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Back in 2009, KCTS starting blogging about Total Productive Maintenance which has been a core system within KCTS since it started in 1998.
Read it again below:
TPM Principles & Application
What is it?
TPM means Total Productive Maintenance. TPM is about involving everyone in creating and sustaining the necessary standards in their own areas. The standards must continually challenge the organisation to get better results as fast as possible.
A number of techniques are used to get the involvement and change in standards which are needed to deliver better results.
The techniques are often shown as a "TPM Temple". This demonstrates that the techniques all aim to reduce Losses & Wastes, often measured by OEE, and apply to any organisation no matter the structure or products. Each technique has a number of Key Steps which need to be done to get the involvement and change in standards which are needed to deliver better results. The techniques focused upon within this programme are:
• Focused Improvement, also called Continuous Improvement or Kaizen
• Autonomous Maintenance
• Professional Maintenance, also called Condition Based & Planned Maintenance
• 5S, also called Workplace Organisation
• TPM Loss & Waste programme including OEE, Overall Equipment Effectiveness
Other techniques which may be applied as part of TPM are:
• Safety, Health & Environment, reducing accidents, illness & emissions
• Training & Education, improving consistency and delivery of knowledge
• Early Management, improving the way new products and process are introduced
• Quality Maintenance, reducing quality problems
• TPM in Administration, involving people who work in offices and helping change standards in the offices to deliver better results
TPM aims to reduce losses to ZERO. This can be an extremely tough target for some losses, but ultimately satisfying for the people where the losses occur when achieved.
When to use it?
Identification of the type of problem can help work out the plan on how to solve it. Autonomous Maintenance and Professional Maintenance can eliminate sporadic problems by getting reliability back into the process, the area or the activities. Quality Maintenance will improve reliability of the process further to reduce quality defects. Other parts of TPM that can eliminate chronic problems include Focused Improvement, 5S Workplace Organisation and Training & Education.
What does it achieve?
Ownership of problems is only possible when people within the area, or activity, where the problem occurs can be involved in its elimination. TPM focuses people on creating and updating standards to share learning and tackle common problems. TPM delivers results faster than tackling problems in an unstructured way.
TPM aims to reduce losses to ZERO.
Key steps:
1. Visit the area, or observe the activity, and investigate the problem
2. If the problem relates to Safety, Illness or Emissions, select Safety, Health & Environment techniques to eliminate the problem.
3. If the problem occurs regularly, every shift or every day or every week the problem is Chronic
4. Select Focused Improvement, 5S or Training & Education when there are Chronic problems
5. If the problem occurs regularly, every month or every year or every few years the problem is Sporadic
6. Select Autonomous Maintenance and Professional Maintenance or Quality Maintenance as an improvement tool when there are Sporadic problems.
7. Visit the area, or observe the activity, and check the problem has been eliminated
• Most people do not mind changing, but most people mind being changed. The way that people are involved is crucial and standards must be written by those who work within the area, or activity. These standards must be communicated and reviewed by the other people who also work within the area, or activity.


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While U.S. and British markets were closed for holidays Monday, stocks rose in Europe.
A benchmark of European equities climbed to a six-year high, while Italian and Spanish bonds advanced as policymakers said they would take steps to support economic growth. Shares in Russia gained, and crude oil fell as Ukraine elected a new president.
The Stoxx Europe 600 index climbed 0.6% to the highest level since January 2008.
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi signaled Monday that officials are ready to take action against low inflation, while China Premier Li Keqiang said in a statement Friday that the government will adjust policy to help the economy.
Italian bond yields tumbled after Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's party defeated a populist challenge in European parliamentary elections. Billionaire Petro Poroshenko's victory in Ukraine's presidential vote was welcomed by the U.S. and Europe.
Canadian stocks were little changed. Copper miners Lundin Mining Corp. and Teck Resources climbed at least 0.3% as the commodity advanced. Black Diamond Group added 0.5% after saying it had signed a $34-million contract to build a camp in the Montney natural-gas region in British Columbia.
Shares of Pfizer Inc. traded in Germany reversed losses after the biggest U.S. drug maker abandoned efforts to buy British rival AstraZeneca in what would have been the biggest deal ever in the drug industry. The stock rose 0.2% after being down as much as 1%.
In India, the S&P BSE Sensex rose 0.1%. Narendra Modi, who was sworn in as India's prime minister, signaled that he would cut the number of cabinet ministers in an overhaul of the nation's top decision-making body.
In China, the Shanghai composite index added 0.3% in its second day of gains. China's benchmark money-market rate dropped the most in three weeks after Li signaled more policy easing to counter a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy.
"Premier Li's comments, which have been consistent with previous comments that the central government will take actions to stabilize growth, assured the market that there won't be a rate spike in June," said Chen Peng, an analyst at Fortune Securities Co. in Shenzhen.

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Chapter 5: Raising the Structure
By the fall of 2008, my lengthy search for the perfect tree was over and I was ready to start building. As for who's land I was building on, that was a question I neglected to ask. I decided to just be respectful of the surroundings by keeping a clean site, and then leave the rest in the hands of fate.
The first order of business was finding a place to put my car. The road up was a private drive and parking was ostensibly prohibited. I had, however, parked on it in the past, for a variety of reconnaissance missions and sport sleeping ventures so I was willing to try my luck.
I found a convenient pull out about a minute up the road from the entry point. My tactic was to walk down the road casually as if taking a stroll, then dart into the bushes when the coast was clear. I was careful to disperse my entry point and lay down dead branches to avoid wearing a trail.
I remember arriving with my first load of materials. I had two 14ft. planks that were sticking through the passenger side window and hanging out of the back of my car. I pulled up to entry point and then sat there wondering what to do next. Trying to look inconspicuous, I listened carefully for traffic. Nothing seemed to be coming so I quickly grabbed the planks and, without much finesse, heaved them into the ditch.
There were some big construction projects happening up the road, so a car full of supplies wouldn't turn heads. However, an armful of materials getting jettisoned into the bush would certainly look suspect. Within a few weeks, I had it down to an elegant 5 step process that involved hazard lights, some shuffling around, and a few stealthy dashes into the ditch. At any given time, I could have looked like I was checking my tire pressure or looking for a hub cap. In the case of pedestrian traffic, I'd sometimes start calling a random name, like I was looking for my dog.
Once the materials were in the ditch and out of sight, I had to park the car and get them up to the treehouse. Four round trips to the building site would be typical for a modest amount of material – one trip for tools and supplies, two for materials, and one for carrying out waste. I could clock a round trip in eight minutes. The ascent, fully loaded, was a cardiovascular grind. The descent, however, was much less strenuous, unless the ground was wet. In that case, it was a dangerous sport.
You don't really realize how often you drop things until your'e on a 45 degree slope. Sometimes a tool left on the ground would just spontaneously take off. The first incident involved chasing a box of screws down the hill, that exploded into a constellation of shrapnel when it hit a log. Within a few weeks, I had lost a tape measure, destroyed a battery for my impactor, and spent a few too many hours looking for whatever tool or piece of material had gone hurtling into the rock field below.
The first thing I built was an entry-level walkway to the tree. It was a 14 foot beam that extended from a stump, situated high above the tree, on the uphill side. I knew that a step ladder on a steep slope was a bad idea, but it was all I had. Miraculously, the beam went up safely, although I did fail to consider one thing: what would happen to the beam if the tree started moving in a wind.
As Murphy would have it, a storm rolled in that night and the winds picked up. I couldn't stop thinking about my new shiny walkway getting crushed between the trees, so at 11PM, I decided to head up and check things out. This is when I had my first treehouse related bear-encounter.
Running into bears in those parts was a common occurrence, but I had never done it in the dark. This was a whole new experience. Already unnerved from the groaning forest, and the eerie shadows cast by my head lamp, I came around a sharp rocky corner and heard an alarming huffing and snorting sound. I grabbed for the tree next to me and scanned around with my headlight. About 15 feet away was a medium sized black bear. I wanted to bolt, but common sense and my lack of vision told me that was a bad idea. To my relief, the bear made the first move. While I was still clenching tightly to the tree, he wheeled around and disappeared into the darkness.
Over the next week, I built scaffolding and started on the floor structure. Getting a floor perfectly level while building around a tree, is not an easy exercise for a novice carpenter. I started out with a couple futile attempts involving a string and a level before learning a clever technique with tin flashing. One by one, the joists went up, but not without some precarious balancing acts on the scaffolding. If I had known how much time I'd be spending on that scaffolding, and the theatrics that would ensue, I wouldn't have built it so hastily.
With the floor in place, fabricating the ribs was the next big milestone. Because the ribs required so much custom work with electric power tools, I would need to build them offsite and then port them up. I constructed the ribs on Joe's site – the house I was helping build. For some odd reason, Joe had taken a shine to Ryan and I, and our homeless exploits. He'd often let Ryan store his miscellaneous adventure gear in the crawl space, and for me, he let me use the site after hours for my personal building endeavors.
The plywood ribs went together in two layers of staggered pieces that formed one long continuous curve. I bought high-performance, marine-grade plywood for the final ribs, however, I first built a prototype out of scraps. The one thing I had failed to consider was how I'd get this 17 foot long monstrosity up to the treehouse. Ryan suggested having the rib project out of both driver-side and passenger-side windows like a small aircraft and then sneak it down the highway in the wee hours of the morning. I didn't trust Ryan's judgement one bit … but he was right, that was the only way.
It happened at around 2:30 AM. I threaded the rib through the car windows, slipped in from the back, and proceeded cautiously down the shoulder of the road. I was alert for police, however, my main concern was clipping the rib on some roadside obstacle and cleaving my head off. I made it safely and swore I'd never do that again. At around 3 AM, I carried the rib up, but not without great difficulty (try to imagine poking your way through dark, steep bushes with an unwieldy 80 pound wing on your back). If any bears were roaming the bush that night, I'm sure I kept them amused with my long strings of profanity.
For the rest of the ribs, I took a safer approach: I brought them up in two halves, each about 8 feet long, and did the final lamination on the treehouse deck. I spent about 10 hours on each rib to get it built and finished. I got them done in a couple weeks of long moonlight shifts after work. By the time they were done, the days were getting cold and snow was threatening to fly. I was determined to get the structure built before winter so I began bringing a rib up every morning at 6:30 AM, laminate it, then let the glue dry through the heat of the day. Later that day, after work, I'd run back up to the treehouse and, god willing, install the rib before dark.
Installing the ribs solo was no easy feat and proved to be nearly disastrous on one occasion. Things were going smooth until I got to the high side of the treehouse. The trouble began when the top of the rib got hung up on a small branch above. As I tried to shake the rib free, the bottom slipped off its hold and I was caught straining with all my might to try to save the rib. As I was dragged onto my tippy toes my fear of losing the rib was preempted by fear of losing my own life. Out of instinct, I heaved the rib outward to regain my balance. It arced through the air in slow motion, sailing out so far from the treehouse that it landed nearly 40 feet below on a big rock, and sheered in half. It was a heartbreaker.
I recovered from the broken rib and by mid October the frame was complete. For the first time since I had started building, I came out just to enjoy the view. Being on such a sheer slope made me feel like I was standing in the tops of the trees. The air was crisp and the evening sun was setting behind the Tantalus mountain range. What a surreal experience! I promised myself I'd never forget that feeling.
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yah. the tantalus. *sigh*
I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
dude your place is sick…but is it ski in ski out?haha mine is.from your stories ,i wouldn't doubt that you've been to it.i lived in it full time for 1.5 years.nowadays when i go back it makes me sad that the squaters over the years haven't tried in the slightest to maintain or even keep the place clean, but when i lived there it was clean,well kept and loved.it was the first thing i ever built and it shows, but with the zero money i had to live and eat with,i think i did my best.i built mine on the side of whistler mt.
no help, "borrowed" lumber, a shitty hammer and hand saw costing a total of $5. from the re-use it,picture frames as windows, a few nails and imagination.i built this in jan.'05. its still there and been lived in ever since.
someone else since has added another shack on what was my back balcony, so i guess its technically a duplex now.haha
your place is beautiful and i give you mad props on the hard work i know you put into it.
i hope to visit it someday.
enjoy life
Is there a hot tub? Cable tv?
Joel, congratulations.
You've made a unique and beautiful dwelling. A tree-pod?
many years ago while biking a narrow country road, some lunatic in a ford pinto came tearing down the lane, with a good 4ft of 2×8 stack hanging out both sides of the car windows. in front of his neck & chest.
your transport description – well now perhaps i know his madness
So you don't say what protection you gave the tree before attaching large hinges and what seems to be a steel belt to hold the floor supports ? Nor do you say if you nailed the scaffold to the tree or if you removed the nails . How will the tree be able to grow as you don't seem to have allowed for any expansion at your attachment points. You may have but you don't say so. Its a beautiful piece of work in an idylic spot. Shame on you. It should at least be on your own or leased land not on land reserved for all our generations future appreciation. But pull it down with equal ghusto and rebuild it on some appropriate land and have it forever
we are all here temporarily, enjoy what you can while you can, you can't take it with you so create for the future to enjoy
debbie downer!
chill out!!! This is a magical project. dump your angst somewhere that deserves it, like any gov't. get a grip.
What a goof of a comment.
Brings out the kid in all of us
this is very beautiful,i have drawn up my own plans to build a small place of my own,but must have the money and the time to do it. i have faith that one day i will be able to build it and post it or send what it looks like to you. if i could get more people to build a place like i have drawn up we could save so much energy and waste..one day i will send it out,just remember my name cause you will be seeing me again in the near future. love the place you have built though.
Protecting the tree should be paramount. The tree will live longer than the structure. The tree's life is dependent on intact bark, as all the growth occurs just beneath it. Trees are dynamic, always flexing, slowly growing, so all structures attached should be also. Attachment points and structures should take into account air flow and water flow so bark can protect itself and not become prone to rot or structural failure. This is a difficult problem but should not be ignored, but rather, solved.
Beautiful work. Be sure to post it on http://www.freecabinporn.com. (Please don't worry about the site; it's got an unfortunate name but beautiful photography and some gorgeous get-aways.) I bet you can finance whatever you decide to do with the HemLoft by publishing and selling plans for the HemLoft. I've got a tall white pine in my backyard in Connecticut and I'm thinking a smaller version of the HemLoft would be perfect.
I absolutely love the cabin, but I have a fairly substantial question:
How did you manage to stabilize the structure by drilling into the tree without damaging the heartwood and killing the tree?
The structure is eye pleasing and this could become a business for back yard Hemlofts, you will probably make your retirement early. However,….. I do agree with the Chris E , "How did you manage to stabilize the structure by drilling into the tree without DAMAGING the heartwood and KILLING the tree?" If you are such a nature lover why would you NOT STOP and think about the living tree. Drill into a beautiful mature tree! A tree is living just like you. Imagine someone drilling through your bones! Give the tree/nature a little respect…….Drilling into the tree makes the Hemloft ugly….
Do you think about your carrots before you pluck their little beating hearts from the ground and chomp down on them mercilessly? Sheesh.
Are you telling me that you don't have anything in your house made of wood? That is highly unlikely.
Drilling into heartwood is no problem, it's just old wood. All the nutrients are carried up and down on the cambium on the outer inches next to the bark. There is still more than enough room for nutrients to flow so this tree will be just fine. Everyone feel better now?
Think about how many nails we drove into trees making tree forts as kids, did any of them die?
[…] the story of the HemLoft's birth involves bears, government helicopters, a broken rib (the treehouse, not Allen, but it was a near miss), and more […]
He Joel, this is aaawesome! You ispired me a lot. I was curious, not that im consearned about the tree, but isn't the tree going to die with all these screws? And if not, isn't the tree going to grow and move, slowly crushing your contruction? I fear your treehouse might get in problems after a few years because of that, instead of the illegal land thing…
I'm intrigued, how did you make the level floor with tin flashing?
I am so glad you have shared this story with all of us. It is one of the nicest and most positive tales I have come across for some time.
You did a wonderful job of videoing the process from inception to completion.
I hope that all the exposure doesn't bring all the government bureaucracy down on you!!
Offering us such an interesting and well-presented compilation of your project will, hopefully, bring you some opportunities for your search for an early retirement.
Well done!! I wish you well in any future endeavors.
Arwin Annis.
Who took these pictures, apparently you were not alone while building ??
Hey Allen, am I wrong or did you get this idea from Myst….
[…] The first thing built was the entry-level walkway to the tree. It was a 14-foot beam that extended from a stump on the uphill side. To read the full store about raising the structure visit thehemloft.com/story-structure […]
This looks so so so wonderful! Right now…sitting in my office in front of pc…oh dear I would love to spend a month or a life there. Wish you good luck and lot of great time spend there. Hope no one will take you down.
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
Spring Conference of the Fairfax Genealogical Society
Some scenes from the vendor area of the Conference
Today was an activity-packed second day at the Spring Conference of the Fairfax Genealogical Society. There was also Conference programming Friday afternoon and evening: individual consultations with Conference speakers, an Advanced workshop with Thomas W. Jones, CG (which unfortunately was already all filled up by the time I registered), and a presentation entitled "What is Britain?" by Audrey Collins.
In addition to another two workshops with Thomas Jones (also filled up by the time I registered) and two lunch-time mini-sessions ("Ancestry.com World Archives Project" and "Family Search Indexing Project") with Jennifer Dondero, today there were three tracks with four lectures each: "Basic Research" with Sharon Hodges, "Research in England" with Audrey Collins, and Mid-Atlantic Colonial Research" with Charles S. Mason, Jr. I attended the two morning sessions of Mid-Atlantic Colonial Research and the two afternoon sessions (Courthouse Research and Original Records) of Basic Research. Both had lots of information that is new to me in areas where I really need to sharpen my research skills, so that alone would have been worth the modest price of admission.
But there was more! There were, of course vendors, and when I arrived bright and early at the opening time of 8:00, they were already in full swing (note for next year: remember to arrive early!). I hit one of my favorites first: Dr. A. Bruce Pruitt, who has lots of materials on North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, including a number of deed abstract books and map books he has compiled for various districts or counties of these states. The three books I bought from him last year have been hugely helpful in my research, so this was where I focused my purchases this year, in contrast to last year, when I was buying more how-to, citation, and terminology books. He is very knowledgeable about the history of these areas and the nature and location of all different types of documents of genealogical relevance and is very generous with sharing his knowledge; stopping to talk with him is like getting another educational session.
Elsewhere I picked up Courthouse Research for Family Historians by Christine Rose, William Dollarhide's Census Substitutes & State Census Records Volume 2 – Western States, and, in return for a contribution to the Society, a number of back issues of genealogy magazines. Below is a picture of my "geek" purchase for the day.
And, to counter my trend of never winning anything, I actually won a book – Fairfax County: Historical Highlights from 1607. So now I can't say that I've never won anything.
My rating: A very enjoyable, genealogy-filled day! I'm still hoping to make it to Knoxville this year for the FGS Conference, and I learned at the NGS table today that their 2011 conference is to be held in Charleston, South Carolina (yippee!).
My geek purchase for the day: a lovely wooden bookmark with "Cite Your Source" carved in it
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Sounds like you had a great day Greta! I love your purchase too!ReplyDelete
Hey, you won something! Now you had better read it. Maybe the conference wouldn't have been so packed if it wasn't for WDYTYA, it prob. brought in more people. Hope you had fun. Love to my old county(lived there 20 yrs.).ReplyDelete
Sounds like a wonderful fun conference!ReplyDelete
Cheryl, Barbara, Tipper - Yup, it was my idea of a really enjoyable day!ReplyDelete
It was a really good conference this year!ReplyDelete
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Three associate lab directors, microscopy expert join the ranks of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
News Release
November 29, 2012
Allison Campbell
Nigel Browning
Tony Peurrung
Doug Ray
RICHLAND, Wash. —
Four Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for their efforts to advance science or its applications.
The PNNL honorees and the AAAS sections that elected them are: Nigel Browning, physics; Allison Campbell, chemistry; Anthony Peurrung, physics; and Douglas Ray, chemistry.
The four will be honored at an induction ceremony Feb. 16, 2013 at the AAAS annual meeting in Boston, Mass. The four selections bring the Richland-based Department of Energy national laboratory's total of AAAS fellows to 56.
AAAS is honoring Browning for his work in electron microscopy, a type of microscopy that can zoom in to see the features of molecules. Browning has been pushing the limits of electron microscopy and spectroscopy since the early 1990s, when he succeeded in applying new technology to determine the composition of individual planes of atoms — an unexpected feat, given the state of the field at that time.
While at University of California, Davis in 2008, he received an R&D 100 award for developing dynamic transmission electron microscopy, or DTEM. This technology can zoom in on objects as small as a few nanometers big (a few billionths of a meter wide) and can catch a moment in time to reveal what happens over about 15 nanoseconds (15 billionths of a second long). This high resolution in time and space allows researchers to take snapshots of what is happening during chemical reactions, information that usually has to be inferred based on the final product. In one such determination, researchers revealed a never-before-seen chemical intermediate that blew in and out of existence in about 5000 nanoseconds, something they hadn't been able to see before.
Browning joined PNNL in 2011 with a particular goal of making DTEM, which requires the samples to be in a vacuum, work at normal pressures and temperatures. He earned a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Reading, United Kingdom in 1988 and a doctorate in physics from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom in 1992.
AAAS honored Campbell for her work in the "synthesis of thin films for ceramics and biomaterial development." Trained as a physical chemist, Campbell has been the director of EMSL, a DOE scientific user facility at PNNL, since 2005. As EMSL director, she leads the development of programs, instrumentation and facilities required to tackle problems of interest to DOE and the nation — and brings together scientists from around the world to address those problems. With more than 700 scientists from national labs and universities worldwide using EMSL resources yearly for collaborative research in energy and the environment, Campbell ensures EMSL is influential, innovative and provides unique capabilities to a wide variety of researchers.
Campbell has earned multiple awards for her work in basic science and applied biomedical research. She studied the fundamentals of bone and teeth mineralization and invented a coating that helps artificial joints bond to bone. Her research has resulted in numerous publications, several patents, an Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer from the Federal Laboratory Consortium and an R&D 100 Award. She has also testified before the House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology regarding the value of research at DOE labs.
Campbell earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania in 1985 and a doctorate in chemistry from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1990.
Anthony Peurrung
For contributions to "radiation and nuclear material detection, and leadership in advancing the science and impact of national laboratories," AAAS is honoring Peurrung, an associate laboratory director who oversees PNNL's national security programs. One of his earliest accomplishments was in the field of plasma physics. Soon after he arrived at PNNL, he realized two independent groups of scientists were studying the same physics without realizing it. By bringing together mass spectrometrists and plasma physicists, Peurrung significantly improved the understanding of how ions behave in mass spectrometers — an insight that has led to significant improvements to the technology and a wide variety of applications.
He invented an instrument that can detect buried explosives such as mines by exploiting an energy signature known as "neutron backscatter." Also, he discovered a new way to detect enriched uranium based on the unique radiation signature uranium gives off. Other work helped clarify plutonium oxide's radiation signature, which influenced nuclear arms control technology. After moving into management at PNNL, Peurrung led research to find new materials to better detect radiation. As associate lab director for national security, Peurrung has strengthened PNNL's expertise in cyber security, non-proliferation technologies, nuclear fuels and materials, and explosives detection.
Peurrung earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Rice University in Texas in 1987 and a doctorate in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992.
Douglas Ray
AAAS will induct Ray into its next class for "distinguished contributions to physical chemistry and molecular spectroscopy, and for building a world-class chemistry organization at PNNL." Trained as a laser spectroscopist, Ray's most significant research used lasers and ion beams to determine the structure and dynamics of molecular clusters. For the past decade, he has been leading teams of scientists at PNNL, first as deputy director of EMSL and then as the director of PNNL's Chemical Sciences Division. In chemical sciences, he led the establishment of the Institute for Integrated Catalysis, currently the largest non-industrial catalysis research and development effort in the United States.
In 2006, he became the associate laboratory director for Fundamental & Computational Sciences. In this position, he leads more than 600 scientists in research ranging from earth system science to biological systems science, chemical and materials sciences, applied mathematics and computer science, and nuclear and particle physics focused on DOE's missions. He is especially enthusiastic about developing new tools for research. Current areas of emphasis include chemical imaging and analysis to understand how biological systems function and to understand and control how chemical processes occur, as well as the development of new computational methods to handle the vast amounts of data generated by extreme-scale simulations and new instrumentation.
Ray earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Kalamazoo College Michigan in 1979 and a doctorate in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1985.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. In addition to organizing membership activities, AAAS publishes the journal Science, as well as many scientific newsletters, books and reports, and spearheads programs that raise the bar of understanding for science worldwide.
Tags: Fundamental Science, National Security, EMSL, Awards and Honors, Chemistry
EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, is a DOE Office of Science user facility. Located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., EMSL offers an open, collaborative environment for scientific discovery to researchers around the world. Its integrated computational and experimental resources enable researchers to realize important scientific insights and create new technologies. Follow EMSL on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory draws on signature capabilities in chemistry, earth sciences, and data analytics to advance scientific discovery and create solutions to the nation's toughest challenges in energy resiliency and national security. Founded in 1965, PNNL is operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. DOE's Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, visit PNNL's News Center. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.


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USCB faculty honored with Carolina Trustee Professorship Award
Babet Villena-Alvarez, Ph.D., is the recipient of the University of South Carolina's Carolina Trustee Professorship award.
With a background in French and Spanish literature, Alvarez researches Language for Special/Specific Purposes. She is the Chair of the Humanities and Fine Arts department and serves on eight councils/committees on campus, in the community and in her profession.
Alvarez has been at USCB since 1994.
For more information, go to www.sc.edu/provost/carolinatrustee.shtml#recipients.
Bluffton receives Housing Achievement Award
The Town of Bluffton has received the 2012 Palmetto Forum Affordable Housing Achievement Award from the state Housing Finance and Development Authority for the Wharf Street Redevelopment Project Development.
The focus of the Palmetto Affordable Housing Forum was on restoration and revitalization in the affordable housing industry. The award was given to projects that exemplify innovation, best practices and excellence.
For additional information, contact Shirley Wilkins, Affordable Housing Consultant, at706-4524 or email@example.com.
Orthodontist appointed to national education committee
Dr. Frank Barbieri has been appointed to the education committee of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine (AADSM).
Barbieri recently opened an office at the Heritage Medical Center on Hilton Head Island to help patients suffering from snoring and sleep apnea.
Ketchum celebrates 40 years with Merrill Lynch
Susan Ketchum recently celebrated 40 years with Merrill Lynch Wealth Management.
Ketchum has been ranked in the top 1,000 financial advisors in the country by Barron's and consistently listed among the top 400 women advisors. A senior vice president, she started her career in the Pittsburgh office in 1972.
Local dentist
receives award
Stephen W. Durham, DMD, MAGD, of Beaufort, received the Academy of General Dentistry's 2012 Mastership Award held in Philadelphia.
The Mastership Award is the highest honor available at the AGD and one of the most respected designations within the profession. Durham completed 1,100 hours of continuing dental education.
Bluffton firefighter graduates from S.C.
Fire Academy
The Bluffton Township Fire District would like to congratulate Firefighter Luke Holthaus on his graduation from the South Carolina Fire Academy. All newly-hired firefighters with Bluffton Township Fire District are sent through the eight-week recruit school. Holthaus has been assigned to shift two.
Local student named to Georgia Southern's dean's list
Georgia Southern University recently recognized 2,398 students on the 2012 spring semester dean's list.
Sydney Moscowitz, a biology major from Bluffton, was named to the list for excellence in academics. To be eligible for the list, a student must have a 3.5 grade-point average and carry a minimum of 12 hours for the semester.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers medical
clinic completed
Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC, recently completed the $10.1-million North Troop Medical Clinic for the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) at Fort Stewart.
The new, 39,000-square-foot clinic will provide physical therapy, primary physician care, pharmacy, radiology, behavioral health, optometry, and dental services to soldiers and their families at Fort Stewart.
While constructing the facility, Brasfield & Gorrie earned the 2011 USACE Safety Award for three consecutive quarters. This honor is presented to a general contractor based on quality performance while upholding the highest safety standards on a construction project.
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NBSC, a division of Synovus Bank, has announced the selection of Robert G. Phillips to the position of Regional Executive for the South Coastal Region that includes Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester and Beaufort counties.
Phillips has more than 32 years of banking experience. He joined NBSC in 1999 as Vice President of Business Development and was promoted to Senior Vice President one year later.
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Leanna Brittis of Bluffton was named to the Marist College dean's list for the spring 2012 semester. Brittis is a member of the class of 2012 and majored in journalism.
Occupational therapist renews credentials
Maggie Fagan, an occupational therapist at Hilton Head Hospital, has renewed the distinguished Certified Hand Therapist (CHT) designation after completing all requirements.
Fagan has been credentialed since 2002 after meeting strict eligibility requirements and passing the rigorous Hand Therapy Certification Examination.
Certified Hand Therapists (CHT's) work with diagnoses related to the arm and hand that may include, but are not limited to: amputations, arthritis, burns, congenital anomalies, fractures and lacerations, nerve injuries and compressions, overuse syndromes/repetitive strain injuries, tendon injuries and strains.
Local nurse presented with first DAISY award
Tracy Clodfelter is the first recipient of the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses.
The award is part of the DAISY Foundation's program to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform every day.
Clodfelter is a clinical surgical registered nurse and a certified chemotherapy and biotherapy nurse through the Oncology Nursing Society. She started at Hilton Head Hospital on July 27, 2009 in the same-day surgery department.
Dancing Dogs Yoga owner receives Baptiste certification
Shelley Lowther, owner of Dancing Dogs Yoga (DDY), was recently certified as a Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga instructor.
Lowther has clocked more than 700 hours of training in Vinyasa Yoga, and has studied alongside acclaimed best-selling author, teacher and founder of Baptiste Yoga, Baron Baptiste.
Lowther also is offering current DDY students an opportunity to get involved with the yoga community through DDY's Ambassador Work Exchange Program or Assisting and Apprenticing Program. Interested students are invited to practice with Lowther at 6 p.m. and stay after for an open house on these programs. Two open house sessions are scheduled from 7:30-8:30 p.m. July 11 at the Beaufort location and from 7:30-8:30 p.m. July 12 in the Bluffton location.
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Junior Daniel Jackson scored his first goal as a Cobra, but it was not enough as the Coker men's soccer team came up short against Florida Tech, losing 2-1 in their home opener Tuesday night.
In a battle of regionally ranked opponents; Coker is No. 5 in the NSCAA Southeast Region poll and FIT is No. 8 in the NSCAA South Region poll, it was the FIT Panthers that controlled the pace of the game and eventually came out with the win.
After a scoreless opening half, the Cobras were first to strike thanks to an unassisted blast in the back of the net from Jackson at the start of the second half. Roughly 20 minutes later FIT's Gary Ogilvie netted the equalizer, making it 1-1.
The Cobras found themselves in familiar territory, as all three of their matches this season have been tied entering the final minutes of the second half. Unfortunately, FIT was able to score the eventual game-winner in the 82nd minute off a Drake Hillman fast break to make it 2-1.
The Cobras will prepare for their next match at home against the Bears of Lenoir-Rhyne on Saturday. Kick-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Coker Soccer Field.
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PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Americans are as politically divided after four years of Barack Obama's presidency as they were after George W. Bush's first term, a Gallup Poll found.
The split between Obama's approval ratings among Democrats and Republicans in 2012, his fourth year in office, was 76 percentage points, matching the split in George W. Bush's fourth year, a Gallup Poll released Thursday said.
Obama had an average 86 percent approval rating in his own party and only 10 percent among Republicans during 2012, while 91 percent of Republicans and only 15 percent of Democrats liked Bush in 2004.
Bush averaged an approval gap of 61 points during eight years in office, Gallup said. Obama's average gap so far is 70 points.
"Both Obama and his predecessor, George W. Bush, have made overtures toward bringing Americans together," Gallup analyst Jeffrey Jones said. "The reality is that under both of their presidencies, Americans have been more politically divided than ever before. It is not clear how much of that is due to their governing styles and how much is just a reflection on how Americans approach politics and the presidency these days."
President Dwight Eisenhower's approval gap averaged 45 points in the 1950s and President Richard Nixon's gap in the late '60s and early '70s was 44 points. Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both averaged about 60 points.
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A daughter graduating from high school and family in from out of town calls for something special to celebrate, and the Brown Palace Hotel & Spa certainly qualifies.
First, I wanted my sister, who has two young sons and works a stressful job partly from home, to feel pampered somewhere fun. Second, I wanted to take some of my favorite female relatives out and about with both of my daughters for a festive get-together one afternoon.
Done and done at the Brown.
For the get-together, we started the day at the new History Colorado Center, which opened at the end of April.
We were impressed with everything about the place, but several exhibits really stuck out, starting with the time machines close to the entrance. The machines can be rolled around a giant room so that you can pick a variety of Colorado regions and years, then watch well-edited videos from those areas and periods, on subjects such as the Leadville ice palace or the Colorado-Texas Tomato Wars (who knew?). The videos were fascinating.


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Berenson was a gifted scorer with his hometown Regina Pats of the SJHL from 1956 to 1958. His speed and skill with the puck impressed the officials of the Belleville McFarlands as they prepared to compete in the World Championships, and Canada captured the gold medal thanks in part to Berenson's nine goals.
Following this rewarding experience overseas, Berenson spent three years with the University of Michigan against the advice of the Montreal Canadiens, who held his rights. Berenson continued to draw praise when he scored 79 career goals and was a two-time CCHA First Team All-Star. He also earned a place on the 1962 NCAA champion all-tournament team. After the college season ended, he joined the Habs and became the first Canadian to make the jump from the U.S. collegiate system to the big leagues. He continued to study in the off-season and earned a master's degree in business administration.
Berenson split the 1962-63 season between the Habs and their EPHL farm team in Hull-Ottawa. He played the entire 1963-64 season with the Habs but split the next two between Montreal and the American Hockey League?a reflection of the depth Montreal enjoyed at center during this period. Berenson looked up to the likes of Jean Beliveau, Henri Richard and Ralph Backstrom and knew he was never going to beat those men out of a job.
The Habs traded Berenson to the New York Rangers, where he played parts of two seasons. Late in the first year of expansion, he was traded to St. Louis, where he blossomed. The Blues felt Berenson was worth the cost of parting with top scorer Ron Stewart. Red scored 51 points in the last 55 games of the 1967-68 season and then helped the Blues reach the Stanley Cup finals against his old team, Montreal. Coach Scotty Bowman turned him into a true workhorse, playing him 35 to 40 minutes a game, including plenty of time with both specialty teams.
During his first full season in Missouri, "the Red Baron" scored a personal high of 82 points. A significant chunk of his production came during an 8-0 thrashing of the Philadelphia Flyers at the Spectrum. That night Berenson became the first player since Syd Howe in 1944 to score six goals in a single game, a feat that entered the record books on its own since it represented the only six-goal performance by a player on the road. In fact, he could have notched a seventh had one of the 10 shots he sent toward Doug Favell not struck the crossbar. And none them was scored on power-plays or deflections.
The Blues reached the finals for three straight years, only to be swept each time. Late in 1970-71, they jumped at the chance to acquire Garry Unger from the Red Wings even though it meant giving up one of their most popular players when they traded Berenson. The Detroit team was below average, but Berenson enjoyed a solid career and played two games for Canada during the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union. Four years after trading him, St. Louis reacquired Berenson to anchor their checking line. He filled that role well and recorded two 20-goal seasons. He retired in 1978 with 658 career points.
Following his playing career, Berenson became a coach. He served as assistant for the St. Louis Blues for 18 months and was then named head bench boss on December 8, 1979. The high point in his NHL coaching tenure was a team record of 107 points in 1980-81, which garnered him the Jack Adams Award. His selection was the first unanimous vote in the history of the award as the Blues finished second only to the New York Islanders in the NHL's overall standings. Unfortunately, the New York Rangers in a tough six game series upset the Blues in the quarterfinals. They were never able to build on the promise of that great season. Berenson paid the price when he was fired in 1982 after the club accumulated 27 fewer points and was bounced in the opening round of the playoffs. A few months later, he joined the Buffalo Sabres as an assistant under his old St. Louis coach, Scotty Bowman. This arrangement worked well until Berenson received an irresistible opportunity to coach at his alma mater in Michigan.
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Molly Lynch, Evelyn Grant and Cork Pops Orchestra Bring Cinderella to TEA DANCE Today
Who will be Cinderella? A chance to go to the ball in style! Lord Mayor's Tea Dance City Hall, Cork, will be held today, 27th January 2013, 3.00pm-6pm. Evelyn Grant and the Cork Pops Orchestra welcome Molly Lynch, soprano and Viva Dance Studio. Tickets €10 at Pro Musica Oliver Plunkett St., Cork.
This year we have an added surprise. There will be a 'Cinderalla' prize for one lucky ticket buyer. The lucky winner will receive a lift to the Ball, Phase 8 dress from Brown Thomas, with a hair do and make up thrown in!The purchaser of a ticket from Pro Musica goes to the Cobbler (opposite the GPO) on Oliver Plunkett Street and puts there name and phone number in the Golden Slipper for a draw which will take place the week before the ball.
A January 'Gathering' of young and old, from communities all over Cork and beyond who love to dance, will take to the floor in City Hall, to the music of Evelyn Grant and the Cork Pops Orchestra. The Lord Mayor's Tea Dance is a not-for-profit initiative organised by a local committee of people from the public, private and voluntary sectors and in conjunction with the Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr. John Buttimer. The committee is chaired by Dr. Andrew Crosbie.
Soprano Molly Lynch, who is currently playing Snow White in the Tivoli Cheerios Panto in Dublin, will join the Cork Pops Orchestra in a selection of popular songs.
Young people are invited to bring an older person or a group of older people to the 'Ball'.
Previous Tea Dances have proven to be great fun and the need for these events is greater now than ever before. These dances recognise the role of a previous generation and offer a wonderful opportunity to celebrate and acknowledge this contribution.
We are inviting 'The Young at Heart' of the nation to use the 'free travel' to come to Cork for the 'craic'. We hope by publicising this event nationwide that local groups in cities towns and villages throughout the country will repeat this initiative.
Entertainment is provided by the Cork Pops Orchestra conducted by Evelyn Grant and we expect some of our dancers to out-dance 'Strictly Come Dancing'.
Tickets €10 are now on sale in Pro Music Oliver Plunkett St. Cork. Rona Coulter and her dancers from Viva Dance Studios will provide an entertaining interlude with a selection of dances.
The Cork Pops Orchestra will perform a selection of up-tempo and 'smoochy' numbers. Dancers can enjoy a range of music from Johann Strauss to Abba and demonstrate their dancing skills in waltzes, tangos, two-steps, swing dancing and a bit of rock 'n' roll.
The Cork Pops Orchestra's Tea Dances were devised by Gerry Kelly and grew from the successful Millennium Tea Dance project for 'The Young at Heart', which took place in Cork City and County.
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I had Christmas stockings as a child and I have them as an adult (though not the same ones, unfortunately). My teenage daughters still have Christmas stockings and are angling to continue to have them for as long as possible.
When I was a child, the Christmas stocking was for fruit (mostly oranges, sometimes apples), nuts, candy canes, and possibly a little bit of change.
My husband and I bought a pair of stockings from Afghanistan during our graduate school days in the late 1970s and still have them. For some reason, our cats have always loved them. It may be the lanolin in the wool; whatever it is, the effect is almost as strong as catnip. Below is a picture of Fred, from our first quartet of cats, rubbing on one of the stockings. The current cat crew do the same thing.
Fred and the Afghan stocking
We try not to go overboard with gift-giving in general, but to make things fun, there is some focus on stocking gifts. Our daughters' stockings are usually chock-full of smaller presents. When they were younger, many of the items were small and usually inexpensive toys, supplemented by things like Christmas candy, socks, and hair bows. Now they still receive socks and Christmas candy, but the other items might be make-up, lotion, inexpensive earrings, and sometimes Mombux (3x5 cards with stickers and a promise of a purchase or mini-shopping-spree with Mom: "A pair of shoes," "$15 at the thrift store," "$20 at the bookstore," etc.). And there is always a shiny new penny in the bottom of the stockings for good luck. Mom and Dad each get candy and a penny in their stockings.
Stocking loot
(Yes, there was still a Halloween pumpkin decoration on the wall.)
In addition to getting to rub on the Afghan stockings on Christmas morning, each of our cats has a stocking with his or her name on it. Their stockings usually contain catnip and cat toys (mostly furry mice with things inside that make a rattling noise so that they "skitter" really well and get the cats all excited).
Rocky rests under the Christmas tree after a heavy session with the Afghan sock followed by the catnip bag
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Advent Calendar Day 18: Christmas Stockings
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Rocky is baked for sure. You are lucky the tree was still standing.ReplyDelete
I did stockings when my kids were little but we don't any more. There is way more cute little gifts for girls than for guys.
Love the Mom Bucks idea!ReplyDelete
Lori - I think the main thing that saved our tree from Rocky was that he couldn't jump very far. We even had to improvise a little set of stairs so that he could get up on our bed.ReplyDelete
Apple - Yeah, when kids get older it's a nice way to cover a few presents that really require their input, need to be tried on, etc.
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The Office of Annual Giving thanks the many donors who helped the university reach its goal of 10 percent alumni giving participation this year.
In the past 12 months, the number of alumni donors has increased by 25 percent due to the hard work of Loyola faculty, staff and alumni who have encouraged their fellow grads to give back. Alumni across the country have made phone calls, sent emails, mailed letters and asked their friends and classmates to give back to Loyola.
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Me and Gabe ready to go for our first walk. He looks so tiny here!
I'm decorating Gabriel's room in a pirate theme, so I made him this blanket and my Mom crocheted him these cute little pirate booties!
I made him this monkey hat forever ago and it's fun to finally have a baby to put it on!
Sucking on Aunt Missy's chin. Who needs a napkin, eh?
Big sister Ava :)
Big sister, Jocelyn. She looks so grown up here to me!
No little boy has ever been as cute as my Gabe. Check out those luscious lips! Don't you just wanna kiss 'em?
That's all for now, folks. Just wanted to show off my baby :)
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Layoffs hit Disney's Avalanche Software
Disney Interactive Studios has laid off 15-20 employees of Avalanche Software, the studio behind movie tie-in games like Cars 2.
Disney's Salt Lake City, Utah-based subsidiary, Avalanche Software, has been hit with layoffs. The estimated 15-20 layoffs reportedly took place September 1, and were a response to budget issues as the economy continues to hit the video game industry. An estimated 170 employees are still with the company.
"Disney has been on the losing end for a while, supposedly," said a source.
A Disney representative confirmed the layoffs to Gamasutra, saying, "Avalanche Software has completed a restructuring that resulted in the reduction of a small number of positions."
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Avalanche Software (not to be confused with Avalanche Studios) has developed Disney tie-in games since it was acquired in 2005. Most recently the studio worked on the game adaptation of Cars 2, which was fairly well-received by critics. A laid-off employee speaking anonymously also claimed the studio was behind Toy Story 3 last year.
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I think we're going to have to wait again, " says the one blonde. "I'm not convinced that's our donkey."
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Cook has faced calls from several former skippers of the national side to stand down, with Pietersen, who was sacked by England in the wake of the Ashes whitewash, the latest to criticise the left-handed opener's leadership.
In his column for the Daily Telegraph, outspoken Pietersen wrote that Cook is only in the job because it would be "yet another PR disaster" for the England and Wales Cricket Board to sack him now.
But even though he has presided over seven Test defeats in nine matches and is going through a dreadful run of form personally, Cook is keen to continue as captain.
"The last three or four weeks, everyone's been saying that. It is no different who else says it," Cook said.
"I've just got to stay true to myself and say how good it would be if I could get through this as a person, as a player, as a leader and take huge strides from it.
"I'm desperate to carry on because I love being England captain, it's a huge honour.
"I said when I first took over 'I just want to throw everything into it' and until that time where I don't feel as if I can carry on doing it or someone taps me on the shoulder then that's what I'm going to to do."
England's 95-run defeat to India in the second Test at Lord's means if they lose the next match in Southampton, which starts tomorrow, they will be unable to win the series.
Cook chose to remain positive, though, and believes they are still capable of emerging triumphant in this five-match Investec series.
"The last week's been a hard week in terms of we lost a game of cricket," he said. "The good news in a five Test match series is you've got chance to bounce back and you get judged at the end of the series.
"The frustrating thing has been that we've been getting ourselves into situations, especially in the four Test matches where we've been ahead of the game by quite a long way and haven't been able to force that result.
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"It even took him a few seconds to realize he made a mistake," says Morgan, 39, of Boerne, now mom of Luke, 3, and Rachel, 11 months. "My heart just filled up. I felt like I had that nurturing quality that a mom would have toward her son. It made me feel like one day I could actually be a mommy."
For different women, the realization that they have crossed a threshold and taken on a new primary role in life comes at different times.
In honor of Mother's Day, the Express-News asked readers to complete the phrase: "I knew I was a mom when ..."
The responses — and pivotal moments — varied wildly.
Some moms pinpointed feeling the baby kick. A couple of new moms of infants, perhaps predictably, noted a turning point involving being vomited on, while mothers of grown children tended to recall moments far more heartwarming and nostalgic.
And moms such as Rebecca de Marigny, who does not have a biological connection to her children, lovingly described how easily — if surprisingly — their instincts took over.
"Stepmoms don't have the benefit of biological bonding, and starting parenthood with two young kids was intimidating," de Marigny, 56, of San Antonio, wrote to the E-N.
She recalled how, while eating out with her husband, who had been amicably divorced, and his two girls, the 7-year-old got something in her eye and started crying. Flushing the eye didn't help.
"Looking at her distraught, tear-streaked face, I felt the overwhelming urge to 'make it all better,'" de Marigny, a former paralegal, wrote. "Instinctively, I knelt down, brushed her hair back and blew in her eye. Just like my mother used to do. She stopped crying, sobbed a few times, and then practically started cooing. Magic! I wanted to absorb these children into my being, and I stopped being scared."
De Marigny says despite the break from a traditional family, she was fortunate — the girls' parents put them first and their mom was neither territorial nor possessive but rather gracious and appreciative of any help their new stepmom could offer.
This kinship of motherhood also made an imprint on Sylvia Maddox, albeit in completely different circumstances.
Maddox had a 3-month-old son, Jordan, when she was asked to teach an English-as-a-Second-Language class to young mothers who were refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
"I knew I was a mom," she wrote, "when I walked into the Healy-Murphy Center carrying my son, and there awaiting me was a group of refugee mothers holding their young children. I knew in that moment there was a sacred bond of motherhood that transcends our cultures and languages. As mothers, we were knit together in our desire to protect, provide, shelter and always bring hope for the future of our children."
Maddox, 66, recognized then, and as her two sons grew, that the encounter would serve as a point of reference; the refugee mothers, she was aware, came not only to learn English but because lunch was provided, and the children were hungry.
It dawned on her how mothers will sacrifice anything to protect their children, to get them out of chaos. "And I realized I would do that, too," she says.
For Lynette Hernandez, that fierce, protective instinct took over before her daughter was even born.
During pregnancy back in 1977, Hernandez was exposed to measles and advised by a doctor to terminate the pregnancy. She went for a second opinion and, under treatment of a new doctor, decided to continue the pregnancy.
"I wanted to protect her or him, and I was going to do everything in my power to do that," she says.
She delivered a 6-pound, 8-ounce baby girl — and that baby girl is now a 35-year-old mother of two boys.
Hernandez is now the grandmother of 12.
"I never dreamed in my life," she says, "that I would have this big of a family."


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Fifty years ago this Sunday, Theodore Maiman and his fellow scientists at Hughes Research Laboratory shined a high-power flash lamp on a ruby rod, triggering a beam of coherent light: the first laser. It wasn't long before the Pentagon started dreaming up military applications, and futurists were predicting that our soldiers would all get ray guns. Well, not quite. But lasers have revolutionized the U.S. military — changing the way it targets bombs, scares off insurgents, and, yes, blows stuff to bits. Here are some of the greatest hits (and biggest misses) from the first half-century of military lasers.
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Early researchers like Maiman didn't think lasers were a tool of war. Air Force Colonel Joseph Davis Jr. had other ideas. It was the early days of the conflict in Vietnam, and U.S. bombs were going horribly off track — falling an average of 420 feet from their targets.
Davis gave Texas Instruments a $99,000 contract to see if lasers could make the bombs more accurate. The concept involved two airplanes: One fired a laser, "illuminating" a target; the other dropped a bomb that honed in on the light. And it worked. By the early '70s, these laser-guided "Paveway" bombs landed within 23 feet of their targets — almost a 20-fold improvement over the old-school munitions. With that, the era of the "smart bomb" began.
Today's precision-guided armaments can target a particular room of a particular house, or nail a moving car. Laser-guided missiles and bombs have become drones' weapons of choice. But no war saw more smart bombs used than Vietnam. The United States wound up dropping 28,000 Paveways. But "they did not save the United States from defeat," historian Max Boot notes. "A guerrilla foe hiding in the jungles was not very vulnerable to air attack."
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Bright lights have been used since World War II to distract and disorient enemies. Lasers — shining in a single direction, on a single wavelength — not only made these so-called "dazzler" weapons more powerful. They made 'em small enough for a soldier to carry on patrol.
In 2006, the Army rushed 2,000 laser dazzlers into the field, to give troops at checkpoints a supposedly safer way to warn oncoming drivers to stop. But the dazzlers weren't completely harmless. Over a five-month period in 2008 and 2009, a single unit in Iraq reported 14 laser "friendly fire" injuries. Three soldiers had to be medically evacuated out of the country, and one is now blind in one eye.
This experimental laser dazzler could do even worse. It's known as Personnel Halting and Stimulation Response, or PHaSR, and it incorporates two different lasers: one to startle, the other to heat up the skin, causing a "repel effect." Ouch.
Photo: Air Force Research Laboratory
On March 26, 1983, just three days after Ronald Reagan announced his "Star Wars" missile defense plan, the U.S. military tested what might go down as the nuttiest anti-missile machine ever: a giant laser, powered by a nuclear bomb and its cascade of x-rays.
The brainchild of Manhattan Project physicist Edward Teller, Project Excalibur was supposed to fire off atomic-powered lasers from land or space at incoming missiles. There was just one problem — studying the laser proved difficult because the bomb kept destroying its sensors at the Nevada Test Site's underground facility before scientists could receive the data.
Teller remained undaunted, however. He was convinced that his "Super-Excalibur," powerful enough to destroy the entire Soviet nuclear arsenal, was about to enter the "engineering phase." That helped inspire Reagan's Star Wars vision. But 27 years later, the nuke-'n'-laser combo is still just a dream. Or a nightmare. –Olivia Koski
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As if Teller's vision of bomb-powered lasers wasn't enough, he also convinced the powers that be that it would be a good idea to put lasers on planes. More successful than his laser bomb idea, the Airborne Laser Laboratory shot down a drone on May 2, 1981, at White Sands Missile Range. A couple of years later, in 1983, it blasted some Sidewinder air-to-air missiles. Now, it sits in a museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. The ALL was perceived as merely a proof-of-concept system, not practical for the battlefield.
But, wait, this story feels all-too familiar! Thirteen years later, in 1996, the Air Force awarded a $1.1 billion dollar contract to build a souped-up version of the Airborne Laser Laboratory. Using a bigger plane, and a more powerful chemical laser, they called it the Airborne Laser. "We are taking the first major step towards giving the American people their first light saber," the head of the Missile Defense Agency proclaimed.
Billions over budget and years late, it zapped a ballistic missile in February. But it was too late for the Airborne Laser. Air Force Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz told Congress that the tricked-out 747 "was a magnificent technical achievement," but "does not reflect something that is operationally viable." –Olivia Koski
Photo: USAF
The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was adopted by the United Nations in 1996. Which means it's no longer cool for the United States to set off nukes underground. So how do you make sure the H-bombs are still working? Simulation — and the world's biggest, most powerful laser. The National Ignition Facility is designed to fire off 192 giant lasers onto a target the size of a BB, and filled with hydrogen fuel. The result: heat and pressure of a kind only seen inside star cores and nuclear weapons. Using NIF's data, supercomputers should be able to model a nuclear explosion — without dropping the bomb.
Photo: LLNL
Oh, don't worry. It only looks like a giant death ray. In reality, the Air Force is just trying to take some good pictures with its Starfire Optical Range. (Later on, they'll get to the satellite-blasting energy weapon.)
Hot and cold pockets of air change the speed of light as it moves through the atmosphere. That makes stars appear to twinkle and creates a major challenge for researchers trying to get a clear view of objects in space. Starfire's answer: Shoot a laser 56 miles into the mesosphere and measure the distortion. Then adjust the laser's mirrors until the beam is back in focus. Whatever optical tweaks correct the beam will also focus a telescope.
The images from Starfire are 40 times sharper than uncorrected pics. Today, that aids astronomers; someday, maybe generals. "We don't hide the fact that it could help build an anti-satellite weapon," Colonel Gregory Vansuch, chief of the installation, told me a few years back. A big laser like Starfire's could aim a satellite-killing missile — or blind the satellite by itself. Not that the U.S. military has any plans to do so. No, seriously! They swear!
Photo: Air Force Research Laboratory
No energy weapon has blasted more stuff out of the sky than the Tactical High Energy Laser. Developed in the late 1990s and early 2000s by the American and Israeli governments, the chemical-powered laser blasted 46 Katyusha rockets, artillery shells and mortars out of the sky. "All my career, I've been interested in fielding lasers," Jeff Sollee, a veteran Northrop Grumman laser scientist, once told me. "THEL was as close as they come."
But generating the megawatts of laser power required for THEL — known in Israel as "Nautilus" — meant brewing up hundreds of gallons of toxic chemicals, like ethylene and nitrogen trifluoride. The weapons grew bulky; one proposed small-scale version was supposed to be kept in a mere eight cargo containers, each 40 feet long. Needless to say, the project was abandoned.
But it hasn't been forgotten. In 2008, a group of citizens from the Israeli town of Sderot, long under assault from Hamas rockets, tried to force the government to set up the energy weapon defense — by taking prominent officials to court. The lawsuit didn't succeed, either.
Military lasermen figured out a long time ago how to build really, really strong ray guns. Making those blasters compact enough to be battlefield-useful — that's been the tough part. Or at least it was, until early last year, when researchers at Northrop Grumman's lab, just south of Los Angeles, started firing off a military-strength laser that could one day be configured into a laser weapon that's ready for war.
Instead of the typical vats of toxic chemicals used to excite the light, Northrop's guys used relatively small chains of garnet crystals. The result: the first "solid sate" laser that hit 100,000 watts — what's considered weapons grade. It'll still take at least $100 million and years of development to get an honest-to-goodness blaster. The solid state laser starts test-firing at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico later on this year.
Photo: Northrop Grumman
On Oct. 8, 2005, a Volkswagen managed to drive itself 128 miles across the Mojave Desert, to win Darpa's "Grand Challenge" robot rally. Without lasers, that robo-SUV, nicknamed Stanley, never would've left the starting line. Perched atop the vehicle were five LIDAR (LIght Detection and Ranging) units. Shooting out laser pulses — and measuring the return — five times a second, the machines helped assemble an image of the course for the robot. Then Stanley could drive, without getting stuck in the sand. Troops use similar laser rangefinding techniques every day, to pinpoint targets' locations. But for now, at least, their Humvees still have to be driven by human hands.
Photo: Smithsonian
Imagine an energy weapon that can keep firing forever — and adapt its beam to the air around it. That's the promise of the "Free Electron Laser." And, depending on how you look at it, the FEL is either the biggest boondoggle in the history of military energy weapons, or the "Holy Grail of lasers."
Lasers all work in pretty much the same way: Excite certain kinds of atoms, and light particles radiate out. Which slice of the spectrum depends on the "gain medium" — the type of atoms — you use to generate the beam. Those garnet crystals produce one laser wavelength; the chemicals, another. A FEL, on the other hand, doesn't have a gain medium at all. It uses a turbocharged stream of electrons to kick-start its reaction instead. And that lets the FEL fire along many different wavelengths — and for a long, long time.
At least, that's the theory. In practice, FELs have been hard to build. During the Star Wars era, the Defense Department sank 10 years and a half a billion into a FEL. All it could only muster a meager 11 watts — less than a typical lightbulb. More recently, however, FELs have hit more than 14,000 watts. The Navy has handed out contracts to begin design work on a weapons-grade "Holy Grail."Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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LOS ANGELES - Anderson students and the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies hosted the 29th Knapp Venture Competition, which featured five finalist teams that competed for a total of over $30,000 in prize money. Each team, made up of Anderson students, presented their business plans to five judges, which featured Betsy and Cleon "Bud" Knapp, the namesakes of the competition. The judges then deliberated for thirty minutes to decide which team earned first place, but could not agree on a clear winner. Instead, they came to the thrilling conclusion of awarding two teams the first place prize.
One of the first place teams was LA Burger, a startup restaurant company that plans to launch a fast casual burger restaurant in Paris, France. The company plans to capitalize on its Los Angeles branding, which CEO Jonathan Lehmann ('11) claims, "evokes coolness and sexiness." LA Burger won $11,250 for first place and also won the Epson's People's Choice Award for $2,000, an award voted on by the attendees.
The other team to win first place was CytoScale, a diagnostic device that captures viable Circulating Tumor Cells (CTC). The company uses special "Velcro" technology that is able to capture live CTCs for research and possibly cures. The team was also awarded $11,250.
Bud Knapp said, "Both teams gave fantastic presentations. LA Burger demonstrated showbiz in the highest order, while CytoScale successfully presented a difficult concept to conceive." While two teams came away with the title of Knapp Venture Competition winners, Knapp had words of encouragement to the rest of the teams in saying, "You must realize that there are a lot of businesses that succeed even though they didn't win first prize."
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CytoScale - Diagnostic device to capture viable Circulating Tumor Cells
Kamir Duraiswamy, MD/MBA ('10)
David Franklin, MBA ('10)
Jason Jolly, MBA ('11)
Ed Lang, MBA ('11)
William Wong, JD ('10)
Alex You, MD/MBA ('10)
LA Burger - Scalable, fast casual premium burger restaurant for the French market
Scott Gladstone, MBA ('11)
Andrew Kahn, MBA ('11)
Nadine Katkhouda, MBA ('11)
Jonathan Lehmann, MBA ('11)
Anthony Vassiliadis, MBA ('11)
James Voytko, MBA ('11)
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Dina Farshidi, MD/MBA ('11)
Julie Kang, MBA ('11)
Carolyn Steinmetz, MBA ('11)
Michael Vagts, MD/MBA ('11)
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SightCine - Specializes in digital overlay projection technology
Dan Birnbaum, MBA ('10)
Adam Burnett, MBA ('10)
Han Li, MBA ('10)
Michael Nudelman, MBA ('10)
Michael Ross, MBA ('10)
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With Gaza cease-fire in place, attention turns to truce talks
A 72-hour cease-fire between Israel and Hamas began Tuesday as Israeli forces completed their withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and both sides prepared for indirect talks in Egypt on a longer truce to end a nearly monthlong war.
The Israeli withdrawal made it more likely that the cease-fire would hold, after a previous three-day cease-fire last week collapsed in less than two hours when Hamas gunmen attacked Israeli forces still operating in Gaza.
The Israeli army said it had completed its task of destroying or putting out of commission 32 networks of Hamas tunnels it had uncovered, some leading across the border to Israel.
The military said that it remained in "defensive positions around the Gaza Strip" and would respond to any attack. The United Nations said the army had declared a 500-yard "no-go zone" on the Gaza side of the border.
An Israeli delegation arrived in Cairo to participate in indirect truce talks with Hamas, mediated by Egypt, according to Israeli news reports. Hamas has demanded the lifting of border closures imposed on Gaza by Israel and Egypt, while Israel has called for demilitarizing the Gaza Strip, ridding it of Hamas rocket stocks and preventing further construction of attack tunnels
International efforts were launched to raise money to rebuild homes and other buildings that were damaged in the campaign. More than 500,000 Palestinians fled their homes during the fighting – nearly 30 percent of the Gaza Strip's population – and the homes of 65,000 people were destroyed or damaged beyond repair, according to U.N. figures. The Israelis also severely damaged Gaza's sole power plant.
Mohammed Mustafa, the deputy prime minister of the Palestinian Authority government, which is based in the West Bank, told the Associated Press that efforts were underway to arrange a pledging conference of donor countries in Norway at the beginning of September. Tony Blair, the envoy of the so-called quartet of Middle East mediators – the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia – is participating in the efforts to arrange the conference, his office said.
Hamas and other Palestinian factions represented in Cairo are demanding that internationally funded reconstruction be overseen by the Palestinian unity government, which is backed by Hamas and the mainstream Fatah movement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had delivered a major setback to Hamas by destroying the tunnel network.
"The operation struck at a strategic network that Hamas had invested a tremendous effort in for years," Netanyahu said. "There is no guarantee of 100 percent success, but we did everything to achieve the maximum."
Maj. Gen. Sami Turgeman, the chief of the army's southern command, said that the offensive, which began with air and artillery strikes followed by a ground push, had produced "a significant potential for deterrence" that could prevent further rocket firing at Israel by militants in the Gaza Strip.
The halt to the fighting enabled Palestinians in Gaza to return to devastated neighborhoods, taking in scenes of vast destruction left by weeks of Israeli shelling and bombardments.
People stocked up on supplies and retrieved belongings from the ruins of their homes.
The U.N. said that more than 1,800 Palestinians had been killed in the Israeli campaign launched July 8, more than 85 percent of them civilians, including more than 400 children. The Israeli military says it killed about 900 militants in ground fighting.
The army said it had lost 64 soldiers and that rocket strikes had killed two Israeli civilians and a Thai laborer in Israel.
The foreign minister of the Palestinian Authority, Riad Malki, traveled to The Hague, Netherlands, to meet International Criminal Court prosecutors and push for an investigation, saying there was "clear evidence" that Israel had committed war crimes during the fighting.
Malki said the Palestinians planned to apply for membership in the court in order to enable it to investigate alleged Israeli violations of international law.
Palestinian membership in the international court would also make it possible to investigate alleged violations by Palestinian militants. Israel has accused Hamas of committing war crimes by firing rockets indiscriminately at Israeli population centers while storing weapons and firing them from residential areas, using civilians as human shields.
In a further spillover of the violence in Gaza, a Palestinian stabbed and wounded an Israeli security guard at the entrance to the Jewish settlement town of Maaleh Adumim near Jerusalem. On Monday, a Palestinian driving a construction excavator killed an Israeli and overturned a bus in a Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem, and a gunman on a motorcycle shot and wounded an Israeli soldier at a bus stop in predominantly Arab East Jerusalem.