and
metamorphosis. The target production began in 1945, 58 years
before its completion and was a collaboration between Walt Disney
and the Spanish surrealist painter, Salvador Dalí. Salvador Dali
and Walt Disney Destiny was produced by Dali and John Hench
for 8 months between 1945 and 1946. Hench described Dali at the
time, as a "ghostly figure" who knew better than Dali or the
secrets of the Disney film. For some time, the project remained a
secret. The work of painter Salvador Dali was to prepare a six-minute
sequence combining animation with live dancers and special effects
for a movie in the same format of "Fantasia." Dali in the studio
working on The Disney characters are fighting against time, the
giant sundial that emerges from the great stone face of Jupiter and
that determines the fate of all human novels. Dalí and Hench were
creating a new animation technique, the cinematic equivalent of
"paranoid critique" of Dali. Method inspired by the work of Freud on
the subconscious and the inclusion of hidden and double images.
Dalí said: "Entertainment highlights the art, its possibilities are
endless." The plot of the film was described by Dalí as "A magical
display of the problem of life in the labyrinth of time." Walt Disney
said it was "A simple story about a young girl in search of true
love."My grateful thanks to Jack Austin for bringing this animation to my attention • just imagine 4,733,899 views on YouTube and I didn't even know it existed. I shall make this a YouTube favourite nOw on our new Virgin multi Media high-speed home network .
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t perspective to those who would espouse the coming of "The Chinese Miracle" -
"The collapse has already started and the Central Party Committee and aspiring members are already well aware of this fact and all its implications. I suspect even they doubt their ability to ensure a so called "Soft landing" ! Published figures from official sources are worthless. Inflation is headlined at 4-5% yet in 2011 ran at a real rate of around 16-18%. Non performing loans to provincial governments and large state industries are variously officially published at 30%. Many in China know the true figure is in excess of 60%. The High Speed Rail "Project" is bankrupt. In October circa $475 (million) equivalent was injected into the project and did little more than pay 9 months of unpaid salaries. Many large companies are under enormous financial pressure as their contracts to provincial and military customers are not being paid.
A number of Tier one cities and provinces have been allowed to sell bonds. Why do governments sell bonds? Just like the west to raise finance. Just like the west raising capital finance to pay day to day revenue expenses is not sustainable practice, as Europeans will now tell you! The main 4 banks published large increases in profit but only made 2.5% provision for bad debt. Even with a rate of 30% bad loans this seems ridiculously small.
House and more importantly land prices, have collapsed in the past 4 months.
The Lewis point has been passed and indeed the need to move to an internal and innovative high tech economy must be the way forward however there are two major problems. The move should have been started a decade ago. Instead of wasting money on so much useless construction and corruption the government may have been better off building social support so the Chinese would save less and spend more. Now salaries are high enough to render, what were already minute profits, none existent and the populace is at best a little nearer spending on mass.
The second problem is the education system and the controls propagated by the communist party. This education system beats innovation and independent dynamic thought out of the populace. Chinese television is always telling the viewers how great China is and how much they develop and innovate. In reality, in virtually every case, they have only moved to a higher level of high tech copying and glitzy marketing.
Finally, look to western and south western China. What is happening in Chongching. How is it that, after recent events involving his deputy Wang, Bo Xilai has not been removed by Beijing? How is it that the party secretaries of neighbouring provinces and cities can openly pledge allegiance to this man? How in November last year was he, a mere party secretary, sent to Chongching under a fair size cloud of disgrace, able to mount military exercises? A good half of Chinese military is stationed in western China! What is this Princling's true relationship with Jiang Zemin, the last Communist Party Chairman, who never supported Hu Jintao and is known to continue to agitate in the background while retaining substantial loyalty from the military? How many in the west understand just how popular Bo Xiali is with the masses. Were you aware that under his leadership many Maoist practices have been re-introduced? I would suggest the possibility of a rather more interesting than usual change of leadership might just be on the cards this time round! I for one watch with fascination and concern.…
conomic news seems to have been positive, with equities underpinned by an apparent triple lock of policy action in America, Europe and China. What could possibly go wrong? " -"To repeat Harold Macmillan's old saw – "events, dear boy, events". In the euphoria of recent central bank action, investors seem plain to have forgotten that restoring stability is a war on many fronts. Just as macroeconomic risk subsides, a number of geo–political threats have come roaring back to take their place. Chief among these is the possibility of Israeli military action against Iran.""Likewise with China, where the promise of massive fiscal stimulus may be more illusion than real. Capital Economics has taken a look at the recent flurry of infrastructure announcements in China and come to the conclusion that they don't really amount to a fresh fiscal stimulus at all, merely a repackaging of already known about initiatives into a seemingly impressive headline number.
The Chinese leadership must have been taking lessons from one Gordon Brown."
"In any case, hopes of a policy induced recovery may all along have been misplaced. Into this mix stumbles our old friend the Middle East, which can always be relied on to turn any already unstable situation into a complete rout."
"All the good work that central banks have been doing in underpinning confidence is in danger of being swept away by events over which we have no control. What's more, with the monetary dial already turned up to 11, there is little more policy can do to fight the effect with fresh monetary stimulus. The inflationary consequences of rising energy costs make any such action trickier still.
"Who knows? Maybe it won't happen. But financial markets may be set for another turbulent autumn."
Can there ever be a better time than NOWwhen the world needs Kuan Yin to shed -
THE LIGHT which will in[DEED] set YOU FREE
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architect of a NEW WORLD ORDER, but actually he is an
egotist with a wrecking ball"I would state from my own personal understanding of where he is
coming from, so-to-speak, that his treatise on the future of education,
should have been seen as THE HOLY GRAIL for Education • in the
context of Kenneth Baker's lack of total understanding, as Information
Technology Minister to Margaret Thatcher in the early 1980s • of the
phenomenal potential of the utilisation of Information Technology
for Education, at a time when the German Government were spending ALL
of their spare education budget on equipping schools with 35mm Video
Equipment.
Many of the principles behind ARPA/PARC could be applied to politics and government but they will not be learned from ‘naturally’ inside the system. Dramatic improvements will only happen if a group of people force ‘system’ changes on how government works so it is open to learning. Dominic Cummings
Some thoughts on education and political priorities Summary - Dominic Cummings
Although we understand some systems well enough to make precise or statistical predictions, most interesting systems - whether physical, mental, cultural, or virtual - are complex, nonlinear, and have properties that emerge from feedback between many interactions. Exhaustive searches of all possibilities are impossible. Unfathomable and unintended consequences dominate. Problems cascade. Complex systems are hard to understand, predict and control.
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e of every capability of the WEB 2.0 protocol - before we even start considering the use
of WEB 3.0 - to simulate real methods of open and disparate discussions, down the pub so to
speak, it is doomed to failure from a truly synergetic stand-point. Needless to say the seed that
was zaadz has been sown and blossomed in many ways, and although the window of opportunity
which WEB 2.0 presented is now almost closed, who knows what the future of the WEB and its
potential 10 billion users will bring !!!???
During the early part of my training as a civilian pilot/air traffic controller in the 1960's I was first
introduced to the mind-blowing experience of "flying" a de Havilland Trident Simulator. It was
mind-blowing for me, as a dyslexic 3D thinker, because my own vision as a child was of a future
time when we would be able to personally experience a simulation of the reality such that we
would not be able to tell the difference between the simulation and the reality. It had been
because of the support from my parents and their parents that I had succeeded in getting into
that simulator in the first place, but along the way I had been exposed to all of their diverse
spiritual & scientific beliefs despite the fact that they all subscribed to a similar set of values and
principles. As a result I was set on my own journey of discovery for the scientific reasoning for
mine and others personal experiences of spiritual connectivity. My eventual qualification as a joint
civilian/military air traffic controller took me to places I could not have even imagined - to the
point where I was being invited by the likes of IBM to present to them personal computer driven
multi-media simulations of future 3D global radar scenarios.
During the nascency of the world-wide web, discussions with Hewlett Packard, Kodak & Phillips
suggested the possibility of establishing a very powerful consumer driven social networking
environment, based on discussions about the implications and applications of the still to be
ratified WEB 2.0 protocol. As has often been the case, in my experience, existing companies have
been slow to react to the invariably small window of opportunity with which they are faced and
so it was with HP, Phillips and then Kodak. In the meantime the likes of Friendster and Myspace
appeared on the scene without incorporating the really powerful development capabilities which
the WEB 2.0 protocol provided for. So it was during 2005 that I became aware of a team of people
who were fully WEB 2.0 savvy, led by a man called Brian Johnson, working on a project called
ZAADZ. From the day of BETA launch I watched from afar and became mightily impressed by
every aspect of the ZAADZ initiative and so it was after some nearly six months I plunged in
head-first.
In the meantime I continue to cherish what was and try to NOT forget that we are what we are
in some small and even significant way, because of our TIME@zaadz.
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Added by Michael Grove at 16:31 on September 10, 2013
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establishing as part and parcel of the planned city-wide installation
of Fibre Cable Network, the latest updated version of Canon's
Networked Colour, Exemplar Demonstrator, in a Copy Shop
which was being built in a disused factory, which when I first arrived,
was surrounded by brand-new park benches on which very friendly,
under-employed workers sat talking and smoking.
When at first the money started flowing into East Germany, the
authorities had so much and so little to spend it on in Dresden,
that they replaced and expanded massively the number of old
'park-benches' to facilitate the situation. On arrival at the airport,
on that first occasion, internally painted wooden tunnels had been
erected for the passengers to walk through, from the aircraft to
the terminal building, and on exit I was met by a sea of Trabant
taxis and their drivers vying for my trade. That first journey, what
with the state of the unmaintained roads and the interminable wait
at the multitude of traffic light controlled junctions, took 25
minutes or more. The last visit, taking the same route in a
Mercedes Benz, took less than 10, despite all the roadworks
engaged in the installation of fibre-optic network cables
throughout the city. What a contrast to the situation today
where it appears that Dresden has risen from the ashes and
Dortmund has become the old Dresden !!!???
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