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Soul Men: Mac and Hayes leave on a sour note
If anything good might be said about the untimely passing this past summer of comedian Bernie Mac and singer Isaac Hayes, it's that they didn't live to see the crude farce that is Soul Men.
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Starring Bernie Mac, Samuel L. Jackson, Sharon Leal and John Legend. Directed by Malcolm D. Lee. 103 minutes. At major theatres. 14A
If anything good might be said about the untimely passing this past summer of comedian Bernie Mac and singer Isaac Hayes, it's that they didn't live to see the crude farce that is Soul Men.
Dumped into theatres Friday without critical previews, and also starring a clock-punching Samuel L. Jackson, the film is a sad reminder of what happens when wit and originality are thrown under the wheels of road movie expediency.
So many things could have been done to make this picture about fractiously reunited soul singers more than a bootless Blues Brothers riff.
How about writing comic dialogue that zings rather than snoozes, toning the profanity way down and finding something interesting to do on the long drive from L.A. to New York, which is necessitated by this laziest of movie genres?
A few good tunes would help, too. Off-key snippets of old Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding and Sam & Dave tunes don't fill the void.
The back story promises more than the movie delivers. Floyd (Mac) and Louis (Jackson) are the "real" part of hot 1960s soul group Marcus Hooks and the Real Deal (think Smokey Robinson and the Miracles).
Hooks (played by R&B star John Legend) splits for solo stardom, leaving Floyd and Louis to eke out a living as also-ran attractions, until their 15 minutes ends and bitterness begins.
It stays that way for 20 years, until Hooks up and dies and a tribute concert is booked for Harlem's Apollo Theater – and the Real Deal are summoned for reunion honours.
Floyd and Louis are obliged to cease hostilities so they can hop into a lime-green vintage El Dorado convertible for the long and grinding trip east, one that includes all the expected bickering, bedroom antics and encounters with the boys in blue.
A long-lost daughter named Cleo (Dreamgirls' Sharon Leal) makes a too-brief appearance, as does Hayes, who plays himself and whose part is so small, it may have been Photoshopped into the final cut. The same goes for Legend, who didn't have to expire so quickly. Had all three been allowed to sing more, Soul Men might at least have some real soul.
What's most dispiriting about this movie is how readily director Malcolm D. Lee, once so promising, bends to formula. Screenwriters Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone, meanwhile, load the dialogue down with so much profanity, even a legendary curser like Jackson looks like he's tired of it.
It's weird, too, that so many of the film's tired jokes revolve around how old Floyd and Louis are, when in real life Mac had just turned 50 and Jackson is not yet 60.
Soul Men could have been so much more. Mac's character is actually one of the most endearing of his brief career, and the movie's ending has energy and humour that is MIA the rest of the picture. The tracks of our tears lead down the path of what might have been.
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Definition of the noun Calanus
What does Calanus mean as a name of something?
Calanus is a genus of Acrididae, described by Walker in 1870.
- synonym: genus Calanus
- kingdom: Animalia
- phylum: Arthropoda
- class: Insecta
- order: Orthoptera
- family: Acrididae
- genus: Cannula
Calanus is a genus of Calanidae, described by Leach in 1816.
- synonyms: genus Calanus / Cetochilus / genus Cetochilus / Daphinia / genus Daphinia / Diarthropus / genus Diarthropus
- kingdom: Animalia
- phylum: Arthropoda
- class: Maxillopoda
- order: Calanoida
- family: Calanidae
- members:
- species Calanus aculeatus
- species Calanus affinis
- species Calanus agulhensis
- species Calanus amaenus
- species Calanus americanus
- species Calanus anglicus
- species Calanus appressus
- species Calanus arcticus
- species Calanus australis
- species Calanus brevicornis
- species Calanus caudatus
- species Calanus chilensis
- species Calanus communis
- species Calanus comptus
- species Calanus crassus
- species Calanus cristatus
- species Calanus curtus
- species Calanus danai
- species Calanus dorsalis
- species Calanus euxinus
- species Calanus finmarchicus
- species Calanus flavipes
- species Calanus fonsecai
- species Calanus furcicaudus
- species Calanus glacialis
- species Calanus helgolandicus
- species Calanus hyperboreus
- species Calanus inauritus
- species Calanus inconspicuus
- species Calanus jashnovi
- species Calanus levis
- species Calanus longiremis
- species Calanus magellanicus
- species Calanus marshallae
- species Calanus medius
- species Calanus nataliensis
- species Calanus nudus
- species Calanus pacificus
- species Calanus pellucidus
- species Calanus penicillatus
- species Calanus ponticus
- species Calanus propinquus
- species Calanus rotundatus
- species Calanus setuligerus
- species Calanus simillimus
- species Calanus simplicicaudus
- species Calanus sinicus
- species Calanus torticornis
- observational distribution: specimen and observational data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Network (not necessarily true occurrence density gradients)
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Calanus is a genus of Calanidae, described by Leach in 1819.
- kingdom: Animalia
- phylum: Arthropoda
- class: Maxillopoda
- order: Calanoida
- family: Calanidae
Who is Calanus?
Calanus a.k.a. Kalanos, also spelled Calanus was a Hindu Rishi, who accompanied Alexander the Great to Persis and later committed suicide by self-immolation. It was from Kalanos that Alexander came to know of Dandamis, the leader of their group, whom Alexander later went to meet in the forest.
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Phrases with Calanus
Phrases starting with the word Calanus:
- Calanus Pavo
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- Calanus Latus
- Calanus Levis
- Calanus minor
- Calanus Nudus
- Calanus Acutus
- Calanus Bellus
- Calanus Caroli
- Calanus Curtus
- Calanus Longus
- Calanus Magnus
- Calanus Medius
- Calanus Mundus
- Calanus Parvus
- Calanus pauper
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Jan Mayen Island in Scientific Focus (2013)
by Stig Skreslet
THE PELAGIC FOODWEB Calanus is a genus of planktonic. Jan Mayen Island Ecology 103.
A natural history of the British Lepidoptera (1908)
a text-book for students and collectors by James William Tutt
calanus is a cannibal, and will, when short of food, devour its younger and weaker brethren. The gliding movement of the lame, noted above, is common to the species of both the Old and New Worlds, and ...
e-Study Guide for Essentials of Oceanography, textbook by Tom Garrison (2012)
Earth sciences, Oceanography by Cram101 Textbook Reviews
Calanus: Calanus is a genus of marine copepod in the family Calanidae (Order Calanoida). The genus was split in 1974, with some species being placed in a new genus, Neocalanus. Copepod: Copepods areagroup of small crustaceans ...
Genetic Structure and Speciation in Planktonic Copepods: Global Phylogeography of the Calanus Helgolandicus Clade (2008)
by Mikelle Nuwer
The oceanic planktonic calanoid copepod genus Calanus is a case 32 Chapter 2: Population structure ...
e-Study Guide for: Marine Biology: Function, Biodiversity, Ecology (2013)
Biology, Marine biology by Cram101 Textbook Reviews
Calanus: Calanus is a genus of marine copepod in the family Calanidae . The genus was split in 1974, with some species being placed in a new genus, Neocalanus. particle: In the physical sciences, a particleisa small localized object towhich ...
e-Study Guide for: Fundamentals of Oceanography by Keith A. Sverdrup, ISBN 9780073040813 (2012)
by Cram101 Textbook Reviews
Calanus: Calanus is a genusof marine copepod inthe family Calanidae(Order Calanoida). The genus wassplitin 1974,with somespecies beingplaced inanew genus, Neocalanus. Velella: Velella is a genus of freefloating hydrozoans that lives ...
e-Study Guide for: Essentials of Oceanography by Alan P. Trujillo, ISBN 9780132401227 (2013)
by Cram101 Textbook Reviews
Calanus: Calanus is a genus of marine copepod in the family.
Ecosystem Ecology (2009)
by Sven Erik Jørgensen
Calanus is the dominant copepod genus in upwelling ecosystems. Although not reproducing as fast as microzooplankton, it may achieve as many as ten generations per year, each with its own life cycle of eggs, nauplii, copepodites, and ...
The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation (1817)
Particulary the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time by Alexander Chalmers
grandson Calanus Calasio, Marius *Calcagnini, Celio 1Calcar, John *Calderinus, Doniit. Calderoni, Pedro Calderwood, David Caldwall , Richard *Caldwell, Andrew 1Calentius, Elisiua *Calepin, Ambrose ...
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary ... prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney (1903)
(Calanus + -idae.] A family of gnathostomatous copepods, of the suborder £ having very lon anterior antennae, only one of them modifie for prehension, and the posterior antennae biramous. The fifth pair of feet is modified in the male to ...
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Supplement (1910)
by William Dwight Whitney
Banded halrstreak, a lycssnld butterfly, Thecla calanus, occurring throughout the northern United States east of the Rocky Mountains. The upper surface of the wings is dark brown and the under surface alate-brown. Its larvaj feed on the leaves ...
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary ... prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney ... rev. & enl. under the superintendence of Benjamin E. Smith (1911)
< Calanus + -ida;. ] A family of gnathostomatous copepods, of the suborder Eucopepoda, having very long anterior ...
Encyclopedia of Entomology (2008)
by John L. Capinera
Banded Hairstreak (Saty- rium calanus) Virginia Peppergrass (Lipidium virginicum), Checkered White (Pontia ...
A New and General Biographical Dictionary (1798)
Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period ...
CALANUS, an indian philosopher who followed ...
Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (2009)
by William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, J.G.M. 'Hans' Thewissen
Preferred prey in the Northern Hemisphere seems to be krill composed of the euphausiid Meganyctiphanes norvegica, although other species of planktonic crustaceans (Thysanoessa inermis, Calanus finmarchicus), schooling fishes such as ...
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|Low sodium soy sauce
|2 Tablespoon
|Peanut oil
|2 Tablespoon
|Minced ginger
|1 Teaspoon
|Crushed red pepper
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|Beef boneless steak
|1 , cut in 1 inch thick
|Vegetable oil
|1 Tablespoon
|Sliced mushrooms
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|Low sodium beef broth
|2 Can (20 oz)
|Snow peas
|3 Ounce, cut diagonally into 1 inch pieces (1 Cups 16 Tablespoon)
|Cooked egg noodles
|1 1⁄2 Cup (24 tbs) (Hot)
|Green onion
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|Sesame oil
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|Red bell pepper strips
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Stir in noodles.
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Stir into soup; heat through.
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A vend audit system and methods are described. In an implementation, the system includes vend items with packaging having tags, at least one tag sensor, and a control circuit capable of receiving data from the tag sensor. A method for tracking inventory in a vending machine is also described. In an implementation, the technique includes loading vend items having tags into a vending machine, sensing the tags, and transferring information to a control circuit. The tags may be RF tags, and the tag sensor may be an RF antenna sensor.
1. A method for tracking inventory in a vending machine comprising:
dispensing a vend item from a vending machine, wherein a radio-frequency (RF) tag is attached to the dispensed vend item;
using a sensor to sense the RF tag attached to the vend item so as to check passage of the dispensed vend item past an exit point; and
transferring information concerning the vend item to a control circuit, wherein said information includes whether the vend item has successfully exited a product dispenser.
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This application claims priority from U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/310,573 filed on Aug. 7, 2001.
The present invention relates generally to a system for tracking items that have been loaded into a vending machine.
The vending industry has traditionally lacked tight controls on product inventory movement both in and out of the vending machine. A route person often loads vending machine dispensing locations with whatever items match the price corresponding to a location. Consequently, the route person sometimes mixes varieties or types of snack category items. For example, packets of pretzels, potato chips and cheese snacks may all cost the same amount of money and may be loaded into one dispensing location, which may be a helix-type dispenser in a glass-front vending machine. Vending machine operators prefer that each dispensing location in a glass-front vending machine contain only one type of product so that the overall display of products presents an easily understandable and neat appearance to consumers.
In glass front vending machines that include helix or spiral-type dispensers, occasionally a product fails to exit the spiral when vending, thus cheating the consumer. This sometimes also occurs in vending machines having other types of product delivery mechanisms. The route person or owner often does not become aware of the problem until the next scheduled visit to the vending machine. Consumers cheated in such a manner sometimes physically jostle the machine in an attempt to dislodge the product, which sometimes damages the vending machine.
Vending machine owners also usually have no knowledge of the exact inventory loaded into a vending machine. The total inventory loaded into the machine could be recorded on hand-held computers by a route person via the infrared scanning of SKUs, but this rarely, if ever, occurs. An SKU is an item number or identifier associated with a particular product and manufacturer.
Other industries have used Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) technologies to increase the efficiency of business processes, to reduce manual labor and to improve the integrity of gathered data. These technologies have included bar code, machine vision devices, other optical systems and mechanical and inductive flags. Manufacturers, particularly in supply chain and logistics areas, have also used Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. While RFID tag systems have held the promise of improving upon the benefits of bar code systems, the RFID systems have not yet reached a level of affordability to achieve widespread adoption.
Conventional RFID tags work on an inductive principle. In an inductive RFID system, a reader generates a magnetic field at a predetermined frequency. When a tag enters the field, a small electric current forms in the tag's "resonant tank circuit", which consists of a coil and a capacitor. The resonant tank circuit provides power to an RFID chip in the tag which then modulates the magnetic field and transmits preprogrammed data back to the reader. The reader receives the signal transmission, demodulates and decodes it, and sends the data on to a host computer for further processing.
RFID systems and tags come in many different configurations. RFID tags are typically more expensive than bar code labels, and prices may reach up to $200 for a battery-powered read/write tag. But such read/write tags have unique features and attributes that can lower the overall system cost. Inexpensive RFID tags, sometimes called "button" tags have been developed that cost on the order of $1.00 per unit. However, the button tags are passive, meaning that they do not include a power source, and are thus more limited functionally. However, all RFID systems can potentially improve operating efficiencies, eliminate human error, and speed system throughput through automatic passive data capture. In addition, RFID systems provide the added benefit of being less costly to maintain than a bar code automated identification system.
There is a need for an inexpensive and robust system for tracking the number of products in any given dispensing location of a vending machine, and for communicating such information to a vending machine operator so that inventory replenishment and/or service visits can be schedule. It would be advantageous to have a system that standardizes the electronic encoding of packages so that inventory information, and failed dispensing of product reports could be automatically transmitted to vending machine operators.
Presented is a vend audit system and techniques for using such a system. In an implementation, the vend audit system includes vend items with packaging having at least one tag, at least one tag sensor, and a control circuit capable of receiving data from the tag sensor.
The vend audit system may include one or more of the following features. The tag may be a printed radio-frequency (RF) smart-tag, and the tag sensor may be an RF antenna associated with a product dispenser. The system may further include a communications device for transferring data concerning the vend items to a central office.
Another aspect of the invention concerns a package. The package includes a first layer of material for wrapping a vend item, at least one further layer of packaging material for overlaying the first layer, and a radio-frequency (RF) tag printed on at least one surface of at least one of the first and further layers.
In yet another aspect of the invention, a method for tracking inventory in a vending machine is disclosed. The method includes loading vend items having tags into a vending machine, sensing the tags with at least one tag sensor, and transferring information concerning the vend items to a control circuit.
This aspect of the invention may include one or more of the following features. The tags may be printed radio-frequency (RF) tags, and the tag sensor is an RF sensor. The method may include transferring information concerning the vend items to a central office. The information may include whether a vend item has successfully exited a product dispenser. The information may also include at least one of use-by date data, brand identity data, planogram data and SKU data. The method may also include at least one of disabling the vending machine and alerting service personnel, depending on brand identity data of at least one vend item. The method may further include at least one of lowering a vend item price and preventing sale of a vend item, depending on use-by date data of the vend item. The method may also include at least one of sensing service personnel RF tags, sensing customer RF tags, and at least one of generating an alarm signal, notifying a central office and authorizing a customer payment.
A method of preparing a package is yet a further aspect of the invention. The method includes preparing a first layer of packaging material for wrapping a vend item, preparing at least one further layer of packaging material to overlay the first layer, and printing a radio-frequency (RF) tag on at least one surface of at least one of the first and further layers.
This method may include one or more of the following features. The RF tag may be printed on an outside surface of the first layer of packaging. The RF tag may be printed on an inside surface of at least one of the further layers of packaging.
Other modifications and advantages of the invention will be readily apparent from the attached figures and the detailed description below.
In the implementation shown, a variety of products 10 to be dispensed are stored in a display area 15 inaccessible to customers, such as behind a transparent glass panel. Each product 10 is retained by a separate product-delivery apparatus 20 that may be a helix-type dispenser. Each product dispenser 20 is selectively actuatable by a customer to dispense the product into a delivery area 30 from which the customer can retrieve the selected product. For example, a consumer may select a particular product by selecting a particular dispenser 20 by using a keypad 90.
The front panel 35 of the vending machine 1 has a control panel 40 having a coin slot 50, an entryway 60, and a card opening 70. The card opening 70 may accept various forms of payment such as a coupon, an electronic purse device, a credit card, or a debit card. The control panel 40 also contains a coin return 80 and an item selector such as a keypad 90. A display 95 may provide instructions and other information to a customer. A customer initiates a transaction by depositing coins or bills of particular denominations, into respective openings 50 or 60 along the control panel 40 in payment for an item. A customer may also insert a coupon, an electronic purse device, or a debit or credit card into entryway 60 or card opening 70 to initiate a transaction. Once sufficient payment has been deposited, the customer may select a product 10 to be dispensed using the keypad 90. The corresponding product delivery apparatus 20 will then dispense the selected product 10 to the product delivery area 30 where it can be retrieved by the customer. Any change resulting from the transaction may be paid back to the customer through the coin return opening 80 or be credited by a card reader to an inserted electronic purse device. Details concerning money validation, card validation, establishing credit, dispensing products, paying out change, and other such vending machine functions are beyond the scope of this application and thus will not be discussed herein.
Recent advances in inorganic compounds allow for the printing of semiconductor materials in a 10–20 micron layer with an ink-jet type printing device. It is contemplated that this technology can be used to print semiconductor circuits, such as transistors and the like, on product packaging, on various product labels, and perhaps on beverage containers. The circuits can be configured as a passive RF tag, and such simple versions of a smart-tag can be included with an individual product packaging at a sub-penny unit price (in the order of $0.001). The components permit printing of RF tags having 8–10 bits of data which can be encoded to cover 1000 unique SKU equivalents on the packaging. Specifically, laminated packaging would allow for such printed smart-tag devices to be kept isolated from the product they protect.
An RF identification system provides a number of benefits over bar code systems. In particular, because bar code systems are optical, obscuring of the label (or of the bar code reader lens) by exposure to dirt, dust, water, ink or paint makes the label unreadable. With an RF identification tag, there are no such optical considerations. RFID tags may be read through nonmetallic coatings of dirt, dust, paint and the like without a decrease in performance.
In order to read the smart-tag, the vending machine must include at least one sensing device and processing circuitry. The RF tag characteristics may be read with a strong radio-frequency (RF) field. For example, in the spiral type snack machine of
It should also be understood that the RF tag could be printed on a label for attachment to a product. For example, the RF tag could be printed on an inner surface of a label that is then attached to a beverage bottle and loaded into a vending machine.
The product information received from the RF smart-tags printed on the packages may be encoded by electronics in the vending machine controller 130 into Digital Exchange ("DEX") audit data, enabling a high degree of accuracy for product accountability. DEX is a data standard that is adhered to by some vending machine manufacturers. Handheld devices or telemeters communicate the DEX data to a software host system that monitors, among other things, product depletion. It should be understood, however, that other data communication techniques could be used.
The additional problem of product failing to exit the vending machine may be addressed in either of two ways. First, by looking at the signature of a particular dispensing spiral, it can be determined if the item fell after one turn. Alternately, a sensor at the product exit point could measure the passage of the package by sensing the associated RF smart-tag. A failure can be corrected by continuing to rotate the spiral past a nominal park point. In other types of dispensing systems, a sensor or sensors may be placed to enable the vending machine controller to determine if a product exited the dispenser correctly.
The system can be incorporated into a new machine design or retrofit to existing vending machines. The communications between the vending machine controller and the sensing devices may be conducted through wired or wireless connections. In addition, the VMC may communicate with the host system via an Internet connection, an intranet connection, a telephonic connection, an Ethernet connection, a fiber optic connection, a modem, or via a wireless device. Alternately, data could be extracted from the VMC by a handheld or telemetry device for communication with the host system.
RF smart-tags may be used to perform other vending machine functions in addition to measuring fill levels of a vending machine and monitoring for failure of a product to exit the vending machine. For example, RF tags could be applied to products, such as various food items, that have a limited life. A "use-by" date could be incorporated into the data of the RF tag and used to alert a vending machine operator when the item is approaching the expiration date. The "use-by" date data could also trigger other functions. For example, when the product is within seven (7) days of its expiration date, the VMC could reduce the price of the product to encourage a consumer to buy it. In addition, when the expiration date is reached, the VMC could prevent the sale of the product and alert service personnel to remove the product. The RF tags could also be used for brand control and level monitoring by item SKU. For example, in a branded vending machine that sells products of a particular company, all authorized products contain RF tags with identifying data so that counterfeit or renegade products will not be dispensed. If a renegade product were to be found, the VMC could disable the vending machine and trigger an alarm that is transmitted to the vending machine operator. Service personnel can then be dispatched from a central office to remove those products.
The RF tags could also be used to determine if the product mix in a particular vending machine is correct. For example, a planogram or map of products 10 that should be in each product delivery apparatus 20 (see
One or more RF sensing devices resident in the vending machine could be used to recognize route personnel and/or maintenance personnel and/or service personnel to help prevent fraud. For example, service personnel could have RF tag identifiers sewn into their uniforms. When the lock on the vending machine cabinet door is being opened, the VMC could have an RF sensing device check for the identifying data of the service person. If not found, a local alarm could be engaged and notification sent to the central office and/or to the vending machine operator. The RF sensing devices in the vending machine can also be used to recognize other things, such as particular machine components, different cash-boxes, and the like. It may also be possible for an RF sensing device to recognize an RFID smart-tag in the possession of a consumer and authorize a cashless payment for a product. In such a case the VMC may function to authorize a vend and may signal a central office to debit the consumers account for the transaction.
Although several embodiments of the invention have been described, modifications, alternatives and variations will be apparent to those skilled in the art. For example, an alternate embodiment of a vend audit system may include vend items that include packaging having printed radio-frequency (RF) smart-tags, at least one RF sensor, and a control circuit capable of receiving data from the RF sensor concerning the vend items. The control circuit and at least one sensor may be part of a retrofit kit for installation in existing vending machines. In addition, the system may include a communications device for transferring data concerning the vend items to a central office. The communications device may include a wireless device, or a wired device, or a portable unit for use by a route person, to transfer data concerning vend items from the control circuit to a central office. Accordingly, such modifications, alterations and variations are within the scope of the appended claims.
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Michael Kossin, an undergraduate who works with JQI Fellow Luis Orozco, has been awarded an IPST Monroe Martin Prize for Undergraduate Research in Physics for his paper, "Production of a Polarizing Millimeter-Wave Fabry-Perot Resonator." He also earned Departmental High Honors. This summer Kossin will work with ... Continue Reading
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JQI Fellow Mohammad Hafezi was announced as a recipient of a 2015 ONR Young Investigator award. ONR's website describes the program as being designed to promote the professional development of early-career academic scientists – called investigators, or YIPs – both as researchers and instructors. For awardees, the funding supports laboratory equipment, graduate student stipends and scholarships... Continue Reading
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Gretchen Campbell, a JQI Fellow and NIST Physicist, has been selected as a 2015 Finalist for a Service to America Medal. The highly respected honor highlights dedicated federal workers who have made significant contributions to our country. According to the award website, "The Sammies, known as the "Oscars" of... Continue Reading
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Michael Foss-Feig is a JQI postdoctoral scientist. As an undergraduate at Amherst College, Michael performed some experimental work in solid-state physics with professor Jonathan Friedman. But, when it came time to write a dissertation, he decided he wanted to try working on theoretical problems instead. Later he went to the University of Colorado where he received a physics PhD in October 2012. His thesis, prepared under the supervision of Ana Maria Rey, was entitled "Quantum simulation of many-body physics with neutral atoms, molecules and ions." This work earned him the DAMOP Thesis Prize in June 2013.
Now a NRC postdoctoral fellow at NIST working under Charles Clark, Michael's interests are centered around many-body physics with ultracold atomic, molecular, and optical systems. He also studies long-range interacting systems, such as trapped ions, ultracold dipolar molecules, and Rydberg atoms. What does he do outside working hours? "Mostly rock climbing, cooking, and auto repair---the last two out of defiance since, as a theorist, nobody thinks I should be able to do anything useful."
Crystal Senko
Crystal Senko was a graduate student in Chris Monroe's ion trapping group. While in the group she focused on ultrafast spin manipulation as well as quantum simulation of magnetism. She is now a postdoctoral researcher with Mikhail Lukin at Harvard. Senko is an undergraduate alumni of Duke University, where she worked with Dan Gauthier on magneto-optical trapping using distributed feedback lasers.
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Campbell is a NIST JQI fellow and works in the Laser Cooling and Trapping group. In her atom circuits lab, reserachers probe Na BECs in toroidal traps. The goals of these experiments include studying superfluidity, as well as superfluid analogs to superconducting circuits. A second experiment with ultracold strontium is being built. She received a Ph.D from MIT in 2006, where she worked with Wolfgang Ketterle and Dave Pritchard. There, she used Rb BECs in optical lattices to study atom interferometry, nonlinear atom optics and the superfluid – Mott insulator phase transition. These experiments included the first direct observation of the atomic recoil momentum in dispersive media. More recently, she worked with Jun Ye on precision measurements and frequency metrology with an 87Sr optical lattice clock.
Wes Campbell
Wes Campbell is a JQI alumni and now a faculty member at UCLA where his group studies cold molecules and trapped ions. His cold molecule research is an outgrowth of the NSF Physics Frontier Center's seed funding program, here at JQI. While at JQI, Wes did research in Chris Monroe's trapped ion quantum information group. Wes was instrumental in constructing an experiment that focuses on ultrafast gates with ions. Later in his postdoc, he worked on quantum simulations of magnetism with ion chains. More about his current group at http://campbellgroup.physics.ucla.edu/
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Alexey Gorshkov is a JQI fellow and theoretical physicist at NIST. He grew up in Moscow until his parents brought him to Boston when he was in 10th grade. In high school, he was good at math, so that's what he was planning to do in college, but then math ended up being too dry. Physics offered a perfect alternative since it involved lots of interesting mathematics and grappled with problems related to real life.
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Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity.In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how, when faced with the active citizenship of their ex-slaves after the Civil War, white ...more
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Sep 08, 2013 Kristi rated it 4 of 5 stars
Hale's discussion of racial construction and segregation in the American South centers on the ambiguities caused by racial sharing of public spaces and mass consumer culture during the late nineteenth century and first-half of the twentieth century. Nostalgic advertising, "Old South" tourism, and minstrelsy, were among the the more benign forms of commoditization of the black body that aimed at restoring white cultural supremacy during this period. Horrific lynchings, in which black people were ...more
Apr 12, 2010 Nathan rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition
Shelves: history, sociology, franklin-library
In attempting to analyze the tragedy of white racism in American history, Hale reduces it to the clinical. Certainly, there are insights to be gained from her reading of systematic racist oppression, but I wonder if the practical outworkings of these systems were quite so monolithic as she implies - not that I think some areas of contemporary white culture were somehow immune to racialism, but rather that individuals acted out of their own personal prejudices as much as societal pressures. In th ...more
Sep 28, 2012 Michelle rated it 4 of 5 stars
This book is really interesting. Hale takes the period from 1890-1940 and discusses how whites in the South created a culture of segregation. She uses advertisements, memory, and even the violence of spectacle lynching to discuss how whites created their whiteness, and then desperately tried to hang on to it.
Her arguments were clear and concise; she gets a little wordy sometimes, and I would have to go back and read sentences or whole paragraphs two or three times before I would understand what ...more
Her arguments were clear and concise; she gets a little wordy sometimes, and I would have to go back and read sentences or whole paragraphs two or three times before I would understand what ...more
May 08, 2009 Eric rated it 4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for: Anybody interested in scholarship of race or American history.
The long chapter on lyching balanced and amplified Orlando Patterson's discussions. Hale's careful construction and defense of her concept of the "spectacle lynching" as a phenomenon of 20th century consumer culture, specifically a product of the combined influence of the railroad, telephone, and newspapers is convincing. Calls into question Patterson's somewhat mystical concept of lynching as a modern manifestation of something ancient. Hale's discussion and appreciation of W.J. Cash's Mind of ...more
Aug 04, 2011 Stacey rated it 4 of 5 stars
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Re-read this extraordinary cultural history of segregation this week. I love Grace Hale's writing, her sharp analysis of Southern culture and found her discussion of lynchings, the significance of the Stone Mountain monument and GWTW to be particularly compelling and insightful. As with most cultural histories, however, I found myself searching for a more firm grounding in political, economic and social trends, but perhaps that's expecting too much.
Jul 24, 2011 Rick Edwards rated it 5 of 5 stars
For me, a native Southerner, Hale's findings opened my eyes to the way the generations preceding me in the deep South constructed the segregated society in which I grew up. What had seemed to me "the way the world was" had been painstakingly assembled, not "in the wake of the War," but after a generation of living with something different. The color line and its specific meannesses had their own cruel history, yet one full of contradictions.
Apr 13, 2008 Sue rated it 4 of 5 stars
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This is a well written book that I think would appeal to a wide range of people. Hale uses cultural artifacts (books, movies, advertisements etc.) to explain the construction of whiteness.
Jun 14, 2012 Ben Jaques rated it 5 of 5 stars
This is one of the most personally important books that I've ever read. It made me think of race in a completely different and complex way. Everyone should read this book.
Feb 22, 2008 Amber rated it 4 of 5 stars
Really a 4.5. One of the best books on the culture of white supremacy in the early (and later) 20th century. It is also a very accessible historical work.
Dec 19, 2011 Marianna rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition
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Grisly. Could not read anything beyond my assigned chapter on lynching.
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Association of birth weight with asthma-related outcomes at age 2 years
Article first published online: 15 MAY 2006
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.20427
Copyright © 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Pediatric Pulmonology
Volume 41, Issue 7, pages 643–648, July 2006
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Taveras, E. M., Camargo, C. A., Rifas-Shiman, S. L., Oken, E., Gold, D. R., Weiss, S. T. and Gillman, M. W. (2006), Association of birth weight with asthma-related outcomes at age 2 years. Pediatr. Pulmonol., 41: 643–648. doi: 10.1002/ppul.20427
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- Issue published online: 25 MAY 2006
- Article first published online: 15 MAY 2006
- Manuscript Accepted: 24 FEB 2006
- Manuscript Revised: 20 FEB 2006
- Manuscript Received: 6 DEC 2005
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- EM Taveras is supported in part by the Minority Medical Faculty Development Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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by Russell Barder - BBC Sport (U10517741) 27 January 2008
Hello again and welcome to day eight of the Africa Cup of Nations.
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comment by Mwanga (U10919999)
posted Jan 27, 2008
Vitalo92 is correct about aging teams. When I saw the names Njitap and Song I could not believe no young people in their country have overtaken them.
comment by lenny08 (U10897473)
posted Jan 28, 2008
The competion has been spectacular with each day enjoying exciting goals. Tactically teams with a lot of professional playing in Europe seems to be less organized in attacking mostly scoring by chances on capitallizing blunders of opponents rather than creativity. It looks like most of them are just over rated!
comment by gaz_daq (U8634469)
posted Jan 28, 2008
looks like man u scouting system is truly exceptional in able to find a player of the quality of manucho. He will be able to push for a united place now with tevez and rooney shaking in their boots.
comment by camisola_9 (U10935087)
posted Jan 28, 2008
yeah, it's clear for everyone to see that the so-called stars don't want to pull their weight 4 country the way they do it 4 club. but i don't agree with comments like angolan players are amateurs, that's just ridiculous. angola has a professional football league called Girabola and it's been around for as long as i can remember. the fact that people don't know about the angolan players doesn't mean they are less skilled than any other team. only now that manucho is going 2 united people r starting to see the potential of the squad. but before that they had already players in egypt, portugal, france and england in league 1. are they amateur leagues? i don't think so! <doh>
comment by omnigarf (U10886098)
posted Jan 28, 2008
'Tactically teams with a lot of professional playing in Europe seems to be less organized in attacking mostly scoring by chances on capitallizing blunders of opponents rather than creativity. It looks like most of them are just over rated! '
comment by africaunited (U10908490)
posted Jan 28, 2008
ye manucho's gona be BIG in the premiership. i look forward
comment by Chelskimanator (U10673605)
posted Jan 28, 2008
RE Abu Treka: No doubt FIFA will be reprimanding Kaka for showing his "I love Jesus" vest when he scores. Surely that contravenes the no-religious-undergarments policy of FIFA?
comment by laminlamin (U10886273)
posted Jan 28, 2008
As is obvious the teams from West and North Africa are doing the best in the ACN.
comment by dr_logic (U10929679)
posted Jan 28, 2008
I'm confused about all this noise about Abutreka's shirt and his sympathy with Gaza!
comment by blackanthelop (U10935416)
posted Jan 28, 2008
I am proud to say that angola so much deserved that game and the goals where top class. If manchester gives manucho a chance to play, i believe that they will not regret it. next much is against tunisia and i have the outmost confidence on the angola team to top this group. it is time for other teams to start fearing us... many will chase us but they won't successed on catching us... the black anthelop
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