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Summer heats up: Music, theater and a Duxbury fourth |
By Bruce Barrett |
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 02:00 AM |
Duxbury's arts experiences arrive in surges, and one of the richest starts (in a way) this week. On Thursday, June 14 – tomorrow, as you read this Clipper – at 9 a.m. at the Ellison Center for the Arts on St. George Street, you can learn about volunteer opportunities for the 7 annual Duxbury Music Festival, which runs from July 15 to 27. The Festival is a massive event, and calls on 150 volunteers to make it work. The students and guest faculty stay for nearly two weeks, enriching Duxbury's cultural milieu. At the same time, the students benefit from Duxbury's seaside recreational scene, relax, and take in a sizable number of meals. Older students bunk in at St. Margaret's Convent on Washington Street, and the whole affair requires many willing hands to carry the load. The 9 a.m. meeting time highlights an important point. Many of the Festival's day-to-day events are, well, during the day. You'll need to be available. Festival co-chairs Mary Steinke and Marcy Bravo will join DMF Director Stephen Deitz, who will give an overview of the Festival program. From their press release, the Festival itself begins July 15 with the Opening Concert at 6 p.m. under a tent at a seaside home featuring DMF faculty and students, South Shore Conservatory faculty and Deanna Badizadegan, viola, winner of last year's DMF Solo Competition. Sponsored by Diane and Sherm Hoyt, the concert will include Mendelssohn's Double Concerto in D Minor for Violin, Piano and String Orchestra, Françaix's Divertissement for Woodwind Trio, Turina's Piano Sextet, Op. 7 and Reich's Six Marimbas. There will be much more, so watch your Clipper as the date approaches. Bay Players, Duxbury's community theater troupe, has announced their 3rd annual Summer Teen Musical, "Alice in Wonderland Jr." Directed by Theresa Chiasson and Janet Fortier, the program is open to all students age 9-19 and will run from June 25 to August 5. They will meet three evenings per week 5 - 7 p.m. Tuition is $200. The registration and medical forms are downloadable from the Bay Players Web site, bayplayers.org, and must be received with a check for the tuition by June 20. Space is limited to 30 students, so don't dawdle. Performances will run August 3, 4 and 5 at the First Parish Church in Duxbury. Meanwhile, Bay Players will perform Tom Smith's "Drinking Habits" at First Parish on June 22, 23, 29 and 30 at 7:30 p.m. The show is a "laugh-out-loud farce" directed by Theresa Chiasson. I'll do my usual review after the first weekend, but I'm already chuckling. The Bay Players have a gift for farce, and when "wine and secrets are inevitably spilled," I expect hilarity. You still have time to organize and plan for this year's July Fourth Parade, with the theme "Around Town for 375 Years, 1637 – 2012." Registration forms and other helpful information are available on the Parade Committee's Web site, duxbury4thofjuly.com. There's no entry fee, but you do have to register. You can enter a float, a walking group, bicycle group or horses, and the theme must be reflected in your work – but then, 375 years is a long time, so you should be able to think of something fun and interesting. The Parade Committee reserves the right to reject any group or float that is inappropriate or dangerous, but they also offer a nifty help page. From the Parade Committee's home page, click on "Forms" and then "Float Help." I've written before about building memories for your children at the Marshfield Fair – coming up in August – but this would be right down through the center of town. And your "group" can be as small as your own family. Go bananas with a float, and your group could win $650 for a Maxi-float, or $250 for a Mini-float, with smaller prizes down to fourth place. The walking groups win a different kind of prize – the pride and pleasure of being involved. Here's a tip: Duxbury's parade is nearly three miles, from Hall's Corner or beyond all the way down Washington Street and then up to the school complex. Bring cold water, bring more cold water and bring cold water. |


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The Nicol family is having a ball at the B.C. high school "AAA" boys' basketball championships again this week.
Each time North Vancouver's Steve Nicol steps on the court to referee a game at the 68th annual B.C. high school "AAA" boys' basketball championships, it renews a unique multi-faceted connection in the annals of the Nicol family – and in the tradition-laden tournament itself – that goes back almost 60 years.
It was on March 17, 1955 – 58 years ago this week – that Steve's father, Billy Nicol was selected as the B.C. championship's most valuable player after leading West Vancouver Highlanders, coached by Dick Wright, to third place in the 16-team tournament, at that time equalling the highest finish for a North Shore school in the then-10-year history of the tourney. (West Van had placed third in 1953 as well.)
Billy, also a soccer star, went south in 1958 to play freshman hoops at Seattle University, then an NCAA Division 1 powerhouse in basketball. John Kootnekoff, Mission's two-time B.C. high school MVP (1952 and '54), was playing for Seattle U's varsity at the time and the team featured future NBA great Elgin Baylor during that season as the Chieftains went all the way to the 1958 national final before losing out to Kentucky.
Unfortunately, Billy's paternal grandfather and grandmother (who raised him following Billy's mother's death during his birth; and while his father was in the military), along with two of his uncles, all passed away within a few years of each other. So he had to come home in order to help support the family and was never to know whether or not he would have eventually made it onto the varsity squad.
He spent some 30 years in the retail sporting goods business, beginning in 1958 in Vancouver with Sparlings which was then the leader in the industry in the Lower Mainland at a time when stringing tennis racquets, waxing skis and sharpening skates was as much a part of the business as sales of equipment.
He went out on his own in 1974, establishing Champion Sports on the north side of Park Royal with Peter Keymer, before opening another Champion store in Richmond a few years later. When Champs Sports, big in the U.S. and Ontario, wanted to move into B.C., Champion sold them the rights to their name and became All-Star Sports instead, a name they had originally also registered.
Billy's eldest son, Bill Jr., starred at Magee in the 1979 B.C. high school championships and was selected to the tournament's second all-star team despite a seventh-place finish for the team.
Steve, three years younger, also graduated from Magee in 1982 but, though he played basketball for the school, his main sport turned out to be rugby and he was the vice-captain and outside centre for the Magee team that won the 1982 B.C. championship in Kamloops against hometown favourite NorKam.
He moved to the North Shore in 1998, about a year after he joined the Vancouver City fire department. After undergoing a hip replacement, he took up basketball refereeing seven years ago and quickly worked his way up the hierarchy of officials.
In 2009 Steve was good enough to be assigned to officiate at the B.C. "A" boys' tournament in Abbotsford where he ended up being chosen to do the championship game. In both 2010 and '11, he did games at Capilano University in the B.C. "AAA" girls' championships.
For two years now he's coached senior boys' soccer and rugby at Argyle. Last season was his first year refereeing Canada West university and Pacific Western college basketball and his first time officiating at the provincial boys' "AAA" tournament at the Langley Events Centre where this year's tournament began Tuesday and winds up on Saturday night.
Billy, Bill Jr. and Steve aren't the only Nicol boys to play a role in the B.C. tourney. Steve's son, Hayden Nicol, played for Carson Graham when the Eagles played in the provincials in 2009 and 2010. In 2012, it was Bill Jr.'s son, Cam Nicol, who was playing in the B.C.s with Port Coquitlam's Terry Fox Ravens. The team and Cam are back in the tourney again this year.
The B.C. High School Boys' Basketball Association keeps track of fathers and sons who have both played in the "AAA" tournament and has been listing them each year in the tournament program since 1977. The growing list now numbers some 140 fathers and 160-plus sons.
Looks like it's time to start a new category: Fathers who were MVPs as players and who had sons (and grandsons) who played and refereed in the championships.
But as you can imagine, that is one very short list.
This is episode 476 from Len Corben's treasure chest of stories – the great events and the quirky – that bring to life the North Shore's rich sports history.


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After almost two weeks since the last updates released by Apple to remove the Trojan Flashback, a new malware attacks OS X systems through Java exploit, drawing Apple to the drastic decision of disabling the Java environment.
The threat, named Backdoor.OSX.SabPub.a by Kaspersky, sends to its creators information form an infected system through screenshots and it seems to originate from China. Costin Raiu from Kaspersky also informed that the malware appears to use the Exploit.Java.CVE-2012-0507.bf vulnerability and that the source of the attack proved to be an infected Word document containing a statement from Dalai Lama.
"In case you are wondering, the name of the file ("10th March Statemnet") is directly linked with the Dalai-Lama and Tibetan community. On March 10, 2011, the Dalai-Lama released a special statement related to Anniversary of the Tibetan People's National Uprising Day — hence the name."
As attackers are using security flaws from Java to access Mac hardware, Apple's decision of disabling both the plugin and the Java Web Start applet fitted the bill. Apple also decided to no longer ship OS X Lion with Java pre-installed, leaving the usage of it at the users' choice.
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A low-energy ultrasonic device within these sensors measures liquid level at a certain point. Consisting of a field-mounted sensor and integral solid state amplifier, contact ultrasonic sensors have no moving parts and require no calibration. Typically, they are equipped with terminal blocks for connection of a power source and external control devices. The ultrasonic signal crosses a one-half inch gap in the sensor, controlling relay switches when the gap contains liquid. The sensing level is midway along the gap for horizontally mounted sensors, at the top of the gap for vertically mounted sensors. As liquid falls below this level, the ultrasonic signal attenuates and ultimately switches the relay to its prior state.
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Seoane S, et al. (2009) Involvement of Pta1, Pcf11 and a KlCYC1 AU-rich element in alternative RNA 3'-end processing selection in yeast. FEBS Lett 583(17):2843-8
Abstract: This work reports the involvement of yeast RNA processing factors Pta1 and Pcf11 in alternative 3'-end RNA processing. The pta1-1 and pcf11-2 mutations changed the predominance of KlCYC1 1.14 and 1.5kb transcript isoforms. Mutation of the KlCYC1 3'-UTR AU-rich sequence at positions 679-690 (mutant M1) altered transcript predominance. Moreover, expression of M1 in the yeast mutants partially suppressed their effects in the predominance pattern. The combination of the M1 and M2 (694-698 deletion) mutations abolished the alternative processing. Pta1 involvement in this selection was confirmed using the Pta1-td degron strain.
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Title: U.S. Marine Corps Acquisition Procedures Handbook; September 1999
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Reference (a) identifies the requirement for a streamlined chain of accountability and authority for acquisition matters. Reference (b) implements that requirement within the Department of Defense (DoD). Fundamental to implementing this streamlined chain of command is the identification of a Milestone Decision Authority (MDA) as the single focal point for programmatic decisions. The MDA for Marine Corps Acquisition Category (ACAT) IC, IAC and II programs is the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition) (ASN(RDA)). The MDA for Marine Corps ACAT ID programs is the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Technology) (USD(A&T)). The MDA for Marine Corps ACAT IAM programs is the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence) (ASD(C3I)). Commander, Marine Corps Systems Command (COMMARCORSYSCOM) is the MDA for Marine Corps ACAT III and IV programs, Marine Corps Information Technology (IT) ACAT III and IV programs, as well as Abbreviated Acquisition Programs (AAP) and IT AAP programs that have not been further delegated (Chapter 3 of this handbook addresses ACAT designation in greater detail). At major milestones, the MDA reviews programs to determine their suitability for entry into the next phase of acquisition. At that time, the Program Manager (PM) is responsible for presenting in accordance with the procedures in reference (c) the program to the MDA and other principals at a Marine Corps Program Decision Meeting (MCPDM). The MCPDM principals are senior level departmental, component or service officials (depending on the ACAT) representing important functional constituencies. Enclosure (1) provides points of contact and those commands or agencies identified with an * are considered the MCPDM principals. The staff of the MDA facilitates the MCPDM process ensuring that the principals receive appropriate milestone documentation and that the MDA receives a staff recommendation. The MDA documents his milestone decision in an Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM).
The purpose of the MCPDM is to determine:
Depending on the degree of complexity of the program, the MCPDM process may vary from a simple staffing of documentation (paper MCPDM) to a series of briefings to MCPDM principals culminating in a formal briefing to the MDA. The role of the MDA's staff is to ensure that the PM presents all programmatic issues to the MDA in a manner that will result in a decision.
The MCPDM process is fundamentally the same regardless of whom is designated as MDA. However, the role of the staff changes and the list of MCPDM principals adjusts somewhat. By virtue of being a systems commander, COMMARCORSYSCOM is not the decision authority for ACAT I or II Marine Corps programs.
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From: maj douglas e mason@pae@marcorsyscom, on 7/11/97 10:18 am:
To: capt kelly r bole@admin@mcotea quantico, gs13 randy f delarm@csle@marcorsyscom, gs13 sally a amberger@lpm@hqmc, gysgt james e harris@aab@hqmc, ltcol arthur h sass@lpm@hqmc, ltcol david t israel@actb@mcotea quantico, ltcol dennis c sorrell@rqmnts div@mccdc, ltcol john m dunn@wdid@mccdc, ltcol william a reed@rpa@hqmc, maj alan f williams@actb@mcotea quantico, maj michael m frazier@wdid@mccdc, maj robert j cline@rqmnts div@mccdc, maj roger l pollard@poe@hqmc, maj thomas d jagusch@tfs division@mccdc, maj william e harris@rps@hqmc, mgysgt bobby l young@manpower@hqmc, msgt allen w herridge@c4@hqmc, sgt darian e hines@c4@hqmc, ssgt gerard j calvin@c4@hqmc, ssgt janet k pruitt@manpower@hqmc
cc: gysgt michele a gonzales@c4iic@marcorsyscom
Ladies and Gentlemen,
There will be a Manpack Secondary Imagery Distribution System (SIDS) MCPDM in the Hochmuth Hall conference room at 0900, 29 July. Attached is the Program Manager's Acquisition Strategy. Please provide your principal's comments/concurrence by 22 July. The Program Manager is asking for a Milestone III procurement and fielding decision.
Please contact the project officer, GySgt Gonzales, if you wish to see any additional programmatic documentation (e.g. MNS,ORD, COEA, LCCE, User Evaluation Results, etc.). If you are not the right point of contact for MCPDM matters at your command, please notify me so I can modify my list accordingly.
Very respectfully,
Maj Mason
Maj D. E. Mason
Program Analysis and Evaluation Directorate
Marine Corps Systems Command
DSN 278-2427, ext 5027, COML (784)
1. Decision Requested: A Milestone III (MS-III) production decision is requested for both the MEF IAS and TCAC PIP. A MS-III fielding decision is also requested for the MEF IAS.
2. Program Description: The MEF IAS and TCAC PIP are semi-automated intelligence fusion centers integrated into HMMWV-mounted standard tactical shelters. The MEF IAS is a two vehicle all-source variant, whereas the TCAC PIP is a single vehicle Signals Intelligence and Electronic Warfare (SIGINT/EW) configuration. Key elements of Marine Air-Ground Task Force Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (MAGTF C4I), they are comprised primarily of Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS), Government Off-the-Shelf (GOTS), and nondevelopmental Marine Common Hardware Suite (MCHS) equipment.
ACAT IV(T) | Project Number C0062 | |
MEF IAS Program Element:206625M | TCAC PIP Program Element:305885G | |
Prepared by: ________________________________Date_____________ | ||
L. E. LEGGETT, LtCol USMCDefense Systems AnalystProgram Analysis and Evaluation,Marine Corps Systems Command | ||
Approved by: ________________________________Date_____________ | ||
R. W. BATES, Col USMCDirectorProgram Analysis and Evaluation,Marine Corps Systems Command |
1. Program Execution Status
MS-II LRIPDT&EIOT&EMS-IIIIOCFOC | 2nd Qtr FY933rd Qtr FY952nd Qtr FY961st Qtr FY971st Qtr FY981st Qtr FY99 | ||||
DT&EBattle Lab AssessMS-IIIaFOT&EMS-IIIbIOCFOC | 3rd Qtr FY954th Qtr FY961st Qtr FY971st Qtr FY984th Qtr FY981st Qtr FY993rd Qtr FY99 |
2. Threat Highlights. (For an IT program this paragraph should address whether the system will be used in garrison or in a deployed environment.)
3. Existing System Shortfalls
4. Alternatives Assessed
5. Acquisition Strategy. The following points regarding the acquisition strategy are germane:
6. Risk Assessment. The MCPDM principals and the staff concur with the Program Manager's risk assessment shown in Annex D to the IPS except as note below:
7. Affordability Assessment. An affordability assessment was conducted for total Marine Corps RDT&E and PMC for the time period FY96 through FY01. Attachment 1 pertains. The assessment found that for MEF IAS, there was a deficiency of about $3.2M in PMC and about $1M in O&M. For TCAC PIP, there was an excess of about $1.6M in PMC and an O&M deficiency of about $5.1M over the time period.
8. Logistics Supportability
9. Milestone III Issues
10. Recommendations. We recommend that:
Memorandum for the Program Manager, Command Information Systems
Subj: | Acquisition Decision Memorandum (MILESTONE III) for the Marine Expeditionary Force Intelligence Analysis System (MEF IAS) and the Technical Control and Analysis Center Product Improvement Program (TCAC PIP) Programs |
Ref: | (a) DoDR 5000.2R |
1. Based on the information presented at the milestone review on 6 December 1996, I am satisfied that the MEF IAS and TCAC PIP programs meet the criteria set forth in the reference for a Milestone III decision. Approval is hereby granted for both programs to enter into Phase III, Production.
2. Within 45 days of the date of this memorandum, please provide me with a briefing on your detailed plan to correct all deficiencies identified during the IOT&E of the MEF IAS. Your plan should include a follow-on Battle Lab Assessment (BLA) during which corrections will be verified. A fielding decision will be made after I am briefed on the results of the BLA.
3. Within 45 days of the date of this memorandum, please provide me with a briefing on your plan to correct the identified TCAC PIP funding deficiencies. Include options if funding does not become available and what impact the projected funding deficiencies, if any, will have on the program.
4. Continue with your plans to conduct FOT&E on the TCAC PIP. It is understood that the existing TCAC software will be used unless the MAGTF C4I software has been approved for use prior to the TCAC test. Upon completion of the FOT&E, return to me for a fielding decision.
5. Within 30 days of the date of this memorandum, provide the MEF IAS and TCAC PIP milestone documentation for my signature.
6. By copy of this decision memorandum, the Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command, is requested to conduct
Subj: | Acquisition Decision Memorandum (MILESTONE III) for the Marine Expeditionary Force Intelligence Analysis System (MEF IAS) and the Technical Control and Analysis Center Product Improvement Program (TCAC PIP) programs |
a review of the system reliability and "time to zero" requirements for the MEF IAS. During the Milestone III MCPDM, it was noted that these two performance requirements appeared to be higher than could normally be achieved at a reasonable cost in a system of this complexity.
M. J. WilliamsCommander | ||
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Today, parents face an educational landscape very different from that of only a few years ago. Whether your child is a young learner showing early signs of difficulty or a student receiving special education services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), it is likely that the No Child Left Behind Act is already affecting her education in important ways.
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Designing for the Fight against Childhood Cancer
Thursday 25 April 2013 | Danielle Pacelli
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Montenvers Mer de Glace
Step into the pages of history !
The Montenvers rack railway starts from Chamonix and, in 20 minutes and in total safety, reaches the bottom of the Mer de Glace (1,913 m), France's largest glacier (7km long, 200 m thick). This historic site marked the start of Alpine tourism in the 19th century and offers a panoramic view of famous peaks such as Les Drus and Les Grandes Jorasses.
The tour of the "Grotte de glace" (Ice Cave) takes visitors into the very heart of the glacier. Re-sculpted every year (the ice cave and gondola have 2 periods of closure one in the fall and one in spring, please check before your visit), it describes the life of mountain people in the early 19th century. It can be entered either by a walk of around 20 minutes on a footpath, or by gondola lift. NB: There are 398 steps from the arrival of the gondola lift to the entrance to the cave.
The "Galerie des cristaux" (Crystals Gallery) with its collection of items from Mont Blanc is also included in the tour.
Hill-walks include the hike from Montenvers to Plan de l'Aiguille via the Grand Balcon Nord hill-walking trail, and also the return descent down to Chamonix via Les Planards or Les Bois village.
There are two choices for eating: either fast food at the railway station buffet or else a Savoie or traditional meal in the Grand Hôtel in Montenvers, a place full of history and authenticity built in 1880.
In the summer, the hotel serves its original main purpose, i.e., accommodating mountaineers, travellers and adventurers, just as it did in the late 19th century. With its nine rooms and its dormitory, it has retained the charm and simplicity of bygone days.
The biggest glacier in France
From Montenvers, everybody can reach the Mer de Glace which offers an extraordinary natural spectacle. With a surface area of 40 km2 and at 7 km long, the Mer de Glace is the biggest glacier in France. Its width varies between 700 and 1,950 m and on average the ice is 200 m thick and can sometimes exceed 400 m. The Mer de Glace advances at 90 m per year, and at up to 130 metres in places! In summer, you can look down on the roped teams of mountaineers moving about the glacier on crampons. Until the end of the 19th century, the Mer de Glace could be seen from Chamonix. Today, it has receded, living proof of the climate change that is affecting our planet.
The epic of the little red train
At the dawn of the third millennium, this hundred-year-old train is demonstrating a sparkling vitality.
- 1908 : Inauguration of the line. The journey lasts 55 minutes.
- 1946: At Montenvers, a cave is hollowed out of the glacier to allow tourists to explore the interior in complete safety and without a guide.
- 1953: The line is electrified.
- 1960: Construction of a telecabin to take people down to the Mer de Glace from Montenvers.
- 1993: Opening of the line in winter courtesy of the construction of a para-avalanche.
Organise your visit :
The trip on the train lasts 25 minutes (one way)
The total visit (grotto included) lasts 2 or 3 hours on average (train included), it can be up to twice as long on peak days.
35, place de la mer de glace
74400 Chamonix
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Psychologist, researcher, speaker and MIT Institute Director Sherry Turkle (Author of Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other) is going against the grain. Including her own. Turkle once passionately championed the digital technological revolution and it's role (including the full integration of robots) in our lives. Then, she had a chance paradigm shifting experience. She was invited to witness a nursing home resident (with stories to tell and no apparent human with the time, interest or analog attention span to listen) receive daily "comfort" and "empathy" from an emotionally cue-automated seal-robot (?) She left horrified.
Now she's at the forefront of speaking out about the impact, now and to come, of our romance/deepening dependency on all things tech. When she looks ahead, it looks dark, for many of the same reasons it does to psychotherapists and others of us working in the realm of interpersonal divides and fractured intimacy. The jury's in. On the whole, we're just as lonely, or more so, than ever before.
The increasing normalization of virtual substitutions for real, meaningful human contact is lulling us into a culturally digitized state of "disconnected connection." The term "technology addiction" is about to enter the lexicon. It'll probably be recognized as a full-fledged Mental Disorder fairly soon. That's because, Turkle maintains, technology is not only changing things for us, but about us. It's beginning to change who we are.
I agree. I see it everywhere, at least, when I look up from my laptop long enough to take a look. Yes, the irony of "blogging" about this does not escape me. Hey, we're all in this [alone] together.
Check out the links to her latest TED talk.
Speakers Sherry Turkle: Cultural analyst
Sherry Turkle studies how technology is shaping our modern relationships: with others, with ourselves, with it.
Why you should listen to her:
Since her pathbreaking The Second Self: Computers and The Human Spirit in 1984 psychologist and sociologist Sherry Turkle has been studying how technology changes not only what we do but who we are. In 1995′s Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, Turkle explored how the Internet provided new possibilities for exploring identity.
Described as "the Margaret Mead of digital cuture," Turkle has now turned her attention to the world of social media and sociable robots. As she puts it, these are technologies that propose themselves "as the architect of our intimacies." In her most recent book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other, Turkle argues that the social media we encounter on a daily basis are confronting us with a moment of temptation. Drawn by the illusion of companionship without the demands of intimacy, we confuse postings and online sharing with authentic communication. We are drawn to sacrifice conversation for mere connection. Turkle suggests that just because we grew up with the Internet, we tend to see it as all grown up, but it is not: Digital technology is still in its infancy and there is ample time for us to reshape how we build it and use it.
Turkle is a professor in the Program in Science, Technology and Society at MIT and the founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self.
"What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit."
Sherry Turkle
Quotes by Sherry Turkle
"The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us."
Watch this talk »"We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go."
Watch this talk »"We expect more from technology and less from each other."
Watch this talk »"We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship."
Watch this talk »"If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely."
Watch this talk »"We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk."
Watch this talk »"We all really need to listen to each other, including to the boring bits."
Watch this talk »
"You must not become too technoledged."
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Left handed version?
Numeric keypad on left side
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I have personally never seen one of these before, and certainly not by Apple. You may be able to purchase the smaller version of this keyboard and try to find a third-party retailer to get you a stand alone number pad to put on the left side, but Apple doesn't guarantee that these models work with their computers, so it may be hard to find one that you can use.
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Yesterday I finally bought some other tea. I had been resisting until I make it to the tea market, but I don't know exactly when that will be and I am tired of drinking the same tea day in and day out. So I bought some loose tea at the Carrefour (mega grocery store). I don't know what brand this is, if it's even listed, and I don't have the energy right now to try and figure it out. I am so stressed about things at work back home right now, but being 12 hours off means that right now it is the end of the day there even though it's the beginning of my day… which means I get to stew about my problems for at least 12 hours before anything happens with them. Guh.
At least the tea is tasty. This is a jasmine tea that translates to something like "Dragon Strip" or something. The leaves are nice and long with a few bits of flowers here and there. I let the just-boiled water cool for 4 minutes in my kettle before I steeped it. The resulting tea is sweet and jasminey, with a kind of robust green tea backdrop. Definitely tasty, and I'm glad I have it around. Now if only it would relax me enough that I will actually be able to get work done today instead of worrying all day… :P


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The Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women wishes to thank Raymond L. Cox, MD, MBA, for his invaluable assistance in the development of this document.
ABSTRACT: Significant racial and ethnic disparities exist in women's health. These health disparities largely result from differences in socioeconomic status and insurance status. Although many disparities diminish after taking these factors into account, some remain because of health care system-level, patient-level, and provider-level factors. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists strongly supports the elimination of racial and ethnic disparities in the health and the health care of women. Health professionals are encouraged to engage in activities to help achieve this goal.
Health disparities can be defined as "differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of diseases and other adverse health conditions that exist among specific population groups in the United States" (1). These differences can be assessed according to a variety of factors including gender, race or ethnicity, education, income, disability, geographic location, or sexual orientation (2). Although significant health disparities occur between men and women and among certain groups of women based on the factors mentioned previously, disparities are most likely to be experienced by women who are members of racial and ethnic minority groups. For example, disease and premature death occur disproportionately in minority women compared with non-Hispanic white women (3).
Approximately 44 million women in the United States, nearly one third of all women in this country, are members of racial and ethnic minority groups. African-American women and women of Hispanic origin together comprise roughly one quarter of the total population of U.S. women (4). The Hispanic population accounted for 22% of the 4 million births in the United States in 2003 (5). The largest segment of the immigrant population in the United States is from Latin America (6).
It is important to note that race and ethnicity are primarily social characteristics much more than they are biologic categories. However, race and ethnicity can provide useful information to women's health care providers about environmental, cultural, behavioral, and medical factors that may affect their patients' health. Also, the frequency of certain genetic variations may differ between racial or ethnic groups. For instance, there is an increased frequency of mutations for certain genetic diseases, such as Tay-Sachs disease, in individuals of Ashkenzic Jewish descent. These differences in the frequency of genetic variations generally are related to a common ancestral lineage (founder effect).
Genetic polymorphisms associated with increased susceptibility to disease also may vary in frequency in different racial and ethnic groups (7). Another consideration is the issue of gene-environment interaction. Genetic variations, even those that do not vary in frequency among racial or ethnic groups, may enhance susceptibility to an environmental exposure that occurs more frequently in a particular racial or ethnic group. Thus, although race and ethnicity are primarily social constructs, the impact of common ancestral lineage on the segregation and frequency of genetic variations in combination with the influence of cultural factors on environmental exposures cannot be ignored. All of these factors should be considered when trying to elucidate the multifactorial causes of health disparities.
Examples of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Among Women
The current U.S. health care financing paradigm inadvertently may contribute to disparities in health outcomes. The United States is the only developed country that does not extend health care as a right of citizenship. In the United States, health care is driven by market forces; the ultimate goal of the health care business is to maximize profit. For these reasons, this health care system contributes to a lack of access for citizens who are either uninsured or underinsured. The varying geographic availability of health care institutions also may contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in health care.
Table 1. Infant, Fetal, and Perinatal Mortality by Race of Mother
Access to health insurance coverage and care and utilization of care is significantly different for minority women. The following examples illustrate this point:
ACOG Recommendations The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists strongly supports the elimination of racial and ethnic disparities in women's health and health care as well as gender disparities in health and health care. The elimination of disparities in women's health and health care requires a comprehensive, multilevel strategy that involves all members of society. Our goal as health care providers and leaders must be to optimize individuals' health status and the quality of health care. We encourage health professionals to engage in the following activities:
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ACOG Committee Opinion No. 317.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
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Monday, May 7
Hey, you know what everyone likes?
Everyone likes GOLD.
I'm sexy and I know it.
Every archaeologist wants to find gold. We may say we don't care, but this is a lie. Gold is bad ass.
But life is not an Indiana Jones movie (WHICH IS AN AWFUL FACT, I KNOW) and finding gold doesn't really happen in most excavations. Trained archaeologists may dig their entire career and find not a hint of the shiny pretty metal.
And then some dude with a metal detector may go for a stroll in England and find a goddamn HOARD.
This dude in particular. His name is Terry Herbert.
And thus begins the story of the Staffordshire Gold.


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Boogie bow
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Release date | 19 July 2012 (Update) |
Members? | Yes |
Quest item? | No |
Tradeable? | No |
Equipable? | Yes |
Stackable? | No |
Alchemy | Cannot be alchemised |
Destroy | You can get a replacement from Diango in Draynor Village. |
Store price | Not sold |
Examine | A magical bow from the party master. |
Weight | 1.3 kg |
The boogie bow was released on 19 July 2012 to celebrate the creation of 200 million RuneScape accounts. It was obtainable from Hey Presto the Party Plane wizard and is used to slay the Party Demon. It can be stored in a toy box of a player-owned house's costume room.
It requires no ammunition to fire, can be used to kill other NPCs, and has an accuracy rating of 1. It is able to hit up to 1,000,000 on the Party Demons, however it does little damage to other NPCs.
The bow is held at an angle similar to the barbed bow and fires two arrows from its dual bowstrings, in a similar fashion to the dark bow special attack. The arrows appear to be on fire and spiral as they approach their target.
The swift gloves work with the Boogie bow, but not on the Party Demons.
Unlike the Chargebow, this weapon may be used in PvP areas.
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- Though the firing animation shows the bow firing two arrows, there is only one hitsplat.
- Upon the release the boogie bow was available to F2P. An update on 24 July 2012 made it a members-only item.
- Currently there is a glitch on the bow where the arrows appear slightly behind your character when firing. This glitch has yet to be fixed.
- When the Evolution of Combat beta was first released, it was called the "Extra-planar bow", likely because that was the name it had in development.
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Man re-releasing original 1962 Space Needle World's Fair pens
on May 7, 2012 @ 11:30 am (Updated: 12:59 pm - 5/7/12 )
The Seattle World's Fair Space Needle pens cost $1 in 1962. Today the original pens can be purchased at Bartell Drugs for $10. (Image: Twitter) |
One of the most purchased souvenirs from the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle is available for sale once again, in celebration of the 50th anniversary.
Alex Toth told 97.3 KIRO FM's Ross and Burbank Show that he's arranged for local retailer Bartell Drugs to sell the 18,000 remaining original Space Needle World's Fair pens that he manufactured for the fair in the 60s.
"My pitch to them was, 'you're a local company, we are a local company, these pens were made in Seattle, you're a Seattle company, you would be the ideal one to sell them,'" said Toth. "They said, 'Fine, we'll take them.'"
Living in Wallingford when he heard Seattle would be hosting a world's fair, Toth said he wanted to come up with a practical souvenir.
"I'm scratching my head with a pen and I go, 'Ah hah, how about a pen?'"
Toth didn't want it to just be a plain old pen with a world's fair label, so in thinking of a design, he asked himself 'what would be the most prominent feature at the fair.'
"I thought, the Space Needle. Why not a pen in the shape of the Space Needle?"
Toth said he manufactured the pens with two friends, and the three sold 487,000 in the six months the fair was in Seattle.
The remaining pens he produced "have been hibernating for the last 50 years in my basement," said Toth.
The pens are exactly the same as those sold in 1962, the only difference, Toth said, is new ink.
"Ink dries out in 50 years," Toth said.
He recruited family, friends and neighbors to replace the aging cartridges and the working pens are now available for sale for $10 at all 58 Bartell Drugs locations.
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