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This series consists of weekly discussion sessions on foundations of quantum Theory and quantum information theory. The sessions start with an informal exposition of an interesting topic, research result or important question in the field. Everyone is strongly encouraged to participate with questions and comments.
We discuss two methods to encode one qubit into six physical qubits. Each of our two examples corrects an arbitrary single-qubit error. Our first example is a degenerate six-qubit quantum error-correcting code. We explicitly provide the stabilizer generators, encoding circuits, codewords, logical Pauli operators, and logical CNOT operator for this code. We also show how to convert this code into a non-trivial subsystem code that saturates the subsystem Singleton bound.
In an effort to better understand the class of operations on a bipartite system which preserve positivity of partial transpose (PPT operations), we have investigated the (non-asymptotic) transformation of pure states to pure states by operations in this class. Under local operations and classical communication (LOCC) Nielsen\'s majorization criterion provides a necessary and sufficient condition for such a transformation.
What does a fractional quantum Hall liquid and Kitaev\'s proposals for topological quantum computation have in common? It turns out that they are physical systems that exhibit degenerate ground states with properties seemingly different than ordinary (Landau-type) vacua, such as the ground states of a Heisenberg magnet. For example, those (topologically quantum ordered)states cannot be characterized by (local) order parameters such as magnetization. How does one characterize this new order?
Wigner-Dirac relativistic quantum theory is applied to decay laws of an unstable particle in different reference frames. It is shown that decay slows down from the point of view of the moving observer, as expected. However, small deviations from Einstein\'s time dilation formula are also found. The origin of these deviations is discussed, as well as possibilities for their experimental detection.
The Hamiltonian of traditionally adopted detector models features out of diagonal elements between the vacuum and the one particle states of the field to be detected. We argue that reasonably good detectors, when written in terms of fundamental fields, have a more trivial response on the vacuum. In particular, the model configuration ``detector in its ground state + vacuum of the field\' generally corresponds to a stable bound state of the underlying theory (e.g.
The talk concerns a generalization of the concept of a minimum uncertainty state to the finite dimensional case. Instead of considering the product of the variances of two complementary observables we consider an uncertainty relation involving the quadratic Renyi entropies summed over a full set of mutually unbiased bases (MUBs).
Coin flipping by telephone (Blum \'81) is one of the most basic cryptographic tasks of two-party secure computation. In a quantum setting, it is possible to realize (weak) coin flipping with information theoretic security. Quantum coin flipping has been a longstanding open problem, and its solution uses an innovative formalism developed by Alexei Kitaev for mapping quantum games into convex optimization problems.
Decoherence attempts to explain the emergent classical behaviour of a
quantum system interacting with its quantum environment. In order to
formalize this mechanism we introduce the idea that the information
preserved in an open quantum evolution (or channel) can be
characterized in terms of observables of the initial system. We use
this approach to show that information which is broadcast into many
parts of the environment can be encoded in a single observable. This
supports a model of decoherence where the pointer observable can be an
I should like to show how particular mathematical properties can limit our metaphysical choices, by discussing old and new theorems within the statistical-model framework of Mielnik, Foulis & Randall, and Holevo, and what these theorems have to say about possible metaphysical models of quantum mechanics.
The \\\"frequency comb\\\" defined by the eigenmodes of an optical resonator is a naturally large set of exquisitely well defined quantum systems, such as in the broadband mode-locked lasers which have redefined time/frequency metrology and ultra precise measurements in recent years. High coherence can therefore be expected in the quantum version of the frequency comb, in which nonlinear interactions couple different cavity modes, as can be modeled by different forms of graph states.


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After this week's protests following the announcement of the results from the first round of the Presidential elections, Saturday and Sunday have been relatively calm. However, protests are expected to resume this week, especially in the capital Port-au-Prince. This is putting a huge amount of pressure on Oxfam's programs, particularly our cholera prevention program which is currently reaching over 701,000 people in Port-au-Prince, central Artibonite and northern Cap Haitien.
Cedric Perus, Oxfam's Humanitarian Program Manager in Haiti said:
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"The uncertainty around whether we're able to reach our projects safely and continue our cholera prevention programs is very frustrating. The riots have kept many of us at home as streets were blocked and parts of the capital were unsafe. We have over 800 Haitian staff who are eager to get back to work to help their friends and neighbors stay safe from cholera.
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*** Oxfam is reaching 701,000 people with cholera prevention programs and over 850,000 people as part of our earthquake response.
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The Times reports this morning that restaurant owners are no great fans of a health department website that allows users to search their local restaurants for health violations. Among their many complaints: the website may display an outdated score, it's far too easy to use and, finally, it allows users to search their local restaurants for health violations.
The new website is tied to the city's new cleanliness letter grades, and even allows widgets so users on OpenTable and Zagat.com can find out about violations when choosing a restaurant. Restauranteurs say this is too much access, and that former scores from the previous system, where violations were earned more easily, may be construed as a recent infraction.
"That's a big problem," Mr. Rigie [of the New York State Restaurant Association] said. A person seeing an old 15-point score on the Web site "would determine that restaurant to be a B-graded restaurant, but there's a possibility that under the new system it would have an A."
We last used the site to determine that The Lion had received a "C" grade on its inspection. Funnily enough, the website seems to straining under all the traffic from The Times. Maybe restaurants should publicize the site more often.


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Saturday 20 April 2019 (other days)
Holy Saturday
Christ the Lord suffered for us and was buried. Come, let us adore him.
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|1 John 1:8-9 ©
If we say we have no sin in us, we are deceiving ourselves and refusing to admit the truth; but if we acknowledge our sins, then God who is faithful and just will forgive our sins and purify us from everything that is wrong.
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|1 John 2:1-2 ©
If anyone should sin, we have our advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, who is just. He is the sacrifice that takes our sins away; and not only ours, but the whole world's.
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The night is over and the real light is already shining. Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the dark. But anyone who loves his brother is living in the light and need not be afraid of stumbling.
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Many Dems unhappy with CPI offer
After weeks of gleefully watching Republicans struggle to find their footing in fiscal cliff talks, it's time for the Democrats to do some painful soul-searching of their own.
President Barack Obama's latest offer to congressional Republicans crosses lines that Democrats have long portrayed as untouchable. The provision causing the most heartburn for Democrats on Capitol Hill is one that would change the way inflation is measured to ultimately reduce payments to Social Security beneficiaries.
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Obama floated the so-called chained consumer price index idea to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) last year during their failed negotiations over raising the debt ceiling. But by including it in his fiscal cliff offer, Obama is guaranteeing that if and when a deal comes together, it's almost certain to include the provision.
( Also on POLITICO: What is chained CPI?)
It would force Democrats — who have spent decades building their brand as the protectors of Social Security and entitlement programs — into a difficult vote. And their support for a fiscal cliff package will be crucial to offset Republicans who might oppose any deal that raises tax rates, an area where Boehner has moved closer to Obama in recent days.
The White House dispatched Legislative Affairs Director Rob Nabors to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to explain the proposal to House and Senate Democrats and try to assuage their concerns.
Still, multiple lawmakers expressed deep concern about the direction of negotiations with less than two weeks left before Washington plunges off the fiscal cliff.
"This should be off the table," a visibly frustrated Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) told reporters. "I hope that offer … will be reconsidered."
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) was more blunt, calling the chained CPI proposal "terrible." He said the existing inflation calculation was already insufficient.
"I don't think the CPI now captures health care costs of retirees," Brown said. "It's more connected to people in their work lives with a different set of needs."
New York Rep. Charles Rangel, a senior Democrat on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, called the chained CPI measure a "very, very bad idea."
"It doesn't save us much money, and it's going to cause financial heartbreak," he told POLITICO.
The White House estimates that the new inflation calculation would save $130 billion over 10 years. Most of those savings would probably occur in later years.
AARP, the nation's largest lobbying organization on behalf of seniors, also urged Congress and the White House to nix the CPI change.
"This dramatic benefit cut would push thousands more into poverty and result in increased economic hardship for those trying desperately to keep up with rising prices," Nancy LeaMond, executive vice president of AARP's State and National Group, said in a statement.
Several Democrats said they'd keep resisting such changes.
"I think most of us in there are arguing very strongly against cuts to social safety net programs," Connecticut Rep. Chris Murphy, who will join the Senate next year, said of fellow House Democrats. "I for one understand there's likely going to be a tough vote for a lot of us on programs we really care about."
And Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern said the provision does little more than "balance the budget on the backs of poor people."
"Reducing the amount that somebody might get in terms of a cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security — people who are living on small checks — doesn't seem like a very fair way to do it," he said.
It's doubtful the indignation will have much effect in the fast-moving negotiations, however.
White House spokesman Jay Carney defended including chained CPI in the president's proposal and described it as an effort to find common ground with Republicans. And the White House has cast its version of the provision as "superlative CPI," arguing that it protects particularly vulnerable groups that would be hit by Republicans' preferred chained CPI plan.


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All Contra Costa County library branches offer programs for children, teens, adults and families. All branches will be closed Jan. 21, for the observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. For library hours and updated information, call the local branch or 800-984-4636 or visit www.ccclib.org.
Patty Cakes Story Time: 11-11:20 a.m. Tuesdays through March 5. For children up to 3 years old attending with a caregiver, the program features songs, rhymes and stories with an aim to early literacy.
Picture Book Time: 11-11:30 a.m. Thursdays through March 7. Children 3-5 years old may attend without a caregiver.
Meet Mr. Lincoln: 7:40-8:25 p.m. Jan. 28. Kids in grade 2 and older can meet Abraham Lincoln, as performed by Kevin Weinert, who will offer folksy tales from the 16th U.S. President's life. The free event is sponsored by the Clayton Community Library Foundation. No registration.
Book Buddies: 1-2 p.m. Wednesdays. A book buddy volunteer reader is in the library to read stories to children ages 3 and older.
Solar Energy Basics for Homes and Farms: 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Feb. 9. Participants will learn about solar technologies, including solar electricity and solar water heating, from Pete Shoemaker, renewables program coordinator with PG&E Pacific Energy Center. Space is limited and registration is required.
Clayton Community Library 101: An Introduction: 7-8 p.m. Feb. 27. Adults can learn about how to access magazine articles, borrow a book that the library does not own, the save, list, search and vacation hold options on the visual catalog, and more. There will a brief presentation and time for discussion and questions. Space is limited and registration is required.
Clayton Library Book Club: 7-9 p.m. the second Mondays, and open to anyone interested. On Feb. 11, Sunny Solomon leads the discussion of "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," by Shermann Alexie.
The library is at 6125 Clayton Road, Clayton. Call 925-673-0659. Hours: 1-9 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; and 1-5 p.m. Sundays.
Baby & Toddler Story Time: 10:15-10:35 a.m. and 11:15-11:35 a.m. Tuesdays. It is for children ages 0-3½ attending with a caregiver and features short picture books, songs and bounces.
Preschool Story Time: 10:30-11 a.m. Wednesdays, through Feb. 6, is for children 3-5 and features stories and songs.
Bilingual Storytime: 1:30-2 p.m. Mondays through Feb. 11 (no session Jan. 21). Kids ages 0-5 can listen to stories and songs in English and Spanish.
LEGO & Listen: 7 p.m. Feb. 25. Kids ages 6-12 can build with Lego blocks while listening to a recorded book. Space is limited and registration is required by Feb. 24.
Toddler Tumble Time: noon-1:15 p.m. Thursdays, Jan. 31-Feb. 28. Early literacy for children up to age 3 1/2. Space is limited to 25, and registration is required.
Storyteller Kirk Waller: 7-7:45 p.m. Feb. 11. Kids are invited to hear award-winning storyteller Kirk Waller, who has received a Parent's Choice Foundation Gold Award for his latest CD, "But Why? Stories, Music and Songs."
Multicultural Music from Around the World: 7-8 p.m. Jan. 28. Kids of all ages are invited to a performance by Don O'Brien.
Knitting and crochet group: 1:15-4:45 p.m. Feb. 3. Knitters and crocheters of all levels are welcome. Drop in anytime to knit, crochet and network. Free knitting instruction during first half of class by Melanie Mintz, and free crocheting help the second half of class by Chris Curtiss. Some scrap yarn provided, but bring your own needles or hook.
Computer Tutoring: 10-11 a.m. and 11 a.m.-noon Tuesdays and Saturdays. Adults can get one-on-one help with basic computer instruction — setting up an email account, searching the Internet, formatting a Word document and beginning Excel skills.
Small claims adviser workshop: 5:30-8 p.m. the second Thursday of the month, presented by the Contra Costa County Superior Court. The program is free and open to everyone. No registration, but latecomers will not be admitted due to the large amount of information to be covered.
The library is at 2900 Salvio St., Concord. Phone: 925-646-5455. Hours: Noon-9 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; and 1-5 p.m. Sundays.


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Today's guest blog post is by AAA member, Kirsten Bell. Bell discusses how to present a paper at an anthropology conference.
How to deliver a paper at an anthropology conference
By Kirsten Bell
Academic conferences, as several observers have noted, are a singularly understudied phenomenon. One of the more profound insights on this topic is to be found in an article by Jacobs and McFarlane published in, of all places, the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. They note that conferences are sites where inexperienced neophytes learn how to become professionals – how to (quite literally) walk the walk and talk the talk. While we learn from the practices and attributes of our individual teachers, it is only at our discipline's most cherished events that we get to see The Anthropologist as a larger species of academic in all of his or her glory. Thus, more than any other academic pursuit, be it fieldwork, writing or teaching, it's at conferences that we learn how to inhabit an anthropological habitus.
At some level, we're all aware of this. Certainly, for those budding anthropologists who have never previously presented at an academic conference, they can be a nerve-wracking affair. If not careful, one can become the academic equivalent of a gauche guest at a dinner party, or the Nigel-No-Friends on the playground ignored by other students and picked last for team sports.
I learnt this lesson the hard way at the Australian Anthropological Society conference in 1997, where I presented my first paper. Having never previously attended a conference, much less presented at one, I turned to my older sister, a geologist, for advice. Amongst her several pearls of wisdom were the instructions to 'use PowerPoint. Everyone's doing it'.[1] She then gave me her own personalized template (blue background with yellow writing, fashionable amongst scientists in the mid 1990s and heartily despised by the time it finally went out of fashion a decade later) and I diligently made up my slides, paid to get them transferred onto actual slides[2] and took the slide box with me to the conference.
The conference paper was an abysmal failure. While my unfortunate mispronunciation of the word 'cacophany'[3] didn't help matters, I blame the PowerPoint slides for the paper's poor reception. Afterwards, the academic who chaired the session politely informed me that while the use of PowerPoint might be de rigueur in scientific circles, it wasn't at all the thing amongst anthropologists, as our complex and abstract ideas didn't lend themselves well to bullet points on a slide. Clearly, my fatal error was asking a geologist for advice on how to communicate at an anthropology conference, which, as it turned out, was rather like asking an ice hockey player what strategies suit competitive netball.
In light of the upcoming AAA Meeting in San Francisco, and in the spirit of offering collegial advice to a new generation of anthropologists forced to navigate the shark-infested waters that constitute the typical academic conference, I've compiled a list of how to present papers at anthropology conferences. However, before I outline these tips there's one fundamental piece of advice I need to impart. You must disabuse yourself of any naïve notion that conferences are about disseminating knowledge and sharing intellectual ideas. It's precisely these sorts of pie-in-the-sky fantasies that will get you into trouble. As Erving Goffman pointed out in Forms of Talk, if one's goal is merely to transmit information, an academic talk is an extraordinarily ineffective way to do it. We don't attend talks to actually learn something new but to imbibe the essence of the speaker's identity. To quote Goffman, "To the degree that the speaker is a significant figure in some relevant world or other, to that degree this access has a ritual character, in the… sense of affording supplicants preferential contact with an entity held to be of value" (p. 187).
This ritual character extends to the structure of academic talks themselves. In an article on graduate student seminars, Bob Weissberg observes that such presentations are a speech event with a distinct rhetorical structure. The same is true of a typical anthropology talk. Below I outline four key elements of a successful presentation at an anthropology conference. Some of these elements I have used myself with a reliable degree of frequency over the years; others I have gleaned through watching (and marveling at) other anthropologists present at conferences.
1) Start with a fieldwork vignette.
This component is so obvious, so self-evident, it's hardly worth stating, echoing as it does the standard conventions for writing an anthropology paper identified in Writing Culture. However, I'll say it anyway in case some of you are so green as to somehow have missed its prime importance. You must start your paper with a vignette from your fieldwork. It doesn't need to relate to the focus of your paper or even make sense. The introductory anecdote is there to serve one purpose and one purpose only and that is to authorize you, to say to the audience: "see, I've done fieldwork", which, as Nigel Barley has so eloquently observed in The Innocent Anthropologist, is your main form of anthropological street cred.[4] Sure, it gives you endless fodder for lectures (especially the ones you've forgotten to prepare) and makes you an interesting guest to have at dinner parties, but one of its less recognized advantages is its ability to allow you to skip boring literary and rhetorical conventions such as actually bothering introducing your topic.
2) Name drop trendy theorists – preferably impenetrable continental ones.
Based on the number of times I heard his name mentioned at the 2010 Australian Anthropology Society conference and the 2011 AAA conference, I'd suggest Georgio Agamben as a potential candidate. To those of you who happen to think that Bare Life is the name of a National Geographic documentary, or who – even worse – don't think the concept of homo sacer is relevant to your work, I say this. The point of impenetrable theorists is that their concepts can be applied to anything – their very opacity allows them to absorb whatever phenomenon you are interested in, kind of like an intellectual equivalent of a black hole that sucks up matter and then spits it back out in the form of a shiny new star.
3) Sprinkle your paper liberally with non-English words and phrases. This is easiest done if you work in a locale where English is not the lingua franca. But don't – and this is critical – actually translate what you are saying. Neophytes tend to worry that such tactics might be confusing, and unnecessarily alienate audience members who don't speak the language. These are spurious concerns based on the mistaken assumption that your presentation is designed to do anything as mundane as actually convey useful information. Let me reiterate that your presentation is about establishing your credentials as an anthropologist. Throwing in words and phrases in the local language without explaining them serves this function by demonstrating that you are so fluent, engaged and immersed, etcetera, etcetera, you're not even aware when you have slipped into the local language. In Barthian terms these words and phrases also stand in syntagmic relation (note use of strategy 2 here) to the fieldwork vignette that you will use to start your presentation.
Obviously, if you work in an exclusively English-speaking context you're at a disadvantage here (but, of course, unless you were raised intellectually in one of those new-fangled cultural studies-type departments, you knew that already). The only way to successfully counteract this handicap is to bump up your use of strategy 2. Also, if you know any Latin, French or German phrases you can throw in, use them promiscuously throughout your presentation.
4) It's important to prepare your presentation as you would any other paper – i.e., as something to be read rather than spoken. I know this is the opposite of the advice any communication specialist will give you but, remember, the purpose of your paper is not to convey information but to credibly perform your identity as an anthropologist. So what if you have to flip through a couple of pages half way through your talk when you realize that you're running out of time and still have 5 pages to go? This merely reinforces your cultivated disheveledness (see discussion of dress below). Who cares if you write in paragraph-long sentences that are incomprehensible to all but the most devoted listeners? Ultimately, the less the audience understands, the better. That way, you will have fewer thorny questions to deal with, and you can accuse any detractors of completely misunderstanding your paper. Moreover, you can immediately submit it to a journal without having to rework it, thus killing multiple birds with one stone.
Finally, although not relating to the content or structure of the anthropology paper per se, I'd like to give one final word of advice on presenting a successful paper, which relates to the need to dress appropriately. While you may think that anthropologists are above such banalities, dress is a central means through which an anthropologist communicates his or her professional identity. If you don't want to take my word for it, then re-read Natural Symbols, where Mary Douglas points to the contrast between academics and stock brokers, noting the carefully modulated shagginess of the former (which, I would suggest, reaches its epitome in the sartorial stylings of anthropologists). Therefore, you must assiduously cultivate this disheveledness, even if you heart secretly desires the perky preppiness of a Tommy Hilfiger polo shirt or the understated refinement of a Brooks Brothers suit.
The following should be avoided at all costs: suits (unless worn ironically)[5] and ostentatious bling (unless vaguely 'ethnic' or 'ghetto' in design). It's worth noting that clothing also has a valuable symbolic function to perform in advertising your fieldsite, so try incorporating some subtle references in your mode of dress: for example, some sort of beaded accessory if you specialize in Native American studies, a brightly printed headscarf if you work in Africa, an intricately embroidered bag if you work in Southeast Asia, etcetera.
If you don't work in a fieldsite that promotes the use of such items, I'd advise you to develop a preference for generic ethnic/arty clothing shops. For example, during my PhD, on days when I was tutoring I would gravitate towards a shirt with an Indonesian-style batik pattern that I bought from an op shop for $5. In fact, it got to the point where my sister would snigger whenever she saw me wearing it and say "you must be tutoring today". Did I do fieldwork in Indonesia? No. But South Koreans tend to dress fairly conservatively and wearing my bright pink hanbok (note use of strategy 3 here) to teach in seemed a little excessive.
Actually, this is an important point: there's a line between dressing like an anthropologist and crossing all sorts of other potentially unsavory boundaries. Lean too far towards the arty side (especially if your taste runs towards clean, simple lines) and you run the risk of being seen as a sociologist. Too disheveled and you risk being mistaken for a homeless person (please refer to the 'Prof or hobo?' quiz for valuable lessons on how to avoid crossing this line http://individual.utoronto.ca/somody/quiz.html). Also, beware of going 'full ethnic'. No anthropologist wants to be accused of cultural appropriation or grotesque mimicry.
While I think you'll find these strategies of great benefit when presenting papers at anthropology conferences, tread with caution before attempting to import them into your performance repertoire at other types of conferences. If, for example, you regularly attend health or medical conferences, you may find your cherished symbols subject to an unexpected resignification. Trust me on this, anthropological forms of cultural capital do not translate well into other settings.[6]
Acknowledgements: This piece was informed by conversations with fellow anthropologists too numerous to name here (and who'd probably prefer that I don't make the attempt). However, I'm particularly indebted to Eric Mykhalovskiy – not actually an anthropologist at all, but a sociologist who shared some invaluable insights about the differences between anthropology and sociology conferences and who introduced me to the 'Prof or Hobo' quiz. Needless to say, Eric and the unnamed anthropologists bear no responsibility for the final content of this paper.
Biography: Kirsten Bell completed a PhD in social anthropology in Australia at James Cook University (2000). She is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia and has also held faculty appointments in anthropology departments at Macquarie University in Australia and the University of Northern Colorado in the USA. Her current research interests are located in the anthropology of biomedicine and public health.
[1] I can conclusively say that NO ONE at that time was using it in anthropology. I may very well bear the dubious honor of being the first anthropologist ever to use it at an academic conference.
[2] Readers born after 1985 probably don't have a clue what I'm talking about.
[3] Not CACK-oh-fanny, it turns out, but the rather more counter-intuitive ca-COFF-any.
[4] Of course, as Barley was well aware, your street cred varies substantially depending on where you did your fieldwork.
[5] I'm not entirely certain what an ironically worn suit looks like, but if you have to ask it's probably best not to make the attempt.
[6] For example, while a messy office is part of the cultivated disheveledness of any anthropologist worth his or her salt and demonstrates a busy and creative mind at work, in medical settings you will invariably be labeled disorganized, erratic and, yes, incompetent.


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In a word: disappointing. William Gibson handles the conceptual aspects of Spook Country, his latest novel, with a surprising lack of deftness. Usually touted as a writer brimming with ideas, this book shows Gibson concerned more with name-checking pop culture ephemera and devices than anything else. More attention is given to the description of the insoles of Adidas GSG-9 boots and cesium bullets than actual story development. The "chapters" are anything but, and give the novel the feel of a technologically-mediated novela on Univision -- an episodic thiller ripe with stereotypes, characters drawn with the broadest brush strokes possible, and lukewarm ideas that leave the reader wanting more.
Unlike his critically-acclaimed previous effort, Pattern Recognition (2003), Gibson's latest founders in a sea of contemporariness vividly rendered through countless cultural references. But, more on the object-oriented aspects of Spook Country. The emphasis on locative media, visors, bullets, black coats, shoes, et cetera reads as a combination of Bruce Sterling, John Seabrook, and Naomi Klein. Gibson's objects act as part of a post-capitalist dingpolitik (to borrow Bruno Latour's borrowing of Martin Heidegger's idea). One would expect a anti-neo-liberal spin: the media übermogul should be the bad guy, yet is the unseen hand that manipulates the narrative's aprocryphal puppet strings. But once Hubertus Bigend's ideas and work is sanctioned, the narrative loses teeth. Once gets the sense of "Bigend is behind all of it ... ho hum."
The novel is also touted as an example of Gibson's new take on science fiction, a variation on the shibboleth that truth is stranger than fiction. Stranger indeed, but many of the ideas that Gibson presents have historical, artistic, and literary antecedents. These antecedents seem to deal with such ideas in more interesting ways than Gibson's. For example, the idea of Latourian dingpolitik reaches a chilling denouement in Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle. Locative media find much more satisfying results in the work of Shimon Attie or Krzysztof Wodiczko. These artists' work questions the very meaning of, as well as the potentialities, of locative art.
Shimon Attie (American, b. 1957) At the Coliseum (Looking Towards the Arch of Titus), on location slide projection, Rome, Italy, Lambda Photograph, from The History of Another (2003) (via Jack Shainman Gallery)
Some of the "cooler" gadgets have also seen previous lives in the narratives of sci-fi classics. Take, for instance, Garreth's and Tito's guns. The use of a specially designed gun with vaporized (or pneumatic) projectiles is a nod to Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man. Again, more instances of "Been there, done that."
But perhaps the most serious flaws in the book are the general lack of interest it generates in some of its more important concepts. The narrative's own fascination with locative media becomes undeveloped and uninteresting in the end. A wildly fascinating art form is rendered meaningless and fleeting in Gibson's narrative. In addition to creating some wholly unbelievable characters (read: Sarah Ferguson, who seems to know about Chombo mathematical software), Gibson always seems to lobotomize some of the best aspects of his stories. This is a repeat offense, for in Pattern Recognition, two of the book's most poignant moments are treated off-handedly. One involves a video rendering-cum-prison in northcentral Russia. The other, an excavation of an Operation Barbarossa-era Junkers Ju-87 dive bomber.
The total unbelievability of Spook Country runs counter to many reviews of the book. Such verbage claims that the book is an example of how "scary" the contemporary world is, et cetera. If this is the case, and it is, then how is Gibson positioning himself to illuminate this idea? My guess is that he isn't.


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Hurricanes fly-half Aaron Cruden has confirmed that he will move to the Chiefs for next year's Super Rugby campaign.
The 22-year-old playmaker made his Super Rugby debut in 2010 for the Hurricanes, and was also named in the All Blacks that year. He had previously captained the New Zealand U20 team to the IRB Junior World Championship title in 2009 - a feat that also saw him named International Rugby Board's Junior Player of the Year.
Cruden missed out on selection for the Tri-Nations after the Hurricanes failed to impress in the 2011 Super Rugby season and is now set to fill the void left by Stephen Donald who is poised to link up with English Premiership side Bath.
Chiefs coach Dave Rennie said the franchise was "absolutely rapt" Cruden had committed to the Chiefs. "He's a top man, a quality player and a leader."
Cruden said the decision had been "extremely difficult" before revealing that it was the influence of Rennie, his coach at U20 level and current boss at Manawatu, that swayed his decision.
"I never wanted to let anyone down but a decision had to be made," he said. "It was my long-standing relationship with Rens that swayed things the Chiefs' way. It's going to be a challenge but one I am looking forward to now."
Hurricanes coach Mark Hammett paid tribute to Cruden. "We are disappointed Aaron is leaving, but it's not completely unexpected considering his close and long-standing relationship with Dave Rennie and the opportunity to link with Wayne Smith," Hammett said.
"Aaron has served us well over the last two seasons: he has been extremely hard working and highly professional both on and off the field."
Hammett said the Hurricanes had a number of other "quality" fly-halfs in our region who are available, among them Beauden Barrett in Taranaki, Michael Hobbs in Wellington and Daniel Kirkpatrick in Hawke's Bay.
Manawatu lock Michael Fitzgerald also confirmed his move to the Chiefs, and will look to debut for the side in the 2012 competition. Rennie said Fitzgerald was one of the best performing locks in last year's national provincial championship. "He's a very good athlete, has an outstanding work ethic and is prepared to do a lot of the grunt work," Rennie said.
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Digital Diplomacy, 4 years and now change.
Wow. There is a sea change happening in the Middle East. The 2013 Iranian Election will mark the end of one cycle, and the beginning of another. What a long path to this point.
The cycle ending is the cycle of the first few revolutions/civil wars and government overthrows that happened in full view of, and in part due to social media. The one beginning is going to become the post-social media middle east. One where the power of the people, won out, country after country.
Just a brief history.
In the late spring and early summer of 2009, Iran was in the throes of pre-election frenzy. There was a moderate trying to overthrow the conservative leadership through peaceful, democratic means. But it turned bad, and turned bad fast. The Green Revolution as it was called, inspired people to great heights of hope and also tremendous depths of despair that resulted from the horrific human rights abuses, torture, death, kidnappings, rapes, that were committed by the Iranian Government and it's religious and civil allies to prevent the Green Revolution from succeeding.
I documented this struggle of the Green Revolution on Twitter, on Facebook and on You2Gov which was the website I had started in 2008 and which we put into hiatus in 2010. Here is the twitter history. In fact it was this period with the efforts I and many others did to document the digital, social history; and to learn from it that was one of the reasons I started "Gov20LA" in the first place. People's voices need to be heard. In a good and positive way that allows everyone, those in government and those outside to feel comfortable making changes. Changes have to come from multiple parts of society not just one. But this has to be in moderation.
Since then we have seen the Occupy movements spring up in cities around the world. We have seen Tunisia, and Egypt fall with in the same week almost in 2011. I talked about this at the opening of Gov 2.0 L.A in 2011. We actually did a "Digital Diplomacy Panel" at the 2011 Gov20LA event. In part the exploding use of social media and mobile technology was openly discussed in a live stream during that panel.
Now, we see Turkey struggling with their own version of the "Arab Spring" that many people are referring to as #OccupyGezi on Twitter and other social media. Syria and Russia are going through massive social change again, with Syria in middle of a bloody and growing civil war; and Russia moving to limit rights of protestors, and curtailing free speech more and more.
But four years after the Green Revolution, the people of Iran have delivered a surprise to the world. A moderate. With none of the bloodshed or violence of the Green Revolution from four years ago. This time around #Iranelection is a positive hashtag with huge meaning. No longer meaning death, torture.
I think it is time for Syria, Turkey, Russia to pay attention and start making changes now. Because clearly, the power of the people when amplified by social media and mobility, is world changing power. Power in the hands of the people.
You Have Been De-centralized!
There is temporary bi-partisan outrage at the recent revelations about PRISM and BARNEY and other strangely named programs. Rightfully so. Perhaps it is time for a new version of the Church Commission. The Digital Version. The last time I believe we have seen this type of temporary bipartisanship in the nation's capitol was actually right after the tragedy of 9.11. So let us unite in a great cause then. Preserving our democracy.
Governments around the world are kind of missing the point. The point is not that they can siphon off our digital lives and chew on the digital breadcrumbs we all leave behind. The point is not that they are spying on us. That part should have been pretty obvious to anyone paying attention to Democracy since the Patriot Act was first written, then edited and updated and added to and continually re-authorized. But don't kid yourself. This is not new.
The point is: The world has become de-centralized. Your life is decentralized in ways you could not have imagined even 10 years ago. You carry the power of what was the world's most powerful computer 20 years ago in your pocket now. What used to take the resources of a government agency or large commercial entity can now be done by the crowd-sourcing of your life. You want the best new restaurant in town? Ask your friends on facebook. Need to get instant feedback on something? Tweet it. Want people to do a deep dive on something or really read it? Post it on Google+ or blog it. The point is. That we all can access information about anyone, anytime, almost as simply as by asking.
Technology has just rapidly increased the capabilities and speed of something that in one form or another has been going on for centuries. Governments have long spied on mail sent through postal services. The telegraph and telephone scaled that into a more real time (sort of) methodology. Now we have satellites, digital transmissions and our knowledge skills and access to powerful technology on a scale never seen in human history before. So governments are spying. So are big businesses. Every time you fill out a form online, or submit a sweepstakes entry, or use your credit card, or phone, or email, or go online, or drive your GPS enabled car.
Who then is really Big Brother? Governments around the world using spy gear and deep packet inspections to virtually rape your online life, or the corporations doing the exact same things, and or worse? Welcome to the future. Your future decentralized life. It is here now. Complete with two big brothers. Governments and Corporations.
Preview of Gov 2.0 L.A. 2013 From Twitter.
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Gov 2.0 L.A. 2013 is almost here.
As the founder of @Gov20la "Gov20LA" as it is referred to, I could not be more excited and proud. As the event gets ready to head into our fourth annual one; we are getting ready to make history, break some trendlines, and lead the dialog for another year.
But before discussing the amazing people who will be speaking I would like to highlight a major achievement of Gov 2.0 L.A.:
Since our first event in 2010, we have created and enabled an environment around building our speakers base as one that represents our society. So we have 50 percent female speakers and 50 percent male speakers. This is a critical achievement and comes at a critical time when this very issue is the subject of TV, Radio and written debate. Just recently there was an article by Nilofer Merchant (@nilofer) in the Harvard Business Review, with one of the salient points being made is that LESS than 20% of all conference speakers and panelists are Female. Less than 20%.
So Gov20LA is proud, as am I, to be able to say that we have beaten this particular national average and beaten it solidly. I continue to ensure that the speakers split for Gov20LA is evenly split between men and women, and did so because it is the right thing to do, not because we thought that in four years everyone would be talking about it. But that is what has now happened.
Gov20LA 2013 is going to rock! I could not be more excited about the powerful collection of women and men who will be speaking,
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Thank you! We look forward to seeing you in person and in our live stream on April 20, 2013.
Alan W. Silberberg, Founder, Gov 2.0 L.A.
Moving down the Gov 2.0 Continuum to Deep Change Agent.
In the last 5 years or so "Gov 2.0" (Government 2.0) has grown from being a name coined by William Eggers to now becoming the umbrella term for serious change in Government, and not just here in the United States, but around the world.
Many people, including myself have written much about the term Gov 2.0 – everything from "What is Gov 2.0" to lists of people leading current efforts. Lots of other angles have been covered by both the traditional media and online media.
I focus primarily on people power and how people are at the heart of any Gov 2.0 discussion, whether in print or in person. In fact I have called Gov 2.0 a "good revolution" and as we have all seen in the last few years, this is true regardless of country. I do not mean to state that Gov 2.0 is causing revolutions. Far from it. However, the openness and transparency that Gov 2.0 efforts around the world advocate for; driven by mobility and the cloud – have allowed people to be heard. To hear each other, those people whether in government or civic life, in business or entertainment.
Now thanks to the "Triangle of Gov 2.0" which is the social media and open computing use; the mobile and device specific tools; and the cloud which facilitates both; we now see individual people gaining access to information and power never seen before in our history in more than one country at a time. Now this is happening in multiple places.
People are driving the change. People are adopting the tools. People are leading the way in forcing governments around the world to be more open and accountable. With this innovation of course comes the other side. The very same tools that can promote openness and transparency can and are in turn used against the people by governments, both democratic and not.
But we are so past the "What is Gov 2.0" phase that I wrote about in 2010. We have blown past the "look the government is using twitter and facebook" phase. Indeed, we have entered the big data and deep analytical tool phase – complemented by more and more machine readable databases that are continually presenting new and innovative uses and creating new businesses and jobs. But people are still at the heart of the matter. Without courageous leaders willing to stand up to the buffeting forces of politics, budgets and fear; we would not be seeing the deep and dramatic changes we are witnessing unfolding in many countries, and many cities, and localities. People are driving this change, this is the constant in Gov 2.0 since 2007.
Thank you CTO Vision!
Alan Silberberg: A Pioneer in Gov 2.0
Alan W. Silberberg, the founder and CEO of Silberberg Innovations, sat down with me last week and talked about his work in Gov 2.0 and of the live streaming event, Gov 2.0 LA. Over the course of the next few weeks we will explore each of these focuses more intently, while this post will give […]
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Man Who Was Waterboarded 183 Times, Confesses Complete Responsibility for 9/11 and Will Be Executed.
It was reported on BBC News tonight that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others will be charged with orchestrating the September 11 attacks.
What the report omitted to say was that many sources, including the New York Times (could any institution be less anti-establishment?), reported in April 2009 that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had been waterboarded 183 times in Guantanano Bay.
The BBC report went on to say, rather comically in the circumstances, was that "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admits everything relating to the 9/11 attacks from A to Z."
I like to think that this blog specialises in stating the obvious but here is something SO obvious that it does not need stating.
How long will we and our useless, zombified representatives continue to put up with this stuff?
Full confessions. No jury. We can expect one or perhaps two of the defendants to be given light sentences to project (laughably) an impression of fairness......that this is something other than a completely pre-arranged propaganda exercise that will also shut up for ever one or two people who might, in the long term, provide information that damages the real criminals responsible for 9/11.
Humanity is possessed by an unspeakable evil.
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." -- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.


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Reasons to Renegotiate an M&A Deal
Company valuation can change during the M&A process. In fact, that occurrence even has a name: renegotiation. Or, as disappointed Sellers may call it, the dreaded renegotiation.
Theoretically, when Buyer and Seller negotiate a valuation, both sides want to see the deal close with that valuation. In practice, however, one side or the other may try to change the sale price before the closing.
If Buyer is trying to change the valuation, you can bet that he's trying to lower the valuation.
Buyer may have a case to ask for a lower valuation if the company has experienced some sort of material changes, such as the following:
Decline in profits
Loss of major customers
Loss of key executives
Change in regulations
Change (downturn) in the economy
However, if Buyer doesn't have a solid reason for asking for a lower price, that Buyer may be exhibiting a little bit of gamesmanship and a lot of negotiating in bad faith.
Similarly, if the business improves (especially profit-wise), Seller may feel that renegotiating for a higher valuation is warranted. This proposition is tricky. Focus on getting the deal done. During the time Seller spends convincing Buyer to pay more, the business may take a step backward, reducing profits and thus causing Buyer to ask for a lower valuation.


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JPS personnel visited the five district offices and one area office (both JPS and Convergys personnel visited one district office). Convergys personnel visited an area office. The team spent from one to one and a half days at each field site, with a goal of meeting with most of the staff in the seven offices; however, not all employees were available in all offices. The team generally interviewed the Office Director and/or Enforcement Manager and, in the district offices, the Regional Attorney and Program Analyst. The team also conducted several focus groups. One was with the Charge Receipt/Technical Information Unit Supervisor, Office Automation Assistants (OAAs), Investigator Support Assistants (ISAs), Receptionist(s), and Secretary(ies) (in offices where these jobs existed). The team also conducted a focus group with Investigators, and, when available, a focus group with Attorneys. The team also observed the processes followed when offices handle communication from the NCC.
The JPS Team prepared an agenda and interview protocol for each field site visited. The team asked employees to describe their role in the office and their perceptions of the NCC's impact on their work and their office. When meeting with management personnel, the team inquired about their expectations and experiences with the NCC.
The team asked support personnel (ISAs, OAAs, Receptionists, and Secretaries) how the NCC has affected their work, particularly in how they perform intake processes, support the taking of charges, and handle telephone calls. When meeting with Investigators, the team asked about the intake process and their experiences and thoughts on the NCC's impact. The team also asked Investigators to identify their current tasks and whether their jobs have changed since NCC implementation. The team asked their supervisors questions to help confirm information provided by the Investigators.
Office Director Survey. The team sent this survey to all Office Directors at each of the EEOC's 51 offices. Where there was no Office Director, the survey was provided to the acting Office Director, the Enforcement Manager, or the District Director. JPS sent the survey in the form of a Microsoft Word document as an email attachment. Depending upon the extensiveness of the responses, the team followed up with some directors and requested additional information.
Prior to sending the survey, the team obtained a review of the items from OFP, OIG, and an Enforcement Manager in the field. The final survey contained ten questions. The items were ones that needed an answer from just one person in the respective offices; thus, sending this survey reduced the need to ask these same questions of everyone in the other survey.
The questions asked were:
There were also a few questions asking about the intake process that the office follows and when the office records the EASQ into the EEOC's IMS.
The team initially asked for a response within one week. When the team did not receive requested information or did not understand the responses, it followed up by email and/or telephone calls to the directors. The team received a 100% response rate. The survey is attached as Appendix E.
Electronic Survey. The JPS Team drafted an electronic survey to learn the experience and opinions of staff in the field relative to the NCC. Each survey item was reviewed by staff in OFP, the OIG, and a representative of the Union. To ensure that the survey would perform as expected, the team then sent it to five incumbents in one field office. The final survey was then sent to all employees located in the EEOC field offices.
The survey contained 27 items; most were multiple-choice questions. Sixteen of the multiple-choice questions asked the respondents the extent to which they experienced certain phenomena related to the NCC. Responses to these questions were provided on a seven-point scale (none, 1-20%, 21-40%, 41-60%, 61-80%, 81-100% and N/A).
The survey was comprised of four sections: (1) telephone calls pre/post-NCC, (2) accuracy and completeness of EASQs received from the NCC, (3) GroupWise emails from the NCC, and (4) the role of the NCC. There was a filtering question for each of the first three sections to ensure that respondents without relevant experience would skip those sections. Everyone was asked questions about the NCC's initial and possible future role. There was also one question at the end of the survey where respondents were given the opportunity to provide additional comments regarding areas covered by the survey or other NCC-related issues.
The survey was made available to all employees in the field from February 9 through February 23, 2006. It was launched by an email from Aletha Brown, Inspector General, describing the nature of the survey and employee participation. Within a few minutes after that email was sent, JPS sent an email with a link to the survey. Two follow-up emails were sent - one seven days after launch and the second the day before the survey was closed. The reminder email from the Inspector General thanked employees who took the survey and encouraged non-respondents to participate, and the JPS reminder email was sent only to non-respondents. [
Separate from the team's survey, the EEOC sent three emails about the NCC to all employees during the time the survey was being administered. The first email (a few hours before the survey was launched) reported that a link to the NCC's FAQs was posted under "What's New" on the EEOC's internal website. The day after the survey's launch, the EEOC sent a National Contact Center Newsletter to all employees. One week after the survey's launch (and coincident with the first reminder emails) the EEOC sent a report describing NCC activities for the month of January. The team was advised that this was the first time information on NCC operations was circulated to all employees in the field. It is possible that sending this information while the survey was in the field could have been perceived as an effort to influence survey responses and therefore negatively influenced response rate and/or survey responses.
The survey was sent to 1,798 employees located in the field. Forty-one employees did not receive the survey, thirty-two of whom were in the New Orleans office, which did not have Internet connectivity while the survey was in the field. One survey was undeliverable and the remaining eight employees were out of the office the entire time the survey was in the field; therefore, 1,757 employees received the survey. Of this total, 935 individuals responded, yielding a response rate of 53.2 percent. Nineteen people completed only the first two questions. As both questions were just filter questions, there was no value in including these surveys in the data analyses.
The employees in the final sample were diverse in terms of tenure. Of those taking the survey, 17 percent have been employed by the EEOC for 5 years, 20 percent for 6-10 years, 16 percent for 11-15 years, 17 percent for 16-20 years, and 30 percent for more than 20 years.
A response rate of 53.2 percent is good. While the survey provides an indication of what the respondents believed at the time they took the survey, the results are not generalizable to everyone in the field because the characteristics of the respondents differ from the population, as indicated by different response rates across offices and job types. For example, the response rates by office (excluding the New Orleans office) and office type ranged from 48 percent to 60 percent. Table 36 provides information on the response rate as a function of the type of work performed. The range in rates was from a low of 30.6 percent of administrative staff to a high of 61.5 percent of State and Local. If all variables in the survey sample and field populations had been the same (e.g., across office type, work, and other variables), then we could have generalized results to the population. This usually occurs when the response rate is very close to 100 percent.
|Type of Work Performed
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District Director
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OA (Enforcement or Legal)
OA (Enforcement)
State and Local
Support Staff - Federal
Support Staff - Individual
Support Staff - Investigation
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Monday, April 30, 2012
mike in raleigh
the ad that should be heard around the country
Labels: advertising, class warfare, flip flip, gop, right hypocrisy, romney
here's monday
high tax rates won't slow growth
in fact, the deficit is a republican creation
look out, it's iceberg, the world's onlu albino killer whale
Sunday, April 29, 2012
come sunday
dangerous booby traps set along popular utah hiking trail
shareholders raising a ruckus about ceo pay
50 shades of publishing
Saturday, April 28, 2012
lazy saturday
studies show wealth reduces compassion
social security has a huge surplus
it's eeyore's birthday in austin
they want to kill my post office
Main Post Office, a photo by santa barbarian on Flickr.
...in 2006, in what looks like an attempt to bust the postal workers' union, george bush signed into law the postal accountability and enhancement act of 2006. this law required the postal service to pre-fund 100 percent of its entire future obligations for 75 years of health benefits to its employees – and not only do it, but do it within ten years. no other organization, public or private, has to pre-fund 100 percent of its future health benefits.
Santa Barbara Downtown Post Office, a photo by santa barbarian on Flickr.
Labels: congress, lobbyists, post office, santa barbara, union
Friday, April 27, 2012
friday night fireside
rule number 1 about fight club: it is poor judgement to talk about fight club
geese may be spreading the frog-killing virus
here's a pic of the sf bay bridge getting hit by 8 lightning bolts
Thursday, April 26, 2012
say hello
sweet thursday
the biggest lie in american politics
tsa screeners arrested in la drug trafficking scheme
nra proposes gun rights for fetuses (don't worry it's a joke)
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
pay up or bleed to death
one of the nation's largest medical debt collection companies — already the subject of a lawsuit over alleged privacy violations — finds itself in more hot water as newly released documents claim that agency employees are actually working in hospital emergency rooms and sometimes demanding that patients pay up before they receive any further medical attention.
the nytimes reports on hundreds of pages of documents pertaining to the debt collector's practices obtained from the minnesota attorney general.
according to the times, the debt collector promises savings and increased collections to hospitals if they turn over control of certain administrative functions. this includes putting employees of the collections company in the emergency room - consumerist /nytimes
Labels: healthcare, hospitals
wednesday blonde
everything is technology
why you don't want to work overtime
homeland security wants to implement philip k. dick for real
Slang For Hashish...
Personally, I've never touched the stuff. Hell, I don't even drink anymore -- quit seven months ago, haven't touched that stuff since either. I just like this song.
Labels: music
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
skippy's tuesday night music club
Labels: music, skippy's music club, youtube
they're gunning for the green laws
two leading conservative political organizations say they are stepping up coordinated efforts to repeal state-level renewable energy targets.
the american legislative exchange council (alec) — a "stealth business lobbyist" that works with corporate interests to help them write and implement "model" legislation — says it may soon start crafting laws designed to kill or weaken state targets for renewable electricity, heating and fuels. - think progress
Labels: alec, corporations, ecology, environment, lobbyists
down the penrose lane
more @ penrose on politics!
tweet of the day
#BillOReilly@OReillyFactor. Come out of hiding, Bill. You called me a commie. Debate me man to man. What are you afraid of? I'm 4'10.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 24, 2012
Labels: humour, o'reilly, tweet of the day, tweets, twitter
on an ordinary tuesday
reason number 203 the gop war on women is real
the aristocracy of obscene wealth
asian glaciers bulk up, confusing researchers
Monday, April 23, 2012
happy mondays
wal-mart bribery case to gain marketing dominance in mexico
first ever penguin count from space
abnormal gagging or anagram blogging? it's the instant anagram server
is it just us, or does greg sargent's picture on his washington post plum line column look like a dick tracy villain?
Sunday, April 22, 2012
happy earth day
the genesis of earth day is credited to senator gaylord nelson (d), then a u.s. senator from wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in santa barbara, california. inspired by the student anti-war movement, he called for an environmental teach-in, or earth day, to be held on april 22, 1970. over 20 million people participated that year, and this earth day is now observed on april 22 each year by more than 500 million people and several national governments in 175 countries. wikipedia
...the story of this annual celebration actually started with a tragedy. on january 28, 1969, an oil platform six miles off of santa barbara's coast ruptured, sending 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil into the santa barbara channel over the next 10 days. the oil spread from goleta to ventura, killing thousands of sea birds, as well as dolphins, elephant seals, and sea lions.
"it's hard to imagine today, but at the time it was the largest oil spill in the u.s.," said marc mcginnes, retired ucsb environmental studies program professor. (today the santa barbara spill ranks third behind the deepwater horizon spill in the gulf in 2010 and the exxon valdez spill in 1989.) "what we now know as the environmental movement was just emerging. it was events like this and fires burning on the cuyahoga River that got people's attention." - community environmental council
Labels: climate change, democrats, earth day, ecology, environment, global warming, offshore drilling, oil spill, santa barbara
church on sunday
hoekstra: equal pay is a "nuisance" that's "hurting business"
"my question is not 'why are there no black characters on girls,' but 'how many black showrunners are on hbo'?"
scientists say creativity and dishonesty go hand in hand
from prosecuting cheesy aspen poet scotter libby
according to a press release from patrick j. fitzgerald, united states attorney for the northern district of illinois, four individuals who were involved in shipping more than 110,000 pounds of mexican cheese in 2007 were indicted (see, full indictment pdf) on federal charges for allegedly conspiring to distribute the cheese throughout the united states despite food and drug administration orders that it be held for inspections, which later determined that samples were adulterated with salmonella, e. coli and other illness-causing bacteria. one defendant owned the illinois company that imported the dried mexican cheese to the u.s., and another defendant owned a wisconsin company that had a facility in suburban elmhurst and distributed the cheese to customers nationwide. all four defendants were charged with conspiring to illegally distribute the cheese, to "wash" cheese returned by dissatisfied customers by scrapping off mold and fungus so that it could be resold, and to cover up their distribution of the cheese by lying to an fda inspector and by creating and sending a false document to the food safety agency. - marler blog
Labels: cheese, fda, fitzgerald, food safety, scooter libby
Saturday, April 21, 2012
skippy's saturday night music club
Labels: music, skippy's music club, youtube
tweet of the day
Labels: right hypocrisy, tweet of the day, tweets, twitter
say hello
last saturday night in august
can't tell your incubus from your succubus? tey the online demonicpedia
parents find "stilborn" baby alive and well in frigid morgue
it's shakespeare's birthday!
and rip facts, 312 bc - 2012 ad
Friday, April 20, 2012
the great ones go in threes
rip levon helm, the instrumental engine behind the band, which backed bob dylan back in the day. levon was responsible for writing some of his generation's iconic songs, including "the night they drove old dixie down," "up on cripple creek" and our personal favorite, "the weight."
and finally, it's either deeply sad or highly ironic (or both) that the original barnabas collins, jonathan frid, died recently, just weeks before the tim burton remake of "dark shadows" opens (and, appropriately enough, on friday the 13th). jonathan has a cameo in the new film, playing an elderly barnabas to johnny depp's version.
we will miss levon and jonathan, and of course dick clark.
friday night fever
lefty blogs are more participatory and democratic
president obama's top 50 accomplishments
how conservatism lost touch with reality
"The Weight"...
Take care, Levon. And thanks for all the great music.
Labels: music
From the Madman Across the Water to the Greatest Helmsman of His Generation?
Instead, though, let's re-interpret, in the manner of Dylan touring "The Mutineer":
"God is dead and the war's begun"?
Labels: music, pop culture
Thursday, April 19, 2012
suite thursday
romney's big problem? nobody likes him
alec annoyed at losing sponsors? it breaks our hearts
and rip american bandstand legend dick clark
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
skippy's wednesday night music club
Labels: music, san francisco, skippy's music club, youtube
april 18, 1906
are you prepared for the next big one?
in october, kalw conducted a survey asking bay area residents what was in their earthquake kits. Of the 328 people who responded, 127 said they didn't have one at all and many weren't sure they were packing the right things.
for those without a kit, rubinstein suggests food, water, and basic hygiene supplies. cash in small denominations is also a good thing to have because credit cards might not work and coins for payphones are a good idea.
"and all of this is with the expectation that you should be without services for at least 72 hours," he explains. - kalw
Labels: california, earthquake, history, natural disasters, san francisco
wednesday 13
the time to negotiate with obama is now, not after the election
are atheists too respectful of religion?
here's a timeline of neat stuff you'll have in the future
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
welcome tbogg readers!
we thank tbogg so much for linking us in his tribute to atrios
we personally have met tbogg more times than we can remember, mostly at jane's shindigs, where we hob-nobbed with the creme de la blog of los angeles blogtopia and yes, we coined that phrase!
on a tuesday in amsterdam long ago
blog against theocracy 2012
corporate profits are back up to pre-recession levels; not so much jobs
true story: "i regret eating my placenta
Monday, April 16, 2012
goodbye blue monday
it's not socialism if the gop does it
steal a lobster, go to jail
6 times the onion had people totally fooled
Sunday, April 15, 2012
skippy's sunday night music club
Labels: music, skippy's music club, weather, youtube
environmental news stories sunday
radioactive waste may soon travel on highways. - shipments of low-level radioactive waste from up to 36 states will soon head to a dump in west texas, owned by dallas billionaire and generous republican political donor harold simmons, despite concerns from environmentalists and others worried about potential accidents or contamination - fort worth star telegram
the guar gum bubble. - big business is in a bidding battle over a little legume that's used in everything from food to fracking. the interest in guar gum has caused the price to spike nearly twenty-fold. though there are alternatives to guar in fracking, none work quite as well or are too expensive to produce - living on earth
oil spill not just a terrible memory. - on florida's panhandle beaches, where local officials once fretted over how much oil washed in with each new tide, everything seems normal. but with an ultraviolet light, geologist james "rip" kirby has found evidence that the oil is still present, and possibly still a threat to beachgoers - tampa bay times
fda criticized for secrecy in food-illness probes. - the fda's decision to let a six-state e. coli probe in 2009 go dormant, despite clear leads, is part of what some food safety experts call a worrisome "cone of silence" around leafy green produce problems in the united states - denver post
gas prices too high? Have you considered sewage? - hydrogen cars aren't taking off because hydrogen is hard to make and put in cars. but there is a lot of the gas in our waste treatment plants, and one in california will now let you fill up. have they opened the door to a hydrogen economy? - fast company
fracking water linked to earthquakes. - the use of underground wells to dispose of waste water produced by fracking – the process used to unlock oil and gas deposits hidden deep in rock formations – is "almost certainly" behind the surge in earthquakes in the central us in recent years, a government study has found - financial times
and you thought it was just 'pink' slime. "lean finely textured beef," aka "pink slime," sparked an uproar when the usda bought 7 million pounds of the stuff for school lunches. the agency maintains it's safe and healthy; critics say it's not fit to eat - propublica
colorado river flows endangered by urbanization, energy production, climate change. - the once-lush delta where the colorado river used to spill out into the sea of cortez is now a dry sandy landscape in mexico where "america's hardest-working river" is too tired to finish the job - vail real vail
port-au-prince: A city of millions, with no sewer system. - port-au-prince is about the size of Chicago. But it doesn't have a sewer system. It's one of the largest cities in the world without one - all things considered (npr)
four important food and farm stories you may have missed - grist
radiation from japan's damaged reactors posed little risk in oregon despite portland 'hotspot'. - at a public health conference in october, one speaker noted portland stood out as a hotspot for radioactive fallout from the 2011 fukushima nuclear accident in japan - portland oregonian
overcoming climate change denial. - according to the mayo clinic, "if you're in denial, you're not being realistic about something that's happening in your life -- something that might be obvious to those around you." - redding record searchlight
and then...there are the tornadoes.
Labels: beef, bp, climate change, drought, earthquake, energy, florida, food, food safety, fracking, gas, global warming, haiti, japan, nuclear power, oil spill, rivers, tornados
down the penrose lane
more @ penrose on politics!
broken sunday
lotteries are a bad bet for state budgets
abortion clinic landlord turns the tables on protestors
fitting for a sunday, it looks like every gop candidate endorsed by god


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