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Margaret M. Chou, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Graduate Group Affiliations
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3615 Civic Center Boulevard
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Philadelphia, PA 19104-6058
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B.A. (Biochemistry)
Barnard College (NY), 1987.
Res. Asst (Biochemistry/Cell Biology)
Rockefeller University (NY), 1989.
Ph.D. (Molecular Oncology)
Rockefeller University, 1993.
Post-doc (Cell Biology)
Harvard Medical School (MA), 1997.
B.A. (Biochemistry)
Barnard College (NY), 1987.
Res. Asst (Biochemistry/Cell Biology)
Rockefeller University (NY), 1989.
Ph.D. (Molecular Oncology)
Rockefeller University, 1993.
Post-doc (Cell Biology)
Harvard Medical School (MA), 1997.
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Description of Research ExpertiseResearch Interests
bone and soft tissue tumors
mechanisms of malignant transformation
Description of Research
My career interest is to understand the mechanisms underlying malignant transformation. The progression of a normal cell into a cancerous one entails profound changes in numerous cellular functions, including its proliferation, survival, and motility/invasiveness, all of which contribute to metastatic behavior. These cell autonomous changes are coupled with alterations in the tumor cells' microenvironment, which exhibits a mutual regulation with the tumor cells and impacts upon the above properties. My work has been aimed at identifying the signaling pathways that play pivotal roles in these processes.
Most recently, we have focused our efforts on elucidating critical pathogenic factors in the development of bone and soft tissue tumors (BSTTs). In comparison to carcinomas and hematological malignancies, much less is known about the etiology of BSTTs, some of which preferentially affect children. A subset of pediatric BSTTs are driven by pathognomonic chromosomal translocations, including Ewing sarcoma, alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, and aneurysmal bone cyst. Studies in my laboratory are aimed at identifying the mechanisms by which they contribute in disease pathogenesis. We have recently determined that the TRE17/USP6 oncogene acts as a critical pathogenic agent across a number of BSTTs. TRE17 affects multiple aspects of tumor cell biology and simultaneously modulates the tumor microenvironment. The goals of my laboratory are to determine the molecular mechanisms by which TRE17 functions, to identify additional cellular pathways critical for BSTT pathogenesis, and to develop murine models of BSTTs to ultimately allow development of novel therapeutic strategies.
My laboratory also focuses on pathogenic mechanisms of Ewing sarcoma, alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, and a newly described cancer, sinonasal sarcoma. Efforts are underway to identify the mechanism by which their respective pathognomonic translocations function in these cancers, and identifying novel sensitivities to cytotoxic agents.
Lab personnel:
Laura Quick (Research Specialist)
Robert Young (Research Specialist)
Ian Henrich (Graduate student)
Krista Bledsoe (Post-doctoral associate)
Selected PublicationsPringle L M, Young R, Quick L, Riquelme D N, Oliveira A M, May M J, Chou M M: Atypical mechanism of NF-κB activation by TRE17/ubiquitin-specific protease 6 (USP6) oncogene and its requirement in tumorigenesis. Oncogene 31(30): 3525-35, Jul 2012.
Oliveira Andre M, Chou Margaret M: The TRE17/USP6 oncogene: a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Frontiers in bioscience (Scholar edition) 4: 321-34, Jan 1 2012.
Erickson-Johnson Michele R, Chou Margaret M, Evers Barbara R, Roth Christopher W, Seys Amber R, Jin Long, Ye Ying, Lau Alan W, Wang Xiaoke, Oliveira Andre M: Nodular fasciitis: a novel model of transient neoplasia induced by MYH9-USP6 gene fusion. Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology 91(10): 1427-33, Oct 2011.
Pietschmann Matthias F, Oliveira Andre M, Chou Margaret M, Ihrler Stefan, Niederhagen Manuel, Baur-Melnyk Andrea, Dürr Hans Roland: Aneurysmal bone cysts of soft tissue represent true neoplasms: a report of two cases. The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume 93(9): e45, May 2011.
Lau Alan W, Pringle Lashon M, Quick Laura, Riquelme Daisy N, Ye Ying, Oliveira Andre M, Chou Margaret M: TRE17/ubiquitin-specific protease 6 (USP6) oncogene translocated in aneurysmal bone cyst blocks osteoblastic maturation via an autocrine mechanism involving bone morphogenetic protein dysregulation. The Journal of biological chemistry 285(47): 37111-20, Nov 2010.
Ye Y, Pringle LM, Lau AW, Riquelme DN, Wang H, Jiang T, Lev D, Welman A, Blobel GA, Oliveira AM, Chou MM.: TRE17/USP6 oncogene translocated in aneurysmal bone cyst induces matrix metalloproteinase production via activation of NF-kappaB. Oncogene In press, April 2010.
Blobel, G.A., Kadauke, S., Wang, E., Lau, A.W., Zuber, J., Chou, M.M., and Vakoc, C.R.: A reconfigured pattern of MLL occupancy within mitotic chromatin promotes rapid transcriptional reactivation following mitotic exit. Molecular Cell 36(6): 970-983, December 2009.
Fellig, Y., Oliveira, A.M., Margolin, E., Gomori, J.M., Erickson-Johnson, M.R., Chou, M.M., Umansky, F., and Soffer, D.: Extraosseous aneurysmal bone cyst of cerebello-pontine angle with USP6 rearrangement. Acta Neuropathology 118: 579-581, Sept 2009.
Lau, AW and Chou, MM.: The adaptor complex AP-2 regulates post-endocytic trafficking through the non-clathrin Arf6-dependent endocytic pathway. Journal of Cell Science 121(24): 4008-4017, Nov 2008.
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Top-level defense contractors like General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin are in close collaboration with the Pentagon to develop a cyber security arsenal capable of allowing the Defense Department to defend its networks and attack other networks around the world.
The partnership's existence is confirmed in a 2011 Pentagon strategy document for operating in cyberspace. According to Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer at MANDIANT, a cyber security firm based in Northern Virginia, this partnership has been increasingly active as the Pentagon has increased cyber security efforts.
"Top tier contractors in the defense industrial base are all part of an information sharing program. These companies are doing original research and sharing it amongst themselves and the Pentagon," he said. "The team is highly functioning and they find stuff that other people don't find."
With recent cyber attacks on high profile media companies like The New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and threats to the nation's energy grid and financial institutions, a new sense of urgency has taken hold.
Bejtlich, who teaches cyber defense classes to the military, said that this collaboration provides the backbone of the nation's cyber defense. The extent of the work is classified, but recent reports indicate that the United States recently infiltrated computer systems at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility.
The top defense contractors that are working with DOD aren't participating out of patriotism: they're doing it because the Pentagon requires it.
"These same companies have to report intrusions as part of their contracts with DOD," Bejtlich said. "You'll see reports that come out on a yearly basis by the Defense Security Service."
The recent executive order signed by President Obama requiring federal agencies and private businesses to bolster cyber defenses is going to increase collaboration between the public and private sectors. But it also raises serious questions about the evolving rules of cyber warfare. And it is creating concerns about the readiness of smaller companies who don't have sophisticated cyber defenses.
Rules of engagement
Cyber warfare is drastically changing how war is fought and who is fighting it. The Pentagon says it is working on rules of engagement, but has yet to publish them. This leaves legal uncertainty about who is allowed to do what to a hacker.
Take this example. A large private company has its computers breached. After some investigation, the company determines the hackers are working for the Chinese government. The cyber security team at the company begins to defend its systems, and eventually repels the attack.
But in the course of the defense, the company notices an opening that would prevent the Chinese hackers from ever attacking the company again. They plant a virus in the Chinese system and then retreat.
The whole situation sounds innocuous. But in the cyber world, this constitutes a battle. And in this battle, an American company just committed an act or war against China.
"It's a little bit like a vigilante force. It's one of the few times its acceptable for a private company to form a posse," said Larry Ponemon, founder of the Ponemon Institute, a think tank that studies data privacy. "You don't want people taking things into their own hands, but sometimes you need to have a collaborative relationship with law enforcement."
It's also not clear when a cyber attack warrants a traditional military response. The Defense Department has said that all options are on the table in terms of retaliation to the cyber threat. But it's set no bar on what the nature of an attack would be.
"The event that would catch everyone's attention is one in which people die, or there's a catastrophe that results in the lost of life," said Bejtlich. "If that were to occur, the Secretary of Defense has said that they do not reserve the right of cyber for cyber. If someone were to have a cyber attack, we reserve the right to have a conventional strike."
Unprepared for the threat
According to Bejtlich, banks, utility companies, and defense contractors are the only ones adequately prepared for a cyber strike. Yet even as these companies have sophisticated cyber operations, they have been infiltrated in the past.
Last year, hackers attacked PNC, JP Morgan Chase, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo and Bank of America. The U.S. government blamed the attacks on Iran. NJVC, a defense contractor, was also reportedly hacked by the Chinese last month.
The vulnerabilities at large companies are troubling for smaller companies who are far behind in cyber security. The executive order is supposed to bolster cyber defense at smaller firms, but the results of the order – and the companies' implementation of the federal recommendation - are years away.
"Hackers are testing the limits, and they haven't caused massive amounts of damage. But it's like a test flight before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It's just a matter of time before they start to do some very serious damage," Ponemon said.
He added: "The state of the cyber world is not good. Attack vectors are becoming more stealthy and complex to deal with."

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CRATE, WILLIAM FREDERICK, miller, millwright, and HBC employee; b. between 1807 and 1813 at London, Eng.; d. 1 Oct. 1871 at Cowichan, Vancouver Island, B.C.
William Frederick Crate was engaged by the Hudson's Bay Company at Lachine, Quebec, in April 1834 for three years at an annual salary of £150 Halifax currency. His contract was cancelled at York Factory in July 1834 and he spent the winter of 1834–35 in the Red River Settlement. He was then re-engaged at £100 sterling plus house and board for service in the Columbia Department, where he was placed in charge of the mills at Fort Vancouver, the company's headquarters for its operations west of the Rocky Mountains. By 1843 Crate had rebuilt and expanded the company's sawmills and supervised the construction of the first water-driven grist mill; all were built on streams to the east of Fort Vancouver. The grist mill, completed in 1839, could grind about 20,000 bushels of grain a year; from it came flour for the HBC's western posts and supply ships and for sale to the Russian American Company.
Crate did not renew his contract in 1843 but returned to England to marry on 29 Feb. 1844. He and his wife Sarah spent several years in Vermont where two of their four children were born. John Fenton, who had succeeded Crate as miller at Fort Vancouver, resigned in 1849 and Crate resumed his former duties. During his second employment at Fort Vancouver, Crate completed a new and larger grist mill and constructed a third sawmill which would cut between 3,000 and 4,000 feet of timber in 12 hours.
Following the Oregon Treaty of 1846, Fort Vancouver ceased to be the chief post of the HBC in the Pacific northwest. However, the fort continued as the major distribution and collecting point for the posts south of the 49th parallel, and Crate was in charge of the five-man crew which kept the buildings of the fort in repair. The Oregon Treaty confirmed the "possessory rights" of the HBC to its land and property north of the Columbia River. Nevertheless, the company had continuous trouble with Americans who took up claims to its lands surrounding Fort Vancouver. To protect the grist mill, Crate and his wife filed for a donation land claim of one square mile in 1849 and in 1850. Crate recognized that the mills still belonged to the company, and until 1860 he received wages for running them. But his claim did not include the site of the sawmills, which he also operated for the company. In 1853, Ervin J. Taylor and his wife filed a claim to the half-section of land on which the sawmills stood, and about 1856 Taylor took possession of the mills during Crate's absence. Despite an injunction drawn up by Dugald Mactavish, then in charge of Fort Vancouver, Taylor remained in possession.
In June 1860 the HBC finally abandoned Fort Vancouver, and employees and equipment were removed to Fort Victoria. Crate, however, chose to leave the company and remain on the Columbia River. He was ordered to send all of the milling machinery to Victoria, but he kept what was fixed to the mills and later sold it as his own before moving to Victoria in 1863.
Crate occupied a lot on Government Street near Fort Victoria until 1866 or 1867, when he took a farm in the Somenos District near Quamichan Lake in the Cowichan Valley. Denied permission to build a wharf at Maple Bay, he sought permission in July 1868 to build a small, water-powered grist mill on Somenos Creek on the Quamichan Indian Reserve. Officials of the colonial government were sympathetic to his application because such a mill would serve the Indians and would promote the sowing of cereals and grains by white settlers in the district. In August 1869, after consultation with the Indian owners, Crate was finally given a seven-year lease to two and a half acres for the mill site at an annual rent of $15. The government showed its support for Crate's mill by approving his request for free transport of machinery and building material on the government steamer Sir James Douglas. In return, Crate was to grind the chief's corn without charge, and all of the wheat required by the Quamichan Village Indians at half the price he charged other customers.
This mill proved to be the restless Crate's last effort to make a new life for himself and his family. Having outlived two of his four children, he died "in very indifferent circumstances."
British Columbia, Department of Lands, Forests, and Water Resources, Lands Administration Branch, Crown grants, XIV, 2713. PABC, William Frederick Crate correspondence. "Disposition of W. F. Crate, Victoria, VI., 26 August 1865," Evidence on the part of the Hudson's Bay Company claimants (British and American Joint Commission for the settlement of claims of the Hudson's Bay and Puget's Sound Agricultural companies, [Papers] (14v., Washington, Montreal, 1865–69), II), 104–18, 229. HBRS, VI (Rich), 23, 157–58, 229; VII (Rich), 122–23, 199–200. National Archives (Washington), Microfilm Publications, Microcopy no.432, Population schedules of the seventh census of the United States, 1850, Roll 742, Oregon, Oregon Country (Washington, 1964), 73, f.37. J. A. Hussey, The history of Fort Vancouver and its physical structure ([Tacoma, Wash., 1957]), 110, 151, 198–206. W. E. Ireland, "Early flour-mills in British Columbia: part i – Vancouver Island and the lower mainland," BCHQ, V (1941), 89–109.
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13.25: Regulation of Breathing
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What allows you to take a deep breath?
Deep breath in…now blow out those candles. We've all done that. Taking that deep breath in is an active process. You can usually feel your chest move. Why? Obviously, muscles in your chest are doing the work.
Regulation of Breathing
To understand how breathing is regulated, you first need to understand how breathing occurs.
How Breathing Occurs
Inhaling is an active movement that results from the contraction of a muscle called the diaphragm. The diaphragm is large, sheet-like muscle below the lungs (see Figure below). When the diaphragm contracts, the ribcage expands and the contents of the abdomen move downward. This results in a larger chest volume, which decreases air pressure inside the lungs. With lower air pressure inside than outside the lungs, air rushes into the lungs. When the diaphragm relaxes, the opposite events occur. The volume of the chest cavity decreases, air pressure inside the lungs increases, and air flows out of the lungs, like air rushing out of a balloon.
Control of Breathing
The regular, rhythmic contractions of the diaphragm are controlled by the brain stem. It sends nerve impulses to the diaphragm through the autonomic nervous system. The brain stem monitors the level of carbon dioxide in the blood. If the level becomes too high, it "tells" the diaphragm to contract more often. Breathing speeds up, and the excess carbon dioxide is released into the air. The opposite events occur when the level of carbon dioxide in the blood becomes too low. In this way, breathing keeps blood pH within a narrow range.
- Breathing occurs due to repeated contractions of a large muscle called the diaphragm.
- The rate of breathing is regulated by the brain stem. It monitors the level of carbon dioxide in the blood and triggers faster or slower breathing as needed to keep the level within a narrow range.
- Explain why contraction of the diaphragm causes the lungs to fill with air.
- Explain how the rate of breathing is controlled.
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Gas use for power generation leads increase in natural gas use in 2010
Natural gas use for power generation rose 7%, or about 515 billion cubic feet (Bcf), between 2009 and 2010, according to EIA. Most of the gains in the power sector were in the Eastern half of the country (see map above left). Total natural gas deliveries to consumers in the United States grew about 4 % to around 22 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) for 2010. Use of natural gas in the industrial sector was up by 6% in 2010 but from a lower base than in the electric power sector. Natural gas deliveries to residential and commercial consumers, on the other hand, were relatively unchanged from their 2009 levels.
The biggest changes in natural gas use occurred in the Southeast United States, where state-level natural gas deliveries from 2009 to 2010 increased by between 5% and 24% (see map above right). Historically low natural prices, coupled with weather-driven demand in the Southeast, increased natural gas deliveries for electricity generation. This region, which is highly dependent on natural gas-fired generation for electricity, experienced 17% higher heating degree days in the winter and 23% higher cooling degree days in summer compared to 30-year normal ranges. In the Western United States, natural gas deliveries decreased in most states. Increased hydroelectric generation in the Pacific Northwest along with a cooler-than-normal summer weather contributed to reduced natural gas demand for electricity generation in the region.
In 2010, Louisiana led the nation in per-capita natural gas consumption overall due to a combination of its modest population of 4.5 million and the size of its industrial gas deliveries (see map below). The map also shows that, on a per-capita basis, by sector:
- Gas use for power dominates in Florida, Nevada, Arizona, New Hampshire, and Mississippi.
- Residential and commercial gas use together anchors deliveries in Northern-tier states such as Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, and Montana.
- Along with Louisiana, industrial gas use accounted for the majority of 2010 deliveries in interior states such as Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
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Attorney Mark O' Mara, legal council for George Zimmerman, 28, has apologized for his client's ill-timed apology at a stunning bond hearing where he was granted $150,000 bail Friday morning, saying that he did not know that the family would find it inappropriate, reports CBS News.
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"My concern is, I didn't realize that the way [Martin's family] had responded to me was through a press conference where they said it was too late or not an appropriate time," O'Mara said. "To be honest, had I known that – maybe had I seen the press conference – I'm not sure that we would have done it at the bond hearing, because the purpose of it truly was to get to the family and to respond directly to the family's request. Had I known or been told that that wasn't the time, it wouldn't have happened. So, I apologize for that."
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As previously reported by Newsone, Trayvon's parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, refused Zimmerman's request to meet with him in private the day before the bail hearing. Attorney Benjamin Crump made their stance clear on a potential apology at a press conference in Tampa, Florida:
We stand on legal, public safety and moral grounds to solidify our position that Zimmerman should be held without bond until these matters are concluded," Crump said.
"Sybrina is a Christian lady and Tracy — they are good people, and there may be a time and place for that, but not now."
Critics — and prosecutors — not only accused Zimmerman of pandering to the court and media, but of also attempting to sway public opinion his way after weeks of silence. O' Mara claims that the apology was not malicious and had nothing to do with bail being granted:
"[It] certainly it wasn't necessary to get a bond. It is not usual that you have somebody get up at all in a bond hearing. We wouldn't have done it in this case."
Clearly, as Zimmerman attempted to build his self-defense case in public, bringing Trayvon's parents comfort was not on his agenda.
"The apology was somewhat of a surprise because we had told them this was not the appropriate time, but they just disregarded that, and he went and pandered to the court and the media and gave a very insincere apology," Crump said.
"I am sorry for the loss of your son," Zimmerman said of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who was unarmed when he gunned him down on the night of February 26, 2012. "I did not know how old he was. I thought he was a little bit younger than I am. I did not know if he was armed or not."
When questioned by the prosecution about the sincerity of his apology and why he decided to wait until he was in front of the media to show remorse, Zimmerman claims that he told a police officer on the night that he killed Trayvon that he was sorry for the parents' loss. Upon further questioning, he could not remember exactly to which officer he made that statement, but he confirmed that it should be in police records.
Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester agreed to allow Zimmerman to be released on $150,000 bail. He stipulated that he cannot have any guns and must observe a 7 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew. Zimmerman also surrendered his passport, reports the Associated Press. He was released at approximately midnight Sunday from the John D. Polk Correctional Facility. His current destination is being kept secret for his safety and it could be outside Florida.
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Leave it to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to find a fashionable way to protest Tuesday's decision to uphold Proposition 8.
The Los Angeles sisters (sorry we couldn't think of a better word) of the famed San Francisco group of drag queen nuns, took to the intersection of Hollywood and Highland in Los Angeles Tuesday night to "chalk out" the stars of some of Hollywood's brightest stars.
The sisters took to the streets in protest of Tuesday's California Supreme Court decision to uphold the voter approved proposition that eliminates the right of same-sex couples to wed.
The court also ruled that the marriages that did occur before the proposition was passed are still legal. An estimated 18,000 same-sex couples tied the knot before the law was outed.
On Tuesday night the Los Angeles group, which started in 1995, asked supporters to write chalk messages on the pavement in support of gay marriage.
Things like "Walt Disney was a tranny," "Elton John is gay married" and "Queen Latifah is out" wound up on Hollywood's famed sidewalk stars.
"We were invited to write 'I Do' and other pro-gay sentiments onto the pavement at the intersection of Hollywood & Highland," San Francisco-based artist and performer Matt Cornell wrote on his blog My Own Private Guantanamo. "Me and some friends took our chalk and made a few extra editorials on the walk back to the Metro station."
"The Sisters handed out the chalk for protesters to write pro-gay messages on the street, but none of them actually had anything to do with writing on the stars," Cornell said.
No strangers to controversy, the SPI were declared heretics by the Vatican after the papal visited San Francisco in 1987.
That put them in the same company as such luminaries as Joan of Arc, Galileo, and Martin Luther. We're not sure their actions on Tuesday night will help the new pope see them in a better light.


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Its no mystery that one of the most fundamentally simple and effective ways to take advantage of the current boom in online betting, in particular horse bet racing, is through the use of profitable horse racing systems. Throughout the various UK racing leagues, there are punters who place their wagers through a number of different horse betting mediums. These gambling options range from placing bets online via betting exchanges like Betfair.com, to physically attending races at local tracks around the country.
No matter how each punter chooses to place their wagers their remains one constant, and that is in order to make successful bets with considerable profits and a high strike rate (which all horse punters are looking for), a certain amount of racing research must be completed. The more information any punter has regarding any particular racing field, and more specifically, any particular horse that they are considering placing a wager on, the better. Although each gambler requires a certain level of info to make their racing systems work effectively, gathering of this information is where punters can differ drastically.
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First and foremost, because horse racing (like all gambling sports) is based in odds making and staking, it is important to keep the potential fractions and odds of every race and horse in mind. The simplest way to calculate the basic betting odds and potential winning percentage of any race is to look at the number of horses running in the race, or "racing field". By determining how many runners are in any racing field we can see the odds that any 먹튀검증커뮤니티 horse has to win the race. Let us say that there is a total of 10 horses in the given racing field, that would mean that any horse set to race will have a 1/10 odd of winning the race flat out. Also, we can also determine from this information that there would be 9 losing horses and therefore a lay or losing selection wager can be placed.
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Food trends come and go, but there are some that just seem to take a hold of the general public and refuse to die out. Take cupcakes, for example; They may not be the run-away smash hit that they used to be, but you'd be hard pressed to find someone who didn't foster at least an ounce of love for the miniature cakes. More recently, I've noticed a new player step up to the game, and while it's taken some time for them to catch on to more mainstream venues in the US, I think they're another tend-setter in the making. I'm talking about macarons, the French sandwich cookies typically made primarily of egg whites and almond meal. These aren't your awkward, bumpy, coconut-laced macaroons that are more common of American bakeries, but instead elegant and refined morsels that come in every last flavor one could dream of.
For the longest time, I've sat back and watched as other bloggers whip up scores of these brilliantly colored and creatively flavored gems, and lacked the confidence to give them a whirl myself. At long last, after diving right in and experimenting with vegan alternatives, I'm thrilled to finally present to you my own version…
Okay, so they still need a bit of work in the flavor department, but look at those lovely feet! That perfect ratio of filling to cookie! They're real beauties alright, and I can see how addictive they can be to create. With so many opportunities for creative variations, it's hard to stop thinking about how to make the next batch, even after finishing a dozen.
Better yet, they're so small, they're truly a guilt-free indulgence! Yes indeed, macarons will definitely be sticking around, at least in my kitchen (and crafts!)
**Edited to add: These are indeed made of felt. I didn't think I really needed to clarify after categorizing this post under "sewing," but it seems that more people than usual are missing that small detail. I'm flattered that anyone would think my stitches are that well hidden!


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SEOUL, South Korea — Thousands of South Korean women gathered in Seoul on Saturday to demand stronger government action to fight the spread of intimate photos and footage taken by hidden cameras, which they say has women living in constant anxiety and distress.
Police said about 18,000 took part in the all-women protest, with demonstrators calling for stronger investigations and punishments against male offenders who photograph or film women without their knowledge and post the material online.
Most of the protesters covered their faces with baseball caps, sunglasses and surgical masks as instructed by organizers, who intended to make a statement against an environment in which women constantly worry about tiny cameras hidden in bathrooms or being filmed from under their skirts at subway stations. However, there was also criticism about the organizers' tight control over the protests and the decision to block the participation of those who weren't "biologically women."
Protesters, many of them wearing red T-shirts with signs that read "Angry women will change the world," roared in support as two women volunteered to have their heads shaved on a stage.
"Let's fight until the last seed of illicit filming dies!" one protester shouted into the microphone while another shaved off her hair. "Here's my message to men: I am not an object of our sexual desires! I am a first-rate citizen, just like you!"
South Korea has struggled over the years to deal with perpetrators who use tiny cameras or smartphones to film under women's clothing to see their genitals or underwear. The footage is heavily circulated on illicit porn sites, such as Soranet, which had more than a million users before police managed to shut it down in 2016. An unknown number of similar sites are still running.
Since 2004, South Korea has required smartphones to make large shutter sounds when taking pictures and videos to prevent such crimes. However, phone cameras can be silenced through apps and there's also an abundance of miniaturized cameras that can be hidden inside bags, shoes and toilets or small holes drilled into bathroom walls and doors.
Amid rising criticism, South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday ordered government officials to explore tougher punishments for hidden-camera crimes and also ensure that the perpetrators' actions are immediately notified to employers.
"We must make sure that the offenders suffer greater damage than the damage they inflict," Moon said in a Cabinet meeting.
The national government plans to spend 5 billion won ($4.5 million) to equip local governments with more camera detecting equipment and strengthen inspections of bathrooms in public spaces and private buildings. There are also plans to widen inspections to elementary, middle and high schools.
Under South Korean law, creating intimate sexual images without consent is punishable by a prison term of up to five years or a fine of up to 10 million won ($8,900). Distributing such images for the purpose of profit is punishable by up to seven years in prison or a 30 million won ($27,000) fine.
Saturday's gathering in Seoul was a follow-up to large protests by women in May and June over the proliferation of hidden-camera images as pornographic material.
The protests were sparked by the arrest of a 25-year-old woman in May who was found to have secretly taken a photo of a male colleague while he posed nude for university art students and uploaded it online.
The swift investigation struck a nerve among many women who questioned whether the police care about the hidden-camera issue only in rare instances in which the victim is male. Protesters pointed to countless cases involving female victims that were closed because the police were unable to track down the perpetrators or porn sites based on foreign servers. The National Police Agency had denied that officers treat cases involving male victims more seriously.


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Since the invention of feeling good, humans have been looking for new ways/excuses to drink. This time, seven stumbly Humboltians had a mission: Over the course of a three-night weekend, soak up the soul of Humboldt's most far flung watering holes -- specifically, every stinkin' bar in the county in communities with populations less than 10,000. Apologies to Eureka, Arcata, Fortuna and McKinleyville but, for this project anyway, you're too metro. Our good time destinations would be places like Rio Dell, Willow Creek and Myer's Flat. That's just how we roll.
To make sure we didn't miss anybody, we accessed the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control records, which list every active license to sell liquor. There aren't as many small town bars as you'd think in Humboldt and, in fact, our assignment would have been much more difficult just a few years ago when bars in Orick, Shelter Cove and Carlotta were still serving. We didn't have to make those treks in 2012. Thanks, economy. And we dodged a trip out to Petrolia by unintentionally scheduling our crawl a week before the opening of the Yellow Rose. Sorry, Lost Coast.
Did I make all the excuses required? K, good. Now let's drink.
Or skip to a specific bar:
1. Mingo's Sports Bar, Rio Dell
2. The Palace, Ferndale
3. Hotel Ivanhoe, Ferndale
4. Scotia Inn, Scotia
5. Trading Post Saloon, Myers Flat
6. Riverwood Inn, Phillipsville
7. Benbow Inn, Benbow
8. Branding Iron, Garberville
9. The Blue Room, Garberville
10. Brass Rail Inn, Redway
11. E&O Lanes, Glendale
12. Logger Bar, Blue Lake
13. P&J Billiards, Willow Creek
14. Simon Legree's, Hawkins Bar
15. The Forks, Willow Creek
16. Clam Beach Inn, Clam Beach
17. Ocean Grove, Trinidad
Mingo's Sports Bar, Rio Dell, Thursday, 7 p.m.
A bottle's throw from the north end of the Eagle Prairie Bridge, which connects the once timber-supported towns of Rio Dell and Scotia, you'll find Mingo's Sports Bar. Inside were previews of the upcoming staples of our sudsy safari: You've got yer pool table, you've got yer jukebox, you've got plenty of NASCAR, NFL and corporate beer memorabilia littering every square inch of wall space. Unique to Mingo's was the sign where the curve had been smudged out of the "P" so it read "Any Fucker Vodka drink $4.50."
In our crawl pre-planning, concerns had been raised that the vibrancy of establishments visited on Thursday might not be fairly represented. But even though it was barely evening, Mingo's was full of all the yelled profanity and general rowdiness you'd want. The boisterous star of the show, a woman with pulled back red hair sporting a gray West Coast Choppers sweatshirt, was making a point to engage everyone who entered the bar.
"Dee Bass," she introduced herself before yelling a clarification, "like the fish!"
"So what are you guys doin' with that camera?" asked Connie, the bartender in the shirt that read "Do not start with me, you will not win."
"We're doing an art project," I replied, then explained our Journal sojourn. Dee wasn't through with us. "I've got my name tattooed on my arm! Wanna see?" She quickly peeled off her sweatshirt to reveal a monocolor widemouth bass tattoo on her forearm. Nice.
Next Bar: The Palace, Ferndale
The Palace, Ferndale, Thursday, 9 p.m.
With daylight to spare, the crawl crew journeyed across Fernbridge and down Ferndale's Main Street to find ample curbside parking in front of the bright red Victorian facade of The Palace saloon -- the only bar from the Cream City on our official list. Once inside, we were treated to no shortage of complimentary amenities: free popcorn, shuffleboard, a bug zapper and a menagerie of decapitated beasts of the field adorning the walls.
"I see you taking pictures of this stuff," a man who'd later introduce himself as "Lou" said to me. He motioned towards a wall featuring four bighorn sheep donated to the bar by "Rich Lewis" of Fortuna he thought I should document. "That's the grand slam of the rams! These are from four different continents." (According to the cards pinned underneath them they were all from North America. But who you gonna trust?) Back at the bar crawlers were getting getting wet and playful.
After a long philosophical discussion with the bartender Danny on what does and does not constitute a sport -- "Anything that a person who could possibly get a 4.0 grade point average can do: not a sport," according to Danny -- conversation turned to possible tension in the room between some of the Palace regulars and one of our crew members, KSLG DJ John Matthews. Apparently, feelings were still a bit raw after the John had brought attention to the allegations of hurled racial epithets last year at a Ferndale High School football game.
"You kinda shit where you eat, John," Danny opined. John brushed off the assertion. Asked for his personal feelings, Danny said, "I tend to like him. But there are people here who would rather see him skidding across the pavement."
Eventually we went back to the sports debate.
"We're gonna head on up the street," Larry Trask signaled.
Next Bar: Hotel Ivanhoe, Ferndale
Hotel Ivanhoe, Ferndale, Thursday, 10:30 p.m.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on. Up the street? According to our thus-far-sacred itinerary we were only supposed to go to two bars on Thursday. Really? The crawl crew could not even get through Day One without the purity of the mission being sullied? I had a nice, clean list of twelve bars on the list with a working title in mind of "12 Bar Blues" -- get it?! But DJ and fellow crawler Larry Trask, Ferndale sympathizer that he is, insisted on a short jaunt down the block to Ferndale's Hotel Ivanhoe. I had specifically tried to stay out of establishments whose main focus was not getting you drunk. I wanted "bar" bars, without exactly knowing what that meant.
Inside the Ivanhoe, a generally older but vibrant room was singing along to the house band's version of "Goodnight Irene." Lack of legitimate dance space did not hinder older couples wedged between the dinner tables and the band from swaying adorably together. The place retains the same historic-but-cozy spirit of much of Ferndale. The walls are cluttered with old photos of notable Ferndaleans of yesteryear. And, admittedly, there's a physical, fully stocked bar.
We gathered around a table in the middle of the room to hammer out our venue selection criteria, since the dozen bar list was proving controversial. The upshot -- it had feel like a bar. And so, on Day One, our crawl would no longer be based on science but on a religion we constructed as we went. This new course meant we now had to walk across the street to the Victorian Inn. It felt like a bar, for sure. Everyone in?
Alas, it was closed. Ugh. Things were falling apart. Breathalyzer readings were taken, rides were arranged and the crew made plans to meet for Day Two's trip to SoHum.
Next Bar: Scotia Inn, Scotia
Scotia Inn, Scotia, Friday, 5:30 p.m.
Our more inclusive itinerary almost doubled the number of Day Two establishments we had to visit. Bring it. Down an abridged flight of stairs, the Scotia Inn Pub is intentionally less lavish than the rest of the Inn. Its low light and low ceilings make it feel like a cozy converted basement. Historic photos of the once bustling timber company town line the walls.
The crew ordered drinks and then took up pens and started filling out bar review forms we'd created, hoping that at the end of our voyage we'd have some quantifiable way to rank the watering holes. We'd tried to make it fun, from obvious categories like "Amenities" and "Drink Quality," to the more probing "Sketchiness" and "Patron Hotness." After being somewhat lax the first day, I really wanted to get observations, praises and gripes on paper.
Down at the end of the bar, a sign on the wall read "Wisdom Corner?" Conveniently, the man sitting on the actual bar corner, Roby Agnew, claimed to be Wisdom Corner?'s creator, while speaking in riddles of its significance. (It's really just where he and the boys hang out).
"You notice the question mark?," Agnew asked. "We're not really sure how wise it is to sit down here because we're usually all fucked up by the time we leave."
While we were talking, one of the waitresses placed a thick, juicy steak in front of Agnew. Maybe it was a wise place to sit after all.
Next Bar: Trading Post Saloon, Myers Flat
Trading Post Saloon, Myers Flat, Friday, 6:30 p.m.
The huge sign in the front window: "We Love God, the American Constitution, & the Tea Party. And we'll die for all of them."
Sweet! This felt like exactly what we were looking for. Once eyes adjusted from the SoHum sun to the dark interior, we took in the Trading Post's charm. Formerly an antique store, it had no shortage of mismatched artifacts -- stone Buddhas, ancient cameras, a burl bear. Stacks upon stacks of alcohol cases seeped out from one corner into the rest of the bar.
While a few presumed patrons basked in the sun out front, the bar was empty except for us and Kim, the young, talkative raven-haired bartender who was loving her still fairly new Humboldt experience.
"I came here for three months. That was a year ago," Kim said of her migration from New Orleans to the middle of nowhere to work on a farm in Briceland. She'd tended bar previously and eventually got sucked into the Trading Post world.
She let us take drinks outside, and after we explained our mission, she let us lie on the bar for an impromptu photo shoot. Kim just requested we remove our shoes.
"This place could be a destination," Larry said. Reluctantly, we said goodbye to Kim, breathalyzed and pressed on.
Next Bar: Riverwood Inn, Phillipsville
Riverwood Inn, Phillipsville, Friday, 8:30 p.m.
After miles of nothing except Avenue of the Giants' asphalt and humongous foliage, the Riverwood Inn is an impressive sight. A favorite biker stop, the well-maintained roadhouse has always seemed to overachieve, with a steady stream of out of town, accomplished bands. And the Mexican food is decent. With rooms available, the mythology I'd heard always included late night rockin', drinkin' and safely crashin'.
Unfortunately, none of that was happening tonight. The crawl crew entered the main room and moseyed up to the bar where an older bartender served us mostly margaritas. She wasn't much for conversation, and we ended up transfixed by the televised London Olympics opening ceremonies.
I mean, the place looks great. With the exception of the Benbow Inn, there probably wasn't a classier joint on our list. The floors are ludicrously shiny and many of the walls have beautiful redwood paneling. Some are lined with framed, signed concert posters and pictures of the bands that have played here. We shoulda waited for a band. This felt like being at Disneyland when none of the rides were running.
Next Bar: Benbow Inn, Benbow
Benbow Inn, Benbow, Friday, 9:30 p.m.
Sticking out like a sore but finely manicured thumb on our predominantly dive bar weekend was the only Tudor-style establishment on our revised list: the historic Benbow Inn. Just how historic, we were about to find out.
Making our way through the hotel lobby's summertime traveler bustle, we found the Benbow Inn's inviting piano bar. A few of us fanned out to take in the architecture. Lots of leather to sit on. We got all misty eyed watching fellow crew members and lovebirds Andy Powell and Alanna Goldsmith wander around the expansive, romantically lit terrace. Did I mention it was Alanna's birthday? It was.
Back in the bar, I asked one of the waitresses if she could give me some trivia about the building. She was pretty sure it had been built by German woodworkers in the 1920s and, oh by the way, there's a Nazi symbol up there.
"Where?" I asked.
"Right ... there," she said, pointing right above my head. It was dark, but I shined a light on my camera up to a nook in a pillar adjacent to the bar. Sure enough, centered in the woodwork was a deliberate, raised unmistakable swastika. If you didn't know it was there, there was little to no chance you'd notice it.
Judging by a slight difference in the shading of the wood, we theorized that it had been scratched at and fussed with some over the years, but that the establishment had not tried to remove it.
John was outraged. "If there was a swastika on the side of the station, I'd be the first person out there to shave that shit off."
"But the swastika meant something else before the Nazis took it over," Alanna said. John wasn't having it.
Consensus on the Benbow Inn swastika could not be reached.
Next Bar: Branding Iron, Garberville
Branding Iron, Garberville, Friday, 10:30 p.m.
"Wow! G-ville be hoppin'!"
Separate pods of done-up women and collared-shirt, flat-billed-hat-wearing gentlemen roamed the street. Some were coming from a burlesque benefit show at the Garberville Theater, which had provided an extra shot of life to the scene.
The pounding beats of Peaches' "Fuck the Pain Away" took residency in our ears as we made our way into the Branding Iron, where we were instantly confronted with the bar's main attraction.
Stripper pole. Right in the center of the room. I climbed to the top. Crew member Katie Hennessy spun around a few times giggling, never leaving her feet. We were soon put to shame by "Rhonda," a young, blonde regular in sandals and plaid shorts who, among other things, performed a mid-air splits and descended head down from the pole using only her legs to hold on. We were impressed.
The rest of the bar seemed to fit the rural bar mode: taxidermied animal noggin, corporate beer signs, pool tables, soulless digital jukebox with exactly the same music selection in every location. (Remember when you had no choice but to grow to love the Garth Brooks live album? Simpler times.) An electronic boxing machine in the corner took our dollars but wasn't giving coherent readings. We still don't know if Larry or Alana punches harder.
Next Bar: The Blue Room, Garberville
The Blue Room, Garberville, 11:30 p.m.
Oh joy! -- there was another bar in Garberville I hadn't allotted time for: The Blue Room. Great. (I studied that liquor license list from the state later, and realized I missed The Blue Room because its name wasn't listed -- just its address.)
The Blue Room's "blue" is produced by some blue plastic covered rope lights strung above the bar, bathing the room in the desired hue. The most notable feature was its liquor case, where you can buy an off sale bottle of Jose Cuervo to take home if you want to keep goin' after they kick you out at 2 a.m. I guess that's kinda cool.
Andy and his lady friend decided to part ways one bar early, and no amount of protesting could sway him.
Andy blew: ".00". Alanna blew: ".15". We made our way to our final destination.
Next Bar: Brass Rail Inn, Redway
Brass Rail Inn, Redway, Friday, 12:45 a.m.
Our ranks depleted, the remaining crawlers braved Redwood Drive and turned into the jam-packed Brass Rail Inn parking lot, where an unmistakable sound from inside filled the night air.
"Oh, it's karaoke night," Larry said. "Perfect."
We made our way inside toward the most out of key rendition ever of "Killing Me Softly." The bar's main room was full of frenetic drunken belligerence. People running into each other. People yelling at each other. Aggressive karaoke being sung. The exaggerated swaying of the gentleman with the devil horns strapped to his head led to a collision as I made my way to the bar -- my fault, really. The wall-to-wall carpet and grandma's house wallpaper made it feel like a fraternity living room.
At the bar a woman named "Molly" approached Larry with a plastic jar and told him he hadn't paid to get in.
"For karaoke night?" Larry asked.
"C'mon, just three dollars!" she insisted.
"Do you even work here?" he asked. The price dropped slightly after it was revealed that she did not. Larry declined to pay.
The guy who screamed while sitting on the floor, without any discernable cadence or tone, through a karaoke version of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" that, while entertaining seemed like an omen and I asked the others if they were ready to go.
Not really trusting their drunken assessments, I pulled the plug.
Next Bar: E&O Lanes, Glendale
E&O Lanes, Glendale, Saturday, 4 p.m.
By now I was herding weary, hungover cats. Our Day Three meet time was marred by delays and even some reluctance to continue (you know who you are). But we were scheduled to visit Humboldt's extreme east and north. Defying our bodies, the seven of us pulled it together in front of E&O Lanes in mid-afternoon.
This place is famous as the bowling alley where you have to know how to correctly score bowling via pencil and paper, but we resisted the temptation to throw strikes and gutters. Instead, we ventured into the D&L Lounge (Glendale is out of ampersands).
Maybe the only memorable aspect of D&L is the floor. It's green. Like, waaay bright green. Like, someone skinned a hundred Kermit the Frogs and said, "Let's walk on these." Green.
"What are you taking pictures for?" the bartender asked suspiciously. When I told her the Journal she went on to tell me how she'd been none too pleased by a picture of her being "drunk and stupid" at the Redwood Run some years back. I didn't take her picture.
After a few dog hairs and pool games, the crew 299'd it east.
Next Bar: Logger Bar, Blue Lake
Logger Bar, Blue Lake, Saturday, 5 p.m.
The Logger Bar in Blue Lake has seen better days and yet clings to enough scraps of soul that make it more endearing than most bars on our list. Rock shows still occasionally draw the cool kids out to pack the place. Over the years, the Logger had been able to resist much of the Budweiser and NASCAR signage that make many bars look identical. It covers its walls with antique timber industry memorabilia -- rusty saws, uncomfortable-looking hard hats, badass pick axes. I was saddened to find out that it had sold the piano.
We were the only customers. After serving us drinks, longtime Logger Bar tender Brenda came around and sat in a chair, tilting back while she did needlepoint and watched Law and Order on an old full-depth TV.
We were soon joined by Alana's sister and a few other friends, and the dancing began. A middle-aged man with a thick mustache and an orange shirt that read "Too Many Freaks, Too Few Circuses" looked on.
Next Bar: P&J Billiards, Willow Creek
P&J Billiards, Willow Creek, Saturday, 6:45 p.m.
After a windy, uphill Highway 299 climb, P&J Billiards was the first of two bars on our list on Willow Creek's main drag. Sure, it has four well-maintained pool tables and darts. But the big discoverand a wall packed with framed and embossed articles and awards from cuemaker publications and organizations (they exist). This place be makin' its own sticks! Turns out Pete Tonkin -- the "P" in "P&J" -- and Tonkin Custom Cues are kind of a big deal in the industry.
A Humboldtian his whole life, Tonkin had been a machinist on the coast for years before a love of pool led him to try his hand at full-time cue-making about 12 years ago. He has a back-room workshop with elaborate woodworking machinery and row after row of unfinished pool cues. And he ain't doing too shabby. He's sold pieces for as much as $20,000 to avid cue collectors (they exist!). And truly, the pieces are pretty extraordinary, decorated with intricate designs in silver, snakewood and pre-ban ivory. His work earned him the "Cue of the Year" Award in 2010 from the American Cuemakers Association.
"I'm one of the top three cuemakers in the world right now," Tonkin said. Seems plausible.
While P&J's stocks world class pool ball-propelling art, take note future crawlers: no grub.
Next Bar: Simon Legree's, Hawkins Bar
Simon Legree's, Hawkins Bar, Saturday, 9 p.m.
There was one geographic exception on our rural Humboldt bar crawl. About 10 miles east of Willow Creek on Highway 299, just over the Trinity County line in the small community of Hawkins Bar, is Simon Legree's.
In Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, "Simon Legree" is the slave owner who buys, torments and eventually kills Tom, the anti-slavery novel's black protagonist. Not a good guy. The fact that someone would name a business out in the hills after this character had always astonished me, and our crawl crew had agreed upfront to this rule bending. With a name like that, we were surely guaranteed some jaw-dropping display of overt racism, right? Oh boy!
Inside the uninspiring brown boxy building, the natural wood walls and vaulted ceilings were actually pretty inviting. A quick scan of the room revealed no declarations of Aryan superiority. Two white gentlemen sat at the bar where a black woman in her early thirties was running the show. "Oh, that's funny," Larry said smiling and shaking his head as he sat.
We asked Victoria, the bartender, how the bar came to have such a dubious moniker. "You'd have to ask the previous owner," she said. "Maybe he was an asshole. Who knows?"
Next Bar: The Forks, Willow Creek
The Forks, Willow Creek, Saturday, 9:45 p.m.
Earlier that evening, we'd gotten a tip from Steven Streufert of Bigfoot Books. Seems he was a consultant of sorts for a Bigfoot-themed film, and if we timed it right, we could scratch The Forks off our list while hanging with the film crew. And oh, by the way, the film's director will be there: Bobcat Goldthwait.
Are you kidding? For those of you who aren't instantly like "whoa"d by that name, Goldthwait was a pretty big deal in the '80s as a stand-up comedian. And he was the loud, hyperactive gang leader-later-to-become-officer Zed McGlunk in a string of Police Academy movies. Sure, sure. In recent years, though, he's reinvented himself as a dark comedic screenwriter/film director of such films as World's Greatest Dad and God Bless America. Oh, and some Bigfoot movie divinely scheduled to collide with our bar crawl.
We pulled up to The Forks to find an unmistakable short, stout man in golf hat and thick-rimmed glasses, standing with others outside.
"That's him!" fanboy Will Startare said excitedly. Before we even had a chance to play it cool, Bobcat must have sensed that we were there with purpose and asked us what we were up to.
"We're doing an art project too," I said, explaining that we were documenting all the local rural bars for the Journal.
"Oh, can we have our picture taken?" he asked. Yeah, that would be cool.
"We're gonna have a guy from our crew do a song about Bigfoot," Bobcat went on. "Perhaps we can use your bar crawl people?"
Are you kidding? The crawl crew, along with other bar patrons, gleefully signed release forms and gathered in a corner of the bar -- oh right, the bar. Uh, The Forks looked a lot like the other ones. A cast member with a ukulele played a song he'd written that day about the Pattison-Gimlin film shot in Orleans in 1966. Apparently, we were a bit too reverent in take one.
"It's OK to smile and stuff!" Bobcat directed us. "Just think about how you really would react to this. He's also playing a ukulele."
Take two was sufficient, filming wrapped for the night and drinking and photo taking commenced.
Next Bar: Clam Beach Inn, Clam Beach
Clam Beach Inn, Clam Beach, Saturday, 11:45 p.m.
Are we done yet? The combination of the long trip out to the coast and the 15 bars that stretched behind us colored our of the Clam Beach Inn. While "The Digger" as it is known, was easily one of the livelier bars of the weekend, we huddled apathetically at the bar. We were done meeting people.
But the camera around my neck again gave us away. One giant, aggressive bearded guy in a Slayer shirt kept demanding I take his picture until I showed him one he was happy with. Another gentleman invited me to photograph him as he spun a quarter on the bar and attempted to stop it standing on its edge with his index finger.
Everyone in the crew seemed to agree that The Digger was nicer than the last time they were there, though in each case they could not cite when said "last time" was. The bar did offer another chance at shuffleboard -- the first since the Palace. Yet another Rendezvous digital jukebox offered the exact same music as every other similar machine. Jukeboxes, it seems, are lacking soul these days.
Next Bar: Ocean Grove, Trinidad
Ocean Grove, Trinidad, Saturday, 1 a.m.
Sure, the Grove has had more aesthetically pleasing eras. These days it's aging, rusting furniture, paint-challenged floors and stained ceilings. But recently the Grove has overachieved by hosting DJ'd dance nights in the alcove next to the bar. Despite ceilings low enough to scrape your knuckles if you're not cautious with your fist pumps, the dance nights are pretty popular.
On this night, young members of the Humboldt Free Radio Alliance were undeterred by an empty room. Flanked by an aloof, beer-sipping posse and using a tarp covered pool table shoved in the corner to hold his gear, DJ Shell Shock enthusiastically bobbed his head as he filled the room with old skool hip-hop for no one. During a break he approached us.
"You're from the Journal?" he said. "So you're here to cover me? OK! Take all the pictures you want!"
After logging a solid half hour of Grove-age, Andy signaled the end of the journey. "I think we're gonna take off," he said motioning for the breathalyzer. He passed. So did I, driver of our second car. Our tail lights glowed in night drizzle. Dragon slayed. Time for bed. The next day we would all have to rise from the crawl position and stand again as real humans.
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When considering massive changes to existing code, to cope with fundamental new requirements, it's appropriate to think about whether there is an opportunity to do something completely new. Joel Spolsky isn't always right.
As I mentioned before I think there is an opportunity for someone to create a new browser engine and possibly win. Here's what they could do:
- Target 8 cores or more --- i.e., pay no attention to performance on fewer cores. Existing engines can't afford to do this, so there's a market niche that they can't enter that will eventually grow to become the entire market --- a classic disruptive play.
- Leverage the incredible work of the WHATWG on documenting HTML parsing, DOM APIs, etc, to really design code based on specifications that are close to Web-compatible, instead of designing something and having to hack it a hundred different ways to get Web compatibility. Where the WHATWG hasn't covered a topic yet, help them out. Existing engines couldn't do this because they predate the WHATWG work.
- Use a new programming language with the following features:
- Memory safety
- Non-sucky exceptions
- Real modules
- UTF8 strings with an iterator API
- Real global optimization with profile-driven, whole-program, ahead-of-time compilation
- Immutable types
- Generators and other syntactic sugar du jour
- Garbage collection, of course
- Safe manual memory management using ownership types (I'll write more about this later)
- Copy-on-write cloning
- Transactional memory and/or other modern parallel programming primitives
- Typed message passing (messages should be typed for the same reasons as functions; see Microsoft's Singularity)
- No crappy, hard-to-optimize, but inexplicably popular features such as identity and synchronization primitives on every object
- Pluggable runtime, so at compile time you can choose what ABI, GC, etc you want to use ... so you can build components that will play nice in a variety of environments
This is worth doing because if you're going to make a clean break, you should take the opportunity to make things so much better than C++. Memory safety alone would be a giant step forward for security (and many of the other items are ways to claw back the performance hit of memory safety).
- Memory safety
While I think this approach might be a winner, it's still an extremely hard and risky road. Beyond the Joel risks, the biggest problem is the Web compatibility catch-22: you won't really be Web-compatible until you have enough market share that Web developers test against your engine, but you can't get that market share without being Web-compatible. (I suspect this is almost the entire reason why Opera hasn't been a runaway success.) To break out, you either have to work incredibly hard and be astonishingly compelling, or you have to be backed by some organization with great market power. Having said that, WHATWG and Mozilla are working to erode this catch-22, with some success, so things might be easier now than they used to be.
Clearly this approach would be much too risky for an established player to bother with. I would love to see a startup working in this area, though.
Update I should add to the above language requirements list:
- Natural and efficient mapping to commodity hardware (sorry Haskell fans)


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Zodiacal Light
Originally uploaded by Computer Science Geek
Awesome picture! I've never heard of zodiacal light before today (I know, its embarrassing considering I run an astronomy blog) but I've been checking out some photo's and found these great ones from Computer Science Geek on Flickr. I definitely think this stuff is right up there with aurora and Milky Way photography is terms of coolness (way more important than scientific relevance!).
Zodiacal light is really cool. It basically is light from the Sun reflected back by interplantary dust. To produce this light, according to Wikipedia (which I will choose to trust this time), only a 1mm dust particle every 8 kilometers in space that is equally reflective as the moon can produce this effect.


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Weeks in review
A roundup of state and local news-review and weekly political chat shows. Descriptions provided by the broadcast outlets in most cases:
Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review Guest host Eddie Arruza with Abdon Pallasch, Chicago Sun-Times; Dana Kozlov, CBS News Chicago; ; Greg Hinz, Crain's Chicago Business and Fred Mitchell, Chicago Tribune: Mayor Rahm Emanuel tweaks his longer school day plan, lowering it by 30 minutes, aldermen demand more details on the $7 billion infrastructure trust, and the speed camera plan cruises to a full City Council vote. Two-and-a-half months after Sen. Mark Kirk suffered a stroke, his condition is veiled in secrecy. With Rick Santorum out of the presidential race, attention turns to Mitt Romney's potential running mate. And in sports, the Blackhawks battle Phoenix in round one of the playoffs, and Ozzie Guillen sparks a firestorm in Miami with his Fidel Castro comments.
3@3(.mp3) WBEZ-FM Three stories that are bouncing around the newsosphere this week. Neil Steinberg Columnist with the Chicago Sun Times. Neil's big story is the recent surge of violence in the city. Eric Zorn-Columnist with the Chicago Tribune. Eric's big story is Mayor Emanuel's "walk-back" on both the length of the school day and the amount drivers would be ticketed from new speed cameras depending on the actual speed. We also toss around what effect the retirement announcement by editor and 30-year Sun Times veteran Don Hayner might have on the paper.
CapitolView WSEC-TV/PBS Springfield: Host Jamey Dunn (Illinois Issues Magazine) with Mike Lawrence (former director, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at SIU), and Dave McKinney (Chicago Sun-Times). On Facebook at CapitolViewPolitics.
Connected to Chicago (.mp3) WLS-AM 890. Host Bill Cameron with Greg Hinz of Crain's Chicago Business, Lynn Sweet of the Sun-Times, and Ray Long and Eric Zorn of the Tribune: Will the Trayvon Martin case have a political impact this fall? Are the Mommy Wars on for real? Gov. Pat Quinn's pension task force to report next week. Chicago's murder rate is on the rise. Mayor Rahm Emanuel seems to back down a bit on his speed-camera proposal.
Chicago Newsroom CAN TV: Host Ken Davis is joined by Lorraine Forte (Catalyst Chicago) Thom Clark (Community Media Workshop) and Don Moore (Designs for Change). They discuss the failure of the CPS to promote the upcoming LSC elections, the controversial speeding camera proposal and the Emanuel administration's strategy of overreach followed by minor compromise to advance government policy.


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(CNN) -- Fourteen years ago, Mark Horvath was in crisis. The former exec was living on the streets in Hollywood, California, where for a dollar he let people take a photograph of his pet iguana, named Dog.
"I was sitting by the Chinese theater with my iguana, surrounded by Asian tourists, with my head down, thinking, 'How am I going to get out of this?' " said Horvath, whose nickname was the "Lizard Man of Hollywood Boulevard."
Last month, Horvath returned to Hollywood Boulevard, this time as a featured speaker at the 140 Characters Conference, a Twitter-inspired gathering attended by movers and shakers in social media. Horvath told the audience how he uses an arsenal of social networking sites -- Twitter, Facebook, Whrrl, MySpace, YouTube, Vimeo and Flickr -- to illuminate the plight of the nation's homeless.
Armed with a hand-held videocamera, a microphone, a laptop and an iPhone, Horvath approaches homeless people on their own turf and empowers them to share their personal stories. He posts the raw, unedited video interviews on his Web site, InvisiblePeople.tv, and other places.
For Horvath, the stories he captures hit close to home. He was once a Hollywood distribution executive with a six-figure salary. In 1995, he lost it all to drug and alcohol addiction.
Horvath cleaned up with the help of the Dream Center in Los Angeles, a nonprofit ministry and outreach that supplies food, shelter and life rehabilitation to people in urban areas. He went into faith-based broadcasting and marketing, and eventually relocated to St. Louis, Missouri, in 2005.
"I rebuilt my life and bought a three-bedroom house with a swimming pool," Horvath said. "From homeless to a 780 credit score is a miracle."
After two years of stability, however, Horvath faced another challenge: the faltering economy. He lost his marketing job for a church in St. Louis and spent nine months unemployed.
"When I went to McDonald's and Home Depot [to apply for jobs], they wouldn't look at me because I made too much money," said Horvath. "I lived off my credit cards to cover my mortgage and food. I maxed out two cards."
Horvath relocated to Los Angeles for another marketing job with a Christian denomination, only to be laid off three months later.
He was seven weeks from being out on the street again when he started InvisiblePeople.tv in November 2008.
As someone who knew firsthand the shame of homelessness, Horvath felt compelled to do something about it. He wanted to share stories about others like him and put a face -- many faces -- on the problem.
In April, he took a major risk that became a turning point for his cause. He spent his last $300 on a trip to Sacramento to interview homeless people in the tent communities that had sprung up there as a result of the recession.
"I thought nobody was telling their story, and I needed to go there," he said. "I left [Los Angeles] knowing that I could be evicted."
Horvath roamed the homeless tent cities, documenting the experience on his Twitter stream, @HardlyNormal. He also used Whrrl, a Web and mobile application that lets users share stories via brief updates, photos and location.
"I call it 'reality twittering,' " Horvath explained. "I try to engage people and bring them along for the ride."
The ride took some uncomfortable turns. In one Twitter update, Horvath wrote, One man upset at media starts screaming at me. I walk away. Two guys follow me to my car. I'm scared and rethink my sanity.
I start walking fast yet keep hearing a guy getting closer yelling at me. I turn and he is behind me on the path running. He was very upset, he wrote in another post.
Horvath's visceral tweets caught the attention of Whrrl, based in Seattle, Washington. The Whrrl team intently followed the updates from their office that day.
"We were all shocked that this man had the courage to go up and help people, even in a violent situation," said Heather Meeker, Whrrl's spokeswoman.
Whrrl invited Horvath to meet with their developers in Seattle, and the company hosted a tweetup -- a gathering of Twitterers -- on his behalf.
"He's not trying to pull the wool over anyone's eyes. He's been there," said Chris Pirillo, a technology expert for CNN.com who met Horvath in Seattle. "It's still very uncomfortable to watch the videos, because it's just so raw."
"All of a sudden, people started talking about [my project]," Horvath said. "There were a lot of influential people in social media that were giving me money. I came home with rent money."
A few months later, Horvath decided to take InvisiblePeople.tv on the road. Supported by Whrrl, social-media donors and corporate sponsors, he traveled across the country to capture the modern realities of homelessness. Ford Motor Co. lent him a car, Hanes donated socks, and Whrrl created a Web page to track his progress.
Horvath videotaped more than 100 homeless people along his journey, which took him to more than 20 cities. He encountered several disabled people, including a woman named Cotton who has lived in a tent in Greensboro, North Carolina, for 16 years.
She told Horvath on camera what it was like for her to be homeless. "For lack of a better word, it's brutal," she said. "It's cruel; it's senseless. It's so unnecessary."
In New York, Horvath interviewed a woman named Joni who spends her nights on a bench in Times Square. The video shows tourists strolling past as Joni tearfully tells Horvath her three wishes: "To have a home, to wake up with food, and that everybody would just stop all of this."
In more than a few instances, Horvath's visits resulted in immediate help, from new housing and feeding programs in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to new shoes for 50 children in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Horvath's impact on the Web exceeded his expectations. At least 1,000 videos are watched each week on his Vimeo channel alone. On Twitter, he has a combined 10,000 followers to his two streams, @hardlynormal and @invisiblepeople. Mashable hailed him as one of five people who broke the rules of social media and succeeded. Last month, the Huffington Post named him among the top activists to follow on Twitter.
"People within the tech community have really embraced him," Meeker said. "They know that he isn't making money from this, but he's doing this to make a difference. You can't say that about many people."
In August, Pirillo invited Horvath to speak at the Gnomedex technology conference in Seattle. Other speaking invitations followed from BlogWorld, the Idea Camp and the 140 Characters Conference.
"I felt like it was very important for his story to be heard," said Jeff Pulver, creator of the 140 Characters Conference. "I was in awe just reading his tweets. I didn't know his name, I just knew him as HardlyNormal."
Despite the attention, Horvath continues to scrape by with the help of churches and friends in social media. Still in debt, he covers his rent by working a temp job at a homeless shelter in Glendale, California. He has no health insurance.
"My crisis has not changed, but I have," he said. "All I can do is focus on helping other people, and in doing so, my problems seem to disappear."
As recently as last week, the pressure almost got the best of him, and he was close to calling it quits. He went for a walk and was reminded of his purpose.
"On that walk, I saw a homeless man who had no socks," Horvath tearfully recounted. "I had socks, so I knew I couldn't quit. I walked back to my car and grabbed socks. I knew if it wasn't me, then who?"
Horvath often concludes his video interviews by asking his homeless subjects to share their three wishes for the future. When asked that question himself, he appeared startled.
"My first wish would be that people really see the reality of homelessness," he replied after a moment of hesitation. "And that we develop communities and work as a team to solve the problem."
The third? "I would like security and normalcy to my life, but with a name like HardlyNormal, it's never going to happen," he said with a laugh.


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In 2002 Omega released their first of a series of commemorative James Bond watches. The Omega...
Omega Seamaster 18.104.22.168.01.001
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I have a loud electrical sounding humming noise that is vibrating through my house, and appears to be coming through the adjoining wall of my neighbour's house. It starts and stops at any time of day or night, even with my electricity / heating / water turned off at the mains.
I have asked my neighbour to flick off his mains switch to try and determine whose house this is coming from, but he is not willing to do this. How can I detect / monitor where exactly the noise is coming from.


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Saturday, July 18, 2009
Liv's Sweet Messenger Diaper Bag
Posted by Stacey - Elle Belle at 3:28 PM
Labels: changing pad, diaper bag, Melissa Averinos, messenger bag, messenger diaper bag, removable changing pad, sewing, Sugar Snap, urban threads
3 comments:
- AKD said...
You are so darn creative!! Great job! ~Angie
- July 22, 2009 at 6:32 AM
- Athena's Armoury said...
It looks awesome! Maybe one of these days when things quiet down for you, you can show me how to use the sewing machine I got from a very generous Freecycler. ;)
- July 22, 2009 at 4:17 PM
- jen said...
LOVE this bag. not sure how much i've commented here ... or if i've mentioned ... but my middle name is liv. and my youngest daughter's middle name is liv. and i really wanted to save liv as a first name ... but i couldn't be guaranteed that we were going to have a 3rd, and if we did ... no guarantees on the gender.
so here i am with my 3rd in process ... and kinda wishing that i hadn't already used liv as a middle name.
in other words. i love that you named your daughter liv. that's all. long story short.
- July 24, 2009 at 9:14 PM