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2013年03月04日
Review Lincoln brilliantly dramatizes delicacy of
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Most of the film unfolds in January 1865, shortly after Lincoln's reelection, when he knows that the North is going to win the Civil War. The real battle for him now is the fight against slavery. Three commissioners from the Confederacy head up to Washington City, and Lincoln is confident that he could have their surrender within a week. But before that can happen, he is driven to pass the 13th Amendment, which would outlaw slavery. The Democrats hate the amendment, and even Lincoln's liberal Republican comrades want him to delay the vote. Only Lincoln grasps the stakes: that once the Civil War is over, the amendment won't pass it will be blocked by the Southern states. Winning the war could prove a Pyrrhic victory. Only by threading the amendment through the eye of a legislative needle can he alter the course of history.
As the congressional fight rages on, "Lincoln" orchestrates it all. He seduces, cajoles, begs, and tyrannizes. He offers patronage jobs bribes to the Democratic congressmen who support slavery. He courts but also tamps down the influence of Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones), the abolitionist who's so possessed by the cause that he might alienate any congressman on the fence. And through it all, Lincoln must delay the war's end without breaking the people's faith. The Lincoln we see here is that rare movie creature, a heroic thinker,Monster Beats By Dr Dre. He has the serpentine intellect of a master lawyer, infused with a poet's passion,Monster Beats.
Lincoln features a great deal of incendiary speech-making on the floor of the House of Representatives, and Kushner's script, which is based in part on the Doris Kearns Goodwin book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, has a lot of fun weaving insults of astonishing brazenness into oratory that lays bare the issues in all their gripping moral complexity. Spielberg, denying himself visual fireworks, frames the action with a kind of stately tension. He thrillingly demythologizes Lincoln by placing us inside Lincoln's experience shut up by himself (or with his querulous cabinet) in the drab meeting rooms of the White House, or in his bedroom with the ambitious, haunted Mary Todd Lincoln (Sally Field), who still blames Abe for the death of their son Willie. Field's performance is shattering in a few furious scenes, she redefines this First Lady as a woman whose supposed madness reflected a humane fervor as sterling as her husband's.
"Lincoln," which Spielberg has directed from a lyrical, ingeniously structured screenplay by Tony Kushner, is one of the most authentic biographical dramas I've ever seen,Monster Beats Outlet Online Store. But that doesn't mean it's a stiff-jointed history lesson. The movie is grand and immersive. It plugs us into the final months of Lincoln's presidency with a purity that makes us feel transported as though by time machine. (Kushner is the husband of EW columnist Mark Harris.)
() -- As the title character of Steven Spielberg's solemnly transfixing "Lincoln," Daniel Day-Lewis is tall and elegantly stooped, with thatchy gray-black hair, sunken cheeks, and a grin that tugs at the corners of his mouth whenever he tries to win someone over by telling them a good story (which is often).
"Lincoln" brilliantly dramatizes the delicacy of politics, along with the raw brutality of it. All that's pushing the amendment forward is Abe Lincoln's will,Monster Beats Outlet, his ability to do anything even flirt with impeachable deceptions to fulfill his vision of justice. And that's why he spends the movie alone in spirit. When he bangs his hand on the table, roaring at his lobbyists to procure him the votes he needs because he's ''clothed in immense power,'' we're seeing the birth of the presidency as we know it a force that can shape the consciousness of the world. Lincoln is a stirring paradox, a dream of history as it might truly have happened.
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Day-Lewis' performance has a beautiful gravitas, yet there's nothing too severe about it. He gives Lincoln a surprisingly plainspoken, reedy high voice that retains the courtly cadences of the South. That voice from everything we know, it's quite accurate makes Lincoln sound like Will Rogers as a professor of human nature. This Lincoln lives deep inside his own unruly-haired head, yet he loves the people around him, even the ignorant (and racist) common folk, who repay the favor by loving him back. And that's where he draws his political force.
Day-Lewis looks so much like the photographs of Abraham Lincoln that you don't have to squint, even a bit, to buy that it's him. He nails Lincoln's thousand-yard stare a gaze directed at once inward (at the whir of his own mental machinery) and outward (at the cosmic hum of history).
2013年03月04日
Malala spurs school-for-all vow, now deliver - CNN
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The aim is to match international and domestic support for realizing the 2015 goal.
Listen to the politicians and every speech is laced with references to the courage of Malala. Meet civil society organizations and they will tell you that the audience for their educational demands has risen markedly over the last few weeks.
Pakistan on Friday asked to join the Accelerated Millennium Development Goal Framework process that will allow the country to assess its current education plans, strategies and obstacles to delivery in consultation with international organizations and then work together to contribute to Pakistan's dream of education for all.
We now must deliver. But a more active, more engaged and more determined Pakistani people can ensure that education for all is no longer a slogan but a reality.
The president and I agreed on a series of deadlines in a plan to ensure all of Pakistan's five million out-of-school children have the opportunity to go to school.
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan has a new heroine and a new cause -- a girl's right to education -- and after Friday's announcements from the Pakistani government that they will adopt new measures to get every child into school by end 2015, that cause has a timetable and a deadline for delivery.
Today there is new hope for the three million girls denied their right to schooling and a new chance to ensure the right to education for all.
Everywhere you go in Pakistan you find people talking animatedly about the 15-year-old girl, Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban last month.
A rickshaw touring the streets of Islamabad has a slogan posted on it: "Malala for education and peace." Go to the local girls' school and every girl seems to have written either a poem or a song, a letter or a card to Malala.
I have suggested to the president that he consider involving all educational groups from civil society interested in achieving the universal goal in the processes.
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These signatures were complemented with another one million signatures collected by Pakistani civil society's One Million Signature Campaign to demand free and compulsory education.
Pakistan and the international community are united in their goals.
It seems that Malala's courage has awoken Pakistan's silent majority who are no longer prepared to tolerate the threats and intimidations of .
Editor's note: Gordon Brown served as Britain's prime minister between 2007 and 2010 after a decade as the country's finance minister.. He is now the U.N. Special Envoy on Global Education.
Another 100,000 signatures from out-of-school Pakistani children are the start of yet another one million-strong petition, this time from the children themselves demanding their right to school.
A deadline for the final draft of this accelerated plan is set for April 2013 when the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, President of the World Bank Jim Kim and myself, alongside the heads of major international agencies such as UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA and the Global Partnership for Education, will meet in Washington with the Ministers of Education and Finance of Pakistan.
Can Pakistan convert its momentary desire to speak out in support of Malala into a long term commitment to getting its three million girls and five million children into school? Can the politicians, long-criticized for a failure to deliver, find the teachers, the classrooms and the reading materials to give millions of children a basic education?
2013年03月04日
Catherine and William baby news sparks media frenz
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Bookmakers are also taking bets on the baby's hair color, with one offering brown at 6-4 and red at 8-1, and another offering odds on the likelihood of an albino royal baby.
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Bookmakers also look set for a royal bonanza, with Victoria, Frances and Mary among the frontrunners for the most likely girl's name, though the odds that William's first-born child will be named after his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, have been judged at between 9-1 and 12-1, The Times said.
UK tabloid the , in a "royal souvenir special" edition, ran a piece speculating that , citing research that linked those outcomes to morning sickness.
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"Royal baby a bonus for special editions," declared , as it predicted that Australian women's magazines would now go into coverage hyperdrive with a series of royal specials.
(CNN) -- "A nation's joy, a husband's nerves," exclaimed , as it contrasted Prince William's anxious wait at his pregnant wife's bedside with the excitement generated by news of her impending motherhood.
"Royal Baby a 'Delight,' Especially to Britain's Tabloids," ran the headline in . The paper's Sarah Lyall observed that "speculation began virtually the moment Kate Middleton said 'I will' to Prince William in April 2011, leaving an industry of tabloid newspapers and gossip magazines with a big black hole where their wedding coverage used to be."
Lyall said those who had previously -- and incorrectly -- guessed something was afoot because Catherine was drinking water instead of wine at some official dinner could now finally claim to be right.
The revelation that , was pregnant came after she was admitted to hospital in London on Monday afternoon suffering
Boy or girl, the new baby will be third in line to the throne, behind William and his father, Prince Charles, who will become a grandfather for the first time. The Times explained that an imminent change to the law means that if Catherine has a girl, the child will make history by being the first British princess not to suffer discrimination because of her sex.
The newspaper said even senior royals, including Queen Elizabeth II, were taken by surprise as the couple had yet to break the news to family.
The news prompted responses from U.S. celebrities as well, with reality TV star Kim Kardashian tweeting her delight at the reports.
Ladbrokes has Charles and John at 10-1 when it comes to boy's names, but Harry, the name of the baby's uncle, is a distinct outsider at 33-1.
Businessman Richard Branson joined the well wishers.
The Sun's graphics department produced composite images of what they speculated the royal baby would look like as a baby of either gender, while the Mail ran mock-ups created by a U.S. forensic artist .
"Kate expectations," declared popular British tabloid,, with an article detailing the treatment that Catherine, 30, was receiving for hyperemesis gravidarum, a condition that causes more severe nausea and vomiting than typical morning sickness.
The newspaper said the royal couple had hoped to keep their baby news under wraps until Christmas Day, when she had passed the 12-week mark in her pregnancy.
also led with news of Catherine's hospital dash, splashing a picture across its front page of a concerned William leaving London's King Edward VII hospital last night. The paper also joined the rush of feverish debate about the future royal's sex, potential name and position in the royal line of succession.
2013年03月02日
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"Our production cost has gone up," Zhang said. "Workers' wages are higher, fabric and other materials are pricier."
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Witnesses and media reports said local officials beat up a pregnant migrant worker and her husband, pushing the woman to the ground. Mass protests ensued, quickly spiraling to violent clashes with government forces that spread to other parts of Xintang, a city of 400,000 residents, almost half of them migrant workers.
"Factories are not getting enough orders," said Tan Zhijian, 33, who has worked in clothing factories in Xintang for 17 years. "Many owners owe workers back pay. Some just run away,Monster Beats."
Back in Xintang, authorities are taking no chances. Propaganda officials stopped CNN from filming on the streets and questioned the journalists in their office for an hour. The team was ordered to leave the town just as night was falling --- the time local residents have said when the risk of rioting is highest.
For years, booming industries in southern China, particularly Guangdong province where Xintang is located, have attracted millions of migrant workers from poor rural provinces looking to find factory jobs and a better life.
Authorities have arrested 19 men, including nine teenagers, on charges related to the riots, the local government said on its website.
Although they did not get involved in the riots, the workers at the job market say they share the frustrations of the street vendors whose treatment by officials unleashed the turmoil.
Although local authorities put the number of "troublemakers" at several hundred, tens of thousands are said to have taken to the streets during three days of riots, some of the worst seen in China in years.
"When those violent outbreaks do take place, especially in light of what's happened with the Arab Spring, the government feels the need to simply throw in the use of force," he added.
Zhang Jihe, who owns a jeans factory that churns out up to one million pairs a year, said he hoped to see things return to normal soon, especially in light of an already-tough business climate.
Police and guards were manning checkpoints at major intersections, questioning some drivers. Anti-riot police patrolled the streets as propaganda vans touted the importance of stability. Fire trucks with high-pressure water cannons stood ready to deal with potential unrest.
Photos posted online showed torched police cars and government offices by angry demonstrators. Witnesses told CNN of looting and other violence at night. Anti-riot police and paramilitary troops were sent in, reportedly using tear gas to disperse the crowds.
"The people who were being squeezed now feel like they are being squeezed even more, to the point where they can't bear it anymore," said Patrick Chovanec, a political analyst with Tsinghua University in Beijing. He said China's one-party system fails to provide people with a proper mechanism to air grievances or resolve disputes.
Xintang, China (CNN) -- Noisy traffic and bustling crowds returned to the streets of Xintang on Friday after days of rioting by migrant workers, but security remained heavy in this industrial town in southern China that produces almost half of the jeans sold in the United States.
At a labor market next to Xintang High School, now a makeshift anti-riot command center, migrant workers also saw a darker future in this export-oriented town.
Outside the Longjiafu supermarket, where a scuffle between two street vendors and town officials triggered the unrest on June 10, people were reluctant to recount the incident to foreign reporters.
2013年03月02日
Dreamliner safety review What it means for fliers
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"Just like with anything that's new, they kind of have to get the kinks out of it," said airline passenger Ronald Hobby, of Fort Washington, Maryland. "So I would probably wait for a while until they get everything straight before I would fly."
Atlanta-based businessman Bobby Burns said he'll choose not to fly on the aircraft anytime soon.
The Airbus A380 also had problems when it started flying in 2007, but aviation expert Janet Bednarek loves to fly on it.
And as with the former model, Boeing will work through the current aircraft's issues and move on, the company has said.
Jay Johnson, president of Coastline Travel Advisors in Garden Grove, California, said not one client has called with concerns about 787 safety issues.
Top Boeing, Transportation Department and FAA officials said at a news conference on Friday announcing the federal safety review that it was important to maintain public confidence in the Dreamliner.
The Federal Aviation Administration, which is responsible for air safety, launched a comprehensive examination on Friday of the Dreamliner's design as well as its manufacture and assembly.
The cracked window and the leaky generator were not unusual issues, ANA said, and occur with other aircraft as well. This was the third time that a window cracked on an ANA Dreamliner, but the cockpit window has five layers, and Friday's crack, in a spider web pattern, appeared in the outer layer, ANA said. It did not endanger the flight.
But at Reagan National Airport on Friday, some passengers expressed skepticism in general about the nation's airline regulatory safety net.
CNN's Mike Ahlers, Junko Ogura, Ben Brumfield, Katia Hetter, Marnie Hunter, Jim Barnett and Todd Sperry contributed to this report.
On Tuesday, a Japan Airlines flight bound for Tokyo aborted takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport after a pilot on another airplane spotted the 787 leaking fuel. On Monday, a maintenance worker discovered the electrical fire aboard an empty plane being prepared at a gate at Logan for a return trip to Japan.
The most recent Dreamliner setbacks occurred Friday. Oil was discovered leaking from a generator on an engine at a Japanese airport, and a crack appeared in a cockpit window of a plane en route from Tokyo to western Japan, a spokeswoman for All Nippon Airways said.
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On the other hand, travel industry leaders report passengers seem to be taking things in stride.
"No one is steering clear of it at this point. No clients have called and asked to be rebooked."
More than 150 Dreamliner flights occur daily, according to Boeing. United Airlines -- which has six 787s -- debuted the nation's first domestic Dreamliner routes last November with much fanfare.
"We continue to have complete confidence in the 787 and the ability of Boeing," United said Friday in a statement. The airline described the problems as "early operational issues."
The FAA review is "very unusual" because the agency signed off on the aircraft's safety before it could fly commercially, said John Goglia, a former member of the National Transportation Safety Board.
The twin-engine jetliner is heralded for its mostly carbon fiber construction, which reduces weight. Its fuel saving possibilities, cutting edge technology, operational versatility and cabin appointments generated enormous interest from airlines, initially overseas.
Goglia said every new airplane is going have "teething problems." The manufacturers usually "get a handle on it quickly and fix it," he said.
David Holyoke, president of Travel Leaders Corporate, echoed a similar conclusion.
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In December, a United Airlines 787 traveling from Houston to Newark, New Jersey, was diverted to New Orleans because of mechanical problems. A general inspection of all 787s in September turned up cracked engines on two planes.
Like the 787, the Boeing 747 had a lot of issues when it started flying in 1970, aviation consultant Michael Boyd said.
"As a regulatory attorney, I know that regulatory agencies in this country don't always do their job all that efficiently," said Jonathan Weinrieb of Chevy Chase, Maryland. "So do I trust them to make sure the Dreamliner is safe? No. But will that stop me from flying if that's the plane I've got to get on to get where I'm going? No."
Jim Osborne, who helps run a network of high-end travel agencies, says he has "zero trepidation about flying on this plane."
The FAA "just certified the airplane, so they're going to go back and redo it." Does the FAA "not trust" their "own people?" asked Goglia, who's also a former airline mechanic.
Kevin Hiatt, president and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation, says the situation speaks to what's going on inside the FAA itself. "We hope they take a look at their own processes internally to make sure that they're up to date and on par with this new technologically advanced aircraft."
"There is a continued process that we always go through. So this is not unprecedented," said FAA chief Michael Huerta.
Worldwide, Boeing has delivered 50 Dreamliners. Several hundred are under order, making its success crucial for Boeing, which had not designed a new commercial jetliner in years before unveiling the Dreamliner.
Other U.S. carriers are in line to buy Dreamliners, including Delta. American Airlines has announced an order, but it's not yet "firm."
United's Dreamliner fleet travels routes primarily linking Houston and Chicago and between Newark and Los Angeles. Last week, the airline kicked off its first international 787 service between Los Angeles and Tokyo.
The electrical system is of particular interest to authorities following a fire this week aboard an empty 787 in Boston.
In fact, he said many clients have shifted their travel plans specifically so they can experience flying on the Dreamliner wide body.
"I am wary of a plane model that has fire problems and leaks fuel," said Burns, a project manager who takes more than 50 trips a year. "I think of it the same as a new car model: wait a year or two to get all the 'recalls' sorted out."
Newer airplanes are safer than ever, Goglia said. "We are flying more airplanes that have been engineered to be safer," he said. "We almost (never) have material failures in airplanes anymore."
"It had cracks in the wing, which would be much more concerning to me" than the 787 reports, said Bednarek, a University of Dayton aviation history professor. "They figured it out. Pilots want to get to their destination alive as much as anybody, so they don't mess around."
2013年03月02日
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Just last week, there was a vivid example of just how popular the videos remain.
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"Schoolhouse Rock" premiered on Jan. 13, 1973, and ran on ABC from 1973-1985. It came back in the 1990s for five more years,Monster Beats By Dr Dre. More than 30 million people have now watched some of them on YouTube, showing that Dorough's work still resonates.
"I came because I had such fond, intense memories," said Amy Augenblick, who brought her 9-year-old daughter, Elizabeth. "I could sing all of it without the words."
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Kids never really had any idea they were learning how a bill becomes a law or proper grammar while watching the three-minute shorts between cartoons.
More than a thousand people -- adults who wanted to relive part of their childhood and parents who wanted to share the fun with their kids -- jammed into the lobby of the to hear Dorough sing "Three's a Magic Number" and "Figure Eight is Double 4."
Dorough, who is 89 and still performs, said he gets requests from adults to sing some of the bits because they grew up on them -- often times recognizing his voice.
"Conjunction Junction" used train cars named "and," "but" and "or" that illustrated how a conjunction connected words.
Jazz pianist and vocalist Bob Dorough was approached in 1971 by a New York advertising executive whose sons could not multiply. He asked him to set the multiplication tables to music.
"However, what surprised me most was the impact of network television, which kicked in years later, after we'd been on air at ABC-TV. Thirteen years, plus a second round, helped us to reach literally thousands, in a rather broad age spectrum."
One spot featured a talking "bill" that explained to a boy how he could only become a law by passing both houses of Congress and then going to the White House hoping the president would sign him.
These are some of the lyrics that live on 40 years after they premiered on Saturday mornings on ABC television as part of "Schoolhouse Rock."
Washington (CNN) -- Yes I am only a bill. And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill."
They were invented by a jazz musician who wanted to help children learn math.
"I am not surprised at all (that the videos still resonate)," Dorough told CNN. "I learned, when performing at elementary schools, that they were 'getting through,' so to speak, and the children would readily recognize my voice on such vocals as 'Three is a Magic Number,' and others that I sang,Monster Beats Outlet.
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2013年03月02日
Montreux jazz festival co-founder dies after ski
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"Our deepest sympathies to his family and those near and dear to Claude."
Since then the Montreux Jazz Festival has attracted many music legends, including Miles Davis, Ray Charles, David Bowie and Prince.
The death was announced on the of the jazz festival "a few days after your accident in Caux-sur-Montreux, in your beloved mountains, overlooking the lake that you were so fond of."
Fellow funk legend George Clinton added: "We are #thankfulfor friend Claude Nobs. Rest in Power. He made Montreux Jazz Festival festival amazing. #PFUNK..."
Nobs, who had been in a coma since December 24 after a fall, died in hospital in Lausanne on Thursday, .
(CNN) -- Tributes are pouring in from the entertainment world for Claude Nobs, the founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival, who has died aged 76 following a skiing accident.
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He co-founded the jazz festival in the small Swiss town in 1967 with then-president of Atlantic Records Nesuhi Erteguen.
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2013年03月02日
7 stunning European ski lodges - CNN.com
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(CNN) -- As temperatures drop and days shorten in the northern hemisphere, it can only mean one thing: the European ski season is almost upon us.
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There's a helipad (which means a seven-minute commute to the slopes), a wine cellar in what was the old goat shed (now goat-free and stocked with 1,500 bottles of local wine) and a mini-spa complete with a Finnish sauna and Turkish bath. At 1,200 meters above sea level, the panoramic views of three valleys are best enjoyed from the heated outdoor whirlpool.
Price: From ?1,021 (US$1,322) per person per week fully catered, excluding transfers.
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Lodge: New this season, Le Petit Relais is a two-star ski-in, ski-out chalet.
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Resort: This winter's new SuperPass means cheaper access to Gstaad's 220 kilometers of slopes.
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Lodge: Split over two floors with views across the Rhone valley, Chalet Auriane sleeps 12 guests.
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Rustic, snug and romantic, this is a refuge where you can get back to basics -- cooking for yourself, sitting by the wood burner and snuggling up under the eaves. It's an antidote to the glitz of high-end lodges.
Lodge: Built in the 16th century as a bishop's hunting lodge, San Lorenzo Mountain Lodge is now a family-run, four-bedroom mountain retreat where everything is done to the very highest level.
Simple and functional, 18 mini-dormitories (each with three bunk beds) are spread over three floors. The all-Swiss design creates 90 percent of its own energy with a stack of solar panels generating electricity and hot water, which, of course, comes from snow. The 10 p.m. curfew reminds you this is a functional mountain hut -- count yourself lucky there's a sauna.
Lodge: With its glass and aluminum walls, the Monte Rosa Htte almost melts into the Swiss and Italian Alps that surround it.
Contact: Reachable only by foot, ski or helicopter, the Monte Rosa Hut sits at an altitude of 2,795 meters near the Swiss resort of Zermatt. Book via Zermatt Tourismus: +41 27 966 8100;
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San Lorenzo Mountain Lodge, Dolomites, Italy
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Lodge: In a 300-year-old farmhouse, The Mooser Hotel is best known for its adjoining aprs-ski bar, the MooserWirt.
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Contact: Familie Solveig Lanz and Thomas Kernen, Alte Strasse 8, 3777 Saanenm?ser-Gstaad, Switzerland; +41 (0) 33 744 75 05;
Resort: The Four Valles have 410 kilometers of runs and 89 lifts, all of which are covered by a single lift pass.
Packed with Euro-pop-loving, table-dancing, J?gerbomb-drinking skiers, the bar is lively until closing time at 8 p.m. This is the cue for hotel guests to retreat through a secret door into a haven of white interiors, soft beds and a spa with multiple saunas and an outdoor pool.
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Doug Young at Fudan University, however, points out that Google is a company committed to free information search, and believes that it's more likely that the feature would have been deleted due to technical difficulties.
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(CNN) -- Whether you're a domestic company or an international business, failure to comply with China's strict Internet regulations risks having your .
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This means being subjected to the so-called "Great Firewall of China," where websites, from newspaper portals to micro-blogging services, come under intense scrutiny from government censors who prohibit topics deemed unsuitable.
The efforts from the Chinese side to block the feature caused such disruption in the search engine that it worsened the user experience, which is why the feature was finally removed, according to an Internet expert familiar with the situation.
"They [the government] don't want to block Google entirely, but they still do what they can to make the user experience as horrible as possible," Young said. Internet users in China are aware of that their searches are being filtered and censored in different ways, he added, "we're only hurting ourselves by adding extra technology that the government can use to slow down the search engine."
The accusation came from , an organization that monitors Internet freedom in China, who reported that Google's feature was removed sometime between December 5 and 8.
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Initially, the company agreed to censor the content in accordance with Chinese Internet regulations. However, after a sophisticated cyber-attack on Google in 2009 that allegedly originated in China, Google decided that it would no longer and redirected its traffic from mainland China to its uncensored site located in Hong Kong in 2010.
YouTube, which is owned by Google, was also blocked in 2009. It was speculated that the ban was caused by a video of Tibetans getting beaten up in connection with riots that took place in the province the year before, .
The connection interruptions were "closely correlated with searches for a particular subset of queries," Alan Eustace, a Google Senior Vice President, wrote on Inside Search at the time of the launch of the feature. Several hundred thousand popular search queries in China were reviewed by engineers in the U.S., who managed to identify specific problematic search terms. "By prompting people to revise their queries, we hope to reduce these disruptions and improve our user experience from mainland China," he said.
Launched in May, the feature was introduced in response to search problems faced by users in China. Some would report receiving messages such as "This website is not available" or "The connection was reset," before access to Google was temporarily disabled, according to Google Search's own official blog, .
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Separate from conflict, however, is the reluctance of regional leaders to embrace foreign investors. The so-called road show for TAPI has generated little international support the government in Turkmenistan isn't willing to give foreign companies like Exxon stakes in its oil and natural gas field. An analyst familiar with energy developments in the region told Oilprice, on condition of anonymity, however, that "a very good source" has indicated that China National Petroleum Corp. has expressed interest in TAPI. Beijing by June had roughly 1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas from Turkmenistan since deliveries began in late 2009. is already working on oil near the Turkmen border with Afghanistan and may have brokered, the analyst said, security guarantees from warlords working in northern Afghanistan, the intended route for TAPI.
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Many advocates and policymakers also fail to recognize the vital, but limited role government plays in spurring breakthrough technology development and deployment, shown most clearly in the recent Solyndra-Loan Guarantee Program debate. On the right, many members actually support government loan guarantees. For instance, Rep. Barton (R-TX) stated so directly during a recent House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing and many members support guarantees for their own state's clean energy projects. But that support is fleeting as many on the right also negatively equate government support for innovative clean technologies as "picking winners and losers." Yet government can support clean technologies without actually making micro-economic decisions. Supporting a portfolio of innovative technologies through R&D and valleys-of-death investments (like loan guarantees) isn't picking winners and losers; it's ensuring that winners can exist at all. Innovation policy doesn't choose national champions, but makes targeted, high-risk investment bets the private sector is not willing to make that could help propel an entire new industry. Sometimes those investments fail as any venture capitalist would tell you. So defaulting to old scare-tactics about the heavy-hand of government does nothing but stifle U.S. innovation and competitiveness at a time when we need much more of it to boost economic growth.
So it's time for a recalibration that makes innovation the driving goal of our default energy and climate policy choices. In doing so, the policy debate would become a more cohesive discussion on what correct, targeted long-term public investments should be made;
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The national energy and climate policy debate is broken. If it doesn't get fixed, any new policy at the city, state, or national level may very well fail to address America's energy challenges in any meaningful way.
Simply put, our climate and energy policy priorities and ideologies are out of whack. So let's try something new. Let's make innovation the default policy choice in any and all climate and energy policy debates. To start, let's ditch the preconceived notion that a carbon price or command-and-control policies are more important to our energy challenges than supporting technology development and ensure that both are working in synergy. So it's not to say that's a carbon price and deployment policies don't have a role in innovation policy - they do and should. It's to say that these policies should play a well-aligned, complimentary role in supporting innovative technologies and not as the central climate and energy policy. The debate should be about how best to use loan guarantees or tax incentives or regulations to support competitive, innovative technologies and it's a debate that needs to happen now.
Another place to start is to have an open and honest discussion about the role of government in spurring innovation. Government has a proactive and limited role to play that requires public investments and collaboration with the private sector. The United States has done this before to develop the last century's worth of breakthrough technologies and we have to do it again. Its fallacy to think the market can do it all on its own. So the debate should be about how best to leverage the public and private sector together to support competitive, innovative technologies and it's a debate that needs to happen now.
Part of the problem: in many cases, the failed approaches and ideologies of years past are still limiting or outright stifling progress on climate and energy policy. Specifically, advocates are relying on misguided default policy choices to inform their arguments to the detriment of supporting the nascent clean economy. And the problem is bipartisan. On the left, a wide swath of climate advocates still cling to the idea that a price on carbon/cap-and-trade/command-and-control approach is the correct method for driving the adoption of affordable clean technologies and reducing emissions. On the right, a wide swath of advocates still cling to the idea that government has little role in supporting groundbreaking industries like clean technology and doing so is nothing more than "picking winners and losers."
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And part of the problem here is a misconception about the readiness of clean technologies. The mantra for many on the left is that the United States has all the clean technologies it needs. Within this framing innovation isn't necessarily a high priority and all that's necessary is to push those technologies to market through deployment or leveling the playing field through carbon pricing. But the fact is we simply don't have the technologies we need and further basic research and RD&D is needed to get us the affordable, high-performance technologies necessary to allow us to meet our energy challenges in the coming decades. This reality is echoed by industry titans like Bill Gates, John Doerr and Ursula Burns. It's understood by clean energy leaders like Arun Majumdar and DOE Secretary Chu. And detailed analyses by organizations have explicitly discussed the need for significant technology development to reach deep emission reductions.
And for many more on the right they believe that even if we need clean technologies, the market alone will get us to where we need to be. As Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum put it in their new book That Used to Be Us, "[many on the right] assert that the key to our economic future is to close our eyes and click our heels three times," and miraculously the market creates innovation and economic growth. But what they're missing is the history of American technology development. According to University of California, Davis Professor Fred Block and Southern Methodist University Professor Matthew Keller, the United States has traditionally used a "hidden developmental state" to develop innovative new technologies. In other words, the in technology policy with the private sector, but policymakers never openly advertised it for ideological reasons. America's energy challenges - and the short time scale allotted to solve them - require this hidden development state to be reinvigorated with significant public investments and reform. The market cannot do large, complex, breakthrough technology development on its own and it never really has,Prada Bags.
Another key example is many climate advocates rigid, myopic focus on putting a price on carbon. As my colleague Matt Hourihan , you cannot fully solve our energy challenges without a clean energy portfolio approach that includes affordable, breakthrough technologies, yet you don't get breakthrough technologies from a price on carbon. Yet that hasn't stopped climate advocates from continuing to put carbon pricing policies front-and-center. Thomas Friedman continues to espouse the need for a carbon price, even though he admits breakthrough technologies are needed (he just doesn't understand how to spur innovation). The Environmental Defense Fund - a key national climate policy advocate - continues to argue that until we set a carbon price or carbon cap. And national environmental policy leaders like Daniel Esty think all that's needed to move the country towards a green economy is a carbon tax. Not only would implementing a (h/t Tyler Cowen), emphasizing a carbon price alone only hurts addressing our energy challenges by swaying the energy policy debate away from actual methods of spurring affordable energy innovations.
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“We called them up and asked them. One primary reason is there’s no systematic guideline for leak detection system deployment. So one of our macro-recommendations (in the study) was to develop standards and certifications for leak detection systems.”
Often times they're found – not by the owners and operators of the pipelines – but by complaining landowners who live where the pipeline crosses.
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Industry groups such as the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the Association of Oil Pipe Lines (AOPL) said that the report is flawed.
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Anthony Swift, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said that the report's findings show that industry talk on leak detection systems doesn't match the realities of the situation.
(You can read responses to these comments by the pipeline industry from Kiefner and Associates here): https://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/meetings/Mtg80.mtg
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Enbridge (NYSE:TSX) is a member of both API and AOPL. They are researching and testing leak detection technologies that are suitable for its pipelines, including Northern Gateway, said Enbridge Spokesperson Graham White.
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The PHMSA was first founded in 2001 as a result of several large pipeline spills, and their report only goes to Congress every few years. And now is a time when more pipelines are needed than ever before to transport the huge new supply of shale oil, and Canadian heavy oil, through the continent.
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He is hopeful that the report will lead to better improvements in leak detection engineering and public transparency.
"A critical reader is left unable to make any accurate assessment on the technical, operational or economic feasibility of LDS (Leak Detection Systems-ed)."
In conclusion, leak detection technology around pipelines is not modern, scientific or technical. In today’s age, that will just not fly politically.
It’s true, says Dr. David Shaw, one of the authors of a draft “Leak Detection Study” prepared for the U.S. Department of Transportation, for a report that will go to the US Congress early in 2013.
He added: “They (the industry) are particularly worried of regulations that will force them to have specific leak detection procedures.”
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Here they are … the precious little darlings who have graced the lives of these new dads with wonder and love. Aren’t they just the cutest little dolls? It’s pretty amazing how this family came to be … twin children born together where each child is biologically that of each dad. It’s a beautiful miracle … and totally meant to be. This issue of People magazine is a MUST OWN,Louis Vuitton Speedy. I can’t wait to pick up my copy so that I can better see these amazing photos of this beautiful and very happy family.
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2012年11月23日
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A previously unseen photo of underage popstar Justin Bieber has made its way to the Internets that shows the young man present during a game of beer pong. Now, it’s important to make clear that in the photo, The Biebs is not seen playing the game but he is standing next to the game table, next to a set of red cups that presumably contain beer. Naughty Naughty,Jimmy Choo Wedges. To be fair, I’d say 99.9% of beer pong games are played by underage kids so this isn’t really shocking news … except for the fact that JB is famous (and therefore, a “role model” for impressionable children even younger than he is). Click below to see .
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He might not be enrolled in school … but Justin Bieber is definitely getting a taste of the college experience … ’cause we got a photo of the Biebs playing an intense game of BEER PONG. Even though he’s underage, we know Bieber pounded some beer during the game … just like every other underage college kid across the country. The question — which country? One source connected with Bieber — who was not there — says the game went down on Canadian soil … or in Georgia (he travels a lot, it’s hard to keep track). Either way, the source says it happened a year and a half ago, which would have made Bieber 17-years-old … and too young to legally booze in either country. Another source — who was there — swears it happened in Alabama back in June … which still makes Biebs too young to booze.
HMMM. Honestly, I’m neither surprised nor at all shocked by the idea of Bieber possibly playing beer pong … what I am shocked is by the image of the little man wearing a handkerchief around his neck like a bank robber. Hahahaha. Even tho JB is rich and famous,Miu Miu Sandals, he’s still a kid who wants to fit in and be cool. I’m sure he loved being invited to hang out with the “cool kids” at their beer pong tourney and he was happy to represent with his “swag”. It occurs to me that . Curious, no? I guess the lesson here is DO NOT follow Justin Bieber‘s lead … whether it be in terms of possible underage drinking or silly fashion choices — Just Say NO!
2012年11月23日
Linda Hogan Bollea Busted For DUI Pink is the New
Gross. Just gross. It’s one thing to star in a really unflattering sex tape but being arrested for drunk driving is just the worst. Thankfully, no one was injured and no accident took place. It really says a lot that Linda was busted while driving on a suspended license, clearly she’s not a paragon of driving safety. It’,Jimmy Choo Wedges;s very dangerous for anyone to get behind the wheel of a car while intoxicated (even if it’s only a matter of “a glass of champagne on an empty stomach” mixed with antibiotics) so I hope Linda has learned her lesson. Blah. Just so much vileness coming from the Hogans these days, the only thing that would many any of this worse would be if Brooke Hogan decided to release a new album. Yikes!
Earlier today we heard about (seriously, ugh). Right now we learn that Hulk‘s ex-wife is grabbing a bit of the spotlight today for herself because it has come to light that ,Jimmy Choo Pumps. Apparently, Linda Hogan (Bollea) was making her way home from a function here in LA when she was pulled over by police. Nothing says one-upping the leak of your ex-husband’s grody sex tape like getting busted for drunk driving. OY!
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Linda Hogan was arrested yesterday in Malibu on suspicion of DUI … TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ, Linda — real name Linda Bollea — was arrested at 1:34 AM Thursday morning and taken to a nearby police station where she was booked and put behind bars. She was released several hours later on $5,000 bail. She was also booked for driving on a suspended license. On her booking sheet, 53-year-old Linda’s listed as 5’7″ and 160 lbs. A rep for Linda tells TMZ, Linda was on her way home from a function in L.A. where she drank a glass of champagne on an empty stomach. We’re told she has also been on antibiotics and the drugs exacerbated the effects of the alcohol. The rep says Linda was initially pulled over for speeding. It’s unclear if Linda was the only person in the car at the time of her arrest.
2012年11月23日
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Melbourne CFO in 2012 are commanding $200k to $300k up from $170k to $250k pa in 2011; finance manager/financial controller, $125k to $200k unchanged from 2011; payroll clerk $60k -$70k C unchanged from 2011.
Sydney Group Finance Director is the most senior role listed by Robert Walters at an annual salary of $250k-$300k a year unchanged from 2011. Next on the Sydney list is a CFO at $250k a year unchanged from 2011; finance manager 3-5 years experience is fetching $140k to $180k pa up from $149k to $175k pa. Payroll officers in Sydney fetch $55k to $75k a year unchanged from last year.
I got an email from a young woman upset after seeing an ad posted by her employer for a role more junior than her own but that paid more. Usually, the fastest way to increase salary is to move jobs as we tend to move for something better or more senior and rates are influenced by market competition for talent. Internal salaries are subject to a greater range of influences including whether you are the type to ask for more money, how hard you are to replace as well as the financial performance of the company and the economy.
Sydney HR directors in 2012 have an annual salary range of $220k to $350k slightly down on the 2011 range of $230k to $350k. An HR Manger fetches $130k to $160k a year down from $150k to $170k pa in 2011; there is no change for HR administrator or HR coordinator at a range of $55k-65k pa and an HR officer in Sydney has lost ground $65k to $75k this year $70k to $80 pa in 2011.
ICT roles comparing Brisbane and Melbourne - CIO/IT Director Brisbane, $160k to $250k and Melbourne, $160k to $270k in 2012. Both rates are up on 2011. Project manager Brisbane, $100k-$120k C up $10k on 2011 C Melbourne $95k-$160k pa. Business analyst Brisbane $75k-90k pa; Melbourne, $80k -$145k and Help desk in Brisbane, level 1 & 2, $45k -$65k pa and in Melbourne, $48k to $70k pa.
Marketing managers seem to be doing okay. The info does not specify the size of the organisation. In Adelaide a marketing manager supposedly pulls in $90k to $130k a year C unchanged from 2011. In Brisbane, a marketing manager can expect to earn a package of $110k-$150k this year, up from $110k-$145k pa last year. In Sydney, that same role commands $100k-$160k pa, up from 2011 levels of $90k-$150k. Contract rates in Sydney has also moved up to $60 to $85 an hour from $50-$83 an hour in 2011. Just for your interest, a marketing manager with four years experience in New York City can expect an annual salary range of $95,000 to $145,000 this year down from $100k to $160k pa.
Saying that, the 2012 salary market is pretty flat. Hudson research shows the salary expectations of many candidates are even exceeding the budgets of employers and the new Robert Walters salary survey shows the market rates for some roles are below 2011 for example finance managers in Adelaide and financial controllers in Perth. There are market hotties too - oil & gas workers, mining and some ICT roles - where salaries are rising.
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Finding out what other people earn is a double edge sword. You need to know the market rates for your role to help you negotiate pay but knowing what others rake in can leave you feeling bad or angry.
Meanwhile, Personal Assistant’s in Perth are the best paid at $65k-85k a year and $35 to $45 an hour. The 2012 salary range for Sydney PAs is $60k-$80k a year (inclusive of super) while contractors get $30-$35 an hour. Melbourne PA’s are on $60k-70k and the Brisbane range is $60k-$75k pa.
Salary for a chief financial officer in Adelaide remains unchanged $175k-$400k pa while a finance manager with two to five years experience there is fetching $90k pa down from $100k pa last year. Payroll officers can earn $54k to $65k in 2012 up from $40k to $50k a year in 2011.
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Brisbane CFOs will command $175k to $350k this year up by only $5,000 on 2011’s salary range while finance managers have lost ground with the 2012 range at $110k to $140 compared to the 2011 range of $100k to $150k pa. Payroll officers can expert $55k to $70k a year in 2012 up from $50k-$65k pa in 2011.
In Perth HR managers in mining and resources can expect $140k to $180k this year up from $130k to $170k last year. An HR manager working in professional services can expect a range of $110k to $140k pa compared to $100k to $130k in 2011. HR advisor can expect $80k-100k pa in 2012 in Perth up from $70k to $90k in 2011.
Perth Group Financial Controller (they don’t list CFO) $190k to $240k pa down from $220k to $250k pa in 2011; finance controller $140k-$180k pa down from $150k to $200k pa in 2011. Ouch. Payroll clerk $60k-$90k way up on $50k-$75k in 2011,Jimmy Choo Sepia Pumps Nude-Black Online.
Using the new Robert Walters salary survey I will look at salaries in 2012 for a few a certain number of roles. However, the survey covers more sectors than I mention here and salary rates across Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney so if I don’t mention yours, ask me and I will see if it is in the survey. Overseas markets are also mentioned. Note that the Robert Walters salaries include super but exclude bonuses and other extras.
Australian oil and gas workers are supposedly the best paid in the world according to Hays with an “average” annual salary of $163,144. The global average is $77,885 pa with others highs in Denmark where average salaries are AUS$142,382 a year and New Zealand NZ$145,625 pa.
2012年11月23日
Dollar flat as traders await economic data Exchan
At 12pm AEDT today, the local unit was trading at 103.26 US cents, unchanged from the end of yesterday's local session.
Since 7am AEDT today, the dollar has traded between 103.18 and 103.40 cents.
CMC chief market strategist Michael McCarthy said the dollar had failed to make much ground despite sharemarkets making small gains.
"We did a U-turn in sentiment overnight with a weak European session leading into a weak start to the US session, which finished on a high note," he said. "We're watching the euro-US dollar cross rate very closely as a lead-in to what the Aussie dollar might be doing against the US dollar."
Mr McCarthy said the markets are awaiting the release of Chinese manufacturing figures for October and Australian inflation numbers for the September quarter, both due out tomorrow. Australia's inflation rate is expected to rise by 1.6 per cent in the 12 months to September, according to an AAP survey of 15 economists, which could spark a November interest rate cut.
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Meanwhile, Australian bond futures prices were lower at noon. At 12pm AEDT today, the December 10-year bond futures contract was trading at 96.890 (implying a yield of 3.110 per cent), down from 96.935 (3.065 per cent) yesterday. The December three-year bond futures contract was at 97.480 (2.520 per cent), up/down from 97.540 (2,Jimmy Choo Zinc Cracked-leather Glitter Sandals Gold Online.460 per cent).
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"Antarctica," the prophesising veteran had told me, "is a place of vivid mateships." And so it was that I stumbled across Martin, a historical archeologist sent down south to assess the heritage value of the buildings at Australia's Mawson Station (established 1954) and Davis (1957).
The man's expression was hard to read and I could not tell if his prophecy would be a good thing or a bad thing. All I knew was that he had a lot of living in his eyes and he never wanted to go back to the place. He would not say why.
Penguins, thousands of them, clucking and calling in a frenzy of hormones as the breeding season began. A strangely lunar landscape of rock and ice in the hills surrounding Davis.
There was a lot of camping by scientists in the field when the light pushed out darkness for much of the time. There was so much to see. Coastal icebergs shining like white plastic in the sharp sunlight. A baby seal a day or two old, its umbilical cord still attached, snap frozen to its belly.
Just before the ship arrived at Davis, the women were gathered together for a talk by the female ship's doctor. We were told that in the constrained social world of an Antarctic station, touching was often misconstrued. A veteran of several trips, she said she was a constant focus of attention for the simple fact that she was female.
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I realigned my priorities. Martin's death taught me to grab at life with his enthusiasm and passion and the importance of following your heart before it was too late.
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The Legoland buildings were scattered because one of the biggest dangers was fire. You couldn't afford to have everything in one complex because if it burned down in May and everything was wiped out, there couldn't be a rescue until October.
Davis Station was a scattered collection of brightly coloured buildings that looked like large shipping containers. "Legoland", it was dubbed.
The ship parked by a line of drums on the frozen surface by a two-lane highway bulldozed freshly in the ice for the cargo operations to start.
That our lives would change after this voyage, they must. That they would veer from their prescribed course like an ocean liner heading off to unknown climes.
There were 300 videos on the ship, it took five weeks to sail from Hobart to Davis, and by the end of the fourth week, the video-heads were so bored they weren't fast-forwarding through the previews any more.
The hull of the Aurora Australis was flattened so it could ride up on top of slabs of floating ice as big as Olympic pools and crack them with its hefty weight. "She's great in the ice but she bobs like a cork in the open water," said a seasoned expeditioner just before departure. This was not good because I'd been spectacularly seasick in the past, so within half an hour of sailing, a seasickness patch was behind my ear.
The Aurora sailed up an avenue of icebergs and cracked the sea's skin to within 3km of the coastal station, but could crack it no further.
The gangplank was lowered and we walked or skied the last leg, across the surface of the Great Southern Ocean, to the continent.
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Yet Legoland's decor was almost disappointingly plush. There were carpets and tubs of Tim Tam biscuits, Apple Macs, an electronic board with up-to-the-minute temperature and wind-speed readings and a daily newspaper of stories culled from the net. Walking into the Legoland living quarters reminded me of a small airport lounge.
One morning there were frozen pancakes of ice with their edges kicked up, an ocean of severed ears. Over the days the ears changed to huge waterlilies of ice, then oblong chunks 20m across, then vast sheets,Chanel Wallets, ice-rink sized.
The Australians were rigorous about keeping their chunk of the world's last wilderness as pristine as they could. There were many rules.
The oddnesses slowly dawned. There was no money; it wasn't needed - the Government provided everything from alcohol to condoms. The milk was powdered; the eggs were up to a year old. They were oiled to preserve them, but the chef had to "crack and smell" before he put them in an omelet. The rules were ferocious. No one was allowed to go beyond the station boundaries by themselves.
My world fell apart. I foundered. Just wanted to go back down south and wrap myself in the solace of the silence and not emerge for a very long time. The real world was too hard. Too complicated, back home, where Martin had a different life, a different world that I'd never been a part of.
It took a while but slowly, gradually, I began to feel weirdly euphoric at times, as if I was scrubbing my life, starting afresh. Martin's wish, for both of us. At the age of 28 I grew up - it was like I was being hauled into adulthood. Grief gave me clarity, it stopped the silliness.
There were too many people, too much noise. The only things I wanted from home were the sun on my skin and the dirt on my hands and the taste of bananas in my mouth. Apart from that I wanted to be back in Antarctica, achingly.
There were few women. There were a lot of beards. I set about my task of ferreting out narratives with the zeal of a forensic scientist..
-- This is an extract from Better Than Fiction, edited by Don George, Lonely Planet 2012. Published this month, RRP: $24.99, lonelyplanet.com
Martin was contemptuous of the voyagers who spent most of their time in the video room in the bowels of the ship.
Our ship was the first to reach the continent after the long, dark winter hibernation, the only one out of all the Antarctic nations so far south at that time. Most of the people on board, apart from the crew, were scientists and tradespeople being dropped off at Australia's bases for the summer.
There was a surgery and an operating theatre and a doctor but no nurses. If an operation was required the diesel mechanic and the chef would help out; they had gone through a two-week course on the mainland.
I smelt Tasmania before I saw it, smelt trees and soil on the breeze. Then I saw green, in all its exotic vibrancy. It had been so long since I'd seen that colour in nature after my strict Antarctic palette of white and blue and grey and black.
We both wore seasick patches, were both vaguely dissatisfied with our jobs, wanted to write books. We would stand on deck in the early hours of the morning and watch auroras like giant scribbles of moving light in the sky, and talk endlessly of lives we didn't lead and most likely never would, of what we would do when we got back. How we'd finally have the courage to do what we really wanted to. It all seemed possible down there.
The Australian Government fully kitted us out army-style the day before sailing. Almost everything we were given, from thermal underwear to padded jumpsuit to steel-capped boots, was bloke-sized. I had little idea what I'd be getting myself into but these early signs weren't promising.
To not let people fool you into giving up. I lost the hunger for journalism, the observer's life. Learnt to live closer to the earth, to be still with it and to listen to it. I wrote a book about the experience, a novel called Shiver, which balmed me through the whole process of grieving.
I was not wanting my life changed. A radio journalist too fond of wearing black, I was just doing my job on this trip, nothing else. And with all the righteous zeal of youth, I believed the journalist's blazing function was to make trouble - with other people's lives, not my own. I was the outsider, the observer, and when on a job I was never meant to get my hands mucky in the mess of life.
No souveniring rocks from the continent. No taking polystyrene balls from packaging and bean bags to the continent, because they didn't degrade and they got stuck in the throats of animals and choked them. No leaving anything behind in the field but footprints and urine (and if possible, urinate down a crack in the ice).
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And always in Legoland there was the hum of the generator. Martin told me to walk Antarctica, to move beyond that hum, any way I could, to listen to the thick silence of the land. It's a silence that thuds in your ears.
A "winterer", helicoptered on board from another station, bit into an apple. "That's better than sex," he declared. It'd been a long time between apples. We, the "summerers", were delivering the first supply of fresh fruit and vegetables Davis had seen in seven months. Another newly arrived winterer ate five apples in a row.
My gift to Martin and his gift to me. Because finally, in my late 20s, I was doing what I really wanted to do with my life.
"People are always wanting a piece of you. I had to go for 10-minute walks outside just to get away from it all."
One day the strap of my camera froze into a stiff scribble. The flesh of my cheek stuck to the cold metal of the camera back and, panicking, I pulled my skin away. I had been trying to take a photo of a woman's eyelashes dusted with ice. It looked like white mascara.
"I feel so alive in this place," Martin laughed in vivid contrast, exhausting me with the ferocity of his enthusiasm. He was 37, the age of reckoning as we career into middle age, and he was gulping this world like a gleeful boy. He said that we must live differently after this trip, do all the things we really wanted to do.
Everything else in terms of human waste was to be removed because it would never rot. Plastic bags were handed out for defecating during field trips and women got an extra device, a FUD (Female Urinary Device), plastic and pink and shaped like a funnel. It meant we could go standing up like a man.
On the ice chunks were seals and their blood - it was the pupping season and there were many births. There were penguins that scurried in a panic. In the channels between floes were minke whales, their backs breaking the surface in a stately arc. And circling around the Aurora were snow petrels soaring and dipping like hundreds of angels watching over us.
I didn't want to leave this place. Didn't want to go back to my cluttered, inner-city life. Didn't want to leave Martin. He had entered my heart, was riveted to it, the relationship sanctified by the shared wonder of this land. But he was staying behind, his work wasn't finished. As we said goodbye our cheeks felt like plastic.
Tears pricked my eyes with the sheer monumental emotion of it all.
The Australian mainland was "the real world". I wanted to leave the real world far behind, drown myself in this brave new existence, so vulnerable and lonely and exhilarating and replenishing, in the vastness of this unsullied continent.
In the daytime there were icebergs that looked like pool tables or Cambodian temples or Walt Disney castles or Uluru, some so blue it was as if the ice had trapped a piece of the sky. We stood on the bow as the ocean changed around us from open sea to water like heaving marble with long veins of white through it.
Outside were utes and bulldozers and a small cement-mixing truck. Tank-like vehicles called Hagglunds were so noisy you had to wear headphones when you were in them, assaulting the silence that felt thousands of years old, untouched. And at night, the vehicles in the open were lined up and plugged into heaters to keep the oil in their engines warm.
Nikki Gemmell has written six novels, Shiver, Cleave, Lovesong, The Bride Stripped Bare, The Book of Rapture and With My Body, as well as several non-fiction books. Her work has been critically acclaimed internationally and translated into many languages. In France she's been described as a female Jack Kerouac, in Australia as one of the most original and engaging authors of her generation, and in the US as one of the few truly original voices to emerge in a long time.
Three weeks after I returned, I got a phone call from down south. I recognised the crackle on the line and instantly felt the tug in my belly I always got when I spoke to Martin.
And always, the stretched sky.
When the Aurora docked, I stepped on to a pavement that was too hard and after two days I'd jarred my shins.
We were told that if an attachment was formed,Handbags, then the absolute rule was discretion. Later the chef, an old Antarctic hand, told me that if there were two single people on a station then invariably they paired up, but it was not the done thing to openly fraternise. I was single when I began this voyage. I was intrigued, by all of it.
2012年11月16日
Kurt Tippett would set GWS forward Jon Patton up f
Patton and the Giants were putting in the building blocks of their pre-season training yesterday, sweating it out during their first skill session.
His No. 1 draft pick from last year, Patton, is set to make a big impact in 2013 with his first full pre-season under his belt.
Coach Kevin Sheedy said Tippett's versatility would be the key to fitting him into the Giants' already talented forward line.
It was their first full training session without Israel Folau, the first proper pre-season for No. 1 draft pick Jonathon Patton and the first declaration from Giants players about their desire to sign Adelaide Crow Kurt Tippett.
"In the first few days of pre-season I haven't felt any pain."
Patton's January surgery delayed his senior debut until the round-12 match against Richmond at Skoda Stadium - and severely limited his impact in 2012.
"If he comes here, Jeremy and I will be looking forward to working with him in the forward line."
"Going from under-18s football with no pre-season into the AFL was a massive step."
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"He's a former basketball player and well over 200cm," Sheedy said.
While Sheedy would be happy to pinch Tippett from under the noses of the Swans he has plenty to smile about within his ranks.
Patton played just seven matches for the fledgling club in his debut season after flying to Sweden for surgery on his patella tendon early in the year.
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"If Kurt came to the Giants it would be awesome for the club," Patton said. "He's hitting his prime and he has already shown what sort of a player he is.
Patton said he would have no problem should he and Jeremy Cameron end up sharing the Giants' forward line with the former Crow.
Tippett is the subject of an AFL investigation into the contract he signed in 2009 with the Crows but that has not deterred the Giants' enthusiasm for the big man.
"It was definitely very difficult coming in without a pre-season.
2012年11月16日
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2012年11月16日
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The more lenient charge is usually reserved for people who can prove a long-standing drug addiction.
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Pollock admitted to police after his arrest to having used methamphetamine, known in Australia as ice, for about eight years.
But, Graeme Michael Pollock is likely to be released within the next three weeks after a judge in Bali's Denpasar District Court yesterday ruled the sentence would take into account time already served.
He had been facing the possibility of up to 12 years' in jail for possession, but authorities instead only demanded a conviction for the use of illegal drugs.
The 31-year-old is being held at Bali's notorious Kerobokan jail, which was the scene of riots last week that saw inmates take control of the prison on two consecutive nights.
It's expected he will be released on March 16 or 17, after which he will be deported to Australia.
Pollock was one of 12 Australians who refused to leave the jail despite authorities wanting to evacuate all foreigners amid fears they could be targeted by other prisoners involved in the unrest.
2012年11月16日
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Continuing the cricket analogy, axing Beale after a nondescript effort in victory last weekend is like telling David Warner: a duck gets you dropped and 50 keeps you in the team.
The inconsistency would be damaging. In one week, out the next. If you drop a ball, you're out. If you score a good try, you stay in the following week.
But it would be tough to swallow when Barnes, who has hardly ever played fullback, is picked instead.
The pressing question is: does he know what he has to do? Has he been told that by Robbie Deans?
The Wallabies have a tough tour of South Africa and Argentina coming up, a third clash against the All Blacks and then a challenging Spring Tour,Christian Louboutin Lady Lynch 120mm Black.
Beale's swagger took a big blow after Sydney, but I thought he bounced back off the bench in Auckland and then performed solidly in Perth. There was a platform for him to keep building there, but that has been taken away now.
Australian rugby needs Beale in top form - and you don't get that by leaving him out of the team.
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I couldn't see any fitness problems for Beale in Perth, and while it wasn't his best game, I thought he was starting to take some positive options.
Wallabies: B Barnes, D Shipperley, A Ashley-Cooper, P McCabe, D Ioane, Q Cooper, N Phipps; R Samo, M Hooper, D Dennis, N Sharpe (c), K Douglas, B Alexander, T Polota-Nau, B Robinson. Res: S Fainga'a, J Slipper, S Higginbotham, L Gill, B Sheehan, A Fainga'a, K Beale
For a confidence player like Beale, this rollercoaster ride can not be doing him any good.
Even then, however, you need to be careful with attacking, instinctive players. You don't want to turn a flamboyant opening batsman into a medium pace bowler. You have to work with Beale's natural ability and strengthen his mental confidence.
You want him playing with confidence, but to get him confident, he must be given game time.
It really gives you no leeway for an off game. That means when you are on the field, the normal personality traits of a player like Beale are watered down. Instead of thinking, "I am going to counter attack from 80m out", the safe option is taken instead, and that is not Beale's personality as a rugby player.
As long as Deans and selectors have been open and honest about why he has been dropped, and what they want him to do better to stay in the team, then he may know where he stands.
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Fair enough if a demotion is down to disciplinary issues, or there is another fullback running around playing better, or a proven alternative like Adam Ashley-Cooper or James O'Connor.
He didn't look happy under the high ball but, again, that is a skill that comes down to confidence.
2012年11月14日
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"Performance artist" has become a common slur against celebrities who thrive on tastelessness. There's no way these people could be for real, the argument goes, so it must all be an elaborate ruse. But whether it's from James Franco, who openly admits this act, or Joaquin Phoenix, who kept it going long enough to make a documentary about it,【Christian Louboutin Metalipp 120mm Pumps Bluehttp://www.redbottomhighheelshoes.com/Lonboutin2013OutletHighHeels/christian-louboutin-metalipp-120mm-pumps-blue/】, performance art is becoming a viable career option for established entertainers.
2012年11月14日
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Yet more is at risk than ice shelves and rising seas as the Antarctic Peninsula shifts from a cold and dry climate to a warmer, moister, climate. The peninsula's fragile marine ecology, from the smallest bacterium to the largest baleen whale, is being challenged. As the seas warm and the climate changes, communities of tiny floating plants called phytoplankton are becoming less common and shifting from larger to smaller varieties that are less nourishing. Along the northern peninsula, the phytoplankton no longer provide sufficient sustenance for krill, the shrimp-like zooplankton that are the biggest ingredient of Antarctic food webs -- they feed fish, seals, penguins, and whales. Younger krill are finding it more difficult to find a meal. They gorge on phytoplankton that grows on the underside of the annual sea ice. As the annual sea ice is disappearing so are the krill.
There are more tangible losses to consider as the austral summer approaches the Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctic seafloor invertebrates including sponges, soft corals, starfish, and sea squirts are fine-tuned to live at constant low polar temperatures and studies indicate many may be unable to adapt to rapid warming. The loss of these animals is tantamount to losing an investment portfolio of genetic diversity that may harbor cures to human disease including cancer, AIDS, cystic fibrosis, and infectious diseases. For example, an Antarctic sea squirt the size and shape of a soft ball has been discovered to harbor chemicals that scientists at the National Cancer Institute found kills melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. With the Antarctic sea floor boasting a marine biota equivalent to that of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia its myriad invertebrates represent a priceless resource.
Additional ecosystem changes are underway along the western Antarctic Peninsula, including the dramatic 35-year decline of the iconic Adlie penguin whose eggs perish in unseasonably late snow storms, the result of a warmer moister climate. Eighty-percent of the Adlie penguins along the central Antarctic Peninsula are now gone. The Peninsula is also facing a pending invasion of king crabs that are no longer being held at bay by low temperatures. Antarctic seafloor animals have evolved in the absence of crushing predators and their thin weak skeletons will be no match for the large, clawed crabs. And ocean acidification, "the other COxyzxyz6
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As fall sets in here in the northern hemisphere, our changing global climate is lining up to render yet another unprecedented summer along the Antarctic Peninsula. Arguably the most rapidly rising temperatures anywhere on earth, mid-winter temperatures along the Peninsula have risen 10 degrees Fahrenheit over 60 years. The impacts are hard to miss. The annual sea ice has retreated dramatically with its seasonal duration and extent offshore reduced by some 40 percent over the past 30 years. The Wilkins Ice Shelf, a floating ice sheet several hundred feet thick the size of Connecticut, may sever its tenuous grip on the peninsula and join eight other large ice shelves that have departed since 1980. And as the ice shelves separate from the mainland, they deprive it of an important bulwark and make it easier for glaciers to flow into the sea and melt. We might joke about building sea walls around real estate in Florida and Manhattan, but with melting glaciers along the Antarctic Peninsula and Greenland contributing increasingly to sea level rise, this is no longer a laughing matter.
James B. McClintock is an author and the Endowed University Professor of Polar and Marine Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His book was just released.
Also at risk is the esthetic value of this vast untamed wilderness. Over my twenty expeditions to Antarctica, I continue to be dazzled by the poetic grandeur of the landscape, the stunning colors of the ice, and the rocky shores teeming with nesting, braying penguins. Tourists that visit Antarctica return home transformed -- ambassadors for a remote continent. Here, politics takes a back seat. The Antarctic Treaty recognizes no sovereignty, but rather Antarctica remains a global commons for the pursuit of scientific knowledge and the preservation of our last great wilderness. What a fitting context for a diminishing Antarctic Peninsula to serve as a clarion call for a sustainable planet.
2012年11月12日
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"I never tell anyone that I want to continue doing in Turkey on, and now I am be full of go, and I am like a day does not stop working, I feel I need to do more, so the club than perhaps in the national team coach would be better for me", Hiddink's this position has been given a very clear message: he will be the team left Turkey to coach the club, although he did not name the family club for him, the most appropriate, but as we all know, this just might be Chelsea.
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2012年11月12日
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The real is not the Milky Way battleship, Chelsea is not the Premiership giants Chelsea the trophy, but eventually won 1-0, is also a popular.As a member of the first team in dematteo, afraid that after 14 years there will be the reincarnation -- to the failure of the name.
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14 years ago, wear the number 16 shirt dematteo first play, but in sixty-third minutes by Poyet of Uruguay in.
Is Poyet in the eighty-second minute winning goal, help Chelsea for the first time, so far only once to win the European Super cup.This record was originally considered to be DiMatteo's advantage, but now lost but people can not help but worry about the phantom -- since when Chelsea is in for DiMatteo after his victory, that now is not a solid "Buddha handsome", whether because of the match and meet a crisis?After all,Cheap NBA Jerseys, who knows, unemployed in the home of Guardiola, will always be his head Damour damocles.
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While the half trailing 0-3, DiMatteo immediately hit Oscar this card, visible from a to Z do not have to give up.
Unfortunately, dematteo win heart is strong, but men do honor such disciples, but seems to be in the blues.
When the Falco tigers mountains potential hat-trick, the public will wake up, but it's too late.A Super Cup final, and won't blow the champion's morale, Ashley Cole led the American people, and even laughed to receive silver.
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The most relevant part seems to be (a lot of good work there) Ultimate Manipulation of Atoms and Molecules (1992-2001)
* Private sector partner: Angstrom Technology Partnership
* Public sector partner: National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research(NAIR)
The purpose of R&D is to develop technology for exactly observing and identifying atoms or molecules, and arranging them in a desired layout. In combination with mechanical probe techniques and beam techniques, the new technology allows the identification, observation,{www.coachoutlettote.com}, measurement and manipulation of atoms and molecules on the surface of various materials, organic molecules such as DNA, and atomic assembly in free space,{www.coachoutlettote.com}. R&D of simulation technology will also be pursued to exactly predict atomic and molecular processes. In JYF 1994,www.coachoutlettote.com, it was found possible to manipulate structures down to the atomic level by means of magnetic fields. This suggests the possibility of creating new materials through the control of materials' structures at atomic and molecular levels.
This last project is the most "nanotechnological" project at present, although it has been insisted that the main idea is the manipulation of individual atoms with an eye towards creating materials with new properties. The original impetus for the project was a small band of researchers at Tsukuba's Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL), who approached MITI with the concept which then found interested partners in the private sector,{www.coachoutlettote.com}. (Supposedly the ETL researchers' ideas were sparked by D r. Aono's Atomcraft project carried out under ERATO.)
Original plans were for this to be one of the "large-scale" projects run under MITI, but with the development of the ISTF program, the decision was made to incorporate it as one of the ISTF projects. MITI seems to be very insistent on attempting to bring together national laboratories, academia, and the private sector. This project has the Angstrom Technology Partnership as the private sector partner, and the National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research (NAIR) as the public sector partner. Both have come together to form the Joint Research Center for Atom Technology (JRCAT) to carry out the above- mentioned research. Although universities are not officially associated with the project, several of the researchers are graduate students (mainly from Tsukuba University)or professors working half-time at national laboratories. The research groups involved are the same as those in NAIR (See JRCAT research results below for complete list)
A list of targets to achieve by the final date (2001) include (intermediate goals in parentheses):
* (Control of Local Surface Reactions)--> Manipulation of Atoms/Molecules
* (Control of Subnanometer Structures) --> Control of Bulk Properties
* (Observation and Control of Growing Surfaces) --> Formation of Superstructures
* (Control of Reactions in Atom Clusters) --> Formation of Nanometer Structures
* (Observation of Molecules)--> Molecular Fabrication
* (Simulation Based on First Principle Calculations) --> Reaction System Simulation
A list of the individual members of the Angstrom Technology Partnership (private partners) shows all of the larger Japanese semiconductor companies,{www.coachoutlettote.com}, as well as a few of the US and Korean ones. Perhaps the most interesting partner is Molecular Simulations, Inc. (formerly Biosym), which is a US company known for its simulation software, particularly for biotechnology and pharmaceutical development.
2012年11月06日
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Shoko Sato, a writer on sumo, said the lack of new trainees reflected the sport's struggle to maintain popularity among young Japanese.
However, the fact that both champions come from Mongolia highlights worries about foreign dominance of the top ranks of sumo,Coach Factory Outlet.
Fans fret that the shortage of recruits will undermine competition and make it less likely sumo can attract the kind of talent boasted by great champions of the past.
"There needs to be a balance," Ms Sato said.
"Soccer and the Major League [baseball] have greater appeal for young people now, while sumo has become a sport watched by grannies and granddads," Ms Sato said,{www.coachoutlettote.com}. "It's really worrying."
(Financial Times) -- A dearth of new recruits is thinning the ranks of sumo wrestlers, threatening the future of the celebrated but scandal-plagued ancient Japanese sport.
Only 56 hefty young trainees have applied to join sumo stables this year, about half standard recruitment levels in the early years of the century and far too few to make up for the 115 wrestlers who left the sport last year, according to the Japan Sumo Association.
Sponsors also appear to be losing interest. Even fast-food chain McDonald's, previously a loyal provider of prize money for sumo's ample-girthed athletes, has not backed a bout since March 2011,{www.coachoutlettote.com}.
In 2010, a yokozuna grand champion resigned after reports he was involved in a drunken brawl and the sumo association was forced to make a formal declaration that the sport would sever links with Japan's yakuza organised crime syndicates.
© The Financial Times Limited 2012
Additional reporting by Mitsuko Matsutani in Tokyo
The recruitment problem is just one of a litany of woes suffered by sumo in recent years,{www.coachoutlettote.com}. Claims the sport embodies traditional values of discipline, self-control and moral rectitude have been tarnished by the death during a hazing of a young trainee in 2007 and episodes of illegal gambling and dope-smoking among wrestlers.
While Ms Sato said many younger Japanese were actually attracted by the increasingly cosmopolitan competitions -- which feature grapplers from as far away as Estonia and Egypt -- many older fans were distressed by the lack of local champions,{www.coachoutlettote.com}.
The scandals are seen as a big factor in declining audiences,Coach Outlet, with rows of empty seats now a familiar feature of NHK's weekday afternoon television broadcasts of sumo's 15-day tournaments.
Losses at the sumo association have soared, with the sport's governing body suffering a fall of Y4.9bn in the value of its net assets to Y44bn,{www.coachoutlettote.com}.
The declining enthusiasm for the tough but potentially glamorous life of a sumo wrestler comes as Japan's national sport -- which boasts a mythical past and semi-religious pretensions -- struggles to rebuild a reputation battered by revelations of bout-fixing, trainee bullying and underworld links.
Enthusiasts hope that the recent promotion of a new yokozuna champion, the 133kg Harumafuji, will rekindle public interest by setting up a rivalry with the veteran wrestler Hakuho, who had ruled alone as yokozuna for the past 15 tournaments,{www.coachoutlettote.com}.
The dramatic finale of the autumn competition was watched in 18 per cent of households,{www.coachoutlettote.com}, according to Video Research -- far fewer than the 27 per cent who tuned in for the final day of the tournament in 2009, the last time sumo made it into the annual TV top 20.
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Here is the Henry Markram interview by Sander Olson. [Note: there 14 questions and answers and a copyright by Dr. Markram at the end] Dr. Markram is the Project Director of the Blue Brain project, and Dr. Markram recently predicted that the Blue Brain project could have a human level brain simulation within a decade. Of note in this interview:
- The Blue Brain Project is not an AI project, but an attempt to unlock the mysteries of the brain. Dr. Markram is confident that Blue Brain models will eventually supplant AI.
-Knowledge of the brain is increasing exponentially. We are currently gathering as much information on the brain's structure and function each year as was gained in the entire 20th century. Neuroscientists are currently producing about 50,000 peer-reviewed articles per year. The Blue Brain project was launched in part to organize and coordinate this research.
-The Blue Brain project currently has the capability of electronically simulating 100 million neurons/100 billion synapse models, but is constrained by lack of funds to buy a sufficiently powerful computer.
-It currently requires 10-100 seconds of computer time to simulate one second of neuronal activity, but future computers should be able to simulate neurons in close to real time.
-A grid computing program to simulate and "build" individual neurons will soon be unveiled, and it will run on individual PCs as a screen saver.
- The blue brain project should result in extremely powerful "liquid computers" that can handle infinite parallelization.
Henry Markram Interview
Question 1: Tell us about the Blue Brain project.
HM: The Blue Brain Project aims to build a 21st century research facility capable of constructing and simulating computer models of the brain. Such a facility will be capable of constructing brain models across different levels of biological detail and for different animal species, ages, and diseases. The target is to be able to construct models of the human brain within about a decade. The facility will serve to aggregate, organize and unify all fragments of data and knowledge of the
brain (past and future), allow virtual experimentation to test hypotheses of brain function and dysfunction, and create a novel platform for virtualized medicine. A prototype facility has been completed, which is today capable of building any neural microcircuit or module of the brain with cellular level precision. The facility’s capability will be extended over the course of the next 10 years to building whole brain models at the subcellular, molecular and genetic levels. The facility will be accessible as an internet portal with different levels of access to provide neuroscientists with virtual laboratories, hospitals with advanced diagnostic and treatment planning facilities, clinicians with a facility to explore hypotheses of disease for specific patients, pharmaceutical companies to carry out virtual drug development, technology companies to design the next generation technologies, and for schools and institutions of higher education to take students for virtual tours into the brain’s of different animals to see and learn how the brain is designed and
function, and how it evolved, develops and then ages, and what can go wrong in different diseases. The facility will also be open for public virtual visits to allow anyone to better understand their own brain and what kind of reality it is genetically and environmentally programmed to create and to find out how they can shape the reality they create for themselves.
Question 2: You recently predicted that an artificial brain could be built within 10 years. What properties will this brain have? How closely will it resemble a human
brain?
HM: We are building brain models of different mammalian species (mouse, rat, cat, monkey) first before we reach the human brain. We do this because we need to learn how to use less and less invasive data and more and more indirect data to build human brain models. We build these models by sticking as close to biology as possible. This is done by abstracting the biological components and processes into mathematical equations and then into computer models. We do not aim at a specific function – they should all appear if we build it correctly. Computational Neuroscience over the past 50 years is a theory driven science, while Blue Brain is biology driven. When we reach the human brain, human-like perceptions and motor actions should emerge automatically. The model brains will be able to learn to do what we human’s can learn to do, perform complex decision-making, manifest emotions, intelligence and personalities. We see these all as straightforward emergent properties of the brain. Self-awareness and consciousness may also emerge if this phenomenon depends on neuronal, synaptic and/or molecular interactions. Anything that depends on the physical elements that can be measured in the brain should emerge if we are successful in building it accurately enough. If we inject some theories of brain while we build it and ignore the biology, then we are back to square one with computational neuroscience and we will almost certainly fail.
Question 3: Ray Kurzweil predicts that our understanding of the human brain is
increasing exponentially. Do you agree?
HM: Kurzweil is not entirely right nor entirely wrong, it depends on how you look at it. It is certainly true that we are generating today more data and knowledge about the brain’s structure and function probably in one year than we generated in the entire 20th century. The amount of data and knowledge about the brain that will be obtained in the 21st century is vast beyond imagination. Neuroscientists today are producing over 50’000 peer-reviewed articles in one year and growing exponentially. Machines and robotic technology can sequence and map parts of the brain at many levels that produces data thousands of time faster than any lab of the past. So yes,{www.coachoutlettote.com}, there is no doubt that we are generating a massive amount of data and knowledge about the brain, but this raises a dilemma of what the individual understands. No neuroscientists can even read more than about 200 articles per year and no neuroscientists is even remotely capable of comprehending the current pool of data and knowledge. Neuroscientists will almost certainly drown in data the 21st century. So, actually, the fraction of the known knowledge about the brain that each person has is actually decreasing(!) and will decrease even further until neuroscientists
are forced to become informaticians or robot operators. This is one of the reasons that we launched the Blue Brain Project. We need a global agenda to bring the data and knowledge together in a single working platform – a model, so that each scientist can test their tiny fragment of understanding against all data and knowledge that everyone has accumulated together. One needs to see and feel the all data and knowledge in one. I believe that unless we succeed in a project like the Blue Brain Project,{www.coachoutlettote.com}, we will never understand the brain. It is the unifying strategy, much the same way that models unified understandings in so many past revolutions in science,Coach Outlet Online Store.
Question 4: You recently completed Phase one of the Blue Brain project. What
did Phase one accomplish?
HM: The Blue Brain Project is not aiming at building just a single model, we are building an international facility that has the capability to build brain models. The facility roadmap is to gradually expand its capability and capacity to build whole brain models at ever greater levels of resolution. Over the past 4 years we built a prototype facility as a proof of concept and targeted the cellular level resolution. We also wanted to try to solve some fundamental challenges that, if we could not solve them, would mean that it is technically not be possible to build biologically realistic brain models. We solved these challenges and built the first prototype facility that can now build neural microcircuits at cellular level resolution. On our current supercomputer we can build and simulate up to 100’000 biologically detailed neurons interconnected with 10 million synapses. The facility actually has the capability of building much larger neural circuits even today (100 million neurons with 100 billion synapses), but we can’t afford to buy the big computer to simulate them. The facility is unique because it is designed in a way that the models “absorb” biological data and knowledge and continuously become as real as the available data and knowledge.
In building this facility, we already discovered some fascinating principles of how neural microcircuits are designed, how complex neural states emerge, which elements contribute to specific neural states, and we are close to testing a fundamental theory of how the brain generates a perceptual reality – the neural code.
Question 5: Is there a phase two?
HM: Of course, there are many many big phases and many more tiny steps before we reach the human brain. We are expanding the capability of the facility to build models at the sub-cellular (structures inside cells), molecular and genetic levels and we are expanding the capacity of the facility to build and simulate larger models till we reach whole brain models. Each phase needs more computing resources and a bigger team of engineers and scientists to deal with the new levels of issues.
Question 6: It takes electronic circuits about 100 seconds to emulate 1 second of
neuronal activity. How long before electronic circuits can emulate their biological counterparts in real time?
HM: Well, I am not sure where you got these numbers. Firstly, there is a difference between emulation and simulation; a neuron on a silicon chip emulates the behavior of a neuron, while a software model of a neuron simulates its behavior. We are simulating the brain, not emulating it. It it is very difficult and impossibly expensive to build even simple equations of complex neurons onto a silicon chip. The most that is possible today at the cellular level is around 50 or so neurons. These analog VLSI (aVLSI) chips can actually emulate neuronal behavior in real-time and even much faster than real-time. Because of this limit, what people mostly do is to put very simple neurons (very simplified equations) onto silicon chips. In these cases it is possible to build networks of thousands of what we call “point neurons”. There is a project called FACETS that has built a chip with over 100’000 neurons in a network which actually run the calculations 10’000 times faster than real-time. DARPA is also trying to build such chips that can run even larger neural networks with intelligent synapses. From the perspective of Blue Brain, these projects are
peripherally interesting as engineering projects that will probably build some mildly clever devices, but they do not come even close to the sophistication and capabilities of a Blue Brain model. Software models have the advantage that you can make the models as complex as you need to, but they have the draw back that they need very advanced supercomputers to get close to real-time. When we started Blue Brain, 1 second of biological time took over 1000 seconds to simulate, but we improved the software, and it now takes around 10-100 seconds. So it is still in slow motion. The future computers we are planning to build should get the simulations close to real-time.
Question 7: How many different types of neurons exist in the human brain? What, besides morphology, differentiates these neurons?
HM: There are around 400 brain regions and each brain region contains neurons with different types of morphologies. Some brain regions contain only 2 or 3 types, while others contain up to 50 types. The neocortex has 48 main types of morphologies. The average is around 5 types, so there are around 2000 different morphological types of neurons in the brain. Telling them apart however is not an entirely solved problem in neuroscience. It is like trying to mathematically describe the differences between any two trees in a forest,{www.coachoutlettote.com}. Neurons can also differ in many other ways. A very important way they differ is in their electrical “personalities”. There are about 15
classes of electrical personalities that a neuron can take on. Even neurons with the same morphology can take on different electrical personalities. The way neurons build their electrical personalities is to select which ion channels (membrane proteins that pass electrical current into the cell) are expressed by the genes. So if one looks at the genes that are switched on in neurons, then one sees that they switch on different genes to make different ion channels and by combinatorics, they create their different electrical personalities. Neurons can also differ in the
way they switch on other genes to build other types of proteins and so even neurons that look and behave the same, can process information differently. So there are actually many thousands of different types of neurons at the morphological-electrical-molecular levels. If you then also consider that each neuron is plugged into the brain in a different way, then one realizes that each of your 100 billion neurons is unique and no neuron in our brains are the same as any neuron in
anyone else’s brain. So the Blue Brain Project is trying to understand this complexity, rather than build simple models that do clever tricks.
Question 8: What is liquid computing?
HM: Let me first explain that a Turing machine is a machine that can solve any problem if the problem is given to it in discretely timed batches. So a Turing machine is a universal computer for what is called “batch processing”. But what a Turing machine can’t do is to solve problems universally while information is continuously coming in and disturbing it from finishing the operation it just started on. In other words, it can’t (without work arounds and cheating) strictly speaking solve problems presented to it on an analog time scale and produce answers on an analog time scale. A liquid computer is however a computer that can solve any problem in realtime and at any time (not discrete time). You can even call it “anytime processing”. So it is a universal theory for analog computing. You see, a big problem that the brain has, is to solve how to keep thinking about something that it just saw while the world around it never stops sending it new information. If you sent your computer continuously new information it will not be able to do anything because it can’t finish one thing before it has to start on another problem. The way liquid computing works is very much like an actual physical liquid. It makes sense of the perturbations rather than seeing them as a nuisance. We also call it high entropy computing or computing on transient states. This is a very important (but not complete) theory of how the brain works because it shows us how to tap into the vast amount of information that lies in a “surprise”. Another big challenge to understand the brain is that it is always physically changing. Your brain right now is already different from what it was just 1 hour ago, and extremely different from what it was when you were 10 years old. So, because your brain is constantly different and because every moment in your life is potentially (hopefully) also novel, there is a very good chance that most of the time, the responses produced in your brain are new to you (to your neurons) - never “seen” before. So if the brain produces a response that it never “experienced” before, how does it know what it means? The state that your brain is in right now, never happened before so how can your brain make sense of states it never saw before and connect them to all your moments before? Liquid computing provides a partial explanation for this problem by showing that the same state never actually needs to reoccur in the brain for you to make sense of the states – that is why we also call it computing on transient states. Liquid computing can in principle solve any problem instantaneously and keep solving them in real-time and with infinite parallelization. But, it is very difficult to build a good liquid computer. One of the benefits of Blue Brain is that it will be able to design and build extremely powerful liquid computers.
Question 9: The Blue Brain project is constrained by the lack of available computing power,Coach Factory Outlet. Have you considered initiating a distributed computing project, along the lines of the protein folding or SETI projects?
HM: Indeed, CERN is our neighbor and they invented GRID computing. But, there are different limits for distributed computing. The brain is a perfect democracy and no neuron can make a decision without first listening to thousands of others, so interconnect is critical. GRID computing is not ideal for brain simulations. But what we are doing is to build a Blue GRID to help us build and analyze neurons because one just needs many processors working independently. Building biologically realistic neurons is even more challenging than simulating them, but this does not need supercomputing - it needs distributed computing. We call project the “Adopt a Neuron Project” and it will soon go live. Anyone will be able to adopt a neuron and have it work as a screen saver while helping us build and analyze the neurons.
Question 10: Your Blue Gene/L supercomputer is vital to the research. Do you have plans to augment or replace the Blue Gene/L supercomputer with a more powerful model?
HM: Already done. Blue Gene/L is history - we now have a Blue Gene/P supercomputer. This allows us to make the step to molecular level resolution for the models.
Question 11: It appears that the brain incorporates hybrid digital-analogue computing techniques. To what extent can these techniques be emulated by a purely digital computer?
HM: This is a complex question that can’t be answered properly here. The issue is actually multidimensional because digital vs analog computation pertains to discretization of space, time, amplitude and identities of the elements. To track the configuration changes of molecules is still reasonable, but to track every atom takes too many digital time steps to do it for long. So it is not yet too serious a barrier for molecular level simulations, but to simulate every atom’s position and movement in the brain will require the super-quantum computers of the 22nd century. In short, numerical precision of digital computers is good enough to capture the analog resolution of amplitudes, spaces and identities that is relevant to measureable biological processes. PS: simulation, not emulation.
Question 12: Have you collaborated with any members of the AI community? Is
your project affecting the AI field?
HM: No, Blue Brain adopts a philosophy that is pretty much 180 degrees opposite to the philosophy in AI. In my view, AI is an extreme form of engineering and applied math where you try to come up with a God formula to create magical human powers. If you want to go into AI, I think you have to realize you are making the assumption that your formula will have to capture 11 billion years of evolutionary intelligence. In most cases, AI researches do not even know what a neuron is, let alone how the brain works,{www.coachoutlettote.com}, but then they don’t need to because they are searching
for something else. I don’t blame them for trying because, if you want to build clever devices today, it is much easier to ignore the brain - it is just too complex to harvest the technology of the brain. Look at speech recognition today – the best ones out there don’t use neural principles,{www.coachoutlettote.com}. Having said that, we all know how inadequate the current devices are and that is just because AI can’t even come close to what the brain can do. Blue Brain is not trying to build clever devices, it is a biological project that will reveal systematically the secret formulas operating, but Blue Brain models and simpler derivative models will gradually replace all of AI.
Question 13: Who is funding your organization? To what extent is the Blue
Brain project constrained by limited funding?
HM: The Blue Brain Project is a project of the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology (EPFL), so I get funding from the EPFL (which means from the Swiss government), my research grants (European Union, Foundations, etc), some other entities and just one special visionary donor. Sure we are limited by funding. It is a multi-billion dollar project (about the cost of one F-18 fighter jet). I have a roadmap to finish within 10 years, but the uncertainty is the funding. Naturally I think this is the most important project the human race can ever undertake because it will explain how we create our individual realities and even explain reality itself. And then there are over 2 billion people on earth trapped in a distorted reality because of brain diseases. So how long should we wait?
Question 14: What do you estimate is the likelihood that an artificial brain based
on your research will become sentient?
HM: Well, this is also a loaded question because there are many preconceptions out there. Wiki says that “sentience is the ability to feel or perceive subjectively”. Not a bad definition at first sight, but actually nature (organic and inorganic) computes, and any computation can be argued as subjective. Even a tree can be seen as making a subjective “decision”,{www.coachoutlettote.com}; about what it is responding to. Feeling and perceptions require decisions, billions of tiny decisions that have been worked out over billions of years of evolution. All feeling and perception is therefore subjective. Oxford Dictionary therefore drops this implied subjectivity and simply says that it is “the ability to feel or perceive things”. The “things” in their definition should give you a hint that they are also lost. Webster gives it a component of awareness – it must be aware it is feeling or perceiving (even slightly!). How different philosophies view “sentience” is discussed nicely on Wikipedia. Moralists tend to argue that sentience is for all those that feel pain and pleasure (which would of course exclude a Buddha since they have transcended pain and pleasure (and human morality)). Buddhists simply take sentient beings as those ones that need our love and respect and western philosophers say you are sentient if you have the “ability to experience sensations” (“qualia”). I received an email once telling me that Blue Brain will become sentient if I give it two eyes.
What you should focus on is the ultimate philosophical question: Is a simulation of a particular reality identical to the particular reality it simulates? Your answer to this question should give you your own private answer to whether Blue Brain will become sentient according to whatever definition you want to use.
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- The Blue Brain Project is not an AI project, but an attempt to unlock the mysteries of the brain. Dr. Markram is confident that Blue Brain models will eventually supplant AI.
-Knowledge of the brain is increasing exponentially. We are currently gathering as much information on the brain's structure and function each year as was gained in the entire 20th century. Neuroscientists are currently producing about 50,000 peer-reviewed articles per year. The Blue Brain project was launched in part to organize and coordinate this research.
-The Blue Brain project currently has the capability of electronically simulating 100 million neurons/100 billion synapse models, but is constrained by lack of funds to buy a sufficiently powerful computer.
-It currently requires 10-100 seconds of computer time to simulate one second of neuronal activity, but future computers should be able to simulate neurons in close to real time.
-A grid computing program to simulate and "build" individual neurons will soon be unveiled, and it will run on individual PCs as a screen saver.
- The blue brain project should result in extremely powerful "liquid computers" that can handle infinite parallelization.
Henry Markram Interview
Question 1: Tell us about the Blue Brain project.
HM: The Blue Brain Project aims to build a 21st century research facility capable of constructing and simulating computer models of the brain. Such a facility will be capable of constructing brain models across different levels of biological detail and for different animal species, ages, and diseases. The target is to be able to construct models of the human brain within about a decade. The facility will serve to aggregate, organize and unify all fragments of data and knowledge of the
brain (past and future), allow virtual experimentation to test hypotheses of brain function and dysfunction, and create a novel platform for virtualized medicine. A prototype facility has been completed, which is today capable of building any neural microcircuit or module of the brain with cellular level precision. The facility’s capability will be extended over the course of the next 10 years to building whole brain models at the subcellular, molecular and genetic levels. The facility will be accessible as an internet portal with different levels of access to provide neuroscientists with virtual laboratories, hospitals with advanced diagnostic and treatment planning facilities, clinicians with a facility to explore hypotheses of disease for specific patients, pharmaceutical companies to carry out virtual drug development, technology companies to design the next generation technologies, and for schools and institutions of higher education to take students for virtual tours into the brain’s of different animals to see and learn how the brain is designed and
function, and how it evolved, develops and then ages, and what can go wrong in different diseases. The facility will also be open for public virtual visits to allow anyone to better understand their own brain and what kind of reality it is genetically and environmentally programmed to create and to find out how they can shape the reality they create for themselves.
Question 2: You recently predicted that an artificial brain could be built within 10 years. What properties will this brain have? How closely will it resemble a human
brain?
HM: We are building brain models of different mammalian species (mouse, rat, cat, monkey) first before we reach the human brain. We do this because we need to learn how to use less and less invasive data and more and more indirect data to build human brain models. We build these models by sticking as close to biology as possible. This is done by abstracting the biological components and processes into mathematical equations and then into computer models. We do not aim at a specific function – they should all appear if we build it correctly. Computational Neuroscience over the past 50 years is a theory driven science, while Blue Brain is biology driven. When we reach the human brain, human-like perceptions and motor actions should emerge automatically. The model brains will be able to learn to do what we human’s can learn to do, perform complex decision-making, manifest emotions, intelligence and personalities. We see these all as straightforward emergent properties of the brain. Self-awareness and consciousness may also emerge if this phenomenon depends on neuronal, synaptic and/or molecular interactions. Anything that depends on the physical elements that can be measured in the brain should emerge if we are successful in building it accurately enough. If we inject some theories of brain while we build it and ignore the biology, then we are back to square one with computational neuroscience and we will almost certainly fail.
Question 3: Ray Kurzweil predicts that our understanding of the human brain is
increasing exponentially. Do you agree?
HM: Kurzweil is not entirely right nor entirely wrong, it depends on how you look at it. It is certainly true that we are generating today more data and knowledge about the brain’s structure and function probably in one year than we generated in the entire 20th century. The amount of data and knowledge about the brain that will be obtained in the 21st century is vast beyond imagination. Neuroscientists today are producing over 50’000 peer-reviewed articles in one year and growing exponentially. Machines and robotic technology can sequence and map parts of the brain at many levels that produces data thousands of time faster than any lab of the past. So yes,{www.coachoutlettote.com}, there is no doubt that we are generating a massive amount of data and knowledge about the brain, but this raises a dilemma of what the individual understands. No neuroscientists can even read more than about 200 articles per year and no neuroscientists is even remotely capable of comprehending the current pool of data and knowledge. Neuroscientists will almost certainly drown in data the 21st century. So, actually, the fraction of the known knowledge about the brain that each person has is actually decreasing(!) and will decrease even further until neuroscientists
are forced to become informaticians or robot operators. This is one of the reasons that we launched the Blue Brain Project. We need a global agenda to bring the data and knowledge together in a single working platform – a model, so that each scientist can test their tiny fragment of understanding against all data and knowledge that everyone has accumulated together. One needs to see and feel the all data and knowledge in one. I believe that unless we succeed in a project like the Blue Brain Project,{www.coachoutlettote.com}, we will never understand the brain. It is the unifying strategy, much the same way that models unified understandings in so many past revolutions in science,Coach Outlet Online Store.
Question 4: You recently completed Phase one of the Blue Brain project. What
did Phase one accomplish?
HM: The Blue Brain Project is not aiming at building just a single model, we are building an international facility that has the capability to build brain models. The facility roadmap is to gradually expand its capability and capacity to build whole brain models at ever greater levels of resolution. Over the past 4 years we built a prototype facility as a proof of concept and targeted the cellular level resolution. We also wanted to try to solve some fundamental challenges that, if we could not solve them, would mean that it is technically not be possible to build biologically realistic brain models. We solved these challenges and built the first prototype facility that can now build neural microcircuits at cellular level resolution. On our current supercomputer we can build and simulate up to 100’000 biologically detailed neurons interconnected with 10 million synapses. The facility actually has the capability of building much larger neural circuits even today (100 million neurons with 100 billion synapses), but we can’t afford to buy the big computer to simulate them. The facility is unique because it is designed in a way that the models “absorb” biological data and knowledge and continuously become as real as the available data and knowledge.
In building this facility, we already discovered some fascinating principles of how neural microcircuits are designed, how complex neural states emerge, which elements contribute to specific neural states, and we are close to testing a fundamental theory of how the brain generates a perceptual reality – the neural code.
Question 5: Is there a phase two?
HM: Of course, there are many many big phases and many more tiny steps before we reach the human brain. We are expanding the capability of the facility to build models at the sub-cellular (structures inside cells), molecular and genetic levels and we are expanding the capacity of the facility to build and simulate larger models till we reach whole brain models. Each phase needs more computing resources and a bigger team of engineers and scientists to deal with the new levels of issues.
Question 6: It takes electronic circuits about 100 seconds to emulate 1 second of
neuronal activity. How long before electronic circuits can emulate their biological counterparts in real time?
HM: Well, I am not sure where you got these numbers. Firstly, there is a difference between emulation and simulation; a neuron on a silicon chip emulates the behavior of a neuron, while a software model of a neuron simulates its behavior. We are simulating the brain, not emulating it. It it is very difficult and impossibly expensive to build even simple equations of complex neurons onto a silicon chip. The most that is possible today at the cellular level is around 50 or so neurons. These analog VLSI (aVLSI) chips can actually emulate neuronal behavior in real-time and even much faster than real-time. Because of this limit, what people mostly do is to put very simple neurons (very simplified equations) onto silicon chips. In these cases it is possible to build networks of thousands of what we call “point neurons”. There is a project called FACETS that has built a chip with over 100’000 neurons in a network which actually run the calculations 10’000 times faster than real-time. DARPA is also trying to build such chips that can run even larger neural networks with intelligent synapses. From the perspective of Blue Brain, these projects are
peripherally interesting as engineering projects that will probably build some mildly clever devices, but they do not come even close to the sophistication and capabilities of a Blue Brain model. Software models have the advantage that you can make the models as complex as you need to, but they have the draw back that they need very advanced supercomputers to get close to real-time. When we started Blue Brain, 1 second of biological time took over 1000 seconds to simulate, but we improved the software, and it now takes around 10-100 seconds. So it is still in slow motion. The future computers we are planning to build should get the simulations close to real-time.
Question 7: How many different types of neurons exist in the human brain? What, besides morphology, differentiates these neurons?
HM: There are around 400 brain regions and each brain region contains neurons with different types of morphologies. Some brain regions contain only 2 or 3 types, while others contain up to 50 types. The neocortex has 48 main types of morphologies. The average is around 5 types, so there are around 2000 different morphological types of neurons in the brain. Telling them apart however is not an entirely solved problem in neuroscience. It is like trying to mathematically describe the differences between any two trees in a forest,{www.coachoutlettote.com}. Neurons can also differ in many other ways. A very important way they differ is in their electrical “personalities”. There are about 15
classes of electrical personalities that a neuron can take on. Even neurons with the same morphology can take on different electrical personalities. The way neurons build their electrical personalities is to select which ion channels (membrane proteins that pass electrical current into the cell) are expressed by the genes. So if one looks at the genes that are switched on in neurons, then one sees that they switch on different genes to make different ion channels and by combinatorics, they create their different electrical personalities. Neurons can also differ in the
way they switch on other genes to build other types of proteins and so even neurons that look and behave the same, can process information differently. So there are actually many thousands of different types of neurons at the morphological-electrical-molecular levels. If you then also consider that each neuron is plugged into the brain in a different way, then one realizes that each of your 100 billion neurons is unique and no neuron in our brains are the same as any neuron in
anyone else’s brain. So the Blue Brain Project is trying to understand this complexity, rather than build simple models that do clever tricks.
Question 8: What is liquid computing?
HM: Let me first explain that a Turing machine is a machine that can solve any problem if the problem is given to it in discretely timed batches. So a Turing machine is a universal computer for what is called “batch processing”. But what a Turing machine can’t do is to solve problems universally while information is continuously coming in and disturbing it from finishing the operation it just started on. In other words, it can’t (without work arounds and cheating) strictly speaking solve problems presented to it on an analog time scale and produce answers on an analog time scale. A liquid computer is however a computer that can solve any problem in realtime and at any time (not discrete time). You can even call it “anytime processing”. So it is a universal theory for analog computing. You see, a big problem that the brain has, is to solve how to keep thinking about something that it just saw while the world around it never stops sending it new information. If you sent your computer continuously new information it will not be able to do anything because it can’t finish one thing before it has to start on another problem. The way liquid computing works is very much like an actual physical liquid. It makes sense of the perturbations rather than seeing them as a nuisance. We also call it high entropy computing or computing on transient states. This is a very important (but not complete) theory of how the brain works because it shows us how to tap into the vast amount of information that lies in a “surprise”. Another big challenge to understand the brain is that it is always physically changing. Your brain right now is already different from what it was just 1 hour ago, and extremely different from what it was when you were 10 years old. So, because your brain is constantly different and because every moment in your life is potentially (hopefully) also novel, there is a very good chance that most of the time, the responses produced in your brain are new to you (to your neurons) - never “seen” before. So if the brain produces a response that it never “experienced” before, how does it know what it means? The state that your brain is in right now, never happened before so how can your brain make sense of states it never saw before and connect them to all your moments before? Liquid computing provides a partial explanation for this problem by showing that the same state never actually needs to reoccur in the brain for you to make sense of the states – that is why we also call it computing on transient states. Liquid computing can in principle solve any problem instantaneously and keep solving them in real-time and with infinite parallelization. But, it is very difficult to build a good liquid computer. One of the benefits of Blue Brain is that it will be able to design and build extremely powerful liquid computers.
Question 9: The Blue Brain project is constrained by the lack of available computing power,Coach Factory Outlet. Have you considered initiating a distributed computing project, along the lines of the protein folding or SETI projects?
HM: Indeed, CERN is our neighbor and they invented GRID computing. But, there are different limits for distributed computing. The brain is a perfect democracy and no neuron can make a decision without first listening to thousands of others, so interconnect is critical. GRID computing is not ideal for brain simulations. But what we are doing is to build a Blue GRID to help us build and analyze neurons because one just needs many processors working independently. Building biologically realistic neurons is even more challenging than simulating them, but this does not need supercomputing - it needs distributed computing. We call project the “Adopt a Neuron Project” and it will soon go live. Anyone will be able to adopt a neuron and have it work as a screen saver while helping us build and analyze the neurons.
Question 10: Your Blue Gene/L supercomputer is vital to the research. Do you have plans to augment or replace the Blue Gene/L supercomputer with a more powerful model?
HM: Already done. Blue Gene/L is history - we now have a Blue Gene/P supercomputer. This allows us to make the step to molecular level resolution for the models.
Question 11: It appears that the brain incorporates hybrid digital-analogue computing techniques. To what extent can these techniques be emulated by a purely digital computer?
HM: This is a complex question that can’t be answered properly here. The issue is actually multidimensional because digital vs analog computation pertains to discretization of space, time, amplitude and identities of the elements. To track the configuration changes of molecules is still reasonable, but to track every atom takes too many digital time steps to do it for long. So it is not yet too serious a barrier for molecular level simulations, but to simulate every atom’s position and movement in the brain will require the super-quantum computers of the 22nd century. In short, numerical precision of digital computers is good enough to capture the analog resolution of amplitudes, spaces and identities that is relevant to measureable biological processes. PS: simulation, not emulation.
Question 12: Have you collaborated with any members of the AI community? Is
your project affecting the AI field?
HM: No, Blue Brain adopts a philosophy that is pretty much 180 degrees opposite to the philosophy in AI. In my view, AI is an extreme form of engineering and applied math where you try to come up with a God formula to create magical human powers. If you want to go into AI, I think you have to realize you are making the assumption that your formula will have to capture 11 billion years of evolutionary intelligence. In most cases, AI researches do not even know what a neuron is, let alone how the brain works,{www.coachoutlettote.com}, but then they don’t need to because they are searching
for something else. I don’t blame them for trying because, if you want to build clever devices today, it is much easier to ignore the brain - it is just too complex to harvest the technology of the brain. Look at speech recognition today – the best ones out there don’t use neural principles,{www.coachoutlettote.com}. Having said that, we all know how inadequate the current devices are and that is just because AI can’t even come close to what the brain can do. Blue Brain is not trying to build clever devices, it is a biological project that will reveal systematically the secret formulas operating, but Blue Brain models and simpler derivative models will gradually replace all of AI.
Question 13: Who is funding your organization? To what extent is the Blue
Brain project constrained by limited funding?
HM: The Blue Brain Project is a project of the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology (EPFL), so I get funding from the EPFL (which means from the Swiss government), my research grants (European Union, Foundations, etc), some other entities and just one special visionary donor. Sure we are limited by funding. It is a multi-billion dollar project (about the cost of one F-18 fighter jet). I have a roadmap to finish within 10 years, but the uncertainty is the funding. Naturally I think this is the most important project the human race can ever undertake because it will explain how we create our individual realities and even explain reality itself. And then there are over 2 billion people on earth trapped in a distorted reality because of brain diseases. So how long should we wait?
Question 14: What do you estimate is the likelihood that an artificial brain based
on your research will become sentient?
HM: Well, this is also a loaded question because there are many preconceptions out there. Wiki says that “sentience is the ability to feel or perceive subjectively”. Not a bad definition at first sight, but actually nature (organic and inorganic) computes, and any computation can be argued as subjective. Even a tree can be seen as making a subjective “decision”,{www.coachoutlettote.com}; about what it is responding to. Feeling and perceptions require decisions, billions of tiny decisions that have been worked out over billions of years of evolution. All feeling and perception is therefore subjective. Oxford Dictionary therefore drops this implied subjectivity and simply says that it is “the ability to feel or perceive things”. The “things” in their definition should give you a hint that they are also lost. Webster gives it a component of awareness – it must be aware it is feeling or perceiving (even slightly!). How different philosophies view “sentience” is discussed nicely on Wikipedia. Moralists tend to argue that sentience is for all those that feel pain and pleasure (which would of course exclude a Buddha since they have transcended pain and pleasure (and human morality)). Buddhists simply take sentient beings as those ones that need our love and respect and western philosophers say you are sentient if you have the “ability to experience sensations” (“qualia”). I received an email once telling me that Blue Brain will become sentient if I give it two eyes.
What you should focus on is the ultimate philosophical question: Is a simulation of a particular reality identical to the particular reality it simulates? Your answer to this question should give you your own private answer to whether Blue Brain will become sentient according to whatever definition you want to use.
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Flare magazine August 2011 issue
"August issues of fashion magazines start featuring this fall’s new trends, and Flare magazine is, of course, no exception. This month’s issue presents us an extended report of fall trends, in an alphabetical manner the alphabet of style.Some of the most popular trends for the upcoming fall season are prone to be:Abstract Print. Artful patterns ran the gamut from spirited geometric shapes to detailed botanical motifs. Etro,Jonathan Saunders, Marni.Balenciaga Inspired. Fluid designs with domed sleeves and cocoon silhouettes spoke to master couturier Cristobal Balenciaga’s legacy of radical elegance. Burberry, Jil Sander, Thom Browne.Colour Crazy. This season’s multi-dimensional colour theory referenced every inch of the rainbow. No hue goes unchecked: brights, icy pastels and rich jewel tones were all in brilliant attendance. Givenchy, Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and many other designers.Dots. Exaggerated spots reached a higher circle when splashed across sophisticated silhouettes. 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Power flowers unexpectedly bloomed one cold-weather cover-ups and calf-skimming skirts. Balenciaga, Cacharel, Erdem.X-treme Heels. Fantastical footwear got a leg up with trompe l’oeil touches and eye-catching embellishment. Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Burberry, Miu Miu.Yesterday. Fashion’s trip down memory lane detoured at 1940s elegance before cruising into the swinging sixties. Bottega Veneta, Miu Miu, Prada.Zoology. Fashion proved to be a wild world, with all things feral stalking the runway. Anna Sui, Carven, Givenchy.Besides the alphabetical style report, this month’s issue of Flare magazine also reports on Toronto Fashion Incubator designer contest New Labels that took place in Toronto earlier this year, on April 14th 2011. Among the Judges of the New Labels contest were important personalities from Toronto’s fashion scene, like designer David Dixon or Flare’s Editor-in-Chief Lisa Tant. The winning contestant is designer Golnaz Ashtiany, 27.One of the evergreen trends featured in this issue is the Indigo trend. Jeans will never go out of style.This month’s cover girl is Mila Kunis, an up-and-coming Hollywood star, whom we know from such movies as Black Swan and Friends with Benefits."
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Four tips for finding the perfect ballroom dance c
"Finding the right ballroom dance costume can feel like a daunting task at first, but with a bit of guidance anyone with any body type can find that perfect fit. With shows such as 'Dancing with the Stars,' ballroom dance has made a huge comeback once again and with this it has been brought into the realm of pop culture. In the late nineties, ballroom dance had also made a splash with the famous Gap ad campaigns featuring models swing dancing with choreographed routines wearing Gap apparel. These types of televised promotions have always had an impact on how the masses feel about ballroom dancing and rally folks to desire giving it a try.Whether you are new to ballroom dancing or have been practicing for some time, choosing a costume for an upcoming public performance is extremely important. Here you will find four tips to help you along your journey:View slideshow:Ballroom dance costumesColor: When choosing color, there are several factors to take into account. If performing a Latin routine, color combinations such as red, black, and white can be very striking. Or if a waltz is on the agenda, softer shades like powder blue or baby pink work very well. Some no fail color schemes that professional ballroom dancers utilize time and time again are splashes of vibrant neon, which also look great against tan skin. Adornments are often a plus and will project that 'wow' factor on the ballroom dance floor. Some adornments dancers utilize are rhinestones, pave crystals, Swarovski crystals, and for softer costumes, feathers work really well. Consider your music choice and think about the emotion or impact you want to make on your audience through color.Cut for confidence: The cut of a costume is extremely important, because performers need confidence on the dance floor. Conveying emotion is a key element to the success of a performance and if the dancer is concerned about her costume not fitting properly, this will no doubt affect the overall reaction from the audience or if in a competition, even worse, the judges. This is why so many performers make use of a professional tailor or designer, so that they can get that perfect fit. It is also why many do not order online or from a catalog without trying on their garment first as some retailers have a no return policy and this can be very costly financially and to the performance.Comfortable for movement: The fabric that a ballroom dance costume is made from should be stretchy and easy to move around in. Most costumes will be sewn from Lycra,【Christian Louboutin Maggie 140mmhttp://www.christianlouboutinbeauty.com/christian-louboutin-maggie-140mm-p-1602.html】, spandex, chiffon, or silk. Due to the athletic nature of dancing, all dancers wear dance pants under their costumes if in fact it is a dress. Dance pants are not pants exactly, they are the modern word for the more traditional term, 'bloomers.' Dance pants ensure that during a performance there are not any peek-a-boo moments.Clarity of movement: What does the word 'clarity' mean? By definition the word means ""clearness of movement."" Although some gowns may be long, especially when performing a waltz, the cut needs to remain tea length barely brushing the bottom portion of the calf muscles. This is done so that the movement of the legs and feet can be seen. Likewise, this is why many dresses are cut shorter and tighter to accomplish the visibility of the body and the dance movements. Andrea Sawatzki and Stefano Terrazzino perform during the 'Let's Dance' TV show at Coloneum on March 23, 2011 in Cologne, Germany. Photo credit: Photo by Friedemann Vogel/Getty Images Video: Tips for choosing a ballroom dance costumeThe most important tip to remember is that ballroom dancing is meant for entertainment, therefore each dancer should feel confident in their costume choice. If the performers are having fun, the audience will as well and this is what it is all about. If assistance is needed in costume choice, ask a dance instructor or a ballroom dance designer for expert advice in finding the right costume for any unique needs. Suggested by the author: Fashion stylist to the stars, Marina BerberyanPark Lane Jewelry creates sparkle in Little RockJamileh Kamran School of Fashion Romas by Linda Rowe Thomas is full of flavor for fall/winter 2011Raul Torres es muy fabuloso"
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US Nuclear industry staffing levels
Dealing with staffing reductions.
Getting nuclear engineering enrollment to 2000-4000 would turn out 700-1400 graduates per year who would help to stablize and eventually increase the nuclear workforce. GE and other companies could step up and offer more scholarships and incentives to further increase enrollment and provide university endowments to created new programs. Get enrollment up to 8000 and 2800/year graduates should be produced. Increase to 16,000 enrolled for 5600/year in graduates. Increase to 32,000 enrolled for 10,200/year in graduates. There are 104 plants in the USA now and with 800 people per plant the staffing level must be 83,000. Of those 60,000 have special industry skills. In 2017, if the increased training and recruitment programs restore the workforce to 60,000 people and the staffing requirements for old plants are brought to 20% less and new plants only need 400 skilled staff then 30 new plants could be adequately staffed. Further recruitment and training would allow for more industry growth. 300 plants by 2030 in the USA with 400 skilled staff per plant would require 120,000 people. In the 2010-2020 timeframe the number of graduates would need to increase to the 5600/year-10,200/year levels.
FURTHER READING
The nine components of nuclear plants which have limited suppliers are being built up by Areva and South Korea and others. So there will be more suppliers of currently limited parts. New factories to make things you need can be started.
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The number nuclear engineers being trained is increasing, college programs are being expanded or restarted and companies like General electric have initiated agressive recruitment programs. There is also the significant changes via design and management processes that are reducing staffing requirements per operating plant. There are 60,000 skilled nuclear workers and 20,000 of them could retire over the next five years, plus thousands more will be needed for new plants in the USA and around the world,Coach Outlet.
levels for different modern nuclear plant designs. Avg nuclear plant staffing levels were 1000-1200 in the mid-90s (already down from 1970s and 1980s when it was about 1500 people per plant). New designs with staffing levels of 440-700 would reduce the staffing needs further. While there has been staff reductions all of the safety and operational metrics have been improving for the last three decades. Avg staffing levels are now at about 790-800 people,{www.coachoutlettote.com}.
Since staff costs typically account for more than half of a plant’s O&M cost, reducing staff should reduce O&M costs. Design concepts for new plants have focused on reducing the operations burden and thereby reducing staff, which leads to staff reduction and should ultimately lower operating costs.
This study used a task-based approach to determinine plant staff requirements for specific plant operation tasks,Coach Factory Outlet. Starting with the staffing profile of a top-rated plant (North Anna), the study team reviewed the details of the new designs to determine if the advances in technology and information reporting would reduce overall staffing levels. Each task associated with plant operation was taken into account. A staff model was developed for each reactor type,Coach Outlet Online Store. This model maintains an adequate staff level to meet regulatory and best practice requirements.
The first new plants built in the United States will rely heavlily on current operational practices to ensure that the lessons learned over the more than 30 years of plant operation will be applied to the newest generation of plants. Therefore, for the purposes of this study, the organizational structure from the current operating philosophy was maintained. Although current staff structures differ between operating companies, they have a single overall goal—to reduce human error and equipment failure in all phases of plant operation and safety and to ensure an overall high operating capacity factor.
The staffing estimates used in this study include the onsite plant staff as well as additional staff that would be needed in the corporate office to support the additional units. These estimates also include corporate office support staff, which includes the staff who provide fuel design and procurement, safety analysis support, major modification development, and other more generic activities.
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Once base power rates were established through public utility commissions, opportunities for cost reductions through labor savings became available. By the mid-1980s, U.S. nuclear plant operators began looking for opportunities to reduce cost through staffing reductions. The next major adjustment in personnel levels in the U.S. began in mid 1990s with programs to "right size" the employee workforce. While effectively improving performance in terms of capacity factor, safety performance, and reduced refuel outage durations, U.S. NPPs began to consistently reduce employee staffing levels. Since 1997 average U.S. NPP staffing levels have dropped by more than 15%. These reductions appear to have recently leveled off.
As part of the reduction of total staff, along with the technical nature and training requirements for operating NPPs, employee skills set have become very focused. To offset this situation, most U.S. NPPs proactively encourage rotation and cross training of staff. This approach provides "bench strength" to provide additional personnel with experience and/or training while maintaining lower overall staffing levels.
Consolidation of NPPs into operating fleets has had a beneficial impact on developing and maintaining key knowledge.
Dealing with staffing reductions.
Getting nuclear engineering enrollment to 2000-4000 would turn out 700-1400 graduates per year who would help to stablize and eventually increase the nuclear workforce. GE and other companies could step up and offer more scholarships and incentives to further increase enrollment and provide university endowments to created new programs. Get enrollment up to 8000 and 2800/year graduates should be produced. Increase to 16,000 enrolled for 5600/year in graduates. Increase to 32,000 enrolled for 10,200/year in graduates. There are 104 plants in the USA now and with 800 people per plant the staffing level must be 83,000. Of those 60,000 have special industry skills. In 2017, if the increased training and recruitment programs restore the workforce to 60,000 people and the staffing requirements for old plants are brought to 20% less and new plants only need 400 skilled staff then 30 new plants could be adequately staffed. Further recruitment and training would allow for more industry growth. 300 plants by 2030 in the USA with 400 skilled staff per plant would require 120,000 people. In the 2010-2020 timeframe the number of graduates would need to increase to the 5600/year-10,200/year levels.
FURTHER READING
The nine components of nuclear plants which have limited suppliers are being built up by Areva and South Korea and others. So there will be more suppliers of currently limited parts. New factories to make things you need can be started.
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The conflict in Syria is no longer considered a purely internal matter. It clearly has regional ramifications. Thus I believe Turkey's aim to secure its border is inextricably linked with regime change. Its increased military operations may stem from a calculus that it would accelerate the Assad regime's demise. The Turkish parliament's assent for its troops to conduct operations inside Syria is not merely a symbolic attempt to bolster Turkish pride while responding to domestic political pressure over the Syrian attacks. It gives its armed forces the ability to do more than defend its borders.
London (CNN) -- It would be a mistake to write off threats of war against Syria from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as mere bluster, assuming that Turkey will maintain the status quo in valuing its relationship with the United States on one hand, while resisting Iran's hegemonic ambitions on the other.
Yet Washington and its NATO allies could now be forced to place a significant number of troops on the ground to prevent the proliferation of Syria's stockpile of chemical and biological weapons. The Obama administration has resigned itself to wishful thinking assuming, as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has done,s in the wake of the toppling of the Assad regime. In a vacuum of governance dominated by Islamists, this may become a proliferation nightmare,Coach Outlet.
The Assad regime knows its time is limited as the rate of military and intelligence officers defecting to Jordan and Turkey increases in momentum. Rebel attacks are inching closer to the heart of the Assad regime, such as the in the Damascus suburb of Harasta. This contributes to the regime's recklessness in firing upon Turkey with impunity.
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The shift towards conflict with Syria is characterized by the kind of strategic shift in the region that we've seen before with Turkey. Erdogan was initially reluctant to impose sanctions on Iran and is now embracing EU sanctions on Tehran. The Turkish premier was also supportive of Iran's nuclear ambitions all the while seeking to downgrade relations with Tehran's nemesis, Israel. Now it is aligning itself with the Sunni bloc, including Gulf states and Jordan against Iran and its Syrian proxy. This could prompt an Iranian military response and in turn instigate another spike in oil prices.
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The U.S., realistically the only nation with the necessary military and logistical capability, could easily have prevented the refugee crisis that has heightened the prospect of conflict with Turkey. Its wariness to arm rebels was to prevent blowback from the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and other empowered Islamists in Syria. Yet the protracted conflict there has generated a kaleidoscopic civil-war and vacuum of governance across much of Syria that has attracted Islamists, , enabling it to infiltrate the ranks of the opposition and gain support in the wake of its attacks on Syrian military and government installations.
The longer the Syrian civil war continues, the greater the prospect of regional sectarian tensions emerging along Sunni-Shiite fault-lines. This could result in a Middle Eastern Cold War between regional powerhouses Saudi Arabia,Coach Factory Outlet, with its mainly Sunni population, and the Shiite-dominated Iranians.
Yet with the UN's extensive history of paying lip service to upholding the values of human rights while ignoring genocide in Rwanda, Sudan, Balkans and Iraq, its dismissive manner towards the current massacres taking place on a daily basis in Syria should come as no surprise. There are estimates that up to 50,000 people have been killed, with up to two million people internally displaced since the conflict started. The U.N,{www.coachoutlettote.com}. claims that 300,000 Syrians have fled the country.
The recent cross-border confrontation could ignite regional convulsions as Turkey is sucked into Syria, leading to belated actions on the part of the international community.
It is also likely that NATO may assist Turkey -- a member state -- with the defense of its 560-mile border,http://www.coachoutlettote.com/, creating a de facto humanitarian buffer zone, where the Syrian opposition could have a command post. However, this risks escalating the conflict into a NATO-led mission outside the framework of the U.N. Security Council -- the kind of interventionist measure Russia and China would oppose as they did in Libya.
The U.S. and its NATO allies could also have prevented much bloodshed by using air power to target the Assad regime's military apparatus. and would be overstretched if forced to respond to external military pressure.
While the U.S. is keen on winding down its involvement in the Middle East to refocus its attention on Asia, Syria may be the instigator that sucks it back into the region for another decade to manage a second Cold War.
Editor's note: An Associate Middle East Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London, Barak M. Seener has written extensively about Middle East issues, including the Arab Spring, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Israel's defense and security policies, and the Palestinianization of Israeli Arabs.
Meanwhile, The Obama administration's apparent strategy of "leading from behind" is an excuse for its dithering over the Syrian humanitarian crisis. Similarly, the United Nations' inaction over the crisis results from a deadlock at the Security Council, with China and Russia opposed to any intervention -- implausibly advocating that the rebels conduct dialogue with a murderous regime.
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MarketWatch reported that some refiners said their fuel sales in April had fallen by as much as 4% from March as high prices prompted consumers driving less. As refiners cut their run rate due to lower gasoline demand, the resulted sliding refinery utilization rate--82.8% as of April 29 as compared with 89.6% same period a year ago--has created a diverging supply side fundamental between crude oil and gasoline,Coach Outlet, which is more bullish for gasoline, and bearish for crude oil.
Although this week started off with some sign of stabilization, the heavy selling and volatility resumed mid week. The deep slide for commodities, including crude and gasoline, could be partly attributed to the reverberation from a recent wave of margin requirement increases amid volatility and price run-up in commodities.
Crude oil weakness also came from some bearish reports that hit the market this week. EIA data showed that gasoline inventories had its first weekly increase (1.3 million barrels) in about three months, while crude oil stockpiles continued to build. The IEA (International Energy Agency),Coach Outlet Online Store, citing “$4/gallon gasoline is likely to yield an anemic US driving season,” also said the oil demand in North America would fall by 194,000 barrels per day in 2011, a downward revision by 220,000 b/d.
Another factor holding up gasoline prices is the flooding of Mississippi River. Rising water levels and heavy rains are causing fuel transportation disruptions in tankers, barges and pipeline closures, which reportedly has already contributed to higher pump prices in certain parts of the Southeast and Midwest regions. About 14% of total U.S. refining capacity is located in regions affected by the rising Mississippi River. Concern about disruptions of fuel helped boost wholesale gasoline prices.
EIA projected that gasoline demand is likely to increase by just 0,Coach Factory Outlet.2% in the peak summer driving season this year. However, with Memorial weekend, the traditional kickoff of the summer driving season, just two weeks away, and as the current gasoline stocks are very low by historical standard, plus Mississippi River flooding further complicating the picture, consumers may not see a real relief at the pump till the end of summer driving season in September, assuming no huge price spikes coming form crude oil.
Nevertheless, some factors as outlined below would bring continued downward price pressure for both WTI crude oil and RBOB gasoline, particularly in the second half of this year, barring geopolitical and hurricane events.
Dian L. Chu, is a market analyst at EconMatters.
With the record retreat in crude oil prices, many consumers are expecting ‘some big retail price drops’ in time for Memorial Day weekend. After all, crude oil accounts for more than two thirds (68.3%) of the price in a gallon of gasoline as of March 2011, according to the U.S. Energy Department.
The Reuters Jefferies CRB Index is down 8% so far in May with almost every single commodity in the index registering red. Even the ongoing geopolitical tension in the Middle East and North Africa has not been able to shield the ever bullish crude oil from the commodity rout. Both Nymex WTI and ICE Brent suffered heavy losses.
•Various forecasts of slower global GDP and oil demand growth
•Signs of demand destruction in response to high energy prices
•The end of QE2 in June
•Stronger dollar due to ongoing debt problems in Europe
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In the two weeks ending Friday, May 13,{www.coachoutlettote.com}, Brent dropped about 10% to close at $113.83 a barrel on ICE, while WTI plunged 12% to $99.65 a barrel at Nymex, and RBOB gasolne futures for June also lost 8% to around $3.0766 a gallon.
For now, both crude oil and gasoline are momentum driven. From a technical perspective, most of the indicators are bearish for both commodities as the six-month long uptrend has been broken (See Charts Above).
Crude oil and gasoline prices typically trend in tandem on the same set of market fundamentals, but this time around, the decoupling of gasoline and crude oil would mean gasoline prices may be harder to drop.
That is, while crude oil stockpiles continue to build pressuring WTI, gasoline inventories and are now 21.4 million barrels lower than a year ago and could dip below the normal range before the start of the summer driving season (see chart below). Days of gasoline supply also dropped to 22.9 days vs. 24.1 days from a year ago.
Moreover, pump prices typically react a lot faster to spikes than to declines in oil prices. In a guest post at EconMatters, Bob van der Valk, a petroleum industry analyst, estimates the lower oil price may not show up at the pump for up to eight weeks vs. within the first two weeks in the case of oil price spikes.
The price tumble was big enough to trigger a five-minute halt in trading of crude oil, heating oil and gasoline for the first time in over two years on Wednesday. May 11 at CME electronic trading platform.
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Looking ahead, crude oil price may be hinged upon gasoline for the remainder of this year. That is, WTI prices may get support if there are continued draws on the gasoline inventory signaling stronger fuel demand. In the next 3 months or so, some drawdowns of crude inventories could be expected as refiners increase run rate to replenish the low gasoline inventory amid peak demand season, which should also provide support to crude oil price as well.
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CME Group already raised margin requirements on several energy products, and announced a second hike for gasoline futures effective Thursday, May 12. Increased margin requirement could trigger liquidation contagion as traders may need to sell their profitable positions in other commodities or equities to raise cash in order to meet the new limits.
Compared with crude oil, RBOB gasoline looks overpriced thus more vulnerable to larger percentage falls.
If WTI breaks below the $95 support levels, it could drop to around $90 or even below. For RBOB gasoline, the $3.00 support should hold through August, but after the driving season ends, and if it breaks $3.00 a gallon, the next support level would be around $2.80 levels.
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"In England, I really don't understand how come so many young players from the age of 16-21 pull out of the national team for injury.
Nasri swore at a reporter following France's Euro 2012 quarter-final defeat by Spain after previously telling another journalist to "Shut your mouth!" in their opening match against England when he had scored.
"But clubs like City, Manchester United and Chelsea will also always try and sign the exceptional player," added Vieira, when asked if the English Premier League champions were no longer interested in signing players such as Atletico Madrid striker Falcao, who is expected to leave the Spanish club next summer.
Vieira's view that young English players were somewhat ambivalent about playing for their country might give the FA pause for thought.
(CNN) -- Pele, Diego Maradona and Franz Beckenbaeur will forever be remembered in football fans' consciousness for helping Brazil, Argentina and West Germany win the World Cup.
In deciding how their academy should be run, City traveled round the world to look at examples of other successful academies as well as how other sports develop young talented players.
"We want to bring our young players from the academy through to the first team," said Vieira. "It's important as the fans really identify with these players and this is the philosophy of the club.
City have their own ambitious plans for a new training academy, which Vieira described as "unbelievable".
That trio symbolized the idea that international football -- pitting the game's very best players against one another -- was the pinnacle of a footballer's career.
"His non-selection is a surprise," said Vieira, who was speaking at the Leaders in Football Conference in London on Wednesday. "I'm sure he will go back to the national team."
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has long argued that the European Champions League is the best competition in the world, surpassing even the World Cup, but Vieira insisted: "The national team is bigger than anything and I was really proud to play for France."
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"It doesn't guarantee success and it might take 10 to 15 years," said the former Arsenal, Inter Milan and Manchester City midfielder.
The former French international argued a key part of his development as a player was linked to the time he spent with the French national team, in particular learning from the example of more experienced players such as Marcel Desailly and Didier Deschamps, the current les bleus coach.
"When I grew up in France, I wanted to play for the French national team. That was my target, my dream."
The project, which will boast 15 full-size and two half-size football pitches as well as accommodation for 40 youth-team players, will contain a 7,000-capacity stadium for youth team matches, a separate building for the first team and a bridge linking the Etihad Stadium to the area -- which will be known as the Etihad Campus.
City particularly liked the way aspiring NBA players spent much of their day within an academy environment, which helps them "to learn how to behave as an individual", said Vieira.
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However, Vieira urged patience for the positive effects of the St George's Park initiative to trickle down.
On Tuesday the Football Association opened its elite football facility -- the $168-million St. George's Park complex -- which it hopes can help pave the way for the national team to win a major international tournament for the first time since 1966.
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"When you stop and think about it, that's amazing," Reyes says.
It's a philosophy which Federer shares, Haas thinks.
Ten months on, Federer has a further six titles under his belt, and heads towards November's season-ending ATP World Tour Finals with just his own records as the oldest winner and six-time champion to beat.
"He's a world-class athlete. He knows exactly what he is doing. He prepares as well as anyone out there ... he doesn't second guess many things, so I'm not really surprised."
Reyes thinks the next generation of tennis stars will reap the benefits of improving sports science but does not envisage too many current players emulating Agassi, with one notable exception, perhaps.
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The American's latter playing years were the most fruitful of his career with five of his eight grand slams won after his 29th birthday. He was also world no.1 at the age of 33.
From his perch at the summit of the world rankings -- which he reclaimed after winning Wimbledon -- Federer surveys a.
, the feted long-time fitness coach (and friend) to Andre Agassi, says Federer is just a class apart.
Technological advances and the physically demanding nature of the modern game have caught up with players less gifted and younger than Federer, says Reyes, leading to lots of wear and tear.
London (CNN) -- In a career already groaning under the weight of titles and accolades, Roger Federer joined another exclusive list of tennis luminaries when he beat Andy Murray in this year's Wimbledon final.
The 31-year-olds, ranked 35 and 37 respectively, have both won tournaments this year -- the Finn winning the Apia International in Sydney in January while Melzer took the Memphis title the following month.
The Swiss champion isn't the only one enjoying a resurgence in the autumn of his career.
"I can say, honestly, that he was, if not the strongest player on the tour, one of the strongest. Playing to 36 in this day's game it takes a lot."
"Maybe 30 is the new 20," the German told CNN's Open Court, not entirely in jest.
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"You know, I think a lot of the guys are becoming so much more professional ... everybody is looking more at how physical the game has gotten and how important it is to stay healthy and fit," Haas said.
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"I'll be 35 in Rio. I think it's possible, but we'll see how it goes," Federer told CNN.
With players hitting that ball harder than ever, there is simply less time to play the next shot, he says.
Germany's Tommy Haas, who turned 34 in April, is currently the oldest player in the top 25. The former world no.2, whose career has been plagued by injuries, started this season outside the top 200, but has shot up the rankings this year to a current high of 21 in the rankings.
After dispatching the then 23-year-old Juan Martin del Potro in the final of the ATP Tour event in Rotterdam last February, Federer said he hoped to be around for another "three, five, six years."
Strength was the key to Agassi's enduring success, Reyes believes,http://www.pradahandbagoutletonline.com, who recalls "a rather slender fellow" when they first met in 1989. But together they devised a fitness program tailored to the stresses and movements Agassi experienced on court.
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The rise was helped, in part, by last June.
Five places below the Swiss is Spain's David Ferrer (who turned 30 in February) while lower down lie Jarkko Nieminen from Finland and Austria's Jurgen Melzer.
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"If we were doing certain running drills, he would say: 'I don't feel that on my legs the way I do on the tennis court.' That was beautiful because then he would leave it to me to come up with the training," Reyes said.
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"You're going to be out of position unless you redirect your body very forcefully and very violently, and that's just taking its toll on our knees and our hips. So you have to counter that and prepare your body for the game," Reyes said.
"Thirty, at the end of the day, is really just a number ... If you really love something and you want to do it the right way,Prada Handbag Outlet, why not do it until you really know you can't do it anymore."
Only Andre Agassi (at the Australian Open in 2001 and 2003) and Pete Sampras (U.S. Open 2002) have achieved the feat this century suggesting that, more than ever, modern tennis is a game which favors the power, agility and the sheer exuberance of youth.
Reyes would also tailor gym work depending on the playing surface -- the high bounce at Roland Garros requiring different strength training to the skiddy low bounce of the All England Club's grass courts.
"Roger is a perfect athlete -- his movement,Prada Handbag Online, his game, his mental, his physical. There's Roger and then there's everyone else," Reyes said.
At the start of the year, a back injury forced Federer out of the Qatar Open in Doha. It was only his second withdrawal during a tournament in his career and prompted speculation that 2012 might be a year of diminishing returns for the great champion.
And following his silver medal at the Olympic tennis tournament in August he reiterated that wish.
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The embattled Syrian government denounced the grounding of the aircraft, calling the incident an example of "air piracy."
"They swam through the Orontes River," said a Turkish government official, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to discuss border security with the media. The Orontes makes up part of the border between Turkey and Syria.
Both countries have frozen diplomatic ties. This month, escalating tensions flared yet again, when Syrian artillery killed two women and three children in the Turkish border town of Akcakale. Since then, Turkey and Syria have repeatedly engaged in artillery duels along the 900-kilometer (560-mile) border dividing the two countries.
Unlike last week's unexpected grounding of a Syrian passenger plane flying from Moscow to Damascus, the inspection of the Armenian airplane appeared to have been agreed upon ahead of time by Armenian and Turkish authorities.
Turkey's prime minister has backed the Syrian opposition and provided a staging ground for rebels, while repeatedly calling on Syria's president to step down.
"They wanted to escape from the fighting," he said, adding that the 12 Syrian troops were being kept at a separate location from other camps housing refugees and defectors.
The Armenian cargo was eventually allowed to fly on to Syria after remaining grounded and searched in Turkey for at least five hours.
"We provided a license for use of our airspace provided they first make a 'technical landing.' "
Turkey's Foreign Ministry confirmed to CNN Turkish media reports that at least 12 Syrian soldiers, running away from clashes with Syrian rebels, escaped across the border and surrendered to Turkish border guards.
"An Armenian civilian cargo aircraft requested overflight permission from Yerevan to Aleppo," explained Selcuk Unal, a spokesman for Turkey's Foreign Ministry.
Istanbul (CNN) -- For the second time in a week, Turkish officials searched a civilian airplane headed to Syria in what appears to be the enforcement of a new Turkish air blockade against the Syrian government.
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On Monday, Turkey's prime minister defended the decision to confiscate cargo from the Syrian plane.
"We are exercising our sovereign right," Unal added.
Also on Monday, the European Union added to Syria's growing isolation by announcing a 19th round of sanctions against the regime. One of the punitive measures bans Syrian Arab Airlines planes from all European Union airports.
Damascus has accused the Turkish government of arming and funding "terrorists."
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"This comes in addition to an existing ban on Syrian cargo flights," the EU Council announced in a news release.
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But over the weekend, a new kind of "refugee" fled to Turkey.
In the wake of the search and confiscation of the Syrian plane cargo, both Turkey and Syria have closed their airspace to each others' aircraft.
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ATP chief executive Brad Drewett added: "We welcome the increase in prize money for the 2013 Australian Open and acknowledge the ongoing efforts of Tennis Australia to recognise the role of the players in the success of the tournament.
Wood revealed that officials will seek the views of ATP Tour players regarding the breakdown of the prize purse to make sure lower ranked players received greater compensation for their efforts.
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"We are proud to announce this major increase in prize money," Tennis Australia chief executive Steve Wood told the official website of the grand slam event.
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Big Red Invitational, Nov. 2-4, Sun Valley Lanes. The only “at-home” match of the season for the University of Nebraska women’s bowling team,Prada Handbag Online.
This schedule represents a smorgasbord of pin competition, and with high school bowling stirring toward November, offers the bowler (and spectator) a great variety of competition for the first half of the bowling season. Best of luck on the lanes to everyone this season!
Lincoln USBC Women’s City Tournament, Oct. 13-14, 21 and 28, Hollywood Bowl. The women’s association tournament has been held yearly since its inception in 1935.
The Sun Valley Lanes tournament will follow on the heels of another area PBA regional. The PBA Midwest Region Thunderbowl Open is slated Sept. 5-7 at Thunderbowl in Council Bluffs, Iowa. This regional will also feature a parallel senior event for players age 50 and older. A Friday-through-Sunday schedule of events similar to the Qubica Open will be followed. Check The Nebraska Bowler or for more information.
27th Annual Bud Light Capital City Matchgames, Nov. 18, Sun Valley Lanes. The crown jewel of local scratch singles bowling tournaments. The defending champion is Michael Snell of Omaha, formerly of Lincoln.
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Hindsight shows it was a monumental victory in the program's history.
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"I've never felt very comfortable here," he said. "I felt when I took over for Bob (Devaney after the 1972 season) that it would be uphill. I thought it would be difficult to last more than five years."
"Yet that was the nature of the deal here," Osborne said in 2007.
Osborne often has said he almost didn't see a fifth year at Nebraska, such was the heat on him at the end of the 1976 season.
After assessing the 1968 season, Devaney turned to Osborne, the offensive ends coach at the time, to redesign the offense. Positive results were almost immediate.
History shows it's a good thing for Nebraska that Osborne and Devaney avoided the chopping block.
Tom Osborne uttered a statement late in the 1994 season that might resonate with whoever happens to be leading the Nebraska football program.
His first four teams at Nebraska went 9-2-1, 9-3, 10-2 and 9-3-1. That fourth squad ended the 1976 season with a 27-24 triumph against Texas Tech in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl. It seemed a rather mundane triumph.
It feels like a crucial time in Pelini's tenure at Nebraska. There's increasing pressure and scrutiny,Coach Outlet. There's a new boss in town. There's discomfort. Goes with the territory, as Osborne and Devaney would attest.
Following a 12-0 loss to Kansas State in November of 1968, Devaney quipped famously, "I know the fans are with me, win or tie."
Five national championships -- two by Devaney (1970 and 1971) and three by Osborne (1994, 1995 and 1997) -- suggest patience may indeed be a virtue, even when it comes to the decision to either fire or retain a head coach.
Devaney felt significant heat in 1968 at the tail end of his second straight 6-4 season. At that point,http://www.coachfactorysale-outlet.com/, he was in the seventh of 11 seasons as Husker coach.
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Nebraska is a wonderfully unique program in several ways. But it's like most other programs in that many Husker fans will turn quickly on a coach during a rough patch.
Probably always will be.
When Bill Callahan was fired in 2007, the Nebraska administration's concern about empty seats was a leading factor. That hasn't been an issue for Pelini.
Still is.
In the wake of Saturday night's 63-38 loss at Ohio State -- Nebraska's fourth lopsided road loss in the past year -- everybody with a keyboard is offering suggestions on how Pelini, the fifth-year Nebraska coach, can right his ship.
Yeah, fired despite winning 76 percent of the time.
Fan discontent also can be glaringly apparent. In 1967, Nebraska lost to Oklahoma in Lincoln before a crowd of fewer than 60,000 -- more than 4,000 short of capacity.
In the late 1970s, Osborne decided to recruit quarterbacks who could run, the evolution really taking hold in 1979. In 1980, the Huskers recruited Turner Gill of Fort Worth, Texas. He finished 28-2 as NU's starter, including 20-0 in the conference.
I'll refer to a thought-provoking bit of Osborne lore.
Hope Bo Pelini also has a good sense of humor.
Osborne again felt heat from fans at the end of the 1978 season, enough that he nearly accepted an offer to become Colorado's head coach. A key factor in his decision to stay at Nebraska was his comfort with Devaney,Coach Factory Online, the athletic director at the time.
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Fan discontent can manifest itself in not-so-obvious ways. In 1978, according to Husker historian Mike Babcock, Osborne experienced problems selling his weekly television show to sponsors in Omaha, a crucial recruiting area.
Devaney understood Osborne's plight, having survived those 6-4 seasons in 1967 and 1968.
Nobody's suggesting Pelini, 43-18 at Nebraska, is on the hot seat. But it seems many fans are edgy. And let's face it, fan discontent can spread quickly and significantly impact a program.
Does Pelini feel the need to make significant systemic adjustments? His recent teams have lost by large margins even with decent talent. Are there underlying issues?
More than a few suggestions are accompanied by curse words.
"That evening, one of the regents got me aside and said, 'I'm glad you won tonight because if you hadn't, you would've been fired,'" Osborne has said.
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I’ve spent the last few days in Neil Young’s world -- and it is a fascinating place to be.
My trip there began when “Waging Heavy Peace,” his memoir, turned up in the mail last week. It peaked Tuesday afternoon when I watched “Neil Young Journeys,” his latest film collaboration with director Jonathan Demme, that opens Friday at the Ross Media Arts Center.
When he does “Leia,” a song about the musically inclined little daughter of a friend, well, I knew who it was about and why it was written.
Although he doesn’t specifically mention Lincoln or Farm Aid III, he talks about finding a pair of his continuing collaborators, bassist Rick Rosas and drummer Chad Cromwell, when they were playing with Joe Walsh at a Farm Aid. Walsh played Farm Aid II and Farm Aid III. It was in 1987, after Farm Aid III, that Cromwell and Rosas joined Young in the Bluenotes to record “This Note’s for You,” a song he debuted in Lincoln.
It is that effort, which some have seen as an attack on Apple and iTunes, that provides the title of Young’s book. He’s not waging war on Apple, he’s “waging heavy peace” on behalf of music. Here’s hoping he wins.
While not designed as such, the film, which has been out since late June, and the book that was released a week ago, are companion pieces, together providing a rich glimpse into Young, his life and music.
Since I started “Waging Heavy Peace,” I’ve been listening to Young’s music -- old and new -- primarily on Spotify, one of the streaming services he endorses. I’d love to hear it at its highest quality via Pono, which was used for “Neil Young Journeys.”
Similarly, Young talks about writing “Ohio,” the Kent State song he does in powerful fashion in the film’s Toronto concert, and putting together “Hey Hey My My,” his rock-and-roll-will-never-die anthem, another movie highlight.
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There’s a small note of local interest in the book as well.
An MP3, the most common digital music format, Young writes, has about 5 percent of the data that can be found on a recording’s master file or even a vinyl record. Young’s system, called Pono, will deliver the highest resolution sound to its players, so, as he told David Letterman last week, "when an artist records at a certain level, that’s it, it doesn’t get dummied down to CD or MP3.”
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Along the way, Young talks about his music and bands (Buffalo Springfield; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; Crazy Horse); his Nashville collaborators; his collection of big old cars; his projects from model railroads to Lincvolt, his electronic car; his friends, famous, like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, and not,Coach Factory Outlet; and his family.
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* Admitting that he deserved the shot Lynyrd Skynyrd hit him with in “Sweet Home Alabama” after his insulting “Southern Man.”
Together, Young’s ruminations and the movie provide a portrait of an artist who is honest in his self-evaluation and generous in his praise of those close to him. He is a blazing, fearless talent, and a man still unsettled and searching at an age when many begin to fade away.
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A part of university students thought that the so-called personality is a kind of external performance ,such as the offbeat dress .Zhengzhou Li classmates 2 is a love dress fashion girl ,she thought of personality need external material to reflect the personality ,is one of the performance doesn wearing the same clothes .
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China's economy should be the world's largest by a comfortable margin and possibly twice as big as the USA or India. (50-90 trillion)
India and the USA and the EU-27 should be in the range of the same size in the next tier. (around 20-40 trillion)
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By 2030, the balance of economic power will have shifted from the West to the East: while the US, the EU and Japan represented 72% of the global economy in 2000, their share should shrink to only 29% by 2030 – a complete reversal of their importance relative to the emerging world.
By 2030 we assume the CNY will have appreciated from 6.64 this year to 4.39, and the INR from 45.5 this year to 35 in 2030.
We see the US economy growing 2.6% in 2010, only 1.9% in 2011 and 2.7% in 2012, then growing at a stronger pace, with trend growth of 2.5% over the horizon to 2030. Likewise, we see the EU-27 growing 1.8% in 2010, 1.7% in 2011 and 2.2% in 2012, reflecting a sluggish recovery from the crisis, with large output gaps and stubborn unemployment. Over the forecast horizon to 2030, the EU-27 is expected to grow at its trend growth rate of 2.5%. For Japan, the growth figures are 1.5% (2010), 1.0% (2011) and just under 2.0% (2012), and 1.0% over the forecast horizon to 2030.
China’s growth rate is forecast at 10.0% (2010), 8.5% (2011) and 8.0% (2012), averaging 6.9% over the two decades to 2030. For India, the growth figures are higher, at 8.1% (2010), 8.5% (2011) and 8.8% (2012), averaging 9.3% over the forecast horizon. When one considers these figures, it is clear we have assumed a very fragile recovery from this crisis in the West, and trend growth rates that are not exaggerated for emerging economies, using China and India as examples. For instance, there are credible arguments that India may even achieve a trend growth rate nearer 12% or so, with certain conditions in place.
IMF projection to 2017
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Canada will have 35 million people in 2013 and could have 40 million in 2023 and 50 million in 2042. The low growth scenario is to have 40 million in 2042 and the mid-growth scenario is to have 45 million in 2040.
Canada could catch up to the population of Spain in 2042 and Germany in 2060. Germany population is projected to fall by quite a bit.
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The researchers ran instances of a lattice protein folding model, known as the Miyazawa-Jernigan model, on a D-Wave One quantum computer.
The research used 81 qubits and got the correct answer 13 times out of 10,000. However these kinds of problems usually have simple verification to determine the quality of the answer. So it cut down the search space from a huge number to 10,Prada Outlet,000. Dwave has been working on a 512 qubit chip for the last 10 months. The adiabatic chip does not have predetermined speed up amounts based on more qubits and depends upon what is being solved but in general the larger number of qubits will translate into better speed and larger problems that can be solved. I interviewed the CTO of Dwave Systems (Geordie Rose back in Dec, 2011). Usually the system is not yet faster than regular supercomputers (and often not faster than a desktop computer) for the 128 qubit chip but could be for some problems with the 512 qubit chip and should definitely be faster for many problems with an anticipated 2048 qubit chip. However, the Dwave system can run other kinds of algorithms and solutions which can do things that regular computers cannot. The system was used by Google to train image recognition systems to remove outliers in an automated way.
512 qubits used for protein folding solutions would be a lot faster and should be able to solve far larger problems. Dwave should also be developing 2048 qubit chips in the next few years.
The research used 81 qubits and got the correct answer 13 times out of 10,000. However these kinds of problems usually have simple verification to determine the quality of the answer. So it cut down the search space from a huge number to 10,Prada Outlet,000. Dwave has been working on a 512 qubit chip for the last 10 months. The adiabatic chip does not have predetermined speed up amounts based on more qubits and depends upon what is being solved but in general the larger number of qubits will translate into better speed and larger problems that can be solved. I interviewed the CTO of Dwave Systems (Geordie Rose back in Dec, 2011). Usually the system is not yet faster than regular supercomputers (and often not faster than a desktop computer) for the 128 qubit chip but could be for some problems with the 512 qubit chip and should definitely be faster for many problems with an anticipated 2048 qubit chip. However, the Dwave system can run other kinds of algorithms and solutions which can do things that regular computers cannot. The system was used by Google to train image recognition systems to remove outliers in an automated way.
ABSTRACT - We present the first quantum-mechanical implementation of lattice protein models using a programmable quantum device. We were able to encode and to solve the global minima solution for a small tetrapeptide and hexapeptide chain under several experimental schemes involving 5 and 8 qubits for the four-amino-acid sequence (Hydrophobic-Polar model) and 5, 27,Prada Handbag Online, 28, and 81 qubits experiments for the six-amino-acid sequence under the Miyazawa-Jernigan model for general pairwise interactions. For the experiment with 8 qubits,Prada Handbag Outlet, we simulated the dynamics of the quantum device with a Redfield equation with no adjustable parameters, obtaining excellent agreement with experiment. Since the quantum annealing algorithm not only finds the ground state but also the low-lying excited states,http://www.pradahandbagoutletonline.com, it provides information about the relevant minimum energy compact structures of protein sequences and it is useful to evaluate designability and stability such as that found in natural protein sequences, where the global minimum of free energy is well separated in energy from other misfolded states. The approach employed here can be extended to treat other problems in biophysics and statistical mechanics such as molecular recognition, protein design, and sequence alignment.
512 qubits used for protein folding solutions would be a lot faster and should be able to solve far larger problems. Dwave should also be developing 2048 qubit chips in the next few years.
"The D-Wave computer found the ground-state conformation of six-amino acid lattice protein models. This is the first time a quantum device has been used to tackle optimization problems related to the natural sciences," said Professor Aln Aspuru-Guzik from the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University.
Proteins contribute to virtually every process that occurs within a cell. The shape of a protein is closely related to its function. Understanding the shape of a protein helps researchers understand how it behaves, accelerating advances in many different areas of life sciences, including drug and vaccine design.
A cornerstone of computational biophysics, lattice protein folding models provide useful insight into the energy landscapes of real proteins. Understanding these landscapes, and how real proteins fold into the shapes that help give them their function, is an extremely difficult problem for today's computers to solve.
Dr. Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz, the lead author of the paper, stated that: "Knowing that we can use real quantum computers to solve hard problems in biology is an exciting and important result. The techniques developed in this report can also be used to tackle other biophysical problems such as molecular recognition, protein design, and sequence alignment."
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Other notables known to wear the same thing every day? Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein.
"I mean, I wear the same thing every day,Prada Handbag Outlet, right? I mean,http://www.pradahandbagoutletonline.com, it's literally,Prada Outlet, if you could see my closet at home..." Zuckerberg said. "My wife has a bunch of stuff. Although she has her drawer primarily scrubs for the hospital I get one drawer. And my drawer is about 20 of these gray t-shirts."
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Zuckerberg who has appeared on GQ and Esquire's in 2011 confessed in an interview taped last week with "Today" host Matt Lauer that he owns "maybe about 20″ identical gray t-shirts.
Although Apple CEO Tim Cook sent Zuckerberg a free iPhone 5 after the launch, the Facebook executive said he uses many different devices.
Although Zuckerberg gave his first post-IPO interview at a tech conference this month, this will be his first interview with the mainstream press since Facebook went public in May. According to NBC, the interview also includes Zuckerberg opening up about plans for the social network, employee morale and his recent wedding.
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"iPhone is a great platform," he told Lauer. "There are more people who use Facebook on Android because Android is just ... More people use it, at this point. So it's actually a pretty diverse ecosystem. And we spend our time building for all these different things."
He said he has one drawer, "like men everywhere."
(CNN) -- CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview on "NBC's Today" set to air Thursday that he lives a "simple" life and proudly wears the same thing every day.
He says he feels "a lot of responsibility" for his employees, who feel comfortable calling him by his first name: "No one calls me 'Mr. Zuckerberg.' I mean, it's we do a lot to create this open culture."
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There was a time when if you read by Peter Norton, you literally knew everything there was to know about programming the IBM-PC. Over the last 20 years, programmers around the world have been hard at work building abstraction upon abstraction on top of the IBM-PC to make it easier to program and more powerful.
But the means that even as they built the abstractions that are supposed to make programming easier, the sheer amount of stuff you have to know to be a great programmer is expanding all the time.
Becoming proficient, really proficient, in just one programming world takes years. Sure, lots of bright teenagers learn Delphi one week and Python the next week and Perl the next week andthink they are proficient. Yet they don't have the foggiest clue how much they're missing.
I've been working with ASP and VBScript since it first came out. VBScript is the dinkiest language on earth and ASP programming consists of learning about 5 classes, only two of which you use very often. And only now do I finally feel like I know the best way to architect an ASP/VBScript application. I finally think I know where the best place to put database access code is, the best way to use ADO to get recordsets,Coach Outlet, the best way to separate HTML and code, etc. And I finally use regexps instead of one-off string manipulation functions. Only last week, I learned how to get COM objects out of memory so you can recompile them (without restarting the whole web server).
Fog Creek is too small to have specialists, so when I needed to write a really good for , our ASP/VBScript based product, I drew on several years of C++/MFC experience, and years of experience with Windows APIs, and good Corel PhotoPaint skills to create a neat picture in the corner of the wizard. Then to get FogBUGZ to work perfectly with Unicode, I had to write a little ActiveX control using C++ and ATL, which drew upon years of C++ and COM experience and a week or so learning about character encodings when I implemented that code in CityDesk.
So when we had a weird NT 4.0-only bug, it took me 3 minutes to debug, because I knew how to use VMWare, and I had a clean NT 4.0 machine set up in VMWare,Prada Bags, and I knew how to do remote debugging with Visual C++, and I knew to look in the EAX register to get the return value from a function. Someone who was new to this all might have taken an hour or more to debug the same problem, but I already knew a tremendous amount of "stuff" that I've been learning, basically, since 1982 when I got my first IBM-PC and that Norton book.
Leaky abstractions mean that we live with a hockey stick learning curve: you canlearn 90% of what you use day by day with a week of learning. But the other 10% might take you a couple of years catching up. That's where the really experienced programmers will shine over the people who say "whatever you want me to do, I can just pick up the book and learn how to do it." If you're building a team, it's OK to have a lot of less experienced programmers cranking out big blocks of code using the abstract tools, but the team is not going to work if you don't have some really experienced members to do the really hard stuff.
There are a lot of programming worlds, each of which requires a tremendous amount of knowledge for real proficiency. Here are the three I personally know best:
All, basically, what you would call Windows programming. Yes, I've written Unix code and Java code, but not very much. My proficiency in Windows programmingcomes from knowing not just the basic technologies but also the whole supporting infrastructure. So, I claim, I'm really good at Windows programming because I also know COM,Prada Handbag Online, ATL, C++, 80x86 Assembler, Windows APIs, IDispatch (OLE Automation), HTML, the DOM, the Internet Explorer object model, Windows NT and Windows 95 internals, LAN Manager and NT networking, including security (ACEs, ACLs, and all that stuff), SQL and SQL Server, Jet and Access, JavaScript, XML, and a few other about the square of the hypotenuse. When I can't get the StrConv function in VB to do what I want,Prada Outlet, I bang out an COM control so I can drop into C++ with ATL and call the MLang functions without dropping a beat. It took me years to get to this point.
There are lots of other programming worlds. There's the world of people developing for BEA Weblogic who know J2EE, Oracle, and all kinds of Java things that I don't even know enough about to enumerate. There are hard core Macintosh developers who know CodeWarrior, MPW, Toolbox programming in System 6 through X,Prada Outlet Handbag, Cocoa, Carbon, and even nice obsolete things like OpenDoc that don't help any more.
Very few people, though, know more than one or two worlds, because there's just so much to learn that unless you have to work in one of these worlds for more than a couple of years, you don't really grok it all.
But learn you must.
People get kind of when they go on job interviews and get rejected because, for example,they don't have Win32 (or J2EE, or Mac programming, or whatever) experience. Or they get annoyed because idiot recruiters, who would not know an MSMQ if it bit them in the tailbone, call them up and ask if they "have5 years MSMQ."
Until you've done Windows programming for a while, you may think that Win32 is just a library, like any other library, you'll read the book and learn it and call it when you need to. You might think that basic programming, say, your expert C++ skills, are the 90% and all the APIs are the 10% fluff you can catch up on in a few weeks. To these people I humbly suggest: times have changed. The ratio has reversed.
Very few people get to work on low level C algorithms that just move bytes around any more. Most of us spend these days calling APIs, not moving bytes. Someone who is a fantastic C++ coder with no API experience only knows about 10% of what you use every day writing code that runs on an API. When the economy , this doesn't matter. You still get jobs, and employers pay the cost of your getting up to speed on the platform. But when the and 600 people apply for every job opening, employers have the luxury of choosing programmers who are already experts at the platform in question. Like programmers who can name four ways to FTP a file from Visual Basic code and the pros and cons of each.
The huge surface area of all these worlds of programming leads to pointless flame wars over whose world is better. Here's a smug comment somebody anonymously made on my discussion board:
"Just one more reason why I'm glad to be living in the 'free world.' Free as in speech (almost) and freedom from pandering to things like setup programs and the registry - just to name a few."
I think this person was trying to say that in the Linux world they don'twritesetup programs. Well, I hate to disappoint you, but you have something just as complicated: imake, make, config files, and all that stuff, and when you're done, you still distribute applications with a 20KB INSTALL file full of witty instructions like "You're going to need zlib" (what's that?) or "This may take a while. Go get some runts." (Runts are a kind of candy, I think.) And the registry -- instead of one big organized hive of name/value pairs, you have a thousand different file formats, one per application, with .whateverrc and foo.conf files living all over the place. And emacs wants you to learn how to program lisp if you're going to change settings, and each shell wants you to learn its personal dialect of shell script programming if you want to change settings, and on and on.
People who only know one world get really smarmy, and every time they hear about the complications in the other world, it makes them think that their world doesn't have complications. But they do. You've just moved beyond them because you are proficient in them. These worlds are just too big and complicated to compare any more. Lord Palmerston: "The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe have ever understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who became mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it."The software worldsare so huge and complicated and multifaceted that when I see otherwise intelligent people writing blog entries saying something like "Microsoft is bad at operating systems," frankly, they just look dumb. Imagine trying to summarize millions of lines of code with hundreds of major feature areas created by thousands of programmers over a decade or two, where no one person can begin to understand even a large portion of it. I'm not even defending Microsoft, I'm just saying that big handwavy generalizations made from a position of deep ignorance is one of the biggest wastes of time on the net today.
Frequent readers, by now,Prada Handbag Outlet, have noticed that I've been thinking of the problem of how one might deliver an application on Linux, Macintosh, and Windows without paying disproportionately for the Linux and Macintosh versions. For this you need some kind of cross-platform library.
Java attempted this but Sun didn't grok GUIs well enough to deliver really slick native-feeling applications. Like the in Star Trek watching Earth through a telescope, they knew exactly what human food was supposed to look like but they didn't realize it was supposed to taste like something. Java apps have menus in the right places but there are all these keyboard things that don't work the same way as every other Windows app and their tabbed dialogs look a little scary. And there is no way, no matter how hard you try, to make their menubars look exactly like Excel's menubars. Why? Because Java doesn't give you a very good way to drop down to the native facilities whenever the abstraction fails. When you're programming in AWT, youcan't figure out the HWND of a window, you can't call the Microsoft APIs, and you certainly can't intercept WM_PAINT and do it differently. And Sun made it plenty clear that if you tried to do that, you weren't Pure. You were Polluted, and to hell with you.
After a number of highly publicized failures to build GUIs with Java (e.g. Corel's Java Office suite and Netscape's Javagator), enough people know to stay away from this world. built windowing library from the ground up using native widgets just so they could write Java code that had a reasonably native look and feel.
The Mozilla engineersdecided to address the cross platform problem with their own invention called XUL. So far, I'm impressed. Mozilla finally got to the point where it tastes like real food. Even my favorite bugaboo, Alt+Space N to minimize a window,Prada Wallet, works in Mozilla; it took them long enough but they did it.
Mitch Kapor, who founded Lotus and created 123, for his next application to go with something called wxWindows and wxPython for cross platform support.
Which is better, XUL, Eclipse's SWT, or wxWindows? I don't know. They are all such huge worlds that I couldn't really evaluate them and tell. It's not enough to read the tutorials. You have to sweat and bleed with the thing for a year or two before you really know it's good enough or realize that no matter how hard you try you can't make your UI taste like real food. Unfortunately, for most projects, you have to decide on which world to use before you can write the first line of code, which is precisely the moment when you have the least information. At a previous job we had to live with some pretty bad architecture because the first programmers used the project to teach themselves C++ and Windows programming at the same time. Some of the oldest code was written without any comprehension of event-driven programming. The core string class (of course, we had our own string class) was a textbook example of all the mistakes you could make in designing a C++ class. Eventually we cleaned up and refactored a lot of that old code but it haunted us for a while.
So for now, my advice is this: don't start a new project without at least one architect with several years of solid experience in the language, classes, APIs, and platforms you're building on. If you have a choice of platforms, use the one your team has the most skills with, even if it's not the trendiest or nominally the most productive. And when you're designing abstractions or programming tools, go the extra mile to make them leak proof.
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Scientists have combined spinach’s photosynthetic protein,Prada Bags, which converts light into electrochemical energy, with silicon in a new “biohybrid” solar cell.
“This combination produces current levels almost 1,000 times higher than we were able to achieve by depositing the protein on various types of metals. It also produces a modest increase in voltage,Prada Wallet,” says David Cliffel, associate professor of chemistry at Vanderbilt University,Prada Handbag Online, who collaborated on the project with Kane Jennings,Prada Outlet, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering.
“If we can continue on our current trajectory of increasing voltage and current levels, we could reach the range of mature solar conversion technologies in three years.”
The research was reported online on September 4 in the journal and Vanderbilt University has applied for a patent on the combination.
The researchers’ next step is to build a functioning PS1-silicon solar cell using this new design. Jennings has an Environmental Protection Agency award that will allow a group of undergraduate engineering students to build the prototype. The students won the award at the National Sustainable Design Expo in April based on a solar panel that they had created using a two-year old design.
With the new design, Jennings estimates that a two-foot panel could put out at least 100 milliamps at one volt—enough to power a number of different types of small electrical devices.
More than 40 years ago, scientists discovered that one of the proteins involved in photosynthesis,Prada Outlet Handbag, called Photosystem 1 (PS1), continued to function when it was extracted from plants like spinach. Then they determined PS1 converts sunlight into electrical energy with nearly 100 percent efficiency, compared to conversion efficiencies of less than 40 percent achieved by human-made devices. This prompted various research groups around the world to begin trying to use PS1 to create more efficient solar cells.
Another potential advantage of these biohybrid cells is that they can be made from cheap and readily available materials, unlike many microelectronic devices that require rare and expensive materials like platinum or indium. Most plants use the same photosynthetic proteins as spinach. In fact, in another research project Jennings is working on a method for extracting PS1 from kudzu.
Since the initial discovery, progress has been slow but steady. Researchers have developed ways to extract PS1 efficiently from leaves. They have demonstrated that it can be made into cells that produce electrical current when exposed to sunlight. However, the amount of power that these biohybrid cells can produce per square inch has been substantially below that of commercial photovoltaic cells.
Another problem has been longevity. The performance of some early test cells deteriorated after only a few weeks. In 2010,Coach Outlet, however, the Vanderbilt team kept a PS1 cell working for nine months with no deterioration in performance.
“Nature knows how to do this extremely well. In evergreen trees,Prada Handbag Outlet, for example, PS1 lasts for years,” says Cliffel. “We just have to figure out how to do it ourselves.”
‘Doping’ silicon
The researchers report that their PS1/silicon combination produces nearly a milliamp (850 microamps) of current per square centimeter at 0.3 volts. That is nearly two and a half times more current than the best level reported previously from a biohybrid cell. The reason this combo works so well is because the electrical properties of the silicon substrate have been tailored to fit those of the PS1 molecule.
This is done by implanting electrically charged atoms in the silicon to alter its electrical properties: a process called “doping.” In this case, the protein worked extremely well with silicon doped with positive charges and worked poorly with negatively doped silicon.
To make the device, the researchers extracted PS1 from spinach into an aqueous solution and poured the mixture on the surface of a p-doped silicon wafer. Then they put the wafer in a vacuum chamber in order to evaporate the water away leaving a film of protein. They found that the optimum thickness was about one micron, about 100 PS1 molecules thick.
Protein alignment
When a PS1 protein exposed to light, it absorbs the energy in the photons and uses it to free electrons and transport them to one side of the protein. That creates regions of positive charge, called holes, which move to the opposite side of the protein.
In a leaf, all the PS1 proteins are aligned. But in the protein layer on the device, individual proteins are oriented randomly. Previous modeling work indicated that this was a major problem.
When the proteins are deposited on a metallic substrate, those that are oriented in one direction provide electrons that the metal collects while those that are oriented in the opposite direction pull electrons out of the metal in order to fill the holes that they produce. As a result, they produce both positive and negative currents that cancel each other out to leave a very small net current flow.
The p-doped silicon eliminates this problem because it allows electrons to flow into PS1 but will not accept them from protein. In this manner, electrons flow through the circuit in a common direction.
“This isn’t as good as protein alignment, but it is much better than what we had before,” says Jennings.
Graduate students Gabriel LeBlanc, Gongping Chen, and Evan Gizzie contributed to the study.
The research was supported by National Science Foundation and by the Scialog Program of the Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement.
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Where there's oil and gas, there's milk and honey.
That is the thrust of the American Petroleum Institute's report to the platform committees of the Republican and Democratic parties. It was previewed in Washington on May 15 by API President and CEO Jack Gerard, the oil industry's man on Earth, known for his tough attitudes to just about everything, but the Obama Administration in particular.
In unveiling the report at the National Press Club, Gerard declared that the recommendations were without political slant and were delivered to both parties’ platform committees without favor; although it is generally known that the oil and gas industry -- and Big Oil in particular -- cares not a jot for the Democrats. In a slip, while reading a prepared statement, Gerard referred to the “Democrat Party,” which is a term used by conservative commentators and members of the Republican Party who cannot stand the thought of Democrats having a monopoly on the word democratic.
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The White House shot back at API almost immediately, claiming it is the oil the industry that is lagging not the government.
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Even if the administration is right this time, it has a hard sell ahead.
In the case of natural gas, there has been a giant windfall from shale seams; but that has been coming for some time, and the administration can take no particular credit. Similarly, oil imports are down from 57 percent to 45 percent, reflecting increased domestic production, something that helps more with the balance of payments than the price at the pump.
Gerard admitted that while natural gas prices are at historic lows because of new recovery and drilling technology, oil is priced internationally and that is no help to American consumers. API and its chief tend to conflate oil and gas to make a point. Likewise, they like to include Canada in “North American” energy.
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Most energy gurus see the dawning of a switch from oil to electricity for personal transportation, for buses and some trucks. But that dawn is breaking slowly with consumer indifference, battery life questions and other problems, including the availability of rare earths for motors and wind turbines.
Experience suggests that energy is a lousy political issue. It is complicated; each side has its own facts and there is some truth to both sides’ facts.
At the end of the day, the energy debate is reduced not to the amount of drilling taking place on federal lands, or to the virtues of natural gas over nuclear,Prada Handbag Online, but to the price of gasoline at election time. If that is lower than it is today, Obama garners votes. If it is up, no matter why, all the GOP and Mitt Romney have to say is that it is Obama's fault.
The money vote is known already: With a very few exceptions the energy money is on the GOP. But that is not new. What is new is that environment is not on the agenda. Better wait until 2016.
By. Llewellyn King
Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. His e-mail is .
Because I knew what I wanted to be and I didn’t let the comments of others deter me from my purpose. That’s why I call it an independent life purpose. Only about 0.0000000001% of the female population have that same drive,High Heels Red Bottom Daffodile 160mm.
When you are growing up as a boy, every movie, every book, every superhero (mostly male), every time you are encouraged to excel in some way, you get the same messages from society growing up as boys. Those being:
I’m not talking about leather clad superhero women - I’m talking about women overcoming genuine adversity, the same way that men do in so many of their films. Changeling is another good example of a great female lead, when the Angelina Jolie charachter takes on the corrupt LA police force, only to be thrown in a mental institution. I also suspect this is why movies like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Hunger Games are so popular with women. We can see ourselves in their place.