Scratches to Sketches
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
BBC News - France weather: Violent rainstorm wreaks havoc
Oops! Nancy is where we are presently? Who could credit that?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18158918
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18158918
Monday, 21 May 2012
Sunday, 20 May 2012
G8 summit: Stephen Harper says free trade an alternative to austerity, cutbacks | News | National Post
Free trade is not a short term policy tactic. If Canada and Europe engage in free trade it brings along economies of scale issues that America would have to address. It might, however, bring employment to low wage regions!
Economies of scale helps large firms by reducing the number of separate plants to produce a given product. Where would these fewer plants be located? Migration of production from China?
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/19/g8-summit-stephen-harper-says-free-trade-an-alternative-to-austerity-cutbacks/
Economies of scale helps large firms by reducing the number of separate plants to produce a given product. Where would these fewer plants be located? Migration of production from China?
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/19/g8-summit-stephen-harper-says-free-trade-an-alternative-to-austerity-cutbacks/
The Most-Effective, Quickest Way To Create More U.S. Jobs - International Business Times
I am a Schumpeterian not a Keynesian economist, but what are the rest?
In economic policy, timing and scale is everything, but so is the design of the policy mix and a sound understanding of industrial demand dynamics and employment structure. Building houses, for example may produce growth, but it has just produced debt and inflation when demand -lomg term - was unsustainable and it produced an unsustainable economic dynamic. Income distribution towards building up average incomes without inflation is part of this benign design.
Krugman is absolutely right! But, why should this be a surprise? Too many crap economic policies have dulled the professions's understanding of the basics. Fortunately, Krugman is not among those that do not understand very simple economics. Perhaps, we need to take away a few economics PhD's from the others? Or, do they try to push median incomes into the ground and to create unemployment.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342853/20120518/krugman-fiscal-stimulus-paul-unemployment.htm
In economic policy, timing and scale is everything, but so is the design of the policy mix and a sound understanding of industrial demand dynamics and employment structure. Building houses, for example may produce growth, but it has just produced debt and inflation when demand -lomg term - was unsustainable and it produced an unsustainable economic dynamic. Income distribution towards building up average incomes without inflation is part of this benign design.
Krugman is absolutely right! But, why should this be a surprise? Too many crap economic policies have dulled the professions's understanding of the basics. Fortunately, Krugman is not among those that do not understand very simple economics. Perhaps, we need to take away a few economics PhD's from the others? Or, do they try to push median incomes into the ground and to create unemployment.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342853/20120518/krugman-fiscal-stimulus-paul-unemployment.htm
Krugman: Speaker Boehner, Paul Ryan ‘completely deluded’ - Video on msnbc.com
Over investment is still an issue and indices need to be developed to distinguish patterns of excessive growth that puts ecnomies off their more natural long term sustainable path. Dangerous maybe, but that is what capitalism is all about ... making obsolescence of junk produced because of low technical producivity.
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/47480484/
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/47480484/
Paul Krugman / Apocalypse fairly soon: If the euro blows up, the extremists will rise - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Spot on, but!
It must never happen! The cost is far too great. Better to have more regulation of activity in the world economy and efforts to understand basic economics that policy makers seem to have forgotten or worse, never learned!
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/paul-krugman-apocalypse-fairly-soon-if-the-euro-blows-up-the-extremists-will-rise-636579/
It must never happen! The cost is far too great. Better to have more regulation of activity in the world economy and efforts to understand basic economics that policy makers seem to have forgotten or worse, never learned!
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/paul-krugman-apocalypse-fairly-soon-if-the-euro-blows-up-the-extremists-will-rise-636579/
Saturday, 19 May 2012
Text or dictate! It's a matter of using your brains while driving!
Why text using your fingers when there are really good apps that will type what you say? Laws could suggest corrective positive actions becausewhen you tell someone not to do some thing you really do crete the urge in them to do it! Would that poliicians were better psychologists?
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2012/0517/Inconvenient-truths-to-a-ban-on-texting-while-driving?cmpid=ema:nws:Commentary%20Weekly%20(05182012)&cmpid=ema:nws:NzQ4MDU4NDEwMgS2
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2012/0517/Inconvenient-truths-to-a-ban-on-texting-while-driving?cmpid=ema:nws:Commentary%20Weekly%20(05182012)&cmpid=ema:nws:NzQ4MDU4NDEwMgS2
Thursday, 17 May 2012
You are What Makes America, America: MIT $100K Announces Their Grand Prize Winner [Images] | BostInno
It's great to see such efforts at solving the technological issues!
http://bostinno.com/2012/05/16/you-are-what-makes-america-america-mit-100k-announces-their-grand-prize-winner-images/#ss__151962_1_0__ss
http://bostinno.com/2012/05/16/you-are-what-makes-america-america-mit-100k-announces-their-grand-prize-winner-images/#ss__151962_1_0__ss
Report Raises Concerns Over Biomass Production - Domestic Fuel
I guess that we all need to help to democratize the forms of activity undertaken for our socalled benefit!
http://domesticfuel.com/2012/05/16/report-raises-concerns-over-biomass-production/comment-page-1/#comment-139336
http://domesticfuel.com/2012/05/16/report-raises-concerns-over-biomass-production/comment-page-1/#comment-139336
Saturday, 12 May 2012
Habitat for Humanity Bets Big in Oregon - NYTimes.com
What really is the housing crisis? Unaffordable housing.... Dah!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/12/us/habitat-for-humanity-tries-big-scale-approach-to-housing-in-oregon.html?src=me&ref=general
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/12/us/habitat-for-humanity-tries-big-scale-approach-to-housing-in-oregon.html?src=me&ref=general
Easy Useless Economics - NYTimes.com
Very good sense and hardly reckless!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/opinion/krugman-easy-useless-economics.html?src=me&ref=general
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/opinion/krugman-easy-useless-economics.html?src=me&ref=general
Prince Charles presents weather forecast on BBC TV Thu 10 May 2012
Thank God it is not a bank holiday! Check out this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SfnxoDXTnI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SfnxoDXTnI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Prince Charles Delivers The Weather Report
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TACs5kztp3Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TACs5kztp3Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player
BBC News - Prince Charles weather forecast sweeps the globe
I always knew he had a wonderful sense of humour! It is good to see Charles perform live!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18031493
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18031493
Gay marriage: Clooney fundraiser a hint of coming Obama money boom (+video) - CSMonitor.com
Obama is clearly clued in! This makes a change and break from an overly narrow past in civil rights. If you are not gay, why do you have the right to judge! That would be preposterous as is the position that all life demands a specific formula. The only demand for life is love, and this includes love for most sustainable sexual attitudes.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/President/2012/0511/Gay-marriage-Clooney-fundraiser-a-hint-of-coming-Obama-money-boom-video
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/President/2012/0511/Gay-marriage-Clooney-fundraiser-a-hint-of-coming-Obama-money-boom-video
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
BBC News - Syria blast near UN convoy going to Deraa
This shows Syria not taking the UN seriously! Need a show of force....?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18001942
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18001942
Friday, 4 May 2012
Falkland Islands claimed as 'Argentine soil' in secretly filmed Olympic advert | UK news | guardian.co.uk
Obviously, the cold war with Argentina is getting warmer! One has to wonder what the real impact is around the world as people are influenced this way or that to discriminate against another nationality because of a dispute over sovereignty based on location and opportunism! Flag waving by Argentina is not a solution. A solution is to make mining for oil irrelevant and to negotiate separate fair treaties with Argentna that protect rights of present residents in the Falklands.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/04/falkland-islands-argentine-olympic-advert?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/04/falkland-islands-argentine-olympic-advert?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng seeks meeting with Hillary Clinton | World news | The Guardian
If you think, Mitt Romney is helping the situation by being so vocal at a time when quiet diplomacy is necessary, think again! This guy is not fit to be a future president of America!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/04/chinese-activist-chen-guangcheng-hillary-clinton?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/04/chinese-activist-chen-guangcheng-hillary-clinton?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355
Thursday, 3 May 2012
Putin's Choice | Opinion | The Moscow Times
Top down government is clearly an anachronism that will build in future failure!
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/putins-choice/457904.html
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/putins-choice/457904.html
Cigar Room of Books: Douglas Hofstadter
Wonderful blog! Truly wonderful!
http://cigarroomofbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/douglas-hofstadter.html
http://cigarroomofbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/douglas-hofstadter.html
Romney camp criticises British PM's Obama 'love-in' ahead of Olympic visit | World news | guardian.co.uk
Oops! Can we be so serious about this guy Romney, who is still just a very very rich person to most people!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/02/romney-british-pm-obama-london?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/02/romney-british-pm-obama-london?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355
Sir Mervyn King admits: we did too little to warn of economic crisis | Business | The Guardian
No truer words ever spoken! Gordon Brown is partly responsible, but the real changes took place in the 1980s when banks were allowed into the housing market!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/may/02/mervyn-king-we-did-too-little-warn-economic-crisis?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/may/02/mervyn-king-we-did-too-little-warn-economic-crisis?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Paul Krugman on How to Fix the Economy - and Why It's Easier Than You Think | Julian Brookes | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Krugman is right with one proviso that the home property market is not stimulated in the process, which is why we have the current problem in the first place!
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/paul-krugman-on-how-to-fix-the-economy-and-why-its-easier-than-you-think-20120502
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/paul-krugman-on-how-to-fix-the-economy-and-why-its-easier-than-you-think-20120502
Rupert Murdoch deemed 'not a fit person' to run international company | Media | The Guardian
So what does this really mean?
Does he not now have permission to control or run BSkyB, or is the Committee just another pressure group suggesting that other actions be taken to ensure he is denied the opportunity?
Perhaps, it's interesting that although the Committee cannot yet pin criminal charges on the man, he is nevertheless somewhat blacklisted!
Lack of unanimity is puzzling! Does it mean that moral standards vary depending on political leaning?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/01/rupert-murdoch-not-fit-phone-hacking?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355
Does he not now have permission to control or run BSkyB, or is the Committee just another pressure group suggesting that other actions be taken to ensure he is denied the opportunity?
Perhaps, it's interesting that although the Committee cannot yet pin criminal charges on the man, he is nevertheless somewhat blacklisted!
Lack of unanimity is puzzling! Does it mean that moral standards vary depending on political leaning?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/01/rupert-murdoch-not-fit-phone-hacking?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Sunday, 29 April 2012
Ocean Garbage Patch Still a Mystery | LiveScience
Forget the CO2 damage. The plastic damage may be just as bad!
http://www.livescience.com/10027-ocean-garbage-patch-mystery.html
http://www.livescience.com/10027-ocean-garbage-patch-mystery.html
Rupert Murdoch Reveals MP Meetings - The Daily Beast
Not exactly what you want to read or hear!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/28/rupert-murdoch-s-fishy-mp-meetings.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/28/rupert-murdoch-s-fishy-mp-meetings.html
Saturday, 28 April 2012
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Buzzblog: When touring the Large Hadron Collider, stay with your group
Hi!
This is a really cool cartoon videa about a guy who gets in the wrong tour group!
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/80380
RT
This is a really cool cartoon videa about a guy who gets in the wrong tour group!
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/80380
RT
Monday, 23 April 2012
Saturday, 21 April 2012
Friday, 20 April 2012
All About Picture Framing : How to Fit Your Canvas Into a Picture Frame
Check out this video on YouTube:
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Breast Cancer: Not One Disease but 10, Researchers Say | Healthland | TIME.com
Most people will have lost someone in their family to breast cancer. Perhaps, a new approach will be more effective?
For Israel, the Problem With Iran Diplomacy is the Prospect of Nuclear Compromise | Global Spin | TIME.com
Does one assume Isreal has no nukes? Seems a bit unrealistic!
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Argentina's Peculiar and Misguided Energy Economics
Bad energy economics coming out of Argentina's leadership is no surprise. It takes them a hundred economists from Chicago to figure out inflation is/was bad! How does such a potentially rich safe haven for former nazis families survive? If it isn't trouble over the Falklands its something else missing in good policy and analysis material. Too much emotional short term manipulations and now an attack on Spanish energy investors. Will Argentina fall to the bottom of the world economy league table. Well, we'll see. It certainly seems that the dunce cap is firmly lodged on a few Argentinian leadership heads. Oops, ordinary Argentinians are really great. It's the idiots at the top we need to be concerned about.
Stephan B. Tanda: A Watershed in the Development of the Bio-based Economy?
Very different economic issues await the analyst:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephan-b-tanda/bio-fuels_b_1420350.html
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Next Wuh Lax Book
Follow up that I sent to ....
Amazing that I can read an email from you sitting for a cup of tea in the Royal Albert Museum. Thank you for your reply and question. The book I am working on is the second in the Wuh Lax series and explores the relationship between what makes up the here and now, other points in time and space, and what I call 'elsewhere'.
The title will probably be "Still Light, Wuh Lax and the Invisible Bull Frogs." It will contain loads of physics, history, and mystery, but the story line is about Caracatus, Corellus, Elias, Wuh, Wimteldum, Scapula and a horrible secret of some Roman soldiers who are being killed off one by one.
The young Vespasian and the older Corellus work together to determine why the West Country is such a dangerous place and discovery wicked plots by Augustus and Scapula. But, that is not all. Bullfrogs operate to frustrate the best plans of Wimteldum, Wim, revealed as a clandestine operative of the spiral world, which operates under a different mathematics and physics. Everything leads to misfortune as betrayal leads to the capture and transport to Tyre of Caracatus brother Togodomus, who is mistaken for the successor to the English throne, such as it is? Meanwhile Wuh's sister and mother are missing, kidnapped by slave traders, and sold off to Libyan centurians, formerly under the command of Vespasian.
My story explains the missing Vespasian years as he goes into hiding and becomes a breeder of mules, the terrible secret of why Roman soldiers in Somerset conspire against the Julian family, and intrigue in Rome to kill off Luke. In any event, the story line mixes physics, history, and struggle with frustrated apparitions who are trying to revise the earthly time line because it is following the wrong mathematics implanted by Ba Aer (Error). Ba Ed (Education) instructs Wuh on the physics and meaning of light, while Ba Glas (Reflection) established a connection between waves and people.
My story begins by dismissing the idea that not all human beings are muggles in the JK Rowland sense, that witches and wizards exist in the Harry Potter sense, but that waves and apparitions from the "elsewhere" really do operate continuously in our universe and are the invisible bullfrogs in our room!
You asked the question and I have given you an answer! I hope to have it all written up by July 4th.
Best Arthur
Mitt Romney's flip-flop on stay-at-home moms: Will it matter? - CSMonitor.com
Flip flopping is totally OK inless it is just blowing in the wind. Big question? Has Romney got the right stuff? No, it's just a coincidence!
Yes, it matters. Stay at home moms are key to America's future.....
Unleashing? Currency move latest sign of China's transformation - CSMonitor.com
The big question is whether the reader knows whether the indexed SDR value of the Rhimbi / Yuan has been moving up or down?
Give me a break! I just had an burping over-reaction to an apple ....
Hi! I eat apples ever day, so why did the apple shown below react with my system to produce uncomfortable wind, etc. It's a great mystery what seemingly innocent food products contain. People can just dismiss negative reactions day after day avoiding what gives them discomfort. Fact is people need a better system to manage their daily lives when it comes to food that they are sold. Arthur
Good Morning from the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal College of Art in London
Hi! Not everyone knows about this quiet coffee shop overlooking the Royal Mews in London just south of Hyde Park and directly across the park from Lancaster Gate. It's where students of the Royal College hang out and where one can quietly draw or write without being disturbed hour and hour on end. It's especially useful when drizzling outside and you are walking with a knapsack on your back. Mexican students such as the one who served me can earn a few pounds while getting credits towards a hotel management degree. Of course, London is a city of expensive hotels that are booming with business and anticipating a growth spurt because of the Olympics in a few months time. These places are so unlike the London described in the tabloids that one almost forgets one is in a multi million people city, and the large park area is so convenient. Places with parks and trees are always best! OK, so I need to get down to writing my next book! Arthur 
Monday, 16 April 2012
Hillary Clinton parties in Colombia nightclub - Yahoo! News
I guess that's who I think it is beside Hillary! http://news.yahoo.com/hillary-clinton-parties-colombia-nightclub-171046464.html
Hillary Clinton parties in Colombia nightclub - Yahoo! News
I guess that's who I think it is beside Hillary!
http://news.yahoo.com/hillary-clinton-parties-colombia-nightclub-171046464.html
London Book Fair Images 2012
Sustainable batteries take a swig of brown liquor | TG Daily
Very interesting application which, if possible, be a very good way to recycle at least some trees naturally?!!!
London Book Fair 2012
Who could guess all the changes in publishing over the last decade! The books have got better and better while epub joins the list of book forms. Enhanced ePub is on its way to entice kids to drop Mum and Dad!
Apple is Facing Major Declines… | Beloved Brands
Take the title with a grain of salt. The author has a point to make that won't surprise you.
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