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Water. It's all around me here in Hawaii. Crashing against the sand, stretching to the whites of the sky, giving this island in the middle of nowhere a reason to exist. So why is it that even the thought of wading into that soft blue until my feet are no longer secure in the sand sends me into a spasm of hyper ventilating?
I did not even know this was a fear of mine. Until, at the age of 58, I decided to learn to surf.
I was sent here by Outrigger Hotels to look at their properties on Waikiki, write about their recent renovations and return to them feedback on their media methods. I did not come to swim. In fact, for all the beach resorts I cover around the world I can barely count on two hands the number of times I have gone into the water. I am afraid of waves. I am afraid of water. I am afraid of the simple act of staying afloat.
I, one who has covered wars, famines and coups in Africa, who regularly travels to hot spots alone and has chased away would-be attackers repeatedly, am afraid. Of water.
And so it was in the bustling tourist town of Waikiki I decided to face that fear in the water, with Tony. Tony Moniz is a beefy guy of Hawaiian descent who grew up on a surfboard. His heroes are easy to count: Duke Kahanamoku is his god and he worships at that altar every day with every wave. He turned his religion into a surf school call Faith Surf School and creates new converts daily within the four operations he has going around Waikiki. I am not one of them. But I now understand trust and the act of surrendering to a higher power, even if that higher power is a tan, muscular guy pulling me up from my knees and making me face the wave I am running from.
We went through the lessons on land first. Find that sweet spot just below the logo on the nine-foot board and lie there prone with feet together. Paddle this way, paddle that way, watch the waves, watch the shore, pull to knees from a place below your chest, one foot, the next foot, point in, point out and ride. Easy enough.
Until we took it to the water. I was less than five years old. And I was alone. My mother chatted with friends on the beach and I wanted to see if I could swim to China. So with the horizon in my sights I set out to find the other side of the world. I swam and swam and did not see a big rope that extended from a spot on the shore to some unknown place beneath the breakers. But when the inevitable wave came and I went down I tumbled and tumbled in its energy and circled right into the rope's taught heaviness. The memory is gray, as if played in black and white. And I do not remember much. But I do recall the waves, forceful, rolling, loud, crashing over me and that I was somehow prisoner of a heavy rope that would not budge. And I remember swallowing the thick water and talking to myself about getting up and out of there when it was so tempting to just lie there and do nothing. But I knew I had to make the rope move so I could find my way to the surface and back to shore. I pulled in my strength from some far off place, probably the first of such instances when I would have to do that in my life. When I got to shore I saw my mother still talking, her back to the ocean, not even aware of my misadventure.
I paddled toward Tony and toward the waves. Even in this sleepy bay the waves looked to me like little Tsunamis rising with foamy scythes and letting me know I could not escape nature's power. The orders came quickly and follow I did even though I only wanted to stay prone on the board gripping it through any and all of the water's motions.
Paddle forward! Now power paddle! To your knees! Stand up! In an instant I was up, balanced and riding that wave toward the shore, a dance as difficult and as basic as learning to follow your partner in a swing dance. I fell off and into the water, repeatedly. Waves came and went. I counter-intuitively dove through these death traps obeying Tony's barks.
An hour had gone by, and many waves passed. My toes were torn up from the board's friction. My neck felt like a hundred pounds. My eyes burned from the combo of saltwater and sunblock. Even my estrogen patch had disappeared in the tumult. But I was ready for one last ride, and a chance to finally forgive my mother.
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Central Coast California Writers Club Fiction Contest Winners: First Prize: Ties by Allison Joseph
Some woman keeps sending my husband neckties. She was a student of his several years ago, a tall shy girl who wore glasses and sat at the back of his classrooms, looking at him with big moony eyes and a slim-lipped smile. Now she's in graduate school learning all about female empowerment and the impact of a finely-wrought metaphor. Ties—bonds—remembrance—fidelity.
Neil's embarrassed by this largesse, these gifts. First, he'd tried to ignore the slim boxes that came monthly, tossing them in a heap in a dusty corner of his office. But when I visit him one rainy Friday morning, the baby doing her can-can dance inside me, I see them, all six boxes addressed to "Prof. Neil," as if no last name were necessary, as if he and this girl had an intimacy that didn't require such boring means of identification.
"What the heck are those," I ask, picking one up, blowing dust off the box on the top of the stack.
"Oh, those." Neil runs a hand through his dark messy hair, shoots a glance in the direction of the neglected packages. "I don't know what they are. You remember Sandy Donaldson?"
"Yeah, sort of." The girl always kind of creeped me out. I'd walk across campus to see Neil for lunch, and she'd be in his office, her chair pulled up as close to Neil's desk as his disarray of papers and books would allow.'d be stammering about Wordsworth or Dickinson or whatever dead author they were reading in class. She'd look at me as I stood waiting in the corner, nod her head to acknowledge me, and then go right on talking to Neil about the effectiveness of poetry in describing our mortal failings or our immortal souls, whichever he'd lectured about that week. Neil would be so good at avoiding her eyes that he wouldn't see me standing there either. I'd pause, wait a few minutes, then I'd sound like a loving, concerned faculty wife—"Neil, honey, have you had lunch yet?" On hearing me, Sandy would scramble out of the one good chair in his office, apologizing profusely. Then she'd wait in the corridor outside his office, pacing back and forth, ostensibly talking to Mrs. Fields, the lovely ancient departmental secretary who takes care of everyone at school.
"Well, she keeps sending me those little boxes."
"Aren't you the slightest bit curious as to what's in them?"
"No, I've got too much to do." Neil is ABD, and doesn't really want to finish his dissertation on Browning and the Beats. He says now that it was a bad idea from the start, and that he just wants to write his own poems. He envies me, he says, the way I'm at home this semester, awaiting the baby's arrival. The work I could get done, the time for thinking! He's warned me to use this time wisely, to get something accomplished before I'm up to my elbows in diapers and bottles and wet wipes. I guess that means I'm not getting a maid once Arianna's born.
"Let me open one. See what's on her mind. Where is she now?"
"New Haven? Studying art history at Yale, I think. Far cry from Lister."
"Go ahead, and open one if you want. But then I have got to get something to eat before I drop." Neil fidgets in his desk chair, an old wooden contraption of slats and screws.
The box is wrapped tightly with that awful kind of sealing tape that that has seams in it, rigid little lines that are nearly impossible to tear through. I try to work under it with my fingernails. It won't give.
"Here. I've got scissors." Neil hands me a tiny pair more suited to clipping one's fingernails. I work the pointy ends under the tape, and free up enough of it so that I can rip it off.
"Andrea, don't make a mess."
"I'm not." I toss the cardboard and tape contraption into the wastebasket, slide its contents out onto my palm. "It's a tie," I say. "And a letter."
"A tie?" Neil looks confused. "I never wear ties."
Neil goes to class each day looking more and more like your classic rumpled English professor, though he's only 37. His sweaters gain inexplicable holes each winter, and his button-down shirts lose their buttons and poke out from under his wool blazers. He never wears ties, and before this moment, the only tie he'd ever owned was the one he bought for his father's wake in Queens—Neil is Irish-born, but New York-raised. His family wasn't too thrilled about our marriage, but my mother-in-law Patty is thrilled about Arianna, her first grandchild.
"There's a note here, too. Can I read it?"
"Go ahead, read it. I know you want to."
"Dear Prof. Neil. I'm sending you this tie so that you can look good in class when you are evaluated. I know that Lister College needs you. You need to be there for the girls like me who would be nothing without your guidance. Sincerely, Sandy Donaldson."
"Well, that's not too bad, is it?" Neil smiles, relieved.
I hold the tie up to the light. It's brown, silk, not heavy.
"Andrea, unless there's food in those boxes, I don't care."
"You should. You hold the futures of these Lister girls in your hot little hands."
"Enough. Food time. You have to eat too."
We exit the tiny windowless cubicle of his office, and leave the rest of the boxes unopened. Little Arianna perks up again, a regular showgirl.
"Ha, very funny, Andrea." He kisses my cheek, scoots me back into his office, leaves me to go enlighten and shape the best female minds in America. Or the best female minds in America who couldn't get into Bryn Mawr, Spellman, or Wellesley.
"Stay out of trouble," he says, exiting lugging his briefcase and his brick-sized Norton Anthology of Poetry.
he's gone, I look around. Here's everything a young educator needs, I think, gazing at the anthologies and the writing texts, the stacks of ungraded essays and blue books, the piles of submissions for the campus literary magazine, the recommendation forms from Lister women wanting to go to law school, medical school, creative writing programs. These are the sorts of projects we're supposed to tackle here, a cheery academic couple helping bright young women achieve their goals. But I got pregnant, and frankly, I didn't want to do anything, to teach anything or anyone. Lister, being a woman's college, couldn't exactly protest when I took maternity leave before the birth. I went home after the school year's opening convocation and now only come in to see Neil.
I read them all, from the first to the last, and I don't stop until I've come to the last sentence of the last letter. "I love you, Neil, please answer me. Write back and don't let anything stop us from being together," it read. It's dated six months ago.
Arianna keeps kicking as I read and re-read, and I can't stop laughing. "See what a stud your daddy is, darling?" I ask her. "Your daddy's got a fan club."letters are so desperate, so whiny, yet so grateful. Sandy wants, most of all, to thank Neil, for enlightening her. About beauty. About truth. About how we all need to experience them, before we die.
I can hear Neil coming back down the corridor, chatting with a few girls who want to ask questions about paper topics and due dates. I suppose I should put the letters away, back where I found them, but I don't want to. I want him to tell me why he kept them, why there are twenty letters in his desk from a sad-eyed girl who sat in the back of his class for three semesters, but no picture of me. Of us.
"Still here, Andrea?" Neil leans down, kisses me on my forehead, puts his briefcase on the floor. Two freshman girls duck their heads in, see I'm there, then scurry off. He turns as if to follow them, then thinks better of it, seeing the letters and boxes scattered about the desk. "You didn't read all these, did you?"
"When were you going to tell me about your fan club?" I can feel tears welling up, and I want to fight them down with bitchy sarcasm.
"What, these? They're fairy tales. Sandy couldn't hurt a fly."
"Did you write her back?" I can feel Arianna flutter and kick. Maybe she'll be a swimmer, go to a Big Ten university on scholarship. She'll be the Tiger Woods of women's swimming, a mixed-race champion.
"Of course not. I wrote her a recommendation for graduate school. That's all."
"Why did you keep these then?" I twirl on his rickety desk chair, feel more ungainly than I already am.
"I couldn't throw them away. I kept them in case she needed my help."
"Neil, you could have told me."
"About letters from some student I wasn't even teaching anymore?"
"Yes, one who is sending you obsessed letters about wanting to be with you. Yes, I think you could have told me about that." I'm indignant, tearful. I cross my arms over my chest, the rise of my belly, curl myself over myself.
"Andrea, it doesn't matter. None of the little crushes the girls here have matter."
"Little crushes?" He'd used the plural.
"The girls who come to Lister are a bit sheltered."
"I know that." I hate it when he lectures me.
"They come from small towns and little cities in the Midwest. Lister is their first exposure to a lot of things." Neil is kneeling down beside me now, trying to get me to tilt my chin up, to look at him.
"So—," I stop, not sure what I'm accusing him of.
"The girls get little fixations. It's normal. I'm not doing anything to provoke them."
"Yes, you are."
"Andrea, be fair."
I can't be fair. Not with this pile of lovesick letters in front of me. Not with these unopened boxes teetering off the edge of his desk.
"Open them."
"Open all the boxes, and then I'll believe you."
"Okay, okay." Neil struggles to his feet, brushes off his knees, and reaches for the remaining boxes. He opens each of them in turn, the ties falling to the floor in a multicolored heap. Two red ones, an aqua one, one in soothing sea green, another in burnt orange. Little notes flutter to the ground. Neil sweeps the ties and notes together with his foot, picks them up, deposits them in the wastebasket.
"Read the notes."
"Andrea, they don't matter. She doesn't matter."
I want to get up to go to the wastebasket myself, but Neil stops me.
"I'm going to take you home. You need to lie down and stop worrying."
He's right.need to stop worrying about our future, about Lister College's future, about Neil's future with these girls who take his classes and stare at his mop of messy dark hair and his rumpled clothes, ones who listen and swoon as he reads them the words of poets that they long to be, but won't ever come close to being. I need to stop worrying about the Sandys and Lisas, the Georgias and Margarets and Veroniques. I am Andrea, the only one who matters.
"Throw these away too," I say, pointing at the letters.
"See what happens when you look where you aren't supposed to?" Neil says gently. Is this the tone of voice he'll take with Arianna, scolding her for looking in the closet where her Christmas gifts are hidden?
I feel faint. I lean on Neil, letting him hold me up. He helps me rise from the desk chair, props me against one of his crowded bookshelves. Then he picks up all the letters and their envelopes from the desk, plops them unceremoniously in the trash.
"There. Done. Happy now?" He looks at me, one eyebrow arched up in anticipation of my answer.
"Why did you keep them? Don't lie."
" I was flattered, a little bit. But then it happened again. Other girls. I always tell them no. But Sandy was the first, the most persistent. I thought she might need help some day, so I kept them."
"Here's what you are going to do," I say, a plan coming to me in my hazy anger. "Put it all in a box, and give it to Mrs. Fields with the address to send it all back to."
"Andrea, I don't think that's necessary."
"It's what you are going to do." I'm propped up by the weight off the overstuffed bookshelf behind me.
Neil sighs. He's a patient man. I'm not budging, and he knows it. I'll stand here all day if I have to, tears on my face, baby doing somersaults inside me.
"Okay if I just give it all to Mrs. Fields? I don't know where a box would be in all this mess."
"Okay, but tell Mrs. Fields to write a note saying Lister faculty can't accept gifts."
"Andrea, you know that's not true."
"It is for you. From now on."
Neil looks at me, tired of fighting.kneels down at the trash, extricating the ties and letters, the envelopes, the notes. He puts the letters back in their envelopes, puts the rubber band back on them, folds the ties neatly, stacks the little notes on top.
"And if you get another box, write return to sender on it, and put it back in the mail."
Neil leaves his office without speaking. When he returns, I see how tired he looks, and I want to kiss him. To tell him I'm sorry. I'm not a Lister woman, not a beautiful blonde girl in a college sweatshirt or a serious-looking scholar with ambitions, not like the girls on the cover of the college catalog. I want to say I'm sorry, but I don't. We leave his office, and Drucker Hall, and the Lister campus, and though it's only a short way from its tree-lined streets to our off-campus apartment, we drive. I don't fiddle with the radio, and he doesn't whistle. We are not ourselves, and I wonder if this is what it will be like when we are parents and we no longer pay attention to each other.
So when another box, postmarked New Haven, arrives for Prof. Neil, I see it on our coffee table first, not in his office. Arianna has stopped her kicking inside me, and is now kicking off blankets in her crib, little future gymnast. I take the box and tear it open with a dull kitchen knife, look at the silky tie within. It's blue. I'll use it to wipe up the spills from Arianna's bottles, to keep the front of my shirt dry. Something around here needs to be put to use, to be made practical. Might as well start with this, a small sky-blue piece of the world my daughter's been born into, this gift from a woman she doesn't even know.


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CEA-Leti today announced a multi-partner project to demonstrate high-alignment-accuracy (<1µm) chip-to-wafer structures made by direct metallic bonding. Such structures are required for high-performance 3D integrated circuits and could enable a wide range of applications in microelectronics as well as in optoelectronics or MEMS.
The customized system will be used by the Minalogic PROCEED project. Minalogic is the global competitive cluster specialized in micro- and nanotechnologies and embedded intelligence. In addition to Leti and SET, partners are STMicroelectronics, ALES and the CNRS-CEMES. The PROCEED Minalogic project is a 4.2 million-euro, 24-month project that began in December 2009 and is supported by French FIU (Fond Interministeriel Unique).
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Women will soon be in charge
In 2009, statistical data shows that there were more females than males in the US. In 2012, more females were attending college and graduating than males. Divorce rate in US has remained constant at 50% and the overall birth rate is declining among Caucasians, it is increasing among Hispanics and Blacks and Asians. More females are entering the workplace than males according to the latest demographics from the US Census.
While there might be a general consensus among married males that they control all aspects of the family, it is oftentimes the opposite with the female controlling the budget and all purchases and decisions that the family makes which was just the opposite in my parent's generation.
Only women can give birth which seems a little too simplistic but artificial insemination techniques can be used to control whether or not the baby is male or female. And, while we are not at that stage in our development yet, there is a possibility that it could one day be the norm.
Throughout my 40 year career, I have worked for both female as well as male bosses, and I much prefer working for females. Why? Females do not take their position for granted. Females do not cut corners but are very thorough in all that they do. Females manage their time better because in addition to working they also must manage a household, whereas males tend to play golf and drink and watch TV after their workday is done.
There are also exceptions to my comments and right now there are more males in controlling positions than females, but the tide is slowing changing and soon the reverse will be true. This is especially true by the fact that more females are graduating from college than males...
Males will continue to have a dominate place in sports, movies, music, and the military where a college degree is oftentimes not required. But, in the business world, our lives are about to be fundamentally changed.
So, here's my question: Is this good or bad or are you neutral?
Jul 6 2013: haha ok! I was generalizing, there are men out there that take it for granted that they have been number 1 for so many years. I respect the men that want them equal just not the men that are full of themselves and would rather be #1 forever and think it was made that way. Women are strong people (only some) but the women who are have such potential and I feel that the world is finally seeing that
Jul 7 2013: There is nothing wrong with pulling alongside, if males can keep up... Over my 20+ years in the college classroom, women are generally more interested in knowledge, more creative, and think more outside the box than males... I wish it were not so, but it is, at least for me... But, my size could be too small to matter...
Jul 6 2013: I think you are correct here because females want it more than males. Many males, unfortunately, take their positions for granted because it has always been that way. The same can be said of the rest of the world as compared to the US as a whole. Globally, both women and men from all cultures are taking jobs away from Americans because their desire to have those jobs is greater than our desire to keep those jobs.
While inside that change, women are taking jobs away from males, within the US as well as overseas.
As a College Professor for the last 20 years, my best students have been females as opposed to males. Females write better papers. They do not try to interpret the criteria to make their assignments less difficult. They always attend class and typically sit in the front rows of the class and ask the most questions. All of my athletic males put forth the minimum to get by. Of my female students, the foreign students put forth more effort than my American students.
I doubt very seriously that what I see is unique only to my employment.
Ang Perrier 10+Jul 6 2013: Cannot for the life of me remember where I read it but it said something along the lines of "By the time women gain control of the fate of the planet men will have destroyed it beyond repair". Women were always meant to be the decision makers. Men decided that because they had bigger statures and muscles that they were the dominant and we the subservient but I ask you this...had women been in the position of power since the beginning of time would there have been such a focus on destruction as opposed to preservation? Would we have wasted unbelievable amounts of time and resources on violence? We'll never know and can only speculate. Based on the general nurturing nature of women the world over I would have to say...there would have been a lot less war and a lot more planning ahead for future generations.
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Jul 6 2013: Good point(s) and my logical approach stands corrected, but that does not change the fact that women will one day be in charge of everything or most everything. It does not change the fact that more women are graduating from colleges and universities than males.
So while my approach is flawed, the fact of the matter remains the same....
Jul 11 2013: At a recent celebration of a wedding anniversary, the groom I knew as a soft spoken person was asked for his secret to 60 years with his wife. He stopped for a moment, smiled and said "it was the magic words..."yes dear"
Let's face it, men are not really all that important, so we don't want women to figure that out, at least in my life time.
Jul 9 2013: I agree that Men need to change but I think the problem stems much further than the workforce. In fact if you were to look at the Jackson Katz's TED talk you will see that men need to refresh how they think and act in many different ways.
We need to start holding each other accountable when we drop the ball in all area's of our lives rather than turning away and slapping backs and giving each other one more shot. We are escape artists at heart and these time call for a shift where we learn to be team players not only with one another but with the women in our lives as well.
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Jul 9 2013: With all due respect, I was in no way saying that each family, man or woman, must meet some scripted cookie cutter framework, established in a debate held on a TED forum, and prescribed by me or anyone else in the group.
I can appreciate old world values, however times as they are including the economy, current cohort social perspectives, and future prospects I am suggesting that times are changing. That because of those factors there is a shift coming in social, economic, and demographics that without change we perhaps will fall short of keeping up and ultimately harm the women we care about. Without sharing the burdens that daily life now demands from us we are only going to shorten the lives of our mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters.
There is no reason old world values can't exist while still sharing the burden.
Jul 9 2013: I did not read the whole study. What I read suggested that women are unhappy with marriages that are less equal than they would prefer and that women who prefer egalitarian sorts of marriages often find their husbands less emotionally invested in the marriage, in part because the husbands are not as egalitarian-minded as the women.
I also read that, unsurprisingly, those who believe in committed marriages are happier with them than those who don't and the possibility that expecting less emotional work from the husband makes for a happier marriage.
There is a hypothesis articulated but not specifically tested that men and women may have tacit preferences for traditional gender roles that then make them happier in what the author calls a combination of old and new rather than entirely gender role-free family arrangements.
The bottom line, then, is that egalitarian, gender-role free marriages don't make people happy if the man in particular isn't into it.
Jul 10 2013: TED Friend,
I agree that couples need to find there own balance and certainly wouldn't suggest that what works in my marriage would work in yours or any one else's.
I am however suggesting that women shoulder a lot more than men do and the expectation is that they should. I am speaking in broad terms and painting with a broad stroke however, it seems to me that women are expected to keep the home in order, take care of the kids, help provide financially, be care givers to elderly family members, and all while taking care of themselves. Seem like a lot to me especially when the traditional role for men was to be the bread winner.
During and after the Women's movement the expectations of women have only increased and a lot of it they brought onto themselves in order to prove something. I do think that things have shifted though and a great example of why women can't have it all was written by Anne Marie Slaughter.
Her husband was supportive and yet there was still an imbalance in her life why should we force that same imbalance on other women?
Jul 8 2013: Actually, corporations, religions and the military run things, not women or men.
Unfortunately they are now run by men only, and when women are excluded, balance goes out the window.
This can lead to stupid decisions, like drug makers selling drugs they know are killing people who take them. Hopefully women are less likely to think their own paychecks are more important than the lives of their customers. We can't be sure until a lot more women are CEOs and board members.
Many American, male dominated religions gleefully look forward to Armageddon so that everyone who disagrees with them will suffer horribly, while they expect to be "saved". Not very christian, are they?
Believing the world is about to end is the world's greatest excuse not to clean up the planet, fight climate change, or feed children healthy meals. Would this be different if women were equal in religions?
Inducting/allowing women into high positions in religion, politics and business might bring huge improvements. We won't know until sometime after they get past the glass ceilings that are still rigidly in place.
FYI: Until relatively recently women handled the money in most families. Men brought their wives or mothers their paychecks and were given pocket money. Women paid the bills and bought groceries and clothes as needed. Most people never had investments of any kind.
It was in aristocratic families that men controlled virtually all money, property, and women. In the 1960s a woman could not buy a house without a man and could not get credit based on her own earnings or holdings.
Women used to be equal to men. The head of religious life in Greece was the oracle at Delphi, a woman. Male and female gods ran the cosmos. Male god only religions have driven women into subservience, often murdering them for not converting.
Gee, some religions do that today. Are women safe running things?
Are men through killing uppity women?
Jul 8 2013: A fair and balanced argument on a derisive question.
However, my experience has been that women in the highest positions are as cruel and vindictive as any man.
I give you .... Margret Thacher... The Iron Lady. The story goes that Gorbachev tore down the wall because of her, not Regan...
Most male board member won't vote for women as CEOs because they are afraid....
Jul 8 2013: Great time to get into the shoe making department. I'd like to sell her at least one exotic pair of shoes of painted recycled bubble gum multi-color but one color dominate (light blue) for a touch of class without being boring with it. I'm looking for a partner, any luck here? :) We could say it's made from a very rare rubber tree/grass found in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, "the ocean's palm tree". 10 men have lost their lives trying to get to the depths where they have been found. You can't get these shoes from anyone but me today. No one else sells them. I bet I could make her happy. :)
I will make the next pair light green for she will NEED to not ever wear the same pair twice in public speakings as the light blue one's get tossed aside in the bottomless pit of her galactic whitehouse closet :)
She will become bored then I will have to come up with something more to make her happy about her shoes. :) Diamond embedded in the recycled bubble gum, yeah?
Jul 8 2013: If what you postulate it true, that women are more thorough, then great! Perhaps this shift will correct the major down shift in customer service. Perhaps it will increase the empathy companies have for their clients and begin to reestablish personal connections. It may even emphasize the importance that the end user plays when designing products or providing services. This shift may begin to correct centuries of mens absentmindedness when it comes to fair business practices.
Perhaps a different approach would be to consider holding men just as accountable for the family finances, diaper changes as well as bringing home a paycheck. Why should there be a separation between work in a corporate office and work at home? I think the problem is the learned behavior that needs to change that puts so much more of the work on women's shoulders.
If we were to address the conventional wisdoms methodology where women are responsible for the home and men are responsible for the financial, which based on economical factors led to women being responsible for not only the home but contributing financially,and question the fairness of that practice.
You implied that men spend their time drinking and playing games while women are forced to work day and night. Maybe the answer is in your own post. Perhaps we as men need to be more accountable to the needs of women and share the responsibilities both in the corporate world as well as at home. By sharing these responsibilities perhaps that will give time for both men and women to play games sometimes even together.
I like the topic though. I believe this is an issue we seriously need to address.
Jul 8 2013: While my original post was opinionated and generalized, I think you have gotten the point that I was trying to make and that is that MEN have to change. Certainly no all men are like I describe but there are a bunch of males who are exactly like that. And, no all women are as thorough as I describe but those that are have been taking jobs away from males for years.
When I was in sales, my coach used to tell me to observe women in groups and listen to the questions that they were asking each other and new members to the group. In order to be successful I needed to adopt that approach and when I did, it worked and a bond was quickly develop.
I am merely trying to open up eyes by slapping males in the face so to speak.
Jul 8 2013: Some observations, not yet noted. An Australian social demographer, Bernard Salt has written of the rise of females to power. Of note was in terms of factors relating to transferrance of wealth. Consider, women live longer than men! Men tend to marry women younger in age than them (eg 5 years younger). When the man/husband dies, his wealth is transferred to his wife.
Now if the wife was five years younger and lived on average five years longer, then the 100% wealth of the couple is now in the hands of the female for approximately 10 years.
Now also consider the baby boomer generation and consequently the above example will be played out in very large numbers!
Not saying any of this is good, bad or neutral.... just saying it is.
Agree btw with females being predominately the household decision makers.... they do decide the majority of the big decisions, eg which house to buy, which car, even which food weekly to buy. I know I have generalised and that there are always exceptions but principally all of the above applies. : D
Jul 8 2013: These are some excellent points, especially about the transfer of wealth...
I have also noticed when my wife and I are out to purchase anything from a condo to car to appliance, the sales person (male or female) spends more time addressing my wife than me... and, quite honestly I do rely on her judgment more often than not.
Jul 8 2013: If I walked up to you and you were selling something with my wife and children who do you believe you could SELL your product to easily? Me or my wife? A week later, "Honey, can we go back and see more of those washing machines with all the bells and whistles, I would be soooo HAPPY!"
"....Yeah, OK, anything to make you happy, dear" (I'm so freaking tired of this, is what I think to myself)
What you are referring to here is not about the transfer of wealth it's about going bankrupt like many today and the quest for happiness.
Slap me in the face, dude. I need it! What about yourself?
Jul 8 2013: Speaking of old religions:
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It can add to the conversation.
Best wishes.
Jul 8 2013: Thanks, Adesh.
You mentioned old religions. In the video, there are people wondering what the meaning of Stonehenge is. When I was a child I visited a lot of similar circles as the Stonehenge, locally. My mother and father took me there and told me about all the world's religions.
It is about balance and equilibrium. It can be argued that such circles and people who built them were trying to tell us that. Equilibrium between genders, and this is what the conversation is all about.
I promise not to ramble about the Pi and infinity.
Best wishes.
The equilibrium and balance in the video is somewhat broken, but it shows some interesting points - cultural differences, problems concerning communication, greed but also - that it can work well!
I live in a different country than you - different cultures, different traditions - but let us talk :)
Best wishes again :)
Jul 8 2013: Too many stereotypes, I definitely agree.
I generally like the idea of no thumbs down button. However, if confidence and pride (especially about one's sex!) starts to surpass ability to gain knowledge I firmly believe negative feedback is surely necessarily.
How can one be proud of the sex they are? It's like saying I'm proud to have balls as I do my best impression of Michel Jackson.
Well the hell with pointing out all bad examples here. I like this link... STAY GLUED TO YOUR TV's! This is all I'm worried about.
To the OP, would you like to be the opposite sex or are you just misguided by social media like the majority of this country?
I thought I was going to read about a great idea here not plastered to another freaky debate :)
Jul 7 2013: I understand what you are suggesting and I agree with your analysis but it is irrelevant from the standpoint that women do no actually have to be any of these, if there are more females than males which is the direction into which we are headed.
However, I think more women possess those characteristics that you mention than males... including myself.
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Jul 7 2013: Geez, I hope women haven't fallen for the irrational gall of men and make sexist remarks.
Wait, can women make sexist remarks about women?
I mean, I just never thought of it, but I guess it is possible.
What do I know, I'm a man.... is that a sexist remark?
I keep falling farther down this wrath hole.
Lawren Jones 30+Jul 7 2013: Your point was clear, as were your sexist statements:
"Females do not take their position for granted. Females do not cut corners but are very thorough in all that they do. Females manage their time better because in addition to working they also must manage a household..."
Or perhaps you think the statement must be negative to be sexist? Any time you generalize ALL women (or men) you've made a sexist comment.
Jul 7 2013: Does it matter? What will be will be if it does. I'd rather have a woman than a logic bot statstician devoid of any life experience other than what can be accessed, zero physical experience means zero anything. Having a smart phone does not mean that makes one smart.
Beware the rise of the marylin manson type human, devoid of sex. The organic bot that so many want to be.
Jul 7 2013: You again... I thought I dropped you way back some time ago on the theory of economic theory... And, this has very little, if anything, to do with Ms Steinem btw. If more females than males are being born then there is a higher probability that they (females) will be in commanding positions. And, if more females graduate from college than males, then that also underscores the above sentence as well. This, my economic friend, has nothing to do with opinion....
However, this is my opinion... I would rather work for a female boss than you... and, since I do not have to worry about that being retired, then it is a meaningless comment at best....
I patiently await your next put down!!!!
Jul 6 2013: This is an incredibly interesting theory. But that's all it's a theory men are in charge because that is what nature designated us to do but perhaps that order flips in a highly civilized society it's a interesting thought. But i don't think men who are far more aggressive and goal driven will simply lay down and not be in control. I agree with your theory but i simply think that we are getting closer to the point were men and women are becoming truly equal as it has always been in the past that men are the superior ones. This idea is just recently changing starting with women's rights but women have evolved to be under men it will take awhile to reverse this evolution. It is happening quicker in america but just a glance at any third world country and you will realize that the world as a whole is still far from reversing that evolutionary trait.
Jul 6 2013: You are absolutely right, it is just a theory...
And, I agree that men will simply not roll over and let females take over... there will be a huge struggle...
What is happening in the military and sexual harassment is a perfect case in point... women in the military will change the military forever and how many gung ho marines will want to serve in a military who may have to report to a female officer?
But, there is data to support more females graduating than males and management positions are typically filled by those who hold college degrees. If there are less males than females with college degrees, it simply stands to reason that more management positions will be filled by females than males.
Another example... White males used to dominate professional sports and now blacks are dominating professional sports with the attendance at these sports events largely white because they typically have the extra money to pay for the tickets. So, the white community in America is making part of the black community more wealthy.... how will that change the balance?
Coupled with the fact that our white population is declining due to less births and by the year 2050, whites will be in 4th place behind Hispanics, Asians, and Blacks... But, are we not still all Americans???
The change in female power is happening right under our noses...
STEM jobs are going vacant - in other words, industry cannot fill these jobs with Americans but they can with other foreign people who have spent the last several years focusing on STEM. STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, Math. More women than males in college are taking STEM classes.
STEM jobs are higher paying jobs... so, it will stand to reason that women will begin making more money than males over the next several years. Those who have money to spend will change the dynamics of the supply and demand curves to focus on females, not males.
So, if you take the date and extrapolate, you come to the same conclusion.
Jul 6 2013: Yes you're so very much right we are becoming a very diverse society but the truth is the real money and power come from the engineers and there are way more males then females in this category. I know that because i'm an engineer and i have been and looked at a lot of engineering schools and at all of them there is like 60 males getting engineering degrees for every 1 female it's a crazy huge difference. When that becomes balanced i will believe your theory much more but math and science is the future and men still have that far better than women.


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When I was growing up, girls had their Barbie dollhouse and viagra china we guys had our awesome Castle Greyskull from which to battle the evils of Skeletor. But now there is a playhouse for all sexes of EcoGeeks! Thames and Kosmos, a toy company, has come out with what they call their "Power House," a kit that lets you build your own little house that's full of alternative energy goodies!
Imagine a dollhouse complete with solar panels, a wind turbine, a greenhouse, and a desalination system! You can also "build and operate an electric train, windmill, solar cooker, solar hot water tank, hygrometer, electric motor, power hoist, sail car, and more!"
The kit also comes with a 96-page manual which details the 70 experiments that you can conduct with the house, as well as the 20 building projects that are included. It is structured as "An Adventure in Sustainable Living," following a bunch of people living on an island with limited resources, following their uses of sustainable technologies. For those of www.aco.ca you looking for nice little gifts for your kids (or your inner EcoGeek), this sounds like fun!
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written by nanokiwi, December 04, 2007
Impressive - now you just need to invent a shrink ray!
It might sound trite
written by weee, December 04, 2007
but I think it's great that a new generation will grow up with the awareness that alternative power is child's play.
Now, if we can just get our leaders to grasp it...
Now, if we can just get our leaders to grasp it...
written by Ren, December 04, 2007
Does anyone have suggestions of something along this line that does not cost $150? I'm looking for something for a toydrive.
written by Brian Ross, December 04, 2007
It's green and it's a model and it's a robot and it is solar powered - search for beam bots or solar robots. Make magazine's store sell one for 25 bucks.
You could power this thing
written by Webster, December 04, 2007
with a humdinger. Good stuff. I'd like to see something that's more modular though so you can add stuff over time.
written by bxm, December 05, 2007
wow i would want to have it as my chrismas gift. but 96 pages of manual, wow lots of reading! by the way how much does this thing cost? one person said is $150 wow that 's lot of money, also where can i get it? anyone know? what about ebay? anyway thanks for sharing this ! ;D
written by VIE, December 07, 2007
Robot? Hm?
written by Rebekah, December 07, 2007
Would anyone have a specific website where this solar-powered robot thing type object might be purchased?
Where to buy it...
written by Sam, December 11, 2007
http://www.shopatron.com/produ...6112/272.0 .... you can buy it here for 149.95. oof.... and it sounded like the PERFECT christmas present too... what a shame. :'(
written by andreea, April 23, 2008
How cool. I remember when I was a child i got my mother for Mothers Day a gift something like this. Hand made of course. She liked it so much that she make me eat a dozen cookies.
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At the beach with the Sharma-Gaines family, shot for Google, 2014. More here.
So excited to share this amazing assignment that I recently shot for Google. This was literally a dream scenario because I got to shoot and hang out with my best friend and her beautiful family on a park and a beach for an entire day! Many many thanks to Rachel, Erika, Michelle, Manj, Bill and the star of the day Siya for making this such a great experience! See more images from the shoot here.
I have been documenting my friend Chris's food for years. A lot of which I haven't been able to share due to an upcoming book project. But we handed in all the material recently, so now I'm free to post all the new stuff I've been shooting!
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Programmable chip maker Xilinx (NASDAQ: XLNX) didn't exactly set the Street on fire with its third-quarter earnings report, but it did provide some positive cues for the rest of the year. The company's revenue of $509.8 million in the quarter was flat from the year-ago period, though wide off the $527.7 million mark set by analysts. However, earnings of $0.38 beat estimates by a penny, resulting in a mixed quarterly performance.
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In addition, the company's outlook for the current quarter isn't too great either. Xilinx expects revenue between $520 million and $540 million, while the Street calls for $545 million. However, investor reaction hasn't been acidic as one would expect after such results and outlook, as the stock gained 2% after earnings.
Surprised at the positive investor sentiment? Well, don't be, since Xilinx has a lot of firepower to deliver improved results over the long run and there were some positive takeaways from its latest report. The company's leading position in 28nm chips has been driving sales of its new products at a fast clip. Sales of its new products jumped an impressive 17% sequentially, propelled by a 20% jump in sales of 28nm chips, which once again exceeded targets.
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Xilinx boasts of the largest portfolio of 28-nanometer chips in the industry and this should help it to gain from build out of infrastructure for faster networks and data centers. Carrier spending is expected to increase this year along with data center spending.
Positive cues started emerging late last year when AT&T (NYSE: T) signaled its intention of being aggressive in rolling out faster networks. The carrier's decision to accelerate its 4G roll out and upgrading its wireless and wireline networks might spur others into action as well, since they might not want to be left behind in the 4G race.
Also, it seems that a positive spending environment is rubbing off onto Xilinx as well. The company expects its communications business to improve in the current quarter after it declined 11% in the previous one. Also, with an expected 4.5% jump in data center spending on the way this year according to Gartner, Xilinx might well expect some more revenue from its Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) account.
Cisco's data center business is witnessing solid growth, jumping 61% in the previous quarter. Moreover, it is expected that the market for data center infrastructure would be worth in excess of $150 billion in the next four years. Hence, there's still a lot of growth lying ahead for Cisco, and in turn Xilinx, as far as its communications and data center business, which accounts for almost half of total revenue, is concerned.
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But Xilinx doesn't expect improvements in its end businesses to stop here, as it ended the quarter with a better backlog on a sequential basis. The company's Industrial, Aerospace & Defense business, which accounts for 36% of total revenue, has been improving and further upswing is expected in the current quarter.
Moreover, the company's leading 28nm portfolio is once again expected to do well in the current quarter. Xilinx's wide range of offerings should enable the company to continue the sales momentum of its new products.
But, top line growth isn't the only positive about Xilinx. The company has a solid track record of managing costs well, and turned in a record gross margin of 66.6% in the previous quarter. Xilinx is focused on expanding gross margins across new products and this should reap rewards as sales of these products improve.
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All these points indicate that a bright future is in the offing for Xilinx, and potential investors won't have to pay a fortune to buy the stock either. Xilinx's trailing price-to-earnings multiple of 21 times is almost at par with the industry average, while a forward P/E of 19 times tells us that there's further growth in the future. Also, the stock carries a healthy dividend yield of 2.4%, which makes it an even better investment proposition.
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I'm not a fan of the small dogs. As a child, my father told me that small dogs were punting dogs, created for the purpose of playing soccer or football when the real ball had gone missing.
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And the darn little things breathe funny. It makes me think of an elderly person approaching their death rattle.
That said. I WILL be getting one of these, despite loathing PUGs in general, and being the healer that will be blamed for any problems that arise in the PUGs I participate in. He's just so darn perky, and doesn't seem the type to try giving himself a frontal lobotomy at the sound of another vanity pet.


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Australia is no longer immune to the stagnation in the West. Despite a resilient housing market, Australia's economy is slowing. With a worsening labor market, consumption is eroding, along with business confidence.
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Before the global financial crisis, the Australian economy grew for 17 consecutive years. As export-led growth collapsed worldwide, then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Labor government introduced a US$50 billion fiscal stimulus package to offset the effect of the slowing world economy, while the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cut interest rates to historic lows. Further, China's 2009 stimulus package sustained demand for commodities from Australia.
Except for just one quarter of negative growth, Australia actually grew by 1.4 percent in 2009. Last year, growth amounted to 3.3 percent, whereas unemployment was 5.2 percent. However, despite past efforts to refocus on increasing economic productivity, Australia's growth has been driven somewhat narrowly by a mining investment boom, which has rendered the economy more vulnerable to trade shocks.


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Party animals are quite tasty, according to reports from the Great Northwest.
Up in Washington, a state named for a U.S. president who grew hemp, at least one farmer is feeding pigs stalks from marijuana plants processed at a legal weed dispensary. He's also feeding the pigs spent grain from the production of vodka and beer.
The "pot-bellied porkers" are allegedly happier and tastier animals. They also get fat as fast as a redolent couch potato with an expensive cable package.
Pig rancher William von Scheneidau, whose name was not made up to made this more entertaining, says the animals that eat marijuana-fed animals "gain weight 20 percent faster" while they "lie around, barely able to lift their heads."
His customers describe the meat as "more savory" in "blind bacon tests." It must be good; he sells out of the meat before the farm animals are even killed.
A Seattle-area TV reporter took a slab of pork from a store in Pike Place market to a BBQ pro and the results were "stunning."
Cheech and Chong might call that "high" quality meat.
Now, let's see if we can get some of this over to Daddy D'z.
June 20th, 2013
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Sounds like those party animals are getting fried every night.
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Love me some smoked pork