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|Global research and development spending by selected countries in percent share of total for 2009 to 2011
|Coatings World
|Apr 2012
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Share of Total Global R&D Spending
2009 2010 2011
Americas XX.X% XX.X% XX.X% U.S. XX.X% XX.X% XX.X% Asia XX.X% XX.X% XX.X% Japan XX.X% XX.X% XX.X% China XX.X% XX.X% XX.X% India X.X% X.X% X.X% Europe XX.X% XX.X% XX.X% Rest of World X.X% X.X% X.X%
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Week after week we read headlines pronouncing that China is about to overtake the U.S. and other advanced economies and become the number one global economic force. Recently there have been a number of high profile announcements that China will also overtake the U.S. and other countries in the area of innovation. China pundits tell us that patent filings in China are at an all-time high. China is exporting high-tech goods that owe their existence to Chinese ingenuity. In essence we are being told that the West is doomed to become a mere follower of China. Our day in the global spotlight is over. Really?
Personally, I have a great deal of confidence in China's ability to become a more prevalent global player. However, I have serious doubts about China becoming the global leader in the area of innovation. To me, the question that should he asked is, "Can any country really assume the position of 'number one' in the world economy if they are not also number one as a global innovator?" Obviously, China's leaders feel that they are the great innovator. As proof they refer us to their patent history with the implication that it is the number of patents generated by a country that defines true innovation.
China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) officially announced that the number of patents granted in China in 2010 was XX percent higher than in 2009, receiving over X.X million patent applications and approving XXX,XXX requests among them. The application number for 2010 was over XX percent more than that in 2009. Using this strong 2010 position China became the world's top patent filer in 2011, surpassing the United States and Japan as it steps up efforts to improve its intellectual property rights track record. The number of patent applications filed to SIPO in 2011 surged XX.X.X percent from 2010 to X.XX million, according to data released by SIPO. The SIPO data indicates that it granted XXX,XXX patents last year, up XX.XX percent from a year earlier.
It should be noted that China offers incentives to businesses to prepare and file patent applications in an effort to increase the total number of patent applications. The idea of subsidizing patents is not all that bad, however it does distort the truth about what's going on in this area. You get high figures for filings, but that does not tell you anything about the quality of the patents filed. Although volume is a recognized metric that can he used to measure innovation progress, quality is quite another matter. The percentage of approved patents is still not as high in China as, say, in the U.S., japan or some places in Europe. There is also the issue of patent classification. Before we hand over the Innovator of the Year Award to China it's important to remember that China has three types of patent applications: invention patents; utility model parents; and design patents.
Invention patent applications are equivalent to U.S. nonprovisional patent applications, while utility model patent applications (aka "petty patent" applications) do nor undergo substantive examination. According to SIPO's statistics, utility model patents and design patents together outnumber invention patents by a X-to-X ratio. SC) much for using the number of patents to signal innovation excellence. As an example, on the China-vs.-foreign front, invention patents accounted for over XX percent in each year's foreign applications since 2005, while China applications for invention patents accounted for XX percent during the same period.
A review of the data indicates that intellectual property (IP) filings worldwide rebounded in 2010/XXX I after experiencing a considerable drop in 2009. The recovery in IP filings was stronger than overall economic recovery. Parent and trademark filings worldwide grew by X.X percent and XX.X percent, respectively, in 2010 compared to a X.X percent increase in global gross domestic product (GDP).
China and the US--the two offices that accounted for the majority of worldwide growth--saw higher IP filing growth than GDP growth in 2010/2011. In the case of China, IP growth rates were more than double its GDR.
While China patent details are sketchy, it would appear that the number of foreign applications in China for invention patents in 2011 rose about XX percent frOm 2010, although the number of approved foreign applications dropped. However, domestic applications experienced a large leap--Chinese applications were the majority of all invention patents granted in 2010 and 2011.
There is little doubt that today China is pursuing a national plan to become an economy based on innovation rather than imitation. To that end, China has in recent years, become the most prolific patent Filer in the world. The Chinese plan calls for its corporations and individual investors to file two million patents by 2015. If achieved, this number of patent filings would dwarf the current filing rate in the United States.
To support this robust patent target China has increased R&D expenditure from X.X percent of GDP in 2002 to X.X percent of GDP in 2011. China's goal is to invest X.X percent of GDP by 2020. The U.S. R&D expenditure for 2011 was X.X percent of GDP. China's current share of the global R&D expenditure was XX.X percent in 2010, which was tied with Japan for second to the U.S. whose share was XX.X percent. In 2011 we saw the US share decline to XX percent, while China increased its share to XX.X percent (see Table X).
You might ask, "What is driving China to become the great innovator"? Perhaps that answer can best be described as success. China's journey from a seriously poor, lack of self-sufficiency economy to the "supplier of the world," took a bit more than two decades to achieve.
Today, less than a decade after achieving this feat we see China struggling with the fallout from having achieved this high degree of success. With the emergence of a genuine middle class China is experiencing the end of cheap Chinese labor. Blue-collar labor costs in areas such as Guangdong and other coastal hubs have been rising at double-digit rates for a decade with no letup in sight. Even workers in remote areas of China are demanding and receiving huge pay increases.
Foreign companies are discovering that China is no longer a place where manufacturers can go to find ultra-cheap labor. Today, other countries, such as Vietnam, are proving to be much cheaper in regards to labor cost. In case you might be wondering, this labor cost trend does not mean that foreign companies will close their China-based factories and stampede to other, lower labor cost countries. Obviously some will but most won't. As it turns out, China is still a terrific place to make things. Labor may be cheaper elsewhere, but it is only one element in a basket of cost items. Unlike its lower-paying rivals, China has developed reasonable infrastructure, highly sophisticated supply chains and the advantage of scale. Unlike experiences with other countries, when demand surges for a particular product, the larger, more sophisticated firms in China can add thousands of extra workers to a production line in a matter of hours, a feat that even the U.S. cannot accomplish.
Table X: Share of Total Global R&D Spending
2009 2010 2011
Americas XX.X% XX.X% XX.X% U.S. XX.X% XX.X% XX.X% Asia XX.X% XX.X% XX.X% Japan XX.X% XX.X% XX.X% China XX.X% XX.X% XX.X% India X.X% X.X% X.X% Europe XX.X% XX.X% XX.X% Rest of World X.X% X.X% X.X%
The bottom line is that China is not about to how out of the global manufacturing scene. However, if it is to keep growing as it has in the past, China must become more innovative, it must work smarter, not harder. The question to ask is, "Can China become a true innovator and distance itself from the role of imitator"?
Obviously, China's current leadership feels it can and that an important measure would be the number of patents filed as described earlier in this article. But is this really a true measure of innovation? In the past, China's innovation gave the world silk, printing, paper, gunpowder, the compass, etc. These were fresh, novel ideas that the Chinese developed and exploited value from with the rest of the world. Literally, the world was beating a path into China to access its wonders.
Unfortunately, China's leaders appear to have chosen to follow a model that is being pursued by current U.S. leaders of having the state pick and choose winners and losers. So far the Chinese results from this policy have fared no better than the U.S. in this pursuit. There are very few winners but a lot of losers.
Governments mandating the rate of inventive activity will only get you so far. Telling scientists to innovate without providing a culture and an atmosphere for such a happening has proven over time to be ineffective. In order to make it big on the global stage, China's indigenous firms need to be able to capture the economic value associated with their innovative activity. This means changing the way that they have conducted traditional business activities. They must make an investment into organizational design On a global scale including the establishment of brand visibility, constructing worldwide supply chains and building channels of distribution, and all of the rest of the complex set of activities that go into making a successful multinational corporation. If they are unwilling or unable to do this then they will relegate themselves to their own domestic market with few sales overseas.
There is no doubt that China has the manpower and the brainpower to become a serious innovator on the world stage. 'There are more than XXX million registered private enterprises in China all trying to become something bigger and better than they are today. Surely, within all this infrastructure and mass of humanity there exists at least one Steve jobs. Unfortunately there are numerous reasons why the Steve jobs of China may never be found.
Following years of complaints from foreign and domestic companies China is still beset by continuing intellectual property (IP) theft. On paper there are good IP laws in China but enforcement is another story altogether. In some instances various parts of the government have even been seen as being complicit in the taking of technology from one company and placing it in another company that is felt to have a better chance of developing that technology. Even the banks, with guidance from government leaders, tend to place extremely attractive, low cost loans with certain companies that they feel will be the ultimate winners thus starving true entrepreneurial development in smaller, less likely to succeed firms. Based on current and past practices, Steve Jobs would have never succeeded had he been born in China.
This practice by the Chinese leaders has led to many foreign companies deciding not to venture into China and thus not to expose or share their most valuable IP. China's leaders know this, and are now pouring billions of dollars into research and development. The current five-year plan calls for "indigenous innovation", which the government thinks it can foster by subsidizing strategic industries and strong-arming foreign firms to transfer intellectual property to selected national champions, or state chosen winners. The tried and proven system of state capitalism worked well when the objective was to simply copy and adapt other people's ideas in the cheapest way possible. But can new ideas truly be created by decree? Around the globe governments have tended to run into two problems: the state is not a good innovator, and it always gets in the way of others who are. We are seeing this happen in the U.S. today proving that China leaders are not alone in the belief that they know best.
Although the Chinese government invests a fortune in research and development, analysis of this expenditure indicates that much of this investment is wasted. Based on. published data it appears that most of it goes into the development arena with the result that not enough finds its way into research. It appears that often it is far too difficult for new Chinese ideas to move from the laboratory to the marketplace. Since the middle class consumer is a fairly recent happening inside China very few Chinese firms really understand the need to get close to their ultimate customer and learn what the market really wants and needs. In this area, the Chinese could learn a lot from their Japanese neighbors.
China leaders also have the opinion that to become the great innovator you must have a huge bevy of PhDs available. Unfortunately this position can often stifle innovation unless it's tied to other interlocking factors. True, you need highly qualified scientist but you also need talented people who are entrepreneurial thinkers who have other attributes to offer such as a connection with other companies, governments, universities, suppliers and customers; an ability to work across multiple disciplines; able to think outside of the box, etc.
Unfortunately, these interlocking factors don't seem to exist within the normal Chinese culture. In fact, the very structure of Chinese society often presents inherent barriers to innovation. China has a rather monolithic culture, growing from a predominantly (XX percent) Han-Chinese population content and a deep tendency toward strong hierarchies. These factors do not encourage or favor thinking in new ways or including outsiders. This makes it difficult for Chinese scientists to understand new markets, to think creativelyor to accept eccentrics.
In the U.S. we often see the strong, entrepreneurial, stand-alone, risk everything persona such as a Steve Jobs. Unfortunately, this trait is not found in China. As a general rule, Chinese have a strong group focus, and prefer to work, communicate and share information with people they know and trust, someone from within, not from outside. They often exclude personnel from another department or division even within the same company or university, even more so if the individual is from outside the organization.
All these long established habits discourage appreciation of different types of thought, behavior or actions. This often stifles the kind of cross-fertilization and cooperation that successful multinationals tap to boost innovation. There is an old, traditional Chinese saying that sort of sums up the position of a number of Chinese companies: "Do less, make fewer mistakes, do nothing, make no mistakes."
China's leaders have not fostered a risk-taking atmosphere or made it clear that failure isn't a had thing. They most assuredly have not fostered a concept of rugged individualism or a hero culture. As a result most of the scientists assigned to R&D tend to work on projects that have limited risk associated hence as the data has shown, we see a preponderance of utility patents versus true invention patents. As such, most of the work going on in China involves low risk "Process Improvements". The new, novel ideas/concept type of R&D that can change the world is still a rarity.
In the end, innovation capability depends on economic flexibility. The U.S., with its entrepreneurial culture, relaxed labor markets and free capital flows, at least for the moment, continues to be the most innovative economy in the world. China needs such an environment to bridge the growth and productivity gap between emerging markets and the developed world and to truly transform them into the innovative, energetic economy that they feel is required to be a true global leader.
Nobody expects the Chinese government to let the reins go completely, but it needs a less top-down approach that gives its citizens more space to experiment. It must let private investors risk money on ideas they think might work, and bear the consequences of failure. An obvious place to start would be to let firms expand on what they already do well, such as process innovation. China leaders, like current U.S. leaders, need to back out of the R&D, picking winner's process and let nature take its course.
Although I am a bit suspect of China's ability to truly become an innovation power house, the world should not underestimate China's capacity to innovate. From gunpowder on, the history of Chinese innovation is strong. Chinese society is highly competitive. When the Chinese can no longer make easy money imitating most China experts feel that they will finally start innovating.
Homegrown innovations will eventually motivate tougher enforcement of intellectual property regulations, or so one would hope. Until then China will continue to play the patent numbers game and claim victory when they achieve their two million patent applications. Such an achievement will not make them number one.
by Dan Watson China Correspondent email@example.com


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For this week's blog we talked to Rachael Shudde a Senior Computer Science and Math math major from Ovalo, TX, and what she did this summer!
What did you do this summer and where did you go? What was your job? What did your average day look like?
I worked at NASA Langley as an intern in the Safety Critical Avionics Systems Branch. I worked to develop software for the NASA DAIDALUS program. This program's goal is to automatically reroute plans on a collision course.
What motivated you to get this internship? How did you achieve this?
I really wanted to work in aerospace, and I knew that NASA looked for math interns. I also wanted to go out of Texas for the summer. Applying to NASA was a long process, but it was definitely worth it.
What was the most useful thing you've learned in class that you were able to apply during your internship?
Honestly, outside of technical skills, class and work were such different environments that I cannot compare them. In class, you can always ask a professor or peer for help. However, this summer, no one knew the answers to my questions all of the time. I had to learn to problem solve without the backup of a professor.
Did this summer change your perspective on business and technology and how those operate in the real world?
Yes! It made me confident in my choice of major. At NASA, my branch operated with out a lot of overhead management. Everyone know their job and did it well. What I learned is that the best skill to learn is how to teach yourself.
What was the most insightful/funniest/strangest thing that someone said to you or happened to you this summer
Someone told me, "I rewrite my code all of the time. Even if it works. There's always a better or more efficient way to solve problems."
Do you have any advice for students who might be considering a similar path?
All the interns at NASA I met had the similar quality that they loved learning and problem solving. Demonstrating that through taking hard classes not required by your major is one way to show a love for learning (no one there cared about GPA).
Overall, what was your biggest takeaway from this summer?
The foundations of success are the ability to learn well, not necessarily mastery of one skill.


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Our mother, Evalyn Grace Barton Scott was proud of both her mother's family, McIntosh, and her father's family, Barton, and shared many stories of with her children. Â This album chronicles lineage of the Barton's from Wigan Lancaster, England to Virginia, the Carolinas, and finally to Texas. Â The pictures have been collected from many family members but gathered, collated, and scanned by Max Barton Scott, the 6th generation in the United States. Â Our dearest stories were passed directly from Evalyn and the numerous hours she spent getting to know the Barton history by traveling from Callahan County back to Burnett County for reunions and gatherings. Â Other research is from the book: Â The family of Wilson Barton and Mildah McKinney by Karla Cox Smith, published 1994.
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Let the Redeemed of the Lord Say So
107 gOh give thanks to the Lord, hfor he is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever!
2 Let ithe redeemed of the Lord say so,
whom he has jredeemed from trouble1
3 and kgathered in from the lands,
from the east and from the west,
from the north and from the south.
4 Some lwandered in desert wastes,
finding no way mto a city to dwell in;
their soul nfainted within them.
6 Then they ocried to the Lord in their trouble,
and he delivered them from their distress.
7 He led them by pa straight way
till they reached ma city to dwell in.
8 qLet them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
for his wondrous works to the children of man!
9 For he rsatisfies the longing soul,
sand the hungry soul he fills with good things.
10 tSome sat in darkness and in uthe shadow of death,
prisoners in vaffliction and in irons,
11 for they whad rebelled against the words of God,
and xspurned the counsel of the Most High.
12 So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor;
they fell down, ywith none to help.
13 zThen they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
and he delivered them from their distress.
14 He brought them out of adarkness and the shadow of death,
and bburst their bonds apart.
15 cLet them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
for his wondrous works to the children of man!
16 For he dshatters the doors of bronze
and cuts in two the bars of iron.
17 Some were efools through their sinful ways,
and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;
18 fthey loathed any kind of food,
and they gdrew near to hthe gates of death.
19 iThen they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
and he delivered them from their distress.
20 He jsent out his word and khealed them,
and ldelivered them from their destruction.
21 mLet them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
for his wondrous works to the children of man!
22 And let them noffer sacrifices of thanksgiving,
and otell of his deeds in psongs of joy!
23 Some qwent down to the sea in ships,
doing business on the great waters;
24 they saw the deeds of the Lord,
his wondrous works in the deep.
25 For he rcommanded and sraised the stormy wind,
which lifted up the waves of the sea.
26 They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths;
their courage tmelted away in their evil plight;
27 they reeled and ustaggered like drunken men
and vwere at their wits' end.2
28 wThen they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
and he delivered them from their distress.
29 He xmade the storm be still,
and the waves of the sea were hushed.
30 Then they were glad that the waters3 were quiet,
and he brought them to their desired haven.
31 yLet them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
for his wondrous works to the children of man!
32 Let them zextol him in athe congregation of the people,
and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
33 He bturns rivers into a desert,
springs of water into thirsty ground,
34 ca fruitful land into a salty waste,
because of the evil of its inhabitants.
35 He dturns a desert into pools of water,
ea parched land into springs of water.
36 And there he lets the hungry dwell,
and they establish fa city to live in;
37 they sow fields and plant vineyards
and get a fruitful yield.
38 gBy his blessing they multiply greatly,
and he does not let their livestock diminish.
39 When they are diminished and brought low
through oppression, evil, and sorrow,
40 hhe pours contempt on princes
and imakes them wander jin trackless wastes;
41 but khe raises up the needy out of affliction
and lmakes their families like flocks.
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and nall wickedness shuts its mouth.
43 oWhoever is wise, let him attend to these things;
let them consider the steadfast love of the Lord.
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I have an XC-705 which is just out of guarantee.
The PC is running Windows 8.1 and had been faultless until recently.
When using the PC no issue is detactable.
If the PC is left on, it will on random occasions, restart itself. But it doesn't shutdown first, it is as if the power has been cut, then reapplied.
On looking in the event viewer it is listed in the critical events and mentions about the power being removed and the PC not shutdown properly.
Anyone have any similar issue or any thoughts on it?
check AC power cable and try another if possible,try another outlet plug too.
check dust on power supply too, sometimes can be a little overheat on it.
I have tried another lead and blown out the Power supply. Still no better.
I've had the same thing happen, but it wasn't due to a problem with the computer. It was to due to millisecond power outages and surges. Electricity is cheap where I live, but unreliable.
I bought a UPS to solve the problem. I'm not sure if that will help you.
If you think it's just due to surges and not quick millisecond outages, you can just get a surge protector.
I had all my computers on surge protectors, but it didn't help. It required a UPS.
Obviously, I have no idea if a UPS will help you since I don't for sure know what the problem is.
to check about spikes on electricty, you can connect a light bulb (incandesscent light blub) to the same outlet (with your PC connected too) and check if the light drops down when your PC restarts, if so...JordanB is correct, if not, maybe your PC power supply has some issues on capacitors.
I suspect the power supply.
I have now replaced the power supply and it is still doing the same thing.
Any further ideas would be welcomed.
I think that is not the cause, as I have two other PC's plugged in to the same socket and they don't do it.
I have just updated the BIOS to see if that makes a difference.
ok, keep us updated.
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OverviewChalet Marco Polo is a world class super-luxurious chalet. Situated in the heart of Val d'Isère yet set back from the main road, the chalet gives you privacy plus easy access to the centre of this high altitude resort. A true masterpiece of style, the Marco Polo has combined contemporary and traditional materials to create a chalet like no other.
Bringing you 1000m² of majestic Alpine chic, Marco Polo comfortably sleeps 10 adults and 4 children in six beautiful en-suite bedrooms. The living area is expansive with a large open plan living and dining area all set around a central fireplace. The bar area is perfect for that pre-dinner cocktail and the cinema screen discreetly drops down from the high beams. Stretching out from the living area you will find a vast balcony, complete with panoramic views of La Face piste, an outdoor kitchen and heated seating.
Wellness is at the heart of Marco Polo as the whole first floor is dedicated to your relaxation and well-being. The spacious pool covered in gold leaf with jet stream sits adjacent to the hot tub and hammam. It is flooded with natural light from the floor to ceiling windows. The adjoining relaxation area with bar and fireplace comes complete with lasers, smoke machines and an entertainment system providing everything needed for a party.
Descending into the heart of the chalet there are even more treats instore. The cave and fromagerie are perfect for wine and cheese tastings. The games and entertainment room comes complete with a pool table and darts board. The techno gym has two of everything, so you can workout in pairs. The classic massage room sits next to the automatic hydro massage room. Everything in this magnificent chalet is tailor made, creating the most extraordinary chalet in the alps.
Chalet Marco Polo is the big sister chalet 1000 m2 to Chalet Lhotse 500 m2.
- Swimming Pool
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- Games Room
- On Call Driver
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- Prof. Chef
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- Log Fire
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- Complimentary Bar
- Champagne Reception
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Prices & Availability
Prices & AvailabilityChalet is available on a catered exclusive basis only.Various start dates then from 14th January Sunday to Sunday thereafter. Extra beds are charged at 300 GBP per head
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- Exclusive use of the chalet and its facilities.
- Champagne reception.
- Range of selected house wines and champagne.
- An open spirit bar and a range of soft drinks
- Luxury bathroom products
- Bathrobes and slippers
- Hairdryers in every room
- Fresh flowers and daily newspapers
- In resort private chauffeured 4x4 VW Caravelle
- Heated boot warmers
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Second FloorLiving Area 1000m2
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First Floor
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- Bedroom 1 Master Bedroom - double king/twin bedroom (ensuite bathroom with shower and private terrace) Plasma screen TV and iPod docking station. Access to terrace with hot tub.
- Bedroom 2 double king/twin bedroom (ensuite bathroom) Plasma screen TV and iPod docking station. Access to terrace with hot tub.
- Bedroom 3 - double king/twin bedroom (ensuite bathroom) Plasma screen TV and iPod docking station. Access
- to terrace with hot tub.
- Bedroom 4 – double king/twin bedroom (ensuite shower room). Plasma screen TV and iPod docking station. Private terrace.
- Bedroom 5 – Four bunk beds (ensuite shower room). Plasma screen TV and iPod docking station. Private terrace. Bedroom 6 – double bedroom (ensuite shower room). Plasma screen TV and iPod docking station.
- Outside Hot tub
Ground Floor
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- Indoor Swimming Pool with projector screen
- Relaxation Area with fireplace
- Bar
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- Ski Room
- Lift
- Dining Room and Wine cellar
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- Fully catered service
- Accommodation for 10 + 4 guests
- Dedicated service from a professional team.
- Tea or coffee in bed, breakfast and afternoon tea daily.
- Children's lunch and supper every day.
- Mouth watering dinners prepared by the chef - menu created with you (6 nights).
- Up to 7 Staff
LocationLocated in the centre of the resort and set back from the main road
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30th March to 2nd April 2018
The South Devon Railway will be having an Easter Fair over the full Easter weekend of Friday 30th March and Monday 2nd April 2018.
As well as our heritage train service, with FOUR locomotives in operation on each day, be sure to visit the display at Buckfastleigh for a fascinating selection of heritage vehicles on display.
The Refreshment Rooms at Buckfastleigh are open for everything from a snack to a hot meal, and be sure to call in to the adjacent Gifts & Models shop and view the model railways.
A round trip ticket is valid for travel all day, on all our trains, so you can ride as many trains as much as you like! See if you can get a ride behind each of the four locomotives in operation today! Be sure to also take a ride on the heritage GWR auto trains which are in operation all day, including, for part of the day, the 'auto sandwich', where the locomotive will be sandwiched between two auto carriages! The views of the line from the front vestible are not to be missed!
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John Connor's Korean War memories come back to him with a stunning clarity.
Plankton sparked a phosphorescent galaxy as he dipped his paddle in the water of the Yellow Sea on the night he landed at Kunsan, South Korea, with his U.S. Army Special Forces unit. On the beach, bullets kicked up the sand in front of him, a barrage of North Korean automatic gunfire.
It was September 1950, his unit's first mission. He was 20.
"For the first time in my young life, I realized someone was trying to kill me," said Connor, now 83 and a retired Sacramento State anthropology professor living in Sun City Lincoln Hills.
On Memorial Day -- and every day -- he remembers. So do Duane Anderson, Val Soto and other Korean War veterans. But the world long ago looked away from the three-year conflict widely called "the forgotten war." It has been overshadowed in the American consciousness, even though many historians consider America's role in the Korean conflict to have lasting, unappreciated significance.
It began on June 25, 1950, after the communist government north of the Korean peninsula's 38th parallel -- a line drawn after World War II to divide Korea between American and Soviet influence -- invaded South Korea.
It ended on July 27, 1953, with an armistice establishing the 38th parallel as a permanent demilitarized zone separating the two countries. Yet there is no peace treaty, no official recognition by either of the two Koreas that hostilities ended. Tensions continue today -- most recently, as a result of North Korean missile threats -- and 37,000 American troops remain in Korea.
"The thing about Korea is, it's always been a series of these crises," said Bob Patrick, director of the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project. "It was always from crisis to crisis.
"But Korean War veterans are a different breed. They're a special category. Their stories are just as compelling as those out of World War II and Vietnam."
Nearing the 60th anniversary of the armistice, their numbers are dwindling.
Almost 1.8 million American military members served in the Korean theater during that period, according to Defense Department figures, while 5.7 million served around the world. The youngest of the estimated 2 million remaining American veterans from the Korean era are now nearing 80.
Nearly 34,000 were killed in battle, and another 103,000 were wounded, Defense Department statistics show. More than 7,900 American military personnel remain missing.
Theirs was a brutal conflict, fought in subzero temperatures and searing heat, up the sides of steep mountains and on rice paddies that turned into killing fields.
It was the last war of the untelevised age, before battles and bloodshed came into America's living rooms every evening. And it was the first conflict after World War II, the war that united Americans in a sense of common purpose and sacrifice.
Korea was, in short, easily overlooked by a war-weary country ready to move forward -- and easily forgotten compared with the bitter polarization to come a decade later with Vietnam.
"World War II was universally experienced by every American household," said Ted Barker, co-founder of the Texas-based Korean War Project, an online history site. "But in Korea, like Vietnam, men were rotated in and out one at a time, not unit by unit.
"There was an anonymity to the people who fought."
A blueprint for conflict
Home on leave from Korea in 1951, John Connor took a bus across the country, heading to the Pennsylvania mining town where he had been raised. He wore his full uniform, complete with the combat infantry badge. At a stop 100 miles outside Omaha, a woman approached.
"I was leaning up against the bus, and this woman said, 'What time's the next bus?'" he said. "I told her I didn't know. And she said, 'Why not? You're the driver, aren't you?'
"Unless you read the newspapers or went to the newsreels, you really didn't know there was a war in Korea."
Still, historians say that it was the Korean conflict, not World War II or Vietnam, that most significantly shaped America's emergence as a superpower.
"Korea set the template for America's subsequent military engagements," said Sacramento State history professor Joseph A. Palermo, who specializes in post-World War II history.
"It was the blueprint for what we've come to take for granted."
For example, Korea was an undeclared war, much like many subsequent American military conflicts. Similarly, in entering the war -- as a way to stand up to the Soviet Union and undermine the influence of China -- the United States sought U.N. backing as a legitimizing force.
"Now, America has military bases around the world and alliances like NATO," Palermo said. "And whenever there's a war somewhere, the world looks to the U.S. and says, 'What are you going to do about it?'
"Korea was the beginning of that. You could argue that Korea was a more important war than Vietnam because it established America as a global superpower."
Experts say that the Cold War-era domino theory -- the idea that communism in one country would topple surrounding countries into communism -- was formulated during the Korean War and used as an excuse for American military intervention for decades to come.
Service and sacrifice
Duane Anderson knew nothing about communism, even less about Korea. He was a college kid in North Dakota who had joined the National Guard. In 1950, as the war began, President Harry Truman activated the North Dakota Guard, and Anderson was inducted into the Army.
"I could have gotten a deferment," said Anderson, now 81, a retired Sacramento State administrator who lives in Carmichael. "But there were people from my county who didn't go in 1941 when the Guard was sent to Pearl Harbor, and that stuck with them the rest of their lives. That's how they were known.
"There was a great deal of reverence for the service and sacrifice."
At 20, he was in Korea, part of the Army's 2nd Infantry Division fighting what became known as the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge. It was September 1951.
"It's steep, and you have people shooting down at you," Anderson said. "It's either uphill or downhill. My company had 165 guys going up, and when we came off on Oct. 26, we had 42 who hadn't been injured or killed."
U.S. forces already had repelled the North Korean army almost to the Yalu River, the border with China, causing China to send hundreds of thousands of soldiers into the war. With their help, the North Korean forces fought their way back south.
That's how the war went, inch by inch, mountain by mountain, with one side advancing north of the 38th parallel, then moving back south of it, leading to eventual stalemate.
"There are a lot of things you can't forget," Anderson said. "I can remember days and times vividly. I can see them all in my mind. I did for years. I had that post-traumatic stress."
He has returned to Korea twice since his retirement. From the DMZ, he has viewed Heartbreak Ridge and sites of other long-ago battles, now overgrown and quiet, just patches of rugged countryside in North Korea.
"The DMZ is like a movie," he said. "It's surreal. They're standing there, the North Korean and South Korean soldiers, trying to look tough. They're maintaining vigilance along that line.
"And here are all kinds of tourists going up to look."
A matter of honor
Val Soto won't go back.
At 81, he's a retired forklift operator who spent almost 25 years in the Air Force. But in 1953, as the Korean War slowly drew to an end, he was a kid from Oakland manning a radar van near the front lines that helped direct bombers to reach their targets.
Late that spring, attached to the 5th Marine Division two dozen miles outside Panmunjom, his crew was overrun by North Korean soldiers.
"Infiltrators came through our lines looking for the little piece of radar on the van," said Soto, who lives in Sacramento. "They hit us all night."
The attack left him wounded in the leg and head: To this day, he's not sure exactly what happened. When he woke up on a troop train, he couldn't see. Surgery at a military hospital eventually restored his sight.
He was still hospitalized when the armistice was signed.
"They called the war a 'peace action,' " he said. "You see movies about World War II and Vietnam, but there's very little about Korea.
"It's forgotten, but we know what we went through."
They sacrificed. The forgotten warriors left their buddies and part of their own youth behind in a land far from home. They live now with the ailments of old age as well as the ailments left by their war, such as neuropathy and bone damage related to frost injuries.
But they served.
Before he volunteered for the Special Forces unit, John Connor was part of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's honor guard in Tokyo.
"I got a letter there one day from my childhood buddy who'd gone to Korea," Connor said. "He said, 'For God's sake, don't come here.' He was horrified by the carnage.
"But going was a matter of honor."
A week later, his friend was reported missing in action. He's still listed as MIA today.


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Today on Becca's Books, I'm thrilled to be sharing my Q&A with Avon author Kerry Fisher for my stop on the fabulous blog tour! We chat about Kerry's latest novel The Island Escape!
Kerry, what was your journey to publication like? How long did it take you to get there?
It took me hundreds of rejections, five years and three novels. Two are now published – The School Gate Survival Guide and The Island Escape. The first one was a bunch of characters moving from the restaurant to the beach in Italy in search of a plot, so that won't ever see the light of day!
Where were you when you found out about the book deal with Avon? How did you feel once you'd heard the news?
After five years of searching for an agent, I was offered representation by the wonderful Clare Wallace at Darley Anderson. When I got home from that meeting, there was a two-book deal from Avon in my inbox (I'd approached an editor there directly). I was astounded really – I couldn't believe that after five years I'd got an agent and a book deal on the same day.
The Island Escape isn't your first novel. Could you perhaps tell us a little bit about your previous novel, for any readers who are just now being introduced to you?
My debut, The School Gate Survival Guide, came out last year. It's a funny take on school gate snobbery – a modern day My Fair Lady. A cleaner inherits enough money to send her children to a posh private school and it's the story of how her family adapt to an über-competitive, incredibly affluent environment.
Your upcoming novel The Island Escape looks and sounds absolutely divine, and I'm seriously looking forward to escaping! Within the book, your character Octavia is curious as to how different her life turned out to be. Have you ever felt this way? Would you ever change anything if you had the chance?
One thing I'm so clear about is that any man 'who got away' in my life got away for a very good reason! Though I am slightly surprised to find myself living in suburban Surrey with a husband, two kids and a dog. I spent the whole of my twenties living in Europe, changing country or city on a whim. If anything, I do wish I'd settled down a bit sooner and had my kids a bit younger. On the plus side, I'd definitely satiated any need to go to a night club ever again so when I did have kids, I didn't feel there was this massive social whirl I was missing out on.
Would you say that there's a theme of second-chance love within The Island Escape? There's definitely a hint to a past romance in the blurb!
Second-chance love definitely features. I suppose I became fascinated by the fact that the internet makes it so easy to track down random people from your past. If you were dissatisfied with your marriage, finding a long-lost love on Facebook could lead to all sorts of trouble.
I think if I could escape to anywhere, Hawaii would be my ultimate destination. How about yours?
I'm not a big sun-worshipper as I burn so easily but I do love Australia. It's the sheer variety of things to do, plus the diversity of animals and plants that attract me.
Your cover for The Island Escape works so beautifully with the ideas presented within your novel. How did you feel when you first set eyes on it? Was it everything that you'd hoped for?
You could safely trap my artistic ability in a matchbox so I am always so relieved that someone has responsibility for coming up with covers – it is still a major factor in how well a novel sells. I thought The Island Escape cover was perfect for the summer market, the sort of book you'd want to pick up in an airport bookshop.
Do you believe that as we grow older we lose bits of our younger selves?
I think we get less carefree. It's almost impossible not to because you gain more responsibilities, especially if you have children and your time/finances/freedom become more restricted. Having said that, I think you also gain a lot with life experience – now I don't give a hoot about things I used to lose sleep over when I was younger. And I've also weeded out the people who make me feel bad about myself.
Have you travelled a lot, Kerry? If so, where have you been?
I lived in Spain, Corsica and Italy during my twenties, before coming back to Britain to retrain as a journalist. Pre-children I was a travel journalist and guidebook author – nowhere near as glamorous as it sounds. I wrote books about Corfu, Spain, Italy and Australia. Every year I try to go somewhere new - but more and more I'm falling in love with Britain – Norfolk, Cornwall, Suffolk…there's so much to see on our own doorstep.
What other themes can we expect to come across in The Island Escape?
One of the basic premises of the book when I was planning The Island Escape was 'Can one woman's marriage survive her best friend's divorce?' I noticed that divorce often had an unpredictable knock-on effect in friendship groups.
How long did it take you to fully complete writing your latest novel?
It doesn't seem to matter whether I dawdle or fly along – the result is always the same – about a year.
How are you expecting readers to feel whilst lost in The Island Escape?
I hope that it'll make them feel young, perhaps a bit nostalgic at times and remind them of what it's like to be in love in that all-consuming, 'can't think about anything else' sort of way…Ultimately I set out to write a feel-good novel about friendship and love, with the gorgeous location of Corsica as a backdrop, so I hope I've been successful.
If you were stranded on a desert island and you could only have one person with you, who would that person be?
If it was a question of survival, I can't say my husband because he's not very practical. I'm the one who checks the tyres and oil, fixes the shower and unblocks drains. I'd probably say my best friend, Maria. We've had some terrible travelling disasters and always managed to see the funny side.
When you're not writing, where else would we find you?
I do love to cook, so probably in my kitchen trying out more 'superfood' recipes. They usually engender a 'yuk' response in my children, though even I have to admit my recent avocado and mint ice cream and black bean brownies were pretty rank.
What are you favourite things to do when the summer months are upon us?
I used to think gardening was for people who had no social life or too much time on their hands, but there's nothing I like more than pottering about, admiring my lupins and deadheading geraniums. I still can't believe how much joy a £2.99 packet of poppy seeds can bring. We live on a big windy hill that's a total mud pit in the winter so I do love to make the most of the summer and have lots of friends over for barbecues and wine.
Are you already working on your next book? Are we allowed any hints as to what we'll be reading next by you?
I've finished my next book - it's about how small secrets become bigger and more toxic as they pass down the generations, interspersed with a wry look at the challenges of parenting teenagers!
Do you have any top tips for aspiring writers out there?
Take classes, read books about writing, go to workshops to equip yourself with as much knowledge as possible. Be prepared to hear and act on the feedback from people you trust. Accept that rejection is part of the process of getting published. Network in real life as well as on line. Be generous-spirited and support other authors even if you're wildly envious!
Where is your favourite place to write? Is there somewhere specific that you retreat to?
I've tried all sorts of places but as unglamorous as it is, I work best in Starbucks. I drop my kids at school and drive straight there so I don't get distracted by the never-ending toffee pot of things to do at home.
Is the writer life the life for you?
That's a very interesting question. Every time I've set myself a professional goal in my life, when I've reached it, I've always had a slight feeling of 'Oh dear, I'm not sure this is what I really wanted to do.' Now I feel absolutely convinced that novel-writing is my dream job, but I'm very realistic about how tough it is to be successful. Sitting down and getting words on a page is obviously crucial – but marketing, networking and building your brand are a fundamental part of a writer's life as well.
Any parting comments?
I'd just like to say thank you so much for having here today – book bloggers are incredibly generous in helping spread the word about authors and their books - and I want you to know how much I appreciate your time.
Kerry, I cannot thank you enough for being here on Becca's Books today! I wish you every success with The Island Escape and I'm sure it will be accompanying many a holiday-goer this summer!


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I work as a Digital Specialist in Conversion Optimisation and Web Analytics. My role is very flexible – currently half my time is dedicated to designing and implementing onsite tracking for a client across 140 sites, 31 countries and 14 brands. This ensures that every website is collecting data and that the relevant people have access to the reports. The second half of my time is divided between live projects. My main responsibility is to project manage and strategise. Any spare time is then dedicated to providing internal and client training sessions, answering technical questions, and working with other people and departments.
What do you do in a typical day?
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What skills and/or qualifications do you need to do your job?
I came to the job with a music degree, which is quite unusual. For my job you need either a good understanding of maths, or a very good understanding of maths formulas in Excel! I would say organisation is key, and a really logical, and methodical mind. Being proactive and knowing how to understand, absorb, and apply information is a very useful skill. Everyone tends to bring an extra skill or two to the table, whether it be web design, web development, presentation skills, organisation, Excel, Access, etc. Knowing an instrument seems to be a plus – we have a pianist, drummer, guitarist, violinist, and tuba player!
How did you get into digital media/marketing?
Honestly, I was finishing my masters and was looking out for jobs in 'digital' or computing as I've always been interested in it. Neil picked up my CV and invited me to an interview in the SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) department, I got the job and moved to London! From there I then got more into it as I learnt about the type of areas that are available to progress in.
What are the career prospects?
It's definitely a 'worlds your oyster' type office. If you are willing to put in the hours and learn about and around what you do, then you can progress pretty quickly. There is extensive training in all areas of media, and often it is possible to move into a different department or shadow individuals to further your knowledge and career. Some individuals even move one of our sister agencies in a different country. I have recently been accepted on an internal high performance program – 'Route 500', which helps you to progress quickly and provides support. With a company as big as mine, there are definitely a lot of prospects out there.
What advice would you give to someone looking to follow your path?
The biggest piece of advice is to only follow this path if you have a genuine interest, not only in directly what you do but also in digital. The work is very fast paced, and there is so much to learn, it is really important to just get stuck in. Also be organised from the start in your approach to work, and network! It is really important to know everyone in the office, from the receptionist to the guy in PPC.


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How well are we doing in getting people who need this help into treatment for their drinking problems? It's a question whose importance was signified by an estimate for 2004 that there would have been 794 fewer deaths had one in five dependent drinkers been treated with medications versus a zero treatment rate. Numbers avoiding illness would have been considerably greater. As we'll see, depending on where you draw the line, England's performance in ensuring needy drinkers enter treatment can look anywhere from an abysmal 7% to an excellent 44%. Line-drawing is a matter of judgement and perhaps too of motivation – of how you want to portray performance, and in turn whether you want to argue for more services or that need is already largely being met. But at least we can be as clear as possible about the facts on which these judgements are made.
The following analysis focuses on England which has both the best figures and dominates the UK population; Scotland seems to doing much better at meeting treatment need. The analysis also glosses over complicating factors including trends in dependent and harmful drinking since 2007, conflating estimates for different years. It is presented as a ball-park indication not necessarily of absolute numbers and proportions, but of the degree to which these alter under different assumptions of what counts as being 'in need of treatment'.
Let's start with how many are in treatment, using England as our example. There about 115,000 adults were in specialist alcohol treatment during 2013/14. Based on a 2007 survey which still seems the latest source, this amounts to about 7% of all 1.6 million drinkers experiencing harm from their drinking.
We can narrow this down further to the approximately 1 million adults who according to NICE, Britain's official authority on health interventions, also score as at least mildly dependent on alcohol. On this basis, numbers in treatment represent about 11% of dependent drinkers who might need this help. One serious concern over this estimate is that by design, the questionnaire used to assess dependence was not based on clinical criteria.
Putting that concern to one side, results from this questionnaire can be used to narrow down further to the numbers who perhaps really ought to be in treatment. In 2011 NICE calculated that in England 260,000 adults were not just 'mildly' dependent or drinking in ways which were harming them, but were moderately dependent or worse. Accepting this figure as the in-need population suggests that numbers in treatment represent 44% of those whose condition 'really' justifies intensive help.
Now we have a range from treatment capturing numbers equivalent to just 7% of harmful drinkers to capturing nearly half of those also at least moderately dependent. The lower figure can be justified as the percentage of all those who might need help, the higher as perhaps closer to those who really do need treatment to overcome their dependence. That higher figure gains support from US findings that three-quarters of dependent drinkers remit without treatment and just 10% most clearly need and most often access this kind of help. NICE also appears to draw the line nearer to (and perhaps even above) the moderate dependence level, which would imply that England has the capacity to treat over 40% of the in-need population.
We might further constrict the population in need of treatment if we accepted the view that diagnosing an alcohol use disorder requires not just harm from drinking, but evidence that rather than having freely chosen this penalty, the individual is pathologically impaired in their ability to control their drinking. Compared to standard clinical criteria for dependence, applying this 'harmful dysfunction' diagnosis to US figures slashed the numbers calculated as potentially in need of treatment, and the proportion whose need had not yet been met by treatment services – the latter from 34% over their lifetimes to just 4%.
All these estimates of unmet need are based on access to specialised treatment for drinking problems. One reason why unmet need is not necessarily as large as it appears is that structured specialist treatment is not the totality of support available to problem or dependent drinkers nor the only way out of even severe drinking problems.
Fortunately we have specific guidance on what counts for Britain as good record for getting in-need drinkers into treatment; less fortunately, its provenance makes it of doubtful validity.
In 2009 the UK Department of Health estimated that provision should be made for 15% of dependent drinkers to access specialist treatment, a figure accepted by NICE. The origin of this figure was a Canadian model of treatment demand based on a model published in 1976 and developed for the US state of Nebraska.
Though perhaps of local applicability, this model does not seem to warrant elevation to an international guide. Its denominator for the population in need of specialised alcohol treatment was derived not from an assessment of harm or dependence, but purely of consumption – the number aged 15 or over who drank at least 475g of alcohol a week, about 59 UK units. The top part of the fraction – the target number for treatment during a year – was not based on an assessment of the proportion of these drinkers who might profit from treatment, but on the relapse rate (defined as return to drinking) after treatment and the annual increase in the prevalence of alcohol dependence, in the source study estimated respectively as two-thirds and 10%. To keep pace with relapse of treated alcoholics and the expanding population of newly dependent drinkers, it was estimated that 15% of the population in need of treatment would have to be treated each year.
So while we may suspect that capturing 115,000 of England's problem drinkers in treatment is not enough, there is no clear way to determine whether and the degree to which this is the case. Good waiting time figures have (in respect of drug addiction treatment) been used as an indicator that treatment supply is keeping up with demand. Good waiting times for alcohol treatment may mean the same, but perhaps only because need is not reflected in demand because dependent drinkers are divorced from routes to treatment – much as a hungry population may not result in demand for bread if they can't find their ways to the bakers or don't like the bread they bake.
That this is at least partly the case was suggested by a report on alcohol treatment in England in 2011/12. It expressed concern at how few people had successfully been referred to specialist treatment by GPs or accident and emergency departments, despite the fact that around one in five people seeing a GP is drinking at risky levels, and an estimated 35% of emergency attendances are alcohol-related: "An aim for the coming years is that these two key routes will become more active in identifying and referring people who need treatment for harmful drinking and alcohol dependency".
If there was cause for concern then, there was even more cause in subsequent years. Referrals from GPs fell from 14,330 in 2011/12 to bottom at 13,541 the following year, only partially recovering to 13,864 in 2013/14 chart. From 22%, since 2008/09 the proportion of all treatment entrants accounted for by GPs seems to have fallen each year, ending at 17% in 2013/14. Accident and emergency department numbers and proportions are both up, but from a very low base, peaking in 2013/14 at 1268 patients, equating to 1.6% of all referrals – still a small proportion of the potential. From a peak of 15,900 in 2009/10, in 2013/14 these two sources accounted for 15,132 treatment starts in 2013/14; as a proportion of all treatment starts, the trend has consistently been down from 23% in 2008/09 to 19% in 2013/14.
For more on how many of the in-need population are in treatment run the full search on all countries or limit to the UK.
This entry was based on cell E2, one of 25 cells in the Alcohol Treatment Matrix constructed by Drug and Alcohol Findings for the Substance Misuse Skills Consortium. This and the corresponding Drug Treatment Matrix map treatment sectors and influences which might affect impact, and for each sub-territory (a cell) list the most important UK-relevant research, reviews and guidance.
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Obama will deliver his take on the State of the Union tonight, and while Congress has bickered about bipartisan seating, it doesn't matter where anyone sits because the profiteers who define what's possible in our politics have already barred any serious solution to what ails us.
We know what the problem is: Jobs. 15 million still unemployed. A National Journal piece last week noted that the Great Recession wiped out what amounts to every U.S. job created in the 21st century. And jobs had already been leaving -- for three decades.
That's a bipartisan problem -- remember who passed NAFTA, which first opened the floodgates. As a commentator with the hardly radical Hoover Institute told the Journal -- Instead of reinvesting the gains of globalization in improved plants or a higher quality of life work in the US, private companies privatized the profits and hired abroad. Driving down wages for them, and us.
Now as cheap production's boosting profits again, as Heidi Shierholz reminded GRITtv yesterday, while CEOs are smiling, communities are frozen, cold as ice. And again big business is promoting trade.
Abroad, "That's where the customers are," the president said last week, and with a jobs-czar like Jeffrey Immelt the GE CEO at his side -- we're going to hear a lot more of that.
But trade's not fixed, it's fouled us up. The spoils have gone to shareholders, and to spending on jobs abroad -- and politics -- thank you, Supreme Court.
As a result, government's done nothing: neither through taxes nor through regulations. The traditional tools for evening the playing field -- government regulation, economic planning, taxes -- have all been turned toxic.
And while bailouts for banks are just fine - safety nets for the rest of us are trashed as socialism and waste. And in place of a community culture, those same profiteers have sold us a celebration of greed and all things private -- while denigrating government and all things public. Think public workers, public spaces, public art.
Obama is just the last in a line of Democratic presidents playing it safe, or making change small enough not to rock any powerful boat. But that's what we've seen for thirty years. And playing safe hasn't been safe at all -- it's played us into a ditch.
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A Novel Variety of Tardigrade found in Japan
A new tardigrade species has been pinpointed in Japan. A study on the matter was published recently in a scientific journal. Tardigrades are basically very small metazoans.
They are spread all around the planet and in Japan alone there are 167 species of these tiny creatures. The Macrobiotus hufelandi was identified a long time ago but there are many subtypes as well as the researchers found out.
The novel species is known as Macrobiotus shonaicus sp. nov. and it hails from East Asia. The researchers found this tardigrade within a small amount of moss that was growing in a park in Japan.
Ten such tardigrades were identified in this sample. They were added to a culture in a petri dish within lab settings. Then phase contrast light microscopy (PCM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEP) were used to examine the DNA sequences of these tardigrades.
The new species was identified with ease. Where it was situated in the phylogenetic matrix was also determined though with some difficulty.
The researchers especially paid attention to the eggs of the species. The new species has solid eggs with a hard surface. This places it firmly in the persimilis group.
These eggs furthermore have many filaments attached to them. This feature is such that it makes them similar to two other species that are extant in Africa and South America.
Now the species of tardigrades in Japan have increased from 167 to 168. That is an addition of one. Research on the species known as tardigrades began in 1834.
The egg morphology in tardigrades was later on identified to be divided into two typologies. Tardigrades are known to be very strange creatures since you cannot kill them. Also they easily turn into glass and have been known to survive the freezing vacuum of outer space too.
The study about the discovery of new tardigrade species got published on February 28, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Daniel Stec from the Jagiellonian University, Poland, and colleagues.


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