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How to Make Fence Post Tops
Adding caps to your fence posts may seem more like an aesthetic than a structural consideration, but it's both. It gives the fence a more elegant appearance and, just as important, it protects the end grain of the posts from rain and rotting. You can buy caps at any home improvement outlet, but each one costs several dollars, and that can add up on a long fence. The expense is unnecessary, because you can cut your own caps from 2-inch lumber using a compound miter saw. You'll have all the caps you need in a few minutes.
Fashion the caps from 2-inch lumber a little wider than the posts on which you're going to place them. If you're capping standard 4-by-4-inch posts, 2-by-6-inch decking lumber works well.
Cut the lumber into square pieces, using a compound miter saw.
Set the angle of the miter saw to 45 degrees to cut bevels on all four sides of each square. If you don't want the bevels to extend all the way to the base of the cap, position the wood about 3/4 inches shy of the cut-line on the saw. Lay a piece of masking tape at that position and line up the wood with the edge of the tape to get identical bevels on each edge.
Hold the wood firmly against the back fence when making each cut, keeping your hand as far away from the blade as possible. Wear safety goggles to protect your eyes from splinters.
Sand each cap lightly with 150-grit sandpaper to remove splinters. Drill a 1/4-inch pilot hole in the center of each one so you can drive a nail through it without fear of splitting the wood.
Coat the top of a post with construction adhesive. Center a cap on it, and drive a single 16d galvanized nail through the hole and into the post. Repeat with all the posts.
Things Needed
- 2-inch lumber
- Compound miter saw
- Masking tape
- Safety goggles
- 150-grit sandpaper
- Construction adhesive
- 16d galvanized nails
- If you prefer more ornate caps, shape the edges of the square with a router and a decorative bit, such as an ogee or cove. Be sure to clamp the cap to a solid surface when routing it.
- Create two-tiered caps by cutting squares from narrower lumber and gluing them to the tops of the larger squares with construction adhesive.
Photo Credits
- Photo and Co/Photodisc/Getty Images


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Flute music at the funeral
Matthew 11:17
Jesus spoke to the crowds, "We played the flute for you but you did not dance. We sang a dirge but you did not mourn."
The fire and brimstone of John the Baptist turned many heads, but Jesus reminds his listeners that their lives really did not change much. What good was his baptism with water?
Now Jesus comes. He brings healing to anyone who asks, makes himself available every day in every way to those who need his touch. Nothing stands between the people and God's grace; Jesus invites them to come, he calls them with the music of mercy and joy.
But, just as it was in Israel during Isaiah's time, they would have "none of it" (Isaiah 30:15).
What good are the miracles, if nothing changes except physical health? Jesus knows people better than they know themselves. He probes more deeply than their bodies. He says, "Clean the inside of the cup, and then the outside will also be clean" (Matthew 23:26).
I am too often captured by the state of my body, whether healthy or sick. Over and over I forget to look at the inside of my cup. Jesus keeps on playing the flute, though. He reminds me to stop, look, listen. He shows me what I need to see. Even when he sees all that stuck-on, ancient scum, in his mercy he only shows me some, and speaks softly, patiently, again and again.
"Let me get that cleaned up for you, David." What am I going to say? How often can I turn away and pretend I don't hear? That lie gets old, even for me. How can Jesus hang in there like he does? Why does he? How long will he?
Will God's grace outlast my disobedience? That is a question I'd rather not have to answer.
Change my heart, O God. Make it new. Release my selfishness and restore my soul. Let me run in the path of your commands, for you have set my heart free.
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By James Hamilton, J.D., LL.M., Principal Analyst, CCH Federal Securities Law Reporter and CCH Derivatives Regulation Law Reporter.
The SEC has adopted regulations implementing the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act relating to shareholder approval of executive compensation and disclosure and shareholder approval of golden parachute compensation arrangements. New Rule 14a-21 provides for separate shareholder advisory votes to approve executive compensation, to approve the frequency of such votes on executive compensation, and to approve golden parachute compensation arrangements. The SEC rules specify that say-on-pay votes must occur at least once every three years beginning with the first annual shareholders' meeting taking place on or after Jan. 21, 2011. Companies also are required to hold a non-binding frequency vote at least once every six years in order to allow shareholders to decide how often they would like to be presented with the say-on-pay vote. Following the frequency vote, a company must disclose on a Form 8-K how often it will hold the say-on-pay vote.
The SEC amended Rule 14a-4, which relates to the form of proxy that companies are required to include with their proxy materials to require that issuers present four choices to their shareholders in connection with the advisory vote on frequency. Shareholders must be provided the opportunity to cast an advisory vote on whether the shareholder vote on executive compensation will occur every 1, 2, or 3 years, or to abstain from voting on the matter. Those are the four choices shareholders will be offered. Because the shareholder vote on the frequency of voting on executive compensation is advisory, the SEC did not believe it necessary to prescribe a standard for determining which frequency has been "adopted" by the shareholders.
The rules also require additional disclosure in the Compensation Discussion and Analysis regarding whether, and if so how, companies have considered the results of the most recent say-on-pay vote. Other changes to Item 402 of Regulation S-K require additional CD&A disclosure about the company's response to the shareholder vote on executive compensation and to provide additional disclosure about golden parachute compensation arrangements. Form 8-K was also amended to require disclosure regarding the company's action as a result of the shareholder advisory vote on the frequency of shareholder votes on executive compensation
Item 402 of Regulation S-K was also ed to require companies to discuss in CD&A whether and, if so, how their compensation policies and decisions have taken into account the result of the most recent shareholder advisory vote on executive compensation. Although it is not mandated by Dodd-Frank, the SEC believe that including this mandatory topic in CD&A will facilitate better investor understanding of issuers' compensation decisions. Because the shareholder advisory vote will apply to all issuers, the SEC views formation about how issuers have responded to such votes as more in the nature of a mandatory principles-based topic than an example. The manner in which individual companies may respond to such votes in determining executive compensation policies and decisions will likely vary depending upon facts and circumstances. The SEC expects that this variation will be reflected in the CD&A disclosures.
New Item 402(t) of Regulation S-K implements and supplements the statutory requirement in Section 14A(b)(1) to promulgate rules for the clear and simple disclosure of golden parachute compensation arrangements that the soliciting person has with its named executive officers (if the acquiring issuer is not the soliciting person) or that it has with the named executive officers of the acquiring issuer that relate to the merger transaction. In addition, Item 402(t), will supplement the requirements of Section 14A(b)(1) by requiring disclosure of golden parachute compensation arrangements between the acquiring company and the named executive officers of the target company if the target company is the soliciting person.
The golden parachute disclosure also is required in connection with other transactions, including going-private transactions and third-party tender offers, so that the information is available for shareholders no matter the structure of the transaction.
Because a company should be permitted to exclude subsequent shareholder proposals that seek a vote on the same matters as the shareholder advisory votes on say-on-pay and frequency, the SEC added a note to Rule 14a-8(i)(10) to permit the exclusion of a shareholder proposal that would provide a say-on-pay vote, seeks future say-on-pay votes, or relates to the frequency of say-on-pay votes. Specifically, the note will permit exclusion of such a shareholder proposal if, in the most recent shareholder vote on frequency of say-on-pay votes, a single frequency (i.e., one, two or three years) received the support of a majority of the votes cast and the issuer has adopted a policy on the frequency of say-on-pay votes that is consistent with that choice. For purposes of this analysis, an abstention would not count as a vote cast.


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There's nothing like learning while playing !
A "I have who has game" is an engaging activity for the whole class.In this game, your students will first work on all the verbs included in the game (in alphabetical order) : they will have to give all the past tense of the regular verbs and then provide the right pronunciation: t, d or id ?
Then, you will give one card to each student and … play !
I have… Who has … ? You will get :
– 31 cards
– a worksheet
– its answer key
I also included a black and white version.


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Note: This is the 2016–2017 edition of the eCalendar. Update the year in your browser's URL bar for the most recent version of this page, or click here to jump to the newest eCalendar.
Physics : The laws of thermodynamics and their consequences. Thermodynamics of P-V-T systems and simple heat engines. Free, driven, and damped harmonic oscillators. Coupled systems and normal modes. Fourier methods. Wave motion and dispersion. The wave equation.
Terms: Winter 2017
Instructors: Cornell, Jonathan (Winter)


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How Does Casa Grande Windshield Replacement Work?
Auto Glass Repairs Explained:
Broken windshields can be a major pain in Casa Grande. From chips and cracks to complete spiderwebs, damaged auto glass is a serious issue no matter the extent of the problem. That's because even tiny dings and splits in your windshield can grow into vision-obscuring messes. However, windshield replacement in Casa Grande isn't the only solution when you have damaged auto glass. Smaller flaws can actually be repaired invisibly to restore both strength and an unobstructed view to your windshield. Here's how it works.
The first step to any windshield repair is an evaluation of the damage. The chip or crack should be examined for size and depth as well as location to determine whether it is a candidate for repair. Most flaws up to 6 inches long can be fixed with the typical resin auto glass repair. However in Casa Grande, keep in mind that this type of solution only works when just the top layer of glass is fractured. Modern windshields are composed of two layers of glass with a rubber membrane laminated in between; the repair can only resolve issues with the first layer of glass, so if both layers are damaged, or you have a hole that goes all the way through, it's time to start learning about windshield replacement, not repairs. Also, some cracks that are around the perimeter of the windscreen can be difficult or impossible to correct, so make sure that the damage is located in a repairable place.
Once you've determined that the window glass can be repaired, the fix itself is relatively easy. Taking approximately 30 minutes, windshield chip repair is both simple and affordable. Using a special, sunlight-cured resin, the auto glass shop technician will inject the epoxy directly into the chip or crack using specialized tools. This completely fills the damage and ensures a smooth finish. The resin dries completely clear, helping the repair blend in to the surrounding windshield and almost totally hiding where the problem was. Natural sunlight dries the windshield crack repair to a waterproof, strong state that reinforces the windscreen and dependably prevents the crack or chip from ever spreading. Windshield replacement offers a reliable solution for both sturdiness and aesthetics.
Windshield repairs are also super convenient, as most auto glass shops can actually come to you. Because the resin cures in sunlight and the special tools used to apply it are quite portable, you won't have to take your car or truck into the shop to have it fixed. Instead, technicians can be sent to you for mobile glass repair right in your driveway or even your workplace's parking lot.
The best time to get a cracked windshield repaired is right now. Substantial research data shows that warm temperatures, cold temperatures, temperature shifts, and even rough road surfaces and speed bumps are all likely to exacerbate your car window glass's damage. Remember, windshield crack repair only works for fissures up to 6 inches long, so if you put off calling the auto glass shop, the crack may grow to the point where windshield replacement is your only option. Save yourself the hassle and the money by bringing in an auto glass repair pro today to take a look. Providing structural support and practically invisible performance, resin car window repairs can help get your windshield back to first-class condition quickly and affordably.
Windshield Replacement - The Ultimate Guide
To understand the importance of auto glass replacement services, it is vital to understand a car accident scenario. More so, windshield replacement is important to ensure the safety of driver and the passengers against wind, road debris, rain or any other harsh climatic conditions.
In this article, we will discuss some useful facts related to safety and maintenance aspects of auto glass replacement. Go through the points discussed below.
Auto service professionals are known to come with deep knowledge of the products as well as your vehicle. They are trained how to make best use of adhesives which are meant to secure the windshield to the vehicle frame. They know how to detect and treat corrosion to prevent future issues due to the bond between the vehicle frame and windshield.
If you find yourself in the need of a professional auto glass repair services provider, quality and safety should be your major concerns. In other words, you should go through the entire features and capabilities of leading service experts and go with the one that suits you the best. A qualified service provider is known to be current with all safety standards and advancements for all kinds of repair or replacement work needed in a vehicle.
Selecting The Best Auto Glass Replacement Company
Were you aware that the windshield provides up to 30% of a vehicle's structural strength. In the event of a crash or rollover, the windshield supports the roof and assists the airbags in deploying. Maintaining the windshield will help to ensure safety while operating the vehicle.
In everyday driving conditions, a chipped windshield can quickly turn into a safety hazard if the chip cracks suddenly. It is impossible to determine whether a chip will crack and cause greater issue, but if it is a large chip, chances are it will eventually cause a crack if it goes unrepaired.
A chipped windshield does not mean that the windshield needs to be replaced, but the chip should be repaired as soon as possible. There are several reasons why windshield chips should be repaired rather than ignored:
Glass repair may not be covered by all car insurance policies; avoiding the need for full replacement is the best choice. Repairing a chipped windshield in relatively inexpensive, with do-it-yourself kits starting around $10. Many places offer windshield chip repairs while you are getting an oil change. This can be a convenient way to repair a chipped windshield while having other work completed on the car.
There is no way to know for sure how long a chipped windshield will go without cracking, however it is best to avoid taking chances and have windshield chips repaired as soon as you notice them.


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Planes are already booked solid in many cities and hundreds of busses in New York are chartered to bring Jews to the Mobilization to the Summit march and rally scheduled here Dec. 6.
The demonstrators intend to show their support for Soviet Jewry on the eve of the meetings between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, according to David Harris, the AJCommittee's Washington representative and coordinator of the mobilization.
He said all flights arriving here from Dayton, Ohio, and Kansas City have been booked for that weekend and that Philadelphia and Baltimore are expected to send 10,000 demonstrators each.
Harris spoke to reporters Thursday following a day of briefings in Congress and the administration for about 25 AJCommittee members representing a dozen communities.
They met with Richard Shifter, assistant secretary of state for human rights and humanitarian affairs; Rozanne Ridgway, assistant secretary of state for Europe and Canada; Rep. Dante Fascell (D-Fla.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; and Sen. Daniel Moynihan (D-N.Y.).
Theodore Ellenoff, AJCommittee president, said the officials were highly supportive of the mobilization plans, and indicated that the demonstration should not be "modest." Fascell showed strong interest in attending, stating "his passionate belief in human liberties," Ellenoff said.
The rally, to be held from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. that Sunday, will call on the Soviets to permit the emigration of all Jews who seek it, and to allow those that want to remain in the Soviet Union to practice their religion without reprisal, he said.
The demonstrators will assemble at the Ellipse, near the White House, starting at 11 a.m. and then march to the Lincoln Memorial.
Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel is honorary chairman of the event. Commitments to attend have been received from leading former refuseniks Natan Sharansky, Ida Nudel and Vladimir and Maria Slepak.
Gorbachev is not expected to arrive here until the following evening. He then is scheduled for talks with Reagan on Dec. 8 and 9 and to leave Washington on Dec. 10.
Ellenoff defended the scheduling of the mobilization before Gorbachev's arrival. He noted that it is being held on a Sunday, which means people can attend without having to take off from work or school.
In addition, he said, the mobilization "will have sufficient reverberations to last all the way through Monday," since Gorbachev's people "read the press, observe the streets, (and) listen to the radio and TV." The summit will mark Gorbachev's first visit to the United States.
The demonstration will not be an anti-Gorbachev protest, but simply a pro-Soviet Jewry event, he noted. "We will carry this out in a dignified and orderly fashion without seeking to disrupt" summit activities, he said.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.


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Lead author Eduard Tiozzo, Ph.D., an American Heart Association Fellow, found that one in three participants in the Healthy Living for Better Days program, an exercise training and nutrition education community program for HIV patients at the UHealth Fitness and Wellness Center, had had Metabolic SyndromeS (MetS).
MetS is diagnosed when patients exhibit three or more of the following features: abdominal obesity, hypertriglyceridemia, low levels of high-density cholesterol, insulin resistance, and hypertension. The study findings, published in Diabetology and Metabolic Syndrome, reported that the higher prevalence of MetS was "driven by a high rate of abdominal obesity and hypertension," with the most contributing factors being elevated hemoglobin A1C and high consumption of carbohydrates, primarily in the forms of naturally occurring and added sugars.
"Our study provides a baseline for future studies to more conclusively determine if MetS is a more disease dependent or lifestyle dependent constellation of symptoms in HIV patients," said Tiozzo, an exercise physiologist and junior faculty in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Neurology.
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Micheal Riedel
Michael Riedel had a show in Zwirner in 2011 where he made Poster Paintings. They looked really great, and for this show, Powerpoint, he is taking two poster paintings and animating them using Powerpoint. Also on view at Zwirner in the 19th St space is Alan Uglow, and at the 20th St space Dan Flavin & Donald Judd.David Zwirner


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I'll be researching more about this John Howard Griffin in order to affirm or re-evaluate my initial opinion that he's pretty much an unsung hero of the civil rights movement. At this point in my knowledge of him, he seems to have been a major protagonist in the development of social justice for black Americans. For all Americans, really.
I'm sort of furious that we didn't read this book in high school.
Griffin's book was written in the late 50s and is about an experiment he performed to discover if and how there were differences in the ways black and white men in the South were treated. In 1957, he decided to medically darken his skin so that he looked like a black man. This book chronicles his experiences in a string of Deep South cities from New Orleans over to Atlanta, including stops in Mobile, Montgomery, and Biloxi. For six weeks, Griffin ventured into each city alternating between white Griffin and "Negro Griffin."
*It was 1957. The words "Negro" and "n*****" were used commonly and crudely. They're all over this book. I won't censor direct quotes, as that would detract from historical accuracy. Personally, however, I am rather uncomfortable using the terms even in this setting.
Obviously, he encountered rather poor treatment when he was black. The book details the stress of being harassed by white teenagers, his inability to get a job, and a bile-rising string of depraved questions from white men regarding very intimate details of black men's personal relationships. Once the experiment ended, Griffin's personal knowledge led to him becoming a common guest to meetings with leaders of both races (some separate, others mixed) who were seeking ways to bring peace and justice to the country. He writes of criticism on both sides of mistakes made during this critical time period.
Normally a good book means a few marked pages or highlights/notes in my Kindle. This may tell you something about the number of penetrating statements within this book.
I won't list them all, and for the sake of reasonableness, I've limited myself to the five most profound.
"The Negro. The South. These are details. The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls of other men (and in the process destroy themselves) for reasons neither really understands. It is the story of the persecuted, the defrauded, the feared, and detested. I could have been a Jew in Germany, a Mexican in a number of states, or a member of any 'inferior' group. Only the details would have differed. The story would be the same." (Preface)
"I learned a strange thing- that in a jumble of unintelligible talk, the word 'n*****' leaps out with electric clarity. You always hear it and it always stings. And always it casts the person using it into a category of brute ignorance. I thought with some amusement that if these two women only knew what they were revealing to every Negro on that bus, they would have been outraged." (Pg. 21)
"My revulsion turned to grief that my own people could give the hate stare, could shrivel men's souls, could deprive humans of rights they unhesitatingly accord their livestock." (Pg. 67)
"The white man's fears have been widely broadcast. To the Negro, these fears of 'intermingling' make no sense. All he can see is that the white man wants to hold him down- to make him live up to his responsibilities of taxpayer and soldier, while denying him the privileges of a citizen." (Pg. 121)
"Too many of the more militant leaders are preaching Negro superiority. I pray that the Negro will not miss his chance to rise to greatness, to build from the strength gained through his past suffering and, above all, to rise beyond vengeance." (Pg. 164)
Look, I grew up in the 80s and 90s. I won't even begin to pretend I understand the scope of what happened in this country during the civil rights movement. I could never fully grasp the complexity of all sides involved. I do pay close attention to this part of our history, perhaps because mine is a transracial family and maybe because I believe social justice is essential to the liberty of our great land.
Black Like Me is the can opener many people need to crack our minds wide enough to consider the intricacy of racial tensions and issues, both past and present.
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Schools Out-How to Stay Productive During Summer Break
Every year around this time, I'm sure we all think to ourselves-damn time flew. Whelp-Mommies as you know summer break is vastly approaching. If you were in denial like us, realistically it's time to get things in order for summer. Instead of allowing the kids to work our nerves, consume too much junk food and run the house wild-we are going to make this a productive summer for everybody in the family!
For Mommy
Take a Break
We know the grind is real as a mompreneur. But take a break and enjoy some quality time with the family and remember to schedule one on one with each child if you have multiple. Whether it means waking up a little earlier to complete your to-do list or blocking your schedule-just do it. Embrace the moment and make memories! And if you can get a trip in with your girls, make it happen!
Upgrade Your Working Environment
Over time your working space can get hectic. Clean your area out and get it organized. Make sure everything is up to date and spruce your environment up a bit. Add some new décor, get some new office supplies or even upgrade your computer-you deserve it!
The way our lives are set up, when do you have time to read? But take the time out this summer to at least read a book or two. Create a schedule that will allow you to read on a daily basis in the summer. Read consciously, deliberately, and most importantly read to learn!
Deep Clean The House
Whether we like it or not, the house deserves a good deep cleaning. If you have the funds to get a maid do it but if not make it happen. Gather the kiddos and create a strategic plan to remove unnecessary items, giveaway clothes and get them baseboards. You will be satisfied afterward!
Reconnect with FAMILY
Connect with your cousins, aunts, and uncles who you haven't seen in a while. Allow your children to meet the family they haven't met before or hang with their cousins who live in other states. This will allow you and your children to learn family history and unite with their non-local loved ones.
For Kids
It's all about giving back. Setup a day for your family to volunteer to help others in need. This is a great way to mold your child's character into something extraordinary!
Example: Food Bank, Church, Non-profit organization
Enrich Their Little Minds
Although school is out, allow your summer activities to stimulate your child's mind. Make time for reading and take advantage of the free activities at the library, checkout the museums, local plays and other attractions in your city.
Keep Track of the Memories
Have your child write a blog or journal about their summer journey and experiences. Take photos and embrace every moment together. This will allow you and the kids to have something to look back on and reminisce about the good ol' days!
Teach Em' How to SAVE & Hustle!
Mommies whether you are still learning how to save or have grasped the concept-teach your child how to become financially savvy. Let them know the importance of money (emergency fund, investments, college, etc.), provide them with a savings strategy and let them know the satisfaction they will have in the long run from saving now! Instill the hustle mentality in them as well- have them sell lemonade to the neighborhood or even do a car wash or yard sale!
Eat Outside The Box
Teach your children about where food comes from and the importance of eating healthy. We know your schedule can get crazy but spruce of the food menu and try different foods and embrace different cultures. And if your children are old enough teach them how to make nutritious/healthy snacks or meals that they can make during the next school year.


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Blake Painter, skipper of the F/V Maverick, was sorely missed by many of his fans–especially the fan who posted this particular tribute– during the Opilio season of Deadliest Catch, season 3, as were Rick and Donna Quashnick. Hopefully we'll being seeing … Continue reading
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Here's a Chance to Visit with Captain Phil Harris of the F/V Cornelia Marie
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DAY 2: Merry Christmas | By Vicky
Hi everyone I'm here today with another Christmas Card. I actually made this the same time as I made the last one........yes its been made for a few weeks lol. If you look at my last card you will even see the Christmas Tree from the cut-out on this card as I made this one first lol.
Make sure you read to the end of the post to get a little Christmas gift from Swedish House Crafts!
I used a Gummiapan stamp to stamp Merry Christmas and then I cut it out using Gummiapan Stitched Banners.
I wanted the trees as main focus for my card but wanted more of a pop, so decided to cut a Christmas Tree right in the centre of my top layer of paper and then have a bold colour paper underneath.
I cut another tree out using Kraft card and to give it some interest I added buttons and paint for a snow effect. You can get the matching stamp for this tree which is fabulous and has many possibilities.
Have you also seen the little birdies up in the trees? .....you need birdies in a tree and these dies are fabulous for using up those tiny scraps of paper.
To give it a wintery feel I added a Reindeer, Pine Cone, a glistening berry and a few other things to give interest and texture from my stash, including some rusty bells just hanging out under the seam binding.
Everything also got a dollop of white gesso to give a snowy wintery effect.........I love a winter scene.
Papers I've used are Maja Design Joyous Winterdays and I machine stitched all around them. The top layer was lifted using foam pads........if however you have no foam pads I keep all my cardboard from any crafty parcels and cut it into strips and keep them in a plastic box on top of one of my cupboards.....you can use the card to give dimension instead of using foam pads.....recycling is good.
Now I have a little something for you, if you would like to order any of these products I have used on my card then our lovely Boss is giving you 5% off these products.....all the links to the products are below. This is the code you need to enter to get your 5% discount
this code is valid until the end of December.
Hope I have given you a bit of inspiration, I really enjoyed making this card.
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The new Enzo Ferrari Museum, the last project of the late Jan Kaplicky – the co-founder of Future Systems – has opened in Modena, Italy
The €18 million project, which was won by Future Systems in competition in 2004, was delivered by his 'loyal assistant' Andrea Morgante of London-based Shiro Studio.
Dedicated to the motor racing legend Enzo Ferrari, the 5,000m² scheme with its yellow, car bonnet-like roof rises over the house where the driving star was born in 1898.
The museum's opening comes three years after Czech-born Jan Kaplicky died in 2009.
The architect's view
The complex comprises the house itself, which has been preserved together with the original workshop, and a new, ultra-modern building: an aluminum 'bonnet' painted yellow, the colour featured in the city of Modena's coat-of-arms and chosen by Enzo Ferrari as the backdrop for the 'Cavallino', the logo of the company named after him.
Inside the house is a very striking, permanent multimedia itinerary covering the most significant events in his life. A life marked by passion and creativity, research and innovation, courage and challenges, the key words that have created a legend that has made Modena and Maranello capitals of a dream come true. The story of Emilia Romagna's Motor Valley told through historical documents, items and unpublished audio-video material.
Stars of the exhibition staged in the new gallery are cars presented as if works of art – cars produced by famous Italian brands that are the pride of prestigious international collections and museums.
In addition to the exhibition area, the museum includes a classroom featuring a digital documentation centre, a conference room, a small film projection room, a shop and coffee bar. The museum will be open 365 days a year.
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Governments are increasingly taking control of cybersecurity issues for the citizens and organizations they serve. Just last year, Europe passed the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, which requires businesses who handle European citizen's data to notify customers if they experience a data breach, as well as report it to the regulatory body. In the US, 47 out of 50 states have established state legislature touching on data breach notification requirements, and Canada requires hacked organizations to notify both customers and the Privacy Commissioner.
It seems that with the sharp increase in hacking incidents around the world in recent years – and the many adverse effects they pose – governments can no longer leave it up to business discretion as to how to handle customer data before and after incidents.
Now, it's the Australian government's turn to tighten their security regulations. A major amendment to Australia's 'Privacy Act 1988', called the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016, was approved by the Australian Parliament this past February. The amendment introduces "mandatory data breach notification provisions for agencies, organizations, and certain other entities that are regulated by the Privacy Act." Failure to comply could cost an individual up to AU$260,000 and an organization would face fines of up to AU$1.8 million.
So, Australian organizations – are you prepared for this new change? Here's a deep dive into the Privacy Act, the new amendment, and how you can prepare your business for compliance.
What Exactly is Privacy Act 1988?
Privacy Act 1988 is an Australian law meant to help regulate how businesses handle personal and sensitive information. The Privacy Act is made of 13 underlying standards, referred to as the Australian Privacy Principles, or APPs, which were amended to the act in 2014. The Act defines personal data as any "information or an opinion, whether true or not, and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable," including names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, medical records, bank info, and even includes signatures along with opinions or commentary on a specific person.
The Privacy Act is a required regulation for all Australian government institutions, any private sector or non-profit business with an annual revenue of at least $3 million, along with all private health care providers and any business that deals with buying or selling personal data.
The 13 APPs involved in the Privacy Act are fairly comprehensive when it comes to securing personal data. They cover how data should be managed, how to deal with unsolicited data, how to secure it, and rules on the accuracy and correction of data, among others.
What Do I Need to Know About the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill and Act?
The act has been in place since 1988, and various amendments before now have been added to address further points. Now, with the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016, pegged to go into effect in early 2018, companies are additionally mandated to notify customers when their data has been exposed.
A data breach is considered 'eligible' to be reported if "personal information held by an entity is subject to unauthorized access or disclosure, and a reasonable person would conclude that the access or disclosure would… likely result in serious harm to any of the [affected] individuals." The serious harm part refers to any physical, emotional, financial, or psychological harm.
Exceptions on data breach notification requirements exist, including if the organization takes action quickly enough that no harm is done, or if a reasonable person would determine that the breach did not cause significant harm to any single individual.
Australia has recently dealt with a number of security breaches and privacy issues recently. 2016, for example, saw a 25% increase in incidents over the previous year. Last year also saw the continent's biggest data breach ever, with 1.3 million health records exposed. Australian government bodies been dealing with data breaches themselves, as the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported 14 data breaches from 2013 to 2016, and some Australians even refused to respond to census questions out of fear of their privacy. Reducing identity theft, which costs Australian's nearly $2 billion each year and affects between 4 and 5 percent of the population annually, is another welcome reason for the bill.
Suffice to say, this amendment serves not only to better protect businesses and the customers they serve, but also to help Australian citizens – and anyone entrusting their personal data in Australian businesses – gain back faith when it comes to privacy and security concerns.
3 Key Ways to Prepare for the Bill:
The new amendment creates a compelling opportunity for businesses to reduce risk by better identifying any gaps or vulnerabilities that could lead to a data breach. Here are four ways to embrace the new regulation and prepare your business for its' requirements.
- Evaluate your data collection policies and their effectiveness
Make sure you're not collecting more data than you need to, and what your policies pertaining to how data is handled internally and shared externally to determine whether they comply with the Privacy Act and the Privacy Amendment Bill. Additionally, public cloud users should ensure their providers follow the regulation as well – or switch providers before the bill goes into effect. The bill includes provisions on organizations using 3rd parties to store and handle personal information: Protection is required no matter where your customer data is stored.
- Perform security testing to ensure your applications securely store customer data
For any organization developing software, it's crucial to continuously test your applications for security vulnerabilities. Databases and web apps are always at risk of attack, and it's up to the security team to ensure their security, including the security of any data you've collected. Mitigate security vulnerabilities by employing security testing throughout the SDLC.
Read more about the Secure SDLC here.
- Test your database security continuously
Don't let what happened to Anthem in 2015 happen to you – make sure your database is secure against attack. Ensure authorization and authentication policies follow the principle of least privilege and secure your database against SQL injection, one of the most prevalent database (and web app) security issues.
Read more about Database Security here.
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I decided to take my parents to Wakulla Springs on their last day here, because it was a sunny day and the last time I had attempted to take it in it had started pouring rain as soon as we got on the trail. It turned out to be a great decision because we saw plenty of turtles, alligators, and even got a chance to see manatees in the wild! This is what I'd been hoping to show my parents all along, so I'm glad we all got a chance to experience it together. If you go to Wakulla Springs, I STRONGLY recommend taking the river boat tour. It's reasonably priced and without it you most likely will have a very difficult time spotting anything. the glass bottom boat tour wasn't running when we went, because of "dark water" but we still saw plenty. I highly recommend visiting this park. Also, you will get to see the untouched "real" Florida if you take the tour (from the boat), at the end of the stretch of spring where people are allowed to go, and where they only visit a few times a year. The first and third movies in The Creature of the Black Lagoon series were filmed here, as well as Tarzan. If you're going to take the trail anytime in the spring/summer, wear bug spray! I got many mosquito bites. We did see some lizards though.
We even got to see a turtle on our way into the park, crossing the street! The car you see in the sign above contained people that also stopped to admire the turtle.
There is also a swimming area, a beach-y place to lay about in the sun, and a lodge with a soda shop (for milkshakes, hot dogs, etc.) and a real restaurant where we chose to eat lunch.
Here's the menu:
We got the Chicken Caesar salad, Po Boy shrimp sandwich, and the grilled shrimp salad.
Everything was great! My parents agreed the shrimp was very fresh and I thought my salad was great too. The lodge also offers lodging (imagine that) and beer/wine. Anyway, highly recommended, and a great way to end my parent's visit.
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How adjacent or remote CpG affects expression? - (Mar/25/2009 )
I got one conceptual question.
If the CpG island is not overlapping with Promoter region, But if it is adjacent to the promoter, then how does it affect gene expression? By binding to some proteins?
If CpG island is remote, then does it matter?
Reference to any paper will be appreciated. I am alos looking into.
If the CpG island is not overlapping with Promoter region, it is very likely the CpG region actually harbors the promoter sequence or alternative promoter. If you lax the criteria for the CpG island a bit, probably the island will extend into the known promoter. I would say CpG island is very indicative of promoter.
Methylated CpG islands can also recruit chromatin remodelling proteins. These islands probably do not have to be in the promoter region to have an effect.
ston on Apr 1 2009, 09:49 AM said:
thanks to all of you,
But i could not find out any paper where they mentioned explicitly how the CpG island which is remote from promoter is affecting.
Got one paper where they said short sequence of CG residues in promoter can act with remote CpG island. But how they did not mention.
Thanks though.
H19/IGF are the prime examples of this and the binding of CTCF in a methylation dependent manner, this binding region is a CpG island and it can effect the expression of a gene remote from it.
methylnick on Apr 2 2009, 02:54 PM said:
thanks Nick, it was really helpful to find out the answer of my question.


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Have you seen the new remodel for the BSB Restaurant at Muckleshoot Casino? In June of 2012 I-5 Design upgraded the restaurants exterior with new signage, a suspended valance, and a half wall to give the restaurant more privacy from the gaming floor. Muckleshoot Casino now wanted to add an additional bar that would tie in with the overall theme of the existing elements. The newly designed bar adds character to the space with distressed copper countertops and specialty wood finished facing panels and trim. The additional area works together well with the existing renovation and gives customers a sleek sports bar within the property to grab a bite to eat right off of the gaming floor.
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For organizations with dedicated facility space and staff. Requires approximately $100,000 of seed funding for equipment, based on the model seen at the Museum of Science and Industry and other notable Fab Lab locations.
For organizations with part-time staff and volunteers with shared space access, requiring around $10,000 (+ computers) of seed funding. Based on our model.


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Majoring in pot is serious business for students at McGill. The Montreal university will become the first top-tier research school in Canada to offer a degree in commercial cannabis. The program was designed to meet the talent needs of the rapidly growing sector.
McGill said it started pre-screening students for its year-long Diploma in Commercial Cannabis program last week. The 30-credit degree to be launched in June will span two academic terms, followed by an internship in the industry.
While the school is by no means the first in Canada to train students to work in the pot sector, McGill is the only one among the elite U15 Canadian Research Universities to offer a full program to train biologists to grow cannabis, develop strains, protect against contaminants, and understand the industry's legal framework.
"We'll really be diving into issues that are very specific to the cannabis industry," Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences dean Anja Geitmann told the McGill Reporter.
A bachelor of science in biological, agricultural, or environmental sciences, including 15 credits in plant-related courses and a course in biochemistry or organic chemistry is required for admission.
Jobs in Canada's cannabis sector have nearly quadrupled since recreational pot was legalized last year. Approximately 9,200 people worked for cannabis companies in April 2019, compared to 2,630 in fiscal 2018, and 1,438 in fiscal 2017, according to Statistics Canada. The number of pot companies has surged as well, from 37 in 2017, to 83 in 2018, to 175 at the time StatCan published its report.
There is evidence to suggest it pays to work in pot.
A study earlier this year by the career website Glassdoor found that the median salary for American cannabis industry job openings is US$58,511 per year, $5,648 or 10.7 percent, higher than the U.S. median salary of $52,863. Due to the diverse mixture of available jobs, salaries ranged from $22,326 per year to $215,384 per year, according to Glassdoor.
"Our students will have the tools to get the high-paying jobs – master growers, quality managers, microbiologists and formulation specialists – in the cannabis industry," Geitmann said.
A separate analysis by Marijuana Business Daily found the average salary of a cannabis company CEO at one of the five major firms is $528,090 (or $285,113 if you take out the $1.5 million annual salary of MedMen Enterprises' (MMEN.CN)(MMNFF) Adam Bierman. Bierman accepted a $50,000 annual salary in late May, after the publication of Marijuana Business Daily's research, according to the company's financial filing.) The publication estimated that the average chief executive in other industries earns $196,050.
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If you are thinking about studying in L.A, there are lots of famous landmarks to see. "I've visited the Griffith Park, Grand Canyon, the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz" says Christian. "My favorite place to visit was Santa Monica beach and Huntington Beach."
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Yi Jianlian's Great Leap Forward (for 3½ Quarters): China vs. Puerto Rico
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Massimo Vitali's diptych of the Sao Paolo market in Brazil highlights the dichotomy of digital vs. analogue photography and its various implications. One photograph is taken with analogue film and one with a digital camera, leaving the viewer to contemplate the minimal difference between the two images. The artist's intent is to provoke in the viewer a series of reflections specifically on the medium employed and more generally on the larger idea of representation.
The principal reflection which is raised by the photographs is the age-old question of the relationship between photography and reality which goes beyond the technical differences of analogue and digital photography.
The question of representation which has defined the history of photography again becomes of paramount importance, drawing together both ethical and aesthetic questions viewed through the lens of the technical dichotomy of analogue vs. digital.
The representation of reality depends on the technical structure of the camera (analogue – digital) which then extends to the role and presence of the artist, who is faced with a technology system which had seemed to exclude any possible interference or allowance for interpretation.
This in turn leads us back to the centuries old question of photography's capacity to objectively record reality, a means which is incapable of lying, or at least more so than other expressive forms.
This claim is derived from the established linguistic-semiotic thinking that states that if a medium cannot lie it is not a symbol, if it is not a symbol it cannot become a language, and if it is not a language it is not a cultural act.
Digital photography has brought this complex series of reflections back into the limelight, revolving around the statute of realism which has been debated at length in the past by the likes of Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag.
Alessandro Romanini, "Digital vs. Analog" In Il passo sospeso. Esplorazioni del limite, catalog of the exhibition at the Ragghianti Foundation in Lucca. June 24 - September 3, 2017.
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Comments on the Mattes Study
- Mattes claimed to be using a "high dose" of coloring. However, the cookie provided by the Nutrition Foundation (and remember, this is an organization composed of additive and snack food producers and distributors) contained 13 mg of food dyes each. And they were identical to the placebo cookie. This means that there was TOO LITTLE color to change the color of the cookie!! If THAT is a high dose, how much coloring is actually in those colorful cookies and candies you buy in the store? Is it surprising that if you call the company and ask, they won't tell you?
- Letter written to the Feingold Association from a mom whose child was in the Mattes study
My daughter, Christine, was one of the children in the study.
Points I remember:
- Took a long time to do the study, because each time Chrissy got a "toxic" cookie she not only got hyper, but also got severe ear infections and sick. Her school work regressed, as much as it can in kindergarten. After school she was in a dance class the school sponsored, and after her "after school snack cookie" got so bad they called me to pick her up early.
- I also remember getting a phone call after it was completed, telling me that 5 out of 6 of the children reacted to the "toxic" cookies and that Chrissy was definitely one of those children.
The next day he published in Newsday that there was no significant proof. Even her teachers laughed.
- In the report he states some of the children did not eat all six cookies. That is correct! After 2 cookies, Chrissy was nuts; after 4 my family was ready to drive me off a ships plank for agreeing to this mess; also Chrissy was ready to kill me.
- As far as getting a cookie 1.5 hr before seeing him, only once did that ocur. I couldn't control her and drive the Long Island Expressway for 1.5 hours with her in a reaction.


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After delivering a Senate speech earlier in the day where he outlined how the Coalition was "failing the people of Australia", Senator Cory Bernardi has used his first live television appearance since resigning from the Liberal Party on Tuesday to confirm his loyalty to his former Liberal colleagues and party.
Appearing on Sky News' The Bolt Report on Tuesday night, Bernardi shared the motivations behind his split from the Coalition government, as well as his hopes for his party moving forward.
"No one can say that the last election was a resounding endorsement of Labor or Liberal. In fact, what it was was a million votes in the Senate go to a desperate group of parties because people were looking for alternatives," he said.
"I want to give them one because I don't think those votes are going to come back to the Liberal Party and my values are traditional, Liberal values. I haven't changed -- what's changed is that too few in this place are prepared to advocate for them."
Bernardi confirmed that he believes a "centre-right Coalition" is still "good for government" and that his former colleagues should look at his decision to venture out on his own as an opportunity to improve their own party.
"There's nothing more frustrating for the Australian people than to see successive Australian governments, both the major parties, enacting policies and procedures that are really failing our country," he said.
"They should look at this as the potential of strengthening a Liberal government and holding it up to the principals that they all profess to espouse except when there's a bit of pain to be worn."
The South Australian senator also declared his continued support for the Liberal Party, albeit from the outside as an Independent.
"I'll be outside of the tent, I'll be making sure the stake is in the ground and I hope that stake will be tethered to the tent that is the centre-right government called the Coalition and that that will keep it in place," he said.
"I'm looking for the best possible outcome for the Australian people. I've found myself constantly battling to uphold the principals and values I believe and continue to believe from when I joined the Liberal Party."
Sky News' Andrew Bolt also quizzed Bernardi on whether Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had attempted to sway him back into the Liberal Party prior to his defection.
"Since he's been Prime Minister... he's been cordial, he's been courteous, he's extended whatever opportunities I've requested to make some positive suggestions to him," Bernardi said.
"It's easy to be critical, but it's not my intention. I don't want to buy into the personality politics any more."
When it came to the policies of Bernardi's new Australian Conservatives party, the senator said he would be sticking to his main values of making Australian families stronger, fostering free enterprise business and rebuilding civil society.
Since rumours of the split were made public, there have been comparisons made between Bernardi's new party-of-one and Pauline Hanson's One Nation, but the senator rejects the comparison.
He said he expects to butt heads with the Queensland senator on certain issues.
"We're going to part ways on issues, there's no question on this. You don't need a royal commission into Islam, we all know the basis and foundation of Islam if you dig hard enough," he said.
"In terms of migration -- we need to make sure that migration in this country is in our economic, social and cultural interests. The immigration rate is too high now."
While there has been a strong backlash to Bernardi's defection from some members of the Coalition, Treasurer Scott Morrison refused to play into the back-and-forth, saying the government was not distracted by the move.
Appearing on the ABC's 7.30, Morrison said the Turnbull government was still focused on addressing jobs, household budgets, power prices and childcare rather than talking too much about Cory Bernardi.
"Put aside the events of today and the personality politics that others are focusing on and, like what you heard from the Prime Minister today and the other ministers, remains a government that is focused on some very important challenges," he said.
"People are worried that the mainstream parties are not addressing those concerns. No change of personalities and politics of Cory Bernardi or anything else is going to address those problems. The Government can address those problems and that's what we will do."
Despite this, Morrison also confirmed that the Liberal Party is confident Bernardi will vote in a way that supports Coalition government policies.
"There is no indication that he has departed in anyway way, shape or form. When he signed up, he put his name on a Liberal ballot paper and said, 'Vote for me, I'm a Liberal. I'm standing on the Liberal platform'."
With day one of Parliament being a turbulent start to the 2017 political year, Bernardi's departing message to Bolt was that he plans on trying to field candidates for the Australian Conservatives in every state around the nation.
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Interdisciplinary Machine Learning
The Interdisciplinary Machine Learning Research Group (IMLRG) investigates aspects of machine learning, pattern recognition and data analysis in theory, experiments and applications. Particular emphasis is placed on interdisciplinary projects.
The group's research is about developing, evaluating and applying artificial neural networks, support vector machines, non-linear dimensionality reduction techniques and evolutionary algorithms. The main paradigms include classification, clustering, outlier detection, regression and optimization. A special research focus is on the application of non-linear kernel methods, deep learning, and geometrical and topological aspects of data analytics.
These methods open a range of possibilities for interdisciplinary applications in fields such as architecture, finance, health, image processing, politics, neuroscience, robotics, and other domains of signal processing and pattern analysis.
The IMLRG is central to a network of data science specialists at UON who cover most aspects of computational intelligence, statistics, signal processing, data mining, optimization, visualization, data security and associated software engineering.
Research Contact:
A/Prof Stephan Chalup, Director
Some of our research areas include:
- Anthropocentric Biocybernetics
- Geometrical and topological aspects of data analytics
- Image processing, computer vision and visualisation
- Machine learning and pattern recognition
- Neural information processing systems and brain theory
- Non-linear kernel machines, support vector machines
- Reinforcement learning and evolutionary computation
- Software systems, simulations and autonomous robots
Our Projects
Project Title:
Manifold Learning and Robotics
Chief Investigators:
- A/Prof. Stephan Chalup
- Dr. Kaushik Mahata
- Fayeem Bin Aziz
- Aaron Wong (PhD completed)
Fayeem Aziz, Aaron S.W. Wong, James Welsh, and Stephan K. Chalup. Performance comparison of manifold alignment methods applied to pendulum dynamics. In Applied Informatics and Technology Innovation Conference (AITIC). Springer, 2016. Accepted.
Aaron Wong. Implementing sensory perception and affect on humanoid robots using applications of manifold learning. PhD thesis, Discipline of Computer Science and Software Engineering. The University of Newcastle, Australia. 2014. (Online Access)
Benedikt Boecking, Stephan K. Chalup, Detlef Seese, and Aaron S. W. Wong. Support vector clustering of time series data with alignment kernels. Pattern Recognition Letters, 45(1):129{ 135, August 2014.
Aaron S. W. Wong, Steven Nicklin, Kenny Hong, Stephan K. Chalup, and Peter Walla. Robot emotions generated and modulated by visual features of the environment. In 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Creativity and A ective Computing (CICAC), 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), pages 9-16. IEEE, 2013. (Online Access)
Aaron S. W. Wong, Stephan K. Chalup, Shashank Bhatia, Arash Jalalian, Jason Kulk, Steven Nicklin, and Michael J. Ostwald. Visual gaze analysis of robotic pedestrians moving in urban space. Architectural Science Review, 55(3):213-223, 2012. (Online Access)
Aaron S. W. Wong, Stephan K. Chalup, Shashank Bhatia, Arash Jalalian, Jason Kulk, and Michael J. Ostwald. Humanoid robots for modelling and analysing visual gaze dynamics of pedestrians moving in urban space. In R. Hyde, S. Hayman, and D. Cabrera, editors, From principles to practice in architectural science. 45th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association (Anzasca 2011). (CD-ROM). Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning: Sydney, 2011. (Received paper award). (Online Access)
Aaron Wong and Stephan K. Chalup. Towards Visualisation of Sound-scapes Through Dimensionality Reduction, 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), Hong Kong, June 1-6, 2008. (Online Access)
Aaron S.W. Wong and Stephan K. Chalup. Sound-scapes for Robot Localisation through Dimensionality Reduction. In: Jonghyuk Kim and Robert Mahony (eds). Proceedings of the 2008 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2008), ISBN 978-0-646-50643-2,ARAA 2008. (Online Access)
Project Title:
Behaviour in Autonomous Multi-agent Systems
Chief Investigators:
- A/Prof. Stephan Chalup
- Dr Michael Quinlan
- Dr Oliver Obst
- Dr Stephen R. Young
Quinlan Michael Joseph, Obst Oliver, Chalup Stephan, 'Towards autonomous strategy decisions in the RoboCup Four-Legged League', 7th IJCAI International Workshop on Nonmontonic Reasoning, Action and Change. Proceedings, Hyderabad, India (2007)
Quinlan Michael Joseph, Chalup Stephan, 'Impact of Tactical Variations in the RoboCup Four-Legged League', Proceedings of International Symposium on Practical Cognitive Agents and Robots (PCAR), Perth, WA, Australia ), vol. 213, pp. 27-38, 2006, ISBN:1-74052-130-7(2006) (Online Access)
Young Stephen Robert, Chalup Stephan, 'Towards Robot Soccer Team Behaviours Through Approximate Simulation', Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, INTEX Osaka, Japan (2005)
Project Title:
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Chief Investigators:
- A/Prof. Stephan Chalup
- Dr Alan Blair
- Dr Maria Seron
- Dr Alex Mendes
- Asad Abbas
- Alex Biddulph
- Abdul Jabbar
- Maryam Mahsal Khan
- Josiah Walker (PhD completed)
- Lukasz Wiklendt (PhD completed)
- The University of Newcastle, CDSC
- 4Tel Pty. Ltd
Research Areas:
- Synthetic data generation for deep learning
- Evolutionary wavelet neural networks
- Neurodynamic programming for sequence prediction
- Acrobot swing-up and stabilisation
- Employ spiking neural networks in a computer simulation study
- Use evolutionary computation for training
- Bi-ped simulation study
Abdul Jabbar, Luke Farrawell, Jake Fountain, and Stephan Chalup. Training deep neural networks for detecting drinking glasses using synthetic images. In Proceedings of the The 24th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2017, November 14-18, 2017, Guangzhou, China, 2017. (accepted 15 August 2017.)
Maryam Mahsal Khan, Alexandre Mendes, Ping Zhang, and Stephan K. Chalup. Evolving multidimensional wavelet neural networks for classification using cartesian genetic programming. Neurocomputing, 247:39-58, 2017.
Maryam Mahsal Khan, Stephan K. Chalup, and Alexandre Mendes. Parkinson's disease data classification using evolvable wavelet neural networks. In Tapabrata Ray, Ruhul Sarker, and Xiaodong Li, editors, Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence, Second Australasian Conference, ACALCI 2016, Canberra, ACT, Australia, February 2-5, 2016. Proceedings, volume of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), pages 113-124. Springer International Publishing, 2016.
Josiah Walker and Stephan K. Chalup. Learning nursery rhymes using adaptive parameter neurodynamic programming. In Stephan K. Chalup, Alan D. Blair, and Marcus Randall, editors, Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence, First Australasian Conference, ACALCI 2015, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, February 5-7, 2015. Proceedings, volume 8955 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), pages 196{209. Springer International Publishing, 2015
Maryam Mahsal Khan, Stephan K. Chalup, and Alexandre Mendes. Evolving wavelet neural networks for breast cancer classification. In Twelfth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM'2014), Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point, Brisbane, 27-28 November 2014, Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT). Australian Computer Society Inc., 2014.
Lukasz Wiklendt. Spiking Neural Networks for Robot Locomotion Control. PhD thesis, Discipline of Computer Science and Software Engineering. The University of Newcastle, Australia. 2014. (Online Access)
Lukasz Wiklendt and Stephan K. Chalup. Balance Control of a Simulated Inverted Pendulum on a Circular Base.Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA), 2009. (Online Access)
Lukasz Wiklendt, Stephan. K. Chalup, and Maria M. Seron. Simulated 3d Biped Walking with an Evolution-Strategy Tuned Spiking Neural Network. Neural Network World 19, pp. 235-246, 2009. (Online Access)
Lukasz Wiklendt, Stephan K. Chalup and Maria Seron. Quadratic Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Neural Network Tuned with an Evolution Strategy for a Simulated 3D Biped Walking Controller, 8th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2008), IEEE Computer Society Press 2008. (Online Access)
Lukasz Wiklendt, Stephan K. Chalup, and Richard H. Middleton. A Small Spiking Neural Network with LQR Control Applied to the Acrobot. Neural Computing & Applications 18(4), pp. 369-375, ISSN 1433-3058, Springer London, 2008. (Online Access)
Chalup Stephan, Middleton Richard Hume, Quinlan Michael Joseph, Wiklendt Lukasz Sebastian, 'Neurocomputational aspects of legged locomotion motor control', Proceedings of the Australian Neuroscience Society, 15 105 (2004).
Stephan K. Chalup and Alan D. Blair (2003). Incremental Learning for RNNs: How Does It Affect Performance and Hidden Unit Activation? RNNaissance Workshop–NIPS 2003. (abstract, unpublished) (PDF, 35KB)
Stephan K. Chalup and Alan D. Blair (2003). Incremental Training of First Order Recurrent Neural Networks to Predict a Context-Sensitive Language. Neural Networks 16(7), pp. 955-972. (Online Access)
Stephan K. Chalup. Incremental learning in biological and machine learning systems. International Journal of Neural Systems, 12(6):447-465, 2002.
Stephan K. Chalup and Alan D. Blair (2002), "Software for Analysing Recurrent Neural Nets that Learn to Predict Non-Regular Languages", In: Pieter W. Adriaans and Henning Fernau and Menno van Zaanen, "Grammatical Inference: Algorithms and Applications, 6th International Colloquium: ICGI 2002, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 23-25, 2002, Proceedings". Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 2484, pp.296—298, ISBN 3-540-44239-1, Springer-Verlag. (PDF, 95KB)
Stephan Chalup and Alan D. Blair (1999). "Hill climbing in recurrent neural networks for learning the an bn cn language". In: ICONIP'99, 6th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Proceedings. Perth, Western Australia, 16-20 November 1999, Volume 2. pp. 508–513, ISBN: 0-7803-5871-6, IEEE. (PDF, 151KB)
Project Title:
Kernel Methods in Finance and Complexity Management
Chief Investigators:
- A/Prof. Stephan Chalup
- Professor Detlef Seese
- Mr Tobias Dietrich
- Mr Andreas Mitschele
- Mr Christian Ullrich
Stephan Chalup and Andreas Mitschele. Kernel Methods in Finance. Chapter 27, pp. 655-687; In: Detlef Seese, Christof Weinhardt and Frank Schlottmann (Eds.). Handbook on Information Technology in Finance; Series: International Handbooks on Information Systems; ISBN: 978-3-540-49486-7; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
Andreas Mitschele, Detlef Seese, Frank Schlottmann, and Stephan Chalup. Applications of Kernel Methods in Financial Risk Management. 12th International Conference on "Computing in Economics and Finance" Amathus Beach Hotel, Limassol, Cyprus, 22-24 June, 2006.
Christian Max Ullrich, Detlef Seese, Stephan Chalup. Foreign Exchange Trading with Support Vector Machines. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (GfKI 2006), pp. 1-9. 2006.
Tobias Dietrich, Detlef Seese, and Stephan K. Chalup. Classification of e-bay bidding characteristics. IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet 4(1), pp. 111–125, ISSN: 1645–7641, 2006. (Received Paper Award)
Christian Ullrich, Detlef Seese, and Stephan Chalup. Predicting Foreign Exchange Rate Return Directions with Support Vector Machines. Proceedings of the 4th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM05), Simeon J. Simoff, Graham J. Williams, John Galloway and Inna Kolyshkina (editors), December, 2005, Sydney, Australia, pp. 221-240.
Tobias Dietrich, Detlef Seese, and Stephan Chalup. Differences in Bidding Characteristics on ebay.de. Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference e-Commerce 2005 Porto, Portugal December 15-17, 2005, Nitya Karmakar and Pedro Isaias (editors), ISBN: 972-8924-06-2, pp. 3–10, IADIS Press, 2005.
Project Title:
Machine Learning on AIBO Robots
- Mr Michael Quinlan (completed 2006)
- A/Prof. Stephan Chalup
- Professor Rick Middleton
Stephan K. Chalup, Craig L. Murch, and Michael J. Quinlan. Machine Learning with AIBO Robots in the Four Legged League of RoboCup. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics—Part C, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 297-310, May 2007. (Online Access)
Michael J. Quinlan. Machine Learning on AIBO Robots. PhD Thesis, The University of Newcastle, 2006. (PDF-7MB)
Craig L. Murch and Stephan K. Chalup. Combining Edge Detection and Colour Segmentation in the Four-Legged League. Proceedings of the 2004 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA'2004). (Online Access)
Michael J. Quinlan and Stephan K. Chalup and Richard H. Middleton. Application of SVMs for Colour Classification and Collision Detection with AIBO Robots. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16, (NIPS'2003), Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2004. (Online Access)
M. J. Quinlan, S. K. Chalup, R. H. Middleton. Techniques for Improving Vision and Locomotion on the Sony AIBO Robot. In: Jonathan Roberts and Gordon Wyeth (eds.), Proceedings of the 2003 Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation (ACRA'2003). (Online Access)
M. J. Quinlan, C. Murch, R. H. Middleton, S. K. Chalup. Traction Monitoring for Collision Detection with Legged Robots. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence LNAI 3020, pp. 374–384, 2004. [Engineering Challenge Paper Award, RoboCup 2003] (Online Access)
O. J. Coleman and S. K. Chalup. Towards Matching Perception in Simulated and Real World Robot Navigation. Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL'2003), 2003.
Project Title:
Face Recognition and Face Expression Dynamics
- Mr Kenny Hong
- A/Prof. Stephan Chalup
- Dr Suhuai Luo
- Dr Robert King
Kenny Hong, Stephan Chalup and Robert King. A Component Based Approach Improves Classification of Discrete Facial Expressions over a Holistic Approach. 2010 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2010)(part of IEEE WCCI) pp 90-97, 2010. (Online Access)
Stephan K. Chalup, Kenny Hong, and Michael J. Ostwald. Simulating Pareidolia of Faces for Architectural Image Analysis. International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (IJCISIM), Vol 2, pp 262-278, 2010. (Online Access)
Stephan K. Chalup, Kenny Hong, and Michael J. Ostwald. A Face-House Paradigm for Architectural Scene Analysis. In: Richard Chbeir, Youakim Badr, Ajith Abraham, Dominique Laurent, Fernnando Ferri (eds.). CSTST 2008: Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology, pp.397-403, ACM ISBN 978-1-60558-046-3, 2008. (Online Access)
Project Title:
Modelling and predicting patterns of pedestrian movement: using robotics and machine learning to improve the design of urban space
- Arash Jalalian (PhD completed
- A/Prof. Stephan Chalup
- Professor Michael Ostwald
ARC Discovery Grant 2010-2012
Ostwald & Chalup: Modelling and predicting patterns of pedestrian movement: using robotics and machine learning to improve the design of urban space. ($486,000)
Arash Jalalian and Stephan K. Chalup. GDTW-P-SVMs: Variable-length time series analysis using support vector machines. Neurocomputing, 99(1):270-282, January 2013. (Online Access)
Arash Jalalian. Time series classification for analysing the impact of architectural design on pedestrian spatial behaviour. PhD thesis, Discipline of Computer Science and Software Engineering. The University of Newcastle, Australia. 2012.
Aaron S. W. Wong, Stephan K. Chalup, Shashank Bhatia, Arash Jalalian, Jason Kulk, Steven Nicklin, and Michael J. Ostwald. Visual gaze analysis of robotic pedestrians moving in urban space. Architectural Science Review, 55(3):213-223, 2012. (Online Access)
Arash Jalalian, Stephan K. Chalup, and Michael J. Ostwald. Analysis of pedestrian spatial behaviour using GDTW-P-SVMs. In The 2012 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Curran Associates, Inc., 57 Morehouse Lane, Red Hook, NY 12571 USA, 2012. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). (Online Access)
Arash Jalalian, Stephan K. Chalup, and Michael J. Ostwald. Agent-agent interaction as a component of agent-environment interaction in the modelling and analysis of pedestrian visual behaviour. In CAADRIA 2011. Circuit Bending, Breaking and Mending. The 16th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, 2011. (Online Access)
Arash Jalalian, Stephan K. Chalup, and Michael J. Ostwald. Architectural evaluation of simulated pedestrian spatial behaviour. Architectural Science Review, 54(2):132-140, 2011. (Online Access)
Arash Jalalian, Stephan K. Chalup, and Michael J. Ostwald. Simulating pedestrian flow dynamics for evaluating the design of urban and architectural space. In Chris Murphy, Susan J. Wake, David Turner, Graeme McConchie, and David Rhodes, editors, 44th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architecture Science Association, Unitec, Auckland, New Zealand. 24th-26th November 2010, 2010. (Online Access)
Arash Jalalian, Stephan K. Chalup and Michael J. Ostwald. Intelligent Evaluation of Urban Streetscape Designs by Analysing Pedestrian Body Dynamics. Third International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence (IWACI, 2010). (Online Access)
Project Title:
Shaping social and cultural spaces: the application of computer visualisation and machine learning techniques to the design of architectural and urban spaces.
Chief Investigators:
- Professor Michael Ostwald
- A/Prof. Stephan Chalup
ARC Large Grant 2007-2009
Stephan K. Chalup and Michael J. Ostwald. Anthropocentric Biocybernetic Approaches to Architectural Analysis: New Methods for Investigating the Built Environment. In: Paul S. Geller (ed.). Built Environment: Design, Management and Applications. ISBN 978 1 60876 915 5, Nova Publishers, 2010. (Online Access)
Michael J. Ostwald, Josephine Vaughan and Stephan K. Chalup. A Computational Investigation into the Fractal Dimensions of the Architecture of Kazuyo Sejima. Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal 3(1), pp. 231-244, 2009. (Online Access)
Stephan K. Chalup, Naomi Henderson, Michael J. Ostwald, and Lukasz Wiklendt. A Computational Approach to Fractal Analysis of a Cityscape's Skyline. Architectural Science Review 52(2), pp. 126-134, 2009. (Online Access)
Stephan K. Chalup and Michael J. Ostwald. Anthropocentric Biocybernetic Computing for Analysing the Architectural Design of House Facades and Cityscapes. Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal 3(5), pp.65-80, ISSN: 1833-1874, 2009. (Online Access)
Stephan K. Chalup, Kenny Hong, and Michael J. Ostwald. Simulating Pareidolia of Faces for Architectural Image Analysis. International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (IJCISIM), Vol 2, pp 262-278, 2010. (Online Access)
Stephan K. Chalup, Kenny Hong and Michael J. Ostwald. A Face-House Paradigm for Architectural Scene Analysis. In: International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSTST 2008), 2008. (Online Access)
M. J. Ostwald, J. Vaughan, and S. Chalup. A computational analysis of fractal dimensions in the architecture of Eileen Gray. In ACADIA 2008, Silicon + Skin: Biological Processes and Computation, October 16 - 19, 2008. (Online Access)
S. K. Chalup, N. Henderson, M. J. Ostwald, and L. Wiklendt. A method for cityscape analysis by determining the fractal dimension of its skyline. In: 42nd Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association (ANSAScA 2008) November 2008, Newcastle, Australia, 2008. forthcoming. (Online Access)
Tucker Christopher Charles, Ostwald Michael, Marshall Joshua Phillip, Chalup Stephan, 'The visual qualities of liveable streets', Towards Solutions for a Liveable Future: Progress, Practice, Performance, People. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Architectural Science Association, Melbourne (2007). (Online Access)
Stephan K. Chalup, Riley Clement, Chris Tucker and Michael J. Ostwald. Modelling Architectural Visual Experience Using Non-linear Dimensionality Reduction. In: M. Randall, H. Abbass, and J. Wiles (Eds.): ACAL 2007, LNAI 4828, pp. 84-95, 2007. (Online Access)
Stephan K. Chalup, Riley Clement, Joshua Marshall, Chris Tucker, and Michael J. Ostwald. Representations of Streetscape Perceptions Through Manifold Learning in the Space of Hough Arrays. 2007 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, April 1-5, 2007. (Online Access)
Stephan K. Chalup, Riley Clement, Michael J. Ostwald and Chris Tucker. Applications of Manifold Learning in Architectural Facade and Streetscape Analysis, Workshop on Novel Applications of Dimensionality Reduction at NIPS 2006.
Project Title:
The Machine Intelligence Hex Project
Chief Investigators:
- A/Prof. Stephan Chalup
Research Assistant:
- Mr Drew Mellor
- Dr Frances Rosamond
Discipline of CSSE
Research Areas:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Science Education
Stephan K. Chalup, Drew Mellor, and Fran Rosamond. The Machine Intelligence Hex Project. Computer Science Education 15(4), pp. 245–273, Routledge, December 2005. (Online Access)
S. K. Chalup. Towards Staged Evolution of an Artificial Player for Hex by Enlarging the Boardsize During Training. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2003), 2003.
S. K. Chalup and D. Mellor. The Machine Intelligence Hex Project - An Overview. Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems 8(1), pp. 6-23, November 2002.
Our Consultancy
Machine learning and data mining techniques have become of great importance for industry projects, business applications and interdisciplinary projects.
The Interdisciplinary Machine Learning Research Group offers expertise and consulting in a wide range of relevant techniques. Prospective industry or research partners are welcome to contact us for further information.
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Our Team
|Dr Bilal Abed-Alguni
|Assistant Professor, Yarmouk University
|Dr Mark Adam
|AIR Group, Senior Lecturer in IT
|Fayeem Bin Aziz
|Postgraduate Student
|Dr Shashank Bhatia
|Collaborator, Mater Hospital
|Mr Ross Bille
|Postgraduate Student
|Dr Alan Blair
|Collaborator, UNSW
|A/Prof Stephan Chalup
|Director, Associate Professor
|Dr Raymond Chiong
|AIR Group, Senior Lecturer in IT
|Dr David Cornforth
|AIR Group, Senior Lecturer in IT
|Mr Michael Dickinson
|Senior Lecturer
|Mr Jake Fountain
|Postgraduate Student
|Mr Shannon Fenn
|Postgraduate Student
|Dr Kenny Hong
|Mr Trent Houliston
|Postgraduate Student
|Dr Arash Jalalian
|Maryam Mahsal Khan
|Postgraduate Student
|Dr Robert King
|Lecturer in Statistics
|Dr Suhuai Luo
|Lecturer in Information Technology
|Dr Drew Mellor
|Collaborator, University of Western Australia
|Dr Alexandre Mendes
|Deputy Head, Newcastle Robotics Lab
|Mitchell Metcalfe
|Dr Keith Nesbitt
|Senior Lecturer
|Dr Steven Nicklin
|A/Prof Oliver Obst
|University of Western Sydney
|Professor Michael Ostwald
|Professor in Architecture
|Rahul Paul
|Postgraduate Student
|Dr Michael Quinlan
Engineer at Clover in Mountain View, California
|Prof. Detlef Seese
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
|Dr Maria Seron
|Research Academic
|Mr Christopher Tucker
|Lecturer in Architecture
|Mr Peter Turner
|Ms Josephine Vaughan
|Prof. Richard Vella
|School of Creative Arts UON
|Mr Josiah Walker
|Postgraduate Student, Research Assistant
|Prof. Peter Walla
|Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory
|Dr Lukasz Wiklendt
|Collaborator, Flinders University Adelaide
|Dr Aaron Wong
|Researcher, Functional Neuroscience Lab UON


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