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DNA, laser-etched glass, and beyond: A peek into the future of data storage
By Luke Dormehl	 November 4, 2019 6:00AM PST
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For most of us, data storage has only gotten easier. Rather than messing around with computer hard drives with limited storage, floppy disks, and rewritable CDs or DVDs, today we just hit "save" on whatever file we're working on and let it be whisked off to the cloud. It's a no muss, no fuss approach to data storage that not only means we don't run out of space, but that we can also access our files wherever we go. What's not to love?
Well, it turns out there's a fair bit. For one thing, we're running out of storage space. Literally. With the 3.7 billion people who currently use the internet generating around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day, more and more data centers are needed to keep up with demand. By 2025, the world is on track to generate 160 zettabytes of data per year. That is more bytes than there are stars in the observable universe. Short of covering every square inch of land with data centers, we're not going to be able to keep pace with this kind of increase. This means discarding data which could be invaluable — in some cases before we necessarily know whether or not it actually is.
"Simple storage of data isn't necessarily all we can do with DNA."
"If you look at large institutions like CERN, which runs the Large Hadron Collider, it generates petabytes of data each second the machine is running," Nick Gold, VP of marketing at data company Catalog, told Digital Trends. "But there's no way to store petabytes per second, so they have to throw away more than 90% of the data they generate. They'd love to keep all of that if there was a way to keep it."
There's also an environmental factor at work. According to one report, 17% of the total carbon footprint caused by technology is due to data centers. A current single data center can consume more power than a medium-size town. While companies like Apple have taken steps to offset this by embracing more sustainable energy sources, there are still reasons to seek a better alternative.
Fortunately, that's exactly what some smart researchers around the world are working on. They are busy dreaming up (and, just as importantly, showcasing) some impressive next-gen storage technologies which could solve the world's data problem in the years to come. And once and for all, too.
Welcome to the world of DNA storage
The idea of storing data in DNA sounds positively futuristic. In some ways, it's just the opposite. A long time before computers existed (along with the humans needed to invent them), nature had figured out how to store enormous amounts of information in the form of DNA, the building blocks of life as we know it. Now, some investigators are embracing the idea of creating artificial gene sequences that use the four base pairs of DNA — A, C, G, and T — to represent binary bits of information.
Several years ago, researchers at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia demonstrated that it was possible to encode pieces of computer code into the DNA of tobacco plants. They created a simple computer program and then spliced it into the genetic makeup of a tobacco plant; in essence, cloning it with the computer program still inside. Extracting the plant's DNA and sequencing it resulted in the message "Hello World" popping up on a computer screen.
Since then, a team at Harvard University used CRISPR gene-editing technology to store a video in the form of bacterial DNA. The video, which more closely resembled a low-resolution GIF than the kind of high-res video most of us are used to watching today, nonetheless represented a significant advance. "We wanted to test whether the CRISPR-Cas system in bacteria could be used to capture complex information with a time component in living bacteria," Dr. Seth Shipman, a neuroscientist at Harvard who led the experiment, told Digital Trends at the time.
In 2017, Shipman told me that there were no immediate practical applications for the work. "But hopefully on the near horizon," he added.
"Our goal in the near future is to have a universal computing system …"
That "near horizon" may be now. For the past several years, the pioneering company Catalog has been working to commercialize DNA storage. Their pitch is that it might soon be possible to store the entirety of the world's data in a space the size of a coat closet. That's thanks to their approach in which data is coded into a synthetic polymer (rather than something living, such as a plant). This summer, the startup announced that it had managed to compress all 16 GB of English-language Wikipedia into a tiny vial of this material.
That's not the only thing that makes it exciting, either. "Simple storage of data isn't necessarily all we can do with DNA," said CJ Huntzinger, director of communications at Catalog. "It's not necessarily even the most attractive part of this whole platform. We're seeing much greater opportunity in computation, and things that can yield even more value for humanity than just being able to store data in a very small volume."
This includes breakthroughs in the ability to sift through DNA-based data. "When we put information into these DNA molecules, we've developed the theoretical framework for how we would manipulate those molecules to carry out basic computation, building up to a complex function," Huntzinger continued. "Our goal in the near future is to have a universal computing system where we can translate any kind of Boolean logic and function into a set of molecular instructions — so we don't have to pull information out of the DNA molecules into a digital medium before we compute on them."
As this technology continues to advance, it offers a whole lot of potential in not just storage, but the ability to carry out things like pattern recognition across petabytes (one thousand million million) or even exabytes (one quintillion bytes) of data.
Storage gets colder
Researchers at the University of Manchester in the U.K. (the same university behind all-round wonder material graphene) have also developed some impressive next-gen storage technology. They've created molecules that could one day store hundreds of times more data than current hard drives in a significantly smaller form factor. The catch: it needs to be kept incredibly cold in order to function. However, while data centers would require supercooling technology to use it, they would also be able to significantly reduce their footprint; becoming cheaper to run, more energy-efficient, and less damaging to the environment.
"The advantage of our technology is extreme durability as we use quartz glass as a storage medium, which can survive disasters like fires or solar flares."
"We are interested in making molecules that can store magnetic information," said Dr. Nicholas Chilton, a senior lecturer and Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester, told Digital Trends. "This could lead to a very useful technology if it works because molecules are very, very small; far smaller than existing magnetic materials that are used to store information. Using single-molecule magnets, we could potentially make data storage media that is 100 times more dense than current technologies such as HDDs and SSDs, which are facing their own limitations for data density."
Single-molecule magnets can be "written" due to their ability to remember the direction of an applied magnetic field over relatively long periods of time after the magnetic field has been switched off. In 2017, Chilton and Manchester colleague Dr. David Mills prepared and studied the first "dysprosocenium" molecule: a dysprosium ion sandwiched between two five-membered carbon rings. Since then, two other groups at the university have built on this work by preparing additional dysprosocenium molecules, following the designs laid out by Chilton and Mills. This month, they published a new paper describing the work.
"The recent result published in Science shows magnetic memory up to 80 Kelvin, which is a significant milestone, as it is above the temperature of liquid nitrogen — which is a cheap and plentiful resource, unlike liquid helium," Chilton explained. "However, this does not yet mean that data storage at liquid nitrogen temperatures is practical in molecules. The length of time that data can be stored at 80 K is on the order of seconds, and we need this to be on the scale of years for practical applications."
At the cutting edge of this research, Chilton and Mills are experimenting with replacing carbon in the rings for the heavier element phosphorus. While their first result is not an improvement over all-carbon rings, the pair hope this research will provide insights into how to develop superior molecular magnets.
There are still bottlenecks to be solved, such as how to place these magnetic molecules on surfaces without affecting their performance, and how to protect the memory in each molecule from interacting with its neighbors. Nonetheless, while Chilton acknowledged that there remains "a long way to go" before this is commercially viable, these are exciting developments readers should keep their eyes on.
Get ready for 5D optical storage
Of course, if super cold storage isn't exciting enough for you, how about the possibility of revolutionizing data storage by using lasers to carve terabytes of data into tiny glass discs? That's the mission statement of researchers at the U.K.'s University of Southampton. In a quest to develop digital data storage that can potentially survive for billions of years, they have created a recording and retrieval process that relies on femtosecond laser writing.
"We are developing data storage technology primary for archiving and cold storage of large amounts of data, [such as] for data centers and cloud," Dr. Peter Kazansky, a Professor in Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Center, told Digital Trends. "One of our goals is to replace magnetic tape, which currently is used for such applications. The advantage of our technology is extreme durability as we use quartz glass as a storage medium, which can survive disasters like fires or solar flares, potentially harmful for data centers. Another advantage is that we use additional degrees of freedom for the data storage, which help to increase capacity."
The storage solution is described as being five-dimensional. Information is encoded in multiple layers, including the usual three dimensions. However, it is also encoded in orientation and size of imprinted structures — thereby giving it five degrees of freedom for data storage. The storage allows for hundreds of terabytes per disc in data capacity. It's also got thermal stability up to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit. Compared to the vulnerability of magnetic tape, which lasts only for around one decade, this approach seems nigh-indestructible by comparison.
The University of Southampton's work has garnered the interest of Microsoft. The initiative, called Project Silica, seeks to exploit 5D optical storage in glass for the first-ever storage technology designed and built for the cloud from the media up. "The main current bottleneck is the increase of writing speed," Kazansky acknowledged.
Which will come out on top?
Right now, all three of these approaches are at various stages of future-ness. Each has its own unique timelines, challenges, and potential benefits and reasons.
Which will we ultimately see shape the future of data storage as we know it? It's hard to know for certain. There's still plenty more work to be done before today's storage methods go the way of the 3 ½ floppy disk; replaced by something infinitely more science fiction in concept. But things are moving quickly.
Frankly, whichever of these fascinating approaches comes out on top, the real winners will be those of us who get to use the technology. And never have to delete anything for good ever again as a result.
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The Shadow of Oslo
How politicization drives presumptions in terror coverage
By Richard Whittaker, 9:00AM, Mon. Aug. 1, 2011
First there were the Oslo terror attacks. Then there was the discovery of a new threat to Fort Hood. What has received less coverage is the fire bombing of a Planned Parenthood Clinic in McKinney, Texas.
Both the FBI and the ATF are investigating the McKinney attack. Dallas media outlets have noted that, so far, they are being very cautious about throwing the 'T' word around.
Oh, if only that was always true in all corners in all contexts. As has been shown over the last week, when it comes to the right wing echo chamber, the first rule about terror attacks is simple. Throw the word "Muslim" around. The second rule? When it turns out the attackers are not Muslim, screech that the lousy liberal media is using the shootings to attack Christians.
What has been amazing over the last few days is how much ink has been spilled over what Anders Behring Breivik, the suspect in the Norwegian attacks, means for American politics. The obvious response would be, "Errr nothing," but not if you'd been watching the seemingly wall-to-wall coverage. Sadly, much of the analysis of Norwegian politics and society came from the same cadre that regularly prove that they could not tell Ramadan from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
On the day of the attacks, the Weekly Standard started trying to dictate the direction of the investigation, suggesting that the attack was a direct response to the charges brought in Norway against al-Qaeda ally Mullah Krekar, This is, Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior fellow Thomas Joscelyn wrote, "one lead investigators are sure to follow." (For context, you might want to read what Sourcewatch and The American Conservativehas to say about the FDD, and its hawkish past.)
Kings of the fringe Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly quickly followed suit. Beck said that he did not make the link to "Muslim extremists," but instead decided to fulminate about how the children's camp, run by the youth wing of the Labour Party, was "a little like the Hitler Youth. Who does a camp for kids that is all about politics," he rumbled. Er, your acolytes, Glenn? Like, say, the members of the Tampa 912 group that ran the Tampa Liberty Summer camp, a Tea Party outing that applies the same kind of feckless literalism to every scribbled word from the Founding Fathers that Christian Extremists have been applying to the Bible for years (much to the eye-rolling chagrin of much of the rest of Christendom.)
Not that O'Reilly would ever think about indoctrinating kids in far right rhetoric through a summer camp (he has a book for that.)
Cue O'Reilly leaping to Christianity's defense. "Why is the liberal press playing up the Christian angle in the Norway shooter case?" bleated the voice-over man in one of his trailers, before Fox News' pet ball of fury claimed there was "no claim that this man practiced Christianity at all." Apparently, because he did not wander around with a Bible in his pocket at all times, that meant Breivik was not really a Christian. O'Reilly then went on to claim that "No one believing in Jesus commits mass murder." (Wonder how that claim is sitting with historians of Medieval Judaism right about now.)
As for arch-wingnut Pat Buchanan, he followed up a grand career as a Hitler apologist with a solid dose of Breivik apologia.
This is all as batshit crazy as the latest fulminations of Hassan Firouzabadi, chair of Iran's Chief of Staff, who the Jerusalem Post reports claims that investigators should be "searching for hands of Zionists involved in the attack". Not that the Post has been a model of restraint in this whole affair. The more liberal Haaretz has called out the Post's editorial board for an unsigned editorial in which they argued "Breivik's inexcusable act of vicious terror should serve not only as a warning that there may be more elements on the extreme Right willing to use violence to further their goals, but also as an opportunity to seriously reevaluate policies for immigrant integration." Haaretz columnist Bradley Burtson attacked the piece for a "certain cowardice" and called it "a slap aimed both at the Norwegians and nearly 20 years of Mideast peace efforts."
Unfortunately, the Post's editorial is weak tea compared to the legion of Firouzabadi-style conspiracy theories about how this really was a Jihadist attack intended to slander the gun-toting right ("Brievik was a patsy" t-shirts on sale in three … two … )
Elsewhere in the right wing cosmos, the South African Christian conservatives, with their sterling record on intercultural relations, have jumped on Beck's "Socialists equals Nazis" band wagon much more explicitly. "One would expect supposedly educated and well informed journalists to at least know the difference between Nationalism and National Socialism," sneered the Praag editorial after complaining that "the leftist main stream media is subjective, irresponsible and practices hate speech against white, Christian conservatives."
Not that this sort of political opportunism is restricted to anti-Muslim sentiment. The Australian Christian League has used the Norway killings to renew its call for a ban on violent video games.
But we don't have to just look at the international stage to find this kind of rhetoric and switch-back logic. Enter Texas Public Policy Foundation vice-president for communications Joshua Treviño, whose Twitter feed has been a delight. Even after Breivik's arrest, he trumpeted: "Next time there's a mass-terror attack, I'm going to wonder whether Islamists were responsible. Because I value sense over false piety."
If that logic holds, one has to wonder if it's OK to make assumptions about the political and religious affiliations of the Planned Parenthood firebombers.
He went on to cite Europol crime stats to prove that, in 2010, "European terrorist violence was preponderantly from separatists and the left." See the brilliant conflation there? Because, as everyone knows, there have never been any right-wing nationalists.
What Treviño missed out was the part where the report said the violent fringe right is becoming "more professional."
Right-wing extremists are also increasingly active in online social networking, to reach out to a younger generation. The internet is a cheap and effective way of communicating with targeted audiences. This is adding a new dimension to the threat right-wing extremism may present in the future.
The report goes on to say:
Professionally developed websites add to the impact of presentations of historical events and politics. Against an anti-Semitic and xenophobic background, right-wing presentations focus on sensitive topics of public debate such as immigration, corruption and the financial crisis.
Huh. Easier than setting up a summer camp, I guess.
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Vegemite becomes a gluten-free for all
Zara Hill (8) was recently diagnosed with Coeliac Disease and can now eat Vegemite again. Picture: Jason Edwards
by Dan Stock
IT REALLY will put a rose in every cheek.
Australia's favourite way to start the day was off-limits to those suffering coeliac disease and others following a gluten-free diet. Until now.
But now they, too, can be happy little Vegemites.
After more than two years of product development, a gluten-free Vegemite is hitting the supermarket shelves this week.
With up to a quarter of Australians avoiding gluten in their diet, Vegemite marketing manager Matt Gray said they received thousands of requests for a gluten-free version of the iconic spread.
He said the hardest part of developing the product was finding an alternative to brewer's yeast.
"Working with baker's gluten free yeast we think we've nailed the Vegemite taste," he said.
Zara Hill, 8, was recently diagnosed with coeliac disease and the daughter of a Vegemite employee was a product tester in the final stages of development.
"Finding out I couldn't eat Vegemite for breakfast or even in my sandwiches at lunch was really sad. When Dad told me about this new Vegemite I actually thought he made it just for me," she said.
Coeliac Australia chief Michelle Laforest commended the new Vegemite.
"It's so important that companies innovate to ensure there are options for Australians suffering from coeliac disease. For children, not being able to eat what their friends consume can create a real sense of loneliness and isolation," she said.
The new gluten-free low FODMAP Vegemite will be stocked nationally from this week.
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PUBG's newest vehicle is a jet ski, plus another new weapon has been confirmed for Miramar
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Both of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' maps—the original Erangel and the brand new Miramar—will be getting a new watercraft vehicle.
The jet ski-type vehicle is being called an Aquarail, and it's a two-seater. It's an additional option for players that choose to take to the open seas as opposed to the land.
For the incoming desert map of Miramar, another new weapon has been confirmed in the R45 six-shot revolver, according to Nvidia. It effectively replaces the R1895 revolver.
"Unlike the R1895 it replaces, the R45 will not support a suppressor, though you will be able to add a red dot sight to improve your aim," said the post on Nvidia's site. "And another differentiation from the R1895 is the use of speed loaders, enabling you to load all six rounds simultaneously, greatly accelerating reload times, putting the R45's reload speed more in line with other PUBG pistols."
The R45 joins the previously announced Win94 rifle and double-barrel shotgun as new weapons exclusive to Miramar, with gameplay of the map premiering tonight at The Game Awards.


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Netflix chasing TikTok isn't a magic formula for more eyes and higher adoption
Source: Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central
Netflix is a good place to stream movies or shows and has done a great job making its own content. I use the service like many do, and I have to say I'm pretty satisfied with it. It's cheap, gives me a lot of entertainment, and runs on the best Android phones and almost everything with an internet connection just like Skyrim does.
But 2021 has been a weird year for the service where it's hatched a couple of schemes to try and offer different kinds of content, like games or TikTok-style shorts. It's not finished apparently because the company has confirmed to TechCrunch that it will be bringing Netflix Kids Clips, which are short videos for (you guessed it) kids. I can't help but think this whole idea of chasing TikTok is pretty silly.
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A look at TikTok and it's pretty clear why it's successful: Its mobile-first launched everywhere all at once and has a top-secret algorithm that decides what it recommends for you. Three things that Netflix lacks.
Kids Clips (OK, that's a pretty good name.) will launch on iOS in the U.S., Latin America, Canada, Australia, and Ireland, with no word on when it will come to Android or the rest of the world. Your kids (or you if you're a fan of Netflix's kids' programming) will only be allowed to watch 10 to 20 minutes of video at a time, and the videos are horizontal, which makes sense if you think of a small child holding an expensive phone in its little paws.
Netflix has to do something, but I don't think this is it.
This is the same formula Netflix used to introduce its first TikTok-inspired feature called Fast Laughs, so presumably, this sort of rollout works best for the company. So far, everything kind of makes sense because TikTok is probably crushing Netflix and every other video service when it comes to engagement with short video clips.
Netflix is not TikTok, though, and trying to bring these features sounds like a good way to cheapen its brand to me.
I can't blame the company for really wanting a slice of the mobile pie. When Netflix was just a great idea inside a few great minds, nobody knew how quickly mobile would become the de facto way of seeing and doing everything. You can do anything from shop online to pay your taxes to loan a friend $20 using your phone, and a whole lot of people are doing this and more from the computer they can hold in their hand. So Netflix has to be thirsty if it wants to grow.
Nobody could have predicted mobile would grow so fast.
The problem, much like it is for Netflix's mobile gaming plans, is better ways to do all of the things Netflix plans already exists, and it's following instead of leading. Netflix is never going to out-TikTok, TikTok. Nor will it be able to compete with Apple's App Store or Google Play when it comes to games (presuming that feature eventually finds a way to satiate Apple's hunger for 30% of everything not glued down) unless it can do something different and better. Unfortunately, what we've seen so far is neither.
I think TikTok is absolutely pointless and dumb, which is exactly why I like it. Pointless and dumb short video clips can be an awesome way to kill an hour, and if you have never checked out the service, you probably should pay close attention to the data collection and privacy policies. This is why TikTok became the phenomenon it is; it's different and offers something people enjoy.
TikTok is dumb, and that's part of what makes it great. Don't hate on them for it.
Netflix may have short programming that people enjoy, too. Maybe you love watching the short Fast Laughs videos on your phone, and many kids will spend a lot of hours holding Mommy's iPhone and watching Kids Clips (that is such a great name, though). But neither idea is different or offers anything new. TikTok has a gazillion short funny clips, while Amazon and YouTube offer quality kids' programming in 20-minute bursts. And trust me, your kids don't care if they watch one 20-minute Peppa Pig video or a handful of three-minute Peppa Pig clips.
Transitioning from the big screen to mobile isn't going to be easy for Netflix because the service was born to entertain people from the comforts of their television. Netflix is still a great streaming service for your television. And it's even good enough to stand on its own next to all the competition. Ideas like offering full seasons of popular shows and producing high-quality content have ensured we still watch Netflix. However, I don't know how Netflix can do the same when it comes to mobile.
Chasing TikTok to make me want more Netflix on my phone probably isn't going to work as well. Of course, I have no money invested in Netflix, so none of this affects me. But I expect better ideas from people whose only job is to come up with great new ideas.
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Nigerian Migrant Sentenced to Life for Murder of Italian Teen Pamela Mastropietro
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Nigerian migrant drug dealer Innocent Oseghale has been found guilty of the murder and dismemberment of Italian teenager Pamela Mastropietro and was sentenced to life imprisonment with 18 months of isolation.
The Court of Assizes of Macerata found the Nigerian guilty of every single charge against him from voluntary murder aggravated by sexual assault, insult, to destruction and concealment of a corpse this week, Italian newspaper Il Giornale reports.
Although the lawyer for the Mastropietro family Marco Valerio Verni, who was also the victim's uncle, was pleased that the Nigerian received a maximum sentence for the killing, Pamela's mother Alessandra Verni claimed that the drug dealer had not acted alone and must have been helped by accomplices.
Italian Teen Girl Killed and Chopped Into Pieces, Nigerian Migrant Arrested https://t.co/lEvz2ZPFNB
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) February 2, 2018
Initially, two other men were arrested alongside Oseghale, but both Lucky Awelima and Lucky Desmond were cleared of all charges brought against them.
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Three Migrant Men Arrested in Connection with Murder of Italian Teen https://t.co/FFuebG5Mev
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 26, 2018
Evidence later emerged from Vincenzo Marino, who shared a cell with Oseghale, that saw the case turn even more disturbing when he testified that the Nigerian had confessed the murder to him and claimed that he had begun dismembering the teen while she was still alive.
Marino also told of how Osghale attempted to conceal the murder saying: "He had washed [the body] with bleach because it would not have been known if she had died of an overdose or murdered."
According to Il Giornale, the testimony from Marino had been crucial to the convictions in the case.
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ReSync'd the CPU, Cleaned the insides and did a Disk Check.
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CFP: Austerity Gardens, edited collection
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The call for papers is now live for Austerity Gardens, an essay collection to be edited by Dr Naomi Milthorpe.
About the collection:
The editor seeks 500-word proposals for submission to an edited collection devoted to the politics and poetics of austerity gardening in literary and material cultures in the Anglophone world from the Second World War onwards.
Austerity gardening encompasses a diversity of places, spaces, practices, and actors: from suburban allotments to country house gardens, Victory diggers to urban foragers. Gardens are liminal spaces, private zones, and contested sites, mobilized against foreign invaders whether human or nonhuman. Gardens and gardening are gendered, and in place and practice revelatory of shifting, contingent, and multiple modes of gender and sexual identity. They are idealized, yet ever-incomplete, utopian sites. Gardening is also big business, with global market reports indicating increased demand for DIY products worldwide in the decade since the global financial crisis. Thus gardening and garden literature proffers rich soil for understanding the commodifications and uses of culture, whether highbrow or popular, in the mid-to-late 20th century and beyond.
Following the global financial crisis, there has been a parallel burgeoning scholarly interest in austerity. As Rebecca Brammall suggests, the discourses of austerity articulate a range of ideological, cultural, economic and social agendas. Most significant, however, is the way in which the agendas of austerity – many of them expressed in terms of utopian/dystopian anxieties about the self and society – are mapped upon representations of wild and human landscapes. Responses to austerity develop from a relationship with the environment; these responses in turn renovate the ways in which these spaces and places are imagined in literature and the arts from the Second World War onwards.
Landscape is material, but it is also as Denis Cosgrove argues a "cultural concept" and "way of seeing". Nowhere is this more apropos than the garden, a pre-eminently human landscape in which desire and identity is embedded, nurtured and reflected. The garden is a site of nature and culture, an art which in the words of The Winter's Tale"itself is nature." Though the country house and pastoral traditions represent the garden as an unchanging, aristocratic, leisurely "green and pleasant land", austerity seeks to reimagine the backyard as a dynamic, democratic space of self-sacrifice and toil.
From these roots sprout a range of interdisciplinary topics and questions related to austerity gardening. From the "Dig for Victory" campaign to contemporary cultures of ethical consumption, green living and gardening as entertainment, this collection invites proposals for readings of literature, film, visual arts, crafts, media, and cultural history, in order to explore the ways in which gardening is mobilised to contest and celebrate discourses of austerity, ethics, and responsibility in the Anglophone world from the Second World War to the present day. Chapters are invited on topics including, but not limited to:
Representations of austerity gardens in literature, film, visual arts and crafts
Gardening memoirs and personal narratives of committing to sustainability
Austerity gardens in popular media (television, magazine culture, blogs)
Theatrical performance in/and austerity gardening
Public or private austerity gardens and their relation to nationalist politics – allotments, national trust houses, community gardens
Identity politics and/ in the garden, including gendered and classed practices of both gardening and austerity
Gardens in/as war zones
The non/human in the austerity garden
The pastiching of WW2 and 1950s austerity garden practices in contemporary cultural products
Interdisciplinary approaches to reading austerity gardens and landscapes
Austerity gardens and post-human futures
For queries or to submit a proposal, please contact the editor at Naomi.Milthorpe@utas.edu.au
CategoriesCall for submissions, CFPs, Postgraduate
ECR opportunity: postdoctoral fellowships at the Henry Moore Institute
CFP: Britain, Canada, and the Arts: Cultural Exchange as Post-war Renewal, London, 15-17 June 2017


The idea for this unit is not mine, and instead something Phil Kelly (the author of the Ogre Kingdoms army book) mentioned in an interview that he would like to have included in the list. My originally suggestion was to simply allow players to field units of Sabretusks following all the normal rules, but there were a lot of protests against this as people wanted more special rules. In addition there was demand for a champion Sabretusk. This revised version of the rules includes both.
Dany: During the Ogre Kingdoms army design process, were there any unit ideas that didn't make it through to the final book?
Occasionally a more feral Ogre Hunter will aquire dominance over a whole pack of wild Sabretusks and bring them into battle. Though they are powerful creatures, they are also nearly uncontrollable and only the Hunter can make them do his bidding.
You cannot have more Sabretusk Packs in your army than you have Ogre Hunters.
Cause Fear: See p. 50 of the Warhammer Rulebook.
Fast Cavalry: See p. 70 of the Warhammer Rulebook.
Bad Tempered: See p. 45 of the Ogre Kingdoms army book.
Not Ogres: Sabretusks are not Ogres and thus do not have the Bull Charge or Ogre Club special rules and cannot be augmented by Gut Magic. Sabretusk Packs may not be joined by characters.
Beastly: Sabretusk Packs may not use the Leadership of the army General if within 12" of him and may not re-roll Break tests if within 12" of the Army Battle Standard. Instead, if a Sabretusk Pack is within 6" of a friendly Ogre Hunter they will use his Leadership for all purposes.
As an option (I personally find it more appropriate), you might also appy the Bad Tempered and Beastly rules to a Hunter's Sabretusks, though Bad Tempered should only apply in later rounds after they have been released.


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My friend Gustavo pointed me over to Wenlong Dong's blog and his article on the ASP.NET Compatibility Mode for WCF services hosted in IIS. Good stuff. The articles explains quite a bit of what goes behind hosted WCF services and how they interact with the ASP.NET engine.

One observation in the article did strike me as curious. Wenlong says: "Even though WCF V1 implements reliable session in the product, the session state is totally in memory and thus it does not survive when the AppDomain is recycled. It is also not persisted across different processes or servers for Web Garden and Web Farm scenarios.". Maybe I have a different concept about reliability, but does someone care to explain what is reliable about the WCF session support, then, if it doesn't support this?

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"You've got Halloween costumes," I said. "You can be fairies or pirates or chefs or hula dancers or racecar drivers or aviators--"
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MAME ROW #107 - Shinobi
MAME Random Of the Week
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obsidianspider last edited by obsidianspider
This is the MAME Random Of the Week #107
The three random numbers for this week are: 23 1659 843
Click here to vote! Which game do you choose for MAME ROW #107?
The result of the poll is posted on Wednesday, so we have Monday and Tuesday for experimentation.
Game Name: 88 Games
Company: Konami
ROM file name: 88games.zip
Game Name: Shinobi (set 1)
Company: Sega
ROM file name: shinobi.zip
Game Name: Kageki (US)
Company: Taito America Corporation (Romstar license)
ROM file name: kageki.zip
What is the MAME ROW?
MAME ROW stands for MAME Random Of the Week. We randomly select an arcade game from the 0.78 MAME Reference Set to play on the week. The idea is to play games we've never played before, interact with other forum members, post hi-scores, share game strategies, fun facts, and (the most important) HAVE FUN!
We usually post hi-scores screenshots after playing with only one credit. If you used more than one credit, please mention it on your post.
There's no need to use RetroPie to join the MAME ROW! You can play it on any platform you want.
Feel free to post your hi-score (or any content about the game) anytime you want on the previous rounds topics (link below).
Every Monday we create a topic at the "General Discussion and Gaming > MAME Random Of the Week" forum section with the 3 random games to be voted. And on Wednesday we check the result.
These "rules" are constantly being improved!
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Looks like our random selection process is going through a phase of choosing famous games at the moment, two of this weeks candidates I already had installed on my cab!
I got time to try them out last night, although currently I'm getting distracted playing about with @UDb23 's overlays - resizing the ones for vertical games to fit on my 4:3 screen - I got inspired by last weeks Donkey Kong one, and have been surprised at just how many games I have installed that are vertical screen orientation.
Anyway, on to my thoughts on this weeks games:
I like this one, it's a late-comer to the Track and Field (1983), Hypersports (1984) genre of sports games that appeared for a while, and then vanished off the face of the earth. I'm not entirely sure why these sort of button-mashing game were so popular, but only for a relatively short time, perhaps it was something to do with the limits of the technology at the time, but I like to think the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics also had an influence, I seem to remember it was promoted as a high-tech event. Appearing in 1988, this game benefits from nice large cartoon characters, and certainly looks nicer than a lot of it's predecessors. Unfortunately the gameplay hasn't moved on at all, it's the same old button mashing mechanic, and the events are pretty generic too. I managed to qualify in the 100m, the long jump, the relay race, but got stuck at the clay pigeon shooting.
While this last event looks like the Hypersports equivalent, the control mechanism is trickier, with buttons rotating the view. I'm not sure this improves the gameplay, as it's quite frustrating.
It's a decent game, had it come out four years earlier, it would have been a great game, sadly by 1988, this is an also-ran. Also not particularly good for a high score competition, unless we had a score for each event.
This was something of a classic at the time of release, I think the whole Ninja thing was kind of fashionable. I remember a Shinobi machine still in active use in an arcade in 1990. Playing it now, it's not aged particularly well. The controls feel a bit clunky, and you don't get much chance to react to what's happening on screen. It quickly just becomes a memory-test of what's coming next. I remembered the end of level bosses being rock hard, and playing it again now confirms this. The instant death is quite annoying, I think they fixed this in some of the home versions, using a health gauge instead. Rolling Thunder is a similar game, and they allowed a couple of hits before your character dies.
I remember the Bonus level being something of a revelation at the time, I don't think I'd seen anything quite like that before.
The other odd association I have with this game is the children you have to rescue always remind me of Michael Jackson. I thought maybe they looked like the kids in Moonwalker, but I checked, and they're nothing like them, so I dunno where that particular confused memory came from!
Kageki
This is the one I hadn't heard of before. I gave it a try and it seems to have it's fair share of Japanese-arcade oddness! It seems to consist entirely of moving your vertically-challenged character round in circles while occasionally getting closer to your opponent to smack him in the face. Kind of entertaining, but the control mechanism is odd. It seems to be a sort of isometric control, where I can only travel in diagonal directions. Nevertheless I managed to smack my opponent down a few times, and he ran off into the crowd, to be replaced by another opponent who made short work of me. I like the look of this one, but it seems to fall halfway between two different types of game, it's got the fun cuteness of an adventure platformer, but not the gameplay, and the gameplay of a fighting game, but none of the special moves, and too small characters.
It's an interesting one, and I'll not delete it from my cab, but it's not a classic.
So this week, despite having a brutal level boss difficulty level, my vote goes to....
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My first Joystick killer game ;) - 1985!!!
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This week's winner is Shinobi
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@obsidianspider I didn't vote, but Shinobi is one of my personal arcade treasures, because I could play it as a kid in a family video rental store – one of the few opportunities to play arcade games as a minor here in Germany, since almost all of the few arcades here were (and still are) adult-only.
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@clyde I feel you, since I am in Germany too. It sucked here. Luckily, I had some opportunities here, who didn't care the age at all (Street Fighter, Samurai Shodown, King of Fighters, Bubble Bobble, Outrun, I was lucky ;-) ). Strangely in a wedding hall was some boards, Shinobi one of them. You can imagine what happened. :D
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@thelostsoul We kids also had our special places where we could play: department stores, video stores, record shops, restaurants, corner pubs and the like. I remember playing Bagman, Dig Dug, Galaga, Lady Bug, Pengo, Phoenix, Scramble, F1 Dream, and … ta-da … Tron! The latter stood next to another cab that I don't remember in a remote corner of our local "Hertie", if you know that name. ;) There, we also could play at Vectrex consoles on display almost indefinately without anyone of the staff giving a damn.
edit: Oh, and I once crossed the English Channel on a ferry with my mother. The ship had a small arcade hall with 10-15 games in it – and no people in it at all times. Only limited by my slightly higher allowance than normal, it was kids' heaven. :D
Why are arcades in Germany only for adults?
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@obsidianspider I don't know what the reason was in Germany, but in England you had to be 15 or over to be allowed in an arcade unaccompanied by an adult. I think it was because there were also Fruit Machines where you could gamble real money and it was something to do with minors not being permitted to gamble.
There was no such law in Scotland where I lived, where anyone could go in an arcade (and gamble I think, I don't ever remember anyone stopping us). But on Saturdays we would go to England (my family lived near the border and they would go shopping in the large town over the border) and I remember on one occasion being thrown out of an arcade in the middle of a game of Spy Hunter. We were surprised as we didn't know the law was different up until then. I was particularly annoyed because they wouldn't even let me finish my game.
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I'm fairly sure that in Portugal you need to be either 16 or 18 to play in arcades/amusement centers.
Shinobi is a great choice, I'll gladly send over my scores! I personally find it runs great on AdvMame, is that what you're using for it?
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@gtbfilms Yes, I think this has something to do with gambling machines too. Those arcade games was always together with those Fruit Machines. And Germany in general was always careful at this and maybe they just classified them as gambling, because of real money and the probability to get addicted. At least children should be protected. I mean, I can understand this subject and why it is done. But look t the games today, they are even worse with those ingame item purchases and loot boxes and what not and every kid can do that. With real money you could see how much you spend in.
This is one of the reason I love the emulation community and MAME developers. I can play those games I never had the opportunity to and understand what everyone else in the world is talking and loving about.
I have not found a way to damage the first level boss, but here's a score to get things started: 25440
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@obsidianspider That first level boss is hard!
You have to jump up and throw a shuriken just after you start to fall from the highest part of the jump. Then it hits him in the face.
However, you only get one chance between his double fireballs, which seem to have an almost random motion.
Apparently you are supposed to be able to dodge them, then move in and hit him again before he can launch new fireballs.
I have never managed to kill him on a single credit.
However I did notice if I add more credits to continue, his health isn't as high the next time. It replenishes, but only to about halfway. Its still difficult to kill him, but not impossible.
The cynic in me says that this was a pretty transparent strategy to extract another credit from the player at the end of level 1!
I'm still trying to work out the movement of these fireballs, to see if I can avoid them more reliably. Sometimes they seem to home in on you!
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It's easier said than done, but the secret is to start the fight by jumping, throwing a shuriken and moving forward. That first shot should register as the boss comes into frame and if you're quick, you can also get two and sometimes three more off before he throws his first fireball. With those three or four freebie shots, you'll be almost half way to beating him. Once the fireballs are in play, it's easiest to deal with them one at a time. When the first one is released, you can remain somewhat close and get another shot off once you're clear to do so. When the second fireball is released, the best thing to do is treat the pair like the Medusa heads from Castlevania. Drawing them backwards, as far as you need to, will allow a lot of time to carefully pick your moment to avoid them high or low.
Assuming the boss is now off screen again, do as you did when you started the fight by jumping, throwing a shuriken and moving forward. This should allow for the same freebie shots as before and if you happen to land them all and you got all your possible shots in previously, he may even fall right there. If not, just repeat the pattern until you've got your final shots in. I used to love this game and hope to compete this week myself, but with work ramping up for the holidays, I've barely had enough time to boot up my Pi recently. At any rate, I wish you all well and as always, good luck on the ROW.
That first level boss always gets one life out of me at least. I try to reduce its health to about 4, then get close to him and use the special power which usually takes 4 hits off the boss. But it's tricky.
I don't think there's any real pattern to the fireballs unfortunately :( If you hit him before he shoots he'll restart the shooting pattern. Also, I once say a YouTube video of someone who just kicked the guy to death.
I was never able to do it so effectively, but it might help others. Kicking is very time-sensitive, so it's hard to pull off. But it seems it's easier to jump over the fireballs at close range with the right timing.
My score for today was around 33130, but I seem to have a high score of 55160 with a single coin from previous attempts (always lost in some stage on level 2), so I'll go with that.
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Huh. Just noted that Shinobi doesn't have BGM for me at the moment, at least on AdvMame. On lr-mame2003 it works as intended.
What are you guys using to run it?
EDIT: a nice Google search helped me. Go to Audio settings in AdvMame and lower the absurd amplifier setting to zero.
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@pjft Now I can't get out of my head that AdvMame may have a setting called "absurd amplifier". :D
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@clyde That't probably the first technical step towards the invention of the Infinite Improbability Drive :)
pjft @Clyde last edited by
@clyde Now I can't either! :) It sounds like a setting straight from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, though.
Sorry for missing voting this week everyone. I had some urgent personal matters to attend to the past few days. Would you like to have MAME ROW late this week, or just skip this week and start up again on Monday?


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As My Sparks Fly Upward, the debut from Canadian author Matthew St. Amand, is a collection of short stories rendered with such honesty that I questioned how much was fiction and how much was taken from his own life. This isn't a drawback or criticism of the collection, but rather a supreme compliment.
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As a writer, he shows a fearlessness to unveil emotions, and this leads to flashes of utter brilliance, such as in the title story. What could be a rollicking or overly-sentimental tale instead crystallizes into a marvelous celebration of remembrance. It's a stunning story, nestled amongst an overall vibrant collection.
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