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bySwarm needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 144 designs submitted by 32 freelance designers.
The RPG games we are talking about here are non-electronic games, played by a group of people around a table with pencil, paper, and dice. You can read more about the company and our game project at byswarm.com.
Our founder spent years thinking of ways to enter the gaming industry. He worked on game designs. He worked on web sites for the hobby. He worked as a volunteer for multiple publishers. None of it was quite there, that ability to meet the need to create, the passion to contribute, and the opportunity to make measurable impact. Finally, while reading another book looking for inspiration while riding the bus home from work, it came to him. Why not give other people like himself the ability to get into the industry? There are thousands of creative people with something to offer, and no game company has tapped into that resource. With the business knowledge to put it together and the technical saavy to build it, Mike has started bySwarm Inc. to be that business where every aspiring game designer has a place to create, a place to contribute, and a place to make an impact.
Our customers will be role-playing game designers, game masters, and players.
We are game designers whether we add a house rule to a system we see as flawed or create a terrible enemy for the players to confront. All of us contribute a part to the strength of our hobby. All of us have something to add.
We come together from all over with our own experiences of gaming. Each member of the Swarm has unique ideas that can make the whole of what we do better. Why keep it to yourself? Be a designer. Be part of the Swarm.
The logo should incorporate some element of swarms or swarming creatures from nature - many insects, some birds, and perhaps even fish. The current site uses a bee theme, and we are likely to choose a similarly inspired logo. Since this logo is for a role-playing game publisher though, feel free to get a bit fantastic if you want to go beyond just the natural.
We will be producing the logo on a variety of products which means that we need to have a vector graphics-based version included with any non-vector-based versions. This also means that solid, 2- or 3- or 4-color logos (or submissions that include such a version) will likely rate higher.
The files we require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd or .png (RGB)
We will not accept submissions that contain stock images or illustrations.
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There are several places to locate scanned books on Internet. One of my favorite places is at the FamilySearch Family History Archive. They have many family genealogies and histories. Where do they get those books and periodicals? Primarily from the FamilySearch Family History Library, the Houston Public Library, Mid-Continent Public Library, Allen County Public Library, the BYU Harold B. Lee Library, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Church History Library and the BYU Hawaii Joseph F. Smith Library.
By clicking on the link, you can perform a search by surname, author or title ... or you can browse the collection or perform an advanced search.
Another way to see if books have been scanned, is by checking the Family History Library Catalog. Click on surname and enter your surname of interest. On some of the entries that you see, there may be links to view a digital version. Click and you will be shown information about the book or publication. On the left side of the web page you will see a list of pages and information pertaining to the book, along with information on the printing version. By clicking that, the book will eventually appear in PDF format that can be saved to your computer for future reading and reference.
Check these options for searching often. As of a few days ago there were 60,144 items at the FamilySearch Family History Archives. New books and publications are being added frequently. It's another good thing for genealogists!

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A slow trend toward economic recovery in the U.S. may mean good news/bad news for insurance agents and brokers who handle commercial accounts with cargo and supply chain vulnerabilities.
The good news is growth in sales and manufacturing will generate increased need for insurance coverage and risk management services for such exposures. The bad news is that agents and brokers who are unfamiliar with these types of risks may find themselves in over their heads if they haven't learned the ins and outs of both their clients' businesses and the appropriate insurance products and services to mitigate those risks. (For more on economic growth, see sidebar "A Growing Economy," below.)
One important thing that agents and brokers need to know is that just about any commercial account has some vulnerability to supply chain issues, according to Don Harrell, senior vice president, Marine, at Liberty International Underwriters.
During a recent webinar hosted A.M. Best and sponsored by LIU, Harrell cited the top 12 industries that are expected to experience growth over the next 10 years, areas where LIU believes "agents and brokers and underwriters should focus their attention."
These industries include: health care; health sciences; energy (traditional); alternative energy; petrochemical; agriculture; natural resources; technology (including bio technology); light manufacturing; insourced manufacturing; export-oriented industries; and shipping (rail, marine, trucking), Harrell explained during a recent webinar sponsored by LIU and A.M. Best.
"As you can see … everything has an element that has cargo and logistics and risks associated that happen along supply chain," Harrell said.
The Biggest Threat
Natural catastrophes get lots of attention but the number one issue for supply chain risks is cargo theft, Harrell said.
"The biggest issue that we see historically and today is theft. The increase in cargo theft is a major problem," he said. "If you look at organized crime, [there are] some staggering statistics around the estimated total crime and retail losses on an annualized basis. It's close to $30 billion a year; it's a huge problem. … Over 90 percent of retailers today — small, medium and large — are affected."
From a geographic perspective, states where cargo enters the country and where it is stored are the most vulnerable, Harrell said.
The top 10 states for cargo theft, according to CargoNet's Second Quarter 2012 U.S. Cargo Theft Report, are: California, Texas, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee.
By product type, food and drink are most often stolen, followed by home and garden products, clothing, and electronics. "Anything that can be sold on the street; anything that people can use or consume, it is a target for theft," Harrell said.
CargoNet, an organization focused on preventing cargo theft and increasing recovery rates, noted that in the second quarter of 2012 warehouse/distribution centers, surpassed truck stops as the primary locations where cargo thefts occur. Parking lots, terminals and terminal yards also ranked high on the list of common sites of cargo theft.
Generally, the thefts are not random, Harrell said. There's "a lot of inside information being given to the wrong people. … They know what they want and they know what they are going after and they do everything they can to get it."
The issue of accumulation, too, is a huge challenge for the insurance industry. "Most cargo unless it's sitting in a warehouse is in transit, it's moving somewhere along the supply chain," Harrell said.
An insurer could potentially have the cargo of multiple clients on any one container ship or sitting in any one port, he said. "If it happens to be the time when Hurricane Isaac hits, or some other hurricane, you can have multiple clients exposed."
It's challenging for both the shipper and the insurer to understand the accumulation issue, Harrell said. It's much easier for the insurance industry to measure static exposures — such as warehousing and property values — especially with improvements in data gathering.
"It's just a matter if you can have access to that data," he said.
Know the Coverage
"Risk can't be 100 percent avoided," said Patrick Ryan, vice president, Marine, for LIU, who also participated in the A.M. Best webinar. So it's important for businesses that rely on cargo transit to partner with the right shipper, partner with the right producers and make sure those producers have the right contacts with the right underwriting companies, he added.
Ryan suggested several questions a potential client should consider when it comes to selecting producers, underwriters and insurance carriers, such as: "What sort of long-time experience have the underwriters and producers had in the international insurance industry? Do the [insuring] companies have the right claims expertise? Do they have the right risk engineering expertise to take a look at each risk and make specific recommendations?"
Good risk management on the part of the insurance provider includes being involved in selecting a shipper, as well as "in where the goods are going, in the packing, making recommendations to avoid the risk even before the risk starts. The more information you can get, the more information that you can disseminate to [your client], the more expertise you can lend, the better risk you're going to have," Ryan said.
Coverage for domestic and worldwide transits — whether by vessel, air, truck or rail — currently is very broad, Ryan said, noting that carriers are being pushed to add additional coverages, such as stock storage, foreign inland transit, processing and installations.
For their own protection and that of their clients, "agents and brokers need to really know the terms of coverage and they need to explain it to their clients," said Joe Grasso, a partner in Wiggin and Dana's Litigation Department and co-chair of its Insurance Practice Group. "There may be a sophisticated risk manager involved, most likely there's not. So the agents and brokers should communicate, communicate, communicate with their clients and let them know all of the terms of coverage."
Grasso, who serves as counsel to the American Institute of Marine Underwriters and the Inland Marine Underwriters Association, noted that for agents and brokers, there are liabilities that have been around forever. "One of them of course is that as a broker or agent, you have to be very careful that you are communicating all material information to the underwriter. And there's got to be an open line of communication in both directions," said "You have to make sure that you are obtaining the coverage your client wants, and that your client understands what the coverage is."
A Growing Economy
Media reports notwithstanding, the U.S. economy, while sluggish, is not in danger of going over the fiscal cliff.
That's according to a couple of insurance industry executives, who say that private sector job hiring is up, the housing industry is slowly improving and manufacturing is making a comeback in the United States.
"I think some of the numbers show that particularly for the U.S. things are actually looking much better … the trends are looking better," said Don Harrell, senior vice president, Marine, at Liberty International Underwriters, while participating in a recent webinar hosted A.M. Best and sponsored by LIU.
"Economic growth will continue but it will continue modestly throughout the next year, 12 to 18 months," Harrell said. "GDP growth is expected by the end of this year to be about 2 percent this year, as it grows, it's going to grow next year up to about 3 percent."
Harrell's comments echoed those made a little over a month earlier by Insurance Information Institute President and Chief Economist, Dr. Robert Hartwig.
"Despite the 24/7, 365, bad news you hear from you hear on CNBC, the world is not coming to an economic end," Hartwig said during a presentation at the Insurance Council of Texas insurance symposium in July.
"Consumer spending is actually up. Business lending is actually up. … People are spending more on their credit cards. … New home sales are actually up and prices are up. There are a lot of little things to be positive about," Hartwig said. "Business bankruptcies are falling. The housing market, yes its weak, but again, some improvements. Inflation is very, very tame. The private sector hiring, although anemic, is still positive, which is something we couldn't say four or five years ago."
Manufacturing is recovering compared with the past couple of years, Harrell said. "The value of manufacturing shipments in June 2012 was up 32 percent since June 2009," he said. That growth in value is a "very good indicator on how manufacturing is doing in the U.S."
Harrell said there has been a "huge growth in durable goods; primary metals are up 20 percent over the last year; manufacturing and machinery, up 11 percent, fabricated metals up are up 6.5 percent. Even the non-durable goods are up. What this means is that the U.S. is manufacturing more … and exporting that more than they did last year. That means the demand on U.S. products is there. That means the growth of our importers and exporters and our manufacturers is positive."
Hartwig said that while construction has a long way to go before it gets back to what is considered a normal level activity, the good news that the growth that is happening in the construction is occurring in manufacturing and energy sectors. And, it's occurring entirely in the private sector.
That's good news, he said, "Because construction in manufacturing and the power business are long term investments. …You don't build a power plant with the expectation that you're going to run it for six months. You have the expectation that you're going to run it for half a century at least, the same thing with manufacturing facilities. That implies hiring down the road."
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The game will be played at the practice field at the corner of Caldwell Lane and Franklin Pike. The field is located next to Cofer's Chapel at 3915 Franklin Pike. This will be the last home game for the Bisons until the Hyatt Place Select Tournament beginning Sept. 18.
"The regular field is not ready," said Lipscomb coach Charles Morrow. "We are a little bit spoiled as far as the playing surface goes. We have one of the better surfaces in the conference. Rather than risk tearing up our field before it is ready we are taking the precaution of moving some early games.
"The practice field is the better surface of the two right now. It is a non-issue. The guys are ready to play somebody else."
The game will also be the regular season opener for Berry. They played Emory to a 0-0 tie Saturday in an exhibition game. The Bisons fell 2-1 to Louisville Aug. 22 in an exhibition.
"Berry has had a pretty strong soccer history," said Morrow. "They have just transitioned from NAIA to NCAA Division III. When you look at who has coached there and what their players have done they have a very strong program.
"It is a good game for us to try to establish who we are and how we are going to play. Berry will be a good challenge for us. They do some things that will test us."
The team at this stage is still a work in progress for Morrow. In an exhibition game with Louisville several players had the opportunity to try some new positions. Morrow stressed that versatility is one of the keys to his recruiting.
"When we go out and look for players there are certainly years where we need a forward or we need someone in the back," said Morrow. "But we had rather take the best players we can find over just finding a position player. We have guys that could play anywhere.
"Jeremy Reid played great against Louisville. He could play anywhere in the back or anywhere in the midfield. And you could throw him up top as a forward and he would be fine."
Morrow is still looking at the starting line-up. The offense will be centered around forward Miguel DaSilva, the Atlantic Sun Preseason Player of the Year. Defensively, Kezi Lara, a preseason All-Conference selection, will be the anchor.
"We are looking forward to getting things underway," said Morrow. "We could use more time to get ready, but we are looking forward to playing."


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Yong-soo is an ex-soccer player who lives in a small coal-mine village in North Korea with his wife and young son, Joon. Although living in extreme poverty like many other families in North Korea, the family is happy just to be with each other. Then one day, Yong-soo's pregnant wife becomes critically ill. Let alone medicine, Yong-soo can't even find food for her in North Korea. So he decides to secretly cross the border to China hoping to find the medicine for his wife. Yong-soo makes a promise to his young son Joon. He tells Joon to take care of his mother in his absence, for he will return with food and medicine in just 10 days. After many life threatening moments in China, Yong-soo is forced into South Korea, becoming an unwanted refugee prohibited from returing to his family. Meanwhile, his wife passes away, leaving young Joon alone in desperation. As his father had, Joon attempts to cross the river to go to China. But, he is captured near the border by North Korean guards. He is sent to a youth detention camp where he is beaten with guns and shovels, forced into hard labor during the day and locked up in a cell at night. In South Korea, Yong-soo searches ways to safely bring his son to him.


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ACS: Bulking UpBy Steven Vonder Haar | Posted 2002-08-09 Print
Dossier: Affiliated Computer Services, which handles transaction processing for Aetna and oithers, has been growing rapidly through acquistions. Is that a good thing for its clients?
Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) processes paper claims for Aetna, scanning documents and then shipping the data along with an image of the original to an overseas processing center for quality control. Much of this work is done in Ghana, where workers compare the claims data to the image of the original, then return them to Aetna in electronic form.
ACS has been growing through acquisitions. In June, it completed the $410 million purchase of AFSA Data Corp. from Fleet Holding Co.; in August 2001, it bought Lockheed Martin's IMS computer services division for $825 million.
Not all ACS customers think bigger is better. While ACS has a significant presence providing services to local governments, for instance, that expertise does little to help customers in other sectors. "There's no synergy among operating groups," says Will Shelton, chief operating officer of Arbella Group, a Quincy, Mass.-based insurer that annually spends $8 million on ACS outsourced services. "It's a bottom-line focus, and I'm not sure top management has customers' best interests at heart."
Some managers worry that ACS lacks skill in handling a complete computing services package; many customers hire ACS for specific chores.
Still, ACS is making some progress. It handles computer-support operations for El Pollo Loco Inc., an Irvine, Calif.-based fast-food chain. ACS has had success creating add-on services, such as computer training. "They've been flexible, offering services as we need them," says Wendy Jacobson, El Pollo Loco director of information technology.
Earlier this year, Metromedia Restaurant Group signed a five-year deal with ACS, even though ACS has a limited track record in providing integrated offerings. ACS manages Metromedia's financial and accounting applications, and provides computer help-desk support. "Doing outsourcing on such a broad scope is new for them," says Metromedia chief information officer Teri Robinson. "It is going better than I expected."
ACS typically gets high marks for the quality of its workers. The city of Santa Clara, Calif., has used ACS for seven years to handle computer-support operations, and is in the final stages of negotiating an extension, says Walter Shipilov, the city's director of information technology. "They're not the cheapest vendor," he says. "But they're not the highest priced, either."
"Pricing will be a problem," says Arbella's Shelton. "They're expensive for what they do."
Affiliated Computer services
2828 North Haskell Ave., Dallas, TX 75204
(214) 841-6111 www.acs-inc.com
Ticker: ACS
Market: NYSE
Employees: 20,500
Jeff Rich
Joined ACS in 1989, and previously served as the company's chief financial officer. Before he arrived at ACS, Rich worked in executive roles with Citibank.
Harvey Braswell
Group President, Government Services
EDS veteran was head of operations for BRC Holdings, which was acquired by ACS in 1998.
John Brophy
Group President, State and Local Solutions
Came to ACS in 2001 when the company acquired Lockheed Martin's IMS division.
Don Liedtke
Group President, IT Solutions
Former CIO of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines Group hired by ACS in 2001.
Computer outsourcing and business process services, such as systems integration, document management and insurance claim processing.
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Loma Linda University Medical Center
Bob Blades
Vice President, CIO
(909) 558-4306
Project: ACS has handled mainframe processing services for hospital billing and financial systems for more than seven years.
Metromedia Restaurant Group
Teri Robinson
Chief Information Officer
(972) 588-5000, x5436
Project: Umbrella company managing the Bonanza, Ponderosa, Bennigan's and Steak&Ale chains hired ACS in January 2002 to handle technology applications and computer-support services.
Solano County, Calif.
Ken Phillips
Chief Information Officer
(707) 421-6340
Project: ACS provides 80% of information technology services for the California county's government in a deal worth about $10 million in annual revenues.
First Horizon Home Loans
Charlyn Stacy
Senior Vice President, Systems Support
(214) 441-5000
Project: Mortgage loan processing company in Irving, Texas, uses ACS to scan and handle images of documents.
El Pollo Loco
Wendy Jacobson
Director, Information Technology
(949) 399-2000
Project: Has used ACS for two years to manage computer support and help-desk activities for the 300-restaurant chain headquartered in Irvine, Calif.
City of Santa Clara, Calif.
Walter Shipilov
Director, Information Technology
(408) 605-2021
Project: ACS staff of 35 manages help desk and applications maintenance for city government that pays $3 million annually for outsourced services.
The executives listed here are all customers of Affiliated Computer Services. Their willingness to talk has been confirmed by Baseline.
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text: Tom Freston, Saint Michael's class of 1967, founder of MTV, to speak at Commencement News Home 02.10.12 Tom Freston, a 1967 graduate of Saint Michael's College, will be the 2012 commencement speaker at ceremonies to be held Monday, May 14, at the liberal arts Catholic college located in Burlington, Vermont. Regarded as a ground-breaking pioneer in television, Freston spearheaded the rise of MTV Networks. Tom Freston is a principal of Firefly3, an investment and consultancy firm, with focus on the media and entertainment industries. He is former CEO of Viacom, and was for 17 years, chairman and CEO of MTV Networks. He is now chairman of the ONE Campaign, an anti-poverty advocacy group that was started by Bono, leader of U2. As CEO of MTV, Mr. Freston expanded the company's reach, built an animation studio, produced feature films, and developed large consumer product and digital businesses. He added such shows as Spongebob Square Pants, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, South Park, The Real World, Behind the Music and Rugrats. Mr. Freston received a Bachelor of Arts from Saint Michael's College and an MBA from New York University. He has received many industry awards and recognitions, including being noted by Time in 2006 as one of the top 100 most influential people in the world. He serves on the boards of the American Museum of Natural History, DreamWorks Animation, and Emerson College. He also serves as a trustee of the Asia Society where he funded a new department focusing on issues in Afghanistan. At his induction to the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in May 2011, the speaker said: "Tom Freston helped build MTV Networks from the ground up...spending nearly three decades turning his vision for a TV channel devoted exclusively to music into an empire that literally changed how the world looked at television." In recent years, Mr. Freston has returned to Afghanistan, where he has helped set up the first private television network in the country. He is also working with Farsi 1, a satellite network beaming shows like 24, Oprah and Korean soap operas to the Farsi-speaking world, 80 percent of whom Freston says are in Iran.


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Evergreen Energy
Evergreen Energy is a renewable energy company that sells, installs and maintains solar photovoltaic (PV), solar thermal, wind energy, and geothermal heating and cooling systems. Located in central Connecticut, we service both residential and business customers.
Commercial Businesses and Homeowners located in Connecticut looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint and save money.
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The Pocono Irish American Club has chosen William B Cramer Esq. as the 2013 Grand Marshal to lead the St. Patrick's Day Parade on March 24.
The Pocono Irish American Club has chosen William B Cramer Esq. as the 2013 Grand Marshal to lead the St. Patrick's Day Parade on March 24.
Bill Cramer, a Monroe County native, served as a Captain in the US Army and returned to Stroudsburg as chairman of Cramer's Cashway.
He is president of Cramer, Swetz and McManus, P.C. a Stroudsburg law firm he founded with James Swetz in 1979 after graduating from Villanova Law School.
Over the years, Cramer has had many leadership positions in the community. He is a life member of the Salvation Army Advisory Board since 1976. He has volunteered in various ways for the United Way of Monroe County. Bill was also a founding board member of both the East Stroudsburg University Foundation and the Pocono Health Foundation (Chairman from 2003-2009). He continues to support both foundations and was chairman of the new Hughes Cancer Center capital campaign.
He has also helped Jacob Stroud Corporation, the Minsi Trails Council Boy Scouts of America, the Monroe County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Monroe County, the Northampton Country Club, the Barger Lodge No 35, and the HIV/AIDS Task Force and Walk.
Bill and his wife Barbara reside in Stroudsburg and they have two grown children and three grandchildren. He is a member of the East Stroudsburg Presbyterian Church, where he serves as a deacon.
There will be a grand Marshall dinner in Cramer's honor on March 2 at the Pocono Inne Town, Main and Seventh streets, Stroudsburg with live music, and Irish dancers as entertainment.
For more information call the PIAC President Pat Murray at (570) 420-8083.


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At Hoyt Arboretum, we strive to encourage and facilitate learning in the fields of botany, forestry and ecology. We see these fields as critical cornerstones in understanding and preserving our native landscape.
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After the exhibitions of Feng Zheng-Jie, Ma Liuming, Zhong Biao, Tianbing Li, Zhang Huan, the gallery Albert Benamou pursues its cycle dedicated to Contemporary Chinese art with the Gao Brothers' show. Gao Brothers, Gao Zhen and Gao Qiang have collaborated for more than 20 years.
They describe life in Beijing and the daily difficulties of people with humanist allegories, which they stage under theatrical shapes, (denying the notion of performance), photographing them.
The Gao Brothers are looking at people like scientists observing bacilli in the microscope in order to reproduce their movements by choreographing them. Powerless demiurges, they wonder about these damned souls, hard-working, in exile, bruised and blinded by the utopian lights of construction sites, embracing themsleves for a moment of eternity.


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at Edge Retreat, August 22, 2013
Edge Master Class 2011: "What's New In Human Nature"
You can answer the question, but are you bright enough to ask it?
by John Brockman
The Edge motto, adopted from the artist James Lee Byars' "World Question Center" is: "To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves." As Wallace Stevens wrote in "Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction" (1942): "The final elegance, not to console / Nor sanctify, but plainly to propound."
It's the quality of the questions that defines the scientific endeavor, not the answers encrusted in stories and narratives. This year, at SciFoo 2013, Edge presented the opportunity to several of the nearly 300 participants to respond to the following: "What is your question from SciFoo 2013?" Watch the 8-minute video below for the responses. This is followed by responses to the question "Who and/or what was fresh and new at SciFoo 2013?", and a photo gallery, which extends to San Francisco the following evening.
But first, what is "SciFoo"?
The annual event is run by three sponsors: O'Reilly Media (Tim O'Reilly is responsible for "FOO," or, "friends of O'Reilly"), Nature magazine (and their spin-off company, Digital Science), and Google. This year 62% of the participants were new. This approach keeps the event new and fresh every year. The ratio of participants to interesting people? 1-to-1.
As theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek noted in his report on SciFoo 2007 for Edge:
"SciFoo is a conference like no other. It brings together a mad mix from the worlds of science, technology, and other branches of the ineffable Third Culture at the Google campus in Mountain View. Improvised, loose, massively parallel—it's a happening. If you're not overwhelmed by the rush of ideas then you're not paying attention."
Also, see George Dyson's report on SciFoo 2007; Photos and comments on SciFoo 2009, and the Edge-SciFoo report on SciFoo 2011.
Tyler Cowen, Joseph "Yossi" Vardi, Carl Page, Fiery Cushman, Lee Smolin, Linda Stone, Paul Davies, Paul Steinhardt, Peter Norvig, Richard Potts, Steve Fuller, Stuart Firestein
George Dyson, Esther Dyson, Steve Fuller, Stewart Brand, Paul Saffo, Coco Krumme, John Coates
A fascinating weekend, with one lingering regret—that I missed Rory Wilson's talk on the use of accelerometers in free living animals. I had to piece together the gist of his talk from scraps given me by others and, fortunately, by Rory himself. In his work as an animal behaviorist Rory has been using actigraphy and accelerometers attached to animals in the wild in order to monitor continuously their energy expenditure. Beyond this, though, the data Rory has collected has uncovered subtle changes in background movement that actually reflect the animal's motivational state. This finding is tremendously interesting. As we learn more about the brain, the more we see that it is built primarily to plan and execute movement, that activities we—under the influence of our Platonic heritage—commonly viewed as pure thought in fact have a somatic echo. Some scientists working with actigraphy have even found predictors, tremors if you will, of impending neuro-degenerative disease. But background activity changes that may reflect motivational states? The very possibility should tantalize any behavioural scientist.
Serendipity was at work this weekend: I met perhaps the only other person at scifoo (on the entire googolplex?) with a dumb phone. I stubbornly hold onto mine for the very purpose of serendipity, to dampen distraction. Ziyad Marar and I had a wonderful conversation about habits and human behavior, and soon discovered we have in common 1999-era telephones, as well as a healthy skepticism of social media. I hadn't heard of Ziyad's books (Happiness Paradox, Deception, Intimacy), but I picked up two at scifoo and couldn't put them down: his writing mulls human nature, weaving in literature and philosophy without succumbing to the tired conventions of contemporary science writing. A breath of fresh air.
PAUL SAFFO: Kröpelin's Mysteries of the Sahara
The single most astonishing session for me was Stefan Kröpelin's "Miracle of the Sahara." Kroplin compressed 40 years of research and exploration into a whirlwind tour of the Sahara's mysteries and what it is like to do science there. Summarizing conditions, he noted, "Sometimes, you get stuck hundreds of times per day… and the real problem isn't the heat; it's the cold." The size of the U.S, Kröpelin's Sahara is full of mysteries: Gilf Kebir, a sand plateau atop an ancient fluvial system in Southwest Egypt holds rock art from the middle Holocene, over 10,000 figures in one cave alone. The Wadi Howar was thought by Heroditus to be the source of the Nile; now it is vast desert, but in it's heart is the Ounianga Kebir, a cluster of freshwater aquifer-fed "gravity lakes," and home to seven crocodiles, the remnant of an Ice Age population, now isolated from other crocs by hundreds of miles of searing desert.
But the biggest mystery was sitting right in front of Kröpelin as he spoke. It was a chunk of "Libyan Desert Glass," 28 million year-old fused glass the color of pale emerald and the purest natural glass in the world. Discovered by Europeans in 1932, the stuff is strewn across a vast area of desert at the edge of Egypt's great Sand Sea. Kröpelin's chunk looked like a glass meteorite, complete with ablation regmaglypts, suggesting that the glass was created by a meteor strike that liquefied the surface rocks in a process not unlike that which created tektite strewn-fields elsewhere on the earth. Except… no one has found a crater. Perhaps the glass is a radiative melt artifact of a Tunguska-like airburst? Others speculate that it is hydrovolcanic in origin, but no has found a volcanic source.
What we do know is that the Sahara's earliest inhabitants knapped the glass into tools, and that it was prized by the Egyptians—a scarab carved from the stuff is set into a pectoral worn by Tutankhamun. That fact tied nicely with Kröpelin's final and most surprising statement: the origins of the pharonic tradition lie in the Western Desert, not the Nile Valley. And if the Egyptian civilization was born from the Sahara, then by association, Europe's roots are hidden there as well.
STEWART BRAND: What if climate change is good for civilization?
(If it is, it would completely invalidate the first chapter of my Whole Earth Discipline, which spells out how climate change is an apocalypse-in-waiting for civilization. My personal mantra tries to be: "Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about." This might be one of them.)
Climate change apparently ignited civilization in Egypt, said Stefan Kröpelin in a small, intense session at SciFoo. His four decades of insanely adventurous researches in the eastern Sahara—where no one goes—show that people lived all over that region when it was a rich savanna filled with game, before 8,000 years ago. In those centuries people avoided the Nile, which was dangerous with floods and fearsome animals.
In the period 5300-3500 BCE the Sahara gradually but relentlessly dried up. The people from the desert were forced to take on the Nile, first for farming, soon for a river-taming civilization of such durability that it eventually inspired Greece, Rome, and Europe.
Climate change made it happen. The evidence is in the sumptuous cave art at Wadi Sura and the silt of the astonishingly ancient Ounianga Lakes.
What is our unthinkably dangerous Nile that climate change might force us to take on? What abilities might we be forced to acquire?
STEVE FULLER: How must we re-orient ourselves to make the most out of seasteading?
At Sci Foo Camp 2013, David Ewing Duncan and Linda Avey presented a very persuasive case for an indefinite expansion of 'seasteading', a term that I had learned about from Duncan in an earlier session on cognitive and moral enhancement by neuroscientific means. I had been already familiar with Peter Thiel's support for a ship floating just beyond US territorial waters near San Francisco Bay that enabled innovators lacking US citizenship to conduct research outside the gaze of American regulators. However, the session enabled me to see that seasteading, far from being a strategy for avoiding inconvenient forms of regulation, on the contrary might be something that states themselves encourage—though perhaps indirectly, depending on the political climate. However, this proposal would make policy sense only on the following condition: The outcomes of the research conducted in these 'ethics-free' zones would have to be made public, with the understanding that no one would be prosecuted, no matter how bad the outcomes are perceived to have been. In other words, we would need to become sufficiently mature to accept the admission of error in pursuit of a good cause as adequate punishment in itself.
The most wonderful session I attended—and the most meaningful experience overall—was Michael Chorost talking about his own cochlear implant. It was what science really is—the response to curiosity. He told us how it worked, played recordings so we could get some sense of how things sound to people who have an implant. He passed some samples around the room for us to touch and examine. We talked about learning to hear—and how there's a point in childhood after which it gets harder and harder to learn. We got an understanding of the technology, and also of how the technology changes both individual lives and cultural norms—such as sign language, which may become the language of the poor deaf as the rich deaf start using cochlear implants. In theory they can be covered by Medicare, but somehow the rich seem to get them and the poor don't... Is that right?
Is there something similar coming for vision? (Of course, this comment—and the session itsel —raises questions and doesn't answer them all; that's the point of SciFoo...)
This was SciFoo's seventh year, and, in era where the half-life of a conference is measured in years, not decades, it is holding up well. Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly), Timo Hannay (Nature/Digital Science )and Chris DiBona (Google) have found a formula that works, and are sticking to it. Big Data, once the all-consuming subject, is now just another scientific instrument, like a space telescope or an electron microscope, and the excitement was back to the details of what you can do with it, now that you have it. And how do you encourage scientific thinking in children (and politicians)? Among the people who showed up from left field and stole the show (a regular occurrence at SciFoo) this year was Carmen Medina, who, in her own introductory words, "spent 32 years at the Central Intelligence Agency and decided early on that how we form opinions is much more interesting than any particular opinion. Passionate about empowering heretics in the workplace and attacking conventional wisdom. Believe we need entirely new construct for the concept of national security, perhaps abandoning it altogether. Convinced there is worldwide conspiracy for preservation of Mediocrity." Amen!
Recently we have published a number of Conversations on related subjects such as "Big Data", "Linked Data", "Data Science", "Web Science", "Semantic Web", "Network Science". Clearly, a new realm is rapidly coming into public consciousness.
In this regard, we have set up this "Special Event" page on "Computational Social Science" to organize and present this material to our readers and to provide access to the ongoing Edge Conversations and related discussions.
Published to date are eight Conversations with: Dirk Helbing, Nicholas A. Christakis, J. Craig Venter, J. Craig Venter, Cesar Hidalgo, Sandy Pentland, Albert-László Barabási and Tim O'Reilly. The presentations include more than five hours of video as well as the texts.
—John Brockman
A Conversation with Tim O'Reilly [10.4.12]
If we're going to get science policy right, it's really important for us to study the economic benefit of open access and not accept the arguments of incumbents. Existing media companies claim that they need ever stronger and longer copyright protection and new, draconian laws to protect them, and meanwhile, new free ecosystems, like the Web, have actually led to enormous wealth creation and enormous new opportunities for social value. And yes, they did in fact lead in some cases to the destruction of incumbents, but that's the kind of creative destruction that we should celebrate in the economy. We have to accept that, particularly in the area of science, there's an incredible opportunity for open access to enable new business models.
TIM O'REILLY is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., a leading computer book publisher. O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the Strata series of conferences on big data, and Tools of Change for Publishing. O'Reilly Media's Maker Media unit publishes Make Magazine and operates Maker Faire, the world's largest gathering of DIY hardware enthusiasts and entrepreneurs. O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures is a leading early stage venture capital firm.
A Conversation with Albert-lászló Barabási [9.24.12]
One question that fascinated me in the last two years is, can we ever use data to control systems? Could we go as far as, not only describe and quantify and mathematically formulate and perhaps predict the behavior of a system, but could you use this knowledge to be able to control a complex system, to control a social system, to control an economic system?
ALBERT-LÁSZLÓ BARABÁSI is a Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University, where he directs the Center for Complex Network Research, and holds appointments in the Departments of Physics, Computer Science and Biology, as well as in the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women Hospital, and is a member of the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Albert-László Barabási Edge Bio Page
A Conversation with Alex (Sandy) Pentland [8.30.12]
With Big Data we can now begin to actually look at the details of social interaction and how those play out, and are no longer limited to averages like market indices or election results. This is an astounding change. The ability to see the details of the market, of political revolutions, and to be able to predict and control them is definitely a case of Promethean fire --- it could be used for good or for ill, and so Big data brings us to interesting times. We're going to end up reinventing what it means to have a human socie
ALEX 'SANDY' PENTLAND is a pioneer in big data, computational social science, mobile and health systems, and technology for developing countries. He is one of the most-cited computer scientists in the world and was named by Forbes as one of the world's seven most powerful data scientists. He currently directs the
Sandy Pentland's Edge Bio Page
A Conversation with Cesar Hidalgo [8.28.12]
We have always had this tension of understanding the world, at small spatial scales or individual scales, and large macro scales. In the past when we looked at macro scales, at least when it comes to many social phenomena, we aggregated everything. Our idea of macro is, by an accident of history, a synonym of aggregate, a mass in which everything is added up and in which individuality is lost. What data at high spatial resolution, temporal resolution and typological resolution is allowing us to do, is to see the big picture without losing the individuality inside it.
CESAR HIDALGO is an assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab, and faculty associate at Harvard University's Center for International Development. His work focuses on improving the understanding of systems by using and developing concepts of complexity, evolution, and network science. He is also the founder and driving force behind Cambridge Nights, a series of online video interviews with academics who discuss the way in which they view the world.
A NEW KIND OF SOCIAL SCIENCE FOR THE 21st CENTURY
A Conversation with Nicholas A. Christakis [8.21.12]
These three things—a biological hurricane, computational social science, and the rediscovery of experimentation—are going to change the social sciences in the 21st century. With that change will come, in my judgment, a variety of discoveries and opportunities that offer tremendous prospect for improving the human condition.
It's one thing to say that the way in which we study our object of inquiry, namely humans, is undergoing profound change, as I think it is. The social sciences are indeed changing. But the next question is: is the object of inquiry also undergoing profound change? It's not just how we study it that's changing, which it is. The question is: is the thing itself, our humanity, also changing?
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS is a Physician and Social Scientist, Harvard University; Coauthor (with James Fowler) of Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives.
Nicholas A. Chrsitakis's Edge Bio Page
[40:59 minutes]
After Dinner Talk by J. Craig Venter [7.10.12]
We can now send biology at the speed of light, and this is one of the implications of our work, which we recorded two years ago making the first synthetic life form. We completely synthesized the genetic code of a cell starting with a digital code in the computer—it's the ultimate interface between computers and biology. The digital code and the genetic code have a lot in common; something Schrodinger pointed out in 1943, saying it could be something as simple as the Morse code. ... Digital code, as you know, is a binary code, and ones and zeroes, and your genetic code is literally four-base code with ACGs and Ts. We can now readily convert in between the two, and we can define life at its most basic level. Things that were a mystery fifty, sixty, seventy years ago, we now understand completely.
Genomics researcher J. CRAIG VENTER is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century, most notably for the first sequencing and analysis of the human genome published in 2001 and the most recent and most complete sequencing of his diploid human genome in 2007. He is Co-Founder, Chairman, Synthetic Genomics, Inc.; Founder, J. Craig Venter Institute; Author, A Life Decoded.
J. Craig Venter's Edge Bio Page
[34:16 minutes]
WHAT IS LIFE? A 21st CENTURY PERSPECTIVE
On the 70th Anniversary of Schroedinger's Lecture at Trinity College by J. Craig Venter [7.12.12]
I view DNA as an analogue coding molecule, and when we sequence the DNA, we are converting that analogue code into digital code; the 1s and 0s in the computer are very similar to the dots and dashes of Schrodinger's metaphor. I call this process "digitizing biology".
Genomics researcher J. CRAIG VENTER is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century, most notably for the first sequencing and analysis of the human genome published in 2001 and the most recent and most complete sequencing of his diploid human genome in 2007. He is Co-Founder, Chairman, Synthetic Genomics, Inc.; Founder, J. Craig Venter Institute; Author, A Life Decoded.
J. Craig Venter's Edge Bio Page
Dirk Helbing [6.19.12]
There's a new kind of socio-inspired technology coming up, now. Society has many wonderful self-organization mechanisms that we can learn from, such as trust, reputation, culture. If we can learn how to implement that in our technological system, that is worth a lot of money; billions of dollars, actually. We think this is the next step after bio-inspired technology.
PROFESSOR DIRK HELBING is Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, at ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and the Scientific Coordinator of the FuturICT Flagship Proposal.
Jennifer Jacquet & Ginevra Elkann, President, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli
Ginevra Elkann e Carlo Antonelli
hanno il piacere di invitarla all'
Edge dinner
in onore di John Brockman, Craig Venter e Brian Eno
martedì 10 luglio
ore 19.30 aperitivo
ore 20.30 cena
Ristorante Del Cambio – Piazza Carignano, 2 – Torino
After Dinner Talk:
Ginevra Elkann, Film Producer, Asmara Films; President, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli
Massimo Banzi, Co-founder, Arduino Project
Gabriele Beccaria, Editor, Tutto Scienza, science supplement of La Stampa
Tommaso Bertani, DJ
Vittorio Bo, Director, Genoa Science Festival; Codice Publishing
John Brockman, Publisher & Editor, Edge.org; CEO, Brockman, Inc.; Author.
Mario Calabresi, Italian Journalist and Author; Director, La Stampa
Andrea Cane, Publishing Director, Trade Division, De Agostini Editore
Max Casacci, Guitarist, Producer
Franca De D'Agostini, Philosopher, University of Turin & University of Milan
Alain Elkann, Novelist, Journalist; President, Egyptian Museum of Turin; Director of Cultural Programs, Italian Television
Brian Eno, Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking Heads, Paul Simon; Recording Artist
Lara Favaretto, Artist
Marco Gilli, Director Politecnico di Torino; Professor, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication
Jennifer Jacquet, Researcher, NYU, studying the effect of honor and shame on cooperation
Heather Kowalski, Communications Consultant, J. Craig Venter Institute
Arto Lindsay, Pop Musician, Audio Provocateur, Producer
Katinka Matson, Artist; Literary Agent; President, Brockman, Inc.; Co-Founder, Edge.org
Marzia Migliora, Artist
Martina Mondadori, Publisher, Tar magazine; Non-Executive Member, Board of Directors, Momdadori
Franco Noero, Galleria Franco Noero
Marcella Pralormo, Director, Pinacoteca Agnelli
Gaetano Prisciantelli, Journalist, Il Venredi, La Rebbublica
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Director, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Tadjbakhsh Shahriar, COO, EXOR; Former Director, Goldman Sachs, Paris
Gianluigi Ricuperati, Writer and Essayist, La Repubblica
Scarlett Rouge, Artist
J Craig Venter, Genomics Researcher; Synthetic Genomics, Inc.; J. Craig Venter Institute; Author, A Life Decoded
J. Craig Venter & Ginevra Elkann
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Schroedinger's famous lecture, J. Craig Venter speaks at Examination Hall, Trinity College, Dublin on
Ginevra Elkann e Carlo Antonelli
hanno il piacere di invitarla all'
Edge Dinner
in onore di John Brockman, J. Craig Venter e Brian Eno
martedi 10 Luglio
ore 19.30 aperitivo
ore 20.30 cena
Ristorante Del Cambio – Piazza Carignano, 2 – Torino
After Dinner Talk:
J. Craig Venter: "Biology At The Speed Of Light"
Ginevra Elkann, Film Producer, Asmara Films; President, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli
Carlo Antonelli, Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine, Italy
Massimo Banzi, Co-founder, Arduino Project
Gabriele Beccaria, Editor, Tutto Scienza, science supplement of La Stampa
Tommaso Bertani, DJ
Vittorio Bo, Director, Genoa Science Festival; Codice Publishing
John Brockman, Publisher & Editor, Edge.org; CEO, Brockman, Inc.; Author.
Mario Calabresi, Italian Journalist and Author; Director, La Stampa
Andrea Cane, Publishing Director, Trade Division, De Agostini Editore
Max Casacci, Guitarist, Producer
Franca De D'Agostini, Philosopher, University of Turin & University of Milan
Alain Elkann, Novelist, Journalist; President, Egyptian Museum of Turin; Director of Cultural Programs, Italian Television
Brian Eno, Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking Heads, Paul Simon; Recording Artist
Lara Favaretto, Artist
Marco Gilli, Director Politecnico di Torino; Professor, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication
Jennifer Jacquet, Researcher, NYU, studying the effect of honor and shame on cooperation
Heather Kowalski, Communications Consultant, J. Craig Venter Institute
Arto Lindsay, Pop Musician, Audio Provocateur, Producer
Katinka Matson, Artist; Literary Agent; President, Brockman, Inc.; Co-Founder, Edge.org
Marzia Migliora, Artist
Martina Mondadori, Publisher, Tar magazine; Non-Executive Member, Board of Directors, Momdadori
Franco Noero, Galleria Franco Noero
Marcella Pralormo, Director, Pinacoteca Agnelli
Gaetano Prisciantelli, Journalist, Il Venredi, La Rebbublica
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Director, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Tadjbakhsh Shahriar, COO, EXOR; Former Director, Goldman Sachs, Paris
Gianluigi Ricuperati, Writer and Essayist, La Repubblica
Scarlett Rouge, Artist
J Craig Venter, Genomics Researcher; Synthetic Genomics, Inc.; J. Craig Venter Institute; Author, A Life Decoded
On Sunday, October 16th, Edge, at the invitation of London's leading curator, and long-time collaborator, Hans Ulrich Obrist (HUO), co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, participated in The Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon, the sixth in the Gallery's acclaimed Marathon series. The Garden Marathon explored the concept of the garden.
As Obrist noted,
"A product of the creative encounter between the man-made and the natural, between order and disorder, the garden can offer productive metaphors for the interactions between human life and time, care, thought or space."
"The event is directly inspired by the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011, designed by Peter Zumthor. The encounter of architecture and garden creates a contemplative space that is both set within – and meditatively separated from – the wider surroundings of Kensington Gardens.
"Participations will range from the fields of horticulture, design and architecture to explore the creation of gardens and their spatial, urban and scientific importance, through to works by artists and readings by poets and writers exploring the significance of the garden in our experience of the world."
[Photo: Stefano Boeri, Vertical Forest, © Stefano Boeri]
Other recent collaborations between Edge and HUO have included "What is your Formula, Your Equation, Your Algorithm: Formulae for the 21st Century" in 2007. "Maps for the 21st Century" in 2010. HUO and I have also had the pleasure of writing about each other. See "Brockman's Taste for Science, or how to entertain the smartest people" by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and "A Rule of the Game: A Talk with Hans Ulrich Obrist on Edge.
INFORMATION GARDENS consisted of talks by Mark Pagel, Jennifer Jacquet, and Brian Eno.
John Brockman In Conversation with:
Mark Pagel, Cities as Gardens
"Up until 10,000 years ago there were no permanent settlements and all human groups lived by hunting and gathering. Then agriculture was discovered and everything changed. Now a small number of people could supply food for the rest and the first cities arose. Every since that time there has been a steady movement of people out of our original arcadia and into cities, such that now over half the world lives in them. But why given that cities have historically been targets of attack and places of crime and where diseases fester and spread? The answer is that cities have acted as gardens of our prosperity, creativity and innovations and their continued existence is vital to fitting the projected 9 billion people onto this planet. Surprisingly, they are the new 'green centres' of the world."
MARK PAGEL is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor of Evolutionary Biology; Head of the Evolution Laboratory at the University of Reading; Author Oxford Encyclopaedia of Evolution; co-author of The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology. Forthcoming book Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind.
Jennifer Jacquet, Shame Totem v.2.0
"Throughout the 19th century, native tribes that spanned the north coast of North America erected shame totem poles to signal to the community that certain individuals or groups had transgressed. This art is resurrected with a modernized, garish, digitally rendered 3-D shame pole to represent the most shameful corporations – chosen with the assistance of 500 people based in the U.S. who surveyed about the corporations that have most negatively affected society. The talk will describe the relationship between gardens and shame, a historical view on shame totems, the specific concept for this work, and details of its creation."
JENNIFER JACQUET is a Postdoctoral Researcher, Fisheries Centre/Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia; Research interests incude environmental sustainability (particularly fish), the evolution and function of guilt, honor, and shame, and the role of information technology in shaping environmental action.
Brian Eno, Composers as Gardeners
"My topic is the shift from 'architect' to 'gardener', where 'architect' stands for 'someone who carries a full picture of the work before it is made', to 'gardener' standing for 'someone who plants seeds and waits to see exactly what will come up'. I will argue that today's composer are more frequently 'gardeners' than 'architects' and, further, that the 'composer as architect' metaphor was a transitory historical blip."


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Postgame quotes after the Revolution defeated Pumas in SuperLiga 2010 group play at Gillette Stadium on July 14, 2010.
New England Revolution head coach Steve Nicol
It's a chance to get some people some time, but we also want to win and do well. It's just a case of balancing between getting people on the field and being competitive – and I think we managed it.
We kind of ran out of steam in the second half. We put a lot into Saturday (a 2-0 win against LA). When you go ahead, you tend to sit back a little bit and make sure you don't give anything away. But I think more than anything we ran out of steam in the second half. We put so much into Saturday that it caught up to us in the second half, and especially in the last 20 minutes.
New England Revolution goalkeeper Bobby Shuttleworth
I thought (Pumas UNAM) played a lot better in the second half. They were moving the ball a lot more, going out wide and whipping it but I think we did a good job of trapping our runners.
Everyone's out there to win and if we can get two or three wins together it will help us gain momentum for the rest of the season.
New England Revolution forward Zack Schilawski
I think we had a little bit of momentum going which I think is fortunate, because it was really good timing to play another game. The better we can get at consistently playing this way and getting used to playing with each other again, I think is beneficial.
I don't have a lot of experience playing against Mexican teams, so that was exciting for me. I thought they were good with the ball. It is a little bit different in terms of when they pressure you and how they pressure you defensively. It was fun.
We still have a lot of games left in the league, and the SuperLiga is a big tournament. We take it seriously and we want to win as many games in that tournament, as well. It's great to get a win in the first round.
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It's definitely something to build on and to go into Saturday against Chicago, though you've got to remember it's a different tournament and it's a different opponent we played tonight. It still feels good to get a win at home. Still a lot of things we need to work on to be a better team but tonight we got a victory and Zack (Schilawski) scored a brilliant goal and we'll move on from there.
It's just a quick turnaround. You play (Saturday,) Wednesday, Saturday, [Tuesday] just like that the games are all back-to-back. And also we've been lucky to be on the right side of a lot of the games and we look forward to doing that on Saturday.
Ah they're such a good team, you can tell. They move the ball well, they possess the ball well and they're very physical. For us, it's all about staying organized and staying as a team together defending well and trying to break when we get the opportunity. Tonight, it came off a set piece from Marko (Perovi?) and Zack (Schilawski), and lucky for us, it went in.
They're a great team. They're very organized and they've obviously been playing together for a while and with us struggling a little bit it's hard to play the kind of game you want to play where you possess the ball and move it forward and get it wide. Set pieces are important, set piece makes a difference. Regarding the game tonight it came from a corner and we've been working on that in practice and tonight it worked out for us.
Pumas UNAM director tecnico Guillermo Vazquez
Bueno, me parece que en el primer tiempo empezamos bien, y después empezamos a perder muchos balones y a dejar a pasar el rival y cometimos algunos errors en el gol, sobre todo que les dimos ahí ventaja y no le podemos dar una ventaja porque pasa esto. Pero para el segundo tiempo la gente que entró de relevo lo hizo bastante bien. El equipo mostró personalidad, carácter, fue a buscar el gol que al final del cuento no lo logramos.
Well, it seems that we started off well in the first half, and then we started to lose the ball, get beat by our opponents, commit a lot of errors in the goal and above all, give them the advantage in the match, and we cannot give them any advantages because then this happens. But in the second half, our substitutes did well. The team demonstrated personality, character and went in search of the goal that, in the end, we did not get.
Hemos tenido tres partidos amistosos, pero este es el primero de competencia. Sabíamos que iba a ser fuerte porque en todos los partidos para un campionato se compiten. Creo que el equipo después de ciertos partidos va a entrar con las misma determinación que hoy lo hizo en el segundo tiempo.
We have had three friendlies, but this was the first competitive one. We knew it was going to be tough because teams always compete when in search of a championship - in this case, the SuperLiga title). I think that after a certain number of matches, our team will start off every game with the same determination as they did today in the second half.
Pumas UNAM forward Juan Francisco Palencia
Creo que hicimos un buen partido, pero fue decidido por un balón parado que (Los Revs) supieron aprovechar muy bien. Ellos tuvieron un buen partido y ahora tenemos una derrota y tenemos que ganar los otros partidos.
I think we played a good game, but it was decided by a dead ball that (the Revolution) were able to take advantage of. They had a good game and now we have a loss and have to win the remaining games.
(Los Revs) juegan muy vertical. No tienen mucho la pelota, mas bien la lanzan y después la recuperan y de ahí empiezan a jugar en nuestro lado. Creo que los contrarrestamos bien, pero en el balón parado se decidió todo.
They have a very vertical style of playing. They don't keep the ball for too long, instead they kick it up the field and try to get it back so that they can play in our side of the field. I think we did a good job at stopping them, but the dead ball decided everything.
Pumas UNAM midfielder Leandro Augusto
La jugada del gol fue la única que tuvieron en el primer tiempo. Fuimos mejor que ellos en la retención de la pelota, pero no pudimos concretar y eso marcó la diferencia en el partido.
The play for the goal was the only one they had in the first half. We were better that them in terms of possession, but we couldn't score and that made the difference in the game.
El rebote de la pelota es un poco distinto, pero de todas maneras tuvimos mejor posesión de la pelota y tuvimos mas llegadas. El gol de Martin Bravo parecía no estar en fuera de lugar tampoco.
The bounce of the ball was a little different, but we still had more possession and more chances on goal. Martin Bravo's goal looked to me that it was not offside, either.


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As I have discussed before, it is absurd that some local cycling violations, such as sidewalk riding. are classified misdemeanors, requiring a court appearance, and making them far more serious than typical traffic violations, usually given as infractions. I don't think the courts are too keen on Santa Monica's handing out a bunch of dumb misdemeanors either. The cyclist, Dan Beam, that I have been communicating with recently, who was cited for both sidewalk cycling and failure to show a bicycle license, both laws he was unaware existed, and was given a misdemeanor for both, finally went to court. He explained the situation and the judge promptly tossed out both charges. Just a big waste of time for all parties involved and a waste of tax dollars.
So we may finally see this absurdity become a little more reasonable soon. A first reading of an ordinance change is on the City Council agenda tonight, and will allow officers discretion in giving out an infraction or a misdemeanor for several local ordinances, including the sidewalk riding ordinance, and a few which are not related to cycling. I could foresee very few instances where sidewalk riding should ever be given as a misdemeanor, so imagine it would after this change always be given as an infraction unless a cyclist was being an especially serious hazard to pedestrians or caused harm to someone else.
However I do not see anything in the item report about Santa Monica's bike license requirement, currently also a misdemeanor. This also needs to change, to at least be in compliance with state law. However I think it should be canned all together or made entirely opt-in rather than a requirement. Giving out misdemeanors for not having a sticker most people have never heard of, or if they have heard of it, likely do not know is mandatory, is ridiculous and appears to violate the California Vehicle Code.
I'm going to go to the meeting tonight and use my 2 minutes to insist that the bike license program be canned or at least be changed to reduce the penalties in addition to the other changes proposed on the agenda. I'd also like to pitch again an idea I've been talking a lot about lately, which is to create a program for cyclists cited for moving violations to take a certified bike education class, which would do so much more to benefit public safety than going to court or just paying off a ticket. Austin and Portland are cities that are already doing this.
The meeting tonight starts at 5:30 pm, but the ordinance changes in question are deep into the agenda, item 7-B, immediately following further discussion on taxicab changes in the city, which has been a contentious topic. So if your interested in speaking up on this topic, don't come right away or you'll be there a while. I'll be posting twitter updates, and will try to give a heads up when it becomes clearer what time it may come on.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Tonight, City Council To Look At Amending Sidewalk Riding Ordinance To Become Infraction Rather Than Misdemeanor At Officer Discretion
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Give 'em two minutes of sanity, call on them to mend their wicked ways! Thanks for fighting the good fight!
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Now's the time to talk about...setting up OpenEmbedded on Ubuntu 10.04...and...building the Ångström distribution for the BeagleBoard! (I do realize I've created some suspense surrounding this particular subject with my previous posts, but despite the problems one may run into it's not that terrifying really :))
An advantage of setting up OE on Ubuntu (or any other .deb-based system, for that matter) is that one is able to use the apt-get'able OpenEmbedded. Following the instructions on the blog post (that is, get the repository in your sources list - sudo aptitude install openembedded-minimal - oe-setup-minimal org.openembedded.dev) the set-up part becomes a breeze - this will take care of all the necessary dependencies.
You may read from several sources that you absolutely shouldn't be using the bitbake that is in Ubuntu's own repositories (ie, things like DON'T sudo apt-get install bitbake) but from what I've seen, they've updated the repository and version 1.8.18 was directly available at the time of my writing this. You may want to check for yourself by executing bitbake --version once you have obtained the packages, anything over 1.8.16 should be fine.
Once you've set up the environment by executing oe-setup-minimal org.openembedded.dev (yes, using the dev branch is appearantly recommended, instead of the stable/2009 branch) you can make an attempt at trying out your new oven...oh, I mean, development environment, by trying out something smaller via giving this command:
- OpenEmbedded supports a lot of different target platforms, so we should specify the platform we'll be targeting. This is what the MACHINE=beagleboard part is for.
- bitbake is the central make tool, used extensively in OpenEmbedded, and nano is the name of the "recipe" for the miniscule (but useful!) text editor. For a nice introduction to bitbake and its recipes system, you may want to read this.
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Uh...so according to my camera's memory card (and the blog post pertaining to the meeting that happened 2 weeks ago), I failed to upload any pictures the last time I posted. Whattttt?
So, here we go. (Also, I acknowledge that my captions could probably be done without; however, since I am the author of this post, I get to decide what commentary goes into it, which means you're a little bit out of luck.)
Kat happily knitting away on these very long socks. Did these get finished? I have zero idea.
Um..über precious.
Happy Mary. This is lovely.
The most happy. LOVING the bow tie. So classy.
Madeline. Probably surprised by some wonderfully thought provoking comment I just made. Probably. And the reason she's not looking at me is because she's verifying the awe factor of my statement with the other members. I'm so sure.
A good pictorial indication of my mental state last week. For those of you who need a refresher, see last week's blog.
Mother and daughter happily knitting up a storm. But clearly a very content storm.
Dat face. I feel like this is a little sassy. I can't remember what I did to deserve a sassy look, but here it is. Must have been good, though.
All of the concentration. Working on her Halloween costume I believe. A flapper. With leaves on her hips, if I recall, which is what she is currently beading.
Close-up of the beading. By that I mean I was playing with the zoom on my camera and needed a subject.
I don't remember Madeline wearing that shirt. But clearly she was sitting right in front of me. My eyes must have been turned off that night. If I had noticed this shirt at last week's meeting, I would have informed her that I am a fan of it.
I believe Lauren was trying to finish up an assignment so that she could spend some time knitting. Although, I regrettably had to dart away before I could see the knitting portion of her evening. Also, that is the face I give most of my technology related items.
Small update on my life: I am exponentially less stressed out than last week. And by that I'm not sure if I mean I'm just not letting myself get stressed over the mess that is my life or if I've actually got a handle on things. Sadly, it is probably not the latter..
2 more days this week and then break! Just in time, too. My sanity tank is running on E. (Sanity tank: a small portion of one's brain where one retains sanity, must be refueled regularly to avoid breakdowns, anxiety attacks, insanity, etc.) But I'm going to make it!
That being said, I should get back to studying for my accounting test tomorrow. I'm currently trying to teach myself two chapters worth of material. "Rough" doesn't even begin to cover it.
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Gregory Meyer, 47, of Studio City, was arrested by the FBI after committing a disturbance on a JetBlue flight, according to the United States Attorney's Office District of Colorado and the FBI.
Meyer was scheduled to appear in federal court in Denver on Friday afternoon.
Meyer was on JetBlue Flight 358, from Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, Calif., to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, when the alleged incident unfolded.
"Because of Meyer's assaultive behavior, and his failure to obey flight attendants," the plane was diverted to Denver International Airport, the release said.
Denver police met the plane when it landed and Meyer was held and placed in federal custody.
"Court records indicate that Meyer smelled of alcohol and was loud when he boarded the flight," the release said.
He allegedly stroked one female passenger's arm, grabbed her waist and tried to grab her hand. He also allegedly "grabbed the head of another female passenger who was seated in front of him."
Flight attendants refused to serve Meyer alcohol "because he was visibly drunk from vodka he brought on board," the release said.
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