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Beihang University (or BUAA for short) was founded on October 25, 1952. Since its founding, BUAA has been one of the key universities given priority for development. BUAA was officially listed in China's Action Plan for the Revitalization of Education in the 21st Century. At present, the university comprises 17 schools and 6 departments, covering such diverse fields as science, technology, liberal arts, law, economy, management, philosophy, foreign languages and education. BUAA has 42 research institutes or interdisciplinary research centers, 11 key disciplines of the national level, and 89 laboratories. BUAA has become one of the important bases for scientific and technological innovation and quality education in China.
CVIC Software Engineering Co., Ltd.(CVIC SE), incorporated in April, 1991, is China's chief provider of solutions, software products and IT services. Over the last 18 years, CVIC SE has been working on China's information construction, business scope covers finance, transportation, government, energy and resources, publishing, public security military and so on, with its market expanding into Hongkong, Taiwan, North America, Europe Australia and Southeast Asia. CVIC SE takes the lead to establish the first Middleware Industry Alliance (MIA) in China, assigned as an Industrialization Base for the National 863 Program by the State Ministry of Science & Technology, granted the title of "Class A Model Enterprise Regarding Exportation of Software to Europe and America".
France Telecom-Orange is one of the world's leading telecommunications operators. The Group is the number three mobile operator and the number one provider of broadband internet services in Europe and, under the brand Orange Business Services, is one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication services to multinational companies. The Group has been actively involved for more than 10 years in Open Source communities through the ObjectWeb and OW2 Consortiums and is today Strategic Member of OW2. A large level of contribution to open source software is continuously provided by France Telecom-Orange, often from Orange Labs R&D.
Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is a government-sponsored institution, and also a leading research institute in China, which focuses on the fundamental theories of computer science as well as software technologies and their applications. ISCAS has about 602 staff members, including 4 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 54 research professors, 87 associate professors and senior engineers. Through the research results and innovations, ISCAS's goals are to establish an international reputation in academia and to assist in the development and growth of China's software industry.
National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) is a comprehensive national key university under the dual supervision of the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Education. Over 50 years later, NUDT has developed into a comprehensive university of sciences, engineering, military science, management, economics, philosophy, literature, education, law, and history. According to the National Subject Evaluation of the years 2002-2004 organized by the Ministry of Education, 5 subjects of NUDT entered the list of top 5 and its subject of Computer Science and Technology ranked first nationwide. NUDT treasures international collaboration and cooperation. With strong commitment to internationalization, the university has academic ties with over 100 universities and research institutes from 40 countries and regions.
Peking University is a comprehensive and national key university in China. The university has effectively combined research on important scientific subjects with the training of personnel with a high level of specialized knowledge and professional skill as demanded by the country's socialist modernization. It strives not only for improvements in teaching and research work, but also for the promotion of interaction and mutual promotion among various disciplines. Peking University has become a center for teaching and research and a university of a new type, embracing diverse branches of learning such as basic and applied sciences, social sciences and the humanities, and sciences of medicine, management, and education.
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99cloud is the leading OpenStack technology and service prvider in China. Its flagship OpenStack system Animbus 100/200 is a hardware appliance that provides turnkey solution for enterprises to build private cloud on OpenStack technology. The system can run Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack with HA option automatically enabled. Its trusted cloud architecture has hardened security and SDN acceleration features built in. The appliance enables customers to leverage the Open Source technology with the lowest TCO.
Open Source Solutions to accelerate applications and to create Enterprise Grid and Clouds. Founded in 2007, and based in Sophia Antipolis, France, the company ActiveEon co-develops the open source middleware ProActive Parallel Suite® in collaboration with the INRIA team OASIS, and benefits thus of more than 10 years of R&D experience. Open and non intrusive, the ProActive Parallel Suite® solution is parallel computing made easy, for accelerating and scaling up applications, within the company's IT culture, enabling greater business agility at radically lower costs. ActiveEon solutions are independent from the underlying infrastructure, for better utilization of your existing investments in PC Desktops, Multi-cores, Servers, Clusters and Grids. We offer high value service to increase performances and maximize a quicker return on investment (ROI) for enterprises leveraging the "Professional Open Source"ProActive technology: Training, Consulting, Integration, Subscription support, and Partnerships (OEMs, ISVs, VARs).
BonitaSoft is the leading provider of open source Business Process Management (BPM) solutions, is a software company created by the founders of the Bonita open source project. BonitaSoft aims to become the undisputed global leader in open source BPM by providing flexible, powerful Business Process Management Solutions for all types of organizations.
Bull designs and develops servers and software for an open environment, integrating the most advanced technologies. The Group brings to its customers its expertise and know-how to help them in the transformation of their information systems and to optimize their IT infrastructure and their applications. Bull is a large contributor to Open Source Software in Linux, middleware and security domains.
Cassidian - EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. In 2008, EADS generated revenues of € 43.3 billion and employed a workforce of about 118,000. The Group includes Airbus as the leading manufacturer of commercial aircraft, with Airbus Military covering tanker, transport and mission aircraft, Eurocopter as the world's largest helicopter supplier and EADS Astrium, the European leader in space programmes from Ariane to Galileo. Its Defence & Security Division is a provider of comprehensive systems solutions and makes EADS the major partner in the Eurofighter consortium as well as a stakeholder in the missile systems provider MBDA.
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is the premier R&D institution of the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India. C-DAC Chennai as part of its research activities focuses on FOSS, Ubiquitous Computing & Grid Computing. All the research activities makes use of Open Source technologies for development. National Resource Centre for Free and Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) is housed in the C-DAC Chennai campus and will contribute to the growth of FOSS in India through Research & Development, Networking & Entrepreneurship development, FOSS promotion and dissemination. As part of its objectives, NRCFOSS has come out with an Indian Linux distribution named as "BOSS" - Bharat Operating System Solution.\
Department of Software Engineering of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, is a research and teaching center dedicated to providing both undergraduate and graduate level education in close connection with research. Our major research groups work in the domains of distributed systems, formal methods, performance evaluation, and document information systems. The department works in close cooperation with other mathematical and computer science departments of Charles University to provide a strong theoretical background, and with major industrial partners to connect the research results to practical applications. Major software projects originating within the department include the NetBeans platform and the OW2 projects BEEN and SOFA.
Cloudwatt makes digital power available to companies, providing simple and economic data storage services and virtual machines, with a special focus on security, transparency, reversibility, the location of data and cost.
Engineering Group is the major Italian player in IT design, outsourcing, product and consulting services on all vertical markets, with more than 6.000 people and 37 offices in Italy, Ireland, Belgium and Latin America. Engineering Group has one of the largest Research & Innovation departments, relying on 250 researchers, which includes Engineering's Open Source Competence Center. It manages the free/open source SpagoWorld Initiative, based on four main projects: SpagoBI, the Open Source Business Intelligence platform; Spagic, the Open Source SOA Universal Middleware; Spago4Q, the Open Source platform for Quality of Software products, processes and services; Spago, the Open Source Java Enterprise Framework.
eNovance IS FOCUSED ON giving access to the best of Open Source Technologies in a reliable, controlled, flexible and secure environment. eNovance SPECIALIZES IN High Performance and High Availability. eNovance PARTNERS WITH the best innovative companies, in order to provide its customers with the best tools to help their business grow.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS in Berlin has been researching and developing communication and integration solutions for partners in industry, research and public administration in the fields of telecommunication, automotive engineering, eGovernment and software development for more than 20 years.
INRIA, the French national institute for research in computer science and control, operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Industry, is dedicated to fundamental and applied research in information and communication science and technology (ICST). The Institute also plays a major role in technology transfer. INRIA was co-founder of the ObjectWeb Consortium in 2002 and is today leading the OW2 Europe Local Chapter.
Institut Mines Telecom's mission lies in higher education, research and innovation in the field of information and communication science and technology. It is a public administrative institution placed under the aegis of the Minister for the Economy, Industry and Employment.
With one office in Argentina (Consultex) and one in Brazil (Konsultex), the company is a systems integration and consulting organization specialized in Project Management and related business systems focusing on Project Management (Artemis, ProjectOpen), BI (SpagoBI), BPM (Bonita), ERP (OpenBravo), ECM (Alfresco) and CRM (openCRX) with offices in Brazil and Argentina since 1989. Our team of technical and business consultants offers analysis, implementation, customization, training and support services based on Open Source solutions for these business needs. In the Project Management field we offer services related to the applications and project management training with PMP certification, PMO implementation, project management coaching and methodology definition consulting. Konsultex is an implementation partner for SpagoBI in Latin America.
LINAGORA is a software vendor and professional services provider focused on Open Source Software. With more than 160 employees, offices in France (Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse), in the US (San Francisco) and in Belgium (Brussels), the company is among major players of Open Source Software. LINAGORA develops its own Open Source softwares (LINAGORA Global Sofware) and provide organizations with reliable and efficient support (LINAGORA Run Services) and professional services (LINAGORA Professional Services). One of the leading pioneers of the Open Source movement in Europe, LINAGORA has strong expertise and offerings in Open Source technologies. As a consequence LINAGORA has been taking part in all major French Open Source projects, often playing a primary role as a trustworthy link between open source communities and clients. LINAGORA had assisted the French National Assembly in implementing an open source environment but customers. LINAGORA's customers include Fortune 500 companies (Air France, Carrefour, Areva...), government agencies (French Department Of Defense, French Inland Revenue service...), Universities (Université de Lyon, Université Pierre et Marie Curie) and many more...
MAPS is an organization created and administrated by professionals of the financial, mathematical and technological areas. It develops products and services for companies in the financial market. MAPS is always looking into market transformations, either financial or technological, applying in its products and services the best practices and innovations revealed by those transformations, offering to its clients the most complete solutions for their business
The French Minsitry of Interiors has two main missions:
- Safety and Security of People and Property (by mean of Police Force, National Gendarmerie and Firefighters Force
- Permanent State Presence on Territories (by means of Prefectures and Subprefectures) The IT Direction is Strategic member of OW2 and is counting around 1500 people.
NUAA has gone through 3 historic periods since 1952, evolving from a teaching-oriented university to a research-oriented university. NUAA is a national key university characteristic of science and engineering. It enjoys a well-balanced development of multiple disciplines in engineering and technology, management sciences, natural sciences, humanities and social sciences with the characteristics of aeronautics, astronautics and civil aviation. NUAA has successfully entered the "211 Project" and become one of the 52 universities with the graduate school.
With particular expertise in the market sector concerning virtualization of workstations and electronic business document processing and exchange, the Prologue group is a recognized actor in the field of technological innovation in particular relating to Cloud Computing. This market experience allows the company today to offer its B2B platform, for the exchange of electronic documents, as a service (SaaS Software as a Service) and its virtual workstations in the form of an Iaas (Infrastructure as a Service). Present in France, Spain and the United States of America, the group comprises 230 employees and addresses nearly all sectors of business activities. The technologies of the group are used by prestigious companies not only across France but also at an international level and include: EDF, Société Générale, Orange, Vilmorin, Immobilière 3F, Midas, Telefonica, REALE Assurances, Toyota, l'Institut National des Statistiques (Espagne). The turnover of the group Prologue reached 13.7M€ by the 1st of September 2010.
Shenzhen Kingdee Middleware Company Ltd. (referred to as "Kingdee Middleware"), a subordinate company of Kingdee International Software Group Company Limited (stock code: 268.HK), is a technically leading infrastructure software enterprise in the global context. It is devoted to providing standard, secure, efficient and integrated enterprise-level middleware and professional services. In 2007, Kingdee Middleware was rated by Gartner as one of the nineteen mainstream vendors in the world to provide next generation SOA service. In 2007, the Kingdee Apusic J2EE application server of Kingdee Middleware was the fourth in the world to pass the latest Java international standard Java EE5.0.
Talend is the recognised market leader in open source data integration. More than 500 paying customers around the globe, including Yahoo!, Virgin Mobile, Sony and Swiss Life, use the Talend Integration Suite of products and services to optimise the costs of data integration, ETL and data quality. With more than four million lifetime downloads and 900,000 core product downloads, Talend's solutions are the most widely used and deployed data integration solutions in the world. The company has major offices in North America, Europe and Asia, and a global network of technical and services partners. For more information.
The University of Fortaleza (Unifor) was created in 1973 with the mission to contribute to the realization of ideals and dreams forming professionals and researchers of excellence. Unifor aims to foster a learning experience with a commitment to environmental, scientific and cultural development and has, since its foundation, established itself as the best private university of the North and Northeast and one of the main private universities in Brazil. Unifor offers more than thirty different undergraduate courses in five areas of education – Administration, Health, Humanities, Juridical and Technology – and has more than 25 thousand students and over 1100 professors. The university also has a strong research focus with several post-graduate courses (Master and PhD programs) in Applied Informatics, Business Administration, Collective Health, Constitutional Law and Psychology, as well as a doctorate in Biotechnology, in partnership with the Northeast Biotechnology Network – Renorbio.
UShareSoft simplifies the way IT professionals deliver software. We make it easy for individual developers, system administrators and professionals to automate the creation and deployment of software templates and images for VMware, Amazon, Eucalyptus, Cloud.com, IBM CloudBurst and other environments. UForge Appliance Factory provides the best OS- and image format-agnostic platform to assemble self-deployable distributed appliances for on-demand application delivery. UShareSoft tools are helping ISVs and enterprises in their transition phase to the cloud. For more information, visit www.usharesoft.com.
The University of São Paulo (USP), with over 5 thousand professors and 75 thousand students, is the largest research university in Latin America and is responsible for ¼ of the Brazilian scientific production. Its Department of Computer Science, located in the city of São Paulo, has a 35-year history in research in Computer Science and is responsible for solid undergraduate, masters, and PhD programs in Computer Science. The department's 40 professors carry out research in all fields of Computer Science.
XWiki is a young innovative enterprise created in 2004 and was visionary in the use of wikis. XWiki provides XWiki Enterprise, the Open-Source Enterprise Wiki (whose feature set can be extended through numerous applications). It also offers a full range of professional services on top of its product line (training, development, hosing, support, consulting). These offerings are designed to help organize information simply and share it effectively. All the software created by XWiki is released under the LGPL Open-Source license. With thousands of enterprises using our products, XWiki is the leader of collaborative Open Source solutions for enterprises.
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In his final report, released this month, on how $63 billion of American taxpayers' money was spent in reconstructing Iraq after the end of the Iraq war, Special Inspector General Stuart Bowen asked two questions: "What happened to the money?" and "What effect did it have?" The next 185 pages of his report reviews where it went, how much was wasted, and what effect it had in restoring Iraq's infrastructure so that life there could return to some sort of normal.
The answer to the first question, "what happened to the money?" is that much of it was wasted. He cites a $40 million project to build a 3,600-bed prison in eastern Iraq that was abandoned three years after it started. Today, says Bowen, it "sits in rubble," and Iraqi officials have no plans to finish it.
Subcontractors with construction firm Anham overcharged the U.S. government thousands of dollars for supplies, including $900 for a control switch valued at $7.05 and $80 for a piece of pipe that costs $1.41.
A $108 million wastewater treatment plant in Fallujah will take eight years longer than originally estimated to complete, and when it is done in 2014, it will serve just 9,000 homes. It's going to cost the Iraqi government another $87 million to extend the project to allow it to service the other 25,000 homes it was originally designed to serve.
Another $75 million project, to replace an oil and gas pipeline that was blown up during the invasion with a new one under the Tigris River, failed (as a geological study indicated that it might), and it's taking another $29 million to repair the original one.
About a third of the $63 billion allocated for "reconstruction" was spent to train and equip Iraqi security forces, with precious little to show for it as attacks by rebel forces continue almost on a daily basis.
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Aware Defeat Depression has been working since 1996 to support all those in Northern Ireland affected by depression.
We also welcome and support carers. We opened our first office in Derry/Londonderry and now have a second office in Duncairn Gardens, Belfast where our helpline is based.
We also have an established network of over twenty support groups in rural and urban areas across the country, which are run by our trained volunteers.
Aware Defeat Depression is the only charity in Northern Ireland which works exclusively for those with depression.
We believe that the people who use our services should have a say in how they are developed and delivered, so we employ people with experience of depression at every level in the organisation, including the Board of Directors.
We rely on our dedicated and caring volunteers who run our support groups and helpline. Many of our volunteers began as service users themselves and as such are an excellent asset to us and keep us informed on staying in touch with people's needs.
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At Aware Defeat Depression, we are the only charity working exclusively for those with depression across Northern Ireland. We were delighted to be recognised by GSK and Kings Fund in May 2014 when we won a GSK IMPACT Award. We were one of only ten winners throughout the UK and stood out for our work in helping to increase understanding of how to prevent mental illness and support people with depression in their recovery.
The video which is shown above was made exclusively for us as part of our GSK Award. The video highlights the services we provide to people with depression in Northern Ireland, gives more information about our education and training programmes and interviews people that have used our services and are now in the recovery stage of their depression with thanks to our help and intervention.


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The teenage years are probably the most difficult time period any one can go through. First puberty and then awareness of not only one's self, but also of others and society in general starts to emerge. My teenage years started off on a good foot, starting high school with a new perspective—a new start to a whole new life. For a little while the new experience welcomed me with open arms, then reality hit.
Falling in love is never an easy thing or planned and at 15 years old, I experienced love. It was the most powerful feeling anyone could experience, when happiness can come from just a smile from the significant other. For over a year I worked hard to be there for the one I loved the most in the world, to be there when he was dealing with issues I would soon learn at a personal level.
We shared everything together, but one day a dreaded call came in that my first love had passed away. I soon found out that he took his own life, suicide. I can still feel the pain that took over my body, crying for hours then days on end for the loss of the person I loved the most in my life. Thoughts of death and emptiness consumed my mind.
For the following years, I battled with major depression, anxiety disorder, slight multi-personality disorder, and other mental illness diagnoses. I was no longer the same girl, addicted to pills such as Advil and Tylenol or anything I could get my hands on, addicted to pain itself with the help of cutting. These escapes, as I called them, helped me deal with the emptiness that I felt for days on end. The longing to feel something—no matter what the feeling was—became the only thing keeping me alive. Multiple times I was rushed to the hospital to get my stomach pumped and was on suicide watch for days. Suicide is not the way to deal with depression but the pain made it seem the only option for me and I attempted three times to take my own life.
It was a confusing and new thing to me and mostly my parents. They didn't seem to understand why I cried for months or lost interest in everything that I did. Cultural differences between me and my parents played a big negative part in my recovery. They don't know this, but most of my scars or hospital trips were because of the misunderstanding of what I was going through.
For three years I went to see a psychiatrist and took antidepressants but nothing really seemed to work. During the day I acted like everything was okay and that I was getting better, but at nights the temptations would appear and many nights I would cry myself to sleep.
I had to create the will to live and that's when I began to recover. As senior year came along I decided to expand on my personal experience and create a support group for my senior project. Although it takes a lot for a support group to expand and start its process, I thought that even if the support group didn't succeed, the message it sent to my peers and their parents would be better than nothing at all. For me, talking to friends and professionals helped greatly to handle the urges and sudden mood changes that I faced every day and that is why I chose to create such an outlet for other teens.
College was the best thing that had ever happened to me. It gave me hope that I could start a new life again with new people in a new city. Being away from the negativity of my hometown, I learned to push away my past and look forward to the future. Without college, I would not be here and now as a stronger person.
Mental illness can take over a person's life, but if the individual has the will to live, one can overcome the many obstacles. Even to this day, I have urges that can be easily triggered, but I have found ways to calm myself and keep my mind positive. I thought life would never get better but now I could not be happier with being able to wake up and breathe the morning air.
There is always hope and a better start to a bad ending. Never give up—that is my motto—no matter how hard it gets things do get better. I hit rock bottom for years and ever since then there is nothing I cannot handle now. I became a stronger person from what I went through and anyone can do the same.
This story first appeared in the April 2012 NAMI Augusta (Ga.) Azalea newsletter, it is re-published here with permission from the author and edited for Recovery for All.
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A new survey of scientists
Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch have been making surveys of climate scientists for a number of years with the reasonable aim of seeing what the community thinks (about IPCC, climate change, attribution etc). They have unfortunately not always been as successful as one might like – problems have ranged from deciding who is qualified to respond; questions that were not specific enough or that could be interpreted in very different ways; to losing control of who answered the questionnaire (one time the password and website were broadcast on a mailing list of climate 'sceptics'). These problems have meant that the results were less useful than they could have been and in fact have occasionally been used to spread disinformation. How these surveys are used obviously plays into how willing scientists are to participate, since if your answers are misinterpreted once, you will be less keen next time. Others have attempted similar surveys, with similar problems.
As people should know, designing truly objective surveys is very tricky. However, if you are after a specific response, it's easy to craft questions that will favour your initial bias. We discussed an egregious example of that from Steven Milloy a while ago. A bigger problem is not overt bias, but more subtle kinds – such as assuming that respondents have exactly the same background as the questioners and know exactly what you are talking about, or simply using questions that don't actually tell you want you really want to know. There are guides available to help in crafting such surveys which outline many of the inadvertent pitfalls.
Well, Bray and von Storch have sent out a new survey.
The questions can be seen here (pdf) (but no answers, so you can't cheat!), and according to Wikipedia, the survey respondents are controlled so that each anonymised invite can only generate one response. Hopefully therefore, the sampling will not be corrupted as in past years (response rates might still be a problem though). However, the reason why we are writing this post is to comment on the usefulness of the questions. Unfortunately, our opinion won't change anything (since the survey has already gone out), but maybe it will help improve the interpretations, and any subsequent survey.
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Discover an outdoor wonderland. Tee off on championship golf courses rated among the top 10 by Golfweek. Enjoy Miami's famous beaches, with miles of sandy stretches. The city is home to 2 amazing national parks: Everglades National Park, an untamed and completely unique ecosystem, and Biscayne National Park, the only living tropical reef within the continental U.S. And if shopping is your goal, take your pick of venues—from designer fashions in Bal Harbour to vibrant boutiques in South Beach to guayabera shirts from Little Havana. There are scores of museums, art galleries and blocks of modernist architecture to gawk at too.
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It's time for the U.S. to create a mandatory, defined-contribution plan, not unlike those in other parts of the world such as Australia or the United Kingdom. Or so says Meir Statman, author of "What Investors Really Want" and a professor at Santa Clara University.
"Libertarian-paternalistic nudges have moved many non-savers into defined contribution retirement savings, but left many behind, along with those with limited access to defined contribution retirement savings plans," Statman wrote in a paper that's currently being considered for publication in a highly regarded professional journal. "It's time to switch from nudge to shove and replace libertarian-paternalistic voluntary defined-contribution accounts with fully paternalistic mandatory defined-contribution accounts for all."
In essence, Statman wants to create a new type of retirement plan that address the retirement-savings crisis that exists in the U.S. and that fits between Social Security and existing 401(k)-type plans where contributions are defined and voluntary.
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"It's a retirement savings solution centered on a paternalistic second layer of mandatory private defined contribution savings accounts in a retirement savings pyramid, above by the paternalistic first layer of Social Security and below the libertarian third layer of voluntary savings."
And having that kind of plan, he said in an interview, would go a long way toward addressing the retirement savings crisis that exists, especially for "non-savers," who—at the moment—are likely to subsist solely on Social Security in retirement. "I certainly hope there's violent reaction to my plan," he said. "The referees at the journal (where its being reviewed) said it's going to make some people angry. And that's good."
According to Statman, these mandatory savings accounts would be private accounts, much like current 401(k) and IRA accounts, except that they would be mandatory and unavailable before retirement age. "The mandatory savings accounts would add little burden on savers, as they would largely replace voluntary 401(k) and IRA savings," he wrote. "Yet they would add great benefit to non-savers who fail to accumulate sufficient retirement savings."
Savers, he said, should not really care whether the government forces them to save. They are going to save regardless. "Other than feeling oppressed because I now have to do it because the government said so, the effects other than ideology are zero," he said. "But the effect on those who have a problem saving would be profound."
To be sure, the U.S. would not be breaking new ground in creating mandatory defined contribution savings plans. Such plans exist in several countries outside the U.S. And "these hold lessons about plan features we are wise to adopt and flaws we are wise to avoid," he wrote.
According to Statman, the reason why the U.S. needs such a plan has to do with human behavior. Some people are built to save, while others aren't, he said. "Self-control overcomes temptation, but not everyone possesses sufficient self-control," he wrote. "Mandatory savings substitute external control for self-control by limiting income available for spending."
"Self-control overcomes temptation, but not everyone possesses sufficient self-control ... Mandatory savings substitute external control for self-control by limiting income available for spending."
And while he does acknowledge that each of us is born with a capacity for self-control, some are born with a greater capacity than others. "We don't have a general retirement savings crisis," he said. "We have two populations, some people have too much money and some people have too little. We have some people with good self-control and forward thinking and they don't really need anything mandatory. But then there are other people who need it."
And when Statman thinks about the retirement savings crisis in the U.S. it's more about those who have no self-control. "For those who need a little extra kick, (my plan) forces them to save whether they like it or not," said Statman.
He also noted that conscientious people accumulate more wealth than less conscientious people. "It's hard to accept, but some people in our country are children forever in our country," he said. "And in the same way that you would not let a 3-year-old cross the street on his own, you would hold their hand; some people need hand-holding until they are 70."
And lastly, he noted, that frugality—bolstered by self-control—underpins savers.
Now it's true that the U.S. has made moves to help non-savers become savers through the use of automatic enrollment in defined contribution plans. But even automatic enrollment plans aren't panaceas. "Employees who do not enroll in defined contribution savings plans along with employees who enroll but contribute little and employees who cash out before retirement are doomed live in retirement on little beyond Social Security benefits," he wrote.


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Calcium and phosphorus, which are minerals, help build strong bones. Healthy kidneys help regulate the level of phosphorus in your blood by removing extra phosphorus. If your kidneys aren't working properly, eventually you'll probably have high phosphorus levels in your blood (hyperphosphatemia). Too much phosphorus decreases the level of calcium in your blood, which can lead to bone disease.
Your phosphorus needs may vary, depending on your kidney function. For adults with kidney disease, generally 800 to 1,000 milligrams (mg) of phosphorus a day is the limit. Many healthy adults eat almost double this amount.
Nearly every food contains some phosphorus. As a general rule, foods high in protein are also high in phosphorus. If you have an earlier stage of kidney disease, you'll likely be advised to limit your intake of phosphorus and protein. A reduced-protein diet helps limit the amount of waste that builds up in your blood.
If you have late stage kidney disease and you're on dialysis, the picture changes a bit. Dialysis removes protein (in the form of waste) from your blood, so your protein needs increase — but you'll still need to choose lower phosphorus foods. A registered dietitian can help you choose protein-rich foods that are lower in phosphorus.
Below is a partial listing of foods lower in phosphorus to help you identify substitutes for higher phosphorus foods. Although a food or drink may be low in phosphorus, you still need to watch portion sizes and limit the number of servings you eat or drink each day.
Manufacturers may add phosphorus when processing foods to thicken, improve taste or prevent discoloration. Check the ingredients to see if phosphorus has been added. If so, choose a similar food item that doesn't have such additives.
Dozens of additives contain phosphorus. Look for any ingredient that contains "phos" in the term. Here are some examples:
Food manufacturers often don't list the amount of phosphorus on food labels. In addition, fast foods and convenience foods have potentially large amounts of phosphorus, which may be used as a preservative, among other things.
For help creating a meal plan that meets your needs, consult a registered dietitian. A dietitian can help make sure that you get enough nutrition while following your doctor's medical recommendations. Confirm all recommended food substitutes with your dietitian.
Because it's difficult to lower phosphorus in your diet, your doctor may recommend a phosphate binder medication to help control the amount of phosphorus your body absorbs from foods. Your doctor may also recommend calcium and other supplements, depending on your nutritional needs. Ask your pharmacist to check your medications and supplements for phosphorus.
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It's a mess you might expect to find overseas. But right here in Arizona, a story with more drama than a soap opera.
A citizen arrested for speaking her mind.
When police officers complained that the chief was forcing them to conduct unlawful searches, 80% of the police force wound up being suspended, and half a dozen of those complaining ultimately lost their jobs.
Government leaders meet in secret to oust the mayor, who says he was protecting democracy and won't go without a fight.
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