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Saturday, July 02, 2005
Peppermint Kisses
3 egg whites
1/2 to 3/4 cup sugar (depending on how sweet you like yours)
1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
Preheat the oven to 175
Place a small pan of water on the stove and heat till simmering. Place egg whites in a mixing bowl and pour in the sugar. Move the mixing bowl over to the simmering water, but make sure the bottom does not touch the water. Gently stir the sugar and egg whites together for 2 minutes until the eggs warm up.
Using the whisk attachment, mix on high speed until you have firm peaks. Gently mix in peppermint extract until combined. Place a pastry bag fitted with a star tip into a large drinking glass and fold back the sides. Spoon the meringue into the bag and pull up the sides. Pipe onto 2 parchment lined baking sheets and place in the oven. Bake until the meringues are crisp, but have no color on them. This takes about 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 hours depending on the size. Turn the oven off and leave the door ajar to let them cool completely.
14 comments:
- Anonymous12/17/2005 03:32:00 AM
Hi Joe,ReplyDelete
I've been quietly reading your blog for a while now and have been enjoying all your recipes. But seeing your peppermint kisses today, I just had to drop you a note. They are sooooo perfectly shaped! My goodness! Each ridge is like sooo sharp! Great job!
I'm now tempted to try making my own kisses. Have never made them before. Just to check: the temperature should be 375? And not 275? I'm guessing, but 375 seems a little high for 2 1/2 hours of baking. Just wanted to check before I head off into the kitchen.
Keep up the great job with the blog!
Thank you for catching that error! This one slipped by me - the correct temperature is 175 and I have made the chage in the recipe - at 375 they would be... a little more than well done!
Thank you for the comments!
How beautiful!ReplyDelete
I blogged about it today. Hope you don't mind...
oh the balancing!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12/23/2005 06:00:00 PM
I'm sorry to be so dense, but how did you get the sprinkles and dragées to stick?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4/21/2006 12:59:00 PM
Just found your site and I love it. Your Peppermint Kisses are beautiful. Have I missed the response to "I'm sorry to be so dense, but how did you get the sprinkles and dragées to stick?"
I thought I had posted a comment on this, but maybe it was in e-mail? I used a thin coating of brown rice syrup that I painted on with a small brush!
Okay, so now I am dense. What is brown rice syrup? Never heard of it and I have been baking for a long time.ReplyDelete
Ooma - Brown rice syrup is a liquid sweetener made from brown rice that is just about half as sweet as sugar.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/08/2010 06:46:00 PM
Hi Joe I am planing to make the pepperment kisses tomorrow but i really need to know about how many it makesReplyDelete
- hayley6/08/2010 06:50:00 PM
how many does this make?ReplyDelete
Hayley - It depends on how big you make them. If they are on the small size, like these were, expect several dozen.ReplyDelete
Hi Joe,ReplyDelete
I was wondering if you just painted on green food coloring after the kisses were baked and cooled?
Lauren - No, to make the stripes, we painted lines of gel food coloring inside the bag before we placed the meringue in.ReplyDelete


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19 June 2012 3:55 PM (elf | dwarf | guile | scheme | igalia | compilers | debugging)
This is going to sound like quite a yak-shave, but here goes: I was spending some research time here at Igalia working on a new virtual machine for Guile when I got interested by DWARF, the debugging format used in many UNIX systems (GNU, the BSDs, Mac OS). For various reasons, we needed a new debugging format, and DWARF seemed suitable.
I was going to need tools that would both produce and consume DWARF information, so I started with the parser. Of course there is a ready source of DWARF information on a GNU system, in all of the shared libraries. So I wrote a tool to snarf information out of those libraries. It is suprising how much there is!
Enough of the strange introduction! Let's try it out:
$ dltool print-one libc wmemchr (subprogram (name "wmemchr") (prototyped #t) (type (pointer-type (byte-size 8) (type (named-type-reference (typedef "wchar_t"))))) (formal-parameter (name "s") (type (pointer-type (byte-size 8) (type (const-type (type (named-type-reference (typedef "wchar_t")))))))) (formal-parameter (name "c") (type (named-type-reference (typedef "wchar_t")))) (formal-parameter (name "n") (type (named-type-reference (typedef "size_t")))))
Nifty, no? It even prints the names of the formal parameters. The structure of the printout mirrors the structure of the DWARF information quite closely, so for a detailed reference you should refer to the DWARF standard. Note though that the "type" child of a "subprogram" (procedure, function, etc) denotes its return type. If it's missing, the function does not return a value.
In this case we see that wmemchr returns a pointer to a wchar_t, and we see that the pointer is 8 bytes wide. We don't see the definition of wchar_t though. You can pass a --depth=N to see more information, recursively, but it's most useful to simply have the tool print out a tree of needed declarations, this time with the print-decls command instead of print-one:
$ dltool print-decls libc wmemchr (typedef (name "wchar_t") (type (base-type (byte-size 4) (encoding signed) (name "int")))) (typedef (name "size_t") (type (base-type (byte-size 8) (encoding unsigned) (name "long unsigned int")))) (subprogram (name "wmemchr") ...)
Here the body of the subprogram is the same as before. If I leave off the wmemchr argument, I get all the declarations that are publically exported by libc, and that have debugging information.
locating debug information
In the examples above, I'm just passing the basename of the library. dltool is smart enough to look in the library paths if needed, via parsing /etc/ld.so.conf and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
These days it is not so common for a stock GNU distribution to have debugging symbols installed for its libraries. Instead the debugging information is packaged separately, and a .gnu_debuglink section is left in the main binary (library, or executable, or both -- have you ran /lib/ld-linux.so.2 lately?). dltool can deal with that.
The only thing it doesn't handle is compressed debug info (.zdebug_info sections). Hopefully these sections go away at some point though: they prevent debuggers from mapping the debugging information directly, they don't save any distribution cost (packages being zipped already), and have no other runtime impact, as they debuginfo isn't normally loaded.
Oddly enough, dltool works with C++ too. In this case, I point it at a debugging version of the JavaScriptCore library, looking for a definition of the JSC::JSCell class.
$ dltool print-one --grovel .libs/libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0.so JSC::JSCell (class-type (specification (named-type-reference (structure-type "JSCell") (namespace "JSC"))) (byte-size 16) (member (name "TypedArrayStorageType") (type (const-type (type (named-type-reference (enumeration-type "TypedArrayType") (namespace "JSC"))))) (declaration #t) (const-value 0)) (member (name "m_classInfo") (type (pointer-type (byte-size 8) (type (const-type (type (named-type-reference (structure-type "ClassInfo") (namespace "JSC"))))))) (data-member-location ((plus-uconst 0))) (accessibility private)) ...)
In this case I used the --grovel option to indicate that I wanted to traverse all the debugging entries to find the one I wanted, instead of looking in the symbol table. That was necessary in this case because type definitions aren't present in a symbol table. The actual result is some 1500 lines long, with member variables and functions, and of course it's not complete as it's just a print-one output.
If the data-member-declaration entry looks a little odd to you, that's because it is odd: it's a sequence of opcodes for a virtual machine that computes locations of values. DWARF specifies a couple of little machines like this. For class members, there's usually only the one plus-uconst opcode, but with bitfields, different opcode sequences are possible.
Making dltool was quite an interesting hack. Oddly, writing the DWARF parser was the easy part. I had an ELF parser and linker already, and although quite flexible, DWARF is regular and well-specified.
One tricky part was making dltool fast, while not consuming too much memory. There can be a lot of data in a debugging object. For example, the debugging version of libwebkitgtk-3.0.so is bigger than 1GB. In a number of cases, we have to trade off the cost of re-parsing versus the cost of storing parsed data in memory. dltool can indeed handle WebKit, which is something I'm proud of, though printing all the exported declarations takes 2 GB of memory and some three or four minutes. More modest tasks like describing libcairo only take a second or two.
Another tricky part was determining which types are actually the same. In C and C++, typically you compile each file on its own, and then link them together. Each time you compile a file, the compiler loads the headers that the file needs and creates instances of those types, internal to the compiler. The debugging information that the compiler writes can contain as many (or more) definitions of (for example) size_t as there are compilation units that reference it. dltool needs to unify those types that are the same, not only to prevent multiple type declarations, but also to prevent divergence when processing recursive types.
C++'s nested namespaces also presented a problem. DWARF information is organized in trees, though they can also be reference each other by offset. However, there are no up-pointers in the tree nodes. It seems that you need to pre-traverse the node trees to determine the ranges of the namespaces so you can determine the right context for a node at any given offset. C does not have this issue, partly because it is less expressive, and partly due to some DWARF design decisions.
dltool doesn't currently demangle C++ names, for what that's worth.
Oddly, C++ templates were not very much of a problem. They simply create debugging entries with really crazy names, that's all.
"automatic" ffi?
I think dltool is pretty cool. Given an opaque information-ful object, I always want some tool to spread information on a screen in a structured way. So it's an interesting tool for binary spelunkers.
There are some obvious applications, though. One is to use the information that dltool finds to automatically generate bindings from C (or even C++) libraries to your language of choice. You can use a dltool run to generate the bindings at "compile-time", or save it to a file and generate bindings at run-time with node-ffi or ctypes or whatever the kids use these days.
Of course in Guile, besides importing the dlhacks module and creating bindings at runtime, we can get the best situation by running the dltool groveller from within a macro. That way we pull the DWARF groveller into our language, without having the module depend on dlhacks or on the presence of debugging information at runtime.
There are some limitations, though. DWARF is a flexible and extensible format, but it doesn't currently get all of the information you would want in a binding. For example there's no way to tell the C compiler to serialize an association between "struct ClutterActor" and a GType named "ClutterActor". You can't tell it that the return value of wcsdup is actually owned by the caller. You can't annotate pointer arguments to indicate that they are "out" or "in/out" or whatever. But this is not a failing of DWARF: it is a current limitation of our toolchain.
Actually it's also a limitation of C -- I mean, everything you would want to say about a variable or a function or whatever is, loosely speaking, the type of that object. We can't really change C's type system, but we can improve our toolchain by allowing for GCC to recognize and plumb through more relevant __attribute__ annotations.
all right, all ready
Anyway, that's the thing! The tool itself requires Guile 2.0. If you're running Debian, just install guile-2.0, then:
git clone git://gitorious.org/guile-dlhacks/guile-dlhacks.git cd guile-dlhacks autoreconf -vif && ./configure && make ./env dltool help
Visit the gitorious page for more, and find me on #guile for more.
Happy spelunking!

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Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited and LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals, Inc. jointly announced today that Takeda's wholly-owned subsidiary, Takeda America Holdings, Inc. and LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals, Inc. have entered into a definitive agreement for Takeda to acquire LigoCyte for an upfront payment of $60 million, with future contingent consideration based on the progress of development projects. LigoCyte is a privately-held biopharmaceutical company specializing in innovative vaccine products headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. Its lead product, a vaccine to prevent norovirus gastroenteritis, is in phase I/II of clinical development.
"Takeda's acquisition of LigoCyte is a major step forward in the expansion of Takeda's vaccine business, and a demonstration of Takeda's dedication to preventing illness in children and adults around the world," said Rajeev Venkayya, M.D., executive vice president of Takeda's Vaccine Business Division (VBD), which was launched in January 2012. "Norovirus is the most common cause of outbreaks of gastroenteritis and foodborne illness in the U.S., and is responsible for 200,000 deaths each year, most of them in developing countries. With the only norovirus vaccine in clinical trials today, Takeda will be in a position to change this picture." LigoCyte is focused on the development of innovative vaccine products based on its proprietary virus-like particle platform (VLP) technology. LigoCyte's lead product, the norovirus vaccine, uses VLP technology which enables the production of vaccines designed to cover multiple genetic varieties (or "strains") of norovirus. The vaccine candidate has been shown to confer protection in an initial human challenge trial. Approval for the vaccine will be sought in the United States, Europe and other countries based on disease burden.
"This milestone underscores Takeda's commitment to innovation and the advancement of global public health through the development of novel vaccines," said Tadataka Yamada, M.D., Takeda's chief medical and scientific officer and member of the Takeda board of directors.
"Norovirus is responsible for a significant burden of disease around the world and is notoriously difficult to control. With this acquisition, Takeda will help to protect families and communities from this virus." In recent years, norovirus has become recognized as the most common cause of outbreak and foodborne gastroenteritis in developed countries. Each year, outbreaks are reported on cruise ships, in health care and long-term care facilities and in child care settings, often requiring closure of facilities for cleaning, and resulting in significant disruption of operations and economic consequences.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, norovirus infects 21 million people in the United States each year.
In addition to the norovirus vaccine candidate, LigoCyte has also initiated preclinical development of vaccines against respiratory syncytial virus, influenza and rotavirus.
"LigoCyte is pleased to become a part of a leading research-based global pharmaceutical company with a commitment to vaccines and the resources to develop our pipeline," said Donald P. Beeman, chief executive officer, and member of the LigoCyte board of directors.
"Together, we believe we have the right combination of expertise and dedication to bring our norovirus vaccine to market. We look forward to supporting Takeda's vaccine research and development efforts and contributing to the long-term success of Takeda's Vaccine Business Division." To preserve continuity and build upon LigoCyte's success, Takeda will continue operating LigoCyte in Bozeman, Montana, for the foreseeable future and intends to retain the management team and its employees.
Once the acquisition is complete, Mr. Beeman and his management team will become a part of Takeda's Vaccine Business Division. Pending the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, the deal is expected to close in the next several weeks.
Key Strategic Benefits Takeda expects the acquisition of LigoCyte will:
— Advance Takeda's presence in the global vaccine market, and demonstrate Takeda's commitment to global public health
— Expand Takeda's development pipeline and R&D capacity, and position Takeda to bring a "first-in-class" vaccine for an unmet health need to populations around the world
— Contribute to Takeda's long-term commercial objectives


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Stepping up from successful individual contributor to new manager creates a conundrum: Is it about you and proving yourself in your new role, or is it about them—the team—your direct reports?
The quick answer is: It's about both you and your team. There are two ways to look at your new role.
First, it's about you. It's about you in terms of your ability to show the way, provide hope, stay optimistic, and be a positive role model. It's about your willingness to listen well to your people and hear their concerns and new ideas. It's about you having the courage to say what needs to be said—to your people, your peers or your boss—on behalf of your team. It's about you using your corporate machete to create career paths for your people through your company's jungle. It's about teaching and explaining (again) and supporting and encouraging (always). It's about noticing the true condition of your most valuable corporate resource—the people under your care.
Second, it's about them. Are your people's roles and goals clear? Do they have a voice and a forum with you to express themselves? Your direct reports are ambitious. They want to know they can trust you with their careers and that you have their best interests at heart. They want to know their time with you is well spent. They want to know the vision and the plan. They want to learn and grow. It's about them and whether they stay—stay working for your company, stay with you in your department, stay loyal, stay engaged, stay positive, stay current, and stay successful.
No one says becoming a good manager is easy. But it's not so tricky if you believe at your core that your job is to help others succeed and that, by so doing, you too will succeed. Ken Blanchard asks this question to those who aspire to leadership: "Are you here to serve or to be served?" Your response to Ken's question will set the tone for your new management career.
For new managers, there are many ways to leave a positive mark. Look at what your people need from you and look inside yourself for ways to meet their needs. Ironically, meeting their needs will, in turn, meet your needs as a new manager.
About the author:
Cathy Huett is Director, Professional Services at The Ken Blanchard Companies. This is the second in a series of posts specifically geared toward new and emerging leaders.


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Very few people succeed in business without a degree of confidence. Yet everyone, from young people in their first real jobs to seasoned leaders in the upper ranks of organizations, have moments — or days, months, or even years — when they are unsure of their ability to tackle challenges. No one is immune to these bouts of insecurity at work, but they don't have to hold you back.
What the Experts Say
"Confidence equals security equals positive emotion equals better performance," says Tony Schwartz, the president and CEO of The Energy Project and the author of Be Excellent at Anything: The Four Keys to Transforming the Way We Work and Live. And yet he concedes that "insecurity plagues consciously or subconsciously every human being I've met." Overcoming this self-doubt starts with honestly assessing your abilities (and your shortcomings) and then getting comfortable enough to capitalize on (and correct) them, adds Deborah H. Gruenfeld, the Moghadam Family Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior and Co-Director of the Executive Program for Women Leaders at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Here's how to do that and get into the virtuous cycle that Schwartz describes.
Your piano teacher was right: practice does make perfect. "The best way to build confidence in a given area is to invest energy in it and work hard at it," says Schwartz. Many people give up when they think they're not good at a particular job or task, assuming the exertion is fruitless. But Schwartz argues that deliberate practice will almost always trump natural aptitude. If you are unsure about your ability to do something — speak in front of large audience, negotiate with a tough customer — start by trying out the skills in a safe setting. "Practice can be very useful, and is highly recommended because in addition to building confidence, it also tends to improve quality. Actually deliver the big presentation more than once before the due date. Do a dry run before opening a new store," says Gruenfeld. Even people who are confident in their abilities can become more so with better preparation.
Get out of your own way
Confident people aren't only willing to practice, they're also willing to acknowledge that they don't — and can't — know everything. "It's better to know when you need help, than not," says Gruenfeld. "A certain degree of confidence — specifically, confidence in your ability to learn — is required to be willing to admit that you need guidance or support."
On the flip side, don't let modesty hold you back. People often get too wrapped up in what others will think to focus on what they have to offer, says Katie Orenstein, founder and director of The OpEd Project, a non-profit that empowers women to influence public policy by submitting opinion pieces to newspapers. "When you realize your value to others, confidence is no longer about self-promotion," she explains. "In fact, confidence is no longer the right word. It's about purpose." Instead of agonizing about what others might think of you or your work, concentrate on the unique perspective you bring.
Get feedback when you need it
While you don't want to completely rely on others' opinions to boost your ego, validation can also be very effective in building confidence. Gruenfeld suggests asking someone who cares about your development as well as the quality of your performance to tell you what she thinks. Be sure to pick people whose feedback will be entirely truthful; Gruenfeld notes that when performance appraisals are only positive, we stop trusting them. And then use any genuinely positive commentary you get as a talisman.
Also remember that some people need more support than others, so don't be shy about asking for it. "The White House Project finds, for example, that many women need to be told they should run for office before deciding to do so. Men do not show this pattern of needing others' validation or encouragement," says Gruenfeld. It's okay if you need praise.
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Take risks
Playing to your strengths is a smart tactic but not if it means you hesitate to take on new challenges. Many people don't know what they are capable of until they are truly tested "Try things you don't think you can do. Failure can be very useful for building confidence," says Gruenfeld. Of course, this is often easier said than done. "It feels bad to not be good at something. There's a leap of faith with getting better at anything," says Schwartz. But don't assume you should feel good all the time. In fact, stressing yourself is the only way to grow. Enlisting help from others can make this easier. Gruenfeld recommends asking supervisors to let you experiment with new initiatives or skills when the stakes are relatively low and then to support you as you tackle those challenges.
Principles to Remember
- Be honest with yourself about what you know and what you still need to learn
- Practice doing the things you are unsure about
- Embrace new opportunities to prove you can do difficult things
- Focus excessively on whether you or not you have the ability – think instead about the value you provide
- Hesitate to ask for external validation if you need it
- Worry about what others think — focus on yourself, not a theoretical and judgmental audience
Case Study #1: Get the knowledge and get out of your own way
In 2010, Mark Angelo, was asked by the CEO of Hospital for Special Surgery in New York to create and implement a program to improve quality and efficiency. Mark was relatively new to the organization. He had worked as a business fellow for the previous year but had recently taken on the role of director of operations and service lines. Even though he had background in operations strategy from his days as a management consultant, he was not familiar with the Lean/Six Sigma principles he'd need to use for this project and didn't feel equipped to build the program from scratch. He was particularly concerned he wouldn't be able to gain the necessary support from the hospital's physicians and nurses. What would they think of a young administrator with no hospital experience telling them how to improve quality and increase efficiency?
For five months, Mark struggled to get the project on track and his confidence suffered. He knew that his apprehension was in part due to his lack of knowledge of Six Sigma. He read a number of books and articles on the subject, talked to consulting firms that specialized in it, and spoke with hospitals that had been successful in developing and implementing similar programs. This helped but he realized he still didn't know if he would be able to get the necessary people on board. "I was anxious and stressed because I had no idea how I was going to transform the organization. I knew I couldn't do it on my own. It was going to take a collective effort that included our management team and all of our staff," he said.
He talked with the CEO who had supported him since the beginning. He also looked to his family for emotional support. Through these conversations he realized that his anxiety stemmed from a desire to be liked by his colleagues and therefore to avoid conflict. "After many discussions with my CEO and observing how he handled these situations, I learned that it is better to strive to be well-respected than well-liked," he said.
This was a turning point for Mark. Instead of worrying so much about what others thought of him, he focused on doing what was best for the patient and the institution. In December, he presented the vision for the program to the entire medical staff. While he was nervous about how it would be received, he knew this was a critical moment. "I was able to get up in front of one our toughest constituencies and present the vision that we had been developing over the past few months," he says. His presentation was met with applause. "In the end, my confidence grew by leaps and bounds and we were able to design a program that has since taken off with great success across the hospital. I was able to overcome my mental blocks and knowledge deficits to build a program that will truly help transform how we approach performance improvement and patient care," he says.
Case Study #2: Know the value you bring
Julie Zhuo knew she had things to say but she wasn't sure how to get heard. As a product design manager at Facebook, she had developed valuable expertise in the products she worked on. Yet, she lacked the confidence to share her ideas. She was used to being one of very few women in the room. That had been the case when she was studying computer science at Stanford and it was still true now that she was at Facebook. She knew this meant she needed to make a concerted effort to speak up. But being the minority voice wasn't the only reason she felt unsure of herself. She says that she also suffered from "imposter syndrome," feeling as if she hadn't earned a right to her ideas; she had somehow ended up where she was accidently, not through hard work.
Julie was intrigued when someone in HR told her about a workshop offered at Stanford by the Op-Ed Project. After attending and getting positive feedback about her ideas, Julie tried something she had never thought to do before: write an op-ed.
Last November, she published a piece in the New York Times about the danger of anonymity in online discussions. "It was a matter of someone saying you can do it," she explains. "It had never occurred to me that I could be published. But it actually wasn't hard at all." The reaction she got in the workshop and afterward back at Facebook boosted her confidence. "Since then, she's gotten a lot of support from colleagues, which has emboldened her to speak her mind. "Of course it's still a work in progress, but now I'm a much more confident speaker and writer," she says.


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There is a moment in the first episode of "Oprah's Next Chapter," the new celebrity and spiritual travelogue starring Oprah Winfrey and also her interview subjects, that feels more like something out of "This Is Spinal Tap" than a star debriefing on an ostensible cable network for women.
At the end of two television hours (!) together, Winfrey and Steven Tyler, the flamboyant Aerosmith frontman and, more recently, "American Idol" judge, are in a forest in Tyler's native Sunapee, N.H. They have hiked there to find a bed of moss where Tyler says he discovered his spirituality as a young man.
They sit down on the moss, these two superstars in their respective realms, and then they each sniff the moss. Winfrey holds her moss up to Tyler's nose because hers, apparently, smells different. Tyler says something about the place reminding him of finding God in the music.
"I think God is not just in the music," Winfrey tells the rocker, significantly. "I think God is the music."
This assertion from Sunday's premiere may or may not be true. (Was a supreme being really guiding the creation of Aerosmith's teen-lust rave-up "Walk This Way"?) But the fragrance of forest moss and the talk of God do seem to be an essence of "Oprah's Next Chapter," the first wholly new series from Winfrey since her syndicated daytime program ended last May.
Preview episodes have not been sent out for review, an interesting move considering the channel it shows on, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, needs all the attention it can get. But publicity materials suggest this weekly series will be, more or less, Winfrey on a spiritual quest. And if that quest can somehow involve celebrities, so much the better.
Next Sunday night (8 p.m.) she visits megachurch preacher Joel Osteen. She'll spend time among Transcendental Meditation practitioners in Iowa and Hasidic Jews in New York (she is shocked that they have never watched TV, she tells them), and she'll visit with "Star Wars" impresario George Lucas.
None of this sounds like the kick in the pants Winfrey's viewership-challenged cable network could use as it starts its second year. Religion is not, historically, a television ratings grabber, and in-depth celebrity interviews already exist on the networks, where the likes of Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer regularly convene their own Summits of the Bold-faced Names.
But the premiere, at least, did bring 1.1 million viewers, according to OWN — the network's second-highest rating ever (after the premiere of the reality show that went behind the scenes at "The Oprah Winfrey Show"). And it is certainly true that the Tyler interview comes close to justifying its extraordinary length via a combination of personal revelation, guided by Winfrey's practiced albeit sometimes heavy hand, and those "Spinal Tap" moments.
Almost in spite of herself at times, she shows Tyler, in and around his Lake Sunapee retreat, as shaman and charlatan, showman and sap. And ever the silver-tongued charmer.
Tyler tells Winfrey "you and I are peripheral visionaries" and "you're a magical being," and Winfrey closes her eyes deeply to receive the compliment. In one moment he's holding flowers she brought him from her home; in another he's holding her hand or stroking the apparent raccoon tail that dangles, naturally enough, from his waist.
Then he removes a sock to show the gnarled toes that led him down one painkiller-and-other-drugs "rabbit hole."
Whether schmoozing Oprah or flirting with teenaged "Idol" contestants, the man is good television. The show begins with Tyler rising, walking down to the boathouse, stepping up on a porch railing and plunging into the lake. Later, we see him doing Aerosmith yowls from out in a canoe, either to demonstrate the echoes or spark a neighbors' petition drive. And he talks at length about the deep meaning of one Aerosmith lyric only to reveal that the song was written by ballad master Diane Warren.
There is plenty of talk of "American Idol" but not the revelations Tyler's new fans from that show might want. He's very happy there as his second season approaches, although he doesn't like being critical, etc., etc.
He got into "Idol" because he was coming out of another rehab stint and needed something to do, he explains.
He's preserved a text from ex-"Idol" judge Kara DioGuardi, with whom Tyler shares a songwriting partner, asking him to consider the show, which we see. "How's the old rateing's (sic)," he texted back. They're better now that he's on board.
Tyler's old fans will learn that Aerosmith's latest in a long string of rifts has apparently healed, and the band will tour together again. (Tyler says that although his bandmates didn't want him to do "Idol," "it did nothing but bring up Aerosmith's sales 260 percent.")
Winfrey does try to hold Tyler's twisted feet at least near the fire for the irresponsible behavior that damaged many of the human relationships he says are so important to him. He admits, with sincere regret, to having "abandoned" his children to be on the road with the band, and to being lost in the "myopia" of drug addiction.
But for all the fascination provided by Tyler's outsized personality and turned-up-to-11 life, things keep coming back to Oprah.
She interviews Tyler's 33-year-old daughter Mia about feeling abandoned, as well as Tyler's longtime squeeze and former band accountant, Erin Brady, about his monogamy or lack thereof.
After each delivers a touching anecdote about redemptive aspects of the rock star's behavior, the producers let us see Winfrey clapping her hands in excitement at the television moment that has been created, telling them "that was great."
It would be nice to think this is meant to give us a peek backstage, to reveal the artifice of the celebrity interview. But, really, it feels meant mostly to shift the spotlight back to Winfrey. If she can't be the one doing the revealing, then she can at least be orchestrator and validator.
And in that way, at least, "Oprah's Next Chapter" reads a whole lot like Oprah's last chapter: a lot of well-made television, and a whole lot of the person making it.
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What, you were thinking that the Suns might have actually figured something out and "turned a corner" after they scored 33 points on 64 percent shooting in the first quarter? BA!
The ball movement was crisp at times but the Bucks defense adjusted to what the Suns were doing, took away some of the easy passing lanes, forced players out of their comfort zones and as is often the case, the Suns didn't have a player or two able to impose their will on the game.
The Bucks allowed the annoying Brandon Jennings to get hot and were never able to pour cold water on his flaming hands. He finished with 29 points. Larry Sanders had six blocks. His arms are SO LONG. (Video)
Goran Dragic led the Suns (someone had to) with 21 points. Phoenix shot 34 percent in the final three quarters as their offensive woes continue.
Has this team given up? It doesn't look like it but how many more of these losses can they take without starting to mail it in?
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On behalf of the entire NBA and all of humankind, my apologies to those who had to suffer through the ancient stylings of the Bucks broadcast team on League Pass. They sound old enough to have been calling Jimmy Chitwood's games at Hickory High.
Even worse, they insufferably refused to pronounced Goran DRAGIC correctly. The guy's been in the league since 2008. There's a pronunciation guide in the media notes. If your JOB is to talk on TV during a basketball game, don't be a lazy ass -- learned to pronounce the players' names!
Suns head to Boston tonight and face the Celtics tomorrow. Unfortunately for all involved, I have game coverage for that mess too.
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Is Fresh Cafe Downtown Open or Not?
Inside Fresh Cafe Downtown. Photo by Brandon Shigeta
There was a bit of confusion as to whether or not Fresh Cafe's first location outside of Kakaako was open for regular hours. "I felt like there was a miscommunication between myself and our customers," owner Tiffany Tanaka says about a few things that were posted announcing February's First Friday as the grand opening, when really, "It was just a preview of what is to come."
So it's not open, yet. The minimal decor—white walls, contemporary art, dark cubic furniture, and multicolor spotlights—is all there, but the kitchen and plumbing gave her some problems. The former tenant, Glenn Chu, left her some "unforeseen circumstances," she says. Old pipes, bad plumbing, electrical issues—things that take more than a month and a half to repair. "It came with a lot of fancy equipment, but a lot of it was old," she says.
Tanaka signed the lease for a downtown Fresh Cafe location two months ago, started moving in January, and immediately set to work renovating the space, formerly occupied by Indigo for 19 years.
Although Tanaka has planned to open another Fresh Cafe for about three years, this opening felt a little rushed because Tanaka says she wanted to move in and be ready in time for Pow! Wow! Hawaii this year (which happened Feb. 7-15), an event she helps organize with Jasper Wong and a board of directors. It didn't happen, but there were a couple of parties at Fresh Cafe Downtown.
Once open, Tanaka wants to fill the pancake-and-egg-breakfast shaped void in Chinatown and also target a lunch crowd. She also plans to bring in a lot of music acts, and is working on a partnership with Hawaii Theatre, which owns the building, to do two events each month to complement the cafe. "Every time [the Hawaii Theatre] is open, it really helps Chinatown. I hope to work with them closer to make more happening things down there for all business to flourish," Tanaka says.
There may be some movie nights and some music nights, but one thing's for sure: It will not be the next thirtyninehotel. "I do not want it to be a club," she says.
You can get another preview of Fresh Cafe Downtown at First Friday in March, and Tanaka plans to have it open under regular business hours sometime a few weeks after.
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In a blogpost, Adobe said its security team discovered sophisticated attacks on its network, involving the illegal access to customer information as well as source code for numerous Adobe products.
"Our investigation currently indicates that the attackers accessed Adobe customer IDs and encrypted passwords on our systems. We also believe the attackers removed from our systems certain information relating to 2.9 million Adobe customers.
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Adobe said while it believes the attackers did not remove decrypted credit or debit card numbers from its systems, it is working internally and with external partners and law enforcement to address the incident.
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I'm thinking most of these jobs would probably suck, unless you are like Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs), making millions on TV.
I'll tell you who has it made, a backflow tester. Since every backflow valve has to be tested annually by law, they are never out of work. They hit the same customers every year, whether there is a recession or not.
Last year, we had our backflow valve inspected. The inspector pulled up in a shiny new Corvette wearing a pair of shorts. He hooked up a meter, turned a couple of vales, signed a certificate and charged us $250. It took about 30 minutes and that's only because he was in slo-mo. I'll bet he works about 20 hours a week and pulls down over $100K.
Those are insane! I'll definitely stick to blogging and Internet marketing hahaha.
As long as the body wasn't there, I think that I could deal with the crime scene one. You get the whole hazmat suit thing going and don't tell me what happened. I can pay for therapy with my enormous pay check.
I worked as a Medical Transcriptionist before and I really don't think it's bizarre. It's just so tiring and I knew at that time that I couldn't do it for a long time.
The skull cleaning wasn't sounding so bad until the beetles came into the picture. Ick. And I'm pretty sure turkey insemenators don't get paid enough.
LOL Shark repellent tester? Where do I sign up?
Great freakin' post! Hilarious! Skull cleaner? Turkey inseminator? Really? Seriously best post that I have read in awhile. Keep it coming!
the skull cleaner was absolutely hilarious. I look at clean skulls occasionally for my job. I'll have to send some silent thanks to them beatles
Skull cleaner doesn't sound so bad, and that's a LOT of dollar bills beside Crime scene decontaminator.
I could totally be a medical transcriber if that means deciphering doctor's handwriting. I'm pretty good at that.
Having worked in the medical transcription field for over 25 years, I'm not seeing what's so bizarre about it. However, I do see that thinking all it takes is some good typing skills and some knowledge (no mention of schooling whatsoever in your article) is definitely bizarre.
As a former instructor and recruiter in the MT field, most national companies hiring transcriptionists require at least 3-5 years of experience. It's very hard for a new grad to get his or her foot in the door. And I did say "new grad;" that's because no national company is going to bring you on as a freelancer or employee without a good MT education. That could be several courses leading up to a certificate, or it could be a degree. MTs need to thoroughly know their anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, what is called AHDI style. We have turned nurses and other medical professionals away because they don't know the style and they don't have the full terminology knowledge of a medical transcriptionist. MTs also must know HIPAA privacy laws.
Increasingly the industry of medical transcription is moving toward certification in the way of registered medical transcriptionists and certified medical transcriptionists.
And finally, it's "transcriptionist," not transcriber. A transcriber is a machine, not a person.
Please, whoever wrote this article, educate yourselves by going to http://www.ahdionline.org
I will just stay with blogging. LOL. Those are just crazy!
One of the highest paying grossest jobs I've ever heard of is a crime scene cleaner (not sure what the actual job title is).
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A love for all things shabby and chippy..salvaged and french..tattered and worn..pink...simple beauty.
Hello Rachel! It' s always nice to hear from you. I wish you a wonderful thanksgiving with your family! With love, Geli
thank so much sweet Geli! xo
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thanks so much Jacqui! ;)
So beautiful. Love the colors.
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Your vintage millinery is so beautiful, I
m sure someone will snatch that up in no time!! Thanks so much for stopping in to visit and it always makes my day when lovely people like you take time out of their day to leave a nice comment. I wish you and your family a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving !
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Lovely color palette, indeed.
Looking forward to seeing your home gracefully decked out for the Holidays (no pressure, lol).
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Americans Sleepier Than Europeans
If you feel yourself nodding off during a meeting today, rest assured that you're not the only one. Nearly one in five Americans who participated in a recent study reported falling asleep or being drowsy in situations that required a high level of concentration, such as during meetings or conversations.
And excessive sleepiness is more common in the U.S. than in Europe, the study found. This raises concerns for public health and safety, according to research that will be presented today at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC in San Antonio, Texas.
Sleep studies are prone to concluding that we're all sleep-deprived. Often, as is the case with this one, they're funded by drug companies that benefit from this perception. In fact, scientists aren't really sure how much sleep you need, and studies find that the requirement varies significantly from one person to another, for reasons not fully understood.
So what's most interesting in the new study is not so much the idea that many people aren't getting enough sleep, but that Americans suffer the problem more than do Europeans.
The numbers
The researchers found that 19.5 percent of U.S. adults reported having moderate to excessive sleepiness, and the results were comparable between men and women. In a previous study, researchers reported that the prevalence of excessive daytime sleepiness in five European countries was 15 percent.
Further, 11 percent of U.S. participants reported severe sleepiness, which was more prevalent in women (13 percent) than in men (8.6 percent).
"The prevalence of excessive daytime sleepiness is very high in the American population, much higher than what we observed in the European population," said principal investigator Dr. Maurice Ohayon, psychiatry professor at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Sleep Epidemiology Research Center in Palo Alto, Calif.
"Insufficient sleep is plaguing the American population and is one of the leading factors for excessive daytime sleepiness," Ohayon said.
Who's at risk
People with obstructive sleep apnea were three times more likely to be sleepy during the daytime, people with insomnia and those who typically sleep for six hours or less were more than two times more likely to be drowsy, and people who perform night work and those with a major depressive disorder were nearly two times more likely to report sleepiness.
These results raise public safety concerns, particularly regarding the potential for workplace injuries and drowsy driving accidents related to excessive sleepiness.
"The number of individuals sleepy or drowsy during situations where they should be alert is disturbing," Ohayon said. "Sleepiness is underestimated in its daily life consequences for the general population, for the shift workers and for the people reducing their amount of sleep for any kind of good reasons. It is always a mistake to curtail your sleep."
Last October the CDC released survey data showing that about 11 percent of respondents reported that they never got enough rest or sleep during the past 30 days.
The new study involved a sample of 8,937 people aged 18 or over living in Texas, New York and California. Participants were interviewed by telephone on sleeping habits, health, sleep problems and mental disorders. The research was supported by the Arrillaga Foundation, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health, and an educational grant from Cephalon, a pharmaceutical company.
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It Took Taco Bell Ten Weeks to Sell 100 Million Doritos Locos Tacos (UPDATE)
Taco Bell announced last Friday that its Doritos Locos Tacos — that's a taco with a nacho cheese-flavored Doritos shell — has been sold over 100 million times in the last 10 weeks, becoming the company's most successful product launch ever.
That title previously belonged to the Crunchwrap, which was unveiled in 2005 and did so well that it became a permanent menu item the following year.
In its announcement, Taco Bell puts the news in perspective by noting that "McDonald's sold its first 100 million burgers in 1958 – 18 years after the first McDonald's burger stand opened, and three years after Ray Kroc started his first McDonald's franchise."
It remained unclear if the Doritos Locos Tacos would follow in the Chruchwrap's greasy footsteps to a permanent place on the Taco Bell menu, but the company is promising that the madness is far from over: Additional Doritos shell flavors, including the fan-favorite Cool Ranch, are due to debut shortly.
UPDATE: Taco Bell rep Rob Poetsch has just emailed me this excellent correction/confirmation: "[The Doritos Locos Tacos] is a permanent addition to the Taco Bell menu, and is a platform for future flavors like Cool Ranch."


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Colorado State Senate Bill 10-003 enacted by the General Assembly and signed by the Governor and effective June 9, 2010, amends section 24-30-202, C.R.S. As amended, section 24-30-202(13)(b), C.R.S., allows a governing board of an Institution of Higher Education that has adopted Fiscal Rules and has determined that such Fiscal Rules provide adequate safeguards for the proper expenditure of the moneys of the institution to elect to exempt the institution from the Fiscal Rules promulgated by the State Controller pursuant to section 24-30-202. An institution that is exempt from the state fiscal rules is also not required to comply with the provisions of subsections (1), (5)(b), (20.1), (22), or (26) of section 24-30-202, C.R.S.
On June 3, 2011, the Board of Trustees for Fort Lewis College ("Board") determined that existing fiscal policies and practices of the College in addition to the forgoing Fort Lewis College Fiscal Rules (the "Rules") provide adequate safeguards for the proper expenditure of the moneys of the institution. Accordingly, the Board elected to exempt Fort Lewis College ("College") from the fiscal rules promulgated by the State Controller. The forgoing Rules were adopted by the College President effective July 1, 2011.
These Rules are applicable to all College employees and officials, and any representatives of the College authorized to conduct official College Business. These Rules govern any transaction of any kind and in any medium that involves the commitment or expenditure of College monies or resources. These Rules are intended to be implemented in concert with applicable state and federal laws and regulations, the Policies of the Board, and all applicable College policies. Wherever possible, any conflict between these Rules and any state or federal law and regulation, Policies of the Board, or applicable College policy, should be harmonized. The Vice President for Finance and Administration has final authority to interpret these Rules.


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Jewel heist on Riviera raises security questions
The diamond show was staged on the ground floor of a hotel that thieves had targeted before - and which, in fact, had featured in Alfred Hitchcock's high-karat classic "To Catch a Thief." The guards were few and unarmed, and nobody thought to tell the police about the tens of millions of dollars worth of gems on display for more than a month.
On Tuesday, questions arose about how the collection was left so vulnerable that a single thief with a handgun managed to make off over the weekend with one of the biggest hauls in history - a total of $136 million in jewels - without firing a shot.
It was the second time in a week that unarmed guards were overwhelmed by jewel thieves. At a Swiss prison near the French border, a member of the notorious "Pink Panther" gang escaped after accomplices rammed a gate and overpowered unarmed guards with bursts from Kalashnikovs.
Private security guards are generally prohibited from carrying weapons in France and Switzerland - that's reserved for police - but special authorizations can be granted when high-value assets are at stake.
"It can't be standard procedure when you have that kind of value. This is an extraordinary amount of value to have in one place from one company," said John Kennedy, president of the New York-based Jewelers Security Alliance. In the United States "those shows are limited to the trade. You have to have an ID and have a pass. It's not open to the public."
With the measures in place, he said, it was nearly irrelevant whether the heist at the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel in Cannes was an inside job.
"What do you need with an inside job when a guy can walk in and do this? What inside information do you need - there's a big diamond show," he said. Cannes' storied history of jewel heists apparently made little difference to those planning the show, he said, adding that U.S. insurers he'd spoken with had found the entire escapade bizarre.
"In the United States there are certain hotels that don't want jewelry shows at all because they're dangerous," he said. "If you couldn't have it with armed guards I'd say you have a serious, serious problem."
That's not a view widely held on the other side of the Atlantic.
"The public carrying of weapons - even by security guards and police officers - is much less visible throughout Europe than it is in parts of North America," said Keith Krause, program director of the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey, a nonprofit that monitors global views of weapons.
"Given that civilian possession of weapons is much less available, they're unlikely to have weapons because they're unlikely to be facing people with weapons."
Zakaria Rami, a union representative at the Carlton who has worked there for 16 years, said show organizers didn't formally advise police of the show. Only a few guards hired by the jeweler provided security in a hotel showroom site where the robber struck on Sunday.
"If police knew there was $100 million in jewelry, I think they would have put a patrol car out there," he said.
The show was far from inconspicuous: One-story tall, bright pink banners covered the front facade of the Carlton, one of the most famous hotels on La Croisette - Cannes' best-known seaside promenade.
Rami wasn't at the Carlton in 1994 when a gunman opened fire at the hotel, injuring a guard before making off with $45 million in jewels. That robbery prompted the city to suspend the gem shows that draw jewelers to the French Riviera each summer, hoping to catch the eye of travelers with money to burn. The ban expired years ago, and the shows resumed.
The jewels on display routinely catch some unwanted attention. Rami said he can think of four or five other major robberies in his time in Cannes, which appears to be a favorite target this year. In May it was struck by other two highly publicized heists during the Cannes Film Festival.
"For security in a hotel that was housing such a collection, it's more a question that can be asked of the victim - and its insurer - than of police services," said Cmdr. Bernard Mascarelli, head of the judicial police in nearby Nice, whose Bureau for the Repression of Banditry is leading the investigation.
The owner of the collection, Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, has said little about the theft, but noted in a statement Tuesday that the company was working with police and insurers.
"Leviev takes the security of our staff and merchandise very seriously and all reasonable security measures required by our insurers were implemented prior to the robbery taking place," the statement said.
Philippe Vique, an assistant prosecutor in the Riviera town of Grasse, said there was no break-in at the hotel, and the private security guards were not armed. The gunman went in through French doors and exited less than a minute after the holdup, he said. Rami, the union official, said the suspect was not pursued.
Alain Bauer, a leading French criminologist and security expert, said the show's organizer "could have called on the police - that in this specific case would have put armed officers in place."
Bauer, who is currently teaching in Colorado, acknowledged there is a different mindset about the right to bear arms in the European Union and in the United States.
"Between losing several millions of euros and killing someone, Europeans' choice has been that we'd rather lose several million euros," he said by telephone. "The idea that having more firearms creates more security isn't convincing in Europe."
"In this case, it's more a question of disorganization than of weapons," he said.
Police in Cannes haven't drawn any specific links between Cannes and the escape Thursday of Milan Poparic, said to be the third member of the Pink Panther group to break out of a Swiss prison in as many months.
"But the Pink Panthers are known for these brazen acts of rushing into a place, quickly intimidating the people there and getting the loot and making their getaway," said Scott Andrew Selby, co-author of "Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History," about a 2003 heist in Antwerp, Belgium.
For the thieves, France is a place "they're comfortable hitting."
Selby said it's unlikely the bandit was working alone - suggesting he might have had a "scout" to scope out the hotel beforehand, or a getaway driver at the ready, even an adviser to help fence the stolen diamonds later on.
French authorities were poring over video surveillance footage, going back over other jewelry-theft case files and conducting other "standard judicial police work," said Mascarelli by phone.
The Carlton featured in Hitchcock's "To Catch a Thief," which starred Grace Kelly as an heiress and Cary Grant as a reformed burglar chasing a jewel thief. The thief, at least in the Hollywood ending, is caught in the chase.
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Joan Crawford Biography
Joan Crawford(Lucille Fay Le Sueur)
Born: 3/23/1908
Birthplace: San Antonio, Texas
Academy Award -winning actress whose portrayal of independent women is associated with Hollywood's most glamorous era. Her films include Mildred Pierce (1945), Johnny Guitar (1955) and The Best of Everything (1959). The film Mommie Dearest (1981) was based on the novel by her daughter, Christina Crawford, who depicts her mother as a competitive, malicious, and overbearing figure.Died: 5/10/1977
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A power outage in California over the weekend has delayed launch preparations for NASA's newest sun-studying spacecraft by 24 hours, pushing the new solar observatory's blastoff to no earlier than Thursday (June 27), space agency officials said.
The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph satellite, or IRIS, was originally slated to lift off Wednesday (June 26) from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. But the power went out for several hours at Vandenberg and other locations throughout the state's central coast Sunday night (June 23), affecting the base's key tracking and telemetry systems.
"Due to this issue, we will delay our first launch attempt Wednesday evening to Thursday evening," IRIS launch director Tim Dunn, of NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, told reporters today (June 25). Launch is targeted for 10:27 p.m. EDT Thursday (7:27 p.m. local time at Vandenberg; 0227 GMT Friday). [NASA's IRIS Solar Observatory Mission in Pictures]
As power was restored at Vandenberg, a fire broke out in an electrical switching box that feeds about five transformers at the base, officials said. The fire damaged an important part that now needs to be replaced before the tracking systems can come back online.
"Once that piece is installed and we've tested it — and we've brought up all the range equipment, so we've gone through all the extensive testing and rehearsing that we need to do — we feel confident that we'll be able to support a Thursday evening launch," said Lt. Col. Burton Catledge, commander of the 2nd Range Operations Squadron at Vandenberg.
IRIS will launch aboard a Pegasus XL rocket, which is built by the Virginia-based aerospace firm Orbital Sciences. A carrier aircraft will drop the Pegasus into the skies above Vandenberg, at which point the rocket's engines will kick on and send the spacecraft into Earth orbit.
Once up there, IRIS will peer at a mysterious sliver of the sun between the solar surface and the corona, or outer atmosphere. Scientists are keen to understand this interface region, which is just 3,000 to 6,000 miles (4,800 to 9,600 kilometers) wide, because the immense energy flowing through it helps drive many aspects of space weather.
IRIS is "going to look in closely, and it's going to look at that specific region to see how the changes in matter and energy occur in this region," Jim Hall, IRIS mission manager for the Launch Services Program at KSC, said in a statement. "It's going to collectively bring us a more complete view of the sun."
Weather on Thursday is expected to be good; Air Force officials estimate just a 20 percent chance of a weather-related scrub.
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U.S. President Barack Obama promised to push for net neutrality rules and for more transparency in the government's surveillance programs during his State of the Union address late Tuesday.
In a speech largely focused on the U.S. economy and aiding the middle class, Obama also promised to push for the deployment of next generation broadband networks, as he outlined in a preview to the State of the Union a week ago. The president has called on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to pass strong net neutrality rules and to roll back state limits on municipal broadband projects.
"I intend to protect a free and open internet, extend its reach to every classroom, and every community, and help folks build the fastest networks, so that the next generation of digital innovators and entrepreneurs have the platform to keep reshaping our world," Obama said in his annual speech before the U.S. Congress.
He also called for a new package of cybersecurity legislation, including legal protections for businesses that share cyberthreat information with the government, with details announced earlier this month. His proposal to criminalize violations of terms of service in computer and software products has led to concerns from white-hat hackers.
"No foreign nation, no hacker, should be able to shut down our networks, steal our trade secrets, or invade the privacy of American families, especially our kids," he said Tuesday night. "We are making sure our government integrates intelligence to combat cyberthreats, just as we have done to combat terrorism."
Congress must "finally pass" legislation to combat cyberattacks and identity theft, he said. "If we don't act, we'll leave our nation and our economy vulnerable," Obama added. "If we do, we can continue to protect the technologies that have unleashed untold opportunities for people around the globe."
Earlier this month, Obama called for Congress to pass a consumer privacy bill of rights and a law requiring businesses with data breaches to report them to affected customers within 30 days.
On the U.S. government's controversial surveillance programs, Obama said the U.S. must uphold its commitment to civil liberties "if we want maximum cooperation from other countries and industry in our fight against terrorist networks."
He promised a new report on surveillance programs and privacy next month. "While some have moved on from the debates over our surveillance programs, I haven't," he said. "As promised, our intelligence agencies have worked hard, with the recommendations of privacy advocates, to increase transparency and build more safeguards against potential abuse."
Obama also noted that his administration has worked to protect "human dignity" and privacy, including during the use of surveillance drones. His administration has "worked to make sure our use of new technology like drones is properly constrained," he said.
Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa, giving the Republican response to the State of the Union, largely criticized Obama's foreign policy without addressing most of his tech-related proposals. However, Republicans will "advance solutions to prevent the kind of cyberattacks we've seen recently," she said.


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One of the ways I learn is to teach. My students ask questions I can't answer and challenge me to solve problems I never considered. At times I'll do what I consider an extension of teaching; a two-day Customer Discovery/Validation intensive session with a large corporation serious about Customer Development at my ranch on the California Coast.
My last session was with a passionate, smart, entrepreneurial team from a Fortune 100 company. (And if I told you who they were I'd have to kill you.) Their copies of the Four Steps were dog-eared and marked with sticky notes. We spent two days of analyzing and exploring their customer discovery visits just completed across South America, Africa and Asia. Learning which hypotheses survived these visits were eye-openers for all of us. We used what they learned to plan their next steps for additional Discovery, and ultimately Customer Validation.
It reminded me of the differences in Customer Discovery between a scalable startup and a big company. Here's what we observed:
It's Easier for Big Companies to Get Meetings – But It's Not Always a Blessing
When a big company calls prospective customers to set up Discovery meetings, their datebook fills up fast. Execs at higher levels than you'd expect join the meeting eager to hear what the big company has to say about their industry. That's the good news. The bad news is that the meetings become far more formal and more crowded, than one that a startup would have. This crowd actually dampens the opportunity for learning. Since the meetings attract senior execs everyone around the table waits for the big boss to speak and follows his or her lead. This stifles or shuts down the important "outlier" conversations that drive pivots and iterations in the discovery process.
Solution: try to get a blend of one-on-one meetings along with the group session. And be sure to set expectations for the meeting before it happens.
We're Not Here for a Sales Call
If someone from a large company is flying halfway around the world to visit your company, your presumption is they have something to sell you. Crucial in the Customer Discovery process is not selling…it's listening. The exploring, probing, gaining reactions is why you're there. (Of course, if someone forces a purchase order on you and you reject it, you've just failed miserably at entrepreneurship.) Disabusing the audience of the notion that the visit is a sales call is vital to the customer discovery mission. Followers of the Customer Development process know that you can't start selling until you have transformed product, customer and other hypotheses into a validated business model and sales roadmap. (Short-circuiting that process is a major "foul" that often leads to premature business models and suboptimal sales results.)
To potential customers who've never been asked for their opinion before, the purpose of a Discovery meeting can be confusing. There are business cultures where the vendor/customer interactions are limited to "here's what I have to sell, do you want to buy it."
Solution: spend more time on the "setup" for the meeting. Tell potential customers before you meet, "We're working on an interesting product and we'd be happy to share where we are in exchange for some feedback. But we are not here for a sales call."
Getting the Customer to Talk is Even More Challenging
There's no more important skill in Customer Discovery than "good listening." When a big company shows up, everyone expects an important formal presentation, which is hardly your Discovery mission at all. Structuring the conversation in a way that elicits feedback before you reveal the product hypothesis is essential to getting honest reactions, good or bad. Yet just reading your questions from a list is a real-turnoff. Insert them casually into a conversation and don't try too hard to get every one of them answered in every meeting.
Solution: One of our favorite hints, from a great post by ash maurya, is to pose problems to the group in a randomized list. "We see these three problems in your industry. Do you agree? Could you rank them in order of importance to you?" This literally forces a discussion and prioritization and is repeatable again and again. "We believe the most important features you need in a supersonic transporter are…." or "Our research tells us that female consumers most want a, b, and c."
Big Companies are Bred for Large Scale Success
When you're doing disruptive innovation in a multi-billion dollar company, a $10Million dollar/year new product line doesn't even move the needle. So to get new divisions launched large optimistic forecasts are the norm. Ironically, one of the greatest risks in large companies is high pressure expectations to make these first pass forecasts that subvert an honest Customer Development process. The temptation is to transform the vision of a large market into a solid corporate revenue forecast – before Customer Development even begins.
Solution: Upper management needs to understand that a new division pursuing disruptive innovation is not the same as a division adding a new version of an established product. Rather, it is a organization searching for a business model (inside a company that's executing an existing one.) That means you may find that revenue appears later than the plan called for, or that there are no customers or fewer than the plan suggests.
Customer Development Without Agile Engineering Is A Plan For Failure
Beleving in Customer Development but still retaining waterfall development for engineering and manufacturing is a setup for problems if not outright failure. Even in a large company you can't do Customer Development without aligning some part of engineering to respond to unexpected customer needs and findings.
Solution: Get engineering buy-in by. Make sure the engineering and manufacturing plans "before" Customer Development don't look the same as "after" Customer Development.
Spend your Way to Success Usually Results in the Opposite
Ironically large revenue goals may lead to largesse in overfunding the new division, with the implicit assumption that dollars can "buy your way to success." All the money in the world doesn't negate the painful search for a business model, or the lack of a scalable/profitable one. And new divisions in large companies operate just like startups who get overfunded – somehow their expense budgets always equal at least their funding.
Solution: Eight and nine digit funding before Customer Discovery is a curse not a blessing. Take the money in tranches (equivalent to VC "rounds") predicated on milestones in finding a repeatable and scalable business model.
There's an Overhead Cost to Being an Entrepreneur in a big, established corporation
Large companies are just plain organized – with rules, HR, finance and more importantly, are built around process and procedures for execution. It's why so few big companies succeed at true entrepreneurship.
Solution: Assume as a given that as a new division head at least 15% of your time will be spent managing up and protecting down. Few in your own company will understand what you're up to.
Lessons Learned
- Customer Development in large companies has it's own unique challenges
- Some parts of being a big company make it easier, others make being a startup even riskier
Filed under: Corporate/Gov't Innovation, Customer Development, Teaching |


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The Secret Beyond Matter
Once Upon a Time There was Darwinism
Once, It was Believed that There was
The German biologist Ernst Haeckel was the founder of Darwinist embryology.
But Darwin was no embryologist. Never once did he investigate embryos in a comprehensive way. Therefore, in developing his arguments, he quoted individuals whom he regarded as authorities on this matter. In his footnotes, one name was particularly noticeable: the German biologist, Ernst Haeckel, whose book Naturliche Schopfungsgeschichte (The Natural History of Creation) contained various drawings of embryos, together with his comments on them.
A short time later, Haeckel was to go down in history as the original author of evolutionist interpretation of embryology. He read The Origin of the Species (1859) with great excitement, accepted what Darwin wrote, and became a more avid evolutionist than Darwin himself. To make his own contribution to the theory, he conducted a series of experiments and published Naturliche Schopfungsgeschichte in 1868. In it, he advanced his theory of embryology that was to win him fame. From the beginning, he proposed that the embryos of human beings and certain animals developed in the same way. The drawings of the embryos of a human being, an ape and a dog on page 242 were proof of this. The drawings were apparently identical and, according to Haeckel, these creatures came from a common root.
In fact, it was the drawings, not these creatures, that came from a common root. Haeckel made a drawing of one embryo and then, after making slight changes to it, presented them together as embryos of a human being, an ape and a dog. When the same drawings were printed side by side, naturally they looked the same.55
This was the "work" that Darwin used as a source in The Descent of Man. However, even before Darwin wrote his book, some noticed a major distortion in Haeckel's "work" and wrote about it. In 1868, L. Rutimeyer published an article in the science periodical Archiv für Anthropologie (Archives of Anthropology) that revealed Haeckel's falsifications. Rutimeyer, professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at Basle University, examined the embryo drawings in Naturlische Schopfungsgeschichte and Über die Entstehung und den Stammbaum des Menschengeschlechts and demonstrated that the drawings in both books had nothing to do with reality. As Rutimeyer wrote:
Haeckel claims these works to be easy for the scientific layman to follow, as well as scientific and scholarly. No one will quarrel with the first evaluation of the author, but the second quality is not one that he seriously can claim. These works are clothed in medieval formalistic garb. There is considerable manufacturing of scientific evidence. Yet the author has been very careful not to let the reader become aware of this state of affairs.56
Despite this, Darwin and other biologists who supported him continued to accept Haeckel's drawings as a reference. And this encouraged Haeckel to try to make embryology a strong support for Darwinism. His observations produced no such support, but he regarded his drawings as more important than his observations. In following years, he made a series of comparative drawings of embryos and composed charts comparing the embryos of fish, salamanders, frogs, chickens, rabbits and human beings. The interesting thing about these side-by-side charts was that the embryos of these various creatures closely resembled one another, at first, but slowly began to differentiate in the course of their development. Particularly striking was the similarity between the embryos of a fish and a human being; so much so that in the drawings, the human embryo had what looked like gills. On the so-called scientific basis of these drawings, Haeckel proclaimed his theory that "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." This slogan represented his belief that in the course of its development, either in the egg or in its mother's womb, every creature repeats the history of its own species, from the beginning. For example, a human embryo first resembles a fish, in later weeks a salamander, then it passes through the reptilian and mammalian stages before "evolving" into a recognizable human being.
The book "The Origin of Species" led Haeckel into serious errors.
The concept conveyed in the slogan "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" quickly became known as the "recapitulation theory," and in a very short time this myth became one of the most important proofs for evolution. Throughout the 20th century, countless students saw the chart of the human embryo's imaginary progress from fish, through salamander, chicken and rabbit; and the myth that the human embryo had gills for a while became an accepted fact. Even today, many supporters of the theory of evolution, if asked, would cite this as one of its proofs.
However, this is pure fabrication. In fact, the embryos of various creatures did not at all resemble one another. Haeckel's drawings made all sorts of misrepresentations. To some embryos, he added imaginary organs, removed organs from others, and showed larger and smaller embryos as all the same size.
In the human embryo, the slits that Haeckel represented as gills were really the beginning of the middle ear canal, the parathyroid, and the thymus glands. Haeckel's other comparisons are also now known to be deceptions; what he made look like a "yolk sac" in the embryo is actually a sac that produces blood for the baby. The structure that Haeckel and his followers called the "tail" was actually the human spine, which resembled a tail only because it formed before the legs did.
At the beginning of the 20th century, it came to light that Haeckel had falsified his drawings and he openly confessed to this, saying:
After this compromising confession of "forgery" I should be obliged to consider myself condemned and annihilated if I had not the consolation of seeing side by side with me in the prisoner's dock hundreds of fellow-culprits, among them many of the most trusted observers and most esteemed biologists. The great majority of all the diagrams in the best biological textbooks, treatises and journals would incur in the same degree the charge of "forgery," for all of them are inexact, and are more or less doctored, schematized and constructed. 57
But despite his avowal, Darwinists liked his propaganda material and refused to give up using it. They ignored the fact that the drawings were false and for decades, textbooks and much evolutionist literature presented them as authentic.
Counterfeit drawings by Haeckel intended to give the impression that there were similarities between the embryos of different living things.
The fact that Haeckel's drawings were falsifications was loudly expressed only in the second half of the 1990s. The September 5, 1997 edition of the Science magazine published "Haeckel's Embryos: Fraud Rediscovered," an article by Elizabeth Pennisi explaining that his drawings were fabrications. As she wrote:
The impression they [Haeckel's drawings] give, that the embryos are exactly alike, is wrong, says Michael Richardson, an embryologist at St. George's Hospital Medical School in London...So he and his colleagues did their own comparative study, reexamining and photographing embryos roughly matched by species and age with those Haeckel drew. Lo and behold, the embryos "often looked surprisingly different," Richardson reports in the August issue of Anatomy and Embryology. 58
Science reported that, in order to show the similarity among the embryos, Haeckel deliberately removed some organs from the drawings or added imaginary ones. The article continues:
Not only did Haeckel add or omit features, Richardson and his colleagues report, but he also fudged the scale to exaggerate similarities among species, even when there were 10-fold differences in size. Haeckel further blurred differences by neglecting to name the species in most cases, as if one representative was accurate for an entire group of animals. In reality, Richardson and his colleagues note, even closely related embryos such as those of fish vary quite a bit in their appearance and developmental pathway. "It looks like it's turning out to be one of the most famous fakes in biology," Richardson concludes. 59
The article says that somehow, Haeckel's admissions were kept under cover since the beginning of this century and his drawings continued to be studied in textbooks as if they were authentic. The magazine says:
Haeckel's confession got lost after his drawings were subsequently used in a 1901 book called Darwin and After Darwin and reproduced widely in English-language biology texts.60
An article in the October 16, 1999 edition of New Scientist brought Haeckel's embryology myth completely out into the open:
[Haeckel] called this the biogenetic law, and the idea became popularly known as recapitulation. In fact Haeckel's strict law was soon shown to be incorrect. For instance, the early human embryo never has functioning gills like a fish, and never passes through stages that look like an adult reptile or monkey.61
Thus, what could be called the most popular supposed proof of all time for evolution—the "recapitulation" theory—was invalidated.
But even while Haeckel's fabrications came to light, another falsification close to that of Haeckel continued to go unnoticed: namely, Darwinism.
Haeckel's fraud under the magnifying glass: Photographs of embryos taken by the British embryologist Richardson in 1999 showed that Haeckel's drawings were totally unrelated to reality. Above can be seen Haeckel's fictitious drawings, with authentic photographs below.
As we saw earlier, Darwin discounted other scientists' negative views of Haeckel's interpretative drawings at the time and used them to bolster his own theory. But this was not the only point where Darwinism diverged from the truth. Much more striking is that he presented the views of Karl Ernst von Baer—reputedly the most noted embryologist of the time—as distorted. Jonathan Wells' Icons of Evolution explains in detail that von Baer did not accept Darwin's theory and harshly refuted it. He was also firmly against evolutionist interpretations of embryology, formulating the rule that "the embryo of a higher form never resembles any other form, but only its embryo."62 He also said that Darwinists dogmatically "accepted the Darwinian evolutionary hypothesis as true before they set to the task of observing embryos."63 But, after the third edition of The Origin of the Species, Darwin distorted von Baer's interpretations and conclusions and used them to bolster his own theory. As Wells explains:
Darwin cited von Baer as the source of his embryological evidence, but at the crucial point, Darwin distorted that evidence to make it fit his theory. Von Baer lived long enough to object to Darwin's misuse of his observations, and he was a strong critic of Darwinian evolution until his death in 1876. But Darwin persisted in citing him anyway, making him look like a supporter of the very doctrine of evolutionary parallelism he explicitly rejected.64
In short, Darwin exploited his time's primitive scientific conditions to make false and prejudiced deductions; and took advantage of the limitations in communications in order to distort other scientists' findings.
This fact's coming to light—late though it is—is doubtlessly a major blow to Darwinism. Darwin received help from Haeckel's falsifications and portrayed embryology as in favor of his theory.65 Many people were deceived by this myth and in their naïve ignorance, accepted that they once had gills.
But that was then. Now it is known that embryology does not prove Darwinism. Now the same slogan must be reiterated in the field of embryology.
Once upon a time, there was Darwinism!
53- Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species & The Descent of Man, The Modern Library, New York, s. 398
54- Charles Darwin, Letter to Asa Gray, Sept. 10, 1860, in Francis Darwin (editor), The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin , Vol. II (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896), s.131
55- "HAECKEL'S FRAUDULENT CHARTS"; http://www.pathlights.com/ce_encyclopedia/17rec03.htm
56- L. Rutimeyer, "Referate," Archiv fur Anthropologie, 1868
57- Francis Hitching, The Neck of the Giraffe: Where Darwin Went Wrong, New York: Ticknor and Fields 1982, s. 204
58- Science, 5 Eylül 1997
59- Science, 5 Eylül 1997
60- Elizabeth Pennisi, "Haeckel's Embryos: Fraud Rediscovered", Science, 5 Eylül 1997
61- Ken McNamara, "Embryos and Evolution", New Scientist, 16 Ekim 1999
onathan Wells, Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth?, s. 84
63- Jonathan Wells, Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth?, s. 85
64- Jonathan Wells, Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth?, s. 86
65- Charles Darwin, Letter to Asa Gray, Sept. 10, 1860, in Francis Darwin (editor), The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin , Vol. II (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896), s.131


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PSA Launches Second Annual Times Square Poetry Contest
Times Square may have been reduced to a pedestrian mall—or elevated to a walker's oasis, depending on your perspective—but it's a safe bet that it will always retain a certain poetic quality. The fine folks at the Poetry Society of America know this, and they've launched the second annual Bright Lights Big Verse contest to prove it.
Four winners will each receive a prize of $750 and a trip to New York City to read their winning poems at an event in Times Square. Until July 15, poets may submit poems of any length that celebrate Times Square and the qualities it represents: diversity, desire, dynamism, and the marriage of commerce and culture, according to the PSA and its cosponsor, the Times Square Alliance. Robert Casper, Brett Fletcher Lauer, and Alice Quinn will judge.
Check out the PSA Web site for complete guidelines and instructions for online submissions. And remember, any poem submitted must be suitable for public display, which, since we're talking about Times Square, home to the Naked Cowboy, is open to interpretation.


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Route 3 outside of the Pokémon Daycare has a long path you can travel in a straight line to hatch eggs quickly. It's a straight horizontal and there are no trainers or obstacles in the way. There are no doorways at either end that you might stumble into.
Is there a longer such road in Black/White or Black/White 2, or is Route 3 the longest?