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Five Area Firms Get DOE Funds for Concentrating Solar Power Research

socalTECH

According to DOE Secretary Steven Chu, it has selected thirteen award winners in Concentrating Solar Power Systems Studies, and Concentrating Solar Power Component Feasibility Studies. for the design, build, and testing of a concentrating solar power plant system; Canoga Park-based Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne receiving $10.2M

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5 Common Misconceptions of Web Design: Insights from the Yoga Sutras

From the Venture Trenches

At City Yoga the other day our instructor, Anthony Benenati began the class by reciting the 5 Yoga Sutras known as Kleshas or stains that prevent students from achieving enlightenment. The Kleshas, Anthony told the class, are: Ignorance, Ego, Attachment, Aversion and Fear of losing one’s sense of self.

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

socalTECH

The firm notably has Atari founder Nolan Bushnell as an advisor and serving as its chief game designer. I studied cognitive science, the study of the brain, as an undergraduate. So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time.

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“Visibility” — A Powerful Lesson on DACA and The American Dream from @LeonKrauze

Both Sides of the Table

The millions of immigrant workers who silently wash dishes in restaurants, are prep cooks, pick the agriculture that feeds us, build our houses, clean our houses, watch our kids and do our gardening are vilified as criminals by those currently in power to exploit the fears of working-class white, non-Hispanic, Americans. Invisibility.

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5 Common Misconceptions of Web Design: Insights from the Yoga Sutras

From the Venture Trenches

At City Yoga the other day our instructor, Anthony Benenati began the class by reciting the 5 Yoga Sutras known as Kleshas or stains that prevent students from achieving enlightenment. The Kleshas, Anthony told the class, are: Ignorance, Ego, Attachment, Aversion and Fear of losing one’s sense of self.

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Startup Lessons From Olympic Innovators

InfoChachkie

He quickly went from being a mediocre collegiate swimmer to a world-class champion, winning four Olympic medals in 1988. Thus, an otherwise non-competitive swimmer could conceivably defeat world-class champions by dolphin kicking the majority of the pool’s length. According to Mr. Fosbury, "It was not by design at all.

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Budding Entrepreneurs at CSLA? Yes, Really!

Steve Reich

Mark Lieberman, of BTC fame and a Regional Economic Development Manager for LA County, team teaches a prototype Entrepreneurship class there. I suppose you don’t get admitted to an Engineering Master’s program if you’re not… ) They came from as far away as Pakistan to study at CSLA.

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