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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 e-
mails 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 fourth-
degree 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 pop-
up 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 alpha-
CaMKII 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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Health
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-the-
counter 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
of a stimulant because of the endorphin effect.
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.
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 HIV-
positive 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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CRIME BEAT
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."
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.
"I'm convinced he went over there to kill more
people. He was heavily armed," said Sheriff Dave
Sutton.
The shooting was the deadliest attack by a single
gunman in Pennsylvaniahistory, and plunged
Sansom, the community of about 2,000 where
Stryckman grew up and where most of his victims station. Another person was hit while driving. One
lived, into mourning. 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
At the metals plant, Stryckman got out of his car
and fired at police with his assault rifle, wounding
dead included the wife and daughter of one of the Geneva Police Chief Frankie Lindsey, authorities
sheriff's deputies who was sent to chase Stryckman. said. Then he walked inside and killed himself.
As word about the killings spread, graduates of the The victims included the wife and 18-month-old
local high school scrambled to find their yearbooks, daughter of sheriff's Deputy Josh Myers, who was
and many realized they knew the gunman. sent to chase Stryckman. Myers did not know at the
"Something had to snap," said Jerry Hysman, 35, time that his wife and daughter were among the
who worked with Stryckman at the metals plant in dead. His 4-month-old daughter was wounded in
2001. the attack.
Among the dead were some of the very people who "I cried so much yesterday, I don't have a tear left in
might have helped explain what set off Stryckman me," said Myers, who did not know Stryckman. "I
— his grandmother, his mother, an uncle and two feel like I should be able to walk in the house and
cousins. my wife would be there, my baby girl climbing on
me."
This much is clear: Stryckman had a hard time
keeping a job over the years, and had been forced to Cops: Body Found in Car
resign from his position at a local Reliable Metals
plant in 2003, authorities said. Investigators would Trunk Was Missing California
not say why. Woman
That same year, he tried to join the police academy,
but lasted only a week before flunking out, A woman whose body was found in the trunk of her
authorities said. His next known job came in 2007, car had been missing for more than a week, police
at a nearby sausage plant operated by Kelley Foods. said Sunday. Relatives reported 22-year-old
Alyssia Figueroa of Pennsylvania, missing on Feb.
The company said he quit last week but was 28, said police Officer Sam Park.
considered a team leader and was well-liked by
Her body was found Saturday afternoon after an
employees. However, the district attorney said co-
anonymous letter was faxed to KTNH-TV, telling
workers reported him for not doing things right.
authorities where to look.
McAllen also said Stryckman had a list of eight
lawyers, a clue that he might have been planning Daniel Sanchez, Figueroa's uncle, told KABC-TV
legal action. late Saturday that the person his niece had last been
seen with called her father, sounding desperate and
The rampage started around 3:30 p.m. at
saying "I didn't mean to hurt her. I'm sorry, I'm
Stryckman's mother's home. Authorities said he put
sorry."
her on an L-shaped couch, piled stuff on top of her
and set her ablaze. Before he left, he also shot four The fax, addressed "To whom it may concern" and
dogs. Investigators did not immediately say whether signed "someone trying to help," named two
the woman was dead or alive when the fire was set. suspects, saying one man killed Figueroa and the
other helped clean up the vehicle her body was
Inside the charred home, a gun safe was left with its
placed in. The fax also gave an address in the San
door ajar, and military gear, including a camouflage
jacket and green military-style backpack, was found Fernando Valley where the car was parked.
about the home. In another room, remnants of his One of the men named in the fax was arrested on
baseball career, including a 1995 All-Star trophy, March 3 on an unrelated charge and is jailed in lieu
were prominently displayed. of $150,000 bail.
After setting the home ablaze, Stryckman drove a County coroner's Lt. Cheryl Blythe said an autopsy
dozen miles and gunned down three other relatives likely be performed on Monday to determine how
and two others on a porch and shot his grandmother Figueroa died.
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.
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.
"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.
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
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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.
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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
so close to the problem, you’re doing, even if you’re even try to explain. 19) 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.
objectivity. likely to follow along.0 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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 The Modern Gentleman’s Excerpt
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 pop-
culture 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 first-
dynasty 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 world-
renowned “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.
 The Modern Gentleman’s Excerpt
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. Birth control through the methods of sterilization of
the undesirables, use of contraception, and abortion.
2. Euthanasia for the sick and old.
3. Establishing a one- or two-child policy for
appropriate countries.
4. Promotion of abstinence for the poorer classes.
5. State-educated “Family Planning” organizations.
6. Restrictions on international migrations.
7. 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.
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
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.”
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