The February 2010 issue of SENSE contains an editorial featuring new looks from SOPHNET. The editorial puts together a very fluent array of styles that range from street, to casual, and formal. The dark tones of the images works well with the styling, and also gives off the appropriate mood for the collection.
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The British division of Japanese manufacturer Nissan announced yesterday the introduction of the right-hand drive market of the new Nissan 370 Roadster. The news is a bit surprising, as the carmaker was announcing back in September 2009 that the new car will not be able to hit British roads until at least March this year.
The 370Z Roadster wears a price tag of £29,900, while the GT version can reach £36,150 (with Sat Nav included). Nissan is offering a limited number of additional options fo… (read more)
Fernando Alonso refused to spend too much time responding to Lewis Hamilton during the media meetings Ferrari held at the Madonna di Campiglio ski resort in northern Italy. Earlier this month, his former McLaren teammate bragged in the British media that he blew Alonso away in his first year at the Woking squad, something that almost made up for the lost title in 2007.
Obviously, the international media present at the Wrooom event in Italy decided to piggyback on the topic and asked Alonso to… (read more)
La Clio IV, comme jadis la Clio I, va recevoir prochainement le renfort d’une version S, avant tout destinée à une clientèle jeune et qui, contrairement aux autres sportives de la gamme Clio, n’aura que son look à faire valoir.
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Pour le moment, ça ne concerne que Renault UK, mais on peut penser que ce n’est pas pour longtemps, puisque les photos officielles montrent un version continentale avec poste de conduite à gauche.
La nouvelle S, comme l’ancienne des années 90, n’aura de sportive que l’allure, puisque les motorisations proposées sont des 1.2 en 16S/75cv ou TCe 100cv , ainsi que le 1.5 DCi 85.
Par contre, côté allure donc, la petite Renault assure avec ses jantes de 16 pouces blanches, son spoiler arrière, ses vitres surteintées et sa bande blanche « racing » (optionnelle). A noter également la décoration spécifique des boucliers et des coques de rétroviseurs.
A l’intérieur, inserts, compteurs et console centrale font l’objet d’une déco. spécifique, les sièges sont surpiqués et le volant est gainé de cuir.
Côté teintes disponibles, on retrouvera outre ce rouge « Piment », un bleu « Extrême », un noir « Perle », et un blanc « Glacier ».
Pour l’instant, les tarifs disponibles sont en livres et ne signifient donc pas grand chose, on peut toutefois en déduire un prix de base très accessible en 1.2 16V.
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Natasha Turner, N.D. is a Toronto-based naturopathic doctor. She is the founder of the Clear Medicine wellness boutique and author of the bestselling book The Hormone Diet. Each week in her column for That’s Fit.ca, Dr. Turner advises readers on how to remedy common health issues as well as improve their overall health.
It’s that time of day again or maybe that time of the month, when your craving for chocolate arises and nothing else will do. But with your New Year’s resolution fresh in the works – what can you do about it?
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Stanford selects alumna Susan Rice ‘86 to give 119th Commencement address in June
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, will address the graduating Class of 2010 at June’s commencement ceremony.
Rice – not to be confused with political science Prof. Condoleezza Rice – received her bachelor’s degree in history from Stanford in 1986 and has since served in multiple capacities under Presidents Clinton and Obama. She will join philosophy Prof. Debra Satz, who will give the Class Day lecture, and Eboo Patel, a member of Obama’s faith advisory council, who will give the Baccalaureate address. The 119th Commencement Weekend is scheduled to begin Friday, June 11.
In a statement, Stanford President John Hennessy likened Rice’s goals to those of the University: “to tackle the most pressing global challenges, including addressing climate change and combating poverty, disease and violence to promote peace.”
Rice was unanimously confirmed as ambassador to the U.N. in January 2009 after being nominated by Obama, for whose campaign she served as a senior adviser for national security affairs. From 1997 to 2001, she was the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, and from 1995 to 1997, she served as Special Assistant to President Clinton as well as Senior Director for African Affairs on the National Security Council.
As Assistant Secretary of State, Rice engineered U.S. policy for 48 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa while overseeing 43 American embassies. In 2000, she was the co-recipient of the White House’s Samuel Nelson Drew Memorial Award for distinguished contributions to the formation of peaceful, cooperative relationships between states.
While at Stanford, Rice studied history and was a Truman scholar, graduating with Phi Beta Kappa honors. She then went on to earn master’s and Ph.D. degrees in International Relations from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.
“We are thrilled that Ambassador Rice will return to Stanford to share her perspective on some of the greatest challenges facing the world,” said the senior class presidents in a joint statement. “She is in a position of international leadership with a record of service promoting peace and humanity.”
To select a commencement speaker, the senior class presidents poll their classmates for potential candidates, before bringing those names to the president and provost of the University. The Office of the President has said in the past that speakers should have some connection to Stanford and should be “interesting and dynamic” communicators.
This year’s senior class presidents include Walter Foxworth, Dan Ha, Ansaf Kareem and Aria Florant.
Philosophy Prof. Debra Satz, who directs the Center for Ethics in Society, is a recipient of the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stanford’s highest teaching award.
“Her classes on ethics and moral justice have inspired many of us, and we are so pleased that our entire class will benefit from her wisdom in our final lecture as Stanford undergraduates,” the class presidents said.
Satz’s research has focused on, among other areas, ethics, equality, feminist philosophy and international justice. Her upcoming book is entitled, “Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale: The Limits of Markets.”
Eboo Patel, a Muslim born in India and raised in Chicago, serves as executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a nonprofit he founded in 1998 to promote understanding among college students. He is also the author of a Washington Post blog that explores the forces that exist between different faiths.
“We believe Eboo Patel’s lifelong work to encourage religious tolerance and to prompt young people to take action will inspire all of us to make a difference,” the senior class presidents said.
Commencement will take place Sunday, June 13, in Stanford Stadium. The Baccalaureate ceremony and Senior Class Day lecture will take place the previous day.
On their Commencement speaker, the class presidents said, “Every one of us will benefit from hearing how we can similarly go forth and make a difference in the world with a Stanford education.”
Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy ’58 addressed the graduating Class of 2009.
Addressing a captivated audience in Cubberly Auditorium on Thursday evening, Prof. Emeritus Philip Zimbardo praised heroes and examined villains. While he considered good and evil parts of the human condition, Zimbardo said he holds the system responsible. (JUSTIN LAM/Staff Photographer)
System perpetuates evil actions, Zimbardo says
Attacking a system that produces villains, Stanford Prof. Emeritus Philip Zimbardo lectured at Cubberley Auditorium Thursday evening, interspersing jokes with mentions of Hitler, obesity and torturing puppies.
During the lecture, the first in the newly-created Meng-Wu lecture series put on by the Center for Compassion and Altruism in the School of Medicine, Zimbardo explored how humans turn from good to evil.
Grabbing the audience’s attention from the beginning, Zimbardo blared his “evil warm-up music” – Carlos Santana’s song “Change your Evil Ways” – through the auditorium.
As he danced and mouthed along to the song, audience members chatted excitedly in the background about seeing Zimbardo “in the flesh,” as many were familiar with the professor’s past research, including the Stanford Prison Experiment.
Zimbardo, who considers good and evil as part of the human condition, blamed the system for producing such modern day “villains” as Stalin, Hitler, Chairman Mao, Saddam Hussein and Dick Cheney. According to Zimbardo, the people themselves are not at fault; instead, the system had set them up to become evil.
“It’s not that someone is born good or born evil,” he said. “We are born in capacity to do both at any time.”
Systemic social norms affect peoples’ behavior – to positive or negative effect. To prove his point, he cited social connections as the prime cause of obesity.
“The worst is to have a friend who is a fatty,” Zimbardo said. “You’re going to become fat 147 percent of the time.”
He reserved blame for society, rather than “evil” individuals.
According to Zimbardo, people claim that only the sadists would engage in sadistic behavior, but a study proved that 65 percent of people would fully electrocute someone when egged on.
“It’s not that you’re an evil person,” he said. “You’re just trapped in the situation.”
Audience members looked uneasy as Zimbardo brought up a study in which students were asked to electrify a puppy for the sake of their grades. According to him, though many subjects were crying while watching the puppy struggle and squeal, they still proceeded to raise the shock level when told.
Most shockingly, Zimbardo drew a parallel between his famous Prison Experiment with photos taken at Abu Ghraib. Audience members sat quietly, but in awe, as Zimbardo showed a dramatic slideshow of the pictures taken at the Abu Ghraib prison.
“Power without oversight is a recipe for abuse everywhere,” he said. “People who usually do good might do otherwise when under certain situations.
“It’s systemic and not limited to Abu Ghraib,” he added. “If the problem was bad apples, then they could be sent to prison and the situation would be fixed. But no, the Army knew that the situation would make the soldiers do evil.”
Calling the incident entirely predictable behavior, he also blamed the government for the soldiers’ actions.
“[The U.S. government] gave them permission to do whatever the hell they want without any surveillance at night in the dungeons,” he said. “The government just didn’t think that they would take pictures, but the soldiers did, and even used them as bragging rights.
“It’s hard to say that the things people are doing are not systemic if the system is supporting them,” he added.
But he stressed that heroism existed as an antidote to evil, and he encouraged everyone to do “good” in the world.
“Very few people do good shit and very few people do bad shit,” he said. “Most just do no shit at all.”
Zimbardo flipped through slides of heroes and explained each story of heroism, from Rosa Parks to Holocaust resistors to a man who recently jumped onto train tracks in order to save a man having a seizure.
Unless someone speaks out, the cycle of violence will perpetuate itself, he said. Zimbardo then admitted that the only reason he had concluded the Stanford Prison Experiment early was because his current wife, his personal hero, commented on how sadistic the experiment was.
Students were impressed by the information the professor presented.
“I heard a little bit about [his research] before, but his full theories in detail were really cool,” said Stewart Macgregor-Dennis ’13. “He gave us a more whole way of viewing the world instead of just dismissing people as evil.”
Macgregor-Dennis added: “I think his heroes research is going to be really cool – hopefully, he’ll come up with some practical suggestions about how people can be in the world.”
To provide direct aid to the strained Hopital Albert Schweitzer in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, the Stanford School of Medicine announced plans to match donations from the Stanford community up to $25,000. (MATTHEW MAREK/American Red Cross)
Stanford’s School of Medicine, hospitals and clinics will match donations from students, faculty and staff to support the relief efforts of Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, the only remaining fully-functioning hospital near the devastated capital of Port-Au-Prince in Haiti.
The medical community is offering the larger campus community a dollar-for-dollar challenge grant of $25,000.
Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) withstood the magnitude 7.0, Jan. 12 quake that has devastated Haiti and left thousands dead. A HAS report released Wednesday reads: “As the flow of people urgently seeking care increases over the next few days and weeks, our resources will be pushed to the breaking point. It is critical that we receive support to help us continue with our mission.”
The report continues: “This is the most serious challenge ever faced by HAS in its 54-year history, and while we are currently coping with the onslaught of the injured, we urgently need support. At this moment, we don’t have the capability to accept material goods or personnel. Our greatest and most urgent need is for funds to pay overtime wages to our dedicated staff, and to buy replacement medicines and supplies.”
Those who wish to donate to the challenge grant may do so at www.hashaiti.org/C1a_w1.html. Checks or money orders may also be sent to Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, P.O. Box 81046, Pittsburgh, PA, 15217.
For both methods, in order to be matched, it must be indicated that the payment is a “tribute gift” from one of the following institutions: Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University Department of Medicine or Stanford Hospital and Clinics.
Battery maker A123Systems and plug-in car startup Fisker Automotive, which announced a new partnership on Thursday, seem like natural dance partners. Each exists as an outsider in an entrenched industry, they’re both gearing up for a ramp up in 2011 and they share one mega backer — the U.S. government.
But as Jason Forcier, VP of Automotive […]
There’s plenty on offer from Mini in 2010, with a new petrol engine range for all Mini First, One, Cooper and Cooper S models in the hatch, covertible and clubman ranges. The Mini First and Mini One will now have a 1.6-litre engine which replaces the 1.4-litre, and will have more power and torque with better fuel consumption.
A new Mini Rainbow colour option is available, and the Mini Graphite Special Edition model range will now include Clubman models. The Mini Rainbow series will offer three different paint options of Sunlight Metallic, Asteroid Metallic and Nightlife Metallic, and will be available in March/April 2010.
A Mini One Covertible car will also now be able, providing an entry level model in the open air range that previously included just the Cooper, Cooper S or John Cooper Works models. The Mini One Convertible will have a 1.6-litre engine with 98 hp and 153 Nm of torque, and should cost less than 15,000 pounds. Check out the new Mini Rainbow paint job in the gallery!
In an ongoing effort to help the poorest country in the Americas survive and recover from a devastating earthquake, hackers around the world are participating in CrisisCamp Hackathons this Saturday, January 16.
The unconference-style events are free for attendees, who are asked to volunteer their time and expertise to create technology projects that provide data, information, maps and technical assistance to non-governmental organizations, relief agencies and the public.
The CrisisCamps being held this weekend will all directly benefit Haitian relief efforts.
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Volunteers of all kinds – the technically talented and others, too – are requested to sign up.
Hackathons are being organized in Silicon Valley, London, Washington DC and Boulder/Denver. Some of these events still need organization and leadership help; volunteers are asked to take charge and donate whatever time or resources they have available.
Proposed projects so far include a base layer map for Port Au Prince for NGOs and relief agencies, a family locator system, a volunteer skill matrix, a news aggregator to coordinate data feeds and ongoing definitions to support ongoing CrisisCamp efforts. For an idea of how these kinds of tech can help in times of national and natural disasters, check out Chad Catacchio’s post on crisis mapping.
CrisisCamp’s goal is to gather topic experts, app developers and emergency first responders to create better technology and practices for crisis management and disaster relief.
For updates and more information, follow CrisisCamp on Twitter.
For more on what technologists are doing to help relief efforts in Haiti, check out these other RWW posts:
Internet Rallies to Help Haiti: Here’s What You Can Do Right Now
Google Offers Satellite Images of Haiti, Post-Earthquake
CloudCamp for Haiti: How the Cloud Can Help Aid Efforts
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According to the recent issue of Self Magazine, Jessica Alba is just like the rest of us — she has cellulite and stretch marks. And she’s OK with that!
Recent studies are proving what any insomniac already knows — chronic sleep loss is really hard to deal with.
Warm up that credit card and don your most comfortable flats for the most enjoyable workout program out there — studies show that shopping burns a whopping 48,000 calorie a year!
On a more serious note, you might be passing around an STI without even knowing it. Play six degrees of HPV and find out just how common this virus is.
She’s at her slimmest size ever, so how did Kim Kardashian lose weight without losing her curves? That’s Fit uncovers her secrets.
Yep you heard that right. From our Friends that are bringing us Star Trek Online you can now Tweet in Klingon. Now if you’ve been following me on Twitter (Yeah I changed my name again. You should all be used to it by now) you’ll have seen some random tweets here and there in Klingon. What better to do with twitter than geek out make yourself look even cooler, like you took the time to actually learn Klingon.
This also happens to work out nicely as a Klingon translator also. Then when you’re at work and need to “encrypt” some emails, simply send them in Klingon. The only time that wouldn’t work is if your HR staff are a bunch of Trekkies too. But seriously, it’s HR not like they’ll know, and your IT buddies hopefully will play along with not knowing.
Here’s some examples of what others are tweeting in Klingon:
Klingon: maH laH muv tay’ Daqjey Federal chaw’!
English: We can join together to defeat the Federal Reserve!
Klingon: ‘oH ghaH QaQ jaj DaqjaH
English: It is a good day to tweet
By Esther Lewis
Staff Reporter
TWO car guards at the Table Mountain cableway station are now the proud drivers of a luxury car valued at R1.4 million – handed to them by a businessman who asked that they use it to perform good deeds because of a dream he’d had.
It’s not clear whether the donor’s grand gesture is part of a publicity campaign for his business but there is no branding on the car.
The Cape Argus has learnt that he is still the registered owner of the vehicle.
The extraordinary gift has piqued the interest of visitors to the mountain, and led to the two men being stopped several times by police officers who believed they must have stolen the gleaming black Audi R8.
But each time they have been released because police have approached the businessman who has confirmed the duo’s bizarre story.
The man has asked the car guards and police not to identify him.
Fabrice Munganga-Mugala, 25, and Desire Shima, 25, are both from the Democratic Republic of Congo. They say they were working at Table Mountain’s cableway parking lot a week ago when they were approached by the businessman.
"We were a group of four and he started speaking to us. He said a dream told him to come to the mountain," Shima said.
He asked who of the group was licensed to drive. Munganga-Mugala and Shima said they had licences.
The man said he would fetch a car from his home, bring it to the mountain and the pair could keep it.
"We didn’t think he was serious – but then he came back," Shima said.
The guards, who live in Milnerton, were handed the car keys, registration papers and an invoice. It had been bought by the businessman in December and was fully paid for.
"The car doesn’t belong to anyone, it belongs to the mountain.
"He gave it to us to show that if you can help others, you must give without wanting anything in return," said Shima, a third-year Information Technology student.
The Audi R8, which retails from R1,4m without any extras, has attracted a great deal of attention.
One tourist asked the Cape Argus if the car belonged to a celebrity.
Another man asked Munganga-Mugala if he could use it for his wedding day.
The duo have cut a slit in the bonnet for people to drop off messages or slip in donations. Around the slit are the words: "A better future for all." The engine is in the back of the car.
The duo felt it was necessary to create the slit so that they could spread the donor’s message.
They are unsure about what to put on personalised licence plates, but they want it to reflect a message of hope and goodwill.
The two say that after their shifts at the cableway, they buy food and drive around the city to distribute it to homeless and needy people.
"Because of the gift we have received, we want to give to others. He has taught us that we must give what we can.
"He has also shown us how the rich should, and can, help the poor," Munganga-Mugala said.
Police confirmed that they were aware of the bizarre situation.
After teasing us with a press release a few days agon, Access has finally made their Netfront 4.0 browser available for download. The small 2.4 MB.
The software, which can be downloaded here, is said to feature a much faster Javascript engine and improved UI.
Give a download and let us know your impressions below.
The official debut of the Ford S-MAX and Galaxy took place yesterday at the 2010 Brussels Show, as they prepare to enter the market and take lead of Ford’s sales in the new year. The two are important in the carmaker’s lineup as they are the first to feature Ford’s new 2.0l EcoBoost petrol engine.
"We’ve given both models a fresh new look and more premium appeal, but it is beneath the skin that the major changes have been made," John Fleming, Ford of Europe CEO said in a release.
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Engineered Garments picks up where they left off from their Fall/Winter collection. That’s one thing you can appreciate about EG, the continuity of their collections always stays in line with their design philosophies season to season. In keeping with vintage and workwear aesthetics, the Spring/Summer 2010 collection is put together with some very outstanding pieces. The jackets and blazers stay unique as always, but the highlight of the collection is the outerwear, which goes well with their hat and scarf accessories.
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Although the International Automobile Federation (FIA) made it quite clear that they would appeal the decision issued by Paris’ Tribunal de Grande Instance in the Flavio Briatore case, Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone begged to differ.
Present at Ferrari’s Wrooom event in the Madonna di Campiglio ski resort in northern Italy, the F1 executive told the media that he thinks little of the FIA’s appeal options. The 79-year old Brit admitted he doesn’t think the ruling body will go forward wi… (read more)
Slashdot points us to the news that the ACLU is looking to challenge Homeland Security’s policies that it has pretty free reign in searching your laptop at the border. Now, to date, the courts have said that this is perfectly legal, so it’s not clear what is “new” that the ACLU hopes to prove. However, last year, after revealing that the new administration still stood by these border computer searches, it also revealed some data on laptop searches, suggesting they are quite rare — but do still happen. However, the ACLU is seeking people whose laptops were searched, but that looks like a pretty small number of people. While I agree that these searches seem quite questionable for a variety of reasons, I just don’t see this lawsuit being effective.
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Wouldn’t it be great to have a digital food machine sitting in your kitchen that could create any dish, real or imagined, from scratch at the touch of a button? Cornucopia: Digital Gastronomy is a concept design that uses the well-established principles of 3D printing – plus precisely timed and temperature-controlled mixing and cooking – to open the door to a virtually limitless realm of replicable, creative cuisine in shapes and combinations that are simply impossible using our current, centuries-old cooking techniques. It’s a wonderful look into the future of cooking, from the creative food lover’s perspective…
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