Around the first of the year, I woke up to the realization that I was wasting huge chucks of time taking in information of no value.
Not only was I wasting time, I even started to feel less in control of my life: it was as if I had to check Twitter every 20 minutes, and check my RSS feeds at least every hour, and poke around in Facebook too often. I was feeling pretty ADHD.
I got completely burned out on blogs, even my own. So much of what I was reading was "me too" writing (20 different blogs talking about the same thing), and none of it really mattered. So much useless writing is done just to get people to visit a site and view an ad.
It had gotten to where I was reading less than 1% of the headlines in my feeds, because they were crap like this or "me too" articles.
So I basically gave up on Twitter, and just doing that made me feel so much better. (I still have an account and have even spent about 5 minutes on it so far this year, but I basically consider it a bad use of my time.) And, although I had trimmed my RSS feeds, I trimmed them even more.
I now rely heavily on a few key aggregators: Memeorandum, Techmeme, Arts & Letters Daily. I kept a few other major feeds, such as TechCrunch and Daring Fireball. I also kept about 20 of the less-popular, but interesting and useful blogs, such as Michael Hyatt and Dan Ariely, and I regularly read The New York Times (I'm undecided on which subscription option to use).
So, now there is less "noise" in my information intake, but even when my intake was peaked, I still had a sense of not having enough (useful) information. For example, you know that somewhere in the world, someone today looked at some ancient scripture in a new way and had a life-changing experience, one that we could maybe benefit from, too. Maybe it even gets blogged. But the chances of me picking it up? Pretty close to zero.
In thinking about this, and in thinking about people who have personally inspired me, I have realized that perhaps the best way for me to find such nuggets is directly: maybe read the Bible daily, instead of hoping someone else gets an insight from it that is useful to me. Maybe read other literature that is known to inspire (I have done some of this, but way too irregularly).
I once read that Eric Schmidt said that Google is not archiving the web for it to be read by humans, but for it to be read by machines.
When we reach that plateau, machines will identify trends and "nuggets" that we could never have figured out on our own.
Until then, and even after then, it's up to us to look at how we are consuming information, and which parts of it are useful or at least inspiring.
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Platform on tai?
President Ma Ying-jeou's re-election campaign slogan is "Táiwān jiāyóu," so one can see that all around Taiwan these days, as the election is only about two weeks away.
The Ma campaign has decided that the English translation of "Táiwān jiāyóu" is "Taiwan, Bravo," which isn't quite right but at least sounds positive. Of Ma's two opponents, Tsai Ing-wen (Cài Yīngwén / 蔡英文) of the anti-Hanyu-Pinyin Democratic Progressive Party chose the somewhat cryptic English slogan of "Taiwan next," while third-party candidate James Soong (Sòng Chǔyú / 宋楚瑜) chose as his slogan "Me, me, me!"
OK, I made that last one up, but only because I couldn't find the real one, other than maybe it's "Renew." (Does anyone know for sure?)
What I really want to talk about here, though, is how Ma's slogan gets written: 台灣加油.
There is of course nothing unusual about that — except that Ma likes to make a big deal out of using traditional Chinese characters rather than simplified ones. Every year or so Ma talks about how he wants to get the United Nations to declare traditional Chinese characters a super-duper world something-or-other. He has already purged government Web sites of versions that people in China and Singapore could read more easily than versions in traditional Chinese characters. And if he criticizes the PRC, it's often to tell Beijing that people in China really ought to use traditional characters. Ma's devotion to people in China being able to have traditional Hanzi reminds me of George W. Bush during the Hainan incident:
"Do the members of the crew have Bibles?" "Why don't they have Bibles?" Can we get them Bibles?" "Would they like Bibles?"
In other words, while that might be a concern, I sometimes wonder about his priorities.
By now a lot of you are probably thinking, "But 台 is one of those simplified characters that is not only OK to use in Taiwan but also by far more commonly seen than 臺. So what's strange about this?"
That's entirely correct. In most cases there would be nothing noteworthy about using "台灣加油" rather than "臺灣加油." It seems entirely normal. What's strange here is that the Ma administration actually has a position on the matter of 臺 vs. 台: Although the 台 form can be tolerated in some instances, 臺 is supposedly better and is mandatory in certain cases.
About a year ago, for example, the Ministry of Education reported that official government documents (gōngwén/公文) would have to use the 臺 form. And textbooks would need to be updated to change instances of 台灣, 台北, 台南, 台中, etc., to 臺灣, 臺北, 臺南, 臺中…. Webmasters of some government Web sites scurried to perform a whole lot of search-and-replace. There were not, however, so many instances of 台灣 to change to 臺灣 because Ma had already declared that in Mandarin pages "台灣" (Taiwan) was out and "中華民國" (Zhōnghuá Mínguó / the Republic of China) was in; so mainly this was visible in city names in addresses.
Predictably, though, lots never got changed. ("Close enough for government work.")
Yes, I know: None of you are deeply shocked by the notion that a politician would tell people to do one thing but do something else himself. And the way the premier downplayed the policy makes me suspect many find it pointless or even embarrassing. Still, the fact remains that the administration did decide not to leave well enough alone and went out of its way to favor 臺 over 台.
Supposedly this is because after the Ministry of Education studied the origins of 臺 and 台, it decided that the tai in the name Taiwan should be written as 臺, according to Chen Hsueh-yu (Chén Xuěyù / 陳雪玉), executive secretary of the ministry's National Languages Committee.
This doesn't much sense. Whichever form got used first — which is a dubious method for determining the correctness of usage for something now — the tai in Taiwan doesn't have anything to do semantically with platforms, terraces, tables, stations, etc. In the case of the origin of the name of Taiwan, there's no more meaning inherent in 臺 than there is in 台 — or than there is in the Roman letters Tai, either, for that matter. As Victor Mair has noted:
Superficially (according to the surface signification of the two characters with which the name is customarily written), "Taiwan" means "Terrace Bay." That sounds nice, even poetic, but it is an inauthentic etymology and has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual origins of the name. (This is a typical instance of the common fallacy of wàngwénshēngyì 望文生義, whereby the semantic qualities of Chinese characters interfere with the real meanings of the terms that they are being used to transcribe phonetically.) The true derivation of the name "Taiwan" is actually from the ethnonym of a tribe in the southwest part of the island in the area around Ping'an. As early as 1636, a Dutch missionary referred to this group as Taiouwang. From the name of the tribe, the Portuguese called the area around Ping'an as Tayowan, Taiyowan, Tyovon, Teijoan, Toyouan, and so forth. Indeed, already in his ship's log of 1622, the Dutchman Comelis Reijersen referred to the area as Teijoan and Taiyowan. Ming and later visitors to the island employed a plethora of sinographic transcriptions to refer to the area (superficially meaning "Terrace Nest Bay" [Taiwowan 臺窝灣], "Big Bay" [Dawan 大灣], "Terrace Officer" [Taiyuan 臺員], "Big Officer" [Dayuan 大員], "Big Circle" [Dayuan 大圓], "Ladder Nest Bay" [Tiwowan 梯窝灣], and so forth). Some of these transcriptions are clever, others are fantastic, but none of them should be taken seriously for their meanings.
I'm not sure how best to characterize — sorry — the differences between "台灣加油" and "臺灣加油." Although using the 臺 form would definitely come across as more formal, it wouldn't be exactly the equivalent of "Fight Fiercely, Harvard." Yet the use of the 台 form isn't really the equivalent of a campaigning politician droppin' his g's either.
臺 vs. 台
Cǐ 臺 fēi bǐ 台? Wú Dūn-yì kuí: zìzai jiù hǎo (此臺非彼台?吳揆:自在就好), China Times, December 12, 2010
臺灣 fēi 台灣 — Jiàoyùbù yào zhèngmíng (臺灣非台灣 教育部要正名), United Daily News, December 13, 2010
Jiàoyùbù yào zhèngmíng "台灣" yīng wéi "臺灣" (教部要正名「台」灣應為「臺」灣), Formosa TV, Dec. 13, 2010
Please don't write to comment for or against simplified characters in general. This post isn't about that really, even though 臺 could serve as a poster child for Hanzi simplification.
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13 thoughts on "Platform on tai?"
Vladimir Menkov on Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 2:27 am said:
Well, there are practical considerations: looking from a certain distance, the characters "??" on a campaign poster may look simply as two black spots, while ? in ?? may still be easily readable. (Of course, ?? would be even more legible, but obviously it's absolutely incorrect politically).
Incidentally, does not the popularity of the ?? thing (as in ????) come from the mainland (the 2008 Olympics)?
hanmeng on Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 9:01 am said:
So what is the proper translation of ji?yóu?
?? (ji?yóu) – literally, "add oil" (e.g. to a fire etc.). This seems to be a common slogan at sports events etc, with people rooting for their team. You certainly could see it all over during the Olympics.
Vladimir Menkov on Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 10:00 am said:
(So I guess ????! is like "Go, Taiwan!" – assuming people at an international competition would be allowed to root for a *Taiwan* team rather a team from "Chinese Taipei").
David on Formosa on Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 1:39 pm said:
? actually predates the traditional form ? so the age of a character doesn't necessarily determine which one is the simplified or traditional form.
jidanni on Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 8:47 am said:
????? Sounds like a gas station chain.
?????? Too Mandarin sounding. I vote for ??, sounds more Taiwanese!
Ma's Love Child on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 2:06 pm said:
Sorry, you don't get to opine that ? is a poster-child for simplification after admonishing people not to get into the traditional vs. simplified debate and expect them to honor your request. ;)
While studying at ICLP back in the good old days of the Chen Shui-bian administration, I nevertheless always favored ? over ?.
First, I thought then and still think now that it simply is a better balanced, better looking character. Nothing to do with issues of "meaning," which I agree are dubious. Obviously ? has more strokes, but outside of daily tingxie in language classes or calligraphy (where one would want to use more complex forms), people use character input generators on computers for most written work. In this regard, I believe technology has outstripped issues of character complexity. So if one finds ? to be the superior character for aesthetic reasons (or any other reason) there's no reason not to use it.
Second, because I preferred traditional characters on general principle, I wanted to stay as traditional as possible in writing which naturally favored the use of ?.
jidanni on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 8:45 am said:
All I know is I recall ?/? are not your usual simplified/traditional pair.
Ma's Love Child on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 5:00 pm said:
I want to amend one comment. I agreed that the issue of "meaning" was dubious but I'm not sure that I agree with the statement that "whichever form got used first . . . is a dubious method for determining the correctness of usage for something now." The issue for the KMT government seems to be which written form is more "traditional." One could interpret that strictly in the context of the traditional vs. simplified dichotomy in which case ??? are indeed not a typical pair (both appear in traditional character dictionaries and seem to carry similar meaning). But if the written language uniformly used ? at the inception of the name back in the 1600s or whenever (long before formal simplification, whatever the case), I think that is relevant to ascertaining the "traditional" written form of Taiwan. In other words, if I were reading a map from the 1600s or 1700s, what character would be used?
Charles Ang on Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 7:00 pm said:
Tai in Polynesia meaning the "Sea". Wan is the last name the Siraya people call themselves after Chinese force them to have a Chinese sounding name.
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For the 3rd time in a row, the two international institutes award Samaria Water with the highest distinctions. During this year a state-of-the-art production line is installed, skyrocketing the production of Samaria Water. The warehouse was also expanded to meet the increased demand for storage space.
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Realising 'Self-Reliant' India: How AI Will Play A Key Role In Strategic Sectors
By Ram Sagar
Recognising AI's potential to transform the economy and the need for India to strategise its approach, Government of India's policy think tank, NITI Aayog established the National Program on AI in 2018-19 with a view to guiding the research and development in new and emerging technologies.
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Something for the Pain è una canzone dei Bon Jovi, scritta da Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora e Desmond Child. È stata estratta come secondo singolo dal sesto album in studio del gruppo, These Days, nel settembre del 1995. Negli Stati Uniti è stata pubblicata come doppio lato A insieme a Lie to Me, raggiungendo la posizione numero 76 della Billboard Hot 100. Altrove, si è posizionata all'ottavo posto nel Regno Unito.

Una breve sezione centrale della canzone vede Richie Sambora come voce solista; si tratta dell'unico brano registrato in studio dai Bon Jovi a presentare tale particolarità.

Esibizioni dal vivo
La canzone fu regolarmente inserita in quasi tutte le scalette dei concerti del These Days Tour, ma come molte altre canzoni di quell'album, venne raramente riproposta dal gruppo nei tour successivi. Il brano ritornò a sorpresa come punto stabile nelle scalette del The Circle Tour nel 2010, venendo eseguito in forma acustica. Una performance dal vivo delle canzone è presente nell'album live One Wild Night Live 1985-2001.

Video musicale
Il video musicale della canzone è stato diretto da Marty Callner e vede come protagonista un adolescente che entra in un negozio di dischi. Egli comincia ad ascoltare musica attraverso degli auricolari, quando sullo schermo vengono mostrati i Bon Jovi insieme (sotto lo stupore del ragazzo) ad altri artisti sconosciuti che cantano il brano in scenari differenti; si tratta in realtà di attori che interpretano caricature di Eddie Vedder, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Courtney Love e Scott Weiland. Il video si conclude con il ragazzo che prende una copia dell'album These Days.

Tracce
CD promozionale
 Something for the Pain (versione ridotta) – 3:57 (Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Desmond Child)
 Something for the Pain – 5:36 (Bon Jovi, Sambora, Child)

Versione statunitense
Doppio lato A
 Something for the Pain (versione ridotta) – 3:57 (Bon Jovi, Sambora, Child)
 Lie to Me – 5:36 (Bon Jovi, Sambora)

Versione britannica
 Something for the Pain – 4:46 (Bon Jovi, Sambora, Child)
 This Ain't a Love Song (Live) – 6:27 (Bon Jovi, Sambora, Child)
 I Don' Like Mondays (Live feat. Bob Geldof) – 5:58 (Bob Geldof)
 Livin' On a Prayer (Live) – 5:56 (Bon Jovi, Sambora, Child)

Versione tedesca
 Something for the Pain – 4:46 (Bon Jovi, Sambora, Child)
 This Ain't a Love Song (Live) – 6:27 (Bon Jovi, Sambora, Child)
 You Give Love a Bad Name (Live) – 3:40 (Bon Jovi, Sambora, Child)
 Wild in the Streets (Live) – 5:01 (Bon Jovi, Sambora, Child)

Le tracce dal vivo sono state registrate al Wembley Stadium di Londra, Inghilterra, nel giugno del 1995.

Classifiche

Formazione
 Jon Bon Jovi - voce, chitarra
 Richie Sambora - chitarra solista, cori, voce
 David Bryan - tastiere, cori
 Tico Torres - batteria

Altri musicisti
 Hugh McDonald - basso, cori
Frank Marocco – fisarmonica

Note

Collegamenti esterni

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Chapter 1: Economics: The Study of Choice
1.1 Defining Economics
1.2 The Field of Economics
1.3 The Economists' Tool Kit
1.4 Review and Practice
Chapter 2: Confronting Scarcity: Choices in Production
2.1 Factors of Production
2.2 The Production Possibilities Curve
2.3 Applications of the Production Possibilities Model
Chapter 3: Demand and Supply
3.1 Demand
3.2 Supply
3.3 Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium
Chapter 4: Applications of Demand and Supply
4.1 Putting Demand and Supply to Work
4.2 Government Intervention in Market Prices: Price Floors and Price Ceilings
4.3 The Market for Health-Care Services
Chapter 5: Elasticity: A Measure of Response
5.1 The Price Elasticity of Demand
5.2 Responsiveness of Demand to Other Factors
5.3 Price Elasticity of Supply
Chapter 6: Markets, Maximizers, and Efficiency
6.1 The Logic of Maximizing Behavior
6.2 Maximizing in the Marketplace
6.3 Market Failure
Chapter 7: The Analysis of Consumer Choice
7.1 The Concept of Utility
7.2 Utility Maximization and Demand
7.3 Indifference Curve Analysis: An Alternative Approach to Understanding Consumer Choice
Chapter 8: Production and Cost
8.1 Production Choices and Costs: The Short Run
8.2 Production Choices and Costs: The Long Run
Chapter 9: Competitive Markets for Goods and Services
9.1 Perfect Competition: A Model
9.2 Output Determination in the Short Run
9.3 Perfect Competition in the Long Run
Chapter 10: Monopoly
10.1 The Nature of Monopoly
10.2 The Monopoly Model
10.3 Assessing Monopoly
10.4 Review and Practice
Chapter 11: The World of Imperfect Competition
11.1 Monopolistic Competition: Competition Among Many
11.2 Oligopoly: Competition Among the Few
11.3 Extensions of Imperfect Competition: Advertising and Price Discrimination
Chapter 12: Wages and Employment in Perfect Competition
12.1 The Demand for Labor
12.2 The Supply of Labor
12.3 Labor Markets at Work
Chapter 13: Interest Rates and the Markets for Capital and Natural Resources
13.1 Time and Interest Rates
13.2 Interest Rates and Capital
13.3 Natural Resources and Conservation
Chapter 14: Imperfectly Competitive Markets for Factors of Production
14.1 Price-Setting Buyers: The Case of Monopsony
14.2 Monopsony and the Minimum Wage
14.3 Price Setters on the Supply Side
Chapter 15: Public Finance and Public Choice
15.1 The Role of Government in a Market Economy
15.2 Financing Government
15.3 Choices in the Public Sector
Chapter 16: Antitrust Policy and Business Regulation
16.1 Antitrust Laws and Their Interpretation
16.2 Antitrust and Competitiveness in a Global Economy
16.3 Regulation: Protecting People from the Market
Chapter 17: International Table
17.1 The Gains from Trade
17.2 Two-Way Trade
17.3 Restrictions on International Trade
Chapter 18: The Economics of the Environment
18.1 Maximizing the Net Benefits of Pollution
18.2 Alternatives in Pollution Control
Chapter 19: Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination
19.1 Income Inequality
19.2 The Economics of Poverty
19.3 The Economics of Discrimination
Chapter 20: Macroeconomics: The Big Picture
20.1 Growth of Real GDP and Business Cycles
20.2 Price-Level Changes
20.3 Unemployment
Chapter 21: Measuring Total Output and Income
21.1 Measuring Total Output
21.2 Measuring Total Income
21.3 GDP and Economic Well-Being
Chapter 22: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
22.1 Aggregate Demand
22.2 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply: The Long Run and the Short Run
22.3 Recessionary and Inflationary Gaps and Long-Run Macroeconomic Equilibrium
Chapter 23: Economic Growth
23.1 The Significance of Economic Growth
23.2 Growth and the Long-Run Aggregate Supply Curve
23.3 Determinants of Economic Growth
Chapter 24: The Nature and Creation of Money
24.1 What Is Money?
24.2 The Banking System and Money Creation
24.3 The Federal Reserve System
Chapter 25: Financial Markets and the Economy
25.1 The Bond and Foreign Exchange Markets
25.2 Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium in the Money Market
Chapter 26: Monetary Policy and the Fed
26.1 Monetary Policy in the United States
26.2 Problems and Controversies of Monetary Policy
26.3 Monetary Policy and the Equation of Exchange
Chapter 27: Government and Fiscal Policy
27.1 Government and the Economy
27.2 The Use of Fiscal Policy to Stabilize the Economy
27.3 Issues in Fiscal Policy
Chapter 28: Consumption and the Aggregate Expenditures Model
28.1 Determining the Level of Consumption
28.2 The Aggregate Expenditures Model
28.3 Aggregate Expenditures and Aggregate Demand
Chapter 29: Investment and Economic Activity
29.1 The Role and Nature of Investment
29.2 Determinants of Investment
29.3 Investment and the Economy
Chapter 30: Net Exports and International Finance
30.1 The International Sector: An Introduction
30.2 International Finance
30.3 Exchange Rate Systems
Chapter 31: Inflation and Unemployment
31.1 Relating Inflation and Unemployment
31.2 Explaining Inflation–Unemployment Relationships
31.3 Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run
Chapter 32: A Brief History of Macroeconomic Thought and Policy
32.1 The Great Depression and Keynesian Economics
32.2 Keynesian Economics in the 1960s and 1970s
32.3. An Emerging Consensus: Macroeconomics for the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 33: Economic Development
33.1 The Nature and Challenge of Economic Development
33.2 Population Growth and Economic Development
33.3 Keys to Economic Development
Chapter 34: Socialist Economies in Transition
34.1 The Theory and Practice of Socialism
34.2 Socialist Systems in Action
34.3 Economies in Transition: China and Russia
Appendix A: Graphs in Economics
Appendix A.1: How to Construct and Interpret Graphs
Appendix A.2: Nonlinear Relationships and Graphs without Numbers
Appendix A.3: Using Graphs and Charts to Show Values of Variables
Appendix B: Extensions of the Aggregate Expenditures Model
Appendix B.1: The Algebra of Equilibrium
Appendix B.2: The Aggregate Expenditures Model and Fiscal Policy
Appendix B.3: Review and Practice
Start Up: A Market for Carbon Emissions
Emissions of carbon dioxide, a "greenhouse gas," are limited by terms of the Kyoto accords, a treaty signed and ratified by most of the world's nations. The treaty requires industrialized nations ratifying it to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, which are thought to cause global warming, by 5.2% below their 1990 levels. The treaty also requires industrialized nations to assist developing nations with their efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. The vast majority of the world's nations have ratified the accords. The United States is among a minority of nations that are not participating in them.
The Kyoto accords require that each industrialized nation specify quotas for each firm or organization that emits greenhouse gases. Those that emit less than their quotas can sell their unused rights to emit gases to other firms or organizations. Any agent that wishes to exceed its quota must purchase rights from someone else. That exchange permits organizations that can meet their quotas at relatively low cost to sell rights to others for which reductions would be costly. The exchanges still allow the overall target to be met, but at much lower cost.
President George W. Bush's predecessor, President Bill Clinton, signed the Kyoto agreement, but it was not ratified by the United States Senate. President Bush withdrew the United States from the agreement citing the damage to the economy that implementation would cause, the fact that rapidly industrializing economies, such as China and India, are excluded, and inconclusive science. Despite this, many firms and other organizations in the United States have already agreed to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases. For the more than 100 members of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), companies and organizations including IBM, the Ford Motor Company, Motorola, and the cities of Chicago and Oakland, the idea of exchanging rights to dump greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is already a reality.
Members of the CCX, formed in 2003 by Richard Sandor, a commodities entrepreneur and economist who helped establish markets in financial futures, have pledged to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases to an annual target. If a member wishes to undertake a project that would generate additional carbon emissions, it purchases rights to the additional carbon from another member. In its first nine months of operation, CCX members traded rights to more than 1,000,000 tons of carbon. The CCX quotas are far less stringent than are those of the Kyoto accords. The chief importance of CCX is that it establishes a model for the exchange of emissions rights should the United States sign the treaty.
The development of a market for pollution rights puts market forces to work in an effort to reduce the potential problem of global warming. The European Union introduced exchanges in rights to emit greenhouse gases and issued quotas to firms for carbon dioxide emissions in its 25 member nations in 2005. Anticipating the limits, firms began trading rights to emit carbon dioxide in 2004, when the European Climate Exchange was announced. The price of the right to dump a metric ton of greenhouse gases was about $20. By 2008, the price had risen to €29, and rights to emit 295 million tons were traded on the ECX in June of that year.ECX Market Update, June 2008 (available at europeanclimateexchange.com). In the purely voluntary Chicago Climate Exchange, rights were traded much more cheaply—for about $5 per metric ton."A Green Future," Economist, 372(8392) (September 11, 2004): 69–70; Jeffrey Ball, "New Market Shows Industry Moving on Global Warming," The Wall Street Journal, 241(11) (January 16, 2003): A1; John J. Fialka, "Russian Interest in Signing Kyoto Spurs Trading," The Wall Street Journal Online, June 1, 2004. The CCX has since formed a partnership with London's International Petroleum Exchange and the European Climate Exchange, so that European firms can exchange carbon rights on an international basis.
In this chapter we shall put the analytical tools we have developed to work on the problems of the environment. We will begin with an examination of problems of air and water pollution. We will look also at alternative regulatory approaches to environmental problems. Direct controls, in which government agencies tell polluters what they must do to reduce pollution, remain the primary means of government regulation. Persuasion, seeking voluntary compliance with pollution reduction efforts, is also used. Two alternatives that economists advocate are taxes on pollutants and marketable pollution rights; such systems are gaining in importance.
Related issues include those of common property resources, those scarce resources for which no property rights are defined, and exhaustible natural resources, those resources whose stocks decline as they are used. These topics were discussed in the chapters on efficiency and natural resources, respectively.
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Next: 18.1 Maximizing the Net Benefits of Pollution
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Ethiopia - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses
Paul Budde Communication Pty Ltd
Ethiopia sets February 2021 deadline for telecom liberalisation
Ethiopia was one of the last countries in Africa to allow its national telco a monopoly on all telecom services including fixed, mobile, internet and data communications.
For many years Ethio Telecom's monopolistic control stifled innovation, restricted network expansion and limited the scope of services on offer. However, in June 2019 the government approved legislation which will open the market to competition and provide much needed foreign investment. Two licenses are to be offered to two international operators, with a deadline set for February 2021. At the same time the government aims to part-privatise Ethio Telecom, with a 45% stake in the company to be made available.
Despite the stimulus from market competition, there has been considerable investment in telecoms services, infrastructure and service expansion projects in recent years. Ethio Telecom has secured a network monitoring platform to help it improve services and has also revised plans to launch a telecom satellite, while the government initiated the construction of a $3 billion technology city.
Most of the technologies deployed thus far have been provided by ZTE and Huawei, which have often been preferred for offering vendor financing. In preparation for competition in the mobile market, Ethio Telecom has placed the expansion of LTE services as a cornerstone of its investment program to 2022.
After years of low uptake due to prohibitive pricing, Ethio Telecom reduced tariffs by up to 50% in 2018, resulting in a sharp increase in data and voice traffic. With retail prices now comparable to other more developed markets in the region, pricing will come under further pressure from 2021 as the two international new operators expected to be licensed launch services. This should be a catalyst for steady growth in all sectors in coming years.
BuddeComm notes that the outbreak of the Coronavirus in 2020 is having a significant impact on production and supply chains globally. During the coming year the telecoms sector to various degrees is likely to experience a downturn in mobile device production, while it may also be difficult for network operators to manage workflows when maintaining and upgrading existing infrastructure. Overall progress towards 5G may be postponed or slowed down in some countries.
On the consumer side, spending on telecoms services and devices is under pressure from the financial effect of large-scale job losses and the consequent restriction on disposable incomes. However, the crucial nature of telecom services, both for general communication as well as a tool for home-working, will offset such pressures. In many markets the net effect should be a steady though reduced increased in subscriber growth.
Although it is challenging to predict and interpret the long-term impacts of the crisis as it develops, these have been acknowledged in the industry forecasts contained in this report.
The report also covers the responses of the telecom operators as well as government agencies and regulators as they react to the crisis to ensure that citizens can continue to make optimum use of telecom services. This can be reflected in subsidy schemes and the promotion of tele-health and tele-education, among other solutions.
Key Developments:
Government gives February 2021 deadline to licence two new market entrants;
Ethiopia builds its second observation satellite;
Raxio Group begins work on its Tier III data centre in Addis Ababa;
National Bank opens up Ethiopia to m-money services;
Government bans foreign infrastructure companies from investing in Ethiopia's telecom sector;
Ethio Telecom secures mobile network monitoring platform;
Fibre cabling on the Addis Ababa and Djibouti rail route to be used for telecom services;
Government launches mobile apps as part of the e-Government Directorate, announces plan for $3 billion technology city;
Major changes anticipated in the second Growth and Development Plan;
Report update includes Telecom Maturity Indexes charts and analyses, Ethio Telecom data to June 2020, assessment of the global impact of Covid-19 on the telecoms sector, recent market developments.
Companies mentioned in this report:
Ethio Telecom (formerly Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation, ETC), EthioNet, Ethio Mobile, Orange Group, Tecno Telecom, Smadl, Tana Communication, Thuraya.
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2011 marks the first time I've ever hit my mark of reading 52 books in a year. Going back to school had a lot to do with that, but I'm pumped. I've had this goal for so long, now I don't know what goal to aim for in 2012…maybe 60 books?
The Great Omission, Dallas Willard. What does it mean to follow Jesus? If you've ever asked yourself this question, this is the book for you. I've discovered that there's plenty of misunderstanding about grace: the legalists want it to remain elusive; permissives abuse it. Willard answers the call with an incisive reflection on the demands of discipleship. "Grace is opposed to earning, not effort." Honest and instantly resonant. A must read.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain. In my opinion, most "classics" turn out to be real yawners. But as the only work of fiction on my list this year, Finn is fully deserving of the moniker in my opinion. This is the Empire Strikes Back of American literature, far surpassing its predecessor. I think what makes this so great is its context — it's a rare combination of being reflective of the times while being light years ahead of them. Almost makes me want to go back and read Tom Sawyer. Almost.
One.Life, Scot McKnight. McKnight is becoming a perennial contender on this list, with One.Life and his earlier The Jesus Creed. This is yet another concise reflection on following Jesus in today's context. Couple this with Willard and your life will be richly blessed.
Kisses From Katie, Katie Davis. This is the most inspirational book I've read in quite some time. Taken from her memoirs as a Ugandan missionary — better said, her memoir as a lover of people, particularly Ugandans, particularly Ugandan orphans, particularly the 13 Ugandan orphans she has adopted…all before her 21st birthday, no less — Davis has written a moving testimony to the power of love compelled. Read this one at your own risk, folks. You may find yourself more fully open to the call of God on your life.
Prophets, Abraham Joshua Heschel. Heschel's treatment of the Hebrew prophets was particularly helpful as I studied and taught them earlier in the year. This volume, though lengthy, was impossible for me to put down.
Decision Points, George W. Bush. I think time and distance will help properly frame the Presidency of George W. Bush. To say 9/11 changed our nation is an unremarkable statement; but this recollection helped me see just how much terrorism, particularly 9/11, affected Bush's administration. Some want to vilify him for everything that's happened since (Iraq, Afghanistan) while others want to give him a pass. The truth is probably somewhere in between. An insightful reflection on a controversial period of American history.
Strengths-Based Leadership, Tom Rath & Barry Conchie. Those familiar with Rath's earlier work, Strengths Finder 2.0, will find a team-based skills analysis. The best leaders aren't necessarily well rounded, but the best teams are. We used this with our ministry staff at Mayfair and the results were really interesting. I recommend it to any leader operating in a multi-staff setting.
Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember, John Feinstein. My summer baseball read this year did not disappoint. Feinstein spent the 2007 season following two of the most respected pitchers in the majors: Tom Glavine of the New York Mets and Mike Mussina of the crosstown Yankees. Feinstein ably takes his readers into the clubhouse for an unprecedented look at two elite craftsmen in the twilight of their storied careers. Even the most casual fan will enjoy this well written text on the pressure and ritual of being a big time, big league pitcher.
The Tea Party Goes to Washington, Rand Paul. When I tell someone that I've read this book, I get one of two responses: either "I love the Tea Party!" or "You're not becoming one of those nuts, are you?" While I'm certainly do devotee to the cause, I will admit that the whole grass roots "We the people" thing intrigues me. Paul, son of presidential hopeful Ron Paul, gives me an even deeper appreciation for the movement, although he probably proselytizes a bit too much here for my tastes. Still, he's written an interesting, highly readable account of a political force to be reckoned with in the American political landscape.
How We Decide, Jonah Lehrer. In 2009, Lehrer delivered this fascinating dissection of human decision-making processes. He plumbs the link between deductive reasoning and intuition with just enough layman scientific jargon to help you get it without becoming overbearing. He also laces his text with fascinating illustrations and anecdotes. Decide to read it, then learn all about why you did so.
The Mentor Leader, Tony Dungy. Dungy's been putting out some great faith-based stuff recently, but I think he especially shines when he integrates his values alongside his coaching experience, all of which comes to a head in The Mentor Leader. Dungy writes with honesty and conviction, imploring his audience to contemplate their role within communities both large and small (organizations, corporations, families, neighborhoods, etc.) and ask one simple question: How can I make the people around me better? Dungy draws on a wealth of coaching stories to make his point, but his NFL experience always moves the conversation forward in more universal areas. For instance, Dungy explains his decision to associate himself with Michael Vick on the heels of the bombshell news of the superstar quarterback's involvement in a dog fighting ring. In short, Dungy felt he could make a difference in Vick's life, much as so many others had done for Coach Dungy over the years. Call it paying it forward, NFL style.
Resurrection: The Power of God for Christians and Jews, Kevin J. Madigan and Jon Levenson. Madigan (professor at Harvard Divinity School) and Levenson (professor of Jewish studies, also at Harvard) team up to write an accessible and insightful exploration of the Jewish roots of the doctrine of resurrection. Combine this one with N.T. Wright's powerful Surprised By Hope (my 2008 Book of the Year) and you'll be fully prepared for the bodily resurrection. Zombie apocalypse…well, that's another matter.
Managing Polarities in Congregations: Eight Keys for Thriving Faith Communities, Roy M. Oswald and Barry Johnson. Most of what I've read this year has been aimed at congregational development and, therefore, wouldn't be very interesting to many people. But I think this exception would greatly benefit most church goers by exposing the imaginative gridlock of our either/or thinking.
Practicing Gospel: Unconventional Thoughts on the Church's Ministry, Edward Farley. Heady. Challenging. And all kinds of good.
Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education, Martha C. Nussbaum. Drawing on Socrates and the Stoics, Nussbaum argues for curricular advances committed to the production of "world citizens". Although some of this material is specifically aimed at higher education institutions, it is also written in a highly accessible way to invite a more general readership.
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Listened to Decision Points on the way to the beach while driving. That's the only time I've EVER fallen asleep at the wheel. George put me to sleep!
The early 9/11 stuff was really good. I had to fight through a few parts, but overall, I really enjoyed it.
Thanks for a new list!!!
I've read several on your list – The Great Omission, Decision Points, How We Decide, and I read Huck Finn a long time ago! Look forward to your list each year. I'll definitely be picking up a few of these for the ol' iPad!
You should pick up Kisses From Katie. And I think you'd really like the Feinstein book…lots of Yankee minutiae.
I have read several challenging things this year. Having a son in grad school at Southwestern Seminary (for Biblical Archaeology) had a surprising side effect. He also was required to complete a lot of divinity type classes and he has pushed me theologically. The End of Christianity by William Dembski was no doubt the most "brain straining" thing he passed my way. But the one that most impacted my life I am still working on – Love and Respect by Dr Emerson Eggerichs – a must read for every couple wanting to take their relationship to the next level.
Randy, I hear a lot of good things about Eggerichs, especially from the people in the Seekers class who watched his video series. I'll have to check it out. I'm always looking for good resources to recommend to our couples.
Jason, If you are looking for another baseball book for the coming year, try "The Game From Where I Stand" by Doug Glanville. I expecially enjoyed his discussion of the sense of entitlement than many players feel as a result of being public figures. While it is certainly not a book on spirituality, it helped me see just how confused our lives can become when we allow our worldly pursuits to take priority over our spiritual pursuits.


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Inside City AM's branded content revenue ambitions
August 24, 2016 | By Jessica Davies
London daily newspaper City AM is carving a new revenue stream by letting advertisers publish directly to its site, and has signed its first client, Invest Edinburgh, in a six-month £60,000 ($80,000) deal.
Invest Edinburgh published its first batch of articles on the site last week, some of which have equalled the publisher's own traffic for editorial content. One piece: "Budget rail service will link Edinburgh and London" received over 2,000 views and was the fourth most-read article on the site last Sunday.
The advertiser has been capitalizing on publishing directly to the CMS, by writing articles tied to the news cycle. This week it published "Why Edinburgh's festivals rival the Olympic Games," tied to the games, as well as "Edinburgh should stay the top UK location for commercial property investment outside London post-Brexit." A week in, and the content published has had about 5,000 views for the eight stories published so far, according to the Invest Edinburgh Talk hub. "That's organic — the paid and social amplification that comes with the deal, hasn't started yet," said City AM chief operating officer Charles Yardley.
Six months is the minimum buy-in for the product, called City Talk, and at £10,000 ($13,000) a month brands can publish an unlimited number of text-based articles; videos; podcasts. They also have one piece a month feature in the print newspaper, and social and paid promotion from the publisher.
All content is clearly labelled: "Invest Edinburgh Talk." Aside from that, they look exactly the same as editorial content.
The approach goes against the grain of how most publishers have built branded content revenue, by creating studios. In the U.K. Forbes is the only other publisher that opens its CMS to advertisers. Yardley introduced the model when he joined from Forbes in January. Clients are given audience tips ahead of posting, and given feedback on how they can boost performance further. Aside from that, City AM is fairly hands-off.
For City AM, it's opened new revenue, without the burden of studio costs. And the pipeline is strong, with five more six-month deals poised, and one 12-month deal at £120,000 ($160,000), according to Yardley. He wouldn't reveal names but the interested brands fall into the payments, financial services, consultancy-type verticals.
"This is going to make a big difference for us. The kinds of people we're speaking to are not necessarily advertising everywhere, so if we can win them, there is the potential to then unlock advertising deals from it too," he added.
"We have one partner paying £120,000 a year. If you have 10 of those, that's over a million pounds [$1.3 million] in business that's come out of nowhere. In 18 months time, it could make a significant difference," he said.
Media agency Maxus is currently trying to sell in City Talk to a financial tech client. Katy Halewood, head of Maxus for Business, said the service is particularly good for B2B clients which may have done content marketing for years, but still struggle to make it stand out, and not appear dry.
Getting something like 2,000 shares on a piece of branded content is fairly standard, but usually for work that's been created or influenced by publishers' editorial teams and skills, she said. So getting solid performance like that when the onus is on the brand to create the content, is compelling. "That's good performance, and if it's the kind of performance we can expect from these deals, we'll definitely be recommending it more to clients," she added.
Giving brands control over what they post on a real-time basis differentiates City AM's offering from other publishers, whose content will more typically be vertical-specific, according to MediaCom head of digital for EMEA Dan Chapman. "City AM is news based, and brands may want to be reactive to news related to or relevant to them. This gives them that control," he said. "If there's negative press on a brand, they can create content that challenges any perceived misconceptions on them."
Where it could really get interesting is in its ability to boost a brand's SEO, he added. "The value of being able to post directly via a quality news site is big," he said. "There's also the value of the link-backs you'll get to those articles. That creates massive benefits for SEO. You may find brands don't consider it for tactical campaigns but as a strategic partnership for SEO."
Cost-wise, £10,000 a month may seem a relatively good deal for branded content partnership with a publisher — provided it performs. Packages with content created by publisher studios tend to be in the six-figure-plus realm. But naturally, it's nothing if the campaign doesn't connect. "That will need to be clear: who's accountable for the performance — the agency or the publisher," said Chapman.


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Charmed Season 2: Plot Explained
The basic storyline revolves around three sisters named from the alphabet M. the names of these sisters are Mel, Macy, and Maggie. The story starts with the sudden death of their mother and after that, they discover some great Witches.
Name: Charmed
Developed by: Jennie Snyder Urman
A year ago, there was the re-entry of a series called Charmed. It was the most anticipated news at that time. At that time, there were negative as well as positive reviews about this series. After season 1 released, this series made a really decent amount of fanbase then. Now, these fans are very excited about Charmed season 2.
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Here is a plot for season 2.
The Series Came Recently
Charmed Season 2 was premiered on the date of May 9, 2020. If you are interested in this, then you can watch it on Netflix. This series has great content with respect to entertainment. It contains a large amount of drama in it.
What's the Plot for Season 2?
Charmed Season 2 comes with a bang. The creators of it create a curve between Macy and Maggie. Note that Maggie and Macy are sisters. The start of this series is so amazing that it provides the authors with a way of increasing the storyline of this series, with some really amazing drama. They can add some of the characters too.
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The second season comes with some sort of a reboot. After the Season 1 final episode, there is an ambush in Season 2 of Harry as well as the three sisters. Then they move to Seattle and there they got a chance to know some new faces. This season ends like a long story circular part. In Charmed the acting is very good.
Here are the characters of Charmed Season 2
Madeleine Mantock as Macy
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Collecting South African Photographs/Collecting South African History
October 28, 2007 Aaron Welborn
This summer Duke Libraries' visual materials archivist and collector, Karen Glynn, traveled extensively in South Africa to support two documentary photography projects. One of the projects, "Then & Now," is an exhibition of the work of 8 photographers. Each photographer submitted 20 prints; 10 prints made under apartheid and 10 prints post-apartheid. "Then & Now" opened at Rhodes University on 10 September. Conversations are underway at Rhodes and other institutions about establishing a South African Center for Documentary Studies, modeled after the Duke Center for Documentary Studies.
Glynn acquired a set of the 160 prints in the "Then & Now" exhibit for Duke's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. She also researched images for a future project entitled "Underexposed." With South African photographer Paul Weinberg as her host and guide, Glynn moved around the country, meeting photographers and selecting work for "Underexposed." This project proposes to scan 300 images by 13 South African documentary photographers, whose work is essentially inaccessible to the public, and mount the images on a webpage for educational, noncommercial use. In addition, two sets of 50 prints will be made of each body of work; one set will remain in South Africa, and one set will come to the Special Collections Library at Duke.
Contributions from the Duke Libraries' John Hope Franklin Collection of African and African American Documentation and a Perkins Library funding grant supported Glynn's acquisitions of the "Then & Now" and "Underexposed" images.
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