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The Front Page Tribune The Modern Gentleman’s Excerpt Thumbs do the stalking Harassment by text on rise Whether it’s relentless requests for dates or threats from irate exes, more and more New Haveners are being “textually harassed” on their cell phones. As text messaging’s popularity has boomed in recent years so has its abuse. A recent U.S. Justice Department study showed that stalking by texting is increasingly an issue. Kathy Johnson Morris, 45, of FairField, received repeated demands for a date from a persistent suitor who eventually honored her plea to stop “She said she didn’t want to be with him, but he kept texting and texting,” said Diaz, of FairField. “Eventually she had to call the phone company and get his number blocked.” About 23 percent of stalking or harassment victims were badgered through “cyberstalking,” including text messaging or emails on a cell phone, the Justice Department study said. “Technology has become a quick and easy way for stalkers to monitor and harass their victims,” the report said. It is also a prolific and growing form of communication: Verizon Wireless handled 90 billion text messages in the last quarter of 2008 alone, more than double the number during the same period a year earlier. New Haven is consistently one of the top locations where cyberstalking takes place, according to statistics from Working to Halt Online Abuse, a group that tracks incidents. In 2007, the latest year that statistics were available, New Haven came in second, after California. Jayne Hitchcock, the group’s president, said she suspected New Haven was high on the list because of its large population and number of technology savvy residents. However, Hitchcock believes that the increasing rate of textual harassment is partly because people don’t realize there are consequences to cyberstalking. “The majority of these people wouldn’t do it in person,” she said. “These people just do things thinking they won’t get caught, and they don’t realize it will be traced back to them.” While New Haven doesn’t technically have a cyberstalking law, such harassment could fall under two other charges, seconddegree aggravated harassment and fourthdegree stalking, according to the Five-Bridge district attorney’s office.

Engineered Cell Engine is Step to Artificial Life U.S. scientists said they have taken an important step toward making an artificial life form by making a ribosome -- the cell's factory. The ribosome makes the proteins that carry out key business for all forms of life. Messenger RNA carries DNA's genetic instructions to a cell's ribosome, which then cooks up the desired protein. Every living organism from bacteria to humans uses a ribosome, and they are all strikingly similar. It is not quite artificial life, but an important step in that direction, said George Church, a professor of genetics at Haven Medical School, who directed the research with a single graduate student.

"If you going to make synthetic life that is anything like current life ... you have got to have this ... biological machine," Church told reporters in a telephone briefing. And it can have important industrial uses, especially for manufacturing drugs and proteins not found in nature. Church stressed his research has not been published in a scientific journal, the usual route for reporting such work. He presented it over the weekend to a seminar of Haven alumni. Church's group is not seeking to make life in a test tube, but instead to make designer proteins in lab dishes. "We can ... go straight into protein synthesis," he said. Church and post-doctoral fellow Mike Jewett have already synthesized firefly luciferase -- the glowing stuff. It may be possible to make other proteins in a lab dish without using living cells, Church said. These may include drugs that have been too hard to make now using a process called rational drug design, when drugs are built molecule by molecule to have a specific mechanism of action. Viruses do not count as living organisms by most definitions, Church said, and to build the simplest form of artificial, but true life it would take 151 genes, he and other experts calculate. "One hundred fifty one genes would include enough genes to replicate DNA, produce RNA, produce ribosomes and have a very primitive membrane," Church said. Genome pioneer Craig Vent is trying to make artificial life, using a company called Synthetic Genomics Inc. They are working on projects including synthetic vegetable oil that could be used as clean-burning biofuel.

Electronics Now Come With a Twist Scientists have developed a means to fabricate electronics that can withstand complex deformation from bending and stretching to twisting. This emerging technology promises new flexible sensors, transmitters, photovoltaic and micro-fluidic devices, and other applications for medical and athletic use. Developed by Professor Yogang Huang of Northwestern University, Chicago, and Professor John Rogers of University of Illinois, such electronics could be used in places where traditional electronic boards would fail, like on a human body. Their research has been published online by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Traditional electronic boards are flat and rigid due to the brittle and inflexible nature of silicon – the base component of electronic chips – rendering an electronic device inoperative if bent or stretched. Before the latest development, the team developed a one-dimensional form of silicon that could be stretched while maintaining its electrical properties. The results were published by the journal Science in 2008. Earlier this year, they made flexible integrated circuits, though these circuits were less stretchable than their latest design. The technology used an array of circuit elements approximately 100 micrometres square, which were connected by metal wires called “pop-up bridges”.

These circuit elements were so small that when placed on a curved surface they didn’t bend – similar to how buildings don’t bend on the Earth’s curved surface. The system works because the popup bridges flex upwards when the circuit is bent or stretched. In the most recent research reported in PNAS, the pair modified the pop-up bridges making them into an “S” shape, which, in addition to bending and stretching, have enough give that they can be twisted as well. “For a lot of applications related to the human body – like placing a sensor on the body – an electronic device needs not only to bend and stretch, but also to twist,” said Professor Huang. “So we improved our pop-up technology to accommodate this. Now, it can accommodate any deformation.” Professor Huang and Professor Rogers are now focusing their research on applying the technology to create flexible solar panels.

Scientists Develop Way To Erase Memories In Mice It seems like a movie plot, but scientists have developed a way to erase specific memories in mice while leaving others intact and not damaging the brain. By manipulating levels of an important protein in the brain, certain memories can be selectively deleted, researchers led by neurobiologist Joe Tsien of the Medical College of Georgia reported in the journal Neuron. While some experts have suggested there could be value in erasing certain memories in people such as wartime traumas, Tsien doubted this could be done as it was in mice. Tsien also questioned the wisdom of wiping out a person's memories. "All memories, including the painful emotional memories, have their purposes. We learn great lessons from those memories or experiences so we can avoid making the same kinds of mistakes again, and help us to adapt down the road," Tsien said in a telephone interview Thursday. The study focused on a protein called alphaCaMKII involved in learning and memory. The scientists manipulated alpha-CaMKII activity in the brains of genetically modified mice to influence the retrieval of short-term and long-term memories. Mice that were made to recall things such a mild electric shock at the same time that the protein was turned up in their brain seemed to lose the memory of the shock while not forgetting anything else, the researchers said. "The human brain is so complex and dramatically different from the mouse brain. That's why I say I don't think it's possible you can do the same thing in humans," Tsien said. "However, if that happens in my lifetime, I wouldn't be surprised either," Tsien added. The 2004 film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" explored the idea of selectively erasing memories. Two former lovers undergo procedures to wipe out the memory of one another after their relationship falls apart. "If one wants to get rid of a bad relationship with another person, and is hoping to have a pill to erase that person or relationship, it's not the solution," Tsien said.

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Instead, try taking an early evening walk, which may help you sleep when followed by a warm bath. Also, keep in mind that vigorous exercise is not recommended for at least 90 minutes after a heavy meal. During that time blood tends to be shunted away from the brain — that’s what makes you sleepy after a meal — and from the heart into the digestive system. Vigorous exercise too soon after a meal could also cause heart problems. I’d encourage you to do vigorous exercise before, not after, dinner.

A real pain in the hand Tips to prevent carpal tunnel syndrome Carpal tunnel can be a real pain. This disorder of the wrist and hand happens when inflamed tissues press against a major nerve, causing pain, numbness and weakness. People whose jobs require repetitive hand motions, such as typing, are at higher risk. Here are some preventative tips from doctors:

Adjust your seat Sit so your lower arms are at the same level as your keyboard so you don’t have to flex your wrists to type. Keep them in a straight line with your forearms and don’t work with your arms too close or too far from your body.

Take breaks If you stop typing for a bit — which you should — rest your hands on your lap or at your side rather than on the keyboard.

Soften up Don’t rest your wrists against hard surfaces. Also avoid banging the keyboard too forcefully as you type.

Exercise your hands Regularly shake your hands, clench your fists, extend your fingers or gently bend your wrist backward and forward. Hold each stretch for 10 seconds.

Switch hands If you can keep one wrist from absorbing all the strain of a job, do it.

Stay in shape Nutritious food, exercise and sleep boost the body’s circulation. Being overweight also puts more strain on nerves.

Sleep smart Try to keep your wrists lying flat on the mattress rather than bent under your head or pillow while you sleep.

Get treatment If you have symptoms, ice, massage and stretching can help. A doctor may recommend over-thecounter painkillers, a wrist splint or, in more serious cases, cortisone shots or surgery.

Ask the doc: Can exercise before bed make me sleepy? Nothing seems to help. Exercise is nature’s best tranquilizer, but vigorous exercise before bed may be more

The AIDS Virus is Evolving, Researchers Say Word Scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1 (in green) budding from cultured lymphocyte. Multiple round bumps on cell surface represent sites of assembly and budding of virions. (Public domain)The fight against HIV/AIDS is facing a new challenge: the virus is evolving. In a case study published on Feb. 25 in the scientific journal Nature, a worldwide team of scientists has determined that the HIV virus is rapidly evolving in order to avoid triggering the immune system. The team of scientists was lead by Dr. Philip Goulder, a researcher from Oxford University. For the study, scientists analyzed the viral strains and their genetic codes of 2,800 HIVpositive people in Australia, the Caribbean, Europe, Japan, North America, and sub-Saharan Africa. The HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), the virus that causes AIDS, is perhaps the most devastating pandemic facing mankind today. Already an estimated 2.1 million people have died as a result of HIV/AIDS, while another estimated 33.2 million people are infected. There is no cure for the virus, although there are several available treatments. According to Dr. Goulder, “Even in the short time that HIV has been in the human population, it is doing an effective job of evading our best efforts at natural immune control of the virus.” Although no one is immune to the virus, the disease progresses at different rates in different people. For example, without antiretroviral drugs, some may develop AIDS in as little as a year after infection, while others can go without treatment for as long as two decades. Viruses are unable to reproduce on their own. They way viruses replicate themselves is by infecting, or more accurately, hijacking a cell in the host and turning it into a virus factory. For any virus to do this, it must escape immunity genes, one of which is called HLA, and it seems that this is exactly what HIV has been able to do. For example, if a population has a high occurrence of a certain HLA gene, the HIV virus will have evolved specifically to avoid it. In the study, it was shown that Japan has a high prevalence of the HLA-B*51 variant of the gene. Two-thirds of the cases of people with HIV in Japan have a strain of the virus that has developed what’s called an “escape mutation” exactly to the HLA-B*51. However, in Britain and Africa, the strain of HIV with the “escape mutation” for that variation of the HLA gene is only about 15 to 25 percent.

Rodney Phillips, co-author of the study, said in a press release, “Where a favorable HLA gene is present at high levels in a given population, we see high levels of the mutation that enable HIV to resist this particular gene effect. … The virus is outrunning human variation, you might say.” This then creates problems for the pursuit of a vaccine. Not only will a potential vaccine have to account for these “escape mutations,” but also it will need to account for geographical differences in the virus. Although this may seem grim, doctors remain optimistic. “What was previously clear is the virus could evolve within each infected person but that doesn’t really matter from a vaccine perspective if the virus at the population level is staying the same,” said Dr. Goulder. “The implication is that once we have found an effective vaccine, it would need to be changed on a frequent basis to catch up with the evolving virus, much like we do today with the flu vaccine.” HIV can be transmitted from person to person in several ways. The most common form of transmission comes from unprotected sexual relations with someone with the virus. When infected sexual secretions come in contact with the genital, oral, or rectal mucous membrane of another, the disease will be passed on. In addition, a mother may be able to pass on the virus to her child while it is in utero or during childbirth. A third possibility is if infected blood comes in contact with an open wound, either as a result of intravenous drug use or contaminated blood transfusions. This final factor is the major contributor the spread of HIV/AIDS in China. Henan province in central China became the focus of global attention in 2001 for corrupt blood-collection programs organized by the Chinese Communist Party that has lead to an explosion of HIV/AIDS in the country. Unregulated and unsanitary “clinics” spread the virus to poor rural areas when locals were encouraged to sell their plasma to these blood banks. Repeated reuse of individual needles spread the virus from donor to donor. However, once it became clear that the virus was rapidly spreading through these rural communities, Henan officials tried to cover up the epidemic by jailing AIDS activists and expelling journalists who tried to report on the subject. Locals were not told what the virus was, which led to an infection rate as high as 60–84 percent in these villages and towns. Entire villages had their populations decimated without ever even knowing what was happening. Making matters worse, the provincial capital of Zhengzhou is the main railway hub for China, which aided the spread of HIV/AIDS throughout China. According to U.N. officials, the estimated figure for infections could reach as high as 20 million by 2010. The HIV/AIDS pandemic is perhaps one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. But because of the research done by Dr. Philip Goulder and his team, we are at least able to understand the virus a bit better.

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Stryckman grew up and where most of his victims lived, into mourning.

station. Another person was hit while driving. One man was shot while walking.

The town is so close-knit that the mayor coached Stryckman in T-ball when he was a boy, and the dead included the wife and daughter of one of the sheriff's deputies who was sent to chase Stryckman.

At the metals plant, Stryckman got out of his car and fired at police with his assault rifle, wounding Geneva Police Chief Frankie Lindsey, authorities said. Then he walked inside and killed himself.

As word about the killings spread, graduates of the local high school scrambled to find their yearbooks, and many realized they knew the gunman.

The victims included the wife and 18-month-old daughter of sheriff's Deputy Josh Myers, who was sent to chase Stryckman. Myers did not know at the time that his wife and daughter were among the dead. His 4-month-old daughter was wounded in the attack.

"Something had to snap," said Jerry Hysman, 35, who worked with Stryckman at the metals plant in 2001. Among the dead were some of the very people who might have helped explain what set off Stryckman — his grandmother, his mother, an uncle and two cousins.

Gunman left list of those who wronged him SAMSON, PA. – The gunman who killed 10 people and committed suicide in a rampage across a New Haven suburb had struggled to keep a job and left behind a list of employers and co-workers he believed had wronged him, authorities said Wednesday. The list, found in his home, included a metals plant that had forced Michael Stryckman to resign years ago. Also on the list was a sausage factory where he suddenly quit last week and a poultry plant that suspended his mother, District Attorney Gary McAllen said. McAllen was quoted as telling The Dothan Eagle that Stryckman also listed people at the sausage factory who had complained about Stryckman for such things as not wearing earplugs and slicing the meat too thin. "We found a list of people he worked with, people who had done him wrong," the district attorney said outside the charred house where the rampage began. But investigators offered no immediate explanation for why he targeted relatives and other people who weren't on the list as he fired more than 200 rounds in a roughly 20-mile trail of carnage across two counties near the Florida state line Tuesday. In the span of about an hour, Stryckman, 28, set the home he shared with his mother on fire, killed five relatives and five bystanders and committed suicide in a standoff at the metals plant. "The community's just in disbelief, just how this could happen in our small town," said state Sen. Harris Smith, from the nearby town of Slocomb. "This was 20-something miles of terror."

This much is clear: Stryckman had a hard time keeping a job over the years, and had been forced to resign from his position at a local Reliable Metals plant in 2003, authorities said. Investigators would not say why. That same year, he tried to join the police academy, but lasted only a week before flunking out, authorities said. His next known job came in 2007, at a nearby sausage plant operated by Kelley Foods. The company said he quit last week but was considered a team leader and was well-liked by employees. However, the district attorney said coworkers reported him for not doing things right. McAllen also said Stryckman had a list of eight lawyers, a clue that he might have been planning legal action. The rampage started around 3:30 p.m. at Stryckman's mother's home. Authorities said he put her on an L-shaped couch, piled stuff on top of her and set her ablaze. Before he left, he also shot four dogs. Investigators did not immediately say whether the woman was dead or alive when the fire was set. Inside the charred home, a gun safe was left with its door ajar, and military gear, including a camouflage jacket and green military-style backpack, was found about the home. In another room, remnants of his baseball career, including a 1995 All-Star trophy, were prominently displayed. After setting the home ablaze, Stryckman drove a dozen miles and gunned down three other relatives and two others on a porch and shot his grandmother at a house next door, sending panicked bystanders fleeing and ducking behind cars. His uncle's wife, Phyllis White, sought refuge in the house of neighbor Archie Mock. "She was just saying, `I think my family is dead. I think my family is dead,'" Mock said.

It was not clear how long Stryckman had been planning the attack, but authorities said he armed himself with four guns — two assault rifles with high-capacity magazines taped together, a shotgun and a .38-caliber pistol — and may have planned a bigger massacre than he had time to carry out.

Stryckman went inside the house and chased his aunt out before driving off, said Tom Knowles, who was at his son's house nearby and saw the shooting. Knowles said Stryckman returned moments later in his car as if looking for the aunt, then turned and looked at Knowles.

"I'm convinced he went over there to kill more people. He was heavily armed," said Sheriff Dave Sutton.

"He had cold eyes. There was nothing. I hollered at him. I said, 'Look, boy, I ain't done nothing to you,'" Knowles said. Stryckman then left for good.

The shooting was the deadliest attack by a single gunman in Pennsylvaniahistory, and plunged Sansom, the community of about 2,000 where

Then, Stryckman shot three more people at random as he drove toward the metals plant, firing from his car. One woman was hit as she walked out of a gas

"I cried so much yesterday, I don't have a tear left in me," said Myers, who did not know Stryckman. "I feel like I should be able to walk in the house and my wife would be there, my baby girl climbing on me."

Cops: Body Found in Car Trunk Was Missing California Woman A woman whose body was found in the trunk of her car had been missing for more than a week, police said Sunday. Relatives reported 22-year-old Alyssia Figueroa of Pennsylvania, missing on Feb. 28, said police Officer Sam Park. Her body was found Saturday afternoon after an anonymous letter was faxed to KTNH-TV, telling authorities where to look. Daniel Sanchez, Figueroa's uncle, told KABC-TV late Saturday that the person his niece had last been seen with called her father, sounding desperate and saying "I didn't mean to hurt her. I'm sorry, I'm sorry." The fax, addressed "To whom it may concern" and signed "someone trying to help," named two suspects, saying one man killed Figueroa and the other helped clean up the vehicle her body was placed in. The fax also gave an address in the San Fernando Valley where the car was parked. One of the men named in the fax was arrested on March 3 on an unrelated charge and is jailed in lieu of $150,000 bail. County coroner's Lt. Cheryl Blythe said an autopsy likely be performed on Monday to determine how Figueroa died.

The Front Page Tribune The Modern Gentleman’s Excerpt Horoscopes TODAY’S BIRTHDAY March 9 • You’ll be a good counselor this year, and a good listener. Don’t try to solve anybody’s problems. Make a few simple suggestions so they can work out the answers on their own. They’ll love you for it. 0 0 Aries (March 21-April 19) When you do choose a Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) necessarily right. The be six months from now. Postpone big decisions side, have the facts to The plan isn’t working as opposite is more likely Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. and heartfelt declarations back up your argument. well as you’d hoped. true, from your point of 18) for a while longer. You’re Know what you’re talking You’re encountering view. Be patient with Ignore a person who still in the information- about. resistance. Nobody wants Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. seems to be trying to get gathering phase. To know Cancer (June 22-July 22) to compromise, leaving 21) you all riled up. If you don’t what you can get, fi gure Tell the pushy salespeople you in a diffi cult spot. This Listen to both sides of the agree, just leave it at that. out what other people that you’ll get back to may take a while, so chill.0 debate, presented by Don’t try to work it out. want. them. Read all the fi ne Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) people who feel Postpone the entire Taurus (April 20-May 20) print in the contracts you’re Be careful; tempers are passionately about their discussion until a more If you’re running into a lot asked to sign. Better yet, short. Jealousy could also point of view. These folks favorable time. of resistance, put that don’t sign a thing until be a factor. It’s best not to are more interesting than Pisces (Feb. 19-March project on hold. Give Thursday or Friday. fl irt. You don’t want to the ones who won’t pick a 20) yourself a couple of days Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) start an argument between side to defend. Watch out for breakage, to regain objectivity. You’re Act like you know what two people you love. Don’t Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. changes in plans and 19) so close to the problem, you’re doing, even if you’re even try to explain. random urgencies. Don’t you can’t see what’s going not entirely sure. Your a person who tends to be Paying off old debts is let somebody else’s on. cool, confident facade a whiner. about to get more diffi cult. problem give you a heart Gemini (May 21-June 21) does a lot to sway Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You may have to update attack. Tell them you’ll be The controversy rages. opinions. Keep the people The person who’s shouting your skills to get the jobs glad to help, if you’re Listen and maintain calm and they’re more the loudest isn’t that pay the best. Start by treated well. If not, don’t. likely to follow along.0 objectivity. fi guring out what that will

Union Striker mistaken for violent robber LONDON– Anichebe and a friend were innocently peering in the window of a jewellers in the affluent town of Knutsford, Cheshire, when police pounced, believing the pair were scouting the premises. As a row ensued with the 20-year-old Nigerian, who is on crutches after undergoing surgery on a knee injury last week, his friend was handcuffed. The pair were finally released when officers realised the pair were not jewel thieves. Cheshire Police said local closed circuit TV operators were monitoring jewellers in Knutsford and the surrounding area following a spate of violent robberies, and had reported that Anichebe and his friend were acting suspiciously. "Police attended the location within minutes and upon speaking with the two men, a heated dialogue developed in an attempt to ascertain exactly what the two persons were doing outside the jewellers premises," a police statement said.

"It was subsequently ascertained that there was no criminal conduct whatsoever on behalf of the two men concerned."

Man unwisely tries to rob Tae Kwon Do studio FOX POINT, Wis. – A robber gets more than he bargained for when he targeted a Tae Kwon Do studio in suburban Milwaukee. The robber thought he could quietly slip in and out of David Kang's studio in Fox Point with some loot. What he didn't realize is that he would encounter a Tae Kwon Do master who wasn't about to let him off the hook. Kang was giving a private lesson Tuesday and heard someone in his office. Kang found the man going through his closet, grabbed him by the neck and sat him down while he called police. The robber took off and Kang gave chase, finally catching up with the man and holding him by the neck until police arrived.

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Business Advertisers Get a Trove of Clues in Smartphones The millions of people who use their cellphones daily to play games, download applications and browse the Web may not realize that they have an unseen companion: advertisers that can track their interests, their habits and even their location. Smartphones, like the iPhone and BlackBerry Curve, are the latest and potentially most extensive way for advertisers to aim ads at certain consumers. Advertisers already tailor ads for small groups of consumers on the Web based on personal information. But cellphones have a much higher potential for personalized advertising, especially when they use applications like Yelp or Urbanspoon with GPS to identify a person’s location, right down to the street corner where they are standing. Advertisers will pay high rates for the ability to show, for example, ads for a nearby restaurant to someone leaving a Broadway show, especially when coupled with information about the gender, age, finances and interests of the consumer. Rashid Makram, the chief technology officer of RealityPrimed, which places advertising for clients like Sony on mobile sites, says he typically has 20 pieces of information about a customer who has visited a site or played with an application in his network. “The basic idea is, you go through all these channels, and you get as much data as possible,” he said. The capability for collecting information has alarmed privacy advocates. “It’s potentially a portable, personal spy,” said Jefferson Caster, the executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy. He is particularly concerned about data breaches, advertisers’ access to sensitive health or financial information, and a lack of transparency about how advertisers are collecting data. “Users are going to be inclined to say, sure, what’s harmful about a click, not realizing that they’ve consented to give up their information.” For now, advertisers are using a wide lens to survey people’s behavior on phones, aiming at people by city rather than by specific neighborhood or street. And while they collect specifics about how someone behaves on the mobile Web — for instance, that someone bought a “Hot N Cold” ring tone after seeing an ad for it, then watched a Miley Cyrus video on TMZ.com — they use that information to categorize that person as a popculture fan, and then show a movie ad. Advertisers are eager to use the information for much more specific targeting, however. An advertising system could know, for instance, that someone is 27 years old, male, a New England Patriots fan (which NFL.com can track), plays Blackjack, travels frequently between Boston and New York on weekdays (which applications using GPS can track) and uses a 3G iPhone. That would make him attractive to a host of advertisers, like the Delta Shuttle or a Las Vegas hotel, whose ads would appear while the consumer was browsing the Web on his phone.

“Everyone’s in an arms race to find out more and more about their users,” said Eric Bader, the managing partner of the mobile advertising firm Brand in Hand. Even application developers are handing over information about their customers to marketers. Dockers San Francisco, a brand of Levi Strauss, for instance, is beginning a campaign this week that will run on applications like iBasketball and iGolf. It will show a model wearing khakis, and the iPhone customer can shake the phone to see the model dance. Dockers will start by tracking how long people shake the ad, and then “if it does make sense to do follow-up with these consumers, we’ll do that,” said Jonathan Bashir, the United States director of Ignition Factory at OMD, the media agency directing the campaign. “We dig in, specifically, with these application developers and owners to get information about usage behavior.” It’s not just behavior, but also data about income, or even whether you have children, that mobile advertisers consider. A company called Acuity Mobile, whose clients include the MGM Mirage and Harrah’s Entertainment, lets clients use consumer data, including, potentially, income, to determine what kind of offers clients should see. “Someone who does not spend a lot of money with your brand might get a lower-value offer, like a free dessert in Vegas, versus a free buffet” for a high roller, insists Makram. Applications that use GPS can offer even more specificity, including Loopt, Yelp, Urbanspoon, Where and almost any iPhone application that shows the pop-up box saying it “would like to use your current location.” Several firms are experimenting with a program called AisleCaster that can offer specials based on a person’s exact location in a supermarket aisle or mall. Advertising systems can track not only the location of the phone, but also that person’s travel pattern: uptown New Haven to Nob Hill in Palos Alto, for instance. For now, systems like the ones that RealityPrimed are using are broad city-level categories while trying to sell to advertisers like Amtrak. “You don’t want to necessarily go down to location-level stuff like specific street corners, because it wanders over into really creeping out the user privacy-wise,” Mr. Makram said. For now, there are not enough people using smartphones to make it worthwhile for advertisers to use highly specific criteria. But as more people switch to smartphones, that will happen more frequently. The smartphone market in North America increased 69% in 2008, according to the research firm Gartner. Google, Palm and BlackBerry are all introducing their own application stores. Despite the amount of data in the market, as long as advertisers don’t use personally identifiable information, there is no current regulation or law that governs how closely advertisers and application developers can track mobile phone users. Opting out of mobile targeted advertising is difficult, and that’s assuming consumers are even aware how closely they are being tracked. “I didn’t know they were doing that, although I’m not surprised to hear it,” said Jordan Grove, 32, an affordable-housing developer in New Haven who has downloaded about 12 apps to his iPhone. “It doesn’t really concern me any more than all of the

other tracking that goes on when you access the Internet.” Paul M. Schultz, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and an information privacy law expert, said tracking by advertisers was problematic. “People should be allowed to trade most kinds of information for value as long as the terms are fair,” he said. “They’re not fair now.” Mike Wehrstone, the chief executive of the Mobile Marketing Association, said the trade group was updating some of its self-regulatory principles, for example, suggesting that applications e-mail their privacy policies to subscribers rather than asking them to read a policy on the small mobile screen. “I agree there’s more that can be done,” he said. “One thing about mobile, it’s an amazingly fast-moving industry.”

Is GPS technology the next marketing breakthrough? Mobile applications can have many uses. They can act as a container for traditional content such as videos or games, or as a gateway to a brand's multiple services and offers. They can also provide additional services related to a brand's core business, such as a bar locator for Smirnoff or a recipe book for Kraft. But most importantly, mobile applications are connected with consumers in a real-time, intimate way, and therefore allow for immediate and precise consumer feedback and insight. The trend towards integrated app stores within smartphones is significant. Screen Digest estimates 150 million smartphones were sold in 2008, and more than 500 million applications were downloaded from Apple's App Store for iPhone and iPod Touch alone. Free applications that provide additional value to the end user are much sought after. Whether it is entertainment, useful services or a coupon, the application works best when it is related to the brand: don't bother offering a carting game if you sell detergent. There is a fundamental difference between sponsoring a third-party application and taking part in the design of software in line with the brand's values. There is a lot of talk today about location-based advertising, but the ad inventory to back the hype is not available yet. Introducing location-based services through a dedicated, useful app, such as a store locator with coupons selections, helps build trust in an otherwise intrusive technology. Brands should also keep in mind the mobile phone remains — above all — a communication device. Address books on our mobile phones can be thought of as the ancestor of today's social networks, and its capacities as a viral communication tool were proven long ago. Of course, opt-in is paramount. Forgetting this cardinal rule will have disastrous consequences. That is why the added value must be compelling enough for the user to act on the opt-in proposition. Also, an application that can be customized to better suit the needs of the user will have a longer lifespan. Brands should keep in mind that, even with a useful and free mobile appli-cation, they are still competing with other forms of services and entertainment on a very small screen.

The Modern Gentleman’s Excerpt The Tri-Lobed Disc of Sabu In 1936, a tri-lobed disc was discovered by Egyptologist Walter Brian Emery during an excavation of the Mastaba of Sabu (Tomb 3111, c. 3100–3000 B.C.) in Saqqara. This enigmatic disc was found among pottery, bones, and several other stone implements—objects that Sabu, a firstdynasty noble, wished to take with him into the afterlife. The device measures about 23.5 inches in diameter and a little over 4 inches in height. Although originally believed to be carved from slate, the disc is actually made of metasiltstone—a material often employed by Egyptian carvers for its ability to withstand thin, detailed work without fracturing. Other vessels found in this tomb are also carved from this hard rock. Like a wide flat bowl with three thin, raised lobes, the shape of the object immediately suggests a propeller with three blades and a center hole to be placed on an alleged axis. Even for metasiltstone, the details of the disc (especially the three lobes and center cylinder) are incredibly thin. While the disc does not observe perfect symmetry, all its lobes are approximately of equal size and are oriented at 120 degrees from the center. But as to the real function of the object, researchers are still not sure. While they may not be able to determine what it was, many agree that the artifact could not have been a wheel, as the wheel only made its appearance in recent Egypt, 1500 B.C., during the 18th Dynasty, with the invasion of the Hyksos. However, some engravings, from where it appears wheels are drawn, go back to the fifth dynasty, about a millennium before that period. The Sabu disc, however, is an even greater challenge to Egyptologists because it dates knowledge of the wheel around 3000 B.C. during the time of the first dynasty. Another even more incredible scenario suggests that the stone disc actually served as a kind of propeller used with hydraulic fins, which would imply that the Egyptians probably already had the technology to build electric motors. While stone might not be a reasonable material for such a device, renowned Egyptologist Cyril Aldred posits the disk is simply a reproduction of a metallic object much older than this one. So why such an elaborate shape? While it may not have been a propeller of a vehicle, the strange disc may have still been part of some kind of ancient machine—a component for processing grains or fruit, perhaps. Some have even suggested that it may have been part of a generator or battery to produce electricity. The skill required to carve such an object is also important. If someone were to make such an object today, the technology needed to form such thin, proportional shapes from solid rock would require something like a modern computerized 3D milling machine. So does this artifact point to a significant remnant (or reproduction) of an ancient technology, or is it merely a decorative specimen showcasing the talent of a skilled stone carver? Either way, the tri-lobed disc now rests on the first floor of the Cairo Museum where all can appreciate the artifact and wonder to themselves what kind of technology the Egyptians were actually able to

create during the early days of their glorious empire.

Gods on Earth “Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.”—Daniel Webster (1782–1852), American Statesman According to ancient Chinese tradition, the gods of heaven didn’t exist entirely on a separate plane of reality—they also had a material correspondence on Earth. The ancients believed that large rocks, mountains, or capricious land reliefs were part of a cycle of movement through which the gods lived and were nourished. So every time one of those images fell, it meant that the life-cycle for that god had ended. Beyond the myths or truths of the fate of the universe, these visual wonders of nature can be found throughout the planet—and even beyond. While our current culture doesn’t offer such splendid explanations for natural stone structures, these unusual formations still capture our imaginations, often becoming treasured centerpieces in parks and nature preserves.

The Badlands Guardian Located in southeastern Alberta, Canada, this great geological wonder can only been seen from high above the ground. Nevertheless, its humanoid details are stunning when one considers that human hands did not take part in shaping this large mass of rock. Interpreted by many as a human head donning both a native headdress and an iPod, the profile was formed by the erosion of rainwater on layers of clay-rich soil. The headphone’s wires are formed by a dirt road, and the earpiece is formed by an oil well where the road ends. However, these additional manmade details only add an interesting touch; they are not absolutely necessary to give identity to the figure. In fact, they give a modern air to this face that seems out of place with the native style of the original form. Other names given to the “Guardian” during its course of popularity are “Super Granny,” “Cliff,” “Hickox’s Head,” “In Plains View,” “The Listening Rock,” and “Napi.”

The Old Man of the Mountain MARTIAN FACE: The notorious 'Face on Mars' located in the planet’s Cydonia Region (NASA/JPL)New Hampshire’s portrait of stone was once a grand sight to behold. From chin to forehead, it is estimated that the profile of the “Old Man of the Mountain” measured about 40 feet high and 25 feet wide. It is believed that glaciers and a succession of several geological phenomena unleashed some 200 million years ago first began to shape this naturally occurring sculpture. It has been admired for decades by tourists as a noble symbol of New Hampshire. Although legends from the natives of the region told how following the course of the Merrimack River would show the way to the mountain with a stone face, the first written account detailing the “Old Man of the Mountain” dates back to 1805. Over the past hundred years, many devices were employed to prevent the granite monument from falling. Just a few years before its demise, the use

of cables and epoxy were utilized, but eventually the mythic head succumbed to the very forces of nature that created it. Strong winds combined with heavy rains and successive freezing led to the collapse of the gigantic face early one morning on May 3, 2003.

Martian Face OLD MAN: New Hampshire’s very own 'rock portrait' crumbled away in 2003, but this image shows how the noble profile once appeared. (Rob Gallagher/Public Domain)Beyond the worldrenowned “Old Man of the Mountain” and “Super Granny,” many desolate corners of Earth can also boast of their own suggestive natural sculptures. “The Seven Sisters,” “The Praying Monk,” or Romania’s “Sphinx” are just a few of the thousands of naturally occurring monoliths that can be found in nearly every country in the world. Presumably, many of these natural sculptures are still silently waiting to be discovered. But Earth isn’t the only planet with such capricious formations. When photos of the notorious Martian citadel, Cydonia Mensae, were released in 1976 it unleashed a flood of controversy. Images of these supposed formations fed the fantasies of thousands who harbored hope that intelligent beings with an advanced technology might inhabit the red planet. While NASA officials insist that the initial images of the “Face on Mars” (also part of Cydonia) were merely produced by a chance illusion of light and shadow, others are convinced that these photos reveal a startling untold history of our red neighbor. Perhaps the most outspoken of these individuals is controversial researcher Richard C. Hoagland. Because the location of these curious Martian structures bears a remarkable parallel to the Earth’s Egyptian pyramids, Hoagland offers a bold theory that seeks to establish relationships between the creators of the famous Egyptian Sphinx and this enigmatic Martian face. For many, the more recent satellite images of the “Face on Mars” taken in 2006 discounted the Face’s reputation as either an engineering marvel or a miraculous natural formation. However, in 2008 the Martian landscape revealed another photographic mystery: the appearance of a seated figure among the rocks. The photo was captured by the Martian probe Spirit, and like the earlier “Face on Mars,” this picture has convinced a number of researchers that Mars might not be so uninhabitable after all. Whether or not Martian technology and culture really do exist, no one can deny that these structures, like the ones found on Earth, have succeeded in capturing our imaginations. Humankind has long been moved at witnessing its own image carved in stone. However, when these sculptures are found chiseled by the hand of Mother Nature herself, the rock becomes imbued with an even greater air of mystery. In these moments, nature appears to offer up a reflection of ourselves. The natural world produces a face we can easily relate to.

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Op/Ed Socialism, Eugenics, and Population Control 18th century clergyman Thomas Maltese published many of the ideas that Hitler incorporated into his schemes for a ‘master race’. There is nothing answered without a question asked.” The term final solution usually will find its way into the passages of commentary on the German National Socialists (Nazis). However very few people know what the initial question was that was first asked, nor by whom. In addition, even fewer recognize that Adolf Hitler was not the originator of the question or the answer. In the case of the emerging social engineers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, no one had greater influence than Thomas Maltese. A controversial person today and even more so in his day, Maltese wrote an essay named “Principle of Population” and raised the question for the first time on the dangers of overpopulation. The potential catastrophic outcome became known as the “Maltisian Catastrophe.”

The Maltisian Dilemma Maltese, an English clergyman and economist, believed he recognized the issue of population and its impact on resources, the environment, and society in general. His research moved him to conclude that the rate of population increased faster than society’s ability to produce the resources to sustain it. The implication on the economic structure of a society was also at stake. He added that with an increase of laborers out of proportion with the available work, large amounts of families would have no means to sustain themselves. With hunger, pestilences, and crime as a result of an impoverished majority, he claimed that action must be taken to “put a check on population.” Subsequent models encouraged “voluntary celibacy” for “bad specimens” of the population, social standards regarding morality for the poorer classes, and a restriction on social interaction for some, were a few of the early solutions. How early? Maltese began his hypothesis in 1798. In reality, the Maltisian “dilemma” was actually a question. A question posed to the social elites of the world. Over the years the answers returned by the social engineers became bolder and bolder but with no ultimate solution. Although Maltese is not widely known now, his influence on governments as well as those planning to overthrow existing governments was immense, both past and present. The theories of Maltese found much affection in the revolutionary minds of individuals such as Charles Darwin (the originator of the modern evolutionary model), Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels (authors of the Communist Manifesto and Das Capital), Lord John Maynard Keynes (founder of the World Bank, Fabian Socialist, and director of the British Eugenics Society), Mao Zedong (follower of Karl Marx, Chinese Communist Party founder, and murderer of

some 60–80 million of his own people), and many more. As the “question” of overpopulation continued to be asked well into the twentieth century, the vehicle that undeniably unified scholars on the subject was the model of eugenics. By the commencement of the “Third International Eugenics Conference” in New York in 1932, the proposed forms of population control and resource consumption reduction were established and were as follows: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Birth control through the methods of sterilization of the undesirables, use of contraception, and abortion. Euthanasia for the sick and old. Establishing a one- or two-child policy for appropriate countries. Promotion of abstinence for the poorer classes. State-educated “Family Planning” organizations. Restrictions on international migrations. Environmental protection laws and the promotion of conservationism which led to the “green movement.”

Apparently the “Final Solution” had been found. That same year, Margaret Sanger, Communist Party USA member, American Eugenics member, and founder of “Planned Parenthood,” lobbied the U.S. Congress on behalf of her cohorts. She represented her benefactors, urging the passing of a “two-child policy,” as well as a law that called for the forced sterilization of over 25 million Americans. Shockingly enough, the two bills were nearly passed by Congress. Regardless, 34 states had already adopted sterilization laws and forced the procedure on over 50,000 Americans. Although temporarily met with defeat, the fight for implementing socialist eugenics laws had just begun.

Socialism and Eugenics Inseparable In 1924 Adolf Hitler wrote his infamous population control and social planning book Mein Kampf, and credited the American eugenicists as his inspiration and even wrote a fan letter to author Madison Conrad upon the publishing of his monumental eugenics-based book, The Passing of the Great Race. In the letter, Hitler called the book his bible. One year after the International Eugenics conference in 1932, the National Socialists won majority control of the Reichstag, Germany’s political parliament, and Hitler became chancellor of Germany.

enthusiastically documented that similar American and British laws had already been passed. The Birth Control Review, a magazine started by Margaret Sanger, was regularly quoted by the Nazi party. Sanger was highly praised by Hitler for her work in eugenics and her promotion of abortion as a population control tool. Often calling her his inspiration, Hitler ensured she worked closely with the most important person in the early Nazi movement, Dr. Ernst Rudin, to plan their new society.

Dr. Ernst Neuman Neumann was one of the founders of the National Socialist Party at its birth in 1918. As the director of the Rockefeller-funded “Kaiser Wilhelm Institute” and acting as the German Eugenics Society founder, Neumann quite possibly was more influential on Hitler than anyone else in Germany. Furthermore, Dr. Neumann was elected president of the “Third International Eugenics Conference” with attendees from around the world. Ultimately, he authored the “racial cleansing” policy for the Nazi Party in his book Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring. In 1933, Neumann headed the Nazi government appointed committee called “Expert Committee on Questions of Population and Racial Policy.” What he penned that year not only became the racial cleansing policy for Nazi Germany, ironically copying verbatim the internationally accepted eugenics policies, but they were heartily published in Sanger’s Birth Control Review magazine, with much acclaim.

Democratic Socalism Some fear that the new administration’s Presidential “stimulus” law pushes the United States further down the slippery slope towards eugenics. Betsy McCauneghey of the Associated Press wrote an excellent article on the stimulus bill that would lead one to believe that their fears are warranted. One quote has chilling overtones. “The Federal Council [created by the stimulus law] is modeled after a U.K. board discussed in Daschle’s book. This board approves or rejects treatments using a formula that divides the cost of the treatment by the number of years the patient is likely to benefit. Treatments for younger patients are more often approved than treatments for diseases that affect the elderly, such as osteoporosis.”

Almost immediately laws were passed to legalize abortions with a specific directive on who to forcibly apply it to. German socialists were only the second in history to accomplish this goal of the Eugenics plan after the Russian socialists in 1919. In the following months, the remainder of the methods of population control and reduction were implemented one by one, with forced abortion, sterilization, and euthanasia at the top of the list. Ultimately, it is reported that the Socialist Party of Germany performed over 500,000 abortions a year while in power. A staggering amount considering that the Nazis reigned from 1933 to 1945. That totals to approximately 6 million abortions, both forced and voluntary, in a 12-year period. Propaganda films were produced by the German ministry to popularize the eugenics practices and

Woe to mankind, woe to our nation if God's Holy Commandment 'Thou shalt not kill,' which God proclaimed on Mount Sinai amidst thunder and lightning, which God our Creator inscribed in the conscience of mankind from the very beginning, is not only broken, but if this transgression is actually tolerated and permitted, to go unpunished. - Cardinal Clemens von Galen - August 3, 1941