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He had come down from State College to recruit Eddie Drummond, a speedster you may remember from his pro-bowl days as a special teams guru for Detroit. Joe Pa's visit was the "ceremonial appearance" most people only get to read about in books or watch in movies. The recruiting process was completed and exhausted, now it was time for the closer. Enter Paterno. It was not a surprise when Drummond, a Pennsylvania boy, signed on the dotted line and became a Nittany Lion.
History and recollection can change over time. I remember that day being so exciting and surreal. I got to see a football legend in-the-flesh, and listen to him speak whatever he was speaking - It was loud so you couldn't understand most of what he was preaching. The memories of that day held stable and true, until around 8 months ago. Now, every time I think of that moment, seeing Paterno in his glory and comfort with the crowd, I wonder if somewhere, back in the furthest depths of his mind, was there a mini-Joe Pa shouting, "When the hell are you going to confront Jerry and fix what you know needs to be fixed!?"
The barrage and saturation of the Jerry Sandusky trial, and aftermath of the verdict, will splatter the television screen for months to come. Not only the sports networks, but also major news outlets will dissect this thing like a frog in 8th grade. Analysts, legal and non, will get in their 15 minutes of in-fame with jargon and hearsay, and mix in arguments for what needed to be done vs, what will be done. As extreme as it sounds, this 24/7 coverage and blog-blabbing may be the exact remedy needed for this case, and the sensitive subject matter carried.
The issue with steroids in baseball floated around the locker rooms of the MLB, and minor leagues, for many years like a fog, dissipating as soon as wind of investigation or media-prying blew in. The problem was there, but not acknowledged. It wasn't until Jose Canseco's book, and the coverage and over-coverage, that people stared to pay attention to the issue. Now, steps are being taken to clean up the game and rid baseball of performance-enhancers, completely. Call him what you would like, but Jose helped solidify a movement that has caused change in the game, for the absolute and un-arguable betterment of the sport.
The act of child sex abuse has happened, is happening, and will happen to many children, in all areas. Sports or not, covering the Sandusky case, and what is to become of him, should not be looked at like a spectacle to fill news-hours. View it as the red-flag that has been ignored for too long. Hopefully, other kids will see this, along with adults, and a movement towards the betterment of life can begin. The testimonies of the abused should not be occurring twenty years after-the-fact. It should happen immediately, and with the right steps, never again.
There is not enough time in the world to give a personal vendetta of the written scribble on Sandusky. I am not an insider-psychologist and I am not a Catholic Priest. What little I know does not make me the golden-badged expert people sometimes anoint themselves in any major issue. I do know that change needs to happen, and quickly. Keeping kids out of sports for fear of concussions is one thing, keeping kids out of sports for fear of sexual abuse by their coach is another.


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The Hon. Dr Sharman Stone MP
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage
Federal Member for Murray
Mr Barry Haase MHR
Federal Member for Kalgoorlie
21 July 2004
Weather forecasts in the Pilbara region are set to benefit with an upgrade of Port Hedland's weather watch radar.
Dr Sharman Stone, Parliamentary Secretary with Ministerial responsibility for the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said the upgrade of the radar at the existing radar site at Port Hedland Airport will serve to maintain the high standard of the tropical cyclone warning service in this very cyclone-prone area of Australia.
"The Pilbara area regularly experiences some of Australia's fiercest tropical cyclones including cyclone Fay last March," Dr Stone said.
"The weather watch radar will provide meteorologists with detailed images of the intensity and movement of rain echoes, supplementing the full observational program carried out by the staff of the Port Hedland Meteorological Office."
"It will afford the Port Hedland community timely warning of approaching cyclones as well as assisting in the general detection of thunderstorms and rain. It is expected to be fully operational later this year."
Dr Stone said the Port Hedland radar was one of 15 weather watch radars to be replaced or upgraded across Australia, together with six new Doppler radars, under a $62.2 million Federal Government project over five years. The Bureau is now calling for expressions of interest from local and outside contractors for work to begin on installing the new radar equipment.
Federal Member for Kalgoorlie, Barry Haase, welcomed the news and said the upgrade reflected the Federal Government's commitment to delivering quality meteorological services to rural and regional Australia.
"This is a significant upgrade for the region's weather surveillance capabilities, and complements the highly successful improvements made to the Learmonth Radar station near Exmouth," said Mr Haase.
"This means that Port Hedland will have one of the most modern weather surveillance facilities in Australia. It's all about supporting residents of the Pilbara and those who choose to live in regional Australia."
Dr Stone praised Mr Haase who has been a major supporter of the Bureau of Meteorology in his electorate and the upgrade at Port Hedland.
"Mr Haase understands the importance to the local community of improved weather services. He continues to work hard to ensure that the Kalgoorlie electorate has access to some of the best meteorological facilities and services in the nation," Dr Stone said.


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Five Great Panama Canal Travel Attractions
The Panama Canal does more than link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Between a unique environment shaped by the canal, two coasts mere hours apart, and a history that combines indigenous, American and European influences, Panamas unique mixture reaches its fullest expression around the Canal itself, but also makes itself known throughout the country. The watchword is diversity. Panama probably contains the most densely packed variety of environments, people, and visual attractions in the world. There are few places where you can visit two oceans in a day without ever getting on a plane. Here are five things that make Panama and the Panama Canal an unforgettable travel destination.
Miraflores Locks: The Miraflores Locks are the defining feature of the Panama Canal. They are used to raise and lower massive ships in transit from one ocean to the other. The locks are so essential to global shipping that vessels are built to fit the locks dimensions almost exactly these are called the Panamax class. It really is amazing to watch titanic vessels clear the locks with extreme precision, leaving just a few inches of clearance on either side.
Fishing on Lake Gatun: Lake Gatun is an essential part of the canal system. It not only provides passage, but serves as a massive reservoir of water for lock operations. Its a man-made wonder, dotted with islands that used to be hills, before damming and canal construction made the lake what it is today. But Gatun isnt just pretty; it has some of the worlds finest fishing, including numerous peacock bass. Its probably the only place in the world where you can fish at a lake while huge cruise ships drift by.
Fort San Lorenzo: Built in the late 16th Century, Fort San Lorenzo has a storied, bloody history. The fort was built by the Spanish, raided by Sir Francis Drake, captured by Henry Morgan in his bloody sack of Old Panama and used by the Spanish again as a fort and a prison, before finally falling to ruins. A tour of the area is practically mandatory, because youd be hard-pressed to walk along the same trails as so many famous and infamous historical figures.
The Gamboa Rainforest: Gamboa used to be a bustling town, built up in the titanic effort to build the Panama Canal. Now its chiefly known for its nature resort, where tourists can explore the Panamanian rainforest from canopy level by aerial tram. The dense rainforest is filled with toucans, howler monkeys and hundreds of other species. This is one of the most practical opportunities to explore the rainforest ecology available.
Panama City: Begin or end your trip with Panama City, one of the most exciting cultural centers in the Americas. This unique cultural blend is very friendly to Americans in fact, many Americans retire here. The US dollar is accepted currency and theres always something to do by day or night. Its not all about urban fun, however; visit the Metropolitan Park to see tapir, puma, alligators and other tropical species just minutes away.


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Riot Games on the verge of legal action with recent DDoS attacks from hackers
I admit it. I occasionally play some video games now and then. I wouldn't quite classify myself as a gamer per se, but I've been known to rally the troops in a game of Modern Warfare 3. Perhaps things even got a bit tense around the office during lunch time. Of course, that tends to happen when you're pantomiming the "raise the roof" dance while shouting "in yo face" at your coworkers. Winning streaks tend to invoke the strangest outbursts.
Of course, the losing side of the equation usually becomes … well, irritable. Riot Games knows all too well what some bad apples will do when they're on the wrong side of winning. This week they found themselves on the wrong side of a Distributed Denial of Service attack. Apparently, some players began using DDoS attacks to knock live games offline. The hackers were targeting League of Legends. The game, owned by Riot, has been dubbed the most popular online PC game and has been featured in Entrepreneur.
The attacks began earlier this week. Riot Games had this to say:
"As some of you have recently experienced, a handful of players have been attacking our live service to kill games that are in-progress. They're doing this through a form of Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS) and not a hack," Bellissimoh, a developer with the company, posted on the official forums.
"We have taken steps to identify these attackers and remove them from our service permanently. Additionally we are pursuing legal avenues and working with the proper authorities," he continued.
"We're doing everything we can to implement short- and long-term solutions to fight these types of activities. When someone's intentionally ruining the experience of other players, we take it very seriously."
It looks like the jig may be up for script kiddies everywhere. The fact is, businesses far and wide are tightening the reigns and fighting for stiffer penalties against hackers threatening their services. This heightened pressure on authorities may help increase prosecution, but DDoS attacks have been picking up in frequency dramatically. Chase, Wells Fargo, and a number of other institutions were attacked earlier this month.
To understand how a DDoS attack works, it's important to understand how your computer sends information. When your computer transmits data online it is essentially asking to speak with whatever machine or server you are attempting to connect to. When the second machine receives the communication it responds back to let your computer know it got the message. Think of it as you asking someone if they can talk and they say "yes". This is called a handshake. Now the information that is being sent back and forth is referred to as packets. The name sounds exactly like what they are – tiny bits of information sealed up with a date and return address, just like a letter. Once both parties get their mail, the conversation can continue.
A more technical explanation of the process can be explained this way: The first packet sent as part of the "handshake" protocol is referred to as the SYN packet, short for synchronize. The receiving machine responds back with an ACK packet, or acknowledge packet bundled with another SYN packet. The original conversation-starter replies with a final ACK, and then the conversation can start. The computer who sends both the SYN and the ACK at the same time sends a combined packet, usually referred to as SYN/ACK. This makes the protocol a three-packet protocol: SYN, SYN/ACK, then lastly, ACK.
Most hackers focus on manipulating network protocol.
A denial of service attack takes advantage of the "handshake" – you remember what that is right? Well, what happens is the first packet is sent to the target computer and from there the same process occurs – except this time, when the computer responds back telling the sender it's ready to communicate the message is ignored. Instead, more communication requests are sent. What this does is tie up processing resources as the target machine repeatedly fields illegitimate requests. This keeps the machine so busy that it is unable to respond to legitimate users. Distributed denial of service attacks amplify the problem and have the potential to drain large amounts of resources, eventually causing performance lag and failure. This keeps the machine so busy that it is unable to respond to requests from people actually trying to access the site.
What the future holds
After the recent debacle with the alleged Iran hacker group attacking Chase, and the recent string of attacks on other institutions, businesses and individuals are recognizing the problem. In the past few months, the most notable attacks have been on WikiLeaks, Chase, Wells Fargo – and now a video game. The pure randomness only goes to show how common this is becoming. DDoS protection and mitigation, at least for businesses, may just very well be as needed as the antivirus software installed on your computer.
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A landscape dominated by majestic mountains and a bustling harbor unfolds as it sneaks under the Lions Gate Bridge and out to sea. Great blue herons and bald eagles nest in the towering cedars here. Canada geese joust with swans for territory in the park's Lost Lagoon. An icon in the world's collection of postcard-perfect city parks, Stanley Park is North America's third-largest park and a National Historic Site. Join the locals to walk, jog, or blade around the stunning sea wall that surrounds the massive Stanley Park. Book a tennis game or play pitch-and-putt. Check out the totems, visit the Vancouver Aquarium or take a horse-drawn carriage ride. Or ramble down its leafy lanes, enjoying the canopy of Vancouver's old-growth city forest.
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BiPolarBoomkin said...
Many tomatoes were thrown, enough to open a ketchup factory... But it was worth it. Worth it enough to present a possible warcry that didn't exclude the newer races who would only raise an eyebrow to worthy cries such as 'For Lordaeron!', 'Remember Theremore!' or 'Lothar!'
... Not everyone in the Alliance fights for only the Light, or only for Glory, and in battle, grammar means little. In battle, you shout what is in your heart, and that's what came out for me. I am glad there are others whose hearts ring along with with what's on display, giving me a little more hope that one day, we will truly be proud of this mighty faction that is simply caught in the Horde's shadow.
Never forget. Never surrender. For Light and Glory, brothers.
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I have a friend who imported about 2.5 Liters of Ketamine into the US in 2004. Is she still prosecutable under either New York State or Federal law?
Under new York state law there is a five year statute of limitations. Under federal law it would be five years of the most recent act of a provable conspiracy. A face to face consultation with a criminal attorney might be best. Good luck.
Generally, the statute of limitations is 5 years for state and Fed's.
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5 years but if it was part of any on-going conspiracy it could come in.
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At my new position at Plemi, I want to optimize the continuous integration flow. Last week, I had a pretty interesting conversation with Mathieu Nebra, we discussed about our same quest: best ROI through the development flow. I also had an awesome experience with Antoine Guiral (the man behind twoolr), we shared a "lean startup" friday night around a very interesting project.
In my previous article, I introduced a pragmatic Git flow. A first step in the flow focused on the local environment of the developer. I like to start this post with a personal, yet simple consideration : "the trust in your development team is reflected by your CI flow".
It's very reductive but the github flow is a perfect example. It's composed of only one master stable branch and several feature branches, the production flow is deadly simple. However Github uses Github (dog fooding for the win) and this flow strategically relies on it own awesome feature called pull request. Sadly, I can't afford to use github everywhere for many -good and bad- reasons. So I tried to set up a flow with a self-hosted git repository coupled to our continuous integration server
Overview of the development flow
- A Developer works on their local git repository in a dedicated feature branch
- He pushes often as he can (min 2 in a day) to the remote feature branch
- The CI builds on every push, merging the trunk and his feature branch
- When a feature is over, the developer merge it back to the trunk
The context and the tools
For the new comer, a quick summary of the tools used in this flow
- Source code management with git
- Branch management is based on the git flow template
- Continuous integration rely on Jenkins
- Code quality rely on Sonar
- I work with PHP, yet the flow can be used in other langage
The flow starts on the developer side
I already wrote on that topic in my previous article. In short, the developer works into a feature branch named against this pattern: "feature.ticketNumber_description". He writes code without worrying about the SCM. Then, he dedicates some time to nicely split his work into several independent commits. If it's needed, he can rebase his local branch. Finally he pushes the commit pack.
On the continuous integration plateform side
We have two jobs for each repository: one for the develop branch and another one for all feature branches. The feature job is configured to build every branch with the pattern "feature.*". Jenkins is notified after each push by a git post-receive hook.
Tip: this hook doesn't start a build, it trigger Jenkins for a SCM polling. In this way Jenkins will start to build only if there is relevant change(s) in the repository. Read the official documentation: "Build by source changes"
Continuous merge
I configured Jenkins to merge locally the lastest pushed branch with the develop branch. This allow an early and cheap detection about merge conflicts.
If Jenkins can't merge automatically, it fails the build and the developer is already aware that he needs to manually merge back the develop branch into his feature branch. He can't delay this conflict resolution because it blocks the CI process: checkstyle, unit tests and coverage won't be available to him until he resolves the merge.
This continuous merge process has the huge advantage to avoid the nightmare of a messy merge while your developer responsible of a shitty conflict is unreachable for an undefined period."
Don't trust Jenkins too much
I don't use "push after a successful build" option provided by Jenkins. Basically, This allows you to automate the integration process: if a build is stable it will push the new modification to a remote branch. Yet, it don't fit our needs since I ask the developer to push everyday. Many features need more than one day to be achieve and I won't let Jenkins push some kind of work in progress.
Don't trust a single developer
I don't rely too much on Jenkins and this is also related to my first quote: I work with a pretty nice team but "I don't trust a single developer" (and even myself!) about building the perfect git log (i.e. the perfect code) in a one shot. We are all new in the company and we need to practice a little bit more with the processes or the new coding standards for example.
Trust your team
Moreover, when I say: "I don't trust a single developer", it's a way to highlight the code review phase. When a feature is closed, it must be fully reviewed and discussed by a technical leader before being merged into the develop branch. This has 2 majors consequences: First I can't let Jenkins automatically merge into the develop branch; second, the technical leader is free to make a final rebase of the feature branch before the merge. This ensures a stable and clean develop branch.
Finally, we have to distinct the 2 usages of develop. Jenkins use this branch locally as an integration branch for each feature while the remote branch reflects the lastest stable version ready to be checked by Q&A and then deployed.
What's next ?Depends on your need, you're free:
- Everything go to the production.
- You launch some stress test on a staging server and then deploy to prod
- You notify your Q&A and expect a final feedback
At our office Q&A check is "asynchronous", it can be delayed from 1 to 3 days. That's why I'm still using the release branch from the git flow template. I freeze develop into release and wait for a Q&A feedback. If it's a green light, I'll deploy the release branch.
I customized the git flow for my need, we don't use the "release" concept because we deploy ASAP each feature. This flow fits perfectly to the AGILE methods. You collect technical metrics sooner and it's simpler to detect and to fix potential problems on a small iteration. Your project manager/product owner collects user feedbacks sooner, easing the business decisions for the next sprints/features
I mentioned 2 jobs for each repository, one job is limited to the develop branch and serves the code quality purpose, metrics from this job are exported to Sonar
Continuous integration is not a new concept in software development, yet it's a trending topic in the PHP community. Actually, the PHP development is evolving to a professional step. AGILE processes are spreading the web development world and so the continuous integration becomes a real business need.
This is a short and condensed introduction to the continuous integration in PHP. My next posts will cover deeply some parts. The main purpose of this blog is to provide keywords and concepts to ease your research.
I discovered the test-driven development more than 3 years ago in the symfony 1 documentation. This framework embeds a rudimentary, but efficient, test suite called lime. Frankly the tools don't matter without the real will to improve your code quality.
The first question for many companies is: how much will it cost?
The long version : how much time/money will I have to spend to get a more reliable product or service? For this wrong paradigm, my answer is a reversed approach: could you estimate precisely the time/money lost without a continuous integration process?
To be honest, for lightweight projects, it's still possible to evaluate the maintenance cost. But for huge projects using legacy-hard-coupled code, it's a nightmare.
The customer, the boss or the developers love a bug tracker when it's empty. The idea behind Test Driven Development (TDD) is to test your application before the release instead of fixing it after. Yes, it's an extra cost on development estimated to 20% by Hugo Hamon from Sensio.But try to estimate the cost of your maintenance time and compare it. With the classic Blind Development you can't predict it, since you have no reliable metrics on your application.
Test-driven development and continuous integration come to the rescue and don't only allow a correct planning, it also reduces the number of "friday's night emergency fix of the magic bug". In short, everybody is happy : the customer, the boss, the wife and thus you too.
Unit test, functional test, acceptance test… These are answers which could and must be combined to match your need. Below is a quick summary and a tool kit for each purpose.
If you're new to TDD or if you have short deadline : focus on unit tests. It's the first mandatory step for the backend development which will reward you greatly. For php, consider phpUnit which is the actual standard, but keep also an eye on atoum. I believe that Behavior Driven Development should be use for acceptance, yet phpspec, mentioned by @andhos on twitter, offers a different approach : it's a BDD framework focused on unit testing.
Sometimes you will need to test your whole application and probably by the presentation layer (i.e. almost like an user). Two solutions are available, first "Headless browser emulators" which are fast and reductive test focused on raw http output (See Goutte or Zombie.js). A second option are "Browser controllers" which simulate navigation with advanced js for example; you can use Sahi which replaced the famous Selenium.
To go further, look at Mink. It's a web acceptance test framework based on the behavior test framework Behat (a port from cucumber in php). Mink provides an abstract layer for the web acceptance test which could be then executed by any tools mentioned above.
Beyond the test, lot of metrics can be collected about your code like cyclomatic complexity, duplicated code, coupled code… Furthermore, code standards should be controlled by a tool rather than an human eye. See Pdepend, phpmd (Mess Detector), phpCPD (duplicated code)…
Testing is one purpose, automating test is another one.
Let me introduce the gentleman called Jenkins (previously called Hudson), an open source java CI server. It's the standard in this business. Sonar is another CI server, also in java, providing a nicer web GUI than Jenkins and maybe the nicest web GUI on the market for this concern. Finally, 2 new comers, first Travis CI a PaaS solution perfectly plugged with github, it's a very sexy beta software. Second, mentioned in the comment by Pedro Mata-Mouros, an interesting solution called Cintient. It's a beta but it seems to provide a cool UI with a minimal setup flow. I have to try it, yet expect a feedback on this blog soon.
For the deployment, only one answer : Capistrano. An unvaluable ruby tool for automated deployment processes.
Last thing, PHP is open-source like all the tools mentioned in this post. Most are hosted on github and provide a pear package. So now, you have no excuse to don't start right now to improve your developments.
EDIT : thanks to the comments, I'll added Cintient CI server.


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Brooks Forester received a lot of criticism for breaking Desiree Hartsock's heart but it seems that he isn't letting that stop him from getting involved with another woman from "The Bachelor." OK! magazine reported on Wednesday, Jan. 8, that a photo has surfaced of Brooks holding hands with a woman currently competing for Juan Pablo Galavis's heart.
Current "Bachelor" contestant Amy Long and Alexis Morgado, who was sent home on Monday night's episode, partied with Brooks Forester and Michael Garofola on New Year's Eve. The photo shows all four sitting on a couch together, with Amy and Alexis in between Brooks and Michael. While everyone could just be friends, Brooks and Amy are holding hands.
If the two are dating, they're certainly trying their best not to reveal it.
"Bringing in the New Year w/ @tyburton2 @mgarofol @amylong7117 @alexismorgado Happy New Year to all of you!!" Brooks captioned an Instagram photo from that night. The photo, however, only shows him with Michael and another male friend.
Amy Long isn't revealing anything either. She posted a photo on Instagram on New Year's Eve of her, Alexis and Michael, minus Brooks.
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China is the elephant in the situation room
Earlier this month the National Intelligence Council released its Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds report — a document that comes out once per presidential administration — mapping out likely geopolitical trends over the next two decades or so. As usual, it's a must-read, offering comprehensive analysis of the disparate factors that will drive global politics through 2030.
Further, the NIC took bold steps to correct some previous weaknesses in past reports. In the past the report nailed the "what" more often than the "when." That is particularly the case with its treatment of the United States, for which "past works assumed U.S. centrality." This time around the NIC sets an increasingly "multi-polar world" — which I call the G-Zero — as the backdrop of its report, acknowledging that the lack of global leadership has accelerated in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008-09. America's status as a "hegemonic power" is eroding, and no country is likely to take its place.
This multipolar world is the foundation for the rest of the NIC's predictions. The report is organized around subsections that range in probability: There are the megatrends that are sure to have an effect, the game-changers that could go a number of ways, and the four potential worlds of 2030.
In my opinion, when it comes to probabilities for the future global order, the single biggest variable — both in terms of its importance and its potential variance — is China's rise or lack thereof. If there are twin "gigatrends" that supersede all else, they are China's trajectory and the multipolar world in which it is playing out.
China is mentioned more than 300 times in the report, and the NIC's assertion that "the US-China relationship is perhaps the most important bilateral tie shaping the future" is dead on (though I'd cut the word "perhaps"). But despite China's implicit impact on the report, the NIC doesn't establish it as the twin pillar alongside the multipolar world it vividly describes. Nor do we get a full sense of how a host of negative China surprises could fundamentally alter the world of 2030 as we imagine it.
A look at each subsection of the NIC report demonstrates just how critical China's development is — or should be — in its calculus.
1. Individual empowerment: Reduced poverty, growing middle classes and new communications and technologies will empower individuals around the world.
Individual empowerment is, on balance, a positive global trend. But in China, it is moving along two tracks. There is the increasingly affluent, coastal, urban China, where citizens have access to the Internet and increasingly demand the protections that come with the rule of law, respect for intellectual property rights and tougher environmental standards from their government. In an authoritarian, state capitalist nation, where the central government's priority is to maintain its grip on power, empowered citizens are a wild card. An increasingly affluent population that is demanding more transparency and accountability poses a challenge to regime stability.
On the other hand, there is the half of China that is rural, mainly inland, impoverished and uninformed. Should this group fall further behind, China might face unrest and volatility from the other side of the spectrum. China's two-speed individual empowerment is a more destabilizing dynamic than it may appear.
2. Diffusion of Power: Without a hegemon, power will shift to "coalitions in a multipolar world."
This is spot on. But if power is shifting away from the United States and its allies, where is the bulk of it shifting to? According to the NIC report, China will provide one-third of global growth by 2025, even if its growth rate should slow considerably. As the United States scales back its role on the global stage, the needs of China's economy are tying its leaders ever more tightly to the world's conflict zones.
3. Demographic patterns: We'll see more aging, urbanization and migration.
China is ground zero for all three of these critical demographic trends and the interplay between them. According to some studies, the ratio of Chinese workers per retiree could drop from 8 to 1 today to 2 to 1 by 2040. That's a product of a rapidly aging population — and a one-child policy that will keep the labor force from growing fast enough to keep pace. With "two Chinas," one urban and empowered, the other impoverished and rural, urbanization and migration will cause significant turbulence in China's social and economic fabric.
4. Food, water, energy nexus: "Demand for these resources will grow substantially …"
For the most part, demand from the developing world – mainly China and India ‑ for these resources will drive conflict surrounding them.  Today, China and India are home to 37 percent of the world's population — and just 10.8 percent of its fresh water. Their share of the population will grow — as will demand for water as their middle classes grow.
Food is a similar story. Consider meat, which is particularly grain-intensive (and so requires a lot of water). In 1978, China's overall meat consumption was one-third that of the United States'; today, it's double. China now eats one-quarter of the global supply of meat, or 71 million tons a year. But per capita, it still only consumes one-quarter as much meat as the United States. Expect the gap to close—with dramatic ramifications for global food supplies — as China's middle class grows through 2030.
1, 2, 3. Crisis-prone global economy, governance gap, potential for increased conflict: Will multipolarity lead to a collapse or a greater resilience in the global economy? Will a governance gap between countries' leadership capacities and changing realities overwhelm governments? Will we see more conflict?
Whether a multipolar world makes the global economy more or less volatile will increasingly depend on China's trajectory and the role it chooses to play on the global stage. In terms of the governance gap in China, the NIC notes that there is a chance that demand for democratization will vastly outstrip Beijing's progress in that direction. The NIC sees short- to medium-term volatility arising from rapid democratization—and "a democratic or collapsed China" in the longer term, with the bright possibility for huge gains should China's state structure turn democratic.
Unfortunately, in the case of sweeping democratic change, I just cannot get past that word "collapse."
Think about the Soviet Union in 1991. Then remember that China is on pace to become the world's largest economy. In other words, there are a wide range of possible events in China that would have a starkly different — and enormous — impact on what the world looks like in 2030.
4. Wider scope of regional instability: "Will regional instability, especially in the Middle East and South Asia, spill over and create global insecurity?"
In this section, East Asia gets an honorable mention, but it should be front and center. The NIC aptly explains the regional dynamic: "Regional trends will pull countries in two directions: toward China economically but toward the U.S. and each other for security." As China grows, this balancing act will become unsustainable. And with such an outsized percentage of global growth slated to come from East Asia, this region's issues are the world's issues. I don't mean to give prospects for Middle Eastern and South Asian instability short shrift — they will have their fair share and more. But China and its neighbors are at the center of this trend.
5. Impact of new technologies: Can the advent of new technologies help address global challenges like population growth and climate change?
Technological innovation is a global positive, but its potential to negatively impact China is a substantial piece of the puzzle. Let's focus first on social media and innovation in information and technology. Any trend that scrambles the status quo of public perception and could potentially pierce the Politburo's opacity has the potential to be structurally destabilizing. An estimated 570 million Chinese are on the Internet, and approximately 100,000 log in for the first time each day. Can the government keep pace with the lightning speed of technological innovation? What happens if it can't?
Another field of cutting-edge technology between now and 2030 will be in 3-D printing for manufacturing and robotics. As the NIC explains, these technologies could eliminate low- and middle-wage jobs in developed countries, as has already happened with outsourcing. But what of their impact on a developing nation such as China? A similar "outsourcing" from human labor to a machine equivalent could be hugely disruptive. Machine-driven economic growth could exacerbate the dichotomy between the poor rural China and the rich urban one. What happens when China's most valuable resource — ample cheap labor — becomes the most serious threat to central political control?
6. Role of the United States: "Will the U.S. be able to work with new partners to reinvent the economic system?"
The report correctly depicts the role of the United States as a game-changer, but China could use a parallel section. China and America's global actions will increasingly be informed by the other. The report's question would better read, "Will the U.S. be able to work with countries like China to reinvent the economic system?" Or, if their bilateral relationship proves more contentious, tweak as follows: "Will the U.S. be able to work around China?"
Potential Worlds
In the potential worlds section, we get four distinct global scenarios for 2030 — and a disclaimer that the real outcome will likely contain elements from all of them. On one end of the spectrum, we get a world of Stalled Engines, in which the United States has pulled inward, globalization has largely ceased and the powerhouses of global growth have halted. On the other end, there is Fusion—a world where "China and the U.S. collaborate on a range of issues, leading to broader global cooperation." There are two other scenarios that I won't go into here — take a look at the report itself to read about them.
All the NIC's scenarios are compelling. But China could be better positioned as a key variable and signpost in determining how we get from today to 2030. I structure what comes next based on two simple questions. First, "How collaborative — or hostile — will the United States and China be?" Second, "How multipolar will the world really be — that is, will other countries be weak or powerful in comparison to the U.S. and China?" If the answers are, respectively, "very collaborative" and "very weak in comparison," then we'll see a scenario that resembles Fusion, with a workable U.S.-China G2. If, on the other hand, we see a weaker, more adverse U.S.-China, a scenario like Stalled Engines may be more likely. The bottom line: With its vast size and enormous potential for outsized success or failure, China's trajectory is the true game-changer between today and 2030.
I've only scratched the surface of the NIC report. I highly recommend you read it for yourself. And be sure to look out for China — you can't miss it.
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Ian Bremmer doesn't really understand Chinese culture and fail to put the future of China in a proper perspective.
China is a civilization state and it has a unique force of stabilization through its thousands years culture. Western analysts always ignore the cultural background of the captioned nations and that's why they also fail so bad in the prediction of events after the "Arab Spring".
There's only one mega-trend, and it's neither China nor a multi-polar world order. The one and only mega-trend that rules all others is climate change. Although we may have legitimate short-term concerns with other issues such as political stability in the Middle East, for the long term there is only climate.
To judge from this article, climate is not on the agenda for the NIC, which is so enchanted by its geopolitical savvy that it cannot recognize that its deep knowledge has made it blind to the elephant in the room.
It's the climate, stupid. Nothing else really matters. It doesn't make any sense to talk about economic development in terms of GDP or a rising middle class. It only makes sense to talk about economic development in terms of CO2.
This whole article amounts to nothing more than speculation about rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Thanks for the link to the report. It is very interesting reading. I hope many do.
The reality, which you gloss over in the section entitled " Food, water, energy nexus: "Demand for these resources will grow substantially … Their share of the population will grow — as will demand for water as their middle classes grow. Expect the gap to close—with dramatic ramifications for global food supplies — as China's middle class grows through 2030." is that there aren't enough resources to supply the world with anywhere near OECD standards now, and arguably not enough for everyone to survive on ANY stanards by 2030.
This will translate into "resource wars", unlike your peaceful cooperation scenario.
Frankly, ANY report that purports to predict the future in roughly 20 years from now should be viewed with a high degree of skepticism, which would perhaps have made a better approach for your article than simply to accept it verbatim.
There is no G 2. There is only one super power, believe me, it is market. Market will be the government of the governments, the master of the masters, the lord of the lords and the king of the kings or queens. All the people, all the nations, all the technologies, all the future and all the hot water will knee down in front of market. Market governs everything and anything not only on the planet of earth. Neither person nor nation can live alone. The future is the future of market. Market Is God.
You know it never fails to amaze me how off track this sort of report is. I mean, talk about self serving political garbage. Here's the bottom line, pardner. Oil dependent oil importing economies are dead or dying. Oil exporting economies are surging. Canada's just fine, Norway, Russia, all net energy exporters. The life blood of any country is was and always will be energy. The short term prognosis for ANY oil dependent oil importing economy is, 1) how much is it bleeding cash for energy which is 10 times more expensive than 15 years ago and 2) how much is it in debt which will affect it's ability to change infrastructure to stop bleeding cash and 3) which governments are going to overcome the vested interest driving their economies into the ground.
Answer those questions and you'll have a solid look at the future.
I agree, except "Market as God" should really be "Market as 666″.
Humans driven and dominated by the selfish (and even unreasonable) will continue to expand, spread and spend away resources in their community, their area, their country. The only way for them to survive is to spread to another area, taking the resources and lifelines from someone else and then say "that's why life is".
There will always be excuses to do bad things if the underlying intention is ill. The unreasonable will refuse to treat people the same way they want to be treated, will refuse to respect other's free will, will refuse to consider themselves in other's situation.
War will not be done in a flash, with bullets and explosion. The stealing and robbing will still be there, but it will be done in a slow and steady way. It will not be done with the fist and force but with the slow and firm hug under the 'peaceful' mask.
btw, my comment was not meant to target any country specifically just in case it upsets anybody.
I was talking about a widespread general problem everywhere. Too many people don't know or don't care about their limit. Too many unreasonable people…
I don't think market can solve everything. It must be combined with the government..
I think the report is very easy reading and touches on most economic drivers fairly well. I would love to read one of the real reports (the classified ones). I agree with most perspective in it, though I think they were purposely light on the impact of Israel. I think shortly a war will force the United States to decide if it will truly support Israel. As Winston Churchill eluded to, I think we will support them initially, but then realize that pretty much the rest of the world will be against us, and we will withdraw support. We'll see.
I really doubt much of the "Fusion" world will occur. I think the world will be much closer to the "stalled engine". The Individual Power megatrend is causing a lot of havoc and I think that trend will continue. The most recent challenge to it was soundly beaten back at the UN. The down side of this megatrend is less thoughtful government and more mob rule. I think there is a period of our history shaping up where we find that we are not ready for a truly democratic government where all people have equal input. The world and especially the United States are still far to diversified to have a strong, cohesive voice. It will take many generations for that to occur.
I say this as I troll thru the comments on around a dozen international news sites. The vast majority of comments are still at a personnel and national level of greed. I see extremely few that are global and generous.
As the US becomes a net energy exporter (and shale gas is exploited in other areas) energy becomes less important.
Fresh water will be an issue, environmental degradation and extreme earth/weather events will possibly be game changers. As there is no real market in fresh water, and what people are able to pay for the sort of volume they need is close to nothing per gallon, it is difficult to see how such issues can be addressed. Suffice it to say fresh water issues will put a brake on growth in China, South Asia and the Middle East.
But how China can handle population aging is the really big variable. Much of the West's issue is tied up with an aging population. China faces a much more rapid aging. Just because they don't have government benefits doesn't mean there is no cost to aging. And it will make the costs less predictable and possibly higher.
It is hard to see how any nation can handle all the issues China has coming without major upheaval. Telling the West we don't understand, or that China is a civilisation and we are somehow not (i.e. 'uncivilised') is just silly.
How can a one party state leadership show any level of flexibility? I cannot see the CCP relinquishing power voluntarily. If they do not relinquish power they face the stagnation of rule by committee. Involuntarily power change is called revolution.
China has major issues, the leadership does not have the authority and charisma of Deng Xiaoping, never mind Mao. I see no path forward for China that will not include revolution.


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CHAPTER 9 1. Define compensation and describe the various forms of compensation. Compensation is the total of all rewards provided employees in return for their services. Forms of compensation include direct financial compensation, indirect financial compensation ( benefits), and nonfinancial compensation. 2. Define financial equity and explain the concept of equity in direct financial compensation. Financial equity is workers? perceptions that they are being treated fairly. Forms of compensation equity include external equity, internal equity, employee equity, and team equity. 3. Identify the determinants of direct financial compensation. The organization, the labor market, the job, and the employee all have an impact on job pricing and the ultimate determination of an individual?s financial compensation. 4. Describe the organization as a determinant of direct financial compensation. Compensation policies and ability to pay are organizational factors to be considered. 5. Describe the labor market as a determinant of direct financial compensation. Factors that should be considered include compensation surveys, expediency, cost- of- living increases, labor unions, the economy, and certain federal and state legislation. 6. Explain how the job is a determinant of direct financial compensation. Management techniques used for determining a job?s relative worth include job analy-sis, job descriptions, and job evaluation. 7. Define job evaluation and describe the four traditional job evaluation methods. Job evaluation is a process that determines the relative value of one job in relation to another. In the job evaluation ranking method, the raters examine the description of each job being evaluated and arrange the jobs in order according to their value to the company. The classification method involves defining a number of classes or grades to describe a group of jobs. In the factor comparison method, raters need not keep the entire job in mind as they evaluate; instead, they make decisions on separate aspects or factors of the job. In the point method, raters assign numerical values to specific job factors, such as knowledge required, and the sum of these values provides a quantita-tive assessment of a job?s relative worth. 8. Describe job pricing. Placing a dollar value on the worth of a job is job pricing. 9. Identify factors related to the employee that are essential in determining direct financial compensation. The factors include pay for performance, seniority, experience, membership in the organization, potential, political influence, and luck. 10. Describe team- based pay, company- wide pay plans, professional employee compensation, sales representative compensation, and contingency worker compensation. If a team is to function effectively, firms should provide a reward based on the overall team performance. Organizations normally base company- wide plans on the firm?s pro-ductivity, cost savings, or profitability. Compensation for professionals is for the knowl-edge they bring to the organization. The unstable nature of professional jobs and their salaries results in a heavy emphasis on market data for job pricing. Designing compensa-tion programs for sales employees involves unique considerations. Contingency workers who are employed through an employment agency or on an on- call basis often earn less than traditional employees. Contingency workers who are independent contract work-ers typically earn more. 11. Explain the various elements of executive compensation. In determining executive compensation, firms typically prefer to relate salary growth for the highest- level managers to overall corporate performance. Executive compensa-tion often has five basic elements: ( 1) base salary, ( 2) short- term incentives or bonuses, ( 3) stock option plans, ( 4) executive performance- based pay, and ( 5) perquisites.
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