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In the spirit of economic name mashing that has spawned the terms, BRIC, PIIGS, and Chindia, in recent years, the folks at RBC Capital Market's have come up with "Chinadia," to describe the growing relationship between China and Canada. 

While the near-term future of the Canadian dollar will be dominated by the U.S. recovery and its impact on Canada's export activity, the future will feature China’s increasingly large footprint on the Canadian economy, already reflected in recent oil sands developments, said RBC's David Watt, a senior fixed income and currency strategist.

For some time, Mr. Watt and his colleagues have suggested Canada broaden it's customer base for energy products.

He said Petro China’s recent purchase of a 60% interest in two of Athabasca Oil’s projects for $1.9-billion and China Petroleum and Chemical Group bid to buy ConocoPhillips 9% interest in Syncrude Canada for C$4.65-billion, represent clear steps in this direction.

Although Canada’s exports of oil to China will remain inconsequential until greater pipeline capacity that can service the Far East is available, Mr. Watt said "China will not only become an important force on the price of oil received by Canadian producers and CAD, it will be an increasingly important customer."

David Pett

In the digital age, many of us are compulsive multi-taskers. As I type this, I’m listening to some gentle music and my laptop has several programs open including Adobe Reader, Word, Firefox and Tweetdeck. I’ve always wondered what goes on in my brain as I flit between these multiple tasks, and I now have some answers thanks to a new study by Parisian scientists Sylvain Charron and Etienne Koechlin.

They have found that the part of our brain that controls out motivation to pursue our goals can divide its attention between two tasks. The left half devotes itself to one task and the right half to the other. This division of labour allows us to multi-task, but it also puts an upper limit on our abilities.

Koechlin has previously suggested that the frontopolar cortex, an area at the very front of our brains, drives our ability to do more than one thing at a time. It allows us to simultaneously pursue two different goals, holding one in the ready while we work on the other. Just behind the frontopolar cortex lies the medial frontal cortex (MFC), an area that’s involved in motivation. It drives our pursuit of multiple goals, according to the rewards we expect from them. Koechlin wanted to understand how these two areas cope with multi-tasking.

To do that, he used a brain-scanning technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the brain activity of 32 volunteers, as they carried out a challenging task. They saw a steady stream of letters, all from the word “tablet”. For every block of three letters, they had to say if the first one was a “t” and if the other two appeared in the same order that they would in “tablet” (e.g. TAB rather than TEB). If the letters were red, they would get a sizeable cash reward but if they were green, the reward would be smaller.

Based on this same set-up, they had to cope with two slightly different tests. In the “branching” tests, they had to deal with two separate streams of triplets, a primary one indicated by normal letters and a secondary one indicated by italics. The primary stream was continuous and the volunteers had to revert back to it every time they finished a secondary triplet. They had to hold the primary stream in mind so that they could return to it after their interruption. In the simpler “switching” tests, they started afresh with every new triplet, so they only had to cope with a single stream of information.

Charron and Koechlin found that in the switching tests, when the volunteers were only faced with a single task, both halves of their MFC were active, particularly the dorsal anterior cingulated cortex (dACC) and the presupplementary motor area (PMA). The more money was at stake, the stronger the activity in these regions.

In the branching tests, both halves of the MFC were also active, but they were split between the two tasks. The right dACC took control of the secondary task; when the volunteers could earn more money from these triplets, only the right dACC became more active. The left half took control of the primary task; its activity matched the rewards associated with the primary triplets but not the secondary ones.

The frontopolar part of the brain also became active during the branching tests, which fits with its established role in multi-tasking. However, its attentions weren’t divided by the two tasks and it only became more active when both the primary and secondary rewards were higher. This suggests that the frontopolar cortex plays the role of coordinator. While each half of the MFC encodes the incentives of pursuing each separate goal, the frontopolar cortex encodes the incentives of pursuing both goals together.

It also suggests that we might not be able to cope with more than two tasks at the same time. Charron and Koechlin tested this with an even more fiendish “double branching” test, where the two streams of triplets in their original experiment were interrupted by a third stream. To succeed in this task, they had to retain three separate lanes of information at the same time. They couldn’t. When they tried to return to the first stream from the second, or the second from the third, their answers were no better than guesswork.

Despite what some psychologists have suggested, it seems that the human brain is capable of multi-tasking although to a far lesser extent than a computer can. While my laptop is running several different programs at once with nary a hint of discomfort, Charron and Koechkin’s work suggests that my brain can’t handle any more than two tasks at once.

Reference: Science http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1183614

More on multi-tasking: Information overload? Heavy multimedia users are more easily distracted by irrelevant information

What constitutes an appropriate swimsuit for elementary school-aged girls? Is a bikini inappropriate? How about a padded bikini? This summer, U.K. discounter Primark tried marketing a bikini with a padded top, aimed at girls as young as seven. It didn’t go well. The chain removed the suit from its racks only hours after tabloid The Sun declared the product a [pedophile] bikini.

The American Psychological Association, in a 2007 report on the sexualization of girls, raised concerns about other ad campaigns, such as Skechers’ “naughty and nice” ad in 2004 featuring Christina Aguilera dressed as a pigtailed, lollipop-licking schoolgirl. The association also fretted about thongs for 7- to 10-year-olds with slogans such as “wink wink.”

“If girls purchase — or ask their parents to purchase — products and clothes designed to make them look physically appealing and sexy, and if they style their identities after the sexy celebrities who populate their cultural landscape, they are, in effect, sexualizing themselves,” the report said.

Sure, bikinis for children (even for infants) have been available for a long time, but they weren’t padded. A push-up bra only makes sense when the wearer has something to push up. AND ISN’T SEVEN YEARS OLD.

UK retailer withdraws padded bikini bras for kids [AP]
Padded bikini for girls withdrawn [BBC]

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The Times has an interview with neuroscientist Susan Greenfield, largely to do with the recent political tussles in UK science, but where she uses the opportunity to comment on how computer games are ‘as much of a risk to mankind as climate change’. But wait, the best is yet to come – this part is a beautiful as it is baffling:

She is concerned that those who live only in the present, online, don’t allow their malleable brains to develop properly. “It’s not going to destroy the planet but is it going to be a planet worth living in if you have a load of breezy people who go around saying yaka-wow. Is that the society we want?”

It certainly is not, and I for one would staunchly defend society against such a malign influence.

To be fair, this is probably a transcription error as Greenfield often talks about digital technology being full of “yuk and wow“, but the delightful phrase has triggered something of a fan club (nothing to do with me I might add) and there is now a hashtag, a Twitter stream, a poster and even a T-shirt.

Although I’ve disagreed with the Baroness on many occasions, it seems she hit the nail on the head with this particular prediction, as it seems that there are now a load of breezy people who go around saying yaka-wow.

UPDATE: This is pure genius.

Link to Greenfield interview in The Times.

We know the secret technology behind Microsoft’s Project Natal motion controls. But this is what it sees, what you look like to it. Which is not unlike a Predator’s prey. [NextGN] More »

Filed under: Motorsports, Europe, Ford, Racing

Ford‘s got a rich history of competing against European machinery on their own home turf. But while the GT40 (and the more recent reborn GT) and the Cobra cut their teeth on the old continent, the Mustang is another story. Ford wants the Mustang to compete overseas, and now a Belgian-Canadian joint effort is preparing to oblige.

Canada’s Multimatic racing garage has prepared this new Mustang for the Marc VDS Racing Team, a competition outfit that also fields a pair of Ford GTs in the GT1 championship, as well as teams in Moto2 and rally raids. They’ll be taking this Mustang to the FIA GT3 European Championship, where it will take on the best that the likes of Porsche, Alpina, Mercedes and countless others have to throw at it on some of Europe’s finest racing circuits. It’s already undergoing testing at Ford’s Bedfordshire test facility (curiously not Lommel Proving Grounds in the team’s home country) and will be piloted by a team of Belgian and Canadian drivers.

Will the VDS Mustang GT3 prove its mettle against Europe’s finest? No telling just yet, but it sure looks the business. Check it out for yourself in the gallery below and the press release after the jump.

[Source: Marc VDS Racing Team via JonSibal.com]

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A civil jury in Middletown Superior Court ruled Thursday against Portland horse trainer Robert Johnson, who was accused of assaulting a boy at the horse stables more than 20 years ago.

Johnson had been previously convicted by a jury on two felony counts in criminal court in May 2001 in front of Judge Patrick Clifford, and he served time in prison in a case involving a 14-year-old girl. The 14-year-old, who testified at the trial, had viewed Johnson as a father figure at the riding academy. She had been the top-ranked showhorse rider in Connecticut and ranked among the top 15 in the nation in her age group.

Nine years later, the girl’s mother testified earlier this month in the latest trial in Middletown against Johnson.

The Hartford Courant’s veteran court reporter, Alaine Griffin, has details at http://www.courant.com/community/middletown/hc-equestrian-verdict-0415,0,920172.story

By Tim Shoemaker

The Daily Caller is live-blogging the Tax Day Tea Party in Washington, D.C.  As mentioned previously, Campaign for Liberty is a cosponsor of the event today and Ron Paul will be addressing the crowd later this evening.

We want you to share your stories with us from local Tax Day events!  Post the pictures and stories on your blogs to let us know how things went in your community.

Remember how in the film American Beauty the young boy appreciates the beauty of an ordinary plastic bag blowing in the wind? He had  what Bertrand Russell, author of The Conquest of Happiness, calls “the habit of zest.”

People who cultivate the habit of zest are those who regularly take a lively interest in the most mundane of everyday moments and see the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Nobel Prize winner and scientist Daniel Kahneman says we experience about 20,000 individual moments in a day, each “moment” lasting only a few seconds.

In my layman opinion, whenever you retain a memory, it’s because you were appreciating that single moment in time—and were able to freeze-frame it. And…I also believe the more memories you have, the more you are “living in the NOW.” And the fewer memories you have, the more you are fast-forwarding through life.

Bounce Back Assignment:

Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Walt Whitman saw a world of beauty “in a leaf of grass.” Notice the colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on the table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you. Not only will you experience a richer present, but a month from now you will be able to look back and have more happy memories to appreciate.

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Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) made headlines a few weeks back when he killed the Democrats’ hopes of passing an unemployment benefits extension before the arrival of the deadline to file for new tiers, which came and went on April 5.

The Oklahoma Republican — known not endearingly as “Dr. No” — has insisted that the new costs be offset with spending cuts elsewhere in the budget. Democrats, on the other hand, want to tack the costs onto the deficit.

Today, Coburn has been at it again, offering two separate amendments that would have forced Democrats to offset the new spending. Both were shot down, but they did accomplish one thing: They’ve stalled the passage of a bill that could be helping hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers weather the jobs crisis, thereby keeping the Democrats from tackling other priorities.

Don’t say they aren’t consistent.

Middlebury College, a small Vermont college known for its rigorous foreign-language programs, is forming a venture with a commercial entity to develop online language programs for pre-college students. The college plans to invest $4 million for a 40 percent stake in what will become Middlebury Interactive Languages.

[Source: New York Times]

Courtroom questions from the state Republican Party’s lawyer Thursday morning rankled the lawyer for Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz so much that he objected angrily and called the queries “outrageous.”

Wesley W. Horton, Bysiewicz’s lawyer in her Hartford Superior Court lawsuit to be declared eligible to run for for attorney general, said that the GOP’s lawyer, Eliot Gersten, was asking overly repetitive questions about something that Bysiewicz had already admitted: that she has never tried a case, or represented any client, in court.

“It’s outrageous,” Horton said loudly.  He accused Gersten of arguing “to the press and not to the court.”  Several reporters were present on the second day of the trial, as they had been on Wednesday’s first day. Horton said that Gersten had already established “six ways to Sunday” that Bysiewicz agrees she has “represented no clients” in court.

Gersten was allowed to continue his questioning although Judge Michael Sheldon encouraged him more than once to speed up and move on to other areas, in his effort to show that she lacks the experience needed for eligibility to serve as state attorney general.

Bysiewicz ended a day and a half of testimony as the trial’s first witness about 12:30 p.m. Thursday.

Then Horton’s partner, Daniel Krisch, called Lesley Mara, Bysiewicz’s deputy secretary of the state, in an effort to corroborate Bysiewicz’s claim that she practices law in some form or other every day in her post.

Bysiewicz says part of what she does to practice law in her office is to provide advice in phone calls to local officials about election laws and procedures. Mara testified about a couple of occasions in recent years when she was on the same phone call with Bysiewicz and local election officials.

Gersten established in questioning Bysiewicz that she rarely documents such phone calls in which she says she gives legal advice — especially ones in which she said that she is on the phone alone with a local official. Bysiewicz also could not recall many specific times in which she had spoken to particular officials — although Sheldon, the judge, noted after a while that very few people can remember whom they talked to on a certain day several years ago.

Witnesses’ testimony is scheduled to conclude Thursday afternoon — at this point, anyway — with final arguments to be held next Tuesday.

Bysiewicz claims that her 11 years as Secretary of the State qualify her under a state statute requiring that the state’s attorney general have at least 10 years’ experience in the “active practice” of law in Connecticut.

The Courant’s account of the first day of the trial can be read by clicking here.

 

Computer-maker Dell has secured a partnership with Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) to extend its mobile business to Latin America and Europe.

The partnership will focus on building smartphones for the market, but will likely also include Dell’s other portable products, such as netbooks and tablets, IDC News Service reports. The deal is significant for Dell because it represents the latest big-name carrier that its been able to secure a partnership with since creating a standalone mobile-phone unit in December. Other computer-makers, like Lenovo are just getting off the ground with their mobile-phone efforts.

Dell has focused on the hardware while relying on Google’s Android operating system for the software, and has already introduced products in China via China Mobile and will soon enter the U.S. market through a partnership with AT&T (NYSE: T). Other partnerships exist in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Brazil.

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[JURIST] Pakistan’s Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a constitutional amendment that would curtail the powers of the president. The 18th Amendment Bill would reverse the expansion of presidential powers under former military leader Pervez Musharraf by transferring presidential powers to the office of the prime minister, effectively reserving the presidency as a figurehead. Among other changes, the president would no longer have the power to dissolve parliament, dismiss the prime minister, or appoint the chief of the armed forces. Because Pakistan’s lower house, the National Assembly, unanimously passed the bill last week, the amendment will now go to President Asif Ali Zardari to be signed into law.
The introduction of the bill comes amid controversy over reopening corruption investigations against Zardari. Earlier this month, Pakistan’s Attorney General Anwar Mansoor announced his resignation over controversy surrounding a Supreme Court order to investigate corruption allegations against Zardari. Last month, Swiss authorities denied a request from Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau, refusing to reopen a corruption investigation against Zardari. Aides to Zardari believe that presidential immunity protects him from prosecution, even after the Supreme Court overturned an amnesty law implemented by Musharraf. The amnesty was signed by Musharraf as part of a power-sharing accord allowing former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto to return to the country despite corruption charges she had faced.

By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now

There’s a big disconnect when it comes to climate change in the U.S. It seems that we’re too busy arguing along partisan political lines or trying to dig our way out of the recession to notice that the world… as we know it… is melting.

Let’s look at some of the recent headlines from a few credible news sources.

Massive Arctic Ice Cap Is Shrinking, Study Shows; Rate Accelerating Since 1985 — This story from Science Daily posted Tuesday documents how the Devon Island Ice Cap in the Canadian Arctic is losing mass because of warmer overall summer temperatures.

Glaciers Shrinking at Montana’s Glacier National Park — Come to find out, the park named for its many glaciers is now down two, with 25 to go. The story gets full treatment in Audubon Magazine online this week. The reason the park has lost two glaciers: Oh…warmer summers, on average for the last decade or so. See when it’s warmer the ice melts, and then one day, poof, it’s gone.

So, um, what’s not to get here?

Oh yeah. It wasn’t we humans who caused all this. This is just a normal cycle of cool, warm, cool, warm phases that the Earth goes through. Check that. And this particular phase just happens to be on steroids, happening within a vastly shorter span of time than ever before, concurrent with rising carbon in the air since the onset of the industrial age (circa 1850), because it’s, it’s, it’s — perhaps caused by humans burning fossil fuels?

Yet, despite headlines like those above, a Gallup Poll in March found that fewer Americans today (50 percent) believe the “effects of global warming are already occurring” than did two years ago (61 percent).

And among self-described political conservatives, only 30 percent believe the effects of global warming are already happening.

I’m wondering what Americans are thinking. Could this skepticism be part of a belief that, yes, we know there’s climate change but we aren’t so very worried because someone will be able to fix it? Does our doubt about the imminent threat of climate change reflect a lack of confidence in our scientists, media and government — all of whom are the message bearers here?

It certainly reflects a rift with what scientists say about tipping points, those junctures at which ecosystems are so changed that a cascade of events inevitably follows, which is why so many climate experts are urging quick action and talking about a three to five year window in which to begin reducing carbon emissions. (A good book to read more about tipping points in nature ecosystems is the recent release Last Chance by Larry J. Schweiger, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation.) But then, you can’t even get to a discussion of tipping points with someone who doesn’t believe climate change is happening, even though glaciers are melting before their eyes.

Is this denial a part of the Tea Party “revolt”? Sarah Palin is cheered when she jeers about climate change and a significant segment of the population seems to delight in thumbing their noses at experts. But there’s nothing really new about that. There are always nose-thumbers. Besides, the Tea Partiers seem more unified on the issue of slowing federal spending.

Perhaps the deniers are a segment of a larger pool of Americans who are just railing mad about the Obama Administration’s “liberal agenda”  (which I put in quotes because, personally, I see unemployment benefits and regulated health care as nonpartisan) and part of the Obama plan includes fighting climate change. Or so it seems on most days.

Looking at the components, though, that doesn’t quite add up. Are people upset that the EPA is poised to regulate carbon? Clearly, but I’m not sure they could tell you why, exactly. Are people worried that the Department of Transportation and the EPA are raising fuel economy standards? Maybe. But then they’d be against lower gasoline bills?

Are climate skeptics worried that taxing or auctioning carbon credits or whatever it comes down to — if Congress ever steps in and passes a climate bill — will raise their electricity costs?  Is that what drives climate denial, Americans’ fear of higher utility bills — when so much else is at stake?

It’s certainly concerning that our electric bills could rise in this turgid economy, but estimates put these potential increases within the budgets of most families. So the equation Higher Electric Bills vs. The Collapse of Eco-systems, the Loss of Coastal Cities, Billions in Storm Damage and later, the Collapse of Economic Systems, seems a little absurd.

On the other hand, if climate change does devastate economies, isn’t that what many conservatives –  I’m thinking of the 70 percent who don’t believe climate change is happening now — are concerned about, overspending and economic collapse?

So if the loss of pika and polar bears aren’t high on your list of concerns, you could chalk up your support of climate change action to concern about the economy. Many corporations already do. Those that are pursuing genuine sustainability plans see the writing on the wall. That’s why dozens of Fortune 500 corporations are trying to lower their carbon footprint. Some for show, but others because it makes fiscal sense.

Yet a large piece of the public seems to be running behind this curve. If we’re to believe Gallup.

Maybe Gallup needs to ask a different question, say, “Would you be in favor of drilling in the Arctic and continued reliance on fossil fuels if it meant your grandchildren would swept away in catastrophic flooding or frizzled in relentless heatwaves?

Maybe that’s the question to ask.

I think, in the end, the denier phenomenon boils down to two natural human tendencies. The first, the tendency to bristle at authority. That’s probably a good instinct. (In a democracy anyway.) The second, to aim for stasis. We want things to continue as they are. But that’s not always adaptive. If you told people there would be an earthquake tomorrow in their neighborhood, would all of them leave, or would a few remain behind? Some just wouldn’t believe it.

(Next week, the Earth Day Week: GRN will feature a story on what you can do to seriously and effectively fight climate change, from your own back porch. And we’re not talking about turning off the water while you brush your teeth. You already do that, right?)

Copyright © 2010 Green Right Now | Distributed by GRN Network

Groups of people with whom I disagree (so many, many groups…) should not hand in their census forms. That way they will be under-represented in official figures and basically count less. And do you really want to be in the government’s database when the black helicopters come?

Just kidding. Only two days left, hand in your census forms! Even people I don’t like.

When Glee first hit the air I loathed it. Sure, it was sharkfully wicked, but for a show about the joy of simply singing, I found the autotune insulting. I survived. Smule’s Glee app makes autotune a blast. More »

Luke Timmerman wrote:

The Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute said today it has promoted Kristina Vuori to president, from her previous position as executive vice president of scientific affairs. The San Diego-based research center said Vuori will continue to manage her cancer research laboratory and remain director of Sanford-Burnham’s National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center. John Reed will continue as CEO of the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute.

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Para aquellos de vosotros que no sepáis el origen de Delahaye o que quizás os suene el nombre pero no lo recuerden: Delahaye fue uno de los primeros fabricantes franceses de coches, allá por el año 1894, caracterizándose con el tiempo, por hacer coches considerados de los más hermosos del mundo.

El Delahaye que os muestro ahora no tiene nada que ver con los Delahaye franceses originales, sino que está basado en un diseño original del afamado (en EEUU) Chip Foose. Hecho completamente en fibra de carbono, es la representación moderna de un Bugatti Type 57S con un nombre italianesco rimbombante.

¿Y qué tiene que ver Delahaye con Bugatti? En cuanto a marcas, absolutamente nada. Sí en cuanto a ciertos diseños casi en común, ya que a principios del siglo XX, podía haber varias marcas que usaran los servicios del mismo diseñador de carrocerías. Es por ello, que estaban de moda estas carrocerías opulentas y lujosas.

El Delahaye Bella Figura Bugnotti Concept de la era moderna podrá ser configurado directamente por el cliente en cuanto a motores y puede ser pedido en coupé, convertible o targa. Los precios serán revelados a mitad de año, cuando se presente en el concurso de la elegancia de Pebble Beach en agosto.

Fuente | Delahaye USA

If there was even an smidgen of lingering doubt in your mind that Verizon was picking up the HTC Incredible, you really ought to read this site more often. We saw photos of this thing decked out in its Verizon garb months ago, and then again just weeks later. Leak, after leak, after monstrous, undeniable-confirmation leak, all signs were pointing to Verizon.

Well, now Verizon has gone ahead and fessed up.

Beginning April 29th, the Verizon Droid Incredible will be available for $199.99 on a 2-year contract. If you’ve been holding out for the Verizon version of the Nexus One, go ahead and jump ship for this one now: it’s essentially the same phone, albeit with a boxier shape, a beefier camera (8 megapixel vs. 5), and HTC’s custom Sense user interface overhaul running on top of Android 2.1

Check out the full spec sheet below:

• Android 2.1 with HTC Sense experience
• 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon™ processor for maximum responsiveness
• Friend Stream for unified Flickr, Facebook and Twitter updates
• “Leap” view for quick access to all seven home screen panels
• 8 megapixel camera with dual LED flash for crisp, detailed images
• Razor-sharp 3.7 inch WVGA (480×800) AMOLED capacitive touch display
• Optical joystick for smooth navigation
• Dedicated, touch-sensitive Home, Menu, Back and Search keys
• Proximity sensor, light sensor and digital compass
• Integrated GPS
• Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g)
• 3.5 mm headset jack