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Hyperspectral imaging
Hyperspectral imaging, like other spectral imaging, collects and processes information from across the electromagnetic spectrum. Such as the human eye sees visible light in three bands (red, green, and blue), spectral imaging divides the spectrum into many more bands. This technique of dividing images into bands can be extended beyond the visible.
Engineers build sensors and processing systems to provide such capability for application in agriculture, mineralogy, physics, and surveillance. Hyperspectral sensors look at objects using a vast portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Certain objects leave unique 'fingerprints' across the electromagnetic spectrum. These 'fingerprints' are known as spectral signatures and enable identification of the materials that make up a scanned object. For example, a spectral signature for oil helps mineralogists find new oil fields.
- 1 Acquisition and analysis
- 2 Different hyperspectral imaging technologies
- 3 Differences between hyperspectral and multispectral imaging
- 4 Applications
- 5 Advantages and disadvantages
- 6 Software resources
- 7 See also
- 8 References
- 9 External links
Acquisition and analysis[edit]
Hyperspectral sensors collect information as a set of 'images'. Each image represents a range of the electromagnetic spectrum and is also known as a spectral band. These 'images' are then combined and form a three-dimensional hyperspectral data cube for processing and analysis.
Hyperspectral cubes are generated from airborne sensors like the NASA's Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS), or from satellites like NASA's EO-1 with its hyperspectral instrument Hyperion.[1] However, for many development and validation studies, handheld sensors are used.[2]
The precision of these sensors is typically measured in spectral resolution, which is the width of each band of the spectrum that is captured. If the scanner detects a large number of fairly narrow frequency bands, it is possible to identify objects even if they are only captured in a handful of pixels. However, spatial resolution is a factor in addition to spectral resolution. If the pixels are too large, then multiple objects are captured in the same pixel and become difficult to identify. If the pixels are too small, then the energy captured by each sensor cell is low, and the decreased signal-to-noise ratio reduces the reliability of measured features.
The acquisition and processing of hyperspectral images is also referred to as imaging spectroscopy.
Different hyperspectral imaging technologies[edit]
There are basically three different techniques used to realize a hyperspectral image: scanning an image spatially, capturing full spectral data sequentially; scanning an image spectrally, capturing full spatial information sequentially; and taking a "snapshot," capturing all the spectral and spatial information at once.[3]
The first type of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) devices obtain images by integrating a dispersive means (a prism or a grating) in an optical system, and has the drawback of having the image analyzed per lines (push broom scan) and also having some mechanical parts integrated into the optical train. The second type of HSI devices are based on optical band-pass filters (either tuneable or fixed) and the spectrum has to be scanned in steps. Both HSI techniques lead to good quality results but have low efficiency in term of light gathering power and traditionally long integration times are necessary to obtain a full HSI cube.
Line-scan systems, where the spatial dimension is collected through platform movement or scanning, require stabilized mounts or accurate pointing information to 'reconstruct' the image. In wavelength scanning systems, spectral smearing can occur if there is movement within the scene, invalidating spectral correlation/detection. Newer full motion video spectral imaging systems can simultaneously captures and processes all three dimensions of a spectral cube at video rates. These systems are more efficient for detection and tracking applications because unlike line-scanning cameras and spatially invariant systems, the spectral information is focused on collecting the application specific data, not extraneous detail.[4]
The third type of HSI devices obtain the spectrum of a light source using so-called Fourier transform (FT) spectroscopy; in this technique the FT is applied to the interferogram acquired by a scanning interferometer in order to calculate the spectral composition of the light entering in the interferometer. There are two effects which make this type of spectrometers intrinsically faster:
- There is no spectral scanning and all the spectral components are acquired at the same time (Fellgett or multiplex advantage).
- The aperture used in FTIR spectrometers has a larger area than the slits used in dispersive spectrometers, thus enabling higher throughput of radiation (Jacquinot or throughput advantage).
There are two different type of interferometers that could be implemented: either the Michelson interferometer or the Fabry-Perot interferometer. These devices compromise either spectral or spatial resolution in order to achieve their speed advantage.[5]
Differences between hyperspectral and multispectral imaging[edit]
Hyperspectral imaging is part of a class of techniques commonly referred to as spectral imaging or spectral analysis. Hyperspectral imaging is related to multispectral imaging. The distinction between hyper- and multi-spectral is sometimes based on an arbitrary "number of bands" or on the type of measurement, depending on what is appropriate to the purpose.
Multispectral imaging deals with several images at discrete and somewhat narrow bands. Being "discrete and somewhat narrow" is what distinguishes multispectral in the visible from color photography. A multispectral sensor may have many bands covering the spectrum from the visible to the longwave infrared. Multispectral images do not produce the "spectrum" of an object. Landsat is an excellent example of multispectral imaging.
Hyperspectral deals with imaging narrow spectral bands over a continuous spectral range, and produce the spectra of all pixels in the scene. So a sensor with only 20 bands can also be hyperspectral when it covers the range from 500 to 700 nm with 20 bands each 10 nm wide. (While a sensor with 20 discrete bands covering the VIS, NIR, SWIR, MWIR, and LWIR would be considered multispectral.)
'Ultraspectral' could be reserved for interferometer type imaging sensors with a very fine spectral resolution. These sensors often have (but not necessarily) a low spatial resolution of several pixels only, a restriction imposed by the high data rate.
Hyperspectral remote sensing is used in a wide array of applications. Although originally developed for mining and geology (the ability of hyperspectral imaging to identify various minerals makes it ideal for the mining and oil industries, where it can be used to look for ore and oil),[2][6] it has now spread into fields as widespread as ecology and surveillance, as well as historical manuscript research, such as the imaging of the Archimedes Palimpsest. This technology is continually becoming more available to the public. Organizations such as NASA and the USGS have catalogues of various minerals and their spectral signatures, and have posted them online to make them readily available for researchers.
Although the cost of acquiring hyperspectral images is typically high, for specific crops and in specific climates, hyperspectral remote sensing use is increasing for monitoring the development and health of crops. In Australia, work is under way to use imaging spectrometers to detect grape variety and develop an early warning system for disease outbreaks.[7] Furthermore, work is underway to use hyperspectral data to detect the chemical composition of plants,[8] which can be used to detect the nutrient and water status of wheat in irrigated systems.[9]
Another application in agriculture is the detection of animal proteins in compound feeds to avoid bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad-cow disease. Different studies have been done to propose alternative tools to the reference method of detection, (classical microscopy). One of the first alternatives is near infrared microscopy (NIR), which combines the advantages of microscopy and NIR. In 2004, the first study relating this problem with hyperspectral imaging was published.[10] Hyperspectral libraries that are representative of the diversity of ingredients usually present in the preparation of compound feeds were constructed. These libraries can be used together with chemometric tools to investigate the limit of detection, specificity and reproducibility of the NIR hyperspectral imaging method for the detection and quantification of animal ingredients in feed.
Eye care[edit]
Researchers at the Université de Montréal are working with Photon Etc. and Optima Diagnostics to test the use of hyperspectral photography in the diagnosis of retinopathy and macular edema before damage to the eye occurs. The metabolic hyperspectral camera will detect a drop in oxygen consumption in the retina, which indicates potential disease. An ophthalmologist will then be able to treat the retina with injections to prevent any potential damage. [11]
Food processing[edit]
In the food processing industry, hyperspectral imaging, combined with intelligent software, enables digital sorters (also called optical sorters) to identify and remove defects and foreign material (FM) that are invisible to traditional camera and laser sorters.[12] By improving the accuracy of defect and FM removal, the food processor's objective is to enhance product quality and increase yields.
Adopting hyperspectral imaging on digital sorters achieves non-destructive, 100 percent inspection in-line at full production volumes. The sorter's software compares the hyperspectral images collected to user-defined accept/reject thresholds, and the ejection system automatically removes defects and foreign material.
The recent commercial adoption of hyperspectral sensor-based food sorters is most advanced in the nut industry where installed systems maximize the removal of stones, shells and other foreign material (FM) and extraneous vegetable matter (EVM) from walnuts, pecans, almonds, pistachios, peanuts and other nuts. Here, improved product quality, low false reject rates and the ability to handle high incoming defect loads often justify the cost of the technology.
Commercial adoption of hyperspectral sorters is also advancing at a fast pace in the potato processing industry where the technology promises to solve a number of outstanding product quality problems. Work is underway to use hyperspectral imaging to detect "sugar ends,"[13] "hollow heart"[14] and "common scab,"[15] conditions that plague potato processors.
Geological samples, such as drill cores, can be rapidly mapped for nearly all minerals of commercial interest with hyperspectral imaging. Fusion of SWIR and LWIR spectral imaging is standard for the detection of minerals in the feldspar, silica, calcite, garnet, and olivine groups, as these minerals have their most distinctive and strongest spectral signature in the LWIR regions.[16]
Hyperspectral remote sensing of minerals is well developed. Many minerals can be identified from airborne images, and their relation to the presence of valuable minerals, such as gold and diamonds, is well understood. Currently, progress is towards understanding the relationship between oil and gas leakages from pipelines and natural wells, and their effects on the vegetation and the spectral signatures. Recent work includes the PhD dissertations of Werff[17] and Noomen.[18]
Hyperspectral surveillance is the implementation of hyperspectral scanning technology for surveillance purposes. Hyperspectral imaging is particularly useful in military surveillance because of countermeasures that military entities now take to avoid airborne surveillance. Aerial surveillance was used by French soldiers using tethered balloons to spy on troop movements during the French Revolutionary Wars,[19] and since that time, soldiers have learned not only to hide from the naked eye, but also to mask their heat signatures to blend into the surroundings and avoid infrared scanning. The idea that drives hyperspectral surveillance is that hyperspectral scanning draws information from such a large portion of the light spectrum that any given object should have a unique spectral signature in at least a few of the many bands that are scanned. The SEALs from NSWDG who killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011 used this technology while conducting the raid (Operation Neptune's Spear) on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.[1][20]
Traditionally, commercially available thermal infrared hyperspectral imaging systems have needed liquid nitrogen or helium cooling, which has made them impractical for most surveillance applications. In 2010, Specim introduced a thermal infrared hyperspectral camera that can be used for outdoor surveillance and UAV applications without an external light source such as the sun or the moon.[21][22]
Physicists use an electron microscopy technique that involves microanalysis using either energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), infrared spectroscopy(IR), Raman spectroscopy, or cathodoluminescence (CL) spectroscopy, in which the entire spectrum measured at each point is recorded. EELS hyperspectral imaging is performed in a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM); EDS and CL mapping can be performed in STEM as well, or in a scanning electron microscope or electron microprobe (also called an electron probe microanalyzer or EPMA). Often, multiple techniques (EDS, EELS, CL) are used simultaneously.
In a "normal" mapping experiment, an image of the sample is simply the intensity of a particular emission mapped in an XY raster. For example, an EDS map could be made of a steel sample, in which iron X-ray intensity is used for the intensity grayscale of the image. Dark areas in the image would indicate non-iron-bearing impurities. This could potentially give misleading results; if the steel contained tungsten inclusions, for example, the high atomic number of tungsten could result in bremsstrahlung radiation that would make the iron-free areas appear to be rich in iron.
By hyperspectral mapping, instead, the entire spectrum at each mapping point is acquired, and a quantitative analysis can be performed by computer postprocessing of the data, and a quantitative map of iron content produced. This would show which areas contained no iron, despite the anomalous X-ray counts caused by bremsstrahlung. Because EELS core-loss edges are small signals on top of a large background, hyperspectral imaging allows large improvements to the quality of EELS chemical maps.
Similarly, in CL mapping, small shifts in the peak emission energy could be mapped, which would give information regarding slight chemical composition changes or changes in the stress state of a sample.
In astronomy, hyperspectral imaging is used to determine a spatially-resolved spectral image. Since a spectrum is an important diagnostic, having a spectrum for each pixel allows more science cases to be addressed. In astronomy, this technique is commonly referred to as integral field spectroscopy, and examples of this technique include FLAMES[23] and SINFONI[24] on the Very Large Telescope, but also the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer on Chandra X-ray Observatory uses this technique.
Chemical imaging[edit]
At war, Chemical Warfare Agents (CWAs) and Toxic Industrial Compounds (TICs) attacks are some of the most malicious threats for any field troops. In fact, soldiers can be exposed to a wide variety of chemical hazards both on and off the battlefield. These threats are mostly invisible and very hard to detect. However, the hyperspectral imaging technology offers a unique standoff detection, identification and imaging capability for such chemical warfare agents. The Telops Hyper-Cam, introduced in 2005, has demonstrated this capability in multiple field CWA-TIC measurement campaigns. With its standoff capability, the Hyper-Cam enables on-the-field detection and identification of multiple CWAs and TICs in various environments, at distances up to 5 km and with concentrations as low as a few ppm.[26]
Most countries require continuous monitoring of emissions produced by coal and oil-fired power plants, municipal and hazardous waste incinerators, cement plants, as well as many other types of industrial sources. This monitoring is usually performed using extractive sampling systems coupled with infrared spectroscopy techniques. Some recent standoff measurements performed allowed the evaluation of the air quality but not many remote independent methods allow for low uncertainty measurements.
Advantages and disadvantages[edit]
The primary advantage to hyperspectral imaging is that, because an entire spectrum is acquired at each point, the operator needs no prior knowledge of the sample, and postprocessing allows all available information from the dataset to be mined. Hyperspectral imaging can also take advantage of the spatial relationships among the different spectra in a neighbourhood, allowing more elaborate spectral-spatial models for a more accurate segmentation and classification of the image.[28]
The primary disadvantages are cost and complexity. Fast computers, sensitive detectors, and large data storage capacities are needed for analyzing hyperspectral data. Significant data storage capacity is necessary since hyperspectral cubes are large, multidimensional datasets, potentially exceeding hundreds of megabytes. All of these factors greatly increase the cost of acquiring and processing hyperspectral data. Also, one of the hurdles researchers have had to face is finding ways to program hyperspectral satellites to sort through data on their own and transmit only the most important images, as both transmission and storage of that much data could prove difficult and costly.[1] As a relatively new analytical technique, the full potential of hyperspectral imaging has not yet been realized.
Software resources[edit]
Open source:
- Python Hyperspectral Toolbox
- Gerbil hyperspectral visualization and analysis framework
Commercial (in alphabetical order):
- Erdas Imagine, a remote sensing application for geospatial applications.
- ENVI a remote sensing application.
- MIA_Toolbox multivariate image analysis.
- MicroMSI a remote sensing application.
- A Matlab Hyperspectral Toolbox
- Other Hyperspectral tools in MATLAB
- MountainsMap HyperSpectral, a version of MountainsMap dedicated to the analysis of hyperspectral data in microscopy.
- Opticks a remote sensing application.
See also[edit]
- Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance
- Full spectral imaging
- Multispectral image
- Metamerism (color), the perceptual equivalence that hyperspectral imaging overcomes
- Chemical imaging
- Remote sensing
- Sensor fusion
- Liquid Crystal Tunable Filter
- ^ a b c Schurmer, J.H., (Dec 2003), Air Force Research Laboratories Technology Horizons
- ^ a b Ellis, J., (Jan 2001) Searching for oil seeps and oil-impacted soil with hyperspectral imagery, Earth Observation Magazine.
- ^ http://www.bodkindesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Hyperspectral-1011.pdf
- ^ http://www.hyperspectral-soc.com/soc716/
- ^ http://www.bodkindesign.com/products/hyperspectral-imaging/hyperspectral-imaging/
- ^ Smith, R.B. (July 14, 2006), Introduction to hyperspectral imaging with TMIPS, MicroImages Tutorial Web site
- ^ Lacar, F.M., et al., Use of hyperspectral imagery for mapping grape varieties in the Barossa Valley, South Australia , Geoscience and remote sensing symposium (IGARSS'01) - IEEE 2001 International, vol.6 2875-2877p. doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2001.978191
- ^ Ferwerda, J.G. (2005), Charting the quality of forage: measuring and mapping the variation of chemical components in foliage with hyperspectral remote sensing, Wageningen University, ITC Dissertation 126, 166p. ISBN 90-8504-209-7
- ^ Tilling, A.K., et al., (2006) Remote sensing to detect nitrogen and water stress in wheat, The Australian Society of Agronomy
- ^ Fernández Pierna, J.A., et al., 'Combination of Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Near Infrared (NIR) imaging spectroscopy for the detection of meat and bone meat (MBM) in compound feeds' Journal of Chemometrics 18 (2004) 341-349
- ^ http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Made+Montreal+camera+technology+could+help+detect+early+signs/9455608/story.html
- ^ Higgins, Kevin. "Five New Technologies for Inspection". Food Processing. Retrieved May 2013.
- ^ Burgstaller, Markus, et al. "Spotlight: Spectral Imaging Sorts 'Sugar-End' Defects". PennWell.
- ^ Dacal-Nieto, Angel, et al (2011). Non-Destructive Detection of Hollow Heart in Potatoes Using Hyperspectral Imaging. pp. 180–187. ISBN 978-3-642-23677-8.
- ^ Dacal-Nieto, Angel, et al (2011). Common scab detection on potatoes using an infrared hyperspectral imaging system. pp. 303–312. ISBN 978-3-642-24087-4.
- ^ a b c Holma, H., (May 2011), Thermische Hyperspektralbildgebung im langwelligen Infrarot, Photonik
- ^ Werff H. (2006), Knowledge based remote sensing of complex objects: recognition of spectral and spatial patterns resulting from natural hydrocarbon seepages, Utrecht University, ITC Dissertation 131, 138p. ISBN 90-6164-238-8
- ^ Noomen, M.F. (2007), Hyperspectral reflectance of vegetation affected by underground hydrocarbon gas seepage, Enschede, ITC 151p. ISBN 978-90-8504-671-4.
- ^ "Fleurus (Municipality, Province of Hainaut, Belgium)". CRW Flags Inc.. Retrieved 2010-04-21
- ^ Marc Ambinder (May 3, 2011). "The secret team that killed bin Laden". National Journal. Retrieved September 12, 2012.
- ^ Frost&Sullivan, Technical Insights, Aerospace&Defence (Feb 2011): World First Thermal Hyperspectral Camera for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- ^ Specim's Owl sees an invisible object and identifies its materials even in a pitch-dark night.
- ^ "FLAMES - Fibre Large Array Multi Element Spectrograph". ESO. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
- ^ "SINFONI - Spectrograph for INtegral Field Observations in the Near Infrared". ESO. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
- ^ M. Chamberland, V. Farley, A. Vallières, L. Belhumeur, A. Villemaire, J. Giroux et J. Legault, "High-Performance Field-Portable Imaging Radiometric Spectrometer Technology For Hyperspectral imaging Applications," Proc. SPIE 5994, 59940N, September 2005.
- ^ Farley, V., Chamberland, M., Lagueux, P., et al., "Chemical agent detection and identification with a hyperspectral imaging infrared sensor," Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6661, 66610L (2007).
- ^ Kevin C. Gross, Kenneth C Bradley and Glen P. Perram, "Remote identification and quantification of industrial smokestack effluents via imaging Fourier-transform spectroscopy," Environmental Sci Tech, 44, 9390-9397, Oct 2010.
- ^ A. Picon, O. Ghita, P.F. Whelan, P. Iriondo (2009), Spectral and Spatial Feature Integration for Classification of Non-ferrous Materials in Hyper-spectral Data,IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS, VOL. 5, NO. 4, NOVEMBER 2009


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Such leakage is reported to occur as a large number of sites don't encrypt personal data such as a user's registration number, name, address and phone number as well as cookies and text files, which mediate between PCs and Web site servers for login and connection.
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The tearoom, housed in the garden's only two-story building, smells absolutely wonderful, and if you don't know how to use that teacup's lid they'll instruct you. You have a choice of 35 tea blends and the food served is appropriate to the venue, if a bit on the spendy side.
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A Bixby pastor is encouraging other nearby churches to invest to surveillance camera systems to catch thieves who broke into his downtown church.
"I walked in like I do every Sunday morning at 9 o'clock and I noticed the big TV screen in the lobby was missing," said Pastor Shannon Watterson. "Then I went into the sanctuary and noticed the cables hanging from the ceiling where two more flat screens used to be and several chairs were stacked on top of each other as if they had to climb up them to reach the TVs."
That's when he looked down a long hallway and saw the three TVs piled into a cardboard box on top of a child's wagon from the play room.
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Watterson bought a surveillance system and hooked it up Sunday afternoon.
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20. Harborwalk Marina
(843) 546-4250
Statute Mile: 403
Lat/Lon: near 33 21.836 North/079 16.903 West
Location: northwesternmost marina on the downtown Georgetown/Sampit River waterfront
Transient dockage: available
Transient dockage rate: $1.75 per foot per night, 30 amp power hookup – $5.00, 50-amp power hookup – $10.00, 100 amp hookuip – $22.00
Type of Dockage: floating and fixed wooden slips and face docks
Total number of slips/berths: 40
Dockside Power Connections: 30-50-100 amp
Dockside Fresh Water Connections: Available
Showers: Available (climate controlled)
Laundromat: Available (climate controlled)
Restaurant: many nearby
Restaurant Recommendations: Rice Paddy (843-546-2021), River Room (843-527-4110), Thomas' Cafe (breakfast, 843-546-7776)
Provisioning Possibilities: Kudzu Bakery (843-546-1847, WONDERFUL!) within walking distance, take taxi to local Piggly Wiggly or Food Lion supermarkets
LPG (Propane) Availability: Take taxi or walk to Georgetown Ice House (843) 546-6169 6 or 7 blocks away for LPG tank refill and/or Pantry Convenience Store 4 blocks away for LPG tank exchange
Free Wi-Fi internet access: available
Gasoline and diesel fuel: available
Waste pump-out: available
Depths: 7-8 foot dockside depths
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BANK OWNED commercial land fronting both sides of Route 134 just west of the split at Route 120. All utilities available. Includes 6.8 acres at the corner of Route 134 and Cranberry Drive (in front of Cranberry Lakes sub) and 8 one acre lots on the south side of Route 134. Over 1,000 feet of frontage on both sides of the road. WILL DIVIDE
Rare opportunity on busy Route 120. Between Grayslake & Round Lake, this location offers maximum visibility for your retail business. Fully rented for the investor, the mixed use building includes a chiropractic office, retail store & three offices. Some of the space can be vacated if needed for your business. The land offers expansion possibilities as well as ample parking. Please do not disturb tenants.
BANK OWNED corner parcel zoned commercial with all utilities available. Retention on site. Approximately 4.5 acres that are useable. Nice rectangular parcel that sits high, slightly above highway and has gravel driveway in place off of Cranberry Lake Dr. Priced well under assessed value!! Lots of permitted uses per Hainesville zoning code. GREAT OPPORTUNITY!
BANK OWNED commercial land with all utilities available from village of Hainesville. EIGHT PARCELS offered in bulk, approximately one acre each. MAY DIVIDE. Over 1,000 feet of frontage on Route 134 (Main St.). Some wetland and floodplain. Many permitted uses per Hainesville zoning code. GREAT OPPORTUNITY!
Spectacular renovation-3 large bdrms+loft/office, incredible NEW kitchen w/brkfast bar, NEW cabinets, NEW granite & NEW SS appliances, Eat-in area open to FR w/WBFP NEW wood flring in ktchn, formal LR, DR, Master suite w/NEW bath, New windows thru-out, Fini. basement. New carpet in BDRMs, FR & basement. Huge fenced backyard. 4th br can B added for a reasonable fee! Closing cost can be paid if U contact our lender.
Short sale! If you looking for something unique here is your chance. This home has been loaded w/upgrades. Crown molding, chair rails, pergo floors, freshly painted. Eat-in kitchen w/new ceramic tile & access to large deck overlooking fenced yard. Impressive master bath w/custom computerized spa & double sink. Fin. LL w/bar & super recreation room, great for entertaining. Allow time for bank's short sale approval.
4,150 sf commercial / industrial building. 3 overhead doors with existing openings for 2 more. Concrete block construction. Route 120 & 134 traffic counts of approx. 22,500 per IDOT. 2nd floor apt. / office area has full bathroom & kitchen facility. B-1 zoning allows for many, many uses. Full list of uses available upon request or on my website. Seller is motivated. Make an offer! Tenant occupied 24hr notice
Not a short sale! No waiting, no uncertainty and it is in good condition. With almost 1800 square feet, this spacious Danberry model has so much to offer. All the appliances are included, even a microwave / convection oven combo. Located near the park, easy access to major thoroughfares.
Must see - Best three bedroom in subdivision. Totally remodeled. Professionally decorated, bright and light. All Appliances included. Eat-In Kitchen, granite c/top and SS appls. No hassle, quick close possible! Nothing to do -just move in! Can be purchased furnished. Located next to the park. Rentals allowed. Ready to make this your home!
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An Unusual Megillah
By Marissa Brostoff
This article originally appeared in The Forward and is reprinted with permission.
The Scroll of Esther is getting a makeover from several kids in Pennsylvania, a Reconstructionist scribe and a computer graphics program.
Congregation Or Hadash, a small Reconstructionist synagogue located in the Philadelphia suburb of Fort Washington, has commissioned a sofer to create a megillah that incorporates drawings by students in its religious school.
The scribe, Rabbi Kevin Hale, used a computer program to graft the children's images onto fine rice paper that was then affixed to parchment.
"We are creating the first truly Reconstructionist megillah," said Rabbi Joshua Waxman, who leads Or Hadash. (To boot, Hale is the first ordained Reconstructionist sofer.)
"It's a kosher scroll, and we use the traditional text, but we engage with it and try to inject our own voices into it and experience it as something fresh."
The megillah project was conceived partly as a celebration of the congregation's 25th birthday. But Waxman was adamant that it would not be an ordinary present.
"It's easy to commission something," Waxman said. "It would have been easy to make a few phone calls to our more generous donors, but instead we invited everyone to help underwrite it for $1.80 a letter. I find it faintly distasteful when synagogues virtually auction off ritual items - you know, 'You, too, can own the Song of the Sea for $15,000.'"
To Waxman and some of his congregants, it also seemed too easy to let a sofer do all the work. So religious-school students were encouraged to submit illustrations of scenes from the Purim story, including "Vashti saying 'no,'" "Mordechai at the gate refusing to bow down," and "Haman being led to the stake."
The result, a range of 20 colorful drawings by artists aged between 5 and 14, was compiled by Hale and grafted onto parchment next to the appropriate portions of text. "It's really an illuminated manuscript," Hale said.
Further enlivening the text, Hale inscribed the names of key characters of the story in different colors. Haman's name - which, Waxman pointed out, is often set aside in traditional megillot to give cantors a chance to work up the contempt with which they must utter it - is in red; Esther's is in green, and Mordechai's is in blue.
Despite the unusual features of this megillah, those involved in its production say it's kosher. "The rules for writing a kosher scroll are more flexible in this case, because nowhere in the megillah is the name of God mentioned," said Gail Morrison-Hall, an art teacher and Or Hadash member who coordinated the scroll-making project.
The scroll was set to be unveiled at a celebration at the synagogue yesterday, four days before Purim. Hale, who lives in Leeds, Massachusetts, was slated to be on hand to teach a crash course in scroll-writing for the congregation's kids. "Who knows, maybe it will inspire a future scribe," Waxman said.


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New math requirements are coming to Dougherty County Schools.
High school students must pass prerequisite math courses before moving on to a higher level course. The state recommended the policy change to make sure students master critical math skills.
Secondary Math Coordinator Sonia King said, "Because we don't want students trying to master end of course test in one course when they haven't passed the prerequisite course."
The policy will go into effect in the upcoming school year.
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Haircuts for a cause
Sep 5, 2013
News-Register Staff
Not only is Lomantini planning to visit all 50 states, including Alaska and Hawaii, he's planning to do haircuts at 50 salons in the 50 different states in 50 days.
He launched his tour Aug. 1 in Augusta, Maine. He plans to wrap it up Sept. 19 in Wichita, Kan.
Locally, haircuts are being offered in exchange for a donation of an least $20 to Yamhill County Dog Control. Vendors will maintain booths in association with the cause and a trio of raffles will be held.
The tour is being sponsored by BarkAID. It was founded by Lomantini, owner of Lomantini the Salon in Wichita, to raise money and awareness for homeless animals.
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