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The digital revolution has given rise to a literal explosion of data, as the volume of information shared, distributed and stored increases exponentially on a daily basis. An ever-growing list of regulatory compliance adds to the burden, generating masses of additional data that needs to be managed.

Gary Allemann, senior consultant at Master Data Management (image: Master Data Management)

This is further complicated by emerging trends such as big data, cloud data, change data capture, data integration, data analysis and so on. To add to these challenges, businesses need to manage a data avalanche on an ever-tightening budget, and there’s really no wonder that data has become the source of so many business woes, causing the proverbial headache.

Compliance generates reams of data that need to be managed, adding complexity onto an already overwhelming data environment.

The reality is that compliance is a burning pain for organisations across all industries and sectors, with a long and continuously growing list of compliance legislation and guidelines including: Sarbanes Oxley; King III; The Protection of Personal Information Bill (POPI); Basel II and Basel III; Solvency II; the Consumer Protection Act (CPA); the Financial Intelligence Centre Act (FICA), the Regulation and Interception of Communications Act (RICA), Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) and the latest Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).

A report recently issued by Aberdeen Research indicates that almost half of finance employees are “challenged by the fact that their organizations are leveraging risk and compliance data in different formats, making it difficult to compare data.”  According to the report, complying with regulations is a key concern for CFOs.

And a distressing number of respondents indicated that the existing IT infrastructure is lacking in the advanced capabilities needed to support governance, risk and compliance (GRC) initiatives.

This is far from the end of the problem, however. Gartner predicts further headaches, stating that “by 2016, 20% of CIOs in regulated industries will lose their jobs for failing to implement the discipline of information governance successfully”. Gartner also recommends that these regulated businesses invest in information archiving technology in order to bring data under control.

While Business Intelligence (BI) is touted as the answer to help businesses make sense of their data avalanche, the reality could not be further from the truth. BI has become yet another headache for organisations, along with Master Data Management (MDM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Extract Transform Load (ETL) and a host of other tools. Despite the lauded ability of BI to help businesses improve decision making, the majority of BI implementations fail or never get off the ground.

One of the main reasons for this failure is the fact that the underlying data is fragmented, duplicated, inaccurate, irrelevant and outdated. While BI has the potential to deliver fast, reliable information and ‘intelligence’ along with a single version of the truth, this entire house of cards is balanced on one single point of failure – the quality of the data.

Maintaining accurate data, which in turn facilitates compliance and paves the way for successful BI and MDM, is key in providing the cure for data headaches. However, this typically proves to be a major challenge, mainly due to inefficient processes or reliance on inappropriate technology. Various people may have different ways of documenting the same information and without processes and tools in place to ensure standardisation, this leads to duplication and inaccurate data.

Fortunately there is a remedy at hand. Data governance – a combination of disciplines, improved processes and the right technology. If pragmatically applied data governance should assist business to cut through the overload and identify and address the critical data issues that will drive the biggest returns, resulting in clean data that deliver results and information that is accurate. Quality data delivers insight based on fact rather than guesswork, addressing myriad compliance regulations and is the key to successful BI, MDM, CRM and back office implementations.

Solving the data quality problem will provide a painkiller for the majority of data headaches.

Gary Allemann, senior consultant at Master Data Management

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Drew: Early on I wanted to be a cowboy, following in my dad’s foodsteps. He came over from Scotland when he was 16 and because he’d watched old Westerns when he was a boy, he wanted to be a cowboy. So we grew up on a ranch and that was it.
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I always had an opinion on most things and I always tried to help my friends too that were having a hard time, and so the used to call me The Coach.
Jonathan: I used to perform as a magician under the name Jonathan Silver. And because I was tall, they called me Long John Silver.
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Drew: I’m a health nut. Jonathan makes fun of this. You’ll find my protein shakes and certain supplements.
Coffee or tea?
Jonathan: Neither of us drink coffee, but I’ll occasionally get green tea when I go for sushi.
Drew: Just a water for me.
Salad, fries or half-and-half?
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Jonathan: Half and half. A little bit of fat isn’t going to kill you.
If you had to eat one cuisine for the rest of your life, it would be?
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If you could be a virtuoso at any instrument, what would it be?
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Drew: I play a little bit on my guitar -- my dad used to play professionally and it would be amazing to play as well as him, especially with some of the Spanish tunes where your hands move so quickly.
Best words of advice you’ve ever been given?
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Drew: Our parents always said never take no for answer. And I’ve always liked the expression, “Those who say it can’t be done shouldn’t stand in the way of those who are doing it”.
City with the best architecture?
Drew: We travel a lot, we love the architecture in Florence, but we take influence from all over the globe. Even now in Atlanta, there’s some great architecture . That said, where we live in Vegas, there are some of the most impressive buildings in the world. All the casinos are constantly trying to one-up each other.
Jonathan: Florence is one of my favourite places on the planet.
Place in the world you would want to call home
Jonathan: I’ve always had a dream about having a castle in the hills of Scotland.
Drew: I’d say for me, Vegas is good home. But I would even say Paris -- my girlfriend really likes it and it would be a great place for a spring or summer home.
Speaking of girlfriends, do you vet each other’s girlfriends?
Jonathan: We’re pretty honest with each other and always have been. So if someone enters the mix who is not a good fit, we’re the first to say it.
Drew: I don’t believe in holding my tongue, I think whether people like me or not, I think it’s a good thing to be honest.
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Drew: Twins! We really do have special powers.
Jonathan:The power of the mind -- it’s unbelievable what people can accomplish when they put their minds to it. Even overcoming their own fears and illnesses. We create a lot of our hurdles in our minds and we can also resolve them.
Best book you’ve read in the past year?
Drew: Eat Pray Love because I saw a Ted Talk with the author.
Jonathan: I read a lot of science journals -- last book I read was Steve Martin’s biography.
Design trend you can’t wait to be over?
Drew: Can I name a fashion trend? High-waist jeans that make everyone’s butt look two feet long -- I do not like that.
Jonathan: Modern design can be so underwhelming when done badly -- even though they have clean lines, it can be so uncomfortable and bare.
Design trend you wish more people were into?
Jonathan: I’d say a little bit of hipster, a little bit of character. Adding some personality to what you are into.
Drew: A lot of people feel that rustic or traditional pieces have to feel old, but you can take a modern design and infuse one rustic or older element into it, it can really make a modern design pop.
Celebrity crush?
Jonathan: Taylor Swift. (Full disclosure: this is Drew picking for Jonathan).
Drew: Emily Blunt.
If you had to take up residence in a celebrity home, whose would it be?
Jonathan: David Copperfield.
Drew: Oprah -- I’d be roommates with her for a while, I’d bet we’d have some great conversations
Latest song obsession:
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Jonathan:  Miley Cyrus’ Wrecking Ball.
How does it feel to have been shortlisted for People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive?
Drew:  We are flattered to be included among such talented people. We are lucky to be able to share what we love doing with everyone -- helping people find their dream home is such a reward for us. We have so much fun, it's unbelievable the work we actually get done!

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Trailing 5-1 at the half, Yale scored nine of the next 10 goals to earn a 10-7 win over eighth-seeded Penn State on Saturday afternoon in the opening round of the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship.

The win was Yale's first in the NCAA tourney since 1992. The Bulldogs (12-4) will face either Syracuse or Bryant in the second round on Saturday, May 18 in College Park, Md. Those two teams play Sunday night at the Carrier Dome. The second round game time will be set for either 12:30 pm or 3 pm.

Yale, making its second straight NCAA appearance and fifth all-time, became the first team in the history of the NCAA Men's Lacrosee Championship to win a game after scoring just one goal in the first half. Since the tournament began in 1971, teams scoring one goal or fewer in the opening half had a record of 0-52.

Ironically, later in the day Saturday, Notre Dame rallied to win after scoring just once in the first 30 minutes.

The Bulldogs scored the first goal of the day, but the Nittany Lions (12-5) scored the next five goals to take a 5-1 lead into the intermission. However, Yale regrouped and, for the second straight game, put together a second-half run.

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In addition to Flaherty's three goals, Conrad Oberbeck added two goals and an assist for Yale. Goalie Eric Natale recorded 10 saves in the win.

Penn State's Austin Kaut did his part to keep the Nittany Lions in the contest, recording 14 saves on the day.

The win was Yale's sixth against a ranked team this year. The Bulldogs, who had the No. 7 RPI entering the tournament, are now 6-3 against ranked foes this season.

Yale is now 3-4 all-time in NCAA Championship play. The Bulldogs last advanced to the national semifinals in 1990.

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In addition to her performance work, Ms. Christeson is well-respected music educator. Formerly an Artist-in-Residence at Daytona State College, she is currently a Professor of Voice at Stetson University.

This website provides detailed information concerning her career as well as samples of her vocal work. Also available are downloadable formats for her long and short biography and headshot on the “Press” page.

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TGS 2012: Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus announced for Vita

4:47 AM on 09.19.2012 // Elliot Gay

Clearly there's not enough large breasted, underage ninja girls in the gaming world because the Senran Kagura franchise is set to hit the Vita on February 28.

Yes I know; I can't believe it's a franchise now either.

Little else is known beyond the fact that it'll be a completely new game, separate from the 3DS series. I would imagine there are quite a few folks out there happy about the news; you'll actually be able to import and play Shinovi Versus for the Vita, unlike the region locked Nintendo handheld.

I doubt this'll be on the show floor in any form, but if I get the chance to ask about it, you can be sure I will.

And no, the "v" in Shinovi is not a typo.

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Ozawa aides’ convictions upheld

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The Tokyo High Court upheld the convictions Wednesday of the three former aides to Ichiro Ozawa who falsified the power broker’s political funds reports.

Lower House lawmaker Tomohiro Ishikawa, Takanori Okubo and Mitsutomo Ikeda all have denied intentionally falsifying financial reports for the former Democratic Party of Japan president’s political funds management body Rikuzankai in 2004, 2005 and 2007. They were convicted by the Tokyo District Court in September 2011.

Ishikawa immediately appealed his case to the Supreme Court later Wednesday.

The lower court sentenced Ishikawa to two years in prison, suspended for three years, Okubo to three years, suspended for five years, and Ikeda to one year, suspended for three years.

The district court ruled that the three former secretaries failed to report ¥400 million in income and about ¥352 million in expenses related to a land purchase in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward in 2004. The initial ruling also recognized that Ishikawa and Okubo received a total of ¥100 million in slush funds from general contractor Mizutani Construction Co. related to a dam construction project in Iwate Prefecture, Ozawa’s constituency, and hiding that fact was one of the motives for violating the Political Funds Control Law.


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Jubilant sounds act as positive reinforcement, skew perception of losses

‘Winning’ noises from slot machines spur gamblers

The Washington Post

Whether you’re in Las Vegas or the small-town casino down the street, slot machines sound more or less the same: jangly music, the whir of spinning reels, accompanied by loud beeps and chimes.

A recent study shows that some of those noises can easily fool our brains into thinking that we won — even when we have unequivocally lost money.

“The way slot machines are designed, sound is a really crucial component of player feedback,” said lead author and behavioral neuroscientist Michael Dixon of the University of Waterloo in Ontario.

Because the jubilant sound effects are always tied to wins or even partial losses — “losses disguised as wins,” Dixon calls them — they act as positive reinforcement and can skew our perception of lost money.

Say you wager $1 for a single spin on a modern video slot machine. If you hit a winning combination and win $5, you are rewarded with flashing animations and celebratory winning jingles made to give you a sense of accomplishment.

In the other extreme, when you win nothing, the machine goes into a quiet state of rest with no lights or music. It just sits there, waiting for you to play again.

The catch is, even when you win just a portion of your wager back — for instance, 25 cents out of the dollar you put in — the machine still gives you happy noises and such, similar to when you really win. So even though you have actually lost money, you come away feeling like a winner.

Dixon’s team of scientists had 96 gamblers play a slot machine simulator with and without sound and had it programmed to win exactly 28 times out of a total of 200 spins.

Afterward, they asked players how many times they had won out of 200.

For both conditions, players overestimated their number of wins, but by significantly more when the sound was on.

Dixon said these games — particularly multiline slots that allow bets on multiple rows and combinations on a single spin — can be so complex that often people will rely on the machine to tell them whether they have won or lost via sound and lights. So they will listen for those sounds as a cue and think that they have won — no matter what the actual outcome.

“I don’t think (slots are) a level playing field,” he said. Dixon said he finds the manipulation of slot machines disconcerting.

The findings were published online last week in the Journal of Gambling Studies.

Dixon, along with computer scientist Kevin Harrigan, also of the University of Waterloo, formed the Gambling Research Lab after Harrigan got hold of the design documents for slot machines.

Through analysis of the underlying math and computer algorithms, they realized how deceptive they can be by pushing irrational behavior and giving players an illusion of control.

In a prior study, they describe preprogrammed “near misses,” or what Harrigan calls the “Awww Shucks Effect.”

This happens when, for instance, you spin and two of the reels match up on a high-paying symbol, and the last reel stops just above or below that same symbol.

Harrigan found that modern machines are weighted to hit near misses far more often than if the odds were truly random.

It makes players feel like they almost won a huge jackpot and if they would play some more, it would happen.

In reality, slot machines are engineered to provoke those exact emotions.

They also looked at whether the effect of sound was more pronounced in those with gambling problems.

While they found “hints” pointing toward that conclusion in the data, Dixon said that sound generally seems to affect players across the board — both gamblers and nongamblers.

Dixon describes a high incidence of depression among those addicted to slots. He said addicts use slots as a form of escape.

“Players refer to it as ‘getting in the zone,’ ” he said, citing the nonstop and hypnotizing nature of slots.

Players can hit the spin button every couple of seconds and gamble many times per minute, whereas in other forms of gambling they would have to wait longer between plays.


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Amid fears of fraud, U.S. colleges use video to vet Chinese applicants

American colleges sorting through a record number of applications from China are increasingly turning to video interviewing services to assess students’ language skills, get a feel for their personality and weed out fraudsters.

The recorded interviews, recommended by dozens of schools, have emerged as a way to address cheating concerns that were highlighted by a breach that forced a cancellation last weekend of SAT exams in China.

“If you believe in all the fraudulent claims — and there certainly has been some documentation out there — then the one true equalizer is getting an unscripted interview with a limited English speaker,” said Kregg Strehorn, an assistant provost at the University of Massachusetts. “That will put anyone’s mind to rest.”

Admissions officers are wary of fraud in applications from all countries, including the U.S., but attention has focused on China with the huge rise in applications from the country’s middle class. More than 300,000 people from China studied in the U.S. last year, up from roughly 60,000 only a decade ago.

College officials and industry consultants describe a range of issues, including plagiarism, purchased transcripts and surrogate test-takers. Evidence is largely anecdotal, and the topic can be a delicate one for colleges, which receive a boost by enrolling international students, who often pay full tuition.

“It’s the kryptonite of international education,” said Daniel Ghur, who has studied fraud as the director of the Illuminate Consulting Group in California.

One service provider, InitialView, was launched in Beijing in 2009 by an American couple. While many colleges have interviewed students themselves on the Internet, the company offers verification of student identities. InitialView conducts interviews in 14 cities across China and has begun operating in other countries. The company charges $220 and will send a recording of the interview to as many schools as the student wants.

“The schools that use us, they just want to have integrity in their process,” company founder Terry Crawford said.

A Wellesley College student, Linda Liu, said she sat for an InitialView interview at the urging of a counseling agency that helped her with college applications. Liu, 18, said the service has grown in popularity among students at her Beijing high school and she saw it as an opportunity to tell American schools more about herself.

“It’s a way to show yourself, showing actually who you are, in a very direct way instead of just showing it in on paper or in essays,” she said.

For colleges, the interviews offer a baseline for assessing students from a different system for secondary education. Even as American admissions officers have visited China to recruit students and better understand local institutions, they say it remains difficult to know how to weigh the significance and validity of varied transcripts and recommendations.

“It’s one of those ‘the more you know, the less you understand’ situations,” said Rick Clark, admissions director at Georgia Tech. “You cannot apply an American filter.”

Georgia Tech, which now reviews interviews from non-native English speakers in any country, started with applications from China several years ago to find students who would adapt well to campus life after some professors noted a lack of classroom interaction by Chinese students, Clark said. In practice, he said, the interviews on occasion have helped to flag potential fraud in cases where statements in an interview blatantly contradict material in a student’s application file.

Scrutiny of Chinese application materials was expected to increase after the College Board, the New York-based nonprofit organization that oversees SAT registrations, canceled the exams at 45 testing centers in China and Macau last weekend over concerns that some students might have accessed copies of the exam in advance. The company wouldn’t say how many students might have seen the tests, or how they did so.

Admissions officers say suspected fraud has turned up in applications from many countries. One challenge in vetting applications from China, they say, is separating out the work of the many third-party agents and consultants who promise to help students win admission to American universities.

At the University of Oregon, which recommends the interview services, admissions director Jim Rawlins said he worries more about Chinese students becoming victims themselves than about them committing fraud. When discrepancies are found in Chinese applications he said the university often suspects consultants or agents who submit fake documents, possibly without students’ knowledge.

“Every now and then a student gets turned down and, when told why, is very surprised to hear what was done on their behalf,” he said.

  • Ariko Honda

    What a great idea! In Australian universities, standards are being dragged down by Chinese students who don’t have the English language skills needed to read complex books and articles, write essays or communicate in the classroom. The moral character of Chinese students is also questionable, as a disturbing number resort to plagiarism in an attempt to get by.


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Debating nuclear energy

Nuclear energy remains a divisive issue more than three years after the March 2011 triple meltdowns at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration has reversed its predecessor’s policy of seeking a phaseout of nuclear power and is pushing to restart nuclear reactors that have been idled in the wake of the 2011 disaster, even as media surveys show a majority of the public remains opposed to reactivating the plants.

The Dec. 14 Lower House election provides voters with a chance to have their say in the nation’s energy policy, which not only affects their everyday lives but will have broad long-term social and economic repercussions. The candidates and their parties in the race are urged to clarify their positions and voters should not hesitate to make their voices heard.

The administration’s energy policy sounds self-contradictory. Abe pledges to reduce the nation’s energy dependency on nuclear power “as much as possible” — without setting specific targets or a timetable — through energy-saving efforts and introduction of renewable energy. But his government’s basic energy plan adopted in April — the first since the Fukushima disaster — calls nuclear power an “important baseload source” of the nation’s electricity supply. The prime minister is also leading efforts to promote the sale of Japan’s nuclear power technology overseas.

While the same plan calls for maximum efforts in the three years from 2013 to increase Japan’s supply of renewable energy, the administration has begun reviewing the feed-in tariff system — introduced in 2012 to promote renewable energy — after power companies stopped buying solar power under the system on the grounds that increased purchase of such energy could disrupt the stability of the power supply. At the same time it is pursuing the liberalization of a power industry long dominated by regional monopolies, the administration is reportedly weighing measures to help the utilities maintain their nuclear power plants after they’re exposed to greater price competition through the deregulation. Which direction the administration is headed in its policy on nuclear energy remains unclear.

Today, all of the nation’s 48 nuclear power reactors remain offline. Power companies have applied for the Nuclear Regulation Authority’s screening of their plans to restart 20 of them — under the safety standards updated in the wake of the 2011 disaster — and Kyushu Electric Power Co. has cleared the NRA screening and obtained local governments’ nod to restart the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at its Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture.

The Liberal Democratic Party, which promised in the 2012 election to “seek to establish a socio-economic structure that does not need to rely on nuclear power,” says this time that it will push for reactivating plants that have been approved by the NRA under what Abe once touted as the world’s most stringent safety regulations.

The power firms seek to restart the idled reactors as they face the heavy cost of imported fuel to increase output at thermal power plants to compensate for the shutdown of nuclear power plants. Restarting a single nuclear reactor will save them an estimated ¥10 billion to ¥15 billion a month in fuel expenses. Abe has argued that the nation is losing trillions of yen each year because of the added fuel imports, whose cost has also been exacerbated by the yen’s fall against the dollar. The business sector also decries the higher cost of electricity and calls for the restart of nuclear reactors.

The process is being pushed forward while more than 120,000 people in Fukushima remain displaced from their homes due to radiation fallout from the 2011 meltdowns at the No. 1 plant and as Tepco continues to struggle in its bid to clean up the mess. The blind faith in the safety of nuclear power has been shattered by the Fukushima disaster, and the much-touted cost advantage of nuclear energy over other sources appear to be in doubt.

The administration has not provided convincing answers to various key questions posed over nuclear power, including the doubts over its policy of seeking a nuclear fuel cycle or the pending issue of permanent disposal of highly radioactive nuclear waste. The opinions expressed in media polls show that a large part of the public is still not convinced of the safety of nuclear energy.

When the DPJ-led government decided in 2012 to seek phasing out nuclear power in Japan by the 2030s, it took the unusual step of sounding out popular opinion on the issue through surveys and public gatherings. After taking power from the DPJ two years ago, the Abe administration reverted to the old ways of discussing nuclear energy issues in a closed circuit of interested groups and reversed the nuclear phaseout policy without setting a clear direction on what role nuclear power should play in the nation’s long-term energy plan.

Japan’s energy policy also shapes its actions on climate change, because the energy sector accounts for a major portion of the nation’s emissions of global warming gases such as carbon dioxide. The government came under international criticism last year when it replaced its plan for cuts to emissions by 2020, because its new “tentative” plan represented a net increase in emissions from the Kyoto Protocol base year of 1990. Officials said the plan was the best they could offer while the future of idled nuclear power plants remains uncertain.

Japan’s carbon emissions have in fact increased as the nation relied more on thermal power output after the Fukushima meltdowns. But the uncertainty over nuclear power, which does not emit carbon dioxide in power generation, should not be used as an excuse for inaction on efforts to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. Nor should Japan’s climate policy rely on nuclear energy, since it would be unrealistic to expect a return to the condition before 2011, when nuclear energy accounted for 30 percent of the nation’s electricity supply. Lawmakers and parties need to lay out energy plans that include measures to reduce emissions.

  • Richard Solomon

    This editorial is far too kind in its assessment of Abe’s energy policies. The latter are more than ‘self contradictory.’. Abe is hypocritical. More specially, his words sound measured and inclusive. But his actions more clearly indicate that he is going forward on a pro-nuclear power platform while only giving lip service to renewables and fuel efficiency.

    When spent fuel storage is taken into account, nuclear energy is neither safe nor clean. The majority of the Japanese public sees that. But Abe chooses to ignore their wishes. Just as with the secrecy laws, the reinterpretation of the Constitution regarding self defense, moving US bases in Okinawa Abe is exhibiting a pattern of anti-democratic decision making. He prefers to serve special interests rather than the general public.

    When will the electorate see this and vote LDP candidates out of office? Unless they do this min significant numbers, Abe will claim the election is a vindication of his policies and continue along the same path.

    Heaven help Japan if he does. At the risk of sounding unsympathetic, I must note that the Japanese people will get what they deserve if they allow Abe and his pals to remain in power.

    • forsetiboston

      “the Japanese people will get what they deserve if they allow Abe and his pals to remain in power.”

      Particularly related to energy the Japanese have such a clear cut set of choices, correct? Like wind, solar, and geothermal which will not meet the demands of Japanese consumption.

      Let’s be realistic and face the fact that without nuclear power Japan is burning LNG, Coal, and bunker “c” in mass quantities. This is not only ALREADY impacting the Japanese air quality (live in/been to Tokyo recently?) it’s obvious to see.

      On top of environmental impacts there is a massive drain on the finances of the country, businesses and people. Oil/gas prices may be down, but not so much when your country does not have their own.

      Keep burning coal, and LNG, I’m sure that the increase in lung issues will surely offset all of the deaths that have happened as a result of Fukushima. I say lets hope Abes policies do work, Japan needs to take care of Japan at this point. I hope they do get what they deserve, a continued progression of an advanced nation. One with electric bullet trains, maglevs, and everything else you can image. Shinkansen doesn’t run on batteries nor can it wait for the wind to blow or sun to shine.

    • Sam Gilman

      Hello Richard,

      Could you give me sources for the deaths per TWh that you’re using to make this claim that nuclear power is not – compared to other methods – a safe way to produce electricity? Your view is completely at odds with any credible analysis I’ve seen, which place nuclear as – per unit of electricity – just about the safest method we have, and that is of course including the projected future figures from Chernobyl and other accidents.

      Thanks in advance.

  • rossdorn

    “Lawmakers and parties need to lay out energy plans….”

    They need to? Or, what will happen?

    That the people of Japan in 2014 no longer have a choice at elections is their own fault. Why would anything change as long election after election a mojority of these people elect the same….

    Start saying NO. You do not, or cannot? Well…. not my problem, yours!

  • Starviking

    It is amusing to see this editorial accuse the LDP of self-contradictory policies.

    It is well known that JT thinks that climate change is the most dangerous thing facing humanity. I agree with that.

    However, they vehemently oppose nuclear power, a technology which has provided low-greenhouse gas power for over half a century. They tout techologies unproven on large scales as the solution.

    My question is this: if JT thinks that the limiting of greenhouse emissions is the most important task facing us, then why not push renewables and nuclear?

    I fear the answer is that they have focussed on ‘green energy’ so much that it has becomema mantra. No facts or contrary opinions are allowed to intrude.

  • Chris Clancy

    The December 3 editorial “Debating nuclear
    energy” raises many issues on which high school students have been focusing –
    in English – for much of this year. The proposition for the 9th
    annual All Japan High School English Debate Tournament is “The Japanese
    government should abolish nuclear power plants.”

    The general affirmative stance in support
    of the proposition accords to the same public opinion questioning the safety of
    nuclear energy and the fact that so many residents of Fukushima remain
    displaced that the editorial mentions. It’s pretty hard to argue against the
    nuclear power plant accidents not being possible if nuclear power plants are

    Coming up with a convincing negative
    argument against the government abolishing nuclear power plants is the added
    challenge for Japanese students debating in English this year. Debate teams
    have attempted to play the carbon dioxide emissions card.　CO2 causes global warming and climate change. More severe and frequently
    occurring extreme weather events have occurred as a result. Furthermore, the
    World Health Organization estimates that 150,000 deaths each year can be
    attributed to these climactic changes resulting from global warming. This number
    makes disasters resulting from infrequent and isolated nuclear power plant
    accidents pale in comparison. We have a moral duty to decrease carbon emissions
    worldwide. Nations must not revert to dependency on traditional energy
    generation from the burning of fossil fuels. Current world energy needs cannot likely
    be met without nuclear power. For these reasons, it might be argued, Japan
    should not abolish nuclear power plants.

    Please consider visiting the Shizuoka
    University of Art and Culture in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture for the 9th
    annual High School English Debate Tournament finals this weekend. Not only will
    informed debate take place, but a remarkable element of Japanese high school
    education will be on display.


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Iwamasa’s injury-time tally keeps Antlers on track for league glory

KASHIMA, Ibaraki Pref. — An injury-time header from Daiki Iwamasa gave Kashima Antlers one hand on the J. League title with a 1-0 win over Jubilo Iwata on Saturday.

Defending champions Antlers can now clinch their sixth championship on the final day next Saturday with a win or a draw at already-relegated Consadole Sapporo.

Kawasaki Frontale kept its challenge alive three points behind Kashima with a 4-0 drubbing of Vissel Kobe, while Nagoya Grampus must beat Consadole on Sunday to avoid dropping out of the race.

Kashima’s superior goal difference means the club can even clinch the title in defeat at Sapporo Dome, although Frontale’s second big win in two weeks narrows that gap to four.

It would have been a different story had Iwamasa not popped up with three minutes of injury time gone at Kashima Stadium to bury a free-kick from Chikashi Masuda, sparking wild celebrations among the 29,820-strong crowd led by Kashima manager Oswaldo Oliveira.

“Now we have one more game,” he said. “Today we could have missed the chance and then in the last moment we scored.

“The players insist, they try all the time. They never give up and that is important. It is the behaviour of champions.”

But the Brazilian is not taking the championship for granted just yet. Mindful of the way his team profited last year from Urawa Reds’ final-day breakdown against bottom side Yokohama FC, Oliveira is preaching concentration ahead of next weekend’s meeting with Consadole.

“We know it will be a difficult match, and we have to prepare very well for it,” he said. “But everyone is going to play and we have one week to prepare the team.”

Saturday’s result also leaves former powerhouse Jubilo in real danger of going down for the first time in its history, although losses for fellow strugglers JEF United and Tokyo Verdy mean the relegation battle will also go down to the wire.

Jubilo manager Hans Ooft knows his team will have to do better after lambasting his midfielders for leaving their teammates isolated in attack.

“I am a realist,” he said. “We have to win, but to win you have to score goals. The buildup wasn’t good, and we have to improve it because we have to go forward with the ball and with the whole team.”

Although the threat of a goal was ever-present as Kashima dominated the opening stages, Marquinhos was too surprised to take advantage when a Masaki Chugo free-kick found its way through to the back post with ten minutes gone.

Takuya Nozawa went closer to breaking the deadlock when he thumped a drive just past the post after good work from Chugo and Masashi Motoyama, before spurning an even better chance when he blasted wide after a flick-on from Shinzo Koroki.

Iwamasa and Marquinhos got in each other’s way as Nozawa sent in a low cross five minutes after the interval, but the spring gradually began to fall from Kashima’s step as Jubilo grew in confidence with every ball-winning tackle in defense.

Substitute Yuzo Tashiro’s appearance gave Antlers a different dimension, however, and the striker fired a header over the bar as time ticked toward the 90 minute-mark.

But with the seconds slipping away, Jubilo’s Yuichi Komano was adjudged to have felled Marquinhos near the corner flag, and Masuda picked out Iwamasa to snatch a huge win for Antlers.

“Our opponents came to collect just point today,” Oliveira said. “I told my players to try to force them into making mistakes, and it was lucky we scored in the last moment of the match. It was lucky, but we looked for it.”


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Abe, China's Yang vow to promote dialogue

Oct 14, 2015

Abe, China's Yang vow to promote dialogue

A top Chinese government official met Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Wednesday, agreeing to promote a “mutually beneficial strategic relationship” between the two Asian titans despite the latest diplomatic row over the 1937 Nanking Massacre, a Japanese official said. Chinese State Councilor ...

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Japan's top security official to visit S. Korea for talks

Japan’s top security official will make a two-day visit to Seoul for talks with South Korea’s top presidential aide for national security, both governments said Monday. Shotaro Yachi, national security adviser to the Cabinet, is expected to explain Japan’s stance on security policy in ...


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Meet Sarah + Mark!  Texans is in their soul but they HEART NY!  Sarah and Mark have lived in NYC for quite a few years now and were celebrating their 15th anniversary.

We started the day up in Central Park, we strolled through Sheep Meadow, The Literary Walk, and the Bethesda Fountain.  (picture below is the terrace just next to the fountain)  Given such a beautiful day on Saturday, I think anyone who could get outside was in the park, I’ve never seen the meadow so crowded!  We managed to find a small piece of real estate for this pic below!  Later we stopped for lunch at one of their favorite restaurants, and our final stop, the always iconic Grand Central Station.  Just outside the station, one of my favorite locations, Pershing Square, and one of my all time wedding photos – check it out, click here. :)

Thanks for a wonderful day Sarah and Mark, happy anniversary!


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« Posted 2013-12-24 07:11:31 »

I tried to create a multiplayer tank battle game. It's based on LibGDX using the HTML5-backend to compile to JavaScript. I am aware the showcase says 'no javascipt' but this is Java-related. I can provide an executable JAR or so as well if it is really needed (proof)? The server is implemented in Java using Jetty.

In any case, I should warn you that this is more of a prototype/alpha. To try it out just point your browser to the web page below. It takes about 1-2 minutes to load (it looks like it's not doing anything at the beginning; just wait). You will be connected to the server automatically, there is no login or anything. Make sure your browser supports WebGL (Chrome, Firefox, Safari with WebGL enabled, most likely Opera and possibly IE 11+).

What the game concerns; you currently can move your tank around and shoot other players. Right now, there is only 1 room setup allowing for a 32 vs. 32. Not sure if 64 players per room is feasible networking-wise but we'll see. There is chat too.

Request for Feedback
With this post I am actually hoping to get some feedback. Not sure how much interest there is in such a game?
  • Would you be interested in the continued development of the game assuming all the quirks/problems will be fixed?
  • What type of game play would you prefer (e.g. Capture the Flag, etc.)?
  • It's a tank game but it could as well have foot soldiers, zoombies etc. Preferences?
  • What ping do you get (how many players were in the room at that time)? What FPS?
  • Assuming the game has loaded and you are playing for 1+ minute, does everything appear smooth?
  • Would you play it again? Why would you play it again?
  • Other comments?

Current Shortcomings
This is a prototype so the following things aren't quite up-to-par (I can probably fix most but it's going to take time).
  • The tank only has 8 directions: I wanted more but unfortunately that was the only suitable graphic I had. Also, the turret for the tank doesn't rotate separately what I think would be cool to have. If there is enough interest, I'll get an artist to help.
  • There is only 1 "boring" map to play on. Also, there is no real goal besides shooting all other players (better if they are not in your team :-).
  • The game tends to "hang" for the first 20-30 seconds when you play. It especially hangs when it tries to load the sound effects. Also, the sound effects don't play as nicely in the browser compared to when I run the game as a standalone app on my computer. In any case, after everything is loaded it seems to run smooth (at least for me).
  • The game works best in Chrome/Firefox. I haven't tested in Opera. It doesn't work on IE 10 but it might work in IE 11. It works on Safari (Mac) if you enable WebGL but it hangs a couple times at the beginning until all the sounds are loaded (after is fine). Might work in other browsers with WebGL/WebSocket support.
  • Firefox tends to hang when the game is loading. Just tell it to wait. JavaScript is single threaded so some stuff block not only JavaScript but appearantly the whole browser.
  • Fullscreen tends to work fine on Chrome/Firefox but doesn't quite work as expected in other browsers.
  • Game credits are missing.
  • Let's hope the server doesn't die due to bugs. I have tested it but... (I'll monitor it)

Game: Play in Browser

Ohh, and yes LibGDX rules!!!

Offline Dxu1994
« Reply #1 - Posted 2013-12-24 10:51:04 »

Interesting game, had a few bugs but I expected that as it was Alpha Smiley

Running on 62-65 FPS constant, my specs are i7 4770K processor, Nvidia GTX 780 w/ SLI, ASUS Sabertooth Z87 MB, 16GB RAM and I have a SSD (not sure if that matters)

Firefox 6, Java 7 (although I think its WebGL not Java)

Also you need to fix the chat, but I think this game has potential Smiley

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« Reply #2 - Posted 2013-12-24 11:08:17 »

Yeah, the chat definitely needs fixing. Need to increase message length and make it more readable.

Pretty nice specs you got there for your machine  Grin

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« Reply #3 - Posted 2013-12-24 19:19:42 »

I was the one that you played with last day.

Game ran at a smooth 63 FPS , and I had about 83ms of ping.

Things I found :
  • Tapping A/D really quickly to turn doesnt work, you need to hold them down for a full quarter of a second be the tank turns
  • The : and ; keys and numpad did not seem to work for some reason. I have this keyboard if it helps :
  • I was able to open up the search bar while typing, then because of this I could not leave fullscreen mode(Everytime I pressed "F" it would just type it in the search bar). The shortcut was ' I think. I had to kill it with taskmanager
  • If the webscreen is has a scroll bar, pressing space will scrollit down every time. This is more of the brower thought
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« Reply #4 - Posted 2013-12-25 02:45:25 »

Yeah, I need more images for the rotation also. I currently only have 8 which is far too little. I wonder if 32 or 64 is better? Which one?

Keys: that's odd that the : and ; wouldn't work? I am simply using the key chars that are returned via LibGDX (which uses GWT). I think your keyboard should be fine! You can also enable fullscreen via the settings button. Nevertheless I'll remap 'F' to something else. Ditto space bar.  Also, in the long run it probably makes sense to let people choose key mappings.

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Eva Illouz is a distinguished and internationally-honored Israeli sociologist who teaches at Hebrew University.  In this morning's Haaretz she has a long analysis comparing Israel's treatment of the Palestinians with 19th century slavery in America: "47 Years a Slave: A New Perspective on the Occupation."  It is must reading; here is the link:

If you're like me, initially you will be startled by the comparison and skeptical that it will hold up.  But not by the time you've finished it.

It is a brilliant and compelling argument, and it may leave you with mixed feelings.  On the one hand, you will wonder whether Israel has simply become beyond redemption.  On the other, you will be reminded that Israel still has wonderfully  brilliant, moral, and exceptionally courageous internal critics--so maybe there is still some hope that it is not, after all, beyond redemption.

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George P. Smith says:

Of course Israel--the land and its people--isn't beyond redemption. People are never beyond redemption. It's Zionism that's beyond redemption. Correction: It's Zionism that was intrinsically irredeemable from the start. I know you don't believe this, Jerome, but your body of work amounts to a compelling brief for the prosecution.

(NOTE: I don't want to be anonymous, but I don't want to have a Google account, I don't have a URL, and goodness knows what those other options are.)

Shmuel said...

It is interesting to juxtapose Dr. Illuz' slavery argument with the "delegitimisation" argument, as presented, e.g. by Moshe Arens in today's Haaretz:

Both refer to processes of dehumanisation (Illuz of Palestinians; Arens of Jews)that deny the victims rights and protection.

The fact that Dr. Illuz can look at reality and see dehumanisation of Palestinians and Dr. Arens can look at the same reality and see dehumanisation of Jews eloquently illustrates Illuz' conclusions regarding the nature of this debate as opposed to the slavery/abolition debate.

Is is remarkable in and of itself that anyone could consider Jews the slaves and Palestinians the masters of the situation, but the notion of perpetual victimhood (and perception of virtually any criticism in terms of "destruction") against all evidence seems to be par for the course.

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George Smith: Right, I don't believe Zionism was "irredeemable from the start." I'm not even sure it is irredeemable today,but there is no doubt that it is descending rapidly into a moral chasm, from which it may not be able to recover.

Shmuel: Agreed, except that Arens isn't worth considering. As you suggest, when the evidence of Israeli criminality to the Palestinians is so overwhelming, and the Arens-type defenses are so ludicrous, there is no room for rational disagreement.


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Music as medicine? Take two Axl Roses and call me in the morning.

That seems to be the prescription for [email protected], the ageless oldies but goodies who have taken punk rock over a rocking chair as their vehicle of choice.

This choice group of 73-years-old-plus players gets a chance to rock and roil the region this time out -- a year after finding Hollywood fame in the film named after them -- performing on Dec. 6, at 3 p.m., at Hatboro-Horsham High School, under the aegis of the Hatboro-Horsham Educational Foundation (www.hhef.org).

"Ages" is the key word here; better a song in their hearts than a beta blocker?

Bob Cilman provides the child-proof ... proof. The group's choral director since its inception -- 27 years ago -- at the Northampton Arts Council in Massachusetts, he has gotten them to sing en masse all over the world, covering such classics as "Should I Stay or Should I Go."

And, yes, even those with the canes are ambulatory enough to wow 'em everywhere.

Geritolooza? Better Coldplay than contemplating being cold in the ground.

Yet has Hollywood glitter and glamour caused any to toss away their bifocals and buy shades? Has the film changed the group's dynamic?

"No, if anything it has been strengthened," says Cilman.

Gone Hollywood? Why not -- they've gone everywhere else.

"We are touring a lot now. We took a year off to collaborate on a theater project and toured that to Manchester, England, in July."

Manchester, England, England -- is this the "Hair"-weave generation?

Happy New Year -- and it is a happy and active one; certainly, they've found audiences internationally, with tours set next year for Holland and Belgium, with "two weeks in Japan in March and back to the theater work in April/May, where we have a two-week run in Brooklyn."

They are the world: "All egos are checked at the door," says the ensemble's doorkeeper. "They see this as a group effort."

Surely, there have to be gerontological groupies.

"If there was a break-out star, it was Fred Knittle, who hadn't been able to travel with us since 1999," claims Cilman.

If it ain't broke ... "His YouTube version of 'Fix You' attracted close to 2 million viewers. He died in January 2009, but had a wonderful final ride."

Bus rides and some bumps along the way over the years ... "Always changing membership; it's the nature of the group," concedes Cilman.

Nature does take its toll: Of the Jewish members, "Stan Goldman's physical condition doesn't allow him to tour with us anymore, and he's taken a leave of absence. He hopes to get back into it."

Other "Hava Negillah" fans have a grand time?

"We have three new Jewish members -- all transplants from the New York area," says Cilman.

With Chanukah chappening next week, any thoughts on a Dr. Dre-type "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel?" No, not even with a Four Tops spin: "We stay away from holiday music," says Cilman, Jewish himself.

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The cheering and the hugs exchanged by Israeli and American teams last week at Palmahim Air Force base, south of Tel Aviv, marked a historical turn of events.

For the first time ever, a successful test launch had been carried out of the Arrow 3 missile defense system, designed to stop Iranian long-range ballistic missiles – even those carrying nuclear warheads – in space.

The product of Israeli-American cooperation, and years of research and development led by the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), together with the U.S. Department of Defense’s Missile Defense Agency, the successful test represented a leap forward in missile defense technology, and a key development in the ongoing Israeli-Iranian arms race.

Travelling at twice the speed of a tank shell, the Arrow 3 interceptor is carried into space by a missile, which then falls away. The interceptor is actually a space vehicle that carries out several swift maneuvers as it locks on to its target. It then lunges directly at the incoming projectile, for a head-on collision.

At speeds of up to 4000 meters (13,123 feet) per second, the interceptor relies only on its self-generated kinetic energy to destroy the hostile missile, and does not require its own explosives to get the job done.

The successful trial underscores the fact that despite significant political differences that exist between Jerusalem and Washington, defense cooperation between the two countries is today at an unprecedented level.

The first batch of four Arrow 3 batteries is expected to come into service between 2014 and 2016. Four additional upgraded batteries, carrying more interceptors, could be built later.

Israeli and American companies are working together to get the Arrow 3 operational. The technological breakthroughs that allowed for the Arrow 3 to be tested have been led by IAI, but collaboration with Boeing has been significant.

Iran is amassing hundreds of missiles capable of striking Israel, while taking steps forward in its nuclear program. As the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv has recently noted, Iran has Shihab 3 missiles that put all of Israel in range, as well as the Ghadr-1, which is an upgraded version of the Shihab 3.

Tehran is also developing the Sajjil-2, a two-stage solid fuel missile that can strike targets 2,000 kilometers away. Any of these missiles can be fitted to carry unconventional warheads.

To cope with this ballistic missile challenge, as well as the threat posed by Syrian scuds, some of which have reached Hezbollah, Israel has the Arrow 2 missile defense system in place, which shoots down incoming projectiles in the upper atmosphere.

Once it becomes operational, the Arrow 3 will form another layer of defense over millions of Israelis, thereby giving the Israel Air Force two to three shots at intercepting incoming missile.

“We are in arms race. We hope to be one step ahead, technologically,” said defense source well acquainted with the Arrow 3 program.

As part of the race to protect its civilians, Israel has set up the Iron Dome rocket protection system, which intercepted over 90 percent of rockets from Gaza during last year’s conflict with Hamas .

Other projects under development include the David’s Sling system, designed to stop intermediate rockets and missiles, which are a part of Hezbollah’s arsenal of more than 60,000 rockets.

Despite the progress being made in this field, Israel can never rely solely on defense for its national security. In an unstable region filled with radical non-state actors, collapsing states, and an Iran marching towards nuclear weapons capabilities, defense can only form one part of the plan to keep Israel safe.

The other part involves devastating offensive capabilities, designed to surprise adversaries and throw them off balance, bringing any conflict to a swift conclusion.

Originally published at the Gatestone Institute, under the title, “U.S. Helping Israel’s Defense.”

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the distance between any two bases on a baseball diamond is 90 feet.What is the best approximation for the direct distance from home plate to second base?

A baseball diamond's four bases form a square with 90 foot sides. A right triangle is formed by home plate, first and second base. The distance from second base to home is the hypotenuse of that triangle.

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U.S.Supreme Court Justice examines government's role in controlling & managing health risks. One major problem examined is cleanup of hazardous waste sites. He wish to see waste sites 100% clean.
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