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EGAN AVENUE RESIDENCE, a development which offers pet-friendly units and short-term leases, was constructed in the Madison Historic District, raising concerns among neighbors working to preserve the historical integrity of the neighborhood.
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New construction poses challenges in Madison Historic District
By MARY GALES ASKREN Staff Reporter
(Editor's note: This is part one of a three-part series which looks at the ramifications of new construction in a historic district, The series will consider the process, the impact and how the process could be improved.)
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Nowhere is that more evident than when a visionary developer turns his eyes on an area listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
"We're always in the business of improving the neighborhood," said Dusten Hendrickson, founder of Brookings Built Green, Inc.
In recent years, his company has built two housing units on N. Egan Avenue in the Madison Historic District. Each unit, described as a duplex, contains two suites; each suite has six individually rented bedrooms.
The development lies along a stretch of Egan Ave. which was nominated for the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. For neighbors who have worked to maintain the historical integrity of their homes, that is the crux of a disagreement.
"We and several other neighbors had concerns about bringing high-density housing into the neighborhood," said Bob Sahr, who lives in the historic district.
They were concerned about noise, about parking and about property values. But they were also concerned with preserving their historic neighborhood.
Even before houses at 705 N. Egan and 709 N. Egan were demolished, other structures in the district had been altered enough to affect their status. A re-evaluation of the Madison Historic District in 2002 determined four houses along N. Egan, one on Lee Ave. and one on Washington Ave. had become non-contributing due to alterations.
Liz Almlie, historic preservation specialist with the South Dakota State Historical Society, explained that while her office is involved in a review process for properties in a historic district, the decision regarding building permits ultimately rests with local authorities.
"We review whether or not new construction will encroach upon, damage or destroy any historic property included on the National Register of Historic Places, and issue a letter of comment back to the city," she said, describing her office's role. "The city makes the determination."
Almlie admitted it can be difficult for the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) to make an assessment based upon drawings alone. In addition, once a letter of comment has been issued, SHPO won't see modifications made to the original plans. This means the actual project may differ significantly from what was evaluated.
"Madison does not have a historic preservation commission," Almlie noted. This impacts local decisions as well.
"Sometimes having local eyes on it and having that additional discussion helps," she explained.
In the case of Egan Avenue Residence, the name of the new development, neighbors question whether the state's standards for new construction in historic districts was adequately considered. The standards indicate the size and scale of new construction should be compatible with surrounding historic buildings.
They provide specific guidelines for height, width, proportion, materials, color, ornamentation and roofline. One statement from the standards summarizes the overriding theme of the detailed list: "The overall visual appearance of new construction may not dominate or be distracting to the surrounding historic landscape."
The Egan Avenue Residence clearly dominates the landscape. Constructed 15 feet in front of neighboring structures with the minimum setbacks allowed, the structures are not – to use one example from the list of standards – similar in width to adjacent historic buildings.
"They put square buildings on rectangular lots," Sahr observed.
Traditionally, the houses would have been narrower, to allow more space between the homes.
Hendrickson indicated the lots themselves were responsible for some of the decisions made regarding design and construction.
"It's a very challenging site to deal with," he said, noting that a portion of both lots is part of a FEMA floodway. "We can't use any of that back lot."
Currently, the parking area goes right up to the floodway. The location of the duplexes resulted from the need for adequate parking balanced with the limitations of the FEMA designation.
"Those houses should have been pushed back," Hendrickson admitted. However, overall he's pleased with the project and would like to expand it.
"We want to provide better housing all the way along the street," he said, noting the area is close to the university and within walking distance of downtown.
As for maintaining the district's listing on the National Register of Historic Places, Almlie indicated SHPO looks at the cumulative impact of new construction.
"At the end of the day, we want the historical district to be eligible for the National Register of Historical Places," she stated.
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April 2-8 | Your News & Comments: Part 1
Someone mentioned another USA Today reorg coming. Unless this one sheds do nothing managers in all department or reassigning them to productive jobs, no one is interested and there will be no buy in.
People are sick and tired of empty slogans, obtuse executive hires and senior managers insulated from real time,hands on work. The charade by Tom Beusses' team in Sports infected the entire organization with an infusion of mistrust, fear and resignation. The damage will be lasting and pervasive. You don't build a winning team by telling everyone that they have to reapply for their jobs. You certainly don't talk out of both sides of your mouth (Gracia, Ellwood, Hunke) while doing so. Especially when you retain failed, ineffective workers throughout the organization.
When are you people going to wake up and get your act together. This isn't like cutting janitorial services back three days a week or placing completely unqualified people in nebulous positions. You are screwing around with a whole lot of lives and many more are shellshockedby the fallout. Blissful ignorance and hiding out in your offices doesn't change that.
Here's my version of what a reorg of USA Today should be:
You don't sell ads, you are gone.
You don't drircectly produce or handle any content, you are gone.
Your job is redundant, you're gone.
You have no one directly reporting to you and nobody to manage, you're gone.
Your chief tasks are second guessing, armchair quarterbacking and covering your ass, you're gone.
You have no idea how to report or write a story and this organization has covered for you by leaning on others to take up the slack, you're gone.
You are an editor who thinks only in terms of the next day's paper and fail to update stories for the web, you're gone.
You are one of more than a dozen vice presidents of whatever, you're gone.
Could someone explain to me the list at the bottom of USAT.com's home page, 'popular topics in the news'?
It varies from 9 to over a hundred topics, and doesn't seem to have any order, either ranking in popularity or even alphabetical.
Is it just a SEO thing? Or is it just a filler for when there isn't enough news in the world? I can't imagine there are many people who would read through that list and suddenly decide to click on the link for the 'orlando sentinel'.
Will the final buyouts at Florida Today be known this morning?
I was at work the other day (I don't work for Gannett) and everyone was complaining about the newspaper: The errors, the wedding announcement that didn't make it in, the lack of government coverage, and the list goes on. I told them about the paywalls and how they wouldn't be able to pay for just the printed paper and how their subscription rates were going to be going up and by how much and you should have seen the reaction. It was priceless. And then we started talking about passion topics. Not one person I had lunch with said they would pay an increased rate for the crap they're being fed. Not one.
You nailed it, I with you
Pointroll Losing Another Client 4/02/2012 8:57 AM
Pointroll is LOSING ANOTHER CLIENT...Meanwhile, Sarah Ripmaster is on vacation again.
Good wishes for everyone that is waiting to hear if their buyout comes through or not. I hope you hear today and this waiting isn't prolonged.
Two Michigan community sites did a tap dance about paywalls yesterday... http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/gannetts-latest-paywall-announcements-would-you-pay-for-obfuscation/
This should an interesting week.
Buyouts accepted,layoffs will then be calculated according to how bad the quarter revenue numbers have fallen once again.
By now,who cares.Those waiting for layoffs will get what they wanted.Those still at Gannett for other reasons,too bad.
Jim, Can you please move the buyout spreadsheet back to the top and start adding the numbers as they come in? Today should be a big day. I hope Gannett doesn't take a lot longer to decide on the buyouts. This waiting is hard. Glad you got my $20!
8:18 said "how they wouldn't be able to pay for just the printed paper"
Where did you get that from? Nowhere have I seen anything like this. You said you don't work for Gannett so must be you got your info from someone who doesn't know. If that were true there surely wouldn't be any joy in Mudville!
"Should management of this dwindling, idiosyncratically-governed media company succeed in journaling millions from the preferred holders to the common holders, the resulting ripples could be worth billions."
This is Wall Street expert James Grant talking about, no, not Gannett (this time) but Emmis Corp., owner of radio stations and city mags across the country.
Today is the day stockholders gather to confront matters ...
http://www.indystar.com/article/20120331/BUSINESS/203310309/Emmis-dials-up-fight-group-shareholders
A reader tipped me off to what they called the Gannett Corporate cruise to Tahiti. I've just asked for more details.
Meanwhile, what do you know?
Dave Hunke, are you proud of yourself?
Not only will you forever carry the legacy of having undone USA Today but now also wrecking hundreds of careers.
How can you seriously look at yourself in the mirror every morning with any self respect?
Time to pack it in and fade away. Please.
Excellent assessment! So now is it time to finally say good bye and good ridance to Dave Hunke, Susie Ellwood, Lee Jones, Heather Frank, Sandy Micek and Susan Weiss? We hope so.
And now let us leave the rubble in the hands of the two most inept fools of all, Gracia Martore and Maryam Banikarim.
The Philadelphia Inquirer is now owned by one of the top political power brokers in the region. The death of journalism continues.
It might appear that USA TODAY has gone from one of the better places to work to one of the worst in a few short years, but actually the beginning of the end really started a decade or so ago.
The lack of respect and basic honesty -- particularly coming from key managers in the newsroom -- laid the groundwork for all that currently ails the paper/website. Hiring became shoddy. Promotions of less than capable people raised more than a few eyebrows. Overall, key managers allowed an atmosphere of extreme selfishness. They turned the newsroom into a popularity contest. It didn't matter how much work you did or how competent you were. All that mattered was whether you sucked up to these insecure, ego-maniacs in the corner offices. This created an uneven workload. Essentially a small group of employees carried the bulk of the load.
While this and other things worsened, HR and executive level managers (including the editor of the paper) stuck their heads in the sand. The entire operation became corrupt. Those with poor work ethics got away with murder. Anyone with half a brain and a desire to uphold certain standards could see what was happening. Eventually, many of them left on their own or were targeted for layoffs or forced buyouts. Some of the hardest working, most honorable people were thought of as troublemakers.
USAT is scrambling to make up for all the wasted time and the lost talent. The bad karma created by managers 10 years ago, combined with the recession, created a perfect storm, which USAT is frantically trying to extricate itself from so that it can move forward. Frankly, I have no confidence this can be done at this point. I think further mistakes will be made. I think true buy-in is unattainable. I think the lies and layoffs will continue until the brand is so diluted that it will no longer be a major player in the media world. USAT needed changes 10 years ago to prevent the kind of destructive stuff that is going on there now.
Itll get a lot worse soon
It is too bad USA Today has no power brokers -- just get-them-on-the-cheap "journalists, an executive editor who hates her "product" more than she does her staff, and the most useless, lying do-nothing publisher ever.
The paper has a couple dozen decent reporters and fewer good editors on the print side. Thats all.
if they
If they're cruisin', we can always hope for Somalian Pirates...
12:11 p.m., the end of USA TODAY began with Craig Moon getting tossed and the inexplicable promotion of Dave Hunke. Even his lap dog Susie Ellwood can't salvage the mess he has created now.
Sarah Ripmaster is STILL ON VACATION!!! Nice job Sarah. You should resign.
Astonishing, Jim, that so much turmoil has been triggered at USA Today by Mr. Buesse's deplorable actions in Sports. And yet you have not devoted one story or item on this blog to the human tragedy now unfolding.
I understand everyone wants to make fun of Maryam B, so any time her name appears in print you are justified in doing an item. But come on, aren't you missing the big story? Yes, forcing staff to reapply for their jobs has been done at some other Gannett properties. But this is not some shitkicker paper, but what was once the nation's largest daily and the company's flagship.
Has Mr. Bueusse's contacts with you blinded you to the outrages he is inflicting? His claims that those being tossed out don't have the new skills needed is simply a sham, an excuse and no more.
How to get around one of the paywalls:
1) Go to Tallahassee.com, and click on a story.
This first paragraph shows up, with a prompt to Log In or Subscribe in order to read more.
2) Go up to the URL, and replace "tallahassee" with "fsunews" and hit the Return button.
(FSUNews is the site of the Gannett-owned college paper there, the FSView, which is not behind the paywall. All the content for both sites is probably on the same server somewhere. I've also noticed that you can change out the website names of nearby papers sometimes to make it show up too.)
Apparently this has been the case for over a year, so sorry if someone else posted this a long time ago.
1:10 Apparently, you missed this post, and this one, and this one.
Groupon blows it again:
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/groupon-blows-again-restates-earnings-customers-demand-refunds-150759194.html
Playing 'chicken' with their customers?
What client did PointRoll lose today? How many lost this year?
4/02/2012 1:10 PM Jim has been right on target with his coverage and his timing of Beusse's deplorable actions and attitudes. Where have you been?
Obviously Beusse's insane behavior can't compare with Banikarim's though they both seem to have massive egos that outweigh any of their accomplishments (or lack thereof).
It is not Jim carrying on about these clowns at length but us poor fools stuck have to work on their didactic, demeaning and mean-spirited management.
Then again, these idiotic acorns have not fallen far from the two-face big-trunk Martore oak tree.
Yes, Philly paper now in hands of power broker in Cherry Hill's back yard....
Also, look at the figures:
Inky and Daily News sold for $55 million....
The purchase price for Philadelphia Media Network, which also operates the Philly.com website, is a fraction of the newspapers' $515 purchase price in 2006. It's also far less than the $139 million paid by creditors at a 2010 bankruptcy auction.
Very telling.
Jim, the Sports business is worth considerably more digging. There's a school of thought that it'll only affect Sports, which is still a big deal because Sports -- like it or not -- built USA TODAY. It was a must-read for sports fans for the first decade and change of the paper's existence.
Then there's another school of thought that what's happening in Sports is a template for what will eventually happen elsewhere. That would make the story even bigger.
In any case, it's an unprecedented effort to shake up what was once a Gannett stronghold. With all due respect to people who'll be shuffled out, it's more than a round of layoffs. It's a megamillion-dollar gamble with a huge wave of hiring, from Beusse and Dave Morgan to the recent hiring of an honest-to-goodness big-name journalist, Joe Posnanski. They've also been acquiring properties such as The Big Lead and MMA Junkie that are far more successful in their niches than BNQT was in its.
We frankly haven't even seen confirmation that Monte Lorell and Jim Welch have left the building. Or anything about the new "hires" for management slots. These are important people on whom a lot is riding. Why isn't anyone giving you the memos?
Jim, as a former Gannett employee ( 32 years in service ) I want to thank you for this site.
I have been out of the loop for ten years, however I put in my time in the Westchester site. I also moved out of the area some nine years ago.
Recently I and my family, came back to the area to visit family and friends. I decided to take a drive to the Westchester, New York site to see what it looked like, and to visit some friends.
I as well as my wife were stunned, to say the least. The place is a ghost town. The building is virtualy empty, No Pressman, No Company Vehicles, No Pride !
We also purchased a paper, and needless to say , completely shocked with the element of nothingness in content.
Now when I left the company ( on my own terms ) things were changing, indeed, BUT never , ever at this level.
I can only conclude my message here, that if newspapers are dead, The Journal News died years ago.
It is so wrongfully sad that what is being passed as The Journal News today, would have cost you your job a mere 10 years ago. The Journal News today, would have blackballed you a mere 15 years ago!
What has happened here?
Could someone with a sane mind explain how this product has declined so rapidly?!
2:23 -- Craigslist ate up the revenue from classifieds, readers found hundreds of different ways to read and watch news, etc.
But if you stick around Jim's blog, you'll hear that it's all Gannett management, acting in isolation from other forces in the news industry and oppressing the greatest workforce ever assembled. And if you say otherwise, you're just a corporate plant. We all invent realities to make ourselves feel better, after all.
How much would you pay for this headline online?
Convicted murdered charged in deaths of 3 men
And these guys think they're the big dogs!
2:40---You're kidding right ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! It is ME---PROUDLY---2:23 AND I STAND BEHIND WHAT I SAID---"The Journal News is a DISGRACE!!!!"
I am waiting to find out if a friend of mine in Shreveport had their buyout offer accepted. What is going on with the buyouts there and what is the latest on the whole advertising department fiasco? It's a mess over there these days.
Pointroll is losing Apple. Another top client has defected to a competitor!
The paywall (ie content subscription plan) has to have a code name?
Project Firefly.
Of course, maybe it got that name because a firefly's lifespan is relatively short...just two months.
2:40, for all the millions that Gannett executives made, not only should they have seen the changes in the industry coming, they should have been prepared to deal with it, and figured out a way to keep the company profitable. Besides cutting jobs and increasing their bonuses.
If you are still in the dark about the changes to the"business model" you should read this from Rochester. Read the comments and the fact that the new subscription will be for "content" -- not the physical paper. Well worth the time to read it all the way through. And then read today's article about the departing columnists, writers, etc. And I'm sure readers will note there is going to be more coverage of food and wine. I could write about the wine if they stick to bottles with screw off caps.
3:19, can you provide a link?
oops! forgot to give the Rochester address for the story: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012303180014
3:14 and 2:23/2:56 -- (This is 2:40 responding.) Absolutely. I don't mean to say Gannett execs are wonderful people. Dubow's golden parachute is a disgrace by any standard.
But if the question is specifically about the decline of the Journal News or any paper, Gannett or otherwise, you have to answer by looking at the changing marketplace of the last 15-20 years.
2:10 I've seen the memo, and it was posted here three days ago.
Weiss far better than Hillkirk, Paulson, Karen Jurgensen and Dave Mazzarella. If only she had some fire in the belly deputies and decent web leadership.
And the will to make changes.
Her deputies are hoodwinking her. they are useless tools.
Gannett sure paid alot of money for "Big Brother" I mean Salesforce
Salesforce is a tool to increase productivity, not to be used as big brother. That is what we were told at my site. Sure and I expect the Easter Bunny to show up soon.
Thats why durning training the trainer always says "you don't want the CEO of Gannett to call you when he goes in and looks at what you have in your pipeline and doesn't like what he sees" No Big Brother going on at all.
Chet and Dave Teewuen need to go before Susan's deputies. i vote for Mitch Gelman.
Anything anyone is told at any site is now immediately suspect thanks to Gannett's track record over the past few years. Good going, Gannett!
In my case, we were told that some new software would never be used to track our work. "We appreciate that some things take longer than others."
That promise lasted about all of one day before competent staff members found themselves confronted with a supervisor's hostile and, frankly, insultingly rhetorical questions about a certain project taking "X" amount of time while another took "Y," both projects of which a supervisor had no awareness, let alone a minute's worth of hands-on involvement.
They just checked the time log, and these guys and gals in management were good to go with not only demoralizing an entire department but betraying as total BS the promise we were given just a day before by *their* boss -- who never checked back to see that assurance carried through!
Nice to see things haven't changed in Easter bunny department.
This ship of fools is sinking. Screw doing triple the work for nothing and focus on your resume and job hunting every moment that you can.
Captain David Hunke is a buffoon.
Let's congratulate David L. Hunke on destroying not only the nation's newspaper but so many careers.
Have another scotch and just know that all your " valued staff " are laughing behind your back while the industry mocks you.
I was "retired to pursue other interests" two years ago. Checking in on this blog reminds me over and over again how blessed I was to be separated from Gannett. Alarming what this company has become.
When will this buffoon finally be shown the door? What does this guy have on Martore, panty raid video?
I am ashamed to point to Hunke and Ellwood and say that is our leadership. Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Kiss Ass.
Jim, having the memo buried in the catch-all daily whinefest, I mean, "News & Comments" thread is hardly the same as having a separate post where people are likely to see it.
Pointroll CEO is STEPPING DOWN!!! 4/02/2012 9:48 PM
Pointroll's Rob Gatto and Sarah Ripmaster are announcing that they are stepping down and leaving the compnay!!!!
I dont know 9:48, thats a pretty big statement- how are you so sure they are stepping down?
Jim, Can you readdress if there is an issue or concern by the board of directors on stock buyers rethinking buying gci stock because of poor management decisions? I seem to remember reading Gracia blaming debow for past problems. Is that right?
For everyone who wants to see Hunke fired, I just don't think it is going to happen. Clearly the man is incompetent with no vision, but that is exactly why Gracia hired him and is keeping him around. Hunke does everything that Gracia asks of him. He has no morals and no spine. He knows that he has no hope of getting another job anywhere else - so, he will do whatever Gracia asks of him, so that he can keep cashing his big paycheck. Gracia doesn't really want a talented leader at USAT because they might have a mind of their own and start doing the right things for USAT instead of just marching blindly behind Gracia.
So, I think we are stuck with Hunke and the destruction will continue. There is no recovering. The damage is too deep.
Let's stage a goodbye party for Hunke. Maybe he'll take the hint. Everyone chip in for that case of scotch at Susie's office. She doesn't seem to be doing much these days, either.
The local news in Louisville, KY reported that 26 people are leaving Gannett due to the buy outs, most from the news room.

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End Times events are now unfolding at an unprecedented speed. This is not meant to instill fear. What we see happening and what we report is meant to bring hope to the Church, the Body of Christ, knowing that our promise and our hope is about to make His appearance. Our Lord Jesus Christ is returning soon.
There are increasing events taking place around the world setting up the platform / stage for end times prophecies and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ! We don't know the day or the hour. But the language being used today by world leaders and the situation in regards to Israel and the Middle East surely indicates we are arriving at that most desired, blessed day in which the Lord comes for His Church. Be encouraged, edified and at peace. Our Lord is speaking to our hearts and our spirit. He is showing us how close we are to His coming. Therefore, receive a dose of STRENGTH and COMFORT from the Holy Spirit of God. Let us continue to look up for our Lord draws nearer everyday. Do not step off that Rock, that Foundation which is immovable. Be watchful with the full Armor of God. He is preparing us for a very special day! May the Joy of our Lord be upon you all. Soon, Heaven will be our permanent home where our God will be our Loving King! Blessed be our Lord and our God, Jesus Christ the Almighty!
For the unbeliever, let this be a warning to you. The Bible is the most accurate book you'll ever read. It talks about the past, present and future! Read the Bible! Compare the prophesies found in the Bible to today's current, specific events. Prepare to be shocked! Based on current events, the Biblical prophetic future is NOW!!!!....Therefore, choose this day whom you will serve! Choose fast!


A zero death challenge is where one tries to complete one of the Pikmin games without losing any Pikmin whatsoever. This can be very difficult, even for skilled players. However, there are a few methods that can make this formidable task easier, as listed below.
The Pikmin games were designed with Pikmin death in mind; primarily during tough battles. The Pikmin by themselves are extremely frail, and even the easiest enemies like dwarf bulborbs can kill a Pikmin or two very quickly if they go unnoticed, especially during more hectic scenes, or if you have a very large squad following you. Be prepared to reset if even a single Pikmin dies, and accept that it may take multiple tries to complete a sublevel or defeat a boss enemy without casualties.
Especially in the first game, where enemies are typically much harder to beat due to generally higher enemy health points, the absence of Purple Pikmin, and several glitches (like the crushing glitch) that can kill Pikmin through no fault of your own. You absolutely must take your time; even the smallest, simplest mistake can lead to casualties. Learn about the enemy types, and learn how they attack the Pikmin and the Leaders so you can safely navigate away from their attacks. Patience is vital when fighting difficult enemies like the Beady Long Legs and Emperor Bulblax, or the likes of the Titan Dweevil in Pikmin 2. Rushing can lead to mistakes, which can either cost you valuable time, or can result in causalities.
Even if only one of your Pikmin dies, reset the day or cave sublevel. The fastest way is press the "RESET" button on your console or select "Reset" from the Wii's Home Menu. Alternately, press the "POWER" button and restart the system, or hold + + . This is especially useful in caves, where your progress is saved between every sublevels, meaning you will lose very little progress should you restart. In Pikmin, you can pause the game and select "Continue from Last Save" to reset the day's progress and go back to the saved game selection; this can also be done at the end of the day in both Pikmin and Pikmin 2 after selecting "Don't Save" when prompted. Similarly, in Pikmin 3, you can pause and select "Restart Area" to return to the start of the day.
Some enemies are challenging to beat without a large onslaught, so take the strongest forces of Pikmin you can muster, and use them correctly. In Pikmin 2, you should always try and defeat enemies with Purple Pikmin whenever possible, because of their immense power and stunning potential. In the first game, there are also a number of alternative, safer ways to defeat enemies, such as using bomb-rocks, or failing that, punching them with Olimar to weaken or kill them first.
Faster throw trick – by using while throwing, you can remove the delay between each Pikmin toss, allowing you to throw Pikmin at a faster rate.
Double sprays glitch – by having an idle leader absorb a spray drop, and quickly having the current leader absorb it as well, two doses can be obtained from a single drop.
Digging speeds: learning what types of Pikmin are the most and least effective at digging out objects can allow the player to leave fewer Pikmin work on a task or gain time.
Carrying: White Pikmin are the fastest Pikmin: as such, they have fewer chances of being killed by an enemy. In Pikmin 3, Winged Pikmin carrying an object cannot be noticed by enemies, which makes them the best choice for retrieving things most of the time. Just make sure you've taken out any Arachnodes in the way first, lest the Winged Pikmin be killed in transit.
While the enemies that lurk on the main paths should always be dispatched, many enemies near parts and treasures that are on the road less traveled don't always have to be killed. Most enemies will follow a leader with or without Pikmin, so use one of them to distract an enemy while the Pikmin slip by them with ship parts, treasures, or fruits. In the first game, Olimar cannot be harmed while lying down, making him perfect for distracting powerful enemies like Spotty Bulbears.
Although it may make the next few days a little easier, killing all the enemies in the level or trying to kill multiple bosses in one day will likely result in multiple resets and frustration. If you end the day often, you won't lose as much progress should you have to reset the day. However, this shouldn't be done very often; stronger enemies begin appearing in the Perplexing Pool after day 30 in the second game, and the first and third games have day limits; taking too long can result in a game over.
The leaders' punch can kill most non-boss enemies rather efficiently, especially after recovering the Brute Knuckles and unlocking the Rocket Fist in the second game. It is entirely possible for the two leaders to clean out entire sublevels while placing the Pikmin in no direct harm. While Olimar can heal himself in the first game by interacting with the S.S Dolphin, the leaders in Pikmin 2 are not given this luxury, requiring care to be taken when battling with just the leaders, lest one of them go down. Leaders can also be sent to scour the entire sublevel and trigger any falling bomb-rocks or Volatile Dweevils before they endanger the Pikmin.
Attempting a zero death challenge isn't a good idea during your first shot at the game – all of the games are quite difficult simply to complete, let alone without casualties – but don't senselessly sacrifice your Pikmin either; rather, study what the enemies and hazards of the Pikmin games do and look for exploits, easier ways to dodge their attacks, and ways to defeat them. Some enemy attacks can harm or kill other enemies, such as the Yellow Wollywogs "ground-pound", and notably in the second game, Decorated Cannon Beetle boulders. Many of the guides here can help you in learning about the enemies, but only by playing the game can you gain experience.
In the second game, sprays are acceptably common, doubly so if you use the spray glitch mentioned above. Do not be afraid to use an ultra-bitter spray to defeat an enemy like a Fiery Bulblax, even if you need to spend an extra day at the Perplexing Pool or the Valley of Repose in order to obtain more. Ultra-spicy sprays are not as helpful in comparison, but can still be used to defeat a boss enemy faster in a pinch.
Sprays can be farmed rather efficiently in the second game and the third game if you know where to go and what to do. The ever-valuable ultra-bitter sprays can be easily farmed on the Frontier Cavern's first sublevel, as it has three Doodlebugs, which give two bitter sprays each if hit all three times, adding up to six bitter sprays (twelve if you use the spray duplication glitch) per trip. Spicy sprays can easily be obtained by spending a little time near the Awakening Wood's Spiderworts and hunting down flint beetles.
In the third game, Pikmin can be assigned to a Spiderwort, and will spend the rest of the day harvesting them unless they encounter resistance or are whistled at. Assigning 5 Pikmin to two or three Spiderworts will provide you with a good number of sprays per day, allowing you to power your army up more often during dangerous moments. However, you must note that Pikmin assigned to Spiderworts will not stop harvesting berries until specifically called back, and are exceedingly easy to leave behind at sunset as a result.
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FUTURE FACTS – FROM THINK LINKS
A camera you can wear as a pendant to record every moment of your life will soon be launched by a UK-based firm.A new mobile phone charger that will work with any handset has been approved by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a United Nations body.Designated JKCS041, the galaxy is located 10.2 billion light-years from Earth, beating the previous distance record by a billion light-years.Most of the technology needed to shift the world from fossil fuel to clean, renewable energy already exists.
by John L. Petersen
New Human – New World
We need to start the discussion about how a new world might operate. We need to get going. We're already late. One of the most profound historical transitions defining how humans will live on this planet is fully underway and it's about time that those of us who intend to shape the emergence of the new world start seriously thinking about how things might work after the dust of change settles.
This extraordinary shift gives every indication that it is going to produce both a new human and a new world. The new humans will see themselves differently, both in terms of who they are and how they relate to the rest of reality. The essential defining characteristic appears to be understanding that we do not exist apart from or independently of anything else around us. We're all part of the same experience. Many call it oneness.
This is distinctly unlike the way almost all of us were raised. We were taught (both directly and implicitly) that humans stood apart from the planet, the environment and of course, other people. We were separate.
Now, it is quickly coming clear in very tangible terms, that we are all interconnected and interdependent. The behavior of the environment and climate, the global financial system, geopolitical groups, and certainly the Internet show us daily that human behavior in one isolated place affects significant change in other, very unanticipated locations. These initial, physical indicators are harbingers of a much more broadly defined paradigm that is already flowering all over the world.
Many good individuals and groups are working on the new human issue – the elevation of the human spirit and consciousness. Call it what you'd like – enlightenment, awakening, ascension – the idea is a rising new level of awareness and being.
The world we'll live in after this transition is a different issue.
If the new human has different perspectives, values, and objectives, then all of the world's institutions, concepts, and processes – governments, corporations, the idea of national security, education, the economic system – will fundamentally change as well. They will be structured differently around new purposes using a fresh set of incentives. People will be seen and valued differently by and within organizations. The role of money will probably shift. Maybe the whole definition of work will evolve to something new. It's really big, multidimensional change . . . all happening at the same time.
The whole system, which was designed around and for old ideas and principles that have existed for centuries, will need to be re-imagined.
Designing the New World – Two Initiatives
So, the question is, should we wait until the old system fails and the necessity for designing the new world is pressing in all around us? Or, should we begin thinking about how this new world might work now – while we have the time and space to fully consider the many possible options?
I vote for starting the design process now. Not only do we have the time, but as the new model starts to come together we can hold it up for millions to see as an alternative to the world that will be eroding around them. It will provide much needed hope. It will show a way to a new world.
I don't know if there's anyone else trying to comprehensively evolve a model of a new world, but here at The Arlington Institute we are smartly moving in that direction.
December Workshop
The workshop that Don Beck and I are holding on December 11-12 is the first concrete step toward summoning up the thinking that will support a larger global design initiative. If being a creator of this new world appeals to you, then you should consider being with us next month. If you plan to come, you should register now. Participants are signing up fast. Half of the places are already taken, and we only announced it two weeks ago.
Also, if you're in the Washington area and want to hear more about some of these ideas, come spend the day with us at Unity of Fairfax on the 14th of November. You'll find more info here.
New World Project
The larger initiative is a project that we've been calling the New World Project – a six-month process to bring together a relatively small group of extraordinary thinkers to rapidly build an initial, tentative model of the essential framework of a possible new world . We want to come up with something that when it is held up for all to see, people say, "Yeah, that could work!"
The model will be designed only to function as a discussion/debate starter. I call it a "logical seed" that can be put on the table in a virtual environment in front of many thousands of people as a straw man concept that they can begin to shoot at and modify. We'd like to start – and encourage – a global, evolutionary and emergence process. This is about planting the clear idea of a tangible, reasonable, achievable, new world in the collective consciousness of those who know that they are here to contribute to, design, and help build such a place.
Our plan then, is to provide a novel environment where very large numbers of people from across the world can come together to systematically design the beginnings of this new world. Imagine many thousands of "transitioneers" collaborating together in a very fun and highly incentivized environment. That's the idea, and we have a very well thought out approach to making it happen. This is an initiative that can literally change the world.
We're looking for funding for this project – the first priority being to build the discussion-starting model, which is something less than $400,000. If you think the time is right to start a global movement to design a new world and you would like to learn more about the New World project and how you might get involved in supporting it, send me a note at [email protected] with your name and email address (and telephone number, if you'd like to talk) and I'll get back to you directly.
Be well. I'm off to carve pumpkins.
INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
New Camera Promises to Capture Your Whole Life – (New Scientist – October 16, 2009)
A camera you can wear as a pendant to record every moment of your life will soon be launched by a UK-based firm. Originally invented to help jog the memories of people with Alzheimer's disease, it might one day be used by consumers to create "lifelogs" that archive their entire lives. Worn on a cord around the neck, the camera takes pictures automatically as often as once every 30 seconds. Eventually, a SenseCam-like device could be part of an artificial memory used by ordinary people, just as they use notebooks and planners as memory aids today.
NEW REALITIES
Physicists Measure Elusive 'Persistent Current' That Flows Forever
The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
Physicists Calculate Number of Universes in the Multiverse
Physicists Measure Elusive 'Persistent Current' That Flows Forever – (Science Daily – October 12, 2009)
Physicists at Yale University have made the first definitive measurements of "persistent current," a small but perpetual electric current first theorized decades ago, but so faint and sensitive to its environment that physicists were unable to accurately measure. It flows naturally through tiny rings of metal wire even without an external power source due to a quantum mechanical effect that influences how electrons travel through metals, and arises from the same kind of motion that allows the electrons inside an atom to orbit the nucleus forever.
The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate – (New York Times – October 12, 2009)
The Large Hadron Collider, is poised to start up again. In December, if all goes well, protons will start smashing together in an underground racetrack outside Geneva in a search for forces and particles that reigned during the first trillionth of a second of the Big Bang. Then it will be time to test one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science: the notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.
Physicists Calculate Number of Universes in the Multiverse – (Technology Review – October 15, 2009)
One of the curious developments in cosmology in recent years has been the emergence of the multiverse as a mainstream idea. Instead of the Big Bang producing a single uniform universe, the latest thinking is that it produced many different universes that appear locally uniform. One question that then arises is how many universes are there. That may sound like the sort of quantity that is inherently unknowable but Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin at Stanford University have worked out an answer, of sorts. Of course, the actual number depends critically on how you define the difference between universes.
GENETICS/ HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
Green Genes
Imaging Breakthrough Heralds Snapshots of
Individual Biomolecules
Placebo Effect Caught in the Act in Spinal Nerves
Junk Food Turns Rats into Addicts
The Young and the Neuro
Algae and Light Help Injured Mice Walk Again
Green Genes – (Technology Review – November/December, 2009)
The first transgenic primates able to pass on their foreign genes are both a stunning medical advance and a troubling peek into the future. If the genes associated with some cases of human illnesses such as Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and Alzheimer's disease were introduced into primates, colonies of the genetically altered animals could be used to test therapies for these disorders. This would probably be far more effective than studying the effects of the genes in mice or rats. But the concern is that researchers might challenge the boundaries between humans and other species by inadvertently creating an animal with cognitive abilities such as rational thinking or moral reflection–a creature that would necessarily deserve a greater degree of respect than a typical lab animal, says Robert Streiffer, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin.
Imaging Breakthrough Heralds Snapshots of Individual Biomolecules – (Technology Review – October 12, 2009)
Taking snapshots of biomolecules such as proteins and DNA is fraught with difficulty. The approach made famous by Bragg, Franklin, Watson and Crick and others is to create a crystal of the molecule in question and bombard it with x-rays or high energy electrons. The trouble for molecular biologists is that many biomolecules, membrane proteins in particular, won't form into crystals. Now Matthias Germann and colleagues at the University of Zurich have a different approach: they've created holograms of DNA strands using a coherent beam of low energy electrons.
Placebo Effect Caught in the Act in Spinal Nerves – (New Scientist – October 16, 2009)
The placebo effect is not only real; its ability to deaden pain has been pinpointed to cells in the spinal cord. The first step was inducing a belief in subjects that the placebo treatment was effective. That raises hopes for new ways of treating conditions such as chronic pain. Falk Eippert, a neuroscientist at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany, who led the study speculates that higher brain areas involved in buying into the bogus treatment trigger the release of endogenous opioids – chemicals our brain produces that work like opiates and may temper spinal cord activity. Now that researchers know the neural hallmark of placebo pain relief, they could use it to develop treatments, cognitive or chemical, that take better advantage of belief, Eippert says.
Junk Food Turns Rats into Addicts – (Science News – October 21, 2009)
Junk food elicits addictive behavior in rats similar to the behaviors of rats addicted to heroin, a new study finds. Pleasure centers in the brains of rats addicted to high-fat, high-calorie diets became less responsive as the binging wore on, making the rats consume more and more food. The results may help explain the changes in the brain that lead people to overeat. "This is the most complete evidence to date that suggests obesity and drug addiction have common neurobiological underpinnings," says study coauthor Paul Johnson of the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Fla.
The Young and the Neuro – (New York Times – October 12, 2009)
In 2001, an Internet search of the phrase "social cognitive neuroscience" yielded 53 hits. Now you get more than a million on Google. These people study the way biology, in the form of genes, influences behavior. But they're also trying to understand the complementary process of how social behavior changes biology. Eventually their work could give us a clearer picture of what we mean by fuzzy words like 'culture.' It could also fill a hole in our understanding of ourselves. Economists, political scientists and policy makers treat humans as ultrarational creatures because they can't define and systematize the emotions. This work is getting us closer to that.
Algae and Light Help Injured Mice Walk Again – (Wired – October 19, 2009)
In the summer of 2007, a team of Stanford graduate students demonstrated that a beam of light could control brain activity in a mouse with great precision. In 1979, Francis Crick, codiscoverer of the double-helix structure of DNA, lamented the blunderbuss nature of existing technologies. What was needed, he wrote in Scientific American, was a way to control neurons of only one cell type in one specific location. Which, nearly 30 years later, was precisely what these students had achieved. But how could they be using light? Neurons don't respond to light any more than muscles do. The secret is that the mouse's neurons weren't normal. New genes had been inserted into them – genes from plants, which do respond to light, and the new genes were making the neurons behave in planty ways.
DISCOVERIES ENABLED BY NEW TECHNOLOGY
Scientists Give Flies False Memories
Male Humpback Whales Sing Duets
Scientists Give Flies False Memories – (EurekAlert – October 15, 2009)
By directly manipulating the activity of individual neurons, scientists have given flies memories of a bad experience they never really had. "Flies have the ability to learn, but the circuits that instruct memory formation were unknown," said Gero Miesenböck of the University of Oxford. "We were able to pin the essential component down to 12 cells. It's really remarkable resolution." Miesenböck adds that the simple brain of a fly likely can tell us much about how more complex brains work. "As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative," he said. "It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times." And, he says, even simple organisms may turn out to have a "surprisingly rich mental life."
Male Humpback Whales Sing Duets – (Wired – October 23, 2009)
Studying humpbacks with methods adapted from bird research has uncovered the first known instances of what look like whales responding musically to each other's songs, says Danielle Cholewiak, a researcher for the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary based in Scituate, Massachusetts. Cholewiak and colleagues detected melodic adjustments when a solo singer encountered another singer nearby and when researchers played their song remixes for whales.
Freezer Plan Bid to Save Coral
Stewart Brand Proclaims 4 Environmental 'Heresies'
Secrets of Frog Killer Laid Bare
Glacial Melting May Release Pollutants into The Environment
Freezer Plan Bid to Save Coral – (BBC News – October 25, 2009)
The prospects of saving the world's coral reefs now appear so bleak that plans are being made to freeze samples to preserve them for the future. A meeting in Denmark took evidence from researchers that most coral reefs will not survive even if tough regulations on greenhouse gases are put in place. Scientists proposed storing samples of coral species in liquid nitrogen. That will allow them to be reintroduced to the seas in the future if global temperatures can be stabilized.
Stewart Brand Proclaims 4 Environmental 'Heresies' – (TED – July, 2009)
Since the counterculture Sixties, Stewart Brand has been a critical thinker and innovator who helped lay the foundations of our internetworked world. He also helped usher in the environmental movement in the 1960s and '70s. Currently, Brand has been rethinking his positions on cities, nuclear power, genetic modification and geo-engineering. This talk given at the US State Department highlights the reasons behind his shifting stance on these issues.
Secrets of Frog Killer Laid Bare – (BBC News – October 22, 2009)
A fungal disease chytridiomycosis is steadily spreading through populations of frogs and other amphibians worldwide, and has sent some species extinct in just a few years. Researchers now report that the fungus kills by changing the animals' electrolyte balance, resulting in cardiac arrest. The finding is described as a key step in understanding the epidemic. Various research teams are exploring the potential of bacteria that occur naturally on the skin of some amphibians, and may play a protective role.
Glacial Melting May Release Pollutants into The Environment – (Science Daily – October 21, 2009)
Those pristine-looking Alpine glaciers now melting as global warming sets in may explain the mysterious increase in persistent organic pollutants in sediment from certain lakes since the 1990s, despite decreased use of those compounds in pesticides, electric equipment, paints and other products. while contamination decreased to low levels in the 1980s and 1990s due to tougher regulations and improvements in products, since the late 1990s flow of all of these pollutants into the lake has increased sharply. Currently, the flow of organochlorines into the lake is similar to or even higher than in the 1960s and 1970s
Wi-Fi Making a Leap Forward
Universal Phone Charger Approved
Wi-Fi Making a Leap Forward – (eWeek – October 14, 2009)
The Wi-Fi Alliance is nearing completion of a new specification to allow Wi-Fi devices to connect to one another without joining a traditional home, office or hotspot network. The Wi-Fi Alliance expects to begin certification for the new specification in mid-2010 and is currently called Wi-Fi Direct. In its early stages of development it was known as Wi-Fi Peer-to-Peer. The new specification can be implemented in any Wi-Fi device, including mobile phones, cameras, printers, notebook computers, keyboards and headphones. Certified devices will also be able to create connections with Wi-Fi certified legacy devices already in use. Devices will be able to make a one-to-one connection or a group of several devices can connect simultaneously.
Universal Phone Charger Approved – (BBC News – October 23, 2009)
A new mobile phone charger that will work with any handset has been approved by the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations body. Currently most chargers are product or brand specific, so people tend to change them when they upgrade to a new phone generating 51,000 tons of redundant chargers each year. However, the new energy-efficient chargers can be kept for much longer. The estimate is that they will reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions by 13.6m tons.
AUGMENTED/ ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
New Robotic Hand Can Feel
Hydrogen Muscle Silences the Domestic Robot
Thought Translator Knows Vowels from Consonants
New Robotic Hand Can Feel – (BBC News – October 18, 2009)
A team of scientists from Italy and Sweden has developed what is believed to be the first artificial hand that has feeling. It has been attached to the arm of a 22-year-old man who lost his own hand through cancer. Researchers say it works by connecting human nerve endings with tiny electronic sensors.
Hydrogen Muscle Silences the Domestic Robot – (New Scientist – October 20, 2009)
If robots are ever going to be welcome in the home they will need to become a lot quieter. Building them with artificial muscles that run on hydrogen, instead of noisy compressed-air pumps or electric motors, could be the answer. Kwang Kim, a materials engineer at the University of Nevada in Reno, came up with the idea after realizing that hydrogen can be supplied silently by metal hydride compounds. Metal hydrides can undergo a process called reversible chemisorption, allowing them to store and release extra hydrogen held by weak chemical bonds. This is the property that has led to the motor industry investigating metal hydrides as hydrogen "tanks" for fuel cells.
Thought Translator Knows Vowels from Consonants – (Technology Review – October 21, 2009)
Technology-assisted mind-reading is inching closer to reality, with advances that could help those unable to communicate on their own. Scientists can now determine what vowel and consonants a person is thinking of by recording activity from the surface of the brain. The system, which has about a 50-to-70% accuracy rate, could one day be used as a neural prosthesis for people with severe paralysis, translating their thoughts into actions on a computer or prosthetic limb.
ENERGY DEVELOPMENTS
Five Technologies that Could Change Everything
World-first Sustainable Racing Car Runs on Chocolate
A Better Bug for Biofuels
Shifting the World To 100% Clean, Renewable Energy as Early
Five Technologies that Could Change Everything – (Wall St. Journal – October 19, 2009)
Over the next few decades, the world will need to wean itself from dependence on fossil fuels and drastically reduce greenhouse gases. Current technology will take us only so far; major breakthroughs are required. What might those breakthroughs be? Here's a look at five technologies that, if successful, could radically change the world energy picture. Thsee technologies still present difficult engineering challenges, and some require big scientific leaps in lab-created materials or genetically modified plants. And innovations have to be delivered at a cost that doesn't make energy much more expensive. But if all of that can be done, any one of these technologies could be a game-changer.
World-first Sustainable Racing Car Runs on Chocolate – (Science Daily – October 8, 2009)
The world's first fully sustainable Formula 3 racing car is made from woven flax, recycled carbon fiber, recycled resin and carrot pulp for the steering wheel. It runs on biofuel made from chocolate and animal fats and is lubricated with plant oils. But it's not just an environmentally friendly car, it is also fast. The car has a top speed of 135 mph, can achieve 0-60 in 2.5 seconds and is turbo charged to give it more torque.
A Better Bug for Biofuels – (Technology Review – October 25, 2009)
As part of a larger effort to develop biofuels that, unlike ethanol made from corn or sugarcane, do not rely on food sources or agricultural land, most attempts to engineer biofuel-producing microbes have focused on well-known organisms such as yeasts and E. coli, scientists also hope to co-opt the unique metabolic functions of some of the microbial world's less-studied creatures. Anthony Sinskey and his team at MIT have been cataloguing the genomic secrets of Rhodococcus bacteria, soil-dwelling microbes known to eat a variety of toxic compounds.
Shifting the World To 100% Clean, Renewable Energy as Early as 2030 – (Science Daily – October 19, 2009)
Most of the technology needed to shift the world from fossil fuel to clean, renewable energy already exists. Implementing that technology requires overcoming obstacles in planning and politics, but doing so could result in a 30 percent decrease in global power demand, say Stanford civil and environmental engineering Professor Mark Z. Jacobson and University of California-Davis researcher Mark Delucchi. They present new research mapping out and evaluating a quantitative plan for powering the entire world on wind, water and solar energy, including an assessment of the materials needed and costs. And it will ultimately be cheaper than sticking with fossil fuel or going nuclear, they say.
GLOBAL EPIDEMIC
New Cholera Epidemic in Zimbabwe – (UPI – October 21, 2009)
UNICEF said Tuesday there have been at least five deaths in the current outbreak, The Times of London reported. The national Health Ministry said 117 cases of the disease have been reported around the country in the past month. Cholera, caused by a waterborne bacterium, spread in Zimbabwe as a result of the country's economic meltdown. Both water supplies and sewage disposal in large townships around the capital, Harare, and other poor areas, had ceased to function.
Self-Propelling Bacteria Harnessed to Turn Gears
Nano-Agriculture: Tiny Stuff Has Huge Effect on Plant Growth
Self-Propelling Bacteria Harnessed to Turn Gears – (Technology Review – October 19, 2009)
Luca Angelani and colleagues from the University of Rome say there is in important difference between Brownian and bacterial motion: the former is in equilibrium but the latter is an open system with a net income of energy provided by nutrients. This breaks the time symmetry allowing energy to be extracted in the form of directed motion. Now Angelani et al. have placed a cog with asymmetric teeth into a bath of moving bacteria and persuaded E. Coli to push it round at a of 1rpm.
Nano-Agriculture: Tiny Stuff Has Huge Effect on Plant Growth – (Science Daily – October 22, 2009)
Scientists in Arkansas are reporting that carbon nanotubes (CNTs) could have beneficial effects in agriculture. Their study, scheduled for the October issue of ACS Nano, found that tomato seeds exposed to CNTs germinated faster and grew into larger, heavier seedlings than other seeds. That growth-enhancing effect could be a boon for biomass production for plant-based biofuels and other agricultural products. Those effects may occur because nanotubes penetrate the seed coat and boost water uptake, the researchers state.
TERRORISM, SECURITY AND THE FUTURE OF WARFARE
The Pocket Spy: Will Your Smartphone Rat You Out?
U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets
Who's in Big Brother's Database?
Rajaratnam Alert: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid?
The Pocket Spy: Will Your Smartphone Rat You Out? – (New Scientist – October 14, 2009)
Just how secure is the data we store on our phones? If we are starting to use them as combined diaries and wallets, what happens if we lose them or they are stolen? Or simply trade them in for recycling? According to a UK government study, 80% of us carry information on our handsets that could be used to commit fraud – and about 16% of us keep our bank details on our phones. Indeed, some phone-related scams are already emerging, including one that uses reprogrammed cell phones to intercept passwords for other people's online bank accounts.
U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets – (Wired – October 19, 2009)
America's spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates – even check out your book reviews on Amazon. In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It's part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using "open source intelligence" – information that's publicly available, but often hidden in the flood of TV shows, newspaper articles, blog posts, online videos and radio reports generated every day.
Who's in Big Brother's Database? – (New York Times – November 5, 2009)
On a remote edge of Utah's dry and arid high desert, construction workers with top-secret clearances are preparing to build what may become America's equivalent of Jorge Luis Borges' "Library of Babel," a place where the collection of information is both infinite and at the same time monstrous. At a million square feet, the mammoth $2 billion structure will be one-third larger than the US Capitol and will use the same amount of energy as every house in Salt Lake City combined. This library expects few visitors: it's being built by the ultra-secret National Security Agency-which is primarily responsible for "signals intelligence," the collection and analysis of various forms of communication-to house trillions of phone calls, e-mail messages, and data trails: Web searches, parking receipts, bookstore visits, and other digital "pocket litter."
Rajaratnam Alert: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid? – (Financial Times – October 19, 2009)
Most of this article retraces ground that has already been pretty well covered concerning the alleged insider trading by the co-founder of the hedge fund Galleon, Raj Rajaratnam. However, buried in it are two very interesting sentences, the second one in particular: "Some probes, like the one that focused on Rajaratnam, rely on wiretaps. Others stem from a secret Securities and Exchange Commission data-mining project set up to pinpoint clusters of people who make similar well-timed stock investments." Data-mining as a means of detecting crime is coming of age across law enforcement agencies of just about every type.
TRENDS OF GOVERNMENT
Our Three Bombs – (New York Times – October 6, 2009)
Today's youth are growing up in the shadow of three bombs – any one of which could go off at any time and set in motion a truly nonlinear, radical change in the trajectory of their lives. The first, of course, is still the nuclear threat. But there are now two other bombs our children have hanging over them: the debt bomb and the climate bomb. Unfortunately, too many conservatives, who would never risk emitting so much debt that it would tank the dollar, will blithely tell you on carbon: "Emit all you want. Don't worry. It's all a hoax." And too many liberals, who would never risk emitting too much carbon, will tell you on emitting more debt: "Spend away. We've got plenty of room to stimulate without risking the dollar."
CONTACT AND THE EXPLORATION OF SPACE
Exoplanets Galore! 32 Alien Planets Discovered, Including
Super-Earths
To Spot an Alien, Follow the Pollution Trail
Farthest Galaxy Cluster Ever Detected
Overheard Out in Space
Exoplanets Galore! 32 Alien Planets Discovered, Including Super-Earths – (Wired – October 19, 2009)
Thirty-two new alien orbs have just been added to the growing list of exoplanets, including several that qualify as "super-Earths," meaning they have a mass only a few times that of our planet and could potentially harbor Earth-like environments. In the past five years, the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, a special exoplanet-hunting device attached to a 3.6-meter telescope in La Silla, Chile, has spotted more than 75 alien planets, including 24 of the 28 known exoplanets with a mass less than 20 times that of Earth.
To Spot an Alien, Follow the Pollution Trail – (New Scientist – October 19, 2009)
Do aliens pollute their planets? Let's hope they do, as this would give us a promising way of spotting where they live. Radio noise may be too short-lived to help us find aliens, if our own activity is any guide. A team of astronomers from the Paris Observatory in France we might look for light pollution from cities on alien planets. Our presence on Earth also leaves other traces that could be observed from afar. The chemicals known as CFCs strongly absorb infrared light at characteristic wavelengths, making them detectable in the atmosphere even when present at concentrations of only parts per trillion. CFCs do not form naturally, so detecting them on a world orbiting another star would be good evidence of alien technology.
Farthest Galaxy Cluster Ever Detected – (Wired – October 22, 2009)
Captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, this article shows an image of the farthest galaxy cluster ever detected. Designated JKCS041, the cluster is located 10.2 billion light-years from Earth, beating the previous distance record by a billion light-years. Astronomers think JKCS041 formed just about as early as was feasible. Because JKCS041 is so old, it will help scientists understand what was happening at this critical time in the formation of the universe, when it was only about a fourth as old as it is today. But if more super-old clusters can be found, scientists can begin testing cosmological theories.
Overheard Out in Space: a couple tourists – alien life forms – returning from an eco-tour on Earth are chatting. One of them says, "The dominant life form on the planet has developed satellite-based weapons." Excited by the possibility, the other one asks, "Do you think they are an emerging intelligence?" The first one responds, "I doubt it: they've aimed the weapons at themselves."
Global Hunger Worsening, Warns UN – (BBC News – October 14, 2009)
The UN's annual report on global food security confirms that more than one billion people – a sixth of the world's population – are undernourished. It says the number of hungry people was growing before the economic crisis, which has made the situation worse. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that 1.02 billion people are undernourished worldwide in 2009. It said, "This represents more hungry people than at any time since 1970 and a worsening of the unsatisfactory trends that were present even before the economic crisis."
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Hold the Champagne on China's Economy
Does Economics Violate the Laws of Physics? – (Scientific American – October 23, 2009)
The financial crisis and subsequent global recession have led to much soul-searching among economists, the vast majority of whom never saw it coming. But were their assumptions and models wrong only because of minor errors or because today's dominant economic thinking violates the laws of physics? A small but growing group of academics believe the latter is true. These thinkers say that the neoclassical model of constant economic growth is ignoring the world's diminishing supply of energy at humanity's peril, failing to take account of the principle of net energy return on investment. They hope that a set of theories they call "biophysical economics" will improve upon neoclassical theory, or even replace it altogether.
Hold the Champagne on China's Economy – (The American – October 22, 2009)
This month in Hong Kong, a single bottle of Chateau Petrus Imperial was sold at auction for $93,000 in the world's largest wine market, Hong Kong to a Chinese buyer.. No matter how good the vintage, that's not something to pop a cork over and celebrate. Similarly, Chinese collectors fueled a nearly $24-million sale of "modest pieces" of Chinese art at Christie's in New York in September, according to the New York Times, consistently paying between five and ten times the expected amounts. Those who witnessed Japan's spectacular rise and fall in the 1980s should be getting a familiar feeling watching China these days. Unsettling questions about the social effects of this stunning climb are abundant.
35 Years of the World's Best Microscope Photography
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35 Years of the World's Best Microscope Photography – (Wired – October 9, 2009)
Extraordinary beauty comes in all sizes – including the ultra-small. See for yourself.
Piano Stairs – The FunTheory – (Rolighetsteorin – October 7, 2009)
The easiest way to change people's behavior for the better, for example getting them to use stairs for exercise, is by making it fun. Watch it in action in Stockholm. Or try this one on recycling bottles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMYrW8tV3pw.
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Crow Black Sky: Sidereal Volume One
Written by Tecla Ciolfi on 7 February 2018
Crow Black Sky's second album "Sidereal Light: Volume One" is a starkly contrasting combination of elements that offers a fascinating take on ambient black metal. It's defined by blistering drumming, extensive song length and the band's love of ambience in creating mood.
As a rule for this album, symphonic strings and guitar keep a pulsing and composed musical center, eking out slow yet cataclysmic harmonies, while the vocals and drums do the pummeling. These elements may easily be at odds but you get the sense very early on that this band has embraced it and found a highly effective formula for such a temperamental recipe. With that, their emphasis on atmospherics and space is a distinguishing feature. Songs are nothing short of colossal as the reverb oozes over everything except those vicious blast beats. And lastly you'll notice that the vocals, while still audible, are pushed back into the mix without being swallowed in the reverb. This these lengthy songs to play out without wearing down the listener with 11 minutes of in-your-face screaming.
The shortest song of this EP still tracks over five minutes while the other three pass eight. The emphasis is on long, gradual arrangements that unfold slowly but dramatically as well. Thanks to their signature barrage of blast beats this is sometimes beautiful and at others clearly brutal, but always with an almost symphonic scope to it.
All four tracks stick to this formula without straying too far but with third track "Lightless, Lifeless" the band really pushes the envelope of what's possible in this polarizing genre known as atmospheric black metal. I know that I've pointed out the intensity of the drumming already but here it's beyond insanity. The tempo is breathlessly high. It's only halfway through that we're offered a moment's respite. It goes past in a blur, matching the ferocity of the vocals and piling on the rage in a way unlike any you'll ever hear again.
Crow Black Sky have clearly found a sound and method that they love and "Sidereal:Volume One" is a perfect showcase or it. It's a fascinating EP to listen to thanks to its ambitious scope, virtuoso drumming and overall uniqueness.
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Evelyn Maria Catherine Chichester was born in 1873 to the Reverend Robert Chichester, a Church of Ireland Clergyman in the Diocese of Derry, and his second wife Harriette Anne Catherine, the eldest daughter of Reverend Townley Blackwood Price.
Eva and her elder sister Anne Henrietta grew up 'more like twins… we did everything together all our lives'. Their father died when Eva was 5 years old and the girls moved with their mother to Newcastle, County Down, in 1897.
As children, the girls were educated by a succession of governesses and sent to London each spring for music and singing lessons. In Newcastle they both became Sunday School teachers and dedicated their lives to social enterprise with the Church Mission Society.
Eva had many interests, she travelled widely through Europe and the British Isles and was a keen amateur photographer.
Following her sister's death in 1927 and her mother the following year, playing the church organ saved Eva from her grief. She lived out her life alone in the family home devoted to her church and community. She died on 7 June 1958 leaving her estate to an Arthur O'Neill Chichester of Galgorm Castle, Ballymena.
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Eva with friends. © PRONI: D4563/1/7/5
Eva playing croquet with Mrs Alexander at Newcastle Recreation Ground 1898. © PRONI: D4563/1/7/5
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Eva at Summerfield in January 1895. © PRONI: D4563/1/7/2
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Eva Chichester Diary Entries
I very nearly lost good hat...
8th February, 1940
I felt scarcely anything...
Was dead tired in evening...
A horrible picture of bloodthirsty fighting...
The girls went out to night manoeuvres with the ambulance...
All roads being sand bagged...
Was enormously relieved that apparently no evacuees are coming...
Was miserable with deafness all morning...
Was much disgusted at Helen...
Princess Elizabeth broadcast 5.15, but unfortunately I forgot about it...
Mr Chamberlain died last night...
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