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John Tracy, chief technology officer and senior vice president of engineering, operations, and technology for the Boeing Company, is the 2014 recipient of the International von Kármán Wings Award. The honor—bestowed annually by the Aerospace Historical Society, which is part of the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT)—acknowledges outstanding contributions by international innovators, leaders, and pioneers in aerospace.
The award recognizes Tracy for his technology and leadership contributions to technical and engineering excellence in the aerospace industry and for leadership in advanced structural and material technologies for commercial aviation, defense programs, and space systems.
"It is an honor for GALCIT and the Aerospace Historical Society to give the International von Kármán Wings Award to John Tracy, whose pioneering work with Boeing continues to transform the aerospace industry. His technical and functional excellence has resulted in transformative structural and material technologies for commercial and defense applications, which have significantly enhanced the reliability of the aerospace systems," says Guruswami (Ravi) Ravichandran, chair of the Aerospace Historical Society, director of GALCIT and the John E. Goode, Jr., Professor of Aerospace and professor of mechanical engineering at Caltech.
In his current position, Tracy oversees the development and implementation of Boeing's technology investment strategy and provides strategic direction to functions, business organizations, and initiatives involving more than 100,000 employees. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Royal Aeronautical Society, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
"John is passionate about everything aerospace; he loves the intellectual challenge of making it all work," says Boeing chairman and chief executive officer Jim McNerney. "The aerospace industry is stronger because John has been in it."
Ravichandran presented the Wings Award to Tracy at a gala banquet and awards ceremony on October 20 at the Caltech Athenaeum. Also recognized during the banquet was Morgane Grivel, a graduate student in Caltech's aeronautics program, who received the Shirley Thomas Academic Scholarship. The scholarship, which is named in honor of the Aerospace Historical Society's founder, has been awarded annually since 2010.
The Wings Award has annually honored aerospace pioneers for their achievements and role in shaping the aerospace industry for the last 30 years.
Recent recipients of the award include Neal Blue, chairman and CEO of General Atomics; Sir Martin Sweeting, executive chairman of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.; and David Thompson, chairman, president, and CEO of Orbital Sciences Corporation.
On Saturday, October 18, hundreds of undergraduate students shared the results of their projects during SURF Seminar Day. The event provides students with the opportunity to discuss and explain their research to individuals with a wide-range of expertise and interests.
For someone like Edward Fouad, a junior at Caltech who has always been interested in robotics and mechanical engineering, it was an ideal project: help develop robotic technology that could one day fly on a NASA mission to visit and sample an asteroid.
Fouad spent 10 weeks this summer as part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program working in the lab of Aaron Parness, a group leader at JPL, where researchers are designing, prototyping, and refining technology for a device called a microspine gripper. Looking something like a robotic circular foot with many toes extending radially outward, such a gripper has the ability to grab onto a rocky surface and cling to it even when hanging upside down.
That makes it a good candidate to be included in the robotic capture phase of NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission, which aims to capture an asteroid and haul it into lunar orbit where robotic and manned missions could study it more easily. One of two concepts that NASA is currently considering for that mission involves using robotic arms to grab a boulder for return from a much larger asteroid. Microspine gripper technology is being evaluated for use on these robotic arms.
Researchers at JPL have been working on this technology for almost five years. The latest version of the gripper is made entirely of metal and consists of two concentric rings of carriages—the toe-like appendages that stick out from the gripper. Each of those carriages is in turn made up of a number of "microspines" with steel hooks at their tips. When the gripper makes contact with a rocky surface, the carriages extend downward onto the rock and then pull inward toward the gripper's center. Because the carriages and microspines all move independently, the gripper is able to conform well to the rock's nooks and crannies.
For his SURF project, Fouad helped with the construction of the latest gripper prototype and worked on improving the design of the microspines for the next generation. In particular, his goal was to design a metal microspine that could conform to a rocky surface and stretch as needed toward the center of the gripper. One of the key elements in such a design is a compliant flexure, a material that can bend and flex, allowing each hook to move independently of its neighbors, to grab onto the crags of an uneven surface. In the past, elastic polymers and metal extension springs have been used for this purpose, but elastic polymers cannot stand up to the extreme temperatures of space, and the springs greatly increase the complexity of the gripper's design and complicate the manufacturing and assembly processes. A different metal option was needed.
"I started by brainstorming many different flexure designs, modeling them on the computer with CAD software, and laser cutting them out of acrylic to test their compliant properties," Fouad says. After repeating that process and improving the designs over several weeks, Fouad and Parness settled on two designs to prototype in metal and test on different rock types. In the end, one of Fouad's designs worked so well in bench-top tests that Parness's group is now incorporating it into their new gripper design.
"Edward did a great job this summer," says Parness. "The SURF program provides a great balance; it ensures an educational experience for the student but also provides a lot of value to the projects and mentors. I always try to work with the students before the summer so that the SURF projects provide some autonomy but give the students a chance to work toward something that could make a long-term contribution to the main project. Edward's project was a good example."
Fouad says he went into the SURF project with a lot of relevant experience. A statics and material mechanics course (ME 35—now ME 12) had provided him with the background he needed to understand how the microspine toes of a particular geometry would deform under different loading conditions. A mechanical design and fabrication class (ME 14) taught him important design skills. And, he says, "The experience I have gained leading the mechanical subgroup of the Caltech Robotics Team was invaluable for my work this summer. Through designing and constructing an autonomous underwater vehicle over the past year, I have acquired a great deal of design and machining techniques as well as the skills necessary to collaborate with others on a large group project."
Fouad says he loved working in Parness's lab and enjoyed having the freedom to pursue the design paths that he found most interesting and promising. And he says that he will now strongly consider pursuing a future career at JPL. "It is an incredible environment for someone looking for exciting robotics opportunities."
The large amount of jet fuel required to fly an airplane from point A to point B can have negative impacts on the environment and—as higher fuel costs contribute to rising ticket prices—a traveler's wallet. With funding from NASA and the Boeing Company, engineers from the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech and their collaborators from the University of Arizona have developed a device that lets planes fly with much smaller tails, reducing the planes' overall size and weight, thus increasing fuel efficiency.
On October 8, the researchers—including Emilio Graff, research project manager in aerospace at Caltech and a leader on the project—were presented with a NASA Group Achievement Award "for exceptional achievement executing a full-scale wind-tunnel test, proving the flight feasibility of active flow control."
An airplane's tail forms a critical part of the control system that helps steer the plane during flying. During flight, air rushes around the vertical tail with great force and is deflected by the tail's rudder—a moveable flap at the rear of the tail that can steer the plane by angling air to the left or right. By moving the rudder left or right, a pilot can move the air in one direction or the other, helping to keep the plane flying straight during a strong crosswind.
During the high speeds of flight, the air flow around the tail is so strong that the rudder can control the plane's path with minimal movement. However, during the lower speeds of takeoff and landing, larger rudder deflections are required to maneuver the plane. And in the case of engine failure in a multiengine airplane, the vertical tail must generate enough force to keep the plane going straight by turning "against" the working engine. Airplane manufacturers deal with this challenge by fitting planes with very large vertical tails that can deflect enough air and generate enough force to control the plane—even at low speeds.
"But this means that the planes have a tail that's too big 99 percent of the time," says Emilio Graff, research project manager in aerospace at Caltech and a leader on the project, "because you only need a tail that big if you lose an engine during takeoff or landing. Imagine if the only way you could have airbags in your car was to tow them in a big trailer behind your car, just in case there was an accident. It ends up sucking up a lot of fuel."
The system—designed by Graff and his colleagues in the laboratory of Mory Gharib, Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bioinspired Engineering—would allow airplanes to be designed with smaller tails by helping to increase the tail's steering effect at low speeds. The work was done in collaboration with Israel Wygnanski, a professor at the University of Arizona.
In their new approach, the researchers installed air-blowing devices called sweeping jet actuators under the outer skin of the tail along the tail's vertical length. The sweeping jet actuators deliver a strong, steady burst of sweeping air just along the rudder, equivalent to the amount of airflow that would normally be encountered by the tail and rudder at higher speeds. The engineers hypothesized that with the sweeping jets turned on, a smaller tail and rudder could straighten the path of the airplane, even at low speeds.
Graff says that, using these devices, airplane manufacturers could reduce the size of airplane tails by 20 percent, only needing to activate the sweeping jet actuators during the low speeds of takeoff and landing. "That means that most of the time when you're flying around normally, you're saving gas because you have a smaller, lighter tail. So even if this system itself uses a lot of energy, it's only on in emergencies," he says. "When you take off or land, the air jets will be on—just in case an engine fails. But on a 12-hour flight, if you're only using the system for 30 minutes, you're still saving gas during 11 hours and 30 minutes."
The fuel savings come not only from reduced drag due to the smaller size, but also from weight savings and structural advantages from having a shorter tail, Graff adds.
The researchers first tested this hypothesis in the approximately five-by-six-foot Lucas Wind Tunnel at Caltech, recording the effect of sweeping jet actuators on a small model—only 15 percent of the size of an actual airplane tail. Because the jets of air created by the device move back and forth, "sweeping" the air over the length of the tail rather than blasting a single, linear burst of air, the researchers discovered that they could increase air flow over the entire tail with just six of the sweeping jets. On the small-scale model, these six jets boosted the effectiveness of the rudder by over 20 percent.
Upon seeing the favorable results from this preliminary experiment, and as part of NASA's Environmentally Responsible Aviation program, Graff and his colleagues designed the system to test the effects of sweeping jet actuators on a full-sized airliner tail. However, since such tails are nearly 27 feet tall, the engineers had to move this stage of their experiment off campus, to the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex at Moffett Field, California—home of the world's two largest wind tunnels.
After machining sized-up sweeping jet actuators at Caltech, the multi-institutional team, which also included engineers from Boeing Research and Technology and NASA's Langley Research Center, installed the devices on a refurbished Boeing 757 tail, found at an airplane parts salvage yard. The large wind tunnel allowed the researchers to simulate wind conditions that realistically would be experienced during takeoff and landing. Data from the full-scale test confirmed that sweeping jet actuators could sufficiently increase the air flow around the rudder to steer the plane in the event of an engine failure.
The technique used by sweeping jet actuators—called flow control—is not new; it has previously been used for quick takeoffs and landings in military applications, Graff says. But those existing systems are not energy-efficient, he adds, "and if you need a third engine to power the system, then you may as well use it to fly the plane." The system designed by Graff and his colleagues is small and efficient enough to be powered by an airliner's auxiliary power unit—the engine that powers the cabin's air conditioning and lights at the gate. "We were able to prove that a system like this can work at the scale of a commercial airliner, without having to add an extra engine," Graff says.
For the next phase of the project, collaborators at Boeing will test the sweeping jet actuators on their Boeing ecoDemonstrator 757, a plane used for testing innovations that could improve the environmental performance of their aircraft.
These findings could one day help Boeing and other manufacturers produce "greener" planes. However, Graff notes, there are still kinks to work out—for example, as currently designed, the sweeping jets could be noisy for passengers—and the adoption of any new features on an aircraft can be a lengthy process. But once adopted, the payoffs could be huge—and improving the tail is not the only goal, Graff says.
"This is only the beginning. The tail is a 'low risk' surface; modifying it puts engineers at ease compared to, for example, modifying wings," he says. "But the data shows that similar systems could be applied to wings to increase the cruise speed of airplanes and allow some maneuvers to be achieved without moving parts.
"I would be surprised if this ends up in the next line of airplanes—since the new planes are already probably years into the design stage—but some version of this device could be adopted in the near future," he says. And the researchers estimate that if all commercial airplanes were fitted with this device and used it for one year, the fuel savings would be the equivalent of taking a year's worth of traffic off of Southern California's notoriously crowded 405 freeway—a worthy goal.
The sweeping jet actuator was developed as part of NASA's Environmentally Responsible Aviation (ERA) project, which aims to reduce the impact of aviation on the environment.
Building homes and other solid structures on a dynamic, changing earth can be a very big challenge. Since we can't prevent an earthquake or a tsunami from happening, scientists strive to understand the impacts of these forces, and structural engineers try to build infrastructure that can survive them. And that intersection is where the work of Domniki Asimaki comes in.
Asimaki, professor of mechanical and civil engineering in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science, is interested in the behavior of geotechnical systems under the influence of forces such as wind, waves, and seismological activity. Using this information, she hopes to make predictive computer models that can lead to the design of an infrastructure that is resilient to natural and man-made hazards. The effects of natural forces on man-made structures can also help in the cost-effective design of infrastructure for sustainable energy harvesting such as offshore wind farms—a promising green energy solution.
Born in Greece, Asimaki earned her bachelor's degree from the National Technical University of Athens before heading to MIT for both her master's and doctoral degrees.
Although Asimaki only joined the Caltech faculty in August, she has been thinking about moving to Pasadena since her first trip to campus a decade ago. Recently, she spoke about her work, her hobbies, and what it's like to finally be at Caltech.
What will you be working on at Caltech?
I am interested in the response of soils and foundations to dynamic loading, with emphasis on earthquakes. The work exists at the interface between civil engineering and earth and atmospheric sciences. Specifically for seismic loading, my research is trying to translate the output from simulations done by seismologists into input that engineers can use to design stronger structures.
In general, geotechnical engineering is an old field. Now we know a lot more about how soils behave, and that extends from the foundations of a house to the foundations of a bridge to nuclear reactors to dams. But that knowledge has been disconnected from advancements in earth sciences, and this gap has, in turn, hindered the integration of these advancements into structural design practices. I think it's an area of opportunity.
How does this work provide a link between the scientists and structural engineers?
Traditionally, structural engineers designed buildings using empirical data—like actual data from a previous earthquake. Today, with more than half of the global population concentrated in areas prone not only to major earthquakes but also to severe droughts and more extreme climatic events such as sea-level rise, there is an ever-increasing need to improve these empirical models, incorporate new, sustainable construction materials, and to build stronger, more resilient urban environments. I think the big promise of seismological modeling is that rather than using empirical data to make decisions about which ground motions buildings should be designed against in the future, we can actually run real earthquake scenarios in a simulation.
This can help provide a real prediction of the shaking against which the structural engineers can design buildings—provided, among other things, that seismologists have information about the soils on which their structures are built. And that's the gap that I'm hoping to fill.
How does this work translate to the harvesting of wind energy?
There is growing interest in offshore wind farms to be used as a source of sustainable energy, but since it's still pretty new, we don't have domestic experience about the best way to build these wind farms. We want to understand how the foundations of offshore wind turbines behave under the mix of forces from the rotor, from the waves, from currents and tide, from wind—regular wind or hurricane wind—and how all of these different types of dynamic loading affect the behavior of the foundation. We also want to understand how the behavior of the foundation, in turn, affects the stability of the wind turbine's performance and capability to harvest energy.
This specific application of my work is a fascinating direction for me. It is an opportunity to ask why design models work and how can we maximize performance capabilities and minimize cost. People like myself with an engineering background, but also with scientific curiosity, can work in areas like this and set the performance and design standards from scratch. But because the energy-harvesting industry is just starting out, we need to make it innovative while still financially feasible.
We have a lot of seismology expertise at Caltech. Was that a factor in your decision to come here?
It's a big part of my research interest, and so Caltech has always been the place that I felt I should be. It is a unique place in the sense that it's small enough so that different disciplines are closely connected. And there's a role that I can play, bringing research programs together. It has all the key players that I need in the same space, and it provides a great opportunity for us all to work together and build a seamless research continuum, from seismology to resilient infrastructure monitoring and design.
Are there any other reasons you're looking forward to living in Southern California?
Because it's gorgeous! I've never had the opportunity to have such nice weather, which is good because I love to swim, and the pool here is beautiful. I actually went to the pool on campus on the second day that we moved here. I hadn't even started yet, and I said, "I'm new faculty. I promise. I can prove it." And the guy who runs the show there, John Carter, was nice enough to give me a visitor pass so I could swim.
Do you have any other outside interests?
I love to cook. Elaborate cooking, from traditional Greek to exotic Asian cuisine and lots of other things. I am adventurous in my cooking but very traditional at the same time because I make everything from scratch. To graduate from MIT was a little easier than to graduate from a Greek mother.
For many patients diagnosed with diabetes, treating the disease can mean a burdensome and uncomfortable lifelong routine of monitoring blood sugar levels and injecting the insulin that their bodies don't naturally produce. But, as part of their Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) projects at Caltech, several engineering students have contributed to the development of tiny biosensors that could one day eliminate the need for these manual blood sugar tests.
Because certain patients with diabetes are unable to make their own insulin—a hormone that helps transfer glucose, or sugar, from the blood into muscle and other tissues—they need to monitor frequently their blood glucose, manually injecting insulin when sugar levels surge after a meal. Most glucose monitors require that patients prick their fingertips to collect a drop of blood, sometimes up to 10 times a day for the rest of their lives.
In their SURF projects, the students, all from Caltech's Division of Engineering and Applied Science, looked for different ways to do these same tests but painlessly and automatically.
Senior applied physics major Mehmet Sencan has approached the problem with a tiny chip that can be implanted under the skin. The sensor, a square just 1.4 millimeters on each side, is designed to detect glucose levels from the interstitial fluid (fluid found in the spaces between cells) that is just under the skin. The glucose levels in this fluid directly relate to the blood glucose concentration.
Sencan has been involved in optimizing the electrochemical method that the chip will use to detect glucose levels. Much like a traditional finger-stick glucose meter, the chip uses glucose oxidase, an enzyme that reacts in the presence of glucose, to create an electrical current. Higher levels of glucose result in a stronger current, allowing the device to measure glucose levels based on the charge that passes through the fluid.
Once the glucose level is detected, the information is wirelessly transmitted via a radio wave frequency to a reader that uses the same frequency to power the device itself. Ultimately an external display will let the patient know if their levels are within range.
Sencan, who works in the laboratory of Axel Scherer, the Bernard Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, and Physics, and who is co-mentored by postdoctoral researcher Muhammad Mujeeb-U-Rahman, started this project three years ago during his very first SURF.
"When I started, we were just thinking about what kind of chemistry the sensor would use, and now we have a sensor that is actually designed to do that," he says. Over the summer, he implanted the sensors in rat models, and he will continue the study over the fall and spring terms using both rat and mouse models—a first step in determining if the design is a clinically viable option.
Junior electrical engineering major Sith Domrongkitchaiporn from the Scherer laboratory, also co-mentored by Mujeeb-U-Rahman, took a different approach to glucose detection, making tiny biosensors that are inconspicuously wearable on the surface of a contact lens. "It's an interesting concept because instead of having to do a procedure to place something under the skin, you can use a less invasive method, placing a sensor on the eye to get the same information," he says.
He used the method optimized by Mehmet to determine blood glucose levels from interstitial fluid and adapted the chemistry to measure glucose in the eyes' tears. This summer, he will be attempting to fabricate the lens itself and improve upon the process whereby radio waves are used to power the sensor and then transmit data from the sensor to an external computer.
SURF student and sophomore electrical engineering major Jennifer Chih-Wen Lin wanted to incorporate a different kind of glucose sensor into a contact lens. "The concept—determining glucose readings from tears—is very similar to Sith's, but the method is very different," she says.
Instead of determining the glucose level based on the amount of electrical current that passes through a sample, Lin, who works in the laboratory of Hyuck Choo, assistant professor of electrical engineering, worked on a sensor that detects glucose levels from the interaction between light and molecules.
In her SURF project, she began optimizing the characterization of glucose molecules in a sample of glucose solution using a technique called Raman spectroscopy. When molecules encounter light, they vibrate differently based on their symmetry and the types of bonds that hold their atoms together. This vibrational information provides a unique fingerprint for each type of molecule, which is represented as peaks on the Raman spectrum—and the intensity of these peaks correlates to the concentration of that molecule within the sample.
"This step is important because once I can determine the relationship between peak intensities and glucose concentrations, our sensor can just compare that known spectrum to the reading from a sample of tears to determine the amount of glucose in the sample," she says.
Lin's project is in the very beginning stages, but if it is successful, it could provide a more accurate glucose measurement, and from a smaller volume of liquid, than is possible with the finger-stick method. Perhaps more importantly for patients, it can provide that measurement painlessly.
Also in Choo's laboratory, sophomore electrical engineering major Sophia Chen's SURF project involves a new way to power devices like these tiny sensors and other medical implants, using the vibrations from a patient's vocal cords. These vibrations produce the sound of our voice, and also create vibrations in the skull.
"We're using these devices called energy harvesters that can extract energy from vibrations at specific frequencies. When the vibrations go from the vocal folds to the skull, a structure in the energy harvester vibrates at the same frequency, generating energy—energy that can be used to power batteries or charge things," Chen says.
Chen's goal is to determine the frequency of these vibrations—and if the energy that they produce is actually enough to power a tiny device. The hope is that one day these vibrations could power, or at least supplement the power of, medical devices that need to be implanted near the head and that presently run on batteries with finite lifetimes.
Chen and the other students acknowledge that health-monitoring sensors powered by the human body might be years away from entering the clinic. However, this opportunity to apply classroom knowledge to a real-life challenge—such as diabetes treatment—is an important part of their training as tomorrow's scientists and engineers.
On September 30, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced its first round of funding in furtherance of President Obama's "Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnology"—or BRAIN—Initiative. Included among the 58 funded projects—all of which, according to the NIH, are geared toward the development of "new tools and technologies to understand neural circuit function and capture a dynamic view of the brain in action"—are six projects either led or co-led by Caltech researchers.
The Caltech projects are:
"Dissecting human brain circuits in vivo using ultrasonic neuromodulation"
Doris Tsao, assistant professor of biologyMikhail Shapiro, assistant professor of chemical engineering
Tsao and Shapiro are teaming up to develop a new technology that both uses ultrasound to map and determine the function of interconnected brain networks and, ultimately, to change neural activity deep within the brain. "This would open new horizons for understanding human brain function and connectivity, and create completely new options for the noninvasive treatment of brain diseases such as intractable epilepsy, depression, and Parkinson's disease," Tsao says. "The key," Shapiro adds, "is to gain a precise understanding of the various mechanisms by which sound waves interact with neurons in the brain so we can use ultrasound to produce very specific neurological effects. We will be able to do this across the full spectrum, from molecules up to large model organisms."
"Modular nanophotonic probes for dense neural recording at single-cell resolution"
Michael Roukes, Robert M. Abbey Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and BioengineeringThanos Siapas, professor of computation and neural systems
Roukes, Siapas, and their colleagues at Columbia University and Baylor College of Medicine propose to build ultra-dense arrays of miniature light-emitting and light-sensing probes using advanced silicon "chip" technology that permits their production en masse. These probes open the new field of integrated neurophotonics, Roukes says, and will permit simultaneous recording of the electrical activity of hundreds of thousands to, ultimately, millions of neurons, with single-cell resolution, in any given region of the brain. "The instrumentation we'll develop will enable us to observe the trafficking of information, in vivo, in brain circuits on an unprecedented scale, and to correlate this activity with behavior," he says.
"Time-Reversal Optical Focusing for Noninvasive Optogenetics"
Changhuei Yang, professor of electrical engineering, bioengineering, and medical engineeringViviana Gradinaru, assistant professor of biology
Deep-brain stimulation has been used successfully for nearly two decades for the treatment of epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, chronic pain, depression, and other disorders. Current systems rely on electrodes implanted deep within the brain to modify the firing pattern of specific clusters of neurons, bringing them back into a more normal pattern. Yang and Gradinaru are working together on a method that would use only light waves to noninvasively activate light-sensitive molecules and precisely guide the firing of nerves. Biological tissues are opaque due to the scattering of light waves, and that scattering makes it impossible to finely focus a laser beam deep into brain tissue. The researchers hope to use an optical "time-reversal" trick previously developed by Yang to counteract the scattering, allowing light beams to be targeted to specific locations within the brain. "The technology to be developed in this project has the potential for wide-ranging applications, including noninvasive deep brain stimulation and precise incisionless laser surgery," he says.
"Integrative Functional Mapping of Sensory-Motor Pathways"
Michael H. Dickinson, Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem Professor of Bioengineering
As in other animals, locomotion in the fruit fly is a complicated process involving the interplay of sensory systems and motor circuits in the brain. Dickinson and his colleagues hope to decipher just how the brain uses sensory information to guide movements by developing a system to record the activity of large numbers of individual neurons from across the brains of fruit flies, as the flies fly in flight simulator or walk on a treadmill and are simultaneously exposed to various sights and sounds. Understanding sensory–motor integration, he says, should lead to a better understanding of human disorders, including Parkinson's disease, stroke, and spinal cord injury, and aid in the design and optimization of robotic prosthetic limbs and prosthetic devices that restore sight and other senses.
"Establishing a Comprehensive and Standardized Cell Type Characterization Platform"
David J. Anderson, Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (co-PI)
In collaboration with Hongkui Zeng and colleagues at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Anderson will help to develop a detailed, publicly available database characterizing the genetic, physiological, and morphological features of the various cell types in the brain that are involved in circuits controlling sensations and emotions. Understanding the cellular building blocks of brain circuits, the researchers say, is crucial for figuring out how those circuits can malfunction in disease. In particular, Anderson's lab will focus on the cells of the brain's hypothalamus and amygdala—structures that are vital to emotions and behavior, and involved in human psychiatric disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression. "This project will serve as a model for hub-and-spoke collaborations between academic laboratories and the Allen Institute, permitting access to their valuable resources and technologies while advancing the field more broadly," Anderson says.
"Vertically integrated approach to visual neuroscience: microcircuits to behavior"
Markus Meister, Lawrence A. Hanson, Jr. Professor of Biology (co-PI)
This project, led by Hyunjune Sebastian Seung of Princeton University, will use genetic, electrophysiological, and imaging tools to identify and map the neural connections of the retina, the light-sensing tissue in the eye, and determine their roles in visual perception and behavior. "Here we are shooting for a vertically integrated understanding of a neural system," Meister says. "The retina offers such a fantastic degree of experimental access that one can hope to bridge all scales of organization, from molecules to cells to microcircuits to behavior. We hope that success here can eventually serve as a blueprint for understanding other parts of the brain." Knowing the neural mechanisms for vision can also influence technological applications, such as new algorithms for computer vision, or the development of retinal prostheses for the treatment of blindness.


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A Process Approach to the Utility for Gambling
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This paper argues that any specific utility or disutility for gambling must be excluded from expected utility because such a theory is consequential while a pleasure or displeasure for gambling is a matter of process, not of consequences. A (dis)utility for gambling is modeled as a process utility which monotonically combines with expected utility restricted to consequences. This allows for a process (dis)utility for gambling to be revealed. As an illustration, the model shows how empirical observations in the Allais paradox can reveal a process disutility of gambling. A more general model of rational behavior combining processes and consequences is then proposed and discussed.
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Volume 50, Issue 3 , pp 249-262
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Hey HP - Come on, this is a legitimate problem. Scan-to-computer activation should be persistent after the printer and/or computers sleep or restart. Please acknowledge and fix the problem!
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Activate Scan to Computer is NOT an option available under Scanner Actions on my 64bit Win7 system. In Program Files/.../Bin I find ScanToPCActivationApp but clicking it give same error as reported by others.
Any thoughts on why it does not show up in my Scanner Actions menu?
Re: Activate Scan to Computer? Officejet 6500A Plus
I have the 6500a plus. If you goto 'program files-hp-hp officejet 6500 e710n-z-bin' you will see the application named
'hp officejet 6500 e710n-z'.
double clicking on that application will launch the main printer interface. under 'scanner actions'
you will see 'activate scan to computer'.
you can create a short cut on your desktop or keep coming back here.
Re: Activate Scan to Computer? Officejet 6500A Plus
Hi all.
I am running Win 7 and had the same error with my HP Officejet 6500A Plus.
What I found was that in the Windows control panel under Devices and Printers, if I right mouse click on the HP printer and then look at the "Set as default printer" option, I was seeing 3 choices for my printer;
Fax - HP Officejet 6500 E710n-z (Network)
HP Officejet 6500 E710n-z (Network)
HP55891E (HP Offocejet 6500 E710n-z)
My default printer was set to the HP55891E (HP Offocejet 6500 E710n-z). When I changed to the HP Officejet 6500 E710n-z (Network), and then run the Activate Scan to Computer, it all worked and I did not get the error window. I have not yet restarted my PC so will have to check if it all works from scratch etc, but this is better than where I was an hour ago!!
If this helps anyone it will have been worth the effort.
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Grazza2011, thanks for your suggestion. I tried that, no luck.
Computer is a new HP AMD quadcore.
Printer is a 6500A Plus E710n, also brand new.
Scanning will not work. Printing is erratic too. Print jobs will not print, but when I reboot the computer, the pages print.
I uninstalled the printer software and manually installed the 6500A E709n by hand using the built in Win7 drivers.
When I do that, the printer works flawlessly, however scanning still does not work.
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I'm having a similar problem, but in many cases it's even worse. While I can activate scan to computer from the HP app (and yes, doing this every time is a total PITA), my problem is that I have to reset the printer by cycling the power EVERY TIME I want to activate the feature. Hear that HP? EVERY FREAKING TIME. Without exception. Otherwise, I get an error message saying wither there is no printer found or that there was an "error while activating printer. Please restart your printer and try again." This problem makes my scanner largely unusable from any reasonable standpoint. The funny thing is, it prints wirelessly without problem, so there is no network connectivity issue. I see this as a serious driver issue that HP has yet to fix.
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Re: Activate Scan to Computer? Officejet 6500A Plus
This feature work nicely out of the box. I just bought a 6500A plus.
Just run Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Devices and Printers\HP Officejet 6500 E710n-z (Network)
and then click Activate Scan to Computer and it is on permanently. I loveHP!
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I have checked in CVS a couple of changes to the user authentication. These changes allow for external authentication mechanisms (for the time being HTTP and Active Directory) to be easily added to PB.
The changes were based on code submitted by Brian Villanueva (thanks Brian!). To deploy these new authentication schemes, one would only have to change a few parameters in the config file. The creation of user accounts before hand is not required, as ProjectBench will attempt to create those accounts if they're not found in the local db.... read more
PB 0.4 is most likely the last release for this year. It has a couple of really interesting features.
I also have a couple of feature planned for the next few releases.
Major features include:
- external interface to PB (XML-RPC) to allow you to access PB and integrate PB with any application
- improved user authentication (http,ldap) and better handling of guest submitted issues
- option to monitor an email account and automatically add mails received as issues
- rich format for issue description and updates (bbcode or wiki)
- custom reporting engine
- import of issues from various sources
- multiple database support... read more
I have managed to finish a major overhaul: updating the rendering so the HTML is exclusively in templates. The security system has also been update and now it's possible to have persistent logins and to disable the guest account.
ProjectBench v0.3 has better support for client-side validation of non-US dates.
If you're one of the few using projectbench :), I recommend you download this version and run the install.php to upgrade your PB. As always, make a backup just in case :))... read more
projectbench v0.2 is out and it spots a couple of exciting new features, such as:
projectbench contains fixes and new exciting features, such as:
* Multiple custom defined filters for View Issues (save your filters and apply them with ease)
* Confirmation of issue creation/update (with ID and link back)
* Multiple options for what to do after saving an issue (three options: Go to View Issues, Add New, Stay in Edit Mode)
* Issue navigation on all single issue screens (Previous and Next options)
* Shortcut keys for common options (Alt+N - New Issue, Alt+V - View Issues, Alt+F - Search issues, Alt+# - issue #, Alt+[ - Previous issue, Alt+] - Next Issue)
* Dynamic setting of some issue fields (e.g. prompting to set the Fixed on date when the issue's Status is set to Closed, etc)
* Tracks current row in View Issues (easier to follow some of the right columns)
* More of a bug fix, but setting a project manager for in the Project Administration section automatically adds that person to the list of users with access to the project.
* Not as visible but equally important, projectbench is switching little by little to using templates. This will make future changes easier to implement because of code/presentation separation.... read more
Get it while it's hot.
ProjectBench, the friendly project manager, has been released.
While based on workbench 0.11, is sports a plethora of improvements which I promise it is well worth your time.
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Afghanistan Dispatch
In Afghanistan, Flowers Call The Shots
For years, the Sangin District in southern Afghanistan has been one of the deadliest areas of operation. For the British, who controlled the area until U.S. Marines replaced them last year, the focus was securing the road that ran along the Helmand River, on the edge of the lush farm fields.
The Marines have taken a different approach since then. They have pushed deep into the river valley from the desert to get at the heart of Taliban control and movement.
Poppy is a key crop here, and in a way, flowers fuel the fight: The Taliban earn hundreds of millions of dollars from the drug trade, which supplies 90 percent of the world's raw opium used for heroin. Locals rely on the work it generates. But the government wants to end poppy production. So the locals, who need the work, support insurgents who will protect it. It's a deeply ingrained Catch-22.
Hide captionThe men from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, from Camp Pendleton, Calif., are based in the lush farm fields of Sangin District in the Helmand River Valley in southern Afghanistan. A main source of revenue for the Taliban comes from this region during poppy harvest.David Gilkey/NPR
Hide captionThe northern Helmand River valley is bordered by barren desert on either side — but is as lush as a jungle where its waters are drained to flood the farm fields. Fighting in the area is practically at a halt during the annual poppy harvest, when villagers occupy the fields.David Gilkey/NPR
Hide captionMarines watch as a massive dust storm approaches their base. Though fighting slows during poppy harvest, Marines remain on edge, as fighting could erupt at any moment.David Gilkey/NPR
Hide captionMarines wait for the mud and rain to stop falling after a massive dust and thunderstorm slams their base. The understanding is that while villagers are working in the fields, insurgents unplug IEDs (improvised explosive devices) and lie low.David Gilkey/NPR
Hide captionFor Marines, the mission is to secure the local population. An upside to the lull in fighting is increased interaction with Afghans. Children become accustomed to seeing Marines, and have even adopted some gestures, such as fist-bumping.David Gilkey/NPR
Hide captionA local farmer talks with Marines in the "green zone" — a strip of irrigated land along the main Helmand River, also a hotbed for insurgency and violent fighting after poppy cultivation ends.David Gilkey/NPR
Hide captionLance Cpl. Anthony Espinoza wipes the salt and sweat out of his eyes at the end of a daylong patrol. The 100-degree temperatures and humidity of the flooded farm fields make walking and patrolling in the area a daily battle.David Gilkey/NPR
Hide captionLance Cpl. Joshua Stowers stands in the middle of a field of tall grass near the poppy fields in Sangin District.David Gilkey/NPR
Hide captionCpl. Daniel Wheeler lights a cigarette after late afternoon patrol in the scorching heat. Some of the Marines have nicknamed the area "Vietnamistan," after the marshes and junglelike terrain that they navigate daily.David Gilkey/NPR
Hide captionA group of Afghan farmers stand in the middle of a Marine patrol passing through the "green zone."David Gilkey/NPR
Hide captionSgt. David Leon looks over a poppy field. Insurgent sniper teams that typically work the area shoot from hiding spots known as "murder holes."David Gilkey/NPR
Hide captionLance Cpl. Victor Sierra holds the hand of an Afghan girl at the end of an all-day patrol in Sangin District.David Gilkey/NPR
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There are rules, even in the drug trade: Because farmers need to work the fields, fighting between the Marines and the Taliban is almost nonexistent during the harvest, which happens at the same time every year, in May. It is a function of local economics, not a truce. Fighting could resume at any given moment. And it will.
Just like every other year, there is a strange quiet overseas right now in Sangin. The Taliban have, more or less, unplugged their IEDs (improvised explosive devices) and are lying low. NPR photographer David Gilkey, who was just embedded with the Marines, says a nearby market — typically bustling — has been completely empty. Everyone, he says, is at work in the lush, green fields.
This is good news for the Marines: A lull in fighting provides an opportunity for face time with the Afghan people. It's the Marines' main mission, after all, to secure the local population.
"But there is a tepid trepidation to all of this," Gilkey says. Just last year, more than 25 Marines were killed — and more than 150 wounded — in the fighting that followed poppy season. IEDs could be plugged back in at any given moment. And the Marines must be ready.
It's quite the juxtaposition: This idyllic scene of children roaming fields of flowers, and the knowledge that somewhere out there, insurgents could be stuffing bombs below the soft, fertile soil. For the Marines, it's a game of wait and see. Wait and see when the fighting starts again. Wait and see if anything changes as a result of Osama bin Laden's death. Wait and see what the next season may hold.
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Yoshida Meatloaf
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 1 hr
A recipe from my Mr. Yoshida's Fine Sauces Cookbook which I haven't tried yet.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 lbs lean ground beef
- 1 cup dry breadcrumbs
- 1⁄4 cup onion, finely chopped
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 cup Yoshida gourmet sauce
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- In a large bowl, combine ground beef, bread crumbs, onions, beaten eggs, and 1/2 cup Gourmet Sauce.
- Mix well.
- In a 13" X 9" baking dish, firmly shape the meatloaf into 8" X 4".
- Bake meatloaf for 45 minutes.
- Top meatloaf with 1/2 cup sauce and continue baking for 15 minutes.
- Let meatloaf cool for 10 minutes before slicing.
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Excellent. I followed the recipe to the letter for the ingredients and portions but then I formed four smaller loafs and then wrapped each with two tissue paper thin slices of prosciutto. From there I got back on recipe and baked for 35 minutes, then basted, put back in for 10 more minutes. Then removed from oven to rest.

WOW! It was fantastic!
Wonderful almost sweet flavor. I used Yoshida all the time on chicken and it never occurred to me to use on beef. THANKS!
Excellent and so easy to make. The flavor is just perfect. I chose not to use the sauce on top and I think I probably won't do that in the future because this was perfect without it. Thanks so much for sharing. Made for PAC Fall 09 :)


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Life of Ryan is an American Reality television series on MTV. The series debuted on August 27, 2007 with the second season premiering on January 8, 2008. The series follows the day-to-day life of professional skateboarder Ryan Sheckler as he manages his personal life and his career. Most episodes take place at Sheckler's home in San Clemente, California. His friends, along with fellow professional skateboarders make various appearances in the series. Wikipedia
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Opened 5 years ago
Closed 3 years ago
#17473 closed New feature (wontfix)
Add like and ilike lookups
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|Database layer (models, ORM)
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|Design decision needed
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Add like and ilike lookups.
Should be possible to do something like this:
MyModel.objects.filter(field_name__like='xx%YY%zz') MyModel.objects.filter(field_name__ilike='xx%yy%zz') User.objects.filter(username__like='a%in')
Instead of:
It is more quick and more readable.
I create the next app, after read the next question
I didn't understand why this is not coded
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Changed 5 years ago by pmartin
comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by pmartin
- Needs documentation unset
- Needs tests unset
- Patch needs improvement unset
comment:2 follow-up: ↓ 5 Changed 5 years ago by russellm
- Triage Stage changed from Unreviewed to Design decision needed
On the whole, I'm not convinced that this proposal is beneficial.
I'm not sure I agree that LIKE syntax is more readable. Regular expressions are a more powerful search syntax, and they are a syntax that is familiar in many other contexts. In contrast, LIKE syntax has limited capabilities, and is available only in SQL. In addition, Django's ORM tries to be avoid exposing SQL-specific features as much as possible, and LIKE syntax is about as SQL specific as you can get.
I'd also need to see evidence that a LIKE query is faster than the analogous regex-based query, for all databases. There is evidently a big difference under MySQL, but the same apparently can't be said about Postgres. Personally, I'm not inclined to add a feature duplicating existing functionality just to work around deficiencies in MySQL's indexing mechanisms.
Marking Design Decision Needed because I'm not *fundamentally* opposed to the idea; however, unless someone from the core is particularly enamoured with the idea, I think it's a wontfix.
As an aside, I *would* be in favour of anything that would make it easier for you to add this filter clause as a third party extension. It *can* be done right now, but it should be much easier to drop in custom query clauses.
comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by pmartin
I think the next, if exists:
- contains: LIKE %value%
- startswith: LIKE value%
- endswith: LIKE %value
And the same with icontains, istartswith and iendswith. May exist some lookup that complete the syntax. It's possible that "like" is not the name more appropriate, I am bad with the names, you can call otherwise.
You said that: "I'm not inclined to add a feature duplicating existing functionality" and this is not true. If you think that, you should removed the before lookups (contains, startswith, endwith), exact and iexact. But these get a readable code.
It is true that in postgres is a litle better regex, but this is only a case, you should not think of specific cases. But if you think that this is a reason to don't accept it, you should code some like this:
User.objects.filter(username__regex='.*foo.*') User.objects.filter(username__regex='.*foo')
Instead of
User.objects.filter(username__contains='foo') User.objects.filter(username__endswith='foo')
comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by pmartin
- Has patch set
comment:5 in reply to: ↑ 2 Changed 4 years ago by pmartin
Replying to russellm:
I have written a post about this:
- I have written a benchmark, with this you can see the improvement.
- In this post, I talk that it is not a duplication of code or duplication of funcionality. You can read. I hope to convince you
comment:6 Changed 3 years ago by aaugustin
- Resolution set to wontfix
- Status changed from new to closed
I agree with Russell, the best way forward is to make custom lookups easier to define, and there's some interest in this topic at the moment.


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An inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth has been accused of possessing marijuana with the intent to distribute it at the federal prison, according a news release from the U.S. attorney's office.
Brian Garner, 37, is charged with one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana and one count of possession of a prohibited object in the penitentiary.
The crimes are alleged to have occurred Jan. 13, according to the release from the office of Barry Grissom, U.S. attorney for Kansas.
If convicted, Garner faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000 for each count.
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SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger got a close look at the site of the massive gas line explosion in a San Francisco suburb.
The governor returned from a weeklong trade mission to Asia on Wednesday, and his first official stop was the San Bruno neighborhood where nearly 40 homes were destroyed and at least four people were killed last week.
Authorities say three people who lived yards from the blast source are still missing.
Speaking from a vantage point overlooking a massive crater and destroyed homes, Schwarzenegger credited emergency personnel and others for what he termed their "quick action" in responding to the explosion and fire.
The governor also said he spoke to President Barack Obama by telephone and requested a federal disaster declaration.


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Stretching 80 acres in Denver's City Park, the Denver Zoo was first founded in the late 1800s, and today welcomes over 1.6 million visitors each year. The facility is five minutes from the heart of downtown and showcases 700 animal species. Visitors to Denver can stay at hotels within a short drive or leisurely walk to the zoo.
Ramada Denver Downtown
This pet-friendly Denver hotel is two miles from the zoo, and under a mile from the Colorado State Capitol building. A full-service restaurant is on-site, as well as an outdoor swimming pool and hot tub. Complimentary high speed Internet is provided for guests, as well as a courtesy shuttle for destinations within three miles of the property. Rooms offer Movies on Demand, Nintendo 64, in-room coffee makers and voicemail, and the hotel includes a fitness room and business center.
Econo Lodge
Stay at this hotel and receive complimentary continental breakfast, plus free local calls and Wi-Fi access. Pets are also welcome on the 57-room property, located within a seven-minute drive of the Denver Zoo. Rooms are equipped with cable TV with free movies, while coffee makers, ironing boards and hair dryers are available on request. For the business traveler, copy and fax facilities are available, all suites have oversized desks. The hotel is also close to Coors Field and the Colorado Convention Center.
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Dip into city's only rooftop-heated swimming pool at the Warwick Denver Hotel, just over two miles west of the zoo. Guests can also work out in the hotel's 15th-floor fitness center, shop in the on-site gift shop, or catch up on work at the 24-hour business center. The pet-friendly hotel also has a restaurant and bar. Room amenities at the Warwick include private balconies, cable TV, honor bars, bathrobes and slippers, plus Gilchrest and Soames toiletries. A complimentary car service is also available to guests, on a first-come, first-served basis.
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The Hampton Inn is on Sherman Street, just over two miles west of City Park's zoo. This 148-room hotel provides daily complimentary breakfasts, plus high-speed Internet access. All suites have cable TV, working desks, mini bars, telephones with voicemail, plus tea and coffee making appliances. If you're traveling with the family, the hotel provides cribs and high chairs. A fitness room and swimming pool are all available for guest use, as well as a business center, with fax, copy and printing facilities.
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Does anyone else have EXTREMELY veiny boobs with extra large nips with dark circles around them? SO not cute haha
Ava (24) soon to be single mommy of:
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My boobs look like a road map. Nipples seem to be the same, but those ugly blue veins are really freaky lol
Brea (29) & Greg (30) Married Oct 08'
Expecting our second baby *Max* July 2015!
Jack is going on four! Can't beleive it!
I have those white dots all over my boobs, the veins are a little bluer but not much. And my areolas are DEFINITELY getting bigger, even though they were huge before I got pg. I barely recognize my breasts anymore.
LOL this is what my mom told me: They're getting ready to turn into bottles
I thought my boobs were just getting bigger but I noticed the other day my areolas are way bigger too theyre looking pan-cakey to me!!! I havent gotten the roadmap boobs yet, but ive heard about that. :)
The boobs are fun to show off to the hubby who is just in shock at how big theyre getting, but man theyre so hard to deal with! I bought one new bra on sale but i dont want to get any more because I know they'll just keep growing!
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@katybaby that is hilarious... and a little depressing... haahahaha... things we go through for our little angels... being a mom=the ultimate sacrifice...
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all of the above plus (this is the part I cant cope with) I have acne even on my breasts not just my chest >.< soooo humiliating. Thank god my DH is so loving and things I'm sexy no matter what.
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Ronald Marcus Stanley Sr. and Frances Fucini Stanley, Hendersonville, announce the engagement of their daughter, April Jeanne Stanley to James Andrew
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Mr. Edwards is the son of Mauvaine Edwards, Hereford, England and the late Stephen Edwards. Miss Stanley is a graduate of West Henderson High and The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Upon graduation she was employed at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago and Duke University Medical Center. April is also a former transplant coordinator at Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto, California and The Oxford Radcliffe Trust in Oxford, England. April currently attends graduate school at Vanderbilt University in the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program and is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, Nursing Honor Society.
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I think, that there is a lighthouse for when the sea will recover all the country.
So???... I don´t see any problem with that. It's like: "don't worry about the change in the climate because nothing terrible it's going to happen".
I'm agreed with you, seems like nothing it's going to happen, it shows a nice landscape
Hmn....it is a beautiful visual.
but I'm not convinced it conveys the Idea clearly, as attested by the above comments.
Also this could be looking inland from a cliff side vantage point, in which case it would be less extrodinary.
More space to establish how far the lighthouse is from water may have clarified a little.
Always assuming I'v got the right idea?
Visual is nice, but in first view idea is not very clear.
~ Quite obviously, I have gathered no moss ! ~
This ad is stupid as the world is heating up and the polar ice caps are melting so eventually land mass will be covered. Not the other way around how they've depicted it!


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I'm no gamer so my views may not be a good refference. Still, everything was great, from graphics & sounds to ideas and speed, except for one (most important) thing: you cannot get past a certain point since there is no explanation on how to do it or at least what your options would be. You just have to wait or hope someone wrote something about that...
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One of my favorites games ! I play Warzone 2100 since 1999, and it's allways a top game. Many thanks for the team, and long life for WZ2100 ^^
Fantastic effort to keep this game alive! I am indebted to you for life. This game was/is the best pound-for-pound RTS ever made. Question - has anyone verified if this will run on raspberry pi?
Thank you that support and develop this project. The game is alive only thanks to you.
It's incredible!
I downloaded this game, yesterday been playing it for almost 15hours now...where can i get the update, the one in linux mint package manager is outdated
I like this game very much as i like ubuntu but I am not able to install this game in ubuntu 15.10. There is an old version available in ubuntu software centre. Kindly update it in ubuntu 15.10 or someone pls tell me how to install/update it there. Thanks.....
I played this game back in the 90's and played it with my kids when they were small. Just thrashed my 16 year old once again. This is an excellent strategy game, the choices you make from a huge number of technologies are critical to winning. I expect this game will still be around in 75 years. Good work guys.
A GREAT job!
pity the Pumpkin Studios went bankrupt .. realy nice game
Game is too complex. Too many units, too many weapons, too many upgrade paths. Cannon, machine gun, dual machine gun, flame, heavy flamer, rocket, mini-rocket array, on and on and on. One of the team colors in dark gray...in the fog of war so you can't even see where your units are. These developers must not even play their own game.
It's a good real time strategy game.
I've been playing this game since before 2.3.9 back in 2010/2011 or so. The game was fun then, and the improvements since then have been awesome. It's a real-time strategy game that came out in the late 90s and has been open source for several years now. This game requires no super technical knowledge to install or run. Just download, install, run. That simple. For quick reference, it runs very smoothly on Windows 7 at 1080p resolution on a 6 year old Core2Duo CPU at 2.13 Ghz with 4 GB of RAM. Graphics are scaled properly to nearly any resolution you have, so it's not like trying to play an old DOS game at 1080p (yuck). The community on wz2100.net is helpful and plenty of common questions have already been answered on the forums there. There are usually 1 or 2 online games available in the multiplayer lobby, and it's easy to network the game on a home network, even cross-platform (Mac/PC) as long as you have the same version of the game installed on all machines connecting. If you like the basic gameplay, I totally recommend getting some map mods for the game to make things more interesting, although a good number of maps come with the game. It also has a campaign mode (with or without videos, it's up to you) for people who like that. Multiplayer (or skirmish) matches are quite customizable as far as difficulty and other options. There's lots more to say about the game, but I just wanted to give you some solid reasons to play it. So give it a go. :)
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Since Playstation it is favorite and legendary game! I love Warzone! ! !
The developers have had plenty of complaints about the AI to know. The behavior of trucks, mechanics and engineers is atrocious. It kills the best game I ever played. Losing a game because of trucks putting themselves in the line of fire is gutting. It is not military discipline and as cyborgs they do not have emotions. It remains a 3 to 4 star game. What a waste.
I'm ADDICTED!!!! Warzone2100 rocks my world! You ought to see it spread across 4 monitors! Woof! The trucks don't behave as they used to, as far as pushing and shoving on other trucks to get into position to build. That is my only gripe. BTW, the website has been down for over a week. Someone needs to reboot?
I LoVE UUU WARZONE...!!! ^^
Well done :)
A big jump from how I experienced this game on the PS1! I rate ports or in this case, modernization, of a game by the quality and polish it gives the original material. The way I experienced the game was with a controller, so obviously i was getting the rough end of the deal. The refined controls, which can be customized even further, updated graphics and "simple to learn, hard to master" mentality of the game Is just one hook I can't shake off! Even though this game infuriated me as a kid, This is one of the few RTS games I find myself coming back to!
this game is a must for those who played any strategy game during the PS1 era as it is sure to give you one heck of a nostalgia trip. beyond that this game does it's job extremely well and you only need a mouse to pick it up and play. before we go into my rating here's what the game has to offer. a real time strategic experience, completely custom units (if you want a hovercraft with a massive railgun you can have that) and base creation (walls turrets buildings ETC.). this game takes place in 2100 just after a nuclear appoclypse and you the player must bring the human race back on it's feet by using matter fabrications artifact searching and blowing raiders out of the sky using all means neccesary. overall this is a grreat game and it accomplishes exactly what it set out to do and for that i highly recommend this game


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What an awesome game...it was a fitting end to another great season of college football. Best of luck to all next year!
- 10:24 p.m. Jan. 6, 2014
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Great game. The playoffs will be fun, but the bcs system was fair overall.
If a team deserved to play in a big time bowl, they played in a big time bowl.
Like we did. Twice.
I loved our two prestigious bcs bowls and am happy to be on a relatively short list of teams who won two bcs bowls.
Go utes!
Onward and upward.
Likely the only teams to go to the playoffs will be power conference teams and notre dame. And that's how it should be.
- 10:37 p.m. Jan. 6, 2014
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That's right, Chris B, and the only team that was undefeated this year won
the National Championship, just like in 1984, and that's the way it should
be and was. Too bad the years you went to BCS Bowls there was more than one
team that was undefeated. I guess the stars just didn't line up like they
did in 1984 and 2014.
We'll see how the playoffs go and if any team in the bottom of the power conference ever even gets to a bowl game---they didn't this year or last year.
This game was pretty exciting to watch, especially the 4th quarter. Did you see where #8 on the offense for Florida State cost his team the opportunity to go for two by his unsportsmanlike conduct? There's a lesson there for sure.
- 11:18 p.m. Jan. 6, 2014
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From what I saw from both quarterbacks tonight I would be fine saying Taysom
Hill is going to 1-be the best qb in college football next year, 2-win the
Heisman, and 3-take BYU back to the National Championship. The playoff system
just means we need a shot at the top 4, so realistically if we go undefeated
there is no way they can keep us out.
Go Fast. Go Hard. Go Cougars.
- 11:54 p.m. Jan. 6, 2014
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Nice to see the top two sec teams lose their bowl games this season.
- 12:01 a.m. Jan. 7, 2014
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So.. Chris, I love your snarkiness, You make me want to cheer for the Utes instead of the Cornhuskers sometimes. But... do you think Utah would have been invited to the Pac-12 if it weren't for those BCS wins (when they weren't always in a "big time league"?) I agree that big time schools should go often, but then you of course deny what happens when Utah kills Georgia. You deny what happens in basketball when Butler goes not once, but twice to the final four, and don't tell me Utah didn't deserve it and Butler didn't deserve it. You deny Utah (or really others like them in the future) even getting the invite into the Pac-12 I fear. Money of course drives these changes. I agree, no little team will ever make it into the playoffs. If say for example, Utah State goes 12-0, they will sit out. If for example, Washington goes 11-1, they might make it in, if their loss is to Utah State. Sad in a sense, but reality and necessary in the other I suppose.
- 6:50 a.m. Jan. 7, 2014
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We all know that only the top teams from the so called power conferences will get to the playoffs on a regular basis because they're the ones that constantly get the nation's top athletes. The best and most talented athletes from around the nation always opt to play for those few schools that are considered elite and thus they become stronger and more powerful every year. The rest of the schools in those conferences, like the rest of the non powerhouses schools hardly have a chance if ever. They just share in the glory of being a member but like the rest of the non powerhouses schools, their chances of being in the playoffs are at best a long shot too. Sad to admit but my beloved Cougars are in that category. And no one can convince me that if Utah, BYU, Utah State or any other school for that matter can get those kind of quality athletes on a yearly basis, that their programs would not be seriously contending for a spot in the playoffs too. Such is the reality of the huge disparity in college sports.
- 7:01 a.m. Jan. 7, 2014
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Nice to see the SEC get knocked down. Great game any way you cut it.
Also, nice to see Utah finishing ahead of BYU in the Saragin Rankings. This is the poll that BYU fans reference over and over again when there team loses to Utah. They claim this means they are the better team even though they got beat on the playing fiedl. Well, guess what? BYU lost the battle (head to head) and the war (final rankings). Even when Utah has a horrible year, BYU still plays second fiddle.
- 7:31 a.m. Jan. 7, 2014
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Isn't it funny that even with 1984, your amazing football history, and an international following no conference wants you?
Apparently those things are as respected as byu fans think they are.
- 8:15 a.m. Jan. 7, 2014
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And there it is: 2014's first prediction of BYU winning next year's
national championship. For the record, it was posted by Pride at 11:54 p.m. on
Jan. 6, 2014....only 90 minutes after the conclusion of this year's college
football season.
Congratulations to Pride....you have to be pretty quick on the draw to be the first BYU fan of the year to predict a national championship. There will be many such predictions made between now and September by Y fans like you, but you were the first and nobody can ever take that away from you. Celebrate this moment!
- 10:14 a.m. Jan. 7, 2014
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For all the yelling BYU fans have been doing about Sagarin rankings since their
loss to Utah in Provo this year, it must not be very fun seeing Utah finishing
on top.
Yes, a 5-7 "cellar dweller that couldn't make a bowl" was superior to any other team in the state this year. But that was already proven on the field.
- 10:58 a.m. Jan. 7, 2014
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Its quite simple. Byu is not the caliber of an institution worthy of joining a power conference. If byu was, a power conference would want byu. But they don't. Look it up.
- 11:45 a.m. Jan. 7, 2014
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A lot of conferences have wanted BYU. The MWC, Big East, Big 12 contacted BYU
In fact the Pac-10 athletic directors voted to admit BYU in the 1990s, but the presidents did not support the decision (2 private liberal institutions did not want it), look it up several former ADs have confirmed this.
It is not about athletics, it is about money, the Utes will be televised this sunday in order for the Pac-12 to make money. BYU does not do this.
- 11:50 a.m. Jan. 7, 2014
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Source from inside the Pac-10 before expansion.
"One, the member schools are leery of becoming involved with a school with a religious affiliation. Two, they're not a fit academically as research is not one of BYU's strengths. And finally, BYU teams would not be willing to play on Sundays based on religious grounds, which would create a headache schedule-wise."
- 12:08 p.m. Jan. 7, 2014
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Apparently I can not attach any more quotes because they are not acceptable to the desnews. take time and do the research. Your reasons are incognizant rhetoric when the issue is studied a little more ind depth
- 12:21 p.m. Jan. 7, 2014
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BYUs undergraduate programs are much better than the Us. (I attended neither
school and was published more as an undergraduate than some of the U professors
in my field)
BYUs athletics overall are much better from top to bottom (the U's are improving)
So the research institution part does hurt BYU, but the school concentrates on under graduate studies.
Lets hear an intelligent response not rhetoric
- 12:25 p.m. Jan. 7, 2014
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"BYUs undergraduate programs are much better than the Us."
Tell that to all the national publications who unanimously rank Utah higher in every scientific and technical degree field. However BYU is undoubtedly better in elementary education, I'll give you that.
"BYUs athletics overall are much better from top to bottom."
Laughable statement. The deseret duel (or whatever it's called) is currently 23-6 in favor of Utah. That's not even remotely close - that's a landslide in Utah's favor.
- 12:30 p.m. Jan. 7, 2014
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@ Brave Sir Robin
please cite your source (academic rankings)
US news rankings BYU# 62 Utah #121
Forbes BYU #75 Utah # 173
Laughable argument
The Deseret Duel does not mean anything.
Elite 50 athletic department rankings.
Utah un-ranked.
In athletics there is more to life than head to head.
Please try again
- 12:57 p.m. Jan. 7, 2014
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Did you happen to see the ksl article mentioning how Utah placed in the top 50 most valuable athletic programs in the country.
Did you see where byU was on the list?
Answer: They weren't!
The Pac 12 could have chosen Utah, byu, or neither: They chose Utah
The Big 12 could have chosen byu or nothing: They chose nothing
- 2:50 p.m. Jan. 7, 2014
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So now that Sagarin and the head-to-head Deseret Duel have let you down, you're crowing about USNews' College Rankings? Bad move.
These rankings reflect more on the resources of BYU's owner than anything else. Institutional wealth is the largest single factor for Forbes and USNews.
If you want to try rankings with a little more objective criteria, see the Academic Ranking of World Universities, which puts Utah at a tie for #85 in the world and BYU in the group of #301-400.
- 3:54 p.m. Jan. 7, 2014
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Pakistan's Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani succeeded in winning back the support of his largest coalition partner after reversing a controversial increase in gasoline prices, ending a rift that may have dislodged a key U.S. regional ally.
Lawmakers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement will return to the government benches in Parliament but their ministers won't rejoin the federal cabinet, Raza Haroon, a leader of the MQM said at a joint news conference with Gilani in Karachi today. Gilani visited the MQM office and was showered with rose petals on his arrival.
The MQM's support would bolster Gilani and embattled President Asif Ali Zardari, whose grip on power was further undermined by the Jan. 4 assassination of a key aide, the governor of Punjab province. MQM lawmakers joined the opposition after their ministers quit last week over a Jan. 1 rise in state-controlled gasoline prices.
Pakistan's main opposition leader, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, had further cranked up the pressure, saying he would campaign for the government's fall unless the ruling alliance meets a Jan. 10 deadline to begin a crackdown on corruption and withdraw the energy price increase.
"We are running the government with the consensus of all political parties," Gilani said. He had been stripped of his parliamentary majority by the MQM's desertion.
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The reversal of gasoline prices may hurt Pakistan's budget deficit at a time when the country needs to broaden what is one of the world's smallest tax bases.
After the new year's price increase, the cost of a liter of gasoline rose to 79.67 rupees (93 cents). Pakistani consumer prices jumped 15.5 percent in November from a year earlier, the highest rate among 17 Asian economies tracked by Bloomberg.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Jan. 6 urged Pakistan to stick with its economic reforms and not "reverse progress."
Gilani, after meeting with leaders of the main political parties in the parliament on Jan. 6, said the government has removed the nearly 7-rupee increase in the price of a liter of gasoline, taking the rate back to 72.96 rupees (85 cents).
Sharif, who had initially given Gilani 72 hours to adopt his agenda, extended the period by three days after the governor of Punjab province was assassinated in the capital.
Pakistan's military launched offensives against Taliban guerrillas in two strongholds in 2009, and the U.S. has stepped up missile strikes from drone aircraft in regions bordering Afghanistan in a bid to weaken militants.