text: AN ONLINE MEASURING SYSTEM TO SUPPORT HEART VALVE SURGERY N.Rajanipriya, Deepa.M B.V.Raju Institute of Technology, B.V.Raju Institute of Technology, Narsapur,Medak(dist). Narsapur,Medak(dist). Email : email@example.com Email: firstname.lastname@example.com ABSTRACT of mitral valve for a suitable valve replacement. It In this paper we present an online system was also intended to provide a friendly solution to be designed to assist heart surgeries, in particular to used by surgeons in real time. provide support to make the decisions during implant Segmentation was done using active heart valve operations. The 2-D echo image is contours and dimensions are measured from Global obtained from the output console of the ultrasound Image Binarization. scanner. The heart valves in the image are We have also developed a Graphical User segregated by processing the image using active Interface using Visual Basic to record the suggestions contours. The properties of that valve: the given by the doctor for artificial heart valve dimensional properties such as number of cusps, replacement. area of valve, radius of each cusp etc., and material properties such as the elasticity, viscosity and BACKGROUND chemical interactions with in the body are obtained. The heart is the center of the cardiovascular The computer assisted system consists of the system. Whereas the term "cardio" refers to the heart, database which has the dimensional and the material the term vascular refers to blood vessels. The heart properties of the artificial heart valves. When the propels blood through thousands of miles of blood properties of natural heart valve are given as an vessels, and it is magnificently designed for this task. input to the computer assisted system, it compares The interior of the heart is divided into four them with the properties of artificial heart valves in compartments called chambers that receive the the database using the pattern recognition principles. circulating blood. The two superior chambers are The matching of the properties in the system called the right atrium and left atrium. The two determines the selection of artificial heart valve with inferior chambers are the right ventricle and left which the valve of the patient has to be replaced. This ventricle. As each chamber of the heart contracts, it therefore forms the decision making system assisting pushes a portion of blood into a ventricle or out of the the doctor to identify the appropriate artificial heart heart through an artery. To prevent back flow of valve for replacement. blood, the heart has valves. These structures are composed of dense connective tissue covered by INTRODUCTION endocardium. Valves open and close in response to pressure changes as the heart contracts and relaxes. In recent years mostly since the end of the Atrioventricular valves (AV) lie between the atria last decade growing investment in the development and ventricles. The right AV valve between the right and improvement of computer vision techniques has atrium and right ventricle is also called the tricuspid been a common policy of companies and countries. valve because it consists of three cusps (flaps). The Such techniques rely on the unstoppable advance of left AV between the left atrium and left ventricle has technology which provides cheaper and faster two cusps and is called the bicuspid (mitral) valve. hardware support on a regular basis. Both arteries that emerge from the heart valve that Computer vision aims to increase the speed prevents blood from flowing backward into the heart. and quality of some problem solutions, presenting as These are the Semi lunar (SL) valves. The pulmonary its ultimate goal, the creation of reliable systems semi lunar valve lies in the opening where the capable of taking the right automatic decisions pulmonary trunk leaves the right ventricle. The aortic supported by image analysis thus achieving results valve is situated at the opening between the left that until then were only made possible by human ventricle and the aorta. intervention. Medicine one of the most ancient and Heart valve prostheses are intended for use important fields of science is surely no exception and as the replacement of diseased natural valves. The the main problem that led to our work was related in four natural valves (tricuspid, mitral, pulmonic and this area in particular with heart surgery. aortic) become diseased, due, in part, to rheumatic The problem we tackled in this work was to fever, calcification, endocarditis, and congenital automatically segment and measure the dimensions defects. This results in the restriction of the forward flow of blood known as stenosis or regurgitation flow snaxels, connected by line segments. The position of of blood known as insufficiency. The advent in the snake is described by an M 2 matrix X, where the science and technology has led to new and improved ith row contains coordinates of the ith snaxel designs of these heart valves. Heart valve prostheses x0 y0 may be classified into 2 types, mechanical valves and x1 y1 tissue valves. Mechanical valves are classified into 3 X= ……………………… (1) categories, caged ball valves, tilting disk valves and .... .... bileaflet valves. Tissue valves use materials of xM 1 yM 1 biological origin as the valving elements viz, allograft valves, aortic valve xenograft and The contour motion is a result of interplay pericardial xenigraft. between its mechanical properties (defined as its SEGMENTATION AND TRACKING IN inertia, internal dissipation, and elastic stiffness) and ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC SEQUENCES: its potential energy (which is inversely proportional ACTIVE CONTOURS GUIDED BY OPTICAL to the image gradient). The equation of motion for FLOW ESTIMATES this model is Tracking algorithm that uses a Kalman filter MX(t)+CX(t)+KX(t)=F(t) …………….. (2) to track the object and estimate true motion has been proposed. The observations for this Kalman filter are where F is the matrix of x and y components of optical flow estimates obtained by application of the image forces at each vertex, where M = μ.Im, where μ block-wise Horn and Schunk algorithm. With such is the mass assigned to each vertex, C = γ.Im, where γ observations, the tracker should be able to more is the constant damping density and K is an MxM successfully handle sudden movements of the object stiffness matrix. Dots above the X represent the of interest. However, the use of optical flow as the derivatives in time. only input to the algorithm means that the current Two initial conditions are needed for solving position and shape of the object are estimated by the second-order differential equation. If the initial integrating object motion. This results in position and velocity are known, (2) has a unique accumulation of errors in the optical flow estimates solution. This suggests the way to incorporate the over time. This model does not provide a way of optical flow information into the active contour incorporating the current image information into the model. For the first frame of the image sequence, a current estimate of object shape and position. user defines the initial contour, and the initial velocity In the algorithm, the tracking problem is vector, is set to zero. Once the contour settles in the solved by using optical flow estimates as initial first frame, the subsequent initializations are done conditions when integrating the equation of motion. automatically. The initial position is given by the In other words, optical flow is used to push the final position from the preceding frame, and the contour toward the new position of the object. initial velocities of vertices are given by the optical In the simpler algorithm proposed by Ayache, an flow estimates. energy measure that tends to preserve the matching Optical flow estimates give the average of high curvature points and to enforce a smooth field velocity of the object between two frames, not the of displacements vectors between contours in two initial velocity. They can, however, be used as initial consecutive frames is minimized (such an approach velocities for two reasons. First, we are using a small also requires previous edge detection). In the method value for the damping factor, and second, since the we propose, instead of matching pieces of contours final contour position is adjusted through the action around high curvature points, through the use of of image forces, we only need rough estimates of optical flow, the best matches for image regions initial velocity. around each vertex of the contour are found in the To estimate optical flow, we used a next frame. The benefits of the latter approach are multiscale version of Singh"s algorithm, which is notable in the high deformation frames (our capable of detecting large displacements. algorithm required user intervention in only one frame in three sequences showing the mitral valve. METHOD A. Integration of the Equation of Motion The contour is defined as a set of M vertices, 1) Single-Step Time Marching Scheme: The equation of the dynamic equilibrium of the contour (2) can be integrated using a single-step time- M i 0 2 dFI dXi ……………………… (6) marching scheme (SSTMS). In the SSTMS, the time t is divided into M i 0 1 dFI dXI 0 several intervals, or time steps t i . In . where dF M C X kX F is the force residue each time step, the position and the and dX is the position increment. If is less than velocity of the object are updated. 5%, it is assumed that the contour has reached the Calculations performed for each time equilibrium. interval are i) X.. 2 X.n t 2 n 3) Calculation of the Contour Position: The time interval between two successive frames is assumed to X.. 2 X.n n be one. This time interval is then divided into Nt intervals for which STMS integration is executed. To avoid attraction of the contour by noise and undesired t2 objects that can be in its way while moving toward ii) M t C1 n 2 K 2 the new position of the object of interest, we chose a nonuniform time division. The first interval t0 is set . F C X n 2 k X n 1 .. at 0.9 and the remaining 0.1 is divided into Nt-1 equal intervals t n . During t0 , image forces are t2 set to zero to prevent attraction of the contour by iii) X n 2 X n t X.n n 2 undesired valleys of the potential surface. In other X.n 2 X.n n t ………… (3) words, we are making the potential surface flat for the first 90% of the time. During this time, elastic where n is the time step number, X 0 X(0) and forces act on the contour, filtering inaccuracies in X. X . 0 and 1 and 2 are constants. The 0 velocity estimates. During the remaining 10% of the unconditional stability of the integration is time, image forces are included, making the contour guaranteed if 1 0.5 and 2 1 . Steps i)–iii) are settle on the edges of the object of interest. The contour is resampled after each iteration to repeated for each of the time intervals. The problem compensate for possible clustering of the snaxels in is nonlinear if the stiffness matrix K is not constant the local energy minima along the valley of the and depends on the position of the contour. In such a potential surface. After resampling, distances case, the equation of motion takes a more general between snaxels are equal. Since both positions and form velocities of points from one iteration are used in the M X C X PX F ……………… (4) .. . following one, velocities of new snaxels have to be recalculated as well. The position of a new snaxel is a In this case, the problem is linearized inside a time linear combination of positions of two old snaxels interval and, hence, its velocity is also a linear combination of _ velocities of the same two snaxels. PX P X n K X ……………………. (5) where K is the value of K at some average value _ B. Contour Stiffness and Internal Forces In the case of the discrete contour, internal forces of X inside the current interval. (4) has to be solved depend on positions of vertices. Internal forces can iteratively using steps ii) and iii) of the procedure usually be decomposed into the product of the given in (3). It will be shown that the stiffness matrix stiffness matrix and the position matrix Fint=-K(X)X in our model depends on the position of the contour. Where such decomposition is not possible , the However, the internal forces can be decomposed as equation of motion takes on the form of (4). P(X)=K(X)X,with stiffness matrix K recalculated at the beginning of each iteration. Depending on the shape of the object of interest, different internal forces can be designed. The role of 2) Equilibrium Criterion: The iteration process is such forces is to enforce on the contour a shape terminated when the contour attains the equilibrium feature that is characteristic of the object. For at each time step. In the proposed model, the ratio of example, in the case of heart valve leaflets, assigning contour deformation energy in the current and the the contour elastic properties that try to preserve first iteration was chosen as an equilibrium measure length will result in failure of the active contour to the developed approach is quite flexible. A priori detect sudden length changes. However, the leaflet knowledge about the shape characteristics of the shape feature that seems to be preserved throughout object of interest can be incorporated into the the image sequence is leaflet thickness. This fact definition of internal forces, and the rest of the suggests that in the case of valve leaflets, additional algorithm remains unchanged. forces that act to preserve contour thickness should be added. To define such forces, for each point i on the contour, the distance di from the matching point on the opposite side is calculated (Fig. 1). Also, the i distance d i0 calculated at the optimal position in the first frame is stored and considered to be optimal. The internal force that acts on the vertex i is then defined as a force proportional to the relative change di in length d0 di di di 0 1 1 j f int k k d i 0 d 0 di di di i 1 1 = k 0 X J X i d i di Fig.1. Internal force acts to preserve the thickness of 1 1 the leaflet.The force at vertex i will be in the direction d = k 0 x j x i , y j y i ……. (7) of di and its magnitude (positive or negative) will i di depend on the degree of change in the length of d i. where k is the constant elastic coefficient. The form C. Image Forces of (7) indicates that in the ith row of the stiffness To calculate image forces, we first need to matrix, all elements are zero, except Kii and Kij define the potential surface. It is computed as Hi, j G * I (i, j) 2 If we define ……. (8) 1 1 ki k 0 , then Kii=ki and Kij=-ki d where I is the image intensity, G is a two- i di dimensional (2-D) Gaussian mask with standard Introduction of such a force prevents the opposite deviation and * is a 2-D convolution. The sides of the contour from collapsing. After t 0 the standard deviation of the Gaussian mask has to be contour is close to the leaflet, but has not reached it chosen carefully. When the object of interest is very completely. At this time, image forces are introduced, small in at least one dimension (such as in heart valve and very often both sides of the contour can be leaflets, which are very thin), too large value for attracted by the same side of the leaflet, i.e., be on the may completely blur the edges of the object. We used slopes of the same valley of the potential surface. the value 1.2 for the mitral valve, and 1.8–1.9 for Once opposite sides of the contour begin getting other image sequences of both a healthy and diseased closer, the elastic force pushes them apart and brings heart. These numbers were chosen experimentally. one side of the contour under the influence of the Components of the image force at each vertex are opposite edge of the leaflet. calculated as the negative of the partial derivatives of H in corresponding directions For the left ventricle and aortic root image sequences used to test our algorithm, the elastic coefficient k H xi , yi fi x g ; was set to zero. The velocity estimates seemed to be x norm H xi , yi quite accurate and the problem of snaxel clustering was solved by contour resampling in each iteration. fi y g …….(9) y norm The example of tracking the leaflet motion shows that where index norm denotes that the variable is third from 150 to 255. Through histogram analysis normalized to values from zero to one. The Sobel the system will then find out which of these classes operator was used to calculate both H and F contain the largest set of points belonging to the .Parameter g is used to control the amplitude of image. Here, three distinct situations can arise. In the image forces. first situation, when the largest set of pixels belongs to the first defined class [0 - 49], the image consists predominantly of dark tones, thus making it harder to find a good threshold value. For these cases, we developed a binarization algorithm that proved to be somehow very efficient. In this simple method, the threshold value is determined by averaging the histogram maximum gray level (level containing the most image points) with the medium histogram gray level (sum of every pixel"s level divided by the total number of image pixels). HIST(1) HIST(2)......... .. HIST( N) MAX(HIST) Threshold N 2 Fig.2. 2-D echo images of Mitral valve From the formula above, it can be easily understood MEASURING SYSTEM that for very dark pictures, where other algorithms return a low threshold value that results in poor Automatic Global Binarization quality binarizations and subsequent loss of some calibration target points (due to noise), this method As mentioned before, a reliable image settles a higher threshold value located between the binarization method was developed in order to maximum and the average histogram levels. provide good quality binarized image (in real - time), On the other hand, if the largest set of pixels which represent the most important requirement of belongs to the second defined class [50 - 149], then the template matching algorithm used in the system the image is mostly composed by intermediate gray to detect the calibration target set of points. levels and therefore the best method to apply is the To achieve this goal, some known well known Otsu method (which works especially binarization methods were tested. However, as well if there are no major image brightness expected, no method was found to be general enough variations). – the pictures analyzed, mostly heart tissues, had Finally we reach the last case, where the indeed very specific characteristics (in terms of largest set of pixels belongs to the third defined class, brightness, contrast, and color balance) that changed ranging from 150 to 255. Here, the images are in fact greatly from picture to picture, leading to a too light and both methods described above reveal miscellany of good and bad results for each method their lack of efficiency regarding to finding a applied. threshold value that maximizes binarization quality. To cope with this problem, the solution In this case it is used an algorithm introduced in found was to introduce a decision procedure based on O"Gorman, which is also a global approach, but uses the image histogram, capable of choosing the most a measure of local information, namely connectivity. appropriate binarization method according to image This method maximizes connectivity of the resulting properties. It should be noticed that histograms, thresholded regions and works exceptionally well if although very simple concepts, encapsulate more than 50% of image gray levels belong to the information that turns out to be very helpful in the third defined class. study of certain cases. At this point, after choosing the binarization As the basis for this binarization decision method according to the rules presented above and procedure was precisely the histogram, image gray performing that operation, some cleaning was found levels are grouped into three different classes, necessary in order to remove isolated pixels. This accordingly to its brightness, the first one ranging was achieved through a morphological filter. from 0 to 49, the second one from 50 to 149 and the RESULTS algorithm requires the user"s interaction only in the first frame of the sequence. Optical flow information is used to estimate the initial position of contour in the subsequent frames. We have also presented a software package to perform online measuring of mitral valve structures to assist heart surgery. The developed application was designed to capture and process mitral valve pictures. 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Final Score: Ottawa 4, Montreal 2
Ottawa, ON (Sports Network) - Chris Neil scored the game-winner in the third period and Pascal Leclaire stopped 29 shots as the Ottawa Senators tallied four unanswered goals to take a 4-2 win over the Montreal Canadiens at Scotiabank Place.
Neil, Chris Campoli and Peter Regin each had a goal and an assist for the Senators, who have won two straight. Ryan Shannon notched the other goal in the win.
Michael Cammalleri and Benoit Pouliot each had a goal for the Canadiens, who had won four straight coming into the game. Jaroslav Halak was charged with three goals on 27 shots in the loss.
With the score tied at two in the third, Ottawa took the lead on a shot from the right point that popped into the air with Neil banging it into the net. The goal was reviewed to determine if Neil's stick was over the crossbar, but the call on the ice was upheld and the Senators had a 3-2 lead at the 6:15 mark.
The Habs pulled Halak from the net in the final minute of play, but Campoli's empty-netter with 45.7 seconds to play sealed the win.
Montreal took a 1-0 lead just 4:59 into the game as Andrei Kostitsyn sent a pass from the right circle to the left where Cammalleri deposited it into a wide open net. The goal was the 20,000th in the long history of the Montreal franchise.
Halfway through the opening frame, the Habs took a 2-0 advantage. Brian Gionta whiffed on a one-timer from the slot, but the puck went down low where Pouliot whipped it in for his third goal of the season.
Ottawa, though, got one back three minutes later as Neil's one-timer from the left point was stopped by Halak, but Regin was there to bang home the rebound.
Skating on the power play in the second period, Ottawa tied the game as a right circle faceoff win was drawn back to Shannon, who skated to the high slot and beat Halak with a wrister at the 15:33 mark.
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Gionta played for the first time in 21 games as he was suffering from a broken left foot...Ottawa hosts Colorado on Wednesday...Montreal continues its season-high seven-game road trip in Tampa Bay on Wednesday...Ottawa went 1- for-5 on the power play while Montreal didn't have a single power-play opportunity...Halak was selected as the NHL's top star on Monday for the week ending December 27. He had a 3-0-0 record with a 1.97 goals-against average for the week.


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NYA Hosts Buddhist Monk Khen Rinpoche
Renowned Buddhist monk Khen Rinpoche will make a return visit to NYA on March 2 and 3. He is the founding director of the Siddartha School in Ladakh, India, which serves children in preschool through tenth class.
On March 2 at 7:00 pm in Safford Center, Rinpoche will speak about "Wisdom and Compassion at Home – Cultivating a Mindful Family in Modern Life." His talk is free and open to the public. During his visit, he will also meet with classes in the Lower, Middle and Upper Schools.
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One commonly observed characteristic of religions is the regular recitation of certain non-falsifiable propositions - "religious creeds". One might suppose that this behaviour gives comfort to those believers who feel vaguely uncomfortable that their most cherished beliefs are not well founded in evidence or logic. Recite the creed and drive away the Demon of Doubt. It may be "irrational" but its widespread practice suggests that it is effective.
In the case of the Church of the Myth of the Irrational Voter, the recitation of the Creed is ironic since those who accuse voters of irrationality typically do little more than demonstrate their own "irrationality" (in the sense of putting a case that is not supported by evidence or logic).
If one listens carefully to the interview with Mr Caplan, one will note his conspicuous failure to adduce any evidence to support The Economist's claim that "not-so-rational voters are too dense to know" - let alone the broader claim that voters are "irrational". (We'll deal with that distinction later.) He makes bald assertions along the lines of "people want to hear", "they like to hear", and "there is little evidence that their views make much sense". He alludes to the base motives of professional politicians who pander to special interests and promote policies that they themselves do not believe to be in the best interests of those they supposedly "represent" (behaviour that sounds rather like good old "principal-agent failure"). And he quotes professional politicians revealing their secret contempt for the people they supposedly "represent".
What Mr Caplan doesn't do is define what constitutes "irrationality" in relation to voters and provide evidence that it exists.
The claim of "irrationality" is a big one. In what sense can voters be described as "irrational"? Is it for a preference they express? A preference cannot be irrational. If one has a preference, one has a preference. To describe a preference as irrational is a category error.
One might not agree with some preferences, but that does not make them irrational. To describe them as such would be - dare I say it? - irrational.
There is an extensive literature on "human" irrationality (such as the apparent inconsistencies observed in sets of preferences expressed by a single individual). But if one is concerned with human irrationality, why not discuss it as such? When dishing out the pejorative "irrational", why suddenly categorise human beings as "voters"?
Now, it might be suggested that human beings have been characterised as "voters" in this article because it is discussing a government policy - the proposed stimulus package. But the argument against stimulus packages does not rely on positing the "irrationality of voters". It's a red herring. Why has the topic of voter irrationality been introduced here at all? Unless it is just another opportunity to recite the Creed.
Moreover, the categorisation of human beings as "voters" is all the more bizarre in the United States (where this article originated) since the United States is a jurisdiction in which voters - for the most part - are not permitted to express their preferences on policies; they are permitted only an occasional vote for (so-called) "representatives". Furthermore, that process of voting is itself distorted by the domination of a duopoly of political parties. Given that voters have not actually been studied expressing their preferences on policies (in a context in which those expressed preferences would be enacted), how can one make any empirical judgement on their supposed "irrationality" - even supposing that such a thing were not a category error?
We might make some claim about the "knowledge" of voters (as opposed to their "rationality", the point alluded to earlier). It is plausible that an elitist system of (so-called) "representative" government discourages voters from acquiring knowledge that can never be put to use. Why bother learning about something if you are not even permitted to vote on it? Like the children of overbearing parents, voters might even take to expressing extreme opinions in the knowledge that those opinions will be ignored anyway - ignored by political agents who are intent on promoting their own self-interest.
In other words, in place of the writer's elitist and unsupported claim that "not-so-rational voters are too dense to know", we might make a more reasoned claim that "an elitist system in which voters cannot express their preferences directly provides them with little incentive to acquire knowledge relevant to those preferences". But that doesn't make for a good Creed.
So, on the one hand, we see that Mr Caplan (and his acolyte who wrote this article) have failed to define what would constitute "irrationality" on the part of voters, let alone providing evidence that it exists.
On the other hand - and this is where it gets really interesting - even if one did accept the claims of Mr Caplan and the acolyte, what precisely do they propose as an alternative?
Consider the options.
First, one could leave the system as it is. But - as it is precisely this system that Mr Caplan and the acolyte seem so keen to criticise - one suspects that this is not what they have in mind.
Secondly, we could make the system less democratic by reducing the role of voters. One could be forgiven for suspecting that this is what the elitists are really aiming at with their spurious (and irrelevant) claims of "voter irrationality".
But is there any evidence that less democratic systems perform "better" than more democratic ones? Are there squalid camps dotted along the borders of Germany, France and Italy, filled with refugees escaping the horrors and privation of Swiss democracy? Does one observe an exodus from US states like California (which have the right of initiative) towards those states which do not?
(If The Economist really does advocate making the United States less democratic, it would be interesting to see the Editor say as much in an editorial.)
Finally, one might make the system more democratic by removing the monopoly on political power exercised by (and enforced by!) the so-called political "representatives", thereby reducing the scope for principal-agent failure.
Which of these options is to be preferred? That is a matter of opinion. But there is no self-evident principle by which the opinions of The Church of the Myth of the Irrational Voter may be accorded greater weight than the opinions of other people. To do that would be . . . irrational perhaps?


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Sidewalk extension considered in PittsfordBy Lucia Suarez
STAFF WRITER | February 11,2013PITTSFORD Expanding the sidewalk project from Pleasant Street to Route 7 is under consideration, but town officials want to know how much it will cost before giving the go-ahead.
Town Manager John Haverstock said they are interested in extending the project from the Lothrop Elementary School parking lot where the sidewalk project is designed to cut off to Route 7, but need to make sure the cost falls within the budget.
We want to wait to see what the numbers are from the contractors, he said, adding they will ask contractors for linear prices to include the extension.
This alternative was presented to the Select Board by project engineer Chrissy Legge with the Dufresne Group on Wednesday.
The new sidewalk will continue from the already existing asphalt sidewalk on Arch Street near the post office building before traveling south toward the intersection with Pleasant Street. A crosswalk will connect both streets before the sidewalk continues to the elementary school parking lot.
Haverstock said the engineers considered changing the location, per request from the state Agency of Transportation, but quickly discarded the proposal. He said it makes sense to leave it on Arch Street because of the existing sidewalk there.
The sidewalk will be 5 feet wide with a 6-inch curve, though Haverstock said they have not determined if they will go with asphalt or concrete. He said it will depend on the cost, and both materials have their downsides and upsides.
With asphalt it holds better cleanup and maintenance, while concrete, while beautiful, is known to be susceptible to salt, Haverstock said.
Bids will go out later this year. Construction, though, is not expected to begin until 2014 because of funding procedures the town needs to accomplish beforehand. The project is estimated to cost close to $400,000.
About 80 percent of the project will be paid through two federal transportation grants awarded to the town in 2009 and 2011. The town is expected to pay the rest with at least 10 percent in cash while the rest can be in kind.
The town has budgeted $20,000 a year for the last three years and another $20,000 is budgeted for the upcoming fiscal year.
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Words with Short "O" Sound
These frogs are some of the pickiest jumpers this side of Calaveras County. Can your kid help them on their journey? This worksheet is all about identifying the short "o" sound. Your child will need to look at the different pictures and decide which words have the same short "o" sound as the word "frog". Your child will be flexing his phonics skills with this froggy challenge!
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Worksheet reprinted with permission from The World Almanac for Kids Puzzler Deck: Phonics!, Ages 5-7 (Chronicle Books, 2008).
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Authors: Poul Holm, Arne Jarrick, Dominic Scott
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The European Association of Sociology (EAS), the European Confederation of Political Science Associations (ECPSA), the European Educational Research Association (EERA), the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) and the European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres (ECHIC) have sent a joint letter to the European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, expressing concern regarding the implementation of Horizon 2020 programme.
The main concerns expressed in the letter address the diminished funding for the SSH (social sciences and humanities) research and the narrow utilitarian approach to SSH reflected in the calls for proposals as well as in selection of experts.
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Conference report of the Horizons of Social Sciences and Humanities, which took place in Vilnius in September 2013, is now available online. Besides the Vilnius Declaration, its objective is to present the practical results of the conference, e.g. recommendations for specific Societal Challenges in Horizon 2020.
Online version of conference report: http://horizons.mruni.eu/conference-report/
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On the page "What follows" you can find forthcoming events and links to related initiatives.
The hard facts of the role of humanities in Horizon 2020 are not encouraging. The money set aside in the budget for Research Challenge 6 'Inclusive, Innovative and Reflective Societies' is a meagre 400 million euro. The Commission has bundled the challenge with a number of cross-cutting initiatives which give the impression that funding is larger but most of this money will not go to humanities purposes. However, there will be funding for humanities approaches in the other challenges such as Health, Food, Transport, and Security.
In the aftermath of Vilnius a number of initiatives have been taken to express the dissatisfaction with this outcome. ECHIC signed a letter with representatives of social science organisations to the Commissioner in November calling for her warm words of support to be translated into real funding initiatives. In the same process, the outgoing chair of the ERC Prof Helga Nowotny, sent a letter on the same lines.
The Director-General Robert Jan Smits has now in a letter assured the willingness of the Commission to make the integration happen as proposed in the Vilnius Declaration. He states that it is planned to distribute the declaration to all Programme Committees. He writes, that approximately one quarter of all topics in Societal Challenges other than SC6, Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation will be flagged as SSH relevant, and that 15% of the appointed experts to Expert Advisory Groups have relevant interdisciplinary knowledge. And he informs us that Member States have confirmed that they will address the issue of integrating SSH at each H2020 kick-off event and that incentives of interdisciplinary research are highlighted.
Very importantly, Mr Smits endorses the idea to set-up CSA platforms in order to create spaces for the network and preparation of interdisciplinary projects. This is arcane language but what it means is that we have support for the idea put forward in our letter that Horizon 2020 needs to take a special initiative to encourage and include the SSH in all the research challenges by setting up support for synthesis centres. The reason for such an initiative is that currently a lot of humanities research is simply ignored because of lack of visibility. Discussions in Vilnius nade it very clear that for example the study of food cultures which has broad humanistic relevance will hardly be included in future calls under the Food challenge. Synthesis centres or Integrative Platforms as they are now called should be designed to call on and make visible the real potential of humanities research to inform research challenges.
Knowing the tricky way words may be used it is too early to assume that the CSA platforms are what we envision but it means that there is now an identifiable way forward. CSA is EU jargon for Coordination and Support Action and can be anything from very small to quite large so budget is another issue (a crucial one indeed!) and will depend on how well we argue the case.
ECHIC is pushing the idea of Integrative Platforms and has found support for the idea in Science Europe and elsewhere. The ECHIC conference in Porto will be an important opportunity to discuss and develop the idea.
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Following up on the Vilnius conference, the following letter was sent to the EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Geoghegan-Quinn by the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH). In the letter EASSH protests against the evident sidelining – rather than mainstreaming – of the SSH and proposes:
The letter is signed by Poul Holm as Chair of ECHIC.
The European Federation of Academies of Science and Humanities, ALLEA, has produced a 'roadmap' showing how it wants to position social sciences and humanities research within the Horizon 2020 programme.
The document was drawn up by a working group of representatives from ALLEA member organisations, chaired by John Bell professor of law at the University of Cambridge, which met at the British Academy in London.
Their report insists that that the objectives of the Commission's seven-year research strategy can only be achieved with the active involvement of social scientists and humanities researchers.
These "have a key contribution to make in defining and understanding the conditions for fostering innovative change and increasing the likelihood that innovation will lead to economic and societal progress," the committee states.
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In an extraordinary shareholders' assembly here that was peppered with whistles from investors angry about the retailer's recent decline in share price, shareholders also approved three board seats for representatives of Blue Capital, the investment consortium of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton chief Bernard Arnault, and Colony Capital.
Arnault, Nicolas Bazire and Sebastien Bazin were voted to Carrefour's board to represent Blue Capital, which controls 13.6 percent of Carrefour. Also nominated to the board were former French finance minister Thierry Breton and BNP Parisbas head Jean-Laurent Bonnafe.
There was speculation earlier this month that Breton, who has served as head of France Telecom, could replace Carrefour's current chief executive Jose Luis Duran. Carrefour denied it wanted to replace Duran. Shareholders on Monday approved Duran in his position as ceo of the new management structure.
Amaury de Seze, head of the previous supervisory board, will preside over the board of directors, which is designed to give Carrefour more managerial maneuvering room.
Carrefour, the world's second-largest retailer after Wal-Mart Stores Inc., has had weak sales in France and its stock has dropped this year from more than 50 euros, or $79.47 at current exchange, to as low as 30 euros, or $47.68, this month. Shares in Carrefour slipped 2.5 percent in trading on the Paris Bourse Monday to close at 34.12 euros, or $53.34.


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