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PSL-UCL workshop on sensory systems in complex environments
London, 25-26 June 2015
Organized by Maria Chait, Peter Neri, Pascal Mamassian, Daniel Pressnitzer, Alain de Cheveigné
Lecture theatre, UCL Ear Institute, 332 Gray's Inn Road, WC1X 8EE, London, close to St Pancras International Station (Eurostar), Map .
This workshop brings together researchers and students from UCL and PSL. It is loosely focused on sensory systems, both audition and vision, both biological and artificial, and also open to a wider scope of scientific and technological themes. The aim is to foster future exchanges and collaboration between UCL and PSL research teams.
Provisional list of participants:
Joerg Albert, Ear Institute (UCL) Karim Benchenane, ESPCI (PSL), Fred Dick, Birkbeck-UCL Centre for Neuroimaging (UCL), Alan Johnston, Department of Experimental Psychology (UCL), Christian Lorenzi, ENS (PSL), Pascal Mamassian, ENS (PSL), Pascal Martin, Institut Curie (PSL), Daniel Pressnitzer, ENS (PSL), Stuart Rosen, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences (UCL), Maneesh Sahani, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit (UCL), Aman Saleem, Institute of Ophthalmology (UCL), German Sumbre, IBENS, ENS (PSL), Mickael Tanter, ESPCI (PSL).
Daniel Bendor, Department of Experimental Psychology (UCL), Jennifer Bizley, Ear Institute (UCL), Yves Boubenec, ENS (PSL), Matteo Carandini, Institute of Opthalmology (UCL), Maria Chait, Ear Institute (UCL), Alain de Cheveigné, ENS (PSL), Vincent de Gardelle, (CNRS), John Greenwood, Experimental Psychology (UCL), Ken Harris, Institute of Neurology (UCL), Nicolas Lesica, Ear Institute (UCL), Jennifer Linden, Ear Institute (UCL), Isabelle Mareschal, Biological and Chemical Sciences (Queen Mary), David McAlpine, Ear Institute (UCL), Peter Neri, ENS (PSL), D Sam Schwarzkopf, Department of Experimental Psychology (UCL), Marty Sereno, (UCL), Sam Solomon, Department of Experimental Psychology (UCL), Francois Vialatte, ESPCI (PSL), Biao Yang, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (UCL).
Vincent Adam, Gatsby Institute (UCL), Thomas Andrillon, ENS (PSL), Dorothée Arzounian, ENS (PSL), Huriye Atilgan, Ear Institute (UCL), Nicolas Barascud, Ear Institute (UCL), Leonardo Barbosa, ENS (PSL), Jonathan Batten (Birkbeck University), Anissa Bellahcen ENS (PSL), Charlie Déméné, ESPCI (PSL), Gioia De Franceschi, Experimental Psychology (UCL), Mario Dipoppa, Institute of Neurology (UCL), Antoine Gaume, ESPCI (PSL), Nikos Gekas, ENS (PSL), Hadrien Jean, ENS (PSL), Hi-Jee Kang, ENS (PSL), Julie Lefort, ESPCI (PSL), Francesca Mastrogiuseppe, ENS (PSL), Jane Mattley, Ear Institute (UCL), Nihaad Paraouty, ENS (PSL), Theo Petsas, Ear Institute (UCL), Emmanuel Ponsot (IRCAM), Sylvia Schröder, Institute of Opthalmology (UCL), Camille Tardieu, Ear Institute (UCL), Mélanie Tobin, Institut Curie (PSL). Stephen Town, Ear Institute (UCL), Eszter Vertes, Gatsby Institute (UCL), Sijia Zhao, Ear Institute (UCL).
8:30 COFFEE & croissants
9:10 (40') Joerg Albert
9:50 (40') Pascal Martin
10:30 (30') COFFEE
11:00 (40') Aman Saleem
11:40 (40') Karim Benchenane
12:20 (80') LUNCH
13:40 (40') Fred Dick
14:20 (40') Mickael Tanter
15:00 (30') COFFEE
15:30 (40') Christian Lorenzi
16:10 (40') Stuart Rosen
16:50 (70') STUDENT SESSION
9:00 COFFEE & croissants
9:30 (40') Alan Johnston
10:10 (40') Pascal Mamassian
10:50 (30') COFFEE
11:20 (40') German Sumbre
12:00 (40') Daniel Pressnitzer
12:40 (70') LUNCH
13:50 (40') Maneesh Sahani
14:30 (60') THE FUTURE
16:15 Ken Harris talk at FIL
Each 40' slot comprises a 20-30' minute talk and a 20-10' discussion.
Talkers, titles and abstracts:
The Drosophila Antennal Ears as Universal Tools for the Study of Sensory Biology
The antennal ears of Drosophila are a powerful model system for the molecular dissection of mechanosensation, and specifically of mechanotransduction. Some of the key principles of vertebrate ears, such as e.g. nonlinear compression and amplification, have been demonstrated for fly hearing and numerous genes have been identified that play specific roles within the auditory system. The ears of different Drosophila species differ in their spectral tuning to match differences in the spectral composition of the conspecific courtship songs. The presentation will recapitulate previous findings and highlight ongoing riddles and controversies. Particular effort will be spent on making suggestions as to how the study of the fly's ear can contribute to our general understanding of sensory organ operation, homeostasis and maintenance.
The hair-cell bundle as a mechanical antenna and amplifier for hearing.
I will review micromechanical experiments at the level of the cellular microphone of the inner ear - the hair cell - whose function is to transduce sound-evoked vibrations into electrical nervous signals. I will discuss the origin of stiffness and drag of the hair bundle, a tuft of cylindrical protrusions that protrudes from the apical surface of each hair cell, and show how these physical parameters can influence the cell's characteristic frequency of mechanosensitivity. A dynamical interplay between mechanosensitive ion channels, molecular motors, and calcium feedback results in spontaneous oscillations of the hair-cell bundle. Oscillations allow the hair cell to actively resonate with its mechanical input at the expense of nonlinear distortions with properties that are characteristic of auditory perception. Our results promote a general principle of sound detection that is based on nonlinear amplification by self-sustained "critical" oscillators in the inner ear, i.e. active dynamical systems that operate on the brink of an oscillatory instability called a Hopf bifurcation.
Explicit memory creation during sleep: a causal role of place cells in navigation
Hippocampal place cells assemblies are believed to support the cognitive map, and their reactivations during sleep are thought to be involved in spatial memory consolidation. By triggering intracranial rewarding stimulations by place cell spikes during sleep, we induced an explicit memory trace, leading to a goal-directed behavior toward the place field. This demonstrates that place cells' activity during sleep still conveys relevant spatial information and that this activity is functionally significant for navigation.
Hippocampal representation of spatial decisions in uncertain environments
I will present recent results regarding the activity of place cells when sensory uncertainty is varied. I recorded extracellular CA1 activity while animals performed a navigation task in a virtual environment, and controlled the sensory uncertainty by varying the visual contrast at which the virtual environment was presented. We find that increasing uncertainty does not change the average firing rate or population spread of activity. However, the population of neurons make more errors at representing the environment with growing uncertainty. Further, the behavioural errors made by the animals are directly correlated with errors in the hippocampal representation.
A neuronal correlate of visual motion perception in the zebrafish optic tectum
Following coherently moving visual stimuli (conditioning stimulus, CS), many organisms perceive, in the absence of physical stimuli, illusory motion in the opposite direction, an phenomenon known as the motion aftereffect (MAE). Here we use MAE as a tool to study the neuronal mechanisms underlying visual motion perception in zebrafish. Taking advantage of the zebrafish optokinetic response as an indicator of visual motion perception, we showed that zebrafish larva perceives MAE. Optogenetic blockage of eye movements during CS did not prevent the emergence of MAE. Using two-photon calcium imaging of behaving GCaMP3 larvae we found sustained rhythmic activities among direction-selective (DS) tectal neurons that were associated with the perception of MAE. Additionally, CS induced habituation of DS neurons in the CS direction in the tectum but not in the retina. Finally, an empirical mathematical model reproduced the MAE phenomenon suggesting a functional neuronal circuit capable of generating perception of visual motion.
fUltrasound: a new neuro-imaging modality
Auditory processing of temporal information: Effects of age and cochlear damage
Over the last decades, a wealth of studies have demonstrated that temporal envelope and temporal fine structure play an important role in speech and music perception. We will review recent behavioral work conducted by our team, aiming to clarify the effects of cochlear damage and ageing on the auditory processing of temporal envelope and temporal fine structure cues, respectively. The results should be help designing better screening tools for ENT clinicians and audiologists, and help improving signal processing for digital hearing aids.
Developmental aspects of perceiving speech in 'noise'
We rarely hear speech in quiet, yet much remains to be learned about how the ability to understand speech in the presence of other sounds develops through childhood. I will review a number of studies comparing children in primary school to young adults in their abilities to understand simple sentences in the presence of various kinds of maskers, mostly consisting of other speech. Perhaps the most striking result is that younger children appear to be much more affected by the presence of background speech than adults are, and this ability is not yet fully developed at the end of primary school (age 11).
Fred Dick TBA
Daniel Pressnitzer TBA
Computing global motion from local signals
The aperture problem limits the information that can be extracted from a local analysis of image motion. This means information needs to be integrated across space to compute the global motion of objects. We can study this process using Gabor arrays. We show that motion induced position shifts and motion drag is computed after global motion computation and consider a new way to combine the local velocities - the harmonic vector average. Finally I will introduce a new stimulus that shows the visual system considers more complex motion patterns than global translation before it comes to a final resolution of the aperture problem.
The psychophysics of visual confidence
Probabilistic inference in complex environments
Opportunities for UCL - PSL collaboration
This slot is to discuss opportunities for collaboration between UCL and PSL labs, and for the exchange of scientists and students across the Channel. Funding for bilateral collaboration, european projects, etc. Joint studentships and training programmes (masters, PhD, etc.). Bench fees, scholarships, travel grants. What are the converging and complementary scientific interests? And so on...
This workshop is funded by University College London and PSL Research University, ANR-11-0001-02 PSL* and ANR-10-LABX-0087.

domain: biology


We at Blue Sky Analytics are building several large environmental raster datasets. By large, we mean really really large ~ 50TB. We began by hosting these raster files on an S3, from where they were clipped and coloured on the frontend. This gave us more control on the ability to stylize raster tiles the way we wanted them. But this client side rendering meant sluggish user experience on the browser and no one likes waiting for things to load, right?
We thought why not stylize and colour the rasters on the backend itself? This would help speed up the loading times of the rasters on the UI - no more heavy lifting for your device. The only challenge with this was that it was not possible to iterate with various colour schemes like it was possible to do on the frontend. We had to take a dummy raster into QGIS, stylize it using a colour palette and then see how the render looks like. And if you did not like what you saw, you had to repeat the process till you found something you did. This process of testing on QGIS also slowed down deployment of the rasters. We wanted the ability to test out colour palettes quickly.
Meet Raster Playground - an open source tool we at BSA have developed that lets you input a set of raster tiles, shapefiles (optional) and a color palette to visualize how a colourized raster looks like. This is our second open source tool after the AQ Calculator. We hope to build more useful and potent tools for the mapping and climate communities.
Raster Playground uses OpenLayers (an open-source JS library for displaying map data in web browsers as slippy maps) and ReactJS (an open-source JS library for building user interfaces). We load black and white (data) XYZ tiles to the browser and colour it using rainbowvis.js (an open-source JS library for colour data visualisation) on raster source's render time operations. We then clip it with a shapefile to tidy it up.
The Raster Playground also serves an additional purpose for us. It will also give prospective employees and interns an idea of the work we do at Blue Sky. We do a lot of map-heavy work and a familiarity/comfort with mapping tools and libraries is necessary.
Help us make this tool better. Start by contributing to this project. There are quite a few issues and forks made already. Why not go ahead and fix one of its issues? Or suggest new ones?
If you are someone who wants to work with us, there is no better way to catch our attention than contribute to this project.
You can check out our Workable profile and see if something fits to your liking.
We've made our first hire using Raster Playground! Meet Hanumanth, a recent graduate from Bengaluru, who has now joined us as a Frontend Developer at Blue Sky. He was selected among several hundred applicants across India for his contributions to Raster Playground. Just look at his pull requests!
We are very keen on diversifying our team, so women candidates are highly encouraged to apply. And also, please, please__, apply with your portfolios or links to your work!


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Another big weekend of fishing with three tournaments running from the Sunshine Coast GFC Ord Minnett Classic (report below) to the Lake Macquarie GFC Big Fish Bonanza and Ulladulla GFC’s Annual Jess Sams Tournament. I’ll add the reports as they come in (email me), but first, a fantastic report fresh from the Gold Coast yesterday.
Fishing in 40m of water, in less than ideal weather conditions I might add, Mat Stehman’s Murphy’s Law finished an outstanding day on the water with a 10-9-9 black marlin! Mat says the fish were with a school of pillies about a mile long and they they were all in the 15 to 45kg range including one fish tagged that had no bill at all!
Great to hear Mat and crew having such a great run on the blacks after several extremely ‘unlucky’ trips on the blues earlier this season. Up to about one month ago they were none from 13 on the blues in about 7 trips, but they have definitely turned that around with 20 blacks in 5 trips since as well as a short bill spearfish. The angling breakdown: 4 for Andrew Morley, 3 for John Stehmann and 2 for Mat.
Impressive result considering they set out fishing for Spanish without taking the riggers either!
Sunshine Coast Classic
A big thanks to SCGFC Club Captain Brent Higgins for the wrap up report from their weekend comp. Brent reports that despite rough seas, a solid 3-4m swell and strong winds the 2014 Classic was run and won with fishing on both days.
Day 1 saw most boats just happy to make the grounds let alone catch a fish. The only real action for the day was a wahoo of 8.15kg and a tagged black marlin both to Grant Cooper on board Reel Capture with Craig McCulloch and Brent (Higgins).
Day 2 saw deteriorating conditions early in the morning before winds eased a little in the afternoon and as it eased, boats started reporting strikes and hookups. Reel Capture switched another black for Brent at 1.24pm and a third to Grant at 1.53pm to ensure the tournament win. Double Trouble fishing nearby hooked up at 3.48pm and tagged a black for Jay Graham to take second place just before cease fishing. No Name and Alley Cass recorded wahoo and James Robinsons 9.55kg fish just bettered Lindon Fransic’s which weighed 9.25kg.
While fishing was well below recent weeks everyone had a very enjoyable and social weekend, certainly sore heads outweighed hookups!
Champion Team – Reel Capture
Champion O/7 – Reel Capture
Runner Up O/7 – Alley Cass
Champion U/7 – Double Trouble
Runner Up U/7 – No Name
Champion Angler – Grant Cooper
Runner Up Champion Angler – Brent Higgins
Champion Angler Other Species – James Robinson
Top 5 Anglers – Grant Cooper, Brent Higgins, Jay Graham, James Robinson & Lindon Fransic

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Jazz & Blues @ Your Library: Ramona Collins
October 17 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Audiences know that recording artist, songwriter and entertaining jazz vocalist Ramona Collins is one of the region’s true music treasures. Ms. Collins is an artist of substance without pretension who captivates her audiences during live performances. Her performance is not only about the power of music, it is also about the power of personality. She makes you want to get to know her. She covers all the flavors from honey to hot sauce, whether she is half of a duo or fronting an orchestra.
$5.00 general admission or $3.00 admission for Friends of the Southfield Public Library members. No charge for children under 12.
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Who Will Cry When You Die?
By Robin Sharma
Through the wisdom of his 101 life lessons, Robin Sharma provides both food for thought and practical advice designed to help the reader be the best version of themselves it’s possible to be, and live the life they truly want to lead. In learning to live a meaningful life, and live it to the full, it’s possible to gain a deep sense of peace, passion, and purpose, and it’s the author’s intention to demonstrate just how easy it is for all of us to achieve this. We can shine in life and leave behind a rich legacy when we die, and the message is that when you live life as your best self, you become someone other people will surely shed a tear for when you die, but those tears will be of joy at having known you, rather than sadness.
My Top 3 Takes from the Summary
Treasure your time, focus on your life goals, remember to have fun, and celebrate life as it happens.
If you work out what’s essential and important to you, then your life will become more meaningful as a consequence.
Life is better when you take risks and live fully.
The author writes: Ask yourself who will cry when you die. If you feel that few people will miss you, it may be time to make some changes. The best version of you is one that will surely be missed by others.
In one wisdom-packed chapter, the author offers the life lesson: Rather than complaining, focus actively on what you can bring to the world.
He writes: We all love it when we can gripe about something, but sometimes it can go too far. You know the type of person – someone who is always sighing, complaining that he or she doesn’t have enough time to work out or learn a new language or skill. But such complaining has little to do with the real world. It’s just the result of a negative mindset.
If that’s you, then you’ll be pleased to know that just by being a bit more proactive, you can get out of the rut. So if you feel you’re often short of an hour in your day, then just get up that much earlier in the morning. The same principle applies if you feel that the economy’s against you or that the environment’s polluted.
Griping about pollution will get you nowhere, but proactive recycling and carbon footprint reduction will make some difference. And if you feel that the economy’s stopping your career development in your company, then start polishing your CV or getting your portfolio ready to be sent out. If, say, you’re a designer, sit down and create a couple of new posters or object designs. Those first steps are critical. Once you see that change is possible, you’ll realize that complaining is just wasted energy.
Another element to being successful is recognizing your own value to the world. So when you choose your vocation, think hard about what you can contribute to others’ lives. Knowing your worth will push you to get the well-paid and gratifying job you deserve. After all, you’ll know your efforts will truly be adding something to the world.
Surgeons are the classic example here. A surgeon isn’t intrinsically better or cleverer than any other professional. But surgeons have spent countless hours working on highly specialized skills. Their expertise allows them to make contributions that are significant and life-altering. That explains why surgeons are seen as so valuable by society.
It’s never too late to begin. You, too, can work on acquiring rare skills that are needed in your community. Start reading, studying and preparing yourself to think originally. Others are sure to cry when you die if you’ve lived your life as the best possible version of yourself. This version isn’t something abstract; it will emerge quite naturally if you treasure your time, focus on your life goals, remember to have fun and celebrate life as it happens.
Remember how to enjoy life by imitating children and by taking good care of your body, is another bite-sized but powerful chapter offering the reader some practical advice:
There’s a certain wonder in childhood that’s easily forgotten as we grow up. Just consider how kids eat bread. Many of them go straight for the center, picking out the soft bit with their hands before throwing the crust to one side. As a parent, you might find that sort of behavior more than a little annoying.
But there’s actually much to be said for children’s unapologetic liking for what gives them the most joy. As adults, we should imitate children in order to relearn to love life. Think of all the energy that goes to waste doing things we hate – whether it’s paying bills, organizing cupboards, updating resumes, filling out tax forms, or just worrying. These things just drain the fun out of life. Needless to say, some of those things have to be done, but that doesn’t mean you should invest any more than the absolute minimum of attention in them.
A good strategy for shifting your focus away from the drudgery of these day-to-day tasks is to remind yourself of what you actually like to do. And if you’re struggling to remember what it is you enjoy, take a little inspiration from children. Reconnect with your inner child. Eating ice-cream, rollerblading, dressing up, or playing with your pet are all activities you can enjoy no matter your age.
There’s another important aspect to be mindful of when it comes to enjoying your life: you have to take good care of your body. In ancient Rome, people were well aware that a healthy mind was only really possible if the body was healthy too. That still holds true today, especially if you want to enjoy life.
Most critically, of course, if your body’s healthy, you’re much more likely to live longer. One Harvard University study shows just that. It looked at the lives of 18,000 of their graduates, paying particular attention to how exercise featured in their lives. The study concluded that for each hour of exercise people undertook, they added, on average, three hours to their life span. You too should therefore use exercise to take care of your body. It needn’t be extreme, either. Even just a regular routine on a treadmill will take you a long way!
A meaningful life entails focusing on what’s essential is just one of the many thought-provoking chapters. The author writes:
Life can be a bit much sometimes, it’s true. If you find days go speeding by and it feels like you don’t even have a moment to breathe, that’s a sign that something needs to change. Specifically, you need to get your priorities in order. Otherwise, you’ll find other people’s demands and requests will swallow you up.
Above all, if you work out what’s essential and important to you, then your life will become more meaningful as a consequence. There’s an old Chinese tale that really gets that idea across. The story goes that there once was a sword-maker who was so talented that he was charged with forging swords for the rulers of China. One of these kings was so impressed by his weapons that he went to the sword-maker and asked him what the secret to his success was.
Much to the king’s surprise, the answer wasn’t that the sword-maker had mastered a secret and mystical skill. No, the sword-maker simply replied that he had dedicated his life to his work. Every waking hour for the previous 20 years had been spent perfecting his art. The moral holds true today.
Just think of the world-renowned basketball player Michael Jordan. He didn’t personally secure his own contracts, pick out his suits, or work out the nitty-gritty of his travel arrangements. He had personal assistants and lawyers to take care of all of that. His own job was kept simple. His energy and time were to be spent training and playing basketball.
With that said, if you follow a path of extreme focus, you’ll find that it does get a little tiring. Even the most consummate professional won’t find meaning in life through constant work alone. Meaning also comes from other areas of life. Deep friendships and relationships will help, as will giving yourself time to relax. So while focusing on meaningful life goals will take you a long way, be sure to give yourself time off regularly so you can enjoy life’s other meaningful aspects. Your family will certainly thank you for it!
There’s a side benefit to taking occasional time out: your stress levels will be reduced. You’ll therefore find yourself happier and healthier. That’s sure to bring a lot of joy. But free time doesn’t just appear out of nowhere. Be sure to include regular time off in your weekly schedule. There’s a term for this: sabbaticals. Originally, these were religious holidays devoted to contemplation and prayer. But the same principle still applies: you need time to step back from life and relax.
Practically, all this means you should aim to make your sabbaticals about two to three hours in length, and you should distribute them throughout the week.
And a life lesson we can all benefit from is given the title: For a happier life, be honest with other people and learn how to deal positively with failure.
Many people make all kinds of promises with the full knowledge that they’ll never have to act on them. We’ve all promised to lend people books at dinner parties, for instance, and then not done the slightest thing to follow up.
Breaking promises, however, is a bad habit to get into. It simply doesn’t lead to a happy life. That’s because every time you don’t deliver what you promise, others will be disappointed. The only impression you’ll leave is that you’re unreliable. Instead, you should try to adopt an approach that makes honesty central to your life.
Keep tabs on it. Jot down how often you tell little fibs just to avoid confrontation or to make yourself liked. The next stage is to dedicate yourself to being completely honest for a whole week. The simple aim is to be true to your word, whether with yourself or others. At the most basic level, this means if you make a commitment you have to stick to it, even if no one else knows about it. You’ll be surprised at just how happy it will make you to keep your promises, especially if you’re unaccustomed to it!
There’s another basic rule that's really useful in making happiness part of your life; learn to cope with failure and difficulties. That’s not as negative as it sounds; actually, difficult experiences teach you the best lessons.
Just look at people who’ve endured serious illnesses. In the author’s experience, it’s they who turn out to be happiest and healthiest later in life. That’s because they learned how to care for themselves in the most difficult circumstances, and so have a deeper understanding of life. There’s a related trick: put simply, life is better when you take risks and live fully. You may often fail, but that’s much better than living out a life of boring mediocrity.
Say that you once dreamed of being a surgeon, but were scared of failing the exams. Or maybe you were worried you couldn’t face the job pressure. If that’s the case, you may have missed out on your dream career due to fear.
However, if you’d tried, maybe you’d have actually managed to become a surgeon. And so what if you’d ended up failing a few times along the way? “Failures” such as those are actually rich experiences that can be put to good use later in life – often in finding your alternative career path!
Each of the chapters is a valuable life lesson that everyone can gain from, no matter what your age or circumstances. Using his own experiences, the author provides simple solutions to everyday life problems, and in the process, he encourages everyone to become the best they can be, one small, positive step at a time.
Written in a style that’s easy to read, the life lessons are presented in a way that makes this book one that can be dipped in and out of, and the chapters read in any order. Life is change, and the author shares his inspirational wisdom in a way that encourages the reader to make changes for the better in life – throughout their entire life. As he says, it’s never too late.
Bio of the Author
Robin Sharma is ‘The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari’, a Canadian writer, keynote speaker, and founder of Sharma Leadership International.

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This logo is for a blog website - ProEnergyAdvice.com The content on this website will be all about different types of energy, including: Solar Wind Geothermal Hydropower Tidal Energy Biomass Nuclear Fossil fuels Batteries We want the logo to convey that we are an authority on all things energy-related. I think a great logo would look similar to the one on camperreport.com. The "Pro Energy Advice" would be at the bottom of the logo, and in the background would be different objects representing the different types of energy (solar panels for solar power, wind turbines for wind power, a dam for hydropower). Maybe there could be a sun shining down on the different types of energy from one of the top corners (if you think that looks good). Maybe a blue sky in the background that the objects are set against. I'd also like the logo text to be in two lines, with "Pro Energy" at the top and "Advice" at the bottom. The primary focus of this website will be renewable (green) energy, so I'd like objects representing renewable energy to be included in the logo. Please don't include anything in the logo related to fossil fuels (such as a coal plant) or nuclear energy. My WordPress theme's max size is 480 pixels by 480 pixels, so please keep that in mind when designing. Thanks!
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text: Everett Youth Soccer Club (EYSC) is dedicated to developing forward-minded players, both on and off the pitch. Players are encouraged to take risks, so that every player on every team feels confident on the ball. Coaches at EYSC utilize their player’s strong points to create a system of play to refine their natural tendencies, thus fostering a warm learning environment. Through positive encouragement and game-time success, our players develop a positive attitude towards the game. EYSC also strives to develop player leadership, where as players learn, they share their skills and knowledge with the younger teams.


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April 2020 - Characters Take the Stage, Grades PreK-K
9:00am - 3:30pm
Monday, April 20, 2020 at 9:00AM
Wheelock Family Theatre
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Fenway District MBTA: Fenway or Longwood on green Riverside line (D train)
Monday through Friday
A fun and physical introduction to the fundamental building blocks of drama (body, voice, mind, and imagination). During the week students will explore stories through movement exercises, story reenactments, theatre games, improvisation, role-playing, music, dance, and visual arts. At the last class, family and friends are invited to join the class for a final demonstration at 11:30am on the final day of the program.

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Strategic turn-based wargame focussed on the North American civil war. The game is campaign-based and links eight major battles into a single campaign where you decide the fate of the confederation. Includes simulations of actual historical battles such as Antietam, Gettysburg, etc. as well as a fictional assault on Washington D.C.
Uses traditional top-down 2d graphics for the tactical maps, and the game includes a series of fmv clips re-enacting battles, charges, etc. that play upon specific actions.

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Need Help Getting SSX working with NODRM 100 Repack
Need Help Getting SSX working with NODRM 100 Repack –
On Kmeaw 3.55 (no spoof, never dex'd, 60gb launch edition) system and having trouble with SSX. So the patch boots the game but right after the first career movie, game freezes to a greyish screen.
I havent messed with the other version 102 and 103 because i really dont care about bonus content at the moment.
I have it running off an external with bd-mirror and a disk inserted.
I've got the same problem. The game start but after the movie i get an grey screen. I've tried it internal and external and the same problem occurse. I have the USA version of the game. Can someone help us?
So after fiddling around for a bit, I finally got it to work. This is what I did.
I downloaded the NODRM's n0drm-ssx103us.rar eboot update and downloaded the 1.03 update package itself from http://b0.ww.np.dl.playstation.net/t...3-V0100-PE.pkg.
After I had installed the offical sony update pkg for the game, I launched Blackbox ftp and went into /dev_hdd0/game/BLUS30849 and replaced the Param.sfo file with N0drm's and then went into USRDIR and replaced the eboot from the archive.
After that i exited Blackbox ftp and tried to launch the game from MM but I guess something was up with the Param.sfo file from that n0 put out so the game kept asking me to update to 4.20 in order to play.
The way i fixed that was with Nathanr3269's Ps3 Spoofer which can be found here http://psx-scene.com/forums/content/...disabler-2379/
After applying the 9.99 spoof, the game ran flawlessly. Let me know if you need more help Xtince. Oh and remember to have BD-mirror on in MM.


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While the economy has failed to expand meaningfully under President Obama’s economic leadership, clearly the Fed expects a completely different trajectory under a President Trump.
The US economy, as measured by gross domestic product, grew an anemic 1.8 percent for the first three quarters of this year. That means President Obama will go down in history as the only president to oversee eight straight years of sub-3 percent annual GDP growth.
Obama did walk smack into the financial crisis, but at this point, eight years later — with rates essentially at zero for his entire term, plus the $4 trillion in quantitative easing stimulus from the Fed — his second four years should have been far more rewarding for everyday Americans. It clearly wasn’t.
“Trumponomics” gripped average Americans by the seat of their pants and said, “Stand tall, this administration is going to work for you.”
Even before taking office or completing his Cabinet nominees, Trump got right to work and cut a deal to keep 1,100 jobs at the Carrier plant in Indiana — just in time for the holidays.
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And it was quite a confidence booster for all Americans. The markets, too, have stood tall, with the Dow Jones industrial average setting numerous record highs since Election Day and it is approaching 20,000. The dollar has climbed to a 14-year high as well. A strong currency is affirmation of the underlying economic wave of strength to come.
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Madhuri Dixit Excited To Return Back To US To Be With Kids & Hubby
Madhuri Dixit, 43 is all set to return to her home in US to be with her loving husband and kids. She was in India for judging the dance reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 4 which has ended.
The actress is excited about being with her family whom she missed all these days. She was not willing to come to India for the show initially because of her sons and now, she will be back to her sons Arin and Rayan in Denver.
The actress was offered some upcoming movies but, she didn’t accept any of those as it didn’t excite her. She declined both Rajinikanth’s Rana and the remake of Freaky Friday.
She said, “There are many offers coming my way. But I am waiting for the right script that will excite me enough to take it up. I don’t want to work for the heck of it. I’d rather do work that gives me happiness and contentment.”
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Piezoelectric sliver forms sensorBy Kimberly Patch, Technology Research News
Two things make it difficult to measure very tiny things: finding instruments that can sense changes on a microscopic scale, and finding a way to convey these measurements to the macro world.
A group of Princeton University researchers is putting together arrays of microcantilevers that may eventually be capable of measuring very small concentrations of molecules in environments like blood vessels.
One key to the work is that the microcantilevers, diving-board-like instruments that measure 10 microns wide and 100 to 1,000 microns long, are made of piezoelectric ceramic. This material gives off current when it vibrates.
The amount of current is easy to measure from the macro world, and the current correlates with the rate of vibration. "The idea is when they oscillate up and down they introduce charges on their surface which can be detected directly using electronics," said Jeffrey Carbeck, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Princeton.
The researchers have shown that the microcantilevers can measure liquid viscosity and density. "As the fluid [moves] faster there's going to be greater resistance for the cantilever to bounce up and down, just like as you're driving down the road the faster you go the more force there is on your hand [from the airstream] as you tip it away from horizontal," said Carbeck.
The researchers next step is using the cantilevers to sense whether specific molecules are present in a liquid. They're working on applying a nanopore coating that will increase the microcantilever surface area by 100 times. The coating is a sort of 3-D honeycomb structure that has horizontal passages among vertical honeycomb channels.
Molecules that bind specifically to molecules of a substance to be measured can be embedded in these channels. "It could be a DNA molecule that binds to another DNA molecule [or] it could be a protein that recognizes some molecular signal of disease," said Carbeck. As the embedded molecules pick up molecules of the substance, the cantilever becomes heavier, which changes its rate of vibration.
There are two phases to the project, said Carbeck. "The first phase, which I would qualify as the next three to five years, is making these sensors fully functional, integrating the coating, integrating receptors and actually allowing them to sense in a laboratory environment."
As part of this, the researchers will also zero in on the optimum size for the microcantilevers, which is somewhere between one and 10 microns wide, said Carbeck. "One way to make it more and more sensitive is to make it smaller," he said. This is because the heavier the molecules are in relation to the microcantilever, the easier it is to sense them, just as a diving board will oscillate more after a heavier diver has jumped off.
But the cantilevers don't work if they're too small. "As you start to make things very small... they start to lose energy to the environment," said Carbeck. When this happens, "rather than vibrating up and down at a well-defined frequency [it] becomes a range of frequencies," he said. This means you can no longer correlate the motion of the cantilever with the number of molecules captured on its surface, he said.
Another technical challenge is depositing the coating. "We're developing technologies for making very thin films out of this high surface area coating. You have to get the coating less than one micron thick... to be compatible with the one micron cantilever [and] also so it does not crack when it dries," he said.
The researchers are drawing together several existing technologies in new ways in order to to form the sensors, said said Arun Majumdar, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of California at Berkeley. "I think the idea is good. The principal of using cantilevers is not new. Using piezoelectric cantilevers to actuate is not new. But using piezoelectric cantilevers to measure viscosity may be new [as well as] using piezoelectric [cantilevers] with a honeycomb structure," said Majumdar.
Once the researchers put the pieces together, the microcantilevers could be used to measure concentrations of molecules in laboratory settings. They could also be used as an alternative to the cantilevers used in atomic force microscopes, which are measured using laser beams, said Carbeck. "You could... instead create surface force microscopy cantilevers out of this material and detect the deflection electronically. Also, [by] fabricating [cantilevers] into arrays you can sense a larger area," he said.
The second phase is making these sensors biocompatible, said Carbeck. "You want to figure out how to protect them from things like the immune response of the body, which is to deposit proteins and cells that form scar tissue on these materials. That's a separate line of research... so you're talking about 10 years out before you have a functional sensor that's also biocompatible," he said.
Ultimately, the project is aimed at developing arrays of microcantilevers that can reside in the human body and measure several different molecules or physical properties at once, said Carbeck. "You would like to have sensors that can detect molecular signals of disease that can be implanted in non-invasive way [in] say, the bronchiole of the lungs or in microcapillaries or arteries,” he said.
The project was initially funded by the National Science Foundation. The continuing work to refine the microcantilevers and add the coating is funded by NASA. Carbeck's colleagues in this work are Ilhan Aksay, Shilpa Bhansali, and Jessica Jarvis.
A technical paper on the cantilevers' ability to measure liquid viscosity and density has been accepted by the Journal of Applied Physics. The researchers who worked on this paper were Wan Y. Shih, of Drexel University and Princeton, Xiaoping Li, Huiming Gu and Wei-Heng Shih of Drexel, and Aksay, who joined a second set of researchers to publish a paper on the nanopore coating in the January 25, 2000 issue of Langmuir. That group also included K. M. McGrath of the University of Otago, D. M. Dabbs and N. Yao of Princeton, and K. J. Edler and S. M. Gruner of Cornell University.
Timeline: 3-5 years, 10 years
TRN Categories: Applied Computing; MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS)
Story Type: News
Related Elements: Photo 1, Photo 2, Technical paper, "Simultaneous Liquid Viscosity and Density Determination with Piezoelectric Unimorph Cantilevers," accepted for publication, Journal of Applied Physics; Technical paper, "Silica Gels with Tunable Nanopores through Templating of the L3 Phase," Langmuir, January 25, 2000.
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