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Greens Say Government Still Investing In Bomb Firms... | Stuff.co.nz

Government superannuation funds are still investing in companies that manufacture cluster bombs despite adoption of a law against the practice.

The Green Party brought the investments to Parliament's attention yesterday by asking Finance Minister Bill English how much was invested in dozens of companies, including known cluster munitions producers Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and L-3 Communications.

The Government's National Provident Fund (NPF) and Government Superannuation Fund (GSF), which is for government employees, have invested $2.2 million in those three companies, said English.

Green Party co-leader Dr Russel Norman said the investment contravened the Cluster Munitions Prohibition Act 2009 which prohibits the use of government money in funding cluster bomb production.

"New Zealanders will be horrified to know their Government is profiting from the production of cluster munitions ? bombs that kill so indiscriminately, 98 per cent of all reported casualties from them are civilians," said Norman.

"When we adopted the Cluster Munitions Convention in 2008, we made a commitment to 'never under any circumstances assist or encourage' the cluster munitions industry."

The Government funds' investments were made through trusts and managed fund portfolios which made them difficult to track, and English had not yet stated what action, if any, would be taken on the issue.

Norman also cited a letter in which the Auditor General agrees with him that "the law prevents the Fund from investing in" companies involved in cluster munitions.

That letter refers to earlier accusations that a different fund - the New Zealand Super Fund (NZSF) ? was investing in cluster munitions manufacturers, but the Green Party believed the same principle applied to the NPF and GSF.

In that case last year, Norman's belief that NZSF was investing in five different companies which were making cluster munitions was denied by the fund's guardians who said the named companies were not cluster bomb manufacturers.

"The Guardians are therefore comfortable that we are acting in accordance with our responsible investment policies and are not in breach of New Zealand's obligations under the Cluster Munitions Convention," NZSF said in a statement.

However in September this year NZSF dumped investments in four companies deemed to have fallen foul of social and environmental standards.

The fund sold holdings in US miner Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, US petrochemical engineering firm KRB, Japanese electricity firm Tokyo Electric Power Co, and Chinese resource firm Zijin Mining because the firms failed to meet responsible investment standards over corruption, human rights, safety and environmental issues.

Holdings in the four companies totalled $1.8m, or just 0.01 per cent of the fund's $19 billion investment portfolio.

- ? Fairfax NZ News

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Nokia Siemens Networks hands business support division to Redknee, reaffirms focus on mobile broadband

There aren't too many surefire ways to get oneself focused in the business world, but completely detaching a corporation from a business division ain't a bad tactic. Just two days after Nokia Siemens Networks announced that it'd be selling off its optical business in order to focus on LTE, the firm has relinquished absolute control over yet another division. Dubbed a "planned acquisition" by Redknee CEO Lucas Skoczkowski, his company will be taking ownership of NSN's Business Support Systems. For Nokia Siemens Networks, it means 1,200 fewer employees to handle (they'll be moving to Redknee, not fired), and who knows how many saved headaches.

The division is presently responsible for providing "real-time charging, rating, policy, and customer care solutions to more than 130 communication service providers, including half of the top 100 global mobile operators." In other words, precisely the type of baggage you'd hope to drop if looking to "focus on mobile broadband," as stated by NSN CEO Rajeev Suri. Nothing like a little spring cleaning in December, huh?

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Dragon Age Roleplay

I've been thinking of making a dragon age rp since I made my account but I figured it had probly been done a dozen times so I dropped the idea. Now though I've come full circle and I really want to do one again. I plan on making it more Dragon Age 2/3 like and steer away from the darkspawn idea and more to do with war and apostate mages and such.

The first thing I want to point out is that this won't be cannon so no one from the games or novels has ever exsisted. The warden did beat the arch demon to end the blight but that will be long ago so you char doesn't know him or anything.

Second is that there will most likely be some made up towns and stuff so please don't fuss about it, I will try to stick as close to the games and such as I can.

Third I don't want fifty wardens and Hawke clones, please be original. Due to the fact that this rp won't have to do with fighting darkspawn we really dont need a bunch of wardens.

Also I there will be a few key roles that must be taken before we start.

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Boosting Heat Transfer With Nanoglue - Innovation Toronto

Interdisciplinary Study From Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Demonstrates New Method for Significantly Increasing Heat Transfer Rate Across Two Different Materials

A team of interdisciplinary researchers atRensselaer Polytechnic Institute?has developed a new method for significantly increasing the heat transfer rate across two different materials. Results of the team?s study, published in the journal?Nature Materials, could enable new advances in cooling computer chips and lighting-emitting diode (LED) devices, collecting solar power, harvesting waste heat, and other applications.

By sandwiching a layer of ultrathin ?nanoglue? between copper and silica, the research team demonstrated a four-fold increase in thermal conductance at the interface between the two materials. Less than a nanometer?or one billionth of a meter?thick, the nanoglue is a layer of molecules that form strong links with the copper (a metal) and the silica (a ceramic), which otherwise would not stick together well. This kind of nanomolecular locking improves adhesion, and also helps to sync up the vibrations of atoms that make up the two materials which, in turn, facilitates more efficient transport of heat particles called phonons. Beyond copper and silica, the research team has demonstrated their approach works with other metal-ceramic interfaces.

Heat transfer is a critical aspect of many different technologies. As computer chips grow smaller and more complex, manufacturers are constantly in search of new and better means for removing excess heat from semiconductor devices to boost reliability and performance. With photovoltaic devices, for example, better heat transfer leads to more efficient conversion of sunlight to electrical power. LED makers are also looking for ways to increase efficiency by reducing the percentage of input power lost as heat.?Ganapati Ramanath, professor in the?Department of Materials Science and Engineering?at Rensselaer, who led the new study, said the ability to enhance and optimize interfacial thermal conductance should lead to new innovations in these and other applications.

?Interfaces between different materials are often heat-flow bottlenecks due to stifled phonon transport. Inserting a third material usually only makes things worse because of an additional interface created,? Ramanath said. ?However, our method of introducing an ultrathin?nanolayer?of organic molecules that strongly bond with both the materials at the interface gives rise to multi-fold increases in interfacial thermal conductance, contrary to poor heat conduction seen at inorganic-organic interfaces. This method to tune thermal conductance by controlling adhesion using an organic nanolayer works for multiple materials systems, and offers a new means for atomic- and molecular-level manipulation of multiple properties at different types of materials interfaces. Also, it?s cool to be able to do this rather unobtrusively by the simple method of self-assembly of a single layer of molecules.?

Results of the new study, titled ?Bonding-induced thermal conductance enhancement at inorganic heterointerfaces using nanomolecular monolayers,? were published online last week by?Nature Materials, and will appear in an upcoming print edition of the journal. The study may be viewed online at:?http://go.nature.com/3LLeYP

The research team used a combination of experiments and theory to validate their findings.

?Our study establishes the correlation between interfacial bond strength and thermal conductance, which serves to underpin new theoretical descriptions and open up new ways to control interfacial heat transfer,? said co-author?Pawel Keblinski, professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Rensselaer.

?It is truly remarkable that a single molecular layer can bring about such a large improvement in the thermal properties of interfaces by forming strong interfacial bonds. This would be useful for controlling heat transport for many applications in electronics, lighting, and energy generation,? said co-author?Masashi Yamaguchi, associate professor in the?Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy?at Rensselaer.

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Student group to go to court over Facebook privacy policy

VIENNA (Reuters) - An Austrian student group plans to go to court in a bid to make Facebook Inc, the world's biggest social network, do more to protect the privacy of its hundreds of millions of members.

Campaign group europe-v-facebook, which has been lobbying for better data protection by Facebook for over a year, said on Tuesday it planned to go to court to appeal against decisions by the data protection regulator in Ireland, where Facebook has its international headquarters.

The move is one of a number of campaigns against the giants of the internet, which are under pressure from investors to generate more revenue from their huge user bases but which also face criticism for storing and sharing personal information.

Internet search engine Google, for example, has been told by the European Union to make changes to its new privacy policy, which pools data collected on individual users across its services including YouTube, gmail and social network Google+, and from which users cannot opt out.

Europe-v-facebook has won some concessions from Facebook, notably pushing it to switch off its facial recognition feature in Europe.

But the group said on Tuesday the changes did not go far enough and it was disappointed with the response of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), which had carried out an audit after the campaign group filed numerous complaints.

Facebook, due to hold a conference call later on Tuesday to answer customer concerns about its privacy policy, said its data protection policies exceeded European requirements.

"The latest Data Protection report demonstrates not only how Facebook adheres to European data protection law but also how we go beyond it, in achieving best practice," a Facebook spokesman said in an emailed comment.

"Nonetheless we have some vocal critics who will never be happy whatever we do and whatever the DPC concludes."

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Europe-v-facebook founder Max Schrems, who has filed 22 complaints with the Irish regulator, said more than 40,000 Facebook users who had requested a copy of the data Facebook was holding on them had not received anything several months after making a request.

"The Irish obviously have no great political interest in going up against these companies because they're so dependent on the jobs they create," Schrems told Reuters.

Gary Davies, Ireland's deputy data protection commissioner, denied Facebook's investment in Ireland had influenced regulation of the company.

"We have handled this in a highly professional and focused way and we have brought about huge changes in the way Facebook handles personal data," he told Reuters.

Schrems also questioned why Facebook had only switched off facial recognition for users in the European Union, even though Ireland is the headquarters for all of Facebook's users outside the United States and Canada.

Facebook is under pressure to reverse a trend of slowing revenue growth by selling more valuable advertising, which requires better profiling of its users.

Investors are losing patience with the social network, whose shares have dropped 40 percent in value since the company's record-breaking $104 billion initial public offering in May.

Last month, Facebook proposed to combine its user data with that of its recently acquired photo-sharing service Instagram, loosen restrictions on emails between its members and share data with other businesses and affiliates that it owns.

Facebook is also facing a class-action lawsuit in the United States, where it is charged with violating privacy rights by publicizing users' "likes" without giving them a way to opt out.

A U.S. judge late on Monday gave his preliminary approval to a second attempt to settle the case by paying users up to $10 each out of a settlement fund of $20 million.

Europe-v-facebook said it believed its Irish battle had the potential to become a test case for data protection law and had a good chance of landing up in the European Court of Justice.

Schrems said the case could cost the group around 100,000 euros ($130,000), which it hoped to raise via crowd-funding - money provided by a collection of individuals - on the Internet.

(Additional reporting by Conor Humphries in Dublin; Editing by Mark Potter)

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