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Chicago Tribune
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Brushwood Center in Ryerson Woods showcased sustainable goods at Mother Earth Made Market
Honoring the mother of all mothers, Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods, hosted their 4th annual Mother Earth Market on May 10th and 11th, a celebration of spring and Mother's Day weekend. The event showcased an art market, featuring artists, makers, vendors and organizations from Cook and Lake Counties, all inspired by nature and working towards a more sustainable future. Julia Kemerer, director of arts and administration at Brushwood, says the purpose of the event is twofold – to provide artists the opportunity to share their work and to bring the community together for a fun celebration of springtime nature-inspired art. The Mother Earth Market ran both Saturday and Sunday, featuring local art for purchase, family friendly activities like Bird Walks and Forest Bathing with Brushwood Center staff, Haiku readings by poet-in-residence, Kathryn Haydon, a spring flower crafting station, live music from Veterans from the James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, and much more. 'Of the 37 multidisciplinary artists participating this year, each one draws their inspiration from nature in their own unique way,' Kemerer said. Artists like Vaiju Saraf, from Lincolnshire, who says she has been creating nature-based works linked to her travels since 2018, or Nicholas Hellman, a woodworker from Vernon Hills, who says in woodworking, all his raw materials come from nature. Dionne Venhorst of Mundelein attended the market Saturday with friends. 'It's incredible how this event not only connects attendees to the untouched natural beauty of Ryerson Woods, but to the history of our area, through the Brushwood Center,' Venhorst said. Randi Merel, president of the Riverwoods Preservation Council, attended the Mother Earth Market for the first time this year. 'Today we are here offering custom seedling packets to help residents grow native species from seeds in their own backyard,' Merel said. Lake Villa, artist, Natalie Ingrum of Tinkering Tilly, says she has created an art practice out using recycled and ethically foraged materials. 'As a kid spending time out in nature in a forest preserve near my house, I started cleaning up, picking up trash, this was the beginning of my adult passion of making art out of what I find,' Ingrum said. Brianna Borger of Evanston says she loves to support small business artists and the market gives her a glimpse into nature-inspired creativity. 'It's such a great weekend to come out to the woods and see tons of locally made art, do a bit of shopping, and enjoy fun activities for the family,' Kemerer said.
Forbes
11-04-2025
- Science
- Forbes
Poetry And Deception: Secrets Of Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Haiku AI Model
Anthropic AI recently published two breakthrough research papers that provide surprising insights into how an AI model 'thinks.' One of the papers follows Anthropic's earlier research that linked human-understandable concepts with LLMs' internal pathways to understand how model outputs are generated. The second paper reveals how Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Haiku model handled simple tasks associated with ten model behaviors. These two research papers have provided valuable information on how AI models work — not by any means a complete understanding, but at least a glimpse. Let's dig into what we can learn from that glimpse, including some possibly minor but still important concerns about AI safety. LLMs such as Claude aren't programmed like traditional computers. Instead, they are trained with massive amounts of data. This process creates AI models that behave like black boxes, which obscures how they can produce insightful information on almost any subject. However, black-box AI isn't an architectural choice; it is simply a result of how this complex and nonlinear technology operates. Complex neural networks within an LLM use billions of interconnected nodes to transform data into useful information. These networks contain vast internal processes with billions of parameters, connections and computational pathways. Each parameter interacts non-linearly with other parameters, creating immense complexities that are almost impossible to understand or unravel. According to Anthropic, 'This means that we don't understand how models do most of the things they do.' Anthropic follows a two-step approach to LLM research. First, it identifies features, which are interpretable building blocks that the model uses in its computations. Second, it describes the internal processes, or circuits, by which features interact to produce model outputs. Because of the model's complexity, Anthropic's new research could illuminate only a fraction of the LLM's inner workings. But what was revealed about these models seemed more like science fiction than real science. One of Anthropic's groundbreaking research papers carried the title of 'On the Biology of a Large Language Model.' The paper examined how the scientists used attribution graphs to internally trace how the Claude 3.5 Haiku language model transformed inputs into outputs. Researchers were surprised by some results. Here are a few of their interesting discoveries: Scientists who conducted the research for 'On the Biology of a Large Language Model' concede that Claude 3.5 Haiku exhibits some concealed operations and goals not evident in its outputs. The attribution graphs revealed a number of hidden issues. These discoveries underscore the complexity of the model's internal behavior and highlight the importance of continued efforts to make models more transparent and aligned with human expectations. It is likely these issues also appear in other similar LLMs. With respect to my red flags noted above, it should be mentioned that Anthropic continually updates its Responsible Scaling Policy, which has been in effect since September 2023. Anthropic has made a commitment not to train or deploy models capable of causing catastrophic harm unless safety and security measures have been implemented that keep risks within acceptable limits. Anthropic has also stated that all of its models meet the ASL Deployment and Security Standards, which provide a baseline level of safe deployment and model security. As LLMs have grown larger and more powerful, deployment has spread to critical applications in areas such as healthcare, finance and defense. The increase in model complexity and wider deployment has also increased pressure to achieve a better understanding of how AI works. It is critical to ensure that AI models produce fair, trustworthy, unbiased and safe outcomes. Research is important for our understanding of LLMs, not only to improve and more fully utilize AI, but also to expose potentially dangerous processes. The Anthropic scientists have examined just a small portion of this model's complexity and hidden capabilities. This research reinforces the need for more study of AI's internal operations and security. In my view, it is unfortunate that our complete understanding of LLMs has taken a back seat to the market's preference for AI's high performance outcomes and usefulness. We need to thoroughly understand how LLMs work to ensure safety guardrails are adequate.
Yahoo
07-02-2025
- Yahoo
Haiku man arrested, charged with murder
HONOLULU (KHON2) — A Haiku man has been arrested and charged with murder after a woman was found dead in a police officers were sent to a Haiku residence on Saturday, Jan. 25 shortly after 7:30 a.m. when Central Dispatch received a report that a woman sustained an injury. Officials said the injuries may have occurred from a fall. OCCC inmate found dead, murder investigation opened Units arrived at the scene around 7:46 a.m. and found 68-year-old Cynthia Moore unresponsive inside the residence. Police determined she was deceased at the scene and no life-saving measures were performed, according to MPD. A 74-year-old Haiku man was arrested later the same night and was released pending further investigation. He was re-arrested on Wednesday, Feb. 5 for Murder in the Second Degree. 'The Maui Police Department extends its deepest condolences to Ms. Moore's family and friends during this difficult time.' Due to the active investigation, no further information is available. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Khaleej Times
06-02-2025
- Khaleej Times
4 hot spots for hot springs
Sizzle in Hot Springs in Japan The Yamashiro hot springs region, un-scrolling outside our car window, had a lyrical beauty akin to a Japanese Haiku poem. We had landed at the historic town of Kanazawa, a short flight from Tokyo, and checked into a Japanese ryokan (inn) called Beniya Mukayu. Suffused with Japanese-style minimalism, each suite had its own outdoor hot springs tub on the balcony where you could soak as steam wreathed upward while beyond snowflakes fluttered downwards like white confetti. Fifteen minutes later, we slipped into casual cotton kimonos and headed for the spa where soothing soaks and massages with herbal poultices and foot baths spiked with curative herbs left us feeling almost limbless. On the main island of Honshu we revelled once again in another private onsen (hot springs bath) experience in Okuhida village. At the 86-room Hotakaso Yamano Hotel and Ryokan, facing the northern Japan Alps, we accessed our private hot springs pool area by a cable lift outside the hotel that seemed to lurch down into the bowels of the earth. Enveloped in a snow-shawled landscape, the hot springs steamed and hissed like angry serpents with 4,000 litres of water, per minute. We submerged ourselves in a simmering pool, rimmed by humped rocks, and gnarled ancient trees. Snowflakes danced and kissed our shoulders and after a soul-stirring 15 minutes, we chugged upwards in the cable lift again. We joined other guests warming themselves around a fire in a lounge and raised jubilant toasts to good health and togetherness. Travel Notes There are direct flights from Tokyo to Kanazawa's Komatsu airport from where taxis are available for Beniya Mukayu in the Yamashiro Onsen area. The Okuhida region is accessible from Tokyo by train and taxi, and the journey takes about three-and-a-half hours. . In The Bubbling Waters of Beitou, Taiwan The hot springs bubbled and hissed like a coven of witches at a party. Whorls of steam and vapour curled over our heads, blurring our vision and filling us with a feeling of lassitude. We were in the geothermal valley of Beitou, on the northern outskirts of Taipei, in Taiwan. The air around the 4,000sqm boiling bubbling lake of sulphurous water felt as hot as Satan's breath. Encircled by the Chingshan peaks, Beitou's lush expanse hugs the foot of Yangmingshan National Park. We lingered by the pea-soup-coloured lake, beyond which spread the homeland of the ancient Ketagalan people. These simple people feared this burbling mass of hot water and called it Hell's Valley. (There are green-coloured hot springs only in Beitou and in Akita, Japan.) Beitou's conversion from HelI's Valley to a romantic sought-after hot springs escape began with the Japanese occupation of Taiwan from 1895 to 1945. It was in this island-country that the Japanese tried to re-create the onsens that they were used to back home. Soon Beitou became famed for rejuvenating dips in healing waters. We, too, discovered hot springs bliss at the Relais & Chateaux Villa 32, a boutique luxury spa resort that nestles in the valley of Beitou, surrounded by hunched mountains. Each elegant suite comes with its own private hot springs tub and there are two Japanese style suites as well. But Villa 32's main draw card is that it has five different hot springs. Apart from Beitou's jade-green sulphur springs and the white sulphur springs, a trio of alkaline hot springs in three different colours also spurt at Villa 32. The spa resort's outdoor pool beckoned and we uncurled ourselves in the warm water and let the mineral-rich waters gush and slide smoothly over naked skin. Stress and worry took flight like clouds on a rain-washed morning. Travel Notes A number of international airlines fly to Taiwan's Taoyuan International Airport, 40km west of Taipei. Beitou can be reached by MRT or a taxi from Taipei. Blow Hot, Blow Cold in Leukerbad, Switzerland Breakfast with bubbles in a thermal pool is an ideal way to launch into Valentine's Day. Or, would you prefer bathing and dining like a Roman senator? We were in Leukerbad, a famed hot springs region that snuggles in to a valley above which rises to sheer snow-muffled cliffs. Home to the largest and highest thermal spa centres in the Alps, Leukerbad's 65 springs spew calcium and sulphate-rich waters that have been considered therapeutic since the 14th century. A total of 4 million litres per day gush upwards in this charming Swiss town. People stride around in dressing gowns, driven by a single goal — the pursuit of wellness in any of the 30 thermal baths (public and private). Indeed, Leukerbad is Europe's largest, high-altitude medical and alpine wellness thermal spa resort. Couples can relax in the mineral-rich thermal waters of upscale Walliser Alpentherme and Spa, sweat it out in the sauna village, and wallow in an array of medical, beauty and spa therapies. Leukerbad Therme (earlier known as Burgerbad) comes with water slides, water jets, pools for toddlers, and 10 mineral-rich hot water pools. It's a great place for mum, dad, and kids to bond. We checked into the upscale Walliser Alpentherme and Spa, splashed around in its indoor and outdoor pools and revelled in the vigorous pummelling by jets that roared from the sides. The snow-kissed mountains seemed just an arm's stretch away and then, it started to snow. We fielded the snowflakes on our tongues even as warm water swirled around us. At Walliser Alpentherme, we indulged in time travel in the Roman-Irish baths, where we felt like we were participating in a rite of passage. This is the venue of a two-hour bathing ritual with ancient Roman and Irish elements woven in. We returned to our hotel, feeling limbered up and at one with the world. Travel Notes Leukerbad is a three-hour-20-minute train journey from Zurich airport and three hours from Geneva airport. Soaking up History at Baden-Baden, Germany Over a millennium ago, the mighty Roman empire had retreated from this little Black Forest town in southwest Germany but it left behind a legacy — Baden-Baden's famous hot springs spas. Indeed, the popular Roman–Irish Baths at Friedrichsbad Spa entices tourists and couples to revel in Roman-style indulgence. A 17-stage, four-hour ritual started in a steam room where we slumped in loungers, sweating off the angst of the outside world. A spell in the sauna and steam room was followed by a scrub with soap and a brush. Now tingling and fresh, we set off to enjoy a series of thermal pools, each one filled with hot springs water at different temperatures. The last stop was a brief one in a pool filled with freezing cold fresh water. Our penultimate stop was on a massage bed where masseuses slathered and massaged us with creams. The Caracalla spa had a sublime effect on us, too, with its array of hot springs pools, neck showers, Jacuzzis, steam rooms, and aquatic jets. Travel Notes Baden-Baden is an hour's drive from Stuttgart and 12km away from Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden airport.
