"In the old days," Mr. Trobec said, "it was good enough to be able to rip and read the forecast from the National Weather Service".
Visit the website of Forbes.com and read the earnings forecasts for the New York Times Company, and you will notice the byline "By Narrative Science".
Sam West has just turned 43 and discovered he has done everything he thought he had wanted: "I've played Hamlet, been in Doctor Who and read the shipping forecast.
Still, getting it right is hard; economic forecasting is like reading tea leaves — extremely difficult, unless you arrange the leaves into letters and numbers, which is no picnic, either.
But the court said that not allowing Mr. Sofsky to use the Internet would prevent him access to e-mail, "an increasingly widely used form of communication," and prevent his performing tasks like getting a weather forecast or reading a newspaper online.
In order to hone your forecasting skills, read the news daily and keep track of current events.
"Radio 4 listeners have always been very warm and appreciative of what I've done, whether doing the shipping forecast, reading the news or taking part in the news quiz," she said.
"Radio 4 listeners have always been very warm and appreciative of what I've done, whether doing the Shipping Forecast, reading the news or taking part in the News Quiz," Green said.
The report, long and worth reading, forecast job losses far in excess of those workers who might see a modest rise in wages.
The shipping forecast is read on BBC Radio 4 at 0048, 0520, 1201, and 1754 each day.
