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Here's to kudos for organizations I admire. This page contains info about the kinds of collaborators I work with, as well as some of my favorite resources regarding abortion, contraception, and other aspects of sexual health.
I'm amazingly fortunate to have collaborated with a wide variety of outstanding organizations and researchers. A few highlights:
From 2011-8, I served on the board of the Guttmacher Institute, an exceptional organization devoted to sexual and reproductive health through research, policy analysis, and public education.
I am so fortunate to collaborate with researchers at the University of Utah, particularly the illustrious Family Planning folks in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. I'm particularly excited to work with their team on HER Salt Lake, an initiative to provide free birth control services to thousands of people in Salt Lake County.
I've also been lucky enough to work with researchers and graduate students at two amazing Indiana University institutions: The Kinsey Institute and Center for Sexual Health Promotion.
The folks at at ANSIRH and UCSF's Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health conduct fabulous research on reproductive health care and policy. A few of them have been kind enough to work with me.
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You can sign up here for updates from the Guttmacher Institute. These digestible, evidence-based updates provide the latest news related to sexual and reproductive health research, trends, and policy.
For news, analysis, and commentary on reproductive and sexual health and justice, I often turn to Rewire News (formerly RH Reality Check). Rewire reporters also occasionally feature my research or input — for example, in stories on pregnancy ambivalence and contraceptive use, withdrawal practices and "the pull out generation", and some of the surprising benefits of condoms.
I love bedsider.org for fun, sexy, evidence-based information on contraceptives. The Bedsider folks also feature apps that provide daily "take your pill" reminders with sex facts and other tidbits. I have written some posts for their Provider Perspectives series.
The Pleasure Project, based in the UK, is another sex-affirmative, evidence-based organization working to eroticize safer sex and "use pleasure for prevention." They've got terrific resources for sex educators, advocates, and others who work on sexual health promotion.
Many of my students rave about Scarleteen, whose tagline is "inclusive, comprehensive, and smart sexuality information and help for teens and 20s."
I spent five years volunteering for the Women's Reproductive Rights Assistant Project, which is a member of The National Network of Abortion Funds, or NNAF. Abortion funds are local- and state-based groups that help socially disadvantaged women pay for basic reproductive health care.
If you or a loved one would like compassionate support after having an abortion, you can check out Exhale's After Abortion hotline.
Finally, I'm a big fan of organizations and campaigns that work to reduce the social and cultural stigma related to abortion. One in three women in the US will have abortions in their lifetime, yet folks are overwhelmingly disinclined from sharing these experiences either privately or publicly. You may wish to check out the 1 in 3 campaign or the new Sea Change program. An organization that works to reduce abortion stigma on a global level is The Inroads Campaign.


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Dr. Mesples obtained his medical degree in Argentina and made his fellow (AFSA) in Cardiovascular Pathology at Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, France (Civil Hospital) and Interventional Cardiology in University of Barcelona, Spain (Hospital of Bellvitge). He was Head of the Department of Interventional Cardiology at Public Hospitals in Argentina. San Isidro Hospital, Buenos Aires University. Principal Investigator of the Ministry of Health of Argentina (INCUCAI) in Diabetes Protocols. Scientific Advisor, Researcher and Director of Research Units with biological products in Stematix – Houston, Texas (USA), Shenzhen Beike (China), Biotech Corp and Senior Medical Director in FundaciónCencis (Central America and Caribe). Dr. Mesples has immersed himself in bioscience research since 2005. He is an international expert on the use of bone-marrow stem-cells in patients with type-1 diabetes, peripheral vasculopathy and diabetes complication. Dr. Mesples' is owner of patent WO2010062999 DIABETES CELL THERAPY and WO2011114218A3 – Endograft with cultured stem cells. Important works have been published in leading international medical journals and presented at numerous medical conferences. This experience is mentioned in three Metaanalisis about the stem cells treatment in Diabetes that involve more than 1500 patients around the world. Stem Cell Bahamas Diabetes treatment protocols are based on pioneering works of Dr. Alejandro Daniel Mesples. He is a gifted Interventional Cardiologist, with Medical License in The Commonwealth of The Bahamas, accredited by Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) from United States.
Dr. Pierre's professional career began as a pharmacist, followed by medical school, anesthesia residency and a fellowship in Cardiac & Thoracic Anesthesia at New York University.
He was a medical team member that performed the first adult open-heart surgery, first pediatric open-heart surgery and the first transplant surgery in The Bahamas. As an anesthesiologist, he saw first-hand the end results of chronic degenerative diseases and noted that modern medicine is more concerned with disease maintenance and treatment of symptoms, than maintenance of health and cure. This led Dr. Pierre on a journey to look for the root causes of the chronic degenerative diseases that have become epidemic in the modern world. It was surprising to learn that many diseases could be prevented and treated by changes in diet, judicious use of nutritional supplements, moderate exercise, detoxification and safe, non-toxic therapeutic modalities. For Dr. Pierre, the Blake Integrative Medical Clinic is the culmination of continued medical education in the areas of nutrition, orthomolecular, bio-energy, bio-oxidative and bio-molecular medicine. This clinic allows him the opportunity to share this knowledge with patients, and perhaps, not see them on the operating table in the future.
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American Association of Anti-Aging Medicine
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Queens, New York
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Nashville, Tennessee
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Chicago, Illinois
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Astute Friend of Unfair Park "Wylie H." drilled into the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' report on the Trinity River levees yesterday evening and found the real horror story that goes almost unmentioned in this morning's Dallas Morning News account of the report: the story of the day we almost lost the Margaret Hunt Hill Calatrava signature make-believe suspension bridge.
Do you know that most city council members haven't even read this thing? Hail to the bloggers!
I will reproduce the language from the report below. But first, let's focus on what this means.
The scenario I painted in a March 26 column -- "sand boils" erupting like little volcanoes and tearing out the levees -- may have been understated. Something happened out there with the drilling of piers for the Calatrava make-believe suspension bridge so dangerous that it forced the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to go back and re-examine the entire levee system.
The result of that reexamination is the report released yesterday -- a devastating indictment of everything the Corps itself and local officials have done on the Trinity in the last 30 years. Something really bad happened out there. The problem is, you and I still don't know exactly what it was or what it means. And the mayor has already made it clear: Instead of calling for public hearings on what went wrong, he is going to press ahead with plans for building a multi-lane toll road right on top of the area where this incident occurred.
What did occur? Here is the language the wiley Wylie H. excavated from deep within the Corps report:
"During the drilling of piers for Bent 6 (located 300' from the wet side toe of the west levee), the contractor reported that large quantities of sand in the formation liquefied even though slurry was being used to hold the excavation open. The liquefaction was so extensive that it destabilized the area within a 20' radius of the 7-foot diameter pier. This area had to be backfilled in order to be able to support the drill. When drilling resumed, a casing was used to support the excavation. However, the bottom of the pier heaved and blew out. The pier excavation was finally completed using both casing and slurry. During concrete placement, the contractor was unable to remove the casing with a 200-ton crane, so it remains a permanent fixture within the Floodway."
In plainer English? They're trying to drill a 7-foot diameter hole out in the floodway approximately 90 feet down to bedrock. They're injecting a watery slush into the hole to blow the dirt out. The slush hits sand somewhere, and when it does the slush turns the sand into a liquid.
This is exactly the condition I was talking about in my March 26 column. Water under pressure "boils" the sand. The effect is to turn an area around the drilling rig with a 20-foot radius -- that would be a 40-foot diameter -- into something like quicksand. It's enough to threaten the drilling rig.
They take the rig out, I assume. They pile in dirt to try to stabilize it. Then as they begin drilling again, they sink a "casing" -- sounds like what I would think of as a caisson -- into the drill hole. I assume it's a big round pipe shoved in there to keep the liquid sand from continually caving in and filling the drill hole.
Once they drill the hole that way, they are supposed to have a tubular void to fill, and they are supposed to know the exact volume of that hole, so they know exactly how much concrete to put in. Computer tells them. But they keep pouring and pouring. Pouring and pouring. The hole eventually slurps up twice the volume of concrete it's supposed to hold. That means they don't know where the concrete is going.
When it's time to pull the casing out, the biggest equipment they can get down there to do the pulling can't budge the pipe. It's supposed to be removable like a concrete form. But the casing won't come out. They have to leave it there. That means the concrete they poured into the hole squished out around the casing somehow, hardened and locked the casing into the ground.
So, all this jumble of crap is still down there.
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They know that when the river floods, water under tremendous force will push down along that casing and find that same sand again. Try not to drive on the make-believe suspension bridge that day!
Look, this "expert" analysis was prepared and written for you by James W. Schutze, B.A. English and Political Science, University of Michigan, 1971, also a former member of the Michigan State Employees Credit Union. If you feel fairly reassured by this analysis, I think you may need to go see a doctor, because you could be nuts.
All I know for sure from the Corps report is what Wylie knows: Something really really bad happened. Something chaotic. And you know what really scares me? Leppert's eyes. The mayor of Dallas has still got that absolutely crazed and glazed look on his face, telling us that, by George, we're gonna just forge ahead and, by golly, we are gonna just build a lot of stuff out there no matter what.
You know what we need? We need city council member and toll road foe Angela Hunt to convene her own citizen inquiry. Those other zombies on the city council won't do it. And somehow we need her to jaw-bone the Corps and the contractor and objective experts to come sit down in front of cameras and microphones and answer the real question that I see bubbling up out of the sand on Unfair Park from our astute commenters: WTF?


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12 Reasons the World Should Thank Austin
Austin gets it's share of hatred from the rest of the country, mostly because it excels at so many things. But sometimes people don't stop and consider the many gifts Austin's given the world at large. BBQ and breakfast tacos aside, this planet wouldn't be quite the same without these 12 gifts Austin bestowed.
1. Whole Foods Market
Whole Foods has ensured grocery shoppers all over have access to organic meats and produce, combining drinking with shopping, and, well, a bunch of stuff they probably don't actually need. Still, can you imagine the world without it at this point?
2. The Fleshlight
"Wait, what's a Fleshlight?" you pretend to ask. You know damn well what it is. Thanks to Austin-based Interactive Life Forms, the world is a safer place for mens' socks. This adult pleasure toy for men has different orifices to choose from, with molds from stars such as Stoya and Jenna Haze. You're welcome!
3. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
The Alamo Drafthouse started in 1997, with its first location in Downtown Austin. It wisely upgraded the traditional dinner-and-a-movie night with the added bonus of alcohol (not to mention, food that far surpasses your typical theater fare). Now you can find an Alamo Drafthouse in a growing list of 10 states, and while others have tried their hand at the boozed-up movie game, only one place has perfected it.
4. Tito's Handmade Vodka
While Bert Butler "Tito" Beveridge II was born in San Antonio, he got to Austin as quick as he could. The University of Texas graduate left behind the oilfield life to peruse his passion of distilling vodka and started the first legal distillery in Texas. Sales were slow when the company started in 1997, but after they unanimously won the Double Gold Medal for vodka at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition in 2001, beating out 71 high-priced vodkas, Tito's Vodka took off. Over the years, Tito's Vodka has won numerous awards, and it is still being distilled at the Mockingbird Distillery in Southeast Austin.
5. Dell Computers
Remember those old commericals of that stoner telling teens, "Dude you're getting a Dell!"? Well, Dell Computers got its start in Austin and they are still going. When Dell first launched, many Austinites took a chance on the company and invested in them. When the tech-boom exploded it tuned a bunch of lucky people into "Dellionaires." Maybe they are to blame for everything being so expensive here?
6. Golfsmith
If you are a golfer then there is a good chance you have stopped into one of Golfsmith's 150+ stores in over 20 states. This chain got its start in Austin and is one of the most popular golf-retailers in the country. If you don't golf, you should still be happy the world's golfers have a reliable place for sweet plaid pants.
7. Schlotzsky's
Its old slogan was "funny name, serious sandwich" and it wasn't playing. The bread alone could bring wars to an end. It's somewhat like a muffuletta loaf, but has a certain special something that makes the sandwiches really pop, which is why it has more than 350 franchises across the country, and continues to open in new locations.
8. Tom Ford
The fashion icon was born in Austin in 1961. After breaking the mold for Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, he went on to start his own clothing line and even became a director with his 2009 debut, A Single Man with Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. No reason Austin shouldn't take the credit!
9. Drew Brees
Before anyone was yelling "Geaux, Drew, Geaux," Drew Brees was just an average kid in Austin. He graduated from Westlake High School with hopes of playing college football at the University of Texas or Texas A&M, but ended up heading north to Purdue University. So, in a roundabout way you can also thank UT for not taking him, undoubtedly further fueling his drive to become a champion. Whoops.
10. Yeti Coolers
Thanks to Yeti Coolers, the world's beers can stay ice cold even in the most unbearable heat (so it's no surprise they come from Austin). They might be a touch expensive, but can you really put a price on something that keeps beer cold for weeks?!
11. Carino's Italian
Originally named Johnny Carino's, this Italian chain has been dishing out orders of pasta since 1968. Today there are over 140 locations around the country including some locations in the Middle East. Who knew that pasta could bring the world together? When you need all the carbs, Carino's is there.
12. Ethan Hawke
Austin native. Oscar nominee. Weirdly incapable of aging. You know life would be a little darker without Before Sunrise.
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It's a school unlike any other.
Located in Bradenton, Fla., IMG Academy is one of about 400 high school boarding schools across the country.
It's the only true sports academy that boards high school athletes.
On Saturday, the IMG Academy football team — ranked No. 1 in the nation on the MaxPreps Freeman Rankings, No. 2 by USA Today and No. 3 on the MaxPreps Excellent 25 — plays Corona Centennial in the finale of an Honor Bowl tripleheader, an event that is presented by the San Francisco 49ers.
That game kicks off at 7:30 p.m. at Cathedral Catholic High following Helix-Lancaster Paraclete at noon and Hawaii Punahou-Gardena Serra at 4 p.m.
IMG, which traveled to Arizona last week and beat then-No. 7 nationally ranked Chandler in the desert heat, has players from 27 states and 12 countries.
Beyond that, IMG has 18 seniors and four juniors who have committed to colleges. There are 12 IMG players on the ESPN Top 300.
"Obviously, this is a very unique place," said IMG coach Kevin Wright, who led Carmel (
"We have a lot of good players. So we want to measure ourselves against top teams."
IMG and Corona Centennial met last season when the Honor Bowl was played at Mission Viejo High. IMG squeaked out a 50-49 win.
"That was an epic game, and I hope this one is too," said Centennial coach Matt Logan. "Man-for-man, IMG is the best team in the country. Their defensive front four is amazing, but we'll try to run and throw on them, mix it up."
"Absolutely, this is an opportunity to play one of the best teams in the country."
Centennial, which beat Pittsburg 63-21 last week, has a five-star player of its own in quarterback Tanner McKee. Receiver Manuel Allen is a four-star recruit, who has committed to Louisville.
The 6-foot-6, 220-pound McKee has narrowed his college choices to Alabama, BYU, Stanford, Texas and UCLA. He completed 203 of 280 passes for 2,522 yards and 36 TDs last season and was 26 of 44 for 374 yards and three TDs against IMG. But two of his eight interceptions came against the Ascenders.
Last week against Pittsburg, McKee had 315 passing yards and three TDS.
"He has every skill a quarterback needs," Logan said.
Centennial is ranked as high as No. 6 in the nation. The Huskies play with mostly local players.
IMG, a coed school/sports academy which has about 1,100 students, runs an international program.
"The kids want to be here," Wright said.
"We're very honest with families when they inquire about our school ... you have to be motivated to come to IMG. We're very regimented. There is a daily process.
"There is a high academic standard. Each student takes five core classes a semester.
"Most all our football players take summer classes, so 25 of our 30 seniors will graduate in December so they can get to their college teams.
"We set up our school like a college program to help kids with their transition to college life."
IMG's daily football schedule is completely opposite from nearly every high school in the nation.
Players are up at 6 a.m. and hustle to breakfast, tape and treatment.
There is weightlifting at 7:45, meetings at 8:30, film review at 8:55 and practice from 9:40-11:10.
Lunch is at noon. Classes go from 1-5:30 p.m.
Dinner is at 6:30, followed by study hall or tutoring at 7:30.
At 9:45 p.m., it's back to the dorms. Lights out is 10:45.
The interest is so high that IMG fields two teams — white and blue. Blue is the No. 1 team that travels to Arizona, California, Utah, Alabama and all over Florida.
The white team, which plays a local schedule, is coached by former El Camino High, Wisconsin and NFL standout Ken Stills.
"We've studied the data and it shows kids do better academically if they're up early, followed by physical activity, then school," Wright said.
"Honestly, this is our first year doing this, so we'll see if the kids adapt."
IMG isn't cheap. Tuition varies by sport, but football tuition can run $68,500 with as much as $4,200 in sports fees.
Other top-flight boarding high schools average about $55,000 tuition.
IMG was founded in 1978 as a tennis boarding academy by Nick Bollettieri. IMG purchased the academy from Bollettieri in 1987 and launched golf in 1993, soccer in 1994, basketball in 2001 and football and lacrosse in 2010 as well as cross country and track in 2013.
Since football was started, the Ascenders are 38-3 and have 61 players on Division I rosters.
"We want our guys to experience different things, play great programs, play in great events," Wright said.
"The Honor Bowl was an incredible experience last year, and I understand Cathedral is a great venue and is rolling out the red carpet for all the teams.
"We're honored to be invited back."
Where: Bradenton, Florida.
Campus: 500-plus acres
Type of school: Boarding
Students: 1,100
Grades: Pre-K through 12 and post-graduate
Tuition: As much as $68,000
Top football players: 18 seniors — Ayodele Adeoye (Texas), Verdis Brown (
Notable alumni or professional trainees:
What: High school football games to raise aid and awareness for military veterans transitioning to civilian life
Where: Cathedral Catholic High
Tickets: $15
TV: All games streamed live on FoxSportsGo.com
Online: thehonorgroup.org
Boron vs. El Cajon Christian, 4 p.m.
Orange Lutheran vs. Cathedral Catholic, 7:30 p.m.
Lancaster Paraclete vs. Helix, noon
Serra Gardena vs. Honolulu Punahou, 4 p.m.
Corona Centennial vs. Bradenton (Fla.) IMG Academy, 7:30 p.m.
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The first episode of Death In Paradise without Kris Marshall in the lead role has received a mixed response from viewers.Kris Marshall has left Death In Paradise – and fans are 'done' with the show
Die-hard fans of the show have grown too attached to the bumbling Humphrey over his four years solving unexplained deaths on the Caribbean island, which means newcomer DI Jack Mooney, played by Ardal O'Hanlon, has his work cut out.
Jack's first case on Saint Marie came in the form of a closed case of a newspaper editor Julie Matlock, whose murder suddenly became unsolved when the woman imprisoned for her death eight years previously suddenly had an alibi.
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The Big Bang Theory's Barry Kripke popped up as the alibi giver – who confessed he'd been enjoying a one night stand with the supposed killer at the time she was meant to have been committing the crime.
Jack, in his own style not too dissimilar to that of Humphrey, managed to crack the case, deducing that Julie's husband was in fact to blame, not the woman who'd originally been sent to prison.
But despite his success in getting his guy on a case that had fooled the original investigators, fans were not 100% impressed.
He had big shoes to fill.
Nobody likes change, eh?
Luckily for Ardal, some people were prepared to give him a chance.
Well with one more episode to go of the current series, there's not long for fans to get used to him. Hopefully the fans who said they were 'done' with the show will give Jack Mooney a fair go!
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Orlando Shaw, the Nashville father of 22 children by 14 different women may now get a reality show due to a NewsChannel5 video that went viral on the internet. He hopes the money will help him pay his child support.
Talk about an extended family. Shaw considers himself a Romeo and boasts of fathering 22 children by 14 women.
"Do the ladies like you?" he's asked.
"The ladies love me. They don't like me. They love me," said Shaw when his story was first told last year.
Nashville's NewsChannel5 was first to report about Shaw's appearance in juvenile court for a hearing on back child support. He owed thousands of dollars to the mothers of his children and the state of Tennessee.
Each month, more than $7,500 in social services has been spent on Shaw's 22 children.
How does he explain so many kids?
"I was just young and ambitious and I love women. Hey, you can't knock no man for loving a woman," said Shaw.
NewsChannel5 posted part of the raw interview online and the story went viral. The video was picked up by network news programs around the world.
Juvenile court Magistrate Scott Rosenberg handled the Shaw case and said the interest in Shaw's case was not surprising.
"Some of these things were so shocking that people had never heard before and didn't realize these situations exist," said Rosenberg.
Many people have wondered why Rosenberg couldn't just order Shaw to have a vasectomy.
"People have the right to have children and there's no constitutional limit on the right to procreate," said Rosenberg.
Shaw could do it himself, but he said that was something he would resist.
"Have you seen the movie War Horse? I'm a war horse and I don't want to be cut down there and it won't work the right way no more," said Shaw.
His own mother told him he's had enough children, but said her son makes his own choices.
"He is just messing with the girls and it happened," said Yolanda Gayle Shaw.
Since his story first aired several things have changed for Shaw.
First, he wanted people to know that despite the shocking number of children he's had and the amount of child support he owes, he was not a negligent father.
"I'm not a deadbeat. I've never been a deadbeat," said Shaw, though he admitted he can't possibly pay the child support he owes.
Shaw said he knew all his children, and showed us photos he had of each to prove it.
"I'm a devoted father to all of my children," Shaw said.
He said there were too many fathers who were not involved in their children's lives.
"Out of all of my children, all of their mothers can find me – or if they can't find me, I'll find them. I don't play about with those children," he said.
Shaw hoped to earn some money now with the opportunities presented by the viral video.
"I've had a lot of people from Hollywood calling me," said Shaw.
In fact, he recently signed a production deal with a prominent Los Angeles agency for a reality show. Any money he does make on the show will be garnished to pay for his children.
Shaw may have more mouths to help feed.
"I'm about to become a grandfather," he said.
Shaw had his first child at 14, and now his 16-year-old daughter is pregnant. He said he wishes she wasn't.
"I have babies for her. If she wanted a baby, daddy has plenty for us," said Shaw.
Shaw said he has vowed not to have any more children.
Check him out above as he answers questions for a news reporter. You can't deny he's articulate and even likeable. However, he admits, he is incapable of supporting his children financially. When asked if he knows all of their names, he swears that he does; however, it he may be a little off on the number of kids he has.


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Between Street Art And Pixel Art, The Amazing Creations Of Pappas Pärlor
A selection of street art creations by Johan Karlgren, aka Pappas Pärlor, an artist who imagines pixilated artworks with his kids, inspired by the world of video games and pop culture. Unlike the famous street artist Space Invader, who uses ceramics, Pappas Pärlor uses Qixels, some colorful pixels that stick to each other with water. From Hulk to Pokemon via The Simpsons, Robocop, Mario or Star Wars, Pappas Pärlor then stages his colorful creations in funny and offbeat photographs. You can also follow his creations on Instagram.


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This month is a stretch for me because I don't consider still life one of my specialties (although I have always found the French "nature morte"—literally, "dead nature"—morbidly amusing). But lack of expertise notwithstanding, I thought that with Thanksgiving coming up, "a few of my favorite things" might be an appropriate theme for exploring a time-honored tradition.
A cursory search of "still life" in an art index brought up results like:
- apples in a dish
- apples and grapes in a basket
- breakfast still life with glass and metalwork
- cabin door still life
- still life with dead hare
- still life with pheasants and plovers
In photography, we may be more accustomed to seeing products and food (rarely a dead hare) in magazines and catalogs. And although I admire those beautiful images of food and inanimate objects, I would like to challenge you to create a personalized composition.
The Challenge
A still life, by definition, should be a representation of inanimate objects. That means no people (however boring) or pets (unless you happen to own a pet dead hare). I would like to push things beyond apples and flowers and encourage you to photograph an arrangement of some of your favorite things.
Here is my annotated attempt (you can click to enlarge):
I arranged a selection of my favorite things on an old suitcase (representing travel—very high on the list). The objects include (beginning at left—I won't be offended if you skip this part):
- my ipod touch (it's always with me)
- some robotic bugs from the Printemps Design store in the Pompidou Centre which I like because 1. I like bugs and technology, and 2. I used them in my "Nostalgia and Technology" exhibit.
- a little framed picture of a bug, because I have spent way too much time studying eighteenth-century entomology
- Some eighteenth-century books by Voltaire (I have also written a lot about 18th-century French literature)
- Insect Poetics, because my chapter in that book combines my interest in microscopes and insects
- The Creative Mind—a French philosophy book that Michelle altered to contain a year's worth of dates.
- A Panasonic panapet radio like the one my sister used to have in the 70s. I had it and many other spherical electronic objects suspended from the ceiling like orbiting planets in the space age room of my exhibit.
- The catalog from last year's Sundance Film Festival. I saw 33 movies in one week—sick, I know, but just my kind of thing. (In my defense, I do teach a European cinema course, so it's "research.")
- The catalog to my Nostalgia & Technology exhibition
- My favorite Criterion boxed DVD set (I'm a sucker for boxed sets): The Adventures of Antoine Doinel (It's a suitcase, and each dvd is an article of clothing).
- Some Brownie cameras, not only because I love photography, but because I spent untold hours pouring through the archives of the George Eastman House for an article on the Brownie camera.
- My pass to last year's Sundance Film Festival (I already have my pass for this year).
- Finally, a clock (I just like clocks, no reason in particular) and an Eiffel Tower (Paris is my favorite city) sit on an old Rousseau book.
A few technical tips:
- Try using natural light. Arrange your objects on something near a window for good side lighting, and then use something reflective (like a white piece of foamcore) to bounce light back as "fill" for the dark areas.
- Whatever you do, don't mix light sources (tungsten+flash+daylight+fluourescent=ugly).
- Use a plain backdrop such as fabric or a wall to avoid distracting backgrounds.
- Get creative with the base on which you arrange objects. Cutting boards, fabric, anything with texture or character could add interest.


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Climate-change–driven accelerated sea-level rise detected in the altimeter era." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2018). Abstract"
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Education And Career Management: Whose Responsibility Is It?
Jeremy Bradley's post on being over-educated and underpaid is very much bringing to the surface a tremendously important challenge: Â What is the relationship between education and career management? Â This relationship has been tightened by two factors. Â First the higher cost of education pushes students and parents to identify the degree's return on investment based on the first post-graduation job the graduate secures. Â The student debt burden is very much present in career decision making for both current students and graduates. Â As mentioned in my post earlier this week, even graduate degrees that were traditionally thought of as a highway to high paying jobs and long term job security no longer hold such promises.
The second factor that raises questions regarding the relationship between education and career management is of course the dismal global job market that everyone has been facing in the last couple of years. Â Multiple indicators suggest that the current job market might not rebound as well as in previous recessions, and even worse that the current job market crisis is deeper than many want to acknowledge. Â As indicated by the New York Times on July 1st in an article titled 'Factory Jobs Return, but Employers Find Skills Shortage', recruiters in manufacturing and a number of other industries have jobs, and cannot find US-based qualified candidates to fill them. Â Furthermore, accumulating evidence suggests that the advances of technology and the increasingly global distribution of workers across continents are creating an immense challenge for educational systems to educate a population that will be prepared to meet the demands of the 21st Century workforce.
Given the high cost of education and the demands of the 21st Century workforce, the question remains: Â Who is responsible to bridge the gap between educating the minds of the next generation and preparing them to access the knowledge and trends they need to make informed career decisions throughout their careers?
I strongly believe that higher education is worth it. Â It is the best possible training for one's brain to become able to dissociate opinions from anecdotes from data from evidence and to put a solid logical argument together to drive evidence-based decision making. The marketable skills a strong Liberal Arts education helps develop will pay dividends for the disciplined students who are willing and able to invest the necessary time and energy to engage in their university-level education. Â Going through university with a 'what can I get away with' attitude is possible, and might even lead to a decent Grade Point Average, but it is also a enormous waste of time and money. Â At the university level, a grade is secondary to the skills and challenge offered by pushing oneself to research how a specific issue or field came to be the way it is today, and in offering innovative evidence-based solutions or predictions on how the issue or field could be tomorrow. Â Â Some of the responsibility is on the students to take full advantage of the academic opportunities they are offered through fully engaging in their university-level coursework.
However, I also believe that both secondary education and higher education institutions also need to do a better job at creating avenues for students to have more opportunities to reflect upon how their coursework and extracurricular activities relate to specific careers. Â A recent study by the Public Agenda sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation surveyed 600 high school graduates from a variety of settings as well as gathered data from a variety of parameters based on their respective high schools. Â This survey's results were shocking: Â Guidance counselors in these US high schools had an average load of over 700 students (their professional association would recommend a case load of 250 students). Â In addition to these astronomical loads, guidance counselors are routinely asked to perform other administrative duties and be involved in disciplinary actions as well. Â This is hardly an ideal setting to sit one-on-one with students and help them reflect upon their college and career planning.
Similarly, the majority of career centers and academic advising offices at universities are dreadfully underfunded and understaffed.  However, there are a number of steps students can take to best partner with their career center (while students or as alumni). For more information, see my series on how to best partner with your career center here, here, and here.  Evidence of the lower priority of career centers in the mind of university executives can be found through salary data.  According to Salary.com, the salary range for a Director of Career Services was $53,457 - $83,647.  In comparison, a 2007 study by the Chronicle of Higher Education showed that salaries for Football coaches, Basketball coaches, and Athletics Directors at top universities average over $1Million.  Don't get me wrong, I understand the argument that college sports is big business that generates sizable revenue for their respective universities.  But don't you think that providing adequate resources to career centers to help students make informed career decisions during and beyond their college years might also lead to higher donations and revenue for universities?  Overall, the majority of universities are not offering conditions that are conducive to enable students and career counselors or students and academic advisors to have substantive conversations about each student's goals and aspirations, and to discuss which courses and careers might align with their interests, skills, and values.  Without these conversations taking place, why is everyone so surprised that students and graduates are lost and have no idea what they want to do once they graduate?
The good news is that we can change this situation. Â And some very dedicated university administrators are already doing so. Â Look for example at the work of Andy Chan, the newly appointed Vice President for Career Development at Wake Forest University. Â Through the new Office of Personal and Career Development, Chan is creating a range of programs that aim at integrating personal and career reflection and action into the curriculum throughout the university. Backed by funding and support from WFU's President, these initiatives show great promise, but are also currently the exception.
As the old saying goes, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste, and I hope that the current Great Global Recession will create opportunities for more conversations and integration between education and career management. Â As always, I look forward to your comments and questions as we continue this important conversation!


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Monkey keeps Kandivli society busy on Sunday
The animal, which entered a flat and later went on to the terrace, was rescued by an NGO six hours later; residents say forest officials weren't cooperative and showed up for the operation without necessary equipment
A residential society in the suburbs had a dramatic Sunday morning when an injured monkey entered their premises and made residents run helter-skelter. The animal entered NG Sun City Phase II, located at Thakur Village, in Kandivli (East).
The society is adjacent to the Sanjay Gandhi National Park. On Saturday night around 11 pm, the security supervisor of the building saw that there was a wild monkey perched on a branch of a tree outside the society premises.
"In the morning yesterday around 10 am, when I reached the building, I saw that the monkey was sitting outside the grill of the fourth floor flat of B wing," said the supervisor. The animal was bleeding from its lips and had injuries on its stomach. As a crowd gathered to watch the spectacle, the noise scared the monkey, who then climbed the gas pipe and entered the 14th floor apartment of the Ghataks.
Atanu Ghatak was in the kitchen and his wife was in the bathroom when their two-year-old daughter Vidushi came running to him. The monkey had entered her room through a small opening in the grill and Vidushi had been alone in her room. Frightened, she ran to her father.
The man immediately locked the bedroom door. "Thankfully, the monkey did not attack our daughter. If I wouldn't have been in the house, the situation could have turned ugly. As soon as it came in, I locked the bedroom door from outside. But the monkey escaped through the grill and climbed up to the terrace," said Ghatak.
Residents say they had begun calling the Thane Forest Department (TFD) control room since 11 am to get the animal rescued. A society committee member said, "We are well aware that no animal attacks humans unless provoked. But, we were more worried that it might enter another flat.
Since it was injured, there was a chance of a conflict." But, they alleged the response on the other side was: "It's a Sunday and there is no one to do the job." In fact, the person on the other line even suggested that members contact private rescuers and pay them to take the animal away.
Rescue mayhem
It is the official duty of the Bombay Territorial Range of the TFD to rescue an animal that goes outside the boundary of the SGNP. However, it is a known fact that as the TFD does not have its own rescue team, it never reaches sites on time. Instead, it depends on the SGNP rescue team to carry out such operations. "When I told them it was their duty to rescue a wild animal, the officer on the other end told me he would send someone at the earliest," Nitin Chakre, the property manager of the building told this newspaper.
After four hours of continuous calls, TFD Forest Guard Anil Bhosale reached the building around 3 pm, accompanied by another guard. However, both of them came empty-handed, without any equipments such as nets to rescue the animal. Worse, the guard went up to the terrace and started throwing stones at the monkey to 'rescue' it, saying it was the 'best away to move the monkey away from the building'. After committee members objected to this, the TFD guard informed his senior. At 4.45 pm, the guard returned with a three-member rescue team from Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Thane (SPCA), an NGO. The volunteers had also brought along an animal ambulance.
The three-member team, along with the TFD guard, reached the terrace and saw that the animal was sitting near a wall. As the men approached the monkey with the ropes and nets, it ran to the other side of the terrace. Ten minutes later, the SPCA volunteers managed to get hold of the creature. It was later treated in the ambulance. After conducting a proper medical examination, it will be released into the wild. Thane Regional Forest Officer Anil Todarmal said, "I had informed the concerned official to address the complaint in the morning itself. The monkey has been successfully rescued and after a medical examination, it will be released back into its natural habitat."
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Commentary on the Readings
Pentecost sunday - May 31, 2020
The spirit: hope for a new world
The natural phenomena that most impress the human imagination—fire, lightning, hurricane, earthquake, thunder (Ex 19:16-19)—are used in the Bible to describe the manifestations of God.
The sacred authors used images also to present the outpouring of the Spirit of the Lord. They said that the Spirit is a breath of life (Gen 2:7), the rain that irrigates the land and transforms the desert into a garden (Is 32:15; 44:3), a force that restores life (Ex 37:1-14), the rumble from the sky, wind that strongly blows, thunder, tongues of fire (Acts 2:1-3). All vigorous images that suggest the idea of an uncontrollable burst of strength.
Where the Spirit comes radical upheavals and transformation always happen; barriers fall, doors are opened wide; all the towers built by human hands and designed by "the wisdom of this world" shake; fear, passivity, and quietism disappear; initiatives are developed and courageous decisions are made.
Whoever is dissatisfied and aspires for the renewal of the world and of humanity can count on the Spirit: nothing can resist its power. One day the prophet Jeremiah asked himself discouragingly: "Can an Ethiopian change his skin or a leopard his spots? And can you do good, you who are accustomed to do evil?" (Jer 13:23). Yes—one can answer him—everyphenomenon is possible where the Spirit of God erupts.
To internalize the message, we repeat:
"The Spirit of the Lord fills the earth and renews the face of the earth."
First Reading: Acts 2:1-11
Jesus promised his disciples that he would not leave them alone and that he would send the Spirit (Jn 14:16.26). Today we celebrate the feast of this gift of the Risen One.
Reading the passage from the Acts we are amazed by the numerous "prodigies" phenomena that occurred on the day of Pentecost: thunder and strong wind, flames of fire coming down from heaven, the apostles speaking all languages.
We also wonder why God has waited fifty days before sending his Spirit upon the disciples.
To understand this page of theology (not news) we need to delve a little into the symbolic language used by the author.
Luke places the descent of the Spirit at Pentecost. Yet, in today's Gospel, John tells us that Jesus imparted the Spirit on the day of the Resurrection (Jn 20:22). How does one explain this lack of agreement on the date?
We must say clearly: The Paschal Mystery is unique. Death, Resurrection, Ascension and the gift of the Spirit took place at the same moment, at the moment of Jesus' death. Recounting what happened on Calvary on that Good Friday, John says "he bowed his head and Jesus gave up the Spirit" (Jn 19:30).
Why then was this unique, sublime, and ineffable mystery of Easter presented by Luke as if it had happened in three successive moments? He did it to help us understand many of its aspects.
John has placed the outpouring of the Spirit on the day of Easter to show that the Spirit is the gift of the Risen One. Now we see why Luke situates it in the context of the feast of Pentecost.
Pentecost was a very ancient Jewish holiday, celebrated fifty days after Easter. It commemorated the arrival of the people of Israel at Mount Sinai. We all remember what happened in that place: Moses climbed the mountain; he encountered God and received the Law to be transmitted to his people.
The Israelites were very proud of this gift. They said that before them, God had offered the Law to other peoples. They had refused it, preferring to continue with their vices and excesses. To thank God for this predilection, the Israelites had set up a feast: the Pentecost. Saying that the Spirit descended upon the disciples on the day of Pentecost, Luke wants to teach that the Spirit has replaced the old law and became the new law for the Christian.
To explain what he means we resort to a comparison. One day Jesus said: "Do you ever pick grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?" (Mt 7:16) It would be foolish to imagine that surrounding the bramble with attention, pruning it, creating around it a milder climate would make it produce grapes. However, if—with a marvel of genetic engineering—one could turn it into a vine, then any external intervention would not be necessary. The bramble would spontaneously produce grapes.
Before receiving the outpouring of the Spirit, the world was like a big bramble. God had given people great directions—a set of rules, precepts, many recommendations. He expected fruits, the work of justice and love (Mt 21:18-19), but these have not arrived because the tree was bad: "No poor tree bears good fruit … and the evil person draws evil things from the evil stored in his heart" (Lk 6:43.45).
What did God do then? He decided to change the hearts of people. With a new heart—he thought—they would no longer have need of any external law. They would have done well by following the impulses coming from within them.
Here's what the law of the Spirit is: it is the new heart; it is God's life. When it enters in a person, it transforms him and from a bramble, it becomes a fruitful tree, able to spontaneously produce the works of God.
When a person is filled with the Spirit, something unheard of happens within him. He loves with the love of God himself. From that moment "he does not need someone to teach him" (1 Jn 2:27); he won't require another law. John comes to say that the man animated by the Spirit becomes even incapable of sinning: "Those born of God do not sin, for the seed of God remains in them; they cannot sin because they are born of God" (1 Jn 3:9).
And the thunder, the wind, the fire? But it's clear: we are going to see in the book of Exodus phenomena which accompanied the gift of the old law: "On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud over the mountain. All the people in the camp trembled" (Ex 19:16). "All the people witnessed the thunder and lightning and heard the blast of the trumpet and saw the mountain smoking" (Ex 20:18).
The rabbis said that at Sinai, on the day of Pentecost, when God gave the Law, his words took the form of seventy tongues of fire, indicating that the Torah was destined to all peoples (thought to be exactly seventy at that time).
If the old law was given in the midst of thunder, lightning, flames of fire, how could Luke present in a different way the gift of the Spirit—the new law? If he wanted to be understood he had to use the same images.
And the many languages spoken by the apostles?
Probably Luke refers to a very common phenomenon in the early Church. After receiving the Spirit, the believers began to praise God in a state of exaltation. As if in ecstasy, they uttered strange words in other languages.
Luke has used this phenomenon in a symbolic sense to teach about the universality of the Church. The Spirit is a gift meant for all persons and all peoples. Faced with this gift of God, all barriers of language, race and tribe collapse. On the day of Pentecost, the opposite of what happened at Babel occurred (Gn 11:1-9).
People began to misunderstand and to distance from each other. Here the Spirit puts into action an opposite movement. He brings together those who are scattered.
Whoever lets himself be guided by the Word of the Gospel and by the Spirit speaks a language that everyone understands, and everyone joins in the language of love. It is the Spirit who transforms humankind into one family where all understand and love each other.
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7,12-13
What causes divisions within the community? Envy, reciprocal jealousy. Those who have good qualities (intelligence, strength, good health, and have studied ...) instead of humbly putting their talents at the service of their brothers and sisters, begin to expect honorary titles. They demand more respect and believe they are entitled to privileges. They want to occupy the first places. Thus, the ministries of the community, from opportunities to serve, become opportunities to establish, assert their power and prestige.
In the community of Corinth, Christians were no better than those of today. They were committing the same sins; they had the same defects. Specifically, they were divided because of the different charisms (that is, of the various gifts) that each had received from God.
Paul writes to these Christians to remind them that the many gifts, qualities that each of them has, are not given to create divisions, but to promote unity. Paul says: "the Spirit reveals his presence in each one with a gift that is also a service" (v. 7). And this is so because the source of all gifts is one. It is the Spirit. Paul says: "There is diversity of gifts, but the Spirit is the same" (v. 4).
To clarify this idea of unity and mutual service, Paul uses the comparison of the body.
Christians form one body, made up of many members. Each part must perform its function for the good of the whole organism. So it happens with different gifts of which every member of the community is enriched: they serve so that everyone can show to others his love through humble availability to serve.
Gospel: John 20:19-23
For the first Christians, the first day of the week is important because it is the day of the Lord (Rev 1:10). It is that day in which the community usually reunites to break the Eucharistic bread (Acts 20:7; 1 Cor 16:2).
It is evening. The temporal indication with which the evangelical passage starts is precious. Perhaps it indicates the late hour in which the early Christians were used to gather for their celebration.
The doors are locked for fear of the Jews (v. 19). Jesus certainly did not announce triumphs and easy life to his disciples. "You will have trouble in the world," he said (Jn 16:33). However, the main reason for insisting on closed doors (Jn 20:26) is theological. John wants to make it clear that the Risen One is the same Jesus that the apostles have seen, known, heard, touched, but is in a different condition. He is not back to his previous life (as Lazarus did). He enters into a completely new existence. The body is no longer made of material atoms. It is imperceptible to the verification of the senses.
The resurrection of the flesh is not equivalent to the resuscitation of a corpse. It is the mysterious blossoming of a new life from a finite being. Paul explains this fact through the image of the seed. He says that "the body is sown in decomposition; it will be raised never more to die. It is sown in humiliation, but it will be raised for glory. It is buried in weakness, but the resurrection shall be with power. When buried it is a natural body, but it will be raised as a spiritual body" (1 Cor 15:42-44).
When Jesus shows his hands and his side, the disciples rejoice. A surprising reaction: they should be sad seeing the signs of his Passion and Death. Instead, they rejoice, not because they find themselves in front of the Jesus whom they accompanied along the roads of Palestine, but because they see the Lord (v. 20). They realize that the Risen One, who is revealing himself to them, is the same Jesus who gave up his own life.
John places the manifestations of the Risen One in the context of the first day of the week. He wants to tell the Christians of his community that they too can meet the Lord. They will not encounter Jesus of Nazareth with the material body he had in this world, but the Risen One, every time they come together "in the Lord's day." After having twice addressed them the greeting: Peace be with you! (vv. 19:21) Jesus gives His Spirit to the disciples and confers them the power to forgive sins (vv. 21-23).
The disciples are sent to fulfill a mission: "As the Father has sent me, so I send you."
When he was in the world, Jesus made the face and the love of the Father present (Jn 12:45). Now, having left this world, he continues his work through the disciples on whom he confers his Spirit.
Welcoming him was welcoming the Father who sent him, now welcoming his envoys are welcoming him (Jn 13:20).
To understand the mission entrusted to the apostles, the forgiveness of sins through the outpouring of the Spirit, we must refer to the religious conceptions of the people of Israel and to the words of the prophets.
At the time of Jesus, it was widely thought that the people were acting badly. They defiled themselves with their idols. They were unclean because they were moved by an evil spirit. We wondered when God would intervene to rescue them and to instill in them a good spirit.
In the Letter to the Romans, Paul makes a dramatic description of the miserable condition of the person who is at the mercy of the evil spirit: "I cannot explain what is happening to me because I do not do what I want, but on the contrary, the very things I hate. I know that what is right does not abide in me, I mean in my flesh. I can want to do what is right, but I am unable to do it. In fact, I do not do the good I want, but the evil I hate" (Rom 7:15-19).
Through the mouth of the prophets God promised the gift of a new spirit, of His Spirit: "Then I shall pour pure water over you and you shall be made clean—cleansed from the defilement of all your idols. I shall give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. I shall remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I shall put my spirit within you and move you to follow my decrees and keep my laws" (Ezk 36:25-27).
This outpouring of the Lord's Spirit would renew the world. He will flood it—said the prophet Ezekiel—like a rushing torrent of water which, when it enters the desert, makes it fruitful and turns it into a garden. "Near the river on both banks there will be all kinds of fruit trees will foliage that will not wither and fruit that will never fail; each month they will bear a fresh crop because the water comes from the temple. The fruit will be good to eat and the leaves will be used for healing" (Ezk 47:12). They are delightful images that admirably describe the life-giving work of the Spirit.
On Easter day these prophecies are fulfilled. In a symbolic gesture—Jesus breathed on them—the Spirit is consigned. This breath recalls the moment of creation, when "the Lord God formed man, dust drawn from the clay, and breathed into his nostrils a breath of life" (Gen 2:7). The breath of Jesus creates the new person, one who is no longer a victim of the forces that lead to evil but is animated by a new energy that drives him to do good.
Where the Spirit goes, evil is overcome, sin is forgiven—cancelled, destroyed—and the new being, modelled on the person of Christ, is born.
The mission that the Risen One entrusts to his disciples is to forgive sins, thus continuing his work as the "Lamb of God, who came to take away the sins of the world" (Jn 1:29).
What does it mean to forgive sins? These words have been interpreted—in the right way but limited—as the conferment on the apostles the power to absolve from sins. It's not the only way to forgive, that is, to neutralize in order to overcome sin. The rights conferred by Jesus is much more extensive and involves all the disciples who are animated by his Spirit; it is that of cleansing the world of every form of evil. The powers are not two, but one—to forgive or to retain—at the discretion of the confessor that evaluates each case.
The power is only one, that of annihilating sin, in all ways. But this can also be not forgiven, if the disciple is not committed to creating the conditions that all may open their hearts to the action of the Spirit, the sin is not remitted.
Of this failure of the mission, the disciple is responsible.
READ: Jesus breathes the Holy Spirit onto the disciples. On the day of the Pentecost, the Spirit descends on them as tongues of fire. In baptism, we have all received the same Spirit who unites us into one body of Christ.
REFLECT: The Holy Spirit is the life of the Church and every Christian. He animates us and gifts us with the charisms for the good of the society. He helps us relate to one another as sisters and brothers of Christ, thus uniting us into one body of Christ. The Holy Spirit is the union and understanding among peoples.
PRAY: Pray for an increase in the power of your faith. Pray that the Spirit will rekindle the passion to live with God and for God. Pray for the gifts and the fruits of the Holy Spirit.
There is a video by Fr. Fernando Armellini with English subtitles commenting on today's Gospel reading.


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|Re: Service Account on Win32 [was part 1; Three problems with Apache 2.0.35 under Win32]
|Wed, 17 Apr 2002 20:18:32 GMT
[Sorry if this is a dup... forgot this mailer likes commas and not semicolons] Chris, let me lead off by thanking you for evaluating Apache 2.0.35, with an eye to security. We take Apache's reputation for security very seriously. However, I have to take issue with having 'exposed' these problems. Two issues are documented [but that documentation can always be improved], while all issues mirror the behavior in Apache 1.3, IIRC. I'll address only one issue per post so folks on the appropriate lists can tackle them separately. Let's start out with your first, and most difficult to address issue. I have copied the docs project, this isn't a undisclosed vulnerability, it is a documented behavior with obvious ramifications; At 08:10 AM 4/16/2002, Chris Paget wrote to email@example.com: >Having just spent some time exploring the possibilities of Apache 2.0.35 >running under Win32 (Windows 2000 Professional), I have exposed three >problems with the default configuration. It is my opinion that if Apache is >to truly succeed in overtaking IIS as the web server of choice on Win32, it >must be more secure out-of-the-box than IIS (Patches aside). As such, I >have 3 recommendations that you may wish to follow in order to enhance the >security level of a default Apache/Win32 installation. > >1) By default, the server is installed using LocalSystem account - High risk. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/platform/win_service.html under the section "User Account for Apache Service to Run As (NT/2000)". This is not an unknown issue, but a documented one. However, your comments are also helpful to some who aren't as familiar with the issues; >The Local System account posesses extremely high privileges on Win32. As >such, running a daemon within this user context is very hazardous. Three >specific problem with this configuration are: >A: File permissions become largely irrelevant when the software is running >as Localsystem. A single directory traversal attack against Apache on Win32 >when running as LocalSystem would result in a total compromise of the >machine. >B: If a buffer overflow attack is discovered against Apache, then the >privileges available to the exploit code are unlimited, and again a total >compromise of the machine would result. >C: If the configuration is changed such that a user may upload their own >CGI's to the server (eg. to "My Documents\My Website\cgi-bin\" == >www.server.com/~user/cgi-bin/ ), then a trivial privilege escalation attack >would result unless the server context is changed. A user merely uploads >their executable of choice into their cgi-bin folder and calls it through a >web browser, whereupon it is executed with LocalSystem privileges. I agree with your list of potential issues and encourage folks to modify the account to Run-As for security. However, on Windows or Unix, folks must take responsibility for configuring security and permissions. I agree we can call this out more prominently in the 'Getting Started' sections of the Windows platform docs [/docs-2.0/platform/windows.html]. But let me address your proposed 'solution' for a moment; >This issue is easy to fix, and (IMHO) should be changed in the default >installation. The installation routine should prompt the Administrator for >creation of a user- or even guest-level account (which will need to be >granted the "Log on as a service" privilege), and those credentials should >be passed to Win32 as the account to be used for the service. I have >configured this manually on my installation, and the only change I needed to >put in place was to ensure that the user chosen to run Apache has >write-access to the Logs folder. There are several-fold problems with this solution. First, we need to pass the password to the service control manager. One option is to accept an account name in the .msi setup, and pass the Apache -k install [or -k config] command a -u accountname flag {no such flag exists at present.} But we must prompt for the password to that account, in the setup. I refuse to pass passwords as command line arguments, since these are trivially snooped. But unlike Microsoft, the Apache HTTP Project has an anathema to dictating what the "Proper Account Configuration" is for every user and application. Rather than trusting Microsoft's poor security judgement, we choose to make no judgement in machine configuration. I would go so far as to have the installer not activate the service (leave it as startup type "Manual") until the user reviews the configuration. But is that practical for real world deployment? (It Doen't Work reports are not valuable to open source projects.) I don't think so. The biggest vulnerability, by far, is the addition of in-process or cgi-executed scripts which are themselves insecure. And here again, the administrator should make intelligent choices. I will work to introduce your desired changes to let the user select an account to run-as in the installer, and perhaps introduce a caution if they don't choose a -u accountname argument when installing or reconfiguring the service. But this is best handled first as a documentation issue. The correct solution would be to downgrade Apache's permissions after starting, using configuration much like the PerChild experimental MPM for Linux. That MPM for Apache 2.0.35/Linux (it has many issues at this moment) is designed to allow each vhost to run in its own user context. This can be accomplished in Windows, although it is a very different coding design. The only aspect that has me hesitating for some time now, is that Win32 doesn't have a parallel to the Unix setuid() construct. You can't simply impersonate any account. The password to the account must be stored somewhere, and I'm terribly uncomfortable, no matter what permissions are applied to the file, to ever storing that information in the httpd.conf file. If that issue is resolved, we will be much closer to implementing a safe mechanism for CGI execution. So feel free, on this first issue you raised, to address it to the world community. We do. We suggest the user choose a better account. While we have a much smaller incidence of exploitable vulnerabilities than the 'other' Win32 HTTP server solution, we aren't discounting the fact that new vulnerabilities are discovered every day, and sometime in the future an Apache/Win32 vulnerability could be discovered. Prudence makes sense, and we will work on our docs to improve the user's understanding of the default behavior and recommended security practices. As an open source documentation project, your comments to that end are welcome at the email@example.com mailing list. Your continued identification of new potential vulnerabilities are welcomed at email@example.com. Thank you again for your comments, more posts (to the appropriate lists) to follow. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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- Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson and SK Telecom successfully demonstrate optimized end-user experiences with 5G roaming
- Federated network slicing for 5G roaming extends customers' desired functionalities and service parameters into visited networks
- Best of both networks for global customers when abroad
Deutsche Telekom (DT), Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and SK Telecom have jointly built and demonstrated the world's first intercontinental 5G trial network. DT and SK Telecom network slices are now available in the other operator's footprint - and Germany and Korea are connected. A proof-of-concept has been implemented and successfully evaluated, featuring the creation and roaming extension of network slices optimized for Augmented Reality (AR) and maintenance services.
The successful demonstration was hosted at DT's corporate R&D center in Bonn, Germany and SK Telecom's 5G Testbed at Yeoungjong-do (BMW driving center), South Korea. It follows the joint announcement at MWC Shanghai 2016 by DT, Ericsson and SK Telecom of their global partnership to develop the groundbreaking 5G technology for such a network.
"Our customers are demanding global connectivity with a unified service experience," says Bruno Jacobfeuerborn, CTO Deutsche Telekom. "Network slicing is envisaged as a key enabler to support multiple services in the 5G era. Today's breakthrough shows we can extend that concept to ensure optimized service experiences with global reach for our customers."
Ulf Ewaldsson, Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy and Technology Officer at Ericsson says "5G is the network for all industries. Network slices in the context of 5G will be like "virtual networks on-demand". With this world's first intercontinental 5G trial network, we truly demonstrate the provisioning of network slices to global customers when abroad."
"5G is not just a faster network. 5G will provide extreme user experience anywhere and anytime, even when the user roams across different operators globally", says Alex Jinsung Choi, CTO SK Telecom. "Federated network slicing will enable seamless platform sharing amongst operators at a global scale for continuous and guaranteed user experience."
In 5G, network slicing will allow the operator to configure an end-to-end network that provides the desired overall functionality and service parameters. Federated network slicing for 5G roaming extends this concept to a visited network. This technology will make it possible for an operator to provide a network service globally, making sure that the customer does not need individual agreements with different operators for a global service experience.
New cooperation models
A pre-requisite for federated network slicing for 5G is an enhanced cooperation model where operators open up their network to host partner services. The home and visited operators must have agreements in place that enable the recreation of a given network slice in the visited network.
These agreements should cover aspects such as: network slice availability at the access layer (cellular, fixed), availability in the core network and the connection to customer application servers. The hosting of edge cloud resources by the visited network enables the execution of special business functions that demand high throughput and low latency, close to the customer in the visited network.
The proof-of-concept uses federated network slicing functionality to run components of the 5G core of the home network in the visited network. The demo featured an industrial maintenance use case involving a repair worker communicating via AR with support colleagues in a visited network. The scenario uses local breakout and edge cloud to enable the best service experience in terms of latency and throughput for the AR repairman.
Join Deutsche Telekom in Hall 3 during MWC to experience our 5G hub. Do not miss the 5G-enabled robotics, the AR enriched slot car track or the robot telepresence application on Federated network slicing. From extreme mobile broadband to guaranteed low latency – we make the 5G differentiators visible.
Join Ericsson in Hall 2 or online during MWC 2017 and visit our joint demonstration with Deutsche Telecom and SK Telecom on Federated Network slicing. Engage in conversations and demonstrations about our favorite things: 5G; platforms and services for IT and Cloud, Networks and TV & Media; connected solutions for industries; the Internet of Things; and partnering for success.
At SK Telecom in Hall 3 during MWC 2017, visitors can witness how federated network slices can be created, managed, and terminated in the form of NS-as-a-Service (Network Slice as a Service). The created slices then can be used in various applications, including V2X and connected cars.
About Ericsson: www.ericsson.com
About SK Telecom: www.sktelecom.com/en
About Deutsche Telekom: Deutsche Telekom: At a glance


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While my name may be appearing alone on the ballot Clatsop County voters received in the mail, I have long understood that no one in public office should take elected position for granted. I therefore have run a modest campaign for re-election as your district attorney, buying a few newspaper advertisements in our local papers and a page in the voters' pamphlet.
I neither asked for nor accepted offers of financial contributions for the ads from inside Clatsop County. I hold a strong belief in the principle that everyone should receive equal treatment under the law, and wouldn't want anyone to think the district attorney might go easy because of a donation.
The Clatsop County District Attorney's Office has an outstanding staff of lawyers, legal assistants and victim advocates, and one of the lowest turnover rates of any district attorney's office in the state. I am extremely proud of their commitment to making firm, but fair justice on behalf of our citizens.
If you want to be popular or run for higher office, being district attorney is not the job for you. I stand up to what I consider unfair treatment of others by all alike, whether it's your basic criminal or another government official.
So far, the voters have agreed with me. Many thanks to the hundreds of citizens who have stopped to tell me so, in the post office or a store or a restaurant. I am your district attorney, and I'm always available by phone or email (email@example.com), although the answer to your question may not be the one you were wanting.
I promise this: My office will continue to be prudent with your tax dollars (having stayed within budget for all 20 years I have been in office). We will make sure the voice of the victim is never silenced. And we will temper justice with common sense.
I would very much appreciate your vote to allow me to keep serving as your Clatsop County district attorney.
[Letter to the Editor published in the Daily Astorian, Friday, May 16, 2014]


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NIMBIN should be put on the top of the US President's proposed Australian itinerary, according to several prominent people.
Legendary Australian adventurer Dick Smith joined Lismore mayor Jenny Dowell and Nimbin Hemp Embassy president Michael Balderstone speaking out in defence of Nimbin's cultural significance following Tweed Tourism general manager Phil Villiers' tongue-in-cheek comments last week about leaving the infamous town off his preferred presidential itinerary.
However, Dick Smith, who was spotted window shopping in Nimbin on Monday, strongly recommended Mr Obama put the hippy town on his to-do list.
"If he just goes to Sydney he'll be stuck with boring blokes in suits with no charisma, whereas in Nimbin he'll meet some true Aussie eccentrics," he told The Northern Star yesterday.
"The US has a huge debt at themoment and they could save a fortune staying at Nimbin's backpacker hostel for just $60 a night.
"They could fly the President's 747 into Ballina and I could chopper them up from there."
Jenny Dowell chipped in saying she would love to show the President around Nimbin.
"I could take him on a tour of the candle factory, and for a swim in the council pool," she said. "We could put him up at the council's caravan park and he could have a choice of great coffees at the local cafes, but we'd recommend he skip the cookies."
The Nimbin Hemp Embassy has been using the US President as its 'cannabis poster boy' since his candid response to the now mandatory 'inhaling' question put to most modern leaders.
He had famously said: "I inhaled frequently. That was the point."
Mr Balderstone said Nimbin residents were unaware of the Tweed itinerary controversy, despite national media attention, although many had hoped the President could have planned his trip to coincide with Mardi Grass.
"As one president to another, we certainly wouldn't expect him to inhale this time, but we'd love him to speak at Mardi Grass," Mr Balderstone said.
The Hemp Embassy is planning a protest trip to Canberra with their 'big joint' to encourage President Obama to speak to Kevin Rudd about the benefits of medical cannabis to the nation's health bill and its crime figures.
Responding to the comments, Mr Villiers has since reconsidered Tweed's position.
"We always work closely with neighbouring councils to promote tourism and if Dick's willing to pick them up from the airport then we're all for it," he said.
Meanwhile, Mr Smith said he often visited Nimbin and felt quite at home with the apparent number of 'fellow helicopter enthusiasts'.
"They put notices in shop windows telling everyone when the choppers are flying over. It's just great to see blokes with long beards who are as interested in helicopters as I am."
By Dominic Feain
Source: http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2010/02/10/barracking-for-obama/


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From the Scriptures, Lester Sumrall shows that we can wage war on the devil and win through the power given to us by Jesus Christ! In this book, you will learn to: obtain overcoming faith, use the weapon of prayer, access the Holy Spirit's power against Satan, be set free from demonic opression, and have freedom from disease. Lester Sumrall's encouragement for the Church today is that the children of God have already won.
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Law schools are discriminating in their admissions policies, the New York Times suggests. From 1993 to 2008, both the percentage and number of black and Mexican American law students declined, despite the fact that their grade-point averages and Law School Admissions Test scores were rising. Schools are setting their standards "very high," one law-school dean explained. And yet we know, he went on, "those students with slightly lower L.S.A.T. scores can graduate, pass the bar, and be terrific lawyers."
Well, yes, they can graduate, and can pass the bar, but as UCLA law professor Richard Sander has shown, students who come into law schools already behind are less likely to complete law school and far more likely to fail the bar exam repeatedly than their more academically skilled peers.
In any case, black and Mexican American scores have been going up; maybe those of whites and Asians have been rising more impressively — widening the racial gap in performance. The Times describes minority credentials as "very close" to those of white applicants, but how close is "very"?
Are we really to believe American law schools want more whites and fewer blacks and Mexican-Americans?
When will the racism-everywhere become yesterday's tune? As Roger Clegg reported in a splendid little Corner piece yesterday, the Ninth Circuit has decided the State of Washington, in disfranchising felons, has violated the Voting Rights Act. The state's criminal justice system is rife with racial discrimination, the court found.
"Minorities are disproportionately prosecuted and sentenced, resulting in their disproportionate representation among the persons disenfranchised under the Washington Constitution," Judge A. Wallace Tashima wrote for the Circuit Court. The disproportionately high representation of (non-Asian) minorities in the prison population suggests a criminal justice system infected with racism. But suppose the court had found that blacks and Hispanics have actually been committing felonies in disproportionately high numbers. No matter. That would only show that the entire society — not just the criminal justice system — is racist. Racism drives them to a life of crime.
How to answer such arguments? You can't.
— Abigail Thernstrom is the author, most recently, of Voting Rights — and Wrongs: The Elusive Quest for Racially Fair Elections. She is an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and vice chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.


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