This past Saturday saw the 22nd annual Parade of Nations, this year with the theme “Spice is Always Nice”. The event included a namesake procession of repre-sentatives from various nations; many dressed in traditional clothing from their respective countries. The parade started at 11 a.m. in front of the Hancock Middle School after commenc-ing with the National Anthem as sung by Tech Alumnus Karen Colbert. The parade proceeded across the bridge and through downtown Houghton until it ar-rived at the Dee Stadium around noon. Once there, the parade dispersed and was replaced with a fair-type gathering in the stadium arena, with tables selling traditional cuisine from some of the countries represented and a stage that was the site of live performances from noon to 4 p.m. This year’s spotlight enter-tainment was the Limanya Drum and Dance Ensemble, which performed music and dance traditional to the West African nations of Guinea and Mali.

This year 70 nations (10 of which joined on the spot) plus several other groups were rep-resented in the parade, with the parade-goers for each national-ity’s section carrying the flag of their country and a printed card denoting said nation for

the crowd that lined the route. Several local organizations were also represented with floats, such as the Indian Student Association, Raptor (a hall in Wadsworth), and Keweenaw Pride, Tech’s student organization for Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, and Transgender students. The parade also included local groups such as Eagle Radio, Tech’s chapters of the Society of Hispan-ic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) as well as Blizzard T. Husky and Tech’s Pep Band. Once the parade had ended at the Dee, Colbert sang the National Anthem again and the festival portion of the event began.

Parade of Nations is put on ev-ery year for several causes. One of those, according to an organizer for this year’s festival portion, Bob Wentz, is to show the interna-tional students in both universi-ties that they are welcome and appreciated. It is also a chance for students and other community members to display the culture of their home nations or heritage and to expose people to cultures that they would otherwise not get to see. “All of us came from some place,” said Wentz, “[includ-ing] Native Americans, and we should be proud of our heritage.”

Parade of Nations is an event that is organized and held by Michigan Tech with the collabo-ration of Finlandia University and the townships of Houghton and Hancock. “Michigan Tech

is probably sixty percent,” said Wentz, “but everyone helps with planning and resources.” This year was the first timet hat the middle school was under the ownership of Finlandia Univer-sity, which allowed the organiz-ers to use the school building to store and arrange equipment such as flags and to have a more controlled environment for registration the morning of the event. Wentz described Tech as the prime mover for the event, and Finlandia as a partner, noting that they were very involved with planning and supplied much of the entertainment. Wentz also described Parade of Nations as thoroughly connected to the community, which was shown by the large crowd that gathered along the entire route and the numerous local businesses, vol-unteers, and sponsors that were involved in funding and running the event. A full list of sponsors is available at (http://www.ips.mtu.edu/Dee2011.pdf ).

Always a source of humor and entertainment, this year Tech’s Pep Band was divided with half near the front of the procession and half near the rear. “We rep-resent the Yooper demographic,” joked one member of the band as it gathered for the parade. Another Pep Band member, Grant Cox, noted that the front half of the band was in front of Tech President Glen Mroz, and humorously added, “We [the Pep Band] are the parade of nations!”

This past Friday, Sept. 16, Michigan Tech welcomed guest speaker Andrew Marin to speak about building bridges between the Christian community and the Gender and Sexuality Minority (GSM) community.

Marin, himself a straight man and Pentecostal Christian, is the founder of the Marin Foundation, a non-profit orga-nization that works to connect the GSM community with the Christian community through biblical and social educa-tion and gathering together diverse groups.

The talk, sponsored by the Inter Christian Council (ICC) and the Center for Diversity and Inclusion, started at 8 p.m; Marin spoke for between an hour and an hour and a half before opening to questions from the audience.

The Q&A section of the

event had no predetermined ending time, and so Marin and his audience stayed until 12:30 a.m. to ask and answer questions. During this time, Marin sold copies of his award-winning book after which the event was named, Love is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community.

Marin opened his speech by giving his own history of his involvement with the GSM community. Growing up, Marin had three best friends, and he recalled that he rambunctiously used ho-mophobic slurs with them, thinking nothing of it at the time.

While at university, with three of them at the same university and another nearby, all three of his best friends came out to him as gay or lesbian, each in con-secutive months.

At first, Marin pushed them away, but after doing so felt a disconnection with

God until he was moved to recon-nect with them. The following weeks brought difficult, but heartfelt, talks with his friends until he moved with them to Boystown, a district of Chicago that is overwhelmingly gay men in its composi-tion, with a heavy night-life and club scene influence.

One of his first memorable experi-ences in his new location was going to a gay bar with his friends, where he was nearly instantly identified as not gay, and lead to him being audience to many stories of how his fel-low patrons had dealt with realizing that they were gay and coming out to their families.

Marin reported that not a single story was a happy one. Through those and similar stories that Marin accumu-lated over the years through listening, he came to under-stand GSM people and the issues that affect them.

Marin spoke of his own spiri-tual journey, of the journeys of those around him, and of the importance of learning to build bridges between diverse people. “Anyone can build an army,” Marin said, referring to the tendency of similar people to group together and foster hostilities towards people with differences, “But it really takes someone committed to build bridges.”

Through his speech, Marin shared some quotes that were most influential on his spiritu-al growth and journey, includ-ing “It is the Holy Spirit’s job to convict, God’s job to judge, and my job to love.” by Billy Graham and ad the follow-

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Spice is Always Nice; 22nd annual Parade of Nations

Multicultural Festival: A child is entranced by the colorful dancers at the Multicultural Festival that followed the Parade.

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Love is an Orientation: Andrew Marin is the founder of the Marin Foundation and spoke to Michigan Tech students last Friday.

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I recently saw a magic trick that involved a Nokia N73 camera phone filming a magi-cian, and the magician claimed there were no cuts or edits made to the film. Everything the camera saw, we saw. It was quite the trick to behold as Marco Tempest, the Swiss multimedia magician, would magically switch places with another person after a quick camera pan (http://www.you-tube.com/watch?v=D5a1f9o-Qyo&feature=relmfu), or catch the phone on the street--only minutes after he dropped from a nearby rooftop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQus5vClncA&feature=relmfu), or even solve a Rubik’s cube by simply throwing it in the air and catching it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxsHDRMvMTU&feature=related). And he does all of it live on camera, without pausing or editing his film.

In 2006, Tempest began performing live in New York and posting his “phonecam” magic tricks on youtube as a response to other magicians who use special camera tricks,

editing, or digital effects to cre-ate the illusion, instead relying on their wit, careful planning and flawless execution. There were only two self-imposed rules Tempest had to follow for his “phonecam” magic. The first, shoot the magic on a phonecam in one take. No cuts, no edits. The second, The magic must be original --noth-ing from a book or that other magicians are doing.

So how did Marco Tempest do it? Aside from the few tricks he reveals for his audience, no one really knows. This is the point where you are reminded that a magician never reveals his secrets, and that part of the magic is the sense of wonder left within a viewer after the trick. If you are really curious though, it has been said that seeing is believing and the QR codes that accompany this article will take you to the phonecam magic tricks talked about within this article (you can also manually type in the URL links in this article).

Tempest did reveal during a Ted Talk that he had devel-oped a sophisticated program that syncs multiple video feeds to different smartphones, and can play the videos at once. He displayed the amazing poten-

tial this program has for the Ted audience by performing a five minute show of illusions (http://www.ted.com/talks/marco_tempest_the_magic_of_truth_and_lies_on_ipods.html).

Yet, as a magician will do, he did not tell if he had this software when he started his

phonecam magic, or if it was developed afterwards. The important part is that we know of this software now, and film developers (or even an avid phonecam user) will now have a new tool at their disposal as they begin filming their latest and greatest marvel. Perhaps,

one of the newest blockbust-ers to reach theaters wordwide will have been shot using this tool on an everyday iPhone. It will be up to those who have motivation, and inspiration, from this event to show us what can come next.

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ing quote as said by Morgan Freeman while portraying God in the film “Evan Almighty”: “Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them pa-tience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feel-ings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?”

Marin insisted that, through judging and subsequently attempting to chastise and

‘cure’ the GSM community of their identities, that religious institutions were at fault and have caused a great deal of hurt and wrong to the GSM community, thus igniting and fueling the ensuing culture war between Christian Con-servatives and GSM civil rights movements.

As such, Marin said that it was the church that had the responsibility to take the first step in building bridges, and that religious institutions needed to apologize and amend the wrong they had done over the years to the GSM community.

Marin told that people of faith need to abandon a goal-

centered mindset of con-verting and altering people outside of the religion, and that it was not only more ef-fective but more respectful to others and less likely to create hostilities if one brings others to faith by showing their own faith by living it and listening as opposed to asserting their beliefs.

Marin used himself as an example of this, recalling instances in his life where his own strength of belief brought others to the Christian faith and how ultimately he be-came so trusted by the gay community in Boystown that he was invited to speak at a bar – one rated among the

top five gay bars in the US – to be given the floor any time to talk about God, and that he routinely gained a full house to listen to him.

During the question and answer, Marin took questions from both members of the GSM community and students outside of the GSM commu-nity.

One student from the latter category expressed a concern of not knowing proper ter-minology and being afraid of offending a GSM individual that he tried to talk to; Marin responded with a few point-ers, such as to use “gay” over “homosexual” and to avoid the phrase “gay lifestyle”

(as sexual orientation does not determine lifestyle and there are celibate, lecherous, monogamous, chaste and promiscuous individuals alike in both the straight and gay communities), but reassured him that otherwise people will not be seriously offended if good intention and effort are apparent.

Furthermore, Marin stressed the importance of listening – that GSM individuals are very often willing to share their sto-ries and struggles if only one can find the courage to ask, and that they can learn more from listening to someone who walks in those shoes.

Future Tech: Camera phone magic

Magic iPhones: Marco Tempest amazes the audience with his slight of hand and technical prowess during his July 2011 TED Talk Photo courtesy of Ted.com

QR Codes from left to right: Video of people switching places magically, video of a rooftop drop and catch, video of a Rubix’s cube being solved by a toss in the air, and Tempest’s TED Talk.

Bridges Continued from front

This coming Monday, Sept. 26, will be the night of Evening with Industry, a yearly event that compliments the Fall Ca-reer Fair, which takes place the following morning. Evening with Industry is a semi-formal dinner for students to socialize

with some of the company rep-resentatives that will be recruit-ing at the Career Fair. This year over 50 companies are regis-tered, including Kimberly Clark, John Deere, GE, Ford Motor Company, Chrysler Group LLC, and Toyota. Tickets are $15 for students and can be purchased at the SWE (Society of Women Engineers) office located in the Student Organization of-fice in the MUB. Students who register to attend can indicate a preference for up to three companies to be seated with, and will be placed accordingly (or randomly if no companies are specified). Additionally, the company representatives will receive a booklet that includes the resumes of all attendees who have posted them to Nacelink (the deadline this was Wednesday, Sept. 21).

Evening with Industry is hosted by the SWE, and pro-vides students with an excel-lent opportunity to network and socialize with company representatives. Previous attendees said, in their own words, “that the dinner pro-vides a chance to meet indus-

try professionals as people and to have a conversation with them. It is a chance to ask professionals in a conver-sational atmosphere about the work environment, career responsibilities, opportunities, and even gain advice or insight toward how to excel in that career path.”

The event is scheduled to run from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The night will start with a social hour while the attendees ar-rive and check in, followed by words from the organizers of the event and from Michigan Tech SWE president Anne Dancy, and a welcome speech from Glen Mroz. Following the dinner is a keynote speech from Omni Tech International

representative Lee Rouse. Students can also select from

three dinner options: chicken parmesan, portabella mush-room, or root braised short ribs.

Evening with Industry is an excellent opportunity for students seeking a job, co-op or internship would be well-advised to attend if they can,

or to attend next year if they do not get to this time around. Previous attendees have expressed that they had good experiences and made good connections over the course of the dinner – one noted that she secured an interview and attributed it entirely to getting to meet and network at the event.

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Evening with Industry: Students enjoy the 2006 Evening with Industry event

Photo courtesy of swe.students.mtu.edu

Lee Rouse: President and CEO of Omni Tech International Ltd. and Michigan Tech Alum Photo courtesy of mlive.com

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will be a hard puzzle. This is to keep your mind in shape for that linear algebra exam next hour! Feel free to Row Reduce this puzzle afterwards too. —we don’t want you wasting too much of your brain power on this though! The answer to last week’s

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What would an earthquake in Virginia tell us about what lies miles under a farmer’s field in Chassell? A great deal, according to Tech Geology professor Greg Waite.

Waite and his students are working together to place a number of highly sensitive seismic sensors in local areas as part of a national program to sense and record the faint-est echoes of distant earth-quake activity or other seismic events. Data gathered from this large array of 400 sensors, called the USArray, will eventu-ally allow Waite, his students, and other cooperating earth scientists to gain a much more detailed understanding of the geological structures underly-ing the Earth’s surface and the processes that put them into place.

The efforts of Waite and his students represent part of Tech’s participation in a co-operative project undertaken by a consortium of colleges and universities known as the Incorporated Research Institu-tions for Seismology (IRIS). The IRIS project is part of a larger National Science Foundation sponsored project known as Earthscope. Earthscope participants conduct multidis-ciplinary research across the Earth sciences using data from instruments that sense the

movement of the Earth’s sur-face, recording seismic waves, and recovering rock samples unearthed by earthquake activity.

Professor Waite says that his main interest in the current project is, “understanding the details of unusual volcanic earthquakes, because I think they can tell us a lot about

what is going on in the magmatic system. NSF support allows us to collect new data on gas emission and ground tilt along with the seismic data to better model these earth-quakes.”

Waite says the students involved in placing the sensors will be able to collect and ana-lyze the data from these very sensors in real time as soon as they come online. By combin-ing data from hundreds of sensing stations, Waite says that a sort of 3D picture of the earth’s subsurface fea-tures emerges. “It’s kind of like the way x-rays are used in CT scans. In addition, we can also learn about how tec-tonic plates move by studying details of wave propagation. Ultimately, this will lead to a better understanding of how this continent evolved.”

Waite also says that students in his Earthquake Seismology course will be studying the crustal structures of the upper Midwest using data gathered from the sensors placed during this semester.

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Bikers - put on your stretchy shorts and fluorescent jerseys and cycle into gear with the 4th Annual Keweenaw Cup Cyclo-cross Race! This Cyclocross event, organized by Houghton’s Red Jacket Cycling Team with support from the Copper Harbor Trails Club, is the weekend of Oct. 15 and 16, so you still have some

time to prepare. Not sure what the Cyclocross

is? Popular in Europe, this biking competition is short in duration, typically lasting 30 minutes to an hour, and covers routes that about a mile in length. Terrains vary from grass and dirt, to sand traps and mud holes with obstacles such as wooden barri-

ers and un-rideable hills. As the Keweenaw Cup website states, “The worse the weather the bet-ter. It’s hard to understand unless you’ve done it - and once you’ve done it you still won’t understand it, but you won’t be able to stop doing it.”

Any type of bike will welcome to compete in this challenge! The races are open to bikers of all ages and all abilities. No experi-ence is required to participate, but is recommended. Top three competitors in each category win handcrafted prizes by local artisans!

Maybe Cyclocross is not what you’re looking for though. Go anyway to enjoy the beauty of the Keweenaw and cheer on the bikers as they compete in this unique and challenging race. The atmosphere is completely unique, including clamoring cowbells and cheering spectators wherever you look.

There is a $20 entry fee for Saturday’s afternoon race, which includes a pasta dinner at the Mariner North as well as music by the Gratiot Lake Road. Dinner tickets will be available at the Mariner North on Saturday for non-racers. Entry for Sunday’s race is $10.

Proceeds from the weekend’s events will benefit the Copper Harbor Trails Club.

For more about the Keweenaw cup, including fees and race schedule, visit (www.keweenaw-cup.com), or contact Chris Schmidt by email at (cts@red-jacketcycling.com) or by phone (906-370-1997).

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Walking into Joey’s, it’s immedi-ately apparent that this is certainly one of Houghton’s most unique restaurants—from the curb, it may seem like just another place to eat, but a step inside brings you into a dining experience you might not expect to find in such a small town.

Attention to detail and theme is obvious from the moment you walk in. Everything from the pol-ished and worn wood floors, to the ocean foam tables, the blue tin ceiling, the fish netting and fish tanks—not to mention the boats coming out of the walls—are tied together beautifully. The décor draws a line between simple el-egance and a casual, relaxing at-mosphere.

After finding my way to a table by the front windows, I sat down with Alan, owner of Joey’s Seafood & Grill to ask him about the place. Alan is a Tech Alum, of sorts; as he became successful in business, he didn’t end up graduating, but he has always had a love for the school.

Joey’s initially began as a chain restaurant (Joey was a guy from Canada, where he started the

chain), but struggled and eventual-ly the chain dissolved, but allowed franchise owners to keep the name and the recipes and continue on their own. While the franchise had given the Houghton restau-rant a good starting point, branch-ing out on their own opened up a lot of creative freedom.

At Joey’s, Alan says that the goal is to specialize in seafood, but still make sure that they have some good non-seafood choices, since they know seafood isn’t everyone’s favourite. “We don’t have ‘every-thing’ on the menu, but we’ve got a great chicken…baby back ribs, steaks, burgers.” Anyone can find something to enjoy. Not only that, but almost everything is hand made—and everything is deli-cious.

When I asked Alan about what makes Joey’s special, aside from their specialized seafood menu, he said, “One of the things that I really believe in is offering people good value. If you’re going out on a date with somebody and you want to go out and buy a really nice meal, you can come in, get an appetizer, buy some crab legs, get dessert, people can spend some money here—but yet they don’t have to.” Alan goes on, “We’ve got a lot of entrees under $10 on the

menu—most of our sandwiches, our fish and chips [as well].” Alan also describes one of their more popular items on the menu lately, which also happens to be a great value: Fish tacos, either in a meal, or for only $2.50 apiece ala cart.

This really caught my atten-tion: Could you really come to a nice, sit-down restaurant and or-der a great lunch for cheaper than fast food? I found out the answer a couple days later. Two ala cart mahi-mahi fish tacos and a cup of made-from-scratch clam chowder (both of which were delicious), and my total order was still under ten bucks. If you scratch the soup or one of the tacos, you could even do it all for a little over $5 and still have an awesome meal that easily beats anything fast food can throw at you.

Plus, Joey’s is a great place to study. Whether coming in by yourself, or with a group, Joey’s is happy to accommodate and the atmosphere is great for sitting down with a textbook or talking with friends and classmates. Alan said smaller study groups can usu-ally just walk in, but they have even served the entire MTU hock-ey team before, so they’re more than happy to accommodate large groups with advance notice.

If you think out of the box, de-sire to know the secrets of success behind the famous and emulate great men, then you are reading the right article. As a part of the Van Evera distinguished lecture series at Michigan Tech’s Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts, award winning futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil will present his lecture “Science, Technology and Invention: Strategies to Create the Future” on Wednesday, Sep. 28, at 7:30 p.m. Kurzweil has been described as “the restless ge-nius” by the Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes Inc.; the magazine also ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison.”

Raymond “Ray” Kurzweil is the au-thor of several books on health, ar-tificial intelligence, transhumanism, the technological singularity and futurism. Four of Kurzweil’s books have been national best sellers. “The Age of Spiritual Machines” has been translated into nine languages and was the #1 best-selling book on Amazon in science. Kurzweil’s latest book, “The Singularity is Near,” was a New York Times best-seller and has been the #1 book on Amazon in both science and philosophy.

Optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology and electronic keyboard instruments

are some of Kurzweil’s research in-terests. Kurzweil’s list of inventions & developments is almost endless. Some of them include: the CCD flat-bed scanner, Omni-font optical char-acter recognition, a print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, a text-to-speech synthesizer, a music syn-

thesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments as well as commer-cially marketed large- vo cabular y speech recogni-tion.

Bill Gates de-scribes Kurzweil as “The best per-son I know at pre-dicting the future of artificial intel-ligence”. Kurzweil is generally recog-nized as a public advocate for the futurist and tran-shumanist move-ments, due to his stances on life ex-tension technolo-gies, his efforts to forecast future ad-vances in technol-ogy and his inter-est in the concept of a technological singularity.

According to Susanna Brent, Rozsa Director,

“This is a rare and special opportu-nity; Ray Kurzweil is regularly the guest of world leaders, a super-star of technological innovation, and the man that Bill Gates looks up to. It should not be missed!”

This event is free and open to the

public. However, due to Kurzweil’s popularity, tickets will be required. To obtain tickets, call (906) 487-2073, go online at tickets.mtu.edu or visit Ticketing Operations at Michigan Tech’s Student Development Complex (SDC), 600 MacInness Drive, in Houghton. SDC box office hours are 8:00 AM – 9:00 PM, Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM Saturday, and 12:00 noon – 9:00 PM Sunday. Please note the Rozsa Box Office will only open two hours prior to show times.

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The Rozsa Center, on Friday, Sep. 30 at 7:30 p.m., will host a variety of different characters, all of them played by one woman.

Maria Bamford, voice actress and comedian, will be visiting the Rozsa Center. Bamford, who is most famous for her stand-up acts in which she rapidly switch-es portrayals of many different characters in a short time span, will engage audiences with her surreal sense of humor.

Possibly the greatest strength of Bamford’s comedy is the sheer variety of characters she por-trays. One of her jokes involves her carrying a conversation with former President George W. Bush, except the “president” is actually her pet pug; as she com-plains to the “president,” it replies with pug noises. Her most com-monly used characters, though, are those of her mother and her agent. Bamford is able to use her characters in many different ways, touching (and mocking) such diverse subjects as break-ups, therapy, cults and meeting old high school rivals.

Bamford is the first female com-ic to have two half-hour specials

on Comedy C e n t r a l Presents. She has made mul-tiple guest ap-pearances on several late-night shows, including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O’Brian and Jimmy Kimmel Live. In addition, she has written for The Onion and LA Weekly.

Bamford has also been in-volved in voice acting work. She has lent her voice to N i c k e l o d e o n and Cartoon Network ani-mated pro-ductions such as CatDog, ¡Mucha Lucha! and The Last Airbender: The Legend of Korra. In addition, she has made guest appearances in live-action shows such as The Sarah Silverman Show.

Tickets for the event are $20

for all seats. More information can be found at the Rozsa Center web site, rozsa.mtu.edu. Tickets can be ordered at the Rozsa web site, the Rozsa box office, or by calling 906-487-3200.

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Raymond Kurzweil, “the restless genious,” comes to MTU

Maria Bamford comes to the RozsaPulse Editor

NICHOLAS BLECHA

Some of Kurzweil’s predections about the future:• The modern computer will pass the Turing test (the Turing test is a rigorous test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior) by 2029

• The first strong artificial intelligence will be a computer simulation of a hu-man brain generated by nanorobotic brain scanning

• Before 2050 medical advances will allow people to radically extend their lifespans while preserving quality of life through the use of nanobots

• The line between humans and machines will blur as machines attain human-level intelligence and humans start incorporating more technology

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Raymond KurzweilPhoto courtesy of Wikipedia Commons

Maria BamfordPhoto courtesy of MariaBamford.com

In any sexual encounter the most important thing is com-fort. You won’t be able to make the most of the experience if you are worrying about the what-if ’s. However, that is al-most impossible to do when it comes to sex. We are constant-ly worrying about pregnancy, disease, and social issues as a whole.

If you find yourself in a situ-ation that you want to get out of, you don’t feel comfortable for whatever reason, then do whatever it takes to remove yourself, regardless of what your partner says, does, or might think. In my opinion sex is a natural instinct. Therefore it would make sense to pay at-tention and actually follow

your intuitive gut feelings. This is not a situation where you should let your brain talk you into doing something that you might regret later, especially if you are doing it for someone else.

When I was growing up my father would routinely tell me that when a situation (not nec-essarily sexual) became over-whelming that I always needed to look out for number one. Nobody is going to barge into the bedroom, listen to both of you and make a decision on whether you should go through with it or not. I’m not neces-sarily sure we would want that even if it was an option! So you have to take care of yourself at all times.

If you find yourself in this situation and you are second guessing yourself, stop every-thing immediately. Explain to

your partner what is going on inside your head and ask if you can do something else instead. Even if they end up hurt or disappointed, it’s better than regretting a situation. Ideally, your partner will completely understand and work with you to make you more comfortable in the future. If they do the op-posite, then I think it’s pretty obvious what is at the top of their list.

Now, in the scenario that your partner calls it quits after getting started guys, your best bet is to try to fall asleep. Sleep is going to be pretty difficult, but it will get your mind off of the situation and allow you to think clearer in the morning. It is the best option in order to make sure both you and your partner are completely com-fortable.

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The trouble with Tumbler. . .The creation of the inter-

net has definitely changed the world. Anyone who ar-gues that might want to make sure they open the right pill bottle tomorrow morning. Technology has allowed us to exponentially raise the lim-its on what humans are ca-pable of and it is a wonderful thing. However at what point does technology become a hindrance, or nothing but a waste?

I want to take a look at one aspect of the internet here, specifically, blogging. Blogs became popular in the late 90’s with sites like Live Jour-

nal and Blogger, which al-lowed users to post pictures and write about whatever topics they chose. Today mil-lions of people across the world run a blog online. They vary widely in content and use. Some people have even managed to make a living from their blogs. One blog platform that has become ever-increasingly popular in recent years is Tumblr.

If you haven’t heard of Tumblr before, it is your ste-reotypical blogging platform. Created in 2007 it appeals to many people because of its ease of use. Unlike Word-press or Blogger it has very few options or settings that may be difficult to under-

stand. It is very user friendly and has simplistic features. While many blog platforms allow you to “follow” other blogs hosted on the same site, Tumblr is unique in that it posts blogs that you follow in a Facebook-like wall. Just as how your friends on Face-book update their statuses, Tumblr will post the most re-cent entries of the blogs that you follow. All in all it is the perfect set-up for someone who is a casual blog user and is not interested in getting too involved.

This sounds pretty appeal-ing, except for one small thing, the “re-blog” feature. It is this feature that makes me wish Tumblr’s servers

would crash tomorrow. On Tumblr you can re-blog an entry that someone else has posted. So if I post a picture of the lift bridge, all it takes is one simple click of a but-ton and the same picture of the lift bridge will appear on your blog also. What this feature has ended up creat-ing is a terrible circle of “re-blogging”.

If you go on any random Tumblr blog, there is a huge chance that the first entry on that blog will be a re-blog. Not only will it be a re-blogged post, but it may be re-blogged two, three, four times. It has gotten to the point that some posts are so far removed from their source that unless you scroll all the way down the list, you will never know who origi-nally posted it. Some blogs on Tumblr consist complete-ly of entries which were re-blogged from somewhere else. This is ridiculous. The entire point of a blog is to post something that you have created that you want

to share, whether it is a jour-nal entry, pictures, poems, or even a cooking recipe. I un-derstand if you want to share something that you found cool online, but is it neces-sary to share every single cool picture you see?

Now there are lots of blogs out there which do not re-blog a single thing. They post original content, some-thing that they themselves have created. However most of these are more than likely not Tumblr based blogs. The other blogging platforms do allow re-blogging, but it isn’t as easy as one simple click. Tumblr would definitely profit by removing that re-blog button and force users to post something of their own. If you find yourself compelled to own a Tumblr, do yourself a favour and re-sist the urge to re-blog ev-erything you see. Post some-thing original for a change; it doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad. Stop consuming. Go create something.

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This Saturday, the Husky cross country teams run against more tough competition. Many teams the Huskies have never run against will be competing at the Roy Griak Invitational in Minneapolis ,MN . The North-ern Michigan Wildcats and the University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs will be the familiar competition this week. A new competitor is the highly ranked Minnesota State University Mavericks.The Roy Griak is a di-vision one, two and three com-petition. It is the largest colle-giate cross country meet in the nation.

Weather conditions should be favorable for the meet. The temperature will be a little warm, around 75 degrees, but

it will be cooler than the 80-de-gree heat from last weekend’s St. Olaf Invitational. A mostly sunny sky means a dry course for the runners, which usually produces quicker times than a wet course.

The women’s team faces sev-eral tough competitors. Both the Wildcats and the Bulldogs will be competing this week. Morgan Place who won the St. Olaf invitational last week with a time 0f 22:11, will be leading the Bulldogs into this week’s race.

The Huskies will have their entire team running this week which should provide them with a good measure of where they stand. The last two weeks have seen parts of both the Men’s and women’s teams rest-ing. We were probably going in with a little less fire power, es-pecially on the girls’ side,” said

Husky’s Head Coach Haggen-miller.

The Husky men’s team will compete against the Mavericks this week. The Mavericks are a highly ranked team. Garrett Eklof, a junior from Madison, WI. Eklof finished fourth place at the St. Olaf Invitational last week with a time of 26:01.

Northland College will also be competing against the Hus-kies this week. This season, the Huskies have been able to come out ahead in points at both the Houghton meet and the North-land Invitational.

The Roy Griak Invitational is a big name invitational with many sized schools running in the race. While the larger teams will provide a challenge to the Huskies, they still need this op-portunity to test themselves against tough competition. The schools they are running

against in this meet are bigger than the teams they will face in the GLIAC. The tougher teams, such as the Bulldogs, are good preparation for the end of sea-son championships.

The Husky’s are focusing on doing their best. “Our bigger focus is to go out there and perform the best we can given what the course is and those types of things,” commented Haggenmiller.

This week’s competition will be the last meet before the Hus-kies go to the UP Champion-ships. There they will compete against the first GLIAC competi-tor, the Lake Superior State Uni-versity Lakers. After this meet, the Huskies go on to compete at the GLIAC Championships and then the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships.

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#Number of freshman on this seasons Husky Hockey roster. Play starts October 1 when the Huskies host Lakehead.

31Points by which the Huskies defeated Lake Erie last weekend. The Huskies travel to Wayne State for this Saturday’s game.

9 Number of goals Husky

soccer has scored this season.

2Place Christina Mishica finished at the Ashland invite last weekend. This was a personal high for the senior runner.

Schedules/Results

Women’s Soccer

Football

Cross Country Sept. 17 St. Olaf Inv. 3 p.m.

Volleyball

4 Away

games in a row for

the volleyball Huskies. They

return home September 30 to

take on rival Northern Michigan.

Sept. 3 at Winona Sate 23-6 WSept. 10 vs. Lake Erie 41-10 WSept. 17 at Wayne State 12 p.m.Sept. 24 at Indianapolis 1 p.m.

Sept. 7 vs. N. Mich. 1-3 LSept. 9 at Ohio Dom. 2-2 TSept. 16 at G. Valley 7 p.m.Sept.18 at Ferris St. 12 p.m.

Sept. 10 vs Ferris St. 0-3 LSept. 11 vs. G. Valley 2-3 LSept 16 at Lake Erie 5 p.m.Sept. 17 at Ashland 2 p.m.

Visit gliac.org for full standings

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This Saturday the Huskies foot-ball team faces off against the 2-1 University of Indianapolis Grey-hounds. The Greyhounds have players in several positions to put points on the board. With quar-terback Chris Mills and receiver Mar’Quone Edmonds, pass de-fense will be crucial for a Huskies win this week.

Mills is a sophomore from Lafay-ette, Ind. Last year he started in seven games as the quarterback. During the season, he totaled 1,636 yards and nine touchdowns. In two of these games, Mills threw over 300 yards. For the season, he earned a 128.6 pass efficiency rat-ing and averaged 204 yards per game. This year he is above that average, being closer to 300 yards. Good passing offense means the Huskies need to keep pressure on the Greyhounds’ quarterback.This pressure comes from the threat of Drew Vanderlin and Todd Storm.

Edmonds and Ryan Forney av-erage 100 yards per game receiv-ing from Mills’ passing. Edmonds started six games as wide receiver last year for the Greyhounds. He had several games with 100 yards or more. For the season, Edmonds received four throws for 30 yards or more. His longest catch was for a 56 yard touchdown against the Huskies.

Forney comes to the game as a starting senior. Serving as both a wide receiver and kick returner, Forney leads the Greyhounds for all time kick return yards and 10th in career receptions. The last three games of last season and first three of this season have all been 100 yard games for Forney. He was named the Offensive Player of the Week in the GLIAC for last week’s performance.

Where passing is a strong point, the Greyhounds lack a very strong running game. ” They’ll stretch you with the run game but they want to throw the football,” said the Husky’s Head Coach Kearly.

Helping to shut down the passing game is a strong secondary for the Huskies.

Containing the receivers with-out giving Mills too much time to throw will be important. “They’ve got a couple of good receivers in Edmonds and Forney,” comment-ed Kearly.

Passing against the Greyhounds brings its own challenges. Oppo-nents of the Greyhounds have on-ly passed an average of 179 yards per game.

A large threat to the Greyhounds will be getting into their red-zone. Six out of seven scoring oppor-tunities against the Greyhounds this season in the red-zone have resulted in touchdowns. On the other hand, the Greyhounds have 55 percent touchdown rate when in the red-zone. Not capitalizing on points like this makes the dif-ference in close games.

Leading the Greyhounds in tackles are Mike Dum and Max Davis.

Scott Miller is the kicker for the Greyhounds. This season he has

made five of seven attempted field goals. His longest scoring at-tempt was from 48 yards out.

Overall, the Greyhounds have very strong offensive numbers in

passing.. Containing the offense will allow the Huskies to once again control the clock and work down the defense to earn another win to become 3-1.

Huskies prepare for tough competition

Its been ten years, but he’s back, and not only that, he brings with a him a breath of fresh air for the Husky hockey team. Former Husky, Mel Pear-son makes his return to Hough-ton this year to assume the role of head coach for the Husky hockey team.

Born in Vancouver, B.C., Pear-son moved to Edina, Minn. at a young age where he played hockey for Edina High School and was there recruited by leg-endary coach, John MacInnes to play hockey at Michigan Tech. Pearson played for MacInnes hockey coach from 1977-81. As a forward for the Huskies, Pear-son posted 56 points (21-35-6) in 97 games and graduated with a degree in business ad-ministration.

After graduation, Pearson stayed on with the Huskies as an assistant coach to the Hus-kies where he worked under Jim Nahrgang and Herb Boxer. After six years with the Huskies, Pearson moved on to work un-der Red Berenson at the Univer-sity of Michigan in 1988. Prior to the 1999-2000 season, Pear-son was promoted to associate head coach for the Wolverines where his responsibilities in-cluded working with the for-wards and power play. Pearson

was also the Wolverine’s lead recruiter, recruiting players mainly from the US National Development team, and the United States Hockey League.

Pearson found great success with his recruits while coach-ing for the Wolverines. Over his 23 year span in Ann Arbor, the Wolverines had a 667-243-71 record along with 11 Frozen Fours and two national champi-onships.

Pearson displays his memora-bilia from his success at Michi-gan proudly in his office where rings and trophies fill desk space. And after all he has a lot to be proud of after helping Michigan to an outstanding re-cord, national championships, eleven CCHA regular season titles nine CCHA playoff cham-pionships and appearing in the NCAA Tournament 21 consecu-tive times from 1991-2011.

But after 23 years with the Wolverines, Pearson returned to his alma mater in hopes of bringing the success that was once here back.

“My goal is to get to a point where the players here have experienced the same type of success that I did when I was a player here” said Pearson “…So they can leave here with a great experience not only as a player but also academically.”

But before any success can happen in the season, Pearson is still working on getting to

know the names on his roster. “Usually when you recruit

your own players you know why you’ve recruited them, what they’re good at, and what role you see them playing at where here its going to take some time to figure them out.”

By NCAA rules, Pearson is only allowed two hours a week on the ice with his new team, adding to the challenge of get-ting to know his players. Pear-son has worked on getting over this hump by watching video and talk to people about the players.

Not only does Pearson step into a new team, but also a new league. After two decades in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA), Pearson comes back to the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) having not seen many of the teams or been to many of the rinks in several years.

For many Husky fans, the lack of competitiveness the team has had in the past years was a subject of much concern, how-ever Pearson has high hopes of restoring the glory that was once associated with Husky hockey.

“It’s a new challenge, I’m re-ally looking forward to it” said Pearson of joining the Huskies “I know what it takes [to be suc-cessful], my staff knows what it takes. Its going to take some time and its a challenge and

I think were all excited about that challenge, its not going to be easy but we think we can do some special things here, the biggest thing is being patient, its not going to happen over-night.”

In order to help make his goal of success a reality, Pearson has added two new coaches to his staff. Bill Mackult joins second year assistant coach, Damon Whitten on the assistant coach-ing staff while Steve Shields joins the Huskies as the volun-teer goalie coach.

With things falling into place with is team and coaches, Pear-son is looking forward to the start of the season as the head coach of his new team.

“You don’t really know where you’re at until you start mea-suring yourself against other teams,” said Pearson of the start of the season, “Our players have worked extremely hard, they’re excited and they have s a lot of energy.”

If you would like to meet Coach Pearson, the public is invited to a Meet the Coaches event Monday, September 26 at 7 p.m. in the Begg Confer-ence Room of the Grant Hockey Educational Center. And for your first chance to see Pear-son and the rest of his staff and team in action, their first game of the season will be Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. at the MacInnes Student Ice Arena.

Lode WriterJACOB SHULER

An interview with Mel Pearson

Women’s Tennis Sept. 11 vs. Ashland 7-2 L Sept. 16-18 ITA Midwest Reg. Sept. 23 at Hillsdale 10 a.m.

Sports EditorJORDAN ERICKSON

Greyhounds will challenge the Huskies on Saturday

Lode WriterJACOB SHULER

Huskies during practicePhoto by Satyajeet Deshpande

Husky soccer is on the road for the third weekend in a row as they head to Northwood and Saginaw Valley State for this weekend’s competition.

The Huskies fell in both of their games last weekend to Grand Valley State and Ferris State by scores of 0-4 and 1-3, respectively. These losses put the soccer Huskies at a 2-3-1 overall and 0-3-1 for confer-ence play, with both wins coming from the first weekend of play.

With no where to go but up the Huskies take their game on the road where they will face Northwood in their first game on Friday.

Northwood currently sits at No. 4 in the North Division of the GLIAC with a 2-2 confer-ence record and a 3-2 over-all. The hosting school has a

strong offense that is reflected in their statistics. Northwood is currently outshooting their opponents with an average of 16 shots per game to their opponents 10 and also has 14 goals against their opponents’ 10 overall.

Sophomore forward Alyssa Tomassi currently leads the team in points, with four goals and two assists and 10 shots on goal this season. Tomassi is followed in points by senior forward Amanda Watson who has three goals and four as-sists for Northwood.

Friday’s game will be Tim-berwolves’s first game at home since September 1, when they defeated Urbana 8-0.

The second game of the weekend will feature the Hus-kies against No. 5 in the North Division, Saginaw Valley State Cardinals.

The Cardinals have a GLIAC record of 1-3-1 and are 2-3-1 overall. Their only GLIAC win

comes from a 3-0 defeat over Northwood on Sept. 2. How-ever, the Cardinals have been shut out of their past three games, scoring no goals and allowing two overall.

In their last game at Find-lay, the Cardinals walked away goalless after a 0-0 double overtime game, giving them their only tie so far this sea-son.

The hosting school is lead by sophomore midfielder, Kellsey Poston, who has one goal and two assists for the Cardinals.

For the Huskies, sophomore forward Katie Boardman leads the team in points with three goals and two assists overall. Boardman also leads the team in shots on goal with 13.

Friday’s game at Northwood is at 4 p.m. and Sunday’s game at Saginaw Valley State will be at 12 p.m. The Huskies will re-turn home next weekend for two games against Ashland and Lake Erie.

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