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A1GP: Carroll hopes to continue Irish improvement in China
Team Ireland have confirmed Adam Carroll will drive for them in A1GP's Chinese race on December 16th, where he hopes to keep up the team's record of scoring points in every race.
Ireland suffered fewer troubles in the Malaysian races than Team GBR, but still feel the final result did not reflect the strength of their performance.
Race engineer Dan Walmsley said: "The whole team felt Malaysia did not reflect our true position, but we've bounced back and are ready to show what we can do. It's going to be a level playing field and we've now sorted out a few issues we had with Adam's seat so it's looking good."
Carroll said: "We're going to go and put 100 per cent into next weekend, we know where we need to improve and hopefully we'll be much stronger in China from the very beginning. I'm really looking forward to getting to the circuit and I'm feeling confident and excited heading into the race."
Team owner Mark Kershaw was hopeful for the future: "I think Team Ireland has surprised a few people already this season, yet to be honest we have not really shown our true potential, so there is plenty to come. Adam is working hard and the team has never been more motivated."
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Catastrophists versus Cornucopians
Thu, 2008-07-17 15:28 by marisa
"To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, and the destruction of our most cherished values—there is no need to do anything. We need only do nothing except what comes naturally—and breed." (Isaac Asimov)
Environmentalists have been often accused of being prophets of doom. Now there is a new species of Catastrophists: they are political and economic commentators with a pervasive lament that the world faces exponential population decline, with a "Global Aging Crisis" that threatens to "stunt" economic growth.
Phillip Longman of the New America Foundation writes that current population trends also threaten to make military actions increasingly difficult for most nations. Pensions and health care will require increased funding. As the labour force stops growing, it will become more difficult for Washington to sustain current levels of military spending or the number of men and women in uniform.
Many commentators are concerned, more or less openly, with national or international prestige, not just economic, but military. It is not just about pensions; at stake is the decline of national prestige and of capitalism, which as rule have always flourished with population growth.
Governments, media, industries and business in general have switched from their previous 1970s preoccupation with uncontrolled population growth, to focus on the consequences of unplanned Western population decline. They fear the asymmetrical proportions of an ageing population in the developed world against the youthful force of Asian nations of the new coming world. The decline of the West is seen as tantamount to decay and loss of relevance on the international stage. It is the tragedy of Western extinction. Competition about power has got a new name: Fertility.
The Canadian political analyst Mark Steyn asserts that the West is in danger of extinction. "We're pretty much awash in resources, but we're running out of people, the one truly indispensable resource, without which none of the others matter." In the face of his preoccupation with the 'demise of Western civilization', Steyn ignores questions about the abundance of every other resource.
Since the United Nations downgraded its assumption of global population projections, from 10 billion to slightly under 9 billion by 2050, the press have reacted as if Earth were on a fatal collision course with a giant asteroid. They have created panic among the Old Cornucopians and anyone else who believes that population growth is 'No Problem'.
However, they shouldn't worry, because, according to these predictions, population growth is still on course to add, by 2050, a new population nearly the current size of India, or almost five times the size of sub-Saharan Africa. The trouble is, the growth will be mostly in developing countries, in places where women average six or more children (Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia and Somalia) and those where they average five or more (Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Guinea, Nigeria, the Palestinian territories, Sudan and Togo). India is projected to overtake China's population by 55%, while Indonesia is expected to increase its population by 30% and Vietnam by 40%. And if Turkey joins the EU, with a projected increase of 30 million, it will count as the Union's most populous member.
Different projection models, seen by some as pessimistic, and by others as optimistic - conclude that there is an 85 per cent chance that the world's population will stop growing before the end of the century. There is a 60 per cent probability that it will not exceed 10 billion people before 2100, and around a 15% probability that, at the end of the century, Earth's population will be lower than it is today. For different regions, the date and size of peak population will vary considerably. At the global level, old age will prevail: the proportion above age 60 is likely to increase from its current level of 10 per cent to around 22 per cent in 2050.
If trends were to be borne out, by 2050 the cohort aged 65 to 84 years old would reach 1.3 billion, while those aged 88 and over would number 175 million.
These projected numbers are feared likely to impose a destructive burden on society. Hence, for some, the prospect of an end to world population growth is welcome news for sustainable development. (Lutz,Sanderson,Scherbov)
The pessimistic view of a population decline depends on absolute faith in the benefits of population growth. The new breed of pessimists is the antithesis of the Old Cornucopians and a new mutation. Their literature is studded with references to the perils of ageing.
"Economists in the West have declared that it will be impossible to sustain the present system of old age pensions." (Mullan). "The United Nations duly convened in October 2000, a group of experts to examine issues of population aging and decline, the twin most dreaded consequences of humanity's biological success."
Such fear is not new. As early as 1937, John Maynard Keynes assured us that the problem of overpopulation is old hat and in its place we have a different threat: lack of demand caused by a declining population. The nationalistic content of such preoccupations was reflected in the thinking of many and endorsed by the Royal Commission which reported in 1949 the danger of a steady fall in birth-rates from 1870 (Mullan).
The European Union (EU) has an ambivalent attitude: while promoting population control policies in the developing world, it would look stupid, not to say racist, in denouncing the danger of falling birth rates in the West.
For some commentators this worry is part of a more generalised alarmism, which touches every aspect of modern society: food scares, water depletion, climate changes, family crisis, terrorism, social fragmentation, immigration, AIDS, bird flu, civil and uncivil wars, football violence, unruly teenagers, destruction of forests, and so on, some of which are suspected to have been promoted by environmentalists in search of a visible platform.
The lack of growth produces a stationary society especially if older people are excluded from the labour market. The trend has become a cause for angst, paradoxically transforming the old image of the demographic "bomb" out of recognition. No more explosions, but implosion. "An older industrial world will inevitably be a slower growing one." (Hamish McRae)
#economy" id="economy">It's the economy, stupid
The author offers an interpretation for the existence of the New Catastrophists. Their insistence on gloom mongering is manipulative and follows deliberate ideological ends, the ideology of eternal Growth: The Golden Calf.
The ideology underlying the population growth model is inspired by Adam Smith, mercantilist/imperialist economics, and modern demand and supply theories. (A. David Coleman)
As life expectancy has increased in the entire Western world, it has been associated with longer and healthier life spans in the older population. A 60 year old today is not the same 60 years old of twenty years ago. As a result, people can either work longer or consume less.
Ah! Consuming less! This concept is anathema for the disciples of the New Dogma—the Growth Factor. No society today, rich or poor, of left or right government, will oppose this dogma, which has become a quasi-religious belief system. It follows that economic growth cannot do without population growth.
Among supporters of population growth, the late Julian Simon is the most extreme case. He advocated continued population growth long into the future, deserving Professor Albert Bartlett's award of membership in "The New Flat Earth Society" because a flat earth is the only earth that has the potential to allow the human population to grow forever.
"We have in our hands now - actually in our libraries - the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the next 7 billion years… Even if no new knowledge were ever gained...we would be able to go on increasing our population forever." (Julian Simon)
How has this self-confidence in progress and everlasting human improvement, founded on growth, given way to gloomy predictions about the future?
Again, the word on which we should concentrate is "growth". No population growth = no economic growth. It is simple. The faith of the Cornucopians in a radiant future is based on growing growth. To anticipate lower economic expectations, resulting from less people to feed, clothe, house, educate, mobilize, and serve in the army - even if this includes unemployment, crowding, pollution, cementification, and social conflict - goes against the conventional assumption that human inventiveness doesn't accept biological limits and is the motor of progress.
The over-optimistic view that purports humanity's capacity to overcome every difficulty, with time, technology and lots of human beings, has turned on its head, when confronted with the awful perspective of a diminishing population.
If humans are so deft in inventing new solutions to ever increasing problems, what then stands in the way of creating new solutions to the economic affliction of demographic decline, publicised by the press and governments as the ultimate tragic event?
Surely, the same race that has sent man to the Moon - an incredibly difficult task previously thought to belong to the realm of science fiction - can manage changes arising from the so-called demographic transition?
We are being instructed to believe that the problem is economic. Ecological concerns are not a priority, nor are related issues of resource depletion, energy availability, loss of biodiversity, plunder of our natural capital. The fact that many species are in danger of extinction is not a major concern, nor that natural beauty is disappearing under tons of concrete. Though it is undeniable that the density of human populations is responsible for environmental devastation, it is also evident that not everybody is concerned. Our governments obey the economist exhortations and rightly recognise that people are mostly interested in what is called "purchasing power".
If people were better informed about the threat to their lifestyles they would take into consideration other factors: Peak Oil is already upon us and its scarcity is already affecting their purchasing power. And if they were to reflect further, they should recognise that a less populated world would have everything to gain in security, democracy, liberty, employment, resources availability, and so on.
#solutions" id="solutions">Solutions to the crisis
A report released on Sunday, February 19th by the English Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) the leading New Labour think-tank, claimed that Britain was at a "demographic fork in the road" and needed to increase its fertility to prevent future tax rises.
The answer ? "The IPPR report says, in effect, that we need more babies to pay for our pensioners but this ignores the fact that those babies will eventually become pensioners themselves," said David Nicholson-Lord, research associate for the Optimum Population Trust. "When that happens, we will need - on the IPPR's logic, at least - even more babies to support the even greater number of pensioners. Population would thus have to go on increasing ad infinitum - something the planet clearly cannot support." (David Nicholson Lord)
Behold an Editorial from The Economist of January 7th 2006, the smartest most influential magazine in the world," according to The Sunday Telegraph
"The new demographics that are causing populations to age and to shrink are something to celebrate. Humanity was once caught in the trap of high fertility and high mortality. Now it has escaped into the freedom of low fertility and low mortality. Women's control over the number of children they have is an unqualified good, as is the average person's enjoyment, in rich countries, of ten more years of life than they had in 1960. Politicians may fear the decline of their nations' economic prowess, but people should celebrate the new demographics as heralding a golden age."
Notwithstanding the congratulating tone of this article, about the happy consequences of the lengthening of life, due to a limitation of births, the general reaction is of dismay and hand wringing. Some reactions are obsessively concentrating on a narrow issue. It is called: pension funds, or the preoccupation of providing funding to a growing number of older people.
Nobody seems to be able to find a solution, in spite of the proclaimed inventiveness of the human race.
According to certain UN figures "The 'population bomb' is now, officially, a dud…. The Population Division of the UN has now published a report titled 'Replacement Migration: Is it a Solution to Declining and Aging Populations?' that claims to address a problem population doomsayers did not predict: that within 50 years many countries around the world will be suffering from underpopulation. The report explicitly states, 'Among the demographic trends revealed by those figures [generated], two are particularly salient: population decline and population aging.' The report predicts that by 2050, Japan's population will have dropped by 18 percent, Italy's by 28 percent, and Europe as a whole by 13 percent," according to Joseph Klesney a policy analyst at the Acton Institute.
The UN Population Division continues to worry: if the United States hopes to maintain the current ratio of workers to retirees over time, it will have to absorb an average of 10.8 million immigrants annually through 2050. At that point, however, the U.S. population would total 1.1 billion, 73 percent of whom would be immigrants who had arrived in this country since 1995 or their descendants.
Just housing such a massive influx would require the equivalent of building another New York City every 10 months. (Longman)
Europe is also deemed to need mass immigration to fix the support ratio between workers and pensioners. Britain, for example, is recommended to take a million immigrants a year to 2050, just to maintain the balance, which would bring the population to 120 millions…
Some European countries try to ignite more pro-natalist propaganda.
In extremis, some demographers recommend more immigration, in order to pay for our pensions.
But this is a theme for another, more ad hoc article.
Feeding reciprocally these up-down fears of economic decline = population decline, one of the most active and fundamentalist proponents of population growth is Ben J. Wattenberg, Fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative institution supported by Big Business. And it is not strange that Big Business should support a rise in population, even through immigration, as businesses depend on a growth of their customer base. Just think how depopulation would play in favour of the construction industry.
Wattenberg "believes in the dire economic and emotional repercussions consequent to the "birth dearth": shrinking markets, wrenching economic dislocation and great personal costs for millions of young people who decide not to raise families. (Wattenberg)
He then puts his foot in it, by bringing in scenarios of the Black Death, to support his theories. While recommending not investing in Europe, he compares our situation to "that plague demography, losing about a fifth of its population by 2050 ".
Back in 1348, Europe suffered the Black Death or Plague, the second worst catastrophe in recorded history, which reduced the estimated European population by about a third.
It also brought stability, progress and freedom from want to the people who escaped death. As the distinguished scholar David Herlihy pointed out, the great reduction in population created opportunities for the survivors and those who came after them; there were fewer people, more jobs and a higher standard of living. (David Herlihy and Samuel K., Jr. Cohn)
Another historian agrees that, before the Black Death the continent "was caught in a Malthusian deadlock" in which "the balance between people and resources had become very tight." After the plague, Europe "emerged from the charnel house of pestilence and epidemic cleansed and renewed, like the sun after rain."(John Kelly)
Moreover: "Serfdom declined more rapidly. The status of women rose. Wages rose for common people. Talented young people were able to advance faster. The power of the kings declined more rapidly." (Norman Cantor ) It is an indisputable fact that the sudden population decline stimulated labour-saving technologies that transformed the economy.
It would be nice if future population decline were not the result of tragic circumstances, but rather the consequence of many factors, all signs of progress in medicine, economic progress and cultural deliverance from old customs.
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The writer John Seager, currently writing a book on the effects of population trends around the world, asks: "Is this so-called 'birth dearth,' as Wattenberg puts it, really a problem? It is not. In fact, smaller families represent a great potential opportunity. The world is beset with social, political, and environmental challenges and crises;many caused by rampant population growth." (John Seager)
Most invectives against population growth come not from straight environmentalists but from scientists:
"If there is ever a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in population until the natural state of starvation and misery restored." says the biologist Richard Dawkins,
"It is a simple logical truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death-rates. It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for 'natural' methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation." Richard Dawkins
Most environmentalists appear less concerned with overpopulation. They concentrate on poverty, global warming, human rights, and many other ecological and sociological fears, but they shy away from overpopulation, which is the underlying reason for these problems. They may fear to lose many of their supporters, who believe that the real problem lies elsewhere, mostly in overconsumption by the rich.
Dr Madsen Pirie, President, Adam Smith Institute, said it: Do not worry: you said it all. We will get over this hump of population decline, go through the difficulties and come out the other side, happier and with better living conditions. The benefits of any given situation depend on good policies. (News night's David Grossman Aug 2003 BBC)
Exponential growth cannot go on eternally and more so population growth plus economic growth.
As noted by The Economist, higher life expectancy goes hand in hand with better health, and better health may improve worker productivity and savings, and puts pressure to introduce new technologies to boost workers' efficiency.
Policymakers should focus on the advantages of the median income on a per capita basis, which would make more individuals better off, rather than on the gross national product or national income.
If Governments hate a shrinking population is because it restricts their power status, but what matters is GDP per person.
A slowly shrinking population will bring a more egalitarian society, lower unemployment, elimination of costly and obsolete infrastructures, a stimulus to economic modernization, like the use of robots as substitute for menial labour, and improved living standards.
Although, realistically speaking, we recognize that every economic regime has its problems, population growth seems to have accumulated more than enough: they include increased import dependency for food and raw materials, increases in housing costs, congestion and crowding, marginal population ignored and exploited, balance of payments problems, inhibition of productivity growth and real income, an abundance of young people of working age, which can result in unemployment or underemployment, accompanied by political instability, elevated rates of crime, and the deterioration of social capital as a possible further consequence.
The "greying" of developed nations will provide opportunities as well as challenges. The real crux of the population question is the quality of people's lives; the ability of people to participate in what it means to be really human; to work, play and die with dignity; to have some sense that one's life has meaning and is connected with other people's lives." (Cohen, J.)
Let's be optimistic for a change and look forward to our old age, when we will all be wiser, reasonably healthy and still active in contributing to society.
What better challenge for Cornucopians? So why not apply the famously sceptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg's cheerfulness as medicine: emphasise the possibilities of technology and human creativity! ("The fact is human ingenuity has conquered every problem so far."). I didn't include him in my review because he is an unreconstructed optimist, the True Original Cornucopian. Because he thinks that everything is just a management problem, we shall call on him to fix things whenever they get a bit too difficult.
Dear Cornucopians who have lost their sense of reliance on technological fixes and market forces, consider that even Wattenberg and Co will come up with some extraordinary solution to our new predicament, new technological advances, and man's creativity will rush to the rescue in a world of sprightly octogenarians, with the added benefit of living in a cleaner, peaceful and greener environment. And with a New Cornucopian suit fitted to their leaner new frame, we can celebrate together the Age of Increasing Opportunities.
1. Phillip Longman, May/June 2004,The Global Baby Bust", Foreign Affairs. In "The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World prosperity and What to do About it" New York Basic Books, 2004, he urges that policies in the USA and other rich countries encourage more children.
2. Wolfgang Lutz, Warren Sanderson &amo; Sergei Scherbov, 2 August 2001" The end of world population growth", NATURE vol. 412www.nature.com 543 27. Sunderland, Massachusetts.
3. Phil Mullan,2002 "The Imaginary Time Bomb" I.B. Taurus Publishers, theorises that Ageism is a form of discrimination
4. Hamish McRae 1995, OECD Economic Outlook.
5. A.David Coleman 2006, The prospect of population decline, University of Oxford, Round table discussion on the economic financial and environmental implications of over-population, OPT London 15 Feb
6. (Julian Simon L.) 1995, "The State of Humanity" Cato Institute and Blackwell Publishers.
7. David Nicholson Lord, 2006, Optimum Population Trust, News Release: Baby Shortage A Myth
8. Ben J. Wattenberg "The Birth Dearth" New York: Pharos Books.
9. Ben J. Wattenberg, 1997 "The Population Explosion Is Over"
10. The New York Times Magazine
11. David Herlihy and Samuel K., Jr. Cohn , 1997," The Black Death and the Transformation of the West" (European History Series), Kirkus Associates,Harvard University Press , Cambridge Massachusetts)
12. John Kelly 1002, "The Great Mortality : An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time " Harper Collins Publishers,10 East 53rd Street , NewYork )
13. Norman Cantor 2001,"In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made ", New York Free Press.
14. John Seager 2004, Why Anxiety Over Low Fertility? Population Connection, (Fact Sheet From The Reporter)
15. Cohen J. ,1998," How many people can the earth support? "New York Review of Books.
contradictions of technocrats
Jesse Hanson (not verified)
Hi there, A "catastrophist" is one who believes that Earth and/or all of its landforms are predominantly created through cataclysmic events. It does not apply, however, to a Malthusian as it has no connection to the idea of pessimism. I have seen, though not of late, the word "catastrophean" applied to the glass-half-full perspective to population growth. Best, Jesse


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Jesse's quest is more complex. He has an abundance of warm, caring people in his life -- his foster parents, Glen (Michael Madsen) and Annie (Jayne Atkinson) , who are superhuman paragons of patience; Randolph (August Schellenberg), his former ally at the aquarium; and Randolph's goddaughter, Nadine (Mary Kate Schellhardt) -- not to mention Willy and his siblings, Luna and Littlespot.
Jesse's quest is more complex. He has an abundance of warm, caring people in his life — his foster parents, Glen (Michael Madsen) and Annie (Jayne Atkinson) , who are superhuman paragons of patience; Randolph (August Schellenberg), his former ally at the aquarium; and Randolph's goddaughter, Nadine (Mary Kate Schellhardt) — not to mention Willy and his siblings, Luna and Littlespot.
But he's confused by the tug of blood ties. The situation only worsens when he learns his mother, a drug addict, is dead, and Elvis, the half brother he didn't know existed, is about to make a visit. His discomfort with the swaggering, cocksure Elvis (Francis Capra) is more than just the 8-year-old's mythomania — he's also distracted by the ache of raging hormones and the proximity of Nadine.
Add to all this personal angst an oil tanker gone aground and bleeding into the whale lanes off Washington state and you have "Free Willy 2" in a tightly packed nutshell. The movie is less a narrative arc than it is a juggling act. Director Dwight Little may be a tad awkward in his form, but he does manage to keep all the balls in the air.
The script, credited to Karen Janszen, Corey Blechman and John Mattson (Blechman co-wrote the original), is nothing if not ambitious. Family trauma is juxtaposed with physical peril, echoes of Jesse's troubled youth reverberate in Elvis' life and Native American folklore clashes with industrial expedience.
It ought to be a breathless mess, and it's difficult to say precisely why it isn't. Certainly the ensemble cast contributes to steering the material away from the mire of sentimentality. Richter is an unusual young lead in that he's not unduly charismatic nor classically handsome. But he's real and confident, and that adds up to an attractive combination.
Schellenberg and Madsen are masters of underplaying; their matter-of-fact attitude makes palatable and credible what would otherwise be improbable, melodramatic material. And when the high energy finale kicks in, emotions run high and culminate in a charged wrap-up.
Technical credits are clean and crisp without being cold. The mechanical whales rarely betray their wire-and-mesh origins and remain secondary to the film's human elements.
Handsomely produced and politically correct, "Free Willy 2" avoids stumping for environmental concerns or family values. Its most serious misstep is when Michael Jackson's theme song stops the action to focus on inane images.
Production: A Warner Bros. release in association with Le Studio Canal Plus, Regency Enterprises and Alcor Films of a Shuler-Donner/Donner production. Produced by Lauren Shuler-Donner, Jennie Lew Tugend. Executive producers, Richard Donner, Arnon Milchan, Jim Van Wyck. Co-producer, Richard Solomon. Directed by Dwight Little. Screenplay, Karen Janszen, Corey Blechman, John Mattson, based on characters created by Keith A. Walker. Camera (Technicolor; Panavision widescreen), Laszlo Kovacs; editors, Robert Brown, Dallas Puett; music, Basil Poledouris; production design, Paul Sylbert; art direction, Gregory Bolton; set design, Mindy R. Toback; set decoration, Casey Hallenbeck; costume design, Erica Edell Phillips; sound (SDDS) , Robert Janiger; whale effects supervisor, Walt Conti; animatronic whales created by Edge Innovations; associate producers, Mark Marshall, Douglas C. Merrifield, Sherry Fadely; assistant director, Van Wyck; second unit directors, Michael McAlister, Conrad E. Palmisano; second unit camera, Gary Holt; casting, Judy Taylor, Lynda Gordon. Reviewed at Mann Theater, Westwood, June 24, 1995. MPAA Rating: PG. Running time: 96 min. Jesse ...Jason James Richter Randolph #Johnson ... August Schellenberg Glen Greenwood ... Michael Madsen Annie Greenwood ... Jayne Atkinson Nadine ... Mary Kate Schellhardt Elvis ... Francis Capra John Milner ... Jon Tenney Dr. Kate Haley ... Elizabeth Pena Wilcox ... M. Emmet Walsh Dwight Mercer ... Mykelti Williamson Commander Blake ... John Considine Every sequel must confront the perilous waters known as the sea of familiarity. Initially one senses that "Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home" is caught rudderless in a dreaded whirlpool and will wind up seeming more mechanical than any of the picture's pod of whales. But once free of clunky plot constraints, the continuing family saga is a swimmingly satisfying emotional yarn that should ring up comparably upbeat numbers, in all media, to those of its predecessor. The enduring strength of this unexpected franchise is its theme of family. Both the young protagonist, Jesse (Jason James Richter), and the title orca are in search of that hallowed unit. In Willy's case, the search is a literal trek obstructed by ecological dangers.


Medical Corpsman Robert Bush served in Okinawa and put himself in harm's way to save a fallen comrade. When he knew his fellow soldier was safe, he helped his unit overcome the enemy. Robert Bush was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in honor of his service. The Moments of Valor series was produced in partnership with the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation.


I'm so glad that you stopped by to visit us again here at the Disney Parks Moms Panel with your great question about planning ahead for your upcoming Walt Disney World Resort vacation!
The 60-day window for selection of your FastPass+ choices begins 60 days before your check-in date. Therefore, in your May 15th example, the FastPass+ window would open March 16th.
Hope that helps with your magical planning, and clarifies that question for you!
On 6/22/2018 Nikki from MS Asked: Can I make fastpass selections for my entire stay 60 days prior to check in date or is the 60 days calculated from the date I'll be at each park?


Last year, 47 year old Nick Best took home the title. Now, a year older, can he hold on to it against much younger and potentially stronger athletes? On top of that, some guest competitors will be competing for a podium finish to guarantee them qualification into WSM!
Not many names I'm familiar with, even though I'm sure some of them competed here last year. Nick Best, despite being 48, is a veteran of the sport and is probably still the favourite to win, but being so unaware of what the rest of the field is capable means I'm utterly clueless going in!
1000lb super yoke needs to be run down the 18m course!
Zach Hadge is up first on his own, and gets a good time with 13.38 seconds! However, I see that time being beaten soon enough. Adam Derks now up against Ken Nowicki. Both men get off to a flier, but Ken finishes in 8.93 to blow away that 13.38 seconds! Just over 10 seconds for Derks lands him in current second. Nick Hadge and Brian Clark also get in the 8 seconds area, and I think they get 1st and 2nd so far! They just keep getting faster! David Daley JUST misses out on beating the time. Wow. Iron Biby beats the time with barely over 8 seconds… and he only comes in second place to Robert Kearney who does it below 8 seconds!!! Now its all down to Terry Hollands and Nick Best! Best just misses out on the best time, and Hollands, who does it below 9 seconds, looks slow!
172lb circus dumbbell, 230lb block, 360lbs axel and finally a 365lb log. All must be lifted overhead in order in the fastest time!
2 lifts seems to be the average here with everyone who has done so far, with just Maxime lifting 3 so far. First person we see attempt it is Terry Hollands. He's never been the best at pressing, so we'll see what he can do. Already he's struggling with the dumbbell, but eventually gets it up. He's beaten by the block, leaving him in current last place with just 1 lift. Nowicki is next, and the first 2 go up with ease. The axel is a difficult object to lift, but he does indeed get it up! Now, can he be the first to lift the log? Nope! He doesn't even attempt it! Might as well save some energy for later! Iron Biby's time now, and he looks like he should do all 4 with easy. He is a MONSTROUS man, reminding me a little of O.D. Wilson from back in the 1990 WSM event. The first 2 objects look lightweight. The axel, once on his chest, looks lightweight. The log? Light. Weight. THAT was impressive! I'd love to see this guy pushed in a pressing event to see just what he's capable of! And now, its time for Nick Best, the defending champion. A former powerlifter, he should be good here, but I've seen him for years now and he does often struggle to lock his arms out. However, he makes me look like a moron with the way he MANHANDLES the first 2 objects, making even Biby look weak! However, he is unable to get the axel to his shoulders. 2 in such a fast time will still give him good points though! Kearney again continues the trend of making the first 2 objects look easy, and then he continues to make the rest easy too, and in a much faster time than Biby! Another 1st place!
350kg/800lbs (ish) deadlifted for reps. We've seen this weight a lot at Giants Live for reps, and 12 I think is the best we've seen from Eddie Hall. 7 or 8 will probably be the winning number here.
Kearney looks to be in control at this point, but Nick Best could still make up enough points to beat him. That poor performance in the deadlift looks to take Biby out of a potential 1st or 2nd place, and the battle for 3rd is looking tight at the moment.
350lbs in each hand run down a course. And then they need to drag a massive chain to the other end of the course! This will tire out a lot of athletes!
The Canadian is currently in 1st with just over 13 seconds, a very impressive time. Biby didn't do too well, so he's going to end up falling down the points table. Dave Daley manages it in 12.55 seconds for a current first place! Nowicki and Derks are head to head next. Both are next and next, but Derks gets a winning time of 11.90 seconds, though he falls over backwards at the end and lands on his head! Don't think he's injured, just a little hurt! Best and Kearney are the last 2 again, and Kearney is probably the favourite here, but its next and next with Kearney just edging him out at the end. Neither get a 1st place time, but Kearney beating Best is all that matters here for these two men.
Well, there are only 5 events in this competition, so lets check those scores going into the finals!
Kearney has a SEVEN point lead on Best, and realistically he's going to take the win and the title here today. Biby's poor performance on the last 2 events sends him way down, but a good finish in the stones could still see him on the podium.
5 stones. Different weights. Platforms. Classic!
Iron Biby only manages 3, on his first ever attempt at the event. Sadly that will keep him of the podium. Only a couple of men have made 5 so far, so anyone else who can do 5 will be in with some good points. Derks and Nowicki are battling for that podium finish, but Derks just edges out the Scot to take the 3rd place finish. And now Best Vs Kearney. Kearney will need to fail miserably at this event and Best will need to finish around top 3 for a chance to win. However, Kearney is going well and goes AHEAD of Best and beats him!!! No question as to who wins the title here! Best did well to hang with the younger generation, but Kearney was just too much for him!
Well, that impressive time on the stones gets David Daly on the podium as joint 3rd! Good for him! Best tried his best to retain his title, but Robert Kearney was simply the better man here today, and the new North American Champion! A super fun event, just like last year! Goes to show that even if you don't know most of the men competing, they can still have one hell of a contest!


With the festive season coming up expectation of people spending right up until Chinese New Year is high.
We're still in the middle of October, but once November rolls round the year-end sales will be kicking off. With Christmas and Chinese New Year to look forward to in the months ahead retail spending is expected to go up right until January.
While the year-end sales will likely raise more growth in the retail industry, the Malaysian Association for Shopping and Highrise Complex Management past president Richard Chan is a little cautious as he's unsure if the retail industry could grow as much in the current quarter as it did in the corresponding period in 2012.
I don't know if sales in this quarter will surpass sales achieved last year. If we can at least maintain the growth, it would be fantastic, he said.
An analyst was also being cautious, but still pretty optimistic. The analyst claims that as the year-end is also when employees get their bonuses, this is the best period for malls to have sales. This will definitely mitigate the many issues Malaysians are currently facing after price hike in petrol, where the prices of flour and sugar are expected to rise and the prospect of GST being imposed in the 2015.
If all that bad news is bringing you down, then the sales may be just what you need to lift your spirits up during the festive seasons!


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Review: 'Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present' paints a worldly picture
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by Alexa Dickman
Funny story: A few weeks ago, I got a message on Facebook from an old friend from college. He asked me if I was still blogging, because the publishing company he now works for had a comics history book coming out that took a global view of comics history from 1968 onwards, and would I like a review copy? "Hold up," I said. "Is this Mazur and Danner's book?" Oh, had I already heard about it? "I heard about it when they were writing it, Mazur and I talked extensively about French feminist comics of the 1970s. I've known these guys for years from the Boston Comics Roundtable."
So there's my full disclosure, and also some kind of commentary about my life choices.
That said, I would have wanted to review this book even if it didn't also qualify as a favor for three friends. Most comics histories cover a very discrete group of comics– American, mainstream (superheroes, EC, a smattering of other genres during the Golden Age), with a cursory look at undergrounds and the early alternatives. I've longed for a comics equivalent of David A. Cook's A History of Narrative Film, that covers the zoëtrope and magic lantern all the way up through Lord of the Rings, spanning the globe and hitting all the major and some minor film movements– even if they never had any bearing on Hollywood blockbusters.
Mazur and Danner have written Volume III of my dream book. The subtitle betrays the main limitation, covering only after 1968, but that is still a substantial time span. What is covered is ample and quite relevant to my interests. It opens with the standard overview of American superhero comics of the late 1960s before plunging into the underground scene. From there, it primarily rotates between the major geographical nexuses of comics– Japan, France, and the United States, though both the artistic and geographical scopes expanded with every subsequent decade.
For the first time, I was able to put creators I've heard of and maybe was familiar with some of their work (e.g. Moëbius, Pratt, Tezuka, Otomo, etc.) into a broader context– not just in terms of which Americans had influenced them, but surprising connections like how post-WWII Italian creators were influenced by Argentinian creators, due to the vast number of Italian refugees who spent the war there. I also appreciated for the first time how the British Invasion of the 1980s had its roots in the synthesis of both American and Continental approaches to comics.
A certain pattern began to emerge that I found amusing: Young [American/French/Japanese] creators rebelled against [superheroes/ligne claire/Tezuka] for a few years via [aggressively obscene, politically subversive, etc.] works, until [superheroes/ligne claire/Tezuka] made a comeback after creators metabolized the merits of the 'rebellious' approach; interest in other genres also grew and small boutique publishers sprang up until they went out of business or were acquired by larger companies. Lather, rinse, repeat.
While the book does not presuppose any particular knowledge of American comics history, by necessity the authors had to make decisive executive action to pare it down to its essentials. I felt their ultimate selections of influential creators and books were plenty comprehensive, but others may fuss over their pet omissions. If I have one criticism of their coverage of American comics, it's their focus on the market. While finances destroyed many a BD and manga publisher, but American comics are more explicitly presented in the Venn diagram of "innovative/influential" and "financially successful". While understandable that American creators would show concern for their local market, it puts a damper on those chapters that their European and Asian counterparts don't show.
There's a good balance of information and images, allowing the art being discussed to speak for itself without coming off as padding the page count. It also avoids the pitfall of becoming a mere catalog of names and titles, thought some are given only cursory context or analysis. It was also pretty obvious that the chapters were written separately and collected without much thought given to transitional flow. Even two back-to-back chapters about the same country could end abruptly and open seemingly at random. Also, there are indices by creator and by title, but not by subject/keyword. But these are pedantic niggles.
One assumes a major reason histories like this are not common is because of language barriers and a dearth of translations. While Mazur is reasonably literate in French and recruited some Japanese-speaking friends for help (as well as taking advantage of manga that has been translated in to French), the authors still had to rely heavily on translated editions and bootleg scanlations. This book likely could not have been written 10-15 years ago, before the US manga boom and the efforts of the likes of the late Kim Thompson of Fantagraphics and NBM to bring more European comics to the Anglophonic audience brought the amount of comics of foreign origin to an academically significant saturation point. I hope that many future histories will follow in this one's footsteps as access (legal or otherwise) to foreign material continues to grow.
Comics: A Global History is an ambitious and largely successful overview of the evolution of comics from a much-needed fresh perspective. I look forward to the discussions it will spark, the imports and translations it may encourage, but especially the future comics histories that follow in its comprehensive footsteps.
Alexa Dickman is a blogger who runs Ladies Making Comics and maintains her own ambitious comics history project over at the Women in Comics Wiki.
Editors note: supplemental material for the books is available online here.
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Brad Brooks 06/11/2014 4:28 pm At 4:28 pm
This book likely could not have been written 10-15 years ago
The book Tim Pilcher and I wrote, 'The Essential Guide to World Comics', came out nine years ago. It's an overview/history of comics from more places than just the US, Japan, and France/Belgium (we also covered South and Latin America, Australasia, the UK, Asia, Africa, and the UK). I have Mazur and Danner's book, but haven't read it yet, so I can't comment on whether the two books are simpatico or not, but I just thought you'd like to know :)
Brandon Schatz 06/11/2014 4:36 pm At 4:36 pm
I'm very excited to dig right into this – just arrived at my store today, and it covers many gaps in my "comics history"library. Thanks for the review – it has me excited to dig into the contents…
Alexa D. 06/11/2014 6:14 pm At 6:14 pm
@Brad, I will have to check out your book too! Though I was pretty close about the time span in which books like these have been possible ;)
Read 06/12/2014 12:08 am At 12:08 am
Looking forward to checking it out. I would love to know if he has any info about how American super hero comics stories and characters are basically based on three things; the CCA (christian/conservative-extremist culture tactics), recent speculators and the speculators bubble that 'killed' Superman/comics and bankrupted Marvel, and homoerotic power fantasy fulfillment.
Adrian Kinnaird 06/12/2014 7:16 am At 7:16 am
I saw this on the shelf recently and my first impression of it wasn't great.
Flicking through, the contents seemed to heavily favor mainstream American comics (lots of superhero stuff on display) with side trips to the European and Asian comic industries. Which is fine and all, but using the word 'global' in the title may have been suggesting a wider net than is really thrown here?
Coming from Australasia I was disappointed that none of our cartoonists appear to feature – and I mean creators you would have heard of, for example: Dylan Horrocks, Roger Langridge, Colin Wilson etc.
I'll reserve my judgement until I've read it properly, but I was surprised that there wasn't more examples of international material on display.
Alexa 06/12/2014 7:31 am At 7:31 am
@Adrian, of 19 chapters, only 7 are about American comics at all, and only 3.5 of those are about mainstream American comics. 3.5 are about US underground/alternative, 5 about manga, 5 about European comics, and 2 that are a blend of all regions with little to no superhero content. I can also say that Dylan Horrocks is featured.
Like I said, I'll have to read it first – but there's a massive world of international comics out there, and going by your chapter breakdown a third of the book is spent on American comics? (a history which is very well documented at this stage, particularly post 60's). Opening the book up I expected to see some examples of unfamiliar international comics from countries like India, Africa, Germany and beyond, much like I did when flicking through Brad Brooks & Tim Pilcher's book. I'm sure there are a few examples in there, it was just surprising to me that there wasn't more.
Heidi MacDonald 06/12/2014 12:25 pm At 12:25 pm
Adrian, you might want to READ A BOOK before in depth critiques. That's kinda one of the rules. Crazy, I know. Although this is a thick tome, this is still is a BROAD LOOK at global comics, putting it in a modern context. I think it is a valuable addition to the reference shelf.
I did capsule reviews of a bunch of books about comics here
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/62181-eight-great-books-about-comic-books.html
There are a LOT of new reference books about comics coming out; looking forward to seeing the merits of them all debated.
Adrian Kinnaird 06/12/2014 4:50 pm At 4:50 pm
Let's back up here: I was hardly giving an in-depth critique, just my honest first impression of the book which I DO plan to read.
And thanks for the link, looks like a lot of great reference books to add to the shelf!
Heidi, I think you're being a little harsh on Adrian. He wasn't reviewing the book, he was giving his initial impression. I haven't read the book either (although I have it), but I was surprised to see that it was billed on the back cover as the first 'global' history of comics when in reality, it isn't (Horn's World Encyclopedia of Comics, for all it's flaws, probably holds that title, and the Moliterni edited Histoire Mondiale de la Bande Dessinée wasn't far behind). I look forward to reading it soon, but my first impression was similar to Adrian's. That aside, I'm very happy to see this book out, it's a decent step forward for a broader comics scholarship.
@Alexa, please let me know if you can't find it. I can probably get a PDF over to you. I still have all the original files on disk :)
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The Hitech Awards is the glamour event for New Zealand's Hitech sector and features a stellar cast of 70 international and national judges judging entries across 13 categories, including our own David Earl.
Endace sponsored the Most Innovative Hi-Tech Hardware Product Award, which was a keenly fought category again this year, with a wide range of products from Ubco's radical, off-road electric bike to a 3D Bioimaging device from Mars Bioimaging and innovative construction equipment from Calibre Contracting Equipment. The winner of the award was Enatel for its smart, modular charging solutions used to power material handling equipment.
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Single-Atom Computing
Figure image from Donati et al. Science, 2016, 352, 318-321.
There's a cool article in this week's issue of Science about single-atom computing that's worth a read, especially if you're interested in what technology might one day replace our lady, the blessed semiconductor.
Since we seem to have no other choice now except be slaves to Moore's law (or accept that computers and Iphones aren't going to get faster and smaller at quite the same rate as before), researchers have to find ways of codifying information into smaller and smaller materials. Current microchip technology uses arrays of semiconductor transistors whose current can be turned "on" and "off" using an externally applied electric field. This on/off switch is what makes the ones and zeros that are the building blocks of computer programming languages. However, companies like Intel are starting to reach the limits of how small they can pattern these semiconductors, which restricts how many transistors they can build into a microchip of a given size. What's crazy is that these transistors are already just tens of nanometers wide, but the next leap forward in computational density requires researchers to develop angstrom-scale materials which display similar switch-like properties,
Enter the atom.
Atoms certainly put nanotechnology to shame in the size department and they may even have the ability to act like a switch for our greedy computing demands. Anyone who has muddled through quantum mechanics can at the very least tell you that an atom's spin produces a magnetic moment, and like all vectors, that moment has a direction. The direction of the magnetic moment can be flipped to align with an applied magnetic field, but it will relax back after that field has been removed.
What the researchers in Donati et al. showed was that under certain conditions (cryogenic temperatures for one), they can isolate a Holonium atom on a metal oxide surface, switch its magnetic direction, and maintain it for as long as 1500 seconds after the field has been removed. That's a huge step forward in magnetic stability, or remanence, which could be used to build a magnetically driven switch; perhaps one day transforming a humble Holonium atom into a very attractive one or zero.
As a former carbon nanotube researcher, I'm personally interested to see whether the semiconductor manufacturing industry will even mess with graphitic materials in future iterations of the microchip, or whether they're going to skip that idea altogether and move straight into paradigm shifting technology like single-atom computing. What do you think they'd call themselves then? The atomic manufacturing industry? Seems inevitable.
You can find the original Donati et al. article here, in Science.


The Miami Dolphins are in desperate need of a starting cornerback after this offseason's moves, which featured the release of Brent Grimes and Brice McCain, and the trade with the Philadelphia Eagles for Byron Maxwell.
Most expected the team to address the position early in the NFL draft, but one of the NFL's better cornerbacks has surprisingly become an unrestricted free agent a week before the draft.
The Carolina Panthers rescinded the franchise tag placed on Pro Bowl cornerback Josh Norman on Wednesday making him an unrestricted free agent who can sign with any team.
Norman, who had 48 tackles and four interceptions last season, will likely want a deal more lucrative than what the New York Giants gave cornerback Janoris Jenkins this offseason. The Giants signed Jenkins to a five-year deal worth $62.5 million with $28.8 million in guaranteed money.
New York Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis, Seattle's Richard Sherman and Arizona's Patrick Peterson all make $14 million a season, and it is believed that Norman is seeking a deal in that neighborhood.
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"After a number of conversations with Josh's agent we realized that a long-term deal was not attainable," Panthers general manager Dave Gettleman said on the team's Twitter account.
The Dolphins have roughly $16 million in cap space heading into the 2016 season, and it would benefit the franchise to live up to their reputation for bidding high on free agents and pursue the 28-year-old standout.
Considering the state of the Dolphins, who haven't produced a winning season since 2008, signing Norman should be viewed as a long-shot considering he'll likely be pursed by more competitive teams. But Dolphins owner Steve Ross has advised his coaches and front office to take a swing-for-the-fences approach with his organization. It is logical that Ross will view Norman as a talent worthy of doling out yet another mega deal.
However, it's possible that the Panthers rescinded Norman's franchise tag so that the Carolina native would be able to see what his value is on the open market, allowing him to accept the multi-year deal the Panthers have on the table, or give Carolina the opportunity to match any offer made by another team.
Even if that's the case the Dolphins have everything to gain, and nothing to lose from courting Norman, and making him a competitive offer to come play in Florida, which features no state taxes.
While it's hard to imagine Norman leaving a Super Bowl contender for a franchise that hasn't been able to produce a winning season in nearly a decade, if money is Norman's main motivation the Dolphins have proven time and time again that it benefits players to have Miami at the bidding table.
Norman could become an instant starter on a defense that should feature a forceful defensive line if Cameron Wake comes back healthy from his Achilles injury, and if Mario Williams is motivated to regain his Pro Bowl form.
The Dolphins have a decent trio of linebackers in Jelani Jenkins, Kiko Alonso, and Koa Misi, and the secondary features Reshad Jones, a 2015 Pro Bowl selection, Isa Abdul Quddus, a free-agent acquisition, and Maxwell.
Miami is missing a proven starting cornerback to put opposite Maxwell, and an experienced nickel cornerback. Adding Norman could address one of those needs, so someone needs to fire up Ross' private plane, and tell team czar Mike Tannenbaum to bid big in an attempt to close another mega deal.
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