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|Social Networking: A Distinctly Jewish Phenomenon?
The world has now been traveling on the information super-highway for over a decade. The recent explosion of media sharing and social networking websites on the Internet – Youtube, Facebook, Mys Space, to name a few – makes clear that while the Internet may have had a dramatic effect on our commercial lives by making it easier than ever to find what we want, when we want it, the true value of the Internet, its strength and purpose, lies in creating a space for people to express themselves, share information, create communities, and foster individual and collective identities. In short, the Internet was made for social networking.
Today, many of the so-called social networking websites in cyberspace fail to foster the kind of community many of us want to be a part of. These websites nurture our insecurities, invade our privacy, undermine our individuality, encourage exhibitionism, and, too often, introduce inappropriate influences, images, and information to us and to our communities. Thankfully, KosherTube is a different kind of social networking website; with your help, we can together create a kosher online community. After all, social networking is the foundation of daily Jewish life.
It may come as a surprise that Jewish life is built upon "social networking", but it is a principle we reaffirm on a daily basis. Every morning, prior to the morning prayer service, we read to ourselves a list of deeds that we are rewarded for in this world, but whose principle reward lies in the world to come (Shabbos: 127A). All of these deeds seek to strengthen communities and have a uniquely social component:
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Elegant bronze urns or flasks have been found in Sumatra, Madura and Borneo, as well as in Thailand and Cambodia. While their function is no longer clear, they appear to be the products of local workshops rather than the earlier trade from Dong Son sites in Vietnam. The bulging bodies of the hollow vessels are always embellished with large spiral patterning within triangular borders. This flask also features long-necked birds and deer with extended antlers and penises, motifs reminiscent of Dong Son metalwork.


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Helmet hair and perspiration prevent women getting in the saddle
Men are still three times more likely to cycle than women. Today's poll suggests that the perceived effect of cycling on appearance, together with a lack of confidence in cycling on the road, is behind this gender imbalance.
Women are three times more likely to cycle indoors on an exercise bike (14%) than to work (4%). When it comes to cycling to work, it seems that fear of being anything less than well groomed in front of colleagues is an off-putting factor. Among 18-34 year old women:
* 58% wouldn't want to arrive at work sweaty
* 50% would be worried about getting wet in the rain
* 38% wouldn't want to have to carry a change of clothes
* 38% say there is nowhere to shower at work
* 27% would be concerned about 'helmet hair'
* 19% wouldn't want colleagues to see them without make-up or stepping out of the office shower.
What the research fails to consider, however, is just how ethno-centric such perceptions are. When attitudes are compared to those amongst women in cycling-friendly cultures, concerns about helmets, showers and sweating miraculously disappear - because they are simply not needed.
The study contrasts with a film and photography project currently underway in Darlington and in Bremen, Germany, which explores the attitude of teenage girls to cycling in both communities. Cycling is highly popular - and seen as fashionable - in cycle-friendly Bremen. Most girls in Darlington lose interest in cycling by the time they are 15 years old.
Attitudes and infrastructure appear to be strongly connected - good, safe cycling infrastructure that offers car-free routes most of the time means that cyclists can travel at their own pace, and not have to battle with motorised traffic. Attitudes to cycling change as a result. When teenagers in Bremen were asked how they deal with rain, they replied "we use an umbrella, of course".
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- Karl On Sea said...
There really does seem to be a thing about showers, doesn't there? Ian Walker made some interesting observations about this a couple of weeks ago.
On a separate but related topic, I've done two things over this summer:
1. Let my hair grow a bit.
2. Worn my helmet a whole lot less.
As a result, I've discovered the delights of a new phenomenon - the cyclist's blow-dry. It's a bit like helmet hair, but wilder. The jury is still out as to whether or not this is a good thing :-D
- 10:45 pm, October 27, 2008
- miketually said...
I get brilliant helmet hair when my hair is very short - my head looks like a tennis ball. I had particularly good helmet hair on Friday as my hair's a bit long at the moment and it was only 25 minutes between getting into the shower at home and arriving at work, so my hair was quite wet when I set off.
I'd agree with Ian Walker's comments on showers. We have showers at work, but I've never even considered using them after riding to work. It's only three miles, so why would I? I think I'd probably shower at work if my ride there was a lot longer, but a lack of showers wouldn't stop me from riding it. I ride to work in the clothes in which I spend the day teaching and there have been no complaints about any smells.
- 3:34 pm, October 28, 2008
- David Hembrow said...
I don't know about Bremen, but I do know about Assen. Teenagers here all cycle. It's the default means of transport.
Showering is unknown, worries about helmet hair or fluorescent uncool clothing are unknown (there are no school uniforms either, so anything goes) and umbrellas are planned for in cycling infrastructure design (in at least some standards, adequate headroom for umbrellas is required in design of cycle underpasses and tunnels).
Some of my daughter's friends cycle from 20 km away to school. They eat breakfast as they cycle, and in the winter they start off in sub zero temperatures in the dark and get back home in the dark too. Despite this, the cycling rate to the school is 100% of students in the summer, dropping only to 95% in the winter (for some, I guess the 40 km round trip is a bit much then).
Quite a lot of teenagers can be seen in the rush hour.
It is, as you say, the infrastructure that is the star here. It normalized cycling. People don't have to dress like Christmas trees and they don't feel like they're in danger. Passive subjective safety is extremely high.
Cycling is trendy here too. It's the way you meet your friends and go about together. Motorized scooters are considered to be a bit naff by most.
The result is that this is the only country where women cycle more than men. This comes about because women of child bearing age take their kids around by bike in the day while their husbands are working.
- 8:07 am, October 30, 2008
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- 9:20 am, October 30, 2008
- An Inconvenient Truth said...
Thanks for these useful comments, David. I'd recommend the link through to Passive Subjective Safety to anyone involved in trying to raise cycling levels in the UK.
- 9:22 am, October 30, 2008


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Oh, how we miss Simon Cowell. He would have torn into Eben Franckewitz last night.
Not that we want to see a 15-year old cry on stage, but let's be honest: this Justin Bieber lookalike is not ready for primetime, and certainly not ready to try his voice on an Adele single.
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COLUMBUS – Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said on Friday the state will no longer accept mediocrity in its education system.
Delivering the keynote address during the inauguration of Mississippi University for Women President James Borsig, Bryant spoke at length about his Education Works package that was passed by both chambers of the state legislature.
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Firstly i saw a post about dieing servers. seems to me that person was trying to show Kabam that they are losing alot of players. you ignore his whole reason and say something like merging servers. that doesnt elminate the fact that players are quiting just puts more active players on a single server.
Secondly i have played many games and sure all games are gonna have their bugs. cant argue with that. but its true that kabam seems more interested in putting new things into the game than fixing old things.
and furthermore. i had liked the racket mini game. it was fun. it was finally a chance for me to get useful items. you try to tell us that you never know how something might affect the game until implemented. well guess what it affected the game positively. so dont you mean to say how it affects your diamond sales or kabam's pockets. and that is utter rubbish. all new patches should have been tested. i have never seen another game that implements it into the actual game without testing it before hand. so they can take it away when it doesnt work how they wanted?. seems that u are paid to lie to us. you didnt remove lower speedups. u removed higher ones. u changed the rate of winning items of value. before you try to tell us how we should realize what we are righting befor replying. i think you need to do that yourself
Again... paying player. Don't really mind either way about the racket games... wasn't really winning anyway. However, I agree Kabam has hosed the free player here. I'm very sorry, Razia, I know your job is probably very taxing, and hard to deal with. You get a lot of heat for something that's mostly out of your hands. But what basically happened here was someone offered a child a cake... and just as the child got to touch it, and have a bit of the frosting, that person threw it away, and said "Here, have this bologna sandwich instead. It's still food."
You're the forum PR person. In this situation, you should either stay silent, OR you should be apologizing to the customer for what is clearly not your fault (because someone has to)... and NOT telling them they are being ungrateful. That's not good customer relations.
'awesome, 1 hr speed up again!', 'yeah, i've gotten two 8 hours speed ups and 1000 butchers', 'same but also a 24 hour and i heard joe got the 2.5 day one'.
At this point our hypothetical individual becomes compelled to purchase a Brooklyn deed under the pretense that the money spent will be more than worth it in the bonus items, and frequency thereof, the slot machines are awarding. Fast forward a day or two and 3 out of the 4 best speed ups are removed and the win rate is significantly reduced.
At some point Kabam's little bait and switch schemes crossover into a breach of contract. Obviously they will attempt to stand behind the beta claim, but guess what? On Kabam's blog, a few months ago, one of the posts proudly proclaimed that the game was out of beta. Of course that claim has since been erased from the original post but it is archived in a public repository.
The odd thing is that player response to the "initial version" of slots was overwhelmingly POSITIVE. This makes it difficult to imagine how the change was negatively impacting the game: except (as many others have said) that it was giving out too many free items (which people had previously been paying for); and hence was costing Kabam! too much money.
I think most of us who play the game realize that Kabam! has to cater to the paying players. They're the ones who keep the servers running. The infuriating thing is that most of the changes that your "team" makes seem to anger not only free players, but also those who buy diamonds in quantity. For instance, I haven't heard a single diamond player on my server say: "Boy, this new patch they installed on 3/26 sure is awesome for us, glad Kabam did it! It's going to encourage me to play more and spend more!"
Moreover, it seems that many of your team's decisions, while perhaps generating some quick, short term cash flow, hurt the financial viability of the game in the long term. Yes, they get people to drop some $$$ on diamonds initially, but very quickly they throw the game so far out of balance that your investors quit in droves. I suspect (though obviously, I can't know for sure) that the reason you keep rolling out "scheme after scheme" is because your "team" realizes there's very little sustainability in your current gaming model. So you're "grasping at straws" (if you will) ... dreaming up "the next big thing" that will lead to another quick influx of diamond income to keep the game alive.
With respect, I believe if you listened to some of the advice being provided by your veteran players (whether they be pay, free or someplace in between) and worked WITH us to develop a game that was fun and challenging for everyone OVER THE LONG TERM, you'd likely end up with a much stronger business model. One that DOESN'T depend on quick influxes of cash from the latest "barn burner" offer, shiny new unit etc.
We realize that Kabam! is a business, we want to be part of building a strong business model for you (as well as a fun game for us); but it's clear from 95% of the comments posted on the fora that most players feel like Kabam! is not interested in having us be part of that partnership, except at the point of purchase where we swipe the plastic.
yeah razia, i'm sure getting people to significantly increase the amount of time the spend playing the game everyday would really hurt the long term stability of the game... obviously the odds were a little too good, but why do you have to go to the other extreme and make them a complete waste of time. and seriously, what is up with you guys and the cash bonuses? the amount that you make them for is so out of tune with the game. From a third neighborhood racket giving you $900 to the $100k you win for leveling up to level 49 it makes absolutely no sense - even if it were $1mil it would be completely insignificant to someone at that level. Sometimes I wonder if you guys even play your own games...
Yo fix this crap, get rid of the stupid safes just lower the win % not both assholes. And get rid of the automatic opening of battle reports, I like to send out like 30 attacks at gangs non stop and you're really slowing me down.


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University revokes degree after scathing report on M.B.A. awarded to BreschApril 24, 2008 8:00 AM
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- West Virginia University administrators made a "seriously flawed" decision fraught with favoritism in awarding Mylan Inc. executive Heather Bresch a graduate degree she didn't earn, investigators said in a scathing report released yesterday.
Provost Gerald Lang said he would follow the recommendation of the investigative panel and the university's Board of Governors and rescind the degree.
The report by the five-member panel concluded administrators acted hastily, using ambiguous and incomplete information to award an M.B.A. degree retroactively in October to Ms. Bresch, the daughter of West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin.
The decision was made following a telephone conversation between the governor's daughter and WVU President Michael Garrison, a family friend and former business associate of Ms. Bresch, the report said.
The report concluded administrators falsified Ms. Bresch's transcript by adding courses to her record that she did not take and by entering grades "simply pulled from thin air." The actions reflected "failures of process and failures of leadership" at the state's flagship university, it said.
Top administrators "should have been more deliberate, more discerning and more detached in assessing the evidence that they had in hand," investigators said. "They should have hesitated to rely so heavily on fragments of self-serving, hearsay conversations that they could not and did not even try to confirm or verify."
Ms. Bresch issued a statement to The Associated Press, saying that while she continues to believe she did what was required to earn her degree, she will accept the panel's conclusion out of respect for her alma mater.
"To put this issue behind us is the best course of action for everyone," she said in an e-mail to The AP. "Therefore, while I am not waiving my privacy rights, I will not challenge action by the university implementing the panel's recommendations."
The investigative panel was formed after a Dec. 21 story by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette raised questions about how officials went about granting the degree, nearly a decade after Ms. Bresch left the program, despite official university records showing she was missing 22 credits in the 48-credit-hour program.
While the report portrayed Mr. Lang and business school Dean R. Stephen Sears as the main decision makers, it noted that the president's office "reacted immediately" on the basis of telephone conversations Ms. Bresch had with Mr. Garrison and also with his chief of staff, Craig Walker.
The Post-Gazette has requested records of Mr. Garrison's phone calls during that time under the Freedom of Information Act, but WVU has not provided them. The newspaper is suing the university to obtain those and other records withheld by university officials.
Records of Mr. Walker's phone lines indicate he and Ms. Bresch exchanged nine phone calls between Oct. 11, when Ms. Bresch called Mr. Walker to dispute the registrar's statement that same day to the Post-Gazette that she did not earn the degree, and Oct. 15, when Mr. Lang approved Mr. Sears' decision to award the degree.
The decision was made at an Oct. 15 meeting, called by Mr. Walker, that lasted less than an hour. The sentiment among those attending "was that a way should be found to justify the granting of the degree, if at all possible," the report stated.
Investigators believe those at the meeting, including four business school officials, were under "actual or perceived pressure to go along with this decision, not to 'rock the boat,'" the report states.
The investigative panel was chaired by WVU professor Roy Nutter. Other members were WVU professor Michael Lastinger, University of Pittsburgh law professor John Burkoff, Pace University economics professor Arthur Centonze and University of Missouri-Columbia management professor Lori Franz.
Their report was released publicly yesterday following a special meeting of WVU's Board of Governors. Board Chairman Steve Goodwin said members unanimously accepted the panel's findings "in principle."
The board said Mr. Garrison should accept responsibility for the university's actions but did not recommend any disciplinary action against him or others.
Mr. Garrison read a prepared statement, saying he accepted the panel's decision.
He said he regretted that WVU "had to endure the lengthy process that led to this day" and promised to develop standardized procedures for handling future "academic concerns" brought to the president's office.
When asked if any disciplinary actions would be taken, he said any personnel matters would be "handled privately."
Asked how the university allowed favoritism to guide awarding the degree, Mr. Garrison replied, "the report speaks for itself." He has denied any involvement in the decision to grant the degree.
Ms. Bresch's relationships with the governor, WVU and Mylan, whose chairman, Milan Puskar, is WVU's biggest benefactor, had no influence on the decision, Mr. Lang said.
WVU mathematics professor Sherman Riemenschneider, the faculty senate member who sponsored the Jan. 14 motion to appoint three outsiders to the panel to bolster its independence, said he will confer with other senate members "about an appropriate motion to bring forward concerning the provost and the president, if they do not resign prior to that."
Faculty senate chair Steve Kite said the report's findings will be on the agenda when the senate's executive committee meets on Monday.
WVU officials awarded Ms. Bresch her degree in October after the Post-Gazette called to confirm her credentials following her promotion to chief operating officer at Cecil-based Mylan. At first, the newspaper was told she did not finish her degree. Days later, officials reversed themselves, citing a record-keeping error.
The Post-Gazette found WVU added six classes, worth 16 credits, to Ms. Bresch's transcript without documents showing she had registered, paid or done the work for them. In addition, six credits that had been listed as "incomplete" were changed to letter grades.
A week after the Post-Gazette's Dec. 21 story, Mr. Goodwin said he believed Ms. Bresch's case involved a simple record-keeping error, just as WVU officials described it at the time. Mr. Goodwin, a Morgantown attorney, led the search committee that chose Mr. Garrison as president last year, a controversial appointment that the faculty senate opposed.
"Everyone on the board has [confidence] in Garrison and Lang that they have checked this out and have done it appropriately, and have indicated their willingness in wanting to get this all straightened out," Mr. Goodwin told a Charleston reporter in late December.
The panel said WVU officials did not put enough reliance on records maintained by the Office of Admissions and Records, the university's official records keeper. Those records, which showed Ms. Bresch did not earn the degree, were trustworthy, the panel concluded.
The panel found no evidence of widespread record-keeping problems the university cited after awarding the degree. "The records were accurate. Ms. Bresch had not earned an M.B.A. degree," the panel said.
Mr. Lang and Mr. Sears yesterday made no apologies for their actions. Both said they would make the same decision again.
"The situation still is the same as it was," Mr. Lang said.
Mr. Sears said the panel "weighed the evidence in a different way than I did" but that he fully supported the panel.
When asked whether he could recall another instance in his academic career when a student was given credit for classes without record of the student completing the work or paying for the courses, Mr. Sears said "no."
Ms. Bresch has insisted she earned the degree and graduated with her classmates in December 1998. She has repeatedly declined to provide a transcript or other documentation, and has not spoken with the Post-Gazette since October.
Mylan did not respond to calls or an e-mail yesterday seeking comment on the report and on whether the generic drug giant intends to file an amended report with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicating Ms. Bresch did not earn the M.B.A. degree. The degree was listed in an Oct. 2 news release filed with federal regulators and as a credential when she testified before a congressional committee in July 2006.
Earlier this month, Ms. Bresch broke months of silence, telling other news media she finished her degree by making arrangements with then-M.B.A. program director Paul Speaker to substitute work experience for actual course work. Mr. Speaker, a WVU finance professor, told the panel that was not true.
The panel concluded that Ms. Bresch's explanation of how she completed her degree was not credible.
"No student should have a reasonable basis to conclude that he or she could or would be excused from so many outstanding credits and course obligations simply upon the basis of experiential learning, in this case, engaging in one's regular job responsibilities," the report stated.
In addition, the panel said, Ms. Bresch did not take any steps to confirm the terms of the claimed agreement or take any steps to complete or verify a degree.
More important, the report said, administrators accepted Ms. Bresch's account and disregarded a contrary account given by Mr. Speaker.
Mr. Manchin issued a statement yesterday in support of his daughter, saying he and his wife, Gayle, were "very proud of the professional reputation she has built throughout her career."
While not commenting on the panel's finding that his daughter did not earn the degree, Mr. Manchin, who is seeking re-election, said he hoped "WVU's leaders will correct whatever problems that led to this situation so that no other student will have to go through this kind of ordeal in the future."
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This weekend I gained a little more Zope enlightenment and created my first Python product. (Until now, I'd done some work with existing Python products, but any new stuff I needed was generally built using ZClasses through the web.
Actually, I'm only dipping my toes in the water, only using the Python product to provide functionality that I can't through ZClasses (namely, I can't have manage_afterAdd methods for two base classes both be invoked -- the first one in the list wins) and building the rest of the product with ZClasses. ZClasses are oft-maligned on Zope IRC, but I think they have a definite place and are quite useful for building simple classes.
"solpkg", the packaging system for Solaris I mentioned earlier, will hopefully be ready for public digestion by the end of the week and posted in its Savannah project area. I want to get in a hardcore reading of the OpenBSD ports system code and figure out how it solved some of the problems I've run into to see if they're solvable in a similar way on Solaris first. Right now there's some voodoo in solpkg, and I want to make sure I understand at least my own code before I make it public.


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The above "tweet" continues to make rounds on Twitter. Already, bike racks are being removed from the G20 security zone and if you've chosen to lock your bicycle to fence or other remaining post, you could return to find no bike at all.
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Hope College junior Josh Boss of Jenison, Mich. joined the ranks of the nation's top breaststroke swimmers as he competed in the U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis, Ind. from August 7-12.
He finished 27th in the 200-meter breaststroke after finishing 48th in the 100-meter breaststroke.
He had an outstanding effort in the 200-meter breaststroke winning his heat and finishing 27th overall among 86 competitors. Swimming in the first heat, Boss was record in 2:21.46. The top 16 swimmers advanced to the semi-finals. Boss remained in contention up until the eighth of ten heats.
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Boss was swimming under the auspices of the West michigan Swim Club. He gained the opportunity to compete through his performances on the Hope College swimming team under coach John Patnott.
He is the two-time (1999 and 2000) NCAA Division III national champion in the 200-yard breaststroke. He also won the NCAA championship in the 100-yard breaststroke in 1999. He holds the Division III national record in both events.
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Kris, well that shows how old I am and how bad my memory is. You are so right! That's why I need young friends to keep me on the straight and narrow!
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Today, finally, after a couple of days of totally unproductive coding and a sudden inspiration, I've fixed the exception emulation system in the C++ libraries of our project at work.
We have a set of class libraries that is supposed to be portable between Win32 and various hand-held devices (Palm, EPOC, WinCE), but the small devices do not provide C++ exception handling, and the libraries rely on it heavily. So last summer we implemented a complex exception emulation framework with more or less complete support for stack unwinding. It worked very fine, pushing objects on the stack and pulling them from there, except for one minor thing: every time you threw an exception, it crashed.
Nobody did any active development for the devices, so nobody pushed too hard to get this thing fixed, but now the time came that my colleagues needed the code working. The project that I promised to do in two or three days (updating the code for the latest version of the Symbian platform and fixing the exceptions) stretched into more than two weeks of Web surfing, complaining about the bloated emulator that loads for 3 minutes and hangs your PC to death once in a while and other not really productive tasks. Well, I did write some code, but not too much of it...
And today at last, after my colleague advised me to look if the problem could be reproduced in a minimal test under Win32, I found the reason of the problem in just some half an hour... (When working on something that is totally uninteresting and unmotivating, I sometimes feel like I'm doing everything possible to avoid getting the problem solved. Not a really professional attitude, I guess.)
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Things are looking great for San Mateo County, we are going from a $1.8B budget to $2.1B
We are adding 112 New positions.guess where many are going New Jail, He is asking the Supervisors to approve $97.8 M for Jail construction, this is the jail that previous manager David Boesch said we didn't need and couldn't afford. Now is the time to Get Involved if you want to stop this New Jail. Let the Supervisors know what you think.
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Stephen Colbert to Release Children's Book: 'I Am a Pole (and So Can You!')
Get ready for the best children's book ever, at least according to Stephen Colbert. The political-satirist's book drops this May. Watch video of his interview with author Maurice Sendak.
Stephen Colbert has made a career out of making adults laugh, so now he figures it's time to move on to kids. The publisher for the famed comedian confirmed Tuesday that he would pen a children's book, I Am a Pole (and So Can You!), after Colbert previewed the book on his TV show. Colbert had as a guest last month famed children's author Maurice Sendak, who called the book "terribly ordinary," adding: "The sad thing is I like it." Colbert said that he aimed to "cash in" on the trend of celebrities writing children's books. "I hope the minutes you and your loved ones spend reading it are as fulfilling as the minutes I spent writing it," he said. The book is due to drop May 8.


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What a week. Mozilla. Netscape Commercial Build. Sleep. Food (if I remember). My whole existence seems to revolve around these four things. Did I make all my features for beta 2? Well, yes and no. If you don't count the Mac platform implementation class of my major feature this time around on NAIM (Netscape Instant Messenger in the Netscape-branded version of mozilla), I did ok. Mac builds were difficult to come by Tuesday, however. When I finally got a build Wednesday night (past the deadline, of course), all it wanted to do is puke on startup. Joy. Why am I doing this anyway? I'm a Linux geek, not a Mac head. Well, I guess some significant Mac toolbox work a few years ago on Apple's MacX X server (not the Mac X OS, don't get these confused), and owning a few of the more important versions of Inside Macintosh got me the gig. Actually, it has been fun. G3 powerbooks are kinda nice (when the UI isn't hung because some app isn't being nice and calling WaitNextEvent, that is).
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Tonight, dinner with mozilla-heads in San Francisco. Well deserved. More food, but in good company. And then, some sleep.


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In "The End of Sex," Donna Freitas examines how in the current, feverish sexual climate where the hookup is all important, an entire generation has become completely adrift from the concepts of meaningful, emotional intimacy. Here's an excerpt.
Hooking up, I would say, is anything involving kissing, touching, feeling, or any kind of sexual activity. It could be as small as kissing someone for a few minutes, or as much as having sex with them.
That's not okay, like, in Hookup World.
There are no strings. You just do it, you're done, and you can forget about it.
Clearly, a "hookup" today is not about getting together to go to the movies. But it isn't necessarily a one-night stand, either. So many of us make assumptions about the term "hooking up" because we have heard it batted around on television, read about it in newspapers and magazines, or overheard our children discussing it. We rarely stop our hand-wringing long enough to define our terms. What is a "hookup"? How does a sexual encounter qualify as one, and what makes it different from those that would not be considered in the same light?
Several articles that drew national attention gave the American public its first glimpses into hookup culture. In 2006, Caitlin Flanagan's much-talked-about article on the topic in The Atlantic, "Are You There God? It's Me, Monica," set off alarm bells far and wide. Flanagan wrote about an alleged blow-job epidemic among teenagers and puzzled over why, given the so-called female empowerment we had achieved, girls had become so careless about their own behavior and pleasure and so focused on pleasing boys sexually. Then, in 2010, Flanagan took on hookup culture more directly with "Love, Actually," an article, also appearing in The Atlantic, about how hookup culture was robbing girls of the "Boyfriend Story" they really wanted. She wondered how sexual liberation had come to be equated with the ability to endure a hookup. Her own under- standing of sexual liberation was something far more moderate and involved finding a middle road between sex equaling marriage, family, and domesticity, on the one hand, and sex equaling nothing at all, not even self-respect, on the other. Hookup culture not only robbed girls of the love story they really wanted, she said, it also robbed them of true sexual liberation.
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Flanagan's critique was spot on, yet she fell into the trap of assuming, like so many people, that hookup culture was a culture that served and was perpetuated by boys. This view leaves out a discussion of how boys feel about hookup culture. Also, like Hanna Rosin, who used anecdotal evidence to draw her conclusions, Flanagan failed to base her observations on rigorous data. Instead, she relied on personal reflection and news reports as "evidence" of what was going on with America's teens and young adults.
In order to understand hookup culture, it is important to move past such alarmist public dialogue in order to grasp what such an encounter is, according to young adults who actually engage in the behavior. The only definitions that matter are those given to us by the kids who are hooking up. To find out what those definitions are, we must ask them.
"Hooking up can vary from a make-out session to having sex. . . . Then, with certain situations, you'll know that it's going to go further than that," said one young woman I interviewed, a sophomore at a Catholic college. By "further," she didn't mean physically, but emotionally. During a hookup, if a person allows emotions to enter into the experience, he or she is betraying the social contract a hookup requires and will have to pay for this transgression. "That is where you set yourself up for heartache," she said. "That is where that whole morning- after thing hurts."
Another young woman, also a sophomore at a Catholic college, reiterated this belief. A hookup, as far as sexual intimacy goes, she said, is broadly understood to include just about every type of activity imaginable. "A good number of people under- stand hooking up as a Saturday night they made out with some- one. And that was that," she said. "Then there are people who understand it as a Saturday night they had sex with someone. And that was that. . . . There's no relationship, no strings attached. It's not supposed to be something that either person dwells on. It's not supposed to go anywhere." For this young woman and for most of the students with whom I have spoken, the "anywhere" to which they are not supposed to go is a relationship, and the "something" on which they are not sup- posed to dwell is the sexual intimacy exchanged. Theoretically, everyone is supposed to be able to walk away from the experience as if it did not happen, because this is what the social contract asks of them.
Nor is hooking up a phenomenon just for the straight man or woman on campus. Gay and lesbian students are also caught up in hookup culture. One woman, a senior at a secular university who identified as queer, said that although she equated hooking up with kissing, she felt that for her friends and peers, "oral sex is maybe [the] most preferred" type of sexual content. A gay sophomore at a Catholic school said that for his peers, a hookup could be anything from one-time sex during a "one- night stand" to occasional sex, "depending on your definition of sex." What defined a hookup more than the sex itself was the perception of its meaning (or lack thereof) by both participating parties. "It's nothing serious, and not expected to last," this sophomore stressed.
Other students had succinct descriptions of the hookup that were similar. A hookup is "one sexual encounter that has no commitment involved," said a first-year man at a Catholic college. "It's like you conquered something," said a junior at a private-secular school. The object of conquest for this young man was not so much a woman but fulfillment of a social expectation. This is true for many young men, who both engage in the behavior and are often its primary instigators.
A senior woman at a private-secular institution told me that a hookup was "purely physical [and] emotionally unattached." Another, at a private-secular university, said that a hookup "can run the gamut of any sexual activity . . . making out all the way to having sex." And a sophomore man at a public university echoed this refrain, describing a hookup as "any sort of romantic or sexual moment between any two people." He added, after a pause, that, "for some people, it's just a sexual conquest."
As for what people are supposed to get out of a hookup, the students were not always so certain: "sexual gratification," said one young man from a private-secular school, although he later added that he wasn't sure this was always, or even usually, the case, especially for the female parties involved.
Excerpted with permission from The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture Is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy, by Donna Freitas. Available from Basic Books, a member of The Perseus Books Group. Copyright © 2013.
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Beginning Thursday, April 2, the Program in Theater and Dance in the Lewis Center for the Arts will present a senior thesis production of both parts of Tony Kushner's celebrated theatrical epic, "Angels in America," in the Matthews Acting Studio, 185 Nassau St.
"Millennium Approaches (Part One)" and "Perestroika (Part Two)," the two halves of the famously massive play, will be performed in rotating repertory to combine for a six-hour theatrical experience running through Saturday, April 11. The production will be directed by senior Sara-Ashley Bischoff and will feature senior Lovell Holder in the role of Prior Walter and senior Jordan Kisner as Harper Pitt.
Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning work, written in part while he was teaching playwriting at Princeton, details the lives of Americans struggling to survive emotional and social upheaval in the waning days of 1980s New York. Focusing on the AIDS crisis, Kushner uses the health epidemic as a lens through which he explores both literal and figurative diseases that plague American culture -- strict definitions of sexuality, race, religion, politics and family.
When "Angels in America" opened in 1993, Newsweek proclaimed the work the "most ambitious American play of our time," and more than 15 years later, thesis students Bischoff, Holder and Kisner are ambitiously attempting to mount this immense work while full-time students. Director Bischoff, a comparative literature major, has spent six months with her production team and ensemble cast of eight actors -- each one playing multiple roles in addition to a central character -- in order to bring Kushner's simultaneously sprawling and devastatingly intimate world to the Princeton stage. Headed by Holder, an English major, and Kisner, a religion major, the cast also includes senior Christopher Inniss, junior Becca Foresman and junior Heather May.
The performance schedule for "Angels in America" is as follows: "Millennium Approaches (Part One)" -- 8 p.m. April 2 and April 9; and 2 p.m. April 4 and April 11; "Perestroika (Part Two)" -- 8 p.m. April 3, April 4, April 10 and April 11. The production contains adult themes, strong language, sexual scenes and nudity; audience discretion is advised. Tickets are $8 for students and seniors, and $10 for general admission. For advance tickets, visit the University Ticketing website or call (609) 258-9220.


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Obama: president of pimps and whores.
He is taking comfort in Jesus. NOT OBAMA.
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Gracious in defeat.
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Internationally renowned social critic to speak at Binghamton University
Internationally renowned social critic, intellectual and author, Camille Paglia, will speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday, October 17, in the Anderson Center Chamber Hall on the Binghamton University campus. The reading is free and open to the public.
Paglia, the 2006 Milton Kessler Distinguished Reader, was recognized by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as among the "100 Top Public Intellectuals in the World." Paglia's best-selling books include, Break, Blow, Burn; Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nerfertiti to Emily Dickinson; Sex, Art, and American Culture; and Vamps and Tramps: New Essays.
Paglia, a Binghamton University alum and Endicott native, is a former student of the late Milton Kessler, English professor and founder of Binghamton University's creative writing program.
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Amanda Bynes: Why Are You Tweeting Sexy Pics After Quitting Twitter Last Year?
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The Inquirer's Lawrence Latif today reports that the head of graphics chip technology at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Eric Demers, has gone over to Qualcomm (QCOM), according to an anonymous "industry source."
AMD had announced Demers's departure to seek other opportunities earlier this week, it had not said where he was going. Latif writes that AMD aims to compete with Qualcomm in tablet chips. And he writes that he's been told AMD is not too troubled about how it will find a successor to Demers.
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Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec), one of New Zealand's leading institutes of technology, helps drive the development of a skilled workforce not only in New Zealand, but around the world.
Being a modern institute of technology, Wintec has a reputation for providing quality education. Graduates are work-ready and in-demand by employers.
To ensure Wintec meets the needs of the job market, the institute works closely with employers, industry and community organisations to understand and respond to the skills which are required. Through graduates, students and staff, Wintec contributes positively to the regional and national economy, and continues to play a role in its on-going prosperity. The institute is part of a national network of major institutes of technology and polytechnics (ITPs).
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Wintec's Centre for Health and Social Practice provides inter-professional learning, the teaching, research and external engagement opportunities results in innovative, leading edge position for Wintec in regard to the interface between education and health sectors. Wintec works in partnership with The Waikato Diabetes Service to provide formal programmes of education for nurses working with people with diabetes.
The Waikato Regional Diabetes Service is a specialist unit of the Waikato District Health Board. There are currently approximately 19,000 people with diabetes in this region which is a geographically large rural area surrounding Hamilton city. The Diabetes Service provides care and management at a secondary care level, Type 1 diabetes, pregnancy, specialist podiatry, Inpatient services at Waikato Hospital. In addition service supports primary care / general Practice with Nurse Specialists to mentor / coach staff as well as providing expert consultations for patients throughout the region.
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This programme designed and delivered in partnership with the Waikato Diabetes Service to enable health professionals who provide regular care to people at risk of or with diabetes to develop their professional practice and contribute to the attainment of competent practice as a generalist diabetes health professional.
Course outline
Upon successful completion of this programme the registered health professionals will be able to:
1. Interpret and integrate professional guidelines and protocols, legal and ethical responsibilities and cultural safety into their own practice.
• Integrate national and organisational guidelines and protocols to inform and guide best practice • Identify and analyse the epidemiology of diabetes
• Analyse the social, economic, political and environmental determinants of health • Identify and explore legal and ethical responsibilities to ensure safe practice
• Identify and analyse Treaty of Waitangi obligations.
• Delegate and provide direction, monitoring and evaluation of care which is provided by others e.g. health care assistants, student, enrolled nurses or unregulated health workers
• Develop reflective and reflexive practices within the process of mentorship.
2. Use an objective approach to management of care.
• Systematically conduct an holistic assessment and interpret findings in partnership with clients and their families/whanau in relation to evidence-based practice
• Utilise critical thinking and inquiry processes for effective and prudent clinical practice that recognises the appropriate continuing care and management plan, evaluation and referral processes
• Use knowledge of pathophysiology to interpret diagnostic data in the context of the clients situation
• In collaboration with the client evaluate client's progress towards expected health outcomes alongside principles of self management
• Reflect on own contribution to client health outcomes and organisational aims
• Develop an increased understanding of health education and health promotion philosophical approaches.
3. Construct effective interpersonal and therapeutic communication within their professional practice
• Demonstrate health promoting relational practice with client and their family/whanau, enabling sensitive interpretations of their lived experience of diabetes
• Critically analyse the cultural context of health and interpret client experiences of living with diabetes and innovative professional practice
• Ensure the client has adequate explanation of the effects, consequences and alternatives of proposed treatment options and appropriate services
4. Practice the evaluation of the effectiveness of care, in a multidisciplinary environment
• Critically evaluate their therapeutic skills and strategies for professional practice
• Evaluate strategies and resources to achieve quality and cost effective health outcomes
• Identify strategies that enable curiosity, collaboration and debate within health teams
Qualification gained on successful completion of the course
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Eligibility criteria
Registered health practitioner
Additional activities
The programme, informed by the New Zealand National Diabetes Nursing Knowledge and Skills Frame¬work (2009), provides the health professional with an increased blend of knowledge and skills required to competently and confidently plan care for a person with diabetes / cardiovascular disease and provide regular care to people at risk of, or those who experience, diabetes. Health professionals will develop critical thinking through the exploration of problem-based learning, evidenced-based theory, and reflective and reflexive practice perspectives.
Snell, H. (2009). National diabetes nursing knowledge and skills framework. Palmerston North: Midcentral District Health Board.
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Arthur Winfree to speak on sudden heart attacks in Graduate School lecture series, Nov. 12
Posted November 3, 2000; 09:45 p.m.
Winfree, a 1970 alumnus of Princeton's Graduate School and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation's "genius" award, will return to Princeton on Sunday, Nov. 12 to speak on "Total Eclipse of the Heart: Electrical Vortices and Fatal Heart Attacks."
Winfree will speak at 4 p.m. in Helm Auditorium (50 McCosh Hall). His address is the third in the "Frontiers of Knowledge" lecture series, which brings back distinguished graduate alumni to mark the centennial of the Graduate School.
Winfree's unique work over the past 30 years integrates chemistry, physiology and applied mathematics. His latest theories concern the chemical and electrical waves thought to underlie sudden cardiac death.
Currently Regents Professor at the University of Arizona, Winfree has won numerous honors and awards for his work, including a MacArthur Foundation grant commonly known as the "genius award" in 1984 and the Einthoven Award in Cardiology in 1989. Among his recent honors are the 2000 Aisenstadt Award/Chair of the Centre de Richerches Mathimatiques, Universiti de Montrial, and the 2000-2004 Norbert Wiener Prize presented by the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
His address at Princeton, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a reception in the Frist Campus Center's Multipurpose Room B.
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