Funding, Technical Hurdles Seen for U.S. Space Plan
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Funding,Technical Hurdles Seen for U.S.
Space Plan
Funding,Technical Hurdles Seen for U.S.
Space Plan
01/10/2004 07:20 AMReuters via Wired News Jan 10 2004 3:42AM ET
Technical Hurdles Separate Terrorists
From Biowarfare (washingtonpost.com)
Technical Hurdles Separate Terrorists
From Biowarfare (washingtonpost.com)
12/30/2004 12:55 AMwashingtonpost.com - Hoping to hasten the doomsday their leader
foretold, scientists who were members of Japan's Aum Shinrikyo cult
brewed batches of anthrax in the early 1990s and released it from an
office building and out the back of trucks upwind of the Imperial
Palace.
Cellphones in Flight Face Technical and
Social Hurdles
Cellphones in Flight Face Technical and
Social Hurdles
09/01/2004 06:56 PMA tiny cell tower can turn an airplane cabin into a hot spot, with
Internet and phone service.
Beyond the Moon: Inside Bush's space
plan (part 2 of 3) | SpaceRef - Your
Space Reference
Beyond the Moon: Inside Bush's space
plan (part 2 of 3) | SpaceRef - Your
Space Reference
01/18/2004 09:16 AMsecond installment up .. more detailed account .. Part 2 ..
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UK scientific research gets new funding
plan from Government
UK scientific research gets new funding
plan from Government
01/07/2005 02:02 AMPublicTechnology.net Jan 7 2005 6:07AM GMT
White House Officials to Rework Iraq
Funding Plan (Reuters)
White House Officials to Rework Iraq
Funding Plan (Reuters)
05/13/2004 01:57 PMReuters - Bush administration officials said
they would rework a plan for a $25 billion reserve fund for
Iraq operations after Republican and Democratic senators on
Thursday slammed it as an effort to get "a blank check" without
congressional oversight.
Plan 1 for Outer Space
(washingtonpost.com)
Plan 1 for Outer Space
(washingtonpost.com)
08/29/2004 07:20 PMwashingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42830-2004Aug28.html
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Japan's 20-Year Plan for Space
Japan's 20-Year Plan for Space
04/06/2005 05:24 PMFormer Senator-Astronaut Criticizes
Space Plan
Former Senator-Astronaut Criticizes
Space Plan
03/06/2004 02:02 AMJohn Glenn, the former senator who was the first American to orbit the
Earth, opposes cutting money from the International Space Station to
pay for sending astronauts to the Moon and Mars.
Japan's Plan To Boost Space Program
Japan's Plan To Boost Space Program
04/07/2005 05:25 AMSci-Tech Today Apr 7 2005 9:19AM GMT
Officials: Bush Space Plan Not Too
Costly (AP)
Officials: Bush Space Plan Not Too
Costly (AP)
01/11/2004 06:00 PMAP - Space-exploration proposals that President Bush is preparing to
put into his next budget will not undermine his administration's goal
of cutting the federal deficit in half within five years, Treasury
Secretary John Snow said Sunday.
CNN.com - Hubble casualty of Bush space
plan - Jan. 16, 2004
CNN.com - Hubble casualty of Bush space
plan - Jan. 16, 2004
01/18/2004 04:52 AMSpace Plan Envisions Apollo As Model
(washingtonpost.com)
Space Plan Envisions Apollo As Model
(washingtonpost.com)
01/09/2004 11:21 PMwashingtonpost.com - In his call for Americans to return to the moon
and then forge on to Mars, President Bush next week will urge Congress
to invest in developing a powerful and versatile new spacecraft,
modeled on the 1960s-vintage Apollo program, to replace the aging
fleet of space shuttles.
History Offers Reasons to Be Cautious on
Bush's Space Plan
History Offers Reasons to Be Cautious on
Bush's Space Plan
01/16/2004 11:02 AMThe history of bold visions for human spaceflight is littered with
more failures, delays and cost overruns than clear successes.
War May Require More Money Soon---The
military already has identified unmet
funding needs, including initiatives
aimed at providing equipment and weapons
for troops in Iraq. The Army has
publicly identified nearly $6 billion in
funding requests that did
War May Require More Money Soon---The
military already has identified unmet
funding needs, including initiatives
aimed at providing equipment and weapons
for troops in Iraq. The Army has
publicly identified nearly $6 billion in
funding requests that did
04/22/2004 05:17 AMwashingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28903-2004Apr20.html
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Adoption Hurdles
Adoption Hurdles
03/26/2005 02:36 AMConstructech Magazine Mar 26 2005 6:43AM GMT
Despite Win, More Hurdles for Oracle
(Reuters)
Despite Win, More Hurdles for Oracle
(Reuters)
09/10/2004 06:27 PMReuters - Oracle Corp. can
celebrate a ruling by a U.S. judge that it can take over
archrival PeopleSoft Inc. , but analysts say the
world's second biggest software maker has a battery of other
barriers to overcome before a deal is clinched.
iTunes Europe Hurdles
iTunes Europe Hurdles
11/03/2003 03:38 PM
A BizReport.com article reiterates the complexity of licensing for
digital music in Europe.
Plans for a 2003 launch of the iTunes Music Store were ...
Net phone service still has some hurdles
Net phone service still has some hurdles
07/06/2004 09:52 AMSiliconValley.com Jul 6 2004 1:40PM GMT
Many Hurdles Ahead for U.S.
(washingtonpost.com)
Many Hurdles Ahead for U.S.
(washingtonpost.com)
06/02/2004 12:49 AMwashingtonpost.com - With the introduction of both a new Iraqi
government and a new U.N. draft resolution, the Bush administration
senses the beginning of the end to its controversial and costly
intervention in Iraq. But the relief visible at the White House
yesterday may be short-lived, for the United States still faces
serious obstacles.
Google over most hurdles to its plans
for an IPO
Google over most hurdles to its plans
for an IPO
01/27/2004 12:38 PMIHT Jan 27 2004 4:40PM GMT
Security Hurdles Remain
Security Hurdles Remain
08/27/2004 01:30 PMSecurity is getting better, but it's not there yet: That's the
conclusion of this comprehensive Computerworld piece looking at the
current state of WLAN security. While the approval of 802.11i is a
major milestone, it's going to take time for users to implement it.
Even then, network managers will still need to continually monitor
their networks for weak links, something that many don't do today.
Security will likely always dog Wi-Fi. The key will be continuously
looking to potential future problems and the faster development of
solutions that will solve those problems. But one expert in this
article notes that companies aren't deciding against Wi-Fi because of
security concerns, at least not as often as they used to. That
statement is backed up by research that emerged recently that found
that mainstream companies, not just niche industries, are increasingly
choosing to use WLAN switches, which often tout their strong security
capabilities....
UP Aerospace, Inc. Slashes Cost-Barrier
to Space by 95% -- Provides Affordable
Space Access to Business and Education
Markets
UP Aerospace, Inc. Slashes Cost-Barrier
to Space by 95% -- Provides Affordable
Space Access to Business and Education
Markets
06/17/2005 06:23 PMUP Aerospace, Inc. (www.upaerospace.com), the world’s only private
company with a fleet of space-flying rockets, has dramatically lowered
the industry’s cost for space access. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2005]
SPACE.com: space news, games,
entertainment and science fiction
SPACE.com: space news, games,
entertainment and science fiction
01/06/2004 04:31 AMSPACE.com: space news, games, entertainment a... SPACE.com: space
news, games, entertainment a... SPACE.com: space news, games,
entertainment a .. Mars Rover success .. .. up there ..
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International Space Station Crew to
retry Space Walk
International Space Station Crew to
retry Space Walk
06/30/2004 04:49 AMThe 2 Crewmembers of the ISS will attempt for a second time to
repair a circuit breaker to a broken gyroscope. If everything goes as
planned and no further spacesuit problems they will spend approx 6
hours replacing the circuit breaker. [NASA]
Schools jumping higher hurdles
Schools jumping higher hurdles
02/05/2005 09:52 PMThe BBC's Mike Baker analyses the facts behinds the tough message from
England's chief inspector of schools.
Gmail likely to clear U.K. privacy
hurdles
Gmail likely to clear U.K. privacy
hurdles
04/13/2004 11:17 AMBritain's data-protection authorities seem to be smiling on Google's
plan to offer Web users a gigabyte of e-mail storage in return for
targeted advertisements.
Google Could Hit Some Hurdles In Its
Search To Be A Net Portal
Google Could Hit Some Hurdles In Its
Search To Be A Net Portal
06/08/2004 05:49 AMBiz.yahoo.com - Tue Jun 8, 05:55 am GMT
Gmail likely to clear privacy hurdles
Gmail likely to clear privacy hurdles
04/13/2004 11:30 AMZDNet UK Apr 13 2004 3:40PM GMT
I Don't Think You Get My Point: The 5
Hurdles to Effective Communication
I Don't Think You Get My Point: The 5
Hurdles to Effective Communication
06/22/2005 02:38 AM
"The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has
occurred."
-- George Bernard Shaw
If Shaw is right, what can we do about it? We spend over half of our
working life, and a considerable portion of all our waking hours,
engaged in some form or another of communication, yet for all our
practice most of us seem to be very poor at it. The problem, I think,
is that it's hard to learn from your mistakes when you don't know
you're making them.
I've often watched and listened to someone try valiantly to make some
critical point about which they are both passionate and informed, and
then when I talk with their audience immediately afterwards I've
discovered that almost no one got it. I've been equally astonished at
some of the comments and e-mails my weblog articles have provoked that
indicate the reader has not understood in the least the point I was
trying to make.
But I'm less stressed and self-critical about that than I used to be,
because I've learned that the miscommunication often wasn't my (or
anyone's) fault. I've come to appreciate that there are five major
hurdles to effective communication, and you have to vault them
all or your communication will fail. Here they are:
- Your point must be explainable using language. This
might seem obvious, but most of our important life learnings are not taught through language. We
learn for the most part by doing
(and by making mistakes), not by listening to someone tell us
something. Try to explain to someone (or write a manual to explain)
how
to ride a bicycle. Try to describe the difference in taste (or smell!)
between a Merlot and a Shiraz. Much of our knowledge is instinctive,
and much of what we learn is subconscious or unconscious. The
comprehension 'bandwidth' of oral and written language is surprisingly
narrow, and language is much better at conveying some things than
others. Language itself is an artificial construct, a feeble model to
try to depict reality abstractly. What's worse, we may have a shared
vocabulary of no more than a few hundred words with our audience, and
their subjective
connotationof
many of these shared words may be completely different from ours. I
once listened to two people on a train argue vociferously for an hour
over what strategy their organization should pursue, only to discover
that they had a completely different idea of what the word 'strategy'
meant. Why should we be so surprised at language's limitations?
There
are a variety of devices that can be used to push the idea you want to
communicate across the line from incomprehensible to comprehensible --
most notably metaphors, analogies, stories and conversations
(iterative
communications) -- but we would be best to realize that there are many
explanations and teachings that language is just not equipped to do.
When we love to teach, it is hard to acknowledge how much cannot be
taught with language. Maslow said "When your only tool is a hammer,
every problem looks like a nail." (That's a metaphor: did it help you
understand this hurdle?)If your point is not explainable using
language, take your audience out of the lecture hall and into the
laboratory and show them
instead.
- You must be able to articulate your point clearly and
persuasively.
If you've vaulted the first hurdle, this next one is just as tough.
There are two parts to it -- clarity (rational appreciation) and
persuasiveness (emotional appreciation). Although debates are
supposedly models of persuasiveness, their focus is really on clarity.
Clarity is tough enough to do, which is why the aforementioned
techniques like stories and conversations and metaphors are so vital.
Persuasiveness is a much subtler achievement, one that requires both
personal conviction and an understanding of and empathy for the
audience. I don't know whether this is a lost art, or if we have just
given up trying. I see a lot of sermonizing (in churches, on talk
radio
and in the editorial pages) but no real persuasion
-- sermonizers preach only to the choir, and change no one's mind.
They
only reassure. True persuasion takes an appreciation of why the
audience doesn't agree with you now. It involves tact, diplomacy,
consensus-seeking, compromise, and creative thinking. Such skills tax
our patience and attention span. It is usually easier to use power and
deceit than persuasion to get what you want. So it's not surprising
that those who want to change people's minds are more preoccupied with
getting power and perpetrating myths than with appreciating other
perspectives and thinking through how to win people over in a
non-coercive and non-manipulative way. The only way over these hurdles
is through a ton of research (face to face as well as online),
openness, attention skills, empathy and an enormous amount of
practice.
- Your audience must be ready to listen.
If your audience is ignorant of the lessons of history, or complacent
about the state of the world, trying to teach them about the
importance
of separation of church and state, or the steps they need to take to
reduce their contribution to global warming, is like trying to teach
calculus to pre-schoolers. Your audience needs an appropriate
intellectual and conceptual foundation, and an informed sense of what
is urgent and what is important, before they will be ready to listen.
Daniel Dennett says "On any important topic, we tend to have a rough
idea of what we believe to be true, and when someone provides the
words
we want to hear, we tend to fall for it, no matter how shoddy the
arguments". If your audience doesn't think they need what you're
selling, they probably won't buy. Until your audience is ready for
what
you have to tell them, you're wasting your time, and theirs. There's
only one thing you can do to overcome this hurdle -- pick (and invite)
your audience carefully.
- Your audience must be listening.
They're probably not. They're thinking about the cutie they met last
night or sitting next to them, or what they have to do next, or what
they'd rather be doing now than listening to you. They may be
multi-tasking. they're almost certainly daydreaming. So you need to
get
their attention. To do that you need to distract them from all their
other distractions. The best way to do that is not by impressing them
with the importance or urgency or cleverness of what you have to say.
It's to entertain them. The
work 'entertain' means literally to hold attention. That means start,
and pepper what you're saying, with interesting stories, amusing
anecdotes or jokes, and facts. That means talking in an animated
manner. That means relating to the audience in a personal way that
keeps them engaged -- first names, eye contact, relating something
about them. That means giving them something. That means paying
attention to the audience, understanding why they're not listening
(perhaps because their sidebar conversation is more interesting,
urgent
or important to them), and drawing them gently but powerfully back in.
That doesn't mean criticizing
them for not paying attention -- that's blaming them for your
inability
to keep their interest. How many of us are good at doing all this? I
don't see many hands. We need to go back to school on this, and learn
how to be better presenters (even if we're only 'presenting' to one
person) -- not just more prepared and articulate, more entertaining as
well.
- Your audience must be able to understand your point from their
frame of reference.
This is not the same as point 3. Even if they're ready to listen,
they're coming to whatever you're talking about from a very different
place, and their brains, like yours, is wired by history of personal
experience. Lakoff says: "Frames trump facts. All of our concepts are
organized into conceptual structures called frames (which may include
images and metaphors) and all words are defined relative to those
frames. Conventional frames are pretty much fixed in the neural
structures of our brains. In order for a fact to be comprehended, it
must fit the relevant frames." That means even if they're ready for
your message, even if they need to hear what you have to say, you
still
need to say it in a way they can understand. How do you do that? Spend
lots of time talking with people whose frames are very different from
yours, and practice understanding their frames and explaining things
in
their context. And rehearse, rehearse, rehearse.
All of this isn't as hard as it might sound. We have an enormous
number
of opportunities to practice vaulting each of these hurdles every day.
Mostly, we just need to pay better attention, be more conscious of
what we're doing wrong, and work on all those bad communication habits
we've picked up. And these five hurdles apply as much to written
communications as oral ones. As I worked through this list, I cringed
at how much work I have to do at improving my own communications. So
I'm guessing it must be a pretty good list.
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Injured Devers Can't Finish Hurdles (AP)
Injured Devers Can't Finish Hurdles (AP)
08/22/2004 01:36 PMAP - Gail Devers failed once again Sunday in the Olympic 100-meter
hurdles, falling to injury just steps into her first race. Devers, 37,
who has three world championships in the event, pulled up short and
screamed as she slid under the first hurdle.
Hurdles for digital TV's spread
Hurdles for digital TV's spread
09/14/2004 03:55 AMBBC Sep 14 2004 8:12AM GMT
Space odyssey The 'father of the
internet' on taking the net into space
Space odyssey The 'father of the
internet' on taking the net into space
09/18/2004 10:13 PMBBC Sep 19 2004 2:33AM GMT
FLASH! Space Ship One makes space
history
FLASH! Space Ship One makes space
history
06/21/2004 12:28 PM“SpaceShipOne has rocketed into the history books to become the
first private manned spacecraft to fly to the edge of space and back.
The craft, built by aviation pioneer Burt Rutan, went over
space’s 100km (62 mile) boundary, said mission control. It was
carried to 50,000ft (15km) by its launcher White Knight at which point
it was unleashed. It fired its rockets to continue its trip.”
The BBC’s servers are being hit hard at the moment - if you
can’t get the story, try again later.
Hurdles for digital TV's global reach
Hurdles for digital TV's global reach
09/13/2004 08:49 AMConditions in developing nations could hamper the spread of digital
TV, a broadcast conference is told.
Analyst: AT&T mobile plans could face
hurdles
Analyst: AT&T mobile plans could face
hurdles
05/18/2004 07:23 PMThe phone company's planned cell phone service could have some
interoperability problems if it draws on other carriers to create a
"mixed" network, an analyst says.
Digital Music Biz Faces Hurdles In
Europe
Digital Music Biz Faces Hurdles In
Europe
11/03/2003 07:42 AMApple's success with its digital download store in the U.S. is
irrefutably sweet, but the European market could prove to be bitter
fruit. By Juliana Koranteng (Reuters via MyAppleMenu)
Negotiators clear hurdles to Internet
summit
Negotiators clear hurdles to Internet
summit
12/07/2003 09:28 AMeircom net Dec 7 2003 8:47AM ET
Microsoft sees sales hurdles ahead
Microsoft sees sales hurdles ahead
01/28/2004 06:39 PMThe software giant sounds a cautionary note with financial analysts,
saying revenue growth in the next fiscal year will likely not match
that of recent years.
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