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Qualified military and ex-military personnel are needed for the defense of Umoja Martian settlements. Space training a plus. Enlistment periods as short as six months are available. Generous pay and benefits. Excellent chance for advancement. Suitable candidates may receive land grants, seniority in colonization ranks, or other rewards.

Applicants should be healthy, between the ages of 18 and 65, and able to demonstrate skilled proficiency with modern weapons systems, strategy & tactics, military administration, or similar. Ability to relocate quickly a necessity. Previous military experience is desirable but not an absolute requirement.

If you have the stuff we’re looking for, contact us at recruiter@aresforce.umj.
 

ARTS & HUMANITIES:ARTS:ORGANIZATIONS:FOUNDATIONS
:GRANTS:CURRENT:MARIS INSTITUTE:

NOTE: The Maris Institute interprets the term “Artist” very broadly. If your work is creative and seeks to communicate with an audience, then you are probably eligible.

Artist-in-Residence (3): Two-year grant covers room & board plus full access to real & virtual facilities. Includes Net/VR account with 60 TB storage, individual mentor/counselor, and monthly stipend. Three grants available.

Artist-in-Virtual-Residence (6): Two-year grant covers Net/VR account with 60 TB storage, full access to virtual facilities, individual mentor/ counselor, and monthly stipend. Six grants available.

Satellite Artistic Residence (35): Two-year grant covers room & board at a satellite facility (35 worldwide) plus full access to real satellite facilities. Includes Net/VR account with 60 TB storage, full access to Institute virtual facilities, and individual mentor/counselor. Artist is required to contribute a token monthly sum. Thirty-five grants available. (No guarantee of assignment to any particular site.)

Artist Assistance (number varies): One-time grants to assist producing artists with ordinary bills and expenses such as rent, mortgage, utilities, equipment, supplies. Individuals are eligible for only one award in a five-year period. Number and amount of awards varies.

IMPORTANT: Artists must agree to assign to the Maris Institute a small percentage (usually 0.1 - 0.8%) of future royalties from all artistic works produced during the grant period.

TO APPLY: Visit the Maris Institute at maris.institute.fnd/grants/applibot and chat with our Grant Applications ’bot.
 

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COME TO COLUMBO AND

HELP CREATE THE FUTURE!

World Creativity Conference
August 28 - September 2, 2042
Clarke Centre, Columbo, Sri Lanka
membagent@creativcon.con

This year’s CreativCon will be held in the tropical paradise of Sri Lanka, a land older than time and yet more modern than the future itself. The main facility is the incomparable Clarke Centre, the scientific and technological jewel of the East. Symposium topics range from the aesthetics of space travel to interdisciplinary virtual world design, with all disciplines represented. Whether you’re a poet, painter, dancer, fashion maven, video artist, or Net designer, there’s a place for you at the CreativCon. This is the year’s biggest celebration of artistic creativity…you dare not miss it!

This year’s Special Challenge Topics are:

• Preserving the Past: Conservation Strategies for Pre-Digital Artifacts

• The Ice Cometh: Preparing for the Next Ice Age

• Lojban at 87: Is It Time for a New Artificial Language?

• New Mesopotamia: Design Study for an Undersea City

So come to Columbo, bring your imagination, and become a part of the future!

NOTE: New Special Challenge Topic just added:

• The Martian Century: Settling the Red Planet.

CIC: The Next Generation in Power Plants

…Clean, safe, inexhaustible—how does this miraculous power source work?

The Controlled Isotopic Conversion (CIC) process uses minerals mined from deep within the Earth’s crust, where temperatures are much higher than on the surface. Purified and concentrated, these minerals provide a great deal of natural heat. This heat is collected and used to boil water; the water then turns turbines which produce electricity.

Unlike conventional gas-, oil-, or coal-fired power plants, CIC processors produce little ash. What residue remains from the process is easily handled and can be safely disposed of; it offers considerably less of an environmental danger than the toxic waste products of most other power plants.

The minerals that power CIC are abundant throughout the world, and thanks to robotic mining methods, can be easily retrieved from the crust without massive environmental damage or health risks to human miners. There are enough CIC minerals in the crust to meet the world’s energy needs for hundreds of thousands of years.

And don’t worry about radioactivity, either. CIC minerals finish the process with no more than the natural level of radioactivity that they started with in the ground. In many ways, CIC is even safer than nature!

The choice is clear…CIC is the power of the future— and of today.
To find out more, contact PowerWeb Ltd. at info.pweb.umj

(July 2042 CE)

CAN YOU BUILD THIS ROOM?

If you can, then you may have the talent to be a virtreal designer.

The need for talented virtreal designers is greater than ever before. All areas of cyberspace are expanding exponentially—Cyberbia, El Juego, and Virtua. Someone has to design and build the landscapes and environments to fill all this virtreality; why not you?

Virtreal designers are respected and valued. They command top salaries and royalties. Shouldn’t you be one of them? The talents aren’t as rare as you might think.

So go ahead, build this room, or one like it. Use any virtual-design tool you wish. Send us your virtreal creation, and our panel of experienced cybersmiths will critique your work for free. If you show promise, you’ll be given a chance to enroll in the oldest and most prestigious school in Cyberbia: the Coates Academy.

Reply to eval@coatesacademy.biz
 

ALLIES STILL NEEDED FOR GUADALCANAL LANDING

Newsweek Online Edition, 1 August 2042 C.E.

The invasion of Guadalcanal is in deep trouble. The World War II Centennial Commission still needs over ten thousand volunteers to play the part of Allied soldiers for a scheduled re-enactment of the Allied landing on August 8, 1942.

Over fifty thousand people from around the world have volunteered to play Japanese troops in the re-enactment (historically, there were approximately 33,000 Japanese troops on the island in 1942). Few of these volunteers have interest in playing Allied roles. One volunteer, Derek Tshwete of Pretoria, said, “The Allies won. Where’s the drama in that?”

Dr. Kiyono Mauyama, a speaker for the Centennial Commission, said that the re-enactment will go ahead as scheduled on April 8. “We’re committed to making this the most accurate re-enactment of the entire Centennial program. If necessary, we’ll use cold-light holograms to fill in for the missing Allies.”

The star player at the week-long festival on Guadalcanal is Thomas V. Nicodemus, a 118-year-old survivor of the Guadalcanal campaign.