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Will AI enable the third stage of life
Will AI enable the third stage of life?
By Max Tegmark, PhD
August 29, 2017
In his new book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, MIT physicist and AI researcher Max Tegmark explores the future of technology, life, and intelligence.
The question of how to define life is notoriously controversial. Competing definitions abound, some of which include highly specific requirements such as being composed of cells, which might disqualify both future intelligent machines and extraterrestrial civilizations. Since we don't want to limit our thinking about the future of life to the species we've encountered so far, let's instead define life very broadly, simply as a process that can retain its complexity and replicate.
What's replicated isn't matter (made of atoms) but information (made of bits) specifying how the atoms are arranged. When a bacterium makes a copy of its DNA, no new atoms are created, but a new set of atoms are arranged in the same pattern as the original, thereby copying the information.
In other words, we can think of life as a self-replicating information-processing system whose information (software) determines both its behavior and the blueprints for its hardware.
Like our Universe itself, life gradually grew more complex and interesting, and as I'll now explain, I find it helpful to classify life forms into three levels of sophistication: Life 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0.
It's still an open question how, when and where life first appeared in our Universe, but there is strong evidence that here on Earth life first appeared about 4 billion years ago.
Before long, our planet was teeming with a diverse panoply of life forms. The most successful ones, which soon outcompeted the rest, were able to react to their environment in some way.
Specifically, they were what computer scientists call "intelligent agents": entities that collect information about their environment from sensors and then process this information to decide how to act back on their environment. This can include highly complex information processing, such as when you use information from your eyes and ears to decide what to say in a conversation. But it can also involve hardware and software that's quite simple.
For example, many bacteria have a sensor measuring the sugar concentration in the liquid around them and can swim using propeller-shaped structures called flagella. The hardware linking the sensor to the flagella might implement the following simple but useful algorithm: "If my sugar concentration sensor reports a lower value than a couple of seconds ago, then reverse the rotation of my flagella so that I change direction."
You've learned how to speak and countless other skills. Bacteria, on the other hand, aren't great learners. Their DNA specifies not only the design of their hardware, such as sugar sensors and flagella, but also the design of their software. They never learn to swim toward sugar; instead, that algorithm was hard- coded into their DNA from the start.
There was of course a learning process of sorts, but it didn't take place during the lifetime of that particular bacterium. Rather, it occurred during the preceding evolution of that species of bacteria, through a slow trial-and-error process spanning many generations, where natural selection favored those random DNA mutations that improved sugar consumption. Some of these mutations helped by improving the design of flagella and other hardware, while other mutations improved the bacterial information-processing system that implements the sugar-finding algorithm and other software.
"Tegmark's new book is a deeply thoughtful guide to the most important conversation of our time, about how to create a benevolent future civilization as we merge our biological thinking with an even greater intelligence of our own creation." — Ray Kurzweil, Inventor, Author and Futurist, author of The Singularity Is Near and How to Create a Mind
Such bacteria are an example of what I'll call "Life 1.0": life where both the hardware and software are evolved rather than designed. You and I, on the other hand, are examples of "Life 2.0": life whose hardware is evolved, but whose software is largely designed. By your software, I mean all the algorithms and knowledge that you use to process the information from your senses and decide what to do—everything from the ability to recognize your friends when you see them to your ability to walk, read, write, calculate, sing and tell jokes.
You weren't able to perform any of those tasks when you were born, so all this software got programmed into your brain later through the process we call learning. Whereas your childhood curriculum is largely designed by your family and teachers, who decide what you should learn, you gradually gain more power to design your own software.
Perhaps your school allows you to select a foreign language: Do you want to install a software module into your brain that enables you to speak French, or one that enables you to speak Spanish? Do you want to learn to play tennis or chess? Do you want to study to become a chef, a lawyer or a pharmacist? Do you want to learn more about artificial intelligence (AI) and the future of life by reading a book about it?
This ability of Life 2.0 to design its software enables it to be much smarter than Life 1.0. High intelligence requires both lots of hardware (made of atoms) and lots of software (made of bits). The fact that most of our human hardware is added after birth (through growth) is useful, since our ultimate size isn't limited by the width of our mom's birth canal. In the same way, the fact that most of our human software is added after birth (through learning) is useful, since our ultimate intelligence isn't limited by how much information can be transmitted to us at conception via our DNA, 1.0-style.
I weigh about twenty-five times more than when I was born, and the synaptic connections that link the neurons in my brain can store about a hundred thousand times more information than the DNA that I was born with. Your synapses store all your knowledge and skills as roughly 100 terabytes' worth of information, while your DNA stores merely about a gigabyte, barely enough to store a single movie download. So it's physically impossible for an infant to be born speaking perfect English and ready to ace her college entrance exams: there's no way the information could have been preloaded into her brain, since the main information module she got from her parents (her DNA) lacks sufficient information-storage capacity.
The ability to design its software enables Life 2.0 to be not only smarter than Life 1.0, but also more flexible. If the environment changes, 1.0 can only adapt by slowly evolving over many generations. Life 2.0, on the other hand, can adapt almost instantly, via a software update. For example, bacteria frequently encountering antibiotics may evolve drug resistance over many generations, but an individual bacterium won't change its behavior at all; in contrast, a girl learning that she has a peanut allergy will immediately change her behavior to start avoiding peanuts.
This flexibility gives Life 2.0 an even greater edge at the population level: even though the information in our human DNA hasn't evolved dramatically over the past fifty thousand years, the information collectively stored in our brains, books and computers has exploded. By installing a software module enabling us to communicate through sophisticated spoken language, we ensured that the most useful information stored in one person's brain could get copied to other brains, potentially surviving even after the original brain died.
By installing a software module enabling us to read and write, we became able to store and share vastly more information than people could memorize. By developing brain software capable of producing technology (i.e., by studying science and engineering), we enabled much of the world's information to be accessed by many of the world's humans with just a few clicks.
This flexibility has enabled Life 2.0 to dominate Earth. Freed from its genetic shackles, humanity's combined knowledge has kept growing at an accelerating pace as each breakthrough enabled the next: language, writing, the printing press, modern science, computers, the internet, etc. This ever-faster cultural evolution of our shared software has emerged as the dominant force shaping our human future, rendering our glacially slow biological evolution almost irrelevant.
Yet despite the most powerful technologies we have today, all life forms we know of remain fundamentally limited by their biological hardware. None can live for a million years, memorize all of Wikipedia, understand all known science or enjoy spaceflight without a spacecraft. None can transform our largely lifeless cosmos into a diverse biosphere that will flourish for billions or trillions of years, enabling our Universe to finally fulfill its potential and wake up fully. All this requires life to undergo a final upgrade, to Life 3.0, which can design not only its software but also its hardware. In other words, Life 3.0 is the master of its own destiny, finally fully free from its evolutionary shackles.
The boundaries between the three stages of life are slightly fuzzy. If bacteria are Life 1.0 and humans are Life 2.0, then you might classify mice as 1.1: they can learn many things, but not enough to develop language or invent the internet. Moreover, because they lack language, what they learn gets largely lost when they die, not passed on to the next generation. Similarly, you might argue that today's humans should count as Life 2.1: we can perform minor hardware upgrades such as implanting artificial teeth, knees and pacemakers, but nothing as dramatic as getting ten times taller or acquiring a thousand times bigger brain.
In summary, we can divide the development of life into three stages, distinguished by life's ability to design itself:
• Life 1.0 (biological stage): evolves its hardware and software
• Life 2.0 (cultural stage): evolves its hardware, designs much of its software
• Life 3.0 (technological stage): designs its hardware and software
After 13.8 billion years of cosmic evolution, development has accelerated dramatically here on Earth: Life 1.0 arrived about 4 billion years ago, Life 2.0 (we humans) arrived about a hundred millennia ago, and many AI researchers think that Life 3.0 may arrive during the coming century, perhaps even during our lifetime, spawned by progress in AI. What will happen, and what will this mean for us? That's the topic of this book.
From the book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark, © 2017 by Max Tegmark. Published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
Topics: AI/Robotics | Biotech | Cognitive Science/Neuroscience
By Max Tegmark, PhD
August 29, 2017
CI Election Results 2017
CI Election Results 2017
Andy Zawacki (Incumbent) elected 182 votes
Dennis Kowalski (Incumbent) elected 117 votes
Steve L (Incumbent) elected 100 votes
Stephan Beauregard (Incumbent) elected 80 votes
Challenger Dirk Nimetz was not elected 44 votes
Challenger Blake Delaney was not elected 57 votes
Congratulations to those who have been selected to lead CI and represent our membership. It is an important responsibility and I commend those who have taken the time to volunteer their time and efforts to make CI and cryonics a success.
For those of you who were not selected, I commend you as well for having the bravery to step up to the plate and offer your time. Just because you were not selected does not mean you or anyone else who is not a director cannot still be of great help to the cause. There is always a lot of work to be done at CI. We are always looking for volunteers to work on projects and pitch new ideas. Understand that if you have great ideas you may be selected to put in the time and effort to head up those projects. Cryonics is not just about new ideas but about who will put in the work or money to realize those ideas. It is a labor of love though and many members are very proud of the direction we are heading. That direction came not just from directors but, in many cases, volunteer members who take pride in CI and the cryonics cause.
Congratulations again to all of our Directors, sincere thanks to our nominees and thanks especially to you, our members. Your input matters, and it is your vote that decides the direction CI takes today and into the future.
2017 Annual General Meeting
The Cryonics Institute's 2017 Annual General Meeting will be held Sunday, September 10 at the ConCorde Inn.
ConCorde Inn Hotel & Conference Center
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Cleveland Browns
Joshua Gunter, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Nothing is ever simple in the NFL. If it were, we wouldn't be going on Year No. 20 of this Browns rebuild.
Still, there is a formula to follow in this game and it's the direction I have the Browns going with their top two picks: Get your quarterback and get to the other team's quarterback.
We're back to normal this time. Last mock, I decided to see what it would look like if the Browns took Baker Mayfield at the top. It's back to USC's Sam Darnold at No. 1 today, even with Josh Allen rumors swirling.
No. 4 is where it gets interesting, but visions of two elite, young pass rushers along with the rest of the young talent on the defensive line is exciting.
Away we go. A little more than two weeks from the real thing, here's my latest mock draft.
by Dan Labbe, cleveland.com
Had some fun with Mayfield, but now it's back to Darnold to sit on the Browns' bench in 2018 and take over for, hopefully, the next decade in 2019.
Standing pat with this pick for the Giants. This would make life easier for the Browns at No. 4, too.
It just seems like a match made in heaven. Mayfield may end up getting on the field sooner rather than later, too, with Josh McCown and Teddy Bridgewater in front of him.
The Browns could trade down here. They could also pick Chubb and give quarterbacks nightmares for the foreseeable future.


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May 26, 2014
Today Greg and I met for an open water swim and a run at High Cliff State Park. My training plan typically has me do a long bike and a long run on the weekends, with no swimming. We wanted to swim because neither of us was very happy with our open water swim on Wednesday. This was mostly due to the weather and waves I think. AND because today it was BEAUTIFUL at the beach!
Greg *loves* when we take selfies…here's us before gettin in:
A few notes on open water safety
Swim early…most of the irresponsible boaters out there looking to get drunk and speed around like crazy people are still sleeping/working off last night's hangover before going out again. Take advantage of this. The ultimate in open water safety is having a kayak support with you. In the absence of that, at least wear bright swim caps people! The rest of you is black…not super visible to boats! Just to be safe, I also brought along another safety tool – my Safer Swimmer:
This a GREAT piece of gear for open water swimming. It's a dry bag that inflates:
And there's a strap that goes around your waist. You have to position the strap right or it can slide off of you (learned this the first time I used it) but otherwise it works perfect. Your keys, phone, etc can go in the drybag so you don't have to leave anything behind unattended on the beach. But the biggest advantage though is making yourself much more visible to boats. Here's a pic from DC Rainmaker's more in-depth review of the same product:
Imagine if you were a boater and you didn't see that orange dry bag!
The Swim
Greg and I decided to try to replicate the High Cliff Half Iron swim course, which swings out left (from standing on the beach, looking out on the water), then long leg out to the right towards the marina, and then back into the beach in a giant triangle. So our first part of the swim is the yellow arrows below. Yep my Lie Detector (Garmin 910xt) also does GPS for open water swimming – how cool is that?!
I am a stronger swimmer than Greg, so I let him set the pace so we could stay together. After a little ways though, he reported he was more tired than he expected he would be, compliments of our century ride yesterday. This is a safety issue – even though we had on wetsuits which are really buoyant, never open water swim when you're tired – so we headed back towards shore until he was where he could swim and touch if he needed to. It was at the point that we turned around that a boat passed us – and they clearly saw us because they gave us plenty space and a friendly wave. Excellent.
When we got back to shallow water, he then insisted I do a longer swim, since I love swimming and I was feeling great and having a great time! I took a sharp left, headed towards the marina, and then a right back to the shore to meet Greg who continued to swim in shallow water (I am the yellow arrows continued). Then we met back up at shore I realized I had only swum 0.67 miles. I wanted to get in more than that, and Greg said he was fine with it, so I headed back out (blue arrows). He made me promise I wouldn't swim too far out where the boats were.
So I was swimming way out like I promised Greg I wouldn't, and the one scary moment of the swim happened. I had just turned left and was swimming parallel to the shore happy as a clam (wait…clams don't swim, do they? hehe) and I was bilateral breathing, and when I took a breath from the right I saw a speedboat coming right at me. I kept breathing from the right, and was thinking "See the orange bouy….SEE the orange bouy…SEE THE ORANGE BOUY!!!!" and it finally turned. Whew!! I kept going a little ways and turned back toward the beach. Greg saw the speedboat incident and I sorta kinda got a little yelled at. It was deserved.
(Pro tip: It's best not to tell your mom about these kinds of incidents when you text her that your swim is over and you're fine. Let her read about it in your blog instead, moms love that. I love you Mom!).
I was totally happy with my swim too. The top is my swim today, the bottom is my swim from the Half Iron I did last summer:
The Run
Then we started the run. My training plan called for a 90 minute-ish run. But man, my legs were realllllllly not happy about running. Probably something to do with a century ride yesterday, lol! We stuck to roads, because neither one of us wanted to deal with rough terrain or the millions of people who had suddenly descended on the park. The only hiccup that happened was when we started up the big hill, and half way up the hill a runner who shall remain nameless informed me he forgot to put on his new calf sleeves that he wanted to try out, and we had to go back to the cars. HALFWAY UP THE HILL. He was serious. I get it, actually, so we turned around.
Then we started the run for the second time. We went up the hill, went left to the tower area, up the little service road, continued to the campground dump station, down to the marina, and back to the cars.
This run sucked, people. It got a little better as we went along, but it never really left "sucked" territory. I wanted to do at least an hour or 6 miles, but when I got back to the parking lot with the cars, my legs couldn't be talked into going back out for more. They were done. I think we kept a good pace though, considering the hills.
Well, I give today a "B." I should probably have run longer. But, I swam before it, so really I think it's ok with the bonus swim. And I wasn't exhausted, really. Just definitely done with running for the day. Seriously, afterwards Greg and I even went to Menards to get fencing for his garden, and that all went fine. I didn't do much the rest of the day. Hope you had a good day!


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In the past few days, things have been moving so fast (and yet, slow) for our family.
Case in point:
B returned back to his aftercare after his suspension and now is on "probationary" status. Meaning, one wrong move(s) and it could get ugly. B's ECSE teacher, her assistant, AND his new "Resource Teacher" (our newest addtion to the IEP family) took shifts at the aftercare to observe B in action. There was a whole army of support to make sure his aftercare knew we were there. Apparently, it was not pretty sight on that first day. As his Resource Teacher told me when picking him up, "this is going to be a challenge". And, "I'm not sure this is going to work out."
Now, really, just how do you respond to that?
But after listening to her talk, it became clear that the environment was not a good fit. First off, he gets off the bus and is whisked into naptime mode. Which of course, being in a new place, he was more interested in playing with the "new" toys. Next, the class sleeps for astonishing 2 1/2 hours. Each day. Four year olds. As I found out, pretty much the entire Center goes down like that – that allows for teacher lunches, meetings, etc. So, besides trying to get a kid to nap you expect him to nap for 2 1/2 hours-ish. Good luck with that people.
There's snack, circle time (which he kinda does but mostly not), and then Open Play. Now, if they go outside, it's not too bad. But part of their "Open Play" is indoors – a place called the "Big Room". Since his aftercare is faith-based and housed within a church, the "Big Room" was the former sanctuary. So it is a large open area with a bunch of toys, balls, etc. It's where kids go to the the end of the day to make the ratios of teachers to kids work out.
It's, to put it lightly, a free-for-all. And while B loves it, it's absolutely the worst place to be. I've twitched quite a bit in there when I need to pick him up – the sound bounces off the walls (not to mention the toys) and kids are running around like they are hyped up on sugar. His incidents are normally here – some kid takes a toy, gets in his personal space, etc. and he will, er, defend himself.
I'm trying to take in the Resource Teacher's observations and just feel so…sad. That a place, that I used to think would be the answer, apparently isn't. Again. And how it somehow all relates to how my son behaves with others. What's worse, is that I kinda knew in the past couple of months but didn't want to pursue another option. I wanted to keep both kids together in the same place. I wanted my son to be as mainstreamed as possible.
So, now I'm resigned to figuring out a next step. We've floated the idea of a nanny. Or even the extreme – me quitting my job. Yeah, that's how extreme it got if I had to THINK about quitting in order to deal with this. And then Husband brought up a place that we briefly looked at last year. Mainly, we wrote it off because their hours are 8:30 AM -3:30 PM. Seriously, what kind schedule is that for a typical working parent?
However, in our current state of desperation, we decided to revisit it. The woman on the phone was extremely polite and was very understanding of the situation. Yes, we have a spot for him, she says. Come on by for a tour and see what we have to offer him.
This place isn't that old. I think it opened in August 2010. The Center is housed on sprawling campus that also is home to the local ARC. They accept children of all abilities (2-6 years so Mayita can't go) but do specialize in special needs, using ABA and developmental assessments. The class size was tiny – on the day we were there, there were about 7 in what will be B's class. And everything seemed so much calmer. Everything was neat and orderly. The staff are wonderful and very attentive. The woman giving the tour even has a teenage son on the spectrum (mainstreamed, which gives me hope for B).
B would continue on his current schedule of attending his special needs preK in the AM until the summer, in which he can go full-time. In the fall, he may be moved to a closer preK (maybe even the one by our house!) to be closer to the new Center.
Now of course I wished we had pursued this place before. But, hindsight being 20/20, we just have to accept and move on. And move as fast as feasible. There are things to be sorted out. We have to make a formal transportation request to the public school system. We have to complete paperwork to formally enroll him in the new Center. And, naturally, give notice to the aftercare.
Husband took B for his developmental assessment (as part of the enrollment process). According to Husband it went well. B seemed very happy in the new setting during Observation. Husband said he called it, "the fun place".
We are working on changing our work schedules to accommodate the early closing and picking up the other kid. Tricky, but thankfully it is possible.
For the time being, as awkward as it may become, we are keeping Mayita at the other place. One thing at time, I keep telling myself. Let's get B into hopefully a better situation.
I wouldn't say I'm admitting failure at what has happened now. Things change. But, I'm relieved to not have to worry about him being suspended. I'm relieved that I found a place that was "truly" accepting and not just playing lip service.


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Here is a picture of the front of the new TAC catalog. I am so impressed with this catalog that I am motivated to find room in my schedule for way more stamping and some classes. More details will be coming tomorrow.
I had so much fun visiting with my friends this weekend! My stamp studio saw more use in the last week than it has in months. Love ya -- Rita and Lori -- you are such an inspiration to me!


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Money will only make you more of what you already are.- T. Harv Eker
Tom O'brien said that we should be kind to ourselves when it comes to health improvement. Taking baby steps, one step at a time and continuing base hits instead of hitting a big shot are good for everyone. These types of strategies are the self-controlled creation of positive habits related to both autonomy and mastery.
In my personal experience, making a habit and small change to my own lifestyle has been providing a positive impact for my well-being. It actually takes plenty of time, such as 3 years, 200 days and 10,000 hours. For instance, I invested all my resources in the alchemy method intensively over 10,000 hours in 2 years for the final round.
Yes, it takes so much time. But it also becomes firmer and it is not easily broken apart because of time-space regulation and neural pathways. According to some millionaire and successful educators, financial improvement is exactly the same.
Let me share something important here. This is something related to money. This is something of which I found in my alchemical works.
In my understanding, money and its system consist of gratitude, time, practical technology and tulpa-type system (magical component and logical environment) in which the system components are gradually transforming from material-oriented system to conceptual one.
This means that the essence of any system on earth are built based on the logical components, including 2-dimensional blueprint, 4-dimensional methodology and 7-dimensional philosophy, such as metaphysical component. This beautiful cosmic architecture is demonstrated in adaptation between logical and physical interfaces, such as culture and civilisation.
I hope and feel that money and its system are going to be properly and transparently transformed and integrated into the heart-centred technology and decentralised networks simultaneously by becoming more conceptual and convenient as part of communication modules.
This phenomena and velocity of change have a potential to accelerate both evolution of consciousness (not shifting, it is expansion) and innovation of conscious business (both shift and expansion) from material-oriented consumerism to harmoniously balanced mind in an enviro-friendly, innovative and heartwarming way.


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Anyarku Praveshanamilla Trailer (2016)
17 June 2016
Priyadarshan (Tini Tom) is a dubbing artist for TV serials and Ad-Films. He got married to Anjana (Aditi Roy) for 4 years and his family life was peaceful without any Issues. Only worry they had was about not having a child. To overcome that, they started engaging themselves in socializing and mixing with their friends without realizing where to control and restrict their friends in their personal family space. Priyadarshan and Anjana are such couple who openly speaks their issues each other and resolve the same.
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BOSTON (CBS) – "We are witnessing right now an empowerment revolution," said Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News anchor whose sexual harassment lawsuit against the network was a preview of the recent #metoo uprising against workplace harassment.
And now, Carlson has become the latest story in an outgrowth of that revolution – women replacing the men ousted in the backlash.
A former Miss America (1989), Carlson will take over as director of the Miss America organization after several top male leaders there were forced to resign over sexist language they used to demean contestants.
Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Sen. Al Franken – all have been succeeded by women. But will that trend really make a difference in deterring toxic male behavior?
The frat-house website Barstool Sports isn't noticeably more mature under the leadership of Erika Nardini. And keep in mind that the notion of women as more nurturing and less violent than men, and thus, female political leaders are less likely to go to war than their male counterparts, is challenged by history.
A study of European conflicts from the 15th through the 18th century found queens were 27% more likely than kings to go to war.
And from Britain's Margaret Thatcher to Indira Ghandi of India to Obama-era hawk Hillary Clinton, modern history is full of proof that gender stereotypes only go so far.
Will this influx of women into jobs previously held by harassment-enablers clean the mess up? In the short term, expect a zero-tolerance policy from the likes of Carlson.
And in the long-term? Heed the lessons of history, and wait and see.


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- We spent 3 days in Dillon with Amy, Eric and Cash last week.
- We had a great time.
- The cousins were curious and very sweet with each other.
- It snowed - the first big storm of the winter!
- Eric and Amy seem very happy and settled in their new home - this makes us happy!
- Cash is hilarious as a little walker.
- Matine thought he was very, very fun!
- Pete enjoyed playing Martha Stewart and cooking us fancy meals each night.
- Eric prefers simple meat and potato dishes we found out.
- We hit the big Patagonia Veteran's Day sale and got some winter coats.
- We watched the Gilmore Girls each day (sometimes twice) because Amy is addicted to Lorelei and Rory - she even dreams about the characters.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Family Fun in Dillon - In a Nutshell (no pun intended)
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Glad you had a great time! Seriously can't believe how cute your little one is! Is it me, or does your nephew look a lot like Pete??
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Vegan Baked Ziti or Not
Actually, I know you all (6 of you) weren't thinking about me, but while I form blog entries (most of which never reach the computer) in my head while hanging the laundry out to dry, I fantasize about an adoring blog public just waiting for my next post and hoping for some vegan porn (pictures of yummy vegan food...get your mind out of the gutter!). I like to see pictures of food on the blogs I frequent and I'm sure I'm not alone.
Rob doesn't understand why just pictures of food and not pictures of people eating the food. I've tried to explain that people eating food is not so attractive and possibly unappetizing. I mean do your cookbooks have pictures of food or pictures of people eating the food? I have to admit that at times I find watching people eat almost disgusting. (I realize after this confession we are unlikely to have many dinner guests except our invitation or when you do, you will slyly hide your chewing behind a napkin.) I guess that would be reason #653 why we haven't opened a vegan restaurant. It would be like opening a shoe store when feet give you the heebie jeebies. Of course, I still WANT to open a vegan restaurant because I want to eat there and hang out (which is reason #1-#7865 for opening a vegan restaurant) and no one else is opening one here. If they did, I would be kicking myself (or more likely Rob) for not opening it myself. Not that it is his fault mind you (don't tell him that because I'm always saying he is squelching my dream), he is pretty supportive of anything I want to do. He supports the business I already have, Tribal Life, even when I take any possible profit and buy more inventory with it so the best I can ever hope for is to break even. I keep telling him it is not about the money, but he says should try for non-profit status then since business needs to be at least a little about the
money. I tell him it is about meeting amazing, cool, people, and hooking up said people with products they can believe in or hooking up small businesses with customers who are amazing and cool. This is again why a restaurant would be nice because I could just hang with amazing and cool people all day...oh yeah and cook some food, do the books, yadda, yadda, but how hard could that be?? So then he reminds me that I have a bunch of amazing and cool friends (many of them customers) who I could spend time with if I wasn't so busy with my business. Whoa...hmm, he might have a point there, but I'm putting my hands over my ears and not listening while I search the world for fairly-made, vegan, environmentally-friendly products which are actually useful and don't cost a month's salary.
Where the heck was I?
Still no food pictures today, but let me explain. I did intend to cook something this afternoon (besides the normal lunch I made for the kids...please, I am not THAT lame). Last night my saint of a husband mentioned that he would like some vegan baked ziti. Sure, I can do that...no problem, I'll just surprise him tonight with some Vegan Baked Ziti. So, I took all three kids out to the local health food store, stuck Josie in the Hug-a-Bub while she slept and still heard how I didn't dress her warm enough in this 60 something degree weather, spent over $200 on groceries (it has been a while since I've been there), and realized my 3 year old has become an expert in sneaking things into the cart while I'm not looking (maybe that accounts for the large bill). I came home and nursed my little girl while the boys helped unpack the bags (all reusable ones, of course, although it didn't keep the cashierfrom asking "paper or plastic?) and put things away. Running like clockwork, I am supermom, I am so together...I am only trying to cook dinner and everyone else does this every day without an issue...shut up, I am making something new for my sweet husband and it will taste great.
Then an hour of nursing, changing cloth diapers, nursing, changing cloth diapers, hanging up clean cloth diapers on the line at the same time my little baby is wetting in a cloth diaper so I'm already behind...how do thing start to get so out of control??? I made lunch for the kids, not as complete as I was hoping, but a couple vegetables, a couple fruits, beans, and a grain so not terrible. The entire time I'm carrying Josie in a carrier or trying to get her to sleep in her bouncy seat. If she would just sleep in the bouncy seat, I could put the ziti all together and then just bake it when I know what time Rob will be home. No problem. Wait, she will NOT fall asleep unless she is somehow attached to my body. Then I get her really close and I hear my sweet little Dema in the bathroom saying "I'm doing a good job of wiping mom." Hmm, better see what is going on in there. Poop and toilet paper everywhere. Okay, Parker go make Josie happy in the bouncy seat while I get your brother in the bath. No, I'm not mad at you Dema, you did a great job, but next time it is okay to ask for help. Ugh! Why does so much of parenting involve putting things in their body and then cleaning up what comes out of their body?
Okay, finally, everyone is clean and Josie is asleep in the bouncy seat in the kitchen so I can finally look through my recipe books and put together this easy baked ziti from different sources (sauce here, vegan ricotta there). I realize I haven't eaten so I eat some of the kid's pasta while I flip through the cookbooks. Wait, I can't feel the kids pasta tonight since they had it for lunch. What else could I make. I look around at the full sink of dishes, the sleeping, baby, the $200 of groceries which need to be made into something and I decide I should do laundry instead, Josie wakes up and I nurse at the keyboard lamenting my planned dinner and think of something I can throw together last minute.
Why did I not inherit that gene from my mother which allowed her to stay up until 3am working on stuff for some worthwhile organization or typing up one of the kid's papers for school and still feed us three meals a day, clean the house, attend several meetings, grocery shop, etc.?
PS. I did go ahead and make the %$*(#! Vegan Baked Ziti in my lame, last minute way after blogging about it made me feel bad enough to get up and try again.
Make vegan ricotta from your recipe of choice (I chose one from my favorite Italian cookbook, Nonna's Italian Kitchen by Bryanna Clark Grogan, and doubled it)
Boil whole wheat Bionaturae rigatoni pasta for 10 minutes (should have been a little less)
Warm up jarred pasta of your choice (I chose Garden Vegetable Pasta Sauce)
Slap a little Earth Balance on a glass casserole dish.
Put some vegan ricotta on the bottom of the dish.
Mix the rest of the vegan ricotta with the sauce.
Layer the pasta and sauce in the dish until full.
Sprinkle some vegan parm (I prefer to make my own, but ran out of time so used the canned stuff which I would leave out or use just nutritional yeast instead).
Shred some FYH (Follow Your Heart) vegan cheese on top (I used Monterey Jack just because)
Cook at 420degrees (if your oven is messed up like mine...400 for normal people) for 15 -25 minutes (depending on if you want it to get kind of crusty like Rob likes it).
I would make my own sauce next time and use less sauce (I was planning on making two dishes full, but didn't). I will make this again. I'd have broccoli as a side and we needed some olive rosemary bread from Mirabelle (our local bakery), but it worked for dinner and Rob has lunch tomorrow (already packed in To-Go Ware with a salad on top and the ziti on the bottom).
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Ah, Linda...welcome to my world! They say three is the hardest adjustment. After that, what's one more? Well, I never had 3, but the transition from 2 to 4 was quite difficult. The dirty house will always be there. The laundry will always be there. Just snuggle (and feed) your babies.
- October 11, 2007 at 8:34 AM
- Angi said...
LOL I was coming to post the exactly same thing as the matriarch, right down to never having 3, jumping right to 4.
But I also want to say, that it looks yummy. Even after 4 years of dairy free living, I could never eat vegan cheese. We did grow to love Nutritional Yeast. And we still do.
Good for you for making a dinner. Now go back to nursing that sweet girl.
- October 11, 2007 at 8:55 AM
- Linda said...
Some days it all comes together and having three is easier in a way and then other days I am in awe of all of you with MORE kids because I can't seem to make it work. In the middle of all this yesterday a mouse came into the house (it is now gone).
Angi, it took over 10 years of dairy-free living for us to try vegan cheese. We prefer NY too.
Thanks to both of you...I feel better.
- October 11, 2007 at 9:12 AM
- Shawna said...
Linda, another 2 who jumped to 4 here (you sure know a lot of people with twins). Your post made me tired! I am actually in awe of moms who seem to be able to take care of the house and kids and find time to cook anything half-way nutritious. My MIL does 90% of the cooking in our house. As for making it work with more kids...we all do the best we can and hope it's good enough!
- October 11, 2007 at 10:01 AM
- Jane said...
just wanted to leave a comment saying i love reading your blog! vegan mom of one 1 year old here, and i rarely manage to make a decent meal! today i have tofu marinating in the fridge for dinner, woohoo! usually its grab whatcha can in the evenings! i dont know what i will do if / when i have more kids!
- October 11, 2007 at 10:15 AM
- VeganLinda said...
Shawna, I do know a much of people with twins...glad it isn't catching. :-) I need a mother-in-law.
Jane, thanks for stopping by the blog and commenting. Glad you enjoy it!
- October 11, 2007 at 9:21 PM


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Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970)
Concerto for Orchestra
Duration: 21'
Publisher: OUP
KSO Performed: 25 November 2008
Reader, beware: Roberto Gerhard once said, "My favourite listener is the one who does not read explanatory programme-notes… Understanding comes first, knowledge second," and asserted: "I stand by the sound of my music. It is the sound that must make sense."
He was born of Swiss-German and French-Alsatian parents in Catalonia. Inevitably this gave him an internationalist outlook, but nevertheless he felt his identity as a Catalan strongly. After studying with Schoenberg, he worked during the 1930s as a consultant to the Arts Ministry of the Catalan government, which acted as an autonomous body within Spain from 1932. Here, he was responsible for raising Catalonia's artistic profile considerably, not only with his own scores but his work promoting others. This culminated in his bringing the International Society of Contemporary Music's annual festival to Barcelona in 1936, during which Berg's Violin Concerto had its world première.
In 1936 civil war erupted in Spain, and when in 1939 Franco's troops captured Barcelona, a centre of Republican resistance, Gerhard was forced into exile. He ended up in Cambridge, where he adopted the Hispanic form of his name (he was christened Robert) and produced music for theatre, radio and television. From his earlier romantic style, concerned with the use of Catalan folk music, in his later years he cultivated a more modernist music, partly derived from his teacher Schoenberg, but with a sensitivity for colour that produces a sound far removed from the expressionist angst of pre-war Vienna: the folk music he studied so carefully in his youth lay beneath the surface, continuing to influence his sound-world.
His sensitivity to the nuances of sound was sharpened by his experience as one of the pioneers of electronic music: his music for the RSC's 1955 production of King Lear was the first electronic score for the stage in Britain, and a few years later he was one of the first composers to work at the BBC's newly-established Radiophonic Workshop, the cradle of some of the most radical experimentation ever to appear in mainstream culture, such as the extraordinary piece of electronica that nearly 50 years later still holds television audiences in thrall: the theme to Doctor Who.
As his colleagues gave voice to the TARDIS, Gerhard was re-establishing himself as a composer of concert music, and it was a commission for the 1965 Cheltenham Festival that resulted in the Concerto for Orchestra. In fact, the BBC Symphony Orchestra gave the first performance in Boston in April 1965 by permission of the Festival Authority. The British première followed in Cheltenham a few months later. It ruffled a few feathers, far removed as its sense of drama was from the cosy familiarity of the typical "Cheltenham symphony."
By this time Gerhard was seriously ill: he had had heart trouble for some years which was by then becoming acute, and would cause his death in 1970. There is however no hint of fragility in the Concerto, which from its opening explosion of notes is a work filled with vigour. Gerhard overcame his aversion to explanatory notes to provide a preface to the published score, in which he described his approach to what remains an unusual genre in orchestral music: "Ensemble playing, the distinguishing feature of the concerto for orchestra, in fact here takes the place of the virtuoso soloist in the traditional concerto." So the emphasis is less on individual display (although Gerhard certainly provides plenty of challenges for the players) than showing off the orchestra as a collective.
If there is a solo element in this piece, it is time itself: the music is constantly moving between different perceptions of time, expressed in three contrasting ways. The first, exemplified by the very opening, is characterised by busy, dense textures which create a sense of an infinitely expanded tonality. Then there are passages of what Gerhard describes as "almost static yet pulsating constellation-like patterns", where tone gives way to a myriad array of sounds produced through unorthodox playing techniques, from tapping and rustling sounds in the strings which sound like an abstraction of flamenco music, to the unearthly harmonics of bowed cymbals. Finally, there are moments where time seems to stand still, and we experience "the magic sense of uneventfulness." These kaleidoscopic changes of texture that abound in the Concerto, in which busy, scurrying passages dissolve into radiantly static textures have a dreamlike quality that the listener might experience as a sonic parallel to the images of another prominent 20th century Catalan, Salvador Dalí.


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BOROUGHMUIR stole a march on champions Hawick by earning a bonus point for collecting six tries in their 43-30 win at Aberdeen Grammar and, moreover, received an unsolicited testimonial from Damian Reidy, the home team's Australian coach.
After praising his own players for a courageous performance in a highly-entertaining BT Premiership match, Reidy said: "I believe Boroughmuir are far and away the best side in the country and personally I hope they can go on and win the championship.
"Their slick all-round handling and movement was far above anything I've seen this season from any other side in the Premiership." As he has already watched his men take on Hawick twice this season, his words will not be ignored by the Border team.
Everyone knows Boroughmuir at their best are highly entertaining but consistency has been their problem. And if there was one warning for them from the Aberdeen match it was that they leaked four tries, snapped up by Andy Buchan, Rod Seib, Mark O'Brien and Steve Newton, with Murray Strang kicking two conversions and two penalties.
Boroughmuir's sparkling teamwork, however, earned touchdowns for Rory Couper (3), James Reilly (2) and Olo Brown, with Reilly adding five conversions and a penalty goal.
Hawick are still just two points behind Boroughmuir in second place, but the expected bonus point eluded them in a 23-8 win over bottom-of-the-table Kirkcaldy, whose fighting display restricted the champions to two tries by Gavin Douglas and Colin Turnbull.
Their other points came from outside half Neil Stenhouse, who put over both conversions and kicked three penalty goals. Jaimie Syme scored Kirkcaldy's try and Mike MacKenzie added a penalty.
The battle to avoid being relegated along with Kirkcaldy is as tense as ever. Gala improved their position slightly with a 14-8 win over Stirling County, although that still leaves them five points adrift of Aberdeen Grammar. Currie, however, moved a step away from the danger zone with a 26-9 win over an injury-weakened Glasgow Hawks, with Mike Duncan kicking four penalties and two conversions.