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Friday, August 29, 2014

Guess what - Hello Kitty's not a cat


My Paper, Friday, August 29, 2014, Page A10, Top Stories
From http://epaper.mypaper.sg/emnd/fvxen/fvxp/fvxpress.php?param=2014-08-29
Source Website: http://mypaper.sg/top-stories/guess-what-hello-kittys-not-cat-20140829
By mypaper, myp@sph.com.sg, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Published on Aug 29, 2014


HELLO GIRLY?
PHOTO: HELLO GIRLY? The icon's real name is Kitty White, and she was born in southern England on Nov 1, 1974, according to Sanrio.
PHOTO: BLOOMBERG
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TOKYO
HELLO Kitty is not a cat, the company behind Japan's global icon of cute insisted yesterday, despite an uproar from Internet users who spluttered: "But she's got whiskers!"

The moon-faced creation which adorns everything from pencil cases to pyjamas the world over is, in fact, human.

"Hello Kitty is a cheerful and happy little girl with a heart of gold," brand owner Sanrio said on its website.

The shocking revelation came to light when a Hawaii-based academic specialising in the epitome of "kawaii" ("cute" in Japanese) asked Sanrio to fact-check captions for an exhibition she was curating to mark the 40th anniversary of Hello Kitty.

Christine Yano, an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii, told the Los Angeles Times that she "was corrected - very firmly" by Sanrio that Kitty was not a cat.

"That's one correction Sanrio made for my script for the show," the paper quoted her as saying.

"Hello Kitty is not a cat. She's a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat. 
 
She's never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature."

And indeed, an AFP inquiry as to the status - feline or otherwise - of one of Japan's most famous exports confirmed her non-cat identity.

"It is a 100 per cent personified character," a Sanrio spokesman told AFP in Tokyo. "The design takes the motif of a cat, but there is no element of a cat in Hello Kitty's setting."

Her real name is Kitty White, he explained, and she was born in southern England on Nov 1, 1974. She is a Scorpio with blood type A.

She has a twin sister, Minny White, and lives in an unnamed suburb of London with father George and mother Mary, according to her profile on the Web.

Despite her whiskers and pointy ears, just like the rest of her family, Kitty has her own pet - a "real" cat named Charmmy Kitty.

Her life story has always been there, the spokesman said, adding the personification is meant to make her fans feel closer to the character "as a friend".

Asked about the worldwide reaction to the revelation that Hello Kitty is not a cat, the spokesman said: "I don't think anyone in Japan found it surprising."

A poll of Japanese people within the AFP Tokyo bureau found that not to be the case.

The spokesman explained that Kitty and her family were given no specific nationality but were designed to be living in Britain, because many girls in Japan had strong admiration for the Western lifestyle in the 1970s.

By mypaper, myp@sph.com.sg, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Published on Aug 29, 2014


HELLO Kitty is not a cat. Hello Kitty is a cheerful and happy little girl with a heart of gold.
PHOTO: HELLO Kitty is not a cat. Hello Kitty is a cheerful and happy little girl with a heart of gold.
Picture posted by ShooterBoy on November 22, 2011
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Thursday, August 14, 2014

Only stupid people call people stupid

My Paper, Thursday, August 14, 2014, Page A9, Opinion
From http://epaper.mypaper.sg/emnd/fvxen/fvxp/fvxpress.php?param=2014-08-14
Source Website: http://mypaper.sg/opinion/only-stupid-people-call-people-stupid-20140814
By Megan Mcardle, mypaper, Bloomberg, Published on Aug 14, 2014


Stupid, Stupid, Stupid
PHOTO: Stupid, Stupid, Stupid
Proving you are smart is a pointless endeavour (unless you are looking for a job)
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PAUL Krugman, the Nobel prize-winning economist, likes to call people stupid liars. Laurence Kotlikoff, a professor of economics at Boston University, gets a little mad about it, but Noah Smith, an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University, says he should not.

In the end, I think people overreact to the "stupid" insult because, as a society, we use arguments the wrong way.

We tend to treat arguments like debate competitions - two people argue in front of a crowd, and whoever wins gets the love and adoration of the crowd, and whoever loses goes home defeated and shamed.

I guess that is better than seeing arguments as threats of physical violence, but I still prefer the idea of arguing as a way to learn, to bounce ideas off other people.

Proving you are smart is a pointless endeavour (unless you are looking for a job), and is an example of what Carol Dweck, a Stanford University psychologist, calls a "fixed mindset".

It is a noble sentiment, but I have to side with Prof Kotlikoff on this one: We should not call people stupid.

And when other people resort to name-calling, we should discourage them by expressing public disapproval, because calling people stupid... makes people stupid.

I mean, I agree with Dr Smith on one point; it does not particularly bother me when people call me stupid.

Either it is true or it is not, and if it is not, I revise my opinion of the speaker downwards and move on, though possibly not until after several further downgrades.

On the other hand, it took me a long time to get to the point where I did not mind that strangers were yelling at me on the Internet, and I recognise that my attitude is not normal.

Most people get mad when you say they are stupid, and when they are mad, they are not listening. Neither is anyone else who likes the person you just said was stupid. So, congratulations: In one fell swoop, you have guaranteed that no one who disagrees with you will hear a word that you are saying.

Ultimately, calling people stupid is simply a performance for the fellow travellers in your audience.

It is a way that we can all come together and agree that we do not have to engage with some argument, because the person making it is a bovine lackwit without the basic intellectual equipment to come in out of the rain. So the first message it sends - "do not listen to opposing arguments" - is a stupid message that is hardly going to make anyone smarter.

The second message it sends is even worse: "If he is stupid, then we, who disagree with him, are the opposite of stupid, and can rest steady in the assurance of our cognitive superiority."

Feeding your own arrogance is an expansive, satisfying feeling. It is also the feeling of you getting stupider.

I am always fascinated by the number of people who proudly build columns, tweets, blog posts or Facebook posts around the same core statement: "I do not understand how anyone could (oppose legal abortion/support a carbon tax/sympathise with the Palestinians over the Israelis/want to privatise Social Security/insert your pet issue here)."

It is such an interesting statement, because it has three layers of meaning.

The first layer is the literal meaning of the words: I lack the knowledge and understanding to figure this out.

But the second, intended meaning is the opposite: I am such a superior moral being that I cannot even imagine the cognitive errors or moral turpitude that could lead someone to such obviously wrong conclusions.


I lack the knowledge and understanding to figure this out
PHOTO: I lack the knowledge and understanding to figure this out
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And yet, the third, true meaning is actually more like the first: I lack the empathy, moral imagination or analytical skills to attempt even a basic understanding of the people who disagree with me.

In short, "I am stupid." Something that few people would ever post so starkly on their Facebook feeds.

To me, calling other people stupid is simply a variant of this.

Calling other people stupid is, of course, a great deal of fun - who does not like that giddy, expansive feeling, or the admiration of our ideological compatriots? But crack cocaine is also a lot of fun (I hear). It is still bad for you, and you should not do it.

While we are all discussing our fantastic intellectual powers, we are not considering the possible weaknesses in our own argument or figuring out how to address them.

And of course we are widening the partisan divide that already makes this great nation of ours (the United States) very difficult to govern effectively.

So we should just say no to the use of "stupid" in public debate - and say "bad form" to the people who use it.

By Megan Mcardle, mypaper, Bloomberg, Published on Aug 14, 2014

 So we should just say no to the use of 'stupid' in public debate - and say 'bad form'
PHOTO: So we should just say no to the use of 'stupid' in public debate - and say 'bad form'
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Firefox OS to power new $32 smartphone

My Paper, Tuesday, February 25, 2014, Page A8, News, Technology, Top Stories
From http://epaper.mypaper.sg/emnd/fvxen/fvxp/fvxpress.php?param=2014-02-25
Source Website: http://mypaper.sg/top-stories/firefox-os-power-new-32-smartphone-20140225
By AFP, mypaper, Published on Feb 25, 2014


CHEAP: The US$25 Firefox smartphone would rely on integrated circuits made by Chinese electronics manufacturer Spreadtrum.
PHOTO: CHEAP: The US$25 Firefox smartphone would rely on integrated circuits made by Chinese electronics manufacturer Spreadtrum.
PHOTO: BLOOMBERG
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BARCELONA (capital city of the autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain)
FIREFOX OS, an upstart smartphone operating system aimed at challenging the Apple and Google duopoly, will power a new category of US$25 (S$32) smartphones for developing countries, the California-based non-profit Mozilla Foundation said on Sunday.

Mozilla sought to show off the success of its system, launched a year ago to prise open a market in which Google's Android was at the heart of 78.4 per cent of all smartphones sold last year and Apple's iOS in another 15.6 per cent, according to figures from technology research house Gartner.

On the eve of the opening of the four-day Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Mozilla announced the commercial launch of seven new devices using Firefox OS, including Chinese handset maker ZTE's smartphones, Open C and Open II, as well as a range of Alcatel OneTouch tablets.


The anti-Google sling wakes in Barcelona
PHOTO: The anti-Google sling wakes in Barcelona
The Android operating system runs on 70% of smartphones. Firefox wants to bring more competition.
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"We are also enabling a whole new category of smartphone, priced around US$25, that will bring even more people around the world online," said Mozilla chief operating officer Jay Sullivan.

The entry-level smartphone would rely on integrated circuits made by Chinese electronics manufacturer Spreadtrum, he said.


Firefox OS smartphone
PHOTO: Firefox OS smartphone
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Mozilla did not say how many Firefox-powered smartphones have been sold since the system's launch in July.

The foundation did say, however, that it expected Firefox OS to spread to other devices, including smart television sets.By AFP, mypaper, Published on Feb 25, 2014


Experimental Firefox OS software available for Sony Xperia E
PHOTO: Experimental Firefox OS software available for Sony Xperia E
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Thursday, January 9, 2014

Can't sleep? Turn off your phone

My Paper, Thursday, January 09, 2014, Page A13, Lifestyle, Health
From http://epaper.mypaper.sg/emnd/fvxen/fvxp/fvxpress.php?param=2014-01-09
Source Website: http://mypaper.sg/lifestyle/cant-sleep-turn-your-phone-20140109
By Bloomberg, mypaper, Published on Jan 09, 2014


NIGHT OWL: Using a smartphone, tablet or laptop at bedtime may be staving off sleep, according to Harvard Medical School scientists.
PHOTO: NIGHT OWL: Using a smartphone, tablet or laptop at bedtime may be staving off sleep, according to Harvard Medical School scientists. 
PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES
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My Paper, Thursday, January 09, 2014, Page A13, Lifestyle, Health


MELBOURNE. HAVING trouble sleeping? Check for a glow, inches from the pillow.

Using a smartphone, tablet or laptop at bedtime may be staving off sleep, according to Harvard Medical School scientists, who have found that specific wavelengths of light can suppress the slumber-inducing hormone melatonin in the brain.

"We have shifted ourselves biologically so we can't fall asleep earlier," said Dr Charles Czeisler, a professor of sleep medicine at Harvard Medical School. "The amazing thing is that we are still trying to get up with the chickens."


Unable to sleep? Eleven ways you can trick yourself into dozing off.
PHOTO: Unable to sleep? Eleven ways you can trick yourself into dozing off.
Find your trigger. The key to this trick is to start the habit as you drift off during a period when you are sleeping well, then you can use it when you have difficulty.

Do something unusual, such as stroking your own cheek, as you nod off, says hypnotherapist Sharon Stiles (sharonstiles.co.uk). “Focus all your attention on what the movement feels like,” says Sharon. Over successive nights, your body will learn to associate it with sleep and repeating it should convince your body it’s sleepy.
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The result is less sleep - and less time for the body to recover. Insufficient sleep has become so prevalent, it is now considered a public-health epidemic, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"Sleep is in a battle for our time with work life, social life and family life," said Dr David Hillman, a sleep specialist at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, Western Australia, and the chairman of the Sleep Health Foundation. "For a lot of us, it comes off a poor fourth in that battle."

Regular sleep disturbances are associated with ailments, including obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer, according to Dr Hillman.


Turn off your phone, tune back into life. Shower, eat, get ready before checking your email or texts in the morning.
PHOTO: Turn off your phone, tune back into life. Shower, eat, get ready before checking your email or texts in the morning.

For the rest of the year, I’m going to explore disconnecting more: choosing a phone-free day, going technology-free on weekend trips, limiting how many times a day I check my email.

Because I’m now turning my phone off before I go to sleep, it’s no longer second nature to scroll through Instagram or Facebook after clicking off my alarm. Instead, I’m actively avoiding checking my phone or my computer until after I’ve taken a shower, eaten breakfast, made my lunch, picked out my outfit, put on my makeup and packed my bag. News flash: nothing happens in that hour that is so important that it can’t be addressed later in the morning.
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Modern technology isn't helping.

The National Sleep Foundation in Arlington, Virginia, commissioned a survey of 1,500 randomly selected adults in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Britain and Japan to understand their bedroom environment and its effect on sleep for their inaugural 2013 International Bedroom Poll.

The results, published in September, showed that more than half of respondents in the US, Canada and Britain, as well as two thirds in Japan, used a computer, laptop or tablet in the hour before bed.


Turning off the phone and have enchanted interpretation of dreams, step by step ...
PHOTO: Turning off the phone and have enchanted interpretation of dreams, step by step ...
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"It's a massive issue, particularly when you talk about technology," said sleep researcher Sarah Loughran at the University of Wollongong, south of Sydney.

"We're not just talking about mobile phones, but also iPads, TV sets and laptops. A lot of these things are in the bedroom."

According to Dr Czeisler, who is also head of sleep medicine at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, while the noisy ping of a nocturnal e-mail or text message can interrupt sleep, staring at the gadget's screen late at night may be more detrimental.


Your Top Sleep Questions—Answered
PHOTO: Your Top Sleep Questions—Answered
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The timing of exposure to the light-dark cycle is the most powerful means by which the circadian clock, the body's biological time keeper, is synchronised to the 24-hour day, Dr Czeisler's research found.

He estimates that, since the advent of electricity-powered light, people's internal sleep triggers have been pushed back six hours.

"It's our exposure to artificial light, particularly in the evening between the timing of sunset and when we normally go to bed, that's dramatically changed the timing of our endogenous (internal origin) circadian rhythms," Dr Czeisler said in an interview.


The timing of exposure to the light-dark cycle is the most powerful means by which the circadian clock, the body's biological time keeper, is synchronised to the 24-hour day, Dr Czeisler's research found.
PHOTO: The timing of exposure to the light-dark cycle is the most powerful means by which the circadian clock, the body's biological time keeper, is synchronised to the 24-hour day, Dr Czeisler's research found.

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Energy-saving light-emitting-diode lights, known as LED, are especially problematic. LED lights are used in flat-panel television sets, computer displays and smartphone screens, and they are replacing less-efficient incandescent light bulbs worldwide.

Setting a technology curfew and using yellow-based lighting in the evening that can be dimmed and switched off completely by 10.30pm will improve chances of a good night's sleep, Dr Czeisler said.
By Bloomberg, mypaper, Published on Jan 09, 2014


The Art Of Light (Version II)
PHOTO: The Art Of Light (Version II)
Setting a technology curfew and using yellow-based lighting in the evening that can be dimmed and switched off completely by 10.30pm will improve chances of a good night's sleep, Dr Czeisler said.
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PHOTO: Walking Into Well-Being: The Power of The Gratitude Walk

Some say that angels whisper to you when you walk. If you go on a walk today and focus on both what you are grateful for and what you strive for, you will make progress and, as you head towards your desired destination, you'll enjoy the journey all the more because you appreciate what you already have. Lessen trouble sleeping.
By Cheryl Rickman, Flourisher, Author of The Flourish Handbook & Ghostwrit
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