduced to 1 h.
This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under grants 61501286, 61501287, 61601274 and 61877038, the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China (2018JM6068), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Shaanxi Normal University (GK201703054 and GK201703058) and The Key Science and Technology Innovation Team in Shaanxi Province of China (2014KTC-18).


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Higher Education Principal Secretary Adityanath Das said that NSS volunteers render relentless services during calamities and participate in service activities regularly during their college days which inspire other students.
Addressing the valedictory of the two-day state-level NSS Youth Festival at Adikavi Nannaya University here on Tuesday, Adityanath said that youth should work hard to achieve goal which they set in their lives and stand as role models to others.
He said Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who works more than 18 hours a day, is an inspiration to all the officials and there is no wrong in taking him as role model in working like him.
Vice-chancellor of the university Prof. Murru Mutyala Naidu said that students from 16 universities had participated in this youth festival and the varsity proved that it can conduct even bigger events than this.
He said that young generation can learn from film actor Tarun, who participated in the programme, that how to respect elders, particularly mother Rojaramani who was also a film star of yesteryears.
He said that Principal Secretary of Higher Education Das had been working in the same department for last 10 years which shows his grip on the department.
Actor Tarun in his speech said that he respects NSS volunteers because of their selfless service and appealed to youth to concentrate on work which they are doing and not to deviate from the main stream.
He complimented local NSS volunteers for taking up programmes like Swachh Bharat, fight against mosquitoes and others.
Veteran actress Rojaramani said that teacher occupies top place still in the society and everyone should respect him as he shapes the society.
All the guests along with vice-chancellor felicitated NSS coordinator Nittala Ravichandra of Nannaya University. The overall championship of NSS state-level competitions was won by Nannaya University.


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Q: Converting second order ODE into first order ODE
I am given the differential equation $y'' + y/|y|^3 = 0$ with $y(0) = (1,0)$ and $y'(0) = (0,0.25)$. I need to convert this second order ODE into a system of first order ODEs.

So I set $y_1 = y$ and $y_2 = y' \implies y_{1}^{'} = y_2$. Then, $y_{2}^{'} = y^{''} = -y/|y|^3 = -y_1/|y_1|^3$. Since $y_1(0) = (1,0) \text{and} y_2(0) = (0,0.25)$ but then the vectors trip me up in getting the final system $(y_{1}^{'} = y_2, y_2 = " ")$. How do I deal with the vector here?

A: Basically, in the very beginning you have $y=(y^1,y^2)$ (notice I put indices on top!), so when you do $y'$ it is actually $y'=((y^1)',(y^2)')$.
After that, you say $y_1=y$ and $y_2=y_1'$, so what you really get is: $y_1=(y^1,y^2)=(y_1^1,y_1^2)$ and $y_2=((y^1)',(y^2)')=(y_2^1,y_2^2)$ and hence $y_2^1=(y_1^1)'$, $y_2^2=(y_1^2)'$.
The total vector form of your now "normalized" system will be expressed in terms of the vector $\mathbf{y}=(y_1,y_2)=(y_1^1,y_1^2,y_2^1,y_2^2)$, so the I.C. will be just $\mathbf{y}(0)=(y_1^1(0),y_1^2(0),y_2^1(0),y_2^2(0))=(y^1(0),y^2(0),(y^1)'(0),(y^2)'(0))=(y(0),y'(0))=(1,0,0,0.25)$

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In less than two months, a series of works by our most creative residents will be going on show at a central London gallery.
The A5 Art Show, sponsored by leading property agents Savills, will see our residents' creations displayed alongside work by professional artists and members of Notting Hill Genesis staff.
Artworks – all originals – have been chosen for the show as time ticks down to the big launch, all of which have to be A5 in size and will be available for purchase both in person or online.
The website for the event, www.thea5show.com, will launch on Monday 5 November.
Every item will have the same £50 price tag, no matter who created it, and will be displayed anonymously. All of the money raised will go towards Notting Hill Genesis' Hardship Fund to support some of our more vulnerable residents.
Ten resident workshops were held in various venues over the summer and a selection of work from those events will also be on display.
Mandy Worster, volunteer programme manager for Notting Hill Genesis, said: "This is our first art exhibition since the merger and we are really excited to be showing what a creative and talented group of residents we have.
The artworks we received were of an incredibly high standard and we are all looking forward to being able to unveil the show in November. We would also like to say a huge thank you to the professional artists who have taken part, as well as our sponsors Savills.
The A5 Art Show will be held at the Koppel Project in High Holborn from Thursday 29 November to Friday 21 December.


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The LIFE RIPARIAS (Reaching Integrated and Prompt Action in Response to Invasive Alien Species) project aims to optimize the management of invasive alien species in river basins across regional borders in Belgium. The project receives funding from the LIFE Programme of the European Union (LIFE19 NAT/BE/000953). A primary objective of RIPARIAS is to improve dataflows on invasive alien species in Belgium for management interventions.
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The early detection of and rapid response to invasive species is essential to tackle their impact and manage efficiently. Managers need to be rapidly informed when invasive species occur in their area and a coordinated response also requires information on invasive alien species in neighbouring areas. Data on invasive alien species in Belgium were typically scattered among a multitude of actors and databases. This early alert tool centralizes openly available data from various sources by harvesting them from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). They include data from official monitoring schemes, scientific projects and citizen science. Currently, data are displayed for non-native crayfish and aquatic plants that are managed in the project area, as well as for alert list species, species that do not currenly occur but require rapid eradication should they be found. In time, we hope to increase the taxonomic scope of the application.
How does the alert mechanism works?
Every signed in user has the possibility to create alerts. A new alert can be configured to target specific species, in specific locations and originating from specific datasets. The user can also choose at which frequency they want to receive notification e-mails.
Once such an alert is configured, the user will receive a notification e-mail for each alert when there are matching observations in the "unseen" status.
An observation will be considered as seen after the user has viewed the observation details page. There is also the possibility for a user to batch-mark all the observations corresponding to an alert as "seen".
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What sensor could I have messed up while changing the differential seals that would make the service Stabilitrak light to come on?
It's the abs speed sensor.
yep...the sensor coming off the hub....have the same prob after installing my LPW cover....gonna have my GM tech buddy scan it...good luck!
btw - makes drivin quite interestin since it's like all nannies off all the time...and drivin in the rain makes ya realize how much the nannies do.


Beyond that, I thrived on high-school competition (except maybe with my high-school crush, lol). Loved football and softball in gym class. Became a star Mathlete. Took half-a-dozen AP classes. Still earned 97.6% grade average as Salutatorian. Scored a decent 1250-1300 on my SATs. Then when I entered New York's RPI amidst a crowd of super-achievers, it hit me like a cement truck. I was just another average Joe Freshman, lol. Hence, I humbly abandoned the pursuit of perfection and tried to have more fun, lol. Yet despite it all, my Mom and Dad never forced or cursed or yelled. They supported me whatever I decided. I guess I was lucky.
But forget about me. Try to imagine the Philippines in the 1960's. If I recall correctly, my Mom was Yearbook President, I believe Class President, I wouldn't be surprised if she was Prom Queen (haven't asked her but she was definitely pretty enough), and on top of that, a "virtual" Valedictorian. I say "virtual" cuz due to some so-called grade miscalculation error (or she suspected, probably cuz she was female), the title of Valedictorian was given to the next guy. And she was so upset, she boycotted her own graduation ceremony! How cool is that!
Although she planned on Industrial Engineering, she decided on a whim to see if she could enter Medical School. And she did, lol. Eventually, this high-class beauty from a local political family met the hard-working class-clown from a farming family, my Dad, lol. Here's a pic of my Mom and Dad at the University of Santo Tomas, Philippines, the College of Medicine, Class of 1967, a couple years before they got married. Here are a few more pics and videos I took last year, lol. Hard to imagine, this Sept 27th, tomorrow is my parent's 39th wedding anniversary, wow. Forty years later, Dad's retired but Mom's still a practicing New York physician, whoa.
you have an IQ of 156? impressive!
@All: P.S. After talking with my Mom, I clarified a few details, lol.
At the notable Nueva Ecija High School (in Cabana Tuan City in Nueva Ecija Province, Philippines) in the 1950's, not only did she become a senior at the age of 15, but she also wrote articles for the yearbook, was Co-Editor-in-Chief of the school newspaper, and earned a Salutatorian-rank grade average. However, due to her outspoken nature against questionable teaching attitudes, her willingness to walk-out on those teachers' classes, and the school's political atmosphere, the votes of several teachers dropped her from a class rank of #2 (Salutatorian) down to #4 (Second Honorable Mention). When the news hit her ears, she pulled all of her articles from the newspaper, pulled four or five more from the yearbook, and let her Dad take her home so she could boycott the graduation ceremony! In fact, the Principal even had plans to stop her graduation!
That's really neat! >.< Haha they added a writing section to it. Plus an essay. ;_; Certainly it wouldn't be great to have the title as "dumbest otaku" would it? xD So i guess being smart isn't necessarily a bad thing..


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Operaismo Naturale: Ecology of the Event
Fold 1 of Digital Ecologies 2018-2019: a project in two folds
at the Center of Contempoary Art 'Ancient Bath' (6th September Str. 179) and the former tobacco warehouse SKLAD (Ekzarh Yosif Str. 16) in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
With works on display and interventions by Donatella Bernardi, Ursula Biemann, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Delphine Chapuis Schmitz, Voin de Voin & Simone Gilges, Jonas Etter, David Jacques, Monica Ursina Jager, knowbotiq, Dominique Koch, Marlene Maier, Boyan Manchev, Angela Melitopoulos, Uriel Orlow, Ursula Palla, Elena Peytchinska, Elodie Pong, Isabel Reiss, Oliver Ressler, Dorothea Rust, Kerstin Schroedinger, Pascal Schwaighofer, Sandro Steudler, Axelle Stiefel, Kamen Stoyanov, Milva Stutz, Katharina Swoboda, Una Szeemann & Bohdan Stehlik, Lena Maria Thuring, and Alexander Tuchacek
Curated by Dimitrina Sevova
Co-curated by Katharina Swoboda and Emil Mirazchiev
27 July to 5 September 2018
Opening: Friday 27 July 2018
18:00h Doors open at the two venues
19:00h Welcome and curatorial introduction at Center for Contemporary Art 'Ancient Bath'
followed by performances by Alexander Tuchacek and Axelle Stiefel
Events: Saturday 28 July 2018
14:00h Curatorial guided tour across the two venues in the presence and with contributions by participating artists, starting at the Center for Contemporary Art 'Ancient Bath'
16:00h Performative walk and public intervention starting at the Center for Contemporary Art 'Ancient Bath', across the two exhibition venues, by Dorothea Rust
17:00h Curatorial guided tour continues at the former tobacco warehouse SKLAD
Evening program at the former tobacco warehouse SKLAD
19:00h Talk by Boyan Manchev, Meteoropolitics
20:15h Performance-lecture by Luchezar Boyadjiev, The Greatest Love of My Life was a Non-Human
21:00h Performance by Voin de Voin & Simone Gilges, Portal 1. From the digital to the physical and vice versa (what is in between)
Events: Sunday 29 July 2018 at the former tobacco warehouse SKLAD
13:30h Artist talks by Kamen Stoyanov, Elena Peytchinska and Marlene Maier
14:00h Performance by Una Szeemann & Bohdan Stehlik, Differences on a shared pillow
14:45h Sandro Steudler, Der Bau: Approaches to a Theory of Data Sculpture (Der Bau: Ans?tze zu einer Theorie der Datenplastik)
15:30h David Jacques, An anti-travel travelogue
16:15h Katharina Swoboda, Vampire Graves
17:00h Isabel Reiss, Combs, Waves and Fields
20:30h Public interview with Alexander Tuchacek by Dimitrina Sevova
21:15h Axelle Stiefel, Codex Operator
Events: Saturday 01 September 2018 at the Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv, The Ancient Bath
19:00h Performance by Delphine Chapuis Schmitz
Digital Ecologies is composed of two folds of an international group exhibition project and takes place across two venues, the Center for Contemporary Art 'Ancient Bath' and the former tobacco warehouse SKLAD in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The first fold, an exhibition project under the title, Operaismo Naturale: Ecology of the Event, takes place from 27 July to 5 September 2018, with talks, interventions and performances on 28 and 29 July and on 1 September; and the second, an expanded exhibition project building on the first exhibition and its context, from 4 May to 29 July 2019, with an accompanying symposium on 5/6 May 2019.
Digital Ecologies brings on display art works that engage with ecological domains and constitute a constellation of eco-art, of emancipatory art practices and committed aesthetic inventions. They have ethical implications in the age of meta-data and the political economy of valorization of information under post-internet conditions, and in the troubling times of rapid and unpredictable climate change associated with global warming. The exhibition project is a platform to display, but also a laboratory for joint research to invent new concepts, affects and percepts – a space of experiments on how to turn knowledge into practice, and practice into knowledge, with its own temporality.
Operaismo Naturale: Ecology of the Event takes inspiration from the desire by Deleuze & Guattari to write a philosophy of nature in which any distinction between nature and artifice becomes blurred. The ultimate volume of Philosophy of Nature remains an unwritten project in the body of their collective work, in the channels of their non-linear micro-logic of philosophical ideas. It leaves an unoccupied space for us to speculate, to fabulate, to experiment what and how such a philosophy could be that is inevitably a matter of aesthetics and ethics. The unwritten Philosophy of Nature is a project of naturalist materialism in science-fiction that remains an open work, a threshold for 'heretic' ideas in the blurred zone between nature and artifice, or what Michel Foucault called points of heresies, which correspond to Deleuze and Guattari's "Event-centered singularities" and resonances between them that make up the diagrammatic feature of the plane. Their physical magnitude can unexpectedly take us off in a new direction, where there is no longer a need for speculative unity between nature and spirit or between nature and technology, but rather ecologic modulations of micro brains' plasticity. The plastic forces operate between the organic and inorganic, between human and non-human. Their plastic method is not so much a transformation of one into the other than the passing of one into the other to anticipate the future of social and politico-aesthetic change.
The project interrogates how the relation between the concepts of plasticity in nature, art and the social can be de-instituted, and thought as abstract machine and concrete plastic forces, plasticity as an aesthetic and social force that can be conceived as plastic forces and organic folds in the multi-layered plateaus of matter.
Text (excerpt): Dimitrina Sevova
The text in its full length can be found on the website of the project Digital Ecologies: a project in two folds
A project of Art Today Association, Plovdiv in collaboration with Corner College, Zurich.
It is supported by the Municipal Foundation Plovdiv 2019, Pro Helvetia, Goethe Institut Sofia, the Federal Chancellery of Austria (Bundeskanzleramt), the Austrian Embassy in Sofia, and organized by the Art Today Association.
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Interview, 9/1/1999 Euphony Magazine
By Bonita Berger
Whilst winding my way around the Powemad venue, I came across an interesting sight/site…proclaiming WILD DUTCH'S GUITAR HOSPITAL, in large letters and featuring all manner of esoteric guitar parts (of which I confess total ignorance). Manned by a very laid back critter with a HUGE smile, fronted by a shiny red guitar with a sign proclaiming "try me"….if both women and journalist's possess large reservoirs of curiosity, and I am both…this was sure bait.
A bit of investigation uncovered a couple of useful "Wild Dutch" books and something called a tremelo bar, which meant nothing to me but was the cause of serious salivation by my guitarist friends at the show. Taking their enthusiasm for a north star, I spent a few minutes at various times during the marathon two days I was at the show. Taking their enthusiasm for a north star, I spent a few minutes at various times during the marathon two days I was at Powermad watching the magician at this display tenderly labor over some damn fine guitars (it turned out every musician in the place who could, was eager to take advantage of the opportunity so happily encountered). My journalistic nose quivered. I could stand it no longer. A quiet moment arrived, I pounced. And John Boehnlein, aka Wilddutch got himself interviewed.
There is more to making music than the musician on the stage performing. There is an entire universe of "behind the scenes" laborers, who seldom get the glory but do so much of "the dirty" work. I find it worthwhile to illuminate the "behind the scenes" workers as well as the musicians. So come on, Meet Dutch.
"Make sure you spell my name right," he cautions me immediately. He put it on my autographed photo, too, so I'm taking this seriously.
"Where are you from?" I ask first.
"I'm originally from Independence, about 11 miles south of Cleveland, Ohio." John replies, but now 2020 work out of my home in Broadview Heights, Ohio.
What kind of booth do you have here at Powermad?" I ask second.
"Well I have the Wild Dutch Guitar Hospital, which I am the owner of, and I am also débuting the world's first two sided tremelo bar, which I recent had patented and trademarked. It's called the Flying Dutchman and it should be out for distribution probably in January 2000."
Blank pause on my part. Wing it or confess? Confess.
"I'm not a guitarist, " I tell John. "What is a tremelo bar?"
" A normal whammy bar," John begins by showing on his demo guitar and how the bridge raises and lowers, "slacks the strings or makes them go flat, when you push it down, and when you pull it up, makes it go sharp. So, you can control the pitch of the instrument by the pressure of the bar. It's just like a door hinge, with the strings in the back."
(I'm actually following this…it helps to have the guitar to look at.)
("Traditional whammy bars are just a normal bar, which faces just one way. And in order to go up with it, you have to pull it or swing it around to push it. My Flying Dutchman solves everything by already having a bar in the back."
"So, they can just slide their hand back and forth to loosen or tighten the strings." I exclaim, enlightened. "Why didn't' they build guitars like this in the first place, I wonder?"
"A neat advantage to it," John adds, "is that you can make sounds that have never been previously been made: All bridges since the 50's have been capable of up and down but no one has ever approached it like this."
"And no one ever thought of this before?" I asked.
John laughs, "I just call it a better mousetrap. It's very simple. The production will be all stainless steel, guaranteed forever. I brought this to the show to get a public gauge of how people would like it. "Are these available now?" I ask, thinking of my salivating guitarist friends.
"I'm waiting to see the actual production prototypes here in the next week," John explains. "wire forming Company in Cleveland is making it. It's actually somewhat complicated because it has to be made on a three-dimensional CNC wiring forming machine, which is ultra-expensive and ultra-complicated because it has compound bends and radius in it. It could be made by hand but that would be impracticable in large quantities, so this is the only type of machinery on the planet right now that can make something like this. Once I'm satisfied with the production prototypes, then I'll go into making some production runs in limited quantities, and then start as a small distribution scale to hardware companies .(NOTE now in 2020 this product is available through Innovative Guitar Products, LLC on the web.)
"Are you going to send it to well-known people to demonstrate it?"
"People ask about that, and I have a pretty strict thing about endorsements. If people like the product enough, then they should buy it. I'm not going to be giving anything away for free, because why should young kids, or guys just starting out be financing the careers of established musicians?"
"Isn't that one of the perks of BEING an established musician?" I laugh.
"Well…sure.." John drawls, "but it wouldn't make me feel very good if I had to give my product away for famous people to use it. If they think it's good enough, then they'll buy it. That's a mark of distinction."
Hmmm, I grow thoughtful. Not the usual attitude huh? I respect it, though! Well, there is more to John than the tremelo bar. "You also have the guitar hospital?" I ask.
"When I was student and then a teacher at Musician' Institute in California, one of my instructors gave me some basic tips on how to start doing things, and I just took it from there. Later I apprenticed with a luthier, and he taught me all sorts of real fine points and detailed stuff about instrument adjustments, setups, repairs, and all the procedures. It's a little more than changing spark plugs and oil…it can be surgery sometimes."
"But the patients are probably happy about it, I bet."
"As an outgrowth of the "hospital," I note, "you wrote a couple of books?"
John beams "Yes the first one published 1994 when I was still a student at Cleveland State University and before I had the hospital is the High Performance Marshall Handbook and there is no book like it that I know of. It is a technical reference manual, written in plain English, for guitar players who want to upgrade the tone of their Marshall. It talks about many different things in there, and it's published by Bold Strummer Ltd. In Connecticut. (Now , in 2020 published privately as Bold Strummer no longer exists. Available on Innovative Guitar Products LLC website.)
"Where can people get that book?"
"Just about anywhere," John shrugs. "I've seen it at trade shows, libraries, on the internet through many companies catalogs like Musician's Friend, places like that." (Now 2020 available at Innovative Guitar Products LLC website.)
I am impressed. As a writer I would LOVE to have that kind of distribution.
John goes on. "The second book is Basic Guitar Adjustments and Set-Ups." And that is a real entry level primer on how to care for your instrument, basses, acoustics, electrics…"
"That every high school music department should carry," I guess
"Yes," John has no false modesty. "It takes a bit of the danger out of people wielding tools on guitars!" We both chuckle. (Well I can just picture it….).
"It does tell you how to take care of and maintain the playability of your Instrument. It's not for building or repairing anything, it's just a basic manual, and that's published by Hal Leonard Corporation out of Wisconsin. "They did a hell of a job with the book. It's been published worldwide, on many continents, and in several different languages."
"Got another book awaiting birth?" I ask knowingly
Well yes he does. "It's about three quarters done," John grins.. "It's called The Professiional Luthier's Desktop Reference Manual and it incorporates everything I know from my experience and techniques I've develop. Again, it's unique in the sense that it exposes information that's never before, as far as I know, been in print."
"How come."
"I don't know. I don't think there are any trade secrets..it's just a lot of good information that anybody who has a handle on this kind of thing could say, Oh wow I didn't know that, but I can use it now."
The sixty-four dollar questions. "Do you make a fulltime living from the books and guitar hospital?"
"Yes, That is all I do. Fixing guitars, you can make as much money at because it is time consuming. It has to be hand crafted and you can't rush it. I only have one standard of quality. I can't say, Oh a beginner's going to get this or a pro's going to get this. They all get the same treatment and it's the same price depending on the kind of job." John sighs, "It IS the kind of things that is sadly lacking in today's world. The handcrafted, take your time, do it right, attitude.
"Have you been approached by people who want to work with you?"
"Yes." John nods. "But it is hard to find some9one, especially in younger people, who have the attitude that they want to learn and spend the time doing something with their hands, instead of playing with the computer or watching TV…This does take quite a bit of skill and patience and it's not just about knowing how to turn a screwdriver. You have to have customer service and you have to be willing to make a small investment in some of the equipment, too."
"What in your background made you interested in doing this, in becoming this type of craftsman?"
Well, when I was in 7th grade, all my friends in school were in a band. I thought, "Oh boy, it would be great to do that." But I was so shy that I never did it. So, I just kind of hung out in the background but then after living in Italy for a year, freshman year of high school, I got back and I heard Quiet Riot on college radio, and I said, "that's it! I gotta start playing guitar." So at about 15, which is pretty late for a lot of people, I picked it up, and right away I was interested in the technical aspects of it. Why and how do things work. I've always had a curious mind. About six months later I met a friend who played drums, we started a band without knowing a damn thing about anything, and a few months later we were playing in front of the whole city. I'm sure we were terrible but it was fun! From there it just led to a lot of lessons, and then for my undergrad degree I did a minor in music and I just kept going with it. I did a lot of studying always looking for better sounds out of the instrument. It's not really the equipment that makes it, that's some of it, but it's the playing, knowing how to control and play the instrument and be creative on it. As I learned more about the technical aspects of things, I noticed some deficiencies in certain types of hardware, or constant problems that guitar players had, and I would think and thinks and think and finally things would come to me. The tremolo bar popped into my head one day like a missile. My dad made it for me in his little machine shop at our house. I have a few other totally unique things up my sleeve for next year, in terms of guitar and bass hardware, that no one has ever dreamed was possible. AND I look at Dutch sternly. "You better keep me informed of all this," I tell him.
He meekly agrees
"It helps to be both a player and a technician." John comments. "When I work with people, I can understand what they are going for, and whether it is practical."
John plans to eventually phase out the guitar hospital or shift it under the umbrella of a new company he is going to form for the sale of all of his inventions called Innovative Guitar Products. If you want to stay on the cutting edge and keep up with his endeavors(and shenanigans) try his websites: www. Wilddutch's Guitar Hospital or www. Innovative Guitar Products as well. He's also willing to take phone calls at 440 740 1205. "I like to do business personally with people and talk guitars, amps, and music."
john@wilddutch.com
8483 Broadview Rd, Broadview Heights, OH 44147, United States
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"""
This module will run a calibration on the drag slides from 0 to 500 lbf.
"""
from __future__ import division, print_function
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from pxl import timeseries as ts
import time
import daqmx
import os
import sys
import json
import scipy.stats
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
if sys.version_info[0] == 2:
    input = raw_input

side = "right"
test_dur = 30.0    # Seconds
sample_rate = 2000 # Hz
max_force = 500.0  # lbf
min_force = 0.0
steps_ascending = 10
steps_descending = 10
device = "cDAQ9188-16D66BBMod3"
phys_chan = "ai2"
plot = True

def create_dataframe(direction):
    df = pd.DataFrame()
    if direction == "ascending":
        df["nominal_force"] = np.linspace(min_force, max_force, steps_ascending)
    elif direction == "descending":
        df["nominal_force"] = np.linspace(max_force, min_force, steps_descending)
    df["initial_force"] = np.zeros(len(df.nominal_force))
    df["final_force"] = np.zeros(len(df.nominal_force))
    df["mean_volts_per_volt"] = np.zeros(len(df.nominal_force))
    df["std_volts_per_volt"] = np.zeros(len(df.nominal_force))
    return df

def collect_data(duration):
    """Collects data from the specified channel for the duration."""
    print("\nCollecting data for {} seconds".format(duration))
    c = daqmx.channels.AnalogInputBridgeChannel()
    c.physical_channel = "{}/{}".format(device, phys_chan)
    c.name = "volts_per_volt"
    c.voltage_exc_value = 10.0
    task = daqmx.tasks.Task()
    task.add_channel(c)
    task.sample_rate = sample_rate
    task.setup_append_data()
    task.start()
    while len(task.data["time"]) < duration*sample_rate:
        time.sleep(0.2)
    task.stop()
    task.clear()
    print("Data collection complete")
    return task.data

def regress(applied_force, volts_per_volt):
    """Linearly regress applied force versus V/V"""
    results = scipy.stats.linregress(volts_per_volt, applied_force)
    slope, intercept, r_value, p_value, std_err = results
    return {"slope" : slope,
            "intercept" : intercept,
            "r_value" : r_value,
            "p_value" : p_value,
            "std_err" : std_err,
            "units" : "N/(V/V)"}

def save_raw_data(data_dict, index, direction):
    folder = os.path.join("data", "raw", direction, str(index))
    path = os.path.join(folder, "data.h5")
    if not os.path.isdir(folder):
        os.makedirs(folder)
    ts.savehdf(path, data_dict.to_dict("list"), mode="w")
    print("Saved raw data to", path)

def save_metadata(metadata):
    with open("calibration.json", "w") as f:
        json.dump(metadata, f, indent=4)

def run_cal(direction):
    print("Running calibration", direction)
    df = create_dataframe(direction)
    for index, force in enumerate(df.nominal_force):
        print("\nSet the applied force to {} lbf".format(force))
        initial_force = float(input("What is the current applied force? "))
        df.initial_force[index] = initial_force
        rawdata = collect_data(test_dur)
        save_raw_data(rawdata, index, direction)
        df.mean_volts_per_volt[index] = np.mean(rawdata["volts_per_volt"])
        df.std_volts_per_volt[index] = np.std(rawdata["volts_per_volt"])
        print("Mean measured voltage: {} V/V".format(df.mean_volts_per_volt[index]))
        final_force = float(input("What is the current applied force? "))
        df.final_force[index] = final_force
    df["mean_force_lbf"] = (df.initial_force + df.final_force)/2
    df["mean_force_newtons"] = df.mean_force_lbf*4.44822162
    print("\n{} calibration complete".format(direction.title()))
    print("\nResults:\n")
    print(df)
    csv_folder = os.path.join("data", "processed")
    if not os.path.isdir(csv_folder):
        os.makedirs(csv_folder)
    csv_path = os.path.join(csv_folder, direction + ".csv")
    df.to_csv(csv_path, index=False)
    regression = regress(df.mean_force_newtons, df.mean_volts_per_volt)
    print("\n{} regression:".format(direction.title()))
    for k, v in regression.items():
        print(k, ":", v)
    return df, regression

def main():
    print("Calibrating {} drag slide\n".format(side))
    metadata = {}
    metadata["side"] = side
    metadata["9237 physical channel"] = phys_chan
    df_asc, reg_asc = run_cal("ascending")
    df_desc, reg_desc = run_cal("descending")
    metadata["linear regression ascending"] = reg_asc
    metadata["linear regression descending"] = reg_desc
    df_all = df_asc.append(df_desc)
    reg_all = regress(df_all.mean_force_newtons, df_all.mean_volts_per_volt)
    metadata["linear regression all"] = reg_all
    metadata["timestamp"] = time.asctime()
    save_metadata(metadata)
    if plot:
        plt.style.use("ggplot")
        plt.figure()
        plt.plot(df_asc.mean_volts_per_volt, df_asc.mean_force_newtons, "ok",
                 label="Meas. asc.")
        plt.plot(df_desc.mean_volts_per_volt, df_desc.mean_force_newtons, "sb",
                 label="Meas. desc.")
        plt.xlabel("V/V")
        plt.ylabel("Applied force (N)")
        plt.plot(df_all.mean_volts_per_volt, df_all.mean_volts_per_volt*reg_all["slope"] \
                 + reg_all["intercept"], label="Lin. reg. all")
        plt.legend(loc=2)
        plt.grid(True)
        plt.show()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

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06/06/13 Charles R. Breyer, of California, to be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission for a term expiring October 31, 2015 (confirmed)
Nomination Number: PN323-113
06/06/13 Rachel Elise Barkow, of New York, to be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission for a term expiring October 31, 2017 (confirmed)
06/06/13 William H. Pryor, Jr., of Alabama, to be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission for a term expiring October 31, 2017 (confirmed)
05/07/13 David Medine, of Maryland, to be Chairman and Member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board for a term expiring January 29, 2018. (New Position) (Confirmed)
Nomination Number: PN50-113
Last Action: Confirmed by the Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 53 - 45. Record Vote Number: 114.
Committee Questionnaire
Questions for the Record
04/25/13 Karol Virginia Mason, of Georgia, to be an Assistant Attorney General (confirmed)
Letters Received:
Joseph P. Torre, Chairman, Safe at Home Foundation
Gregory E. Pyle, Chief, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
George Thurman, Chief, Sac & Fox Nation
Dave Lopeman, Chairman, Squaxin Island Tribe
Bob Kelly, Chairman, Nooksack Indian Tribe
Timothy Ballew, II, Chairman, Lummi Indian Business Council
W. Ron Allen, Tribal Chairman/CEO, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe
Joseph C. Akers, Jr., Interim Executive Director, Nat'l Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives
Roy Cooper, Attorney General, Department of Justice, State of North Carolina
Randy Byrd, President, North Carolina Police Benevolent Association, Inc.
Larry D. Thompson, U.S. Deputy Attorney General
Richard H. Deane, Jr., Former U.S. Attorney
Laurie O. Robinson, Former Assistant Attorney General
Blanche L. Lincoln, Former U.S. Senator
Rodney Monroe, Chief of Police, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Dept., NC
Robert J. Dole, Former U.S. Senator
U.S. Representative G.K. Butterfield
Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Former U.S. Ambassador to Australia, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Associate Attorney General
01/03/13 David Medine, of Maryland, to be Chairman and Member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board for a term expiring January 29, 2012. (New Position) (Returned to the President)
01/03/13 Michael A. Botticelli, of Massachusetts, to be Deputy Director of National Drug Control Policy, vice A. Thomas McLellan.
01/03/13 Charles R. Breyer, of California, to be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission for a term expiring October 31, 2015 (returned to the President)
01/03/13 Derek Anthony West, of California, to be Associate Attorney General (returned to the President)
01/03/13 Gary Blankinship, of Texas, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of Texas for the term of four years (returned to the President)
01/03/13 David Medine, of Maryland, to be Chairman and Member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board for a term expiring January 29, 2018. (Reappointment) (Returned to the President)
01/01/13 Patrick J. Wilkerson, of Oklahoma, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Oklahoma for the term of four years, vice John William Loyd, term expired.
01/01/13 Louise W. Kelton, of Tennessee, to be United States Marshal for the Middle District of Tennessee for the term of four years, vice Denny Wade King, term expired.
01/01/13 Angela Tammy Dickinson, of Missouri, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri for the term of four years (confirmed)
12/30/12 William Joseph Baer, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Attorney General, vice Christine Anne Varney.
08/02/12 Patricia M. Wald, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board for a term expiring January 29, 2013. (New Position) (Confirmed)
08/02/12 Danny Chappelle Williams, Sr., of Oklahoma, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma for the term of four years (confirmed)
08/02/12 James Xavier Dempsey, of California, to be a Member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board for a term expiring January 29, 2016. (New Position) (Confirmed)
08/02/12 Elisebeth Collins Cook, of Illinois, to be a Member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board for a term expiring January 29, 2014. (New Position) (confirmed)


The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, a leftist homosexual organization, honored Frank Kameny at its 2006 Creating Change conference Nov. 8-12 in Kansas City, Missouri. At the event, Kameny referred to Christians with venom, calling them "Christianofascists" and "nutty fundamentalists," according to an Americans For Truth reporter who attended the conference and heard his acceptance speech.
The author of the "gay is good" slogan, Kameny–whose papers have just been accepted by the Library of Congress and the National Museum of American History–also told conference attendees that "gay is moral and virtuous," as part of his ongoing crusade to redefine ancient moral truths through catchy activist slogans.
I've known Kameny for years. I respect his zeal, but loathe his ideology, just as he loathes mine. He is brilliant but wasted his considerable intellect and talents on homosexual activism, which is a shame. Like others in the pro-family movement, I have been on the receiving end of Kameny's angry and pointed letters, or should I say screeds, in which–if my memory serves–he would repeat his patented slogan, "Gay is good," followed by, "Gay is godly. You are neither." Kameny is a feisty old bird who agreed to sit down with me and Ken Ervin for an extended interview back when Ken and I were both working at Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. One of the things we learned in that interview is that Kameny is an atheist, which makes his "gay is godly" assertion a tad disingenuous. But hey, anything to advance the homosexual cause, right?
We'll have more about Frank Kameny later, but suffice it to say that this man with a penchant for anti-Christian bigotry and questionable sloganeering does not deserve to be honored as a "civil rights" pioneer by America's national library. Somehow my mind just can't get around the idea of putting Dr. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman in the same category, historically speaking, with a homosexual and "fervent atheist" who says "gay is godly" and "gay is moral and virtuous," just to sock it to the Christians.
"Frank challenged the federal government when he was fired from his job in 1957. When he was rebuffed by the U.S. Supreme Court, which refused to hear his case, he kept right on going and founded the Mattachine Society of Washington in 1961. In 1965, he led the now-famous demonstration in front of the White House in one of the first public demands for fairness and equal treatment for LGBT people. In 1968, Kameny coined the phrase 'gay is good.' In 1971, Kameny founded the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance, a still-thriving advocacy organization in Washington, D.C.," said Guerrero.
Kameny also bragged that his letters and protest signs would now reside in the same collection as the desk that Thomas Jefferson used to draft the US Constitution, in the same collection as the implements used by Abraham Lincoln to craft the Emancipation Proclamation.
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After struggling to pull out a victory at home over San Francisco, USC and its frontcourt-challenged lineup figures to face a real test today.
The Trojans (5-2) go on the road to take on No. 6 Oklahoma (6-0) in Norman and will run into perhaps the best player in the nation, 6-foot-10 sophomore forward Blake Griffin.
And it's quite an improved Griffin from the one USC saw last year during the Trojans' 66-55 victory over the Sooners at the Galen Center.
This year, Griffin is averaging 25.7 points (fifth in the nation) and 19.2 rebounds (first) per game. In last year's meeting, Griffin had four points and nine rebounds as Oklahoma was held to 35.6 percent shooting.
USC forward Taj Gibson, who scored only nine points in that game, is bracing for the challenge.
Freshman guard Willie Warren averages 14.8 points for the Sooners and 6-7 forward Taylor Griffin, Blake's brother, is averaging 11.5 points and 6.2 rebounds.
Oklahoma forward Ryan Wright, a transfer from UCLA, has played in all six games but has racked up only 47 minutes of action.
USC fell behind USF by 12 points in the first half and is hoping that the patience his team displayed will pay off. The Trojans rallied to take a one-point halftime lead, holding the Dons scoreless in the final 3:55 of the period.
USC is still waiting for word from the NCAA Clearinghouse on the eligibility status of freshman Nikola Vucevic. Floyd couldn't help himself from taking a crack at the process.


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Candide Gardening
The Tallest Trees in the World
Sam_Coppard
Published on July 18th 2019
For those of us who love the woods, trees are a constant source of wonder. Towering forest giants can make you feel tiny wherever you are, but some dwarf the rest.
Some of the tallest trees on Earth can be found in the inaccessible tropics of Borneo and the ancient forests of Tasmania. Europe's tallest trees are over 20 stories high but are all non-native species from wilder parts of the world. But none of these can match the stately grandeur and cathedral awe of the old-growth redwood and sequoia forests on the Californian coast - the ancient kings of the forest.
These trees are genuine giants. The grandfather of them all, a magnificent coast redwood called Hyperion, stands a full 20m higher than London's Big Ben or the Statue of Liberty in New York. It's hard to grasp the true scale of these towering titans, but hopefully this infographic can help our tiny human minds comprehend the enormity of these trees.
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Its exact location is a closely guarded secret, but we know that Hyperion is a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in Redwood National Park, California.
Coastal Redwood
Sequoia sempervirens
The tallest tree of all was only discovered in 2006, by naturalists Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor. It was later climbed by Stephen Sillett, who dropped a tape measure from the top and recorded Hyperion's official height as 115.55m, taller than any other tree on the planet.
Arborist Mario Vaden in front of a large coast redwood in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, California
Hyperion is already somewhere between 600-800 years old and still growing. Barring damage from wind or woodpeckers, it should keep doing so for centuries to come.
Other exceptionally tall redwoods are currently shorter than Hyperion but growing at a faster rate. So while Hyperion holds the crown for now, it's likely to be overtaken in the next few decades. It will therefore probably be a different tree that breaks the 400 foot barrier for the first time since logging decimated these forests.
A grove of redwoods near Avenue of the Giants, an area with lots of very tall trees! Photo by Ryan Grayson under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Another magnificently named goliath, Centurion is a mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans aka swamp gum) located in the untamed wilds of Tasmania.
Eucalyptus regnans
Having grown 80cm since its previous official measurement a few years before, in 2018 Centurion was measured at an incredible 100.5m. At the time, that made it the only known tree taller than 100m outside of North America.
As redwoods are technically softwood trees (defined by their seeds rather than the actual hardness of the wood), Centurion also holds the honour of being the world's tallest hardwood tree. And it was probably even taller in the past. Signs of a broken branch near the top of the tree suggest that Centurion could grow even higher in future.
A small child gazing up at a 92m tall mountain ash/swamp gum that was once thought to be the tallest in Australia. Photo by T Taylor under CC BY-SA 3.0
Many of the world's most impressive trees have grand names, but Centurion's came about by coincidence. Rather than being named for its towering 100m height, the name was reserved for the 100th monumental tree recorded, as part of a wider Tasmanian tree-measuring project.
Australia's crowning woodland glory has only survived long enough to grow so tall by chance. Most of the surrounding area has been heavily logged, and forest fires regularly sweep through these remote regions. A bushfire in February 2019 came close to ending it all, badly charring Centurion's base despite heroic efforts to save the tree from harm. But it's not all bad news. Eucalyptus trees have evolved alongside the ever-present threat of fire, and Centurion remains stable and healthy, even with its blackened trunk.
Buttress roots at the bottom of a huge swamp gum in Tasmania. Photo by ccdoh1 under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
General Sherman
Named after a famous civil war commander, General Sherman is a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) growing in Sequoia National Park.
Giant Redwood
Sequoiadendron giganteum
But what makes this one any more remarkable than the others? It's certainly not the tallest sequoia around, but General Sherman is nevertheless a giant among giants.
At around 2500 years old, General Sherman is ancient in human terms, but a relative youngster next to the 4,850-year-old bristlecone pine known as Methuselah. Still, this mighty sequoia has lived long enough to reach a neck-breaking height of 83.8m, although that's significantly shorter than both Centurion and Hyperion. And while a diameter of 7.7m is notable, it's got nothing on the widest baobab and cypress trees.
But the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Put these measurements together, and you discover that General Sherman is the largest tree on Earth. With an estimated bole (trunk) volume of 1,487m3, this colossus is thought to weigh almost 2,000 tonnes. And that's even after it lost its largest branch in January 2006 – this was over 30m long and 2m wide, bigger than most trees.
General Sherman is one hell of a big tree! Photo by m01229 under CC BY-SA 2.0
The Tallest Tree in Europe
Valle de Canas in Portugal has suffered forest fires in recent years. However, the renowned Karri Knight tree has fortunately escaped unharmed and remains the tallest reliably measured tree in Europe at 72.9m.
A tall karri tree at home in Western Australia. The Karri Knight is another 10m taller than this! Photo by Steel Wool under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
The Karri Knight is a karri tree (Eucalyptus diversicolor), native to southwestern Australia.
Eucalyptus diversicolor
Remarkably, Europe's tallest tree is thought only to be around 120 years old, so it could well grow significantly taller in the future. Its antipodean cousins have been known to reach heights of about 90m in ideal conditions, so who knows how tall the trees of Valle de Canas could become?
There's a chance that they'll never be the tallest trees in Europe though – it might just be that we haven't measured the highest ones yet. There are rumours of giants in the remote forests of the Caucasus, on the eastern edge of Europe, some of which could be up to 85m tall. We're just waiting for an expedition to survey the region's trees before anything can be confirmed.
An Australian karri tree used as a fire lookout thanks to its great height. Photo by Steel Wool under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
The Tallest Tree in the UK
Betws y Coed is a well-known honeypot village in Snowdonia National Park and a regular tourist stop en route to Snowdon, the highest peak in Wales. What most people don't realise is that they're also going past the tallest tree in the UK, a proud coast Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) just outside the village.
Pseudotsuga menziesii
Ready to produce the next generation of giant Douglas firs. Photo by Cody Hough under CC BY-SA 3.0
At 67.5m, it's an undeniably large tree, but the coast Douglas fir is another American giant that can reach staggering heights of 100m+ in its native habitat. A glen near Inverness in Scotland holds another Douglas fir that's not far off the record at 66.4m. And there must be something special about that particular glen, as it's also home to the tallest larch and lime trees in the UK.
Could There Be Taller Trees out There?
Hyperion was only discovered in 2006, and Centurion in 2008. Redwood and mountain ash have been heavily logged in the past, losing the vast majority of their forests and the largest individual trees. So while there were almost certainly taller trees in the past, could any still be out there?
Could more giants be hiding in a remote area of the misty forests on the US west coast?
It's certainly not impossible. Giant trees grow in old-growth forests, which tend to be mostly undisturbed and inaccessible by their very definition. An extra tall behemoth could well have escaped detection, especially if its base was located in a hollow lower than the surrounding ground. Then it could potentially be taller than the trees around it without making an impact on the skyline.
LiDAR image of Douglas firs being surveyed in the Pacific Northwest. Photo courtesy of Oregon State University under CC BY-SA 2.0
But these kinds of discoveries are becoming less likely by the year. LiDAR technology uses a series of sophisticated laser measurements to build an accurate 3D map of the ground and trees below. As LiDAR surveys more of the earth's surface, we can be increasingly confident that the tallest trees have already been found.
LiDAR is still uncovering some surprises though. The world's tallest known tropical tree was only found this year, in the relatively well known Danum Valley conservation area in Borneo. The exceptional yellow meranti tree (Shorea faguetiana) is the only tropical tree ever known to have broken the 100m barrier, standing less than 80cm clear of the airy milestone. So who knows what else might be out there?
The exceptionally tall tropical trees of Borneo's Danum Valley conservation area. Photo by Jeevitha Balakrishnan under CC BY-SA 4.0
The Biggest Trees Ever
There is no doubt that today's biggest trees wouldn't have made the cut in centuries past. Around 95% of the ancient redwood forests of western North America have been logged, and tales tell of giant trees that would have towered over the monarchs of today. No doubt exaggeration played a part in some of the recorded measurements, but not all of them can be discounted.
Two trees, in particular, are worthy of consideration. The Crannell Creek Giant was a coast redwood (like Hyperion) that was around 20% larger than General Sherman, a giant sequoia. This leviathan was tragically chopped down in the 1940s.
We've never had anything quite as big as the trees in Avatar though...
But there have been even bigger trees in the past. The largest single-stem tree ever recorded was the Lindsey Creek Giant, another coast redwood. It fell in a storm in 1905 but was estimated to have a trunk volume of at least 2,550m3, approaching twice the size of General Sherman. This vast tree had a diameter of nearly 6m at the height of 40m, and almost 3m at 75m. It may have also been a few metres taller than Hyperion.
The Lindsey Creek Giant was the last true titan, but if we keep our forests safe from harm, such giants could one day rise again.
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Attitudes of Employees Towards Organizational Change and Factors Affecting them at the Establishments of the Palestinian National Authoriy in the Northen Districts of the West Bank
Educational Science - Educational Administration
خليل احمد خضر خليل
This study aimed at recognizing the attitudes of employees towards organizational change and factors affecting it at the establishments of the Palestinian National Authority in the Northern Districts of the West Bank. It also aimed at determining the impact of (sex, academic qualification, experience and position) variables on the attitudes of employees towards organizational change and factors affecting it at the establishments of the Palestinian National Authority in the Northern Districts of the West Bank. The study population consisted of all the employees (n. 2065) at the establishments of the Palestinian National Authority in the north districts of the West Bank in the year 2002/2003. The study sample consisted of (486) male and female employees selected by the rank random method with a percentage of (23.5 per cent) to whom 486 questionnaires were distributed. The number of returned questionnaires was (380), and (106) questionnaires were lost. Statistical analysis was carried out on the returned questionnaires, The researcher used the study instrument which was prepared based on former studies and literature of public management. The study instrument was verified by a committee of arbitrators. The alpha Cronbach equation was used to test its consistency for internal coherence, The consistency correlation of the Attitudes Towards Change Questionnaire was (0,81) and the consistency correlation of the factors affecting the attitudes towards change was (0,82), Findings: The study reached the following findings: Findings related to the attitudes towards organizational change: The percentages of the fields in descending order: Behavioral change: (71%), Technological change: (70%), Structural change: (65%). - Findings related to the factors affecting organizational change: The percentages of the fields in descending order: Personal factors: (73%), External environmental factors: (67,4%), Organizational atmosphere factors: (61,20/0), Informational factors: (61 %). - The findings were according to the following variables: 1. Sex: There were no significant differences between males and females in the employees' attitudes towards organizational change and the factors affecting them. 2. Academic qualification: There were significant differences between the employees' attitudes towards organizational change and the factors affecting them in the field of organizational atmosphere and the field of informational factors in favor of diploma and bachelor degrees. 3. Experience: There were no significant difference between employees in employees' attitudes towards organizational change and the factors affecting them. 4. Position: There were significant factors between employees' attitudes towards organizational change and the factors affecting them in the field of technological change in favor of the employee and the Division Head.


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