Larry Carlton "Fingerprints" Smooth Jazz CD Review

Super talented Smooth Jazz artist Larry Carlton released Fingerprints on the Warner Bros. recording label.

The CD launches with the title track and pretty much rolls right through 10 very nicely put together smooth jazz tracks.

Carlton, who is also a player in the group Fourplay, has been a force in the smooth jazz world for quite some time now. His guitar playing is in top form on this CD.

Overall Fingerprints is an outstanding release. Quite possibly Carlton's best to date. Really sensational from beginning to end. If you're even mildly into Smooth Jazz music you'll enjoy this CD.

While this entire CD is really very good some of my favorites are track 1, Fingerprints, track 6 All Thru The Night, and track 7, Lazy Susan

My SmoothLee Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 2, Silky Smooth. Wow!

Fingerprints Release Notes:

Larry Carlton originally released Fingerprints on March 7, 2000 on the Warner Bros. record label.

CD Track List Follows:

1. Fingerprints
2. Silky Smooth
3. Marium's Theme
4. 'Til I Hurt You - (featuring Michael McDonald)
5. Slave Song
6. All Thru The Night
7. Lazy Susan
8. Chicks With Kickstands
9. Gracias - (featuring Vince Gill)
10. If Everyday Were Christmas

Personnel include: Larry Carlton (guitar, programming); Michael McDonald (vocals); Kirk Whalum, Steve Cole (saxophone); Jerry Hey, Gary Grant, Larry Williams (horns); Sam Riney (flute); David Woods, Michael Egizi (keyboards, drums); Josh Henson (keyboards, programming); Matt Rollings, Rick Jackson (keyboards); Vince Gill (guitar); Abraham Laboriel (bass); Vinnie Colaiuta (drums); Eric Darken, Lenny Castro, Luis Conte (percussion). Engineers: Paul Brown, Dave Rideau, Don Murray.

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Clyde Lee Dennis, a.k.a. SmoothLee is a life long music fanatic, smooth jazz in particular, and does a daily online radio show featuring smooth jazz music that can be heard at http://www.SmoothJazzLosAngeles.com

 

Tats, Dress and Fingerprints... Have You Looked at How You Look Lately?

We take in 55% of our world or more through our eyes. It is our single biggest source of information gathering. There is an old saying ?what you are speaks so loud I can?t see what you are saying.? As Customer Service Professionals we need to be aware that people everywhere are looking at us and our work area and determining if they will do business with us based on what they see.

In my travels I make observations about fashion, dress, overall impressions and general appearance nearly everywhere I go. I make it a habit to ask seminar participants what is the norm for their area and their position. Lately I have noticed more acceptance for tattoos and jewelry.

I have no qualms about hiring someone with tats or rings. However, there are certain situations I would not hire that person if the position required heavy personal face to face customer contact. As our society becomes more open to those ideas, I am certain this will change. And I would certainly hire that person for any other position for which they would be qualified. I am not the fashion police however I do follow a few basic guidelines.

If the position requires heavy face to face contact, no excessive jewelry or tats visible. It's my basic rule.

I think we all can agree that certain positions require more of a formal dress code than others. For example, in a bank would you hire the person who had an eyebrow ring and face tat to work as a teller? Probably not. That person might do well in the local mall at the hottest fashion outlet. It's really a matter of application. Does the overall appearance of the person fit the type of business you are doing?

I have had seminar participants tell me of other dress code requirements. No underarm exposure is one I have heard. No black leather is another. For women, no excessive makeup. For guys, no spike head hair.

These are some of the areas in personal dress that you might want to take a look at. In my seminars I always tell people that the norm for their business is the base for your dress code. If everyone wears jeans and sweatshirts, guess what. That?s the norm. Dress appropriately for your business.

You might want to polish your appearance. People like to do business with a person who is clean, neat looking. It makes them feel comfortable. I also have a rule that you should dress just slightly better than your customers. Try it.

Have you ever judged the experience you were about to receive on how the place looked when you walked in? Let me tell you a little story about an experience I had when I lived in Japan. I love to play golf and I wanted to go to the driving range and practice when I lived there. I had no idea what to expect, having been to driving ranges here in the States. I walked into this place, and it was gorgeous. Solid wood paneling throughout, the front desk looked like a 5 star hotel, and it seemed as if there were 3 staff members for every person. What did I think when I walked in? ?WOW!? After I finished practicing they even cleaned my clubs! It was fantastic! The best service I have ever received at a driving range. And I never forgot how I felt when I walked in the door for the first time.

The point is the appearance and my 1st impression set the stage for my expectations. And your customers are doing the same thing when they walk in your door. They are looking around and taking it all in. And then deciding how their experience is going to be. If you were a customer in your store, would your 1st impression make you want to business with you?

Polish your work environment. I visited one of my old dealerships a few weeks ago and could not believe how dirty the place looked. The reason. The service dept has white walls, and other dealership personnel have put their hands on the wall, hence fingerprints. This is the first thing you see when you walk in the door. The overall 1st impression is the place being dirty and greasy. The rest of the store could have been beautiful, and the personnel courteous and professional but I only remembered how dirty it looked.

My 1st impression is my lasting impression and so is yours. So, take a look around your work area. Is it clean? Are there dirty fingerprints or marks on the wall? Is your work area messy? Piles of paper and overflowing in and out baskets says volumes about you and your business. Make sure yours reflects how you want to look to others.

And clean up your in basket!

 

Three Solutions to Fingerprint Free Walls.

Several times a year clients ask what can be done to fix smudged and fingerprinted walls. Children can?t resist to touch a home?s walls. By following these three tips, your walls will stay fresh, clean and grit free!

1. Flat paint is used in most residential new construction. Flat paint hides wall imperfections very well because there is virtually no sheen to the paint. If you are in the process of building a home, see if your paint contractor will paint the walls in an eggshell or satin prior to move in. Many times this is discouraged because an eggshell or satin is more difficult to touch up, however an experienced painter should have no problem.

2. Opt for a scrubbable and more durable wall paint. Many paint companies such as Sherwin Williams and Benjamin Moore are meeting homeowners needs and producing ?fingerprint friendly paints?. Two examples are Sherwin Williams' Everclean and Benjamin Moore & Company's Regal AquaVelvet. These paints don?t have a high sheen level, yet fingerprints, scuff marks and smudges can be washed off with water. Contact your paint stores for more information. Many times there will be an in store display to show the versatility of these new products.

3. The signs of wear and tear are easily camouflaged with a faux finish. Most faux painters have a variety of products that will produce a soft blended look, easily hiding any fingerprints. Not only will the smudges be disguised, but a professional artist will use durable products that can be wiped with a soft damp cloth to clean. A faux finish is ideal if do not want to clean your walls on a weekly basis. Make sure to tell the artist your goals of having washable and durable walls.

Using these three tips will allow you to enjoy a clean smudge free home. Remember to clean your newly painted surfaces with the recommended products; hard scrubbing shouldn?t be required as your smudges and fingerprints will easily wipe off. Enjoy your new walls!

Lead artist of Hampton Wall Designs, Julie Hampton has worked one on one with a variety of clients including interior designers, architects, and private home owners. A skilled artisan, Julie guides her clientele in selecting high quality finishes and surface designs. Her work has been featured in 4 award winning show homes in both Florida and Iowa. Hampton Wall Designs works closely with residential and commercial clientele to create beautifully painted walls. Located in West Des Moines, IA the studio offers a variety of services including faux finishes, murals, hand painted designs and lettering.

 

What About The Claim Of Similarity In Twins Finger Print

The recent news accounts of cloning and genetic engineering of animals sparked some lively but concerned dialogue. Speculation prompted us to consider a number of potential issues and ultimately to ask the question, ?Is it possible that cloning could produce identical fingerprints?? Every one working in forensic identification has wondered at sometime about the possibility or probability of encountering identical fingerprints. From millions of prints compared and examined, they come to a decision that no two fingerprints from different persons have ever been matched or considered identical. The fingerprint is the pillar of modern criminal identification. In court, the value of fingerprint evidence is critical in making a case, for it alone can serve to either prove or disprove identity. It is the uniqueness and individuality documented by a skilled examiner, which allows positive identifications to be made. Biometrics is inherently more reliable than traditional knowledge based password or token-based (access card) methods of identification :

Biometrics ? Automatic identification of people based on their physical or behavioral characteristics.

Traditional Methods ? Here tokens may be stolen and passwords may be guessed. But biological characteristics cannot be easily misplaced or shared. This authentication requires the person to be present at the point of authentication to provide biometric measurement. Biometrics determines the degree of ?similarity? between the person to be authenticated and the claimed identity, but the traditional method can establish Yes or No only.

Using an automatic fingerprint biometric system, we studied the (dis) similarly between identical twin fingerprints and compared if to the (dis) similarity between two arbitrary fingerprints. We have confirmed the claim that the identical twin fingerprints have a large class correlation, i.e., if one of the identical twin?s fingerprints is a whorl then it is very likely that the other twin?s fingerprint will also be of whorl type. We also analyze the correlation between the fingerprint class and the minutiae matching score between two randomly chosen fingerprints. Finally, we use stipulate the implications of the extent of the similarity in identical twin fingerprints to the performance of a fingerprint based person verification system.

The inputted fingerprint cannot be taken to classification procedure, (immediately after the input process) we have to remove the noises in between and/or on the confusion during classification. A combination of the syntactic approach and the sequential decision procedure could be used to develop an automatic fingerprint classifier. Based on the above-mentioned Henry?s classification we have eight types of fingerprint. Filtering techniques and the enhancement algorithm will process the fingerprint perfectly and make the fingerprint clear, which is now ready for classification. After this it is ready for matching between twin-twin and non-twin to twin. For this we are using tracing algorithm, which gives the minutiae report for each pair of fingerprints. Based on this we can conclude the aimed result that the monozygotic twins have more similarity than the similarity between twin-non-twin, this can also be proved by ridge count. The twins will have (nearly) same ridge count. Thus from the final result we have to come to a decision about the similarity.

Criminology investigations and forensic science labs use fingerprint for identification. Commercial applications like, welfare disbursement, cellular phone access, lap-tap computer login are considering to use fingerprint ? based verification. This is because (i) Inexpensive and compact solid state scanners
(ii) Matching performance is proved

RIDGE FORMATION
Fingerprint is the pattern of ridges on the tip of our fingers. It is considered a legitimate proof of evidence in courts of law all over the world and if is one of the most mature biometric technologies. During fetus development by the month of seven the fingerprints are fully formed. Phenotype is uniquely determined by the interaction of a specific genotype and specific environment. As the skin on the fingertip begins to differentiate the general characteristics of the fingerprint emerge. During this differentiation process, the flow of amniotic fluids around the fetus and its position in the uterus changes. The cells on the fingertip grow in a microenvironment. The growth is slightly different from hand to hand and finger to finger. The differentiation process of cells amplifies the difference. The large number of variations during the formation of fingerprints that if would be virtually impossible for two finger prints to be alike. The fingerprints will not be totally random patterns either, since they differentiated from the same genes. Fingerprint formation process is a chaotic system rather than a random one. Assessing The Identity:

In order to establish whether two prints came from the same finger or different fingers, it is necessary to capture some invariant representation of the fingerprints:
(i) The features, which over a lifetime will continue to remain, unaltered irrespective of the cuts and bruises.
(ii) The orientation of the print with respect to the medium of the capture.
(iii) Occlusion of a small part of the finger, the imagine technology used to acquire the fingerprint from the finger or the caustic distortion of the finger during the acquisition of the print. The first focus of our work is the fingerprint minutiae information. Also widely used finger print similarity measurement is based on minute details, of the ridges. If the relative configuration of ridge anomalies of two fingers is similar, then their minutiae-based similarity is high. Location and densities of the minute sweat pores have also been found to contain information helpful for distinguishing individuals.

Inherited Characteristics:

A number of studies have shown a significant correlation in the fingerprint class (loop, arch, whorl) of identical twin fingers; correlation based on other generic attributes of the fingerprint such as ridge count, ridge width, ridge separation, and ridge depth has also been found to be significant in identical twins. In dermetoglyphics studies the maximum generic difference between fingerprints has been found among individuals of different races. Unrelated persons of the same race have very little generic similarity in their fingerprints, parents and child have some generic similarity as they share half the genes, siblings have more similarity and the maximum generic similarity is observed in the monozygotic (identical) twins), which is the closest genetic relationship.

Monozygotic twins are a consequence of division of a single fertilized egg into two embryos. So they have exactly identical DNA except for the generally undetectable micro mutations that begin as soon as the cell starts dividing. Fingerprints of identical twins start their development from the same DNA, so they show considerable generic similarity. Identical twins are situated in different parts of the womb during development. So each fetus encounters slightly different intrauterine forces from their siblings. As a result, fingerprints of identical twins have different micro details which can be used for identification purposes. It is claimed that a trained expert can usually differentiate between the fingerprints of identical twins based on the minutiae similarity.

G.R. Brindha Shivakumar

Coauthor :T.Chakravarthy Prof. AVVM Sri Pushpam College, Poondi

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