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Andrei Faraon (BS '04) has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation for his proposal titled "Quantum Light-Matter Interfaces Based on Rare-Earth Ions and Nanophotonics." The grant is the NSF's most prestigious award for junior faculty members. Each award provides a minimum of $500,000 over five years to "pursue outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations."
Faraon, who joined the Caltech faculty in 2012 as an assistant professor of applied physics and material science, will use the grant to research elements of quantum machines. These machines can theoretically process information in a faster and more secure way than current technologies by manipulating the quantum states of atoms and photons. Faraon's group will focus on building interfaces between light and matter that will enable efficient storage, retrieval, and transmission of quantum information.
To illustrate this work to a diverse audience of nonscientists, and as a part of the CAREER grant, Faraon and his group will work with students at Navajo Preparatory School, a high school just outside the Navajo Nation Reservation in Farmington, New Mexico. Members of the Faraon group and the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech have previously worked with the school as part of an outreach program.
Faraon also recently received a grant from the Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program for his work with light-matter interfaces and quantum computation.
Caltech seniors Adam Jermyn and Charles Tschirhart have been named 2015 Hertz Fellowship winners. Selected from a pool of approximately 800 applicants, the awardees will receive up to five years of support for their graduate studies. According to the Hertz Foundation, fellows are chosen for their intellect, their ingenuity, and their potential to bring meaningful improvement to society. Jermyn and Tschirhart bring the number of Caltech undergraduate Hertz fellows to 60.
Adam Jermyn, a physics major from Longmeadow, Massachusetts, works with so-called "emergent phenomena," which "is a broad term referring to situations where we know all of the laws on a fundamental level but where there are so many pieces working together that the consequences aren't known," he says. For example, the basic laws governing fluid mechanics are simple equations that relate such easily measured quantities as density, velocity, and temperature to one another, but simulating the behavior of two gases as they mix in a turbulent flow can tax the capacity of a supercomputer.
Jermyn's senior thesis models how a pulsar—a type of celestial radio source that flashes as fast as a thousand times per second—disrupts the atmosphere of a companion star. Pulsars are neutron stars—supernova cinders that pack the mass of a couple of suns into a sphere roughly the size of Manhattan. The spin imparted by the supernova's explosion and equally violent collapse creates a beam of tightly focused radio waves. If a neutron star were "aimed" at Earth, the beam's fleeting illumination would register as a flash in our radio telescopes every time it swept across us. Meanwhile, the pulsar's intense gravity distorts the companion star, creating a bulge on its surface. Like Earth's moon, the star's rotation is tidally locked, always presenting the same side to its dominant neighbor. The companion star's atmosphere gets siphoned away, layer by layer, forming a turbulent tendril of gas that winds in an ever-tightening spiral around the pulsar as the stolen material accretes onto its surface.
Charles Tschirhart of Naperville, Illinois, is a double major in applied physics and chemistry. His interests lie at the opposite end of the scale—in the world of nanotechnology, where lengths are measured in nanometers, or billionths of a meter. In the summer of 2012, he was part of a team that built nanoelectrodes—tiny silicon needles that penetrate a cell wall without damaging the cell to monitor the electrical activity within.
Tschirhart and Jermyn share an interest in fluid mechanics. "I think the biggest difference between what Adam and I do is that he is a theorist, and I am an experimentalist," Tschirhart says. "Physicists pretend that a fluid is a continuum of infinitely divisible matter and thus doesn't have any 'graininess' to it." But because atoms and molecules do have finite sizes, "once you get down to small enough scales," he says, "even water becomes 'grainy.'" The fluid becomes more viscous, as it takes effort to force the grains past one another. For his senior thesis, Tschirhart determined the nanoviscosity of silicone oil by measuring the thickness of a thin film of oil, smearing it even thinner with a stream of air and measuring its thickness again. The thickness should decrease in a linear manner, but this doesn't happen when the layer gets thin enough. "These films aren't much thicker than the size of a molecule," he says. "This is where noncontinuum effects show up." These effects could affect how engineers approach tasks as diverse as lubricating hard drives and extracting crude oil from porous rocks.
Both students took Physics 11, a course taught by the late Professor Thomas Tombrello. Tombrello launched this class in 1989 to teach encourage freshman to think creatively, and taught it annually until his death in September 2014. This year, Jermyn and Tschirhart are helping teach it. "Physics 11 really shaped the way I ask questions, and I have Tom Tombrello to thank for that," says Jermyn. "He pushed us to think about things obliquely," Tschirhart concurs. "After I got over my initial nerves, I found myself enjoying [the two rounds of Hertz interviews], which made it much easier to answer the questions creatively."
Both plan to defer their Hertz doctoral fellowships while they take advanced degrees in England. Tschirhart will be attending the University of Nottingham as a Fulbright Scholar for one year, where he plans to develop new applications for atomic force microscopy, a powerful technique for "photographing" nanoscale objects. Jermyn will be at the University of Cambridge for two years as a Marshall Scholar investigating the processes by which planets form around binary star systems.
Imagine you need to have an almost exact copy of an object. Now imagine that you can just pull your smartphone out of your pocket, take a snapshot with its integrated 3-D imager, send it to your 3-D printer, and within minutes you have reproduced a replica accurate to within microns of the original object. This feat may soon be possible because of a new, tiny high-resolution 3-D imager developed at Caltech.
Any time you want to make an exact copy of an object with a 3-D printer, the first step is to produce a high-resolution scan of the object with a 3-D camera that measures its height, width, and depth. Such 3-D imaging has been around for decades, but the most sensitive systems generally are too large and expensive to be used in consumer applications.
A cheap, compact yet highly accurate new device known as a nanophotonic coherent imager (NCI) promises to change that. Using an inexpensive silicon chip less than a millimeter square in size, the NCI provides the highest depth-measurement accuracy of any such nanophotonic 3-D imaging device.
The work, done in the laboratory of Ali Hajimiri, the Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science, is described in the February 2015 issue of Optics Express.
In a regular camera, each pixel represents the intensity of the light received from a specific point in the image, which could be near or far from the camera—meaning that the pixels provide no information about the relative distance of the object from the camera. In contrast, each pixel in an image created by the Caltech team's NCI provides both the distance and intensity information. "Each pixel on the chip is an independent interferometer—an instrument that uses the interference of light waves to make precise measurements—which detects the phase and frequency of the signal in addition to the intensity," says Hajimiri.
The new chip utilizes an established detection and ranging technology called LIDAR, in which a target object is illuminated with scanning laser beams. The light that reflects off of the object is then analyzed based on the wavelength of the laser light used, and the LIDAR can gather information about the object's size and its distance from the laser to create an image of its surroundings. "By having an array of tiny LIDARs on our coherent imager, we can simultaneously image different parts of an object or a scene without the need for any mechanical movements within the imager," Hajimiri says.
Such high-resolution images and information provided by the NCI are made possible because of an optical concept known as coherence. If two light waves are coherent, the waves have the same frequency, and the peaks and troughs of light waves are exactly aligned with one another. In the NCI, the object is illuminated with this coherent light. The light that is reflected off of the object is then picked up by on-chip detectors, called grating couplers, that serve as "pixels," as the light detected from each coupler represents one pixel on the 3-D image. On the NCI chip, the phase, frequency, and intensity of the reflected light from different points on the object is detected and used to determine the exact distance of the target point.
Because the coherent light has a consistent frequency and wavelength, it is used as a reference with which to measure the differences in the reflected light. In this way, the NCI uses the coherent light as sort of a very precise ruler to measure the size of the object and the distance of each point on the object from the camera. The light is then converted into an electrical signal that contains intensity and distance information for each pixel—all of the information needed to create a 3-D image.
The incorporation of coherent light not only allows 3-D imaging with the highest level of depth-measurement accuracy ever achieved in silicon photonics, it also makes it possible for the device to fit in a very small size. "By coupling, confining, and processing the reflected light in small pipes on a silicon chip, we were able to scale each LIDAR element down to just a couple of hundred microns in size—small enough that we can form an array of 16 of these coherent detectors on an active area of 300 microns by 300 microns," Hajimiri says.
The first proof of concept of the NCI has only 16 coherent pixels, meaning that the 3-D images it produces can only be 16 pixels at any given instance. However, the researchers also developed a method for imaging larger objects by first imaging a four-pixel-by-four-pixel section, then moving the object in four-pixel increments to image the next section. With this method, the team used the device to scan and create a 3-D image of the "hills and valleys" on the front face of a U.S. penny—with micron-level resolution—from half a meter away.
In the future, Hajimiri says, the current array of 16 pixels could also be easily scaled up to hundreds of thousands. One day, by creating such vast arrays of these tiny LIDARs, the imager could be applied to a broad range of applications from very precise 3-D scanning and printing to helping driverless cars avoid collisions to improving motion sensitivity in superfine human machine interfaces, where the slightest movements of a patient's eyes and the most minute changes in a patient's heartbeat can be detected on the fly.
"The small size and high quality of this new chip-based imager will result in significant cost reductions, which will enable thousands of new uses for such systems by incorporating them into personal devices such as smartphones," he says.
The study was published in a paper titled, "Nanophotonic coherent imager." In addition to Hajimiri, other Caltech coauthors include former postdoctoral scholar and current assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Firooz Aflatouni, graduate student Behrooz Abiri, and Angad Rekhi (BS '14). This work was partially funded by Caltech Innovation Initiative.
For one week at the end of March, 32 students from 20 universities and 14 countries came to Caltech for an intensive training experience in space mission design: the Caltech Space Challenge. Organizers hand-selected the undergraduate and graduate students from a pool of 220 applicants and created two "dream teams" of engineers, scientists, and designers to face off in a competition to see who could design the best mission.
This year, the teams—Team Explorer and Team Voyager—were tasked with designing a manned mission to an asteroid placed in orbit around the moon. Aside from determining details such as the best type of vehicle to use, the optimal launch date, and how to keep the astronauts safe, each team was asked to explain how its mission would explore and make use of the asteroid to enable future missions to more distant locales, such as Mars.
The Space Challenge takes place at Caltech every two years. For the inaugural challenge in 2011, participants designed a manned mission to a near-Earth asteroid. Two years later, the challenge involved planning a mission to one of Mars's moons.
This year, organizers based the challenge on NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), proposed for launch in 2020. The concept of that mission is to send a robotic spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid, have it remove a large boulder from the asteroid's surface, and then move it into a lunar orbit. A version of a mission originally considered by the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) at Caltech, NASA's ARM is part of a larger strategy to use asteroids as a stepping-stone to manned missions to Mars and beyond.
"KISS came up with this idea to redirect an asteroid and bring it here as a way to fulfill President Obama's vision of people going to an asteroid by 2025," explains Hayden Burgoyne, a graduate student in space engineering at Caltech and one of two student lead organizers for this year's challenge. "Basically, they said, 'It's hard to send people to an asteroid; it's easier to bring an asteroid to us.' But people are looking toward the end goal of Mars, and they want to know how the Asteroid Redirect Mission will help us get there. So we framed this challenge as a resource utilization challenge to show how this resource that they bring back—this asteroid—can be used to benefit future human exploration."
Throughout the week, the students attended lectures delivered by scientists and engineers from JPL and the aerospace industry on topics related to the challenge, such as mission formulation, human space exploration, asteroid mining, and chemical propulsion. They were also able to consult with mentors working in related fields who were available to help the teams troubleshoot.
"Basically, we brought together the best of the best," says Niccolo Cymbalist, a graduate student in aeronautics at Caltech and the event's other student lead organizer. "But one of the neat things is that the students had the opportunity to interact with sort of their future selves. The speakers and mentors who came in from JPL and from industry are also at the top of their fields, and many participants from previous years have gone on to work in space-related fields."
This year, the teams also had the opportunity to complete a half-day formalized study with a group in the Innovation Foundry at JPL, known as the A-Team. These JPL scientists and engineers help explore, develop, and evaluate early mission concepts and were able to advise the students on science, implementation, and programmatic elements of their respective missions.
At the end of the week, both teams turned in written reports and presented their mission concepts to an audience that included jurors from Caltech, JPL, the Planetary Society, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, SpaceX, and Millennium Space Systems.
In their mission plans, both groups opted to use two rockets—one to launch scientific cargo and another at a later date to deliver the crew. They also both decided that three astronauts would be optimal for this mission.
Beyond those similarities, though, the two teams had quite different approaches to the challenge. Team Explorer had the idea to use an autonomous swarm of robots to characterize the topology of the asteroid and to collect samples both at the surface and at depth, using a specially designed chamber to extract volatiles. They planned to purify water found on the asteroid, demonstrating that it could be used in a variety of ways, including to water a lettuce garden—something that might capture the attention of the general public. The mission would also determine whether the asteroid could be used as a resource depot for other missions, or as part of the Deep Space Network to help facilitate communication between Earth and operating spacecraft.
In contrast, Team Voyager planned to join their mission's cargo and crew vehicles with an inflatable habitat brought along as cargo once their astronauts reached the asteroid. The astronauts would then spend five days using a robotic arm to drill and to conduct seismic surveys as they determined whether it was safe to explore the asteroid further. They also would bring a suite of scientific instruments with them, including a device to extract oxygen, hydrogen, and methanol from the asteroid, and they would collect and return samples to Earth from the asteroid's subsurface core. Team Voyager's plan for engaging the public included social media and a live feed from a 3-D HD 360-degree camera mounted on an astronaut's helmet.
The organizers say both teams presented outstanding missions. "I was blown away by the quality of the work that the students produced," says Burgoyne.
The final results were presented at a closing reception and banquet at the Athenaeum on March 27. In the end, Team Voyager came out slightly ahead of Team Explorer. According to the jury, the deciding factor was Team Voyager's presentation and success in turning their technically detailed report into a compelling story for the audience.
Alicia Lanz, a member of Team Voyager and a graduate student in physics at Caltech, says the best part of the experience was meeting and working with people from various parts of the world and with different scientific training. "It was so interesting to learn from people with different backgrounds and to see everyone work together to create a viable mission that was greater than anything a single individual could have contributed," she says. "The Caltech Space Challenge was an amazing opportunity."
The student technical lead for this year's Space Challenge was Jay Qi, a graduate student in mechanical engineering at Caltech. The faculty advisor was Beverley McKeon, professor of aeronautics at Caltech and associate director of the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT). Leon Alkalai of JPL was the program mentor. The Space Challenge is organized by GALCIT and supported by Caltech and its Division of Engineering and Applied Science, JPL, KISS, and corporate sponsors including Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, Millennium Space Systems, and AGI.
On Thursday, March 19, Caltech is hosting the fourth annual conference of the National Academy of Inventors. The NAI is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 2010 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to encourage inventors and also enhance the visibility and understanding of the value of academic technology and innovation.
Its annual conference will bring hundreds of NAI members—inventors, researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholars from more than 200 institutions around the country—to Caltech. While here, they will share big ideas, discuss opportunities for future innovations, and also celebrate the newest class of NAI fellows. According to the NAI, election to fellow status is a "high professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society." The newest class of 170 fellows includes four Caltech professors.
The conference is "a very exciting opportunity for Caltech," says Caltech vice provost Morteza Gharib (PhD '83), the Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bioinspired Engineering, and an NAI charter fellow. "Having an organization that brings some of our greatest minds together to look at the problems we are facing and support them in finding solutions is a noble cause, and we at Caltech are proud to be supporters of that."
Advancing innovation and the transfer of new technologies and ideas to society and industry is both a personal and professional passion for Gharib. The holder of nearly 100 patents, he leads a research group at Caltech that studies examples from the natural world—fins, wings, blood vessels, embryonic structures, and entire organisms—to gain inspiration for inventions that have practical uses in power generation, drug delivery, dentistry, and more. As vice provost, he also oversees Caltech's Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships. OTT plays an instrumental role in helping Caltech's researchers commercially realize their ideas, making sure that their work is protected, patented, and licensed along the way. As of the close of fiscal year 2014, Caltech managed more than 1,700 active U.S. patents. Since the office was established in 1995, its staff has helped launch more than 150 start-up companies.
To learn more about what it means to be an inventor, we recently chatted with Gharib and two of Caltech's newest NAI fellows—Frances Arnold and Carver Mead (BS '56, MS '57, PhD '60).
Arnold, the Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry, and director of the Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center, pioneered methods of "directed evolution" to engineer new proteins in the lab. The method is now widely used to create catalysts for industrial processes, including the production of fuels and chemicals from renewable resources.
Mead, the Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Emeritus, has significantly advanced the technology of integrated circuits by developing a method called very-large-scale integration (VSLI) that allows engineers to combine thousands of transistors onto a single microchip, thus exponentially expanding computer processing power.
What does it mean to be an inventor?
Arnold: It means I get to play—with ideas—and create new things that solve problems.
Gharib: An inventor is someone who has the ability to summarize what had not been before into something that has a new form and is novel.
Inventing is not a sudden process either; you don't just come up with an invention. It comes from where you have been, all the influences you have received from your education, your community, and the environment that you are in—from whether you have been challenged or excited by problems.
Mead: I have never thought of myself as an inventor! I always thought of myself as a guy who figures things out and then it just turned out that every once in a while something that I "figured out" would be important. Some of those things turned into inventions. I am just a creative person. I'm someone who likes to solve problems.
How does the invention process relate to the scientific process?
Arnold: Many scientists pursue the answer to a question: "How does this work?" Inventors often pursue an answer to a problem: "How can I get this to work?"
Gharib: It's not the same path. Remember that engineers basically invented locomotives, and it wasn't until half a century later that we actually understood the laws of thermodynamics and why this works.
The scientific process is systematic. It relies on certain logical steps that you take—from defining the problem, testing what works, eliminating problems—and that pushes you to be able to be in a position to discover. But in inventing, you see the solutions without knowing or needing to understand why and pursue that.
Mead: For me, it's all the same. I have the same approach for all of my work—it's all just about figuring things out.
How has Caltech supported you as an inventor?
Arnold: Caltech has provided me with great students and with the financial support to pursue new ideas, and then not placed the traditional academic constraints on what we can pursue.
Gharib: Our inventors see an environment that is conducive to inventing. Caltech supports them to get their idea translated from the lab into something that is useful, something that is protected, and something that will have a societal impact.
The best example I have of that is that I didn't own a single patent before I came to Caltech—even though I was in academia for 10 years before coming here. It wasn't that I didn't have ideas, it was just that I didn't have a motivation for pursuing those ideas. When I came here, I saw that you can really take your ideas and make them into something for industry, for society, for faculty, and so on, to benefit from.
Mead: I think the best thing Caltech did for me is leave me alone, because I could pursue the things that I felt strongly about. It's always taken a very long time for me to move after having the first inkling of some direction or idea that I am drawn to. I might work for five years on something before I can fully explain to people why I am working on it.
I think Caltech is very special in that way; it doesn't interfere with the creative process.
What invention of yours are you most proud of? Why?
Arnold: I am lucky to have been the first to show how evolution can be used to construct a whole slew of new and useful catalysts. This is a fundamental process that can be used to solve so many important problems. It has been picked up and used by hundreds of academic and industrial labs, all over the world, for everything from making better laundry detergents to producing fuels from renewable resources.
Gharib: Seventy-thousand people have a shunt in their eyes that I developed, and that is helping them avoid having to deal with issues of glaucoma. In addition to that, a 3-D imaging device that I originally developed for naval underwater surveillance is now being used for making dental crowns.
It is a good feeling when you see one of your patents have societal impact.
Mead: My work in the area of very-large-scale integration—figuring out how transistors could scale up and how you could build them better—has affected the world in a profound way, and I am pleased to be a part of that. You can think of it as inventing a method, a way through, but not as a tangible invention of the usual sort.
In regards to more traditional "inventions," there are a couple of other things that have gone out into the world and made a difference. The first was the Schottky-gate field-effect transistor, which I created over Thanksgiving in 1965. It is in the transmitters of all cell phones. The second was an advancement that a graduate student of mine led. He came up with a way of making semiconductor charge-coupled devices (CCDs) work more efficiently, which enabled them to be used in the imaging world. CCDs are still the imaging sensor that is used in astronomical instruments.
Of course, you never know when you are doing something whether it will really be accepted and if people will move on it. So when it happens—when people take something that you do seriously—it's kind of surprising.
A robot enters the water during the first round of the competition. During the first 30 seconds of each round, the robots had to operate completely autonomously—meaning they had to be able to enter the water without any human intervention. Once the 30 seconds were over, the students were able to direct the robots through the water via remote control.
Teammates Joaquin Gabaldon and Melissa Chang prepare to send their robot into the water. Because the students had to build their robots within a limited budget, many teams came up with inventive and affordable solutions—such as the duct tape and chicken wire seen on the front of the team KOOPAS robot here—to help resolve design and engineering challenges.
Joaquin Gabaldon (in blue) from team KOOPAS drives his team's robot using a remote control while Dan Chui, Jalani Williams, and Margaret Lee from team T.O.A.D. look on. In the first two rounds of the Aquamania, teams paired up to compete against other pairs of teams for the most points.
Rob Anderson, Anup Kishore, and Naveen Tadepalli celebrate a victory for their team's robot.
Basith Fahumy uses a remote control to guide team AXOLOTL's robot toward a small red ball. In the competition, teams scored points by moving balls their color past a gate.
The audience, including students from several local elementary and middle schools, watches as two robots enter the water and begin their battle.
KATS, the winning team, poses with their trophy in Millikan Pond. (Left to right: Tammer Eweis-Labolle, Kristin Eliason, Sheila Lo, and Auggie Nanz)
Amphibious robots took to Millikan Pond on Tuesday, March 10, each one hoping to come away with the title "Aquamania champion." At the event, teams of students tested their robotic athletes in the 30th annual Mechanical Engineering 72 (ME72) competition—a campus tradition that also serves as a final exam for mechanical engineering students enrolled in the two-term ME72 design lab in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science. In this year's competition, the student teams were tasked with designing and building robots that could successfully drive down a ramp into Millikan Pond and then navigate through the water to move inflatable balls of various sizes past a series of gates. At the end of each round, points were tallied based on how many balls each robot successfully moved past each gate. Eight teams competed for this year's title, and after three intense (and very wet) rounds, team KATS—named for teammates and Caltech juniors Kristin Eliason, Auggie Nanz, Tammer Eweis-Labolle, and Sheila Lo—walked away with the trophy.


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Next year, I will have one of those "milestone" birthdays
that you're supposed to freak out about. It's the birthday when you
finally graduate into adulthood, the birthday where you settle into
the rest of your life, put aside your childish dalliances and really
buckle down. You know, start ordering Diet sodas and Light beers,
eating low fat foods, and begin seriously considering getting that
mole on your chest looked at by a professional (and no, your friend
Sully doesn't count even though he's a "professional party
animal" and has a shirt that says so).
The big three-oh.
The problem is, I just don't feel the dread that my wife assures me she already feels when she turns the same age just one month before me. So why do we feel this way about the inevitability of getting older?
Because everyone knows: If it's old, it sucks.
And in the case of this birthday, the part of "it" from the previous statement is played by "you".
15 year olds online have assured me this is how it will be and, in most cases, already is.
Oddly, I don't remember my dad getting "old" until he turned 40. He always just seemed to be dad, not a number, or a series of possibly fatal medical conditions. Somehow though, on his 40th birthday, I started worrying about my dad, even though he was doing his best Alfred E. Neuman impression in regards to his age.
Alfred E. Neuman - Great American
Further, he never went through that "sucks" stage. Sure his tastes for classic rock (the good shit, not Journey or Foreigner) and Ozzie Smith flew directly against my beliefs (at the time) that:
- No one has ever rocked harder than Pearl Jam and...
- Royce Clayton would be the greatest Cardinal shortstop of all time
But I never thought because he was older, he sucked and was
automatically wrong about everything.
So what triggered this, well, perception of eventual suckage on my part?
Is it because I still play videogames? This is the forum which brands me with the Plaid High Pants of Geezertude the second most. Apparently, because I played the Atari 2600 when it was new, still remember the Konami code without having my friend's trendy Hot Topic shirt remind me, and consider the SNES and Genesis era to be the golden age of video gaming, I'm a relic who should turn in his controller and leave it to the hipster kids.
Now granted, my naturally jaded personality (now with Retsin!) will only allow me to put up with whiny teens playing CoD4 or Halo 3 for so long before I tell them to "use your big boy voice" when they tell me I suck, but I've audially witnessed others get sick of the same blah blah coming across the ventrillo chat and suggest the same, and much, worse to the high pitched choir. Clearly I'm not alone.
The problem for those whose testicles haven't dropped is that there are really more gamers my age (or older), than theirs. I was born before the interwebz, so I don't know the rush of being a douche anonymously online to older guys. When I was a douche to older guys, I had to do it face to face and pray I could survive the subsequent brawl/out run the other guy.
I guess they just need to get used to it and realize that one day sooner than they think, Halo 3 will be an "oldster" game and they will be tormented the same as they torment. And I need to accept that one day, they'll be bitching about crackly voices telling them they suck right alongside me.
So where do I hear the "you're old, you suck" the most? Come back tomorrow and find out.
Same Bat-time. Same Bat-channel.

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I have a strange problem when I go to underline text to make a hyper-link. The window pops up, but nothing appears. I can close the window from the upper right-hand side as though there was some text there, but the header and body of the window are blank.
This works this way from my laptop running Firefox 3.5 but not from my desktop, also running Firefox 3.5 I have tried clearing the cache, disabling add-ons and extensions, but nothing seems to work. Any suggestions?
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We know that for algebraic $e^{it\pi}$, $t$ can not be algebraic irrational by Baker's theorem, but his proof is analytic; is there some algebraic understanding for such fact? If $t$ is transcendent, can $t$ be a period? We say $t$ is period, iff $t$ can be expressed as the volume of domain in $R^{n} defined by polynomial inequalities with algebraic coefficients.
The heart of all transcendence proofs is the analytic fact that there is no integer between $0$ and $1$. This is one of the things I learned from Baker's book "Transcendental Number Theory".


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There's something about the Del Mar turf course that brings out the best in A Venneri Racing and Little Red Feather Racing's Midnight Storm.
There's something about the Del Mar turf course that brings out the best in A Venneri Racing and Little Red Feather Racing's Midnight Storm.
David Bienstock and Chuck Winner's Flamboyant just started to hit his stride early in 2016, when he shipped overseas for the Dubai Turf (UAE-I) in March.
Midnight Storm lost the $400,000 Shoemaker Mile (gr. IT) last year by a half-length, but this time he would not be denied.
Heart to Heart could find his way back to the winner's circle for his first grade I victory in the $400,000 Shoemaker Mile (gr. IT) June 4 at Santa Anita Park, a Breeders' Cup Challenge "Win and You're In" race for the Breeders' Cup Mile (gr. IT).
Bolo will put his undefeated record over the Santa Anita Park lawn on the line March 12 in the $400,000 Frank E. Kilroe Mile (gr. IT), with grade II winners Om and Midnight Storm in to challenge.
After less-than-ideal runs in his last three graded stakes tries, Midnight Storm returned to form in standout fashion Nov. 27 at Del Mar, but he also showed a slightly different dimension.
Peter Redekop's Alert Bay will head down to Southern California from his Golden Gate Fields home base to seek his fourth straight victory Nov. 27 in the $250,000 Seabiscuit Handicap (gr. IIT) at Del Mar.
With two of just four turf workers Oct. 25 at Santa Anita Park, trainer Phil D'Amato was intentionally easy on his expected Breeders' Cup runners.
Trainer Richard Mandella said he'd try two-time champion Beholder against males in the TVG Pacific Classic (gr. I), as long as she showed she was ready three weeks after her romp in the Clement L. Hirsch (gr. I).
In a deep Pacific Classic at Del Mar, an East Coast shipper and a turf-to-dirt longshot have our attention. read blog
Heading back to Del Mar proved a winning move for Sam Britt and Michael House's Gabriel Charles, who closed to win the $400,500 Eddie Read Stakes (gr. IT) by 3 3/4 lengths July 18 at the seaside racetrack.
After a brief detour to dirt for a run in the Gold Cup (gr. I) June 27 at Santa Anita Park, Finnegans Wake will return to his comfort zone on the Southern California turf for the $400,000 Eddie Read Stakes (gr. IT) July 18.
Hronis Racing's Talco earned his sought-after grade I win in the $400,000 Shoemaker Mile (gr. IT) June 13 at Santa Anita Park, upsetting even-money favorite Midnight Storm to take the turf test at odds of 13-1.
Just months after Bal a Bali beat a case of laminitis, the Brazilian Triple Crown winner's connections will continue to ask him for more in the $400,000 Shoemaker Mile (gr. IT) June 13 at Santa Anita Park.
Midnight Storm was able to parcel his speed effectively while on an easy lead in the $300,000 Del Mar Derby (gr. IIT) and glided through the stretch in command to post a 17-1 surprise Aug. 31 over the turf.
Enterprising will attempt to become the fourth horse in Del Mar history to sweep the 3-year-old grass series for males when he tackles seven opponents in the $300,000 Del Mar Derby (gr. IIT) Aug. 31.
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The little workout room was also musty, with no ventilation. The sound insulation is almost non-existent. We heard footsteps above us, showers on both sides, and outside, people ascending and descending the staircase sounded like they were right in the room. Very noisy.
The only thing we liked was the space in the room, and the good bed. But the bare spots on the walkways, and the dry rot on the staircases made this place feel like it was one step away from a tear-down. If you have a family, and price is an issue, this is a good place. Otherwise, look elsewhere.
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If at first you don't succeed, just set a few more fires and hope that this time the firefighters can't get there quick enough. That was the mindset of an arsonist in Wynwood last night who tried to burn down a warehouse near North Miami Avenue and 29th Street, only to be foiled by firefighters. When they left, the firebug sneaked back in and gave it another shot.
"This was a pretty bold arsonist," says Lt. Ignatius "Iggy" Carrol, a spokesman for the Miami Fire Department.
Fire investigators this morning are interviewing the building's owner to try to figure out whether anyone who works at the company may have wanted to burn down the warehouse or if the arson spree was carried out by a vagrant.
"We have to check to see if there's anything going on with this company that might lead to an arson," Carrol says. "But a crime by vagrants in the area is also a possibility."
Carrol declined to identify owner of the warehouse, located at 31 NW 29th St., just around the corner from Wynwood mainstays like the Electric Pickle and Jimmyz Cafe.
State records show the building is owned by a Centerpoint Group VIII LLC, which is registered to a North Bay Village man named Sirphan Knattongcome.
Firefighters were first called at 8:45 p.m. to the warehouse, which is mostly abandoned but does hold some restaurant equipment, after a passerby noticed thick smoke billowing from a side door.
They found at least three different fires blazing around the warehouse, Carrol says, with clear signs of arson. They put out the blaze in around 25 minutes, and eventually cleared the scene for investigators to return in the morning.
Then, around 4 a.m., another passerby flagged down a CBS4 news truck to report that more smoke was coming from the warehouse. The news team called firefighters, who returned to find four new fires raging inside the building.
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How can I create the ISO if I just put the game into my computer and trying to use qwix without the xbox? All the files that are made are like 20mb
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First aid for people with foot injuries is stabilization and elevation of the injured foot.
- Any splint that keeps the injured foot from moving is effective. Often a pillow wrapped around the foot like a stirrup and then taped or tied with an elastic bandage works well.
- Do not wrap the foot so tightly that it cuts off the blood supply to the foot. Any splint that causes the foot to hurt worse, turn blue, or makes it more difficult to wiggle the toes, should be removed right away.
- Elevation of the injured foot reduces swelling and pain. Proper elevation requires the foot to be at a level higher than the rest of the body. Lie flat with the foot propped up on several pillows.
- Ice wrapped in a small towel and applied to the injured foot may also reduce swelling and pain for the first several hours after an injury.
- Do not attempt to walk on an injured foot if walking is painful.
- Any splint that keeps the injured foot from moving is effective. Often a pillow wrapped around the foot like a stirrup and then taped or tied with an elastic bandage works well.
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The Canadian stock market has fallen 4 per cent this year amid choppy markets. Given this volatile backdrop, let's see to what extent fund managers have been keeping their powder dry for future bargains.
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We looked at cash levels reported by fund companies in the first half of 2011 for Canadian equity, Canadian focused equity and Canadian dividend and income funds. (Some firms lag more than others in reporting holdings.) U.S. dollar, segregated and duplicate versions of funds were excluded.
What did we find?
NexGen Turtle Canadian Equity topped the list with a whopping 43 per cent in cash. That's nearly double the closest peer, Sentry Diversified Total Return, at 23.6 per cent.
NexGen's cash-heavy fund stems from manager Keith Graham's view that stock markets face a "headwind environment."
"The fiscal stimulus that was put into the financial system by the central banks really manifested itself into strong financial market performance," said the portfolio manager with Rondeau Capital Inc.
The imminent withdrawal of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank's bond-purchasing program, also known as quantitative easing, appears to be playing out now in market volatility, said the veteran manager, who has also run money for AGF Management Ltd. and what is now Invesco Trimark Ltd.
Mr. Graham, a value investor, said he can't find enough good companies at attractive prices in a Canadian market dominated by resource and financial stocks. That's why the stock-picker, who launched his fund nearly a year ago, has increased his foreign holdings to about 20 per cent. They are mainly U.S. companies that get a big chunk of revenue from sales outside the country.
He owns defensive, health care names such as Abbott Laboratories and Medtronic, and telecom firms such as Rogers Communications and Manitoba Telecom. He had owned Research In Motion stock until recently, but sold that stock after the company slashed its sales outlook.
The manager also holds about 4 per cent in gold bullion through the SPDR Gold Shares, an exchange traded fund. "It's a hedge, a cash alternative and a stabilizer in the fund," he said.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Julius Randle scored 15 of his 23 points in the second half to lead five Kentucky players in double figures and help the top-ranked Wildcats and their highly touted freshman class beat UNC-Asheville 89-57 on Friday night.
Randle, a 6-foot-9 forward, grabbed 15 rebounds.
Reserve sophomore forward Alex Poythress added 10 points and 13 rebounds. Reserve Marcus Lee added 17 points, James Young had 11 and Aaron Harrison 10 as Kentucky's freshmen helped the Wildcats overcome a ragged start.
Kentucky shot 17 of 30 in the second half to finish 28 of 59 (47.5 percent).
Will Weeks' 19 points led UNC-Asheville in the debut of Nick McDevitt as the Bulldogs' head coach.
No. 2 MICHIGAN ST. 98, McNEESE ST. 56
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Gary Harris scored 15 of his 20 points in the first half and finished with a career-high 10 rebounds for the Spartans, whose next game is against No. 1 Kentucky.
Michigan State scored 10 straight points after trailing 13-12 early in the game and opened the second half with an 11-0 run to take a 63-25 lead.
Ledrick Eackles and Jamaya Burr led the Cowboys (0-1) with 11 points each.
No. 4 DUKE 111, DAVIDSON 77
DURHAM, N.C. -- Jabari Parker scored 22 points in his debut for Duke.
Mississippi State transfer Rodney Hood added 22 points in his first game with the Blue Devils.
The Atlantic Coast Conference favorites shot 70.4 percent -- just the sixth time in school history that Duke was better than 70 percent for a game.
They effectively ended this one after a first half in which they shot 71 percent, held the Wildcats to one offensive rebound and scored 59 points -- more than they had in any half in 2012-13.
Quinn Cook had 21 points, Rasheed Sulaimon added 20 and Amile Jefferson finished with 10 in Duke's highest-scoring opener since rolling up 121 points on North Carolina Central in 2007.
Southern Conference preseason player of the year De'Mon Brooks led Davidson with 24 points.
No. 5 KANSAS 80, LOUISANA-MONROE 63
LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Andrew Wiggins scored 16 points in his highly anticipated debut for Kansas.
Andrew White III and Perry Ellis added 12 points each for the youthful Jayhawks, who are replacing all five starters from last season and plays No. 4 Duke on Tuesday night.
Marvin Williams had 19 points and six rebounds for the Warhawks, who won just four games last season. They trailed 47-41 early in the second half before the quicker, more physical Jayhawks finally went on a 15-5 run to seize control.
The Jayhawks started three freshmen in Wiggins, Selden and Frank Mason, who got the nod at point guard with junior Naadir Tharpe serving a one-game suspension for playing in an unauthorized summer league game. Senior transfer Tarik Black also was in the starting lineup.
No. 7 MICHIGAN 69, MASS.-LOWELL 42
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Glenn Robinson III scored 15 points and Michigan pulled away in the second half to beat Division I newcomer UMass-Lowell.
Michigan raised its Final Four banner from last season before the game, but the River Hawks led by two points early in the second half. The Wolverines took control by scoring the game's next 21 points, and that was the end of the upset bid.
Michigan was without star big man Mitch McGary, who missed the game because of a lingering back problem.
Akeem Williams scored 16 points for UMass-Lowell, which was making its Division I debut. The River Hawks aren't eligible for the America East or NCAA tournaments until 2017-18.
No. 8 OKLAHOMA ST. 117, MVSU 62
STILLWATER, Okla. -- Le'Bryan Nash had 21 points and 10 rebounds to lead five scorers in double figures for Oklahoma State.
Phil Forte had 22 points, shooting 4 of 7 from 3-point range, and OSU went 12 of 21 from beyond the arc. Markel Brown and Brian Williams scored 14 apiece. Marcus Smart, the preseason Big 12 player of the year, had 11.
DeAngelo Priar scored 19 points and Anthony McDonald 16 to lead the Delta Devils.
The Cowboys outscored MVSU 34-10 over the final 9:07 of the first half to lead 63-29. Smart's driving layup put the Cowboys up 100-47 with 7:02 remaining.
No. 8 SYRACUSE 82, CORNELL 60
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Trevor Cooney had seven 3-pointers and 27 points, both career highs, for Syracuse.
Syracuse, playing its first season in the Atlantic Coast Conference, leads the all-time series against Cornell 88-31 and has won 34 straight against the Big Red.
It was the first game between the teams in three years, but the Big Red, 5-68 all-time against teams ranked in the Top 25, led by as many as 14 in the first half behind sharpshooting Nolan Cressler.
Syracuse turned the tables with an 18-5 run early in the second to take control. Cooney scored eight points in the surge that put the Orange up 60-48 with 11:38 to go and they steadily pulled away.
C.J. Fair finished with 19 points for Syracuse.
Cressler finished with a career-high 23 points but managed just three in the second half.
No. 10 FLORIDA 77, NORTH FLORIDA 69
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Casey Prather scored a career-high 28 points and Michael Frazier II added 19 for Florida.
The short-handed Gators won their 23rd consecutive opener -- a much-needed tuneup before playing at No. 20 Wisconsin on Tuesday night.
Florida let North Florida hang around most of the game, backing up coach Billy Donovan's assertion that there's no way his team should be ranked 10th.
The Osprey, who hit nine of their final 15 3-pointers, made it a seven-point game with 19.2 seconds remaining. But the Gators closed it out from the free throw line. Florida finished 27 of 32 from the line.
Beau Beech led North Florida with 16 points, and Travis Wallace had 15.
No. 14 VCU 96, ILLINOIS ST. 58
RICHMOND, Va. -- Juvonte Reddic had 13 points and eight rebounds and VCU used a 33-7 first-half run to take command.
The Rams, ranked to start the season for the first time in program history, led 9-4 when Reddic started the suspense-ending blitz with a dunk off a feed from Rob Brandenburg. The burst included 3-pointers from five Rams, including three in a span of just 47 seconds by Melvin Johnson.
Transfer Terrance Shannon and Treveon Graham led the Rams with 14 points each.
The Redbirds, with 10 new players and only two on the roster with any Division I experience, looked very much like a team still getting familiar with each other. They committed a 10-second violation on their first possession, missed 15 of their first 16 shots and trailed 48-12 after 17 minutes.
Zach Lofton led Illinois State with 12 points.
No. 17 MARQUETTE 63, SOUTHERN 56
MILWAUKEE -- Davante Gardner scored 25 points to help Marquette beat Southern in the season opener for both teams.
The senior forward, Marquette's leading returning scorer and the top sixth man in the Big East last season, was 5 of 7 from the field and made 15 of 20 free throws. He was a point off his career high set last season against Syracuse.
Todd Mayo added 20 points for Marquette. The Golden Eagles won their 26th straight home game, the second-longest current streak in the NCAA. Marquette also won its opener for the 13th year in a row.
Malcolm Miller led Southern with 14 points.
No. 18 UCONN 78, MARYLAND 77
NEW YORK -- Shabazz Napier scored 18 points, Niels Giffey had 13 and Connecticut survived Maryland's second-half surge.
The Huskies nearly blew all of a 17-point lead over the final minutes at Barclays Center. Nick Faust scored five straight points on a layup and 3-pointer to bring the Terrapins within two with 2:28 left.
Tyler Olander drilled a 3 for UConn with 2 minutes left to make it 78-73. Napier was whistled for his fifth foul and Dez Wells made two free throws to cut it to 78-75. Wells hit a jumper out of a Maryland timeout and it was a one-point game.
UConn twice missed the front end of 1-and-1s but Maryland misfired from the floor on two potential go-ahead shots. Faust led the Terps with 17 points.
With former coach Jim Calhoun in attendance, UConn won the opener under second-year coach Kevin Ollie. The Huskies went 20-10 last season, but failed to qualify for the NCAA tournament because of poor academic progress rates that predated anyone on the current roster.
No. 20 WISCONSIN 86, ST. JOHN'S 75
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Josh Gasser, who missed last season with a knee injury, scored 19 points and Wisconsin opened the season with a victory over St. John's.
The Badgers, who had five players in double figures, never trailed and took control with an early 11-2 run and then went 11 of 23 from 3-point range.
The game was played in the 3,250-seat Sanford Pentagon.
Sam Dekker had 16 points for Wisconsin, which opened away from home for the first time in eight years.
D'Angelo Harrison had 27 points for the Red Storm and JaKarr Sampson added 21 points and seven rebounds. St. John's was outscored 33-6 from beyond the arc.
Wisconsin led by as many as 18 in the first half. St. John's pulled to 58-54 with about 8 minutes left before the Badgers hit consecutive 3-pointers.
No. 21 NOTRE DAME 74, MIAMI (OHIO) 62
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Jerian Grant scored a career-high 26 points to lead Notre Dame over Miami (Ohio).
Notre Dame jumped out to a 21-6 lead midway through the first half, but Miami kept the game competitive by playing tight man-to-man defense and hustling for rebounds and loose balls.
Sophomore guard Reggie Johnson led the Redhawks with 22 points.
Grant was 5 of 8 from 3-point range. Tom Knight added 13 points for Notre Dame and Pat Connaughton had 11.
No. 24 VIRGINIA 61, JAMES MADISON 41
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Anthony Gill scored 13 points in his Virginia debut and the Cavaliers held James Madison scoreless for nearly 7 minutes in the first half.
Mike Tobey added 10 points and Malcolm Brogdon had nine for the Cavaliers. Virginia got only five points from first-team all-ACC guard Joe Harris, but a pair of sophomores led the way.
Gill, a transfer from South Carolina, shot 5 for 5 from the field. Brogdon, who missed last season following foot surgery, hit a trio of 3-pointers in the opening 20 minutes as Virginia built a 19-point cushion.
Tom Vodanovich had 11 points and four rebounds for the Dukes.
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