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Your Christmas Day sounded great.
I was in Wengen, Switzerland skiing for the week and spent Christmas Day sledging down fast sledge runs.
Where are you for New Year? It's 8 a.m. here so I guess you are just into the 1st Jan.
Hope to hear more soon.
Take care and Happy New Year....
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My Christmas was spent in the North Peruvian beach resort of Mancora. My hotel is right on the beach so at 6.30am on Christmas morning I walked out onto the sand to greet the festive day. There was a group of about 20 other travellers on the beach who had been up all night and had arranged with the locals to hire their horses for a race along the beach. There being a spare horse they asked if I wanted to join them. Having being reassured by the horses 13yr old owner that his horse was very slow and friendly (I appreciate he would have told me anything I wanted to hear as long as I paid him my money!), and realising as least I had the advantage of sobriety over the other jockeys I decided to give it a go. It was a lovely morning and a great way to see the beach, I progressed to a slow trot at one point and was most proud of my equine skills especially when Victor felt confident enough to let go of the rope for a few moments that he was leading the horse with.
We even managed to eat roast Turkey for Christmas dinner (nothing like my mum makes!) served with traditional spaghetti! The most festive part of the day was watching a Harry Potter film on the TV in the evening, if it wasn�t for the Spanish sub titles, heat and mosquitoes you could almost be at home...

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The New Mexico State baseball team lost the opener of a four-game series versus Kent State University, 7-4, Friday night at Presley Askew Field. The Aggies fall to 9-7 on the season while Kent State improves to 6-4.
The Aggie bats were silenced in the loss by a Kent State pitching staff that allowed only five hits in the entire game. No NM State hitter had more than one hit on the night.
Kent State starting pitcher David Starn allowed only two hits in six strong innings of work while allowing two runs. Aggie starter Ryan Beck was also impressive in his start, also going six innings. Beck allowed three runs on eight hits and had eight strikeouts. He did, however, receive his first loss of the year.
The game started as a pitcher's duel between Beck and Starn . The game's first run didn't come until the top of the third. Kent State's centerfielder Evan Campbell led off the inning with a single to right center. After stealing second base, Campbell scored on a couple of wild pitches by Beck.
The Aggies got their first runs in the bottom of the fifth. Rightfielder Bryan Karraker and leftfielder Andy Lyon both walked to lead off the inning. Lead-off hitter Kyle Phillips then proceeded to ground into a fielder's choice that left Lyon on second and Phillips on first base. After both runners advanced on a passed ball by Kent State catcher David Lyon, first baseman Kurt Snowley knocked both runners in with a single to center field. Unfortuantely, the 2-1 lead was the last time the Aggies would lead in the game.
Kent State took the lead right back in the top half of the sixth inning. After Beck hit a batter, Campbell once again came up with a clutch hit, hitting a double to left-center field. Kent State shortstop Jimmy Rider followed Campbell with a double of his own to bring in two runs. Campbell finished with as many hits as the Aggies, going 5-6 at the plate with two runs scored and an RBI.
NM State's potent offense couldn't get on track Friday night. After Kent State added two more runs in the top of the seventh to take a 5-2 lead, the Aggies had a great opportunity to score some runs during the bottom half of the inning.
Phillips and Snowley each walked to lead off the inning. Second baseman Parker Hipp followed with a single to centerfield to load the bases with nobody out. Kent State decided to go to their bullpen, bringing in right-hand pitcher Josh Pierce. The decision paid off for Kent State. Pierce struck out the first batter he faced, Aggie shortstop Zach Voight. After a sacrifice fly by catcher Zac Fischer brought in a run and an error by Kent State third baseman Nick Hamilton once again loaded the bases, Pierce struck out Aggie designated hitter Cody Edwards to end the inning. An inning that started with a lot of promise yielded only one run for NM State and ended with the bases loaded, stranding three of the 13 total runners that the Aggies left on base Friday.
Kent State added a couple of runs in the ninth and pitcher Casey Wilson came in to get the final six outs for Kent State, earning his first save of the season in the process.
The Aggies continue their series with Kent State with a doubleheader Saturday. The first game is scheduled to start at 3:05 p.m. (MT).


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Dorothea Lange | |
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Born | Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn May 26, 1895 Hoboken, New Jersey |
Died | October 11, 1965 San Francisco, California | (aged 70)
Nationality | American |
Known for | Photography |
Spouse(s) | Maynard Dixon (1920–1935) Paul Schuster Taylor (1935–1965) |
Dorothea Lange | |
Dorothea Lange in 1936 | |
Born | Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn May 26, 1895 Hoboken, New Jersey |
Died | October 11, 1965 San Francisco, California | (aged 70)
Nationality | American |
Known for | Photography |
Spouse(s) | Maynard Dixon (1920–1935) Paul Schuster Taylor (1935–1965) |
Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography.
Born of second generation German immigrants on May 26, 1895, at 1041 Bloomfield Street, Hoboken, New Jersey,[1][2] Dorothea Lange was named Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn at birth. She dropped her middle name and assumed her mother's maiden name after her father abandoned the family when she was 12 years old, one of two traumatic incidents early in her life. The other was her contraction of polio at age seven which left her with a weakened right leg and a permanent limp.[1][2] "It formed me, guided me, instructed me, helped me and humiliated me," Lange once said of her altered gait. "I've never gotten over it, and I am aware of the force and power of it."[3]
Lange was educated in photography at Columbia University in New York City, in a class taught by Clarence H. White. She was informally apprenticed to several New York photography studios, including that of the famed Arnold Genthe. In 1918, she moved to San Francisco, and by the following year she had opened a successful portrait studio.[2][4] She lived across the bay in Berkeley for the rest of her life. In 1920, she married the noted western painter Maynard Dixon, with whom she had two sons, Daniel, born in 1925, and John, born in 1930.[5]
With the onset of the Great Depression, Lange turned her camera lens from the studio to the street. Her studies of unemployed and homeless people captured the attention of local photographers and led to her employment with the federal Resettlement Administration (RA), later called the Farm Security Administration (FSA).
In December 1935, she divorced Dixon and married economist Paul Schuster Taylor, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.[5] Taylor educated Lange in social and political matters, and together they documented rural poverty and the exploitation of sharecroppers and migrant laborers for the next five years – Taylor interviewing and gathering economic data, Lange taking photos.
From 1935 to 1939, Dorothea Lange's work for the RA and FSA brought the plight of the poor and forgotten – particularly sharecroppers, displaced farm families, and migrant workers – to public attention. Distributed free to newspapers across the country, her poignant images became icons of the era.
Lange's best-known picture is titled "Migrant Mother."[6] The woman in the photo is Florence Owens Thompson. The original photo featured Florence's thumb and index finger on the tent pole, but the image was later retouched to hide Florence's thumb. Her index finger was left untouched (lower right in photo).[citation needed]
In 1960, Lange spoke about her experience taking the photograph:
I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it.[7]
After Lange returned home, she told the editor of a San Francisco newspaper about conditions at the camp and provided him with two of her photos. The editor informed federal authorities and published an article that included the photos. As a result, the government rushed aid to the camp to prevent starvation.[8]
According to Thompson's son, Lange got some details of this story wrong, but the impact of the picture was based on the image showing the strength and need of migrant workers.[9]
In 1941, Lange was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for excellence in photography. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, she gave up the prestigious award to record the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast, on assignment for the War Relocation Authority (WRA).[10] She covered the internment of Japanese Americans[11] and their subsequent incarceration, traveling throughout urban and rural California to photograph families preparing to leave, visiting several temporary assembly centers as they opened, and eventually highlighting Manzanar, the first of the permanent internment camps. Much of her work focused on the waiting and uncertainty involved the removal: piles of luggage waiting to be sorted, families wearing identification tags and waiting for transport.[12] To many observers, her photograph[13] of Japanese American children pledging allegiance to the flag shortly before they were sent to camp is a haunting reminder of this policy of detaining people without charging them of any crime or affording them any appeal.[14]
Her images were so obviously critical that the Army impounded most of them, and they were not seen publicly for more than 50 years.[15] Today her photographs of the internment are available in the National Archives on the website of the Still Photographs Division, and at the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1945, Lange was invited by Ansel Adams to accept a position as faculty at the first fine art photography department at the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA). Imogen Cunningham and Minor White joined as well.[16]
In 1952, Lange co-founded the photographic magazine Aperture. Lange and Pirkle Jones were commissioned in the mid-1950s to shoot a photographic documentary for Life magazine of the death of Monticello, California and of the displacement of its residents by the damming of Putah Creek to form Lake Berryessa. The magazine did not run the piece, so Lange devoted one whole issue of Aperture to the work. The photo collection was shown at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1960.[17]
In the last two decades of her life, Lange's health was poor. She suffered from gastric problems, including bleeding ulcers, as well as post-polio syndrome – although this renewal of the pain and weakness of polio was not yet recognized by most physicians.
Lange died of esophageal cancer on October 11, 1965 in San Francisco, California at age 70.[5][18] She was survived by her second husband, Paul Taylor, two children, three stepchildren, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
In 1972 the Whitney Museum used 27 of Lange's photographs in an exhibit entitled Executive Order 9066. This exhibit highlighted the Japanese Internment during World War II.
In 2006, an elementary school was named in her honor in Nipomo, California, near the site where she photographed "Migrant Mother".
On May 28, 2008, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver announced Lange's induction into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts. The induction ceremony took place on December 15 and her son accepted the honor in her place.
In 2014, American Masters – Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning[19] premiered August 29 on PBS.[8] Directed and narrated from a uniquely intimate perspective by Lange's granddaughter, Peabody- and five-time Emmy award-winning cinematographer Dyanna Taylor,[20] the film combines family memories and journals with never-before-seen photos and film footage as well as newly discovered interviews. A companion book, Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning, by Elizabeth Partridge, was published in 2013 and is the only career-spanning monograph of Lange's work in print.[8][21]
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) announced her intention to become a photographer at age 18. After apprenticing with a photographer in New York City, she moved to San Francisco and in 1919 established her own studio.
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Started to build my own fermenters and changed my mind. Have 2pcs each of the following from Toledo Metal spinning: 24" dia (31 gal) conical hopper Matl: 304SST These are special order because the flange has been trimmed off for welding a cylinder on. 24" dia one flanged cylinder, 20" length. Matl: 304SST These are special order because they are longer than stock sizes and were sized specifically for the hoppers. Both sets are unused and ready to be welded together. They are designed to hold 2bbl each with additional head space. I will even throw in a few 1.5" tri-clover ferrules that I had planned to weld onto them. $1,500 for both sets. This would make a good DIY project for someone that doesn't want to pay the outrageous price for new fermenters. (TMS makes parts for Blichmann) The lead time on these custom parts were 8 weeks. You can have them now. I won't split up the parts, but might consider splitting the sets. Send me a PM if interested.
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I am a HUGE fan of Death Note, if you didn't know. And there's an anime now. I only found two episodes (on youtube) but they're beautiful. The voices are perfect and the art is amazing. And it's just like the manga expect animated, with color, and sound.
And I've only seen traillers for the movies but Ryuk is gourgeous in CGI. =D
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I could fill you in on all the wonderful things that have taken place in the last few weeks, but that can get boring. So instead of sharing all the goings-on of late, I thought it would be far more amusing to post what {ahem} hasn't been going on in recent weeks. Ya know, just to fill you in on how classy and proper we are here. In case you needed that reminder.
This is the kind of stuff that would never happen at our house. Cough, cough.
Let's see...
~I have not answered the door to greet new neighbors while holding a fully extended light-saber. Certainly not.
~You have never seen a toddler running around the back yard completely naked except for his Spider-Man snow boots. Preposterous!
~None of us let the one-year-old play "chubby bunny" with a banana. Not us.
~Nobody (over age ten) decided to do an "experiment" by sticking a penny onto the prongs of a hair dryer then PLUGGED IT IN; blowing-up the hair dryer in the process and causing blue sparks to shoot gloriously out of the wall like firecrackers in a dark, night sky. No way.
And it did not result in THIS:
And, uh, THIS too.
~I haven't scolded bad behavior, then said "Okay, go do that ONE more time so I can take a photo." I'd never resort to bad parenting for something like a photo op.
Yeah. Like this one:
~We haven't had a small child flood the entire downstairs bathroom, try to clean it up themselves, and then stroll casually into the living-room BUTT NAKED, and announce clearly to the rest of us "I'd rather use a clean bathroom."
~Those five-hundred, brand new, white napkins that are now littering the playroom floor like crumpled-up, paper snowballs? You don't see those. They are an illusion. My children would never have a paper snowball fight while I took a shower.
~We haven't left the house only to arrive at our destination and discover one kid wasn't wearing any shoes. Ha! That's for amateurs!
~There isn't a small male child here who thinks he is, in fact, Kevin Harvick.
~Nobody here has been nearly kicked out of Sunday school. Nobody.
~No one has burst out in a loud chorus of "How do you solve a problem like Maria?" during dinner, or begun vociferous snoring noises during prayer. We are WAAY too proper for that!
~Certainly no one here has taken the bar of hand soap off the bathroom counter and drawn large pictures on the mirror like Jim Carrey did in "The Truman Show."
~The baby has not been sent to toddle around outside wearing totally different types of shoes because daddy couldn't find two that matched. This did not result in one of his legs being significantly longer than the other.
~I haven't written any crazy Haikus about food cravings. Like this one:
Oreo cookies
Tormenting me from their box
My hips shall suffer
My hips shall suffer
~We haven't visited the seafood department at the grocery store because we were too cheap to go to the aquarium.
Because that just lacks decorum.
And lastly,
~I have not resorted to shamelessly bribing a young child to pee in the toilet using a massive supply of skittles, soda pop and a bear who lives in a big blue house. Never.
And if you can believe any of that, I've got a bridge to sell you.


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yellow oval pill 189: 150mg buPROPrion XL TBSR. Anti anxiety medication, do not take with alcohol, do not cut into it or chew. the brand name is known a Wellbutrion. Reference this link for useful information about this medication.
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The actual marking is intended to be 681, though your identification is correct, it contains 150mgs of Bupropion in a time release formulation, which is a generic for Wellbutrin XL.
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In addition to the gcc and Offload-specific command line options the Offload™ compiler provides options to restrict certain C++ language features that have been found to cause problems in some situations.
- -cp_nocstylecasts C-style casts can cause problems on pointer to undefined structs (see blogpost for more information). This option makes the compiler issue an error message on encountering such casts. This option is useful to enforce coding guidelines that explicitly ban C-style casts.
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Steve Aoki at Ultra Music Festival 2011 Day Three, March 27
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Ultra Music Festival's Live Stage
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March 27, 2011
Better Than: A Benihana chef's onion volcano.
If you're a sucker for hibachi like I am, then you probably already knew that Steve Aoki comes from Japanese Steakhouse royalty. His old man, the late Rocky Aoki, founded the popular chain restaurant, Benihana, and Steve's brother, Kevin, owns Doraku.
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"Yeah, motherfuckers, this is your official wake-up call," he yelled. "Are you ready to hit turbulence?" Cue the beat.
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Package: comm
Convert vector of integers to vector of bits
The IntegerToBit object maps each integer (or fixed-point value) in the input vector to a group of bits in the output vector.
To map integers to bits:
Define and set up your integer to bit object. See Construction.
Call step to map integers in the input vector to groups of bits in the output vector according to the properties of comm.IntegerToBit. The behavior of step is specific to each object in the toolbox.
H = comm.IntegerToBit creates an integer-to-bit converter System object™, H. This object maps a vector of integer-valued or fixed-point inputs to a vector of bits.
H = comm.IntegerToBit(Name,Value) creates an integer-to-bit converter object, H, with each specified property set to the specified value. You can specify additional name-value pair arguments in any order as (Name1,Value1,...,NameN,ValueN).
H = comm.IntegerToBit(NUMBITS,Name,Value) creates an integer-to-bit converter object, H. This object has the BitsPerInteger property set to NUMBITS and the other specified properties set to the specified values.
BitsPerInteger |
Number of bits per integer Specify the number of bits the System object uses to represent each input integer. You must set this property to a scalar integer between 1 and 32. The default is 3. |
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Output bit words with first bit as most significant bit Set this property to true to indicate that the first bit of the output bit words is the most significant bit (MSB). The default is true. Set this property to false to indicate that the first bit of the output bit words is the least significant bit (LSB). |
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Assume inputs are signed integers Set this property to true if the integer inputs are signed. The default is false. Set this property to false if the integer inputs are unsigned. If the SignedIntegerInput property is false, the input values must be between 0 and (2^N)–1. In this case, N is the value you specified in the BitsPerInteger property. When you set this property to true, the input values must be between –(2(N–1)) and (2(N–1))–1. |
OutputDataType |
Data type of output Specify output data type as one of Full precision | Smallest unsigned integer | Same as input | double | single | int8 | uint8 | int16 | uint16 | int32 | uint32 | logical. The default is Full precision. When the input signal is an integer data type, you must have a Fixed-Point Designer™ user license to use this property in Smallest unsigned integer or Full precision mode. When you set this property to Full precision, the object determines the output data type based on the input data type. If the input data type is double- or single-precision, the output data has the same data type as the input data. Otherwise, the output data type is determined in the same way as when you set this property to Smallest unsigned integer. When you set this property to Same as input, and the input data type is numeric or fixed-point integer (fi object), the output data has the same data type as the input data. |
clone | Create an integer-to-bit converter object with same property values |
getNumInputs | Number of expected inputs to step method |
getNumOutputs | Number of outputs from step method |
isLocked | Locked status for input attributes and nontunable properties |
release | Allow property value and input characteristics changes |
step | Convert vector of integers to vector of bits |
This object implements the algorithm, inputs, and outputs described on the Integer to Bit Converter block reference page. The object properties correspond to the block parameters.


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I believe the article stated the fact that there are no major studies that show a definitive, widespread benefit to using guaifenesin by those with fibromyalgia.
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Confetti Ice Cream Pops
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Beneath the confetti-candy covering of these ice cream pops lies a marvelous surprise: a soft-in-the-center miniature candy bar on a Popsicle stick. Let kids help prepare these fanciful confections: Have them push sticks into the candy bars and finish the pops by giving them a full coating of the candy sprinkles. Perch the pops on a chilled cake stand to give them a longer life during serving.
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Calories | 215 |
Total Fat | 10g |
Saturated Fat | -- |
Cholesterol | 13mg |
Sodium | 55mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 33g |
Dietary Fiber | 1g |
Sugars | -- |
Protein | 1g |
Calcium | -- |
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Serves: 8
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- 8 piece(s) (1 1/2-inch) soft-centered candy bars, (like Milky Way or Snickers)
- 1 pint(s) vanilla custard-style ice cream, slightly softened
- 3/4 cup(s) assorted-color candy confetti or sprinkles
- Insert a wooden Popsicle stick into one end of each candy bar and set aside. Place 1 tablespoon of ice cream in the bottom of a 3-ounce paper cup. Place candy in center of the cup, surround with 3 tablespoons ice cream, and smooth over the top.
- Transfer cup to a baking sheet, repeat with remaining cups, and freeze until solid. Pour confetti or sprinkles into a shallow bowl and set aside. Peel the cup from each ice cream pop and roll in the decorations to cover completely. Store in freezer for up to 3 days.
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For many of us pets are like family members. We look after them as for any other member of the family and when we notice some illness we try our best to make them feel better. Moreover cats are the most studied animals when it comes to liver diseases and other diseases related to the digestive system.
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In general acceptance when the cat in the house feels bad, we almost never notice. The pathology and typical symptoms aren't so obvious as in the case of humans, because these creatures don't have the means to express like we do. So all we could do in order to detect a possible disease that our cat suffers from is to pay attention to it from time to time and to get it to the vet periodically. All pets when they suffer from an illness they stop eating and turn from an energetic pet into a rather frail and weak. Plus in some occasions they vomit a lot which certainly is an indicator that something is wrong. Read the rest of this entry »


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US 7433810 B2 Abstract A computer-implemented method for generating a computer model of one or more teeth by receiving a digital data set of meshes representing the teeth; creating a parametric representation of the digital data set; and displaying the computer model of the teeth using the parametric representation. The model can be modified or transmitted for viewing or for fabricating dental appliances.
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receiving as input a digital data set of meshes representing the teeth;
creating inside and outside meshes by determining an intersection between a tooth mesh and a cutter mesh;
creating a parametric representation of the teeth from the meshes representing the teeth and the inside and outside meshes, the parametric representation comprising exposed tooth surface image data and unexposed tooth portion image data, and further providing compression of the digital data set;
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receiving an input signal from a 3D gyroscopic input device controlled by a human user and using the input signal to alter an orientation of the teeth in the graphical representation;
creating a parametric representation of the teeth from the meshes, the parametric representation comprising exposed tooth surface image data and unexposed tooth portion image data, and further providing compression of the digital data set;
displaying the computer model of the teeth using a parametric representation;
rendering a three-dimensional (3D) graphical representation of the individual teeth; and
allowing a human user to select a tooth in the graphical representation and, in response, displaying information about the tooth, the information comprising an interproximal area or a tooth root shape information.
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27. A computer-implemented method for generating model of a patient's teeth from a first 3D model of the patient's teeth for efficient transmission of patient information, the method comprising:
receiving as input the first 3D model comprising a digital data set of meshes representing the patient's teeth;
creating from the digital data set of meshes a parametric representation of the digital data set comprising a curve network fitted to the digital data set, the parametric representation comprising exposed tooth surface image data and unexposed tooth portion image data, and further providing a compressed version of the digital data set; and
storing the parametric representation in a file for transmission of the parametric representation to a remote computer and displaying of a high-resolution image of the patient's teeth, the high-resolution image comprising tooth interproximal area information or a tooth root shape information.
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Description This present application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/241,240, filed Sep. 10, 2002, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,665,570, which was a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/506,419, filed Feb. 17, 2000, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,463,344, the full disclosures of which are incorporated herein. 1. Field of the Invention The invention relates generally to the field of orthodontics and, more particularly, to computer modeling of teeth. 2. Description of the Background Art Tooth positioners for finishing orthodontic treatment are described by Kesling in the Am. J. Orthod. Oral. Surg. 31:297-304 (1945) and 32:285-293 (1946). The use of silicone positioners for the comprehensive orthodontic realignment of a patient's teeth is described in Warunek et al. (1989) J. Clin. Orthod. 23:694-700. Clear plastic retainers for finishing and maintaining tooth positions are commercially available from Raintree Essix, Inc., New Orleans, La. 70125, and Tru-Tain Plastics, Rochester, Minn. 55902. The manufacture of orthodontic positioners is described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,186,623; 5,059,118; 5,055,039; 5,035,613; 4,856,991; 4,798,534; and 4,755,139. Other publications describing the fabrication and use of dental positioners include Kleemann and Janssen (1996) J. Clin. Orthodon. 30:673-680; Cureton (1996) J. Clin. Orthodon. 30:390-395; Chiappone (1980) J. Clin. Orthodon. 14:121-133; Shilliday (1971) Am. J. Orthodontics 59:596-599; Wells (1970) Am. J. Orthodontics 58:351-366; and Cottingham (1969) Am. J. Orthodontics 55:23-31. Kuroda et al. (1996) Am. J. Orthodontics 110:365-369 describes a method for laser scanning a plaster dental cast to produce a digital image of the cast. See also U.S. Pat. No. 5,605,459. U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,533,895; 5,474,448; 5,454,717; 5,447,432; 5,431,562; 5,395,238; 5,368,478; and 5,139,419, assigned to Ormco Corporation, describe methods for manipulating digital images of teeth for designing orthodontic appliances. U.S. Pat. No. 5,011,405 describes a method for digitally imaging a tooth and determining optimum bracket positioning for orthodontic treatment. Laser scanning of a molded tooth to produce a three-dimensional model is described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,338,198. U.S. Pat. No. 5,452,219 describes a method for laser scanning a tooth model and milling a tooth mold. Digital computer manipulation of tooth contours is described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,607,305 and 5,587,912. Computerized digital imaging of the jaw is described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,342,202 and 5,340,309. Other patents of interest include U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,549,476; 5,382,164; 5,273,429; 4,936,862; 3,860,803; 3,660,900; 5,645,421; 5,055,039; 4,798,534; 4,856,991; 5,035,613; 5,059,118; 5,186,623; and 4,755,139. A computer-implemented method generates a computer model of one or more teeth, by receiving as input a digital data set of meshes representing the teeth; creating a parametric representation of the digital data set; and displaying the computer model of the teeth using the parametric representation. Implementations of the method include one or more of the following. The parametric representation is a compressed version of the digital data set. The parametric representation is stored in a file. The parametric representation is transmitted to a remote computer and displayed on the remote computer. The parametric representation is transmitted over a network, which can be a wide area network such as the Internet. The parametric representation can be a curve network which is fitted to the digital data set. The fitting includes obtaining a location for each sample point; obtaining a normal for the sample point; generating a (u, v) representation for the sample point; and building the curve network from the (u, v) representation. The fitting can include obtaining a location for each sample point; obtaining a tangent for the sample point; generating a (u, v) representation for the sample point; and building the curve network from the (u, v) representation. The method also includes selecting a set of sample points from the digital data set; generating tangent values for the sample points to define a curve; and determining the length of the curve. Advantages of the system include one or more of the following. The system reduces the amount of data storage space required for storing and communicating teeth treatment information. By utilizing space more efficiently, the system reduces the cost of the system, improves the responsiveness of the system, and allows additional functionality to be implemented. The system also allows visualization to be used to communicate treatment information in a computer-automated orthodontic treatment plan and appliance. The invention generates a realistic model of the patient's teeth without requiring a user to possess in-depth knowledge of parameters associated with patient dental data compression. Additionally, expertise in 3D software and knowledge of computer architecture is no longer needed to process and translate the captured medical data into a realistic computer model rendering and animation. The invention allows teeth plan treatment to be generated and communicated in a simple and efficient manner. It also improves the way a treating clinician performs case presentations by allowing the clinician to express his or her treatment plans more clearly and gives a prospective patients an opportunity to visualize the facial changes associated with the proposed treatment. The invention allows multidisciplinary work teams to deal easily and efficiently with the treatment plan. Another major benefit is the ability to visualize and interact with models and processes without the attendant danger, impracticality, or significantly greater expense that would be encountered in the same environment if it were physical. Thus, money and time are saved while the quality of the treatment plan is enhanced. The details of one or more embodiments of the invention are set forth in the accompanying drawings and the description below. Other features, objects, and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the description and drawings, and from the claims. Systems and methods are provided for modeling teeth in creating a treatment plan. The systems and methods compress data associated with the teeth model to reduce the storage size and transmission time to a treating professional. Based on the treatment plan, the teeth can be incrementally moved using a plurality of discrete appliances, where each appliance successively moves one or more of the patient's teeth by relatively small amounts. Referring now to Referring now to One tool for a incrementally repositioning the teeth in a patient's jaw is a set of one or more adjustment appliances. Suitable appliances include any of the known positioners, retainers, or other removable appliances which are used for finishing and maintaining teeth positions in connection with conventional orthodontic treatment. As described below, a plurality of such appliances can be worn by a patient successively to achieve gradual tooth repositioning. A particularly advantageous appliance is the appliance 101, shown in The polymeric appliance 101 of A plaster cast of the patient's teeth is obtained by well known techniques, such as those described in Graber, Orthodontics: Principle and Practice, Second Edition, Saunders, Philadelphia, 1969, pp. 401-415. After the tooth casting is obtained, the casting is digitally scanned by a scanner, such as a non-contact type laser or destructive scanner or a contact-type scanner, to produce the IDDS. The data set produced by the scanner may be presented in any of a variety of digital formats to ensure compatibility with the software used to manipulate images represented by the data. In addition to the 3D image data gathered by laser scanning or destructive scanning the exposed surfaces of the teeth, a user may wish to gather data about hidden features, such as the roots of the patient's teeth and the patient's jaw bones. This information is used to build a more complete model of the patient's dentition and to show with more accuracy and precision how the teeth will respond to treatment. For example, information about the roots allows modeling of all tooth surfaces, instead of just the crowns, which in turn allows simulation of the relationships between the crowns and the roots as they move during treatment. Information about the patient's jaws and gums also enables a more accurate model of tooth movement during treatment. For example, an x-ray of the patient's jaw bones can assist in identifying ankylose teeth, and an MRI can provide information about the density of the patient's gum tissue. Moreover, information about the relationship between the patient's teeth and other cranial features allows accurate alignment of the teeth with respect to the rest of the head at each of the treatment steps. Data about these hidden features may be gathered from many sources, including 2D and 3D x-ray systems, CT scanners, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems. Using this data to introduce visually hidden features to the tooth model is described in more detail below. The IDDS is manipulated using a computer having a suitable graphical user interface (GUI) and software appropriate for viewing and modifying the images. More specific aspects of this process will be described in detail below. Individual tooth and other components may be segmented or isolated in the model to permit their individual repositioning or removal from the digital model. After segmenting or isolating the components, the user will often reposition the tooth in the model by following a prescription or other written specification provided by the treating professional. Alternatively, the user may reposition one or more teeth based on a visual appearance or based on rules and algorithms programmed into the computer. Once the user is satisfied, the final teeth arrangement is incorporated into a final digital data set (FDDS) (step 204). The FDDS is used to generate appliances that move the teeth in a specified sequence. First, the centers of each tooth model may be aligned using a number of methods. One method is a standard arch. Then, the teeth models are rotated until their roots are in the proper vertical position. Next, the teeth models are rotated around their vertical axis into the proper orientation. The teeth models are then observed from the side, and translated vertically into their proper vertical position. Finally, the two arches are placed together, and the teeth models moved slightly to ensure that the upper and lower arches properly mesh together. The meshing of the upper and lower arches together is visualized using a collision detection process to highlight the contacting points of the teeth. In step 204, final positions for the upper and lower teeth in a masticatory system of a patient are determined by generating a computer representation of the masticatory system. An occlusion of the upper and lower teeth is computed from the computer representation; and a functional occlusion is computed based on interactions in the computer representation of the masticatory system. The occlusion may be determined by generating a set of ideal models of the teeth. Each ideal model in the set of ideal models is an abstract model of idealized teeth placement which is customized to the patient's teeth, as discussed below. After applying the ideal model to the computer representation, and the position of the teeth is optimized to fit the ideal model. The ideal model may be specified by one or more arch forms, or may be specified using various features associated with the teeth. Based on both the IDDS and the FDDS, a plurality of intermediate digital data sets (INTDDSs) are defined to correspond to incrementally adjusted appliances (step 206). Finally, a set of incremental position adjustment appliances are produced based on the INTDDs and the FDDS (step 208). Many types of scan data, such as that acquired by an optical scanning system, provide a 3D geometric model (e.g., a triangular surface mesh) of the teeth when acquired. Other scanning techniques, such as the destructive scanning technique described above, provide data in the form of volume elements (�voxels�) that can be converted into a digital geometric model of the tooth surfaces. In one implementation, a marching cubes algorithm is applied to convert the voxels into a mesh, which can undergo a smoothing operation to reduce the jaggedness on the surfaces of the tooth model caused by the marching cubes conversion. One smoothing operation moves individual triangle vertices to positions representing the averages of connected neighborhood vertices to reduce the angles between triangles in the mesh. The triangles in Once a 3D model of the tooth surfaces has been constructed, models of the patient's individual teeth can be derived. In one approach, individual teeth and other components are �cut� using a cutting tool to permit individual repositioning or removal of teeth in or from the digital data. After the components are Afreed,≅a prescription or other written specification provided by a treating professional is followed to reposition the teeth. Alternatively, the teeth may be repositioned based on the visual appearance or based on rules and algorithms programmed into the computer. Once an acceptable final arrangement has been created, the final tooth arrangement is incorporated into a final digital data set (FDDS). The curve network generation of step 220 is shown in more detail in In one embodiment of Each tooth is modeled as though it were a deformed ball. The curve network is a network of M meridian lines and N parallel lines. For each meridian line, a plane is selected to contain the meridian line. A series of points representing an intersection between the plane and the triangle mesh modeling a tooth is determined. The series of points represent a curve whose length is then determined. The length of the meridian is divided by N. If M is 20 and N is 20, a 20�20 grid of points is generated, each point being represented in 3-D. In this manner, M�N 3D points can be transmitted in place of the voluminous mesh representation of the teeth. To further reduce the size of the file, the coordinates of each point are stored using integer values rather than floating point values. Alternatively, a second process 300 for fitting a curve network to a tooth is shown in Next, the process 300 selects the number of meridians M. M can range between 20-40. Also, the process 300 selects the number of points on each meridian N. N is typically ranges between ⅔ M to M. A set of M half planes 0, . . . , (M−1) is created: each half plane goes through the tooth z-axis, and the plane i forms an angle (2*PI/M)*i with the tooth x-axis (step 302). Exemplary half planes are shown in For each half plane, an intersection with the tooth mesh surface is determined (step 304. This intersection is a polyline that goes from the lower intersection of z-axis with the tooth surface to their upper intersection (points A and B). This line is called a meridian line. For each meridian line, a length L is determined and S is determined as a function of L/(N−1) (step 306). From a starting point, the process 300 proceeds along the meridian line and find points p0=A, p1, . . . , p[N−1]=B such that the point p[n+1] is at the distance S from p[n] along the meridian. Eventually, an M*N list of points in 3D space is generated and saved (step 308). The points can be saved as short integer values rather than floating point values. The data is saved and sent to a treating professional. To reconstruct a surface, the grid of M by N points is used to generate a surface that closely resembles a tooth. Although 20 is used in one embodiment, other values for M or N can be 30 or 40. To reconstruct a surface from a M*N grid of points, a Hermit spline F is specified that maps a rectangle [0, M]*[0, N] in (u, v) parameter plane into 3D space. The Hermit spline F is a smooth continued function on the [0, M]*[0, N] rectangle. When restricted to any [m, m+1]*[n, n+1] unit square, the spline is a bicubic 3D function. The restriction of F onto [m, m+1]*[n, n+1] square is denoted by f (omitting the indices (m, n) that should signify that functions f are different on different squares). To determine a Hermit spline, 3D values F, two derivatives dF/du, dF/dv, and the second mixed derivative d2F/dudv in each nod point (m, n) are specified. Thus for each bicubic function f on [m, m+1]*[n, n+1] square, 3D values f, two derivatives df/du, df/dv, and the second mixed derivative d2f/dudv are generated for the four square corners (m, n), (m+1, n), (m, n+1), (m+1, n+1). A unique 3D bicubic function is completely determined by those values. The bicubic functions on the next squares are smoothly connected because the values and derivatives are the same on the common side. The 3D values F, two derivatives dF/du, dF/dv, and the second mixed derivative d2F/dudv in the nod points (m, n) are specified as follows:
After the Hermit spline on the rectangle [0, M]*[0, N] is determined, its values in the more dense grid of points K*L are computed to derive a K*L grid of 3D points. Each of the four points (k, l), (k+1, k), (k, l+1), (k+1, l+1) are associated with two triangles: {(k, l), (k+1, k), (k, l+1)} and {(k, l+1), (k+1, l+1), (k, l)}. In this way, 2*K*L triangles are generated that are then rendered as a reconstructed tooth. Although the above parametric techniques can be used to compress the storage size of a mesh model of a teeth, other techniques can be used. In another embodiment, decimation operations can be applied to the mesh of teeth to eliminate data points, which improves processing speed. After the smoothing and decimation operation have been performed, an error value is calculated based on the differences between the resulting mesh and the original mesh or the original data, and the error is compared to an acceptable threshold value. The smoothing and decimation operations are applied to the mesh once again if the error does not exceed the acceptable value. The last set of mesh data that satisfies the threshold is stored as the tooth model. Additionally, the mesh model can be simplified by removing unwanted or unnecessary sections of the model to increase data processing speed and enhance the visual display. Unnecessary sections include those not needed for creation of the tooth repositioning appliance. The removal of these unwanted sections reduces the complexity and size of the digital data set, thus accelerating manipulations of the data set and other operations. After the user instructs the software to erase unwanted sections, all triangles within the box set by the user are removed and the border triangles are modified to leave a smooth, linear border. The software deletes all of the triangles within the box and clips all triangles which cross the border of the box. This requires generating new vertices on the border of the box. The holes created in the model at the faces of the box are retriangulated and closed using the newly created vertices. In alternative embodiments, the computer automatically simplifies the digital model by performing the user-oriented functions described above. The computer applies a knowledge of orthodontic relevance to determine which portions of the digital model are unnecessary for image manipulation. In another embodiment, data associated with the 3D model includes features can be compressed based on observed characteristics of the tooth surfaces. For example, the system can use the curvature of a particular molar between the tips of the cusps and the gumline to predict the shape of the roots for that molar. Models of typical root and crown shapes also can be used to provide predict the shape of the tooth. The information used to arrive at the predicted shapes can be used in lieu of the original data, thus effecting data compression. Other feature detection techniques use databases of known cases or statistical information against which a particular 3D image is matched using conventional image pattern matching and data fitting techniques. One such technique, known as �Maximum a posteriori� (MAP), uses prior images to model pixel values corresponding to distinct object types (classes) as independent random variables with normal (Gaussian) distributions whose parameters (mean and variance) are selected empirically. For each class, a histogram profile is created based on a Gaussian distribution with the specified mean and variance. The prior images supply for each pixel and each class the probability that the pixel belongs to the class, a measure which reflects the relative frequency of each class. Applying Bayes' Rule to each class, the pixel values in the input image are scaled according to the prior probabilities, then by the distribution function. The result is a posterior probability that each pixel belongs to each class. The Maximum a posteriori (MAP) approach then selects for each pixel the class with the highest posterior probability. Once downloaded to a remote workstation, a treating clinician is able to view a patient's treatment plan and alter or comment on the plan. The client viewer application is implemented in a computer program installed locally on a client computer at the clinician's site. In one implementation, the viewer program downloads a data file from a remote host, such as a file transfer protocol (FTP) server maintained by the treatment plan designer, which can be accessed either through direct connection or through a computer network, such as the World Wide Web. The viewer program uses the downloaded file to present the treatment plan graphically to the clinician. The viewer program also can be used by the treatment plan designer at the host site to view images of a patient's teeth. 3-D images of various orthodontic views can then be rendered after the compressed data of the teeth has been received. In this process, an origin point, or �look from� point associated with a camera view is generated. Next, a �look at� point or a focus point associated with the camera view is determined. In this system, the line from LookFromPoint to LookAtPoint defines the direction the camera is shooting at. Additionally, a camera Z vector, or up vector, is determined. Pseudo code for generating various orthodontic views is shown below. With reference to the pseudo code, the code defines a boundingbox of one mold (2 arches) which is the smallest cube containing the molds geometry. Other settings associated with the bounding box include:
Once the intermediate and final data sets have been created and reviewed by an orthodontist or suitably trained person, the appliances may be fabricated as illustrated in After production, the appliances can be supplied to the treating professional all at one time. The appliances are marked in some manner, typically by sequential numbering directly on the appliances or on tags, pouches, or other items which are affixed to or which enclose each appliance, to indicate their order of use. Optionally, written instructions may accompany the system which set forth that the patient is to wear the individual appliances in the order marked on the appliances or elsewhere in the packaging. Use of the appliances in such a manner will reposition the patient's teeth progressively toward the final tooth arrangement. Because a patient's teeth may respond differently than originally expected, the treating clinician may wish to evaluate the patient's progress during the course of treatment. The system can also do this automatically, starting from the newly-measured in-course dentition. If the patient's teeth do not progress as planned, the clinician can revise the treatment plan as necessary to bring the patient's treatment back on course or to design an alternative treatment plan. The clinician may provide comments, oral or written, for use in revising the treatment plan. The clinician also can form another set of plaster castings of the patient's teeth for digital imaging and manipulation. The clinician may wish to limit initial aligner production to only a few aligners, delaying production on subsequent aligners until the patient's progress has been evaluated. The user interface input devices typically include a keyboard and may further include a pointing device and a scanner. The pointing device may be an indirect pointing device such as a mouse, trackball, touchpad, or graphics tablet, or a direct pointing device such as a touchscreen incorporated into the display, or a three dimensional pointing device, such as the gyroscopic pointing device described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,440,326, other types of user interface input devices, such as voice recognition systems, can also be used. User interface output devices typically include a printer and a display subsystem, which includes a display controller and a display device coupled to the controller. The display device may be a cathode ray tube (CRT), a flat-panel device such as a liquid crystal display (LCD), or a projection device. The display subsystem may also provide non-visual display such as audio output. Storage subsystem 307 maintains the basic required programming and data constructs. The program modules discussed above are typically stored in storage subsystem 307. Storage subsystem 307 typically comprises memory subsystem 309 and file storage subsystem 314. Memory subsystem 309 typically includes a number of memories including a main random access memory (RAM) 310 for storage of instructions and data during program execution and a read only memory (ROM) 312 in which fixed instructions are stored. In the case of Macintosh-compatible personal computers the ROM would include portions of the operating system; in the case of IBM-compatible personal computers, this would include the BIOS (basic input/output system). File storage subsystem 314 provides persistent (non-volatile) storage for program and data files, and typically includes at least one hard disk drive and at least one floppy disk drive (with associated removable media). There may also be other devices such as a CD-ROM drive and optical drives (all with their associated removable media). Additionally, the system may include drives of the type with removable media cartridges. The removable media cartridges may, for example be hard disk cartridges, such as those marketed by Syquest and others, and flexible disk cartridges, such as those marketed by Iomega. One or more of the drives may be located at a remote location, such as in a server on a local area network or at a site on the Internet's World Wide Web. In this context, the term �bus subsystem� is used generically so as to include any mechanism for letting the various components and subsystems communicate with each other as intended. With the exception of the input devices and the display, the other components need not be at the same physical location. Thus, for example, portions of the file storage system could be connected via various local-area or wide-area network media, including telephone lines. Similarly, the input devices and display need not be at the same location as the processor, although it is anticipated that personal computers and workstations typically will be used. Bus subsystem 305 is shown schematically as a single bus, but a typical system has a number of buses such as a local bus and one or more expansion buses (e.g., ADB, SCSI, ISA, EISA, MCA, NuBus, or PCI), as well as serial and parallel ports. Network connections are usually established through a device such as a network adapter on one of these expansion buses or a modem on a serial port. The client computer may be a desktop system or a portable system. Scanner 320 is responsible for scanning casts of the patient's teeth obtained either from the patient or from an orthodontist and providing the scanned digital data set information to data processing system 311 for further processing. In a distributed environment, scanner 320 may be located at a remote location and communicate scanned digital data set information to data processing system 311 via network interface 324. Fabrication machine 322 fabricates dental appliances based on intermediate and final data set information received from data processing system 311. In a distributed environment, fabrication machine 322 may be located at a remote location and receive data set information from data processing system 300 via network interface 324. The invention has been described in terms of particular embodiments. Other embodiments are within the scope of the following claims. For example, the three-dimensional scanning techniques described above may be used to analyze material characteristics, such as shrinkage and expansion, of the materials that form the tooth castings and the aligners. Also, the 3D tooth models and the graphical interface described above may be used to assist clinicians that treat patients with conventional braces or other conventional orthodontic appliances, in which case the constraints applied to tooth movement would be modified accordingly. Moreover, the tooth models may be posted on a hypertext transfer protocol (http) web site for limited access by the corresponding patients and treating clinicians. Patent Citations
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