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Katie and Kristi blind react to LVD's latest hearing. Lori continues to sassy and disrespectful with the judge and prosecutor.Join our squad! Kristi and Katie share true crime stories and give you actionable things you can do to help, all with a wicked sense of humor.Follow our True Crime Trials Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TrueCrimeSquadTrialsFollow our True Crime Shorts Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@truecrimesquadshorts-t6iWant to Support our work and get extra perks?https://buymeacoffee.com/truecrimesquadLooking for extra content?https://www.patreon.com/truecrimesquad*Social Media Links*Facebook: www.facebook.com/truecrimesquadFacebook Discussion Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/215774426330767Website: https://www.truecrimesquad.comTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@truecrimesquadBlueSky- https://bsky.app/profile/truecrimesquad.bsky.social True Crime Squad on Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/5gIPqBHJLftbXdRgs1Bqm1

Katie and Kristi blind react to LVD's latest hearing. Lori continues to sassy and disrespectful with the judge and prosecutor.Join our squad! Kristi and Katie share true crime stories and give you actionable things you can do to help, all with a wicked sense of humor.Follow our True Crime Trials Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TrueCrimeSquadTrialsFollow our True Crime Shorts Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@truecrimesquadshorts-t6iWant to Support our work and get extra perks?https://buymeacoffee.com/truecrimesquadLooking for extra content?https://www.patreon.com/truecrimesquad*Social Media Links*Facebook: www.facebook.com/truecrimesquadFacebook Discussion Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/215774426330767Website: https://www.truecrimesquad.comTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@truecrimesquadBlueSky- https://bsky.app/profile/truecrimesquad.bsky.social True Crime Squad on Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/5gIPqBHJLftbXdRgs1Bqm1

It's Friday, and you know what that means! The Two Dudes With Attitudes (Ryan & Denton) are back to break down another exciting week of AEW action! In this episode, we discuss AEW Collision (March 15), AEW Dynamite (March 19), and our live experience at AEW Revolution in Los Angeles.Topics Covered: 

In this live episode of Two Dudes With Attitudes, Ryan and Denton are back to break down a crazy week of action in WWE. Their recap starts with the season premiere of Smackdown on Friday, September 13, 2024 on the USA Network where we saw The OTC Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes form an unlikely duo and will team up to take on Solo Sikoa and Jacob Fatu at Bad Blood. They also break down WWE Monday Night RAW where CM Punk cut a passionate promo and The Judgment Day reigned supreme over Damian Priest and Rhea Ripley again and they conclude with NXT where CM Punk made an appearance and announced himself as the special guest referee in the NXT Championship match between Trick Williams and Ethan Page.WWE Smackdown--September 13, 2024 -Thoughts and reactions after Cody Rhodes beats Solo Sikoa in a steel cage to retain the WWE Undisputed Championship-Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns to team up against Solo Sikoa and Jacob Fatu at Bad Blood-Bayley and Naomi to take on Tiffany Stratton and Nia Jax in a Loser Leave Smackdown match-Kevin Owens and a mystery partner vs. A-Town Down Under-LA Knight's promo on AndradeWWE Monday Night RAW Highlights--September 16, 2024:-The Judgment Day looked strong for the second week in a row, taking out Rhea Ripley and Damian Priest -Jey Uso cut his best promo as a singles competitor -CM Punk's passionate promo on Drew McIntyreNXT Highlights--September 17, 2024:-CM Punk appointed guest referee between Trick Williams and Ethan Page for the NXT Championship-Trick Williams/Ethan Page contract signing-Randy Orton wrestling Je'Veon Evans?Highs and Lows:-What are they High on in the world of WWE?-What are they Low on in the world of WWE?Most Valuable and Least Valuable Dude/Dudette:-Who was the LVD of the Week in WWE?-Who was the MVD of the Week in the WWE? 

In today's live episode, the Two Dudes With Attitudes (Ryan and Denton) break down the week that was in All Elite Wrestling. Starting with AEW's biggest show of the year, AEW All In from Sunday, August 24 in Wembley Stadium. They also talk the episode of Dynamite that occurred on August 28. In their show closing segment, they bring back a classic: That's Cool/That's Not Cool!AEW All In Results:-Bryan Danielson def. Swerve Strickland (c) for the AEW World Title-Jack Perry (c) def. Darby Allin in a Coffin match for the AEW TNT Title-Mercedes Mone (c) def. Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. for the AEW TBS Title Will Ospreay def. MJF (c) for the AEW American International Title -Christian Cage wins Casino Gauntlet match for a future AEW World Title match-The Young Bucks -(Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson) (c) def. FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) and The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens and Max Caster) for the AEW World Tag Team Titles-Hook def. Chris Jericho (c) for the FTW Title-Mariah May def. "Timeless" Toni Storm (c) for the AEW Women's World Title-Pac and Blackpool Combat Club (Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta) def. The Patriarchy and House of Black and Bullet Club Gold in a Ladder match for the AEW World Trios TitlesAEW Dynamite Highlights:-Jon Moxley's cryptic message and what it could mean?-Swerve Strickland/Hangman Page-Bryan Danielson vs. Jack Perry? -MJF vs. Daniel Garcia?That's Cool/That's Not Cool:-Bryan Danielson/Christian Cage-Britt Baker-Christian Cage/Adam Copeland-And moreMost Valuable/Least Valuable Dude/Dudette of the Week:-Who was the LVD of the week in AEW?-Who was the MVD of the week in AEW?

Part 2 Acomi and Turk182 continue with their discussion of whacked out adults with convicted child murderer Lori Vallow Daybell (LVD) and her husband Chad (C) - they don't deserve to have their full names used any further. Supposed believers in a doomsday, demonic possession religion (created by C), they killed LVD's two children, possibly her second husband, and C's first wife. The two claimed that the children and spouse were being taken over by evil spirits, and monitored their progression using a homemade method that considered a person possessed if they were too nice or too bad. Their religion could identify if someone was being taken over by evil spirits and to what degree they had been turned, but didn't have a way of saving the person or driving the supposed demons out. In truth, the two wanted to be together with no entanglements. Acomi and Turk sort through the messy make believe stories LVD and C claimed made them kill the people pretended to love. A twisted and shallow concept that is short on details, purpose, and credibility. #OMTWF #Acomi #Turk182 #KorovaEntertainment Follow Acomi on Twitter at @AcomiDraws and on Instagram at AcomiDraws. Follow Turk182 on Twitter at @Turk182_KE and on Instagram at Turk182_KE.

Er zit veel te veel volk in de Belgische gevangenissen. Dat wisten we al, maar onze redactie heeft nieuwe cijfers opgerakeld en die zijn verontrustender dan ooit. Robots die op hun beurt machines bedienen: de West-Vlaamse maker van metaalbewerkingsmachines LVD zet er meer dan ooit op in. We praten met CEO Carl Dewulf. En wat is er toch aan de hand met de beursintroducties? Er zijn er nog maar amper. Hoe komt dat? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, the KREW is back, talking about the big TNF game at the Eagles! We are joined by Ken Grant, one of the most beloved figures in Tampa Sports Talk Twitter. Bucs Big Win Sunday over Miami What can we do to stop Hurts mobility? WR on the Eagles to watch out for Should Gronk play? Bucs Bang up Train continues - LVD sidelined Offensive Player of the game to watch for Tampa Defensive Player of the game to watch for Tampa Final Score Prediction for TNF 1 Big Thing Walk Off Follow us on twitter & Youtube @ Buccateers

My sister Sarah, ever since we were little, has encouraged me in her own way to celebrate myself on my birthday. A few years ago she started asking everyone 3 questions on their birthday and this year I asked if she would ask them to me on my podcast. We recorded this less than 24 hours before my birthday so it counts. Thanks to my editor Fynn Gentle (https://fynngentle.com/) for turning this around quickly to have out on time for my birthday today.  In this episode you will hear a much more personal, less business episode about my life, my thoughts, Sarah and I and our childhood. Thanks for starting the next 365 days around the sun with me.    - LVD  

Today we sit with Houston producers Slow Life and Skooma of LVD. Slow Life has made his presence in Houston with numerous production credits in the underground hip hop scene. From legends in the city being heard on his beats to artist on the come up, he's leaving a stamp. Multitalented as he also raps and engineers his own studio, he does it all. Skooma has made his way around Houston with his EDM production. He has showcased his talent throughout the night life in the city. He continues to show his range as he also has contributed to hip hop tracks within the LVD camp. Both are members of the LVD crew. Get to know them in today's episode. Happy Birthday Pimp C! #TheOT Follow us IG: theoverthinkerspod Twitter: theotpod Facebook: The Overthinkers Podcast Follow Slow Life IG: slowlife713 Facebook: Ray Aguirre (Slow-Life) Follow Skooma IG: skoomabeats Facebook: Skooma

Lauren welcomes guest Jenny Levine Finke, founder of the Denver Bloggers Club.   Jenny has planned more than 50 events in the last three years, including her flagship blogger and influencer conference called the Fuel Your Influence (FYI) Conference. Jenny has also created a huge, engaged Instagram community in addition to her blog, “Good For You Gluten-Free,” which has more than 100,000 unique visitors every month.   Diagnosed in her mid-30s with celiac disease, Jenny returned to school and started her blog, “Good For You Gluten-Free.” Eventually, she formed the Denver Bloggers Club.   The Fuel Your Influence Conference began so that brands and bloggers and influencers could all interact together. She planned events around topics she wanted to learn more about.   It started in 2018 and became known for its epic goodie bags. Lauren and Jenny discuss the origins of the goodie bags and talk about monetization models this year's conference.   Lauren and Jenny talk about how Jenny uses social media strategically. specifically, building traffic SEO strategy, and the Pinterest powerhouse. They also discuss how social media positions you as a thought leader and a resource to the community you serve.   Jenny discusses collaboration with Lauren and how difficult it can be to get other entrepreneurs to share their information, leading her to create this conference.   Lauren shares a piece of advice a friend gave her about her business and competition. Her friend said, “There is enough business to go around. If you stop worrying about it, you'll never worry about it again.”   Jenny and Lauren speak about the COVID-19 pandemic and how virtual events are replacing in-person events. Jenny says it's challenging and explains why in-person events will bounce back.   One of the lessons of COVID-19, Jenny says, is learning how to diversify your business and the ways that you get people to support your business. The pandemic has taught her how to diversify her content, income, and the way she is delivering her services and content.   Connect with LVD here: IG: @ldaviscreative Bitly.com/beppodcast Connect with Jenny Here @goodforyouglutenfree The FYI Conference is going virtual this year: fyiconference.com 

In this episode of La Verdad Duele Podcast, I spoke to high school and college seniors. These folks have worked so hard and checked off all the boxes, but they are not able to celebrate with loved ones. This episode gives them hope, words of wisdom, tips, and things that they could be doing now to prepare for what comes next. Please take a listen, and leave your comment! Our Social Media (IG): @laverdadduelepod Mailing List: LVD Podcast Listserv

Мой любимый танцевальный микс из серии полюбившихся мне ремиксов в стиле deephouse на популярные композиции. Заезжен до дыр и опробован на большом количестве народа. Без джинглов. Отлично подходит для светских мероприятий и тусовок, а также для позитивного вайба в качестве фоновой музыки. 1. Svet - I Like It (Juloboy Remix) (5:52) 2. Boogie Pimps - Somebody to Love (Rework) [Code3000 Remix] (5:16) 3. Serge Legran - Still Care (Extended Mix) 4. Anton Ishutin feat. Note U - Be My Lover (Sharapov Remix) (4:44) 5. LVD feat. Martin Stark - Why Does My Heart Feel so Bad (Far Out Mix) 6. Sofia Karlberg - Rockstar (Nu Gianni Remix) Cover (4:44) 7. MarT - Say Say Say (Funky Groove Mix) (4:50) 8. Pendulum - The Island (DeepDelic Remix) (5:21) 9. Denis First - One & One 10. Toricos, Monoteq - Tell Me (Final Djs Remix) 11. Black Eyed Peas - Where Is The Love (Andre Sarate & Monkeyz Remix) 12. Roger Sanchez - Lost (VetLove & Mike Drozdov Remix) (6:49) 13. Elis M. Feeling feat. DIVA - Inside Your Soul (Sharapov Remix) (5:27) 14. MCB 77 - Hit my heart -- ORIGINAL MIX (5:06) 15. Callypso - Don't Preach Me (Original Mix) (5:01)

Takeaways is a bonus episode I put out every week where I sit down and talk to you about the most recent episode of the podcast. Today I'm discussing my conversation with Mallory Rowan and the following takeaways:Analysis paralysis when it comes to social mediaNiche, then niche again, then niche again and maybe niche down one more time after thatWhy this podcast was more focused on mental health, hustle and burnout than social mediaThere's more to life than hustleHaving non-negotiables and what mine are (make sure you send me yours)FOLLOW USMalloryJacobMy Social Life

Mallory Rowan is an entrepreneur, powerlifter, consultant, and has established a prominent personal brand, growing her Instagram to over 22,000 followers. She co-founded the strength sports lifestyle and apparel brand LVD Fitness at just 22 years old with her boyfriend Josh Reyes (who OG listeners will recognize from episode 3).Having recently put a pause on LVD, Mallory has now shifted her focus to marketing and branding consulting as well as working on establishing her online course #MalMadeMeDoIt which has three different streams, one for fitness, one for money and one for mindset.In our conversation today we’ll discuss what it was like founding and scaling an apparel brand at 22 and eventually making the jump to being a full time entrepreneurs and what that lifestyle is like. We will also look at the negative sides of being an entrepreneur and discuss Mallory’s experience with burnout - including having pneumonia for multiple weeks and not realizing! We also cover why her and Josh decided to pause LVD for the time being, her agency, #MalMadeDoIt and of course how she grew her Instagram, how she goes about community management and more!If you enjoyed today podcast please let us know! Positive ratings and reviews help the show a ton and you can also post on Instagram Story and tag @MySocialLifePodcast for a feature and message! FOLLOW MALhttps://www.malloryrowan.com/#MalMadeMeDoIt - https://www.malloryrowan.com/malmademedoitInstagram - @MalloryRowan - https://www.instagram.com/malloryrowan/?hl=enFacebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/malmademedoit.business FOLLOW LVDhttps://www.lvdfitness.com/Instagram - @LVDFitness - https://www.instagram.com/lvdfitness/ FOLLOW JACOBLinkedIn - Jacob Kelly - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-kelly-633735132/Instagram - @TheJacobKelly - https://www.instagram.com/thejacobkelly/Twitter - @TheJacobKelly - https://twitter.com/thejacobkellyYouTube - Jacob Kelly - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgZxuMnpZ8W47ckjcAoMwWwMedium - Jacob Kelly - https://medium.com/@jacob97kellyFacebook - Jacob Kelly - My Social Life - https://www.facebook.com/jkells97/ FOLLOW MY SOCIAL LIFEhttps://mysociallifepodcast.comYouTube - My Social Life - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwxYWLrtwqUNQDKTicneO9QInstagram - @MySocialLifePodcast - https://www.instagram.com/mysociallifepodcast TIME CODES0:00 - Intro1:13 - Getting into powerlifting6:46 - Going to school for journalism and working in marketing9:37 - Starting and scaling LVD Fitness22:13 - The pros and cons of going full time as an entrepreneur29:52 - Burnout44:10 - Pausing LVD48:26 - Minimalism56:52 - Starting her own marketing agency1:00: 43 - Mallory’s personal brand and growing her Instagram to over 22,000 followers1:20:30 - #MalMadeMeDoIt1:32:54 - Q&A Intro Song: Tough Love - Joakim Karudhttps://soundcloud.com/joakimkarudhttps://www.facebook.com/joakimkarudmusichttps://www.youtube.com/user/JoakimKarudMusic from SoundcloudMusic provided by RFM: https://youtu.be/jaoStyAQN4o

РадиоКоврик - 0002 (Золото 90-х) Еженедельная часовая музыкальная программа. Лучшие Кавер-версии лучших композиций. Хотел как лучше, а получилось идеально! Треклист программы: 00:08 Angelika Vee - Coco Jamboo (by Mr. President, 1996) 03:15 Almeeva - What Is Love (by Haddaway, 1993) 07:10 Benny Camaro & Riccardo Gava - Right In The Night (by Jam & Spoon, 1993) 09:58 9Tendo & Saltwater & Rumi - Be My Lover (by La Bouche, 1995) 12:41 Charming Horses - King Of My Castle (by Wamdue Project, 1997) 15:48 DiscoVer. & Mart - The Rhythm of the Night (by Corona, 1993) 19:14 Fabrizio Levita - Jesus to a Child (by George Michael, 1996) 22:49 Freischwimmer, Little Chaos - All That She Wants (by Ace Of Base, 1993) 25:55 Gabriella Ross - Don't Speak (by No Doubt, 1996) 30:01 Bodybangers Feat. Victoria Kern & Godfrey Egbon - No limit (by 2 Unlimited, 1991) 32:45 Lucille Garners - Genie In A Bottle (by Christina Aguilera, 1999) 36:10 Anna Ternheim - Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely (by Backstreet Boys, 1999) 39:56 Rumble Rokkaz - No Coke (Original Club Mix) (by Dr.Alban, 1990) 45:04 LVD & Martin Stark - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad (by Moby, 1999) 48:09 Nataly Tumsevica - I Breathe (by Vacuum, 1997) 51:44 Afgo - To the Moon and Back (by Savage Garden, 1996) 55:18 Anton Pavlovsky, Trinity - Crush (by Jennifer Paige, 1998) 58:21 Pomplamoose - Believe (by Cher, 1998) Реклама в программе: radiokovrik@ya.ru RadioKovrik.ru https://podcasts.apple.com/ru/podcast/radiokovrik/id1483336516 https://soundcloud.com/radiokovrik https://promodj.com/radiokovrik https://vk.com/radiokovrik https://fb.com/groups/radiokovrik https://www.ok.ru/group/56004317675682 https://YouTube.com/Radiokovrik

On this episode: Mallory Rowan, an entrepreneur and Co-Founder of LVD Fitness and the LVD Brand, comes on to talk about fitness and the industry, her #MALMADEMEDOIT Program, social media and marketing, and shares her experiences as a business leader and "powerful" woman.You can follow and contact her:Facebook, Twitter & Instagram: @MalloryRowanwww.MalloryRowan.comYou can also check out LVD's products and services: www.LVDFitness.comFacebook, Twitter & Instagram: @LVDFitness

In this episode, you'll learn from an entrepreneur who tested her business idea by selling 100 t-shirts before launching their own website Mallory Rowan is the founder of LVD FItness. LVD is a lifestyle apparel company that provides one month of clean water for every item sold. Tune in to learn How they sold 100 shirts before launching their store How to build a community that engages with each other Why the type of content matters depending on which social media platform you’re using Show Notes: http://www.shopify.com/blogs/blog/lvd-vip-list

Mallory Rowan and Josh Reyes are the founders of LVD Fitness, an apparel brand that helps provide clean water to millions. Think TOMS shoes meets powerlifting. For every item sold, LVD provides a month of clean water to a child in a developing country through their partnership with WaterAid Canada. In this episode: The origin story of LVD Fitness The importance of legacy and integrity Partnering with Jen Thomson and other elite powerlifters The behind-the-scenes of running an apparel brand

For the 1st episode of the new season I had a chance to chop it up and talk creativity, quality content, and various forms of expression with two of the most creative and inspiring men I know. John Arano (LVD) and Jim Elli (RTS) are two amazing guys who took the time to chat with me while we were overlooking a glacier lake in southern Alberta Canada. I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did! Be sure to check these guys out and their organizations! LVD and Reactive Training Systems

Josh Reyes is an internationally ranked powerlifter who at point in time was ranked top 10 in the world for his weight division. On top of being a successful powerlifter Josh is also a successful entrepreneur. He co-founded (along with his girlfriend Mallory) the company LVD Fitness, a powerlifting lifestyle and apparel company (although they are in the early stages of repositioning the company, which we'll get in to). In a few short years LVD has established itself as a recognizable brand in the powerlifting community and has some of the top athletes in the sport as brand representatives. Josh and I get into the early days of LVD, how the company started as a class project and how they ordered 100 shirts with the goal to be to sell all of them or move on to the next company. We talk about how he and Mallory spent hours on social media engaging with people and building a community. To that effect we discuss how important building a community was and is to LVD's success. With LVD Fitness becoming so successful we look at what is next for Josh. He has no plans of moving on from LVD but he does have plans to introduce new projects and business into his life and why he plans to add more to his plate as opposed to relax and enjoy the successes he is experiencing with his first company. This is a great conversation and I really enjoyed it. There's a lot of great insight for anybody looking to start their own company and how to grow both your brand's social media and your personal. Oh did i mention that Josh himself has over 14,000 followers on Instagram! I really hope you like this episode of My Social Life. If you do, feel free to leave us a rating and review, it helps the show get discovered by more people! FOLLOW JOSH Instagram - @JoshHReyes YouTube - Mal and Josh FOLLOW LVD Website - www.lvdfitness.com Instagram - @LVDFitness Instagram - LVD Media Facebook - LVD Fitness Twitter - @LVDFitness FOLLOW MALLORY Website - malloryrowan.com Instagram - @MalloryRowan Twitter - @MalloryRowan Facebook - Mallory Rowan (@LVDMallory) YouTube - Mal and Josh FOLLOW JACOB Instagram - @TheJacobKelly Twitter - @TheJacobKelly YouTube - Jacob Kelly Facebook - Jacob Kelly - My Social Life (@jkells97) Medium - @Jacob97Kelly FOLLOW MY SOCIAL LIFE Instagram - @MySocialPod YouTube - My Social Life LVD Fitness's Athletes Jen Thompson Ray Williams Natalie Hanson Maria Htee Kelly Branton Alyssa Smith LINKS WaterAid LVD's Photographer todoist Good Girls Rich Dad Poor Dad Matt D'Avella Pinelopi's Greek Kitchen TIME CODES 0:00 - Into 1:28 - Who is Josh Reyes 2:43 - Getting into Weightlifting and becoming a powerlifter 5:13 - Competing at World's 6:29 - Josh's personal best in deadlift, squat, and bench press 6:44 - Nutrition for powerlifter's and why Josh doesn't use any supplements 9:19 - How LVD Fitness came to be and launching the business 11:19 - The meaning of LVD Fitness and providing clean water with every purchase 13:33 - Starting a business with his girlfriend Mallory and their work dynamic 15:21 - Designing the LVD logo 18:00 - The first web sale 19:18 - Getting traction on social media and growing their Instagram 21:00 - How LVD Fitness got their athletes 29:13 - How LVD Media came to be and their lead photographer, John 32:31 - LVD's employee structure 35:04 - Going to events 37:51 - The importance of growing a community 43:52 - Other platforms outside of Instagram and the 'Mal & Josh' YouTube page 49:26 - Facebook and Instagram advertising 54:25 - Getting recognized in public 59:22 - LVD Fitness repositioning 1:02:46 - What's next for Josh Reyes beyond LVD and work life balance 1:09:32 - Josh's morning routine 1:11:13 - Pros and Cons of being an entrepreneur and why Josh and Mal are looking for part time jobs 1:13:05 - Rapid fire questions 1:26:40 - Where you can find Josh online 1:28:03 - Outro

Mal and Josh are the founders and owners of LVD Fitness & LVD Media, successful strength sports clothing and photography businesses, respectively. Aside from building their business, Mal & Josh manage training, being in a relationship, and their own personal brands. In this episode we dive into going 'All In' on their business, managing traveling and training, as well as touching upon their global mission(s) with LVD. In All In, Natalie interviews top athletes, entrepreneurs, and influencers, with the goal of inspiring motivated individuals to take action in their own lives. Whether you're into fitness, health, business, or general self-improvement and well-being, All In shares the stories of top performers to provide you with tips, tools, and tactics you can use to learn and grow in all aspects of your life. Links: @LVDFITNESS @LVDMEDIA @MALLORYROWAN @LVDJOSH www.lvdfitness.com www.malloryrowan.com http://www.natalieallport.com/lvd-fitness/

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00:00 LVD feat. Martin Stark - Why Does My Heart Feel so Bad (Far Out Mix) 02:47 A-Mase feat. Sharliz - Tremble (Original Mix) 07:30 Alexander Ben - Bedouin (Rework) 13:16 East Cafe - The Moth and the Flame (Original Mix) 19:18 Kyau and Albert ft. Jeza - Bring You Back (Dezza Remix) 24:25 Solid Stone & Michael Gin feat. Dan Robinson - Moments (Extended Mix) 29:24 Marcelo Vasami - A Fantastic Fear of Everything (Cid Inc. Remix) 34:51 Freydal, Hidden Tigress - Over & Over Again (Original Mix) 39:32 Marcelo Vasami - Plot (Original Mix) 45:00 Sound Shapes Dustin Phil - Kamakura (feat Dustin Phil) 49:29 Mr.Nu, Alper Esmer - Dream On (Original Mix) 53:38 Matan Caspi - Liquid Blue (Vocal Mix) 59:16 Alexey Union - Sometimes (Anton Ishutin Remix) 1:03:22 Strinner - Cjord (Original Mix) 1:08:33 Subconscious Tales - Another Story (Original Mix) 1:12:54 Acid Eyes - Infinity (Danker Remix) 1:17:35 Jay FM - Connected (Original Mix) 1:21:24 Judah - The Black File (Original Mix) 1:26:11 Highly Sedated - Highly Sedated (Corey James & Anckarstrom Remix) 1:30:28 Ron with Leeds - Evoke 1:35:08 Bruno Motta, Phalguna Somraj - Open My Arms (Nollan Remix) 1:38:36 Mhammed El Alami - Santorini (Miroslav Vrlik Remix) 1:43:03 Madoka - Altered (Original Mix)

00:00 LVD feat. Martin Stark - Why Does My Heart Feel so Bad (Far Out Mix) 02:47 A-Mase feat. Sharliz - Tremble (Original Mix) 07:30 Alexander Ben - Bedouin (Rework) 13:16 East Cafe - The Moth and the Flame (Original Mix) 19:18 Kyau and Albert ft. Jeza - Bring You Back (Dezza Remix) 24:25 Solid Stone & Michael Gin feat. Dan Robinson - Moments (Extended Mix) 29:24 Marcelo Vasami - A Fantastic Fear of Everything (Cid Inc. Remix) 34:51 Freydal, Hidden Tigress - Over & Over Again (Original Mix) 39:32 Marcelo Vasami - Plot (Original Mix) 45:00 Sound Shapes Dustin Phil - Kamakura (feat Dustin Phil) 49:29 Mr.Nu, Alper Esmer - Dream On (Original Mix) 53:38 Matan Caspi - Liquid Blue (Vocal Mix) 59:16 Alexey Union - Sometimes (Anton Ishutin Remix) 1:03:22 Strinner - Cjord (Original Mix) 1:08:33 Subconscious Tales - Another Story (Original Mix) 1:12:54 Acid Eyes - Infinity (Danker Remix) 1:17:35 Jay FM - Connected (Original Mix) 1:21:24 Judah - The Black File (Original Mix) 1:26:11 Highly Sedated - Highly Sedated (Corey James & Anckarstrom Remix) 1:30:28 Ron with Leeds - Evoke 1:35:08 Bruno Motta, Phalguna Somraj - Open My Arms (Nollan Remix) 1:38:36 Mhammed El Alami - Santorini (Miroslav Vrlik Remix) 1:43:03 Madoka - Altered (Original Mix)

me to another week of Wheelz-Up Radio. Your #1 Choice for Sportsman Drag Racing. This week on Wheelz-Up Radio presented by Sassy Race Engines we join host Chris Barnes, Tri-State Stock/SS President Mike Carr and Mid Atlantic .90 President Rob Keister. On this week's show the gang will talk with Super Comp Racer Kelly Kundratic. The gang will also re-cap the Lucas Oil Divisional Race at Lebanon Valley Dragway this past weekend and look forward to the Route 66 Nationals & Jegs All-Star events in Chicago this upcoming weekend and get Chris all ready for his big trip to the Mid Atlantic .90 Race in a few weeks. Our guest this week comes from the great state of Maryland via the state of Massachusetts as she begins her journey towards another degree at Tufts University. Who are we talking about? None other than Super Comp Racer Kelly Kundratic. Kelly was pumped and excited to debut her brand new dragster this weekend at LVD but, ran into some issues that we will speak to her about. Kelly, will also talk with us about how important it is to wear the proper safety equipment every run, every time as her father Jeff, is the D-1 representative for Simpson Race Products & ISP race products. Wheelz-Up Radio presented by Sassy Race Engines turns the wheels beginning at 7pm on Wednesday Night. To call in and chat with the hosts or our special guests please call 1-347-826-7505. Also, remember to listen on a special night this week for the weekend wrap-up show with host Kelli Barbato on Tuesday Night at 8pm. She will give you all the latest's results and news from the world of Drag Racing. The weekend wrap-up show is brought to you by our great sponsors at Silfies Automotive and Race Engines & Hudson Performance.

Welcome to another week of Wheelz-Up Radio. Your #1 Choice for Sportsman Drag Racing. This week on Wheelz-Up Radio presented by Sassy Race Engines we join host Chris Barnes, Tri-State Stock/SS President Mike Carr and Mid Atlantic .90 President Rob Keister. On this week's show the gang will talk with Super Comp Racer Kelly Kundratic. The gang will also re-cap the Lucas Oil Divisional Race at Lebanon Valley Dragway this past weekend and look forward to the Route 66 Nationals & Jegs All-Star events in Chicago this upcoming weekend and get Chris all ready for his big trip to the Mid Atlantic .90 Race in a few weeks. Our guest this week comes from the great state of Maryland via the state of Massachusetts as she begins her journey towards another degree at Tufts University. Who are we talking about? None other than Super Comp Racer Kelly Kundratic. Kelly was pumped and excited to debut her brand new dragster this weekend at LVD but, ran into some issues that we will speak to her about. Kelly, will also talk with us about how important it is to wear the proper safety equipment every run, every time as her father Jeff, is the D-1 representative for Simpson Race Products & ISP race products. Wheelz-Up Radio presented by Sassy Race Engines turns the wheels beginning at 7pm on Wednesday Night. To call in and chat with the hosts or our special guests please call 1-347-826-7505. Also, remember to listen on a special night this week for the weekend wrap-up show with host Kelli Barbato on Tuesday Night at 8pm. She will give you all the latest's results and news from the world of Drag Racing. The weekend wrap-up show is brought to you by our great sponsors at Silfies Automotive and Race Engines & Hudson Performance.

1. Cockney Lama – Acid Entally In Love (Original Mix) 2. LVD – Neerds (Original Mix) 3. Igor Kostoski – Diva's Dub (Original Mix) 4. Dubphone – Lieber Felix (Original Mix) 5. Dolfeels – Groove Cabins (Original Mix) 6.Gleichlaufartisten – Atari Mindgame (Original Mix) 7. Davide Di Blasi – Dc 01 (Original Mix) 8. Cardace & Perazzini – Textures (Original Mix) 9. Alejandro Fernandez & Jesus Riano – Kass (Original Mix) 10. Egal 3 – Orchestral (Vid Re'Shape) 11.A1: Medu – Foreigner (Original Mix) 12.Ange Siddhar, Illan Nicciani, Marwan Sabb – Get Around 13. Jay Lumen – Empty Ghetto Bastard (Original Mix) 14. Coqorico – Bamileke (Miguel Toledano Remix) 15. Ka Rí – A 16. TrockenSaft & Friga – Guns Gungsters (Tantsui Remix) 17.Dubphone – Otrava Minunata (Miguel Toledano Remix)

1. Cockney Lama – Acid Entally In Love (Original Mix) 2. LVD – Neerds (Original Mix) 3. Igor Kostoski – Diva's Dub (Original Mix) 4. Dubphone – Lieber Felix (Original Mix) 5. Dolfeels – Groove Cabins (Original Mix) 6.Gleichlaufartisten – Atari Mindgame (Original Mix) 7. Davide Di Blasi – Dc 01 (Original Mix) 8. Cardace & Perazzini – Textures (Original Mix) 9. Alejandro Fernandez & Jesus Riano – Kass (Original Mix) 10. Egal 3 – Orchestral (Vid Re'Shape) 11.A1: Medu – Foreigner (Original Mix) 12.Ange Siddhar, Illan Nicciani, Marwan Sabb – Get Around 13. Jay Lumen – Empty Ghetto Bastard (Original Mix) 14. Coqorico – Bamileke (Miguel Toledano Remix) 15. Ka Rí – A 16. TrockenSaft & Friga – Guns Gungsters (Tantsui Remix) 17.Dubphone – Otrava Minunata (Miguel Toledano Remix)

Nicholas McConnell, PhD candidate in Astrophysics at UCB summer 2012, and Jeff Silverman, PhD of Astrophysics from UCB in 2011, part one of three, talk about their work with supernovae and black holes. To help analyze astronomy data go to www.galaxyzoo.org or www.planethunters.orgTranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: Welcome to spectrum the science and technology [00:00:30] show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Good afternoon. My name is Brad Swift. I'm joined today by a spectrum of contributors, Rick Karnofsky and Lisa Katovich. Our interview is with Jeff Silverman, a recent phd in astrophysics from UC Berkeley and Nicholas McConnell, a phd [00:01:00] candidate unscheduled to be awarded a phd in astrophysics by UC Berkeley this summer. Jeff and Nicholas have generously agreed to help spectrum present a three part astronomy survey explaining the big ideas, recent experiments, collaborations and improvements in observation technology that are transforming astronomy. This is part two of three and in it we discussed Super Novi and black holes. Jeff, would you please start part two explaining Super Novi [inaudible] Speaker 4: observations [00:01:30] of exploding stars. These supernovae have been going on for thousands of years. Whether or not we knew what we were looking at for most of that time, we now know that those were exploding stars. Something that I did my phd thesis work on as well. I want to talk about a two exploding stars in particular that were found in 2011. The first one I'll talk about was found in late May, early June last year. It was founded by a handful of amateur astronomers, which is they find maybe hundred supernova per year. This has been going on for about a decade [00:02:00] or so. Uh, this one in particular, however, was so young and knew that somebody had emailed somebody who had emailed somebody who had actually tweeted about this new supernova. And so I got forwarded a tweet that said there's a new supernova in this very nearby galaxy and I happen to be using the Keck telescope, one of the biggest optical telescopes in the world, controlling it from UC Berkeley. Speaker 4: Saw this in my inbox. And we pointed at this supernova. We were the first ones to classify what kind of exploding start was confirmed that it was indeed [00:02:30] an exploding star and not some other, uh, asteroid that was just along the line of sight in the way or something else. Uh, and so that was as far as I know, the first time that a supernova was ever classified based on a tweet. The other Supernova, I want to talk about sort of the opposite end of having amateurs looking at a handful of galaxies. I'm part of a large international collaboration known as the Palomar transient factory PTF. And this collaboration uses a telescope down in San Diego to automatically monitor a bunch of these galaxies, [00:03:00] run these big computer programs to try and find if there is a new supernova, new bright spot in any of the images. Speaker 4: And this has been running for about two years now and we've been tweaking the algorithms to get faster and faster detections of these new spots. And so in August of last year there was some images taken in San Diego. Dr Peter Nugent, a professor in the astronomy department, was going through some of the newest candidates of what the computer program spit out and saw what looked like a very good supernova candidate and another very nearby galaxy, [00:03:30] a different one, but about the same distance, 20 or so million light years. We had an image from the night before that was very good and there was absolutely nothing at that position. So this clearly looked like a brand new spot. It couldn't be that old. So he immediately gets on the email list for this international collaboration. This was sort of the afternoon in California, but it was already nighttime in the eastern hemisphere. And we have collaborators who use telescopes in the Canary Islands. Speaker 4: So they point to it. They got not a great observation, but an observation that confirmed there was something there. And it was probably one of these [00:04:00] exploding stars by the time that they had worked on their data and emailed us. It was already nighttime in California and Hawaii. So we had the lick observatory telescopes out in San Jose as well as the Kecks in Hawaii pointing at this and absolutely confirming that it, it was a supernova. And within a few weeks we had already written a bunch of papers looking at the data very carefully. And we had actually found this supernova 11 hours after it exploded. So one of the earliest detections of an exploding star ever. People had speculated what you might [00:04:30] see that early and we actually got to throw out a lot of people's models saying we didn't see these things that you predicted possibly confirming some other predictions at this early time. Speaker 4: And this thing is still bright at its brightest. You could see it in a small backyard telescope are good binoculars from the Oakland hills. Uh, I saw it with my own eyes through a telescope, which was awesome. I think just an amazing, amazing proof of concept or success story of this huge collaboration without the the algorithms to, to run this quickly, we wouldn't have realized it was there until [00:05:00] days later without an international collaboration of friends expanding the globe. We wouldn't have been able to track it and confirm that it was the supernovas so quickly and so early and easily. So if I can ask, what's the biggest mystery about the way stars explode that you help solve by knowing about a supernova? Just a few hours after an explosion is actually happened. We'll solve as a strong word in science, but we can at least help get towards the truth. Speaker 4: As my advisor likes to say, this one that was discovered by the Palomar transient [00:05:30] factory in August is a specific kind of supernova that should have very consistent amount of energy. Sort of, you can think of it as a a hundred watt light bulb. It has the same amount of energy output always basically. So if you see it's very, very faint, it must be very, very far away. If you see it's very, very bright, it must be very, very close because it's sort of each of these objects has the same amount of light coming out of it and so we can measure very accurately how bright they are. We can compare to what we know they should be, how bright they should be, and we get a very accurate distance measurement to [00:06:00] all of these different supernova and figure out very accurate distances. How that distance has changed with time, and this is in fact how the accelerating expansion of the universe was discovered in the late nineties using these types of supernovae, which I will plug did win the Nobel Prize last year for physics and we're all very proud of that. Speaker 4: Saul Perlmutter up at the Berkeley lab was one of the winners and many of our group here at Berkeley and other places have collaborated on those projects over the years. So one thing that we aren't quite sure of, even though these are very, very consistent [00:06:30] explosions, we've observed them for a long time. We don't actually know the details of what stars are involved in the original explosion. We have some idea that a very dense star called a white dwarf made of mostly carbon and oxygen is blowing up. What exactly is around that star that's helping it blow up by actually feeding it some extra material and then pushing it over a limit to explode? We're a little bit unclear and so since this star that is feeding the mass to the white dwarf should be very close by. [00:07:00] They should be right near each other. One of the best ways you're going to observe it is right after the explosion, the explosion goes off. Speaker 4: The light and energy from that explosion could interact with the donor star that's right next door and then very quickly the explosion has expanded much further beyond that neighboring star and then it's sort of just hidden until either much, much later or perhaps never. And so by observing this supernova back in August 11 hours after the explosion and then taking subsequent observations sort of for the following few days, [00:07:30] we could rule out certain ideas of what that other star could be. There are very strong predictions. You should see some extra light in certain ways. If you had a certain type of star sitting there and we didn't see that, so it must be a very small star. Maybe something like the sun, maybe something like two times the mass of the sun. Speaker 2: Nope. This is spectrum k l x Berkeley. And you boys have been talking with Jeff Silverman [00:08:00] and Nicholas McConnell about supernova and black holes. So the Supernova is an issue. Speaker 4: Delusion of carbon and oxygen. You were saying that's great. What's the relationship of those explosions? Supernova to the black holes that were now discovered to be at the heart of every galaxy. So black holes come in a few different flavors, a certain kinds of supernovae uh, not the, the white [00:08:30] door of carbon oxygen ones. I was talking about a different flavor of Supernova that come from very massive stars that have 10 times the mass of the center bigger. They do explode as the different kinds of supernova collapse on themselves and can create black holes. The black holes end up weighing something like a few times the mass of the sun, maybe up to 20, 30 times the mass of the sun at the most. But those are sort of just kind of peppered throughout galaxies. What we've found over the past few decades and did a lot of work on lately is the supermassive black holes that can get up to hundreds of [00:09:00] millions or billions of times as massive as the sun. And those are found in the cores of galaxies as opposed to kind of peppered throughout them. And so there probably is a different formation mechanism that's still a very open question, how you make these giant black holes. But there are many, many orders of magnitude bigger than the ones that come from supernovae. Uh, and, and I'd actually say this is possibly a good segue that some interesting observation, right? Speaker 5: Progress is being made on which the most likely mechanisms are for forming these so-called seed [00:09:30] black holes that eventually grew into the monsters that we now observe at the senators of most galaxies in our own universe, in our current universe. Speaker 4: So was that a big shift then the, the idea of these supermassive black holes, Speaker 5: there's possibly a, a complicated relationship between the black hole at the center of the Galaxy and the galaxy itself, the black holes. Gravity is not sufficient to hold the entire galaxy together even though it is an extremely massive object and very near [00:10:00] to it. There's extremely powerful gravitational forces. Galaxies are so large and so extended that out in the the normal regions of the galaxy out near where the sun orbits in the Milky Way Galaxy. The fact that our Milky Way has a central black hole doesn't have any direct impact on our lives as the sun orbiting in the galaxy. On the other hand, if you consider the life cycle of a black hole starting from when it is formed from some seed object or birth process relatively early in the universe and evolving all the way toward [00:10:30] our present day universe over more than 10 billion years, black holes have very interesting variations in what they're doing over the course of their lifetimes. Speaker 5: In particular, when a black hole comes into proximity with a lot of gas, the gas spirals down and is funnel basically into the black hole and whereas some of the gas goes into the black hole and has never heard from again and increases the mass of the black hole. A lot of the guests on its way down heats up and releases tremendous amounts of light [00:11:00] because it takes time for light to travel. The distance between the object of meeting the light and us some of the furthest and therefore youngest things that we see of corresponding to very early times in the universe are in fact black holes that are swallowing tremendous amounts of gas. And some interesting discoveries that have happened recently is astronomers have been using different observational techniques to push further and further back into the universe's past, finding more and more distant black holes, swallowing [00:11:30] gas and learning about the universe at earlier and earlier times based on these observations. Speaker 5: And I think the current record holder now is a black hole that lived about 800 million years after the big bang, which translates to almost 13 billion years, 13,000 million years before our present day now. So looking that far back in time, we can no, first of all that these tremendous black holes exist that early in the universe. And we [00:12:00] can actually using techniques that follow up on the initial discovery and try to get more detailed analysis of them, we can make estimates of how massive they are. And in the case of the one that occurred when the universe was only 800 million years old, we learned that that black hole is far more massive than the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy bowed as massive as some of the most massive black holes that we've observed today. Um, so at least in some cases, black holes appear to have been seated by things that were relatively small, bigger than the tens of solar [00:12:30] masses that Jeff mentioned, but maybe a few thousand solar masses. And yet in the very earliest stage of the universe, they were able to grow tremendously fast and actually gain a ton of mass early in the universe. And then may have lived more peacefully throughout most of the duration of the universe. Speaker 2: You're listening to spectrum on k a l x, Berkeley, 90.7 FM. Today we're talking with Jeff Silverman and [00:13:00] Nicholas McConnell, both astrophysicists. We're discussing supernova. I am black homes. This is part two of a series three. Speaker 5: Another interesting outcome of looking at supermassive black holes early in the universe is it's often easier to see them far away than it is nearby because when they're far away and we see them, that's because they're swallowing a lot of gas. Many of the galaxies in today's universe [00:13:30] don't have gas near their black holes of the black holes are quiet. Uh, and in fact, you have to make very, very precise measurements of stars orbiting in their gravitational field to even know that a black hole is there. So one of the mysteries that had been going around for awhile is if you believe the masses of black holes very early in the universe, and you see these tremendously early things, but you want to know where are they now? They've had 13 billion years to evolve. What kind of galaxy is do these black holes live in today? Speaker 5: [00:14:00] Then you need to look in the nearby universe and try to find their quiet, ancient remnants. And recently, along with a couple other researchers at UC Berkeley, some other researchers around the country, my team discovered the two most massive black holes that we know about in today's universe. Black holes more than 10 billion times the mass of our sun, more than 2000 times the mass of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. And because these are the most massive black holes that we know about in today's universe, [00:14:30] and they're roughly correspond to the estimated masses of the most massive black holes that we observe very, very early in the universe. We think we're beginning to answer the question of what kind of environment do these very young black holes actually end up in after the entire history of the universe between them. If I could ask a question, do you other properties of the galaxies that are now hosting these most massive black holes that are different than other nearby galaxies [00:15:00] that may have less massive black holes, something like the Milky Way size. Speaker 5: One interesting thing about the galaxies that we looked at is that they're also anchoring large galaxy clusters. And so specifically we found the most massive black holes at the centers of galaxy clusters. Now that's not a perfectly robust result because to be perfectly honest, we started by looking in the centers of galaxy clusters. And so we haven't done a wide sample of other galaxies and other environments, but it's possible that there is an environmental effect [00:15:30] based on not only the galaxy that the black hole resides in, but the overall neighborhood of how many galaxies are around that central object that may have something to do with the final massive its black hole. And where do you go with this research now, Nicholas, are there specific experiments? Are you relying on certain data? Where are you drawing this information from? And so we use data from a few different telescopes because these galaxies are distant and we're trying to look at stars in a very [00:16:00] small region of space. Speaker 5: We rely on very large telescopes to give us good light collecting power and good spatial resolution. So we use the Keck telescopes in Hawaii. We also use the Gemini telescopes in Hawaii and Sheila and there is a telescope in Texas that we've done some work with and we are trying to use these telescopes to find black holes in as many galaxies as the telescope committees will allow us to look at. Uh, so each semester with the generosity of, of getting, observing time, we're able to look at [00:16:30] two or three more galaxies and hopefully over a few years we'll have a good dozen or so objects that we can search directly for the most massive black holes in addition to a few dozen that have been discovered by other teams throughout the world over the last 10 years or so. And that really is one of the big limiting factors, isn't it? Speaker 5: The access to the equipment because there's so much going on in astronomy. Everybody's in the queue. Yeah, that's right. A, just like most scientists apply for amounts of funding from [00:17:00] various organizations, astronomers do that. In addition to applying for telescope time, the oversubscription rates for many of the biggest telescopes, the Hubble space telescope, the Keck telescopes is something like eight to one 10 to one. So the total number of requested hours is something like eight or 10 times the number of nighttime hours. There are in a semester or in a year, so it's, it's very much like a funding situation and there is so many nighttime hours and there's so many telescopes in the world. It's very competitive and we're very lucky when we do get access to [00:17:30] these huge telescopes with amazing instruments and computing power. How does that allocated time work when you want to make observations within a couple of hours of something that you've just heard about? So that's a great question. There's been something that has been used by astronomers over sort of the last decade but really a lot in the last five years called target of observations Speaker 4: too is as we call them and it's sort of in addition to or separate from your standard classically scheduled nights where you will use the telescope on this night. You can [00:18:00] also apply if you have a good science case, which many of us do, especially for these kinds of exploding stars that go off and we want to look at it very quickly, you can apply for time that is allocated through this t o program. And basically what it is is the telescope committees have said, okay, you get so many times to interrupt any observer and say you have to go look at this. And as an observer at that observatory, you know that that's part of the program and that at any point somebody could call you and say, drop what you're doing and go move over to [00:18:30] this. And many times people want to do the best science and are very happy to help out. And oftentimes there'll be offered co-authorship or at least acknowledged to, you know, thanking them for their help. Uh, certainly for these two Supernova I spoke about earlier, we definitely used our target of opportunity and they did turn out to be these very interesting supernovae Speaker 6: [inaudible]. That concludes part two of our astronomy series. Be sure to join us in two weeks [00:19:00] when we discuss dark energy or dark matter. Part three a regular feature of spectrum is to mention a few of the science and technology events happening in the bay area over the next few weeks. Rick Karnofsky and Lisa Kovich join me for the calendar. Speaker 7: The fix-it clinic will be held on Sunday, March 25th at the Lawrence Hall of science in Berkeley from one to 4:00 PM bring your broken non-functioning [00:19:30] things, electronics, appliances, computers, toys, and so on. For assessment, disassembly and possible repair. We'll provide workspace specialty tools and guidance to help you take apart and troubleshoot your item. Whether we fix it or not, you'll learn more about how it was manufactured and how it worked. This is a family friendly event. Children are hardly invited. This event is included in admission to the Lawrence Hall of Science. Speaker 3: The Mount Diablo Astronomical Society [00:20:00] holds its general monthly meetings the fourth Tuesday of each month, except for November and December. At the March 27th meeting, UC Berkeley Professor Jeff Marcy will speak about the future directions in extra solar planet investigations. The meeting begins at 7:15 PM and lasts until 9:30 PM the event will be held at the Concord Police Association facility. Five zero six zero Avi Law road in Concord. The society website is m [00:20:30] d a s. Dot. N. E. T. The computer history museums Speaker for March 28th will be New York Times magazine writer John Gardner who will talk about his book, the idea factory bell labs and the great age of American innovation to cake. Speaker 8: You edis Dave Iverson Bell labs was the most innovative production and research institution from the 1920s to the 1980s at its peak, bell labs employed nearly 15,000 people. [00:21:00] 1200 had PhDs. 13 would go on to win Nobel prizes. These ingenious, often eccentric men would become revolutionaries and sometimes legends, whether for inventing radio astronomy in their spare time and on the company's dime, riding unicycles through the corridors or pioneering the principles that propelled today's technology. Bell labs combined the best aspects of academic and corporate worlds, hiring the brightest and usually the youngest minds creating a culture and even architecture that [00:21:30] forced employees in different fields to work together in virtually complete intellectual freedom with little pressure to create moneymaking innovations in Gartner's portrait. We come to understand why both researchers and business leaders look to bell labs as a model and long to incorporate its magic into their own work. The talk starts at seven at the Computer History Museum, 14 Zero One north shoreline boulevard and mountain view. Visit www.computer history.org to register Speaker 7: [00:22:00] Thursday April 4th from three to 4:00 PM Andy Grove, Co founder and former CEO of Intel will speak on the UC Berkeley campus. His talk is titled of microchips and Men Tales from the translational medicine front. Andy Grove had a major influence on the ascent of micro electronics. Can a similar technological advance be achieved in medicine? He will discuss how we might open the pipeline to get life changing technologies to market without increasing the cost of care. [00:22:30] This event will be at the Sibley auditorium in the Bechdel engineering center. On the UC Berkeley campus. Speaker 8: The Marine Science seminar brings local engineers, physicians, computer programmers, and research scientists to speak to high school students and other interested people. It happens six Wednesdays per semester, seven 30 to 8:30 PM at the Terra Linda High School in San Rafael in the physiology lab. Two zero seven the guests for April 4th to meeting is the lead [00:23:00] of Pixars research and future spectrum guest, Tony rose. He will present on math in the movies. Film making is undergoing a digital revolution brought on by advances in areas such as computer technology, computational physics, geometry, and approximation theory. Using numerous examples drawn from Pixars feature films. This talk will provide a behind the scenes look at the role that math plays in the revolution. Visit www.marinescienceseminar.com [00:23:30] now news with Rick, Lisa and myself last September, the opera experiment located under the Grand Sazo Mountain in central Italy reported measuring neutrinos moving at faster than the speed of light from cern in Switzerland. Speaker 8: The Icarus experiment located in meters away from opera has published a preprint on the archive on March 15th showing that neutrinos move at speeds close to the speed of light, but that there is no evidence that they exceeded [00:24:00] opera is measurement was conducted with 10 microsecond pulses while Icarus was conducted with pulses that were only four nanoseconds, 2,500 times shorter. This led to far more accurate timing measurements. Opera head claim neutrinos arrived 60 nanoseconds before it would be predicted, but scientists had remained skeptical in part due to issues with timing [inaudible], Icarus, LVD, and opera. We'll all be making new measurements with pulse beams from cern in May to give us the final verdict Speaker 7: [00:24:30] according to technology review.com and the I a. E. A website. The disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant a year ago prompted nations that generate atomic power to reexamine the safety of their reactors and even reevaluate their nuclear ambitions. Several countries have completely changed course. Japan has taken offline 52 of its 54 reactors and the future of nuclear power there is extremely uncertain. Germany shutdown seven reactors, [00:25:00] also elected not to restart another that had been down for maintenance and plans to decommission its remaining nine reactors by 2022 Italy, Switzerland and Mexico have each retreated from plans to build new nuclear plants and Belgium's government which took over in 2011 wants to make the country nuclear free by 2025 several other economically developed countries including the u s the United Kingdom and France are still generating roughly the same amount as they were before the Fukushima disaster and maintain [00:25:30] modest plans for future construction of additional reactors. But the future of nuclear power in the developing world is a different story. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency or I, a 45 countries are now considering embarking on nuclear power programs as Vietnam, Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Belarus are likely to start building this year and Jordan and Saudi Arabia following in 2013 as of this week, the I a report [00:26:00] 63 new reactors under construction in 15 countries. The top constructors are China with 26 Russia with 10 India with seven and South Korea with three. The remaining 11 countries are building one or two reactors. Speaker 3: Technology review.com reports that researchers at Microsoft have made software that can learn the sound of your voice and then use it to speak a language that you don't. The system could be used to make language tutoring software more [00:26:30] personal or to make tools for travelers. In a demonstration at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington campus in early March, Microsoft research scientist Frank soon showed how his software could read out text in Spanish using the voice of his boss, Rick Rashid, who leads Microsoft's research efforts in a second demonstration soon used his software to grant Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, the ability to speak Mandarin. [00:27:00] Frank soon created the system with his colleagues at Microsoft Research Asia, the company's research lab in Beijing, China. The system needs around an hour of training to develop a model, able to read out any text in a person's own voice. That model is converted into one able to read out text in another language by comparing it with a stock text to speech model for the target language. Individual sounds used by the first model to build up words using a [00:27:30] person's voice and his or her own language are carefully tweaked to give the new texts to speech model, a full ability to sound out phrases. In the second language, someone says that this approach can convert between any pair of 26 languages including Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and Italian Speaker 8: nature. News reports that researchers from the University of California, San Francisco and the Howard Hughes Medical Institutions Janelia Farm Research Center [00:28:00] near Ashburn, Virginia. I found that male fruit players are more likely to choose to consume alcohol if they have been sexually rejected by females. The key seems to be in Neuropeptide F, which is generated as a reward for either sex or alcohol consumption. When fly's denied of sex are given neuropeptide f they avoid alcohol and mammals. No transmitter y might act similarly for more information. You can see their article in the March 15th issue of Science Speaker 6: [00:28:30] [inaudible] [inaudible] spectrum shirts are gradually being made available online at iTunes university. Go to itunes.berkeley.edu and click through to Berkeley on iTunes. Then search for Calex 99.7 FM to finer the spectrum podcasts. [inaudible] [00:29:00] music heard during the show is from a low stone at David's album titled the Folk in Houston made available by creative Commons license 3.0 attribution. [inaudible]. Thank you for listening to spectrum. If you have comments about the show, please send them to us via email. Our email address is spectrum [00:29:30] dot k a l s@yahoo.com join us in two weeks at this same time. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nicholas McConnell, PhD candidate in Astrophysics at UCB summer 2012, and Jeff Silverman, PhD of Astrophysics from UCB in 2011, part one of three, talk about their work with supernovae and black holes. To help analyze astronomy data go to www.galaxyzoo.org or www.planethunters.orgTranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: Welcome to spectrum the science and technology [00:00:30] show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Good afternoon. My name is Brad Swift. I'm joined today by a spectrum of contributors, Rick Karnofsky and Lisa Katovich. Our interview is with Jeff Silverman, a recent phd in astrophysics from UC Berkeley and Nicholas McConnell, a phd [00:01:00] candidate unscheduled to be awarded a phd in astrophysics by UC Berkeley this summer. Jeff and Nicholas have generously agreed to help spectrum present a three part astronomy survey explaining the big ideas, recent experiments, collaborations and improvements in observation technology that are transforming astronomy. This is part two of three and in it we discussed Super Novi and black holes. Jeff, would you please start part two explaining Super Novi [inaudible] Speaker 4: observations [00:01:30] of exploding stars. These supernovae have been going on for thousands of years. Whether or not we knew what we were looking at for most of that time, we now know that those were exploding stars. Something that I did my phd thesis work on as well. I want to talk about a two exploding stars in particular that were found in 2011. The first one I'll talk about was found in late May, early June last year. It was founded by a handful of amateur astronomers, which is they find maybe hundred supernova per year. This has been going on for about a decade [00:02:00] or so. Uh, this one in particular, however, was so young and knew that somebody had emailed somebody who had emailed somebody who had actually tweeted about this new supernova. And so I got forwarded a tweet that said there's a new supernova in this very nearby galaxy and I happen to be using the Keck telescope, one of the biggest optical telescopes in the world, controlling it from UC Berkeley. Speaker 4: Saw this in my inbox. And we pointed at this supernova. We were the first ones to classify what kind of exploding start was confirmed that it was indeed [00:02:30] an exploding star and not some other, uh, asteroid that was just along the line of sight in the way or something else. Uh, and so that was as far as I know, the first time that a supernova was ever classified based on a tweet. The other Supernova, I want to talk about sort of the opposite end of having amateurs looking at a handful of galaxies. I'm part of a large international collaboration known as the Palomar transient factory PTF. And this collaboration uses a telescope down in San Diego to automatically monitor a bunch of these galaxies, [00:03:00] run these big computer programs to try and find if there is a new supernova, new bright spot in any of the images. Speaker 4: And this has been running for about two years now and we've been tweaking the algorithms to get faster and faster detections of these new spots. And so in August of last year there was some images taken in San Diego. Dr Peter Nugent, a professor in the astronomy department, was going through some of the newest candidates of what the computer program spit out and saw what looked like a very good supernova candidate and another very nearby galaxy, [00:03:30] a different one, but about the same distance, 20 or so million light years. We had an image from the night before that was very good and there was absolutely nothing at that position. So this clearly looked like a brand new spot. It couldn't be that old. So he immediately gets on the email list for this international collaboration. This was sort of the afternoon in California, but it was already nighttime in the eastern hemisphere. And we have collaborators who use telescopes in the Canary Islands. Speaker 4: So they point to it. They got not a great observation, but an observation that confirmed there was something there. And it was probably one of these [00:04:00] exploding stars by the time that they had worked on their data and emailed us. It was already nighttime in California and Hawaii. So we had the lick observatory telescopes out in San Jose as well as the Kecks in Hawaii pointing at this and absolutely confirming that it, it was a supernova. And within a few weeks we had already written a bunch of papers looking at the data very carefully. And we had actually found this supernova 11 hours after it exploded. So one of the earliest detections of an exploding star ever. People had speculated what you might [00:04:30] see that early and we actually got to throw out a lot of people's models saying we didn't see these things that you predicted possibly confirming some other predictions at this early time. Speaker 4: And this thing is still bright at its brightest. You could see it in a small backyard telescope are good binoculars from the Oakland hills. Uh, I saw it with my own eyes through a telescope, which was awesome. I think just an amazing, amazing proof of concept or success story of this huge collaboration without the the algorithms to, to run this quickly, we wouldn't have realized it was there until [00:05:00] days later without an international collaboration of friends expanding the globe. We wouldn't have been able to track it and confirm that it was the supernovas so quickly and so early and easily. So if I can ask, what's the biggest mystery about the way stars explode that you help solve by knowing about a supernova? Just a few hours after an explosion is actually happened. We'll solve as a strong word in science, but we can at least help get towards the truth. Speaker 4: As my advisor likes to say, this one that was discovered by the Palomar transient [00:05:30] factory in August is a specific kind of supernova that should have very consistent amount of energy. Sort of, you can think of it as a a hundred watt light bulb. It has the same amount of energy output always basically. So if you see it's very, very faint, it must be very, very far away. If you see it's very, very bright, it must be very, very close because it's sort of each of these objects has the same amount of light coming out of it and so we can measure very accurately how bright they are. We can compare to what we know they should be, how bright they should be, and we get a very accurate distance measurement to [00:06:00] all of these different supernova and figure out very accurate distances. How that distance has changed with time, and this is in fact how the accelerating expansion of the universe was discovered in the late nineties using these types of supernovae, which I will plug did win the Nobel Prize last year for physics and we're all very proud of that. Speaker 4: Saul Perlmutter up at the Berkeley lab was one of the winners and many of our group here at Berkeley and other places have collaborated on those projects over the years. So one thing that we aren't quite sure of, even though these are very, very consistent [00:06:30] explosions, we've observed them for a long time. We don't actually know the details of what stars are involved in the original explosion. We have some idea that a very dense star called a white dwarf made of mostly carbon and oxygen is blowing up. What exactly is around that star that's helping it blow up by actually feeding it some extra material and then pushing it over a limit to explode? We're a little bit unclear and so since this star that is feeding the mass to the white dwarf should be very close by. [00:07:00] They should be right near each other. One of the best ways you're going to observe it is right after the explosion, the explosion goes off. Speaker 4: The light and energy from that explosion could interact with the donor star that's right next door and then very quickly the explosion has expanded much further beyond that neighboring star and then it's sort of just hidden until either much, much later or perhaps never. And so by observing this supernova back in August 11 hours after the explosion and then taking subsequent observations sort of for the following few days, [00:07:30] we could rule out certain ideas of what that other star could be. There are very strong predictions. You should see some extra light in certain ways. If you had a certain type of star sitting there and we didn't see that, so it must be a very small star. Maybe something like the sun, maybe something like two times the mass of the sun. Speaker 2: Nope. This is spectrum k l x Berkeley. And you boys have been talking with Jeff Silverman [00:08:00] and Nicholas McConnell about supernova and black holes. So the Supernova is an issue. Speaker 4: Delusion of carbon and oxygen. You were saying that's great. What's the relationship of those explosions? Supernova to the black holes that were now discovered to be at the heart of every galaxy. So black holes come in a few different flavors, a certain kinds of supernovae uh, not the, the white [00:08:30] door of carbon oxygen ones. I was talking about a different flavor of Supernova that come from very massive stars that have 10 times the mass of the center bigger. They do explode as the different kinds of supernova collapse on themselves and can create black holes. The black holes end up weighing something like a few times the mass of the sun, maybe up to 20, 30 times the mass of the sun at the most. But those are sort of just kind of peppered throughout galaxies. What we've found over the past few decades and did a lot of work on lately is the supermassive black holes that can get up to hundreds of [00:09:00] millions or billions of times as massive as the sun. And those are found in the cores of galaxies as opposed to kind of peppered throughout them. And so there probably is a different formation mechanism that's still a very open question, how you make these giant black holes. But there are many, many orders of magnitude bigger than the ones that come from supernovae. Uh, and, and I'd actually say this is possibly a good segue that some interesting observation, right? Speaker 5: Progress is being made on which the most likely mechanisms are for forming these so-called seed [00:09:30] black holes that eventually grew into the monsters that we now observe at the senators of most galaxies in our own universe, in our current universe. Speaker 4: So was that a big shift then the, the idea of these supermassive black holes, Speaker 5: there's possibly a, a complicated relationship between the black hole at the center of the Galaxy and the galaxy itself, the black holes. Gravity is not sufficient to hold the entire galaxy together even though it is an extremely massive object and very near [00:10:00] to it. There's extremely powerful gravitational forces. Galaxies are so large and so extended that out in the the normal regions of the galaxy out near where the sun orbits in the Milky Way Galaxy. The fact that our Milky Way has a central black hole doesn't have any direct impact on our lives as the sun orbiting in the galaxy. On the other hand, if you consider the life cycle of a black hole starting from when it is formed from some seed object or birth process relatively early in the universe and evolving all the way toward [00:10:30] our present day universe over more than 10 billion years, black holes have very interesting variations in what they're doing over the course of their lifetimes. Speaker 5: In particular, when a black hole comes into proximity with a lot of gas, the gas spirals down and is funnel basically into the black hole and whereas some of the gas goes into the black hole and has never heard from again and increases the mass of the black hole. A lot of the guests on its way down heats up and releases tremendous amounts of light [00:11:00] because it takes time for light to travel. The distance between the object of meeting the light and us some of the furthest and therefore youngest things that we see of corresponding to very early times in the universe are in fact black holes that are swallowing tremendous amounts of gas. And some interesting discoveries that have happened recently is astronomers have been using different observational techniques to push further and further back into the universe's past, finding more and more distant black holes, swallowing [00:11:30] gas and learning about the universe at earlier and earlier times based on these observations. Speaker 5: And I think the current record holder now is a black hole that lived about 800 million years after the big bang, which translates to almost 13 billion years, 13,000 million years before our present day now. So looking that far back in time, we can no, first of all that these tremendous black holes exist that early in the universe. And we [00:12:00] can actually using techniques that follow up on the initial discovery and try to get more detailed analysis of them, we can make estimates of how massive they are. And in the case of the one that occurred when the universe was only 800 million years old, we learned that that black hole is far more massive than the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy bowed as massive as some of the most massive black holes that we've observed today. Um, so at least in some cases, black holes appear to have been seated by things that were relatively small, bigger than the tens of solar [00:12:30] masses that Jeff mentioned, but maybe a few thousand solar masses. And yet in the very earliest stage of the universe, they were able to grow tremendously fast and actually gain a ton of mass early in the universe. And then may have lived more peacefully throughout most of the duration of the universe. Speaker 2: You're listening to spectrum on k a l x, Berkeley, 90.7 FM. Today we're talking with Jeff Silverman and [00:13:00] Nicholas McConnell, both astrophysicists. We're discussing supernova. I am black homes. This is part two of a series three. Speaker 5: Another interesting outcome of looking at supermassive black holes early in the universe is it's often easier to see them far away than it is nearby because when they're far away and we see them, that's because they're swallowing a lot of gas. Many of the galaxies in today's universe [00:13:30] don't have gas near their black holes of the black holes are quiet. Uh, and in fact, you have to make very, very precise measurements of stars orbiting in their gravitational field to even know that a black hole is there. So one of the mysteries that had been going around for awhile is if you believe the masses of black holes very early in the universe, and you see these tremendously early things, but you want to know where are they now? They've had 13 billion years to evolve. What kind of galaxy is do these black holes live in today? Speaker 5: [00:14:00] Then you need to look in the nearby universe and try to find their quiet, ancient remnants. And recently, along with a couple other researchers at UC Berkeley, some other researchers around the country, my team discovered the two most massive black holes that we know about in today's universe. Black holes more than 10 billion times the mass of our sun, more than 2000 times the mass of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. And because these are the most massive black holes that we know about in today's universe, [00:14:30] and they're roughly correspond to the estimated masses of the most massive black holes that we observe very, very early in the universe. We think we're beginning to answer the question of what kind of environment do these very young black holes actually end up in after the entire history of the universe between them. If I could ask a question, do you other properties of the galaxies that are now hosting these most massive black holes that are different than other nearby galaxies [00:15:00] that may have less massive black holes, something like the Milky Way size. Speaker 5: One interesting thing about the galaxies that we looked at is that they're also anchoring large galaxy clusters. And so specifically we found the most massive black holes at the centers of galaxy clusters. Now that's not a perfectly robust result because to be perfectly honest, we started by looking in the centers of galaxy clusters. And so we haven't done a wide sample of other galaxies and other environments, but it's possible that there is an environmental effect [00:15:30] based on not only the galaxy that the black hole resides in, but the overall neighborhood of how many galaxies are around that central object that may have something to do with the final massive its black hole. And where do you go with this research now, Nicholas, are there specific experiments? Are you relying on certain data? Where are you drawing this information from? And so we use data from a few different telescopes because these galaxies are distant and we're trying to look at stars in a very [00:16:00] small region of space. Speaker 5: We rely on very large telescopes to give us good light collecting power and good spatial resolution. So we use the Keck telescopes in Hawaii. We also use the Gemini telescopes in Hawaii and Sheila and there is a telescope in Texas that we've done some work with and we are trying to use these telescopes to find black holes in as many galaxies as the telescope committees will allow us to look at. Uh, so each semester with the generosity of, of getting, observing time, we're able to look at [00:16:30] two or three more galaxies and hopefully over a few years we'll have a good dozen or so objects that we can search directly for the most massive black holes in addition to a few dozen that have been discovered by other teams throughout the world over the last 10 years or so. And that really is one of the big limiting factors, isn't it? Speaker 5: The access to the equipment because there's so much going on in astronomy. Everybody's in the queue. Yeah, that's right. A, just like most scientists apply for amounts of funding from [00:17:00] various organizations, astronomers do that. In addition to applying for telescope time, the oversubscription rates for many of the biggest telescopes, the Hubble space telescope, the Keck telescopes is something like eight to one 10 to one. So the total number of requested hours is something like eight or 10 times the number of nighttime hours. There are in a semester or in a year, so it's, it's very much like a funding situation and there is so many nighttime hours and there's so many telescopes in the world. It's very competitive and we're very lucky when we do get access to [00:17:30] these huge telescopes with amazing instruments and computing power. How does that allocated time work when you want to make observations within a couple of hours of something that you've just heard about? So that's a great question. There's been something that has been used by astronomers over sort of the last decade but really a lot in the last five years called target of observations Speaker 4: too is as we call them and it's sort of in addition to or separate from your standard classically scheduled nights where you will use the telescope on this night. You can [00:18:00] also apply if you have a good science case, which many of us do, especially for these kinds of exploding stars that go off and we want to look at it very quickly, you can apply for time that is allocated through this t o program. And basically what it is is the telescope committees have said, okay, you get so many times to interrupt any observer and say you have to go look at this. And as an observer at that observatory, you know that that's part of the program and that at any point somebody could call you and say, drop what you're doing and go move over to [00:18:30] this. And many times people want to do the best science and are very happy to help out. And oftentimes there'll be offered co-authorship or at least acknowledged to, you know, thanking them for their help. Uh, certainly for these two Supernova I spoke about earlier, we definitely used our target of opportunity and they did turn out to be these very interesting supernovae Speaker 6: [inaudible]. That concludes part two of our astronomy series. Be sure to join us in two weeks [00:19:00] when we discuss dark energy or dark matter. Part three a regular feature of spectrum is to mention a few of the science and technology events happening in the bay area over the next few weeks. Rick Karnofsky and Lisa Kovich join me for the calendar. Speaker 7: The fix-it clinic will be held on Sunday, March 25th at the Lawrence Hall of science in Berkeley from one to 4:00 PM bring your broken non-functioning [00:19:30] things, electronics, appliances, computers, toys, and so on. For assessment, disassembly and possible repair. We'll provide workspace specialty tools and guidance to help you take apart and troubleshoot your item. Whether we fix it or not, you'll learn more about how it was manufactured and how it worked. This is a family friendly event. Children are hardly invited. This event is included in admission to the Lawrence Hall of Science. Speaker 3: The Mount Diablo Astronomical Society [00:20:00] holds its general monthly meetings the fourth Tuesday of each month, except for November and December. At the March 27th meeting, UC Berkeley Professor Jeff Marcy will speak about the future directions in extra solar planet investigations. The meeting begins at 7:15 PM and lasts until 9:30 PM the event will be held at the Concord Police Association facility. Five zero six zero Avi Law road in Concord. The society website is m [00:20:30] d a s. Dot. N. E. T. The computer history museums Speaker for March 28th will be New York Times magazine writer John Gardner who will talk about his book, the idea factory bell labs and the great age of American innovation to cake. Speaker 8: You edis Dave Iverson Bell labs was the most innovative production and research institution from the 1920s to the 1980s at its peak, bell labs employed nearly 15,000 people. [00:21:00] 1200 had PhDs. 13 would go on to win Nobel prizes. These ingenious, often eccentric men would become revolutionaries and sometimes legends, whether for inventing radio astronomy in their spare time and on the company's dime, riding unicycles through the corridors or pioneering the principles that propelled today's technology. Bell labs combined the best aspects of academic and corporate worlds, hiring the brightest and usually the youngest minds creating a culture and even architecture that [00:21:30] forced employees in different fields to work together in virtually complete intellectual freedom with little pressure to create moneymaking innovations in Gartner's portrait. We come to understand why both researchers and business leaders look to bell labs as a model and long to incorporate its magic into their own work. The talk starts at seven at the Computer History Museum, 14 Zero One north shoreline boulevard and mountain view. Visit www.computer history.org to register Speaker 7: [00:22:00] Thursday April 4th from three to 4:00 PM Andy Grove, Co founder and former CEO of Intel will speak on the UC Berkeley campus. His talk is titled of microchips and Men Tales from the translational medicine front. Andy Grove had a major influence on the ascent of micro electronics. Can a similar technological advance be achieved in medicine? He will discuss how we might open the pipeline to get life changing technologies to market without increasing the cost of care. [00:22:30] This event will be at the Sibley auditorium in the Bechdel engineering center. On the UC Berkeley campus. Speaker 8: The Marine Science seminar brings local engineers, physicians, computer programmers, and research scientists to speak to high school students and other interested people. It happens six Wednesdays per semester, seven 30 to 8:30 PM at the Terra Linda High School in San Rafael in the physiology lab. Two zero seven the guests for April 4th to meeting is the lead [00:23:00] of Pixars research and future spectrum guest, Tony rose. He will present on math in the movies. Film making is undergoing a digital revolution brought on by advances in areas such as computer technology, computational physics, geometry, and approximation theory. Using numerous examples drawn from Pixars feature films. This talk will provide a behind the scenes look at the role that math plays in the revolution. Visit www.marinescienceseminar.com [00:23:30] now news with Rick, Lisa and myself last September, the opera experiment located under the Grand Sazo Mountain in central Italy reported measuring neutrinos moving at faster than the speed of light from cern in Switzerland. Speaker 8: The Icarus experiment located in meters away from opera has published a preprint on the archive on March 15th showing that neutrinos move at speeds close to the speed of light, but that there is no evidence that they exceeded [00:24:00] opera is measurement was conducted with 10 microsecond pulses while Icarus was conducted with pulses that were only four nanoseconds, 2,500 times shorter. This led to far more accurate timing measurements. Opera head claim neutrinos arrived 60 nanoseconds before it would be predicted, but scientists had remained skeptical in part due to issues with timing [inaudible], Icarus, LVD, and opera. We'll all be making new measurements with pulse beams from cern in May to give us the final verdict Speaker 7: [00:24:30] according to technology review.com and the I a. E. A website. The disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant a year ago prompted nations that generate atomic power to reexamine the safety of their reactors and even reevaluate their nuclear ambitions. Several countries have completely changed course. Japan has taken offline 52 of its 54 reactors and the future of nuclear power there is extremely uncertain. Germany shutdown seven reactors, [00:25:00] also elected not to restart another that had been down for maintenance and plans to decommission its remaining nine reactors by 2022 Italy, Switzerland and Mexico have each retreated from plans to build new nuclear plants and Belgium's government which took over in 2011 wants to make the country nuclear free by 2025 several other economically developed countries including the u s the United Kingdom and France are still generating roughly the same amount as they were before the Fukushima disaster and maintain [00:25:30] modest plans for future construction of additional reactors. But the future of nuclear power in the developing world is a different story. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency or I, a 45 countries are now considering embarking on nuclear power programs as Vietnam, Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Belarus are likely to start building this year and Jordan and Saudi Arabia following in 2013 as of this week, the I a report [00:26:00] 63 new reactors under construction in 15 countries. The top constructors are China with 26 Russia with 10 India with seven and South Korea with three. The remaining 11 countries are building one or two reactors. Speaker 3: Technology review.com reports that researchers at Microsoft have made software that can learn the sound of your voice and then use it to speak a language that you don't. The system could be used to make language tutoring software more [00:26:30] personal or to make tools for travelers. In a demonstration at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington campus in early March, Microsoft research scientist Frank soon showed how his software could read out text in Spanish using the voice of his boss, Rick Rashid, who leads Microsoft's research efforts in a second demonstration soon used his software to grant Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, the ability to speak Mandarin. [00:27:00] Frank soon created the system with his colleagues at Microsoft Research Asia, the company's research lab in Beijing, China. The system needs around an hour of training to develop a model, able to read out any text in a person's own voice. That model is converted into one able to read out text in another language by comparing it with a stock text to speech model for the target language. Individual sounds used by the first model to build up words using a [00:27:30] person's voice and his or her own language are carefully tweaked to give the new texts to speech model, a full ability to sound out phrases. In the second language, someone says that this approach can convert between any pair of 26 languages including Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and Italian Speaker 8: nature. News reports that researchers from the University of California, San Francisco and the Howard Hughes Medical Institutions Janelia Farm Research Center [00:28:00] near Ashburn, Virginia. I found that male fruit players are more likely to choose to consume alcohol if they have been sexually rejected by females. The key seems to be in Neuropeptide F, which is generated as a reward for either sex or alcohol consumption. When fly's denied of sex are given neuropeptide f they avoid alcohol and mammals. No transmitter y might act similarly for more information. You can see their article in the March 15th issue of Science Speaker 6: [00:28:30] [inaudible] [inaudible] spectrum shirts are gradually being made available online at iTunes university. Go to itunes.berkeley.edu and click through to Berkeley on iTunes. Then search for Calex 99.7 FM to finer the spectrum podcasts. [inaudible] [00:29:00] music heard during the show is from a low stone at David's album titled the Folk in Houston made available by creative Commons license 3.0 attribution. [inaudible]. Thank you for listening to spectrum. If you have comments about the show, please send them to us via email. Our email address is spectrum [00:29:30] dot k a l s@yahoo.com join us in two weeks at this same time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.