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Games people play: Keeping busy in the parlor
The roaring '20s– jazz, Broadway, Hollywood, and the comic strips. The bobo '90s-– Pictionary, Sega, Scrabble, and on-line chess. A fair analogy? These are the things they're pondering up in the Ivory Towers of deep brain thinking – M.I.T.
Henry Jenkins, Director of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, brings his considerable scholarship in the realm of pop culture to UVA's Forum of Contemporary Thinking to ask the question: Are games the new "lively arts"?
Taking a page from Gilbert Seldes, originator of the phrase as it applied to America's contribution to 20th century culture, Jenkins wonders how society today critiques games as a popular art form. While many cynics would more quickly acknowledge our contemporary contribution as one to the non-lively arts (does sitting on your butt while commanding a computer-generated army or football team count as lively?), there's no doubt that games, particularly computer games, are a ubiquitous and exportable product of American culture today, and that we spend a lot of time talking about them.
But computer games transcend national boundaries and cultures; they are shared, played, and rated by a supra-national audience. To get really American, maybe we should look to the nostalgic embrace of parlor games. This is a trend that started over a decade ago with Trivial Pursuit and its infinite permutations. For a while it seemed that the board game had a fighting chance at restoring a golden age of wholesome fun; I personally remember busting curfew to finish a close match. Parents did it, too-– sold, perhaps by advertisements showing responsible-looking couples gleefully regressing in an effort to simulate an orangutang on amphetamines, or some other challenging task.
Jenkins is the author or editor of nine books looking at video games, the media, and the ascendancy of popular culture over the fine arts. But as his readers know, what begins as an examination of Trekkies can quickly segue into lesbian desire in The Wizard of Oz, and once you bring up karaoke, there's nowhere to go but the stress-management industry.
So if you're the one who sees Twister as a metaphor for class harmony, or credits charades with the development of postmodern body language, this lecture is for you. And if you do go, don't forget to pay homage to Gilbert Seldes, who dined with the Stravinskys and championed the Katzenjammer Kids. Now that's lively.
Henry Jenkins is the Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT and the author of "What Made Pistachio Nuts" and other pop culture studies. He speaks on Monday, October 21, at 4pm at UVA's Forum for Contemporary Thought. Wilson Hall, 402, UVA. Reception follows.


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On critics: Sondheim still can't take a hit
Stephen Sondheim can make a hit, but even after all these years, he still can't take one. In a short essay today for The Guardian that is filled with contempt and contradiction, Sondheim made it plain that, at age 81, he still doesn't understand the fundamental purpose of theater criticism.
Sondheim says, "The most pernicious thing about critics is … they can steer people away from your show."
If you ask me, the best thing about critics? They can steer people to your show. Or they can steer people away from your show. Both kinds of reviews serve a purpose.
Reviews of Sondheim aren't written for Sondheim. They are written for the readers who buy your paper looking for some assistance in making the tough decision whether it might — or might not be — in their best interest to be spending $125 to go see your show.
Oskar Eustis was in Colorado last year ruing the rise of what he calls "consumer criticism" — reviews that consider value based more on economics than ideas. (I feel they can — and must — coexist.)
My daily mail tells me that in this era of declining influence of "the old media" — and old-media critics (meaning full-time, experienced, ethical, to some degree trained and therefore hopefully useful critics), helping readers to make that difficult economic decision is the most useful purpose they serve. That does not mean "make it for them."
I'm biased. (Can you tell?). Sondheim's biased. (Can you tell?). What do you think?

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- Cunningham Garners Second Team All-Met Honors -
New York, N.Y. - April Smith of William Paterson was named 2011-12 All-Met Division III women's college basketball player of the year Tuesday by the Met Basketball Writers Association.
Erin Monahan of William Paterson was selected coach of the year for a third time.
Joining Smith on the All-Met first team: BriAnna Lucas, William Paterson; Jillian Barrett, Stevens; Jessica Duleba, Baruch; Kendra Johnson, Rutgers-Newark; Jen Mocanu, Mount Saint Mary.
The All-Met second team: Deslyn Applewhaite, Old Westbury; Amanda De La Cruz, Lehman; Kristin Markoe, Hunter; Melissa Tobie, Montclair State; Danielle Barber, Drew; Dominique Cunningham, Farmingdale State; Jen Vasta, Centenary.
Cunningham was a 1st Team All-Skyline selection this season, after posting a team-leading seven rebounds per game. She was the only player on the team to start all 25 games, while scoring in double-figures in points five times. She also scored in double-figures in rebounds six times and tallied two double-doubles this year. From the free throw line, she shot 70.3 percent. In the conference, she ranked second for offensive rebounds, 8th for Rebounding, 9th for Steals.
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Old maan,it is a translation error,might be in the Quran it says the source of the semen or the activation for the semen passes through the ribs and the backbone.Allah has not made available an exact copy of the Quran in Arabic available to you.Go figure out.
Where exactly in the quran did it say 'activation for the semen'?
Allah did made available the Quran in Arabic to all muslims, albeit thru the courtesy of Uthman, so what did it CLEARLY say in Arabic about the semen?


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Driver allegedly chugged cologne during Fayette County traffic stop
Fayette County Sheriff's deputies say a man who was driving erratically drank men's cologne to mask the scent of alcohol as he was being stopped Wednesday morning.
John David Conwill, 42, of Cat Spring was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance after drugs were found during the stop near Old Lockhart Road on Texas 71, deputies said.
Conwill was also allegedly involved in a hit-and-run accident in nearby Travis County before he was stopped, according to officials.
Deputy Randy Thumann and his K-9 partner Lobos were called in to assist deputies who made the stop.
"Lobos alerted on the vehicle which resulted in the discovery of dangerous drugs and open containers of alcoholic beverages," said Lt. David Beyer with the Fayette County Sheriff's Office. According to Beyer the suspect was in possession of prescription medications.
Beyer said Conwill was then arrested for drug possession, and additional charges are likely pending.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Senior forward Brian Rogers of the Harvard men's soccer team was drafted in the second round of the Major League Soccer (MLS) supplemental draft Tuesday. Rogers was selected with the 29th overall pick of the draft by the Vancouver Whitecaps, who began their preseason training Jan. 21.
Rogers had a strong career with the Crimson, highlighted by a standout freshman campaign. In his first season in Cambridge, Rogers garnered Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors, helping the Crimson to an appearance in the round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament. He was chosen to two national all-freshman teams and the All-Northeast Region third team. Rogers went onto lead the Crimson in scoring his next two seasons, before an injury-plagued senior year saw him play limited minutes.
Rogers is the seventh Harvard player selected in the MLS draft, and first since Andre Akpan '09 and Kwaku Nyamekye were selected in the 2010 draft.
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I'm working on an exercise from Atiyah and MacDonald's Commutative Algebra, and have hit a bump on Exercise 14 of Chapter 1.
In a ring $A$, let $\Sigma$ be the set of all ideals in which every element is a zero-divisor. Show that set $\Sigma$ has maximal elements and that every maximal element of $\Sigma$ is a prime ideal. Hence the set of zero-divisors in $A$ is a union of prime ideals.
I see by an application of Zorn's Lemma that $\Sigma$ has maximal elements. I take $\mathfrak{m}$ to be maximal in $\Sigma$, with $xy\in\mathfrak{m}$. Since $xy$ is a zero divisor, $xyz=0$ for some $z\neq 0$. If $yz=0$, then $y$ is a zero divisor, otherwise $x$ is a zero divisor. So I guess I then want to show $x\in\Sigma$ or $y\in\Sigma$. If neither is, then $\mathfrak{m}$ is properly contained in both $(\mathfrak{m},x)$ and $(\mathfrak{m},y)$. However, I'm not sure how to show either of these ideals is again in $\Sigma$.
If my understanding is correct, elements of $(\mathfrak{m},x)$ are finite sums of the form $\sum_ia_im_i+bx$ for $a_i\in A$, $m_i\in\mathfrak{m}$ and $b\in A$. To show this sum is a zero divisor, my hunch is that if $c_im_i=0$ for $c_i\neq 0$ and $dx=0$ for $d\neq 0$, then $$ \left(\sum_ia_im_i+bx\right)(d\prod_ic_i)=0. $$ My concern is that perhaps $d\prod_ic_i=0$, so the above wouldn't show that $(\mathfrak{m},x)$ consists of only zero divisors. How can I get around this? Or is there perhaps a better approach? Thank you for your help.


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IF you haven't finished your holiday shopping yet, don't bother.
Skip the mall and the neighborhood store, resist the urge to shop online and, by all means, don't buy anything you don't truly need.
So says Kalle Lasn, 70, maestro of the proudly radical magazine Adbusters, published in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mr. Lasn takes gleeful pleasure in lobbing provocations at global corporations — and his latest salvo is "Buy Nothing Christmas."
"As our planet gets warmer, as animals go extinct, as the humans get sicker, as our economies bail and our politicians grow ever more twisted," Americans just go shopping, Adbusters says on its Web site. Overconsumption is destroying us, yet shopping is "our solace, our sedative: consumerism is the opiate of the masses."
"We've got to break the habit," Mr. Lasn said in a telephone interview. "It will be a shock, but we've got to shift to a new paradigm. Otherwise, I'm afraid will be facing a new Dark Age."
Of course, retailers will be facing a Dark Age if people really stop shopping. And because consumer spending accounts for roughly 70 percent of United States gross domestic product, an abrupt shift to nonconsumption would drive the already faltering economy to its knees.
There are no signs that consumers are heeding Mr. Lasn's call, says Marshal Cohen, chief retail analyst at the NPD Group. "I find that people are shoppers or they're not," he said. "Shoppers keep shopping."
So it's easy to dismiss this latest campaign as yet another empty gesture from a figure on the radical fringe. Why take Mr. Lasn's words seriously?
Well, last year, a campaign prompted by Mr. Lasn and his magazine improbably caught fire. It was Occupy Wall Street.
Adbusters gave Occupy its name and opening date and designed the poster with Occupy's defining image: an elegant ballerina perched atop Wall Street's raging bull while gas-masked figures loomed in the background. The poster contained this text: "What Is Our One Demand? #OccupyWallStreet. Sept. 17th. Bring Tent." A digital version went viral.
Mr. Lasn's main role in the Zuccotti Park occupation, however, pretty much ended there: he remained in Vancouver, never visiting the Lower Manhattan encampment and participating in the local organizational work that made it possible. But his contribution began long before then.
Born in Estonia, Mr. Lasn lived for several years in German resettlement camps with his parents after they fled the advancing Soviet army toward the end of World War II. The family moved to Australia when he was 7. He graduated from the University of Adelaide, where he studied theoretical and applied mathematics and then worked four years for the Australian military, writing computer code for war games.
Then he moved to Tokyo, where the skills he developed in Australia served him well. He started a market research company and, he says, did computer-based studies of ad campaigns for global corporations. The work was lucrative, and he used his money to see the world. It was 1968, and a left-wing student rebellion in Paris resonated worldwide. He says he imbibed the spirit of rebellion, and it changed him.
"Until Occupy, the greatest political movement I'd ever seen was the uprising of '68. It really inspired me, and I've been running on that energy — and have been trying to recapture it — ever since."
LAST year, he says, he did recapture it. Stirred by the uprisings in Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt — the Arab Spring — he and colleagues at Adbusters "began to consider the possibilities of achieving a soft regime change in the United States, of finding some way to tap into the revolutionary zeitgeist." Out of those discussions came the idea of Occupy Wall Street.
Max Haiven, a postdoctoral fellow in art and public policy at New York University, who has studied Adbusters for years, said: "That was a fantastic initiative for them. They've been in global anticonsumption battles for years, and Adbusters has called for many big campaigns that never really happened. This one did. In a way, they got lucky."
He added: "What led to Occupy Wall Street taking off was not just the iconic image of the ballerina and the bull but a number of factors — including on-the-ground activists building an organization through many, many meetings and relationships and hard work in New York and elsewhere. Adbusters didn't do that. Other people did it."
Mr. Lasn acknowledges the truth of that, and says he's not a community organizer and certainly not a graceful politician. "I've said some things that have pissed people off," he says. And it's not just corporations like Nike, McDonald's and Philip Morris that have been stung by him. Israel's policies toward Palestinians are an Adbusters target.
A blog post in February 2011, for example, "Friends Don't Let Friends Violate International Law," compared Israel to a drunk friend: "For over half a century, America has been Israel's bartender and enabler: each year dumping billions of dollars in military aid that is used to oppress Palestinians."
The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish advocacy organization, says the magazine's provocative statements have occasionally contained anti-Semitic elements.
"While anti-Semitism is not part of their overarching message or mission, Adbusters makes no apologies for spreading Jewish conspiracy theories and promoting offensive analogies to the Holocaust," said Abraham H. Foxman, the league's national director. "Some people want to get attention to their cause, but unfortunately Adbusters has found it convenient at times to play into age-old conspiracy theories about Jewish control of the government in an effort to get attention to themselves."
In one instance, in 2004, Mr. Lasn published a list of 50 people who, he said, were prominent American neoconservatives and influenced American policy in the Iraq war. Half of them appeared to be Jewish, he wrote, and affixed a mark next to those names. He said American Jews tended to vote Democratic and that many were opposed to the Bush administration's foreign policy and to at least some Israeli policies. But, he said, the "neocons seem to have a special affinity for Israel that influences their political thinking and consequently American foreign policy in the Middle East."
In an interview, Mr. Lasn said he was "naïve" in publishing that list. "I had no idea of what the effect would be," he said, "and if I could do it over again I'd do it differently."
He added that "I don't have an anti-Semitic bone in my body" and that "when I was young one of my dreams was to live on a kibbutz." He said he admired many of Israel's founders, "who were lefties," but says, "I must admit that lately I think Israel has been making a big mistake, and I think it's important to say it."
One of Mr. Lasn's favorite words is "meme," as in: "Adbusters floated the meme of occupying the iconic heart of global capitalism." The biologist Richard Dawkins coined the term: a meme is a unit of cultural information spread among people like a gene. Spreading radically subversive memes is Mr. Lasn's avowed mission.
He has written a new Adbusters book, "Meme Wars: The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics" (Seven Stories Press). It is a lavishly illustrated collection, with photographs, drawings and essays that exhort university students to become "meme warriors" and revolutionize the field of economics. Like the magazine, the book elaborates on an old theme: his belief that core economic values must shift from profit-making and expansion of the gross domestic product toward improvement of human health and protection of the planet.
Accomplishing that requires overturning economic orthodoxy and capitalism as we know it, he says. "We have to do this," he says. "With climate change, and the exhaustion of the planet's resources. I believe the alternative is apocalypse."
Despite these portents of doom, he says, "the waves of global activism that we've been seeing, with Occupy and everything else — this fills me with more optimism than I've felt for many years."
THE magazine is published by the nonprofit Adbusters Media Foundation, of which Mr. Lasn was a co-founder in 1989 with a close friend, Bill Schmalz, a wildlife cinematographer. As Mr. Schmalz recalls it, Adbusters arose from a battle over conservation that the two men were waging against a Canadian logging company.
"Basically, they were cutting too many trees for the forest to regenerate," Mr. Schmalz, 71, recalled in a telephone interview. "We wanted that to stop."
The men met at work. In those days, Mr. Lasn, like Mr. Schmalz, was a documentary filmmaker working on projects for the National Film Board of Canada. He had moved to Canada with his wife, Masako Tominaga, so that he could leave advertising behind and embark on a film career.
What influenced him to head in that direction? He says it was the politics of the '60s, combined with the movies of the era, especially "The Graduate," the social satire. Mr. Lasn says he identified with its young star, Dustin Hoffman, who played a newly minted college graduate about to take up a career in what was then the hot new corporate field: "plastics." He rebels instead. "In his own way, he was a revolutionary," Mr. Lasn says. "In his own way, he stumbled through life and had some epiphanies and seemed to come out O.K. at the end."
Mr. Schmalz and Mr. Lasn collaborated on a 30-second television spot on the log-cutting controversy, but they were denied airtime. They started a long, inconclusive legal battle for the right to broadcast their "uncommercial," and decided to start a newsletter, Mr. Schmalz recalls. In 1992, it became Adbusters magazine.
Even then, he says, the focus was on protecting the earth's battered environment, fighting against overconsumption and jousting with corporate giants.
Mr. Lasn set the tone. "Kalle's a feisty guy and that comes across in the radical voice of the magazine," says Mr. Schmalz, now semiretired. "Some of what you're seeing and hearing is really just attention-getting."
Adbusters became a multimedia platform for barbed social and political critique. The ad industry has been a favorite target. A series of satirical print "subvertisements" uses what Mr. Lasn calls "jujitsu" to turn a company's own ad campaigns into a liability. He terms this approach "culture jamming."
Consider Adbusters' mordant "Joe Chemo" ads. They show Joe Camel, the tobacco mascot, receiving treatment for cancer.
Today, the Internet provides an outlet for the organization's video "uncommercials." They are discomfiting, especially if you're a target. In a spoof of McDonald's, a juicy Big Mac is lifted toward a consumer's face as an announcer officiously describes its fat content. The consumer drops the burger in disgust.
In another video, a young man on a couch watches TV. "Your living room is the factory," a deep voice intones. "The product being manufactured is you." The camera swivels to the back of the man's neck, revealing a tattooed bar code.
"TV Turnoff Week," held in April, was perhaps the most successful Adbusters campaign before Occupy Wall Street. It urged "addicted television watchers to just turn off the set and cleanse their minds," Mr. Lasn says. "Addictions have broadened," he says, and that campaign has become "Digital Detox Week," aimed at getting people to turn off all of their digital devices, meditate, enjoy the quiet and spend time with family and friends.
Then there's the "Consumer Pig" video. It depicts North Americans as voracious despoilers who can't bear to stop shopping. "Give it a rest," an announcer intones in a promotion for the "Buy Nothing Day" campaign. That effort takes place in the United States on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, a time of intense bargain-hunting. Adbusters asks shoppers to cease and desist.
Buy Nothing Day is the older sibling of Buy Nothing Christmas — an effort to extend one day of abstention to the entire holiday season. Mr. Lasn says it was the idea of a former editor at Adbusters, Aiden Enns.
Mr. Enns now lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, from which he operates a separate Web site for the campaign, in tandem with the Adbusters' effort based in Vancouver. He describes himself as a "progressive Mennonite" and says his approach is a "pretty mellow campaign not driven by high-energy organizers."
Advocating a life of material simplicity and spiritual richness, Mr. Enns urges people to "make things for others themselves, not to just go out and buy." He says he and his wife make gifts like wooden figurines and animal dolls for children, and salsa and relish for adults.
"The point is that we make them ourselves," he says. "They're a gesture of love."
He says he is in general agreement with Mr. Lasn and with Occupy Wall Street. "I believe our economy isn't sustainable," he says. "I believe it needs to change."
But as a pacifist, he adds, he is at odds with elements of the global Occupy movement.
Mr. Lasn's words and tactics are more combative. From his Vancouver base, he says he is trying to "re-energize" the Christmas campaign.
Adbusters is asking demonstrators to storm Times Square, "the iconic center of global capitalism" — and march around with "#BuyNothingXmas" signs through New Year's Day. There hadn't been much response as of Friday, but no matter: sparks don't always catch fire.
MR. LASN freely acknowledges that he is inconsistent — enmeshed in the advertising-saturated material world he is battling. For example, he doesn't make gifts for friends and family; he buys them — usually, smoked salmon and vodka.
"They love it," he says. "I love it. That's why I do it." The vodka is usually Stolichnaya, however, not Absolut, whose stylish ads are skewered by Adbusters.
One such subversive ad is a poster, "Absolute on Ice." Bathed in unearthly blue light, the sole of a foot is visible on a morgue gurney bearing the tag "D.O.A."
And Mr. Lasn says his lifestyle isn't really sustainable. He commutes 30 minutes each way from the magazine to his home on five acres of countryside. He and his wife are occupying too much land, and his little Toyota Echo burns too much fuel for the planet's health, he says: "What can I do? Living there helps to keep me sane."
And despite all of those online campaigns, Mr. Lasn is an analog man in a digital world. He favors spoken conversations, not e-mail or text messages, and owns only a simple cellphone — no iPhone or iPad for him.
He doesn't use the cellphone often. It's locked in his car. "It's there for emergencies," he says.
Mr. Lasn does the initial design and editing of Adbusters on paper. Digitally savvy colleagues transfer his work online. The magazine's paid circulation, which Mr. Lasn says is 60,000 to 70,000 worldwide, is overwhelmingly print, not digital. Digital subscriptions and downloads are cumbersome and must be improved, he says, although he doesn't understand the processes.
"We'll be working on this," he says. "It's odd. We're a print magazine. But already, most people come to Adbusters through our Web site and our list-serv and on Twitter." He is also trying to revitalize another Adbusters project, the sale of Blackspot Unswooshers — its own brand of "sustainable, fair trade" hightop sneakers. The shoes, he says, pose a challenge of sorts to "that multi-billion-dollar brand, Nike."
"On a very limited budget we are using Nike's own brand power against them," he adds. "We're unswooshing them."
But he says the sneakers haven't caught on the way they should. The original Blackspots, which bear a passing resemblance to Converse Chuck Taylors, will be discontinued. "We haven't really gotten the idea of our brand out there successfully yet — the idea that indie businesses can really combat global megacorporations."
THAT message may be the problem. Adbusters has been criticized as confusing the issue: asking people not to go brand-name shopping but asking them to buy its own brand. As Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter put it in the book, "Nation of Rebels," when Blackspots went on sale in 2003, it became "obvious to everyone that cultural rebellion, of the type epitomized by Adbusters magazine, is not a threat to the system — it is the system."
Such apparent inconsistencies, and the magazine's incendiary tone, can be maddening and even offensive, yet this rambunctious approach is also deeply appealing, some critics say. As Mr. Haiven, of New York University, puts it: "I've certainly been very critical of them but I'm also very glad they exist. I think they do very important work sometimes, in their own way."
He adds: "I think the answer is not so much that they should be doing something different but that there should be more alternatives out there. There is nothing else quite like Adbusters."


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Alan Parker, the lauded British director whose work includes Midnight Express, Fame and Mississippi Burning, is to receive the British Academy Film Awards' highest honour.
The academy announced on Wednesday that the 68-year-old will collect the BAFTA Fellowship at a London ceremony next month.
While known for being outspoken, Parker says he'll be "gracious and thankful" on the big night, rather than political.
He tells The Associated Press, "you always worry, does that mean the end of my career, when you get this kind of thing - but it's very nice."
The BAFTA winner and Oscar nominee's other films include Bugsy Malone, The Commitments and Evita.
Previous fellowship recipients include Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock and Elizabeth Taylor.
The BAFTA Film Awards take place on February 10 at London's Royal Opera House.


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I last saw the poet Adrienne Rich at a reading in Santa Cruz, our shared home town.
It was at Bookshop Santa Cruz. She was frail, certainly, and needed a bit of help getting around, but she still exuded that singular vitality, gravitas, charisma, and presence that had been her emotional calling card for decades.
She listened to every word. The poets who read that night may only now know how lucky they were. Death changes things.
I didn't read that night. Nor did I even talk to her. She was in the front row, I was in the back. She was a legend, I was a poet with a single book to my name, and not a well-known one at that.
Another time & place, and we could have/would have talked, and she would have, it's true; she was like that.
But not that night, no. That night, only the words. Only the words of the poets.
And now, no more words from Adrienne. She has left us. Certainly her right; she's given more to us than many have, and been quite courageous in doing so. But still, hard to believe she'll write for us no longer.
Feminist? Fine, if you must. Activist? Again, if need be.
But so much more than all that. Awareness in process. This is what she was.
So why do I/we note her here? On this "wine blog?"
Because she was awareness in process.
Making her a wine we'll never taste again.
Fare thee well, Adrienne Rich.
I am here in Santa Cruz, where the air is short a space that no one yet has come to fill.
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At the Nexus of Cybersecurity and Public Policy: Some Basic Concepts and Issues
Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities
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Tom Berson
I am the founder and owner of Anagram Laboratories, a thriving information security consultancy. Anagram will celebrate its 30th Anniversary in 2016.
I have been interested in technologies of security since 1957, and have been working in the field since 1967.
There are few things sweeter than the respect of one's peers. In January 2004 I was the first person appointed a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research. My citation reads, "For visionary and essential service to the IACR and for numerous valuable contributions to the technical, social, and commercial development of cryptology and security."
Since its founding in 1999 I have been an Advisory Board Member and the Chief Security Advisor at Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM). Salesforce.com is a pioneer and leader in enterprise cloud computing, Software as a Service (SaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS), not to mention customer relationship management (CRM). The trust issues raised by cloud computing go far beyond traditional security concerns.
At Stanford University, I am an Affiliate at the Center for International Security and Cooperation of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. I work there on issues of cyber policy and security.
I am a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Policy Consequences and Legal/Ethical Implications of Offensive Information Warfare. This is very interesting stuff. Our recent report, Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities, concludes that, although cyberattack capabilities are an important asset for the United States, the current policy and legal framework for their use is ill-formed, undeveloped, and highly uncertain. It further concludes that U.S. policy should be informed by an open and public national debate on technological, policy, legal, and ethical issues they pose.
I am a lifelong student of Oriental wisdom literature and martial arts. I was an Advisor to the Fourth Council of the China International Cultural Exchange Center.
I was a Founder and Program Chair for CEAS 2004, the First Conference on Email and Anti-Spam. Email is understudied. CEAS aims to remedy that.
Anagram Laboratories planned to bring the world's foremost short cryptography course to Asia in 2003. Alas, the SARS outbreak made these plans impractical. Course information (2003 version) is here.
During 2000-2002 I also worked part time as a Principal Scientist at the fabled but dysfunctional Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). My PARC colleagues and I investigated the implications of a future in which cryptographic operations are abundant. I organized workshops on Life in a Future of Cryptographic Abundance in 2000 and 2001. You are invited to read and comment on the Quicksilver Manifesto, our call to political and social action. My essay, Cryptographic Abundance, appeared in Technology Review for Jan/Feb 2002.
In December 2000 I had the honor of delivering the IACR Distinguished Lecture in Kyoto. I spoke about the past 30 years and the next 20 years from personal, technical, and professional points of view. The title of my talk was "Cryptography Everywhere."
My professional life is full. I am Past-Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy. I have been an Officer or Director of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) for thirty years. I enjoyed a 14-year stint as an editor of the Journal of Cryptology, an archival journal of important results. I am also Editor Emeritus of the Journal of Craptology, a much less serious affair. Why be simply mediocre? Aim your work for one of these extreme journals.
I am on the advisory board of the International Journal of Information Security (IJIS).
From 1979-1986 I was a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur at Sytek, Inc., a pioneer in broadband local area networking. I still love the problems and opportunities at early-stage and fast-growing companies.
Other completed projects include membership in the National Research Council Committee to Review C4I Plans and Programs and participation in a six-month Program in Coding Theory, Computer Security and Cryptography at the Isaac Newton Institute in the University of Cambridge. I am a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge.
My Erdös number is 2.
Here is my professional bibliography.
My amateur radio call sign is ND2T.
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July 28, 2010-Arrived in Sumatra: Tough Trip
Rough Sailing
We have arrived in Sumatra, Indonesia and are anchored in Sebang after a rough two and a half day passage, all upwind and mostly in high winds and very rough seas.
Here is the story I wrote after the first day:
Judy took one look at the dark line of clouds and said, "We're going to get it".
It came fast and just as we got the jib down the first cold wind hit and the rain hit my back like icy pellets. The water and the sky were black but a layer of white spray swept over the waves. Then the spray enveloped us. Clouds of white water flew past to leeward, over the whole boat. The wind hit 38.
We soldiered along for a while maintaining our course under double reefed main alone but the wind just increased and increased. We saw over 43 knots. The sail flogged at times. I watched the clock and wondered how long it would last. These squalls don't last long I'd heard, and I hoped, but it went on for hours. We turned and ran off with it which helped quiet things down on board and the wind vane happily steered the boat through the wild waves. We were under control and surging along without any problem now but the wind still howled, the spray still flew by, the waves were big and hissed past us like angry cars, and we were going 8-10 knots towards a lee shore. Even at 75 miles away Sumatra loomed to leeward. It was only a matter of hours before we reached it. I was counting on the fact that the squall would pass and we could resume course but this might be a risky assumption. Perhaps this was not a squall but a storm. What if it persisted for the whole night? I didn't want to end up forced to beat off a dark and unknown shore; many ships have been lost in those situations. So after three hours of running off we decided to change strategy. We trimmed the sail to slow the boat down sheeting in very hard and we came up onto the wind with the sail over trimmed. It worked. Now sailing at 3-4 knots into the howling breeze it was rough and we were again covered in spray and all the lines and rigging groaned under the load I put them under but at least we were no longer heading towards the beach.
I watched the wind drop and when it was time for Judy's watch the wind was 20 and she came on deck. We were going 5 knots. Things seemed to be better.
I went below.
Soon Judy began to moan, "Oh, Oh, Oh!" The wind was back to over 40. I came back on deck as fast as I could get dressed and we turned downwind again.
This went on for most of the night. It was a very hard night. The tension of the high winds and rough seas was emotionally draining. It was one of the worst nights we've had on Wings and it was the first night of our cruise to Africa. We talked about whether we really wanted to do this anymore: cross oceans and get into storms. We need to have some serious discussions.
By midnight the wind dropped again and we turned on the motor rather than shake out the sails; we didn't know how soon we'd need to get them in again.
By morning the wind was gone and we set sail. The discussion about whether we can keep facing these oceans, or want to, is put off for now.
That was day-one. Day-two and day three were nearly as bad. We arrived OK, no problems, just tired and shaken and emotional for being tense and scared for three days. The discussion is back on.
Click here to see the other photos from the rough trip to Sumatra
Click here to see the chart of our trip
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And here (before we left)
Click here to see the log book pages of this passage.
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Commissioner's death brings end to decades of service
Long-time county commissioner and former state legislator Doug Carlson, 74, of Sandstone, died Monday evening.
Carlson was found deceased around 6:30 p.m. in the men's restroom on the second floor of the Pine County Courthouse. Emergency responders determined Carlson had been deceased for some time. Remains were transported to the Ramsey County medical examiner for a postmortem examination. Carlson was last seen leaving a meeting around 5 p.m. Monday.
This investigation remains open pending the findings of the medical examiner, but no criminal activity is suspected.
For the past several years, Carlson has put up a valiant fight against cancer.
His former wife, Karen Carlson, said people always appreciated his honesty.
"He continued to serve his constituents even though he was in constant pain the last few years," Karen said.
Monday, Carlson attended the Pine County Economics Future Workshop.
"I am even more honored to know that many of us spent the afternoon in a meeting with him where he was advocating for and justifying the investment in the future of our region," said Sandstone Chamber of Commerce President Maria Lourey-Bowen in an email to fellow chamber members. "Doug spent some of his last hours discussing and commenting specifically on Sandstone and other areas of Pine County. We thank him for all he has done and we commit to continuing in his memory to work towards enhancing Sandstone and our region."
Carlson, a Republican, served 18 years as a state legislator and more than 10 years as a county commissioner. He served in the Legislature from 1971 to 1974, and 1977 to 1990. He represented Pine, and parts of Aitkin, Carlton, Kanabec and St. Louis counties while in the Legislature. He was the assistant minority leader in the late 1970s.
In 1990, Democrat Becky Lourey defeated Carlson by less than 200 votes, which should have led to an automatic recount. However, Carlson waived his right to that process and Lourey was named the winner of the House seat.
"Doug Carlson cared very much about the people and the economy of our area," Becky Lourey said of Carlson. "He never stopped working for the benefit of our region. As a county commissioner, he used the great wealth of knowledge he gleaned from working on the land, working in business, working with Karen on the importance of a quality education and serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives.
"Doug and I became great friends. There was always such excitement when Doug came down to the State Capitol to testify on a piece of legislation we were working for together.
"Doug and I had such fun as we were working together to save our hospital in Sandstone. Each time we appeared in front of a panel, Doug started the presentation out with these words, 'You can tell this isn't a partisan issue; here we are together fighting to save our hospital.'"
A graduate of Sandstone High School, Carlson was a lifelong resident of Pine County. Carlson was a graduate of the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1966 and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 1968.
Carlson was also an Air Force veteran and previously served on the school board.
With almost 30 years in politics, Carlson also served on the committee opposed to splitting Pine County.
"We will miss Doug deeply. He has been a great mentor to us. He really taught us through his actions to respectfully hold to our convictions but also that compromise is not a dirty word," said county board chair Stephen Hallan of Pine City, of Carlson's passing.
The county board will be meeting to determine how to fill Carlson's open board seat.
As a member of the county board, the public always knew where Carlson stood on issues. If he was the lone vote against an issue, Carlson would many times state his reason, but also state there would be no hard feelings if he didn't get another vote in his direction, many times with funny one-liners.
In a March 2011 county board meeting, Carlson asked new Sheriff Robin Cole if he wanted an officer on every corner.
"If I could, I would," Cole told Carlson.
"I don't think I would want that," quipped Carlson.
As a member of the county board, he also used his political connections to lobby current state government employees and legislators on issues directly affecting Pine County.
Carlson was very popular in the Sandstone area. The last two elections, he did not face opposition when he ran again.
While he was popular amongst the voters, he at times did do battle with the city of Sandstone. When the city sought to originally tear down his old milk drying plant, he appealed the decision, but was unsuccessful.
The past few years, Carlson was an ardent supporter of the proposed Northern Lights Express (NLX), often saying he knew there was opposition to it, but believed passenger rail service was part of the future of the state.
Methven Funeral Home in Sandstone is handling arrangements. A visitation will be held Saturday, April 27, 5-7 p.m. at Methven. The funeral will be held at Sandstone Evangelical Free Church at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 28.