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If you have urinary incontinence, you might feel embarrassed and alone. But you're not the only one: About 3.4 million men in the U.S. are estimated to be dealing with incontinence right now. And the good news is that you don't have to put up with it. Contrary to what a lot of guys think, urinary incontinence is not a normal sign of aging and it's not inevitable. It's a treatable condition.
Types of Incontinence
Stress incontinence results when physical activity, such as bending, lifting, or coughing, puts pressure on the bladder and triggers leaking. Urge incontinence — caused by the bladder contracting when it shouldn't — triggers a sudden and overwhelming need to urinate. The feeling is so intense that it's hard to make it to the bathroom in time. Other types include overflow and mixed incontinence.
What Causes Male Incontinence
Incontinence in men can result from medical conditions like enlarged prostate, diabetes, and Parkinson's disease. It can be common after some types of surgery for prostate cancer or other surgery on the prostate gland. Sometimes it can develop for reasons we don't completely understand, like "overactive bladder." Understanding the cause is crucial to getting the right treatment, so it's important to get a diagnosis from your doctor.
How You Can Manage Symptoms
Some guys have success by spacing out their fluid intake during the day and cutting back a few hours before bed. If it that helps, stick with it. But don't restrict yourself too much, because you run the risk of getting dehydrated. And when you're not drinking enough fluid, your urine becomes concentrated — which can lead to complications, such as bladder infections, and make urinary incontinence worse.
Think Before You Drink
For some guys, caffeine seems to irritate the bladder and worsen symptoms. Soda and other carbonated drinks could have the same effect. Alcohol is a diuretic — it makes you urinate more, which is really the last thing you need right now. Cut back on tea, coffee, soda, and alcohol and see if it makes a difference for you.
Adjusting Your Diet
Many men report that spicy or acidic foods can worsen urinary incontinence related to overactive bladder. Other offenders may be chocolate and artificial sweeteners. However, the specific triggers vary from person to person. Some men find that diet doesn't seem to have any effect. To find out, keep a food diary to track possible triggers and try cutting back on a suspected trigger food for a week to see if it helps.
Reducing Stress Can Help
Life with incontinence is stressful. Learning some simple relaxation techniques, like breathing exercises or meditation, may help you cope with symptoms. Biofeedback is another approach — you watch a monitor in a doctor's office that gives you real-time information about muscle contractions around your bladder. With time, you can learn how to relax your body, ease your muscles, and maybe get control of your male incontinence symptoms.
How to Train Your Bladder
Try using behavioral techniques to control male incontinence, like bladder training. Start by going to the bathroom every half hour to urinate, whether you feel the urge or not. As you get into the rhythm, gradually — over days or weeks — expand the time between bathroom breaks. Eventually, you may be able to space your breaks by three to four hours and the urges in between may decrease.
Track How Often You Urinate
To help find the cause of your male incontinence, try keeping a record of how much you drink and how often you urinate for a few days. Make note of any leaking, along with anything — drinking a lot, heavy lifting — that might have triggered it. Then bring the record to your doctor's appointment. It will help your doctor better understand your symptoms and could provide more clues about the cause.
Flex Your Muscles
In men, Kegel exercises can help boost the strength of pelvic muscles that help your bladder to hold urine. Kegels are easy to work into your daily routine. Start by finding the right muscle — it's the one you'd use to stop yourself from passing gas. Then just tense, hold, and release. Slowly build up until you're doing three or four sets of ten of these each day. You can do them lying or standing — or even sitting at your desk.
Why Incontinence Pads Help
Lots of men balk at the idea of getting pads or disposable undergarments. But not only do they prevent leaks, they can protect your skin from irritation and block odor. Best of all, they can help you regain your confidence. You may be surprised at the number of options. Unlike the big, bulky "adult diapers" you might imagine, today's incontinence pads and undergarments are designed to be comfortable and not noticeable.
Pad and Underwear Options
Choosing the right product depends on your symptoms. For severe urinary incontinence, the ideal choice may be highly absorbent guards or disposable underwear. Guys with milder symptoms may need less. Drip collectors are disposable padded sheaths that go around the penis; they're good for slight leaking or dribbling. Pads can be tucked into your underwear and attached with adhesive tabs. They're designed for light to moderate leaking.
Medications for Male Incontinence
For men with urge incontinence, medications may help. Some relax the muscle of the bladder to help prevent inappropriate contractions of the bladder. Others block nerve signals to the bladder that make it contract at the wrong time. Drugs prescribed to shrink an enlarged prostate can help with additional urinary problems. On the other hand, some drugs like diuretic "water pills" can actually trigger or worsen incontinence.
Incontinence Surgery and Other Options
Surgical options include a male sling for stress incontinence; material is wrapped around the urethra to compress and prevent leaking due to coughing, sneezing, or vigorous activities. An implanted artificial sphincter is also for stress incontinence and uses a cuff to close the urethra. Squeezing the pump opens the cuff and releases urine when you want to urinate. A pacemaker-like device (shown above) stimulates nerves which relax the bladder and pelvic floor muscles.
Incontinence Devices and Products
External catheters roll onto the penis like a condom and catch urine. They're attached to drainage bags that can be hung over the side of your bed while you sleep, or strapped to your body under your clothes during the day. If overflow incontinence is the issue, intermittent catheterization to regularly empty the bladder can help prevent leakage from an overly full bladder.
Be Prepared
Urinary incontinence can strike at amazingly inconvenient times. When you walk into a restaurant or store, note where the bathrooms are so you can get there quickly. Planning a car trip? Map out your route and decide on the spots where you'll take bathroom breaks. Wear clothing that's easy to remove in a hurry. And always have extra pads and a plastic urinal in the car for emergencies.
Reach Out for Support
Male urinary incontinence can be tough. If you're relentlessly anxious about leaking, you can start to feel ground down. Your social life may suffer. You may not even want to leave the house. If this is what your life has become, do something. Look for a support group or a therapist. Or go back to the doctor and see if there's something else you can try. Remember: incontinence is almost always treatable.
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HALO was chartered as a non-profit organization in Austin, Texas. In January 2004, Soma Mukhopadhyay, HALO founder Linda Lange, and a dozen RPM advocates nationwide joined to develop the mission of HALO, which serves as a Soma® RPM instructional clinic available to students with autism of all ages, from all over the globe. In January 2005, HALO moved Soma's clinic from Burbank, CA to a larger facility in Austin, TX, and began collecting video progressions as descriptive research of the hundreds of students who attend the clinic for Soma's RPM instruction. HALO continues towards growing its efforts in RPM instruction, research and training.
Executive Director of Education - Soma Mukhopadhyay
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A native of India, Soma is a teacher and mother who developed her trademark Rapid Prompting Method (RPM) to instruct her son Tito who is now a published writer and poet, in spite of his severe autism. Soma and Tito have been featured on 60 Minutes II, Good Morning America, Scientific American, the New York Times, National Geographic and numerous other media.
Soma has instructed hundreds of students (youth to adult) with autism and similar disorders at schools and organizations across the U.S. as well as at her clinic in Austin, Texas. She uses RPM to teach academics and communication by eliciting responses through intensive verbal, auditory, visual and/or tactile prompts. Her prompting is designed to keep students focused and successful. Soma's approach presumes competence and comprehension at age level, and it is a very low-tech method requiring only paper and pencil. Student responses evolve from picking up answers, to pointing, to typing and writing which reveals students' comprehension, academic skills and eventually, conversation.
Soma® RPM Apprentice - Erika Anderson
Erika holds a B.Ed in Elementary Education and a minor in Human Development from the University of Wisconsin in Green Bay. The first 3 years of Erika's career in the field of autism began while attending college where she worked as an ABA therapist.
Erika started teaching students with RPM in 2005, and in 2006 attended and completed Soma® RPM Level I training. HALO offered Erika a 3 year apprenticeship with Soma which she accepted and she and her husband Mark relocated to Austin, TX in 2007 . To further her training with Soma ,Erika assisted Soma with training courses, conferences,RPM workshops and worked with a wide range of students with autism and similar conditions from ages 5-40. In the fall of 2010, she completed her apprenticeship at HALO and returned to WI with a Certification in Soma® RPM and opened the doors of her own clinic located in Green Bay, Wisconsin A.C.E. Teaching & Consulting.
Erika enjoys working with students of all ages by providing 1:1 RPM sessions, "camp" for out of state clients ,workshops, and providing educational consulting to school districts who are seeking ways to implement Soma® RPM. Erika ,who is endorsed by HALO, continues to work closely with HALO to increase awareness and accessibility for students and their families to Soma® RPM.
HALO Soma RPM Certified Providers - HALO Certified RPM Providers U.S. and International
Certified HALO Soma ® RPM Providers are Professionals that in addition to successfully completing the "Soma ® RPM 4- Day Introductory Course " were selected to participate in the "HALO Internship Program".
Upon demonstrating a proficient level of competency in the theory, application and practice of Soma ® Rapid Prompting Method have received Certification in Soma ® RPM.
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Northern Ireland's achievement in getting through the group stage at Euro 2016 was celebrated in France and back home.
In spite of the 1-0 defeat to Germany, a 2-0 win for Turkey over the Czech Republic meant Northern Ireland were guaranteed to finish as one of the best four third-placed sides in the six groups.
Turkey were thanked, goalkeeper Michael McGovern was tipped for a big move after his stand-out show, and actress Bronagh Waugh made an almighty noise.
Here is a selection of Twitter reaction to Northern Ireland reaching the last 16:
Northern Irish boxing hero Carl Frampton (@RealCFrampton): "Straight out to celebrate with a kebab and a shave #Tur #NIR"
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Northern Ireland striker Kyle Lafferty (@LaffK): "If this guy @mcgov12 doesn't get the move he deserves then footballs a funny old game. Deserves everything that's about to come his way"
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Snow Patrol singer Gary Lightbody (@garysnowpatrol): "We did it! We're guaranteed a place in the last 16. Dreamland! Well done all the Norn Iron squad and staff. This is epic. So happy! Yeooo!"
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Scott PhillipsScott Phillips is in his fourth decade of woodworking. He started in his father's shop when he was 11. The first moneymaking projects were air-dried walnut shelves and boxes. These projects lead to furniture and restoration commissions. Furniture repair work quickly lead to a passion for antique furniture. Scott considers Chippendale and Shaker furniture styles his favorite source for design inspiration. His approach: study the best then make furniture using correct techniques.
Today Scott has a full-time woodworking enterprise that is founded upon his degree in forestry. "If you want to build great furniture you have to respect the woods," he says. Scott is actively involved in habitat reforestation and riparian restoration projects.
A master woodworker with a thorough knowledge of his craft, Scott's reverence for the intricacies of wood and its possibilities has helped make The American Woodshop a favorite among public television audiences over the past 15 years.
Look for articles about Scott and his woodworking projects, beginning with the September 2007 issue of Woodcraft Magazine. Scott is featured on the cover, along with a feature article on him and another he wrote on his "Salt Box" woodworking project. Upcoming issues of Woodcraft Magazine will feature the plans for six more of Scott's woodworking projects featured in The American Woodshop.


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"The Americans" season finale on FX — no spoilers
Followers of "The Americans" on FX know Cold War paranoia is at the heart of the series. It's never clear who's lying to whom, or why. Suspicions arise within the family of Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) as well as in the CIA-KGB sphere.
Love of country versus romantic love affairs is a running theme also questioning levels of trust. Agent Beeman (Noah Emmerich) will be tested, pitting his patriotism against his devotion to his Russian mistress Nina Sergeevna (Annet Mahendru).
Tonight's season finale, full of clever twists and reveals, is an example of how the show keeps rewarding our attention. Each character is learns something new, each trajectory is given a surprising nudge, landing us in unexpected places. Vague enough?
Just know that Margo Martindale shows up again as Elizabeth and Philip's handler, taking direction from Moscow.
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Colorado junior forward Xavier Johnson will be among 13 men's basketball players on a Pac-12 all-star team that will tour China in August, the conference announced Friday.
Johnson averaged 12 points and 5.9 rebounds for the 23-11 Buffaloes and will be one of the highest-profile players on the team, along with Utah junior forward Jordan Loveridge (14.7, 7.0), Washington junior guard Andrew Andrews (12.3, 3.9) and Washington State senior guard DaVonté Lacy (19.4, 4.2).
The Pac-12 squad will be the league's first traveling all-star team since men's and women's representatives played in Japan in 1996. The conference stated that this tour is part of the league's "globalization initiative" to support Pac-12 schools in "international outreach efforts, build their brands in an important market, and provide quality educational and cultural exchange experiences for student-athletes."
Utah head coach Larry Krystkowiak will direct the team which includes players from 10 of the conference's 12 teams.
The Pac-12 squad will play four games, including three three against teams from the Chinese Basketball Association. That includes the Shanghai Sharks, who are owned by eight-time NBA All-Star Yao Ming.


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ECRC supports the University's efforts to foster a diverse student body and workforce; therefore ECRC often collaborates with campus partners who have responsibilities for those efforts, such as the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and University Human Resources.
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A soft drum roll can be heard throughout the realm. It slowly grows louder as a herald appears on your screen. The Announcer sounds her trumpet, clears her throat. Drums stop and she exclaims:
- "The blog heretofore known as 'Damien Learns Perl' is now to be referred to as 'Damien Learns Programming'. This broader title means greater variety and more life (or so it is hoped) to the speculations and musings of an eternal student of computer programming."
Crowd cheers.
- "No camel was hurt in this process. Go home and spread the good word."
The herald lets out a content sigh then disappears in a puff.
Evolve or become irrelevant
This could be the motto of the computing/computer science/IT industry.
Tools keep popping out of thin air, new programming languages are invented, operating systems evolve rapidly, new devices appear that can be programmed, etc.
Those changes answer people's ever demanding requests.
You want to keep up but how to go about updating your skills?
The best motivator is to build something that you need. When my wife became pregnant, I started to build a "Baby Tracker" app to learn C++ and to keep tab on the baby's vaccination schedule, teeth growth, stool color, etc. I eventually abandoned the project because (believe it or not) taking actual care of my first daughter became a higher priority. By the time I had bandwidth again, the "baby tracker" need was moot.
Having a purpose makes you want to keep learning and carry on after you have hit a few too many obstacles.
This self-learning path resembles an obstacle course: the end line is visible but you first have to jump over all those hurdles to attain it.
Another way to learn new skills is through online education. Several sites already exist that put emphasis on learning in a fun way:
- Codecademy (for beginning web programmers)
- Khan Academy (originally created to teach mathematics but now proposing many subjects, including computer science)
- Memrise (to help you learn vocabulary for new languages, including programming languages)
- LCodeTHW (despite its name, offers a great way to start learning about programming)
- etc.
Those are quality sites and I encourage you to visit them if you are looking for a first acquaintance with a new topic.
However, I want to share here something that I am truly excited about: online computer science college-quality education for free. Back in 2000 I got involved in the PEOI project whose mission was to bring professional education online to the masses (provided access to an internet link). The site still exists but the design has not evolved since its creation and course content was created by volunteers. Its noble goal though has found a champion today: edX.
Get a quality education
edX is a joint online interactive educational project from MIT, Berkeley and Harvard University, some of the best US universities. You can earn certificates along with knowledge. New classes are about to start this fall and include:
- Introduction to Computer Science and Programming
- Introduction to Computer Science I
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Artificial Intelligence
There is no selection, all classes are open to anyone with an internet access.
So go forth and upgrade your computing education.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Harvard men's fencing team, led by head coach Peter Brand, will welcome four freshmen to the squad for the upcoming 2012-13 season. Two members of the class are foil fencers, while one will compete in the sabre and the other will fence with the epee.
The Crimson concluded the 2011-12 campaign 12-6 overall and 4-1 in the Ivy League, finishing second in the conference. Harvard also earned a sixth-place finish at the NCAA Championships. Four Harvard men's fencers received All-America honors, while the Crimson also saw four of its fencers earn All-Ivy status.
Jerry Chang/Mountain View, Calif./Mountain View/Foil
2012 junior team world champion … Silver medalist at the 2012 division 1 national championships … gold medalist at the 2010 division NAC … A 2011 Cadet world team member.
Duncan O'Brien/Wellesley, Mass./Wellesley/Sabre
Served as captain for a three-man sabre team at the 2012 US division I championship and the 2011 US junior Olympics where the team garnered silver medals … Ranked 10th national in junior men's saber as of 2011 … Competed at the junior World Cup in Poland, Hungary and Arizona while also competed at senior World Cup in Chicago … Member of the National Honor Society at the German Honor Society … Hayes book award and German book award recipient … Volunteered at the State House student tour guide program … Raised money for the Cor Unum meal center.
Nicolas Simko/Geneva, Switzerland/Ecole Moser/Epee
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It has been a while since a sport's biggest stage has been overwhelmed with something as tedious as a potential coaching change. The most famous example, of course, was when Bill Parcells had his one foot out the door while supposedly preparing his New England Patriots in the Super Bowl. We never felt he took as big a hit to his reputation as he probably deserved for that little stunt.
It looks like we're having an encore this week, though, as Florida coach Billy Donovan continues to play footsie with Kentucky and its open coaching job. Some reports say they've already offered him a contract, and there's no question he's their top candidate. That might be all fine and good — though we don't understand why he'd want to leave a school he could lead to two consecutive titles — but certainly now's not the time to be discussing it? Donovan could have eliminated this whole storyline with a well-placed "I'm coaching the Final Four this week, and that's all I care about," but instead he pulled that "well, I don't know where Kentucky stands, so I can't worry about that" ploy that set everybody off and will surely increase his price tag.
It is frustrating that much of a Final Four this potentially amazing will be tied up in discussing the bank account of Billy Donovan, but we fetishize coaches and probably always will. Even ones as scary as Billy Donovan.
Coaching Search Breakdown [Kentucky Sports Radio]
Bad Form [Yellow Chair Sports]
(UPDATE: A Lexington TV station says the Donovan-to-Kentucky deal will be announced after the Final Four.)


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These little bites were surprisingly delicious! I also expected them to be super messy, but as long as you keep them in the fridge, your fingers will stay pretty clean when eating!
It's a good thing these are super fast and easy to make because they'll be gone before you know it and your family will be asking for more!
No-Bake Energy Bites (adapted from Smashed Peas and Carrots)
1 cup oatmeal
1/2 cup peanut butter (or other nut butter)
1/3 cup honey
1 cup coconut flakes
1/4 cup ground flaxseed
1/4 cup ground chia seeds
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
1 tsp vanilla
Mix everything above in a medium bowl until thoroughly incorporated. Let chill in the refrigerator for half an hour. Once chilled, roll into balls and enjoy! Store in an airtight container and keep refrigerated for up to 1 week.


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For mothers day I received a zero gravity lounge chair and I love it! This was my first mothers day and I was quite excited! I did have to remind my husband that this specail day was approaching, asking 'have you and Fynn gone shoppig yet?' Why did I feel the need to do this?
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My husband and I named our son Fynn... obviously we like the name. We have gotten all kinds of responses when we tell people his name. Everything from 'cool', to 'I love it!' to 'oh'...or a blank stare, really all I can do is laugh. Me, a girl who grew up being called 'Maria' time and time again, 'MarLa, that's an L' was a common phrase I uttered...
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I am unfortunately facing the dread of my maternity leave coming to an end. I will be going back to work in a couple months... so its time to find childcare. This is so hard! How am I supposed to trust a stranger with my sweet son for 8 hours a day? He is still so little!
Hi Marla,
I just started a Facebook group for BC mom bloggers. I am hoping to create a social group (and hop that it may lead to some BC based blogging workshops). Please check it out and join if you are interested.
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Hi & welcome from The Girlz Korner where you'll find light, witty and rather entertaining articles on every topic imaginable from The Little Black Dress to Making Whoopie & you can showcase your products, services and blog for free to our thousands of visitors. So if you get a chance to kick back and exhale, if only for a brief moment ... come on over and see me some time. Don't be too overwhelmed by MBC. The ladies are awesome here and sooo embracing. Hope you enjoy your stay :)
Hello Marla! Gotta say, I like your name!!
Welcome to the club and feel free to check out my blog: Swanky Baby http://swankybaby1.blogspot.com. I'm looking forward to checking yours out too!
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Starting a business can be a daunting task, but SCORE and Canon are here to help simplify it for you.
There are a number of factors to keep in mind before starting your own business. This module will introduce you to key business considerations such as the myths and realities of entrepreneurship, different business options to pursue, the components of business ownership, legal and financial considerations, and the business plan basics.
If you're thinking about starting your own business, this module will give you the understanding you need to be well informed and confident when you evaluate your ideas.
Download the Simple Steps for Starting Your Business workbook that accompanies the modules and provides more information on this topic.
In the full Simple Steps for Starting Your Business online course, you will test the feasibility of your business idea and decide whether or not you should move forward or go back to the drawing board. You'll do this by researching industry profile data, customer data, financial projections, and other information. You'll also have a sample feasibility plan to use as a guide.
Once you've finished this module, make sure to take the remaining workshops:
Part 2: Defining Your Business Concept
Part 3: Creating Your Marketing Plan
Part 4: Financial Projections
Part 5: Funding Sources & Next Steps
Contact your local chapter and determine if the in-person workshops are available in your community. At the in-person workshop, you will get more information, learn from local experts, connect with your personal mentor for free answers to your business questions, and meet other aspiring small business owners.
SCORE Volunteer Contributions
Thanks to the following SCORE volunteers who served as subject matter experts in the development of these new Simple Steps for Starting Your Business eLearning modules!
- Bob Breaux - Baton Rouge Area SCORE
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Latest Snowden Leaks Detail The 'Black Budget' And How Much The Gov't Wastes On Useless Surveillance
from the i-could-use-me-a-black-budget-too deptBarton Gellman and Greg Miller over at the Washington Post have the latest scoops from the Ed Snowden leaks, in which it appears they've been able to go through the details of the infamous "black budget," detailing the money that is spent on intelligence operations. Apparently, the total budget is around $52.6 billion this year (which actually is a bit lower than I would have expected, but is apparently twice what the budget was back in 2001). There's also another $23 billion spent on "intelligence programs that more directly support the U.S. military."
Not surprisingly, the Post agreed to leave most of the document unpublished and is careful not to reveal anything really damaging (i.e., sources and methods), but the results are still quite revealing. Of course, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is still angry, arguing that any info from the budget "could provide insight for foreign intelligence services to discern our top national priorities, capabilities and sources and methods." Blah, blah, blah. Someone doesn't like being held accountable. Others point out that discussing the budget seems quite reasonable. The post quotes Lee Hamilton, the former chair of the 9/11 commission (and former chair of the House Intelligence Committee), who argues that having this info public is important to having an informed public debate on the surveillance state. That's the only way that the intelligence community can be held accountable.
And, actually, what the budget reveals is a rather stunning lack of accountability for the budget -- much of it going to the CIA. While many people had assumed that the CIA had been diminishing in power and authority within the intelligence community (especially in relation to the NSA), it turns out that its budget has been growing and growing, and is much more than the NSA's. Furthermore, the CIA has basically been transformed from an "intelligence" agency into a "paramilitary force."
And for all this funding, with so little accountability, it should come as no surprise to find out that much of this money appears to be wasted, and not particularly effective.
Throughout the document, U.S. spy agencies attempt to rate their efforts in tables akin to report cards, generally citing progress but often acknowledging that only a fraction of their questions could be answered — even on the community's foremost priority, counter-terrorism.So, we're spending all of this money (our money) on top secret operations, including spying on pretty much every American... and so far it's been almost entirely useless against the actual threats we face. Well, that's comforting. Oh, and if you wondered about the failure to connect the dots on the Boston Marathon bombings? It's because the intelligence community and all that money have no idea how to figure out those kinds of attacks.
In 2011, the budget assessment says intelligence agencies made at least "moderate progress" on 38 of their 50 top counterterrorism gaps, the term used to describe blind spots. Several concern Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, an enemy of Israel that has not attacked U.S. interests directly since the 1990s.
Other blank spots include questions about the security of Pakistan's nuclear components when they are being transported, the capabilities of China's next generation fighter aircraft, and how Russia's government leaders are likely to respond "to potentially destabilizing events in Moscow, such as large protests and terrorist attacks."
A chart outlining efforts to address key questions on biological and chemical weapons is particularly bleak. U.S. agencies set themselves annual goals of making progress in at least five categories of intelligence collection related to these weapons. In 2011, the agencies made headway on just two gaps; a year earlier the mark was zero.
The intelligence community seems particularly daunted by the emergence of "home grown" terrorists who plan attacks in the United States without direct support or instruction from abroad, a threat realized this year, after the budget was submitted, in twin bombings at the Boston Marathon.Also, the NSA is swimming in so much information that it asked for nearly $50 million to cope with the problem of having too much information. We've pointed out for years that the trick to finding the needles in haystacks isn't to build bigger haystacks, but that's long been the NSA's approach. However, those haystacks have become so big that the NSA asked for $48.6 million designated for "coping with information overload." Here's a simple, and cheaper, plan: don't collect so much irrelevant data. You can ship me half of the $48.6 million and keep the rest for something that's actually useful.
The National Counterterrorism Center has convened dozens of analysts from other agencies in attempts to identify "indicators" that could help law enforcement understand the path from religious extremism to violence. The FBI was in line for funding to increase the number of agents surreptitiously tracking activity on jihadist Web sites.
But a year before the bombings in Boston the search for meaningful insight into the stages of radicalization was described as one of "the more challenging intelligence gaps."
Also, there's this:
The agencies had budgeted for a major counterintelligence initiative in fiscal 2012, but most of those resources were diverted to an all-hands, emergency response to successive floods of classified data released by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.The budget, obviously, was submitted before Snowden absconded with it and gave it to the Post, so I would imagine that there have been some revisions to create yet another "all-hands, emergency response" to Snowden-like situations.
For this year, the budget promised a renewed "focus . . . on safeguarding classified networks" and a strict "review of high-risk, high-gain applicants and contractors" — the young, nontraditional computer coders with the skills the NSA needed
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What would you do if you went to the pharmacy to pick up a refill and found that the price of the drug had suddenly gone up ten-fold? According to an article in The New York Times (March 12, 2006), that's what recently happened to several cancer patients who need the drug Mustargen to treat a rare cancer called cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
Here's what happened: Mustargen is one of the oldest chemotherapy drugs around, having been developed over 60 years ago from nitrogen mustard. Its sole remaining manufacturer, Merck, sold the rights to sell the product to Ovation Pharmaceuticals, which promptly raised the price dramatically.
This may be reflective of a new trend in pharmaceutical pricing; namely, one based on the perceived value by the patient, rather than by the cost of research, development or manufacture. If you want it, you'll have to pay for it.
Here's another example with a newer drug. You may have heard about the cancer drug called Avastin (bevacizumab) because it seems to be a very promising treatment for a variety of cancers, and it has been in the news a lot over the last year. It has already been shown to increase survival in advanced (metastatic) colon, breast and lung cancers and is being tested in people with kidney, ovarian and other cancers as well. There's no question that it is an effective, very important addition to the field of cancer treatment. But all this efficacy comes at a price. And the price can be prohibitive for some patients.
Currently, Avastin, made by Genentech, is approved by the FDA only for the treatment of advanced colon cancer. According to another New York Times article (February 15, 2006), its cost per month as a treatment for colon cancer is $4,400. But in breast and lung cancers, the price will be $7,700 and $8,800 respectively. That's about $50,000 per year for colon cancer and about $100,000 per year for the others. While most insurance companies are covering Avastin in colon cancer, most are waiting for FDA approval before covering the cost in other cancers. And even when it's covered, some patients have steep co-pays depending on their insurance plan or whether Medicare is paying.
Why is the cost for breast and lung cancer double that for colon cancer? The basic answer is that the doses studied for the first two cancers are about twice as high as those for colon cancer. And if the unit cost remains the same but the dose doubles, the overall price doubles accordingly. Some have argued that Genentech should lower the unit cost of the drug overall, which would make it more affordable for all cancers. While the usual argument is that these types of drugs are expensive to make or to develop, Genentech is taking a different approach, saying that if a drug can prolong life then people must be willing to pay more for that benefit.
And some researchers are questioning why Genentech only studied the higher doses and not the lower colon cancer dose in their studies of breast and lung cancer. They ask whether Avastin might actually work at the lower dose, and in fact, it is likely that some doctors will prescribe it that way. It's also possible that future studies might show that a lower dose is equally effective. Genentech has indicated that that was among their reasons for not lowering the unit cost. They also note that they have a program, called the Genentech Access to Care Foundation, to help people who can't afford their drugs.
The question we'll all have to deal with sooner or later is, how much are we willing to pay for life-extending drugs, both as individuals and as a society? This question is especially difficult when the issue is extending life for several months as opposed to fundamentally curing the underlying disease.
What are your thoughts on this issue? Have you had experience being unable to pay for an important drug? Have you experienced sudden increases in drugs you take regularly? Do you know of resources such as the Genentech Access to Care program that help people with the cost of drugs? Please post your experiences to this blog for others to read and contemplate. We look forward to hearing from you.
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Journalist Fareed Zakaria resigns from Yale Corporation after plagiarism scandal
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The plagiarism scandal connected to a nationally known journalist has hit home.
Fareed Zakaria, an editor-at-large at Time magazine and CNN host, on Monday resigned from the Yale Corporation. In a letter to Yale President Richard C. Levin, Zakaria said he needed to shed some responsibilities and focus more "on the core of my work."
"My service at Yale is the single largest commitment of time, energy, and attention outside of my writing and television work. The work of the Yale Corporation needs and deserves such attention, but I simply do not have the capacity to do it and keep up with my main professional obligations," he wrote.
A New Haven Register editorial on Monday suggested Zakaria step down or be asked to leave his role with the university. Zakaria has admitted to lifting a passages without attribution from a New Yorker article for his Aug. 20 column in Time on gun control. Following a review of his work, both Time and CNN have lifted their suspensions. His next Time column will appear on Sept. 7 and "GPS" will return on CNN on Aug. 26, various sources reported Monday.
The Yale Corporation is the university's governing board. Its jobs include approving budgets and programs.
The corporation has 10 successor trustees and six trustees elected by alumni. Zakaria joined the corporation in 2006, and terms are for six years.
The question of a replacement will be referred to the Trusteeship Committee of the Yale Corporation, which serves as a nominating committee, according to Yale spokesman Tom Conroy. "As vacancies occur most years, the Trusteeship Committee has an ongoing process by which it identifies excellent candidates," he said.
In the letter to Levin, Zakaria said it was with "great sadness" that he wouldn't be able to serve a second term as a successor fellow. He said he intends to do less in other areas, but thought it would be best to let Levin know of his decision, "so that the Corporation could begin deliberations on a successor."
"I came to Yale as a scholarship kid from India in 1982 and instantly fell in love with it. That affection has never waned. I have tried to give back to the university a small measure of what it gave me -- devoting time, effort, and resources, as best I could. Serving for a term on the Yale Corporation has been an extraordinary opportunity. I have learnt a great deal from it and I will be shaped by this experience forever," he wrote.
In accepting Zakaria's resignation, Levin commented: "My colleagues and I are deeply grateful for Fareed Zakaria's generous contribution of time and service to the Yale Corporation these past six years. His keen intelligence and broad knowledge of world affairs have enlightened our discussions, and his appearances on campus have benefitted our students and faculty. We will miss him as a colleague, a contributor and a friend."
Early last week, Levin indicated that the Yale Corporation was in the process of reviewing Zakaria's situation. In light of his resignation, the review has been discontinued.


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STOCKTON - It was all in the "family" Wednesday night at Klein Family Field.
STOCKTON - It was all in the "family" Wednesday night at Klein Family Field.
Brothers Brett and Tyler Sullivan provided the offense, helping the Tigers grab a hard-fought 2-1 victory over San Jose State in Pacific's home opener in front of 534 fans.
Tigers senior Kyle Crawford pitched five solid innings of relief, starting in the third, to earn the win. Crawford (1-0) gave up a single and hit batsman in the top of the third, but went on to retire 13 batters in a row.
San Jose State (1-4) took the lead in the first inning when senior Kyle Gallegos singled to left and scored on a wild pitch by Pacific starter John Haberman.
But the Tigers (2-3) answered in the bottom of the frame when junior Tyler Sullivan drew a walk against Spartans starting pitcher Michael Wright, advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by freshman Vince Arobio and scored on a single by his brother. Brett Sullivan, a sophomore, is hitting .591, and has a 10-game hitting streak that stretches back to the final five games of last season.
It was d�j� vu in the third for Pacific, when Brett Sullivan again singled home his brother, who had also singled to lead off the inning and was sacrificed into scoring position by Arobio.
"One thing we couldn't do very well in Arizona was play the short game," said Pacific coach Ed Sprague, whose squad went 1-3 at the Husker Classic in Tempe. "(Arobio) did a good job and Tyler got on base and Brett has had the hot bat."
Brett Sullivan went 2 for 3, and Tyler Sullivan, Taylor Murphy and J.J. Wagner each went 1 for 3.
"It's easy (to bat) when I see Tyler out there on base," said Brett Sullivan, who played at Lincoln High with his brother. "He's always batted lead-off ahead of me, even in high school, and that's the way we want it because he's more of a speedy guy. Our team is so close. We all play hard for each other. I think the sky's the limit."
San Jose State coach Dave Nakama saw a golden chance slip away when Spartans first baseman Matt Carroll hit a lead-off double in the ninth off Pacific's Michael Benson, but the Tigers rebounded to get three consecutive outs for the win.
"It was a good game," Nakama said. "It was well-pitched by both teams, but (Pacific) had the clutch hits and we didn't."
San Jose State's Wright took the loss, while Pacific's Benson got the save.
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Ha Jin discusses "The Boat Rocker" at the 2017 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Author and poet Ha Jin left China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University and eventually pursued creative writing at Boston University. He is the author of several novels, short story collections, volumes of poetry and essays, including "Waiting," "War Trash," "Nanjing Requiem," "Ocean of Words," "Under the Red Flag" and "Between Silences." Jin has received a National Book Award, two PEN/Faulkner Awards, three Pushcart Prizes, a Kenyon Review Prize, a PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award, an Asian American Literary Award and the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. His latest novel is "The Boat Rocker." Jin currently teaches at Boston University.


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Three critical patches star in MS update
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Microsoft issued seven patches on Tuesday - one more than expected - as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday update cycle. Three of the updates earn the dreaded rating of critical.
As expected, Redmond is yet to address two critical bugs in its Word office application that have become the subject of Trojan attacks over the last week or so.
The most pressing of the critical flaws MS has addressed this month is a cumulative update to Internet Explorer, which fixes a number of flaws including a script handling bug, which security vendor Symantec warns might lend itself to attacks that could result in a "complete system compromise". The bug might be exploited via so-called drive-by downloads providing users can be tricked into visiting websites containing malicious code. IE 5 and 6 users need to upgrade in order to defend themselves against the bug.
Another critical flaw involves a vulnerability in Windows Media Player. The flaw stems from an unchecked buffer in Windows Media Player code involved in handling Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) files. The vulnerability might be exploited by malicious Web-based Windows Media Player content or if an infected file is opened through affected Windows Media Player versions. The flaw affects all versions of Windows Media Player 6.4, 7.1, 9 and 10.
The third critical flaw for December involves a Vulnerability in Visual Studio 2005 which, once again, lends itself to remote code execution. Developers are urged to apply patches to defend their systems from attack.
Microsoft's four other bulletins this month address flaws rated as "important" involving Outlook Express, the SNMP network management protocol, a privilege elevation flaw in Windows and a bug in remote installation services. A full run down of Microsoft's updates this month - critical or otherwise can be found here. ®
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40 members of Congress have sent an urgent letter to House and Senate Armed Services Committee leaders protesting provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act that would legalize indefinite detention of American citizens without trial, as the revised version of the bill heads for a final vote on Thursday.
"The Senate-passed version of the NDAA, S. 1867, contains Section 1031, which authorizes indefinite military detention of suspected terrorists without protecting U.S. citizens' right to trial. We are deeply concerned that this provision could undermine the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth amendment rights of U.S. citizens who might be subjects of detention or prosecution by the military," states the letter.
Opposition to the bill has been bipartisan. While the letter is signed mostly by Democratic members of Congress, Republican representatives like Justin Amash, Ron Paul, and Rand Paul have also been vocal in their opposition.
After a weekend of secret meetings, the final version of the bill emerged on Tuesday morning and is set to voted on before the end of the week. Issues the Obama administration had with the bill, which had nothing to do with indefinite detention (indeed it was the White House itself which removed language that would have protected Americans from Section 1031), now appear to have been settled.
Both the ACLU and Human Rights Watch point out that the final version does nothing to protect American citizens against indefinite detention.
"The sponsors of the bill monkeyed around with a few minor details, but all of the core dangers remain – the bill authorizes the president to order the military to indefinitely imprison without charge or trial American citizens and others found far from any battlefield, even in the United States itself," said the ACLU's Chris Anders.
"The latest version of the defense authorization bill does nothing to address the bill's core problems – legislated indefinite detention without charge and the militarization of law enforcement," concurred HRW's Andrea Prasow.
Proponent of the legislation Senator Lindsay Graham ironically summed up the nightmare scenario the bill will codify into law – the complete evisceration of all Constitutional protections for U.S. citizens.


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The open playtest for Mythic Adventures should be ready by the end of September, but right now here's a sneak peek: a custom mythic minotaur!
The terminology and formatting of some of these abilities may change—we're revealing this now to give you an idea of how an existing monster can be upgraded with mythic abilities to make it a CR-appropriate challenge for mythic PCs or a difficult (but not impossible) challenge for nonmythic PCs. Note the MR (mythic rating) listing after the CR, "mythic" subtype, increased stats such as natural armor and hit points, DR, SR, mythic power, oubliette, the (mythic) tag after the Power Attack feat, and domain mastery. Weird!
Mythic Minotaur CR 4/MR 2
CE Large monstrous humanoid (mythic)
Init +0; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +10
AC 16, touch 9, flat-footed 16 (+7 natural, –1 size)
hp 65 (6d10+32)
Fort +6, Ref +5, Will +5
Defensive Abilities natural cunning; DR 5/epic; SR 17
Speed 30 ft.
Melee greataxe +10/+5 (3d6+7/x3), gore +5 (1d6+2)
Space 10 ft.; Reach 10 ft.
Special Attacks mythic power (2/day, 1d6), oubliette, powerful charge (gore +15, 2d6+7), push (gore, 10 ft.)
Str 21, Dex 10, Con 15, Int 7, Wis 10, Cha 8
Base Atk +6; CMB +12 (+14 bull rush); CMD 22
Feats Great Fortitude, Improved Bull Rush, Power Attack (mythic)
Skills Intimidate +5, Perception +10, Stealth +2, Survival +10; Racial Modifiers +4 Perception, +4 Survival
Languages Giant
SQ domain mastery
Environment temperate ruins or underground
Organization solitary
Treasure double (greataxe, other treasure)
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Domain Mastery (Su) A minotaur may designated one area (no greater than 100 feet on a side) as its personal domain (typically a maze or other confusing structure). As a move action, the minotaur can teleport from one point in its domain to any other point in its domain, as if using greater teleport. In addition, whenever the minotaur must make a saving throw while inside its domain, it can roll twice and take the better result. A minotaur can change its domain once per week.
Natural Cunning (Ex) Although minotaurs are not especially intelligent, they have innate cunning and logical ability. This gives them immunity to maze spells and prevents them from ever becoming lost. Further, they are never caught flat-footed.
Oubliette (Su) Whenever the minotaur hits a creature with its gore attack as part of a powerful charge, the target must succeed at a DC 15 Will save or be sent into an extradimensional prison, as per the maze spell but lasting for no more than 1d4+1 rounds. The saving throw is Wisdom-based and includes a +2 racial modifier.
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The Software Workshop is a unique central scientific facility that brings together scientists and software engineers to translate basic research into software systems that can be used internally and deployed.
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The Grassmann Averages PCA is a method for extracting the principal components from a sets of vectors, with the nice following properties: 1) it is of linear complexity wrt. the dimension of the vectors and the size of the data, which makes the method highly scalable, 2) It is more robust to outliers than PCA in the sense that it minimizes an L1 norm instead of the L2 norm of the standard PCA. It comes with two variants: 1) the standard computation, that coincides with the PCA for normally distributed data, also referred to as the GA, 2) a trimmed variant, that is more robust to outliers, referred to the TGA. We provide implementations for the Grassmann Average, the Trimmed Grassmann Average, and the Grassmann Median. The simplest is the Matlab implementation used in the CVPR 2014 paper, but we also provide a faster C++ implementation, which can be used either directly from C++ or through a Matlab wrapper interface. The repository contains the following:
A small Django application for hosting documentation and artifacts, generated from source code and for easy access.
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Hauberg, S., Feragen, A., Enficiaud, R., Black, M.IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), December 2015 (article)
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Hauberg, S., Feragen, A., Enficiaud, R., Black, M.
Scalable Robust Principal Component Analysis using Grassmann Averages
IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), December 2015 (article)
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Nonparametric Disturbance Correction and Nonlinear Dual Control
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Design of a visualization scheme for functional connectivity data of Human Brain
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Runoffs can be ugly, and this political season is no exception. In the 19 days since the primary, PolitiFact Georgia has debunked enough attacks to fill an entire election season.
In the Republican gubernatorial runoff alone, we've covered attacks on abortion, negative campaigning, and one candidate's voting record from 17 years ago.
Even Trig, former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's toddler son, became a point of contention in that race.
We've written items on four elections for statewide office in the past two months: the Republican race for governor, the Democratic race for secretary of state, the Republican race for attorney general, and the Republican race for commissioner of insurance.
Here's how they fared against the Truth-O-Meter.


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How to solve the problem of lighting glare
Glare is one of the problems often encountered lamps, downlights glare which the most representative. Many designers do not understand how to avoid the glare of lamps, do not know how to choose the right anti-glare lighting.
Today teach you six kinds of methods to solve the glare. Before we begin, let's take a look, under what circumstances, the human eye will feel the "glare" and what is the anti-glare lighting.
Note that the human eye sight is normal, as the top level to the bottom 30? 60 ?, glare it within this range, it is glare. As long as the light emitted from the lamp full control over the light-cutting angle> 30? of it, we can say this lighting fixture is Anti-glare ..
So, how to solve the problem of glare lighting it? Come! Learn this six strokes, glare go without a trace.
1.Cut-off angle> 30 degrees
When conventional lamp shielding angle is based on the normal human vision elevation of 30 degrees, lamp shielding angle greater than 30 degrees, in order to avoid the light directly into the eye.
2.Increasing the mounting height of the light source
Deep shine of the lamp under other structures remain unchanged, increasing the mounting height of the light source, in order to achieve the purpose of increasing the shading angle.
3.Conventional lights + cross-glare lamp shielding angle
Cross antiglare grille is mainly blocked in both directions vertical and horizontal lighting. The critical position of glare from the boundary adjustment to the center of the lamp, thereby increasing the shading angle, to achieve the purpose of anti-glare.
4.Conventional lights + antiglare honeycomb
Honeycomb grille net can block the glare of the light in all directions, all the accessories glare, anti-glare effect best, accessible shielding angle 90 ?. Light loss is greatest.
5.Conventional lights + Blackout leaves
Blackout leaves can be blocked in all directions, lights for easy shaping, forming angle from the lamp itself to completely block the lighting shielding effect, it is the most flexible apperlare accessories, is the most cool appearance plus factor.
Because large parts, usually used in conjunction with track lights, glare at the same time, enhance the overall image of the decoration.
6.Soft Glass
Including soft frosted glass, wove glass, Gyrosigma + frosted glass, etc., can to a certain extent, reduce the brightness of the surface lighting source, to a certain extent, to achieve anti-glare effect.
Well, learn this six strokes, no more glare, Anti-glare is so easy!
At end, I want to introduce we change the lens angle to make the Anti-glare.


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This was due to a combination of factors. A modest reduction in the installation costs of onshore wind farms helped, but the more significant factor is the rising cost of gas and strong indications that the cost of nuclear generation is higher than many previous estimates had suggested.
It is difficult to make definitive statements about the cost of offshore wind, as only a few projects have been built recently. But indications are that installation costs are falling slightly. Significantly, last year for the first time, offshore wind became competitive with nuclear on costs in certain cases.
The following quoted data on cost comes from actual projects, based on material published in Windpower Monthly and elsewhere, and supported by analysis from a number of authoritative sources.
Several factors come into play when calculating the cost of wind energy. The cost of buying the turbines is the first significant consideration. Last year, the average price of an onshore wind turbine came in at around 5% lower than 2011 with most now costing between EUR820-1,000/kW. Those from China are cheaper by 25-30%, according to UK newspaper The Financial Times. An increasing tendency to include the first five to seven years' maintenance costs in the selling price may actually be masking a greater downward trend in prices.
For the offshore market, wind turbine prices came in around 10-15% more expensive than onshore turbines.
Installed cost
The installed cost of most onshore wind farms, which includes the cost of construction, has widened from €1,500-1,600/kW in 2011 to €1,300-2,000/kW in 2012.
At the bottom of the range, the lower cost can be attributed to lower turbine costs; at the top of the range this reflects higher construction costs in difficult terrains, or where there is little prior experience of developing wind.
The offshore market is somewhat opaque. An assessment by Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisers suggests that the lowest installed cost is around €2,400/kW, slightly lower than in 2011. The maximum installed cost remains level at €3,500/kW. This is likely to rise later in the decade as wind farms are built further offshore and will be more expensive, analysts say.
The cost of offshore wind generation, however could fall significantly, according to a report from the UK's Crown Estate - the owner of the sea bed off the UK coastline - which suggests a drop from the current level of around €172/MWh to around €123/MWh. This is due to a combination of installed cost reductions - partly because of a more efficient supply chain – and higher wind speeds further offshore.
Shale gas price increases
Until last summer, it appeared that the exploitation of shale gas in the US would lead to persistently lower gas prices for the country. However, the latest projections from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) in the US Department of Energy suggest that prices may now be on an upward trend, as demand catches up with supply and the rate of opening new wells for exploitation of shale gas slows down.
The EIA expects that by 2020 gas prices to be close to $6 per thousand cubic feet (about €15/MWh), which is a rise of about 15% on the current level. At present, however, US gas prices are still significantly lower than those in Europe and elsewhere, and this is reflected in a wide range of costs for gas-fired generation. At one stage last year, European prices were about three times those in the US. This year, US prices are expected to average around €9-12/MWh and UK prices around €27/MWh.
The price of coal has been relatively stable during the past 12 months, but is likely to move upwards, albeit fairly slowly. US coal for electricity generators average around €6/MWh, world coal around €10/MWh and UK coal around €12/MWh. The range in construction costs of gas and coal-fired power stations is fairly narrow, with the installed cost of gas-fired power stations coming in around EUR870/kW, and coal-fired power stations €2,040/kW.
Nuclear financial uncertainty
In the past year there has been significant debate about the cost of nuclear power, with several high-profile nuclear industry experts pouring doubt on the financial viability of nuclear.
Jeff Immelt, chief executive of energy company GE, told The Financial Times in July that nuclear power was now so expensive that it had become "really hard to justify". And in March energy companies E.on and RWE pulled out of a plan to build a nuclear plant in Wales, UK. E.on CEO Johannes Teyssen said that nuclear was no longer attractive to his company and that it would shift its future strategy towards alternative energy.
However, establishing a reliable range for nuclear generation costs remains difficult, as robust figures for its construction costs are elusive. One difficulty is that both the European reactors that are under construction - Olkiluoto in Finland and Flamanville in France - are several years late and over budget. The table below summarises generation costs from each of these plants.
EDF Energy, the lead utility for UK plant Hinkley Point C, has suggested that its generation cost is likely to be more than the target offshore wind cost of €120/MWh, but lower than that of offshore wind in the UK, which is around €170/MWh. However, the unknown quantity, in the case if nuclear, is the interest rate, which will affect the generation cost.
If the UK electricity market reform succeeds in providing a more stable climate for investors, EDF may use a 10% test discount rate of interest (see "Nuclear and wind's interest", below), resulting in nuclear generation costs of €121-149/MWh.
Although the nuclear industry might well argue that the Finnish and French figures are higher because these plants are the first of their kind, the fact that the latest proposals in the UK and the US are carrying a similar range of costs suggests that the nuclear industry has accepted the high capital costs applied to the power stations currently under construction.
Capacity factors
Installed costs, however, are only one part of the picture and are not a reliable guide to competitiveness. The productivity of the electricity-generating source, expressed by the capacity factor, is vitally important. Total generation costs depend on installed costs, productivity and operation and maintenance costs.
Capacity factors for the principal thermal sources, wind and photovoltaics (see chart, below) cover the majority of installations, worldwide.
These do not take into consideration outliers, such as exceptionally windy regions, for example, or Arctic regions for photovoltaics. The estimates shown are based on an 8% interest rate and a 20-year capital repayment period. Nuclear costs have been derived using a 10% interest rate to reflect the higher perceived risk (mainly technical) and an additional risk premium of 5%.
Generating cost comparisons
Looking at total generation costs, incorporating installation as well as capacity factor, the cheapest onshore wind at €1,300/kW over a range of wind speeds is now competitive with coal and nuclear, and most gas except in regions where prices are currently lower, such as in the US. In Europe, gas and coal-fired generation is expected to increase to replace old coal and nuclear power stations. Gas-fired generation is being championed by the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, whereas further construction of coal-fired plant is likely to take place in Germany.
At its highest price of €2,000/kW, onshore wind remains uncompetitive unless it delivers in wind speeds above about 8.5 metres per second (m/s). Offshore, the cheapest generating cost of €2,400/kW is only competitive with the most expensive coal and gas generating costs, and only at sites with high wind speeds - above about 8.5 m/s.
New success
One major achievement in the past year, however, is that offshore wind is now competitive with nuclear - in certain circumstances.
At the top end of the scale for both, they are comparable - the most expensive offshore wind is €3500/kW as is the most expensive nuclear. In sunny climes, offshore wind struggles to achieve cost parity with solar photovoltaics (PV), but does better in mid-latitudes, where solar PV generation costs rise. PV has a wide range of capacity factors, ranging from more 20% in southern California, through 9% in the UK and down to lower values in more northern climes.
Capacity factors of fossil-fired plants are generally high - in the range 90-95% - except in the case of coal, where they fall slightly lower due to the greater complexity of the fuel handling and ash disposal.
Capacity factors for onshore wind range widely from around 16% - at sites with low wind speeds of around 6 m/s - to over 40% on sites with high wind speeds of around 9 m/s. Offshore, the range of capacity factors is much less varied simply because of the better wind resource - one of the main attractions of offshore wind. The range used here is 30-42%.
Wind-turbine capacity factors appear to be rising. This is often attributed to turbines becoming more efficient, but in reality it is more likely to be achieved through changes in turbine configurations. At any given power rating, rotor diameters are getting bigger. This means that more energy can be delivered and, whatever the power rating, the capacity factor goes up.
Last May, the International Energy Agency published an analysis of wind energy generation costs. Its best-case scenario was that generation costs would fall by about 25% by 2020, and at the very worst, costs would stay level. Meanwhile, fossil-fuel price projections tend to suggest that they will rise. Nuclear costs are uncertain, but seem unlikely to move downwards. But wind will have to watch out for solar PV, which is now starting to compete with it on costs and could consolidate this position, particularly in sunny climates.
Our annual analysis once again shows the range of costs for power generation from key sources, measured against two average cost ranges for onshore and offshore wind power generation. This year shows a significant fall to EUR90/MWh in the lower potential generation cost of offshore wind - with a 40% capacity factor and installed cost of EUR2,400/kW. This cost is possible in shallow, nearshore, windy sites. The other noticeable change is the increase in nuclear costs.
The right hand graph shows the same wind generation costs and how they fall as wind speeds increase, ranging from flat lowland onshore sites with 6 m/s, to far offshore wind speeds of 10 m/s.
The exploitation of shale gas has accelerated over the past few years and is seen by some as one answer to energy security. Shale gas is trapped in rock fissures and can be released by fracturing the rocks using water at high pressure. It has gradually developed in the US and now accounts for around 20% of the country's total gas needs.
Gas prices fell in the US after 2010, probably due to the rise of shale gas use. Extraction costs in the US are now roughly similar to those at conventional gas wells and shale's contribution is expected to increase.
Shale gas reserves exist in Europe, but may be expensive to exploit. Test drillings in the UK are thought to have been a possible cause of earth tremors in 2011. Other environmental concerns include pollution of underground water supplies.
A UK parliamentary committee concluded that shale gas is unlikely to greatly improve security of supply because of the limited extent of the resource. Energy markets illustrate this forecast. Gas prices in the US seem set to rise modestly but steadily, although they are still below oil prices by a factor of about four.
No price drop in Europe
European gas price trajectories are on an upward trend with no signs of levelling off in anticipation of large-scale exploitation of shale gas in the region.
Interest rates have an important influence on the generation cost of all technologies. Their impact is most dramatic on the cost of nuclear and, to a slightly lesser extent, wind, because they are capital intensive.
This makes capital cost repayments a dominant feature of the overall generation cost for these two sources. For nuclear, capital costs repayments account for around 80% of the total generation cost, and slightly less for wind. With a low capital outlay for gas plants, capital cost repayments represent only around 20% of generation costs.
The risk effect
Most commercial projects in the utility sector are financed using a mixture of debt and equity. Both equity and utility investors look for higher returns if the project has some risk attached, usually relating to cost or construction overruns rather than technical failure. Investors also consider the integrity of any financial support mechanism - if it is perceived that the support may be withdrawn, or fluctuate, then there would be a political risk too.
For example, the UK's electricity market reform was originally conceived to minimise political risk, but continuing uncertainty over the structure of new support systems means that so far this aim has not been realised. That is why some experts have suggested that a 15% test discount rate may be appropriate for UK nuclear investments (see main article). The terms "interest rate" and "test discount rate" tend to be used interchangeably, yet the former reflects interest payments that will actually have to be made, whereas the latter includes risk premium.
State-owned utilities use test discount rates prescribed by the state's bankers. Private developers will calculate appropriate interest rates that depend on interest payable on any loans and to equity investors. They will add on a risk premium.
A cash-rich utility that finances power projects from its own resources is free to set its own test discount rate. In doing so, it will need to take into account commercial banking interest rates, to ensure adequate returns for the shareholders. It will probably include a risk premium.
The diagram, below, shows how interest rate increases have a varying affect on the generation cost of nuclear, wind and gas power generation.


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First Lady Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey galvanized supporters of Chicago's bid at a celebration dinner in Copenhagen today.
"I am thrilled, I am proud of our bid and I'm proud of our team," said Michell Obama. "So I have to ask you, are we ready to go with this?"
The dinner crowd, about 300 strong, erupted in cheers.
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Oprah, for her part, introduced the First Lady to the crowd and praised her commitment to Chicago.
"She was born in Chicago, she grew up in Chicago, she started her career in Chicago, she met her husband in Chicago, she began her family in Chicago ... she loves Chicago!"
Then the two women embraced.
In a brief speech, the First Lady said that the games would be inspirational for Chicago's children.
"They can never dream of being that close to such power and opportunity," she said. "So that's what excites me most about bringing the games to Chicago, the impact it can have on the lives of our young people, and our entire community."
The First Lady and the talk show queen will spend the next two days meeting with IOC members, hoping to persuade them to vote for her hometown in advance of her husband's visit.
Michelle, who is from Chicago, became an international celebrity upon assuming the role of First Lady. Her charms should go a long way toward buttering up IOC voters.
President Barack Obama arrives Friday, and both Obamas will be part of Chicago's final presentation.
The president will also participate in a Q & A session with IOC voters.
Chicago is locked in a tight race with Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo for the games.


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(Reuters) - VirnetX Holding Corp, which holds internet security patents, said a federal court has upheld a ruling against Apple Inc in a patent infringement lawsuit and denied the iPhone maker's motion to reduce the $368 million in damages.
VirnetX shares rose 6 percent to $35.91 in morning trading on the American Stock Exchange on Wednesday.
The court ordered Apple to pay $33,561 in daily interest and $330,201 in daily damages up to the final judgment, VirnetX said on Wednesday.
VirnetX was awarded the damages in November after a federal jury said Apple's use of the Nevada-based company's virtual-private-network technology in the FaceTime video-calling application in iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Mac computers had infringed the company's patents.
VirnetX, which has a market capitalization of $1.74 billion, accused Apple of infringing four patents.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, denied VirnetX's request for a permanent injunction and ordered the companies to negotiate a license in the next 45 days.
"We look forward to negotiating a license with Apple that includes an ongoing royalty agreement," VirnetX Chief Executive Kendall Larsen said in a statement.
Reporting by Sayantani Ghosh in Bangalore


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Wednesday 18 January 2017
"But in fact in this case (the VOA Russian service reporter) was lying because by the time he made these statements…Mr. Peskov and Ms. Zakharova and representatives of the Foreign Affairs Committees had spoken."Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zahkarova apologized to a VOA reporter for incorrect remarks made by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a press conference on Tuesday, in which he misrepresented Voice of America reporting in a way that served to undermine the agency's credibility.
"This is absolutely fake information, a fabrication and complete nonsense. The Kremlin does not engage in gathering compromising materials."The Kremlin has a long history of releasing "compromising materials," or "kompromat," about politicians, journalists, and political opponents, both Russian and foreign. Not only that, the release of kompromat was a key factor in the rise of Vladimir Putin, and evidence suggests that the Putin administration has utilized the tactic heavily in advancing its goals.
"Our country must be prepared that it will be cut off from the worldwide internet -- the high likelihood of 'tectonic shifts' in our relations with the West (is) in the direction of deterioration."LIKELY FALSE...experts say outsiders taking Russia off the internet is theoretically possible, but highly unlikely.Alluding to possible threats from the West, Russia's top tech envoy expressed fears that Russia's internet could be "cut off." A Polygraph.info fact check shows that while a foreign cyber attack would be crippling, an effective closure of the nation's internet access is an implausible scenario.
"[The Baltic presidents'] participation had not been cleared in advance, however Trump restrained himself and did interrupt the conversation. But when all three Balts, interrupting each other, began to speak of Russian aggression, the 45th president of the U.S.A. didn't hold back and said, 'Shut up, please, and let's follow some elementary decency. Then maybe it will all work out for you.'"Polygraph.info confirmed with the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry that there was "no such phone conversation" and with CNN's host Christiane Amanpour that the story was "fake" and she had "not interviewed Conway." The story was trotted out by the Russian Agency for News Reports, a tabloid site notorious for printing fake reports.
"Montenegro is a country where the United States embassy has been openly involved in the law-making process."The U.S. and Montenegro refute the comment by a Montenegrin cultural figure and former Serbian minister. The officials say Americans have no role in the legislative process in Montenegro.
"[Russia has] the only constitution in the word stating that any kind of censorship is forbidden."This is not even close to true, and Govorukhin need look no further than other nations of the former Soviet Union for constitutions expression banning censorship. The OSCE noted in 2010 that only Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Armenia were the only former Soviet republics not to have censorship bans.
"I would like to have such a propaganda machine here in Russia, but regrettably, this is not the case. We have not even global mass media outlets of the likes of CNN, BBC and others. We simply do not have this kind of capability yet."Is the Russian president correct when he says his nation lacks the global reach of worldwide media that the U.S. and UK have to promote Moscow's propaganda? Polygraph.info talked to a few experts to find out.
"You've seen what's happening: An immigrant raped a child in a certain European country. The court acquitted him based on two reasons: that he speaks the language of the receiving country poorly and did not understand that the boy -- and it was a boy -- did not consent."But Putin's remarks to his council on interethnic relations contradict the facts of the actual case. The attacker's conviction was only partially annulled, and he remains in custody pending a retrial in the case. Russian media reporting of the case as an acquittal, and Putin's reference to it, is an example of "pro-Kremlin disinformation," according to an EU task force.
"We have not seen a single fact, a single proof."The Russian Foreign Minister says the U.S. has offered no proof that the Kremlin hacked into Democratic Party computers. The U.S. says it does have proof but have not made the details public.
"I'm opposed to censorship. Russian law forbids censorship. Those who call Roskomnadzor the main censor of the [the Russian-language Internet] don't really understand what [censorship] is."The head of Russia's media watchdog claims his agency isn't a censor and only blocks online content that violates criminal statutes. But Russia's law on "extremism" places critics of the war in Ukraine and Islamic State supporters in the same basket and often indiscriminately targets content regardless of context. Roskomnadzor has blocked numerous sites and social media posts on subjects sensitive to the government.
"Ukraine is, probably, the most dangerous place in the world for journalists right now."Violence against journalists has dogged Ukraine ever since the fall of the Soviet Union. But bombastic Russian news anchor and media boss Dmitry Kiselyov is exaggerating when he calls Ukraine "probably the most dangerous place for journalists," according to monitoring conducted by prominent media-rights watchdogs.
"Just two years ago there used to be no reaction whatsoever by the OSCE to similar cases [violence against and deaths of journalists in Ukraine critical of the current government]. We have been awaiting it, we have been insisting on it, we have been raising this issue to the organization."
The spokeswoman for Russia's foreign ministry has accused the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) of repeatedly failing to react to violence against journalists in Ukraine, including Russian journalists and those critical of the government in Kyiv. According to the public record, this assertion is demonstrably false.