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The Women's Episode
It is useful in these episodes to look for words in the dialogue balloons that are in bold type. A Google search on those words or terms can show up some interesting threads that you may find useful in putting together your own ideas.
For girl effect see:…
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Added by Eugene Robkin on April 8, 2010 at 4:54am — 3 Comments
Meyer Anselm, Ezra Pound and a bit of History
There are very few poets who can match Ezra Pound in that field. As in any art the artist should be judged for their craft within the space of their work and the times in which they lived. It is a fact that the nature of the space changes with time so that the famous, or ignored, of one era are the forgotten, or the acclaimed, of another but so what? None of that changes my opinion that in his space and time as a social, economic and political commentator he was as bad as they come.… Continue
Added by Eugene Robkin on April 3, 2010 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment
Desalination, Veolia, the World Bank and Water Issues
Agent Mullman posted a blog about a desalination project in Australia. Part of that blog mentioned that the project is run by a French company named Veolia. For the blog see
http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/learn4-kurnell-desalination?xg_source=activity
This company is amazingly large in its international scope. A random sample of the almost 2 million hits… Continue
Added by Eugene Robkin on April 3, 2010 at 3:00am — 4 Comments
Resilient Strategies
The fist bit of dialogue on the first page of the Cuban episode called for resilient strategies to be a part of the solution to the problem posed.
Resilient strategy is a term from current business planning and practices. It appears to be nearly synonymous with the concept of the triple bottom line. There is one company that has used thesea idea to build a consulting presence in the business world. Their website has explanations. See …
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Resilient strategy is a term from current business planning and practices. It appears to be nearly synonymous with the concept of the triple bottom line. There is one company that has used thesea idea to build a consulting presence in the business world. Their website has explanations. See …
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Added by Eugene Robkin on April 1, 2010 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment
The Zambesi River and The International Crane Foundation
A few miles away from where I live is The International Crane
Foundation which is dedicated to the idea of establishing self-sustaining
populations of all the crane species in the world. One of their
underlying ideas is that to carry out their mission the entire
community surrounding each required bird environment must be brought
into the project. One result is that sustainability is achieved for
many other things under the cover of the highly visible… Continue
Added by Eugene Robkin on March 31, 2010 at 6:04pm — 1 Comment
Calvin deWitt
Agents have talked about spiritual values in dealing with the many issues raised by the EVOKE challenge and I think have shied away from explicit theology.
For an outright theological view I recommend the work of Calvin deWitt. Rather than explain any of it, it is simpler to direct you to his writings. I think he has had a very important influence on achieving goals shared by many here. He spoke in a course my colleague and I constructed some years ago on many of the same water issues… Continue
For an outright theological view I recommend the work of Calvin deWitt. Rather than explain any of it, it is simpler to direct you to his writings. I think he has had a very important influence on achieving goals shared by many here. He spoke in a course my colleague and I constructed some years ago on many of the same water issues… Continue
Added by Eugene Robkin on March 31, 2010 at 6:01pm — 1 Comment
All About Water (Major Correction)
The April 2010 issue of the US publication National Geographic is entirely devoted to the subject of wate
You can download the entire issue for free until April 2 at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/zinio/freshwater/?of=500204105&bd=1
You can download the entire issue for free until April 2 at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/zinio/freshwater/?of=500204105&bd=1
Added by Eugene Robkin on March 31, 2010 at 2:30am — No Comments
Thames Floods
The story line of the UK government and the City of London being taken unaware and unprepared by floods is simply not creditable. See
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&q=thames+flooding&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=g2g-m6&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= ;
I am not claiming to be the first to find… Continue
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&q=thames+flooding&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=g2g-m6&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= ;
I am not claiming to be the first to find… Continue
Added by Eugene Robkin on March 29, 2010 at 4:13am — 1 Comment
Ch***ra: Home treatment (Corrected)
( Correction: Below it says four-finger pinch of salt. My original said three. I think four is the correct way but if you practice with the more detailed instructions from the URL, you should be able to work out a calibration scheme for your own hands. )
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Some twenty or thirty years ago I met a couple in San Antonio, Texas who were just back from a project somewhere in Central America. We… Continue
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Some twenty or thirty years ago I met a couple in San Antonio, Texas who were just back from a project somewhere in Central America. We… Continue
Added by Eugene Robkin on March 29, 2010 at 3:30am — No Comments
Homebrew Electricity
A new part of the EVOKE story will be here very soon. Before we concentrate on that I wanted to add something to the home brewed electrical power material.
A recent post showed a pie chart with various formulas connecting voltage, current and power through the idea of resistance. Resistance is measured in a unit called the ohm and a number of web sites with similar displays can be found with a search for Ohm's Law. The one I did is …
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Added by Eugene Robkin on March 24, 2010 at 4:17am — No Comments
First - A World of Musicians
First, a world of musicians. Then a world of gardeners. Then ....? Maybe we end up with a world of innovators.
Music may be the easiest way to demonstrate the value of an utterly inclusive approach to any goal.
For an active example of this idea in action see
http://wimp.com/venezuelanorchestra/
This is one result of a nation wide systematic approach to the idea of universal participation in… Continue
Music may be the easiest way to demonstrate the value of an utterly inclusive approach to any goal.
For an active example of this idea in action see
http://wimp.com/venezuelanorchestra/
This is one result of a nation wide systematic approach to the idea of universal participation in… Continue
Added by Eugene Robkin on March 23, 2010 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments
April Issue - Scientific American
The April 2010 issue of Scientific American has some material directly applicable to many of the threads Agents are following.
See: http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammag/ ; for the table of contents. Note the news article on making bio diesel directly from cellulose material with an engineered version of the e. coli bacterium.
One thing to note in this last article is the reference to using an "Asian grass".… Continue
See: http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammag/ ; for the table of contents. Note the news article on making bio diesel directly from cellulose material with an engineered version of the e. coli bacterium.
One thing to note in this last article is the reference to using an "Asian grass".… Continue
Added by Eugene Robkin on March 23, 2010 at 4:30am — 1 Comment
Citizen X is Real
Citizen X is a real organization although it operates under different names. The one that appears to come closest to what has been described so far for EVOKE in terms of getting and broadcasting government doc**ents is the wikileaks group. See http://wikileaks.org/
For various discussions on wikileaks see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks
For other groups with related activities see… Continue
For various discussions on wikileaks see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks
For other groups with related activities see… Continue
Added by Eugene Robkin on March 21, 2010 at 4:30am — 5 Comments
Windmills: Dnyamos, Alternators and Generators
Eureka mentioned two things on the first page right at the start of Episode 3. One was William Kamkwamba and the other was that all you need to build a windmill is a "simple dynamo". For me Mr. Kamkwamba's flash of insight and inspiration was not that dynamos are simple but that all the stuff around him that he and the rest of his community saw everyday could take on a new life as a windmill powered generator. Seeing the un-obvious potential in the obviously ordinary is a…
ContinueAdded by Eugene Robkin on March 18, 2010 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment
Phosphorous Issues
This was intended as informational supplement to the blogs Fertilizer posted on March 11 by Jasper and Fertilizer and Peak
Crisis posted on March 15 by glim.
What is in increasingly short supply is cheap phosphorous. Unlike oil for which substitutes can be found and demand reduced through technology, there is no substitute for phosphorous in food production. It must
be recycled or…
Added by Eugene Robkin on March 16, 2010 at 5:00am — 4 Comments
EVOKE: The Meaning
One of the side challenges from Alchemy was to figure out what EVOKE means.
It could be a code word of some sort standing for something else but that seems unlikely. The ordinary dictionary meaning of the word fits the story very well. If EVOKE is an acronym then the expectation is that each letter has some meaning significant to the usage of the acronym and encapsulated in a word beginning with that letter.
It might not be any sort of code or puzzle at all in that… Continue
Added by Eugene Robkin on March 15, 2010 at 5:00am — 1 Comment
Discontinuity (Corrected)
We jumped, and that is the correct word, from the team just arriving in Tokyo to Tokyo fixed and we did not pass GO and we did not collect our two hundred dollars. For those not familiar with old style American games from before the computer era, the phrase is from the game Monopoly. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_%28game%29 ).
In short the basic tool that Eureka the tool agent packed was either magic… Continue
Added by Eugene Robkin on March 11, 2010 at 5:30am — No Comments
Table Stakes
In my time zone it is not yet March 10 so I do not know anything about what Alchemy is going to present for the next steps. I like to predict things and deconstruct all kinds of situations to try to understand the underlying interweaving of interests and forces. I also want to be ahead of whatever is posted. Call it a character flaw if you wish. If you look at my profile page you will see that I do local politics as an elected official and deconstruction and modeling are… Continue
Added by Eugene Robkin on March 10, 2010 at 5:30am — 1 Comment
Tokyo Tool Kit - Part IV
The Mission is to deal with an impending famine in the major cities of Japan. It is not clear to me if this involves the rest of the country or just the cities. Given the right conditions the growing regions would attempt to block shipments to the urban centers. If there are supplies in the country but resistance to sharing, then a reluctance of any government to use force is understandable although force has been used during famines in the past. That situation would be very different from… Continue
Added by Eugene Robkin on March 9, 2010 at 5:41am — No Comments
Tokyo Tool KIt - Part III
I keep looking back at the trailer for hints and I’ve picked up one more but it leads to questions more than anything else. On page 4 of the trailer, the tool specialist says that she will leave for Tokyo in an hour rather than immediately because she has to pack some tools. The crisis is in an industrialized city in a fully industrialized country – just what does she need to pack that would not be provided to her by the Tokyo Governor’s…
ContinueAdded by Eugene Robkin on March 8, 2010 at 6:00am — 2 Comments
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