or manipulation -
“Quite clearly, there was a culture here that tolerated – if it didn’t encourage – this sort of behaviour,” Mr Alistair Darling said “The FSA needs to carry out a further investigation to find out who was responsible for this, who knew what was going on, as well as to track those people who manipulated or attempted to manipulate the figures."
“Because until that’s done confidence won’t be restored.”- elsewhere in the Daily Telegraph -
Damian Reece makes his "What IS - IS - & sure ain't NO ISER" comment ...
Tobacco companies have had new behaviour forced upon them – a ban on advertising and smoking in public places for instance. Banks risk this in the form of yet more red tape, which would be counterproductive to the economy as a whole.
But they are now isolated and have few if any advocates – beyond this newspaper.
The reason this column still defends banks, yes even now, is because banking, unlike smoking, fulfils a social use and is central to wider wealth creation. But banks have forgotten their very real responsibilities to society (customers) in favour of owing responsibilities first to themselves and second to shareholders.
Banks' response to this latest scandal should be to find a clear and lasting solution to how they inculcate their organisations with the right priorities. That would be of more use than swapping one banker for another in the boardroom – and certainly of greater urgency for the good of banking and the wider economy.
Banks must use this scandal to refocus on their responsibility to society
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or manipulation -
“Quite clearly, there was a culture here that tolerated – if it didn’t encourage – this sort of behaviour,” Mr Alistair Darling said “The FSA needs to carry out a further investigation to find out who was responsible for this, who knew what was going on, as well as to track those people who manipulated or attempted to manipulate the figures."
“Because until that’s done confidence won’t be restored.”- elsewhere in the Daily Telegraph -
Damian Reece makes his "What IS - IS - & sure ain't NO ISER" comment ...
Tobacco companies have had new behaviour forced upon them – a ban on advertising and smoking in public places for instance. Banks risk this in the form of yet more red tape, which would be counterproductive to the economy as a whole.
But they are now isolated and have few if any advocates – beyond this newspaper.
The reason this column still defends banks, yes even now, is because banking, unlike smoking, fulfils a social use and is central to wider wealth creation. But banks have forgotten their very real responsibilities to society (customers) in favour of owing responsibilities first to themselves and second to shareholders.
Banks' response to this latest scandal should be to find a clear and lasting solution to how they inculcate their organisations with the right priorities. That would be of more use than swapping one banker for another in the boardroom – and certainly of greater urgency for the good of banking and the wider economy.
Banks must use this scandal to refocus on their responsibility to society
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–1945 McClintock planted corn kernels that were self-pollinated, meaning that the flowers were pollinated by the silk of their own plant. These kernels came from a long line of plants that had been self-pollinated, causing broken arms on the end of their ninthchromosome. As the maize plants began to grow, McClintock noted unusual colour patterns on the leaves. For example, one leaf had two albino patches of almost identical size, located side by side on the leaf. McClintock hypothesized that during cell division certain cells lost genetic material, while others gained what they had lost. However, when comparing the chromosomes of the current generation of plants and their parent generation, she found certain parts of the chromosomes had switched positions on the chromosome. She disproved the popular genetic theory of the time that genes were fixed in their position on a chromosome. McClintock found that genes could not only move, but they could also be turned on or off due to certain environmental conditions or during different stages of cell development. McClintock also showed that gene mutations could be reversed. McClintock presented her report on her findings in 1951, and published an article on her discoveries in Genetics in November 1953 entitled, ″Induction of Instability at Selected Loci in Maize.″
Her work would be largely dismissed and ignored until the late 1960s-1970s when it would be rediscovered after TEs were found in bacteria. She was awarded a Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1983 for her discovery of TEs, more than thirty years after her research and initial discovery.
TEs are more common than usually thought. Approximately 90% of
maize genome is made up of TEs, and 50% in the human genome.…
26 points
with the centre, and by the letter b lines connecting the 26 points
with each other, then, having constructed several triangles inside the
expanding and contracting cube, we shall see that the lines b are
lengthened proportionally to the lengthening of lines a.
From this we deduce a third rule: In the process of expansion the
distance between molecules increases proportionally to the
increase of their distance from the centre.
This means therefore that the points that were at an equal distance
from the centre will remain at an equal distance from the centre, and
two points that were at an equal distance from a third point will remain
at an equal distance from it. Moreover, if we look upon this motion not
from the centre, but from any one of the points, it will appear to us that
this point is the centre from which the expansion proceeds, that is to
say, it will appear that all the other points retreat from or approach this
point, preserving their former relation to it and to each other, while this
point itself remains stationary. "The centre is everywhere!"The laws of symmetry in the structure of living organisms are based on this last rule. But living organisms are not built by expansion alone. The element of movement in time enters into it. In the course of growth, each molecule traces a curve resulting from the combination of two movements, movement in space and movement in time. Growth proceeds in the same direction, along the same lines, as expansion. The conditions of expansion, that is, the third rule, ensure the most rigorous symmetry in freely expanding bodies, because if points which were originally at an equal distance from the centre continue always to remain at an equal distance from it, the body will grow symmetrically.
P D Ouspensky
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think we should be so conventional, we ought to think of something better.’ We can’t get anybody to use any kind of constructive thinking on the problems of organization. And, of course, there’s no place where you can get a well rounded degree in General System Theory. Rand has a school that is almost entirely military.
One of the most crazy situations - I was asked to speak at a dinner of the Air Force celebrating their fifth decade of Air Force intelligence. I talked about the fact that they weren’t paying attention to the whole; the Air Force was modeling the Soviet Union as a system, and the Army was modeling the United States as a system, using different units, and they were both ignoring the fact that China existed, and therefore were making hopeless mess when you knew you had a universe to deal with. What I was telling them was to use cybernetic thinking as it had developed into general systems theory. The next morning I was on a chartered plane bringing me back, and there was a man on it who said, ‘You left me way behind. I couldn’t understand a word you said.’ I said, ‘What are you?’ He said, ‘I’m an electronic specialist.’
Americans are always solving problems piece-meal. They’re always solving them de nouveau and artificially because they’re all newcomers and they don’t have decisions grounded in a culture.
Margaret Mead talking about Cybernetics in the context of inside versus outside the box from Issue no. 10 of the CoEvolutionary Quarterly, June 1976.
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rn. As we
pass through the day, we age and gain experience. When we tire at
day's end, we 'die' and take our rest. That one arc serves as a
miniature of our entire life."
ZEN 24/7
To LIVE happily we must live UNSEEN
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ssions
and at the end of the Second World War, the Allied Central
Interpretation Unit at RAF Medmenham reverted to its original
title, the Central Interpretation Unit. In 1953 it became the
Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre (JARIC).
Based at RAF Brampton, Cambridgeshire, from 1957 to 2013,
JARIC was the UK's national strategic imagery intelligence
provider. In the immediate postwar years one of its major tasks
was the plotting and analysis of captured German Air Force
reconnaissance photography. What had not been destroyed, or
captured by the Soviets, was discovered in several locations by
the Allies and shipped back to the UK. The joint UK/US work on
this imagery provided unique intelligence on the Soviet Union
and Eastern Europe during the early Cold War years before the
advent of satellite imagery.
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upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods."
Whipping Boy was an established position at the English court during the Tudor and Stuart monarchies of the 15th and 16th centuries. This may not have been quite as bad as it sounds. The whipping boys weren't hapless street urchins living a life of torment, but high-born companions to the royal princes. They were educated with the princes and shared many of the privileges of royalty. The downside was that, if the prince did wrong, the whipping boy was punished. It was considered a form of punishment to the prince that someone he cared about was made to suffer.
In the context of the signing of Magna Carta in 1215 however, and the beheading for treason of King Charles I on January 30, 1649; the strangeness of the concept of a whipping boy is a little easier to understand when put into further context. The Divine Right of Kings was the belief that legitimate kings were appointed by God and so were answerable to God alone, in juxtaposition to the ever legitimate concept of GOD HAVING NO RELIGION.THE Universal Law of Gender IS the expression of YIN & YANG, otherwise termed the feminine/solar and masculine/lunar. The law states that these two principles reside WITHIN ALL THINGS, and IT IS through these principles that HUMANITY is ABLE to CREATE.THE Universal Law of Gender is the CREATIVE FORCE that runs from the inner into the outer world. IT IS the force of the ONE & ONLY GOD. It creates LIFE, even that which is born into the solidity of the physical manifestation of our planet of THINGS, for both of the principles of YIN and YANG, in ABSOLUTE BALANCE & HARMONY, must be present to BUILD and to MANIFEST in our multi-dimensional reality, as well.…
hanges laid out in
detail, as they are in comprehensive new maps published this month
in the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and
Geoinformation.…
Added by Michael Grove at 21:55 on November 25, 2019
ETH Zurich has published a study in the journal Science that shows this would be the most effective method to combat climate change.
The Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich investigates nature-based solutions to climate change. In their latest study, the researchers showed for the first time where in the world new trees could grow and how much carbon they would store.
Study lead author and postdoc at the Crowther Lab Jean-François Bastin explains: “One aspect was of particular importance to us as we did the calculations: we excluded cities or agricultural areas from the total restoration potential as these areas are needed for human life.”
The researchers calculated that under the current climate conditions, Earth’s land could support 4.4 billion hectares of continuous tree cover. That is 1.6 billion more than the currently existing 2.8 billion hectares. Of these 1.6 billion hectares, 0.9 billion hectares fulfill the criterion of not being used by humans. This means that there is currently an area of the size of the US available for tree restoration. Once mature, these new forests could store 205 billion tonnes of carbon: about two thirds of the 300 billion tonnes of carbon that has been released into the atmosphere as a result of human activity since the Industrial Revolution.
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