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We All Have An Inner Coach To Inspire And Guide Us
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Success Always Has Its Secret
Inspiration Is Like A Sugar High
The lifespan of inspiration is less than that of a Mayfly, which is from thirty minutes to one day at best. Once out of the immediate presence of the source of the inspiration, it begins to fade away. Suddenly, all kinds of obstacles get in the way of grabbing onto that tiny piece of hope and creating something new out of it. Inspiration can even be dangerous. Like too much sugar or caffeine, it can actually be a downer if it isn't backed up with a deep inner knowing that there is a way to capitalize on the driving force of its energy and actually accomplish something. That's why coaches and trainers come in handy. They are there to keep their clients fired up. They constantly remind them that they have what it takes to make it happen. They also train them to get the most out of the abilities they have. But, not everyone can have a coach at their side all the time to motivate them; so, behind every success is a secret weapon.
What Drives Those Amazing Super-humans
How, then, do those people make it to the top of their game, go from "rags to riches," who are isolated in some small village in the African jungle or a ghetto in New York? There are thousands of examples of people who came out of nowhere to make a huge difference in their lives and the lives of others. People who lived in poverty and desperate situations but found a way to catapult themselves to a level of human greatness that is often far above many who come from much better conditions. I think of the many immigrants that come to this county, having no money, not knowing the language, having few if any contacts, and, in a relatively short time, have a profitable business, graduate from college, become famous people making a great difference for their fellow humans in all kinds of ways. How do they do it? What drives them. More importantly, what guides them and keeps them going? Who is their coach? I'm remembering the recent news article about Alfredo Quitones-Hinojosa who, at the age of nineteen, came over the wall from Mexico. Within ten years, he was a US citizen and a medical student at Harvard. Now, at the age of forty-three, he is the head of neuro-surgery at John Hopkins Medical Center. How did he do it? What drove him? More importantly, what guided him, through the maze of obstacles and dangers, to medical school instead of to gang membership?
We All Have The Secret Within Us
Here is the secret that many of these successful people may not even be consciously aware of themselves. Carl Rogers, one of the fathers of modern psychology, at the end of his long and very successful career, said that he had studied and worked with every kind of human being from the most innocent to the most depraved and had come to realize that all of us have within us a core of wisdom, goodness, and understanding which, if activated, would help us to become all that we can be as a balanced, integrated human being. We all have different genetics, different skills and abilities, different interests, but we all have this inner guide, this special intelligence that knows us better than we know ourselves and knows exactly what we need to reach our full potential. This is our inner coach, our inner trainer and guide that's always with us 24/7/365. I've have been fortunate to discover this core and activate it to heal terminal illness and guide my own life.
As her psychotherapist, I helped Nancy to cure herself of terminal cancer by finding within her that core, that special intelligence that guided us on a five-year healing adventure that not only cure her illness but healed my life as well. In the subsequent thirty years, I have learned how to activate my own inner wisdom and use it at will, and have learn how to help others to do the same. I have no doubt that this special intelligence is a part of our whole intelligence that has been with us since the beginning of our journey on earth but has been lost for thousands of years to all but a few. Now is the time we desperately need it to guided us through the dangers of the chaotic, new world that is fast developing in front of our eyes. It has always been with us but has been blocked from helping us by the overwhelming fear and junk thought that fills our minds constantly throughout our days. Now is precisely the right time to activate this inner wisdom. It's first purpose is to keep us alive, so that it can fulfill its second which is to lead us to all the wisdom and knowledge we need to become all we can be as intelligent, balanced, compassionate humans that interact with each other for the ultimate betterment of our race.
How To Find And Use Your Inner Genius
If this inspires you, feel free to seek more information, including how to activate your special intelligence at http://anewmind.net. This site will explain how we lost contact with our special intelligence, and how we can get it back. All the information you need is here, for free, on this site; so, this time your inspiration can definitely carry you as far as you want to go.
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The most important international summit in history? Given what the latest scientific reports tell us about the quickening pace of global warming, the sense of urgency driving international attention to the Copenhagen climate change summit is warranted. Yet significant reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions seem unlikely to come as a result of COP15, which begins December 7 and concludes December 18.
Will a legally binding international treaty emerge from COP15? No. Will negotiations between the 192 nations in attendance produce a "political agreement" to be finalized sometime in 2010 and that world leaders will hold up as confirmation of decisive progress toward addressing global warming? Probably.
Four issues will dominate the negotiations taking place inside Copenhagen's Bella Center. First, developed nations, such as the United States, must commit to significant reductions in their greenhouse gas emissions. Second, developing countries like India and China will have to reduce the rate at which their emissions increase over the next several decades. Third, developed countries will have to provide clean energy technologies and funding to developing nations as they address the effects of climate change. And, finally, negotiators will have to agree on how to monitor and enforce an international climate agreement.
In the past week, there's been movement on several of these issues. The world's leading emitters have all proposed cuts to their emissions. China and India have offered to cut their "carbon intensity"–the amount of carbon they emit relative to their economic output. China has pledged a 40 to 45 percent reduction by 2020 from 2005 levels; India has offered 20 to 25 percent, also by 2020 and using a 2005 baseline. The EU long ago agreed to cut its emissions by 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, 30 percent if other leading emitters commit to steep cuts. And Obama has now pledged the United States to a 17 percent reduction by 2020 from 2005 levels, which equals a paltry 4 percent from 1990 levels.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has proposed a development fund for financing clean energy technologies and climate adaptation projects in developing countries. Brown suggested that $10 billion should be made available by 2012, increasing to $50 billion a year by 2020.
These commitments, though, are a far cry from what negotiators from the world's poorest countries, which are also likely to suffer the most from the impacts of global warming, are looking for. Last month, during preparatory negotiations in Barcelona, representatives from African nations held a daylong boycott of climate talks because developed nations did not pledge to reduce their emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels by 2020, a level consistent with recommendations made by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Brown's development fund proposal is merely enough, says Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN's climate change body, to kick-start developing countries' adaptation. And Brown's offer is far less then the $200 to $300 billion that others say is necessary. How negotiators from Africa, the Association of Small Island States, and the Least Developed Countries bloc responded to this new round of offers will determine how negotiations proceed over the next two weeks.


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How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?
by L. Brent Bozell III
March 7, 2000
In a shocking victory for lackadaisical Justice Department prosecutors, Democratic fundraiser, Gore associate, and communist Chinese agent Maria Hsia was convicted on March 2 of illegally funneling $100,000 to Democratic candidates, including the Clinton-Gore campaign, in 1996.
In a much less shocking development, the major so-called "news" networks and so-called "news" magazines promptly ran and hid under rocks.
Okay, U.S. News mentioned it briefly, and ABC and CBS gave it a sentence or two before the throwing the story in the trash. But these acts of criminal wrongdoing are clearly much less exciting to the average reporter than groundbreaking political events, like, say, the quality of candidates' performances on late-night comedy shows. And apparently, they're far less newsworthy than who was nominated for what at the Oscars.
Newsweek devoted a whole story to how the Republicans want to capitalize on the Buddhist temple event, and even reported that new Secret Service documents show the temple fundraiser was listed as a "fund-raising luncheon" -- yet somehow managed to leave out even a mention of
In between sobs over the disintegrating McCain campaign, the magazine's Jonathan Alter groused: "As they chow down on soft money, neither Gore nor Bush will pay more than lip service to confronting the dangers of money in politics." How Newsweek can pontificate on such matters while simultaneously refusing to cover the lawbreaking exploits of the Clinton/Democratic machine is simply amazing.
This marks a new low for America's so-called mainstream press. Up until now, they've refused to investigate criminal wrongoding. Now they're refusing to report the convictions. Conservatives across the country were perplexed. How can they ignore this? Can you imagine a Reagan fundraiser facing the possibility of 25 years in jail and the press staying quiet? The media continue to play the DNC fundraising scandal by Lanny Davis rules. Despite that troublesome conviction thing, their attitude is dismissive, that this is "old news."
Think of the fundraising scandal as a rolling snowball of ignorance with its own momentum. When you haven't explained to people anything about John Huang, or Johnny Chung, or Charlie Trie, who's going to care about Maria Hsia? Who can even pronounce it? It's precisely what the DNC is banking on.
What really ought to anger the public about this media blackout is the media's very politicized approach to the topic of hypocrisy. When Dan Quayle supported the Vietnam War, but served in the National Guard, the media were a 76-piece brass band noisily blasting away at the hypocrisy. When a TV preacher is caught in an extramarital affair, the media can't get enough of the word hypocrite. But when Democrats support campaign finance "reform" while breaking present campaign finance laws, the networks are nowhere to be found, hypocritically AWOL on the story.
Speaking of hypocrisy, where is Common Cause, Public Campaign, the Center for Public Integrity, or the Center for Responsive Politics? They, too are silent, and with their silence, these "reform" groups are embarrassing themselves the way the feminists embarrassed themselves over Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky. If you can't comment on Chinese agents buying influence in a presidential election, it speaks volumes about your real "reform" agenda on campaign finance.
Those liberals who are commenting are playing the "everybody does it" game. On PBS's "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," Mark Shields commented: "In a week...where Maria Hsia, principal fund-raiser and friend of Vice President Al Gore, is convicted of violation of election laws, George Bush, disables himself to use this issue by coming out for unlimited soft money expenditures." By this logic, you have no right to condemn Hsia's crimes unless you buy the entire the socialist mindset against money in politics.
With all this organized inaction, forget any breakthrough on the Hsia story -- unless a major candidate or political party speaks out. Bill Bradley's had every chance, but he has no guts. John McCain only has courage to tear the entrails out of the Republicans, not the Democrats. Did anyone hear McCain jump on the Hsia story at the Thursday night debate in Los Angeles? He'll "beat Al Gore like a drum" on campaign finance. Blah, blah, blah.
But the Republican National Committee has shown some resolve in taking on the blackout. RNC Chairman Jim Nicholson is pointing out the absurdity of the major media spending more time on Jennifer Lopez's Grammy getup than on Hsia's criminal actions. This is the only way this story gets traction. And if it does, expect these networks to whine about the horrendous "negativity" of it, all the way to Election Day.
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Kaiser Klaus was the second Kaiser of the second reich of Bavaria. He took over at a young age after his father was murdered. This put a lot of stress on him at a young age, as he had to deal with the much larger RIN, who were Bavaria's rivals in the Third Alliance. His armour, sword and assault rifle were all given to him on his 13th birthday. The sword, a gift from the Tezuka Space Ninja Clam was forged to cut through the strongest metals while still remaining lightweight as could be. His armour, custom made by Krupp was immune to most small arms, and increased his physical strength and speed. His assault rifle was an old model owned by his father, Kaiser Otto Von Bavaria, and used during the Bavarian civil war.
Kaiser Klaus earned his scar at the age of thirteen, after challenging the experienced and famous soldier Otto Skorzeny to a duel. Klaus' fencing style was aggressive and involved charging in to get his opponent to retreat. Otto was easily able to sidestep him and slash him. That's how the young Prinz learned that while bravery and offensive strikes are important when fighting, it's much more effective to let your enemy move himself into defeat.
After Klaus took the crown, there was a minor civil war between Otto loyalists who believed that Klaus was a traitor for not declaring war on the Akkadian Empire of Ultra-Badassery and those who were loyal to the new Kaiser. Klaus' forces were able to defeat the Otto loyalists easily, with Klaus taking several forces by himself.
After a bunch of bullshit that I can't remember and probably involves pwnies or some shit, Klaus fell in love with Renate Von Heisenberg, who had crashed a ball for Klaus' suitors. Rather than choosing someone from another nation to forge an alliance, he chose Renate for her brilliance and because she viewed him as an equal.
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Usability testing your new site information architecture
Welcome to our newsletter for October! We seem to be slipping to bimonthly but that's OK because we're bringing you quality and quality takes time. In this edition, David and Tania talk about a neat technique for IA evaluation and some tools to help you get it done, we talk about how out-of-date information can destroy your site's credibility and let you know about a bunch of upcoming usability and UX events.
Usability testing your new site information architecture
. . . Or as we like to call it the IA
So you've done your card sorting and you have an information architecture to two or three levels that you are pretty happy with. But like any good user centred designer you would feel a lot more comfortable with it after it has been tested in some way. You could build the site and test it before it goes live but what if whole sections of the site just don't make sense? It could be a very costly exercise to redevelop the site once built.
Alternatively, you could spend a lot of time building an electronic prototype in html or use one of the many prototyping tools available to build a high fidelity interactive prototype. Then again, maybe that is better done further down the design and development path and maybe a high fidelity prototype is not the best way to test just the information architecture. In addition, it is quite difficult to change your high fidelity prototype on the fly if you are in the middle of testing and you find a menu label is not working.
So what else can you do? Use a 'white site'.
What is a white site?
A white site is an electronic prototype showing the navigation without any content. A white site enables testing of the IA in its purest form, without the support of any content or interaction design. The approach is based on the card based classification method as outlined by Donna Spencer. However, white site testing uses an electronic prototype to reduce set up time, reduce stationery costs and provide a more authentic testing experience.
How do you build a white site?
Until recently we used the Intuitect prototyping tool which used a drag and drop interface using Visio to build electronic prototypes.
Figure 1 - Intuitect is a web prototyping plug in for Visio that builds interactive menus from a drag and drop interface. Sadly no longer appears to be available or supported.
Unfortunately, Intuitect no longer appears to be available or supported, but there are other tools that can also do the same thing. That brings us to our new favourite prototype testing tool, Naview designed and developed by Volkside.
Naview is an excellent little tool that takes most of the pain out of developing a prototype IA for testing and review. What used to take a laborious 2-3 hours tweaking in Intuitect and Visio now takes us literally minutes with a cut and paste from Excel or Word. Naview is still in beta phase and will evolve further in the near future. Volkside is working to make Naview more flexible with features like allowing choice between hover or click selection, sharing of the white site online, and the ability to add more than 10 sibling menu items.
When we start building the white site in Naview it looks like this.
Figure 2 - Naview uses a simple text entry method to build the IA.
Once you click on the button to generate the prototype, participants see the white site as per the picture below.
The white site presents users with a clean menu structure with no distracting visual elements or page content. As they either click or hover over the main menu, a second level navigation drops down. The user can then select a 2nd level menu item and be presented with a third level menu if you have included 3 levels of menu.
You can view your IA in either a horizontal or vertical menu orientation.
Figure 3 - The Naview interface in initial closed state - horizontal menu orientation
Figure 4 - The Naview interface in expanded state
Other tools to build your white sites with
The site can be built in HTML and CSS, Flash or any other web development and presentation tool by someone sufficiently skilled with the knowledge. But to be honest why would you? The effort in developing an interactive prototype is significant compared to spending a few minutes with Naview or a little longer with other web prototyping tools.
We recommend Naview for its simplicity and because it's fit-for-purpose to build a white site.22/10/2009
White site usability testing tips and tricks
We've used white sites for many projects now and we've learned a few things on the way that can make your life easier when using them.
- With your IA test tasks try to include a task for every item on the menu but ... if the item is painfully obvious or is of low importance or relevance to the user group you are testing with, don't include tasks for those items at the expense of exploring other navigation labels.
- Make sure when writing task scenarios for testing that you don't include words in your scenarios that align with the words in your menu structure. Otherwise test participants will just match words and labels and not really think about the task (see also Jakob Nielsen's August 2009 Alertbox on this issue.
- If a label isn't working change it! We'll often get into the second or third participant during IA testing and realise that a menu item just isn't working. We usually ask users for different suggestions on difficult labels or ask them during testing "what sort of words are you looking for?" Using the Naview tool, you can change your IA and re-generate your white site in a couple of clicks and in a matter of seconds.
- If you've developed home page wireframes or other prototypes you can test these at the end of the session to save on recruitment time and costs. We usually develop a set of wireframe specific scenarios to test parts of the homepage directly after testing the IA.
- Reduce the usability problems on your white site by making sure that menu items are large and can be easily clicked.
What are the benefits of testing with a white site?
- Decrease your development time and costs by identifying usability problems with your IA early.
- The navigation is presented in a format that looks more like a website rather than a survey style or index card format. As such, we believe that user behaviour and decision making regarding menu choices are more likely to reflect real online navigation behaviour.
- There are no other variables to confuse users or prop up a potentially bad IA such as good content, cross-linkages or in–page content links. You're just testing the information structure in isolation of any other variables. If it tests well, you know that it is a good IA.
- It's easy for anyone to build with the right tools. You don't need to be a developer to whip up a quick interactive electronic prototype. It allows for quick and dirty testing that can sit with more agile approaches to project management and web development.
- No fiddly index cards. Saves on trees as well!
After the white site
Once you have done white site testing and/or you want to test a more detailed high fidelity prototype, we recommend having a look at some of the other web prototyping tools that are available. Suze Ingram's presentation at this year's Oz-IA conference gives an excellent overview of some of the web prototyping tools available. Here are just some of the available tools that Suze and our team have come across that are worthy of further investigation:
These tools are all of different levels of functionality and cost but are worth checking out if you want to be able to do more with than just white sites with your prototyping tools.
Usability tip
Visual design, imagery and content are critical for building trust and credibility
If any part of your site's content is out-of-date or has typographical errors, users can quickly decide that they can't rely on any information on your site. If this is the case, your call centre or internal service area might be fielding a number of unnecessary calls from users who should have been able to help themselves online. Page last updated or reviewed information on the page can be a useful way to communicate information is up-to-date.
When we do intranet projects we often find employees calling internal service areas like HR for confirmation that the online information they have found on the intranet is correct as they just don't trust the information. Building trust may help reduce the number of calls.
Additionally, if the visual design and images are felt to be out of date, unprofessional or inappropriate then users' perception and trust of the website may be eroded. The Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab has conducted many studies over the years and found that there is a clear link between solid design and site credibility. Users are more likely to believe sites that look professional and appear visually appropriate to the subject matter.
Recent research conducted by Phillips & Chaparro found that users base their first impressions of a site on the visual design. User perceptions of a low appeal website were not significantly influenced by the site's usability, even after a successful experience with the site. So even if your website is highly usable, if the website doesn't look appealing they may not trust the information and may have a lower overall perception of the website.


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When Douglas MacInytre founded The Creeping Bent Organisation to release records in the art/ pop spirit of the Edinburgh-based Fast Product label Glasgow's Postcard Records, he was asked in an interview who his influences were.
His reply namechecked Fire Engines, Suicide, Subway Sect and The Pop Group, musical agent- provocateurs all, who in different ways, defined what came to be known as post-punk.
At the time, MacIntyre had never met any of the artists concerned. Now, with Creeping Bent about to enter its 20th year of operations, it's a different story: the label has put out material from key players of all the acts named. These include Davy Henderson's post-Fire Engines projects The Nectarine No 9 and The Sexual Objects; Alan Vega of Suicide's collaboration with producer Stephen Lironi as The Revolutionary Corps Of Teenage Jesus; and Subway Sect founding father Vic Godard's live forays with Bent mainstays The Leopards and The Sexual Objects. There have also been a couple of underrated albums by Pop Group guitarist Gareth Sager.
It is with a reformed Pop Group that Creeping Bent begins its year of celebrations, with the band's first Glasgow gig for 33 years forming what might be the most adventurous show in the 2014 Celtic Connections programme. For MacIntyre, the event is a dream come true.
"There's something about that first Pop Group single," MacIntyre says of the band's 1979 release, She Is Beyond Good and Evil. "After Anarchy In The UK, it was a massive record for me, and it's still an amazing piece of art. It opened up a whole world, from the Nietzsche reference in the title, to reading interviews with them talking about free jazz. I'd probably never heard of either of those things at the time, so it was almost like your university."
Given that The Pop Group were still in their teens when they formed in Bristol, they too were learning their chops. Even so, She Is Beyond Good And Evil remains an intense and incendiary musical hand-grenade that pitted Mark Stewart's sooth-saying vocals against Gareth Sager's slash-and-burn guitar, all bolstered by a rhythm section fired by funk, dub and jazz at their most elemental.
"In Bristol everyone went to the same nightclub," says Edinburgh-born Sager, "so you'd have half an hour of punk, half an hour of funk, half an hour of jazz, and it was small enough to be able to create your own scene."
Sired in the heat of the recession that would usher Margaret Thatcher to power, The Pop Group's urgency was heightened by the potency of Stewart's apocalyptic-sounding lyrics. "I was haunted by the disasters of the century," Stewart says today. "Grief, anger, terror and loss beyond words."
This attitude was made even more explicit on The Pop Group's second single, We Are All Prostitutes, and on albums, Y and For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder. After touring with The Slits and jazz trumpeter Don Cherry, the band imploded in 1981. While original bass player Simon Underwood had already joined a nascent Pigbag, his replacement Dan Catsis joined Maximum Joy with The Pop Group's second guitarist, Jon Waddington. Sager and Pop Group drummer Bruce Smith, meanwhile, formed anything-goes skronk troupe Rip Rig And Panic with a line-up that included Don Cherry's 16-year-old stepdaughter Neneh on vocals. This left Stewart to join forces with producer Adrian Sherwood and Sugarhill Records' in-house band, rebranded as The Maffia.
Such a multicultural Bristolian legacy has trickled down through Massive Attack, Tricky and Neneh Cherry's recent collaboration with Scandinavian jazz power trio The Thing, all the way to the reformed Pop Group's 2011 appearance at the Portishead-curated I'll Be Your Mirror event in New Jersey.
When they arrived on the scene, the likes of The Rapture and assorted other American bands had clearly heard a Pop Group record or two, while the current line-up of Stewart, Sager, Catsis and Smith were recently made aware of a compilation of Polish bands covering Pop Group originals. Its name? Still Tolerating Mass Murder. As global unrest mounts, it seems, The Pop Group's time is now.
"I remember the first time I went to Optimo," MacIntyre says of Glasgow's Sunday night leftfield clubbing institution. "I was coming down the stairs, and I heard a Pop Group record playing - I think it was Where There's A Will There's A Way - and there were all these art school groovers dancing to it in a way that no-one ever did first time round. And I thought, 'This is it'."
Since reforming in 2010, The Pop Group have kept their fiery spirit alive, even as they've reclaimed their legacy without ever succumbing to mere nostalgia. As Sager points out, "Nobody would think twice about going to see Miles Davis when he was 65 as long as he was doing the business. It's only our culture that has this weird age thing. But look at Don Cherry. That guy was a groover."
With recordings of new material ongoing when logistics will allow, Stewart, at least, is on a mission.
"In the studio recently we released a Golem," he says, "and I can simply sit back in awe. We are bristling with visions of a both terrifying and glorious future which is ours."


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All three of the people who currently read the blog are probably wondering why I have not been posting much on it. Well, I have decided to find a new home for it. I recently acquired a domain name and created a website for the professional guitar playing side of my life and the lack of one central internet home for my digital self has been bothering me.
Therefore, I have decided to purchase some hosting and begin a new site that will integrate both my blog and my professional website. Luckily, I won't be moving far away. It seems to me that a WordPress.org based back-end to my sight will provide the easiest and quickest way for me to get the site up and running while still allowing me to take advantage of all the lovely themes WordPressers have worked so hard to create.
If I have time, I'll keep this blog updated on my progress.


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Nouriel Roubini, otherwise known as Dr. Doom, was interviewed on CNBC Asia today where he outlined his views on the world economy. As usual he continued his warnings about significant issues facing the global economy. His arguments on the theme that denial of a deleveraging world is a dangerous position to take was as always, very thoughtful.
Still, it would appear that, if one reads carefully through his recent printed comments and stated views, it does appear that he is entertaining the idea that there's some hope amidst the global carnage.
(Watch the full Nouriel Roubiniinterview on the left)
He mentioned in a recent commentary that there is no denying shreds of evidence that stabilization is occurring. "So there may be finally light at the end of the tunnel but later rather than sooner, in 2010 rather than in the second half of 2009".
Ok, not positive, but not overtly gloomy as well. While his overall theme remains one of caution, it would appear that Dr. Doom is seeing some green shoots despite his focus on the dangers of bare ground.
An important lesson should be kept in mind as you read and digest expert views. Those that believe strongly in their view should not ignore the validity that alternative perspectives bring to the debate. Mr. Roubini admitted as much when responding to a question on CNBC about how his position might be incorrect.
"The risk to my thesis is that the upside is more positive than I expect," Roubini said. In fact. his comments on CNBC, that some banks may be able to earn their way out of their balance sheet problems, underscores the evolution of his perspective as more data becomes available. Yes, he discounts the stress tests as being not stressful enough, but he recognizes that ALL is not gloomy.
The recent rally in equity markets neither proves or disproves his viewpoint. The two-month equity market rally is either a bear market bounce or the beginning of the next bull market.
Regardless of which it turns out to be, looking at competing arguments is helpful as you assess what you believe about economic conditions. And your opinion matters.
And assessing the competing arguments from Jim Cramer to Nouriel Roubini will allow you to make your own judgment. No one has a corner on truth. Listen with a thoughtful and critical perspective and make your own conclusions. And remember that just because someone was right once before doesn't make them right permanently.
Michael A. Yoshikami, Ph.D., CFP®, is Founder, President, and Chief Investment Strategist of YCMNET Advisors, Inc., a registered investment advisory firm (www.ycmnet.com). Michael oversees all investment and research activities of YCMNET. He is a respected lecturer speaking frequently on market issues, tactical asset allocation, and investment strategy. He appears regularly on CNBC and CNBC Asia and can be reached directly at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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BEAT cream cheese and milk in large mixer bowl until fluffy, scraping down sides as necessary. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add sweetened condensed milk; mix until fully combined. Reduce speed to low; add flour. Continue mixing until all ingredients are well incorporated.
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REMOVE cheesecakes from molds. Place a few drops of food coloring in a small bowl. Using a small, food-safe paint brush, write Valentine-themed words such as "LOVE", "HUGS", "XOXO", etc.
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Cook's Tip: If you'd like a sweeter cheesecake, add 1 to 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar when beating the cream cheese.
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|Saturated Fat 6g
|Cholesterol 75mg
|Sodium 170mg
|Total Carbohydrate 16g
|Dietary Fiber 0g
|Sugars 11g
|Protein 5g
|Vitamin A
|Vitamin C
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The Pitt Rivers Museum, founded in 1884, is a museum of anthropology and world archaeology. Its collections include materials made by peoples from cultures around the world and from throughout history. While the focus of the Museum is on human cultures and how different peoples have solved the problems of everyday life, the collections include human remains acquired to show some aspect of culture: the remembrance of the dead (e.g. hair bracelets and brooches), modification of the body to conform to standards of beauty (e.g. skulls showing evidence of head-binding), the treatment of illness and injury (e.g. skulls showing trepanning), and religious practices (e.g. skull bowls from Tibet, used in tantric Buddhist rituals to make sacrificial offerings to protective deities). About a fifth of these collections come from Europe. Some human remains, such as crania and hair samples, were acquired early in the last century by Museum staff who researched issues of cross-cultural similarity and difference, while others, such as scalps and shrunken heads, came to the Museum from early collectors who acquired them as curios and examples of cultural practices.
Of the more than 275,000 objects in the Museum's collections, just over 2000 either are human remains (including human hair) or are cultural artefacts made, wholly or in part, of human remains (including hair). There are some 300 skulls or parts of skulls, and a further 600 items that are either human bones or artefacts incorporating human bones. There are some 400 specimens of human hair and a further 300 artefacts made with human hair. There are also a number of human teeth and artefacts made with human teeth. These collections come from all parts of the world: Asia (approximately 500 items), Europe (400), Oceania (400), Africa (300), North America (150), Australia (100), South America (75), Other and Unknown (50).
Information about the Museum's collections is available online. Anyone interested may search the databases for information about the nature of the Museum's holdings, or for information about specific items, at: http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/databases.
As with all material in its collections, the Pitt Rivers Museum endeavours to provide the highest possible standard of care for human remains and artefacts made with human remains. PRM staff contributed to the development of the UK Museum Ethnographers Group's 'Professional Guidelines Concerning the Storage, Display, Interpretation and Return of Human Remains' (1994). Dr Laura Peers, one of the Museum's Curators, has also served as a member of the DCMS Working Group on Human Remains.
Museum staff have also considered the ethics of displaying human remains, and have begun to redisplay cases that include human remains to ensure that the intended educational and cultural information is communicated well and that the displays are respectful to both visitors and the dead. In 1987, following advice from a visiting member of a Maori community, the Maori moko mokai (tattooed heads) that had been on permanent display in the Museum were removed and replaced with a text explaining their meanings and the reason for their removal. The Museum's displays also include a case on 'Treatment of the Dead', which focuses on mummification in Ancient Egypt and Peru, and a case on 'Treatment of Dead Enemies', which includes shrunken heads ( tsantsas ), scalps, and trophies incorporating human remains. These materials are interpreted in a respectful manner. Their local significance in their regions of origin is explained and a cross-cultural perspective on the theme of the display is provided. (Further information about tsantsas can be found below.)
Museum staff are working with source communities around the world to understand the collections and their importance to university scholars, the public, and source community members. One recent project involved taking information about hair samples in the Museum's collections to the Native American community in which the samples were collected to ask for information about how the collection should be stored and used. Staff are actively assisting members of one First Nations community in Canada to study their tribal heritage in UK museum collections, and working with the Tibetan refugee community in Britain as well as with local immigrant communities. Another major project, 'The Relational Museum', seeks to understand the historic relationships that led to the movement of artefacts from communities around the world into the Museum, and through this study, to re-awaken relations with many communities so that we can learn from, and about, each other using the collections as a vital link between peoples. Information on this and other research projects at the Pitt Rivers Museum is available at: http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/museumresearch
Requests for repatriation of human remains in the Museum's collections will be considered in the light of the University's policy on human remains in the care of its museums as a whole (see www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2006-7/supps/2_4787.pdf). In 1990, one such request resulted in the return of skeletal remains from the Pitt Rivers Museum to Australian Aboriginal communities.
The Museum is aware of the Human Tissue Authority legistlation coming into effect in September 2006. The Museum welcomes comments, questions, and suggestions about its collections and displays.
For the Museum's website, go to: http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
For the Museum's online searchable databases go to: http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/databases/
For information on the 'Relational Museum' and other research projects go to
Further Resources
Legget, Jane A. 2000. Restitution and Repatriation: Guidelines for Good Practice (MGC Guidelines for Good Practice), London: Museums and Galleries Commission.
Peers, Laura 2003. 'Strands Which Refuse to be Braided: Hair Samples from Beatrice Blackwood's Ojibwe Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum', Journal of Material Culture, Vol. VIII, no. 1, pp. 75-96.
Museum Ethnographers Group 1994. 'Professional Guidelines Concerning the Storage, Display, Interpretation and Return of Human Remains in Ethnographical Collections in United Kingdom Museums', Journal of Museum Ethnography , no. 6, pp. 22-4. [Also available online at
http://www.museumethnographersgroup.org.uk/HumanRemainsguidelines.htm ]
Working Group on Human Remains 2003. Report of the Working Group on Human Remains , London: Department of Culture, Media and Sport. [A text-only version of the report is also available online at
Guidance for the Care of Human Remains in Museums, Department of Culture, Media and Sport, October 2005.
For the University's policy on human remains held in its museums' collections, see www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2006-7/supps/2_4787.pdf
Photographs of the following items in the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum are available in PDF format:
1890.34.1. On display: Court, case 122.
Asia, Tibet. Group: Buddhist. Donor unknown. Libation cup made of human skull-cap. The Tibetan skull bowl is used in tantric Buddhist rituals to make sacrificial offerings to protective deities. Skulls and other bones (such as the human thigh-bone used to make trumpets) were usually acquired from the bodies of those who had died in unusual circumstances such as victims of accident, disease, or murder. According to W. Zwalf in his Heritage of Tibet (London: British Museum Publications, 1981, p. 15), in general, 'the use of articles of bone was held to symbolise the transitoriness of life, although a skull cup of beer representing the wine of life was used in ceremony for longevity'. Since Tibetan Buddhism is based on the concept of reincarnation, i.e. where the 'soul' passes from one body to another after death, the physical remains of an individual are not associated with any sense of personal identity or ancestor worship.
1884.57.18. On display: Court, case 122.
Europe, Ireland, County Cork, Cork. Human heart in a lead case. Said to have come from the crypt of the oldest church in Cork. Acquired by Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers in 1863. Pitt Rivers served in the Army in Ireland from 1862 to 1866 and probably acquired this object while he was there. It was displayed at Bethnal Green Museum with other material from his collections, probably from 1874, and then at the South Kensington Museum. It was transferred to Oxford from there in 1884.
Shrunken Heads ( tsantsas ) in the Pitt Rivers Museum
There are ten 'shrunken heads' in the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, most of which are displayed in a case entitled 'Treatment of Dead Enemies', with other comparative material on this subject from around the world.
In many cultures--including Europeans ones--the taking of heads from enemies has been a socially approved form of violence with deep religious and cultural meanings. It was not seen simply as murder, but as a way of maintaining social and cosmological order. It has always been accompanied by elaborate rituals surrounding the killing of the victim and the display of the head itself: think of the heads of traitors that were once displayed on pikes at the Tower of London to deter others from such crimes.
The shrunken heads, or tsantsas , in the display on the 'Treatment of Dead Enemies' case at the Pitt Rivers Museum are from the Upper Amazon region of South America between Peru and Ecuador. They were made by the Shuar, Achuar, Huambisa, and Aguaruna peoples; distinct tribes with similar cultures. These peoples live in densely forested jungle; the women grow manioc, maize, beans, squash, and tobacco, and the men hunt and fish.
Traditionally, men from these tribes were encouraged to take enemy heads to prove their courage and manhood, and to avenge the death of a relative. While feuding might occur even between villages with fairly close kinship ties, heads were not taken in such situations. Where a raid took place on a closely related group, the heads of sloths or monkeys would be substituted for human heads. The Museum's display includes the shrunken heads of sloths and red howler monkeys.
Making a shrunken head was done by removing the skin from the skull. The skull and brain were thrown away. The skin was boiled briefly and then dried with hot pebbles and sand. The features were preserved by shaping the skin with hot pebbles as the skin dried. The eyes and mouth were closed with cotton string, and the face blackened with vegetable dye. The head was then strung on a cord so it could be worn at a ritual feast by the man who had taken it.
Making a shrunken head was part of a ritual in which the spirit of the victim (one of three souls these people believe humans have and which they believe resides in the head) was pacified and the victim was made part of the killer's group. The head was addressed by kinship terms during the feasts held for this spirit. The rituals thus serve to link enemies and the living and the dead. Since these peoples believed that human bodily shapes exist in limited numbers, and that they thus must be re-used by future generations, capturing an enemy's head and adopting that person into one's group provided an extra, symbolic body for one's own descendants to inhabit. After the rituals, the head might be kept: some men were buried with heads they had taken. However, the making of shrunken heads and the rituals held for them were more important than keeping the head.
British explorers collected shrunken heads because they saw them as exotic curiosities. The tsantsas in this case were collected between 1871 and 1936. There was such demand for shrunken heads by museums and private collectors that some were made for sale from the heads of people who had died of natural causes. Many of the substitute heads made from monkeys and sloths were also sold. It is sometimes difficult to tell apart 'genuine', substitute, and fake tsantsas , but those used in rituals were very carefully prepared, and such steps as singing off facial hair may be omitted in creating a head for sale; likewise, the ornaments on a head made for sale may be those of the tribe of the maker rather than of the Shuar or Achuar people.
The tribal peoples who made these tsantsas no longer take or shrink the heads of enemies. This practice ended by the 1960s. They still live in their homelands by hunting, fishing, and horticulture as they always have, and fight against development and its effects upon them instead of against enemy tribes.
Detailed information about the shrunken heads is available online from the museum's databases at: www.prm.ox.ac.uk/databases.
Shrunken heads ( tsantas ) in the Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum (note that the years given refer to the years of acquisition by the Museum):
1884.115.1. Sloth head. Collected by C. Buckley, acquired by general Pitt Rivers by 1871. Part of the Museum's founding collection.
1884.115.2. Human head. Collected by Jamrach, acquired by Pitt Rivers by 1874. Part of the Museum's founding collection.
1911.77.1. Human head, with long hair. Purchased from Mrs Sanders.
1923.88.363. Human head, with hair cut short. Donated by Major R. H. Thomas.
1923.88.364. Sloth head. Donated by Major R. H. Thomas.
1932.32.92. Human head. Bequeathed by W. Leonard S. Loat.
1936.53.42. Human head, with long hair and streamers made of beetle-wing cases. Donated by Major R. H. Thomas
1936.53.43. Human head. Donated by Major R. H. Thomas.
1936.53.44. Red howler monkey head. Donated by Major R. H. Thomas.
1936.53.45. Red howler monkey head. Donated by Major R. H. Thomas.


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The Joey Dunlop Tribute Show
Joey was, and still is, a household name in the world of motorcycling. Joey was also an accessible hero to his fellow racers as much as he was to his many race fans. With a simply staggering amount of wins, as well as an easy attitude that allowed the road racing fan an unusual amount of access to the paddock. This continues to be the case at many meetings today.
Top motorcycle sports photographer, Stephen Davison will be talking to those who raced with the Northern Irish road racing legend during his astonishing 31 year career. Luminaries such as John McGuinness, Mick Grant and Eddie Laycock are scheduled to speak over the course of the three day show on the Lifestyle Stage. Several of his iconic race bikes will also be on display.
These will include his Honda RC30, as well as his Honda RC45 and his 600 and 250cc race bikes. There will also be a display of his iconic helmets, leathers and even the tool kit, which he would never attend a meeting without. His MBE and OBE as well as the ceremonial sword he was awarded will also be available to view.


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Emil Venere
Elizabeth Gross's small, nondescript office on the second
floor of Olin Hall seems an unlikely vortex for scientific issues
of global magnitude.
But her modest two-person staff is actually at the center of worldwide oceanographic research, work touching on everything from global warming to the mysterious contours of the seafloor and vital changes in commercial fish stocks. Gross and her assistant, Wesley Anne Ross, run the headquarters for an international organization called SCOR, the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research.
"It has a very good reputation internationally for taking the lead in dealing with the hot topics in oceanography," said Gross, SCOR's executive director since 1980.
The private, non-profit organization doesn't actually conduct research; it assembles international working groups of scientists to bring important issues to the surface. Those think tanks then may recommend that certain research be funded by agencies like the National Science Foundation, resulting in projects that attract scientists from around the world and facilitating international collaborations.
"Scientists are willing to submit their data into an international data set because they know that if they do that, they all have access to other people's data," Gross said.
Because SCOR is a non-governmental entity, it is able to skirt sensitive political situations in the interests of research. Scientists from the 40 countries that belong to the organization are able to interact even if their governments do not.
"So they were able to pull together South Africans, Communist Chinese, Americans, Russians, British, French, when you couldn't do that at a governmental level," said Thomas Osborn, an oceanographer who has been involved with the organization at the national and international levels.
"SCOR is able to say that all of its meetings are open to all members," said Osborn, a Hopkins professor in the departments of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Mechanical Engineering.
About a dozen working groups, each with about 10 scientists, are currently exploring issues such as the possible dangers posed by toxic algal blooms, how fishing methods might be affecting marine ecosystems, whether rising sea levels might bring about changes to the coastlines and how the coral reefs are responding to global change.
"The coral reefs are thought to be a very early indicator of global warming," Gross said.
One group meeting in October at Johns Hopkins is dealing with ocean bathymetry, or the accurate measurement of the sea's changing depths.
"You might think that we know the bottom of the ocean pretty well; in fact, we probably know it to about 10 percent of the detail that we have for the surface of Venus," Gross said.
But more precise measurements are needed for a variety of purposes, including oil exploration and understanding global circulation patterns. Better bathymetric data are particularly critical for a region between Antarctica and the tip of South America, a spot that exerts crucial influences on ocean circulation patterns. New data would enable scientists to design more accurate computer models for predicting the circulation patterns, Gross said.
"This working group will identify the scientific needs and make recommendations for programs to go out and get detailed bathymetry," she said.
In addition to the working groups, the 40-year-old organization also forms scientific committees for a small number of "global-change" studies that explore the long-term consequences of shifting climatic conditions.
"These are essentially decades-long international research programs looking at the effects of climate change," Gross said.
One such study seeks to uncover detailed information about a major ecological process: the global cycle in which carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere and used by both terrestrial and aquatic organisms for respiration, releasing oxygen and producing food along the way. In nature, carbon dioxide is released by such events as forest fires and volcanic eruptions and is exhaled by humans and animals. But people have artificially increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels and torching forests to make room for agriculture and development. The additional carbon dioxide may cause global warming by trapping solar radiation that normally is released into space.
Scientists want to know how the unnaturally high levels of carbon dioxide might affect the carbon cycle.
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Another large-scale project aims to understand how changing climate might affect ocean circulation and wind patterns, possibly altering the abundance of commercially important fish. The issue touches on the potential influences of global warming because changing ocean temperatures have an impact on circulation patterns, Gross said.
Because the plankton that the larval fish eat and the distribution of larval fish themselves are dependent on circulation and wind patterns, those factors may play a major role in the dynamics of fish populations, Gross said.
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Tuesday, 19 February 2013 05:49 PM
Netanyahu's choice of Livni — a moderate voice for a government led by his right-wing Likud party — seemed a positive signal ahead of President Barack Obama's visit next month on a push to resume peace talks deadlocked since 2010.
In televised remarks, Netanyahu said the union with Livni, a longtime rival, was intended to provide his emerging government with a "wide and stable government that unites the people."
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He said he wanted to face down what he called "tremendous challenges" posed by a nuclearizing Iran and the violence of neighbouring Arab revolts.
Netanyahu said Israel had to "make every effort to promote a responsible peace process with the Palestinians," adding that he hoped for resumption of talks that froze after a dispute over Jewish settlement building.
Without expressly giving a title for her new diplomatic role, Netanyahu said Livni would become a "senior partner in the effort" to revive Middle East diplomacy. She would also become justice minister, a job Livni has also held previously.
The coalition union with Livni's six-member faction will likely ratchet up pressure on Israel's other fractious centrist and religious parties to come on board Netanyahu's emerging new government as well.
After winning a Jan. 22 election, though short of a majority in parliament, Netanyahu has another month to secure enough coalition partners to control at least half of the legislature's 120 seats so that he can govern.
Likud, running on a joint ticket with another right-wing party, won 31 seats in the vote. Livni heads a small centrist party that won six.
Livni, 54, said she had decided to join Netanyahu's next government "because of a strategic and moral imperative to leave no stone unturned, to exhaust any possibility and become a part of any government that commits to bringing peace."
As foreign minister in 2006-2009 with the centrist Kadima party, Livni headed inconclusive talks with the Palestinians. She formed her own party last year after quitting Kadima following a lost leadership contest.
Livni had rejected Netanyahu's offers to join his current government formed after a 2009 election, amid disputes over policy and jobs, after her party polled the most seats though Netanyahu mustered more political allies than she could.
Netanyahu said they had agreed "we need to set our differences aside and overcome old rivalries and combine forces for the sake of the country."
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I have a legacy PSVM application which I'd like to redirect its logging output to unique files per execution. So, if I invoke it at 10:00, then have it redirect it's output to {thread-id}-10:00.log; and another thread of execution may begin an execution at 10:01, and its output would go to {thread-id}-10:01.log. I understand that this is not elegant.
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``You should see Bucharest by moonlight,'' says a friend just returned from a visit to the Romanian capital. ``The moonlight seemed so much brighter there,'' says the friend, ``and then I realized why.''
The reason: As another winter nears, Bucharest has virtually no street lighting and no illuminated shop windows or neon advertising signs to create the usual city glow.
It is a sharp reminder that Romania today exemplifies, as never before, the weaknesses of a totally centralized, Stalinist government.
Life in the Balkan nation is as dismal indoors as out. For the second winter in a row, city-dwellers will have restricted lighting and heating.
The government has mandated that temperatures be no higher than 12 degrees C. (54 degrees F.) in private homes and public institutions. Last winter, the figure was 18 degrees C. (65 degrees F.), although in practice, temperatures were often much lower.
And party activists will be on the prowl, as they were last year, in an effort to catch -- and penalize -- households that use light bulbs of more than 40 watts.
Shops, post offices, and other consumer services will be open only during daylight hours. Restaurants and places of entertainment must close at 10 p.m., except on Sundays.
Television is on the air for just two hours a day -- and much of that time is spent reporting President Nicolae Ceausescu's activities during the previous 24 hours. Although Mr. Ceausescu is said to be in declining health, the personality cult that has been the hallmark of his presidency is being carried to ever greater extremes this year.
The background to Romania's bleak economic situation is not simply its disastrous energy situation.
A food crisis has troubled the nation since 1981. Sugar, flour, and oil are still rationed. Meat is chronically in short supply. In this agriculturally rich country, city-dwellers must line up at dawn to secure even the most modest ingredients for a passable meal.
Fearing a winter of severe cold like that experienced last year, the regime has already declared a state of emergency in the power industry and put military commissioners in charge of the plants.
The same thing happened in Poland in 1981, when its main industries were all militarized. But the Poles at least could argue that they feared the threat of civil disturbance.
No such dangers loom under Ceausescu's iron-fisted rule in Romania. Nor are there better prospects in sight for consumers. There is only the prospect of another difficult winter, during which people will be exhorted, as they have been for more than a decade, to work harder in order to boost exports.
In other East-bloc countries, export drives have been justified as benefiting domestic consumers. But not in Romania. There export remains tied to a level of industrialization and to grandiose projects which for many years almost everyone but the Romanian leader acknowledged as beyond the country's capacity.
The Romanian homemaker is much worse off than one in Poland, even after that nation's harsher five years of crisis. The Romanian would be happy indeed with the Polish meat ration of 2.5 kilograms (5.5 pounds) a person a month, with 4.5 kilos (about 10 pounds) for heavy workers.
For in Romanian butchers shops, there is often no meat at all.
Like Romania, neighboring Bulgaria has suffered three years of drought seriously affecting harvests and energy supplies. But Bulgaria continues to maintain a relatively decent living standard. It is meeting its energy problem with increased prices for electricity.
The Ceausescu regime is certainly facing an acute economic crisis. But, just as manifestly, it is not simply a case of bad planning or inefficient management, which consistently are Ceausescu's scapegoats.
In agriculture, for example, Romanian collectivization was harsher than anywhere else in Eastern Europe. The ``private'' plot left the individual peasant more miniscule. Still, until recently, this sector produced 60 percent of Romania's milk, eggs, and fruit, and almost 50 percent of its meat and wool.
The current policy -- under an ``agricultural revolution'' initiated two years ago -- has been to squeeze these tiny``farms'' to the point that today they must first supply state markets with produce at low prices (fixed officially), or face confiscation of what little land they have.
And it soon became clear that the purpose of the revolution was not to create incentives to produce more food for the domestic market, but to bolster the exports Ceausescu needed to start paying off the huge foreign debts that he had incurred through his ambitious industrial projects.
Another ``crash'' program has, in fact, reduced the debts from a 1982 peak between $12 billion and $14 billion to about $7 billion currently. But that program envisaged production of 20 million tons of steel annually. Output, however, stands at only 12 million tons. Efforts to galvanize both the coal industry and oil refining for export show a similar lag.
To make good some of the refining shortfall, Romania has had to buy Soviet oil on stricter business terms under Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev -- and has also been obliged to tone down its independent foreign policy, which has been something of an irritant to the Soviet Union.
In industry, the fixed minimum wage has been eliminated. All personnel working in enterprises that fall below quotas of central planners can be penalized by forfeiting up to half their monthly pay.
Romania hews firmly to the Stalinist model. Other East European regimes are discussing new forms of management. Hungary has looked much at the pioneering economic work of Yugoslavia, and Poland and Bulgaria, in turn, are now eyeing the Hungarian reform.
But the Hungarians' successful ``market socialism,'' or the tentative Chinese moves toward reform, or even the first hints of the same in Gorbachev's Russia, go unnoticed in Ceausescu's news media.
Moreover, there is still no apparent sign of dissent or challenge to his autocratic rule.


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The Middle East oil and gas companies are at the risk of a breach coming from circumstances outside of their control and their security measures require a boost as industrial cyber risk intensifies, according to a recent study.
The survey of Middle East field personnel and executives responsible for securing or overseeing cyber risk was conducted by Siemens and Ponemon Institute. Siemens will release the full study in February.
A significant theme from the research is the view that cyber risk has become greater in companies' operational technology (OT) than in their informational technology (IT) environment.
In fact, industry research confirms that OT has become a growing target, now comprising 30 per cent of all cyberattacks. In the Middle East region alone, 50 per cent of all cyberattacks are directed against the oil and gas industry. These attacks have a major impact on productivity, uptime, efficiency and safety.
A total of 60 per cent of all cyber breaches in the region stem from malicious actors rather than human error, revealed the study.
Many of these are increasingly sophisticated state-sponsored cyberattacks that create an especially heightened risk profile. Another takeaway from the study showed that 19 per cent of the region's oil and gas companies rated themselves as relatively slow in implementing adequate cyber security measures, compared with 13 per cent in the rest of the world.
Similarly, only 17 per cent saw themselves as leaders, compared to 22 per cent among global counterparts.
Leo Simonovich, vice president and global head, Industrial Cyber at Siemens, said: "Today's accelerating digitalisation, the convergence of IT and OT, more frequent and sophisticated cyberattacks, and an energy sector in the crosshairs, led Siemens and the Ponemon Institute to delve into the cyber readiness of the oil and gas industry."
"Attackers have identified this convergence of IT and OT as a key opportunity to penetrate an organisation. As a result, an emerging trend of cyberattacks is designed to disrupt physical devices or processes used in operations. In a digital environment, industrial cyber is the new risk frontier," he added.
The Middle East-focused study is a follow-up to a similar report conducted by Ponemon Institute earlier this year, examining the US oil and gas industry.
That report revealed that nearly 70 per cent of US oil and gas cyber managers said their operations had experienced at least one security compromise within the past year, resulting in the loss of confidential information and OT disruption. – TradeArabia News Service


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Several Chicago aldermen will announce a new effort Tuesday to expand the power of City Hall's inspector general, calling for the removal of a long-standing prohibition against internal investigations of aldermen.
The measure also seeks to guarantee a much bigger budget for the inspector general and set up an independent panel to pick three finalists the mayor would be required to choose from for the job.
Read more on Clout Street at chicagotribune.com.


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Ever since I was a little girl I had a pencil in my hand. I drew. and I drew. and, I drew.
I was a quiet girl. The world around me was so tumultuous. This world with a pencil was my peaceful place. I created peaceful things, like bunny rabbits sniffing big petalled flowers, horses running free in the wild, sunsets and fairies.
I learned to read at a young age when my mother was teaching my older sister to read. I heard in their words about worlds that were safe and fun to be in. So I read a lot. And I went outside a lot, all day in the big open space and fresh air. And I drew.
As I grew up I kept that pencil with me. For a couple of decades we traveled together and I made 'art'. I say it that way because when I was little people would see me drawing and say I was an artist. I didn't think so because I was just a child who drew. But I was an artist. I realize that now.
And even these days, as I have dealt for the most part with the tumultuousness of that childhood, I have come back to finding myself like I knew me then, although I did not know I knew me then, you know? 😉
I am an artist. I always have been. I have a degree in Fine Art and Photography. For years after receiving my degree I photographed weddings and families out here on the beautiful east coast of Canada. I loved shooting and connecting with others.
I loved seeing their eyes light up when viewing photographs of their special day or beloved family members. It was a ton of work but that part was really worth it. Eventually all of the behind-the-scenes work became too much for me. I found I was in front of a computer more than I was spending quality time with my family.
These days the tumultuousness is of a different kind. It's mine and I own it and life is pretty amazing even when it gets dizzying. It is the life of a homeschooling, part-time working mother who has knows that sitting down to a meal surrounded by the ones I love just cannot be replaced by anything. And I've learned that even fifteen minutes of pencil in hand can be saving for my artist soul too. I remind myself of this when I feel I'm losing my balance.
Yoga, meditation, and tarot are a big part of my life and you may just see me share it from time to time. 😉
And I love the moon! It's mystifying and magickal. And it lights my way.
Thank you for visiting! I always love to read everyone's comments and I do my best to respond to each one. Your words are important to me and along my journey I have made some amazing connections with others through cyberspace. Thank you.
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