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Polaron Analog Phase Shifter SAMPLE SETTINGS
Orange Box 45
Classic 2 stage phase tones. Lush swirling phase that adds depth and dimension
Green Machine
Bubbly, funky 4 stage phase tones. Adds a rhythmic bounce to single lines & chords
Seymu-phase II
Intergalactic 6 stage phase tones. Adds an immersive swell
Grateful Phase
Classic 10 stage phase tones with added envelope control. Vocal-like response and touch sensitivity will have you soloing like Jerry
12 stage phaser. Stiff, filtered talk box-y tones that bloom as notes decay
Interstellar Communication
16 stage phase tones. Intense multi-stage modulation adds otherworldly character
Diamondhead Delay + Boost SAMPLE SETTINGS
Highway Priest
Lower gain, bright early 80's classic metal
Classic 80's Hard Rock
Higher gain, warmer low end for tight palm-muted rhythm.
Perfect for all 80's hard rock songs
Big mid scoop and tight bottom
British Snarl
Mid-range punch
Lower Gain
Note articulation
Mid-late 70's classic hard rock
Snotty Mids
Powerful EQ and mid-range bump
Gives an aggressive tone for distinct leads and pissed off power chords
Infinite Sustain
Thick, rich lead tone
Notes bloom with incredible sustain
Silver Lake Dynamic Reverb SAMPLE SETTINGS
For Software Updates See: http://www.seymourduncan.com/software
Mod Room
Subtle modulation adds depth and interest to the basic room reverb sound.
Ducked Hall
Using Dynamic Expression, this Hall reverb steps back in the mix when you play harder or busier parts, blooming into a more expansive sound when you play softly.
Damped Plate
Dynamic Damping clamps down the brightness of this big, dirty plate reverb sound, increasing the range of applications.
Dirty Spring
Adding grit and damping to the Spring reverb sound creates a pleasing Lo-Fi verb that adds moody ambience to your playing.
Shimmer Delay
Adding Pre-Delay to the Shimmer reverb creates an Octave Up Delay effect - try playing single note runs for a cascade of shimmering repeats.
Clamped Gate
Combining the gated reverb with Dynamic Damping creates a unique clamped sound with a short decay.
The Swell reverb sound at 100% wet mix will remove the initial attack of your note, allowing you to play violin-like swells. Pre-Delay affects the time it takes to... Read More
Ambient Delay
Combining a soft delay line with the Hall reverb algorithm creates a swirling, swelling, blooming ambient patch. Your playing dynamics can be used to create... Read More
La Super Rica SAMPLE SETTINGS
Classic Fuzz
A good introduction to La Super Rica, this classic silicon fuzz tone is perfect for
most classic rock applications. Try rolling your guitar volume control... Read More
Smooth Lead
By cutting the mids around 700 Hz and boosting the amount of fuzz you get a
sweet, smooth, singing lead tone – perfect for psychedelic, progressive and... Read More
Cut Through
Boosting the Mids at around 1000 Hz gives you a classic fuzz tone that cuts right
through the mix, making sure you never get lost. Perfect if you use fuzz... Read More
90's Rock
Although La Super Rica isn't based on that famous fuzz from NYC, this setting can
emulate the huge low end, sizzling highs, and super saturated gain sounds... Read More
Hyper Drive
Extremely aggressive upper mid-range attack and power make this the perfect
setting for all kinds of heavy music, from desert rock to doom metal.
Andromeda SAMPLE SETTINGS
For Software Updates See: http://www.seymourduncan.com/software
01A – Digital
This no frills digital delay setting is a great starting point, showcasing Andromeda's pure, warm tone. This delay setting should work nicely for most... Read More
01B – Analog
Andromeda's analog delay setting is modeled off of our Vapor Trail bucket brigade delay for warm, rich repeats that gently decay into gorgeous lo-fi analog bliss.
01C – Dynamic Mix
This digital delay patch makes use of the Dynamic Expression feature to create a ducking delay. When you play harder the mix will get lower and when you play softer... Read More
01D – Analog Wash
This analog delay patch makes use of the Dynamic Expression to create ambient swells and washes of cascading delay. When you play harder the delay will back off,... Read More
02A – Mod Digital
Andromeda's pristine digital delay is paired with lush chorus for added depth and sparkle.
02B – Mod Analog
Subtle modulation and saturation combined with a slight roll off of the tone control creates a very vintage analog delay sound.
02C – Reverse
A swirling, dreamy reverse delay that's perfect for psychedelic guitar solos, ambient soundscapes, or shoegaze strumming.
02D – Tape Delay
Using Andromeda's digital delay engine, combined with the Saturation, Tone, and Modulation controls you can emulate vintage tape delays.
Killing Floor Gain Boost SAMPLE SETTINGS
Gainy Growl
Push a clean amp into a fat overdrive with an aggressive growl for solos. This setting is still very touch-sensitive, so don't be afraid to back off your... Read More
Classic Thick Drive
Use this setting for a chewy distorted sound you can leave on as part of your core tone. It's especially great for power chords and octaves. You may want to... Read More
Enhances the character of your guitar by adding presence, punch and sparkle without pushing too far into overdrive. This setting works equally well as a gain boost... Read More
Gain Changer
Take a classic rock rhythm tone and push it into 80s metal territory. If you're using humbuckers, try adding the high boost for extra clarity.
Forza Overdrive SAMPLE SETTINGS
Sparkly Overdrive
Think of this as "a little more" on top of a clean amp channel: plenty of body with a little midrange dip to smooth out the tone. This setting sounds especially... Read More
British Crunch
Use this setting with a clean amp channel for vintage crunch tone. The mid-range response is flat with lower bass for more focus, and it features maxi-mum drive... Read More
Big Rhythm
Use this setting with a clean amp channel for a classic American rhythm sound. The boosted bass and completely scooped mids give a thick tone, and the wide open... Read More
Tight Metal Boost
Use this setting in front of a high-gain amp to tighten up the bottom end and add thickness and compression to the mids while keeping pick articulation clear.
Lead Boost
Use this setting on top of your overdriven or distorted rhythm sound to add punch and sustain, or to turn a great rhythm sound into a great lead sound.
Palladium Gain Stage SAMPLE SETTINGS
Flash back in time to 1992, when people were flocking to theaters to see Singles and the sound of Seattle ruled the airwaves. Aggressive, edgy and articulate - this... Read More
Brown Sound
Pull that pointy headstock guitar out of the closet, plug it into this setting and transport yourself instantly back to the Sunset Strip circa 1983. Fans of hard... Read More
90's Hard Rock
Slightly ducked midrange and tons of gain combine to nail the tone of chunky 90's hard rock. Big bottom end, articulate on the top end and enough presence to cut... Read More
Versatile Classic
Just enough gain to cover the bases from standard blues riffing to intricate hard rock rhythm playing, this setting nails a wide palette of more traditional rock... Read More
Modern Thick Lead
Modern metal and prog-rock master Nick Johnston created this setting to react to his use of the volume knob on his guitar and provide an extremely wide range of... Read More
Aggressive Rhythm
Conquering Dystopia rhythm ace Keith Merrow uses this setting for everything from heavy rhythm playing to aggressive single note runs. Tight and powerful, just add... Read More
Catalina Dynamic Chorus SAMPLE SETTINGS
Classic Chorus
The controls set at noon is a perfect starting point, adding just the right amount of depth and dimension to your sound without becoming overpowering.
A unique, organic and liquid sound with over the top 'sea-sick' pitch bending warbles.
Deep 80's Goth
Lush, deep modulation with sparkly top-end - best when played with plenty of eyeliner
Double Track
Simulates a second guitar track for a thicker, fuller sound - perfect for making solos sounds huge.
Evokes the vibe and mojo of a rotating speaker cabinet
Underwater Grunge
Classic 'watery' chorus that evokes the distinct 90's Seattle sound.
805 Overdrive SAMPLE SETTINGS
Subtle Boost
With the Drive control fully counter-clockwise, the 805 Overdrive acts as a signal booster with 8dB of gain, adding more life and sparkle to your tone along with... Read More
Scooped Mid
Setting the Mid control around 10 o'clock gives a bit of a scoop to the normally mid-range predominant punch, accentuating the beef and clarity for both picking... Read More
Valve Howler (Thank you, Mr. Thesaurus)
Push your amp's front-end into overdrive, with some additional rich, tasty grit from the pedal. The personality of the tone will depend upon your specific amp and... Read More
Keith Merrow recommends:
"I have the following setting, which I use for a tight modern metal sound in front of a high gain amp."
Vapor Trail Analog Delay SAMPLE SETTINGS
Slap Happy
The slap-back delay is one of the most commonly used delay effects, giving a subtle thickening to the overall sound. It adds solid punch to power chords and depth... Read More
Run to the Edge
Need we say more. Start picking some eighth notes and hear the magic!
Classic long delay with light modulation gives an atomsphereic vibrato effect.
Sparkle & Shine
Light, airy delay with a lush and ambient trail off.
Long and Liquid
Heavier amount of classic delay that hangs in the air long enough to play off of.
Dark Side
Classic delay and modulation warmth, reminiscent of classic tape delay sounds.
Rotating Speaker
Rich, modulation delay that delivers the classic rotating speaker vibe.
Studio Bass Compressor SAMPLE SETTINGS
Subtle Compression
Add just a little compression to your overall tone to even things out.
High Compression
A large amount of compressed tone mixed with very little dry signal. Great for smoothing out the dynamics in slap-style playing and keeping the pulled notes from... Read More
Sharp, Fast
Add a little sparkle and punch to your top end without sacrificing any of your low end tone!
Give your sound that fat bottom end you need to have for Reggae, Funk and World music.
Round and Fat
Great for ballads, Motown, and anytime you want a vintage tone with a nice even amount of top, mid, and bottom.
Punchy Rock
Add an aggressive midrange punch to your overall tone while maintaining a fat bottom end.
Shape Shifter Stereo Tremolo SAMPLE SETTINGS
Classic American Trem
To achieve the lush, vibrant tremolo found on classic American amplifiers, try starting with these settings.
Classic British Trem
British tube amps put their own spin on tremolo and the results have fueled many timeless hit songs. Here's where you can get a touch of that UK Magic.
Fluttering Shimmer
These settings give a cool, warbling quality to single-note lines reminiscent of organs and vibraphones.
Helicopter Chop
This is a more radical version of tremolo that produces an on/off stutter to really drive your sound into madness.
Pickup Booster Hi-Def Boost & Line Driver SAMPLE SETTINGS
Clean, Buffered boost
This setting will give a transparent boost to your signal to drive the rest of your pedalboard with greater signal headroom and no loss of high-end, or use at the... Read More
Fattened Strat
Setting the Resonance Switch to the "1" position will shift the resonant peak of a single-coil pickup down, thickening up your tone. Putting the Gain control up... Read More
Maximum Beef
This setting, with the Resonance Switch on "2" and the Gain control all the way up, gives a single-coil the fatness of a high-output humbucker along with the... Read More
Fattened Humbucker
This setting, with the Resonance Switch on "0" and the Gain control all the way up, gives maximum saturation and sustain to a humbucker.
Vise Grip Compressor SAMPLE SETTINGS
Keepin' It Clean
Neither too much nor too little, this will allow your chords to ring and sustain naturally, just as Seymour intended. Adjust the Blend to taste to further increase... Read More
Sustain for Days
This will give you more than enough time to go away and have a bite: you'll certainly still be hearing this one. Great for chords and better for single notes, this... Read More
Funky Chops
Rev up your bridge single coil and get that picking hand working. Give your rhythmic chops and single-note melody lines a rounded edge that sounds great on the... Read More
Lo-Fi Thinning
Especially effective when using humbuckers, try this to wildly change your tone from warm and full to scratchy and toppy at the press of a footswitch. Want to... Read More
Clean Solo Emphasis
You don't want any additional drive with a clean boost, and this setting gives you just that. Adjust the Volume knob to the output of your amp and balance the... Read More
Dirty Deed Distortion SAMPLE SETTINGS
Fat Rhythm / Lead Tone
This is a great all-around sound for power chords, arpeggiated rhythm lines and leads alike. Big, fat, and saturated.
Power Crunch
This tone scoops out more of the mids while bumping the lows and highs for a mean, aggressive sound that's razor sharp.
Open Rhythm Crunch
An incredibly responsive, dynamic, chord sound. Ease up on your picking attack and it's clean, bash it and it will roar like a lion. Rolling off the bass a touch... Read More
Big Saturated Solo Sustain
This lead tone will sing and cry all day long. The saturation will make it easy to play legato lines but the clarity will let fast picked passages jump right out... Read More


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This morning I moderated a panel at the OAH, Rethinking Anti-Communism, featuring Michael Kazin, Georgetown; Will Jones, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison; Tony Michels, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison; and Michael Kimmage, Catholic University. If you'd like to follow the discussion, Amy Schexnayder, Univ. of Louisiana, Lafayette, tweeted the panel. You can find it here.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
'Rethinking Anti-Communism' on Twitter
Posted by Mary L. Dudziak at 1:13 PM
Labels: Conferences and Calls for Papers
2 comments:
- AmyLynn Schexnayder said...
I enjoyed the panel, and I appreciate the link. I see you'll be at SHAFR, so I hope to say hi again. :-)
- March 24, 2011 at 5:46:00 PM EDT
- Mary L. Dudziak said...
Hi, AmyLynn. I'll see you at SHAFR! Maybe tweet the opening plenary (on 9/11, the War on Terror, and U.S. International History, w. Andrew Bacevich, Marilyn Young, Melani McAlister & yours truly).
I hope to see other legal historians there. Right now SHAFR is the best place to go for U.S. history in an international context.
- March 25, 2011 at 9:05:00 AM EDT
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Hoppin' John: A black-eyed pea recipe for New Year's Day
Black-eyed peas are a New Year's Day staple throughout the South, and eating them on Jan. 1 — especially in the beloved skillet dish known as Hoppin' John — is said to ensure good luck through the coming year. Whether that's true or not hardly matters, delicious as this all in-one-meal is.
Sure, black-eyed peas can be enjoyed alone, especially if topped with minced onions or better yet, a vibrant chow-chow. (The relish, not the dog.) But Hoppin' John is my preference, sided with some stewed collards and a batch of cornbread. Here's my recipe. A word on the use of meat: If you wish to substitute smoked turkey leg or sliced kielbasa, that's fine. Going the meatless route works, too, though if you want to be a true vegetarian you'll want to substitute vegetable broth for chicken broth.
Hoppin' John (Serves 8)
2 cups dried black-eyed peas
Cold water
1 pound meaty ham hocks
1 large white onion, diced
3 celery stalks, diced
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 bay leaf
4 cups chicken broth or water
2 cups uncooked long-grain white rice
Salt and fresh-ground black pepper to taste
Pick over the dried peas to remove any pebbles or ill-formed beans. Soak, rinse and drain the peas. Place peas in a large pot or deep skillet over medium-high heat and cover with cold water. Bring to a hard boil, then remove from the heat. Cover and let stand for 2 hours, then drain and rinse peas in a colander.
In the same pot, add soaked peas, ham hock, onion, celery, red pepper and bay leaf. Add broth or water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook for 1 1/2-2 hours or until the peas are tender.
(Boiling will cause the beans to break down, and I don't mean in tears.)
Remove ham hock and let cool. Shred off the meat, chop it and return it to the pot. Stir in rice, cover, and cook about 25 minutes until the liquid is absorbed and the rice is tender. Remove the bay leaf. Stir the ingredients together — the rice will be sitting on top when the dish is finished — and season with salt and pepper. Dig in.


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In "The Hidden", players choose the role of either a near invisible killer, Subject 617, or one member of an Intercept squad who have to capture him, I.R.I.S. In the simple but challenging gameplay of an 'one against all'? mode, Subject 617 creeps/sneaks through the maps armed only with a knife and three pipe bombs. The IRIS team carry a selection of weaponry, fully customisable at round start, from F2000 assault rifles through to shotguns or sub machine guns as well as a pistol as a secondary weapon. However, they can hardly see Subject 617 as, just like the 'Predator', only the outline of his silhouette is visible. On top of that the Hidden also moves a little faster and has many abilites such as pouncing, wall grabbing, corpse pinning and the fatal pigsticker attack. Therefore co-operation is necessary for I.R.I.S. if they wish to prevail (if they dont want to become the prey/victim themselves). This leads to an outstanding gaming experience on public servers:...
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Jon Tara necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 182 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
Watusiware Corporation
Watusiware Corporation is a small (one-man) company developing unique iPhone/iPad applications.
I am an experienced (35 years) software developer who has written pioneering software in such diverse areas as embedded systems, computerized numerical control, statistical modeling used to help design products from cars to disk drives to fighter aircraft, and high-frequency stock trading.
My biggest strength is pulling together knowledge from multiple disciplines in unexpected ways - software that I write often could not have been written by anyone else, because nobody else has the particular combination of unique and sometimes bizarre experience, which I almost always seem to find a way to leverage.
I'd like to bring that expertise to the iPhone/iPad app marketplace, where such experience and expertise seems sorely lacking.
I have zero artistic ability, some decent design sense, and have had the pleasure of working with some incredibly talented designers (most recently at Sony Corporation). In the very early days of the web, I helped designers who produced some of the very first online catalog sites (3M, 3Com, Tesco) to grasp the technical constraints of the fledgling web (mainly, by pounding the "airbrush" print-media mentality out of their brains...) I had a grandmother who did pastiche paintings. I had a "Picasso" - the clown, if you must know - hanging in my room as a child. She painted this for me, as her own home was full of "Dutch Masters" paintings. I have a sister who encouraged me to spend a great deal of time wandering around the Detroit Institute of Arts, particularly the modern art collection (and lunch under the Diego Rivera murals). My point (there's a point?) is that I've been exposed to great art. (But I'll be happy with good design.)
I can't produce artwork, but "I know what I like", and particularly what I don't! I like to work with a designer interactively. I will make suggestions - you make magic.
I'm hoping that this will be the first of many great 99Designs experiences. I'm good at "I like that!".
This is an over-all corporate-identity logo. It won't get prominent placement (probably just on the splash screen and App Store page) in my apps, each of which will be separately-branded. My target audience for apps is fairly broad and diverse, so try not to focus on what the apps do, but on the whimsical name. I want my customers to recognize the logo, remember another Watusiware app that they have or have heard of, and say to themselves "why, this is another fine app from Watusiware!", and hit the Install button. It will need to be simple to evoke quick recognition in a small space with minimal exposure time.
The logo will also be used for business cards, letter head, etc. for communicating with vendors, potential partners, consultants, designers, etc. These will be an additional design project later.
I have a memorable corporate name - now I need a memorable logo!
Watusiware is focusing on three broad areas in the iPhone/iPad app market:
1. Location-aware applications that have some social-networking aspect. Some of these involve food/beverage/entertainment.
2. Applications that help leverage the portability of iPhone/iPad to automate or streamline the operation of small businesses. Food/beverage is a particular emphasis here, as well as any kind of business where individuals act as independent contractors and/or are constantly on the move or on their feet.
3. Utility applications for use by other software developers.
Watusiware is specifically NOT interested in developing gaming apps.
I am seeking a corporate logo that incorporates the company name "Watusiware Corporation" and incorporates symbolism representing one (not both) of the following playful associations:
1. The horns, head, or body of the Ankole-Watusi cattle breed
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VXhKCUJvL8
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNpR8xOjV68
2. The Watusi, a 1960's dance fad
Historic footage:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM2S…re=related
Modern, showing the dance moves:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OU_Ppxgs9Q&NR=1
Please research these before submitting your design. Although this is not a requirement, the symbolism might be incorporated into one or more of the letters of the company name: for example, perhaps having the horns of the cattle extending from the tips of the "W".
Please do NOT incorporate any of the following in your design: an iPhone, an iPad, an apple or any stylized representation thereof, the Myriad typeface or any similar typeface, colors typically used by Apple Computer, or ANYTHING suggestive of Apple Computer's branding. Any of this is disallowed by Apple. And please, I don't need to see what it will look like on an iPhone screen or as an iPhone application icon.
I want elegant but playful. Simple and versatile enough to be used on splash screens, business cards, and letterheads. Keep in mind it is NOT intended to identify a particular application, but a company.
- .ai (CYMK)
- renderings as .png and layered .psd (RGB) in 3 sizes to be determined
- characters to be outlined
- no stock images
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The Office 365 Business Plan plan does not include Office 365 email or Skype for Business. In these setup steps, we show you how to add your existing email account (such as Gmail) to Outlook.
1. Create Office 365 accounts and add your domain
In this step, you use the Setup wizard to create accounts and add your own domain. The wizard lets you personalize everyone's user ID and email for your business, like firstname.lastname@example.com.
To start the wizard, choose Go to setup and follow this guide Office 365 Admin Set Up using Setup Wizard
To learn more, see Assign Office 365 License to User Accounts and Add a domain to Office 365
2. Install Office
Once you've created accounts for other people in your business, you and your team members will be able to install the full desktop version of Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.). Each person can install Office on up to 5 PCs or Macs.
2. Sign in with your Office 365 user account.
3. Choose Install.
Need more detailed steps or want to install the 64-bit version of Office? See Step-by-step installation instructions.
3. Connect email accounts
You can connect other email accounts to Outlook, too, such as your Gmail and Yahoo accounts. This lets you manage all of your email in one place. You can connect up to 5 email accounts to Outlook.
Sign in to Office 365 with your work or school account at www.office.com/signin.
2. Choose Mail.
3. On the Outlook navigation bar, select Settings > Options.
4. In the left pane, choose Mail, and under Accounts, choose Connected accounts.
Not all features are available in every region. If you don't see the Connected accounts option, this feature may not be available for your account.
5. On the Connect your email account page, enter your full email address, such as firstname.lastname@example.com, and the password of the email account you want to connect to Outlook.
6. Choose OK.
IMPORTANT: If you get a message that Outlook couldn't connect to the server for your other account, choose Back and make sure you entered the correct email address and password for your account. Typos are really common!
Need more detailed steps or help? See Connect email accounts in Outlook on the web (Office 365).
4. Set up mobile
Install Office on your mobile device, and set up Outlook to work with your new Office 365 mailbox. Everyone on your team will need to do this step. Each person can install the Office mobile apps on up to 5 phones and 5 tablets.
Get the steps for your device: Android | iOS | Windows Phone
5. Store files online
Office 365 makes online file storage easy. To learn which storage locations are best for your business, see Where you can store files in Office 365.
Everyone gets a OneDrive cloud storage location automatically when you create Office 365 accounts for them. With OneDrive, you can access files across your computers, phones, and tablets.
Go to www.office.com/signin.
2. On the Office 365 Home page, choose OneDrive.
3. Upload the files you want to store.
Get started using Office
To take a tour of Office 365 and learn how to use all the Office mobile apps, see How to get started using Office.


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The two major national party committees and the four Congressional campaign committees had healthy fundraising efforts during May, leaving them with substantial war chests for the upcoming elections.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) reported receipts of $8,785,383 and disbursements of $8,777,135, leaving $7,939,858 cash on hand on May 31st. The committee has debts of $4,909,240. During May the committee made a loan repayment of $1,875,000.


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GENxyz: Colorado's Top 25 Young Professionals for 2011
They're young, they're tech-savvy and they're undaunted by the lingering economic downturn that has now persisted almost half of some of their professional careers. They're also givers, involved in their communities. But most of all, they're doers.
This is the 2011 edition of "Gen XYZ," our second annual look at 25 professionals under 39 we judged to be the most influential in Colorado by virtue of their accomplishments, their unusual drive and the impact they've had on their communities, whether by giving their time, donating their professional expertise, or inspiring others to do the same.
As the judges of the entries that flowed in, we had a tough time whittling the many thoughtful submissions of these standout young professionals down to 25 - and an even tougher time selecting a top five (read about one of them below), which we profile in more detail along with the 20 additional honorees. ColoradoBiz was assisted in the Gen XYZ nomination process by the Colorado Springs Young Professionals, which solicited entries from its more than 1,700 members, including chapters in Denver and Pueblo.
ColoradoBiz recognized these 25 individuals and their companies at a special Gen XYZ celebration on Sept. 29. (Read about the other finalists.)
Carrie Rezabek Dorr, 37
Pure Barre
It would be hard to come up with a better example of someone turning a passion into a livelihood than Carrie Rezabek Dorr, a former professional dancer and law-school grad who has built Pure Barre, a dance-oriented fitness concept, into a national brand with 70 franchises and counting.
Originally from Detroit, Rezabek Dorr danced professionally while attending Michigan State University, where she earned a 4.0 majoring in business law, and at Wayne State, where she earned her law degree. She also danced professionally in New York.
"I practiced law for two years, but honestly it was just to pay off my law school loans," Rezabek Dorr says. "Dancing was and still is my passion in life."
She launched her first dancing-oriented fitness facility in 2001 at the age of 26 in the basement of a building in Birmingham, Mich., then headed to Southern California, where she opened Pure Barre studios in Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego. (The French term "barre" refers to the ballet bar that dancers use in training.)
With about 15 studios established in California, Rezabek Dorr turned to franchising and moved to Colorado, launching the first studio in Cherry Creek.
"I just packed up my stuff and drove from L.A. to Denver," she says. "Honestly, I wasn't sure I would stay here. I had never really spent any time in Colorado. But I ended up meeting my husband two weeks after moving here and never left the state."
She and Frank Dorr were married in May. He is Pure Barre's CFO.
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From this part onwards, this tutorial assumes you have done the
Django Tutorial and we will show you how to integrate that poll app into the
django CMS. If a poll app is mentioned here, we mean the one you get when
finishing the Django Tutorial.
Also, make sure the poll app is in your
We assume your main
urls.py looks somewhat like this:
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.contrib import admin
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls')),
(r'^', include('cms.urls')),
A Plugin is a small bit of content you can place on your pages.
For our polling app we would like to have a small poll plugin, that shows one poll and let's the user vote.
In your poll application's
models.py add the following model:
from cms.models import CMSPlugin
class PollPlugin(CMSPlugin):
poll = models.ForeignKey('polls.Poll', related_name='plugins')
def __unicode__(self):
return self.poll.question
django CMS plugins must inherit from
(or a subclass thereof) and not
manage.py syncdb to create the database tables for this model or see
Using South with django CMS to see how to do it using South
Now create a file
cms_plugins.py in the same folder your
models.py is
in, so following the Django Tutorial, your polls app folder should look like
this now:
The plugin class is responsible to provide the django CMS with the necessary information to render your Plugin.
For our poll plugin, write following plugin class:
from cms.plugin_base import CMSPluginBase
from cms.plugin_pool import plugin_pool
from polls.models import PollPlugin as PollPluginModel
from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
class PollPlugin(CMSPluginBase):
model = PollPluginModel # Model where data about this plugin is saved
name = _("Poll Plugin") # Name of the plugin
render_template = "polls/plugin.html" # template to render the plugin with
def render(self, context, instance, placeholder):
return context
plugin_pool.register_plugin(PollPlugin) # register the plugin
All plugin classes must inherit from
cms.plugin_base.CMSPluginBase and must register themselves
with the
You probably noticed the
attribute on that plugin class, for our plugin to work, that template must
exist and is responsible for rendering the plugin.
The template could look like this:

{{ instance.poll.question }}

<form action="{% url polls.views.vote poll.id %}" method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
{% for choice in instance.poll.choice_set.all %}
<input type="radio" name="choice" id="choice{{ forloop.counter }}" value="{{ choice.id }}" />
{{ choice.choice }}

{% endfor %}
<input type="submit" value="Vote" />
We don't show the errors here, because when submitting the form you're taken off this page to the actual voting page.
Right now, external apps are statically hooked into the main
urls.py, that
is not the preferred way in the django CMS. Ideally you attach your apps to CMS
For that purpose you write a
CMSApp. That is
just a small class telling the CMS how to include that app.
CMS Apps live in a file called
cms_app.py, so go ahead and create that to
make your polls app look like this:
In this file, write:
from cms.app_base import CMSApp
from cms.apphook_pool import apphook_pool
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
class PollsApp(CMSApp):
name = _("Poll App") # give your app a name, this is required
urls = ["polls.urls"] # link your app to url configuration(s)
apphook_pool.register(PollsApp) # register your app
Now remove the inclusion of the polls urls in your main
urls.py so it looks
like this:
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.contrib import admin
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
(r'^', include('cms.urls')),
Now open your admin in your browser and edit a CMS Page. Open the 'Advanced Settings' tab and choose 'Polls App' for your 'Application'.
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Welcome to the guide for Dungeon CC. Today, we will be reading about how to effectively manage and use CC for the best results, I will include tips and some suggestions as well as tables that will hopefully benefit you in your understanding.
What is "CC"
For the most part, CC jut means crowd control, this can include snares, stuns, slows and abilities that, for the most part, remove an enemy from being effectively in combat. For the purpose of this guide i will only focus on 2 main things: Interrupts, and Effective removal from combat.
Why is CC important
CC is important because it allows for the tank to manage his threat more effectively, creates less damage coming in to help out the healer, and allow focus fire to be more beneficial. CC is a must in heroics and should be used on almost every pull you can. Remember, this expansion is all about mitigating group damage the best way possible.
Who can CC?
Every class has at least one form of crowd control, some have multiple and some CC is more effective than others. I will go into greater detail about this later.
Who should mark for CC
While it should be the job of the tank to mark for CC, anyone can speak up and mark. It is better to have someone doing it rather than to assume the tank will. Tanks should be assertive about who has what mark for CC and what they want to use. If you see a timid tank in your group, politely ask if you can mark for CC.
Who should be using CC
Anyone who has a CC should be using it, but please utilize DPS classes CC first, then Tank CC then Healer CC in that order.
So now that we have covered some basic questions let us look at some basic CC.
There are 2 types of CC in the game, Targeted CC and untargetable CC. CC that is targeted is generally much stronger and will be the only CC i will be talking about (with the only exception being freezing trap). Targeted CC is very strong because you can select what mob you are trying to CC and make sure you get the mob assigned to you. This is exceptionally helpful on packs that move before you pull them. In addition to the two types there is CC that will bring the group into combat, and CC that will not. CC that will not bring the group into combat is limited to Sap and Freezing trap (before it activates). Another thing you need to know about CC is the ability to reapply CC. This means that during combat you will have to refresh the CC on the mobs as the fight is going on. Many people, even good players, can benefit from learning how to re-apply CC more effectively. The ability to reapply CC is part of the reason a tank shouldn't be CC'ing if there is a DPS who is able to do so. CC should be re-applied based on the situation, and depending on how comfortable you are with the duration of your CC and heartbeat resist*.
CC "on-the-fly" is also a very important skill to have. It's isn't difficult but it is very valuable. There are a few pulls in the expansion that you will utilize CC this way. This simply means you wait as the mobs are being pulled before you CC. A great example is the pull in Vortex Pinnacle, where 5 mobs are in a grounding field and unable to be affected by spells until they run out.
Some CC is not strong, in fact, there is a lot of weak CC that is in the game, but it is still pretty reliable. Most of the weak CC tends to do with cooldowns and others with how the CC works, and what happens when/if it breaks. For that reason i will list the strength of CC based on each creature type. Sheep is considered by many to be the "best CC in the game" while I would agree that it is very strong, it is no longer the best in the game because it only affects 2 types of mobs, and breaks on any damage done to it. Because not all CC is the same, you will want to setup a kill order based on this information. This will allow stronger CC to remain active as you kill the mobs in order.
Marking mobs before a pull will be crucial to the success of your group. And everyone seems to have adopted Blizzards default-UI markings for obvious reasons. There are 8 markers that are as follows.
From Left to right, top to bottom using common names: Star, Circle, Diamond, Triangle, Moon, square, X, Skull.
Image credits/source: http://www.wowwiki.com/Raid_target_icons
You can go into key bindings and set a key bind to each of the Raid icons above.
Common options tend to include F1-F12 keys. Personally i like using my numpad as you can see. As a tank I would suggest at a minimum to key bind skull, so when you switch targets you can mark skull immediately to help DPS focus down your target.
Now that we have discussed the general things, lets move on to what classes have what CC.
Below you will find a chart detailing what CC is available for each class
Given that all the CC is targetable except for trap, I will explain how trap works and how you need to use it when pulling.
Trap will launch from the hunter to a spot on the ground, once it is there the trap will become set. There is about 1.5 seconds from the time you see the trap launching from the hunter to the time the trap is set and will CC a mob. But because you can't select a target directly with trap you will need to have the hunter use trap first, then, as soon as you see it flying through the air, start casting your CC. By the time you are done casting, the trap will be set and will be snapping on a mob. This is very important to let the hunter pull whenever there is a trap needed. The only exception is when you are planning on trapping a mob that will have no ranged attacks and you can set the trap in front of him, causing the mob to run over the trap on the way to the tank as he pulls.
The other CC that I need to discuss is entangling roots. Entangling roots is not like other CC's where the mobs will not be able to attack; instead, it makes the mob unable to move. That is why you should only have a druid rooting a melee mob. And be sure to not stand near the rooted mobs because they will still be able to attack if you are in melee range.
Some examples of marking CC before a pull.
Here we had Circle and Triangle for rooting, Diamond was repentance, and moon was sheep.
Heirarchy of CC
All CC is not equal. To compensate for this we realize that it is important to break the CC of mobs that cannot be reapplied readily. While repentance is strong, and immune to heartbeat resist, it cannot be re-applied should something happen and the mob break, due to the long cooldown. Sap is another CC that will not be able to be re-applied once a group has been pulled. So keep this in mind when deciding what mob should be next to kill. Hex is another ability that is great, however, it will have a long cooldown should it break early, making it not as desirable as something like Polymorph.
Top Long-term CC (5 second or less cooldown)
Good Long-term CC
- Fear (glyphed)
- Hibernate
- Polymorph
- Shackle Undead
- Banish
- Seduction
- Bind Elemental
- Mind Control
Short Term CC
- Sap
- Freezing Trap
- Repentance
- Hex
Least desirable CC
- Entangling Roots
- Wyvern Sting
- Hungering Cold
- Intimidating shout
Remember, communication with your group is key. Make sure you have a system in place that everyone knows their role, and make sure people who have multiple forms of CC are capable of doing both, and know what their two marks are.
*Heartbeat Resist
Heartbeat Resist is the ability for a mob to randomly break free of CC. This chance is lowered based on how much +hit you have, but never 100%. This is why healers would be a last-resort CC, because they have 0 hit rating causing mobs to break free more often.
Tips and trips for various classes
Focus and Focus macros can be your best friend. It helps you find your CC target quickly and get back to your job. Just a simple /focus on your mark will go a long way.
CC Frequently, when you think your CC might be close to breaking, reapply, or in the case of paladins, hunters, and Shamans, CC as soon as you see your cooldown is about up.
Death Knights - Hungering cold is a great ability, if another pack gets pulled on accident you will be able to have 10 seconds to finish whatever mob you are on and get some CC on the new mobs. It also can act as an interrupt on non-bosses.
Druids - You can range all the trash in this game, or LoS them, so if you are forced to root a caster you will still be able to prevent it's damage. Sometimes this method can be tricky. Natures Grasp also allows you to have a second set of roots up at any given time, but remember that it isn't easily recast-able.
Hunter - Because you can only have 1 trap at a time doesn't mean you can not have two things trapped at once. It may be tricky but after the first trap goes off, you are able to place another trap down to get a second enemy in a freezing trap. This may take some time to get used to.
Priest - Mind control pulling is a fun way to do trash and can be very effective. This allows you to sometimes kill an entire mob by having its friends kill it then immediatly mind control another mob.
Mage - In a few situations Ring of frost can be godly. Use it in ideal situations for great control.
Rogue - Should your CC become in danger of running out you can Vanish and reapply sap on the mob before it wakes up
Shaman - Earth Elemental totem can be used in a pinch to off-tank a mob, but beware, this elemental has very bad AI.
Warlock - Your succubus is very strong, and glyphing it makes it better. This expansion you are kings of CC.
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One of the major empirical and conceptual controversies for the whole history of psychiatry concerns the possibility of recovery from schizophrenia. Kraepelin was one of the main theorists to posit the disorder as a discrete entity, and in naming it dementia praecox (premature dementia) he expressed his judgment that it is a permanent condition. Since the end of the nineteenth century, there have been related debates about how best to define schizophrenia and whether it is possible to recover from it partially or completely. In 12-Step Plans, people talk about being "in recovery" but also describe addiction as a life long condition, so the notion of recovery itself has shown flexibility, since it used to be that recovery from a disease meant that it was gone. In recent years, ideas of the recovery movement have spread to rehabilitation, and even people with serious mental illnesses will describe themselves as being in recovery.
Richard Warner places himself firmly in the camp supporting the idea of recovery from schizophrenia in his book Recovery from Schizophrenia; the notion of recovery is basically sufficient reduction of symptoms for a person to be able to return to the workforce, although he does not define the term narrowly in this way. His main contention is that changing economic conditions and especially doing productive work can improve the recovery rate for people with schizophrenia. His book, first published in 1985, is now in its third edition. It is a comprehensive survey of the theories about schizophrenia, the different treatments for the disorder now and in the past, approaches to treating schizophrenia in the Third World, the experience of living as a person with schizophrenia in the west, the importance of work for recovery, and ways to improve rehabilitation services. It is written very clearly, and each chapter has a summary of the main points at the end.
Warner accepts that schizophrenia is fundamentally a biological condition, but as with many other biological conditions, the course of the disorder is fundamentally affected by the economic conditions. When jobs are easier to find, more people recover from schizophrenia, and when jobs are harder to find, recovery rates decline. Even when it is possible to produce correlations, it is hard to prove causation, but Warner makes a strong case that these phenomena are at least intimately tied. He quotes many studies and literature reviews, sometimes at length, to make his case. He uses data from the USA, the UK and Ireland, and many other countries. Often he returns to the theme of the Tuke Retreat in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, which used "moral treatment'" this had many aspects, but especially important to Warner is that patients were put to work performing useful tasks, and the recovery rates were impressive. Warner accepts that medication is often a very helpful treatment, but he points out that it may not always be the best treatment, and it should not be used as a substitute for other psychosocial approaches. He shows that despite our advances in treatment in the last century, recovery rates have not significantly improved. He also points out that there are many abuses of people with schizophrenia, and that stigma is a major factor in the problems for helping people with severe mental disorders. Warner draws on information from his home state of Colorado regarding the rehabilitation services there as a model for how to improve treatment outcomes.
The chapter on schizophrenia in the Third World is maybe the most philosophically interesting because it raises major questions of how to conceptualize mental illness in different cultures, or whether schizophrenia is a universal concept that can be applied equally in all cultures. Similar issues arise in applying the concept of schizophrenia to previous centuries, in rather less urgent form. Warner does not press these issues philosophically, and keeps the conceptual discussion to the minimum necessary for his main purposes. The chapter on the Third World attempts to cover a huge area in relatively few pages, and could easily be expanded to a book of its own. Nevertheless, philosophers and medical anthropologists will find his discussion here fascinating, and it could serve as a starting place for a sustained investigation of the cultural variation in the understanding of schizophrenia.
As a philosopher, I don't have the expertise in the wide range of empirical literature, from Western economic history, through non-Western medical anthropology, the history of psychiatry, modern clinical studies, to modern psychopharmacology and genetics to judge the adequacy of Warner's survey of the field or his interpretation. Indeed, one wonders how many people would be competent to assess the whole range of claims in the book. Nevertheless, it has stood up to the criticism of previous editions and is up to date with recent information. It is careful and nuanced, as well as reasonably thorough in its argument. For anyone who is interested in the debate over the best policy for treating schizophrenia, and the economic factors relevant to mental health treatment, Recovery from Schizophrenia is essential reading.
© 2008 Christian Perring
Christian Perring, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dowling College, New York.
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Former Xavier star sues school over expulsion
Grand jury declined to indict basketball player accused of sexual assault
A former Xavier University basketball player sued the school, alleging it damaged his reputation by expelling him for what he says was a false sexual assault accusation.
Dez Wells' federal lawsuit also names the private Jesuit Catholic school's president as a defendant. Father Michael Graham said in a statement Wednesday that the university denies the allegations and will defend its decision to expel Wells.
Xavier kicked Wells out a year ago in the aftermath of a female student's accusation that he sexually assaulted her in July 2012. A Hamilton County grand jury declined to indict Wells after hearing evidence in the case. Prosecutor Joe Deters later publicly questioned the school's expulsion and urged Xavier to "revisit" the situation.
At the time, Xavier said Wells was expelled for a "serious violation" of the code of student conduct, and that a board consisting of faculty, students and administrators made the decision following standard procedures for U.S. universities.
Wells, who's from Raleigh, N.C., was a freshman star for Xavier. He subsequently transferred to the University of Maryland, where he was a top player last season after the NCAA agreed to waive the usual transfer requirement for sitting out.
Wells says he has been heckled by fans and faces continued questions about his character.
"From the moment this nightmare began, I've told the truth. I am innocent," Wells said in a statement Wednesday. "It's time to make this right. Xavier needs to set the record straight."
His lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, seeks unspecified compensatory, punitive and special damages to be determined at trial.
"The repercussions to Dez of the school's reckless actions are significant," attorney Peter Ginsberg said Wednesday. Wells also wants Xavier's expulsion vacated, although he has no interest in returning there.
Wells' lawsuit says that he had consensual sex with the woman. It charges that the school's handling of the case was a fundamentally unfair rush to judgment, causing him emotional distress and public humiliation, and will hang over him if he tries to become an NBA player or seek other jobs.
"Xavier's statement forever falsely taints and permanently damages Wells as a student who was expelled from his university for a rape that did not occur," his lawsuit states. "Wells will eventually graduate from college and will likely face difficulties in obtaining employment as a result of Xavier's actions and false and defamatory statement, or, alternatively, professional basketball teams will be more hesitant to sign Wells."
Graham's statement said the lawsuit's allegations are "unfounded and cannot be supported" and that the sanction determined for Wells was expulsion was upheld on appeal.
"The university has never revealed the specific charge against Dez Wells other than to say he was found responsible for a violation of the student code of conduct," Graham wrote. "The university will vigorously defend the process and the decision."


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As a member of the best-selling hip hop trio The Fugees, Lauryn Hill made a name for herself as a top emcee who could also sing a nice hook. But the improbable success of the group's 1996 album "The Score," driven in large part by Hill's vocals on a remake of Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly With His Song," did little to prepare the world for what was coming when she stepped out on her own.
To this day, 1998's "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" remains a cultural touchstone for millions of Americans who were intoxicated by the album's seamless blend of hip hop, reggae, soul and R & B. The record, which spawned the ubiquitous single"Doo Wap (That Thing)," turned the introspective performer into a global superstar.
And then she vanished.
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With few exceptions, Hill has kept a low-profile since her last record, "MTV Unplugged 2.0," which was released to divided reviews in 2002. During the recording session for that album, Hill explained to the crowd that her self-imposed hiatus was due in large part to her disillusionment with the trappings of celebrity.
"Fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need," she said during the performance.
But now the reclutant star may be stepping back into the spotlight. She was recently announced as a performer in the star-studded, four-city Rock the Bells tour kicking off later this summer and opened up on her absence in an interview with NPR's "All Things Considered."
"There were a number of different reasons, but partly, y'know, the support system that I needed was not necessarily in place," Hill said of why she stopped recording. "There were things about myself, things that I needed to go through and experience, in order for me to feel like it was worth it."
Hill, who said she's been working on ways to increase her vocal range, thinks people might be surprised when they hear her again.
"Most people have never really heard me sing-sing-sing," she said. "If I do record next time, perhaps there will be an expanded context. People can hear a bit more."
During the NPR interview, Hill hinted that she may even be ready to record some new material, now that her children are growing up.
"I think it's just time, and I'm starting to get excited again," she said.


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A New Looking Glass: Historic Harvard Plates
By Catherine Clabby
Photographic plates of astronomical images provide data to researchers in the present.
Photographic plates of astronomical images provide data to researchers in the present.
Nothing in the world compares to a collection of some 500,000 historic photographic plates of telescope images obtained over a century by the Harvard College Observatory (HCO). The glass plates originated from Harvard astronomers' frequent and systematic survey of the sky in both the northern and southern hemispheres between 1885 and 1993. At the HCO today, scientists are making digital copies of the images, not simply to preserve artifacts but to push a new field of research forward. Data collected over such a long period are invaluable to time domain astronomy (TDA), which hunts for clues to unknown stellar and galactic phenomena revealed by the variation in the brightness of stars and galactic nuclei over time. Jonathan Grindlay leads the Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard (DASCH) project. He explained its promise to American Scientist contributing editor Catherine Clabby.
Why was this ambitious imaging started 132 years ago?
The Harvard glass plate images were made to study variability in the brightness of stars, the source of which was largely a mystery in the late 1800s. The cause was clear in binary stars (two orbiting stars can eclipse each other), but sporadic variability and irregular changes were unexplained. So HCO Director Edward Pickering initiated a program to take images with many different Harvard telescopes at Harvard and, significantly, in Peru and later South Africa—the first extensive coverage of the southern sky. The program was interrupted between 1953 and 1968 but resumed until 1993, when photographic plates became unavailable. Some 500,000 plates, the world's largest collection of images of the entire sky, resulted. Each star typically was imaged about 1,500 times, producing a unique record of stellar variability on timescales up to a century.
Why was it necessary to create a customized scanner and software to digitize and analyze the plates?
We experimented with commercial scanners but they were too slow and inaccurate. Fortunately, Bob Simcoe, a very capable engineer and an observatory volunteer, was aware of scanners developed for rapid and very precise inspection of flat-panel displays. He designed a plate-holding fixture that allows one or two plates to be moved in precise steps beneath a fixed charged-coupled device (CCD) digital camera that views a 40 x 40 millimeter region of each plate through a precision lens. Our custom DASCH scanner software merges 60 camera images from each plate into one digital image and measures the brightness of each resolved star that is brighter than the sensitivity limit of that plate. DASCH software produces a light curve, a plot of stellar magnitude, or brightness, versus the date when the plate for that magnitude was taken, which can be displayed in less than 10 seconds. DASCH software engineer Ed Los developed our scanner and analysis software pipelines with input from postdoctoral scientists, graduate students and me.
Please explain the promise of time domain astronomy and how these plates are advancing the field.
Time domain astronomy uses temporal variability of objects (stars, jets from stars or galactic nuclei, and galactic nuclei themselves) to probe physical conditions and processes that are best understood by measuring changes over time. Pickering was remarkably prescient in setting up the Harvard "patrol cameras" (as well as larger telescopes) to repeatedly image the sky. The Harvard plates have been used for decades, but purely for visual studies of only a few of the typically 50,000 objects on a given plate. With their records of the full sky, the DASCH data reveal new classes of variables as well as extreme and rare outbursts of objects measured in several TDA surveys underway today. So far only 10 percent of the DASCH plates have been scanned. The rest can be scanned in three to four years if we obtain continued financial support.
What do you consider some of the most interesting things discovered so far using the DASCH data?
A very interesting recent discovery is the light curve produced from multiple images of the same star seen in the smaller image at left. This star, V4641Sgr, was found to be variable in 1978. It was then discovered to be a bright x-ray source in 1999 when a violent flare increased the optical brightness by five magnitudes and a radio jet appeared, making it a microquasar. The star is in a binary system containing a black hole that is accreting from a "normal" star companion in a 2.74-day orbit. The DASCH light curve shows a single large flare in 1901 nearly as bright as that in 1999. This shows that giant flares observable in optical and x rays from black hole x-ray binaries such as this are rare, occurring roughly once per century and lasting only about 10 days, similar to that seen from another microquasar. From this and other data, we can estimate that there are hundreds of similar black hole transients of this type in our galaxy. We also recently discovered historical outbursts from two other black hole sources in the DASCH plates scanned so far. Studies of the historical records of all the known black hole binaries will enable us to estimate the total stellar black hole population in our galaxy.
When you are most optimistic about what these data will reveal, what do you expect they will contribute?
Astrophysics consistently reveals new types of astronomical objects, which teach us new physics that cannot be directly studied in a laboratory. Now with DASCH enabling TDA research on previously unexplored timescales, it is likely we will find more evidence that the universe is richer in objects and observational signatures than we have predicted. The biggest excitement from DASCH will likely be either qualitatively new phenomena from previously known objects or the discovery of entirely new classes of objects, because we now have the means to "observe" on previously inaccessible timescales. The discovery of pulsars came from radio telescopes sensitive to variations faster than a few seconds. Discoveries of x-ray and gamma ray burst sources came from new detector and observation strategies, on timescales of seconds to days. DASCH will be able to reveal new phenomena and objects that vary, or recur, on months to decades to century timescales that previously were impossible to study.
For more information on DASCH, visit http://hea-www.harvard.edu/DASCH/
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Basketball Matters: Denver East's Collier drawing comparisons to Chauncey Billups
There was no way Dominique Collier was going to simply slip into high school unnoticed. He was too good a player for that to happen.
And not only did he not, but there was close to rock star-style buzz surrounding his arrival at Denver East as a freshman this year. As a talent, Collier is, in some ways, already said to be a more advanced player at his age, 15, than arguably the greatest prep player in Colorado history – former George Washington and current Denver Nuggets guard Chauncey Billups.
"I tell you, and I mean this genuinely," Denver East coach Rudy Carey said of Collier. "Best I've seen in 20 years. And I'm talking about comparing him to Chauncey skill-wise and knowledge of the game. He's got a higher basketball IQ."
But don't just take Carey's word for it.
"His feel for the game is unbelievable," Billups said. "His feel for the game at this stage is much better than mine was at 14 and 15. He's got a special talent. He just knows how to play the game. He's a point guard in its purest form, great understanding for the game. He's special, and special doesn't come around here that often."
Collier has burst onto the scene a part of a young nucleus that has Denver East out to an 8-4 start this season. Hovering near 20 points per game Collier can score the ball to be sure, but his best attribute is his unselfishness.
He doesn't force shots up, which can be a problem for young players that come into high school with tons of fanfare. He's a scorer/slasher that gets into the lane, reads the defense and most times makes the correct play whether that's creating for a teammate or taking the shot himself.
"He's a very composed young man," Carey said. "Very mature in the game. He's still going to make some mistakes and has a lot to learn, but he's very mature in the game."
Collier is a wiry kid, standing 6-foot-1. He's soft spoken, and according to those who know him won't let any of his rising stardom get into his head. Collier shrugs off the praise.
"I don't try to think about all the buzz," Collier said. "I just try to play my game and try to help my teammates."
"He's not that kind of kid," Billups said. "More than anything he's a great kid. He's quiet, he's fun. He's just a really good kid. He comes from a great family, great parents. He's a great talent. I'm excited to see how his career pans out. He can be very special. Very, very special. We'll see if he gets bigger and all that. We'll see when he gets older. But right now he's just a special talent."
Denver East is ranked fifth in the Denver Post prep 5A boys basketball poll. Collier's play is a big reason why.
"He has exceeded our expectations," Carey said. "We knew he was good. He has another level to his game. He has another high school level to his game, and I'm talking about able to play with the very best. And he's probably in the top 10 players in the state of Colorado. As a freshman."
Jason Smith is a happy alum in many different respects. His former school is putting a smile on his face. And an NBA season in New Orleans in which he's as healthy as he's ever been is keeping it there.
First, the former.
Colorado State is off to its best start in years and Smith has been following the developments as closely as possible.
"They are playing pretty good," Smith said. "I follow them through the Internet. I talk to coach (Tim) Miles every once in a while. The only thing that I'm kind of worried about is they have to play San Diego State and BYU. You hear so much about those two teams. It's a good conference though. Good competition for them."
Going into tonight's game at New Mexico, the Rams are off to an 11-4 start, which has started some talk about making a run at the NCAA Tournament.
"Tim, he just needed to get his own guys in there," Smith said. "He was a great coach at North Dakota State. He just needed to get his group of guys in and he was going to be good. It's going to be tough for them. They are just beginning their conference right now. But it'll be interesting. If they can go .500 if not a little bit better in conference play then they're a tournament team, I think."
In his own season, Smith is currently in the midst of a reboot.
He tore the ACL in his left knee and missed his entire second season (2008-09), and though he returned to play in 2009-10, he was still not himself. This season Smith has been injury-free and able to get back to proving himself on the court.
He's playing more minutes per game than he has in any other year, and it's translating into increased production.
"Last year was kind of up and down, but this year no problems whatsoever," Smith said. "Coming back after the surgery I figured it would be just fine the year after. But it was the struggles of tendonitis and the knee was hurting if it was raining, if it was snowing, ugh. It was a pain in my butt. But now it's doing a lot better. Consistently it's not hurting, it's not swelling.
"I'm just playing within my role. Not doing too much, not trying to just sit back and not do anything. I'm trying to go out there and give the team what they need and really just go out there and play."
One word: shooter. He'll make shots off the catch and off the dribble. He's also a smart player who understands how to read defenses. Probably doesn't get enough credit for how well he sees the floor. He's also stronger than he looks in the upper body for a kid his size.
He compensates remarkably well for his lack of quickness and athleticism at the college level, especially on offense. However, this will be a much bigger problem in the NBA. His lack of athleticism will really hurt him on defense at the professional level. He just doesn't have the lateral quickness to stay in front of NBA point guards. NBA teams will go after him early and often. If he can't stay on the floor because of his defense that will obviously make any offensive contributions he might be able to make in the NBA moot.
I think somebody takes a chance on this kid in the second round since they won't owe him any guaranteed money simply because a team can never have enough shooters. If he goes to a NBA team that is committed to playing good team defense and has players that command double teams, I think he'll have a chance to carve out a niche for himself.
Yes, it's January. But no, it's never too early to start thinking about the NCAA Tournament and what the local schools need to get there. Colorado got a resume-boosting win over Missouri and will attempt to get another tonight on the road against Kansas State. Colorado State is looking for a big road victory itself tonight at New Mexico. Per RPIRatings.com, here are Front Range RPIs coming into this week.
Colorado State 61
Colorado 108
N. Colorado 137
Air Force 141
Denver 244
Wyoming 274
Through a near daily deluge of questions about trade talk to many of the players on the Nuggets roster, coach George Karl has taken a proactive approach to ease some of the pressure and hopefully help a team fighting to tread water in the Western Conference.
Karl will talk with any player who wants, or needs to, during this time where media is swarming and reports about trades and players possibly involved are updated, written and broadcasted seemingly by the hour.
"I told them all (Monday): 'Hey, guys, if you want to come in and talk about what's going on, I might know a little bit more than you know, but I'm not sure I know everything. But I do have experiences and if you have questions, maybe we can get to a place where I can make it feel better,'" Karl said.
"But my belief is winning will make it feel better. In the last two or three games (prior to Tuesday's night's win over Phoenix), we've kind of been frozen. You can blame it on fatigue, you can blame it on the schedule, you can blame it on bad coaching. You can blame it on whatever you want to blame it on. But I'm going to stand up for my team. If I was giving a grade on handling this season so far, I think we're much closer to an A than a C. We fought through it. We won some big games. In my mind, we've played better than I thought we'd play or could play on a lot of nights, so I'm going to tip my hat to them right now."
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