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Music artists are always quick to respond when disaster strikes or when the need suddenly arises due to accident or illness. Rockers Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi quickly stepped up to the plate to play benefit concerts to help their home state of New Jersey recover after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy.
They can range from huge global events such as the We Are the World and Live Aid to small single-artist shows at the neighborhood coffehouse venue. And causes can range from world hunger and the AIDS epidemic to helping out a fellow musician who is ill and doesn't have health insurance.
And so it is with local music artists, venue owners and concert promoters — most are happy to pitch in when called upon, donating their time, services and money.
Two such events will be happening this weekend, the first a concert featuring avant-garde electronica artist RYAT, who performs Friday night at The New Wharf Theatre in Monterey and the Kiki's Kaleidoscope Benefit Concert Saturday night at the Fox Theater in Salinas featuring more than a dozen bands and solo performers.
The former is a benefit for local actress / singer / dancer Camila del la Llata, who is in treatment for acute leukemia and is in dire need of a bone marrow transplant.
The latter, which I will co-MC with organizer Kiki Wow, was initially a fundraiser for three groups — Arms of Angels, Chelsie Hill's Walk & Roll Foundation and The Carmel Valley History Center — has now been designated primarily as a charity to help victims of Hurrican Sandy on the East Coast.
The RYAT show will not only feature the quixotic producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and sound manipulator who uses live electronics, instruments, pedals and software to create avant-garde compositional tunes, but her longtime collaborator MAST (Tim Conley), a Nels Cline-esque guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer who toured as a guitar player for the Grammy Award-winning hip-hop band Digable Planets.
Opening the show will be up-and-coming SoCal singer-songwriter Beatrice Brigitte. Advance tickets are $10 and available by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com or $12 at the door. Info is also available through promoter Sam Skemp at 262-9148.
The event also features an after-party at a secret location featuring DJ sets by Hoodlum and Rhythm Fiend. In addition, del la Llata's family will have a booth set up to register potential bone marrow donor matches and selling raffle tickets to raise money for the young woman's cause.
Saturday's Sandy benefit in Salinas starts at 2 p.m. and features Dave Holodiloff Trio, Martin Shears, Kenny Stahl, Bryan Diamond, Phoenix Rising, Peter Mellinger, Valley Soul, Michael Martin, Kiki Wow, The Vibe Tribe, Roger Eddy Band, Red Beans & Rice, Troy O'Shann and other musical guests.
There will be a full bar, food purveyors, event merchandise and top-notch sound provided by the venue's Anthony Lane. Advance tickets are $20 at www.kikiwow.com until the day of the show, then $25 at the door. Doors open at 1 p.m. and the show goes until 10 p.m. The Fox Theater is at 241 Old Main St., Salinas. Kiki can be reached at 235-7662.
"I think people are '$35 dollared to death' around here with all of the events and are looking for something they can go to with friends and can enjoy outstanding music for hours," said Kiki about trying to keep the admission cost low. "This is a great venue for the bands to be seen and heard in full living color — and you can dance if you want to."
· Comedian Christopher "Kid" Reid of hip-hop duo Kid 'n' Play and "House Party" comedy fame, will perform Friday and Saturday night at Planet Gemini in Monterey. I've seen his show and the Kid, who has since lost the towering Afro, is pretty damn funny.
· You can catch the 2012 Golden Pine Cone award-winner for best local band, The Money Band, Friday night at Sly McFly's. Congrats guys!
· The Hyatt Regency Monterey's popular Sunday Jazz Jams have moved to Cibo in downtown Monterey, for now. Catch jam regulars David Morwood, Lee Durley and Mike Lent from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. this Sunday. Bring your axe if you're a player. Always free, always entertaining.
· Garage-rock fixture Mark Sultan (of The King Khan & BBQ Show and The Almighty Defenders) and The Audio Waltz perform Monday night in The Lobby at the Golden State Theatre in downtown Monterey. Doors at 7:30 p.m., $10 door, all ages.
· Catch my initial foray into radio Monday at 5 p.m. with my first "Five at Five" for KRML Radio, 102.1-FM, 1410-AM and online at krml.com. I'm also a guest on the second "Women on Top" show at 11 a.m. Sunday with Victoria Lara and Tiffany Decker.
And jazz fans, don't stress, there's a whole channel dedicated to jazz at krml.com, so you can still get your fix and jazz can continue its storied run at KRML. Mac out!GO!


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tailgaters in exile
UM-friendly bar locations across the US (and elsewhere)
ED-Seth: Welcome to our Bar Finder Sticky. The user community has kept this going since 2009 to help MGoBloggers find UM-friendly sites for their suds consumption.
We also got a big boost in curation in 2016 from our sponsors, the...
...since most of these bars are officially alumni bars. To find your club and events happening in your area, visit their website.
A couple weeks ago, I put together a google map with all of the Michigan bars I'm aware of (and also everything from the spreadsheet that bouje has been maintaining.) The map is here.
Hopefully this will prevent the "where's the Michigan bar in Pittsburgh/Fresno/Topeka/wherever" threads that pop up every week, but if your favorite gameday hangout isn't on here, put it in the thread and let me know. I'll do my best to keep the map up to date.
Proactive Alumni Bar Location Advice
As the season approaches, we start to see more and more "Where can I catch the game in (insert city here)" posts. This is meant as an informational posts to all new users out there who recently joined, as well as keeping (trying as I know this can be a lost cause sometimes) older members pleased.
For those that don't know an actual MGoBoard exists apart from the ticker on the right hand side, there is a very helpful Michigan bar locator thread. This thread can be found on the MGoBoard page or the mouseover on the tab above, that will help you find any bars that you might want to go to along with being able to ask for other locations. If you forget to look here and post on the board most people will be helpful, one or two will point you to the appropriate thread, and you will also get responses such as this everytime (similar to double posts).
Also, here is the link to the google maps page containing all (known) Michigan friendly bars.
I know this will be forgotten by next week, but maybe some people will remember. Also, these always got deleted really quickly last year with the response to just check the correct thread (from the Mods).

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I don't agree.
If I try to catch a girlfriend cheating on me and post the video all over the place to show what a slut she is, it's stupid, it's childish, and it's selfish.
But it's not a hate crime.
There is no evidence that he had a general hatred of gays or was persecuting the gay community as a whole. Only that he wanted to "out" his roommate. And as despicable as that may be and as terrible as the end result was, that is NOT a hate crime.
If I try to catch a girlfriend cheating on me and post the video all over the place to show what a slut she is, it's stupid, it's childish, and it's selfish.
But it's not a hate crime.
You are correct, it is not a hate crime.
However, the difference is that in your example you are trying to expose someone's wrong-doing.
In the present case, it was more about trying to humiliate someone for no reason, at best, and as a hateful intolerant act at worst.
I don't agree.
If I try to catch a girlfriend cheating on me and post the video all over the place to show what a slut she is, it's stupid, it's childish, and it's selfish.
But it's not a hate crime.
There is no evidence that he had a general hatred of gays or was persecuting the gay community as a whole. Only that he wanted to "out" his roommate. And as despicable as that may be and as terrible as the end result was, that is NOT a hate crime.
The very fact that he wanted to out the guy shows the intent. Would he had do the same thing had the roommate being dating, say, the head cheerleader? I do not think so. I don't think he would have posted the news in twitter, either. He wanted his roommate marked as gay in front of the community, assuming that the community would shun him. That alone makes it a hate crime.
The difference between hate speech and being just an asshole is when being an asshole is so common place that it becomes a social problem. Lets say that this Dharun guy was not worried about his roommate being gay, but by him wearing Star Trek costumes. So he spies on him and "outs" him as a Star Trek fan. Ok, a little weird but there is no really social opinion against trekkies. Nobody would care / gossip / harass about that.
The trouble is that outing him as a gay, in an ambient where homophobic bullying is allowed(*) can really cause a problem. Think that he was not filming a 30 something adult who might give a shit about what his coleagues might think, but another teenager who probably wanted to blend in the crowd. It is really a very different thing.
* Note that I don't say that bullying from a majority or else, but even a very small vocal minority can cause really problems if the rest of the population does not stop them(think of the Scottsboro nutcracks). And we know that bulliers are rarely opposed by those who do not want to become targets.
He wanted his roommate marked as gay in front of the community, assuming that the community would shun him. That alone makes it a hate crime.
He could have outed his roommate as gay and openly advocated that he be shunned and he'd have been perfectly within his rights to do so. That's not a hate crime because it's not even a crime.
The crimes he's alleged to have committed are invasion of privacy, bias intimidation (related to the invasion of privacy), and evidence tampering. Bias intimidation requires that
Perfectly legal acts combined with illegal acts can be consider actions in furtherance of a crime. For example driving the car with the money away from the bank is still a crime even though taking that exact same route for another purpose isn't.
The prosecution is going to have to prove a lot here. I'd rather they stop playing games and charge people engaged in bullying that leads to a death with involuntary manslaughter.
Why does this have to be a hate crime?
Isn't the whole point of "equal protection under the law" to give us all the same protections of the justice system? Why should it matter who's privacy was invaded, who was beaten, or who was killed? Shouldn't all of these acts of evil be abhorrent in our society regardless of why they were committed? Isn't it hypocritical to cry for "equal rights" and then write laws which are, by definition, unequal? It's a sad, narrow minded overreaction to the injustices of the past.
Hate crime law, like the Jim Crow laws of the last century, are a backward and draconian implementation of justice and social regulation that are a slap in the face to equality. The sooner we stop drawing distinctions like these, the sooner we'll progress to a society that is open and accepting of so called "alternative lifestyles."
Incidentally, what this man did was a horrendous invasion of privacy and fully deserves to be considered a felony. He should be tried in a court of law and regardless of the outcome should be exported (obviously at the end of his sentence if found guilty).
If you kill a man, you have committed a murder.
If you kill a man while announcing to a bunch of people, "This could be any one of you, and unless you start acting like I want you to act (or disappear entirely), next time it will be," you have committed a murder. But you have done other things too. You have also threatened a bunch of people with violence.
The legal theory behind hate crimes is that they are like the second case. When you target somebody partially or wholly because of their membership in a group (not just them as a unique individual), you are making an implicit threat against that entire group. When it is a group that has a long history of being targeted with similar violence, your implicit threat carries an especially large capability to intimidate. Hence the need to give special status to hate crimes.
So the ELF people, when blowing up cars and spiking trees and so on are committing hate crimes?
Or the people in the ghettos and barrios when the yell at white people and flash gang signs are committing hate crimes and polling places?
Or one of the many other situations exactly like what you describe, but aren't against "protected class" groups that get ignored by everyone else because it is completely unremarkable?
My point? People say they want what you said, except that it hardly ever gets equal treatment u
Why should it matter who's privacy was invaded, who was beaten, or who was killed?
Hate crimes are not about WHO, they're about WHY.
If you're a white man, and you kill a black guy because he was cheating with your wife, then it's not a hate crime.
If you're a black man, and you kill your white wife for insurance money, then that's not a hate crime.
If you record your wife because you suspect she's hiding money from you, then that's not a hate crime.
If you're a white man and you kill a black guy, BECAUSE THEY'RE BLACK, that is a hate crime.
If you're a black man, and you kill your white wife
The reason that they are prosecuted differently is because the motive is important.
It's one thing for me to burn down someone's house. It's another for me to burn down their house because they're gay.
While I'm not sure this is actually an example of a hate crime, it is something worth looking into.
We need a new legal category, Asshole. Beyond Guilty or Not Guilty the Asshole standard would be added after guilt or innocence so we could find someone was Not Guilty but still an Asshole.
I'm fairly certain taking naked video of people in sexual encounters where they have a reasonable expectation of privacy isn't just bad manners, but probably illegal. Especially if you then go and publish said video to the world. I think the only reason this case might be murky is since they were roommates, Ravi had the right to be in the room and didn't have to break and enter to install a camera.
Still, just because you live in a house doesn't, say, give you the right to record people naked in the bathrooms or having sex in bedrooms and pubish that on the internet without their consent. This is illegal by itself. However, I suspect the penalties aren't particularly harsh.
This doesn't address the hate crime angle of things here. Any time you take naked pictures or sexual pictures of people without permission and post them on the internet to mock them, it's awful. If the video showed a naked guy with a small penis, or a girl fucking a horrendously ugly guy, that could be every bit as embarrassing for the small-dicked man or the woman in question as this was for the homosexual man. What makes the crime awful is that the man in question was obviously depressed and emotionally disturbed to begin with, and these actions resulted in so much embarrassment that they led to suicide. So really it's bullying an emotionally fragile person that's awful, not anything specific about the sexual orientations that makes it a "hate crime".
If the video showed a naked guy with a small penis, or a girl fucking a horrendously ugly guy, that could be every bit as embarrassing for the small-dicked man or the woman in question as this was for the homosexual man.
No, actually, and this goes to show how ignorant you are on GLBT issues.
GLBT individuals don't face "embarrassment." They have to face things like
"being disowned by their family"
"fired from their jobs"
"excommunication from their religious communities", and
"being a target of physical violence."
While we should work towards a society where GLBT people don't have to hide - it's still their choice when they come out and to whom.
You know what this was? This was kid who grew up in a country where being gay is illegal, who found himself living with a gay roommate, was really threatened/offended/bigoted, and decided to "out" the kid to get rid of him. Just spend a few minutes with Google - India's views on homosexuality are amongst the most hostile on the planet.
India's views on homosexuality are amongst the most hostile on the planet
India's views on inter-racial marriage, hell even marriage within the same race (as it is socially defined) but outside of your own caste is the most hostile on the planet. For that matter, India's views on just about every social issue are extremely hostile. They make the US look like a bastion of liberal tolerance.
For that matter, India's views on just about every social issue are extremely hostile. They make the US look like a bastion of liberal tolerance.
Comparatively speaking, given the state of most countries, the US is a bastion of liberal tolerance.
They are very tolerant of just about every fruity religion that has come along, but they are highly intolerant of criticism of any other religion.
India has very strict blasphemy laws. To their credit the blasphemy laws are extremely broad and protect minority and majority religions but by western standards they would be considered an infringement of rights.
So would a company be liable if a person they fire commits suicide? What if the fireing was illegal? Does every crime that ends up 'causing' a person to commit suicide count as a hate crime?
"Why should the law or the government get to mandate good manners?"
Because that's what the law does, of course. What else do you think it does? On the sliding scale of human behavior, from benevolent to benign to malicious, we have a sliding scale of laws from incentives (for benevolent behavior), to no law (for most behavior), to civil fines (for mildly bad behavior), to misdemeanors, to felonies, to capital crimes.
If you aren't an anarchist, then this should be obvious to you.
In Scotland we have three possible judgements - Guilty, Not Guilty and Not Proven.
The latter can basically be interpreted as "Not guilty - and don't let us catch you at it again!"
I am sure that he didn't jump because he was videotaped by one asshole. It was most probably that he feared the reaction of others when it leaks... the reason was the homophobic society rather then one particular guy. I would say that the society's attitude killed him. What would be the label for the society then?
Santorum, Bachman, etc...
The only blame in this is on the guy that set up the webcam. And that charge should be violation of privacy. Period.
The very notion of hate crimes is dangerous. It essentially criminalizes feelings. That's one huge Orwellian road to go down, and it opens a Pandora's box of hellish proportions.
If someone murders, charge them with murder. If someone beats someone else, charge them with assault. Let that be the end of it.
We need a new legal category, Asshole. Beyond Guilty or Not Guilty the Asshole standard would be added after guilt or innocence so we could find someone was Not Guilty but still an Asshole.
But then, all of Congress would be in prison. Somehow, I don't think they'll pass something like that.
If you actually knew what the hell you were talking about, you would know that even members of a majority class can also be considered victims of hate crimes.
If a black, lesbian, muslim woman murders a white, straight, christian man and makes it clear that she is doing it because her victim is white/straight/christian/male, that's a hate crime.
See, the reason hate crimes are considered aggravated offenses is because their intent is to instil fear in the entire class of people they target in order to have an adverse affect on that entire class of people.
So, you're entirely wrong about how hate crimes work - you only need one definition to cover any potential class of victim because potentially anyone can be a victim of a hate crime.
Now let's talk about why you're wrong about how hate crimes as you imagine them to be are the perfect way to tack a few extra years onto prison sentences:
What's the conviction rate for offenders of color vs. white offenders? What's the average sentence length, by conviction type, for both offenders of color and white offenders? In your fantasy world, it's only minorities and victimized groups who are able to be victims of hate crimes, and so, according to your theory, we should see sentence lengths for white offenders be higher than for offenders of color for the same offense (if it's so "easy" to tack on and if the overriding goal is to "tack a few extra years onto a prison sentence"), and possibly higher rates of conviction of white offenders.
Yet we don't. What we see are that defendants of color are vastly more likely to be convicted, and when convicted, offenders of color are given typically longer sentences. When adjusted for other factors - usually economic - the gap is slightly lessened but still quite present.
So, you're wrong about the intent and effect of hate crimes, too. Everything in your post is incorrect.
Perhaps you'll take this as an opportunity to re-examine your views on the subject and see if they match up with actual reality rather than what you imagine reality is.
Actually, you're right about one thing in your post - for-profit prisons are an abomination and should not be allowed in a society that considers itself civilized. There should never be a profit motive for subverting justice.
I don't think that the action (suicide) is warranted by the crime (published observation). Don't get me wrong - it's a totally creepy thing to do, and it's not up to me to judge what motivates anyone, but if *that's* what it takes for you to commit suicide, well, then you've got other problems ahead of you.
Indeed. Let's be honest -- most of us have done immature and "jerk"-ish things as teenagers. To be honest, I was perhaps a bit of an ass in school and college.
Now, looking back, while that may certainly have been reprehensible, I would have been appalled if my actions were to push someone over the brink.
I feel bad for the kid who committed suicide, but it sounds like he had other problems, and this was just one of the factors (one of the proverbial straws, perhaps).
Reading some of the IMs, it sounds like Dh
Most of us agree that suicide is rarely warranted by any but the most extreme circumstances. Of course, suicide is especially terrible because it is obviously unwarranted, from the viewpoint of those of us who aren't suicidal. I think that's the crux of the issue: some people taunt and bully the suicidal, because they don't share the human empathy the rest of us feel for that kind of person. Thus, to drive a suicidal person to suicide is so disgusting, that we have crimes for it.
I've read a few articles about this, and it's clear that Ravi did invade upon Tyler's privacy, and should be punished for it. But I haven't seen any evidence presented that he bullied or intimidated Tyler, let alone did so for homophobic reasons. Either the prosecution is saving it for the trial, or the DA is trying to make an example with bullshit charges (probably to look tough on cyberbulling leading up to an election year).
Yeah, that's my take on it too; the invasion of privacy charges ought to be a slam-dunk, but the bias intimidation charges are there only because Tyler killed himself and Something Must Be Done.
18 years old != "boy", except in the colloquial sense.
I cannot dispute that this guy is a complete asshole and should certainly be punished in someway. Deported at a minimum. Not so sure about prison though. I have a hard time believing he envisioned the room mate killing himself. Either way, he gets to live with that.
For me, the real question is fundamental. Why, in the modern "free" world does being outed as a homosexual cause one to prefer suicide rather than live with the shame?
As a society, would it not be better to address such a fundamental social problem than to simply treat the symptoms?
=== For me, the real question is fundamental. Why, in the modern "free" world does being outed as a homosexual cause one to prefer suicide rather than live with the shame?
As a society, would it not be better to address such a fundamental social problem than to simply treat the symptoms? ===
You are aware that Rick Santorum has a significant chance of being nominated for President by a major political party in the United States, and thus given the affect of random events such as blips in the economy or oil pr
Reading through the New Yorker article and other accounts since the incident, it seems that Dharun Ravi's actions and tone were consistent with how kids interact with each other these days. Being jackasses online, boasting to his peers and just juvenile behavior. But isn't that reflected in popular culture (Reality TV, Tosh.0, TMZ, etc.)? He and Tyler did not communicate well, and I think those soft-skills are missing among today's youth. In a world of tweets, Facebook, blogs and other online communities, we also leave quite a trail... Maybe that's the biggest lesson here. Neither of them seemed to have a filter. Unprotected Twitter accounts, posting openly in webcam/porn/sex communities, bringing an older hookup back to the dorm... I think there needs to be more education about maintaining your online identity.
As to the case, it seems as though Tyler was troubled long before college. There was a mention of his fascination with the G.W. Bridge, as well as issues coming from a conservative family life. Maybe Ravi's actions had no influence on Clementi's suicide. There's a bit of immaturity on both sides as well. I think "sexiling" your roommate multiple times so early in the school year, is extremely disrespectful. That goes regardless of sexual orientation. I had roommates in college who brought questionable partners home for hookups. But we at least had an understanding, and it was certainly after we had a chance to get to know one another. But maybe Tyler was experimenting and taking advantage of his relative freedom? There's no harm in that, but it illustrates more about his home and family life than anything else.
The webcam angle also seems overblown. Dharun was most-likely venting about being booted from the room, but relishing the fact that the drama provided a attention/bragging opportunity. He may have also been trying to demonstrate his tech-prowess. But as the New Yorker article referenced, there was "no posting, no observed sex, and no closet."
Homophobic? Hate crime? I don't think so. I just think there was an extreme lack of respect and understanding between the two. But the case has been politicized and we'll have to see how it plays out...
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Only if they write it in Haskell [wikipedia.org].
The same article links to an actual programming language called Curry based on Haskell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry_programming_language [wikipedia.org]
Yep, but Haskell came first, and has broader name recognition (and so I thought it made the joke best). And Haskell apparently some real-world uses, which means it must have gotten a LOT better since I first beta-tested it, back when it was compiled into Common Lisp.
Huge fan of it, actually. I don't get to work in it but my coding style was heavily influenced by the things I learned coding in Haskell. My main fondness: by the time you got the damn thing to compile, the program would generally work. Aggravating at the time, but it made me really respect how much work the compiler could do in spotting bugs if your language is REALLY bondage-and-discipline strong typing.
The LP features of Curry won't endear it to anybody who didn't already grok Haskell, but they're certainly a neat addition, and a lot more than syntactic sugar.
It's called reactOS. It's basically windows (it's NT architecture based), but free. Quite frankly, I don't know why Linux has gotten so much attention in comparison to reactOS. The thing is, it's still a under-funded garage-project. If you could get 50 Indians and a good budget to help them out, I'm pretty sure that it would be better than starting from scratch.
Here's the link if you're interested:
http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html [reactos.org]
The trouble with Windows [compatible] OSes is not that it should be capable of running software written for Windows. It is that Windows itself has design weaknesses for various reasons not the least of which are related to its DOS based origins and support for old, misbehaving "legacy" software. To write a Windows compatible OS, you would also have to mimic a wide range of idiosyncratic behaviors in order to support Windows applications.
Now, if for some reason, all the bad-behaving software were cast aside and only good Windows software were used, the notion might stand a chance. I remain quite skeptical it, or any Windows-compatible OS, would become completely viable.
Looking at it another way, the SaMBa project is constantly playing catch-up against the moving target that is Windows networking. And that is just one aspect of the Windows OS family. Imagine this on an entire OS? It would be hard pressed to actually work.
They'd be better off making a BSD modified OS and pulling in WINE.
Ooooookay, explain this one to me. How exactly is a Linux based OS with built in support for Windows drivers and software using "shims" ALA Wine going to Bring in "bad behaviors"? and DOS? Hello? It is 2010 and DOS has been dead for over a decade now. it is all WinNT based okay? I haven't actually seen a DOS program in the wild in damned near 8 years, and I deal with some old shit in SMBs. The last DOS program I saw was a DOS 3 based controller for a custom lathe.
So let us please keep the FUD to a minimum.
I can tell you a good 90%+ of infections are directly caused by the users installing random shit from the web without a second thought.
So, the new Indian OS can make itself 10 times more secure than Windows with the simple expedient of not allowing users to install random shit off the internet.
Your post actually demonstrates that there IS something fundamentally wrong with Windows.
Sadly there is no "keep user from doing dumb shit" button in ANY OS, and if you come up with one could buy MSFT and make Ballmer
A Unix based OS with the facilities in place to assimilate Microsoft's shoddy product isn't safe. That's rather the whole point. Microsoft didn't leave their poor design and engineering choices behind with DOS. The legacy of DOS is laziness and incompetence. The fact that it is not quite as obvious any more doesn't mean that Microsoft still isn't doing incredibly stupid things and doing them haphazardly.
Blaming the user simply doesn't cut it. Microsoft makes crap that's inherently dangerous to operate due t
Linux has a "keep user from doing dumb shit" button. It's called non-root access. And it works.
It's not security by obscurity, it is real security.
ReactOS does pull in wine - last I read. But as the wine developers will tell you, Windows basically sucks. There are so many hacks and kludges which have been developed in Windows over the years, the wine guys are forced to constantly re-implement them. Far too many applications actually demand improper behavior from the OS APIs to function properly. Even worse, this behavior can depend on which MS OS variant its running under.
They don't want open source, they want their own proprietary OS. Code that they control, and isn't available for scrutiny by those that would attack them.
And I expect the comment about running Windows software in one of the articles was a mistake on the part of the journalist or the politician. Possibly a language based misunderstanding. I expect they mean windowing software. A desktop gui rather than a cli.
It just doesn't make sense to make it Windows compatible. It's a monumentally hard thing to do, as demonstrated by the timescales of WINE. And the result would be a system with many of the same vulnerabilities as Windows, and thus it would break the primary objective.
They can have it. They could use BSD as a base.
Or they could just start with Linux and the GNU tools and make their own variant. The code is all theirs. The GPL only requires source code be provided when the software is transferred. Merely providing the software for use doesn't entitle each person sitting behind the keyboard to a copy of the source. If it's all under control of the DRDO at all times, they are not required to provide the source code to anyone.
Also, the GPL is only effective due to strong cop
At least one of the linked articles says the new OS, though home-grown, would run Windows software.
Brilliant. If you're into security, there's one rule of thumb you can always count on. Don't develop your own. Invariably you'll overlook something obscure and subtle and will create a weakness big enough to fly a 747 through. Stick with time-proven methods that have been under the microscope for years and have withstood the test of time and had all the bugs, shortfalls, and subtle problems worked out of them. Basically, you're not smarter than all the people that have contributed to making the currently available selections as secure as they presently are.
If they're going to create an entirely new os themselves, in-house, for the sake of security, they're about to re-learn the above lesson.
And sorry, but runs Windows? The whole security problem there to begin with is its never-ending craving to run old software that just wasn't bothered to be written securely. Look at the giant headache that was the breaking of windows software when XP came out. Then when Vista came out. Then when 7 came out. This is going to be a whole new level worse. They may say it can run Windows software, but either it won't run MOST of it, or they're just going to be defeating one of the primary purposes of writing their own secure OS to jimmy it to run any sizeable portion. If they're insisting on making their own OS, they may as well expect to have to write their own software too. In for a penny, in for a pound.
Oh for Chrissakes, another nation rebranding an existing OS and calling it their own. It's fucking pathetic. What do they think, that the hackers will be fooled and won't think it's just Windows?
I wonder why they don't just make a fork of OpenBSD?
Seriously, if you think your people are good enough to write a SECURE operating system from the ground up, then shouldn't they be good enough to take existing code and determine whether that is secure enough for them?
Even Linux for that matter. The NSA has already done some of the work with SE Linux.
Seriously, if you think your people are good enough to write a SECURE operating system from the ground up, then shouldn't they be good enough to take existing code and determine whether that is secure enough for them?
Security needs to be designed in from the ground up. Take a look at Windows, Linux, and MacOS. New exploits are constantly being discovered in those systems because security was not a key part of the development process when they were written.
Windows, Linux, and MacOS were all written in
Security needs to be designed in from the ground up.
Well OpenBSD it practically is. Some articles claim it is written ground up for security, but in reality they audited the entire BSD codebase many years ago, rewriting large parts [openbsd.org] and all new code is ground-up secure. In practice it is extremely secure, many of the bugs that occur in other BSDs or linux turn out to have been fixed months or years before in openBSD
If you want a secure system you make sure every action and every module of code is authenticated before it runs
Absolutely not. In a secure system, none of the modules trusts that the others are bug free.
If their intention is to "run Windows software", as the summary states, then I think they'd get farther along by forking ReactOS.
Sure, its basis isn't "written at home", but unless it's merely a matter of national pride, you still have essentially the same advantage with OSS. Namely, that you can look at everything and verify what it does before using it in a security-critical environment.
I find it amusing that some people think that a nation's defense research organisation, which helps build ICBMs, supersonic aircraft, tactical software and so on, needs advice from someone who reading slashdot on how to write an operating system.
Well, in the US -- I don't know about the Indian military -- the same defense establishment that operates those ICBMs etc. also mostly runs Windows. Which is a pretty clear indication that they do need help, and the Slashdot crowd would probably be a good place to get it.
This is at least partly personal experience talking. When I was a medic in the USAF, one of my secondary duties was "computer systems security NCO" for the ER where I worked. Which mainly meant light sysadmin duties, trying to keep machines patched and virus-free with absolutely zero support from the actual hospital IT staff, and debunking "I LOVE YOU virus" warnings and similar bouts of hysteria that Col. So-and-so forwarded to everyone's e-mail ("it must be true, the Colonel said it!") Actual security was a joke.
WINE doesn't stand for "Wine is not a complete, Windows-compatible operating system sans the security vulnerabilities".
Mod parent insightful.
If you are going to run windows software you can bet they will start with with a Virtual Machine approach or Wine, and neither one buys them much security without diligence.
he idea that a government funded military lab would develop from the ground up and achieve something that would run windows but wasn't as vulnerable seems highly unlikely.
Budgets lapse. People Come and Go. It would be a mess.
Most attacks can be avoided by having a secure firewall. The cyberattacks were all successful because the machines were connected to the internet "naked" - no firewall device.
Wine with apparmor may be safer than Windows 2000....
WINE doesn't stand for "Wine is not a complete, Windows-compatible operating system sans the security vulnerabilities".
No, but WINACWCOSSTSV sure does.
I can't wait for the poor bastards to try outsourcing development to India.
Mmmm, I wouldnt call it internal politics. Its rather to encourage local development of military hardware. In this case, it was the first attempt at an indigenous (completely indian made) tank. Due to improper planning, the project was delayed by years and they even ended up purchasing some of the components from other countries (Israel mainly). Though not a success, I would consider it a good start, and would expect future indian made tanks to be build cheaper and better
There are many other such DRDO proje
If it weren't for repeated reinvention of the wheel, they would still be hexagonal rocks. Reinvention is what drives technology forward. Invention is a rare treat.
The word for what you are describing is "refinement", not "reinvention".
HAH! 'Tired' -- good pun!
A buddy of mine just revealed some news to me. He's been reliable about this shit in the past and he's in a position to know, so I trust it but YMMV.
Backstory: Microsoft eats their own cooking ("dogfood") except in cases of epic failure. Like Hotmail running on NT. Or Visual Safe Source for Windows's RCS. They use a heavily modified version of perforce and a hierarchy of repositories. Yeah, it's a mess and there are a number of technical as well as human/social problems.
Well, multiple groups within Microsoft have had enough and switched to git for day-to-day work (using a gateway to push their changes to an upstream p4 repo). They're trying hard to drop 4 entirely and go with git. From what I know of their development practices, they really need something like git (Linus, himself, agrees). But who's going to tell Balmer that they're switching to software written by arch-enemy Linus Torvaldes? You might think they'd prefer that (we're using your free software, faggots!), but chances are VSS 2011 will contain some sort of half-assed distributed RCS support.
Well, multiple groups within Microsoft have had enough and switched to git for day-to-day work (using a gateway to push their changes to an upstream p4 repo).
Are you trying to give the network auditors more work?
Hotmail does run on Windows. When it was purchased it did not, and it took them some time convert it. The "stories" about conversion failures were rediculous, the timelines did not give enough time for a real conversion of such systems, and people probably mistook various prototype testing as real attempts.
Sourcesafe was also never meant for anything other than workgroup projects, not large scale. As such, nobody would be expected to run something the size of the windows code base on vss. Nowadays, Microsoft has an enterprise class version control in Team Foundation Server, but I imagine they have a lot of legacy to convert to move that to TFS any time soon.
They also ran a large part of their internal processes for years on an AS/400, including accounting and other aspects. Microsoft didn't have applications to do what they needed on Windows, and didn't really want to invest in building them. However, now that they bought Great Plains.. that's a different story.
Due to legacy concerns, they aren't likely to convert from p4 for a very long time, although the beauty of git is that in workgroups you can use git and push changes upstream. If anything, they're most likely to convert to TFS, for long term overall project.. Already most of the tools development, web development, etc.. is done on TFS.
Dunno about other areas, but the Codeplex division uses hg (which is no secret AFAIK)
From what I know of their development practices, they really need something like git (Linus, himself, agrees). But who's going to tell Balmer that they're switching to software written by arch-enemy Linus Torvaldes? You might think they'd prefer that (we're using your free software, faggots!), but chances are VSS 2011 will contain some sort of half-assed distributed RCS support.
From http://lwn.net/Articles/403903/ [lwn.net]
Microsoft's CodePlex.com has announced the donation of $25,000 to support the development of the Mercurial source code management system.
Looks like they've found what they're looking for.
They already own DRDOS.
I would have great interest in an OS that can run windows binaries without all the windows-shit.
Then maybe you can join the ReactOS [reactos.org] team. If you're really interested, you might be allowed to become the project leader.
Exactly, and sharing vital technology with the enemy is mostly just a good way to ensure that everybody loses. Parity and equilibrium aren't good once the war starts getting hot, because then you end up with WWI.
The idea that an OS is equivalent to a weapons system is absurd, and thinking of it that way (which means it should be kept secret from potential enemies) is pretty much a guarantee of failure. "Everybody wins" is very definitely an option in the network security realm.
No, an OS isn't a weapons system. But it is a defense system. They are not the same thing.
Seems to me that plenty of countries (including the US) manufacture weapons for use and for distribution to other countries. Thing is, you're not at war most of the time, and you're almost never at war with everyone.
With some 100% home grown OS, then we can be pretty sure that some large military contractor wins, at 250% of the quoted cost. Whether that results in something that's usable in war is an open question.
6 months after the OS is declared done, all of the developers will have anchor babies in the US and their replacements will determine that the code base is a mass of unintelligible crap.
Or maybe they had to promise "window" apps to their leaders and will deliver apps which do indeed have "windows", just not the microsoft kind. I doubt anybody will notice the difference.
It seems to me that an OS developed by an org that's never made an OS before, by 50 people, that isn't examined by many people around the world in many different contexts and from many different approaches, is going to be less tested and less secure than other OS'es. Not to mention the lack of applications, and the burden of creating all the applications from scratch, and a developer community for them, and again the smallness and isolation of that community and its apps leaving security to a very few very busy people.
If I were responsible for protecting India's IT infrastructure, I might start an Indian state project to create an OS. But I'd just start with Android or Linux, and assign the people I have to investigating its open code for security holes and starting applications needed by essential Indian users. A lot less work, a lot more global partners to use (and many to omit from trust without losing everyone). Leveraging the English speaking skills of educated Indians to partner with people around the world to secure India.
Reading the press, it seems they're really talking about a component in their new line of spy and military satellites. They mention they've got orders from other countries. So probably this venture is not at all calculated on security rissk, but rather on a perceived market opportunity. In which case it is even more likely to totally fail, but not after wasting a lot of time and money better spent on actual Indian security risks.
Probably some general's nephew thinks he can sell some Linux clone to the government, and so the rest of the state and media apparatus starts talking it up.
'Though it will be a real-time system with Windows software, source code and architecture will be proprietary, giving us the exclusivity of owning a system unknown to foreign elements and protect our security system,' Saraswat said after unveiling a training facility at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), a defence lab in this tech hub.
Classic first timer mistake.
No mention of capability based security either.
At best they end up with a bad clone of Windows or Linux.
Obviously, they're not going to develop any such thing. Ever. This is one of the most brilliant job security moves I've ever seen in the computer industry. Kudos!
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On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a 75-year-old soybean farmer's appeal against biotech giant Monsanto, in a case that could permanently reshape the genetically modified (GM) crop industry.
Monsanto is notorious among farmers for the company's aggressive investigations and pursuit of farmers they believe have infringed on Monsanto's patents. In the past 13 years, Monsanto has sued 410 farmers and 56 small farm businesses, almost always settling out of court (the few farmers that can afford to go to trial are always defeated). These farmers were usually sued forsaving second-generation seeds for the next harvest — a basic farming practice rendered illegal because seeds generated by GM crops contain Monsanto's patented genes.
Monsanto's winning streak hinges on a controversial Supreme Court decision from 1981, which ruled on a 5-4 split that living organisms could be patented as private property. As a result of that decision, every new generation of GM seeds — and their self-replicating technology — is considered Monsanto's property.
Unfortunately, second- and third-generation seeds are very hard to track, which may explain why Monsanto devotes $10 million a year and 75 staffers to investigating farmers for possible patent violations. Seeds are easily carried by birds or blown by the wind into fields of non-GM seeds, exposing farmers who have never bought seeds from Monsanto to lawsuits. Organic and conventional seeds are fast becoming extinct — 93 percent of soybeans, 88 percent of cotton, and 86 percent of corn in the US are grown from Monsanto's patented seeds. A recent studydiscovered that at least half of the organic seeds in the US are contaminated with some genetically modified material.


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Indian ethnicity tied to higher diabetes risk
Americans of Indian descent may have a heightened risk of diabetes, even when their weight is in the normal range, research suggests.
Researchers found that among more than 7,400 Asian Americans in a national health study, those of Indian descent had roughly three times the risk of diabetes as U.S. whites as a whole, and a higher prevalence of the disease than people of other Asian ethnicities.
Moreover, although type 2 diabetes is closely associated with obesity, Asian Indians' risk began to climb even at lower weights.
Among those with weights in the normal range -- as measured by body mass index (BMI), a ratio of weight in relation to height -- about 7 percent had diabetes. That compared with rates of anywhere from 2 percent to 4 percent among whites and people of other Asian ethnicities.
Among obese adults -- as defined as a BMI of 30 or higher -- one-third of Indian adults had diabetes. Among other ethnicities, the rate ranged from 12 percent to 17 percent.
The reasons for the findings are not entirely clear, Dr. Reena Oza-Frank and colleagues at Emory University in Atlanta point out in the journal Diabetes Care.
However, the researchers note, ethnic differences in body fat levels and body fat distribution may play a role.
Studies have shown that compared with people of other races and ethnicities, Asians tend to have a higher proportion of body fat at any given weight -- along with a higher type 2 diabetes risk.
It's possible that people of Indian background are particularly likely to have body fat distributions -- including more abdominal fat -- that are closely associated with diabetes, according to Oza-Frank and colleagues.
Some studies, the researchers note, have suggested that this may be a factor in the higher diabetes risk seen in Indian adults compared with Europeans.
Because Asian adults tend to have more body fat -- and, therefore, greater health risks at relatively lower weights -- the World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed lowering the threshold for how overweight is defined in Asian populations.
The standard definition of overweight is a BMI of between 25 and 30; the WHO recommendation sets that at 23 to 27.5 for Asians.
However, the current findings, Oza-Frank and colleagues write, suggest that for Asian Indians, ethnicity alone may be as informative as BMI with regard to diabetes risk.
They call for more research into the complex relationships among body size, body fat and disease risks across different Asian populations.
SOURCE: Diabetes Care, September 2009.


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Chef-Review of New York Restaurant wd-50
What do East Coast culinary types do on their day off? They take a train to NYC to sample some of the best Manhattan has to offer. Two young chefs from the Washington, D.C. area went to New York just to sample the fine culinary expertise of Wylie Dufresne at his notable Lower East Side Manhattan restaurant. Read one chef's review as the duo experienced an 11-course dinner at wd-50.


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You have made a point of checking your blood glucose and getting your annual eye and foot checkups. You track your blood cholesterol and blood pressure. But now the pain in your hip is unbearable and interfering with your walking program, so your doctor suggests hip surgery. You will be admitted to the hospital for hip surgery, not diabetes.
You will likely end up on a medical floor staffed with skilled nurses experienced in orthopedics, not diabetes. The surgeons are skilled and experienced in repairing joints but are generally less skilled in the newer therapies for diabetes.
Diabetes Takes on a Whole New Dimension When You're Hospitalized
Unfortunately, diabetes cannot be checked in and kept in a safe with your rings and cell phone, and unlike your cat, you cannot ask a neighbor to take care of your diabetes while you are in the hospital!
Diabetes is one of the most common chronic conditions in the United States. The prevalence of diabetes has increased greatly over the past decade, affecting 18.2 million of the U.S. population in 2004.
Now add the fact that we are an aging population incurring the usual hospitalizations, such as those for orthopedic surgery.
Despite these startling statistics, most hospitals lack referenced protocols for institutions when caring for patients with diabetes. In fact, the proliferation of newer medications, testing devices and delivery devices, coupled with the promoted "patient in the driver seat" individualized approach to diabetes management make for a hospital protocol nightmare. Shared decisions are commonplace in the outpatient medical arena, but written orders are the law of the land in the hospital.
Don't despair.
There's no need to cancel the surgery, just as there was no need to cancel the Caribbean cruise when you first learned you had diabetes. Like other events you have weathered, you can get through the surgery with a little planning.
Adopt a 'Wedding Planner' Mentality
Let's start at the beginning of a typical planned hospital event. Start by establishing the day of surgery and get out your notepad dedicated to the "event." Start early! Don't wait until the day before to call your internist to ask for dosing instructions.
Many patients assume doctors talk to each other about patients. Patients assume their internist has called the orthopedic surgeon with instructions, but this is rarely the case.
Make sure you have a list of all your medications, insulins, timing, doses, correction formulas and devices in your bag.
Carry your glucose meter and ketone strips with you. If you assume that the hospital staff will take care of all the arrangements regarding your diabetes, you are in for a surprise. At best you will be sadly disappointed and at worst may end up staying longer while staff wrestles with "poor blood sugar control."
Don't Assume All Medical Professionals Know About Diabetes
As you might expect, you will need an individual plan. However, there are some common general guidelines that often appear for patients admitted to hospitals.
You may be asked to stop taking aspirin at least two weeks before the surgery. While the current American Diabetes Association Clinical Practice Recommendations support consideration of aspirin use for cardiovascular disease prevention for adults with diabetes, stopping aspirin ahead of time is definitely doable if advised by your physician.
Next, you will be asked to fast, that is, absolutely no food or drink after midnight the day before surgery. Not eating at midnight is not a problem, but what about breakfast? Should you take your bedtime insulin dose of NPH, Lantus or Ultralente?
What if the surgery is delayed and the IV isn't started until 9 a.m. or later? Will the pre-op team know to check your blood glucose?
These are good questions to ask your surgeon. Most people assume a medical doctor is well-versed in all disease pathology, while in fact many surgeons lament not knowing more about the newer developments in diabetes care.
Typically, nursing education is devoted to learning the pathophysiology of diabetes, but unless an RN has made a point of keeping up on current diabetes care, Lantus is the name of a submarine, not a new insulin!
So you will need to be your own advocate and also the staff educator. This is best done before you are sedated!
Write down your typical testing regime, and be sure to describe how you react when your blood glucose is low. For instance, one person might write that she tends to ramble without making much sense, while another person might write "cranky and irritable."
What About Food?
While in the hospital, clear liquids become noncaloric, as you will likely be given diet gelatin, sugar-free soda, no-calorie broth and sugar-free Popsicles.
While you understand that these products have no caloric value, nurses consider these to be food, and they will follow medication administration orders. This could mean you will be given your regular dose of antidiabetic medication or insulin.
Think about this scenario: Imagine you are given your regular dose of anti-diabetic medication, but the only food you are consuming has no actual food value, and the next check of your blood glucose is in four hours! As you break into a cold sweat, struggling to focus, shaking to reach for the nurse call light, you say, "I think my blood sugar is low." Your nurse asks if you are having chest pain, listens to your heart, then leaves you to go get the hospital's glucose meter. Meanwhile, you become more confused; it seems as if the nurse must have taken the scenic route.
Finally she returns, the glucose monitor goes through a systems check, and the nurse punches in her identification number, then your identification number, and by now you are unable to recall your name, but you remember vaguely that your nurse panicked as she read 40 on the meter. Hurriedly she leaves the room, returning to give you either orange juice, or cranberry juice, followed by a glucose gel and maybe even intravenous glucose. You overhear nurses in the hallway muttering about "brittle diabetics."
Think that this would never happen in your modern hospital? Don't take the chance.
Plan Ahead
Use the suggestions in this article to prepare for your surgery. As we all know, self-management means never assuming someone else will take care of us. This also applies to any planned admission to the hospital.
Christine Olinghouse, MPH, RD, RN, CDE, BC-ADM, is a diabetes educator at Emanuel Children's Diabetes Center and a part-time hospital staff nurse for Kaiser Permanente in Portland, Oregon


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Boris bikes for tourists delayed till year end
Systems not robust enough
Posted in Policy, 2nd September 2010 14:07 GMT
Visitors to London, and anyone else without a full account, will not be able to hire Boris bikes until the end of the year.
The bicycle hire scheme was meant to be opening to all comers at the end of July. But problems with systems mean you will need to have a UK address and credit card, register for an account and wait for an RFID key to arrive in the post. Casual users will not have access to the bikes until the end of this year.
Transport for London said: "The Mayor and TfL want to ensure the operating and distribution systems the scheme operator, Serco, has in place are as robust as possible before rolling it out further."
Boris Johnson's transport adviser Kulveer Ranger told the Standard that software to allow an account to be created simply by swiping a credit card at a docking station was at least a month from being ready.
He warned the freesheet of the likelihood of more problems in the next week or so as people return from holidays.
Despite early wobbles, the system seems to mostly work. 70,000 people have registered and made an average of five journeys each since launch. About 17,000 journeys a day are now being made.
Early problems with locked rear brakes seem to have been addressed although there are still complaints that the bikes are geared too low.
Most of the complaints on forums are to do with bike distribution - either getting hold of a bike or finding any empty space in a rack near your destination. The fact that the system won't accept Oyster cards used by the rest of the transport network has also annoyed some.
TfL also said today that 93 per cent of journeys are under 30 minutes so riders are only paying their access fee. To use the scheme you pay an access fee - £1 a day, £5 a week or £45 a year, then pay a timed charge, after a free initial half hour.
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So i recently had oral sex with a friend that i trust. he gets tested everyone month, and he has always come up negative.
I havent had any sex since i was last tested and everything came up negative. Basically we had oral sex teh day after christmas, and about 5 days after, i got kind of a super small sore on the corner of my mouth, it was gone the next day.
I also have 2 cold cores (they are normal for me though, i have had them since i was 5)
But i also looked on my lip today, and there was what looked like white bumps on my lip.
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The Dallas Mavericks announced today that they have acquired the draft rights to forward Reyshawn Terry (44th overall pick) from Orlando in exchange for the draft rights to forward Milovan Rakovic (60th overall pick).
Terry (6-8, 232) completed his four-year career at North Carolina with the school's third-best 3-point field goal percentage (.419). Terry scored 926 points and came down with 439 rebounds while shooting 48.5 percent from the field (314-647 FGs) in 126 career games for the Tar Heels. His senior season, he averaged 9.7 points while ranking second on the team with 45 3-pointers made and 24 blocks, and third in rebounding (5.4 rpg).
Between his sophomore and junior seasons, Terry raised his scoring output by 12.0 ppg, the second-highest increase in Tar Heel history. After finishing second on the team in scoring (14.3 ppg), 3-pointers made (45) and blocks (27), the Winston-Salem, N.C., native, was named All-ACC Third Team.
"We are excited about bringing in Reyshawn Terry after he played for four years in North Carolina," President of Basketball Operations Donnie Nelson said. "He is an extremely talented athlete, with a long body who shoots deep and can play either swing position. Besides being one of the best athletes in the draft, he is an overall great guy."


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Watch John Mayer, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi Sit in with BB King on Relix.com
B.B. King recently wrapped-up a series of dates with Tedeschi Trucks Band. Though King didn't interact too much onstage with his younger co-headliners, on September 5 he invited both Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi out for a few songs at Hollywood, CA's Hollywood Bowl. John Mayer attended the show and joined King, Trucks and Tedeschi for the selection of songs. A few highlights from the cross-generational blues jam are now available on Relix.com.
Tedeschi Trucks Band's Hollywood Bowl set also featured a few sit ins. Songwriter/guitarist David Ryan Harris and Dave Matthews Band/Lettuce trumpeter Rashawn Ross both sat in during the night, including on a cover of The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." A full recap of Tedeschi Trucks Band's set is available in our show reviews section.


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Gerald Epstein: J.P. Morgan debacle shows systemic risk unchanged; breaking up big banks, reform Fed and public banking urgently required.
Paul Jay, Senior Editor, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Washington.
As we've discussed many times on The Real News Network, no serious financial reform has yet to be enacted in the United States. The Dodd–Frank bill has been eviscerated. It depended very much on the issue of regulation, and the agencies that are supposed to regulate are being underfinanced, and the regulations are being lobbied to nothingness. The latest debacle now is JPMorgan Chase has apparently lost at least $2 billion—I stress at least, 'cause it's still not fully known, the scope of this, and it's not known how far and wide this practice and this debacle goes throughout the industry.
Now joining us to discuss this, JPMorgan's latest case, is Gerry Epstein. Gerry is codirector of the PERI institute in Amherst, Massachusetts. He's also coeditor of a new volume that will be coming out this fall on political economy and the financial crisis. Thanks for joining us, Gerry.
Prof. Gerald Epstein, PERI, UMass Amherst: Thank you, Paul.
Jay: So what do we know so far about the facts of this case?
Epstein: Well, what we know is that there was an office of—supposed to be a risk management and investment office in London, a branch of JPMorgan Chase that was undertaking some bets that was moving markets, became very risky. As of a month or so ago, we knew that there was a trader there that used to—they were calling the London Well or Voldemort because he was taking such huge bets he was moving the markets, and that those bets have now turned sour and still have not been played out and could be losing at least $2 billion, and some people have estimated up to $4 billion.
Jay: Now, these bets are in these what they call dark markets, derivatives markets?
Epstein: That's right. This was a very complex set of bets, first designed, supposedly, to hedge some investments they had made in corporate bonds. But then the bank started writing some credit default swaps protection on these. Those are the same instruments that were at the core of the financial meltdown we had in 2008. And this office was becoming a profit center for the bank, rather than a center to hedge risk, and it was clearly a proprietary trade on the part of this office.
Jay: And what were they—they were betting, what, that these corporate bonds would go up, that the value of the bonds would go up?
Epstein: That's right. Essentially it was a bet that things were getting better, things were turning around, these big corporate names like General Electric and Ford and other corporate names, their profits would improve. And the hedge funds on the other side began to smell blood. They began to see that their bets were too big and that they couldn't—JPMorgan Chase couldn't unwind these bets without actually dropping the prices even further. So these hedge funds started betting against them, and these hedge funds won.
Jay: So we're back in casino capitalism. I shouldn't say back, 'cause we've actually never been out of it. And that is the story, isn't it? We've never been out of casino capitalism, in spite of the Obama administration and others suggesting there has been financial regulation. So what is the state of this?
Epstein: That's right, it's casino capitalism, plus it's being paid for by low-interest loans from—almost zero interest loans from the Federal Reserve. And so these banks can borrow money at almost zero percent, and instead of investing the money in the real economy, they're taking these wildly speculative bets. Jamie Dimon, the head of JPMorgan Chase who's supposedly this great risk manager, in fact was turning a blind eye to these big, extremely risky bets while at the same time lobbying very heavily against financial reform, against the Volcker rule, against controls of derivatives. The bank bank paid over $7 million last year on lobbying fees to gut these rules. He was the point man for Wall Street fighting against Dodd–Frank.
Jay: And I think it's important to note that Dimon is also a member of the New York Fed, alongside most of the leading CEO bankers on Wall Street, and the New York Fed is also supposed to be the one that oversees the bankers, which is kind of ridiculous. And some people have called for Dimon to resign from the Fed, which I guess is a good thing, but it doesn't structurally change anything.
Epstein: Well, it is an outrage that the Dodd–Frank Act put so much of the power back in the hands of the Fed, along with this financial—the FSOC group of regulators, to really look at these large banks and to try to reduce their risk, while at the same time among their major advisers are the banks themselves. So, yes, Elizabeth Warren and others have called for Jamie Dimon to resign. But structurally, as you suggest, what we need to do is really insulate the regulators from these bankers.
Jay: So what is the state, then, of the Volcker rule? The Volcker rule, as originally proposed, would it have prevented this? And the Volcker rule, as what's left of it, does it actually allow this?
Epstein: Well, that's a good question. I think most—since we don't really know precisely the details of the trade, it's a little hard to answer that question with any degree of precision. But most people think that the original and—certainly the original intention of the Volcker rule was to stop all of his proprietary trading. There could be hedging, but it had to be risk-reducing hedging. As Marcus Stanley of the Americans for Financial Reform put it in his blog piece, this was clearly risk-increasing hedging. Hedging is not supposed to be a profit center. It's supposed to offset potential losses elsewhere. But they were seeing these kinds of bets as a profit center.
Jay: So let me just quickly, for people—.
Epstein: Let me just say one other thing, which is that, however, as the rules have been eviscerated, as you put it, over time, with the lobbying of the banks, the current rule as it seems like it would be put in place perhaps might have allowed this kind of trading, because the rule is so vague. It allows so-called portfolio hedging, which means that the bank can try to offset any kind of risk with some kind of hedges someplace else. But there are no perfect hedges.
Jay: And if there's no transparency, who knows if they're really offsetting or just betting?
Epstein: Correct. And since they don't have to really report even now precisely what they were doing, there's no transparency at all.
Jay: So just quickly for people that are not following this as much as we do, proprietary trading is when a bank takes its own money and it goes out and makes a bet, rather than just becoming a middleman between two other players that want to bet against each other. So they're putting the bank's assets at risk. Right?
Epstein: That's right. So whenever the banks own assets or risk, when they end up holding the bag, as they do in this case, that's a form of proprietary trading, because on the upside they're the ones who would make the profits. And the basic idea of the Volcker rule was that since these banks have access to the government safety net (if they fail, then the government supposedly has to bail them out, and they can borrow from the Federal Reserve), they should not put taxpayer money at risk for their own risky trades. That's the basic idea behind the Volcker rule.
Jay: Right. And the original rule now has been so watered down that it's not going to be meaningful, it seems. Okay. Now let's go another step in this. The political power of finance is such that it seems like no serious law or regulation can simply reform them or control them. So there's been various calls about what to do about that, and one of them is a new piece of legislation that was just introduced called the SAFE Banking Act. So what's that about?
Epstein: So the SAFE Banking Act was introduced last week by Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, and it's similar to a bill that he and Ted Kaufman of Delaware had proposed during the period of the creation of the Dodd–Frank Act. And this idea was to actually break up the banks, to get rid of banks that are too big to fail, because after all, as my colleague Jim Crotty put it, these banks have structural blackmail, they're so big. If they threaten to go under because of such risky bets, the government feels like they have to bail them out. So the basic idea is to actually break up the banks, make them smaller. So the Sherrod Brown safer reform act of 2012 puts a very strict limit on the leverage that banks can have, 10 percent, and also limits how big the bank liabilities can be relative to the size of the economy. It's a very good idea. It's actually a fairly modest proposal the way it's written now. It hasn't gotten much attention yet, but because of the JPMorgan debacle, I think it's going to get more attention, and it really should be supported.
Jay: And it would seem to me completely naive to think that if JPMorgan Chase is allowing such risks, that all the other big banks aren't doing exactly the same thing. If there's profit to be made there, you know, the banking sector, big finance sector is not going to allow one bank to do it and the others not jump on it. So this problem is we're back to the same level of systemic risk in all likelihood, are we not?
Epstein: Yeah. I mean, if the financial crisis and the reforms that were supposed to have occurred did one thing, it should have shed light on these financial markets, it should have created transparency, so we wouldn't be in a situation where we don't know the risks that all these banks have. This leads to enormous uncertainty in the financial markets and could possibly lead to bank runs again and financial meltdowns as we had before. Who knows? But we don't have the transparency that we should have gotten.
And part of the problem is that President Obama really has not made this a top priority. The Frontline documentary on the financial crisis showed that when he had a lot of leverage over the banks, he didn't do anything with it, presumably because he was trying to get financial support from the banks. Well, the banks are giving their financial support mostly to Mitt Romney. So now we have the worst of both worlds for Obama. He not only did not get the financial support from the banks, but he didn't regulate the banks. And this is the situation we have found ourselves in.
Jay: So, then, what does that mean for the rest of us, in terms of what we should be imagining, envisioning, demanding? Some people—and we've discussed this before, that, you know, if you can't really get effective regulation passed, does there not need to be some campaign for public banking to actually create an alternative banking system to break this blackmail?
Epstein: Yes. Two things. One, break up the banks so that if they fail, then that's their problem and it won't be so much our problem. So the Sherrod Brown kind of legislation, perhaps legislation even stronger than that. And two, the strong promotion of what some of us call finance without financiers, that is, public banks—go to the Demos website. They have a lot of information on state banks and other public banks, cooperative banks. The Occupy Wall Street is proposing we—completely reforming the financial system with public banks. This is really where we have to go, along with breaking up the banks that we have.
Jay: Thanks for joining us, Gerry.
Epstein: Thank you.
Jay: And thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.


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Another Zynga executive has exited the company, as it continues to feel the ripple effects of its tumbling stock price. This time it's Chief Creative Officer Mike Verdu taking his leave, effective immediately, with plans to start his own game company.
"I'm very proud of my part in building this remarkable company, especially in growing and nurturing what has become a vibrant community of game designers, producers, and creative leaders," Verdu said in a statement. "Now, however, it's time for me to try something new. Being at Zynga in the early days reminded me of how much I love being an entrepreneur. After a lot of soul-searching, I have decided to go back to my roots and start a new company."
AllThingsD reports that Zynga will be an investor in Verdu's new company, which is unnamed so far. He did note that his departure is "not a function of anything else going on at the company."
Verdu's exit follows just after John Schappert's resignation, in the midst of a class-action suit and investigation into insider trading. Unrelated to those legal issues, the company is also facing an infringement suit from rival EA.


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Quote from: Midnight Kitty on May 02, 2007, 02:49:11 PMAquigoth: Do you live on Maui?We live in Waikiki. I'll see if I can find small image files & post them here.Oh god I wish! No, I currently live in Los Angeles, but went to Maui last spring during fare sale season Maui has so far been one of my very favoritest places to visit, and I'm hoping to spend a bunch of time in Hawaii next summer.
Aquigoth: Do you live on Maui?We live in Waikiki. I'll see if I can find small image files & post them here.
Well, LA's not exactly my favorite place to live
Our favorite getaway islands are Kauai and Moloka'i. If we go to Maui, we'll try to stay in Hana because it's a welcome change of pace from Waikiki. The airlines are having an interisland price war, so one way fare is as low as $19 this month. We'd go "holoholo," but I would rather see Misty
Fireweed,May I ask where you live - it is MARVELOUS to look at. I'm so homesick right now. Hubby and I moved to Florida because he can't get around in the snow (Pompe's Disease) and I get so homesick for snow in the winter, beautiful leaves in the fall . . . .
Those pictures of Holland are so pretty. I have always wanted to go to Holland. My husband says the next international vaction we take is going to be Holland. I am so looking forward to it.
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(RNN) – This week, like any other week of the year, is a miserable time to be a supporter of Atlanta's professional sports teams.
I am one such miserable Georgian. On Monday night, a mixture of anger and frustration swept over me all at once as the Atlanta Braves and the Atlanta Falcons lost big in prime time.
No matter the circumstances, it's the underachieving that's become so common place. When they do win, it makes loyal Atlanta sports fans look like bandwagon jumpers; when they lose, the old motto of "maybe next year" escapes our lips. We say it so much that we don't even believe it anymore.
The losing despite winning has become common place: no professional or collegiate team in the state of Georgia has won anything significant since 1995 (Braves won the World Series, and if you want to count the 2005 SEC Championship for UGA, go ahead, people are still talking about 1980).
Here is where we're misunderstood – we love our teams, we want to win like fans of the Dallas Cowboys, Los Angeles Lakers, or even New York Yankees want to win – we expect them to win because they are our team. We get slammed for supporting our home teams, and when they win our fandom is questioned. You know who should be questioned: people who have lived in the south their entire lives and are diehard New England Patriots fans, never traveling anywhere north of Nashville.
It takes a special quality to love a team who constantly falls short (see: Chicago Cubs fans).
Atlanta sports fans get a bad rap because we have become numb to the pain of losing and want nothing more than a championship. When we get close and fall short, so many Twitter sports analysts (a special group of know-it-alls) mock us. We rise up and tomahawk chop forward to victory no matter how the season goes. We wish we could say that Phillips Arena is a true highlight factory (the Atlanta Dream are WNBA contenders), but when you trade away the best players and go through head coaches, you have to start wondering what the problem is (looking at you general managers and ownership).
My head and heart want to explode every year, but with every new season, a rebirth of hope bursts from my little sports-loving heart. It's the circle of a Georgia sports fan's life, and it's one I live with pride. At least I am not writing to my congressman about my heartache.
With her latest album Bangerz released on Tuesday, the oversaturation of Miley Cyrus is in full effect.
Her second single from the newly released album, Wrecking Ball, has gotten more than 200 million views on YouTube and been turned into a million different memes and GIFs because of Cyrus' nudity. Despite the circus, Wrecking Ball is actually a beautiful pop song. I wish someone like Kelly Clarkson or Jennifer Hudson was singing it, but I digress.
YouTube user "isosine" created a beautiful mashup of Wrecking Ball and Mumford and Sons' Little Lion Man and make the hit so smoothly beautiful, that Little Wrecking Ball would kill on the radio. It even makes the video visually better.
Jam of the week: Trombone Shorty, Fire and Brimstone – As a former marching band geek, I can dig a soulful instrumentalist who can sing and play an instrument. As seen here, Trombone Shorty understands my needs from a performer.
The space thriller Gravity won this weekend at the box office, setting the October record for biggest opening weekend in the U.S. and grossing more than $100 million mark worldwide, according to Variety.
I imagine its place at No. 1 at the box office feels much like seeing Earth from outer space: a beautiful view from the top.
Here's last weekend's top five, according to Box Office Mojo (listed next to previous week's ranking and weekend gross):
1. Gravity (NR) $55,785,112
2. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (1) $20,950,192
3. Runner Runner (NR) $7,706,712
4. Prisoners (2) $5,748,464
5. Rush (3) $4,477,525
Captain Phillips – Based on the true story of the cargo ship captained by Capt. Richard Phillips and hijacked by Somali pirates in 2009 – the first American ship that had fallen victim to piracy in more than 200 years. The film stars Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi and Barjhad Abdirahman.
Machete Kills – The sequel to the 2010 film Machete picks up where things left off. Super assassin Machete (Danny Trejo) isn't dead, and has been called upon by the president of the United States - played by Charlie Sheen (no, not Martin Sheen. Yes, that's right, a movie exists where Charlie Sheen is the president of something besides #winning) - to stop a super villain played by Mel Gibson (perhaps too natural of a casting choice here).
If the comedy of the casting doesn't make you want to go see it, I am not sure there is anything I can do. The film also stars Michelle Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara, Antonio Banderas, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Vanessa Hudgens, Jessica Alba, the acting debut of Lady Gaga and is directed by Robert Rodriguez. Again, the casting.
Romeo and Juliet – The latest theatrical version of the classic William Shakespeare play, still based on the "star-crossed lovers" of feuding families in Verona. High school students will love it because they can go to the movies instead of reading it for English classes. I love it because Damian Lewis is in it.
Also in theatres: Escape from Tomorrow, The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, CBGB.
Jimmy Fallon has the best skits on television. The skits are so good, he can get any guest to join in the fun.
The latest installment of the Late Night hosts' creativity came on Monday when musical legend Paul McCartney appeared as a guest.
This is what happens when you are consumed in your phone and you walk into a rock and roll legend – a rock and roll legend with a really bad American accent.
Just when you think it was safe to go to the park because of nice weather, one magician scares the bejeezus out of families and teenagers in outrageous prank.
Although one guy was too busy on his cell phone to be amused or frightened by the prank, which is performed by YouTube user and creator of the hilarious drive-thru pranks Magic of Rahat.
There are three more weeks until Halloween. Keep your eyes open.
VIDEO: Coffee shop customers get 'Carrie'd' away
Rapper Eminem's daughter wins homecoming queen
Prince George christening coins in production
'The Simpsons' picked up for another season
Of course Miley Cyrus is a sham – The Atlantic
Kanye West Visits Jimmy Kimmel, Delivers One Of The Most Epic TV Moments In Years - Buzzfeed
'X-Men' producer goes on racist, homophobic rant on celebs – E! News
The anti-Semitic Elmo is going to jail – The Atlantic Wire (NSFW)
Braves not happy with legend Chipper Jones because he wasn't a homer, mascot catches playoff opening pitch - USA Today
Amazingly bad photos from Bruce and Kris Jenner's 22 years of marriage – BuzzFeed
Frat boys from Georgia Tech are better off doing math, not girls – BuzzFeed (NSFW)
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He wore dark-rimmed glasses that made him look like Clark Kent and he played defense like Superman.
Now, Kenny Heitz is gone, leaving UCLA basketball fans with fond memories and sorrow. He is a magical name from the 10-championship John Wooden era that will never be forgotten, or under-appreciated. In Heitz's three seasons — freshmen couldn't play on the varsity then — UCLA had a record of 88-2. At the end of each season — 1967, '68 and '69 — the Bruins took home an NCAA title trophy.
Five days before Heitz died of cancer July 9 at age 65, a 7-foot-2 legend came to visit at St. John's Medical Center in Santa Monica.
"I had seen him before and we had a nice talk," says Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, "but this time, he was unconscious. They had him heavily sedated."


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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republicans on the Legislature's budget committee are complaining about the Department of Natural Resources' land stewardship program.
They peppered DNR officials with questions about the program during a hearing Tuesday, asking about how much the state owes for land purchases and how much the agency pays out to local governments to make up for lost property tax revenue.
DNR Budget Director Joe Polasek told the committee the agency expects to pay $81 million in each of the next two years on debt service. He says the DNR plans to pay $13 million in each of the next two years in lieu of taxes.
Rep. Dan LeMahieu, a Cascade Republican, says no one will be happy until Wisconsin leads its neighboring states in government-owned land.


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If you missed Monday's "NFL Slam with Mark and Sam," starring Times NFL columnist Sam Farmer and Mark Thompson of "Mark and Brian" radio fame, you missed a great discussion on black Monday.
Mark and Sam took a look at all the NFL coaching changes Monday, and discussed possible replacements.
Out so far:
Chicago Bears Coach Lovie Smith;
Kansas City Chiefs Coach Romeo Crennel;
Cleveland Browns Coach Pat Shurmur;
San Diego Chargers Coach Norv Turner;
Philadelphia Eagles Coach Andy Reid.
Not to mention the firing of a host of general managers.
And how does Jon Gruden fit into all this? Watch a replay of today's discussion above.


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A set of letters written by Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger to a secret lover in the late 1960s sold big at a London auction Wednesday, with a buyer dropping more than 187,250 pounds ($301,000) on the notes.
The collection of 10 letters, dated from the summer of 1969 (when Jagger was just 25), were on the auction block at Sotheby's in London.
Jagger's love notes were written to the American-born singer Marsha Hunt while he was in Australia filming "Ned Kelly."
Hunt, believed to be the inspiration for the band's 1971 hit "Brown Sugar," put the notes -- which included song lyrics and a Rolling Stones playlist -- up for sale because "the passage of time has given these letters a place in our cultural history," according to the Guardian newspaper. She also said she needed the cash to pay bills.
Jagger's relationship with Hunt was largely kept secret. In 1970, she gave birth to the rock star's first child, Karis Jagger Hunt.