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Plain TalkTOKYO NOTICE BOARD 27 FEBRUARY 2015
Big World, Little Cat
7 Stupidly Big and Small Things in Japan by Alex Parsons
One of the things that keeps surprising me in Japan is the size of everyday objects. Miniature dogs wandering big cities, huge sumo wrestlers squished into tiny cars... Every day there is something that makes me feel like I've been secretly downing the size potions in Alice in Wonderland. Here are some things that have really caught my attention:
1. Small - People
I know the Japanese are a smaller nation than us Aussies. The average height of Australian males is 178cm, and 164cm for females. Whereas in Japan the average male and female height is about 171cm and 159cm respectively. But I didn't think my 174cm frame would cause such a stir. I'll never forget the time that I stopped by my favourite cafe in Nozawa Onsen after an autumn hike. An elderly couple in the cafe took a keen interest in me and after some small talk the husband asked to take a photo. Very excitedly, he made me stand next to his diminutive wife, and exclaimed that I was "Oki!" (huge).
2. Big - Bread
Japanese thick cut toast blows my mind (And my daily carb allowance...). I love how toast is categorised by its thickness in Japan. It means that when I buy the loaf with just 4 chunky pieces in it, I can tell myself I was good and only had one slice of toast today.
3. Small - Peanut cream
I am obsessed with this delightful peanut-toffee spread. But the containers are just so small! Don't they know I need truckloads of this magical goo? One tub lasts me 2 days. Yes, I know it should get me through the week, but I always end up going at it with a spoon and finishing it in one go. You don't have to say it. I know I have a problem.
4. Big - Dinner and drinks
When the Japanese do dinner and drinks, they do it right. I have never felt so sick-to-death full and yet wanted to keep eating so badly until I came to Japan. Last week my friends and I brought Christmas presents to a lovely old lady's house. She insisted we stay for dinner and then called up two other families to come over and join. Soon there were 6 of us around a table crowded with nabe, curry puffs, deep fried potato things, nozawana, sauteed meat, maki sushi, inari sushi, eggs, and 6 different types of sake we had to try. The Japanese do alcohol in a big way too - huge 1.8 Litre bottles of sake (Isshou-bin) and those hilarious 3 Litre Asahi beer cans that come with a handle on the side just so you can carry it. I could get used to this!
5. Small - Coffee
Whether it comes in those silly excuses for a can or at a real cafe, the size of coffee is always underwhelming. Ship this stuff in the form of megalitre vats please, and hook it up to my veins!
6. Big - Apples
I'm living in Nagano, which is famous for apples. These things are in such abundance they're passed around like a burden. I have friends who have accumulated over 40 apples because people just keep giving them to them. To make matters worse, these things are huge. I think I could fit 2-4 Australian apples inside one of them.
7. Small - Shoes
While I am yet to try it myself, I hear it is very difficult to buy shoes as a gaijin due to our godzilla-sized feet. What I have experienced personally is how bathroom slippers are simply not designed for me (as you can see in the photo). There's nothing like barely being able to fit your toes into a pink slipper to make you feel like a giant, unfeminine freak.
Plain TalkTOKYO NOTICE BOARD 27 FEBRUARY 2015
Lesser known places to go in Tokyo
Edo-Tokyo Open-air Architectural Museum by Simon Duncan
This collection of old buildings and structures, located in a large park in a quiet area in the western suburbs of Tokyo, actually has a better name in English than it does in Japanese. Edo Tokyo tatemono no en, literally translates to Edo Tokyo building park.
Edo is the former name for Tokyo, used from the period 1603 to 1868. So, you may expect to find a collection of buildings from that period. The seven hectare park doesn't disappoint and boasts around 30 buildings and structures from the Edo period up to early Showa period (1920s and 1930s).
These buildings, which range from large houses formerly inhabited by rich, influential people (including the creator of the Calpis soft drink) to an old public bathhouse, were carefully taken apart and lovingly re-constructed in the park. This provides a rare glimpse into the Tokyo of the past. Especially interesting is one street that boasts an old izakaya, a pharmacy, and a soy sauce shop amongst others. This part of the open air museum also has a street car and a police box, adding to the atmosphere of the Tokyo of days long gone.
The park is similar, but smaller, to Meiji Mura near Nagoya city which has a superb collection of old buildings including the entrance of the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Imperial Hotel, formerly a Tokyo landmark. Despite being more compact than Meiji Mura in Nagoya, when I visited Edo Tokyo Outdoor Architectural Museum I spent around 3 or 4 hours wandering around (there is a decent amount of walking involved), not bad for 400 yen!
Children who are not yet in high school can enter for free (if they have proof of living in Tokyo). Children and animation fans may be interested to know that Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki also designed the mascot character for the park.
The park can be reached by taking a bus (or a long walk) from JR Musashi Koganei or Seibu Shinjuku line Hana Koganei and is closed Mondays (except national holidays). Please see their website for more details.
Finally a thank you to various volunteers that I talked to in the open-air museum, they were very friendly and able to answer all my questions about the buildings.
Unfinished businessTOKYO NOTICE BOARD 12 DECEMBER 2014
HACKETTSTOWN by David Gregory
Boxing Day, raining hard on the two-lane highway winding between dark cliffs, our headlights poking snow piled heavy on fir trees, Yoshi driving, Naomi and Tomoe talking in back, following red tail lights streaming ahead, toward home, all tired after a long Whistler skiing day. "Dave, what is your best Christmas memory?" Tomoe asks me, switching to English.
Ah, Christmas...probably, with Aunt Roberta, about 1993, I think. Hackettstown, New Jersey. The best gifts show people you know something about them that they do not know themselves. That was one of those times.
Hackettstown snuggles up to the Appalachian foothills in the wilderness corner of New Jersey. Aunt Roberta is alone. She has lived most of her life in that big, old house that needs something done to that peeling gray outside. If she had the extra cash. She lost her husband when he was 35; her only son, Richard, in a construction accident a year after he returned from Vietnam; and her later longtime special friend, Joe, to cancer, just before the Christmas I went back.
She has not traveled in nearly 10 years due to her health. But, she holds her head high. Those strong blue eyes that have cried so many times still look straight at you, with love. Her soft voice calms you. Her fine silver hair is casually brushed back; she only takes care of things that really matter.
How does she keep going? She has a way of becoming attached to other families. Allison, next door, loves Aunt Roberta as she had loved her own mother. Allison's little boy, Kaleb, calls Aunt Roberta, "Grandma"; he never met his own real grandmother. Eric and I always thought of Aunt Roberta as one of our grandmothers, too. She always told us to open her small packages before Christmas day. She knew little boys.
That Christmas in '93 I came in from Japan to meet Mom and Dad at Aunt Roberta's. "Too far away," she sometimes complained. But, she had always said, "Go." Find out. Tell her about it. She would be waiting, back in New Jersey. "Write about it."
The New York bus dropped me into Hackettstown's snow and cold in front of the boarded up movie theater on Main Street. Mom and Dad came in from Chicago the next day, and we sat around the old table in the warm yellow brown kitchen. It looked like the usual Christmas Plan: early dinner out, gifts, visit Grandma the next day... lots of slow sitting... a routine more than a celebration. Yes, good to be with family, but... then the telephone rang.
Aunt Roberta called from the living room, "David, it's your friend... he's in the City... ."
Steve! With Heidrun! They made it... at Kennedy, just in from Germany. Can make a quick stop on their way to Buffalo tonight. "Finally, we'll meet!" Mom said. After almost ten years, she would have a face to match the name of my good buddy from our early career trainee days at GE. Then, Mom and I sensed a chance. Why not invite a few others, too? Aunt Roberta would love it. I picked up the phone. Of course, Allison said. And with Jay, her husband, and Kaleb, and the new baby, Yeshua.
Allison and crew were already with us when Steve and Heidrun's headlights finally swung into the driveway. We welcomed them in from the frosty night with hugs. Then, I popped outside and crossed the snowy yard to pull Angie out of her kitchen. "OK, but just for a few minutes," she promised. "Angie Our Angel," we called her. She often looked in on Aunt Roberta. Her eyes twinkled.
Coats and scarves piled in the kitchen, we packed into the living room. The party sparked to life all by itself. "So, you are...?", "How do you know...?" Glasses of juice were poured, plates of baked sweet breads were passed around, fingers poked into bowls of spiced nuts. "Oh, yes, I've heard about... ", "Where do you...?" No music, no special lights, no decorations. Not needed. Only the stuffy sofa and armchairs encircling us.
And the old gray house had never seen such a potpourri of people! Look at tall, German-blooded Steve, with his German girlfriend Heidrun, educated in France and the USA. Allison, from Trinidad, descendant of Native Americans, sitting on the sofa. Jay, son of Indian parents, standing taller than us all, a little shy in the big group. Angie, on the other hand, daughter of Italian immigrants, squeezing her happiness into other arms or hands. And Mom, Dad, Roberta, and myself, the instigators, maybe looking like old timers in the New Country, but with roots that also went back to others brave enough to leave their homelands, in our cases Germany, England, Scotland, and maybe Wales. Who knows? It didn't matter anymore where anyone was from.
"Ah, I've always wanted to....", "How do they celebrate...?" Yeshua just smiled, cradled in Allison's arms. Kaleb bounced around, greeting and investigating everyone his bright-eyed way, and finally, exhausted, flopped down into Grandma Roberta's lap.
Swirling, glowing, an hour passed, filled with chatter, munching, and laughter. The old living room had never been so alive. And, in the middle, Aunt Roberta sat, quiet, soaking it in. Just smiling. But, if you looked behind her glasses, you would see teary eyes. "All these people, from so many places... came here... just for this," she said to me in her soft voice. "You don't know how happy I am. Oh, it's just... ." She squeezed her eyes shut and turned her head.
You see, Christmas is not always a happy time for Aunt Roberta. Richard was born on Christmas Eve.
Then, almost as fast as everyone had come together, it was over. Angie had food in the oven. Steve and Heidrun were still long hours from Buffalo. Yeshua was already asleep. Kaleb slumped like a rag doll over his father's shoulder as they walked out. We waved good-byes from the back porch door and slowly returned to the suddenly empty living room.
Over, so soon. But, we made it happen, one magical hour, that year. For Aunt Roberta. She still asks me to write about it.
"My best Christmas memory? That would probably be from Hackettstown, in 1993... ." The four of us watch the wipers swish away the dark rain, the snow piled heavy on the fir trees. Hackettstown had lots of snow that Christmas. I'm wondering, now... how maybe I, too, received a best gift... one time... many times... in Hackettstown... .
The earliest version of this story I printed in my 1998 end-of-year holiday letter; a revision I read at the "Tribute to Roberta Lyon" memorial service in Hackettstown on 6 January 2001. Special thanks to Eric Gregory for editorial assistance.
Copyright (C) 2014 David Gregory. All rights reserved. Chiba, Japan
Tokyo FabTOKYO NOTICE BOARD 27 FEBRUARY 2015
50 Shades of Yikes by Joshua Lepage
So, 50 Shades of Grey's finally hit the theaters. It's been making headlines constantly, too, with housewives arrested for masturbating in movie theaters and other shenanigans. I'm about as far as one gets from the intended audience for this thing, but after hearing so much about it, I decided to crack open the book and see what the fuss is about.
As 50 Shades was originally a piece of Twilight fanfiction, it came as no surprise to me that the titular character, billionaire Christian Grey, goes about seducing shy, virginal Ana by stalking her, watching her sleep, sending her lavish gifts roughly twelve minutes after meeting her, and generally acting like a creep.
After reading so many scathing reviews, too, I wasn't surprised by the frankly insulting portrayal of the BDSM scene. Grey bullies a girl he's just met into signing away all control over her own life, ignores their previously agreed-upon safe word, and, most egregiously, has a dark, traumatic past that made him into a sadist, as if all BDSM enthusiasts are broken people.
No, what really got to me was the quality of the writing. 50 Shades reads a lot like some form of alien life spent about two days observing human sexual behavior and wrote a really bad entry about it for its travel blog. The straw that broke the camel's back, for me, was a beautiful moment when Ana, after waking up for the first time in Christian Grey's house, surreptitiously brushes her teeth with his toothbrush because "it would be like having him in my mouth." We readers are supposed to see this as an erotic, thrilling little moment. Forget the badly-written spankings and floggings; this, right here, is the stuff of nightmares.
I hear the 50 Shades movie is just as laughable as the books are, but it's the books I want to heartily recommend. For a good giggle and, if you're an aspiring writer or editor, some great examples of what NOT to do, skip the movie and pick up the novels instead. Just make sure to get them from a used bookstore so E.L. James isn't encouraged to produce a fourth volume of offensive pseudo-BDSM dreck.
What's App With You?TOKYO NOTICE BOARD 27 FEBRUARY 2015
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Tokyo Voice ColumnTOKYO NOTICE BOARD 27 FEBRUARY 2015
Thirteen Good Turns by David L. Gregory
My mother had just called and told me about the passing of a special person. Bicycle to the beach, I decided. Take and leave the sadness there.
On my way, a changing traffic light diverted me onto a street where I passed an elderly Japanese woman struggling alone with the back wheel of her bicycle. A hooked cord had slipped off the rear basket, caught on a spoke, and wrapped tight around the hub. The wheel would not budge. The woman's fine, frail fingers were no match for the spokes. She was on the verge of crying.
The beach could wait a few minutes.
My trying to untangle the cord and pull it off was not working when a young Japanese mother and her daughter passing by on bicycles stopped and asked if we needed help.
"Tools," I said. The mother promised to return in five minutes with her husband's box.
The beach became less urgent.
The woman and I chatted while we waited. She was 83 years old, lived alone nearby, and was going shopping. "Honto-ni, domo arigato gozaimasu! Really, thank you so very much!" she said over and over.
The young mother returned, and with a few twists of her husband's screwdriver and pliers I pried loose the hook and freed the cord. The woman thanked the young mother, and then me, again.
After the wheel was rotating again, I bent the hook back into shape, against the women's protests, and re-attached the cord to the rear basket. She pulled out her wallet as I gave the wheel a final checking spin and offered me \2,000.
"No, no. You keep that."
She insisted; I resisted.
"No, you helped me. That's enough. Thank you!"
The sadness from my mother's news never made it to the beach.
Strange but TrueTOKYO NOTICE BOARD 27 FEBRUARY 2015 Stoned wallabies make crop circles
It's long been proven that crop circles, intricate geometrical patterns found in fields and supposedly made by aliens, are the work of creative pranksters with too much time on their hands. This time, though, crop circles found in a Tasmanian poppy fields were shown to have a much more entertaining origin.
Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the state of Tasmania, recently reported that wallabies had been finding their way into poppy fields grown for medical uses. The kangaroo-like marsupials would eat the crops until they got high, then walk around in circles.
It seems that walking around in circles is common in animals who've ingested poppies, as sheep have also been spotted making these drug-induced crop circles.
Elsa from the popular movie Frozen may be impervious to cold, but the winter has been harsh enough in Kentucky to move a local police department to issue a warrant for the arrest of the Disney queen.
After more than a foot of snow fell over parts of Kentucky, police in the town of Harlan posted the following Facebook message: "Suspect is a blonde female last seen wearing a long blue dress and is known to burst into song 'Let it Go!' As you can see by the weather she is very dangerous."
The police department then used the attention they got from this message to remind all residents to take the weather seriously and be careful. Elsa, meanwhile, remains on the run.
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I want to thank the TV and Ad execs for allowing some space between commercials for Olympic events coverage. I also want to congratulate them for adding the split screen to allow even more time for selling their products. However, don't you think devoting the larger of the screens to product sales is a little excessive, that maybe, just maybe, some of us out in TV land might accuse you of being greedy. Say it isn't so.
Hurrah for Steve Kerr, coach of the Golden State Warriors for stating the truth about our non-existent gun laws. Congress, listen up, drop Trump's Great Wall of Foolishness, that will keep nobody out and mire us even further in irreversible national debt. Do what's right, and pass laws that outlaw automatic weapons of any kind. Stand up to the NRA for once in your cowardly lives.
Now to sports, unless defeating Republican senators and congressmen in November can be called a sport. I kinda like that idea.
Now back to sports, really: Got to give a lot of love to the aerial skiers. Unbelievable athletic moves and courage. Just a reminder, remember when we thought such antics on skis and on skate boards were just hippie passing fads? Men and women boarders and skiers in baggy trousers, making weird signs with their hands, hip hop invading the sanctity of winter sports. Well they invaded, evolved, and proved they're not a passing fad. Good on them!
NBA Saturday Night: Lot's of fine messages about brother and sisterhood, inclusiveness, free speech, fairness. NBA is no doubt the most progressive of our professional sports leagues. Commissioners Stern and Silver had it right from the start. Bravo to you two men. And bravo to the players who stand tall in the face of White House fascism.
Booker and Thompson in finals of 3 point shooting contest seemed inevitable. Congrats to Booker.
I thought that Larry Nance Jr honoring his All Star dad by imitating the dunks he used to win the dunk contest back in his day was, well, honorable.I also thought Donavan Mitchell, going retro with uniforms and 360 degree Vince Carter dunk was also an honorable way of honoring past players.
Congrats to Nance for winning, but, it my mind, it was a photo-finish.
Wish I had space or inclination to comment on more of the Olympic sports, but I have other things to do and miles and miles to go before I sleep. However, before I nod off, I suggest people should watch Merit Bjoergan in the Biathlon. She has a chance of surpassing the 13 medal record of fellow Norwegian, Ole Elnar Bjoerndalen and become the King of Biathlon, or should I say, the Queen? If you don't know what Biatholon is, look it up, it's a grueling test of physical stamina and mental control.
Oh, and lest I forget, the ski jumpers were magnificent. If they spread out any lower, they'll be below their skis.
Oh, and lest I forget, lots of luck to Erin Jackson, the first African-American woman to compete in speed skating. Take that Fox News!
Oh, and lest I forget, is there any doubt that Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham is a racist?
In honor of speed skating, I offer this poem I wrote that is in my collection: Sweat: New and Selected Poems About Sports
Short Track Speed Skating
Like second hands,
the skaters spin around the ice
in a crouch, arms swinging
back and forth, like pendulums
until two break away:
One silver, one gold
So close to each other.
No truer alchemy exists than this:
with one frozen circle left,
metal to metal, they kiss,
setting off sparks, and fall,
as all lovers must who dare
to be so intimate, so fast.
What my musings are all about...
Blogging might well be the 21st century's form of journaling. As a writing teacher, I have always advised my students to keep a daily journal as a way of organizing their thoughts for future writing projects, a discipline I have unfortunately never consistently practiced myself. By blogging, I might finally be able to follow my own good advice.
The difference between journaling and blogging is that the blogger opens his or her writing to the public, something journal- writers are usually reluctant to do. I am not so reticent.
The trick for me will be to avoid cluttering the internet with more blather, something none of us need more of. If I stick to subjects I know: sports and literature, I believe I can avoid that pitfall. I can't promise that I'll not stray from time to time to comment on ancillary subjects, but I will make every attempt to be interesting and perhaps even insightful.
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Reading over the patch notes for WoW today, I think I know why I just quit play testing the beta: The changes are so big, they are overwhelming. I won't know ANYTHING about my favorate characters anymore - not how to play them, not how to gear them, not how to talent them.
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He discusses his intentions only with his First Adviser, Incomo, and his cousin Tasaio. The First Adviser is, of course, not given to gossip or drink, and Tasaio confides in no one, even the warrior who was his childhood mentor. Given the circumstances, we do well to know that the agents we have are reporting accurately.
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[Spoiler Alert] This essay competence spoil some of a surprises from a latest partial of "Mr. Robot." If we haven't watched eps2.2_init1.asec, check it out on USA Network or iTunes before entrance behind to this essay to learn a secrets.
LATEST IN A SERIES: Corey Nachreiner, CTO during Seattle-based WatchGuard Technologies, is reviewing episodes of Mr. Robot on GeekWire. The uncover front on USA Network on Wednesdays during 10 p.m. Join a review on on Twitter regulating #MrRobotRewind, and follow Corey @SecAdept.
Welcome behind to a "Mr. Robot" Rewind series, where we rush like a teenage fanboy over a l33t h4x0r essay skills of a "Mr. Robot" team. Jokes aside, if you're extraordinary how many tech and hacking USA's "Mr. Robot" gets right and wrong, you've come to a right place.
That said, when your hacker protagonist has banned himself from touching a computer, and his organisation is on a run, there's tiny hacking to be had. Luckily, even hack-free "Mr. Robot" episodes tend to embody copiousness of confidence and tech references. Let's see how hackurate this partial was.
Darlene recovers from a pile-up with init 1
Our initial geeky tech anxiety arrived about a notation into this episode, when Darlene interrupted Elliot by observant "init one." In a scene, this seemed to be a kin formula word used to promulgate a critical need for help. Later in a episode, we schooled that init-1 was indeed a initial authority Elliot ever taught her, when her mechanism was crashing.
On Linux and Unix formed systems, init is a initialization process. It's a initial routine that runs when a mechanism boots, obliged for each routine thereafter. Init loads with several runlevels, that radically conclude what state a appurtenance boots into. For instance, runlevels endorse possibly or not to foot into multiuser mode, possibly or not to bucket network services and possibly or not to bucket a GUI or usually a CLI.
Init-1 is single-user mode. Single user mode boots loyal into a CLI as a superuser (root or executive account) though any network services. You essentially use this runlevel to repair problems. If you're some-more informed with Windows, it's kind of like booting into a authority line Safe Mode though networking. In any case, typing a authority "sudo init 1" will immediately dump a Linux mechanism into a mode where it's cut off from all other machines, though means to repair inner problems.
While a uncover never unequivocally explained any of this, Darlene's use of "init one" immediately rings loyal as a formula word for help. By observant it, she immediately conveyed to Elliot that she wanted to cut off outward distractions and get to a critical business of regulating a large problem.
You got your APN in my associate link
Not a few mins later, we got to a second important tech reference, and a closest thing to a dig this episode. As Darlene systematic smoothness from Postmate — an IRL use that offers on-demand smoothness for normal takeout — she bragged about how she's removing her boyfriend's Postmate coupons by some elaborate hack:
"I hacked Postmate's substitute that supports a APN for my boyfriend's dungeon carrier. Now it does a URL rewrite and sends each Postmate.com's ask to my associate link."
Let's decode these formidable technical references starting with affiliate links.
A lot of e-commerce sites have associate programs where users, customers, or advertisers get some arrange of advantage by referring to or regulating a e-commerce service. The e-commerce site marks associate references by special links or URLs that enclose associate ID information that a normal user competence never notice. For example, maybe your favorite tech or gaming blog does a unchanging post on daily bargains. They conveniently place a "buy now" couple in their post, that leads we loyal to Amazon's sequence page. You competence not comprehend this couple includes an associate ID, and your favorite blog earns a elect on anything we buy by that link.
Since associate clicks are value money, rapist hackers are really meddlesome in hijacking them, and have finished so for years using mixed techniques. In any case, hackers can and do steal associate programs for fun and profit, so this aspect of a anxiety is accurate.
Next, let's speak proxies and URL rewriting. A proxy server is a mechanism that sits between we and a Internet. It acts as a compare for all your connectors to a outward world. You competence legitimately use a substitute server to supplement some arrange of confidence filtering or usually to anonymize your connection. However, bad guys also use proxies to lift out man-in-the-middle attacks. Since a substitute server "sees" all your web requests, it can rewrite them in transit. When Darlene mentions URL rewriting, she means that if she controls a substitute server, she can rewrite associate IDs in all URLs, so secretly gaining credit for her boyfriend's referrals. This anxiety checks out.
That final square of this nonplus is a discuss of a dungeon conduit Access Point Name (APN). An APN is a name of a gateway your mobile device uses to get a information tie to a Internet. It's a settings your mobile uses to brand itself on your carrier's network, so that your conduit can track your information trade properly. Among other things, APN settings can embody a substitute server configuration. However, currently a lot of carriers close users out of a APN settings. While some folks have messed with these settings before to try to get giveaway Internet, or bypass conduit restrictions, it's many harder to do currently though jail broken, secure or unbarred mobile devices. In other words, we don't consider injecting a substitute server into her boyfriends APN settings is as easy as Darlene suggests.
In a end, however, there are many ways to setup substitute servers on mobile inclination (such as Global substitute settings). In essence, a simple building blocks of Darlene's associate dig are utterly plausible.
Elliot finally reunites with a computer
In this episode, we finally saw Elliot reunite with a computer. After entrance to a stand-off with his change ego, Elliot motionless to assistance Ray with his mechanism problem (mostly to benefit entrance to a mechanism so that he could hit his sister online). Ray gave Elliot some "migration" instructions and left him to work. Instead, Elliot connects to an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel to discuss secretly with his sister. Here's how:
- First, Elliot used Putty, a obvious depot emulator, to emanate a secure SSH tie to a Kali server (either his possess during home, or maybe one he's formerly hacked, like during Evil Corp's colo information center). The IP he connected to hides a warn for anyone peaceful to check in out.
- Then he ran a authority Bitchx, that Linux users will commend as a renouned Linux IRC client.
- Finally, he connected with his sister.
None of this was hacking, nor is it quite sparkling or worldly to many Linux users. However, each fact was presented with impassioned accuracy. Frankly, it's singular for Hollywood to uncover picturesque mechanism usage, rather than usually "sexing it up" with glitzy graphics.
Many other teenager technical nuances
This partial also contains many other fun and hackurate tech elements:
- When describing how tough it was for his sister to ask for help, Elliot mentioned that we have to display a disadvantage in sequence to patch it. However, he also forked out that such bearing also opens we adult to exploits. This analogy doesn't usually work well, though is a anxiety any hacker or information confidence veteran will describe to, nonetheless again education Elliot as a loyal "hacker."
- If we postponement on a Tor server emigration instructions, you're treated to sincerely technical step-by-step instructions to implement an Nginx web server, implement Tor, and quit keys and data. These were accurate, though we have one complaint. Ray indispensable assistance since his other network IT man claimed he couldn't do this migration. The instructions referred to things any Linux network man should be means to do. That said, a tough partial would be environment adult secure Bitcoin wallets, that a instructions didn't cover during all.
- During a phone review between Whiterose and Price, they mentioned an "Ecoin strategy." This was expected a anxiety to these dual regulating a mercantile fall to benefit some advantage in a cryptocurreny, that could reinstate income due to a 5/9 disaster. Bitcoin and cryptocurreny are really fascinating in genuine life too, and could potentially have careful ramifications in a future. By a way, if we demeanour closely during prior episodes, you'll find subtle references to "Ecoin," that seems to be Evil Corp's take on cryptocurrency.
- We also schooled that Whiterose has entrance to inner FBI communications. If we follow a news, you've substantially seen a U.S. credit China, and other republic states, of hacking several supervision agencies and hidden data, so this tech anxiety is really current.
- In a final screen, we saw Elliot doing some FBI recon and training that a group switched from Blackberry mobiles (known to be comparatively secure) to Android inclination — something they seem to have finished in reality. Hopefully, subsequent partial we can demeanour brazen to Elliot hacking a FBI.
Easter in July
As always, this partial was packaged with fun technical and artistic Easter eggs for those peaceful to puncture deeper:
- If we postponement and demeanour during several papers and mechanism screens, you'll find many IP addresses and domains that work in genuine life (188.8.131.52, 126.96.36.199, irc.eversible.co, irc.colo-solutions.net). Some of these take we to a website that shows a Tor logo, while others give we an emulated IRC server. If we solve a tiny nonplus on a IRC server, you'll find another line from Elliot and Darlene's discuss review that we didn't see in a episode. Hint: It seems to endorse how Elliot will dig a FBI.
- Sam Esmail's use of strain in each partial is crafty. In one scene, we hear a lullaby cover of Green Day's "Basket Case." Besides being hauntingly beautiful, this song's lyrics hold on mental instability, that apparently fits with many of "Mr. Robot's" characters. But we consider a references go a tiny deeper. If we watch Green Day's strain video, you'll see other parallels. The video is shot in a mental institute, that correlates to a speculation about where Elliot competence be. And some patients are wearing an engaging mask. It doesn't ideally compare a Fsociety icon, though does bear some familiarities.
- This partial references "Operation Berenstain." Though maybe not intentional, this competence describe to a parallel star conspiracy.
- Elliot's mother's crossword nonplus expected hides some secrets. Visit Reddit if we wish to dive deeper on this.
- Elliot and Mr. Robot's stand-off chess game, symbolizing that conjunction can win this inner war, seems like a curtsy to a famous tic-tac-toe diversion in another popular hacker movie.
- The channel and nicknames used on a IRC server all have deeper meanings.
- You can also watch a Elliot and Darlene's favorite illusory 1980s fear film from this episode.
What lessons did we learn this week?
Without any genuine hacks, a pivotal confidence impulse in this partial was when Elliot explained a advantages and drawbacks that come with exposing vulnerabilities. The takeaway? Patch! While researchers exposing vulnerabilities competence uncover hackers what can be exploited, it also allows program developers to repair a flaws. As prolonged as we religiously request confidence updates as shortly as they're available, we shouldn't have to worry about hackers exploiting famous flaws.
With this partial finale on a line, "I'm hacking a FBI," a arriving chapters are certain to be hacktion packed. Join us subsequent time for another technical dive into "Mr. Robot," and as always, leave your questions, observations and theories in a comments territory below.


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Wittgenstein on Wednesdays 003
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2.012 In der Logic ist nichts zufällig: Wenn das Ding im Sachverhalt vorkommen kann, so muss die Möglichkeit des Sachverhaltes im Ding bereits präjudiziert sein.
2.013 Jedes Ding ist, gleichsam, in einem Raume möglicher Sachverhalte. Diesen Raum kann ich mir leer denken, nicht aber das Ding ohne den Raum.
2.014 Die Gegenstände enthalten die Möglichkeit aller Sachlagen.
2.0141 Die Möglichkeit seines Vorkommens in Sachverhalten ist die Form des Gegenstandes.
2.02 Der Gegenstand is einfach.
2.012 In Logic nothing is by chance: When the thing can occur in the state of affairs, the possibility of the state of affairs must already be predisposed in the thing.
2.013 Every thing is, in the same way, in a space of possible state of affairs. This space I myself can think of as empty, but not the thing without the space.
2.014 The objects contain the possibility of all situations.
2.0141 The possbility of its occurance in a state of affairs is the shape of the objects.
2.02 The object is simple.
- "vorkommen" -- Literally translates as "come forward." This can translate as "occur" or as "appear." I would ussualy go with "appear" -- I like the word and its limitations -- that would leave this looking like it was a matter of perception
- "präjudiziert" -- The usual translation of this word would, I think, be "prejudged," but that implies an agency that isn't quite right here. "Prejudiced" would be a bold translation, but would require read oddly in English unless the sentece were reformed kind of drastically.
- "enthalten" -- There are a lot of possible translations for this, and each English word has a slightly different and yet importantly different possible meaning in this sentence. This is one of those words where the Tractatus really does appear to be balanced on a knife's edge: even the breath of reading tips the meaning of this one way or another. Do we want to say, "contains"? "Consists"? "Is composed of"? "Embodies"? "Holds?" Each of those is dramatically different in connotation, and in the very spare prose of the Tractatus, how one reads leans the philosophy a different way.
Even just between two langauges, even between two European languages which have a lot in common and in which philosophy developed and is natural, the idea of trying to make one-to-one, representational, this=that moves is impossible.
You try, but it falls apart.
How much harder, then, to move back and forth like that between language and world.
With something as spare as the Tractatus, where there's not the discursive excess that explains and expounds, gives examples and works ideas out, we're left with words, sometimes single words, and the weight that they carry. The connotations they leave.
As I'm translating, I find I want to translate in a completely neutral way, for the translation itself to be opaque. I want reading to be a second step, the critical step that comes after the text has been rendered kind of quasi-mechanically into English. It's not working, though. I can't translate without reading, which means there's no part that comes before making judgements and interpretations.
Maybe if I were more fluent in German it wouldn't be a problem, but I don't think so. Even if it seems like translation is like that and can be like that with words like alles, buch, haben, und and wort, one must already be reading, already be doing philosophy with a word like Sachverhalten.
I wonder, though, if the trouble I'm having here isn't a smaller-scale version of the same problem Wittgenstein has with the whole project of writing out the world in the Tractatus.


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"Hey, why don't you guys just get together and form some sort of megablog?" – any number of people I know, over the last few years
Around New Year's Day, Rick of RJ's Fro sent us a message asking what we thought of this very idea. A great idea, I thought. One that'd been discussed, but nobody ever got off of their butt to get the ball rolling. Kind of a theme which brought all of us together, which we noted in the opening post on this site: a bunch of half-asses making one fabulous ass. The fabulosity of our ass is for you to decide…but you are here sneaking a peek.
According to the Vocal Minority rotation, this is my second-to-last post of the 2013 regular season (not that PP will go into hybernation in the offseason). Being that the next one will come in the final week, and I'm likely to write some sort of nonsense reviewing part of the season, I wanted to use this medium for something else. If you think this is a waste of space, know this: I was going to write about how much of a waste of roster space Mark Kotsay is. And when you think about it, that kind of piece is about as necessary as starting Mark Kotsay in September. Instead, I want to put some positivity out there.
In the past year, Padres Public has grown beyond my (and probably everybody else's) wildest expectations. Our initial thought process was that the lot of us went through stretches where we barely posted, so if we joined forces perhaps we could maintain a blog where content would be updated regularly and Padres fans wouldn't lose interest. It doesn't seem that you guys have lost interest, and we've only gained momentum.
Thank you to everyone who reads us, most of all. Whether you think I'm noise amongst a group of talented people, or you genuinely enjoy what I do…thank you for coming! Never had any idea Nate and I starting our silly blog would turn into this. It's been a fun season, and I hope we're doing it for many more to come. I'm tremendously grateful for the friends I've made with this group, as well as those of you I've gotten to know on Twitter. Even those who unfollow me when I tweet about soccer. #COYS
Seriously, lots of love to you all. Thank you.
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John's adventure in Australia
26 November 2016
Pic 1 is in Changi; we flew further south than we did on way out/ channel country
25 November 2016
The mangoes were NQ R2E2 @ $2.69 each; went to Gardens by Bay with Supertrees and Cloud Forest. We walked so much we'll probably give Beach Road Christmas lights a pass. This probably is the end unless there are some orchids at Changi.
24 November 2016
We went to orchid section of Botanic Gardens this morning; entry to restaurant; I had steak, delicious, from Oz; laser light show tonight with images projected by laser on to water droplets.
Singapore- arrived 0630; met by shuttle; at hotel by 0730; what a contrast? Two pics of orchid displays at Changi.
23 November 2016
7 late leavers went to Botanic Gardens; 21 Mother Teresa's nuns having day out; world's biggest Banyan tree; cow pats drying on wall- note hand prints .
22 November 2016
Not much to show today. Went to mosque in Bandal; former Portuguese colony; pretty decrepit and later to Chandenagor, once a French settlement; Christian influence and lots of schools; dock in Kolkata after midnight
21 November 2016
Maya put, the home of Hari Krishna. The building is a planetarium to be bigger than any other religious building in the world. The area was the cleanest public area we've seen- American influence
20 November 2016
Murshidabad- the farthest we go up river; went into town on horse drawn carts and then on walk through mosque and museum to British India. We now start heading back down river. I still have chest infection which isn't helpful.
18 November 2016
Jalna: went to some Indian temples through slums then a market. Rest of day on boat. People have a 'bug'
17 November 2016
We are, this afternoon cruising up river; pic 1 was this morning with people washing themselves, their clothes and their teeth on mother Ganges; our chef making omelettes for us; Mother Teresa's orphanage for disabled (terrible); our boat and the tender we use to get on and off if the boat can't find a wharf.
16 November 2016
We flew from Jaipur this morning and are aboard; pic 1 is our bedroom; pic 2 is the top back deck- there are 3 decks and we are on 2; pic 3 is of the river bank here. We stay here tomorrow and do a shore trip including to Mother Teresa's place.
15 November 2016
Jaipur: pic1 is the native dress here for men- pyjamas; this is the room we are in 221- this is the sort of structure they entertained the visiting nobs in; at first dinner when we arrived they gave and tied every man with a turban/ l don't think I did it justice; we went to the observatory here today built by the Maharajah in 1734 and this one, the fifth he guilt in India, was the biggest; shadow tells the time. Jaipur is on 27 deg N, same as Brisbane is S; ramp is angled at 27deg; supposedly accurate to 2 seconds but I don't believe that
14 November 2016
And this is the inside of our bedroom- note ceiling. This is a beautiful place. We leave around 5AM tomorrow
Have just arrived in Jaipur. Drove down streets where people are living under shelters made of what they can find and then we are in hotel covering 35 acres; our room is a tent. But arrived in dark. Pics are of Taj Mahal at sun up with a couple of arches glistening; pic 3 is of one of the hotel staff in Agra who talked to kids in Melbourne (Asda). The men in hotel where uniforms called pyjamas and is where the English term came from.
13 November 2016
Travelled from Delhi to Agra for late lunch; but went to the red fort first(pics 1 & 2) pic 3 is view from our balcony; pic 4 is the Taj Mahal built by Shah Jahan in memory of wife. This was at sundown; we go back tomorrow at 5:30AM. 5 nationalities on trip with 49 people. Being Sunday the roads can be chaotic and lots of people at the Taj
12 November 2016
I don't have any images of the hotel on this phone. Pic 1 is of India Gate celebrating Indian independence. Then to Ghandi's memorial with Rhesus monkeys in trees and spot where he was assassinated. Then 4 is Mughal tomb made by one of the early Mughals. 5 is of a queue outside a bank; this is happening everywhere. Overnight they cancelled 500 and 1000 rupee notes and brought in 2000INR; this was war against black economy; people can convert limited notes to new currency till end December; converters must show ID when doing it; guide says someone was going state to state cashing notes and police found that his car was packed with equivalent of $10Million; not sure I can believe that. Last pic is of a minaret built by a Mughal which has no mortar and is very tall; there was also steel column from 6th Century here. It's dusty. Shops selling masks were going gangbusters as were banks
Three images associated with hotel; nice place; the green are hanging gardens; the water is decorative and not for swimming;bad smog
11 November 2016
In transit on Lavina's phone. Have updated her stuff. Looks like a big plane but not that many psssengers yet


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I'm gathering products I can use for character creator and thought I'd share some recent purchases with you guys. Although this isn't a full review, the swatches should still provide a decent idea in regards to colour pay off, texture, and finish.
Firstly, we have these two kajal eyeliners from Face of Australia. Think I bought the two of them for 11 or 12 dollars. The light does make the green swatch look more blue than it is in real life. So the shape of the product is quite gimmicky and I can't tell how it will possibly maintain a useful shape as you use more and more of the product so it will probably move on to being an eyeshadow stick after a while. I have to say that they're both really opaque and the colours look really good on my arm. I'll probably end up using these for a fair amount of looks and if they're good on my actual face, they might make it into my regular makeup one instead of my 'crazy shit I almost never wear' bag.
Next we have three products from two quite different companies. Firstly, a lipgloss from Revlon called Electrio Shock. Secondly, two shadows from a company called Paint. They make the best low budget nail polishes in the business (often sell 5 for 10 dollars), so I thought it was worth giving their eyeshadows a shot.
I'm slightly disappointed by the lipgloss since it's only a very mild blue sheen that can probably be used over red polishes to make them stand out a bit more. A common trick is to use a red lipstick with blue undertones to make ones teeth look whiter. I imagine that's the intention of this gloss. I just don't like glosses, so I'll probably only use this one to enhance looks for character creator. Or for #30DaysofLipstick.
The eyeshadows are MB5 (green) and MI7 (black). As you can tell they're buildable but quite powdery. I'd probably wear these with a primer to try to limit fallout. I'll probably need to use these properly to be able to say more about them.
Next up are two sets of eyeshadows from more common drugstore brands. One from Loreal called Blackened Smokes with four shadows and one from Maybeline called Hyper Diamonds GN-1.
Honestly, these seem pretty useless. Even when I tried building them up, they refused to reach an acceptable level of opacity. I could barely see some of them on my skin. This photo is taken after I really tried building them up and it's still nothing spectacular. I'd say the Maybeline palette has a bit more potential than the Loreal quad, but I'm not really certain I'll end up using these. They might just go straight in the bin after I've used them for the 1-2 looks i have in mind.


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Hello what's up, haven't released anything for a while now. But i'm back, and now i'm going to release a chat spammer made for Garry's Mod. If you wan't to try it out on a public server, I would recommend you to bypass sv_allowcslua and probably sv_cheats to 1.
Using Cheat Engine won't work anymore, just telling you. I don't take any responsibility for any VAC bans (if you're using the wrong type of bypass and getting detected by VAC). I am using something called cvar3, which force sv_allowcslua and sv_cheats to 1 on all servers.
Anyway, after bypassing with cvar3 (use google), download the file below and put it in: Steam\SteamApps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\lua
Click here to download spam.lua
Note: This script was made for TTT and sandbox. Won't work on any other gamemodes.
But if you really want me to fix that so send an email about it. (email@example.com)
:: Retard Notice ::
For those who can't read the code:
Set spam_enabled to 1 to start, and 0 to disable.
Set spam_message to the message you want to spam.
If any links stop working, just comment it or send me a mail. Enjoy spamming!


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It's a known scientific fact that pregnant women tend to develop heightened senses of taste, smell and even sound. This is due to heightened levels of estrogen and other biochemical changes in the body. It may also be related to changes in diet and overall health habits. One thing that's certain about these "heightened senses" is that every individual is affected in different ways. Some women report drastic sensory changes while pregnant; others report very little difference.
But there's one change that is virtually universal amongst pregnant women: Increased vigilance in terms of health and wellness. Pregnant women are naturally very protective of their unborn child, and that means learning more about how to stay healthy. It means learning how to live in a way that contributes to the growth and development of the unborn child — and avoiding things that could be potentially harmful.
Chiropractic treatment comes up very often in these discussions, principally due to the back and joint pain caused by more advanced pregnancies. Pregnant women who are suffering back pain (or other aches and pains) want to know their options in terms of getting relief — but they certainly don't want to do anything that might put their unborn child's health or development at risk.
Here are a few things every expecting mother should know about chiropractic treatment.
1. No contraindications have been identified
According to americanpregnancy.org and many other reputable sources, there are no known contraindications to receiving chiropractic treatment while pregnant.
2. All chiropractors are trained to work with pregnant women
Chiropractic treatment is something that can only legally be administered by qualified practitioners who have earned the doctor of chiropractic qualification. People often don't realize how extensive this training is. Most chiropractors have a total of 7-8 years of post-secondary education. Many of them complete undergraduate work in biology and proceed to the doctor of chiropractic program, which takes an additional 3-4 years to complete, in addition to residency requirements.
3. There are specialists
If you're still apprehensive about exploring chiropractic care during pregnancy, there are chiropractors out there who focus on this area of practice. Look for a practitioner who has more experience treating pregnant women — and whatever your reason for visiting the chiropractor (back pain, in the case of many pregnant women), it's always important to have your questions answered.
Putting yourself in good hands
Chiropractic has been found to benefit many pregnant women who might be struggling with back or spine issues in the later phases of pregnancy. In some cases, it can also be useful during the earlier stages of pregnancy in order to correct existing spinal imbalances and "free up" the nervous system to function more naturally. The single most important factor here is trust — and that means finding a chiropractor who is highly reputable in the community, who understands your concerns as an expecting mother, who is able to provide meaningful assurances, and who ultimately provides quality treatments that make a tangible difference in the health of mother and baby.


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2007 HIV/AIDS Epidemic - UNAIDS
Note regarding behavioural data published in the 2007 AIDS Epidemic Update
Immediately after the 2007 AIDS Epidemic Update was released electronically on 20 November 2007 some problems were discovered with data processing in relation to the behavioural data among young people, reported in Table 3 on page 13.
Following verification, corrections were made to the data for several countries in this Table.
The data that appear in the electronic version as of 26 November 2007 and in the printed version of the 2007 AIDS Epidemic Update therefore contain the corrected data.
Erratum regarding estimates among children
In-depth review of HIV estimates among children published in the 2007 AIDS Epidemic Update report in November 2007 has revealed inaccuracies in processing some of the data.
The correct provisional global estimates for 2007 are:
Number of children living with HIV in 2007: 2.1 million [1.9-2.4 million];
Number of children who died of AIDS in 2007: 290,000 [270 000-320 000].
Note that adding these corrected estimates for children to the estimates for adults does not add up to the published estimated total number of people living with HIV of 33.2 million [30.6–36.1 million] and of people who died of AIDS of 2.1 million [1.9–2.4 million], although the estimated ranges are not affected.
Updating estimates is a continuous process and work is ongoing to produce estimates for adults and children for all individual countries. Final country, regional, and global estimates for 2007 will be published in the 2008 Report on the global AIDS epidemic, during July 2008
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With each passing year, 3D-printed designs get bolder and more innovative.
An event in London next month will celebrate the emerging craft/art form. From October 19-21, The Brewery in London hosts the 3D Print Show, the world's first consumer and trade show dedicated solely to the emerging 3D-printing phenomenon.
Most 3D printing relies on the basic process of using additive manufacturing to create an object by applying a hardening powder or liquid in many layers, usually based on computer aided design (CAD). Several advanced 3D-printing methods used to make the following models include rapid prototyping, stereo lithography, fused deposition modeling, and selective laser sintering.
Aside from the art gallery highlighted here (did we mention this is merely a small sampling?), the 3D Print Show offers more than 70 exhibitors and 50 seminars and workshops featuring some of the biggest players in the industry -- such as Legacy Effects' wiz Jason Lopes, the fellow who created the 3D-printed body armor used in the film "Iron Man 2" (among many other blockbuster projects). Other notable groups and companies in attendance will include MakerBot, Anarkick 3D, i.materialise, and Econolyst.
You might find yourself at a loss for words on looking at Eric van Straaten's "Groomer," which shows a group of nude swimmers lounging about on a very realistic-looking head. The artist says his work has "a weirdly eroticized corporeality." He continues: "Balancing on the edge of kitsch, the marzipanlike quality of the material resonates beautifully with the apparent innocence of the scenery."
Modeled after a real fetus, the "Foetal Medicine project" came to life through Jorge Lopes, who worked with Heron Warner, Stuart Campbell, and Ricardo Fontes at Tecnologias Humanas 3D on the project featured at 3D Print Show.
SaGa Design sells these Omniscient Siri iPhone cases in several shades for a steep $90. Users can place Siri's face on the back of the phone so as not to cover the screen. Bonus: the face emerging out of liquid doubles as a stand when placed at a certain orientation.
Sophie Kahn's "Dominick" sculpture, featured at the 3D Print Show, derived from using a cinema-quality laser scanner and 3D imaging software to create a unique characterization of a human face in motion.
"The precisely engineered scanning technology I use was never designed to represent the body, which is always in flux," Kahn notes on her Web site. "Confronted with motion, the software receives conflicting spatial coordinates, and generates a fragmented model. This model is then edited -- virtually 'sculpted' -- using 3D editing software." Read more about the methods and materials she uses for the 3D printing process.
The 3D Print Show will include many scheduled events, but fashion takes the front seat during a planned live catwalk show featuring 3D printed wearables. Designer Niccolo Casas created this spicy accessory, part of the "Alchemy" collection.
This combination of Italian leather and a 3D-printed structure gives this walker some real panache for the 3D Print Show. The "Invisible Shoe" by Andreia Chaves explores the concept of invisibility through a unique optical effect that occurs owing to the reflective finished surface flashing with every step taken. The heel measures about 5 inches tall.
The translucent blue "Beast," by designer and MIT professor Neri Oxman, represents an "organiclike entity created synthetically by the incorporation of physical parameters with digital form-generation protocols." Like many of the other designs featured in this gallery, the elaborate design was created using an Objet printer.


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For Souphin Inlakhana, early parole is the second chance she almost didn't get.
"It's a surprise to everybody," said Inlakhana, 35, who was released on parole from Grand Valley Institution in Kitchener in December, after being sentenced to more than six years in late 2011 for drug trafficking and related offences.
"It feels amazing," she said. "I've started my life again."
The London, Ont. resident is among a dozen prisoners who recently won their right to apply for early parole at Ontario's highest court in a series of decisions that could open a similar door to other inmates across Canada.
It is a prospect that seemed all but dead in March 2011, when Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government abolished Accelerated Parole Review (APR) for first-time, non-violent federal offenders.
However, in May the Court of Appeal for Ontario concluded in several cases that inmates who committed their crimes before the legislation was passed are entitled under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to be eligible early parole under the old regime.
Justice Russell Juriansz wrote the decision on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel in the case of 10 women, including Inlakhana, serving sentences at Grand Valley for a variety of offences, including importing drugs, trafficking and fraud.
"The (Abolition of Early Parole Act) infringes the (Charter) rights of non-violent offenders serving a first sentence of imprisonment in a federal penitentiary," Juriansz wrote. "The changes to the parole system have the effect of appreciably increasing the amount of time such offenders would be incarcerated in comparison to what they would have expected under the regime in place at the time they committed their offences."
The same panel of appeal judges also sided with inmates in two cases of men serving sentences at Beaver Creek Institution in Gravenhurst, Ont., for conspiracy to import cocaine, and other drug-related offences. (All three appeals were heard together; Inlakhana was released on parole after she and the other Grand Valley inmates won their case in Superior Court.)
The rulings follow a decision at the Supreme Court of Canada last year, which found that repealing accelerated parole retroactively was tantamount to punishing inmates twice. The old rules should apply to inmates who were sentenced before the Abolition of Early Parole Act came into effect, the court concluded.
Introduced in 1992, APR gave non-violent, first-time federal offenders an opportunity to be granted parole after serving one-sixth of their sentences. Unlike the normal rules for parole, an eligible inmate was considered automatically for APR, and the onus was on the parole board to find a reason not to grant it.
Under the new rules, these inmates are subject to normal parole provisions, which make them eligible to apply for parole after serving one-third of their sentences.
If the recent Court of Appeal decisions stand, "a fair number of people in the penitentiary system" will be eligible for accelerated parole, according to Kingston lawyer Brian Callender, who represented the female inmates at Grand Valley and one of the men at Beaver Creek.
"I can see other jurisdictions following (this) line of reasoning," Callender said. "It's generally accepted that Canadians repudiate the notion of retroactive laws and retroactive punishments. So the court's decision is consistent with that value."
A spokeswoman for the office of the federal public safety minister said in an email that the government "is carefully reviewing these judgments and considering next steps."
The Attorney General has until late July to seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court in any of the recent cases.
In appealing the decision of the Superior Court in the case of the women at Grand Valley, the Attorney General argued in submissions that the inmates did not have a "Charter-protected right to benefit from a statutory parole scheme that was repealed before they were convicted and sentenced."
The Attorney General also provided the government's rationale for scrapping APR.
"Mounting evidence suggested that APR had failed to achieve its sentence-management goals, and could actually jeopardize public safety, rehabilitation, reintegration and recidivism," the Attorney General wrote in its submissions to the court.
But some critics say getting rid of APR has caused prison populations to balloon at great cost to taxpayers.
Correctional Investigator Howard Sapers said the retroactive abolition of APR, which he sees as part of a "rush of criminal justice changes in Canada over the last half-dozen years," has created "a bit of a mess" in terms of sentence administration.
"You have different populations having their sentences administered subject to different rules," Sapers said.
Inlakhana was granted parole after she and the other Grand Valley inmates won their case at Superior Court.
She said she is now working in sales, seeking to acquire a real-estate licence and focusing on spending time with her son.
"I'm such a motivated person. Being in there was no good for me, because I felt like I wasn't accomplishing anything," she said. "My son keeps me staying positive. I just want to be a good role model for him."