Multimedia on BlackBerry 7 was based on the multimedia JSR (135). There were a lot of limitations regarding supported formats, how many sounds could be played at the same time, and even what worked on which device.
In BlackBerry 10, there are a wide range of supported codecs, containers, and protocols.
For video, we recommend an MP4 containing H.264 video at 720p and AAC audio. For audio, it depends a lot on your use case. In addition to mainstays such as MP3 and AAC, we support things like FLAC and Ogg Vorbis.
To actually play your multimedia, you should be looking at the MediaPlayer class. That will handle audio or video. You can also easily play the built in system sounds with the SystemSound class.
Recording audio is through the AudioRecorder class. You can record a few different formats, including AAC (.mp4) and PCM (.wav).
This is all pretty straightforward and should be pretty easy to adjust to if you are used to the Java way of doing things. There are a few key differences that you might not be expecting though.
The first is the NowPlayingConnection. If you are building any sort of media player type application: use it. What it does is let the user control the volume and playback of your app from in another app, using the volume keys on the side. You can also provide a bit of data like a thumbnail image and the current song playing. No user is going to want to have to go back into your application just to change the volume, and it's really easy to implement.
Secondly, unlike in BlackBerry 7, in BlackBerry 10 you can enable echo cancellation in order to do VoIP. There is no convenient Qt API to do this, but you can use QSA and open a connection to the "voice" PCM audio interface.
The other big difference is that you can't just feed bytes directly into the media player. You need to have an actual file to play, or be using one the streaming protocols supported. Of course, there is nothing stopping you from dropping down to OpenAL/ALUT and doing whatever you need if that's your style. You also have QSA available as mentioned before, as well as mm-renderer (which is what MediaPlayer is using), but that is all beyond the scope of this article.


The hero two doors down : based on the true story of friendship between a boy and a baseball legend / Sharon Robinson.
Eight-year-old Steve Satlow is thrilled when Jackie Robinson moves into his Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1948, although many of his neighbors are not. When Steve actually meets his hero he is even more excited -- and worried that a misunderstanding over a Christmas tree could damage his new friendship.
Danger! tiger crossing / by Lin Oliver ; illustrated by Samantha Kallis.
Science no fair! / Nancy Krulik and Amanda Burwasser ; illustrated by Mike Moran.
When Logan Applebaum's mother invents a robotic cousin for him, Logan thinks this may give him an edge in the third grade science fair but the Silverspoon twins have other ideas.
A piece of home / Jeri Watts ; illustrated by Hyewon Yum.
25 of 27 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
"In 1870, Alfred Ely Beach invents New York's first underground train"-- Provided by publisher.
Steamboat school / written by Deborah Hopkinson ; illustrated by Ron Husband.
18 of 24 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
Weekends with Max and his dad / written by Linda Urban ; illustrated by Katie Kath.
I dissent : Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her mark / written by Debbie Levy ; illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley.
Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer / Diane Stanley ; illustrated by Jessie Hartland.
"A fascinating look at Ada Lovelace, the pioneering computer programmer and the daughter of the poet Lord Byron."-- Provided by publisher.


KIRCHNER, Adrien Jeremy - It is with great sadness we announce the death of Adrien Kirchner, who left us unexpectedly on Wednesday, November 9, 2016. He is survived by his best friend and wife Nicole Kirchner (nee McNamara) and cherished daughter Makensie Kirchner. Also survived by his parents, Walter and Mariette Kirchner; his parents-in-law James and Linda McNamara, and his brother and sister-in-law Shawn and Kyra McNamara and their children, Connor, Abby and Ryan. A devoted family man, his daughter was his absolute joy. Beyond family, a fortunate few called him friend, and saw how faceted he was beneath the surface. Adrien was a gentle soul borne of a bygone era who would have been right at home cruising with the Rat Pack in a 1950's Studebaker. And yet, an adventurous streak brought him delight in moments of skydiving, experiencing the CN Tower Edgewalk, and flying passenger in a Canadian Harvard. An artist at heart, Adrien's love of music was expressed through his veneration of the band, Pearl Jam - whose songs were a constant companion. His thoughtful musings, fine wit, and kind heart will be truly missed by those who love him. Friends are invited to meet with the family at the BROCK & VISSER FUNERAL HOME, 845 Devonshire Ave., Woodstock, 519-539-0004 on Sunday, November 20, 2016 between 2 - 4pm and 7 - 9pm. A private celebration of Adrien's life will be held at a later date. If desired, contributions to Team Gleason (ALS Charity: http://www.teamgleason.org/donate) or the charity of your choice would be appreciated. Personal online condolences may be sent at www.brockandvisser.com Here's looking at you, kid.


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i shot the guy twice now, once just before he started to annouce his position, once a few years later, both times for TIME. i get good resale off these, well, i use too, G gets it all now. there is something i like a lot about the green ones, i don't know what, prolly the smirk. i think i would smirk too if i was in charge of one of the most powerful companies on the planet. i asked him what his hobbies are, he said, hobbies? work is my hobby. i guess that's how you do it.


This is again one of my fusion drink recipe. A simple drink that is cool and refreshing !! A zesty combination of rooafzah, lemon juice and orange juice.
Alternate option for Orange Juice you can use orange rasna for this drink with same quantity as like rooafzah.
1. Mix all the ingredients Rooafzah, water and orange juice, lime juice adjust the sweetness as per your requirement.
2. Add the cut lime slices and ice cubes.


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OSDI '18 Call for Papers
Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association
Abstract registration due: Thursday, April 26, 2018, 3:00 pm PDT
Complete paper submissions due: Thursday, May 3, 2018, 3:00 pm PDT
Author response period:
Reviews available: Friday, July 13, 2018
Author responses due: Monday, July 16, 2018, 11:59 pm PDT
Notification to authors: Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Camera-ready papers due: Thursday, September 27, 2018
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Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Geoff Voelker, University of California, San Diego
Rachit Agarwal, Cornell University
Marcos K. Aguilera, VMware Research
Mahesh Balakrishnan, Yale University/Facebook
Ranjita Bhagwan, Microsoft Research India
Edouard Bugnion, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Miguel Castro, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Kang Chen, Tsinghua University
Vijay Chidambaram, The University of Texas at Austin
Landon Cox, Duke University
Angela Demke Brown, University of Toronto
Sandhya Dwarkadas, University of Rochester
Sasha Fedorova, University of British Columbia
Roxana Geambasu, Columbia University
Cristiano Giuffrida, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Haryadi Gunawi, University of Chicago
Andreas Haeberlen, University of Pennsylvania
Jon Howell, VMware Research
Rebecca Isaacs, Twitter
Michael Isard, Google
Frans Kaashoek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Manos Kapritsos, University of Michigan
Taesoo Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sam King, University of California, Davis
Christoforos Kozyrakis, Stanford University
Jinyang Li, New York University
Wyatt Lloyd, Princeton University
Jay Lorch, Microsoft Research
Richard Mortier, University of Cambridge
Gilles Muller, Inria
KyoungSoo Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Raluca Popa, University of California, Berkeley
Don Porter, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Justine Sherry, Carnegie Mellon University
Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University
Ryan Stutsman, University of Utah
Steve Swanson, University of California, San Diego
Michael Swift, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Dan Tsafrir, VMware Research and Technion—Israel Institute of Technology
Rashmi Vinayak, Carnegie Mellon University
Xi Wang, University of Washington
Andrew Warfield, Amazon
Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich
Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University
Ming Wu, Microsoft Research
Yubin Xia, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Ding Yuan, University of Toronto
Matei Zaharia, Stanford University
Irene Zhang, Microsoft Research
Yiying Zhang, Purdue University
Poster Session Co-Chairs
Brad Chen, Google
Jason Flinn, University of Michigan
Casey Henderson, USENIX Association
Kimberly Keeton, Hewlett Packard Labs
Hank Levy, University of Washington
James Mickens, Harvard University
Brian Noble, University of Michigan
Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zurich
Margo Seltzer, University of British Columbia
Amin Vahdat, Google and University of California, San Diego
The 13th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation seeks to present innovative, exciting research in computer systems. OSDI brings together professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds in a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software. The OSDI Symposium emphasizes innovative research as well as quantified or insightful experiences in systems design and implementation.
OSDI takes a broad view of the systems area and solicits contributions from many fields of systems practice, including, but not limited to, operating systems, file and storage systems, distributed systems, cloud computing, mobile systems, secure and reliable systems, systems aspects of big data, embedded systems, virtualization, networking as it relates to operating systems, and management and troubleshooting of complex systems. We also welcome work that explores the interface to related areas such as computer architecture, networking, programming languages, analytics, and databases. We particularly encourage contributions containing highly original ideas, new approaches, and/or groundbreaking results.
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Submissions will be judged on novelty, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. All accepted papers will be shepherded through an editorial review process by a member of the program committee.
A good paper will:
Motivate a significant problem
Propose an interesting, compelling solution
Demonstrate the practicality and benefits of the solution
Draw appropriate conclusions
Clearly describe the paper's contributions
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All papers will be available online to registered attendees before the conference. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event, please notify production@usenix.org. The papers will be available online to everyone beginning on the first day of the conference, October 8, 2018.
Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. All submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on the USENIX OSDI '18 website; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential.
Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may, on the recommendation of a program chair, take action against authors who have committed them. See the USENIX Conference Submissions Policy for details.
Prior workshop publication does not preclude publishing a related paper in OSDI. Authors should email the program co-chairs, osdi18chairs@usenix.org, a copy of the related workshop paper and a short explanation of the new material in the conference paper beyond that published in the workshop version.
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Authors are required to register abstracts by 3:00 p.m. PDT on April 26, 2018, and to submit full papers by 3:00 p.m. PDT on May 3, 2018. These are hard deadlines, and no extensions will be given. Submitted papers must be no longer than 12 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures and tables, plus as many pages as needed for references, using 10-point type on 12-point (single-spaced) leading, two-column format, Times Roman or a similar font, within a text block 6.5" wide x 9" deep. Accepted papers will be allowed 14 pages in the proceedings, plus references. Papers not meeting these criteria will be rejected without review, and no deadline extensions will be granted for reformatting. Pages should be numbered, and figures and tables should be legible in black and white, without requiring magnification. Papers so short as to be considered "extended abstracts" will not receive full consideration.
Reviewing will be double-blind. Authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions, and they should not identify themselves either explicitly or by implication (e.g., through the references or acknowledgments). Submissions violating the detailed formatting and anonymization rules will not be considered for review. If you are uncertain about how to anonymize your submission, please contact the program co-chairs, osdi18chairs@usenix.org, well in advance of the submission deadline.
When registering and submitting your paper, you will need to provide information about conflicts with PC members. Use the following guidelines to determine conflicts:
Institution: You are currently employed at the same institution, have been previously employed at the same institution within the past two years, or are going to begin employment at the same institution.
Advisor or Collaboration: You have a past or present association as thesis advisor or advisee, or you have a collaboration on a project, publication, grant proposal, or editorship within the past two years (2016 or later).
The PC will review paper conflicts to ensure the integrity of the reviewing process, adding conflicts if necessary. Similarly, if there is no basis for conflicts provided by authors, such conflicts will be removed (e.g., do not improperly identify PC members as a conflict in an attempt to avoid having an individual review your paper). If you have any questions about conflicts, please contact the program co-chairs.
Authors are also encouraged to contact the program co-chairs, osdi18chairs@usenix.org, if needed to relate their OSDI submissions to relevant submissions of their own that are simultaneously under review or awaiting publication at other venues. The program co-chairs will use this information at their discretion to preserve the anonymity of the review process without jeopardizing the outcome of the current OSDI submission.
Papers must be in PDF format and must be submitted via the submission form. Do not email submissions. For more details on the submission process, and for templates to use with LaTeX, Word, etc., authors should consult the detailed submission requirements.
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Submission of a response is optional. There is no explicit limit to the response, but authors are strongly encouraged to keep it under 500 words; reviewers are neither required nor expected to read excessively long rebuttals. Reviews will be available for response on Friday, July 13, 2018. Authors may submit a response to those reviews until Monday, July 16, 2018, 11:59 p.m. PDT.
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Chuan Spa, perched on the fourth floor of the new Langham Chicago hotel, is all about the symbolic sojourn to serenity. Granted, most spas are. But what sets this one apart is decor and treatments based on an East-meets-West concept imported from Hong Kong: Chicago is the first and only city in the United States to introduce a spa built entirely on the ancient philosophies of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The menu proffers massages, facials and an array of well-known TCM treatments (cupping, moxibustion [the application of heat to acupoints], acupuncture) to restore balance and increase overall energy, or qi.
My recent visit began with a thorough questionnaire to help guage which of the five Chinese "elements" (wood, fire, earth, metal, water) defined me. Did I sweat at night? Did I prefer salty foods to sweet? Did I tend to laugh or groan? From there, treatments were fine-tuned to my individual body chemistry and imbalances.
Moving from light spaces to dark ones and through a series of dramatic archways ("moon gates") to reach the spa's interior conveyed a departure from one world to another. Services kicked off in the locker room with a stunning bathing ritual. An herbal sauna filled with fresh mint, sage, rosemary and thyme (delivered fresh from the kitchen daily) loosened my tight muscles and opened my respiratory system. A massive block of pink Himalayan sea salt in the salt stone sauna releases negative ions in the intense heat, calming the lymphatic system. The hot and cold aromatherapy showers were invigorating, and the chamomile-scented Oriental steam room eased away any remaining tension.
The massage (deep and efficient) used oil that jived with my body type, and the signature Chuan Yu facial, based on traditional gua sha therapy, focused on lymphatic drainage instead of wrinkle reduction (no aggressive exfoliation, no extractions). A piece of jade was gently scraped over my face and the meridian points along my body (including the feet) to increase circulation. A a nutrient-rich mask finished things off.
Spa day culminated in the Dream Room, where I munched dried fruit from within a Matrix-y looking device called the Four Senses Lounger. Exclusive to Chicago's Chuan Spa, the lit-from-within chair offers interactive elements that engage the four senses and increase a meditative state. As if I could have been any more relaxed. 330 N. Wabash Ave.; 312-923-7650; chicago.langhamhotels.com.


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Black-Owned Vegan Bakery Receives $10,000 Grant From Beyoncé
The Pink Bakery was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, but a surprise grant and pivot to creating and selling at-home baking mixes means the business can stay afloat.
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Tennessee-based vegan bakery The Pink Bakery recently received a $10,000 grant from music icon Beyoncé. The grant came from the Black-Owned Small Business Impact Fund, created earlier this year by Beyoncé's nonprofit BeyGood in partnership with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. It is given to Black-owned small business owners who were hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. "I'm still on a high from [the] announcement and I cannot believe that my company is sitting on Beyonce's website right now with the other recipients from Round 2," The Pink Bakery founder Nubian Simmons told VegNews. Simmons plans to use the grant money to purchase ingredients, pay off business debt, and improve the company's product packaging.
The Pink Bakery was founded by Simmons in 2014 with the aim to provide the community with desserts that were free of the top eight allergens (milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, and soy). The business specialized in custom baking orders but when COVID-19 hit, The Pink Bakery had to stop taking orders, which Simmons said, "almost destroyed us completely."
Eventually, the bakery pivoted to creating and selling at-home baking mixes to accommodate the new no-contact rules. "Although the baked goods accounted for 75 percent of our business, we now had to put all of our efforts into the super easy baking mixes that we used to bake for everyone," Simmons said. "The mixes actually turned out to be the perfect solution. We didn't have to worry about spoilage or damage with the mixes. We were also able to ship them nationwide via the USPS and provide contactless delivery to our customers' homes."
The Pink Bakery currently offers No Frownie Brownies Mix and Mama's Favorite Chocolate (Chocolate Chip Cake Mix) and plans to launch new products at the end of November, including The Lauren White Cake Mix, Gimme That Flour Mix, Good AF Chocolate Frosting, and White Sweetness Frosting.
Vegan chocolate-maker Good Girl Chocolate also received a $10,000 grant from Round 2 of Beyoncé's Black-Owned Small Business Impact Fund. Founder Tabatha Carr plans to use the grant to buy equipment and hire more employees. "I am so filled with joy and gratitude! Minorities receive less than 1 percent of venture capitalist funding," Carr said. "This award is so special to me because it will allow me to buy more equipment and support my community by hiring more employees, which means [we can] produce more chocolate. Thank you, Beyoncé and the BeyGood Foundation, for this grant. You are making an impact on underrepresented Black-owned businesses. To my entrepreneur family, keep pushing and keep putting in the work."
Loved by Marilyn Monroe and Beyoncé, NYC's Serendipity3 Just Launched a Vegan Frozen Hot Chocolate
Detroit's First Vegan Bakery Is Black-Owned
Beyoncé Helps Vegan Black-Owned Business Raise $10,000
Two-Time 'Cupcake Wars' Champ Doron Petersan Is Now Delivering Her Famous Vegan Cookies Nationwide
Pepsi's Giving Away $10 Million to Black-Owned Businesses. Atlanta's Slutty Vegan Is the First.
17 Vegan Black-Owned Food Brands to Support During Black History Month


Cyrod Technologies Inc. has a complete line of standard 8051 MCUs complemented by new advanced single cycle (1T) products. In addition, Cyrod Technologies has a number of custom solutions available for tier-1 customers in high volume, price sensitive applications.
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I attended a training at Minnetonka High School (MHS, not pictured above) last week to learn more about the school's 1:1 iPad program. Very impressive! Each student in grades 9 to 11 (with grade 8 to be included this fall) has a school-issued iPad, as do all teachers. For this digital learning environment, educators upload activities, assignments, reading and other curricular materials, quizzes and exams, grades, you name it, onto the iPad, using Schoology, the LMS (Learning Management System) that MHS has chosen to work with. LMS is a lot like Facebook, and it's one of many, many LMS's out there such as Blackboard, Edmodo, Moodle, itslearning, etc.
Teachers and administrators and students at MHS report that collaboration and communication have dramatically improved through the one-to-one learning program. Think flipped classroom, with all the benefits of the educator working with students during classtime and the communication that happens through the LMS environment. In fact, data from MHS show that student performance has improved over the two years the program has been up and running, with fewer overall D's and F's. It's a catching trend; Minneapolis public schools will be piloting the program this fall.
And don't forget to check in again next month for more from TFCB!
Are the kids able to use the iPads as devices that input material into files in the clouds? I always am looking for good things to use that will allow the kids to create, store and modify their Google documents. Sounds like someone really put in some time to get all that organized.


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- Mutant Football League
Mutant Football League sits within this limbo where it looks at what it can be, and just shrugs. To be fair, if somebody were to ask me if they should buy this game, I'd shrug too. It's not the best game on the market in this genre, and I'm sure it's not the worst. It's just a mediocre attempt at making a spoof-esque game.
- Ultimate Chicken Horse
This game is worth the money for anybody that likes hardcore platformers. Grabbing three friends and playing will bring you a time that not only will strengthen your bonds of friendship, but will also determine who is the Ultimate Chicken Horse!
- Dungeons 3
If you like a base builder that harkens back to the age of Evil Genius and Dungeon Keeper, and can look past some performance issues and the occasionally stupid AI, then this is definitely one you should look at getting. It's funny, it looks nice, and it will definitely fill that need to plunder and pillage!
- Deer Hunter Reloaded
Simply put, it feels like a hunting game made by somebody who has never gone hunting.
- Slayaway Camp: Butcher's Cut
If you're looking for something that combines puzzles and slasher films, then this is just about a decent holdover until something better comes along.
- Raid: World War II
RAID World War II feels broken. Nothing really seems to work, and everything that is in it looks like it has seen better days. The developers have a lot of work that they need to action in order to fix this game, or at least make more of it work before asking for people to fork over some cash!
- N++
Everything considered, N++ is an absolute gem. Anyone who wants a platformer should buy this game.
- Mages of Mystralia
I like magic a lot, but even I need something unique to look at, or a fantastic story told, to really keep me interested.
- Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder
The graphics are truly fantastic, the audio is quite high in quality, and the gameplay is fun for those that like racing down a hill, dodging/smashing your way through obstacles
- Mr. Shifty
Mr. Shifty is a great game that has a need for some TLC to get it into shape.
- Gigantic
It is definitely worth keeping an eye on and trying, for it is free and will only cost you a moment of your time, but might not quite satisfy the itch that it is hinting at.
- Lock's Quest Remastered
Expect to wall yourself up for a day or two as your play your way through this phenomenal game.
- Dragon Bros
Dragon Bros takes very few hours to beat, and it doesn't really have lengthy enough levels to constitute having only 20 or so of them. Maybe more of it will come down the chute post game release, but at the moment, it feels more like a start-up rather than a fully developed title.
- Enter the Gungeon
Enter The Gungeon is nigh-on perfect. The hits are fine, the gunplay is wonderful, the animation and designs are fantastic, and it really needs to be picked up and played by anybody who isn't looking for something really casual.
- Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom
All in all, Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom is a phenomenal game that deserves to be played and enjoyed by anyone who is a fan of RPG action games. If you're a fan of Kingdom Hearts, this game might scratch a specific itch that you've found difficult to reach, and to those who are looking for something unique, Shiness is definitely the place to go.
- Blue Collar Astronaut
If Blue-Collar Astronaut allowed for a bit more in the customization stakes or just provided more diversity, then things would feel much more worthwhile. But hey, to its credit, I did get to experience an astronomical amount of debt to pay off.
- NeuroVoider
NeuroVoider is a wonderful game to play either by yourself, or with three of your friends in the local co-op system. It will quite easily scratch the itch of both casual gamers and the more hardcore ones with equal coverage, especially if you hit up some of the daily runs.
- Forma.8
Forma.8 is good. In fact, it could quite easily be classed as great by some standards, but it definitely isn't a game that I would recommend wholeheartedly to those without patience. It is a slow title that can grate against your patience in some cases, especially in regards to its respawn points, but thankfully still has many redeeming features that plenty of individuals will enjoy.
- Toby: The Secret Mine
Toby: The Secret Mine is still fun, even with the slightly frustrating misgivings that are present. The game has some fun platforming and some nice puzzles, and would certainly be worth one or two dips into the mine. Make sure to rescue all of your friends, or else the denizens of the deep might get you!


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NASA Glenn dedicates display of historic Shuttle-Centaur booster
A Shuttle-Centaur booster was officially placed on display at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Ohio on Friday, May 6, 2016. Photo Credit: Michael Cole / SpaceFlight Insider
GLENN RESEARCH CENTER, Ohio — A historic piece of NASA space hardware officially came home on Friday, May 6, when NASA's Glenn Research Center held a special ceremony to dedicate their newly completed Shuttle/Centaur G-Prime Upper Stage Rocket display. The 6,600 lbs (2,994 kg) Centaur G-Prime test article recently arrived at Glenn from the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
The booster had been on display outside the Huntsville Rocket Center for several years. The Center wanted to move it in order to make room for a planned redesign of their outdoor display, so the historic artifact was transferred to NASA Glenn, which had managed the Shuttle-Centaur program in the 1980s.
Glenn Director and former astronaut Janet Kavandi cut the ribbon to officially dedicate the display, along with former Director Lawrence Ross and others involved in the Centaur program's history at Glenn, which at the time of the program was called the NASA Lewis Research Center.
Almost forty NASA and contractor retirees were on hand for the dedication of the Shuttle-Centaur dedication ceremony held on Friday, May 6, 2016, at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Ohio. Photo Credit: Michael Cole / SpaceFlight Insider
Nearly forty retirees who had worked at Glenn on the Centaur program were also present for the dedication and ribbon cutting. Their pride in the project was evident as they posed for group pictures and closely examined the newly arrived booster, a product of their handiwork from some 30 years ago.
The various versions of the Centaur rocket have an impressive history of accomplishments over a fifty-year span. However, the particular version of Centaur that is now on display at NASA Glenn – the Shuttle/Centaur G-Prime Upper Stage – holds an interesting and controversial place in NASA history.
The then-named NASA Lewis Research Center developed the Centaur rocket in the 1960s, pioneering the use of liquid hydrogen as a fuel for spaceflight rocket engines. Although the super-cooled fuel was more dangerous and volatile than solid rocket propellants or kerosene, it was also more powerful, allowing it to propel heavier payloads greater distances. Flown as the upper stage for both Atlas and Titan launch vehicles, the Centaur upper stage rocket became an unqualified success and a NASA workhorse throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Notably, it sent Surveyor, Pioneer, Mariner, Viking, and Voyager spacecraft on historic missions to explore the Solar System.
However, the Centaur program's future became clouded in the late 70s with the long-anticipated arrival of the Space Shuttle. In a NASA effort to reduce costs, the agency planned to shift a significant portion of spacecraft launch duties to the Shuttle and away from expendable launch vehicles like Centaur. This proposed shift to using the reusable Shuttle as a ferry to low-Earth orbit, and deploying spacecraft from its payload bay, sent the Centaur program at NASA Lewis into a dormant state. The program was charged only with fulfilling the few launches remaining on the schedule, which stretched a few years longer as the Shuttle's readiness for flight continued to be delayed.
In his comments at Friday's ceremony, former Lewis director Lawrence Ross, who was director of space flight systems at the time, reflected on that difficult period.
"We were all kind of worried about the future of the center," Ross said. "Things were happening that we didn't like. We began an effort to plan our own futures. In some ways, it was an effort to protect ourselves. But it ended up enriching our center in ways we had no way of anticipating. We wanted to get closer to the mainstream of NASA and do projects that were important to the nation. If we could do that, we knew our futures would be brighter."
Their plans for a more mainstream future with NASA were an uphill struggle. The threatened loss of Centaur could not have come at a worse time, as NASA Lewis was already a potential target for elimination by Reagan-era budget cuts.
Current NASA Glenn Director Janet Kavandi, former Glenn Director Lawrence Ross, and other officials helped dedicated the new Shuttle-Centaur exhibit. Photo Credit: Michael Cole / SpaceFlight Insider
As NASA Lewis teetered on the brink, the plot thickened.
Numerous spacecraft that NASA intended to launch in its upcoming schedule required an orbit higher than the Shuttle could achieve. These spacecraft needed a booster to push them into their elevated orbits. The anticipated exploratory missions of Galileo to Jupiter and Ulysses to the Sun would require an even more powerful boost to send them on their way. The idea was to carry a booster-equipped spacecraft into space within the Shuttle's payload bay, release it from the payload bay, then ignite the booster to send the spacecraft on its journey.
But which booster was best equipped for propelling a spacecraft on its mission after a ride aboard the Shuttle?
The process of choosing the booster set in motion a complex tangle of aerospace company lobbying, political intrigues, and inter-agency rivalries. The different cultures that existed within the competing NASA centers were put at odds in this highly charged climate, creating an uncomfortable and often unfriendly atmosphere about a project that would ultimately require a tremendous amount of inter-agency cooperation. Amid this thorny state of affairs, the choice for NASA was between two boosters. The first was a rocket called the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS), designed by the Air Force and managed by the Marshall Space Flight Center. The other was Centaur, designed and managed at Lewis along with the Air Force.
IUS was a solid-fueled booster and, therefore, safer to carry in the Shuttle's payload bay than the hydrogen-fueled Centaur. However, the IUS was not as powerful as Centaur and could, therefore, be problematic for boosting the planned deep space exploration probes. It could also be lit only once, and would burn continuously until all its solid-propellant was exhausted, unlike Centaur – whose liquid-fueled engine could be stopped and started, providing far more control over the course of a mission. Those same liquid-fueled engines were the major objection of Centaur opponents, who argued against the notion of putting a complex and volatile hydrogen-fueled rocket in the payload bay of the Shuttle.
The long, successful, proven track record of Centaur caused NASA to lean in the direction of choosing Centaur. However, as rumors circulated about that possibility, the directors of Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space Center, and Marshall Space Flight Center lobbied NASA Administrator Alan Lovelace to choose Marshall as the site for the Shuttle-Centaur program. They cited Lewis' lack of experience with procuring hardware for manned spaceflight as their reason for recommending the moving of Centaur to Marshall.
"With Shuttle-Centaur, we ventured into the world of human spaceflight," Ross said. "And the people who had inhabited that world before us didn't want us there. We were not welcome."
Artistic rendering of Shuttle-Centaur in space. Image Credit: San Diego Air & Space Museum
Ross expressed to Lovelace no offense at the three centers' plan to wrest control of the Centaur program and move it to Marshall. Instead, he calmly argued to Lovelace that his Lewis engineers had an average of 13 years of experience with Centaur that would uniquely equip them to ready the adapted booster, on a very tight schedule, for its first flights aboard the Shuttle in 1986. The engineers at Marshall, Ross argued, would be starting from square one.
Ross won that argument. The Shuttle-Centaur program would be managed from Lewis, and a new era of funding and intense activity began at NASA Lewis. The Shuttle made its maiden voyage with John Young and Robert Crippen in 1981, and the Shuttle-Centaur program at Lewis started in the same year.
From there, things only got more interesting.
The engineers at Lewis had five years to ready a version of Centaur that could safely ride in the Shuttle's payload bay. The cooperation this project necessitated between the Lewis and Johnson centers grew only in fits and starts.
"I think we earned some respect and became sort off grudgingly welcomed after a while," Ross said. "But that made things difficult."
In those same five years, the Space Shuttle launched itself into what seemed to be a golden age. American astronauts were going into space again. They were doing it routinely. The minor failures they encountered, they overcame. It was as if the Shuttle couldn't really fail. This record of success, and the increasing pace of the program, precipitated a slow evolution in the managerial approach to risk and safety factors in the program. The program pushed its engineers and technicians to fly the fleet of shuttles with greater regularity and quicker turnarounds. Furthermore, concerning the Shuttle-Centaur, the 1986 launch windows for Galileo and Ulysses were rapidly approaching, pushing the Lewis engineers very hard.
"The schedule was unrelenting," Ross said. "Planetary missions have a blessing and a curse. The curse is you can't miss the date. The blessing is you've got to make the date."
Amid the accelerated pace, resistance to Shuttle-Centaur and concerns about its safety continued.
"Safety was always paramount," associate director of NASA Glenn's Space Flight Systems Directorate, Scott Graham, told Spaceflight Insider. Graham was a young engineer in charge of cryogenic systems at the time. "We took that very seriously. We made lots of design changes in terms of redundancy. But it was always controversial, especially with the astronaut corps and the Johnson Space Center."
Astronauts Rick Hauck and John Fabian had been vocal in their concerns about Centaur. A major concern among them was what would happen if the mission had to abort shortly after launch, forcing an emergency landing with a fully loaded Centaur in the payload bay.
"My responsibility was the fill, drain, and dump cryogenics system," Graham said. "If there was ever going to be an abort of the orbiter during ascent and we would have to do an abort landing, it was actually too heavy for the orbiter to safely land with a fully tanked Centaur inside. So we had to design a dump system to rapidly dump both the hydrogen and oxygen out of the Centaur tanks prior to an emergency landing of the orbiter."
Astronauts Rick Hauck, John Fabian, and Dave Walker pose by a Shuttle-Centaur stage in mid-1985. Photo Credit: San Diego Air & Space Museum
Graham worked hand in hand with General Dynamics and other industry partners to develop that system. However, the idea of dumping hydrogen and oxygen from the orbiter as it glided through the atmosphere for an emergency landing never struck astronaut John Young as a good idea. He began to refer to the booster not as Centaur but as "Death Star".
Hauck was slated to command the first Shuttle mission carrying Centaur, which would launch Ulysses to the Sun. Fabian was on the crew scheduled to carry the Centaur-boosted Galileo on its mission to Jupiter. The 1986 launch window for both missions dictated that the two flights would launch only five days apart – Hauck's flight 61F on May 15 and Fabian's flight 61G on May 20.
The rapid pace of the Shuttle program and growing concerns about the safety of Shuttle-Centaur precipitated Fabian's retirement from NASA in September of 1985. He was replaced on the crew of 61G by Norm Thagard.
"We were flying what had been an expendable upper stage with hydrogen," Graham said. "Putting a hydrogen stage inside the cargo bay was controversial. But we were all very confident that we had addressed all the safety issues."
The controversy over Shuttle-Centaur would never be resolved. All questions about it became moot when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in the Florida skies shortly after liftoff on January 28, 1986. In the aftermath of the accident and its investigation, the Shuttle-Centaur program was canceled as part of the Shuttle program's safety and risk-assessment overhaul.
"It wasn't surprising after that," Graham said, "that with the heightened safety culture within the agency that the program was canceled. It was kind of inevitable."
The Challenger tragedy closed the book on the Shuttle-Centaur program. The Shuttle-Centaur can never be truly assessed for its merits or reliability because it was never allowed to prove itself. Nevertheless, the G-Prime configuration of Shuttle-Centaur was quickly adopted by the Air Force and served as the upper stage with their new Titan IV launch vehicle. This integration with Titan IV gave the Centaur G-Prime a new lease on life. Over the next 18 years, the Titan IV and Centaur G-Prime carried 16 classified national security payloads into orbit.
Its crowning achievement was launching the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft to Saturn on October 15, 1997. Cassini arrived at Saturn in 2004 and is still collecting data about the Saturnian system twelve years later.
Today, other versions of Centaur, coupled with other launch vehicles, continue to boost spacecraft into orbit, stretching its long career of spaceflight success to 56 years.
Officials at NASA Glenn are thrilled to have the Centaur, one of the proudest accomplishments in the center's heritage, on display for the public. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the center, which began its existence during World War II as the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory. The Shuttle-Centaur G-Prime Upper Stage Display was hurried to completion in time for the upcoming May 21–22 public open house event, the first open house event at NASA Glenn in seven years.
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Michael Cole is a life-long space flight enthusiast and author of some 36 educational books on space flight and astronomy for Enslow Publishers. He lives in Findlay, Ohio, not far from Neil Armstrong's birthplace of Wapakoneta. His interest in space, and his background in journalism and public relations suit him for his focus on research and development activities at NASA Glenn Research Center, and its Plum Brook Station testing facility, both in northeastern Ohio. Cole reached out to SpaceFlight Insider and asked to join SFI as the first member of the organization's "Team Glenn."
I dedicated three years of my career to the Shuttle Centaur program. I think this article was very well researched and written. It is about time this beautiful vehicle came home to NASA Glenn where it belongs. Many thanks to those that made this move happen. I hope this is the final resting place for the last Centaur G' vehicle and it's Centaur Integrated Support System (CISS). Thanks also to all who labored on this difficult developmental integration project. Job well done!


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Project acronym A2F2
Project Beyond Biopolymers: Protein-Sized Aromatic Amide Functional Foldamers
Researcher (PI) Ivan Huc
Host Institution (HI) LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
Summary Nature has evolved ultimate chemical functions based on controlling and altering conformation of its molecular machinery. Prominent examples include enzyme catalysis and information storage/duplication in nucleic acids. These achievements are based on large and complex yet remarkably defined structures obtained through folding of polymeric chains and a subtle interplay of non-covalent forces. Nature uses a limited set of building blocks – e.g. twenty amino-acids and four nucleobases – with specific abilities to impart well-defined folds. In the last decade, chemists have discovered foldamers: non-natural oligomers and polymers also prone to adopt folded structures. The emergence of foldamers has far reaching implications. A new major long term prospect is open to chemistry: the de novo synthesis of artificial objects resembling biopolymers in terms of their size, complexity, and efficiency at achieving defined functions, yet having chemical structures beyond the reach of biopolymers amenable to new properties and functions. The PI of this project has shown internationally recognized leadership in the development of a class of foldamers, aromatic oligoamides, whose features arguably make them the most suitable candidates to systematically explore what folded structures beyond biopolymers give access to. This project aims at developing methods to allow the routine fabrication of 20-40 units long aromatic oligoamide foldamers (6-15 kDa) designed to fold into artificial molecular containers having engineerable cavities and surfaces for molecular recognition of organic substrates, in particular large peptides and saccharides, polymers, and proteins. The methodology rests on modelling based design, multistep organic synthesis of heterocyclic monomers and their assembly into long sequences, structural elucidation using, among other techniques, x-ray crystallography, and the physico-chemical characterization of molecular recognition events.
Nature has evolved ultimate chemical functions based on controlling and altering conformation of its molecular machinery. Prominent examples include enzyme catalysis and information storage/duplication in nucleic acids. These achievements are based on large and complex yet remarkably defined structures obtained through folding of polymeric chains and a subtle interplay of non-covalent forces. Nature uses a limited set of building blocks – e.g. twenty amino-acids and four nucleobases – with specific abilities to impart well-defined folds. In the last decade, chemists have discovered foldamers: non-natural oligomers and polymers also prone to adopt folded structures. The emergence of foldamers has far reaching implications. A new major long term prospect is open to chemistry: the de novo synthesis of artificial objects resembling biopolymers in terms of their size, complexity, and efficiency at achieving defined functions, yet having chemical structures beyond the reach of biopolymers amenable to new properties and functions. The PI of this project has shown internationally recognized leadership in the development of a class of foldamers, aromatic oligoamides, whose features arguably make them the most suitable candidates to systematically explore what folded structures beyond biopolymers give access to. This project aims at developing methods to allow the routine fabrication of 20-40 units long aromatic oligoamide foldamers (6-15 kDa) designed to fold into artificial molecular containers having engineerable cavities and surfaces for molecular recognition of organic substrates, in particular large peptides and saccharides, polymers, and proteins. The methodology rests on modelling based design, multistep organic synthesis of heterocyclic monomers and their assembly into long sequences, structural elucidation using, among other techniques, x-ray crystallography, and the physico-chemical characterization of molecular recognition events.
Project acronym AAA
Project Adaptive Actin Architectures
Researcher (PI) Laurent Blanchoin
Summary Although we have extensive knowledge of many important processes in cell biology, including information on many of the molecules involved and the physical interactions among them, we still do not understand most of the dynamical features that are the essence of living systems. This is particularly true for the actin cytoskeleton, a major component of the internal architecture of eukaryotic cells. In living cells, actin networks constantly assemble and disassemble filaments while maintaining an apparent stable structure, suggesting a perfect balance between the two processes. Such behaviors are called "dynamic steady states". They confer upon actin networks a high degree of plasticity allowing them to adapt in response to external changes and enable cells to adjust to their environments. Despite their fundamental importance in the regulation of cell physiology, the basic mechanisms that control the coordinated dynamics of co-existing actin networks are poorly understood. In the AAA project, first, we will characterize the parameters that allow the coupling among co-existing actin networks at steady state. In vitro reconstituted systems will be used to control the actin nucleation patterns, the closed volume of the reaction chamber and the physical interaction of the networks. We hope to unravel the mechanism allowing the global coherence of a dynamic actin cytoskeleton. Second, we will use our unique capacity to perform dynamic micropatterning, to add or remove actin nucleation sites in real time, in order to investigate the ability of dynamic networks to adapt to changes and the role of coupled network dynamics in this emergent property. In this part, in vitro experiments will be complemented by the analysis of actin network remodeling in living cells. In the end, our project will provide a comprehensive understanding of how the adaptive response of the cytoskeleton derives from the complex interplay between its biochemical, structural and mechanical properties.
Although we have extensive knowledge of many important processes in cell biology, including information on many of the molecules involved and the physical interactions among them, we still do not understand most of the dynamical features that are the essence of living systems. This is particularly true for the actin cytoskeleton, a major component of the internal architecture of eukaryotic cells. In living cells, actin networks constantly assemble and disassemble filaments while maintaining an apparent stable structure, suggesting a perfect balance between the two processes. Such behaviors are called "dynamic steady states". They confer upon actin networks a high degree of plasticity allowing them to adapt in response to external changes and enable cells to adjust to their environments. Despite their fundamental importance in the regulation of cell physiology, the basic mechanisms that control the coordinated dynamics of co-existing actin networks are poorly understood. In the AAA project, first, we will characterize the parameters that allow the coupling among co-existing actin networks at steady state. In vitro reconstituted systems will be used to control the actin nucleation patterns, the closed volume of the reaction chamber and the physical interaction of the networks. We hope to unravel the mechanism allowing the global coherence of a dynamic actin cytoskeleton. Second, we will use our unique capacity to perform dynamic micropatterning, to add or remove actin nucleation sites in real time, in order to investigate the ability of dynamic networks to adapt to changes and the role of coupled network dynamics in this emergent property. In this part, in vitro experiments will be complemented by the analysis of actin network remodeling in living cells. In the end, our project will provide a comprehensive understanding of how the adaptive response of the cytoskeleton derives from the complex interplay between its biochemical, structural and mechanical properties.
Project acronym ACETOGENS
Project Acetogenic bacteria: from basic physiology via gene regulation to application in industrial biotechnology
Researcher (PI) Volker MÜLLER
Host Institution (HI) JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITATFRANKFURT AM MAIN
Summary Demand for biofuels and other biologically derived commodities is growing worldwide as efforts increase to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and to limit climate change. Most commercial approaches rely on fermentations of organic matter with its inherent problems in producing CO2 and being in conflict with the food supply of humans. These problems are avoided if CO2 can be used as feedstock. Autotrophic organisms can fix CO2 by producing chemicals that are used as building blocks for the synthesis of cellular components (Biomass). Acetate-forming bacteria (acetogens) do neither require light nor oxygen for this and they can be used in bioreactors to reduce CO2 with hydrogen gas, carbon monoxide or an organic substrate. Gas fermentation using these bacteria has already been realized on an industrial level in two pre-commercial 100,000 gal/yr demonstration facilities to produce fuel ethanol from abundant waste gas resources (by LanzaTech). Acetogens can metabolise a wide variety of substrates that could be used for the production of biocommodities. However, their broad use to produce biofuels and platform chemicals from substrates other than gases or together with gases is hampered by our very limited knowledge about their metabolism and ability to use different substrates simultaneously. Nearly nothing is known about regulatory processes involved in substrate utilization or product formation but this is an absolute requirement for metabolic engineering approaches. The aim of this project is to provide this basic knowledge about metabolic routes in the acetogenic model strain Acetobacterium woodii and their regulation. We will unravel the function of "organelles" found in this bacterium and explore their potential as bio-nanoreactors for the production of biocommodities and pave the road for the industrial use of A. woodii in energy (hydrogen) storage. Thus, this project creates cutting-edge opportunities for the development of biosustainable technologies in Europe.
Demand for biofuels and other biologically derived commodities is growing worldwide as efforts increase to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and to limit climate change. Most commercial approaches rely on fermentations of organic matter with its inherent problems in producing CO2 and being in conflict with the food supply of humans. These problems are avoided if CO2 can be used as feedstock. Autotrophic organisms can fix CO2 by producing chemicals that are used as building blocks for the synthesis of cellular components (Biomass). Acetate-forming bacteria (acetogens) do neither require light nor oxygen for this and they can be used in bioreactors to reduce CO2 with hydrogen gas, carbon monoxide or an organic substrate. Gas fermentation using these bacteria has already been realized on an industrial level in two pre-commercial 100,000 gal/yr demonstration facilities to produce fuel ethanol from abundant waste gas resources (by LanzaTech). Acetogens can metabolise a wide variety of substrates that could be used for the production of biocommodities. However, their broad use to produce biofuels and platform chemicals from substrates other than gases or together with gases is hampered by our very limited knowledge about their metabolism and ability to use different substrates simultaneously. Nearly nothing is known about regulatory processes involved in substrate utilization or product formation but this is an absolute requirement for metabolic engineering approaches. The aim of this project is to provide this basic knowledge about metabolic routes in the acetogenic model strain Acetobacterium woodii and their regulation. We will unravel the function of "organelles" found in this bacterium and explore their potential as bio-nanoreactors for the production of biocommodities and pave the road for the industrial use of A. woodii in energy (hydrogen) storage. Thus, this project creates cutting-edge opportunities for the development of biosustainable technologies in Europe.
Project acronym ACTOMYOSIN RING
Project Understanding Cytokinetic Actomyosin Ring Assembly Through Genetic Code Expansion, Click Chemistry, DNA origami, and in vitro Reconstitution
Researcher (PI) Mohan Balasubramanian
Host Institution (HI) THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
Summary The mechanism of cell division is conserved in many eukaryotes, from yeast to man. A contractile ring of filamentous actin and myosin II motors generates the force to bisect a mother cell into two daughters. The actomyosin ring is among the most complex cellular machines, comprising over 150 proteins. Understanding how these proteins organize themselves into a functional ring with appropriate contractile properties remains one of the great challenges in cell biology. Efforts to generate a comprehensive understanding of the mechanism of actomyosin ring assembly have been hampered by the lack of structural information on the arrangement of actin, myosin II, and actin modulators in the ring in its native state. Fundamental questions such as how actin filaments are assembled and organized into a ring remain actively debated. This project will investigate key issues pertaining to cytokinesis in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, which divides employing an actomyosin based contractile ring, using the methods of genetics, biochemistry, cellular imaging, DNA origami, genetic code expansion, and click chemistry. Specifically, we will (1) attempt to visualize actin filament assembly in live cells expressing fluorescent actin generated through synthetic biological approaches, including genetic code expansion and click chemistry (2) decipher actin filament polarity in the actomyosin ring using total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy of labelled dimeric and multimeric myosins V and VI generated through DNA origami approaches (3) address when, where, and how actin filaments for cytokinesis are assembled and organized into a ring and (4) reconstitute actin filament and functional actomyosin ring assembly in permeabilized spheroplasts and in supported bilayers. Success in the project will provide major insight into the mechanism of actomyosin ring assembly and illuminate principles behind cytoskeletal self-organization.
The mechanism of cell division is conserved in many eukaryotes, from yeast to man. A contractile ring of filamentous actin and myosin II motors generates the force to bisect a mother cell into two daughters. The actomyosin ring is among the most complex cellular machines, comprising over 150 proteins. Understanding how these proteins organize themselves into a functional ring with appropriate contractile properties remains one of the great challenges in cell biology. Efforts to generate a comprehensive understanding of the mechanism of actomyosin ring assembly have been hampered by the lack of structural information on the arrangement of actin, myosin II, and actin modulators in the ring in its native state. Fundamental questions such as how actin filaments are assembled and organized into a ring remain actively debated. This project will investigate key issues pertaining to cytokinesis in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, which divides employing an actomyosin based contractile ring, using the methods of genetics, biochemistry, cellular imaging, DNA origami, genetic code expansion, and click chemistry. Specifically, we will (1) attempt to visualize actin filament assembly in live cells expressing fluorescent actin generated through synthetic biological approaches, including genetic code expansion and click chemistry (2) decipher actin filament polarity in the actomyosin ring using total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy of labelled dimeric and multimeric myosins V and VI generated through DNA origami approaches (3) address when, where, and how actin filaments for cytokinesis are assembled and organized into a ring and (4) reconstitute actin filament and functional actomyosin ring assembly in permeabilized spheroplasts and in supported bilayers. Success in the project will provide major insight into the mechanism of actomyosin ring assembly and illuminate principles behind cytoskeletal self-organization.
Project acronym ADORA
Project Asymptotic approach to spatial and dynamical organizations
Researcher (PI) Benoit PERTHAME
Host Institution (HI) SORBONNE UNIVERSITE
Summary The understanding of spatial, social and dynamical organization of large numbers of agents is presently a fundamental issue in modern science. ADORA focuses on problems motivated by biology because, more than anywhere else, access to precise and many data has opened the route to novel and complex biomathematical models. The problems we address are written in terms of nonlinear partial differential equations. The flux-limited Keller-Segel system, the integrate-and-fire Fokker-Planck equation, kinetic equations with internal state, nonlocal parabolic equations and constrained Hamilton-Jacobi equations are among examples of the equations under investigation. The role of mathematics is not only to understand the analytical structure of these new problems, but it is also to explain the qualitative behavior of solutions and to quantify their properties. The challenge arises here because these goals should be achieved through a hierarchy of scales. Indeed, the problems under consideration share the common feature that the large scale behavior cannot be understood precisely without access to a hierarchy of finer scales, down to the individual behavior and sometimes its molecular determinants. Major difficulties arise because the numerous scales present in these equations have to be discovered and singularities appear in the asymptotic process which yields deep compactness obstructions. Our vision is that the complexity inherent to models of biology can be enlightened by mathematical analysis and a classification of the possible asymptotic regimes. However an enormous effort is needed to uncover the equations intimate mathematical structures, and bring them at the level of conceptual understanding they deserve being given the applications motivating these questions which range from medical science or neuroscience to cell biology.
The understanding of spatial, social and dynamical organization of large numbers of agents is presently a fundamental issue in modern science. ADORA focuses on problems motivated by biology because, more than anywhere else, access to precise and many data has opened the route to novel and complex biomathematical models. The problems we address are written in terms of nonlinear partial differential equations. The flux-limited Keller-Segel system, the integrate-and-fire Fokker-Planck equation, kinetic equations with internal state, nonlocal parabolic equations and constrained Hamilton-Jacobi equations are among examples of the equations under investigation. The role of mathematics is not only to understand the analytical structure of these new problems, but it is also to explain the qualitative behavior of solutions and to quantify their properties. The challenge arises here because these goals should be achieved through a hierarchy of scales. Indeed, the problems under consideration share the common feature that the large scale behavior cannot be understood precisely without access to a hierarchy of finer scales, down to the individual behavior and sometimes its molecular determinants. Major difficulties arise because the numerous scales present in these equations have to be discovered and singularities appear in the asymptotic process which yields deep compactness obstructions. Our vision is that the complexity inherent to models of biology can be enlightened by mathematical analysis and a classification of the possible asymptotic regimes. However an enormous effort is needed to uncover the equations intimate mathematical structures, and bring them at the level of conceptual understanding they deserve being given the applications motivating these questions which range from medical science or neuroscience to cell biology.
Project acronym ALKAGE
Project Algebraic and Kähler geometry
Researcher (PI) Jean-Pierre, Raymond, Philippe Demailly
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES
Summary The purpose of this project is to study basic questions in algebraic and Kähler geometry. It is well known that the structure of projective or Kähler manifolds is governed by positivity or negativity properties of the curvature tensor. However, many fundamental problems are still wide open. Since the mid 1980's, I have developed a large number of key concepts and results that have led to important progress in transcendental algebraic geometry. Let me mention the discovery of holomorphic Morse inequalities, systematic applications of L² estimates with singular hermitian metrics, and a much improved understanding of Monge-Ampère equations and of singularities of plurisuharmonic functions. My first goal will be to investigate the Green-Griffiths-Lang conjecture asserting that an entire curve drawn in a variety of general type is algebraically degenerate. The subject is intimately related to important questions concerning Diophantine equations, especially higher dimensional generalizations of Faltings' theorem - the so-called Vojta program. One can rely here on a breakthrough I made in 2010, showing that all such entire curves must satisfy algebraic differential equations. A second closely related area of research of this project is the analysis of the structure of projective or compact Kähler manifolds. It can be seen as a generalization of the classification theory of surfaces by Kodaira, and of the more recent results for dimension 3 (Kawamata, Kollár, Mori, Shokurov, ...) to other dimensions. My plan is to combine powerful recent results obtained on the duality of positive cohomology cones with an analysis of the instability of the tangent bundle, i.e. of the Harder-Narasimhan filtration. On these ground-breaking questions, I intend to go much further and to enhance my national and international collaborations. These subjects already attract many young researchers and postdocs throughout the world, and the grant could be used to create even stronger interactions.
The purpose of this project is to study basic questions in algebraic and Kähler geometry. It is well known that the structure of projective or Kähler manifolds is governed by positivity or negativity properties of the curvature tensor. However, many fundamental problems are still wide open. Since the mid 1980's, I have developed a large number of key concepts and results that have led to important progress in transcendental algebraic geometry. Let me mention the discovery of holomorphic Morse inequalities, systematic applications of L² estimates with singular hermitian metrics, and a much improved understanding of Monge-Ampère equations and of singularities of plurisuharmonic functions. My first goal will be to investigate the Green-Griffiths-Lang conjecture asserting that an entire curve drawn in a variety of general type is algebraically degenerate. The subject is intimately related to important questions concerning Diophantine equations, especially higher dimensional generalizations of Faltings' theorem - the so-called Vojta program. One can rely here on a breakthrough I made in 2010, showing that all such entire curves must satisfy algebraic differential equations. A second closely related area of research of this project is the analysis of the structure of projective or compact Kähler manifolds. It can be seen as a generalization of the classification theory of surfaces by Kodaira, and of the more recent results for dimension 3 (Kawamata, Kollár, Mori, Shokurov, ...) to other dimensions. My plan is to combine powerful recent results obtained on the duality of positive cohomology cones with an analysis of the instability of the tangent bundle, i.e. of the Harder-Narasimhan filtration. On these ground-breaking questions, I intend to go much further and to enhance my national and international collaborations. These subjects already attract many young researchers and postdocs throughout the world, and the grant could be used to create even stronger interactions.
Project acronym AMPLIPORE
Project Understanding negative gas adsorption in highly porous networks for the design of pressure amplifying materials
Researcher (PI) Stefan Kaskel
Host Institution (HI) TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN
Summary Negative gas adsorption (NGA) is a new, counterintuitive and paradoxical phenomenon, for the first time reported by my group in 2016: Normal solid materials with significant outer or inner surface area always take up gas when the pressure in the surrounding reservoir is increased (adsorption). NGA networks instead react at a certain point in the opposite direction: They release gas upon external pressure increase, leading to an overall pressure amplification in a closed system. Comparable phenomena have never been reported before. What is so exciting about NGA? We have a unique material in hand, that counteracts to an external force by force amplification. So far NGA has solely been observed in one of our new coordination polymers, featuring a colossal selfcompression associated with a mesopore-to-micropore transformation. Gas pressure amplifying materials could lead to important innovations in gas releasing rescue systems, pneumatic control systems (production, transportation), micropumps, microfluidic devices, pneumatic actuators, and artificial lungs. A fundamental understanding of the physical mechanisms, structures, and thermodynamic boundary conditions is an essential prerequisite for any industrial application of this counterintuitive phenomenon. Combining strong synthetic methodologies with advanced analytical techniques, AMPLIPORE will elucidate the characteristic molecular and mesoscopic materials signatures as well as thermodynamic boundary conditions of NGA phenomena. We will elaborate a generic NGA-materials concept to tailor the pressure amplification and explore temperature and pressure ranges at which NGA can be applied. Developing tailormade instrumentation for kinetic investigations of NGA will give fundamental insights into the intrinsic and macroscopic dynamics of crystal-to-crystal transformations for applications in micropneumatic systems.
Negative gas adsorption (NGA) is a new, counterintuitive and paradoxical phenomenon, for the first time reported by my group in 2016: Normal solid materials with significant outer or inner surface area always take up gas when the pressure in the surrounding reservoir is increased (adsorption). NGA networks instead react at a certain point in the opposite direction: They release gas upon external pressure increase, leading to an overall pressure amplification in a closed system. Comparable phenomena have never been reported before. What is so exciting about NGA? We have a unique material in hand, that counteracts to an external force by force amplification. So far NGA has solely been observed in one of our new coordination polymers, featuring a colossal selfcompression associated with a mesopore-to-micropore transformation. Gas pressure amplifying materials could lead to important innovations in gas releasing rescue systems, pneumatic control systems (production, transportation), micropumps, microfluidic devices, pneumatic actuators, and artificial lungs. A fundamental understanding of the physical mechanisms, structures, and thermodynamic boundary conditions is an essential prerequisite for any industrial application of this counterintuitive phenomenon. Combining strong synthetic methodologies with advanced analytical techniques, AMPLIPORE will elucidate the characteristic molecular and mesoscopic materials signatures as well as thermodynamic boundary conditions of NGA phenomena. We will elaborate a generic NGA-materials concept to tailor the pressure amplification and explore temperature and pressure ranges at which NGA can be applied. Developing tailormade instrumentation for kinetic investigations of NGA will give fundamental insights into the intrinsic and macroscopic dynamics of crystal-to-crystal transformations for applications in micropneumatic systems.
Project acronym ANGEOM
Project Geometric analysis in the Euclidean space
Researcher (PI) Xavier Tolsa Domenech
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA
Summary "We propose to study different questions in the area of the so called geometric analysis. Most of the topics we are interested in deal with the connection between the behavior of singular integrals and the geometry of sets and measures. The study of this connection has been shown to be extremely helpful in the solution of certain long standing problems in the last years, such as the solution of the Painlev\'e problem or the obtaining of the optimal distortion bounds for quasiconformal mappings by Astala. More specifically, we would like to study the relationship between the L^2 boundedness of singular integrals associated with Riesz and other related kernels, and rectifiability and other geometric notions. The so called David-Semmes problem is probably the main open problem in this area. Up to now, the techniques used to deal with this problem come from multiscale analysis and involve ideas from Littlewood-Paley theory and quantitative techniques of rectifiability. We propose to apply new ideas that combine variational arguments with other techniques which have connections with mass transportation. Further, we think that it is worth to explore in more detail the connection among mass transportation, singular integrals, and uniform rectifiability. We are also interested in the field of quasiconformal mappings. We plan to study a problem regarding the quasiconformal distortion of quasicircles. This problem consists in proving that the bounds obtained recently by S. Smirnov on the dimension of K-quasicircles are optimal. We want to apply techniques from quantitative geometric measure theory to deal with this question. Another question that we intend to explore lies in the interplay of harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory and partial differential equations. This concerns an old problem on the unique continuation of harmonic functions at the boundary open C^1 or Lipschitz domain. All the results known by now deal with smoother Dini domains."
"We propose to study different questions in the area of the so called geometric analysis. Most of the topics we are interested in deal with the connection between the behavior of singular integrals and the geometry of sets and measures. The study of this connection has been shown to be extremely helpful in the solution of certain long standing problems in the last years, such as the solution of the Painlev\'e problem or the obtaining of the optimal distortion bounds for quasiconformal mappings by Astala. More specifically, we would like to study the relationship between the L^2 boundedness of singular integrals associated with Riesz and other related kernels, and rectifiability and other geometric notions. The so called David-Semmes problem is probably the main open problem in this area. Up to now, the techniques used to deal with this problem come from multiscale analysis and involve ideas from Littlewood-Paley theory and quantitative techniques of rectifiability. We propose to apply new ideas that combine variational arguments with other techniques which have connections with mass transportation. Further, we think that it is worth to explore in more detail the connection among mass transportation, singular integrals, and uniform rectifiability. We are also interested in the field of quasiconformal mappings. We plan to study a problem regarding the quasiconformal distortion of quasicircles. This problem consists in proving that the bounds obtained recently by S. Smirnov on the dimension of K-quasicircles are optimal. We want to apply techniques from quantitative geometric measure theory to deal with this question. Another question that we intend to explore lies in the interplay of harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory and partial differential equations. This concerns an old problem on the unique continuation of harmonic functions at the boundary open C^1 or Lipschitz domain. All the results known by now deal with smoother Dini domains."
Project acronym ARIPHYHIMO
Project Arithmetic and physics of Higgs moduli spaces
Researcher (PI) Tamas Hausel
Summary The proposal studies problems concerning the geometry and topology of moduli spaces of Higgs bundles on a Riemann surface motivated by parallel considerations in number theory and mathematical physics. In this way the proposal bridges various duality theories in string theory with the Langlands program in number theory. The heart of the proposal is a circle of precise conjectures relating to the topology of the moduli space of Higgs bundles. The formulation and motivations of the conjectures make direct contact with the Langlands program in number theory, various duality conjectures in string theory, algebraic combinatorics, knot theory and low dimensional topology and representation theory of quivers, finite groups and algebras of Lie type and Cherednik algebras.
The proposal studies problems concerning the geometry and topology of moduli spaces of Higgs bundles on a Riemann surface motivated by parallel considerations in number theory and mathematical physics. In this way the proposal bridges various duality theories in string theory with the Langlands program in number theory. The heart of the proposal is a circle of precise conjectures relating to the topology of the moduli space of Higgs bundles. The formulation and motivations of the conjectures make direct contact with the Langlands program in number theory, various duality conjectures in string theory, algebraic combinatorics, knot theory and low dimensional topology and representation theory of quivers, finite groups and algebras of Lie type and Cherednik algebras.


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Girvan Cycle Race, Ayrshire
Situated in Carrick, South Ayrshire, Scotland, the seaside resort town of Girvan is the starting point for the annual Girvan Cycle Race taking place from 22 to 24 March 2008. Girvan enjoys a mild climate as a result of the influence of the Gulf Stream – a warm, swift Atlantic Ocean current originating in the Gulf of Mexico – and the terrain around the town is perfect for cycling events such as the Girvan Cycle Race. The town is easily accessible by road, rail, sea and air connections and there are a number of options with regard to accommodation.
The Girvan Cycle Race, which is divided into multiple stages, is one of the key events in British cycling circles. Points earned in the race count towards the Premier Calendar Elite Road Racing series for elite, first and second category race license holders. Promoted by Wallacehill Cycling Club based in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland, the race adheres to the technical regulations and rules of British Cycling, Scottish Cycling and the International Cycling Union. This prime event, which was first held in 1968, is run on a non-profit basis and relies on sponsors, patrons and a team of dedicated volunteers to make it the success that it always is.
Stage one of the Girvan Cycle Race starts is set for Saturday 22 March with a ceremonial start at 11:00 from McKechnie Institute and the official race start at 11:05 from Shallochpark Roundabout. The route will be clearly marked, with volunteers all along the way to ensure that everything runs smoothly. The finish line is on South Park Avenue, Girvan, having covered a distance of 65 miles. Stage two is a circuit race consisting of 15 laps around a 1.1 mile circuit through closed off roads of Girvan, starting and finishing in South Park Avenue. This will afford spectators the opportunity of seeing riders up close as they are interviewed by the race commentator.
Stage three on Sunday 23 March starts from outside the cinema in Victoria Street, Newton Stewart, following an exciting and picturesque route for a distance of 89 miles, ending on South Park Avenue, Girvan. Monday 24 March 2008 will see cyclists covering a distance of 72 miles, starting at B734 just outside Girvan and crossing the finish line at South Park Avenue.
Cyclists are no doubt looking forward to participating in Scotland's Girvan Cycle Race and are training to deal with the tough competition they will find themselves up against. To ensure that the event is enjoyable for everyone, the organizers emphasize that the Girvan Cycle Race organizers fully support the World Anti-Doping Code and urge competitors to compete in a spirit of fair-play and sportsmanship – to the benefit of all concerned.
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Rainbow over the city of Zagreb
Friday, October 20th, 2006, 7 o'clock AM
photos by Darko Zubrinic
These photos were taken when I waited for train from Zagreb to Karlovac at the main railway station, to the conference devoted to Rudolf Strohal, a forgotton investigator of Croatian Glagolitic Script.
An attempt to explain the double rainbow can be found in Isaac Newton's book "The Optics", on p 147. No surprise. But the surprise is that on that page Newton cites a Croatian Jesuit, humanist and scientist Marc Antun Dominis (1560-1624). He spent six years in London, being invited by the English King James I. He lived at the Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury and was appointed to be the Windsor Dean and the King's chancellor.
Rainbows that we usually see are a part of the circle, like an arc (that is why in French it is called arc-en-ciel, ie arc-on-the-sky). But, in some very special circumstances, usually in the mountains, arc-en-ciel can be seen like cercle-en-ciel! I was a witness of such a very rare natural phenomenon - an amazing WHOLE CIRCLE RAINBOW. It had very sharp edges, extremely intense colours and - a cross in the middle, with two human silhouettes on both sides. These were the shadows of a metal cross (about 5m high, on the top of a mountain in Austria, above 2000m) and of two of us, "projected" onto a film of mist in a late afternoon in 1980s, during sunset. Unfortunately, I did not have my photo camera with me.
From my mother I learnd that in the region of Hrvatsko Zagorje near Zagreb, in a village where she was born, the following very interesting expression for rainbow had been in use:
MAJKE BOZJE TRAG,
that is, Mother Mary's Trace.
Križevi u uzduhu viđeni u Alpama 1865.
Oton Kučera: Vrieme, crtice iz meteorologije, Matica hrvatska, Zagreb 1897.


Q: What do you call a snowman on roller blades?
The joke has been cited in print since at least 1998.
What do you call a snowman on roller blades?
What do you call a snowman on roller blades? A snowmobile!
What do you call a snowman on roller blades? A snow mobile!
Q: What do you call a snowman on rollerblades?


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Concept Icon represents a new exploration into how far Geely could stretch its DNA to provide a unique offering for future customers.
2018 April 25th, Beijing, China. Geely Auto Group held the global debut of its new futuristic concept car, the Concept Icon, at the recent 2018 Beijing International Auto Show. The car represents a new exploration into how far the Chinese automotive giant could stretch its DNA to provide a unique offering for future customers.
The Concept Icon's was designed using a simple and refined design language that primarily focuses on two key words, namely 'high tech' and 'inspiring'. This resulted in the creation of a technical product with distinctive features but retains its Geely's character.
The entirely new concept car was developed at the Geely Design's studio in Shanghai under the lead of the centre's design chief, Guy Burgoyne. The project was undertaken as a way of expanding Geely's DNA into new territories by taking into account the need of a new generation of consumer.
"What is an icon?" asks Burgoyne, who also holds the position of Vice President, Geely Design China. "To some, an icon represents their generation and embodies the spirit of an era. Today, in the 21st century, the term icon has taken on a new meaning. It is where an application starts on a digital journey. We took all these meanings together and applied them into our mobility solutions," according to him.
Burgoyne further added, "The car has to visually look like an icon and hence why the blocky upright contour pushes it slightly away from the traditional crossover shape and brings the car's design back to a flatter, 8-bit inspired design. Both surfaces and graphics have been distilled down to their minimalist form that is much in-line with present day gadgets, where it's simple on the outside but hides a more complicated and technology focused interior.
Geely Design made the Concept Icon into a simple canvas on which intricate design pieces were placed, creating wonderful contrast and delight as one gets closer. For instance, the use of infinity loops that are featured on the front and rear lamps of the car can also be seen throughout the vehicle, notably through the glass roof. Geely's expanding cosmos grill, which has appeared on all Geely Cars to date, has also followed the simplification process and was flattened down into a functional linear format but is still recognizable as a Geely vehicle.
The double clam shell doors of the Concept Icon open to reveal an interior that is coupled with subtle hints of technology. The team at Geely Design Shanghai gave special consideration to the information and telematics received by the driver. The central binnacle is seamlessly subdued behind the woven decoration and dissolves away when not in use, shifting focus to the central infotainment area. Other occupants of the vehicle on the other hand have the central and rear screens on which they may share information.
"A simplified interior also provided us with greater amounts of storage space, which proves to be useful as users today carry multiple devices on a daily basis. The Energy Hub floating console that was introduced in the Geely Bo Rui GE can be seen here, allowing users to wirelessly charge their devices on the go and exchange information via the in-car screens", explained Burgoyne.
He then concluded, "The Concept Icon embodies the essential characteristics of Geely Auto and is an expression of the global confidence that we have in our design and engineering capabilities. This enables us to set new trends and benchmarks within the wider automotive industry. The Concept Icon is the true play".


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