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Dear Hungry Girl, I am a HUGE fan of your drink recipes. At a martini bar recently, I had a "Thin Mint" martini. It tasted just like the Girl Scout Cookie and even came with a cookie garnish! Any ideas on how I could make a Hungry Girl version of this drink? I'm sure it contains many, many calories! Thanks for all you do. Cannot wait to get your new book! Thirsty Todd
Hi Todd,
Hooray for male HG fans! WOOHOO!!! Glad you're excited for the new book -- Hungry Girl Supermarket Survival just hit shelves yesterday! But to answer your question, I do have some ideas for a swap. In fact, you inspired me to get in the kitchen and whip up a full-blown recipe. Check it out! HG's ChocoMint Martini PER SERVING (1/2 of recipe, 1 martini): 145 calories, 0g fat, 90mg sodium, 7g carbs, 0.5g fiber, 4.5g sugars, 1g protein -- PointsPlus® value 5* Ingredients: 1 packet hot cocoa mix with 20 - 25 calories (like Swiss Miss Diet or Nestlé Fat Free) 1 no-calorie sweetener packet (like Splenda or Truvia) 2 tbsp. Cool Whip Free, thawed 1 tbsp. light chocolate syrup 3 oz. vodka 2 drops peppermint extract Optional garnish: chocolate graham crackers Directions: In a tall glass, combine cocoa mix and sweetener with 2 ounces (1/4 cup) hot water, and stir to dissolve. Add Cool Whip and chocolate syrup, and stir until smooth. Add vodka, peppermint extract, and 2 ounces (1/4 cup) cold water to the glass. Transfer mixture to a shaker filled with ice. Shake, shake, shake, and then strain into two martini glasses. Serve with chocolate graham crackers, if you like, and enjoy! MAKES 2 SERVINGS Each individual graham cracker (1/4th of a sheet) adds about 15 calories... Not bad! Happy sipping, and I hope to see you at one of the stops on the Supermarket Survival tour with a copy of the new book in hand! (P.S. Click here for the 411 on how the PointsPlus® values of cocktails are calculated.)
Hi HG, I work a variety of different shifts, and sometimes I don't get home for dinner until 1 a.m. or later! What suggestions do you have for quick late-night dinners that won't wake up my husband and will fill me up before bed? I'm trying to avoid the late-night gut. Thanks! Hungry Shifter
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That's tough, truly, but I've got some suggestions to help you deal with that crazy schedule of yours... Here they are now! If you want something warm, the slow cooker is your friend. Just throw in the ingredients before work. You can even time it so your husband has dinner when he's hungry, and then you've got leftovers to reheat later. Cheeseburger Mac Attack is an HG family-friendly favorite. And this saucy pulled-pork recipe is one of my husband's top picks -- it's amazing! Get to know some no-cook recipes. They're quick 'n easy, and you don't have to worry about waking up your husband with food-cooking smells and beeping timers. Check out our latest sans-heat recipes, and click here for an entire email of cool slaws and salads. Many of these can be made in the afternoon and eaten later on... Feed your need for speed. Fast and easy recipes are a MUST for late-night meals. Click here to check out a whole bunch of quick recipes, as seen in the "Under Five Minutes" episode of Hungry Girl! And for three more speedy recipes (including a BLT B-fast Burrito that you could totally have for dinner!), click here. Keep a stash of go-to frozen meals. If you're ever stuck and don't have ingredients on hand (or the energy to make anything!), microwavable meals are the way to go. Try to stick with ones that have around 350 calories and no more than 10 grams of fat each -- then bulk 'em up with frozen veggies. Amy's Light & Lean line ROCKS; Kashi, Smart Ones, and Lean Cuisine also have awesome options. Another tip? Bring filling snacks to work so you don't arrive home starving and feel the need to eat a huge dinner. Smart picks include light string cheese, fruit, cut veggies, and snack bars with good amounts of fiber and protein. Click here for our latest emergency-snack finds! Now you're armed with plenty of late-night-friendly dinner ideas. Yay!!!
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Thank you Jazz Girl, that's what I was trying to say when I said they don't have favorites, even after reading all the PCs, which I've done an unhealthy amount of times. I never thought the Cullens believe any of their family members to be in-laws. I think that once you have been welcomed into the family, you're just as much their child as your mate. I think that if we were to read the books from Esme or Carlisle's POV we'd see them spend an equal amount of time with, and show an equal and different type of love for each of their children... now I have another companion book to fruitlessly wish for!Jazz Girl wrote:I don't know that I can agree completely that Edward is necessarily Carlisle and Esme's favorite. I too have read the PC, and absolutely believe that they have a special affection for Edward as the "eldest" but also as the youngest (he is chronologically youngest of all of the siblings). And, as SM points out, he is naturally a good person and a leader. But, I don't think that is neccesarily the same thing. I guess I define "favorite" as giving him special treatment, an inequality in affection shown etc.. But, I think, in Esme and Carlisle's case, they are parents who are truly able love each of their children as individuals; communicate and support each one equally in a way that is appropriate for each of their personalities. And, it is for that reason that I think they consider Jasper to be just as much one of their children as Edward or Alice or Rose or Emmett.
I think it might appear to us as readers that Edward is their favorite particularly because of the circumstances under which we see them interacting. Edward has been unattached for so long, to the point of worrying Esme that he is missing an essential part of his adult make up because he was so young when he was turned. And, he is the child with the greatest needs during the time we get to watch their life unfold. So, it is natural that we would see Esme and Carlisle working hardest to help him, to support him. But, for example, I think the same would be seen of their support and help for Jasper after the birthday party, but we don't get to see that.
As for where Bella fits into the mix, I think they view her as a daughter, not a daughter-in-law. I agree with Heart_In_Hand that Bella was truly the other half to Edward, and that is how they came to know her. But, just as they did with Emmett and Jasper, they very quickly came to know and love Bella for being Bella, not the other half of Edward. That certainly enhanced the package. But, again, I see Esme and Carlisle as parents whose children are each unique gifts to them to be loved as individuals.

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Why binge-watching new shows is the worst
It's been four days, more than 100 hours, and I still haven't finished Season 2 of "House of Cards."
I've gotten past the big Episode 1 spoiler. And I've made it through a few more predictably "shocking" chapters. But I haven't finished. And it's not because I think binge-watching is bad - I don't buy any of those arguments. I've binged on many shows in the past year alone. "Six Feet Under" I completed in a month this summer. I devoured all three seasons of "Borgen" in the final weeks of 2013, and I relished every minute. I started watching TV in earnest in college, so if a show ran before 2006, chances are I binged on it while putting off a paper on Kant or possibly an assignment for Slate. "Veronica Mars"? Binged that during finals freshman year, then again in anticipation of the movie.
But Netflix has tarnished binge-watching's good name.
Much has been written about the joys of binge-watching. Slate's TV critic, Willa Paskin, described it as "the classy way of watching too much TV, the rebranding of a previously disdained activity that makes the sedentary life palatable to those people - say New York Review of Books readers! - who would once have foresworn it." Less than 24 hours before Season 2 of "House of Cards," Alex Soojung-Kim Pang wrote in Slate in praise of the practice, calling it "restorative," and highlighting how "it's a way [for people] to reclaim their time and attention in a rushing, distracting world." He goes on to explain that for many, it's a reward.
Binging on "Six Feet Under," "Borgen," "Veronica Mars" - those shows felt like rewards, little presents I got to open whenever I felt like it. They offered a way to relax, and yes, reclaim my time. After all, I was on my own time. I'm sure others were binging on "Borgen" at the same moment, but we were not trying to keep pace with each other - no one was dictating a time period for us to finish so we could then chat about it. The show had run its course, and people who came well before us wrote the think pieces that we could now happily devour. There was no race to finish because no one cared when we finished. No one cared when we started.
And then there's "House of Cards." In many ways I can't stop watching "House of Cards." But binge-watching "House of Cards" the weekend it comes out does not feel like a relaxing reward. It has nothing to do with reclaiming time and everything to do with time being dictated to you.
Sure, in theory, you can watch whenever you want. But if you're on Twitter, you're surrounded by people tweeting spoilers and bragging about finishing. Magazines and blogs publish pieces that will only make sense if you've "caught up." What was once the most enjoyable way to consume seasons of TV becomes a social obligation.
No one has explored this as well as "Portlandia" (also streaming on Netflix, if you want to binge). Think of the sketch in which a man and woman start watching "Battlestar Galactica" before going to a party, only to get sucked in so deep they abandon all sanity, calling in sick to work, forgetting to pay for electricity, chanting "next one, next one."* This sort of behavior is crazy - but it's a fun, personal sort of crazy. Now think of that other "Portlandia" sketch, in which friends sit down for coffee, but instead of discussing what they've read, they try to one-up each other by asking if the other has read as much as they have, until they're literally eating the pages of a magazine. The Netflix push to "watch it now" makes TV feel like a race, one that I have no interest in running.


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Overnight flurries have pretty much moved east and we'll call for a partly to mostly cloudy sky today. Seasonal highs today in the mid to upper 20s on light west winds.
The only additional rain or snow in the week ahead is a weak system for Saturday. Looks like only a slight chance for flurries Saturday afternoon/evening. We don't expect any accumulation. Pretty good weather for a car wash - it might even stay clean for a few days!
We're still talking a slow, steady warm up that begins later Sunday. Highs close to 30 for Friday through Sunday. Low to mid 30s for Monday and we'll push 40 by Wednesday.
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Virginia is America's top state for doing business, according to a new study by CNBC.
The Old Dominion State dislodged Texas this year with the best overall score in 10 broad categories of competitiveness, among them Business Friendliness, Quality of Life, Education and Economy, CNBC Senior Correspondent Scott Cohn reported. The categories are weighted based on how heavily states market them to drum up business.
"Virginia's economy is diverse and robust, with unemployment well below the national average," Cohn said. He added that the state's point total -- 1,600 out of 2,500 -- was the highest in the five-year history of CNBC's studies.
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Texas, which has traded no. 1 spots with Virginia each year, scored 1,578 points and stayed the same in seven out of 10 categories, CNBC reported.
The Lone Star state dominates in Infrastructure & Transportation, Technology & Innovation and Access to Capital. But Texas lost ground in its point totals for Cost of Doing Business, Quality of Life and Economy, where a budget crisis led to the state slipping from No. 1 to No. 14 on CNBC's list, the network reported.
"While the economy is still growing, we could not ignore the state budget crisis," Cohn said. "The cuts needed to balance the state budget were severe, and it remains to be seen whether Gov. Rick Perry and the state legislature managed to cut fat without hitting muscle or bone."
State fiscal issues, factored into CNBC's mix for the first time, also were responsible for New Jersey experiencing the biggest overall decline among states. The Garden State slipped eight spots in the rankings to No. 30, CNBC reported.
Rounding out the top five best states for business were: North Carolina, Georgia and Colorado.
Rhode Island fared the worst in the nation, below Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi and West Virginia.
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In academic and literary criticism, the verb "to interrogate" is often a neutral term, stripped of its more violent, forceful resonance. But in Donald Weber's new book, Interrogations, itself an "interrogation" of the way state power plays out across stretches of Eastern Europe, the Canadian photographer seeks to show the brutality and helplessness that undergirds almost all societies.
The images above are scenes from interrogation rooms, the product of seven years of exploring Russia and the Ukraine and befriending and winning the trust of ordinary police officers. They are stark and bleak. Detained suspects sit slumped in empty rooms, their faces stretched in terror, shame and resignation. A teenager under suspicion of shoplifting bursts into tears; when his interrogation goes wrong, a supposed car thief finds himself pinioned to the table, his hands limply warding against a gun pointed down on his skull.
Weber says the scenes are not out of the ordinary. The interrogations are conducted by officers who are "respected in their departments," he says. "They rose through the ranks and did the job required. What I think is so powerful is that this is not a rogue set of cops. This is standard practice, it is what it is. It's the utter terror of a wayward bureaucracy."
On one level, that's an indictment of the ethical vagaries of policing in post-Soviet countries. But on another, Weber is illustrating—dramatically, to be sure—how state power essentially functions the world over. French philosopher Louis Althusser famously placed the moment we recognize our subservience to the authority of a state in a street scene where one is confronted by a police officer. The officer, writes Althusser, shouts: "'Hey, you there!'… Assuming that the theoretical scene I have imagined takes place in the street, the hailed individual will turn round. By this mere one-hundred-and-eighty-degree physical conversion, he becomes a subject."
That subjection—that subjugation—is all too apparent in the suspects Weber photographs. Even in full-fledged, mature democracies, one still feels a kind of nakedness when in the crosshairs of the law, a vulnerability that can only be mitigated after the fact by norms of due process and habeas corpus. Says Weber: "This is work not about Ukraine or Russia or even the former Soviet Union, but instead a way to see the modern State as a primitive and sacrificial rite."
That's a particularly dark interpretation of how power gets wielded and realized, but it's echoed in public opinion polls throughout the post-Soviet world. Twenty years since the fall of Communism, a significant majority of people in Ukraine and Russia have lost faith in both the promise of free-market capitalism as well as multiparty democracy. This disillusionment with politics has much to do with disgust at what some say are kleptocratic, domineering elites in both countries. But it also indicates a deeper gloominess: the sense perhaps that, whatever the dominant ideology of the day, there's always the prospect of the interrogation room, and the grim, subterranean power that it holds over of us.
Interrogations was published this month by Schilt Publishing. Weber's series recently won first place at the World Press Photo awards in the Portraits—Stories category.
Ishaan Tharoor writes for TIME and is editor of Global Spin. You can find him on Twitter at ishaantharoor.


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Adam Sandler: My Clothes Embarrass My Daughters
"I'm getting older, and it happens," he tells PEOPLE. "You get a little [to the point where] you don't care as much. I'm definitely at that age."
Adam Sandler has made a career of doing mortifying things, but it's his life away from set that has daughters Sadie Madison, 6, and Sunny Madeline, 3, blushing.
"I do embarrass them now," the comedian told PEOPLE during a press conference for his film That's My Boy, in which he plays Andy Samberg's father.
The source of his daughters' humiliation? Dad's fashion sense.
"I wear shorts a lot," Sandler, 45, explains. "And my kids do ask me to put pants on when I go to school. They ask, 'Could you just one time wear pants?' And every time I get out of the car, I look down and I go, 'I got those shorts on! Who's gonna yell at me?'"
The actor hasn't enjoyed becoming the source of embarrassment for his girls — "I don't look forward to it," he says — even if it doesn't exactly come as a surprise. The comedian seems to be taking a cue from his own dad's playbook.
"My father used to wear the same pants for like a week," Sandler recalls. "And I remember that was like, 'My friends have been over three times this week, and they've seen him in the brown pants [every time]. Can I please convince this guy to get on some blue pants for the day?'"
Still, the dad of two has accepted his latest cringe-worthy role.
"I'm getting older, and it happens," he says. "You get a little [to the point where] you don't care as much. I'm definitely at that age."
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The end of the fighter pilot, and nearly a century of military fighter planes, is an idea that garners a lot of attention lately and this report out of Nebraska is a prime example why.
Andrew Nelson at the World-Herald writes that all 21 F-16s at the Iowa National Guard's 132nd Fighter Wing will be replaced with an unnamed type of pilotless drone.
From the World-Herald:
Under a budget deal set for approval this week, the Iowa National Guard's 132nd Fighter Wing will lose the jets. The decision comes after months of wrangling between Iowa's congressional delegation and the Air Force. The 132nd has flown F-16s on missions in Afghanistan in recent years.
Now, after 70 years of flying manned aircraft, the wing will fly remote-controlled unmanned planes, according to the proposal. The aircraft will be based elsewhere, possibly overseas. U.S. House and Senate negotiators agreed to a deal this week that will mean the removal of all 21 jets from the Des Moines Air National Guard Base. The House could approve the defense spending bill as soon as today and the Senate on Friday. President Barack Obama is expected to sign it.
The move will be a blow to the local economy and its fighter support jobs, but that's part of a drone's appeal, it's cheaper and easier to maintain than a piloted jet.
The 132nd's F-16's were largely scheduled for retirement between 2018 and 2020, but with almost 70 years of fighter piloting tradition behind it, the move appears to be a surprise to legislators and local residents.
The unit's jets flew more than 800 combat missions, and 3,200 hours since 1992.


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The community of Sorrento is a unique locale just outside of Naples where visitors can enjoy the gentle breeze as they take in the natural beauty of Mt. Vesuvius, Italy's last remaining active volcano. Visitors can also gaze upon the isle of Capri at various points within the city. The ancient ruins of Pompeii, which seemingly froze a number of people in time right where they were, is also nearby and a place many visitors may want to visit. Hotels.com can help the potential traveler find any number of Sorrento Hotels so that they can enjoy their stay in this remarkable city. Hotels.com has a user-friendly system that includes a rating system by previous guests that helps users determine if the hotel is right for them. Visitors can search by star rating or price, and Hotels.com also provides a warning tab when a hotel is about to be fully booked.
What's Sorrento Like?
Sorrento is a city of only 16,000 people, but it has a great deal of charm and history throughout. Several main sites exist that will appeal to a wide swath of people. Tourists can relax with a nice cold beverage in their hand at the Piazzo Tasso, which is the main city center in Sorrento. The Bagni della Regina Giovanna is a fantastic location of natural bluffs that visitors can tour. The Cattedrale di Sorrento is a timeless cathedral that was built in the 11th century and then rebuilt in a Romanesque style in the 15th century. The baptistery dates from the 16th century and the pulpit, made of marble, dates back to the 15th century. The Corso Italia is Sorrento's main street, and many visitors have found this a fun and interesting place to explore. The street has undergone some maintenance over the years, but the city has managed to keep all of the medieval buildings intact. In the older portion of town the street can lead to some highly narrow passageways, taking the traveler into a time machine back to the 1400s, 1500s, and 1600s.
Tips for Getting Along with Locals in Sorrento
Getting around in Sorrento is fairly easy for a town of its size. Sorrento has an extremely reliable taxi and limo service which will help travelers get to any restaurant, bar, or club. For those who wish to visit Sorrento from Naples, there is a train that goes directly there. Getting around in Sorrento is fairly easy. Many tourists and locals alike use the Circumvesuviana Rail System in order to take in the sights. In the morning and the evening the platform can be crowded, so be on guard for pickpockets. Please also be aware that it can take a long time for individuals to be properly loaded on the bus, so your best bet is to take the earliest bus that you can and you will also need to be flexible about your return trip. It is important to remember that Sorrento is not a place to go to for beaches. They are a few craggy cliffs in which people dive from, however, there are no beaches of the sandy variety at all. There is only one official tourist office in the locality of Sorrento, however, there are many places that offer "tourist information" that are basically just glorified travel agencies. Ask your hotel for the address to the official tourist office instead. Hotels.com is the world's leader in Sorrento Hotels and on cultural information as well.


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by Mindy Obenhaus
We've ordered/printed our business cards, perfected our pitch, polished our one-sheets, and organized our wardrobe. We're almost ready to go.
One more quick note before I totally leave the topic of wardrobe. I couldn't resist sharing a quote from Coco Chanel. Ms. Chanel believed looking our best showed politeness to others. She said, "Maybe today's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny."
Now it's time to pack. Years of attending conferences have taught me to be prepared. Here are a few things you'll want to be sure and bring along:
A sweater or jacket/blazer – Basically, anything you can layer. It could be 110 outside, but those meeting rooms are often two degrees colder than a meat locker. However, pack a lot of bodies into one room and it could go the other direction.
Snacks – I always pack some granola-type bars, nuts, or trail mix. That way I have a little pick-me-up without having to make a trip to the hotel gift shop. Save that for those late night munchies.
Safety pins – Just a couple, but you never know when you might pop a button or find you're gapping where you don't want to gap. You may never need them, or you might be someone else's saving grace 🙂
Jewelry – Accessories make the outfit. Be sure to pack it in your carry-on to protect from theft.
Medicines – Prescription, yes, but a small bottle of pain-reliever may come in handy. Also pack in your carry-on.
Now that you're all packed, take a deep breath. Ask God to not only bless your conference time, but that you would allow Him to guide your steps instead of taking matters into your own hands. When the Spirit is your guide, the way is never wrong.
What are some of your must-have's for a conference?
Mindy Obenhaus
You gotta have F.A.I.T.H.–Six unique authors, One awesome God


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Intel today launched a high-performance Solid-State Drive [SSD] aimed at server, workstation and storage systems.
The Intel X-25E Extreme SATA SSD has a capacity of 32GB and boasts a mere 75ms read latency. It can achieve read speeds of up to 250MB/s and up to 170MB/s sequential write speed.
According to Intel, benchmarks conducted by the company show the X25-E can increase server, workstation and storage system performance a hundredfold, as measured in Input/Output per Second [IOPS].
The drives are priced at USD$695 [AUD$1,060] for quantities of up to 1,000. A 64GB version is expected to ship in early 2009.


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First Posted : November 4, 1999
Last Update Posted : March 4, 2008
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This study examined the interactions of various drugs used to treat HIV infection in order to design larger studies of possible combinations for people who continue to have high viral levels despite combination therapy.
HIV-infected patients 18 years of age and older who have a viral load of at least 500 copies/mL; who have received 20 weeks of protease inhibitor therapy, with the same protease inhibitors in combination therapy for the last 12 weeks; and who have never been treated with abacavir, amprenavir or efavirenz were enrolled.
All patients will receive 600 milligrams a day of efavirenz (a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor); 300 mg twice daily of abacavir (a nucleoside analog); and 1200 mg twice a day of amprenavir (a protease inhibitor). In addition to these drugs, six patients will receive 500 mg twice a day of ritonavir (a protease inhibitor); six patients will receive 200 mg twice a day of ritonavir; and 10 will receive 1250 mg twice a day of nelfinavir (a protease inhibitor).
Patients in the two ritonavir groups (500-mg and 200-mg dose groups) took abacavir and amprenavir for one week and then come to the clinic for blood tests to measure drug levels before taking their morning pills and at 1/2, 1, 2, 4, 8, and 12 hours after taking the medicines. They will then add ritonavir to their treatment regimen. After one week, they will return for blood tests as before. They will then add efavirenz to their regimen and had bloods drawn again after another 1 or 2 weeks.
Patients in the nelfinavir group took abacavir, amprenavir and nelfinavir for one week and then have blood sampling as described above for the ritonavir group. They will then add efavirenz to the regimen and repeat the blood tests again after another 1 or 2 weeks.
Participants are being seen in the clinic for follow-up only if they wish to continue to participate and if the regimen appears to offer clinical benefit.
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Treatment with a protease inhibitor or inhibitor(s) for the preceding 20 weeks with no protease inhibitor drug change or dose interruption for greater than 3 days in the most recent 12 weeks.
Laboratory values at screen:
hemoglobin greater than 9 g/dl;
granulocyte count greater than 900 cells/microL;
platelet count greater than 80,000 cells/microL;
AST (SGOT) less than 151 U/L;
Creatine less than 2 mg/dL.
Willingness to avoid becoming pregnant or causing a pregnancy by use of effective methods which include surgical sterilization and barrier methods such as condoms and/or diaphragms. Hormonal methods of birth control are not acceptable unless barrier methods are also used because drug interactions may render their concentrations subtherapeutic.
Willing and able to provide written informed consent.
Negative serum or urine pregnancy test on the day of enrollment.
No intolerance of ritonavir or nelfinavir.
Treatment with systemic corticosteroids at greater than physiologic replacement doses, interleukins, interferons, radiation therapy or cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents within 30 days of study drug administration or an anticipated need for radiation or chemotherapy treatment within the next 48 weeks (with the exception of local treatment for Kaposi's sarcoma).
Subjects suffering from serious medical conditions such as diabetes, congestive heart failure, cardiomyopathy, or other cardiac dysfunction, which, in the opinion of the investigator, would compromise the safety of the patient.
Current or anticipated therapy with other agents with documented activity against HIV-1 in vitro (other than stable maintenance dosing of foscarnet begun prior to screening).
Prior exposure to abacavir, amprenavir or efavirenz.
Concomitant therapy at entry with corticosteroids in other than replacement doses, chemotherapy, or investigational agents.
Active, untreated opportunistic infection or other major illness that would, in the opinion of the investigator, increase the risk that adverse events might pose to the patient or might render the patient too ill to return for study visits.
Lymphoma not diagnosed within 5 years of study enrollment.
Significant substance abuse or psychiatric illness that might interfere with assessment or compliance.
Refusal to employ adequate means of birth control (non-hormonal methods); efavirenz is potentially teratofenic and conception must be avoided.
Malabsorption or other gastrointestinal dysfunction which, in the opinion of the investigator, might interfere with drug absorption or render the patient unable to take oral medication.
History of serious rash (erythema multiforme or Stevens-Johnson syndrome) caused by nevirapine or delavirdine.
Treatment with phenobarbital, rifampin, rifabutin, midazolam, astemizole, cisapride, or triazolam unless subject is safely able to discontinue the drug(s) prior to receipt of study medications.
Pregnancy or lactation.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00001766
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輪子:Sucrose 71mm 78a
Certified Arbor Completes are fully assembled skateboards built using select, high-end components that complement the performance and geometry of each of our shapes. Certified Completes include: Sucrose Initiative Wheels, Double Shield ABEC 5 Bearings, Paris Trucks or Gullwing Trucks, and of course a handmade Arbor deck. Each package takes into consideration: the angle, geometry, and size of the trucks; the size, shape, and durometer of the wheels; the hardness and rebound of the bushings; the placement of wheel wells; and all aspects of shape. When buying an Arbor, look for this symbol, and insist that your complete comes with components approved by Arbor Skateboards.


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WASHINGTON—Pope Benedict XVI has named Father Joseph Binzer, 55, vicar general of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and pastor of St. Louis Parish in Cincinnati, as an auxiliary bishop for the Cincinnati Archdiocese.
The appointment was publicized in Washington, April 6, by Archbishop Pietro Sambi, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States.
Joseph R. Binzer was born April 26, 1955, in Cincinnati. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Miami University (Ohio), a Master of Divinity degree from Mount St. Mary's of the West Seminary, and a Licentiate in Canon Law from The Catholic University of America.
Bishop-elect Binzer was ordained a priest for the Cincinnati Archdiocese in 1994.
After ordination to the priesthood he was named parochial vicar of St. Dominic Parish and in 1997, he was assigned to study at Catholic University in Washington.
He was named temporary administrator of St. John the Baptist Parish, Dry Ridge, Ohio, and St. Bartholomew Parish, Cincinnati in 1998; appointed to the Archdiocese of Cincinnati Tribunal Office in 1999, and appointed archdiocesan master of ceremonies to the archbishop and parochial vicar of St. Louis Parish, Cincinnati while continuing work at the Tribunal in 2000.
He was appointed chancellor and director of the Department of Executive Services of the Cincinnati Archdiocese and pastor of St. Louis Church in 2003. He was appointed vicar general of the archdiocese while continuing as chancellor and director of Executive Services, in 2007.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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Nintendogs 2nd Dog
I GOT A SHIH TZU! xD Her name's Sachiko. Isn't she cute?
So I finished my battle day two... Lost the battle, I think. I lost 10 freakin' marks for sure. Holy shit I was so emo after the exam.
I wanted to buy comics to cheer myself up but to my emoness, the comic shop isn't open today. BIG SIGH.
So freakin' emo.
People tried to cheer me up though. And I got myself Sachiko so I'm ok for now. =3
Tomorrow - one day preparation for Thursday's battle. 3rd battle.
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Douglas Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse, dies at 88
By Gerry Shih
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Douglas Engelbart, a technologist who conceived of the computer mouse and laid out a vision of an Internet decades before others brought those ideas to the mass market, died on Tuesday night. He was 88.
His eldest daughter, Gerda, said by telephone that her father died of kidney failure.
Engelbart arrived at his crowning moment relatively early in his career, on a winter afternoon in 1968, when he delivered an hour-long presentation containing so many far-reaching ideas that it would be referred to decades later as the "mother of all demos."
Speaking before an audience of 1,000 leading technologists in San Francisco, Engelbart, a computer scientist at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), showed off a cubic device with two rolling discs called an "X-Y position indicator for a display system." It was the mouse's public debut.
Engelbart then summoned, in real-time, the image and voice of a colleague 30 miles away. That was the first videoconference. And he explained a theory of how pages of information could be tied together using text-based links, an idea that would later form the bedrock of the Web's architecture.
At a time when computing was largely pursued by government researchers or hobbyists with a countercultural bent, Engelbart never sought or enjoyed the explosive wealth that would later become synonymous with Silicon Valley success. For instance, he never received any royalties for the mouse, which SRI patented and later licensed to Apple.
He was intensely driven instead by a belief that computers could be used to augment human intellect. In talks and papers, he described with zeal and bravado a vision of a society in which groups of highly productive workers would spend many hours a day collectively manipulating information on shared computers.
"The possibilities we are pursuing involve an integrated man-machine working relationship, where close, continuous interaction with a computer avails the human of radically changed information-handling and -portrayal skills," he wrote in a 1961 research proposal at SRI.
His work, he argued with typical conviction, "competes in social significance with research toward harnessing thermonuclear power, exploring outer space, or conquering cancer."
A proud visionary, Engelbart found himself intellectually isolated at various points in his life. But over time he was proved correct more often than not.
"To see the Internet and the World Wide Web become the dominant paradigms in computing is an enormous vindication of his vision," Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus Development Corporation, said in an interview on Wednesday. "It's almost like Leonardo da Vinci envisioning the helicopter hundreds of years before they could actually be built."
By 2000, Engelbart had won prestigious accolades including the National Medal of Technology and the Turing Award. He lived in comfort in Atherton, a leafy suburb near Stanford University.
But he wrestled with his fade into obscurity even as entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates became celebrity billionaires by realizing some of his early ideas.
In 2005, he told Tom Foremski, a technology journalist, that he felt the last two decades of his life had been a "failure" because he could not receive funding for his research or "engage anybody in a dialogue."
Douglas Carl Engelbart was born on January 30, 1925 in Portland to a radio repairman father who was often absent and a homemaker mother.
He enrolled at Oregon State University, but was drafted into the U.S. Navy and shipped to the Pacific before he could graduate.
He resolved to change the world as a computer scientist after coming across a 1945 article by Vannevar Bush, the head of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research, while scouring a Red Cross library in a native hut in the Philippines, he told an interviewer years later.
After returning to the United States to complete his degree, Engelbart took a teaching position at the University of California, Berkeley, after Stanford declined to hire him because his research seemed too removed from practical applications. It would not be the first time his ideas were rejected.
Engelbart also worked at the Ames Laboratory, and the precursor to NASA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. He obtained a doctorate in electrical engineering from Berkeley in 1955.
He took a job at SRI in 1957, and by the early-1960s Engelbart led a team that began to seriously investigate tools for interactive computing.
After coming back from a computer graphics conference in 1961, Engelbart sketched a design of what would become the mouse and tasked Bill English, an engineering colleague, to carve a prototype out of wood. Engelbart's team considered other designs, including a device that would be affixed to the underside of a table and controlled by the knee, but the desktop mouse won out.
SRI would later license the technology for $40,000 to Apple, which released its first commercial mouse with the Lisa computer in 1983.
By the late 1970s, Engelbart's research group was acquired by a company called Tymshare. In the final decades of his career, Engelbart struggled to secure funding for his work, much less return to the same heights of influence.
"I don't think he was at peace with himself, partly because many, many things that he forecast all came to pass, but many of the things that he saw in his vision still hadn't," said Kapor, who helped fund Engelbart's work in the 1990s. "He was frustrated by his inability to move the field forward."
In 1986, Engelbart told interviewers from Stanford that his mind had always roamed in a way that set him apart or even alienated him.
"Growing up without a father, through the teenage years and such, I was always sort of different," Engelbart said. "Other people knew what they were doing, and had good guidance, and had enough money to do it. I was getting by, and trying. I never expected, ever, to be the same as anyone else."
He is survived by Karen O'Leary Engelbart, his second wife, and four children: Gerda, Diana, Christina and Norman. His first wife, Ballard, died in 1997.
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(Reporting by Gerry Shih; Editing by Tim Dobbyn and Sandra Maler)
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President Donald Trump demanded local school boards reopen schools during a late night tweet sent after 11 p.m. on Monday.
"OPEN THE SCHOOLS!!!" Trump demanded, in all capital letters with three exclamation marks.
The president was harshly criticized for his tweet, here's some of what people were saying:
Dear Stupid,
You can't even get your own son's school to open.
They have refused.
The school where your son Barron is being educated refuses to open because it's not safe.
Now sit there, eat your Big Mac, and shut up.
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Florida Democrats ask their own candidate to withdraw his candidacy after cocaine arrest: report
Democrats in Florida are asking their own candidate to end his campaign for county commission after an arrest for DUI and cocaine.
"A Collier County commission candidate's arrest in East Naples this past weekend has prompted calls from his party to drop out of the race," the Naples Daily News reported Monday. "John Jenkins, 55, was booked into the Naples Jail Center Sunday morning and faces a felony charge of possession of cocaine, according to a Collier County Sheriff's Office arrest report. He was released later that day on $5,000 bond."


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I can't pair the Bluetooth headphones or speaker to a computer, or there is no sound even though Bluetooth pairing was successful.
IMPORTANT: This article applies only to specific products and/or operating systems. Check the Applicable Products and Categories section of this article before starting these steps.
According to your computer setup (operating system, speakers configuration, etc.), the procedure you have to go through in order to successfully pair your headphones or speakers with your computer - and hear sound through them - will vary.
Follow these preparation steps to check if it resolves the issue
- Make sure your computer has a Bluetooth module which supports the Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) Bluetooth profile.
- Drivers needed to connect your device to a computer are already included in the operating system.
- If your computer is asking for a Bluetooth driver, contact your computer manufacturer.
- If you're using a VAIO computer, Bluetooth drivers are available online. Downloads are posted on your model support page.
- Make sure you have the latest firmware installed.
You can find the latest firmware under the download section of your product or stay updated for future firmware releases by downloading and bookmarking your product on the Support By Sony mobile app.
- Reset your Bluetooth Headphones or Speakers.
Instructions on how to reset your product can be found within the help guide.
- Use your audio product close to the computer.
- Increase the volume level on the computer.
Pair your headphones or speaker to the computer
Select your operating system below for steps on how to pair your device with a computer.
Note: If you still can't pair your device to your computer or no sound is heard, try pairing your Headphones or Speakers to a different Bluetooth device such as a smartphone, or tablet that supports A2DP profile.


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I wrote a guest post for Indy Fash Bash about my observations of New York City Fashion.
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I wrote a guest post for Indy Fash Bash about my observations of New York City Fashion.
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Entrance to BODIES…The Exhibition. Photo by James.Michael.
I have wanted to see BODIES…The Exhibition for ages and was thrilled to see that it was open while I was in New York City. I had missed seeing BODIES…The Exhibition while it was nearby in the Midwest and had been asking them on Twitter when it would come my way again. I am a certified massage therapist and to be able to see the body in 3D and to see the muscles laid bare was an incredible opportunity. Studying anatomy and physiology is an introduction to the intricacies of the human body, but to be able to see every piece and part laid exposed takes the education and perception of the body to a different level. For the sake of transparency I have to tell you I was offered tickets to see BODIES…The Exhibition, and I accepted. However, that will not color my opinion or writing about the experience. Please note that unless I am quoting something from the exhibition or stating a fact, all of the opinions expressed in this blog are purely my own.
"Seeing promotes understanding and understanding promotes the most practical kind of body education possible."
– Dr. Roy Glover, BODIES…The Exhibition Medical Director
Photo courtesy of BODIES…The Exhibition.
The New York BODIES…The Exhibition offers an intimate view into the systems of the body, including: the skeletal, muscular, nervous, respiratory, digestive, urinary, circulatory, and reproductive systems, fetal development, and the treated body. Before you attend there are a few things you should know. There are no cell phones or cameras allowed inside BODIES…The Exhibition but they do have a free coat check for your coats and bags. I really loved this feature because it was rather warm in the Exhibition and ridding myself of my coat and bag allowed me to leisurely stroll through it at my own pace and enjoy it. Also when I was there (2/16/11) there was a Foursquare check in and bonus offer. Through March 31, 2011 you can order tickets online and save $6 by using the code NYCBODIES.
At the beginning of BODIES…The Exhibition, the intro read "Life Uncovered: A journey of self discovery whereby you gaze and marvel at real human bodies to discover what you are on the inside." When I told people I was going to visit BODIES…The Exhibition I received equal reactions of fascination and horror. Seeing the bodies is not as gruesome as one might believe and the polymer preservation keeps the specimens in pristine condition. It's truly a marvel how they were able to preserve the bodies in such a way. One of my favorite displays from BODIES…The Exhibition was the transverse sliced specimen gallery.
Transverse sections of the human body. Photo courtesy of BODIES…The Exhibition.
Not only can you see what a normal organ should look like but there are many common diseases on display to observe such as lung cancer, peptic ulcer, ulcerative colitis, liver cirrhosis, and kidney stones. I hear that many people give up smoking after seeing the effects of smoking on the lungs. There is a bin right by the display where people can throw away their cigarettes.
Normal lungs versus smokers lungs. Photo courtesy of BODIES… The Exhibition.
I had never truly realized how many blood vessels are in our bodies are until I saw BODIES…The Exhibition. One of my favorite parts was seeing the circulatory and respiratory galleries. The bronchial trees and pulmonary arteries are downright beautiful. I want to sketch them and create beautiful pieces of art from them. The systems remind me of the intricate networks of roots that trees and plants have.
Circulatory system gallery. Photo courtesy of BODIES…The Exhibition.
Did you know that our nerve cells create electrical impulses that reach speeds exceeding 270 miles per hour? I didn't. Our bodies are such amazing, intricate houses for our souls. We are so delicate, intricate, and elaborate. What we put in our bodies for fuel or for recreation truly has a system-wide impact. I hope that everyone goes and sees BODIES…The Exhibition at some point in their lives so that they can truly understand their bodies and understand the impact of living a healthy lifestyle versus an unhealthy one.
My absolute favorite part of BODIES…The Exhibition was the fetal gallery. There are actual fetuses on display at various stages in their development so there is a sign asking you to please consider whether you want to go into the fetal gallery before entering. I highly recommend entering and seeing this portion. It is incredible how fast the human fetus develops and the detail that is apparent in its form from a very early stage in its development. In the gallery it says, "The heart begins to beat during the fifth week of development." I sincerely hope that everyone who has a view on abortion, on which we all should have a view, sees the Exhibition and decides for themselves what they think is right. Let's focus on science and not religion in forming our laws and points of views. A fetus is very small to begin with and would not survive without a host.
I feel very honored to have been able to see this exhibition and am grateful to all the souls who donated their bodies for the sake of science and for the education of others. At the end of BODIES…The Exhibition they have computers and machines that perform a variety of health tests. My friend and I both checked our weight, body fat percentage, body mass index, blood pressure, and blood oxygen levels. It was fun and informative. Make sure you don't miss that fun little feature.
I would advise allowing at least an hour to see the Exhibition, but highly recommend spending more like two to three hours there. I have a friend who spent six hours at BODIES. There is so much to read, see, and observe that having the time to do so is imperative.
The Exhibition is located at:
BODIES… The Exhibition
11 Fulton Street
New York City, NY 10038
To purchase discounted tickets to NYC attractions please visit the NYC Ticket Machine.
BODIES… The Exhibition is located right near Pier 17 by the South Street Seaport. There are lots of little shops and restaurants there and it's a nice place to take a stroll along the water.
Pier17. Photo by James.Michael


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These two group activities use mathematical reasoning - one is numerical, one geometric.
An investigation involving adding and subtracting sets of consecutive numbers. Lots to find out, lots to explore.
EWWNP means Exploring Wild and Wonderful Number Patterns Created by Yourself! Investigate what happens if we create number patterns using some simple rules.
There are seventy eight prisoners in a square cell block of twelve cells. There is one prisoner in one of the cells, two in another cell, three in another, four in another and so on up to twelve prisoners in one of the cells.
The clever prison warder made it easy to check if the prisoners were all there by arranging them so there were twenty five along each wall of the prison block. How did he do it?
(There's more than one solution - send yours in - it might be different to everyone else's!)
Here is an interactive game with which to experiment.
In case the above version does not work, here is another version.


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The Manhattan Project, Silicon Valley, The World Wide Web. Wherever you look in the information age, Vannevar Bush was there first.
Vannevar Bush is a great name for playing six degrees of separation. Turn back the clock on any aspect of information technology - from the birth of Silicon Valley and the marriage of science and the military to the advent of the World Wide Web - and you find his footprints. As historian Michael Sherry says, "To understand the world of Bill Gates and Bill Clinton, start with understanding Vannevar Bush."
Bush's best years - he was born in 1890 - came before professors were millionaires and venture capitalists were presidents' pals. Almost forgotten today, he essentially invented the world as we know it: not so much the things in it, of course, but the way we think about innovation, what it means, and why it happens.
Bush started small. In the 1930s, as a professor of electrical engineering at MIT, he designed what were then the world's most powerful computers: room-sized mechanical devices that took days just to ready for a new problem. When those contraptions were supplanted by digital ones beginning in the early 1940s, he envisioned a revolutionary personal information machine that would store and retrieve not just all essential human knowledge, but its owner's specific memories.
The device, which foreshadowed both the PC and the Web, was just one of Bush's many seminal contributions. During the early 1940s, at the behest of then President Roosevelt, he led the drive to build the first atomic bomb, organizing the Manhattan Project and setting the stage for every US Big Science project from the H-bomb to the Moon race and Star Wars. He conceived the National Science Foundation and the Advanced Research Projects Agency, helping guarantee US supremacy in cutting-edge technologies by judiciously channeling federal funds to new frontiers.
Bush was also among the first to see the importance of venture capital and the way risk-taking inventors, drawing on top-flight universities, could spawn whole new industries - and, in the process, destroy the inefficient corporate oligarchies that ruled America from the turn of the century until the 1980s. At MIT, he began forging research partnerships with local companies and later cofounded Raytheon, then a radio-tube supplier, today a defense electronics giant.
And while laying the groundwork for the high tech Route 128 corridor around Boston, he made what may be an even more crucial contribution to the industrial history of this century: he helped create Silicon Valley by instilling in one of his graduate students, Frederick Terman, a belief that regional economies would someday depend on a strange brew of risk capital, hard-charging entrepreneurs, and dreamy academics. After World War II, Terman went off to Stanford - and played a pivotal role in engineering the academic-business partnerships that gave rise to what is now the greatest concentration of high tech power in the world.
But if Bush's historic influence is forgotten or misunderstood, his technical inspiration is not. Even before his death in 1974, many on the cutting edge of computing considered him the godfather of the information age, a gifted seer into the future wrought by computers and electronic networks. Doug Engelbart, who invented the mouse and helped launch the Internet's forerunner, the Arpanet, credits Bush with awakening him to the potential of computers to manage information, not just crunch numbers. For Engelbart and a legion of other leading-edge engineers, Bush's 1945 Atlantic Monthly article, "As We May Think," is a foundation text. "It's our bible," says San Francisco software designer Z. Smith, who was handed a copy a decade ago as a fledgling engineer at Xerox PARC.
"As We May Think" describes a device - Bush called it a "memex" - that was meant to tame the then-novel problem of information overload by enhancing human memory (hence its name). Bush envisioned it as a universal library, relying on microfilm to store vast amounts of text, crammed onto a desktop. Bearing a striking resemblance to the personal computer, the memex promised the added benefit of letting its owner link together disparate pieces of information, thus automating a process of retrieving associated ideas and data. These personal associations, or "trails," could be shared among people, Bush thought, even passed down from parent to child, giving their creators a measure of immortality.
The birth of the PC in the mid-1970s brought Bush renewed attention. Software designers took off on Bush's ideas of associative trails. Ted Nelson, who popularized the notion of hypertext, thanked Bush for inspiration. And the rise of the Internet cemented Bush's reputation as a prophet of cyberculture, with some enthusiasts even arguing that "As We May Think" laid the intellectual seeds for the World Wide Web.
That influence continues today. "Bush's vision is extremely relevant," says Andries van Dam, a professor of computer science at Brown University. "And the core of that vision hasn't been realized yet. So you can't just say, 'Been there, done that.'" Compared to Bush's ideal, van Dam points out, "the Web is embryonic. Its retrieval systems, for instance, are incredibly primitive. The mechanisms are disgusting. Bush talked about the amplification of the human mind. We don't have that today. Even the search engines on the Web do everything by brute force, rather than retrieving personalized links laid down by the user, which is why you get so much junk."
Finding useful information amid the junk is the great technical problem of the moment. "We are drowning in information," declared Interactions, the journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, in a tribute to Bush last year, "while precious little is in drinkable form. Bush knew a computer connected to a global information network could solve a problem that, in 1945, barely existed yet. We are just now learning how."
Some ambitious efforts to tame the Web's chaos are avowedly inspired by Bush. At Twisted Systems Inc. in Providence, Rhode Island, engineer Gregory Lloyd is designing better ways to record a user's associations between different Web sites. "There are Web tools that manage bookmarks, that help you find your place," Lloyd says. "Bookmarks are a start. But then the problem is managing your bookmarks. They can degenerate into a slush pile, which is not what Bush wanted." Lloyd is tight-lipped about his work toward a solution, but says flatly, "I'm building a memex, the holy grail."
Alexa Internet, a San Francisco company, is similarly engaged. "What we're doing is right down Bush's line," says founder Brewster Kahle. The company's centerpiece is a navigation service that provides information about where a user is, and might go, on the Web, as well as prepackaged paths through selected subjects. Another Bushian feature to come: archived annotations or reaction comments made by earlier travelers on a particular trail. "Bush's great insight was realizing that there's more value in the connections between data than in the data itself," Kahle says.
Bush is a surprising forebear of the freewheeling netizen. Straitlaced and conservative, he oversaw the creation of highly centralized technologies that computer zealots later rebelled against. A descendant of hardy Cape Cod seafarers and whalers, he was an electrical engineer by profession, part of a distinctly American breed of can-do tinkerers, a line that began with Ben Franklin and connected Eli Whitney, Thomas Edison, the Wright brothers, Steve Wozniak, and even Bill Gates, in a grand tradition of hacker-inventors.
Politically, Bush was more influential than any of that illustrious group except Franklin. (We'll see about Gates.) During World War II, when England teetered on the edge of defeat and the Nazis seemed invincible, the popular magazine Collier's began a profile of him with the simple declaration, "Meet the man who may win or lose the war."
Bush's persona was designed to reassure the public. He was cast as a folksy American whose wit and charm prompted comparisons with the comic Will Rogers. Yet as I learned more about him - combing musty archives around the country, reading old news clips, and talking to people who knew him - Bush began to remind me more and more of the Smoking Man in The X-Files - the shadowy character sitting in a darkened room, surrounded by minions yet nearly invisible, smoking and pulling the strings that manipulate Mulder and Scully and everybody else.
Bush also labored in a haze of smoke, and not just the one emanating from the pipe that was his constant companion. Secrecy was his byword. Before he began organizing scientists and engineers on behalf of the military, most research in what would come to be called high technology was open and public. For reasons of national security, almost none of it was for decades thereafter. During the war, Bush seemed everywhere and nowhere. He was a phantom with a high IQ.
The only son of a Unitarian minister, Bush grew up in working-class Chelsea, just outside Boston. A math whiz in school, he went on to nearby Tufts University, where he put on one of the first radio broadcasts. He took his doctorate at MIT, then stayed on to build room-sized differential analyzers, electromechanical ancestors of today's computers that could painstakingly simulate the actual workings of electric power grids, calculate bomb trajectories, and analyze other such complex operations. On the eve of World War II, he designed code-breaking machines for the Navy's super-secret OP-20-G, the forerunner of today's dreaded National Security Agency.
Bush's leap into the public eye came after Pearl Harbor, when President Roosevelt appointed him director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), a special agency reporting directly to the White House. As Roosevelt's chief adviser on military technology, Bush organized the Manhattan Project and hired 6,000 civilian researchers around the country to conduct weapons work under contract. He and the president together made the final decision to go ahead with an all-out drive to build an atomic bomb. He also oversaw the creation of scores of formidable, though lesser-known, military tools such as radar and the proximity fuze.
One of Bush's pet projects was an ultrapowerful longbow for use by the European resistance against the Nazis. A recreational archer, he took satisfaction in improving a centuries-old weapon that required the individual's skill and moxie - a reminder that even in an age of impersonal, instant death through massive air bombardment or atomic annihilation, it was still possible for an individual to make a difference. Bush was no stranger to espionage, either. He set up an ultrasecret research group within the OSRD to build special weapons for the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor of the CIA. One dubious line of work involved mind-altering drugs that could be slipped into enemy agents' drinks.
Once an Allied victory over Germany and Japan seemed inevitable, Bush was eager to start thinking about organizing science and engineering for peaceful purposes. In "The Endless Frontier," a 1945 report to President Truman, he presented a blueprint for a permanent system of federal support for civilian science and engineering, which at its height pumped tens of billions of dollars annually into research and development. Bush's plans led directly to the two crown jewels of this federally funded innovation system: the National Science Foundation, which funds university professors, and the Advanced Research Project Agency, the Pentagon's chief avenue for basic research. "Bush is responsible for the whole architecture of government support for science," says Paul Ceruzzi, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution. "Today, everyone thinks these terrific innovations came from the minds of bright kids, but they don't realize that these kids needed an environment to be in. It came from Bush. He said, 'Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something.'"
But Bush also wanted to help the iconoclastic innovator, the driven thinker whose best work was done alone. Despite his long involvement with powerful institutions, Bush personally recoiled from bureaucracies and their stifling rules, preferring an early version of Silicon Valley's golden rule: Act first and request permission later. "My whole philosophy on this sort of thing is very simple," he once said. "If I have any doubt as to whether I am supposed to do a job or not, I do it, and if someone socks me, I lay off."
Indeed, even as Bush helped build the mammoth business and military institutions that dominated postwar America, he worked to reduce empire-building by government agencies. He began "liquidating" the OSRD even before the end of the war. And well into the 1950s, he complained about the proliferation of overlapping military research programs and the tendency for large corporations to stifle the innovator. He even singled out for special criticism IBM and General Motors, which exemplified one of Bush's favorite dicta about American industry: "In mass, we do not seem to make much sense."
That cult of bigness threatened Bush's cherished idea about the power of individuals and promised to put the organization man at center stage. "The individual to me is everything," he once wrote. "I would circumscribe him just as little as possible."
But how could the individual remain free to dissent and create outside the reigning orthodoxy imposed by organization men in gray flannel suits? It was to answer that question that Bush conceived what we would today recognize as the personal computer and the Web.
Bush's "As We May Think" essay, published just a few weeks before he attended the Trinity atom-bomb test in the New Mexico desert, promised that technology would "give man access to and command of the inherited knowledge of the ages." Bush imagined the memex machine sitting on a desk, with viewing screens, a keyboard, and sets of buttons and levers. Printed and written material, even personal notes, would be stored on microfilm, retrieved rapidly, and displayed on screen by a high-speed "selector."
Bush's description of using a memex eerily echoes today's Net:
"The owner of the memex, let us say, is interested in the origin and properties of the bow and arrow. He has dozens of possibly pertinent books and articles in his memex. First he runs through an encyclopedia, finds an interesting but sketchy article, leaves it projected on his screen. Next, in a history, he finds another pertinent item, and ties the two together. Thus he goes, building a trail of many items. Occasionally he inserts a comment of his own, either linking it into the main trail or joining it by a side trail to a particular item. When it becomes evident that the elastic properties of available materials had a great deal to do with the bow, he branches off on a side trail which takes him through textbooks on elasticity and tables of physical constraints. He inserts a page of longhand analysis on his own. Thus he builds a trail of his interest through the maze of materials available to him."
The whole process of linking information across many data sites can be reproduced - and shared with others who can insert it into their own memexes. Bush even imagined products - for instance, sets of sophisticated trails running through databases - that could be purchased and dropped into a memex. He also foresaw the rise of new professionals who, not unlike today's Web designers or writers of data-mining software, "find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record."
Bush never came close to building a memex. He had little appreciation for the power of software, and his cherished microfilm readers were unable to operate at the speeds necessary to create and retrieve associative trails. Wedded to the materials of his day, Bush never dreamed that it would be the microprocessor, not microfilm, that would make a PC possible. Still, he was hardly the first computer visionary to fail in practice - a tradition that stretches back to Charles Babbage in the 19th century. "The people who see the problem don't always have an answer to it," says author Howard Rheingold, whose book Tools for Thought explores the checkered early history of computing.
In identifying the central problems, however, Bush probably achieved something more important than actual nuts-and-bolts engineering. He educated ordinary people about the benefits of automating thought. He anticipated a mass market for mechanical memory aids at a time when designers could build only room-size computers and expect that a handful of them would satisfy a nation. Alone among the early computer pioneers, he realized that human-machine interaction, or interface, would be the most exciting area of computing.
Until his death, Bush kept pondering the possibilities of the memex. He considered his mythical machine significant for three big reasons.
First, the memex would greatly reduce information overload, which even in the postwar US was becoming a serious threat to creative thinking. In words that could have been borrowed from any frustrated Web surfer, on the tenth anniversary of "As We May Think," Bush wrote: "Our libraries are filled to overflowing, and their growth is exponential, yet in this vast and ever-increasing store of knowledge we still hunt for particular items with horse-and-buggy methods. As a result there is much duplication and repetition of research. We are being smothered in our own product. While we record with great care the work of thousands of able and devoted men, full of significance of timeliness to others, a large and increasing fraction of their work is, for all essential purposes, lost simply because we do not know how to find a pertinent item of information after it has become embedded in the mass."
Second, Bush's memex would record intimate thoughts, or "associative trails," as he called them. "The personal machine," Bush wrote in 1965, will deliver "a new form of inheritance, not merely of genes, but of intimate thought processes. The son will inherit from his father the trails his father followed as his thoughts matured, with his father's comments and criticisms along the way. The son will select those that are fruitful, exchange with his colleagues, and further refine for the next generation." The computer, then, promised a measure of immortality, and relief from the ravages of time. "No longer, when a person is old, will he forget."
Finally, the memex would engender a family of thinking aids that could someday make possible human-machine consciousness. In 1959, Bush described a mind amplifier that would not be controlled by a keyboard or even a human voice. The device, connected to the memex, would comprehend "the activity of the brain without interfering with its action."
Though Bush's predictions made occasional public waves, for decades they were dismissed by a computer priesthood bent on finding ever-faster ways for large, centralized machines to perform complex calculations. Well into the 1980s, big-iron designers hardly cared about helping individuals deal with information; their goal was to support large-scale, impersonal military and corporate systems. Whether computers tracked incoming missiles or business orders, people were expected to mold their behavior to the system's demands. "Do not bend, fold, or mutilate" - the instructions on mainframe punch cards - was a perfect metaphor.
Despite its great power, that priesthood came under attack during the 1960s. A new generation of computer scientists, mirroring the countercultural insurgency in other aspects of American life, wanted to build computers that served people, not the other way around.
Looking for a figure who could validate their approach, they embraced Bush and picked up on his trail. Doug Engelbart, genuinely smitten by Bush's ability to imagine computers as individual tools for thought, began openly describing Bush as his patron saint. J. C. R. Licklider, another influential designer of alternative computers, proudly noted the connections between Bush's vision of machine-augmented intelligence and his own research work in computer graphics, at a time when conventional computers displayed and recognized only text. In the introduction to his 1965 book, Libraries of the Future, Licklider credited "As We May Think" as the "main external influence" on his ideas.
Bush also inspired Ted Nelson, who transformed Bush's notion of associative trails into hypertext. Nelson was among the first to blend the ideal of a PC with the counterculture's appetite for liberation.
In Nelson's view, linear thinking was the Establishment's principal error, and hypertext was the antidote. Nelson's embrace elevated Bush to cult status among the computer cognoscenti. "Much of what Bush predicted is possible now," Nelson declared at a landmark conference on interactive computing in 1972. "The memex is here. The trails he spoke of - suitably generalized, and now called hypertexts - may, and should, become the principal publishing form of the future."
Nelson's celebration of Bush was premature, and perhaps unwarranted. While certainly an inspiration behind the PC and the Web, Bush - like Nelson - had his blind spots. "He thought it would be wonderful for people to follow all the threads and interconnections," says Rheingold. "But we know from living in the Web that that in itself is a problem."
More significantly, Bush failed to appreciate the enormous potential of digital computers. His own analog devices were powerful enough to calculate bomb trajectories and simulate electric power grids. But during World War II, scientists and engineers were already conceiving vastly more powerful digital machines.
Digital enthusiasts irked Bush, who fretted that they would impede the war effort by dividing resources and attention. In September 1940, MIT mathematician Norbert Wiener proposed building a digital computer and appealed to Bush, then chair of the government's National Defense Research Committee, for funding. After studying Wiener's memo for two months, Bush turned him down. "While your device would also be of aid on defense matters," he wrote, "it is undoubtedly of the long-range type and it appears essential that at the present time those individuals who are particularly qualified along these general lines be employed as far as possible on matters of more immediate promise."
Bush's refusal might have said more about Wiener's reputation as a great catalyst but weak finisher. But he also declined to support the most ambitious of the wartime digital projects, the so-called ENIAC, which promised speeds 1,000 times those of mechanical existing devices. Bush turned down the proposal, and eventually the US Army Ordnance Department picked up the $500,000 cost. Bush's opposition to the ENIAC held him to ridicule later on. But he took pride in having accurately predicted that the digital machine would be of no help during World War II: it tackled its first problem in December 1945, four months after Japan's surrender.
Bush's fans are less concerned with his failures than they are impressed by his attempt to humanize the brute force of computing - to place these machines in the service of personal and social goals.
Consider Ian Adelman, design director for Microsoft's Slate magazine and a 25-year-old graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. A graphical illustration of Bush's mythical memex hangs above the PC in Adelman's office, serving as a constant reminder of computing's past and perhaps its future. Of all the computer pioneers, he says, "Bush is for me the most inspiring," because the central intellectual problem of Bush's life - how to automate the organization of information - "is what everyone's trying to deal with on the Web."
Bush does not necessarily have all the answers, Adelman says, "but he's asking the right questions."


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Welcome to Episode 9 of The Matticast. This week Borsk, Matt, Kat, and Brian, discuss:
– The Economics of BOEs
– When to call a wipe.
– Resto Shaman Spirit Refresh
– When/How to test new raiders.
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