Does Anyone Read My Blog?

Well yes! If you are reading my blog, then you are reading my blog. This is despite me not promoting it.

However, read how the major writers fare:

http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2010/07/scienceblogs_and_me_and_the_ch.php

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State of Fear

What are the real risks from climate change and should we be worried? Some say we should be agnostic to the idea that there is a real problem. In my view, the idea that we should ignore the very real possibility of climate change, however gradual, is rather naive and misguided. I welcome the efforts by scientists to explore what could be the biggest issue of our children's future. I am not afraid that it might mean crazy ideas, but I think all the silly ideas need to be placed on the table and examined. That Al Gore had the inclination to explore these issues is wonderful whether he supported a Democratic or Republican political viewpoint is immaterial. Everyone should be concerned and a not a little afraid as our ancestors were.

http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12455

MIT and Global Warming:

http://mit.whoi.edu/

Woods Hole has it's own ideas:

http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7118

Read and learn:

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/globenewswire/2010/10/15/woods_hole_oceanographic_institution_launches_ocean_203890.html

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The Problem for America of a Weak Dollar and Credit Creation

It should not come as a surprise that the management of an exchange rate, international finance and monetary policy is a multiple edged sword.

A major issue is the ease with which US firms relocate production to China and the low cost labour sources around the globe. This is not a bad thing for China, nor India, nor the Tiger economies of Asia. It's a bad thing for American employment. How do you figure moving the US exchange rate down somehow slows this process? To my mind, the weakening dollar reflects too many dollars doing bugger all but available to US companies to relocate their production outside the US. In fact, credit creation by George Bush accelerating the flow of jobs outside of America by making it easy for US companies to finance relocation. Dah!

The dollar's weakness is not really an advantage to America because it allows for inefficiencies in the American economy to grow. Cheapening American goods only allows US firms to be more inefficient.

The weaker US exchange rate does not slow down American imports which are due to relatively higher incomes in America. Americans have a knack for buying rubbish so a rise in the cost of this rubbish won't slow down the influx. What would slow down the inflow would be a change in the mix of goods to higher quality. This is not encouraged by weak monetary policy.

The idea that exchange rates going up or down affects trade is an old one, but the problem is that the arguments frequently neglect the mix in the value of trade, or put another way, higher incomes in America and saving would result in a trading up of the composition of imports by America. The fact that America imports more rubbish despite a weakening of its currency means that incomes in America are declining. Imports are remaining high even as the dollar value falls. The exchange rate does little to offset the trade imbalance which reshapes itself into a different mix of goods.

The perverse process of economics means that a stronger dollar might get US companies in America to produce the rubbish that it's customers seem to thrive on.

In none-rubbish products, however, a stronger dollar would force US firms to be more efficient. The problem is then that they avoid that process by migrating their production to China. So how does the exchange rate impact anything? Well, perhaps the US could consume quality rather than rubbish.

All in all, the problem is weakness in American domestic economic policy that encourages Americans to consume rubbish from China rather than quality from America. Figure that one out!

I think that maybe the solution is to force a slowdown in the American economy through more expensive money. This would make it more difficult to finance relocation in China based on credit funded in America. Perhaps, the problem is that it is too easy to relocate production to China while there is so much credit available in America to make it easy to relocate.

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America Goes From Bad to Worse .. Now it is Blaming Others for a Bad Outcome when that is almost directly due to Policy at Home

Excessive credit creation is the problem and we all see it's effects in American moral decline. This is a decline into gutter fighting and hostility to moderation.

Yes! A dollar based international financial system is inadequate, but it was America that saw and forced the Euro rise in value from well under a dollar to well over a dollar where it now stands, possibly as much as 60 percent decline on occasion. The financial institutions gambled away our children's future. It was America and Britain living well beyond their means that sucked in resources and acquired resources in an aggressive bid for world economic power by their largest financial firms.

A country that can't get it's act together on credit creation for wasteful development of it's property sector should not go around pointing it's finger at everyone else and say they are to blame. No, America, the buck stops with you. Your system is to blame for the present US and world crisis and more credit creation is not the solution. The American dollar printing press is not the answer.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303738504575567431511483738.html?mod=djemTEW_h

The answer is more discipline for the US dollar within a new international currency system based on a new IMF SDR mechanism in which credit creation for me sake of economic and political warfare and dominance is not rewarded. Yes, American, you have been fighting a war and there is a bill because you have not been victorious. That may be a shame, but it does not mean that you can acquire the assets of other countries with impunity just because your banks and financial institutions and derived monster companies gamble with those dollars your economy has created and cannot sustain. The dollar is weak because it is being used maliciously.

Under such a new international system all countries would be required to exercise discipline and the industrial countries would not be able to spend their way, gamble, their way further and further into debt the way Gordon Brown and the administration of George Bush did.

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Why Reforms in America are Very Expensive and Slow

Ever wonder who opposes legislation for business reforms in America? Those in established positions have the money to oppose legislation that would get the ducks in line for effective competition. It's not surprising that occasionally the US seems so far behind the ball on matters of vital concern to the rest of the world. Rich minorities rule through financing opposition campaigns.

From The New York Times:

Top Companies Aid Chamber of Commerce in Policy Fights

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a leading force against President Obama, has seen sizable donations from top corporations including Dow Chemical and Goldman Sachs.

http://nyti.ms/cPdmpp

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The Nature of Memory - She is Changing

Gone soon will be the days of the hard drive!

http://www.eetimes.com/discussion/other/4209909/Apple-changing-the-game-with-memory?cid=NL_CommsDesign

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What Do People Say About the iPad?

They rave about it!

http://www.businessinsider.com/ipad-100-day-review-2010-8

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Partial Costing of Help to Banks Omits Many Costs

I would like to see a full costing and who benefits from this massive infusion of money:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/21/AR2010102101941.html?wpisrc=nl_natlalert

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I met a man on Portabello Road who was concerned about cruelty to animals in large farms

He referred to American farming methods that were arriving in Britain on the wave of credit creation designed to promote jobs in America.

Does Obama's money mean monster farms in Britain one might ask? Is a farm of 8,000 plus cattle financed in US dollar credit seem right to you?

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Micosoft's Catch up Operating System for Smart Phones Doesn't Appear to Catch Up

In typical Microsoft fashion, it's operating system for smart phones appears to have major deficiencies that don't quite get you there, but require an update later on. Some of these deficiencies are major, at least for me.

The weaknesses in the Microsoft strategy to meet the challenges of the new age in computing reflect the problems of any overgrown organization languishing in the world of it's past successes, which incidentally we have all suffered through.

http://online.wsj.com/video/mossberg-microsoft-phone-7-omits-key-features/76893D75-246C-4B56-9D02-D301A946A8A9.html?mod=WSJ_Article_Videocarousel_2

Washington Post

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Is the Banking Systems Penchant for Credit Creation Responsible for an Excessive Decline in Competition?

Normally, the question is put that credit creation promotes competition. Because it allows new entrants to have access to credit and so finance innovation.

Put another way, however, that banking systems allowing hedge funds to determine which innovators succeed may not be the best way to promote effective competition.

As regards the economics, one of the major weaknesses in Keynes General Theory was that it failed miserably on the question of innovation. Schumpeter's theory of innovation and business cycles equally failed miserably on the question of credit and banking within a managed economy that has an effective central bank.

Today, economics as a field and central banking as a subset of this field has failed miserably to understand the complex processes of growth, innovation, competition and inflation.

It is no good governments or central banks throwing more credit into a system or doing what is called financial easing. This process of reflation does not help create jobs, nor improve the chances of innovation, nor reduce the risks of inflation. What it does do is take the politicians off the hook. It seems like a solution, but it is a pipe dream of weakly understood economics. We are thrown into a destructive world of economics that the political do not really understand and follow accounting conventions rather than the economics of business cycles under the unsound influence of central bank credit creation weakly understood.

The economic policies during the past decade of Gordon Brown, the Bank of England, and the Federal Reserve Bank were seen in hindsight to have been massively destructive. Rather than money going into job creation money went into the most destructive aspects of capital financing, over-investment in the business of speculation in property and stocks, highly suspect hedge operations that reduced effective competition and forced the closure and relocation of real economic activity much sooner than it would have occurred.

The reality is that credit creation and lax competitive policy spawned by poor understanding of risk financing can accelerate all the negative aspects of an economy at the expense of jobs and security. We see it with the ownership and fortunes of Manchester United football club and Harrods. Do we have to watch the economy micro-self destruct over and over again?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304023804575565712776857050.html?mod=djemalertDEALS

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The World has Changed - The Challenges of Population Growth and Risk Taking

We know that world population has grown so fast during the last half century that we now are experiencing the stresses of relatively high population density.

The world in effect has become much busier and we have become busier. People are more actively engaged as a whole whether peacefully or not.

In addition, we are communicating more and more through travel and for want of a better words, what I would call interpersonal presentations: talking, writing, painting, fighting, and a multitude of interpersonal behaviors, such as smiling, chatting, laughing, stroking, dancing, bumping, viewing, touching and so on.

The number of medias for communication has grown rapidly as has our incentive to communicate.

To enable us to be busier, our per capital incomes have also grown, nevertheless, there are enormous gaps between what the fortunate are enjoying compared with the unfortunate.
Our business is directly related to the access that we have to incomes and credit directly and indirectly. The influence of banks has grown in our lives both directly and indirectly.

The world because it is busier has a more direct dependency on banking as an institution. Thus, it is ultra important that we make sure our banking institutions are sound and our deposits with banks are both secure and valued.

The key word here is valued.

One of the big problems the world faces is the undervaluation of deposits. This happens when the amount of credit has grown too rapidly relative to our joint busy ness or business. When credit grows too rapidly business rather than growing slows down. The reason is because too much credit leads to lower valuation of savings, and lower valuation of savings leads to unproductive and wasteful investment or to ballooning of the valuation of goods relative to money.

This running away from the appropriate valuation of money is our major problem. It happens because credit growth in the past has been too rapid and as a result money has lost it's value and people buy stuff instead of money, and the stuff they buy is not real stuff but imaginary stuff, dreams that cannot be fulfilled.

Gambling is a direct result of the loss of value of money. When people decide to gamble they are taking a risk based on an imaginary payoff and winning more money. The money they already have is devalued to the point that the imaginary wealth arising from the dream of winning is more important than the building of sound deposits in a bank.

What has happened is the lower valuation of saving relative to gambling. It's not that risk taking per se is something we should not do, but risk taking is destructive if it is not based on an appropriate valuation of the odds. The problem is compounded when the mathematics of risk taking bear no relation to the taking of the risk and the risk taking is just a bad habit.

Habitual risk taking is not healthy and is destructive in a world where people are already struggling to make ends meet.

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth.html

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Positano View

Went on a walk and shot this image!

High Capacity High Speed Memory and the Canon PowerShot SX30 Technologies

The new specification has Blu Ray level memory ...

Here are some pointers to the memory....:

http://www.picstop.co.uk/memory-cards/sdxc-memory-card

http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?q=sdxc+memory+cards&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=17834080263451927671&ei=PJ--TK-cKNqI4gaEnYDBAQ&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDIQ8wIwBA#ps-sellers

Here are some pointers to the new Canon Camera....:

http://www.canon.co.uk/Images/PowerShot_SX30_IS_Press_Release-v1_0_tcm14-779253.pdf

http://www.canon.co.uk/About_Us/Press_Centre/Press_Releases/Consumer_News/Cameras_Accessories/PowerShot_SX30_IS_lifestyle.aspx

http://www.canon.co.uk/Images/PowerShot_SX30_IS_Specification_Sheet-v1_0_tcm14-779254.pdf

http://www.canon.co.uk/Images/PowerShot_SX30_IS_Technologies_Explained-v1_0_tcm14-779255.pdf

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New Memory Cards SDXC up to 2 Terrabyte for new Canon Camera SX30 IS

Thinking of low priced memory cards for your new digital camera that supports the SDXC standard such as the new Canon SX30:

Camera ....

http://www.canon.co.uk/Images/PowerShot_SX30_IS_Technologies_Explained-v1_0_tcm14-779255.pdf

Memory cards ....

http://www.lowpricememory.co.uk/sdxc-memory-cards-c-48

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Investing in America is Good for Business

Check it out:

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4209734/Intel-confirms-new-Oregon-R-D-fab

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Peace on the stock market won't come out of doubtful policy

Think as you are reading this!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304510704575561732291300398.html?mod=djemTEW_h

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A man and his dog

Ever receive this email?

http://www.naute.com/stories/mananddog.phtml

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Article: Shooting for the Sun. - innovation is Never Easy and Sometimes Really Difficult

We need solar energy desperately and look what it takes:

Shooting for the Sun
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/11/shooting-for-the-sun/8268/

(via Instapaper)

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Article: Since Dick Cheney Shot Him, Harry Whittington's Aim Has Been to Move On

Since Dick Cheney Shot Him, Harry Whittington's Aim Has Been to Move On
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/13/AR2010101307173_pf.html

(via Instapaper)

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The Apple Challenge to Google

Steven Jobs took off his gloves in presenting the challenge of operating systems for loyal followings of developers. For the moment, and it may be brief, Apple is moving ahead of the pack and it's developers are taking note. Confidence is presently with the Apple hardware which has shown it can push the envelope and create an innovation led revolution in social change worldwide. It's up to google to respond effectively:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/10/apple_ceo_steve_jobs_see_were.html?wpisrc=nl_tech

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The Great Oak

What a lovely tree?

Nothing like a Good Natter

Well, it's ok to spend time chewing the fat!

Don't buy your iPad in Switzerland!

This index from the Economist shows how out of line the Swiss price is compared to other European countries and yet cheaper than the UK and Germany because of the sales tax. USA price is pretty good and perhaps you can get one from Hong Kong?

http://www.economist.com/node/17295600

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New Zealand has Second Earthquake in Christchurch Area

The latest quake appears centered just southwest of the city near Prebbleton and measuring a magnitude of 4.7.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304410504575561011313974100.html?mod=WSJEUROPE_newsreel_world

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IMF Signals Possible Return to Controls Across Exchanges

When you know American and european financial policy will be lax, what is the alternative but to build up walls against it?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303496104575559991011808002.html?mod=djemITPE_h

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The Ubiquitous Nature of Time and the Perplexing Nature of Light

How does one travel through time?

Well, how does one travel anywhere? One needs a medium for any travel. Walking across a room doesn't seem like much, but it is rather extraordinary. To do it one must manipulate within what is called space. Perhaps, you don't manipulate within, but rather, manipulate what is space.

Did you ever consider that space is a translation of yourself, a translation permitted under the rules of the medium, fermions that we call space and which are manipulated by forces that we recognize as energy. What if space is moving and energy is constant within space? What if light energy is the force of something remaining still while all around it is moving? Does light move in time?

Space and time move, and because space creates time, it is space that is moving.

In my view, in my humble opinion, light does not move.

It is revealed as existing in space where space allows it to appear. You see light when you take the cloud of space away. Use light to travel through space and all is possible across all time and space!

What do you think? Are you in another dimension of understanding?

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Top European Blogs

More to choose from:

http://www.wikio.co.uk/blogs/top/general

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Are You Concerned About Your Information on Facebook? Alternatives?

Perhaps, this might work for those new to the web!

http://e-blogs.wikio.co.uk/internet-giant-facebook-creates-a-diaspora

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Fwd: Summer reading: discover European blogs!

Do you blog

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Begin forwarded message:

From: Laurent Delpit <laurent.delpit@wikio.com>
Date: 22 July 2010 11:27:26 GMT+01:00
To: ipadsketch@gmail.com
Subject: Summer reading: discover European blogs!
Reply-To: Laurent Delpit <laurent.delpit@wikio.com>

In July and August, British blogs are often on vacation or update less frequently... Why don't you take this opportunity to discover bloggers from Continental Europe?

At Wikio, a team of editors and translators have launched Eblogs, the European review of blogs, powered by Wikio. Every day, we select the best posts from 5 different countries - France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Great-Britain - and we translate them into 5 languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish, English).

Among the latest articles published, you may enjoy:

- Is Diaspora the next rival to internet giant Facebook?

- Italy: hands off the Nutella!

- Donkeys buying donkeys

British bloggers listed in the Wikio Top 1000 bloggers list in each country can apply to be translated and published on our five sites. If you have not yet been contacted and if you're interested, send us a message ! You can also help us improve translations. If you spot an error, do not hesitate to report it.

Feel free to send us comments, suggestions, and your opinion at large!

See you on E-blogs!

Laurent Delpit,
Editor, E-Blogs UK
By the way, do you Twitter? I do @ EblogsUK

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Who is Guy Watts the Line Artist?

Yesterday, Guy Watts, a line artist, was selling his fine art work on the street in the English city of Bath. Yes, Bath! It was a beautiful sunny afternoon, a bit of chill in the air, crisp, sharp and very much like Guy's line art.

http://guywatts.co.uk/

Will ye no think kindly on those who would be your friends! May the sun shine with your thoughts, today, and happiness grow in your heart! May you allow yourself some peace of mind.

The Bad Example of American Economic Policies

America needs to make a more determined effort to control the excessive spending within it's borders and the stupid run away from saving and prudence. More money did not pave the way for success in Viet Nam and it won't pave the way for those suffering at the hand of excess and misguided economic policies.

For many decades US economist have preached restraint and paying ones way, but when the crunch came to follow that policy themselves they have entered the world of the 1930's with beggar thy neighbour policies and arguing about what other countries are doing because America has caused yet another economic crisis and looked the other way. How many economic crises do the lax procedures of US economics need to spawn.

The bitter exchanges with China should warn us all of a very harsh solution to the present economic crisis which is compounding into the major calamity it once promised to be because America is sucking away all the resources of others in order to save it's own skin. Does it not see where these policies will lead?

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ARM ... A Good Platform for a Microsoft Pad

Some think it would be a good idea for Windows 8 to move in that direction:

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4209600/Why-Microsoft-Windows-8-will-run-ARM?cid=NL_EETimesDaily

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Obama: Homosexuality is not a choice

Obviously, this is a difficult stand to take, but I am convinced Obama is right on this one. The question is why some people are so against homosexuality and discriminate aggressively. We need to develop tolerance and keep open potentials for people with minority attributes:

http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_politicalticker/~3/UaXNbhOOxz4/

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Most Agree Canada's International Attitude Sucks ... I think mining companies don't help!

Is it Harper or is it international mining companies with the Canadian tag and whose record in labour relations, the environment and fair trade is somewhat appalling!? Why is Canada's reputation now shaped by people setting such a negative international example in so many areas? Think Canada, then try to understand the deficiencies of the behaviours of some industrial and political leaders!

http://www.economist.com/node/17254504

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What is in the Canadian Public Domain by way of Photos?

Have a look at this chart:

http://www.creativecommons.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/pdregistryca-pd_flowchart.pdf

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What is ARM? Ever Wonder What Computer Goes Into Your iPad, Cell Phone, or Smart Surface?

Electronic engineers have webinars to educate producers and electronic component designers in the intricacies of ARM and other technologies:

 http://seminar2.techonline.com/registration/wcIndex.cgi?sessionID=arm_oct1510

And previously

http://www.eetimes.com/electrical-engineers/education-training/webinars/4204577/Early-access-to-ARM-Core-Technology-with-Fast-Models-from-ARM

You would be surprised how many companies derive a history with ARM technologies.  An outcome is that we can all expect faster and more sophisticated iPads and other communication / computing gadgets!  Have a look:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Apple.2C_DEC.2C_Intel:_ARM6.2C_StrongARM.2C_XScale

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Politics and Election Promises

When you vote for someone and they win, the temptation is to think that because your person is the winner, the policy promises of that winner will be kept. That is a very naive assumption, and betrays a weak understanding of what politics is all about.

Even in the most favourable of circumstances the fact that your person is winner only increases the probability that movement will be made towards implementing the promised policy.

What people tend to forget is that an election is only one of the many obstacles in the process of implementing policy even if then promise is well intended. The problem with politics is that people make promises they can't keep. This happens for many reasons, but one should always ask the question of a politician in Bayesian terms. You will keep this promise under what conditions? What will you do if you for example your budget has to be trimmed?

The real problems can occur when politicians try to keep promises only to make matters worse, for example in giving free tuition only to have other matters under-financed. In the other words when you take into account the generality of political life consider your winner as only upping the chances of promises being fulfilled. Even when there is will, sadly, there may not be a way.

Example of UK Labour promises not being kept:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7628796/General-Election-2010-Labours-broken-manifesto-pledges.html

Broken savings plan promises in Canada:

http://marshallplan.ca/comments8.html

The shambles of African politics produce many broken election promises:

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_6541.shtml

The extreme expectations of American politics following the Obama win:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=91286

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Male humour!

Is there such a thing as male humour? Well, there is a humour that men understand and fidget about because they are affected by it's logic more than women. Read and understand:

http://dubitoergo.blogspot.com/2010/09/meme-debunking-3-wash-your-damn-hands.html

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The Tragedy of the Drought in Syria

My wonderful farmland is now all desert.

The above is a stark statement that many farmers in Syria are making following years of deadly drought that has decimated enormous areas of once productive farm lands.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/world/middleeast/14syria.html

Learn more about Syria

http://www.everyculture.com/Sa-Th/Syria.html

http://geography.howstuffworks.com/middle-east/geography-of-syria.htm/printable

There is a need to maintain and collect varieties of wheat so as to protect the source of future wheats that can be grown and to improve stocks and strains of wheat:

http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/y4011e/y4011e08.htm

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The Revolution in Television is ON!

Think TVs are clearer and brighter. That's only the start of the visual revolution under way. You might say that we have not seen anything yet!

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4209548/Samsung-VP--Big-year-seen-for-3-D--smart-TV-semiconductor

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The Threats from Anti-social Nations to Internet Security are Very Real

We often hear how some nations may use cyberattacks as a way to disrupt efforts of benign communication. Many times we have our computers fail without knowing why!

http://www.iiss.org/recent-key-addresses/iain-lobban-address/

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Who benefits from the present method for solving the enormous existing mismatch between spending and saving?

The economy has become an impoverishment trap for the majority.

It's not something that is difficult to figure out. Firstly, many people still have dwellings that are overvalued that taxpayers are funding. Secondly, the financial sector is receiving a windfall in capital and income from transfers to it and lower interest rates.

All in all, the speculators have had a windfall and the next generation of kids who don't inherit that windfall from their lucky parents, they, will pay for it through a massive transfer of wealth away from their bank accounts via taxes. In the end, the distribution of income will be skewed much further to those that control economies of scale.

People will get upset!

The imbalance has been struck and who cares as those in the minority that immediately benefit will prosper as will their progeny!

The others in the majority will just be outraged that we have let it happen this way and now!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/davehillblog/2010/oct/13/boris-johnson-government-housing-benefit

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So you thought there was no real long term recession, but wait education might be the answer .. Sadly no!

The enormous cost of bank liberalisation and demolition of British Building Societies as the prime lenders to the housing market is coming home to roost within the pillars of what makes a democracy work ... educational costs.

By making banks into building societies, or rather by not understanding the economics of and necessity for long term saving, and through the last decades mismatching of the costs of housing over time, our present generation of 'poor' economists have doomed another generation to the high costs of education and to a slower population growth rate. The latter is obviously a good thing, so there is no need to take sides, just observe the logical drift of the changes underway in so-called advanced economies.

But wait, perhaps universities where people go to learn will fade out of popular support and only the rich children will residence themselves in a university. It seems logical that universities as an institution are obsolete given the many possibilities of free education via the Internet. In fact, the www will, must, become the avenue of choice for the so called advanced economies. Not by fees will such education be provided but by volunteers.

That we are are witnessing the democratisation of education worldwide should be apparent as we begin to educate our grandchildren in China and India. The rush for cheaper education is on, and it will only be branding that attracts cost conscious kids to the likes of Oxford and Cambridge.

Do you not agree that logic says that by raising the cost of upper level schooling, we are giving away our competitive advantage of our educational systems to India and China? Before long Britain might as well send kids to school in India where the costs of education will be more affordable.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/oct/12/tuition-fees-vince-cable-liberal-democrat-revolt?CMP=EMCGT_131010&

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Same o Same o and the Perverse Role of Patents in the Electronics Industry

Patents are supposed to encourage r and d that leads to real innovation.  When you hear what Microsoft patents are supposed to protect it's like children in kindergarten fighting over the pinkyness in candy floss.  Why in the world do we have patents nowadays anyways one has to ask?  Ask in all seriousness!  They do little of service in the modern world that rarely invests in true protection for small patenting concerns.  No!  It's probably fair to say we would see better products and more innovation without patents at all!    

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4209250/Microsoft-sues-Motorola-over-smarthphone-patents

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Where is the Competition to the iPhone?

If you are like me and have been using an iPhone now for well over a year and have migrated to an iPad, it seems that the competition is somewhat lacking:

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4209500/Microsoft-makes-its-tardy-response-to-iPhone?cid=NL_EETimesDaily

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What is Internet Www Scraping?

Refer to:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703358504575544381288117888.html?mod=WSJ_hp_us_mostpop_read#

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Where is that WIFI Boingo Hotspot?

http://boingo.jiwire.com/?lang=en

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What is Happiness?

It's a difficult and strange subject matter. We sometimes can say we are happy. Being in a state of happiness is not something that is totally produceable from the efforts of the self. It is a balance achieved between oneself and all that is around. That balance can form a connection between different aspects of the mind, between being and doing. In a very real sense, happiness arises as an absence of annoyances and a state of feeling at home without pressure to change or do. How often do you experience happiness.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/happy-like-god/

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HTML 5 : Issues and Risks of Moving Ahead

Very shortly and increasingly in web sites a new Internet language will be unleashed, sweeping into applications, and the capabilities of the Internet will be greatly extended. The development promises extraordinary advances in how we use the services of the Internet and amazing possibilities:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5

Apple and the Ipad are already there:

http://www.apple.com/html5/

There are serious concerns about security:

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/10/html_5_youre_not_nearly_fright.html

Yet, more issues:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/business/media/11privacy.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

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Stem cell research begins with Spinal Chord Patient

The promise of stem cell treatments is that such cells will be able to accomplish miraculous repairs...

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/checkup/2010/10/first_patient_treated_in_stem.html?wpisrc=nl_natlalert

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Fiction is Not all Bad and Confessions of a Used-Book Salesman

Anyone who knows me, also knows how much I like to browse fictional bookshelves.  This was not always something I would admit.  There was a time when I too suffered from the mistaken notion that reading fiction was of somewhat lesser importance to reading fact.  

It's now when I know better that I can say that most written material that portrays itself as fact is really fiction, and probably more fictional than those books like my own (now) that claim to be almost totally fictional.  I dare anyone to find a real fact in anything I have ever read or written.  No, the world of writing is almost always fictional.

That's ok!  People can cope with a fictional world.  There is no necessity for what you read to be fact, starting with Santa Claus!  How boring would life be without this strange man or idea of a man who lives forever.  

The Most Amazing Fiction:

Closer to home, we have God, the most mythical being ever and the most fictional character to be found ever.  What would our world be like without God?  

Even though God as a human being is fiction, we have a very strong sense that God matters, and in that sense God is very real.  God is a paradox being fictional and real at the same time.  Jesus as a human likewise is fictional and real at the same time.  

People could argue to their death that God and Jesus do not and did not ever exist, but they would miss the point.  We have the capacity and the potential for God and Jesus to exist in our mind and that is sufficient.

Others will add to the reality of God that was created in the past just as one might create a chair and add legs and cushions.  We see a chair and we don't say it does not exist.  We experience God and we don't experience that God does not exist.  Did we create the chair any more than we created God?  

Some readers are now thinking, oops blasphemy, Arthur said that God does not exist!  Or, perhaps, they have moved on to another site.  

Well, really does it matter what I say, even if I say God is fictional.  We all know that there is no human being, God.  Thus, God as a human being is entirely fictional since God is not real, reality being material.  

Since the past does not now exist then God does not exist as Jesus, even if he was once a human being because Jesus no longer exists as a human being.  Jesus is not material.  Matter is not reality.  Matter is fictional.  Now is a fictional notion.

Logic as Serving an Uncertain Purpose:  

Should I make my point?  Well, it is that we live in a dream world.  There is no proof of reality, only our speculation based on what we feel, see, hear, touch, and taste, ... or know about in other ways.  God is entirely an abstraction to us.  God is not real now because we don't see time as anything but a flow.  There is no real present only a stream of presents that make up what we make out to be reality, but which is really fictional, like a dream!  

Wait a minute!  Is there a flaw in the logic of my logic?  If we are not what we think we are, then God may be more real than we think.  We should really know ourselves, but we don't, any more than we can claim to know God.

Ask yourself whether God existed before you existed and you will be surprised what you find out.

        

Confessions of a Used-Book Salesman
http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2268000

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In Politics, Do Individual People Matter? What is the CFGG?

Politics is mainly about people's ideals and visions, which makes it always controversial since sharing ideals and visions is a complex process. The Citizens for Good Governance group is still very informal. It's organisation has leaders, but people with strong ideals can make a significant contribution through regular participation.

http://www.nkpedersen.ca/cfgg-ls/10%2010%2009%20CFGG_Frequently_asked_Questions.pdf

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Hatred and Murders are Possibly America's Most Expensive Problems

What do you think would happen if America really became a more civilised society? Maybe the economy would tank further! There is so much investment by the community in civil strife and arguing that the country would go into major depression.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/09/opinion/09blow.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

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What Exactly is Global Warming?

There are those who are very wary of science portraying itself as a must and defining an imperative political ideology. Vaclav Klaus is one of those new leaders of the former Eastern Bloc who proposes quite convincingly that there are real dangers in letting science dictate public policy without strong challenge. Such is the global warming debate!

It's not an accident that historically Egypt, Japan, Russia, Iran, Germany and China developed political organisations that we refer to as despotism. All promulgated that key aspects of their living environment required the total management of all aspects of society if that society were to survive in the long term. The costs of bending to public policy in these countries were the loss of individual freedoms and the imposition of a state ideology and ways of thinking that survive in it's many descendants of closed mind behaviourism to this day. Thus, it is that fear of something big is used by leaders to subjugate individuals to a single way of thinking, an ideology that seems paramount.

The reality is that leadership by consultation and openness are almost always better suited forms of organisation against major threats. Without openness one finds leadership by force and low intellect.

Read Vaclav's assessment of the political organisations response to the very abstract idea of global warming. The world can respond to pollution through means other than force though the response may be slower initially as people gradually climb on board to sound logically argued political policy rather than assuming political policy based on fear. Low cost education and openness of information and expression of ideas and opinions are the keys to effective political change and sustenance of a compatible balance of purpose in society with good governance. Science needs to conform to the ideals of open challenges to the authority of theory over fact.

http://www.klaus.cz/clanky/266

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Article: G is for Goldilocks. Scientist Says Life on Discovered Planet is Certain or 100 percent likely

That's a bold speculation...

G is for Goldilocks
http://seedmagazine.com/content/print/g_is_for_goldilocks/

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Article: Trapping the Lord of War: The Rise and Fall of Viktor Bout

Some people are responsible for more misery and pain than any of us can ever imagine.  More so than many current terrorists...

Trapping the Lord of War: The Rise and Fall of Viktor Bout
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-721532,00.html

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Warner Bros scraps 3-D plans for next "Harry Potter" Movie

I thought you might be interested in this:

http://r.reuters.com/qum67p

I found this using the News Pro iPhone application from Thomson Reuters.

To put News Pro on your iPhone or Blackberry, visit:

http://reuters.com/mobile

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West Nile symptoms more common than thought: study

I thought readers might be interested in this:

http://r.reuters.com/nuj67p

I found this using the News Pro iPhone application from Thomson Reuters.

To put News Pro on your iPhone or Blackberry, visit:

http://reuters.com/mobile

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People Search Engine

Looking for someone? Try ....

http://pipl.com/

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Why America is in Such a Horrible Mess and Begging China to Reform!

It takes two major mistakes or one bad policy, that of not paying a 'real' interest rate, or two situations to get into a real mess.  America has found them!  One is a financial melt down that calls for lowering interest rates if it is to be sorted out the incorrect but preferred way!  Two is a manufacturing meltdown that calls for lowering interest rates in order to avoid the competitive exchange rate disadvantages of doing what is needed which is the very opposite!  

Two bad policies don't make a good one, and so America is caught in a full economic meltdown from which there is no easy end other than massive unemployment of both labour and capital.

America, solve your problems and raise your interest rates!!!  Start paying your way in the world economy and stop living off your generous trading neighbours.  Don't worry about China. The problem is at home, and I don't expect that you will really deal with it as countries in Europe are being forced to!  Just watch others suffer with deflation and see your financial Viet Nam emerge from the financing mistakes presently being made in America.  Have pride and don't beg China for reforms when the real issues are at home. 

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A Review of "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton

As befits the repetition of history, I don't read a Michael Crichton book because I see it in the bookstores and say 'ah' now there's a book I should read. No! My reading of his books happens because a friend or relative much brighter than myself suggests it would be a good book for me to read! State of Fear is probably a good book for you to read. It has been a best seller, whatever that means. It tells a modestly interesting story.

I'm, like many people, very curious to see the world go in the right directions. I know beauty and pretty things and balance and I like to think positively about how the creatures on our planet will fare. Global warming is in my opinion a bit of blurred pseudoscience written bold well before it's due. As Michael shows in his book, the jurying still very much out. Perhaps, the emphasis is wrongly placed if we think of global warming as a single effect of man's passage on the earth. Sure the globe will get warmer than it otherwise would because we burn stuff in a net sense. We burn and heat things up and the great old earth cools things down again to bring all into balance. That's GAIA, a subtle process of self or cybernetic correcting that the earth as a balancing organism engages in.

Michael conceives of demons and good guys in battle to understand how misfitting it can be to go overboard in any one direction, either abusing the earth or trying to help it too much. We need to recognise that we are part of the problem and part of the solution and the mix is not necessarily balanced.

Hopefully, people can reach into their philosophical beings to devise the energies need to understand better how our world can be made a better place. It's no good believing in myths, such as economic equilibrium or environmental balance. There are many directions that major environmental changes can push people. We need a form of collective wisdom that provides a cushion against the extremes.

As an idealist, I would like to see lushness in the environment and appreciate what Crichton is saying when he points out that our predecessors engineered our present environment much more than we can realise without consideration of the possibilities. He is referring not to the last several hundred years but to millenia. Yes, we are recipients of many cumulative streams of effort going back a very long time.

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Games and Phones

Put in the position of catch up in it's lead technology area, RIM has to put together products that will excite the market gasping for offerings from the likes of Apple, Samsung, Google and Microsoft. 

http://www.eetimes.com/design/communications-design/4209284/RIM-Torch-Snuffed-?cid=NL_CommsDesign&Ecosystem=communications-design

I myself am excited that Fable III is about to appear shortly.  Will it be revolutionary in the Napoleonic sense? 

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/fable-iii-preview

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Global Warming is Bothering Michael Crichton

Whether you believe in global warming or not, something is amiss and it may surprise you!

On Thin Ice
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/208775?RS_show_page=0

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Making WIFI Available to Your Customers

Yes! It's true. Businesses that make WIFI available for free to their customers will do so much better than their competitors. Yet, while I was touring Italy and Switzerland, it was amazing how many businesses insisted on a silly charge for wifi, losing custom all the while I suspect:

http://www.howlifeworks.com/business/wi-fi_hotspot

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Wonder where the bees went?

The mystery may have been solved:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/science/07bees.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

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Would That We Were All Bankers!

In a world in which it is so easy to gather information, one would be wise to think long term.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/oct/07/farewell-to-wall-street-us-financial-crisis?CMP=EMCGT_071010&

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The Relentless Rise of Debt and What it Could Mean

My position has been that excessive debt is a very likely precursor to conflict.  In political terms no single thing can be said to cause another.  Explanations of the downhill slide in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s cannot be boiled into single causes.  That internal social conflict rose because of debilitating inflation in house values cannot be ignored by saying it was due to inflation per se.  The call for conquest arose because of fear by the majority that they would not have a dignified home in relative terms. We should not forget that the fear was let lose through the expansion of debt and the various ways communities delt with it; some by knuckling under, others by random violence, others by organised violence, and some by organised political solutions we never want to see again.  How will your community cope? 

http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock

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The Issue of Whether the White House Relied too much on BP, Blocking spill info and so Endangered the Environment

I thought my readers might be interested in this Reuters page which touches on the issue of how much fear needs to be stimulated to get the people with solutions to act:

http://r.reuters.com/had37p

The world is full of uncertainties and rarely do political leaders anticipate major events and changes in time to avoid them. We are thus continually in the position of seeing the late resolution of crises and disasters.

I found this using the News Pro iPad application from Thomson Reuters.

To put News Pro on your iPhone, iPad or Blackberry, visit:

http://reuters.com/mobile

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The Politics of History and the Emergence of Fear as an Issue

Ah! Shades of Michael Crichton's STATE OF FEAR.

It's not easy, trying to understand the change going on around one at the present time. It's eerily dangerous and yet the destructive forces are not unleashed building up within many minds. People are seething, angry and frustrated. Time will tell how this anger will express itself, but the danger is that it will affect the youth, who do not know history and who will take matters into their own hands. The consequences will be the "smushing" of our fragile streams of independent thought and the foreshortening of our temporary period of democracy.

Finanical crisis! What is that? What just happened to the world economy? Who understands the political economy and sociology of what just happened, the irreversible bit, the bit that changes country topographies and the fortunes of large groups of people permanently? Why did it happen? Can it happen again? Can we trust our political leaders to correct the momentum of the financial changes that are now hitting everyone?

It's a double edged sword. The economy, I mean. On the one hand it promises so much and on the other there are conditions to it's working evenly. It never works fairly, but it should work evenly. I can voice the opinion that the workings of an economy is generally unfair. It is because every so often it follows a mind of it's own and takes away the vast amount of more evenly distributed wealth through hard work and technical progress and gives that wealth to a few who own key assets that produce very little wealth, but represent long term values.

The economy gives wealth to asset owners, a special group of asset owners normally, but occasionally a group that produces nothing other than the legalities of ownership. We have seen the social destruction in history before. did not understand it, and our predecessors came unstuck in revolution and violence. Yes, the cycle of history moving away from democracy to authoritarianism and power in the hands of a few. Yes! There is a cycle in the fortunes of man as Shakespeare wrote and we are but players on that great stage of social transformation.

Our world economy is being transformed by the consequences of American social change, the great striding forth of individualism that produced a strong cycle of political change, a great wind blowing democracy and then will blow centralism and control, as the fear and social pressures mount. What is happening is not a US-China process, but the effects of the great 2000 wind of US social change world wide. It is like a hurricane on hot seas that is sweeping the globe.

There is no real balance in a society or an economy, but rather numerous streams of processes of change, sometimes rapid and visible, and sometimes rapid and invisible. What we are presently experiencing is a mix of many very strong and very rapid powerful streams of change. We are seeing an attack on democracy unlike ever before.

Well, it would be more balanced to say that we never had so much democracy before. We never had so much technology racing away putting pressure on manufacturing processes. We never had so much pollution. So what can we make of it all? Do we see the emergence of anti-democratic forces and streams of negative social thought? What do you see around you? You are in the midst of an extraordinarily dangerous period of history, but you are sleepwalking through your chance to protect yourself!

We have large economies, many being poles apart in terms of their resources and social fabrics expreriencing rapid social and economic transformation. We have America, that great engine of technology creation chugging away happily and it's domestic finances in utter chaos. The world currency, the US dollar is still happily moving business along, but it is not business as usual. Why? Well, it is a world with too much unresolved debt and it is the outstanding debt that is mucking things up. By solving the debt crisis, we are engineering a reversal of democracy in that we are redistributing ownership of wealth way from the vast majority to the very few. This is a long term asset exchange driven economic transformation unlike the normal short term asset driven exchange economy that we are used to. That is why it's social consequences will be server and the pressures for bloodshed it will produce will be also so severe.

America is playing economics at the long end of it's asset portfolio and rather than build democracy when technology is pushing forward for democracy, it is building centralism and control of people. Anti-democratic forces constructed and given power through the rapid redistribution of legal wealth during the American melt down's refinancing operations threaten global security more than we see on the surface.

Our fragile democracies are based on a social contract of fairness. What we are seeing big time is an erosion of that social contract's validity.

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Nero's Taunton Sports Wifi!

You may wonder why wifi is important or even coffee! I support both!!

Walk on a Devon Lane

This is Dartmouth! RT

View from Dartmouth Harbour

It's late afternoon and the sun is low. The harbour is quiet! RT

View from Dartmouth Harbour

We had some sunshine yesterday and a lovely walk near the castle! RT

Transparency of Service and Why International Standards are Failing .. The Poor Performance of Phone, Wifi, and Data Wireless All At The Same Time

Do you think that you are being over charged for Internet, phone and data services? I am not surprised!

We learned from the Apple iPhone 4 discussion that the performance measures we see on devices of our communication instruments can be not a mechanical result but a software one.

What we need is transparency, honesty, and return for our money in the form of standards that cannot be fiddled. Thus, if we do not receive service we don't have to pay for what we did not receive and the information on poor performance should be available for comparison purposes...no algorithms for service providers to fiddle.

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How easily we discard our past!

That the Second World War defined the English as a people in a way no other event ever could, is undoubtedly true. That we are also mostly defined by our contemporaries is also very true. As we grow old those that can relate to the many things that we have as urgencies and priorities diminishes at an accelerating rate, so that if we are very old, as in the case of Eileen Nearne, it's almost strange for the young to realise we ever existed. We must trumpet our own horns while we live for once we are gone what we were or did for most part increasingly no longer has meaning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Nearne

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Arthur wins hands down!

Arthur represents a brand of clothing growing in France. Very good
quality stuff too. Bamboo socks!

Visit:

Http://www.Arthur.tm.fr

September morning by the river on Lyon, France

Making way to England through France can be interesting if you take
breathers in places like Lyon. The river is awesome and the people
charming and friendly. The women are sexy and alluring! Coffee is
good and avenues wide enough to sling a hammer either side. Walks are
fab!

Visual gift for you Burt from Lyon France

This is a grand lattee Lyon style. They have a store here, possibly
one of a chain, called Arthur with loads of sheep faces stitched onto
very colourful clothes. The brilliance of the colours suggests a
focus on youth and health, comfort and affluence. Lyon is like a
second Paris, brilliant, busy, affiable, go ahead, ancient,
mysterious, earthy, warm and social, cuddly, all in one domain!

Wind power is a winner

The vote is in and wind power is here to stay. The only real questions are the forms it will take and who will see their way to participate. The design of wind capturing systems is sure to occupy the industry for some time as it seeks larger and larger economies of scale. Who will be tallest and largest and closest to the city?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/science/earth/29fossil.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

Will ye no think kindly on those who would be your friends! May the sun shine with your thoughts, today, and happiness grow in your heart! May you allow yourself some peace of mind.

Caffee Latte from the Top of Europe

Yes! That's in Switzerland and wheras Swiss chocolat is second to
none, I dream of what I could do here on the Jungfraujoch with a
Starbucks.

Am I strange to think that even McCafe coffee tastes better than the
local standard? Not at all!

Why economics is bunkum!

Farms in the dairy industry in Europe are under threat of the economies of scale to be made from scaling up farming units to greater than 8,000 dairy cows.

Obviously, something is out of scale!  We have seen large scale farming in the wheat industry, pigs, beef, chickens, etc.  We have just experienced what scaling up can do in atomic weapons!  Sure man can achieve economies of scale but just as easily achieve economies of destruction, mass destruction!  

Human beings are willing to treat animals with about as much respect as they really would like to treat human beings.  Don't be surprised about where these trends of inhumanity to animals lead.  One knows that humans that become serial killers are frequently abusers of animals.  What about farmers that treat animals worse!? 

Yes, it is a dog eat dog world in which the only thing stopping people from killing people is the threat of death itself, while the only thing stopping people killing animals or enslaving them is nothing at all!

http://m.guardian.co.uk/?id=102202&story=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/sep/22/farmers-cow-super-dairy

Greece - Just what we didn't want to know!

 People ask me what I think of the world financial crisis.  My answer is that it still is a hoard of very kind people sleepwalking into disaster.   Read the vanity fair article below and you get a glimpse of the depth of the problem.

Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds | Business | Vanity Fair
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/10/greeks-bearing-bonds-201010?currentPage=all

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Will ye no think kindly on those who would be your friends!  May the sun shine with your thoughts, today, and happiness grow in your heart! May you allow yourself some peace of mind.

Indian Manufacturer of Sewerage Plant and Equipment

laharia has left a new comment on your post "Re: South Grand 'Zone 3' Sanitary Sewage Collectio...": 

Sewage treatment plant and equipment- Delhi, India based manufacturer and supplier of sewage water treatment plant and sewage waste water treatment. 


Posted by laharia to Wooooooh's Stream <br>Sketches from Scratches at 10 September 2010 02:01

Will ye no think kindly on those who would be your friends!  May the sun shine with your thoughts, today, and happiness grow in your heart! May you allow yourself some peace of mind.