- Going Tribal in the Information Age
As a myriad of institutions that offered safety, security, and Americans stability no longer generate public confidence, new technologies have enabled Americans to reshuffle and reconstruct themselves into new versions of an institution as old as humans themselves – tribes. 部族 - もはや国民の信頼を生成しない安全性、セキュリティ、およびアメリカ人の安定性を提供する機関の無数のように、新しい技術は、アメリカ人は、人間そのもののような古いような機関の新しいバージョンに自分自身を改造して再構築するために有効にしている
- VISA Is Banned on UCLA Campus - Students With Credit Cards Penalized
As costs climb in all sectors of the economy, even universities are coming up with creative ways to save money. UCLA, the University of California at Los Angeles, says it will begin charging students who pay their tuition, parking permits, and housing costs with credit cards a 2.75% credit card processing fee come August 1. The university states it costs the educational institution $6.5 million in credit card processing fees each year that it can no longer absorb. コストが経済の全セクターに登るように、さらに大学がお金を節約するために創造的な方法で予定されている
- Only one in five kids climb trees - study
CLIMBING trees is no longer an indelible part of childhood as Aussie kids turn their backs on the great outdoors, new research reveals.
オーストラリアの子供たちが大自然に背を向けるように木登りがもはや子供の頃の消えない部分がない、新しい研究が明らかに
- Lagarde faces tough start as head of IMF
Former French finance minister Christine Lagarde faces a challenging start as she takes over leadership of the International Monetary Fund, with only cautious support of the United States and amid demands that a declining and crisis-hit Europe should no longer automatically fill the managing director's post. - Pam Johnson 元フランス財務大臣クリスティーヌラガルド、彼女は米国の唯一の慎重な支援をして減少し、危機に見舞われたヨーロッパが、もはや自動的に常務取締役のポストを埋める必要があることを要求の中で、国際通貨基金（IMF）のリーダーシップを引き継ぐように挑戦的なスタートに直面している
- Torture: crimes with impunity | Editorial
Human Rights Watch reports that there are solid grounds to investigate George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald RusmfeldIt is often said that only by confronting the past can nations construct a better future. Germany, Spain, Argentina, Chile and South Africa have put themselves through the wringer of historical self-examination. Putin's Russia has yet to. It is, though, easier to point the finger at dark episodes embedded in the past than to apply the same scrutiny to recent history. To be both liberal and democratic is to be axiomatically part of a club that examines itself. Not so, argues Human Rights Watch. Exhibit A? Barack Obama's record in investigating the allegations of detainee abuse authorised by his predecessor, George W Bush.The wrongdoing of that administration is today broadly, although not universally, acknowledged. Waterboarding has been declared as torture by the attorney general Eric Holder. Enhanced interrogation techniques are no longer used. The CIA has closed down its programme of secret detention centres. Unidentified planes no longer land at odd hours at Prestwick Airport with unknown human cargoes (although rendition-type questions have been raised about a Somali interrogated aboard a US warship for two months). There are still 171 detainees in Guantánamo Bay, and military commissions still exist, but in general it is fair to say the most egregious practises of the Bush war on terror have ceased. Far from enhancing security, the wisdom in Washington today is that these practises endangered it .The crimes are there for all to see, but the people who ordered them, sanctioned them and bent the Geneva conventions for them, walk free. Two weeks ago, the search for accountability hit the buffers when Mr Holder announced that a two-year review by a special 人権は、多くの場合のみ、過去に直面することによって国家はよりよい未来を構築することができるといわれているジョージブッシュ、チェイニー、ドナルドRusmfeldItを調査するために確固とした根拠があるという報告をご覧ください
- Strangers in a foreign land
In 1979, when Kamin Mohammadi was nine, she left revolutionary Iran with her mother and sister to live in London. Later, her father joined them. She remembers the confusion of a new life in exile, after a move that changed their lives radicallyI don't remember what kind of day it was in September 1979 when we returned home from the park to find my father waiting for us, whether the sun was shining or if it was raining. I do remember that it was before my 10th birthday, so it was early in the month. But that, I had already learned, was no guarantee of the weather. This refusal of the weather to reflect the season was one of the many things I had discovered about London in the three months we had been there alone: my mother, sister and me.My father was still in Iran, putting our affairs in order, guarded by Kurdish peshmerga in our house in Tehran. They had been put there by one of his nephews – a revolutionary but more loyal to the blood ties with his uncle than to the nascent revolution. Every day, my father had to dance a complicated dance to stay one step ahead of the vigilantes of the newly born Islamic republic who he knew would soon come looking for him. My father had got out just in time, taking a series of flights in a convoluted itinerary that got him safely out of Iran and over to us in Britain. Uncharacteristically, my sister and I threw ourselves into his arms and he, also uncharacteristically, embraced us back.The revolution had changed everything. Not just the very structure of our lives – we no longer lived in Iran surrounded by family, I no longer understood the language surrounding me, we no longer lived in a roomy house with a large garden – it also changed my parents. My mother went about the daily chores as normally as possible, seeking out Middle Eas _NULL_
- Carmageddon Is Upon Us!
One of the joys of living in the Los Angeles area is traffic. Whenever we hear drivers in other cities complaining about how bad congestion has gotten on their local roads, we grin smugly behind our hands. Traffic in Los Angeles has reached the point where we no longer have a "rush hour." It is possible to hit bumper-to-bumper gridlock at any hour of the day, any day of the week. There's no city in the continental United States that can compete with our predictably unpredictable awful traffic. ロサンゼルス地域に住むの喜びの一つはトラフィックです
- Week Ahead: Fireworks Coming Early?
Something's got to give as we approach Independence Day, as the quixotic action last week hurt both quick-hit traders and longer-term investors. But an early rally next week would improve the outlook greatly, writes MoneyShow.com senior editor Tom Aspray. 何かは、クイックヒットトレーダーと長期的な投資家の両方を傷つける先週のドンキホーテ的なアクションとして、我々は独立記念日に近づくとして与えるために持っている
- THE BOGLEHEADS WIKI
THE BOGLEHEADSTM WIKI:__
A Valuable Reservoir of Investor Information__
One of the most overlooked parts of the highly successful Bogleheads™ community is its wiki. While the Bogleheads.org forum gets most of the attention from both members, visitors, and the press, there is an often-overlooked wealth of valuable information available at no cost on the Bogleheads™ wiki. One visit to that part of the Bogleheads.org site is all that’s needed to convince visitors that they should probably bookmark this valuable resource for further exploration.__
Background__
Initially started by Boglehead Barry Barnitz in 2008, the wiki has expanded over the past few years with the addition of a dedicated group of Boglehead editors and contributors. Since wikis are always a work in progress, the information available continues to expand both in new subject matter and with additions and refinements to existing topics.__
History__
Ken Schwartz recorded some of the initial groundbreaking history of the wiki in his wiki page, Bogleheads™ wiki history. __
Barry Barnitz elaborated by stating the following. “I first got the notion about incorporating a wiki into my blog page from a forum conversation in which Alex mentioned that a wiki was a future consideration for the forum.”__
“Secondly, I posted some material on Dan Kohn's wiki, my first experience with the medium. I wanted a medium for writing some longer pieces than is practical for a blog, so I created a wiki (using a free public available wiki platform) and placed in on my blog.” _NULL_
- Nuruddin Farah: Windows on the World
The Somali novelist reflects on the Mogadishu he knew as a child and the contrast with its brutal presentOften, I live in one place but write about another place very much unlike it. I wrote my first novel as a student in India and I wrote my latest while commuting between Newcastle in England, Minneapolis and Cape Town, where I reside. As befits a writer who lives more in the mind than in my physical surroundings, I base my work on memory, which I enrich with my knowledge of Somalia – where my novels are set – and supplement it with my imagination.When I start a work, I first visit Mogadishu to do research, then return just before publication. During this time, the attitudes of the city's residents, their dress habits and even their diet will have undergone changes, depending on the politics of the country's competing factions.On a clear day, the beauty of the city is visible from various vantage points, its landscape breathtaking. Even so, I am aware of its unparalleled war-torn decrepitude: almost every structure is pockmarked by bullets and many homes are on their sides, falling in on themselves.From the roof of any tall building you can see the Bakaara market, the centre of resistance during the recent Ethiopian occupation; its labyrinthine redoubts remain the operations centre of the militant Islamist group Shabab. Down the hill are the partly destroyed turrets of the Uruba hotel, no longer open. Now you are within a stroll of Hamar Weyne and Shangani, two of the city's most ancient neighbourhoods, where there used to be markets for gold and tamarind in the days when Mogadishu boasted a cosmopolitan community.So what do I see when I am in Mogadishu? I see the city of old, where I lived as a young man. Then I superimpose the city's peaceful past on the present cras _NULL_
- Bernanke Near The End Of Rope, Dollar Gets Boost
The dollar is sharply higher following Bernanke’s downbeat assessment of the world’s leading economy having revised growth lower as the economy takes longer to create jobs. The Fed’s decision to maintain its balance sheet at a record was of no surprise to investors but the impotent sensation has cut investors’ appetite for risk. It would have been nice to hear that the impact of previous waves of policy response would soon kick-in, but many of us have got past that place as we realize that you really can take the horse to water, but you really can’t make it drink. Perhaps it’s not time to announce a further round of easing until more data can be assessed, but one thing is for sure: Past measures are proving imprecise and limited in impact. Bernanke’s pause in policy response signals that the economy is on its own for now, at least until the Fed figures out a better time of tackle sluggish data. _NULL_
- What makes the IMF think it's right about Greece? | Dean Baker
The same economists who failed to predict the 2007 financial crash are still in the driving seat – and just as clueless in a crisisWhen did the IMF learn about the economy?That's what people around the world should be asking as the IMF presents its latest assessment of the fiscal and economic prospects for nations around the world last week. Much of the world remains mired in the worst downturn since the Great Depression; a downturn that the IMF totally failed to predict, as noted by the IMF's own Independent Evaluation Office.This was not a minor mistake; this was a horrendous failing. It's comparable to the surgeon amputating the wrong leg or leaving his operating tools inside the patient. This is the sort of incredible mess-up that most people lose their jobs over and likely never find work again in the same field.Yet, as far as the world knows, not one person at the IMF lost their job. In fact, it's not even clear that anyone missed a scheduled promotion. As far as anyone can tell, an economic downturn that ruined the lives of tens of millions of people around the world has had no impact whatsoever on the people who actually have the responsibility for preventing such calamities, at the IMF and in other major governmental and international financial institutions.This makes the IMF's stance behind the continued drive for austerity in much of world especially infuriating. How can Greek workers feel about being told that they will have to work longer for smaller pensions by IMF economists who can retire with six-figure pensions in their early fifties? The vast majority of Greek workers do their jobs. The IMF economists failed at their job.Beyond the issue of fairness is the question of competence. The IMF economists obviously did not understand the implications of asse _NULL_
- China opens world's longest sea bridge
26-mile Jiaozhou Bay crossing connects Qingdao to Huangdao, took four years to build and uses 5,000 pillarsChina, which seems to completes mammoth infrastructure projects on a routine basis, has claimed another world-beater with the opening of the longest sea bridge.The 26-mileJiaozhou Bay crossing connects the bustling port city of Qingdao, south-east of Beijing, to the industrial district of Huangdao.The eight-lane, 35-metre-wide bridge opened to traffic on Thursday morning, China's Xinhua news agency said. Built over a four-year period the project cost about £1.4bn and uses 5,000 pillars. It shortens the driving route between the two locations by about 20 miles.Somewhat inevitably, the bridge takes the world record from another Chinese sea crossing, the 22.5-mile Hangzhou Bay bridge, which opened in 2008, connecting the cities of Jiaxing and Ningbo, south of Shanghai. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana, at almost 24 miles, is slightly longer but crosses an inland waterway rather than open sea.China is constructing an even more ambitious bridge. Work began in December 2009 on a Y-shaped structure linking Guangdong province in southern China to Hong Kong and Macau. Building is expected to be finished in 2015, and the bridge is expected to cover about 31 miles, although only about 22 miles will span the sea.ChinaConstruction industryArchitecturePeter Walkerguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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- What do you think of the trailer and poster for The Salt of Life?
Take a look at the exclusive UK poster and trailer for Gianni Di Gregorio's followup to Mid-August Lunch and let us know what you thinkYou can keep your Harry Potters. And you can forget your Trees of Life. The film we're really most eagerly anticipating this year is a low-budget Italian film about the lukewarm lovelife of a middle-aged Italian.The Salt of Life is Gianni Di Gregorio's followup to Mid-August Lunch, his semi-autobiographical comedy about caring for his elderly mother in Rome (and three other ageing mammas dumped on him by desperate pals). It was slight and short and almost wholly free of the drama and glamour of Gomorrah, the film whose screenplay Di Gregorio wrote, and which enabled him to finally make Lunch.Anyway, here's the first UK trailer for the followup, in which Di Gregorio appears to no longer be living with his mother, but still juggling her demands with his own frustrated desires. The poster, too, looks to suggest a certain hazy split between fantasy and reality … The film opens in the UK on 12 August. Are you looking forward to it too? And where do you see the Gianni saga going? For clues, here's an interview we shot with Di Gregorio after the film's Berlin premiere in February.World cinemaItalyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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- Lessons From The World's Best Coworker
I knew T and I would be friends* as soon as we bonded over the fact that we both knew all the words to Free Love Freeway from The Office (UK). That was my second day on the job. We no longer work together or even live in the same city, but I recently sent her a birthday note and reading her reply, I remembered just how much I’ve figured out about work – how to think about, how to balance it with everything else – thanks to her. Notwithstanding a renewed appreciation for mashed potatoes, here's what I learned from the best coworker a career noob could have asked for: null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Paying Turkers To Steal Readers, Write My Articles, Do My Reporting, And Fix My Liver
I’ve been spending too much time at work viewing porn. Labeling smutty images is one of the easiest and quickest paying gigs I could find at Amazon Mechanical Turk, a service that pays web surfers to perform small tasks. Plus I’ve got a newborn kid and a to-do list longer than Dirk Diggler’s diggler (sorry, occupational hazard). And my mother’s birthday is coming up. I need help. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- At last, Germany is making the right noises about the eurozone | Henning Meyer
Taking a lead doesn't come easily to Merkel. But perhaps she now sees Germany needs to light the way to a sustainable futureOne cannot help but feel that the Greek tragedy is nearing some sort of endgame. The streets of Athens are burning as people try to resist yet another round of austerity medicine repeatedly prescribed by the EU/IMF and forced down their throats by the Greek government. Even though there is ample evidence that the current medication simply does not work – instead triggering huge social and economic side effects – policymakers at the IMF, the EU and the ECB are unwilling to rethink their diagnosis and cure.The eurozone is at breaking point and Greece is trapped. The markets have long acknowledged this, as almost all European banks and even the biggest Greek private bank are radically reducing their exposure to Greek bonds. Somehow engineering an agreement to go on with the current policies and continuing to pour more money into this black hole will not resolve the crisis but make the long-term costs even worse. The Greek sovereign debt crisis will not be resolved this way. So what can we do?In a quite unusual turn of events I think that the German government is starting to make the right noises. I have argued before that it is simply unacceptable to socialise investment losses whilst keeping profits private. Therefore I think it is absolutely right that the German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble is pushing for an inclusion of the private sector in resolving the current crisis. Whether this means a voluntary bond swap with longer maturities or some other measure can be debated; but the principle is right. And it is about time to seriously talk about this given that the private sector is already getting out of Greek bonds and the ECB is more and mor null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Retailers Longer-Dated Maturities Fare Well on Job Hopes
Equity investors reveled in signs of an improving labor market the day before an official government report may yet deliver a disappointing reading. Stocks jumped after retailers put on their best performance in seven years, while the Wall Street Journal points out that 87% of them topped same store sales predictions. WalMart, whose shares limped behind more nimble brands, saw huge demand for its longest-dated issue and was among several retail names where investors cast their nets in the hunt for yield in the corporate bond market. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- The Day DLC Went Too Far
Yesterday was a dark day for gaming, as evidenced by the internet being flooded with lamentations of how the last great white hope of games has succumbed to the dark side. Battlefield 3, the highly anticipated, fan-favorite Modern Warfare killing FPS has officially sold out.__
EA has gone around DICE, a company known for making their games as consumer friendly as possible, and employed all the worst tactics modern video game marketing has to offer. A level pack called Back to Karkand featuring some of the series' classic maps is now no longer in the game, and rather part of a DLC pack called "Physical Warfare." Further still, EA has removed specific guns and weapon attachments from the game and made them preorder bonuses for certain stores.__
All of this is an unfortunate move by the company, but one that's still not unusual in the industry. However, in a genre that requires balance, EA has actually taken the unforgiveable step of giving some players access to game items that will actually give them a leg up on the competition, something Call of Duty hasn't even dared to attempt yet. They've removed an entire powerful Light Machine Gun and two unique weapon attachments, making them only available through pre-order. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- The deceit of ageing Arab regimes won't stop al-Jazeera | Wadah Khanfar
Arab regimes' attempts to discredit al-Jazeera only highlight the honesty of the new people's mediaWhen al-Jazeera and other Arab satellite TV services were launched in 1996, the intelligence agencies of Arab regimes began a campaign to create an atmosphere of doubt around us, including the rumour that al-Jazeera was established by a Mossad officer living in the Doha Sheraton. When you deal with this level of distortion, you know you are facing regimes that are too scared to confront you with facts.In recent years they have started using new techniques, denying us accreditation so that we could not report in their countries. Tunisia never allowed us to report from its soil, and almost all other Arab countries where there was unrest followed suit. Sometimes heads of state have demanded this as a matter of national security.Al-Jazeera has been treated as a threat that had to be met by the strongest measures: in the last few months our equipment has been confiscated and our reporters detained or assaulted in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Jordan and Syria. Our senior cameraman was killed in Libya by the regime's forces. Our transmission was completely blocked by many Arab regimes. We were off-air in the whole region for a few hours at the peak of the Egyptian revolution.If all this had taken place before 2007 the Arab public might have remained in the dark. But these decaying regimes didn't recognise that withholding information and harassing journalists will no longer silence the truth. They couldn't comprehend that, with the availability of mobile phones with cameras and high-speed internet, a new form of media was being born: the people's media, created by the people and for the people. You can call it interactive media or Twitter and Facebook media or whatever you like: it enabl null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Quote of the Day, From the Woman No Longer Marrying Hugh Hefner
“The cool thing about reality TV is that you get to do things you wouldn’t normally do in real life.” - Crystal Harris, 25, who called off her engagement with Playboy octogenarian Hugh Hefner this week. A New Yorker writer who ran bridal errands with Harris earlier this year recalled the null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Australia's Qantas refuses to rule out job cuts
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce refused on Sunday to rule out cutting jobs at the Australian airline as part of a restructure to improve its international business and capture Asian growth.Qantas, which is facing possible strike action from some employees including pilots, has already said that its international business is underperforming and can no longer be sustained by the airline's more profitable assets. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
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