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Women's security conference touches all bases
Privacy, legislation, hacking, risk management and intrusion detection will be high on the agenda at the Executive Women's Forum on Information Security Sept. 10-12 in Fort Myers, Fla. Influential women in IT will discuss the most challenging issues facing information security today. In this interview, Hilarie Orman, founder and CEO of Purple Streak, a provider of enterprise cryptography solutions in Salem, Utah, and panelist for a session titled "Government's Role, Then & Now" at the Executive Women's Forum, talks about her career and the state of information security. A graduate of MIT with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics, Orman has extensive experience in information security. She's worked in research and development for various organizations, including the University of Arizona and Provo, Utah-based Novell's Volera division, a provider of information security products.
Could you provide some examples of 'clueless legislation?'
Clueless legislation includes the current toothless antispam laws, WIPO [World Intellectual Property Organization] which stifles use of digital media, and Sen. Orrin Hatch's belief that illegal downloaders should have their computers destroyed. Good legislation levels the playing field for businesses and fosters innovation, like legislation that allows digital signatures for contracts. How did you become involved with information security?
I became a computer programmer, and I fell into operating system work and networking and was lucky enough to work on an early secure operating system for networking. That involved all kinds of things -- very high quality programming, analysis, cryptography and formal verification. So, through that, I met people who were working on interesting problems and just retained an association with them in the field. What do you see as the biggest challenge to being a woman in information security? Or maybe you don't view yourself in this manner?
Well, I didn't for a long time view myself as a 'woman' in information security. In fact, it was my observation for a long time that it wasn't particularly unusual to be a woman in computer security. This was, though, 20 years ago. And having gone to MIT 30 years ago, I certainly knew what it was like to be the only woman in a classroom or auditorium, so I felt that information security was a fairly female-friendly field for a while.
Now I think the challenge that's come up is that it's much more a day-to-day adversarial field where you're trying to, in essence, dissuade attacks from teenage boys [from] all over the world. And I think that has given it a much more male kind of influence. I think that there's an image problem for a woman in this field. They'll say, 'Oh, maybe you know some mathematical stuff, but the real nitty-gritty of protecting my server from a hacker, do you know that?' What role should the government play in setting standards?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is an example. They set standards for cryptography and authentication for the government, but they're available for industry if they want to voluntarily adopt them. I think that's an excellent use of standards, and that could be widened quite a bit. So it's really a problem of deploying a solution? All the tools are there to meet it; it's just a question of can you get them?
Tools are there. Whether or not they're non-draconian tools is another question. And I think that is one challenge -- making the solutions practical, so that they actually save people trouble rather than just causing them false alarms.
But the other major challenge is the Internet. And it's very vulnerable. There are many solutions, but there is no overall plan or solution. And it remains an extremely fragile and vulnerable infrastructure. Do you think federal legislation advances or hinders information security?
Well, as with all legislation, it's double-edged. One of the points that I'm going to make in the panel is that clueless legislation is extremely harmful, and we've certainly seen some examples of clueless legislation. On the other hand, it's a learning process for everyone, even for legislators and for practitioners who have to deal with the consequences of legislation. Some of it is definitely helpful, but I think it focuses far too much on protecting business interests. Legislative momentum is for protecting particular kinds of business on the Internet rather than the Internet. What do you see as some of the biggest threats and obstacles to information security?
There's a lot of talk about insider breaches and how your workers are the weakest link. They're the biggest threat to security.
Well, [workers] certainly are. That's true. And that is a challenge information security is prepared to face, but not many people want to deploy the solutions. And I think that's coming along, but it's very slow. This is a decades-long process. Do you have any advice for young women interested entering the security field?
My advice is don't be distracted by hacking. [Information security] is a highly analytical field. This is especially important for young women to understand. There are extremely interesting problems in the field, and [it's important] to view it as a high quality analytical exercise, not a game.
Hacking often seems to be an aggressive and interesting game, but it is [a] usually simple-minded repetition of mischief. On the other hand, designing or deploying general and useful solutions is a challenging exercise, worthy of creative and analytic minds.
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I'm delighted that, in collaboration with University College London's Urban Laboratory, the audio-tour, podcast and blog of the Counterspeculations project are now widely available! This project stems from a inquiry-led walking tour of The City of London financial district in April 2017 I organized with Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou. See below for more information!
A write-up on the project from The Sociological Review blog:
Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Max Haiven "Pedestrian Speculators: Methods for Reimagining Financialization Together, on Foot?," October 22, 2018 – https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/blog/pedestrian-speculators-methods-for-reimagining-financialization-together-on-foot.html
From https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab/news/counterspeculations-audio-tour
Welcome to the Counterspeculations audiotour, an interactive walking guide to the City of London, the square mile of England's capital known for centuries as a hub for the development of finance capital.
This tour and the audio you will hear is based on an walking event held in The City on April 14, 2018, organized by Dr. Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Dr. Max Haiven with over 15 speakers who, collectively, mapped out some contours of the history and present of "financialization" through the navigation of these historic streets.
This audiotour has been prepared thanks to the support of University College London Urban Laboratory and the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL) based at Lakehead University, Canada.
Navigation of this page
- Interactive map
- Listen to or download the audio
- Special accompanying art projects
- Read articles from the contributors
- Additional information
Use the interactive map
This interactive Google Map can be navigated on your smartphone. Just select the tour locations and follow the Soundcloud links to listen to a roughly 15-minute presentation at each station. Alternatively, download the audio to your smartphone via the file links of the podcast below and take them with you.
Direct link to the map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1ooBtTdhd3_o3BXu9by68dBEvRgVQR2tP&usp=sharing
Listen to or download the audio
Below, you can find links to the audio from each individual section of the tour, which you can download or stream. You can also listen to them all on Soundcloud at the following link: https://soundcloud.com/uclurbanlab/sets/counterspeculations/
- Conrad Moriarty-Cole, "Machine Learning and the Financial Imaginary.": Does artificial intelligence have an imagination? In this presentation, originally recorded at the headquarters of the investment bank Goldman Sachs, Conrad Moriarty expands our understanding of the hyper-development of data analytics, machine learning and algorithmic trading in today's financial worlds. Moriarty-Cole is a PhD Candidate and associate lecturer in cultural studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. https://soundcloud.com/uclurbanlab/counterspeculations-01-conrad-moriarty-cole
- Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, "The Speculative Spirit of Finance": The sphere of finance declares itself to be a secular, rational and even scientific domain of risk management and competitive calculation. But in this presentation, originally recorded on the steps of Saint Paul's Cathedral, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou suggests that, from a sociological perspective, the world of speculative capital has many affinities to religions past and present. Komporozos-Athanasiou is an assistant professor of social theory at University College London where he also heads the Sociology and Social Theory Research Group. https://soundcloud.com/uclurbanlab/counterspeculations-2-aris-komporozos-athanasiou
- Robbie Richardson, "North American 'Indians' and British Modernity": How did 18th century British myths and fantasies about Indigenous people in the Americas inform and shape the growth of its financialized empire? In this episode of the Counterspeculations audio tour, originally recorded at the base of the statue of Queen Anne which stands in front of St. Paul's Cathedral, Robbie Richardson presents on "North American Indians and 'British' Modernity." Richardson is a lecturer in 18th century literature at the university of Kent and a member of Panieau First Nation in what is currently Canada. https://soundcloud.com/uclurbanlab/counterspeculations-3-robbie-richardson/
- David Benque, "The Monistic Almanac" : For centuries, the peculiar form of publication known as an almanacs has provided eager readers with a tantalizing mixture of advice and speculation based on a combination of worldly and metaphysical information. In this presentation, designer David Benque presents his experimental project the Monistic Almanac, a reflection on and guide to the digital arcana of financialization. Benque is a critical designer living and working in London, where he is also a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art. https://soundcloud.com/uclurbanlab/counterspeculations-4-david-benque/
- Ed Mayo, "The Origins of Mutuality.": Today, the Square Mile of the City of London is home to financial corporations that lionize the virtues of competition and profiteering. But in a bygone age it was an area organized by and around guilds that laid down roots of mutuality and cooperation still bear fruit today. In this presentation, which was originally recorded in a small part across the street from the Goldsmiths' Hall, Ed Mayo, who is Secretary General of Co-operatives UK, speaks of "the origins of mutuality." Mayo is also a former director of the New Economics Foundation and the author of a recent book on values in business and leadership. https://soundcloud.com/uclurbanlab/counterspeculations-5-ed-mayo/
- Judith Suissa, "'No Gods, No Masters'; Antisemitic Tropes and Utopian Ideals in Imagining and Resisting Financialization.": The history of finance capital is replete with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that associate Jews with a socially corrosive cosmopolitanism. But in this presentation, Judith Suissa demonstrates that Jewish anarchist societies in London present another history of internationalism from below. It was originally recorded at Grocers' Hall in the heart of the City of London, near the site where the Great Synagogue once stood. Suissa is a professor of Philosophy of Education at University College London. https://soundcloud.com/uclurbanlab/counterspeculations-6-judith-suissa/
- Carla Ibled, "The Fear Index" : While once upon a time we might have imagined that investing and finance was about securing future wealth, today the biggest firms have found methods to profit from chaos and uncertainty. In this recording you'll hear Carla Ibled explain the inner workings of the VIX, the so-called Volatility Index. It was originally recorded outside the offices of Black Rock, the world's largest asset manager. Ibled is a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London. https://soundcloud.com/uclurbanlab/counterspeculations-7-carla-ibled
- Brett Scott, "Alchemy and the Gold Underground." : Gold has perhaps always had a febrile influence on the imagination. And while for some the age of financialization has allowed conceptions of money and wealth to become abstract and immaterial, for others gold is still king. In this presentation, originally recorded at the London Bullion Market, right across the lane from the historic London Stock Exchange, Brett Scott meditates on the alchemy of dreams. Scott is an economic explorer, finance hacker, author and journalist, whose writing on money and technology has been published in major newspapers and magazines around the world. https://soundcloud.com/uclurbanlab/counterspeculations-8-brett-scott/
- Paul Gilbert, "'Political Risk', Imperial Nostalgia & Technologies of the Imagination": One of the oldest firms in the City of London, and a pillar of modern finance throughout its history, is Lloyd's insurance. In this presentation, Paul Gilbert explores how the firm's growth was based in part on the transatlantic slave trade, and the way that these colonial legacies continue to shape the way the financial realm measures and manages risk in the international field. It was originally recorded at the Cornhill Water Pump located right beside the historic London Stock Exchange and in the shadow of Lloyd's iconic skyscraper. Gilbert is a lecturer in international development at the University of Sussex and also led tours of the City of London as part of the Occupy London Tours Collective. https://soundcloud.com/uclurbanlab/counterspeculations-9-paul-gilbert/
- Steven Taylor, "A Post-financial London Imaginary": It seems impossible to imagine a London outside of the influence of high finance and its effects of life, work, housing and the built environment. In this presentation, which was originally recorded at the French Ordinary Court behind what is now Fenchurch Street Station, Steven Taylor draws on the work of Cornelius Castoriadis and other theorists to speculate on a city beyond speculative capitalism. Taylor, who worked for many years as an innovation consultant for companies worldwide, is a graduate student in architecture at the University of East London. https://soundcloud.com/uclurbanlab/counterspeculations-10-steven-taylor/
- Carey Young, "Passion Assets" How has art been transformed into the plaything of the world's financial elite, and what are the prospects and potentials for art and artists in an age of financialization? In this episode of the CounterSpeculations audiotour, artist and professor Carey Young offers her perspective. Young is an internationally renowned artist whose work, in a range of media, addresses themes including economics, law, politics, science and communication. She is also a lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London. https://soundcloud.com/uclurbanlab/counterspeculations-11-carey-young/
- Rachel Rosen, "Playground Ambiguities": What can children's play, and the civic infrastructures that we build to facilitate it, teach us about our moment of financialization? And how can that play guide us towards thinking and dreaming of a society beyond speculative capitalism? Rachel Rosen explores these questions in the following presentation, which was recorded at Tower Hill Gardens. Rosen is a Senior Lecturer at University College London, whose research focuses on unequal childhoods, social reproduction, and migration in late capitalism. https://soundcloud.com/uclurbanlab/counterspeculations-12-rachel-rosen/
Special accompanying art projects
Two presenters who contributed to the CoiunterSpeculations project, but whom we could not include in the audiotour, have prepared work that can be viewed online
- THE GREAT OFFSHORE: The art/activist ensemble RYBN.org has developed a gadget for navigating new psychogeographies of financialization: The Offshore Tour Operator, which leads users to the location of offshore tax havens. Visit the project website here, or read more about it in this interview.
- VERTICAL HORIZONS – THE SHARD: Artist Tom Wolseley's film Vertical Horizons meditates on the fate of the city of London and its inhabitants in the shadow of The Shard, Western Europe's tallest building. You can read more about the project here.
Read articles from the contributors
Many of the scholars whose voices you can hear in the podcast have prepared short articles for the CounterSpeculations section of Public Seminar, the online platform for the New School for Social Research in New York. This section was edited by Dr. Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Dr. Max Haiven. It can be found at the following link: http://www.publicseminar.org/category/verticals/imaginal-politics/speculative-futures/
Additional information
On April 14, a temporary assembly of activists, artists and interdisciplinary academics drifted together through the City of London to explore the intersections of finance and the imagination in the historic district of English (and global) wealth and power. With over 15 presentations on topics ranging from algorithms to architecture, from colonial legacies to anarchist histories, from yoga to children's play, this event sought to understand the speculative powers at work both for and against financialization. Devised in honour of the late theorist of the radical imagination Cornelius Castoriadis, each stop on the tour took the form of a 15-minute informal presentation. Later in the afternoon, the attendees retired to University College London for a panel of artists and critics responding to financialization and a closing conversation.
This event was organized by organized by Dr. Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Assistant Professor of Social Theory at University College London and Dr. Max Haiven, Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice at Lakehead University in Canada.
This audiotour was produced and hosted by UCL's Urban Lab.

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George Mann studied at Royal Holloway, University of London and then went on to the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq in Paris from where he graduated last year. Since leaving France, he has worked in Tokyo as actor/director on Ibsen's Peer Gynt and Under the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom by Sakaguchi. Artistic Director of Theatre Ad Infinitum, George has recently returned to London to direct, devise and perform in Behind the Mirror, the company's debut production, which runs at the Blue Elephant Theatre, Camberwell, 23 October – 10 November.
What first attracted you to the theatre?
The fact that it's live, rehearsed – yet unpredictable – and cannot exist without the imagination of an audience witness to the event.
If you could pick any one person or theatre company to work with on your next project, who/which would it be?
Just one...? Gardzienice and Derevo... united ...as one. One with Ad Inf...?
What is your opinion of Off West End theatre, in general?
Theatre happening Off West End is often some of the most risk taking and experimental theatre around, sometimes it's beautiful stuff and sometimes... it's not. Either way, I believe it's an extremely important part of British and International theatre culture. There's this new piece actually, it's called Behind the Mirror by a new company called Theatre Ad Infinitum, you should check it out...
What was the most inspiring performance you have ever seen? Why?
The Argument, by Theatre O. It was funny, so moving, and just an incredible experience, you came out of the theatre and couldn't even speak; which is great.
What piece of work are you the most proud of?
Behind the Mirror, it's been such a challenge but we did it!
What things in your personal life do you draw from when you perform?
That would be telling...
Aside from yourself ;-), who is the best actor/actress performing on Off West End today?
I have no idea, I've been living in Paris for the last three years, and rehearsing since I got back; is that uncultured of me? And again, I'm sure I couldn't pick just one...
Musical, comedy or drama – what's your preference to watch?
I like all three, I'm not good at the 'pick one' exercises...
Can you tell our readers about what you're doing now/next?
Now, I'm working on Behind the Mirror with my company Theatre Ad Infinitum, a comedy about a Young Man whose Reflection begins misbehaving and competing for the Love of his life, creating a theatre of gesture, which is like mime, clown, burlesque and gobbledygook, all done without words...
Next? I'm working on several projects: a new French play called L'Écrivain Publique (The Public Writer) with French Lecoq Company, Le Jacquerie, in Paris, in French with an Eastern European accent – strangely enough – but it's a project I'm returning to and one that I really enjoy; my character's so fulfilling to play. I'm looking forward to working in French again with this great company of people.
I will be devising and performing in a theatrical adaptation of Doris Lessing's A Briefing for A Descent into Hell with Mercurial Productions at Camden People's Theatre.
I hope to be touring Behind the Mirror if all goes well, and I am writing a new play as well so watch this space...
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Executives from United States electric car maker Tesla Motor Inc will visit Sinopec Group next week to discuss potential cooperation to establish vehicle-charging facilities, an insider with the Chinese company told China Daily on Tuesday.
Talks will center on building charging units around Sinopec's nationwide service-station network.
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three pennsylvania school districts are using fingerprint identification and payment systems to let students buy school lunches with the touch of an index finger. the system was installed by food service solutions and uses afis (automated fingerprint identification system) technology from sagem morpho inc. two of the school districts are not paying for the system because it is still in the testing stage, and the other is paying the us$4-5,000 per lunch lane fee.
fingerprint identification systems have been developed and in use for many applications, including government benefits distribution and law enforcement purposes. the school lunch payment system was developed because of a federal law that says schools may not overtly identify kids who get free or lower-priced school lunches. using the morpho civil afis system, all students have to do is put their index finger on a small scanner. the software plots 27 points on the fingerprint ridges and stores a special mathematical algorithm as identification, not the actual fingerprint image. parents put money in an account and the system deducts the lunch cost automatically from that child's account whenever the student passes through the line and touches his or her finger to the scanner.
the system gives schools several benefits:
- faster school lunch lines
- compliance with the federal law about not identifying kids who receive government school lunch assistance
- no embarrassment for those kids
- no money for bullies to extort
- no lunch cards to lose
- no pins to be abused by others
- parents know that lunch money is being spent only on lunches
the aclu is concerned that biometric identification will lead to abuse of civil rights and privacy, but apparently only 700 families in the welsh valley school area have kept their kids from being fingerprinted. the penn cambria school district has been using the system in its high school for about a year-and-a-half and hopes to get it into all 5 of its schools by the end of the year.
for more information, please see the associated press article. you can also get some more data on similar systems at this sagem morpho webpage, though the tech details seem a bit outdated.
sam's opinion
i think this is very cool, despite the immediate image i'm sure many of us had of some bully slicing off a rich kid's finger and getting himself a bunch of lunches (or maybe i'm the only sick bastard who thinks of that stuff). that's obviously not really going to happen, since the limitation of this technology to buying normally yucky school lunches means the bullies won't really be that interested in taking a kid's finger clean off. i also really like the way the system stores an algorithm of 27 points of the fingerprint image instead of the image itself, a move clearly designed to assuage privacy concerns. of course, i don't think that totally eliminates privacy concerns (especially because sagem morpho also has many law enforcement clients and systems), but i would certainly be okay with letting my kids get scanned … no stored image means someone bent on getting a kid's fingerprint would have to steal the algorithm and the interpretation schema.
the ap article talks briefly about how fingerprint and other biometric identification functions will start showing up in more and more computing devices in the next couple of years, and that's bound to start off another round of technofear. i believe that a lot of the benefits we'll get from biometric identification will be worth the privacy risks, and i think this school lunch system is a great example of a good situation with low risk. i also think it'll be very cool to be able to pay for most things with just a fingerprint, like that scene in back to the future ii … i can't remember it exactly anymore, but i think michael j. fox goes to buy the sports almanac and only has to put his thumb on this little scanner thing instead of lugging around cash or a card. there'd be a lot more room in our pockets for cellphones and pdas and such if we didn't have to lug around wallets and coins :)
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|no.. your not the only one (1:24pm est wed jan 24 2001)
for the record i was never a bully and at 6'1″ 200lbs they rarely picked on me.
but the first thing i thought about was bullies cutting kids fingers off so they could get another lunch or maybe use it at the snack bar. but really the reason bullies bully is not to get stuff for themselves but to hurt others so i also envision a bully in shop class grabbing a rich kid and grinding off his fingerprints on a belt sander, no lunch for you pal…
or maybe i'm the sick one… – by wildhunter
|stealing does you no good (1:28pm est wed jan 24 2001)
"… would have to steal the algorithm and the interpretation schema. "
won't do you any good if the results were stored with a single image crypto like password in some system. and there is no dictionary hack that would work on it! – by obvious unpatentable
|i want nachos today, punk (1:34pm est wed jan 24 2001)
instead of beating kids up for lunch money, bullies will beat kids up for the lunch itself- especially when today's schools serve up pizza, burgers, etc. instead of the old string beans and meatloaf. – by zenigma
|evil evil evil! (1:37pm est wed jan 24 2001)
sorry, but if i had kids there is no way in hell that i'd let them log into this system. i don't care if it's storing the entire print or a hash based on 27 points of the print… the fact is that it tends to desensitize people to the use of their fingerprints and other biometric data.
if you didn't commit a crime – you don't get my fingerprints. this is complete and utter bullshit. fight the fingerprint! – by ftf
|not embarassing (1:39pm est wed jan 24 2001)
if these kids that are using the system are the ones receiving fed asst. then how is it not embarassing for them to have to use their fingerprints instead of something else?
kids are so cruel (hell, i was…) i can see it now "yeah janie… you know why bobbie has to use his fingerprint? it's because his daddy's in jail, mom's on the welfare, and they ain't got no $$$"…
fwiw, issue everyone a mag stripe card with a unique id (not their ss#) and use that to access a points-driven system (we had one in college – made by griffin technologies, called validine). worked well. everyone had a card… no stigma… no fingerprint bullshit – by no biometrics!
|trading freedom (1:43pm est wed jan 24 2001)
to paraphrase one of the founding fathers (either tj or bf): "those who are willing to trade their freedom for a faster lunch line, deserve neither" – by don't tread on me!
|uneducated (1:57pm est wed jan 24 2001)
would someone please explain to me the privacy loss from having your fingerprint taken? last time i knew, the only realy concern for having your fingerprint on file was if you committed a crime and the police/fbi were trying to identify a person by fingerprint evidence.
aside from making life difficult for criminals, how does this inviolate my life? enlighten me as to the facts i am overlooking here…
|why (1:58pm est wed jan 24 2001)
why is keeping biometric data to yourself important? just want some ctual reason. people seem to be so scared about giving up there numbers and hairs colours, when if someone actually needs to know they will find out. whats a good argument against it? – by mini-me
|re:privacy loss (2:01pm est wed jan 24 2001)
by having your fingerprint taken – you are allowing personally identifiable information relating to you and you alone to be placed into a database which is out of your control. this info can be used for purposes to which you didn't initially agree to – or to which you don't know about.
for instance, it builds a profile of your whereabouts – time you're usually in the line, what you usually buy, etc. someone getting access then knows where you'll tend to be at a specific time, so they can: 1) attack you, 2) steal from you when you're not around, 3) perpertrate a fraud to make it look like you committed a crime based on 'past history'…
admittedly, this isn't such a horrendous thing for a kid – knowing that someone's in lunch at time x, but it tends to desensitize the child to such biometric crapola as s/he ages… – by bio fighter
|back to the future ii (2:05pm est wed jan 24 2001)
it was jennifer from 1985 that got into her future home when the police brought her back after finding her in the alley… – by "mad dog" tannen
|re: privacy loss pt. ii (2:06pm est wed jan 24 2001)
to continue… as you desensitize children, they become adults – who generate much more information. information which can be used for far more nefarious purposes.
tollways have this wonderful electronic rfid pass so you don't have to stop at a toll booth… they're not anonymous devices – they have your license plate #, name, dl#, time you went thru the booth, date you went thru the booth, etc.
this info can be mined to see who's speeding (there's no way you went from booth a to b in time x unless you were speeding…) – then send you a ticket. this is a 'new' use not specifically enumerated in the agreement…
or, the enterprising lawyers who subpoena the information in the tollway databases to find out when mr. x was at booth b, which happens to be by exit a that's down the street from his supposed girlfriend… he's there every friday and sunday – gee? is he cheatin? maybe not, but now mr. x has to prove otherwise…
these things always start out "good" but get screwed up quickly… – by bio fighter
|re: privacy loss pt. iii (2:09pm est wed jan 24 2001)
another example: frequent shopper cards…
they capture what you buy, when you buy it, what else you bought, how often, etc. the markets then use this data to send you junk mail about the stuff you bought, the stuff you didn't buy, and related products that they think you might be interested in.
the danger: what if you happened to pick up something for a friend one time. now something happens and this info is subpoenaed – the insurance company says "but you bought this stuff on date x…" now you have to prove that it was for someone else! think this is far fetched? it's not – someone bought some beer one night, slipped and fell in a parking lot, sued, and the data was brought up – this guy had to essentially prove that he wasn't drunk…
|re: privacy loss pt. iv (2:16pm est wed jan 24 2001)
another danger: once this info is in a db for one purpose, governments just can't seem to keep their hands off of it. they claim some bullshit reason like "public interest" and go after it for another use that you never agreed to.
take fingerprints – if your print is in a db for whatever, and the government happens to be investigating a crime where a partial print was found – they will want to run the partial against all the prints in the db. then they go grab everyone who's print matches the "partial" and bring them in for questioning. then you effectively have to prove where you were, that you're not the criminal, etc.
i don't care if it's a fingerprint, iris scan, retinal scan, dna scan, voice print, hair, facial recognition, etc. leave me out of it.
read: "the right to privacy, by kathleen kennedy" – by bio fighter
|identity theft (2:19pm est wed jan 24 2001)
if someone gets enough info about you: date of birth, place of birth, name, weight, hair color, eye color, mother's maiden name, address, phone #, ss#, etc. they can effectively go out, get an id, and become you.
once that happens, they go out and rack up credit card bills, commit crimes, etc. and you're fucked. you spend the rest of your days proving that you're not guilty.
fuck that… leave me out of the databases to begin with, and there's nothing to hack… take that recent case where someone stole a bunch of hospital records… – by no way! no how!
|if they want it, they'll get it (2:39pm est wed jan 24 2001)
if someone really wanted to steal your identity, or just get info from you, it wouldn't be hard to do, and they'd just go ahead and do it. it's really easy to get your ss number, pick through your trash, pick up a stray hair off your car seat, get your medical records, even your credit history. in this world, unless you live in outer tanzania in a mud hut and live on fish and grubs, you're pegged.
rent gattaca if you want to see the future of where biometric profiling is heading. – by x-geek
|paranoid (3:45pm est wed jan 24 2001)
i think everyone is way too paranoid. i'm sure no on wants to steal your life. everyone just needs to chill out a bit. – by they're watching you
|spreadin' germs! (4:27pm est wed jan 24 2001)
i wouldn't tuch that finger scanner i just washed my hands. – by j0hn33y
|waste of money (4:51pm est wed jan 24 2001)
the idea is cool but i don't see the need for it. their reasoning for it is pretty shallow. and then they turn around and complain that they need more money to pay their teachers. the school system needs to fix its teaching problems not the lunch lines. – by public school waste
|what about twins? (5:24pm est wed jan 24 2001)
in my school, we had two sets of identical twins. how do they tell who's buyin' the lunch??? – by dude
|everything has its flaws… (7:11pm est wed jan 24 2001)
like a friend of mine says, if they cannot fix the problem they complicate it so the original problem looks like it's solved.
i.e: finger printing in school's for food. money may not be stolen, bullies may not be getting what they want, and kids may be safer. but…..
why don't we focus on removing the problems in the school system. i am not going to be insulting, but if you would take that money and pay the teachers what they should be paid instead of some tech weenie. but i mean who cares anyway, they are just kids and it seems to work this way right?
i find it funny that we will accept the first peice of garbage technology or social idea that comes out of some experts mouth. but if you ask that people teach accountability and economics you get laughed at! oh, well, that is the western way i guess:
"forget the past, it gives us nothing to learn from!"
– by kafka
|what do you have to hide? (4:27am est thu jan 25 2001)
if you worry about lawyers knowing where you are all the time, or enemies knowing what time you go for lunch, i have to ask this…what did you do to get a lawyer after you? why are you making such enemies? stop doing stupid and illegal things and you won't have to worry about these stupid things. you all remind me of a girl i know who complains about the police doing seatbelt checks, yet she gets charged over and over cause she refuses to wear her belt. why?!?!?
time and time again i get people who want to buy a computer, but when i mention things like "the internet" they blow up in my face, saying stupid things like "i am not going on the internet, i don't trust people, someone will try and get on my computer and find out stuff about me. this is really stupid because it's all the 80 year old ladies who seem to think that some 14 year old hacker on the net really cares about her browsing webpages, and will go to the trouble of hacking her system. or the little old ladies who go through 3 shredders a year cause they refuse to throw out anything that has her name on it unless it is shredded up first. your'e 80, noone cares that you got junk mail telling you you've won a chance to win a million dollars from publishers clearing house.
too many people think they are way too important. they waste a lot of time protecting themselves from…nothing. sure, don't give out your email address to every site that asks, don't give out your pin number, visa number, etc. but don't get all stupid and thing that everyone on your street is out to get you. of course if you did something to make them want to get you, just let it happen, moron!!! – by scaryfast
|people don't understand….. (7:23am est thu jan 25 2001)
the technology. these fingerprint readers only actually read minutea points. there is no "storing" of the actual fingerprint, and it can never be reverse engineered.
the only thing that "works" is an actual live finger of the enrolled person. no "chopped fingers", "fake fingers", etc.
your fingerprint itself never goes into a database.
– by datasource
|privacy (9:36am est thu jan 25 2001)
yah man.. i wear a bag over my head so people won't know it's me when i buy gas or milk.. i won't even tell my employer my real name..
oh – and identical twins don't have the same finger prints. – by robguy
|privacy concerns (9:39am est thu jan 25 2001)
i'm one of those that's always worried about privacy concerns. however, this seems alright, and not a violation of anyones privacy, since it doesn't store the actual image. besides, you can't really do damage with an encrypted number of someone's fingerprints, not like you can with a social security number. and a malicious person could easily get an ss# off of school records. – by shade
|i know all about you (10:03am est thu jan 25 2001)
i think the fbi should check out those 700 people in welsh valley simply for their refusal to get with the program. ya'll are paranoid about what you do. i think it's time to be paranoid about what you don't do, huh? here's one you missed, the use of this system to track what the kids are eating. "little johnny, you just eat too many damn moonpies now go to room you're grounded" huh? i sure am glad i don't live under a paranoia shell. so what if i get junk mail, it goes into the garbage, big deal.if you're really debilitated by this whole paranoia thing, just do like i do and where fingercaps to cover my prints and tinfoil headwraps so that space rays(and they do exist) cannot extract data from my brain and tell everyone that laughs at you that you will indeed have the last laugh…suckers. – by metalhead
|i know all about you (10:05am est thu jan 25 2001)
i think the fbi should check out those 700 people in welsh valley simply for their refusal to get with the program. ya'll are paranoid about what you do. i think it's time to be paranoid about what you don't do, huh? here's one you missed, the use of this system to track what the kids are eating. "little johnny, you just eat too many damn moonpies now go to room you're grounded" huh? i sure am glad i don't live under a paranoia shell. so what if i get junk mail, it goes into the garbage, big deal.if you're really debilitated by this whole paranoia thing, just do like i do and wear fingercaps to cover my prints and tinfoil headwraps so that space rays(and they do exist) cannot extract data from my brain and tell everyone that laughs at you that you will indeed have the last laugh…suckers. – by metalhead
|ahhh (10:09am est thu jan 25 2001)
see i'm so paranoid, i posted twice – by metalhead
|tracking (11:01am est thu jan 25 2001)
all this tracking stuff works both ways. you suspect your spopuse of cheating. go see where he/she has been. you suspect your child of skipping school. well, doubt no more. with all this tracking, you'll know for sure. your friend hasn't called in two days? missing? abducted by aliens? dead in a closet? doubt no more. check the databases. someone accuses you of murder? prove that you were miles away.
some of you criticize too much. try looking at the benefits of technology. this fingerprint id thing is not too different from our company badges at work that we have to swipe through a reader to enter/exit the building.
– by trackme
|encryption (12:00pm est thu jan 25 2001)
so this scanner encrypts the print, and stores a mathematical representation of it… who cares that it's not the print? the fact is that it's generating a unique id that ties to me – and i don't see the need for having a unique id just to buy lunch! moreover, why does it have to go in a database? why not on a smart card – i put the card into a slot, and the card unlocks with my fingerprint (maybe a reader on the card). the card sends out a yes or no response to the query – and doesn't send out any unique information. unique info is no one's business but mine – by paranoid and proud!
|re: what do you have to hide? (12:05pm est thu jan 25 2001)
a: my privacy, that's what. i don't go out and piss off people, or try to bother anyone, but occasionally people make mistakes and target the wrong person for an investigation (see: prisoners released from prison after dna tests…).
i was once questioned by the cops about allegedly taking a shower in a girl's dorm (i'm male). i would have liked to, but i didn't. nonetheless, my student id said i was in the bldg, and gee, i had black hair. the guy the girl saw had black hair, and "looked just like [me]". the cops pulled up all the people who were in the bldg and had black hair from the digitized photos to question… so some fucken bimbo could say "that's him, that's the guy!". she was wrong, and i had to essentially prove that i was innocent. bullshit, total bullshit that wouldn't have happened if there was no database with my pic/id in it… guess what? i shredded the id, and paid cash for everything after that…
they can't mistake you for the perp. if they don't have you in their database. just stay out. – by people make mistakes
|re: what do you have to hide – pt ii (12:10pm est thu jan 25 2001)
another example of harmless people being accosted because of information they provided for a "good" purpose".
i had some friends – they live in a nice community, make about $250k a year. nice house, nice stuff, some jewelery handed down thru the generations that's nice too.
they had a nice dinner party – the cops weren't called, neighbors were there, everyone was happy. pictures were taken to commemorate the event. film was taken in for developing.
some piece of crap developing the film notices the goodies in the background, and decides that he wants it. so he checks the film package and gets the address, phone #, and name of the people. notices they have a freq. shopper card and sees when they shop – notices they're a couple and have a kid.
waits to see if they all come in together, then uses the data he mined to find out when they're not home. goes and rips off the stuff. cops caught the swine because he did it to some other people too – but they didn't get their stuff back…
worth the discount? i don't think so. never use freq shopper cards, and never give valid info for developing film. – by they don't need it!
|replay attacks (12:14pm est thu jan 25 2001)
just because the info is encrypted doesn't mean that it's not subject to a replay attack. in essence, one taps the line, and replays the info again later…
if just the print is encrypted, but not the header info, then it'd be trivial to tweek the time and date of the 'transaction' to make it look like someone was somewhere, when they actually weren't – for whatever reason.
and then you're in the unenviable position of having to "prove" that the system is wrong… – by don't do it
|— (12:18pm est thu jan 25 2001)
i think i'm gonna cancel my credit cards and close my bank accounts. they record all my purchases, you know. then they send something in the mail listing all those purchases! can you believe it?! the mail! oh, how could i leave myself so vulnerable?! as soon as that murderer finds out about my late night monday slushie runs, i'm a dead man!
oh, what a world, what a world….
|so, what's the problem (12:23pm est thu jan 25 2001)
so what! the school can find out where a child was during his/her lunch hour. i can tell you where the kid is during that time without their fingerprints. in the cafeteria!!! when they start putting barcodes on foreheads, i'll be paranoid, but until then, get over it! it's not like you can't be located when you use your atm or credit cards. i don't see anyone screaming about the evils of magnetic strips in cards. you people need to stop watching x-files and gattica and come back into the real world. learn the difference between fact and fiction. – by archerb
|bio fighter maniac (12:25pm est thu jan 25 2001)
from where do you get all these made up examples. no body has to prove that they are not drunk, unless ofcourse it was "proven" that he was drunk. are you totally forgetting " innocent until proven guilty". i bet you also hate microsoft, not because of a justifiable reason but just out of principle. make sense when you write. your arguments are non-existing.
ohh, i forgot, now you are going to track down my digital id, which the world government gave to everyone at the same time as they assasinated jfk. their database which is constantly updated on servers in area 51, will be able to get you my adresse. ofcourse, you could just forget about it since my info is totally none-relevant to you and you couldn't care less. irony?, you figure it out. – by hatemaniacs
|sign me up! (12:33pm est thu jan 25 2001)
i'd rather put my thumb up to the gas pump when i get gas. i can loose my atm/debit card and the finder can easily use it at the pumps until i get a hold of the bank to freeze it. besides, i hate having to memorize so many pin numbers in addition to all the cipher lock combinations at work.
– by gogogadget
|i'm a maniac (1:18pm est thu jan 25 2001)
ideas such as 'innocent until proven guilty' are great but that's not the way the world works. judges aren't always fair, lawyers aren't always moral, and juries aren't always unbiased. the more information that these people have about you the more they can make it seem as if that information proves your guilt. – by don't be a fool
|get a life (10:03pm est thu jan 25 2001)
i had a big long rant on you privacy freaks (history religion republicans) but you�re not worth it their will always be people like nothing i say or do will help you and this is not the forum for it. but this is a tech forum please stop taking up good tech space with your rants (pro or con "i hate this thing or that thing") and i'll do the same. – by shut up!
|maybe… (10:50pm est thu jan 25 2001)
it will be the geeks who will steal the lunch money now… – by robbo
|oops (10:51pm est thu jan 25 2001)
i meant "lunch money" – by robbo
|i know what your child ate today (1:02am est fri jan 26 2001)
now we need someone to clean off the paint that the little brat had on his hands so that the next kid can eat
ohh by the way you live in calf no eat today power out i dont care if the kids who have cash are eating cold food you on a free lunch deal gotta have that scan – by mr_mouse
|re: bio fighter maniac (3:09pm est fri jan 26 2001)
sorry to tell you, but i didn't make up any of the examples provided. hit google and search for "privacy" or "fight the fingerprint". there are tons of horror stories out there. i too used to think that "all was well, why worry?", but then some of the situations actually happened to me or my friends and i saw just how wrong i was.
and the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" is wonderful, until you get a bunch of people to fuck you over (for whatever reason) – then you really do end up trying to prove your innocence.
by the by – since you're not concerned about privacy, how about posting your ss#, dob, address, phone #, name, bank account #'s, pins, atm locations you frequent, when you go to the store, where you buy your gas, what your phone #'s are, pager number?, pet's names, family names, mothers maiden name, license plate #, where you park your car and anything else you'd like to share – by bio fighter
|dumb people say dumb things (7:33pm est mon may 21 2001)
why all the non-sensical remarks about losing your private identity by using a biometric device to take a few feature set markers off your finger print? get a grip..you leave your fingerprint all over the place on a daily basis. that's called a latent finger print which can be lifted and converted and put into a real criminal database.you should be more alarmed about losing your ss#.
anf d for those worried about putting their finger on a sensor someone else has touched…wash you hands. there are
worse things you touch everyday full of god only knows what bacteria. start using your head! – by simple truths
|dumb people say dumb things (7:37pm est mon may 21 2001)
why all the non-sensical remarks about losing your private identity by using a biometric device to take a few feature set markers off your finger print? get a grip..you leave your fingerprints all over the place on a daily basis. that's called a latent finger print which can be lifted and converted and put into a real criminal database.you should be more alarmed about losing your ss#.
and for those worried about putting their finger on a sensor someone else has touched…wash you hands. there are
worse things you touch everyday full of god only knows what bacteria. start using your head! – by simple truths
|okay. (8:19pm est wed apr 02 2003)
well guys, i've been doing a lot of reading since -my- school got this biometrics system. i'm from fulton county pennsylvania. the big schools got it, then the small ones, like mine.
in reality, this system is pretty shitty.
1. no one ever steals anyone else's lunch money, wake up to the future.
2. they said it'd improve speed through the lunch line. this is a big thing when you only have 30 mins to get your lunch and eat when they have to serve 2 grade levels at once in a hick cafeteria. it actually elongated time spent in line.
3. the morphotouch system is glitchy imo. the scanner gets greased over and i've had a hell of a time getting it to read my goddamn fingerprint.
as a closing, this sytem seems penetratable to me.. with a renovation to the school, we've received this morphotouch biometrics and also, hid corporation's rfid non-contact smartcard entry system. high-tech for our small area.
personally, i feel all this is for naught, and that it's kinda stupid.. i'm working on getting into the food service solutions' database to check it out.. it seems hackable.. if it is, maybe i can influence the school to get away from this embarassment – and also, maybe i could try to pick up the frequency and data on those rfid cards somehow.. – by _chicken__
|very safe method (8:38am est tue jun 14 2005)
this is a very safe way of paying for lunch. this may prevent bullies from picking on kids, and people being safe.
– by by ps
|official hair web site (2:58pm est sun dec 11 2005)
exclusively hair web site – by hair loss


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Feedly has now updated to version 2.0, which brings a very beautiful Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) UI and phone updates. It comes preloaded with a bunch of well categorized news feeds such as Engagdet, Joystiq, and a bunch more. It has a very well put together Google Reader integration, which will display all your feeds in a very magazine like manner. They also baked in Read It Later, Instapaper, and Twitter to this update, and they plan to add Facebook support and landscape mode as well (Note: This only displays in portrait mode as of now).
The Honeycomb optimized app library isn't that big right now, but we welcome this new edition with open arms. So click on the download link to try this out for your Honeycomb tablet and/or Android phone.


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by Jean (Europe)
Metropolitan Museum of Art – Great Hall
Three art-inspired friends visited New York City and had a wonderful time around Christmas. As all three of us are art lovers, visiting the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Midtown as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) on the Upper East Side was a must.
For me, MoMA was an eye-opening experience allowing me to discover many new names and art groups. Unlike MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum was more like meeting old friends, great artists whose works can be also found in Prado and Louvre. I also immensely enjoyed the Cloisters collection of medieval art: especially, finally being able to see things you've been only reading about! In the evening we were extremely lucky to get to the Metropolitan Opera. While we had to stand during the entire performance of "Il Trovatore," the wonderful voices and majestic atmosphere made it completely worthwhile.
Dining in New York City was also a totally new experience for me. In fact, one of us lives in New York, so he was able to let us discover some of the hidden gems of the New York culinary scene. For me, the one living in a small village somewhere in Europe, the enormous choice of exotic foods offered in New York was more than impressive. We ate everywhere from a Korean restaurant to a Mediterranean one to a typical New York Deli to a Japanese place. The Mediterranean place, called "The Olive Tree", on MacDougal in Greenwich Village, was probably the most impressive. The Mediterranean cuisine wonderful, and even our friend from Israel agreed! The the tables are made like blackboard and you can write on them with a piece of chalk, and there is a Comedy Cellar inside or you can watch a Charlie Chaplin movie! I'd been immediately transferred to the good old school days…
Tell Us Why YOU Love New York City!


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23-59.NET – New Store Site
If you're single and have a passion for watches, the only thing that can hold you back is your bank account. You see a watch, fall in love with it and buy it! Simples! If, however, like me, you have a wife and children, you'll have learnt early on the Oxford dictionary meaning of the word "compromise"..
Now, I've never really been the collecting type. I've tried it but it doesn't really do it for me. I enjoy the research and the chase but once the watch has arrived with me the novelty wears off fairly quickly. Part of the reason for this is if I own say ten watches, I'll have one clear favourite and that one will be worn 99.9% of the time. The other nine will just sit in a box in my drawer until one day I decide to sell them. So, a while back I bit the bullet and went down to a single watch and that suited me perfectly except for one area.. photography. My favourite genre is macro photography and my favourite subject is watches. That becomes difficult if you only own one watch. Sooo, what to do, I pondered? Then an idea hit me and I chatted it over with my wife. We've agreed that I can purchase as many watches as I like as long as I simply photograph them, play with them for a couple of weeks, maybe do a write-up or two and then put them straight back up for sale. Result!
This plan suits me down to the ground as I'd like to make THIRTYFIVEMILL into a real haven for those who are searching for half-decent images of various watches and now I can buy and photograph watches that I probably wouldn't have otherwise owned. I'd like to bring in some unusual watches, brands you don't often hear much about. I'm particularly looking for watches from the 60s and 70s with a leaning towards divers, pilots and world timers and chronographs.
If you're a regular reader of this blog you'll also know I prefer my watches to be in as close to mint or NOS condition as possible, not just because I'm a fussy so and so but also because I want to try to show what these watches would have looked like back in the day if you walked into a shop and asked to peruse their latest and greatest.
Up until now my For Sale section has always been fairly sparse. I've sold the odd watch in there but they've been few and far between. This new project will change that quite dramatically, I suspect. There should be a fairly steady flow of interesting watches being put up for sale there. My philosophy will be to cover costs. I'm not looking to open a shop or make a business from watches, simply to cover the costs of buying, shipping, servicing (when needed) etc..
The big change is that I've decided to list all watches for sale at a new site that I've built. The main reason for this is that none of the available "store" software worked very well with all the other plugins I have running on 35mm. I also thought it would be keep things tidy and simple and not cause 35mm to become sluggish and slow. The new site can be accessed by clicking the "23-59 STORE" link in the main navigation menu above. I hope it proves popular with the readers and that it sometimes provides a few bargains and some very interesting watches.


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One of our library patrons, Cathy Greene has written a book with her nephew, Eric Larson Jr. about being a little kid with food allergies and helping other kids to understand that he is just like them in many ways. The book is called Just Like You. It will be available for checkout in the coming weeks so ask for it next time you are in the library.
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Tourmalated Quartz and Bone Full Mala
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Tourmalated Quartz is known as a powerful stone for protection and grounding. This stone also creates balance and inner strength, deflects and transforms negativity, and reduces anxiety and depression.
Bone is a traditional material used in malas in both Nepal and Tibet. Bone signifies strength and is said to amplify prana (life force energy.) These carved skull beads are reminiscent of the necklace of skulls that the Goddess Kali wears symbolizing liberation, knowledge, and wisdom.
Approximate Circumference: 26″
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Even in a "good divorce," in which parents amicably minimize their conflicts, children of divorce inhabit a more difficult emotional landscape than those in intact families, according to a new survey of 1,500 people ages 18 t0 35.
"All the happy talk about divorce is designed to reassure parents," Elizabeth Marquardt, author of the study, described in her new book, "Between Two Worlds." "But it's not the truth for children. Even a good divorce restructures children's childhoods and leaves them traveling between two distinct worlds. It becomes their job, not their parents', to make sense of those two worlds."
Ms. Marquardt, 35, is an affiliate scholar with the Institute for American Values, a nonpartisan advocacy group that strongly emphasizes marriage. She is, she says, the first child of divorce to publish a broad study on how divorce affects children.
It is no small question. The nation's divorce rate reached record levels in the late 1970's and early 1980's, and Norval D. Glenn, a professor of sociology at the University of Texas, said that about a quarter of all Americans age 18 to 35 were not yet 16 when they experienced their parents' divorce.
There are no reliable national statistics on divorce, but most experts say that even with divorce rates edging down, about three-quarters of a million American children see their parents divorce each year. The new survey, based on the first nationally representative sample of young adults, highlights the many ways that divorce shapes the emotional tenor of childhood.
For example, those who grew up in divorced families were far more likely than those with married parents to say that they felt like a different person with each parent, that they sometimes felt like outsiders in their own home and that they had been alone a lot as a child.
Those with married parents, however, were far more likely to say that children were at the center of their family and that they generally felt emotionally safe.
In the study, all those from divorced families had experienced their parents' divorce before age 14 and had maintained contact with both parents. Most of the time, Ms. Marquardt maintains, children with married parents need not concern themselves with their parents' thoughts and feelings while those with divorced parents must be more vigilant, more attuned to their parents' moods and expectations, more careful to adjust to the habits of the parent they are with -- and more concerned about looking or acting like the other parent.
The debate over how divorce affects children has long been polarized, with many researchers focusing on statistical data emphasizing that most children with divorced parents do fine in life and many clinicians emphasizing the emotional distress that many of the children feel.
And given the political overtones, many scholars who study family diversity have been concerned that focusing on how divorce hurts children could lead to efforts to restrict the availability of divorce.
"Life is filled with trade-offs, and I worry that it's so easy to slip from descriptions of problems to one-size-fits-all prescription," said Stephanie Coontz, a historian at Evergreen State College in Washington and the author of "Marriage, a History." "There will always be couples who need divorces."
Ms. Coontz and others acknowledge the growing consensus that most children with divorced parents grow into successful adults -- but say that the process is difficult for them.
"The key is to separate pain from pathology, " said Robert Emery, director of the Center for Children, Families and the Law at the University of Virginia. "While a great many young people from divorced families report painful memories and ongoing troubles regarding family relationships, the majority are psychologically normal."
Mr. Emery's own smaller, local studies have had findings similar to Ms. Marquardt's. About half of those from divorced families agreed that they had a "harder childhood that most people," compared with 14 percent from married families.
"The effects of divorce may not seem so important in a hard-nosed statistical analysis of outcomes, but in a subjective way, they may be very important," said Andrew Cherlin, a family demographer at Johns Hopkins University. "Many adults with very successful lives still carry the residual trauma of their parents' breakup."
Ms. Marquardt's book paints a detailed picture of the kinds of tensions children live with, using examples both from her own life -- her parents separated when she was 2 -- and from interviews with 70 other young adults.
A chapter on secrets begins with her memory of being 10 years old, at the kitchen table with her father and not knowing what to answer when he asked, "Is Paul living with you and your mother?"
She recounts her efforts to remember that in her mother's house, it was all right to say "screwed up" while in her father's she would be corrected to "messed up."
The lonely task of reconciling two worlds is a constant theme. One young woman in the book describes moving between her mother and stepfather's home, where thrift was a high value, and her father and stepmother's, where money flowed freely and abundance was valued. She took her mother's rules so seriously that even at meals with her father, she ate far more than she wanted, getting a stomachache in her effort to make sure there would be no leftovers to throw out. She never told her parents about her inner conflict, for fear that it would be rude.
"Children of divorce feel less protected by their parents, and they're much less likely to go to their parents for comfort when they are young, or for emotional support when they are older," Ms. Marquardt said. "They often feel a need to protect their mother emotionally."
"I think we need to recognize these things," she said. "In one women's magazine, a mother wrote that she'd told her 7-year old-daughter she didn't need protecting, but that her daughter just does it anyway. Saying those words isn't helpful to the daughter. It just makes her look silly, like it's her problem that she feels she has to protect her mom."


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This Week in Texas Waterjeff
Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts monitors what is happening in Texas water. Here is a summary for the week.
US Says Mexico Not Living Up to Treat to Share Water in Times of Drought, CCTV America
Texas Might Save Water Under Controversial EPA Power Plan, Water Online
Water As a Crop Effort Growing, Corsicana Daily Sun
State Climatologist: Good Chance our Drought Will End in 2015, WOAI
Water Table Drops as Drought Forces More Pumping, Brownsville Herald
Top 10 Stories of 2014: Drought Grows Into a Steady Stream of Concern, Star-Telegram
Expert: Consequences of Texas Drought Continue to Linger, Gilmer Mirror
Water May Not Make Big Splash This Coming Session, Caller Times
Texas Projects Key in Gulf Coast Oil Spill Restoration, Focus Daily News
LCRA Breaks Ground on Major $250M Water Supply Reservoir Project, Water World
Water Dispute Carries Over Into 2015, Killeen Daily Herald
Dallas, River Authority At Odds Over Water Bill, Brownsville Herald


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This is just a quick post! But I had to share this recipe with you, because the last bastion of summer is upon us, and pretty soon I'm going to be all up in butternut squash and maple this and cider that…I can feel it coming. This morning when I left my house at 11:00am it was only 64˚ out. Fall is sneaking up on us, and I wanted to give stone fruits and luscious berries one of their last opportunities to shine. This recipe is for a simple stone fruit cobbler that honestly doesn't contain horrifying amounts of butter OR sugar…gasp! It really showcases the gorgeousness of these seasonal fruits, with just a bit of naughtiness in the form of a crumbly golden topping. It was a hit (thankfully) at my husband's family reunion today, along with these.
I'm hoping to sneak in a few more summery recipes before I get distracted by autumnal goodness…I need to find something to do with all of these tomatoes! Stay tuned!
Stone Fruit and Berry Cobbler
by moi
3 cups peeled sliced stone fruit (I used plums and nectarines)
1 pint fresh blueberries, cleaned, washed and drained
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon fresh lemon zest
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup crushed crispy sugar cookies (organic and not overly sweet, preferably)
1/3 cup flour
1/4 packed dark brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, plus a pinch
Pinch ground nutmeg
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
Preheat over to 350˚. Butter a 10-inch baking dish.
In a medium bowl, combine sliced stone fruit and blueberries with sugar, lemon juice, lemon zest, vanilla, and a pinch of cinnamon. Fold ingredients together until coated, then pour into prepared baking dish.
In a food processor, combine the cookies, flour, dark brown sugar, the rest of the cinnamon, and nutmeg and process to combine. Add butter and pulse until crumbly.
Sprinkle topping evenly over the fruit and bake for 35 minutes, until lightly browned. Best immediately, but certainly not bad the day after!


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Jon Jones Is The Interim Champion At UFC 197
Jon Jones wins a unanimous decision against Ovince St Preux. It was a great fight and Ovince earned his respect from me. He should have been much busier but Jon came out on top. Mighty Mouse knocked out his opponent in the first round. UFC 197 was very exciting and worth the 59.99.


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Hawaii Book and Music Festival: May 17-18, 2008
If you just so happen to be in Honolulu this weekend, check out the Hawaii Book and Music Festival taking place in downtown. I'll be helping out with an outreach table for the library. There will be storytelling, musical performances, panel discussions, an open mike, arts &crafts, and much more. Local authors featured at this year's festival include Lois-Ann Yamanaka and Gavan Daws. Linda Sue Park is also scheduled to be at the Festival. For more information go to the Hawaii Book and Music Festival website. A little warning: the pdf files where the majority of the information is housed are quite large so if you have a slow internet connection, they'll take a while to download.


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Thank you, "Sarah," for that wonderful bit of spam you posted on what was intended to be a memorial to my late cat.
[activate sarcasm] What a wonderful tribute to him! [deactivate sarcasm now]
I realize, "Sarah," that maybe -- just maybe -- you only wanted to hit my most recent post. And since this was my first (and possibly only) post today, it qualified in "your" eyes.
As soon as Blogger starts behaving again, I *will* delete "your" spamment.
Note: I keep using quotes when referring to "Sarah" because I am not all that certain "she" is a real person. "She" is probably a bot. "Her" blog just began today, has only one post there, and it mirrors the spam "she" left as a comment here.
Maybe I'm upset over nothing. But I won't apologize for feeling slighted. Simon was more than just a pet, he was a true member of our family and and a real character. His passing due to an undetected heart condition after an all-too-brief 7 1/2 years really hit both of us (my wife and me) hard.
Hah! Got it. Go sully someone else's memory, "Sarah."
Condolences on this sad anniversary. I had a dream about our Oliver last week. We lost him on 12/10/2000 and the dream kicked loose all the grief again. No matter how much time you have with 'em, it's never enough.
Thank you for the kind words, Jill. And I must say, Oliver was a handsome little devil, wasn't he? :)
We now have our twins to fill the house and our hearts: Milo & Otis, Bookends
Ack! That was me on the last comment. I didn't notice that the little radio button was squarely on Anonymous. Zoinks!
In my experience, orange boys are very long-lived, so you should have great luck with these handsome fellas. It must be SO nice to have two that like each other....


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March 14, 2020
The second annual Wendell Foster Half Marathon presented by Owensboro Health will take place on Saturday, March 14, 2020, which will offer a flat and fast route of Owensboro, Kentucky. The 13.1-mile race will be fully supported including some full and partial road closures. The race will start and finish on the riverfront by beautiful Smothers Park, which offers 3 signature fountains and an award-winning playground.
Late March will offer cooler temperatures, which will be perfect for the half marathon distance. There will be water stations conveniently placed along the course and the race will be professionally timed. Huge finisher medals will be given to those that complete the course. Plus, prize money will be awarded to the top competitors.
Come to friendly Owensboro, Kentucky and support our mission of empowering people with disabilities!
Registration Includes
- Helps us empower over 2,000 people a year with disabilities
- Half Marathon Race Entry
- Huge Finisher Medal (must complete the 13.1-mile race)
- Technical Shirt
- Run Hat
- Gear Bag
- Post Race Nutrition (Pizza, Chocolate Milk, Snacks, Etc.)
Registration Prices
- Before November 1, 2019: $65
- November 1 to December 31, 2019: $70
- January 1 to February 15, 2020: $80
- February 16 to March 9, 2020: $85
- Expo Registration (March 13, 2020): $95
- No Race Day Registration
- Registrations are final and no refunds will be issued
Running Stroller Division
Top three overall awards will be given for the Running Stroller Division. The division will consist of individuals with a disability who are pushed in a running stroller.
Please Note: Those being pushed, should register under the "Running Stroller Division." Those that are pushing, should register under "Individual Half Marathon."
Individual Half Marathon Awards:
CASH: $300 will be given to the overall male and female winners! 2nd place for overall male and female will receive $150. 3rd place for overall male and female will receive $50.
A nice medal will be given to the top three in the following age groups for male and female:
• 13-15 • 16-19 • 20-24 • 25-29 • 30-34 • 35-39 • 40-44 • 45-49 • 50-54 • 55-59 • 60-64 • 65-69 • 70-74 • 75+
Due to it being a large-scale event, there will not be an awards ceremony. When awards are officially finalized, awards will be mailed to recipients.
- There will be a course time limit to complete the race.
- You must be 13 years of age on race day to register. (Age restriction does NOT apply to those that are pushed in the "Running Stroller Division").
Sponsorship inquiries and questions regarding the race, please contact:
John Gleason, Race Director
[email protected]
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We as a community are very excited to help the Wendell Foster folks with the exciting Half Marathon Event through our community. I urge all the community to get behind this wonderful event and make it another OBKY success.
~Mayor Tom Watson
Disclaimer: The information, advice, and training plans associated with the Wendell Foster Half Marathon are for educational purposes only. Before making any changes to your exercise habits and before implementing any information or training plans on this website, you should consult your physician. If you follow the advice or training plans, then you do so at your own risk. Neither Wendell Foster nor Owensboro Health, Inc. will not be responsible for any injuries or other health problems that you may suffer if you follow the advice or training plan.


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We begin with learning about our community. HCA invites local nonprofits to its corporate campus throughout the year to help educate and engage employees around important community issues.
Agency Fairs
Each year, HCA invites local nonprofits to host a booth at an agency fair to educate HCA employees about their mission and ways that they can get involved in the community.
Cultural Inclusion Series
Launched in 2007, the Cultural Inclusion Series is an innovative program that immerses audiences in cultural experiences ranging from remarkable presentations, to captivating stories, to stunning performances. Each event, regardless of its topic or art form, is designed to compel thoughtful and productive dialogue.
The program's forum offers an informal learning opportunity, which compels important discussions about our differences, how they challenge us, and how diversity strengthens our Company and country. We invite our nonprofit partners to present programs as part of the cultural inclusion series.
Supporting Local Community Events
The HCA Foundation and HCA Corporate Sponsorships sponsor community education events each year to provide opportunities for HCA employees and community members to learn about important community challenges.