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“There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear …”

Stephen Stills
“For What It’s Worth”
Buffalo Springfield
January 1967

Bernie Sanders had quite a Memorial Day. First, he addressed a spirited rally of more than 20,000 people in downtown Oakland, then he and actor Danny Glover drove a short distance and attended the second half of the Golden State Warriors’ dramatic Game 7 victory in the NBA Western Conference Finals. As Sanders and much of the local media pointed out, his arrival coincided with the defending world champion Warriors coming from behind and taking command of the game, completing their dramatic comeback from a 3 games to 1 deficit in the series.

Naturally, Sanders saw a parallel with the California team’s comeback to win the conference title and his own trailing campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination

“The Warriors were down 3-1 in the series and they turned it around and I think that’s what we’re going to do, too,” Sanders exulted. “A very good omen for our campaign.”

Since getting ripped for seeming to rationalize his supporters’ unacceptable behavior in shouting down the very liberal Senator Barbara Boxer — a very fine person and Hillary backer now who served with me as co-chair of the SolarCal legislative task force back during Jerry Brown 1.0 — at the recent Nevada Democratic Convention, Sanders has mostly cooled the anti-Hillary Clinton rhetoric coming from his campaign. Sanders himself has seemed to take up the challenge of competing to be the best candidate in running against Donald Trump. And his campaign has seemed to really take off here in California, with big rallies all over the state.

Is the force really with Sanders now, such that he can come from behind to win the California primary, then somehow parlay that into overturning Hillary’s 3 million-vote advantage in the popular vote and near lock on the number of delegates needed to win the nomination?

Well, maybe the first. But you wouldn’t want to bet on the second.

California public polls are all over the place. One very respected poll has a statistical tie, while a couple of other public polls have double-digit Clinton leads. My read is that both are off, that Hillary is ahead, but Bernie is in striking distance.

The Clintons evidently see things the same way, as Hillary is scrapping her previous schedule in favor of campaigning on five straight days here, starting Thursday.

Sanders has been drawing big crowds everywhere, and I mean everywhere, including places no other presidential primary candidate has ever gone, around California. It’s ultimate import is not yet clear, but there is clearly, as old Hart for President campaign friend Stephen Stills sang so long ago, “something happening here.”

If supporter enthusiasm equated to electoral victory, Sanders would have the Democratic presidential nomination in the bag. That it often does not does nothing to negate the fact that Sanders has struck a very powerful chord with his message criticizing the historic levels of income inequality and rigging of the political system by big money and media.

Governor Jerry Brown cited that in a statement on the race, praising Sanders and noting that he emphasized similar themes in his 1992 presidential campaign, in which he finished as the Democratic runner-up to Bill Clinton in a bruising battle. Sanders, of course, differs from Brown in running as a democratic socialist.

But Brown went on to endorse Hillary Clinton this time after meeting for 90 minutes earlier this month with former rival Bill Clinton at the Old Governor’s Mansion in Sacramento, which Brown and First Lady/Special Counsel Anne Gust Brown have refurbished as a truly historic residence.

Brown pointed up Hillary’s big overall lead in the Democratic contest and near lock on the delegates needed to win. He praised her skills, experience, and tenacity, citing a world in crisis and the not at all unrelated threat of Donald Trump.

“This is no time for Democrats to keep fighting each other,” he declared. “The general election has already begun.”

As longtime readers know, I’m essentially always for Jerry Brown. His take is always very interesting and usually on target. And, not surprisingly, I don’t disagree with his analysis.

But as a mere columnist, I have a slightly different conclusion. As I’ve said before, I intend to vote for Bernie Sanders.

He may not have struck me as a president when we met a few years ago, but he was clearly a powerful advocate. And his advocacy in this campaign merits not only my great respect, but my primary vote.

While I may differ with this and that particular in his democratic socialist agenda, he and his movement represent a powerful political tendency which can serve as a force for greater justice and less corruption.

As for Hillary Clinton, longtime readers know that I not infrequently disagree with her on the issues. While I’m hardly a pacifist or really any sort of dove, I’m generally a much more highly selective hawk than the former secretary of state. And the Wall Street coziness really is too much.

The presence of a powerful Sanders vector in American politics can serve to help move her away from some problematic stances.

And if Hillary continues on the course probably set when she won three of the four February contest states, I will be happy to support Hillary for the general election.

She is highly intelligent, capable, hard-working and deeply engaged by substance, a pragmatic progressive and battle-tested veteran of decades of attacks from the right-wing and its compliant de facto media partners.

The stakes, with a chaotic world and the potential advent of the neo-fascist bully boy Trump, as aggressive a know-nothing ever to come close to the presidency in my lifetime, are simply too high.

In the meantime, godspeed to Bernie Sanders.

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Just like Intel’s Apollo Lake processors, AMD’s high-performance Zen (codename Summit Ridge) CPU is coming out in late 2016. Zen has 8 Cores with 16 threads, promises a 40 percent increase in computing power and is geared more towards high-end and ga…

Here’s the newest member to Mouse Computer’s 14-inch Full HD gaming notebook line-up, the NEXTGEAR-NOTE i4600BA1. As part of the G-Tune series, this slim and lightweight gaming notebook (25.4mm thick and 2.0kg) boasts a 14-inch 1920 x 1080 Full HD LED-backlight non-glare display, a 2.60GHz Intel Core i7-6700HQ processor, an Intel HM170 Express Chipset, a GeForce GTX 965M 2GB graphics card, an 8GB DDR4 RAM and a 240GB SSD.

Apart from that, the system also sports a 2MP webcam, a multi-card reader, a built-in lithium-ion battery and built-in stereo speakers (w/ high-definition audio).

Running on Windows 10 Home 64-bit OS, the NEXTGEAR-NOTE i4600BA1 provides WiFi 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.2 + LE for connectivity. The Mouse Computer NEXTGEAR-NOTE i4600BA1 is available now for 129,800 Yen (about $1,168). [Product Page]

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You guys might recall that in 2015, we reported on a device called the Xstat. This is basically a syringe of sorts where upon plugging it into a gunshot wound, would help seal the wound in 20 seconds thanks to the fact that the syringe is pack with tiny sponges. The device was designed for use in the battlefield and it should work in theory.

However if you were a little skeptical, wonder no more because it seems that the Xstat has managed to save its first life. According to the reports, a United States forward surgical team was attempting to staunch severe bleeding but were unsuccessful with more traditional methods, which is why they turned to the Xstat.

Turns out it was super effective as the device managed to stop the bleeding and gave them enough time to send the patient to the hospital for further treatment. According to the report from the Journal of Emergency Medical Services, it seemed like the Xstat had a near instantaneous effect.

“Throughout the course of the roughly 7-hour surgery, multiple attempts at using bone wax and cautery on the bleeding sites were unsuccessfull [sic] and the patient received multiple units of blood and plasma. Eventually, the FST team opted to use XSTAT and applied a single XSTAT device to the femoral cavity— resulting in nearly immediate hemostasis. The patient was stabilized and eventually transported to a definitive care facility.”

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Earlier today we reported about a lens attachment for the GoPro called the Vitrima. Basically this allows GoPros to capture footage in 3D, versus the normal 2D footage. We have to admit that it is a pretty cool idea, but what if you don’t have a GoPro? Does this mean you don’t get to get in on the 3D fun?

The good news is that during Computex, it was discovered by the folks at Engadget that there is a company selling an accessory called the Eye-Plug. This accessory will work with smartphones, but the only downside is that it requires a USB-C connection, so if you have an older device we guess you’d be out of luck.

So how does this work? Basically it has a camera facing the front and one facing the back. It is meant to combine with your front and rear-facing cameras to create a stereoscopic-like image, and for $35 we have to wonder if it works. Turns out it does, at least according to Engadget who took it for a spin and said that the end result was “a perfectly acceptable resolution for Google Cardboard 3D viewing.”

That being said there are some disadvantages to the Eye-Plug, one of which is that its image quality might not match that of your current camera, and it also requires a USB-C connection which means that not many devices are compatible. At the moment the Eye-Plug is said to still be a prototype but full production is expected for later this year.

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