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Tonka always reminds me of my dad and the tonka bean he uses for preparing his amazing and luxurious gin tonics. There's also this Tonka toy company featuring trucks and construction equipment. The sound of this exotic name also brings me to a tiki world. No, none of these options can be applied to the named of this band from Springfield, Ha Ha Tonka are named after a skate park in Camdentown, Missouri. Isn't it weeeeird? Ha ha…Tonka! 😉 Sorry guys, it's Monday, my sense of humor is at its lowest and cheapest.
Again, I got to know this band through Viva Las Vegas podcast. I heard their first single, Usual Suspects, which also opens their last album Death of a Decade, and loved it immediately. It's very catchy, with the mandolin arrangements. A very good starter, what do you think?
The album really made an impression on me as to include it in my top 10 2011 albums. I must admit I was not much updated on album releases last year, and didn't include it in order to fill a list though. I still reckon it was one of the best.
The announcement of their upcoming European tour dates in Spain, specifically in Barcelona, and the happiness brought out, made me pick up this beautiful album from the shelves, and start listening to it nonstop. If I had some doubts about it, they were all finally erased once and for all.
Death of a Decade is one of these 11-track treasures, full of folk and deep America roots, very melodic and spiritual. It's been said their music is inspired by the wisdom of the Ozarks, the American pioneers who first settled in this highlands area. Listening to Jesusita inspires me some kind of wonderful peaceful state.
The Missouri quartet are endorsed by the emblematic Bloodshot Records label, which have been working with with relevant artists and bands such as Neko Case, Justin Townes Earle, Alejandro Escovedo, Scott H. Biram, and The Bottle Rockets, among others, which for me it means a guarantee proof.
I was glad to read on Twitter a couple of days ago that they're currently working on new songs, which hopefully we'll be able to hear during these tour performances. These guys seem to be very excited for coming over, so am I, of course, and really can't wait to see them. They're scheduled to play at Rocksound, a very small but warm and friendly venue, in October. I'm pretty sure it's gonna be a blast, and I insist, they're really worth giving them a try.


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Q&A: The death of the Cold War
As Russia and the US sign a deal bringing swinging cuts to nuclear arsenals, BBC News Online asks whether history has been made.
How important is this deal?
The reason that both the US and Russia are prepared to get rid of so many warheads is partly a sign of the good relations that now exist between the two countries - but also reflects the fact that neither country now measures its security in terms of nuclear stockpiles.
The world has moved on since the 1980s, when the superpower relationship seemed like the key to everything.
Russia is no longer a superpower. It cannot afford to replace ageing warheads, and even maintaining the stockpile at its current size is a major strain on resources.
For purely economic reasons Moscow had to reduce its arsenal. Now it has persuaded Washington to do the same.
Much more important for world security is the evolving relationship between Nato and Russia.
If their plans for partnership become a reality, this will represent a far bigger step forward.
Is the Cold War now history?
George Bush has often reminded the world that the Cold War is over.
Last year - before 11 September - he cited this as a reason why Russia should enter into a new, warmer relationship with the US.
Later he went on to argue that since the US and Russia were no longer adversaries, there was no need for them to formalise these latest nuclear cuts in the shape of a treaty - but Russia insisted.
In reality, the Cold War ended long ago, during the presidency of George Bush senior, which lasted from 1989 to 1993.
However, even today Cold War thinking persists in both the US and Russia, particularly among the military.
Liquidating warheads rids the world of one kind of Cold War legacy, but anachronistic attitudes are harder to root out.
Is the world now a safer place?
It can take a long time for arms cuts, agreed in principle, to be carried out in practice.
It took Russia seven years to ratify the Start II nuclear reduction treaty, designed to leave each country with no more than 3,500 warheads.
Supposing these latest cuts are eventually made, each side will still have in the region of 2,000 warheads - a massive destructive force.
Analysts say that despite the deal, Russia still poses a long-term proliferation threat. Some of the warheads will not be destroyed, just stored, in case they are needed again.
But, as warheads are decommissioned the nuclear materials they contain must be securely stored to prevent them getting into the wrong hands.
Security at some vulnerable nuclear sites is poor and there are significant fears that terror suspects or "rogue states" could steal or buy nuclear weapons or weapons-usable materials.
The International Atomic Energy Authority says it has traced incidents of illicit trafficking in nuclear material that originated in Russia and former Soviet Union nations.
Is the US set to dominate Russia indefinitely?
Russia is beginning to recover economically, after hitting rock bottom in the 1990s.
Politically, it has a greater sense of direction under President Vladimir Putin.
But militarily and technologically, it has a long way to go.
Reforming the military has long been among the Kremlin's priorities.
But there are entrenched interests and the military bureaucracy is resisting change. While soldier numbers have been reduced, little else has yet been achieved.
It will be decades at least before Russia can match current US military spending.
By that time China is likely to be challenging the US as the world's emerging superpower.
What does Russia think of the deal?
Some Russian commentators regard the US's refusal to destroy all warheads taken out of service as a defeat for Moscow.
However, for Russian conservatives it is the unspoken quid pro quo - Moscow's acquiescence to US missile defence plans - that will stick most firmly in the gullet.
Nato's likely expansion later this year into the Baltic states will also make big waves.
Altogether, with the US military's arrival in Central Asia and the Caucasus (post 11 September) Russian hawks have been having a hard time recently.
Realists are likely to accept that Russia played a weak hand well, and has got the best possible deal under the circumstances.
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In the Hulu original series Shut Eye, now in its second season, Charlie Haverford (Jeffrey Donovan) is trying to figure out how to give his wife Linda (KaDee Strickland) and their son the home that he promised, instead of living from con to con. And at a time when the two need to trust each other more than ever, their unconventional lives seem to be pushing them further apart.
At a press day for Season 2 that was held at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, Collider sat down with actor Jeffrey Donovan for this 1-on-1 interview, where he talked about focusing the show on family and what you're willing to do for your family, the dynamic shift between Charlie and Linda, how this role compares to his roles on Burn Notice and Season 2 of Fargo, having a doll as a scene partner, and the hope for more seasons.
Collider: What did you learn from doing the first season and playing this character for a season that affected or changed things for you, for Season 2?
JEFFREY DONOVAN: It wasn't like I wanted to approach it differently. Obviously, it's no secret that we changed showrunners (to John Shiban). What I think was our aim, in the first season, was to introduce the world and the story we're trying to tell, and in the second season, we realized that. If you take away the window dressing of the psychic shops and the sensationalism of the gypsy Roma, this is a show about family trying to protect family. That's what I wanted to play and be a part of, and I think we've now focused it on that. This season doubles down on what you're willing to do for your family.
There's a really interesting dynamic shift, with Charlie wanting to be more independent and in control of things, and his wife, Linda, falling apart emotionally?
DONOVAN: How great is that, tough? You have a guy who doesn't believe in himself and a woman who thinks she knows what she wants, and then this dynamic shift starts to happen. He starts becoming a star, in his own right, and his wife who's going, "Who am I, and who is this man I'm married to 'cause that's not the same guy I married." I think that's a great conflict to play.
Does he even recognize that that's happening?
DONOVAN: I think it would be less interesting, if he saw it happening. I think it's more fun, as a viewer, to watching him going, "He has no idea what's happening right now." I think that's more fun to watch. He's the worst father and the worst husband, but he tries so hard. He really tries hard. I love playing that. This is probably the weakest character I've ever played. That doesn't mean he's not ambitious or that he lacks the skills to be strong and alpha. He's just not, but he tries so hard.
If you look at the three most recent characters you've played on TV, with Shut Eye, Fargo and Burn Notice, they're all so different from each other and show such great variety.
DONOVAN: I appreciate you recognizing the range. If I may say, I think people underestimate how hard it is to play not only different characters, but also such significant characters on shows. With Michael Weston, Dodd Gerhardt and Charlie Haverford, Michael was the smartest in the room, Dodd was the dumbest in the room, and Charlie is the weakest in the room. To play those three and still have a job, at the end of the day, I'm very lucky.
Those three characters are also so much more than what you labeled them as. They're each very layered.
DONOVAN: I hope so. I was talking to someone about Burn Notice the other day who asked, "Why did you get hired for that?" And (showrunner) Matt Nix told me, "You're the only one that made me laugh." I remember playing Michael Weston in a way where he wasn't a comedian, but he was snarky and sardonic. What I realized was that that was a defense mechanism. He insulated himself with that kind of wit. I was in a shoot-out in one of the first seasons, and a guest director who had not seen the show yet was directing me, and he said, "You don't seem under pressure, but you're being shot at. You're talking and shooting, at the same time. I don't understand." I said, "Michael is comfortable in chaos. That's his world. When he's with his mom, his heart is beating and he's nervous because he doesn't know how to handle emotion. That's who Michael is. That's the humor of it, and people understand that." He got it, and that's how the show evolved. If you put Michael in a gun fight, he's calm. If you put Michael in a room with his mom, he's losing his shit. Those were the layers I tried to create with him. Dodd, in Fargo, had his own psychotic layers. And Charlie is one of the most complicated guys I've ever played. I used to try to figure out who he was and I got stymied. I got lost, and that was before we started shooting. I finally turned to the show's creator and said, "I know why I haven't figured out who Charlie is. It's because Charlie doesn't know who he is." Charlie is lost. He's a lost soul. Every time he goes somewhere, he goes, "That's who I am. I'm the doting husband. I'm the doting dad. I'm the con artist. I'm the killer." He's trying to latch onto his identity and who he is.


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While Paranoid Android has been one of the very best ROMs available over the past year or two, the one downside for many users was the fact that the team behind the glorious ROM has only ever covered Nexus and Oppo devices due to the fact that they are a very small team of people. With thin resources and no legacy devices to work with, they have never officially supported anything other than Nexus and Oppo. That changes now. As of yesterday, the Paranoid Android team has informed the community through G+ that the members of the team who don't own a Nexus will be maintaining a sub group of unofficial developers who have been brought together to expand on legacy devices with Paranoid Android ROM support.
This is some really good news for anyone who has ever been wishing to try out the Paranoid Android ROM but was unable because of the lack of support. PA was very forthcoming about the time frame for the updates, and have said to expect fairly quick timing on the latest builds. Things won't be quite as quick as with the Nexus and Oppo devices, but the team has said that they would try to keep as close of a schedule as possible and on par with the regular updates. Users who do not own a Nexus or an Oppo device and are using Legacy, should only expect to have a two to three day wait period after the latest builds for the PA4 beta are released for those on non-legacy devices. That's a pretty quick turn around.
While there is already a pretty decently sized list of legacy devices that are set up with PA ROM support, there are still many devices that may not be. The silver lining for those users who didn't find their device on the list here, is that the PA team is actively seeking individuals who can help with the sub group and get other devices supported. This is a good start and hopefully we'll see more support soon, as the Paranoid Android ROM experience is not one to be missed. Those who already use devices on this list, should be hasty and try out the ROM asap, as you shouldn't disappointed.
Supported Devices: a510 – Acer Iconia Tab a510, a700 – Acer Iconia Tab a700, d2lte – Samsung Galaxy s3 (U.S Variants), dlx-HTC Droid DNA, d80x – LG G2 (GSM), evita – HTC One X (U.S.), galaxysmtd – Samsung Galaxy S, gee/geeb – LG Optimus G, GT-N5100 – Note 8.0 (3G), GT-N5110 – Note 8.0 (Wifi), hercules – Samsung Galaxy s2 (T-Mobile), hlte – Note 3 (U.S. Variants), i605 – Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (Verizon), i9300 – Samsung Galaxy s3 (International), i9500 – Samsung Galaxy s4 (International, non-lte), jflte – Samsung Galaxy s4 (U.S Variants), l900 – Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (Sprint), ls980 – LG G2 (CDMA), m7 – HTC One (U.S. Variants), moto_msm8960dt – Moto x (U.S. Variants), **moto_msm8960 – http://goo.gl/CTKkXp , n7000 – Galaxy Note, n7100 – Galaxy Note 2 (International 3G only), odin – Xperia ZL, p880 – LG Optimus 4X HD, skyrocket – Samsung Galaxy s2 (AT&T), togari – Xperia Z Ultra, *v500 – LG Gpad 8.3, vs980 – LG G2 (CDMA), yuga – Xperia Z
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Bistro V's cioppino has been perfected.
By Jan Walsh
Photography by Beau Gustafson
Bistro V's executive chef, Jeremy Downey, finds cioppino to be the "world's best dish." And after tasting his, I cannot argue. He and I share a love of tomatoes, seafood, spicy heat, and wine—all of which are important components in this dish. A native of Bayou La Batre, Alabama, Downey has been cooking and perfecting his cioppino for 20 years. "Cioppino is an expression of me. And today's is the best one I have ever made," he says.
Cioppino is a fish stew that originated in California. Italian immigrants who settled in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco in the late 1800s developed cioppino on the boats at sea. Afterward, it became a classic in San Francisco's Italian restaurants. The name, cioppino, is derived from ciuppin, a classic soup from Liguria made with less tomato and Mediterranean seafood. Downey's cioppino is also similar to a gumbo in body. And it is bursting with Gulf Coast seafood. Downey loves it so much that he wants it to be the last dish he ever cooks and eats in his life.
1 8-ounce snapper, cut into pieces
1 garlic clove, smashed
10 Royal Red Gulf shrimp
1 cup lump crabmeat
12 mussels
½ bulb fennel, chopped
½ cup red wine
1 splash lemon juice
1 teaspoon fresh oregano
½ baguette, grilled
1 can San Marzano tomatoes
1 sprinkle chili flakes
Sauté garlic and fennel in olive oil over medium-high heat for one minute. Add snapper, shrimp, and mussels. Continue to cook for two minutes. Add red wine, lemon juice, and tomatoes. Cook for four minutes. Finish with herbs, chili flakes, and crab. Spoon into bowls with mussels at the base of the bowls and grilled bread on top. Serves four.


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The lovebirds were spotted at a birthday party for a friend — we love how down to earth they are!
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are totally devoted to their buddies, and they were recently spotted celebrating a special night for a pal in Los Angeles on Feb. 11!
Rob, 25, and K-Stew, 21, were seen attending the birthday party of one of Kristen's friends at L.A. hotspot Harvard and Stone.
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This is kind of sort of the outfit that I actually ended up wearing out of the house… but not really. Right before I left for work I decided I was going to be cold so I put on black tights and black shoes instead of the burgundy pumps. Then I looked in the mirror and my bottom half looked dark and my top half had the bright pink sweater which looked a little wrong. So then I swapped this sweater for the exact same one in a darker purple color (I bought two of the same sweater on super sale at Target 4-5 years ago – do you do that? Love something that fits well and is a bargain so you buy multiples of the same thing but in different colors?) and added a black scarf. By that time I was running too late to take another picture. So maybe you can imagine instead? Black tights, black heels, darker sweater in same cut and a black scarf! 🙂 This will definitely be re-worn in warmer weather!
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Maroon camp shirt
Chambray shirt (very first post ever on this blog!)
Light purple tank & white cardigan
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Daddy let me have a lay in this morning and took Baby Boy downstairs when he woke up this morning. When I went down Top Ender was still in bed and it was time for me to start work so Daddy took Baby Boy upstairs to check on Top Ender.
"Oooh, I am soooo tired and I can't get out of bed" said Top Ender from her bed
"Are you okay Top Ender?" said Daddy
"My arms and legs are sore and I feel sick" said Top Ender
Daddy did the necessary checks and let Top Ender stay in bed and came downstairs to tell me she was ill and to take up a new bottle of water before he took Baby Boy out for the morning.
A few minutes later Top Ender appeared in the living room with her bottle of water
"Mummy? Can I have something to eat?"
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"Where's Your Horns?" Spitalfields People Talk About The Evacuation.
"When people found out we were Jews, we were looked at in amazement by some of them. I remember one kid saying, "Where's your horns?" Six people describe here honestly and with humour, their different experiences, as London people , of being evacuated during the war. The reception they received were varied; some experienced prejudice – either anti-Semitic, or just plain "anti-Londoner". Others made lasting friendships. Whether they had happy times or sad times, they tell you their stories directly and vividly. Their memories evoke some of the flavouur of the period: readers old enough to have experinced the war will discover much that touches them, while younger readers will be fascinated and moved by the descriptions of childhood overturned by the events of a world in confusion.
Spitafields Books began in 1976, when Babara Powis, a worker at the Montefiore Community Education Centre was asked by residents of Spitafields to help them produce their reminiscences of the evacuation. Barbara tape-recorded and transcribed the recollections of a group of Spitalfields people, and together with photographer Tom Learmonth, has produced this first book in a series of publications by local people.
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The newsroom archive, or morgue, has millions of photos. Lens is dipping in.
Is there a creature as imaginative or as indefatigable as the city child in search of a place to play? New York would seem to have been designed for everything but youthful frolic. And, to be sure, it can hold great perils. Yet from generation to generation — ever since the kids sang "Ring Around the Rosie" and "London Bridge Is Falling Down" — the sidewalks of New York have yielded to youngsters' inexhaustible need to frisk, exult, screech, plot and plunge.
New York Times photographers have been along for this happy ride; sometimes quite literally. Perhaps the only thing more amusing than the picture of a Passover festival in Coney Island in 1978 (Slide 2) would have been a picture of Barton Silverman, a robust 35-year-old sports photographer, at the front of that roller-coasting car. And what was Ángel Franco doing underwater in a pool full of urban tadpoles in 1992 (Slide 7)? Well, he's a certified scuba instructor and he owns a Nikonos camera.
Jack Manning, who had been a member of the New York Photo League, found a tremendous expression of artistry, ingenuity and rude vitality on the surface of East 104th Street in East Harlem in 1967 (Slide 5).
Keith Meyers, The Times's foremost chronicler of the waterfront, was sent out in 1991 to record the derelict shoreline of industrial Brooklyn. Camelot Pier at 42nd Street (Slide 1) seemed an unlikely bright spot, since youths were diving into water filled with abandoned cars and other debris. But as 18-year-old David Gomez explained: "I don't care if it's polluted. If they fix it up, we can't swim anymore. At least now we can have fun."


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On the edge of Lake Bracciano, the source of Rome's water supply, is this small, typically Italian campsite. It has 72 small touring pitches out of a total of 120 and is heavily wooded which offers shade but limits accessibility. The steep narrow entrance from the SP4 is not suitable for larger caravans or motorhomes. A bus from just outside the site connects with the train station at Bracciano which has regular trains to Rome. This site is very busy in high season, when the population of Rome seek a cooler more relaxing location to spend their holidays, so expect the limited sanitary provision to be stretched.
In addition to Rome, the site offers a good location to visit other medieval and Etruscan towns, and the coast is not that far away. The one day travel card to Rome offers an ideal way to visit all the sights, but don't forget to throw a coin in the Trevi fountain to ensure you return.
Single sanitary block has toilets, mainly Turkish, showers, mainly with hot water, and open plan washbasins. Facilities for disabled visitors and families. Washing machine. Small restaurant/pizzeria, coffee bar and shop (high season). Access to the lake for windsurfing and sailing. Small football area. WiFi (charged).
- Accommodation to Rent
- American Motor Homes
- Bar on Site
- Lake/River Beach Nearby
- Lake/River Beach Onsite
- Seaside Beach Nearby
- Twin Axle Caravans Accepted
- Facilities for disabled visitors
- Riding Nearby
- Lake/River Swim
- Sailing Nearby
- Indoor Pool Nearby
- Outdoor Pool Nearby
- Restaurant
- Shop on Site
- Pets allowed
- Takeaway Food
- TV on Site
- Small Site
- Wifi (all site)
- Wifi Chargeable
Site is at the 21 km. point on the SP4 which is just north of the town of Bracciano.
Location Coordinates
Decimal Degrees (DD)
Latitude Longitude 42.12019 12.17388
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We are all at least sometimes guilty of putting responsibility for our lack of effectiveness at the altar of public apathy. That is an utter cop out. We who profess to oppose the TPP in Australia should admit that we are losing the opportunity to capture the public's imagination , understanding and support and in doing so are at real risk of not only losing the battle but the war on this #CorporateCartel serving proposed agreement. Compare the New Zealand #StopTPP campaign Nov 8th with 15 cities and towns engaged, with towns of 30000 people having more people down to attend than Sydney Adelaide Perth and Australia combined. We should all reflect that "repeating the same actions yet expecting a different result" is Einsteins definition of insanity.
It is high time for new tactics to be employed in the #StopTPP campaign in Australia.
- The point of discussion needs to be what each part of the TPP known to us will cost people and their communities as a first point of engagement.
- The language needs to change. We are still articulating in a form government need take no notice of. We need to show that we are pissed off at being pissed on by the LNP /Labor #GovtCartel .
- We need to be mindful of and informing the public that laws such as VLAD, Mandatory Data Retention and Anti Terror laws all are based on the Corporate wishlist Governments are being asked to sign up to. We do need to act as stringently against their implementation as we do against the Trans Pacific Partnership itself.
- Political Parties and Independents in Parliament who do not support the TPP need to take their opposition up a notch. They need to state that any future government they are part of will revoke the TPP if implemented without compensation and seize assets of companies which have benefitted from the TPP in any way. They need to flag retrospective charges against those who sign away Australian peoples rights without prior informed consultation.
- Protests need to be re-strategised. People are no longer necessarily prepared to turn up to be props for a pre-selected caste of speakers - it is insulting to many to expect that they would be otherwise. We are not sheep. If the aim is to capture mainstream media then lets give them something to engage with. People talking politely before a crowd of 50 does not get you headlines if that is your aim. Go out on a limb-be creative-but most importantly be effective....
Lanz Priestley
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Modeling China's Crude Demand
Models employed by IEA, the Chinese Government, and the United States Department of Energy estimate, quantify, and predict China's future energy demands. The estimates range from lowball numbers to significant over-estimates. 2008's wild swings in commodity prices demonstrated the difficulty of predicting international energy markets. Exponential energy growth models significantly overestimated China's demand, and a 1996 model failed to predict China's torrid pace of growth. The methodology behind the World Economic Outlook's (WEO) predictions have closely tracked reality for the past four years. The WEO provides perhaps the most useful framework for understanding China's future crude oil demand.
China's year 2008 crude oil production, at 189 million tons, was the country's highest ever. China's oil imports also soared to record levels, at over 164.51 million tonnes imported through 2008's first eleven months (AFP). Still, China's oil demand appears to have slowed in 2008's fourth quarter. Oil is currently 21 percent of China's energy mix. Yearly, China's oil imports increase by 5-10 percent. Increasingly, oil gains in importance as part of China's energy security strategy. Correct models of China's future energy demands may make China's future economic and political goals more understandable. Below, three energy demand models are examined and are followed by a data-table.
Exponential Energy Growth Model (Ramirez, Alvarez and Rodriguez- 2005)
China's future energy demand has been difficult to predict. Models, such as Ramirez, Alvarez and Rodriguez's (below) depend on exponential growth patterned on prior returns. An exponential growth graph fails to capture nuances of human nature and account for plateauing of demand after an optimum supply-level and equilibrium price is reached. At some point, every society becomes "built out" and its growth slows. Accompanying the reduced GDP growth, crude oil demand likewise declines. Ultimately, exponential growth predictions that do not incorporate an eventual plateau will tend to over-estimate growth.
Exponential models of increased oil demand help provide some answer to the mystery of this summer's rise to $150/barrel oil. Ramirez's 2005 prediction of Chinese energy demands in 2010 requires an equilibrium crude price of greater than $120 bbl. Under the Ramirez scenario, China's requirements rise from 7.6 million barrels a day to 11 million barrels of oil a day in 2010. Even with consumption at 7.6 million barrels a day, China still ranks second highest in world demand to US consumption of 20.68 million barrels a day. If China's middle class, its economy, and its car culture threaten to grow to US, Japanese, or European levels of consumption per capita, then the world's oil production infrastructure will be put under a mighty strain.
Moderate Growth Model (China Energy Strategy Study- 1996/CSIS 2003)
In 2003 the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), presented and commented on the 1996 China Energy Strategy Study's predictions for China's energy demand growth. The China Energy Strategy Study significantly underestimated future target figures. The Energy Strategy Study's predicted energy demands were made before China joined the WTO. The predictions appear to have expected 6-8 percent GDP yearly growth. In contrast, the years 2003-2008 posted near-consistent yearly double digit GDP growth.
The Most Applicable Model for the Near-Term Future (WEO- 2004)
Of the three models for Chinese oil growth, the one with the best track record appears to be the 2004 World Economic Outlook prediction. Although the WEO revises its estimates slightly higher each year, the 2004 and 2006 WEO methodology gives the best model of future Chinese crude oil industry growth.
The WEO's "reference scenario" approach closely tracks the actual evolution of Chinese crude oil demand. In contrast, Ramirez's 2005 exponential energy growth model significantly overestimates actual requirements since China's hyper-expansion slowed. The underestimating 1996 China Energy Strategy Study presumed China would benefit relatively less from international integration and trade than was ultimately achieved.
Chinese crude oil demand also appears to be best tracked by the WEO's "reference scenario." WEO projections will likely not underestimate Chinese crude demand since demand is somewhat tied to China's economic success. Additionally, China's future economic growth will be tempered by environmental externalities. In 2004, China's government-created Green GDP measurement demonstrated environmental externalities cost three percent on potential GDP growth. The percentage-cost of environmental degradation is expected to rise as pollution's harmful effects accumulate and China's energy demands increase. State policies attempt to mitigate the problems of environmental externalities, but environmentally-friendly policies such as increasing automobile taxes and vehicle fuel-economy standards depress demand growth and discourage consumption.
The WEO's "reference scenario" also likely does not overestimate China's crude energy demand. Although the global automobile industry is currently in a retraction period, the annual arrival of hundreds of thousands of Chinese to the middle class presages a continued demand for automobiles and petroleum. Although US car sales plunged an average of 25 percent each month from September through November; Chinese automobile sales in November were only 3.2 percent off from the previous month (China Daily). Still, a sharper drop in Chinese automobile sales could be coming. To prevent that drop, the Chinese government offers valuable incentives for trading in cars (China Daily). Chinese GDP however, is still likely to grow at 6-8 percent in 2009, and as long as oil remains below $120 a barrel, there will be a significant number of citizens who reach the wealth threshold where it makes sense to own and purchase gas for a private car.
– Past experience is no guarantee of future returns, as world stock market investors learned to their chagrin in 2008. The WEO estimates appear to offer good insight into the future, but has the paradigm changed? (Feel free to respond in the comments.)
Actual crude oil demand and future projections given by various sources, including the above-mentioned models.
* Note on converted numbers: There may be some variations between actual amounts and reported amounts. Some "actual amounts" such as the BP and CBC data differ slightly, but by no more than 15 million barrels in any year. In all cases below, I have converted barrels/day to m. tonnes of crude/year. I identify where I convert numbers.
Total Crude Demand (Estimates and Actual)
2050– 520 m. tonnes of crude (1996 Prediction- Barring aggressive adoption of renewable energy or a decline in Chinese standards of living, this is vastly underestimated.)
2030- 746 m. tonnes of crude (WEO 2006, p. 86)
2030– 683 m. tonnes of crude (IEA WEO 2004 as reported by Dr. Tang (see sources).)
2020– 599.7 m. tonnes of crude (Converted from numbers of the DOE IEO 2005 and 2005 East-West Center report in Lieberthal)
2020– 585 m. tonnes of crude (Converted from numbers of the IEE Japan 2004 report in Lieberthal.)
2020- 565.75 m. tonnes of crude (Converted from the IEA WEO 2004 report in Lieberthal)
2020– 563 m. tonnes of crude (3.3% annual growth rate 2011-2020) (April 2008 Xinhua prediction)
2020– 320 m. tonnes of crude (1996 Prediction- Notably equal to 2004 actual data.)
2015– 487.6 m. tonnes of crude (WEO 2006, p. 86]
2010– 536.55 m. tonnes of crude (converted from "Short-term predictability of crude oil markets: A detrended fluctuation analysis approach" by Ramirez, Alvarez, and Rodriguez doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2008.05.006, Energy Economics 30 (2008) (p 2654). Based on 1984-2005 exponential growth activity)
2010– 448.2 m. tonnes of crude (Converted from numbers of the DOE IEO 2005 report in Lieberthal)
2010– 419.39 m. tonnes of crude (Converted from numbers of the East-West Center 2005 report in Lieberthal)
2010– 409.6 m. tonnes of crude [WEO 2006, p86.]
2010– 407 m. tonnes of crude (4.5% annual growth rate 2007-2010) (April 2008 Xinhua prediction)
2010– 385 m. tonnes of crude (Converted from numbers of the IEA WEO 2004 report in Lieberthal)
2010– 355 m. tonnes of crude (Converted from numbers of the IEE Japan 2004 report in Lieberthal; Notably equivalent to 2008 actual data.)
2010– 260 m. tonnes of crude (1996 Prediction- Notably equivalent to 2002 actual data.)
2009– 409.6 m. tonnes of crude (Converted from EIA numbers).
2008– ~354+ m. tonnes
2007– ~345 m. tonnes
2004– 323.39 m. tonnes. converted. (CBC) & BP 2005.
2003- 270.47 m. tonnes. converted. (CBC).
2002- 251.49 m. tonnes. converted. (CBC).
2001- 239.8 m. tonnes. converted. (CBC) .
2000– 233.97 m. tonnes. converted. (CBC) & BP 2005.
Domestic Supply
2050– 80 m. tonnes of crude. (1996 Prediction, perhaps lowballed.)
2030– 136.5 m. tonnes of crude. (WEO 2006, p. 92)
2020– 180 m. tonnes of crude. (1996 Prediction, notably equivalent to 2006 actual data.)
2010– 165 m. tonnes of crude. (1996 Prediction, notably prior to the Bohai Bay discovery, and equivalent to 2004 actual data)
2010– 185.3 m. tonnes of crude. (WEO 2006, p. 92)
2008– 189 m. tonnes of crude (Up 1.6%) [Xinhua Jan 2008]
2007– 186.7 m. tonnes of crude (Up 1.6%) [China Daily Jan 2008]
2005– 175.5 m. tonnes of crude (WEO 2006, p. 92).
2000– ~155 m. tonnes of crude
2050- 440 m. tonnes of crude. (1996 Prediction- frightening energy security situation for Beijing if this is underestimated.)
2020- 429.24 m. tonnes of crude. (2005 DOE IEO estimate in Lieberthal. Converted.)
2020- 346 m. tonnes of crude. (2004 IEA WEO estimate in Lieberthal. Converted.)
2020- 140 m. tonnes of crude. (1996 Prediction- Vastly Underestimated)
2010- 224 m. tonnes of crude. (2006 WEO Prediction, after I run the numbers.)
2010- 95 m. tonnes of crude. (1996 Prediction- Vastly Underestimated)
2008- 164.51 million tonnes (In 1st 11 months- 9.5 percent growth; (Reuters Dec. 2008) Note: Q1 and Q2 posted an 11 percent growth at 90.53 m. tonnes)
2007- 159.28 m. tonnes of crude imported [China Daily Jan 2008]
2004– 120 m. tonnes of crude imported. [China Daily Nov 2005]
2000- ~50 m. tonnes (IPR Strategic Business Information Database)
China's Oil Demand Deficit
|Deficit (Imports)
|233.97 m. tonnes.
|~50 m. tonnes
|323.39 m. tonnes.
|120 m. tonnes
|354+ m. tonnes.
|164.51 m. tonnes.
|2010 (Xinhua & WEO predictions)
|407 m. tonnes.
|210-230 m. tonnes (surpasses 50%)
|2020 (Xinhua & WEO prediction)
|563 m. tonnes.
|340-400 m. tonnes (around 75%)
(*"PetroChina, like many European oil companies, measures its output in tonnes instead of the US standard of barrels.")
Other Sources:
– Gill, Bates and Matthew Oresman. "China's New Journey to the West: China' Emergence in Central Asia and Implications for U.S. Interests: A Report of the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies." Center for Strategic and International Studies. Washington, D.C. August 2003. 25. [Analyzing the 1996 China Energy Strategy Study].
– "China says 2008 crude production up 1.6 pct: state media" AFP. December 2008.
– Lieberthal, Kenneth and Mikkal Herberg. "China's Search for Energy Security: Implications for U.S. Policy." NBR Analysis (National Bureau of Asian Research) April, 2006. 12.
– Tang, James. "With the Grain or Against the Grain? Energy Security and Chinese Foreign Policy in the Hu Jinato Era." October 2006.
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Greed and Generosity
Look at her face.
Open your eyes into her eyes.
When she laughs, everyone falls in love.
Life your head up off the table. See,
there are no edges to this garden.
Sweet fruits, every kind you can think of,
branches green and always
slightly moving.
How long should you look at earth's face?
Come back and look again.
Now you see the nervous greed
deep inside plants and animals. Now you see them
constantly giving themselves away.
Greed and generosity are evidence of love.
If you can't see love itself,
see the results.
If you can't find love-colors in anything,
look for the pale, tired face of a lover.
Take this town with its stores and everyone
rushing around, some with a lot of money,
some without any.
-- Ghazal (Ode) 1101
Version by Coleman Barks
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In the furthest, most remote parts of the world you will find LGB and T people. Maybe no surprise but as Melissa Wainaina has been reporting for the African website Behind the Mask what may be a surprise is that they're organizing. Kenya-based Wainaina has been visiting a new group which serves the nomads and pastoralists and refugees in remote Northern Kenya.
Upper Rift Minorities (URM) was officially launched Oct. 9. It has been helped into being by a number of Kenyan groups, particularly The Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya (GALCK) and the East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative (Uhai-Eashrhi).
Uhai-Eashrhi gave them a laptop and GALCK paid six months rent for a space in Lodwar town, the largest town in north-western Kenya, 624km by car from Nairobi.
The group is small but growing. It started four years ago but had a hiccup when two of the founding members died in a road accident.
Some members are nomadic pastoralists who farm in a system where animals such as cattle, goats and camels are taken to different locations in order to find fresh pastures. Others are from the remote Kakuma Refugee Camp (Kakuma is the Swahili word for "nowhere"). The 50,000 strong camp was established in 1992. Most residents are from southern Sudan, some from Somalia and the last major group from Ethiopia. Other groups include Burundians, Congolese, Eritreans and Ugandans.
The group has found some local support. Founding member Ken* told Wainaina "we were happy to learn that not all people are homophobic as we had previously thought."
But in one incident he was writing a funding proposal in a Lodwar cyber cafe and when the document was printed out the attendant read the document and "accused us of being immoral and bringing foreign cultures to Lodwar. The attendant shouted and held us back while calling the police to arrest us. The cyber-cafés [here] are not private like the ones in Nairobi."
Ken says there have also been instances of health discrimination, nurses saying "Oh we don't treat such kind of people" which has led to people having to travel to Nairobi. But, he notes, "we have identified gay-friendly health workers who are willing to help but have no training in specialised sexual minority health issues."
Apart from establishing the centre the group recently planted five mwarubaini or Neem trees as a tribute to the late Professor Wangari Maathai (Kenya's Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was feted for her contribution to the environment) and to signify a new dawn for sexual minorities in the North Rift.
They also hope to establish a safe house for those fleeing repression in neighbouring countries to Kenya.
Their remoteness in this vast part of Kenya is a problem, for example, in them getting hold of HIV/Aids prevention materials.
Another problem is limited electricity and so they need help in using solar as an alternative source of energy.
Says Ken:
"LGBTI members are moving away from rural areas to bigger cities to live freely. I am committed in creating safe spaces in rural Kenya, we can't all move to the cities."
* Not his real name
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Was 'Sex and the City 2' a huge disappointment for longtime fans of the HBO series? Critics of the 2010 filmwould respond with a resounding 'yaaaas.' Billy Eichner, however, would not agree, no siree! The 'Billy On The Street' comedian interviewed Ms. Carrie Bradshaw – ahem, Mrs. Big – herself,
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What's richer, creamier and thicker than a smoothie? A smoothie bowl, of course! Want to start your day feeling indulgent AND being healthy? Whirl up a Raspberry Nectarine Smoothie Bowl in the blender and top it with the goodness of flax seeds, sliced almonds, toasted coconut, granola and luscious fresh fruits! It's going to be a good day when it starts with a Raspberry Nectarine Smoothie Bowl! Good morning to you!
Raspberry Nectarine Smoothie Bowl
2 cups frozen raspberries
1 container (5.3 ounces) raspberry Greek yogurt
1/2 banana
1/2 nectarine
3 Tbs. almond milk
1 Tbs. honey
1/2 cup fresh raspberries
1/2 banana, sliced
1/2 nectarine, sliced
1/4 cup granola
2 Tbs. flax seeds
2 Tbs. sliced almonds
2 Tbs. flaked coconut, toasted
Smoothie: Puree frozen raspberries, yogurt, banana, nectarine, almond milk and honey in blender until smooth. Transfer to two bowls, dividing evenly.
Toppings: Top each bowl with fresh raspberries, sliced banana, sliced nectarine, granola, flax seeds, almonds and coconut, dividing evenly between bowls. Drizzle with additional honey, if desired.
Makes 2 servings/2 cups smoothie mixture + toppings.


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Hit the Brakes: The Controversy of Red Light Cameras
Would you prefer to be caught doing something wrong red-handed, or would you rather be caught on tape? That's just one aspect of the controversy that surrounds red light cameras. It's never a good idea to break the law, but many drivers feel there's a difference between a police officer pulling you over versus receiving a citation with photographic evidence in the mail days after your violation.
While photo enforcement certainly comes with its share of controversy, few people would likely suspect that the first red light camera was developed by a former Monte Carlo racing champion.
Caught on Film: History and Development
Maurice Gatsonides was a Dutch race car driver, engineer and inventor who founded a company called Gatso. According to the company website, Gatso developed the first red light camera (RLC), which caught images of violations by stretching tubes across the road in 1965. The tubes contained sensors, which could trigger the camera if an infraction was about to occur.
This red light camera was developed decades before it was introduced in the United States. The National Campaign to Stop Red Light Running reports that New York City was the first major metropolitan area to receive red light cameras, which were put into commission in 1993.
Today, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) reports that 24 states and the District of Columbia use red light cameras in a total of 552 communities across the U.S.
According to the IIHS, modern red light cameras monitor traffic just before the crosswalk or stop line of an intersection. The cameras monitor all activity while the light is red, using sensors that monitor traffic flow. Many cameras will provide up to a half-second of extra time for motorists who are traveling as the light turns red.
Depending on the system in place, the camera will take photos (or video) that show the vehicle entering the intersection after the light has turned red. These cameras also record the date and time of the infraction, as well as the license plate number and vehicle speed. The data is then reviewed by police officers or other government officials to confirm evidence of an infraction. If there's clear evidence that the car ran a red light, a ticket is typically mailed to the registered owner of the vehicle caught on film.
Pros and Cons of Photographic Evidence
Whether you love red light cameras or hate them, chances are you'll find people on the same side of the fence as you. Recently, the Kansas City Star reported that red light cameras have made drivers more cautious, but at the same time, the incidence of rear-end collisions has increased at intersections that use traffic enforcement cameras.
The concerns don't just revolve around safety either, as some defendants of photo cop infractions believe that red light cameras are unconstitutional.
The Tampa Bay Times reported that Thomas Filippone, a former New Jersey insurance lawyer, successfully argued that the law in Florida was unconstitutional because red light cameras do not prove the identity of the driver.
In Filippone's case, Pasco County Judge Anne Wansboro dismissed the charge, saying that Florida's red light camera law "shifts the burden of proof to the Defendant and therefore does not afford due process, and is unconstitutional to the extent due process is not provided." The newspaper reports that city officials have taken notice, but "no one is taking down cameras yet."
Red light cameras have also been scrutinized as nothing more than a revenue generator. The Washington Times reported that they generate an average of $61 million per year in Chicago, while Louisiana has seen red light camera revenue increase 419 percent since 2008.
The IIHS maintains that the main purpose is not to make money. Rather, photo enforcement is used to encourage people to obey the law. The organization notes on its website that signs often warn drivers when red light cameras are in use, and that if the cameras are successful, ticket revenue should ideally decline over time.
Do you think RLCs are a necessary nuisance?


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Community transition
From Openmoko
Sean Moss-Pultz (CEO of Openmoko Inc.) decided that the best path foreword for the phone business is to turn the future of the Freerunner over to the community. (See the announce for all details)
In brief :
- The Neo Freerunner developpment is now fully holded by the Gta02-core project
- The community has permission to use the Openmoko brand/trademark for their efforts
- Openmoko Inc. will continue to provide funding for operating the infrastructure (Wiki, GIT, Trac, Planet, ...)
Wish List
List here for what kinds of things OM can do to smooth this transition.
- continue to funding the infrastructure
- promote and sell the Freerunner
- create the Openmoko foundation ?
I'm using OM2008/2009 now. Will this distribution still be maintained ? Should I switch ? How ? What will change, what do I have to learn/unlearn ?
please answer here (Om2008 hadn't maintained for a while before that announcement. Now only maintained distro by Openmoko is Om2009)
What will happen with FSO ? Will development continue ? Will a distribution carry it ?
please answer here
What will happen with Paroli ? Will development continue ? Will a distribution carry it ?
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How will the kernel be maintained ?
please answer here
Will Openmoko continue selling FreeRunners ? For how long ?
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I have a purchase/return/warranty/etc. in progress with Openmoko Inc. or a distributor. What will happen ?
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I have buzz/#1024/no bass/etc. Can I still get it fixed ? How ?
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Will the Openmoko Internet resources, Wiki, mailing lists, SVN, git, downloads, people, trac, etc., be shut down ?
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Will "project B" continue ?
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What's the future of Open phone hardware without Openmoko Inc. ?
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Teotihuacan pyramids
Teotihuacan was the place that got us most excited in Mexico. The sun pyramid in Teotihuacan is the biggest pyramid where you can stand on the top. There are a lot of pyramids of different sizes at the archeological site where you can enjoy a nice view. The first thing that comes to mind when you speak of pyramids are the pyramids of Egypt. But the green surrounded pyramids in Teotihuacan are just as impressive.
General info about Teotihuacan
Teotihuacan was listed as a UNESCO heritage in 1987. The pyramids are thought to be Aztec pyramids but the Aztec actually found the area deserted. Teotihuacan means "where people become gods" and is called the city of gods.
It is unknown who lived in Teotihuacan before the Aztec, but it is understood from recent research, that there have lived different groups of people.
There are some mysteries about Teotihuacan, a few of them are:
- It is still not clear why the people living in Teotihuacan, suddenly left their city.
- Just like the Giza pyramids of Egypt, the buildings in Teotihuacan are also aligned as a reflection of the Orion stars.
- In 1906, archeologist found that the Sun pyramid contains black mica. The closest place where this can be obtained is oddly Brazil.
The biggest pyramid is the Sun pyramid with the measures of 90 meters, 220 x 225. You can go all the way up. The moon pyramid is 43 meters high, 140 x 150 meters. You cannot go all the way up the moon pyramid, only till the half.
The pyramids are spread over a huge area. If you want to do it right, you need at least 3/4 hours. Especially to enjoy the view from on top of the pyramids.
For a pleasant trip, put on some comfortable shoes. Also, take an umbrella and a raincoat with you. If it rains, you have absolutely no shelter in this area. The stairs of the pyramids are very steep, so do be careful.
Food and drinks
The area is a bit out of the city, there is not much food and drinks around. It's smart to pack some snacks before you go. At the bus station, there are a lot of shops and restaurants where you can buy something to eat. You could also eat here before you go.
How to get there
You can easily reach Teotihuacan from Mexico City. There is a bus every 20 minutes departing from the Del Norte bus station. The ride takes 45 minutes. You can reach the Del Norte terminal with the metro (yellow line M-5). The bus price is 52 MXN one way. It's wise to buy a return tickets at the terminal. The last bud departs from Teotihuacan at 21.00. For the return trip, you can take the bus at whatever time you want (it's like an open ticket).
The bus leaves you at the entrance of the archeological site. When you get there, you can get your entrance ticket for 70 MXN. The visiting hours are from 09.00 till 17.00.


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One continuous source of conflict for me is the tension between seeing myself as "a whole person" while also balancing my many different goals, roles, and responsibilities.
I've started to realize that in order to sharpen my focus, I need to start intentionally designing some distinct buckets to pour my efforts into. These can't be activity-based or project-based, but instead need to be visible from the 10,000 foot view of my life.
And so as I think of that, I find three areas that really matter to me, that I think will serve as my buckets throughout 2017 and hopefully beyond: Business operations and analysis, research and development, and family life.
Bucket #1: Business operations and analysis
I've gone through life labeling myself as a software developer, but in truth it's my experience with working on and solving challenging business problems that I've built my professional reputation on. This is what I enjoy most in my consulting work, and what I've had the most objective success with, and so I intend to triple down on my strengths.
The transition from "software developer with some business skills" to "business analyst with software development skills" happened quite a while ago for me, and I wish I had updated the relevant labels a whole lot sooner because it would have made life easier.
But now I want to take things even farther than that, by truly diving head first into an operations management role. I've been doing a bit of that in my fellowship with Madriska this year, but as we head into next year Brad and I intend to take our strategic partnership even further so that I can begin to shape the direction of the business as a whole and try out some of the ideas I've been thinking about for a very long time.
This is going to be my first foray into building a brand around something other than my own name and independent projects. Because I've been so deeply invested in Madriska (and vice-versa) over the years, it makes perfect sense… but it's a new thing for me to be flying under a shared banner. That said, this also means that I'll be working with a whole lot more resources than what I'd be able to muster up on my own, and so I'm very excited.
Bucket #2: Research and development
The part of my professional life that has always taken the most of my time has not been my commercial work, but a broad range of activities I'd categorize loosely as R+D.
This includes work on open source projects (like PrawnPDF), all of my writing work, the tremendous amount of formal and informal teaching I've done, the endless amount of 1-1 conversations I have each month to learn about the industry as whole and how people fit into it, time spent on collaborations, conference talks, etc.
I've at various points in my life attempted to properly bootstrap my R+D work into a full time gig. Although technically speaking there have been stretches of a year or so at a time where I was "ramen profitable", it has always been a great struggle with to try to make a living primarily off of R+D in a way that fits what I really want to be working on.
As I get a bit farther along in my career, I'm basically content to take a slower road to being 100% self-sustaining if it means getting there at a bit more of a steady pace with my wits intact. So while I will still continue to look for ways to fund my R+D work, it doesn't need to bring home the lionshare of my revenue any time soon.
Historically, my research efforts have sort of followed the pattern of "wherever the wind takes me" and that's something I want to get a little more control over. So what I'm doing now, and what I'll do more and more of in the months and years to come, is begin to orient my R+D efforts around the main ideas of Mel Conway's #HumanizeTheCraft movement.
What I love about Mel's work is that it's so shockingly ambitious that it will cover everything from pedagogical theory to possibly building programming languages and frameworks from scratch to support the features we'd need to build truly human-centric software development tools. So it's not like my scope will need to narrow in order to focus on this theme: it just means being intentional about looking for the connections between what I want to learn and a deep underlying purpose.
My dream is to one day run a self-sustaining and independent field research group, with half a dozen or so people working with me to explore stuff along the frontiers of our industry. But that is like… decades away still.
Bucket #3: Family life
In a single blunt sentence: I suck at taking care of myself and my family.
So I need to figure out how to pour a whole lot more of my efforts into that side of things.
This idea of "buckets" is somewhat new to me, and so it'll be interesting to see how it influences my decisions and my working habits. I have been fairly successful at rising above activity, task, and project-level thinking, but historically have operated mostly by intuition as a result of that. This feels a bit more intentional, and so I'm very curious to see how it all pans out.


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A Economist: The return of the machinery question
In a Special Report on Artificial Intelligence in its issue of 25th June 2016, 'The return of the machinery question', the Economist suggests that both cosmologist Stephen Hawking and enterpreneur Elon Musk share to some degree the:
"… fear that AI poses an existential threat to humanity, because superintelligent computers might not share mankind's goals and could turn on their creators".
B Our irrational propensity to fear that which we are drawn to embrace
Surprising, since I suspect both would readily agree that, if anything should scare us, it is our irrational propensity to fear that which we are drawn to embrace!
And therein should lie not only our comfort, but perhaps also our salvation.
For Artificial Intelligence is constrained by rationality; Human Intelligence is not.
An Artificial Intelligence must, whether individually or collectively, create and/or destroy only rationally. Humankind can and does, both individually and collectively, create and destroy irrationally.
C Justifying irrationality
For instance, as the legatees of logicians Kurt Goedel and Alfred Tarski have amply demonstrated, a Human Intelligence can easily be led to believe that some statements of even the simplest of mathematical languages—Arithmetic—must be both 'formally undecidable' and 'true', even in the absence of any objective yardstick for determining what is 'true'!
D Differentiating between Human reasoning and Mechanistic reasoning
An Artificial Intelligence, however, can only treat as true that which can be proven—by its rules—to be true by an objective assignment of 'truth' and 'provability' values to the propositions of the language that formally expresses its mechanical operations—Arithmetic.
The implications of the difference are not obvious; but that the difference could be significant is the thesis of this paper which is due to appear in the December 2016 issue of Cognitive Systems Research:
'The Truth Assignments That Differentiate Human Reasoning From Mechanistic Reasoning'.
E Respect for evidence-based 'truth' could be Darwinian
More importantly, the paper demonstrates that both Human Intelligence—whose evolution is accepted as Darwinian—and Artificial Intelligence—whose evolution it is 'feared' may be Darwinian—share a common (Darwinian?) respect for an accountable concept of 'truth'.
A respect that should make both Intelligences fitter to survive by recognising what philosopher Christopher Mole describes in this invitational blogpost as the:
"… importance of the rapport between an organism and its environment"
—an environment that can obviously accommodate the birth, and nurture the evolution, of both intelligences.
So, it may not be too far-fetched to conjecture that the evolution of both intelligences must also, then, share a Darwinian respect for the kind of human values—towards protecting intelligent life forms—that, no matter in how limited or flawed a guise, is visibly emerging as an inherent characteristic of a human evolution which, no matter what the cost could, albeit optimistically, be viewed as struggling to incrementally strengthen, and simultaneously integrate, individualism (fundamental particles) into nationalism (atoms) into multi-nationalism (molecules) and, possibly, into universalism (elements).
F The larger question: Should we fear an extra-terrestrial Intelligence?
From a broader perspective yet, our apprehensions about the evolution of a rampant Artificial Intelligence created by a Frankensteinian Human Intelligence should, perhaps, more rightly be addressed—as some have urged—within the larger uncertainty posed by SETI:
Is there a rational danger to humankind in actively seeking an extra-terrestrial intelligence?
I would argue that any answer would depend on how we articulate the question and that, in order to engage in a constructive and productive debate, we need to question—and reduce to a minimum—some of our most cherished mathematical and scientific beliefs and fears which cannot be communicated objectively.
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Income taxes, employee benefits, business combinations and share-based payments pose challenges for banks in the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), The Nation has learnt.
The Managing Director, IFRS Strategic Consultants Nigeria Limited, David Raggay, who confirmed this in a statement, said these areas, termed, accounting for financial instruments, remain a hard knot for banks to crack.
He explained that for financial instruments, the difficulties arise from a mixed-measurement model promulgated under the relevant standards. For instance, there are four standards in issue by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), which relate to financial instruments. They are: IAS 32 Financial Instruments: Presentation; IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement; IFRS 7 Financial Instruments: Disclosures; and IFRS 9 Financial Instruments.
Chairman of Publicity Committee, Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), Chukwuemeka Eze, said IFRS presents some daunting challenges for tax consultants, especially where the tax free areas in the old system contradicts with the IFRS format.
Eze, who spoke with The Nation yesterday, said the method of computing in the IFRS differs from the old system. "The IFRS may not have given a headline in areas such as taxing profits, salaries of directors or other remunerations," he said.
He said that the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), CITN and other stakeholders in taxation are already looking at ways of harmonizing and addressing these challenges.
Former Chairman of the IASB, Sir David Tweedie disclosed that IFRS 7, which bothers on disclosures, will lead to greater transparency about the risks that entities run from the use of financial instruments. This, combined with the new requirements in IAS 1, will provide better information for investors and other users of financial statements to make informed judgments about risk and return".
The key objective of IFRS 7 is to provide disclosure requirements that enable users of financial statements to evaluate: the significance of financial instruments for the entity's financial position and performance; the nature and extent of risks to which the entity is exposed; and how the entity manages financial risks.


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