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The present article comprises the full texts of a discussion in Chess Notes during its final year as a magazine. ‘Jeremy Silman’s claim that “chess” was being played at the beginning of the Persian civilization six thousand years ago sounds – leaving aside gimmick – fascinating and absurd. Though it is now sufficiently proved and accepted that the game of “chess” originated around 570 A.D., the origin of “chaturanga” – from which “chess” is descended – remains obscure. As a sequel to the partition of India in 1947 all the important sites of the Indus Civilization went over to Pakistan. Hence arose the necessity of finding Harappan (Indus Civilization) sites within the present borders of India. A systematic survey of the Ghaggar (Sarasvati) Valley in the North and the Kathiawar peninsula in the South was undertaken by the Archaeological Survey of India between 1953 and 1958. The exploration resulted in the location of more than two dozen Harappan sites by Dr A. Ghosh in the Bikaner Division of Rajasthan and nearly 100 sites by Dr S.R. Rao and Dr P.P. Pandya in Gujarat (including Kutch and Kathiawar). Among them, Lothal is most important, especially because it was a port city contemporary with Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. The site was discovered in 1954 and excavated on most scientific lines between 1955 and 1962. Lothal is situated at the head of the Gulf of Cambay at a distance of 80 kilometres south-west of Ahmedabad. A fact of particular pride to chess lovers is that Dr S.R. Rao discovered some “chaturanga” pieces during excavations at Lothal. With carbon tests they are dated 2,500 B.C. ‘In C.N. 1783 Louis Blair quoted J. Silman as saying that chess is “the world’s oldest board game” and that it “was being played” in Persia circa 4000 B.C. Mr V.D. Pandit calls the latter idea “absurd”. I would add that such statements as Silman’s are unconscionable if they are made without presentation of proofs of error in accepted historical records. There is written evidence of chess from the sixth century A.D. I don’t know of anything earlier. Allegedly older chess pieces have been found – although I haven’t heard claims for anything before the second century A.D. (except mistaken ones for pieces of Egyptian games which were not chess) – and they don’t prove anything. There are questions both of dating and of identification of the pieces. There is plenty of substantial evidence that other board games are older. Boards for one were found in tombs at Ur, dated circa 3000 B.C. They were not chess boards, and we don’t know the rules of the game. Of games that are still played, however, Nine Men’s Morris (The Mill, or merels) goes back to at least 1400 B.C., and Wei Chi (Go) was played in the seventh century B.C. Mr Pandit gives factual information about the important 1950s-60s Indian excavations of sites of the Harappa/Mohenjo-daro culture. I’ve been interested in archaeology as well as chess history, and in 1971 I first read about Mr S.R. Rao’s excavations at Lothal, where Mr Pandit says there were “chaturanga pieces” dated to 2500 B.C. My understanding is that there were two Lothal cultures, Lothal A (2500-1500 B.C.) and Lothal B (1500-1000 B.C.). Lothal A was called “highly organized”, a port with a brick dockyard which was certainly ahead of its time. But it would be extraordinary if the only “chaturanga pieces” found there would be dated back to the town’s very beginning. What is a “chaturanga piece”? What do those found at Lothal look like, and why were they so identified? In fact, what does Mr Pandit consider “chaturanga” to have been? When Mr Pandit states that chess is “descended” from chaturanga, and that the supposed Lothal chaturanga pieces prove “that chaturanga was in vogue in India some 4,500 years ago” he is inviting the same description of “absurd” that he applied to Mr Silman’s statement. Why? Because he is simply ignoring the conclusions of H.J.R. Murray, whose 1913 A History of Chess remains the basic source for chess history, and those conclusions should either be accepted or individually refuted. They should not be ignored. Mr Pandit’s statements are nothing new. They are essentially the old Cox-Forbes theory (i.e. that chaturanga, a four-handed chess game, played with dice, goes back to circa 3000 B.C.). That theory was discredited by Murray. There is no proof of it. “Chaturanga” was used long ago as a word for army. The 64-square board was used long ago for a race game played with dice or cowries; it was nothing like chess. When chess was put on the 64-square “ashtapada” board it was logical to call it “chaturanga”, the army game. Written proof of a four-handed chess game, or chess played with dice, wasn’t seen until well after the sixth century A.D. Anyone who wants to prove otherwise should refer to Murray’s History, and prove that he was mistaken. There have also been claims that chess originated in China or Central Asia. My opinion is that so far no-one has proven that Murray was wrong when he said evidence indicates that it started in India in the sixth century A.D. Mr Pandit knows that. Our difference is my opinion that the chess of the sixth century A.D. was chaturanga, and that prior to that time there was no such thing as chaturanga except for non-chessic use of the word. ‘Hindu mythology believes that the game of Chaturanga – of which, I repeat, chess is the descendant – was invented by Mandodari, the Queen of King Ravana of Lanka (now Sri Lanka) to amuse her ever ambitious and warring husband. The recent excavations at Lothal (Gujarat) lead us to think that after all this does not seem to be a mere myth. The first version of Ramayana (basically an epic of war between King Ravana and Lord Rama wherein Ravana was demolished by Lord Rama) was composed during 800 B.C. But scholars differ about the period of Ramayana. In any case, it is, however, older than 1000 B.C. But the pieces found at Lothal are from 2500 B.C. It seems possible then that the prosperous and civilized Dravidians, who ruled India, knew the game and Mandodari, a Dravidian Queen, did not actually invent the game but taught Ravana the game already in vogue. Newly wed Mandodari was not happy with Ravana’s habit of frequently going out on wars leaving her behind all alone. With a view to promoting acquaintance between the two, she taught him the game. However, any newly-wed bride will not invent a game wherein two “intruders” will be required. (Chaturanga is played among four players, but can also be played between two.) So it is more logical that Mandodari knew this game and after seeing Ravana’s thirst for warfare she introduced the game to him so that he might be induced to curtail his war activities and to spend more time with her. Mandodari should then perhaps be given credit for discovering not only Chaturanga but the Simulation Technique as well (which is so widely used these days in Operations Research). ‘After being told that I shouldn’t criticize a system for ranking chessplayers because I’m not a mathematician, now I’m told that knowledge of Sanskrit and of Hindu philosophy are prerequisites for writing about chess history. ‘The Lothal “chess” pieces are the most important historical item to be publicized in chess literature. It would also seem that these pieces have been radio-carbon dated, and if the dates as given are in any way sound, then the accepted evolutionary theory of chess is incorrect. 4. The “glass paste” pieces in the Cairo Museum. (See Eco Scacco, October/November 1978, by Chicco.) Reputed to be 1500 B.C. It is doubtful that these can be radio-carbon dated, but an examination cries out to be made. As Richard Eales rightly puts it, “archaeology and conjecture”. We need to take steps to date the above four finds and then do some theorizing on the origin of chess. For example, number four above looks absurd. Place it alongside the Lothal pieces and it looks logical. With respect to all chess historians, we all seem to love a good debate at the expense of archaeological finds. There may well be no written evidence earlier than 600 A.D., but that does not mean that chess or its parents cannot be tracked back further as suggested. I suspect that criticism of H.J.R. Murray lies at the base of the problem. His great work seems to be built on the premise that chess was invented in the sixth century A.D. Yet in the whole book this is probably the weakest link in his conclusions simply because he dismissed archaeological evidence. Even his later opinions almost 40 years after the great work was published in 1913 brooked no debate. Yet sometimes he was wrong. On page 86 of The Book of Chessmen, Alex Hammond, admittedly in hearsay, wrote that H.J.R.M. considered that the Lewis chessmen were from the years 1600-1650 A.D. Yet Michael Taylor, in a brilliant 1978 booklet of analytical deduction (sadly no radio-carbon dating) called The Lewis Chessmen, published by the British Museum, concluded that they dated from the period 1135-1170 A.D., almost 500 years earlier than Murray. We regret that we have received no further contribution from Mr Pandit. For other material on this debate, see the Quotes and Queries column in the December 1989 BCM. Latest update: 24 February 2019.

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Is Salary Transparency in the Workplace Right for your Company? It takes one glance at social media to realize our lives are shifting on the edge of transparency. We openly share our phone numbers, engagements and marriages (and breakups and divorces), religious and political views, workouts, hobbies, travels… You name it, and there’s probably an app you can use to connect and share it with the social network of your choice. There’s still one area of our lives kept relatively in the dark, however: our income. Thanks to online shopping and the ubiquitous “share” button, our spending can be, well, shared very easily. The money we make, though, remains private. Many companies currently limit what employees can divulge about their salaries to outsiders, and while employees are legally allowed to discuss – both in person and on social media – personal salaries with other coworkers, there are regulations in place to keep this information from flowing too freely. 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If employees know their salaries are fair and comparable to those of their colleagues, they can more easily trust their managers and company. They can also see just how valuable they and their jobs are to the company. Even if employees aren’t happy with how their salaries stack up, it can open up a productive dialogue as to why those salary differences exist and what employees can do to earn raises, thereby making your employees more productive. While happier, more trusting employees will lead to better work and productivity, research has shown another big benefit for employers. Open salaries force companies to examine any underlying biases or discrimination in pay, especially those between men and women. The Institute for Women’s Policy Research has shown that the pay gap in the public sector, where salaries are public record, is only 11%. The pay gap as a whole, between both public and private sector, is at 23%. When salaries are private, it’s harder for women to draw attention to this issue and it can be harder for companies to take notice of. Posting your salaries publicly makes it easier to notice and correct any discrepancies before any workers take legal action. While no company wants to be accused of discrimination, is it really fair to pay all similarly-positioned employees the same salary? Are any two employees completely identical, deserving of exactly equal salaries? Do they put in the same workload, undertake equal amounts of work, or produce equal products? Probably not – and that’s okay. It’s illegal to pay different amounts based upon discriminatory factors or protected classes, such as gender or race, but to pay different salaries based upon other measurable factors – like longevity, productivity, experience, or other work-related qualities – is completely legal and arguably fair. But will your employees see it as such? With open salaries, companies might have to consider shifting their pay scale for the role, not the person. Otherwise, accusations of fairness and favoritism may come into play. If salaries are really unequal, it might create resentment, even across different sectors or positions. Since salary transparency isn’t mandated for privately-held companies, exact numbers are hard to pin down, but the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) estimates that CEOs make, on average, 354 times what the average employee makes. Your company might not have such wide-sweeping pay ranges, but if your top-earning employees are significantly out-earning your average employees, even the hard-working ones, there may be some bitterness about those numbers – and you may need to provide an answer. Even salary transparency devotees have to acknowledge that startups have fewer problems in adopting open salaries. In the beginning, most companies have a set salary formula or equation, usually a result of a limited budget. Salaries are more likely to be closer in range, too, even for CEOs and average employees. As companies earn more money, create more jobs, and hire more people, equations or formulas may not be used anymore, and salaries may come about from negotiations or raises. If you publish numbers and employees have questions, it may be harder to answer how or why one employee makes a certain amount while another one doesn’t. That doesn’t mean that large companies can’t adopt open salary policies. Whole Foods has successfully implemented an open salary policy for over 25 years. Admittedly, the company was significantly smaller back then; however, the policy has remained in effect throughout and is one of the biggest benefits that current and former employees tout. Whole Foods currently employs nearly 60,000 people, and all of their employees have access to salary information for all other employees. Established companies looking to make a shift toward more transparency don’t have to take an all-or-nothing approach. Instead of citing exact salaries for every employee, companies can give salary ranges or average salaries based upon any number of factors, such as titles, longevity, department, or performance. General statistics for many of these factors are available on the Internet, but your company can provide its employees with company-specific statistics, far more useful than those found on the Internet. These numbers can help give your employees a basic idea of where they stand and what they can expect from you going forward. This will offer most of the benefits of total transparency without any of the drawbacks. 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/* * wicked client ifcheck action and utilities * * Copyright (C) 2010-2014 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany. * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along * with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> or write * to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, * Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. * * Authors: * Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de> * Marius Tomaschewski <mt@suse.de> * Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <pwieczorkiewicz@suse.de> * */ #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H #include "config.h" #endif #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdarg.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <getopt.h> #include <wicked/netinfo.h> #include <wicked/logging.h> #include <wicked/fsm.h> #include "wicked-client.h" #include "appconfig.h" #include "ifcheck.h" static ni_bool_t opt_quiet; /* * ifcheck utilities */ ni_bool_t ni_ifcheck_device_configured(ni_netdev_t *dev) { ni_client_state_t *cs; if (!dev || !(cs = dev->client_state) || ni_string_empty(cs->config.origin)) return FALSE; return TRUE; } ni_bool_t ni_ifcheck_device_is_up(ni_netdev_t *dev) { return dev && !!(dev->link.ifflags & NI_IFF_DEVICE_UP); } ni_bool_t ni_ifcheck_device_link_is_up(ni_netdev_t *dev) { return dev && !!(dev->link.ifflags & NI_IFF_LINK_UP); } ni_bool_t ni_ifcheck_device_network_is_up(ni_netdev_t *dev) { return dev && !!(dev->link.ifflags & NI_IFF_NETWORK_UP); } ni_bool_t ni_ifcheck_device_is_persistent(ni_netdev_t *dev) { ni_client_state_t *cs = dev ? dev->client_state : NULL; return cs && cs->control.persistent; } ni_bool_t ni_ifcheck_device_link_required(ni_netdev_t *dev) { ni_client_state_t *cs = dev ? dev->client_state : NULL; ni_tristate_t link_required = NI_TRISTATE_DEFAULT; if (cs && ni_tristate_is_set(cs->control.require_link)) link_required = cs->control.require_link; else if (dev) link_required = ni_netdev_guess_link_required(dev); return !ni_tristate_is_disabled(link_required); } ni_bool_t ni_ifcheck_worker_device_exists(ni_ifworker_t *w) { return w && w->device; } ni_bool_t ni_ifcheck_worker_device_enabled(ni_ifworker_t *w) { #if 0 /* Hmm... STARTMODE=manual|off */ if (!w || !w->control.enabled) return FALSE; #endif return TRUE; } ni_bool_t ni_ifcheck_worker_device_link_required(ni_ifworker_t *w) { ni_tristate_t link_required = NI_TRISTATE_DEFAULT; if (w && ni_tristate_is_set(w->control.link_required)) link_required = w->control.link_required; else if (w && w->device) link_required = ni_netdev_guess_link_required(w->device); return !ni_tristate_is_disabled(link_required); } ni_bool_t ni_ifcheck_worker_device_is_persistent(ni_ifworker_t *w) { return w && w->control.persistent; } ni_bool_t ni_ifcheck_worker_config_exists(ni_ifworker_t *w) { return w && w->config.node; } ni_bool_t ni_ifcheck_worker_config_matches(ni_ifworker_t *w) { ni_netdev_t *dev; if (ni_ifcheck_worker_config_exists(w) && (dev = w->device)) { ni_client_state_t *cs = dev->client_state; return cs && ni_uuid_equal(&cs->config.uuid, &w->config.meta.uuid); } return FALSE; } ni_bool_t ni_ifcheck_worker_not_in_state(ni_ifworker_t *w, ni_fsm_state_t state_val) { ni_fsm_state_t state_dev; ni_assert(w); /* FIXME: add state mapping */ state_dev = NI_FSM_STATE_NONE; if (state_val < NI_FSM_STATE_DEVICE_EXISTS && state_dev > state_val) return TRUE; if (state_dev < state_val) return TRUE; return FALSE; } static void if_printf(const char *dev, const char *flag, const char *fmt, ...) { va_list ap; if (opt_quiet) return; if (!ni_string_empty(dev)) { printf("%-15s", dev); } else { printf("%-6s", ""); } if (!ni_string_empty(flag) && !ni_string_empty(fmt)) { printf(" %-22s = ", flag); va_start(ap, fmt); vprintf(fmt, ap); va_end(ap); } printf("\n"); } static inline void set_status(int *status, unsigned int code) { if (NI_WICKED_ST_OK == *status) *status = code; } /* * ifcheck action */ int ni_do_ifcheck(int argc, char **argv) { enum { OPT_HELP, OPT_QUIET, OPT_IFCONFIG, OPT_MISSED, OPT_CHANGED, OPT_STATE, OPT_PERSISTENT }; static struct option ifcheck_options[] = { { "help", no_argument, NULL, OPT_HELP }, { "quiet", no_argument, NULL, OPT_QUIET }, { "ifconfig", required_argument, NULL, OPT_IFCONFIG }, { "missed", no_argument, NULL, OPT_MISSED }, { "changed", no_argument, NULL, OPT_CHANGED }, { "state", required_argument, NULL, OPT_STATE }, { "persistent", no_argument, NULL, OPT_PERSISTENT }, { NULL } }; static ni_ifmatcher_t ifmatch; ni_string_array_t opt_ifconfig = NI_STRING_ARRAY_INIT; ni_string_array_t ifnames = NI_STRING_ARRAY_INIT; ni_uint_array_t checks = NI_UINT_ARRAY_INIT; ni_stringbuf_t sb = NI_STRINGBUF_INIT_DYNAMIC; const char *opt_state = NULL; ni_bool_t multiple = FALSE; ni_fsm_t *fsm; unsigned int i, opt_state_val; int c, status = NI_WICKED_RC_USAGE; fsm = ni_fsm_new(); ni_assert(fsm); fsm->readonly = TRUE; /* Allow ifcheck on persistent, unconfigured interfaces */ memset(&ifmatch, 0, sizeof(ifmatch)); ifmatch.require_configured = FALSE; ifmatch.allow_persistent = TRUE; ifmatch.require_config = FALSE; optind = 1; while ((c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "", ifcheck_options, NULL)) != EOF) { switch (c) { case OPT_IFCONFIG: ni_string_array_append(&opt_ifconfig, optarg); break; case OPT_MISSED: ni_uint_array_append(&checks, OPT_MISSED); break; case OPT_CHANGED: ni_uint_array_append(&checks, OPT_CHANGED); break; case OPT_STATE: if (!ni_ifworker_state_from_name(optarg, &opt_state_val)) { ni_error("Invalid device state \"%s\"", optarg); goto usage; } ni_uint_array_append(&checks, OPT_STATE); opt_state = optarg; break; case OPT_PERSISTENT: ni_uint_array_append(&checks, OPT_PERSISTENT); break; case OPT_QUIET: opt_quiet = TRUE; break; case OPT_HELP: status = NI_WICKED_RC_SUCCESS; /* fall through */ default: usage: ni_client_get_state_strings(&sb, NULL); fprintf(stderr, "wicked [options] ifcheck [ifcheck-options] <ifname ...>|all\n" "\nSupported ifcheck-options:\n" " --help\n" " Show this help text.\n" " --ifconfig <filename>\n" " Read interface configuration(s) from file\n" " --quiet\n" " Do not print out errors, but just signal the result through exit status\n" " --missed\n" " Check if the interface is missed\n" " --changed\n" " Check if the interface's configuration is changed\n" " --state <state-name>\n" " Check if the interface is in the given state. Possible states:\n" " %s\n" " --persistent\n" " Check if the interface is in persistent mode\n" , sb.string); ni_stringbuf_destroy(&sb); goto cleanup; } } if (optind >= argc) { goto usage; } else for (c = optind; c < argc; ++c) { if (ni_string_empty(argv[c])) goto usage; } if (opt_ifconfig.count == 0) { const ni_string_array_t *sources = ni_config_sources("ifconfig"); if (sources && sources->count) ni_string_array_copy(&opt_ifconfig, sources); if (opt_ifconfig.count == 0) { ni_error("ifup: unable to load interface config source list"); status = NI_WICKED_RC_NOT_CONFIGURED; goto cleanup; } } if (!ni_ifconfig_load(fsm, opt_global_rootdir, &opt_ifconfig, TRUE, TRUE)) { status = NI_WICKED_RC_NOT_CONFIGURED; goto cleanup; } if (!ni_fsm_create_client(fsm)) { /* Severe error we always explicitly return */ status = NI_WICKED_RC_ERROR; goto cleanup; } if (!ni_fsm_refresh_state(fsm)) { /* Severe error we always explicitly return */ status = NI_WICKED_RC_ERROR; goto cleanup; } status = NI_WICKED_ST_OK; if (0 == checks.count) ni_uint_array_append(&checks, OPT_MISSED); /* nmarked = 0; */ while (optind < argc) { ni_ifworker_array_t marked = { 0, NULL }; const char *ifname = argv[optind++]; ifmatch.name = ifname; if (ni_fsm_get_matching_workers(fsm, &ifmatch, &marked) == 0) { if_printf(ifname, "device exists", "no"); set_status(&status, NI_WICKED_RC_NO_DEVICE); continue; } if (ni_string_eq(ifmatch.name, "all")) multiple = TRUE; for (i = 0; i < marked.count; ++i) { ni_ifworker_t *w = marked.data[i]; ni_netdev_t *dev = w->device; ni_client_state_t *cs = dev ? dev->client_state : NULL; unsigned int j; if (ni_string_array_index(&ifnames, w->name) != -1) continue; multiple = ifnames.count ? TRUE : multiple; ni_string_array_append(&ifnames, w->name); for (j = 0; j < checks.count; j++) { switch (checks.data[j]) { ni_bool_t changed, not_in_state, persistent; default: case OPT_MISSED: if_printf(w->name, "device exists", (dev ? "yes" : "no")); if (!dev) set_status(&status, NI_WICKED_RC_NO_DEVICE); break; case OPT_CHANGED: changed = FALSE; if (ni_ifcheck_device_configured(dev) || (ni_ifcheck_worker_config_exists(w) && ni_ifcheck_worker_device_exists(w))) changed = !ni_ifcheck_worker_config_matches(w); if_printf(w->name, "configuration changed", (changed ? "yes" : "no")); if (changed) { ni_debug_wicked("%s: config file uuid is %s", w->name, ni_uuid_print(&w->config.meta.uuid)); ni_debug_wicked("%s: system dev. uuid is %s", w->name, cs ? ni_uuid_print(&cs->config.uuid) : "NOT SET"); set_status(&status, NI_WICKED_ST_CHANGED_CONFIG); } break; case OPT_STATE: not_in_state = ni_ifcheck_worker_not_in_state(w, opt_state_val); if_printf(w->name, "queried state", "%s (%s)", (not_in_state ? "no" : "yes"), opt_state); if (not_in_state) set_status(&status, NI_WICKED_ST_NOT_IN_STATE); break; case OPT_PERSISTENT: persistent = ni_ifcheck_device_is_persistent(dev); if_printf(w->name, "persistent", (persistent ? "yes" : "no")); if (persistent) set_status(&status, NI_WICKED_ST_PERSISTENT_ON); break; } } if (opt_quiet && status) goto cleanup; } } cleanup: ni_string_array_destroy(&opt_ifconfig); ni_string_array_destroy(&ifnames); ni_uint_array_destroy(&checks); return status; }

You can now pre-order your phone in-store at the Apple Store, AT&T, and Best Buy. Walmart is still not on the list but it doesn’t mean you can’t take advantage. Many online pre-orders have already been maxed out so it’s best to head into your local store if you’re desperate to get one. McDonald’s, Subway, Whole Foods and Apple retail stores are among the retailers that will accept Apple Pay when it launches next month. McDonald’s said all U.S. locations will accept Apple Pay after it is live.

Is Obama telling the truth about U.S. oil reserves? When he was running for the Oval Office four years ago amid $4-a-gallon gasoline prices, then-Sen. Barack Obama dismissed the idea of expanded oil production as a way to relieve the pain at the pump. “Even if you opened up every square inch of our land and our coasts to drilling,” he said. “America still has only 3% of the world’s oil reserves.” Which meant, he said, that the U.S. couldn’t affect global oil prices. It’s the same rhetoric President Obama is using now, as gas prices hit $4 again, except now he puts the figure at 2%. The claim makes it appear as though the U.S. is an oil-barren nation, perpetually dependent on foreign oil and high prices unless we can cut our own use and develop alternative energy sources like algae. But the figure Obama uses — proved oil reserves — vastly undercounts how much oil the U.S. actually contains. In fact, far from being oil-poor, the country is awash in vast quantities — enough to meet all the country’s oil needs for hundreds of years. The U.S. has 22.3 billion barrels of proved reserves, a little less than 2% of the entire world’s proved reserves, according to the Energy Information Administration. But as the EIA explains, proved reserves “are a small subset of recoverable resources,” because they only count oil that companies are currently drilling for in existing fields. At least 86 billion barrels of oil in the Outer Continental Shelf yet to be discovered, according to the government’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. About 24 billion barrels in shale deposits in the lower 48 states, according to EIA. Up to 2 billion barrels of oil in shale deposits in Alaska’s North Slope, says the U.S. Geological Survey. Up to 12 billion barrels in ANWR, according to the USGS. As much as 19 billion barrels in the Utah tar sands, according to the Bureau of Land Management. Then, there’s the massive Green River Formation in Wyoming, which according to the USGS contains a stunning 1.4 trillion barrels of oil shale — a type of oil released from sedimentary rock after it’s heated. […]All told, the U.S. has access to 400 billion barrels of crude that could be recovered using existing drilling technologies, according to a 2006 Energy Department report. When you include oil shale, the U.S. has 1.4 trillion barrels of technically recoverable oil, according to the Institute for Energy Research, enough to meet all U.S. oil needs for about the next 200 years, without any imports. Please share this article, because it is unlikely that Obama’s Solyndra-supporting buddies in the mainstream media will report the facts on domestic energy production. Obama claims that production of oil, gas and coal is up since he took office. It’s true that areas under state control are producing more, but what about energy production on federal lands? That’s the part of the country that Obama is responsible for. Let’s see what two recent studies from the Energy Information Administration and the Institute for Energy Research found. The updated EIA report revealed a 12 percent decline in production for coal, oil, and natural gas on federal and Indian lands from fiscal 2003 through fiscal 2011. During this same period, production on state and private lands has increased, boosting overall production numbers for the United States. That’s a point even President Obama will acknowledge: “Under my Administration, domestic oil and natural gas production is up,” he said upon announcing his rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline. Obama is correct. He just can’t rightfully claim the credit, since the vast majority of America’s new oil and gas production is happening on private lands in states like North Dakota, Alaska and Texas. Withdrew areas offered for 77 oil and gas leases in Utah that could cost American taxpayers millions in lost lease bids, production royalties, new jobs and the energy needed to offset rising imports of oil and natural gas. Cancelled lease sales in the Western Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic coast and delayed exploration off the coast of Alaska and kept other resource-rich areas off-limits. Finalized rules, first announced by Secretary Salazar on January 6, 2010, to establish more government hurdles to onshore oil and natural gas production on federal lands. Withdrew 61 oil and natural gas leases in Montana as part of a lawsuit settlement over climate change. That’s the real story behind Obama’s claims about higher energy production. He’s doing his best to block energy production in the areas under his control. His energy plan is Solyndra, Solyndra, Solyndra – paying off his rich Democrat buddies with taxpayer money. The CBC — the mega-corporation that is demanding yet another $1.1-billion bailout from taxpayers this year, just like it demanded a $1.1-billion bailout from us last year — is panicking. For weeks it’s been sweating about a parliamentary investigation into its bad behaviour, including its violation of the Access to Information law. That’s an important law to allow taxpayers to scrutinize how government agencies spend our money. The non-partisan information commissioner has given the CBC a grade of “F” for its secrecy — but it still violates her order for it to disclose the truth. It’s spending millions in legal expenses to hide how it’s spending billions in other expenses. This bad behaviour was coming to a head last week when Parliament was going to turn over some rocks and see what was going to go scurrying. On the eve of the Parliamentary inquiry, it used part of its $1.1 billion — money that is supposed to go to journalism — to launch a crazy, personal attack on the president of Quebecor and QMI Agency, Pierre Karl Peladeau, one of Canada’s most successful private-sector media entrepreneurs. Unlike the CBC, Peladeau built his company honestly and with his own efforts. He took a newspaper company started by his father, Pierre Peladeau, and turned it into Quebec’s most successful media company, Quebecor — and then joined with English-Canada’s biggest newspaper company, Sun Media Corp. And then he built the Sun News Network. All without a billion-dollar-a-year bailout. And so last week, the night before Peladeau’s testimony to Parliament, the CBC freaked out. In an unprecedented move, it issued what can only be called an attack ad against Peladeau. It wasn’t a news story. It was a false and defamatory attack on our company, as vengeance for our questions about how the CBC spends taxpayer money. If any other government department had done something like this, whoever responsible would be fired immediately. It wasn’t just unprofessional. It wasn’t just outside of its mandate of what it is given its government money for. It was an attempt to destroy a private-sector competitor. Why is this interesting? Because it shows what happens when the government oversteps its bounds and starts to compete with the private sector in areas that are totally unrelated to its enumerated powers and specific responsibilities. Not only will you find corruption in nationalized corporations, but massive waste as well. Private sector companies face competitive pressures that government monopolies do not face. That forces them to root out corruption and waste, because there is always the firm next door looking to serve the customer better – with higher quality and at a lower cost. We need to be very careful about handing money to people in government who simply don’t care as much about the needs of their customers. Do you think that the CBC could ever favor tax cuts or spending cuts or even more choices for taxpayers? Of course not. They have to tell people whatever causes them to vote for bigger government, because that’s where their money comes from.

New Zealand may as well be called a land of opportunities with the forecast of continual growth in employment. According to the latest labour market statistics released by Statistics New Zealand, employment, wage and labour force participation growth remain strong. In fact, in the past quarter alone, the employment rate rose to 66.9 percent, a full 2 points increase from the previous year. Salary and wage rates also went up in both private and public sectors. What’s even better is that there are plenty of job offers across all industries that could easily become viable career paths. If you think it’s time to move onto greener pastures, the first step is to get a New Zealand work visa.