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Modelling carried out by the UK Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) predicts that offshore-wind technologies provide the best option should other technologies, including nuclear and carbon capture and storage, fail to deliver on their potential or be significantly delayed. Offshore wind could deliver energy at lower costs than all other forms of renewable energy, except onshore wind, and the ETI's analysis shows that its cost can be reduced significantly through the development of engineering solutions.
Succcessful technology innovation could account for up to 75% of potential cost reduction in the UK's offshore wind sector. New policy and regulatory interventions need to be developed, however, to encourage those who will have to take risks to help drive down costs further. Operators need to be confident of the future market to justify investing in these developments; policy makers must ensure the market is stable enough to encourage investment. Many lessons have already been learned. Now is not the time to shy away from investing further.
The UK government and industry are focused on bringing down the levelised cost of new offshore wind to £100/MWh (EUR 120/MWh) by 2020. That is an important milestone, but it is not the end of the journey. Commentators suggest that around £85/MWh will be required for offshore wind to be competitive with the cheapest low-carbon generation. Achieving this will be challenging, and it will take time — 2030 is a more realistic target date — but it is achievable.
As well as new technology and operating models, greater collaboration is needed between industry, governments and academia, and a significant boost in funding. This can lead to substantial private investment that will help unlock competitive advantage.
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In the UK, we believe near-shore sites off south-west and north-east England and off Scotland's north-west and north-east coasts will be most suitable for investment. Accessing these sites will require the development of foundations for water depths of 30-100 metres.
The most cost-effective approach for producing electricity from offshore wind is likely to be very long bladed (100 metres) downwind direct-drive, horizontal-axis 10MW turbines, mounted on floating foundations to provide access to deep-water locations with high wind resources. Of the various types of floating foundations under development, we believe that tension-leg platforms are potentially very attractive.
The operating expenditure of offshore wind turbines accounts for one third of the total cost of the energy they produce. Operating and capital costs could be reduced by building fewer, larger units. This is why the ETI is investing in the demonstration of technologies such as floating platforms, long blades, condition monitoring systems and test rigs that could significantly cut the lifecyle costs of offshore wind.
Given the resources available to the UK, the rewards for successful development could be huge. Further spending on offshore infrastructure would generate economic activity. New supply chains can encourage job creation, export knowledge and technology across the globe, regenerate port infrastructure and create skills development opportunities required to service and nurture a burgeoning industry.
We must be bold in our cost reductions aspirations for offshore wind. Stakeholders need to see that the industry can deliver lower costs within a reasonable timescale. Technology innovation will play an important role in that goal.
Andrew Scott is programme manager, offshore wind, for the Energy Technologies Institute, a UK public-private partnership formed to address future energy challenges

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Disclaimer: All posts are just containing my OPINION. I don't mean to offend. I mean to give only my honest feedback. Also, I do not listen to every song, although I try to. (I might have missed them or the site may not have posted on it. The 'Discovered' section exists for this reason.)
By the way, this link here is for those who wish to look at (almost) every song that came out in each week. Since I don't like EVERY song that comes out, I thought the Soompi tag should reflect a better picture of the releases. 😀 Two other links here may help too: LINK #1 , LINK #2
Songs I Like and Would Like to Recommend
Ballad quartet Tritops sings a mid-tempo Ballad for <Golden Cross>. Somewhat typical, but the chorus and Tritops's vocals (<3) are excellent together. Interested in Tritops?
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Bestselling author and explorer Dan Buettner has traveled the globe studying the habits of the happiest and healthiest people.
These regions are known as Blue Zones — areas where people are 10 times more likely to reach the age of 100 than people in the United States. Buettner, his colleagues from National Geographic and other longevity researchers have identified Blue Zones in Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Loma Linda, Calif.; Nicoya, Costa Rica; and Ikaria, Greece.
Now Buettner is helping a company in Loring Park apply Blue Zone principles to their workplace to foster a healthier and happier culture.
Salo, a fast-growing staffing agency, is working on becoming the first Blue Zones certified workplace in the country. It has a goal of adding 1,000 years to the "active" life expectancy of its employees by the end of the six-month certification process. "Active" years refer to ones people enjoy without being burdened with chronic diseases.
The company has 207 employees participating in the Blue Zone project, said Gwen Martin, co-founder and managing partner of NumberWorks, a Salo brand.
Martin said the company is tracking how the investment in the project will impact the company's bottom line by looking at the impact on health care claims, revenue, profitability. They are also measuring how the initiative is helping boost Salo's influence on social media platforms.
"[Salo employees] are nudged into constant movement and more socialization," said Buettner, who has an office in the North Loop neighborhood. "They are involved in committed social networks. The quality of relationships transcends just work and expands into a more meaningful realm so you know your co-worker not just as a co-worker but as a human."
As part of the Blue Zone program, Salo now has 21 active moais — a common practice in Okinawa where people have a small group of companions they can rely on for support and inspiration. It's based on the idea that your peers have a tremendous impact on your lifestyle habits, so if you're surrounded by healthy people you're more likely to make better choices.
When Salo first launched the Blue Zone program Sept. 20, employees took online assessments to determine their life expectancy and happiness levels. The average life expectancy was 88, but the healthy life expectancy was only 72 — meaning most Salo employees would likely face diseases that would limit their quality of life if they didn't change their habits.
At the beginning of the program, 90 percent of the Salo employees were not eating the daily recommended amount of vegetables, 87 percent were eating fast food at least once a week, nearly 40 percent were sedentary and nearly half of the participants slept less than seven hours per night. The overall happiness grade for the group was a B.
Employees have the option of using treadmill desks at work and some have desks with adjustable heights that allow them to sit or stand. There's a meditation room for relaxation, and they have had a cooking lesson offering tips on making flavorful, plant-based meals. Soon, Salo employees will go through a "purpose" workshop designed to help them connect to their passions outside of work.
Salo co-founder John Folkestad said he's made fewer stops at fastfood since starting the Blue Zone project.
"Most people have made subtle changes," he said, adding the company is focused on helping people make long-term lifestyle changes. "We're not giving out baskets of kale. We're not looking to be draconian. … We're doing this to create a structure so we can all be healthy."
Amy Langer, also a Salo co-founder, said sweets are still allowed at company parties.
"It doesn't feel right to take the cake away, but we have other options. We also have bowls of fruit," she said.
Buettner said Salo employees are starting to see results from their lifestyle changes.
"We're already seeing well being and life expectancy increase with the employees there," he said. "There's a culture and developing reputation at Salo as a place that puts the wellbeing of its employees and partners in front of just profits. That's a reputation that will transcend our time with them."
The next company lined up go through the Blue Zone certification process is Google in Mountain View, Calif. KARE 11 has also expressed interest in going through the certification process, Buettner said.
Salo executives and Buettner declined to say how much the certification process costs.
"It's an investment in employees and the reputation of the culture," Buettner said. "It pays off we believe in higher worker engagement, lower healthcare costs, higher productivity and lower absenteeism."
Buettner has also applied the Blue Zone principles to cities, including Albert Lea, Minn. Since launching the pilot project in 2009, the city has added more walking, jogging and bike paths; increased rates of volunteerism; improved nutrition in the schools; and expanded tobacco-free worksites and housing facilities, among other things.
Buettner called Salo an "early adopter" among companies committed to health and wellness.
"They have set the bar for other companies to aspire to," he said.
— For more information on Salo, go to salollc.com.
— To learn more about Dan Buettner and Blue Zones, go to bluezones.com.
The Blue Zone Power 9
(Common habits of people living in Blue Zones around the world)
— They move naturally.
— They have a sense of purpose.
— They take time to down shift/relax.
— The eat until they feel about 80 percent full.
— They eat a plant-based diet.
— They drink a moderate amount of alcohol (typically red wine).
— They have a sense of belonging and connection to a faith-based community.
— They put their loved ones first.
— They have social circles with people that have healthy habits.


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Drought prompts natural disaster declaration for Douglas, Carson
Douglas County is one of four Nevada jurisdictions designated a primary natural disaster area due to drought on Wednesday.
Carson City, Esmeralda and White Pine counties were also listed as places suffering from losses due to the drought.
January and February have been declared the driest on record at Tahoe City, according to the National Weather Service.
While December saw some places in the central Sierra get twice their average moisture, both January and February have been poor producers.
Ebbetts Pass recorded a fifth of average moisture for January and Minden had just under a quarter of its average 1.47 inches for the month.
During February, Ebbetts, at the head of the Carson River's East Fork had gained only 1.1 inches of precipitation. As of Thursday morning it was at 81 percent of total moisture for the year.
Because of the disaster designation, farmers and ranchers in contiguous counties also qualify for natural disaster assistance, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Qualified farm operators in the designated areas are eligible for low interest emergency loans from Farm Service Agency.
Farmers in eligible counties have eight months from the date of the declaration to apply for loans to help cover part of their actual losses, officials said.
The agency will consider each loan application on its own merits, taking into account the extent of losses, security available and repayment ability. Agency has a variety of programs, in addition to the loan program, to help eligible farmers recover from adversity.


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I've been up since 3AM. I'm sitting in my truck in the pre-dawn darkness at a far corner of a Walmart parking lot sipping black coffee…waiting. Waiting for the rest of the group. Waiting to take the long ride out to Cherry Creek. Waiting to continue an adventure we started two years ago…
The main part of the trail into Cold Springs Canyon was easy enough. We started from the same old mining road we used to access Pueblo Canyon a couple years prior, about 23 miles down a seldom used 4×4 back road along Cherry Creek. This time with a more suitable vehicle, we 4-wheeled our way up the mining road to a small, level clearing once used as a camp. From here it was supposed to be less than two miles in to Cold Springs Canyon to the Crack House.
Crack House is the nickname given to the 700 year old Salado Culture cliff house ruins we were after. When you see the site, the name is obvious. This cliff dwelling is literally built into a naturally occurring crevice at the base of a 600 ft shear canyon wall. The 3-story mud, rock and timber dwelling was discovered in the 1930s and documented by Dr. Emil W. Haury as part of the Gila Pueblo Project.
About a mile up the main trail you get a glimpse of the Crack House…if you're lucky. You've really got to be looking for it and luckily, some of us had better eyes than the others. Jabon Eager and Mike Sorensen were with me again on this hike, the same guys I hiked Pueblo Canyon with. The only one missing from the original Pueblo Canyon party was my (now) wife, Merelyn. As the three of us hiked deeper into the canyon looking for the side trail that would lead us to the site, Jabon was the one who managed to spot the distinctive black square hole in the cliff face that marked the entrance to our ruins. Now, with a frame of reference, we excitedly continued forward.
Even the primary trail is nothing more than a narrow ribbon of roughly flat ground wrapped tightly against the steeply descending canyon walls. It's a seldom used trail that had become overgrown in some areas and we were looking for an even more obscure side trail to guide us up to the ruins. We followed the path until we were standing below the cliff ledge where we had seen the entrance to the Crack House. None of us had discovered any sign of a side trail, but as we stood below the cliffs there was what could only have been a drainage path or a rough game-trail leading straight up. Could this be the trail? Jabon consulted his print out of the Trail Description he'd found online as I consulted my topographic map. "This section is nothing short of NASTY", is what the report says.
"Nasty" is a very subjective description. To some, a "nasty" trail is any trail without asphalt or concrete. So with little to go on, we eyed this barely discernible clearing heading straight up the steep slope with trepidation and doubt. It certainly looked "NASTY". We decided to give it a shot.
I took point and scrambled up the slope, unsuccessful. Jabon followed close behind and when I ledged out, he took another path to the left with the same result. We both moved laterally toward the cliffs to find something – anything – that looked like a trail. We found many, followed some, and one-by-one discovered they led to nowhere. As we crawled along our imaginary trails, glancing up occasionally in an attempt to orient ourselves, I spotted a crack, high in the cliff, carefully filled in with stacked rock. Far too small to be our Crack House, it must have been an old granary. Granaries were often created high out of reach and used to store food for the Winter. This meant we were close.
Mike retreated early, probably getting tired of dodging the numerous geological samples I was generously sending his direction. Jabon and I retreated next and as I followed Jabon back down slope I lost my footing and my bad knee gave out, crumpling completely under my weight. Aside from the intense pain and initial fear that I had crippled myself, the fall wasn't bad and after a short rest I was able to continue on my own. Jabon backtracked looking for another possible trail and returned later having been unsuccessful.
Mike had had enough and decided not to join in the fight for the prize after our first attempt and failure. Jabon and I had a little more gumption in us and agreed on a second attempt after having talked through our options. When Jabon had backtracked he was also able to locate the ruin again visually and note where it was in relationship to where we had been climbing. We were directly below it at one point and could not find a route. But now we had our bearings and we knew it was directly above us…
This meant there had to be a trail above us as well, we just had to find it. Jabon and I were not leaving this canyon until we'd found the Crack House. For Jabon and I, this trip had been simmering in the back of our minds for two years now, since Pueblo Canyon. We were here, no more than 100 feet below the site we'd read about and we were not going to walk away now.
We both chose different lines and committed to them. He blazed up the left side of the trail we had originally attempted and I crawled up the precarious slope on the right. My knee was sore from my earlier fall and Jabon was making better progress.
I keep losing my footing. The steep canyons out here in the Sierra Anchas are in an extreme state of erosion and nothing is stable. I am constantly worrying about my bad knee as I hoist myself up one precarious foothold at a time, following nothing but the whisper of a trail, not able to see my target but knowing that it is up…somewhere up.
After much sweat and swearing Jabon triumphantly called down that he'd found the trail. This spurred me on and I hacked my way through Prickly Pear cactus and overgrown Cat's Claw trees in my fight for the trail. Before long, with sweat dripping from my dusty brow, I had found it as well and quickly set off in pursuit of Jabon and the Ruins.
The real path to the ruins wasn't much better than the trail we'd been forced to blaze. It simply had the benefit of being an actual recognizable trail. It still amazes me that so much vegetation can cling to the steep, eroded slopes of these desert canyons. I found myself crawling through brush and vines, sliding under tree branches and carefully dancing around cacti, yuccas and agaves. Finally, after a near vertical scramble, I reached the rocky shelf that led to the Crack House.
The photos say more than I can about the impressiveness of this cliff dwelling. Both of us have studied enough about the archaeology of the area to approach the site with cautious awe and respectful curiosity. Because of its protected location, the floor structures are in fantastic shape. The crack which this structure was built in cuts clear through the cliff. The main room, which is on the third floor, makes a sharp left turn about halfway through and presents visitors with a balcony window framing an amazing view of the valley to the southeast. Jabon photographed the interior of the ruin creating some of the most detailed interior shots of this site ever taken. We stayed for a short while, soaking it in, quietly reveling in our triumph.
For me, there is an addictive nature to this sort of hiking. These canyons are littered with sites like this. Not all of them are as dramatic or as well preserved, but they are here. Most of these sites see so few visitors that trail descriptions are few and far between, pictures are rare, and the academic documentation incomplete. Finding them takes work. That, for me, is what draws me to these kinds of hikes. I like the research, the exploration and the satisfaction of discovery. Even though this hike was probably no more than 2 or 3 total miles of hiking, it was far more gratifying than many longer hikes I've been on.
We concluded this hike on a high, excited to have had the experience. Our conversations inevitably revolved around where we would go next. There are rumors of more ruins in Cooper's Fork, the canyon to the east across the creek. Another rare site in rugged, inhospitable territory with no established trail and minimal documentation…sounds like a fun trip!
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These archaeological sites are in the condition they are in because of the rarity of visitors. I have deliberately left out a trail map and directions in hopes that these sites do remain undisturbed by the general public. Like most protected areas, their inaccessibility is their salvation. One of the lessons learned from other important archaeological sites that have turned in to tourist attractions is that people are inherently destructive. If you do visit some of these historic structures, treat them with respect.


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If more than one source for project information is listed, the nsswitch.conf file directs the routine to start searching for the information in the first source listed, and then search subsequent sources.
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The Emergent Media Center is an academic Center of Experience at Champlain College that, in partnership with industry, public institutions and nonprofits, creates a laboratory/studio environment in which students collaborate with each other, faculty and clients to develop new concepts, processes, uses and applications for games and other emergent media.
- We are a blend of business and learning. We are always evolving with technology, media, culture, community, and our students.
- We are a positive force in the world that does well by doing good.
- We enable Champlain students to become thoughtful leaders in areas of technology, media and learning.
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- Create a place of business and learning that gives students real-world experience, and allows clients to work with smart, talented, young professionals.
- Collaborate, engage, and discuss with industry, clients and community to solve problems and create positive change.
- Foster an environment in which students can foster friendships, collaborate with clients, peers, faculty and staff, and learn by doing.
The Emergent Media Center is an academic center whose mission is to educate and inspire next generation media creators and leaders. We support the talent and creativity of students to create interactive media, games, and mobile apps for positive change on a wide range of topics including social causes, health and medicine, business, communication, education, and training. Through a collaborative, exploratory design cycle, the EMC transforms education, processes, and media while enlightening our college community, our partners, and our global community.
Game and social networking technologies are in their infancy and will be used for applications reaching far beyond entertainment -- there is much to discover. We strive to create a place of business and learning that gives students real-world experience, and allows clients to work with smart, talented, young professionals.
Private companies, non-profit organizations, foundations, and entrepreneurs. Emergent industries need skilled, smart employees. Non-profits are looking for emergent media and games to solve meaningful problems.
We work on grants, contracted projects and exploratory sponsorships. The length and budget of a contract depends on the project scope.
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Once on the verge of UFC title contention, fan favorite Marcus Davis received his UFC walking papers following back-to-back losses earlier this year.
But the 37-year-old former pro boxer – who completely revamped his MMA game after a short stint on "The Ultimate Fighter 2" – wasn't ready to call it quits.
So in his first post-UFC fight back in April, the Team Sityodtong fighter headed north of the border for a meeting with Canadian lightweight Curtis Demarce at MFC 29.
Each week HDNet and MMAjunkie.com release a new and exclusive fight from
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So settle in and enjoy one of the vault's longer and most hard-fought bouts.
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Linda Nordling on how questioning numbers in policy statements gives journalists credibility and clout — and reveals new stories.
Journalists are comfortable with words and can usually spot spin in speeches a mile away, yet when it comes to numbers, many develop a mental block. A budget sheet can give many journalists sweaty palms.
Reporting numbers badly means that copy suffers. Silly mix-ups between millions and billions and other basic errors damage reputations for individuals and publications.
Poor numeracy among journalists fails to hold governments to account on dodgy statistics or un-supported rhetoric. And it encourages even well-meaning data producers to be selective about the numbers they publish. Why publish the 'complete details' of the annual budget, they might think, if journalists will misinterpret them?
But when journalists report numbers well, their stories gain depth, accuracy and influence. Overcoming your fear and distrust of numbers will make you a better journalist. And if, like many journalists in the developing world, you live in a country where the government is starting to pay attention to science and technology (S&T), you and your colleagues will need to step up your game to monitor whether ambitions are realistic and promises are kept.
This guide explains how to get to grips with numbers, focus on budgets, and assess numerical goals announced for new government projects.
But I'm a science journalist…
You might expect science journalists to be better at handling numbers than your average hack. But even when reading a data-rich scientific paper, most of us rely more than we care to admit on scientists' conclusions, rather than cross-checking with the data.
But that mindset serves journalists poorly when writing about government budgets and initiatives to build scientific capacity in the country where they live, which is an increasingly important side of being a science journalist.
This is where journalists in Africa — my 'beat' — urgently need to improve in reporting numbers. And probably the same goes for many other developing, and developed, regions of the world.
Watch out for 'single numbers'
'Single numbers' are my biggest gripe in science for development reporting. Let's say a president has made a speech, announcing an unprecedented push for S&T in her country. An article soon hits the Internet quoting the president talking about S&T in rosy terms like 'crucial for development' and 'becoming a knowledge economy'.
Usually, there is a single headline number, such as "we will spend one per cent of GDP on S&T by 2015", or "we will spend US$30 million on science in the next budget year". These figures are easy enough for a journalist to pick up in the hubbub, and are pushed by press officers as flagship ambitions.
But what do they mean? Single figures float around copy like questions, begging to be answered. How much is one per cent of GDP, approximately, and what sort of percentage is being spent this year? Or how does US$30 million next year actually compare with current and previous years?
Single figures, especially when they are sold as ambitious targets set by governments, need other figures to provide context. One per cent might not be an increase at all. Ask press officers or officials for comparative data. Accepting figures uncritically is very poor journalism.
Do your sums
It may sound obvious, but simply adding things up, and then doing it again to make double sure, can avoid many number-related mistakes.
For example, if 37 per cent of university applicants are male, and 62 per cent female, ask yourself about the missing one per cent. Is it a mistake? Did one per cent not answer the survey? It's better to double check your figures than to assume either that they were transgender or that your readers won't spot the inconsistency.
And if you break down a budget, make sure the parts add up to the whole. Let's say the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announces US$20 million for hiccups research, and you report figures allocated to each country. If your breakdown adds up to US$18 million, readers will query the remaining US$2 million (and if the parts sum to over US$20 million, you will look foolish).
Check what you've missed. Is the omitted US$2 million allocated for non-research activities? If so, be clear. Your story will be more informative than the 'official line'.
How big is that?
It often helps to put numbers in context. For instance, a 20-acre wind farm may be difficult to picture. Easier is to say that the farm will be the same size as 'about ten football pitches'.
When it comes to money, know the difference between a million (1,000,000) and a billion (usually 1,000,000,000 i.e. a thousand million, but some countries use a million million so check with your editor). Try to express science funding as what it might buy, particularly in local currency.
For example, a US$3 million grant may not sound like a lot in the context of a top US research university, which administers dozens, or even hundreds such grants each year. But in an African university such a grant could double the available research budget.
These basics make it easier to spot unrealistic announcements. South Africa's Department for Science and Technology, which bankrolls most of the country's research councils, has a total budget for 2012/13 of just under five billion rand (US$675 million). If you get a press release saying that "the University of the Witwatersrand has received five billion rand for water research", that is probably too much to be realistic, and there might be a typo in the release, so it is worth checking.
Or if the African Union announces it will build 30 new nanotechnology centres for ten million rand, that is too little (at 330,000 rand per centre — the annual salary for one mid-career researcher).
A little digging added some realism to Ethiopia's aim to produce 5,000 PhDs
Numbers that beg questions
Questioning numbers can expand a story and inspire more questions. Not just about more numbers, but about the story in general.
A few years ago, the government of Ethiopia announced a plan to produce 5,000 new PhDs over a decade. A little bit of research showed the country had produced fewer than 100 PhDs in the previous 50 years. That illustrates the ambition, but begged the question of feasibility. Clearly, Ethiopia didn't have the capacity to train the new PhDs.
It turned out that the government was not planning to use only local training capacity. In fact, the programme pivoted around a plan to invite foreign academics to teach and supervise the PhDs. Doing it all in-house would take 400 years, one Ethiopian academic confirmed.
So checking figures gave the reader more information about Ethiopian science and put the government's ambitions in context.
Check others' work
Always check 'simplified' numbers in speeches or press releases.
For instance, if the government announced that it will double science spending in next year's budget, don't just report it. Ask for recent budget reports and check whether the claim has merit. If not, do your own sums and put them past a government official for a response.
And remember that speeches and press releases often show numbers in the best possible light. Does the 'doubling' fund higher salaries for ministry officials, rather than more research? Does it actually amount to much less when accounting for inflation?
Always remember inflation. A stable budget can actually hide a cut in real terms. Science, like everything else, gets a little more expensive every year. If US$20,000 funded a PhD last year, you might have to fork out US$21,000 this year. Science organisations that have flat budgets can often get into financial difficulties. And that could result in good stories.
And check whether announcements are 'anticipated budgets', i.e. estimated costs, not secured money. If the money isn't in hand yet, where is it expected to come from?
Also, make a habit of checking figures from interviews if at all possible. Even the best spokesperson will make occasional mistakes. If you want to use a number in your story, ask your interviewee if they are certain of it, and if not, who could corroborate it.
Always check numbers you plan to use with interviewees
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Trust the 'this doesn't make sense' feeling at the pit of your stomach and start asking questions. Perhaps the press release is wrong. Perhaps there are plans for raising the rest of the money that you've not been told about. Step back and ask "do things add up?".
Numbers can become angles
Diligently and thoughtfully engaging with numbers can identify new story angles, and even get you a scoop.
For instance, a government budget announcement might headline an increase in S&T spending. But spotting a cut in an interesting-sounding budget line should always prompt questions. It could mean job cuts or research funding being channelled from one area to another. Always look out for declining trends and ask an official or press officer to explain them to you.
Currency fluctuations also have implications. A country with weakening currency could struggle to pay its dues to large international science collaborations. And a strengthening currency makes foreign grants worth less locally, creating potential problems for scientists who depend on such funding.
Going it alone
Editors will come in handy for checking your calculations
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As journalists have less and less time to write their stories, it is tempting to cut corners by accepting numbers without questioning them. But once you start to engage critically with numbers you'll find yourself reporting the stories no one else has covered. And when you do, expect closer scrutiny.
If you mess up your calculations and run with a story based on bad maths then you might find government officials or donor press officers less than helpful in the future. But not investigating the numbers lets down your readers and also the taxpayers whose money bankrolls such initiatives.
So use editors and subeditors to help probe your conclusions; or just talk numbers through with a colleague.
The more you get used to working with numbers, the easier it becomes — and the better your stories will be.
Journalist Linda Nordling, based in Cape Town, South Africa, specialises in African science policy, education and development. She was the founding editor of Research Africa and writes for SciDev.Net, Nature and others.


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I played it it was boring but you can play it on a web browser
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Hey it is a stereotypical RPG :3 I like the late 90s feel 8.5/10
Play it yourself and find out. It's free on PC.
Have an open mind when playing it. The game has a wicked sense of humour which personally I found brilliant. I got (almost) every refrence, from the people that screamed "Guards, Guards" when you hit 'em in the festival, Ultima style (not spoiling too much) to the whole crazy business happening in Windermere. You need to have a good sense of humour to fully enjoy it. If you sit there, not getting the jokes you may not enjoy it as much, I mean there's obvious stuff that's funny. Like the one house where you go in just to annoy an old man. But this is a game you just shouldn't take too seriously. It's whacky, funny and some of the jokes are very much out there, that's why I liked it.
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Most scholars date this event around the 13th or 14th century BC. God gave the Decalogue, or 10 Commandments, to the Israelites shortly after they left Egypt. The record of the Ten Commandments can be found in the Bible, both in Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21.
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God's Law, the Ten Commandments, is expressed in Exodus 20:2-17 (KJV) with the following:
"I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
5. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's."


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I put milk in my coffee all the time, but just a bit of that (a teaspoon or two), I can tolerate. I finished a non-fat grande latte from Starbucks about an hour ago. It was a treat from the couple we had dinner with tonight. I forgot to say that I'd like just the tall one (they do not have short here!), R got me a grande. Ugh. I didn't realize I gulped it all, we were busy chitchatting, hehe. It probably didn't help that I also had cheese in my food during dinner at Chili's.
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I would like 2 of them with MX4 connectors, how do we order?
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Yodle Survey: Small Businesses Underestimate the Importance of Online Reviews
Study of small businesses and their approach to online reviews also reveals that SMB owners think the online reviews system is stacked against them
Feb 25, 2014, 09:30 ET
NEW YORK, Feb. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Yodle, a leader in local online marketing, today announced results from its first ever "Small Business and Online Reviews Survey." The study, which was conducted in December 2013 through a third party research firm, polled 300 small business owners nationwide across a large array of service industries to get their perspective on online reviews. The survey covers topics such as whether small business owners think online reviews are important, the extent that they ask for and get reviews, if they monitor for and respond to reviews, and whether they think reviews are fair.
"We commissioned this survey to examine how small business owners are adjusting to 90% of consumers putting considerable stock into online reviews," said Court Cunningham, CEO at Yodle. "Our study has found a significant disconnect between small business owners and consumers. A large number of small business owners don't see positive online reviews as important and are not receiving them, and are also inactive in a number of other areas where they would benefit from doing more."
The most significant findings from Yodle's Small Business and Online Reviews Survey include:
- Only half of small business owners think positive online reviews are important. Many small business owners are not recognizing the importance of online reviews despite the buying decisions of 90% of customers being influenced by seeing positive online testimonials (source: 2013 Dimensional Research Survey). Only 50% of survey respondents think that it's important for their business to receive positive online reviews and almost one in four (23%) believe that it's unimportant.
- Most small business owners aren't receiving or asking for online reviews. More than half of SMB owners (55%) don't receive any online reviews, while one in five (19%) get an average of only one to five reviews per month. Almost 1 in 4 SMB owners (24%) don't know if they receive online reviews. Despite the low number of reviews that small businesses are receiving, only 13% of owners are approaching their customers about posting reviews. The biggest reason cited for not approaching customers is "I haven't thought about it" (43%).
- A significant number of small business owners aren't responding to or monitoring for online reviews. Although seven in 10 consumers have a more positive view of a company if they see them responding to an online review (source: Bazaarvoice Conversation Index), less than half of our survey respondents (43%) who receive reviews actually do this. More than two in three SMB owners (68%) also don't even spend any time monitoring for online reviews and all but a handful of the remainder spend just one to five hours per month on this activity.
- Small business owners don't effectively leverage customers' online reviews. Only 14% of survey respondents post customers' reviews to their websites. The remaining SMB owners that have received reviews and have a website (37%) do not post this content.
- Many small business owners believe that the online reviews system is unfair. More than six in 10 SMB owners (61%) think that review sites favor businesses that pay to advertise with them, while only 10% don't believe that to be the case. Half of SMB owners (50%) also opined that small businesses are unfairly impacted by negative reviews compared to larger business; only 20% of the survey respondents contradicted that opinion. Additionally, more than four in 10 survey respondents (43%) stated that online reviews are unfair because they do not verify that people who leave reviews are actual customers, with a similar number (41%) "not sure" if they're unfair.
Go to http://www.yodle.net/files/2014/02/smb-online-reviews-survey.pdf for more findings from the survey including the importance of online reviews for small business owners compared to other marketing activities, whether they worry about negative online reviews, and if they have been impacted by fake online reviews.
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*** Scroll to the bottom for the full sized cake ingredients***
I had a vegan friend visiting a couple of days ago and wanted to make something nice we could have for a snack. I didn't really fancy baking a whole cake so instead I just made two individual small cakes in small spring-form pans. I converted a banana cake recipe from Delicieux, which is a favorite of mine, to bake with dextrose to make it free of processed fructose and swapped hens' eggs for flax seed 'eggs'. The vegan versions did sink a little bit in the middle, but the taste was still as delicious as usual. Actually, I made 3 batches the same day to get it right. The first one, I have to admit, didn't sink a 'little'. It rose beautifully and then sank in the middle all the way to the bottom! But, as they say, practice makes champions.
Approx 2-3 tbsp whole flax seeds + 6 tbsp water (or 2 eggs)
1 ripe banana
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp soda bicarbonate
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 nutmeg
80 grams of ground almonds
70 grams of dextrose (glucose) powder
Preheat the oven at 180C (355F) and grease 2 springforms (10 x 5 cm / 4 x 2 ").
Make the flax seed eggs by measuring off the whole flax seed (around 4 spoonfuls – this is an esitamate as it depends on how finely you grind the seed). Grind or process the seeds as finely as you can. Then measure up 2 tbsp ground flax seed and add it to a small bowl with the water. Stir thoroughly and the pop in the fridge to set into a gooey mix for at least 15 min while you measure of all the rest of the ingredients (don't skip this step).
Measure up the remaining ingredients into a bowl and then add your flax seed egg (or hens eggs). Give it a good stir and then pour into your two spring forms. Pop them in the oven and make a little tent of foil to cover with (make sure you make room for the cakes to rise or they will stick to the foil). Bake for 1 hour (will differ from oven to oven).
When the time is up take out the cakes and leave for a couple of minutes to cool, then carefully pop the springforms open, put them aside and leave the cakes on the bottom plates to cool completely. Then serve as it is or with your favorite toppings. I am slightly addicted to chocolate peanut butter spread at the moment or you could add fresh homemade Nutella (add a bit of peanut oil and mix to make it runnier if you wish).
If you want to make a full sized cake, use the following ingredients and the same directions as above:
4 tbsp of whole flax seeds + 12 tbsp water (or 6 eggs)
3 ripe bananas
1 1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp soda bicarbonate
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 nutmeg
250 grams of ground almonds
220 grams of dextrose (glucose) powder.
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When the international banking crisis came knocking on their door the Government of Brian Cowen made the biggest mistake in the history of our country. The bank guarantee which strapped us with billions of debt and left us in need of a Bailout. This was provided by the Troika of the E.C.B. the I.M.F and the E.C.(The European Central Bank,the International Monetary fund,and the European Comission.)
Shortly after the bailout the government collapsed forcing an election.
Quite a few senior Fianna fail ministers did not even run for re election opting for a new life free from worry, whilst those who could not bow out on health or other reasons fell at the polls.
The current government swept to power and promised to shepherd us through the difficult times whilst protecting the vulnerable.
For the last two and a half years plus they have been working carefully to see us out of our program
and back to a limited financial independence.
Today marks the final day of that program. Our government Is now committed to a SIX YEAR financial Program but there is no way the Irish people will vote to return the current Government to power in two and a half years time. The electorate never responds well to being bashed down by blow after blow. With more austerity promised and water tax yet to bite in one neutral budget is not going to do it for these boys. Obviously they have not taken this into account in framing the way forward. Once more delusion reigns and no lessons were learned from the recent lost referendum.
The reality of life on the ground is far from that which would fill the ordinary voter with the fervor to
vote return the same parties to office.The reasons for this are clear and many.
But on top of it all there is the spin!
Since the get go this Government have smothered all debate on the basis that negativity was not a way forward, As a result of this the government did not do bad news only good news, and unfortunately our media still blindly read out press release after press release without challenging each and every action.
For Example,Less than a month after a major study from impartial scientific researchers in University College Cork with the Title, Emigration in the age of austerity we get reporting of the latest jobless figures from the C.S.O. with no mention of the amount of young that have fled since the cruel welfare cuts designed to get them off the dole and out the door.
It's not a good time to be sick and dependent on the health service.
It's not a good time to be unemployed and/or in debt.
It's not a good time to be self employed,a retailer,caterer,a small business.
It's not a good time to be a charity.
It's not a good time to be alone with your family scattered to the four winds.
It's not a good time to rent a house or flat with rents spiraling.
It's not a good time to want to buy a house as banks are not lending.
It's a great time to be a volunteer, and although it helps, feeding your soul is not the only food needed.
A counter point to stories running in the Irish press like the one linked to above is this article in the New York Times which rings out the sentiments I allude to in the lines above,see it here
These are all serious issues,serious for those affected but when the live line is the only forum for local/national outpourings the debates of the disaffected then become boxed off and the subject of parody.Our media really need to challenge all government announcements, ask the hard questions, and put the brakes the spin!
I know I and many like me have difficult times still ahead but still we slog on, my latest offering is a counter to all of the over spin, my own effort to make something out of nothing, like so many empty headlines that have spun out of Kildare street and Merrion Street I too have been combing my own neighbourhood for SIGNS OF RECOVERY, they are as plausible as any good news story I have seen recently and today I present 5 of them for your entertainment and analysis.I suppose they are 5 mini satires, and I hope they bring a smile to your faces but deepen your thoughts about our reality and make you ponder what you can do to help change society for all and move us forward and out of the grips of the worlds markets in which we are just another commodity
whose price goes up and down over time.
Thanks (and I really hope the cat gets home)Please share and comment we love the banter!


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It's surprising to find out that the first official Olympic mascot was as recent as the 1972 Munich Games. But it's been a go since then, with sometimes as many as five mascots for a single Olympics.
Have a look at the mascots through the years:
1972 Munich, Germany – Waldi the Dachshund
Waldi was the first official Olympic mascot. Modelled on a real Dachshund (the wonderfully named Cherie von Birkenhof), it represented resistance, tenacity and agility, all necessary attributes in world-class athletes. Photograph: paulhillsdon
1976 Montreal, Canada – Amik the beaver
1976 Montreal, Canada – Amik the beaver
Amik, the beaver from the Montreal 1976 Olympic Games. Amik is an Ojibwe word for beaver. Representing hard work, the beaver is one of Canada's native animals. © IOC (courtesy of V&A Museum of Childhood)
1980 Moscow, Russia – Misha, Mishka or The Olympic Mishka bear
Misha the bear was designed by Victor Chizhikov, a children's books illustrator. One of the most popular mascots, Misha had his own TV cartoon. Photograph courtesy of Jussi Katajala
1984 Los Angeles, USA – Sam the eagle
Sam, the American eagle, from the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games. Sam was designed by Bob Moore, an artist for Disney. © IOC (courtesy of V&A Museum of Childhood)
1988 Seoul, South Korea – Hodori the tiger
Seoul had a pair of tigers for mascots, but Hodori ("Ho" meaning tiger and "dori" is the male diminutive in Korean) caught the imagination and Hosuni, the female counterpart, was rarely spotted. Photograph: wikipedia
1992 Barcelona, Spain – Cobi the dog
1992 Barcelona, Spain – Cobi the dog
Cobi, a Catalan sheepdog drawn in Cubist style had more than a little of the Picasso about it. It was designed by Javier Mariscal, appeared in several advertisements and starred in a TV series, The Cobi Troupe. Photograph: wikipedia
1996 Atlanta – Izzy (What is it?)
1996 Atlanta – Izzy (What is it?)
Izzy's name is derived from "What is it?" Despite an animated television special "Izzy's Quest For Olympic Gold" and a video game called "Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings" the 1996 mascot remains one of the least popular Olympic mascots. Photograph: Katrinas Toys
2000 Sydney, Australia – Syd, Olly and Millie
The mascots, Syd, Olly and Millie were designed by Matt Hatton and Jozef Szekeres. Representing earth, air and water, Olly, the kookaburra, was a symbol of generosity. Syd, the platypus, stood for the energy and vigour of Australia (and Australians). Millie, the echidna, was a symbol of the Millennium, showing how technologically advanced the country was in 2000.
Syd the Platypus was named for Sydney, the host city in 2000. © IOC (courtesy of V&A Museum of Childhood)
Millie the Echidna was named for Millennium – it was 2000. © IOC (courtesy of V&A Museum of Childhood)
2004 Athens, Greece – Athena and Phevos
2004 Athens, Greece – Athena and Phevos
Athena and Phevos were the big-feeted Greek mascots. They were based on an archaic terracotta daidala (religious artifact) at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Photograph: wikimedia
2008 Beijing, China – Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying and Nini
Drawing inspiration from the five Olympic rings, four of these playful characters embody the characteristics of China's favourite animals – the fish (Beibei), panda (Jingjing), Tibetan antelope (Yingying) and swallow (Nini). The fifth (Huanhuan) represents the Olympic flame. The five elements of nature are represented too – the sea, forest, fire, earth and sky.
Each of the mascots has a rhyming two-syllable name and when you put their names together – Bei Jing Huan Ying Ni – they say "Welcome to Beijing".
Beibei © IOC (courtesy of V&A Museum of Childhood)
2012 London – Wenlock and Mandeville
2012 London – Wenlock and Mandeville
Formed from two blobs of molten steel from a steelworks in Bolton, or so the legend goes, Wenlock is named after Much Wenlock, the town in Shropshire which held the Olympian Society Annual Games, a forerunner of the modern Olympics. Mandeville is named for Stoke Mandeville Hospital, which organised the Stoke Mandeville Games, the precursor of the Paralympics.
They each have cameras for eyes and London Taxi headlights with the first letter of their name. Official Wenlock and Mandeville mascot dolls are available on the VisitBritain Shop.
They each have cameras for eyes and London Taxi headlights with the first letter of their name. Official Wenlock and Mandeville mascot dolls are available on the VisitBritain Shop.
Wenlock wears five friendship bracelets, each one the colour of an Olympic ring. He has three points on his head, representing the three places on the podium (Gold, Silver and Bronze).
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Masters at a glance
Facts and figures for the Masters:
Tournament: The 77th Masters.
Dates: April 11-14
Site: Augusta National Golf Club.
Length: 7,435 yards.
Par: 36-36-72.
Purse: To be determined ($8 million in 2012).
Field: 93 (87 professionals, six amateurs).
Cut: Top 44 and ties, and anyone within 10 shots of the lead.
Defending champion: Bubba Watson.
Last year: Watson made four straight birdies on the back nine, closed with a 4-under 68, and then beat Louis Oosthuizen in a playoff with a shot that instantly became part of Masters lore. Deep in the woods to the right of the 10th fairway, he hit a gap wedge from about 155 yards that hooked some 40 yards and settled 10 feet away for a two-putt par to win on the second extra hole. While that shot was memorable, Oosthuizen hit one that was historic. He became the first player to make double-eagle 2 on the par-5 second hole by hitting 4-iron from the fairway. Oosthuizen closed with a 69. They finished on 10-under 278. Watson became the fifth left-handed player in the last 10 years to win the Masters. Phil Mickelson made two triple bogeys for the week and still tied for third, two shots behind, along with Lee Westwood, Matt Kuchar and Peter Hanson.
Tiger tales: Tiger Woods has gone seven years without winning the Masters, his longest drought in any of the four majors.
Key statistic: There have been four playoffs at the Masters in the last 10 years, the most of any major.
One for the ages: Among those playing the Masters for the first time are 46-year-old Thaworn Wiratchant of Thailand and 14-year-old Guan Tianlang of China.
Noteworthy: In the 14 majors Tiger Woods has played since he last won, he has not finished closer than three shots behind.
Quoteworthy: "Augusta is more than a golf tournament. It's an experience. The Kentucky Derby is more than a race. The Super Bowl is more than a football game. It's a social experience." - Brandt Snedeker.
Television: Thursday and Friday, 3-7:30 p.m., ESPN; Saturday, 3-7 p.m., CBS Sports. Sunday, 2-7 p.m., CBS Sports.
Interactive: https://www.masters.com . Live video channels from Amen Corner, the 15th hole, 16th hole and a featured group. Estimated times - Amen Corner (Nos. 11, 12 and 13) from 10:45 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and from 11:45 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday; Nos. 15 and 16 from 11:45 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, and from 12:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday featured group from noon to completion of play on Thursday and Friday, and from 12:30 p.m. to completion of play on Saturday and Sunday. The Masters iPad application will display the video channels and a live digital simulcast of CBS Sports' weekend coverage.


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Assassin's Creed 3 Dev Says PC Players Need Controller
According to an interview with Gamespy, Assassin Creed 3's creative director, Alex Hutchinson, has declared that Ubisoft won't be "investing hugely in a mouse and keyboard setup", instead suggesting that PC gamers use a controller to play the game. Which at first may look like another reason for us to hitch up our skirts and stomp angrily to the protesting grounds, but I'd argue that perhaps he's right.
"We're definitely supporting PC," he told the green IGN offshoot. "We love PC, but I think it'll be PC with a controller. I don't see us investing hugely in a mouse and keyboard setup. I think if you want to play on PC and you want to play Assassin's Creed, you have a controller."
At a certain point, I think it's reasonable for PC gamers to accept the necessity of investing in a decent game controller. In the days of the Spectrum I fully understood the requirement of adding a Kempston joystick (even if I did blow up my dad's 128K by wobbling the Kempston port while it was switched on), and I think in our world of cross-platform shared games, which were built from the ground up designed for a controller, it's fair to assume some games will not work optimally with a typing interface.
Oh, and here's another thing to bear in mind: this isn't new. None of the AssCreed series have been specially catered for in this department, and people have gotten by with mouse/keyboard. To the best of my knowledge, he's not saying, "The game will ignore your peripherals," but rather that the game will be optimally played on a controller.
Edit: Yup, Ubisoft confirm that it will of course have mouse/keyboard support, as with previous games in the series. But still won't tell us a release date for the PC version.
So, if the game comes out and can't be bothered to have implemented a mouse cursor for the menu options, I'm down with kicking off a fuss. That's just rude. But if the developers believe their game is designed from the ground up to be played on a controller, that seems entirely fair to me. Would I prefer there to be investment in superb mouse/keyboard controls too? Yes I would. Do I hate it when writers pose questions to themselves to offer balance? Absolutely. And while I realise that many can't afford to just add a 360 PC controller to their arsenal, I'd say it's becoming an essential piece of equipment for the modern, well-groomed PC gamer.
If you'd prefer to read an angry version of this news story, check out Dark Side Of Gaming, who call it "horseshit". Naturally there's a petition to sign. And thanks to neon_25 for alerting us.


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Nuclear Proliferation Still Leads to Instability
On 06.26.12 11:02 AM posted by Baker Spring
In his recent article in Foreign Affairs, "Why Iran Should Get the Bomb: Nuclear Balancing Would Mean Stability," Kenneth N. Waltz is swimming upstream against the consensus position regarding the instability stemming from nuclear proliferation. In this case, the consensus position is right, and Waltz is wrong.
The international nuclear nonproliferation regime is based on the logical proposition that with each additional nuclear-armed state, not to mention non-state actors, the deterrence dynamic becomes marginally more complex and diminishes the prospects for maintaining both crisis and arms race stability. The Heritage Foundation has conducted two table-top exercises to explore the prospects for maintaining nuclear stability in proliferated settings. The results of these exercises bolster the consensus view that nuclear proliferation can lead to unstable outcomes. Managing deterrence in a proliferated setting is a daunting task.
The first exercise examined crisis stability issues. There were nuclear weapons exchanges in two of the four iterations of the exercise. While there were a variety of contributing factors to the unstable outcomes, two stand out. The first was that is that it can be very difficult to perform the juggling act of deterring two or more simultaneous nuclear threats that result from proliferation.* For example, deterring a threat from North Korea toward South Korea may undermine the effort to deter a threat from China toward Taiwan. The second was that the coalition dynamic became too complex to manage. For example, attempts by a more senior partner in a nuclear coalition to restrain his junior partner can be interpreted as an invitation for aggression by an opposing coalition against the junior partner.
The second exercise examined arms race stability issues. Here, it becomes clear that as the appetite for obtaining nuclear weapons grows, so does the appetite for obtaining more of them. In this case, the real-world experience along the bilateral lines of the Cold War showed that the U.S. and Soviet policies of nuclear deterrence led to rapid growth in nuclear arsenals on both sides. "Balancing" may have led to some level of crisis stability, but it certainly did not lead to arms race stability.
There is one implicit point in Waltz's article, however, that deserves favorable consideration. This point is that the U.S. and its allies must demonstrate that they have the ability to respond effectively to the circumstance of proliferation and maintain their security.
Some members of the nonproliferation consensus believe that the only answer to the problem is to move immediately to nuclear disarmament. On this point, this faction of the nonproliferation consensus is wrong. Such fatalism is likely to prove to be, well, fatal. Demonstrating the determination to respond effectively to proliferation can and should be seen as means for discouraging it.
It is logical for would-be proliferators to draw the wrong conclusion from the argument that the only answer to proliferation is disarmament, which is that the West has no effective means for responding to nuclear weapons. There should be little doubt that the task of managing deterrence and stability in a proliferation will prove daunting, but it is one the U.S. and its allies must do their best to address.
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No matter who ends up on top in this year's closely fought presidential election—billed by both Republicans and Democrats as the most important in a generation—don't get too excited about the winner's ability to "fix" the economy. The economy's problems are deep and long-term.
Fundamentally, the economy has evolved while the socioeconomic model—our set of assumptions and institutional arrangements—has stayed in place. The model eventually will be replaced, but the change will be radical and painful and there is no consensus what the new model will be. Certainly, neither major presidential candidate has seemed to have an answer.
All advanced industrial nations developed the so-called welfare state around the middle of the 20th century. It is a system in which the state redistributes incomes via a progressive taxation system from its wealthier citizens to poorer, while providing free or affordable education and a safety net for the old, sick or underprivileged. In the U.S. it was established by Franklin Roosevelt as a way out of the Great Depression, but in the post-World War II decades it also helped maintain workplace peace and a considerable degree of political consensus.
In Western Europe, the welfare state was built as a way to maintain social peace after the disastrous experience of two bloody wars, revolutions and repressive dictatorships. But it also helped bring an unprecedented and broad-based prosperity to European citizens.
Such a system worked generally well as long as industrial economies were labor-intensive and the bulk of production concentrated in the highly developed countries of Western Europe and North America. The enclosed economic system provided full employment with high wages, which in turn translated into steady consumer demand and healthy profits for businesses. The government was able to pay for a generous safety net without going into debt. On the contrary, governments were able to pay down or grow out of the debt they incurred during World War II. In the case of the U.S., national debt as a share of GDP went from 120% at the start of the 1950s to 30% by 1980. Government regulations and unionization, meanwhile, ensured stability by discouraging too much competition and slowing technological progress.
The system, in its U.S. and European variants, eventually became stagnant and inefficient, and then began breaking down rather quickly. Production facilities were set up in new locations, as first East Asians and then others learned to manufacture the same goods cheaper and, in many cases, better. Established companies started to move production offshore in order to save costs in a more competitive environment. New technologies increased competition, but also made it easier to move production around the globe and replace labor-intensive processes with machines and robots. Intensified competition swept aside much government regulation and all but eliminated industrial unions, at least in more dynamic economies such as the U.S.
New Economy
The economy looks very different now than it did only 20 years ago. Full employment has broken down. The jobless rate in the U.S. is now at the level of the early 1980s, but today's unemployment, the structure of the labor market and the composition of the labor force have changed substantially. Many more women have joined the labor force today, by both choice and necessity, as few households outside the upper middle class can afford live on one income and have wives stay at home.
Underemployment is nearly twice as high as the headline unemployment rate, at over 15%, and it seems like a permanent feature of the labor market. So is having multiple jobs none of which alone can provide a living wage or offers fringe benefits. Over the past five years, there has been the phenomenon of college graduates being stuck in low-paying, low-skilled service jobs, possibly creating a permanent underclass.
At the other end of the income spectrum, it has been noted that most of the gains in incomes over the past 30 years have gone to the highest 20% of US households, with the top 5% benefiting disproportionately.
All these trends have been exacerbated in the 2008-09 global economic downturn and the subsequent anemic recovery, a period in which lower-income households lost further ground as far as incomes are concerned, and the top quintile, once again, moved further ahead. The labor force participation rate has plummeted from over 67% of the population during the boom of the late 1990s to just 63.5% in August 2012.
Some manufacturing is now returning to U.S. shores in the process known as insourcing. Foreign companies are also alert to opportunities in the U.S. South Korea's Hyundai recently relocated car production to its plants in Alabama, while Germany's Siemens closed its gas turbine operations in Canada and moved production to North Carolina, to cite just two recent examples. But insourcing brings back far fewer jobs than before, and at lower pay. Even if the U.S. once again becomes a net exporter of manufactured goods in the near future, the development of robotics technology suggests that job creation will not keep pace with the growth of the labor force. Moreover, only low wages will be able to compete with automation.
Same Old Model
The changes in the economy have not been matched by an updating of the socioeconomic model. Policies and institutions still assume a large middle class able to find adequate employment and buy ample consumer goods. As before, the government relies on taxation to redistribute incomes and to sustain the incomes of the poorer social classes.
The problem is that the tax burden is now falling more and more heavily on a shrinking tax base. Lower income households find it progressively harder to pay even lower taxes; a smaller percentage of citizens with higher incomes are footing the lion's share of the tax bill while using fewer and fewer government services. The lower-income classes grow, swelling the ranks of people who want to lay a claim on government largesse and who either can't find jobs or can't get a living wage.
While getting less in taxes, the government is actually forced to provide more and more aggregate demand to sustain the economy. Thus, it finds itself footing a larger and larger share of the national bill with shrinking resources, pleasing no one. Public spending is growing, undermining overall economic efficiency. Upper income households and corporations balk at paying even more taxes and as a result public sector deficits are reaching dangerous levels. In the U.S., trillion-dollar deficits have become structural, and eliminating them would result in an 8-10% economic contraction, which would be classified as a new Depression.
This situation is unsustainable. Western Europe has come to the end of the road, with the euro-zone crisis devastating the economies of the biggest debtors and plunging the entire region into an open-ended recession. The U.S., meanwhile, is accumulating debt at the pace of $1 trillion per year, and can't continue to do so for long before becoming a giant Greece or Portugal. Social peace, too, is starting to break down on the fringes of the crisis-riven euro-zone and discontent with the political system is running high everywhere, even in relatively prosperous northern European countries and the U.S., where ideological polarization and the bitter tone of the political debate are almost without precedent in the history of the Republic.
The socioeconomic model is in need of some fundamental change. It has to adapt to an economy that has moved far ahead of a system designed for the mid-20th century. The problem is that no one really knows what the new model should look like and how it will address an economy way out of balance—an economy in which goods can be made cheaply and efficiently with less and less labor, while consumer demand depends on a labor force that finds it harder and harder to get gainful employment.


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The Razzies
Well, I know that the announcement for the winners for the Razzies came out already but I still wanted to write about it. Anyway, I can't really say anything about most of the movies and/or actors who were nominated because I never saw the movies. All I can say is that I'm not surprised that Eclipse had so many nominations. I mean, to me, it was not the best movie from the three that already came out. Personally, I thought that the first one was the best, which is not saying much. There are so many reasons why I'm not surprised why Eclipse got so many Razzie nominations. First, like I said before, the story was a bit disjointed for me. The scenes didn't flow as well as I would have liked. Plus, that they left out some information out, like how some of the pack members, other than Sam, imprinting. Second was Kristen's performance. As usual, she was horrible. But then again, it's not entirely her fault. Bella is an extremely boring character.


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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (March 12, 2012) – Cigital, Inc., a software security consulting firm, announced plans today to locate a new facility here, creating up to 25 high-wage jobs by 2014.
The Virginia-based company, which specializes in helping companies design, build and maintain secure software, will invest $352,000 to lease and equip 2,400 square feet of space at 100 S. College Ave. The new facility will house the company's first assessment center outside of its Dulles, Va. headquarters and is slated to be operational in May.
"Innovative companies like Cigital recognize our state's high-growth potential for expanding businesses," said Dan Hasler, Secretary of Commerce and chief executive officer of the Indiana Economic Development Corporation. "With our world-class research universities and low-tax policies, we're continuing to bring in more high-wage jobs for Hoosiers."
Cigital, which has approximately 200 employees internationally, has already begun hiring new software security consultants.
"Bloomington and the surrounding area has a growing technology base and we are thrilled to be a part of it," said John Wyatt, chairman and chief executive officer of Cigital. "Our new location is representative of our growing business and we are excited about the talented individuals from the area that we will bring to Cigital."
Cigital was established in 1992 with funding and contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and NASA. The company, which has additional offices in New York, Massachusetts, California, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and India, has been awarded eight patents for its advances in software security.
The Indiana Economic Development Corporation offered Cigital, Inc. up to $250,000 in conditional tax credits and up to $8,100 in training grants based on the company's job creation plans. These tax credits are performance-based, meaning until Hoosiers are hired, the company is not eligible to claim incentives. The city of Bloomington supports the project through additional incentives at the request of the Bloomington Economic Development Corporation.
"This is a big win in our continuing effort to enhance our growing high tech community," said Bloomington Mayor Mark Kruzan. "The new jobs that Cigital is bringing mean more opportunities in Bloomington for our local tech workers and for new grads from Indiana University. It also means more reasons for tech workers and other employers around the globe to look at coming to Bloomington to create their own opportunities."
According to TechAmerica Foundation's Cyberstates 2011 report, Indiana's tech sector employs more than 70,000 people, with a total payroll of $4.3 billion. The fastest growing fields in the Hoosier State's high-tech industry are the computer systems design sector and the engineering services sector.
About Cigital
Cigital, Inc. is the leading software security consulting firm in the world. Established in 1992, Cigital plans and implements initiatives that help organizations ensure their applications are secure and reliable while also improving how they build and deploy software. Our recognized experts apply a combination of proven methodologies, tools, and best practices to meet each client's unique requirements. Cigital is headquartered outside Washington, D.C. with regional offices in the U.S., Europe, and India. For more information visit: www.cigital.com.
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Created by Governor Mitch Daniels in 2005 to replace the former Department of Commerce, the Indiana Economic Development Corporation is governed by a 12-member board chaired by Governor Daniels. Dan Hasler serves as the chief executive officer of the IEDC.
The IEDC oversees programs enacted by the General Assembly including tax credits, workforce training grants and public infrastructure assistance. All tax credits are performance-based. Therefore, companies must first invest in Indiana through job creation or capital investment before incentives are paid. A company who does not meet its full projections only receives a percentage of the incentives proportional to its actual investment. For more information about IEDC, visit www.iedc.in.gov.
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Apple's new iPad mini delivers all the same features your techie loves about the iPad, just in a smaller, more portable package.
Great for frequent travelers, the iPad mini measures 7.87 inches (full-sized iPads, by comparison, measure 9.5 inches) and is just 0.68 pounds. Its smaller frame lets the iPad mini easily slide into purses or brief cases, and users can hold the tablet with just one hand.
The only drawback is that the display is a bit of downgrade compared to bigger iPads, but other specs, such as battery life and cameras, are identical. The iPad mini ranges from $329 to $659, depending on the model.


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LAS VEGAS--Almost every new car comes with a Bluetooth hands-free phone system, but SuperTooth believes there is still room for a Bluetooth speakerphone car kit, as evidenced by its launch of the HD Voice at CES 2013. And with the HD Voice's advanced features, SuperTooth may be right.
A spokesperson for SuperTooth suggested the call quality was so good, the HD Voice would be preferable to use in cars over the native hands-free phone system. A bold claim, but the HD Voice does come with two microphones and two speakers, hardware that will not only enhance call quality, but should give the voice command system better command recognition.
Voice command features let users initiate calls by speaking a contact's name, and the HD Voice will also notify a driver of an incoming call by the name of a contact, making it easy to screen calls.
A range of about 10 yards makes it useful outside of a car. Battery life is rated by SuperTooth at 20 hours talk time and 1,000 hours standby, so it can sit in a car for a long time without need for a recharge. As it uses a USB charging cable, it can be plugged into a car's 12-volt power point with an adapter.
The HD Voice also supports A2DP audio streaming over Bluetooth, which should play in stereo over the devices' two speakers. A nice touch, but music playback probably won't sound better than a car's built-in audio system. The HD Voice also does not come with an auxiliary port or other means of connecting it to a car's audio system. However, the HD Voice is portable, so can be taken out of the car to a hotel room, for example.
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Celebrating 20 years of Sega's blurry blue mascot, this Sonic the Hedgehog Christmas tree from 8BitFix's Beatboxtaun stands as both a monument to video game culture and a reminder of those who won't be with us this holiday season.
We've featured Tanya "Beatboxtaun" Valdez's creations on Kotaku several times over the past couple of years, from her lovely Punch Out!!! scarf to her previous entries in the world's geekiest Christmas tree contest.
This year's tree holds a particularly strong place in Beatboxtaun's heart, however, as it was the last tree she shared with her father, who recently passed away.
This tree is also very special because my dad came to visit us Sunday evening, as we were working on the tree. It was nice to be able to work on Sonic Christmas ornaments and chat with my parents. I know Tito was very proud of the tree and one of the last things my dad said, as he left our house was, "That's one heck of a tree. Now, if he could only do Mickey Mouse." We found that very humorous because, although my father is the one that got me into gaming, he doesn't know a lot of video game characters. He passed away the next morning. Without getting too deep into the story, this should convey how special this tree is.
Our hearts go out to Tanya and her family in this time of tragedy, just as they soar when we behold the majesty of her hedgehog-infested holiday creation.
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Notations : Suppose V is a closed contact compact manifold with contact form $\alpha$, of dimension 2n+1. Consider the symplectic sub-bundle $ \xi \subset TV $ given by $ \xi=$ ker($\alpha$). So $ \xi \rightarrow V $ is a vector bundle of rank $2n$ admitting the symplectic structure $d\alpha$. Also consider the Reeb vector field "$R$" determined by $\alpha$ and corresponding flow $\phi_t$. Assume that there is a finite number of simple periodic orbits of Reeb flow and all of them are non-degenerate.
Here is the question : In general there are plenty of almost complex structure on the symplectic bundle $\xi$ but is there any one which is invariant under Reeb flow, $\phi_t$ ?
I believe the answer will be no in general due to complicated behavior of $\phi_t$, but I wish that I am not right.