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Belmont Unitarian Universalist Alliance
Wednesday, December 16, Upper Hall, 12 noon
Lunch & Program "Lena: My 100 Children"
Please join us on Wednesday, December 16 from 12 noon – 2:20 p.m., starting in the upper gathering space for lunch. Please bring your own sandwich. We will provide soup, fruit, dessert and beverages. The suggested lunch donation is $1.00 per person.
The program will be at 12:45 p.m.in the church library. We will be viewing the movie, "Lena: My 100 Children," staring Linda Lavin. This tells the true story of Lena Kuchler, who at the end of World War II took on the care of 100 Jewish refugee children in Poland. There is a First Church connection to this story as one of these children was ultimately adopted by Miriam Baker's parents.
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Science and Spirituality — Ken Bernstein and Edwin Taylor
Thursday, Dec. 17, 7:30 p.m., Conference Room
Edwin Taylor will lead a discussion on A Beautiful Question by Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize winner, MIT professor, and popular science writer. Three chapters, The Question, A Beautiful Answer?, and Emma Noether – Time, Energy, and Sanity, may be downloaded from http://eftaylor.com/sands
Fiber Arts Fellowship — Eva Patalas
Thursday, Dec. 17, 8:00 p.m., Classroom 4
Enjoy the fun and fellowship of crafting with a genial group. If you knit, crochet, quilt, bead or dabble in other crafts, please come join us. Everyone is welcome and no commitment is necessary.
Beyond Ferguson: Bridging Class, Cultural, and Racial Separations
Sunday, Dec. 20, 7 p.m., Library
Please join members of the Social Action Committee, the Belmont Religious Council, Belmont Against Racism, the Belmont police department and graduates of YouthBuild as we continue our discussion about how to end racism in Belmont and in the wider world.
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DIXON WINS INDY JAPAN 300, TAKES POINTS LEAD TO MIAMI MOTEGI, Japan (Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009) - Scott Dixon claimed his fifth victory of the season, winning the Indy Japan 300 at Twin Ring Motegi to take over the IndyCar Series points lead with...
MOTEGI, Japan (Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009) - Scott Dixon claimed his fifth victory of the season, winning the Indy Japan 300 at Twin Ring Motegi to take over the IndyCar Series points lead with one race remaining.
Dixon, who started from the pole position and led a field-high 149 of 200 laps, took the lead for good on the 164th lap and finished 1.4475 seconds ahead of Target Chip Ganassi teammate Dario Franchitti. Graham Rahal finished third, while Mario Moraes, who started on the front row for the first time in his 30-plus races, overcame an early pit miscue to wind up fifth - his third consecutive top five. Danica Patrick, who won at Twin Ring Motegi last year, finished sixth.
Ryan Briscoe, who entered the race as the points leader, saw his chances winning the race and all but clinch the series championship dwindle after he made a mistake after a pit stop on Lap 106. As the No. 6 Team Penske car exited pit lane, Briscoe swerved as he lit up the tires, brushed the inside retaining wall and ran over a cone at the end of the pit lane. After multiple pit stops to repair the damage, he rejoined the race, but had dropped to 19th.
Dixon now leads the standings with 570 points, followed by Franchitti, who has 565. Briscoe, who went into the race with a 25-point lead over Franchitti and a 32-point lead over Dixon, finished 18th and has 562 points.
That's the second-closest 1-3 gap in series history (2003) and the 14th change atop the standings in the 16 races.
Brawn GP driver Jenson Button, the current point leader in Formula 1, is attending today's race as a guest of Honda.
Luczo Dragon Racing driver Raphael Matos fell in the hotel overnight and is driving with a sore wrist.
Vision Racing has created a tribute to three crew members that did not make the trip to Japan. Cardboard cutouts of Nathan O'Rourke, Dave Bishop and Dan Rushing have been taped to the team's pit stand.
* This is Scott Dixon's fifth win of the season and the 21st of his IndyCar Series career. His last win came at Mid-Ohio.
* It is the 22nd win of Scott Dixon's open-wheel career tying Tony Bettenhausen, Helio Castroneves, Emerson Fittipaldi and Dario Franchitti for 16th on the list of all-time open-wheel wins.
* This is Target Chip Ganassi Racing's ninth win of the season and its 33rd win in the IndyCar Series.
* Dario Franchitti finished second, his 12th top-five finish and eighth podium finish of the season.
* Graham Rahal finished third, his fifth top-five finish of the season.
* Oriol Servia finished fourth, his best finish of the season and matching his career-best finish of fourth at Belle Isle in 2008.
* Mario Moraes finished fifth, his third-straight top-five finish.
* Scott Dixon takes the point lead with his win at Twin Ring Motegi, the 14th change at the top of the point standings in 16 races.
* The eight points separating first place Scott Dixon from third-place Ryan Briscoe is the second-closest spread between in series history. Only the 2003 season had a closer margin between first and third.
* The five points separating first place Scott Dixon from second-place Dario Franchitti is the fourth-closest spread between first and second. There was a tie in 2003, 1 pt margin in 2006 and 3 points in 2007.
SCOTT DIXON (No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing, winner Indy Japan 300): "A fantastic day for Team Target. A 1-2. For me it's tremendous. It's a track I've always wanted to win in. I kind of put Motegi just below the Indy 500. It's a very difficult circuit. I remember coming here in the early years and competing for different engine manufacturers and how much emphasis is put on this race. If you have a fast car, you can still get to the front. Put on a good show. Over the moon. Definitely a good day for points and very happy."
DARIO FRANCHITTI (No. 10 Lifelock, finished second): I think we could see the Target cars were very strong. Both cars were very equally matched. Probably my car more so in traffic, and Scott maybe a little bit in clean air. But both cars, whichever one was in front was going to win. I managed to go longer than Scott in the first run. It was looking good. We came out of the pits after the second stop having pulled a pretty substantial gap. I was coming up to lap the No. 2 car, and I went to go on the inside and he came down, so I moved up, he moved up. He kept moving up until I hit a bump and ended up in the marbles. I managed to gather it back up, by which point Scott had a massive run and passed me. It was unfortunate to lose the lead that way, but we've seen that all year from him, to be honest. After that, it's just trying to pass Scott. We tried on the pits, on the restarts. We were so equal today, I needed traffic in front of us to slow Scott so I could get a run on him, and there wasn't any. "
GRAHAM RAHAL (No. 02 McDonald's Racing Team, finished third): "The McDonald's boys have been working awfully hard this entire time, and we've had the pace and it's nice to get our first podium on a superspeedway and second of the season on an oval. It's such an interesting track and a change from what we're used to with the classic superspeedway shape. The McDonald's boys did a great job in the pits today and we saved a lot of fuel which put us in that position."
ORIOL SERVIA (No. 06 Newman Haas Lanigan Racing, finished fourth): "It was a very good race. I'm extremely happy for the team to finish just behind Ganassi is very good. I'm very pleased, but obviously, I would have preferred to be on the podium but Graham had a run on me there at the end and he got the best out of it. I'm happy with the performance. I'm happy that the team gave me the opportunity. We had a good four races and definitely gained momentum, and I hope we can continue the momentum next year. I think we can be contenders for the championship if we start together from Day 1. That's what I really hope will happen. I'm happy how things have gone. I want to thank Carl and Bernadette Haas, Mike Lanigan and McDonald's for the opportunity."
MARIO MORAES (No. 5 Azul Tequila/Votorantim/KVRT, finished fifth): "I am happy for the KV Racing Technology team. They did a great job all weekend. We started second, but I fell in line in third place at the start of the race. Then on the first pit stop we had a problem refueling and had to come back in for more fuel. That put us two laps down. But, the whole team fought back and we got some luck with a yellow flag to get back on the lead lap in fuel sequence and finished fifth. It is our third consecutive top-five finish, so I am happy about that. I am also looking forward to going to Homestead. I think we are going to have a very good car there, so we can finish the season off really strong.
DANICA PATRICK (No. 7 Boost Mobile/Motorola, finished sixth): "The No. 7 car was strong all day; unfortunately it just wasn't strong enough to defend my win from last year. We could have had a run on Mario (Moraes) but I got caught in traffic and just wasn't able to gain the position. Overall it was a good day and a solid finish for us."
MARCO ANDRETTI (No. 26 Team Venom Energy, finished seventh): "Today wasn't a bad showing for the Venom boys, especially considering our starting position. A better qualifying run obviously would have made our day a lot easier, but we were able to work through some traffic and make the best it. Had that last yellow fallen a couple laps later I think it would have been a much brighter outcome for the #26 car, but you can't depend on yellows."
DAN WHELDON (No. 4 National Guard Panther Racing, finished eighth): "It was really good to be back and running up front again, and obviously from the entire Panther Racing team standpoint I feel everybody did an excellent job. The engineering staff made a big change last night for the race and it was very positive and I could see that it made the car very nice to drive today and certainly when catching lapped traffic I was able to make a lot of time up. Unfortunately it was one of those things for us today; we got caught on the yellow flag. But like I said everybody here has come here and put a lot of effort into this weekend and unfortunately they weren't rewarded. We again showed that we can run with the best."
HELIO CASTRONEVES (No. 3 Team Penske, finished 10th): "We were shooting for a top-10 finish for Team Penske here in Japan and we got it today. It was very difficult to pass out there but we did the best job we could. The team made some great calls and we had good pit stops. It's a shame that Ryan lost the points lead, but we know we will be strong at Homestead and our goal is to bring home a championship for Team Penske."
RYAN BRISCOE (No. 6 Team Penske, finished 18th): Yeah, it was pretty frustrating. With the accident leaving the pits, it was a huge opportunity for me to get the race lead. I just gassed it too much leaving my box, and the car spun. I hit the wall. We had to change the front upright. The team did a great job doing it in the time they did, but unfortunately that was our day done pretty much. Just sort of brought the car home without pushing too hard at the end. The good thing is that it's only eight points to Scott. I feel real good going into Homestead. We've been strong on all the one and a halves this year. This track is unique. Ganassi had the upper hand on us this weekend. Homestead, Team Penske I'm confident is going to be the team to beat. Eight points is the difference between first and second. It looks like is it's going to be a pretty tough battle to see who can win the race."
The 2009 IndyCar Series season concludes with the Firestone Indy 300 on Oct. 10 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The race will be telecast live in High Definition at 4 p.m. (EDT) by VERSUS. The race will air live on the IMS Radio Network, XM channel 145 and Sirius channel 211. The radio broadcast also will be carried on www.indycar.com. A one-hour qualifying show will air on VERSUS at 6 p.m. on Oct. 9. The 2009 Firestone Indy Lights season continues with the Homestead-Miami 100 on Oct. 9 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The race will be telecast by Live by VERSUS at 6 p.m. (EDT).
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A System for Segmentation and Bi-Level Cell Tracking R. Guzmán Cabrera, J. R. Guzmán Sepúlveda, J. C. Barrón-Amieva, J. A. Gordillo Sosa, A. González Parada, M. Torres Cisneros, G. Aviña-Cervantes, and O. G. Ibarra-Manzano
from the image sequence the complete description of cell positions, shape, and motion across time, leading, in the case of dividing cells, to a space-time lineage. These segmentation and dividing/tracking issues have to be solved in the most reliable manner, since human post-processing is the limiting factor of the rate of processed data. Currently the most important imaging tool for studying dynamic processes in living cells is still light microscopy. Biological research is impossible to imagine without a microscope. Latest generations of microscopes, able to produce huge arrays of multidimensional data, only distantly resemble Leeuwenhoek"s first microscope. Every advance in visualization techniques and hardware brings us one step closer to understanding life, e.g., how genome information gives identity to cells, how cells constitute organisms and how errant cells cause disease. The use of light microscopes for biological experimentation and investigation goes back to Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), who discovered the motion of bacteria, sperm cells, blood cells and more, using a simple magnifying lens. It is only since relatively recently, however, that light microscopy became mature enough to allow in vivo imaging of molecular complexes and even single molecules. Apart from substantial improvements in optics hardware and the development of increasingly sensitive electronic imaging sensors, a key factor was the discovery, cloning, and expression of the jellyfish green fluorescent protein (GFP). This enabled visible fluorescence to be encoded into a specific gene of interest, which, in turn, enables one to tag and optically detect virtually any protein of interest in living cells. In recent years, many GFP variants have been developed with different spectral properties, enabling simultaneous detection of differently labeled proteins and studying their interaction. Since the first images of cultured mammalian cells recorded to film using an microscope were published in the United States in 1945, the ultrastructural analysis of mammalian cells/tissue has relied almost entirely on extrapolating the three-dimensionality of the structures/compartments under investigation from sets of two-dimensional (2D) images. A few examples of biological molecular dynamic processes and images acquired for studies into these phenomena may help one to appreciate the challenges of tracking. One of the intracellular structures being investigated intensively in biology is the cytoskeleton, which consists of several subsystems of densely interwoven and highly plastic networks of filamentous polymers. One category of cytoskeleton polymers is constituted by the microtubules. These are required for a variety of cellular functions and their dynamic behavior is regulated by many factors.
Abstract—Measurement of the proliferative behaviors of in vitro cells is important to many biomedical applications ranging from basic biological research to advanced applications, such as drug synthesis, stem cell manufacturing, and tissue engineering. The detection of borders within an image constitutes a process of digitalization of the image. Once the digitized image is obtained, the next step is the application of a specific process consisting in applying algorithms that allow the obtaining of raw data of the image. In this case, the applied algorithm to the digitized images was the Canny algorithm. This work presents a system to compute a vector representation for a selected cell of an image. The representation is in bi-level raster image. Index Terms—Bi-level, cell tracking, raster image.
I. INTRODUCTION The basic study of human form and function has underpinned the establishment of modern medicine, and is well recognized as having evolved in large part from the original detailed topographic drawings of human anatomy by Leonardo da Vinci, who firmly believed in the power of imaging and visualization as a critical tool for providing key insights into nature and human health. A more recent iteration of that same fundamental concept is evidenced by the National Library of Medicine"s "The Visible Human Project®', in which the combination of a number of powerful clinical imaging techniques with modern computing methods resulted in complete atlases of the human body at unprecedented resolution. Computational image analysis tools for semi-automated and automated tracking of single cells or cell clusters within live biological systems have been developed and reported since early 1980s. In order to produce quantitative and statistically relevant results, large amounts of data are required (say, several sequences, each containing several hundredth of images), and automatic image analysis algorithms become necessary. One frequent aim is to extract Manuscript received June 13, 2012; Manuscript received July 22, 2012. R. Guzmán-Cabrera, M. Torres Cisneros, G. Aviña-Cervantes, and O. G. Ibarra-Manzano are with the Grupo de NanoBioFotónica, DICIS, Universidad de Guanajuato; Salamanca, Gto., México (e-mail: email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com). J. R. Guzmán-Sepulveda is with the Departamento de Electrónica, UAM Reynosa-Rodhe, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas. Carr. Reynosa-San Fernando S/N, Reynosa, Tamaulipas 88779, México (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com) J. C. Barron-Amieva is with the Centro Universitario de Negocios. Blvd las Reynas #100, Colonia las Reynas, Salamanca, Gto., Mexico (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com) J. A. Gordillo Sosa is with the Universidad Tecnológica del Suroeste de Guanajuato. Carretera Valle-Huanimaro Km. 1.2, Valle de Santiago, Gto. México. A. González Parada is with the DICIS, Universidad de Guanajuato; Salamanca, Gto., México (e-mail: email@example.com)
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Understanding physiological processes in health and disease and developing adequate drugs requires the imaging and analysis of the (morpho) dynamic behavior of single cells or cell clusters in tissues under normal and perturbed conditions. This typically involves the tracking and quantification of large numbers of cells in time-lapse fluorescence, phase-contrast, or intravital microscopy data sets consisting of hundreds to many thousands of image frames, making manual analysis no option, especially in 3D. The automation of these tasks faces several challenges, including the generally poor image quality (low contrast and high noise levels), the varying density of cell populations due to division, cells entering or leaving the field of view, and the possibility of cells touching each other without showing sufficient image contrast. Many computerized methods for cell tracking have already been proposed, and some of these have found their way to commercial and open-source software tools, but the consensus arising from the literature seems to be that any specific tracking task requires dedicated (combinations of) algorithms to obtain optimal results. Nevertheless, several trends can be observed in the development of new cell tracking methods, suggesting the superiority of particular algorithms. The study of cell movement is fundamental to research in embryological development, wound healing, immune defense, tumor cell invasion, and metastasis [1]. Cell migration is conventionally monitored by using time-lapse microscopy in combination with different 2-D or 3-D tissue substrata. For the detection of changes in cell shape and/or relative position with time from serial images a precise and robust segmentation procedure is required to discriminate between the cell boundary and the surrounding tissue. Since the apparition of the first proposals of computational image analysis tools for semi-automated and automated tracking of single cells or cell clusters within live biological systems in the early 1980s, a growing interest on cell dynamics has arisen due to the possibility of studying several aspects of the cellular processes, such as stem/parent identification for lineage determination and their behavior in the face of alternative cell fates, cell aging, response to different culture conditions, characterization of proliferation, social interactions during biological processes such as wound healing, and the obtainment of precise information about cell behavior during general biological processes such as migration, mitosis, apoptosis, shape deformation of individual cells, and their interactions among cells [1-3]. In order to produce quantitative and statistically relevant information, large amounts of data are required (i.e. several sequences, each one containing several hundreds of images), and automatic image analysis algorithms become necessary. Typical experiments produce over 100 gigabytes (GB) of image data consisting of about 40,000 frames, representing thousands of cells in each frame. This makes automated tracking and cell analysis critical to efficiently study the underlying biological mechanisms. However, the high processing demand, the varying density of the cell culture (i.e. cells dividing/dying, leaving/re-entering the field-of-view), and the complexity of the cellular topologies (i.e. shape deformation, close contact, and partial overlap) impose many challenges to the existing tracking techniques. 255
There are numerous studies reported in the literature in which vast amounts of image data are generated and where the dynamics of hundreds or thousands of particles need to be quantitatively analyzed in order to reveal detailed information related to the functional behavior thus allowing detect rare events suggestive of functional heterogeneity. This may lead to the formulation of comprehensive models of molecular processes. It is evident that manual tracking is an intensive labor which usually results in costly, inaccurate, and poorly reproducible extracted information, furthermore, due to manual processing is time consuming only a small fraction of the data can be analyzed in this manner. This calls for renewed efforts in developing computational image analysis tools. Several approaches using a variety of techniques have been previously reported. In general, the proposed tracking methods agree with the rough classification found in [4], in which it is settled that there are two general ways to perform cell tracking: the first one finds the object contour in the current frame given an initial contour from the previous frame; the second one segments the cell regions in two or more frames simultaneously and then resolves the association functions between the regions of interest. Despite very good results can be found in the literature in terms of geometrical and topological treatments, both tracking techniques still present some problems when they deal with dividing cells, cells entering/leaving the field of view, cells merging into a cluster, and cells touching or overlapping [4-9]. In this regard, several efforts have been proposed to handle the problems mentioned above, among which are parent/stem association by using the local association method [10], adaptive thresholding method [11], data association by using the graph theoretic minimum cost flow framework considering various realistic cell behaviors (i.e. migration, mitosis, overlap, entering and leaving) [12], incorporation of a Markov random field prior distribution into the particle filter framework [13,14], split/merged measurements assuming that the number of objects is fixed [15], and contour tracking based on partial contour matching [2]. In this work, we will focus on the extraction and vectorization of individual lines that may have arbitrary width, rough contours, crossings, and branches. The proposed algorithm can be classified as a model-based contour evolution since it performs the cell tracking by successively filtering the image in such way that the information obtained from the contour detection from a previous frame is used to detect the contour in the current frame but taking certain positions of specific pixels as reference for the following processing. The Canny algorithm was used as filter for the contour detection. By storing the coordinates of the positions of interest and using the information obtained from the contour detection, it is possible to predict the cell trajectory based on the analysis of a few frames.
II. METHODOLOGY The contour detection algorithm used in our method is based on that described in [9].This algorithm allows
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detecting the entire outline of an arbitrary 8-shaped object in the counter clockwise direction. The outline will be an 8-connected set of foreground pixels, each of them having one or more neighbors belonging to the background. The general scheme of the method proposed in this work is depicted in Fig. 1.
detection by applying four filters in order to detect horizontal, vertical, and diagonal edges. Canny algorithm approximates the intensity gradients in the image by using first-order filtering masks, such as Sobel or Roberts kernels. The effect of increasing Ďƒ in the noise-removal stage is the gradients are much smoother, which means that Ďƒ determines the sharpness of the detected edges in the current stage. Once the edges have been detected, the next stage consists on sharpening them. The main purpose of this step is to convert the rough (blurred) edges resulting from the image of the gradient magnitudes to fine (sharp) edges. This step distinguishes the Canny algorithm from other algorithms since it takes into account the neighbors of each edge along the direction of the local gradient. This step is performed by preserving all local maxima in the gradient image and deleting everything else. Furthermore, the gray-intensity value assigned to the sharp edges is directly related to the strength of the original edges along the gradient direction. Despite it is highly probable than the sharp edges remaining in the image after the non-maximum suppression are the true edges of the images, the gray-intensity values of these edges are accented by the pixel-by-pixel strength thus causing that some edges may be formed by underlying noise or color variations (typical for rough surfaces). In order to discriminate between true/false edges, a threshold is used as indicator of the permanency of the edges. The Canny algorithm uses a double thresholding (i.e. high and low thresholds) which leads to a classification of the edges with three possible scenarios: strong edges, weak edges, and suppressed edges. In this regard, edge pixels with intensity values greater than the high threshold are marked as strong; edge pixels with intensity values less than the high threshold but greater than the low threshold are marked as weak; and finally, edge pixels with intensity values less than the low threshold are suppressed and are not considered for the resulting image. Finally, the last stage of the Canny algorithm determines which edges will appear in the output image by a simple criterion: strong edges are immediately included while weak edges are included only if they are connected to a strong edge, otherwise, they are ignored. Once this stage is complete, a binary image containing the edges of the input image is obtained as the output image of the Canny algorithm. Despite it is possible that high noise or large color variations result in a strong edge, this condition is almost never achieved. By selecting adequate values for the standard deviation and both thresholds, noise and color variations will only result in weak edges. Furthermore, color variations usually generate weak edges uniformly distributed on the entire image independently of the true edges [16]. The previous fact results in a low probability to find weak edges connected to strong edges thus allowing that the edges include in the output image are only due to the true edges of the input image.
Fig. 1. General scheme of the proposed canny-based algorithm for cell tracking.
Given an initial starting pixel Si, the next outline pixel and next starting pixel are chosen as follows: search the neighbors in the counter clockwise direction, starting with Si, until a transition from background to foreground is found. The first foreground pixel thus found will be the next outline pixel and the last background pixel will be the next initial pixel, respectively. This process will continue with every transition found. The general scheme of the computational approach proposed by Canny is shown in Fig. 2. The Canny algorithm can be summarized in five main stages: smoothing, finding the intensity gradients, non-maximum suppression, double thresholding, and edge tracking [16].
Fig. 2. General diagram of the canny algorithm.
Raw unprocessed image data are always susceptible to present intrinsic noise due to the mechanism through which the image was constructed/taken (i.e. camera, X-ray, microscopy). The smoothing stage has the purpose of removing noise from the original image in order to prevent the detection of mistaken edges in further stages and then reduce the probability of constructing false contours for tracking. Smoothing is performed by convolving the image with a two-dimensional Gaussian filter, which is typically symmetric and centered at the central pixel of the mask thus provoking that the resulting image, depends only on the standard deviation Ďƒ. The resulting image is a slightly blurred version of the original which due to the noise compression, which is not significantly affected by a single noisy pixel. In the next stage, finding the intensity gradients allows finding the edges in the image. Since an edge can be oriented in a variety of directions, Canny algorithm performs edge
III. TEST AND RESULTS Since the appearance and behavior of cells can be quite different from particles, the image processing techniques developed to track them are usually also quite different. In 256
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either case, there are generally two sides to the tracking problem: 1) the recognition of relevant objects and their separation from the background in every frame (the segmentation step), and 2) the association of segmented objects from frame to frame and making connections (the linking step). Fig. 3 depicts the original image, which consists of a set of cells. The pictures were provided by [9].
of a time-lapse image sequence, and the correct associations have been established between successive frames, it is relatively easy to compute (morpho) dynamic features that may reveal biologically relevant phenomena. For example, variabilities in cell shape (within populations or per cell) over time can be very effectively studied using statistical tools such as principal component analysis of the cell outlines. In images where the cells have sufficiently and consistently different intensities than their surroundings, they are most easily segmented by thresholding, which labels pixels above the intensity threshold as "object" and the remainder as "background", after which disconnected regions can be automatically labeled as different cells. In the case of severe noise, auto fluorescence, photo bleaching (in fluorescence microscopy), poor contrast, gradients, or halo artifacts (in phase-contrast or differential interference contrast microscopy), thresholding will fail, and more sophisticated segmentation approaches are needed. The simplest approach to solving the subsequent association problem is to link every segmented cell in any given frame to the nearest cell in the next frame, where "nearest" may refer to spatial distance but also to difference in intensity, volume, orientation, and other features. This nearest-neighbor solution works well as long as the cells are well separated in at least one of the dimensions of the feature space. Essentially, this criterion also applies to so-called online cell tracking approaches, which alternate between segmentation and linking on a per-frame basis. For instance, template matching, mean-shift processing, or deformable model fitting is applied to one frame, and the found positions or contours are used to initialize the segmentation process in the next frame, and so on, which implicitly solves the linking problem (see Fig. 5). Fig. 5 shows the filtered image with the edges marked. This is achieved by selecting the cell of interest. However, the basic concepts underlying the vast majority of published methods are virtually the same. The commonly used approach in motion tracking consists of at least the following steps: preprocessing the image data, detecting individual particles every time step, linking particles detected at successive time points, and analyzing the results.
Fig. 3. Original image.
The read image is converted to a gray-scale image in order to apply the edge detection over one single dimension. As mentioned, Canny filter is used as base of the image filtering due to its capability of being adjusted for reducing noise in the resulting image. Cell tracking methods generally consist of two main image processing steps: 1) cell segmentation (the spatial aspect of tracking), and 2) cell association (the temporal aspect). Segmentation process consists on dividing an image into (biologically) meaningful parts (segments), resulting in a new image containing for each pixel a label indicating to which segment it belongs. It basically serves to the discrimination between "foreground" versus "background". Fig. 4 shows the filtered image after applying the Canny filter. The main objective is to sample the gray level at various places near the cells in the picture and estimate the local gray-level thresholds that can be used to define seeds (low threshold) and extra-cell space (high threshold).
Fig. 4. Filtered image, is using a filter canny.
Once a first contour detection has been performed, the next step consists on tracking the neighboring selected pixel in the counter clockwise direction, this way the pixel that matches the intensity value of the pixel edge will be stored as part of the outline shape. Then the last pixel identified as part of the contour will be taken as pivot for the next filtering and the searching process repeats using the next neighboring pixel until the full contour has been detected. Now that we have an over- and under-segmentation, we can generate all potential cells that are consistent with these bounds – in other words, all the unions of blobs on "linear subgraphs" of the connection graph described in the previous section. Once the cells are properly segmented in all frames
Fig. 5. Filtered image with edges marked.
Assuming the image as a 2D space, the coordinates of the pixels belonging to the contour will be stored as ordered pairs. By storing the coordinates of the positions of interest and using the information obtained from the contour detection, such as relevant issues about geometry and topology, it is possible to build a probabilistic model that allows predicting the cell trajectory based on the analysis of only a few frames. The proposal of building a mathematical model that describes 257
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cell tracking and possibly quantification with optical imaging would be the generation of molecular markers that could identify engrafted cells and the nature of their progeny.
the motion of the cells in the image not only helps to decrease the computational costs but offers an alternative to face the problem of overlapping and/or touching cells, entering/leaving cells, dividing cells, and cells merging into a cluster.
The breadth of medicine that stands to benefit from improved knowledge of cell-based therapies is vast. In vivo cell tracking offers insight into the underlying biological processes of new cell-based therapies, with the aim to depict cell function, migration, homing and engraftment at organ, tissue, cellular and molecular levels. Molecular imaging has expanded the possibilities through different imaging modalities and contrast agents of which this article will focus upon optical imaging. Until recently, it is possible to manually identify incidents of mitosis because mitotic cells tend to retract, round up, and exhibit intensified surrounding halos under phase contrast illumination for short-period, small-scale studies. The proposed method does not depend on empirical parameters or ad hoc image pre-processing, which makes it suitable, robust, and straightforward for adapting to different types of cells. Since it is also a simple algorithm, based on repetitive contour detection taking specific positions from the contour identification of previous frames, it allows cell tracking with relatively low computational costs. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm can be easily incorporated to a more complex system in which a mathematical model can be build to describe the motion of the cells in the image by analyzing only a few frames thus providing an alternative to face overlapping and/or touching cells, entering/leaving cells, dividing cells, and cells merging into a cluster since the trajectory of the cells can be approximated and then cells can be discriminated and differently treated for these special cases.
There is now a clear desire/need within the international biology community, the presence of diseases such as diabetes and cancer, open up important research lines for biomedical research communities to understand the 'bigger picture' with respect to the cell as complex systems, and using a precise spatial framework as a "foundation" is considered by many in systems biology as a fundamental prerequisite to developing a genuine capacity to accurately model changes in the spatio-temporal coordinates of complex cellular events in silico and ultimately, for predicting the pathophysiology of chronic diseases like diabetes and cancer in the future. By combining new mathematical and computational tools for precisely extracting useful, novel and quantitative insights into 2D and 3D cellular organization from these enormous datasets, we foresee a unique opportunity to begin mapping structural phenotypes for cell function versus dysfunction onto complete sets of 2D and 3D spatial coordinates for cell organization with nanometer precision. A future area of focus that would improve the sensitivity of
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On 17 March, AmCham organized a follow-up meeting with Mr. Nenad Šćulac, Assistant Minister at the Ministry of Environment and Energy to discuss its recommendations to reduce environmental fees for end-of-life vehicles (ELV), organize payment of the ELV fee upon the first registration of the vehicle, ensure that funds generated from ELV fees are used specifically for related purposes, and to improve the system of waste oil management.
On top of the mentioned recommendations, AmCham communicated a number of irregularities in relation to the automotive industry, including burdensome administrative procedures, abuse of trademarks, lack of incentives for the purchase of new and electric vehicles, noncompetitive VAT rate compared to other EU countries, illegal car landfills, illegal distribution of car parts etc. Tackling these issues would have positive impacts on the environment and tax collection.
Mr. Šćulac informed that a number of mentioned issues are being considered and changed through bylaws. The Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of the Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts, the Ministry of Interior and other state bodies and agencies are also stakeholders in this process and it will demand a joined action to tackle these issues. Certain measures are currently being included in the Waste Management Plan, but it is expected that the whole system will be changed via new legislation by the end of the year. Working bodies will be formed to discuss particular issues.
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Didn't do much tonight. We put the rabbits out on the grass to graze and exercise for an hour. While B was watching them be rabbits, I planted some sweet potatoes and watered the tomatoes. And that's about it. I should have run the weed eater around the fence, but laziness took over. Guess I will have to play catch up tomorrow.
There is still so much to do. Oddly, though, once everything is planted and all the animals are here and on
pasture, we will go into maintenance mode for few weeks. That will be merely routine of watering, feeding and changing paddocks for grazing. Come mid June we will start harvesting beans, then tomatoes, then the other veggies. By August, Brittan will be busy canning and I will be processing chickens. That will be peak time. Late October will find us gathering our first eggs and probably processing our first rabbits.
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Recipe by road princess Gilmo
Delicious quick dinner. This was my favorite dish that my mom made as a little girl. We still make it once a week and it is great leftover! You can double it and it is great for company.Only two pots to clean! I included a lowfat variation you can make with chicken; its yummy too!
Top Review by Jenny Draper
Made this for dinner on Sunday, it was a very hot day and the best was this recipe was so quick to fix. I served it over mashed potatoes, my family loves instant mashed, so that was even less time in the kitchen and my daughter did the potatoes in the microwave. The sherry made the sauce nice and rich, it was a very classy dish, but so simple. I had to thicken it, so next time I would drain the mushrooms and save the liquid then add it if necessary. I thickened it with flour and water, I ended up with more sauce and then I added more sherry (more sherry is a good thing). More is better... We all loved it.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 round steak, sliced into strips
- 1 small onion, sliced (rings or chopped)
- 1 can cream of mushroom soup (i like the fat free)
- 1 can mushroom stems and pieces, undrained
- 1⁄2 cup cooking sherry (i like a little more)
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder (I like more)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon garlic salt (Maybe more to taste)
- 1 1⁄2 cups cooked instant rice
- 1 tablespoon cooking oil
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- Cook steak strips and onion in cooking oil in large skillet on medium- med high heat.
- When steak and onions are done add soup and mushrooms (undrained) stirring.
- When it looks less chunky and more soup-like add your sherry garlic and garlic salt.
- Stir and simmer for about 5-10 minutes.
- For even more tender meat, simmer a little longer on low.
- If it starts to thicken too much you can add a little water (depending on how thick you like your sauce.) Serve sauce over rice.
- Great with a salad and some garlic bread!
- For lowfat variation: Use chicken breasts.
- Boil them.
- Cut into chunks and add to sauce and onions.
- Use 98% fat free soup (can't taste the difference) delicious.
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How beautiful a woman wearing a wedding dress for beach wedding. A perfect dress designed to develop the detail in the whole body. Meanwhile, there are some parts that open and supportive nature of the dress to be more elegant. Based on the reference, this dress is also always designed with white concept and implies elegance. Although in some cases you can not differentiate this with bridal gowns for outdoor theme. But you only need to focus on elegant design that always gets praise from critics. And if you want to organize the different parties, you can hold it on the beach, complete with this dress.
The wedding ceremony is a sacred moment that can not be held in vain. The idea of a wedding party should be managed in order to be one of perfection is expected. Choosing a dress for a wedding theme should also be planned ahead of time. In this case, the beach wedding is a concept that tends to be difficult to implement, because we want perfection in some detail. Beach wedding dress radiates charm which invites you to explore the natural solemnity. And that's the most interesting thing that you can create by wearing this dress.
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It's official folks, the future has finally arrived. Today, October 21, 2015, is the day Marty McFly travels to in the cult classic Back to the Future Part II.
Hitting theaters in 1989, the film created a massive buzz around its vision of the future. From Hoverboards to robots that walked your dog, the world of the future looked like a pretty good place.
So how well did the film's creators do predicting what 2015 would look like? Let's explore 5 things they got very right, and 5 that were dead wrong.
Predictions That Came True
1) Hands-free Video Games
"You mean you have to use your hands? that's like a baby's toy." I really wish that was the advertising slogan for the Kinect. Introduced in 2010, the device not only lets you play games without a physical controller, it's also highly hackable and being used for all kinds of incredible art and tech projects.
2) TV Glasses
Now here's a prediction the movie got spot on. VR glasses/goggles are popping up everywhere right now. From Google Glass, to the Oculus Rift and even the smart-phone hacking Google Cardboard, there are a lot of new ways to watch "TV" strapped to your face. Plus you can do a LOT more.
3) Video Conferencing
Too bad for old Marty McFly getting fired. It's so much harder in person.
Today's video conferencing looks way more clear than what they predicted in 1989… and forget about being fired or late: now we can make video calls from almost anywhere using only our phones.
4) Targeted Advertising
Ok, I know what you're thinking: "we don't have holographic sharks." But what we do have is an entire internet dedicated to serving up targeted ads aimed directly at you. That shark isn't aiming at anyone but Marty in the video, just like those 6 ads based on your last Amazon search.
5) Tablet Computers
Apple beat this prediction to the punch with the first popular tablet computer, the iPad. Not only that, but with a large touch sensitive screen, it's probably WAY more useful than the gadget spotted in that scene when Marty gets hit up for a donation to repair the old town clock.
Predictions That Didn't Come True
1) Rehydrating Food
There's pizza delivery, frozen pizza, microwave pizza… can it get any easier? Yes.
We still need food rehydrators so we can have teeny-tiny food that expands into steaming hot big food.
Inventors, you have two months to make our dreams come true in 2015.
2) Flying Cars Everywhere
Clearly, the skies are a little less crowded with cars than we'd hoped. 2015 looks a lot like 1985 actually, except we have some electric cars rolling around and just a few that drive themselves (which is honestly pretty magic).
The closest thing we currently have to the flying car is the AeroMobil, and while that's VERY cool, it doesn't come close to a flying DeLorean.
3) Laser Disk Would Still be Around
Not much to say here except Back to the Future Part 2 seriously overestimated the popularity of LaserDisk. There certainly aren't enough around to fill an alley as garbage, but if you're looking at the smaller DVDs and Blu-ray formats that came later that's certainly possible.
Now, time to go stream a movie…
4) Hoverboards
Nobody is more disappointed than '80s and '90s kids who thought they'd be floating on air by now.
What we've got looks crazy hard to ride, takes copious amounts of liquid nitrogen to levitate, and only follows tracks hidden below the skate park.
Nope, not yet:
5) The Cubs Still Haven't Won the World Series
Sorry Cubs fans, even the BTTF2 writers knew this was a long shot, they gave it 100 to 1 odds. Not to mention that the date Marty McFly traveled to was today, before the World Series has even started.
Amazingly, FiveThirtyEight gives the Cubbies a 23.5% chance of making the World Series and a 12.2% chance of winning. Seems those writers could be on to something after all.


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I have decided that this season is my last summer milking cows. It has taken me a lot of thinking but I have made up my mind. A number of reasons really – among them and the most important: my family keeps growing, they do not live close to me and I cannot travel for eight or nine months of the year. I am tied to a cow. Sometimes my children need my help and I want to be available for them.
Another reason is getting the cows pregnant. My cow vet is far away now and coordinating with someone to breed them has become a real problem. Asking favours of people I do not know to breed cows I don't want to milk. It all adds up.
It is a hard decision with a lot ahead but I know it is right.
So (as well as a few steers) I will be selling Aunty Del, Carlos (who has produced no calves) and Aunty Anna. Lady Astor is too old to be sold on, and she has been a good milking companion – once she accepted her training and stopped kicking me – but her udder needs special care so unless I can find her a special home, she can just make like a horse and wander about the back fields for a while.
It will be a wrench to sell the Aunties but it has to happen. Aunty Del is young – she has a real future as a milk cow. Alex, Txiki and Tia will go to visit a local low line Angus, but they will raise any calves they have as beef. Both of the young ones are half Angus. I am not milking them.
My fourth son who lives in New Zealand is out working in California for a few months and he has his family with him and I cannot visit them because I am milking a cow. This makes me sick. I so seldom see my family. How can they possibly understand. Choosing a cow over them. I need to be able to move about more now. That is all.
Anyway that is my decision. And I am happy with it. I will milk Lady until Christmas then hang it up.
Today Alex leaves us and I am on my own for three weeks. John is home one day a week. But I am almost up to date in the gardens, Alex has left me in good shape, so as long as I put in the hours it will be alright. I really need the gardens to sell produce so I can go home to New Zealand for Christmas this year. I am happy to put in the hours. It all works out.
It is dry now – after all that rain. And hot. Now I am watering every morning and evening.
Rue the wee piglet came in and hung out in the house for the day, rearranged all my furniture and stuck his nose into everything, he played with a pile of ice on the verandah for ages but I got nothing done – he cried and carried on every time Boo and I went into the gardens. He is little and bony but healthy and bright so the pig lady is coming to collect him today. She loves it when I send her a runt. He will do well with her.
Oh and all the piglets are now together – the barn doors and both the backyard gates are wide open. No problems at all. The pigs adapted well.
I hope you have a lovely day.
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- You're welcome! I read Occult History many years ago, before the web, and lots of those kinds of references rather passed me by (my unacademic Northern comprehensive school made me drop history at 14). I find doing this kind of research on Steiner inspired topics helpful; it grounds and deepens and conforms the subject, which is the kind of thing Staudi could have been doing, if he was a real historian (rather than a polemicist). In my experience, Steiner's works are full of these kinds of illuminating topics, and researching them is both fun and what he wanted people to do.
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> > Tarjei has mentioned that Steiner has written on the famous
> Alexandrian mathematician, neo-Platonic philosopher, and pagan martyr
> Hypatia. Steiner describes her life most beautifully in Occult History
> (the kind of history Staudi denies exists and if it does would rather
> not know about):
> >
> > "Investigation of the Akasha Chronicle reveals that the individuality
> of that pupil of the Orphic Mysteries was reincarnated in the 4th
> century A.D. We find this individuality amid the activity and life of
> those gathered together in Alexandria, the Orphic secrets now
> transformed into personal experiences of the loftiest kind. It is very
> remarkable how all the Orphic secrets were transformed into personal
> experiences in this new incarnation. At the end of the 4th century,
> A.D., we find this individuality reborn as the daughter of a great
> mathematician, Theon. We see how there flashes up in her soul all that
> could be experienced of the Orphic Mysteries through vision of the great
> mathematical, light-woven texture of the universe. All this was now
> personal talent, personal genius. These faculties had now to be of so
> personal a character that it was necessary even for this individuality
> to have a mathematician as father in order that something might be
> received from heredity.
> > ...
> >
> > The deepest hatred was directed by the dignitaries of Christianity in
> Alexandria against the individuality of the reborn Orphic pupil. The
> fact that she was branded as a black magician will not therefore
> surprise us. But that was enough to incite the whole mob of hirelings
> against the noble, unique figure of the reborn pupil of the Orphic
> Mysteries. She was still young, but in spite of her youth, in spite of
> the fact that she was obliged to undergo much that in those days, too,
> imposed great hardships an a woman during a long period of study, she
> found her way upwards to the light that outshone all the wisdom, all the
> knowledge existing in those days. And it was wonderful how in the
> lecture halls of Hypatia for such was the name of this
> reincarnated Orphic pupil the purest, most luminous wisdom in
> Alexandria was presented to the enraptured listeners. She drew to her
> feet not only the Pagans, bat also Christians of deep and penetrating
> insight, such as Synesius. She was an influence of outstanding
> significance, and the revival of the old Pagan wisdom of Orpheus
> transformed into personality could be experienced in Alexandria in the
> figure of Hypatia."
> >
> > As we know, later her clothes were ripped from her body and then she
> was torn to pieces by an incensed mob, acting under the influence of the
> 'hirelings' of the 'dignitaries of Christianity in Alexandria', the
> bishops Theophilus and Cyril. This is contested, of course, since it's
> such a stain on the reputation of early Chrsitianity and we can see the
> tensions reflected in the Wiki article on Hypatia, which lays out two
> opposing accounts side by side, one from the Christian perspective, an
> unsuccessful whitewash that says she "beguiled many people through
> Satanic wiles", and one from the pagan.
> >
> > Steiner says this death was fore-ordained: as the greatest
> representative of pagan wisdom in the world at that time her death
> symbolised and marked the end its influence. Steiner calls this period
> of decline of the knowledge of pagan wisdom through the C4 AD a second
> Golgotha (Building Stones , around lecture 8). It was the time when
> emperor Julian, 'the apostate', attempted to unsuccessfully revive
> Hellenism and the old gods throughout the ambit of the empire; but he
> was killed, probably by a Christian assassin. During this period, with
> support from the emperors, who post-Constantine were Christians, the the
> old pagan temples and shrines were systematically destroyed. The most
> well known and visible symbol of this process was the destruction of the
> Alexandrian temple to Serapis, the Serapeum, which was torn down by a
> mob of variously Roman soldiers or Christians. The temple was one of the
> greatest in the world and housed an offshoot of the library of
> Alexandia, holding many hundreds of thousands of priceless scrolls of
> pagan wisdom, which was also destroyed. On the temple Ammianus
> Marcellinus said:
> >
> > "The Serapeum, splendid to a point that words would only diminish its
> beauty, has such spacious rooms flanked by columns, filled with such
> life-like statues and a multitude of other works of such art, that
> nothing, except the Capitolium, which attests to Rome's venerable
> eternity, can be considered as ambitious in the whole world."
> >
> > The destruction of this knowledge caused loss of the knowledge of
> esoteric Christianity, that had been part of the Christian understanding
> of the first church fathers and the gnostics. Only the exoteric
> interpretations, increasingly codified in the form of the dogmas of the
> Councils, were left to be passed on into the future.
> >
> > Steiner mentioned the figure of Synesius in that passage, who I hadn't
> heard of. A quick search reveals that he was indeed a Christian of 'deep
> and penetrating insight' who had a very interesting life. A few excerpts
> from this excellent webpage give an idea of this:
> >
> > "Synesius was a member of a well-known and rich family of Cyrene,
> which claimed descent from the half-legendary founders of the city,
> members of the Spartan royal house. His family's wealth enabled him and
> his brother Euoptius to travel to Greece (before 392) and study in
> Alexandria (after 393), where Hypatia introduced them to Neo-Platonism.
> This philosophy taught that there was one, supreme God, that everything
> in the universe was in harmony (or "sympathy", as it was called), and
> that God cared for Creation (providence).
> >
> > Synesius would never cease to believe this, and always remained
> friends with the wise woman, with whom he continued to exchange letters
> (e.g., Letter 15) when he retired to his estate Anchimachus, "studying
> philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, everything; farming, hunting, having
> many a brush with hordes of pilfering Libyans; and every now and then
> upholding the cause of someone who had undeservedly fallen into
> difficulties" - in short, the life of a Greek or Roman gentleman.
> >
> > In these years, he composed several texts, which show that he was a
> talented writer. His Greek is usually an excellent Attic, but his hymns
> -lighthearted and majestic at the same time- are composed in good
> Dorian. In these hymns, he praises the beauty of the universe. Unlike
> many of his contemporaries, he does not treat the subject in a pedantic
> way. One of his works is On dreams, which are, in his view, divine
> revelations that a good philosopher can understand; they are a way to
> "become linked with the spheres, that is to say, be carried up as if to
> its own natural state of being", and reach the origin of our existence
> without having to perform rituals or visit the temples (which had been
> closed in 392)
> > ...
> > He visited Alexandria again, where he married a Christian wife, whose
> name is not revealed in his letters, but for whom he wrote Hymn 8, which
> contains many Christian motifs. The ceremony was presided over by bishop
> Theophilus, patriarch of Alexandria. Clearly, Synesius was not greatly
> perturbed by the religious differences. This attitude is illustrated in
> his Letter 154, to Hypatia, in which he mocks Christian philosophers and
> empty, pagan sophistry, and states that he wants to adhere to the real
> truth that reveals itself in several ways. The couple had several
> children, who were born in Alexandria.
> >
> > n 409, he was invited to become bishop of Ptolemais, a port west of
> Cyrene and the main center of Christianity in the region. Being a
> philosopher and a pagan, he was heavily in doubt, but it was an age of
> war and bishops could do many things for their people. He wrote Letter
> 105to his brother, but in fact to the community of Ptolemais (it was
> some sort of "open letter"), saying that as a philosopher, he could not
> adhere to certain Christian beliefs, although he was willing to teach
> them to the illiterate. If his future flock could understand that this
> was his attitude, and would accept a married bishop who would under no
> condition dismiss his wife, he was willing to accept the invitation.
> >
> > He took his religious duties very seriously. His homilies contain no
> doctrinal errors or unorthodox statements. Instead he offers advice:
> after Lent, he warns his audience against passing from fasting to food
> and drunkenness (Homily 1). His arguments are interesting, because he
> first mentions a philosophical argument ("it would be against reason"),
> whereas scriptural evidence is quoted almost as an afterthought - and
> actually not quite convincingly.
> > In Letter 147, he admits that he does not appreciate the ascesis of
> monastic life, but also states that he envies the monks' advance on the
> road to God. We read about his pastoral sorrows, understand how he deals
> with an Arian sect, learn how he sought advice from other people, founds
> a monastery in an abandoned pagan shrine. When he quotes the Bible, he
> renders the Septuagint very accurately, which proves that he checked the
> text every time; this is unlike his loose quotations from the Dialogues
> by Plato, which betray that he thought he knew the texts by heart.
> >
> > Worse was to come: his three sons died, and contact with his
> philosophical friend Hypatia of Alexandria was lost (Letter 10 and the
> desperate Letter 16). He must have felt that he was doing the things to
> which his sense of duty, his philosophy, and the one God had called him,
> but happy he was not...."
> >
> > http://www.livius.org/su-sz/synesius/synesius_cyrene.html
> >
> >
> >
> > Ted Wrinch
> >
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They told stories of magic and enchantment, nostalgia and whimsy. They transported audiences to faraway places and cultures.
At the fourth annual Lititz Storytellers Festival this past weekend, the tellers of these tales were out in full force, sharing visions of real and not-so-real life. In a modern world of text messages and tweets, they were able to captivate listeners with nothing more than the spoken word. Or lots of words.
"It can be challenging to get people to listen, but if you think about it, the written word is only about 200 years old. That's how long humans have been reading," says storyteller Noa Baum. "The spoken word, well, that goes back hundreds of thousands of years. That's how we evolved as humans, how we became a society of storytellers."
Baum, of Silver Spring, Md., was born and raised in Israel. She tells stories of the faraway world, emphasizing the Jewish folk tales of her ancestry. Baum has performed at the Kennedy Center, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Brandeis University, and Stanford University.
Her secret to get people to listen? It's something like a web that spins its way around the listeners, so they find themselves captivated and mesmerized by her words as she tells a story of an Indian father and his son, or the tale of her own experiences of coming to America with her family and beginning school in fifth grade in the "land of miracles."
With Baum, as with all the storytellers, it was more than her words. It was her facial expressions, along with the way she intoned the words. Her smiles and her frowns drew the audience in, until they understood how it felt to be an inquiring young boy or a little girl looking for acceptance at her new school.
"Our culture in Israel is still very much about the spoken word," she explained. "Which is why I still talk on the phone and love to call people to hear their voices."
The voice was Dovie Thomason's tool as well. The master of traditional storytelling has been honored by the National Endowment for the Arts and Smithsonian Associates. Her timeless tales are influenced by her Lakota ancestors and her Kiowa Apache grandmother.
"My grandmother was the storyteller in our family and I learned from her," says Thomason, who has spent her career as a high school teacher and college professor. "As an educator, I realized that I could reach students by weaving stories into my lessons."
Inspired by her grandmother's tales, Thomason's uses her voice to spin magic with inflection and subtle humor. There are pauses and higher and lower tones to her voice as the audience listened with complete focus. In the golden light of the Warwick Middle School stage, Thomason was able to take listeners to places they could only imagine, where the father of the wind lived in the ghost country. She painted pictures with her voice and her hand gestures, calling on the spirit of her grandmother to take listeners on a journey.
"In my stories no characters are all good or all bad. They are both, just as we are," says Thomason. "And all of humanity is concerned about the same things."
Interestingly, Thomason admitted that when she walks onto the stage, she never knows for sure what stories she will tell. She never rehearses, and simply allows the stories to flow from within her.
As storyteller Ed Stivender points out, every storyteller has a "schtick." A schtick, points out Stivender, is derived from the Yiddish word "shtik," which refers to a comical piece or a gimmick.
"You've got to make them laugh," says Stivender. "Laughter draws them in and makes them feel good. It's what bands us all together as humans."
For Stivender, part of his schtick is playing the banjo. It lightens things up and prepares the audience for his admittedly silly antics. He makes up songs, strums a few notes and spins yarns that are both epic and absurd.
Stivender has been called the "Robin Williams of storytelling," with his meandering style that takes listeners off in many wacky directions. He has also been called "the Catholic Garrison Keiler" for his homespun stories of characters like "mud miners" and chickens requesting books at the library.
"I first got interested in playing the banjo and storytelling when I was young and heard Pete Seeger perform," says Stivender, who grew up near Philadelphia. "He had the skill of bringing the audience together."
Storytellers like Philip Gulley, who was making his second appearance at the festival, use humor to reach their audiences. Gulley, a Quaker pastor, is the author of 19 books that chronicle life in the eccentric community of Harmony, Ind.
His stories tell of a humorous childhood with school friends like "Peanut," who was called that because he was bald and his body was shaped like a peanut. Gulley relates his yearnings for his pretty, fresh-out-of-college elementary school teacher and his mysterious illness that kept him bedridden for weeks. He reveals the truth about the Tooth Fairy and wearing cheap shoes in a Seinfeld kind of way that looks at the absurdity of life and its odd characters.
"Pacing is part of it," he explains, noting that one of his favorite comedians was George Carlin, who knew how to pace a story, startle his audience and keep them engaged. "I talk about themes that matter to everyone and they can relate to my autobiographical stories as if they are their own."
Along with storytelling performances on Friday and Saturday, the Lititz Storytellers Festival offered workshops on stories that connect people to the past, using humor in storytelling and giving voice to new traditions. The emcee was Terri Mastrobuono of Lititz, with Lancaster County Poet Laureate Chris Longenecker presenting her poetry.
"We are all storytellers, whether we are teachers or work in business. Storytelling is a way of communicating and sharing experiences," says Brenda Burkholder of the Lititz Storytelling Festival.
Event sponsors included Aaron's Books, Fox Chapel Publishing, and WITF.
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1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
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