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Q&A with Junior Driver Josh Stiling
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After a solid freshman season, lanky junior Josh Stiling erupted for 36 goals as a sophomore in 2011, helping the UC San Diego Men's Water Polo team to its 15th Western Water Polo Assn. (WWPA) championship and a trip to the NCAA Final Four. With five of seven starters back from that squad, Stiling and the Tritons are looking for an encore this fall. On the eve of the 2012 season, the Oregon native took time to look back at last year, talk about how he got to UCSD and what would make his junior year a success.
Q-Oregon to La Jolla is not one of the typical collegiate water polo pipelines. How did you end up at UC San Diego out of Southridge High School in Beaverton, OR?
STILING-I had done pretty well in Oregon water polo and after joining the local club and playing in tournaments down in California I thought I had a good shot at playing in college. A year previous I had the opportunity to see a good friend of mine get recruited to UC Irvine so I knew if I worked hard I could eventually get to the same level that he was playing. I sent emails out to several coaches my senior year and with a little help from my dad, who was a friend of Denny's (Harper) from his college days, I got in contact with Usha (Matt Ustaszewski) and went on a recruiting trip to UC San Diego. Afterwards I fell in love with the school and I knew it was where I wanted to go.
Q-How would you describe the caliber of high school polo in Oregon and what were the major adjustments you faced coming into UC San Diego?
STILING-The caliber of high school polo in Oregon is definitely a couple steps lower than what I've experienced in college at UCSD. One of the reasons being that water polo is not a very big sport in Oregon and only the big high schools have teams. Once I got to college I definitely had to adjust my level of intensity to match the guys I was playing against, and I had to work a lot harder to make things I did in high school happen at the collegiate level.
Q-Where do you feel you made the biggest strides between your freshman and sophomore seasons and where do you hope to step up most significantly in 2012?
STILING-From my freshman to sophomore year I'd say my biggest strides were in my level of shooting and how much bigger I got. From my first to second year I gained a lot of weight and thought I got significantly stronger thanks to the amount of work we did in the weight room over the off season. This coming season I've made it one of my goals to help fill the void that Graham Saber left on offense and be a major scoring threat from the perimeter.
Q-This year's team brings back a solid core from the 2011 WWPA championship squad but loses four-year starting goalie David Morton and leading scorer Graham Saber? How do you see those gaps being filled and how do you think this season's team will differ from that one?
STILING-Replacing Dave Morton has been one of the main concerns we've had since the 2011 season but in my opinion Cameron Ravanbach and Nick Michels have done a great job in stepping up over the spring and summer and have already proven invaluable in our first three scrimmages at UCI. Graham was a huge contributor to our success as a team last year, and replacing him is certainly a tall order but as I said above I've made it one of my goals to help fill the role he left on offense.
Q-Last year's WWPA win put UCSD in the NCAA Championship for the first time since 2006. What was that weekend like and how did the two games in that tournament differ from others during the season?
STILING-Well, for starters winning the WWPA title for the first time since 2006 was an amazing experience and being part of the legacy of teams who accomplished that feat was pretty cool. The weekend of NCAA's was an incredible experience that our team is working hard to get back to this year.
But the two games we played at that stage had a much different feel and importance to them than any game I'd ever played up to that point. I was a lot more jittery and excited before those games and once you're playing there are about 2-3,000 people watching you play, which is a really cool experience but at the same time it can be a little nerve-racking.
Q-How do you feel that experience will help this year's team?
STILING-The experience we got last year winning a WWPA title and competing in the Final Four was invaluable and has definitely helped our team focus on what we need to do to get back to the Final Four and be successful once we get to that point.
Q-At 6-foot-4, you're the tallest player on UCSD's roster. What type of advantage does height provide in water polo?
STILING-I wouldn't say the tallest man on the roster, I'd give that title to either Michels or newcomer Brian Roach, but my height is a factor I like to take advantage of especially when I'm shooting or playing defense. It's much easier to shoot around or above a shorter defender and on defense it can be a major advantage when playing in the passing lanes or shot blocking.
Q-You were second on the team with 36 goals last year. Is there a progression from shooter to scorer in water polo? If so, where would you put yourself?
STILING-There is a definite progression from being a shooter to scorer, the difference being the ability to put the ball in the goal. Since my freshman year I believe I've steadily progressed to a point where I'm no longer just throwing the ball at the cage but rather every time I shoot I'm being smart about where I shoot it and what kind of shot it is. I'd say a scorer is someone who has the ability to score in a variety of situations and I believe over the past three years I've made a definite progression towards being a scorer.
Q-Were you able to watch any of the water polo play at this summer's Olympic Games in London? What were your impressions and how does that game differ from the collegiate version?
STILING-Yes, I was able to see many of the polo games in London and was really impressed to see teams like Croatia and Serbia play. The game at the Olympic level is a lot more physical and the guys playing at that level have such an amazing game awareness and always know exactly what's going on around them. The collegiate version definitely touches on the physicality aspect of the game but I think the game awareness at the Olympics is on an entirely different level.
Q-What other sports did you play when you were younger and were there any Olympic sports (outside of polo) that you think you might like to take a shot at? Why?
STILING-Before I started playing water polo sophomore year I played baseball pretty much year-round. I would be working out in the fall and winter on my pitching and strength until my junior year in high school where I decided to play water polo year-round. I also played basketball until sophomore year of high school but was never very serious about the sport. Besides water polo I don't think there were any other sports that I could ever attempt to play at the Olympic level.
Q-How would you describe the on-deck styles of Head Coach Denny Harper and assistant coach Matt Ustaszewski? How has each affected your game?
STILING-Denny brings a lot of intensity and experience while Usha brings a more laid back creative insight to practice every day. Both Denny and Usha have pushed me since I was a freshman to be a greater offensive threat and it has without a doubt helped me become a better player and a more confident shooter. Without their help and direction over the past few years I would not be the player that I am today.
Q-Who are a couple of athletes that you admire?
STILING-Michael Phelps is definitely an inspiration. Watching someone dominate in their sport is something that is really cool. Tony Azevedo, captain of the U.S. Men's Water Polo team, is also a guy I really admire and enjoy watching play. His ability to shoot from the perimeter is insanely good and is a player I try to model some parts of my own game after.
Q-On your team, which players would best fit the descriptions of "Mr. Intensity-Genius-Comedian and Mr. Clutch?"
STILING- I'd have to go with John Butler for Mr. Intensity. John is very passionate about water polo and every day in practice he was always bringing a high level of intensity and physicality. Brian Donohoe obviously gets the genius award since he was awarded Capitol One All-American Academic honors for the 2011 season, something that no other water polo player in the country can say. Comedian could probably go to several different people but I'd have to go with Jack Bernstein. Jack is one of our new players and since he's been on the team his confident and goofy demeanor has provided a lot of needed comic relief. For Mr. Clutch I'd go with David Higginson. His role last year was mainly a facilitator and driver but whenever he needed to score or make a defensive stop he was a guy you could count on.
Q-Compare your hometown with La Jolla. What are your favorite aspects of each?
STILING-Well La Jolla has a lot nicer weather year round than Beaverton. During the winters it would rain 70 to 80% of the time back home so it's nice to get away from that. But my favorite part of my hometown is that all my friends and family are back there, and I always enjoy going home a lot because I only get back home 3-4 times a year so I think I cherish the time back home a lot more.
Q-You're a chemical engineering major. What led to that choice and what do you hope to do with it?
STILING-I was good at math in high school and thought chemistry was pretty interesting so I thought chemical engineering would be a good choice for me. As of right now I'm very interested in the energy field and specifically nuclear energy, so maybe something pertaining to that after I graduate.
Q-Personally, what would make 2012 a successful season for you?
STILING-I'd say winning WWPA's again and getting another shot at NCAA's all the while making major contributions on the scoreboard would make a successful season for me.
Q-How would you handicap your team's chances to return to the NCAA Championships and what needs to happen between now and mid-November to make it a reality?
STILING-Lots of hard work and focus. We're not going to reach our goal of winning another WWPA title if we don't dedicate each and every practice to becoming a better team.
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Xiang Zhang remembers the day he recognized that something extraordinary was happening around him. It was in 2000, at a workshop organized by DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to explore a tantalizing idea: that radical new kinds of engineered materials might enable us to extend our control over matter in seemingly magical ways.
The goal at hand, changing how objects interact with light, seemed at first blush to be routine; people had been manipulating visible light with mirrors and lenses and prisms nearly forever. But Zhang, a materials scientist then at the University of California at Los Angeles, knew those applications were limited. Based overwhelmingly on a single material, glass, the technologies were restricted by the laws of optics described in standard physics texts. The engineers in the room hoped to smash through those barriers with materials and technologies never conceived of before. The proposals included crafting what amounts to an array of billions of tiny relays; in essence, the relays would capture light and send it back out. Depending on the specific design of the array, the light would be bent, reflected, or skewed in different ways.
What could you do with a tool like that? An amazing amount, Zhang soon discovered. For one thing, you could render objects invisible. You see something, after all, when light bounces off it, creating the reflections that enter your eye and form an image on your retina. If you could direct light to flow smoothly around the object like water flowing past a rock in a stream, there would be no reflection, no rays entering your eye, and nothing to see—not even a shadow.
Harry Potter's invisibility cloak inevitably arises as an example of the power of such materials, but invisibility is just the start. Every tool based on the interaction of electromagnetic waves with objects, from modems and MRIs to radios and radar, could have their powers extended, altered, enhanced.
One version of the technology might lead to superfast optical computers, which store and process information using light. Another version might obliterate the line between the large things we can see and the small things we cannot. Instead of an invisibility cloak, imagine the reverse: a supermicroscope that would let you view vanishingly small objects such as individual strands of DNA. Such a tool could turbocharge biological research, advance computer chip manufacture, revolutionize education, and usher in an age of near-magical nanotechnology. The potential is so vast that Zhang and his colleagues have struggled for ways to sum it up.
The laws of refraction, which govern how light bends, were codified by the great Arab physicist Ibn Sahl in A.D. 984 and updated by the Dutch mathematician Willebrord Snellius in 1621. For almost four centuries these laws had been passed down from generation to generation unquestioned, like the laws of gravity. Suddenly it seemed possible to Zhang that you could stretch the law of refraction to its limits because you could make light bend in any direction you liked—including the exact opposite of the way glass and every other natural material bends it.
It was like learning that you could make a form of water that flowed uphill. Thomas Zentgraf, who works in Zhang's new lab at the University of California at Berkeley, puts it this way: "Imagine that you were raised in a world in which the only color was red. Then one day someone discovers blue."
At that DARPA conference, Zhang was only beginning to appreciate the hues and tints and shades. He realized the magnitude of the coming change when, during one conference session, a Defense Department scientist handed him a copy of an article. The man's eyes were dancing, and he had a broad smile. "Take a look at this," he said. Zhang started reading the paper, written by a professor in Hong Kong who was pursuing similar research but with a twist: Instead of light, he was working with acoustics. Sound is a kind of wave totally different from light, yet the principles were the same. In a flash Zhang saw that the concepts swirling around him were basic, universal new rules about how humans could control and manipulate the world. Right then he knew how he would be spending the next several years of his life.
"It was a very exciting moment," he says, with a scientist's penchant for understatement.
That moment was the culmination of the iconoclastic work of John Pendry, a physicist from Imperial College London. Back in the 1990s, Pendry, an expert in condensed-matter physics with a special interest in electromagnetism, was consulting with Marconi Materials Technology. The British company manufactured a radiation-absorbing carbon material that could hide battleships from radar detection but didn't know the physics of how it worked. Could Pendry find out?
Pendry discovered that the electrical properties allowing the material to absorb radiation came not from the carbon per se but from the shape of its long, thin fibers.
Scientists had long known that they could change the behavior of a material by altering its chemistry. For instance, you can alter the color and hardness of glass by adding lead. But now Pendry saw that he could also alter function by changing a material's internal structure on a very fine scale, less than a wavelength of whatever he was manipulating. (A wave of visible light, just about the size of a virus, has a length of a few hundred nanometers.)
These new, structurally altered materials would soon become known as metamaterials, based on the Greek meta, meaning "beyond." "We knew we were onto something," Pendry says.
Marconi was so pleased with Pendry's insight into the carbon fibers that the company wanted to know whether he might have any new tricks up his sleeve. Pendry proposed trying to change the magnetic properties of a material. He wondered: Could he take a material that wasn't intrinsically magnetic and magnetize it by altering its physical structure alone?
Ordinarily, either a material has the innate ability to be magnetized—generating forces from electrons moving inside them—or it does not. To invest this quality where it does not naturally appear, Pendry envisioned a theoretical metamaterial: a precisely crafted composite material that could selectively mimic properties of a conventional magnetic substance like iron. "Magnetism involves charge going around in a circle," Pendry says. "If electrons in atoms could do this, then we could do it on a larger scale."
This kind of metamaterial, he hypothesized, could be manufactured from minuscule loops of copper wire (copper is not naturally magnetic) embedded in a material like fiberglass. Pendry predicted that when current flowed through those loops, a magnetic response would occur.
There were many nuances to this scheme. If you cut the loops you could make a magnetic resonator, which would act like a switch. The switch would allow Pendry to change the magnetic properties of the fabricated material on command.
Pendry knew he was in uncharted territory, but at first he didn't comprehend the magnitude of his idea: By combining the electrical properties of Marconi's radar-absorbing material with the magnetism imparted by the copper wire, he had unknowingly figured out how to manipulate electromagnetic radiation, including visible light—making wild applications like Harry Potter's invisibility cloak suddenly within reach.
Pendry's incredible conception, published in a respected physics journal in 1999, stoked the imagination of scientists worldwide. One of the first to be drawn in was an experimental physicist at the University of California at San Diego named David Smith, who heard Pendry speak shortly before his landmark paper was published. Pendry's results were startling, especially to a physicist, because magnetism is one of the core properties of matter. For any given element, this property or its absence was carved into atoms since the time of creation. The idea of being able to switch magnetism on and off was counterintuitive, to say the least. After the lecture, Smith returned to his lab and excitedly described to a colleague, Willie Padilla, what he had just heard. Padilla was just as captivated.
Smith and Padilla were the perfect sorts of scientists to hear Pendry's claim. Most of the physics one reads about in the popular press concerns big-picture concepts like string theory and black holes and alternate universes. Such matters are important, of course, but the profession has a lower-profile side as well: developing the skills and tools required to actually measure the behaviors of the physical world. The researchers who do this are called experimental physicists, and their guiding principle is that while the world is full of bright ideas, the only way to know if you have something real is if you can build it and then measure what you have built. Smith and Padilla belonged to this group.
Being who they were, they set to work immediately to build a real version of Pendry's device and measure its behavior. The magnetism switch built by Smith and Padilla was faithful, in concept, to the machine Pendry had conceived. Made of tiny structures, arrays of very small coils, it could "tune in" to a magnetic field the same way a radio antenna receives and concentrates signals of a given radio frequency. When illuminated by a source of radiation, the material behaved as though it were naturally magnetic.
By the time the pair's work was published, in May 2000, it was obvious that the ideas in play were far bigger than just artificial magnetism. A whole new branch of physics was coming up over the horizon. "We realized it was like finding a new state of matter no one had achieved before," Padilla recalls, still marveling. He, too, was beginning to think it might be possible to create a new class of materials, comprising substances whose physical properties came not from their position in the periodic table of elements but from design decisions made by human beings.
In a stroke of great luck, Padilla and Smith made their discoveries just as physicist Valerie Browning, a new DARPA program manager, was launching an initiative of her own. Better software, massive computational resources, and increasingly precise microfabrication techniques were making it possible to fabricate materials out of minuscule building blocks specifically engineered to exploit the different sorts of physics that emerge on very small scales. (To give one example, surface-to-volume ratios, which are critical to many physical behaviors, change radically with scale. To give another example, the rules of quantum physics—the physics that dominates inside the atom—give particles capabilities amazingly different from those we see in the macro world, from tunneling through solids to instant communication between particles that are located far apart.)
At first Browning called these hypothesized materials engineered composites. Later she called them metamaterials, the term Pendry and Smith used for their devices that interacted with waves. No matter what the name, the important thing was that, like Zhang, Browning envisioned the transformative power of this brave new material world. Even before Pendry published his breakthrough paper and before Zhang fathomed invisibility cloaks or computers of light, Browning was struggling to convince the military to fund a program based on her ideas about metamaterials. In 2000, with Pendry's paper vindicating her argument, she finally convinced DARPA to pony up $40 million for an advanced materials program. The agency was ready and waiting with an open checkbook when Smith and Padilla and Zhang, racing to build the new materials, sent proposals her way. With the money and motivation coming together, innovation soon followed.
By the fall of 2000, Pendry had laid the groundwork for a supermicroscope capable of seeing to a scale never before achieved. The inability to see the extremely small is becoming more of a problem all the time, since the objects our scientists and engineers think about are steadily shrinking (metamaterials are themselves an example). Each year scientists lose more direct access to their work; more of their landscape goes black. Tools for working around this problem have been invented, like the electron microscope and X-ray diffraction, but these are like canes for blind people: no substitute for direct observation. (To look at something with an electron microscope, for instance, you often have to coat the object being observed with metal and place it in a vacuum. Since this kills living things outright, it imposes serious limits on biological studies.) We have had no way to see living viruses infect cells, or to observe the interactions of proteins, or to watch DNA make a transcript of its biomolecular assembly instructions.
The same problem crops up everywhere. For instance, the advancement of the microcomputer industry depends on circuits with smaller and smaller features, but we must still use some form of light to print those features. Past a certain point—one we are very close to reaching—features become too little to be printed. The task becomes like using a crayon to write very fine letters. The farther we walk down this tunnel, the narrower it gets, and these days it is getting quite cramped indeed.
Pendry envisioned a way out of the tunnel, with metamaterials to guide the way. Tiny objects are difficult to observe because they have almost no reflection to focus on. But Pendry realized that when light hits a small object, the impacting radiation triggers a subtle effect that manifests itself as a pattern of local waves. The waves vanish without a trace almost immediately after being generated. Pendry thought that if metamaterials were built and positioned just right, they could pick up, preserve, and process these evanescent waves, converting them into a form that could be resolved into useful images. Normal lenses cannot produce images from such waves because of the limitations of how they bend light. But metamaterials can transcend those limits, providing a tight focus that no piece of glass (or any other ordinary material) ever could.
Pendry still remembers the day he realized that this new kind of lens would allow people to see invisibly small objects. "I was astonished and, frankly, frightened to publish the conclusion," he says, "because I knew that everyone's first reaction would be that it could not be true. I can tell you that I checked the result very many times!"
In 2004 researchers at the University of Toronto created the first superlens to tap into the minute details hidden in those evanescent waves, although the lens could focus only microwave radiation. The following year Zhang's team crafted an ultrathin layer of silver into the first optical superlens. Its resolution was several times better than that of the best optical microscopes. And in 2007 Zhang did even better by developing a lens that amplified the signal of the evanescent waves. The lens clearly resolved two nanowires separated by 150 nanometers, a gap narrower than a single wave of visible light. Pendry has no doubt that the "perfect lenses" he conceived will get steadily more powerful. "Fundamental physics sets no limits," he says.
Pendry's work on metamaterials is notoriously complicated and serious, so it is ironic that the most famous implication of his research—the invisibility cloak—began as a joke. Heeding the suggestion of a colleague, he decided to have some fun with a lecture he was delivering at a 2004 DARPA meeting. He knew metamaterials could theoretically hide objects from sight, so he made a Harry Potter reference—but not the one you might expect. He brought up Platform 9¾, the invisible departure point for Harry's trip to Hogwarts, drawing some laughs from the crowd. "And then the DARPA woman started taking things seriously," Pendry says. "She offered me half a million dollars to work on it."
Soon afterward, Smith approached Pendry to tell him that he would like to build a cloak for real. "I told Smith he must be crazy, and then he did it," Pendry says, chuckling.
In 2006, ensconced in his new lab at Duke University, Smith developed the first functional invisibility cloak, though not for visible light. The cloak steered radiation around a copper cylinder to hide the object from microwave detection.
From there, Zhang picked up the ball. By then he was set up at Berkeley, running a 40-person research group. While the projects Zhang oversees are varied, at the group's core is a metamaterial fabrication shop, the most ambitious of its kind in the world. Foreshadowing the jolt that metamaterials is likely to give the general field of 3-D nanofabrication, the facility builds really small but geometrically complex devices.
That skill is necessary to get us to full-blown nanotechnology and to the long list of amazing devices (like universal fabricators, countertop food factories, intracellular longevity boosters, even telepathy implants) that it might make possible. However, almost all of engineers' present expertise in building small objects involves two-dimensional structures, such as microprocessors and computer memory chips—in part because digital electronics generate lots of heat, and it is easier to cool something that is two-dimensional. Engineers have been speculating about 3-D chip architectures for years, but the change in skills and tools needed to build such devices is so radical that the feat has never found investment sufficient to do the job.
Until now.
With his metamaterials workshop, Zhang is the harbinger of change. Since so many metamaterials applications are inherently 3-D, the trickle-down from his work will be vast. For example, building a useful invisibility cloak—the kind that could hide a person or a military tank—requires crafting many little devices that pick up a ray of light on the far side of an object, away from the observer, and then relay that ray, row by row, around the object. When the ray arrives at the side facing the observer, it is re-emitted in the direction it would have taken had the object not been there at all. Very weird—and a decade ago it would have been considered a total violation of the laws of refraction—but seemingly doable. For the cloak to be useful, though, it would have to bend light from all directions. To do that, a 3-D array of light-bending devices is a must.
It was in the summer of 2008 that Zhang's group took the first small step toward creating a real-world invisibility cloak by fabricating the first optical metamaterial to work in three dimensions. Made of 21 alternating sheets of silver and a glasslike substance, the material, dubbed fishnet, contains rectangular holes that resemble waffles or sieves. As light travels through the fishnet, the alternating layers act as circuits that bend light in unusual ways. A separate group in Zhang's lab accomplished a similar feat using silver nanowires embedded in a solid base. In principle, a more durable version of these materials should be able to guide light around an object, creating the desired cloak.
This past January, Smith built a structure that comes even closer to the goal of building an invisibility cloak large enough to hide a person. The device is almost two feet long and four inches wide, with a small bump on one of the thin edges. If you place a small object beneath the bump and then shine microwave radiation on the cloak, the microwaves that bounce back will look like reflections from a blank mirror—as if the bump (and anything hidden beneath it) were not there.
The breakthrough in this work: Smith's metamaterial device is the first to handle a very wide range of wavelengths, a necessity for Harry Potter–level invisibility. His design shows it is possible to cloak all the colors of an object at once, from red to blue and everything in between. The device is still a far cry from a wearable cloak—it works only on a flat surface, and it responds to microwaves, not light—but it is a big step in that direction. Smith says the design should easily scale down to the visible spectrum, meaning that soon we may see a "bump" of matter seemingly disappear in front of our eyes. Smith is betting that someone will build such a device by the end of this summer.
After that occurs, there will still be one big limitation: Anyone inside the invisibility cloak would not be able to see out, for the same reason that an outside observer could not see in. "If I can't see you, you can't see me. It would be like being inside a silvery bubble," explains Pendry. Would-be invisible men will have to figure out a way to cut out a visor, or perhaps decloak before accidentally walking into a wall.
Yet other metamaterial applications focus not on vanquishing what we see but on extending it. Padilla hopes to use engineered materials to investigate what he calls "the last unexplored region of the electromagnetic spectrum"—the T-ray, or terahertz, region—positioned between the infrared and microwave bands, at a frequency of a trillion cycles a second. Still largely inaccessible to our instruments, T-rays, if captured, could lead to innovative imaging and sensing technologies that hold enormous potential in biomedicine and security.
I knew everyone's reaction would be that it could not be true. But physics sets no limits.
Already NASA scans T-rays to look for weaknesses in the foam insulation on the Space Shuttle. T-rays offer hope for improved detection of cancer, including skin cancers like melanoma, because they track molecular signatures of malignancy that are not easily seen with other types of scans. Padilla also envisions terahertz radiation playing a huge role in airport security. Not only can T-rays penetrate clothing to expose objects hidden underneath, but, because of their size and frequency, they can also reveal "whether that object is cheese or a plastic explosive," something current scanning technologies simply cannot do. In the world of astronomy, the specific frequency of T-rays would allow scientists to observe the formation of stars.
In search of these riches, Padilla is building a metamaterial-based terahertz camera. Currently some companies use expensive, inefficient high-powered lasers to scan objects with T-rays, but Padilla's scanner should quickly and cheaply collect images in a device only slightly larger than your digital camera. The metamaterial, partially made from gold, will absorb T-rays and convert them to heat, which the camera can then detect to form an image. Padilla has begun experimenting with custom materials and expects to have a functioning terahertz camera within three years.
And yet, for all this optimistic talk, metamaterials researchers are finding that their science is still young and the technological hurdles vast. The electromagnetic spectrum consists of an immense number of wavelengths. The details of how each artificial material works, and the kinds of engineered elements it requires, vary with the particular wavelength being manipulated. Most research done with microwaves cannot be generalized to the infrared or the visible parts of the spectrum. Engineering solutions aimed at modulating each part of the electromagnetic spectrum must be reasoned out from the beginning and pursued with a different set of materials and designs. Further complicating things, many applications will work only if you process many sets of wavelengths simultaneously. (An invisibility cloak that screens out only yellow would not be very useful.)
Furthermore, light moving through materials typically gets absorbed until, at some point, the energy of the radiation falls to zero, putting an end to its usefulness. How can metaengineers move radiation through artificial materials without snuffing it out? Moreover, some frequencies of light have such short wavelengths that building devices to interact with them would require pushing fabrication expertise past its current limits. Pendry is working on finding new synthetic materials that maintain the quirky properties of metamaterials without absorbing the precious light. "It's bad enough in an ordinary lens, but it's terrible for a perfect lens," he says. Last October, Pendry published a paper in Science proposing new methods to allow engineers to harness light with minimal energy loss.
Scientists are inherently drawn to things once viewed as flat-out impossible.
Like technical hurdles of the past, though, this one too will probably soon yield to science. The reward for success is just too great to fail: Contemporary technology rests on a huge family of structures that interact with electromagnetic fields, from wireless modems to permanent magnets to lasers to tuners of all kinds. All these devices stand to be significantly improved—made cheaper, smaller, more capable, faster. Metamaterials seem perfect for building tiny spectrometers tuned to the presence of specific molecules, a function of interest to everyone from the health care industry to the Office of Homeland Security. It should be possible to build radiation shields that allow objects to sit in fields without being affected by them. Then normal surgical tools, like scalpels, could be used in an MRI machine without distorting the images on screen. The principles of metamaterials could be extended to control water waves (protecting oil rigs from sudden storms, for instance) and sound waves (creating perfectly quiet, private spots in the middle of a noisy office).
Beyond all this, scientists are inherently drawn to things once viewed as flat-out impossible. "I would give a talk on metamaterials," remembers physicist Vladimir Shalaev of Purdue, "and people would come up to me and say, 'Vlad, you have such a good reputation. Why would you want to throw it away by working in this field? Don't you understand it cannot be true?'"
Now even his harshest critics have signed on for the show. Throw a rock into a pond and the ripples flow outward; toss a rock into a metamaterial pond and the ripples might flow inward, toward the point of impact. You could make the fish in that pond appear to swim in the sky. We aren't there yet, but Pendry and his growing band of followers are building the bridge.
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A Romantic Spring Wedding at Galleria Marchetti in Chicago, Illinois
Kate (32 and an appellate court slasher) and Robb Bollhoffer (37 and a partner at 29th Street Capital) were married in a romantic garden ceremony with sweeping views of Chicago, Illinois. "Galleria Marchetti has a lush garden tucked away in the middle of downtown Chicago, and it's a perfect spot for a ceremony—very little decor was needed since the garden itself is splendid," Kate says. They chose soft shades of mint and pink to capture the spring season and the colors of the surrounding garden. "It used to be an Italian restaurant featuring a large outdoor garden, which is pretty rare to find in the city," Kate says of their venue. "I used to dine there with my parents when I was younger, so it had special meaning to me." After the ceremony the party moved under a big white tent in the garden, although the weather was beautiful all day, allowing guests to wander in and out throughout the night. When it came to her dress, Kate had quite a journey. "I tried on about 15 dresses before I found 'the one,' " she says. "I'm not a crier, and was pretty apathetic about all the dresses I had tried on before it. This one was so gorgeously designed, I had tears down my face. The French Alencon lace fit right into the wedding's theme, and the delicate ruffled back gave it a unique look." —Meghan Overdeep


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Race this flat and fast course through the Classic Jersey Shore resort of Atlantic City and its surrounding communities. Athletes will love the dedicated lanes on the AC Expressway for the bike course and run on the iconic Atlantic City Boardwalk, with sun, sand, casinos and amusements for the entire family.
The easily accessible, historic seaside resort of Atlantic City is home to world-class sports, cultural and entertainment events. With its world-famous Boardwalk, luxury hotels and stunning beaches, athletes, friends and family can expect to experience the best of what Absecon Island has to offer including casinos, shopping, dining, and entertainment against a stunning backdrop of sea, sun, and sand.
The race begins at sunrise with a 1.2-mile sheltered swim in the beautiful back bays of Atlantic City. Framed by the Atlantic City skyline, spectators may view the entire swim course from the shore. This 2.5x loop bike course will take athletes INTO Atlantic City via the Atlantic City Expressway with dedicated lanes, which athletes will ride toll-free! Finally, the 13.1-mile run course features striking views of the Atlantic Ocean on the world-famous Atlantic City Boardwalk, a one-of-a-kind race experience for both athletes and spectators.
The 2020 IRONMAN 70.3 Atlantic City will offer 40 qualifying slots to the 2021 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship in St. George, Utah, USA.


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How to: Remove Database Mirroring (SQL Server Management Studio)
To remove database mirroring, use the Database Properties. use the Mirroring page of the Database Properties dialog box.
Before mirroring can be reestablished, at least one log backup must be taken on the principal database and applied to the mirror database. Furthermore, any additional log backups taken since mirroring was removed must also be applied to the mirror database.
To remove database mirroring
During a database mirroring session, connect to the principal server instance, in Object Explorer, click the server name to expand the server tree.
Expand Databases, and select the database.
Right-click the database, select Tasks, and then click Mirror. This opens the Mirroring page of the Database Properties dialog box.
In the Select a Page pane, click Mirroring.
To remove mirroring, click Remove Mirroring. A prompt asks for confirmation. If you click Yes, the session is stopped and mirroring is removed from the database.
For more information about the impact of removing mirroring, see Removing Database Mirroring.
Optionally, you can recover the former mirror database. On the server instance that was the mirror server, use the following Transact-SQL statement:
RESTORE DATABASE <database_name> WITH RECOVERY;
If you recover this database, two divergent databases that have the same name are online. Therefore, you must make sure that clients can access only one of them, typically the most recent principal database.
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Non 12 Step Addiction Rehab In Malibu California Talks About Underage Drinking
Non 12 Step Addiction Rehab Pioneer Dr. A.R. Mohammad Announces Campaign To Raise Awareness About Underage Drinking
Addiction And Alcoholism Treatment Expert Dr. A.R. Mohammad Vows To Educate Public About The Need For New Tactics For Halting The Nationwide Underage Drinking Trend
Dr. Akikur Mohammad, Founder of Inspire Malibu and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California, announced today that he and his team of addiction and alcoholism treatment experts from Inspire Malibu will be addressing the public about the dangers of underage drinking and more importantly, the fact that family awareness and early intervention can make a significant impact on the underage drinking trend that persists throughout the country – according to a new report issued by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Dr. Mohammad said, "According to SAMHSA's findings, there is still an alarming underage drinking problem that persists across the country and not only does that reflect poorly on the current preventative measures alcohol retailers have in place, but also indicates the need for a significant awareness push. My team and I intend to lead that charge by reaching out to the local community with pertinent information and tangible steps that can be taken by families to curb underage drinking and deal with alcoholism before it results in tragedy." Mohammad added, "Aside from underage drinking incidents being indicative of deeper issues that may continue to manifest if not addressed, underage drinking can lead to poor academic performance, sexual and physical assault, significant physical and emotional trauma, and even death."
Dr. Mohammad and the Inspire Malibu team will be addressing underage drinking and the preventative measures that can be taken at home and school at their next town hall meeting. Mohammad added, "There are preventative steps that can and must be taken at the family and community level and our team is committed to sharing them with the public. If you or someone you know is struggling with addiction or alcoholism, contact our team and we will work with you to find a solution."
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2013 Mega-Conference Comes to New Orleans
By: Nu Yang
This year's Key Executives Mega-Conference promises to explore the latest industry trends that will increase revenue and audience, and deliver solid results. Set in New Orleans from Feb. 17-20, and organized by the Inland Press Association, Local Media Association, and Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, the conference is expected to host 500 key newspaper executives and more than 50 exhibitors.
Working together
Before the Mega-Conference was created four years ago, the Inland Press Association, Local Media Association (formerly known as the Suburban Newspapers of America until 2012), and Southern Newspaper Publishers Association each held its own separate spring conference.
SNPA executive director Edward VanHorn said each conference attracted roughly the same audience members, and putting the three associations together for one conference created "great synergy."
Inland Press executive director Tom Slaughter said there was also some crossover with the exhibitors that attended the conferences. By combining them into one Mega-Conference, Slaughter said it enabled all three organizations and exhibitors to come together.
The first Mega-Conference was hosted just by the LMA and SNPA in Orlando, Fla. Inland Press joined the following year for the Mega-Conference in St. Petersburg, Fla., and last year's conference took place in San Antonio.
Slaughter said this year's agenda in New Orleans addresses the unique challenges of an industry that is "migrating from print to digital."
"The print side of the business still produces a large share of profit," he said. "We tried to find topics that are useful and important for print goals but also speak to the digital side."
LMA president Nancy Lane said, "We're trying to help an industry that is massively transforming. Our focus is on digital, but we're not forgetting print. We're also addressing new and emerging trends, successful case studies, and selling digital agency services, which is our biggest opportunity area in 2013."
VanHorn explained that each association had three appointed representatives who, along with key staff members, met over phone calls during the summer to pitch workshop and speaker ideas.
"The topics come from within the industry and from our members," said Inland Press director of programming and membership Patty Slusher.
The conference begins with a bonus session on Sunday, Feb. 17. "Launching Digital Agency Services: What it can do for you — and your customers" will offer advice from industry experts from large to small media companies that have experience in providing digital products within their markets. The session will also offer the most effective methods of putting digital solutions in place.
"It's a high-level, hands-on three-hour session for executives to talk about what is happening in this space and to showcase a different model," Lane said.
Each association is also excited about the Mega-Conference Executive Roundtable on Tuesday, Feb. 19. Speaking will be Michael Klingensmith, publisher and chief executive officer of the Minneapolis Star Tribune Media Co.; Larry Kramer, president and publisher of USA Today; Terry Kroeger, publisher of the Omaha World-Herald and president of the BH Media Group; and Jim Moroney, publisher and CEO of The Dallas Morning News.
"Each publisher will bring their different perspectives and particular viewpoints to the table," Slaughter said. Scheduled on Tuesday is "On the Front End of Media Change in the Entrepreneurial City of New Orleans" with NOLA Media Group president Ricky Mathews and New Orleans Times-Picayune editor and vice president of content Jim Amoss. The two will discuss the company's digital efforts, in particular transitioning from a daily printed newspaper to a schedule that prints only three times a week.
"I'm excited about the NOLA discussion," VanHorn said. "It's something the industry is watching with great wonder."
Slusher said that, with a conference this big, each organization has its own niche to serve. "From large newspapers to weekly newspapers, there is diversity in our programming. Our focus is on print and digital plus innovation. Two years ago, you would not have seen this kind of program."
"I'm looking forward to helping the industry," Lane said. "I want (publishers) to walk away with the right tools and ideas to grow their business."
Slusher said when the Inland Press, LMA, and SNPA come together as one to host the Mega-Conference, it sends a subtle message to their members to work together. The same collaboration can be seen with the exhibitors that attend the conference.
"The vendors love (the conference)," Lane said. "A lot of them used to have to pick and choose which conference to attend. Now, one trip equals more exposure … the high-level decision makers are here. They're the ones who sign the checks. Most of them publish medium-size papers, so they're able to move and make decisions quicker."
New to this year's agenda is an hour-long Buzz Session on Monday, Feb. 18. During this time, industry research and development partners will showcase how their products and services are being used by newspapers to grow revenue and improve operations. According to Slusher, 12 exhibitors are scheduled to present their services and case studies. Each exhibitor is given four minutes to speak.
"It's an opportunity for vendors to highlight revenue-generating ideas that were a direct result of using their products," she said.
"What better way for newspapers to turn to these partners," Lane said. "The exhibit hall can be overwhelming to some … and with publishers strapped for time, this will identify which company will help their business grow the most."
Both LMA and SNPA have done Buzz Sessions at their own association meetings and saw plenty of interest from their publishers.
Content That Works chief evangelistic officer Paul Camp has attended the Mega-Conference since it originated. The Chicago-based company provides editorial products for about 1,300 clients in newspapers, television, and radio.
Camp said having all three organizations come together at once is a "huge cost benefit."
"I don't have to send three people to three different cities," he said. "It could cost me $1,500 or more depending on the city."
Camp said while other conferences and trade shows have scaled down, the Mega-Conference has grown and continues to help vendors sell products. "(They) involve the vendors in the planning of the event. We're not being ignored. We're welcomed under the tent, you can say. We're embraced, not separated from the others."
This is the first year Content That Works has signed on as a sponsor. Camp said it's because the company will be introducing a new product at the conference, but also because he wanted to "reward the three organizations for their efforts."
SAXOTECH, based in Tampa, Fla., provides integrated media solutions for more than 1,000 news organizations around the world. Vice president of business relations John Pukas has attended every Mega-Conference, and he plans to be in New Orleans this year.
He said what makes the Mega-Conference stand out is how the exhibitors are not treated as a second thought. "We're partners in the same industry … I really feel strongly Mega-Conference is emerging as the event to attend … it's grown in popularity … and they reach out to the vendors. At Mega-Conference, there is no wall."
SAXOTECH will return this year as the Tuesday evening special event sponsor with a Mardi Gras theme party. Pukas said the event is meant to be a fun, social way for attendees to interact.
Online and mobile solutions provider Adpay, based in Englewood, Colo., has attended each year to meet with these industry decision-makers. Executive vice president of sales Deb Dreyfuss-Tuchman said at the Mega-Conference, attendees make an effort to "truly come into the exhibit hall."
Adpay is also a sponsor this year. "For Adpay, the Mega-Conference has really evolved into our premier conference event of the year. Because of the great program, decision makers come to this conference looking for actionable ideas," Dreyfuss-Tuchman said. "The organizations hosting are very conscious of supporting the exhibitors. Therefore, they do an excellent job of directing traffic to the exhibit hall. As a result, we are able to meet with many current and prospective partners. This helps us to generate an extremely measurable return on our participation investment."
Each exhibitor echoed the same sentiment: They learn from the conference as much as the newspaper attendees.
"It's a great way to see trends by talking to publishers and attending sessions," Dreyfuss-Tuchman said. "For example, we have learned about augmented reality and video files and how to distribute them on mobile platforms … the idea to create these solutions came from conferences."
Camp said not only does he learn from the programming, but he also learns good lessons on the exhibit floor. "It's a collaborative environment."
"(The Mega-Conference) gives us a good perspective on what is of interest in the industry we serve," Pukas said. "It truly helps shape us. As much as we go there to inform, we are also there to learn."
For more information and a complete schedule of events, visit mega-conference.com.


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Led by the literate singer/songwriter Mike Scott, the group's sole constant member, the mercurial Waterboys formed in London in 1981. Born December 14, 1958, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Scott first became involved in music as the creator of the fanzine Jungleland and later played in a series of local punk outfits. After college, where he studied English and philosophy, Scott and his band, Another Pretty Face, moved to London; following the group's breakup, he formed the Waterboys, so named after a line in the Lou Reed song "The Kids" but wholly appropriate given Scott's recurring lyrical fascination with sea imagery.
A newspaper advertisement calling for musicians led to a response from multi-instrumentalist Anthony Thistlethwaite; along with drummer Kevin Wilkinson, the Waterboys issued their self-titled debut in 1983. Keyboardist Karl Wallinger and trumpeter Roddy Lorimer joined for the 1984 follow-up, A Pagan Place, which expanded the group's rich, dramatic sound while further exploring Scott's interest in spirituality. With 1985's This Is the Sea, the Waterboys reached an early peak; a majestic, ambitious record, it earned the group a significant hit with the single "The Whole of the Moon."
However, after the album's release, Wallinger departed to form World Party, which prompted Scott and Thistlethwaite to relocate to Ireland and begin with a clean slate. When the Waterboys returned in 1988 with the acclaimed Fisherman's Blues, they were joined by traditional Irish players like fiddler Steve Wickham, drummer Dave Ruffy, keyboardist Guy Chambers, and bassist Marco Weissman, resulting in a stripped-down, folky sound that was continued on 1990's Room to Roam.
In 1991, Scott moved to New York without Thistlethwaite or any other bandmembers; the release of 1993's Dream Harder, cut with session musicians, marked a return to an electric, more rock-oriented sound. Soon Scott moved back to Scotland, where he began a lengthy stay at a spiritual commune; there he recorded the folk-tinged Bring 'Em All In under his own name, apparently putting the Waterboys to rest for good.
On July 17, 1999, drummer Kevin Wilkinson committed suicide in his countryside home in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, just prior to jetting off on an American tour with Howard Jones. Wilkinson, who had also worked with Squeeze, China Crisis, Bonnie Raitt, and the Proclaimers, had been a member of the Waterboys since their 1983 self-titled effort.
Good fortune was in the wings, however, as Mike Scott resurrected the Waterboys' name in 2000. Rock in the Weary Land marked the band's first release in seven years. Thistlethwaite and Wickham returned to the group, and tours across the world proved successful. Fisherman's Blues, Pt. 2, an album featuring previously unavailable material from the Fisherman's Blues sessions, appeared in the summer of 2002. Scott returned to the studio for 2003's Universal Hall, followed by Book of Lightning in 2007.
After a couple of years of touring and time off, Scott assembled and released a compilation of unreleased songs from the Waterboys This Is the Sea sessions entitled In a Special Place in 2011, and also published a book entitled, Kiss the Wind: A Waterboy's Adventures in Music. He and bassist Scott Arciero also assembled a new version of the Waterboys -- Wickham (fiddle), Katie Kim (vocals), James Hallawell (keyboards), Kate St John (sax, oboe), Blaise Margail (trombone), Ralph Salmins (drums), Sarah Allen (flute), and Joe Chester (guitar) -- who began performing together in late 2010 and early 2011. In March they entered a studio to commence recording a new album. An Appointment with Mr. Yeats, a collection of new songs whose lyrics were taken from the poems of William Butler Yeats. The sessions were completed in June. The album was released in Europe in the early fall on Proper, and in the United States in early 2012. In January of 2015, the Waterboys released Modern Blues. The album was recorded in Nashville, produced by Scott and mixed by Bob Clearmountain. Scott's next Waterboys project was an ambitious and eclectic double album, 2017's Out of All This Blue, which added elements of country, R&B, and hip-hop to the group's mix. Scott and company continued to blur genres in 2019 with Where the Action Is, which took its title from the chorus of Robert Parker's '60s Northern Soul classic "Let's Go Baby." ~ Jason Ankeny
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Colorful Coastal Home
A designer unleashes her love of color in her family's summer home
The Palm Beach vacation home that interior designer Robin Weiss shares with her husband, Bill, might be pink, but sissy it's not. The Bermuda-style exterior is bathed with a barely-there pastel of the girly hue. Inside, however, Robin concocted a decorative scheme that mimics the kind of tropical drink you might order at a swim-up bar—one charged with a high level of intensity not often replicated at home.
After all, the house—built and designed by Florida architect William Wietsma—is not the primary Weiss residence. Originally from Long Island, the couple headed west in 1976 when Bill's job required moving his family to Wyoming. Becoming accustomed to scenic mountain views and long winters, Robin (who continues to operate a design business in Jackson Hole) veered toward warm, subdued colors and antique textures as a backdrop with Western flair. But once the Weisses decided to live part-time in Florida, she pulled out bold, bright tones for their vacation home and never looked back.
"I asked myself if I could get away with a palette that was so bright," Robin explains. "I felt the rooms carried enough stature and grace to balance such drama. Each room was open on one side, so you were never bombarded by the color on all four walls."
The vibrant look begins in the living room. Robin splashed the room with vivid color, but the bones of the structure and appointments of furniture are quite traditional. Classic moldings, windows, and a fireplace were painted white as a contrast to the mottled, hot pink finish on the walls. A sofa and a pair of club chairs upholstered in an orange-and-pink toile fabric were brought from the Palm Beach townhouse where the Weisses lived before their new home was built. A lattice-patterned ottoman placed between the two club chairs adds to the spirit of the space. To avoid having everything match, a white camelback sofa in front of the center French doors and a lacquered Asian-style coffee table lighten and diversify the room.
Traditional sensibilities pervade the dining room, too. A round bamboo table stained dark anchors the room under a gold-leafed crystal chandelier.
"I bought the chairs for my daughter, who lives in New York. But she no longer had room for them in her apartment," Robin says, "so I sent them to Palm Beach. Then I combed the area to find additional ones until I had a set."
The den tempers the shocking pink palette of the living and dining rooms but offers its own colorful statement with bright accents enlivening a neutral background of brown. Primarily used by Bill as an office, the room is handsomely attired. Enclosed by wood-paneled walls, the sofa and comfortable armchairs are covered in gray cotton fabric with rich red accents that imitate the color ratio of a quiet suit with a bright pocket square. To increase the room's tropical feel—established by the botanical print that upholsters the furniture—ferns adorn a pair of black lamps, the sisal rug, and artwork.
In the breakfast room, where the kitchen's green marble countertops inspired the green checks on cushions, toss pillows, and shades, a banquette on one side of the glass-and-iron table promotes easy traffic flow. The soft green of the tray ceiling adds a soothing ambience.
Femininity reigns in the master bedroom because Robin found a fabric that incorporated pink without being "too much" for her husband. The cotton-linen material features large graphic flowers instead of daintier versions that would have been too small for the scale of the room. To create cohesiveness, she upholstered all of the furniture pieces and the window panels in the same overscaled pattern.
Now that the house glows with colorful pizzazz, Robin doesn't second-guess her bold choices. "I wouldn't be able to get away with using bright pink in Jackson Hole," says Robin. "This house allowed me to do whatever my imagination told me to. Florida homes are fun, bright, and cheerful. There is a certain freedom and a different protocol with a second home. I took advantage of it!"
Photography: Robert Brantley
Architect: William Wietsma, Wietsma Lippolis Construction, 1030 Basin Drive, Delray Beach, FL 33483; 561/274-4863, wietsmalippolisconstruction.com.
Interior Design: Robin Weiss, Cabin Fever, P.O. Box 14270, Jackson, WY 83002; email@example.com.
Wall paint: custom.
Coffee table ("custom, "Darjeeling"): Summer Hill, out of business.
Art over mantel: owner's collection.
Area rug ("Crosstown"): Stark Carpet, 212/752-9000, starkcarpet.com.
Sofa (discontinued): Brunschwig & Fils, 800/538-1880, brunschwig.com.
Lounge chair: Leta Austin Foster & Assoc., 561/655-5489, letaaustinfoster.com.
Sofa and lounge-chair fabric ("Bengal"/Paprika #1468.01, by Manuel Canovas): Cowtan & Tout, 212/647-6900, cowtan.com.
Sofa and lounge-chair trim (by Manuel Canovas): Cowtan & Tout, 212/647-6900, cowtan.com.
White pillows on sofa: owner's collection.
Ottoman: custom.
Ottoman fabric ("Diamond Lattice Figured Texture"/Primrose #89739.121): Brunschwig & Fils, 800/538-1880, brunschwig.com.
Chandelier ("Chambord Gilt Chandelier" #CLA10/G): Vaughan, 212/319-7070, vaughandesigns.com.
Classic Florida Exterior
The Weisses completed their Palm Beach home in nine months.
Wall paint ("Ballet Slippers"#1331): Benjamin Moore, 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.
Hanging lantern: Vaughan Designs, 212/319-7070, vaughandesigns.com.
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Designer Robin Weiss made sure that every element coordinated with pink, including a bicycle that greets visitors at the gate.
Colorful Living Room
The sofa and chairs show off orange-and-pink toile, and the ottoman wears a coordinating trellis fabric, all from Brunschwig & Fils. Pink pillows made of Manuel Canovas cotton top the white love seat.
See details on the following slide.
Lounge chair: Leta Austin Foster & Assoc., 561/655-5489, letaaustinfoster.com.
Chair fabric ("Bengal"/Paprika #1468.01, by Manuel Canovas): Cowtan & Tout, 212/647-6900, cowtan.com.
Mantel; bookcase: custom.
Loveseat: owner's collection.
Fire screen: Wm. Jackson Co., no longer in business.
Loveseat fabric ("New Montana"/White, discontinued): Norbar Fabrics, 800/645-8501, norbarfabrics.com.
Pink pillows ("Mandor"/Azalea #4228, by Manuel Canovas, discontinued color): Cowtan & Tout, 212/647-6900, cowtan.com.
Rectangular pillow ("Java Java"/Pink on White #3080-26, by China Seas): Quadrille, 212/753-2995, quadrillefabrics.com.
Wall paint: custom.
Coffee table ("custom, "Darjeeling"): Summer Hill, out of business.
Art over mantel: owner's collection.
Area rug ("Crosstown"): Stark Carpet, 212/752-9000, starkcarpet.com.
Vibrant Fabric
The home's carefree aesthetic is exemplified in the living room's fabrics, an oh-so-Florida blend of vibrant colors and crisp whites.
Homeowner and designer Robin Weiss.
Lively Mixture
The signature raspberry pink of the Weiss home is the springboard for a lively mix of antiques and flea-market finds in the dining room.
See details on the following slide.
Table: owner's collection.
Chairs: antique.
Chair-seat fabric ("Ninon"/Cerise, by Manuel Canovas, discontinued): Cowtan & Tout, 212/647-6900, cowtan.com.
Chinoiserie cabinet (custom): Julia Gray Ltd., 212/223-4454, juliagrayltd.com.
Mirror ("Chinese Gold Bamboo Mirror"): Mecox Gardens, 800/487-4854, mecoxgardens.com.
Chandelier ("Chambord Gilt Chandelier" #CLA10/G); wall sconces ("Narbonne Wall Light" #WLA17/G): Vaughan, 212/319-7070, vaughandesigns.com.
Tall candleholder (Steuben); vase on table: owner's collection.
Small candleholder ("Alexis Candlesticks"): Wiliam Yeoward, williamyeowardcrystal.com.
Area rug ("Crosstown"): Stark Carpet, 212/752-9000, starkcarpet.com.
Wall paint: custom.
Decorative artist: Linda Turk, Faux Works Studio, 561/213-0092.
Bamboo Motif
Bamboo trims a credenza and white-painted chair.
Sage and White Kitchen Palette
The green of the kitchen walls and granite countertops offsets the white painted cabinetry in the spacious kitchen. The tray ceiling above is painted a soft green to tie the room's palette together.
See more of the kitchen on the following slides.
Cabinetry: Bremtown Fine Custom Cabinetry, 574/546-2781, bremtown.com.
Ceiling paint ("Crisp Green" #534): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.
Countertop and backsplash: Green Tea granite.
Chandelier (antique, for similar #SA8023): Century Furniture, 800/852-5552, centuryfurniture.com.
Roman shades: discontinued.
Wall ovens; range: Wolf, 800/222-7820, subzero-wolf.com.
Pot filler faucet: Franke KSD, 800/626-5771, frankeksd.com.
Airy Bar Stools
Cushions on kitchen stools from Williams Sonoma coordinate with pillows tossed on the banquette in the breakfast area.
Counter stools: owner's collection.
Chair-seat fabric ("Bragance"/Tilleul #1461.01, by Manuel Canovas): Cowtan & Tout, 212/647-6900, cowtan.com.
Bright Breakfast Area
A striking antique chandelier hangs above an iron-and-glass table from Lane Venture. The table fronts a curving banquette where boldly patterned fabric from Manuel Canovas covers the cushions.
Chandelier (antique, for similar #SA8023): Century Furniture, 800/852-5552, centuryfurniture.com.
Dining table; chairs; area rug: owner's collection.
Check fabric ("Chantilly Check" 1520, discontinued): Summer Hill, no longer in business.
Banquette fabrication: Mueller's Fine Draperies, 561/833-5957.
Wall and banquette paint ("Super White"): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.
Red plaid pillows (by Manuel Canovas, discontinued); floral pillow ("Bragance"/Tilleul #1461.01, by Manuel Canovas): Cowtan & Tout, 212/647-6900, cowtan.com.
Mirrored Exterior
Pink paint—this time in a light pastel—was splashed over the outside walls of the house.
Wall lanterns: Vaughan Designs, 212/319-7070, vaughandesigns.com.
Settees; ottomans: Brown Jordan, 800/743-4252, brownjordan.com.
Console tables: owner's collection.
Pretty Path to the Pool
A path of large stepping stones leads from the house to the swimming pool.
Palm-framed Pool House
The pretty pink pool house is open on two sides, inviting fresh breezes and enhancing the area's tropical feel.
Wall paint ("Ballet Slippers" #1331): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.
Chairs; coffee table: Janus et Cie, 800/245-2687, janusetcie.com.
Pillows on chairs: owner's collection.
Grill: Alfresco Lifestyles, 276/628-4797, alfrescolifestyles.com.
Urns: MacKenzie-Childs, 888/665-1999, mackenzie-childs.com.
Large hurricane at entrance to pavilion: antique.
Cerulean Guest Room
Wrapped in a dreamy cerulean paint, this guest bedroom amps up the classic blue-and-white color scheme with a punch of color from the painting above.
Twin beds (#513): Avery Boardman, 212/688-6611, averyboardman.com.
Headboard and bed-skirt fabric ("Carlotta"/Imperial Blue #BR-79689.273): Brunschwig & Fils, 800/538-1880, brunschwig.com.
Pillow cases: Matouk, matouk.com.
Bed cover: Frette, frette.com.
Bedside table: Lorin Marsh, 212/759-8700, lorinmarsh.com.
Table lamp (antique): The Brass Scale, 561/832-8410.
Wall paint ("Aqua Marina" #816): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.
Paneled Study
Walls lined in wood paneling imbue the study with a masculine sensibility.
Loveseat; lounge chairs and ottoman: owner's collection.
Loveseat and chair fabric ("Doria," by Manuel Canovas, discontinued): Cowtan & Tout, 212/647-6900, cowtan.com.
Green-and-white pillows ("Nairobi"/Leaf on Tint #2110-01, by China Seas): Quadrille, 212/753-2995, quadrillefabrics.com.
End tables; bench; bench fabric (discontinued); area rug; art: owner's collection.
Table lamps: Nicholas Antiques, 212/688-3312, nicholasantiques.com.
Caned chair: Mecox Gardens, Mecox Gardens, 800/487-4854, mecoxgardens.com.
Chair fabric ("Nairobi"/Leaf on Tint #2110-01, by China Seas): Quadrille, 212/753-2995, quadrillefabrics.com.
Paneling: cypress.
Pink, White and Green Bedroom Scheme
Pink flowers bathe the master bedroom in feminine delight. The ivory-painted Lewis Mittman four-poster sports linens from Matouk, while a geometric rug by Stark Carpet hints at garden trellises.
See details on the following slide.
Bed ("Palm Four Post Queen Bed" #BH1100-Q-4P): Lewis Mittman, 212/888-5580, ef-lm.com.
Bed linens (DEA linens): Fine Linens, 877/454-6366, finelinens.com.
Bed cover: Matouk, matouk.com.
Wall paint ("White Down" #970): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.
Area rug ("Woven Trends" #208): Stark Carpet, 212/752-9000, starkcarpet.com
Sofa ("Yorkshire Loveseat"): Summer Hill, no longer in business.
Side chairs: antique.
Drapery, sofa and side-chair fabric ("Pink Chardon," #34153.1): Clarence House, 800/221-4704, clarencehouse.com.
Cocktail table: Nicholas Antiques, 212/688-3312, nicholasantiquescom.
Green pillows on sofa ("Barcelona" #4551.05, by Manuel Canovas, discontinued color): Cowtan & Tout, 212/647-6900, cowtan.com.
Botanical prints: ownre's collection.
Cheerful Checked Vanity
Cheerful pink-and-white checks by Clarence House are shirred around the vanity.
Vanity: owner's collection.
Vanity-skirt fabric: Clarence House, 800/221-4704, clarencehouse.com.
Vanity mirror; lamps: antique.
Bench: owner's collection.
Drapery and bench fabric ("Pink Chardon," #34153.1): Clarence House, 800/221-4704, clarencehouse.com.
Sweet Sitting Area
Robin wanted to incorporate comforting and soothing fabrics into the master bedroom without the fuss of multiple patterns. The same Manuel Canovas botanical print was used for the draperies and for the sofa and armchair upholstery.
Eye-Catching Bath Chandelier
The master bath carries a colorful yet restful palette, echoing the master bedroom. An eye-catching chandelier from MacKenzie-Childs hangs above the oval tub for a touch of colorful character.
Bathtub: Hydro Systems Inc., 800/747-9990, hydrosystem.com.
Tub fittings: Jado, 800/227-2734, jadousa.com.
Chandelier ("Thistle Chandelier"): MacKenzie-Childs, 888/665-1999, mackenzie-childs.com.
Wall covering (discontinued): Brunschwig & Fils, 800/538-1880, brunschwig.com
Vanity: Bremtown Fine Custom Cabinetry, 574/546-2781, bremtown.com.
Vanity countertop: marble.
Large mirror: Dean Glass & Mirror, 954/583-4461, deanglassandmirror.com.
Oval mirror ("Tigress Oval Mirror"): owner's collection.
Tranquil Guest Bedroom
Quiet pink coats the guest bedroom walls with tranquility, echoing the home's pastel exterior. The painted Summer Hill bed promotes relaxation with embroidered Yves Delorme linens and a bed cover by Matouk.
Bed: Summer Hill, no longer in business.
Bed linens: Yves Delorme, 800/322-3911, yvesdelorme.com.
Bed cover: Matouk, matouj.com.
Bedside table; art: owner's collection.
Table lamp: antique.
Wall paint ("Pink Dynasty" #1352): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.


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There is of course no such thing as a Harry Potter game on the Sega Genesis. The series came about far too late for Sega's old console. If you thought that would stop Chinese pirates, though, you don't know Chinese pirates too well.
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The game we've ended up with, which is a Frankenstein's monster of textures and sprites from other titles, has a character that kind of looks like Harry Potter. And that's about as close as it gets to the source material. I mean, watch until 2:13 and you'll hear Street Fighter II's theme kick in.
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