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SCEPA faculty are investigating the economics of climate change, from mitigation proposals to implementation.
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SCEPA joined with the Economic Policy Institute on Capitol Hill to brief congressional staff and policy experts on tax expenditures, or incentives given through the tax code without scrutiny by Congress.
SCEPA economists are working on the prospects for a more progressive economic order to emerge from the shock of the recession. They have published papers and documents that place current events in a longer-term context as well as policy proposals to deal with short-term concerns. They are also documenting the emerging discussion of how the discipline of economics is reacting to the Great Recession and the questioning of conventional economic analysis.
Lance Taylor, a SCEPA Faculty Fellow, presents an overview of his new book, Maynard's Revenge, in a Google Tech Talk.
The book, published this November by Harvard University Press, is a timely analysis of mainstream macroeconomics, posing the need for a more useful and realistic economic analysis that can provide a better understanding of the ongoing global financial and economic crisis.
The government spends $143 billion through tax breaks in an effort to expand pension coverage and security. Yet, over half of the American workforce does not have a pension. Retirement insecurity hurts business plans, workers' lives and retiree well-being. Reform is needed.
SCEPA's Guaranteeing Retirement Income Project, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and in collaboration with Demos and the Economic Policy Institute, has a plan to guarantee safe and secure retirement income for all Americans.
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The article cites that some of the reasons why there has been so little done includes the reluctance of prosecutors, which derives from the power and importance of bankers, who remain significant political contributors and have built substantial lobbying operations and the probelm of proving financial fraud, which is much more difficult than proving most other crimes. There is also fear from federal officials that punishing the banks too much will undermine the fragile economic recovery.
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On October 4, 2011 the Peterson Institute, in collaboration with the International Labor Office (ILO), held a conference to present key findings from the new book Making Globalization Socially Sustainable. Professor Millbeg led the fourth session, "Actual and Perceived Effects of Offshoring on Economic Insecurity: The Role of Labor Market Regimes."
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A man and his dog were shot in a Laurel Canyon home-invasion robbery that led to a car chase, with officers ultimately arresting four suspects in the Mid-City area, Los Angeles police said.
Police responding to a call of a robbery in progress in the 8200 block of Mannix Dr. about 1:40 a.m. Tuesday met up with witnesses who said they heard gunshots and saw a white Dodge Charger driving away from the area, according to a police statement. Officers caught up with a car fitting the description and gave chase, leading to a pursuit that ended up near Pico Boulevard and Hauser Avenue in the Wilshire Vista Heights neighborhood of Mid-City.
People in the car fled and four suspects were arrested after patrol cops, Metropolitan Division members and K-9 officers cordoned off the area and conducted a search. "Evidence from the robbery was recovered at the scene," states a department release.
Authorities believe that three suspects somehow forced their way into the Laurel Canyon Home and held a victim at gunpoint, demanding cash from a safe. They got the loot, police say, and took off with the help of a getaway driver. It's not clear why shots were fired.
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It's probably not surprising that I am so excited about the launch of the New Science Galleries in Birr. My nickname as a child was Little Miss Don't Touch because I had such a curious mind and always wanted to touch things or take them apart to see how and why they worked.
The Science Centre Galleries at Birr Castle Gardens are ideal for children who like to explore and figure out how things work. Birr is the historical heart of science in Ireland, the result of generations of one family with a passion for science and engineering, who have lived at the Castle since 1620.
Before our family returned to Birr, my father, Lord Rosse, was a senior official of the United Nations Development Programme, we moved around the world to accommodate his various postings. I was educated on three different continents and in three different languages.
I returned to Birr in 1980 when I was 10, living with the historic Great Telescope as the backdrop to my happy childhood, however I had no interest in it whatsoever until I went to university. When it came to choosing a degree I opted to study Aeronautical Engineering in Kingston University, London.
In my third year in College, I wrote a 10-page paper on 'The Remarkable Engineering Discoveries of The Parsons'.
While astronomy didn't appeal to me the engineering side and the design around the Great Telescope itself was fascinating. I began to think more and more about all the history associated with my home and ancestors; the Third Earl's Telescope and his discovery of the spiral form of the nebula in Canes Venatici, a galaxy more than 10 million light years away, the visit to Birr of Charles Babbage, the father of modern computer science, Countess Mary Rosse, wife of the third Earl and her darkroom which remained in the castle as she left it – the oldest surviving darkroom in the world.
The 4th Earl of Rosse was fascinated by the moon and his drawings from that time have proved surprisingly accurate. There was also Charles Parsons; his younger brother who invented the turbine engine for boats in the 1890s which eventually led to the design of today's jet engines.
We were lucky to have most of the original manuscripts so I could indulge myself by delving into papers and family history. I would go back to college with facts that would amaze my lecturers such as that the castle had electric lighting before London, indeed we have light bulbs pre-dating Edison's patent of the light bulb. (Sadly too we have the record for the world's first fatal traffic accident in 1869, when Mary Ward, a cousin of the Parsons, was thrown from a steam-propelled car built by the young Charles in the workshops at Birr. After the death he smashed it out of sadness, but for that Birr may have been the hub of early automobile industry too.)
Ironically, while everyone in the UK knew about the Great Telescope at Birr and Charles Parsons features heavily at the Institute of Engineers in London, we weren't sharing this story with people in Ireland.
I feel strongly these were Irish achievements which we need to use to inspire the next generation of budding young scientists. And so with the support of Government bodies we developed Ireland's Historical Science Centre which told the story of all the different scientific discoveries at Birr.
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For me the Science Centre is vital to ensure we continue to encourage generations to study science. I firmly believe in children having fun with science, that's what we are trying to do this time in Birr, like the W5 Science Museum in Belfast, encouraging children to ask why and how. At Birr we are continuing on the scientific tradition to this day with the most up to date solar spectronomer led by Trinity College, which allows data received from the sun, by radio waves, to be sent to scientists all over the world.
With my family, including my two brothers Patrick and Michael, we are working together, to make Birr a perfect family destination. I see it as a domain of discovery for everyone.
Lady Alicia Clements is an engineer and daughter of Lord and Lady Rosse of Birr Castle, Co Offaly.
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In cooperation with The National Olympic and Sports Association of Iceland and Reykjavik University coaches, participants and other interested are invited to follow some interesting lectures about elite training. The lectures are a part of RIG 2016 and will take place on Thursday January 21st from 17 to 21 at Reykjavik University, Menntavegi 1, 101 Reykjavik.
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|Ron Kipp is the Alpine Sport Education Manager for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA). He did his Ph.D. work in motor control at the University of Utah prior to working with the U.S. Ski Team's Sport Science Department as Director of Athlete Preparation. He has coached and was the Head Physiologist with the U.S. Ski Team's Men's Alpine World Cup Team. He has worked with the Norwegian Men's Alpine National Team as an on-hill coach and sport science consultant. Ron has written two books, authored or co-authored over 50 peer reviewed scientific published papers, and has given over 100 presentations nationally and internationally on skiing.
|Jacky Pellarin, national coach of the Icelandic swimming team
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|Dr. Michail Tonkonogi, Professor Sport Physiology, Dalarna University, Sweden
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|Hlín Bjarnadóttir, physiotherapist and gymnastic coach. Fanney Hauksdóttir European champion in powerlifting and Þórey Edda Elísdóttir, 5th in Olympic Games in pole vault in 2004 will take part in the presentation.
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A physicist trained at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Podvig works on the Russian nuclear arsenal, US-Russian relations, and nonproliferation. In 1995, he headed the Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces Research Project, editing the project's eponymous book, which provides an overview of the Soviet and Russian strategic forces and the technical capabilities of Russia's strategic weapon systems. His blog, "Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces," updates this information in real time.
North Korea's nuclear test will almost certainly fuel skepticism about the nuclear disarmament agenda. If no country has nuclear weapons, skeptics will ask, then how can "nuclear renegades" such as North Korea be deterred or dissuaded from getting a nuclear weapon and how can they be disarmed if they get one? For most opponents of nuclear abolition this argument ends the debate.
For Russia, dialogue with the United States has always been as much about style as substance. So it isn't surprising that the change of tone brought by the Obama administration has produced encouraging results for nuclear arms control. The joint statement by U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is hardly groundbreaking, but it does contain a few remarkable points.
On the subject of nuclear disarmament, one point is rarely disputed: the United States and Russia should lead the way, and other nuclear weapon states should join the process when U.S. and Russian arsenals are roughly comparable to their own. Given that these two countries have the largest nuclear arsenals, with more than 95 percent of all nuclear warheads, it is reasonable to expect them to start eliminating their weapons first.
We don't know at this point what the next U.S.-Russian arms control agreement will look like, but everyone in the international community expects it to be a step toward significantly reducing the world's two largest nuclear arsenals. The levels set in the Moscow Treaty, which Washington and Moscow signed in May 2002, commit them to reducing the number of operationally deployed nuclear warheads on each side to no more than 1,700-2,200 warheads by 2012. One would expect that a post-Moscow Treaty agreement will bring much lower numbers.
As the United States waits for a new administration to take office in January, expectations are high that arms control talks with Russia will be revitalized shortly thereafter. Parties in both countries--no matter political persuasion--think Washington and Moscow should move quickly to devise a new disarmament agreement that would replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which expires in December 2009.
What a difference eight years makes. Following the 2000 U.S. presidential election, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered a new disarmament initiative that called for reducing U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals to 1,500 warheads apiece. Although that statement was basically ignored--at the time, Washington was embroiled in the recount saga--Putin's proposal remained the official Russian position on disarmament in subsequent years.
The civilian nuclear cooperation deal between the United States and India, which President George W. Bush signed into law last week, has been controversial from the moment it was first outlined in New Delhi about three years ago. It would allow Washington to trade nuclear technology with New Delhi despite the fact that India is a de facto nuclear weapons state outside of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
If there's a consensus about the confrontation between Russia and Georgia, it's that the conflict has seriously strained the relationship between Moscow and its Western counterparts--namely, the United States and NATO. Now that the worst of the conflict seems over, it appears that the harshest measures suggested in the first days of the conflict, i.e., expelling Russia from the G-8, won't materialize. Despite all of the disagreements and mistrust, each party seems to understand that severing ties between Russia and the West isn't realistic.
Few U.S.-Russian cooperation efforts are more popular and less controversial than the "Megatons to Megawatts" program, also known as the HEU-LEU deal, which converts Russia's highly enriched uranium (HEU) from nuclear weapons into low-enriched uranium (LEU) for U.S. nuclear power reactors. Under the agreement that the countries signed in 1993, Moscow made a commitment to eliminate 500 metric tons of HEU--probably more than one-third of the total HEU stock that the Soviet Union produced during the Cold War.
Skepticism about arms control agreements has been a prominent Bush administration position. As such, its arms control achievements are few and far between. But in its waning days, the administration has finally agreed with the long-standing Russian position that any new arms control agreement should be "legally binding." John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, also recently announced in a major speech on nuclear issues that he would seek a new arms control agreement with Russia.