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KALISPELL - Flathead National Forest officials say that weather, wind and fuel conditions are favorable this week for fire managers to conduct some prescribed burns.

Smoke will be visible from various places in the Flathead Valley, and each project will follow a Prescribed Fire Burn Plan.

The prescribed fire projects are designed to reduce the potential for adverse effects, and minimize the potential for an escape as a wildland fire, according to a news release.

The project areas scheduled include the Tally Lake Ranger District, the Hungry Horse/Glacier View Ranger District, Swan Lake Ranger District, and Spotted Bear Ranger District.

Tally Lake Ranger District:

Good Creek - This ecosystem burn project targets 142 acres of mid to upper elevation shrub and conifer near Grouse Creek. Fire suppression has caused a change in species composition resulting in an encroachment of conifers into an open shrub field. Prescribed fire will reintroduce fire to overall improve wildlife habitat and reduce the conifer encroachment.

Hungry Horse/Glacier View Ranger District:

Paint Emery Central Prescribed Burns - The prescribed 1362 acre burns on the east side of Hungry Horse Reservoir and northwest of Great Northern Mountain are part of a multi-unit wildlife habitat enhancement project. The objective identified for these burns is to create a diverse forest landscape composed of mixed tree species and stand structure, including small openings and forested areas with a diversity of tree species, shrubs, and age groups. Increased diversity and reduced downed woody material will reduce the risk of severe wildland fire and its effects on resources in the area.

Firefighter Mountain Prescribed Burns - The objective of this 295 acre project on the east side Hungry Horse Reservoir on and adjacent to Firefighter Mountain is to change forest structure and density to portions of the treatment area by applying low to moderate intensity fire. The expected outcome will restore and enhance grass and shrub components, make the area more productive for ungulates and other foraging wildlife, and curb wildland fire spread by reducing fuel loadings and tree density in the forest area.

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BEAVER FALLS -- The remnants of an old tile warehouse have been reinvigorated.

Chalmers & Kubeck Inc., aPhiladelphia-area-based business, is re-equipping the Beaver Falls warehouse to capitalize on the safety-release valve market as well as industrial repairs for anything from machines in steel mills to boilers at community colleges, plant manager John Davis said.

Safety-release valves automatically reduce pressure buildup. When those valves dont work, explosions can result.

If that goes, the whole plant shuts down or it goes kaboom, said Travis Thompson, the valve shop leader.

Two of Gov. Tom Corbetts Cabinet secretaries are scheduled to visit the property, at 1018 11th St. in Beaver Falls, on Wednesday as part of a tour. State money is helping Chalmers & Kubeck Inc., of Aston, launch the local shop, with up to $600,000 in tax credits and $122,500 in grants.

The secretaries include C. Alan Walker of the Department of Community and Economic Development and Julia Hearthway of the Department of Labor & Industry.

A DCED spokeswoman said Tuesday, though, that the department has currently scheduled its deputy secretary for community affairs, Michael Cortez, to visit the site.

The move comes as the business last year became the sole authorized assembler for General Electric consolidated safety valves, Davis said. The territory spans from western New York to northern West Virginia, he said.

The company is also eyeing Shell Chemicals proposed petrochemical plant in Potter Township, but even without it, the company sees a robust economy, Davis said. The business has shops from Maine to Florida, he said.

The state awarded the company a $500,000 enterprise zone tax credit, given to encourage business in certain areas, and its also eligible for up to $100,000 in job-creation tax credits, Beaver County Corporation for Economic Development Vice President Robert Rice said.

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Marine biologists at the University of Texas at Austin used a bioinspired polarization camera developed by Viktor Gruev, PhD, associate professor of computer science & engineering at Washington University, to make the discovery. His camera has been used in other applications in marine biology and also is now being used at the School of Medicine to help physicians and researchers see cancer cells very early in development.

In the new study, the researchers found that female swordtail fish are attracted to certain patterns, called polarization ornaments, visible in polarized light in large male swordtail fish.

"There is a lot of social interaction among the fish," Gruev said. "We saw the female fish checking out the large males and looking at their polarization ornaments. During the whole courting behavior, the more polarization a male has, the higher the chance for mating."

Various animals can detect polarization, or the alignment of light waves in a plane. Previous research found polarization sensitivity in invertebrate animals, including octopus, but this is the first research to find polarization behavior in vertebrate animals.

The research was published online Sept. 2, 2014, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition.

Gruev's camera is similar to polarized sunglasses, which reduce glare by blocking polarized light. The camera is built with nanomaterials inside the camera, allowing it to capture the polarization properties of light in real time.

"We changed the polarization so that the large males with high contrast showed good contrast in their polarization ornaments," Gruev says. "When we suppressed the polarization ornaments externally with light, the females didn't pay attention to the males. When we changed the light sources to change the polarization signals on the fish body, the social interactions between female and male swordfish significantly increase."

Gruev is an expert in polarization and signal processing. The camera is a replication of the visual system of the mantis shrimp, which is among the most sophisticated vision of all animals.

Gruev and several other researchers from Washington University also recently published a review paper in the Journal of the Proceedings of the IEEE on bioinspired polarization imaging sensors and their applications in biomedicine.

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Satoshin@gmx.com no longer exists

Last week, the Internet was abuzz with news of the threatened unmasking of Bitcoins anonymous creator who is known only by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. A hacker or hackers got into Nakamotos email account satoshin@gmx.com and announced plans to dox Bitcoins creator unless a ransom was paid. In an interview with Vice, a person with access to the address was vague regarding the details of how he got access to Nakamotos email account and what it was that he was able to pull from it, but he insisted throughout our conversation that he is 100 percent sure he has discovered Nakamotos identity. But since then. crickets.

Nakamotos identity has not been revealed, and the satoshin@gmx.com email account has shut down. Messages sent to it are now returned as undeliverable; Mailbox unavailable says the error message.

I havent heard anything [from the hacker], says Michael Marquardt, a.k.a. theymos, who was one of the first people to report that the address had been compromised. Maybe he was careless and didnt save the emails before GMX locked the account.

Thomas Plnnecke, spokesperson for 1&1, the Germany-based company that owns GMX, Nakamotos Pennsylvania-based email provider, says the company cant talk about what exactly happened with the account due to its privacy policy of not releasing information about an account holder to third parties. But he was able to generally address one of the theories floating around about how Nakamoto might have lost access to his account: That the account expired because it was inactive for 6 months, and that someone else took control of it.

Yes, according to our TOS weve got the right to terminate an account if it is inactive for six months, said Plnnecke by email. Six months ago, after being dormant for years, Satoshi Nakamoto returned to the Internet to post a message on a forum he used to frequent saying he was not Dorian Nakamoto, the man fingered by Newsweek as Bitcoins creator. The email affiliated with the forum the P2P Foundation is the GMX one as evidenced by the fact that the hacker was able to access the forum account once he or she had control of the email address through a password reset. So did Nakamoto access the email account six months ago to make his Dorian Nakamoto posting and then abandon it, leaving it to be terminated and reset by a hacker?

Plnnecke couldnt address that. But he did say that when an inactive GMX account is terminated, all its contents will be deleted along with the account. The person who got access to the satoshin@gmx.com account got access to its archive, and was able to forward old messages from the account to journalists and previous correspondents. So either the hacker did not get the address because it was made available due to GMX terminating an inactive account or a technical mistake was made by GMX when the address was released.

Plnneckesays that GMX does its best not to yank an account away from an unsuspecting user. While termination after six months of inactivity is the standard procedure for inactive accounts GMX allows additional time for the user to return and use the account, saysPlnnecke. During this time, we will also try to contact inactive customers, reminding them to use their GMX account again.

Satoshi Nakamotos email address is now deleted, but the mystery around its takeover remains intact.

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Artist/designer Lorena Angulos book Behind the Brooch isnt a how-to, although Angulo teaches as an adjunct in the Metals Department at the Southwest School of Art and is a repeat instructor at Say S. Shes a well-known designer of original pieces of jewelry, also, though Behind the Brooch isnt a catalog of her own body of work. Instead, Angulo presents images of brooches from 128 jewelry makers. Not just brooches, either, but the backs of brooches; the pins, fastenings, tiny latches, the filigrees that allow light to pass through and the sly elements that communicate design solely between wearer and maker.

This is very niche. This meticulous focusing-in, rather than making for a dull reading experience, makes flipping through this book a hypnotic experience. In her introduction, the author describes her search for back-of-brooch images as a quest, and her dedication comes from a heartfelt place:

Talking with other artists, she writes, I knew I needed to do something about this. I like her urgency. Glory for the under-appreciated details! Brigitte Martin, who edits Crafthaus, an online art magazine, ups the emotional stakes, effusing: Oh, the things I saw on the backside of brooches that made my nerdy goldsmith heart sing with joy.

With the exception of these two short introductions, Angulo does very little writing in this book. The text is provided via pocket artist statements, many no longer than a tweet. Its hundreds of images of the backs of brooches with artist context. You can flip to any page and find something that, even if it doesnt suit your taste, reveals something tiny but important.

Not all brooch B-sides are intrinsically fascinating to the uninitiated; to my eye, some were just pins, the elegance of how they are affixed or integrated more understandable to crafters. But amid the quotidian appears the poetic. Spanish craft artist Montserrat Lacomba, for example, uses text as a design element, front to back. She explains that sometimes written words are sent to me that I do not understand. Intrigued by their shapes and their meanings, I transform and capture them in my brooches so their trip along unknown paths continues. American crafter Abigail Heuss writes of the rear as a secret, powerful, open place. It is a locket that never closes, to be worn over the heart. One of her backs has a red keyhole shape cut into the fastening metal, its negative space opening into a visceral red backing.

This large-format, coffee-table-ready book feels like a sit-down with a charming, obsessive friend who cannot wait to show you a specialty scrapbook of beautiful things. Or maybe more like combing through the backlog of somebodys Pinterest, the kind of thing one finds oneself sucked into, scanning then relishing entry after entry.

by Lorena Angulo Schiffer Publishing | $34.99 | 176 pp

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