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5 FEBRUARY 2010 – EXPERIMENT ENDS

After a week of web-less living, our two volunteer families are back online.

Another visit from Korea Telecom’s Mr Song is all it took, and with the return of the internet modems to their rightful places, the homes were rewired to the digital super-highway.

Sighs of relief all round.

Both families spoke of a major sense of inconvenience trying to navigate the complexity of modern-day Korea without it.

After just seven days, no surprise, of course, that their world didn’t grind to a halt.

But our little experiment has shown how the internet has become an integral part of so many aspects of daily life here; leisure, education, transport, banking, shopping and socialising.

The Yang family have rediscovered reading from books – but still want their computers back

For the Kims and the Yangs, like many other South Korean families, it takes up a large proportion of their waking hours.

Mr Kim hopes that the experience will help his children to “become more wise” in the amount of time they spend at the computer keyboard.

Mr Yang says that being cut off has allowed him to “rediscover lost time.”

Would any of them recommend the experience to their friends?

“Definitely,” Kim Sung-jun, Mr Kim’s eldest son, replies.

“They need to know how suffocating it can feel living without it.”

Mr Yang’s wife, Youm Jung-a, believes that although now happily reconnected she will change the way she uses the internet in the future.

“After finishing my morning chores I spend between two and three hours online,” she tells me.

“That’s time spent alone. But during this past week I’ve even had the time to drink tea with neighbours, so I’m going to regulate time spent online from now on.”

So both families are in agreement.

For them, the experiment has highlighted how vital a tool the internet is, but also how it has come to replace other aspects of family life.

Would they give it up again?

“It would be the same as asking if you could cut off my electricity for a week,” Cho Hye-sook laughs.

“Lose the internet for another seven days? It’s a real no-thank-you I’m afraid. I don’t want to go through this again.”

READ FULL STORY: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specialreports/2010/01/100129_on_off_south_korea.shtml

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.

For more on Randy, visit: http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture

Well does not look bad, it is Token Emulator and full touch DJ software and tactile control surface that allow the cool features the following video, I think the Touch is one of the technologies that we will hear more in the coming years, love that will gradually integrating the different systems used usually screens, laptops, desktops, tablets, mobile devices, etc.
The system consists of:

Screen: The screen in the video is called Token, developed by yöyen munchausen, the interesting thing about this screen is that by being transparent, the public can see what makes the DJ.

Software: Emulator is the name of the software, and was developed by Paul Martin, is a system developed for Windows 7 Multitouch.

töken experience from yöyen munchausen on Vimeo.

töken drunken from yöyen munchausen on Vimeo.

töken concept from yöyen munchausen on Vimeo.

To date, touch screens Generally Have Been Bigger Than A little book – Often more than not the size of … well an iPhone screen. This of course DJ Makes the spacious traditional metaphor a tad cramped to say the least, and frankly really crap to watch if you’re a punter. But this video Demonstrates the next level of controller technology, and the overcomer Also iPad hunched over the non-performance. My iPad just Became a placemat.

This is a 2 part thing:

1. The big screen is Something Called Token, Developed by yöyen munchausen vimeo user. It Appears to Be a large multitouch screen interface Aimed at performance. The beauty of it is That You Can See Both Sides, Thus the viewer can see Exactly what the DJ is doing.

2. The software is Called Emulator and created by Paul Martin. It’s a multi-touch Windows 7 only program, and design to work with 1280 × 800 touch screens. It’s Actually MIDI control software, and in this first release works with Traktor in internal mode, with compatibility with Others coming.

I Doubt this setup is cheap of course (Though Emulator is $ 75), pero really does look amazing in use. This works on a couple of Levels for me – firstly, usability over the current touch screens is Obvious. Even on an iPad, the screen is still too small to squeeze a full DJ Comfortably app into. Could you make it look like Traktor, But you’ll soon hit the wall of usability When Trying to control loops and cues from a single tiny window with Both Hands in there.

But for me, ITS much more about the performance you give. I Doubt That Anyone Would disagree as far as using a controller with DJ software goes, this is light years ahead of Visually anything right now. Seeing Exactly what the DJ is doing (albeit in reverse) and the associated light show too has a real wow factor. It’s like Minority Report meets Traktor.

I do hope this Makes it to a trade show soon. I’d love to Have a dabble on this. Good work guys!

“Operation Iraq liberation” was what “Operation Iraq Freedom” was until they realized the first spelled out ”  O.I.L.

The more and more I research about the “War on Terror”. The more and more I disprove of how its been handled from start to present. Making me think that the Bush administration are the real terrorist.  Their PR tactics and techniques  via mass media after the September 11th terrorist attacks. Played such a big roll convincing public approval. I urge your to find time to watch this great (2hr)documentary “Weapons of mass deception”

Weapons of mass distruction: Before the Gulf War, in 1990, Iraq had stockpiled 550 short tons (500 t) of yellowcake uranium at the Tuwaitha nuclear complex about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of Baghdad. In late February 2002, the CIA sent former Ambassador Joseph Wilson to investigate reports (later found to be forgeries) that Iraq was attempting to purchase additional yellowcake from Niger. Wilson returned and informed the CIA that reports of yellowcake sales to Iraq were “unequivocally wrong.” The Bush administration, however, continued to allege Iraq’s attempts to obtain additional yellowcake were a justification for military action, most prominently in the January 2003, State of the Union address, in which President Bush declared that Iraq had sought uranium, citing British intelligence sources.

Approval ratings: Four years into the Iraq war. A September 2007 poll conducted by the BBC found that two-thirds of the world’s population believed the U.S. should withdraw its forces from Iraq. With an international opinion is 70% disapproving of the U.S. handling of the Iraq war.

According to polls conducted by the Arab American Institute, four years after the invasion of Iraq, 83% of Egyptians had a negative view of the U.S. role in Iraq; 68% of Saudi Arabians had a negative view; 96% of the Jordanian population had a negative view; 70% of the population of the United Arab Emirates and 76% of the Lebanese population also described their view as negative.

Death toll: Classified US military documents released by WikiLeaks in October 2010, record Iraqi and Coalition military deaths between January 2004 and December 2009. The documents record 109,032 deaths broken down into “Civilian” (66,081 deaths), “Host Nation” (15,196 deaths),”Enemy” (23,984 deaths), and “Friendly” (3,771 deaths). From 2001-Present the War on Terror has killed 5,796 Americans.

Associated Press stated that more than 110,600 Iraqis had been killed since the start of the war to April 2009. This number is per the Health Ministry tally of 87,215 covering January 1, 2005, to February 28, 2009 combined with counts of casualties for 2003–2004, and after February 29, 2009, from hospital sources and media reports.

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY

The financial cost of the war has been more than £4.55 billion ($9 billion) to the UK,[302] and over $845 billion to the U.S., with the total cost to the U.S. economy estimated at $3 trillion

Financial costs with approximately $612 billion spent as of 4/09 the CBO has estimated the total cost of the war in Iraq to U.S. taxpayers will be around $1.9 trillion

A CNN report noted that the U.S. led interim government, the Coalition Provisional Authority lasting until 2004 in Iraq had lost $8,800,000,000 in the Development Fund for Iraq. An inspector general’s report mentioned that “‘Severe inefficiencies and poor management’ by the Coalition Provisional Authority would leave no guarantee that the money was properly used,” said Stuart W. Bowen Jr., director of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. “The CPA did not establish or implement sufficient managerial, financial and contractual controls to ensure that funds were used in a transparent manner.”

“Operation Iraq liberation” was what “Operation Iraq Freedom” was until they realized the first spelled out ”  O.I.L.

“Weapons of mass deception is pejorative expression used by some people to describe U.S. President George W. Bush’s claim that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction as justification for the war on Iraq.

“In a joint study by the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University and the Project for Excellence in Journalism, the authors found disparate treatment by the three major cable channels of Republican and Democratic candidates during the earliest five months of presidential primaries in 2007: “The CNN programming studied tended to cast a negative light on Republican candidates—by a margin of three-to-one. Four-in-ten stories (41%) were clearly negative while just 14% were positive and 46% were neutral.”

The variation weapons of mass distraction has also been used by pundits and satirists. This punning alteration accuses the Bush administration of using the war in Iraq to draw the nation’s attention away from other problems, such as the economic recession of 2002. The meaning was later inverted to describe Bush’s alleged attempts to divert attention away from the war following a drop in public support for the war.”

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Mass_Deception

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992) is a multi award-winning documentary film that explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, a linguist, intellectual, and political activist. Created by two Canadian independent filmmakers, Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick, it expands on the ideas of Chomsky’s earlier book, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, which he co-wrote with Edward S. Herman.

The film presents and illustrates Chomsky’s and Herman’s propaganda model, the thesis that corporate media, as profit-driven institutions, tend to serve and further the agendas of the interests of dominant, elite groups in the society. A centerpiece of the film is a long examination into the history of The New York Times’ coverage of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, which Chomsky says exemplifies the media’s unwillingness to criticize an ally of the elite.

Until the release of The Corporation (2003), made by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan, it was the most successful documentary in Canadian history, playing theatrically in over 300 cities around the world; winning 22 awards; appearing in more than 50 international film festivals; and being broadcast in over 30 markets. It has also been translated into a dozen languages.

Chomsky’s response to the film was mixed; in a published conversation with Achbar and several activists, he stated that film simply doesn’t communicate his message, leading people to believe that he is the leader of some movement that they should join. In the same conversation, he criticizes The New York Times review of the film, which mistakes his message for being a call for voter organizing rather than media critique
[Source; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_Noam_Chomsky_and_the_Media

Afghan War

In the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, psychological operations tactics were employed to demoralize the Taliban and to win the sympathies of the Afghan population. At least six EC-130E Commando Solo aircraft were used to jam local radio transmissions and transmit replacement propaganda messages. Leaflets were also dropped throughout Afghanistan, offering rewards for Osama bin Laden and other individuals, portraying Americans as friends of Afghanistan and emphasizing various negative aspects of the Taliban. Another shows a picture of Mohammed Omar in a set of crosshairs with the words “We are watching.” This technique has been shown to be rather ineffective in terms of long term opinions change given current political and social conditions in Afghanistan.[citation needed]
US PSYOP pamphlet disseminated in Iraq. Text: “This is your future al-Zarqawi” and shows al-Qaeda fighter al-Zarqawi caught in a rat trap.
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Iraq War This section is written like a personal reflection or essay and may require cleanup. Please help improve it by rewriting it in an encyclopedic style. (September 2010)

The United States and Iraq both employed propaganda during the Iraq War. The United States established campaigns towards the American people on the justifications of the war while using similar tactics to bring down Saddam Hussein’s government in Iraq.[32]
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Iraqi Propaganda

The Iraqi insurgency’s plan was to gain as much support as possible by using violence as their propaganda tool.[33] Inspired by the Vietcong’s tactics,[34] insurgents were using rapid movement to keep the coalition off-balance.[33] By using low-technology strategies to convey their messages, they were able to gain support.[35] Graffiti slogans were used on walls and houses praising the virtues of many group leaders while condemning the Iraqi government. Others used flyers, leaflets, articles and self published newspapers and magazines to get the point across.[35]

Insurgents also produced CDs and DVDs and distributed them in communities that the Iraq and the U.S. Government were trying to influence.[36] The insurgents designed advertisements that cost a fraction of what the U.S. was spending on their ads aimed at the same people in Iraq with much more success.[36] In addition, the Iraqis also created and established an Arabic language television station to transmit information to the people of Iraq about the rumors and lies that the Americans were spreading about the war.[34]
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American Propaganda in Iraq

To achieve their aim of a moderate, pro-western Iraq, U.S. authorities were careful to avoid conflicts with Islamic culture that would produce passionate reactions from Iraqis, but differentiating between “good” and “bad” Islams has proved challenging for the U.S.[34]

The U.S. implemented something called “Black Propaganda” by creating false radio personalities that would disseminate pro-American information but supposedly run by the supporters of Saddam Hussein. One radio station used was Radio Tikrit.[34] Another example of America’s attempt with Black Propaganda is that the U.S. paid Iraqis to publish articles written by American troops in their newspapers under the idea that they are unbiased and real accounts; this was brought forth by the New York Times in 2005.[37] The article stated that it was the Lincoln Group who had been hired by the U.S. government to create the propaganda, however their names were later cleared from any wrong doing.[38]

The U.S. was more successful with the “Voice of America” campaign, which is an old Cold War tactic that exploited people’s desire for information.[34] While the information they gave out to the Iraqis was truthful, they were in a high degree of competition with the opposing forces after the censorship of the Iraqi media was lifted with the removal of Saddam from power.[39]

In November 2005, the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, alleged that the United States military had manipulated news reported in Iraqi media in an effort to cast a favorable light on its actions while demoralizing the insurgency. Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, a military spokesman in Iraq, said the program is “an important part of countering misinformation in the news by insurgents”, while a spokesman for former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said the allegations of manipulation were troubling if true. The Department of Defense confirmed the existence of the program.[40][41]
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Propaganda aimed at Americans

The extent to which the US government was guilty of propaganda aimed at its own people is a matter of discussion. The book Selling Intervention & War by Jon Western argued that president Bush was “selling the war” to the public.[42]

President George W. Bush gave a talk at the Athena Performing Arts Center at Greece Athena Middle and High School Tuesday, May 24, 2005 in Rochester, NY. About half way through the event Bush said, “See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”

People had their initial reactions to the War on Terror, but with more biased and persuading information, Iraq as a whole has been negatively targeted.[43] America’s goal was to remove Saddam Hussein’s power in Iraq with allegations of possible weapons of mass destruction related to Osama Bin Laden.[44] Video and picture coverage in the news has shown shocking and disturbing images of torture and other evils being done under the Iraqi Government.[44]
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda