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Four major events in a cluster, one to come this week.
The percipient point of view about China under Chairman Xi (more powerful than Mao, though far less charismatic) is that China will not retreat from its destiny.
Any notion that China would cave to Donald Trump's demands in the Trade negotiations of the past year (yes it's been a year with 11 face-to-face meetings of the highest level operatives on both sides, one step below Presidents for each team) is faulty thinking on two levels.
President Xi understands that Trump was setting him up for the Art of the Close. Trump wins by changing, demanding, insisting on winning any deal he makes. The Donald always takes the flesh with the blood. And he sometimes walks away until he gets the bone with the flesh. But those are business deals. Nothing in real estate development is necessary. Running the US economy within the Global interconnected economy is a completely different deal.
Trump is in this to come away a winner by forcing self-containment of China economically. If the deal on the table the Chinese just refused and left there had been accepted by President Xi, the Politburo in Zhongnanhai would have removed Xi from power. The Xi power is unlimited by Time. He's there for life. But it is a System that leaves the Circuit Breaker of Wisdom and Ideological Foundation in the hands of the Politburo.
The moment came for the deal to be analyzed from a three-sixty spherical point of view. What would be the ramifications within the Chinese domestic situation, between the trade partners of China (USA, EU, Asian) and what would remain of the Supply Chains intrinsic to China's development?
The demands by the Americans touched the nerve center of CCP power as rulers of PRC. It demanded laws be written (dictated by US in the deal) which would have been the weapons of enforcement triggering penalties for any backsliding by China. These laws would act the way the US dictates to the Yeltsin-Gorbachev administrations acted on the Russian economy and society. Those US advisements crippled the domestic development, led to the wealth rape by oligarchs and set in place the plethora of NGOs that have torn up the educational and scientific sectors of Russia, and they bought time and space for the Liberals to share power and operate as a Fifth Column, largely through the Media that massaged the masses into dreams of European splendor, US freedom and democracy, while drugging with alcohol and hard opiates the nation's manpower into morbidity and stupor.
The Chinese saw a loss of their society, the second coming of the Opium culture, and corruption reversing all the anti-corruption efforts of the last decade. They studied hard for these last three decades the fall of the USSR. They understand how the 'take down' was engineered. The Chinese are great students. They play a strategy game of Go. Far more complex than Chess, mastered by few, but influenced by Time and Concentration. When the Chinese make a move, there are many moves more to come before your stones on the Goban are suddenly surrounded or trapped on the edges. White or Black, the Chinese understand strategy.
The deal on the table was a trap for Xi and the CCP and China as a rising power.
Evaluating the Trade Deal as a poison pill, the Politburo
called the Standing Committee and President Xi to begin a long-term plan of life without the USA.
China would de-couple from the International System that was being dismantled by Trump and was being rebuilt as Rule-based Order, the rules all coming from Washington to the whole world to obey. Trump didn't begin this. He embraced it. This is the Hegemony of Unipolar governance. The ultimate deal Trump could have never dreamed of having a role in. He makes all the Rules and he always wins. This is why he has left the essence of MAGA, but throws the slogans around still. Making America Great Again is nonsense if America is on top and everyone else is a pawn. The ultimate Feudal system, a vertical power structure like his Trump Towers. But this is bigger, grander, more than a skyscraper could ever be. Unipolar Power went deep into Space. Its footprint on Earth is global, land or sea. The base of the Empire is Earth itself, controlled from Washington. Forever.
The Chinese saw that they alone could stop this eventuality.
They left the negotiations to be resumed, but on the table was a rejected plan. It won't be revived.
They have produced a White Paper at the State Council level.
The White Paper lays out the history of the last year's efforts and realities that display Trump's tactics. All through the negotiations have been 'missile strikes' of sanctions and tariffs and legal moves against Huawei and ZTE. Conjoined with those blunt blows have been multiple thrusts of the US military toward separating Taiwan from China, legislation expanding US-Taiwan relations, vast new arms deals that go far beyond past red lines set by Beijing, and a propaganda machine in the world press and media demonizing China as a thieving culture run by human rights violators operating "concentration camps" for millions of Uyghurs, ruthlessly controlling Tibet and threatening naval commerce by building islands in the South China Sea and stealing every other nations gas and oil and all the fish the waters hold. Only good neighbor (from 8000 miles away) Uncle Sam can save the day for the poor folks of Asia.
So regularly, US naval warships slice the 12-mile limit, taunting a response from the PLAN's vessels or maybe a crash of fishing vessels into the US Navy's boats. Whatever US Navy can elicit to provide a trigger incident that would once-and-for-all paint Red China black.
This is the context geopolitically of the Trade Negotiations present status.
China now has set the rules that they demand. Trump won't like them. Navarro and the warhawks and Sinophobes love the idea that China refuses to submit. They can reach into the tool kit of destabilization and begin the final effort to destroy the growth of China, truncate the economy, break the momentum of the BRI and Maritime Silk Road and Polar Silk Road, and make an outcast from the West of the Yellow Peril in Mao attire.
The White Paper comes on a weekend that was preceded by a Chinese military speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. At that event, which deals with mutual military and defense issues of the ASEAN nations and China, one of the State Council members who happens to be the Minister of National Defense of the PRC, General Wei Fenghe, delivered a speech that focused on China's position in the South China Sea zone.
(Link is to the transcript.) http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1152730.shtml
The Dialogue conference concentrates on International Security Cooperation. General Wei had preceded his speech Saturday with a face-to-face meet up with Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan.
Shanahan's nomination approval has been held up by the Senate as they try to cope with his conflicts of interest involving Boeing, from whence he comes and for whom he would always favor. (We hear the term "recuse" again for all such conflicts of interest.)
General Wei delivered in person to Shanahan the no-uncertain rules of behavior China insists on for passage of US naval ships in the South China Sea, Taiwan Strait and East China Sea zones China claims. But he offered more contact and communication between militaries to defuse the situation. Shanahan responded by mud throwing as a good Sinophobe is meant to do, charging that China has militarized the South China Sea and is a bad neighbor who steals from other countries.
Then came the General's speech at Singapore's conference.
Meanwhile in Beijing the plan of de-coupling has begun. FedEx will be investigated for not shipping some packages of Chinese documents elsewhere in the world. Seems as though FedEx was obeying some CIA or State Dept. 'suggestions', but has since apologized to the Chinese for FedEx's 'error' in not shipping the packages. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-investigates-fedex-huawei-cargo-121120258.html
So, there is now, like in the US Treasury and DOJ, a Beijing black list of American corporations and individuals. Tariffs in response to Trump's tariffs are in place by China. The Trade War is on, engaged to withdraw US from China and by China to de-couple from the US. The task for China is monumental. They would need to find at least $350 billion in new markets. And they need to hold as much of the Supply Chain in China, through China or managed by China in the other nations (like Vietnam, where many Chinese-invested companies already exist).
Simultaneously, the Politburo has clearly signaled that war is the option if Taiwan attempts to separate from the PRC. Regardless of what the US Senate and the US military does within Taiwan, for Taiwan, or with Taiwan and the US alliance of Indo-Pacific nations hastily patched together to be the Pacific NATO, China will fight and take control of Taiwan. That policy is not a bluff. Taiwan will succumb to the PLA if it dares to formally break away. Bold Red Line.
Though China recognizes the USA as an Asia-Pacific nation, it clearly labels the USA as non-Asian, non-neighbor intruding in the Southeast, East and North East Asian waters and lands. It sees the US as military invader. It distinguishes the right of freedom of navigation from the Rule of Hegemony the US insists is its duty to Asia.
China is building a military that will be large enough to cope with 60-70% of the US military assets pivoted toward Beijing. Though China is a nuclear power, it is building a navy that will dwarf the US ship for ship. But its carrier groups will not equal US numbers for decades. The need is not there in any case to match carriers. The Islands in the South China Sea act as flattops should the need arise. What the Chinese do have is anti-ship missile capacity ever since 2010 when DF-21 was demonstrated. One missile ends one carrier. That truly has changed naval warfare potential. Russia has similar capabilities and so does Iran. And one might think that those short-range missiles from Pyongyang have the same target potential. So, cruising around with such big targets afloat for China, Russia and North Korea to so easily take out with one missile seems reckless to most. But the US Navy deeply believes the waters that touch the Asian nations are US property and they are determined to enforce that notion. The Rule of Hegemony is powerful elixir.
Two other events bracket these Chinese efforts of the White Paper and the General's Speech. Earlier in May was a huge geo-cultural event, The Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations.
Read the press conference transcript and understand how this is the Chinese and President Xi's way of communicating the philosophical basis for the BRI.
Connecting all the world's civilizations and cultures is the historic stimulus for development. Some have forgotten this. History books often don't relate this phenomenon. We know the Silk Road was about trade. We know the Phoenicians sailed the Mediterranean for trade. But we look past the integration processes when civilizations link up. It is often the most subtle of transformations, but deep, lasting bonds get established. Usually, each influences the other.
Hosted in Beijing, it presented like a small World Expo, an Asian exposition of the ancient and current civilizational developments and capabilities. The West has no such event. Mostly because Western Civilization has died. It now is merely transiting the period of decay like a cadaver left at room temperature.
But Asia is young, as young as today, and Asia is ancient, as old as any civilization on Earth. Several Asian Civilizations are continuums from ancient to today. And most have integrated aspects in China. Some have integrated Chinese elements within their nation's culture. So, the exposition and dialogue was a manifestation of a reality that was already de-coupled from the West. In fact, outside Beijing, at the water's edge of the landmass, was the prowling non-neighbor instigating for war. After all, what else does a Hegemon have to offer? It's own civilization is dead and gone. It seeks to build nothing of use to Asia. It demands subservience. It writes the Rules of the game it wants to play. Go is gone. Obey is the play. You don't even get stones to use. Your bowl is empty. Only the Hegemon makes the moves. All the stones are his.
And what the exposition and dialogue makes aware in the tens of thousands of attendees is the harmony and cooperation of the historical and present civilizations that encompass Asian peoples. Art, religion, inventions, music, horticulture, languages demonstrate the symphonic beauty of mankind, diverse and integrated. Awareness of what is common and what is unique. Most of all, the insight that God and Nature are universal and necessary. Ideology and politics disappear when civilization is the inspiration.
Finally, the coming week, in St. Petersburg President Xi will be the honored guest at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). He brings 30 business deals ready to sign between the trading partners, China-Russia, the Double Helix.
The Chinese delegation will be over one thousand officials and businesspersons. President Xi brings also a list of new responsibilities for Russia to assist China as it de-couples and accelerates the BRI and EAEU Eurasian Integration. This will be followed up at SCO summit meeting in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, June 13-14. http://summit.gov.kg/?lang=en
China has to get things moving economically and militarily. The US has transported 5000 ISIS-AQ fighters to the borderland of Russia and China at Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Soon, whatever number of Uyghurs who may survive the Idlib liquidation by Syrian and Russian operations will be moved to Afghanistan bordering Xinjiang and Pakistan. The US clearly will never cease operational capabilities in Afghanistan so it can rile China, Pakistan, Iran, and Russia from Central and South Asia. These matters must be dealt with by SCO anti-terror operations. The training has been years long, exercises more frequently. It is necessary now to act. Obviously, Russian commanders will set the operational plans. Whose forces will be blended is to be determined. But China has skin in the game and will share the burden of boots on the ground, as well as planes and missiles in the air.
War has come to Asia again. Trade War precipitates Military War. Hybrid War prepares the softening of the internal strengths of the target nations. China, like Russia, is now subject to all three forms of warfare. To avoid calamity, the Chinese are organizing a strategic retreat of de-coupling from the USA/West. Like Mao's strategic retreat, Chairman Xi leads the moral crusade of patriotic repositioning. His dream of Eurasian Development must happen more swiftly. It cannot be a twenty-five to thirty years, culminating in 2049, the Centennial of the CCP's establishment of New China, the PRC. The BRI has to connect all of Eurasia with all of Europe and Africa, and parts of Latin America. The goal is the same, the timeline has shortened.
President Xi has to keep his economy growing at 6+%, find new markets, prevent a military clash with the US directly, and hold Taiwan to the One China status, maintain stability in society, counter the Hybrid War and the vile Yellow Peril Sinophobia, and build new trusting relationships with nations fearful of an Asian Hegemon. Who better to advise and assist him than President Putin? He's been through this wringer and has shown masterful techniques to hold Russia above the madness and capture the minds and some hearts of other peoples in regions around the globe. Russia inspires despite the destructive hybrid war it is facing. Civilization matters, I am sure Putin will tell him. Stick with your values as a civilization and the rest of the world will admire you. Act with full legal authority and with mutual consultation and consent, and you will succeed.
The Saint Petersburg visit will have the public speeches and actions to report, and the very private face-to-face strategizing between Xi and Putin. We will have the tea leaves to read when they are done. But we know where China is heading. Its Plan B is de-coupling. Some of that is from the American side, corporations who are moving out, pressured to go, enticed to come to other low-labor cost economies who want to duck out of the way of the tariff and trade limitations imposed, now, by both sides.
What we are witnessing is more than a Clash of Civilizations. We are seeing the dying of one dominant nation-state that has decayed from its own embrace of Liberalism and corporate capital's dependence on war and military action with no end. DC corruption has led to the waste of tens of Trillions of Dollars, massive debt and derivative artificial growth, and total disregard of all traditional values that once was inspiration to the world. The USA lost its way and now brutalizes everyone, foe, friend or bystander. Everyone is a threat to this bully. And everyone can be used as a proxy, so the bully, himself, does not have to bleed too much.
The dying USA is taking the corrupted Europeans with it. Like a pandemic, its rot will take down those closest to it. This great tragedy has no precedent. Empires die. Hegemons falter and crash like statues pulled down in revolutions. But a dominant nation, committing all Cardinal Sins, has no future but a miracle. List the symptoms that became the killing vices. Pride, Greed, Impurity, Envy, Gluttony, Anger, Laziness. We see these everyday in our leaders, our institutions, our role models, our managers, our preachers, our exemplars, and doubly tragic, our children. America has becomes a hopeless case. Half of it is gone. In ten more years, it will be in need of hospice care. How much of the rest of the world will it infect before it ceases to influence beyond its own borders?
Whatever happens to the USA, China has opted to go back to basics. If somehow the US leadership snaps out of its mindset, reforms its motivations and sees itself as part of the whole instead of the only important whole, then it will meet China and Russia and Eurasia and the rest of humanity that has joined hands to make a new world on a green planet with blue seas and a philosophy of life instead of an ideology of death.
China shall lead where it can, help who it can, remain true to its values, compete with competitors, enchant its visitors, promote the young from everywhere, assist the elderly wherever they may need assistance, and smile for they have found a path that harms no one. Never in the history of the world has a wealthy nation offered its riches to build up the poor and hungry while still developing a system that elevates all its own hundreds of millions of rural and urban poor to a decent standard of living. China is ahead of its time. While it still can inspire, it has chosen to do so. Some see a connivance behind the endeavor. Others see the civilization behind the nation. It is a rich heterogeneous amalgam of peoples itself. So all people are brothers and sisters and not necessarily comrades. Just family.
Leaving the North American morgue and smelling the fresh Asian air blowing across the Pacific and inter-island seas has changed the outlook in Beijing. "To thine own self be true. This above all." Shakespeare wrote it large, and China has heeded it.


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WOLVERINE #56: Jason Aaron + Howard Chaykin
Jason Arron is quickly making a case for himself as the best young writer in mainstream comics. His Viet Nam miniseries from Vertigo, THE OTHER SIDE was brilliant, and SCALPED is really taking off. And now, this one-off issue of Wolverine he did with the great Howard Chaykin. This is a brilliant done-in-one comic, one of those little gems you find now and then, where it's not part of any run, or long running storyline, just a great single issue of a comic (A rarer and rarer commodity in today's "writing for the trade" marketplace).
The set up is simple and dead cool; Someone has trapped Wolverine in a 30 foot pit, and an armed guard sits above with a machine gun firing into it every ten minutes to keep his healing factor from catching up, thus preventing him from escaping. To say anymore would ruin a great story. Chaykin's art is as visceral and brilliant as ever, and Arron's dialogue lives up to his wonderfully crafted, tight script.
This is a really satisfying read, which is something I can rarely say after sitting down and reading a monthly floppy. All in all a great little comic book. Highly recommended.

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Hacking contest offers $10,000 for iPhone exploit
Pwn2Own your smartphone
An annual hacker competition planned for next month has setting its sights on Apple's iPhone and four other smart phones in a contest that will pay cash prizes of $10,000 to anyone who can break in to the mobile devices.
The contest will present contestants with phones running the Android, Symbian, and Windows Mobile operating systems as well a BlackBerry and an iPhone. To qualify for the $10,000 prize, hackers must submit exploits that work against email, SMS test, website browsing, and "other general actions a normal user would take while using the device," according to these rules published 3Com's TippingPoint unit, the competition's sponsor. All devices will be fully patched.
A second-track of the competition will challenge hackers to take their best shots at web browsers. Internet Explorer 8, Firefox, and Google Chrome will be running on a Sony Vaio running Windows 7, and Safari and Firefox will be installed on a MacBook running OS X. Successful exploits in this track will net $5,000 per bug.
This is the third year of the Pwn2Own contest, scheduled for March 18-20 at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. Last year, a brand-new MacBook air was the first to fall during day two of the competition, which pitted the Mac against high-end laptops running Linux and Microsoft's vista. Charlie Miller of Independent Security Evaluators said at the time that he picked OS X because he thought it was the easiest.
The Windows laptop was the next to be hacked, leaving only the Ubuntu machine standing by contest's end.
Contest rules require winning contestants to keep details of their exploits confidential until after the vendor has fixed the underlying vulnerability. Sponsor TippingPoint runs the Zero Day Initiative, which pays bounties for vulnerabilities that are responsibly disclosed.
As has been the case in the past, day one of the competition will require exploits to work on a limited number of applications. On days two and three, the attack surface will be gradually be expanded. Physical access to the mobile devices will not be given.
Once again, The Register will be covering the contest in all its glory. ®


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Explore the Human Body on Your Computer Screen
That skeleton in your elementary science classroom may soon be obsolete
The plastic skeletons and body models used in classrooms and doctors' offices may soon become obsolete, it seems, due to one of Google's latest offerings: Google Body. The program is still in beta (meaning it's got some bugs); this week its creators added a male body to the female they began with in December. And now users can tour the body, zooming in on various layers—circulatory system, muscles, bones, organs and so on—identifying parts, marking them, making notes.
The "body browser" works only with the most recent versions of Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, but no special plug-ins are required. Instead, the product makes use of WebGL technology to produce the 3-D graphics. The creators say that Google Body works best in newer computers, but I had no problems with the site using Firefox 4.0 on my 5-year-old MacBook last night.
One thing I find fascinating about the project is how it came about: Google has a policy that allows company engineers to spend 20 percent of their time on personal projects, and Google Body came out of the 2o percent time of a group of Web developers in Google's Cambridge, Massachusetts office who were inspired by the area's strong medical community.
"We originally built Google Body as a demonstration," project manager Roni Zeigler told the New York Times News Service, "but we've discovered that it has tremendous potential for teaching and patient education."


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Op. No.: 36648
Increase your field of vision behind the car when parking. A camera mounted in the tailgate gives you "eyes in the back of your head" when parallel parking. The RTI-screen shows you what is behind the car.
The camera, which is practically invisible in the tailgate, sends the image digitally to a control module located in the load compartment. The RTI monitor displays a great deal of the area behind the car. Advanced image processing makes the image as true to life as possible. A mark at the reference lines indicates the car's approximate distance to objects behind the car.
The system is activated when reverse gear is engaged and is deactivated by disengaging reverse gear.
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The RTI-screen shows the car's intended position (upcoming position when reversing) using variable reference lines
The kit consists of control module, wiring and a camera that is mounted practically invisible in the boot lid
Distance measurement to any obstacles is shown on the RTI-screen if the car features parking assistance
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The parking assistance camera can only be used in combination with RTI.
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I just came across this bit in my toolbox, which I'm fairly sure came with an installers drill bit (54" long flexible bit, with a hole in the end for pulling wires back through).
It's a standard screw driver bit, tapered at the end (though not enough to actually be a flathead bit) and a hole through it. Any ideas what this is for?


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As a layperson who watches way too many theoretical physics and astronomy documentaries, I've seen the folded-piece-of-paper analogy of wormholes a bajillion times. Usually they explain that black holes might connect to other parts of the universe, but they don't really explain what would have to be on the other end for any kind of information to travel through it. When they do, they usually suggest white holes -- but I'm not entirely convinced.
I don't have too much trouble understanding how a black hole forms, and to some extent, how that could lead to a distortion of space-time sufficient to causing the "fold". But it's hard to imagine what would cause a white hole to form. Even if there were such thing as negative mass, there doesn't seem to be any way that an object can come to have a negative density sufficient to becoming a white hole, so there couldn't possibly be a process that causes them to form.
So if black holes could be wormholes at all, it doesn't seem to be the case that the exit would require matter to be present before it forms. If anything, a black hole wormhole would have to "perforate" a white hole or some other kind of exit into existence -- somewhere.
But there doesn't seem to be anything that determines where that exit would form, so one could exist outside the boundaries of the matter that defines the edges of the universe. That would mean that the universe is infinite in size, since white holes could (and probably would, if their position were completely random) appear very, very far away.
So then either black holes can't be wormholes, the universe is infinite in size, or I'm missing something. Neither of the former two conclusions have been reached to the best of my knowledge -- so what am I missing?


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Voltage Transformers in Electric Circuits
Transformers (sometimes called "voltage transformers") are devices used in electrical circuits to change the voltage of electricity flowing in the circuit. Transformers can be used either to increase the voltage (called "stepping up") or decrease the voltage ("step down").
Transformers have two coils of wire in them. The coils of wire are wound around an iron core. The wires aren't connected to each other. One wire coil has more loops than the other. When AC (alternating current) electricity flows in one wire, it makes a magnetic field around that wire. The magnetic field causes electricity to flow in the other wire. Since the wire coils have different numbers of loops, the voltage in the second wire is different from the voltage in the first wire. That's how transformers change the voltage in a circuit.
Transformers are very efficient. Under normal conditions they transmit about 99% of the power that enters them (about 1% of the power is lost as heat).
When electricity travels from a power plant to your house, it passes through transformers along the way. High voltage is good to use for sending electricity long distances through wires because less energy is lost that way. However, we need low voltage electricity in our houses because it is safer. Transformers change the voltage of electricity as it moves from a power plant to your home.


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Student Guide Program
Student Guide Program at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
The Student Guide Program offers students an opportunity to work closely with Museum staff, learn about the Museum's collections, and give tours to campus, community, and K-12 audiences. You need not be an art history major to apply! MHCAM Student Guides come from a wide variety of majors and disciplines. Successful candidates will be intellectually curious students with a diverse range of interests and backgrounds.
The student guide program meets on Friday afternoons for the full academic year -- applicants must be able to meet on Fridays during both the fall and spring semesters and plan their schedules accordingly.
Applicants must apply through JobX but may choose to receive either student employment compensation for their work or academic credit (two credits per semester). Please email Kendra Weisbin (firstname.lastname@example.com) with any questions.
Applications for the 2024-2025 academic year will be accepted via JobX during Spring 2024. Check back before Spring break for the application deadline.
Required documents will include the following:
- Resume (must include name, class year, and major/minor)
- Name of one faculty reference
- Answers to the following questions:
- Why are you interested in participating in the Museum's Student Guide Program?
- What are some of your academic and extracurricular interests?
- What do you hope to gain from your experience as a Student Guide?
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Hailey Simmons '19, Student Guide
Kiran Penman '19, Student Guide
Medieval studies major and public history minor Kristina Bush '17 shares her experience as a participant in MHCAM's new Student Guide Program. Reflecting on two semesters of weekly meetings at the Museum, field trips, research, and tour training, Kristina writes, "I feel as if I have found my place at Mount Holyoke in the Student Guide Program."


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Intel is having reboot issues with its Spectre-Meltdown patches
It hasn't been a fun time to be Intel. Last week the company revealed two chip vulnerabilities that have come to be known as Spectre and Meltdown and have been rocking the entire chip industry ever since (not just Intel). This week the company issued some patches to rectify the problem. Today, word leaked that some companies were having a reboot issue after installing them. A bad week just got worse.
The company admitted as much in a blog post penned by Navin Shenoy, executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group at Intel.
"We have received reports from a few customers of higher system reboots after applying firmware updates. Specifically, these systems are running Intel Broadwell and Haswell CPUs for both client and data center," Shenoy wrote.
He added, "If this requires a revised firmware update from Intel, we will distribute that update through the normal channels."
Just when you couldn't think this situation could spiral any more out of Intel's control, it did. The Wall Street Journal is reporting it got its hands on a confidential memo issued by the company and shared with large companies and cloud providers not to install the patches. It's important to note that Intel is advising consumers to install all patches, and they point out this isn't a security issue.
It's just a bad software issue and while they should have made certain this was rock solid, a situation like this tends to lead to pressure that leads to mistakes — and that's probably what happened here.
The Spectre and Meltdown issues were discovered last year by Google's Project Zero security team. They found that because of a flaw in modern chip architecture, designed for speed over security, the chip kernel could be exposed. This is where private information like passwords and encryption keys are stored and supposed to be protected. Instead, because of this flaw they could be unprotected.
Meltdown affects just Intel chips, while Spectre affects just about all modern chips, including AMD, ARM, IBM Power chips and Nvidia. Raspberry Pi appears to be the only computer spared from this.
So far there hasn't been a documented case of anyone taking advantage of this exploit, which, Google pointed out in a blog post yesterday, has existed in chips for 20 years, but security experts have suggested it would be hard to attribute an issue to this particular exploit, even if they had known about it.
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You've crossed the finish line and the 10K is behind you. You're done with all this foolishness and it's time to grab a cold drink and crash out on the couch for a day to bask in your accomplishment.
Proper recovery after a race is just as important as your pre-race preparation. Failure to properly recover can result in pain, cramps, dehydration, and possible injury. The unexpected part? Proper recovery begins before you toe the starting line.
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Before the Race
- Nutrition
- Hydration
- Gear
Plan for what will happen after the race. You aren't going to drop dead as you cross the finish, no matter how much it may feel like it, so thinking ahead is important. Eat well the night before to fuel you while you're out on the course and help your muscles start repairing themselves once you're done.
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Wearing the right equipment is also important. Race day is not the time to try out your brand new gear. If you try to break something in during a 10K, you may compromise your recovery with blisters and chafing.
The biggest theme is hydration. If you are well-hydrated before the race, then you will be ahead of the game after the race.
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A similar effect can be seen if you drink some water on an airplane and then return to ground level only to find that the bottle is somewhat crushed. In the photograph, Chris Terai (a graduate student at the University of Washington) is showing a bottle that he took to the high altitude Altiplano, which is 15000 feet (4500 meters) above sea level. He closed the bottle there and then returned to Arica, which is at sea level, where the excess pressure outside the bottle crushed it!!
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Is E3 Still Relevant?
GamesIndustry International asks if gaming's greatest spectacle can change with the industry
Another year, another cramped convention centre in Los Angeles playing host to the console business and its hangers on. It's loud, it's over-the-top, but does it still speak for the games industry as we know it in 2012? Is it a stubborn throwback to the days when consoles ruled the Earth, a show that reluctantly acknowledges the growth in mobile, tablet and online gaming but makes no bones about the preference for a publisher pissing contest? Or is it a show slowly changing with the times, like the creaking console businesses gradually facing a digital, portable future?
The E3 spectacle reverberates through the games business in June every year, but is it still representative and relevant to an industry that has changed almost entirely since the start of the current console cycle? Here, in our latest roundtable, GamesIndustry International's writers drape press passes over their shoulders and wade through the halls of the LA Convention Centre…
James Brightman
"E3 is beginning to feel a bit like a dinosaur, a relic of a past golden age"
James Brightman
The games industry has changed dramatically since the first E3 Expo in 1995, put together by the Interactive Digital Software Association (now the Entertainment Software Association). Why, then, hasn't the annual trade fair evolved with it? The world of consoles isn't the only game in town in 2012, and yet only a handful of exhibitors at E3 are purely social/mobile focused. Truth be told, E3 is beginning to feel a bit like a dinosaur, a relic of a past golden age.
That's not to say that consoles are dead, and that E3 is fundamentally useless. E3 still serves its purpose as the grand spectacle that it is, drawing huge attention to the industry for a few days each year, and preparing journalists, retailers and retail buyers for the upcoming holiday season. But the fact is that it's misrepresenting what the games industry actually is today. Whereas GDC appears to be broadening its scope and shining a spotlight on social and mobile companies, E3 almost seems to be doing the opposite. Like an ostrich with its head plunged into the sand, the ESA seems oblivious to this.
David Radd
E3 is still a very important event to the AAA gaming industry. When it was running in a diminished form for a couple of years, it left a hole where a lot of positive mainstream media coverage usually emerged from. Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft benefit hugely from the attention on their press conferences and it's still the best place for people in the games industry to meet and hash out business.
However, E3 has not done a good job of representing the entirety of what gaming is these days. Indie, mobile and social titles are hugely underrepresented. Also, the importance of the event has been diminished by major publishers making announcements at other times of the year. Since they no longer have to represent themselves to a large number of buyers (the true reason E3 was created) they show off games on their own timetable and often at their own events. Finally, other major industry events, sort of "mini-E3s" have stolen some of the thunder of E3 (like Gamescom, Tokyo Game Show, PAX and the Eurogamer Expo) allowing publishers to have multiple touchpoints with consumers and not try to cram all their major announcements in one week in June.
E3 still represents a part of the gaming market worth billions of dollars, and it's value in the intangibles for that part of the industry is such that it will likely still occur for the rest of the decade. However, the event faces obsolescence if it doesn't include much more than the largest, most expensive titles in an industry about so much more than retail these days.
Ben Strauss
I'm still iffy on why there seems to be continued discussion on the 'end of E3' as we know it. The lineup this year from all three big publishers, all three manufacturers and a goodly amount of PC and mobile developers look pretty darn impressive. I mean sure, the landscape is continuing to change, but for companies to blow off E3? That's for Valve and Blizzard to do. For everyone else, this is the Super Bowl (and Valve and Blizzard only show up when they intend to steal the show).
E3 is just going to see old hands leave and new talent come in, and on different platforms. More attention will eventually be paid to mobile titles, less (if any) attention to an utterly useless middle-market. This isn't about a drastic change - this is about ebb and flow. This talk comes up at the end of each generation it seems, and I don't see this being another early '80s scenario for gaming. Next year will more than likely kill any of this discussion.
Steve Peterson
The answer is contained within the question; once you find it necessary to ask if E3 is still relevant, it is apparent that it's not as relevant as it was. More precisely, E3 is both more relevant and less relevant than it once was.
E3 is more relevant to publishers of console games, who are facing the fourth year of a declining market and the most perilous hardware transition in 20+ years. E3 is their best chance to draw attention to their products and boost their company image to the mainstream media; it's the one event of the year where mainstream media really pays attention to games. Each publisher will work hard to get a larger share in a shrinking pond, while wondering if new consoles will bring in more customers or just the current ones.
"E3 is a red carpet for the big three platform holders and other publishers to strut their stuff and give the community an idea of where the year is headed"
Mike Williams
E3 is less relevant in the expanded view of the gaming industry, which now includes the fast-growing areas of mobile, social, online, streamed games, and a variety new business models, including free-to-play, virtual goods, subscription, ad-supported and others. Digitally distributed content will outstrip physical content in revenue in the near future. There are billion-dollar game companies who don't even care what happens at E3, since it doesn't affect their part of the game business.
Mike Williams
E3 is still relevant. It stands as a monument to pomp and circumstance for the industry, and a red carpet for the big three platform holders and other publishers to strut their stuff and give the community an idea of where the year is headed.
Is the show slow to change? Of course, but so are other large events. GDC Online, focused primarily on mobile and social titles, only started in 2010. Even the consumer-focused PAX just recently started to have a considerable indie game presence. The events will shift with the landscape. I don't think there will ever be a significant social presence at the show, but that's just because there's no ramping hype for those games. E3 is all about the pre-release hype.
Certain studios like Valve and Blizzard will continue to skip the show. Some European developers will focus their efforts on Gamescom or Eurogamer Expo, like many Japanese developers already do with Tokyo Game Show. Mobile platform holders like Apple and Google will continue to do their own thing.
It's an ongoing evolution and I think E3 will stay in its place as long as Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft are running the console show. So we'll see where this new generation of consoles takes us before calling for the death of their biggest showcase.
John Benyamine
I go to two shows every year: E3 and the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. After doing this for over a decade, I always arrive at the same conclusions.
GDC is the games industry's barometer. It is a way to measure what's hot in gaming right now, and where we see the industry headed in the next year or two. In the past few years, attending the show and listening in on key sessions and lectures foretold the rise of mobile and social gaming, the risks involved in big budget console titles, and the increasing influence of the independent gaming scene.
On the other hand, E3 gives me a sense of the bullishness and attitude of the video game companies that make up the vast majority of the show floor. Unfortunately, the value of that analysis seems dampened by hollow stories about booth babes being banned from the show, moving to a small venue in an airport hangar in Santa Monica, or show booth oneupsmanship displayed in the swarming South Hall.
"As Gree continues its expansion, is it so inconceivable that it could be the biggest booth at E3 within the next couple of years?"
Dan Pearson
In recent years, publishers have reacted with an increasing number of pre-E3 events reminiscent of an insultingly-long pre-game show before the big football match. This is a necessary use of everyone's time as now anyone with a passing connection to the word "game" is given access to the crowded show floor where games struggle to capture center stage.
At the end of over a decade of covering the show, I still love E3 for its over-the-top pomp and Vegas-like thrills, and I'll go every year they put it on. Unfortunately, it doesn't make up for the fact that the show is just a great after-party to the press events that happen earlier in the week.
Dan Pearson
I think that, like the console business and many of the major publishers themselves, E3 has shown all the signs of classic 'supertanker syndrome'. Vast, expensive and highly specialised, E3 has taken too long to redirect its course, allowing more nimble competitors like Gamescom to steal a march on markets like mobile and social.
The show obviously has a hugely symbiotic relationship with AAA development. As Mike points out, E3 is a circus, a parade day for the huge marketing budgets of the platform holders and the likes of Activision, EA and Ubisoft to wow and dazzle audiences and buyers, and to get their names and products a spot on the evening news without having the word "shooting" attached.
It does this brilliantly. I don't know of any games journalist who doesn't experience at least a little shiver of anticipation when watching the platform holders' presentations. Rumours are confirmed or obliterated in those brief hours, games announced, headlines written. Years with hardware reveals generate insane amounts of copy, even when those announcements leave everyone a little bemused. Every year, it's the most fact-intensive period in any game journo's calendar. It's exhausting, even when you're covering it remotely.
Despite all that, the gaps in E3's remit are beginning to show. For what is still essentially a trade show, powered by and run for the areas of the industry which are making money, E3 has a shocking lack of social and mobile coverage. That's partly because those industries haven't fully engaged with these events yet, but they're certainly starting to.
Earlier this year, Yoshikazu Tanaka, CEO of Japanese social/mobile behemoth Gree, told me that his company had the largest stand at TGS, a smaller and less glitzy show than E3, but one which has historically been similarly focused on AAA console development. As Gree continues its expansion Westwards, acquiring companies and talent at an incredible rate, is it so inconceivable that it could be the biggest booth at E3 within the next couple of years?
Rachel Weber
Full disclosure, I've never actually been to E3. I've watched others pack up their dictaphones and notebooks and tweet about the plane food, but I've always been back in the office with a take away and a can of Red Bull watching the live streams of conferences, or filtering the news from the million website and blogs. And I've never felt like I've missed anything from a press point of view. Any of the big announcements will be broadcast live to the world, some of that might even get leaked before anyone has even checked into their LA hotel room. E3 is a reflection of its triple-A subject matter, big, expensive, and slow to react.
"E3 is a spring break party populated by fresh-faced fanboys and an old boys' network. It's the least exciting part of the industry with the loudest voice"
Matt Martin
It's just not like the old days when you actually had to be there, with your (snigger) pen and paper, filing copy the next day. As for big interviews, most of the big publishers will now happily set up interviews a few weeks before, send over screenshots, videos, then just stamp them when a big fat embargo. They get their coverage, and the VIP gets to actually leave the booth to eat, pee, maybe even sleep. THQ aren't spending $1 million on a booth this year, but a UK showcase last week means they won't be short on game coverage.
The real value of those shows is now, and perhaps always was, what business people like to call Face Time. For journalists it's getting drunk with someone at an after party and hearing secrets you shouldn't, getting the gossip from bored PRs at the booth. Getting that tired studio head when he's just bored enough of regurgitating press releases to actually say something he shouldn't. For developers and publishers it's much the same, meeting and greeting, being seen at the show, showing shareholders that "WE'RE FINE, EVERYTHING IS FINE! LOOK AT OUR GIANT STAND."
Is that worth millions of dollars to publishers? The floorplan says yes for now, but with an industry that's more and more about indie developers, more and more about dealing directly with consumers, and faced with a playground of events such as GDC, Tokyo Game Show, Gamescom, PAX and the Eurogamer Expo, the old circus really needs to up its game to justify its ticket price.
Matt Martin
I love the spectacle and ridiculousness of it all, from the booth babes to the booming systems, and I think it's absolutely vital that the games industry uses a whole week to stand up and shout about itself as loudly as possible. But I also know E3 isn't really what the games business has been about for some time. This is the week when the rest of the entertainment and tech industries are really paying attention, and E3 should be the chance for the industry to celebrate what it is, thump its chest and be proud of its achievements.
E3 doesn't represent the games industry anymore, or at least it doesn't represent the most exciting parts of the business - the growth, the new attitudes, the evolution. Console software and hardware is tired, limping along with incremental updates. Games are a rehash, services are ubiquitous. E3 is preaching to the converted. Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft and the third party publishers are telling their peers how important they are while those embracing the new games economy - mobile, social, digital - are talking to an entirely new audience of consumers and businesses that are inspired and receptive to new forms of entertainment and delivery.
E3 is a spring break party populated by fresh-faced fanboys and an old boys' network. It's the least exciting part of the industry with the loudest voice. It's still a good party, but that's one hell of a bar bill to wake up to. And if you're just watching Los Angeles for new console announcements and sequels to a favourite game, you're missing out on the progression towards an entirely new games industry growing across the globe.


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First and foremost, here are the few key points you need to know about Harith Iskandar's Laugh Malaysia:
- 8:30 pm, 29th Oct 2014
- Stadium Putra Bukit Jalil
- Harith Iskandar, Jason Leong, Papa CJ
- biggest stand-up comedy event in Malaysia
- tickets at RM 258, RM 158, RM 118, RM 78, and RM 38
- RedTix Hotline: 03-8775 4666 or www.AirAsiaRedTix.com
Jason Leong, KY, Jason C, and Harith Iskandar
Truth be told, Malaysia as a nation has been going through quite a rough patch recently. The MH370 and MH17 tragedies, impending GST implementation, UPSR leaks, Klang Valley water disruptions, and even the weather hasn't been giving us anything to cheer about.
So, as Harith said, the only thing to combat all these disparity and tragedy that has befallen the country, we need to bring the nation together to stand united and resilient, through the best way he knows – via true Malaysian-styled comedy and humor!
Harith Iskandar and Jason Leong giving us a run down of Laugh Malaysia
A number of us were lucky enough to be invited to the media day hosted by VersaComm Sdn Bhd, the official PR team of Laugh Malaysia, led by Mei Chieng held at Espressolab at Kota Damansara with Harith Iskandar and Jason Leong. We got to meet them personally and talk about a little the event, a little about themselves, and a lot about absolutely everything.
Harith mentioned how he abandoned his career in advertising after obtaining a degree in journalism to pursuit a career in comedy and somehow became known as the godfather of stand-up comedy in Malaysia, while Jason Leong, a certified doctor who works in a hospital is currently trying to do the same, having a passion in stand-up comedy over the more serious career in medicine.
Joining the duo would be an international act – special guest Papa CJ, one of India's most influential comedians.
a joyous media event attended by bloggers
I took the opportunity to ask Harith on the theme of the show and how much of it will be new material vs some of his classic favorites. According to the man, it'll be over 90% complete new with a bit of some classic "best of" plus interactive visuals and live music. The theme would be from a mixture of daily observations about what make Malaysia, well, truly Malaysia, a typical Harith Iskandar style that we've grown to love.
As for Jason Leong, I've actually attended one of his first performances a few years ago in Zouk's comedy night, and to be frank, he wasn't terribly good then and I thought he overused the fact that he's a medical doctor. However, I saw him a few months ago again and boy did the good doctor improve! He's now a legit and properly awesome stand-up comedian that I would pay to watch.
Papa CJ has toured 4 different continents and even worked with of Russel Peters in Amsterdam, we can certainly expect a great show from him.
the media event was hosted at Espressolab
The corporate supports for Laugh Malaysia include CelcomFirst, Sime Darby Foundation, Seremban 2, MTT Priority and Pemandu, a percentage of profits from ticket sales will also be channeled to OrphanCARE, a charitable NGO that strives to place abandoned children in homes with loving family. Harith and wife Dr. Jezamine are abassadors of OrphanCARE.
So mark your calendar down, this 29th Oct, 2014 we'll have the largest stand up comedy show in the country and it's gonna be glorious!


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Like so many millions of Americans across the country, we here in Marin County stopped to remember the events of 9/11/2001. There were about a dozen events listed in the local newspaper commemorating that day, so I wasn't expecting too many people to come to this one offered by Marin Interfaith Council, but come they did, about 80 in all. In speaking with others who were there, I learned that some were not religious people, but simply wanted to come together in community for this occasion. They didn't want preaching, of which we had none (and if we had, I likely would not have participated).
We gathered in a circle around Community Congregational Church of Tiburon's new labyrinth. One arc of the circle was shaded by a small grove of redwoods, and another opened onto a vast view of the Golden Gate and the Golden Gate Bridge. A central altar table held a staff (gift to the church from the woman who consulted on building the labyrinth), a blue glass novena candle, a Tibetan singing bowl, and a small statue of Lady Liberty. I placed the last two items there. Lady Liberty's torch held a small candle. There was a light breeze blowing, so I didn't expect to be able to keep a candle lit. Those who saw me about to do so told me not to bother. Still, it was important to light it, so I did. It burned for a few seconds, maybe a minute, and blew out.
The Marin interfaith singers opened the gathering with "Dona Nobis Pacem," a lovely song that most, if not all, religions seem comfortable with. I know I am.
We were welcomed by the Rev. Carol Hovis, Executive Director of MIC, and the Rev. Curran Reichert, pastor of the host facility. I was encouraged to hear Carol speak of the religious dimension of the 9/11 attacks and of the fact that all religions have their dark sides.
The Rev. Jeremy Levie of Green Gulch Farm and Zen Center, read from the Buddhist tradition. Rabbi Henry Shreibman, a reconstructionist Jew, recited in Hebrew from the book of Lamentations, then spoke the words in English. Then MIC intern Abby Fuller rang a bell signaling silent meditation.
From Brahma Kumaris, a Hindu order, Sister Kyoko Kamura played flute while Sister Roslyn Seaton read.
Group chanting and silent meditations occurred between readings.
Sister Colleen McDermott, of the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, read a Roman Catholic meditation.
Following another period of silence, in honor of Lady Liberty, I read "The New Colossus," by Emma Lazarus, written in 1883 and inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York City Harbor.*
As I walked back to my seat on the other side of the labyrinth, I stopped to relight Lady Liberty's torch. It lit, and it stayed lit.
After a musical meditation by Stephen Iverson, Music Minister at Sleepy Hollow Presbyterian Church in San Anselmo and Cantor at St. Rita's Catholic Church in Fairfax, a youth leader, Nura Heydari, from San Rafael Bahá'í Community, gave a reading.
Author Nafisa Haji of the International Society of Sufism, gave the final reading, followed by closing words from MIC intern Abby Fuller from San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo and First Church of Christ Scientist, San Rafael.
We closed with a group chant that was written by a member of the EarthSpirit Community in Boston as her immediate response to the 9/11 attacks. As I led the chant, I extended my hands to grasp those of the people on either side of me, until the we all created one circle.
Rabbi Schriebman played taps.
The magic of the day was that for the duration of the service, Lady Liberty's flame stayed lit. It would flicker and seem to be gone, and then it would leap to life again. Corby and I were watching it intently. I noticed that Carol Hovis across the circle was also watching it. As it turned out, almost everyone was watching that sacred flame, as many of them commented to me afterward. I told them it was magic, which indeed it was. We Pagan priestesses are good at doing magic.
Corby and I, and others, I'm certain, found each different reading offered something comforting, wise, and inspirational to be gleaned.
One could not have asked for a more beautiful day to commemorate such a horrendous day ten years earlier. Or a more beautiful location. Healing is happening.
* I was pleased to learn that my colleague at CHS, Holli Emore, read the same piece at an Interfaith Gathering for Peace in which she participated in Charleston, SC.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
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- Claire-Marie said...
"dona nobis pachem": yes, it is the one interfaith hymn we can sing together. Wish there were more of them.
- Private Jet Charter said...
Thats wonderful. Its nice to see that Americans, even on the other side of the country have the respect to take a moment to realize what a terrible thing that happened to our fellow man on the east coast.
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In eighth grade (yes, for those of you following along, this was less than a year after the unfortunate mayonnaise incident) I committed an even bigger beauty sin – I used Sun-In.
For anyone not familiar with this product, it's a liquid that you spray onto your hair that promises to give you (and this is a direct quote from their company's website) "the same natural highlights you get from the sun - only FASTER!" (And before we go any further here, I have to acknowledge the fact that when I Googled it, I was shocked that this product still exists today. I really thought it went the way of frosted pink lipstick and bedazzled acid-washed jean jackets, but apparently I was wrong). The company also says that the spray "Lightens and brightens blonde hair, making it blonder. Brunettes lighten up and look sun-bronzed and kissed by the sun." This is a lie. This is a big lie. This is like a Tom Cruise "I LOVE this woman" lie.
What Sun-In actually does is turn your hair orange, after it makes it so dry and brittle that pieces just start breaking off at random. I had long, light brown hair that somehow turned the color of old circus peanuts after I sprayed on the Sun-In. And I know I didn't use it wrong because every single girl I talked to who bought this product had a similar experience.
The orange hair isn't the saddest part of the story though. That comes when I was forced to get my hair cut to my chin because the color was so appalling and the damage was so bad. I also repeatedly refused my mother's pleas to just let her take me to a salon and have them dye it back because, as I told her, "Then everyone in school will know I colored my hair." (What the hell was I thinking? Did I not realize I'd probably already clued them in to that when my hair went from brown to orange overnight? Apparently I was very stupid when I was younger). My favorite memory from this time involved my family driving out of the Lincoln Tunnel to see a bunch of hookers strolling around 42nd Street (this was before the Disney-fication of Times Square) only to have my Dad innocently comment, "Hey, that woman's hair is almost the same color as yours." I think that says it all. I'm sending you my therapy bills, Dad.
Now I'm willing to admit that I'm commenting on the Sun-In product that I knew back in eighth grade, so to be fair, I don't know that the formula in 2006 isn't better. But somehow I doubt it, because I don't think that a product that includes the words "Stun your parents" as a selling point on their website puts too much money into product development. Just a hunch.


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- Heart Disease
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- "Percent of Men with full beards, 1866 – 1911. Source: Hipel and Mcleod (1994)."
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- "Surface air temperature change for the globe, 1880-1985, Temperature change actually means temperature against an arbitrary zero point. From James Hansen and Sergej Lebedeff, "Global Trends of Measured Surface Air Temperature", `Journal of Geophysical Research`, Vol. 92, No. D11, pages 13,345-13,372, November 20, 1987."
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The Spirit Tree represents spiritual sustentation. The ability to reach out and touch the heavens and the earth for light and gravity providing stability, and well being. The experience of a Greater Power through nature. The personal meaning that one finds within the sphere is only limited by imagination.
The Spirit Tree is grounded at the base. The trunk of the Spirit Tree grows in a manner and shape that gravity allows. The color of the trunk is determined by the mineral nutrients at the base. The leaves are forced from the branches and rely on the warmth of the sunlight to open.


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The Politics of Drinking: Does the Kind of Alcohol You Drink Predict Who You Will Vote For? [INFOGRAPHIC]
The 2012 Election is only a matter of hours away, which means only one thing - an end to all of those aggressive political ads! Well, that and the fact we'll be electing new leaders. Among the decisions we'll be voting on this season is one about who should be the next President of the United States. Whether you've already decided who is getting your vote or you're undecided one study claims the type of alcohol you most frequently enjoy says a lot about who you will vote for.
The information comes from a social media program called Trendsetter made a social and online media company named Engage. Buzzfeed processed the data, which analyzed Facebook "likes" and other social information to find trends among products people like and their political leanings.
The chart below shows the spectrum of favorite varieties of alcohol and likeliness to vote for a particular candidate. Among the extremes on the scale, Jim Beam drinkers are most likely to vote for Mitt Romney, while Ciroc drinkers are most likely to vote for Barack Obama. Where do you fall? Do you think their findings are accurate? One thing is for certain, regardless of who you vote for, I think we all need to collectively have a cocktail to celebrate the end of another vicious election - and either celebrate the wins, or try to get over the losses of our favorite candidates.


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OK, let's figure out what's wrong with this picture: You come home from a long day's work, plop down on the couch, and spend the evening motionless save for the workout your fingers get flipping through stations with the remote.
Considerable evidence points to consistent physical activity as a means of preventing obesity and its related complications, including type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure. The exact cause of obesity remains elusive in the vast majority of cases, although the results of this study from the Annals of Internal Medicine point to inadequate exercise as a culprit.
Researchers examined 970 healthy female twins and found that physical activity (or lack thereof) predicted total-body and central abdominal fat. These results were maintained when considering other potential contributors to obesity, such as age, diet, smoking, socioeconomic status, and use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The authors also emphasized that these benefits were apparent even in subjects with a strong genetic preponderance toward obesity.
Your doctor of chiropractic can provide you with more information on the benefits of consistent exercise and outline and diet and fitness regimen suitable to your needs.
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In the latest case reflecting the healthcare worker "conscience clause" movement, a California appeals court has ruled in favor of doctors who refused to artificially inseminate a lesbian patient. Guadalupe Benitez filed a sexual orientation discrimination suit against the physicians at a women's clinic in San Diego for refusing to artificially inseminate her in 2000.
The details of the case are complex. The plaintiff says that when she first went to the clinic, the doctor she saw told her she could not inseminate her because her religious beliefs did not permit her to perform such a procedure on a gay person. According to Benitez, the doctor told her there was another doctor in the clinic who could perform the procedure. Benitez then underwent almost a year of tests, exams, and surgeries, only to be told she could not be inseminated at the clinic because of the religious beliefs of all of the staff members.
One of the pending legal questions is whether Benitez was denied the procedure because she was a lesbian or because she was unmarried. California law protects citizens from discrimination by businesses on the basis of sexual orientation, but not on the basis of marital status. The doctors' attorney is claiming that the decision was based on Benitez's marital status, but the plaintiff's attorney confirms that Benitez was told that the procedure could not be done because of her homosexuality.
The appeals court ruled in favor of the doctors on the grounds of protecting religious liberty.
Meanwhile, throughout the country, pharmacists continue to refuse to sell certain products to women because of the pharmacists' religious beliefs. Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Dakota have passed laws allowing pharmacists to refuse to dispense emergency contraceptive drugs. Arizona, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin have introduced legislation that would allow pharmacists to refuse to provide services. Only three states–Missouri, New Jersey, and West Virginia–have introduced legislation that would require pharmacists to fill prescriptions.
Emergency contrapceptive pills contain high doses of of the hormones that are found in regular contraceptive pills. Emergency contraceptives can delay ovulation and prevent fertilization, and–in some cases–prevent implantation. Wal-Mart led the way by refusing to sell emergency contraceptive pills, and then other retail outlets followed by giving their pharmacists the option to use a conscience clause to opt out of filling ecp prescriptions.
It isn't just emergency contraception that is being denied women, however. Pharmacists who are opposed to any artificial means of birth control are using the conscience clause to refuse to fill regular birth control prescriptions. Aside from the obvious fact that birth control pills, patches, and devices are legal in the United States, birth control pills are also prescribed to treat certain disorders, such as irregular menstrual periods, acne, endometriosis, and severe premenstrual syndrome. Women whose mothers or grandmothers had ovarian cancer may be given birth control pills to protect them from the disease.
And finally, though condoms are frequently sold at the pharmacy counter, we do not hear about American pharmacists' refusing to sell them, nor do we hear about an expansion of the conscience clause that would permit checkout staff to refuse to ring up condom purchases.


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Did you know that the ferry services here in the San Francisco Bay is 40 years old as of last Sunday? Love the ferries. One of the best things you can do before the darkness of winter befalls us, is to get some friends together, ride bikes down to the Ferry Building and catch the 5:30 or 6:45 ferry to Sausalito. Have a couple glasses of wine or beer on the ferry. 30 minutes later ride bikes down to the estuary bike trail down Brideway along the water. Enjoy the view and sunset as birds catch fish along the water's edge. Catch a beer on the way back in "downtown" Sausaltio at one of the funky bars. Ride up (ouch) Bridgeway and over the Golden Gate Bridge. Being the only one on the pedestrian path on the Golden Gate Bridge at night rules as the fog horns blow in the eerie darkness swirling cold water 400 feet below... A great summer evening for sure. Do it.
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22-Mar-2002 -- This is our second trip to visit confluences in Sweden during winter time. Going further north, we take ski with us which most of the times is very helpfull to reach the points.
The small road we originally wanted to follow was not swept, so we decided to drive to Åjarn and go by ski following a shorter path. A sign said end of the public highway and so we felt we were staying at the edge of pure nature.
First we could follow a track of a snowmobile but missed a branch and went into the wrong direction for a certain time. We turned back and choose the right way walking on skis through deep snow, sinking in up to the calfs sometimes. We strained every muscle and finally made it. But before our "victory" we had to cross a small, already flowing river.
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WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - This is certainly not just another fish tale.
A tiny jawless fish that lived more than half a billion years ago is providing scientists with a treasure trove of information about the very dawn of vertebrate life on Earth.
Researchers on Wednesday described about 100 fossil specimens of the fish unearthed at the Burgess Shale site in the Canadian Rockies and other locales, many exquisitely preserved showing the primitive body structures that would later evolve into jaws.
The fish, Metaspriggina, lived about 515 to 500 million years ago amid the astonishing flourishing of complex life during the Cambrian Period. While two fragmentary specimens had been found previously, the new ones revealed unprecedented detail about one of the earliest known vertebrates.
Creatures like Metaspriggina began the lineage of vertebrates - animals with backbones - that later would include the whole range of jawed fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals including people. "It allows an understanding of where we come from and what our most distant relatives might have looked like," said Jean-Bernard Caron, a paleontologist at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. "Because of its great age - more than half a billion year old - Metaspriggina provides a deep down view at the origins of the vertebrates." Metaspriggina was a soft-bodied jawless fish no bigger than a person's thumb - about 6cm long, with a small head, a narrow, tapering body, a pair of large eyes atop the head and a pair of small nasal sacs.
It did not have bones but possessed a skull possibly made of cartilage as well as precursors to vertebrae and a skeletal rod called a "notochord" that provided body support like backbones would do in later vertebrates. It is unclear if it had fins.
The scientists were especially excited about the gill structure of the fish because of the preview it gives to the anatomy of later vertebrates - paving the way for the jaws that would open a world of possibilities for so many later creatures.
Metaspriggina boasted seven pairs of rod-like structures called gill arches, or branchial arches, that functioned for both filtration of food particles and respiration. The first pair of these gill arches was more robust than the others and presaged the first step in the evolution of jaws, Caron said.
Scientists have known about the importance of these arches in the evolution of vertebrates but had never before been able to see such an early example. "Metaspriggina is important because it both fills an important gap in our understanding of the early evolution of the group to which we belong, but in particular shows with remarkable clarity the arrangement of the so-called branchial arches," University of Cambridge paleontologist Simon Conway Morris said.
Part of the jaw bones eventually evolved into tiny middle ear bones in mammals, Caron added, noting that the evolution of these arches "had a profound impact on how vertebrates look, live and function today". The study was published in the journal Nature.


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An overview of internal medicine and specialty training, other opportunities you will have as a trainee, and what the RCP can do for you at this stage of your career.
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If not for a view of the ornate Uganda National Mosque or the sprawling, congested taxi park in the distance, it would be hard to tell that Outbox, a technology incubator and accelerator, is in a high-rise in Kampala (Uganda's capital city) and not some non-descript office building in Silicon Valley.
The vibe is intense and laid-back all at once. Modern, cushy chairs and long conference tables are used by casually-dressed young people typing furiously on MacBooks in a quest to create the next big thing. Formidable, expansive blinds in cascading green, blue, red and yellow cover its floor-to-ceiling windows (evoking Google, an organization that partially funds the space through its Google for Entrepreneurs initiative).
At one of the long tables, a group watched quietly as Joldeen Mirembe, a tack-sharp 23-year old woman, presented her latest creation: a website. While everyone was notably relaxed, each had something to say, asking questions or merely pointing something out. A few offered constructive criticism, which Joldeen accepted with the zeal of someone hungry to learn.
A year ago, Joldeen didn't know how to design a website or program an app. She had always wanted to learn how, but felt uncomfortable in the male-dominated computer science courses offered at her university. "Sometimes [when] you're doing programs with boys, you find that girls are a little shy to come up if they don't understand," she explained to me after her presentation.
Fortunately, she heard of GirlGeekKampala, an organization teaching young Ugandan women the computer programming languages and content management frameworks that they may have missed out on in school. She immediately joined, and today is one of the most dedicated GirlGeeks, attending classes nearly every weekend.
GirlGeekKampala was founded in 2012 by Christine Ampaire, Richard Zulu, and Victor Miclovich, a trio of tech leaders in Uganda frustrated by the structural and cultural barriers holding women back from careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
Ampaire, an enthusiastic, ever-optimistic entrepreneur and award-winning app developer, faced many of these barriers in her education. "There's this vibe, this thing that happens where girls are pushed towards the arts and boys are pushed towards the sciences," she told me before Joldeen's presentation.
As she was quick to point out, the discouragement is often subtle and inadvertent; it can be as simple as feeling intimidated and out of place in a computer science lab dominated in quantity and personality by confident male peers.
Sometimes, though, she faced explicit gender discrimination; a teacher once told her that she shouldn't apply to a certain technical school because, as she remembered it, "you're a girl—you'll never get in." Thankfully, her father actively encouraged her interest in computers, and she kept learning, eventually majoring in software engineering at Makerere University in Kampala.
Unfortunately, Ampaire's experiences aren't unique; a 2011 study published in the International Journal of Gender, Science, and Technology echoed many of her concerns about the technological gender gap in Uganda. Though the study had a relatively small sample size, roughly two-thirds of women surveyed by the authors stated that "society discouraged them by claiming that computer science is a 'hard' and 'difficult' subject"—while only 10% of men said the same. It also highlighted the lack of scholarships and female mentors in STEM subjects as likely contributors to the technological gender gap.
This isn't a problem confined to Uganda. Across the world, women are held back from science careers by unsupportive teachers and restrictive biases. GirlGeekKampala is just one of the many organizations supporting women in their pursuit of STEM careers; other well known groups from America include Girls Who Code, based in New York City, and Black Girls Code, in San Francisco.
Ampaire, an entrepreneur always on the lookout for a new problem to solve, saw a gap between what women wanted—a more welcoming environment where they could learn computer science—and what was available to them in the classroom. "I thought maybe if there were more girls around, I would get this courage to learn," she said. "It could be a group thing in a group setting for girls, and it could just start from the basics—from the ground up, at our own pace, no need to rush us."
GirlGeekKampala capably fills that gap. Every Saturday, women—and some men—meet at Outbox, which kindly lets the group use the space for free. For a few hours each session, members of Kampala's tech community (often men) give up to their Saturday afternoons to facilitate wide-ranging conversations and hold mini-workshops with the group of women.
The sessions are hands-on, open, and collaborative by design. "Everyone is free to express themselves and learn new things," Joldeen said, contrasting the average GirlGeekKampala session with girls' experiences in computer labs at school. "The fact that you keep having girls that push you to believe that this is possible—and we have other mentors and supporters that want to see this be very successful—I think that makes it an amazing experience."
"It's amazing learning these things," she added for emphasis.
Other events have proven popular with the GirlGeeks, too. In January of last year, Ampaire helped organize Rails Girls Kampala, a two-day workshop where attendees learned Ruby on Rails, a popular web framework. Seventy girls attended the event (many of them GirlGeeks), and almost two dozen carried over their enthusiasm to a weekly learning session on Friday afternoons, which finished this past summer.
GirlGeekKampala, Rails Girls Kampala, and other organizations are part of Kampala's growing tech scene. Though less well-known than Nairobi's bustling tech ecosystem, it's quietly becoming a vibrant space for entrepreneurs to learn, collaborate, and create.
Ugandan developers are choosing to focus on products and services that help solve the types of problems their families and friends have daily, Ampaire thinks, often in more rural areas.
"The tech scene is growing, and the thing I love is that developers are passionate about building products that are locally relevant—built by Africans, for Africans, which is really cool," Ampaire told me. "It's more about 'Think Local'—what problems do we have in our local scene, and how can we solve them?"
"To me, the coolest stuff is not the stuff that looks amazing; it's the stuff that's solving the smallest needs," Ampaire said. As an example of this socially-conscious focus, Ampaire mentioned one of her first products, an award-winning app called MafutaGo. It crowd-sources petrol prices and was widely used during a recent petrol shortage in Kampala.
"Software is going to play a huge role in the development of Uganda and our continent as a whole, right?" she added, ticking off M-FARM ("I thought it was so cool because it was so relevant, you know?") and M-PREP (now Eneza Education), both being deployed in Kenya, as examples of how simple applications can have an outsized effect.
It's clear that GirlGeekKampala is having an effect on individual women, too. "It all started when I joined," Joldeen told me. "For me, GirlGeekKampala was like the door—an opportunity for me to start on my own. And [now] I'm learning other languages, too."
Currently, she's working on an app related to Ugandan fashion, and hopes to own an IT firm in the future.


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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Nutmeg Sugar Cookies
Printable Recipe
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
¾ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
½ teaspoon kosher salt
8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 ¼ cups sugar
2 large eggs, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 375˚F. Whisk together the flour, baking powder, ½ teaspoon of the nutmeg, and salt in a medium bowl. In a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat together the butter and 1 cup of the sugar on medium until creamy. Beat in the eggs one at a time until thoroughly combined and then beat in the vanilla extract. Add the dry ingredients and mix on low until the dough comes together, stopping the mixer once or twice to scrape down the sides of the bowl. Whisk together the remaining ¼ cup of sugar and ¼ teaspoon of nutmeg in a medium bowl. Scoop the dough by the tablespoonful, roll each scoop of dough in the sugar mixture to coat, and arrange the scoops of dough 2 inches apart on parchment-lined baking trays. Flatten each scoop of dough with the bottom of a cup. Bake for 14 to 16 minutes, or until lightly browned around the edges. Transfer cookies to a rack to cool.
Makes about 45 cookies. Also good with cinnamon in place of the nutmeg. Cookies keep for several days in a tightly sealed container in a cool, dry place.
6 comments:
- Medifast Coupon said...
These are like the simple comfort foods that go well with a side cup of tea or coffee. Easy to make, and the hint of nutmeg is wonderful.
- January 21, 2011 at 6:47 AM
- Vicky said...
Thanks for your Nutmeg Sugar Cookies recipe. Try out the Sesame Nut Cookies too, it taste as good. Recipe could be found on
http://www.fourgreensteps.com/community/recipes/desserts-a-goodies-/sesame-nut-cookies - January 21, 2011 at 12:32 PM
- Anonymous said...
I was in the mood to do some last minute evening baking, and came across this recipe. Within an hour of seeing them on Foodgawker they were out of the oven, warm and in my mouth. They were okay, but I would have to say if I make them again it would be with cinnamon.
- January 21, 2011 at 6:06 PM
- Sonia said...
Thank you so much for sharing cookies with us. They are great !
- January 24, 2011 at 1:45 PM
- Paige at The Spice House said...
Nutmeg is one of my absolute favorite spices, both for the taste and for the history. I wonder if Anonymous, who wasn't impressed, used fresh grated nutmeg? It's a whole different level of flavor from even good-quality pre-ground, since the turpenol and a few other flavor compounds evaporate within hours of grating or grinding. (I don't mean this as an insult, Anonymous - very possibly you just don't like nutmeg as much as I do.)
- January 25, 2011 at 8:48 AM
- Anonymous said...
delicious even with store bought ground nutmeg! just had one hot out of the oven- thanks!
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Mega Man Legends 3 cancellation sparks fan controversy
Capcom's cancellation of Mega Man Legends 3 was bound to cue some complaints from the fan base, but a mixed PR response has left some fans angry and the future of the character in doubt.
There's probably no right way to nix the sequel to a beloved cult franchise, but Capcom's recent mixed messages regarding the cancellation of Mega Man Legends 3 certainly haven't helped the company's cause. Comments made by Capcom Europe further attracted negative attention from spurned fans.
A Capcom Europe tweet seemed to claim that the response to the dev room, a community project meant to get fans involved in creating and choosing assets, was too weak to press on with the project. "Unfortunately so few fans took part in the creation of the game," the tweet read. "It was felt the project was not worthwhile."
Disappointed fans took this to mean they were being blamed. Many pointed out that the also-canceled Prototype Version was meant to gauge interest, and expressed intent to purchase it to show their support. Some snarkily pointed to Capcom's own dev room video, which says participation in the dev room was not expected--"Of course, it's OK to just hang back and watch too!"
The rep has since clarified that it meant Capcom itself didn't do enough to spur interest in the dev room initiative. Still, the damage had been done, and other territories distanced themselves from the comments. Capcom US senior VP Christian Svensson commented in a Capcom Unity thread, "As far as the Capcom Europe thing, I'm not sure what that's about. I do know that the European fanbase for MM in general is far smaller than NA or Japan."
Svensson reassured fans that Mega Man is important to the brand, and says he brought up the response to the cancellation to his bosses in Japan. It is hard to tell how Capcom feels about Mega Man these days, though. The series, and Legends in particular, was the brainchild of Keiji Inafune, who left the company after making some harsh comments about the company and Japanese game development in general.
Since then, both Mega Man Universe and Legends 3 were canceled, and there are currently no announced Mega Man games slated for release from Capcom. They even left him out of the newly-revealed Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, explaining that the character wasn't among the "top requests" from gamers. In spite of fan fervor, it seems Capcom doesn't think the series is popular anymore.
If you're interested in a bit of Internet activism, though, you can Like the "100,000 Strong for Bringing Back Mega Man Legends" group on Facebook. So far it's up to 13,000 members, so it still has quite a bit more to go before it hits its goal number.
Steve Watts posted a new article, Mega Man Legends 3 cancellation sparks fan controversy.
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