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As a fitness professional, you are expected to know a certain amount of exercise science, and part of science is math! I know many of you hear the word "math" and want to turn and run in the opposite direction, but my goal is to convince you that you're fully capable of being an effective exercise mathematician!
First, let me start by saying that the rules regarding a calculator have recently been modified—you will now be supplied with a calculator function on your exam. To see what this is going to look like and get some practice, check out our test administrator, Castle Worldwide, and Take a Sample Test. In the menu at the top, there is a calculator option. The asterisk (*) is the multiplication symbol and the forward slash (/) is the division symbol (see photo below). This is a great way to get familiar with the format of the test and become more comfortable navigating the exam.
There are only a few questions that deal with equations (namely BMI, % Body Fat, and Predicted 1-RM). Other questions might require you to calculate how many calories are in a pound of fat, and then how many calories to create a caloric deficit or surplus each day. I am going to walk you through the math you could potentially see on an ACE Personal Training Certification Exam (those taking the Group Fitness Instructor or Health Coach exam may not see the Predicted 1-RM equation).
Okay let's get started!
Desired Percent Body Fat
For this example, we're going to use a theoretical female client who weighs 195 pounds and has 37% body fat. Her goal is lose 10% body fat (27%) to reduce her risk of type 2 diabetes.
Step 1: Determine Fat Mass vs. Lean Mass in Pounds. There are two ways to get this number, and they're pretty much the same thing so just select the method that makes the most sense to you.
- Variation 1: (100% BF) to give you % Lean Body Mass (LBM) and then multiply their weight by that number
- (100 - 37) = 63 % Lean Body Mass
- 195 lbs. x 0.63 = 122.85 lbs.
- This person has ~123 lbs. of LBM
- Variation 2: Multiply weight by % Fat Mass (FM) and then subtract that from their weight
- 195 x 0.37 = 72.15 lbs. of FM
- 195 - 72.15 = 122.85 of LBM
- This person has ~123 lbs. of LBM
Step 2: Determine Goal Weight Mass Distribution. Essentially, you're asking, "At her current weight, her lean body mass makes up 63% of her total mass. But if she decreased her FM to 27% then her LBM would now make up what %?"
- Process: Subtract desired % BF from 100
Step 3: Calculate it all out.
- Divide Current LBM in pounds by desired % LBM
- 123/0.73 = 168.49315
- 168.5 pounds to reach desired body composition goal
Body Mass Index and Waist-to-Hip Ratio
Next, let's look at some of the other anthropometric measurements you might use: Body Mass Index (BMI) and Waist-to-Hip Ratio. While BMI is a quick and easy way to classify someone according to their height and weight, it does NOT take into account someone's body composition. So, someone who has a shorter, more muscular body type might read a little high, but have a normal % Body Fat (BF). Conversely, a person could appear very petite, but still have a high % BF, so use this information wisely. (The advantages and disadvantages of BMI can be found on pages 185-186 of the ACE Personal Training Manual.)
Here is how we calculate BMI:
Your Client is 5 feet 3 inches and weighs 135 pounds.
Version 1: Using Weight in Kilograms and Height in Meters Squared
- Step 1: Convert pounds into kilograms by dividing weight in pounds by 2.2
- 135/2.2 = 61.363636 or ~61.4 kg
- Step 2: Convert inches to meters by multiplying inches by 0.0254
- 63 x 0.0254 = 1.6002 or ~ 1.6 m
- Step 3: Square (multiply by itself) their height in meters
- 1.6 x 1.6 = 2.56 meters-squared
- Step 4: Divide weight in kilograms by height in meters-squared where BMI = kg/(m x m)
- 61.4 kg / 2.56 = 23.984375 or ~ 24
- This persons BMI would be 24 which would place them in the "Normal Weight" Category
Version 2: Using Weight in Pounds and Height in Inches where BMI = pounds x [703/(inches x inches)]
- Step 1: Square height in inches
- 63 x 63 = 3969
- Step 2: Divide 703 by height in inches-squared
- 703/3969 = 0.1771227 or ~ 0.18
- Step 3: Multiply weight in pound by product from step 2
- 135 x 0.18 = 24.3
- This person's BMI is 24.3 which would place them in the "Normal Weight" Category
NOTE: There is a slight difference between the two answers due to rounding differences.
Waist-to-hip ratio looks at the distribution of fat, which can provide information about a person's health risk. For example, some have more fat around the midsection, known as Android body shape (like an apple), while others carry more fat in the hips, buttocks and thighs, which is known as Gynoid body shape (like a pear). There are two types of fat: subcutaneous fat and visceral fat. Subcutaneous fat sits on top of the muscle (this is what we pinch with the skinfold calipers). Visceral fat sits in your mid-section underneath the muscle and surrounds all of our organs and is associated with insulin resistance (for more detailed explanation see page 188 of the ACE Personal Training Manual). The criteria for obesity in reference to waist circumference is 35 inches for females and 40 inches for males.
Let's calculate the WHR for another theoretical client:
A male has a waist circumference of 35 inches and a hip circumference of 39.
- Divide Waist Circumference by Hip Circumference
- 35/39 = 0.8974358 or ~0.90 which would place this man in the "Average" category
- Hint: If you forget which number goes on top, just remember the Waist is above the Hips - W/H
Predicted 1-RM Equation
For assessments pertaining to muscular strength, the Predicted 1-RM equation is very helpful, particularly when you are unable to determine a client's actual 1 Rep Max (RM). You are expected to know the % 1 RM Values for the different number of repetitions listed on Table 8-27 of the ACE Personal Training Manual pictured here (page 224). Hint: For 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10, the values decrease in 5% increments.
Determining 1 RM: What would the 1-RM be for a client who is able to lift 150 pounds 6 times?
- Step 1: Determine % 1 RM based on number of repetitions lifted: 85%
- Step 2: Divide weight lifted (150 pounds) by the percentage determined
- 150/0.85 = 176.47058 or ~176.5 lbs.
Karvonen Formula – Heart Rate Reserve (HRR)
Let's switch gears to the Karvonen Formula, also known as Heart Rate Reserve (HRR). For clients who enjoy tracking their heart rate, but aren't comfortable with assessments, you can use the Karvonen Formula to create appropriate heart-rate ranges for them to work in for each of the three zones. While this formula is MOST accurate when you have a measured maximum heart rate (MHR), you can still create a good estimation of where they should be. You will need to measure their resting heart rate (RHR) for this equation.
For this example, your 45-year-old male client has a resting heart rate of 75 and wants to work at 70% of his HRR.
- Step 1: Determine Maximum Heart Rate (MHR): 220 - Age
- Step 2: Calculate Heart Rate Reserve (HRR) by subtracting Resting Heart Rate (HRR) from MHR
- Step 3: Multiply HRR by desired intensity (70%)
- 70% HRR = 100 x 0.7 = 70
- Step 4: Add back RHR to get heart rate for desired training intensity
- For this person to work at 70% of their HRR, they will want their heart rate at 145.
HINT: If you calculate their heart-rate range for Zone 2: 60-84% (see page 392 of the ACE Personal Training Manual), then you will know that anything below is going to be in Zone 1, and anything above it will be in Zone 3. You get all three zones with only one calculation!
I hope you're feeling a little bit more comfortable with why and how we use these calculations. If not, please feel free to contact one of our Study Coaches by calling our Resource Center at 800-825-3636, Ext. 796, Monday-Friday 7 a.m. – 6 p.m. We are always happy to assist you with your studies.


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This afternoon's shocking news of the death of NBC "Meet the Press" moderator Tim Russert sparked memories in our newsroom of stories CNS has written about him over the years. Here are some examples:
— Opening the annual National Catholic Educational Association convention in 2000: TV newsman thanks Catholic school teachers who 'changed my life'
— On his new book "Big Russ & Me," written, as our story said, "just in time for Father's Day" 2004: Russert writes about lessons from his father, lessons for his own son
— And in a talk he gave to Catholic social ministers from across the country in 2005: Making world better for children a necessary goal, says NBC's Russert
That last story has nuggets of what made Russert both a great newsman and a great father. If you haven't read it yet, make sure you look at the third-to-the-last paragraph:
In introducing Russert, Mercy Sister Lourdes Sheehan, an associate general secretary of the U.S. bishops' conference, said, "Amazingly, he got John McCain and Hillary Clinton to admit that the other would make a good president" …
Remember, this is from 2005!
In that same story, about making the world better for children, he reflected on his role as a father:
In dealing with his own son, Luke, Russert added that he tells him, "You are always, always loved, but you are never entitled."
Tragically — but perhaps fittingly, given Russert's devotion to both his father and his son — his death came just two days before our annual observance of Father's Day.
Also worth a look is this video from John Carroll University in Cleveland, Russert's alma mater, on the value of his Jesuit education in high school and college.
UPDATE: The U.S. bishops' Catholic Communication Campaign also has an insightful interview with Russert about the importance of his Catholic faith conducted in 2004 by Msgr. Jim Lisante for the CCC's "One-on-One" series. It too is well worth your time to see how important the faith was to Russert.
PHOTO: Tim Russert, managing editor and moderator of NBC's 'Meet the Press,' looks on as Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor to the Wall Street Journal and political author, speaks during a 2006 panel discussion at Boston College. (CNS photo/Peter Smith, The Pilot)

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posted by David Adams on Thu 1st Mar 2012 22:31 UTC, submitted by kallisti5
Back in September 2011, the Haiku project sponsored a Google Summer of Code student (Mike Smith) to develop guest additions for VirtualBox. The project was a success and was submitted to the VirtualBox project. The unofficial Haiku Google+ group just reported a Mailing List post by an Oracle engineer mentioning a "Haiku Port": "The biggest pending change [the Haiku port] is waiting for build tools integration, and this is simply time consuming. The quality of this contribution is very high." Lets hope this may be a sign that VirtualBox may officially run *under* Haiku at some point. On the other hand, this could just mean a "Haiku Port" of the VirtualBox guest additions. Judge for yourself.


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<— But First the History Bit St Andrews, Jamaica —>
In 1900 the head of the Ross family was Samuel Ross, a constable with the Metropolitan Police, somewhat overbearing but a pillar of the community and living in Droop Street, Paddington, London. His wife, Harriet, was the opposite of Samuel, quiet and timid. They had three daughters, Lucy, Rebecca (known to all as Becky) and Martha. They family were devout Catholics and never missed attending confession on Friday evening and mass on Sunday morning.
Also living with them was Lucy's husband, John Sinclair, a young man from Inverness in Scotland, who had a small inheritance as a result of selling his family's farm after the death of his parents. John had seen and responded to this advertisement in The Times below:
It was as a resut of his successful application that a few weeks later my Great Aunt Lucy and John were on their way to Jamaica where John was to take up an apprenticeship post working for Bertram Pollock on his plantation just outside Kingston, in the foothills of the Blue Mountains.
When Lucy and John arrived in Kingston they found a boom town and fell in love with the island almost immediately.
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NBA PLAYOFFS: Karl can't wait for Nuggets' Game 7 vs. Lakers
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Although George Karl has spent nearly a quarter-century on NBA benches, the Denver coach can't beat down the butterflies when he thinks about the Nuggets' next game.
With a third straight victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday night, Denver would become just the ninth team to escape a 3-1 series deficit, completing an improbable comeback against Kobe Bryant and Co. The Nuggets have stared down two elimination games with a maturity their coach only hoped he would see in this series, sending the bigger, stronger Lakers staggering home for a big finish.
Oh, and Saturday is Karl's birthday, too.
"I'm nervous already," Karl said Friday before the Nuggets caught another flight to Los Angeles. "I am 61 years old and I haven't been nervous, this nervous, for a game this early in a long time."
Everybody on both benches should share Karl's anxious stomach -- but hopefully not Bryant's upset stomach, which felt much better Friday -- when they return to Staples Center to decide a series that seemed pretty straightforward before it got awfully complicated over the previous four days.
While the Nuggets showed a nerve they didn't know they had, the Lakers stopped doing the dirty work that got them to the verge of the second round -- and now Denver could sneak past them into a date with Oklahoma City on Monday night.
"I've seen a lot throughout my years, and I'm not that surprised," Bryant said before the sixth Game 7 of his career. "They've played very well and got into a good rhythm now."
While the Nuggets are rolling, the Lakers are reeling: Los Angeles has played horribly for nearly all of the past two games, with Bryant's Game 5 comeback falling short before Denver blew out the Lakers 113-96 in Game 6. If the Lakers blow the series, none of Bryant's teammates will be safe from the wrath of fans who expect championships -- or a roster reconfiguration by general manager Mitch Kupchak and the Buss family, which also expects annual contention for rings.
"Everything that has happened in this series has to be behind us, whether it's good or bad," said Pau Gasol, who managed three points on 1-for-10 shooting and three rebounds in Game 6. "We've got to rely on aggressiveness tomorrow, on energy. We've got to want it more than they do."
And the cavalry is coming, in the form of an intense defender with dangerous elbows: Metta World Peace will start Game 7 after finishing his seven-game suspension for viciously hitting Oklahoma City's James Harden in the regular season.
World Peace went through another aggressive workout Friday, but wasn't in his usual genial mood afterward, giving brusque answers to almost every question.
"It's exciting, seven games," World Peace said. "It's just a part of the playoffs. It's entertainment. ... I'm no more motivated than I was. I don't have any extra motivation."
After Denver outworked and outran the Lakers in the last two games, Bryant is confident World Peace will lead the physical play necessary to slow the Nuggets, particularly Danilo Gallinari. But even Bryant's praise of World Peace after Game 6 carried a backhanded swipe at his other teammates.
"I expect him to come out and play with the tenacity that he's known for," Bryant said. "He's the one guy I can rely on, night in, night out, to compete and play hard, and play with that sense of urgency, play with no fear. I'm looking forward to having that on my side again."
Gasol had little reaction when asked about Bryant's comment. Andrew Bynum also didn't have much to say after accenting his unimpressive 11-point performance in Game 6 by again sitting outside the team huddles during timeouts, an occasional regular-season quirk the All-Star center calls "getting my Zen on."
"They're just getting it done from everywhere," Bynum said of the Nuggets. "Not everyone is putting in, so we're stuck in the same boat. The only way to win is to come out and play hard."
Lakers coach Mike Brown is in danger of a disastrous first-round exit for a franchise that made seven NBA finals in the previous 12 years under Phil Jackson. The Lakers' obvious lack of urgency hasn't reflected well on their new coach, who's also hoping World Peace will provide a spark.
"We don't have much to lose, so we're going to play him," Brown said. "If you're a competitor, I think it is fun. You live for moments like this."
The Lakers must immediately improve their effort and hustle after the Nuggets made 51.6 percent of their shots -- including 10 3-pointers -- and outrebounded Los Angeles 47-42 in Game 6. Denver just needs one more game with the same intensity and aggressive pace.
"It's tough to beat anybody on their home court, especially when they've got their crowd behind them, just like (in Game 6) it was tough to beat us," Denver rookie Kenneth Faried said. "But we've got to go in with the same mindset and the same mentality that we did (in Game 6)."
Bryant is 4-1 in Game 7s in his career, including the decisive game of the 2010 NBA finals against Boston. But another Game 7 is more pertinent to the Lakers' current predicament: His only loss came in 2006 against the Phoenix Suns, who completed the NBA's most recent comeback from a 3-1 series deficit by stunning the Lakers.
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He was born in Scotland and hated football when his family moved to Florida. He agreed to try out as the kicker so he could hang out with high school friends.
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text: ORLEANS – The Lake Region Union High School Board recently tackled the issues of students dropping out of school and/or not finishing their graduation requirements. Some seniors are struggling to graduate despite having good grades during their high school years, while others just give up. Principal Andre Messier said a lot of people at the school are doing "whatever we can" to get them to graduate."We will send certified letter after letter to the parents so they know what's going on," stated Messier. "In some cases there is not much parental support. We try to relay to the parent and student the importance that there is no wiggle room left; if you don't complete the requirements, you won't be able to graduate.""Some students are behind in credits, and to some degree there should be an indication where the problem areas are," noted board member Mike Sanville. "I wonder if these seniors are engaged after June 9th. Do they have no sense of direction or long term vision?"For more of this story, see Friday's edition of The Newport Daily Express for April 19, 2013.


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U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday a "pause" might be needed in U.S.-brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, suggesting leaders on both sides lacked the will to make the necessary compromises, Reuters reported.
Israel on Thursday suspended participation in negotiations with the Palestinians in response to President Mahmoud Abbas's unexpected unity pact with the rival Islamist Hamas group, which Israel and the United States consider a terrorist organization.
Speaking at a news conference in Seoul, Obama called the Palestinian move "unhelpful" and said it was one of a series of choices the two sides had made in recent weeks that had hurt the chances of reaching a peace deal.
"There may come a point at which there just needs to be a pause and both sides need to look at the alternatives," Obama said, offering a grim assessment of nine months of direct talks that were overseen by Washington but ultimately led nowhere.
While Obama insisted he was not ready to abandon his quest for Middle East peace, he said: "What we haven't seen is, frankly, the kind of political will to actually make tough decisions, and that's been true on both sides."
There was no immediate reaction from leaders in Israel or the Palestinian Territories, who have blamed each other for the latest in a string of failed peace efforts.
Obama was careful not to apportion blame and left open the hope that one day the respective camps would overcome their mutual distrust and walk through what he said was the only door available to them to end their generations-old conflict.
"We will continue to encourage them to walk through that door. Do I expect that they will walk through that door next week, next month, or even in the course of the next six months? No," he said.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has invested considerable time and political capital in the talks, visiting the Middle East more than a dozen times in a year to try to narrow the yawning divide that separates Israeli and Palestinians.
The stalemate represents a blow to him at a time when the United States, Israel's closest ally, has faced fierce criticism from friend and foe alike over its handling of Middle East problems such as Syria's civil war, nuclear talks with Iran and Egypt's upheavals.
Obama acknowledged on Friday that achieving an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal - a goal that has eluded many previous U.S. presidents - had always been a "long shot" for his administration, which failed in a first-term peace initiative.
But he said it was in U.S. interests to end a dispute that was "combustible".
The negotiations struggled almost as soon as they started last July, with the Palestinians enraged by a wave of new Jewish settlement building on land they envisage as part of a future state, and Kerry had been struggling to convince the bitter foes to extend the talks beyond an original April 29 deadline.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he would not sanction discussions with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at a time when he was looking to form a unity government with militant group Hamas, which governs Gaza.
Previous efforts to end the seven-year schism have imploded and there was no indication that Abbas would succeed this time around, meaning that although the direct peace talks are in a coma, they are not necessarily dead.
The Palestinians argue that just as Netanyahu has parties in his coalition that are fiercely opposed to the creation of an independent Palestine, so Abbas can forge a pact with a group that does not recognize Israel's right to exist.
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Genomic constitution
Plants annual. Culms (5)10-30(55) cm tall, usually with 2-4 nodes.
Auricles small but distinct, glabrous; blades 1.5-5.5 mm wide, involute, abaxial (lower) surface glabrous or hairy, adaxial (upper) surface scabrous, often with hairs over the veins.
Inflorescences spikelike, 1-6 cm long, with 4-24(28) nodes, with 2(3,4) spikelets per node; rachis not disarticulating at maturity, terminating in a node.
Spikelets with 2 (3) florets, only the lowest bisexual, the other(s) strongly reduced. Glumes connate at the base, equal, 15-80 mm long, awnlike, divergent from the rachis. Lemmas 5.5-8 mm long, not keeled, scabrous, sometimes hairy, awned, awn (30)60-130 mm long, flattened. Lodicules 2, sometimes with an indistinct lateral lobe, ciliate, especially on the margins. Anthers about 1 mm long.
Caryopses adherent to the lemma and palea.
According to Frederiksen (1986), there is one species, T. caput-medusae with three subspecies in Taeniatherum. The subspecies have sometimes been treated as species.
Taeniatherum is native from Portugal and Morocco east to the Pamirs. It has also become established as a weed in other parts of the world.
Alternative interpretations
Humprhies (1978) recognized only two subspecies, possibly because he scored awn curvature, the primary differentiating character, as a two state character.
Type species
Taeniatherum caput-medusae (L.) Nevski
Frederiksen, S. 1986. Revision of Taeniatherum (Poaceae). Nordic Journal of Botany 6: 389-397.


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Robspindles needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 179 designs submitted by 38 freelance designers.
LOGO for new retail store that sells nothing but HEART RATE MONITORS
Polar, Garmin, Suunto, Nike, Timex
We are an online seller that is expanding to a retail store. (yes I know, its usually the other way around!)
we sell only Sport Heart Rate Monitors.
Most importantly, we want a name on the front door and all stationery that we can be proud of for a long time to come. (as we have to live with for years).
It will be big, prominent and striking in design and colourful.
Target Demographic is 20's to 40's (plus the odd few beyond, that love exercise)
- The design should incorporate the following main points- Sport
- Heart and/or Heart Rate
- Technology
- That the product is for personal use.
- obviously our name, HIGHLY TUNED ATHLETES
- It should be simple, modern and not cutsy
- centered aroud exercise and health.
- Should be positive, strong, not weak or monotone.
- We do not have a website for this store as such and there is no intention at this point to migrate this name to the web.
- The design is for shop display / signage etc. only.
- We do have a separate website, but it is of a different name altogether. Thus, I dont wish to persuade the design by advising the name of the website. (which was recently designed in 99designs)- Dont want Cutsy or similar
- Dont want anything that violates copyright
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Pie's secret recipe: dedicated volunteers
NAPPANEE — What does it take to bake the biggest (and perhaps tastiest) pie in Indiana? There is only one secret.
Area residents know — a group of hard-working volunteer bakers, and Nappanee-quality ingredients … that and a giant pie tin and oversized oven.
Thursday, Sept. 13 started off the Nappanee Apple Festival but before the crowds made their way to the downtown area, volunteers were gathering at 7 a.m. to make the seven-foot behemoth pastry that tens of thousands of people from all around come to gawk at and get a taste of.
Miriam "Mim" Hartman, festival volunteer (and nurse) dubbed Annual Piemaker, busted out the hair nets, aprons and gloves as ingredients and utensils were hauled in to work on the traditional foodstuff thought up by Ron and Glenna Telschow, owners of Ron's Bakery in Nappanee in 1976.
The oven and pan they had created for the task are the same still used today. The gargantuan pie tin is kept at the Nappanee Center but the oven waits patiently all year at what is now El Cielito Lindo (formerly the bakery) for the project to begin. Though businesses housed in the building have changed since the Telschows retired in 2002, the home of the creation of the largest apple pie in Indiana stands ready.
"When businesses change in the building, that is part of the agreement, that they allow us to use the restaurant to make and display our pie," Hartman explained.
Once her team of volunteers including Connie Fink, Marianne Ervin, Ruby Wertz, Laura Miller, Carol Hershberger, and Abby Kauffman were prepped, the crew began the tedious and important process. Some began cleaning the pie tin and others the tables to be used. Then the workspace was dashed with flour followed by the kneading and rolling of the 100 pounds of dough (from Baker's Nook in Goshen).
"We need it to be a third-inch thick ladies," Hartman instructed her crew (armed with rolling pins) to assure uniformity. "If it's too thin it will burn and if it's too thick it won't bake."
The ovals pads of dough rolled, it was then pressed into the pie pan with ready hands pinching and then rolling the ends to meld into one solid crust which slightly overlapped the pan. "We piece it together like a giant puzzle and roll the seams flush," Hartman explained.
Then came the 19 bushels of apple filling from Plain and Fancy Gourmet Kettle located in Nappanee's Coppes Commons. Buckets of the flavorful concoction were poured into the crust and spread evenly within the pan.
More dough was rolled and laid upon a specially-made cutting board three inches wide. "We used to make it the entire width," Hartman explained. "But when I came on I decided to make it half the width. It just makes it a little … prettier."
The dough — in strips of which the pie's lattice pattern is made — were trimmed to uniformity with a pizza cutter and then rolled loosely onto a rolling pin, carried to the pan, and then unrolled across the top. When one direction was complete, the cross layer was added in the same fashion and those with the longest arms had the easiest time of it. Anthony Kauffman, with his sister Abby, earned the role of the "unroller" during this, his second year of volunteering to assist with the mammoth creation.
"It sounded like fun so I volunteered last year and it was," the young man said. "I think it's great and I love to be able to say I had a hand in making this."
Once the cross strips were laid, volunteers brushed each with a mixture of egg whites and sugar before crimping the edges for that just-perfect pie crust edging. Another signature process of Hartman's, she pressed tiny apple shapes into the lattice strips with a cutter at the cross sections to add a unique and charming touch.
The giant oven was warmed at 350 degrees and at 2 p.m. a small army of town department heads, Apple Festival committee members, family members, town employees and department volunteers hefted the 600-pound pie tin (which weighs roughly 200 pounds when empty) into the mouth of the oven.
"The only thing different than a regular apple pie is that it's bigger," said Hartman.
Big enough in fact that a section of wall must be removed from the restaurant in order to get the pie into the kitchen.
For 17 hours the pie was baked (with the oven door open for the first hour) and at 7:30 the following morning, the army of men faithfully returned with the muscle to remove the cooled pastry, carefully shuffling it across the restaurant and setting it up on a series of tables (guarded with a unit of fencing) in one of the restaurant's large front windows.
"We give some to the restaurant," Hartman said. "The rest we take to the Napple Store and it's usually all sold by Saturday. Altogether it makes about 1,100 pieces."
The first piece cut, Hartman offered it as a token and test of it's tasty integrity. ... And it was delicious.


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Study of Tests to Evaluate Effectiveness of Anti-HIV Drugs
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00006494
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : November 15, 2000
Last Update Posted : July 2, 2017
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The purpose of this study is to determine how laboratory tests called genotyping and phenotyping assess the effectiveness of antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV infection. Some HIV-infected patients have measurable levels of virus in their blood even though they are taking combination drug therapy-including didanosine, stavudine, or efavirenz-against HIV. Genotyping and phenotyping can be used to test for resistance to a specific drug, thereby providing information that can help doctors decide on optimal drug treatment for a given patient. Genotyping identifies mutations, or changes, the virus undergoes that allow it to continue to grow despite drug treatment. Phenotyping involves growing the virus in test tubes with different amounts of drug and then calculating how much drug is required to stop its growth.
Patients 18 years of age and older with HIV infection and viral levels between 5000 and 100,000 copies per milliliter of blood who have been taking antiretroviral therapy for at least 6 months may be eligible for this study. Candidates will be screened with a urine test and various blood tests, including genotyping and phenotyping.
Participants will have a series of tests to determine whether or not a drug is active against HIV. This involves temporarily stopping the drug under study (i.e., either efavirenz or didanosine or stavudine). The study procedure is as follows:
- Patients will have six blood tests over 10 days to measure viral load while on all current anti-HIV medications. On one of those days two blood tests will be done to measure levels of didanosine or stavudine. Efavirenz will also be measured if this drug is to be stopped.
- The patient will temporarily stop the drug under while continuing to take the other drugs. (Efavirenz will be stopped for 3 weeks; stavudine and didanosine will be stopped for 2 weeks.) Seven blood tests will be done at the following intervals to measure viral load: For patients who stop efavirenz, blood will be drawn on days 13, 18, 20, 22, 24,28 and 30. (Day 0 is the first day of the study.) Patients who stop stavudine or didanosine will have blood drawn on days 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 22 and 24. Repeat genotype and phenotype testing will also be done during this time, and a CD4 count (measurement of a certain type of white blood cell) will be done at the end of this 2- or 3-week period.
- The drug that was stopped will be restarted and viral load tests will be repeated. For pati...
|Condition or disease
|HIV Infection
|Study Type :
|Actual Enrollment :
|14 participants
|Official Title:
|An Assessment of the Relationship Between Antiretroviral Drug Genotype/Phenotype (IC50) and Antiretroviral Activity in HIV-Infected, Drug-Experienced Patients With Suboptimal Suppression of Plasma Viral Load
|Study Start Date :
|November 7, 2000
|Study Completion Date :
|September 6, 2011
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
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|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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In order to enroll, subjects must:
Be HIV infected.
Be currently receiving highly active anti-retroviral therapy. Drugs available through expanded access or compassionate use protocols are permitted.
Have received at least 6 months of HAART therapy.
Currently be receiving and be willing to temporarily discontinue the selected antiretroviral for the indicated duration.
Have a viral load between 1,000 and 100,000 copies/ml within 6 weeks prior to screen or at screening.
If one value is greater than 100,000 copies and one value less, the average of the two viral loads will be used to determine eligibility. Similarly, if one value is less than 1,000 and one value greater than 1,000, the average viral load will be used to determine eligibility.
Have two viral load tests by bDNA method in the NIH laboratory that differ by less than 20% (log10bDNA) in the three weeks prior to enrollment. Viral loads performed through participation in another NIAID study are acceptable. Alternatively, new patients coming to the clinic are permitted to have two screening visits.
Have a CD4 T cell number greater than 100 cells within 4 weeks of enrollment or greater than 100 cells within 8 weeks of enrollment if no more recent CD4 cell count is available.
Be adults age 18 or older.
Self-report adequate adherence to antiviral medications (missing at most one dose of drug weekly) and commit to work towards adherence during study participation.
In order to enroll, subjects must not:
Have a positive pregnancy test.
Have evidence of recent HIV infection, defined as a history of a negative HIV ELISA within 12 months of screening.
Have any acute infection that might alter viral load with the previous 4 weeks.
Have received a vaccine in the previous 4 weeks.
Have symptomatic HIV disease for which rapid institution of a salvage regimen would be advisable.
Be receiving concomitant medications or have a concomitant illness with malabsorption or emesis that could be expected to result in inadequate concentrations of antiretroviral drugs.
Be receiving an anti-retroviral regimen that includes drugs that should not be used concomitantly (e.g., stavudine and zidovudine) or inadvisable dosages of antiretroviral agents.
Have any laboratory abnormality for which withdrawal of a drug or drug regimen might be considered. For the purposes of general guidance, Grade III toxicities would result in exclusion from study with the exception of stable thrombocytopenia or proteinuria or elevated bilirubin resulting from Gilbert's syndrome or indinavir treatment. Grade II SGOT or SGPT might be a reason for study exclusion if not explained by underlying hepatitis or if in a pattern of recent increase over a stable baseline.
Have genotypic evidence at screening that would suggest that discontinuing the selected antiretroviral would result in suboptimal therapy that would clearly place the remainder of the regimen at risk for the development of new resistance mutations during the discontinuation period. Two prominent possibilities would be patients taking NNRTI regimens and discontinuing NRTIs or PI component in patients who have genotypes with no NNRTI mutations. During the discontinuation period, it would be possible that the patient may acquire new resistance mutations to NNRTIs. Genotype may be performed as part of the screen or be performed through PMD.
Have had a change in antiretroviral regimen in the past 6 weeks.
Have received cytotoxic chemotherapy including hydroxyurea in the last 6 weeks, or have anticipated need for chemotherapy during study.
Have evidence of active hepatitis B infection and wish to interrupt either tenofovir or 3TC.
Have any suggestion of a trend to increase or decrease in viral load in the past 6 weeks.
Have significant active substance abuse or psychiatric illness that might interfere with study assessments or with your ability to return for study visits.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00006494
|United States, Maryland
|National Naval Medical Center
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20889
|National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00006494 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|November 15, 2000 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|July 2, 2017
|Last Verified:
|September 6, 2011
Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC):
Antiretroviral Therapy
Drug Resistance
Treatment Experienced
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases


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I have looked everywhere I could and I could not find any color like this on any jersey.
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Volume 34 Issue 9: (Dec/Jan 2012)
Dancing the Ice Away
Barbara Robertson
Issue: Volume 34 Issue 9: (Dec/Jan 2012)
Dancing the Ice Away
When Warner Bros. released the first
Happy Feet
movie, people wondered what they were thinking down under. An animated feature in which many of the character performances started with motion-capture data? Blasphemy. But,
Happy Feet
's joyous story caught the imagination of audiences worldwide, and the film went on to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film in 2007.
Following that win, director George Miller founded his own studio, Dr. D, in Sydney, Australia, and began preparing for a sequel. In 2009, he hired Rob Coleman to build an animation team and direct the animation for Happy Feet Two, which picks up where the first film left off. Mumble, the Emperor Penguin who could dance but not sing, is now married to Gloria; they have a son, Erik. Erik can't dance, but when he meets the "Mighty Sven," a puffin that Erik mistakes for a penguin, Erik becomes determined to fly. Returning penguin voice actors include Elijah Wood as Mumble and Robin Williams as Ramon and Lovelace.
Prior to joining the
Happy Feet Two
crew, Rob Coleman was an animation director and supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic, where he received two Oscar nominations for best visual effects (for
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
Episode I – The Phantom Menace
) and two BAFTA nominations (for
Episode I
Men in Black
). We spoke to Coleman soon after work on
Happy Feet Two
At top: A team of 75 animators from 14 countries worked at Dr. D studios in Sydney, Australia,
to perfect and amplify performances captured from dancers for the penguins, and to add facial
expressions. At bottom: A separate team of animators used motion cycles and a rules-based
system to animate crowds of penguins and schools of fish.
How did you begin this project?
I sat with George [Miller] and looked at what he liked and didn't like in the first film, and I spent the first year, from April 2009 to April 2010, building an animation team.
How many animators did you have on your team?
I had 75 animators at peak from 14 countries, with 32 from Australia. I was worried when I first came down here because I knew CG animation wasn't huge. There are companies doing CG, but there aren't a lot of character animators. But, just before I started hiring, Animal Logic was finishing Guardians and didn't have another big show yet, so I was able to pick up a lot of senior and mid-level animators and a couple of leads who probably otherwise would have gone to Canada or the UK. Then, I committed to hiring only Australian junior animators.
How did you organize the team?
I had a number of leads, which is similar to the way I worked at ILM, and divided the work into sequences. At peak, we had nine teams, but most of the time we had six or seven. Each lead had around seven animators. Everyone did penguins, but two of the teams became really good at animating krill, so I cast more krill sequences to them. And, we didn't teach every team how to animate elephant seals, which were all keyframed.
The krill?
Will the Krill and Bill the Krill, voiced by Brad Pitt and Matt Damon. They're the reason I wanted to make this movie. There's a parallel story about the tiny little krill, and their story is so good and so funny. And, to animate things as little as krill sounded amazing. They look like little brine shrimp. They are almost at the bottom of the food chain; they're insignificant. But they have a big impact on the biosystem of the world. Fish feed on them, whales feed on them. We have thousands and thousands of krill.
What is their story?
Will the Krill decides he doesn't want to be in the krill swarm, so he and his best friend, Bill the Krill, break away from the swarm and end up as two little individuals in the ocean. They have contact with our hero penguins. Although neither species knows about the other, we see them both.
Did you use motion capture for the penguins, as on the first film?
We used some motion capture, predominately for the dancing and dramatic sense when the penguins walk around. [Director] George Miller comes from a live-action background, and he's comfortable directing actors on stage, so he could do take after take quickly. He could get a performance he wanted in an hour or a day that would have taken us a month. But he also enjoys the animation process because he can plus the performances and add facial animation.
Motion capture allowed the two worlds to come together, and because the characters are humanoid and walking around, I'm fine with it. When the characters come to animation, they have their weight built in already. So, we get the combination of movement from talented performers directed by the director and performances stylized by our talented animators. Also, when George wanted thousands of characters on screen dancing intricate choreography, keyframing would have been impractical.
Did you motion-capture any of the other characters?
We also used motion capture for Sven, the puffin, when he's on the ground, but we keyframed him when he's flying.
But, not the krill, of course.
There was an attempt. They did a bunch of experiments. The krill have 10 legs and arms, so they had a conga line with five dancers trying to do the legs. They captured Savion Glover [dancer, choreographer] tapping for the krill, as well, which was extremely beneficial for me and the animators. The mo editors [motion editors] could take what he did, apply that to a low-resolution krill model, and we could study the feet and get movements that would have been difficult if we were keyframing 20 legs and arms. We also had early experiments with a puppeteer moving a krill body on the mocap floor, but we couldn't get the right scale of motion when we put the krill into the water.
Were there any other unusual motion-capture experiments?
There were always experiments. For the elephant seal, we had four people performing together, but trying to wrangle that was too much effort. I could get a talented animator to do something really beautiful in not too much time.
What was the motion-capture process?
We used a Giant Studios' system. We had a bunch of talented people here who had worked on the original, then worked on
, and came back to do
Happy Feet Two
. George [Miller] would cut the audio first, and they would broadcast that onto the floor so everyone could hear it. The performers pantomimed to the dialog. They might not hit the accent of a word exactly, so it was up to the mo editors to make it feel like the voices were coming out of the bodies.
Each day we would recalibrate the dancers. We'd measure their legs and arms precisely so we could translate them to the character maps for each species of penguin. We could capture up to 10 at a time, and could see the penguins walking around in real time as the dancers performed. Their feet weren't locked to an ultra-resolution set, but we could see where they were.
Did you need to change the data much to have the dancers move like penguins?
The dancers all went to 'penguin school,' and learned how to dance like Emperor or Adelie Penguins, but it took a fair amount of labor to get [the characters] to move and act like penguins. Penguins are like little flour sacks, like little fluffy pillows. When you have a human walking like a penguin, it's one thing if they pantomime it for you by keeping their legs together and waddling. It's another to have it look real. Our motion editors had to manipulate the data to make it work the way George Miller wanted.
Once George had directed the motion capture, he would make selects. The motion editors worked in [Autodesk's] MotionBuilder and [Giant Studio's] Nuance. They would pick the matching human performance and re-map the data onto the penguin bodies, and then put the penguins on the ultra-resolution set, the undulating ice field, and spread their toes. I would review the work in progress and make critiques. When I was happy, they converted the files into [Autodesk] Maya files and sent those rigs to the keyframe animation team.
Director George Miller recorded Brad Pitt and Matt Damon acting out the dialog together for
three days to give Will the Krill and Bill the Krill their voices. Although the team experimented
with motion capture for the tiny creatures, animators created all the performances with
keyframe animation.
Did you develop any particular tools or rigs for the keyframe animators?
We had a similar skeleton for each species of penguin, and we had offset rigs. The offset rig was a parental rig on top of a child rig. The child rig received the keyframe data from MotionBuilder. With the parental rig, the animators could add rotation and translation to the big volumes—the hips, head, shoulders, and chest. They were all IK. Often, once George Miller saw [the motion-captured animation], he wanted to go broader than what he saw on the floor. So the animators might put a translation on the chest, or change the eye direction by swinging the head, and so forth. The animators could supersede the data and movement with our offset rig.
When did they do keyframe animation?
We keyframed the animation when the characters swam or when they did dangerous actions. We also keyframed the whales, leopard seals, and fish. The fish are basically food in this film.
And, there's no facial capture. Every penguin ended up being a hybrid. George was very happy with what Animal Logic had done. But now that he had some experience with animation, he wanted to spend more time on the movement of the eyes, the dilation of the eyes—the eye dart-ness as he calls it. He was very particular about beak sync, lip sync, and phonemes—about the movement of the tongue and lips—and that was cool with me. And, we spent a lot of time on the non-verbal, reaction shots. It was challenging to get the penguins to look good from multiple angles and still connect with the audience and characters on the screen. You have to see their emotion. They have humanoid faces, but their eyes aren't binocular. They're set 30 degrees back on an angle.
Did you use the models from the first film?
We based the characters on where they left off on the first film, but we were using Maya, and Animal Logic had used Softimage XSI. So, most of the characters were redone and rebuilt; we upgraded the models. And, we started over and redid all the rigs. That wasn't a big factor for me. If we hired someone who knew XSI, we could teach them the new keystrokes in a week. What we cared about were their animation and acting skills.
Did the animators have video of the actors as reference, as well as the motion data?
During the voice recordings in Los Angeles and Sydney, I had a team of videographers shooting the main actors. Even though they're performing to microphones, once they get into the characters, they start performing with their faces. There are nice things you can do if you're there to watch or capture them on video; you can use their expressions to drive the animation later. Elijah [Wood] did some things with his eyes that became part of Mumble's performance. Brad [Pitt] might do something with the tilt of his head, the furl of his brow, that is inspiration for the animators down the road. We weren't motion-capturing. We were videoing. But, we would see patterns. I cut together what I called 'spirit reels' from the videos and had QuickTimes for the animators to reference.
Did any of the actors record the dialog together, or did they work separately?
Brad and Matt came in for three days, so we had them in the same room, acting to each other. And we had many of the other voice actors in the same space at the same time interacting; upward of eight performances in a big space all recorded at the same time. You get better performances. You get talk-over, which you also have in live action, so why not have it in animation? George [Miller] had the actors do the initial performances until they were happy together. He recorded that. Then, they could do the lines themselves as they had done in the ensemble piece. That way he had the clean lines, and if someone stepped on a word, he could replace it.
How did you animate the schools of fish?
We'd animate the main characters, the hero characters, and provide swim cycles for the fish—and the penguins—to the crowd team. We had about 25 artists plus a director and supervisor on the crowd team. They'd attach our keyframe animations to a system that had run-time rules, and the fish would scatter like in nature when they came near the penguins. It was amazing.
When the characters are swimming, did you animate to the movement of the water, or did the simulation team move the water based on the keyframe animation?
We handled water in two ways. Basically, if the shot was about the character, the water team would match the animation. We would talk about the water with George, and he'd tell us whether he wanted the water to be calm or move a lot. We'd do some keyframe animation, and he might tell us to tumble the characters more or soften their movements as if they were in a swell. Then the effects artists would put the water around them. If the shot was about the effect, like ice tumbling into the water, we would match their simulation.
We used [Exotic Matter's] Naiad for all the splashes and for the interaction of the characters with the water. The effects team then stitched the Naiad splash elements into a high-resolution surface simulated in [Side Effects Software's] Houdini. They were able to create a realism on the surface of the
water that I think is breathtaking. They also did volumetric light shards coming down through the water. There's a beautiful shot with our two hero krill clutching the bottom of a piece of ice, with smaller pieces of ice tumbling in the turbulence of the water. We look up through the water and see the caustics.
For the krill, because they are about the size of a thumbnail, they put silt and dust in the water to help with the scale. It's amazing when you see it in stereo.
Do the little krill survive?
They do. Through a series of events, a massive rogue iceberg crashes into the entrance of Emperor Penguin land and traps the penguins, which is something that actually happened in the real world. In our movie, all the communities come together to overcome the troubles of the world, and even the krill have an impact.
Did the icy environments change much?
We had two main environments, Adelie land and Emperor land, and they change during the movie. We start with compacted snow on ice, and then we have fluffier, powdery snow. When the animators go into the scenes, they had a packed-ice layer or a packed-snow layer for the penguins' feet. Then another team added footprints in the snow, so we'd see little foot trails. The rendering of the snow, with sparkling highlights, is so amazing. It makes it feel like you're there. Snow is a big part of the story; we had about 50 artists working on the effects team creating character effects, water, volumetrics, and destruction. There are beautiful shots of compacted ice and snow breaking apart.
Did you have favorite characters?
Well, the krill are certainly high on my list. The elephant seals were a pleasure to animate. The main one, Beach Master, was a fantastic character to get into, and he has a sidekick named Wayne. I liked them a lot. And, animating to Robin Williams is always great. He was Ramon the Adelie penguin, and the Rockhopper. Ramon is very over the top theatrically, and he gets a love interest in this film, so that added a whole other layer to his performance. We see Mumble worried about his son, and Sven wrapped up in being an inspirational speaker. We have big catastrophes and massive dance numbers. The first film hit a very high mark. We tried to step above it.
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The 'Rabbi' has always titled himself as the 'principal' of Yesodey Hatorah Schools or, sometimes, Yesodey Hatorah Secondary School.
In 2003 the BBC website has him as principal, in 2004 he was so called in The Independent, in 2008 in the Guardian and more recently in the JC on 21 September 2010, when the 'Rabbi' also said 'I have 150 employees..' presumably as principal of one or more of the schools.
So why was he described in last week's JC as 'Charedi leader' and who and what does he lead other than his schools, unless a rent-a-quote career on any subject from human embryology to the number of people at a wedding qualifies one as a leader?
Even stranger is his title in the recent interview with him on the Blood and Property blog on the very subject of YHS where he is introduced as Yesodey Hatorah 'spokesman'.
So has he resigned as principal? Has he been sacked? If so, by whom and why? And is it usual for schools to have spokespeople, do they draw a salary, how many hours do they work a week?
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Hilariously bad retrospective. No understanding of the Seahawks needs at the time and how Pete Carroll builds teams. How does an ILB and TE build a franchise?
Other than the fact that there is no way anyone in their right mind would trade Okung for Gronk at this point, I am certain that we would not have passed on Eric Berry at the 14th overall pick if he were available - even now. Safeties hang around a long time. LBs should basically never be taken in the first round (save 3-4 rush ends).
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A hardware SPI remake of the bit-banged Adafruit project: Analog Inputs for Raspberry Pi Using the MCP3008.
Take a look at the Adafruit project and particularly the datasheet for the MCP3008 - what we're making is a hardware volume control using a 10K potentiometer. Instead of using the GPIO pins and bit-banging the SPI protocol I'm using the proper SPI pins and the hardware driver.
The connections from the cobbler to the MCP3008 are as follows:
- MCP3008 VDD -> 3.3V (red)
- MCP3008 VREF -> 3.3V (red)
- MCP3008 AGND -> GND (orange)
- MCP3008 CLK -> SCLK (yellow)
- MCP3008 DOUT -> MISO (green)
- MCP3008 DIN -> MOSI (yellow)
- MCP3008 CS -> CE0 (red)
- MCP3008 DGND -> GND (orange)
Operating system and packages
This project was built using Occidentalis v0.2 from Adafruit which takes the hassle out of fiddling with Linux. It comes with the hardware SPI driver ready to go. (It also has super-simple wifi setup if you have a dongle like the Edimax EW-7811UN). A couple of packages are required to complete this project. Firstly the mp3 player:
and secondly the Python wrapper for SPI:
sudo apt-get install mpg321
and secondly the Python wrapper for SPI:
cd ~ git clone git://github.com/doceme/py-spidev cd py-spidev/ sudo python setup.py install
Talking to the MCP3008
With the bit-banging code you're in control of the chip-select, clock, in and out pins and so you can effectively write and read a single bit at a time. When you use the hardware driver you talk using 8-bit words and it takes care of the lower level protocol for you. This changes the challenge slightly because the MCP3008 uses 10-bits for the values giving a range from 0 to 1023. Thankfully the Python wrapper is excellent and the datasheet has good documentation:
So from the diagram above you can see that to read the value on CH0 we need to send 24 bits:
.... ...s S210 xxxx xxxx xxxx 0000 0001 1000 0000 0000 0000
Let's say the current value is 742 which is 10 1110 0110 in 10-bit binary. This is what is returned in B9 to B0 in the diagram. The driver and Python wrapper returns this as 3 8-bit bytes as seen above, the mildly confusing thing is that you'll get some bits set where the question marks are in the diagram which you have to ignore (if you were sending a continuous stream these would be more useful). The 24 bits returned will be something like this:
???? ???? ???? ?n98 7654 3210 0110 0111 1000 0010 1110 0110
The python wrapper will give you 3 ints in a list:
So, we ignore the first int and then mask out all the bits apart from the last two of the second int by anding it with 3 (0000 0011). In this case you get 0000 0010. We then shift this left by 8 positions to give 10 0000 0000 and then add the third int to give 10 1110 0110 which is 742 decimal. Here's the Python for that:
# read SPI data from MCP3008 chip, 8 possible adc's (0 thru 7) def readadc(adcnum): if ((adcnum > 7) or (adcnum < 0)): return -1 r = spi.xfer2([1,(8+adcnum)<<4,0]) adcout = ((r[1]&3) << 8) + r[2] return adcout
The rest of the code is pretty much the same as the Adafruit example. My version is available on git here: https://github.com/jerbly/Pi/blob/master/raspi-adc-pot.py
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Start up mpg321 with your favourite mp3 in the background and then run the Python code:
mpg321 song.mp3 & sudo python raspi-adc-pot.py
Turn the pot to adjust the volume.
Extra goodies
Combine this with the TextStar screen and the Python code from my previous blog entry: Raspberry Pi with TextStar serial LCD to have a nice bar graph for the pot position. Just use this method on one of the pages and in the on_tick handler so it updates every 0.1 seconds:
# Add this to the display class def capped_bar(self, length, percent): self.ser.write(ESC+'b'+chr(length)+chr(percent)) s = spidev.SpiDev() s.open(0,0) def get_val(): r = s.xfer2([1,128,0]) v = ((r[1]&3) << 8) + r[2] return v def write_pots(): display.position_cursor(1, 1) val = get_val() percent = int(val/10.23) display.ser.write(str(val).ljust(16)) display.capped_bar(16, percent)


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Kitchens are some of the hardest places to make both efficient and beautiful. Here are 10 kitchens that do just that. Functional but small, these kitchens make it look easy.
1 Incredible color and open shelving make you forget this kitchen is so tiny.
2 Removing the color completely and letting the light do the talking does wonders for this little space.
3 Sleek and modern, the gorgeous wood makes this kitchen look tall and elegant. Additionally, taking the upper cabinets off one side makes this look much much larger than it really is.
4 This kitchen bounces light with a tin backsplash and white cabinets to take advantage of every nook and cranny.
5 This kitchen proves that you don't have to hide your stuff to make your small space look great.
6 Simply a cooks kitchen, this space has what you need where you need it.
7 How gutsy to remove the upper cabinets in this little kitchen!
8 Simple materials and space saving solutions make this space work.
9 Who needs space when you have this view?
10 A great green backsplash paired with wood tones and white cabinets make this kitchen fresh and inviting.
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You know how bad you feel when your child has an earache or a good scrape on the knee—you'll do anything to ease the discomfort (hello, ice cream!). Imagine having to take her to the emergency room for a broken leg or flare-up of a more serious, painful condition like juvenile rheumatoid arthritis or sickle cell disease, and no one bothers to offer any pain relief. That situation is all too common, and has prompted the American Academy of Pediatrics to issue a new clinical report "Relief of Pain and Anxiety in Pediatric Patients in Emergency Medical Systems," published today in today's issue of Pediatrics. Co-author Joel A. Fein, M.D., professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and attending emergency room physician at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, led a team that analyzed how best to safely make these young, scared, and hurting patients more comfortable.
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Inadequate pain relief happens for a variety of understandable reasons when it comes to pediatric patients—uncertainty about how much pain a child is in, fear of medication side effects like impaired breathing, staffing and time constraints, and unfamiliarity with new pain relief products. Parents, too, might rightly be afraid of allowing their children to receive high-powered pain medications. The new report aims to overcome those obstacles with guidelines and training recommendations for ER physicians as well as EMS personnel who may begin treatment in an emergency situation before the child arrives at the hospital. It's not always about an IV or strong narcotic: In many cases, something as simple as a dose of ibuprofen and a coloring book to keep the child busy will do the trick.
The study authors also encourage parents to be proactive about when it comes to their children's needs in an emergency room. On a busy day, a broken leg may not seem like such a big deal to the staff, so speak up to ensure that your child is made comfortable.
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German 210
GRMN 210: Intermediate German II
Prerequisites: GRMN 200 or two years of high school German
Credit Hours: (4) Four hours lecture
Review of fundamentals using grammatical, literary and cultural materials. This course has been approved for credit in the Foreign Languages Area of the Core Curriculum.
Detailed Description of Content of Course
Situations covered and cultural focus: leisure, communication, united Germany, gender roles, music, the world of work, multiculturalism, traffic, and the environment. Parallel to the cultural topics, there will be a basic review of grammar.
Detailed Description of Conduct of Course
Class instruction focuses on communication practice utilizing the situations, intentions, vocabulary, culture, and grammar introduced in a given chapter. Other activities include: grammar and vocabulary explanations, pronunciation practice, listening comprehension exercises, writing, and grammatical drills. Class is conducted in the target language.
Goals and Objectives of the Course
Speaking and listening goals (standardized ACTFL proficiency criteria): Students will be able to handle successfully a limited but increasing number of interactive, task-oriented and social situations. They can ask and answer questions, initiate and respond to simple statements, and maintain face-to-face conversation, although in a restricted manner. The students will be able to be understood by sympathetic interlocutors. They will be able to produce most German sounds and sound sequences correctly with good stress and intonation patterns. Listening goals are: students will be able to understand sentence-length utterances which consist of recombinations of learned elements in a limited number of content areas, particularly if strongly supported by the situational context.
Reading and writing goals (standardized ACTFL proficiency criteria): Students will have sufficient control of the writing system to interpret written language in areas of practical need. Students will be able to derive meaning from material at a higher level where context, vocabulary aids, and/or extra-linguistic background knowledge are supportive. As regards writing, students will be able to write simple fixed expressions, limited memorized material and recombinations thereof. They can write about personal interests and familiar cultural topics in letters or in a diary format. Students will be able to analyze basic grammar in most German sentences.
Students will achieve a degree of competence in a foreign language and culture.
Students will be able to:
a. demonstrate language skills appropriate to the level of study
b. analyze similarities and differences between their own and the target cultures
c. explain contemporary international issues from the perspectives of their own and the target cultures
Assessment Measures
Speaking is tested in private oral interviews and also evaluated in class communication activities. Quizzes determine the success in completing various homework assignments. Writing progress is graded in the form of written homework and assignments. The unit tests and final exam evaluate lexical and morphological mastery, listening and reading comprehension, and cultural competence in a context in which students demonstrate their awareness of the diversity of German-speaking cultures.
Other Course Information
German 210 completes the B.A. degree requirement for students who began their college level German study with the first semester. A number of students with three or more years of high school study of the language begin on the college level with 210 and finish their degree requirement with the following course, German 300, Readings in German. To supplement linguistic and cultural encounters in class, students are expected to participate in some extracurricular activities such as conversation with native speakers, watching German language movies, and inquiring about German speaking cultures by means of the multitude of media available as informational resources.
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