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A Former Alabama gubernatorial candidate (and alleged member of MENSA) was found in New Zealand recently, giving out sperm to lesbian couples under an assumed name. Reports the New Zealand Herald:
In his political life, Johnson campaigned on a conservative Christian platform which opposed gay marriage.
He said he did not know the "relationship status" of the women he donated to: "I just know they want to have children." Asked if it mattered, he said: "I'm not going to answer that question."
Johnson had been in New Zeland doing post-hurricane humanitarian work, while his wife, Kathy, a former Ms. Alabama remained in America. Johnson placed fifth among seven Republican candidates in a 2010 GOP gubernatorial primary in 2010.
According to Johnson he had discussed becoming a sperm-donor with his wife, but he had not yet informed her that three women in New Zealand were now pregnant with his biological children.
It made for an awkward scene when the Herald ambushed him at dinner.
The Herald on Sunday approached Johnson on Thursday at a restaurant in Christchurch where he had just finished dining with one of the women he had successfully impregnated.
He said the urge to become a biological father was "a need that I have".
Asked if his wife knew he was donating sperm, he said: "She does now."
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York released a study revealing that total household debt in the US has risen above recessionary highs. Driven primarily by growth in nonhousing-related debt, total household debt in the US climbed to $12.8 trillion in Q2 2017, surpassing the $12.7 trillion reached in Q3 2008.
Student and auto loans are behind much of the rising debt since the financial crisis.
- Student loan debt has more than doubled. Total student loan debt rose from $611 billion in Q3 2008 to $1.34 trillion in Q2 2017, and now accounts for 36% of nonhousing debt, versus 23% in the prior period. And students are increasingly struggling to pay off their massive debt burdens — student loan default rates rose 14% from 2016 to 2017, according to The Washington Post.
- Auto loans have also shot up. Household auto loan debt rose 47% from Q3 2008 to Q2 2017, from $809 billion to $1.19 trillion. As mortgage regulations tightened in the wake of the recession, lenders with risk appetite have turned attention to auto loans and extended credit to customers with lower credit scores. In February, Quartz reported that auto loan delinquencies ticked up.
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What if We Created more than We Consumed?/
My downstairs is a jumble of fabric and thread and scissors and stuffing.
I am in the middle of a sewing project: making reading nook pillows for my niece's birthday. To be honest, sewing doesn't thrill me. I can do it, but it is more detail-oriented than I like to be. The nit-picky details of measuring, finishing edges, and lining things up just-so drains me. But still, I do it. Because it connects me to something I do love to do.
When my niece and I went to the fabric store together, it was so fun. We admired colors and ran our fingers over textures as we dreamt together about what her reading nook could be like. Smiles. Possibilities. And now, in my downstairs, results.
There is a bolster pillow, pieced together with the combination of fabrics that she chose, that did not exist a few days ago. There is something new that used to live only in our imaginations.
Creating is about bringing ideas to reality. I love it. There is such joy in imagination coming to life.
Our culture gets it so backwards. It convinces us that it is the consumption of things that will make us happy. We have an obesity epidemic, but it's not just with our bodies, it is with everything. We stuff ourselves full of objects other people have built, words other people have written, food other people have prepared, ideas other people have dreamed. And we fail to give our own imaginations a chance to come to life. And when we do, we miss out on a deeper satisfaction.
When we don't create, we don't connect with a core piece of our identity as humans. We are built in the image of a Creator God, who imagined this world and brought it to life.
A few weeks ago, I was at the Catalyst conference. The theme was "Make." At the opening session, Chris Seay echoed the same thoughts. He said, "We are not made to consume, we are made to create." Yes.
We are all creators.
Do you feel like you are living in that identity?
My guess is that if you are not an artist, you don't. The terms "create" and "creative" have been hijacked by the right-brained. But really, these terms are universally true. To create means to bring something into being. We all have that power. We can create a meal, or a system, or a garden, or a party, or a costume, or a piece of furniture. Creating doesn't have to be crafty, and it doesn't have to be stuff. That's the fun. Creating doesn't have to be anything.
I wonder what would happen if we all created more than we consumed. How would it change our moods? How would it transform the world?
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My question is: how do I calculate the radius convergence of a power series when the series is not written like $$\sum a_{n}x^{n}?$$ I have this series: $$\sum\frac{x^{2n+1}}{(-3)^{n}}$$ Can I use the criterions as I was working with $x^{n}$, not $x^{2n+1}$?
I tried this: $$k=2n+1\Rightarrow n=\frac{k-1}{2}$$ And I got $$R=\lim_{k\to\infty}\left|\frac{a_{k}}{a_{k+1}}\right|=\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}$$ I know the answer is: the series converges for all $x$ that $|x|<\sqrt{3}$. How do I get it?
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too soon.
This kid is still drugged up and can't walk upright or straight, but that doesn't stop him from trying. (Good thing he isn't interviewing for any columbus jobs because he wouldn't be hired for sure)
He has fallen out of his bed 3 times. And fallen out of the recliner 3 times. All because he thinks that it's funny. He's gonna end up injured worse than his dental work. And then I'm going to ground him. Grrr.


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"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." – Confucius
Forgetting is incredibly vital to our everyday experience of life. Our mind records so many memories; but when we go to retrieve them they are always colored by our own personal narrative. We capture memories in the form of words, photos, paintings and video; but music captures things in a different way, leaving out the details of people, places, words, things and smells. Often times all that remains are the qualities that might have gone unnoticed in even the most detailed description of events. We are left with the essence of that narrative spin the mind puts on things, the rhythm of human thought; and the rest is discarded and forgotten.
Monk said, "the inside of the tune (the bridge) is the part that makes the outside sound good." A jazz tune is a structure involving the repetition of a main theme, with a bridge somewhere in between. After the bridge, the initial theme is restated, but it takes on a different meaning because coming back to a theme gives a different feeling than getting hit with one out of the blue. It is now colored by the information we have gathered from the bridge. The same process happens on a larger scale within a tune. When the melody is restated after the solos, it takes on a new meaning based on what's been established in the improvised section. This push-and-pull of statement, abstraction or forgetting, and restatement gives us the sensation of movement in music. It is this kind of movement that conveys thoughts and feelings to the listener, the feeling of being moved.
To feel a certain way about something in the past is to have a simplified memory of what it was. Simplified in the sense that it was a series of events over time and now it is flattened into the past. The way these memories are stored has a lot to do with our emotional thought process. In "Funes the Memorious," Borges writes about a man, Funes, who perceives everything in vivid detail, and forgets nothing:
It was very difficult for him to sleep. To sleep is to turn one's mind from the world; Funes, lying on his back on his cot in the shadows, could imagine every crevice and every molding in the sharply defined houses that surrounded him. (I repeat that the least important of his memories was more minute and more vivid than our perception of physical pleasure or physical torment.) Towards the east, along a stretch not yet divided into blocks, there were new houses, unknown to Funes. He imagined them to be black, compact, made of homogenous darkness; in that direction he would turn his face in order to sleep. He would also imagine himself at the bottom of the river, rocked and annihilated by the current. . . . To think is to forget differences, generalize, make abstractions. In the teeming world of Funes, there were only details, almost immediate in their presence.
Every living creature filters the world in its own distinct way, and that process is directly tied to what ends up getting left behind as the residue of experience. A big part of why music is so important to me is that it is a way of practicing the art of how things are experienced and forgotten. Everything forgets. Playing with great musicians, there is an amazing feeling of levity. Everything unimportant is quickly forgotten, giving one the sensation of being alive and hurtling through time. It is a release from the world somewhat like Funes at the bottom of the river of his imagination, "rocked and annihilated by the current." This is the feeling I am going for in music. I hear and I forget.
This album was made during a time of extreme catharsis, and the two sessions represented on this CD reflect two very different and important periods of my life. The process of selecting the best takes, editing and mixing them, and weaving them together to tell a story was an experience not unlike what the brain does as we form memories. Moments in time can't be repeated in real life; but the ability of music to recreate thoughts, emotions and the feeling of movement through time is truly astounding.
You are holding in your hands the distilled spirits of a year of my life, shaped by the musical contributions of some of my closest friends. Drink up.
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So, you got yourself a creative block?
Me, too.
Is it like somethin' stuck between your teeth and you ain't got a tooth-pick, maybe? Or is it more like you're bored to death of what you've done and the thought of goin' back at it drives you to tears? Or... maybe the news of the world has once again ballooned up that niggling spark of an idea that creating art in the end times is about as useful as coffee-grounds behind the stove?
I could go on...
I think I get a creative block once a day. Once a day? Really? Yup - I've been here on Toronto Island in the studio for 5 weeks now, and the thought occurred to me today that my blocks are actually some of the most creative times I have - I can come up with a myriad of reasons why I "can't" paint/write/draw/sing/play that take far more creative juice than actually just putting the "thing to the thing" (brush to canvass, pen to paper, finger to keyboard, etc).
Most days I think, "Well - I'm paying a lot of money to be here and I better have something to show for it" (thank you, capitalism) and I just do it.
Other days, I go down the rabbit-hole of watching/reading about creativity and inspiration which is a delightful way to procrastinate. Here's a good one I watched recently:
And then there's days like this one, where I looked at what I had done and thought, "well, I know I have to do something here, but I have no idea what... " so, I put on some music and danced until I stopped thinking so much. I got out of my head and back into play.
Once I started feeling good, I got back to painting.


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Downwinders at Risk, a group formed about 20 years ago to fight air emissions at Midlothian cement plants, says the U.S. EPA and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality should require electric compressors at Barnett shale well sites and natural gas transmission lines. The compressors commonly run off natural gas. The organization said it will present its recommendations, including a call for additional pollution controls on the cement plants, at Monday's Air Quality Technical Committee meeting at the Arlington offices of the North Central Texas Council of Governments. The Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club is also expected to address COG regarding "reasonably available control measures" to help bring the North Texas non-attainment area into compliance with ozone limits.
Downwinders at Risk Director Jim Schermbeck said "we have an excellent case for why the EPA must require the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to do more than sit and watch as the Clean Air Act is willfully violated again." He said the area is failing to make progress toward meeting new federal smog standards.
The meeting is at 10 a.m. June 16 in the Transportation Council Room at COG's headquarters at 616 Six Flags Road in Arlington.
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I know that Tony Nicklinson wanted to die. I know this because the 58-year-old sufferer of locked-in syndrome said so – to any journalist or politician or disability rights campaigner who crossed his path. I know this because despite what it cost him – emotionally and physically – he pursued a lengthy legal battle to give him the right to terminate his own life. I know this because he loved his family very much, yet his suffering was so intense that he could contemplate leaving his family behind.
Since suffering a catastrophic stroke on a business trip to Athens in 2005, Tony had seven years to think about it: seven years locked in a corporeal prison, paralysed from the neck down, cared for 24 hours a day by his wife, Jane, and unable to communicate except through blinking. When he was told that his high court attempt had been in vain, the television cameras captured Tony emitting a howl of anguish so intense that no one – not even his many opponents – could have listened to it without experiencing the tiniest sliver of fellow feeling or compassion or even anger.
In June, I conducted an interview with Tony via Twitter for this newspaper. Over the course of a week, Tony replied to a barrage of questions with forthrightness and eloquence. When asked if he had any fear of dying, he replied: "No, but I have a fear of living like this when I am old and frail."
After the article was published, Tony and I kept in touch. He admitted to missing "our odd exchanges" and we emailed each other fairly regularly in the weeks leading up to the high court ruling. He had an idea for something called the "Nicklinson challenge" whereby a series of volunteers, including his most high-profile opponents, would consent to living a day in his shoes to experience the brutal reality of what it was like.
I got to know him a little. We never met in person but in a way that helped: Tony disliked the fact that the stroke had left him incapacitated and unable to regulate his own emotions. He hated being patronised. The computer screen meant there was no physical barrier to our interactions: his body might have been trapped but his mind was free to roam. And what a mind it was – insightful, clever, rational, sometimes combative but always rigorously focused.
He was caring, too, even in the midst of profound personal torment. After the high court ruling on 16 August, I hadn't wanted to email him straight away. I knew that he would be inundated with media requests and would probably want some time alone with his family to come to terms with the judgment. As it turned out, he was the first to email, anxious that he might have unwittingly offended me.
"Have I somehow upset you?" he wrote on 17 August. "If I have, I am sorry." He hadn't, of course, and I told him so. It upsets me now that he might have thought otherwise.
One of our last exchanges concerned a leader column I was writing on his case for last Sunday's paper. I asked him for his analysis of the legal ruling. At this point, Tony must already have been weak, his health in decline, and yet there wasn't a hint of it in his email. He made five brief points, all of them typically cogent, underwritten by a sort of blazing logic that I had come to realise was his hallmark.
"Opponents of giving me the ability to choose life or death will tell you that it will fundamentally alter the doctor-patient relationship," he wrote. "Why? The vast majority of a GP's patients already have the ability to commit suicide so it's the norm."
In the event, Tony's death took six days. After the high court verdict, he started refusing food, contracted pneumonia and went rapidly downhill. He died last Wednesday. And although I know that he wanted to die, I can't help but feel sad.
Is that a paradox?
Maybe not. One can feel relief that he is released from his suffering while also feeling sadness for his extraordinary family – Jane, his sister, Ginny, his daughters, Lauren and Beth. Although they supported his fight to be allowed to die, they must also now be facing the suddenness of his absence, the emptiness in the room, the numbness of a long-suspended grief.
It is profoundly sad that, despite the speed of his decline, it is not a pleasant way to die: Tony would have drowned in his own phlegm. He would have suffocated as a result of his lungs slowly shutting down. He could have been spared that pain.
Also, the campaign he led with such resilience and bravery has lost its public face. Tony went to the high court alongside another man with locked-in syndrome who chose to remain anonymous. It was Tony who took on the fight, who fielded the interview requests, who allowed photographers into his home and who invited his opponents to talk, face to face.
Many of those who disagreed with Tony and who continue to oppose the right to die hold carefully considered opinions that are just as heartfelt as his were. They argue that a change in the law would endanger the vulnerable or the elderly who might be made to feel they are a burden on society.
While these views are to be respected, my belief is that Tony was being denied the right to take his own life – a right that, had he been able-bodied, would automatically have been his. There have been recent moves to make the law on assisted dying more compassionate for the terminally ill and public support for such an initiative is high.
It is troubling, however, that people such as Tony, who are not terminally ill, should be condemned to a life of suffering, especially when advances in medical science, which might keep similarly afflicted people alive longer, mean that similar situations might, in the future, affect many of us. Of course the safeguards need to be set high. Of course we do not want a blanket change in the law. But we can hope the matter is now discussed properly in Parliament, perhaps with a view to setting up some form of panel, comprising representatives from the medical and legal professions, who could make an informed and compassionate decision on a case-by-case basis.
Tony asked me if last weekend's leader column could include a link to an online petition to support his right to die. I said I didn't think that would be possible but that I'd try my best.
He emailed back: "Thanks. Your best is all I or anybody can ask."


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The 11th annual Judgment and Decision Making Pre-Conference at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) annual meeting will be held from 8:30am to 4:30 pm on January 28th, 2016 in San Diego. The pre-conference highlights the emerging nexus of social, personality, judgment, and decision making research.
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A cup of Turkish coffee
is the perfect accompaniment
to blog readingIt's a beautiful snowy day here in Istanbul. It was a joy to come home in the snow, and learn that sharing my expat experience is making a difference.
Today I learned that "Empty Nest Expat" was recognized by the Telegraph for "providing excellent expat advice and resources." How fun! That's exactly what I try and do: provide advice and resources for expats and empty nesters as I share about my expat journey. I'm especially pleased this esteemed newspaper recognized my work, since I am in a period of low blogging due to taking Turkish lessons three times a week.
I know how thoroughly the editors there work on behalf of their British expat community. Thank you, Telegraph editors. I'm glad you enjoy hearing about expat life; it's so kind of you to include a Yank!
And if you are a new reader, here's some samples of my advice. British readers, be sure and notice the last link. It isn't advice, just a wonderful celebration of my lifelong hero who was, after all, British. That's especially for you.
On Learning a Language Overseas:
Time Out for Turkish
A Review of Live Mocha : The Internet's Largest Language Learning Website
On Living Without a Car: (starting my 5th year now!):
Starting My Third Year Without a Car
How the Czech Government Delighted Me as a Consumer
On Living Spontaneously and Being Open to New People:
An Evening with the Hari Krishnas
Eating my Way through Sofia, Bulgaria
On Terrific Expat Reads:
A Trip to Provence, Accompanied by Julia Child
Hearing Tales from a Female Nomad In Person: Rita Golden Gelman
Hello, Great Big Beautiful World! (first-ever blog post)
On Downsizing and getting ready for the Expat Adventure:
"Shed Your Stuff, Change Your Life"
Shedding a House and a Full-Time Role
Shed your Music
Shed your Clothes
Shed your Commitments
Shed at Work
Shed Your Books
Shed Your Furniture
And lastly, especially for my British readers, a post in celebration of a great friend to America who was a wonderful leader of free people, the greatest man of the 20th century:
"An Iron Curtain Has Descended"
Thanks for reading. And keep coming back.
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Sometimes the best things are sewn late at night. In one of my Facebook sewing groups, someone posted a picture of a star shaped swaddle blanket. I found the link on Pinterest and here it is.
I didn't have time to make a pattern but I went by the general measurements given to make sure the size is appropriate. Once I had the five star points, I used pins to shape the star and then cut it out. It took me a bit to figure out the opening but just look at where the seams are and you'll be good.
A bit of serging and 10 minutes later – tada – a fleece swaddle blanket in the shape of a star was born. It will be gifted next week. I am so excited!!!
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Too many gay guys create these intense health goals and end up being unsuccessful in reaching them. We're going to keep it simple! Do you want to walk more? Are you interested in eating better? Would you like to hit the gym 3 times a week? Right now, write down 3 health goals that you have for yourself. After this, circle the health goal that is the easiest to accomplish. Now, make it even easier, by jotting down the first step towards making this goal a reality. For example, if you want to eat better, the first step could be to limit yourself to one soda a day. Simple as that!
Track it!
Now that you have created a simple health goal, you need to track it. You can do this on your phone, computer, or even just a simple piece of paper tacked to the wall. Write down the simple goal and tomorrow's date. At the end of each day, give yourself a checkmark, if you accomplish it.
Treat yourself!
The best way to keep a goal going is to treat yourself. The treat can be monetary, a healthy snack, or just personal gratitude. It's up to you to decide what you want for accomplishing your goal.
Enhance your goal!
After a month's time, it's time to enhance your goal. You can go back to your original piece of paper of 3 goals and start work on the other 2. Or you can enhance your current goal of one soda a day to one a week. Keep them simple, track them, treat yourself over, and enhance these goals one month later.
Network to healthy results!
A great way to improve your overall health is to join a gay men's fitness group. There are hundreds of them that exist all across the US. If you're interested in running, then consider joining Baltimore's Frontrunners Group. Maybe the idea of gays in speedos will help you accomplish your goal, if so, there's Washington's Aquatic Club. If you want to get your sweat on, then check out Gay Men's Boot Camp in NYC. It's easy to find a group in your area, do an online search with your health goal + your location + gay.
Your overall health should be important to you! For many of us, we create unrealistic health goals that set up for failure right from the get go. This changes right now! Instead, you're going to find a simple goal, track it, treat yourself, and enhance it after a month. As well, you can socialize your way to a healthier you by joining a gay fitness group in your local area. The healthier you starts tomorrow - commit to it now!


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Teen Programs
Studying art and design after high school?
Here's how! Teen Programs at Emily Carr University of Art + Design offer excellent preparation for post-secondary education and future careers. Through hands-on art-making you will have access to experienced instruction and Emily Carr's amazing studios, equipment, and community.
Explore the exciting fields of art, design, and media through our programs:
Summer Institute for Teens
The Summer Institute for Teens at Emily Carr is a pre-university, immersive, one-month experience that engages you through intensive studio practice and visual culture. If you are between 16 and 18 or will finish Grade 10 by this summer, join us and ready yourself for further education at an art and design university.
Junior Art Intensive
If you are between the ages of 13 and 15, you can join us to explore 2D and 3D art-making in this two-week summer program. You will learn from professional art instructors and gain hands-on experience with a range of projects and materials. The Junior Art Intensive will help you build foundational knowledge, develop your skills and prepare you for the Summer Institute for Teens.
Teen Art Group members work with practicing artists in studio at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and gain an expanded learning of visual culture at the Vancouver Art Gallery in this after school program.
Youth Art + Culture Lab
Youth Art + Culture Lab is a new after school program offered by Emily Carr University and Richmond Art Gallery. Youth aged 12 – 15 build confidence, community, and diverse creative skill-sets through behind the scenes, hands-on sessions with professional artists and Emily Carr University instructors.
Portfolio Workshop for Teens
A two-day weekend workshop for students preparing a portfolio to apply to an art and design university. Join us in one of our upcoming sessions!
Expanded Painting for Teens
Develop and advance your painting skills in this six-session workshop. Exploring a range of media, tools, techniques and scale, students will learn an expanded vocabulary of painting and refined skill set through experimentation.


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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory® HD
Full Game Released 10 Aug 2011
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory® HD is the third chapter of the critically acclaimed Splinter Cell® series remastered in 1080p HD with support for 3D TV technology. What if a simple algorithmic code could black out New York or take control of ballistic missiles? This has now become a reality and only you can put an end to this chain of chaos as all countries are under heavy pressure to avoid global war when the anti-ship missile sinks the USS Chuck Yeager in the Yellow Sea. You are Sam Fisher, you are a Splinter Cell.
This product is playable in 2D or 3D. To enjoy stereoscopic 3D features, you will require a 3D TV that supports stereoscopic display and compatible 3D glasses.
1 player
HDTV screen resolution: 720p, 1080i, 1080p
Stereoscopic 3D compatible
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One time fee for use of downloads on up to 2 activated compatible Home Console systems.
See Health Warnings for important health information before using this product.
Library programs ©Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. exclusively licensed to Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Software Usage Terms apply, See eu.playstation.com/legal for full usage rights.
© 2005-2011 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Tom Clancy's, Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, Sam Fisher, the Soldier Icon, Ubisoft and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries.


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I'm a breast cancer survivor, attorney, wife, mother of an adorable and rambunctious preschooler.
When I went through breast cancer treatment in 2010 and early 2011 at age 27, we received an outpouring of support and assistance, much of it from small non-profit cancer assistance organizations that I found on-line.
Often, finding cancer assistance on-line is exhausting and frustrating because information is scattered and hard to find. This website is meant to be a one-stop resource center for cancer assistance, allowing cancer patients to find what they need in one place, saving precious time, energy, and money.
It's my small way of saying thanks for all of the kindness I received!
Thank you to the following amazing organizations for your generosity, love, kindness, and support during an otherwise lonely and difficult time. You brightened my days and gave me reasons to smile and laugh!
Zichron Shlomo Refuah Foundation Kristy Lasch Miracle Foundation
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center American Cancer Society "Look Good Feel Better" Program
Pink Ribbon Riders Tigerlily Foundation
Little Pink Houses of Hope Crickett's Answer for Cancer
The Lydia Project Franceluxe "Good Wishes" Program
Halos of Hope Comedy Cures
Also, special thanks to Kit Latham, for helping me build this site and his advice and support, and cancerfairygodmother.com for inspiration!


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The biggest challenge for big data from a security point of view is the protection of user's privacy. Big data frequently contains huge amounts of personal identifiable information and therefore privacy of users is a huge concern.
Because of the big amount of data stored, breaches affecting big data can have more devastating consequences than the data breaches we normally see in the press. This is because a big data security breach will potentially affect a much larger number of people, with consequences not only from a reputational point of view, but with enormous legal repercussions.
When producing information for big data, organizations have to ensure that they have the right balance between utility of the data and privacy. Before the data is stored it should be adequately anonymised, removing any unique identifier for a user. This in itself can be a security challenge as removing unique identifiers might not be enough to guarantee that the data will remain anonymous. The anonymized data could be could be cross-referenced with other available data following de-anonymization techniques.
When storing the data organizations will face the problem of encryption. Data cannot be sent encrypted by the users if the cloud needs to perform operations over the data. A solution for this is to use "Fully Homomorphic Encryption" (FHE), which allows data stored in the cloud to perform operations over the encrypted data so that new encrypted data will be created. When the data is decrypted the results will be the same as if the operations were carried out over plain text data. Therefore, the cloud will be able to perform operations over encrypted data without knowledge of the underlying plain text data.
While using big data a significant challenge is how to establish ownership of information. If the data is stored in the cloud a trust boundary should be establish between the data owners and the data storage owners.
Adequate access control mechanisms will be key in protecting the data. Access control has traditionally been provided by operating systems or applications restricting access to the information, which typically exposes all the information if the system or application is hacked. A better approach is to protect the information using encryption that only allows decryption if the entity trying to access the information is authorised by an access control policy.
An additional problem is that software commonly used to store big data, such as Hadoop, doesn't always come with user authentication by default. This makes the problem of access control worse, as a default installation would leave the information open to unauthenticated users. Big data solutions often rely on traditional firewalls or implementations at the application layer to restrict access to the information.
Big data is a relatively new concept and therefore there is not a list of best practices yet that are widely recognized by the security community. However there are a number of general security recommendations that can be applied to big data:
The main solution to ensuring that data remains protected is the adequate use of encryption. For example, Attribute-Based Encryption can help in providing fine-grained access control of encrypted data.
Anonymizing the data is also important to ensure that privacy concerns are addressed. It should be ensured that all sensitive information is removed from the set of records collected.
Real-time security monitoring is also a key security component for a big data project. It is important that organizations monitor access to ensure that there is no unauthorised access. It is also important that threat intelligence is in place to ensure that more sophisticated attacks are detected and that the organizations can react to threats accordingly.
Organizations should run a risk assessment over the data they are collecting. They should consider whether they are collecting any customer information that should be kept private and establish adequate policies that protect the data and the right to privacy of their clients.
If the data is shared with other organizations then it should be considered how this is done. Deliberately released data that turns out to infringe on privacy can have a huge impact on an organization from a reputational and economic point of view.
Organizations should also carefully consider regional laws around handling customer data, such as the EU Data Directive.
In the past, large data sets were stored in highly structured relational databases. If you wanted to look for sensitive data such as health records of a patient, you knew exactly where to look and how to access the data. Also, removing any identifiable information was easier in relational databases. Big data makes this a more complex process, especially if the data is unstructured. Organizations will have to track down what pieces of information in their big data are sensitive and they will need to carefully isolate this information to ensure compliance.
Another challenge in the case of big data is that you can have a big variety of users each needing access to a particular subset of information. This means that the encryption solution you chose to protect the data has to reflect this new reality. Access control to the data will also need to be more granular to ensure people can only access information they are authorise to see.
The main challenge introduced by big data is how to identify sensitive pieces of information that are stored within the unstructured data set. Organizations must make sure that they isolate sensitive information and they should be able to prove that they have adequate processes in place to achieve it. Some vendors are starting to offer compliance toolkits designed to work in a big data environment.
Anyone using third party cloud providers to store or process data will need to ensure that the providers are complying with regulations.
Security is a process, not a product. Therefore organizations using big data will need to introduce adequate processes that help them effectively manage and protect the data.
The traditional information lifecycle management can be applied to big data to ensure that the data is not being stored once it is no longer needed. Also policies related to availability and recovery times will still apply to big data.
However organizations have to consider the volume, velocity and complexity of big data and amend their information lifecycle management accordingly.
If an adequate governance framework is not applied to big data then the data collected could be misleading and cause unexpected costs.
The main problem from a governance point of view is that big data is a relatively new concept and therefore no one has created procedures and policies.
The challenge with big data is that the unstructured nature of the information makes it difficult to categorize, model and map the data when it is captured and stored. The problem is made worst by the fact that the data normally comes from external sources, often making it complicated to confirm its accuracy.
What organizations need to do is to identify what information is of value for the business. If they capture all the information available they risk wasting time and resources processing data that will add little or no value to the business.


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Through the years, Baton Rouge has been and continues to be shaped by a variety of cultural and environmental influences. Travel down south and experience their cultural traditions seen in their unique attractions, imbedded in the lyrics of our music, and tasted in their blend of local cuisine. The Capital City is truly the center of Louisiana's cultural excitement!
While visiting, relive their colorful history though their cuisine and architecture, both a blend of Creole and Cajun, topped with Italian, German, Spanish, Caribbean and Greek flavorings. So, whether your travels bring you to Baton Rouge for leisure or business, take time and enjoy the sights, cuisine and southern hospitality! From Cajun to Creole and everything in between, feast on amazing local delicacies. Taste why Baton Rouge has been voted as a "Best Foodie City" two years in a row!
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When Jonathon Koomy '84 decided to join the Air Force ROTC, many of his friends were surprised. "They knew that I came from a liberal family," he says, "and that I wasn't too great at taking orders." They might also have guessed what Koomy himself did not, that he would soon have questions about the morality of involvement in the program, and that by the end of freshman year he would have dropped out altogether. "I guess I wanted to see what it was about," he says. "I saw, and I made up my mind. I just didn't want to build bombs."
Air Force ROTC officials were understanding about his decision, Koomy says. "They knew what was going on in my head, that I hadn't really thought about things before in any sort of systematized way." He pauses and adds, "It wasn't so much the program itself, which was actually a lot of fun, but the fact that if someone ordered me to do something I would have had to do it-I was terrified."
A quick glance at Koomy's Currier House room reveals that his interests lie far from the development of defense technology. A poster above his desk proclaims "Know energy, it's your future," and books like The Politics of Alternative Technology and Barry Commoner's The Closing Circle occupy his shelves. "What I really would have enjoyed doing in the Air Force is working with satellites or researching solar power," he says. "But my instructor said that even with a strong backround in physics and a Harvard degree there was no guarantee." He adds that the only way he could have stayed in the program without risk of having to work with weapons would have been to switch from a technical to a non-technical (liberal arts) scholarship, none of which were available at the time.
Koomy emphasizes that "even though it cost them $10,000 I really did learn something from ROTC: I realized that the guys who I had grown up thinking of as mean, ugly, nasty guys were really just normal people doing their job. From that viewpoint, the experience was invaluable."
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