Whose fault?
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At 05.12 a.m. on 18 April 1906 an earthquake rocked San Francisco. The ground shook for forty seconds, stopped for 10 seconds, and then continued again for another 25 seconds. It must have been terrifying. The earthquake is calculated to have had 12,...
Meeting the cousins in Oakland
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There must be a genetic explanation for the Harrison (that’s my mother’s side of the family) diaspora. After all, a great grandfather was a ship’s captain and accidental explorer. That diaspora now includes cousins in Australia, Afr...
The Australian on shale gas as a game-changer
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Today ´s editorial in the Australian is worth citing in its entirety:POLITICAL parties preoccupied with environmental protection, including the Greens, should take on board the benefits of breakthrough technology that is already allowing easier acce...
Stocks Slide But Then Jump Higher As Merkel’s Coalition Members Signal Acceptance Of ECB Bond Buying … ..The US Dollar, Bonds, And US Treasuries Trade Lower …. The Great Sea Saw Destruction Of Fiat Wealth Has Commenced.
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Financial market report for the week ending Friday August 3, 2012; this is eighteenth week of entry into the Second Great Depression. 1) … On Thursday August 2, World Stocks, VT, traded lower after the European Leaders and the ECB failed to take an...
Russia: Political Ambitions for Most Influential Blogger?
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Earlier this week, members of Aleksei Navalny's inner circle announced that they are forming a new political party called "People's Alliance." Navalny is expected to abstain from the party, but he is likely to take part in upcoming protest elections...
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Beja Airport – The Analysis Paralysis Infection?
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So the sad saga of Beja airport analysis paralysis continues, only one passenger flight fly’s to Beja airport from Heathrow per week? One security guard guards an empty airport, believe me I have been there and seen it. The good news is ANA...
Beja Airport – The Analysis Paralysis Infection?
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So the sad saga of Beja airport analysis paralysis continues, only one passenger flight fly’s to Beja airport from Heathrow per week? One security guard guards an empty airport, believe me I have been there and seen it. The good news is ANA...
Beja Airport – The Analysis Paralysis Infection?
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So the sad saga of Beja airport analysis paralysis continues, only one passenger flight fly’s to Beja airport from Heathrow per week? One security guard guards an empty airport, believe me I have been there and seen it. The good news is ANA...
Beja Airport – The Analysis Paralysis Infection?
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So the sad saga of Beja airport, the construction cost of 33€ million, and the analysis paralysis continues, only one passenger flight fly’s to Beja airport from Heathrow per week? One security guard guards an empty airport, believe me I...
Clint Eastwood endorses Romney
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Clint Eastwood and Ronald Reagan in 1987 (image by wikipedia)My favorite film director and actor does not disappoint:"Now more than ever do we need Gov. Romney. I’m going to be voting for him, " Eastwood told Romney supporters Friday night."He just...
Europe: Dutch Designer Tells Visual Stories on the Crisis
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Portuguese journalist Ana Maria Henriques interviews [pt] Noortje van Eekelen (@spectragedy) the Dutch designer who created The Spectacle of the Tragedy, a blog that “tells a visual story about the politicians that navigate the Euro crisis.R...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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This afternoon we visited yet another richly endowed museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It is stuffed with examples from the impressionists, the cubists, the fauvists and the surrealists but also, as interestingly, with American modernis...
First Standardized License Plate 1957 in Massachusetts USA as Nearly Identical Prior Art for the Apple Phone in Information Display on a Rectangular Surface with Rounded Corners
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Who invented the iPhone image display form? -- definitely not Apple. The ubiquitous and generic US license plate is absolute prior art for rectangular display of text and image graphics with rounded edges in a bezel prior to more modern information...
Old California Speed Limit Sign Virtually Identical in Design to Apple iPad: No Inventive Step in Information Display of Digital Material
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We studied law in California and at that time had a convertible to drive to boot, which brings back fond memories of driving in the Bay area. As a special treat for patent-savvy car drivers and also as CLE for judges judging patent and design matte...
Operation Storm DVD available today
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Reblogged from Croatia Business Report: Today see the 17th anniversary of Croatia’s Operation Storm, which liberated much of occupied Croatian territory, saved Bosnia-Herzegovina and ended the war. It stopped the full implementation of the plans of...
Enjoy A Wonderful Vacation At Lyon France
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France is a wonderful country with many gorgeous places for people to tour. In fact, France gets the maximum number of tourists every year from all around the world. There are many reasons why people love to visit France. It is because of the great c...
Learn the Word, Bro
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The Atlanticist reminds your correspondent that CFO jobs don’t grow on trees. So morally repugnant Chic-Fil-A motorist and bullier of the 99% Adam Smith should probably learn the following phrase, now that he’s been fired from medical supplies m...
Ending Immunity is No Cure-all for Shaky Democracies
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The converse of immunity, of course, is that the more of it you have, the more impunity you enjoy.
What the new Schwarzenegger Institute should concentrate on
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Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has partnered with the University of Southern California to create a policy think tank:The USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy will be funded with a Schwarzenegger commitment of $2...
Capitalism is getting old. New product needed.
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Is socio-economic "Calvinism" and the related "pure" version of capitalism (see Max Weber) marketable/exportable to a) South Europe and the b) rest of the world outside Europe? Is it dominant in the US anymore? It seems not, based on results. New...
If the world wants to maintain freedoms in trade and capital
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Systemically speaking, if the world wants to maintain freedoms in the trade of goods and the movement of capital, it must liberate movement of labour & services too. Otherwise, look at the global, EU, EZ other systemic crises driven by une...
EA vs. Zynga, Apple vs. Samsung. Clashes at cybersphere. A roundup…
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EA to Zynga: Enough already, The Ville is The Sims and we’re going to sue you from The Next Web by Drew Olanoff Zynga’s reaction to EA: Lawsuit is both unfortunate and ironic from The Next Web by Drew Olanoff Apple v. Samsung: Why t...
Towards more national and local or continental and global?
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The argumentation that subsidiarity drives focus at national or local level is faulty! On the contrary, the most appropriate level of decision making is becoming more continental and more global (Earth-al). The opposite is a fallacy. Global warmin...
Who are the real free-riders?
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One could argue that countries that rely on nuclear (and to a lesser extent CO2 emissions) are worse offenders of EU/global community interests and "free-riders" than debtor countries. They expose neighbours and the rest of the planet to risks for t...
Varoufakis on Draghi
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Yanis Varoufakis:Then came the moment to put up or forever lose his credibility. Alas, probably under incredible pressure from the Bundesbank, he opted for the latter. Citizens and investors felt a wave of desperation hit them and all the gains from...
The London Olympics – making a ‘piece of city’
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Ricky Burdett discusses the Olympics’ ‘Great Leap Eastwards’ and argues that London is on its way to improving on the pattern of social inequality. However, the journey will be long and fraught with challenges. City government needs to retain...
Privatisation, Partisanship and the IMF
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Pressures to Privatize? The IMF, Globalization, and Partisanship in Latin America By David Doyle, Political Research QuaterlyAbstract Despite pervasive downward pressure on government policy from exogenous forces, the author argues that par...
Terrible traffic in Istanbul, Pamuk’s museum, 3rd Istanbul airport… Istanbul news roundup…
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From the same point to different perspectives. Aksaray, Istanbul. Traffic more than ever…Collaged by Simge Sezer. Istanbul news roundup: Pamuk’s museum gets 11,000 visitors from Hurriyet Daily News Author Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence h...
The Hollande-Miliband Axis
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François Hollande must know the old American political adage, "Don't get mad, get even." In his own quiet way, he has paid back David Cameron for any number of snubs, both during the campaign and since Hollande's assumption of office (such as the in...
Qua vadis, Europe? Inside and outside perspectives
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It is common knowledge that for centuries, Europeans have often been audaciously inclined to impose their own cultural values or standards upon others (one can just look back at the colonial period). For example, in India at the beginning of the 19th...
We need to go the extra mile with broadband
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Number of views :114 (This is the second of the August crowd-sourced blog posts, by Chris Condor from Broadband 4 the Rural North project in England) Here in the rural areas of the United Kingdom we have waited patiently for broadband to reach us. We...
The Cable Cars and the Cable Car Museum
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San Francisco’s cable cars are to the city what London’s trams and Routemaster buses used to be to it. You can jump on and off and stand outside and generally risk your life in a most enjoyable fashion, which is what lots of tourists do e...
Mustafa Seven: Tarihi Yapılarda Mimari Aydınlatma Tasarımı Süreci
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Tarihi Yapılarda Mimari Aydınlatma Tasarımı Süreci by Mustafa Seven Son dönemde artan talep üzerine daha yakından çalışma fırsatı bulduğumuz tarihi yapıların aydınlatılması konusunda yaptığımız araştırmalarda gördük ki ula...
What the PM up to these days? Turkish Olympic players and restructuring Turkish Family
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In a Turkish news that is close to absurdity we see that although PM Erdoğan had to come back to Turkey, he continued to make recommendations for the Turkish players: to Women’s Volleyball team: “Be careful to blocks at the Chinese game&...
