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S6E3: Sandra Abrevaya and Her Husband Brian Are Making the Battle Against A.L.S. More Accessible to the Public
Episode 3 • May 31, 2022 • 00:41:10
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May 31 2022 | 00:41:10
Season 6 continues with Sandra Abrevaya, CEO and co-founder alongside her husband, of Synapticure. Synapticure's mission is to make sure no one living with ALS is ever told, "I'm sorry, I can't help you" because Brian and Sandra know firsthand how difficult it can be to receive ALS treatment.
We chat with Sandra about balancing a romantic relationship and a business relationship with your significant other, what the current treatment options are for ALS patients, and how the COVID pandemic affected business in the medical field.
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3:48 - What convinced Sandra to go to Law School?
5:21 - What are Sandra's top three takeaways from her career in politics that she uses as an entrepreneur?
9:37 - Did Sandra ever think she was going to become a founder?
10:57 - What has Brian's journey with ALS been like and how did it lead him and Sandra to found Synapticure?
16:32 - Are there many options for treating ALS currently?
22:17 - Who was the first person to say yes to investing in Synapticure?
26:20 - What advice would Sandra give to a founder who is looking to build a mission-driven startup?
25:33 - What are some of those unique challenges in building a product and getting it into the hands of customers?
26:07 - How does Sandra interface with patients during this need-finding process?
31:14 - How did the COVID pandemic accelerate part of Synapticure's roadmap?
33:37 - How does Sandra balance her romantic relationship and her business relationship with her husband?
36:16 - What's next for Sandra and Brian?
37:49 - What's next for Sandra personally?
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November 17, 2020 • 00:45:39
Episode 1: Matt and Swati of Incite
In this episode of The Room podcast, Madison and Claudia spend some time diving into the history of Silicon Valley power couple; Matt Rogers and Swati Mylavarapu - founders of Venture Capital business - Incite. Previously to Incite, Matt Rogers was the co-founder of Nest. They go into detail about how they have been able to juggle the highs and lows of building a business together while pursuing their own individual passions - all while taking care of each other as a married couple and their growing family. In this episode, they share their passion for building innovative businesses, developing entrepreneurs and non-profits as well as helping to fund political candidates. These passions played a profound role in shaping the way they built Incite. ...
Movers & Shakers: Madison Campbell of Leda Health
Before the launch of season 5 of The Room Podcast, we are so excited to introduce a four-part mini-series: Movers & Shakers, where Madison and Claudia sit down with early-stage entrepreneurs and influencers to hear their stories. In this week's episode and series launch, we sit down with Madison Campbell, Co-Founder and CEO of Leda Health, a health and wellness startup turning the conversation around sexual assault into actionable change lead. A company created for survivors by survivors, Leda Health provides the care and resources needed for a full recovery and works towards bettering the many systemic shortcomings surrounding sexual assault services. We chat with Madison on her journey to founding Leda Health and her mission and vision for the future of healthcare and wellness. Let's open the door. ...
October 04, 2022 • 00:36:40
S7E1: Spencer Rascoff, Co-Founder of Zillow, Gives Advice for Entrepreneurs Amidst a Macroeconomic Downturn
Welcome back to The Room Podcast. We kick off Season 7 with Spencer Rascoff, co-founder and previous CEO of Zillow. Spencer walks us through how he and the team came up with the idea for Zillow and the unforgettable "Zestimate" feature. Prior to Zillow, Spencer had been the founder of Hotwire, which sold to Expedia for $685 million. Currently, Spencer is an active angel investor in more than 100 companies and is incubating several more through his startup studio and venture capital firm, 75 & Sunny. He serves as executive chair of dot.LA, a news site covering the Los Angeles tech scene and he is co-founder and board chair of Pacaso, the company pioneering a new way to own a second home. In our conversation today, we explore insights and themes such as the art of a killer feature, like the Zestimate, managing team morale and execution amidst a macroeconomic downturn, and why the future of real estate is fractional. For The Room Podcast in your inbox every week, subscribe to our newsletter. 5:05 - Where did Spencer grow up and how did that change his view of the world?6:33 - Did Spencer always want to be a founder?7:38 - What was the public opinion of the internet when Spencer was at Harvard? 11:23 - What did Spencer learn about being an entrepreneur from his experience at Harvard?13:23 - What was the aha moment that sparked the launch of Zillow?15:51 - How did Spencer and the team hone in on the specific product feature for Zillow?19:04 - Did ...
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Massive lightning damages building in Hyderabad
By Newsmeter NetworkPublished on 9 Oct 2019 4:34 PM GMT
Hyderabad: Amidst heavy rains and thunder strikes all over Telangana, people are capturing the various aspects of the season and sharing it on social media. Among these, Sreenivas Muppalla took to twitter to share an image of an apartment damaged due to massive thunder strikes.
In a conversation with amateur weather enthusiast Rajinikanth on Twitter, Sreenivas shared a picture of an apartment adjacent to his residence. The building's top portion was damaged due to heavy lightning, and the piece was seen fallen aside.
Speaking to NewsMeter, Rajinikanth disclosed his theory behind the damage. "Lightning occurs due to a change in cloud's charge to that of the ground — from positive to negative. Lightning finds the shortest way to reach the ground. Hence, the tallest area of a building, or a tall tree for that matter, is the most prone to be hit by lightning. It is a perfect example of that."
The IMD (Indian Meteorological Department) has issued a yellow warning for Telangana and coastal Andhra Pradesh. As per the weather report, the two states are set to receive heavy rainfall in the coming days.
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So, you want to use the new stuff, but you also want to win? Pfftttt… Sick of painting 120 Bloodletters and want to mix it up with some variety? Yeah, ok… Well, I've got just the thing.
Be prepared to take out key targets or draw your enemy close with a few Skull Cannons. Rain down mortal wounds with your slaughter priests when they get close. Taste your opponents tears while they taste the new flavor of Khorne's Judgements. Punish spell casters with an all new mobile Boodsecrator,Hexgorger Skulls and, just when your opponent's spell caster thinks they've ran the gauntlet, +2 Unbind with the Wrath of Khorne, Bloodthirster.
Demons re-roll wound rolls of 1 against heros and monsters. More often than not, your high priority targets are heros and monsters. This works on ranged attacks. Your skull cannons and bloodflails will be re-rolling those 1's.
Bloodtithe Rewards have never been better. This is a very reactive list, and Bloodtithe points allow us engage in surpisingly risky plays that would otherwise punish another army. Rewards 2-5 are going to be your bread and butter. In most cases you want to think of them like a contingency plan. Practice with them and learn to recognize scenarios where they are useful.
Ocasionally, you'll find yourself needing to counter that high spell roll that your opponent miraculously pumped out on a game changing spell. Learn to recognize these moments and dreamcrush your opponent if nessesary.
At it's worst, it's extra movement, but I find this ability is most useful as a contingency plan against a double turn. I will often give my bloodwarriors +1 to save when I know my opponent has a shot at a double turn. I'll position my bloodwarriors where I want them if I were to win the die roll, but be ready to move them elsewhere if my opponent wins the die roll. There are a myriad of scenarios where this ability is great. Always look for scenarios where this is useful and learn to evaluate their impact on the game as whole.
On average this will deal 3 mortal wounds to 1 model and a single mortal wound to 66% of the models around it. This ability is great when you want finish off a key enemy unit that's gone out of line of sight.
Pretty good if you want to take your blood thirster away from your cannons but still retain re-rolls of 1.
Most efficient summonable unit we have. These guys are speedy, high attack volume units with 10 wounds. They're great for taking out 5+ save, battleline units and they re-roll charges (ideal for being summoned 9″ away). Perfect for stealing that objective. Also, remember that our bloodthirster always attacks first. You'll get to attack with your thirster and the hounds before your opponent is able to swing at all.
Both these guys are great because you attack with your ranged attacks the moment you put them on the field. Plan to deploy them within 8″ of your wrathmongers and take advantage of that sweet bonus attack with your ranged profile. I typically like the Wrath of Khorne version more, but the Unfettered has more attack volume at range and keeps your opponent from retreating in their movement phase. There are reasons for either.
You're going to find that for the most part you'll use command abilities to re-roll charges and turn run rolls into 6's. The Bloodlord's command ability is decent, but unless you're able to get a bump in profile for your bloodthirster it's rarely worth considering.
Getting +4″ with a re-rollable charge on your bloodthirster is a big deal in a world full of deployments separated by 18″. This gives you a 26″ threat bubble with a double flail attack and a 22″ threat bubble for 2D3 mortal wounds. Keep a command point handy so your Wrathmongers can keep up.
Always attacking first with our bloodthirster is a huge boon. We'll usually get some value out of him, or he'll take the heat off our slaughter priests. Push in your turn to attack with multiple units before your opponent gets a chance to attack at all. Use as a deterent in your opponents turn because he'll always attack first (unless they have something that attacks first as well).
You want to diversify your threats, and Bloodsecrator is our least threatening hero. Since, Bloodsecrator is mobile now we're going to make him do D3 mortal mortal wounds on a 4+ to each unit within 8″ during each combat phase.
This ability is surprisingly effective. If you get him in a resonable possition, he tends to do around 12-18 mortal wounds a game by just standing in the middle of the mosh pit.
Generic Hero Advice: There are auras associated with every hero in your army. Premeasure all your moves and communicate with your opponent. Tell your opponent what your intent is when you're placing a model on the edge of an aura. Make sure they understand that you intend to be wholly within X of an ability so that when your model gets bumped during play there is no confusion. Bring some extra 40MM bases for premeasuring and planning out your movement phases.
Generic Slaughter Priest Advice: Keep them close to your Alter (the re-rolls are super important). Try to position yourself so that you will be able to boil blood with every priest as often as possible. Slaughter Priests are great, but you need to plan ahead with these guys because they cannot move before they use abilities. I'll talk about Judgements later.
Wrath of Khorne, Bloodthirster: He's a beat stick and triggers Locus of Fury (Wholly Within 16″) for your skull cannons. You want to keep him around your wrath mongers for that sweet bonus he gets during the shooting phase. He is also great for stopping the occasional stray spell that escapes your Hex Gorger Skulls.
Bloodsecrator: Your opponent is going to be so focused on all of the other threats you present that this guy is going to fly under the radar. Don't forget to remind your opponent to reroll all successful casting rolls within 24″ of this mobile spell hater. Khorne likes that. Don't forget to give yourself bonus attacks while wholly within 24″ of the banner. Don't forget the artefact, Banner of Wrath. Roll for each enemy unit within 8″ after any "begining of the combat phase" abilities have resolved.
Slaughter Priest (Skull Head): This broseph brought Bronze Flesh (+1 Save) to the rock show. Works wholly within 16″. Pick a unit and make it more difficult to kill. Early in the game, you'll be picking either your bloodwarriors or bloodthirster, but as the game drags out you'll buff whatever's stuck in (Wrathmongers/Skull Cannons). Choose carefully, and plan ahead.
Slaughter Priest (Party Hat Boy): This rocker brought Killing Frenzy (+1 Hit) to the skull feast. Works wholly within 16″. Typically you'll chose your skull cannons to mitigate the debuff from "Look Out Sir". If your cannons are shooting non-hero units; you'll usually buff anything diving into the fray (note: your cannons may be diving into the fray).
Slaughter Priest (Regular Joe): This regular looking dude brought Blood Sacrifice (+1 BT/D3 Wounds) to the table. Works wholly within 8″. You'll find him standing around killing himself or his friends in the name of the blood god. Getting extra blood tithe is a big deal. It just opens up more options more quickly.
Blood Reavers & Garrek's Reavers: They literally exist to screen, die and occasionally cap objectives. I'll admit, sometimes you can do some reasonable damage with them. However those moments are rare and you shouldn't count on them. Make sure you position your screens so that when your opponent strikes, you'll be able to boil them to death with your slaughter priests and Judgements of Khorne.
Blood Warriors: Give them +1 save and these guys last for a reasonable length of time. If you're even reasonably lucky, you can support them with your Wrath Axe which can provide extra resilience with a -1 Hit aura. Gorefists are a great tool in a world where attack volume is so prevalent. Hold the line, protect your slaughter priests.
Wrathmongers: While these guys are mostly there to buff the missile and melee weapons of your other troops, those troops eventually die. These guys go from being a force multiplier to a force to be reckoned with. They're a bit slow, keep those command points available to run 6 if needed and carefully plan your movement phase to take advantage of that tight 8" aura.
Skull Cannons (AKA Skill Cannons): Statistically, this unit is very inefficient when compared to other artillery units in the game (even with all our buffs), but that's because Skull Cannons need to do more than shoot to make up their value.
Skull Cannons are priced to do all the things. They're fast. They shoot. They're resilient. They do good combat damage. This is your swiss army knife. It's priced accordingly.
With that in mind, In the early game your skull cannons should be picking apart key targets. You'll need to have a solid comprehension of your opponents army. Pick your targets wisely. This is one of many reasons this list is terrible for a new player.
In the late game, you'll go full khorne and turn them into giant murderous lawn mowers. Charge them into any unit with models you can kill. You'll likely be firing your skull cannons again in the combat phase. This is when your cannons start to make up for their innificiency as artillery pieces.
Slaughter Hosts force us to use the built-in artefact and command trait. So, we need to use a battalion to gain an artefact and some control over first turn order. Gorepilgrims is a great battalion because there are no tax units (units we wish we didn't have to take) and it has a relevent ability (larger aura on bloodsecrator).
There was this one time when we allied with Nurgle, but then we turned on nurgle because we ran out of things to kill. Then we started killing eachother. Allies… you mean skulls for the skull throne, right?


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Red Hat's quarterly OpenShift update brings new service catalog
Red Hat has just released its quarterly update to the Red Hat OpenShift platform adding a new Service Catalog that enables IT or third-party vendors to create connections to internal or external services.
OpenShift is Red Hat's platform as a service offering. The Kubernetes based service, an open source container management platform, was originally developed by Google an then the CNCF. OpenShift, which also supports Docker, has become the industry standard in container deployment and management. According to Red Hat, it adheres to the Open Container Initiative, a set of industry standards for containers.
Containers are becoming more main stream with more enterprises shifting to it from the legacy Virtual machines. As more of them join the container bandwagon, the need for platforms like OpenShift is also on the rise. This has brought Red Hat to the helm of container services with big institutions like Deutsche Bank, Volvo and United Health signing up for it.
"The adoption of container technology is off the charts. Pretty much every company is adopting containers in some way," said Joe Fernandes, senior director of product management for OpenShift at Red Hat.
As Red Hat builds its customer base, which growing rapidly, it is working hard to update the platform to meet the needs of bigger players in the market including a request to make it easier to connect containerized applications to internal and external services. This is where the service catalog comes into the picture.
Firstly, it is not like an Appstore where developers can go in and find pre-configured connectors. It is more like an internal connector to an Oracle database or an external one to a public cloud service from AWS or Azure. While the Appstore analogy may be apt, the catalog still lacks procurement capability for now.
The catalog will be available as a technical preview for this release, the next release, which will bring it to the masses, is due at the end of this year.


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Fitness and Health have always been a part of Heather's world. Starting at the age of 7 she began competitive swimming. Running and Cycling soon followed. These 3 disciplines attracted her to compete in many Triathlons throughout her fitness career. Being an avid runner, she has travelled internationally and locally competing in numerous running events.
With her experience and education she brings the full package to the table.
Total Performance Physical Therapy (TPPT).
Heather remains a partner with Twist Performance and Wellness in Whitby Ontario. Twist has taught me so many fitness attributes over the past 10 years. I am still a big part of the Twist Family in Whitby and humbly am grateful for all they have shared and taught.
Heather is married to a wonderful guy who supports her: a true life partner. She feels that she could not do what she does without his encouragement and simply being in her world. They are undeniably a great fit! Heather is a mother with 2 sons, 2 step sons, and one beautiful granddaughter. Life is definitely good.


Gas, fuel; that thing we put in our cars and cannot seem to live without. It dictates our food prices and gives an excuse to every industry to raise their prices beyond the limit of the everyday man's pocket. Over the last several years the fuel prices in Jamaica has poll vaulted into a different stratosphere. The phenomenon that caused a riot in the early 1990s did not even register a blink in the years after 2010.
Gas, it's necessary to these man made machines, which could be remade to use water, the most abundant resource on earth. It is necessary. Then you can understand my ire when I paid $1000 for gas at Cool Oasis and maybe only $300 got in the pump. At the moment I gave them the benefit of the doubt, again. But when my car didn't register a change after five minutes into my journey and the car engine had enough time to adjust; I was upset.
You see, this was the second time that I had been ripped off by those who worked at Cool Oasis gas station. The first time I paid for windscreen wiper fluid, only to run dry the following morning. I was not amused then and I am not amused now. I reported the issue to the supervisor on duty, was told someone would be in contact. No one ever did. The details I gave were very specific; you see I have somewhat of a photographic memory, and I could recall even the exact spot where the security was standing, who served me gas, the approximate time and that the attendant opened my bonnet, went inside, came back out, bonnet closed and wished me well.
Then, I got the run around until I threatened to write about it; because I was being told the boss was not there to handle the situation. They got him on the line real quick when they saw I was serious. Now the same threat was needed to invoke any action. Something is unethical and morally compromising with that Cool Oasis gas station located at Hagley Park Road.
It is a certainty that I will never buy gas from Cool Oasis gas station again. In recent times we have heard the complaints of gas pump attendants fooling motorists and stealing their monies. Well I can tell you I lived this reality and you have to be vigilant. Pay attention when they are putting gas into your tank. Ensure that you can see the readings and it matches your requests.
Until such time, drive good.


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This is a request for a minute of your time. Those of you familiar with ColaLife's history will know that we started off in 2008 by asking for your support through our Facebook group. Over 8,000 of you have signed up over the past three years. In 2009 we also setup a Facebook page which has number of advantages, but the main one is that when we update the page with news and developments they are automatically updated on your Wall – you don't have to remember to check for updates as you do with the group. We now have over 4,400 supporters on our Facebook page and it's growing . . .
To encourage this mass migration(!) we've come up with a plan. Throughout July we will be running a little quiz on Facebook (the page and the group) with questions based on ColaLife and the project to date. The quiz is designed to be a bit of fun, but it has serious purpose because the answers to each question will appear on the Facebook page only. There will also be communication through the group, to let people know that they should 'Like' the Facebook page to keep up with news and developments. You can help also by contacting your friends who are members of the group, and letting them know that they should 'Like' our Facebook page.
DON'T FORGET, once you've signed up to our Facebook page you need to make sure that you remove yourself from the Facebook group (by clicking on 'Leave Group' at the bottom of the first column).
The first of eight quiz questions will be put up tomorrow (29/06/11) on Facebook. Have a go and see if you know the answer.
See you on our Facebook page soon!


"Twitter 101 and Beyond: Introduction to Social Media Platforms Availab" by M Thompson, J Ahlstrom et al.
Social media utilizes specific media platforms to allow increased interactivity between participants. These platforms serve diverse groups and purposes including participation from patients, family caregivers, research scientists, physicians, and pharmaceutical companies. Utilization of these information outlets has increased with integration at conferences and between conferences with the use of hashtags and "chats". In the realm of the "e-Patient" it is key to not underestimate your audience. Highly technical information is just as useful as a basic post. With growing use, social media analytics help track the volume and impact of content. Additionally, platforms are leveraging each other for uses, including Twitter, blogs, web radio, and recorded video and images. We explore information on social media resources and applications from varying perspectives. While these platforms will evolve over time, or disappear with new platforms taking their place, it is apparent they are now a part of the everyday experience of oncology communication.


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Nutrition for the Critically Ill Child: Enteral and Parenteral Support
Sharon Y. Irving, RN, MSN, CRNP;
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From the Department of Pediatrics and Food and Nutrition Services, University of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore, Maryland, and School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Reprint requests to Sharon Y. Irving, RN, MSN, CRNP, University of Maryland Medical System, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, 22 South Greene Street, Room S5D18, Baltimore, MD 21201-1595.
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The requirements of growth and organ development create a challenge in nutrition management for the pediatric patient. The stress of critical illness further complicates the delivery of adequate nutrients. Enteral feeding has several advantages over parenteral nutrition (PN), which include preservation of the gastrointestinal mucosa and decreasing the occurrence of sepsis related to bacterial translocation. Although feeding through the gastrointestinal tract is the preferred route for nutritional management, there are specific instances when PN as adjunctive or sole therapy is necessary to meet nutritional needs. With meticulous attention to fluid, caloric, protein, and fat requirements along with monitoring the metabolic status of the patient, it is possible to provide full nutritional support for the critically ill child within 24 to 48 hours of hospital admission.
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Can you tell us your name, age, hometown and dream?
My name is Katie Quick, I'm 26 years old and I was born and raised in Evergreen Park on the south side of Chicago. My dream since I was a young girl has been to make music, write music about the things that I observe in the world, filter that through a song and share it with as many people as possible.
When did you decide that it was possible to pursue that dream?
I've dreamt it my whole life but I had the feeling it was possible three years ago when I first got on stage with a band; I knew this was it. It was just a cover band but it was something about the feeling that I got. I was always shy growing up but once I got up there it felt like home. I knew that I was meant to sing. I ended up writing my first song in November of 2006 with very little guitar skills, just kind of plunking through it. When I started playing my songs for people, their reactions validated for me that I have something to say and that I have a nice way of saying it and putting it into words.
What are some of those messages that you have in your songs?
One song I wrote that is a self-portrait is called "Be the Change." It summed up my life and my attitude about life. I realized through some experiences in college that if you want something you just have to do it. You have to make that change. I was in a volunteer group in college called Alternative Spring Break, and we traveled around and did volunteer trips and that was our motto, "Be the change." I realized that if you do things it does make a difference. That song has somehow made its way into a lot of my music. I wrote a song called "Fingertips" for my six-grade students that said you really can have whatever it is that you want. Aside from positive messages though, my music incorporates little glimpses of life here and there that I've taken and put into a 3 minute song.
Did you have any mental barriers or any kind of struggles during that period when you were starting to play?
I never could play an instrument so that was a big barrier because I had all these ideas for songs in my head and I didn't know how to get them out there. I could write the words and I had the melodies in my head and I could see them, but for some reason I couldn't put the two together. Until I picked up a guitar I couldn't mesh the two together. So that was a huge barrier, learning to play the guitar. Once I did that things started pouring out of me.
Another barrier was the fact that I was a teacher and I definitely struggled with the idea that teaching is a selfless profession; you have to really put yourself second. I kept asking myself, should I go ahead and pursue this, something that I may never achieve? There is a very limited space for people to be able to share their music. All of those things were struggles for me.
You were starting to play while you were teaching. When did you decide that now you wanted to pursue it full time and not teach anymore?
I didn't know that I wanted to pursue it full time, it actually happened because of circumstance. While I was teaching a lot came up. My principal was not happy with me and my love of music and that I would use that in the classroom. She didn't approve of it. She ended up lowering my rating which made no sense because I was volunteering for all these groups and the test scores in my class went up. Logistically, and looking at my relationship to my students, I should have had a top notch rating. I went into my meeting and she told me that music will never pay my bills and that I needed to stay focused on what is important to me. It showed me right there that this person knows nothing about me, and knows nothing about connecting to the kids. It was a big red flag and I thought, it's now or never. If I stayed I knew that she would look down upon everything that I do and I would just be held back. I really could never deal with someone saying that you can't do this. I can't be around those people: negative energy, walk the other way. I knew that I could keep my relationship with the kids strong by e-mailing. I could still do what I want to do and be an example that shows them that they can too, all without being around that kind of negative energy.
What was your feeling then when you stopped teaching?
I was scared; it was very upsetting. I felt at first that I made the wrong decision and that I abandoned the kids. I cried for days. At the beginning of the school year (2008) this year it was very, very hard for me. I would look at letters on my wall that my students had written me, as well as emails that they would write me,"We really miss you! We wish that you were here but we really hope that you are doing well with your music." That was very difficult. It got easier as I started taking more chances because of the free time that I now had. I decided to do my first solo show, I started playing more music for more people and I started taking more risks musically. As I did that, I realized that I was gaining more strength and confidence and the kids were learning more and more about what I was doing. I was really helping them too at the same time. As the year progressed it got easier.
You were saying that your principal was skeptical and unsupportive. Could you talk about who helped you and who was against it, and how did you deal with that?
Pretty much everybody that I've come across has been supportive. My mom and dad have been the biggest support in my life, my mom especially. She really believed in me before I believed in myself. She would hear me singing and she knew; she would push me to sing in front of people and I would get so mad at her. I did a demo when I was 18, some songs on a karaoke tape, and she would play them for people. I was mortified! She pushed me; I needed that. Some might say that that kind of mom is a stage mom but it wasn't like that. She used to tell me, "Katie, I know you can do it and I know you are mad at me because you are embarrassed and scared, but I'm pushing you through this." My dad wanted me to take every opportunity that came my way, anything from trying out for student council to going backpacking in Europe. He always said if you want to do it, you do it. The combination of both of them, my dad is a little more modest than my mom, really helped me. Everyone has been so supportive.
So really then it was only your principal who, ironically, was the deciding factor that pushed you out of teaching school and into music?
She was the only one and it was a blessing in disguise. I tried to go to another school and it was a really bad situation. I think things happen in your life and you have to take those things that come to you. I had the episode with my principal and then I was in another school for a week and it was one of those situations out of a movie. It was a horribly, negative environment and there was violence in the school every single day. I felt my life was threatened; it was a nightmare of an experience. I knew then that I can't do it. I tried it one more time; gave it one more shot. I just knew that life was throwing me signs.
Have you had a change in mindset at how you look at future possibilities?
I don't think that there is anything that is not possible. To see where I've come from, a scared little girl who would sing in her bedroom to Mariah Carey and Wilson Phillips, to where I am now. I always knew that I really wanted it but I was never sure that it would really happen. Of course you want things to just happen for you. I found though that when you take steps forward you can do anything that you want. Now nothing stands in my way at all. When I recorded my album, for example, I played with some of the best musicians in the world. I'm not intimidated by anyone because I've realized that in doing this, it's all about steps. They too at one point did what I am doing.
Can you be more specific about the milestones that you've accomplished?
It's all almost happened in one year which is strange because I've been waiting my whole life to have this happen. I played my fist solo show with a guitar. That was a very huge accomplishment for me because I had never touched a guitar until two years ago in October. I did my first demo in Nashville in June of last year. I realized that a lot of people where positively appreciating my music so I recorded an album in March and that has taken off locally. People are responding like you wouldn't believe. I got to open up for a Grammy nominated artist, Shawn Mullins, at a bar here in Chicago. I won US 99's talent competition playing "Fingertips," which I had written for the kids. I was on WGN radio and in the Chicago Tribune as well. I appeared on TV for the "Great American Country Contest." This has all happened since October. That is why I am totally convinced that if you want something and you listen to your heart and you follow what you really believe in, then things will happen.
Just a quick side question, how do you support yourself? Do you have a steady income?
I do. I feel that you do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do. I'm a fulltime nanny right now during the day. I was working 55 hours a week nannying and then writing, playing shows at night and on the weekends. I have had very little free time. I know some people are irritated by that. My friends and family know though that it is a sacrifice you have to make. I have my college loans and I have to pay my bills. I went to nannying not only because I love kids, but because it allows me time after I'm done, unlike school where you have paperwork and things to do. One day I hope to just live off of music but I know that you can't do that coming out, no matter how talented you are. People might do this for ten years and still have to have a fulltime job.
How do you perceive society?
I thought about this question. I think some people really understand what is going on. I don't know if it is because they are old souls or what, but I always felt like I was one of those people; either I've been here before or I have a general understanding of how things work. I think there are people who you might consider new souls, people who are going around and taking advantage of everything we have and not appreciating the world around them and their surroundings. I always think it's up to the older souls and people who have been there and done that, to show people that it's ok to stop and take a breath and enjoy things around you.
Those people that really take advantage, I feel like they are growing in numbers because of the media who prays on that population of people. They are very highly influenced. It saddens me sometimes because I don't feel like there is enough hopefulness in the world because everything is materialistic and its image centered. How do you not see that that is not what is important? That is why I feel that it is important as an artist, if you have a message, you have to send it no matter what kind of art you do or who you are, you have to do it. We are in desperate need of some light in this world.
What do you value most?
I value the people around me and the experiences that I have had. My family is so important to me. Everybody that I have come across in my life I know is supposed to be there, like a puzzle piece. I value every past experience that I have ever had, both positive and negative, and I know that it is going to contribute to the future in some way. I am grateful for the people and the support I had growing up. Maybe if I didn't have that side job I had when I was 15, or the teacher that I had when I was 8, I wouldn't be where I am today.
What have you learned about life from the transformation that you have gone through over the years?
I learned that fear is the main thing that holds people back and that is what held me back for so long. When I dove head first into whatever it was – even being in a classroom or being on stage – I had to confront it and then I got over it. You realize that it is just a feeling; it's just an illusion. When you go for it anything is possible. It opens so many doors having a range of experiences. I went from thinking I can't even sing out of my bedroom to singing on the radio for 38 states and all these countries. There is nothing to be scared of. You are the only person who can hold you back.
Do you have any specific kind of advice that you can share?
I would say find the one thing that scares you the most and do that. I'm noticing that many people like to take the easy way out and they are never very satisfied. That is the reason I wanted to teach inner-city kids because I was petrified of it, but I knew that I had to do it. I kept asking myself, why am I scared, what am I scared of? If you don't know what you want to do, think about the one thing that you are hesitant about and figure out why. It must be something you really want to do and you're afraid to mess it up. I would say go for it.
What is the next part of this dream?
I want to keep on doing this. To me it's small steps. My biggest dream was to play guitar on stage, singing my own songs, which I have done. I'm finding out things I want to do. I didn't know that I was going to be featured in the Chicago Sun Times; I didn't expect it. I didn't expect to make an album. I would love for my songs to be heard by as many people as possible. People criticize radio and I do think it is a lost art form because everything is pumped into the radio; you can't even control what you listen to anymore. But I do think for what I'm trying to accomplish, which is to inspire others to live out their dreams, I would love for my songs to be on the radio. I also would love to tour, even if it is in my own car. I would love to drive around and play; I don't care if I have to play in coffee shops all around the country.
How were you able to bring your idea in life (that anything is possible) to the kids that you taught who came from a very different background than you?
My family was steady financially and I got to go on vacations and my life was full of love. The students considered me having to come down to their level. They kept asking me why I was teaching them. I made sure that they understood that we were exactly the same people, only our circumstances were different. It's so important to make that connection between worlds because we are all so separated. You live here; I live there. You have this much money; I have this much. You were born here and I was born there. There is no connectedness. This country is divided. Where are we going to connect one to another? If people took time to get to know each other, which I really wanted to do with my kids, you will find that people are the same. How can someone like me relate to an inner-city child whose brother got shot last week, who has no father and 30 people living in his 2 bedroom apartment? I will tell you why; we are the same, we all want something deep down and we all have the ability to go for it.
You were able to connect cultures and different types of people with the idea that we all dream about something. What kind of transformation did you see in the kids?
I saw amazing transformation. Kids that were very hardened and closed off, by the end of the year, wanted to be in your good graces because they knew you had something to offer them and they wanted a piece of that. They wanted the love that you were giving them. I had kids crying at the end of the year because they didn't want to leave. They want a reason not to listen to you because everyone in their life has given them a reason to push away and to run away. I made sure they had no reason for that.
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on October 5, 2010 at 4:45 pm | Reply Larry Gonzalez
Wow just read this and it seems like you and i have a lot of things in common. keep in touch, good luck with your tour!!!!!
on October 21, 2010 at 1:04 pm | Reply d
Three cheers for you Katie. Familiar story. I can relate as I too taught school. I loved teaching and the children were my world. They loved me too as I always promoted the same as you did, to believe in yourself. The principal you were speaking of has no class. She is the one who loses in the end. Sounds like she lost an asset when you left. Good Luck to you and your music.
I never heard of you until our news paper had a picture and announcement of you performing at a local school in my area cny. I hope to see you perform there. Have a great day.
on March 8, 2011 at 5:45 pm | Reply MHR Mr.Tim
Keep singing,your very good and its great that your from evergreen park plus a gradute from MOST HOLY REDEEMER ,looking forward to hearing you sing ,alot of succes people have grown up in Evergreen Park—your one of them along with MISS ILLINOIS -ERIN O'CONNOR–you come back and vist anytime
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See beauties of South Moravia like Villa Tugenhat, Veveri Castle or Brno ZOO. Rent houses and cottages with Interbohemia and discover Czech republic.
The guests can also make use of a little wine cellar.
In South Moravia, at the foot of the Pálava Hills and the famous mountain Děvín, on a hill on the outskirts of the village of Horní Věstonice, 7 km north of Mikulov and 10 km from the Austrian border.


11 Hot Spots to Celebrate National Margarita Day!
Every February 22nd, we come together to pay homage to one of the city's most popular cocktails. Created in 1938, the margarita celebrates it's 80th anniversary this year. Nothing beats tequila and lime, so this National Margarita Day, celebrate at one of these top bars.
Taco Dumbo at The Pennsy Food Hall has created a special cocktail in celebration of this very important holiday—a complimentary signature cold-pressed margarita, featuring premium tequila, a choice of fresh pressed juice and salted rim, served neat or on the rocks, with purchase (limit one per customer.) Must be 21 years or older to participate.
Wanna go big this year? Get ready for a platinum cocktail at Añejo Tribeca and enjoy a premium Clase Azul mezcal margarita created especially for National Margarita Day. Añejo is commemorating the occasion with a premium concoction from resident mescal sommelier, Amanda Swanson. Clase Azul Durango Mezcal, Grand Marnier 1880, Lime Juice and Agave come together at $55 per margarita.
NYC's Egg Shop is shaking, pouring and toasting to the timeless cocktail. The trendy restaurant devoted to serving eggs around the clock is offering their twist on the traditional drink that will have you counting down the days to Cinco de Mayo. Both the NOLiTa and Williamsburg locations are offering a discount on their Watermelon Margaritas with Espolon Blanco, Cointreau, Watermelon and Lime.
Enjoy 365-degree views of Manhattan while sipping on a margarita at The Attic Rooftop. They will serve up Mean Margaritas (infused with jalapeno) and Mellow Margaritas (Patron Roca, nutmeg syrup, cranberry juice, lime juice, agave) $8 a glass and $45 for a pitcher, and Classic Margaritas $5 a glass and $35 for a pitcher during happy hour until 8 pm.
Zeppelin Hall in Jersey City will host an endless happy hour with $3 margaritas to celebrate the occasion. You can also check out their latest food festival that kicks off that day, Whole Hog Barbecue Fest.
The Skylark, Set thirty stories up in the heart of Times Square south, The Skylark delivers a classically-styled cocktail lounge with expansive panoramic views of the Hudson River, Hudson Yards, Times Square, The Empire State Building, and the best of Midtown Manhattan.
At A.G. Kitchen where the best of American and Latin comfort foods unite, guests can truly "dive" into a whopping 21 ounce frozen mango jalapeno and guava margarita rimmed with turmeric chili, served with a skewer of roasted turmeric dusted pineapple ($14.50). While partaking in this massive celebratory cocktail with friends share the A.G. guacamole trio $19 (classic, pineapple and pomegranate, papaya and mint) or a plate of our creative tacos ($15-$17) ranging from slow-roasted pork to crispy snapper.
If you can't get on a flight to Mexico to celebrate you can have a flight at Zen Taco where guests are encouraged to get zen with their margarita trio. For $15, glasses of cucumber jalapeño, spiced mango, and lychee Margaritas, served on the rocks, sit side-by-side for one or more to enjoy. Of course, humans do not live by margarita alone so while there, be sure to partake in Zen Taco's unique menu offerings, where steamed buns replace tortillas, and one can blend Latin and Asian flavors in a bowl. This upbeat, interactive restaurant is a new addition to the upper west side dining scene.
Virgil's Real BBQ offers a selection of unique margaritas. Nobody can resist Virgil's Spicy Habanero ($11.50) made with habanero-infused Sauza tequila, ruby red grapefruit and lime. Cool down with the signature fresh watermelon margarita ($12.50) with muddled watermelon, lime and Espolon Silver and don't forget to try the High Roller ($17) served in a big mug with Espolon Blanco tequila, fresh lime juice and Grand Marnier.
Carmine's in the Upper West Side and Times Square is offering their "Fly Me to the Moon" margarita ($15) which combines Herradura Silver tequila, Limoncello, and Disaronno Amaretto. Surely Frank Sinatra would approve. Carmine's also offers a frozen blood orange margarita ($15) with a tangy and fruity punch from blood orange and fresh lime juice added to Blue Agave tequila.


Are you considering getting a security system that you can install yourself? If you are, then there are some important questions that you must ask yourself before getting any of the DIY home security systems. These questions and the answers to them will help you determine if this is the right type of system for you to get.
Here are the most important questions that you need to ask yourself before getting any of the security systems to install yourself at home.
1. Do you want a security system that offers the basic security for the house, or do you want something a bit more advanced? This is important to know because of the many different types of systems that are available these days. By deciding this, you will be able to save yourself a lot of wasted time searching for the right system.
2. Are security cameras going to be needed for your security? It is always a good idea to use security cameras to ensure the best security possible, but not everyone wants them. You need to decide if this is something that you do want or if it can be left off.
3. What is your budget for getting a security system? You have to know how much money there is to spend on a system. This will help you eliminate a lot of them from the start and make it so much easier to choose the right one for your needs and your budget.
4. Do you have the knowledge it takes to install a system on your own? If not, then are you willing to learn what is needed to be sure that it is done correctly the first time. This is very important to answer because if you are not willing to learn how to correctly install it, then there is a good chance it won't work effectively to protect your family.
5. Do you have the time needed to install this type of system? This type of system is not really hard to install, but it will take time, to be sure everything is done right.
These are the most important questions to ask yourself and to answer yourself before deciding whether or not DIY home security systems are your best option for home security. Don't choose any system, without first taking the time to answer all of the above questions or you could end up with the completely wrong type of security system.


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Die Grotta del Fico ist eine Tropfsteinhöhle am Golf von Orosei an der Ostküste Sardiniens.
Im Hinblick auf die Qualität, Quantität und Unterschiedlichkeit ihrer Kalk-Konkretionen
ist sie einzigartig unter den zahlreichen Höhlen auf Sardinien.

Geschichte
Die Grotta del Fico liegt am Fuß des Supramonte im Golfo di Orosei auf dem Gebiet der Kommune Baunei. Der Eingang liegt etwa 10 Meter über dem Meeresspiegel in der Felswand. Noch bei ihrer Ersterkundung 1957 durch die Speläologen-Gruppe Pio XI, Bologna, wuchs vor dem Eingang ein großer Feigenbaum, der der Grotte ihren Namen gab. Vor einigen Jahren entwurzelte ihn ein Bergsturz während eines schweren Wintersturms. Seine Wurzeln reichten jedoch bis ins Höhleninnere, wo noch Reste davon vorhanden sind.

Noch bis in die 1970er Jahre lebte in dieser Höhle die vom Aussterben bedrohte Mönchsrobbe (), denn die Höhle hat etwa sieben Meter unter dem Meeresspiegel eine Verbindung zur See.

Seit 2003 ist die Grotta del Fico eine Schauhöhle, ein etwa 445 m langer Abschnitt des Höhlensystems kann besichtigt werden. Dazu wurden Stege mit Edelstahlgeländer, Treppen und elektrische Beleuchtung eingerichtet. Zu sehen sind zahlreiche Stalaktite, Stalagmite, Stalagnate (Säulen), Orgeltürme und Sinterkaskaden. Audioguides in verschiedenen Sprachen erklären die Entstehung der Höhle und berichten über ihre Erforschung. Der größte Teil der Grotte, insbesondere die Excentriques, sind jedoch lediglich mit Kletterausrüstung im Rahmen einer Höhlenforschungsexkursion zu erforschen.

Anfahrt
Die Grotta del Fico ist nur vom Meer her per Boot erreichbar,
der Anlegesteg liegt zwischen den Stränden Cala Mariolu und Cala Biriola.
Die Höhle ist von Ostern bis Oktober geöffnet, sofern das Wetter das Anlanden zulässt.

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Geographie (Sardinien)
Grotta del Fico
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This podcast is an opportunity to hear about how businesses are actually built in Chicago. Not the huge mega businesses that have huge venture capital investment and make their owners billionaires overnight, but small businesses and medium sized businesses that make up the backbone of our economy. I love hearing the stories of how these businesses are built and operated, and each story is unique and has its own twist. Talking to the business owners is what makes my job exciting and fun, and I am trying to share that with a broader audience for both enjoyment of the listener, as well as a support to budding entrepreneurs.
In addition, we ask each leader why they have chosen to invest in sustainability within their organization. I feel that there is a qualitative story that can be found by weaving a thread behind each of these decisions. Reasons that small business owners decide to invest in energy efficiency range from the Return on Investment, environment mission, reducing maintenance, low cost for improvements due to utility rebates, to name just a few. I think that the more we can collectively understand what drives environmental action, the greater chance we can move the needle on action.
I think the most important thing I want listeners to take away is that running a small business or non-profit is hard - owners have limited time to make decisions. They often appear to focus their energy on the wrong activities - but the truth is that there are so many skills required of a business owner, that they can't be good at everything. They might be a natural at marketing, but lack in accounting and finance. They might be strong in operations, but weak in sales. Building a team is so important, and each person will choose to build a team in a different way. I think these stories can help us both respect and have empathy for local businesses, which can help our community be stronger.
Finally, in my own running of a small business - I rarely get to do what I want. I think there is a perspective that business owners play golf all day long, or vacation a ton and pay themselves a lot. In my experience of meeting and talking to thousands of business owners, that is rarely true. However, I love talking to these folks and decided that if I enjoy it, I will carve out an hour each week and make it happen for myself. Recording and sharing the podcast is an opportunity for me to do what I want to do, and gain a bit of control in my own day to day operations.
If you have a business story you'd love to share, please shoot us an email and we'll be in touch with you soon!


The Black Queens of Ghana has reiterated their intent to win the 11th TOTAL Women's Africa Cup of Nations tournament to be hosted in Ghana from November 17th to 1st December 2018.
The coveted trophy has eluded the Queens since the 1991 maiden edition, despite playing in the finals thrice and winning bronze medals on three occasions.
However, Black Queens Striker, Gifty Appiah believes the Queens are psyched up to end their 20-year trophy drought when the tournament gets underway.
Speaking after the unveiling of the tournament Mascot, Agorohemaa (Queen of Play), Gifty Appiah revealed that the team is working hard and taking on everything that their coaches are teaching them.
"what we require from Ghanaians is to continue to give us the necessary support to win and I can stand here today on behalf of the team and say that we are hosting and we will win".


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This section focuses on the role of parenting and is intended to help moms and dads become better parents. One of the themes in many of the articles that you'll find here is the need for parents to model the kind of behavior they want to see in their children.
One of the greatest needs in this country right now is for stronger and more effective parents. Many people have children, but fail to fully accept the responsibility for the type of person their children turn out to be. This is not an easy job, and it takes some tough choices to properly guide a child through the influences that are in the world today. Read the articles in this section to learn how you can become a better parent.
Have you carefully considered what you should be teaching to your children?
Many parents never stop and give careful thought to this question. They never make a real attempt to actually identify the qualities they should teach and develop within their offspring.
One of the blessings of being part of a family is to be able to share your life with others: your joys, your heartaches, your strengths, your weaknesses and even a few little secrets now and then.
The first step in teaching your children to how to set goals is to dream a little with them. To do so effectively, you have to be open to discussing all possibilities that they might want to entertain. "What do you want to be when you grow up?" is a question that you can ask at every age.
There are many reasons why couples consider adoption. The desire to raise children and the inability to conceive naturally are some of the basic reasons why couples make this decision. However, there are couples who decide to adopt children from troubled areas of the world or children who come from other ethnic groups to give them more opportunities in life. There are couples who can have children naturally, but still feel a strong urge to adopt an orphaned child as they realize that there are nearly 17 million orphaned children in the world. Every couple has its own set of reasons, dynamics, goals, and aspirations about raising children…all of which goes into the decision to adopt.


There is nothing more delicious and irresistible than a lovely pasta dish based on tomato sauce, especially if it is made as it should and in perfect Puglian style! This means homemade pasta, a tomato sauce made at home or if not organically produced, only Puglian cacioricotta cheese, and, if possible, some basil leaves from your own balcony!
Gently fry a little spring onion in a extra virgin olive oil in a pan, add the tomato passata, a little basil and salt, and then continue cooking everything together. Boil the pasta in salted water. Drain and then combine with the sauce in the frying pan. Finish with a good drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, fresh basil and a generous grating of cacioricotta cheese.
If you fancy making this dish a bit more substantial, add some meatballs!
Cacioricotta cheese is made with a technique halfway between that for normal cheese and that for ricotta!


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EEOC Wins $500,000 Jury Verdict Against Cigar City Motors for Sex Discrimination
Press Release 08-03-2021
Harley-Davidson Dealership Refused to Promote Female Because of Her Gender, Federal Agency Charged
TAMPA, Fla. – A federal jury has awarded $500,000 in punitive damages to Virginia Duncan, a female sales manager at a Harley-Davidson dealership, who was denied a promotion to a general manager position at its Tampa dealership on the basis of her sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.
The evidence at trial showed that management at Cigar City Motors — part of the Ferman Automotive Group, which had five Harley-Davidson dealerships in Florida — had never promoted a female employee to general manager prior to the EEOC's lawsuit. Several former Cigar City general managers testified on Duncan's behalf, and told the jury that Duncan was qualified for the general manager position, but that Cigar City thought she was too "motherly" for the job.
Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed its suit (Civil Action No 8:18-cv-02055-CPT) in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida after first attempt¬ing to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
The Tampa jury of eight returned a unanimous verdict finding that Cigar City was motivated by gender in denying Duncan the promotion and awarded punitive damages in the amount of $500,000.
"Today the jury vindicated Virginia Duncan, who has long battled stereotypes held by Cigar City that women could not be leaders," said Beatriz Andre, supervisory trial attorney in the EEOC's Miami District Office.
EEOC Trial Attorney Brandi Meredith added, "This is a victory for women who work to prove themselves and break glass ceilings in male-dominated industries."
Robert E. Weisberg, regional attorney of the EEOC's Miami District Office, added, "The jury's verdict should serve as a wake-up call to the automotive industry, including Harley-Davison dealerships, that they are not exempt from federal laws which make workplace sex discrimination unlawful. It's time for the 'good old boy' method of selecting general managers for their dealerships to be retired."
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\section{Introduction}

The notion of an open quantum system originates from the embedding of a system of interest into a larger environment, where system and environment together are governed by ordinary unitary quantum evolution. Different abstractions and techniques, both formal and computational have been put forward to formulate a reduced dynamics of the system of interest without explicit reference to the environment beyond its initial preparation.

Completely positive trace-preserving channels provide a very broadly applicable formal description of the time evolution of open quantum systems~\cite{alick87}. The proof of their existence is constructive; it does not, however, in itself provide a dynamical law governing the reduced description. For a quantum system with discrete energy spectrum, the respective quantum master equation can be derived within the constraints of a combined Born-Markov-secular approximation~\cite{davie74,breue02}.

The dissipator resulting from this depends not only on reservoir and coupling properties, but also on the energy spectrum and the eigenstates of the system. For complicated spectra, its determination can be cumbersome. The simpler alternative of adapting separate dissipators to individual parts of a system (``local'' Lindblad operators) may result in dynamics which contradicts elementary properties of thermal environments~\cite{levy14,stock17}, e.g., unphysical heat flow against a thermal gradient.
Similar problems arise in the context of driven quantum systems~\cite{alick06,schmi11}.

The formal description of environmental effect through influence functionals~\cite{feynm63,weiss08b} has the attractive feature of describing a dissipation mechanism  without direct reference to any system properties beyond specifying the coupling Hamiltonian. It is fully applicable in the context of any driving. In fact, it is completely ``agnostic'' to the nature of the free system dynamics, since it keeps the given separable structure of the interaction Lagrangian. Direct Monte Carlo evaluation of real-time path integrals is feasible~\cite{egger00,muhlb04} but numerically expensive in regimes without rapid dephasing by the environment (dynamical sign problem).  Equations of motion equivalent to the influence functional approach can be found only at the price of introducing a large hierarchy of auxiliary states~\cite{tanim91,tanim14}, since the weights assigned to paths by influence functionals are non-local in time.

On the other hand, the stochastic unraveling of the influence functional can restore this locality, at least on the level of individual realizations of auxiliary trajectories (which can be interpreted as Gaussian colored noise):
The Feynman-Vernon influence functional~\cite{feynm63} has essentially the same formal structure as the generating functional of Gaussian noise, hence it can be viewed as the noise average over exponentials of a time-local action functional~\cite{stock02}. This idea has led to a variety of stochastic propagation schemes~\cite{cao96,strun96,stock02,shao04,tanim06}. The corresponding numerical methods use independently drawn samples of the auxiliary Gaussian noise trajectories. For each noise sample, the time evolution of the reduced density matrix is obtained by integration of a Liouville equation with random terms, in a similar manner as a direct simulation of a generalized Langevin equation. The physical density matrix of the system is recovered by taking the average of these \emph{sample density matrices} in the limit of a large number of samples. It is to be noted that the sample density matrices are not physical quantum states; only their expectation value with respect to the probability measure of the Gaussian noise is to be identified with the reduced density matrix of the system.

The complete unraveling of Gaussian influence functionals introduced by Stockburger and Grabert~\cite{stock02} is valid for arbitrary spectral properties and temperatures of the reservoir. Its direct practical
application is sometimes hampered by rapid growth of the sample variance when long propagation intervals are covered. This problem has recently been solved for the near-universal case of a finite (not necessarily small) correlation time of the free reservoir fluctuations~\cite{stock16a}. The required number of samples has thus been reduced -- by orders of magnitude in some parameter regimes. For combinations of moderate to strong coupling and long reservoir memory times, the number of samples may be sufficiently high to require the use of parallel computational resources.

The present paper addresses this remaining problem by optimization of the noise correlation functions, which are not entirely determined by the unraveling procedure. Section \ref{sec:unrav} gives a brief overview of the unraveling of propagating functions based on influence functionals and their transformation into a stochastic Liouville-von Neumann (SLN) equation, including a discussion of issues related to sampling statistics. In section \ref{sec:opt} a strategy is developed which improves sampling statistics through minimizing the power of problematic noise components, and numerical examples are provided. Section \ref{sec:conc} comprises conclusions and an outlook.

\section{Stochastic unraveling and SLN equation}\label{sec:unrav}

The interacting dynamics of a system S coupled to an environment (reservoir) R is governed by a Hamiltonian which can be partitioned as $H = H_S + H_R + H_I$, where the indices S and R stand for terms which act exclusively on system and reservoir degrees of freedom. For the interaction we assume separability, $H_I = - A\otimes B$, where $A$ and $B$ act on system and reservoir.

We choose an initially thermal state of the environment (uncorrelated with the system) with the intent of tracing out the reservoir degrees of freedom from the correlated state arising from the dynamics. The unitary propagation of the global system-plus-reservoir density matrix is the appropriate conceptual starting point for this approach. Instead of using path integrals for this purpose~\cite{stock02}, equivalent time-ordered exponentials will be considered here. These can be considered generating functionals of non-commuting random variables, and they simplify to Gaussian expressions in exactly the same cases for which one obtains Gaussian influence functionals~\cite{kubo62}.

A most compact form of the dynamics \cite{hbarone} is obtained in the interaction representation of the Liouville dynamics,
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:dotrhoint}
\dot{\rho}(t) = i {A_+(t) B_-(t)} \rho(t) +i {A_-(t) B_+(t)} \rho(t) .
\end{equation}
For reasons which will become clear later, a choice was made to
decompose the interaction Liouvillian into superoperators for
reservoir $B_{\pm}$, and system $A_{\pm}$ defined through
(anti-)commutators, $B_- = [B,\cdot]$ and $B_+ = \frac{1}{2}
\{B,\cdot\}$ etc.

The formal solution of this dynamics is the time-ordered exponential
\begin{equation}
  \rho(t) =
  \exp_> \left(i \int_0^t ds
  ({A_+(s)\otimes B_-(s)} + {A_-(s)\otimes B_+(s)})
  \right)
  \rho(0).
\end{equation}

We now consider the case of Gaussian statistics of $B$ and an initially factorizing state, $\rho_S(0)\otimes \rho_R(0)$. Using the notation $\langle\cdot\rangle = \mathop{\mathrm{tr}_{\mathrm{R}}} \left\{\cdot \rho_R(0)\right\}$ for the partial-trace averaging procedure, the \emph{reduced} density matrix is now formally given by
\begin{align}
  \rho_S(t) &=
  \left\langle\exp_> \left(i \int_0^t ds
  (A_+(s) B_-(s) \rho(s) + A_-(s) B_+(s))
  \right)\right\rangle
  \rho_S(0) \nonumber\\
  &=
  \exp_> \bigg(i \int_0^t ds \int_0^s ds'
  (A_-(s)A_-(s')\big\langle B_+(s)B_+(s')\big\rangle\nonumber\\
  &\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad+
  A_-(s)A_+(s')\big\langle B_+(s)B_-(s')\big\rangle )
  \bigg)\rho_S(0). \label{eq:gaussformal}
\end{align}
Of the four terms formally arising in a bivariate Gaussian characteristic function, two are identically zero here because they are traces over a commutator. A key observation at this point is the following: Had we started with a different averaging procedure -- replacing $B_+$ and $B_-$ by $c$-number Gaussian noise -- we would have arrived at a similar expression.

\begin{table}
\begin{tabbing}
state before reductionX \= $\rho$ in global Liouville spaceX
 \= \emph{random} $\rho$ in system space\kill\\
\> \underline{trace reduction}\> \underline{stochastic reduction}\\[1.05\baselineskip]
state before reduction:
 \> $\rho$ in global Liouville space \> \emph{random} $\rho$ in system space\\[0.8\baselineskip]
reservoir ``forces'': \> $B_+$, $B_-$ superoperators  \> $\xi(t)$, $\nu(t)$ random $\in \mathbbm{C}$\\[0.8\baselineskip]
reduction operation: \> partial trace $\mathrm{tr}_R$ \> expectation value\\
\> with weight $\rho_R$\> w.r.t. noise probability density\\[0.8\baselineskip]
\> $\langle B_+(t)B_+(t')\rangle$ \> $\langle \xi(t)\xi(t')\rangle$\\
\> $\langle B_+(t)B_-(t')\rangle$ \> $\langle \xi(t)\nu(t')\rangle$\\
\> $\langle B_-(t)B_+(t')\rangle=0$ \> $\langle \nu(t)\xi(t')\rangle=0$\\
\> $\langle B_-(t)B_-(t')\rangle=0$ \> $\langle\nu(t)\nu(t')\rangle=0$\\[0.5\baselineskip]
\> time ordering $t>t'$ \> time ordering ``by hand''
\end{tabbing}
\caption{Overview of the correspondence between Gaussian quantum fluctuations of an environment and stochastic processes with matched statistics.}
\label{tab:correspondence}
\end{table}

The conditions
\begin{align}
  \langle\xi(t)\xi(t')\rangle &= \langle B_+(t)B_+(t')\rangle
  = \Re \langle B(t)B(t')\rangle\label{eq:corrxixi}\\
  \langle\xi(t)\nu(t')\rangle &= \langle B_+(t)B_-(t')\rangle
  = {2i}\Theta(t-t') \Im\langle
B(t)B(t')\rangle \label{eq:corrxinu}\\
\langle\nu(t)\nu(t')\rangle &= 0, \label{eq:corrnunu}
\end{align}
are necessary and sufficient for the exact identification of the open-system dynamics (\ref{eq:gaussformal}) and stochastic propagation with the substitutions $B_+\to\xi$ and $B_-\to\nu$. On the left hand side, the angle brackets stand for expectation values with respect to the noise statistics. In practice, the stochastic equivalent of eq. (\ref{eq:gaussformal}) is evaluated by returning to the Schrödinger picture and averaging solutions of the SLN equation
\begin{equation}
  \dot{\tilde\rho} = \mathcal{L}_S \tilde\rho + i \xi(t) A_-\tilde\rho + i \nu(t) A_+\tilde\rho,
  \label{eq:SLN}
\end{equation}
where $\tilde\rho$ is the sample density matrix associated with any particular realization of $\xi(t)$ and $\nu(t)$.

Averaging $\tilde\rho$ over samples provides an estimate of the physical density matrix $\rho_S$. Since noise samples are generated independently, an accurate estimate of the statistical error of this approach can be determined. In this context, we also note that parallelization of the simulation method is trivial. An overview of the quantum-stochastic correspondence is given in Table 1.

It is now crucial to observe that
eqs. (\ref{eq:corrxixi}--\ref{eq:corrnunu}) cannot be obeyed by real-valued noise. Only when extending at least $\nu$ to values in the
complex plane can these equations hold: $\xi$ and $\nu$ are random
variables in the sense of ordinary Kolmogorov probability. When
extending both $\xi=\xi'+i\xi''$ and $\nu=\nu'+i\nu''$ to complex
values, the correlations of their four real components are not
completely determined by
eqs. (\ref{eq:corrxixi}--\ref{eq:corrnunu}). Additional non-physical
correlation functions, in complex notation,
$\langle\xi^*(t)\xi(t')\rangle$, $\langle\xi^*(t)\nu(t')\rangle$, and
$\langle\nu^*(t)\nu(t')\rangle$ may be modified without altering the
expectation value of samples propagated by
eq. (\ref{eq:SLN}). However, the generic constraint of non-negative
probability does apply and sets limits to the range of choices. Consequently, the solutions of eq. (\ref{eq:SLN}) are of the form $\tilde\rho(t) = R_L(t) \rho_S(0) R^\dagger_R(t)$, where $R_{L/R}(t)$ is almost surely non-unitary.

As a consequence of non-unitarity, the variance of samples, expressed by observables (or a suitable metric applied to $\tilde\rho$), tends to increase with the length of the propagation time interval. The typical asymptotic behavior, shared with many processes involving multiplicative noise~\cite{gardi09}, is exponential growth as a function of the interval length. Key quantities in this context are the noise spectra of $\nu''$ and $\xi''$, which drive both the sample trace and the Frobenius norm of $\tilde\rho$ towards a log-normal distribution. In some parameter regimes, this is harmless, in others, a finite-memory approach can halt this variance growth at a finite time~\cite{stock16a}. However, there is a problem in the strong-coupling limit, where the asymptotic dependence of sample variance on the coupling constant is exponential.

\section{Optimization of stochastic driving}\label{sec:opt}

Varying the non-physical correlations with the aim of minimizing $\nu''$ and $\xi''$ seems a natural desideratum. Formally, this is an optimization problem in a function space with explicit equality constraints and inequality constraints implied by the non-negativity of probability measures.

With the notable exception of Ref.~\cite{imai15}, this optimization was not attempted in previous work, and the non-physical correlations were chosen with an eye to easy numerical noise generation \cite{stock02,stock04,koch08}. $\xi$ was decomposed into a sum of independent terms $\xi^{l} \in \mathbbm{R}$ and $\xi^{s} \in \mathbbm{C}$ with
\begin{eqnarray}
  \label{eq:corrxilxil}
  \langle\xi^{(l)}(t)\xi^{(l)}(t')\rangle &=& \Re \langle B(t)B(t')\rangle \\
  \langle\xi^{(s)}(t)\nu(t')\rangle &=& {2i}\Theta(t-t') \Im\langle
B(t)B(t')\rangle + i\mu\delta(t-t'), \label{eq:crosscorrold}
\end{eqnarray}
where the prefactor $\mu$ of the Dirac delta function is chosen such that the time integral over (\ref{eq:crosscorrold}) vanishes~\cite{counterterm}. All other correlations are zero, except $\langle\nu^*(t)\nu(t')\rangle$ and $\langle(\xi^{(s)})^*(t)\xi^{(s)}(t')\rangle$, which are fixed by setting them equal to each other and assigning them the minimal autocorrelation noise power allowed by eq. (\ref{eq:crosscorrold}).

When minimizing the spectral noise power of $\nu''$ and $\xi''$, one needs to consider the full matrix of correlation functions after a Fourier transform,

\begin{equation}
  \mathsf{\Sigma}(\omega) = F\left[\left(\begin{array}{cccc}
      \nc{\xi'}{\xi'} & \nc{\xi'}{\xi''} & \nc{\xi'}{\nu'} & \nc{\xi'}{\nu''}\\
      \nc{\xi''}{\xi'} & \nc{\xi''}{\xi''} & \nc{\xi''}{\nu'} & \nc{\xi''}{\nu''}\\
      \nc{\nu'}{\xi'} & \nc{\nu'}{\xi''} & \nc{\nu'}{\nu'} & \nc{\nu'}{\nu''}\\
      \nc{\nu''}{\xi'} & \nc{\nu''}{\xi''} & \nc{\nu''}{\nu'} & \nc{\nu''}{\nu''}
    \end{array}\right)\right]
\end{equation}
The rows and columns of $\mathsf{\Sigma}$ will be naturally labeled by indices $\xi'$, $\xi''$, $\nu'$ and $\nu''$. With the notations $S(\omega) = F[\langle\xi(t)\xi(t')]$ and $D(\omega) = -i F[\langle\xi(t)\nu(t')]$, the operator-noise identifications (\ref{eq:corrxixi})--(\ref{eq:corrnunu}) now read
\begin{align}
  \S_{\xi'\xi'} + i \S_{\xi'\xi''} + i \S_{\xi''\xi'} - \S_{\xi''\xi''} &= S \label{eq:constraintxixi}\\
  \S_{\xi'\nu''} + \S_{\xi''\nu'} &= D\label{eq:constraintD}\\
  \S_{\xi'\nu'} + \S_{\xi''\nu''} &= 0\label{eq:constraintD0}\\
  \S_{\nu'\nu'} + i \S_{\nu'\nu''} + i \S_{\nu''\nu'} - \S_{\nu''\nu''} &= 0
  \label{eq:constraintnunu}
\end{align}
Because the spectra of real-valued correlation functions are considered at this point, pairs $(-\omega,\omega)$ must be considered in the optimization. As a consequence, condition (\ref{eq:corrxinu}) leads to two separate equations
(\ref{eq:constraintD}) and (\ref{eq:constraintD0}).

The condition of $\mathsf{\Sigma}$ being positive semidefinite cannot easily be stated in the form of a simple algebraic expression. However, optimization problems involving semidefinite Hermitian matrices and linear constraints are special cases of convex optimization. These can be solved efficiently and reliably with modern numerical methods, implemented in packages such as CVX~\cite{grant14,grant08}, which we used to minimize $\S_{\xi''\xi''} + \S_{\nu''\nu''}$, subject to all of the constraints mentioned above.

The numerical solutions invariably show specific features which guide us towards an analytic solution:
\begin{enumerate}
\item $\mathsf{\Sigma}$ is block diagonal; the pairs $(\xi',\nu'')$ and $(\xi'',\nu')$ are independent.
\item Each block is a rank 1 matrix.
\end{enumerate}
With these provisos, the solution of the optimization problem can be written in closed form,
\begin{align} \label{eq:optcorr}
  \left(\begin{array}{ll}
    \S_{\xi'\xi'} & \S_{\xi'\nu''}\\ \S_{\nu''\xi'} & \S_{\nu''\nu''}
  \end{array}\right)
  &=
  \left(\begin{array}{ll}
    A+S & D-C \\ D^*-C^* & B
  \end{array}\right)
  &,
  \left(\begin{array}{ll}
    \S_{\xi''\xi''} & \S_{\xi''\nu'}\\ \S_{\nu'\xi''} & \S_{\nu'\nu'}
  \end{array}\right)
  &=
  \left(\begin{array}{ll}
    A & C \\ C^* & B
  \end{array}\right)
\end{align}
with
\begin{align*}
A &= \frac{R^2}{1-2R} S
&
B &= (1-2R) |D|^2/S\\
C &= R D
&
R &= \frac{1}{2}\left(
1 - \frac{1}{\sqrt{4 |D|^2/S^2 + 1}}
\right).
\end{align*}
\begin{figure}
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=0.95\textwidth]{optresult}
  \end{center}
  \caption{Comparison of simulation data for the spin-boson system. Smoother lines (black) are with 5000 optimized noise samples; jagged lines (gray) with 5000 conventional samples. Parameters (with unit $\Delta=1$) are $\beta=5$, $\omega_c=10$ and dissipation constant $K=0.05$.}
  \label{fig:optresult}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{VarVsTime}
  \end{center}
  \caption{(color online) Exponential increase of sample variance of the observable $\sigma_x$ with time. An excessively long propagation interval has been chosen to demonstrate exponential growth; the vertical line indicates $\Delta t=40$, a time at which all examples have come close to equilibrium. The uppermost curve is from the conventional simulation shown in Fig. \ref{fig:optresult} while the other four curves are from optimized simulations. Parameters are (unit $\Delta=1$) $\beta \in \{5,2,1,1/2\}$ (blue, light blue, green, yellow, red, top/left to bottom/right), $\omega_c=10$ and $K=0.05$.}
  \label{fig:vartime}
\end{figure}

For an Ohmic reservoir, the resulting noise powers $\S_{\xi''\xi''}$ and $\S_{\nu''\nu''}$ are always smaller than in the previously used construction using (\ref{eq:corrxilxil}) and (\ref{eq:crosscorrold}) by at least 30\%. The most significant advantage occurs in the case $|D|< S$, where the optimized values are $\S_{\nu''\nu''} \approx |D|^2/S$ and $\S_{\xi''\xi''} \approx |D|^4/S^3$, while the old approach had $\S_{\xi''\xi''} \approx \S_{\nu''\nu''} \approx |D|/2$. In the limit $|D|/S \to 0$, the optimal result coincides with the ansatz $\S_{\xi''\xi''}= 0$ made by Imai et al. for certain frequency ranges~\cite{imai15}.

In the context of Ohmic dissipation at finite temperature, the low-frequency behavior is quite relevant: It is a most important parameter determining the growth of the sampling variance discussed above. At frequencies below the thermal energy, the noise powers of $\xi''$ and $\nu''$ are now smaller by a factor of $\beta\omega$, i.e., the noise powers $\S_{\xi''\xi''}$ and $\S_{\nu''\nu''}$ now vanish quadratically in the infrared (instead of linearly). The comparison shown in Figures \ref{fig:optresult} and \ref{fig:vartime} demonstrates the extremely beneficial effect of this on the convergence of simulation data, using the spin-boson system~\cite{legge87} as an example. The symmetric spin-boson system is defined through $H_S = -\frac{\Delta}{2} \sigma_x$ and $A = \sigma_z$, using Pauli spin matrices. The reservoir is characterized by an Ohmic spectral density parameterized by UV cutoff frequency $\omega_c$ and a dimensionless dissipation constant $K$~\cite{weiss08b,stock04}. Figure \ref{fig:optresult} shows simulation results with identical parameters, including number of samples using the optimimzed noise statistics, eq. (\ref{eq:optcorr}), represented by smoother lines and the conventional statistics (\ref{eq:corrxilxil})--(\ref{eq:crosscorrold}), represented by lines indentifyable by visible growth of their noise amplitude.

Fig. \ref{fig:vartime} and table \ref{tab:growth} compare the performance characteristics of the old and new methods in further detail. Depending on temperature, the new approach reduces the growth rate of the sample variance significantly. The resulting savings factor in the required number of samples is therefore also an exponential function of simulation time. Savings factors of up to three orders of magnitude allow simulations extending up to approximate equilibration, using optimized samples. The savings factor is largest for high temperature and strong coupling. However, the asymptotic numerical cost still grows exponentially in the limit of very strong coupling.

\begin{table}[b]
  \begin{center}
  \newcommand\T{\rule{0pt}{2.6ex}}
  \begin{tabular}{|l||c||c|c|c|c|} \hline
    \T & $\beta\Delta=5$ & $\beta\Delta=5$ & $\beta\Delta=2$ & $\beta\Delta=1$ & $\beta\Delta=0.5$ \\ \hline
    variance growth rate ($\Delta$) \T
    & $0.20$ & $0.10$
    & $8.6\cdot 10^{-2}$  & $5.5\cdot 10^{-2}$ & $2.5\cdot 10^{-2}$ \\ \hline
    variance at $\Delta t=40$ \T
    & $3\cdot 10^3$ & $5.2\cdot 10^2$
    & $1.8\cdot 10^1$ & $ 5.5 \cdot 10^0$ & $1.7\cdot 10^0$ \\ \hline
    extrapolated number  & & & & & \\
    of samples at $\Delta t=40$ &$3\cdot 10^7$ & $5.2\cdot 10^6$
    & $1.8\cdot 10^5$ & $5.5\cdot 10^4$ & $1.7\cdot 10^4$\\
    \hline
  \end{tabular}
  \end{center}
  \caption{Performance characteristics without (left of double line) and with noise optimization. The number of samples~\cite{nsampnote} results from demanding an absolute error of $0.01$ for the simulation result $\langle\sigma_x\rangle$. All data are for a symmetric spin-boson system with $K=0.05$.}
  \label{tab:growth}
\end{table}

\section{Conclusions}\label{sec:conc}
The noise samples used in an SLN-based propagation of open quantum systems can be optimized towards small imaginary parts. The resulting reduction in the number of required samples can be several orders of magnitude. No additional numerical costs arise from the optimization since it has an analytic solution. The range of applications for SLN simulations thus widens in virtually all parameter regimes, moderate or high temperature being the regime with the greatest benefit. With increasing availability of parallel computing resources, SLN-based methods are becoming an attractive, versatile tool for the dynamics of open quantum systems.\\[2\parskip]

\noindent The authors would like to thank two anonymous referees for valuable suggestions. K.S. showed that standard methods of semidefinite programming apply to the noise optimization and obtained the numerical optimization results; J.T.S. derived the analytic result (\ref{eq:optcorr}). Both authors contributed equally to the rest of the material.

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