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World Intellectual Property Organization (2014)
From Copyright EVIDENCE
1 Source Details
1.2 Main Results of the Study
1.3 Policy Implications as Stated By Author
1.4 Coverage of Study
Source Details
Title: WIPO Studies on the Economic Contribution of the Copyright Industries
Author(s): World Intellectual Property Organization
Citation: WIPO Studies on the Economic Contribution of the Copyright Industries, World Intellectual Property Organization (2014).
Link(s): Definitive , Open Access
Key Related Studies:
E01: Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth • Environmental Accounts
E02: Institutions and the Macroeconomy
O32: Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
O34: Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
O38: Government Policy
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Data Description: The present analysis is built on data from 42 national studies which have been finalized until December 2013.
The analysis seeks to present the available data in a harmonized manner in order to facilitate further research in this area. The data matrix that has been created enables constant update of the overview of results from country studies and the presentation of the variables surveyed. Currently the data base includes over 60 variables, including data from other relevant sources that enhance reporting and analysis on the subject matter. The analysis contained in this document presents an overview of the performance of the copyright industries in selected countries in terms of macroeconomic indicators. It compares this performance with other socio-economic indicators and analyses the structure of this economic contribution, outlining trends and patterns in a comparative perspective. The direct data analysis is followed by a data relationship analysis and a more detailed specific industry analysis. The direct data analysis in this document is based on two major indicators employed to measure performance of the copyright industries: Contribution to GDP (%) and Share of Employment (%). On the basis of the two a country positioning scheme is established.
Data Type: Primary data
Secondary Data Sources:
National studies
Data Collection Methods:
Survey Research (quantitative; e.g. sales/income reporting)
Quantitative data/text mining
Survey Research (qualitative; e.g. consumer preferences)
Document Research
Data Analysis Methods:
Descriptive statistics (counting; means reporting; cross-tabulation)
Quantitative content analysis (e.g. text or data mining)
Correlation and Association
Textual Content Analysis
Legal Analysis
Industry(ies):
Publishing of books, periodicals and other publishing
Software publishing (including video games)
Film and motion pictures
Television programmes
Sound recording and music publishing
Country(ies):
Cross Country Study?: Yes
Comparative Study?: Yes
Literature review?: No
Government or policy study?: Yes
Time Period(s) of Collection:
Since 2002 the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) supports research on assessing the economic contribution of industries which are dependent on copyright and related rights protection – "the copyright industries". In 2003 WIPO published common guidelines on carrying out such research throughout the world. This methodology outlines four groups of copyright industries, identified on the basis of their level of dependence on copyright material. It establishes a set of major indicators – contribution to GDP, employment and foreign trade, and lays out research standards and approaches. The WIPO guidelines were developed on the basis of best international practices by a group of renowned economists. The guidelines have been implemented in over 40 countries around the world and their improvement continues with the experience gained.
Main Results of the Study
The results of the national surveys confirm the importance of copyright industries in the overall economic performance. Copyright industries are well connected with the rest of the economy and have an active presence in the economic cycle. In many countries, copyright industries are playing a more important role than some traditional industries. Creative industries performance is enhanced when stimulated by governments (economic freedom), the legal system (well established property rights) and the businesses environment (competitiveness, innovation).
National studies confirm the applicability of the WIPO methodology in countries at various levels of development. Developed countries performance in terms of contribution to GDP is higher in core copyright industries, while the developing countries have higher contribution in the non-core industries. New studies that are being carried out across the world will enhance the analysis and the overview of the performance of the creative industries in the global economy.
More broadly representative sample to include a greater share of emerging and developed economies will strengthen the robustness of the analysis. The next steps could involve time series analysis, cluster/regional analysis, deeper examination of the relationships through a statistical model that would seek to disclose closer causal relationships between copyright industries performance measures and relevant explanatory variables.
Policy Implications as Stated By Author
The merit of further studies and deeper analysis of the copyright industries is in outlining the potential of copyright for development, the need of linking the implementation of a robust copyright regime to the achievement of development objectives. This can be achieved through streamlining and applying uniform approaches to future research. The WIPO model is a valuable tool in the context of such analysis.
Coverage of Study
Coverage of Fundamental Issues
Included within Study
Relationship between protection (subject matter/term/scope) and supply/economic development/growth/welfare
Relationship between creative process and protection - what motivates creators (e.g. attribution; control; remuneration; time allocation)?
Harmony of interest assumption between authors and publishers (creators and producers/investors)
Effects of protection on industry structure (e.g. oligopolies; competition; economics of superstars; business models; technology adoption)
Understanding consumption/use (e.g. determinants of unlawful behaviour; user-generated content; social media)
Coverage of Evidence Based Policies
Nature and Scope of exclusive rights (hyperlinking/browsing; reproduction right)
Exceptions (distinguish innovation and public policy purposes; open-ended/closed list; commercial/non-commercial distinction)
Mass digitisation/orphan works (non-use; extended collective licensing)
Licensing and Business models (collecting societies; meta data; exchanges/hubs; windowing; crossborder availability)
Fair remuneration (levies; copyright contracts)
Enforcement (quantifying infringement; criminal sanctions; intermediary liability; graduated response; litigation and court data; commercial/non-commercial distinction; education and awareness)
Sample size: 42
Level of aggregation: Country
Period of material under study: 2013
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Internet Peering VLAN or ISP Unicast VLAN is the most widely used exchange service and Peering is the essential service offered by Internet exchanges. This serves as the basis for the majority of Internet exchanges providing public interconnection. Networks connected to the NIX.CZ platform have the opportunity to interconnect with other connected networks; usually ISPs, content providers, Internet media, search engines and many others. This makes interconnection between networks easier and also more cost efficient. Peering reduces network costs for Internet Service Providers, but simultaneously increases their stability and availability. To carry out interconnections faster and easier, NIX.CZ operates Route Servers for public peering. This service allows networks to connect to the Route Servers where they can mutually interconnect without further configuration. The Internet peering service is provided within NIX.CZ 's dedicated VLAN Ethernet infrastructure which is enabled by the employment of IPv4 and IPv6 protocols and is available in the following capacities: 1GE, 10GE and 100GE or multiples of these capacities. The entire infrastructure is monitored 24/7by NIX.CZ's own supervisory department (NOC).
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Q: Linux equivalent of Windows Device Manager / DevCon utility? I was wondering if there is any Linux equivalent to Windows Device Manager, or the Windows DevCon utility (a command line utility with hardware management functionality).
Do drivers even work the same way in Linux?

A: The functionality provided by Windows devcon is covered by various facilties and commands in Linux.
The "plug and play" manager of Linux is usually udev.  udev is responsible for recognizing hardware changes, (possibly) autoloading modules, and creating nodes in /dev if needed.  If you wish to do something such as simulate a USB device removal under Linux (something that devcon can do), commands that interact with the running udevd should be used, I believe.  I haven't done this under Linux but you can start by learning more about udev.
lsmod will display all currently loaded kernel modules.  Device drivers are one function of a kernel module.  insmod will load and start a module if possible, and most of the time cause the device to appear in /dev.  rmmod does the reverse.  If you execute an lsmod you'll notice some modules are dependent on others, rmmod won't let you remove a module if something depends on it.  modprobe with its options handles dependencies.
Under Linux, modules can also be "built-in" to the kernel, and they won't appear in any module list.  They are immediately and always available the moment the kernel is loaded by the bootloader.  Another option is to place modules in a directory within an "initial ramdisk" (initrd) which is also loaded by the bootloader and immediately accessible to the kernel on boot.  "Installing" or
"updating" device drivers may involve creating a new or updated kernel with the module built-in, or adding/updating it in the initrd if it is not there.  Most distributions provide tools and utilties to do this.
You usually would not have to worry about installing or obtaining a third-party driver unless it is not included in the "official" kernel from kernel.org - since kernel modules (including drivers) are part of the kernel, drivers for every supported device are also included, and usually provided with your distribution.  So needing to install a "manufacturer-provided driver" under Linux isn't terribly common except possibly for video drivers and some wireless chipsets which still have a lot of legal encumbrances with regard to technical information needed by driver developers.
lshw can give you most of this information in a tree-like format.  lspci, lsusb, lsscsi, and lscpu are also very helpful.  Most busses such as PCI, SCSI, USB, have a lot of userland utilities available in most Linux distributions that you can use to configure and get information of specific classes of devices (example: hdparm).  And almost all mentioned in this paragraph, and more, are just frontends to various files and directories in /proc and /sys; you'll want to use the utilities though in most cases.

A: Drivers are not same with Windows and Linux. You can under some circumstances load Windows devices drivers into a Linux kernel however.
About Linux device drivers:
Drivers can be complied into the Linux kernel or as modules. If they are modules, they can be (un)loaded on demand.
You can find information about a machines devices with these commands:
lspci
lsusb

My favorite is
lspci -nn

for names and numbers.
Have a look at the man pages for the following commands:
modprobe
rmmod
lsmod
modinfo

In short:
modprobe loads a kernel module.
rmmod removes kernel modile.
lsmod lists the currently loaded modules.
modinfo shows info about a specific module.
There are GUI apps as well. KDE has one in it's control center called kinfocenter I think.
Hope that helps.

A: Try on linux the command: lshw-gtk, it is the front-end for the lshw.

A: Most device drivers in linux are kernel extension. You can list them with "lsmod", remove them with "rmmod" or load them with "modprobe".

A: You can look in /sys for the real device tree that lsusb/lspci are merely showing an abridged tabloid view of.

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Many air traffic problems involve an optimization method in their treatment. Some are even directly modeled as optimization problems under constraints (see the Optimization page in the Research / Mathematics menu for the formalization of these problems). Typically, for a set of conflicting aircraft, we seek all maneuvers to separate trajectories predicted by minimizing deviations from the initial trajectory.
Some of these problems are large, sometimes combinatorial and NP-hard, and processed information is usually uncertain or incomplete (meteorological factors, human intervention).
To deal with these difficult issues, we seek to improve the existing optimization methods, for example by combining a mechanism for cooperative parallelism. This research is conducted in close collaboration with the team Parallel Algorithms and Optimization (APO) of the Institute for Research in Computer Science of Toulouse (IRIT).
The approach to address the problems of air traffic management requires first a modeling stage. As the physical reality of phenomena is too rich to be treated as a whole, we need to extract a mathematical or computing model, more or less detailed, depending on the desired degree of realism.
Preferences modeling generally determine the selection of the optimization method. For example, the choice between discrete or continuous variables is essential, such as modeling uncertainties in the variables (probability density, confidence intervals, tolerance intervals).
Some air traffic problems can be addressed by modeling and mathematical methods (see the Mathematics tab ). For optimization problems, it usually requires that the objective function and constraints are represented in an analytical form.
Taxiways network of an airport, with its holding points and road segments will be represented by a graph (see aircraft taxiing on the ground page).
For the resolution of air conflicts, uncertainty about future aircraft trajectories can be modeled by tolerance intervals on the horizontal and vertical velocities. The envelopes of predicted trajectories are calculated by simulation before applying the algorithms of detection and resolution of conflicts.
A similar model is available for the resolution of conflicts between aircraft taxiing. The evaluation of the function to be minimized (running time, for example) and constraints of separation of aircraft through a simulation of the movement of aircraft on the taxiway network (see ground taxiing aircraft).
When possible, we apply an existing method directly. For example, the sequences are optimized off with a branch and bound algorithm, the optimal path on the network taxiways is calculated by a backtracking algorithm (A *, for example). For sufficiently small instances, the problem of optimal partitioning of space can also be treated with a tree search method.
The methods mentioned in the above applications, exhaustively traverse the space of candidate solutions. In other cases, approaches introducing a random walk in the search space, with a heuristic to guide the random walk towards the best solutions are used. This type of approach has proved particularly effective in optimizing the route network, resolving air conflicts or aircraft taxxiing conflicts, for example.
These methods ("meta-heuristics") are essentially iterative stochastic algorithms, operating in continuous or discrete variables, and advance an individual or a population of individuals to a global optimum of the objective function that is sought to minimize or maximize, but prove the optimality of found solutions.
In their canonical form, the optimization methods mentioned above often work poorly on realistic instances of addressed problems . Much of our expertise is to find a suitable modeling and specific operators to the addressed problem , hybridizing different methods to achieve a satisfactory result.
For example, the definition of a crossover operator tailored to partially separable functions for the evolutionary algorithm, has greatly improved the solutions found for the resolution of air and taxiing conflicts. However, as with any meta-heuristic, the solutions optimality is not guaranteed for a finite number of iterations.
A more recent focus of our research is to combine comprehensive methods such as branch and bound intervals with meta-heuristics and a cooperative parallelism. The meta-heuristic (evolutionary algorithm, and differential evolution, for example) can quickly find good solutions, seeking in the eligible area maintained by the method of intervals. These solutions are possibly used by the interval method as terminal cut, to remove parts of the field whose image is worse by an inclusion function than the best solution found.
In this context, we also seek to improve the interval method of propagating constraints of the problem (or the necessary conditions of optimality) in the tree search, conducted by the branch and bound at intervals. This hybridization uses constraint programming techniques.
The objective is to find the global optima of multi-modal functions difficult to optimize, and especially to prove global optimality. From a practical point of view, these innovative methods could guarantee optimal solutions for problems such as velocity control aircraft. See also the optimization page in mathematics research, for other ongoing research at MAIAA on optimization methods.


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Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa says his injured ankle is about "80 to 85%" healthy for Saturday's College Football Playoff semifinal against Oklahoma.
Tagovailoa, the Heisman Trophy runner up, was originally injured during Alabama's come from behind SEC Championship title win against Georgia.
Tagovailoa was injured in the third quarter of that game and did not return. His backup, Jalen Hurts, came on in relief to lead two fourth quarter drives and capped off the comeback with a 15-yard run with 1:04 left to seal the victory.
BISHOP: Tua Tagovailoa Still Has Much to Prove—For His Name and His Culture
"I'm getting treatment at this moment," Tagovailoa said on Wednesday. "It's been a lot better. If I could grade from a scale of 0 to 100, I would say it's at 80 to 85 percent."
During a Monday press conference, Tagovailoa said that he was not limited in the plays that the team normally runs.
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What Happened to Hilton's 'Hotel on the Moon'?
In 1958 the Boulevard Room at the swanky Conrad Hilton Hotel in downtown Chicago offered delicious steaks, a lavish stage show, and a curious peek at the future.
At the front of the grand hall was what was billed as the "largest hotel ice rink in the country," on which troops of tutu-wearing girls danced for the crowds of diners. It was here, in the summer heat of August that black-tie wearing customers were given the first teaser of a legend that survives to this day: Hilton Hotels was going to the Moon.
On stage, the final scene for the dancers was called "out of this world." Although details of the performance are scarce, a Chicago-area newspaper called the Suburbanite Economist wrote that it was set in a "plush" hotel called the Lunar Hilton. The lavish show caught the writers' imagination and he took it to its logical conclusion. As the August 27, 1958 edition put it: "this could mean that the Hilton chain is dickering with the idea of opening the first hotel on the Moon."
Fast forward to 2009 and an episode of the popular TV series Mad Men features the louche Don Draper and his team creating a fictional ad campaign for a Hilton Hotel on the Moon. "I want a Hilton on the Moon; that's where we are headed," says "Connie" Hilton at one point. Although the series is fiction, it got me wondering: had Hilton hotels ever really planned to go into space?
When the writers of Mad Men were researching the program, their go-to man was Dr. Mark Young, who oversees the hotel founder's archive at the University of Houston. He seemed like an obvious person to shed light on the story.
According to Dr. Young, there's no evidence that Conrad Hilton was behind the vision of a hotel on the Moon. "[The writers of Mad Men] contacted me to learn about Conrad Hilton so I talked with them, but when I watched it this Moon thing came out of nowhere and I thought, 'wait a minute, that's not Conrad Hilton at all'."
In fact, he says, it was one of Conrad Hilton's sons, Barron Hilton, who appears to have been the true evangelist for a Hilton on the Moon. "He, like everyone else was very captivated by the space age," says Dr Young.
'Earth view'
Barron was elected as vice-president of Hilton Hotels in 1954, serving behind his father. Just four years later the Suburbanite Economist article appeared – the earliest reference to the idea I can find. I expect it will be difficult to find anything much earlier. That was the beginning of space fever in the United States, as the Russians had launched Sputnik in October of 1957, kicking off the Space Age - a period of tremendous fear and wide-eyed hope for what was to come.
Throughout later years, the idea appears again and again in popular culture. In the October 28, 1962 episode of The Jetsons, The Good Little Scouts, George brings Elroy's scout troop to the Moon and in a quick, fleeting shot we see the Moonhattan Tilton, a clear reference to the Manhattan Hilton hotel. And in Stanley Kubrick's classic 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey there is an office marked "Hilton Space Station 5" on the glass exterior, where people could presumably make reservations for the Hilton hotel on the film's orbiting space station.
Though it wasn't Conrad's idea he certainly didn't discourage the idea of a hotel on the Moon. The March 1963 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine ran a long and glowing profile on Conrad Hilton as the hard-nosed businessman who understood what people wanted and would stop at nothing to give it to them. Though not a quote from "Connie" himself, the article nonetheless ends with a space age promise from the writer: "it won't be very long before our astronauts land on the Moon and immediately behind them will be Connie Hilton with his plans for his Lunar Hilton Hotel."
Those plans began to take off in 1967. Barron, who was then president of Hilton, told the Wall Street Journal that he was planning to cut the ribbon at an opening ceremony for a Lunar Hilton hotel within his lifetime. He described the Lunar Hilton as a 100-room hotel that would be built below the surface. Guests would gather around a piano bar in an observation dome that allowed them to gaze back at earth.
Barron's desire to build a Hilton on the Moon - whether it was merely clever PR or something more sincere - struck a chord with people all over the world. The hotel group even printed promotional "reservations cards" for customers to reserve a hotel room on the Moon. "In the [Hilton] archive we've got hundreds, if not thousands, of letters of people writing in to him," says Dr. Young. "They'd seen the picture of the reservation form and they wanted to get their name on there.
"You read the letters, from all around the world - I always remember the one from Pakistan for some reason it stands out in my mind — but people really wanted to know that sometime in [their] lifetime we'll have hotels on the Moon."
'Freeze-dried steak'
The archive that Dr. Young oversees in Texas also contains promotional Lunar Hilton hotel keys which were distributed as promotional item in hotels. "The idea that we'd have a plastic key card like we do today was - I guess - just way too far out for '67, '68. And so [the Lunar Hilton key] looks like an old fashioned hotel room key, except it's sleek," Dr. Young said.
Just days before the first Moon landings in 1969, the Hilton lunar vision reappeared. Never one to miss an opportunity to sell the idea (or at least the hotel chain), Barron addressed the American Astronomical Society where he once again pressed that Hilton would soon be on the Moon. "I firmly believe that we are going to have hotels in outer space, perhaps even soon enough for me to officiate at the formal opening of the first," he told the assembled crowd.
With the world gripped by Moon fever, it was an obvious story for newspapers recorded every twist and turn of the space race. For example, an article in the July 15th Lowell Sun in Lowell, Massachusetts picked up on the speech and painted a picture of the hotel of the future. Their story relies heavily on images of food and alcohol pills, an idea we examined here a few months back.
"Imagine yourself in the Galaxy Lounge of the Lunar Hilton - the first hotel on the Moon. In place of a ceiling, a transparent dome allows you to view the heavens as you never could see them from beneath the thick atmosphere covering Earth, Mars looks bigger and redder, the star do not twinkle, and you are just in time to watch an Earth-set," it reads. "You order a martini. The bartender pushes a button and out comes a pre-measured, pre-cooled mixture of pure ethyl alcohol and distilled water — 80 proof. Into the mixture he droops a gin and vermouth tablet. As you sip the result, the huge bright-blue Earth slips below the stark, brown horizon and you begin to think about a freeze-dried steak for dinner."
Clearly, Barron's vision has yet come to pass, but the idea has never fully gone away. In the late 1990s, the firm backed plans for a private orbiting space station whilst in a separate plan, British architect Peter Inston was commissioned to draw up a plan for a 5,000-room domed structure on the Moon for the hotel chain. As the plans were shown off, the then president of the firm – Peter George – reportedly repeated the hotel's maxim: "One day soon, there will be hotels on the Moon. The Hilton wants to be the first."
It's difficult to know whether successive Hilton bosses actually believe this message or whether, as is perhaps more likely, they have simply hit on perhaps one of the longest and most imaginative marketing campaigns in history. Certainly, Conrad Hilton's grandson, Steve Hilton, has suggested that it was an idea that was never meant to be taken seriously. Instead, he said in a 2009 interview following the Mad Men episode, that he thought it was meant to be "symbolic".
Certainly the idea seems to have disappeared in recent years. But the recent surge of commercial activity in space means that perhaps it could soon return. If, and when it does, Hilton may have to compete with another hotelier in the race to the Moon.
In 2006, Robert Bigelow, the former owner of the Budget Suites of America chain, launched an inflatable habitat capsule into space. In 2007 another followed, and his company – Bigelow aerospace – has begun working on a full scale capsule which could, he has said, form the basis of a Moon habitat.
Whether the plan is anything more than an idea worthy of Don Draper, only time will tell.
A version of this post originally appeared at BBC Future.
Image: This marketing prop likely coincided with the debut of 2001: A Space Odyssey. (Copyright: The Hospitality Industry Archives, Conrad Hilton College, University of Houston)


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Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
Cauleen Smith on Spirituality, Staging, and Having Enough
by Olivia Gauthier October 3, 2019 October 4, 2019
Discussing her solo show at MASS MoCA, the interdisciplinary artist explained, "When I'm talking about 'We Already Have What We Need,' what I'm really trying to talk about is our anxiety as human beings about how to live."
How MASS MoCA Transformed a Struggling Mill Town Into an Art Hub
by Beatrice Loayza March 11, 2019 March 20, 2019
Worlds collide in a new Meryl Streep-narrated documentary that traces the evolution of Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts.
A Journey Through James Turrell's Disorienting World at the Newly Expanded MASS MoCA
by Christopher Snow Hopkins June 14, 2017 June 13, 2017
Into the Light, which will remain on long-term view at the museum, brings together installations from every stage of Turrell's five-decade career.
Meandering Through MASS MoCA's Vast Expansion
by Alex Jen June 6, 2017 January 11, 2021
On May 28, Building 6, a three-story structure that was renovated by architecture firm Bruner/Cott, opened on the museum's industrial campus and doubled its gallery footprint.
Coming Back to Kiefer
by Thomas Micchelli October 17, 2015 October 21, 2015
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Nearly eight years ago I wrote a review leading off with the question, "What is it about Anselm Kiefer's art that inhibits unfettered admiration?"
The Psychological Depth of Jim Shaw's Pop Culture Dreamscapes
by Melissa Stern September 17, 2015 September 20, 2015
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — There's a big, funny, emotional, and political exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).
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The Bibliotecaphilia exhibition opening at Mass MoCA next week features filmmaker Clayton Cubitt's provocative Hysterical Literature film series, which depicts women reading literature aloud and orgasming.
Canada, the Country that Dare Not Speak Its Name
by Samuel Rowlett November 7, 2012 November 13, 2012
NORTH ADAMS, Massachusetts — Framed on the faux-log-cabin wall of Kent Monkman's piece "Two Kindred Spirits" (which depicts the American western characters of Tonto and the Lone Ranger as lovers in a sort of Horatio/Hamlet life-sized diorama death scene) is a hand-embroidered phrase: "The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name." This Oscar Wildean quotation also encapsulates the ever-nuanced Canada/U.S. relationship, and may give us a clue as to what's really up with our neighbor to the north.


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Fuel Efficiency Incentives for Cars: Oil Import Vulnerability Reduction
Paul P. Craig
Volume: Volume 5
DOI: 10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol5-No1-9
U.S. oil imports have dropped from a peak of 8.9 mbd (million barrels per day) in 1977 (6.2 mbd from OPEC countries) to 5 mbd in 1982. Simultaneously, U. S. demand for oil has dropped from 18.4 mbd to 16 mbd, and our dependency on imports has dropped from 43 percent to 37 percent. Unfortunately, the costs of energy imports continued to climb, from $8 billion in 1973 to $44 billion in 1977 to $81 billion in 1981 (Department of Energy [DOE], 1982).
Vehicle Lifetime Trends and Scrappage Behavior in the U.S. Used Car Market
Antonio Bento, Kevin Roth, and Yiou Zuo
DOI: 10.5547/01956574.39.1.aben
Using national data on vehicles in operation, we examine long-run changes in scrappage patterns in passenger cars and light trucks in the United States between 1969 and 2014. We find that the average lifetime for passenger cars has increased from 12.2 to 15.6 years between 1970s and the 2000s. Our central estimate of the elasticity of scrappage with respect to vehicle prices is -0.4, which is substantially different than values adopted in simulation models. These estimates imply that many policies aimed at reducing gasoline consumption, including Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards and gasoline taxes may produce changes in the used vehicle market that are different than prior studies suggest. We also note that consumer scrappage behavior seems to respond more strongly to changes in vehicle price than changes in gasoline price than standard theory would predict.


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Jeremy Bernstein's Nuclear Propaganda Fail:
The New York Review of Books Gets It Wrong on Iran
Iran Nuclear Scare Timeline Update XL:
A post on The New York Review of Books blog today demonstrates a striking lack of understanding of the Iranian nuclear program, a sensationalized reading of the contents of the latest IAEA Safeguards Report, and a near-total regurgitation of official Israeli talking points regarding the imminent danger of a nuclear-armed Iran.
Written by Jeremy Bernstein, whose past commentary on Iran reveals his penchant for alarmism disguised as pragmatic realism, the article - entitled "Iran and the Bomb: An Update" - deliberately ignores all available evidence showing that Iran not only has no active nuclear weapons program but is also uninterested in developing an atomic bomb. This is a shame considering Bernstein knows a great deal about nuclear weapons and proliferation.
Bernstein's post oozes with hasbara, from his contention that "the Israelis will not allow Iran to get nuclear weapons" because "Iran's nuclear program is [a] matter of existential importance" to his description of the newest IAEA report as "a very disturbing document." He worries that, despite clandestine efforts to sabotage the program, Iran is now "producing enriched uranium at a faster rate" and has "produced some thirty kilograms of 20 percent enriched uranium," which he disingenuously describes as "the boundary between low and highly enriched uranium and is the stepping stone to the degree of enrichment needed to make a weapon."
What Bernstein intentionally leaves out of his hysterical hand-wringing is the fact that Iran has been enriching uranium to 19.75% (which is almost invariably rounded up to 20% to sound more ominous, since enrichment to 20% and above constitutes "high-enriched" uranium, rather than "low-enriched") for the sole purpose of continuing to provide much needed medical diagnostic isotopes for scanning and treating over 800,000 cancer patients. Iran turned to this higher level of enrichment only as a last resort to replenish its supply of medical isotopes which, after more than two decades, has been depleted (the last batch of 23 kg of 19.75% LEU was obtained in 1988 from Argentina). In advance of running out, Iran tried to purchase more on the open market under full IAEA supervision, yet this move was prevented by the United States and the subsequent LEU swap deal was canceled after the U.S. refused to act in good faith. The "stepping stone" of 19.75% LEU that Bernstein warns about is currently saving the lives of Iranian cancer patients.
Bernstein also omits the inconvenient fact that nuclear weapons grade uranium must be enriched to at least 90%, which is considerably higher than the almost 20% needed for medical use. He also suggests that the Iranian use of laser technology "strongly suggests that the uranium is intended for use in a weapon" and insists that the Iranian plan to build ten new enrichment facilities is evidence of the intention to produce nuclear weapons, determining, "There is no imaginable need for such a proliferation of facilities for a peaceful program."
With this statement, it would seem that Bernstein's imagination does not include the possibility of an attempt to destroy Iran's perfectly legal, constantly monitored enrichment capabilities, in which case the more facilities, the better for Iran's own deterrence and the survival of its program. The idea of Iran protecting its own research, resources, and investments naturally frustrates those like Bernstein, who are threatened by the Islamic Republic's sovereignty, self-determination, and self-defense.
Yet Bernstein himself acknowledges that such actions have already been taken by the United States and Israel in the form of the Stuxnet virus, which Bernstein laments was not particularly successful. (He also doesn't describe the Stuxnet sabotage as a clear violation of the law and quite possibly an act of war). Moreover, Bernstein suggests that an Israeli military attack on Iran is not merely a possibility, it is inevitable. "It is very clear what the Israelis will do. They must have drawn a line in the sand," he writes. "Perhaps they will wait until the Iranians test or perhaps they won't."
Bernstein never once mentions the legality of the Iranian nuclear program or the inalienable right of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty signatories to "develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination." In this way, he seems to share the paradoxical views of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who addressed Iran directly on Meet the Press in July 2009, saying, "You have a right to pursue the peaceful use of civil, nuclear power," and then immediately contradicted herself by insisting, "You do not have the right to have the full enrichment and reprocessing cycle under your control."
The NYRB post is also full of innuendo and insinuation, all of which relies on the foregone conclusion that Iranians are inherently devious and genocidal. At one point Bernstein dismisses the understandable Iranian contention that its Safeguard Agreement is legally binding and can not be exceeded just because the IAEA requests access to facilities not covered therein. With regard to Iran's objections to IAEA overreach, he writes, "One can draw one's own conclusions." Apparently, Bernstein would suggest that anyone refusing to voluntarily subject themselves to a full body cavity search without a proper court order or warrant would imply that the person must be guilty of something. It's the old illegal eavesdropping argument all over again: if you have nothing to hide, why object to a little wiretapping? Only terrorists care about the law! Abiding by the Constitution? Draw your own conclusions!
Bernstein's warmongering relies on the deliberate omission of the recent confirmation by Pulitzer Prize laureate Seymour Hersh that there is literally no evidence that Iran has militarized, or has even considered weaponizing, its nuclear energy program - a fact well-known by both the U.S. and Israeli governments and their myriad intelligence agencies after considerable spying, surveillance, and infiltration. Naturally, even though he wrote this post days after the publication of Hersh's new report, Bernstein makes absolutely no mention of it.
He does, however, betray his own ignorance about Iranian society when we expresses shock "that there seems to be no visible dissent against [the nuclear energy program] in Iran" and that he has "never heard [any Iranian] say anything negative about the country's nuclear activities—quite the contrary, they seem to be a source of pride." The reasons why there is no Iranian objection to the nuclear program are many; for one, Iranians make the important distinction between nuclear power and nuclear weaponry. To suggest that the Iranian public considers its legal nuclear energy program identical to a hypothetical atomic bomb program is incorrect. Also, Iranians are aware of the political nature of the efforts to halt its nuclear program, a scientific and technological achievement about which Iranians are indeed proud, as it decreases Iran's dependence on foreign powers and moves Iran exponentially closer to energy self-sufficiency. Iranians are also well-informed as to their national rights as affirmed by the NPT and recognize American attempts to curtail those rights (as well as Israeli bluster and hypocrisy). Bernstein must know that, in 1953, the CIA - at the behest of the British government - engineered a coup to overthrow Iran's burgeoning democracy and installed a brutal U.S.-backed dictator due to Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh's efforts to nationalize Iran's oil industry. As such, why is he surprised that Iranians refuse to allow similar domination over its energy sector almost six decades - and one popular revolution - later?
Bernstein also trots out tired claims about the clandestine nature of Iran's nuclear facilities and states that IAEA inspectors were "denied" access to the newest facility outside Qom. In February 2003, after Iran announced officially the existence of the Natanz facility (which it did within the timeframe mandated by Iran's Safeguard Agreement with the IAEA, specifically, no later than 180 days before the site becomes operational), a spokeswoman for the IAEA confirmed, "This comes as no surprise to us, as we have been aware of this uranium exploration project for several years now. In fact, a senior IAEA official visited this mine in 1992."
Furthermore, much ado was made about Iran's Fordow facility near Qom, which was supposedly "revealed" to the world by Barack Obama last September. In reality, though, Iran had already announced this site to the IAEA earlier that week. IAEA spokesman Marc Vidricaire said, "I can confirm that on 21 September, Iran informed the IAEA in a letter that a new pilot fuel enrichment plant is under construction in the country." Obama's revelatory press conference was held on September 25th.
Under its safeguards agreement with the IAEA, Iran is not obligated to inform the Agency of any new facilities until six months before the introduction of nuclear material to the site. As such, since the Fordow enrichment plant was not yet operational, and wouldn't be for another 18 months, Iran had broken no rules. In fact, the site was announced a full year before it needed to be. As Ali-Akbar Salehi, Iran's nuclear chief, remarked, "This installation is not a secret one, which is why we announced its existence to the IAEA." Ahmadinejad himself even felt the need to point out that the agreements and guidelines between Iran and the IAEA do not require approval by the United States. "We have no secrecy, we work within the framework of the IAEA," he said. "This does not mean we must inform Mr Obama's Administration of every facility that we have."
It should also be made clear that Iran has made efforts above and beyond what is required by their treaty agreements to ensure that their nuclear program is peaceful and legitimate. These efforts include an offer of multinational enrichment within Iran four years ago (which would have provided numerous countries professional access to Iran's program, thereby making it literally impossible for Iran to divert any material to military purposes in secret - something the IAEA has annually acknowledged Iran has never done). Also, Iran's nuclear sites and facilities are all under the 24-hour video surveillance by the IAEA, allow access to IAEA inspectors and inspections, and are subject to material seals application by the Agency. Furthermore, even though it is not even allowed under Iran's Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA, as of February 2010, there had been 35 unannounced, surprise inspections of Iranian facilities since March 2007. There have surely been more since.
In May 2007, the IAEA publicly denied reports about Iran hampering inspections of its nuclear facilities, as required by its Safeguards Agreement. "There is no truth to media reports claiming that the IAEA was not able to get access," IAEA spokesman Marc Vidricaire told reporters. "We have not been denied access at any time, including in the past few weeks." He added, "Normally we do not comment on such reports but this time we felt we had to clarify the matter."
IAEA inspectors have consistently had open access to the gas conversion facility at Esfahan, the enrichment facility at Natanz, and the new lightwater reactor at Bushehr, as well as the secondary enrichment facility under construction at Qom (which, again, Iran declared to the IAEA a full year before required to, when it was, as then-IAEA Secretary General Mohammed ElBaradei described "a hole in a mountain" and "nothing to be worried about"). Iran's facilities continue to be monitored and supervised by the IAEA in full compliance with its Safeguards Agreement.
Iran has never been found by the IAEA to be in violation of the NPT. A statement made in June 2004 by the IAEA, rather, expressed concern that Iran might not be in full compliance with its safeguards obligations. This is not the same thing as violating the Treaty. Nevertheless, the IAEA resolution also welcomed Iran's cooperation in granting the IAEA access to all requested facilities and merely called on Iran to resolve some "outstanding issues", such as plutonium separation experiments. These issues have since been fully resolved.
The most egregious example of Bernstein's adherence to the pathologically-dishonest Zionist narrative and fear-mongering about Iranian intentions is his reliance on this December 2001 quote by former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani:
If a day comes when the world of Islam is duly equipped with the arms Israel has in its possession, the strategy of colonization would face a stalemate because the application of an atomic bomb would not leave anything in Israel but the same thing would just produce damage in the Muslim world.
Fearing the inherent irrationality of the Muslim mind, Bernstein breathlessly analyzes Rafsanjani's statement this way: "In other words, such a bomb would destroy Israel, but would produce only marginal damage in the Muslim world," continuing, "If this is the general Iranian belief then a policy of deterrence would seem to be irrelevant: Rafsanjani is talking about a fight to the death that amounts to national suicide."
With this determination (and his apparent ignorance or disbelief of Iran's official "no first strike" policy), Bernstein reveals himself to hold a view similar to that of Israeli historian and ethnic cleansing justifier Benny Morris, who has stated, "There is a deep problem in Islam. It's a world whose values are different. A world in which human life doesn't have the same value as it does in the West, in which freedom, democracy, openness and creativity are alien…If it obtains chemical or biological or atomic weapons, it will use them. If it is able, it will also commit genocide…In that sense they are barbarians."
Yet, if Bernstein actually read the entire speech given by Rafsanjani, instead of cutting and pasting this one cherry-picked and decontextualized passage, he'd know full well that his understanding of Rafsanjani's statement is completely inverted. Last year, addressing career warmonger Jeffrey Goldberg's use of the very same quote in his much-discussed cover story about a potential Israeli strike against Iran in The Atlantic, Foreign Policy Journal's Jeremy R. Hammond explained (forgive the lengthy quote, but no paraphrased version would do Hammond's analysis justice):
The words come from a speech in which he [Rafsanjani] criticized Zionist crimes against the Palestinians, and U.S. support for those crimes. He emphasized that the struggle was not against the Jewish people, but the ideology of Zionism: "There are many Jews who don't believe in Zionism. There are many Jewish scholars in America who have been active against these events." He also observed that many Zionists are not Jewish. Discussing how Israel came into being, he said that the West supported the Zionist project to further its own colonialist and imperialist goals. "They have supplied vast quantities of weapons of mass destruction and unconventional weapons to Israel", he said, including nuclear weapons.
He then suggested that the Islamic nations might themselves seek nuclear weapons as a deterrent to Western imperialism and Zionist aggression: "If one day, the Islamic world is also equipped with weapons like those that Israel possesses now, then the imperialists' strategy will reach a standstill because the use of even one nuclear bomb inside Israel will destroy everything. However, it will only harm the Islamic world. It is not irrational to contemplate such an eventuality." Suggesting he was referring to nations other than Iran when referring to "the Islamic world", he added, "Now, even if that does not happen, they can still inflict greater costs on the imperialists" (emphasis added). He referred to the then recent terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and explained: "We cannot encourage that sort of thing either" (emphasis added).
In other words, he was not encouraging terrorism against the West or nuclear proliferation: "I am only talking about the natural course of developments. The natural course of developments is such that such things may happen." Additionally, Rafsanjani noted the U.S. role in supporting Israeli violence against Palestinians, and said that the 9/11 attacks "can be a lesson for the Americans, particularly today, when, due to their aggressive moves and their mistakes, they have paved the way and made it possible for some groups to be armed with non-conventional weapons". He added, "I would like to admonish the Westerners not allow to matters to go this far" [sic], that "They should not allow a situation of confrontation and antagonism".
Thus, Rafsanjani was explicitly arguing against a situation wherein "the Islamic world" also possessed a nuclear weapon; he was merely making the point that if the West persists in its complicity in the oppression of the Palestinian people that this could very well come to be. It would be unfortunate if it came to that, in Rafsanjani's view. But this does not stop Goldberg from quoting Rafsanjani out of context in order to imply, falsely, that he was making an explicit threat of nuclear attack against Israel.
Nothing stopped Bernstein, who has used this quote to similar effect before, either.
Bernstein's peddling of propaganda shouldn't be surprising however, considering his obvious bigotry against Iran and its people and consistent repetition of long-debunked myths. In August 2010, Bernstein wrote that "with the Iranians things are never quite as they appear." In late 2009, he claimed that "Iran differs from its neighbors in that its president and indeed many of its leaders have a stated policy of destroying Israel." Yup, the worn-out "wipe Israel off the map" nonsense. It is ridiculous to have to keep repeating that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has never once threatened to attack, let alone destroy, Israel.
Perhaps Bernstein got his information from George W. Bush who, while speaking on the Farsi-language U.S. government propaganda radio station, Radio Farda (which illegally broadcasts in Iran) in March 2008, declared, "They've [the Iranian government] declared they want to have a nuclear weapon to destroy people -- some in the Middle East. And that's unacceptable to the United States, and it's unacceptable to the world."
This statement was so devoid of truth, in fact, that even former State Department Iran specialist Suzanne Maloney was moved to speak out. Maloney, who was at the Brookings Institution's Saban Center (not a progressive organization by any stretch) at the time, noted, "The Iranian government is on the record across the board as saying it does not want a nuclear weapon," adding that while, in her opinion, "there's plenty of room for skepticism about these assertions…it's troubling for the administration to indicate that Iran is explicitly embracing the program as a means of destroying another country."
It is indisputable that Iranian officials have consistently denounced the acquisition, stockpiling, and use of nuclear weapons.
For example, on March 23, 1997, then-Iranian President Rafsanjani, during an interview with Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes, was asked whether Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons. In response, Rafsanjani declared, "absolutely not. We hate that weapon." When Wallace then, in amazingly childish and offensive fashion, challenged the President to "swear by Allah," Rafsanjani replied, "There's no need to take an oath. We are a frank people. We make missiles and we tell everybody that our missile industry is strong. But we're not after nuclear bombs and we won't go after biological and chemical weapons."
In early January 1998, the new Iranian President Seyyed Mohammad Khatami stated, "We are not a nuclear power and do not intend to be, we have no plans to build nuclear weapons and are only seeking to have peaceful nuclear energy."
In August 2006, Iranian President Ahmadinejad said, "Nuclear weapons have no place in Iran's defense doctrine and Iran is not a threat to any country...We are not a threat to anybody; even our solution to the Zionist regime is a referendum." (If Bernstein believes Israel would be destroyed by the implementation of real democracy and equal human rights for all in historic Palestine, he should say so.)
Ahmadinejad also affirmed Iran's right to a peaceful nuclear program, including uranium enrichment, and stated that "the Iranian nation has always resolutely resisted bullying. The Iranian nation will never exchange its dignity and nobility for anything. However, some oppressor countries can not believe that a nation can be powerful and peaceful at the same time. They can not imagine that a nation can possess nuclear technology with no nuclear weapons. They just come to the wrong conclusions through wrong analyses."
In 2007, Ahmadinejad was interviewed on CBS by Scott Pelley, who asked him, "Is it the goal of your government, the goal of this nation to build a nuclear weapon?" Ahmadinejad, after noting that a nuclear energy program is not the same as a nuclear weapons program, stated:
It is a firm "no." I'm going to be much firmer now. I want to address all politicians around the world, statesmen. Any party who uses national revenues to make a bomb, a nuclear bomb, will make a mistake. Because in political relations right now, the nuclear bomb is of no use. If it was useful, it would have prevented the downfall of the Soviet Union. If it was useful, it would have resolved the problems the Americans have in Iraq. The U.S. has tested new generations of bombs, many thousands of warheads you have in your arsenals. It's of no use. And also the Zionist entity, they have hundreds of warheads. It's not going to help them. The time of the bomb is past. The parties who think that by using the bomb you can control others, they are wrong. Today we are living in the era of intellectual pursuits. You should spend your money on your people. We don't need the bomb. For 28 years we have defended ourselves in the face of enemy onslaught. Every day we are becoming more powerful. And, again, we don't need such weapons. In fact, we think that this is inhuman.
These sentiments have been repeated often by Ahmadinejad (and other officials, including the head of state Ali Khamenei).
Speaking at the United Nations, during the May 2010 Review Conference for members of the NPT, Ahmadinejad declared, "The nuclear bomb is a fire against humanity rather than a weapon for defense," continuing, "The possession of nuclear bombs is not a source of pride; it is rather disgusting and shameful. And even more shameful is the threat to use or to use such weapons, which is not even comparable to any crime committed throughout the history." The same day, during an interview with Charlie Rose, Ahmadinejad said, "We are opposed to the bomb, the nuclear bomb, and we will not build it."
Addressing the U.N. General Assembly that September, he said, "The nuclear bomb is the worst inhumane weapon and which must totally be eliminated" and proposed "that the year 2011 be proclaimed the year of nuclear disarmament," reaffirming Iran's commitment to establishing a Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone in the Middle East.
One can assume Jeremy Bernstein simply dismisses these statements as further examples of sinister Iranian duplicity (after all, remember that "with the Iranians things are never quite as they appear"). This wouldn't matter if he paid attention to the consistent conclusions of our own country's massive intelligence gathering infrastructure, which has long maintained that Iran has no active nuclear weapons program. The IAEA has stated that it has no evidence Iran ever did. Unfortunately (for the now-questionable integrity of the New York Review of Books), Bernstein seems only to recite Netanyahu-approved propaganda.
With so much effort being expended to fear-monger about the Iranian nuclear program these days (and for the past three decades), it is comforting to know that, as always, the words of the world's most famous anti-colonialist, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, remain true:
"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained."
Ibrahamav said...
"Fearing the inherent irrationality of the Muslim mind,.." I would assume not fearing such would be ignoring the facts. How many died during the rioting over cartoons? Please.
"Bernstein breathlessly analyzes Rafsanjani's statement this way: 'In other words, such a bomb would destroy Israel, but would produce only marginal damage in the Muslim world,' continuing, 'If this is the general Iranian belief then a policy of deterrence would seem to be irrelevant: Rafsanjani is talking about a fight to the death that amounts to national suicide.'"
Again, this is rational thought when applied to a country whose leader doesn't believe there are homosexual Iranians.
"With this determination (and his apparent ignorance or disbelief of Iran's official "no first strike" policy)" I don't believe Iran's official policy. I don't know anyone who believes Iran's official policy.
Benny Morris: "There is a deep problem in Islam. It's a world whose values are different. A world in which human life doesn't have the same value as it does in the West, in which freedom, democracy, openness... are alien…"
I'll grant you creativity.
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are lampooned, derided, or labeled as hasbara."
- Chris Berel
Nima Shirazi said...
Did Ibrahamav seriously just quote a well-known Zionist internet troll? Incredible.
Kawther Salam has revealed that Chris Barel (or sometimes Berel) bills himself as a lawyer at an imaginary firm ("Taylor, Baxtor and Neuland Associates"). His IP address is listed as a known origin of spam. At one point, "Chris Berel" began using a new moniker, "Ibrahim," in order to slip past spam filters.
There's a good chance that commenter "Ibrahamav," who spends an incredible amount of time posting racist and Islamophobic comments on Wide Asleep in America, is most likely the very "Chris Berel" who he quotes above.
Ibrahamav trolls numerous websites and blogs, posting offensive, pro-Zionist propaganda in comment sections, and has been doing so for years. A quick look at his Blogger profile reveals how obsessed he is with bloggers (especially Jewish ones like Antony Loewenstein and The Magnes Zionist Jerry Haber) who don't support, justify, or encourage the Israeli policies of war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, collective punishment, apartheid, or land theft.
He posts his own appalling thoughts on blogs entitled "What the Palestinians Really Want," "Rachel Corries dies for her sins!", and "Axis of Israel" and has also created blogs directly attacking Jewish bloggers and journalists like Tikun Olam's Richard Silverstein and Mondoweiss' Phil Weiss and Adam Horowitz, whom he describes as "Antisemites" and "Hate Mongers".
Personally, I don't mind sparring with Ibrahamav since his ridiculous commentary is so easily exposed as nonsense. However, in light of his increasingly racist comments and his tedious repetition of the same talking points even after they've been patiently addressed and thoroughly debunked, I have decided to no longer accept his comments here on WAiA.
I eagerly await a new, fake identity which will inevitably pop up and start posting comments.
Roxanne said...
"The reasons why there is no Iranian objection to the nuclear program are many; for one, Iranians make the important distinction between nuclear power and nuclear weaponry."
In light of the catastrophe at Fukushima, shouldn't we expect a nuclear program--even for *peaceful* purposes--to elicit some criticism? I understand your points but am troubled by the apparent embrace of a technology that we should be working to reduce across the globe.
@Roxanne -
I happen to agree with you about the awfulness of nuclear energy - I do not advocate for it and very much hope to see its usage decline and disappear; however, this is not at all the issue at hand.
Arguments against Iran's nuclear program (which most often come in the form of lies and warmongering) have nothing to do with condemning or criticizing nuclear energy itself. This is obvious. It has everything to do with demonizing Iran and curtailing its rights. An energy independent Iran (especially with oil prices skyrocketing) is surely a dangerous thing for US hegemony.
Anti-nuclear advocates calling for all nuclear states to dismantle their nuclear energy systems (and especially nuclear weapons states to reduce and destroy their stockpiles, as is required by the NPT) have my support.
Nuclear-armed global bullies, on the other hand, are not interested in a world without nuclear energy, only a world without an independent and emboldened Iran.
Chances are there are plenty of Iranians who oppose nuclear power in their own country, but the "nuclear issue" has far more to do with sovereign, inalienable rights than nuclear power.
If Iran's rights are affirmed and assured by the international community (i.e. The United States), I wouldn't be surprised to see more internal debate and opposition to the program based on its merits and costs.
Mohammad said...
Just for the record, I address Ibrahamav's comment:
1. So because some demonstrations by some Muslims lead to deaths, the Muslim mind is inherently irrational? How about generalizing in similar non-Muslim cases?
2. Ahmadinejad never said there are no homosexuals in Iran. Go read the actual transcription.
3. Well, you're free to disbelieve Iran's official policy, but good luck finding a case that Iran violated its official policy.
4. Again, typical anti-Muslim stereotypes.
Regarding Roxanne's comment: Well, some Iranian outlets did express concern over similar incidents in Iran, and AEOI officials tried to ease concerns by announcing safety measures in Bushehr nuclear plant. Iran does have a renewable energy program, and currently produces close to 500 MW electricity from a number of wind, solar, geothermal and biofuel power plants, not to mention several GW's of hydropower. See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Iran
In fact, I think that looking at current trends, renewable-to-nuclear power generation in Iran share will climb in the years ahead.
As Nima has indicated that he fears those who posit truth to the powerless, Nima has stated I'm not allowed can't respond to your post.
I dislike censorship in general, but it is quite offensive when it comes from a clown like Nima.
@Ibrahamav -
My disinterest in your nonsense has nothing to do with fearing anything you write. You're delusional if you think you "posit truth to power." Wow.
Feel free to respond to Mohammad, but know that if your response includes the same crude stereotypes in which you tend to traffic, the same repetitions of things that have already been addressed, or contains anything even approaching the advocacy of ethnosupremacism, it will be your last comment here.
Incidentally, thank you for not refuting anything I have written above and please know that, coming from you, being called a "clown" is an unmitigated honor.
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Australie, au . Monsieur Baker, un fermier, trouve par une nuit orageuse une femme mourante qui tient un bébé. Contre la volonté de sa femme, il décide d'élever la petite Georgie avec ses fils Abel et Arthur, sans lui révéler le secret de sa naissance (néanmoins, leur oncle Kevin est aussi au courant). Seul le bracelet doré qu'elle porte au poignet témoigne de son origine, mais Georgie ne le sait pas. Elle grandit paisiblement jusqu'au jour où son père adoptif meurt à la suite d'un accident. Madame Baker aura toujours du mal à accepter cette enfant, la tenant notamment responsable de la perte de son mari.

Les années s'écoulent cependant, jusqu'au moment où Georgie rencontrera Laurent Grey (Lowell en VO), petit-fils du gouverneur, dont elle va tomber amoureuse. Ce qu'elle ne sait pas, c'est que ses deux frères sont aussi amoureux d'elle depuis quelque temps déjà. Devant cette situation, sa mère adoptive la chassera, lui révélant au passage le secret de sa naissance.

Georgie part alors en Angleterre à la recherche de son vrai père, un ancien noble, condamné au bagne à la suite d'un complot fomenté par le duc de Roussac. Elle compte également retrouver Laurent son premier amour, reparti peu de temps avant. Puis à leur tour, séparément, Abel et Arthur se mettent en route pour la retrouver. C'est à cet instant que commence le cauchemar de Georgie, qui durera jusqu'aux retrouvailles avec son père.

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Ariella Kvashny and Eduardo Enrikez co-star in Moonlight Stage Productions' "On Your Feet!," opening Wednesday, Sept. 15, at Vista's Moonlight Amphitheatre.
(Moonlight Stage Productions)
Theater highlights this fall include La Jolla Playhouse's 'The Garden,' San Diego Rep's 'Mother Road,' Moxie Theatre's 'The Minneola Twins' and more
Sept. 12, 2021 12:58 PM PT
Many San Diego theaters are planning to reopen in the next few months with a diverse mix of world premieres, solo plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.
Subject to change due to COVID-19. Please check websites for updates.
Moonlight Stage Productions: 'On Your Feet!'
This musical based on the life and music of Cuban-American entertainers Emilio and Gloria Estefan will close the 2021 summer season at Vista's Moonlight Amphitheatre. The musical traces the duo's humble beginnings to the bus crash that nearly killed Gloria Estefan at the height of her fame. James Vásquez directs with choreography by Carlos Mendoza. Sept. 15-Oct. 2. 1250 Vale Terrace Drive, Vista. (760) 724-2110. moonlightstage.com
Charlayne Woodard, left, and Stephanie Berry co-star in La Jolla Playhouse's "The Garden."
La Jolla Playhouse: 'The Garden'
Tony Award-nominated playwright/actor Charlayne Woodward will co-star in the world premiere co-production of her new play about two "Alpha" Black women, elderly mother Claire Rose (played by Stephanie Berry) and her middle-aged daughter, Cassandra (Woodard), who meet at a garden gate after three years of estrangement in an attempt to heal old wounds. Delicia Turner Sonnenberg and Patricia McGregor will co-direct this play, which is being co-produced by Baltimore Center Stage. Sept. 21-Oct. 17. Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla. (858) 550-1010. lajollaplayhouse.org
Diversionary Theatre: 'One in Two'
Diversionary will reopen its newly remodeled theater with the West Coast premiere of Donja R. Love's play about three men sharing the harrowing and often hidden experience of what it means to be Black, queer and HIV positive. Old Globe artist-in-residence Delicia Turner Sonnenberg will direct. Sept. 23-Oct. 24. 4545 Park Blvd., San Diego. (619) 220-0097. diversionary.org
Moxie Theatre: 'The Mineola Twins'
Moxie's first live onstage production since February 2020 is Paula Vogel's 1999 satire, billed as "a comedy in six scenes, three dreams and five wigs." It chronicles 40 years in the relationship between twins Myra and Myrna, who are on opposite ends of the political, social, religious and cultural spectrum. San Diego actor Samantha Ginn will play both twins. Sept. 26-Oct. 24. 6663 El Cajon Blvd., Suite N, San Diego. (858) 598-7620. moxietheatre.com
Cynthia Gerber will star in Lamb's Players Theatre's "The Belle of Amherst" Oct. 2 through Nov. 14, 2021.
(Nathan Peirson)
Lamb's Players Theatre: 'The Belle of Amherst'
Lamb's company member Cynthia Gerber will star in this season-opening solo play that takes a humorous and moving look at American poet Emily Dickinson. Playwright William Luce based the play on the Massachusetts author's diaries and letters about the encounters she had with significant people in her life. Oct. 2-Nov. 14. 1142 Orange Ave., Coronado. (619) 437-6000. lambsplayers.org
Old Globe: 'Shutter Sisters'
First workshopped in the Old Globe's 2020 Powers New Voices Festival, this world premiere commissioned play by Mansa Ra is the story of two mothers living parallel lives on the hardest days of their lives. A White woman named Michael attends her adopted mother's funeral, while a Black woman named Mykal kicks her adult daughter out of her home. Donya K. Washington directs this play in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre. Oct. 7-Nov. 7. 1363 Old Globe Way, Balboa Park. (619) 234-5623. theoldglobe.org
"Mother Road" by playwright Octavio Solis will make its local premiere at San Diego Repertory Theatre.
(Courtesy photo)
San Diego Repertory Theatre: 'Mother Road'
San Diego Rep artistic director Sam Woodhouse directs this 2019 play by Octavio Solis about the last surviving descendants of the Tom Joad family from John Steinbeck's 1939 novel "The Grapes of Wrath." An 80-year-old White descendant and his mixed-race Chicano farmworker relative take a road trip from California back to the Joads' family farm in Oklahoma. Oct. 7-31. Lyceum Theatre, 79 Horton Plaza, San Diego. (619) 544-1000. sdrep.org
North Coast Repertory Theatre: 'Ben Butler'
Richard Strand's 2012 race-relations comedy-drama is inspired by the real-life Civil War-era story of Union Gen. Benjamin Butler, who was faced with the decision of whether to return runaway slaves to their Southern masters. The law required him to turn the slaves over to the Confederates, but offering sanctuary could change the course of history. It's part comedy, part historical drama and part biography. Oct. 20-Nov. 14. 987D Lomas Santa Fe Ave., Solana Beach. (858) 481-1055. northcoastrep.org
"Iron Chef" host Alton Brown will present a live stage show for Broadway San Diego on Nov. 14 at the Balboa Theatre in San Diego.
(Broadway San Diego)
Broadway San Diego: 'Alton Brown Live: Beyond the Eats'
Broadway San Diego opens its season with author and "Iron Chef" host Alton Brown in this road show, an all-ages culinary variety show that's a mix of comedy, music, science-infused cooking demonstrations and audience interaction. Nov. 14. Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Ave., San Diego. (800) 982-2787. broadwaysd.com
Cygnet Theatre: 'A Christmas Carol'
After presenting its annual Christmas play last year as a filmed solo play, the full musical spectacular returns live for its 10th year. Adapted for the stage from Charles Dickens' 1843 novella by Cygnet artistic director Sean Murray, the musical features caroling, humor, puppetry, a miniature village and special effects. Nov. 23-Dec. 26. 4040 Twiggs St., Old Town San Diego. (619) 337-1525. cygnettheatre.com
Cygnet Theatre's "A Christmas Carol" returns on Nov. 23, 2021.
(Ken Jacques)
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Ве́ра Вениами́новна Хвосто́ва (29 апреля 1903, Москва — 22 апреля 1977, Новосибирск) — советский учёный-генетик и цитогенетик, специалист в области теории мутагенеза и цитогенетики растений, доктор биологических наук, профессор.

Биография
В. В. Хвостова известна своими работами по эффекту положения у Drosophila melanogaster — ей принадлежит открытие эффекта положения гена cubitus interruptus. Весомый вклад внесла В. В. Хвостова в развитие радиационной генетики. Ею совместно с коллегами и учениками была установлена зависимость возникновения разных типов мутаций от дозы, вида и интенсивности Х-лучей на дрозофиле и на различных видах растений.

После разгрома генетики в СССР многие приоритетные направления генетики были утрачены, и именно В. В. Хвостовой были возрождены такие важные из них, как геномный анализ у отдалённых межвидовых и межродовых гибридов злаков. Известны работы В. В. Хвостовой в области цитогенетики растений: изучение закономерностей радиационного и химического мутагенеза, анализ плодовитости, зимостойкости, устойчивости к грибным заболеваниям мутантов и отдалённых гибридов.

Путь в науке
Вера Вениаминовна родилась в семье русских интеллигентов. Отец Вениамин Михайлович Хвостов — юрист, профессор Московского университета, мать Надежда Павловна — преподаватель русского языка, директор известной в Москве женской Хвостовской гимназии на Арбате (Кривоарбатский переулок, 15).

После окончания средней школы Хвостова работала учительницей в начальной школе (1920). В 1925 году она окончила биологическое отделение педагогического факультета 2-го Московского государственного университета, работала научным сотрудником на Московской педагогической биостанции Московского отдела народного образования.

С 1927 года Хвостова — ассистент кафедры общей биологии и генетики Московского педагогического института, руководимой В. Ф. Натали (работала там до 1934 года). В 1934 году она поступила в аспирантуру Института экспериментальной биологии, возглавляемого Н. К. Кольцовым. Там она работала в лаборатории генетики, руководимой Н. П. Дубининым. В 1938 году Хвостова защитила диссертацию на соискание учёной степени кандидата биологических наук по специальности «генетика». Работа была посвящена изучению эффекта положения гена cubitus interruptus у Drosophila melanogaster. Этой работой Хвостова «буквально "ворвалась" в генетику».

В. В. Хвостова — автор учебника «Генетика для зоотехников» (1931), соавтор учебника по общей биологии для пединститутов (с В. Ф. Натали и К. В. Магржиковской, 1934).

После защиты диссертации, с 1938 по 1941 год, Хвостова — научный сотрудник лаборатории генетики Института цитологии, гистологии и эмбриологии АН СССР. Вместе с Н. П. Дубининым, И. Б. Паншиным, А. А. Прокофьевой-Бельговской и другими ею были выполнены классические работы по механизмам образования сложных хромосомных перестроек, влиянию различных доз Х-лучей на распределение разрывов в хромосомах, на частоту возникающих летальных мутаций. В связи с необходимостью критического анализа представлений Т. Д. Лысенко о «вегетативной гибридизации у растений» она участвовала в экспериментальных работах по изучению влияния прививок подвоя на привой. Статья Хвостовой «Проблема генотипического влияния при прививках и трансплантациях» (1940) сыграла важную роль в дискуссиях по проблемам генетики, развернувшихся в СССР в 1936 и 1939 годах.

Во время войны в 1941—1942 годах Хвостова учительствовала в школах сёл Назарьева и Высокого Рязанской области, в 1942—1943 годах — в эвакуации работала библиографом в Публичной библиотеке города Фрунзе. В 1943 году вернулась в Москву и работала старшим научным сотрудником в лаборатории биометодов борьбы с вредителями сельскохозяйственных культур Московского филиала Всесоюзного института защиты растений, а в 1945—1948 годах — ассистентом на кафедре общей биологии Московского стоматологического института.

В лабораторию генетики Института цитологии, гистологии и эмбриологии АН СССР Хвостова возвратилась в 1946 году. Здесь она работала в должности старшего научного сотрудника до 1948 года. После августовской сессии ВАСХНИЛ и расформирования лаборатории генетики в августе 1948 года Вера Вениаминовна в полной мере разделила участь опальных генетиков — «менделистов-морганистов», надолго лишена возможности заниматься научной работой, была вынуждена работать главным библиографом Всесоюзной государственной библиотеки иностранной литературы, затем — старшим научным сотрудником Института научной информации АН СССР.

В 1955 году Хвостова подписала «Письмо трёхсот».

В 1950-х годах в связи с развёртыванием широкомасштабных исследований в области ядерной и космической программ в СССР учёные столкнулись с необходимостью точно знать последствия влияния радиации и других типов излучений, условий космических полётов на наследственность живых организмов и, прежде всего, на наследственность человека и использовать эти знания для решения практических задач.

В 1956 году в Институте биофизики АН СССР была создана лаборатория радиационной генетики под руководством Н. П. Дубинина, куда были приглашены находившиеся в опале генетики. В 1956 году сотрудником лаборатории радиационной генетики стала и Хвостова. Она была в числе первых, кто включился в изучение влияния условий космических полётов и радиации на живые организмы, разрабатывал теорию экспериментального мутагенеза и внедрял методы радиационной генетики в селекцию.

Вера Вениаминовна и её ученики возродили в СССР геномный анализ растений с помощью изучения мейоза у отдалённых гибридов — раздел генетики, полностью уничтоженный во времена лысенкоизма. На основе этих работ возникло оригинальное направление в науке — генетика мейоза растений.

Исследования в лаборатории Хвостовой велись по нескольким направлениям: изучение индуцирующего и повреждающего эффекта физических и химических мутагенов, определение мутагенных свойств разных видов радиации, выявление роли генотипа сорта в реакции на радиацию.

В 1965 году В. В. Хвостовой без защиты диссертации, по совокупности работ была присуждена учёная степень доктора биологических наук. В 1966 году она была утверждена в учёном звании профессора по специальности «генетика».

С 26 апреля 1966 года Хвостова по приглашению директора Института цитологии и генетики (ИЦиГ) Сибирского отделения (СО) Академии наук СССР Д. К. Беляева возглавила созданную ею лабораторию цитогенетики в Новосибирске, заведующей которой она была до кончины в 1977 году. Новосибирский период стал одним из ярких и насыщенных периодов научной биографии Веры Вениаминовны. Здесь раскрылся её талант учёного и педагога, потенциал организатора науки. За десять лет, что она провела в Новосибирске, она заложила фундамент новосибирской школы цитогенетиков.

Лаборатория развивала работы по цитогенетике зимостойкости и плодовитости отдалённых гибридов злаков, по геномному анализу, радиационному и химическому мутагенезу растений, по отбору сельскохозяйственно ценных мутантов зерновых и бобовых культур, генетическому контролю мейоза и эволюции кариотипов злаков. В лаборатории Хвостовой были выполнены пионерские работы по дифференциальной окраске хромосом злаков. Под руководством и редакцией Хвостовой была создана серия коллективных монографий по животрепещущим проблемам генетики: «Цитогенетика пшениц и её гибридов» (1971), «Генетика картофеля» (1973), «Генетика и селекция гороха» (1975), «Цитология и генетика мейоза» (1975) и другие.

В. В. Хвостова была членом Объединённого учёного совета по биологическим наукам при Президиуме СО АН СССР, Учёного совета ИЦиГ СО АН СССР, одним из организаторов кафедры цитологии и генетики Новосибирского государственного университета.

За большие заслуги в развитии науки, внедрение результатов исследований в народное хозяйство страны В. В. Хвостова в 1971 году была награждена орденом Трудового Красного Знамени.

Умерла Вера Вениаминовна 22 апреля 1977 года. Похоронена на Южном кладбище в Академгородке.

В 1977 году решением Отделения общей биологии Академии наук СССР учреждены Хвостовские чтения, которые проводились в 1978, 1980, 1983, 1986 и 1990 годах.

Научные труды
В. В. Хвостова — автор более 160 научных работ. Она была инициатором написания ряда коллективных монографий и тематических сборников, ответственным редактором десяти монографий, в пяти из них — соавтор. Владея основными европейскими языками, она перевела с немецкого, английского и французского языков семнадцать важных научных трудов.

В. В. Хвостова была научным редактором книг и сборников:

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      If you're looking for a style like APA, Harvard, etc... just use the search box at the top of the page to search for a style name, or journal title.

Search by example

      If you don't know the name of the style, but know what the final citation should look like, you can use our search by example tool to find styles that most closely match.

2. Edit the style

      If you can't find a style that quite suits your needs, find one that's a pretty close match and click the "Edit style" button to open that style in the visual editor.

3. Use the style

      Once you've found a style that's suitable for you to use, simply click the "Install" button on the search results, or "Save" a style you've edited, to use it in your reference manager.

Useful Links

Blog

Source on GitHub

Attributions

Citation Style Language

CSL style repository

citeproc-js (Citation formatting engine)

CodeMirror (text editor on codeEditor page)

diff_match_patch (for calculating edit distances in Search by Example)

Trang (for converting schema files from .rnc to .rng)

Node.js (for JavaScript run in the build process)

FamFamFam Silk icons

FileSaver.js

Fugue icons

jQuery

jQuery jsTree Plugin (tree view on visualEditor page)

jQuery UI Layout Plugin

jQuery hoverIntent Plugin

jQuery scrollTo Plugin

QUnit (JavaScript unit testing framework)

RequireJS (JavaScript module loader)

mustache (used to generate HTML from templates)

pagedown (used to generate source code docmentation)

XRegExp (for unicode letter matching in the Search by Example page)

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