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Sustainable Development Indicators for Island Taiwan Jiunn-Rong Yeh Professor of Law, National Taiwan University www.law.ntu.edu.tw/sustain Please visit our website Jiunn-Rong Yeh Professor of Law, National Taiwan University Shang-Lien Lo Professor of Environmental Engineering, National Taiwan University Ling-Ling Lee Professor of Zoology, National Taiwan University Jin-Tan Liu Professor of Economics, National Taiwan University Chin-Shou Wang Professor of Sociology, National Tsing-Hua University Shu-Li Huang Professor of Urban Planning, National Taipei University Hui-Min Tsai Professor of Environmental Education, National Taiwan Normal University Wen-Chen Shih Professor of Environmental Policy, National Dong-Hwa University 3 Sustainable Development Indicators for Taiwan Sustainable Development Indicators for Taiwan Island Taiwan Urban Taiwan P- S- R State Pressure Response Production Environmental pollution Ecological resources Social Economic Institutional response Per Capita urban productivity Ratio of service industry to urban A. Air A. Land use A. Environmental alienation A. Type of consumption A. Allocation of Government Expenditure productivity Urban productivity growth reliance on local expenditure Self- SPA1 Amount of CO2 emission SRA1 Ratio of areas depleted PSA1 Consumption of plants as medicine PEA1 Family water consumption per capita RA1 Ratio of the environmental budget to the SPA2 pH value of acid rain of natural resources or spice PEA2 Family electric consumption per capita total budget SPA3 Ratio of days with PSI < 100 SRA2 Ratio of natural coastal length PSA2 Betel nut consumption index PEA3 Cement consumption per capita RA2 R&D expenditure for the Environment Living SPA4 Noise index PSA3 Consumption value of leather product PEA4 Wood consumption per capita RA3 Growth rate of financial measures taken as PSA4 Amount of waste produced per PEA5 Average housing price /annual family economic incentives for "green industries" B. Biological resources person per day income ratio Ratio of urban area B. Water PSA5 Density of automobiles PEA6 Computer per family Increase rate of urban area PSA6 Environmental miserable index B. Organization and Policies Car ownership SRB1 Ratio of healthy forest Motor bicycle ownership SPB1 Light- polluted rivers and SRB2 Ratio of healthy arable land B. Structure of industries Efficiency of public transit streams percentage SRB3 Fisheries yield per unit effort B. Friction of space RB1 Ratio of female officials in the environmental Metropolitan population density SPB2 Reservoir quality index agencies Ratio of urban population SPB3 Coastal areas quality PEB1 Consumption of pesticide/agricultural RB2 Domestic legislation reflecting international Per capita residential floor area SPB4 Groundwater quality index C. Biodiversity PSB1 Population density production value ratio environmental treaties Metropolitan air pollution SPB5 Drinking- water qualified PSB2 Estimated amount of medical waste PEB2 Consumption of water on agriculture/ RB3 Percentage of cases being rejected in the EIA Metropolitan noise pollution percentage PSB3 Area of betel nut plantation agricultural production value ratio reviewing process Urban slum SRC1 Ratio of protected area urban PSB4 Total area of non- land over 10 PEB3 Consumption of water in industry/ Ratio of public facility area hectares being developed or converted industrial production value ratio Park area per person C. Land PEB4 Production value and export value of hog C. Specific Policies D. Soil & Water PEB5 Import and export value of coastal fishy、 C. Social anomie production value of aquaculture Environment SPC1 Soil quality PEB6 GDP of manufacturing RC1 Percentage of actual utilization of industrial SPC2 Unwell- treatment of industrial SRD1 Degree of erosion PEB7 Production value of polluting industries parks waste SRD2 Supply of water resources PSC1 Rate of casualty caused by traffic PEB8 Production value of environment protection RC2 The extent to which water price reflects the Green coverage ratio SPC3 Solid waste recycling and reuse incidence per 100,000 persons industries actual costs Metropolitan agricultural area SPC4 Generation of low- level PSC2 Rate of drop out in secondary schools PEB9 GDP of service industries as percentage RC3 Percentage of installation of sewage systems Ratio of polluted stream length radioactive wastes PSC3 Rate of crime per 100,000 persons of GDP RC4 Percentage of utilization of fishing ports ﹪of CO2 emission PSC4 Rate of divorcement PEB10 Labor productivity index of manufacturing RC5 Number of regulated chemicals Construction waste PSC5 Mother miserable index Ratio of accessible water front PSC6 Number of accepted pollution complains ﹪of waste water treated PSC7 Number of anti- pollution protests C. Environment and Energy Consumption D. Information and Participation ﹪of public expenditure on environment PSC8 Rate of laborer disputes protection PSC9 Rate of penalization against polluted Frequency of environmental education factories PEC1 Amount of nuclear power generation RD1 Popularity of Eco- Labeling activity PEC2 Amount of thermal generation RD2 Number of non- government organizations No. of environmental NGO PEC3 Energy usage efficiency (NGOs) D. Time compression PEC4 Energy consumption per person RD3 Institutional capacity of local environmental PEC5 Number of factories per km2 Life agencies PEC6 Number of personal vehicles registered PSD1 Turnover rate of stock market PDS2 Number of illegal highway shoulder PEC7 Number of domestic flights PEC8 Length of highways 4 ﹪of natural hazard area occupied by driving PEC9 Rate of regenerative energy urban use PSD3 Children environmental right index No. of death due to urban hazard PSD4 Cancer clock Scenario B Scenario A Scenario C Business As Usual Not Towards SD Towards SD Taiwan 2000 5 Developing Sustainable Development Indicators for Island Taiwan Institutional Extended PSR System Capacity-building In Reference Incorporating Taiwan's to UN Framework Salient Features Goal and Functions Criteria for Selection Process Demonstration Interpretation and Policy Incorporation 6 General Taiwan's Construction Salient of SD Features Institutional PSR Capacity-Building for SD Framework SD Indicators for Taiwan 7 Beyond Definition: Four Conceptional Models for Sustainable Development • Intergenerational Justice Model (Brundtland Report): development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs • Carrying Capacity Model (IUCN): improving the quality of life while staying within the carrying capacity of supporting system • Economic Internalization Model (D. Pearce): a maximization of the net benefits of economic development, subject to maintaining the services and quality of natural resources over time, where economic development is broadly construed to include all elements of social welfare • Institutional Capacity-building Model (J. Yeh, and others): the dynamics of social capacity building, through which the ex post regret of collective decisions can be minimized. 8 Sustainable Taiwan Probability Capacity building Indigenization Internationalization Process Taiwan 2000 9 Institutional Capacity-building Policy, Behavior, and the Environment Capacity, Institution and Performance Risk, Learning, and Minimization 10 Institutional Capacity-building Probability Capability Empowerment Processes Values 11 Taiwan as a Showcase to Sustainable Development Island Status Transitional Society and Profound Change Multidimensional Interactions Regional and International Status 12 Five Stages of Development in Taiwan: 1945- Year Stages Events Dominance 1945 Decolonization and End of Japanese Political Rehabilitation Occupation 1949 National Recovery The Nationalists Political and Mobilization Moved to Taiwan 1971 Economic ROC Lost UN Political and Development Membership Economical 1986 Democratization Lifting of Martial Political, and Pragmatism Law Decree Economical DPP Formed and Environmental 1992 Regional Rhino Horn Political, Identification and Incident Economical Internationalization and Envtl with Intl Interaction 13 Paradigmatic Change and Taiwan's Development Path Sustainable Development Environmental Awareness Inner-renewal Development Instrumentalism: Milk Cow 14 Island Characteristics (1) Insularity and Interconnectedness Physical, biological and cultural insularity Scarce natural resources Colonial legacy High population density and pressure in spatial allocation Trade dependent economy 15 Island Characteristics (2) Vulnerability and Fast Changing Natural disaster prone ecology Environmentally sensitive areas High turn over rate Constant changing society Transitional society Vulnerable to external influence Struggling for identity 16 Criteria in evaluating sustainability under institutional capacity-building Facts Information Participatory Truth Consensus Science Democracy Phenomenon Representation Sustainable Development Scarcity Due Process Economy Rule of Law Efficiency Market Dignity Justice 17 Dynamics of an Extended PSR System State Environment & Resources Pressure Social Structure& Economic Activities Response Institutional Environment & Implementation Mechanism 18 Water As An Example State Water Quantity/Quality Pressure Ratio of High Water Dependency Industries Response Water Price reflecting actual costs 19 Goal and Functions Policy Warning Policy Reflection Policy Guidance 20 Criteria for Selecting Indicators Representation Feasibility 21 Process Against Random Selection Deliberation Affiliation And Empowerment Revision 22 Demonstration Weighting, Rating and Overall Grading Analytic Hierarchy Process, AHP Comparative Standardization Dimensional and Signaling 23 Interpretation Collective Interpretation Warnings and Suggestions 24 Sustainable Development Indicators and Decision-making National Sustainable Development Council and Incorporation of Suggestions Mandatory Reference in Relevant Administrative, Legislative and Judicial Actions Constitutional Mandate 25 Assessment of Sustainable Development of Taiwan -Environmental State Indicators Shang-Lien Lo , Shiow-Mey Liou, Yu-Yun Lin Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering National Taiwan University Introduction The environmental index of Taiwan has been proceeding by EPA for many years. The most widely used are PSI, RPI, CTSI, etc. It was also monitoring the quality of environment state, such as noise, solid waste treatment, and drinking water quality. Since each index is not comprehensive enough, the whole scheme of assessment system should be constructed to connect the correlation between indicators and assess the sustainability of national development. 27 The assessment of environmental quality has been faced the problem of integrating information while in comprehensive assessment, because it cannot be accomplished by individual indicators. The development of information aggregating could be led the assessment in a big progress. In this research, the assessment of sustainable development was proceeding with transferring the raw data into sub-indices ( quality value ), classifying each category objectively, and eventually developing a systematic framework of index assessment. 28 Developing Process of Indicators In the first year, the primary system of indicators has been completed, based on the earlier researches, and the conceptions of residuals, material or energy "left over" from the various consumptive and productive activities. The environmental quality was divided into 9 categories: climate change, air quality, acid rain, freshwater quality, coastal areas quality, soil quality, solid waste management, noise, and nuclear waste. Then 20 domestic experts and scholars were invited to provide their suggestions of indicators (parameters and items were included) and these categories. 29 In the second year, the meaning and availability of indicators have been reviewed. The completeness of data, availability, indicator correlation, and the possibility of indicator combination were taken into consideration. Finally, the system was combined into 3 categories: atmosphere quality, water quality, and land quality, and the indicators were revised from 19 to 13. 30 Table 1. The amendment and modification of environmental state categories Stage 1 Stage 2 Climate change Combine Atmosphere quality Air quality Acid rain Noise merged into air quality Freshwater quality Combine Water quality Coastal area quality Soil quality Land quality Solid waste management Combine Nuclear waste Noise 31 Table 2. The amendment and modification of environmental state indicators (1) Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Concentration of Climate change The emission amount of greenhouse gases CO2 Climate change Ratio of days with PSI under Percentage of days with Ratio of days with PSI 100 PSI under 100 over 100 Air quality Acid rain Acid rain Acid rain Light-polluted streams Unpolluted streams Light-polluted streams percentage percentage percentage Major rivers quality index Drinking water failed Drinking water qualified Drinking water qualified percentage percentage percentage Reservoir quality Reservoir quality Reservoir quality Groundwater quality Cancel Groundwater quality32 Table 2. The amendment and modification of environmental state indicators (2) Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Coastal areas quality Coastal areas quality Concentration of heavy Concentration of heavy Coastal areas quality metal in the coastal sludge metal in the coastal sludge Soil degeneration Soil heavy metal Soil quality Soil heavy metal Generation of solid waste Generation of solid waste Amount of unwell-treatment Ratio of well-treatment industrial waste solid waste Solid waste recycling and Solid waste recycling and Solid waste recycling and reuse reuse reuse Noise Noise Environmental noise Nuclear waste Growth rate of low-level Growth rate of low-level management radioactive waste radioactive waste The rational and the information gathering results of indicators have been examined and revised in the third year. The coordination of indicators and categories were built. Moreover after seeking the recognition of officials, experts and publics, the calculation of the individual indicators was studied. 34 Figure 1. The causality of environmental state indicators system Traffic _ Noise Flow Atmosphere + Qualified Percentage of Quality days with PSI Percentage + Electricity / + under 100 + Energy + CO2 Petrochemical Emission + Industry Amount + + + + Rain Acdification Pollutant River Pollution Industry Resource Water Quality + Land Quality + Recovery + Domestic Amount Groundwater Production/ + Wastewater + Quality Life Improper + + treatment Nuclear + + _ + industrial Electricity + Reservior Eutrophy waste + + Land Use in Soil Nuclear Waste + C oastal Area Quality Amount Drinking water Coastal Area + Qualified Quality + Percentage example¡G ¦a¤U¤ô«~½è Indicator 35 Pressure Resource Method & Framework of Indicators Indicators information gathers from three sources: 1. Official data, such as Percentage of days with PSI under 100, Environmental noise qualified percentage. 2. Coordinate and aggregate the relativity of indicators, for example: Solid waste recycling and reuse, The area of soil polluted by heavy metal. 3. Others, assessment and integration of parameters, for example: Groundwater quality index, Costal areas quality. 36 Table 3. The calculation feasibility(1) Category State Indicators Calculation Grade Atmosphere SPA1 The emission CO2 total emission amount / capita / year A quality amount of CO2 SPA2 Acid rain Annual pH value average of rain in Taiwan A SPA3 Percentage of days (Number of days with PSI<100 /annual total A with PSI under 100 monitoring days) *100% SPA4 Environmental noise(Noise monitoring qualified intervals/ total A monitoring intervals)*100% Water quality SPB1 Light-polluted (Length of light polluted streams/ total A streams percentage monitoring length streams) *100% SPB2 Reservoir quality (Numbers of reservoirs with Carlson trophic A status index less than 50 /number of total monitoring reservoirs)*100% n SPB3 Coastal areas B quality (qualified percentage ) i i 1 *100% n *Feasibility:A : Completed data, could be executed and analyzed. B : Uncompleted or poor quality data, still could be analyzed. C : No or few data record, could not be analyzed but it is indispensable. 37 Table 3. The calculation feasibility(2) Category State Indicators Calculation Grade Water SPB4 Groundwater quality n B quality qualified ( i 1 percentage)i *100% n SPB5 Drinking water (Times of qualified drinking water inspection A qualified percentage /annual times of drinking water inspection ) *100% th Land SPC1 Soil quality Area of soil polluted by heavy metal above 4 C quality grade /total investigated area SPC2 Amount of (Amount of industrial waste - amount of B unwell-treatment well-treatment industrial waste) industrial waste SPC3 Solid waste recycling Audited and recognized recycling quantity B and reuse SPC4 Growth rate of Growth rate of low-level radioactive solidified A low-level radioactive waste wastes *Feasibility:A : Completed data, could be executed and analyzed. B : Uncompleted or poor quality data, still could be analyzed. C : No or few data record, could not be analyzed but itis indispensable. 38 Meaning present of indicators Atmosphere quality Percentage of days with PSI<100 Noise qualified percentage 100 100 80 95 60 % % 90 40 85 20 80 Year 0 Year 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 Carbon dioxide emission amount pH value of acid rain 10 5.30 Metric ton/capita/year 9 5.20 8 pH value 7 5.10 6 5.00 5 4.90 4 3 4.80 Year Year 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 39 88 While environmental quality was paid much attention by publics, the government precedes the pollution control. As the result, the emphasis on pollution control was prior than prevention in Taiwan. Although PSI control and noise quantity retain sustainable, atmosphere quality could not maintain in an optimum state. Atmosphere quality stands in sustainable development, only when the pollution prevention is prior considered. 40 Water quality Light-polluted streams percentage The percentage of Reservoir CTSI <50 75 100% 70 80% % 60% 65 40% 60 20% 55 0% Year 76 78 80 82 84 86 88Year 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 Drinking water qualified percentage Groundwater qualified percentage 100 100 98 98 96 96 % pH % 94 94 Chloride 92 92 Zn 90 90 As 76 78 80 82 84 86 88 Year 80 82 84 86 88 Year Coastal areas heavy mental qualified percentage 100 Cu 98 Zn 96 Pb % 94 Cd 92 Cr Hg 41 90 85 86 87 88 89 Year Land quality Amount of unwell-treatment Solid waste recycling and reuse Industrial Waste 3.E+06 4.E+08 22000 3.E+08 20000 2.E+06 3.E+08 Kilogram Metric ton Unit 18000 2.E+06 2.E+08 16000 1.E+06 2.E+08 14000 1.E+08 12000 5.E+05 5.E+07 10000 Year 0.E+00 0.E+00 86 87 88 87 88 Recycling quantity (unit) Year Growth rate of low-level radioative Recycling quantity (kilogram) solidified wastes 40 20 Growth rate% 0 20 - 40 - 60 - 42 77 79 81 83 85 87 Year Government investigated the inspection of heavy metal concentration in soils from 1983. The heavy metal polluted area above 4th grade was 39,953 hectare (ha.) and above 5th grade was 959 hectare from the record till 1997. One set of data was not enough to assess the whole developing tendency of soil quality indicator, soil pollution is still an acute problem. The soil pollution prevention should be proceeded as soon as possible. 43 Table 4. The meaning present from the indicators Categories Indicator name Sustainability SPA1 The emission amount of CO2 ↓ SPA2 Acid rain ↓ Atmosphere SPA3 Percentage of days with PSI under 100 ↑ SPA4 Environmental noise ↑ SPB1 Light-polluted streams percentage ↓ SPB2 Reservoir quality ↓ Water SPB3 Coastal areas quality ↓ SPB4 Groundwater quality ※ SPB5 Drinking water qualified percentage ↑ SPC1 Soil quality ※ SPC2 Amount of unwell-treatment industrial waste ↑ Land SPC3 Solid waste recycling and reuse ↑ SPC4 Growth rate of low-level radioactive wastes ↑ Note 「↑ 「↓ Sustainability inclination: 」go to sustainability; 」go against sustainability 「=」no change; 「※」insufficient data could not analyzed the sustainability. 44 Conclusion The pollution prevention of atmosphere and water environments has not been developing. The public conceptual are staying at a restrict view, caused the limitation of pollution improvement. Moreover, the restrict view lead the sustainable development situation hardly. The government devoted to the establishment of foundation and legislation since 1997 which achieved a remarkable success on solid waste management. From the result of analytic data , Solid waste management (included Amount of unwell-treatment industrial waste and Solid waste recycling and reuse) has tended to sustainability. It could be concluded that the environmental policy takes effect on the quality of environment. 45 Assessment of Sustainable Development of Taiwan - Resource State Indicators Ling-Ling Lee, Kuo-Jing Wong, Yu-Chang Yang Department of Zoology National Taiwan University Guiding Principle Sustainable use of renewable natural resources improving efficiency in the use of non- renewable resources re-using, recycling waste Maintaining ecosystem Health Marine and coast, forest, agriculture 47 Process of selecting indicators International SDI model land use, forest, agriculture, fisheries and marine, water, biodiversity Taiwan's natural environment and resource state Data feasibility 48 Taiwan's natural environment and resources state Island → marine, coast, fisheries Topography →land use, water, soil Diverse habitat types → biological diversity Natural disaster prone → forest, agriculture, ecologically sensitive areas 49 Data feasibility Preliminary set of indicators: 8 categories, 16 indicators, 33 variables examples of indicators with no or not enough data: underground water supply, polluted agricultural land, etc. Final set of indicators: 4 categories, 8 indicators, 14 variables 50 Indicators of States Natural resources and ecosystems Category Indicator Variables Data feasibility* A. Land use SRA1.Ratio of areas Total size of urban area A depleted of natural resources Total size of industrial area SRA2.Ratio of natural Total length of natural coastline A coastline Total length of artificial construction along the coast B.Biological SRB1.Ratio of healthy Total area of natural forest A resources forest Total area of artificaial plantation Total forest area affected by fire, pest , disease and illegal use SRB2.Ratio of healthy Total area of arable land A arable land Total arable area affected by pest, disease, natural catastrophe 51 Indicators of States Natural resources and ecosystems Category Indicator Variables Data feasibility* B.Biological SRB3.Fisheries yield per Total catch by fishing vessels A resources unit effort larger than 50 tonnes Total number of netting by fishing vessels larger than 50 tonnes C.Biodiversity SRC1.Ratio of Ratio of natural river banks A ecologically Ratio of protected area sensitive areas (excluding reservoir protected area) to total land area D.Water & Soil SRD1.Degree of erosion Degree of siltation of major B rivers SRD2.Supply of water % reduction in total storage A resources volume of reservoirs 52 Land Use Ratio of areas depleted of natural resources Ratio of natural coastline 8.5% 80% Ratio of areas depleted of natural 8.0% 75% Ratio of natural coastline 70% 7.5% 65% resources 7.0% 60% 6.5% 55% 6.0% 50% 5.5% 45% 5.0% 40% 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 Year Year 53 Biological Resources 55.0% Forest 54.8% 54.6% Ratio of healthy forest 54.4% 54.2% 54.0% 53.8% 53.6% 53.4% 53.2% 53.0% 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 Agriculture Year Fisheries 30% 0.35 0.3 Ratio of healthy arable land 27% 0.25 CPUE(tonn/net) 24% 0.2 0.15 21% 0.1 18% 0.05 15% 0 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 54 1996 1997 Year Year Ecologically Sensitive Area 160.0% 140.0% 120.0% Adjusted 100.0% ratio of natural river 80.0% bank 60.0% Adjusted ratio of 40.0% protected area 20.0% Summation 0.0% -20.0% 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 Year 55 Water and Soil Reduction of reservoir capacity Siltation 17.00% 1400 % reduction in total storage volume 1200 Siltation of major rivers (ppm) 16.00% 1000 15.00% 800 14.00% 600 400 13.00% 200 12.00% 0 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 Year Year 56 Trends of indicators Category Indicator Trend Sustainability SRA1.Ratio of areas depleted of natural ↑ ↓ resources A. Land use ↓ ↓ SRA2.Ratio of natural coastline SRB1.Ratio of healthy forest = = B. Biological SRB2.ratio of healthy arable land = = resources SRB3.Fisheries yield per unit effort ↓ ↓ C. Biodiversity SRC1.Ratio of ecologically sensitive Areas ↓ ↓ SRD1.Degree of erosion = = D.Water & Soil SRD2.Supply of water resources ↓ ↓ 57 Conclusion Most indicators showed trends of moving away from the sustainable direction Future work revision of indicators integration of indicators linkage with policy 58 Sustainable Development Indicators for Taiwan -Economic Indicators- Jin-Tan Liu Professor of Economics, National Taiwan University Presented by Wen-Chen Shih Professor of Environmental Policy, National Dong-Hwa University How do we develop indicators? International SDI Characteristics of Taiwan Economy Relationship between Economy and Environment & Ecology Establish Economic Pressure Indicators 60 International SDI US UK Canada UN ‧Capital assets ‧Gross domestic ‧Total material ‧GDP Per Capita ‧Labor productivity production product ‧Net Investment share in ‧Federal debt to GDP ratio ‧Economic structure ‧Energy consumption GDP ‧Energy consumption per ‧Consumption per capita ‧Sum of exports and capita & of GDP component of GDP ‧Trade openness imports as a percent of ‧Materials consumption per & private saving (Total Import& GDP capita & per $ of GDP ‧Consumption Export as a ‧Annual energy ‧Inflation percentage of GDP) consumption ‧Inflation ‧Labor productivity ‧Investment in R&D as a ‧Employment rate ‧Share of natural- resource percentage of GDP ‧Government loan & ‧Inflation intensive industries in debts manufacturing value- ‧Domestic product added ‧Income distribution ‧Pollution ‧Net resources transfer/ ‧Consumption expenditures ‧Infant mortality GDP per capita ‧Life expectancy ‧Total ODA given or ‧Unemployment received as a percentage ‧Percentage of households of GNP in problem housing ‧Capital goods imports ‧Homeownership rate ‧Foreign direct investment 61 Characteristics of Taiwan Economy Developing with high GDP growth rate Export-orientation and long-term trade surplus Development of small- and medium-sized enterprises Star Industries (Textile, Petrochemical, Iron & Steel, and Electronics Industry) Resource-consuming type of industry (Hog Raising, Forestry, Petrochemical, Iron & Steel, and Cement Industry) 62 Relationship between Economy and Environment & Ecology ‧Economic indicators analyze the influence of economic activities to environment & ecology. ‧Through these indicators we can realize the connection between them. State (Environment) State (Ecology) Pressure (Economy) Atmosphere Structure of Industries SPA1 The emission amount of CO2 PEB7 Production value of polluting industry SPA2 Acid Rain Environment & Energy Consumption SPA3 Percentage of days with PSI PEC2 Amount of thermal generation under 100 PEC3 Energy usage efficiency PEC5 Number of factories per km2 PEC6 Number of personal vehicles registered PEC9 Percentage of recycled energy 63 State (Environment) State (Ecology) Pressure (Economy) Water Land Use Structure of Industries SPB3 Coastal areas quality SRA2 Ratio of coastal length PEB5 Import and export value of coastal fishy, Production value of Biological Resources aquaculture SRB3 Fisheries yield per unit effort Land Land Use Type of Consumption SPC1 Soil quality SRA1 Ratio of areas depleted of PEA5 Average housing price/ annual natural resources family income ratio Biological Resources Structure of Industries SRB2 Ratio of healthy arable land PEB1 Ratio of pesticide consumption to Biodiversity agriculture production value SRC1Ratio of protected area Environment & Energy Consumption Soil & Water PEC5 Number of factories per km2 SRD1 Degree of erosion Land Structure of Industries SPC2 Amount of unwell- PEB6 GDP of manufacturing treatment industrial waste PEB7 Production value of polluting SPC3 Solid waste of recycling industries and reuse Environment & Energy Consumption PEC1 Amount of nuclear power generation PEC9 Percentage of recycled energy Economic Indicators Type of Consumption Structure of Industries Environment & Energy Consumption PEA1 Family water consumption per capita PEB1 Ratio of pesticide consumption to PEC1 Amount of nuclear power generation PEA2 Family electric consumption per capita agriculture production value PEC2 Amount of thermal generation PEA3 Cement consumption per capita PEB2 Ratio of Water consumption on agriculture PEC3 Energy usage efficiency PEA4 Timber consumption per capita to agricultural production value PEC4 Energy consumption per capita PEA5 Average housing price/ PEB3 Ratio of water consumption on industry PEC5 Number of factories per km2 annumal family income ratio to industrial production value PEC6 Number of personal vehicles registered PEA6 Personal computer per household PEB4 Production value and export value of hog PEC7 Number of domestic flights PEB5 Import and export value of coastal fishy, PEC8 Length of highways production value of aquaculture PEC9 Percentage of recycled energy PEB6 GDP of manufacturing PEB7 Production value of polluting industries PEB8 Production value of environment protection industries PEB9 GDP of service industries as percentage of GDP PEB10 Index of labor productivity in manufacturing 65 The Trend of Indicators A. Type of Consumption Relevance to Sustainable Indicators Trend Development Impact of Trend + - ? PEA1 Family water consumption per capita ? PEA2 Family electric consumption per capita - PEA3 Cement consumption per capita + PEA4 Timber consumption per capita + PEA6 Personal computer per household + 66 B. Structure of Industries PEB1 Ratio of pesticide consumption to agriculture production value + PEB2 Ratio of Water consumption on agriculture to agricultural + production value PEB3 Ratio of water consumption on industry to industrial production + value PEB4 Production value and export + value of hog PEB5 Import & export value of coastal fishy, production value of ? aquaculture PEB6 GDP of manufacturing + PEB7 Production value of polluting industries - PEB9 GDP of service industries as percentage of GDP + PEB10 Index of labor productivity in 67 + manufacturing C. Environment & Energy Consumption PEC1 Amount of nuclear power - generation PEC2 Amount of thermal generation - PEC3 Energy usage efficiency + PEC4 Energy consumption per - capita PEC5 Number of factories per km2 - PEC6 Number of personal vehicles - registered PEC7 Number of domestic flights ? PEC8 Length of highways - 68 Analysis of Indicators 【Polluting Industries】 Ratio of Polluting Industry to Manufacturing (%) 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 Year 69 【Energy Usage Efficiency】 Energy Productivity 100.00 80.00 NT$/LOE 60.00 40.00 20.00 0.00 1971 1973 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 Year 70 【Personal Vehicles Degree】 Numbers of Automobiles and Motorcycles per 10 thousand Population 6,000 5,000 4,000 Numbers Automobiles 3,000 Motorcycles 2,000 1,000 0 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 Year 71 【Cement Consumption】 Cement Consumption per Capita 1.20 1.00 0.80 Ton 0.60 0.40 0.20 0.00 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 Year 72 Conclusion According to Environment Kuznet Curve, there is an inverse- U relationship between the national income and the degree of deterioration of environment. Now the national income per capita in Taiwan has grown to around $12,000, according to EKC, the quality of environment should begin to improve. However, if we examine the relation between emission of air pollution, amount of solid waste collected and national income, the amount of solid waste collected per capita per day do not decrease as national income increases; on the contrary, it goes up year by year. 73 Sustainable Development Indicators of Taiwan - Social Pressure Indicators Chin-Shou Wang Professor of Sociology, National Tsing-Hua University Rationale for Social Sustainability – POET (Population, Organization, Environment and Technology) – I (Impacts)=PAT (Population, Affluence, Technology) – I=PACT (Population, Affluence, Consumption, Technology) – I=(V+C+M)A (Value, Consumption, Market, Amplifiers) 75 Rationale for Social Sustainability – RS=f(O+W+P)*SM (RS: Risky Society, O: Organizational irresponsibility,W: Wealth distribution, P: Personal reflexitivities, SM: Simple modernization) – EM=f(E+P+I)/SI (EM: Ecological Modernization; E: Green Economy; P: Policy-oriented Prevention, I: Impact- predicting; SI: Super Industrialization) – SO=f(P+S+A+T)/SG (SO: Social Pressure; P: Population/Personality; S: Space; A: Activities; T: Time; SG: Social Grammars) 76 Sustainability Gap Gap on Systems Economy, Environment and Society GNP Myth Gross National Pollution Garbage, Noise and Pollution NG(Guns)+NP(Pollution) Gap between GPI and ISEW Gap between QOL and Happy Life Expectancy 77 Concentric of SD Society E QOL e Environment economy S No Justice: e+S>E No Integration: e>S>E E Oikos e S 78 I+J=Paradigm: E>S>e Cultural Luggage as Amplifying Factors: Social Grammars Cultural luggage and social grammars Father-son axis, Face Vertical zoning Feng-shui (Geomacy) Ecosphy Ecological wings with social root Theoretical Potential for Oriental Sustainability Dish-Long Theory or Deep Sustainability Theory 79 盤長(腸) Dish-Long Theory or Deep Sustainability Theory 80 Development and Trend of Social Indicators Ecological Triangle(PSAT) and PSR First Version(Environmental Refugee; Social Footprint; Eco-Watch) Second Version(Environmental Alienation; Friction of Space, Social Anomie, Time Compression) Third Version (Structural upgrade) Fourth Version (Iceberg) 81 STI Iceberg public Sustainability sector Category (5) trend Component (18) national Indicator and item (83) international Data Base(including UN 134 indicators) 82 social Pressure Index75.2% (against sustainability) 75% É ¡ £ Y × ® ¶ À Á « 66.70% À | g Ã × ª · ° ¶ « ª ¶ ¼ À « Å ¡ ¯ ¿ × 75% 83.30% ô Ò ¨ ÷ × À ¹ ²  « 0.00% 20.00% 40.00% 60.00% 80.00% 100.00% À | £ O ü Æ I ÷ à ò ª · À ¤ « ¼ 75.2% (  ¥ Ä ) 83 Headline Indicators: Social Shortness Index (SSI) People: Environmental Pain Index Space: Betel-nut planting area Activity: Pollution appeal cases Time: Stock turnover rate 84 85 86 87 Sustainable Development Indicators for Taiwan -- Institutional Response Jiunn-Rong Yeh Professor of Law, National Taiwan University Rationale: Institutional Capacity-Building Allocation of Government Information and Expenditure Participation Budget for environment Information basis R&D expenditure Local government and public participation Institutional Capacity-Building Organizations and Policies Specific policies Representation of Organizations Specific policies Environmental rationality in policy Specific policies making National government level Local and Social Level 89 Trend: As Revealed by Institutional Indicators(1) Category Indicator Sustainability RA1 Ratio of the environmental budget to the total budget ↑ Allocation of RA2 R&D expenditure Government proportion for the Environment = Expenditure RA3 Case growth rate of financial measures taken as economic incentives for the increase of = "green industries" 90 Trend: As Revealed by Institutional Indicators(2) Category Indicator Sustainability RB1 Ratio of female officials in the environmental ↑ agencies Organization RB2 Domestic legislation and Policies reflecting international X environmental treaties and arrangements RB3 Percentage of cases being rejected in the EIA = reviewing process 91 Trend: As Revealed by Institutional Indicators(3) Category Indicator Sustainability RC1 Percentage of actual ↑ utilization of industrial parks RC2 The extent to which water ↓ Specific price reflects the actual costs Policies RC3 Percentage of installation of = sewage systems RC4 Percentage of utilization of ↓ fishing ports RC5 The Number of regulated ↑ chemicals 92 Trend: As Revealed by Institutional Indicators(4) Category Indicator Sustainability RD1 Popularity of Eco-Labeling ↑ RD2 The Number of non- government Information organizations (NGOs) ↑ and Participation RD3 Institutional Capacity of local environmental agencies ↑ 93 Example 1: RA1- Ratio of the environmental budget to the total budget PSR :Response Ratio of the environmental budget to the total budget Measurement: 5% environmental budget /total budget 83 4% 88 YEAR: 83-88(1994-1999) 85 86 87 3% 84 Trend Analysis: 2% Increase since 1995: 1% A higher ratio of environmental 0% budget indicates that the 83 84 85 86 87 88 government and all citizens have shown a greater concern about year environmental issues 94 Example 2: RC3 - Percentage of installation of sewage systems PSR :Response 50 Percentage of installation of sewage s system Measurement: 45 40 Service population/Total 35 30 population % 25 YEAR: 87-88(1998-1999) 20 15 Trend Analysis: 10 5 Grows in Taipei, while the overall 0 87/10 87/11 87/12 88/10 87/6 87/7 87/8 87/9 88/1 88/2 88/3 88/4 88/5 88/6 88/7 88/8 88/9 rate of sewage system build-up is too low, compared to other year countries Taipei Kaohsiung Taiwan Province Taiwan Area 95 Example 3: RC4 - Percentage of utilization of fishing ports PSR :Response -Percentage of utilization of fishing ports Measurement: 60% Areas used by registered fishing 50% boats/total fishery ports areas 40% YEAR: 78-86(1989-1997) 30% 20% Trend Analysis: 10% The construction of the many 0% fishery ports has not only 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 became a grave waste of year resources but also brought more percentage of areas used by boats serious impact on the coastal 1.5*percentage of areas used by boats environment 96 Findings Since the establishment of the EPA in Taiwan, there has been significant improvement in the government institutional capacity-building. The vitality of local governments and social groups in their participation of environmental policies outgrows the increase of the budget and personnel in the national government. However, while the total institutional capacity has been strengthened, the decision-making and implementation of specific policies have not shown satisfactory results, and many policies are in effect heading away from sustainability. 97 Urban indicators as measurements of Taiwan's sustainability Shu-Li Huang Graduate Institute of Urban Planning National Taipei University Urbanization Per Capita Japan GNP 3 (104US$) USA Germany 2 Taiwan 1 Malaysia Korea Thailand 60 80 % of Urban population 99 Urbanization VS. VS. 100 Urbanization Pop: 22×10 6 Area: 36,000 Km2 20000 Urban population(103) 15000 ] ^ Per Capita GNP¡ US$¡ 10000 5000 0 1951 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 1999 2000 101 Urban Sustainability Indicators UNCHS Background D1: Land use D4: Woman headed households D7: Income distribution D2: City population D5: Average household size D8: City product per person D3: Population growth rate D6: Household formation rate D9: Tenure type Socioeconomic Development Environmental Management Households below poverty line, Informal employment, Hospital Wastewater treated, Solid waste generated, Disposal beds, Child mortality, Life expectancy at birth, Adult literacy rate, methods for solid waste, Regular solid-waste collection, School enrollment rates, School classrooms, Crime rates Housing destroyed Infrastructure Local Government Household connection levels, Access to potable water, Major sources of income, Per-capita capital expenditure, Consumption of water, Median price of water Debt service charge, Local government employees, Wages in the budget, Contracted recurrent expenditure ratio, Government level providing services, Control by higher levels of government Transport Housing Modal split, Expenditure on road infrastructure, House price to income ratio, House rent to income ratio, Travel time, Automobile ownership Floor area per person, Permanent structures, Housing in compliance, Land development multiplier, Infrastructure expenditure, Mortgage to credit ratio, Housing production, Housing investment 102 Urban Sustainability Indicators Seattle(Indicators of Sustainable Community) Moving away from sustainability Toward sustainability =Neither toward nor away ENVIRONMENT Wild salmon runs through local streams Number of good air quality days per year = Percentage of Seattle streets meeting "Pedestrian-Friendly"criteria POPULATION AND RESOURCES Total population of King County Gallons of water consumed per capita in King County Tons of solid waste generated and recycled per capita per year in King County Vehicle miles traveled per capita and gasoline consumption per capita Renewable and nonrenewable energy (in BTUs) consumed per capita ECONOMY Percentage of employment concentrated in the top ten employers = Hours of paid work at the average wage required to support basic needs Percentage of children living in poverty Housing affordability for median-and low-income households Per capita health expenditures CULTURE AND SOCIETY Percentage of infants born with low birth weight Juvenile crime rate = Percent of youth participating in some form of community service Percent of population voting in odd-year (local) primary elections = Adult literacy rate Library and community center usage rates = Participation in the arts 103 Sustainable Development Indicator (National Level) Canada:1. Ecological Life-support 2. Human Health & Well-Being 3. Natural Resources Sustainability 4. Pervasive Influencing Factors U.K. (15 Headline Indicators): Economic output, Investment, Employment, Poverty, Education, Health, Housing, Crime, Climate change, Air, Traffic, Rivers, Wildlife, Land use, Waste 104 Taiwan's Sustainability Indicator Sustainable Taiwan Island Taiwan Urban Taiwan P S R Economic Social Environmental Ecological Institutional Urban Pressure Stress Pollution System Response Development Urban area:4416.7Km2(12.26%) Urban population:16,751,500(78%) 105 Framework of Indicators of Urban Taiwan Economics Production Labor Land Living Pollution Resource Standard Waste Discharge Social Natural Living Environment Env. quality 106 Life 107 Category of Indicators for Urban Taiwan Driving Force State State Response Response 。Per Capita urban productivity Production 。Ratio of service industry to 。Self-reliance on local urban productivity expenditure 。Urban productivity growth 。Ratio of urban area 。Metropolitan population density 。Ratio of public facility area 。Increase rate of urban area 。Ratio of urban population 。Park area per person Living 。Car ownership 。Per capita residential floor area 。Motor bicycle ownership 。Metropolitan air pollution 。Efficiency of public transit 。Metropolitan noise pollution 。Urban Slum 。Green coverage ratio 。Ratio of accessible water 。Metropolitan agricultural area front 。Ratio of polluted stream length 。﹪ of waste water treated Environment 。﹪of CO2 emission 。﹪ of public expenditure on 。Construction waste environment protection 。Frequency of environ- mental education activity 。No. of environmental NGO 。﹪ of natural hazard area occupied by urban use Life 。No. of death due to urban 108 hazard Ratio of service Agriculture CO2 Metropolitan Production industry to urban ¢Mof COemission 2 agricultural productivity + area + + + Urban CO2 Forest area Ratio of metropolitan productivity Service agricultural area industry Urban CO2 + Green coverage Environment productivity + + growth ratio Per Capita Manufacturing ¢Mof waste urban Construction water treated waste productivity Public Self-reliance on expenditure - Ratio of local expentirure + polluted stream - length Stream Length of pollution Accossible urban stream Living # of - + water front + Metropolitan air Ratio of + motor Environment # of cars + pollution ¢Mof public accessible bicycle protection expenditure on water + + Urban + + Metropolitan + park area + environment front noise pollution protection Motor Car ownership bicycle Frequency of ownership environmental No. of Natural Urban education environmental hazard area activity NGO population Metropolitan Park area per + Life population person density Residential floor area Per capita Ratio of urban residential floor ¢Mof natural hazard population area Increase rate of area occupied by urban area urban use + Urban slum Hazard + + - Trend of Taiwan's Urban Sustainability -Production Ratio of service industry(%) 104(U S $/pers on) 60% Growth rate of production(%) 6 Per capita urban productivity 50% (US$/person) 5 40% 4 30% 3 20% 2 10% 1 0% - 110 1986 1991 1996 Trend of Taiwan's Urban Sustainability -Living Increase rate of Urban population urban area Urban area Metropolitan population pe rson/km2 15% % of urban area density 60% 1300 % of urban population 10% 58% 1250 56% 5% 1200 54% 0% 1150 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 52% 50% 1100 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 111 Trend of Taiwan's Urban Sustainability -Living vehicle / 1000 persons person / km 500 5 # of cars 400 4 # of motor cycles 300 3 efficiency of public 200 2 transit 100 1 (person / km) 0 0 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 112 Trend of Taiwan's Urban Sustainability -Environment 60% 55% 50% 45% 1996 1997 1998 % of stream length polluted 113 Trend of Taiwan's Urban Sustainability -Living % days (PSI>100) % days exceeding designated 50% noise pollution standard 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 114 Trend of Taiwan's Urban Sustainability -Response to Urban Environmental Management Ratio of public facility area Park area per person 8.5% 2 m 8.0% 3.5 7.5% 3 7.0% 2.5 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1994 1995 1996 1997 115 Trend of Taiwan's Urban Sustainability -Response to Urban Environmental Management % of waste water treated Ratio of accessible water front Taipei Kaoshiung 10 4 m Taichung 60% 6 Taiwan 40% 4 20% 2 0% 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 1997 1998 1999 2000 116 Indicator Car ownership Category Living Driving Force State Response Framework ● Purpose and Implication: The number of cars in the city is related to economic growth. However, the emission of air pollutant will degrade environmental quality. In addition, too many cars will not only consume fossil fuel, but also cause traffic jam and causing the unsustainability of cities. Meaning Relationships with other indicators: Together with the number of motorbicycles, the efficiency of public transit and the urban transportation policy can be assessed. Goal: To decrease the increase rate of the number of cars in the metropolitan regions. Measurement: vehicle / 1000 persons Correlation with Urban Sustainability Study Area + +/- - Taipei, Taichung, Kaohsiung ● metropolitan regions Moving away from Neither toward Toward Sustainability Trend Sustainability nor away 250 ● 200 Taipei Taich 150 Kaphsiung 100 Average 50 0 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 117 Summary of Trend of Taiwan's Urban Sustainability Category Indicator Sustainability Production 。Per Capita urban productivity 。Ratio of service industry to urban productivity 。Urban productivity growth 。Self-reliance on local expenditure NA Living 。Metropolitan population density 。Ratio of urban population 。Ratio of urban area 。Per capita residential floor area = 。Car ownership 。Motor bicycle ownership 。Efficiency of public transit = 。Ratio of public facility area = 。Park area per person = 。Increase rate of urban area 。Metropolitan air pollution 。Metropolitan noise pollution 118 。Urban Slum ※ Summary of Trend of Taiwan's Urban Sustainability Category Indicator Sustainability Environment 。Green coverage ratio ※ 。Metropolitan agricultural area 。Ratio of polluted stream length = 。Ratio of accessible water front 。% of waste water treated 。% of public expenditure on environment protection = 。Frequency of environmental education activity 。No. of environmental NGO 。% of CO2 emission NA 。Construction waste = Life 。% of natural hazard area occupied by urban use ※ 。No. of death due to urban hazard 119 Island Taiwan VS. Urban Taiwan Environmental pollution Production 21 20 Institutional Ecological 19 response system 18 Life Living 1988 Economic Social pressure pressure 1997 Environment Island Taiwan Urban Taiwan 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 120 Concluding Remarks Urban indicators → Sustainable Taiwan Continuing Research Indicator adjustment and Target Setting Relationships between urban indicators → policy impact study Trade-off analysis between indicators of urban Taiwan and Island Taiwan 121 Overall Conclusion Jiunn-Rong Yeh Professor of Law, National Taiwan University Research Achievements 1. Completion of Sustainable Development Indicators for Taiwan and preliminary analysis 2. Developing sustainability indicators in compliance with the United Nations Mandate 3. Characterization of sustainable development movement in Taiwan 4. Form a Basis for National Initiative 5. Part of the analysis could contribute to public policy formation 6. Enhancement of academic researches and international collaboration in sustainable development movement 7. Concrete example of integration between technological and humanity disciplines 8. Publications promoting sustainable development concepts 123 Prospects Institutionalization comparison to central and local other countries sustainability indicator links Sustainable Internationalization Development Localization Indicators for Taiwan enhanced participation in integrated central international sustainable and local policies development topics Policy Inputs 124 謝 謝 Thank You 125
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I took the above picture after a rather fruitful day at the thrift store a few weeks back. No really, I found a copy of The Disinformation Book of Lists, a hard cover copy of The Art of Dreaming by Carlos Castaneda, and a VHS copy of Harvey all on the same morning. Sometimes everything just comes together. I posted the picture on Facebook (friend me). Of course, I'm only mentioning it here because of the synchromystic hive-mind interconnectivity shit that went down right afterwards. So, someone comments on the picture in regards to Castaneda, which was the second time he had come up in the same week. The first time was in relation to a wizard battle dream I had, where I fought off fledgling spectral witches inside my psychic mind temple. I don't even pretend to entirely understand this stuff, but because it came up once again, I briefly mentioned how Castaneda was essentially a fiction author and a rather fucked up dude at that.… Read the rest
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If you're familiar with my writing at all, then you're probably aware that everything in my life is guided by the hidden hand of a synchronous collusion with the unseen. On that front, a couple of weeks ago, I tossed up a new series of art. I was later informed in an intuitive informational download from beyond that the images I conjured forth had to do with a psilocybin encounter that went down on my birthday back in 2010. (I write about this Occult meditational shit on FB all the time, feel free to friend me.) As a matter of fact, I talked about that particular entheogen transmission in my latest book (another one on the way soon). Because of that, I was planning on doing a post about how extravagantly peculiar this all is. However, in going back and reviewing the entire passage, I remembered, oh yeah, wait, that whole ritualistic encounter was partially induced by my unintended exposure to Alex Grey's art the night before.… Read the rest
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Last fall, I tossed up a post about the Hypnotikon psychedelic music festival in Seattle. After writing about it, I thought to myself, "hmmm, maybe I should try microdosing for this thing." It's something I'd read about, but hadn't truly considered experimenting with a whole lot before then.… Read the rest
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In the course of all this, something quite interesting did go down, though. While bored at work one day, I pulled up a PDF of The Book of the Law, which I hadn't read in about 6 years.… Read the rest
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Here's where I confess that the topic chosen was ultimately designed to help me gauge whether the modern Occultists I look up to and respect have exceeded the popularity of the self-proclaimed "great beast" Aleister Crowley. It was my suspicion that they hadn't, but even I was sort of disappointed that Crowley got more votes than both Alan Moore and Grant Morrison combined (Moore edged out Morrison by 2 votes and they came in at #2 and #3 respectively).… Read the rest
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Third Mind Time Immersion Ritual Parts I, II, III
Image I: In a deep meditative state, the aspiring godform wills itself into a merger with a 4th dimensional daemon thus entering the linear timestream of humanity. While I was making this, I started thinking about how the background sculpture layer resembles the surrealist inner workings of a cosmic clock. The surrounding blackness represents the 4th dimensional entities that hold our world together, are manipulated by sorcery, and can be contacted in a liminal state.
Image II: If you look dead center in the picture, you see the time daemon wearing a tie and sitting on a throne with smoke dissipating around it. It is representative of the incredible level of order that holds together a modern urban center. It is a teacher. It is also important to note that the 5th dimensional godform has vanished, wholly immersed in the linear time stream and largely unaware of his true limitless nature during the process.… Read the rest
Psychoactive Soundscapes: The Trippiest Albums of 2014
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DC Talk – Secret Chiefs of the Illuminati?
Oh, the weird shit you find on the internets. To preface this, earlier in the week I quite randomly had a dream that featured the impressively god awful Christian rap group DC Talk (which I wrote about on Facebook, Friend me). In this dream, I was in a classroom where DC Talk showed up to perform. We couldn't believe our teacher actually thought this was something that we'd find interesting. So we students just mockingly encouraged them all hipster irony style as they did their crappy thing. Didn't seem like there was a lot of substance to the dream, but upon waking up I realized that the only reason I'd heard of DC Talk in the first place had to do with them being forced on us in Church youth group as a kid. The dream had an incredibly similar vibe. "Hey kids, stop listening to that satanic secular music, these guys are church approved." Being impressionable and somewhat open to the idea, those of us in the youth group took the tape home and gave it a listen just to discover that, wow, this is the worst rap group ever.… Read the rest


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All good things etc., & this year it fell to composer Anna Clyne—& the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop—to get underway the biggest party-masquerading-as-a-concert of them all, the Last Night of the Proms. In calling her short work Masquerade, Clyne is presumably alluding chiefly to the carnival atmosphere of a masquerade ball, an atmosphere to which her music went some way to living up to.
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Maybe it's the two dozen varieties of oysters talking, but we've fallen hard for B&G. Barbara Lynch's imaginative takes on the standards—a lobster roll lined with bacon, Portuguese clam stew accented with pork belly—pair seamlessly with an ever changing menu of flounced-up yellowfin, sole, perch, and halibut. Wash it all down with one of 40 wines on offer and you, too, will feel a wave of affection coming on.
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2015 Best Seafood Restaurant
When chef Michael Serpa left Neptune Oyster to open his own restaurant, we wondered: What would happen to the overflowing lobster roll? Or the crisp "Piggyback" oysters, piled high on...
2015 Best Seafood Restaurant
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2014 Best Seafood Restaurant
2013 Best Seafood Restaurant
2009 Best Seafood Restaurant
2008 Best Seafood Restaurant
2007 Best Seafood Restaurant
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2006 Best Seafood Restaurant
2005 Best Seafood Restaurant
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2004 Best Seafood Restaurant
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2001 Best Seafood Restaurant
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1993 Best Seafood Restaurant
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1988 Best Seafood Restaurant
Some Legals are created more equal than others...
1987 Best Seafood Restaurant
Great food in one of the very few Boston fish houses that take reservations...
1986 Best Seafood Restaurant
Love the fish, hate the lines...


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Funny: The Last Unicorn
- SCHMENDRICK THE WIZARD!!... the incompetent but sweet-natured magician.
- "My dear, you deserve the services of a great wizard, but I'm afraid you'll have to be glad of the aid of a second-rate pickpocket."
- "And be wary of wousing a wizard's wath! Rousing a rizard's... Be wary of making a magician angry!"
- "He had me juggling teacups all night long. Teacups! With tea in them!"
- The....... boob tree.
Schmendrick: Oh God. I'm engaged to a Douglas fir!
- Schmendrick's conversation with the Skull:
Skull: Say please!
Schmendrick: (sighs) Please.
Skull: ...No.
Schmendrick: Shut up you pretentious kneecap! How would you like a punch in the eye?
- And earlier.
- "Have a taco."
- When Schmendrick first encounters Captain Cully and his band:
Schmendrick: You're Captain Cully, boldest of the bold and freest of the free.
Molly: He's guessing, Cully. Gut him, before he does you the way the last one did.
Cully: Ah, don't mind Molly Grue, that's just her way.
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All eyes will be on a half-dozen winning ideas to see if the entrepreneurs behind those plans can get their businesses started. Innovate Mississippi held Startup Weekend Jackson May 16-18 at Millsaps College. Startup Weekend is an intense 54-hour event powered by Google for Entrepreneurs that operates worldwide and provides an opportunity for entrepreneurs to pitch early-stage innovative business concepts. ...Read More »
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StartupBus to make stop in Jackson; looking for riders
JACKSON — The Tennessee StartupBus will make a stop in the Jackson metro area March 3 on its way to compete in the National StartupBus Competition in San Antonio, Texas, and Innovate Mississippi is seeking two Mississippi entrepreneurs to join the Tennessee bus. StartupBus North America is a mobile competition where busses filled with entrepreneurs, coders and designers embark on ...Read More »
AIDS-research pioneer, match.com founder are Innovate conference speakers
Innovate Mississippi's 14th annual Conference on Technology Innovation features two speakers from opposite sides of the spectrum, but a lineup that Innovate president and CEO Tony Jeff calls "one of the best we have ever had." The two-day conference begins Tuesday at the Jackson Convention Complex. Tickets are $75. Visit www.innovatemsconference.com to view the complete agenda and to register online. ...Read More »
Will Bunker a perfect 'match' for Mississippi tech conference
A leader in entrepreneurial technology will be the keynote speaker at the 14th Annual Conference on Technology Innovation Nov. 12 and 13 at the Jackson Convention Complex. Will Bunker, a graduate of Mississippi State University, was co-founder of the pioneering online dating service that later became Match.com, the world's largest personal site, will address the conference. Innovate Mississippi CEO and ...Read More »
Mississippi Innovators honors entrepreneurs with global influence
Many people outside of Mississippi might be surprised to find out that Mississippi hasn't just produced some of the country's most famous entertainment stars like Elvis Presley, Oprah Winfrey and Morgan Freeman. The state also has been fertile ground for a large number of business entrepreneur superstars. Believing it is important to tell the stories of Mississippi business greats, in ...Read More »
Startups win big at annual Venture Challenge
Winners of the sixth annual Innovate Mississippi New Venture Challenge competition have been announced. Mississippi innovators and technology entrepreneurs from more than 40 companies competed on May 21 to promote their various business plans. Participants from start-up or existing companies pitched their plans to a special panel of Mississippi's top entrepreneurs and investors. Cash prizes and in-kind services from attorneys, ...Read More »
UPDATE: Innovate Mississippi launches
The Mississippi Technology Alliance has changed its name to Innovate Mississippi. CEO Tony Jeff made the announcement Wednesday at the non-profit association's annual conference on technology innovation at the Jackson Convention Complex. Numerous investors and members of the technology business community attended including FNC Inc. founder Bill Rayburn and C Spire Wireless CEO Hu Meena. The lunch was keynoted by Biloxi native ...Read More »
Bill Yates to be honored at Innovators Hall of Fame Awards Gala Nov. 13; Fred Haise to headline Conference on Technology Innovation Nov. 14
The Mississippi Technology Alliance (MTA) will host the Mississippi Innovators Hall of Fame Awards Gala, Nov. 13. The 13th Annual Conference on Technology Innovation, hosted by MTA, will be held Nov. 14. Both events will be held at the Jackson Convention Complex. The Mississippi Innovators Hall of Fame was established in 2008 as a tribute to the many innovative and ...Read More »
Texting Leader, Pearl River Glass win big at MTA venture challenge
Ridgeland-based Texting Leader LLC and Jackson-based Pearl River Glass Studio Inc. both placed first in separate divisions of the Mississippi Technology Alliance's (MTA) Fifth Annual Mississippi New Venture Challenge last Tuesday at the Jackson Convention Complex. The conference-style annual meeting gives start-ups an opportunity to make real pitches to an angel investor panel. Competing against six other teams in the ...Read More »
Miss. leaders focus on startups for job growth
Economic downtown is a great time for startups to begin and flourish Dynamism in the economy comes from new businesses, but the bad news is new business creation has dropped over the past five years. However, Americans can take comfort in the fact that "50 percent of our largest companies today were founded in either a bear market or in ...Read More »


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Updated: February 9, 2011, 1:43 PM ETAssociated Press
PHOENIX -- Pitcher Ross Ohlendorf has defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first salary arbitration hearing this year, even after going 1-11 last season.
Ohlendorf was awarded a raise from $439,000 to $2,025,000 Wednesday by arbitrators Steven Wolf, Fredric Horowitz and Robert Herzog, who heard the case a day earlier. The Pirates had argued he should be paid $1.4 million.
The 28-year-old right-hander had a 4.07 ERA in 21 starts for Pittsburgh last year, and his record on ...
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The second book in The Renegade series, a traditional story of the old west set in the post Civil War Era in Colorado.
When Wolf Spencer comes in contact with his former friends and enemies, he soon discovers that his intentions of slipping into town, and leaving just as quickly, have become hopelessly complicated. The promise of a gold discovery on his father's ranch tempts him to stay, but the threat of arrest is an ever-present possibility. This is the second book in The Renegade series.
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Book Two
VICTORIA STOPPED and stared in disbelief as Shannon came slowly up the stairs, walking like an old woman with her hair disheveled and her face stained with tears.
"Shannon?" she said, as she lifted her foot at the top step. The other foot was too heavy and she slowly toppled, making no effort to break her fall. Victoria ran toward her with a growing sense of alarm.
"Shannon! What's wrong?"
Shannon turned her face and tried to look up, but her eyes would not focus. The tears continued to flow silently down the side of her cheek.
"What happened? Tell me!" Victoria demanded as she bent toward her, but she was afraid she already knew.
"Is it Spence? Is it? Tell me!"
Shannon nodded, and at the look of grief on her face, Victoria felt her heart lurch. Oh no, not Spence. Not now, when they were practically together. She leaned forward peering into Shannon's face. "Has he left town?" she asked.
There was a long, unearthly silence, and then the words came out as if they were from a disembodied presence, her voice stark and hideous in the wide hallway. "Spence is in jail. For murder."
"Oh, no!" Victoria said, and started to cry herself. "It's not true. It's not!" But she knew it was as she helped Shannon up from where she lay.
Victoria felt a moment of panic as she stood tottering, then when she pulled on Shannon's arm she followed her into the bedroom and collapsed across the bed, looking vague and disoriented. Victoria wondered if she should send for a doctor, then remembered that she was alone in the house. She felt a moment of panic.
"Shannon?" she said. When she received no reaction she spoke more loudly as if she were talking to someone deaf. "I've got to go for the doctor."
Shannon's reaction was immediate, grasping Victoria's arm so hard that it made her gasp. "Don't leave me! Please, don't."
"Lie back, dear. You need rest. Let me close the drapes and I'll get you some brandy."
The brandy was downstairs. Victoria didn't want to leave her long enough to get it. The strange look in Shannon's eye reminded her of Bethany's mother. Victoria felt such a panic that for an instant she thought she was going to scream.
"Shannon, dear, let me go and get the brandy. Then I'll sit with you and we can talk."
When Shannon didn't answer, she jumped up and ran down the stairs. Grabbing a glass from the dish cabinet, she splashed it half full. The door opened behind her and she whirled about with a little cry of fright, sloshing some of the brandy on her foot. McCade stood framed in the doorway.
"Cass! Oh, Cass. It's Shannon."
When McCade didn't answer, Victoria felt her scalp tighten. There was something vaguely alarming about the way he looked at her, as if he were not quiet sane. There were cuts and bruises on his head as if he had recently been in a fight.
"Where is she?"
"Upstairs. Spence has been arrested for murder!"
He waved her words aside. "I know all about that. I was in town when it happened."
"I think she needs a doctor. Can you ride into town?"
But he was already past her, running up the steps. For a moment Victoria was too startled to move, and then she gathered her skirts and raced up the staircase behind him.
McCade crossed the room in three quick strides. He sat on the edge of the bed with Shannon's small hand grasped between both of his. Sitting with his big body hunched forward he reminded Victoria of a trained bear she had once seen in a circus. She looked at his round head, almost like a hairy pumpkin, and felt a moment of revulsion. The sound of Shannon's weeping reached her ears, then a loud sob that made her whirl toward the windows. McCade's voice was so low and indistinct that she could just make out the words.
"I didn't have anything to do with this," he said in a hoarse whisper.
"Promise me you'll help him!" Shannon wailed and started to cry again.
Victoria walked away from them, leaning her forehead against the coolness of the windowpane. There was something about McCade that had always scared her, but with Shannon it had been different. There had always been a bond between them that was beyond her understanding. He was not like other men. On several occasions she had watched him breaking the horses in the corral, riding them with a brutal determination that was frightening. There were dozens of terrible stories that she had heard whispered in the kitchen. Putting her hands to her temples, she gave an involuntary shudder. Suddenly, she jerked her face from the window and turned her head sharply toward the bed. The whispering had stopped.
Shannon had her arms clasp tightly around McCade's neck with her face buried against his collar. His hand was almost as big as the back of her head. Victoria felt a sudden explosive anger. In all the years Shannon had lived under the same roof with her, she had never hugged their father. And he's been as much a father to her as he has to me, she thought. She turned from the window and went toward the bed.
"You had better go," she said a little more coldly than she had intended. "I think I hear father."
McCade stood up obediently, his large bulk looking out of place in the decidedly feminine room. He held Shannon's hand for a moment longer, then turned quickly and headed toward the servant's stairway in the west wing.
Victoria sat down on the edge of the bed and carefully extended the brandy snifter. "Drink this, please."
Shannon drained it in one gulp and nodded gratefully. When she looked into Victoria's eyes it was with an air of almost being herself again. The hysterical vagueness seemed to be fading now, replaced by a look of shock and grief. Victoria's heart went out to her.
"I'm so sorry, Shannon, terribly sorry."
Her head sank back on the pillow. "What am I going to do?" she whispered.
"I'll talk to father as soon as he comes in. There's a lot that can be done." Victoria wasn't as sure as she made her voice sound.
Shannon's head moved from side to side on the pillow. "You don't understand. I've lost him. I never really had a chance. All that time he's been gone he had an Indian wife. They even had a child."
Victoria arose from the side of the bed without being aware that she had moved. "There's been some misunderstanding. He would never . . . Spence wouldn't do that. That's just crazy."
"It's true! Dave accused him in Lowery's office. I could tell to was true by looking at his face."
"Then why did he come back? I don't understand that." There had to be some kind of mistake. Spence would have told her if it was true, but Shannon was already shaking her head as if she could read her thoughts.
"Don't you see? She's dead. Those men he's accused of killing had something to do with her death."
"If she's dead you have a chance. Don't give up hope now."
Shannon rolled toward the window with her knees drawn against her chest. When Victoria touched her shoulder there was no response except a slight trembling she could feel beneath her fingers. Victoria sat for a moment looking at the still form, then threw back her own head and began to cry.
The second book in The Renegade series, a traditional story of the old west set in the post Civil War Era in Colorado.
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It's a small museum, but if you know Taino art (found on the Caribbean islands, also Puerto Rico), this has some important pieces.
My friend & I were the only ones in the museum. The guard whom I guess was bored struck up a conversation with my Cuban friend. He was very enthusiastic about all the artifacts in the museum & took it upon himself to tell us about EVERYTHING. We had a hard time politely removing ourselves from the conversation. He was...
A well stocked and maintained museum, focusing on the history of the D. Republic through the indigenous population and the Spanish conquerors.
Most of this fascinating museum features the Taino people, their artifacts and especially strange (to us in C21st) customs.
Ask to see the Higuero tree and the heavyweight gourds - very impressive !
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This museum is behind the Catholic Church in the village of Altos de Chavon. It is very well air conditioned so staying a while to look at the displays and read the informative signs (in English and Spanish) is very doable. The museum is impressive in its appearance inside with museum quality display cases and signage. I found the display...
This was a very educational and interesting exhibit about the original inhabitants of the Dominican. The Taino people. We enjoyed walking around and seeing the artifacts and reading. a must stop in while in Altos de Chavon.
If you find yourself in Altos de Chavon and you have any interest in the geological formation of jewels or just want to pick up some jewels cultivated from the local areas this small but nice museum is worth a stop.
The museum is tucked away in Altos de Chavon, but worth the look (behind the chapel). The docent was interesting and informative. Programming for children. Gift Shop. Be generous in your donation!
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UT3 is great and it's a shame if it never makes it to Linux.
However, what might really make a difference would be someone with money and influence (think Mark Shuttleworth) lobbying a few big game developers/publishers to make or get someone to make (like LGP) Linux ports of some big games. Blizzard with WoW would be great, Bethesda with Fallout/Elder Scrolls would be cool as well. Not to mention Valve with Steam and Source.
This would propel the creation of stable and usable game-making tools on Linux (easier porting - remember what the guy who made Braid said about Linux and it seems he really tried), as well as establish a certain credibility for the platform.
LGP have been wasting their time with games few will want to play; they really should be given the chance to work (preferably alongside the development of the Windows version) on some really blockbuster games, I think.Last edited by dammarin; 05-22-2009, 02:31 PM.
Originally posted by MaestroMaus View Post@ all the new Linux users reading this: check the Cedega forums first and decide then if it is worth your money.
I think it is safe to say that is a general rule. I never ever saw a performance increase with a wide variety of games. Feel free to prove me wrong though.
I dont often advocate the theft of software and for cedega i dont either, infact i recommend no one use it.
If Linux isn't a gaming platform then I suppose windows is? I believe the Xbox3Shitty and Playnation3 are considered "gaming platforms" but please correct me.
Originally posted by r0ck View PostI don't really want to add insult to injury but the only thing stupid about that was you guys buying this before Linux support was confirmed to be working. I wanted to buy UT3 and even pre-ordered it but when I heard they would ship the Linux support as a "patch" afterwards I cancelled and it seems that would have been the right thing to do. I'm still very fond of that whole "someone is paying them to keep it back" conspiracy theory. It works on several consoles and there was even a running build showed off by the dev so what's the problem other than someone doesn't want it to come out. Someone ask icculus about it ... if he doesn't rip your head off maybe we get another excuse to help ourselves over the months until the next article of this kind is posted on phoronix.
Also phoronix fills a niche that no other web site has been competent to fill as of yet, I wouldn't mind seeing some competition to it. Of course there are slow news days and weeks so they fill it up with non-stories like this one. I really don't even mind so much because when there is news in the linux-gaming/graphics front they cover it fairly well. However the guy is obviously trying to make a living here and the more flame bait stories he does like this get more people coming to the forums and linking to the site and clicking on ads. Wham, bam, thank you ma`am.
I do like phoronix and will continue to frequent it, however I doubt anyone gives a crap about solaris or gtk combobox benchmarks, I do cringe when I see these 9 page stories about 75% of which is menial benchmark graphs that arn't doing anyone any good that isn't a developer.
OpenGL based games can run very fast with wine, even before the Doom 3 Linux binary was out wine was able to run it - and not even slow. But games like UT3 don't have go a OpenGL renderer anymore - if it would have got one, it could run MUCH faster than using the D3D renderer using wine. To port a game without OpenGL render path is certainly more demanding than when it is already there. Not sure if they needed that already for a PS3 port, if so they could add it to an update too...
Originally posted by Kano View PostOpenGL based games can run very fast with wine, even before the Doom 3 Linux binary was out wine was able to run it - and not even slow. But games like UT3 don't have go a OpenGL renderer anymore - if it would have got one, it could run MUCH faster than using the D3D renderer using wine. To port a game without OpenGL render path is certainly more demanding than when it is already there. Not sure if they needed that already for a PS3 port, if so they could add it to an update too...
IIRC, when it came to the OGL renderers in the UT series it always has been a "add-on" and marked as experimental and unsupported. It's too bad because their OGL renderer was often better then the officially supported D3D renderer, of course that was when OGL stayed in competition with DX and before it decided to take it's long ass break in development allowing DX to strengthen it's position with supporting the latest hardware capabilities.Last edited by deanjo; 05-22-2009, 07:39 PM.
Originally posted by Louise View PostI don't understand the hype about games for Linux. So what if ONE game is ported to Linux. That doesn't change anything. Linux will not be a gaming platform, as long as Windows is installed on 90% of all desktops, and the GPU drivers are optimized for Windows.
Solution: Buy Cedega, end of problem
Cedega is closed source and ATI isn't officially supported...two major disadvantages.
btw. I asked Ryan C. Gordon what the status of the linux and mac port of UT3 is and he answered: "still on its way. Being poked and prodded and optimized and stuff."
https://twitter.com/icculus/status/1887351268Last edited by Odin; 05-22-2009, 07:43 PM.
Originally posted by MaestroMaus View PostYou can forget Fallout, it's signed with the new keep the games @ Windows brand "Games for Windows (LIVE)".
Does a game being part of the "Games for Windows" initiative preclude it from coming out on other platforms?Last edited by dammarin; 05-23-2009, 05:22 AM.


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Good News for People Who Want Doritos-Flavored Chicken Wings
PepsiCo, makers of not just Pepsi but also various delicious snack products, struck a deal today with Buffalo Wild Wings to become the chain's exclusive soft-drink provider.
So far so boring. But given the amazing success of Doritos Locos Tacos, one can't help but wonder whether there aren't bigger things afoot here. Stephanie Storm has the key quote:
"You've got to get in the door with great beverages," said Kirk Tanner, president of PepsiCo's food service business, which supplies restaurants and other institutions with the company's products. "But what this partnership does is give Buffalo Wild Wings a full access pass to all that PepsiCo has to offer."
Of course PepsiCo has a lot to offer besides beverages. Quaker Oats oatmeal, for example. But I doubt we'll see oatmeal revolutionizing the Buffalo Wild Wings menu. The game-changer is to follow Taco Bell's lead and incorporate delicious chips into the food. Doritos-flavored wings. Or something with Fritos. Fritos are great.
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Zynga goes mobile with 'FarmVille,' 'Words with Friends'
Zynga Inc. has announced new mobile versions of three of its most-popular video games as it works to remake itself as a mobile company.
Zynga announced Monday it would soon begin introducing "FarmVille," "Zynga Poker" and "Words with Friends" in select markets, with worldwide availability in coming months.
The new versions are part of an effort by the company to turn its business around.
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Zynga grew on the success of "FarmVille" and other titles that were hits on Facebook, but since then has struggled to attract users to non-Facebook play.