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Plone Boot Camp 2 :: March 13-17, 2006
Campers' bookmarks • Camp store • Participants • When and where? • How to register? • Who is your instructor? • What to expect? • What you need to bring? • What you need to do to prepare? • Where to stay? • Social hour • What was PBC1?
When and Where
Phillips Hall Room 328 is centrally located on campus and is a state of the art high technology classroom. There are wired 100Mb Ethernet connections and grounded AC power outlets at every seat. Two video projection screens monitor two computers at the front of the room.
Boot Camp consisted of three parts:
How To Register
PBC2 was sold out!
Early bird registrations completed by February 25, 2006 were only $250 per seat lunches included.
Late registrations which were completed by February 28, 2006 were $300 per seat lunches included.
Plone Boot Camp 2 was made possible by the kind sponsorship of the Carolina Cardiovascular Biology Center, a multidisciplinary, multidepartmental facility which serves as a focal point for interactions among basic, translational, and clinical scientists studying all aspects of cardiovascular disease. Areas of specific interest include atherosclerosis and other vascular diseases, angiogenesis and cardiovascular development, cardiovascular physiology, and diseases of hemostasis.
Who Is Your Instructor
Once again, Plone Boot Camp 2 was taught by the incomparable Joel Burton, Chair of the Plone Foundation. Joel is the best technical instructor you will ever see and hear. Just ask last year's Plone Boot Camp 1 participants.
What To Expect
Check out the Plone Boot Camp syllabus.
What You Need To Bring
What You Need To Do To Prepare
More complete preparation suggestions can be found on our Get Up To Speed page.
Where To Stay
The Hampton Inn Chapel Hill (1740 Fordham Blvd.) was the official hotel of Plone Boot Camp. Shuttle van service will ran daily to and from Plone Boot Camp and the Hampton Inn Chapel Hill.
Social Hour
TriZPUGers and PBC1 alums joined Plone Boot Camp 2 participants on Tuesday, March 14 at 5:15pm for a social hour at Lucy's, 114 Henderson Street, Chapel Hill. Hor d'oeuvres and an open bar for pints were available to those sporting a Plone Boot Camp 2 badge.
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Nuggets' Anthony says he doesn't know about meeting with Nets
The New Jersey Nets are set to make a pitch to Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony – only, he may not want to hear it.
"I'm having a meeting?" he said after the Nuggets loss at San Antonio on Sunday night. "I know nothing about that."
Briefed on the numerous reports confirming the Nuggets have given permission to New Jersey to talk to Anthony directly, thereby circumventing the NBA's tampering rule, Anthony bristled.
"I've never heard about that," he said. "That's news to me. I can't talk to them people. The Denver Nuggets still pay me. I haven't talked to anybody – Masai (Ujiri, Nuggets executive vice president of basketball operations) or Josh (Kroenke, team president) or any other teams. So for that speculation to be going around out there like that, that's false."
Then the Nuggets forward took it a step further.
"I don't want to talk to nobody," Anthony said. "I let the front office handle that type of stuff. It ain't my job to be talking to New Jersey, New York, Lakers, Dallas, no one. I still won't step into something like that. I've seen a lot of people go through that.
"For me to sit here and say I want to talk to them or Masai or Josh gave them permission to talk to me, I think that's false. If that was the case I'm pretty sure I would have gotten a phone call from Masai or Josh about that."
Asked what he would do when he got the call from one of the Nuggets executives, Anthony said, "I haven't gotten it yet."
The sticking point in a Nuggets-Nets trade continues to be Anthony's reluctance to sign a 3-year, $65 million contract extension with the Nets. This trade won't go through until the Nets are assured he will be there longer than just the remainder of this season.
Asked if he thought Sunday's game was his last in Denver, Anthony replied, "No, not at all.
"I'm going to play Wednesday against Oklahoma City, and then against the Lakers. Then Indiana. Yep."
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2013: Year of the liberal billionaire
Democrats and liberal interest groups spent much of 2012 bemoaning an avalanche of outside spending from billionaires on the right, warning that ideological tycoons like the Koch brothers and casino magnate Sheldon Adelson could threaten the legitimacy of the American electoral system.
What a difference a year makes.
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In the off-year campaigns of 2013, liberal and Democratic interests have enjoyed a decisive advantage in the billionaire spending bracket. Indeed, groups tied to just three billionaires — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, California investor Tom Steyer and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg — have spent well more than $25 million this year pushing progressive candidates and causes.
Their arrival on the political scene, at the same time as many conservative donors remain disheartened from the GOP's 2012 defeat, represents a shift in power in the arena of big-money campaigns. And it's the clearest sign that Democrats have abandoned their initial revulsion about outside money in favor of a recognition that they have to play and win by the same political rules as their opponents.
( PHOTOS: Mark Zuckerberg with pols)
The left's swift embrace of outside money is disheartening to campaign finance reformers and maddening to Republicans, who argue that the media and political community hold wealthy progressives to a different standard than donors like the Koch brothers.
Democratic strategist Chris Lehane, Steyer's top adviser, predicted that more liberal super-donors would come forward over the next election cycle and ante up for progressive causes.
"Based on the conversations we've had and the interest we've had, I think there's no question that's going to happen," Lehane said. "People have looked at what's happened over the last three or four cycles, and it seemed to them that it's very important to get involved."
The current election in Virginia is a case in point: Bloomberg's Independence USA PAC is on track to spend $3 million by Election Day, targeting the Republican candidates for governor and attorney general on the issue of gun control. Steyer, a hedge fund executive, has spent millions through the group NextGen Climate Action on digital and turnout programs, as well as countless negative ads against GOP gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli.
( WATCH: Michael Bloomberg's super PAC ad: Outlaw)
Both Bloomberg and Steyer have been ubiquitous in other 2013 elections: Bloomberg spent some $2.2 million against a National Rifle Association-linked House candidate in Illinois earlier this year, and about a million dollars boosting now-Sen. Cory Booker in a New Jersey special election. He also cut a $350,000 check to a group defending two Colorado state legislators facing recall elections over their support for gun control.
Steyer, meanwhile, put more than $1 million of his own money into the Massachusetts Senate special election that resulted in victory for Democrat Ed Markey, attacking both the Republican nominee in the race and Markey's primary opponent, Rep. Stephen Lynch, whom he viewed as insufficiently committed to fighting climate change.
All the while, the group FWD.us — which receives a majority of its funding from Zuckerberg — has put about $15 million into advocating for comprehensive immigration reform, according to a source tracking the group's activities. Those activities have included TV and radio ads boosting legislators in both parties who sign on to the White House's legislative priority.
( Also on POLITICO: Mike Bloomberg ad hits Ken Cuccinelli on guns)
Lehane argued that there's a categorical difference between big spenders like Bloomberg and Steyer, and the ultra-prolific donors on the GOP side in 2012: "The folks who are involved on the Democratic side are not necessarily folks who have a direct financial interest in the policies they are advocating for."
"The fossil fuel industry spends, probably, more in an hour influencing the political process than Tom has over the course of these campaigns," Lehane added. "The best solution here is to actually have a political situation where access to resources does not determine who wins and loses. That's just not the situation right now."


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First it was Twitter and next it will reportedly be Facebook.
Apple will reportedly go further down the social wormhole by integrating Facebook into its iOS mobile operating system.
The move would follow Apple's introduction of an integrated Twitter on iOS 5 last year.
The report gained traction over the weekend after Apple blog site iMore found references to Facebook integration in the latest developer beta of iOS 5.


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Tell us what you think of this site, request features, make suggestions, or let us know what you would have done differently. We'll always listen to what you have to say, and sometimes we'll even change things accordingly!
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seems like the player locator board could benefit from being seperated by area (country/state) for ease in finding people in your area rather than searching the board page by page for your specific state. anyone agree?
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Considering the first page of topics in that forum dates all the way back to May, I would say that separating the forum into country/state isn't worth the effort. You'd end up with a lot of empty sub-forums in that case.
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I know this is a really old topic, but a map set up would be sweet...
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A map set up would be nice. Or, even being able to search for players by state using the profile search.
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Sunday, January 1, 2012
Buddy Up for 2012
How did they do it? They connected with a genealogy buddy to hold them accountable for reaching their goals. As far as I know, the idea started with Amy Coffin of the We Tree Blog and Denise Levenick of The Family Curator Blog.
Not only did Amy and Denise encourage each other to achieve their goals, they also blogged about it.
From Denise came "Blogging Buddies and Genealogy Resolutions, report from the West Coast Partner" and from Amy, "Blogging Buddies and Genealogy Resolutions."
Finding a Genealogy Buddy
If you're a genealogy blogger then finding a buddy might be as easy as asking another blogger. Geographic proximity is not a requirement for genealogy buddies. You can support each other's goal publicly or privately via blogs, email, Facebook, Twitter or Google+.
If you're not a blogger, don't feel left out. The buddy system could work great whether you are online or offline. I think this could be a great activity for genealogy societies to get involved with. They could encourage their members to find buddies amongst the membership to help them with their goals and research.
And don't forget to think locally. Are there any genealogists in your town or region? You could meet your buddy monthly at a local coffee shop. Don't know of any genealogists locally? Perhaps your local library or archive could help you connect with one.
Make It Happen
At the start of 2012 don't just write down your goals. Make achieving your goals more fun by connecting with another genealogist. You'll have a better chance at achieving your goals and have lots of adventures along the way.
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And, with things like hangouts on G+ and chat on FB it will work with buddies who aren't local to each other as well!ReplyDelete
The buddy system wins big time. Thanks for posting this; I'll have to go to the other sites mentioned and check them out.ReplyDelete
I am trying to remember who the person was (a guy named BJ Fogg outta stanford-- psychologist who talks of motivation), but when it comes to getting something done, he said, don't change your behavior, change your environment.
This fits so well.
The environment of a nudging buddy will help you to make the changes in behavior that you need. I've been applying this to some parts of my life, but haven't been thinking of it in terms of family history. Most excellent way to spread "already known knowledge" into a most important sphere.
Happy New Year. May all those little lifehacks tricks help out with family history, too!
Sounds perfect!! Where do I sign up for a buddy? :)ReplyDelete
Great idea Marian! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
The buddy system did start with Denise and me. It was a fluke we made up during a lunch outing, but it went so well that we decided to share the idea with everyone.ReplyDelete
Having a buddy makes you accountable and motivates you as well because you don't want to disappoint your buddy.
Denise and I have a set meeting date in December 2012 where we reveal how we did. If you can't meet your buddy in person, try a Google+ hangout or chat (one of your goals could be to learn how to use Google+ hangouts).
As always, you don't have to do it the same way we are. Make the idea work for you. What's most important is that you get things accomplished in 2012 and HAVE FUN!
I LOVE this idea! But as 'ironhide781' points out, not everyone knows how to create this relationship. Perhaps you can follow up with some suggestions?ReplyDelete
I'd love a follow-up post with suggestions!ReplyDelete
I just emailed a genealogy colleague in England (I'm in Scotland) to see if we can help each other out. Great idea!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the mention, Marian, about our little buddy-system. We didn't imagine we would be such trendsetters.ReplyDelete
Amy's ideas for finding a buddy are spot-on. I would add trying a post on your blog and dropping some bait. Just let it be known that you are looking for a buddy. You don't have to meet in person (but that makes it more fun). Or try a FaceBook post or Tweet... I'm glad to be a matchmaker at The Family Curator too, leave a comment and let's see if someone wants to join the fun.
Here's to the New Year and a new set of goals.


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Poached Figs in Puff Pastry
09.18.09 by Jackie
Our garden is very abundant with figs this season. I gathered a full basket of large brown Turkey figs; they're re fairly wide and about 3 inches long. I love their flavor; they have a copper-colored skin, pinkish pulp and very few seeds. They are simply delicious and perfect for baking.
I poached them first in heavy syrup and wrapped them in puff pastry. It's a pretty easy dessert to make but sure to wow your guests.
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I am, as I've noted ad nauseam lately, insanely behind on my producer/feature write-ups. That streak continues unabated at the moment, but this time it's in favor of actually bringing you some vino recommendation (you're welcome!).
I recently had the great pleasure of being a panelist speaker at the enormous VINO215 Italian wine trade and tasting event in NYC. I'll get to some highlights from the tastings in a few moments, but first I wanted to tell you with as much humility as I could muster that my panel TOTALLY KILLED IT. I mean, look… we had… THIS:
That's just Awesome with a capital A, (in the words of Martin Short's Ed Grimley) "I must say!"
Which is, of course, my humorous attempt to tell you that I thought that my fellow panelists and moderator totally killed it in talking about the intersection of wine and music, and that I was basically just trying to keep up with them.
Of course, VINO2015 was chock-full of enough tasting opportunities to pickle all of your livers several times over, and so here are my takes on a few that turned my wine-geek-critic-type-guy head (with apologies in advance to the VINO2015 organizers, who focused on Southern Italy, while I apparently focused on Northern Italy, as you'll soon see). Also, for those of you complainy-pants who constantly moan that I never talk about inexpensive wines, this your chance to bite it! (I mean that respectfully… I think…)…


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Great pictures everyone! I had some trouble with the "Blue" theme too - I just didn't have any 'blue' moments this weekend!! I'll post mine tomorrow.
Great pictures everyone! I had some trouble with the "Blue" theme too - I just didn't have any 'blue' moments this weekend!! I'll post mine tomorrow.
Lots of great competition here!
I'm not sure if I'm doing this right as it is my first post, so I hope I get it right.
This is our youngest Bouvier, Lena. She's probably pouting because she can't read the ON.
Hey Kevin,
Glad you're joining us. Looks blue to me. Poor Lena. I'll bet she can read. She just can't turn the pages (no opposable thumbs).
Here is my submission.
I don't particularly want to explain why it says Blue to me. Does anyone feel like an explanation is important to viewing the photo?
I'm OK with them, but I admire those who feel that the picture speaks for itself, which it should--explanation or not. Having said that, "blue" has proven to be the most challenging these so far.
I particularly admire Voni's approach this week. Inspiringly creative. Poor little feller. When I hit my thumb with a hammer, the result is also blue, but that refers the stream of obscenities spewing from my mouth making all sailors and teamsters within earshot blush.
I saw many opportunities while riding to capture a shot related to this theme, but I just wasn't in the mood "to stop and smell the roses" this weekend.
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I don't particularly want to explain why it says Blue to me. Does anyone feel like an explanation is important to viewing the photo?
Marshall McLuhan:
"The Medium is the Message"
Boxergrrlie's original question has led to some really interesting discussion. . . . Great thought and arguments all the way around.
The inspiration for these two shots came from washing the car, or to be honest, not washing the car.
When I shoot something I almost always see several more shots, here is the last one. These two shots were taken in my driveway. A work light served as the light source and a piece of white cardboard pulled from the trash was my reflector.
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so it decided to snow on Saturday coming down Independence Pass...
Got Blue Fingers from taking too many photos in an aspen grove...
TinCup, Colorado Town Hall....
was stormy in Aspen area just 35 miles north over the the mountains... but everwhere else it sas just windy and cold but clear....
all images shot with nikon D70 28-70 mm lens with an f11 appature...
the John Sexton Aspen Grove on Independance pass
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I feel like my household has been a little on the grumpy side lately, so I decided to make some playdough and add essential oils to it.
used wild orange, but any citrus blend like lemon, lime, grapefruit, or
orange is very uplifting to energize the mind and body. Sounded perfect
for my family!
Gather your ingredients:
3 cups of flour (I used fresh milled hard white. It's all I had.)
2 Tbsp oil
3/4 cup salt
3 Tbsp cream of tartar
1 1/2 cup boiling water
10-20 drops of essential oil
food coloring
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by stirring together your salt, flour, cream of tartar and oil in a
large bowl.
2. Add the boiling water and keep stirring till it gets a
little stiff, then use your hands to knead mixture until it forms into
3. Once its mixed pretty good and has cooled down, add essential
oil and food coloring. Knead the dough until the dye is thoroughly
mixed in. It may take a bit of arm strength but keep it up!
Once your done, its playdough time for the whole family! Let the giggles begin!
You could even use lavender essential oil to create a relaxing environment while your kids play.
Don't forget to store playdough in air tight container!
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Grumpy dough...
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About $4,000 in cash was stolen from the Hamptons home where reality star Kourtney Kardashian and her boyfriend Scott Disick stayed while shooting their upcoming show, according to news reports.
Disick reported that an attaché case filled with cash was stolen from their Southampton house on July 8, according to Newsday.
Southampton police are investigating the theft, which has been classified as a third-degree larceny.
The couple lived in the home for several weeks while shooting "Kourtney & Khloé Take the Hamptons." The show will follow Kardashian and her sister, Khloé, as they set up a Hamptons pop-up store for their DASH clothing line.
The series is set to air in September on E!, which is owned by NBC 4 New York's parent company, NBCUniversal.


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Military Resistance a Strong Brew
The .45 caliber single-action, semi-automatic Colt pistol known as the M1911 in military parlance is an extremely destructive handgun at close range. On June 26, 2011, U.S. Army Ranger Jared August Hagemann removed his M1911 from its holster. The 25-year-old already had carried the sidearm with him on eight deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, so he knew how much damage even a single round could do against flesh and bone. It was late Sunday evening at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, and Hagemann stood in a training area, stalked by a terrorist more relentless than any Taliban suicide bomber. His opponent's name: post-traumatic stress disorder, the clinical term for a severe form of anxiety usually known by its acronym, PTSD.
Staff Sgt. Hagemann placed the muzzle against his right temple and pulled the trigger. His obituary, published by his hometown paper in California's San Joaquin Valley, said only he had "died unexpectedly," words his widow would dispute.
U.S. veterans of post-9/11 combat are taking their lives in alarming numbers, and PTSD seems to be the primary cause. If the military's response is inadequate, is anyone else ready to help GIs heal their psychic damage? And what are combat vets to do when PTSD shreds their souls, yet their commanders order them back to fight in Helmand Province? For the third time?
Ask Ashley Joppa-Hagemann, Jared's widow and the mother of their two children. She's sitting in a coffeehouse not far from Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), a military reservation in western Washington that is home to 100,000 soldiers, Marines, Air Force personnel, their families, and civilian contractors. Sprawling across 91,000 acres set against the majesty of Mt. Rainier, JBLM was recently called "the most troubled base in the military" by Stars and Stripes, the officially sanctioned newspaper of the Department of Defense.
Though JBLM is nominally in Starbucks country, its neighborhood coffeehouse is no ordinary caffeine bar. Wedged between the southbound lanes of Interstate 5 and a Subway sandwich shop, Coffee Strong is run by vets and strategically positioned 300 yards from JBLM's gate. Active-duty personnel and veterans get free java and advice. Civilians patronize the shop as well, which exists mostly on donations from those who support its cause.
The coffeehouse is part of a grassroots movement of veterans and pro-GI, anti-war Americans determined to help active-duty personnel and discharged veterans receive benefits due them, get out of the military, or cope with what the U.S. government either can't or won't treat effectively: PTSD, the mental illness caused by experiencing trauma, like the horrors of war.
"In the last month of his life, Jared put a gun to his head three times. He told me every day was a struggle to wake up and want to live," Ashley says. "He said the things he had seen and done, no God would have forgiven him."
Jorge Gonzalez began volunteering at the coffeehouse in 2009. He saw it as a chance to help comrades and their families, and also as a kind of self-treatment. A Specialist E-4 in the army, Gonzalez returned from Iraq in 2007. After a couple of months, he realized he was suffering from PTSD and went to JBLM's mental health professionals. What he experienced when he attempted to get help within the military system is not unusual.
"When I finally sought help, I was put on what I call the Army's 'quick fix' program—the antidepressant Zoloft," he says. "After that, I was seen once a month by the psychiatrist, usually for five minutes, maybe 10, and that was just to get my prescription renewed."
Gonzalez says his doctors never discussed coping strategies. "I was depressed. I had thoughts of suicide," he says. "But there was never really any advice from the psychiatrist, like, 'This is what you could be doing to get better.'"
Just as frustrating, he felt his chain of command never supported his attempts to recover from PTSD. "There was no interest in pulling me away from any training," he says. "I was always going out, coming back, getting my prescription filled."
After a year of zero progress, Gonzalez quit taking Zoloft. Then he left the army. He still struggles with depression and PTSD, "but now I cope with it like this: I am here at Coffee Strong trying to help soldiers and their families get the help they have been asking for."
One dangerous practice in today's military, say Gonzalez and his Coffee Strong compatriots, is that soldiers traumatized during their time in combat zones return home suffering from PTSD, and, instead of getting the medical and psychological help they need to heal, their commanders order them back to the fighting. Those who resist are branded "sissies" or malingerers, and earn the scorn of superiors.
The activist group Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) credits this attitude with the frequent episodes of violence related to combat stress that occur at JBLM; these include some domestic crimes so shocking, like the waterboarding of a child, that they've been reported in the national media. Coffee Strong activists point to a series of army investigations that found "systematic" shortcomings in how the army treats soldiers just back from war.
At JBLM, Gonzalez says, 50 soldiers have killed themselves since the beginning of the Iraq War, and this trend spiked in 2011—with 11 suicides from January to October. A Pew Research Center poll released in October found that 44 percent of post-9/11 veterans say they have had difficulty adjusting to civilian life, 47 percent say they feel irritable or angry, and 37 percent say they have struggled with post-traumatic stress. One in three vets polled now says the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting.
None of which seems surprising to a Specialist E-4 named Greg who turned up at Coffee Strong one Saturday last September. Because he remains on active duty, he withheld his last name: "You only have to go on one deployment to see the truth," he says. "America destroyed Iraq. When I got back, I didn't want to kill myself, but I had days where I told myself, 'If this is how I'm going to feel for the rest of my life, then I don't want to be alive.'"
After Greg returned from deployment, he felt a growing anger toward superiors in his chain of command. "I'm not a hothead or a sore person that gets in trouble," he says, "but I was literally afraid I might see them again and break a chair over their head or something."
So Greg self-referred to Family and Soldier Readiness Services at JBLM for mental health counseling. He was shocked at the ineptness of his treatment. "This lady is giving me handouts and telling me to take deep breaths. And I said, 'Lady, this is a big problem. When I was in Iraq, I had an officer who was crazy and vicious.' We were a couple months from going back to Iraq, and I was afraid I was going to harm this person. And she was giving me pamphlets?"
Then he heard about Coffee Strong. "I walked in one day, I sat down, it took me a long time; I tried to explain myself. Jorge was there. He said, 'I get it; I was in the infantry too.' And I knew he got it," Greg recalls, "because of what he said."
Greg followed the advice he got at Coffee Strong, and eventually found a new therapist within the Army system who gave him psychological insight and advice. He helped Greg transfer away from the superiors in his unit.
"When I found out about Coffee Strong and Iraq Veterans Against the War, I felt like, 'Hey, this is okay. There are thousands of other people that feel the way I do. There must be smarter ways we can take care of ourselves,'" Greg says. "Talking to Coffee Strong was a huge help to me."
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Film Trailer: Veteran-run coffee houses like Coffee Strong give service personnel a place to find help outside the military.
Coffee Strong, whose name is a takeoff on the "Army Strong" ad campaign, was started in 2008 by veterans from IVAW. Their aim was to help soldiers get services, and along the way focus some of the anti-war sentiments they knew existed among active-duty personnel. It's one of three active anti-war coffeehouses near U.S. military bases. Under the Hood Café was launched outside Fort Hood, Texas, by 18-year Army wife Cynthia Thomas when her husband was sent on his third deployment. Norfolk OffBase, in Virginia's Hampton Roads area, is perhaps more of a resource and organizing center than a full-blown cafe, but it calls itself a coffeehouse nonetheless.
All three enterprises trace their roots to draft resistance counseling during the Vietnam War era, when Quakers and then others helped draft-age men explore alternatives to fighting: going underground, moving to Canada, jail time, seeking conscientious-objector status. Add the support of veterans who counsel GIs based on their own experience of the system, and you have a well-respected method of resisting war by supporting the humanity of the soldier. Coffee Strong is firmly in this tradition, and boasts a luminary board of directors, including Noam Chomsky, former foreign service officer and retired Army Colonel Ann Wright, journalist Dahr Jamail, and, before his death, the historian Howard Zinn.
Two paid staff and about a dozen volunteers keep Coffee Strong open. All the volunteers pull a shift behind the espresso machine, says Kelly Beckham, who's volunteered at the shop for more than a year. "But we do more than just make coffee."
Volunteers talk with the soldiers, answer questions, and connect them with a cadre of specialists who help with discharge papers, veterans' benefits, or getting access to PTSD counselors within the military or from private health care.
"When you're a volunteer at Coffee Strong, you hear all the time how hard it is to get proper treatment, or just get their paperwork processed," says Beckham. "Or, they're upset with lack of support from their chain of command, how any kind of personal problems get swept under the rug."
Word is that some commanders on base disapprove of the cafe's anti-war stance, although, Beckham says, "We give benefits advice to anyone, whatever their opinions about the military are." She pauses. "We are taking care of what the army has left behind. People shouldn't have to come to a coffee shop to get help with benefits or do their paperwork for medical treatment."
Cesario Larios, one of the founders of Coffee Strong, believes so strongly in the project's mission that he's using vacation days from his paid employment to help out as a volunteer. He says that encouraging GIs to stand up for their rights, including the right to heal, is a first step to opening up room for soldiers to take a moral stance against war.
"That's why I'm involved," he says, "so we can encourage soldiers who have huge moral reservations about what the military is doing. Some of them are choosing alcohol and drugs to avoid the reality of feeling trapped within their military contract and a future that includes more deployments that they don't wish to take part in—that's why we're seeing more suicides. I think that if we can show them that there is a broad base of support from vets and civilians, they will begin to see there is another way."
Between deployments, Jared Hagemann grew more alienated and less functional. Ashley says he'd routinely down a six-pack of beer while driving around in his truck. Sometimes he'd guzzle a 24-pack: "And that's how we spent the first few years of our marriage." In 2009, after returning from another combat deployment, Jared checked himself into 5 North, the psychiatric ward at JBLM's Madigan Army Medical Center. He was separated from his wife at the time, and she remembers that, when he was released, Jared phoned and said he was scared to be alone, that she was the only person he trusted.
She raced to find Jared with his Colt in his hand. Soon afterward, some Rangers arrived. Jared said he wanted out of the unit. They told him if he left the Rangers he would either go to jail or be sloughed off to the regular Army, where he likely would face a 15-month combat deployment.
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Jared tried the antidepressant Celexa but didn't like its effects. He saw several counselors at JBLM. Some forced him to talk about what he'd seen and done in combat, and Ashley says it would send him into a drunken rage for two weeks. The Army accused him of using PTSD as a ruse to get out of work and said if he wanted counseling he would have to schedule it on his own time.
"The Rangers knew all about our problems, but they were no longer doing anything to help," she says. "I even went to the base commander; he told me, 'That's normal. It's normal for the men to come back and drink, abuse their wives and their children.'
"And I told him, 'That's not Jared. My Jared doesn't do that.'
"And he just said, 'That's how they handle it.' And that was that."
Not until Jared's suicide did Ashley find dependable support: "I haven't really gotten any support from the military at all. Coffee Strong treats me like I'm human. They check up on me. They'll even watch my kids and play with them.
"Whenever I needed somebody to talk with, Jorge and the others at Coffee Strong—they've been there for me. They're amazing."
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Robin Roberts came out as gay on Sunday, Dec. 29, saying in a Facebook post she was grateful for her "longtime girlfriend" Amber Laign.
But the "Good Morning America" host isn't the first celebrity to shed some light on her personal life in 2013. Roberts follows in the footsteps of fellow TV personalities, actors and athletes who all spoke publicly about their sexuality for the first time in the past year.
Let's take a look back at some of the celebrities who came out as gay in 2013!
Tom Daley: In early December, the British Olympic diver revealed in a heartfelt YouTube video he was dating a man (later revealed to be Oscar-winning writer Dustin Lance Black). "Of course, I still fancy girls," he said, "but right now I'm dating a guy and I couldn't be happier."
PHOTOS: Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black get matching rainbow socks!
Bob Harper: On an episode of "The Bigger Loser" that aired in late November, the veteran trainer came out to inspire a contestant. "I haven't talked about my sexuality on this show ever, and now meeting Bobby [Saleem], I really do believe this is the right time," he said. "I want to show Bobby that he doesn't have to live in shame."
"I totally understand what you're talking about. I totally get it--I'm gay," he said. "I think that when I came out, when I was 17 years old, it was one of those kind of things where I realized there were so many obstacles...But being gay doesn't mean being weak. Being gay doesn't mean that you are less than anybody else. It's just who you are."
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Wentworth Miller: The "Prison Break" star decided to reveal his sexuality in August after being invited to attend the St. Petersburg International Film Festival in Russia. In an open letter to the festival's director, Wentworth explained that "as a gay man" he "must decline" the invitation, explaining he was "deeply troubled by the current attitude toward and treatment of gay men and women by the Russian government."
"The situation is in no way acceptable," he added, "and I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly."
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Darren Young: In August, the WWE superstar became the first ever openly gay pro wrestler, telling a TMZ cameraman, "I'm gay, and I'm happy. I'm very happy." He later admitted on "Today" he "was terrified" to publicly address his sexuality, but said, "At the end of the day, I want to be a role model. I want to be a role model to people who are afraid to come out, I want to be there and speak at functions and tell my story."
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Frank Ocean: In July, the "Novacane" singer revealed on tumblr that his first love was a man, saying the relationship "changed my life." He also thanked the people in his life who kept his "story" safe, adding, "I don't have any secrets I need to keep anymore...I feel like a free man."
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Jason Collins: The NBA center came out in an article he penned for Sports Illustrated's May 6 issue. "I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation," he wrote. "I wish I wasn't the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, 'I'm different.' If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand."
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Ray Kurzweil is, by all accounts, a genius. He holds nineteen honorary doctorates, has founded a half-dozen successful companies, and was a major contributor to the field of artificial intelligence. He built some of the first practical systems for recognizing speech and scanning text. Time magazine recently featured Kurzweil on its cover, and Fortune described him as "a legendary inventor with a history of mind-blowing ideas." And now he has a new book, with a subtitle that suggests he has found another such idea: "How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed."
In the preface to the book Kurzweil argues, with good reason, that "reverse-engineering the human brain may be regarded as the most important project in the universe." He then presents a theory he calls "the pattern recognition theory of mind (PRTM)" which he claims "describes the basic algorithm of the neocortex (the region of the brain responsible for perception, memory, and critical thinking)." Kurzweil suggests that his conclusions are "inescapable" and that the principles he espouses can be used "to vastly extend the power of our own intelligence."
That would be big news. But does the book deliver? Kurzweil's critics have not always been kind; the biologist PZ Myers once wrote, "Ray Kurzweil is a genius. One of the greatest hucksters of the age." Doug Hofstadter, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Gödel, Escher, Bach" has been even harsher, saying once in an interview that "if you read Ray Kurzweil's books … what I find is that it's a very bizarre mixture of ideas that are solid and good with ideas that are crazy. It's as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad."
Which Kurzweil shows up to explain the mind? The brilliant inventor and autodidact or the man who has written one book on diets and another on immortality?
Kurzweil is at his best when explaining how machines work. There is a lucid discussion of the discoveries of the early computer pioneers Alan Turing and John von Neumann, clear explanations of several complex computer algorithms, and generous insights into the history of his own companies.
More dubious, however, is a chapter called "Transcendent Abilities," which is a lyrical but scientifically empty chapter on love, creativity, and poetry. Kurzweil offers vague gestures toward an unusual kind of neuron called spindle cells, which he suggests are involved in "handling emotion and moral judgment," but offers no references and very little direct evidence.
Fortunately, spindle cells, however, are only a tiny part of the narrative, introduced, perhaps, as a sop to Kurzweil's new-agey readers (who read about them before, in language that is almost word-for-word the same, in his 2005 book, "The Singularity is Near"). In short order, Kurzweil returns to the business of explicating and defending his main thesis—according to which the part of the brain that is most associated with reasoning and conscious thought, the neocortex, is seen as a hierarchical set of pattern-recognition devices, in which complex entities are recognized as a statistical function of their constituent parts.
Kurzweil illustrates this thesis in the context of a system for reading words. At the lowest level, a set of pattern recognizers search for properties like horizontal lines, diagonal lines, curves, and so forth; at the next level up, a set of pattern recognizers hunt for letters (A, B, C, and so forth) that are built out of conjunctions of lines and curves; and at still a higher level, individual pattern recognizers look for particular words (like APPLE, PEAR, and so on that are built out of conjunctions of letters).
The acronym P.R.T.M., for Pattern Recognition Theory of Mind, is new, but to scientists in the field, the basic idea is significantly less new than Kurzweil's subtitle ("The Secret of Human Thought Revealed") lets on. Anyone who knows the history of A.I. will recognize that the basic theory (and even the diagrams that are used to illustrate it) is very much in the spirit of a textbook model of vision that was introduced in 1980, known as neocognitron. As Kurzweil fleshes it out, the P.R.T.M. is even more like the Hierarchical Temporary Memory system proposed several years ago by his fellow entrepreneur Jeff Hawkins (who founded PalmPilot). Kurzweil's weak efforts at differentiating his theory from Hawkins's—"the most important difference is the set of parameters that I have included for each input … especially the size and size variability parameters"—are likely to convince no one.
Even more disappointing is the fact that Kurzweil never bothers to do what any scientist, especially one trained in computer science, would immediately want to do, which is to build a computer model that instantiated his theory, and then compare the predictions of the model with real human behavior. Does the P.R.T.M. predict anything about human behavior that no other theory has predicted before? Does it give novel insight into any long-standing puzzles in human nature? Kurzweil never tries to find out.
Instead, Kurzweil compares his theory with the physical structure of the brain, hurling a huge amount of neuroanatomy at the reader, and asserting, without a lot of reflection, that it all fits his theory. A recent paper (more controversial than Kurzweil may have realized) claims that the brain is neatly organized into a kind of three-dimensional grid system. Kurzweil happily takes this as evidence that he was right all along, but the fact that the brain is organized doesn't mean it is organized as Kurzweil suggests. We already knew that the brain is structured, but the real question is what all that structure does, in technical terms. How do the neural mechanisms in the brain map onto the brain's cognitive mechanisms? Without an understanding of that, Kurzweil's pointers to neuroanatomy serve more as razzle-dazzle than real evidence for his theory.
The deepest problem is that Kurzweil wants badly to provide a theory of the mind and not just the brain. Of course, the mind is a product of the brain, as Kurzweil well knows, but any theory that seriously engages with what the mind is has to reckon with human psychology—with human behavior and the mental operations that underlie it. Here, Kurzweil seems completely out of his depth. The main place where the book discusses psychology is a chapter called "Thought Experiments on Thinking," a scant nine pages devoted to "thought experiments" that Kurzweil seems to have performed while sitting in his arm chair. Not a single cognitive psychologist or study is referred to, and he scarcely engages the phenomena that make the human mind so distinctive. There's no mention, for example, of Daniel Kahneman's Nobel Prize winning work on human irrationality, Chomsky's arguments about innate knowledge that sparked the cognitive revolution, or Elizabeth Spelke's work on cognitive development demonstrating the highly nuanced structure that is present within the mind even from an extremely early age. Similarly absent is any reference to the vast literature on anthropology, and what is and isn't culturally universal.
At the end Kurzweil leaves us with a theory that is generic. Almost anything any creature does could at some level be seen as hierarchical-pattern recognition; that's why the idea has been around since the late nineteen-fifties. But simply asserting that the mind is a hierarchical-pattern recognizer by itself tells us too little: it doesn't say why human beings are the sort of creatures that use language (rodents presumably have a capacity for hierarchical-pattern recognition, too, but don't talk), and it doesn't explain why many humans struggle constantly with issues of self-control, nor why we are the sort of creatures who leave tips in restaurants in towns to which we will never return.
Kurzweil is so confident in his theory that he insists it simply has to be correct. Early in the book, he claims that "the model I have presented is the only possible model that satisfies all the constraints that the research and our thought experiments have established." He later declares that "there must be an essential mathematical equivalence to a high degree of precision between the actual biology and our attempt to emulate it; otherwise these [A.I.] systems would not work as well as they do."
What Kurzweil doesn't seem to realize is that a whole slew of machines have been programmed to be hierarchical-pattern recognizers, and none of them works all that well, save for very narrow domains like postal computers that recognize digits in handwritten zip codes. This summer, Google built the largest pattern recognizer of them all, a system running on sixteen thousand processor cores that analyzed ten million YouTube videos and managed to learn, all by itself, to recognize cats and faces—which initially sounds impressive, but only until you realize that in a larger sample (of twenty thousand categories), the system's overall score fell to a dismal 15.8 per cent.
The real lesson from Google's "cat detector" is that, even with the vast expanses of data and computing power available to Google, hierarchical-pattern recognizers still stink. They cannot come close to actually understanding natural language, or anything else for which complex inference is required. The world's most impressive A.I. system, Watson (the I.B.M. system that beat the world's best humans on "Jeopardy") does some statistical analysis in a fashion that is reminiscent of Kurzweil's proposal. But it supplements that with a vast array of other systems, many of which work on entirely different principles (derived from symbolic logic). The kind of one-size-fits-all principle of hierarchical-pattern learning that Kurzweil advocates doesn't work on its own in artificial intelligence, and it doesn't provide an adequate explanation of the brain, either.
At the beginning of the book, Kurzweil promises to reverse engineer the human brain in hopes of using the brain's secrets to advance artificial intelligence, but what he's really done is the opposite: reverse engineer his own companies' computer systems in order to propose a theory about how the mind works.
Ultimately Kurzweil is humbled by a challenge that has beset many a great thinker extending far beyond his field—Kurzweil doesn't know neuroscience as well as he knows artificial intelligence, and doesn't understand psychology as well as either. (And for that matter he doesn't know contemporary A.I. as well as the A.I. of his heyday, when he was running his companies thirty years ago.)
To truly reverse-engineer the human mind, we may need a real consilience, to borrow a word from the Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson, a coming together of workers in A.I. with researchers who study the human mind from a wide range of perspectives—neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists, and maybe even artists, musicians, and writers, too. The challenge of figuring out how the mind works is too complicated for even the smartest of entrepreneurs to solve on their own.
Gary Marcus, a professor of psychology at N.Y.U., is the author of "Guitar Zero: The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age" and "Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind."
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The world's best snowboarders descend on Buttermilk in Aspen, Colorado for a contest unlike anything ever seen before, featuring the largest and most progressive halfpipe structure built to date.
At Red Bull Double Pipe, which airs on NBC, Saturday April 12 at 2pm EST/11am PST as part of the Red Bull Signature Series, two 22' superpipes were constructed side-by-side, complete with rails, wallrides, and other unique features sprinkled throughout the custom built snow feature.
The competition includes 10 current and former Olympians, highlighted by Greg Bretz, Scotty Lago and Taylor Gold.
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