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For all the endless discussion over how terrible Millennials are — a Google Google search for "Millennials are" auto-populates with terms like "stupid" and "entitled" — this over-generalized generation represents a quarter of the U.S. population, holds $1.3 trillion in spending power, and according to a new study from RBC Capital Markets, will be an important driver of success for restaurant brands like Panera Bread, Wendy's, Starbucks Starbucks and more. With an affinity for fresh ingredients and the ability to order online or through a mobile app, RBC says that brands that have lost the Millennial diner would be wise to pay close attention to their tastes and habits if they want to get Millennials through their doors. However, with traffic data showing a decline in restaurant visits from this critical group, Millennials also have the power to cripple the very brands they stand to boost.
Roughly defined as young adults ages 18 to 33, Millennials have, in the past seven years, embarked on a trend that should make any restaurant owner scared stiff: they've slowed their restaurant visits. According to data compiled by RBC and the NPD Group, Millennials have cut back annual restaurant visits by 21% over the last seven years. While that may not seem like a lot, consider the following: McDonald's McDonald's, Wendy's and Burger King increased their traffic by 4% over that same period, but saw a 5% decline in traffic among low-income Millennials and a 16% drop from high-income Millennials. Traffic at major casual chains — like Yum! Brands' Yum! Brands' Chili's or Darden Restaurants' Olive Garden and Red Lobster — followed a similar pattern, increasing 2% overall since 2006 but declining 5% among low-income Millennials and dropping a whopping 21% among high-income Millennials.
Even more concerning for restaurants' bottom lines: higher-income Millennials are cutting back on restaurant visits at a faster rate than lower-income Millennials, visiting casual dining chains 29% less in 2012 than they did in 2006 versus lower income Millennials' 12% drop in casual dining visits during that same time period. (It's worth noting that traffic at small chains and independent restaurants also declined over the past seven years — and at a faster rate, too — so the "cool factor" of chains like Olive Garden and Red Lobster, which have a suburban connotation, is not to be blamed for Millennials dining out less.)
However, RBC and the NPD Group found that despite these traffic trends, Millennials have driven significant traffic and revenue increases at "relatively inexpensive brands" like Chipotle, Panera and Starbucks — "partly at the expense of established mega-brands in fast food and casual dining," says RBC analyst David Palmer. The relative success of these brands provides a window into how other brands can win over the Millennial eater. The keys to that success? A strong digital presence and a willingness to invest money not in advertising, but into the quality of ingredients.
"Some leading casual dining chains— often those with big advertising budgets such as Olive Garden and Red Lobster — are recognizing that current menu constraints are failing to deliver consumer value at both the premium end and the entry-price point level," Palmer writes. "As chains such as Chipotle, Trader Joe's, and Whole Foods reinvest more in the core concept and less in advertising, consumers seem to be recognizing the food value without the need for traditional promotions or limited-time offers."
Noting that convenience is also a big factor for this age group, Palmer says that casual dining chains will need to increase "food credibility and authenticity of ingredients where possible," but while also narrowing convenience gaps — by doing things like introducing gadgets to make it faster to pay the check, for example. To further compete with fast-casual restaurants like Chipotle, Palmer says, casual dining chains would be wise to increase their entertainment factor. He cites Texas Roadhouse and Buffalo Wild Wings as good examples of these two concepts.
"Texas Roadhouse, like a fast casual chain, provides higher value by investing in its food rather than large-scale advertising, and Buffalo Wild Wings has cultivated the experience of visiting its concept. It is value-engineered as "going to the game" for less money," he says. "The chain has even thought about the sports-agnostic family member who can play trivia games while others watch 'the game.'"
Palmer also notes that capturing Millennial diners will involve adopting a strong digital strategy, and brands that could stand to gain more real estate on a Millennial's smart phone — like McDonald's or Dunkin Donuts, neither of which has a smart phone app to rival juggernaut Starbucks — could win over even more Millennial customers through improved digital engagement.
Ultimately, Palmer concludes, if Millennials' current choices — higher-quality ingredients, better-value food, entertaining casual restaurants and a preference for digital engagement — are indicative of future consumption behavior, "it will be critical for restaurant chains to assess their competitive position and adapt to these new realities."
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SpaceX's planned reusable first-stage rocket, dubbed "Grasshopper", successfully flew 12 stories in a test earlier this week.
One of the things that makes space travel so expensive is the fact that rockets, for the most part, can't be reused. So everytime you launch something into orbit, you have to rebuild part of the vehicle. So it's been a long-term goal of many space organizations, both public and private, to build a fully reusable launch system. To date, however, the best anyone's been able to do is to only be able to reuse parts of a rocket.
Earlier this week, however, SpaceX took itself one step closer to its goal of a reusable rocket with a successful test of its "Grasshopper" rocket, which consists of the first stage of one of their Falcoln 9 rockets, but with a vertical takeoff and landing system. The rocket traveled 12 stories into the air, hovered for a little bit, then safely landed back down on the ground. The total flight lasted for 29 seconds.
(Also, to give people an idea of how big the Grasshopper is, SpaceX CEO tweeted this image, which shows a six-foot tall dummy of a cowboy on board the rocket.)
With the success of this test, SpaceX plans on continuing testing over the next few months, pushing it towards its goal of a successful orbital flight and landing.
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Sitting in front of the screen you start wondering, will the lead mesmerise us as he did with the boy wizard series? The character looks failed in the first few minutes as it is difficult to see 22 year old Daniel Radcliffe playing the father to a 4 year old. There are even some sniggers in the sur...Read Full Post »
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Zero Percentile-2.0 Missed IIT Kissed Gurgaon is a sequel to 'Zero Percentile-Missed IIT Kissed Russia' and takes forward the story of Pankaj, Motu & Priya.
In this book, Pankaj and Motu have started a small software company called Numerosoft.
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This is the debut offering of Amrita Suresh, who dreamed of being an author, while she was still a bespectacled twelve-year-old.
No, don't blame her specs, praise her brain for bringing just another campus love story. New age Indian authors have reached a place where more than 80% novels are love stories and a majority of...Read Full Post »
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Dildo in a bin! Who put it in?
Debutant Tapan Ghosh's faceless starts with the above question. The pleasure tool somehow gets to a neighbourhood dust-bin and when it starts vibrating, the colony members mistake it for a bomb. Next comes a story set in Mumbai which wants you to understand spiritual love?... Read Full Post »
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Here comes another roller coaster campus read. Along the Way by TGC Prasad written in its own humorous and infectious style which keeps you glued to the pages.
Venkata Subramaniam Adisankara Tanikaburla
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The AC starts running and the frame starts rolling, we see Shahrukh Khan enter the screen with his own persona and tries to save the Damsel in Distress Priyanka Chopra from the clutches of Khalnayak Sanjay Dutt.
The first half lags a bit but picks up in the second half very well and doesn't stop afterwards. The VFX work in an Indian ...Read Full Post »
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I had picked the book while browsing in the Reliance TimeOut after hearing that SRK himself had launched the book. The debutant author Kanika Dhillon, who has also written the script of the forthcoming venture RA.One. Appending apprehensions and liking the cover jacket I started my journey into the tinseltown.
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I was never quite interested in biographies until I came upon this book.
George Washington Carver was a very interesting man who was born a slave, worked very hard to earn an education, was the first African-American graduate of Iowa State, and was a pioneer in the field of agricultural r...Read Full Post »
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Is this the single-most-absolutely-effective way of minimizing corruption in this country? Not necessarily. Multiple equally relevant methods and ways can be suggested by experts.
1)"Action" means any action taken by a public servant in the discharge of his functions as such public servant and includes decision, recommendation or finding or in any other manner and includes willful failure or omission to act and all other expressions relating to such action shall be co...Read Full Post »
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This may be news to many and surely an interesting one. It is said that it was the master film-maker SATYAJIT RAY who was originally responsible for the Friendly Alien Concept to be filmed. He also had a complete outline of a script ready which was based on one of his own short story titled 'Banku Babu Bondhu' (Translat...Read Full Post »
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Veteran actor Shammi Kapoor dead!!
He died today morning at the Breach Candy hospital in Mumabai.
Great loss to Indian film industry........
We Will surely miss the YAHOO!!!
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This film starts as Chhotu's mother leaves him at a roadside stall of Bhati Mama (Gulshan Grover) in Rajasthan. Born into poverty and having no other elder child she has leave him to work and earn some money. In this also works Laptan or Haddi Pahalwan (Pitobhash) who gets angrier as Chhotu starts winning everybody's hearts and he wants to be an actor ...Read Full Post »
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Three amigos on a bachelor road trip to Spain. They have to visit three places and try out an adventure sport of their choice as they had planned this thing when in school.
But the motive of Imraan (Farhan) is mainly to find his estranged father (gracious came...Read Full Post »
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What do you say about a movie which is the last installment of a worldwide phenomenon, highest grossing film franchise and the emotions touching the hearts of the masses?
This keeps you as entertained as the previous films. 3D viewing only adds another perspective to the successful venture.
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Dr. Thomas Archer awoke slowly. Though, it was very early for him, he had reasons to get up before the others. The salty air greeted him, as he walked towards the shore.
He had been on the island for only two weeks but the time spent seemed eons to him. His 75-year old body could no longer adjust to the lives of the pirates. He wanted to r...Read Full Post »
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All great personalities are 99.0% like you and me. It is the ".01% Divine Spark" that they possess weighs them myriad times more than us. When we idolize a person, we forget that our Hero too is a human being in flesh and blood having normal traits of hunger, thirst, fear, anger, sleep, sex, ambition, avarice, hatred, love and affection. The restrain over these factors is normally of higher degree in Great Personalities. However, they too are bound by la...Read Full Post »
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Quite a commendable job guys. Better than the Ist one. This one has storyline not solely depending on skin show. I liked the way the story was handled. Story by Mahesh Bhatt and screenplay by Shagufta Rafique clicks with the audience. The story dips just before the Intermission but comes back very nicely.
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Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), again without a ship or a crew, is now in London attempting to regain both. When Jack is finally aboard a ship and headed in search of Ponce de Leon's legendary Fountain of Youth, he just is a lowly deckhand. The privilege of captaining the ship he is aboard, the Queen Anne's Revenge, belongs t...Read Full Post »


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As a backdrop to a parachute jump goes, Alaska's snow-topped mountains take some beating, as you can see from this image from the US Air Force. It shows soldiers from the 25th Infantry Division, leaping from a Boeing C-17 Globemaster over Malemute Drop Zone, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska.
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Kitchen Remodeling and Bathroom Remodeling has been are focus for over 35 years Suburban Remodeling has been remodeling kitchens and baths in the greater Rochester, NY area. Over this entire time every job has been completed by the Lucas family. The foundation of our business has always been to operate honestly, work hard and exceed expectations. Contact Suburban Remodeling today to learn how we can help you transform your dream into reality!
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It was the talk of the Brazos Valley in the early 90's. Now there's a growing movement to resurrect high speed rail in Texas.
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Mukhamukham - 1984
Mukhamukham arouse controversy as the theme of the film was the degeneration of leftist politics and came under attack from the leftist parties of Kerala.
The first part is set during the 1945 - 55 period, prior to the short lived electoral victory of the Communists in Kerala. The second part takes place ten years later after the split of the Communist party into two.
Sreedharan, a charismatic leader of a leftist trade union is the moral strength of the labourers going through a prolonged strike in a tile factory. The proprietor of the factory gets killed and Sreedharan becomes the prime suspect. While the police start hunting for him, he goes underground. Even when his comrades return to a more liberal political environment, Sreedharan doesn't. He is believed to be dead. Sreedharan who acquires martyrdom becomes the sole unifying factor of the two break-away fractions after a split in the Communist Party.
One day Sreedharan returns creating bitter disappointment to his comrades. He remains silent, spends his time sleeping and drinking. His presence becomes a liability to his comrades. One day he is found killed. After death Sreedharan regains his hero hood.
Mukhamukham won Adoor Gopalakrishnan the National film award for best director in 1984 and the State awards for best film and best director.
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Weston Park Museum is designed especially with children in mind and has won the Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award. Children can build an igloo, look inside a working beehive or ants nest and even work in an authentic butcher's shop. Another favourite is a computer game programmed to invent a creature and see how long It can survive when let loose in the wild. The museum is just packed full ... of interesting things with regularly changing exhibitions. There is a new café, which sells good food at competitive prices. Entrance is Free except for special exhibitions.
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We're big fans of Weston Park Museum in Sheffield - it has to be one of the best free museums in the land, and by far one of most family friendly. The resident exhibitions are based around the geology, history and character of Sheffield. In one room it tells the story about the last one hundred years of the city's rapid growth. This includes a butchers shop to visit, children's toys through the ages and a greengrocer. Opposite this room the displays focus on the foundation of Sheffield with dressing up clothes and interactive displays. If you're interested in tracing your family tree this is a good display to introduce the subject to children. The last two spaces are my favourites with loads of natural history displays from a polar bear, sharks to crocodiles and an ant habitat. Weston Park always has one room designated for a themed display/exhibition that is only showing for a limited time. We've enjoyed life-sized insects in here and just recently we've been transported to China with the help of a children's puppet theatre. There is a good café on site as well as an indoor bring-your-own picnic area. If the weather is good you can always take your refreshments into the large gardens. A trip to Sheffield with the children should always include a trip to Weston Park.
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W. S. Geisler on Reading List of "A Real Science of Mind"
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A New York Times "Opinionator" commentary maintains that vision science is more advanced than many biological sciences, including much neuroscience. The list of readings at the end of the article includes an article by W. S. Geisler, David Wechsler Regents Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Perceptual Systems, titled "Visual Perception and the Statistical Properties of Natural Scenes" . It is available as a PDF file on the CPS website.
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HOUSTON (AP) A veteran government worker in Houston has been convicted of passport fraud for providing legal documents to people with fake paperwork.
Prosecutors say Nyle Churchwell remains in custody pending sentencing at a date to be determined. He faces up to 20 years in prison after being convicted of two counts of making false statements in the application and use of a passport.
Churchwell had been with the U.S. Department of State for more than 30 years when he was arrested in 2012 and indefinitely suspended.
Several passport employees testified that some applicants from Jamaica, including some who knew Churchwell, used other people's identification to apply for passports. The fraud was exposed when another worker confronted Churchwell, who was convicted Friday.
Two other people pleaded guilty and await sentencing.
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Social Media Marketing Course Descriptions
SMM 105 Introduction to Social Media Marketing (3)
Prerequisites: None
Description: Discover why social media is a disruptive wave of innovation. Learn about its history and how it affects your personal and professional future. Understand the structure, design, technology, and pros and cons of numerous social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, Google+ and others. Explore how social commerce is now interconnected to multiple aspects of business. Build a foundational knowledge of how companies use social media for marketing, analytics, customer service and more. Establish a continuous learning pattern to stay current with this ever-changing world of social technologies.
SMM 120 Social Media Marketing Strategy I (3)
Prerequisites: None
Description: Learn the most current marketing principles and become competitive in new world-social media marketing strategies. Learn how to set company and campaign goals. Understand how to segment customers and develop a common language that is relevant. Become proficient with messaging and storytelling about the company vs. the customer. Understand how to measure the results of new-world marketing initiatives. Learn about many of the tools and technologies available to help manage and successfully execute the marketing for companies both large and small.
SMM 130 Social Media Marketing Content I (3)
Prerequisite: None
Description: Content is king! This class helps you become a king (or queen) of content. Understanding how to create and produce great content for all of the various marketing channels will become one of your greatest skills. Learn how to identify and create great content through copy, pictures, videos, infographics, etc. Know the balance between content about yourself/your company vs. content about the customer's true needs and interests. Begin to learn the power of content driven customer advocacy and how to drive measurable results.
SMM 140 Web Management (3)
Prerequisite: None
Description: Learn how to build great websites faster, cheaper and easier than most people know is even possible. This course will teach you how to use open sourced platforms to develop, design, optimize, customize and manage company websites. You will also learn how to integrate the latest social and mobile trends into these websites. This specific skill will become a valuable asset when applying for jobs. Open-sourced web development skills will set you apart in this new world of social media marketing.
SMM 150 Social Media Marketing Data and Analytics (3)
Prerequisites: None
Description: Good data analysis can make or break a company. Data should drive innovation, pricing, resources, and even culture. This class teaches how to capture the right data and then know what to do with it. You will learn how to use both free and paid tools to capture and analyze data from various online platforms. The value of data and analytics is that you are much better positioned to make the right decisions. Considering that people who make decisions for the company are typically those that run the company, this class will give you a life-long standout skill.
SMM 160 Social Media Marketing Advertising and Advocacy
Prerequisite: None
Description: Nike recently shifted their $800,000,000 marketing budget to social and digital because it is much easier to target, track, measure, adjust, and scale. This class with teaches why and how to market and advertise via multiple social platforms. Companies spend advertising dollars within various channels such as TV, print, radio, billboards, conventions, newspapers, etc. Learn how to stretch those marketing dollars and present strategies to those responsible for budgets and growth. Show executives who is looking, where they are looking, when, why, how, and what they do because of targeted ads. Proven results, open doors!
Discover what it takes to create a raving fan and then convert that fan into your sales force. Word of Mouth" marketing has always been one of the most powerful and successful marketing strategies. With social media marketing they call it "World of Mouth!" This class teaches you how to develop deep relationships with specific customers who absolutely love your products or services; or brand advocates, evangelists, and loyalists. The goal is to use the passion and love these people have for your brand and convert it into high-growth, sustainable revenue. Not only can these people become your sales force but they can, and should direct the very future of your company. Learning how to do this could become one of the most valuable skills of your career.
SMM 199 Social Media Marketing Lecture Series (1)
Prerequisite: None
Description: This is your chance to learn from the best! Once a week you will hear from different experts in the fields of social media marketing, entrepreneurship, business development, design, consulting, content, and more. Each lecturer will be carefully selected based on his or her life lessons, belief in God, and passion for helping others become successful. The goal is to inspire and open student's minds to the possibilities this amazing world has in store.
SMM 210 Social Media Marketing Strategy II (3)
Prerequisite: SMM 120
Description: This course teaches the Collect – Connect – Convert model! One of a company's greatest assets is customer data; the more the merrier. Learn how to collect not only data but new customers and better customers. Once you have collected both data and people, it is critical to connect with them in personal and relevant ways. Connecting with your customers will inspire advocacy, retention and referrals. Those brand advocates that you collect and connect with will become the driving force behind your revenue and sustainability. This class teaches how to develop a collect, connect, and convert process that can be automated using various tools and systems currently available. Incorporate many of the strategies, skills, and best practices from past classes into real-life situations. Create successful campaigns with measurable results. Develop content affordably and quickly that actually drives results. Add projects and case studies to their personal online portfolios show employers examples of their work in the field and work well individually as well as in groups to create great campaigns.
SMM 296 Personalized Online Portfolio (1)
Prerequisite: ENG 220
Description: Develop your personal brand and online portfolio. Let the world know who you really are, what projects you have done, what you are passionate about and why you would add so much value to an organization. As a personal brand you will define a market segment and ideally position yourself for that specific industry. Creating a personal brand strategy and online presence will be a life-long asset. This will basically be like your resume on super-steroids; work history, strengths, career path, recommendation, honors, portfolios, and personality all in one place.
SMM 299 Social Media Marketing Internship (2)
Prerequisite: None
Description: Each student will have the chance to work on campaigns or even overall social management for real companies. This hands on experience will be the best way for them to apply what they have learned and build their personal portfolios. Many students should get jobs with either the companies they intern with or through a referral/networking opportunity that came from the internship.


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While working at other radio stations, Jeff Lamb sometimes had 350 songs to choose from, with limited classic rock hits. Now, with his own station, he plays from a list of 1,300 songs.
"And it's growing every day," Lamb said.
With "Classic Hits Toledo," the radio station broadcast from his Toledo home, he promises to play the best of "everything." In a matter of 10 minutes, he played "Brass in Pocket" by The Pretenders "Don't Mess Around with Jim" by Jim Croce and "The Waiting" by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.
"It's something for everybody," Lamb said.
The radio station, a worldwide enterprise with Toledo pride, is aired online at classichitstoledo.com.
Lamb said he embraces new technology with no hesitation. "Classic Hits Toledo" is available as a free app for iPhones and Androids.
"If you wanted to start a radio station in the old days, you had to get an FCC license, you had buy a transmitter, you had to buy a tower; not anybody could do it," Lamb said.
Lamb said he enjoys working from home.
"Who wouldn't? I can do the show in my underwear," he said. "I don't, but I can."
Lamb hosts a morning show every weekday from 6-10 a.m. On it, he does skits and talks about water cooler news stories. He sometimes has a visit from "the guy upstairs" for weather reports.
On Saturday nights, "Classic Hits Toledo" serves as an outlet for local bands.
During "Man Cave," he opens his home to a new band airing 9 p.m. to midnight each Saturday, for live music. In the past, he's broadcasted shows with locals Frijid Pink, The Kripke Brothers and Chris Shutters.
Lamb has a long history working in radio. He was motivated to start his own because of the current state he believes stations are in.
"I grew up when radio was competitive [and] innovative. You competed against the guy across the street," Lamb said. "Well now, with the new corporate radio, the guy across the street's across the hall. Now you have to promote him. You sure can't say anything bad about him. Everything is so tied together; it's totally different from the way radio should be. Where's the fun?"
Lamb's "Man Cave" originates from his days with 104.7 WIOT. It aired for two years. In April, after leaving WIOT, Lamb began working to get "Classic Hits Toledo" on the air. In July, it started broadcasting 24 hours.
"As someone working in radio, I get to do radio the way I was taught to do radio and the way I think radio should be done," Lamb said.
Despite the workload, Lamb said he is having the most fun he's ever had.
"I'm started to realize why radio stations have more than one employee," Lamb said. "I'm the sales team, I'm the program director, I'm the disc jockey, I'm project director, I'm the engineer, I'm doing all the wiring; it's just crazy. But it's up and it's running and it sounds really, really good."
Lamb said he has had DJs wanting to work for him. He said it is something that will happen in the future.
On Aug. 16, Lamb will travel to Flint, Mich., for the Back to the Bricks classic cars show, where he will broadcast his program.
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The two I saw recently was The Day the Earth Stood Still (the original is better) and Mall Cop.
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The two I saw recently was The Day the Earth Stood Still (the original is better) and Mall Cop.
Recently watched Thank you for Smoking. I really enjoyed the type of humor in it. I saw it on TV, so I may pick it up at the movie store to see what they left out.
Last one was Milk, with Sean Penn. Amazing movie! He deserved the Oscar for it too! It wasn't quite the emotional story I thought it would be, but I think since it wasn't a 'weeper' it was even better. I already knew the story of Harvey Milk, but it still was a learning experience for me.
Last night we went to the cinema and saw Uninvited and Wolverine.
Uninvited was the usual drivel expected from these type of movies but Wolverine totally kicked butt man. It had it all...good background story, action, super powers (always a bonus) and IMO is definitely one for the ladies if you like your men rugged and sexy...check it out, swoon.
I'm gonna watch City of Ember tonight. Good or Bad idea? I love redbox and moviecube, they should have came out with those a long time ago!
I watched The Boy in the Striped Pajamas! It was a really good movie about the holocaust. I watched it with my kids, ages 15, 12 and 9. They really liked it and told their friends and teachers to watch it. They have heard of the Holocaust, but didn't really know much about it. This was a good version of the story through the childrens eyes. Very sad, but very good!
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2 Killed In 7-Hour Period In Antioch
Antioch Police are asking for the public's help in solving of one of two murders that took place in a seven-hour period this week.
7-Year-Old Boy Shot In Backyard Of Antioch Home
A 7-year-old boy was struck by a bullet in Antioch Saturday evening when shots were fired into the backyard where he was attending a barbecue.
Man Shot, Killed In Front Of His Antioch Home
Police are investigating the death of a man who was shot and killed in Antioch Saturday night.
Antioch Police Officer Shoots Suspect While Serving Warrant
A 36-year-old man armed with a shotgun is recovering after he was shot by a police officer in Antioch Monday afternoon.
Suspected Antioch Burglar Shot Dead By Homeowner
An Antioch homeowner who shot and killed a man in one of his vacant properties Saturday may have interrupted a burglary.
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Six Antioch Police Officers Receive Layoff Notices
Six Antioch police officers are out of a job after getting layoff notices from the city.
Suspect Driver Surrenders In Antioch Fatal Hit & Run
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- Section 52.21 and Part 80 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education have been amended and a New Subpart 57-4 has been added to the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education to implement the Coursework or Training in Harassment, Bullying and Discrimination Prevention and Intervention required under the Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) | Posted 05/16/2013
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When used in pregnancy during the second and third trimesters, ACE inhibitors can cause injury and even death to the developing fetus. When pregnancy is detected, ZESTORETIC should be discontinued as soon as possible. See WARNINGS, Pregnancy, Lisinopril, Fetal/Neonatal Morbidity and Mortality.
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TCM Classic Film Festival
From Thursday, April 10 to Sunday, April 13, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will be hosting a Film Festival in the heart of Hollywood. This weekend, enjoy a variety of fantastic films on the big screen ranging from Gone with the Wind to Godzilla.
April 10 – April 13
For more information on tickets, venues and a schedule of screenings/presentations, please visit filmfestival.tcm.com
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is the premier event for bookworms. Connect with books and authors, plus get your fill of live bands, poetry readings, live art demonstrations, panel discussions, and more!
Saturday, April 12 | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Sunday, April 13 | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Free (Only indoor Conversations, Book Prizes, and Festival After Dark require tickets)
USC Campus
University Park Campus
Los Angeles, CA 90089
For more information, please visit events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks
Grilled Cheese Invitational
This weekend, don't miss the final Grilled Cheese Invitational. The epic food festival combines two of our favorite things: cheese and bread. Watch professional and amateur chefs compete to become the Grilled Cheese Champion whilst sampling heavenly, buttery, cheesy sandwiches.
Saturday, April 12
$15 – $25
Los Angeles Center Studios
1201 W. 5th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90017
For more information, please visit grilledcheeseinvitational.com
SLOW Art Day at CAFAM
Slow Art Day encourages people to look at and experience art slowly. This Saturday head over to the Craft and Folk Art Museum for an afternoon of art appreciation including a discussion with the museum host and other guests. Don't forget to bring your bag lunch!
Saturday, April 12
Free w/ museum admission
Bring your own lunch
Craft and Folk Art Museum
5814 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
For more information, please visit www.cafam.org/programs/
Los Angeles Avocado Festival
Avocados have been called a "perfect" food. We couldn't agree more. This Sunday, attend the Los Angeles Avocado Festival and try a wide variety of dishes featuring avocados or topped with delicious guacamole. Plus, enjoy live music, craft vendors, cooking demonstrations and more.
Sunday, April 13
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UFC NEWS – UFC 140 Results: Jones And Mir Impress
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Jon Jones def. Lyoto Machida via technical submission (standing guillotine choke) – Round 2, 4:26 (to retain light-heavyweight title)
Frank Mir def. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira via submission (kimura) – Round 1, 3:38
Antonio Rogerio Nogueira def. Tito Ortiz via TKO (strikes) – Round 1, 3:15
Brian Ebersole def. Claude Patrick via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
Chan Sung Jung def. Mark Hominick via TKO (punches) – Round 1, 0:07
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Igor Pokrajac def. Krzysztof Soszynski via knockout (punches) – Round 1, 0:35
Constantinos Philippou def. Jared Hamman via knockout (punches) – Round 1, 3:11
Dennis Hallman def. John Makdessi via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 1, 2:58
Yves Jabouin def. Walel Watson via split decision (28-29, 29-28, 30-27)
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Mark Bocek def. Nik Lentz via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Jake Hecht def. Rich Attonito via TKO (strikes) – Round 2, 1:10
John Cholish def. Mitch Clarke via TKO (strikes) – Round 2, 4:36
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That Hominick/Zombie fight could have gone a bit longer. Regardless, I loved both fighters going into this bout, so it would have been a tough call for me anyway.
Fights were awesome. Two nasty submissions. The Zombie KO was awesome.
Good night of fights. I think the Zombie/Hominick fight was a good stoppage, it was clear that Hominick was out at one point and the last one that landed woke him back up, fast recovery though. On the last note, I hated to see Big Nog get his arm snapped, I was hoping both brothers would come out victorious. For a second I thought both brothers would win by T(KO).
To a fast recovery Big Nog!
I know, I hate seeing nog lose PERIOD. but to see it happen like that. FUCK SAKES, MIR ALWAYS DOES SUBS WAY 2 HARD.. regardless great fights… still hop mir crashes his bike again LOL jk
Well, Nogueira was doing his damnest not to tap! Since he's so well regarded in the BJJ world, u could tell he had too much pride to allow himself to lose in that fashion! Good resistance, but damn did that snap look nasty!!! Mir, first guy to knock him out & now the first guy to submit him…..wow!
Jake Hecht's win was in Round 2 not round 1.
Jones is crazy good he dismantles most of the top of the division, Rashad next?. The only way this monster is gunna get beat if Anderson silva goes to light heavy and fights him. that would be crazy
Machida was winning. He won the first round, ans was taking control of the 2nd, when Jones did what all the Greg Jackson's fighters do, take down! I think Machida would have been ok if it hadn't have been for that cut. He was setting up either a sweep or a back door escape…not sure i'll have to watch it again. But it was obvious Jones was nervous and he knew this wasn't gonna be easy tonight. but that cut really discouraged lyoto i think.
Machida did sh** in the first round. You frickin haters are unbelieveable. So, Jones was nervous, therefore he sucks? I know, let's make rules when you face Jon Jones: no takedowns, no spinning elbows, no kicks, what else do you want to add to tilt the Octagon in favor of Jones' opponents??? Because that's what it's gonna take to beat Jones. You just don't want to believe that.
Jones took the very close first round 10-9 because, yeah, Machida landed on a flury of punches, that's all he did the entire fight. That left that Machida landed helped Jones' entire career because Jones saw that MAY be a possible weakness in his fighting and now will work on that. Thanks Machida! ………….. NEXT …….
nah u trippin bitch im glad jones won i just hate jon jones fans kuz they talk before thinking. and machida won that first round kuz of that blitz barrage of punches that clipped jones and had him worried . but after that takedown and that nice left hand that jones landed it was over for machida … he went to sleep and passed out. u should have more respect for the fighters kuz its easy to sit there on your fat ass behind a computer screen and talk shit . you will never last a sec. in a mma fighters shoes faggot
Nah, Saiyan, you trippin "bro" cause you "hate" just to hate, "bro." Tell me, "bro," how do YOU know Jones was "worried?" Was that you in the corner? Or were you just so influenced by Rogan's commentary because you have difficulty thinking for yourself? Jones didn't look worried while in the corner or the start of the second. Didn't you notice or because Rogan didn't mention it that you missed it? The first round on strikes was basically even. That "barrage" of punches only landed once on Jones. So, they're even on strikes and takedowns in the first. Who wins the round? Jones, for fight control. Round 2: the takedown wasn't the beginning of the end for Machida–it was the right that landed just seconds before the takedown. Didn't you notice that one? That's why Jones had such an easy time to take Machida down at that point. From there on, it was a matter of time. Is that enough "thought" for you?
"he went to sleep and passed out." What the hell does that mean, "bro?"
If you knew how to "respect," dude, you wouldn't have wrote what you wrote. So go back to Church and pray for some intelligence, you POS……….NEXT………..
Jones even said the punches wobbled him.
watch the post fight interview… Jones admits he was wobbled and discouraged because he couldn't land anything.
i love how you take it personally like you're Jones' brother or something. Jones may have had octagon control but it wasn't because of anything he did, it was because Machida fights defensively with counter strikes. who did the most damage that first round? who landed more strikes AND a higher percentage of strikes?
quit riding the Jones bandwagon and accept that he is in fact not a god among mere mortals and yes he does make mistakes and lose rounds… if you aren't nervous in a fight then something is wrong.
i swear is sounds like you'd suck his dick if you could…
PS-Rogan is a great commentator and knows more about the sport than anyone commenting on this thread. and yes, he did mention the short punch that wobbled Machida. Shit man, get your facts before sound like an idiot again… smh
Exactly, let's make him fight with one hand tied behind his back and no elbows because its not fair on the other fighters….Karate guy is blind, Jones edged the first adapted his game plan and finished him. Who they going to throw at him now? got to be Hendo or Rashad. Can't wait till he wipes the smile off Rashad's face….
are you crazy?????? jones was owning him for the whole 2nd round!!!!!!!
maybe you should watch it again
u guys are all idiots and i would kick all ur guys rear ends. I have a black belt in shotokan, and a brown belt in ju jitsu and u all are keyboard warriors
LOL oh man the guy who brags about being a black belt over the internet usually is the one who doesn't know martial arts at all. A real martial artist doesn't need his accomplishments to be known.
Damn… Jones choke was just crazy. They guy is tough as hell to beat and strong. I doubt even Rashad will be able to beat Jones with his wrestling. I really want to see what Rashad delivers against Phil. 205 division is really screwed.
mir submission was nasty as hell, jones submission made me say "holy shit" out loud and i usually dont say anything after a stoppage. a very impressive night of fights and so far every jones fight i've seen has been entertaining. i hope he can keep a level head and not get too cocky and starts slacking because he has the most potential out of anyone ive ever had a chance to see. UFC fan for life!
Jones took the very close first round 10-9 because, yeah, Machida landed on a flury of punches, that's all he did the entire fight. That left that Machida landed helped Jones' entire career because Jones saw that MAY be a possible weakness in his fighting and now will work on that. Thanks Machida! ………….. NEXT …….
What the fuck are you saying? Lol
I will explain it further because I may have done a poor job doing so the first time. I will also type slower so that you don't get lost while reading this:
Even first round in the strikes and takedown. Jon Jones controlled the Octagon, which is stated here from the Unified rules:
G.Fighting area control is judged by determining who is dictating the pace, location and position of the bout. Examples of factors to consider are countering a grappler's attempt at takedown by remaining standing and legally striking, taking down an opponent to force a ground fight, creating threatening submission attempts, passing the guard to achieve mount, and creating striking opportunities.
Jon Jones dictated the pace of the first round. Everything else was equal, IMHO. Rampage beat Machida because of this rule. This is what happens to counter-strikers that don't strike enough.
I apologize for not being clearer the first time.
Jones is the real deal guys, let's be real. But Machida did expose Jones; he don't like being pressed. But he's young and will probably fix those little problems. LHW champ for a long time. I'd love to see him and Silva. Exactly like Ali vs Foreman. MAKE IT HAPPEN DANA!
How the fuck did Jones get exposed when he was just fucking around with his opponent the whole fight …. just wanted to prove he could take a punch just like he wanted to prove you can tap out Rampage.
Right, that's exactly what he was doing..
he wasnt trying to get hit but since he did he will spin it to his advantage. it was obvious lyoto had the better striking between the two.
…and that strike that Machida landed will help Jones in training for his future fights because it landed pretty good and is something he needs to defend.
One strike after fighting: Machida, Rampage, Shogun, Bader, Vera, Matsyushenko. That's a pretty good record.
Well, at least Steven Seagal not there to take the credits :)))
That 1st round was close and I'm a big Jones fan and this was the most worried I have been. Machida is a dangerous striker and landed some good shots on Jones but in the end Jones won with a fierce elbow than that insane choke! I have nothing but respect for Machida and I think he is probably the most dangerous striker in LHW and Jones was able to overcome him so I don't see anyway testing Jones as much unless we all get to see that superfight we all want too! Silva NEEDS to move up a div. After he kills Chael that is. lol
Don't forget about Rashad. He is definitely capable.
Funny how the same people bragging about Jones are the same who bash Anderson Silva!
where's all the dis believers???!!!!!!
CALLED THAT ON SPOT SUB IN 2nd RND
Dan Henderson
"Congrats to @jonnybones — great win. Hey @danawhite, I'd like to see if his chin is as good as he thinks & I'm ready to go."
…like Jones would allow Hendo to get close enough for Hendo to throw that right!
Hendo's one of my favorites, but Jones would win that fight.
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Physics and Astronomy Highlights
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The Department of Physics and Astronomy has a long and distinguished history of innovative research and outstanding teaching from its founding in 1867 and the work of its first chair Samuel Langley to the efforts in a wide range of topics by the current faculty.
Prominent Faculty
Samuel Pierpont Langley
Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22, 1834, Roxbury, Massachusetts – February 27, 1906, Aiken, South Carolina) was an American astronomer, physicist, and inventor. He is best known as the inventor of the bolometer and as an aviation pioneer. Prior to joining the University of Pittsburgh, he was an assistant in the Harvard College Observatory, and a chair of mathematics at the United States Naval Academy. In 1867, he became the director of the Allegheny Observatory and a professor of astronomy here at the University of Pittsburgh.
In 1886, Langley received the Henry Draper Medal from the National Academy of Sciences for his contributions to solar physics. His publication in 1890 of infrared observations at the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh together with Frank Washington Very was used by Svante Arrhenius to make the first calculations on the greenhouse effect. Langley was also the founder of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
Cyril Hazard
Cyril Hazard revolutionized quasar observation and his work allowed other astronomers to find redshifts from the emission lines from other radio sources.
The first quasars were discovered with radio telescopes in the late 1950s. Many were recorded as radio sources with no corresponding visible object. Using small telescopes and the Lovell Telescope as an interferometer, they were shown to have a very small angular size. Hundreds of these objects were recorded by 1960 and published in the Third Cambridge Catalogue as astronomers scanned the skies for the optical counterparts. In 1960, radio source 3C 48 was finally tied to an optical object. Astronomers detected what appeared to be a faint blue star at the location of the radio source and obtained its spectrum. Containing many unknown broad emission lines, the anomalous spectrum defied interpretation — a claim by John Bolton of a large redshift was not generally accepted.
In 1962 a breakthrough was achieved. Another radio source, 3C 273, was predicted to undergo five occultations by the moon. Measurements taken by Cyril Hazard and John Bolton during one of the occultations using the Parkes Radio Telescope allowed Maarten Schmidt to optically identify the object and obtain an optical spectrum using the 200-inch Hale Telescope on Mount Palomar. This spectrum revealed the same strange emission lines. Schmidt realized that these were actually spectral lines of hydrogen redshifted at the rate of 15.8 percent. This discovery showed that 3C 273 was receding at a rate of 47,000 km/s.
Ted Newman
Ezra T. Newman is an American physicist well known for his many contributions to general relativity and a professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. Newman was a prominent contributor to the golden age of general relativity (roughly 1960-1975). In 1962, together with Roger Penrose, he introduced the powerful Newman-Penrose formalism for working with spinorial quantities in general relativity. In 1963, Newman and two coworkers discovered the NUT vacuum, an exact vacuum solution to the Einstein field equation which has become a famous "counterexample to everything". In 1965, he discovered the Kerr-Newman black hole, an exact solution of Einstein's equations that describes a rotating black hole.
David Halliday
Halliday is an American physicist widely known for his physics textbooks, Physics and Fundamentals of Physics, which he wrote with Robert Resnick. Both textbooks have been in continous use since 1960 and are available in twenty languages. Halliday attended the University of Pittsburgh both as an undergraduate student and a graduate student, receiving his Ph.D. in physics in 1941. During WWII, he worked at the MIT Radiation Lab developing radar techniques.
In 1946 he returned to Pittsburgh as an assistant professor and spent the rest of his career here. In 1950, he wrote Nuclear Physics, which became a classic text and was translated into four languages. In 1951 Halliday became the Department Chair, a position he held until 1962. Physics has been used widely and is considered to have revolutionized physics education. Now in its seventh edition in a five-volume set revised by Jearl Walker, and under the title Fundamentals of Physics, it is still highly regarded for its clear standardized diagrams, highly readable pedagogy, outlook into modern physics, and challenging, thought provoking problems. In 2002 the American Physical Society named the work the most outstanding introductory physics text of the 20th century.
Irving Lowe
It must have been sensational to see, for the very first time, the nuclear spin precession on a scope through the resonant absorption of energy and even more directly by means of a free induction decay. The magnetic moments of inconceivably small particles had been put into a coherent motion! This was truly a great discovery by Felix Bloch, Edward M. Purcell, and their coworkers in the mid forties. The Second World War was just over, and the newly developed radio frequency equipment could be put to better usage.
Much has happened since then in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). The chemical shift has been discovered by W.D. Knight, and W.G. Proctor and F.C. Yu, and exploited first for chemical analysis by Herbert S. Gutowsky. The scalar spin-spin coupling has been noticed. Pulse techniques have been introduced by Erwin L. Hahn and Henry C. Torrey. Fourier transformation spectroscopy, proposed by Russell Varian and Weston A. Anderson, has eased the sensitivity problem, and two-dimensional spectroscopy, conceived by Jean Jeener, has truly opened up new dimensions in spectroscopy. The structure determination procedures developed by Kurt Wuthrich and his group made NMR into an indispensable tool also for the molecular biologist. On the other hand, John S. Waugh, Alexander Pines, and Peter Mansfield, together with the magic angle spinning techniques of Raymond E. Andrew and coworkers and Irving J. Lowe, made high resolution NMR also feasible in the solid state. Finally, medical imaging by NMR, developed initially by Paul Lauterbur, led to a revolution in medical imaging.
Bernie Cohen
Bernard Leonard Cohen was born June 14, 1924 in Pittsburgh, PA. He received his education at Case-Western Reserve University (B.S. 1944), University of Pittsburgh (M.Sc. 1947), and Carnegie-Mellon University (D.Sc. 1950).
Cohen was a Professor at the University of Pittsburgh from 1958-2012. He has been a staunch opponent to the so called Linear no-threshold model (LNT) which postulates that there is no safe threshold for radiation exposure.
Cohen has written six books, including Heart of the Atom (1967), Concepts of Nuclear Physics (1970), Nuclear Science and Society (1974), Before It's Too Late (1983), and The Nuclear Energy Option (1990). He has also written about 135 research papers on basic nuclear physics, about 200 scientific papers on energy and environment (e.g. nuclear power, health effects of radiation, radioactive waste, risks in our society), and about 60 articles in popular magazines such as National Review, Oui, Science Digest, Catholic Digest, and American Legion Magazine. Cohen has received the American Physical Society Tom Bonner Prize (1981) for his nuclear physics research. He was also elected to Chairman of the A.P.S. Division of Nuclear Physics (1974–75).
For his research on energy and environment, Cohen received the Health Physics Society Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award, the American Nuclear Society Walter Zinn Award, Public Information Award, and Special Award. He was also elected to membership in National Academy of Engineering, and to Chairman of the American Nuclear Society Division of Environmental Sciences (1980–81).
Norman Austern
Austern is a nuclear physicist and a lover of literature, music, history, philosophy and archeology.
He earned a bachelor's degree from The Cooper Union in 1946 and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1951. He was a research associate at Cornell University from 1951 to 1954 and a scientist at New York University's Institute of Mathematical Sciences from 1954 to 1956. He was a Fulbright Research Scholar in Australia from 1957 to 1958 and from 1968 to 1969. He held several visiting professorships and fellowships in England, France and Japan.
Austern joined the Pitt physics faculty in 1956 as an assistant professor. He was promoted to full professor in 1962, and retired in 1994.
Austern played a leading role in the 1950's when Pitt research was central to understanding the structure of the nucleus. His specialty was theoretical nuclear physics, including nuclear reactions and electro-magnetic effects in nuclei. He published more than 100 journal articles. His textbook, Direct Nuclear Reaction Theories, was published in 1970.
John Brashear
John Brashear has his first glimpse of the moon at age nine. That influential view of the moon and Saturn stayed with Brashear for the rest of his life. After receiving a common school education until age 15, he apprenticed himself to a machinist and had mastered his trade at age 20. He worked as a millwright in a rolling mill in Pittsburgh, and pursued his love for astronomy at night, including building his own workshop from a three meter square coal shed behind his house, to construct his own refractor.
He eventually was able to dedicate his time to the manufacture of astronomical as well as scientific instruments, and performed various experiments. He developed an improved silvering method that would become the standard for coating first surface mirrors (known as the "Brashear Process") until vacuum metalizing began replacing it in 1932. Brashear patented few instruments and never patented his techniques. He founded "John A. Brashear Co." with his son-in-law and partner, James Brown McDowell, and his instruments gained worldwide respect. The modern optical firm currently known as "L-3 Brashear" now bears his name. Optical elements and instruments of precision produced by John Brashear have been used in almost every important observatory in the world.
In 1898 he became director of the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh, continuing in this post until 1900. From 1901 to 1904, he was acting chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, after serving as a member of the board of trustees since 1896.
Famous Graduates
Vladimir Zworkin
For his fundamental and crucial work in creating the iconoscope and the kinescope, inventor Vladimir Zworykin is often described as "the father of television". These basic technologies revolutionized television and led to the worldwide adoption of electronic television rather than mechanical television, a device which used synchronized moving parts to generate rudimentary pictures.
At the Petersburg Institute of Technology, Zworykin studied electrical engineering with Boris Rosing, who believed cathode ray tubes would be useful in television's development because they could shoot a steady stream of charged particles. After graduating from St. Petersburg in 1912, he studied X-ray technology with well-known French physicist Paul Langevin at the College de France in Paris. Both experiences influenced Zworykin's later work after he emigrated to the United States in 1919.
In 1920 Zworykin joined Westinghouse to work on the development of radio tubes and photocells. While there, he earned his Ph.D. in physics here at the University of Pittsburgh and wrote his dissertation on improving photoelectric cells. But electronic television's development captured his attention, and in December 1923 he applied for a patent for the iconoscope, which produced pictures by scanning images. Within the year he applied for a patent for the kinescope, which reproduced those scanned images on a picture tube. Electronic television was now possible.
Zworykin received numerous awards related to these inventions, especially television. They included the Institute of Radio Engineers' Morris Liebmann Memorial prize in 1934; the American Institute of Electrical Engineers' highest honor in 1952, the Edison Medal; and the National Academy of Sciences' National Medial of Science in 1967.
Other Distinguished Alumni
- Sidney Dancoff
- David Halliday
- Harry Lee
- Kamal Seth
Allen Hall
Allen Hall is a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark and the main building in the Physics and Astronomy complex. It is a six story building designed by J. H. Giesey and was dedicated on February 26, 1915, in a ceremony in which Richard B. Mellon and Andrew W. Mellon turned over the keys of the institute to University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Samuel McCormick.
Allen Hall is named for a former University of Pittsburgh Physics professor, Alex Allen, who arrived at Pitt in the 1930s and led a project for the construction of a cyclotron for producing radioactive isotopes for medical applications. This facility, called the Sarah Mellon Scaife Radiation Laboratory, was completed in 1946
The facade at the entrance of this building has a plaque to honor Madame Curie, commemorating the 100th anniversary in 1967 of her birth, the conferring of an honorary degree in 1921, her visit to the plants of the Standard Chemical Company, its role as a major radium producer and in the making of the gram of radium presented to Marie Curie by President Warren G. Harding, and the role of Glenn Donald Kammer, a University of Pittsburgh graduate who supervised its production. The plaque was unveiled on September 20, 1969 by the Archbishop of Kraków, Poland, Cardinal Wojtyła, who in 1978 became Pope Jean Paul II.
Allegheny Observatory
The Allegheny Observatory is an American astronomical research institution, and part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh. The facility is listed on the National Register of Historical Places and is designated as a Pennsylvania state and Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation historic landmark.
The observatory was founded on February 15, 1859, by a group of wealthy industrialists calling themselves the Allegheny Telescope Association. The observatory's initial purpose was for general public education as opposed to research, but by 1867 the revenues derived from this had receded. The facility was then donated to the University of Pittsburgh. Among other research purposes, the observatory presently searches for extrasolar planets.
Nuclear Physics Laboratory
The beginning of the University of Pittsburgh Nuclear Physics Laboratory dates to the late 1930s when Alex Allen came to the University of Pittsburgh as a professor of physics with the goal of building a cyclotron for producing radioactive isotopes for medical applications. He obtained a gift from the Scaife family for this purpose, with the facility called the Sarah Mellon Scaife Radiation Laboratory. In 1946 construction was completed with the cyclotron delivering internal beams of 15 MeV deuterons, 7.5 MeV protons and 30 MeV alpha particles that were used for the production of radioactive isotopes. Subsequently Allen's main efforts were directed at getting reliable external beam and designing a high-energy resolution system for determining with high precision the energies of reaction products. For this effort, Roger Bender from the University of Wisconsin was hired in about 1948, and was soon joined by two other Wisconsin alumni, Jim McGruer and John Cameron, and in the mid-50s Karl Quisenberry from the University of Minnesota. High-resolution studies of energy levels in light nuclei were completed with several Ph.D. theses resulting. This program was able to draw on theoretical support in the physics department, involving Professors Ed Gerjoy, Phil Stehle, and later Norman Austern, Elizabeth Baranger, and Sidney Meshkoff.
In 1962, a grant of $ 1.65 million was obtained from the National Science Foundation for the purchase of the world's first 3-stage Van De Graff accelerator, and a $ 1 million gift was obtained from the Sarah Mellon-Scaife foundation for a building to house it.
Past and Present Departmental Chairs
2006 to present
David Turnshek
Professor and Department Chair
Ph.D., 1981, University of Arizona
Research: Cosmology and Astrophysics
David Jasnow
PhD, 1969, University of Illinois
Research: Collaborative Research Activities, Statistical Physics
Frank Tabakin
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., 1963, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research: Quantum Information, Theoretical Particle Physics
James V. Maher
Ph.D., 1969, Yale University
Eugene Engels
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., 1962, Princeton University
Philip Stehle
Professor Emeritus
Myron P. Garfunkel
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., 1951, Rutgers University
Frederick Keffer
David Halliday
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., 1941, University of Pittsburgh
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The Bachelorette
Bachelor Matt Grant Gets New Gig, Interviews the Twilight Cast
It took us a month to find this video, but it's a must-see for fans of The Bachelor: London Calling's Matt Grant — who was clearly not a major follower of the Twilight series before interviewing the cast at the premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1.
Matt has been doing red carpet interviews for RadarOnline as part of his post-Season 12 gig. He did a great job talking to True Blood's Stephen Moyer and company at the TeenNick Halo Awards, and he does an admirable job at the Twilight premiere... until his chat with singer Christina Perri. When she reveals she's a "Twi-Hard," Matt responds, "Sorry, sorry, Twi-?"
Aww, it's obvious he's a newbie. Not that there's any reason why Matt should be a Twilight fan. Still, it would've been cool to see him joke with Robert Pattinson about how they both know how it feels to be hot British men fawned over by adoring American women. He does get some face time with Taylor Lautner, so be prepared to swoon.
Also, if you stay for the end of the video you get to hear Matt give this little note to self: "Don't send nipple clamps to strangers. I'll have to stop doing that."
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Elizabethtown Essex County has left the table.
Under an agreement reached May 21 between the State of New York and the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, the county, along with seven others, will not be eligible to house one of three new gaming casinos proposed earlier this year by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
With the agreement, the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe will pay $30 million in payments owed to the state along with 25 percent of future gaming revenues.
In return, the tribe will continue to have exclusive gaming rights in an eight county zone that includes Essex, Clinton, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lewis, St. Lawrence and Warren.
The agreement also initiates discussions between the State, the Tribe, and local governments to resolve unrelated land claim disputes. The two sides have been in disputes over gaming issues for the past three years.
"It's not a huge disappointment here," Moriah Supervisor Tom Scozzafava, who pushed the discussion about gaming in Essex County, said. "We knew that this was going to be a long shot but hey, you had to try it."
Scozzafava said that while the deal ends the hopes of a county gaming facility, it is good news for the state as a whole.
"I'm glad that the Governor reached an accord with the St. Regis Tribe to get revenue that the state can use, which in the end could help everyone," Scozzafava said. "He has done something that has not been done in a while by going in and bringing closure to this situation."
Still, Scozzafava said that there are other options that could present themselves.
"I still want to pursue a Riverboat-type operation on Lake Champlain," he said. "It would be a huge draw for both New York and Vermont and any town that has a lake shore port area. I know that there are still going to be a lot of hurdles with that as well, since you are dealing with federal waters and two states."
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· MOM'S Night Out events.
· Community service projects.
· Web-based forums that allow members to quickly and easily communicate with each other.
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"Sistered" by the MOMS Club of Ashland in 2009, the MOMS Club of Framingham was founded by a small group of Framingham MOMS who wanted a chapter in their own town and saw a great need for support for moms in Framingham. When they established the MOMS Club of Framingham, our founders were all members of the Ashland chapter, which grew too large to continue accepting members from outside of their town. Today, the Framingham chapter is growing quickly. We offer a variety of activities for MOMS and their children. Most of our activities take place during the day, when full-time and part-time at-home mothers most need the support. We strive to support all moms in town – from those who have infants to those who have older children in school and whether you stay home full-time, work full-time, or work part-time. We welcome you to join us!
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Mompreneur Has A Line On Easing Travel With Kids
The diapers, the bottles, the favorite paci, teddy or blankie. That's just the beginning of packing for baby. It's enough to make some parents' heads spin.
But Rania Kfuri of Westfield Mass., started taking her oldest daughter, nicknamed Birdie, on overseas excursions when she was a mere 2-months-old. "A lot of my friends who had young children would say to me, 'How is it that you travel so easily with her'?" So,this mom of two girls, ages 2 and 4, recently launched a business to share her secrets and provide parents with tools to be on the go with grace.
"Moms really do know best, I've come to find, because you're in it," says Kfuri, who named her line of travel bags Free Like Birdie, which are made in a vibrant green fabric that is her daughter's favorite color. "I wasn't really able to find that in the marketplace, something really specifically treating young children as travelers in their own right."
The luggage, intended for infants through age 4, comes in three styles: the Diaper Pouch, the Quick Change Pouch and the Weekender, all waterproof with venting systems and snap handles. And they're not just ordinary satchels. Each style contains two distinct sides, accessible with separate zippers, marked "clean" and "dirty." The bigger models also include packing charts with pictures, helping frazzled parents remember essentials.
The best part? Kfuri says her concept eliminates the dependence on plastic baggies to keep everything organized: The entire set costs $85 on www.freelikebirdie.com. Each bag is also sold individually.
With a background in international development, Kfuri has been a stay-at-home mom for the last few years. "I really see travel as an extension of education and an educational tool," she says, noting that her daughter, while small, was extremely moved by the sight of the tulips at the Keukenhof Garden during a trip to the Netherlands, proving that a sense of wanderlust at a young age builds a valuable foundation of cultural appreciation and curiosity. But, Kfuri is quick to add, a family voyage can simply mean exploration in our own neighborhoods and local museums.
"It's tremendous for children. You see them, they blossom, they take-in so much more, I think, than we adults realize."
This jet-setting mom hopes her website becomes a place parents share tips and experiences, as well as find relief by using her travel accessories, whether its on the plane or in the grocery store.
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