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February is Library Lover's Month, and a good time to help spread appreciation of the written word to the younger set. One of the best ways of encouraging literacy is by reading to children while they are very young. Making it an established bedtime and naptime ritual to have a story read helps young children learn to love books and the special times they represent.
Appreciate your local library
With a wonderful public library system in the Grand Prairie area, we are truly fortunate to have access to a lifetime supply of reading material, movies, and magazines. There are local branches as well as a main branch, and each has their own list of events to keep your family involved. There are reading times for the preschoolers and special speakers for the older children. There are also films shown on the weekends for the whole family's enjoyment.
Checking out books at the public library can also help children learn responsibility. They can take care of their books and, should anything happen to the book, make reparations at the library. Our branch asks only that you pay for a replacement or donate a book of similar value. This helps the children learn to keep their books in a special place or a book bag (which can be purchased at the library for a nominal sum) so that they are always ready to be returned. Adults in the family can mark the due date to make certain they are returned in a timely manner.
Reading daily establishes a positive tradition
When books are read at bedtime, it helps the child transition to a more relaxed state. For very young children, a story is usually completed in one sitting. As the children grow older, it is fun to read a single chapter together before bedtime, and helps them look forward to anticipating the rest. It is also a way to introduce appropriate literature to the children.
A favorite book that has passed the interest test of several children and even been read to a group of adults with great success is The Whale's Song by Dyan Sheldon. The lovely paintings, done by Gary Blythe, help portray a wonderful relationship between a young girl, Lilly, and her grandmother. It is about dreaming, relationships between generations, valuing nature, and the importance of believing. It is a wonderful book to share with any child, but especially so for grandparents to share.
For many other wonderful books, please check out your own local library and start a daily reading habit with the children in your life!
Arlington, Texas library programs for kids
Grand Prairie, Texas library system
Grand Prairie main library, 901 Conover, 972- 237-5700
For the Grand Prairie library calendar, please see the links at your right.


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The energy and enthusiasm of students and faculty coming back on campus is terrific. Thanks to everyone for doing a dynamite job of responding to this busy time of year. We're off to a great start!
For those new to the UAA community, every month I share a few notes about what is happening on UAA's campuses, including Anchorage, Mat-Su, Kenai, Kodiak and Prince William Sound Community College (PWSCC). I encourage you to send notables to me at firstname.lastname@example.com Although it is impossible to include everything in CaseNotes, I do want to know about the great things you are doing at UAA.
Students, as we start off the fall semester I'd like to share a little advice for success:
Faculty and staff notes:
Dewain Lee, dean of students and associate vice chancellor for student development was elected to the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi's chapter relations committee as western regional vice president and to the Society's national board of directors as regional vice president. Phi Kappa Phi is the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.
UAA Professor of Art Kat Tomka received a Rasmuson Foundation Artist Fellowship Award this summer. Kat's $12,000 award in the mature artist category will help her prepare new work and develop a website. You can see a past exhibit of hers, "Breakup," on the Alaska State Museum website
Alumni note: (green and gold gala)
Carol Wren (M.S. Vocational Education '10) is the keynote speaker at this fall's statewide Alaska Federation of Natives Convention. An Alaska Native of Inupiaq heritage, Carol is the director of Employment and Training Services at Cook Inlet Tribal Council. Read more about Carol and the convention here
Research, Innovation and Commercialization notes:
UAA has created and registered Seawolf Holdings, Inc and its subsidiary Seawolf Venture Fund LP that will provide early stage investment for startups and support our entrepreneurial and innovation research focus.
The first analysis of the economic effects of invasive species in Alaska finds that governments and nonprofit groups spent about $29 million from 2007 to 2011, or nearly $6 million a year, to manage those species. Tobias Schwörer of UAA's Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) and Rebekka Federer and Howard Ferren of the Alaska SeaLife Center did the analysis funded by several federal and state agencies.
A provisional patent was filed for UAA Professor LeeAnn Munk's Cu isotope application which is of interest to the mining industry.
Public Square:
UAA hosts the 38th annual conference of the International Association of Aquatic & Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers. The international organization is meeting for the first time in Alaska. (Connect to article in G&G)
Safety Note:
Exercise patience. There are lots of new people on campus, traffic congestion, and bikes on the trails Give yourself enough time to get to where you are going, walk if you can and help puzzled freshmen and other newcomers.
Program Notes:
UAA Japan Center, and Montgomery Dickson Memorial Project funded by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, held its inaugural summer institute and continues programming throughout 2012-2013.
2011-2012 UAA Honors College Office of Undergraduate Research awarded students 59 awards totaling more than $126,000. This is more than 65% over last year's total number of students and amount awarded.
The Paralegal Studies Certificate Program at the Justice Center celebrates its 20th anniversary.The Paralegal Studies programs at UAA and UAF are the only American Bar approved programs in Alaska. Read their blog.
PWSCC is offering seven additional degrees, some in partnership with other UA campuses via distance classes. They are Outdoor Leadership Studies, AAS; Bachelor of Science in Natural Science; Bachelor of Art in Psychology; Bachelor of Science in Psychology; Business Administration, AAS; Fisheries Technology, AAS; and Health Sciences, AAS.
Spring 2012 Seawolf men's and women's track and field teams each earned All-Academic team honors, while a program-high 11 student athletes received individual All-Academic status from the U.S. Track and Field Cross Country Coaches Association. UAA adds men's and women's Indoor Track this year.
Note of Thanks:
Chris Mizelle, (I AM UAA image)director of Facilities, Maintenance and Operations for the last five years of his 28 years at UAA, retires this month. Chief Information Officer and Vice Chancellor Rich Whitney (search through UAA) retires at the end of September after a dozen years at UAA and Mike Halko, (search through UAA) director of Environmental Health and Safety/Risk Management Support retires after five years at UAA. Thank you for all that you've done for UAA!
Be safe and enjoy the Labor Day weekend! See you back at UAA on Tuesday.
Tom Case

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I feel sometimes caught between the world of youth and old, maybe because I am at the age of in between. I read the ads for cosmetics, anti-aging creams and just do it commercials. Which one am I? Do I buy the cream for making my face firm? Do I buy the cosmetic that will take 3 minutes off my face? Do I put on my jogging shoes and run to promote my youth? Probably not that! I feel like I did ( in my mind) at 18. I still am interested in the world, I still love to read mystery books and chocolate is wonderful. I look in the mirror and know that I am older. I have more life under the bridge. I have lived longer, so I have more wrinkles, laugh lines and tear lines, than I did at 18. Is it bad to not want to stay 18? I talk with a woman that has 85 years under the life bridge. She still feels the same in her mind. She does not want to be anti-aged. She does want to get up and go at times, but it takes help. Is that why we want to stay young? Why are we working on keeping our appearance young, and not working on ways to stay independent in our daily routines? Because if this anti-aging cream works, I will still need help getting to the bathroom! Maybe we are working on that? Maybe we need to work on that! I also note that a lot of the ads say age reversal, wrinkle reversal, not anti-aging. Maybe that is the new politically correct way to say stay young!
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We have a pair of Internet-facing SIP PROXY/REGISTRAR servers (for resilienced and load-balancing). When a SIP phone registers, it will be handled by one of the REGISTRAR servers (round-robin DNS) - and since this registration is renewed, the firewall port/address translation is maintained. Therefore, when a call is to be sent back to the phone the INVITE message passes successfully through the firewall.
However, it is likely that the phone may register with one of the two servers, but the INVITE may come from the other. In this situation, the call fails since there is no translation in place on the firewall.
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Apple Macbook Air 11.6″ Review (Part 1 of 2)25
This is a product review video of the Apple Macbook Air 11.6″ Late 2010. This is part 1 of 2. This is a performance test on the Macbook Air (Late 2010) with a 1.6Ghz Processor, 4GBs of Ram and 128GBs of Flash memory. Programs used were: -Adobe CS5 Master Collection -Microsoft Office 2011 for mac -Safari -Firefox -Photobooth -And other mac bundle software
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More details: www.ultrabookreview.com HP 2170p is company's smallest and lightest 11.6 inch Elitebook business laptop with the latest Intel Ivy Bridge platform. It uses an ultra low voltage CPU and integrated Intel graphics. The keyboard can be configured with backlight.and you can also get optional 3G/4G LTE broadband Internet access. Premium sound and 720p front facing webcam are included. The entry level configuration starts at 9, but depending on specs you'll be paying a lot more. The whole thing weights only 2.9 lbs, but it's pretty thick. The HP Elitebook 2170p is compatible with the w-, p- and b- series docking stations. Full details at www.ultrabookreview.com
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College Hockey:Buckeyes Blank Pioneers
Ohio State Stuns Third Ranked Denver to Secure Split
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State goaltender Cal Heeter may be relatively unknown in the college hockey world; his name, however, will be remembered by the third ranked Denver Pioneers for a while.
A year after the Buckeyes' backup goaltender went into Denver to pull out his first career victory, the sophomore posted his first ever shutout leading the Buckeyes to a 4-0 win over the Pioneers in Nationwide Arena Friday night.
The shutout gives the Buckeyes their first win of the season as they improved to 1-3. Denver gets their second consecutive split and are now 2-2.
Heeter's stopped all 39 shots he faced. His counterpart, Adam Murray, had 22 saves and allowed three of the four Ohio State goals. This was Heeter's fifth career start. Both Murray and Heeter replaced Thursday's goalies of Marc Cheverie for Denver and Dustin Carlson for Ohio State. Cheverie posted a 2-0 shutout over the Buckeyes in the series opener.
I thought that Adam played well, Denver coach George Gwozdecky said. He made an outstanding save early in the game for us. For him, it was an unfortunate bounce on their first goal. For a team like Ohio State that has been struggling of late, this is the best thing that could have happened. No matter how you get it, it goes in and it gives you the lead and you can build on it.
Whenever a goalie gets a shutout, they have to give complete credit to their defensemen and forwards, Heeter said. All night long, our defense was blocking shots.
He deserves to play and he proved it tonight, Ohio State coach John Markell said. He beat them last year. These exhibition games and non-conference games are important but you have to see what you got. The team played hard both in front of Dusty (Carlson) and Cal, so Cal was a good recipient of goals and Dusty was not.
Ohio State started the game on the wrong foot when Peter Boyd was given a five minute major for hitting from behind and a game misconduct just 34 seconds into the game.
Denver had their chances during the first few minutes of the power play, however the best scoring chance during the Pioneers man-advantage went to Ohio State when forward John Albert stole the puck and fed fellow Buckeyes forward Zac Dalpe who was stoned by Murray. The Pioneers' power play was negated three minutes in on a too many men on the ice penalty.
Not being able to take advantage of that five minute major really, certainly was not a good way of developing momentum, Gwozdecky said.
As soon as we took the five minutes, I was a little worried, Heeter said. I know Denver has a good power play. Again and again our defensemen and forwards did a great job on the penalty kill.
Ohio State opened scoring 6:53 into the first when Taylor Stefishen's centering pass deflected off a Pioneers defenseman's skate and into the net. Ohio State took a 2-0 lead less than eight minutes later when Dalpe scored Ohio State's second power-play goal of the season on a nice pass from Sergio Somma. Despite trailing 2-0 through one period, the Pioneers outshot Ohio State 12-8 in the opening stanza.
Ohio State notched a shorthanded goal 10:25 into the second as forwards Albert and Somma led a 2-on-2 break out. As Albert ran out of room with the puck, he made a nice pass behind him to trailing defenseman Shane Sims who one-timed the puck past the glove of Murray. This was the exclamation point to a bad night on the power play for the Pioneers as they went 0-5.
We were stopping a good power play, Markell said. It is all about blocking shots and being in position to sacrifice. I thought our movement was a lot better.
Ohio State received their second game misconduct penalty of the game when defenseman Matt Bartkowski knocked the helmet off an opposing player after the whistle 12:40 into the second period.
Ohio State's C.J. Severyn added an empty netter with 3:26 remaining in the third for Ohio State's final goal.
I know we created a lot of chances throughout the game, Gwozdecky said.
Whether it was a combination of Heeter playing well or us not playing well, there were a number of opportunities and I trying to figure out how can you not finish around the net.
This feels like a huge monkey off everyone's back, Somma said. It felt like we were in a position to win the game last night and the pucks didn't go in. Tonight we got the pucks off and we got the bounces.
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Technote (troubleshooting)
AS2 File System Adapter does not collect files after migrating AS2 Trading Partners profiles to new instance of Sterling B2B Integrator
AS2 File System Adapter schedule is running but ends with "no files to collect"
Resolving the problem
1. Edit the partner profile and save (do not make any changes)
2. Edit the relationship and save (do not make any changes).
3. If this does not solve the problem, repeat steps 1 and 2 and change the collection path.
Verify that SI creates the new folder and then confirm if this solves the problem,
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Fall 2013 Colloquium Schedule
Colloquia are Wednesdays at 4:00 p.m. in DUAN G1B20, unless otherwise noted.
Coffee, tea and cookies will be available before regular colloquia beginning at 3:45 p.m. in DUAN G1B31.
Past Colloquia
August 28 — "Ultracold Polar Molecules"
- Presenter: Deborah Jin, JILA, University of Colorado Boulder
- Host: Murray Holland
- Abstract: Gases of atoms can be cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero, where intriguing quantum behaviors such as Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity emerge. A new direction in experiments is to try to produce an ultracold gas of molecules, rather than atoms. In particular, polar molecules, which have strong dipole-dipole interactions, are interesting for applications ranging from quantum information to modeling condensed matter physics. I will describe experiments that produce and explore an ultracold gas of polar molecules.
September 4 — "Superposition, Entanglement, and Raising Schrödinger's Cat"
- Presenter: David Wineland, NIST, University of Colorado Boulder
- Host: Jun Ye
- Abstract: Research on precise control of quantum systems occurs in many laboratories throughout the world, for fundamental research, new measurement techniques, and more recently for quantum information processing. I will briefly describe experiments on quantum state manipulation of atomic ions at NIST, which serve as examples of similar work being performed with many other atomic, molecular, optical (AMO) and condensed matter systems across the world. This talk is in part the "story" of my involvement that I presented at the 2012 Nobel Prize ceremonies.
September 11 — "Distributed Information Processing in Materials that Think"
- Presenter: Nikolaus Correll, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Host: Tobin Munsat
- Abstract: Materials that think are enabled by recent advances in smart polymers, desktop manufacturing systems and miniaturization of computers. These materials tightly integrate sensing, actuation, computation and communication in a periodic, amorphous fashion, which might enable revolutionary new composites with fully programmable capabilities. The challenges in creating materials that think lie at the intersection of material science engineering and computer science, and - from a CS perspective - require advances in distributed algorithms for signal processing, control and routing of information. I illustrate these challenges and recent advances by our group using three experimental case studies, all using identical computational infrastructure: (1) a soft robotic skin that can locate and classify textures by locally sampling, processing and classifying vibrations and route relevant information to a CPU using multi-hop networking; (2) A modular building block for creating intelligent walls and facade systems that can recognize complex gestures; and (3) variable-stiffness composites that can assume arbitrary shapes using simple actuation and local feedback control. Albeit serving different functions at different scales, material and computational properties can be designed using an unified mathematical framework based on abstracting the computer network as continuous amorphous medium.
September 18 — "Quantum Phases of Matter"
- Presenter: Michael Hermele, University of Colorado Boulder
- Host: Paul Beale
- Abstract: Much of condensed matter physics is based on the idea that two different systems can be in the same phase of matter, with its own characteristic properties. Some phases of matter are intrinsically quantum in nature, including metals, band insulators and fractional quantum Hall liquids. In recent years, it has become clear that we lack a satisfactory understanding even of the most basic question: "What constitutes a distinct quantum phase of matter?" This colloquium will describe my recent contributions toward an answer.
September 25 — "Topological Soft Matter: From Mathematical Theorems to Self-Assembly"
- Presenter: Ivan Smalyukh, University of Colorado Boulder
- Host: Paul Beale
- Abstract: Topologically nontrivial fields and vortices frequently arise in superstring and quantum field theories, plasmas, optics, elementary particles, cosmology, condensed matter and atomic systems, etc. Their complex structures are expected to follow predictions of topological theorems and mathematical theories, such as the knot theory, but are rarely accessible to direct experimental visualization. On the other hand, soft condensed matter systems, such as colloids and liquid crystals, offer complexity in degrees of freedom and symmetries that allow for probing analogous phenomena on completely different scales, ranging from kinetics of atoms in glasses to cosmic strings in the early Universe. In my lecture, I will show examples of how CU students extend these possibilities by developing soft matter model systems to probe the scale-invariant interplay of topologies of surfaces, fields, and defects. This combination of topology and self-assembly paradigms emerges as an interdisciplinary scientific frontier of topological soft matter, potentially enabling scalable fabrication of composite materials with unusual properties.
October 2 — "Manybodypedia, Cluster-by-Cluster"
- Presenter: Mackillo Kira, Universität Marburg, Germany
- Host: Steven Cundiff
Abstract: Several seemingly unrelated research efforts are approaching the same central question: how does the quantum physics of interacting many-particle systems control macroscopic phenomena? This would be easy to answer if one only were able to solve the many-body Schrödinger equation exactly, a task that seems unsolvable for decades to come. The number of theoretic approaches and experimental setups are steadily increasing, which also makes the knowledgebase scattered. Therefore, it seems that one should start a thorough learning process, pedia, to combine and develop common many-body knowhow.
In this talk, I present a tutorial "manybodypedia" by comparing semiconductors, atom condensates, and degenerate Fermi gases. I analyze them with correlated clusters that rigorously identify the elementary particle configurations, quasi-particles, within many-body systems. It turns out that the clusters also reformulate quantum optics in a form suitable for many-body investigations. The clusters can therefore be viewed as the "alphabets" combining the knowhow in quantum-optics and various many-body studies. As a synthesis of these concepts, I introduce the quantum-optical spectroscopy that produces unprecedented access to unexplored many-body physics.
October 9 — "Fierce Competition in a Correlated World"
- Presenter: Kyle McElroy
- Host: Paul Beale
Abstract: One of the most important states of matter we see around us is the Landau-Fermi liquid. In fact, this is the state of matter electrons have in metals and semiconductors which we rely on so much in our technology. Over the last several decades we have seen that introducing strong correlations and destroying this traditional conducting state leads to new and dramatic macroscopic states of matter. One playground for these new behaviors is doped Mott insulators, where Coulomb repulsion localizes electrons and competes with the itinerancy of introduced carriers. Such competition leads to strong atomic scale variation in the electronic properties which are a key component in understanding the resulting macroscopic phenomena.
We have developed microscopic techniques for measuring the electronic structure on the atomic scale. With these probes we have investigated several materials in which atomic scale disorder plays a huge role in the electronic structure. I will discuss several examples where these probes have let us uncover the true microscopic nature of these macroscopic phases that are hidden on the bulk scale.
October 16 — "Crystallization Mechanisms in Biominerals"
- Presenter: Pupa Gilbert, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Host: Meredith Betterton
Abstract: Biominerals include mollusk shells and the skeletons of algae, sponges, corals, sea urchins and most other animals. The function of biominerals are diverse: mechanical support, attack, defense, grinding, biting, and chewing, gravitational and magnetic field sensing, light focusing, and many others. The exquisite nanostructure of biominerals is directly controlled by the organisms, which have evolved to master the chemico-physical aspects of mineralization. By controlling the inorganic precursor nanoparticle size, packing, and phase transitions, organisms efficiently fill space, produce tough and hard structures, with micro- or macroscopic morphology optimized for their functions. Specifically, this talk will show the complex architecture of mollusk shell nacre, or mother-of-pearl, and how it is formed by animal-controlled self-assembly.
October 23 — "Black Holes–the Harmonic Oscillators of the 21st Century"
- Presenter: Andrew Strominger, Harvard University
- Host: Oliver DeWolfe
- Abstract: In the twentieth century, many problems across all of physics were solved by perturbative methods which reduced them to harmonic oscillators. Black holes are poised to play a similar role for the problems of twenty-first century physics. They are at once the simplest and most complex objects in the physical universe. They are maximally complex in that the number of possible microstates, or entropy, of a black hole is believed to saturate a universal bound. They are maximally simple in that, according to Einstein's theory, they are featureless holes in space characterized only by their mass, charge and angular momentum. This dual relation between simplicity and complexity, as expressed in black holes, has recently been successfully applied to problems in a disparate variety of physical systems. I will give an introduction to the subject intended for a general audience.
October 30 — "Assessing the Cumulative Impact of Humans on the Landscape"
- Presenter: James Syvitski, University of Colorado Boulder
- Host: Tobin Munsat
Abstract: Humans are changing the Earth's biophysical system — atmospheric and ocean climatology and chemistry, extent of snow cover, permafrost and sea-ice, glacier, ice-sheet and ocean volume, and indeed the hydrological cycle. Some changes are truly global, represented by similar temporal trends — atmospheric greenhouse gases, global surface temperatures, nitrogen fluxes to the coastal zone, and species extinctions.
Striking is the extent and rate at which humans have modified Earth's land surface; as just one example, humans are now the largest force in the movement of sediment — greater than ice, wind and water. The traces of humanity (e.g. petroleum wells, geotechnical boreholes, mining-exploration holes, and deep-water wells) will last millions of years. Historical deforestation and land clearing have greatly impacted soil erosion, hill slope failure and downstream sedimentation.
In this talk, I will discuss how, by any measure, we have entered a new geological era (labeled the Anthropocene), unique to the history of our planet. Some of these changes have crept up on us; others have gone unrecognized until recently. Global sustainability involves facing our risks both global and local and aligning governance with stewardship.
November 6 — "Poincaré's Tangle: The Topology of Chaos in State Space"
- Presenter: Richard Kautz, NIST
- Host: David Bartlett
- Abstract: In 1889, while investigating the notorious problem of three gravitationally attracting bodies, Henri Poincaré discovered a tangled topological structure that we now recognize as the mathematical heart of chaotic motion. Poincaré would later write of his discovery, "One is struck by the complexity of this picture, which I do not even attempt to draw." Using the driven pendulum as an example and graphics as our primary tool, we will explore the topology of state space, where the trajectories of a system are visible as the streamlines of a flow. Saddle orbits within a flow are the keys to its topology and led Poincaré and his successors to understand that the trajectories of seemingly simple systems can be entwined in infinitely complex patterns. In 1960 Steve Smale introduced the horseshoe map as perhaps the simplest example of a state-space tangle and applied symbolic dynamics to demonstrate how chaos can be "as random as a series of coin flips."
November 13 — "Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein – Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe"
- Presenter: Mario Livio, Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute
- Host: Tobin Munsat
- Abstract: Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein were all brilliant scientists. Each made groundbreaking contributions to his field—but each also stumbled badly. For example, Darwin's theory of natural selection shouldn't have worked, according to the prevailing beliefs of his time. Not until Gregor Mendel's work was known would there be a mechanism to explain natural selection. How could Darwin be both wrong and right? Astrophysicist Fred Hoyle dismissed the idea of a "Big Bang" origin to the universe. And Albert Einstein, whose name is synonymous with genius, speculated incorrectly about the forces that hold the universe in equilibrium—and that speculation opened the door to brilliant conceptual leaps. These scientists expanded our knowledge of life on earth, the evolution of the earth itself, and the evolution of the universe, despite and because of their errors. In this talk, I will discuss how the scientific process advances through error. Mistakes are essential to progress.
November 20 — "Mission 'Impossible': Exploring the Properties of Hot QCD Matter"
- Presenter: Berndt Mueller, Duke University
- Host: Paul Romatschke
- Abstract: This lecture presents an overview of the status of the investigation of the properties of the quark-gluon plasma using relativistic heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). My lecture will focus on the insights that have been gained to date by the comparison experimental data from both facilities with theoretical calculations, highlight some of the present challenges, and end with an outlook on the experimental investigations that are planned for the next decade.
November 27 — Fall Break; No Colloquium
December 4 — "The National Solar Observatory — The Coming Decade of Discovery"
- Presenter: Mark Rast, LASP, University of Colorado Boulder
- Host: Tobin Munsat
- Abstract: The move of the headquarters of the National Solar Observatory to the Boulder campus is underway, as is the construction of the four meter Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST). This talk will focus on how these events promise, over the coming years, to transform solar physics and how it is taught at the university. The mission of the National Solar Observatory is to advance our knowledge of the Sun in the contexts of both stellar astrophysics and solar influences. The ATST will contribute by providing diffraction limited spectropolarimetric observations of the solar photosphere, chromosphere, and corona, resolving for the first time the fundamental interactions between solar magnetic fields and the dynamic plasma on scales below 0.1 arcsec. The aim is to elucidate the magnetohydrodynamic underpinnings of the solar dynamo as well as the reconfiguration of magnetic fields during flare and coronal mass ejection events. Since research in solar physics requires a knowledge base that is both wide-ranging and carefully focused, it poses challenges to effective graduate education. We will describe these and ongoing efforts to address them through a distributed program.
December 11 — "Science with 800,000 Collaborators: Tales from the Zooniverse"
- Presenter: Chris Lintott, University of Oxford, UK
- Host: Paul Romatschke
- Abstract: The Zooniverse is the world's largest and most successful scientific crowdsourcing platform, engaging more than 800,000 volunteers in tasks including classifying galaxies, discovering planets and mapping star formation in the Milky Way. This talk will present highlights from the last six years, including the serendipitous discovery of galaxy-scale light echoes, and explain how an unusual set of bulgeless spiral galaxies identified by Galaxy Zoo volunteers is informing models of galaxy formation and feedback. The talk will also set out the future for this massively distributed effort in the world of future facilities such as the LSST and SKA.
For more information about colloquia this semester, contact: Tobin Munsat.
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Apple Cranberry Chocolate Spice Bread
In celebration of all things chocolate, we're bringing you a week chock-full of recipes for your holiday table. Follow along on Pinterest and Facebook for all of our Theo-inspired dishes.
Warming spices, apples, cranberries, and pieces of rich, dark chocolate come together to create a delicious fall treat. Try our Apple Cranberry Chocolate Spice Bread as an afternoon snack with a cup of coffee or after dinner with a cup of tea.
- 1 cup applesauce
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 (1/2 cup) stick unsalted butter, softened
- ½ cup sour cream
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2 tbls pumpkin pie spice
- 1 ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 ½ cups flour
- 3oz (1 bar) Theo 70% Dark Chocolate, coarsely chopped
- ¾ cups whole berry cranberry sauce
- Preheat oven 325. Butter and flour a 9 inch loaf pan.
- In a stand mixer, combine sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, and mix thoroughly before adding vanilla, sour cream and applesauce.
- In a small bowl combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and pumpkin pie spice. With mixer on low, add flour mixture slowly until combined. Fold in chocolate.
- Pour 1/3 of batter into loaf pan. Spread cranberry sauce on top and cover with remaining 2/3 of batter.
- Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
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My girlfriend purchased some albums using the iTunes store from within her iPod touch. Sadly, she connected the iPod touch to iTunes and now the albums are gone. I have no idea what happened, maybe some sync/backup problem. Is it possible to recover those albums? Why does iTunes decides to delete purchased songs?
From Apple:
How unfortunate!
Is the purchased content still on the iPod? If so, you can just right click the iPod in iTunes and select "Transfer purchases".
Alternatively, you could try going to the Store menu in iTunes, then Check for available downloads. It's a long shot, but it might just work.
Apart from that, you don't really have any other option, apart from contacting Apple, plead your case, and just hope that they would be able to let you re-download your lost music.
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You could count on me.
If you had a cause or a problem, or even if you were the cause of a problem, I would help you with a cash bailout.
At the end of 2008, just entering my fifties, I had a solid income in the six figures and substantial seven-figure savings. I had some cash to spare. Being generous was important to me.
I gave in public ways: $5,000 to an adoption agency, to endow a scholarship for young mothers trying to remake their lives after surrendering a baby. I gave in private ways: $800 to help a newly minted couple afford the engagement ring that would prove to the bride's father it was OK to marry a boy from the projects. I gave in little ways: $60 to each of my cousin's five sons so they could buy new Razor scooters. I gave in big ways: a three-year, $70,000 project to create a tiny writers' residence for women whose work suffered because of day jobs, young children or aging parents.
Being the fairy godmother was fun. And people were grateful. I never cared to look at why I felt the need to help. I was helping. Over and over, research shows that charity isn't just good for the welfare of the receiver; it's also good for the soul of the giver.
Once I got to the stage of having some disposable income, I learned quickly how good it felt to dispose of it charitably. I was the teeniest link in a great historical chain, part of a long tradition. That place in Manhattan where everyone wants to sing would just be a big concert hall, but because it bears the name of the person whose money made it possible—Carnegie—it's Americana.
There will never be an auditorium named for me. I was never a 1-percenter by any means, not even at my flush finest. If I had to guess, I was about a 14-percenter, someone whose hard work as an author and a journalist had paid off rather handsomely. Though my house at one point was worth $2 million, my husband had built it with his own hands. The contrast with my youth was striking. I'd grown up in an apartment where there was just enough to go around, a blue-collar kid who dreamed of another life and then, in 1993, was left a widow in her late thirties with three young boys and no life insurance. When success came, money made me feel lucky and powerful and safe.
Giving was also practical for a selfish reason: It protected my time, with which I was downright miserly. Even with my children—through birth and adoption, my second husband and I ended up with nine—I frequently folded time alone with daughters or sons into a business trip. Still, I floated on the cloud of my reputation as a generous being.
Then, in 2007, my husband invested with a Minneapolis con man no one had ever heard of. Trevor Cook knew just what to say: not that we'd quintuple our savings, only that we might keep a little less from washing away in the hard rain that was sure to fall on our economy. One afternoon in 2009, we got the phone call from my then assistant, who had opened my bank statement. We still had plenty of bank accounts, but there was nothing in any of them—no trace of the seven figures we'd worked (and scrimped) to save. We didn't have time to apply for the college kids' student loans and so plummeted into debt to keep them in school.
From that stone hurled at the windshield radiated big cracks in our lives, but we had to patch up somehow and stay on the road.
My husband, who had been a stay-at-home parent for several years, went to work as a carpenter, then was injured and for months couldn't decide on a new direction to take professionally. We fell further behind. Then we lost our home. People weren't buying books the way they had in the years before there were 700 TV channels, and so authors weren't being paid what they once were. It was nearly a year of sheer bewilderment before I could even write anything meaningful anyway.
After the first-wave shock subsided, two things about giving became clear to me: It hurt that I couldn't be generous anymore in a way I'd come to rely on for making myself feel good. And it hurt that the very individuals I'd helped weren't now generous toward me.


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The least amount of rainfall occurs in August. The average in this month is 5 mm. Most precipitation falls in May, with an average of 54 mm.
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The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 24.7 °C. In January, the average temperature is -1.5 °C. It is the lowest average temperature of the whole year.
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The variation in the precipitation between the driest and wettest months is 49 mm. The average temperatures vary during the year by 26.2 °C.


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Release Date: 1989-05-19 (Nationwide)
Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama
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Duration: 1hr 54min
A cool-headed bouncer (with an NYU philosphy degree and a gift for martial arts) is hired to calm an extra-rowdy midwestern tavern. Along the way, he falls in love with a beautiful doctor and runs up against the local kingpin.
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Celebrating Culture & Community is putting together interviews of 25
El Cerrito residents, a project aimed at showing the diverse communities that
have contributed to the city's history.
The interviews have been made possible largely through support from the
California Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment
for the Humanities.
For more information about Celebrating Culture & Community , contact
Eve Ma at 236-3255 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Following is one of the interviews:
Interview with Vera Shadi, 11/13/99
Interviewer: Robin DeLugan
Vera Shadi was born in El Cerrito in 1944. At the age of 19 she left
to explore other parts of the country, but she returned to El Cerrito
in 1997. She is now a realtor, a musician--a composer of classical music,
and a substitute teacher. She is also working on renewing her teaching
The El Cerrito of Vera's childhood was very different than today. She
notes in particular that everywhere there were unobstructed panoramic
views of Oakland, San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge and Marin. There
were few trees, and the trees that did exist 50 years ago were small.
The wind would come off of the Bay and make the air so fresh. There was
an openness to El Cerrito that no longer exists now that non-native trees
have grown so tall as to dwarf houses and block views.
Vera characterizes El Cerrito as always being of three blended economic
classes from middle to upper middle. But today she says that the spread
is much wider, that there is much more diversity now all around.
El Cerrito is a "city of homes" more than it is known for having a business
life. She says that the importance of El Cerrito to the Bay Area is its
proximity to San Francisco. For this reason, the property values will
always be high.
Vera shops in El Cerrito whenever possible. For relaxation she likes
to go to the countryside and to visit valley towns like Tracy. For socializing
Vera spends her time in El Cerrito and in San Francisco.
There is no city, nor any place in El Cerrito where Vera doesn't feel
comfortable going.
She jokes "Realtors go everywhere!"
Vera thinks that El Cerrito has an identity of "City of Homes" and that
it is trying to look outside for its future identity, i.e. drawing a major
chain store to the Plaza. Instead Vera suggests that El Cerrito looks
to its own history and unique beauty and expand the city's identity to
"City of Homes, Views, and Flowers". By promoting and turning attention
towards restoring the natural beauty of the area, El Cerrito could forge
a truly unique identity.
What Vera likes best about El Cerrito is the weather, the views of San
Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge, and that it is mostly comprised
of homes, wonderful homes.
What she likes least: Trees blocking the views, especially the non-native
With a magic wand, Vera would knock all of the big trees down and restore
the views.
Vera while definitely aware of her Indian cultural history identifies
as an American, "an American with a twist".
Vera's mother was from Los Angeles, California and her father was from
India. Her father, Sundar Shadi, was one of the first non-European immigrants
to the area. He immigrated by boat at the age of 21. He received agricultural
degrees at the University of California: Berkeley. He and Vera's mother
built their house on the Arlington in 1937.
Vera and her two sisters were some of the first ethnically mixed children
in El Cerrito (or as she refers to it: "American with a twist"). She says
that because of discrimination her father found it difficult to secure
work. She also remembers that because of her darker coloring, people treated
her differently and that she sometimes felt like she didn't fit in. Her
father was of the Sikh community in India, but Vera says that there was
only a very small number of Sikhs in the Bay area when she was growing
up. She jokes that sometimes all of them would be in her family's home
at the same time, and that they would all fit into a single room.
The most memorable people in Vera's childhood were her parents. Her father,
in particular, became well known for two of his creative ventures. He
set up an elaborate Christmas display every year to which people came
from all over to visit. When asked how he got started, Vera quips…"My
mother tried to give him something to do, to get him out of the house."
It all started with her mother's suggestion that they put up a large star
visible from San Pablo Avenue, so that people could "follow the star"
(just as the Wise Men did in the biblical story). After that they decided
that they needed Wise Men, sheep, and soon the whole town of Bethlehem!"
Every year, little by little, the Christmas display grew. On Christmas
Eve in 1984, ABC's World News Tonight did a feature about the Christmas
display. At the age of 97 her father finally stopped putting up his annual
display. While the community loved the display, while growing up, Vera
and her sisters felt embarrassed by the elaborate display that her parents
put up every year.
Beginning in 1950, Vera's father began growing a garden of flowers on
his Arlington Street property. Every year it grew larger and more beautiful,
attracting attention and visitors (even tour buses) from all around. I
asked what motivated him. She said that "He was a farmer in India and
was still a farmer at heart. He came from the poorest of countries and
because he was so grateful to be in this country, he wanted to make a
beautiful spot!" Because of his advanced age, he no longer maintains the
flower garden. Vera does have some beautiful photographs of the garden
and of her father in the garden.
Sundar Shadi was also involved in community events. For approximately
22 years in the 1950's - 1970's he was chair and organizer of an annual
United Nation's Day Celebration.
In the programs for this celebration music and dance traditions from
nation's around the world were showcased. Vera showed me a program from
1976 United Nation's Day Celebration which was held at Harding School.
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Ever have a "senior moment?" Or forget a name during the course of an introduction? Or recall a moment so vividly that it seems to be happening before your eyes?
It is, in a way. That was one of many neuroscience insights Dr. Apostolos Georgopoulos provided his audience at the Humanists of Minnesota monthly chapter meeting at the Field Community School on February 15, 2014. His presentation, "Brain Resilience and Emotional Trauma," related his basic research discoveries about why Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is such a difficult malady for sufferers to overcome.
Calling the brain a resilient and "massively interacting organ," he said its function is "nothing else than a control station" to "keep the homeostasis of the body" (maintain internal stability) and "adapt to the environment." Though its 100 million neurons accomplish these tasks in numerous ways, he likened brain activity to "a network" of countries on earth where people in the United States, for example, are connected to people in China and could communicate with them should they choose to do so.
Like groups of people in a communications network, groups of neurons (neural networks) in an individual brain "talk" or correlate with each other continually. They also end such conversations or de-correlate so new connections can occur and more information can be accessed for further processing (action) or retained for storage (memory).
Where healthy brains can perform these functions again and again, the physically traumatized brains of people with conditions such as PTSD remain "stuck," that is, they fail to de-correlate from the traumatizing experience. In fact, the neuronal message becomes stronger over time as the internal communication becomes a permanent memory trace that is relived again and again.
For healthy individuals, such basic research helps explain why people forget or why some memories are so persistent. For Dr. Georgopoulos it explains that:
- Brain function is the communication among neural ensembles
- Alterations in brain function should be reflected in disturbed communication
- Disturbed communication can be informative about disordered brain function.
For neuroscientists and biomedical specialists, it explains how brain signals can be made to drive prosthetic limbs, i.e. neuroprosthetics.
Dr. Georgopoulos takes pride in the practical results derived from his basic research. "If it works, it's worth it," he says. Much remains, however, that researchers still do not know, such as why some people are more sensitive to neural trauma than others. Though his lecture may have contained some off-putting jargon, its message overall was that one day trauma from PTSD and other brain disfunctions may be no more harmful than a Baby Boomer forgetting the name of his wife.


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The New Orleans Saints will take this entire bye week off from practicing - a routine that has paid great dividends since they started it in 2009. Up until then, the Saints were 0-3 following regular-season bye weeks under Coach Sean Payton. Since then, they've been 2-0.
From 2006-08, the Saints would practice for a few days during the bye week before giving players an extended weekend off. But after those early struggles, Payton turned to Philadelphia Eagles Coach Andy Reid for advice. Reid's Eagles have gone a remarkable 13-0 following regular-season bye weeks since he took over in 1999.
"You call around and try to find out what guys do," said Payton, who admitted that it's hard to part ways for such a long stretch during the season. "But after 10 weeks, it can be a break both physically as well as mentally."
Quarterback Drew Brees said he has changed his personal approach to the bye week over the years as well. In the past, Brees might be found on the Saints' practice field on the "off" Sunday, simulating an entire game.
"I think I've evolved, especially now with kids and responsibilities," said Brees, 32. "I definitely think it's healthy to get away and give your mind a rest ... but not too far away. I'm still playing some parts of the Atlanta game over in my mind and thinking ahead to the Giants game (in Week 12). And I'll be watching the games Sunday. I can't help myself.
"But physically, mentally, emotionally, psychologically, you do need a little opportunity to relax, get away and recharge, because it's a grind."
Third-year safety Malcolm Jenkins agreed that there is a balance, though he said, "I'm kind of a workaholic."
"I'm still in town and will be here 'til Friday. I will hang around, and I'm still watching some film on the Giants and things like that," Jenkins said. "I will get up to (alma mater) Ohio State this weekend to check out their game against Penn State. But it's still a crucial part of the season. It's not the time to take completely off. We have to continue to get better so that process continues through the bye week. It may not be as intense but I will check out some film and see what's going on."


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EUGENE, Ore.- The University of Oregon acrobatics and tumbling squad (3-0) looks to extend their five-match winning streak, dating back to last season in a quad meet with Maryland, Quinnipiac and Fairmont State on Saturday at 5 p.m. (PT).
In addition to head coach Felecia Mulkey and assistant coach Angela Ucci having Georgia ties due to their involvement with the Kennesaw State program, Saturday's meet serves as a homecoming for two Ducks as senior Katie Browning and freshman Miranda Merkison make the trek back to The Peach State.
In the Ducks' last meet, they rolled over Baylor, 287.115-267.220 on Mar. 4 at Matthew Knight Arena. With the victory, UO remains perfect at home. The last time the Ducks were defeated in any meet was at Maryland on April 9 heading into the NCATA Championship, setting up a nice rematch between the two squads.
Against the Bears on Senior Day at MKA, Oregon was nothing short of impressive as they pulled out four perfect scores in the compulsory pyramid and toss and in two heats of the pyramid.
The Ducks set new season highs in 15 of its 20 events.
Maryland is coming off a 290.560 to 283.00 win over Quinnipiac on Mar. 9 while Fairmont State split with Baylor and Quinnipiac on Mar. 11.
UO heads into the quad meet sitting in the top three in relatively every category, if not tied for the top spot.
The recently high scores, head coach Felecia Mulkey attributes to setting higher start values and the hard work that her student-athletes are putting into focusing on the routines all in preparation to defend their national title starting Apr. 26 in Waco, Texas on the campus of Baylor University.
Check back on www.GoDucks.com for the latest news, scores and information on the Ducks and check www.theNCATA.org for the latest information on the sport of acrobatics and tumbling.
Follow the action from Oregon's first meet of the season via twitter (@OregonAcroTumb) and on facebook.
After a full season of competing in an adapted format, a detailed description of the new acrobatics and tumbling meet and scoring format is available on GoDucks.com.
On Nov. 16, 2011, the NCATA announced the addition of Plymouth State and UMass-Dartmouth. Both teams begin competition during the 2012-13 season. Also joining will be Alderson-Broaddus College. Alderson-Broaddus is a Division II school from the WVIAC Conference. They are the second school in this conference to sponsor this sport at the Varsity Level. Fairmont State is the other.
Head coach Felecia Mulkey signed five new Ducks during the early signing period in November. Biographical information on all five can be found below:
Shelby Armstrong ● 5-2 ● Base
Caddo Mills, Texas/Bishop Lynch High School
High School/Club: Joins Oregon after achieving All-American, National Champion and World Champion accolades with the Cheer Athletics Panthers...involved off the mat with the Invisible Children Club, which fundraises to help stop the kidnappings of children to be trained as soldiers in Uganda and other parts of Africa.
Personal: Born on December 4 to Greg and Scherry Armstrong...has one brother, Justin.
Mulkey on Armstrong: "Shelby is a strong base with potential to grow into a powerhouse in that position. She is a talented tumbler that can execute any pass thrown her way. Shelby had her pick of college opportunities and we are happy that she chose to be a Duck."
Colleen Curry ● 5-4 ● Base
Temecula, Calif./Great Oak High School
High School/Club: Active with the Red Wave Club, which is a school spirit based organization...part of the California All-Stars.
Personal : Born on January 5 to Tom and Nancy Curry...has two sisters, Cambria and Carly.
Mulkey on Curry: "Colleen is a versatile athlete that will be beneficial as a base and second-level flyer. She is a solid tumbler with the potential to add many elite passes to her arsenal. Colleen impressed me during the recruiting process with her willingness and ability to learn new skills. I feel confident that she will lead by example within our program."
Paris Duhamel ● 5-8 ● Back Base
Centennial, Colo./Arapahoe High School
High School/Club: Twice made it to the high school state championships, capturing the title in 2009 after finishing runner up in 2008...honor roll recipient that was named most valuable by cheerleading squad last season... qualified for the 2008 World Championships with the Peak Athletics Tigers and posted a top-15 finish...has had success in track and field, earning third place in the 5A State Championships in the pole vault and second place on the 4x100 relay squad last season...was tabbed most valuable by track and field team in 2011 and had several scholarship offers in the sport...off the mat, stays heavily involved with special education children and started a cheerleading program focused on them in Centennial.
Personal: Daughter of Dawn and Bobby Duhamel, born on June 12...has two sisters, Monet and Cecelia.
Mulkey on Duhamel: "Paris is an all around athlete, her background in track and field will help her transition into a collegiate A & T back base. Her height and upper body strength needed for pole vault is essential for the back position. Paris' technique and attention to detail will play right into our scoring system."
Alexis McCallister ● 5-1 ● Base
Kennewick, Wash./Kamiakin High School
High School/Club: Cheers competitively at Elite Force Cheer...earned national championships in 2010 and 2011 in the stunts...captured Level Four Coed National Championship this past year.
Personal: Daughter of Todd and Rachelle McCallister...born on September 30...has a brother Luke and sister, Olivia.
Mulkey on McCallister: "Alexis is a solid base with elite tumbling skills. Her mindset is exactly what we look for within our program and her work ethic is unmatched. Every team needs an athlete like Alexis and we are happy that she decided to be a Duck."
Chandler White ● 5-2 ● Flyer
Valencia, Calif./Hart High School
High School/Club: Won 2009 Large Varsity Advanced championship at USA Nationals, in addition to winning the Aloha Spirit International competition in Hawaii during the same year with Hart High School...began cheerleading and gymnastics career at GymCheerUSA and with the CA Flyers...won the Cheersport Nationals in 2008 with CA Flyers and finished in the top 30 at the World Championships...finished third in the state on the bars in level five competition and notched a 36 in the all-around portion...maintains a 3.53 GPA.
Personal: Born on November 8 to David and Susan White...has two brothers, Christopher and Chase and two sisters, Chelsea and Chloe...sister, Chelsea is a senior on the team.
Mulkey on White: "We looked for one flyer from across the nation this year...and it was Chandler White. Her balance, flexibility and air awareness make her a valuable asset in that position. Her tumbling skills match, if not surpass her flying ability. We are excited to get her on campus."


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What she does: Makes theater backdrop and props
What her business brought in: $6.9 million
Megan Duckett always loved the stage. Growing up in Australia, she performed as a dancer, cellist and singer. When she got to high school and had to do a "work-experience program" for two weeks, she applied to theaters and was accepted by Melbourne's Victorian Arts Centre. But not to perform—to take care of the lighting. "In those 10 days, I became absolutely hooked on the technical side of theater," she says.
After graduating from high school, Duckett decided against college and started working as a freelance lighting technician. "I worked very hard: a day shift here, a night shift there, loading out at 3 in the morning," she says. She picked up occasional jobs for bands on tour and loved it, so at age 19 she moved to the U.S. to specialize in rock and roll. Through contacts she'd made with bands visiting Australia, she got work right away. She lived on cigarettes and peanut butter, and once even made her home on a band bus. Then, in 1992, when she was 21, she got a request from a company that provided Halloween-type supplies to the entertainment industry: dress up 10 coffins to look like Dracula beds for a haunted house.
The only problem? Duckett didn't know how to sew. "I wasn't even interested," she says. "But there was $100 per coffin on the table if I did it, and there were 10 coffins! So I rented a sewing machine for $75. I got myself a staple gun and a glue gun. Then I bought these silks and satins, and I created glamorous coffins and netted about $500."
The coffins were a huge hit, which started Duckett on what she first called her kitchen business and then, as it grew, her living-room-floor business: doing odd crafts projects for friends and clients who just seemed to find her. By then, Duckett had given up rock shows and was working in event planning. But she spent her weekends making costumes for children, crib sets for infants, window draperies, textile stage props for local theaters and even Christmas table linens. One night in 1997, the year after she married Adam Duckett, a roadie for Van Halen and Depeche Mode, the couple were doing their taxes. "Adam said, 'Well, this is nuts!' " she remembers. " 'You made more money with your weekender than you did at your day job.' " Sure enough, Duckett's records showed that she'd earned about $40,000 at her day job and slightly more on her crafts.
Duckett quit the events company. A month later, she incorporated Sew What? (sewwhatinc.com) and started working out of the cheapest space she could rent—a $1,000-per-month warehouse at the Torrance Airport, about 12 miles from her home in Redondo Beach, California. On big projects she hired friends as temporary assistants. "We made a little profit off every job, and I used that money to invest in the business and live," Duckett says. "I didn't know that most people get bank loans, investors or equity partners. It's been self-funded, organic growth, which gave me a lot of freedom."
In 2002 her husband became the CFO of Sew What?, and the company's projects have steadily grown bigger and more complex; they include fabric chandeliers for a New Year's Eve party at the Las Vegas Mirage Hotel/Casino, the world's largest beach towel (at the time) for a Nabisco promotion and an enormous backdrop of the Stewart family tartan for a Rod Stewart concert. In 2012 her revenue was about $5.4 million.
But she says her business has changed over the past few years. "We don't talk about a bad economy, but we do talk about new buyer behavior," she says. "A lot of buyers now wait until the last minute. They shop around more. They are more price conscious." So Duckett opened a business called Rent What?, which she now co-owns with her husband. "We keep an inventory of commonly used items, such as black stage drapes, to rent out," she says. In 2012, Rent What? brought in $1.5 million.
Today, Sew What? and Rent What? together employ about 35 people. But Duckett does not spend all her time supervising and sewing. In 2010, shortly after she turned 40, she decided to return to her first love, performing. She is now the lead singer for a rock band, Without Warning. "I never really even considered owning a business," she says. "Then I came here, and suddenly I started doing it. What is best is that I'm doing it in an industry I love."
What she does: Makes beauty creams and hair products
What her business brought in: $35 million
While other young people in the '80s were skateboarding and playing Atari, Lisa Price was making fragrances. "I had heard that Prince would custom blend his own scents," she says. "That became my inspiration." By the time she was in her early twenties, Price was mixing oils and scents into lotions and creams and puzzling out how to keep her compounds stable. In 1991, the year she got married, she was working on body butters. Just as other women might make presents of cookies, Price would give her products to friends and family. One day her mom, Carol, suggested that Price try to sell the products at the weekend flea market held at a church near their home in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
"I really looked at that first flea market in 1993 as a day out with my family," Price says now. "At the time, my uncle was making and selling T-shirts. A cousin was on strike from her job with the phone company, and she was selling silk floral arrangements." But then Price, who worked as a freelance television production assistant, sold all her butters. She'd made about $20 more than her initial investment of $100, so she decided to mix another batch for an upcoming crafts fair.
Through the summer, Price kept selling her products, rolling the money she made back into the business. When the weather turned colder, she invited people into her home to buy her quickly expanding line, which she named Carol's Daughter (carolsdaughter.com). Her customers were enthusiastic about her body products, but they were begging for help with their hair. "In the early 1990s, some African-American women decided to stop relaxing their hair and go natural," Price says. "And they needed products to deal with this new hair." Price experimented with different recipes, then did her own form of testing. "I'd send samples to hairdressers I knew, to try out on themselves and their friends," she remembers. "They'd say, 'Oh, could be a little bit more moisturizing.' Or 'Less oil.'"
The business grew steadily for three years. When Price gave birth to her first child, in 1996, her line was making enough money that she could afford to leave her job to stay home with her son (her husband also works in television). Then, in 1997, when Price was in the hospital giving birth to her second son, an article about her products appeared in Essence. "My husband told me, 'The phone has really been ringing a lot,'" she says. "I checked the messages. There were 67 new ones! It got to the point where we had to tag team each other every two hours to check the machine." In two weeks, the company's mailing list went from about 1,500 customers to 6,000. The next year, Price began to pay herself a salary and hire her first employees, and by the end of 1999, the company was bringing in about $1 million in sales.
It sounds magical, but Price says the rapid growth was a nightmare. "We were producing more than 1,000 products, which is insane," she says. "We were operating without sales data, and I was afraid to take away something a customer might want. And we were making everything ourselves in our own basement. Seriously." In 1999, Price and her husband emptied their savings account to finance a $3,500-a-month lease on a storefront in Brooklyn. Price didn't move production to a warehouse facility until 2002, shortly after she appeared on Oprah.
Though Carol's Daughter had become bigger than Price ever dreamed, by industry standards it was still a small, indie beauty brand. She wanted to make it major, and just when she thought she'd never figure out how, Price got a call from Steve Stoute, best known for producing albums by U2, Eve and Eminem. Stoute had a lot of friends who used Carol's Daughter products, and many of them traveled to the Brooklyn store to purchase them. Price remembers that Stoute was incredulous. "He said to his friends, 'You go all the way to Brooklyn to buy that stuff?' " she says.
In 2004, Stoute and Price became partners. The next year, they put together a group of celebrity investors, including Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith, Mary J. Blige and Jay-Z. Today the line, pared down to 75 products, is carried in the company's seven retail stores around the country, as well as at Sephora, Dillard's and Macy's; it's also sold on HSN and on military bases. This spring the company opened its first salons, called Mirror—The Hair Salon at Carol's Daughter, in Harlem and Atlanta. In 2012, revenue was $35 million.
Price, who has just turned 51, thinks there are many keys to being a successful entrepreneur. First are traits you always hear about, like passion, tenacity and hard work. But there is another that has been essential to her success: openness to change. "You're always growing," she says. "It's not that you're not satisfied and that you're not proud of what you accomplish. You take that moment to say, 'That was great.' But then it is, 'What's next?' Because if you stand still too long, you get run over."
What She Does: Makes "Personal Item" Exercise Belts
What Her Business Brought In: $4.8 Million
In her twenties, Kim Overton was living in New York, tending bar while she studied jazz vocal performance, when a friend at one of the joints where she worked got her into website development. Very quickly, Overton started earning more than twice as much as she had mixing drinks. In 1998 she cofounded her own tech/Web company, and about a year later, a huge advertising company recruited her, with an annual salary of about $90,000. But then came the terrorist attacks of September 11. "I was riding my bike over the Brooklyn Bridge and saw the second plane hit the World Trade Center," Overton says. "It was a big, life-changing experience. All of a sudden, there was nothing in my heart that really loved developing websites."
Laid off a few months later as New York's economy struggled, Overton found that only one thing lifted her spirits: exercise. "Staying in shape was a passion of mine," she says. "But when my roommate suggested I become a personal trainer, I dismissed it as a joke." As Overton's unemployment benefits ran out, however, she had no choice. "I gave it a shot," she says. "It was humbling. I made $8 an hour when I was first hired at a gym. But I would chat with people, and I was a natural. I very quickly started making around $75 a session."
A few years later—after an adventure abroad and a broken engagement—Overton returned to her home state of Texas. There she got another lesson in humility. "I was 35, had only $5,000 in savings, was living with my grandparents in Austin and was starting at the bottom at another gym," she says. But again she quickly built a large customer base. She launched a website and produced a DVD called Love Your Legs.
One Sunday, Overton was out on a run, dreaming up ways to promote her DVD, when her car key, which she'd stuck in her bra top, began irritating her skin. "I thought, Gosh, I need a little belt to hold my keys," she says. "From the trail I went to the hobby store. I spent about $30 and got materials. I handsewed a few belts and wore one to the gym that Monday. My clients were like, 'That's cool! What is that?'"
Overton hadn't named her product yet. It was like a fanny pack but narrower, slender enough to fit through belt loops but expandable enough to hold a cell phone, keys and money. Overton polled her clients for ideas on what to call it and how much to charge and settled on SPIbelt, short for Small Personal Item belt, and $20. After creating 10 prototypes by hand, she spent $100 on a sewing machine, which she set up on a table in her grandmother's house. Just a few months later, in January 2007, a client introduced her to the owner of a running store, who asked if she could make 500 SPIbelts before the Austin marathon.
"Of course!" Overton answered.
The store owner sold 150 belts at the race—pulling in $1,500 for Overton. She quit her job and started attending trade shows, steadily accumulating orders and, with the profit, hiring sales reps. Today, SPIbelts are staples at America's biggest sporting-goods retailers, including REI and Eastern Mountain Sports. In 2007, SPIbelt's first year of operations, Overton grossed $150,000. In 2012 that number was $4.8 million, putting SPIbelt on Inc.'s list of America's 500 fastest-growing companies. "I did not bring on outside investors, and I did not take on debt," she says. "I moved the work out of my home to a 3,100-square-foot office space, and I have about 15 employees, depending on the season. But I still help design the products."
Three years ago, when Overton was 39, she became a single parent when she gave birth to her son, Dylan. "This business has been a blessing," she says. "I am grateful on a daily basis. It has allowed me to do the one thing I always wanted: be a mom."
What she does: Runs a chain of swim schools
What her business brought in: $1 million
As a girl in England, Rita Goldberg was a nationally ranked swimmer, but back then it didn't occur to her that she could turn that passion into a business. At 32, she agreed to teach a swim class at a Manchester pool only because it wouldn't interfere with her responsibilities as a wife and mother. "But I got back in shape, and I loved it," Goldberg says. After earning her teaching certificate, Goldberg was tapped for a position with the Manchester Education Department—a job she found satisfying until she visited an acquaintance at the house he'd bought in the country. "He'd installed a pool in his home's garage and started giving lessons," Goldberg remembers. She peered at the chlorinated water and had an epiphany. "I knew just what I wanted: to open a real swim school."
She went home and told her husband, who worked selling window shades and draperies. "He was having a terrible time of it because England was in a horrible recession," she says. "Still, he said OK." A year-round swim school in England required an indoor pool, and the only way Goldberg could afford to build one was by selling her family's home. So she did. "I found the perfect spot for the school: a derelict three-story Victorian big enough for my family to live and with a basement big enough for a pool," she says. That place cost every penny she'd made from the sale of her house—and she still needed a loan for renovations. Every local bank turned her down.
Then Goldberg heard about a TV show called Enterprise 80. "You had to submit business plans and explain why you should be given money," she says. "I made the top 20—and for that I got a loan guarantee of £10,000," which would be roughly $70,000 today. The school opened on a snowy March day with 120 children. Goldberg taught what was then a new and surprising concept: that toddlers could be trained to float on their backs if they got into trouble in the water. "We grossed about $60,000 that first year," she says. "The next year we doubled that, and for the next decade we earned about $250,000 a year. I'm still extremely proud of that business. It changed me. I had never been without confidence, but after making that business work, I had a lot more of it. I could make decisions, then deal with their consequences."
In 1991, Goldberg filed for divorce. "We'd been together many years, and our time was over," she says. She walked away from the business, which she co-owned with her husband, and moved in with her sister in Miami. "I put an ocean between me and my entire past," Goldberg says. "I had less than $3,000. You know . . . women, guilt. I don't know why we do these things to ourselves. But I did." With no means of buying or building a pool, Goldberg knocked on doors at fitness centers in southern Florida, offering to teach her technique in their pools. A club in Coral Springs said yes, charging her 10 percent of her gross for the use of their facility, and in February 1992 she opened the British Swim School (britishswimschool.com) with 17 pupils.
Then, through friends of friends, Goldberg met two investors, and in 1995 they put down $200,000 to build a pool in a shopping center. In its first year, the school grossed $250,000, and the group decided to open a second site. But as they were about to break ground, disagreements exploded, and the investors pulled out. "I had contractors and builders on their way," Goldberg recalls. "So I paid for everything with some savings and credit cards—$60,000."
She paid off her debt within 12 months. And exactly 20 years after she opened her first British Swim School in the U.S., she began franchising her business. Today she owns four indoor schools in Florida and 13 franchises in four states. The four schools that Goldberg owns outright earned about $1 million in 2012. "Young people who love to teach don't know that there is a way to own a swim school in which you can make a very nice living," Goldberg says. "I'm very glad I worked so hard to get from a swimsuit to a business suit!"
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- From the Editors
The Changing Face of Scientific and Engineering Computing15(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2013.132View Description Hide Description
One of the magazine's associate editors in chief discusses the field.
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Books15(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2013.117View Description Hide Description
In the first book review, Matthias Troyer provides an overview and review of Lance Fortnow's book, The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible. In the second book review, Maggie Cox, Jordan Cox, and Anne J. Cox provide an overview and review of two books that help kids learn computer programming: Super Scratch Programming Adventure and Python for Kids.
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Exascale Computing15(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2013.122View Description Hide Description
The guest editors discuss some recent advances in exascale computing, as well as remaining issues.
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Exascale Computing Trends: Adjusting to the "New Normal" for Computer Architecture15(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2013.95View Description Hide Description
We now have 20 years of data under our belt about the performance of supercomputers against at least a single floating-point benchmark from dense linear algebra. Until about 2004, a single model of parallel programming, bulk synchronous using the MPI model, was sufficient to permit translation into reasonable parallel programs for more complex applications. Starting in 2004, however, a confluence of events changed forever the architectural landscape that underpinned MPI. The first half of this article goes into the underlying reasons for these changes, and what they mean for system architectures. The second half then addresses the view going forward in terms of our standard scaling models and their profound implications for future programming and algorithm design.
Programming for Exascale Computers15(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2013.96View Description Hide Description
Exascale systems will present programmers with many challenges. The authors review the parallel programming models that are appropriate for such systems and the challenges that implementations of those models face in an exascale system. They also discuss the feasibility of using existing programming systems, thus preserving the investment in legacy applications, as well as the benefits and likelihood of new programming models and systems.
PaRSEC: Exploiting Heterogeneity to Enhance Scalability15(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2013.98View Description Hide Description
New high-performance computing system designs with steeply escalating processor and core counts, burgeoning heterogeneity and accelerators, and increasingly unpredictable memory access times call for one or more dramatically new programming paradigms. These new approaches must react and adapt quickly to unexpected contentions and delays, and they must provide the execution environment with sufficient intelligence and flexibility to rearrange the execution to improve resource utilization. The authors present an approach based on task parallelism that reveals the application's parallelism by expressing its algorithm as a task flow. This strategy allows the algorithm to be decoupled from the data distribution and the underlying hardware, since the algorithm is entirely expressed as flows of data. This kind of layering provides a clear separation of concerns among architecture, algorithm, and data distribution. Developers benefit from this separation because they can focus solely on the algorithmic level without the constraints involved with programming for current and future hardware trends.
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Eden: Simplified Management of Atypical High-Performance Computing Jobs15(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2012.92View Description Hide Description
As multiprocessor and multicore technology becomes prevalent, shared-memory architectures with 1,024 or more processing cores are becoming available for general-purpose applications. As an early operator of such a system, the Remote Data Analysis and Visualization (RDAV) center at the University of Tennessee observed a host of user applications needing to scale up their computation by running many concurrent instances of generic codes. This isn't a typical way of using high-performance computing systems, and naive solutions supporting such needs would cause significant issues that hamper system scalability and stability. The RDAV center's Eden software package helps manage large numbers of concurrent serial jobs with high throughput for any such application. Here, the authors describe the motivation and technical nature of Eden and report representative use cases they've participated in during the past two years.
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Hard-Sphere Equations of State and Maple15(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2012.129View Description Hide Description
The hard-sphere fluid is a commonly used mechanical or thermodynamic model in physics, chemistry, and chemical engineering, with its equation of state being its most important thermodynamic property. Here, the authors present an implementation of the computer program Maple to develop an algorithm for deriving different analytical expressions for both hard-sphere and hard-disk equations of state. They use the asymptotic expansion method, which permits a great number of different expressions to be generated from knowledge of the values of a given number of virial coefficients. The Web extra contains Maple code, as mentioned in the article.
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FPGA-Based Virtual Screening Acceleration of Rigid-Molecule Docking15(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2012.88View Description Hide Description
Virtual screening is a key process used to identify the most suitable molecule combinations when developing a new drug. Molecule docking is a commonly used method to analyze molecule structures and requires computing large databases to identify possible affinities between molecules. The special-purpose, field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based Janus supercomputer accelerates the virtual screening process.
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The Software Sustainability Institute: Changing Research Software Attitudes and Practices15(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2013.133View Description Hide Description
To effect change, the Software Sustainability Institute works with researchers, developers, funders, and infrastructure providers to identify and address key issues with research software.
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- Computer Simulations
AIMS: Applying Game Technology to Advance Medical Education15(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2013.115View Description Hide Description
The Automated Intelligent Mentoring System (AIMS) takes clinical procedural skill acquisition to the next level by replacing subject matter judgment with precise measurements.
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Nasa Computational Case Study: SAR Data Processing--Ground-Range Projection15(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2013.114View Description Hide Description
Radar technology is used extensively by NASA for remote sensing of the Earth and other planetary bodies. In this case study, we learn about different computational concepts for processing radar data. In particular, we learn how to correct a slanted radar image by projecting it on the surface that was sensed by a radar instrument. The Web extra contains a Matlab data format file, as mentioned in the article.
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- Visualization Corner
Texture-Based Flow Visualization15(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2013.131View Description Hide Description
Texture-based visualization is a powerful and versatile tool for depicting steady and unsteady flow.
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- The Last Word
Blogging Scholars15(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2013.116View Description Hide Description
Columnist Charles Day discusses the ways in which scholars utilize new and traditional publications and media to relay their findings.