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Claire's Stores, Inc. Announces Pricing Of $210.0 Million Of 6.125% Senior Secured First Lien Notes Due 2020
CHICAGO, March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Claire's Stores, Inc. (the "Company") today announced the sale of $210.0 million aggregate principal amount of 6.125% senior secured first lien notes due 2020. The notes were priced at par. Settlement is scheduled to occur on March 15, 2013. The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the offering, together with cash on hand, to purchase up to $210.0 million aggregate principal amount of its 9.25% senior notes due 2015 and its 9.625%/10.375% senior toggle notes due 2015 pursuant to an Offer to Purchase dated March 1, 2013 or a subsequent redemption. The closing of the note offering will satisfy the Financing Condition in the Offer to Purchase.The notes are being offered only to "qualified institutional buyers" in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and outside the United States only to non-U.S. persons in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act. The notes have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of any of the notes in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. Forward-looking Statements: This press release contains "forward-looking statements" which represent the Company's expectations or beliefs with respect to future events. Statements that are not historical are considered forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. Those factors include, without limitation: changes in consumer preferences and consumer spending; competition; our level of indebtedness; general economic conditions; general political and social conditions such as war, political unrest and terrorism; natural disasters or severe weather events; currency fluctuations and exchange rate adjustments; uncertainties generally associated with the specialty retailing business, such as decreases in mall traffic due to high gasoline prices or other general economic conditions; disruptions in our supply of inventory; inability to increase same store sales; inability to renew, replace or enter into new store leases on favorable terms; increases in the cost of our merchandise; significant increases in our merchandise markdowns; inability to grow our store base in Europe or expand our international franchising operations; inability to design and implement new information systems or disruptions in adapting our information systems to allow for e-commerce sales; delays in anticipated store openings or renovations; uncertainty that definitive financial results may differ from preliminary financial results due to, among other things, final U.S. GAAP adjustments; results from any future asset impairment analysis; changes in applicable laws, rules and regulations, including changes in federal, state or local regulations governing the sale of our merchandise, particularly regulations relating to the content in our merchandise, general employment laws, including laws relating to overtime pay and employee benefits, health care laws, tax laws and import laws; product recalls; loss of key members of management; increases in the cost of labor; labor disputes; unwillingness of vendors and service providers to supply goods or services pursuant to historical customary credit arrangements; increases in the cost of borrowings; unavailability of additional debt or equity capital; and the impact of our substantial indebtedness on our operating income and our ability to grow. These and other applicable risks, cautionary statements and factors that could cause actual results to differ from the Company's forward-looking statements are included in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), specifically as described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 28, 2012 filed with the SEC on April 4, 2012. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances. The historical results contained in this press release are not necessarily indicative of the future performance of the Company. Contact Information: J. Per Brodin, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Phone: (847) 765-1100 or E-mail, firstname.lastname@example.com SOURCE Claire's Stores, Inc.
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I'm a photographer. I'm done with labels. Am I a pro or a hobbyist? Everyone seems to have different definitions for all these silly labels. Ya know what? I don't care about them. Photography is what I LOVE to do. Do I get paid for certain projects? Yes. Do I do TFP? Absolutely! At the end of the day I want to create fabulous images with as many amazing & creative people as possible. I want to learn from all of my experiences. I want to meet new people. I want to be challenged. More than anything I want to have fun doing something I love, and come away from every shoot feeling accomplished.
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Common sense. I didn't used to feel that a list like this was necessary, but I've run into a couple of situations where some of these things were an issue. So I'm simply going to state these for the record.
Be there on time. If you agree to meet at 2pm, be there at 2pm. Allow yourself time to be able to get there when we agree on a schedule.
Cleanliness. You're about to be photographed. Please make sure your hair & nails are clean, and your outfit(s) are photo ready (aka if they get severely wrinkled by balling them up in a gym bag - please don't ball them up in a gym bag).
Makeup/Hair/Wardrobe. Unless we have made other arrangements, you are responsible for your makeup, hair, and wardrobe.
Posing. I have no problem directing you, but you are the model. I expect you to have some idea of how your body works. If you're new to modeling, watch turorials on youtube, and study photos. I have created a board on Pinterest (click here) if you need some suggestions.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) -- Tim Tebow is expected to make a full recovery, without surgery, from rib, lung and chest injuries he sustained in the Denver Broncos' loss at New England in an AFC divisional playoff game last weekend. ESPN first reported that Tebow got hurt on a third-quarter tackle during Denver's 45-10 loss, then had trouble sleeping because of the pain and underwent an MRI on his chest Monday.
Team spokesman Patrick Smyth said that while he couldn't confirm the exact extent or nature of the injuries due to team policy, he acknowledged that Tebow finished the game in considerable pain.
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It may not have packed the drama of the 2007 Pepsi 400 at Daytona, when Jamie McMurray nosed out Kyle Busch for the win, but it sure beats California. But, you just have to know that losing the Smell My Face Beltway Race around Washington, D.C., to some Tony Stewart lookalike known as Flounder (above) will eat at Busch for a long time.
And really, ask yourself: How hard would it have been for Busch to give the insufferable Flounder the bumper and spin him out in the parking lot as the duo neared the line? Sure, maybe a spectator or two would have been hurt, but what's that when it comes to defending your racing honor?
No, the shame of this stinging defeat will stick with Busch for a long time.


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February 18, 2011
Alec Ross, Senior Advisor on Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Daniel Baer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, participated in an online discussion hosted by Facebook DC on how people around the world have been empowered by social media. Alec and Daniel talked about themes addressed during Secretary Clinton's February 15 speech on internet freedom as well as related issues we face as global citizens in an increasingly networked and borderless world. The event took place on February 17, 2011. You can click here to watch the event.


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The idea of a competition on the means of enhancing trust in the on-line world has struck a number of chords. Some respondents focus on the need for behaviour change and I will blog on this later. Others have questioned of why so many services rely on "trust" products and services which many believe are damaged goods. Thus I have been asked why .gov.uk relies on SSL certificates provided from Utah by Comodo (Usertrust). That reader asked whether these were the cheapest, the only ones that assert they come under UK law (the policy say's it is Manchester-based), did DigiNotar eclipse the Comodo saga last year, or "is everyone so new they do not remember 2011". It may be, of course, that CESG has checked the scale and nature of the breach and been reassured. But have they? And how is trust, once lost, regained?
One of the points of leverage in improving the trust of your board, let alone your customers, in the organisations systems is the use of internal or independent audit to see who and what you are actually trusting and whether they really are trustworthy. In the private sector the most common qualifications required by organisations who are serious abour information security are those from ISACA (orginally the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, now extended to cover IT governance as a whole). This has over 100,000 members world wide and six chapters in the UK. The London chapter has over 2,500 members. Below is the response from Professor John Walker, who sits on the ISACA international practice guidance committee. He highlights how just one major weakness in practice (including on the part of some well known brand names) undermines much of the theory of "trusted" internet services. It is chilling - do not let an Internet savvy director read on unless accompanied by ....
"Trust is implicit to any interim, or routed backbone service, or applications, where there is an expectation that, the provider is serving the best interest of the customer, or client. Agreed Trust is about the end-points, but if the protocols, and backbones over which one-to-one, one-to-many communications pass, are not robust, and vulnerable, and then the theoretical approach to what one-to-one/many 'Trust' really is may be flawed.
These observations are based on the information below re DNS hosting, as well as research carried out under the banner of NTU (Nottingham Trent University), in which, 'Trusted' companies, and agencies were found to be very insecure in a number of areas, in one particular case, and the worst I have seen, a 'Global' Brand was [is] hosting an astonishing number of security exposures. And with a survey conducted some years ago locating 12% of selected Global Brands at that time hosting "Zone Transfer" opportunities on their sites, allowing internal inspection, and in one test case, the pulling out of files containing hard coded user ID and associated Password there is room for concern. In another case, there was a Third Party Site developing applications for some well known 'US Security Agencies' - in this case, the servers were named after said agencies, and were again exposed though a Zone Transfer attack (Footprinting) - thus Trust in these environments imply robust assurance is required - after all they are processing public, yours, and my on in-flight, and stored information and data assets there is an exposure implicit to any expectation of 'Trust'..
And there are a number of cases today of well known, Global bands security providers who are aware there products are vulnerable to certain types of attack, yet they have not made these profiles of potential attack known to their clients, and in some cases, are selling on products that are not fit for purpose - here the implied 'Trust' is an element of the relationship between Client, and Application Providers.
Example - using DNS resolvers to facilitate Distributed Denial of Service attacks:
CloudFlare engineers determined that the attackers behind a major assault were abusing the open DNS resolvers belonging to a variety of large network operators. Many of these were well-known brand names: US-based SoftLayer, GoDaddy, AT&T, iWeb, and Amazon. The sustained attack came as several distinct botnets appear to have been updated to enumerate huge lists of open resolvers. That means amplification attacks could become more common.
Given the damage they can have on innocent bystanders [Trusting], such open servers have long been considered a nuisance. It's the Internet equivalent of a dilapidated crack house in the inner city or a rural front yard filled with old washing machines and rusted car parts. As a result, operators have been admonished repeatedly to make DNS resolvers available only to addresses located on their network, rather than to the Internet as a whole.
The CloudFlare engineers compiled a list of the networks hosting the open DNS servers and ranked them by those responsible for the most damage. With 68,459 unique open resolvers participating in the ongoing attack, there was plenty of blame to go around. The list names networks located on every corner of the globe, including those owned by Amazon, Turk Telekomunikasyon Anonim Sirketi, and Nepal Telecommunications Corporation. Still, CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince found that the top 10 offenders provided 15,611 of those servers - or almost 23 percent of the firepower behind the attack.
The top 10 network operators named by Prince are: PKTELECOM-AS-PK Pakistan Telecom Company Limited; HINET Data Communication Business Group; CRNET CHINA RAILWAY Internet(CRNET); THEPLANET-AS - ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc.; CHINANET-BACKBONE No.31, Jin-rong Street; SOFTLAYER - SoftLayer Technologies Inc.; OCN NTT Communications Corporation; AS-26496-GO-DADDY-COM-LLC - GoDaddy.com, LLC; ATT-INTERNET4 - AT&T Services, Inc.; and IWEB-AS - iWeb Technologies Inc.
"Wonder why there's been an increase in big DDoS attacks?" Prince wrote in a recent blog post . "It's in large part because the network operators listed above have continued to allow open resolvers to run on their networks and the attackers have begun abusing them."
In a previous blog post documenting CloudFlare's work in blocking DDoS attacks that reached an astounding 65Gbps in size, Prince said the company regularly reaches out to the worst open DNS offenders. Frequently, the advisories fall on deaf ears.
"One of the great ironies when we deal with these attacks is we'll often get an e-mail from the owner of the network where an open resolver is running asking us to shut down the attack our network is launching against them," he explained. "They're seeing a large number of UDP packets with one of our IPs as the source coming in to their network and assume we're the ones launching it. In fact, it is actually their network which is being used to launch an attack against us."
Thus I feel when the word 'Trust' enters the conversation, the catchment area is very wide, and should also include environments were assertions need to be qualified."


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|Sesame Street
|Big Bird runs out of birdseed.
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|Season 7 (1975-1976)
- Big Bird runs out of birdseed, and tries other things to eat.
- Big Bird hurts his beak, which he used to hammer a garage door. His friend Waldo Woodpecker suggested that he might find some worms to eat in the door.
- Big Bird starts a "Bird Food Co-Op Store".
- Maria, Bob and Oscar the Grouch produce words that start with the letter Y.
- Big Bird writes a poem about water.
- Ernie and Bert: Ernie answers the telephone. Bert overhears the conversation, which involves a baseball game, a rainy day, and a gorilla stealing a baloney sandwich. When Bert asks who just called, Ernie says it was a wrong number. (EKA: Episode 0694)
- Muppet & Kid Moments: Bert and Ingrid count from ten to one. (EKA: Episode 0796)
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This may seem like a rather trivial question to be asking five or six years after the full-time adoption of the "smart-phone", but I'm genuinely curious to know how many people actually use a pass-code lock provided on their Phone (iPhone/Android/Windows). Check below the poll to see why I don't use anything on my phone and to enter your thoughts in the comments below.
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If you're using an iPhone you're stuck with a PIN system that's fairly basic, but only by default. If you're willing to put in a few minutes there are ways to greatly increase the security of your phone going beyond 4-digit PINs. Those of you on Android may be using a PIN as well, but you also have the option of a pattern lock or even facial recognition.
In any case, I've seen people who use no such feature (present company included!) while others protect their phones with more basic security such as the 4-digit PIN offered on an iPhone (which can be bypassed by someone who's really determined). I'm not sure why I personally am so passive about securing my phone. When you consider that my data is backed up to more than one place and I use 1Password to create some of the craziest passwords on earth, it's hard to rationalize the state my phone sits in. What can I say, I hate having to type 4 digits into the phone every time I want to check Twitter or a score online. By score I mean score of the game – not big score as in I just held up a truck full of iPads.
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After all, most of the apps on my phone that store sensitive data are themselves password protected so what's the big deal? I suppose I'd be whistling a different tune if the worst were to happen. I can hear myself now saying "why the hell didn't I throw a password on my phone!".
So what are your thoughts? Is your phone protected by a PIN?
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Period 1 week late, bloated, and negative pregnancy test??
My husband and i are trying for baby number 2 and had sex around ovulation time and had one day of brown discharge about a week after ovulation. Now im one week late and am very bloated. I took 1 hpt 3 days after missed period and was negative. I also had a blood pregnancy test 5 days BEFORE missed period that was negative. This happen to anyone??
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congrats!!! Based on my late period last month and also this month and getting those negative tests, I read through tons of these forums looking for hope, but it didn't seem like there were many responses about OUTCOMES other women had, so I figured this would be a good place to post a (happy) outcome story :) Best wishes!posted 10/02/2012 by lolly622
yes this happened to me. I had of brown and light pink spotting on and off for weeks midcycle starting around ovulation time. I wasn't sure what that was all about as that is not normal for me at all! Last month (the first month we started TTC), i was 9 days late but all tests came up negative and i got my period on the 9th day late. This cycle i was late once again. I took a HPT the day my period is usually due (CD30) - negative. Waited until CD34, which is about 4 days late for me - still negative! I didn't feel many symptoms other than a slight upset stomach and breasts felt tender at the end of the day- but i thought it was all in my head. I took a HPT last night at 9 days late and it was positive!!!! I took another just in case and it was also positive!! I was in such shock after having those negative tests!! this is our first :) Best of luck to you!posted 10/02/2012 by lolly622
Yes, it happened to me last month. I was 9 days late. I thought I was pregnant, however I didn't have any symptom expect for bloated. I went to the doctor. And it had blood test. It was negative. Then I had my period 1 day later (total of 10 day late). My doctor said either I ovulated late or didn't ovulate at all that month. But anything can happen.posted 09/22/2012 by thaoetran
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Ernest Hemingway may not have been the first person to write flash fiction, but he's probably the best known. When challenged to write a short story in six words, he came back with "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." Some say he called it his best work.
The folks at Smith e-zine (smithmag.net) describe themselves as "a storytelling community: a place to read, write and share stories." In 2006, they challenged their readers to emulate Hemingway by telling their life stories in six words. The 832 pieces, culled from more than 15,000 submissions, are collected in "Not Quite What I Was Planning."
It's a quick read that invites a slow reread. The selections run the gamut from comic to tragic, and vary in tone from heartfelt to wry. But this collection isn't about clever writing, though plenty of that is included. It's about one-line observations that resonate, though exactly which ones strike a chord will vary from reader to reader.
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September 20, 2015 Where are all the robots?
A good friend of mine sent me this link to an article about robotics and wrote, "I'm sure this article is common knowledge to you..." Sadly, this is common knowledge to me because it reminds me of how little progress has been made in the robot part of robotics
over the thirty years since I started in the field as a grad
student. Certainly, the automation and machinery part of robotics has made great strides, but as I've written before, there's
more to a robot than automation and machinery. This article is about one of the best robots in the world and, to quote from the article, "The contraption weighs 407 pounds and is powerful enough to bench-press 150 pounds. It's hazardous for humans to be around." That strength to weight ratio is terrible and the contraption is hazardous for humans to be around? That is pretty much exactly where we were thirty years ago. This article starts by listing some of the tasks from the 2015 Darpa Robotics Challenge finals. This competition showcased the best robots in the world. Each of these robots has been under development for at least three years with many millions of dollars in funding per robot. The tasks the robots faced in the challenge were really quite modest. They included walking up a flight of stairs, turning a knob, flipping a switch, and the like. Conceptually these tasks are much simpler than the tasks a fruit fly faces every day. Most of the robots couldn't complete the tasks, but two of them did. Take a look at the video on YouTube. The robots don't look much like humans. They certainly don't show any type of higher-level thinking. As I've
written before and unlike a lot of people, I don't believe robots based on digital computers will ever approach human intelligence. The article above also talks about how much money is currently being invested in robotics by
big players that have a lot of money to invest - Google and Uber being two discussed in the article. I have no doubt that this influx of money will generate even more amazing automation and machinery, but I also have no doubt that
these robots will never approach human intelligence.
July 29, 2014 Robots just keep
coming for our jobs
I've written many times that raising the minimum wage is just
going to accelerate the deployment of robotics and automation to
eliminate these jobs. I think the jobs in the fast food industry are
especially vulnerable. Because I work in robotics and automation I
often think of the social implications of this. What will happen
when the jobs flipping hamburgers are all gone? How will that
teenager learn a work ethic and find a stepping stone to something
better? To jobs flipping hamburgers, I say good riddance. That
teenager would do a lot better spending their time studying their
schoolwork. The same goes for jobs packing boxes, kitting parts,
unloading machines, picking parts off a conveyor belt, etc. Just
preserving busy work for minimum wage is a loser's game and raising
the minimum wage is just going to end the game more quickly.
But how about jobs like taking care of elderly people? Here's an
article in the NY Times that talks about what people in robotics
have been talking about for a long time - that social robots in the
home are
going to be caregivers
for the elderly. I was being interviewed on a radio show several
years ago on this very subject and all I could express is "why
would we want to deploy robots for this?" I had one of the
worst headaches I've ever had after that interview. I can't think of
anything worse for robots to do. There's an emotional aspect to this
kind of work that robots will never be able to fill and robotics
researchers who suggest otherwise are just plain wrong. Another engineer on the show
represented the opinion that there was a shortage of people to do
this kind of work. That's why we needed to deploy robots. The truth
to this statement is that there is a shortage of people willing to
do this kind of work for the money we are currently willing to pay
for it.
Of course there is some amount of pay where Americans would be
willing to do this kind of work. The
elderly, however, are often on very tight budgets and don't have the
money to pay for it. People on the left side of the
political spectrum, have written about this issue and suggested that
the answer is government subsidized home care for the elderly. I
very rarely support government subsidies. This includes
corporate welfare and tax breaks for the wealthy. I don't think
subsidies help anyone. At the lower end of the income spectrum,
they disincentivize working, At the higher end of the income spectrum, they just contribute
to income inequality. Over the last ten years the government has
dumped more borrowed money into the economy than in the combined
history of the United States and income inequality has gotten vastly
As for subsidized home care for the elderly, I
guess in this case we don't have to worry about disincentivizing the
elderly. It's not like they would run out and get jobs if it wasn't
for the subsidized caregivers. We already are subsidizing health care
and this is very much a health care issue. On the
conservative side of the political coin is the position that this is the
responsibility of family, church and charitable organizations. This
was a reasonable approach when people didn't live so long, and I
think it is still a reasonable approach for other social issues, but
now care giving for the elderly is just too much for this social network to
Though the use of robots as caregivers for the elderly is an
interesting social and political topic, it is also a hypothetical
one. As I've written many times before,
robots based on digital computers are never going to remotely
approach human intelligence and human intelligence is required to
replace people in caring for the elderly, whether in their homes or in group homes. Sure
there will be devices like glorified smart phones and mechanical
assist devices that will help,
but there won't be robots with human-like intelligence.
July 17, 2014 Super job
opportunity for a Lead Robotics Engineer
General: Infratek is a new technological start-up and university spin-off company focused on providing
innovative, full-spectrum infrastructure management systems. We innovate, integrate, and manufacture autonomous robots, cutting-edge non-destructive evaluation technologies, and software systems that assess and maintain critical infrastructure, to include bridges, roadways, and structures. Having recently been awarded funding, we are hiring engineers to be part of our first commercial launch, bringing research prototypes into industrialized products. As the Lead Robotics Engineer, you will be a key leader of the team.
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·Overall responsible for the functional design and technical development of autonomous mobile robotic systems, providing expertise and leadership to the mechanical, electrical, software, and robotics engineers
·Provide system-level guidance on the overall functionality and development of robotic systems, ensuring that validation of customer requirements and verification of system performance parameters
·Lead and facilitate initial planning, concept development, and milestone design reviews
·Assist with hiring of candidates and staff by vetting select resumes and applications and conducting interviews
·Effectively utilize professional or academic networks
Required Skills and Experience:
·Doctorate or Master degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related discipline
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Preferred Skills and Experience:
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·Direct experience with the full product development lifecycle of robots, from design to delivery
·Experience or familiarity with non-destructive evaluation technology or the integration of robotic systems with infrastructure inspection sensor
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June 7, 2014 Will robots take
over the world?
Over the years I've answered hundreds of email questions from young and old alike. Today I got one that asked if robots fart and another that asked if I thought robots would take over the world. As you might guess, these came from the younger side of the age spectrum. I answer their questions below, but first I have to define what the word "robot" means to me. It's a bit different than the common definition.
The word Robot comes from a play called "Rossum's Universal Robots" by the Czech playwright Karel Capek. It premiered in 1921 and became very popular in its day. The play explored what has become a familiar theme in science fiction: humans playing God by creating synthetic humans (robots) in their own image. These robots could be enslaved without guilt because they possessed no souls. Eventually Capek's robots grew resentful of their enslavement, rose up against humans and destroyed the human race. Though Capek adapted the word robot from the Czech word "robota" meaning forced labor (such as a serf would be forced to perform on the King's land), the idea of robots is much older.
The notion of human-like creatures created by humans can be traced back to the word Golem that appears in the Old Testament. I'm not going to pretend to understand ancient Hebrew, so I can't interpret what that word means in the context of the Old Testament, but over the last thousand years the legend of the Golem
evolved. The basic story is that a Rabbi or similar holy person can form a human-like shape out of clay. After speaking or writing the appropriate incantations, the Golem would become animated and serve the Rabbi, typically by performing dangerous tasks or protecting the village against attack. Of course sometimes the Golem would get out of control and turn on its makers. Sound familiar? Frankenstein anyone? Terminator?
These days the word robot is applied to just about any remote controlled or automatic system that does some sort of physical task. The word robot is even applied to non-physical software constructs that roam around on the internet (think search engine robots). I personally thank Joe Engelberger for starting this. In the 1950's Joe founded Unimation, Inc. which billed itself as the world's first industrial robotics company. They sold their first "robot" to General Motors in the early 1960's. This was an automated piece of manufacturing equipment that unloaded hot dies in the factory. To me, that's no robot. That's an automated piece of manufacturing equipment, but the name sounded sexy and Unimation was fairly successful.
Finally, we get to my definition of a robot so we can begin answering the questions that started this essay. To me a robot has to be of the same size and shape as a human. That's what Capek intended when he coined the word. Capek's robots were so similar to humans that they could be mistaken for humans. In my opinion, if it's not human-like, it's not a robot. Interestingly, Capek's robots were not mechanical creatures, but rather were biological beings that were created in a lab and ran on chemical reactions. Capek doesn't discuss the robots eating or what they might have eaten, but I assume being biological creations they must have eaten some sort of food. Since they were biological, ate food and ran on chemical reactions; Capek's robots likely would have suffered from the same residual gaseous emissions that mammals do.
That answers one of these kid's question.
Now we get to the question of whether robots will take over the world. For starters, I don't believe any robots in the true sense of Capek have been created, yet. Furthermore, I don't think the robotic machines being designed today will take over the world any time soon. And by soon, I mean not in this century and not in the next. Here's why I believe that to be true.
People who do say we'll have robotic machines with brains as powerful as humans generally base their argument on Moore's law. Moore's law says that the number of transistors on a computer processor doubles every two years. I have two issues with this line of reasoning. First, there is no guarantee that Moore's law will continue to hold. It's not a real law, like the law of gravity. It's just based on an observation Intel's co-founder, Gordon Moore, made a long time ago. Second, the interconnections in human brains are much more complex than binary computer connections. The connections in human brains have variable levels, are electro-chemical and involve firing rates. This makes them more like analog signals than digital signals. If we assume the resolution of a connection in a human brain is 10 bits and use a common estimate of 100 trillion connections in a human brain, then we would need a digital computer with ten to the power of ninety transistors! Even if Moore's law did hold true, it predicts the Sun will burn out before we have a digital computer with the power of a human brain. Basically there is no path from digital computers to the complexity of the human brain.
I don't know if they will take over the world, but we are probably a lot closer to robots of the kind envisioned by Capek than most people think. I'm talking about cloning. Humans have cloned sheep, cats, dogs, pigs, deer, horses and bulls. It's only a matter of time before we are able to clone humans. How about the little clone that will be created to provide an organ to replace a child's damaged liver so the child can live? Is that little clone human? Is it a robot? What if a scientist can clone a person, but render the clone somehow inferior? Maybe it can't talk, or maybe it can't comprehend fear or pain? Will that clone have a soul? Will it have any kind of rights or protections? Would it be OK to create an army of clones to fight our wars for us? I don't know the answer to these questions, but I'm sure we are going to be dealing with them, and likely in my children's lifetime.
May 17, 2014 Raising
minimum wage will promote robotics
I was browsing around the internet and came upon this article with the title, "Scientists Worry Machines May
Outsmart Man." I realize it's old (from 2009), but the topic still comes up all the time. As I've written before, digital computers are never going to outsmart humans. What about Watson winning
Jeopardy you say? Watson is just a huge computer search engine with speech recognition built in. It's true that Jeopardy questions are often nuanced and contain subtle hints, but when the computer has encyclopedic knowledge, the nuance and subtleties don't matter. The computer just looks up the answers. As I read the article, I also noticed that the headline was in conflict with the body of the article. Here is what is in the article, "The researchers — leading computer scientists, artificial intelligence researchers and roboticists who met at the Asilomar Conference Grounds on Monterey Bay in California — generally discounted the possibility of highly centralized superintelligences." Here's another line from the article, "The researchers also discussed possible threats to human jobs, like self-driving cars, software-based personal assistants and service robots in the home."
Hello? Do we really need scientists to tell us that automation is going to take human jobs? Seen a lot of bank tellers lately? How about those folks that take your ticket when you leave the parking garage? I'm pretty sure most of those jobs have been lost to automation. How about switch board operators?
Do you even know what those are? At one time there were 350,000 people getting paid to do that job. Now there are none. This is my concern with raising the minimum wage. The higher the minimum wage goes, the faster these
low-level jobs will be lost to automation. I'm all for people earning a wage they can live on, but the Federal
government stepping in and artificially raising the minimum is, as usual, going to have the opposite of the intended effect. It will just accelerate the loss of these minimum wage jobs to automation. There will be one-tenth the number of people working at a McDonalds.
It will be just a few folks to service the machines in the kitchen and one person in front helping
the people who can't figure out how to use the touch screen to order their food.
May 5, 2014 Students explore human-robot interactions
I just read a column about and undergraduate course at Cornell on human-robot interactions. I didn't
know there were undergraduate courses specifically addressing human-robot interactions, but I'm not surprised. The author writes that the field is so new that there aren't even textbooks on it yet. I don't know if that is true or not, but the field is certainly not new. It's been around since the 1970's and has focused primarily on safety of personnel working in the same locations as robots. As more and more automation is applied in the consumer market this study will move towards "lay people" that encounter robotics and automation in their daily lives. I'm sure safety will still be an important part of that study, but how to make the interaction "natural" for humans will also be a big part of it.
That leads me to a question I get by email all of the time, "what subjects should I study if I want to work with robots when I grow up?" The obvious answer would be to study math and science, but that's rarely the answer I give. I think that students should study what they love and are best at. Then they can look for career fields where they can apply themselves. For example, the lead protagonist in Asimov's "I, Robot" series is Susan Calvin, a robot psychologist. If psychology is your thing and you want to work in robotics, study psychology and figure out how to apply it to robotics and automation. When I was growing up I loved to take things apart, see how they worked, and then try to rebuild them so
they would be better than they were before. That naturally led me to study engineering and I've been very happy with that choice, but engineering is not for everyone and it shouldn't be forced on anyone. That's not the way to be happy and successful in life.
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|Hidden by the Dutch underground, Joe Koek and his sisters lost nearly all in the Holocaust
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The 32nd Annual Quad Cities Holocaust Remembrance, known as Yom HaShoah, will be held
Joe changed his name and lived as a Protestant, the teenager posing as the farm couple's "distant
Thanks to Joe's "lucky break," he was saved from the liquidation and later moved twice, landing
In conjunction with this year's Remembrance, the Yom HaShoah Committee is again partnering
Also during this year's Remembrance, the Yom HaShoah Committee of the Quad Cities will present
A crime of such horrendous proportions could not have been perpetrated in a vacuum. Centuries of anti-Jewish teachings – either promulgated or countenanced by churches and states – created fertile ground for the seed of Nazi hatred to flourish. The people of Europe had been conditioned to despise Jews and see them as something less than human. Thus, many could rationalize the elimination of the Jews not as murder, but as the removal of an unwelcome element of their society.
Millions of people from many ethnic backgrounds were killed in Nazi extermination camps, but Adolf Hitler ordered that ferocious intensity be brought to bear in reaching his goal of destroying the Jewish people. In his terminology, it was the "final solution to the Jewish problem." The murder of six million Jews, including one and a half million children, has branded the names of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Majdanek and many more camps into the memories of the generation that witnessed the Holocaust and those who have learned of it since.
We remember the Holocaust not simply because it is a Jewish tragedy. We talk about it because we
In the Quad Cities, Yom HaShoah has been observed annually since 1982. The committee which organizes the observance was initially formed by representatives of the Quad Cities' Jewish and Christian communities, and has maintained ecumenism in its membership and mission ever since. Sponsors of the 2010 Yom HaShoah service include the Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities, Temple Emanuel, Tri-City Jewish Center, Churches United, Augustana College and St. Ambrose University. It is believe to be the oldest continuing interfaith Yom HaShoah commemoration.
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ATLANTA (AP) -- Item by item, Chipper Jones' shirts and pants were folded and stacked neatly for the final time in his Braves travel bag.
His teammates also went through the familiar routine of cleaning out lockers Saturday. Jones is taking more than his clothes: The team gave the third baseman the entire locker as a retirement gift.
A likely future Hall of Famer, Jones will be difficult to replace. The Braves also could lose centerfielder and leadoff hitter Michael Bourn, who can become a free agent.
General manager Frank Wren says with other parts of the team in place, he'll have a "more focused" offseason as he addresses third base and centerfield.
Atlanta's season ended with Friday's 6-3 wild-card loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.
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Cal Crutchlow's factory Ducati MotoGP deal set to be announced on Friday.
What that's his career over.
@TedGSpot on mate as I have said before Crutch is in the game for the same reason as every other rider MONEY. so where is all the rossi fans now that was telling us rossi was going to win the title first year on the Duc remember he was going to show stoner how to ride the Duc,well guess what he did nothing but he did the same thing that Crutch is doing he walked away with 30 mil and I dont hear the rossi fans complaining about that,so to Crutch good on you mate I hope you do good on the bike and if you dont at least you get a few dollars for all the broken bones you suffered which is more than what you will get where you are now.
I know it goes against all the history of Ducati fodder but I think he may be more capable than most who have tried it.
I think its exciting for the championship as it shakes things up but I cant see the Ducati ever being competitive again. Its a long time since they introduced the aluminium chassis and they have made ZERO progress. Ducati dont know anything about developing this bike nevermind Audi.
What a decision cal !Welcome to the Red-Mare !
People have to realise that Ducati with its many changes in frame designs are behind behind the eight-ball how many years has Yamaha had at developing the aluminum/deltabox frame and had success before Rossi came along and how many years has Honda had at developing there aliminum twin spar designs before and been successful before before Burgess and Doohan came along. Developing a winning GP bike will take time Ducati has only had roughly two years at it and just need to keep developing adjusting tuning etc until all the little things feel right then we'll see a front running Ducati in GP. Heck even Aprilia has had decades of experience with the aliminum chassis its not an overnight solution but Ducati not Audi is taking the right steps forward and getting Gigi onboard is another one of those steps in the right direction.Despite not being a Rossi fan it was Burgess and Rossi that pushed for Ducati to go in this direction and I feel it isthe correct direction for them to go with the
@aussienswHonestly, it's a bit different when someone who is already regarding as the GREATEST rider in human history goes to a team that is effectively garbage and losing ground by the minute, because he has already been there and done that 3x more than any other active rider. However, crutchlow has not even won a single race, his career aspirations are much different and soon unachievable when he gets on a ducati. So year money is extremely important, especially if you have never made factory money, but winning a title is more important... especially if you haven't already won 9.
Without even thinking about next year, Cal obviously considered that he can expect very little effort or support from Yamaha for the rest of this year.Makes me hope he still outscores some of the factory boys despite his decision and I'll be glad for him to stick it to the circle of manipulators who run the show from within the Yamaha/DORNA/Rossi Promotion Club and can't wait to hear what he has to say about it.Go Cal, a ballsy decision, hope you can get some results..This show stinks.
Hi, it is I emilio...i am thinking his crutch very low when ride ducati....maybe money help lift crutch after races, yes.
I love the comparisons with Dovi last year. Just remind me how long Dovi had been riding Motogp in 2012 and how many seasons Cal had ridden by 2012?????? #nuffsaid.
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- 2-1/4 cups apricot nectar
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Lines continue around the state at early voting locations. Every half hour, a bus leaves Florida A&M University for the courthouse in Tallahassee. The ride made it easy for students to vote.
Based on what she has seen in the first week of early voting, Secretary of State Glenda Hood believes the 2004 election will set records for turnout.
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Governor Jeb Bush says with so many people casting their ballots, voters shouldn't expect a flawless election.
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I frequently present at the various VMware User Group (VMUG) meetings, VMworld and partner conferences. If you have ever attended one of my talks, you will know it is like trying to drink from a fire hose, it is hard to cover everything in just a 45 min session. Therefore I will take the time here to write a few blogs that go over the concepts discussed in these talks in more detail (or at least slower). One of the most popular yet very fast paced talks I present is the Troubleshooting Storage Performance in vSphere. I'll slow things down a bit and discuss each topic here, this might be just a review for some of you but hopefully as we get into more details there will be some new nuggets of VMware specific information that can help even the more advanced storage folks.
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"Just" A Jake
was afoot.
I contacted the county conservation agent that afternoon, and he said he would look for the hunter's name on the weekend check sheet. The following week I learned that the hunter had not checked the bird and had received a citation for poaching.
I wondered why the young man deemed the jake unworthy of tagging. Why, in fact, do many hunters, after bagging a jake, seem ashamed of the bird when talking to their friends? The answer lies in a misunderstanding concerning the true challenge of turkey hunting. Jakes, or juvenile males, weigh less than most mature gobblers. Their beards and spurs are also shorter, but weight, beard and spur length are not the measures that define the challenge of turkey hunting.
Wariness is what makes turkey hunting so formidable.
No other game animal is more alert or cautious than a wild turkey. From the day they hatch until the day they die, turkeys are highly desired targets for a host of predators. They live in constant vigilance against danger. For survival, nature has provided them peerless eyesight and hearing and hair-trigger reflexes, of which they make good use.
By spring, jakes have eluded daily perils for 10 months. They are woods-wise veterans and masters of survival. As such, they are elusive prey for any predator, from bobcats to camo-clad humans carrying tightly choked shotguns. Therefore, a jake called in and cleanly killed with one shot represents superior woodsmanship.
Despite the difficulty of calling a jake into shotgun range, some hunters choose to limit their hunting efforts to old toms. Long of spur and beard, gobblers three years old and older comprise a much smaller portion of the spring turkey population than do jakes. For that reason, hunting only mature gobblers makes a tough sport even tougher.
Some hunters claim that older gobblers are more difficult to lure in with calls. Honest analysis, however, would probably reveal that old gobblers are not more difficult to call in than jakes. They simply require different hunting techniques.
Older toms typically do most of the breeding. They have strutting sites where they gobble and attract hens. Skilled hunters scout and find these sites, determine how gobblers travel to them and then hunt along these travel ways. An old tom is easy to call in when a hunter sets up along the turkey's travel route.
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I walk by preference and rely on the AATA bus for longer trips in town. We drive mostly to leave town, rather than to get around in town. Grocery shopping is the exception to that.
My first associate's degree came with a certificate in transportation and traffic management. My subsequent associate's and bachelor's were in criminal justice and criminology. Traffic laws are perhaps the paradigm of social control for the common good. You can arguably smoke marijuana in the privacy of your home without hurting anyone else, but there is no way to drive your car or ride your bike as a private act. It is perhaps impossible to have a traffic accident without at least one party breaking a law.
Yet, some cities in Europe are experimenting with taking out traffic control and there is no control at the Arc de Triomphe. So, sometimes, common sense, common courtesy, and acceptance of responsibility are enough.
All of that is to preface my claim that bicycles are vehicles and vehicles belong in the road. Sidewalks are for pedestrians.
That said, as a bus rider, I cringe for the safety of cyclists on the streets.
There is no easy solution. Marginalizing bicycles to the far right only pre-defines their conflicts with buses and delivery trucks in general and with cars turning right.
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Brandon Webb's two careers could have sent many other men to emotional breakdown. First, after intensive Naval Special Operations training, he served as a covert operations specialist in Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf. Then he accepted the responsibility for other men's lives by becoming the head Navy SEAL sniper instructor. Master sniper Marcus Luttrell (Lone Survivor), who wrote the foreword for this book, credits Webb with saving his life on an early mission. The Red Circle takes readers into the select training of the world's most elite sniper corps and their intensely perilous missions inside enemy territory.
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