New computing approach to materials science under development

ScienceDaily (Sep. 10, 2012) ? Krishna Rajan of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory thinks there's more to materials informatics than plotting a thick cloud of colorful data points.

As he sees it, managing computing tools to discover new materials involves harnessing the key characteristics of data: volume, velocity, variety and veracity (the four V's).

Lately, though, "the focus is only on volume," said Rajan, Iowa State's Wilkinson Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering, director of the university's Institute for Combinatorial Discovery and director of the international Combinatorial Sciences and Materials Informatics Collaboratory. Rajan is also an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory. "The focus is on more and more data. Data doesn't make you smarter. What you want is knowledge."

And so Rajan's research team is developing statistical learning techniques to research and develop new materials. A 2011 paper published by the Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences describes how the process helped researchers improve piezoelectrics, materials that generate electricity when they're bent. (Rajan is lead author of the paper.) Another 2011 paper published by Nature described using the same tools to design vaccine-delivery materials that mimic pathogens and enhance the body's immune response. (Balaji Narasimhan, associate dean for research at Iowa State's College of Engineering and the Vlasta Klima Balloun Professor of Engineering, is lead author of the paper.)

A 2012 article in Science by Robert F. Service also contrasts Rajan's approach with studies that have computed the properties of tens of thousands of potential new battery materials.

"Our approach requires the need to carefully establish a dataset of descriptors on which we directly apply statistical learning tools," says the Proceedings paper (co-authored by Prasanna Balachandran, an Iowa State post-doctoral research associate; and Scott Broderick, an Iowa State research assistant professor). "One of the arguments we are trying to put forward in this paper is that although the potential number of variables can in fact be large, data dimensionality reduction and information theoretic techniques can help reduce it to a manageable number."

Rajan likens the process to cooking the perfect spaghetti sauce. Rather than starting with every ingredient in the grocery store, why not start with the most important ingredients? Maybe with the tomatoes and the salt?

"Then how much salt and how many tomatoes?" Rajan said. "Depending on how they're combined, you get different results. That's the logic of this."

The way to start, Rajan said, is to develop some rules of thumb about the material you're trying to build. Once the most important design rules are set, computing power can be used to search through libraries of compounds and identify promising solutions.

"It's not that we need more data," Rajan said. "We need the right data."

Rajan calls his approach efficient, robust and effective. He says it's all based on data mining, information theory and statistical learning concepts. He also says it can be readily applied to different problems in various disciplines.

Rajan has used his ideas to help Iowa State researchers advance their work in agronomy, biofuels, climate studies and genomics. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense and Iowa State University.

Matt Liebman, Iowa State's Henry A. Wallace Endowed Chair for Sustainable Agriculture and a professor of agronomy, has worked with Rajan to study how variables such as farming practices, soil type and climate affect the availability of nitrogen in crops such as corn. He said Rajan has been able to take large data sets, sort the useful information from the less relevant noise and identify influential variables and relationships.

"Given the complexity of the world of soils, plants and climate, that's a nice skill set to have as we develop this effort," Liebman said. "He has an approach that nobody in the field I normally work with has. This is a good example of cross-fertilization among disciplines."

Rajan and other researchers will discuss their data-driven methods during the first International Conference and Summer School in Molecular and Materials Informatics next February in Melbourne, Australia. The conference is sponsored by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia's national science agency) and Iowa State. Rajan is one of five members of the conference organizing committee.

The conference will cover methods for the rapid discovery of novel materials, data management, visualization of materials data and other topics in materials and computational sciences.

Rajan is patient and thoughtful when explaining his techniques. He said it's all part of helping the materials science community understand his path toward materials informatics.

"Part of my job is building that community," he said. "And the community is growing."

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1. R. F. Service. Materials Scientists Look to a Data-Intensive Future. Science, 2012; 335 (6075): 1434 DOI: 10.1126/science.335.6075.1434
2. P. V. Balachandran, S. R. Broderick, K. Rajan. Identifying the 'inorganic gene' for high-temperature piezoelectric perovskites through statistical learning. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2011; 467 (2132): 2271 DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2010.0543

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Literary masterpiece 'Infinite Jest' visualized in Google map

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Teressa Iezzi , Fast Company

David Foster Wallace fans: Put down your copy of D.T. Max?s newly released biography of the writer, Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story and click immediately on Infinite Atlas. Non-fans, stop whatever it is you?re doing and do the same.

Infinite Atlas is, in the simplest terms, "an independent research and art project seeking to identify, place and describe every possible location in David Foster Wallace?s 'Infinite Jest.'" In broader terms, it?s an infinitely absorbing marriage of literature and rich location-based data.

The map is the work of Washington-based writer, and dedicated "Infinite Jest" fan, William Beutler.

Beutler actually launched the project earlier this year in the form of Infinite Boston, a blog-based photographic tour of locations that figure into DFW?s complex study of life, addiction, depression, failed entertainment, and tennis. At the time Beutler wrote: "In July of what might have been Year of Glad, one year ago this week, I traveled to Boston, Massachusetts with the express purpose of visiting as many of the landmarks and lesser known precincts that appear in, or provide inspiration for, the late David Foster Wallace?s 1996 novel "Infinite Jest" as I could manage on a Thursday-Sunday trip. My reasons for doing so will become apparent at a later date, but for now I am pleased to present what I am calling Infinite Boston: a ruminative travelogue and photographic tour of some fifty or so of these locations, comprising one entry each non-holiday weekday, from now until sometime in early autumn."

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That later date has arrived and we now have the Infinite Atlas, a mind-bendingly detailed Google Maps-based compendium of over 600 IJ locations. Visitors can click on the map to reveal details about each location from the novel, in many cases including quotes, as well as where the site appears in the book and which characters are associated with it (and Beutler hasn?t just covered off your A-list places, like Enfield Tennis Academy and Ennet House. To wit: the listing for Marty?s Liquors, "Which Gately drives past in Pat Montesian?s black 1964 Ford Aventura"). Locations can also be discovered via search, and through a comprehensive lists of characters (again, we?re not just talking about Hal Incandenza and Michael Pemulis--the list includes everyone down to "the Watertown, NY boy who owned Ward and June, progenitors of the Concavity?s feral hamsters") and story threads. Fans are also encouraged to submit photographs of the locations.

The project also includes a poster version of IJ sites, the Infinite Map, available for purchase here. The map depicts the novel?s ?territorially reconfigured North America? and features 250 of its most interesting locations (as well as the Great Seal of O.N.A.N., pictured above).

Beutler, who had worked as a political journalist and is now a communications consultant, says the project has been four years in the making. "I re-read Infinite Jest after Wallace?s passing, and became obsessed with the idea that there was a way to treat Infinite Jest as a very large data set," he says. "It turned out that others had done so previously, the designer Sam Potts in particular, but with a primary focus on the relationship between characters. So I didn?t want to retrace that route. Meanwhile, I was influenced by friends involved in cartography, and I?ve always found maps to be fascinating, so both of these things pushed me in this direction."

At first, a map of locations was just one of many ideas, he says. "At one point I was going to include box scores for the Enfield Tennis Academy players, but the further I got into research, the more I realized how much more there was to do with geography."

The scope of the project meant Beutler brought in a number of creative partners, including agency JESS3 and DC web development company RedEdge, which helped bring the interactive map to life.

When it came to compiling the project?s staggering volume of data, Beutler had additional help. "A lot of the early research was compiled by a friend from back to college, named Olly Ruff, who had also first read Infinite Jest years ago," he says. "We each spent dozens of hours combing through the book, page-by-page, in late 2010 to make sure that we missed nothing, and to argue about what was where and what was the significance. We had those conversations right up to the point where we had to send it off to the printer. The early information architecture was done by another friend, Lyzi Diamond, who had recently earned a degree in Geography from the University of Oregon. Our eventual cartographer was Derek Watkins, who is now a graphics editor at the New York Times."

As for Beutler?s plans for the project, he says, "I?m really hoping to get readers to upload photographs of locations that I haven?t visited--and considering the scope of the project is global, that?s still most places. Otherwise, there are still some details to correct--our database is very good, but not free of noise--so that will take me some time to iron out the details. Even as I say that, I think the site is about 95% correct. It always takes a lot more effort to improve from there, but I?m just enough perfectionist, and just enough a fan of "Infinite Jest" to stick with it."

Teressa Iezzi is the editor of Fast Company's?Co.Create.?She was previously editor of Ad Age?s Creativity and is the author of "The Idea Writers: Copywriting in a New Media and Marketing Era." Follow her on Twitter.

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U.S. singing sister Dorothy McGuire dies at 84

(Reuters) - U.S. singer Dorothy McGuire, who with her two sisters made dozens of hit records in the 1950s and 1960s, has died in Arizona, her son said on Sunday.

McGuire, 84, died on Friday at her home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, her son Rex Williamson told Reuters. She had suffered for some time from Parkinson's disease, he said.

Dorothy McGuire was the middle sister of The McGuire Sisters - Christine, Phyllis and Dorothy - who had hits with "Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite", "Sincerely" and "Sugartime" and were often compared to their 1940s predecessors, The Andrews Sisters.

They began their careers as children, singing in their Miamisburg, Ohio, church and later at hospitals and military bases before singing a record deal in 1952.

Often dressed in identical outfits and hairstyles, they were frequent guests on television variety shows and they later performed for U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

Some 18 years after they retired in 1968, they reunited and played the hotel and nightclub circuit in Las Vegas and New York until the mid-1990s. The McGuire Sisters were inducted in the National Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 1994.

Dorothy is survived by siblings Phyllis and Christine.

(Reporting By Jill Serjeant in Los Angeles; Editing by Sandra Maler)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-singing-sister-dorothy-mcguire-dies-84-202257086.html

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Google?s ?Develop for Good? hackathon winners tackle environment, human rights

Google held a ?Develop for Good? hackathon for developers surrounding the company?s June I/O conference, allowing developer groups using Google products to tackle a variety of projects related to human rights, the environment, and politics.

At Google?s I/O developer conference in June, the company held a ?Develop for Good? hackathon as a collaboration between the I/O conference and Google?s?philanthropy?arm, Google.org. On Friday, Google picked the winners from the hackathon in three main categories: Ideas, Politics and Elections and Green. The selection of winners highlighted some interesting projects where companies are using technology to tackle issues in human rights and the environment.

Ideas

Hackers in the Ideas arena were asked to develop a tool that could be used for reporting information from hostile situations with limited internet and repressive government regimes.

The winning project, Silent Lens, developed software for Android that allows users to capture sensitive information and securely transmit that information to others even with a hostile government and limited connectivity.

Silent Lens founders explained on their website the importance of getting information from those hostile environments into the world: ?Information about incidents of violence in these situations is tremendously important: it can shame governments into reform, help the international community pressure regimes to cease violence, and increase citizens? own commitments to affecting change.?

Politics and Elections

A Nigerian group created the winning project for Politics and Elections, taking the focus off the US Presidential election and instead bringing democratic participation to Nigeria with a new web platform. The group hails from the Google Developer Group in Lagos, Nigeria.

The project, a prototype of Assembly Bills, will allow Nigerian citizens to give input on bills through the website, rather than traveling to the host city to participate in the legislative process. ?Assembly bills was created to give the ordinary citizen access to give inputs into bills that are to be pass into law by the legislative arms of their country,? the Assembly Bills founders explain on the site.

Green

The winners of the Green challenge hail from Pakistan, specifically from the the Google Developer Group in Karachi, where they?re attempting to crowdsource citizen complaints about environmental concerns to bring them to the attention of government officials. The project, called Green It,?rewards citizens who are particularly active and vocal in the community.

?What we generally concluded from our survey was that people put all the blame on government officials that they never respond to the problems and the area around us remains black where on the other hand the government officials say that we try to resolve every problem reported to us,? the group explained on its site. ?We concluded that there is generally a communication gap between the society and the officials.?

Through the Google+ platform, Green It will allow citizens to report?environmental?concerns to government officials, and other citizens can validate the concerns if they also feel that it?s a problem. If the government doesn?t respond to widespread complaints, the idea is that users can then get media involved in the issue.

Source: http://gigaom.com/2012/09/07/googles-develop-for-good-hackathon-winners-tackle-environment-human-rights/

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Romney, Obama in battle for working-class whites

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally in Toledo, Ohio. President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are working feverishly for an increasingly smaller but crucial slice of the electorate _ white, working-class voters. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally in Toledo, Ohio. President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are working feverishly for an increasingly smaller but crucial slice of the electorate _ white, working-class voters. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

FILE - In this July 18, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in Bowling Green, Ohio. President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are working feverishly for an increasingly smaller but crucial slice of the electorate _ white, working-class voters. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are working feverishly for an increasingly smaller but crucial slice of the electorate ? white, working-class voters.

These clock-punching voters ? from Iowa's tiny manufacturing cities to Virginia coal country to pockets of Ohio reliant on the auto industry ? are considered the potential tipping point in battleground states that will decide the winner on Nov. 6. These voters are also critical to turning less competitive states such as Michigan into suddenly swing states in the final stretch.

Romney is trying to expand what polls show is an advantage for the Republican while Obama hopes to narrow the gap. Both are trying to pit these voters against their opponent by stoking a sense of economic and social unfairness, and also by calling on surrogates with stronger ties to these voters. It's why Romney has seized on Obama's decision to give states greater flexibility on welfare work requirements and why Obama turned to former President Bill Clinton, long popular with working-class voters, to make the case for his second-term bid.

"In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class," Romney said in accepting the Republican presidential nomination.

Obama counters that Romney's opposition to a federal bailout of U.S. automakers hurts his chances with working-class whites.

"I stood with American manufacturing. I believed in you. I bet on you," Obama told an audience in Toledo, Ohio, an automotive manufacturing hub within sight of Michigan, on Labor Day.

These voters are a hodge-podge of union households and gun-rights advocates, often from rural areas and smaller cities. They are found in a handful of competitive states where neither candidate has an appreciable advantage, including northern Florida and northwest and southeast Ohio. They are also found in key counties in states that have voted Democratic in presidential elections since the 1980s but are seen as more competitive this year. Those include areas outside Madison and Milwaukee in southern Wisconsin, mixed-income suburbs outside Detroit and rural parts of western Pennsylvania.

Neither Romney nor Obama has a natural connection with them.

Both are Harvard-educated and wealthy. But Obama, an African American raised politically in Chicago's Democratic network, has struggled with these voters. Obama famously dismissed their misgivings about his candidacy in 2008, saying "they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Romney, the son of a former governor and car company president, made a fortune as a private equity firm executive before serving a term as Massachusetts governor. Romney's profile varies from these working-class voters who are less educated and from smaller cities and rural areas.

Still, he has a commanding lead among these voters: 57 percent preferred the Republican, compared to 35 percent for Obama, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll last month. Romney's support is on par with what 2008 Republican nominee John McCain received from this group, but Obama is doing worse, according to exit polls that showed him at 40 percent four years ago.

Romney sought an edge with Obama's decision to allow states to apply for waivers seeking flexibility in how to administer welfare work requirements, a key part of the sweeping welfare realignment President Bill Clinton signed in 1996.

Rick Santorum, who performed well among working-class whites during his unsuccessful bid for the GOP presidential nomination, has led the Romney campaign's charge that Obama supports lifting the work requirement, a claim widely debunked by independent fact-checking groups.

"(Obama) showed us once again he believes in government handouts and dependency by waiving the work requirement for welfare," Santorum said during his speech to the Republican convention.

Diane Carnes of Chillicothe, Ohio, in the state's rural south, said there is a cultural disconnect with Obama. "Southern Ohio is full of people who are disgusted with this president walking away from welfare reform," said Carnes, a Republican. "We are working people, who believe in work."

Santorum vigorously dismissed suggestions of racial politics, although Carnes and other Republicans said some rural white voters in swing states still harbor racial opposition to Obama.

Obama's policies fall outside this bloc's comfort zone, said Steve Schmidt, who managed McCain's 2008 campaign.

"President Obama is totally out of touch with these people in a fundamental way," Schmidt said. "In this environment, Romney's team is wise to be focused on this group."

Romney was in Chillicothe, the heart of southern Ohio, last month, promising to loosen restrictions on oil, coal and natural gas development industries. That signals to many voters here the promise of well-paying jobs in counties where unemployment has run well above the state and national averages.

Romney's choice of Rep. Paul Ryan is seen as another direct appeal. Ryan is from Janesville, Wis., a manufacturing hub between Madison, Wis., and Chicago.

"Remember when he said people in the Midwest, people like us like to cling to their guns and religion?" Ryan said of Obama while campaigning in Iowa this week. "This Catholic deer hunter is darn proud of that. Guilty as charged."

Many of these conservative Democrats helped elect Republican Ronald Reagan president in 1980.

But since then, a Republican has not won Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Ryan's place on the ticket, and Romney's direct appeals to working-class whites, may not tip the state to the GOP in November, but they could force Obama to spend money to capture states critical to his re-election chances.

This voting bloc has shrunk dramatically as a share of the overall electorate, now more diverse and college-educated. In 1980, 63 percent of voters were white, non-college-educated. In 2008, they made up just 39 percent. And Obama performs far better with minority voters.

Obama, in turn, is trying to hold down Romney's margins. He talks about his wife Michelle's upbringing in a working-class home on Chicago's South Side.

His campaign is working to undercut the businessman Romney's jobs argument by contending that the private-sector experience Romney touts was often at the expense of working families. Romney's former private equity firm Bain Capital helped launch some national chains, but also shuttered some plants.

"I continue to believe Gov. Romney is going to struggle in all the Midwestern states given his stance on the issues," Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina said in an interview.

Obama also has two weapons in his arsenal and is deploying them strategically.

Vice President Joe Biden, long a popular figure to working-class Democrats, grew up in Scranton, Pa., and has jabbed hard at Romney's credibility with these voters.

"Out of touch? Swiss bank account, untold millions in the Cayman Islands. Who's out of touch, man?" Biden said recently.

Clinton stars in an Obama campaign ad and was the prime-time speaker at the convention on Wednesday night. Clinton's profile as a former Arkansas governor helped him as a candidate. His wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, performed better than Obama with working-class whites in places like Pennsylvania and West Virginia during their battle for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

Romney advisers said Clinton is the strongest counter-punch Obama has with these voters.

The former president went hard after them hard in his convention speech, using the term "middle class" no less than 10 times.

Clinton directed his closing pitch to them: "If you want a winner-take-all, you're-on-your-own society, you should support the Republican ticket. But if you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibility, a we're-all-in-this-together society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden."

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Succession Planning Starts with Strategy and NOT Financial or Legal

A member of The Family Business Network posed a question "Preparing for succession in your business? How
much consideration should you give to insurance, tax, exit, and
financial planning?"




Well before we focus on finance and legal, the focus should be strategic. Does the business model and competitive context point to a business that the next generation should succeed into? For some reason everyone jumps on the legal financial bandwagon and this only hurts successors. Why? Who wants to succeed into a business that is not viable for the next 20 years... Blockbuster, Best Buy, A&P... do we need more examples?

This is where a business family is more adept at adjusting to the rapidly changing business environment vs a family business. I know this all to well with one advisory after another giving our family business tactical advise vs. strategic and critical thinking. We may have taken a different route with the thinking I propose.

All the best!

Dom Celentano

Tips on Running a Small Business

Source: http://managementofsmallbusiness.blogspot.com/2012/09/succession-planning-starts-with.html

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Insurance News - Company Launches Private Health Insurance ...

ROSEMONT, Ill., Sept. 6, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Flexible Benefit Service Corporation (Flex) today announced the launch of the InsureXSolutions? private health insurance exchange. The private exchange promotes a defined contribution funding model that gives uninsured employers a way to set their own budget and assist employees with health care expenses. The InsureXSolutions web platform provides an online insurance marketplace where employees can shop, compare and apply for insurance plans that fit their personal needs.

Available in select markets, InsureXSolutions is an ideal solution for employers currently not offering employee benefits. Employers simply allocate a fixed amount of funds for each employee. Employees can then login to the InsureXSolutions web portal for access to online quoting and comparison resources for individual and family insurance plans from various national and regional insurance companies. Once employees find the right plan, they use the InsureXSolutions online marketplace to directly apply for heath insurance, Medicare, short-term insurance and/or vision insurance.

"InsureXSolutions is the culmination of more than 24 years of experience in the health insurance industry which reinforces our mission for providing innovative, cost-effective health care programs," said President of Flex, John DiVito. "Our private exchange is truly unique because it seamlessly integrates our internal, proprietary resources to deliver an end-to-end insurance solution to the marketplace."

Businesses and their employees are supported by an InsureXSolutions Interaction Center that is staffed with a team of licensed product specialists. The Interaction Center is available Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Central, to help callers through the decision making process, answer questions and provide guidance on insurance plan options.

To learn more about InsureXSolutions, visit www.insurexsolutions.com or call 888-353-9178. InsureXSolutions is a registered trademark of Flexible Benefit Service Corporation.

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Flexible Benefit Service Corporation (Flex) is a leader in the health insurance and benefits administration marketplace. Since 1988, Flex has continuously offered cost-effective health care solutions for producers, employers, employees and individuals. Through our consumer-driven strategies, tax-advantaged programs and insurance company offerings, Flex serves as a full service general agency and benefits administrator. The comprehensive Flex product portfolio includes flexible spending accounts (FSAs), health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), health savings accounts (HSAs), transit/parking reimbursement accounts (TRAs), COBRA administration and more. Flex also blends its in-house expertise from both divisions to offer a private insurance exchange showcasing integrated resources and innovative technology. Learn more at www.flexiblebenefit.com.

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