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What Justin Bieber and Gold Diggers Can Teach Us About Feminism
What Justin Bieber and feminism can tell us about gold diggers
In this Huffington Post piece by Keli Goff, the incident involving Justin Bieber and his alleged paternity has introduced issues concerning feminist views on 'gold diggers. But as I see it, the situation Bieber was involved in is not the main issue. The phenomenon of gold digging is. And I don't see feminists sitting outside of that one. I see them as being as deeply involved as anyone else.
Kanye West's video about gold digging, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vwNcNOTVzY&feature=relmfu , came out a few years ago, before Justin Bieber made headlines over his 'women problems'. The term 'gold diggers' appears to have vague meanings, but rather than being strictly about situations such as Justin Bieber's, the term seem to be about life in general, about how some men and women conduct themselves in normal human relationships. As an aside, the girls in the video don't look as though their thoughts are on motherhood.
Gold diggers used to be seen as women who sought to marry a man for his money. Sometimes this seemed obvious, when the man was 80 or more and the woman in her 20s or 30s. I believe Hugh Hefner might fall into this category. of course, everything has changed now, since feminism has got women into the workforce in increasing numbers, many of them taking positions alongside men in a professional capacity. But to some extent, don't most women of today seek to marry men who can offer them the most, in terms of security and access to financial resources, even if the women themselves have a good career? Doesn't the thought of marrying well hold the possibility of an even more 'secure' lifestyle?
Years ago, say in the 50s and 60s, marrying a man for money might have been the only way a woman could be sure of achieving financial security, as so many women didn't work but relied on men as the 'breadwinners'. But today's world is different, thanks to feminism. In some ways, it seems as though the tables are turned. It used to be men who received encouragement and had more opportunities. But feminism has changed that. Their emphasis has been women, though of course, mainly on women from the middle classes.
I don't see 'gold digging' as mainly being about women who have sex for the purpose of getting pregnant, then getting the man to marry her, as has been claimed to be Mariah Yeater's aim. She now has a son, Tristyn, she claims to be Justin Bieber's. Any man should be suspicious of that kind of claim in today's world, now that contraceptives are generally available. That kind of claim might have worked years ago, in the 50's, before contraception became available, but no longer.
Nevertheless, good jobs and financially secure husbands may be hard to come by in todays's world, where unemployment is rife and feminism's impact has led to the dual-career, dual-income family doing well, on one side, and men and women struggling for subsistence on the other - the class divide.
Women in general, who have few other resources but whose sexual appeal is high (see video, Gold Digger by Kanye West), could well use that to get a man marry her, although basing a marriage on sexual attraction may not be the best way to go about it. But first has to acknowledge that men are often swayed by women's sexuality in order to accept this view. And then, the term 'gold digger' could be applied to that situation if the motivation for marriage was seen to be money, rather than compatibility, love, etc.
What I'm leading up to is this, that it is not just the overtly sexual woman with no college education who is seeking the best mate possible. In today's world, it's a fact of life that most women will seek to enhance their own assets, even if they have good prospects for a profitable career. Marrying a partner on his way up the corporate ladder may even help her own career. But is that seen as gold digging, or is that term kept (reserved) for the uneducated woman, who overtly displays her sexual assets, or who would have little opportunity to make her way in a tradtional career, or who chooses not to?
It isn't just women of today who are seeking partners with the most to offer. Men who need power on their side, and who desire a mutually-enhancing relationship, might also seek out a female partner based on their place on the income scale. After all,it is human nature to seek the best partner one can, under the circumstances, isn't it. So,. should the term gold diggers still be used, as it relaly applies to women of earlier generations who had so few choices in life?
Rather than look at Justin Bieber's experience as typical of 'gold digger' circumstances, I think it is not typical at all.
This is what I am suggesting the term 'gold digger' applies to, in general: Gold digging behaviour is surely more an accepted part of life that applies to all sort of women, from the poor, sexy uneducated young woman to the professional woman seeking the best partner she can acquire. Kanye West made a video about it not because it is unusual, but because it is what women do. And men love it.
Income, or personal assets, is one of the main criteria for choosing a partner. What if internet dating sites did not include these criteria as part of their set of 'characteristics,' to assist in selecting or excluding certain potential candidates from selection. What if people chose mates without taking into consideration their earning potential or material wealth, as so many of us did in the 60s?
Men and women marry for all sorts of reasons. In today's postfeminist society, men marry for a regular source of sex, or to have a trophy woman on his arm when he goes out, for companionship, for financial security, etc. Women marry men, not for sex, probably, but for financial security, and as trophies, too, and to have the good life - part of the dual career, dual income class in our society. It's what men and women do. 'Gold digging', if you still want to call it that, is one aspect of finding a partner.
by Keli Goff
Huffington Post - Culture
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keli-goff/what-justin-bieber-and-go_b_1094032.html?ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=111511&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
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Labels: capitalism, coupledom, economy, education, feminism, gold diggers, heterosexuality, motherhood
Ageism, Class, and the Wealth Gap Between the Young and Old
The only place in Huffington Post that the generation gap, or aging, or ageism, is being discussed is in the business section. And even so, this piece (the US Wealth Gap) written by Hope Yen could actually be about so many things, and not just about the division of wealth between the old and the young. It is a false division, more than likely intended to create division between the generations instead of explain it.
We all know there are seniors who are living in poverty, just as we know there are under 35-year-olds who have too much money to spend. Manipulating statistics to arrive at the conclusion one wants to isn't clever. It is devious, it is cunning, and it may even work (depending on one's agenda), but how can people have respect for such a person who writes this nonsense, or for the Huff Post editors who condone it, even encourage it. After all, isn't what counts the amount of reader interest, the number of comments (over 8,000).
Furthermore, why is there still a section called 'Women' in the Living category of this paper? Why isn't it called Gender? And how about one called 'Couples and Singledom'?
And why isn't there a category called 'Aging' or the 'Generation Gap'? Why are the differences between the young and the old all made to come down to money? I would like to talk about aging itself, and not simply about the differences in income between the generations that some writers are treating as the main issue.
The other piece referred to below is another piece of nonsense, placing the blame squarely on the high worth of the top 1% of households in the US. Yet the problem is not the top 1%. The problem is all around us. The problem is in the way some of the higher income earners in the 99% treat others in this immense category, which includes doctors, lawyers, service workers, and receptionists. It reflects the struggle of life, the quest for more, and the effort for some to stop others from getting even a small share fo the scarce resources our world has to offer.
The problem is not that the healthcare workers are overworked. It is that they spend their effort on taks that are non-productive, on trying to give more to some individuals and making sure others get less. The system is not so much overburdened with too may sick or old people. It is overburdened with too many who have health insurance making sure they get every dollar's worth, and then some.
I don't believe that 'generational warfare' was designed by the 1% to distract the rest of us from looking at class differences, as stated in 'One Percent.' The complexity of our world is such that different agendas collide as they pursue their own interests, and sometimes join forces to gang up on one group - usually the most vulnerable, and for the purpose for protecting their own interests. Get people to blame the 1% and they won't be so ready to place the responsibility where it lies - in the way boys and girls are raised, and indoctrinated, into pushing their way forward, seeking more money, and more power. What's more, the main divide isn't between the young and old; it isn't a generational divide. It's between each level of society, between those struggling for more and those who have it and are trying to keep it!
The One Percent Turns Class War Into Generational War
Huffington Post - Business
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-baker/the-one-percent-turns-cla_b_1080141.html
U.S. Wealth Gap Between Young, Old Is Widest Ever
By Hope Yen
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/07/us-wealth-gap-young-old_n_1079372.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=110711&utm_medium=email&utm_content=FeatureTitle&utm_term=Daily%20Brief#comments
Labels: ageing, ageism, aging, baby-boomers, capitalism, greying, health, poverty, power, wealth, work
Widest-ever wealth gap between young and old in the US
This very one-sided article has appeared in numerous newspapers' websites today. It places blame for economic disparity between the young and the old strictly on the shoulders of the old, regardless of income, home ownership, marital status, or work history.
One reason the economic division between young and old can be seen as increasing over the last 30 to 50 years is the effect of feminism and increasing numbers of women in the workforce - changing norms, in other words.
Whereas 50 years ago a wealthy man might have a wife who stayed home and did charity work, now, older men are sought out by women for what they have to offer - in the firm, or as an influential, hidden, character reference for other careers. Thus the household with the head at age 65 plus might have a 45year old wife with high earning power in today's world.
I am not surprised that whoever wrote this piece didn't want to include this probable effect. It's not something the middle class really wants to deal with. And as women continue to marry men with the best resources, how can we ever expect the situation to get better. One of the side effects of feminism. What's that called again - oh, collateral damage.
Another problem with this article - something omitted - is that many old people, particularly older women, live in poverty. They may not be in debt, and so would not be included in the 8% mentioned in the last sentence. But despite receiving old age benefits, many will be struggling to get by.
So often we see articles and blogs that onlty serve to create more antagonism between the generations. Would I be right in assuming that the author of this piece is under 40, and female, and has her own agenda?
One other issue is the comment made by Harry Holzer, labor economist and public policy prof at Georgetown University, who is quoted as saying "It makes us wonder whether the extraordinary amount of resources we spend on retirees and their health care should be at least partially reallocated to those who are hurting worse than them." Apparently he called magnitude of the wealth gap "striking."
Note that he, like the other 'experts' mentioned in this piece, places the blame on old people in general, when it is obvious that the ones who will lose out if money allocated for healthcare is taken away are those with limited resources. It will be the ones without private medical insurance who will have to try to make do with even less proper healthcare.
I don't know if we can assume that the situation is the same in Canada., regarding health care matters and more importantly, the gap between the old and the young, but knowing the effects that feminism has caused in Canada, it sounds as though it could be the same here as in the US.
By Hope Yen, Associated Press
Huffington Post Business
U.S. wealth gap between young and old is widest ever
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/income/story/2011-11-06/wealth-gap-young-old/51098910/1
Links updated July, 2012
Labels: ageing, aging, baby-boomers, capitalism, economy, feminism, gender politics, health, poverty, wealth, women's rights, work
Gender, sex and aging: What do we owe our spouses?
A trio of stories on the Huffington Post drew my interest recently, all related matters, to do with gender, sex, and aging. Sex was the drawing card in D A Wolf's 'Do We Owe Our Spouses Sex?', and is an inviting resource for anyone wanting to know what other readers think about sex between two people in a relationship. The comments section attracted an enthusiastic crowd, each one either telling their own personal story, or making one up, or simply letting everyone know what they thought about the subject of Wolf's piece.
But in the next piece on sex, the attitude of readers/commenters changed considerably. This one was about sex among the baby boomers, and for that reason, it appears, became the target of jokes and ridicule. Could it be that the approach was wrong, and not simply that older citizens are the target of jokes in this ageist society of ours? In an attempt to persuade the world that baby boomers can have sex just like anyone else, and enjoy it, the writers, whoever they were, may have been just a bit on the defensive. What formed the basis of the piece were myths that were then dispelled by the writers' claims. We don't hear who the writers were, and the format of the piece was awkward to read, being fairly short but, including the comments section, split up over 7 pages.
As with the first piece on the subject of sex, this second piece was also clearly about people within the state of coupledom. Those without partners had no real need to peruse the pieces, let alone comment on them, unless they still had hope, or at least intentions, to become half of a couple sometime in the future. This was my main objection to both these pieces, that single men and women were left out or left hanging on the margins, although in the 'ageless' couples and sex article, at least that was a topic many of us knew something about from previous experience. It doesn't seem to even occur to the writers of the boomers' sex piece that most older people aren't going to have casual sex, just for the fun of it (despite what the quoted lavalifePRIME says).
The final point about these two stories is that, as usual with such stories, there is little or no analysis of the society in which it all takes place. We all take for granted that we live in western society and that both men and women have certain freedoms, but there are still the remnants of traditional marriage present in our ways of thinking, as well as the modern ways of looking at our experiences through the eyes of feminism. Thus, women are seen (and speak) from both the perspective of not being equal with men in ways of dealing with sexual matters, as well as at times acting like men and taking on men's ways of dealing with sexual matters.
And that leads us to the last of the stories, also about the older generation, about women in particular. Once again, this piece incorporates aspects of old-fashioned tradition, of a woman being a homemaker, but about doing so after having had a fulfilling career. I think one aim of it was truly to justify and uphold the legitimate choice of women to be homemakers, but quite a number of readers comments were negative about the choices available to the writer, and particularly about the perceived uselessness of her choice, to stay home. At this point in our society, in which the economy has still not rebounded, if some women express the desire to remain at home to be homemakers and/or raise children, it doesn't help to treat them like pariahs. Just as some homemakers may not take their work seriously, or do a good job, so are there women in the workforce who aren't conscientious, or doing their work to the best of their ability. It isn't work per se that makes one person better than another. It isn't the paycheque that a person brings home, or the taxes they pay, that makes them better than someone else. It might lead them to be seen as different, to be living a lifestyle that's not the norm, in this society where occupation and financial resources are the determinants of a person's identity and worth. It's much easier to do after having a career, than rely on an ex to provide a reference, but it's still good to hear about women living this way, so that society does not forget how things were done in the past.
Do We Owe Our Spouses Sex?
by D A Wolf
Huffington Post Divorce
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/d-a-wolf/do-we-owe-our-spouses-sex_b_927484.html?ref=love--sex
Most Common Sex Myths About Baby Boomers
Huffington Post Fifty
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/27/the-most-common-sex-myths_n_1057479.html
Words With Friends and Back to Home-Ec
by Jamie Lee Curtis
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-lee-curtis/50s-housewives-home-ec-_b_1006209.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=101211&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
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How Federal Circuit Provides New Hope for Computer and Software-based Patents in Enfish, LLC v. Microsoft Corporation
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In just its second opinion upholding claims under Alice v. CLS Bank, the Federal Circuit has interpreted Alice in a manner that could save a "substantial class" of inventions from the strikingly-high invalidity rate under the Supreme Court's precedent. In particular, the Federal Circuit held that inventions directed to improving how computers operate are patent eligible under the first step of the Alice analysis — even if those improvements are software-based or run on a general purpose computer.
In Enfish, LLC v. Microsoft Corporation, the patents at issue described and claimed the use of a "self-referential" table in a database. The patents also explained how the use of self-referential tables provides several benefits over conventional tables, such as "faster searching of data," "more effective storage" and "more flexibility in configuring the database." Under the first step of the Alice analysis, the district court determined that the asserted claims were directed to an abstract idea: "storing, organizing, and retrieving memory in a logical table" or simply "the concept of organizing information using tabular forms." The district court ultimately determined that the claims at issue failed to recite patent-eligible subject matter under Alice v. CLS Bank. The Federal Circuit reversed, and in doing so interpreted the Supreme Court's test in a way that could save a significant number of inventions from failing section 101.
In particular, the Federal Circuit focused on the first step of the Supreme Court's two-step, patent-eligibility test, in which the court must "first determine whether the claims at issue are directed to a patent-ineligible concept." The Federal Circuit noted that the Supreme Court's test "plainly contemplates that the first step of the inquiry in a meaningful one, i.e., that a substantial class of claims are not directed to a patent ineligible concept." (italics in original). In other words, this first inquiry should be "a stage-one filter to claims, considered in light of the specification, based on whether their character as a whole is directed to excluded subject matter." (citation omitted). By focusing on the "character as a whole," the Federal Circuit provided an important clarification to that first step—that it "cannot simply ask whether the claims involve a patent-ineligible concept, because essentially every routinely patent-eligible claim involving physical products and actions involves a law of nature and/or natural phenomenon—as after all, they take place in the physical world." (italics in original). Under this understanding of the step-one inquiry, the Federal Circuit held that, if "the focus of the claims is on the specific asserted improvement in computer capabilities" then it passes step one of Alice and is patent-eligible, in contrast to claims focused on "a process that qualifies as an 'abstract idea' for which computers are invoked merely as a tool." 1
To reach this new interpretation of what qualifies as "an abstract idea within the meaning of Alice," the Federal Circuit reached to principles articulated by the Supreme Court, specifically noting that the high court itself "has suggested that claims 'purport[ing] to improve the functioning of the computer itself,' or 'improv[ing] an existing technological process' might not succumb to the abstract idea exception." While the Supreme Court made that statement during its discussion of step two of the Alice test, the Federal Circuit concluded that that principle should permeate both steps of Alice:
"We do not read Alice to broadly hold that all improvements in computer-related technology are inherently abstract and, therefore, must be considered at step two. Indeed, some improvements in computer-related technology when appropriately claimed are undoubtedly not abstract, such as a chip architecture, an LED display, and the like. Nor do we think that claims directed to software, as opposed to hardware, are inherently abstract and therefore only properly analyzed at the second step of the Alice analysis. Software can make non-abstract improvements to computer technology just as hardware improvements can, and sometimes the improvements can be accomplished through either route. We thus see no reason to conclude that all claims directed to improvements in computer-related technology, including those directed to software, are abstract and necessarily analyzed at the second step of Alice, nor do we believe that Alice so directs. Therefore, we find it relevant to ask whether the claims are directed to an improvement to computer functionality versus being directed to an abstract idea, even at the first step of the Alice analysis."
The Federal Circuit went on to reconcile its new holding, which rejects the proposition that "the invention's ability to run on a general-purpose computer dooms the claims," with prior Federal Circuit precedent. In particular, the Federal Circuit classified its prior decisions invalidating claims under Alice into several groups: (1) claims that were "simply adding conventional computer components to well-known business practices," (2) claims that "recited a purely conventional computer implementation of a mathematical formula" or (3) claims that "recited generalized steps to be performed on a computer using conventional computer activity." Those types of claims, the Federal Circuit concluded, are distinct from the claims in Enfish because the Enfish claims "are directed to an improvement in the functioning of a computer."
The Federal Circuit also emphasized that a claim will not necessarily fail section 101 if it lacks a "reference to 'physical' components." On this point, the Federal Circuit turns the Supreme Court's earlier rejection of the machine-or-transformation test in Biski v. Kappos on its head, using that case (which held that the claims at issue in that case failed section 101) to reject the notion of a "bright-line" test that would exclude any claim lacking a hardware component from patent eligibility. Such a result makes sense, concluded the court, since "[m]uch of the advancement made in computer technology consists of improvements to software that, by their very nature, may not be defined by particular physical features but rather by logical structures and processes."
With these principles in mind, the Federal Circuit turned to the particular claims at issue and held that "they are directed to a specific improvement to the way computers operate, embodied in the self-referential table." While the district court had embraced a more abstract articulation of the claims, the Federal Circuit noted that "describing the claims at such a high level of abstraction and untethered from the language of the claims all but ensures that the exception to § 101 swallow the rule." In determining that the claims "are not simply directed to any form of string tabular data, but instead are specifically directed to a self-referential table for a computer database," the Federal Circuit focused on the language of the claims themselves, as well as the specification, which articulated the specific improvements enabled by the use of a self-referential table.
In sum, the Federal Circuit in Enfish has expanded the scope of patent-eligible matter, provides improved clarity to the Supreme Court's test, and places new boundaries on how courts determine whether claims are directed to an abstract idea. In this decision, the Federal Circuit has pushed back on courts' tendency to oversimplify claims in post-Alice patent eligibility determinations. In light of Enfish, courts must avoid oversimplification and instead must account for specific claim limitations to determine whether the claims feature an improvement to computer functionality. At the same time, this case does not dispel all uncertainty for computer-based inventions, and future cases will still need to wrestle with the uncertain boundaries of both steps of the Alice inquiry. In the meantime, this case will likely have a significant impact on future challenges under section 101 in courts and in the PTO.
1 Yet even those claims could survive under step two of Alice if "there is some inventive concept in the application of the abstract idea."
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As Jesse writes, SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch was near his hometown in Yuma, Arizona. He found out about the launch a few days before the event, and he started scouting locations. Finally, he chose a location that overlooked the city. This angle would add some depth to the footage, but it was also the easiest to access with his timelapse gear.
On the day of the launch, Jesse arrived at his chosen location about two hours before the launch time. He prepared everything and started rolling the timelapse about 45 minutes before the rocket was supposed to blast into the sky. When the time came, he couldn't see anything, so he thought something had happened and it wasn't launched. Still, after a minute that lasted forever, the Falcon 9 rocket blasted in front of his eyes and his cameras.
Jesse ended up shooting 2452 images, and he was a little off target. But, he cropped into the 6K timelapse sequence and recovered the framing. The final project included 1315 images, edited in Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro.
Jesse's goal was to shoot a video of a FalconX launch like he hasn't seen before. And judging from what I've just watched, he did it, indeed. If you'd like to see more of Jesse's work, check out his website, Facebook page, and Instagram.
Hey Gregory Ray, here's a time lapse of that Falcon launch, pretty cool!
John Doran looks like a UFO.
This is definitely not anything man made. These anomalies are plasma-based and of extra-terrestrial origin. The media will report anything and people will gobble it up.


Cynata Therapeutics, the Australian stem cell and regenerative medicine firm, has obtained approval from the UK MHRA to conduct its Phase 1 clinical trial of CYP-001 in patients with steroid-resistant graft-versus-host disease (GvHD). CYP-001 is Cynata's lead Cymerus mesenchymal stem cell MSC product.
UK regulator, MHRA, has updated its guidance on whether a health app should be subject to medical device oversight. A variety of apps and stand-alone software that are already on the market have so far been classified as medical devices meaning that they fall within the MHRA's remit.


Jean Panke, WAPsight.com -- Timex has announced their Internet Messenger Watch which receives Internet emails, numeric and word message pages, news updates, weather reports, stock quotes, sports scores, flight info, snowfall alerts, horoscopes and more.
Yahoo will be providing mobile alerts to help keep users abreast of the market with stock quotes, other financial news, sports scores and updates--all wirelessly. Each message actually scrolls across the face of your watch up to 100 characters long.
Motorola has provided state-of-the art wireless technology and SkyTel provides nationwide paging coverage.


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Anne Hathaway's Son Made His Instagram Debut Watching Mom Speak at the U.N.
By Olivia Bahou
Anne Hathaway waited for the perfect occasion for her almost 1-year-old son Jonathan to make his Instagram debut. On Wednesday, International Women's Day, the Oscar-winning actress gave a powerful speech at the United Nations in support of paid parental leave, and her newborn watched mommy from home.
In the sweet snap, the 11-month-old stands up near an ottoman in lion-print pajamas, looking on as mom makes a speech from the podium on a computer. "JRS watching Mommy give her speech at the UN yesterday #forourboys #forourgirls #forthefuture#loveislove #parentsareparents#paidparental #iwd #ppl @unwomen," Hathaway wrote alongside the first-ever photo of her son.
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The date of his debut was appropriate, as the actress spent International Women's Day advocating for paid parental leave. "Somehow we and every American parent were expected to be back to normal in under three months without income," she said. "I remember thinking to myself, 'If the practical reality of pregnancy is another mouth to feed in your home and America is a country where most people are living paycheck to paycheck, how does 12 weeks of unpaid leave economically work?' The truth is for too many people, it doesn't."
"My mother had to choose between a career and raising three children, a choice that left her unpaid and under-appreciated as a homemaker because there just wasn't support for both paths," she said. "The assumption and common practice that women and girls look after the home and the family is a stubborn and very real stereotype that not only discriminates against women, but limits men's participation and connection within the family and society."
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Jonathan certainly has a mom to be proud of.


Us programmers are familiar with the concept of abstraction. When we see redundancies in our code, we gather the redundancies into a single thing, and reuse that thing over and over. It's a simple idea, and one that programmers LOVE.
But this isn't a post on the techniques or value of abstraction in computing. It's on recognizing the power of abstraction as a general-purpose tool, and its superpower-like ability to make us smarter.
It make sense that programmers love abstraction. Our bodies and minds are abstracting machines.
Your body abstracts it's common cellular needs (getting oxygen, getting nutrients, eliminating waste, etc.) into organs that specialize in completing these tasks on behalf of your whole body.
Your brain abstracts by building strong neural pathways for common activities so we don't have to spend time and energy manually recalculating them. Riding a bicycle requires the orchestration of hundreds of muscles, driven by a stream of sensory input provided by a constantly changing environment. But once your brain abstracts these tasks into a bike-riding algorithm, you hop on a bike and ride around like it's nothing.
To this point, abstraction can be defined as looking at series of one-off situations, recognizing a pattern between them, and codifying that pattern.
So lets talk about mental models.
My four-year-old is learning to read. One word that sometimes comes up in her children's books is: Fade.
She knows the sounds that F and D makes, but A and E are tricky. They each have "long" and "short" sounds, not to mention that E could make a U (schwa) sound or be silent* (as it is in this case). That gives us at least 8 possible pronunciations of this word.
There's another word with even more combinations!
Yep, "a" says its name every time. And the E doesn't make a sound, because that's not its job. Its job is to tell the "a" what to say.
What a superpower we have now!
There is a cost. No abstraction is perfect, especially in the English language. We always have a few exceptions that fail to fit the pattern (in this case, we have words like "love" or "done").
But the utility of this framework is proven. It's better to memorize one rule and a couple exceptions than to memorize each individual case.
This pronunciation example is instructive. It shows us how to go about gaining wisdom in a world where there's a lot to know and not enough time to learn it all. In most disciplines, there are patterns that we can abstract and extrapolate to understand all sorts of behaviors. For example: supply-and-demand helps us understand everything from real-estate and movie-theater popcorn prices, to salary negotiation and stock exchanges. Studying supply-and-demand provides disproportional benefit for the effort required to learn it (compared to studying poetry, perhaps). It becomes a mental model we can use to evaluate things we see in the world.
To me this is perhaps the biggest benefit of a general core education. Introductory courses in fields like psychology, biology, and economics would do well to surface these models early, so students can extrapolate them out and see the forces that are shaping the world.
And yeah, I think that's a superpower. Understanding yourself and the world you live in gives you the knowledge you need to thrive. And thriving is good.


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Headwater streams are an important and prevalent feature of the eastern North American landscape.These streams provide a wealth of ecosystem services and support tremendous biological diversity, which is predominated by salamanders in the Appalachian region. Salamanders are ubiquitous throughout the region, contributing a significant biomass that supports ecological and ecosystem processes. One of the greatest threats to salamanders is loss of headwater-riparian habitat through timber harvest. ln this study, we measured larval salamander abundance at five headwater streams with different riparian buffer widths retained following logging. By sampling larval salamanders using leaf litter bags, we assessed the impacts of even-aged timber harvest on aquatic larval salamander abundances, where it was found that larvae are negatively impacted by increased stream sedimentation and a decrease in riparian buffer width. We found that retention of a 9-m buffer was effectively no different than complete removal of all riparian forest, and as such, current regulations to protect headwater streams are ineffectual. Furthermore, no significant differences were observed between the 30 m buffer treatment and uncut control treatments suggesting that a 30 m or larger riparian buffer may assuage the inwstream effects of riparian timber harvest Management guidelines for Appalachian forests should be revised to accommodate the biology of plethodontid salamanders.
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When hiring has unintended consequences
Helping companies understand and reframe the hiring process
Date published: 2020-07-31 5:00:00 PM
The intended consequence of hiring is filling a vacant position. But are there unintended consequences? Lisa Cohen's research says yes―from redefining roles and relationships, to changing how the organization manages and promotes learning, better practices and strategic management. She and her team hope the findings from their research will help Canadian companies avoid unnecessary pitfalls, especially in the post-COVID-19 labour market.
What happens when companies hire?
An associate professor in the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, Cohen specializes in organizational behaviour, with a focus on the dynamics of work.
"I've been involved in a lot of hiring processes," says Cohen. "I always had a sense there was more going on than just the HR transaction: relationship-building and networking, exposure to how different people organize things. I was curious, too, about the ecosystems that get created."
With the help of a SSHRC Insight Grant, Cohen conducted more than 200 interviews with business founders, executives, hiring managers, successful candidates and job seekers. Half of her interviews were done over three years at a United Kingdom financial technologies start-up whose CEO was a former student of hers. By focusing closely on one company, Cohen was able to gain a unique longer-term perspective on the impacts hiring can have across an organization over time.
Evolving job descriptions
Cohen says one of the biggest unintended consequences is that the job may be redesigned during the hiring process. This occurs when a company posts to fill a position and, while assessing the candidates, discovers it needs a different set of skills―or an entirely different role.
For example, says Cohen, "One firm posted for a personal assistant, but realized as they started to evaluate candidates that what it actually wanted was an office manager. In cases like that, once the right role is identified, things usually stabilize."
It may also be that a company knows it needs someone, but isn't sure just whom. According to Cohen, this leads to further unintended consequences, because the job continues to evolve even after the candidate is hired.
Unforeseen outside factors
Unintended consequences can also be caused by what Cohen calls "exogenous events"―external forces that change the process or its outcomes.
"COVID-19 is an exogenous event," she explains. "It has altered how companies hire, and created unexpected HR needs, such as recruiting for people who work well remotely."
Cohen learned early during the COVID-19 lockdown that she'd been awarded a second SSHRC Insight Grant. The pandemic shifted her thinking about the focus of that project―from how specific tasks move across different jobs or groups over time (for example, the responsibility for data entry going from analysts to interns to an outsourced contractor) to how COVID-19 is affecting hiring and other employment processes in start-ups.
Shifting expectations of the hiring process
Beyond helping companies protect themselves from missteps, Cohen hopes her research will normalize the real-life experience of hiring.
"Companies should know it's okay to go to market when they don't know exactly what they want," she says. "A big part of hiring is designing a job. And there really are opportunities to create a rich ecosystem for the business through the hiring process, if you're open and alert to them."
Read articles by Lisa Cohen at The Conversation or visit her McGill University profile page.


I'm currently watching DuckTales on Disney Channel, and I just saw a special look by Disney 365 that had to do with Pixar-themed attractions at Disneyland, such as the Cozy Cone Motel. Did anyone have their recorder on?
Was it during the Beagle Birthday Massacre episode? I watched all the commercials and didn't see anything? I saw a Movie Surfers "Solo" break and a few others for Radio Disney, Disney Go, and a 30-second teaser for "Incredibles 2" (that's already been seen), but didn't see anything about Coze Cone or Disneyland. Different episode?
Edit - wait, I think I found something similar. It was two kids previewing Pixar Fest from Disney365 and they showed the parades and such?
I just saw it again. I'm currently watching the DuckTales Quack-A-Thon. The TV spot had 2 teens touring Pixar-themed attractions at Disneyland and taking a look at Cars and Finding Nemo-themed rooms, as well as drawing Nemo. They never mentioned Pixar Fest, though.
It's not that one; I just saw it during the commercial break.
Was it during the Beagle Birthday Massacre episode?
It aired during the episode before Beagle Birthday Massacre as well as during the episode after.
Weird - our regions must have been served different ads, or depending on the service we're using. Either way - those are different than the ones I saw. I'll keep an eye out!


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Merkel ally Kramp-Karrenbauer elected new CDU leader
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, is flanked by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the newly elected chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), after her farewell speech during a party convention in Hamburg, Germany, Dec. 7, 2018. (AP Photo)
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, an ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, was elected Friday the new leader of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU).
Kramp-Karrenbauer, 56, won the leadership with 517 from 999 votes cast by delegates. Her rival, Friedrich Merz, won 482 votes in a run-off. A third candidate, Health Minister Jens Spahn, was eliminated in a first round of voting.
Kramp-Karrenbauer made her case ahead of the vote by saying the CDU had to maintain its position as the "last unicorn in Europe," the bloc's last successful catch-all party.
She also made a reference to her nickname, "mini Merkel," saying, "People consider me a 'mini,' a copy, a simple 'more of the same,' but I can tell you that I stand here as my own person, just as life has shaped me and of that I am proud."
The 56-year-old former state premier gained the nickname because of her pragmatic centrist political style and her reputation as a Merkel loyalist.
Kramp-Karrenbauer has been the CDU's general secretary, in charge of day-to-day political strategy, since February. She was previously a popular governor of western Saarland state.
She now inherits the task of improving the CDU's political fortunes and trying to win back voters from rivals to the right and left, while working with Merkel as chancellor until Germany's next election.


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By Chuck Sudo in Arts & Entertainment on Feb 6, 2008 5:00PM
Here are some things going around town to make you consider giving the weather a big ol' raspberry.
Internet: Still sad that Chciagocrime.org shut down? Interested in how do do your own Google maps mashup? Or do you just want to understand how hyperlocal mapping works? Then head to the Garland Room of the Chicago Cultural Center this evening at 6 p.m. where chicagocrime.org's Adrian Holovaty himself discusses how they work.
Film: If John Sayles is serious about leaving the world of film to focus on literature, then Honeydripper should make a fitting send-off. Set in 1950 Alabama at the cusp of both the civil rights movement and the birth of rock and roll, Honeydripper stars Danny Glover as Pine Top Purvis, a blues club owner saddled in debt who books the legendary Guitar Sam for a one-night gig that he hopes cures what ails him. But when Sam misses his train, can Pine Top pull off a bait-and-switch using the young Sonny Blake (Gary Clark, Jr.), who strolled into town the day before with his own homemade electric guitar?
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Theater: How do you learn to tell a good story? We consider ourselves good storytellers and still don't have the formula down. Gwen MacSai, host of Chicago Public Radio's Re:Sound and Neil Sandell, a senior producer for CBC's Outfront, will show how it's done with "Secrets, Whispers, and Lies: The Art of Personal Storytelling" this evening at the Theatre Building. The event begins at 6 p.m. Cost is $15 ($10 for students, Chicago Public Radio members, and Remy Bumppo Theatre subscribers).
Art: Speaking to My Ancestors, one of the current exhibits curated by the Artisan Gallery at Woman Made, is an exploration on how artists use their family histories in their art. In the process, the artwork also creates a for the viewer a dialogue with the artist's past. Among the artists featured in the exhibit are Evanston's Helga Dangel.
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National Endowment for the Humanities: Short Documentaries
Deadline: August 14, 2019
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Applications must present clear central ideas in the humanities and must demonstrate a solid command of the humanities scholarship on their subject. Applicants must have consulted with a team of scholarly advisers to develop the intellectual ideas that the program will explore. The scholars must represent fields relevant to the subject matter, have a strong record of research and scholarship in the humanities, and offer diverse perspectives and approaches. Projects must also demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful, balanced, and analytical. Short Documentaries may explore any humanities topic.
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Employ appealing formats that will engage the general public in learning
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Top Marques Monaco set for April 19-22
By Jake Lingeman
"See it, drive it, buy it." That's the mantra of the Top Marques Monaco car show, set for April 19-22. It's where the ultrarich go to peruse the most super of supercars and, if they like, drive away with them.
For many, the highlight will be a series of rides and drives at the Monaco Formula One circuit. What better way to test a 200-mph-capable car than by driving it at 200 mph?
The show is celebrating its ninth year in existence, and it's growing. This year's event will cover an additional 5,000 square feet at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. Supercar manufacturers including Koenigsegg, Pagani, GTA Motor, Tushek Supercar, Noble, Roding Automobile, Savage, Fisker, Soleil Motors, MS Design, Mansory and Gembella have signed on to attend. Of course, Aston Martin, Ferrari and Jaguar will represent the old guard.
The event also features other rich-guy stuff, such as watches, boats, art and motorcycles. For more information, check out www.topmarquesmonaco.com.
Jake Lingeman Jake Lingeman has been with Autoweek since 2006 and career highlights include driving the Silverstone Circuit in England, taking the Corvette ZR1 around Road Atlanta and going to the 24 Hours of Le Mans.


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A Tudor-style home near the Twin Cities was modernized with a revamped design
For the renovation of an original Tudor-style home nearby St. Paul, MN, designers opted for decorative marble tile from Jeffrey Court in the kitchen, which complement the room's neutral tones
Floor mosaics were created in the bathrooms using different shades of glass tile from Chapter 14 – The Press by Jeffrey Court.
The floor of the kids' bathroom highlights a black-and-white, 13 1/8- x 13 3/8-inch hexagonal mosaic, known as the "Union Mosaic," while the walls feature glossy, beveled 3- x 3-inch tiles in an off-white color, "Crisp Linen."
For the master bathroom, 1 3/4-inch marble mosaics from Chapter 15 – Classic Statuario create a herringbone pattern on the shower walls, along with 1-inch penny rounds, which were used for the shower floor.
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KEYWORDS kitchen and bath design / marble tile / mosaic tile / residential renovation
Jkath Design Build + Reinvent is a residential remodeling firm located in St. Paul, MN, which services the Twin Cities and surrounding areas. The 10-year-old firm specializes in kitchen remodels, main floor updates, and whole house renovations and additions, with a goal of creating a lifestyle while enjoying comfort and function.
Jesse Kath founded Jkath Design Build + Reinvent and currently operates the business alongside his wife, Katie, the lead designer, and a team of four talented professionals. One of the company's most recent ventures included an extensive renovation of a local, Tudor-style home, which was close to 100 years old, utilizing a range of colored glass and stone tile from Jeffrey Court.
"This design intent was a modern Tudor, preserving original character and integrity where it made sense, while adding modern amenities and updates to give this home another 100 years of life," Katie Kath said of the 2,300-square-foot home. "We fell in love with the original charm and the overall historic neighborhood this house is in. The improvements needed were necessary, knowing we had creative autonomy with the selections and a new family would be able to call this home with quality finishes to last a lifetime."
Since the home was purchased as an investment property, Kath wanted to complete a full renovation along with a two-story addition. However, she ultimately decided to nix the addition in place of a small kitchen bump out to expand the kitchen footprint. The entire house was overhauled, including the mechanicals, plumbing and electrical updates throughout.
"Our goal was to touch every square inch of this home, with a small addition on footings and finishing the basement level, which is a huge property value add-on in this neighborhood," she explained. "In the end, we made our goal, but had to research more cost-effective ways to finish the home; using footings and skipping the foundation for the kitchen bump out is a good example. We did not replace any windows in the home and opted to clean up the original stained window casings. While we changed the entire second story footprint to add a master suite, we made concessions in the basement level and did not add the fourth bedroom and fourth bathroom we had hoped to."
With the kitchen and mudroom expansion on the first floor, two of the upstairs bedrooms were converted into the new master suite, which features a bathroom, two adjoining closets and a master bathroom with a soaking tub, standing shower and custom vanity. To create a contemporary vibe in the kitchen and master bathroom, Kath utilized two different types of Statuario marble tile from Jeffrey Court's Chapter 15 – Classic Statuario series. For the kitchen range backsplash, 4- x 6-inch tiles from Chapter 15 – Classic Statuario in the "Botanic Imprint" design were used, which emulates a leafy pattern. In the master bathroom, 1 3/4-inch marble mosaics from the same collection were utilized to create a herringbone design on the shower walls, along with 1-inch penny rounds, which were used on the shower floor.
"We chose tile that felt timeless, with character and resembled the original era of the home," Kath said. "We used natural stone in most areas, as this is a quality and timeless material, with a playful nod in the kitchen area using the printed mosaic tile."
Colored glass tile from Jeffrey Court was also utilized for the front entry, fireplace hearth, powder room and kids' bathroom. As a contrast to the white brick fireplace surround, a 5/8-inch hexagon mosaic in black from Chapter 14 – The Press was used to create the hearth. The colored glass tile series was also utilized on the floors in the powder room and kids' bathroom. The powder room's floor features a unique 13 1/8- x 15 1/8-inch "Tribune Mosaic" in navy blue, while the floor of the kids' bathroom highlights a black-and-white, 13 1/8- x 13 3/8-inch hexagonal mosaic, known as the "Union Mosaic;" the walls of the kids' bathroom also feature glossy, beveled 3- x 3-inch tiles in an off-white color, "Crisp Linen."
"We knew Chapter 14, The Press, was made for this home," Kath said. "With the early 20th Century inspiration, we had a few places to select and install this tile. The black and white contrast might be our favorite touch in the whole house."
Around 370 square feet of tile was used, which was supplied directly from Jeffrey Court, Inc. in Norco, CA. "We always spend time laying out a portion of the tile together as a team on location, approving placement, direction and verifying grout color," Kath explained of the installation process. "Aside from this standard procedure before we set our installer loose, we did not have any unexpected issues. The handmade tile behind the kitchen range was very delicate and we had a limited amount of waste on hand, so we did stay on location to oversee this install. Fortunately, we did not have any issues."
The entire project was finished last year and took around five months to complete. "We have since specified the Chapter 14 – The Press tile in a recent project as this Tudor home inspired these clients," Kath said. "We have also received many positive comments on the finished photography, with another project in the works for summer 2020 using the same tile in a different colorway."
Builder/Designer: Jkath Design Build + Reinvent, St. Paul, MN
Tile Supplier: Jeffrey Court, Inc., Norco, CA (Chapter 14 – The Press™, Chapter 15 – Classic Statuario)
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