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Things went pretty well this week I think. I don't know if I've lost any weight or not, having not yet weighed in, but for most of the week I've felt pretty good physically. I've already blogged about this weekend, cooking good food, getting good cardio in while engaging with family and friends, ST issues.
Even if nothing shows on the scale, I'm moving in the right direction. My skin's clearing up from all the fruits and veggies I've been eating, as well as the water I'm drinking. Most days (today excluded due to a second night with little sleep) I'm enegetic. So I feel good.
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I'm also not sure about the ST that the BL challenge proposes. I know from the last time I did it that it causes me some serious lower body soreness. Which is good I think. But, I have roller derby tomorrow, the first time in almost two months, and that's a very leg intensive activity. I'm already going to be slow from lack of practice, and 90 minutes of skating on sore legs...I just don't know if I'm up to it. Lol, and I'd rather slack off tonight, in the privacy of my home, then look like a slacker tomorrow in front of all these tough girls. Plus, I'm tired. I'm feeling pretty unmotivated, I have to admit. It seems more likely to me that I'll just go to bed early tonight and try to catch up on some sleep. We'll see though. Maybe if I catch a brief nap it'll energize me enough to do something.
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Lol, my cousin Travis, when I was younger and would complain about being bored, would sometimes teasingly say "Only boring people get bored." He was joking, and I would laugh him off, but even then I recognized that what he had to say was at least partially true. There have definitely been times in my life when I've sat on the couch, literally doing nothing, because I felt I had no inspiration. In other words, I was boring and so I was bored.
But at the same time, it's not REALLY that I didn't have inspiration. There were tons of things I could've done, and that I even thought of doing at the time. I could've exercised, cleaned house, studied the Yurok language, or stastics, played with my cats or dog, worked on my yard. All things that I SHOULD do, but because it felt like an obligation at that time, I refused to do. I knew that if I just got up and did something, my body would be occupied, my brain would be engaged, and I'd be a lot happier about myself and the situation, instead of letting myself get dragged down into the doldrums or eating for entertainment because I was bored. I missed out on opportunities that would've satisfied me, and improved my life, because I saw them in a negative light.
It's kind of the same thing with this fitness journey, which to me is more than a health issue, but touches on every aspect of my life. I've definitely at times, in fact most times, considered dieting and exercising to be boring, unpleasant, obligations. Things that I knew I had to do, but really didn't want to. But that's totally the wrong attitude to have about them. This last weekend has been good for me. I tried one or two new recipes every single day. I got out of the house, into the sun, and played softball, engaging with my family and friends. I got up, cleaned house and made my life less cluttered and brighter. I've come to the realization that, for myself, I'm bored because I choose to be bored, making me a boring person.
So, that's going to change. Being bored, uninterested, or unmotivated is totally a matter of mental attitude for me. I'm not going to let a negative attitude drag me down; instead I will brighten my attitude, look for new opportunities, think about how much improved my life will be if I do this really satisfying thing, whatever that is. My Sparkpeople motivational quote is going to be, said with a laugh at myself, "Only boring people get bored."
Lol, maybe not the sort of thing Sparkpeople had in mind when they suggested finding a motivational quote, but flavored with a bit of a chuckle like it is in my head, it fits me perfectly.
This weekend was good. I took Friday too, in the hopes that I could get some fish, but that didn't end up happening so I just had time off. Despite the fact that I didn't actually sleep much last night, I feel pretty mentally rested today, after four days off. Friday and Monday both were given to house cleaning and yardwork, and I got stuff done that's been bothering me for ages. Very satisfying and stress reducing.
But mostly, I just had time to take care of myself. I'm not a cook in any sense, but I took the time and I cooked just about every meal for myself this weekend, which is out of the norm. Everything was fresh, and tasty, and nutritious, and provided leftovers for the next day, which was nice. I'm starting to love Sparkrecipes, especialy since I realized you can make those "cookbooks" and save the particularly good recipes. This whole cooking thing is not as hard as I thought it was, so long as you pay attention, though I'm sure there are exceptions to that statement. I've been a bit under call the last couple of days, at just over 1000 on Sunday, and then just over 1350 yesterday. I'm not terribly hungry, but I think tomorrow I'll try for a heavier calorie day to shake things up a bit.
And I've managed to get some good exercise every day. Last night I only managed to do ST, no cardio, but I think that's the first time I've missed cardio since this BL week started last Thursday. I'm going to count it as my rest day. The trouble is then, I have to find time to do cardio sometime today, since I'm supposed to be doing it 6 days a week. I have Yurok language class at 6 today, which means I have to head straight home from work, get food for my grams, rush to class, then not be done 'til 8. No time for my own dinner in between. So I have to find time to eat AFTER class, then digest, then workout, since I always cramp if I don't digest first. Which means probably not being done with cardio until 10:30, and not being in bed until 11:30. With no time to give to my animals. If I'd gone to bed earlier I might've woken up at 5 to do it this morning, but sleep is pretty important to me, and I don't function at all well without it. That would've given me less than 5 hours, and that wouldn't have been enough.
But, the point is, I'm doing the right thing and it feels good. I don't know if I've lost weight or not, I don't have a scale so just pop in to my local clinic once a week, but I feel good. I'll find some way to do cardio tonight because I want to keep this going. For now though, I think I'm going to try and finish my 30 min lunch break with a 10 minute nap to keep me physically energized after little sleep.
Thanks to everybody who commented on my last blog about my puppy. I did get him to the emergency vet, and she thinks he has Kennel Cough, which I guess is highly contagious and a dog can get from pretty much anywhere. It's really common where dogs gather, like kennels, the pound, vets offices and the like, but my neighbor, who has experience with it, says that even if a human steps in the coughing discharge sick dogs give up, and then track it to the ground where their dog is, their dog gets it. Very contagious.
But, his symptoms aren't as severe as my neighbor's experience with Kennel Cough says they should be. His dogs who have had it have coughed non-stop, whereas Kodi is coughing bad in the mornings, but apparently clearning up to a certain degree in the afternoon. He still has fits, but not constantly. And he doesn't have that spitting sort of discharge that I mentioned above.
So, I don't know if the vet is right or not. Kodi is still lively and playful, another thing that goes against my neighbor's experience, but palpitating his stomach and throat doesn't seem to hurt him, so it doesn't seem like he's got something lodged in there. Still not entirely certain what's going on. If he's still coughing on Tuesday I'm going to take him to my own vet and see what they have to say.
In the meantime, thanks for your concern.
There's something wrong with my dog. He started hacking a little bit, like he was trying to get something up yesterday. I'd found a little bit of aluminum foil next to him the day before, after a brief coughing fit, so I thought maybe he'd gotten into some. I haven't been in this house long, and twice now I've found trash strewn around the 1.2 acre yard from where Kodi found it left by the previous owner. I'm still not sure where he's finding these bags of trash on the property. Anyway I called the vet on Friday, described the situation, and, (given the fact that it was apparently aluminum foil and he was otherwise happy and healthy, jumping around, being silly, eating well,) they said, don't worry about it, he'll pass it.
Later that day, after the clinic closed, I went into the kennel he stays in at my grandma's house, (he goes there to be babysitted by her retired neighbor when I have to go out), and I found some twisted bits of wire, with some hard plastic on one end that looked like it had been dog chewed. There's nothing in that dog kennel other than his bowl and dog house, so I'm afraid that he actually hacked that stuff, that he brought it in inside his stomach.
Now I'm worried that he has hard bits of wire stuck in his stomach or throat. Around 5 am this morning he got up and had a horrible hacking fit. Nothing came up at all. I'm not seeing blood or anything around his mouth, so he doesn't look cut inside, but I'm worried. Now every time he gets up he goes into a small hacking fit. He's breathing fine generally, and sleeping quietly right now so I don't want to call the emergency vet, but I'm going to take him up to the vet in the neighboring town ASAP. They open at 8, so I'm going to start driving up around 7:45 and hopefully catch them first thing. I wish somebody local was open on Saturday.
To top it off, when I head him hacking this morning, I jumped up in a panic and kicked my little cat. Now she's sneaking around like I beat her regularly and she's avoiding me. I did manage to catch her briefly, and she doesn't seem to be actually injured in any way.
The fun thing is, I'm exhausted. I totally pigged out on corn chips last night. I was dehyradted all day, couldn't seem to rehydrate, so it's possible I was low on electrolytes. Ate some chips (not to try and fix it with salt; just cuz I wanted them), and then couldn't stop eating them. I'm not the sort who usually HAS to eat something once they start, but it was like a compulsion. I'm thinking maybe I needed the salt pretty bad. Combination of that, plus 14 glasses of water and hydrating drinks, and I seem to be somewhat more hydrated this morning, though I still feel thirsty.
Anyway, because I ate over 1000 Cal in chips, taking me to 2546 Cal according to Spark, I got up and did 1.5 hours of kickboxing late in the evening. By the time I finished it was almost 2 a.m. cuz of course I didn't even start binge eating 'til after 10, and I had to wait for it to digest a bit before I exercised so I didn't cramp. Then, waking up at 5 to this....if I end up playing softball today (assuming Kodiak is okay) I'm not going to be worth a whole heck of a lot.


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LifeMap, the digital photo album that grows up with you
Thursday, May 21, 2009 - 12:27pm
At first glance, Gregory Siegal's LifeMap doesn't seem to do anything more than what your computer or a digital photo frame might. Where it really shines is how it handles your various albums' organization. Using the LifeMap's touchscreen, you can tag your photos with more than just the people in them and the date, but also where the photo was taken.
From Siegal:
The LifeMap is meant to be hung on the wall in the social center of the home. Over time, as the family grows the LifeMap grows with it. As more photos are added and tagged with information, users can view a time line of their lives or a world map marking everywhere they have travelled.It's also light enough to sit comfortable in your lap — however you feel comfortable sharing.
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A system and method of assigning a numeric score to a voice pattern of a human subject wherein the score is indicative of the psychological stress level of the human subject. A verbal utterance of a human subject is converted into electrical signals to provide a subject wave pattern. The pattern is quantified and compared with known voice pattern characteristics which exhibit a sequential progression in the degree of blocking in the pattern, wherein each of the known voice patterns is assigned a numerical value range. A numerical value obtained from calculations is assigned to the subject wave pattern based on the comparison. The numerical value represents the degree of blocking present in the subject wave pattern which correlates to the amount of psychological stress exhibited by the human subject.
1. A system for assigning a numeric score to a sample of a voice pattern of a human subject wherein the score is indicative of the psychological stress level of the human subject comprising:
means to convert a verbal utterance of a human subject into electrical signals which are plotted on a Cartesian coordinate system whereby a subject wave pattern having x and y axes are provided;
means for filtering said subject wave pattern to remove extraneous values at the leading and trailing edges of said subject wave pattern whereby a working frame is provided for analysis;
means to provide a consecutive series of known voice pattern characteristics, wherein said consecutive series exhibits a sequential progression in the degree of blocking in said subject wave pattern;
means for assigning a numerical value range to each of the consecutive series of known voice pattern characteristics based on the degree of blocking in said subject wave pattern;
means for analyzing said subject wave pattern within said working frame to provide quantified data which define a set of characteristics for said subject wave pattern;
means for providing quantified data which define a set of characteristics for said consecutive series of known voice pattern characteristics;
means for comparing said quantified data of said subject wave pattern within said working frame to said quantified data for each of said known voice pattern characteristics to ascertain a match between said subject wave pattern and one or more of said known voice pattern characteristics; and
means for generating a score for said subject wave pattern based on said one or more matching known voice pattern characteristics.
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This application is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/737,530, filed Dec. 15, 2003, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,321,855 which is hereby incorporated by reference.
This invention is related to the field of voice stress analysis utilizing computer technology. More specifically it relates to a system and method for generating a numerical score for a voice pattern which is indicative of the psychological stress level of the subject.
Devices which measure psychological stress levels have been used as an indicator of deception and are commonly known as lie detection devices. Originally used in the field of law enforcement, these devices are now also commonly used in the military and the private sector. The first type of stress detection device, known as the polygraph, measures changes in a person's body functions related to the stress of deception, including changes in their heart rate, breathing, and electrodermal activity. In the beginning of polygraph examinations the person being tested had sensors placed on various parts of their body to measure the above noted functions and these sensors were in turn connected by wires to the polygraph device. A trained individual interpreted the output of the sensors to determine if the person being tested had exhibited any symptoms of stress indicative of uttering false statements. Present day polygraph devices are computer implemented. However, the basic technology of the device has changed very little.
Advances in the field of lie detection have been focused on the detection of stress in speech. These results could be used in a portable lie detection device which could be used �in the field.� The advantage of voice analysis over the polygraph is that the subject being tested does not have to be physically connected to the device and thus voice analysis is a non-invasive method of lie detection or truth verification.
The scientific basis for voice analysis was provided by the discovery of vocal chord micro-tremors in the 1950's. Olof Lippold, a researcher at University College. London, published in 1971 the results of research he had started in 1957 in the magazine Scientific American. Lippold's article, entitled �Physiological Tremor�, explored the initial discovery by Martin Halliday and Joe Redfeam of the phenomena a decade previously at the National Hospital in London. Halliday and Redfeam discovered that the contraction of a voluntary muscle is accompanied by tremors of the muscle in the form of minute oscillations. According to Lippold, all muscles in the body, including the vocal chords, vibrate at a specified frequency range. Lippold explained that the tremor is believed to be a function of the signals to and from motor neurons and that it is analogous to a self-adjusting closed loop servo system and that muscles tighten and loosen as they seek to maintain a constant tension. In times of stress, the body prepares for fight or flight by increasing the readiness of the muscles to spring into action. The vibration of the vocal chords, in this situation, increases. A method for the detection of psychological stress by evaluating physical changes in the human voice is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,971,034 issued to Bell, the contents of which are herein incorporated by reference.
Voice stress patterns were first introduced as a method of measuring psychological stress beginning with the Psychological Stress Evaluator designed by W. H. Ford, A. D. Bell, and C. R. McQuiston in 1971. The instrument recorded tracings on a strip chart utilizing EKG paper and a heated stylus. Each response produced movements of the stylus that made vertical lines on the paper which were recognizable as either stressful or non-stressful patterns. The determination was made according to the length, and to some degree, the shape of the pattern. However, no effort was made to establish exact patterns or to provide a formula for determining deception, lending considerable confusion to the evaluation process and creating many errors.
Generally speaking, evaluated voice patterns come in all shapes and sizes. These patterns include variations of male, female, regional and international linguistic variations. Regardless, human voice patterns share many characteristics and a similar stress-related trait, namely the tendency of a stress pattern to form a roughly rectangular pattern. This tendency is commonly known as �blocking.�
In the prior art devices these voice patterns were examined by human examiners and a determination of psychological stress was made empirically. A possible problem with this system is that the judgement is made only by visual observation, therefore human frailties such as fatigue or the personal bias of the examiner might alter the scoring of the voice pattern. Also, since the results are based on individual human judgement, they can be influenced by the quality of training and the cumulative field experience of the individual examiner. This has the ability to create inconsistencies in the scoring between individual examiners.
Thus what is lacking in the art of voice stress analysis is a system and method which eliminates the human factor in the evaluation process. An electronic or computer assisted evaluation system which utilizes an algorithm to evaluate the same voice pattern that a human examiner does and produce consistent, repeatable results.
The invention is directed to a system which employs software installed on a computer to analyze a voice pattern and assign a numerical score to the pattern based on the stress level of the subject.
Accordingly, it is an objective of the instant invention to provide a method of assigning a numeric score to a voice pattern of a human subject as an indicator of the stress level of the subject wherein a computer is employed to analyze the voice pattern.
It is a further objective of the instant invention to provide a computer with software utilizing an algorithm which can quantify a voice pattern to generate a score indicative of the stress level of the subject.
It is yet another objective of the instant invention to provide a method of assigning a numeric score to a voice pattern sample, utilizing software with an algorithm, which can be used in voice stress analysis examination as a control value in order to ensure consistent results.
Other objects and advantages of this invention will become apparent from the following description taken in conjunction with any accompanying drawings wherein are set forth, by way of illustration and example, certain embodiments of this invention. Any drawings contained herein constitute a part of this specification and include exemplary embodiments of the present invention and illustrate various objects and features thereof.
In light of the aforementioned objectives, the instant invention proposes a computer implemented method of assigning a numeric score to a voice pattern sample of a human wherein the score is indicative of the psychological stress level of the human.
The method comprises the steps of converting the verbal utterance of a human into electrical signals plotted on a Cartesian coordinate system to provide a subject wave pattern plotted along an x and y axis; filtering the subject wave pattern to remove extraneous values at the leading and trailing edges of the wave pattern to provide a pre-cursor, a post-cursor and a working frame, wherein the working frame is utilized for the analysis; providing a consecutive series of known voice pattern characteristics, wherein the consecutive series exhibits a sequential progression in the degree of blocking in the voice pattern; assigning a numerical value to each of the consecutive series of known voice pattern characteristics based on the degree of blocking in the pattern; analyzing the voice wave pattern within the working frame to provide quantified data defining a set of characteristics for the voice wave pattern; providing quantified data defining a set of characteristics for the consecutive series of known voice pattern characteristics; comparing the quantified data of subject wave pattern to quantified data of each of the known voice pattern characteristics to ascertain a match between the subject wave pattern and one or more of the known voice pattern characteristics; and returning a numerical value for the refined wave pattern based on one or more matching known voice pattern characteristics.
While the present invention is susceptible of embodiment in various forms, there is shown in the accompanying drawings and will herein after be described a presently preferred embodiment with the understanding that the present disclosure is to be considered an exemplification of the invention and is not intended to limit the invention to the specific embodiments illustrated.
The preferred embodiment of the present invention is designed to be implemented in a Computer Voice Stress Analyzer� (CVSA) system in the form of software resident on a computer work station. The computer workstation can either include or be in communication with a transducer means for converting audible sounds into electrical signals and a means for converting frequency modulations in the electrical signals to amplitude modulations to produce a visible pattern which can be displayed on a monitor or other suitable display means. The computer workstation also includes a microphone for obtaining vocal recordings of the subject. Alternatively, the sounds to be analyzed can be stored on any suitable recording medium which is readable by the computer workstation. The workstation also includes a monitor which displays the voice pattern to an operator. The change in frequency associated with deceptive behavior are manifested in a voice pattern sample by a dampening of selected frequency variations, which, when graphically portrayed, result in a roughly rectangular pattern, referred to herein as pattern �blocking.� An example of this phenomena is shown in
Hard block�score is more than 90%. Classification is primary derived from one strong flat slope (defined as a slope <20�).
Medium black�score equals 84% to 89% inclusive. Classification is primarily derived from one moderately flat slope (defined as a slope between 20� and 28�.
Tendency to block�score equals 80% to 83% inclusive. Classification is primarily derived from one fairly flat slope (defined as a slope between 31� and 36�).
Diagonal�score equals 50% to 79% inclusive. Classification is primarily derived from a steep slope (defined as a slope between 37� and 90�). This classification is considered to be �No Blocking� and truthful.
It is necessary to provide a human operator with a sufficient level of training to enable the operator to properly score a visual representation of a spoken utterance. When the operator makes a empirical judgement, as in the prior art systems, it is possible that personal biases may enter into the scoring. Also, the score may be influenced by the relative experience of the operator. The present invention provides a system and method whereby the human source of inaccuracies can be corrected for and replaced by generating a computer generated score. This can also provide a valuable non-biased second opinion, which can be employed as a guideline for a human operator.
To generate a complete and accurate score a computer algorithm is employed to identify the voice pattern's characteristics, nuances and blocking traits. Nuances distort the voice pattern thereby affecting the score. Some nuances may be corrected programmatically, but if the pattern is too distorted it must be discarded and retaken.
A voice pattern sample is initially saved as an array of integer data corresponding to a Cartesian coordinate system (x,y).
Basic Data Analysis:
1. Preliminary filtering of the signal to remove points which are at least twice the maximum length of a cycle based on the average length of neighboring points is preformed in step 2. The signal value of each point is a simple average of each set of points symmetrically on the right and left of the point under evaluation.
2. The voice signal is divided into three fields, Pre-cursor, Working frame and Post-cursor in step 4. The Pre- and Post-cursors are non informative portions of the signal and are defined as fields in which the average signal value has the largest difference when all three fields are compared.
3. Discovery of all peaks and bottoms of the signals and their exact location takes place in step 6.
4. Removal of Wild cycles occurs in step 8. These are peaks whose value is essentially more or less than the neighboring peaks. Also, bottoms of the signals whose value is essentially more or less than the neighboring bottoms. These are indicated by triangles in
5. Building of Enveloping curves. In step 10, these curves are constructed based on peaks and bottoms of each signal cycle. Two methods for constructing these curves are: polyline, when straight lines connect neighboring peaks and bottoms as illustrated in
6. Building of Characteristic Curve. In step 12 three different algorithms are employed to construct this curve. The first yields a Characteristic Curve coordinate which is a simple average of two neighboring peaks and accordant bottoms. The second is based on the enveloping curves and is built as the middle curve in between the two enveloping curves. The third is an approximating curve utilizing unprocessed signal data. Chebyshev's Polynomial is employed to construct the Characteristic curve.
Classification of Signal Pattern:
1. Checking of signal amplitude occurs in step 14. An estimation is made of the suitability of a signal for processing and are classified as follows:
0�suitable for processing
2�low volume
3�high volume
4�modulation problem
6�static electricity
7�other problem
2. Searching of blocks. In step 16 the characteristic curve is divided into a large number of blocks as illustrated in
The same angle in degrees is:
The score value is calculated according to the formula:
Classification of the Characteristic curve blocks or fragments is as follows:
3. Analysis of fragments. In addition to the above noted blocks there are fragments which are derivatives of the above blocks. These are identified in step 18. Step block and Split pattern are derivatives of Hard and Medium blocks. Split pattern is also a derivative of Diagonal and Tendency blocks. A split pattern is defined as a working frame which is divided into approximately two equal parts. If it is found that some of the attributes in one half of the block are not found in the other half then it is a split pattern. A step block is defined as blocks containing patterns which are contiguous to each other. There is also a Broken Diagonal which is defined as a Diagonal block signal in which the forward or rear portion of the signal is cut or broken up.
Calculation of Stress Level:
1. Building of a Polyline. A Polyline is constructed in step 20 utilizing the data which is used to construct the Characteristic Curve. If any point on the Polyline deviates from the Characteristic Curve more than an acceptable amount the point is discarded and another one is chosen. Once the polyline is complete then the score of the stress level can be determined.
2. Calculation of stress level. In this step all the quantified data which has been calculated is used to classify and score the blocking pattern into the categories listed above. This is based on a consecutive series of known voice pattern characteristics exhibiting a sequential progression in the degree of blocking in the pattern, i.e. hard blocking, medium blocking, tendency to block, etc. Each of the known voice pattern characteristics is assigned a scoring range, as noted above. The parameters of the known voice pattern characteristics are to the quantified data to determine one or more matching known voice patterns. The score can then be calculated based on the degree of blocking. In step 22 a numerical score is returned which is indicative of the percentage of blocking present.
In order to practice the invention the scoring algorithm is installed on a computer workstation or laptop which is used by an examiner to evaluate the voice stress in a human subject. The examination process is guided by a graphical user interface displayed on the monitor which is viewed by the examiner during the session. As shown in
Selection of the Sessions Parameters menu choice 44 displays the Session Parameters dialogue box 50 shown in
The test format field 53 determines the type of questions used in the examination. In a preferred embodiment, the formats are preset for the type of examination, e.g. pre-employment, law enforcement applications, etc. The test medium field 54 determines how the recording is activated and deactivated. The options are �manual� and �voice activated.� With �manual� the recording can be activated by an action of the examiner, such as depressing a key on the keyboard. Selecting the �enter� button 55 saves the fields to memory. Selecting the �cancel� button 56 does not save the fields to memory but maintains the previously entered data.
Voice patterns are displayed to the examiner in real-time during the examination. The examiner can mark the voice pattern as either �yes� or �no� to indicate the response to the question. The score generated by the scoring algorithm is in the form of a numerical value and can be displayed in association with each pattern. In the illustrated examples,
All patents and publications mentioned in this specification are indicative of the levels of those skilled in the art to which the invention pertains. All patents and publications are herein incorporated by reference to the same extent as if each individual publication was specifically and individually indicated to be incorporated by reference.
It is to be understood that while a certain form of the invention is illustrated, it is not to be limited to the specific form or arrangement herein described and shown. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes may be made without departing from the scope of the invention and the invention is not to be considered limited to what is shown and described in the specification and any drawings/figures included herein.
One skilled in the art will readily appreciate that the present invention is well adapted to carry out the objectives and obtain the ends and advantages mentioned, as well as those inherent therein. The embodiments, methods, procedures and techniques described herein are presently representative of the preferred embodiments, are intended to be exemplary and are not intended as limitations on the scope. Changes therein and other uses will occur to those skilled in the art which are encompassed within the spirit of the invention and are defined by the scope of the appended claims. Although the invention has been described in connection with specific preferred embodiments, it should be understood that the invention as claimed should not be unduly limited to such specific embodiments. Indeed, various modifications of the described modes for carrying out the invention which are obvious to those skilled in the art are intended to be within the scope of the following claims.
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Bluetooth sneaker speakers concept is a new take on the mobile DJ
No matter how many advances in tech we experience, music and how to experience remains a constant. Now a new kind of speaker concept that literally puts sounds on your feet envisions an entirely new take on the concept of a mobile DJ.
Developed by New York studio Ray Kingston Inc., the Sneaker Speaker is a Bluetooth-enabled pair of speakers that attach to your shoes. The speakers would only require a pair of 9-volt batteries, feature 3.5mm stereo inputs, and would be controlled directly from your smartphone. Although the odd speakers look like they might be interesting to try out, the company hasn't released any information indicating that this concept design will ever actually be offered as a commercial product.
Aside from working as an accessory to a live entertainer, it's difficult to imagine how it could ever be practical--logistically or in consideration of your fellow pedestrians--to walk around the city with giant speakers (no one who was alive in a major city in the '80s misses the era of the boombox). But remember, flashing LEDs have made their way into the shoes of half the toddlers around the world, so anything is possible.
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Welcome to this, the 25th and first anniversary 'paper' edition - (although paper in this context of course refers to the tradition of associating various materials with wedding anniversaries), and it is my great privilege to be hosting this auspicious 'birthday' event, here at Remote Central. The blog carnival Four Stone Hearth was started by Kambiz at Anthropology.net, and it is to his credit that we are today celebrating the first birthday of his creation. During the course of the year, the administration of Four Stone Hearth has been very kindly been overseen by Martin at Aardvarchaeology, and it is to him also that we owe our thanks for ensuring the smooth and continued running of this carnival.
The third set of thanks goes to all those who have contributed, directly or indirectly to the various editions of this blog carnival that have appeared during the course of the past year - not only has there been a very good, enthusiastic response to calls for submissions, but the quality of material submitted, has in my opinion, maintained a consistent standard of excellence throughout.
The fourth set of thanks goes to all those who have read, followed and commented upon various of the posts that have been published, whilst the fifth and final set of thanks goes pretty much to the rest of the world of research, academia and related professional and governmental organisations, who between them, provide much of the original written and illustrated source from which material on Four Stone Hearth has ultimately been derived. If I've left anyone out of that list, please consider yourself included as a matter of course.
And so on to this, the 25th edition of 4SH; this time round I've augmented the various submissions I've received with other posts I've selected from checking a few other sites here and there.
Although this is a birthday edition, there are a few posts discussing war and conflict, so on this occasion I'm going to start with these posts, and then gradually work through the rest of the contributions, which include a few on archaeology, some physical and linguistic anthropology, as well as a few towards the end that allude more to topics which may put us more in mind of a birthday event.
As an introduction to the war section, we're first of all going to look at a submission from Greg Laden, who discusses death and destruction in its wider context, and on vast scales, rather than from a specifically human standpoint.
Mass Death Events: Then and Now
"We know that when we dig around for fossils, we occasionally find mass death sites, with hundreds or thousands of individuals represented by zillions of bones, perhaps all jammed into a river channel. These are the kinds of sites that provide very important and extensive information about extinct species."
Next up, we have no less than three essays sent in from 'The Primate Diaries', all of which discuss the recent news that the US military is considering embedding anthropologists within its serried ranks, in and effort to obtain more information on the peoples of other countries, whose culture and characteristics they wish to understand.
Anthropology Goes to War, Part 1
Anthropologists in the war effort from "savages" to "terrorists"
Anthropology Goes to War, Part 2
Anthropology, colonialism and covert operations
Anthropology Goes to War, Part 3
Anthropology and counterinsurgency in Thailand
Next up, we find this at Archaeolog,
Caracol de la Resistencia: Zapatista Symbol References Maya Past
"In an ethnographic interview conducted in June 2007, leaders of the autonomous community of Oventic in highland Chiapas, Mexico discussed with me and a colleague the meaning of the caracol (snail) as a Zapatista symbol. They explained that the ancient Maya ancestors used a conch shell as a horn to summon people to gather in one place as a community.
Their ancestors lived during less technologically advanced times, they noted, when the world moved at a much slower pace than today, much like the slow-moving caracol. Today the symbol of the caracol expresses the ideals of small community government in the face of globalization."
Here's one from me, looking at the first tentative steps of reconciliation in the classrooms of Bosnia-Herzogovina
First Steps Toward Re-unification in Postwar Bosnia's Only Integrated School
Included herein is a look at the war diaries of Zlata Filipović, and I chose to include this partly because it has direct relevance to the linked article, but also because it occurred to me that we use the diary for several reasons at once. Sometimes we use them to plot future events in our lives, such as forthcoming birthdays, anniversaries and holidays, as well as important things we need to remember to start or complete in the days and weeks ahead.
We also use diaries as a means of referencing the present, jotting down our thoughts and ideas of how we perceive the world around us at the time of writing.
And then we use diaries as historical documents, looking back into the lives of those who have gone before us, sometimes many hundreds of years ago, not only to share their thoughts, but to glean details of the world as it was configured around them when they were updating their journals.
BLDGBLOG is a site which in my opinion is unfailingly interesting to read, as well as being well-stocked with very good image content. Here's a final post on our topic of war.
Sitting Amidst War Ruins in the Hills Around San Francisco
My wife and I went out to the Marin Headlands yesterday, on a beautiful if windy October afternoon, to hike through the earthquake-prone hills of an upraised seabed, past the eroding concrete bunkers of the U.S. military – abstract monoliths left stranded in the landscape.
Leading us from this section on war to the next on archaeology, we now take a look at a 16th century sword recently discovered by Martin Rundkvist at Aardvarchaeology, a find which has attracted no small amount of attention and comment.
Djurhamn Sword Excavated
"It's a straight double-edged sword, 92 cm long with a single-hand grip. Nils Drejholt of the Royal Armoury tells me that it's an early-16th century weapon, unusually designed but similar in details to the so-called rikssvärden, "swords of the realm", ceremonial weapons commissioned by King Gustaf I."
We now head across the fields in the direction of Afarensis, whom we find busily engaged in helping to preserve Blake Mound, in Missouri.
Restoring Mounds and Other Fun Stuff
Blake Mound is an unexcavated mound in Missouri. It is currently being watched over by Mark Leach - the creator of the adopt a mound program - who has permission to restore parts of the mound that have suffered damage. Members of various archaeology classes at the St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley (Dr. Fuller's students) were also on hand.
Dennis Price at Eternal Idol has a most interestnig post, looking at the work of Professor R.J.C. Atkinson's work at Stonehenge and Silbury Hill during the 1950s and 1960s. Dennis believes that Professor Atkinson discovered something about the true functions of both Stonehenge and Silbury Hill, but for reasons that elude us, he chose to not only cover up his findings, but actively discouraged others to investigate the sites.
"What I Give Form to in Daylight is Only 1% of What I have Seen in Darkness"
Silbury Hill and Stonehenge both have the highly dubious distinction of having been excavated by the late Professor Atkinson, who was fully aware of their unique value and status. Atkinson dug at Stonehenge from 1950 to 1964; if we take a conservative estimate that each season was roughly three months long, then he was physically present at or else working at Stonehenge for something like 45 months or nearly four years in total.
Staying at Eternal Idol, here's my recent article reviewing the latest from Dennis and his belief that the site of Vespasian's Camp, near Stonehenge, was the lost City of Apollo.
Phylias of Massilia and the Lost City of Apollo, Part III
You may also wish to read Part I, and Part II
And here's a response from Alun at Clioaudio, who finds himself unable to concur with some of the proposed ideas contained therein.
Foundations Beyond Doubt?
"The latest post compares the Tholos at Delphi with the circular design of Stonehenge. Personally I'm not convinced. Stonehenge could be the site descrfibed by Pytheas, but I don't think the evidence survives to be sure of where the temple may be. Both posts are worth reading, but I think part of the problem is that Price is more willing to move from plausible to certain than I am. I wouldn't dismiss his idea out of hand, but there are problems. One that there's likely to be a big shift in what classicists think is certain about the foundations of sites like Massalia."
Carl at Hot Cup of Joe takes a long look at an antiquities scandal in Italy.
The Italian Antiquities Trial - a Brief Review
One of the interesting developments of the antiquities trial in Italy is the attention that has been spotlighted on the role of the collector as well as the museum in the antiquities trade. Indeed, without these entities, there would simply be no market for illicit antiquities.
Kris Hirst at About.com: Archaeology has a nice article on something rare, with promise of more to come.
Materials of Interest: Faience
There's a bunch of other things like this - I mean, cool materials created or manipulated by our predecessors on this planet, with great names like wootz steel and Maya blue and Chinese purple, that I didn't realize before I did some poking around. So, I think I'll start a Sunday series on them with faience.
Moving on in the direction of physical anthropology, we next hear from Kambiz, who very kindly sent in 3 posts from Anthropology .net
How to use common bioinformatic tools to compare two Neandertal sequences
If you're interested in the intersection of bioinformatics, genomics, and paleoanthropology but haven't really wondered how to apply these disciplines together, this should w(h)et your appetite. All the tools I will be using are freely accessible to everyone. After this tutorial, you can basically begin to do some of the comparative research that Svante Pääbo et al. did… and you don't need really any preface, other than DNA is made up of nucleotides and one can compare two or more sets of nucleotides to trace relationships.
Whoa, Neandertals were in Uzbekistan and Siberia
...the hominid remains from the Teshik Tash cave in Uzbekistan and the Okladnikov cave in the Altai region of Siberia are so fragmented and hard to classify, that for a long time paleoanthropologists have just put them aside. Lead author Krause et al. decided to dust off these specimens and break off about a fifth of a gram of bone from each to sequence and compare. Specifically, they harvested samples from the femur of the Teshik Tash kid and from three Okladnikov long bones.
Where cultural anthropology meets entertainment, Discovery Channel's Last One Standing
During the first episode, three of the six visiting men were selected to be representative warriors for the Kalapalo during one of their ceremonies where neighboring tribes come to wrestle. Richard, Brad and Rajko had to show their manhood by first enduring scratches from piranha teeth. Next, salt and chili powder was rubbed into their open wounds and they were not to show any signs of pain. You can read the personal accounts of Richard and Brad in the first entry of blog the Discovery Channel has set up for the show.
Michael E. Smith discusses how to make the archaeological literature more widely available,
Publishing Archaeology Outside of Archaeology
If we have important information about past societies to contribute to general knowledge, then we need to publish in non-archaeological venues. Archaeologists working on empires, city-states, or chiefdoms should be publishing in political science journals, and those of us studying social inequality should publish in the sociology literature. It's not reasonable to expect that economists, for example, will peruse the pages of World Archaeology or
Latin American Antiquityto find out what archaeologists have learned about craft production systems. We need to actively promote our message beyond archaeology.
Whilst Chris O'Brien at Northstate Science takes Michael Egnor to task regarding his ideas about 'Intelligent Design'.
Bad Analogies at 'Evolution News & Views'
What Egnor and other ID advocates fail to recognize is that archaeology does not assume design. This is a difficult concept to explain. In my archaeology class I show the students an "arrowhead" (better described as projectile points – most "arrowheads" are actually atlatl points – the bow and arrow was a relatively late development). Most students will recognize a projectile point as such, as would most ID advocates, and most will clearly infer a human designer. But then I ask, "How do you know that's a projectile point?"
In other words, how do we know what we know? Most students will say that they have seen similar items, read about such things in books or articles, or even tried to make one themselves. As we walk through this exercise, students begin to realize that their assumption of human design is correct, but what on the surface seems obvious is in fact built on a large body of previous knowledge.
Now for a quick stroll into the field of linguistic anthropology, looking at the origins and spread of language, as well as efforts to prevent other languages from becoming extinct. First up, it's off to John Hawks, discussing a recent paper by linguist Juan Uriagereka, whom I quote below.
A Quick Language Evolution Rundown
A quasi-paradox has persisted within the field of linguistics, because the sudden emergence of such a complex, limitless system in a single species is hard to rationalize in terms of standard evolution. Its rapid spread makes language seem more like a viral epidemic that swept through the human population rather than a trait inherited through the typical dynamics of evolution.
Whilst John Hawks comments thus:
Human FoxP2 differs from chimpanzees by two derived amino acid substitutions. If Neandertals were different from us (which seems likely, given the recent evidence of selection on the gene), then they would have had only one of these substitutions. It's an answer we don't actually need the Neandertal genome for. Now, if only we could start thinking about some other language-related genes.
On a related note, Yann Klimentidis draws our attention to a study in Indonesia which has prompted the following comment from him,
"The main thing here is that they do their analysis of genetic diversity vs. geographic/language diversity at a very fine scale. They find a strong relationship between language (as measured by cognates: words with a common origin) and genetics (Y chromosome lineages). They do this on Sumba, the island in the south central area of Indonesia, just south of Flores"
Genetic vs. Language Diversity
Here's a quote from the PNAS abstract:
Numerous studies indicate strong associations between languages and genes among human populations at the global scale, but all broader scale genetic and linguistic patterns must arise from processes originating at the community level. We examine linguistic and genetic variation in a contact zone on the eastern Indonesian island of Sumba, where Neolithic Austronesian farming communities settled and began interacting with aboriginal foraging societies 3,500 years ago. Phylogenetic reconstruction based on a 200-word Swadesh list sampled from 29 localities supports the hypothesis that Sumbanese languages derive from a single ancestral Austronesian language.
Here's something I spotted via Anthro-L, and looks at a military application and its use in preserving Native American languages.
The Phraselator II
When Terry Brockie first learned of the Phraselator, a speech interpretation device developed by the military as a way to easily translate Arabic words into English, he immediately wanted to get one. He saw great possibilities for using the machine to record the elders of his tribe saying words and phrases in their native tongue, and thus preserve his tribe's language for future generations. In 2005, Brockie visited a popular tribal elder, 109-year-old Theresa Lamebull, whose collected knowledge amounted to a living linguistic history of a large chunk of the Gros Ventre tribe's culture.
Next up are a few posts which look at food and drink, which of course no birthday party should be without. Our first contribution is served up by Archaeozoology, and looks at culinary life from a porcine perspective.
The Question of Islamic Pig Prohibition
"This blog looks at dietary taboos, focussing specifically on the prohibition of the pig in Islamic culture and exploring possible reasons for its prohibition."
And lingering a moment longer at the very readable site that is Archaeozoology, a rare and welcome addition to the blogosphere, I thought this would be good topical addition to a birthday-themed blog carnival.
The Archaeozoology of Luxury
"In general, a diet with much variety can be called luxurious because it will contain items that are not strictly optimal in terms of the ratio of costs versus nutritional value. Another possible characteristic of a luxury diet is the selection of the prime quality parts of an animal, or derived from animals killed before their optimal slaughter age.
Given the loss for the producer, this latter makes the product more expensive. The same is true for animals killed outside the optimal slaughtering season.Luxury items are not always easy to detect, however. All archaeological information contains bias. Certain animal food products leave no remains that survive in most soil types e.g. meat or fish that has been filleted and de-boned before being brought onto site."
Julien over at A Very Remote Period Indeed has this offering on that popular drink we obtain from the humble grape.
Not much time to post this week since my "free time" has been coopted by the family unit to help in crushing crates and crates of grapes in preparation of this year's supply of Castello Salvatore... I just got home now, and I'm exhausted; we crushed about 40 cases of grapes tonight: Cabernet Sauvignon (yeah!), Pinot Noir (hm), Zinfandel (not my call). Should make for a good range this year, though.
Now, to make this relevant to archaeology, I should mention that the fantastic (and very well-written) book Ancient Wine by Patrick McGovern was brought up in conversation a number of times this evening.
Next, it's time to head back out of the dining room in the direction of imagery and design on which to feast our eyes, and in the first instance we pay a visit to JJ Higgins' site, Random Version. As far as I'm aware, the site is still in development, with more material planned, so it's probably worthwhile checking back for updates from time to time.
Random Version
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jj higgins - elsewhere
I'm an artist working in installation (more of an art practice than making the objects that the general population considers art) And my research is in the non-place, the anthropological views of the social space, and the interaction/intervention in social space. The idea of the machine, with the audience as the mechanism, is something of interest to me -through the practice of play. And play we do not enough.
As we don our smoking jackets and spark up those Cuban cigars, it's to the site of the urban anthropology magazine, Stimulus Respond which we now repair; this online magazine is currently in the process of evolving from its published format of 'cyber' to paper - which I hope helps to wrap up, in a semi-symmetrical style, this blog carnival, which as we will recall, opened by noting that the first wedding anniversary is represented by paper itself.
Stimulus Respond
The 'Magic' issue of Stimulus Respond has just arrived from the printers. Looks great! Pre-orders will be dispatched on Thursday in order to avoid the UK postal strike and it's after-effects. After this, our aim is to have the magazine available at stockists from Monday.
Todd Ochoa - His Illness
Carrie Clanton - Scientific Magic
Junko Theresa Mikuriya - On the Walls of the Caves are Shadows
Tolu Ogunlesi - On Beauty
James K Walker - The 23 Enigma
And our very last visit is to Nomadic Thoughts, where the author, who if memory serves correctly, is Will, recently celebrated his own 25th birthday,
As he included a list of anniversaries that coincided with his own birthday, I followed this link to the History Channel, in order to see their compilation of notable events that took place on previous October 10ths. For their main historical event, they've gone for the Battle of Tours, in AD 732.
At the Battle of Tours near Poitiers, Frankish leader Charles Martel, a Christian, defeats a large army of Spanish Moors, halting the Muslim advance into Western Europe. Abd-ar-Rahman, the Muslim governor of Córdoba, was killed in the fighting and the Moors retreated from Gaul, never to return in such force. Charles was the illegitimate son of Pepin, the powerful mayor of the palace of Austrasia and effective ruler of the Frankish kingdom.
After Pepin died in 714 (with no surviving legitimate sons) Charles beat out Pepin's three grandsons in a power struggle and became mayor of the Franks. He expanded the Frankish territory under his control and in 732 repulsed in onslaught by the Muslims. Victory at Tours ensured the ruling dynasty of Martel's family, the Carolingians. His son Pepin became the first Carolingian king of the Franks, and his grandson Charlemagne carved out a vast empire that stretched across Europe.
Thanks everyone for reading, and the next Four Stone Hearth, number 26, will be hosted 2 weeks from now on October 24th, over at Eric Michael Johnson's blog, 'The Primate Diaries', so until then, I bid you adieu.
image: 'Birthday' - Marc Chagall, 1915


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1993 Honda Accord Question: my 1993 honda accord fail smog to much nox
Answer #1Hal... (see my shops), March 08, 2011, 17:35Master
Timing and vacuum leaks are typical repairs. Is the cat original?
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Timing, EGR passages clogged or the cat will cause high NOx. Rainbow's in Hayward, make the call...
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yes the cat is original, is it possible that the EGR is no good ?
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It might be the passages, not the vale. They get coked up and clogged.
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could the intake control soleniod valvecause nox by not getting enough air flow
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IAC Valve is only to control idle when your foot is off the gas pedal like when you're stopped. I let's air get into the engine while the butterfly is still closed.
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Check the egr systme first,common failure with the control valve,timing check cause you don't want to over look simple thing.. Third possiable bad catalitic converter...
I would check the easy stuff first, timing,egr passage clogged,egr signal and cataltic converter.....
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I bought these one size down expressly to get the snug fit and couldn't be more pleased. Yes, putting them on is a bit of work but the end result is worth it. They pulled everything in exactly where I wanted it to. The one problem I had was they pulled up at the bottom. I wouldn't wear these with just any shoe. Boots. They look great with boots. The quality is great. They was well and keep their colour. I've been pleased with most of my Genie products.
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These leggings were too long for me and yet they never seemed to be on Sandy. I am 5'4" and I don't think Sandy is much taller than that yet she said the length was good. I am a medium and yet struggled to get them on and once I had them on, they did feel constricting. I bought the Genie cropped version of these, also in the medium and they are definitely not the same size. They are comfortable and easy to get on....this is the reason I bought the full length ones but I find them disappointing. However, I was very pleased with the cropped ones and would have left a review for them if they were still showing on the website, they are not. Although I loved them, they also had their problems. I had not had them for long before there was a run in them from the gusset right up the back. I ordered these full length ones hoping that the flaw was a fluke and hopefully a rare thing. On the whole, I can't say I have had good experiences with Genie products.
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a bit snug!
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I agree with previous reviewers regarding the fit. I usually wear a medium in pants but decided to order a large just in case. And indeed they are quite snug (like Spanx)and I found it a challenge even to get them on the first time. So right now I am wearing a pair to see if they stretch a bit over time.I have a problem with the idea of leggings in general. What does one wear on one's feet??? Without feet this is a problem especially in winter. In summer one can wear sandals or open toed shoes. But when it's cold I will need to wear socks as well.....silly really when I can buy tights that have feet already in them...any ideas???My advice is if you decide to purchase go up at least one size especially if you have larger calves.
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I just received these leggings.. I normally hate leggings due to the fact that women over wear these as pants which they are clearly not pants. They are really thick and hide all the cellulite, very happy with them. Hopefully they will wash as good as they look
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This looked like a great opportunity to get 3 pairs of leggings that I could wear throughout the winter. However, they are less than what I hoped for. First, the fabric itself is not appealing to me. They have a sort of techno-fabric look to them that I don't care for. In addition, I bought a size Large (I usually wear a 12) and found it a bit of a struggle to pull them on. It was kind of like fighting to get on a pair of Spanx. Then, once they were on, they rolled over at the waist so instead of smoothing me out where I wanted it the most, it added an extra roll plus felt tight -- not comfortable. Someone else may not have these issues so I'm giving this 2 stars but I'm going to assume these will not suit the average sized woman looking for some shaping and who also wants comfort.
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