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The Shipwrecked Impostor


The shipwrecked Chimpanzee had been clinging for a long time to a
slender spar, when a Dolphin came up and offered to carry him
ashore. This kind proposition was immediately accepted, and, as they
moved along, the Chimp commenced to tell the Fish many marvelous
tales, every one of them a bundle of falsehoods. "Well, well, you
are indeed an educated chap," said the Dolphin in admiration. "My
schooling has been sadly neglected, as I went to sea when but a week
old." Just then they entered a large bay, and the Dolphin, referring
to it, said, "I suppose you know Herring Roads?" The chimp, taking
this for the name of a fellow, and not wishing to appear ignorant,
replied: "Do I know Rhodes? Well, I should almost think so! He's an
old college chum of mine, and related to our family by-" This was
too much for the Dolphin, who immediately made a great leap, and
then diving quickly, left the impostor in the air for an instant
before he splashed back and disappeared.

"A liar deceives no one but himself."

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Happy Holden : 02/01/2003

Happy Thoughts -- Happy Holden : Time for a Change: Innovation in Interconnects

I'll resist the temptation to complain about the current state of our industry. Having worked with the Chinese (and lived there) for four years, I have learned to be patient, and focus on the "Few Important Topics." I've attended many long meetings in China and Taiwan, all conducted in Mandarin, as I strained to keep up with the conversation using my limited Mandarin vocabulary. This certainly is a time for "straining to keep up." This will also be a time for dramatic change. Indeed, this is the time for innovation!

Interconnect Innovations



Before I look at innovations, let's review what we do now. What do our customers want? What product are we building or designing? The printed circuit board has been around 40 or 50 years (the idea, Dr. Ken Gilleo says, is 100 years old, circa 1903) without too many changes. The purpose of the PCB (and our customer expectations) is three-fold: 1. Hold electrical parts; 2. Connect them electrically; and 3. Sometimes, provide the proper electrical environment (impedance, low noise, etc.).

In addition, the product must provide value (that is, the benefits are larger than the price). In its most basic form, the product (the PCB) consists of only three components: an insulator, a conductive track, and a z-axis conduit. This is nicely illustrated in the Japanese process summary of HDI Technologies in Figure 1. In the diagram, the predominate HDI process used in North America and Europe is not on it. Presumably because we are not using any particular proprietary HDI technology. I have added it in the "dashed-line."



There are three Innovative Interconnect Technologies I would like to discuss, shown in Figure 2. The diagram illustrates the simplicity of such technologies.

# Neo-Manhattan Technology

# OrmeLink Technology

# Imprint Technology


Time for a Change

I have heard that current multilayer prices have fallen to 1.3 cents per square inch per layer! At this price, everyone is slowly losing money. It is time for a change. The only way to survive may be to adopt a totally new way to make interconnects that costs a lot less. Interestingly, these three innovative technologies I have presented here can be combined. The innovation is up to you!


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Acronym Definition
BUMP Benthic Untethered Multipurpose Platform
BUMP Boston University Marine Program
BUMP Bring Up My Post (messaging/BBSs) ...




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A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe that God exists."

"Why do you say that?" asked the customer.

"Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things."

The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument.

The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt.

The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist."

"How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber. "I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!"

"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside."

"Ah, but barbers DO exist! " answered the barber. "What happens, is, people do not come to me."

"Exactly!"- affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! What happens, is, people don't go to Him and do not look for Him. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."

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Happy Sunday

You'd think a guy like me would have published a book by now. I have books in my bloodstream. I've always read, hoarded, coveted, and loved books — I even like to read books about books. In fact, I would probably be working with books to this very day, if it hadn't been for a fellow by the name of Ron Reagan.

It happened like this. It was 1980 and I was looking for a job (a circumstance that's unfortunately oddly familiar right now). There was an opening at the Library of Congress in the Preservation Department — the office charged with maintaining, restoring, conserving, and rebinding books from the library's vast holdings. The conservators at the L. of C. are virtuosos of a sort. They work at the leading edge of book conservation and get to care for the nation's priceless bibliophilic treasures. Theirs was a world I very much wanted to be part of.

I had interviewed for the position twice or three times (I can't remember exactly, it's been that long) with Peter Waters, who was the head of the department at the time. We were waiting only on some hazy bureaucratic approval process to come through before I was formally offered the job. It was all over but the paperwork, I was told.

Then that Reagan guy got elected. The first thing he did, as some of you may recall, was to freeze federal hiring, at least in the Administrative branch. Although not technically obligated to do so, the Congressional branch went along, out of sympathy.

So my job sat there, open and waiting. And I sat there too. Waiting.

And waiting...

And waiting.

I waited month after long, agonizing month. Finally, I'd had enough waiting, so I enrolled in photography school.

The Book, Boss, the Book!

Despite that career deflection, I've never lost my affection for all things bibliophilic. And yet in spite of having been a writer in one form or another for many years, I've never put a book of my own together ... Finally ...



My First Book

This was fun to do. In fact, I liked putting this book together so much that I might do it again! I really hope you enjoy it. Let me know!

Happy Sunday
- Mike Johnston

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Terrifying Tuesday ... Thoughts
It's September 13, 2001. For the past few days the skies have been overcast, rainy, and downright gloomy here in the southern New Mexico mountains. The astronomer in me would normally find this rather frustrating, but right now I don't really seem to care, since it matches my mood almost exactly.
Like most Americans, and I suspect --and hope--most people around the planet, I was shocked and horrified by the events of this past Tuesday. I've seen the televised images countless times--the passenger jetliners crashing into the towers of the World Trade Center, the subsequent crumbling of those structures to the ground--and I'm still not sure that the fact that these aren't glitzy special effects in some adventure movie but rather are stone cold reality has sunk into my brain. I cannot even begin to imagine the horror that must have been experienced by those aboard the four hijacked airliners, those in and near the World Trade Center, and those at the Pentagon during those moments when their lives were snatched from them. As I contemplate the thousands of innocent people who lost their lives in such senseless slaughter, I search for answers to the same questions I'm sure haunt everyone who has seen these images: who could have done this? And why?
As horrible as these scenes are, what sinks me into the deepest despair is the fact that this is nothing new. We've seen this thing before, countless times … We see it all the time in the land that some people call Palestine and others call Israel … We saw it in the frightened face of twelve-year-old Mohammed al-Durrah before he was cut down by gunfire at Netzarim and in the bloodied bodies of Israeli soldiers dangling from the window of the police station at Ramallah, Saudi Arabia … We've seen it elsewhere, too … We've seen slaughter in the streets … We saw it during the Nazi regime … We saw it in all … in the bloodbath upon bloodbath upon bloodbath that has marked almost every era of human history … We're seeing it right now in hate-filled attacks against U.S. citizens s
imply because they are of Arab origin or of Islamic faith … We saw it in the slave ships that came from Africa and on the slave plantations of the nineteenth century and in the lynchings of the twentieth century. We saw it in the way our ancestors took this land from those who were here first. … And, lest we forget, the death toll in Japan at Hiroshima and Nagasaki--cities full of unarmed civilians--numbered in the tens of thousands. Let's also remember that these were only a small fraction of the tens of millions of lives--military and civilian, and on all sides--that were lost during World War II.
Of course, we humans have accomplished many wonderful things as well. We've landed people on the moon and brought them safely back to Earth, and we've made extraordinary progress against the many diseases that have afflicted us throughout our history … My heart sings when I think of the heroism of the rescue workers in New York City and Washington, D.C. - many of whom have risked and sacrificed their lives for their fellow human beings - and of the people around the country and around the world who have donated their blood to the victims of Tuesday's tragedy … When I contemplate these types of actions, I begin to believe that perhaps there is hope for us humans .
I'd like to think - with every part of my being - that there is some way to bring the perpetrators of Tuesday's nightmare to appropriate justice and still retain the humanity that we've struggled so hard to achieve … I do have a couple of suggestions. After we've made the world safe from terrorism …let's take a good, hard look at all the carnage we'll have left around us. That is, if there are any of us left to look around, of course … We should also forget for awhile about exploring space or researching stem cells or trying to figure out the mysteries of the universe or other such pursuits. Those are activities for a mature species, and it'll be all too clear that we will still have a lot of growing up left to do.
- Alan Hale *

* Alan Hale is founder and director of the nonprofit Southwest Institute for Space Research in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, and was codiscoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp in 1995. During the past two years he has led two delegations of American Scientists, Students, and Educators on "Scientific Diplomacy" Visits to Iran.

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"Bop" stands for "Bird of Paradise."
Hyderabad ... HEAVEN's ... HAPPY WONDER ... Thrilling Thursday's Thunderbird

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SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence)
A Practical Approach To Developing Real Anti-Aging Medicine

SENS is a detailed plan for curing human aging. SENS is an engineering project, in the same way that medicine is a branch of engineering. The key to SENS is the appreciation that aging is best viewed as a set of progressive changes in body composition at the molecular and cellular level, caused as side-effects of essential metabolic processes. These changes are therefore best thought of as an accumulation of "damage", which becomes pathogenic above a certain threshold of abundance. The traditional gerontological approach to life extension, namely to try to slow down this accumulation of damage, is a misguided strategy, firstly because it requires us to improve biological processes that we do not adequately understand, and secondly because it can even in principle only retard aging rather than reverse it. An even more short-termist alternative is the geriatric approach, namely to try to stave off pathology in the face of accumulating damage; this is a losing battle because the continuing accumulation of damage makes pathology more and more inescapable. Instead, the engineering (SENS) strategy is not to interfere with metabolism per se, but to repair or obviate the accumulating damage and thereby indefinitely postpone the age at which it reaches pathogenic levels.



The above diagram sums up the SENS philosophy. The strange arrows with flat heads are a notation used in the literature of gene expression and gene regulation, and they mean "inhibits". Thus, geriatrics is the attempt to stop damage from causing pathology; traditional gerontology is the attempt to stop metabolism from causing damage; and the SENS (engineering) approach is periodically to eliminate the damage, so keeping its abundance below the level that causes any pathology.

This website contains detailed descriptions of the components of the SENS strategy, all of which are likely to be feasible in mice within a decade (presuming adequate funding), and may be translatable to humans within a decade or two thereafter. A variety of related material is also here. Take a look around.

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http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/sens/

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Do You Make a Difference?

Every day brings many opportunities to make a loving difference in our world.

To love ourselves through rest, recreation, and self-expression. To love others through listening, caring, and extending a helping hand. To love life by honoring all around us.

Changing the world starts with us. Right here, right now. One moment and one heart at a time.

What are we waiting for? ...

Are you disillusioned with religion, or part of the Silent Spiritual Majority that is disconnected from what their religion promises? Do you leave the good feelings at the door the few times you go, and find it of little relevance in your daily life?

Perhaps it's time to awaken to the spiritual journey we're all on, and discover the joy that every moment offers. ...

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Whisper Academy : Practical Spirituality for Life

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Declaration of Self Esteem

I am me. In all the world there is no one else like me. There are persons who have some parts like me, but no one adds up exactly like me.

Therefore everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone chose it.

I own everything about me.....my body, including everything it does; my mind, including all its thoughts and ideas; my eyes, including the images of all they behold; my feelings, whatever they may be --- anger, joy, frustration, love, disappointment, excitement, my mouth and all the words that come out of it - polite, sweet or rough, correct or incorrect; my voice loud or soft; and all my actions, whether they be to others or to myself.