Saturday, 12 May 2012

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

Prince Charles Delivers The Weather Report

Check out this video on YouTube:

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

Gay marriage: Clooney fundraiser a hint of coming Obama money boom (+video) - CSMonitor.com

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/President/2012/0511/Gay-marriage-Clooney-fundraiser-a-hint-of-coming-Obama-money-boom-video/(page)/2

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

Belleville, Paris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belleville,_Paris

Behind the Scenes in Paris: Portes Ouvertes de Belleville | Parisien Salon

Is there a new Picasso in Paris?

http://www.parisiensalon.com/2010/06/behind-the-scenes-in-paris-portes-ouvertes-de-belleville/

HiP Paris Blog » Wandering in Belleville: Living Art on Rue Dénoyez

See the living art scene in Paris!

http://hipparis.com/2010/02/06/wandering-in-belleville-living-art-on-rue-denoyez/

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

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

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

Cigar Room of Books: I Am A Strange Loop

Cool!

http://cigarroomofbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/i-am-strange-loop.html

Cigar Room of Books: Douglas Hofstadter

Wonderful blog! Truly wonderful!

http://cigarroomofbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/douglas-hofstadter.html

Belfast born engineer at CERN believes God particle will be discovered within months | Irish News | IrishCentral

Chances of discovery pretty good!

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/-Belfast-born-direct-at-CERN-believes-God-particle-will-be-discovered-within-month-149815155.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

Murdoch facing new challenge as US senator contacts Leveson over hacking | Media | guardian.co.uk

It would be amazing if he were not guilty.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/02/murdoch-phone-hacking-us-senator?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

Wednesday, 2 May 2012

Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy have seized the spotlight, but 2012 PGA Tour season is another story | GOLF.com

Top players have their own challenges!

http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/tiger-phil-and-rory-have-seized-spotlight-2012-pga-tour-season-another-story

One hot French presidential debate: genial tortoise vs. mud-slinging hare (+video) - CSMonitor.com

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2012/0502/One-hot-French-presidential-debate-genial-tortoise-vs.-mud-slinging-hare-video

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

Grand Bend Studio Tour | Arts, Eats & Beats 2012

Don't miss this!

http://grandbendstudiotour.com/arts-eats-beats-2012

Rupert Murdoch's Fox broadcast licences targeted by US ethics group | Media | guardian.co.uk

This has got to sting!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/01/rupert-murdoch-fox-licences-us?intcmp=239

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

Thursday, 19 April 2012

Nature's billion-year-old battery key to storing energy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120418143757.htm

What's the Healthiest Breakfast? Here's What the Experts Say | Healthland | TIME.com

Don't omit the protein!

http://healthland.time.com/2012/04/13/whats-the-healthiest-breakfast-heres-what-the-experts-say/?iid=hl-article-mostpop1#veggie-omelet

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?

http://healthland.time.com/2012/04/19/breast-cancer-not-one-disease-but-10-researchers-say/?xid=newsletter-healthland

How Bo Xilai Will Affect China's Leadership Transition | Global Spin | TIME.com

Another misguided politician?

http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/04/17/how-bo-xilais-fall-will-affect-chinas-leadership-transition/?iid=gs-article-mostpop1

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!

http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/04/19/for-israel-the-problem-with-iran-diplomacy-is-the-prospect-of-nuclear-compromise/?xid=newsletter-daily

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Did Cartagena mark the beginning of the end of the war on drugs? | Douglas Haddow | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Very good review!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/18/cartagena-war-on-drugs?newsfeed=true

woohs's posterous - Home

You might call this interbreeding:

http://woohs.posterous.com/

Subject to change

A little creative adoration frequently helps!

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Adonis Jot is an elegant stylus for precise IPAD

http://elec.widgetspad.com/adonis-jot-is-an-elegant-stylus-for-precise-ipad/

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.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/04/17/argentinas-nonsense-economics-over-oil/?utm_source=alertsdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20120418

Thrive - The Movie you cannot watch on your iPad

Oh dear!

http://www.thrivemovement.com/

Exclusive: Big green groups to endorse Obama - Darren Samuelsohn and Darren Goode - POLITICO.com

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75274.html

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

Elusive particle may have been found - Technology & science - Science - LiveScience - msnbc.com

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47065972/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.T43QlRB5mSM

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.....

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Wire/2012/0416/Mitt-Romney-s-flip-flop-on-stay-at-home-moms-Will-it-matter

Tornado over America

Obviously, a funnel cloud. Why so many this year?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2012/Photos-of-the-Day-04-16/(photo)/474183

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?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/new-economy/2012/0416/Currency-move-latest-sign-of-China-s-transformation

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

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Monday, 16 April 2012

Hillary Clinton parties in Colombia nightclub - Yahoo! News

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

The Presidents Club - TIME

The Presidents Club - TIME

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2111338,00.html?xid=newsletter-daily

London Book Fair Images 2012

The book revolution is on. More people are writing books and digital books are stimulating paper books. Good balanced progress and no end in sight for hardbacks. Shift that horizon further into the future please!

Europe’s Economic Suicide - Spain is in full on depression....

Europe’s Economic Suicide - Spain is in full on depression....

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/opinion/krugman-europes-economic-suicide.html?_r=1

Wonder who the author at the London Book Fair is?

In any event, she, JKR, is writing another book!

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Wonder who the author at the London Book Fair is?

In any event, she, JKR, is writing another book!

Energy boom; • A revival in U.S. energy production upends expectations and may change the political game | | The Bulletin

It never rains but it pours!

http://www.bendbulletin.com/article/20120415/NEWS0107/204150301/

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?!!!

http://www.tgdaily.com/sustainability-features/62749-sustainable-batteries-take-a-swig-of-brown-liquor

London Book Fair 2012

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!

Top Viral Videos Of The Week: Girl Is Literally Blown Away By A Plane - Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/top-viral-videos-of-the-week-13-2012-4?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=SAI%20Select&utm_campaign=SAI%20Select%20Mondays%202012-04-16

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.

http://beloved-brands.com/2012/04/15/apple-is-facing-a-major-declines/?goback=%2Egde_108943_member_108009742

Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin | Technology | The Guardian

Walled garden mentality?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/15/web-freedom-threat-google-brin?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355

Sunday, 15 April 2012

Apple's Supply-Chain Secret? Hoard Lasers - Businessweek

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/apples-supplychain-secret-hoard-lasers-11032011.html

Iranian official resigns over impeachment threat: media - chicagotribune.com

Would that all such torture were revealed!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-iran-government-officialbre83e0gh-20120415,0,7878063.story

Seville Cathedral, the Largest Gothic Cathedral in the World

Seville Cathedral, the Largest Gothic Cathedral in the World




Google's Spreading Tentacles of Influence - Businessweek

We don't want a Monsanto of media!

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/googles-spreading-tentacles-of-influence-10272011.html?chan=rss_topStories_ssi_5

Obama to create working group on gas drilling - BusinessWeek

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-04/D9U46D2G1.htm

Planets Paint Rings Around Stars - TIME

Very very interesting! Possibly a way to locate comparable planets to earth ....

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2111729,00.html?xid=newsletter-daily

RT

Secret Service Misconduct in Colombia Embarrasses U.S. at Summit | NewsFeed | TIME.com

Not what you want to hear!

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/14/secret-service-misconduct-in-colombia-embarrasses-u-s-at-summit/?xid=newsletter-daily

RT

YOU HAVE REACHED WOOH'S STREAM
The Internet User's Best Kept Secret

Sketches from scratches is a provocative blogspot that has grown out of the Wuh Lax experience. It is eclectic, which means that it might consider just about anything from the simple to the extremely difficult. A scratch can be something that is troubling me or a short line on paper. From a scratch comes a verbal sketch or image sketch of the issue or subject. Other sites have other stuff that should really be of interest to the broad reader. I try to develop themes, but variety often comes before depth. ... more!