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Last week ten-year-old Nicholas arrived for his lesson. Before I could even say hello, he announced, "OK. I know what we need to start with."
I couldn't help smiling. This kid always has an agenda. "OK. What?"
"'Wild Rider,'" he said, citing the little Schumann piece. "Definitely, 'Wild Rider.'"
"Let's do it," I said. Clearly, we are going to waste no time with pleasantries.
Nicholas dropped his bag of music books on the floor and sat down at the piano. He proceeded to crash (there is no other word) through "Wild Rider." Upon finishing, he turned to me. "OK. I know what I need to do. Write this down. I need to work on the B section, maybe more hands alone and do some metronome. Did you write that down? OK. I know what we should do next. Scales. We didn't get to them last time and you said we should start with them. Are you ready?"
Working with this kid is not so much teaching as it is taking dictation.
Nicholas and I have been together since he was six. In the beginning, lessons looked just as one might expect. I taught stuff; he learned stuff (or at least that was the intention). We did rote pieces and worked out major and minor 5-finger positions. We drilled note flashcards and learned to recognize rhythmic patterns. Always, we talked a lot about practicing, focusing on strategies for how Nicholas should work at home. "How do you think you should practice this?" I'd ask. At first, he had no idea. Now (see above) Nicholas is full of ideas. I just need to write them down.
We have just finished the 8th week of the semester. Gulp. We have had our All Studio Rhythm & Movement Class. Two rounds of performance classes. It is only the beginning of October.
Sometimes I joke that I could disappear and this studio would continue as if nothing had happened. Kids would show up for their lessons, play their assignments, figure out how they needed to practice the next week and walk out the door, never noticing I wasn't sitting in my usual chair. Performance classes could run without me, for sure. Students are well trained to take off their shoes, use the hand sanitizer and bring in the chairs that are otherwise scattered around the house. They bring their highly "researched" (thank you, Google) 5 Fun Facts. Recently, we learned that an arabesque is a form of Islamic architecture and an etude has lots of arpeggios (I questioned the latter, to no avail.). Edvard Grieg was a Norwegian composer and Bruce Berr "is" a PhD (fascinating stuff, all of it.). The students know to state their performance goals before they play. I particularly like the performance goals the little ones come up with: "I am going to freeze on the last note and put my hands in my lap." "I am going to remember to play loud." "I am going to play with both hands." Sometimes playing "with both hands" is all I can manage too. "Good goal," I tell them. "Good performance goal."
My performance goals these days? To pay attention to all the smallest details of my life and to take dictation. To notice the scent of roasting green chile all over town, the smell that will forever signal the beginning of autumn in New Mexico. To note that when I stepped out the door this morning on my way to the pool, I could almost taste the temperature dropping and the summer's relentless heat giving up its grip. There are exactly 17 yellow leaves on the tree across the street, the one I see all day through the window from my perch on the piano bench. I have (or so a Little One announced to me) 15 pumpkins scattered around the house and garden, like Easter eggs waiting to be found. Poet Mary Oliver said, "To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."
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How can you create new ideas and produce new knowledge in the absence of academic freedom, political education and right to association?
There is a grand plan made somewhere we don't know, and everything is turning out as planned. The universities today are the mirror image of that plan. And so are political parties, parliaments, media. Actually the entire society. If you're lucky, you can write and print reams of papers questioning the grand plan or the self-destructive tendencies of the mighty planners. However, for the moment, the plan seems rock solid.
Ideally speaking, the purpose of all education must be to prepare the students to deal with life, people and problems. But, in a university, the level of that preparation is raised. Here, the education happens as much in the classroom as outside -- through co-curricular activities, in conversations and debates, in developing a questioning mind and critical thinking, through protests, in organisation, in dispute resolution through peaceful means.
Of course, universities are places where new ideas, knowledge and research are created. But how is that possible in the absence of academic freedom, political education and right to association?
There is clearly something amiss in our idea of a university in a plan that prioritises economics over socio-politics. In this plan, a university is conceived as a degree-awarding institution, where students learn their lessons in a conflict-free environment, enter the job market and continue their lives as law-abiding responsible citizens.
In a free market economy, where the private sector is a major stakeholder in the business, the class bias is all too apparent, and marginalises a big section of this huge demographic called youth. The lack of opportunity is now institutionalised. Thus, it suits everyone to create and perpetuate an atmosphere of fear and silence. The university students must therefore sign undertakings at the time of admission that they would not indulge in any political activity. Even when student unions are banned in this country.
All of this has been said before, and everyone seems happy about it. Talk to the people around, the people living in the same middle class bubble as you, and they will tell you what an ideal world this is, compared to the violent 1980s when the universities stayed closed for months and years.
Beyond the middle class bubble though, the world is not so ideal, not even for the classes that claim it as ideal. Student unions as "nurseries of leadership" may sound like a cliché but the truth is that the grand scheme also creates a semblance of democracy. This scheme stops students from organising themselves as students but expects them to vote for future parliaments as soon as they turn eighteen.
At the university, these same students who are eligible to vote in a prime minister are not given a voice, any voice: they can't say a thing about their own problems, let alone resolve them, question the quality of education and services provided to them, hold the private and public university administration to account or object to fee hikes -- all legitimate concerns that go a long way in helping them evolve into thinking citizens if not leaders of tomorrow.
While the nurseries do not perform their necessary function, the quality of citizenry and leadership in society suffers (In an interview on student politics, former student leader Husain Naqi recalls his own times -- in the 1950s and '60s -- when the budget of the student union was debated in a much better manner than the provincial assemblies). Once the universities become barren lands and there is no local cadre of leaders, politics becomes dynastic, and democracy suffers a backlash.
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Even within the universities, the students' problems remain. Often they tend to be resolved in a manner the grand planners had not envisaged. We have seen in recent times how the depoliticised young people in universities come together along ethnic or class or religious lines, and conflict among these groups leads to incidents of violence despite the absence of unions. Outside the university, too, they can't be made to stop questioning and thinking. They gather in the form of one Movement or another, often ruthlessly suppressed by a state that considers the Movement 'anti-state'. At other times, they feel isolated and find meaning in drugs.
The plan may seem rock solid. The structures may appear so well-rooted you can't do much except lament in small gatherings or write articles such as these. But a plan that lets the universities exist as islands that have no connection with the outside world, and where the students think only in terms of their self-aggrandisement and not the society is not such a workable plan after all.


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Biography: Before taking a job at the Hollywood Reporter, Katie Kilkenny was an associate editor and writer at Pacific Standard, where she covered culture in print and online. Previously, she was a fellow at The Atlantic's Culture channel, where she reviewed films and wrote reported stories about the entertainment industry. Prior to that, she wrote freelance film reviews, covered scripts for a Hollywood talent agency, and helped select short films for the Telluride Film Festival. She has written for Slate, Vice, The Los Angeles Review of Books, RogerEbert.com, Indiewire, and Hyperallergic, among others, and in 2014, she was the recipient of an Ebert Fellowship from the Sundance Institute. She is an avid reader of box-office statistics and Hollywood history books; the two coolest experiences she has ever had as a film journalist has been to profile L.A. Rebellion filmmaker Charles Burnett and one of the first top female executives in Hollywood, Marcia Nasatir.
Favorite Films: All About Eve, In the Mood for Love, Mulholland Drive, Marnie, Margaret, American Psycho, Mustang, Spirited Away, Clouds of Sils Maria, Rosemary's Baby, Magic Mike, and Heal the Living
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The program segment "Talking Mirror" invited popular Hong Kong artists, Grace Chan and Sharon Chan, to take short clips and share make-up and skin-care tips with viewers. In the press event, program hosts Irene Kim, the Korean model and global influencer, together with Priscilla Wong and guest host Richard Juan, shared interesting moments during shooting. Irene and Priscilla even shared some sneak peeks of beauty trend for Christmas this year.
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Gerhard Tremmel and Marvin Emnes are among the players leaving Swansea City this summer after the club revealed their list of summer departures.
Goalkeeper Tremmel, 38, had been with the club since the summer of 2011 with the highlight of his six-year stay being his role in the club's League Cup triumph of 2013.
The German played in all the rounds of the Wembley run, keeping a pair of clean sheets in the memorable semi-final triumph over Chelsea.
Tremmel had looked set to leave the Swans in the summer of 2015 when his previous contract ran out, but he was offered a new two-year deal just before the start of the following season.
He has not made a single first-team appearance this campaign, although he was an unused substitute in Sunday's 2-1 win over West Brom.
He made 52 appearances for Swansea in total.
Emnes, meanwhile, has spent the season on loan with Blackburn Rovers, who were relegated to League One.
The Dutchman's third spell at Swansea, following two previous loan deals - one of which included a South Wales derby winner against Cardiff - began in the summer of 2014 but he was never able to nail down a regular starting role.
He made 24 appearances, scoring three goals in the League Cup, but not one of those outings came this season as he moved to Ewood Park early on in the campaign.
Josh Sheehan, who was out of contract this summer and sidelined by a serious knee injured, has been handed a month-by-month contract as he recovers.
Prior to his injury the midfielder had impressed on loan at Newport County, for whom he scored seven goals in 25 appearances.
Liam Shephard, Josh Vickers, Owain Jones, Tom Dyson and Tom Holland will also leave as their contracts expire, with Alex Samuel already having agreed to join Stevenage.
Youngsters Causso Darame and Mael Davies have penned their first professional deals, while forward Jordan Garrick, goalkeeper Lewis Thomas and full-back Aaron Lewis have been offered new one-year contracts after helping the club's under-23s secure a league and cup double.


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Entangled photon pairs from photonic crystals
Entanglement is a fascinating concept in quantum physics and a precious resource for quantum communication and computing. It is usually created in particle pairs, frequently by means of a conserved quantity in pair creation processes. Very little is known about the classification and quantification of entanglement in more complex systems, therefore entanglement itself is a phenomenon that is studied intensively worldwide. There are numerous applications of entanglement in quantum communication, computation, metrology and fundamental studies. It enables quantum teleportation and quantum key distribution, provides improved resolution in measurements, and is intrinsically connected with the paradox of nonlocality.
It is not straightforward to create entangled states of more than two particles in a controlled way. One of the most successful approaches has been to start out with pairs of entangled photons produced in spontaneous parametric down-conversion. In this process a high frequency photon is split into two lower-frequency ones so that energy is conserved. The requirement that the process be coherent in the nonlinear optical crystal provides for various kinds of entanglement of the converted photons. More complex entangled states can then be built by interferometric techniques and projective measurements.
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Photonic crystals
Photonic crystals are media with a periodic variation in their dielectric constant. The periodicity controls the propagation of electromagnetic waves resulting in a band structure for light. The band structure can have gaps, i.e. frequencies where no light can propagate.
Waveguides can be defined by surrounding a guiding region with suitable photonic crystal material. In the design of these waveguides we have many degrees of freedom to adjust the modes and their dispersion. Our purpose is to design a structure in which parametric down-conversion can happen with phase and group velocities matched in order to allow for efficient conversion without the dispersion that is detrimental to the quality of entanglement.
Phase and group matching
For this purpose we have been studying slab-type quasi-two-dimensional photonic crystals in AlGaAs. GaAs is a highly nonlinear optical material (~ 100pm/V = 50x BBO) used heavily for optoelectronic devices. The structures of interest are created by patterning an epitaxial layer of GaAs with an array of holes and then etching out an Al-rich layer underneath. The resulting membrane ("slab") can confine light vertically by total internal reflection and in-plane via forbidden frequencies.
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I am feeling so much again. The rollercoaster emotions are back. Just when I think I can get comfortable along comes change. Dave has had a couple of rough days with the nausea and stomach or intestinal upset. This "stage" of healthcare – hospice – is all about symptom management. No tracking down reasons in particular, just solving the issues so to speak.
We placed a portable air condition in the room. Even many new homes are still built without central air conditioning in the Pacific NW. Our south-facing second story bedroom gets very warm after a few days above 70 or 75. It doesn't happen often (sadly for our climate, good for our home comfort) and the downstairs stays comfortable most of the time, so in the past we would just retire later in the evening. The room could cool down with the night air and a couple of cross ventilation fans. Now Dave is in the bedroom all the time so it is necessary to cool it down during the mid-afternoon sun. I'm glad we don't have the oxygen machine in the room, or that would be even worse from the heat that thing outputs.
Thus, the portable AC machine has arrived. It's ugly! And industrial looking. The look is certainly not within the style of the room. Plus, this is one more object along the obstacle course that is our bedroom.
I suppose I really like window dressing right now. Keep the outside in order, regardless of what's inside. I distract myself with buying and fixing (also known as trying to find control). I find I am puttering, straightening, moving, changing little items around the room and the house. I placed the thumbprints of the kids on a small easel for Dave to see. I moved the armoire shelves the TV sits atop so the cable box and DVD player could be placed for easier access (because there is a chair close by now that interferes with the remote use). I flipped the dog and cat dishes and other floor items in the panty. It's like I have to shake up and build new pathways of thinking and response. I am forcing change in the small things around me. The big things seem to change themselves.
I, too, had a very restless day yesterday. I couldn't settle into working. I didn't have much patience. There was no focus to my activities. I want to nap twice a day like a baby. Even now, I jump around the house and projects as much as these random thoughts land on paper. I hadn't even set out to write this morning, but here I am.
I don't know…. I just don't know.
The "I don't know" voice is regularly coming out of Dave, too. Not a phrase I'm used to hearing from him, this is the stock answer about routine things: food, what to watch on TV, do you want this or that now or later, what's causing the stomach problem? It doesn't matter what the topic is, often the answer is "I don't know." Do these decisions really mean much? Probably not, and perhaps that is the point of I don't know.
My emotions are blowing in and out as quick as the weather. Cloudy, sunny, windy, cool, hot. I stepped outside to savor my tea this morning, take in some fresh air and attitude. By then end of the cupful, the clouds hid the warmth and light of the sun. This too shall pass. Wait a little while. It will change again!


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Teleporting in Nehrim is not the same as Oblivion or other such games. Here you need the spell in your spell book (for example Teleport: Giliad ), enough magica to use it, you must have been to that location or close by (as the spells or spell runes you find are always close by or at the location). You need to buy teleporter runes. You cannot use teleporting when in combat.
To cast the spell, simply choose the teleportation spell you want to use (for example Teleport: Giliad ) and cast it, like any other spell (use C).. If you have a teleport rune, it will automatically be removed from your inventory. If you don'thave the rune, spell will fail.
Teleport DescriptionEdit
Teleporting is a quick way to move around Nehrim.
At some point during the main-quest you receive instructions about their use.
"Most towns and villages in the land have so called teleporter plates" (also referred to as teleporter platforms).
You require both a spell and a rune to be able to use the teleporter platforms.
"can buy these spells from the local priests", you will also find a few runes that give you a teleporter spell.
Teleport RuneEdit
Teleporter runes can be purchased from many merchants.
Who sells the spells or spell runes?Edit
- Arcane Sanctum: Vanmiria
- Cahbaet: Buy from Magic shop
- Erothin: One of the mage's in the mages' cave
- Giliad: Priest next to the chapel
- Mountain Monastery: Buy from Magic shop
- Ostian: Buy from magic shop
- Sarnor: Priest next to the chapel
- Tirin Abbey: High Priest Aratornia
- Waverock: Priest next to the chapel
Where are these spell runes?Edit
- Salen: In grave close by teleporter platform. Or the Priest in the chapel will sell you the rune (not the spell).
- Castle Darlan (gained during MQ): In master bedroom
- Sea Gate: Dig it up from a mound surrounded by stink caps on a small island south of The Gold Mine in the south realm
- Zerobilon: last level of the dungeon
Does not have a teleport platformEdit
- Stonefield: no teleport
- Furtsanden: no teleport
- The teleport won't work when you're using God Mode. That's because with God Mode activated the stone will not be removed from your inventory and the script for teleportation only works when the stone is removed.


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Author: Paula Hawkins
Publisher: Random House UK
Read by: India Fisher, Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey
Release Date: 2015
Rating: 1/5
Gone Girl part 2. An alcoholic mess of a woman sits on a train day in and day out, drinking warm pre-mixed gin and tonics and watching a couple, who lives in a house a few doors down from where she used to live. That is until her jerk of a husband left her for another woman. Another mess, I should say. Her life is in shambles, to say the least. One day something happens. I'll let you guess whether or not that something is the disappearance of a woman. That's a whole genre now, I guess. Anyway, the drunken loser decides to play detective all the while drinking herself into blackouts where she may or may not have called her ex-husband, kidnapped her ex-husband's baby etc. You get the picture. Slowly the story unfurls and the truth comes out. It's a very dull and not surprising truth, but I won't spoil it anyway. The big twist and shock that all the reviewers promised? I'm still waiting…
There are three narrators in this book. They're all women (though only one is on a train), and they're all unsympathetic, crazy messes. The same can easily be said for the men in the book. Ultimately this leaves the reader (or in this case the listener, me, unfortunately) with no one to actually root for or care about, so the ending doesn't really matter. The book switches between the three women and between different dates, and the point is that you're supposed to kind of play the detective yourself, piecing together different information about the same events. I kind of like this idea, even though it's hardly groundbreaking stuff. But it just goes on and on. Maybe if it were half as long, it wouldn't have felt like such a waste of time.
I'm not sure who came up with the "tagline" for the book; "You don't know her. But she knows you." but they surely haven't actually read or heard the book. It's painfully obvious that she's a completely unreliable narrator, who doesn't actually know anyone. Least of all me. It's baffling to my how this book has gotten such high ratings and such good reviews (at least the ones I've seen). It's dull and the ending is insanely anti-climactic. The writing is choppy and I couldn't wait for it to finish. Luckily it's the shortest audiobook I've listened to in a while.
The voice actresses are alright, I suppose, though one of them keeps over-emphasizing her t's and d's to the point where it sounds like she's spitting. Nothing special.
I won't give you any quotes from this because thankfully I don't have a hard-copy.


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Flying cars! Jet packs! Lasers that zap malaria-carrying mosquitoes! Here are the year's biggest (and coolest) breakthroughs in science, technology and the arts
How does Apple keep out-inventing the rest of the tech industry? Often, it's by reinventing a product category that its competitors have given up on. In theory, the iPad is merely a follow-up to such resoundingly unpopular slate-style computers as Microsoft's Tablet PC. But Apple is the first company that designed finger-friendly hardware and software from scratch rather than stuffing a PC into a keyboardless case. When it calls the results "magical" and "revolutionary," it's distorting reality only slightly. One analyst says the iPad is the fastest-selling nonphone gizmo in consumer-electronics history.
Even if you dote on Facebook and Twitter, spending time with them can feel like getting pelted in the face by thousands of undifferentiated updates from your friends — exhilarating, perhaps, but also exhausting. The killer iPad app Flipboard ends the chaos by grabbing updates, photos and links from your friends and other interesting people, then reformatting everything in a wonderfully browsable, magazine-like format. You can also add feeds from your favorite blogs and websites and share items with friends via social media and e-mail. With its oversize images and crisp typography, it's a glossy digital publication that feels as if it's been edited by your pals just for you.
Just when you thought you'd seen it all — and recorded it — Looxcie, a camera worn over the ear, ups the ante. Invented by a parent who found himself fumbling with video cameras while trying to record children's parties, Looxcie can capture everything the user sees for up to five hours, hands-free. And with the press of a button, a clip of the last 30 seconds of film can be sent to a Facebook page, YouTube or a preset e-mail address — making Looxcie the perfect device for the age of audio-video oversharing.
Think of Kickstarter as crowdsourced philanthropy — a website where anyone can donate any amount to a project in development, with no money changing hands until a minimum threshold has been met. Case in point: Californian Magen Callaghan wanted to launch a new comic about a half-human, half-zombie character. To create and market a first issue, she estimated a cost of $1,500, so she wrote a pitch letter and solicited a sliding scale of donations. (Five bucks gets you a signed copy, $100 a bag of zombie swag.) Only after she passed the $1,500 benchmark were her pledges called in. Additional proof that this strategy works: the success story of the EyeWriter (see No. 49), a project launched by Kickstarter. It's low-risk, grass-roots fundraising — $1 at a time.
There might not be a piece of tech more due for an update than the cash register. Enter Square, a payment platform created by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. With the aid of a tiny magnetic card reader that attaches to a smart phone, Square lets anyone process credit cards. It might not do away with paper entirely — plenty of people still prefer cash — but you certainly don't need to wait for a receipt: sign on the screen, and Square sends a copy straight to e-mail.
Sony Alpha A55 Camera
A.K.A. the camera that never blinks. Traditional digital SLR cameras take the nicest photographs around, but they're hobbled by a decades-old technical limitation: when you snap a picture, the mirror that's been redirecting the image to your eye and to a focusing sensor pops up momentarily as the image is captured. Until it goes back down, the camera can't focus. Sony's Alpha A55 ($849.99 with lens) fixes that with an ingenious translucent mirror that stays put. That means you can shoot up to 10 perfectly focused photos a second and record HD video that never goes blurry. Bonus advantage: with no need to allocate interior space for a moving mirror, the Alpha is noticeably smaller and lighter than its Sony SLR brethren.
Amtrak's Beef-Powered Train
Compared with its ultramodern counterparts in Europe and Japan, Amtrak is not a font of innovation. But on its Heartland Flyer — a daily service between Oklahoma City and Fort Worth, Texas — Amtrak is taking tentative steps toward a greener, low-carbon future. Since spring, the Heartland Flyer has been running on 20% biodiesel rather than the carbon-heavy diesel fuel on which Amtrak's other trains — with the exception of the electric Acela Express — currently operate. The biodiesel reduces air pollution and helps cash-strapped Amtrak save on fuel. And appropriately for a train in cow country, the biodiesel is made from rendered cattle fat. Biodiesel from beef burns cleaner than plant biodiesel, though it may not be scalable outside the beef belt.
Google's Driverless Car
Is it an auto automobile? An aut2.0mobile? Whatever you call it, Google's new Prius — tricked out with radar sensors, video cameras and a laser range finder — has driven itself 140,000 miles without an unscheduled meeting with a light pole. Other geek squads have been running driver less vehicles in the California desert for years, partly at the behest of the U.S. Department of Defense. But only Google can rev the petabyte-sucking mapping technology that guides its car along busy streets and highways. The goal is safety — an admirable one given the world's million-plus auto fatalities each year. Driver less technology is logical and efficient, and in the near future, it could transform your commute into stress-free transport on a motorized sofa. The sad part for road hogs: if Google is successful in marketing its technology to automakers, you may never get to flip the bird at another driver again.
Martin Jetpack
Every depiction of future transport since Buck Rogers includes a jet pack, so who are we to mess with invention convention? The Martin Jetpack positions itself as the planet's first practical jet pack — as if it were some kind of airborne Swiffer. New Zealand inventor Glenn Martin spent nearly 30 years developing a successor to the proven but impractical Bell Rocket Belt, which first flew in 1961.
Martin's version doesn't look practical: he appears to have welded two enormous leaf blowers together and thrown on a harness. But the carbon-fiber composite frame houses a gasoline-fueled, 200-horsepower engine — more power than a Honda Accord — that turns a pair of carbon-Kevlar rotors. Theoretically, the Martin Jetpack could take its operator up 8,000 ft. Since it holds only 30 minutes' worth of fuel, though, you won't want to linger. The commercial application may be more for first responders than for early adopters. The Jetpack will sell for about $100,000; field tests start in 2011.
Perhaps the easiest way to make a car more fuel-efficient is to make it lighter. The designers of the Edison2 concept vehicle have taken auto dieting to the extreme. The car — as aerodynamic as it is anorexic — weighs less than 800 lb., which helps it get 102.5 m.p.g. That was good enough to share the Progressive Insurance Automotive X-Prize, an award set up to encourage development of production-ready cars that are super-fuel-efficient. Sadly, Edison2 team owner Oliver Kuttner says you won't see the car at your dealer anytime soon. But it's a hopeful sign for an oil-pinched future.
Antro Electric Car
The car of the future, now coming from: Hungary. Yes, it sounds like communist propaganda circa 1967, but the Hungarian designer Antro might just have made a superefficient, supercheap car that could put Western manufacturers to shame. The Antro Solo can hold up to three people — a driver and two passengers, one on either side — who pedal to help drive the ultralight car. The rest of the forward motion comes from an electric motor that's partly powered by solar panels. If you need a bigger car, Antro has a solution: two Solos can be combined, Transformers-style, to create the family-friendly Duo. Look for it in 2012.
Electric-Car Charging Stations
It's the chicken-and-egg problem of electric vehicles: until there's a network of road-embedded rechargers (see No. 17) or a series of stations where drivers can charge their batteries — similar to the gas stations we depend on now — an electric car is inherently limited. Coulomb Technologies is working to break that deadlock. The company is building a system of automated charging stations in public places that are connected to utilities, so the charge for your charge can be added to your home electricity bill. And if your utility hasn't partnered with Coulomb, you can call a toll-free number and pay with your credit card.
The Straddling Bus
A boom in car sales has caused traffic mayhem in many of China's major cities. One company wants to improve the situation — by putting even more people on the road. But rather than add more cars, Shenzhen Huashi Future Parking Equipment is developing a massive "straddling bus." Cheaper than a subway, the partly solar-powered behemoth will span two lanes and carry up to 1,200 people in a carriage raised 7 ft. above the roadway, thus allowing cars to pass, or be passed, underneath. Passengers on the new bus should rightly expect to feel above it all. The company is awaiting government approval for a trial project in Beijing. If that comes through this year, test runs could begin by the end of 2011.
Road-Embedded Rechargers
It's no Soul Train, but some Seoul bus rides could soon be getting a lot more electric. Engineers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Technology are experimenting with embedding electric strips in roadbeds that magnetically transfer energy to battery-powered vehicles above. The prototype, at an amusement park in Gwacheon, just south of Seoul, is the first system in the world like it, and researchers say the technology could someday enable all electric vehicles to operate with one-fifth the battery size and at one-third the cost.
Terrafugia Transition
The Terrafugia Transition could redefine the convertible. And door-to-door travel. Designed by a team of MIT aeronautics engineers, including Terrafugia co-founders Carl Dietrich and his wife Anna Mracek Dietrich, the Transition is a street-legal, airworthy, airbag-and-parachute-equipped flying car that at $200,000 is priced less than a Lamborghini. The first models will be delivered next year. True, with its wings retracted like football goalposts, the Transition, whose 100-horsepower engine gets it 35 m.p.g. on terra firma, isn't going to be a match for an Italian sports car. But extend the vehicle's gull wings — and you are requested to do this at an airport — and the rear-propeller-powered Transition can fly two passengers about 500 miles at a cruising speed of 105 m.p.h. After you land, you will not be heading to the rental counter.
The Plastic-Bottle Boat
In the four months it took British adventurer and banking heir David de Rothschild and crew to sail a boat made of discarded soft-drink bottles from San Francisco to Australia, Americans used some 8.7 billion plastic bottles. Drawing attention to that waste was the point of Rothschild's voyage aboard the Plastiki, a 60-ft. catamaran built with 12,500 recycled plastic bottles and a fully recyclable plastic material called Seretex and held together with organic glue made from cashew-nut husks and sugarcane. The bottles were packed into the Plastiki's pontoons in a pomegranate-like structure, giving the boat 68% of its buoyancy. Rothschild's mission to change the public's perception of plastic continues as his team brainstorms new ways to reuse the commonly discarded material in everything from surfboards to wind turbines. "Every year in the U.S., we are throwing away a billion dollars' worth of building material,"
Health & Medicine
The Malaria-Proof Mosquito and The Mosquito Laser
It's been a bad year to be a mosquito. The world's most annoying insect is responsible for 250 million cases of malaria per year — and 1 million deaths. But scientists at the University of Arizona have genetically engineered a mosquito that's immune to the Plasmodium parasite, the malaria-causing agent it transmits with its bite. The next step is to make the new mosquito hardier than the ordinary kind, then release it into the wild (perhaps within 10 years), where it will displace the deadly variety.
NeoNurture Incubator
The genius of the NeoNurture incubator, developed by university students in the U.S., is that it employs an underutilized resource (old car parts) to address a critical need: functioning incubators to nurture premature newborns. Headlights provide heat; a repurposed dashboard fan circulates air; a door-chime and signal-light assembly is rejiggered into an alarm system that alerts caregivers when things go awry with the heating mechanism. The device can even be powered from a motorcycle battery. Car engineers have nothing on these guys.
eLegs Exoskeleton
For paraplegic patients, being able to stand — not to mention take a few steps — under their own power is a cruelly unattainable goal. Or at least it has been. But the makers of eLegs, an innovative exoskeleton, are hoping to change that, one step at a time. The robotic prosthetic legs use artificial intelligence to "read" the wearer's arm gestures via a set of crutches, simulating a natural human gait. It's the first such device to do so without a tether, and it was inspired by military exoskeletons that soldiers strap on to lift heavy packs. The device requires some getting used to, so it will initially be available only at rehabilitation centers for use with a trained physical therapist, but it may hit the home market by 2013.
How do you communicate when your brain is active but your body isn't? The EyeWriter, a collaboration from the Ebeling Group, the Not Impossible Foundation and Graffiti Research Lab, uses low-cost eye-tracking glasses and open-source software to allow people suffering from any kind of neuromuscular syndrome to write and draw by tracking their eye movement and translating it to lines on a screen. The device was created for Tony "Tempt" Quan, an L.A.-based graffiti artist who was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease in 2003. After trying the EyeWriter — the first time he'd drawn anything since he was fully paralyzed — Quan said, "It feels like taking a breath after being held underwater for five minutes."
First Synthetic Cell
Creating life in the lab? It wasn't such a stretch for J. Craig Venter, who successfully co-mapped the human genome in 2001. Even while completing that feat, the genetic cartographer wondered if he could string together DNA and make life of the bacterial kind from scratch. So like a biological Lego builder, he started with off-the-shelf chemicals and, after 15 years of painstaking trial and error, managed to reconstruct the genome of a bacterium that successfully "booted up," dividing and replicating just like any other bug. Such synthetic life, he hopes, will make it possible to, among other things, generate new forms of man-made biofuel and speed up vaccine production by making it easier to create large amounts of whichever strains of influenza are circulating in a particular season.
Lab-Grown Lungs
Growing new body parts has always been more science fiction than science reality, but that balance may quickly be shifting, at least in the lab. Relying on more sophisticated biosimulators that can better mimic body conditions, researchers have re-created the delicate architecture of a rat lung accurately enough for it to assume 95% of a normal lung's inhaling and exhaling functions. The key to their respiratory success was starting with a skeletal rat-lung template, including a matrix of blood vessels and collagen and other connective tissue, then seeding it with stem cells and nutrients to generate lifelike tissue that exchanged oxygen and carbon dioxide just like normal lung tissue. The ultimate goal is to replicate the feat on a larger scale: to replace enough human lung tissue to aid patients with emphysema or lung cancer.
3-D Bioprinter
Spare parts are available for virtually any machine ever invented. So why not the human body? San Diego–based companies Invetech and Organovo have developed what amounts to a dot-matrix printer for human organs. The device, small enough to fit into a sterile biosafety cabinet, consists of two printheads — one that sprays out a gel that forms a sort of armature for an organ and another that fills in that scaffolding with living cells. The printing tip positions cells with a precision within microns. Livers, kidneys and other replacement components — including teeth — could be built on demand, with no wait for a donor and less risk of rejection, since the cells are harvested straight from the patient. No word yet on a parts-and-labor warranty.
Faster-Growing Salmon
Americans love heart-healthy salmon, but with wild populations dwindling, most of the salmon we now eat is farmed, not caught. The problem is that salmon make bad farm animals; it takes 3 lb. of feed to grow 1 lb. of salmon. AquaBounty's solution: splice in a gene from Chinook salmon with DNA from an eellike creature called an ocean pout. AquAdvantage Atlantic salmon can grow twice as fast, making them easier to farm. Environmentalists wary of the first edible genetically engineered animal aren't so sure, however, and have dubbed the creation Frankenfish. A government hearing on the salmon ended inconclusively, but barring any changes, the fish could be headed to market soon.
Green Energy
Deep Green Underwater Kite
Swedish company Minesto's underwater kite resembles a child's toy as it swoops and dives in ocean currents. But since seawater is 800 times as dense as air, the small turbine attached to the kite — which is tethered to the ocean floor — can generate 800 times more energy than if it were in the sky. Minesto calls the technology Deep Green and says it can generate 500 kilowatts of power even in calm waters; the design could increase the market for tidal power by 80%, the company says. The first scale model will be unveiled next year off the coast of Northern Ireland.
Body Powered Devices
Everything we do generates power — about 1 watt per breath, 70 watts per step. This year, Michael McAlpine of Princeton University and colleagues figured out how to turn locomotion into power by embedding piezoelectric crystals into a flexible, biocompatible rubberlike material that, when bent, allows the crystals to produce energy. Put the crystals in shoes, say, or implant them directly into the body and they could produce enough power to charge personal electronics or internal medical devices. Elsewhere, telecommunications provider Orange introduced a prototype of Orange Power Wellies — rubber boots that convert heat into current. Campers at Britain's Glastonbury Festival were the first to demo the footwear. (With the current model, it takes 12 hours of walking to charge a cell phone for an hour.) Of course, if you assemble enough people in a tight space, they don't even need to move to generate energy: in Paris, engineers have captured the warmth generated by bodies on the Métro subway to heat a public-housing project on Rue Beaubourg. By 2011, the Métro heating system will cut carbon dioxide emissions from the housing project's heating system by a third.
Power-Aware Cord
We'd all like to be more energy-efficient. But watching the meter doesn't intuitively show how much juice is being used minute to minute. The Interactive Institute, a Swedish nonprofit that explores technology and design, had an idea: what if you could actually see the electricity flowing into your machines? The Power-Aware Cord embeds wires around a cable that pulse light in relation to how much electricity is being drawn off the grid. The more current, the brighter and faster the blue light spirals. In testing the device, researchers found that making the invisible visible tuned consumers in to their bad habits, nudging them to power down and offering some surprising appliance insights: when a radio broadcasts drumbeats and bass riffs, its electricity consumption jumps. Talk about being plugged in.
Bloom Box
Inventors have tried to use hydrogen fuel cells as a cleaner way to create commercial electricity, but they've always been limited by the cost. That's beginning to change, however, thanks to a California start-up called Bloom Energy. Its Bloom Box — about half the size of a shipping container — generates electricity using solid oxide fuel cells, which provide juice by oxidizing a fuel source. In the case of the Bloom Box, that fuel source is natural gas, though the company hopes to substitute cleaner sources in the future. Silicon Valley companies like Google and eBay are already using Bloom Boxes for greener backup power, at a cost of about $800,000 each.
The (Almost) Waterless Washing Machine
You probably don't think about this every time you separate your whites, but the U.S. uses more than 330 billion gal. of water on laundry each year, according to the British firm Xeros Ltd. The company is developing a machine that draws cleaning power from reusable, stain-absorbing nylon beads, requiring much less water — as much as 90% less — than a normal washing machine. (See above for how it works.) A commercial version is due out next year: good news for conservation and your monthly water bill
Considering the unlovely grubs that produce it, silk is a remarkably beautiful textile. Now Suzanne Lee, a researcher at London's well-regarded Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, has developed a material made by the bacteria that are usually used to turn green tea into the fermented beverage kombucha. As they digest sugar, the bacteria produce a mat of cellulose, which Lee figured out how to harvest and dry. The resulting fabric, which has a vaguely skinlike texture, can be molded and sewn into shirts and coats. It's not perfect yet; if it gets wet, it absorbs up to 98% of its weight and "gets heavy and gooey," says Alexander Bismarck, a chemical-engineering professor at Imperial College London who is trying to devise a more water-repellent culture to grow the bacteria in. But it's a heckuva lot kinder to the planet than polyester.
Spray-On Fabric
Cheese, insulation, hair — a lot of surprising things can come out of spray cans. Now we can add clothing to that list. The British company Fabrican has developed a way to bond and liquefy fibers so that textiles can be sprayed out of a can or spray gun straight onto a body or dress form. The solvent then evaporates, and the fibers bond, forming a snug-fitting garment. Not just for clothes, the technology has household, industrial, personal and health care applications. The first runway show of spray-on clothes took place this fall — we'll see if the trend will stick.
The Plastic-Fur Coat
Most of us toss those annoying plastic price-tag fasteners (above right) without a second thought, but Maison Martin Margiela Artisanal's coat gives 29,000 of them a new life. The French avant-garde fashion house — known for transforming shoelaces, combs and wigs into couture dresses — spent 42 hours embroidering the fasteners in a herringbone pattern on a leather coat, turning the disposable into a fashion statement: fake fake fur. "It's a message about sustainability, but done with humor," says Matilda McQuaid, a curator at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, "saying we should look at reusing our resources. We need to stop and think about what we immediately discard."
Not many solutions to moth holes have inspired fan pages on Facebook. But Woolfiller provides a surprisingly easy solution to the age-old problem of holey sweaters. Take the special wool and felting needle and poke the needle — which has small hooks along the point — through the wool and your moth-eaten garment. The repeated action binds the fibers together, making a felt patch on your cardigan, sock or rug. Heleen Klopper of the Netherlands created Woolfiller as part of an interactive museum exhibition on sustainability, and so many visitors wanted to buy it that she started making kits. Klopper has come to see moths as design collaborators. Their damage is her opportunity to add a twist — a red square, say, on a blue turtleneck. "When something is broken," says Klopper, "people dare to do new things." Moths, eat your hearts out.
The Deceitful Robot
O.K., its nose doesn't grow. But Georgia Tech's new robot, which uses algorithms to detect conflict and then assess the best method of escaping from it, can create a false trail, send erroneous communications and hide from an enemy. Although its main purpose will most likely be to aid military search-and-rescue operations, its ability to deceive also brings it closer to successful interactions with humans. And it would make the Jetsons' Rosie even more annoying.
The English-Teaching Robot
Call it the job terminator. South Korea, which employs some 30,000 foreigners to teach English, has plans for a new addition to its language classrooms: the English-speaking robot. Students in a few schools started learning English from the robo-teachers late last year; by the end of this year, the government hopes to have them in 18 more schools. The brightly colored, squat androids are part of an effort to keep South Korean students competitive in English. Not surprisingly, the proposal has worried a few human teachers — and with good reason. Experts say the bots could eventually phase out flesh-and-blood foreign English teachers altogether.
Lifeguard Robot
Her nose isn't coated in bright white sunblock, but she might just save your life. EMILY, or the Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard, is a robotic buoy that can swim through riptides at a speed of up to 24 m.p.h. Her inventor, entrepreneur and engineer Tony Mulligan, says that makes her about 15 times as fast as human lifeguards. Powered with a tiny electric pump that shoots a forceful stream of water, the 4-ft.-long robotic buoy has been tested at California's Zuma Beach. The device is operated by remote, but next year's model features sonar technology controlled with an iPhone app that will allow EMILY to detect riptides and submerged objects.
Sarcasm Detection
This is the most important software ever invented. Of course, if a computer using the Semi-Supervised Algorithm for Sarcasm Identification read that last sentence, it would immediately detect the sarcasm. Developed at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the tool is designed to spot sarcastic sentences in product reviews. The algorithm has been fairly accurate even in its earliest stages: in a trial involving 66,000 Amazon reviews, it was right 77% of the time, pointing to a future in which computers won't just store your words, they'll interpret your intent
Super Super Soaker
The squirt gun has gone professional. Troops in Afghanistan are using a new "water disrupter" to disable roadside bombs. The clear plastic device is filled with water and a small explosive charge that, when set off, generates a thin blade of water that pulverizes the target. Developed at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, the so-called fluid-blade disablement tool was invented by Steve Todd, an engineer with extensive Navy experience fighting IEDs; Chance Hughs, a retired Navy Seal explosives expert on contract to Sandia; and Sandia mechanical engineer Juan Carlos Jakaboski. So far, TEAM Technologies of Albuquerque, N.M., has produced about 7,000 of the $58 units for shipment to Afghanistan.
Less Dangerous Explosives
Traditional TNT is relatively unstable and can detonate when dropped or when a vehicle carrying it is hit by an IED or a bullet. But the new IMX-101 explosive — while packing the same punch as TNT — is "more thermally stable," says Philip Samuels, a chemical engineer at Picatinny Arsenal's Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center. Researchers spent four years working on the material, which is scheduled for production next year. IMX-101 is more expensive than TNT, with an initial price of about $8 a pound, compared with $6 a pound for the usual stuff. But the Army is happy to pay the price — for soldiers' safety, and because the less volatile explosives can be packed more tightly into storage areas, making them more accessible to soldiers in the field.
The X-51A WaveRider
After decades amassing an immense arsenal to defeat entire countries, the U.S. military is developing tools to fight isolated conflicts requiring speed and precision. The X-51A WaveRider demonstration project, part of the U.S.'s Prompt Global Strike initiative to attack any spot on the globe within an hour, is a prime example. The WaveRider is hypersonic, traveling 600 miles in 10 minutes. Even more incredible, its nose is designed to take advantage of the train of sonic waves it creates by making them break at the optimal angle.
X-Flex Blast Protection
X-Flex wallpaper won't make your walls aesthetically pleasing, just safe from collapsing from lethal force. This startlingly resilient covering is designed to reinforce buildings against man-made blasts, flying shrapnel and destabilizing natural disasters. Once the wallpaper is applied, its Kevlar-like material, combined with an elastic polymer wrap, becomes virtually stronger than the wall it's shielding — so strong that it's being considered to protect U.S. military bases overseas. Now if only they could make some to cover the windows.
Iron Man Suit
If you're a kid, here's one more reason to be a geek: when you grow up, you get to build indescribably cool stuff. Take the XOS 2, developed by Salt Lake City–based Raytheon Sarcos. An honest-to-goodness Iron Man suit, the XOS 2 allows even its least muscular wearer to lift 200-lb. weights without breaking a sweat and, as seen in demonstration videos that have gone viral, punch through slabs of wood that a person would be at pains to even saw through ordinarily. Raytheon hopes to roll out the XOS 2 first to the military, allowing soldiers in theaters of operation to lift heavy ordnance or other equipment with ease. The affordable home model, alas, is still the stuff of geek dreams.
The Seed Cathedral
A house of worship for biodiversity, the British pavilion for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai is constructed of 60,000 light-funneling fiber-optic rods, each with one or more seeds implanted at its tip. British designer Thomas Heatherwick worked with the Kew Gardens and the Millennium Seed Bank project, whose mission is to collect seeds from 25% of the world's plant species by 2020. The result was a living structure that embodied the Expo's theme of "Better City, Better Life" and rooted digital dreams in the soil from which all life springs. That combination helped make the Seed Cathedral one of the most popular national pavilions at the Shanghai Expo, where Chinese visitors nicknamed it pu gong ying, the dandelion.
STS-111 Instant Infrastructure
It's not a bird or a plane. It's a lighter-than-air, unmanned flying vehicle made of ripstop nylon that, if test flights are anything to go by, will be able to soar as high as 9,000 ft. for as long as three days. What will it do up there? If fitted with surveillance equipment, it can keep an eye on war or disaster zones, or it can carry communications technology to link people cut off from the world by, say, a catastrophe that takes out a bunch of cell-phone towers. Eel-shaped for a reason, the STS-111 works through an interchange of gases. In the head, there's a pouch of helium in an envelope of regular air. A pouch in the three back sections contains ethane for power. As the eel rises, the air surrounding the pouches is vented so the helium and ethane can expand. This means the vehicle should be able to ascend and descend without bursting. A ride like this one doesn't come cheap: the estimated price is $2 million to $3 million.
Better 3-D Glasses
Avatar raised the bar for 3-D movies, but the eyewear lagged behind: 3-D glasses reduce the brightness of the image as much as 50%, and if you're nearsighted, you have to put them on over your regular glasses, doubling the nerd quotient. To the rescue come new products from Oakley Inc., which has partnered with DreamWorks Animation to create specs with optically correct lenses (more clarity, less ghosting), and Samsung, which is releasing prescription glasses for its 3-D TVs. In both cases, seeing will be believing.
Responsible Homeowner Reward Program
Howard Hubler made the financial crisis worse: at Morgan Stanley, he lost $9 billion on bad mortgage bets. Now he may speed the recovery. His company, the Loan Value Group (LVG), has launched a program that could dramatically reduce foreclosures. According to studies, strategic defaults — in which the borrower has the money to pay but doesn't — account for as many as 30% of all home-loan defaults. Why? In an estimated 13 million cases, borrowers owe more than their home is worth. Under LVG's patented Responsible Homeowner Reward (RHR) program, banks promise to pay borrowers who continue to pay on time a lump sum — typically 10% of their original loan amount — when they sell or refinance their home. Miss more than one payment and the reward disappears. It's still early (fewer than 5,000 people have been enrolled), but LVG says fewer than 10% of the borrowers in RHR have ended up defaulting, compared with a redefault rate of more than 20% for other loan-modification programs. Hubler says he is confident his current mortgage bet is one that will help, not hurt, the housing market.
Looks like Play-Doh, acts like Super Glue. Sugru, a brightly colored silicone rubber, is the brainchild of designer Jane ni Dhulchaointigh, who worked with scientists for five years to develop a material soft enough to mold yet durable enough to fix or "hack" things so they work better. Sugru (Gaelic for play) sticks to everything from metal to fabric and can be used to craft an array of improvements — softer corners, grippier handles, more comfortable shoes, even more decorative glasses.
Expert Picks
'There have been no innovations in movies this year. Avatar was the high point. It is all downhill from there.'
As per Tim Westergren regarding musical invention of the year:
'I recently discovered the iRealBook iPhone application. The app contains bass, drum and piano tracks for all the jazz standards. It's the perfect technology for a practicing musician: high-quality digital audio, mixable, transposable into any key and completely mobile. Now every aspiring musician has a backup band in their pocket. Man, I would have killed for this back in the woodshed days.
The 140-character political endorsement. Forget the travel, the bunting, the balloons, the rallies and the pesky follow-up questions from the lamestream media. Sarah Palin has re-engineered the laying on of campaign hands with her Twitter and Facebook nods to favored candidates.'
As per comedian Amy Sedaris for her thoughts on the year's best invention in comedy:
'Zach Galifianakis lighting up a joint on Bill Maher. The doors are wide open now!
As per famous chef David Chang for his favorite new invention in the kitchen:
'The new iSi CO2 carbonator. It's so simple and easy to carbonate anything, especially liquor. I have a prototype, and it's amazing. Probably going to be in all professional kitchens. And, no, I don't get paid to say this stuff, but it's definitely the coolest gadget I've seen this year.'
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'Clean' practices gaining ground among fire crews
Departments trying to change rugged culture to protect long-term health
When a massive, five-alarm fire engulfed an apartment complex in Prospect Heights in July, swallowing swaths of synthetic materials in its wake, fire Chief Drew Smith said he was determined to keep his crew safe.
"There are no timeouts in firefighting like there are in sports, when you can blow the whistle during a game. So you have to make these decisions in a matter of seconds," Smith recalled recently.
"We were not making any progress, even though we kept adding more resources, so at the one-hour point, I knew we had to pull everyone out, and I sounded the air-horn signal."
The blaze left 500 residents homeless and caused an estimated $10 million in damage, as well as minor injuries to a firefighter and two residents. Investigators ruled it an accidental fire started by an 11-year-old with a lighter.
What remains unknown is how many of the 200 firefighters at the scene strictly followed cancer prevention and safety protocols, which advise them to wear air masks, even after a fire is extinguished, and to follow a decontamination regimen to rid their bodies and gear of toxins.


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Jeff Thommes
Jeff founded Staging Resources in 1985 after catching the AV bug early on in his career. His passion for the industry, it's technology, the people, and the rewards that resulted from constantly delivering a high level of service and success for his clients fueled his enthusiasm. 30 years later he remains excited about the next opportunity and how he can apply today's new technology and capabilities. Delivering complex content management solutions in the postmodern world AV space adds a thrilling dimension to any event. Feel free to call him to discuss your next event.
Matt Wellin
Matt began his Production career traveling the world with Carnival Cruiselines aboard their ships as part of the on-board production team. While aboard he met his lovely wife Erin, who we can thank for luring him to Chicagoland. Matt has over 15 years of experience in the Industry. His attention detail, careful planning, and excellent communication skills have been paramount in contributing to the success of several hundred events over the years. He enjoys working with his clients concepts, goals, and ideas, and use his experience and technology to help transform them into another successful event.
Matt enjoys golfing, music, travel, and is a true Chicago sports fan. In his free time you may also find him lakeside with fishing pole in his hand.
Tim Passaglia
Tim was introduced into the AV industry in 2007 and since has developed a passion for both technology and music. During the past 6 years, working for Staging Resources has increased his desire to develop his skills within the ever-changing world of event technology. Tim is always looking for ways to help ensure the success of each event, making him an essential asset to the team. As his expertise continues to grow, Tim is involved in each step of the planning process; before, during and after every event. Tim is currently living in Schaumburg, where he enjoys the outdoors and hockey during his free time.
Lauren Thommes
Lauren has been around events most of her life and has found it to be one of her passions. Her background in social/corporate catering, brand marketing and social media has helped her to become exceptionally knowledgeable in developing a company's brand in the event industry. Lauren continues to pursue furthering her education in order to expand on her marketing and social media knowledge. She enjoys cooking, running, sports, spending time with her family, and is an avid pop culture enthusiast. Lauren is thrilled to be a part of the SRI team!


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Gates to Success
Gates to Success in the Division of Academic Engagement & Student Achievement is committed to serving first-generation college students across the university from all levels and majors to help students achieve a meaningful educational experience at San Diego State University.
Our Mission
To build community among our first-generation college student population and campus/community advocates by working collaboratively with Faculty/Staff, in order to help support and advance first-generation college student success at San Diego State University.
We welcome all students, all levels and all majors! Congratulations on your continued success and we look forward to meeting you!
18-19 Gates to Success Student Organization Leadership Team
What is a first-generation student?
You are considered a First-Generation college student if your parent/guardian(s) did not complete a four-year college degree.


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So, one of the most anticipated flights of fancy to arrive in 2018 is the cinematic adaptation of Madeline L'Engle's classic novel, A Wrinkle in Time. For those like me who haven't read the book, it's the tale of Meg Murray, a young girl searching for her missing scientist father whose theories regarding inter dimensional travel were more accurate than he realized.
The film has a good amount of star power behind it, from director Ava DuVernay to actresses such as Mindy Kaling, Reese Witherspoon and Oprah Winfrey as the trio of mystical guides known as Mrs. Who, Mrs.Which and Mrs. Whatsit. Chris Pine and Zach Galifianakis are also on board,making it a serious set of big league players here.
Granted, that's not a guarantee of success or quality but this is clearly is a labor of love for most of these folks and that should amount to something truly special on screen:
Her interest in increasing her work load is due to a romance with CIA agent Nathaniel Nash(Joel Edgerton), something that her bosses may not see as a threat to their control over her at first. However, the time when those particular set of skills that were drummed into Dominika will be used against those in charge is fast approaching.
This movie happens to be based on a thriller novel by Jason Matthews, which could be a good sign of a solid screenplay and the director on hand, Francis Lawrence, worked with JLaw on the Hunger Games trilogy,so perhaps this may be a savvy sleeper hit in the making:
Helen Mirren stars as the widow of the renowned gun maker who keeps on adding extensions to her already elaborate mansion in order to avoid the haunted spirits within the walls.
Yet, not even the further expanding of the now infamous house is enough to keep the determined supernatural threat at bay. I have a feeling that those who are familiar with the legendary Winchester Mystery House are part of the intended audience but not as much as regular horror movie fans:
The plot has a quartet of newly empowered young people( a couple of which are played by Maisie Williams and Charlie Heaton) held at an isolated location in order to learn control over their seriously dangerous abilities. However, someone or something appears to be hunting them down.
This certainly is a change of pace for the franchise and if the results are anywhere near to what Logan achieved, we're in for some major ground breaking genre material here:
Fortunately, Steven Spielberg is at the helm which aids greatly to getting in many of 1980s referenced material into the story(Spielberg has opted out of using his own work,due to not wanting to make this film look like a vanity project). Also, while a few familiar faces(Simon Pegg,Mark Rylance) can be seen in the cast, we have a good amount of fresh faces as well.
That's important as the story is truly the star of the show and judging by this brand new trailer, this film could provide some much needed relief from what's to come in 2018 and revive our collective cinematic spirits for the better:


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If you have an online retail business or an eCommerce storefront, you have most probably heard of Magento, the powerful eCommerce platform that enables thousands of retailers and brands to rapidly innovate and grow. To demystify how Magento works and the best practices thereof,
we spoke with Uwe Weinkauf, CEO of MW2 Consulting, the experts in Enterprise Application Development, eCommerce, IT Outsourcing, and IT Operations that deliver valuable solutions for global business needs. MW2 has been a fully certified and trusted partner of the Magento platform since it's inception. In this interview, Uwe talks about some amazing insights about Magento as well as some interesting insights that will help your online retail business immensely. Read on!
Tell us about MW2 and why several trusted brands chose your services to grow their eCommerce businesses?
We are a Global Magento Solution Partner, aligned to help leading B2B and direct-to-consumer brands produce better results across digital channels.
Our Fast2Commerce™ methodology allows rapid delivery and optimization of global, multi-language B2B and B2C platforms. We are an internationally trusted consultancy, delivering leading digital solutions for brands across the globe. MW2 has significant expertise helping B2B and B2C brands realize their commerce vision.
Tell us about your Magento partnership and expertise.
Our Magento Service and Solutions are very comprehensive. We engage with clients early on in the lifecycle and can guide or assist them with eCommerce roadmaps, user stories, digital strategies and an effective alignment with their customers.
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End to end certified Magento services including Magento Training, Development, Store Operations, Integrations, Hosting, and Much More...
What is Magento 2? How does Magento help eCommerce businesses scale?
Magento 2 is essentially everything businesses loved about the first Magento… but so much more. The long list of new improvements begin with its platform, in which e-commerce merchants are able to innovate and create the best customer experiences available… regardless of the channels or devices it's being used on. The Magento 2 is the ultimate experience for endless scalability, incredible performance, and rich functionality.
- Magento 2 & The Shopping Experience
Magento 2 offers some of the most advanced features so your customers can truly enjoy their shopping experience. The feature-rich program improves conversion, increases sales, and turns customers into honest advocates of your brand.
- Magento 2.2 or Magento B2B
With the latest Magento release, Magento Commerce 2.2 has pushed the boundaries of traditional commerce platforms. Now offered as an all-in-one cloud solution, it provides new and powerful capabilities.
What is Fast2Commerce methodology? How is it reducing errors, lowering costs, and resulting in timely market implementations?
MW2's Fast2Commerce methodology™ helps our customers to get eCommerce stores
a) launched with confidence and on time and
b) with the right quality.
It is not unheard of that brands have spent a lot of money on eCommerce platforms which never get done or are very difficult to scale along with the business which makes the total cost of ownership prohibitively high.
Also, many brands want to hire agencies who can do the implementation. However, if the requirements are unclear or not well defined this can become a lengthy and frustrating process. MW2's Fast2Commerce framework takes the guesswork out, provides predefined templates, well-defined user-stories, and the business can understand within a matter of weeks how the new site will function and can sign off with confidence.
How can early-stage and smaller eCommerce businesses strategically use digital marketing and social media marketing to build a strong target audience and increase brand awareness?
SEO is the most effective way to increase traffic and to get an early stage or smaller eCommerce business launched. Advertisement needs to be considered as well but we advise caution (see below). We would recommend to do it at a later stage once a small business understands its business value better in terms of which products customers like and where they can create a niche.
Using channels initially may also be a good idea, i.e. selling through Amazon to establish a brand recognition and funnel traffic back to your site.
So, let's take a look at SEO from a super basic-high-level overview:
- Utilize Headers and Title Tags
- Optimize Product Page URLs
- Eliminate Duplicate Content
- Clean Code = Faster Performance
- Make Use of 'Nofollow' Links
- Add Relevant Keywords
- Make Sure Your Website is Accessible
- Set Up a Sitemap
- Don't Use the Default Description
- Optimize Your Website's Homepage Title
Read about each of these in detail here:
10 of the Most Common Magento SEO Issues (and How to Fix Them)
Search Engine Optimization is of vital importance for any website owner. After all, months of hard work on building your website will go to waste if Google fails to recognize its value. The same applies to e-commerce websites, where SEO plays a significant role. Just like brick-and-mortar stores, online stores also need visitors.
In the world of eCommerce, how is a stellar user experience entwined with web design? How can eCommerce businesses optimize conversion with beautiful designs that offer a cohesive brand experience?
User experiences are critical and consumers are getting more and more used to slick and modern UIs. The goal is to create beautiful designs which are simple, intuitive and fast!
With this being said, here's a look at how sites are providing incredible work that operates across all devices.
Top Ecommerce Site Design Trends
Website designs for ecommerce sites are starting to look the same in terms of patterns, layouts, and ways to gain new subscribers. This is often due to how customers are using the site and more customers are gravitating towards mobile devices than desktop computer use.
Starting an eCommerce business or a retail store? Get your website on a .STORE domain. Find out more here.


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Memory cardsOne of the beauties of digital photography is you can take lots of picture without spending a fortune getting them processed. The limit really to how many pictures is the capacity and number of memory cards. If your photographer use SD cards, get him or her a few more and perhaps a card wallet to hold them. Right at the moment 2GB & 4GB cards are the best value and hold decent number of photos (even RAW) However check that the camera can take SDHC cards (HC is for High Capacity)
USB Memory Card ReaderYou don't need to buy the expensive ones, a simple all in one card reader with a USB plug can be stored in you camera bag. Then when you are on holiday or you are out and forgot your cameras upload cable you will have a backup.
Baby TripodsThere is a multiplicity of these from tiny desktop legs, that only support small compact cameras (not larger DSLRs), to the unusually named gorillapod, that has flexible legs, that can even be wrapped around a stable object but only a 325g lifting capacity.
One nifty small tripod-ish support that is a fraction dearer than my under $20 limit is the manfrotto pocket support. Its strong enough to support most grownup DSLR but small enough to leave on your camera.
Dust CleanersNotice I haven't used the term lens cleansers, that is because most lenses these days are coated with specially formulates but thin anti glare and flare coatings. these layers are very easily rubbed off with even the softest cloth. Also it is a good idea not to use and liquid lens cleaners on your lens or even the LCD screen on the back of the camera. A soft micro-fibre cloth, not a paper tissue which will leave troublesome fibres everywhere, is generally all that is required to keep your camera body clean. An old fashion brush and blower are also useful.
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Presented at: 34th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Philadelphia, USA, 7-12 juni 2009.
The overall demand to reduce the solar energy costs gives a continuous drive to reduce the thickness of silicon wafers. Handling and bowing problems associated with thinner wafers become more and more important, as it can lead to cells cracking and high yield losses. This paper discusses
the microstructure and mechanical properties of the aluminium on the rear side of a solar cell. It will be shown that the aluminium back contact has a complex compositelike microstructure, consisting of five main components:
1) back surface field layer 2) eutectic layer 3) spherical (3 - 5 µm) hypereutectic Al-Si particles, surrounded by a thin aluminum oxide layer (200 nm); 4) a bismuth-silicate glass matrix; 5) pores (15 vol.%). The Young's modulus of the Al-Si particles is estimated by nanoindentation. These results are used as input parameters for an improved thermomechanical multiscale model of a silicon solar cell.
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Matthew Chan
East Asia Science and Industry Leader
Your best solution to date?
Currently Arup is acting as the client representative on a new manufacturing base for aeroplane consumables in Asia.
Why is it significant?
Arup is providing all value-added services including design review, programme management, construction supervision and operational advice. The deliverables will help the client find a technically-sound design and systematic operation flow from their main contractor, and enhance their future growth.
Your particular skill?
Operations consulting, science and industry, mechanical, electrical and public health engineering.
Science, industry and process-related projects.
Why Arup?
Arup manage to work on the leading edge on all our projects.
Anything else?
Also experienced in infrastructure projects, cargo terminals, factories, data centres, clean rooms, refrigeration centres, energy audits and other process-related projects.