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It was in the Caribbean five years ago that England's last new beginning had its genesis. That project, which saw Andy Flower take them to three Ashes victories, a World T20 trophy and to No1 in all three formats, was bookended by disaster, the last of which cost Flower his job.
Ottis Gibson, currently head coach of West Indies, was England's bowling coach during that first setback and recalls the pounding defeat England experienced after they were bowled out for 51 in Jamaica. He also watched England's capitulation in the last Ashes but reckons Flower deserved better than to have that as his memorial.
"I feel a little bit sorry for Andy because I was there when we were bowled out cheaply in Jamaica and it didn't look good then," said Gibson. "Where he then took England, to winning Ashes series and to No1, was great. But when things changed a few months ago it seemed like people forgot the four great years he had and after one bad series he was contemplating his future with people saying he should be sacked. I guess it's the nature of coaching but it is still sad."
Gibson knows the fickle nature of press and public. West Indies are the T20 holders but that has not stopped people calling for change every time a string of defeats occurs. But if that can make the grass appear greener elsewhere, Gibson confirmed he will not be applying for the vacant England head coach's job as some have suggested.
"My name is firmly in the hat for the job I'm doing," said Gibson. "Coaching the West Indies is tough enough and I'm fully committed to this one and to get it right."
Hammerings like England took in Australia usually force teams to fragment though their implosion has been spectacular with the sacking of Kevin Pietersen, Graeme Swann's retirement and Jonathan Trott's ongoing recuperation from a stress-related illness.
Now opportunities have arisen for understudies such as James Tredwell, a steady off-spinner from Kent who used to get drafted in whenever Swann was injured or rested. Tredwell, who took three for 39 in England's practice match on Tuesday, has the opportunity to assume Swann's role across all three formats, something he appears to be approaching with caution.
"I guess it's at the back of my mind but I try not to think too much about that," said Tredwell on Wednesday as England players took the day off from practice.
"I'm a pessimistic sort of fellow and perhaps look at the negatives," said Tredwell, who gave up the Kent captaincy to concentrate more fully on the opportunity presented by England in Swann's absence.
Until Australia's batsmen targeted him with aggressive strokeplay, essentially hitting him out of the team on occasion, there was evidence that Tredwell had become a better one-day bowler than Swann. If that is less obvious now, the gulf between them in Test cricket remains vast with Swann the departed master, something Tredwell acknowledges after a fallow County Championship season with Kent.
He has competition from Monty Panesar and from a largely inexperienced bunch of spinners such as Simon Kerrigan, Scott Borthwick, Moeen Ali and Stephen Parry, but believes the chance will arrive.
"If I continue to do what I do off the field and keep my work ethic I feel I can put in the performances which will ultimately get me in the team," said Tredwell. "But I don't want to look too far ahead and thinking I'm a regular because that can make you relax and I don't want to do that.

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text: Author Philip K. Dick's science fiction adventures have fueled many Hollywood features, from Blade Runner in the 1980s to the recent A Scanner Darkly. Now Dick himself is going to be the focus of two biopics. London's Guardian reports that the films will take entirely different tacks, with the more high-profile production to star Paul Giamatti, who, the publication said, will do double duty as co-producer with Dick's estate. "We knew this was going to happen, but we wanted it to be something that was more multifaceted, not just 'let's focus on this guy's five wives and drugs,'" the writer's daughter, Laura Leslie, told the Guardian. "It's going to be non-traditional. It's about the creativity and not the events." The second film, oddly enough, reportedly will be a comedy starring Bill Pullman as Dick.


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[High Praise! to Son of Bob]
Liberals can't keep their damn math straight. Especially when it doesn't serve their propaganda purposes.
Here's the Size/Calorie/Sugar infographic from Bloomberg's Facebook page:
Just at a glance, those figures seem odd, since doubling the size from 32oz to 64oz should make the calories 748, not 780.
Well, I crunched some numbers on a spreadsheet:
Basically they reduced the numbers for the 16oz drink to make it seem like a wise top-end cup size, used the correct number again on the 32oz, and then jacked up the numbers for the 64oz to make it seem more egregious.
So either someone at the Mayor's office is abominable at simple math, or Bloomberg knows it's a big, stinking lie, and just doesn't give a damn.
Either way, I'm calling shenanigans.
UPDATE: Linked by MichelleMalkin.com.
UPDATE: Linked by Doug Ross


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"However, Mr Baker pointed to the government's scrapping of the proposed £1 billion-plus upgrade to the A14 as evidence of its intentions."
Only if that money was spent on cycling instead. No guarantee that it will be, even with the LSTF.
Academics claim that attempts by successive governments to get more people cycling have failed to have an effect on the wider public, who continue to consider bicycles as being either something suitable only for children, those without the means to buy and run a car, or strange types clothed in Lycra. They identified the danger posed by cycling on roads as the biggest barrier to getting people cycling, and say segregated bike lanes are the solution – a view shared by transport minister Norman Baker.
The findings come from an interim assessment of an ongoing study entitled Understanding Walking and Cycling, led by researchers from Lancaster University working alongside colleagues from Oxford Brookes and Leeds universities, which focuses on four towns and cities throughout England – Lancaster, Leeds, Leicester and Worcester, reports The Guardian.
In the interim assessment, Dave Horton from Lancaster University says: "Many people barely recognise the bicycle as a legitimate mode of transport; it is either a toy for children or a vehicle fit only for the poor and/or strange. For them, cycling is a bit embarrassing, they fail to see its purpose, and have no interest in integrating it into their lives, certainly on a regular basis."
The study is seeking to identify reasons why people in the four locations it focuses on choose to cycle, or if they don't, what the barriers are preventing them from doing so. Questionnaires were sent out to local households, with researchers also spending three months in those places to conduct more in-depth research with selected families.
One finding of the research is that even when people do try to use a bicycle, existing road layouts that favour motorised traffic is a huge deterrent to would-be cyclists, and Dr Horton said that even those who did ride regularly could find such infrastructure to be "a dangerous obstacle course.
He continued: "The minority of people who cycle in English cities tend to do so despite, not because of, existing conditions. Some people try cycling, but are quickly put off."
As a result, many people view cycling as something to be done perhaps in the country at weekends rather than as a means of getting around on a daily basis, with those who do regularly ride in urban areas tending to be the keenest cyclists in the first place, underlining cycling's status as a minority activity.
"Regrettably, we did not find this mass of people on the threshold of change, who only needed a little push to start cycling as a daily means of getting around," explained Dr Griet Scheldeman, a colleague of Dr Horton's at Lancaster University.
"The hardy, Lycra-clad cyclists confirm that cycling is a very skilled practice, from which most people immediately distance themselves. So far, cycling promotion still reaches mainly that smallish part of the population that does not really need that much convincing."
Interim findings were presented this weekend at a conference called Building Cycling Culture hosted by Leicester University, where researchers from the University of East London also highlighted the outcome of their own research project, Cycling Cultures, which focused on four areas that already have higher-than-average levels of cycling – Bristol, Cambridge, Hull and the London Borough of Hackney.
The conference came just days after the Office for National Statistics revealed that three in four workers outside London still use cars to get to work, while less than one in ten used public transport, despite most commutes being of 15 minutes' duration or less, putting many of those journeys within cycling distance, as reported by the BBC.
In the capital, longer commutes and greater usage of public transport were the norm, and the city is of course one where there has been an upsurge in people using bikes to get to their workplaces, bucking the national trend.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mail reports that the average annual cost of running a car has risen by more than 20% and now stands at £3,090, with the increase largely driven by higher fuel prices.
The Lancaster University researchers maintain that the biggest steps that they believe can be taken to encourage more people to cycle would be building segregated bike paths on key routes in towns and cities, restricting the speed of traffic and availability of parking in urban centres and also introduce strict liability legislation to protect more vulnerable road users.
"The cycling world has in the past been divided over the best way of growing cycling. But if we want to achieve high levels of cycling across our cities, this has to change," insisted Dr Horton.
"Perhaps above all, and probably most controversially, our research has made it very clear to us that in order to create a mass cycling culture in English cities we need to segregate cycling from motorised traffic along main roads. Combined with a range of other measures, very high quality segregated cycle routes could push English city cycling from its currently marginal status towards a mass phenomenon," he added.
Roger Geffen from national cyclists' organisation CTC told The Guardian: "This new research certainly opens up some really interesting debates about how to redesign our roads and streets to get more people cycling. But the even bigger question is how to mobilise the political will to make this cycle-friendly future a reality."
Transport minister, Norman Baker, whose remit includes cycling, underlined the coalition government's commitment to getting more people to cycle through its continued support for Bikeability as well as the £560 million Local Sustainable Travel Fund (LSTF), introduced last year, with the newspaper quoting him as saying, "Like another Norman before me I am keen to see more people get on their bikes."
While critics of the LSTF have voiced concerns that cash-strapped councils might use money from it to help plug holes in highways budgets for example by incorporating repairs in other schemes, Mr Baker told road.cc recently that they would not be permitted to divert funds to address issues such as repairing potholes.
He acknowledged that the rate of return from investment on cycling projects made good economic sense, and revealed that according to Department for Transport research, individuals travelling into town centres by bike rather than other modes of transport spent 10% more money while they were there.
Mr Baker insisted that the coalition government was spending more money on cycling than its predecessor did on cycling, although our feeling is that the maths only work if cycling takes a huge slice of money from the LSTF – something that is far from guaranteed.
It also pales into insignificance compared to the money being spent on roads – the cost of widening a 22-mile section of the M25 between junctions 16 and 23 was said to have escalated to £3.4 billion by a National Audit Office report last November, while the new five-mile extension to the M74 in Glasgow cost nearly £700 million.
However, Mr Baker pointed to the government's scrapping of the proposed £1 billion-plus upgrade to the A14 as evidence of its intentions.
Mr Baker acknowledged that there was massive potential for cycling in the UK as a sustainable, greener, form of transport and admitted that the one thing keeping more Britons from taking to bicycles to get around was the fear factor. As a result, he, like the Lancaster University researchers, is in favour of segregated bike lanes, as well as more purpose-built infrastructure such as the Two Tunnels scheme near Bath.
Born in Scotland, Simon moved to London aged seven and now lives in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds with his miniature schnauzer, Elodie. He fell in love with cycling one Saturday morning in 1994 while living in Italy when Milan-San Remo went past his front door. A daily cycle commuter in London back before riding to work started to boom, he's been news editor at road.cc since 2009. Handily for work, he speaks French and Italian. He doesn't get to ride his Colnago as often as he'd like, and freely admits he's much more adept at cooking than fettling with bikes.
The cost of motoring goes up and up each year, yet people regard the only viable alternative form of door-to-door transport as childish and silly. I think the old apocryphal tale of the boiling frog is really a slur on amphibians, and should be changed to an anecdote involving a motorist getting poorer and poorer, and fatter and fatter, until he cannot get out of his car, or afford the food at drive-thrus.
I thought the two tunnels scheme was recycling old rail tunnels. Are they being built just for cycling then?
Not convinced the self-reported reasons from those families are accurate. The cycle paths next to main roads seem among the least popular. Good cycle-only or cycle-priority routes along direct quiet roads seem most popular. Segregation seems much less important than design yet they only seem to touch on it once, about junction design.
The only way to bring cycling up to the status of a normal day-to-day activity for the masses is going to be these segregated routes.
While I personally am happy to cycle along the dual-carriageways into Glasgow, I know many would not be.
This is the tipping point we have to reach, once the choke-hold the car culture has on people is broken surely THEN we can address the issue of respect in road building and driver behaviour.
Adding segregated lanes is all well and good. But eventually you have to get people out of the cycle lanes and onto the roads, then you can actually get somewhere useful as opposed to the strange places that cycle lanes stop.
I don't like cycle lanes for a couple of reasons, they are poorly maintained and they don't normally go anywhere useful. Make them a coherent network in most towns and people will cycle more. Even better make them a better (shorter/quicker) network than the roads and you have an incentive to cycle.
I have to take issue with your title, "Investment in cycling is preaching to converted", because many people will not read beyond that and misrepresents the research paper.
The researchers did not say that all investment in cycling was preaching to the converted, but that information campaigns to encourage people on bicycles did. What they did identify would actually lead to more cyclists is "very high quality infrastructure", now that is proper investment, not photos of incredibly beautiful people on bikes in Hampstead Heath on the TfL website.
Same with all the people above complaining "I won't go on a cycle lane, they're crap". Well, because your local council can't tell a crank from a rack doesn't mean there aren't people in the world who can't design good cycling infrastructure. Let's hire them instead. I'll repeat it again: we need "very high quality infrastructure".
And for those who think this is expensive at £800,000 per km, the OVERSPEND on the M25 extension, that will do nothing but increase congestion and misery, is ONE BILLION POUNDS. That could have paid for over 1,000 km of "very high quality cycling infrastructure". There is the money, the know-how is a short Eurostar trip away, all we need is for our politicians to grow a pair. So get campaigning!
Is there any evidence that Boris bikes are changing the perception of cycling in London? Speaking to people who run successful bike share schemes in Dublin and Barcelona, the word is that bike share does entice new riders to try, and having once tried, people often stick with this new way of getting around.
Of course segregated bikeways are essential. But in the meantime, I think Bike share is a game changer.
And whilst we wait for that to be enabled here in Australia, it will take a helmet exemption for at least such bikes, I'm making bike art.
I think, in a small way Bike art of a certain sort can help. I note that in Vietnam they ride a lot of bikes and love drawing and painting bikes. There may be a connection.
Here's a thought. As a fitness and sports coach and in to all things cycling. I would suggest that the solution is not necessarily segregated bike lanes, although i have to admit they would help. The problem is the masses obsessive aversion to being active. The bike is seen as a form of physical torture. All those hills, painful legs.etc The view is born out by speaking to many many individuals over many many years when it is suggested we go on a bike ride.
The feeling is deeply engrained. However once you get them on a bike for a regular period it is amazing the change in attitude to the bike especially if you give them some basic bike skills.
If you realise that the gym market only penetrates say 12% in to the population and there is no other truly accessible or visible place to try cycling. Although not a fan of gyms in the first place, ironic I admit, but there has to be some places where people can actually try out cycling with experts and such to instill how wrong and misguided there original perceptions regarding the bike were or are.
It is also ironic that in terms of praticipation, road infrastructure is always mention but never the ill informed feeling regarding what it is actually like to ride a bike. Personally I feel that this would be a better way to get people on a bike. It could be a basis for one of those BBC reality programmes. Just a thought.


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Muluken Tesfahun, a reporter for the private weekly Ethio-Mehedar, is being held in a prison in the town of Asosa, capital of the Benishangul-Gumuz region, Getachew Worku, the paper's editor-in-chief, told CPJ. Muluken has not been formally charged or presented in court, Getachew said. The detention appears to run counter to constitutional guarantees that a person be brought to court within 48 hours of arrest.
"By arresting journalist Muluken Tesfahun for gathering information from the victims of forced relocation, Ethiopia is once again criminalizing independent journalism," said CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator Mohamed Keita. "Ethiopia should make good on its obligation as a member of the U.N. Human Rights Council to uphold citizens' rights by releasing Muluken immediately."
Local security forces picked up Muluken on Friday in the village of Dobi and confiscated his reporting equipment, the U.S. government-funded Voice of America reported, citing Getachew and members of the journalist's family. Ethio-Mehedar assigned Muluken to report on the return ofthousands of ethnic Amhara, Oromo, and Agew farmers who had been forcibly evicted from their land in mid-March, Getachew said.
Ethiopian state media have not reported in detail on the evictions, despite local testimony reported by VOA and accusations of ethnic cleansing made by opposition parties, according to local journalists. After weeks of silence, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn acknowledged the evictions in an April speech in the House of Peoples Representatives. The prime minister called the action "illegal," blaming it on lower-level officials and inviting the displaced to return. This month, Federal Affairs Minister Shiferaw Teklemariam announced the arrests of 35 Benishangul officials in connection with the evictions.
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The Ethiopian government has denied allegations of coercion, abuse, and violence in unrelated resettlement programs, in which authorities have displaced small-scale farmers in order to lease large tracts of land to foreign commercial farmers, according to international news reports.
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Silverlight probably being retired
From usually well informed sources [1, 2] comes news that Microsoft may halt development on Silverlight after version 5 ships, which could occur later this month. This news comes on the heels o word that Adobe is abandoning development of Flash for mobile devices [3].
Javascript isn't the most developer friendly technology out there, by a long shot. It lacks many OO features (inheritance, polymorpism, properties and indexers etc) which I personally want and almost demand when I zen into my programming sessions. A lot of people have a problem with this too and have created language translators. Google recently announced Dart, there is a neat compiler/language I've used called Haxe [4, 5], and heard there's even an open source C# to Javascipt tool available (which I haven't tried).
But fixing the problem of complex HTML5 development by converting other more featured languages to Javascript is half the problem. And the lesser half. The real problem with HTML5 is the incomplete, incompatible, and poor performing implementations. This is the part that's going to stymie the regular software developer for a VERY long time.
I'd love it if someday there were a unified development platform for all devices, but am opposed to using HTML5 as the answer now.
- http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/9/2548975/microsoft-may-halt-development-work-on-silverlight-after-next-release
- http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/will-there-be-a-silverlight-6-and-does-it-matter/11180
- http://www.freep.com/article/20111109/COL41/111109013/Adobe-kills-Flash-mobile-devices?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE
- http://codebot.org/haxe/
- http://haxe.org/
- http://www.iquilezles.org/apps/shadertoy/
Remember when Coca-Cola changed the recipe for Coke? This is the same story for Microsoft. Microsoft, Sinofsky, and Balmer will go down as the recipe changers who screwed over a happy development community.
You cannot give developers a nice technology and take it away and then expect them to flop over to HTML5/Javascript. Someone else will fill this gap and if it is not Microsoft then they will start hurting. Maybe Microsoft becomes the next Kodak where it thinks its king and film will last forever.
Everything in HTML5 is still changing. Look at the <time> element, lots of people were using this and it was removed and changed to a <data> element which had everyone scratching their heads as to it's uselessness.
Link explaining <time>/<data> change:
And I'l REALLY not looking forward to building large LOB applications in HTML5/JQuery. All it's going to do is increase costs.
You cannot give developers a nice technology and take it away and then expect them to flop over to HTML5/Javascript. Someone else will fill this gap and if it is not Microsoft then they will start hurting. Maybe Microsoft becomes the next Kodak where it thinks its king and film will last forever.
In fairness, in most cases they expect them to flop over to WinRT, which is still XAML, which is the biggest learning curve for Silverlight anyway. What's gonna happen on the web, of course, is anyone's guess.
Anyway, I still think there's something else to it. With all the rumors that they're about to push Silverlight to the Xbox it seems unlikely that they'd simultaneously pull the plug.
@Bas: My understanding is that this push of Silverlight to the Xbox is to enable and enhance more secure media streaming (Netflix like applications), and that it will be fairly incompatible with the other version of Silverlight. That is, you won't be able to write a Silverlight program, test it on your PC/Browser, and expect it to work on Xbox. It won't.
What they're relying on here is that they're still king of the desktop. Developers are a dime a dozen to Microsoft. Why do you think their pushing the HTML5/Javascript agenda? To add a bunch of low rent developers to the fold... They're opening up their own Walmart and stocking it with cheap HTML5/Javascript. For those you you who are HTML/Javascript gurus I mean no offence. I'm sure there are many quality HTML/Javascript programmers out there. That said there are also hords and hords of lesser programmers right behind you.
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@DeathByVisualStudio: "Developers are a dime a dozen to Microsoft."
Really? I got a personal message from Steve Balmer that developers are Microsoft's highest priority. I guess I didn't get his retraction. I'll check my inbox right now.
Adobe ending Flash Mobile support in the browser makes sense - there's no good reason for Flash in the mobile browser window - but if Adobe worked on a good "pop out" mobile player, where Flash SWFs are opened in a dedicated application, that would allow people control over the Flash experience - and allow Flash to retain its status as a gaming platform (one of Flash's three pillars, the other two being web video, and advertising).
That's something Microsoft could pursue for a possible future of Silverlight... if Silverlight was ever adopted by the indie web gaming community, but it wasn't, so therefore Silverlight has no future.
I saw this happening when Silverlight was first announced in 2005 (search for my posts on this very forum) I'm just surprised Microsoft kept it running as long as they did - but I suppose the size of the developer community was too large to kill it off recently, is it now falling such that they can end the product without too many protests?
@sysrpl: Why don't you petition Microsoft to set Silverlight free? I'm mainly referring to patents MS holds. And ask MS to state it has no intention to sue anyone over SL/dotnet.
@W3bbo: You made an interesting reply.
Though I think Silverlight was the natural extension of WPF, which in turn was supposed to be Microsoft's next generation Windows user interface toolkit. WPF/E (E is for everywhere) turned into Silverlight and then interest turned to parity between WPF and Silverlight. For whatever reason (maybe the success of touch interfaces and iPhone/iPad/Android) Microsoft decided to leave behind both WPF and Silverlight and focus instead on HTML5 and maybe optionally salvaging the XAML notion in Windows 8. But you can be sure, it won't be WPF. It'll be something else entirely (WinRT).
And a note about Windows Phone 7 ... true story:
I went to my local Walmart super center the other day. They have a mobile phone store inside. They looked at me funny when I asked if they sell a WP7 phone the other day. The answer is no. I was at my local super mall yesterday where they have three phone stores: Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, and Radio Shack (hey, they sell phones too!). None of them had a WP7 in their store. The Verizon store said they could order one for me, but that they don't carry them in store. When I asked when the manager said because they bounce back. When I asked what he meant by bounce back he said when they sold them customer would be them back and return them for a non WP7 phone.
Kinda sad for Microsoft.
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My friend, I understand that you are unhappy about this but FUD-ing HTML/HTML5/JAVASCRIPT/CSS will not bring your beloved Silverlight back (if it was even alive sometime).
Other then to look to Microsoft what are you doing about it? There is a LONG list of open projects for various aspects of dealing with browser quirks (none came from Microsoft, many came from Google). Look up shims and libraries.
A small, and not that complete, example is SVGWEB.
@fanbaby: Settle down there chuck.
I never said I was a fan of Silverlight. Yes, I'd dug into it, but that doesn't mean I bought into it. My "problem" is with the wasted development months/years companies like Adobe and Microsoft as experiencing. Not only with their own development teams/dollars, of their developer and vendor base.
This is part of the reason people hate Microsoft so much, and part of the reason their losing developers and partners (like the partners who helped Microsoft release the Kin). Businesses and developers now more than ever loath to hitch themselves to Microsoft. It's at the point now where almost no amount of Microsoft goodwill can surmount the negative experiences Microsoft has brought them. They pissed off Intel [1], netbook makers [2], programmers [3] ... the list would be large.
About what I am doing about it? Well I've been using Haxe some and will continue to write software which uses OpenGL, which I've been doing for about ten years now. I'll also probably tell the business I work with not to nest too much into Microsoft related technologies. I'll steer them away from developing SharePoint systems. Finally I'm going to do more Android development when the Asus Transformer Prime ships next month with ICS.
1 hour ago, DeathByVisualStudio wrote
For those you you who are HTML/Javascript gurus I mean no offence.
I see that the atrocious spelling of the Brits in this forum has started to rub off on the Merkans.
1 hour ago, sysrpl wrote
@DeathByVisualStudio: "Developers are a dime a dozen to Microsoft."
Really? I got a personal message from Steve Balmer that developers are Microsoft's highest priority. I guess I didn't get his retraction. I'll check my inbox right now.
Enjoy that pat on the head.
Quantity is always better than quality...
I think the big issue here is that WinRT provides less attraction for business, than Silverlight, so I cannot see significant adoption of WinRT until windows 9 or 10, unless Windows ships RT updates between versions, which is an impossibility going by past form.
Going by the past form Microsoft, I am going to be very cautious, it is only a few years until iOS and Android become full blown operating systems. Microsoft are quite a risky company to develop for for the first time in their history.
I am looking to develop a Win phone 7 application soon, but the underlying tech is (allegedly) losing support, that makes Win phone 7 insane to choose as a development platform, if this turns out to be true, Microsoft have effectively killed Windows Phone, I won't touch it with a bargepole.
I'm looking forward to using my WP7 skills on WinRT - planning on seeing how much code I can share between the two (liberal use of conditional compilation perhaps)
Shooting Range should be a good place to start - as soon as I can get my hands on a tablet that includes the relevant sensors (I didn't go to Build)
Happy Days ...
I second fanbaby's motion that if they are going to kill a product developers rely on, they should at least open source it.
I'm personally happy about this news because I didn't want proprietary technologies to become popular on the web. With HTML5 at least everyone regardless of their choice of operating system or device can participate in the web.
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NPR's Nina Totenberg declared on this weekend's Inside Washington that the House vote to extend the current tax rates on dividends and capital gains was "immoral" as she ridiculously claimed, in the face of ever-soaring entitlement spending, that Congress is cutting aid to the poor. Newsweek's Evan Thomas backed her up, asserting that "we need to raise taxes...and who better to raise them on than the super-rich?" Totenberg argued of the tax rate extension vote: "I just think it's immoral to do that, not to mention fiscally irresponsible, when you're cutting people who have nothing -- from children off of Medicaid and mothers who depend on childcare losing the childcare and can't work. And then what do they do? Go back on welfare? I mean, it is, it's, I just think it's immoral." Columnist Charles Krauthammer tried to insert some rationality into the tax hike advocacy of Totenberg, Thomas and columnist Mark Shields, as he pointed out that if the House position does not prevail and "you abolish" the current rate "you are essentially raising" taxes when that current rate expires in two years.
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I caught Totenberg's latest outburst on the Friday night airing of Inside Washington on WETA-TV channel 26, Washington, DC's PBS affiliate. The program is taped at ABC's Washington, DC affiliate, WJLA-TV, channel 7 (actually in Arlington, Virginia), where it airs Sunday morning at 10am after This Week. It also runs Saturday nights at 7pm on NewsChannel 8, the local all-news cable channel owned by the ABC affiliate.
Since the tax talk came in the very last segment of the PBS airing, about 25 minutes into the show, I suspect this portion of the program did not appear in the re-airings which include advertising breaks.
A transcript of the exchange from the show as aired December 9 on WETA-TV:
Moderator Gordon Peterson, a WJLA-TV anchor: "How about tax cuts? Are they everything? The House this week gave us good news and bad news on tax cuts. One is the alternative income tax. A lot of middle people would not get whacked so badly on that. On the other hand, they're going to keep cutting."
Earlier examples, as documented by CyberAlert, of Totenberg pushing tax hike or denouncing tax cuts:
September 19: "NPR's Totenberg Urges a 'Katrina Tax,' Says 'I Want More Taxes.'" See: www.mediaresearch.org
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While appearing on MSNBC's Hardball on Friday night, NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell, reacting to a clip of John Kerry saying he would not vote to authorize the Iraq War if he had it to do again because, in his words, he was "misled about the intelligence," Mitchell responded by claiming: "It's true they were lied to, misled, however you want to characterize it." Returning from a commercial break, a clip from that morning's Imus in the Morning was shown in which John Kerry was asked by Don Imus, "Knowing what you know now...would you still vote to authorize the President's use of force?" Kerry responded, "Absolutely not, not a possibility," and then said that what changed his mind is, "the intelligence, above all. We've learned the ways in which we really were misled about the intelligence, and the intelligence that we believe, if you had that knowledge today, we wouldn't even have a vote."
[This item, by the MRC's Brad Wilmouth, was posted Saturday night on our blog, NewsBusters.org. To post your comments, go to: newsbusters.org ]
To her credit, as Mitchell began her response, she raised the story first reported by the Washington Post on April 27, 2004 on how little interest senators showed in viewing intelligence on Iraq before the war. The story had reported, "No more than six senators and a handful of House members read beyond the five-page National Intelligence Estimate executive summary, according to several congressional aides responsible for safeguarding the classified material." Mitchell declared, "I still wonder why only six senators read that National Intelligence Estimate in October of '02, why more senators didn't make it their business to try to learn that."
But then, adding credibility to the current liberal spin on pre-war Iraq intelligence, Mitchell claimed, "It's true they were lied to, misled, however you want to characterize it. There was a lot of cherry-picking going on, and the reports that were given to them were pretty darn selective..."
A complete transcript of the exchange from the December 9 Hardball:
Don Imus: "Knowing what you know now, would you, knowing what you know now, today, December 9 or whatever it is, 2005, would you still vote to authorize the President's use of force?"
Matthews then interrupted Mitchell and changed the subject to Donald Rumsfeld's view on withdrawing troops from Iraq.
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On Friday night's CBS Evening News, substitute anchor Russ Mitchell read a short item relaying Bill Clinton's criticism of President Bush, with Clinton calling him "flat wrong" for opposing the Kyoto treaty in a speech at the UN conference on climate change in Montreal. In contrast to FNC, Mitchell did not add perspective to Clinton's attack by noting the Senate's history of strong opposition to the Kyoto treaty, and of Clinton's own failure to submit the treaty to the Senate for ratification.
As recounted by Jim Angle during Friday night's "Grapevine" segment on FNC's Special Report with Brit Hume, in July of 1997, "the Senate voted 95-0 against even considering the treaty and warned President Clinton not to even send it up to them, saying the United States shouldn't sign anything that would, quote, 'result in serious harm to the economy of the United States.'" Angle added, "As a result, President Clinton never submitted the Kyoto treaty for ratification."
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Below is a complete transcript of Mitchell's story on the Clinton speech from the CBS Evening News, followed by Angle's version of the story from Special Report with Brit Hume, both from Friday December 9:
CBS's Russ Mitchell: "At the close of a UN conference on climate change in Montreal today, Bill Clinton blasted President Bush's position on global warming. Mr. Clinton said Mr. Bush is, quote, 'flat wrong,' for rejecting the Kyoto accord, the treaty aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, and for arguing the treaty would harm the U.S. economy."
FNC's Jim Angle: "And now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine. Bill Clinton says President Bush is 'flat wrong' to reject the Kyoto treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on economic grounds. Telling an audience at the UN's climate conference in Montreal, 'We could meet and surpass the Kyoto targets in a way that would strengthen and not weaken our economies.' Clinton and then Vice President Al Gore were instrumental in the formulation of the original Kyoto treaty in 1997, which would have required a 29 percent cut in emissions from the U.S. from 1990 levels by 2012. President Bush has come under fire from environmentalists for formally renouncing the agreement, but in 1997 the Senate voted 95-0 against even considering the treaty and warned President Clinton not to even send it up to them, saying the United States shouldn't sign anything that would, quote, 'result in serious harm to the economy of the United States.' As a result, President Clinton never submitted the Kyoto treaty for ratification."
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Ray Shero who has looked like a trading genius at times, a Stanley Cup winner and 2013 GM of the year was done in by his abysmal job with the draft, player development and the inability to secure 'A' list rental players to contracts.
In Ray Shero's 8 years of drafting players only 3 have played over a hundred games in the NHL. One of the 3 the Penguins Shero didn't sign and he went on to sign and is playing for the Kings. The only team with a worse drafting record over that period of time is the Vancouver Canucks who had two. The league average is 6.36 players.
I have no doubt that Ray Shero will land on his feet.
Dan Bylsma who was also rumored along with Ray Shero to be fired this morning will be evaluated by the new GM. Dan Bylsma has won a Stanley Cup, Coach of the year, is the fastest coach to 250 wins in the NHL and finished in first place with 500 some man games last season. His abysmal performance in the post season the last two years has put him also on the hot seat.
This move of firing Shero and keeping Bylsma makes perfect business sense. The Penguins have Bylsma under contract and will pay him either way. He is an option for the new GM, they can keep him if they feel he is the best option or remove him if they find a better one, all without losing a nickel. Bylsma may opt to remove himself from his contract and take on another job in the mean time saving the team millions.
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Foraging for Ramps with Chef Peter Platt
Posted by: Marilyn Bethany
Posted on: Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Has anyone found any morels? I've been checking "my" locations but have come up empty handed. The husband said it was to early! but I'm going to keep on checking. I do have plenty of ramps.
not foraging, but i am cooking soup….ramps/potato potage, based with bacon fat and herbs (thyme rosemary + red pepper)....hmmmm
While it's great to see a burgeoning interest in gathering and eating wild foods in the Berkshires, as evidenced from the upcoming "Farmed and Foraged" event, I wanted to share I concern I have, though, about one kind of foraging.
My concern has to do with the adverse impacts of digging up ramps from the wild, fueled in large part by their increasing popularity with high-profile chefs. As you (may) know, ramps (a.k.a., wild leeks, Allium tricoccum) is a wild plant species native to the eastern U.S. and southern Canada. While country people (particularly in the southern Appalachians) have gathered ramps for their own use for many years without depleting the plant populations, the species
I guess that is why I have plenty of ramps since I only cut the leaves. Great piece of info.
I'm confused about the event.
Is it actually a workshop on foraging?
Maybe Russ could pull together a quick primer on identifying spring's "forageable" plants and mushrooms and doing so in a way that doesn't deplete them…
I'd pay $15 - $20 for such a workshop.
Mike, no it's special dinners in restaurants that feature locally foraged and farmed food. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
Kristin, what do you do with the leaves? If you have recipes, please share them.
Christo, you too.
Russ, thank you for your patient and informative reply. Clearly needed, as it hadn't crossed my mind. Are you certain that cutting the leaves doesn't damage the plant?
Thank you all for your comments, Marilyn
Hello Mike (and anyone else who might be interested) I will be leading a foraging walk at the Hawthorne Valley Farm in Ghent on Sat. June 6, sponsored by the Columbia Land Conservancy. Details are available on-line at http://www.clctrust.org/events.htm
—Russ Cohen
P.S., to answer Marilyn 's question, as far as I know, ramps are not adversely affected by having a leaf picked off each plant. It is certainly a more sustainable way of harvesting the plant than digging them up.
BTW, I follow a similar harvesting protocol when harvesting Ostrich Fern Fiddleheads - I'll pick only one or two from each clump. and leave the rest to grow.
That said, many weeds and invasive species are edible and may be gathered without any fears of depletion (in fact some ecologists would be thrilled if we picked and ate as many of these species as we possibly could).
It's on my calendar.
Russ is one more witness, with lots of knowledge, to the great disruption of our food supply from too much everything. Much of these food sources don't do well if you scale harvesting to satisfy the great maw of our current society. The ramp leaf will do quite well as pesto and just lightly cooked as a sautee (it will puff up like a balloon at high heat). The presence of Garlic Mustard here in the Berkshires is staggering: roadside, backyard, forest and so on. I understand the need to integrate these foods into the mainstream menu but it will not sustain itself.Commenting is not available in this channel entry.
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Update: Knowledgeable naturalist Russ Cohen (click on comments below) will be conducting a foraging walk at the Hawthorne Valley Farm in Ghent on Saturday. June 6, sponsored by the Columbia Land Conservancy.
Farmed + Foraged: A Weekend of Spring Flavors, on May 15 - 17, is a farm-to-table dining event with a dozen-plus participating Berkshire County restaurants offering three-course prix-fixe menus that celebrate locally-grown produce, Berkshire artisan cheeses, heritage breed meats, locally made bread and chocolate, and Berkshire-crafted beer and spirits.
The "farmed" part sounds familiar enough, but that "foraged" business caught our eye: Do local chefs actually go rummaging through the woods in search of morels and fiddleheads?
Well, as it happens, some do. But with fresh morels selling for $30-or-so per pound, fat chance anyone lucky enough to know where to find some for free is going to share that information. Even fiddlehead foraging is an insider's game: they all look alike in infancy, but some ferns taste better than others and are more digestible. Identifying the difference takes expertise.
"There used to be a fiddlehead lady who would pick about 1,000 pounds per season," says Peter Platt, owner-chef of The Old Inn on the Green in New Marlborough, and former executive chef at Wheatleigh, the luxury resort in Lenox where he worked for 17 years. "She'd find them mostly along riverbanks.
Platt, whose restaurant will participate in the event, swears he doesn't have a secret stash of morels, though he says some who work in his kitchen do. And he doesn't hunt for fiddleheads. But he does like to forage for the ramps that grow wild for 3 or 4 weeks each spring in damp spots throughout our region. Finding ramps, or wild leeks, doesn't require the nose of a truffle pig. In fact, their bright green leaves pop against the browns and grays of the early spring woods. Easily identified by their foliage, which is similar to that of a mature lily-of-the-valley, only brighter green, each ramp has only two leaves, but since they grow in convenient clumps, they're hard to miss. Platt's favorite hunting ground is in York Lake State Park in Sandisfield. "All you need is a good trowel," he says.
Back in the kitchen, Platt uses every part of the ramp. After he's washed off the dirt and sliced off the roots along with the thin, loose membrane that covers each bulb, he will chop the white part and use it as an onion substitute in a powerfully-flavored dish, such as hash browns with bacon. "At this time of year, we like to top the hash browns, bacon, and ramps with sauteed shad roe, as both the ramps and the roe are in season so briefly and at exactly the same time. We finish that with a little brown-butter-lemon-caper-and-parsley sauce."
Platt, a native Chicagoan who came to Berkshire County to attend Williams College, says ramps can be used in any recipe as a substitute for leeks, "just make sure they're cooked all the way through." Ramp greens are edible, too. "They retain their color and body even after they're cooked," he says. "yet they're tender, not tough and stringy like leek greens. We use them as a wrap for fish mousse."
Peter Platt's Pickled Ramps
To extend the lifespan of ramps on the Old Inn menu, Platt pickles the white portion. "We use them as a garnish," he says, "or as a substitute for the pickled onion in a Gibson."
Wash ramps briefly (they aren't sandy like leeks, so require no soaking), slip down the loose membrane covering the white bulb and chop it off, along with the roots. Cut off the green tops and retain for another use.
Blanch the ramps in salted boiling water for 60 seconds. Drain.
Meanwhile, stir together a brine:
1/2 c red wine vinegar
1/4 c. water
1/4 c. sugar.
Once the sugar is dissolved, pour the brine over the hot ramps, cover, and refrigerate. According to Platt, the ramps will be pickled in just a couple of hours, and they will keep in the refrigerator for months. If properly canned in sealed glass jars, they will keep indefinitely without refrigeration, until the seal is broken, after which they must be kept chilled.
Farmed + Foraged, May 15 - 17 throughout the Berkshires
For a list of participating restaurants, go to the Berkshire Grown website.
For menus, check the Berkshire Grown Blog closer to the date of the event.


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Alex Howerton
Alex Howerton is a Business Development Consultant with American Aerospace Advisors Inc. Alex has been researching the commercial space industry for over 16 years. He started publishing "Space Available: The Space Investors' Report" in 1992, and was its publisher, editor and principal author until 1995, when it was acquired by Countdown Magazine.
Alex has written two books on space development. Free Space: Real Alternatives for Reaching Outer Space (Loompanics, 1995) is an assessment of the then current private space initiatives. Project Avalon (Space Available Press, 1998) is a science fiction novel exploring the ramifications of private space development and the potential consequences to society of not moving swiftly enough to create a space-faring civilization. He was formerly a Business Development Manager of Space Training at NASTAR Center.
A Fish Out of Water: Reflections on Rereading the Overview Effect, Part II
Written by Alex Howerton on Wednesday, 10 October 2012.
In the first chapters of The Overview Effect, Frank White challenges us earthbound fish to jump out of our habitual perspective. That is the analogy he uses, along the lines of classic explanation of 4 dimensions to us by imagining a 2-dimensional creature encountering a 3-dimensional world. A fish flopping onto land, if he could survive it, would have a hard time comprehending what he was experiencing, and even harder time communicating that experience to other fishes once he reentered the water.
White does not push the analogy further, but I will. At the very least, the other fish might call the transformative fish crazy. No one likes their worldview challenged. At worst, they might crucify him or martyr him in some other way. Throughout history, humans have proven that they are more likely to solve their cognitive dissonance by denying or repudiating new factual evidence than doing the hard, often painful work of modifying their worldview to accommodate a new reality. Exhibits: Socrates. Jesus. Hypatia of Alexandria. Giordano Bruno. Galileo. Darwin. Climate change scientists. I think you get my point.
But over time, that which was once highly controversial becomes accepted. No one seriously disputes anymore, for example, that the Earth revolves around the Sun, or that the solar system is located in an obscure arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. Nothing of the physical layout of the universe has changed. But a very fundamental change has happened in the universe – our perception of it. Even more important than that is our ability to communicate that change with each other, to share the experience of change. As White says, "A shared context is critical for real communication to take place, because without it, what is meaningful to one person may be nonsense to another."
We fish are currently struggling to maintain our worldviews in the face of an onslaught of new information and stimuli. The normal human reaction is to dig in and double down. "I'm right, and so by definition everybody else who disagrees is wrong." We have seen the results of what that type of thinking leads to (Americans are no less culpable in this regard).
What is needed to break the logjam is the new physical perspective that the Overview Effect offers. Such a jarring "fish out of water" experience may be too much for some to handle, and we have to be prepared for that. But for most of us, I suspect, it would be a positively transformative experience, one that would take many years, if not a lifetime, to assimilate and express in new cultural forms.
Even the way we experience transformation may be transformed. It is common to hear statements like, "When I contemplate the immensity of the stars, the galaxies, the universe, I realize how insignificant I am." If that is true, why then do you not feel correspondingly omnipotent when contemplating cells, molecules, atoms, and quarks? Often such contemplation leads to a similar feeling of insignificance. Why? Because those scales are out of our control, outside of our carefully constructed worldview. But consider this – who is doing the contemplating? How is it that a mass of biomatter can come to perceive scales from quasars to quarks, and have some measure of control over it, at least locally? That is amazing all by itself. We are a legitimate part of the universe, and belong in it, and we have to understand things on a human scale.
One of the beauties of the Overview Effect is that it can broaden that "human scale" to encompass so much more, so we are not shocked into insignificance or incapacity when faced with realities far beyond our current comprehension. We fishes can help each other to comprehend this majestic, magnificent universe we find ourselves in, and strive to become more than fishes, without ever losing our essential "fishness."
White says, "Our 'worldview' as a conceptual framework depends quite literally on our view of the world from a physical place in the universe." We will always be human. We will always be constrained by the physical limitations that that implies. But that does not mean that what we think are our limitations now are the actual limitations. We will never discover those limits unless we push the boundaries, then communicate with each other, rationally, artistically or otherwise, the new parameters of what it means to be human. That is the gift that the Overview Effect can give all of us.
Why Go to Space At All? Part I — The Vision
Written by Alex Howerton on Monday, 17 September 2012. Posted in Overview Effect
Adapted from the book Free Space — Real Alternatives for Reaching Outer Space, Loompanics, 1995
Space exploration and development is exciting! It is easy to become absorbed in the details, the discoveries, the adventure, and forget why we began sucha quest in the first place. If we are ever to reach space as a civilization, it is imperative to understand the minutiae, the nuts and bolts of how it is done. It is, however, no less important to examine why we want to go, what we intend to accomplish, what our hopes and dreams are upon achieving our goals.
I embarked on my quest toward a a spacefaring civilization to fulfill a personal vision. I have, from my earliest memories, loved the idea of space. I have always marveled at science fiction, and in eighth-grade science class, where I was racking up a solid C average, I achieved A pluses for the two weeks we concentrated on space.
As I grew into adulthood, other interests absorbed me, and space studies slid to the back burner. Then, in 1983, I participated in a seminar entitled "2013: the World 30 Years from Now." The task on the first day of the seminar was to envision the state of the world in that future time. On the second day, we had to figure out how to bring it about.
With a fellow attendee I was assigned to go into a darkened room, close my eyes, and relate my vision of the future. Upon shutting my eyes, a fully-articulated vision leapt into my imagination. I saw a re-greened Earth, dedicated to agriculture and environmental parks. There were perhaps six large cities on the whole planet, mainly distribution and collection centers for the solar system's economy. The cities were built downward, into the Earth, with no eye-jarring artificial structures to assail the senses. Ground transportation was achieved by means of magnetic strips between destinations. Vehicles were encoded with their destinations, much like bar-coding, then glided along the steps at tremendous speeds. Since every vehicle was locked onto the strips and traveling at uniform speed, there were no accidents. Power was provided by clean-burning hydrogen fusion and solar power satellites.
My mind then flew to the Moon. It was one massive industrial park. Every conceivable industry was represented and allowed to prosper in a free and open market. The goods and services produced there were shipped all over the solar system. The Moon's far side was reserved for pure science and astronomy.
I saw great ships plying the pathways of the solar system, visiting the colonies of Mars and beyond, bringing back valuable resources from the nether regions, enriching everyone. Beautiful pleasure yachts powered by solar sail gracefully wandered about the spatial sea. Huge free-floating space resorts supplied every kind of diversion, from flying under one's own power, to all kinds of space sports, to discreetly-appointed zero-g love nests.
The outer worlds of Europa, Titan, and others were being explored for organic matter and even life, while tiny robots of nano-technological origin set about terraforming the worlds where no life previously existed, yet which would be useful to humanity.
A great power generator was in full operation around stately Jupiter, producing energy from Io's interaction with the great planet's magnetosphere. Automated probes with the most advanced hydrogen-scoop and antimatter engines were forging their way to the nearest stellar neighbors to initiate a first reconnaissance. The whole neighborhood of the Sun was bustling and thriving with human activity.
I had not heard of the Overview Effect when I experienced that vision — indeed, Frank had not yet written the book. But in retrospect, I did have a proto "Overview Effect" moment at that seminar. That is why, once I finally read the book, the idea resonated so deeply within me.
The Overview Effect is the unifying principle which gives a sense of unity and purpose to our current seemingly chaotic cultural state. Just as in Chaos Theory, order seems to break down at an increasing rate, until a strange attractor enters the picture, and a new dynamic equilibrium is achieved. The idea of the Overview Effect is just such a strange attractor.
The current news about SpaceX's successful resupply mission to the International Space Station and the announcement by Planetary Resources of the intention to mine an asteroid may seem to most people to have come out of the blue, but these ideas have been percolating for many years, even decades, and are now emerging, just when they apparently seem to be needed the most.
We are witnessing and participating in the birth of cosmic consciousness, not just as an abstract idea, but as a practical program of action, an alternative to the standard methods of global problem-solving. This is the true power of the Overview Effect, and I am proud that my vision of three decades ago has now found a home with the Overview Institute.
Reflections on Rereading The Overview Effect, Part 1
Written by Alex Howerton on Monday, 11 June 2012. Posted in Overview Effect
Some events seem to change the world instantaneously, like the very first small, beeping satellite soaring overhead, or a wall that has divided a country for decades being torn down overnight. Yet in most cases, these events are the fruition of ideas that have incubated in our collective consciousness for years, even decades. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are dramatic events, but are ultimately the end product of slow, even imperceptible movement in the underlying plate tectonics. In the end, it is the gradual, inevitable build-up of tensions that finally releases vast, unstoppable power and transformation of the environment.
One such idea is the Overview Effect. It has been 25 years now since Frank White wrote this brilliant, insightful work, looking into our immediate future as well as scanning far more distant horizons. While this idea ultimately has the power to permanently and positively change our collective worldview, it is currently little known amongst the general populace, even a quarter-century later.
I am envious of Frank's patience and even temperament. If I had written this book, I would yell to anybody who would listen, "Can't you see how brilliant I am? Why don't you pay attention?" But not Frank. I have been working closely with him and others to launch the Overview Institute, and I am continually amazed at Frank's calm demeanor and laid-back approach. It is as if he is confident in the inevitability of the coming paradigm shift, and he is under no pressure to hurry it along faster than its natural rate. He seems to view it as being like a glacier, which will eventually, dramatically, sweep before it everything in its path.
I believe Frank can adopt this attitude because he knows he's right. Not right, as in "Ha ha, I'm right, you're wrong," but right as in, "This is the natural course of things. This is as it should be." Because he knows the advancement of humanity into the cosmos is a multi-generational affair, and he is playing his significant yet tiny part in pushing the paradigm forward. He knows that all he has envisioned, in broad outline, will come to pass.
Which brings up a complementary idea to the Overview Effect in space. That is the Overview Effect in time. We are on a journey that began countless eons ago, and we do not stand at the pinnacle of human development, but are wayfarers, stewards, along the way. Human culture exhibited its first unmistakable flowering in the Aurignacian period, 40,000 years ago. If we imagine ourselves standing at the midpoint of a human journey that will extend at least 40,000 years into the future, it is staggering to try to conceive what can be achieved in that timeframe.
In that sense, we are one of the most fortunate generations, standing at the fulcrum of time, just before we ascend into the heavens in earnest. And I don't mean that only in general, but very specifically -- now is the fulcrum. Recently SpaceX successfully launched the first private resupply mission to the International Space Station. That is the beginning of the true, unstoppable journey outward.
So now is the perfect time to re-read The Overview Effect. In following posts, I will share my reflections on specific themes and ideas found in the book, as they relate to our current conditions, 25 years after its initial publication, and as they also relate to the Overview Effect as it unfolds in time. The journey is just now, continually, and always, beginning.
From tree-huggers and planet-destroyers to global citizens
Written by Alex Howerton on Tuesday, 23 June 2009. Posted in Overview Effect
When we gaze upon that awe-inspiring, full-Earth image from Apollo 17, it is no wonder we feel a strong pull of something ineffable, something transcendent. It is a pity, then that that very image, and others like it, which were produced by the highest pinnacle of our technological achievement at the time, are used by some to deride that very technology as the doom of us all. Some champions of technological progress are inclined to call people of that sentiment liberal tree-huggers. Many of those deeply feeling, deeply caring people respond by calling the former crowd cold-warrior planet-destroyers. But the tossing about of such incendiary labels only fans the flame of controversy, and does nothing to mitigate the underlying problems. All this sound and fury, signifying nothing, merely serves to mask the true irony of the situation, which is that, increasingly, the champions of technology and the environmentalists are strong natural allies, and are more often than not, these days, one and the same person.
To be able to find solutions to the grave problems facing us all these days, one must have hope that the problems are indeed solvable. To be able to do that, one must have hope for the future, that solutions are within our grasp, that tomorrow can be better than today. That is one of the prime goals of the Overview Institute: to give us a sense of wholeness, of wonder, of unity on this delicately-balanced, wondrous blue ball of ours, floating in the blackness of space. It is when we perceive this whole, this majestic beauty of the mother of us all, Gaia, that we realize our deep responsibility to use all the technology at our disposal to ameliorate conditions on the planet. We are all in this together, and together, we can rise to the challenges that we ourselves have created. That is the ultimate message of the Overview Institute, and its program of bringing images like the Apollo 17 picture and other advanced simulation technology to bear on the problem of increasing awareness, of fostering a desire to properly care for this beautiful, wonderful planet we call home.


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Sensors[1] (sometimes referred as a Plate) are a type of control device used by the Galactic Federation in Metroid: Other M. Appearing in all regions of the BOTTLE SHIP, sensors are small panels with blue-green coloring attached to walls. From a distance, they are pink-red in color. Once close enough, the sensors turn green and Samus can fire a fully charged shot at it to activate a device or trigger an event.
It is unknown how sensors were supposed to be activated by the BOTTLE SHIP's crew (who were not equipped with beam weapons). It is possible that sensors also respond to electromagnetic signals emitted by some form of handheld remote control device.
- Strangely, Sensors do not have any concept art.
- ^ Name from Metroid: Other M Premiere Edition