http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgkS2j2d82k&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Twitter: @wuhlax
Scratches to Sketches
Saturday, 13 August 2011
Painting Original Abstract Portrait in acrylics by artist Martina Shapiro
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_yOiXIzJDM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Twitter: @wuhlax
Friday, 12 August 2011
Penny Auction Websites are a Lot of Work, with Avalanche and Tipping points to understand?
My thumbs down except for the true addicts!
Most buyers don't have the time and skills needed to get the bargains seemingly offered on penny auction websites.
First you buy bids.
A single bid can cost over fifty cents.
One bid counts for one cent on the price the penny auction website price. That's possibly why they are called penny auctions and not because you can really buy stuff for pennies. The revenue going to the seller is a big multiple of the penny price and probably over 50 times.
So you have to do some math and what seems cheap may be 50 times or more as expensive. But you are not the only one placing bids and really odd things can happen so have your psychology text next to you. Bystander effects occur when others stand by waiting for you to exhaust your 'little' pile of bids. Some people will have major piles.
After your bid you wait while others get a chance to bid, even at the closing se one's when all the fun begins. You try to minimize your number of bids, but what if the bidding ends as the number of bidders visible increases exponentially. Some lucky guy wins by surprise to everyone who thought the game was unending!
It's a perverse bystander psychology that operates to run the numbers higher and higher until the inevitable point when people give up, not because they are far from winning, but because they are extremely close. This is the tipping point to the end of the contest!
The sites show you the math and they give you an out which is to just pay their asking price for your item and credit your bids at the sum of the cost price of the bids.
If you want to bid for something pricey like a camera or iPad, you will find it is very hard work to get it.
You may make a small number if bids, but you will probably have acquired skills with tedious effort akin to playing a complex computer game!
All the warnings needed are posted, but it's not for those that are not used to doing probability math!
Try a hypergeometric statistical theorem and add in bystander psychology along with the difficult mathematics of avalanches and you might win consistently.
Twitter: @wuhlax
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Tuesday, 9 August 2011
It's An Insurrection Not a Riot!
What do you think when you hear the explanation expressed so very clearly on YuTube? We may be at an historical moment and the consequences as grave as the French revolution of 1798. The problem may be poor political understanding of history.
Galbraith explained the moment and you will understand. Churchill and Keynes understood the moment. To understand, you need to have sought deeper than the conventional truth! The stress poor people are experiencing is beyond their ability to cope. We are forcing people into a mold that they are not capable of sharing.
It is the seeds of war that we are sowing so efficiently by not taking notice. We are so interconnected that it is unbelievable the shared sorrow we may be forced to experience.
History repeats within a new frame and we are experiencing a history repeating, but the violence could be unbelievable and we could be just as unprepared as before the first great war?
Prepare to be shocked by the truth!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biJgILxGK0o&sns=em
Twitter: @wuhlax
London riots: the underclass lashes out - Telegraph
This is a must read article! Brilliant analysis! Spot on!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8630533/Riots-the-underclass-lashes-out.html
Twitter: @wuhlax
Monday, 8 August 2011
Singularity: Kurzweil on 2045, When Humans, Machines Merge - TIME
The problem is that earth may no survive until then!
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2048299,00.html
Twitter: @wuhlax
The Seeds of War Were Sown in 2004
 The Money Game (@themoneygame)08/08/2011 02:09 PM Serious People Are Starting To Realize That We May Be Looking At World War III by @RickyKreitner http://read.bi/qBm5hg |
Twitter: @wuhlax
The Dark Side of the Art Selling Business as Viewed by a Professional
If you think you would like to work in a high end gallery store be aware of the possible downside!
http://www.artbusiness.com/arttarget2.html
Twitter: @wuhlax
Sunday, 7 August 2011
We are afraid!
The fault rests in the overloading of our instinctive investment inclinations to the neglect of a broad range of things we should be investing in. We watch people starve, yet stay safe as bystanders. It's truly bizarre! What is a human being that seeks security so much. Wh are we so afraid of our shadow?
http://thenewsdiva.visibli.com/share/TOKRrV
Twitter: @wuhlax
History repeats in Tottenham
 Storyful (@Storyful)07/08/2011 09:50 AM Quoted in the #tottenhamriots of 1985 and 2011:@normalNEVER, @lolwarlol, @JamesTurnerdj, @laracarbonara & @per_nyberg: http://stryfl.com/7ra |
Twitter: @wuhlax
Saturday, 6 August 2011
Images of Tottenham Shocking!
| Storyful (@Storyful) 06/08/2011 09:26 PM #Tottenham is burning! Updating our story here: http://t.co/Vd7qHcs #Tottenhamriot |
Serious riots tonight in Tottenham, north London after shooting on Thursday
 Telegraph Politics (@TelePolitics)06/08/2011 07:57 PM Blog: The disturbances in Tottenham tonight are profoundly depressing http://tgr.ph/pl8rF3 by @toadmeister |
Interest rates to spike as U.S. credit rating cut: Economist | Video | Reuters.com
Growth cannot get started before interest rates curb waste in the economy. There is so much waste it oozes future job cuts, especially continued decline in home construction!
http://in.reuters.com/video/2011/07/31/interest-rates-to-spike-if-us-credit-rat?videoId=217698648
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Solar Energy at Night
 GOOD (@GOOD)02/08/2011 04:32 PM A new way of making solar power work at night and on cloudy days http://su.pr/70XaFF @wuhlax |
Arrests at NOTW
Tweet from Daily Telegraph News(@TelegraphNews) Phone #hacking: former #notw managing editor arrested http://tgr.ph/mSSQ5z
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Monday, 1 August 2011
Wind farms off shore!
 Guardian Tech (@guardiantech)01/08/2011 11:46 AM How an offshore windfarm is built - in pictures http://bit.ly/ognFVO |
The Economics of Budgetary Finance
I give you a new conservative economics, for free. Just read!
1. A Lesson in linkages between Economic Growth and Balance Sheet Management
While it's important to balance budgets and eliminate debt to make way for growth, it's possible for well meaning writers to totally misunderstand economics. The problem is that if one is concerned about the numbers of budgets and individual debts, one would worry about how to get them in balance. The point of getting macro economic balance is that it may aid in getting microeconomic balance. What if the achievement of macroeconomic balance simply puts off the day of microeconomic balance?
It's important for economic growth and development to maximize what's good for effective balance sheet management over the long term for the greatest number if households and businesses, not just a lucky few with economies of scale.
It is important to maximize balanced budgets generally if conservative capitalism is to survive and be sustainable. The other direction is straight towards dictatorial socialism based on economies of scale, or the Monsanto effect on growth and income distribution.
2. Purposeful Design of Policy to Maximize Sustainable Budgetary Balance
The real issue is whether a given economic policy can maximize the number of households and businesses that are in sustainable balance. Achieving macro economic balance does not achieve provide an automatic strategy to maximize sustainable economic balance in numerical terms. For that very reason economies, such as that of the United States grow to favor only those entities that can achieve economies of scale leaving behind the average household and business.
3. Sustainability bridges scale and distribution.
To have maximum economy growth and development one needs to maximize participation, cooperation and competition simultaneously. The distribution of positive budgetary balance needs to be achieved at small, average and large scales. It's not good enough for large scale operations to succeed while small one's falter. It's desirable to optimize the distribution of budgets achieving balance over the longer term. This means households of all varieties need to achieve balance.
4. The Arts, Sciences and Education within Businesses and Households need to be optimized
We can achieve faster rates of growth through education, but those educated need to be able to achieve balanced budgets.
Good health promotes growth and helps to maximize the period over which budgets of all kinds may be balanced!
Enough said for now!
Japanese Lawmakers Denied Entry in South Korea - NYTimes.com
Dispute over territory of small mountainous islands! Mainly symbolic?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/world/asia/02korea.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss
Sunday, 31 July 2011
Conversation with @firstnationbook
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Deal!
The rest of the world now will look elsewhere for the setting of a good example of responsibility and financial leadership!
@TeeRexie, 31/07/2011 02:18 AM
 TeeRexie (@TeeRexie)31/07/2011 02:18 AM Caring for Your Introvert - The Atlantic: http://t.co/y0n90gC via @AddThis |
Saturday, 30 July 2011
Tweet via PDF Ebook Download (@4pdf)
Don't you believe it!
 | PDF Ebook Download (@4pdf) invisible hand adam smith: http://bit.ly/oSlPP2 Sat Jul 30 16:20:30 2011 |
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Obama’s and Bush’s effects on the deficit in one graph - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post
Whose the hypocrit? Ronald Reagan like Bush was a dishonest politician who presided a bubble in Texas. Bush's bubble was so large it burst the world over!
Retweeting Tips
 Lori McNee (@lorimcneeartist)29/07/2011 06:30 PM How to Double Your Retweets In Two Days http://j.mp/n7ut8n | #TwitterTips RT @sandmaxprime @arkarthick |
Friday, 29 July 2011
Arthritis is Caused by Bacteria?
I don't know! But, what do you think?
http://w3.newsmax.com/newsletters/brownstein/arthritis_report.cfm?s=al&promo_code=CB83-1
Obama Calls for Debt Deal as the House Nears a Vote - NYTimes.com
Seems that some in the House would like to see a one party state. But, this is still America?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/30/us/politics/30fiscal.html?_r=2
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Promote your local Arts Council
Help the Lambton Shores Community in their efforts to form an Arts Council!
See example below:
US debt default fears grow as UK becomes safest haven for bondholders | Business | The Guardian
What will drive interest rates up? It looks as though the world economy correction begins slowly in Britain!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jul/27/us-debt-default-uk-bondholders?CMP=EMCGT_280711
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Boehner: ‘A Lot’ Of Republicans Want To Force Default, Create ‘Enough Chaos’ To Pass Balanced Budget Amendment | ThinkProgress
It seems to be a strategy of the GOP, but it is an immoral one! The ethics of political tactics have hit a new low! One watches the Republican party, referred to as the GOP and one thinks of with sadness of how far the political process has arrived at the gutter!
This is not America, it's a zoo manufactured by a mistaken attitudes of crazy people like Palin of Alaska and who knows what depressed minds are out there plotting horrible futures for America. It is a war of a group of activist right winged politicians towards the plight of less fortunate people.
It makes Rupert Murdoch seem angelic in comparison, except that the names of the right wing Americans involved are so very forgettable. They are to be denied power because they abuse it.
What happens in America affects us all, and when we see the emptiness of the political debate going on there, we can only hope it does not destroy the rest of the world because it really is destructive of America.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/07/27/280754/boehner-gop-want-chaos-debt-ceiling/
HTML 5 is the new world of business!
That's an interesting take on technology!
| Guardian Tech (@guardiantech) 27/07/2011 12:48 PM Here's the future: The beginning of the end of Google, and why Apple is the creator's friend http://bit.ly/q98Iih |
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Pissed-off Whole Foods employee writes tremendous resignation letter - Food on Shine
This letter of resignation is very helpful to Whole Foods. The guy should be rehired, given a promotion and placed in a position where he can influence operational policies for the good of the company.
Give your critical and thinking person a promotion and responsibility!
How The Government Screws Over Savers
The government is subsidising the housing industry excessively because it is seen as a job creator.
Unfortunately, it is the one sector that should pay it's way and if it can't the rest of the economy suffers. If the market has any role at all it is in seeing that the core housing sector can be self sustaining without government support in the form of interest tax rebates, low interest rates and spending above a sustainable rate linked to migration and demographics.
What Bush did was make the 1980s Texas mistake for the whole country encouraging land speculation and excessive growth in the housing sector. That pushed up housing prices and has as we are seeing reduced overall housing and industrial growth. It was a fool hardy policy and unsustainable.
The danger is that some idiots may take the situation to a stage beyond repair. If taxes don't rise then interest rates will.... My prediction!
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-government-screws-over-savers-2011-7
Dan Loeb Blasts Obama's Leadership In Second Quarter Investor Letter
US taxes need adjustment and more targeting of subsidised interests who don't need subsidies. Suppose America were to withdraw the interest subsidy on mortgages?
Obama! Well, perhaps one has to redefine leadership to include making choices that don't continue business as usual. President Obama leads in a very different way from Bush in that he asks people to consider Americans first, and not the profit margin.
Investors have a habit of migrating their money to places like China.
Had Bush been less keen to push forward a political agenda that really divided the rich from the poor, we / the world would not be in such a mess! If it's the blame game then look to past leadership!
Monday, 25 July 2011
Debt question!
 ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress)25/07/2011 10:42 PM Ratings Agency Source: Boehner plan would lead to downgrade of U.S. debt, Reid plan would preserve AAA rating http://thkpr.gs/r8Vwps |
Competition Issues for Electric Carmakers
Why the Market does not work as theory requires!
 BNET (@BNET)25/07/2011 05:15 PM Electric Cars Are Doing Fine, Electric Carmakers Struggle: http://bnet.io/nSOniu |
The Norwegian Killer was Member of Secret Right Wing Organisation(s) with Ties to the UK and Europe
A new Hitler aspirant with racialist goals. Very sad development which hastens perceptions of a decline of democratic values across the globe. Creates so much misunderstanding and hatred worldwide and achieves very negative goals. Big concern is secret groups with a right wing or extremist leaning determined to force negative change now the world is inching toward greater and greater financial and economic chaos!
 The Telegraph (@Telegraph)25/07/2011 05:09 PM Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik had extensive links to English Defence League http://tgr.ph/q3PccJ |
How to commission an artist
It's a matter of choosing!
http://www.gwennseemel.com/index.php/blog/comments/commission_an_artist/
A Breath of Fresh Air: New Hope for Cystic Fibrosis Treatment: Scientific American
Good news for Gordon Brown too and for my family and friends!
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-breath-of-fresh-air-aug-11
The Designers of the American Constitution Were Mistaken. America is not so great!
See how the Americans destroy what little they have in the way of cooperation and good will. If it's not guns in the streets is chaos in governance. Better to choose a different model from America. It's not really so good there because those well off are so greedy?
Learning How to Use Social Media?
 Jeff Bullas (@jeffbullas)25/07/2011 07:30 AM 5 Do's and 5 Don'ts of Social Media http://bit.ly/d56WFF |
The Border's Story! My favourite book stores on a financial sand bar!
No, I won't be going digital, and it's because Borders was a positive social setting with coffee and a chance to meet readers!
It's sad to see a housing crisis spawn a financial crisis and a book business crisis because Washington sleeps merrily away in another world! If are books are the basis of our democracy we are in deep lulu .... because I don't see any gun shops going out of business!
 Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly)25/07/2011 07:03 AM Bookselling After Borders: Where will book sales from the nation's #3 go? http://bit.ly/o5mfwx |
Sunday, 24 July 2011
Cut budget by billions by not subsidising the Taliban, the Enemy!
 Breaking News (@BreakingNews)24/07/2011 10:01 PM U.S. trucking funds reach Taliban, military-led investigation concludes - @washingtonpost http://wapo.st/ntWl93 |
As UK sells old aircraft carriers, China buyers circle | Reuters
Used guns get used! An aircraft carrier could be used for peaceful purposes, but it is designed for fighting!
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/22/us-britain-china-carriers-idUSTRE76L54J20110722
Phone hacking: prevent others having News Corp's influence, Cable says | Media | guardian.co.uk
The mystery to me is why Cable was treated in such a bad way! He seems to be the only one seeing the forest from the trees. Would that Cameron was so well informed or placed!
Do you read a Murdoch paper? Why? Well, the odds are that your views are a bit Murdoch like! And, maybe increasingly so over time, which would explain so much within a group behavioural psychology or sociology framework.
Do you have a personal core or are you just a fob 'fact of business', a statistical data point in a world of addictive allegiances!
Vince speaks out when America makes an ass of itself!
 Reuters Top News (@Reuters_TopNews)24/07/2011 08:15 AM Congress "nutters" risk global finance: UK minister http://reut.rs/nvcEz4 |
How do you claw back the huge interest rate and grant subsidies to home property speculators?
Raising taxes over the longer term makes sense, but it is unfair on those who didn't benefit from the subsidies given to speculators.
How and who do you tax? Seems a lot of people got cheap or free money they did not deserve and a lot of poor or honest working folk are still paying for other people's gambling habits.
Is the Republican party saying the subsidies to bankers, gamblers and speculators subsidies should now be forgotten? Who is accountable?
Scandalous News of the World phone hacking Stories Emerging
This is the news people making the news as well as following it!
There are a million stories in the big city and too many phone hacking crimes by news and related people for the London police to prosecute! Might as well close down the news industry....
Not enough judges or jury members!
New way to end unemployment! Have everyone serve on a jury. London where everyone is spying on you.
If it's not cameras it's listening devices.
Brave new world where police celebrate their inactivity with champagne!
When there are so many crimes committed the London Met police commissioner who says to himself 'oh forget this'?
This is more than a can of worms! It is a full police car boot full?
 Telegraph Politics (@TelePolitics)24/07/2011 02:49 AM Phone #hacking: Police chief Andy Hayman paid for champagne dinners with #notw journalists http://tgr.ph/o14mfl |
Saturday, 23 July 2011
Tut Tut! There are enormous risks to using housing construction as an employment generator!
Think of housing as capital and think of the housing capital / labour employment ratio it partially represents over the longer term. Migration will alter the ratio, but the relationship over time could be rather stable in the sense that it self corrects.
What we witness now is an automatic correction mechanism linking real demand and real supply for housing dependent on inward and outward migration and rising real disposable incomes. Real savings ratios will mitigate results, but be subject to self correcting mechanisms over the longer term. Thus if real savings do not improve employment will definitely fall and unemployment will eat up real resources pushing the economy onto a lower long term growth path.
If you thrown in monetary imbalance as a temporary phenomenon, it could exaggerate explosion in demand or implosion.
I don't think five years is correct. I would put it much longer and possibly as much as twenty, which would be really punishing. Why so long? Habits of excess don't change because of persistent consumption patterns and long term income spending relationships.
Lowering interest rates is bad for life cycle economics since it begs a future income that won't be there. Savings come from higher disposable incomes not lower interest rates which do nothing but increase the wastefulness of stock market and commodity price speculation. Yes the business cycle does exist and it is stupid to deny it by assuming it away.
NOT!
 The Economist (@TheEconomist)23/07/2011 05:37 AM How to survive a five-year slump: The US housing market is at an historic low. Eventually, it will bounce back http://econ.st/rfXGxM |
Well! Tim is on the ball!
 Tim Harford (@TimHarford)23/07/2011 05:55 AM Competition improves the quality of newspapers. Or does it? http://bit.ly/nw4SP7 |
Al Gore does it again!
So the man who would be President has become the man who would be protector of the earth! It's a role that suits the personality and a bit like being a Justice of the Earth. Question is how everyone gets what they want when this conflicts with doing justice to man's visit to the earth. We are even staying here for a shorter visit because of cause and effect!
| Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly) 23/07/2011 07:39 AM The Globe and Mail on book apps: A Reading Revolution, Or the End of Reading? http://bit.ly/rex7pJ |
Norway Outrage!
Our thoughts and love go out to this peaceful nation. Our prayers are with the many victims and their families!
| Reuters Top News (@Reuters_TopNews) 23/07/2011 07:37 AM Man kills at least 91 in Norway shooting, bombing http://reut.rs/o4dR9d |
Lucian Freud's perverse depictions of magnificent muck | Art and design | The Guardian
Much todo about nothing much! Maybe, I like a few of his paintings, but he will be regarded as a great artist!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jul/22/lucian-freud-adrian-searle?intcmp=239
Friday, 22 July 2011
News America phone hacking - Google Search
Seems that someone is and was not telling the truth. Is phone hacking a daily tool of News Corp? The power of phone hacking tempts many to be dishonest. Who are these news and other people. Hacking phones is unethical, immoral, destructive of trust and confidence, and should be prosecuted aggressively with harsh punishments and under international laws set up for the purpose of prosecution.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=news+America+phone+hacking&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari
Five truths about the deficit and the national debt - The Washington Post
We all know America is bankrupt when it comes to cooperation. It's like having neighbours that are always fighting about money. The next step will be more serious because no one wants to sort out the real issues. Like kids not wanting to share their toys?
Who trusts who now?
In time, Pakistan may redeem itself, but nations do what they want!
 Americagov (@americagov)22/07/2011 08:00 PM #SecClinton vision of new Silk Road in Central and South Asia would especially boost #Afghanistan's economy. http://goo.gl/EMHCI |
@britishroyals, 22/07/2011 08:11 PM
Quite right too!
 British Royals (@britishroyals)22/07/2011 08:11 PM Video: Finally, a video that captures the Queen's "horrid" remarks while viewing the royal exhibit with Kate today... http://t.co/7iPl4x6 |
rupert and Murdoch: I Guess They Discussed the Weather and other Things of Interest
 Daily Telegraph News (@TelegraphNews)22/07/2011 07:01 PM George Osborne had dinner with Rupert #murdoch two weeks before BSkyB bid decision http://tgr.ph/ndFJuS |
Phone Hacking was Rampant?
How so?
 BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight)22/07/2011 06:06 PM Former Sunday Mirror journalist "saw Liz Hurley's phone being hacked and a reporter listen to her mobile phone messages". #newsnight |
Hacking is a Technology That Many Used
Now we are getting deeper into what and how technology enabled those willing to use it. I guess a lot of people are criminals?
| BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) 22/07/2011 06:06 PM Former Sunday Mirror journalist told Richard Watson hacking took place "pretty much every day". #newsnight |
Accountability for War Crimes in Sri Lanka
We all wonder how this will pan out given the secrecy and lack of transparency coming out of Sri Lanka? World Affairs (@WAJournal)22/07/2011 05:45 PM #US votes to ban #Sri# Lanka aid unless govt shows 'accountability' for #civil #war bloodshed http://bit.ly/qPhH5g |
I am sure that this is the case, but what are we to do to preserve our lakes?
 Al Gore (@algore)22/07/2011 05:15 PM The Great Lakes are in danger: http://t.co/21S9xOS |
ATT doing better than Verison
| Reuters Top News (@Reuters_TopNews) 22/07/2011 03:09 PM Verizon iPhone sales dash hopes; shares fall http://reut.rs/q7UBlD |
PD James and Lifetime Award for Whodunnits
Such a marvelous achievement!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/21/pd-james-lifetime-of-crime
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