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Beach erosion myth
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Erosion on Negril beach is just a myth. If there was no one living there how would a person tell.Erosion is a comparsion of what the beach was like yesterday to what it looks like the next day . If Negril beach was just found/discovered today THAT'S !!!! when the erosion marker would be set. If all the hotels were up in Redground the topic of beach erosion would never be mentioned .The beach would be lovely everyday ,no complaints about walking in the water around bars and stuff like that. The sewage is the "bad guy ". When the river ran brown in days gone by ,that was nature but now it's nature with poop in it.When you are fishing/sailing etc. you can tell where the reef's come out from the shore by the shape of the land. Things like Mary's Bay pier will cause alot of damage some day.It will cause eddy's and undermine itself and cause nature to be rough on itself instead of being gentle on the shore. Storms are nature's way of having a bowel movement. The sea becomes fresh ,turning everything upside down . That is when fishing is at it's best after a storm .Nature is defoliating the bottom and sending it to shore to be used as natural fertilzer, not buried .It then grows back and the cycle starts again (or should ). Look at pics of the beach 40-50 years ago and it is so virbrant ,fed by nature. Tranquility is what's needed to keep the beach healthy. Laying back letting the human body rest in turn not making the beach work 24/7 is the key I think. Why do we need all the stuff like never ending water crafts and horse's trying there best to avoid killing people (just a matter of time ).It's the buildings that are the markers of erosion no the beach . What say you on this topic.
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I agree 100% OT. The beach is always evolving thanks to Mother Nature. One area may lose while another gains with each passing storm. Then it reverses itself with the next one. Here are some vintage photos of Negril back in the day. The first two are screen shots taken during the filming of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in the 1950's. The second pair are Bloody Bay from the early 1970's.
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I have to agree, too, OT. Nature will move and replace and put back again. We need to be mindful and take care of our enviornment so it isn't destroyed and changed to such a degree that it won't come back.
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I agree OT, beaches are constantly moving and changing like all living things do. Playa Norte on Isla is a prime example , a few years back the sand moved out to sea. Now it is back and the beach larger than I have ever seen it. Nothing the hotels did for erosion had much effect..........it was nature doing its thing that brought the sand back and at some point it will take it away again.
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I've seen beach sands shift drastically just in a 3 month period - so yes, you are correct in that way - what nature takes away, she puts back - most often someplace else.
But to discount erosion as a whole is a mistake. The more development that happens on a beach the more erosion will occur. For every tree, shrub and plant ripped out, the more sand will be lost - that simple environmental science. If the reefs are destroyed, the sands cannot be replaced. A healthy coastline depends on a lot of factors. As somone who first walked Long Bay in 1983 I can tell you the beach there has changed...BP's photos of Bloody Bay break my heart, I remember it that way very clearly and the sand and water are just not that pristine now with all the development and human use. The Long Bay I first walked and enjoyed had more "open space" than not - now its like Las Vegas...sigh. The bush line is pushed back practically to the road so sure, for a time you see more sand but that bush is what keeps the sand stable.
Care must be taken to preserve what's left - here in NoCal there is an ongoing volunteer effort to prevent erosion by planting, limiting development (like - NONE) and constantly watching over polluting factors. It is my hope that Jamaica wakes up one day to see what it has and does what it takes to keep it.
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I agree, but not 100%.
Agree with the idea that nature is generally cyclical, in particular with regard to most beach erosion. Agree also in the sense that I'm not convinced some of the 'beach repair' methods actually work in some, or perhaps any, situations (jettys, offshore breakers, reef balls, dredging/reclamation, etc.).
However, in some places, beach erosion appears to have been documented over long periods with no cycle - i.e. the shoreline only moves in one direction. That Sandals-sponsored report from a few years ago had aerial surveys of Long Beach showing erosion, in the long term, going in one direction. IIRC it was a decent (to my non-scientifically trained mind) period of time between each contour in the graph plot (10 years maybe?). Some areas showed greater and more consistent retreat of shoreline than others (I think the report was making that point - that the locale of Sandals' property was bearing the brunt of something done up by Hedo area). Sure - they may have had an agenda and cherry-picked which aerials to use in their elevation contour plots, but in general I do believe the beach is eroding.
There have been enough places in the world that have shown loss/decay of offshore reefs increased chance of beach erosion that I believe reefs are important for shoreline protection.
In LA the loss of shoreline has been documented for years (nearly a century). Most scientific studies agree that the canals through the onshore swamps combined with the straightening of the Mississippi River are the main contributors to the loss. (btw - "Bayou Farewell" by Mike Tidwell is a good read, IMHO). There may be a few studies that demur on the cause but I haven't heard/read any that dispute the idea that the shoreline is receding (and rapidly).
Will the shoreline move back out some day in LA? Maybe. Global sea level studies going back 10,000 and 100,000s of years show changes in both directions through various ice ages and warming periods. (the sound you hear is that huge can of worms now opening ...) Are changes to sea levels caused by human practices part of a "natural" cycle? Dunno. The sun is supposed to explode in some 2+ billion years and one could take the long view that it doesn't really matter what we do to the sea level. I prefer to believe that in the near term (next few 100 years or so) what we do to the environment does matter.
Perhaps in 100,000 years some change will allow the LA shoreline to rebuild. Or perhaps the apes will be riding their horses along the rebuilt LA shoreline as Charlton Heston bellows "You maniacs, you blew it up".
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(04-25-2014 10:54 AM)'JonTom' Wrote: ... IIRC it was a decent (to my non-scientifically trained mind) period of time between each contour in the graph plot (10 years maybe?)....Just had to look it up. The report shows 1968, 1980, 1991, 2003, and 2006. They still could have picked sources to match an agenda and I can't find any cited source, but I'm rather pleasantly surprised that I (roughly) remembered the time interval correctly.
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I guess what I meant was that the BUILDINGS !!! are the markers. If there were no buildings on the beach then the sand would go out and in without noticing it. The beach is always moving BUT !!!! the buildings are stationary. It's like standing on the waterline and the tide comes in ,now my feet are wet ,the tide goes out ,now my feet are dry.BUT !!!! if I walked away my feet would always be dry. With buildings yes erosion matters because they can't move but without buildings close to the water's edge it doesn't matter.I personally live on 50 acres of land on the Northumberland Strait with 1,780 ft of shorefront and the beach changes storm in and storm out but there is no one living here so erosion in not a factor. Erosion is an adjective of population . ( Wow ,I never thought I could say that..hehehe )
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Quote: oldtimer said: Erosion is an adjective of populationWell stated!
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VERY well put OT!!
"Agree also in the sense that I'm not convinced some of the 'beach repair' methods actually work in some, or perhaps any, situations (jettys, offshore breakers, reef balls, dredging/reclamation, etc.)."
Not convinced of that either but I do know what works - I've seen it work - plantings, replenishing dunes with native grasses, limits and/or moratoriums on development. With development unfortunately you cannot turn back the clock however one could take a page from Fire Island's handbook and note that if a hurricane demolishes your coastline house you cannot rebuild on the same spot - it basically goes back to nature. Result? Homes built further from the actual shoreline with stiff limitations and moratoriums in some communities.
The few structures here in Bodega Bay that are literally "hanging" from the cliff due to weather, storms, etc. are one by one being demolished and not rebuilt due to current zoning laws.
The idea is get smarter about saving the coastline despite years of mistakes.
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Since the day I found out I was pregnant, women have been telling me horror stories about childbirth. I've heard things that would make your toes curl. I try to ignore them, but some accounts scare me to the point of tears. This is my first pregnancy and I don't know what to expect from the delivery. Why do people feel the need to share their most awful birth experiences instead of the joyous ones?
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you know what when it comes to any type of pain, people will tell you negative stuff before the positive things. The worst part of child birth for me was the contractions. And if you have health problems before you have the baby that might be an issue too. I am not going to sit here and tell you that childbirth is cake, cause it is not. You are giving birth to a human being and it is not going to be easy in some cases. Don't worry about what people say cause every pregancy is different. Just don't forget to breath and try to stay calm. Getting all excited during is not going to make anything easier. If possible have people you love around you. That helps a lot. Sometimes that takes your mind off the pain. Before you know it you will have a beautiful baby right before your eyes, then pain will not matter anymore. Trust me I know, So just relax and take it in stride...posted 07/07/2009 by a BabyCenter Member
I remember when I was pregnant with my first son and attended childbirth classes, one of the first pieces of advice the teacher gave us was to turn off the t.v. shows on childbirth. The reason? They don't tell typical labor stories, and they emphasize the bad events. Same is true for people. Sometimes you just have to tune out the trauma stories. I think it makes some women feel stronger and more experianced by telling the events that don't go according to plan. They can also exagerate. But most often they forget how it scares first time moms. Truth is, delivery varies woman to woman, pregnancy to pregnancy. Never does it go exactly how we plan it, but rarely does it end up as tramatic as we dream it to be. And should a problem occur, rest assure, that's why we don't go into the delivery room alone. There's always a doctor, nurse, midwife, or family member close by to help us through. And the labor pain? Well, it's true that it's one of the most forgetable pains. That's why I'm on #3.posted 01/06/2009 by SaphireMoon
This is my first baby also. Im 25 weeks and scared to death about child birth. I know how you feel if it makes you feel any better. The best thing to do is like me tell them you dont want to hear it and please stop. What i also do to help me is i try to tell myself if it is half as bad as they say it is then their wouldnt be any children. Im not saying it want hurt but I try not to listen to others because it want make things any easyer. Trust me just tell them to stop i wish you all the luck we will get through it and when its over next time want be as bad because youll no what is going to happen. Youll probley want another :)posted 02/22/2008 by faelan
I felt that way too with my first pregnancy, the unknown is very scary. But I'll tell you my story, it was GREAT!! And no one ever tells the really great stories. I went into labor the day before my due date at 2:30am, we rushed to the hospital because were were so excited. By 6am the labor pains were to bad and I was very tired, so I had an epidural, which was my plan from the beginning anyway. I wasn't trying to be a hero or anything :) That allowed me to rest and just let my body do the work naturally. At 8:30am the doctor came in to check me and I was fully dialated and ready to go. She said they would wait about another 1/2 hour and let my body move the baby down on it's own a little more, then she said I'd only have to push for about an hour. At 8:45am she was barely getting her robe on when I pushed literally 3 times and my daughter was born at 8:54am. It all happened very quickly and I felt NO pain, which was amazing!! I'm currently pregnant again and hope it goes as smoothly.posted 02/24/2008 by carrie612
I heard the scary stories with my first and in the end it was so easy for me every women is different. I was even induced and i am pregnant again and hope i get induced again. I did get an epidural with my son and i was so glad i did, I was well rested then i pushed and and here he was. I plan on getting a epidural again.posted 05/07/2011 by a BabyCenter Member
I heard a bunch of horror stories too when I was pregnant with my son and while labor isn't fun its not that bad either. I would just ignore them, if you can, and if not tell them that while you appriciate their wanting to warn you their stories are stressing you out, so please stop.posted 05/03/2011 by 2babystolove
I'm with you. I think we should maintain the saying 'if you don't have anything nice to say..." to a point anyway. Since I got pregnant all I have heard is how terrible the whole experience is, though not verbatim of course. I haven't heard one positive comment about any of it. I also agree that I'm sick to death of hearing "just wait", especially when what you're supposed to be waiting for may never happen. I believe that mothers want the horrors that happened to them to happen to you so they feel justified in having gone through it, otherwise it wouldn't be fair to them.posted 12/04/2007 by DCraver
Probably just a comment that others have said - I really wouldn't worry about anyone else's birth story. You have no idea what your body will do or how much it will hurt until you do it yourself. When I was pregnant with my first, I felt that way, and was able to listen with interest. There is a wide range of what childbirth can be like, so you can listen and learn. However, don't go home and stress out, because you might be one of the the easy, lucky ones! Even if not, it will likely only be a day of your life, and once it's done it's done. You can add your own story to the list!posted 09/12/2005 by KerraPR
seriously..i agree, i don't know why women 'friends' have to tell you the most horrific stories they've ever heard. here's an example: i recently told my girlfriends i was pregnant and after the congratulations hoopla, they immediately start talking about how they know this girl who carried her baby all the way up to the 9th month with a perfect heartbeat, etc... then all of a sudden pushed out a still born baby. i mean, really, i didn't need to hear something as devastating as that. i'm just saying.....posted 02/07/2011 by a BabyCenter Member
Because they think that since their's was like that, everybody else must have gone, or will go, through the same thing. I tell them to stop (or shutup) and say "Unless you want to tell me 'Goodluck!' or 'Best wishes' I don't want to hear it".posted 01/09/2011 by mabma3
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As Brett Seacat prepares to go to prison after being convicted Tuesday of killing his wife, Vashti Forrest-Seacat, corrections officials will be taking extra safety measures.
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Law enforcement officers who are arrested are almost always held in solitary confinement for their safety. Usually, they are held where they will not be easily recognized.
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A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (1998) Searching for hidden images : rock art geography in Stjørdal, Trøndelag, Norway. Rock Art Research. volum 15 (2).
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- (2012) Rockshelters in central Norway : long-term changes in use, social organization and production. Caves in Context. The Cultural Significance of Caves and Rockshelters in Europe.
- (2010) Nummedals fotspor og andre spor. Om de arkeologiske undersøkelsene på Kvernberget. Årbok for Nordmøre Museum 2010, Kystkultur.
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THURSDAY, Feb. 13, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Americans seeking treatment for mental health disorders may be four to 16 times more likely to be infected with HIV than those in the general population, a new study reveals.
The findings emphasize the need to provide testing for HIV -- the virus that causes AIDS -- in mental health care facilities, the researchers said.
The study authors provided HIV testing to more than 1,000 people in Philadelphia and Baltimore who sought treatment for mental health problems such as depression, psychosis and substance abuse from January 2009 to August 2011.
About 4.8 percent of these patients were infected with HIV. That's 16 times higher than the rate of 0.3 percent in the overall U.S. population, and about four times higher than the rates of 1.4 percent in Philadelphia and 1.3 percent in Baltimore. Both cities are HIV epicenters, the researchers noted.
Thirteen of the 51 mental health patients found to have HIV did not know they were infected, according to the study published Feb. 13 in the American Journal of Public Health.
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"These findings paint a recent picture of HIV infection rates in the community, and reinforce how important it is to identify patients and get them into appropriate infectious disease care in a timely manner while being treated for mental illness," study lead author Michael Blank, an associate professor in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, said in a university news release.
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The connection between the video festival, the work and the artists is somewhat loose. Successful videos feature at countless festivals, but often their creators do not even attend the screenings. And yet every one of these screenings – at least those with videos of short running times – is totally unique. The works are gathered together in a programme which, under normal circumstances, is never screened again outside of the festival. We have therefore decided for the 25th anniversary of transmediale...
In response to the in/compatible theme of the festival the transmediale 2012 exhibition focuses on "uneasy energies in technological times." Through an extensive group of examples, the exhibition argues that distortions, ambiguities, and other such problematic states constitute a significant trajectory in our relations with modern technology. However, the exhibition does not offer a promise of overcoming the uneasy energies. On the contrary, it understands them as fundamentally insuperable, an integral part of our technological times, and invites visitors to explore the horizons that they open up. | Read more the concept of the exhibition here.
Marcel René Marburger studied Art History, German Literature and Philosophy at the University of Cologne with a PhD on theoretical art relevance in Vilém Flusser's writings.
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Matthew Fuller is involved in a number of projects in art, media and software and is a Reader at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Cornelia Sollfrank is a German artist and researcher, teaching at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Scotland. Since the mid 1990s her conceptual works involve digital networked technology, writing, performance and video.
Gaia Novati (born 1976) is a curator and activist, working on gender themes and independent pornography.
Adam Hyde was for many years a digital artist exploring digital-analog hybrid broadcast systems. He founded FLOSS Manuals, the Book Sprint method, Booki/Booktype book production platforms and is now mostly engaged with exploring new methodologies for collaborative book production.
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Matthew Condon has unearthed the truth of Queensland's corrupt past; stories first glimpsed during the Fitzgerald Inquiry.
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Last year, writer Matthew Condon told the story of a debased and corrupt police culture that existed in the state of Queensland, from the post-war years up to the 1980s.
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Terry Lewis would go on to become Queensland police commissioner.
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News Corp to trade music for games, readies MySpace sale
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Symantec adds file resource management
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WikiLeaks payment service threatens to sue Visa, MasterCard
Ad man offers fine drugs and finer print to Macbook thief
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US Navy plans self-building floating fortresses
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Yahoo! News confused on theft of Lego giraffe's todger
that is all.
US women protest for the right to bare
I fully support womens rights to be topless in public....
Aussie Sex Party bursts upon political stage
What the hell are "orgiastic notions"?
Old-school virus threatens Delphi files
Oh dear
How limited is this going to be?
Who actually still uses Delphi?
Palm accused of spying on Pre owners
Well it could be sent to palm in the event if a crash. Could which tower your currently using be of interest to the developers in investigating a problem?
If this data I'd being gathers, but not sent could it be a case of palm asking the user to send this info?
Microsoft's web Office: No love for Chrome, Opera
wait for it
Just wait for Opera to start the crying games,,,,,,,,,,
Man blames cat for child porn downloads
Heard some crap excuses in my time, but that ranks up there with the worst.
KDE 4.3 promises polish, polish, polish
I always hated the look of KDE, always the rounded corners and huge icons.
Gimme a bash prompt any day. If I have to use any DE, Gnome, or at a absolute minimum Fluxbox.
O2 does Apple-flavour customer service
If you have had a number change, your iPhone will not connect to btopenzone
try sending a text to 2121 with WIFI as the contents to have your mobile number updated in the system. It worked for me.
AOL's pulse slows as Q2 revs slip 24%
AOL - Your time has been and gone
Yes, I remember the time when they blanketed everything with CD's, you could not help but avoid them.
But the time has come for AOLit to fade quietly into the memorys of the old timers. Let become nothing more than a Wikipedia entry.
Foxconn answers critics over suicidal iPhone engineer
Good luck with that. You would be amazed at what Foxxcon are contracted for
Wheels come off O2's data network
? <-- that was a title
Absolutely no problem here.
Apple, Microsoft sued over iPod, Zune controls
Anal clench click, well sorry. Apple have that one coverd
Staten Island manhole swallows texting teen
"Ms Longueira suffered nothing more than scrapes to her arms and back in the incident, although the Longueira family says it intends to sue."
Of course they do, its America. They sue for everything.
Bloke uses nail clippers to go roundhead
Oh lordy
Why, just why.
Britney Spears
dead hacked
She posted it, jealous of all the attention Wacko Jacko is getting
Steve Jobs finds part-time work
@Steve Evans
You dont need to be dead to donate a liver. Only part of it is used, as it is still viable if cut in half. So someone may very well be walking round with half a liver, the other half in jobsie.
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Is authoritarian capitalism a successful model?
Not only do we live in a new "age of authoritarianism," but we live in a world where autocratic governments increasingly finance democratic governments.... One thing is clear: the world's biggest financial powers are no longer the world's large democracies. A gathering of the countries that matter for global economic coordination will no longer be a gathering of the leaders of the world's big democracies. Coordination among the large democracies was never easy — and likely will only get harder as additional countries have to be brought in.Then there's the New York Times' Jad Mouawad on national oil companies -- most of which are based in non-democratic countries:
Oil production has begun falling at all of the major Western oil companies, and they are finding it harder than ever to find new prospects even though they are awash in profits and eager to expand. Part of the reason is political. From the Caspian Sea to South America, Western oil companies are being squeezed out of resource-rich provinces. They are being forced to renegotiate contracts on less-favorable terms and are fighting losing battles with assertive state-owned oil companies. And much of their production is in mature regions that are declining, like the North Sea. The reality, experts say, is that the oil giants that once dominated the global market have lost much of their influence — and with it, their ability to increase supplies.... As late as the 1970s, Western corporations controlled well over half of the world's oil production. These companies — Exxon Mobil, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Total of France and Eni of Italy — now produce just 13 percent. Today's 10 largest holders of petroleum reserves are state-owned companies, like Russia's Gazprom and Iran's national oil company.... Western companies are far better than most national oil companies at finding and extracting petroleum, experts say. They have developed advanced exploration technologies and can muster significant financing to develop new fields. Many of the world's exporting states, however, have spurned their expertise. Oil company executives see a straightforward explanation: a trend known as resource nationalism. They contend that they have been shut out of promising regions by a rising assertiveness in the Middle East, in Russia, in South America and elsewhere by governments determined to keep full control of their oil. Even in places where they are allowed to operate, the Western oil companies face growing problems. Countries like Russia, Algeria, Nigeria and Angola have recently sought to renegotiate their contracts with foreign investors to capture a bigger share of the profits. "The problem with the supply side of the equation is a problem of accessing the resources in the ground so they can be explored and developed," Rex W. Tillerson, the chairman of Exxon, said in a recent interview. "That's a political question where governments have made choices."And oil is not the only area of resource nationalism and nationalization. There's cement. And, potentially, food:
While Saudi Arabia sets up its first sovereign wealth fund, ordinary Saudis are more preoccupied with the rising price of food. This is prompting the Saudi government to consider a new direction for foreign investment: buying farms in the poorer parts of the world.... Saudis are thinking of buying rice farms in Thailand, the world's biggest rice exporter. Rice prices are climbing especially fast, as several rice-producing countries have restricted exports, fearing domestic shortages. Thailand has even flirted with the idea of an OPEC-style rice cartel. Investors from elsewhere in the Gulf, including Qatar and Abu Dhabi, are scouring the world for undeveloped farmland to buy, especially in Pakistan and Sudan. Libyans and other Arabs have been checking out Ukraine. Kuwaitis have been looking in Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos.A few thoughts on all of this:
- There's no question that there's either been a shift in the distribution of power -- or a shift in norms. Fifty years ago, there's just no way the United States tolerates this kind of nationalization in Venezuela, for example.
- The rise of authoritarian capitalism still seems a bit overstated to me. Setser, for example, makes his point by looking at the size of official reserves in democratic vs. authoritarian countries. And, sure enough the latter now dawrfs the former. Except this is a bit deceptive, since I'm willing to bet that the distribution of privately-held assets looks much more like the traditional distribution of power. Even in an area like oil wealth, OECD governments still hold a lot of leverage, as Daryl Press and Eugene Gholz point out in today's New York Times.
- I don't doubt that authoritarian capitalism can thrive in the short to medium term, but I'm still unconvinced that it can outperform the more liberal varieties of capitalism in the long term. Centralized governments do pretty badly once they are done with technological catch-up. And I'm very fond of this Ken Rogoff quote: "Governments have a long tradition of losing massive amounts of money in financial markets. This tradition is not likely to end anytime soon."
- I could be wrong about point #3. Maybe Rogoff was talking about the U.S. Trasury rather than China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange.
- Really, this all boils down to China. Every other "rising power" in today's economy is either a democracy or sitting on natural resources that will eventually decline in value.


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The dynamic duo of Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss jingles it up with such revolutionary zest that Sleigh Bells have emerged as one of this year's most impressive buzz bands. And the emphasis is definitely on buzz, since SB's sound is a magnificent, grinding mash of churning guitars, searing synths, thunderous beats, orchestrated distortion, blistering reverb, delicious sludge, and twisted metal riffs. Yet Miller has crafted a melodic core that's such pure pop its sugary nature is the perfect juxtaposition to SB's bitter exterior, all the more so because Krauss's sweet, girl-groupish singing weaves through it all. Even her razor-sharp screams slather icing on Miller's noise-popsical. On Treats, Sleigh Bell's debut album, Krauss variously suggests Debbie Harry, M.I.A., and Ronnie Spector; Funkadelic crops up via a sample; there are intimations of Sonic Youth, the Strawberry Alarm Clock, Black Sabbath, and Phil Spector's famed Wall of Sound, the latter so vivid on "Rill Rill" that it threatens to morph into the Ronettes' "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"—the perfect spot for sleigh bells. 18+.
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AFS Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of integrated technology solutions to the consumer packaged goods (CPG), food and beverage industries, today announced a new branding strategy that represents a significant milestone in the company's evolution. The new branding initiative unifies the AFS identity across all products and core solutions with the objective to better communicate the company's unique characteristics and value to customers.
Over the past two years, AFS has acquired several companies with individual brands that address specific solutions for narrow segments of the market. Ross, Quofore, MEI, Synectics, and Answers solutions each address Direct Store Delivery, Retail Execution/CRM, and Trade Promotion Management for Retail and Foodservice respectively. While each brand was a leading solution provider to their respective segments, individually each did not fully convey the value of the combined integrated solutions that AFS can now provide for the CPG segment.
"The new AFS branding strategy is designed to more clearly communicate our company's unique combination of integrated technology solutions and proven areas of core expertise that help customers automate their business processes to improve the bottom line," noted Kurien Jacob, CEO of AFS Technologies. "For example, there are many companies that offer mobile-based retail execution solutions in the market. AFS is the only company that can offer retail execution with pricing linked to trade promotions, and combined analytics that can add meaningful business insight to the process," added Mr. Jacob. "The analytics can incorporate information from AFS solutions and other third party solutions to deliver meaningful analysis on mobile devices to optimize the value of various strategies."
The new grouping and brands for AFS core solutions are outlined as follows:
AFS Enterprise - Encompasses the AFS Supply Chain solutions designed to help client companies optimize profits within the enterprise and help connect enterprise data to their trading partners. AFS Enterprise solutions comprise the traditional suite of supply chain technology solutions including Enterprise Resource Planning, Warehouse Management Systems, Order Management Systems, Sales Agency Solutions, Rebate Management, Data Exchange (EDI), Product Information Management & Data Synchronization, and Discovery™ G2 Business Intelligence. Discovery™ G2 provides integrated analytics to tie multiple solutions and third party software together.
AFS Mobile – With the rapid advance in the deployment of solutions on multiple mobile platforms, AFS offers the most advanced mobile technology platform, offering solutions that operate with Apple®, Android® and Microsoft® Mobile units. AFS Mobile solutions include Direct Store Delivery, Merchandising and Retail Execution, Order Management and Pricing (including Deals and Rebates) and the ability to deliver analytics to mobile devices using Discovery™ G2.
AFS TradePro™ - Focused on AFS Trade Promotion Management (TPM) solutions that support the client's ability to optimize trade promotion spend management and related activities. AFS TradePro TPM and TPO for Retail, AFS TradePro TPM and TPO for Foodservice, and AFS TradePro TPO Planner for Foodservice & Retail are comprehensive market-focused solutions that provide configurable solutions for Retail CPG and Foodservice clients. AFS Discovery™ G2 provides integrated post-spend analytics for each of the above solutions and the ability to incorporate data from other sources including ERP systems and market research data providers.
The three AFS solutions offer "best of breed" solutions in each segment, and now integrated, offer the best solution in the market for the CPG segment.
The new unified AFS branding strategy reinforces the Company's proven specialization in supporting manufacturers, distributors, sales agencies and operators, and is communicated through the new AFS web site, www.afsi.com, and in a variety of new marketing literature and resource material.
About AFS Technologies, Inc.
AFS Technologies, Inc. is the leading provider of business enterprise and on-demand software solutions. The company serves over 1,000 customers across the Americas and in 40 countries with a portfolio of solutions for the consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, logistics and financial segments. AFS technology solutions are designed to help companies reduce costs, improve efficiency, increase sales and margins, streamline internal processes, facilitate data synchronization, and assist in regulatory compliance. All AFS solutions utilize service-oriented architecture (SOA) built with Microsoft .NET framework technology. With a focus on modular design, the solutions allow customers in manufacturing, sales agencies, distribution, and complex software companies the flexibility to upgrade specific elements of the software without affecting the rest of the system. To match the needs of our diverse customer base, products are available on both a license and true SaaS model basis. For additional information, please visit www.afsi.com or call (602) 522-8282.
The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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Cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic (CREPE) conditions over the past decade are creating cross-industry solution spaces that require processes and technologies from both the Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Management and Analytics (DMA). These solution spaces are evolving into Sensor Analytics Ecosystems (SAE) that represent significant new opportunities for organizations of all types. Public Utilities throughout the world, providing electricity, natural gas and water, are pursuing SmartGrid initiatives that represent one of the more mature examples of SAE. We have s...
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The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
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The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
Nov. 27, 2014 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,215
One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
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The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
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Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
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We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
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"Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
Nov. 26, 2014 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,607
Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
Nov. 24, 2014 07:00 PM EST Reads: 1,715
Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
Nov. 24, 2014 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,616
The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
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Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
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text: New Debris Found in Malaysia Plane Search, Says China Print article Send a Tip by Breitbart London 22 Mar 2014 post a comment China has new satellite images of floating objects that could be related to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said Saturday. "The news that I just received is that the Chinese ambassador received satellite image of floating objects in the southern corridor and they will be sending ships to verify," Hishammuddin told a news briefing in Kuala Lumpur. The main object is said to be 22.5m long and 13m wide. Reports suggest it was spotted by satellites 120km west of where teams have been working off the coast of Australia. The images are said to have been taken on Tuesday March 18th. The announcement was made at this morning's press conference, along with further information such as the fact that a transcript between the plane's pilots and ground control leaked to media yesterday "is not accurate". Authorities have also stated that the search conditions in the Indian Ocean are 'very challenging'. Tropical Cyclone Gillian now heading in that direction. Australian authorities have declared that their search will continue indefinitely, while the Malaysian transport minister also refuses to give up hope. AFP contributed to this report