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The happiness poll: Why life is imperfect and total bliss unrealistic
A few weeks ago, I decided to run a LinkedIn poll after reading Daniel Nettle's book Happiness – the science behind the smile.
I enjoyed it and found it easy to "consume". One thing I discovered was that we all "sense" happiness differently, while our environment could be a contributor to what we consider happiness.
Even the notion of thinking about happiness can change our experience of life. So I asked the question "All things being considered, do you feel happy?" The comments chastising me for the completely unscientific nature of the poll completely missed the point.
Take a moment to "consider" happiness.
Go on, do it now just for fun...[insert thinking time].
Most people take the time to realise that the sun is shining, they are healthy, they have food and lodging for their family. All of a sudden, life doesn't look so bad.
I wanted 10,000 people to fill in the poll – not because it would make it any more statistically worthwhile – but because 10,000 people would have taken a moment to think about happiness. As a result of taking the poll, they would have felt happier – and happiness is infectious.
Oh well, at least I made a difference to the 419 voters and the people who wrote the 44 comments. And only eight people claimed to be grumpy.
In the book Nettle applied a scale to the happiness experience:
Level one - momentary feelings such as joy or pleasure.
Level two - judgements regarding feelings of well being and satisfaction.
Level three - the quality of life we experience, such as flourishing or fulfilment of one's potential.
What I am particularly interested in is not so much those moments of joy or pleasure that might be fleeting or pass quickly (as per the poll), but rather the sustained experience of a satisfied life. Of creating practices for ongoing well-being.
Life is imperfect and total bliss is not a reality. There is no such thing as Utopia – life is challenging – but we do have the power to influence how we accept those challenges and view the world. As humans, we have the power of choice.
It is liberating to know that life is full of disappointments and struggles for everyone, so we can give up our anxiety about everyone having a better time than us.
Happiness is a choice. A growing body of research is demonstrating that as we become happier, we become better people. As we become happier we become more compassionate, creative, energetic and financially successful. We also become more emotionally and physically healthy.
For those of us who are concerned with creating a "better" world, becoming happier and helping others become happier appears a very effective means to this end. Which is why I believe being thankful is easy option on the happiness journey.
A shame I did not move the happiness index by touching 10,000 people with my blog – but I will continue to encourage people to say 'Five Thanks a Day.'
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Considered one of Australia's tech success stories Naomi Simson founded RedBalloon in 2001. From just an idea and persistence redballoon.com.au has now served more than 2.5 million customers.
She has many labels: entrepreneur, speaker, director, mother, author, blogger, innovator and a passionate individual to name a few And now TV personality on Network TEN's Shark Tank – to return for a second season in 2016. She is committed to making the world a happier place, and does so via her blogging, having written more than 900 posts at naomisimson.com since 2006 (which attracts 100,000 visits a year). Naomi is a LinkedIn Influencer with over 1 million followers, and a much sought after speaker. Her most recent book "Live what you Love" is a best seller.
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Watch the video above to meet Merza, a skateboard teacher who shows a different side to life in Kabul
Kabul at Work, an ambitious project to document the lives of Kabul workers, was built from the rubble of the city's Indian Embassy.
British photographer David Gill was working in the city when a suicide car bomb exploded at the embassy gates in 2008, killing 41 people and injuring over 130. "It made me realise that Kabul only gets attention following a disaster," says Gill.
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The King of Blues, guitarist and singer BB King, died. He was 89 years old.
He influenced a generation of rock guitarists and was one of the world's best guitarists. King performed in at least a hundred concerts a year.
Recently, he had an illness and people took him to hospital. Earlier this month, he said on Facebook that he was in hospice care at his home. He died in his sleep in Las Vegas.
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|Too Big To Fail
|Democrats and Race
by Christopher Chantrill
March 21, 2008 at 11:49 pm
WRITING in The American Thinker Ed Kaitz tells of how he got to know the immigrant Vietnamese shrimp fishermen of the Louisianas Gulf Coast.
When they arrived in Louisiana the refugees had no money (the money that they had was used to bribe their way out of Vietnam and into refugee camps in Thailand), few friends, and a mostly unfriendly and suspicious local population.
They did however have strong families, a strong work ethic, and the "Audacity of Hope." Within a generation, with little or no knowledge of English, the Vietnamese had achieved dominance in the fishing industry there and their children were already achieving the top SAT scores in the state.
So why was it, Ed asked a casual black acquaintance, that these Vietnamese had come to America and, become, without friends and influence, within a generation, so successful? And why was it so difficult to convince young black men to abandon the streets and build lives like the Vietnamese immigrants?
The answer was shocking.
"Were owed and they arent."
Well, words are cheap. The trouble is that this were owed attitude is probably at the root of most black social pathology: the 70 percent of black babies born to single mothers and the abysmal performance of blacks in school. After all, whats the point of sucking it in when Were owed and they arent?
After the great catharsis of the civil rights movement when white America confessed its racist sins, blacks had a choice. They could forgive their white oppressors or they could torment them. Under the tutelage of white liberals and black nationalists they chose to torment.
Wrong choice.
It was wrong, of course, because forgiveness is at the center of our Christian culture. It is especially appropriate to remember this during Holy Week, when we recall how God sacrificed his Son for our sins and forgives the sins of the world.
But it is also wrong at a practical level because it destroys and retards the advancement of blacks from their status as an oppressed people.
When you come to the city you come as the member of a tribe, one of the Gentiles. Living in a tribe, scratching out a living on the land, tied to the land in serfdom or slavery, you rightly mistrusted everyone outside the tribe or outside the village. The outsiders are, after all competitors for the vital land you occupy, the land that gives you life.
But in the city, things are different. In the city you prosper not because you have the best land but because you serve your fellow citizens better with products and services that they want and need. In the city you prosper not because you prudently mistrust the brigands down the road but because you prudently enlarge and extend your circle of trust. You establish a reputation for trustworthiness and you seek out those who are trustworthy.
So long as American blacks sit in their ghetto of mistrust, so long as they cling to the motto of Were owed and they arent, so long will they fail to journey from the wilderness of racism and rage to the Promised Land of trust and love and come at last to their great reward of full citizenship in this great America.
This week in his much noted speech, Barak Obama sent out a message loud and clear.
Its still: Were owed, and you arent.
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Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.
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Civil Societya complex welter of intermediate institutions, including businesses, voluntary associations, educational institutions, clubs, unions, media, charities, and churchesbuilds, in turn, on the family, the primary instrument by which people are socialized into their culture and given the skills that allow them to live in broader society and through which the values and knowledge of that society are transmitted across the generations.
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Tear down theory, poetic systems... No more rules, no more models... Genius conjures up
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We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.
E. G. West, Education and the State
When we began first to preach these things, the people appeared as awakened from the sleep of agesthey seemed to see for the first time that they were responsible beings, and that a refusal to use the means appointed was a damning sin.
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When we received Christ, Phil added, all of a sudden we now had a rule book to go by, and when we had problems the preacher was right there to give us the answers.
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At first, we thought [the power of the West] was because you had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on your economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity.
David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing
But the only religions that have survived are those which support property and the family.
Thus the outlook for communism, which is both anti-property and anti-family, (and also anti-religion), is not promising.
F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
Conservatism is the philosophy of society. Its ethic is fraternity and its characteristic is authority the non-coercive social persuasion which operates in a family or a community. It says we should....
Danny Kruger, On Fraternity
Families helped each other putting up homes and barns. Together, they built churches, schools, and common civic buildings. They collaborated to build roads and bridges. They took pride in being free persons, independent, and self-reliant; but the texture of their lives was cooperative and fraternal.
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THERE David Beckham was, with his three wide-eyed sons sitting alongside him, as the bicycle motocross played out in front of huge and enthralled crowds at the BMX track over two days.
It is the newest of Olympic sports but with spectators like that, BMX is here to stay.
Introduced in Beijing four years ago to appeal to the younger masses and because of the IOC's fear of the growing popularity of the X-Games, it was one of the sports that stole the show in London.
Australian Sam Willoughby, who claimed silver, feels assured his sport will be part of the five-ringed circus for years to come.
"From what I've seen and heard I think our sport is pretty secure," the 20-year-old said when asked if the novelty value of BMX might wear off.
"The Olympic Committee appears keen to have a sport that appeals to the younger generation. BMX is that.
"Our sport being so quick appeals to the younger generation as it doesn't take a big attention span."
Yet Willoughby understands the importance of extreme sports pushing their luck.
When asked about the possible introduction of freestyle BMX, or maybe the skateboarding half-pipe, he shook his head.
"It's hard to say but my personal opinion is that it's fairest to keep sports in that are more clear-cut, first across the finish line is the winner, rather than judged sports," he says.
In Rio de Janeiro in 2016, golf and rugby sevens will be included.
There are already some doubts about their validity, although Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates is a fan.
"I was a voter (on the IOC) and I did support the retention of softball and baseball because they were two sports in which we have medalled in the past," he said.
"When they went out, rugby sevens and golf were the two that I supported."
Golf and rugby sevens might be a raging success and prove their value as BMX has done but there are other sports that have seemed irrelevant in London.
On the final day of competition, a smattering of spectators were on hand at Hadleigh Farm in Essex to watch the men's mountain bike event.
Legendary cycling commentator Phil Liggett said on the eve of the Games: "(Olympics founder) Pierre de Coubertin would have laughed his head off if he found out it (mountain bikes and BMX) was an Olympic discipline.
"It is absolutely disgraceful what they have done. They have devastated the track with the new events and taking out the iconic events of the Olympics."
While the mountain bikes were drawing to a close, the final rotations of the group all-round at the rhythmic gymnastics were being held.
Bedazzled with sequins and heavy eye make-up, it looked like a scene from Strictly Ballroom and barely reflecting the Olympic motto "Faster, Higher, Stronger".
The IOC has not bothered with exhibition sports since 1992 and it takes a two-thirds majority of its 113 members for a discipline to be introduced to the Olympic program.
IOC president Jacques Rogges' philosophy has been to keep athlete numbers down to keep within a budget.
Consequently, new events instead of new sports were introduced in London.
Women's boxing made a successful debut, and when Great Britain's Nicola Adams won gold in the flyweight division it was splashed over the front pages of almost every newspaper in the country.
The IOC had snubbed a request from FIFA boss Sepp Blatter for beach football to be included in Rio, where it is a national pastime.
Coates said: "Golf has given us assurances that the best players are going to be available. There will be no major competitions up against the dates of the Olympics, as has been the case in baseball."
What of rugby sevens?
Rogge is a fan of the 15-man code but does an abridged version of the sport aim up to the Olympic ideal?
"Rugby sevens will be a great success," Coates said.
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In Huraki Murakami's cult trilogy 1Q84, the heroine Aomame enters an alternative reality by walking down an emergency staircase on a Tokyo highway. Curators Marcelle Joseph and Lydia Cowpertwait have "hijacked this concept of a parallel world," Joseph told BLOUIN ARTINFO UK, to focus on works by female artists collected by women.
The show opens on September 18, 2013 at Lloyds Club in London. The idea, Joseph continued, is to ask the question: "if there was a parallel world conceived by women, what would it look like? Would it be a matriarchal society? Or would it be a world where men and women were more equal on all fronts, with no glass ceiling to break through?"
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Last year, Market Force Information released a survey about the best ice cream shops in America. Ben & Jerry's won out, but Cold Stone Creamery was a close second. If you hadn't guessed, the survey had nothing to do with nutritional value and the treats advertised at these shops can cost you a half a day's worth of calories. While you may not be able to shun the ice cream shop the entire summer, you can plan ahead for what you'll order before your kids, family, or friends scream for ice cream. Here are your best and worst options at the most popular ice cream parlors.
Baskin Robbins
Go for something on their BRight Choices menu, for something more interesting than just a plain vanilla frozen yogurt. Skip the 920-calorie Brownie Sundae for a 4 oz. serving of their Premium Churned Reduced-Fat, No Sugar Added Caramel Turtle Truffle Ice Cream. Add slices of banana for extra fiber.
Total calorie savings: 670
Don't deny yourself a cone! Just skip the waffle cone dipped in chocolate in favor of a cake cone (for about 25 calories). Pair that with a 4 oz. serving of Light Amaretto-Cherry Swirl and your trip to the ice cream store will only cost you about 235 calories.
Total calorie savings: 685
Ben & Jerry's
While Ben & Jerry's don't publish their calorie counts for their specialty items such as sundaes, shakes, and smoothies on their website. We can do a little detective work to figure out that a sundae will cost you a minimum of 500 calories: 250 calories for a scoop of ice cream, 200 calories for hot fudge, and 80 calories for the whipped cream (and that's if everything is portion-controlled by that teenager behind the counter).
To replace frightful calorie counts, opt for one of their low-fat frozen yogurt or frozen Greek yogurt flavors, which can save you about 100 calories per serving but more importantly up to 10 grams of fat. Their lowest calorie choices are the sorbets at around 100 calories.
Total calorie savings: 350-400
Cold Stone Creamery
We applaud Cold Stone Creamery for providing the calorie count of all of its products online. We also love that they have such a great array of fresh fruit to add as mix-ins (which they also offer calorie counts for). Last, we love that they have a good amount of yogurt flavors in familiar flavors to help us save calories. But all these kudos won't save you from the fact that ALL of their ice cream offerings, even at the 5 oz. size, or Like It™ portion, are over 310 calories per serving. Add that to a waffle cone and we're beyond 600 calories and that's if you only put one scoop of ice cream in that colossal waffle cone.
Their Pineapple Sorbet is just 140 calories, but most of the other sorbets are around 170 to 220 calories. If you go for one of their yogurt flavors, say a Like It™ Plain Tart or White Chocolate flavor, on top of a sugar cone, you're at an OK 220 calories.
Total calorie savings: 380
And if you're looking at the shakes, sorry, nothing on the menu, even at 12 oz., is under 760 calories. Instead go for the Sinless Smoothies. The Berry Trinity option is just 70 calories in the smallest size. The Man-Go Banana is 170 calories.
Total calorie savings: 690
Culver's nutrition guide doesn't just give numbers, but gives four healthier meal options around 500 calories to counter some of their 1000+ calorie offerings. Speaking of 1000 calories, their Banana Split Sundae with two scoops is 1091 calories. And even their one scoop option of the Caramel Cashew Sunday is 586 calories. The only option under 200 calories is their Mini Scoop Chocolate Cake Cone at 193 calories.
Total calorie savings: 898
The frozen custard is sure enough creamy, but that comes at a serious calorie and fat cost. Instead go for their Lemon Ice scoop. Not only will you get a whole cup to spoon and savor, you get a third of the calories at 84. Like Cold Stone, Culver's has a number of fresh fruit options to add to your frozen treat.
Total calorie savings: 200
In the way of frozen drinks, you're looking at a lot of calories no matter where you turn. The highest calorie count for their "Short" size of anything from their Handcrafted Beverages line is 753 calories. If you have the calories to spare, your best drinkable frozen treat is the Vanilla Concrete Mixer©. It's still hefty though at 374 calories.
Total calorie savings: 379
Dairy Queen
Going for one of their signature Blizzard© treats adds a hard-to-swallow 750 calories to your daily calorie count. Swapping that out for a Kids' Vanilla Cone in a cup with banana slices and a drizzle of strawberry topping will give you a taste of sweet at only 235 calories.
Total calorie savings: 515
We're grateful they've started a smoothie kick with their Orange Julius© line. A small orange light smoothie is 210 calories. That's leaps and bounds better than any of their shakes and malts, all of which are over 490 calories even at the small size.
Total calorie savings: 280
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What are your best frozen treat swaps and the calorie savings?
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This is really good info! A wake-up call to how many pretty-much-empty calories there are in ice cream and related treats.
I think one thing is worth mentioning, though. Sometimes, it isn't so bad to indulge in the high-calorie stuff, as long as you are controlling how much you eat. Split a sundae two or 3 ways and suddenly it's a much more reasonable number. Have a couple sips of your husband's shake, and you can get the satisfaction of the super-sweet without having the whole thing. This kind of self-control is hard, but trying to get through life on sad substitutions, is, well, sad.
I have a grain and milk allergy. I cannot eat ice cream. It use to be a food that I loved. I make smoothies now in a blender with real fruit. No more garbage in my body. I am not a garbage can!
I have found that the skinny cow ice cream sandwiches are a satisfying alternative to any of the 'bad' ice cream. At 140-150 calories per sandwich they are great and I can indulge and have 2 if I really want to, or do a little longer on the eliptical machine.
I love Turkey Hill's Sugar-Free (and low-fat) Ice Cream products. Their Dutch Chocolate sugar-free flavor is all I'm able to find at my local grocery store, but it's delicious and only 70 calories per 1/2 cup serving. (vs the usual 120 calories or more per half cup) In terms of frozen treats, I've tried the sugar-free 15 calorie popsicles but they don't taste good to me. I like to make my own popsicles with water, some sugar-free juice, and fresh fruit. I've also tried Phily Swirl's 14 calorie greek pops and they're fantastic! They're like regular popsicles but they're swirled with greek yogurt, so for a 14 calorie pop you also get 3g of protein and taste a yummy creaminess that makes you think you're having a creamsicle. 40 calorie sugar-free fudgsicles are also a favorite of mine. Those take care of any chocolate craving I have!
Publix grocery chain has their own brand of Low Fat Frozen Yogurts with a half cup calorie count of from 110 to 130 calories. They're all fantastic and taste like ice cream to me. My favorite is Roadrunner Raspberry.
I have yet to eat have ice cream in my journey of losing weight, but I'm sure that I will. I happen to love love love ice cream and while alternatives are better for you they don't taste as good. This is a lifestyle change for me and to say that I will never have another Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Blizzard (in a medium) would be a flat out LIE. I will however, continue to monitor what I eat and exercise regularly. One ice cream treat doesn't make you unhealthy. Moderation is the name of the game.
I find that cold stone creamery ice cream is just cold---no flavor. Ditto Baskin Robbins. The most flavorful is Jane's Ice Cream. I don't indulge any more. I have found a nice alternative-----So Delicious made with cocoanut milk---no dairy involved and truthfully named.
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I have a grain and milk allergy. I cannot eat ice cream. It use to be a food that I loved. I make smoothies now in a blender with real fruit. No more garbage in my body. I am not a garbage can!
a"garbage" is deliciosa ice cream no way speak for URSELF and i respect the opine your advancing here today..HOWEVER:
1. love mi strawberry shortcake with crunchies and i have NEVER gain weight by eating such delicious or mi vanilla ice cream,cone(s)sugar cone or plain max is 2x a week,actually been losing and sustaining such NON-GARBAGE treat.
2.I just went SUMMER Treat shopping last night love it,we have 5 boxes of:
Luigi's ices yum!with frozen BOMB POPS,new kind hawaiian punch yummies!
and lastly:
Marinaro(mi fave ones)in the lil yellow cup cherry ice,with spoon yum! barely
any calories,never to gain back weight when even having one if i can't at all sleep,at 3 a.m. wed nite this week from working late on studies (law)etc.
and lost by friday again 2.5 pds i love it!
all about maintaining,and eating in moderation,LIFE WAY TOO SHORT to not enjoy America's favorite,and that is ice cream.
I love So Delicious sandwich bars. They are delicious and they are made with coconut milk. Very low calorie (I think about 100 per bar) but the most important thing is how good they taste. No point in eating anything if it doesn't taste good. I also like fudgsicles, less than 100 calories per stick and also taste great. They are not "low fat" they are just the way you remember them from when you were a kid.
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I love So Delicious sandwich bars. They are delicious and they are made with coconut milk. Very low calorie (I think about 100 per bar) but the most important thing is how good they taste. No point in eating anything if it doesn't taste good. I also like fudgsicles, less than 100 calories per stick and also taste great. They are not "low fat" they are just the way you remember them from when you were a kid.
hi chica... mi older sis love Cocunut milk, as your liking that,is made with such her too,but she also drink 1 to 2% milk,and regular ices,ice cream,sorbet,so i do agree! no use "eating what your knowing do not taste at least simi-good she says! lol
i agree
I'll choose Skinny Cow over any of that other pointlessly fattening stuff anytime! After you've had Skinny Cow, it's hard to understand why they even produce sweets that aren't lean! A lot of the time they can make alternatives that tastes better than the "splurge" version. If lo-cal can taste THAT amazing, then why even make anything not "lo-cal" at all? If they made perfectly tasty lo-cal the standard, think about how happy and beautiful everybody would be?!
It just seems like corporate America's ploy to make us all grossly obese for some unfathomable reason when we obviously have the capability to make food just as yummy (a lot of the time, yummier) that is leaner and healthier. I can't even understand the necessity for loading everything up with that much fat when it doesn't even make it taste better.
Can producing Skinny Cow ice cream really cost that much more to make than regular ice cream?!
When will America step up to the plate and finally take some productive action in helping it's people stay healthy, physically, mentally (since the school system is so messed up; no child left behind just became the title of the new Home Alone series remakes), and lastly medically (don't even need a witticism to make that one clear).
Can I get a "HELL YEAH," anyone?!?!
Let's make it happen!
This is definitely an eye-opener for those who are in the dark on ice cream and the mass calories it packs!
I usually look for low sugar low cal ice cream-which is very hard to find !
Even though frozen yogurt is on the lower end of calories, it still packs on the sugar.
I love making my own recipes, because I then know what is going into the food, and I can easily keep track.
You can always make your own ice cream out of bananas and protein powder, ( or just plain bananas) Mash them up and throw them in th freezer for a minimum of an hour.
Having a banana allergy I needed a different way to indulge.
I call these the Frozen Chocolate Protein'wich
1/2cup 0% greek yogurt
2 TBSP cool whip
2 scoops chocolate protein powder
2 chocolate simple thin cookies
under 100 calories, and amazingly delicious, offering a protein packed frozen treat, in one.
LOVE Pinkberry Greek Yogurt topped with toasted slivered almonds, cinnamon powder and bluberries. 160 total cals, 10 g of protein and 9 g of naturally occuring sugar! :)
I'm also a big fan of Skinny Cow truffle bars (only 100 cals!); Weight Watchers ice cream bars come in second place (they just don't taste as good as Skinny Cow, but if they're on sale I'll buy 'em); even Klondike Bar has Slim-a-bar, which is only 100 calories and definitely tastes good! These are great options if you have a difficult time portioning out your half-cup of ice cream from the big tub.
If you have a modicum of self control, try buying a pint of "regular" ice cream, and then eyeball out 1/4th of the pint. That's a serving size, 1/4th of the container, and that's actually pretty easy to see with your eyes. Blue Bell ice cream has just recently been introduced to southeast Virginia, and I'm not giving it up!
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Marine RE 'should halve costs'
The marine renewable energy (MRE) sector needs to target cutting costs in half by the end of the decade to make the leap to industrial-scale commercialisation, according to a new UK report.
The Marine Energy Technology Roadmap, produced by UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) and the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), says the tidal and wave industries should be aiming at slashing levelised cost of energy (CoE) from the current £0.20-0.50/kWh to £0.10-0.20/kWh by 2020 and £0.05-0.08/kWh by 2050 to spur development of large array projects.
"The UK marine energy sector could be worth more than £70bn ($117.7bn) and support 68,000 jobs in 2050," states University of Edinburgh UKERC researcher Henry Jeffrey, lead author of the report. "Decisions made now will determine whether marine energy will fulfill its potential as a significant source of energy by 2050."
"Over the next decade innovation needs to be prioritised to support installation and recovery demonstration and potentially small-scale array trials – by doing this we will significantly reduce the cost of marine energy."
ETI deputy director of engineering Richard Knight adds: "The marine sector is an industry still in its relative infancy. The industry needs to build viable business propositions through cost reduction and reliability demonstration to help establish a viable UK market."
The roadmap highlights 40 technology and deployment issues being faced by the marine energy sector in the UK, and prioritises them "from the perspective of the industry".
Among the report's key recommended targets are: technology validation through array-scale installations "in the next three to five years", and hitting a CoE of £0.08-0.10/kWh for array-scale MRE farms "by the mid-2020s".
British industry body RenewableUK's wave and tidal development manager Dee Nunn comments: "With large scale deployment of these technologies, economies of scale will kick in which will enable the sector to achieve the cost reductions it is committed to in the long term."
"If we invest in arrays now, and make sure the financial and political conditions are right for them, we'll also be able to build up the UK supply chain."


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Skip to comments.Obama Wins the Battle, Roberts Wins the War
Posted on 06/28/2012 12:15:09 PM PDT by Lorianne
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His personal "legacy" is The Roberts Tax.
"The individual mandate thus cannot be sustained under Congresss power to 'regulate Commerce.'"
Okay, so it's sustained under some other power. What have we gained? Nothing. The commerce clause has been a thorn in our side ever since McCulloch v. Maryland, and especially since Wickard v. Filburn, but its not as if its the only thing we care about. So the commerce power does have a limit. So what, if the feds can do whatever the hell they want through other means? The commerce power is limited and the taxing power is unlimited. We've gained nothing.
Well, I am increasingly agreeing with your above characterization of the Bush family.
There you go.
In a very real sense, Roberts has thrown down the gauntlet to liberals.
"You will no longer find sanctuary within the court because we have given you the power to pass any tax you desire. Just put it to a vote"
We have always said that liberals take it to the courts because their ideas are wrong and unpopular.
The ball is now in our court.
There you go.
In a very real sense, Roberts has thrown down the gauntlet to liberals.
"You will no longer find sanctuary within the court because we have given you the power to pass any tax you desire. Just put it to a vote"
We have always said that liberals take it to the courts because their ideas are wrong and unpopular.
The ball is now in our court.
This is one of the reasons that I will only be a down-ticket in Nov. This particular day had it's conception and birth in Mass. Furthermore, the tactic of using SCOTUS appointees in order to change my decision has been debunked with this ruling.
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
"You bring up an interesting point. Congess would be within its rights to levy a $10,000 tax on any abortion. It wouldn't be a fine, it would be a tax."
It could also tax you $10,000 for NOT having an abortion.
This is all nonsense. If a political hack in a black robe wants to find a rationale to justify a particular outcome, then the political hack will find the rationale. It is a fantasy that activist judges are, or ever will be constrained by precedent, or the constitution, or anything else.
All Roberts did with this ruling was join the ranks of activist judges, or the ranks of the other four political hacks in black robes.
All you people under 60 in this country? Sucks to be you...
Bottom line, and well said.
One weapon (Commerce Clause) has simply been upgraded for another MORE LETHAL weapon (Taxation).
We will need 61 CONSERVATIVE senators to do anything about this. I don't know how old you are but that won't happen in my lifetime.
I've never double posted in my life.
Truly an unprecedented day.
What if the government attempts to use this power to force people to do things against their health or conscience? If you don't behave the way the government wants in every sphere of life, you get taxed. If you don't support, if you don't buy cuban cigars, or don't support abortion, then you get taxed because some lobbyists in Congress have persuaded Congress to put a tax on these behaviors. Already under Obamacare we see a moral difficulty being presented to many Americans, since all Americans are being forced to buy insurance, and insurance companies are being required to provide abortions or Contraceptives to all of their customers by the government, this then forces all Americans to subsidize abortion under the HHS mandate which is a violation of many Americans moral and religious beliefs.
I'm not sure Roberts even read the law. He read the newspapers and ruled based on what the NY Times said.
Congressional taxing power has always been unlimited - that's the point Roberts is making. Congress has always had the power to pass taxes - including those on non-activity.
And yet, for 225 years, they never thought to do so, because it would mean certain loss. But now, inadvertently, and over loud protestations to the contrary, Congress has been deemed to have passed on a tax on non-activity.
Even better, it's horribly non-progressive. Rich, middle, poor & homeless are all liable for the same tax. Wait until the 20% who are currently on SNAP and/or receiving EBT cards are on the hook for thousands $ each year. Or the millions of illegals who get away scot free in the cash economy.
But wait, it's gets even better: the DHS cannot unilaterally issue waivers on taxes to favored groups like unions, churches, etc. Nope, this baby is now in the hands of the IRS - the most oppressive TLA besides the TSA.
Roberts just did us a favor by making every person, even the most egregious member of the FSA, now on the hook for an enormous personal tax. How are they gonna react?
So what you are both saying is the SCOTUS has no purpose.
Legislators name their own acts. It wasn't the media that dubbed it the "Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act" that was the name it was passed and signed under.
But I agree with the point your are making. That is why I called "the Patriot Act" the "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel Act". Who doesn't like the name? Who is against patriotism?
I imagine some time in the future there might well be a "Defense of Motherhood and Apple Pie for America Act" or some such idiocy.
What is in a name? An Act by any other name would smell just as putrid.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Roberts decided firmly with the Statists against Liberty and against our Constitution.
You need to think about the administrative state. It is vast and growing daily. There are nearly 300,000 people who's sole job is to implement this monstrosity.
They aren't going away. Their power and size will only increase over time. It is the nature of States to grow and consume the wealth of others.
Any rationalization of Robert's position is naive.
The power no longer lies with the people. That is now a fiction. True power lies in a growing sadistic bureaucracy that infest all local, state and federal governments.
The only thing to stop the growing soft tyranny is a total collapse of our civilization. There is no longer a way to "legislate" our way back to Liberty.
Well said! Thanks for your voice of reason.
To many power brokers want socialized medicine.
Well, if we are going to live in a "any and all taxes are fair game" system, then I'm going to have to go stealth and defend my personal finances against the thieves. I used to have a moral objection to tax cheating; I now no longer feel that way.
Well said.
From Roberts ruling:
"Members of this Court are vested with the authority to interpret the law; we possess neither the expertise nor the prerogative to make policy judgments. Those decisions are entrusted to our Nations elected leaders, who can be thrown out of office if the people disagree with them. It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices."
In other words, you (the people) elected the fools who passed this travesty of a tax/notatax/healthcare bill. You fix the mess by voting them out!
In the meantime, he protected the sovereign rights of the people by limiting the expansion of the commerce clause.
If you really want to be Originalist, you have to go back before Marbury. And before Marbury, SCOTUS had little purpose.
Would you prefer a stronger SCOTUS....or a weaker one?
"WHO put them in Congress? .... it wasn't Roberts. If folks who respected the Constitution & truly had America's best interests (not their own i.e. re-election for power & goodies) were elected to Congress, Obamacare would not have seen the light of day & we never would have gotten to this point. It isn't Bush's fault or Robert's fault, it is OUR fault for continuing to elect this trash and then putting up with it when we don't like what they are doing."
Well said! I'm so tired of hearing people say I'm going to vote for him because his dad was such a good rep or senator or whatever, they don't look at what the person really stands for and how they handle the job. I guess I'm po'd and running everything together. I don't care if it's my brother, elected office like welfare was not intended to be a profession, just a short term job with no benefits.
You and I are in agreement.
Let us suffer the slings and arrows together.
Complete utter BS! He could have kille dthe entire thing, but chose not to. Period. We are screwed.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but having defined it as a tax, Roberts ensured conservatives would not need a supermajority to overturn it.
Plus, Just think of all of the useful soundbites of OMinions swearing up and down it is not a tax.
But I think the Constitutionality of such a tax is still subject to debate - but via the law - one must first PAY the tax to have standing to challenge the tax.
16th Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Is the 0bamacare tax a tax on income? If a business or individual lost money that year - can they be taxed via a "fine" on income they didn't earn?
Under 50.
Or anyone who has no debt and can live on a modest income will take the federal subsidy for their health insurance cost and will retire, work part-time or off the books.
Absolutely right.
But you see, many here don't really like the rule of law much when it goes against their ideology. If a liberal judge "makes law" we rant and rail against "judicial activism", but when they obey the constitutionally-defined mandate of the court system as Justice Roberts succinctly describes, they get mad and call him nasty names.
The source of laws, good and bad, is the legislature, and legislators are chosen at the ballot box. We should feel fortunate to have judges like Justice Roberts who resist the urge to overstep the boundary, even when the result is that we must turn our efforts toward repealing this horrible law in Congress.
Or they could levy a tax on NOT purchasing an abortion.
The precedent is set more for the latter (as tax on not doing something).
This is more the direction we are heading in with all the globull warming stuff.
Roberts = another screw-up by Bush 43.
Chief Justice Roberts is brilliant! He considers individual mandate and penalty is the form of a tax, therefore, it requires Congress to pass a new law to abolish it.
There is no need for Supreme Court decision on this issue in the future.
We need to elect a new Congress and we only need simple majority in both houses when it comes to tax.
Too many here are in the "Let's throw their rascals out so we can put our rascals in" camp.
Roberts has said, "Put on your Big Boy Pants and vote for the government you want".
Roberts has made a very sly ruling that will definitely help in defeating the Left. This ruling has emboldened the Tea Party, the Catholics and the Libertarians. I predict after everyone calms down this will be apparent.
My only thought requires a tin foil hat, this is so against his judicial philosophy in the past, the man has either flipped or he was blackmailed.
A stronger court that would shoot down all the progressive crap. The SCOTUS has let all this crap go on for centuries, it should be called the supreme disappointment.
Obamacare is the American equivalent of a certain enabling act of Germany in 1933. Since the rats know what to do with power, it marks the end of our republic and beginning of a totalitarian state.
Doing both blunts the effect of the first because then the charge of "right wing judicial activism" holds teeth.
By doing this, Roberts is held as a non-partisan, wiser than a Latina woman judge, all while knocking out the underpinnings of the usual liberal refuge.
Whether a devious clever scheme or a blunder, I believe that Roberts has delivered a Trojan Horse that the liberals have to walk into their camp.
I'll put you down in the "Its not wrong if WE do it" camp.
What I learned today is, just like you said, that Congress can pass any law under any guise and the Supreme Court will allow it and call it a tax for them.
So, what is the point of judicial review if the only review by the Supreme Court is the admonition to throw the bums out ?
Fix it yourself. We are just being paid to sit here in our black robes.
"It could also tax you $10,000 for NOT having an abortion."
It could also tax you $10,000 to be a Baptist, $5000 to be a Methodist, and free if you're Muslim. You still have the constitutional right to practice your religion - but at a cost.
There is nothing or no "Right" to which this could not apply.
This court has not limited Congress. It has only bent over and declared itself obsolete.
If his job is not to protect us from a Congress that ignores the Constitution, then he has no job at all.
nope, because it is now a tax issue, 51 is all it takes!!!
No, I think his purpose was political, to get Obama out of office as fast as possible and perhaps restore the primacy of Congress.
Now let's see if any of these executive orders come to the Court.
"Congressional taxing power has always been unlimited"
No, it hasn't. If you'll remember it used to be that they could only raise them for the purposes of carrying out their enumerated powers. Before the Helvering decision, that is. Then they could only tax to promote the "general welfare." But of course SCOTUS never struck down a law thereafter for promoting the welfare of some particular group as opposed to the nation as a whole. They left it up to Congress.
It also used to be that they couldn't lay direct taxes, and that taxes had to be apportioned among the states. That is, until the 16th amendment. But that amendment only empowered them to tax income. Poll taxes, so far as I know, are still illegal. Since when can the feds lay a tax on the head of a man who has no insurance coverage?
Beyond that, there is a difference between engineering certain behavior via taxes/penalties and mandating behavior which is to be enforced via taxes/penalties. This may be a slight point, but I don't see how they justify the mandate. To my mind it must at most be implied.
Exactly. Roberts only said that Congress has the power to tax; he didn't rule on the constitutionality of this particular, undefined tax. So what kind of tax is it? Oh, you say it isn't actually stipulated? For example, if it's not an income tax, then how can income levels be used to apportion the tax? Do they do this for property or sales taxes? How can Congress excuse itself from any tax?
The exemptions & waivers that were being granted by the DHHS were applicable only if the mandate had standing under the broad discretion of the commerce clause. Now it's been placed back in its proper context, which is nothing more than Congressional taxing power. But calling a tax a "penalty" is not just an exercise in semantics. Taxes have a real, legal meaning & basis. Obama wasn't just playing around for political points - his team knows what the real stakes are.
If the tax itself is ruled to be unconstitutional, Congress has the power to go back and amend it so as to conform to either the XVI or some other underlying principle (eg property taxes, tariffs, etc). So what if Congress doesn't amend, but lets a decision stand? That's right, it dies right there & then.
Is there anyone out there that gets what's happening yet?
I should add also, if it isn't clear, that just because the taxing procedure is proper does not mean it's constitutional. Let's assume somehow the mandate penalty is not an illegal direct head tax. Let's assume it's an income tax, or whatever. Does that mean Obamacare is constitutional? no, because you can't raise taxes for any old reason. And the spending that follows taxes cannot be justified by the power to tax without reference to what the taxes are spent on.
Taxing has to be constitutionally justified on the basis of how you're going to spend it, too, not just on the procedure. You can only use the means of taxation for constitutionally allowable ends. That means the tax has to be in pursuance of the enumerated powers. The federal government taking over the healthcare industry is definitely NOT justified by the taxing power alone.
Of course, all of this is true for the Old Constitution. You know, the one that limited government and promoted liberty more than power. Since the "switch in time that saved nine" that Constitution is dead. See in particular the Helvering decision, which justified Social Security taxes on the basis of the "general welfare" clause, and Social Security spending on the basis of Social Security taxes. Helvering, needless to say, is up there with Dred Scott, Korematsu, Wickard, Kelo, etc. as one of the worst SCOTUS decisions ever.
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